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2 Schneider, George 10 Sep 1918 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I3117 43 Schneider, Max Peter 12 Sep 1918 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I3116 44 Schulte, Frank Charles 5 Jun 1917 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I2872 45 Schulte, William Peter 12 Sep 1918 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I2832 46 Senauit, Konrad B. 1942 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I3329 47 Sobolewski, Stephen J. 1942 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I2505 48 Strobl, Jacob 5 Jun 1917 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I348 49 Strobl, Jacob 1942 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I348 50 Vanderdonck, Polydorus 1942 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I54 Last Name, Given Name(s) Employment Person ID 1 Pfeiffer, Stephan 1920 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I64 4 Pfeiffer, Stephan 1923-1931 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I64 5 Walters, William Cecil 1947 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I22 8 Walters, William Cecil 1947-1981 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I22 Fact 1 Last Name, Given Name(s) Fact 1 Person ID 1 Buekers, John Henry Sr. 1922 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I1640 2 Cornelissen, Herman Arnold 11 Aug 2015 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I74 3 Gaubeen, Ernest Arthur Abt 1930 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I68 4 Gaubeen, Marilyn Faye Abt 1930 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I5 5 Handley, Joseph S. 22 Jun 1917 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I20 6 Handley, Lawrence Joseph 1953 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I94 7 Pfeiffer, Marie Katherin 11 Aug 2015 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I73 8 Scherer, Kathleen Helen 1964 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I85 9 Scherer, Marjorie Elaine 1964 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I84 10 Scherer, Ralph John 1964 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I27 11 Stahl, Harry J. 21 Aug 1957 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I3949 1 Walters, Max Albert 31 Jan 1918 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I21 Last Name, Given Name(s) First Communion Person ID 2 Walters, David William 26 Apr 1964 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I10 Last Name, Given Name(s) Funeral Person ID 1 Belanger, Lucy Agnes 2 Apr 1946 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I102 3 Cavill, Robert Norman 19 Nov 1938 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I138 4 Engelhardt, Mary 28 Dec 1968 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I65 6 Gaubeen, Raymond Arthur 30 Dec 1961 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I4 7 Lawrence, Anne Marie 31 Jan 1959 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I46 8 Pfeiffer, Rose Catherine 26 Nov 1973 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I3 9 Pfeiffer, Stephan 8 Nov 1951 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I64 10 Walters, Max Albert 6 Dec 1961 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I21 11 Walters, Maxwell Robert 26 Nov 1975 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I23 Last Name, Given

2 Schneider, George 10 Sep 1918 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I3117 43 Schneider, Max Peter 12 Sep 1918 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I3116 44 Schulte, Frank Charles 5 Jun 1917 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I2872 45 Schulte, William Peter 12 Sep 1918 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I2832 46 Senauit, Konrad B. 1942 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I3329 47 Sobolewski, Stephen J. 1942 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I2505 48 Strobl, Jacob 5 Jun 1917 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I348 49 Strobl, Jacob 1942 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I348 50 Vanderdonck, Polydorus 1942 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I54 Last Name, Given Name(s) Employment Person ID 1 Pfeiffer, Stephan 1920 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I64 4 Pfeiffer, Stephan 1923-1931 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I64 5 Walters, William Cecil 1947 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I22 8 Walters, William Cecil 1947-1981 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I22 Fact 1 Last Name, Given Name(s) Fact 1 Person ID 1 Buekers, John Henry Sr. 1922 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I1640 2 Cornelissen, Herman Arnold 11 Aug 2015 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I74 3 Gaubeen, Ernest Arthur Abt 1930 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I68 4 Gaubeen, Marilyn Faye Abt 1930 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I5 5 Handley, Joseph S. 22 Jun 1917 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I20 6 Handley, Lawrence Joseph 1953 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I94 7 Pfeiffer, Marie Katherin 11 Aug 2015 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I73 8 Scherer, Kathleen Helen 1964 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I85 9 Scherer, Marjorie Elaine 1964 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I84 10 Scherer, Ralph John 1964 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I27 11 Stahl, Harry J. 21 Aug 1957 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I3949 1 Walters, Max Albert 31 Jan 1918 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I21 Last Name, Given Name(s) First Communion Person ID 2 Walters, David William 26 Apr 1964 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I10 Last Name, Given Name(s) Funeral Person ID 1 Belanger, Lucy Agnes 2 Apr 1946 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I102 3 Cavill, Robert Norman 19 Nov 1938 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I138 4 Engelhardt, Mary 28 Dec 1968 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I65 6 Gaubeen, Raymond Arthur 30 Dec 1961 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I4 7 Lawrence, Anne Marie 31 Jan 1959 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I46 8 Pfeiffer, Rose Catherine 26 Nov 1973 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I3 9 Pfeiffer, Stephan 8 Nov 1951 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I64 10 Walters, Max Albert 6 Dec 1961 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I21 11 Walters, Maxwell Robert 26 Nov 1975 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I23 Last Name, Given

Name(s) Funeral Home Person ID 3 Cavill, Emma Mary 2 Nov 1974 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I1 5 DeMilt, Jerome Marion 9 Dec 1967 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I52 6 DeMilt, Richard Paul Sr. 14 Aug 1964 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I2 8 Fettig, Victoria 6 Apr 1904 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I3323 10 Lawrence, Anne Marie 30 Jan 1959 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I46 11 Pfeiffer, Rose Catherine 26 Nov 1973 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I3 12 Pfeiffer, Stephan 8 Nov 1951 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I64 Last Name, Given Name(s) Graduation Person ID 1 Cavill, John Raymond 1949 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I307 2 Gaubeen, Joan 23 Jan 1953 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I6 3 Gaubeen, Lois Mary Abt 1947 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I7 6 Vanderdonck, Regina Mary 1945 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I385 7 Walters, David William 11 Jun 1971 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I10 8 Walters, William Cecil 9 Jun 1940 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I22 9 Walters, William Raymond Abt 1961 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I9 10 Walters, William Raymond Abt 1965 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I9 Headstone Last Name, Given Name(s) Headstone Person ID 1 Angeline R. 10 Jul 1979 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I1671 2 Bejma, Charlotte V. 21 Jul 1960 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I1814 4 Buekers, Joseph John 4 Feb 1989 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I1122 9 Dozer, Ruth Margruite 1970 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I3179 10 Elm, Joseph Henry 12 Apr 1927 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I2499 11 Elm, Ralph Anthony 20 Oct 1979 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I2622 14 Franberkraut, Frances A. 1962 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I516 16 Gaubeen, Joan 19 Mar 2010 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I6 18 Geck, Elizabeth M. 8 Feb 1979 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I341 19 Handley, Helen Lucille 4 Mar 2008 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I25 21 Hanko, Rudolph J. 22 Mar 1934 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I119 22 Harbuz, Emil Sr 6 Oct 2012 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I803 23 Hildebrandt, Elizabeth 10 Jul 1919 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I613 24 Horvath, Barbara 27 Feb 1929 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I807 25 Hunnell, Emma Ellen 15 Apr 1957 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I2629 26 Jaworski, Telka 5 Oct 2012 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I795 27 Kaspszenski, Pearl Pelagia 5 Oct 2012 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I790 28 Klapp, Charles Martin 8 Jun 1964 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I340 29 Klapp, Charlotte M. 16 Feb 1987 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States I346 31 Klapp, Robert Charles 2 Nov 2005

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and finagle money from passersby with endless three-card tricks. And here is Tony near the old racetrack in Hackney Wick, where he and his dad would come to bet on the speeding blurs of greyhounds, and which fell into dereliction in 1997. In the final sequence, the camera pans out from a tight shot of Tony’s face to reveal London’s Olympic Stadium for the 2012 Games. “I’m here today and I cannot believe the transformation,” he says. “It’s a dream, it’s just spectacular, and that the torch from this Games should be now passed on to the East End, for a new generation to come through.” 56 Up and the documentaries that preceded it have their origins in Seven Up!, a 1964 show that became the germ for a generation-long series. Made by Granada Television, it was intended as a one-off special for a current affairs program—a profile of fourteen seven-year-olds who would go on to become, as the tinny voiceover in the first episode puts it, “the shop stewards and the executives of the year 2000.” The series’ title was a riff on the Jesuit maxim: “Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man.” Its structuring conceit was that the class into which these children were born would determine their success in life; that their childhoods were unwitting prophesies of their future prospects. Apted was one of two researchers on the film charged with selecting the children in the space of three weeks. He attempted to find youngsters from a range of social backgrounds who would present well on camera, but admitted later that he would have secured a more diverse bunch had he known the show would roll on. The selection was skewed toward the top and bottom of the socioeconomic spectrum. Most of the children were from London, and several were from East London. Only four among the cohort were girls, and three of those girls were friends. Peter Davies and Neil Hughes attended the same school in Liverpool, and only one child was not white—Symon Basterfield, who had a black father and was raised by a white single mother. Sometime after the show was screened, Apted resolved to revisit the lives of these children through film every seven years, amending the episode titles to reflect their age. He has done so ever since, although he abandoned class as an overarching theme long ago. “It’s stopped being a political document and has become more of a humanist document,” Apted told an interviewer in 2006. “The series honors the ordinary life; it deals with things we all deal with…The series doesn’t disown politics, but deals with politics via character.” The dissolution of structural inequalities into notions of virtue and personal wherewithal was, of course, a rhetorical device deployed by Margaret Thatcher’s conservative government in Britain in the 1980s. Aside from the limitations of Apted’s original selection, part of the reason that “class” has become less overt as the series progressed is that the complexion and role of “class” in the British political conversation has undergone a radical transformation. Thatcher’s sustained and very successful attacks on the legitimacy of working-class institutions, her celebration of “middle-class” aspirations, and the smooth cooption of these ideas by New Labour mean that by 56 Up, the subjects’ sense of class identity is, at most, attenuated and complex. Nevertheless, the socioeconomic circumstances in which the Up children were born and raised plainly affected their opportunities. The children from privileged backgrounds tended to end up at university and in professional jobs; the poorer children, with few exceptions, did not. But the series was always as much about the participants’ meditations on their own lives as it was about what happened and when. The drama lies in watching the subjects watch themselves—in seeing how they choose to make their way in the world, and how they assess the consequences of those choices. Reconciling a viewer’s perception of how each character has progressed with that character’s often divergent self-interpretation is a source of both tension and pleasure. It also highlights the disparity between class as a social reality and class as a sidelined concept. One of the striking things about the latest batch of interviews is the equanimity with which the Up children accept where they have landed in life, while

and finagle money from passersby with endless three-card tricks. And here is Tony near the old racetrack in Hackney Wick, where he and his dad would come to bet on the speeding blurs of greyhounds, and which fell into dereliction in 1997. In the final sequence, the camera pans out from a tight shot of Tony’s face to reveal London’s Olympic Stadium for the 2012 Games. “I’m here today and I cannot believe the transformation,” he says. “It’s a dream, it’s just spectacular, and that the torch from this Games should be now passed on to the East End, for a new generation to come through.” 56 Up and the documentaries that preceded it have their origins in Seven Up!, a 1964 show that became the germ for a generation-long series. Made by Granada Television, it was intended as a one-off special for a current affairs program—a profile of fourteen seven-year-olds who would go on to become, as the tinny voiceover in the first episode puts it, “the shop stewards and the executives of the year 2000.” The series’ title was a riff on the Jesuit maxim: “Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man.” Its structuring conceit was that the class into which these children were born would determine their success in life; that their childhoods were unwitting prophesies of their future prospects. Apted was one of two researchers on the film charged with selecting the children in the space of three weeks. He attempted to find youngsters from a range of social backgrounds who would present well on camera, but admitted later that he would have secured a more diverse bunch had he known the show would roll on. The selection was skewed toward the top and bottom of the socioeconomic spectrum. Most of the children were from London, and several were from East London. Only four among the cohort were girls, and three of those girls were friends. Peter Davies and Neil Hughes attended the same school in Liverpool, and only one child was not white—Symon Basterfield, who had a black father and was raised by a white single mother. Sometime after the show was screened, Apted resolved to revisit the lives of these children through film every seven years, amending the episode titles to reflect their age. He has done so ever since, although he abandoned class as an overarching theme long ago. “It’s stopped being a political document and has become more of a humanist document,” Apted told an interviewer in 2006. “The series honors the ordinary life; it deals with things we all deal with…The series doesn’t disown politics, but deals with politics via character.” The dissolution of structural inequalities into notions of virtue and personal wherewithal was, of course, a rhetorical device deployed by Margaret Thatcher’s conservative government in Britain in the 1980s. Aside from the limitations of Apted’s original selection, part of the reason that “class” has become less overt as the series progressed is that the complexion and role of “class” in the British political conversation has undergone a radical transformation. Thatcher’s sustained and very successful attacks on the legitimacy of working-class institutions, her celebration of “middle-class” aspirations, and the smooth cooption of these ideas by New Labour mean that by 56 Up, the subjects’ sense of class identity is, at most, attenuated and complex. Nevertheless, the socioeconomic circumstances in which the Up children were born and raised plainly affected their opportunities. The children from privileged backgrounds tended to end up at university and in professional jobs; the poorer children, with few exceptions, did not. But the series was always as much about the participants’ meditations on their own lives as it was about what happened and when. The drama lies in watching the subjects watch themselves—in seeing how they choose to make their way in the world, and how they assess the consequences of those choices. Reconciling a viewer’s perception of how each character has progressed with that character’s often divergent self-interpretation is a source of both tension and pleasure. It also highlights the disparity between class as a social reality and class as a sidelined concept. One of the striking things about the latest batch of interviews is the equanimity with which the Up children accept where they have landed in life, while

we, the viewers, are tempted to applaud strategic decisions or mull over forgone possibilities. Nick Hitchon, a farmer’s son from the Yorkshire Dales educated in a one-room village primary school, wins a scholarship to Oxford and goes on to become a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lynn Johnson marries young, works in a traveling library for children, and takes early retirement from her job as a special-needs educator in the East End when the department downsizes and she is laid off. At seven, Paul Kligerman, who is living in a children’s home, asks the interviewer, “What does a university mean?” He emigrates to Australia as a boy and at fifty-six is employed as a handyman at the retirement village where his wife works. The spread of lives is considerable, but the silences still resound. Apted admitted in a 1986 interview that he “completely missed the feminist revolution.” Only one of the four women opted out of a career in order to raise a family—Suzy Lusk, a girl from a wealthy family whose father owned a 4,000-acre estate in Scotland. At fifty-six, her murmurs of dissatisfaction about this outcome are minor; she grumbles that she was never forced to push herself because she had no hurdles to overcome. All of the participants in the show appear to be heterosexual—although there is an adorable exchange in Seven Up!, when Jackie Bassett points to one of two boys (neither of whom was profiled) sitting in the middle of a cluster of girls, and claims that he loves Lynn. “No I don’t—I love him,” says the boy, clasping his friend by the neck, nuzzling up against his face, and planting a kiss on his cheek. Apted’s choices about sequence are revealing. At thirty-five, forty-two, and forty-nine, he selected Neil to conclude the film. Viewers and journalists throughout the years appeared to find his story particularly moving. A gregarious and highly intelligent seven-year-old, Neil was the child of two teachers and grew up in a Liverpool suburb. He becomes noticeably more melancholy and anxious by twenty-one, by which time he has dropped out of university in Aberdeen and is living in a squat. At twenty-eight, he is homeless; at thirty-five, he is living on a council estate (public housing) on the Shetland Islands, the northernmost part of Britain. At fifty-six, he survives on state benefits and has been elected a local councilor in Cumbria. Neil admits at twenty-eight that he has always had a “nervous complaint,” something that is painfully evident to a viewer familiar with mental illness. The quaint Victorian wording with which he brackets the problem underscores the stigma that continues to hinder people from seeking treatment. (In the latest survey of community attitudes toward mental illness in England, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, 15.7 percent of respondents agreed that “one of the main causes of mental illness is a lack of self-discipline and willpower”; nearly 18 percent believed that people with a history of mental illness should be excluded from holding public office, and that mental health facilities “downgrade” neighborhoods.) The middle-class promise of unfettered opportunity through hard work inclines Neil to refract his lack of obvious attainments through the lens of personal failure. “I’ve been completely unsuccessful in trying to find a paid career of any kind,” he says in 56 Up. He takes no pleasure in an invitation he received, and accepted, to give a political talk abroad in 2006. “Do you really think I would have been invited to Australia if they were aware that I was someone who lived on a few quid a week benefit, and has as much chance of changing the future of the United Kingdom as…someone who’s serving a lifetime jail sentence?” Neil stands out as the sole voice of dissent in the otherwise favorable reviews that the Up children give to their own lives at fifty-six. For 56 Up, Apted decided to end with Tony. Tony’s is a tale of personal redemption that is pitched to the viewer as a proxy for national redemption. But what Tony says about Britain is not all reassuring. He observes that “not one person like me had a say in immigration—was there too many, was there

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lyn Nets this season. Dudley was an important on and off-court contributor for Brooklyn last season. He averaged five points in 20 minutes off the bench for the Nets and provided veteran leadership for young players like Caris LeVert and D'Angelo Russell. So his thoughts on the Nets carry more weight than others. Tags: Caris LeVert, D'Angelo Russell, Jarrett Allen, Spencer Dinwiddie, Ian Begley Nets fall in OT despite Allen's strong effort By Coby Green | Jan 7 | 10:10PM Jarrett Allen was a non-stop human highlight reel for the Nets Tuesday night against the Thunder, putting up poster dunks and big blocks as Brooklyn lost a tight game in overtime at Barclays Center. Allen put up 12 points, seven rebounds, and two blocks on the night, but his real highlights came in the air. Early in the first quarter, Rodions Kurucs drove under the basket and threw a short shuffle pass to Allen, who then put Mike Muscala on a poster, on what is now in the running for dunk of the year. Jared Dudley defends Nets staff's handling of Kyrie Irving, Caris LeVert injuries Dudley spent just the 2018-19 in Brooklyn, but has raved about the staff By Garrett Stepien | Jan 5 | 10:07PM Nov 6, 2018; Phoenix, AZ, USA; Brooklyn Nets forward Jared Dudley (left) grabs a rebound against Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker in the second half at Talking Stick Resort Arena. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports As the Nets gradually get Kyrie Irving and Caris LeVert back into the fold from respective injuries, one former Brooklyn player spoke out to defend the team's handling of the recovery processes. Jared Dudley spent just one season -- the 2018-19 campaign -- with the Nets, but saw enough to know how players with injuries are taken care of. Now with the Los Angeles Lakers, Dudley spoke out Sunday on Twitter when one fan account appeared to be critical of how the Nets' have approached Irving's and LeVert's injuries. Tags: Caris LeVert, Jared Dudley Here's how Caris LeVert played in his first game back for Nets since thumb injury Guard hadn't played since Nov. 10, missed last 24 games By Coby Green | Jan 4 | 8:44PM Caris LeVert finally made his return to the court for the Nets on Saturday night against the Raptors, after missing the last 24 games with a thumb injury. LeVert, who had surgery on his thumb on Nov. 14, was expected to be back within four-to-six weeks, but the recovery time went a little longer than expected and slid into a seventh week before Saturday. In his first game, LeVert played 16 minutes off the bench and was very efficient with his time on the court, scoring 13 points on 5-of-7 shooting -- including hitting both his attempts from beyond the three-point line. Tags: Caris LeVert 5 Takeaways from Nets' Kyrie Irving's press conference, including opting for a cortisone shot over surgery Surgery could still be in play for the All-Star guard Kyrie Irving addressed the media at Barclays Center for the first time since injuring his shoulder in early November. Irving, who has missed the Nets' previous 22 games (with Saturday's game against the Raptors being game 23), spoke about his shoulder impingement, confirming that he also had shoulder bursitis, which has been previously reported. Irving also explained how he opted for a cortisone shot over surgery, although surgery could still be in play. Here are the five biggest takeaways from Irving's Saturday press conference: Ellenson played in just five games for the Nets (NICOLE SWEET) The Nets have waived two-way forward Henry Ellenson, it was reported by ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski on Friday. Ellenson averaged three minutes of play in just five games for Brooklyn this season. Wojnarowski

lyn Nets this season. Dudley was an important on and off-court contributor for Brooklyn last season. He averaged five points in 20 minutes off the bench for the Nets and provided veteran leadership for young players like Caris LeVert and D'Angelo Russell. So his thoughts on the Nets carry more weight than others. Tags: Caris LeVert, D'Angelo Russell, Jarrett Allen, Spencer Dinwiddie, Ian Begley Nets fall in OT despite Allen's strong effort By Coby Green | Jan 7 | 10:10PM Jarrett Allen was a non-stop human highlight reel for the Nets Tuesday night against the Thunder, putting up poster dunks and big blocks as Brooklyn lost a tight game in overtime at Barclays Center. Allen put up 12 points, seven rebounds, and two blocks on the night, but his real highlights came in the air. Early in the first quarter, Rodions Kurucs drove under the basket and threw a short shuffle pass to Allen, who then put Mike Muscala on a poster, on what is now in the running for dunk of the year. Jared Dudley defends Nets staff's handling of Kyrie Irving, Caris LeVert injuries Dudley spent just the 2018-19 in Brooklyn, but has raved about the staff By Garrett Stepien | Jan 5 | 10:07PM Nov 6, 2018; Phoenix, AZ, USA; Brooklyn Nets forward Jared Dudley (left) grabs a rebound against Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker in the second half at Talking Stick Resort Arena. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports As the Nets gradually get Kyrie Irving and Caris LeVert back into the fold from respective injuries, one former Brooklyn player spoke out to defend the team's handling of the recovery processes. Jared Dudley spent just one season -- the 2018-19 campaign -- with the Nets, but saw enough to know how players with injuries are taken care of. Now with the Los Angeles Lakers, Dudley spoke out Sunday on Twitter when one fan account appeared to be critical of how the Nets' have approached Irving's and LeVert's injuries. Tags: Caris LeVert, Jared Dudley Here's how Caris LeVert played in his first game back for Nets since thumb injury Guard hadn't played since Nov. 10, missed last 24 games By Coby Green | Jan 4 | 8:44PM Caris LeVert finally made his return to the court for the Nets on Saturday night against the Raptors, after missing the last 24 games with a thumb injury. LeVert, who had surgery on his thumb on Nov. 14, was expected to be back within four-to-six weeks, but the recovery time went a little longer than expected and slid into a seventh week before Saturday. In his first game, LeVert played 16 minutes off the bench and was very efficient with his time on the court, scoring 13 points on 5-of-7 shooting -- including hitting both his attempts from beyond the three-point line. Tags: Caris LeVert 5 Takeaways from Nets' Kyrie Irving's press conference, including opting for a cortisone shot over surgery Surgery could still be in play for the All-Star guard Kyrie Irving addressed the media at Barclays Center for the first time since injuring his shoulder in early November. Irving, who has missed the Nets' previous 22 games (with Saturday's game against the Raptors being game 23), spoke about his shoulder impingement, confirming that he also had shoulder bursitis, which has been previously reported. Irving also explained how he opted for a cortisone shot over surgery, although surgery could still be in play. Here are the five biggest takeaways from Irving's Saturday press conference: Ellenson played in just five games for the Nets (NICOLE SWEET) The Nets have waived two-way forward Henry Ellenson, it was reported by ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski on Friday. Ellenson averaged three minutes of play in just five games for Brooklyn this season. Wojnarowski

added that the Nets, who recently lost guard David Nwaba for the season due to a torn Achilles, will likely add another backcourt player on a two-way or 10-day contract. Tags: Henry Ellenson Nets' Caris LeVert reportedly set to return Saturday vs. Toronto Fourth-year guard had thumb surgery November 14 By Alex Smith | Jan 3 | 12:52AM Apr 10, 2019; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Brooklyn Nets guard Caris LeVert (22) brings the ball up court in the first quarter against the Miami Heat at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Wendell Cruz-USA TODAY Sports (Wendell Cruz) While the Nets still patiently await the return of Kyrie Irving, the team is set to regain the other key piece of their starting backcourt. According to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, Caris LeVert is expected to return to the lineup on Saturday against the Raptors. LeVert has missed seven weeks due to right thumb surgery, which he underwent on November 14. His recovery process has lasted slightly longer than the team's initial four-to-six weeks diagnosis. Nets waive David Nwaba, who tore his Achilles in December Nwaba will miss the remainder of the season Dec 14, 2019; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Brooklyn Nets guard David Nwaba (0) drives to the basket as Toronto Raptors forward Pascal Siakam (43) tries to defend during the third quarter at Scotiabank Arena. Mandatory Credit: Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY Sports (Nick Turchiaro) The Nets are waiving G/F David Nwaba, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic. Nwaba ruptured his right Achilles tendon on Dec. 19, 2019 against the San Antonio Spurs, and underwent successful surgery the following day. The 26-year-old averaged 5.3 points and 2.3 rebounds in 13 minutes per game off the bench for the Nets. Brooklyn's starting guards have been out since mid-November By Garrett Stepien | Jan 2 | 9:55AM Nov 4, 2019; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) and guard Caris LeVert (22) and head coach Kenny Atkinson react in the fourth quarter against the New Orleans Pelicans at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Nicole Sweet-USA TODAY Sports (NICOLE SWEET) Out of action since mid-November, Kyrie Irving and Caris LeVert remain out as the Brooklyn Nets' three-game road trip continues. Ahead of Thursday's 8:30 p.m. ET game against the Dallas Mavericks, the Nets had a stacked injury report with six players on the list. Among the handful, Garrett Temple is questionable with a right knee contusion. Nicolas Claxton is out due to left hamstring soreness. Stern, who oversaw the league for 30 years, retired in 2014 Former NBA commissioner David Stern died Wednesday afternoon, 20 days after he was hospitalized Dec. 12 in New York upon suffering a brain hemorrhage, the league announced. He was 77. Stern collapsed while at Brasserie 8 1/2 in Manhattan and was then rushed to the hospital for surgery, Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reported Dec. 12. The NBA released the following statement from current commissioner Adam Silver. Nets head coach Kenny Atkinson on loss to Timberwolves: 'Just an unacceptable performance by us' Team has lost three straight games and four of its last five By Corey Hersch | Dec 30, 2019 | 11:34PM (David Berding) The Nets lost to the Minnesota Timberwolves in overtime on Monday, 122-115, their third straight loss and fourth in the last five games. Head coach Kenny Atkinson was less than enthused with his team's effort in the loss. "Just an unacceptable perform

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that he wrote, you should meet.' I was like 'Alright, let me come to the session.' Three years later, rest is history. C: When the three came to you, Reece, where were you at that point? R: I was on my solo thing, a bit inconsistent at times, I was focusing on my art stuff. I was in it, spending money on studio time, but not totally wrapped up in it. Didn't have management deal or anything like that. I had a few tracks but they weren't serious. So one time, in the same studio I was recording in, I met George & Robin, we got a sync deal and we just continued to make music from then. T: I think what happens with some groups, their coming together is manufactured, you see that on TV. Speaking for myself, there's power in numbers. Having someone that shares the same passion as you. These days you need people who are as hungry as you and you can rely on them whenever you're down. I was listening to Halfcast Podcast, and Chuckie was talking about how your people will happily be there when you're succeeding, but when you need support, they tell you the wrong things. But going back to the original question, how did RAYLO start. On genuine fucking foundations. C: Nice way to tie that up! Now, listening to you guys talk, there's a, I don't want to say 'jaded', but you are aware that there are people that'll talk to you and advise you on things but it ends up being a "Wolf in sheep's clothing" situation. You've hinted at this in you EP and I just wanted to know how is it, trying to avoid those industry pitfalls? T: It comes with anything in life, it may be a little different in the music industry and being honest it is still a bit new to us, but it's a rat race, everybody wants to be at the top. Things aren't supposed to be easy, if it was you'd be questioning why is it easy. Whether it's a day job or the music industry, we all go through it. But I do value when people speak about it. When you see artists you aspire to and wonder how they got there, they don't tell you how they were shut down 99 times, 'managers left me 55 times, label shut the door, I was broke, sleeping on a couch'. Nobody tells you the come ups but there is always a story there. Our experiences have taught us a lot as young men. I wouldn't ever burn a bridge, that one thing I love about this group, even if we don't get the answers we want, we'll still shake hands and say 'you will see us again'. Our experiences mould us, you hear it in the music, you can hear it in the production, you can hear it in our tones. C: I want to get into the day-to-day, how does it work between the four of you? Who starts the process? Is it the producers or you two as the front-men? Who gets the ball rolling? R: I'd say for me, it starts anywhere, I could be at home and I hear something or have something on my mind, make a little melody and record it. Either way it can start from a vibe and it will be little steps from there. T: Just trial and error. Sadly, I wish we could spend all day in the studio, sit down, make music. That's in an ideal world. Even if we're on the train we hit each other up saying I've heard this track, have you heard this track. Our individual characteristics are so different, you have to black makes and two white males in the group. I may play one thing and then G comes in saying 'Let me put this on it' and he brings his influence. That's another thing I love about this group, it's never generic. Reece can write a hook on any beat, I might be sceptical but we give it to G or Robin, they flip it, chop it up and then what we have is a sound and you have no idea how it came about. R: That's the end product, it's our individual influence mashed into one sound. It's actually mad thinking about it. T: And it can only happen in music! If it was like a "Ready, Steady, Cook" situation, putting in Jamaican & Nigerian ingredients, what kinda dish would that be?! It's a blessing in disgu

that he wrote, you should meet.' I was like 'Alright, let me come to the session.' Three years later, rest is history. C: When the three came to you, Reece, where were you at that point? R: I was on my solo thing, a bit inconsistent at times, I was focusing on my art stuff. I was in it, spending money on studio time, but not totally wrapped up in it. Didn't have management deal or anything like that. I had a few tracks but they weren't serious. So one time, in the same studio I was recording in, I met George & Robin, we got a sync deal and we just continued to make music from then. T: I think what happens with some groups, their coming together is manufactured, you see that on TV. Speaking for myself, there's power in numbers. Having someone that shares the same passion as you. These days you need people who are as hungry as you and you can rely on them whenever you're down. I was listening to Halfcast Podcast, and Chuckie was talking about how your people will happily be there when you're succeeding, but when you need support, they tell you the wrong things. But going back to the original question, how did RAYLO start. On genuine fucking foundations. C: Nice way to tie that up! Now, listening to you guys talk, there's a, I don't want to say 'jaded', but you are aware that there are people that'll talk to you and advise you on things but it ends up being a "Wolf in sheep's clothing" situation. You've hinted at this in you EP and I just wanted to know how is it, trying to avoid those industry pitfalls? T: It comes with anything in life, it may be a little different in the music industry and being honest it is still a bit new to us, but it's a rat race, everybody wants to be at the top. Things aren't supposed to be easy, if it was you'd be questioning why is it easy. Whether it's a day job or the music industry, we all go through it. But I do value when people speak about it. When you see artists you aspire to and wonder how they got there, they don't tell you how they were shut down 99 times, 'managers left me 55 times, label shut the door, I was broke, sleeping on a couch'. Nobody tells you the come ups but there is always a story there. Our experiences have taught us a lot as young men. I wouldn't ever burn a bridge, that one thing I love about this group, even if we don't get the answers we want, we'll still shake hands and say 'you will see us again'. Our experiences mould us, you hear it in the music, you can hear it in the production, you can hear it in our tones. C: I want to get into the day-to-day, how does it work between the four of you? Who starts the process? Is it the producers or you two as the front-men? Who gets the ball rolling? R: I'd say for me, it starts anywhere, I could be at home and I hear something or have something on my mind, make a little melody and record it. Either way it can start from a vibe and it will be little steps from there. T: Just trial and error. Sadly, I wish we could spend all day in the studio, sit down, make music. That's in an ideal world. Even if we're on the train we hit each other up saying I've heard this track, have you heard this track. Our individual characteristics are so different, you have to black makes and two white males in the group. I may play one thing and then G comes in saying 'Let me put this on it' and he brings his influence. That's another thing I love about this group, it's never generic. Reece can write a hook on any beat, I might be sceptical but we give it to G or Robin, they flip it, chop it up and then what we have is a sound and you have no idea how it came about. R: That's the end product, it's our individual influence mashed into one sound. It's actually mad thinking about it. T: And it can only happen in music! If it was like a "Ready, Steady, Cook" situation, putting in Jamaican & Nigerian ingredients, what kinda dish would that be?! It's a blessing in disgu

ise. C: It would end up being a Jamie Oliver ting! *The conversation derails into laughing about the "Jerk Rice" ordeal. We get back on track soon enough* C: So with the EP itself, in a few keywords, how would you describe the EP for someone that hasn't listened? T: Realness. R: Letting the public know that we're bringing something different. The inspiration was to articulate that "We're here". Subliminally, the artwork is space-y. As if we're not from here. T: When you walk into meetings with managers and labels, they're looking for something, a mould. When you don't fit into that mould, they don't take you. We understand it's a business but they don't take risks, a certain look is popping but it's not our style. You have to make the decision to not try and fit in. C: For sure, even from a marketing standpoint, following you guys on Instagram. The flow was constant, these teaser banners, cinematic posters and when the EP actually dropped I was immediately intrigued so I just wanted to shout out the great effort put into that. You've mentioned the word "Cinematic" a lot and I've been interested in that word choice. Are you guys into film or the idea of it? R: My older brother loves films and is always watching them. Star Wars, Harry Potter etc. And what you find in these films is that they're so big, the music and the visuals are always in sync and it allows the viewer to immerse. T: Reece is a big fan of Peter Pan in the sense of giving someone a different world. Music does that as well. It's such a powerful thing. When I met Reece, I knew he was good because of how artistic he is. To the point where he's cooking up visuals while we're making the track. I'm going 'We need to focus on this track, it needs to bang' where as he's going 'Nah trust me, when you see the visuals for this!' And mentioning the banners from the detail and how they're positioned. This guy is a genius. R: Respect! Respect! T: For us, when you press play, we want you to get immersed. Sometimes that lacks in the current scene. R: Going back to your question. Think about a film like The Godfather, you hear a train coming in. The train has nothing to do with what is happening in the scene but it makes you feel like something is coming to a climax. You can do the same thing with music, add different effects to influence the listener as cinema does to the viewer. Cinematics are the way man. C: I completely get where you're coming from. There are some films where I'm watching and the best thing about it is the sound and how it immerses you. I think sound and music sometimes goes understated. T: One thing quickly. Robin does a lot of film scoring, so bear in mind that as much as we love films, we actually have a guy that makes soundtracks so that makes the camaraderie much nicer. C: I just want to go back a little bit to you four guys, Teni mentioned that you listen to people like N.E.R.D etc. If you could speak for George & Robin for a second, how far apart are your individual tastes? R: George is a massive metal fan, he likes house as well but metal is his main love. Mad crazy death metal music. Robin enjoys stuff like Foreign Beggars, Wu-Tang, political rap. I like classical music, all types of music. It really depends on my mood. Right now the body of work I'm really into is Plan B's "Strickland Banks". I say that because of the story and the visuals for every song are realness. I'm not a massive Plan B fan but that body of work is so cold. 6LACK, Bryson Tiller types as well. T: We're from London but we take inspiration from everywhere. You can hear Jay-Z, Travis Scott, Tiller but on the other side, 'Wildheart' by Miguel for example, we'll take elements from that and try to implement that in our work. Cause our work is so different, it will be interesting to see what kind of fan-base we'll gain. Who

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repeated often. I’m sure you are wondering why I told the above story. It is a great example of survivorship bias. Let me give you an example from the investment world. Some of the big companies that rank mutual funds do so in many different ways, such as, large cap growth. They will show the results of hundreds of funds in the large cap growth category and their performance statistics for the past 10 years and often longer. They will state some averages like the funds in this category grew from 2005 until 2015 at an average of 163.2%. Sounds good doesn’t it? The problem is that the big company (the one with a candle pattern name) only included the funds that survived for that 10+ year period. Not all mutual funds survive. If they had included all of them, including the ones that had less than a 10- year record, the performance growth number would be considerably smaller. The funds that ceased their existence did not do so because they were stellar performers; they did so because they were dogs. The numbers of funds that simply go missing is astonishing. In A Random Walk Down Wall Street Burton Malkiel found that 15% of US funds disappeared between 1988 and 1991. In the UK a study by Luke Schneider showed that of 1008 funds available to the private investor in 1992 only 491 were still trading in 2003. This is not a minor problem. Incidentally Schneider also showed that the average mutual fund investor even managed to significantly underperform this debased benchmark by around 2% per year through overtrading. Investing in active funds carries risks other than the obvious one of picking dubious funds, it also brings with it a mindset that it’s possible for an individual to outperform the index. Normally it isn’t. This survivorship effect, added to the impact of active manager funds, drives most low cost index trackers (do watch out for those indexers with TER’s over 0.5%) up into the top performance echelons of their sectors. Even the long quoted outperformance of small cap active funds over index trackers turns out to be a figment of the data. Be alert for this as the data is essentially useless; it only shows the survivors, which may or may not be useless. My goal was to once again point out all the deception that goes on in modern finance. Advanced users can convert GG files via command-line interface in manual or automated mode. You are welcome to contact our technical support when you have any questions about reaConverter. Highly efficient batch GG converter that makes it easy to handle huge number of files and folders in a few simple operations. You do not need to purchase transfers from Royal Caribbean to participate in the Luggage Valet programme, although we highly recommend it. If you have a late flight, you can take advantage of our shore & land Excursions for city tours or even go shopping. Then you simply go to the airport a few hours before your flight, proceed directly to the security check-point and on to your gate. Business world has been changing constantly, from last few years, company’s operations have taken a significant turn. Today web portal is no longer considered a simple user interface, but it has become an important tool for realizing business vision. Well-developed portals create new opportunities for businesses. Looking for a web portal development company? Webmization should be the choice, we have been building web portals of all type to empowering businesses and helping them to streamline processes and integrate line of operations. We don’t just provide codes but give you digital advantage. Social interconnected networks and web portal solutions, from web portals Development Company, facilitates information sharing. Remote communication, via strong webportal development, help businesses jump onto the bandwagon of excellence. A customized webportal design, by the leading webportal design company, helps your business streamlines the distribution of content. Ecommerce web portals for business, designed by portal developers at the webportal development company, holds tremendous importance. But web portal designing can also be a daunting task if you haven’t chosen the right web portals development company to create a web portal. This is where the leading web portal designing company comes to the rescue to provide excellent webportal services. The #1 webportal development company possesses a team of expert portal developers to develop web portal solutions including company intranets, partner and customer portals and other web portals development solutions that

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236 yards away and it plays almost all carry as the upslope kills anything pitching short. Shaking hands with James Edwards who won the 17+ handicap group to also qualify for the Final A handshake from Alex from Golf Monthly and the spoils of victory Check out the Golf Monthly website for pictures of all the other qualifying events. If you ever get an opportunity to enter one of these competitions you really should take the chance to play. They are usually held on top notch venues and entry (including a meal after) is usually much cheaper than a standard green fee would cost. Although most players would like to win, the emphasis is on having fun and it isn't cut-throat and win at all costs. Dancing In The Valleys It's Golf Monthly's Centenary and to celebrate they've been hosting a number of competitions up and down the country and offering the top four players at each location a chance to play in a national final at the Forest of Arden in the Midlands in October. I'd booked to play at St Pierre in Chepstow. The famous Old Course has played host to many top tournaments from the PGA Welsh Masters to the Solheim Cup and Dunlop Masters and off the white tees provides a stern 7028 yard test. The fairways are pretty tight and lined with mature, majestic trees making accuracy off the tee a premium and the smallish greens need accurate club selection to make putting on the quick, subtle surfaces as easy as possible. I was out with a good friend called Sean Wheatley from the GM Forum and another Berkshire lad (Sandhurst) and two guys from the West Country. Jim from Minchampton Golf Club was off a dangerous 19 and the fourball was completed by a guy called Martyn from Saunton and off 13. It is always a nervous opening drive at any Golf Monthly event given my involvement with them over the years and particularly the forum and so it was a relief to hit a good one down the long 574 yard par five first. As well as being a long opener there were trees tight left and the driving range not too far away to the right but my drive split the fairway and I'd go on to make a par. The first few holes steadily take you uphill until you reach the tee on the par three 6th which offers majestic views over the Severn Bridge and the Bristol Channel and down the Chepstow valleys. I'd made good progress to that point including a pleasing par four at the long (stroke index 2) 442 par four fourth hole having hit another great drive and finding the green with my second. The 4th green on the Old Course By the time I'd reached the ninth tee I was on 18 points. It's the hardest hole on the course and my first bad drive of the day really lay the foundation for a poor hole and my failure to score any points. Still, I was out level to my handicap and so all seemed good in the world. The tenth is a sweeping right to left dog leg of 365 yards with a pond protecting the left hand side the length of the hole and with a tree strategic placed on the left edge of the rough to force you out wider and therefore making the second shot that much longer. The driver behaved and I hit a peach hugging the edge of the tree and drawing before running down hill. The second is played to a green protected left and behind by the pond and to be honest I was between clubs with 98 yards left and took a pitching wedge but never committed to the shot and hit it fat. Another dropped point. The back nine was a tale of wasted shots, missed opportunities and the odd piece of bad luck but by the time I stood on the feature hole, the massive 236 yard par 3 eighteenth I'd manage to accumulate 31 points to date which I reckoned would be well short of the required number. The last features a shot from a tee high above the lake. You drive over the water to a raised green on top of the hill by the clubhouse and sanctuary. It looks lovely as you stand there but it's a real brute to play. I hit a three wood and to be honest a combination of fatigue in the humid conditions and trying to hit it too hard produced a pig of a shot. It shot off low and disappeared below the tee box. I was doubtful it would make

236 yards away and it plays almost all carry as the upslope kills anything pitching short. Shaking hands with James Edwards who won the 17+ handicap group to also qualify for the Final A handshake from Alex from Golf Monthly and the spoils of victory Check out the Golf Monthly website for pictures of all the other qualifying events. If you ever get an opportunity to enter one of these competitions you really should take the chance to play. They are usually held on top notch venues and entry (including a meal after) is usually much cheaper than a standard green fee would cost. Although most players would like to win, the emphasis is on having fun and it isn't cut-throat and win at all costs. Dancing In The Valleys It's Golf Monthly's Centenary and to celebrate they've been hosting a number of competitions up and down the country and offering the top four players at each location a chance to play in a national final at the Forest of Arden in the Midlands in October. I'd booked to play at St Pierre in Chepstow. The famous Old Course has played host to many top tournaments from the PGA Welsh Masters to the Solheim Cup and Dunlop Masters and off the white tees provides a stern 7028 yard test. The fairways are pretty tight and lined with mature, majestic trees making accuracy off the tee a premium and the smallish greens need accurate club selection to make putting on the quick, subtle surfaces as easy as possible. I was out with a good friend called Sean Wheatley from the GM Forum and another Berkshire lad (Sandhurst) and two guys from the West Country. Jim from Minchampton Golf Club was off a dangerous 19 and the fourball was completed by a guy called Martyn from Saunton and off 13. It is always a nervous opening drive at any Golf Monthly event given my involvement with them over the years and particularly the forum and so it was a relief to hit a good one down the long 574 yard par five first. As well as being a long opener there were trees tight left and the driving range not too far away to the right but my drive split the fairway and I'd go on to make a par. The first few holes steadily take you uphill until you reach the tee on the par three 6th which offers majestic views over the Severn Bridge and the Bristol Channel and down the Chepstow valleys. I'd made good progress to that point including a pleasing par four at the long (stroke index 2) 442 par four fourth hole having hit another great drive and finding the green with my second. The 4th green on the Old Course By the time I'd reached the ninth tee I was on 18 points. It's the hardest hole on the course and my first bad drive of the day really lay the foundation for a poor hole and my failure to score any points. Still, I was out level to my handicap and so all seemed good in the world. The tenth is a sweeping right to left dog leg of 365 yards with a pond protecting the left hand side the length of the hole and with a tree strategic placed on the left edge of the rough to force you out wider and therefore making the second shot that much longer. The driver behaved and I hit a peach hugging the edge of the tree and drawing before running down hill. The second is played to a green protected left and behind by the pond and to be honest I was between clubs with 98 yards left and took a pitching wedge but never committed to the shot and hit it fat. Another dropped point. The back nine was a tale of wasted shots, missed opportunities and the odd piece of bad luck but by the time I stood on the feature hole, the massive 236 yard par 3 eighteenth I'd manage to accumulate 31 points to date which I reckoned would be well short of the required number. The last features a shot from a tee high above the lake. You drive over the water to a raised green on top of the hill by the clubhouse and sanctuary. It looks lovely as you stand there but it's a real brute to play. I hit a three wood and to be honest a combination of fatigue in the humid conditions and trying to hit it too hard produced a pig of a shot. It shot off low and disappeared below the tee box. I was doubtful it would make

the carry but fortunately it appeared low and right and it tried hard to scamper towards the green but could only make the rough halfway up. The view to the tee on the 18th I was left with an awkward uphill chip of some 54 yards over a bunker in front of the assembled Golf Monthly editorial team and the on course snapper waiting to detail the closing throes. To be honest it was a bit of a half hearted hit and hope with nothing left to play for but it came off and stopped a foot from the flag. Naturally I explained it was played for. All that was left was to make sure I made the putt which I managed to do for a three (nett birdie) and a closing three points for a grand total of 34. I was sure it would be at least two points shy. I have to say the veteran of the group Jim played some fantastic golf. Despite the course being a brute in length, he never found any trouble and was always on or around the green in three and so chipping or putting for a par. He came back in a marvellous 19 points and level handicap 36 overall. Now that had to be in the running. After a great three course meal it was time for the results. There were 55 golfers in total and Golf Monthly had split it across various handicap categories to ensure an even spread of players per category. It went 0-9, 10-13, 14-19 and 20 and above. When it got to my category (10-13) and second place was announced on 32 points (a good mate called Tony Reed aka Pokerjoke) it dawned on me. Homer had only gone and won the prize and then came the announcement. A couple of pictures with Jezz Ellwood (deputy editor) and a snazzy Cleveland golfing suitcase prize later I was there. I'm in the national final on the 12th and 13th of October at the Forest of Arden in Warwickshire. I've won an overnight stay at the on-site Marriott followed by breakfast, the final itself and then a meal and prize giving. It has to be my biggest win in many a full moon. I told you blog followers. I promised it was in there. Finally it came out when it mattered and I converted. The glass half empty part of me was disappointed with the way I played the back nine and the last six holes in particular as I didn't hit it very well and to be honest was trying too hard to chase what I thought I would need to post a competitive score. The glass half full side says it was a tough course off the white tees and a place you'd never seen or played before and that for twelve holes you were hitting it great and very steady. As the great rugby commentator Bill McClaren would say after a Wales victory, "they'll be dancing in the valleys tonight" and I did have a small libation with my wife once we got back to the B&B in Chepstow we were staying at. I'm off to Tyrrells Wood tomorrow for a game with some of the normal Saturday swindle but the forecast is pretty dire and so any hope of keeping the good form going may be scuppered by the rain and wind. To be honest I don't care and have already had a sneaky look on the internet at the Forest of Arden course. It'll be another tough challenge and there are some good golfers going along but I'm there, a finalist and so anything from here on in is a bonus. Get in! at August 03, 2011 2 comments: Links to this post On The Tourist Trail I was due to play in the Golf Monthly Centenary Golf Event in St Pierre in Chepstow yesterday (Tuesday August 2nd) and decided to go down a day early with the wife and have a bit of a mini break. It's only a two hour trip and once you're over the Severn Bridge you are in Chepstow and St Pierre is a short ten minute drive away. It's a Marriott resort and has two courses, the Old and the Mathern. I was playing the Old which has hosted some famous pro events including a Solheim Cup and my hero Seve has played and won on the hallowed turf. We booked into a lovely AA four star B&B called the Parva Farmhouse situated at the far

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following month, Bush accepted an invitation to join the eminent international Council of Patrons of the Asian University for Women (AUW) in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The university, which is the product of east–west foundational partnerships (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Open Society Foundation, IKEA Foundation etc.) and regional cooperation, serves extraordinarily talented women from 15 countries across Asia and the Middle East, including Afghanistan and Myanmar.[160] In September, Bush delivered the keynote address at the Gateway to Opportunity luncheon at the Omni Dallas Hotel.[161] In April 2020, amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Bush and Michelle Obama made a joint appearance on the "One World: Together At Home" televised concert special by the Global Citizen Festival where they expressed appreciation for healthcare workers, first responders, pharmacists, veterinarians, sanitation workers as well as grocery store workers and those delivering food and supplies to homes.[162] Laura Bush and Michelle Obama on November 10, 2008. The two First Ladies formed a friendship. Over the course of the Obama presidency, she developed an alliance with Michelle Obama, her immediate successor as First Lady. Despite their political differences,[163] Michelle Obama has called Laura Bush both her friend and a role model,[164][165] crediting Bush with setting "a high bar" for her during her tenure as First Lady.[166] Bush defended Obama during her husband's campaign for president in 2008, publicly coming to her defense when she received criticism for a remark she made about being proud of her country for the first time in her adulthood during the campaign.[167] Obama sent Bush a note thanking her[168] and after the election met with Bush at the White House in November 2008,[169] Bush giving Obama a tour of her and her family's soon-to-be home.[170][171] In September 2009, Bush openly praised President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. She reasoned that President Obama was performing well in the presidency despite having multiple initiatives taking place and complimented the First Lady's transformation of the White House into "a comfortable home for her family".[172] The following year, in September 2010, Bush and Obama commemorated the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks by leading a ceremony from a mountaintop to national memorial park.[173][174] The two both acted as keynote speakers and met with the families of the 40 victims of United Airlines Flight 93 plane crash.[175][176] In their remarks, the two sang each other's praises. Obama thanked Bush for her handling of the aftermath of September 11 attacks, while Bush called her a "first lady who serves this country with such grace".[177] In July 2013, Bush and Obama appeared together in Africa at the First Ladies Summit.[178][179] Their husbands were also present, leading White House staffer Ben Rhodes to refer to the joint appearance as proof of the support for Africa in the United States regardless of political party.[180] In their remarks, both Bush and Obama stressed the importance of being role models.[181] Nine months later, on April 18, 2014, Bush spoke to Inquisitr regarding income inequality where she said next regarding Michelle Obama's income: "I want to make sure that when she's working she's getting paid the same as men. I gotta say that First Ladies right now don't [get paid], even though that's a tough job!"[182] In August 2014, Bush and Obama appeared together at the Kennedy Center.[183][184] Shortly afterward, Bush told The Washington Post that she believed Obama was ready to leave the White House.[185] In March 2015, Bush and Obama were named as co-chairs of the Find Your Park campaign, an attempt to increase national park support and introduce millennials to the park service before its centennial the following year.[186][187] The pair made a joint appearance at the George

following month, Bush accepted an invitation to join the eminent international Council of Patrons of the Asian University for Women (AUW) in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The university, which is the product of east–west foundational partnerships (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Open Society Foundation, IKEA Foundation etc.) and regional cooperation, serves extraordinarily talented women from 15 countries across Asia and the Middle East, including Afghanistan and Myanmar.[160] In September, Bush delivered the keynote address at the Gateway to Opportunity luncheon at the Omni Dallas Hotel.[161] In April 2020, amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Bush and Michelle Obama made a joint appearance on the "One World: Together At Home" televised concert special by the Global Citizen Festival where they expressed appreciation for healthcare workers, first responders, pharmacists, veterinarians, sanitation workers as well as grocery store workers and those delivering food and supplies to homes.[162] Laura Bush and Michelle Obama on November 10, 2008. The two First Ladies formed a friendship. Over the course of the Obama presidency, she developed an alliance with Michelle Obama, her immediate successor as First Lady. Despite their political differences,[163] Michelle Obama has called Laura Bush both her friend and a role model,[164][165] crediting Bush with setting "a high bar" for her during her tenure as First Lady.[166] Bush defended Obama during her husband's campaign for president in 2008, publicly coming to her defense when she received criticism for a remark she made about being proud of her country for the first time in her adulthood during the campaign.[167] Obama sent Bush a note thanking her[168] and after the election met with Bush at the White House in November 2008,[169] Bush giving Obama a tour of her and her family's soon-to-be home.[170][171] In September 2009, Bush openly praised President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. She reasoned that President Obama was performing well in the presidency despite having multiple initiatives taking place and complimented the First Lady's transformation of the White House into "a comfortable home for her family".[172] The following year, in September 2010, Bush and Obama commemorated the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks by leading a ceremony from a mountaintop to national memorial park.[173][174] The two both acted as keynote speakers and met with the families of the 40 victims of United Airlines Flight 93 plane crash.[175][176] In their remarks, the two sang each other's praises. Obama thanked Bush for her handling of the aftermath of September 11 attacks, while Bush called her a "first lady who serves this country with such grace".[177] In July 2013, Bush and Obama appeared together in Africa at the First Ladies Summit.[178][179] Their husbands were also present, leading White House staffer Ben Rhodes to refer to the joint appearance as proof of the support for Africa in the United States regardless of political party.[180] In their remarks, both Bush and Obama stressed the importance of being role models.[181] Nine months later, on April 18, 2014, Bush spoke to Inquisitr regarding income inequality where she said next regarding Michelle Obama's income: "I want to make sure that when she's working she's getting paid the same as men. I gotta say that First Ladies right now don't [get paid], even though that's a tough job!"[182] In August 2014, Bush and Obama appeared together at the Kennedy Center.[183][184] Shortly afterward, Bush told The Washington Post that she believed Obama was ready to leave the White House.[185] In March 2015, Bush and Obama were named as co-chairs of the Find Your Park campaign, an attempt to increase national park support and introduce millennials to the park service before its centennial the following year.[186][187] The pair made a joint appearance at the George

W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in September 2015, Bush appearing physically while Obama was present through a video call. Obama spoke of her admiration for Bush, who in turn mentioned their collaborations as "a great example for the world to see that women in different political parties, in the United States, agree on so many issues".[188][189] In January 2017, Bush attended the Inauguration of Donald Trump.[190] In a November interview, Bush stated that she wished the Trumps "the very best" given that she knew what it was like to live in the White House and confirmed that she both been in contact with current First Lady Melania Trump and been invited to the Diplomatic Reception Room by retained personnel from the Bush administration.[191] On June 17, 2018, Bush wrote an opinion piece firmly opposing the Trump administration family separation policy in the Washington Post.[192] She mentioned how her mother-in-law Barbara Bush had picked up a crying AIDS baby while on a visit to the HIV/AIDS shelter "Grandma's House" in 1989. She mentioned this to indicate her shock upon discovery that the workers at the children's border shelter have been instructed "not to pick up or touch the children to comfort them". Involvement with GOP In the later months of 2012, Bush campaigned for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, hosting a fundraiser in September with Ann Romney and appearing in Livonia, Michigan, the following month for a Romney campaign event. Michigan spokeswoman for the Romney campaign Kelsey Knight said having Mrs. Bush there would "just fuel the fire and the momentum we are seeing".[193] She also campaigned for vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, telling a crowd in Detroit that he and Romney had "better answers" on the economy and foreign policy.[194] After the 2012 election, where Romney lost to President Obama, Bush was asked in March 2013 during an interview whether the GOP's positions on social issues such as same-sex marriage and abortion led to more than half of female voters voting for the President.[195] Bush responded that some of the candidates had "frightened some candidates", but at the same time expressed her liking of the Republican Party having room for difference of opinion and that within the party, "we have room for all".[196][197] Throughout 2015, Bush was active in the presidential campaign of brother-in-law Jeb Bush, hosting fundraisers and endorsing him.[198] This was the most politically involved she had been since leaving the White House seven years prior, supporting her brother-in-law alongside the rest of her family because, in her words, he was "our candidate".[199] In March she affirmed her support for her brother-in-law, calling herself and her husband "huge Jeb supporters".[200] It was reported that she would be assisting the campaign's fundraising in Florida in October, Bloomberg News commenting that Jeb Bush was "calling in help from perhaps the most popular member of his family".[201] According to Clay Johnson, a friend of the Bush family, she was reportedly surprised by Donald Trump's becoming frontrunner over the course of the election cycle.[202] In February 2016, amid her brother-in-law's campaign trailing Trump in South Carolina polls, Bush traveled there with her husband.[203][204] Jeb Bush dropped out of the race after the South Carolina primary.[205][206] The following month, Bush declined answering if she would vote for Trump, who was the frontrunner in the Republican primary, should he become the nominee[207][208] and said the U.S. was going through a xenophobic period at the time of the election cycle.[209] Ultimately, Bush and her husband refused to vote for president in 2016.[210] Laura Bush and mother in-law, former First Lady Barbara Bush, at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2012 Bush created the Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries "to support the education of our nation's children by providing funds to update, extend, and diversify the book and print collections of America's school libraries".

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government sought to restructure Cambodian society fully. More than 1 million Cambodians died within the course of, which stays one of many world’s darkest moments, by which a government turned in opposition to its personal individuals. As a results of the vehement campaign towards the PRK, the Khmer Rouge retained its UN seat regardless of its genocidal document. Cambodia would be represented on the UN by Thiounn Prasith, Pol Pot and Ieng Sary’s crony since their pupil days in Paris. The seat of ‘”Democratic Kampuchea”‘s regime lasted for 3 years at the United Nations after the fall of Pol Pot’s regime in Cambodia. Here’s the third in a series of posts on the stunning and interesting things I learned while touring through the rural countryside. According to knowledge collected this 12 months, 14 % of the Cambodian inhabitants sits under the National Poverty Line. The constitution was revised in 1989 to accommodate the market-oriented policies of the newly shaped “State of Cambodia”. This state was basically a continuation of the PRK regime adapted to the brand new realities dictated by the collapse of the Soviet bloc, when Mikhail Gorbachev lowered to a minimal Soviet help for Vietnam and Cambodia. Suddenly the Cambodian management discovered itself scrambling for favour abroad, which included the necessity to open its markets, the gradual abandoning of its authentic professional-Soviet stance and the strain to seek out some lodging with the factions warring against it. In 1986, Hanoi claimed to have begun withdrawing a part of its occupation forces. Ethnic groups in Cambodia aside from the politically and socially dominant Khmer are categorised as both “indigenous ethnic minorities” or “non-indigenous ethnic minorities”. The indigenous ethnic minorities, extra commonly collectively referred to as the Khmer Loeu (“upland Khmer”), constitute the majority within the remote mountainous provinces of Ratanakiri, Mondulkiri and Stung Treng and are current in substantial numbers in Kratie Province. However, in the mid-1980s it took on a more reformist outlook when some members identified issues with collectivisation and concluded that personal property ought to play a task in Cambodian society. The excessive collectivisation of the Khmer Rouge had triggered extreme burn-out and distrust amongst farmers, who refused to work collectively as soon as the threat of the Khmer Rouge disappeared from the liberated areas. Despite the watered-down ideology the KPRP/CPP remained firmly in charge of Cambodia till 1993. In 1979, the Khmer Rouge fell out with the Vietnamese communists, their former allies, and the Vietnamese efficiently invaded and installed a puppet regime in Phnom Penh ( ). From sanctuaries in Thailand, the Khmer Rouge, joined by remnants of former royalist and republican regimes in Cambodia and backed by China, the ASEAN states and the West, waged a guerrilla struggle hot cambodians. Centuries of neglect had permitted the jungle to recapture most of the more important buildings, and unless efforts were made to free the buildings from the embrace of giant banyan and silk-cotton timber, they might soon be crushed to destruction. In 1989 started the transition that culminated in the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements. The Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation (KUFNS or FUNSK) was an organisation that may be pivotal in overthrowing the Khmer Rouge and establishing the PRK/SOC state. The Salvation Front was a heterogeneous group of communist and non-communist exiles determined to struggle towards Pol Pot and rebuild Cambodia. Led by Heng Samrin and Pen Sovann, each Khmer Rouge defectors,[5] in a zone liberated from the Khmer Rouge after the purge of the Eastern Zone, the entrance’s basis was announced by Radio Hanoi on 3 December 1978. Fast facts on common height for women: The KPRAF was formed initially from militias, former Khmer Rouge members, and conscripts.[fifty nine] KPRAF troops had been trained and equipped by the Vietnamese armed forces. But owing to a scarcity of correct training

government sought to restructure Cambodian society fully. More than 1 million Cambodians died within the course of, which stays one of many world’s darkest moments, by which a government turned in opposition to its personal individuals. As a results of the vehement campaign towards the PRK, the Khmer Rouge retained its UN seat regardless of its genocidal document. Cambodia would be represented on the UN by Thiounn Prasith, Pol Pot and Ieng Sary’s crony since their pupil days in Paris. The seat of ‘”Democratic Kampuchea”‘s regime lasted for 3 years at the United Nations after the fall of Pol Pot’s regime in Cambodia. Here’s the third in a series of posts on the stunning and interesting things I learned while touring through the rural countryside. According to knowledge collected this 12 months, 14 % of the Cambodian inhabitants sits under the National Poverty Line. The constitution was revised in 1989 to accommodate the market-oriented policies of the newly shaped “State of Cambodia”. This state was basically a continuation of the PRK regime adapted to the brand new realities dictated by the collapse of the Soviet bloc, when Mikhail Gorbachev lowered to a minimal Soviet help for Vietnam and Cambodia. Suddenly the Cambodian management discovered itself scrambling for favour abroad, which included the necessity to open its markets, the gradual abandoning of its authentic professional-Soviet stance and the strain to seek out some lodging with the factions warring against it. In 1986, Hanoi claimed to have begun withdrawing a part of its occupation forces. Ethnic groups in Cambodia aside from the politically and socially dominant Khmer are categorised as both “indigenous ethnic minorities” or “non-indigenous ethnic minorities”. The indigenous ethnic minorities, extra commonly collectively referred to as the Khmer Loeu (“upland Khmer”), constitute the majority within the remote mountainous provinces of Ratanakiri, Mondulkiri and Stung Treng and are current in substantial numbers in Kratie Province. However, in the mid-1980s it took on a more reformist outlook when some members identified issues with collectivisation and concluded that personal property ought to play a task in Cambodian society. The excessive collectivisation of the Khmer Rouge had triggered extreme burn-out and distrust amongst farmers, who refused to work collectively as soon as the threat of the Khmer Rouge disappeared from the liberated areas. Despite the watered-down ideology the KPRP/CPP remained firmly in charge of Cambodia till 1993. In 1979, the Khmer Rouge fell out with the Vietnamese communists, their former allies, and the Vietnamese efficiently invaded and installed a puppet regime in Phnom Penh ( ). From sanctuaries in Thailand, the Khmer Rouge, joined by remnants of former royalist and republican regimes in Cambodia and backed by China, the ASEAN states and the West, waged a guerrilla struggle hot cambodians. Centuries of neglect had permitted the jungle to recapture most of the more important buildings, and unless efforts were made to free the buildings from the embrace of giant banyan and silk-cotton timber, they might soon be crushed to destruction. In 1989 started the transition that culminated in the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements. The Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation (KUFNS or FUNSK) was an organisation that may be pivotal in overthrowing the Khmer Rouge and establishing the PRK/SOC state. The Salvation Front was a heterogeneous group of communist and non-communist exiles determined to struggle towards Pol Pot and rebuild Cambodia. Led by Heng Samrin and Pen Sovann, each Khmer Rouge defectors,[5] in a zone liberated from the Khmer Rouge after the purge of the Eastern Zone, the entrance’s basis was announced by Radio Hanoi on 3 December 1978. Fast facts on common height for women: The KPRAF was formed initially from militias, former Khmer Rouge members, and conscripts.[fifty nine] KPRAF troops had been trained and equipped by the Vietnamese armed forces. But owing to a scarcity of correct training

and weapons, meagre salaries and mass desertions, the fledgling KPRAF was not an efficient fighting force and the bulk of the preventing in opposition to the CGDK forces was left in the end to the military of the occupiers, the Vietnam People’s Army. Peace negotiations between the Vietnam-backed regime in Cambodia and its armed opposition teams had begun formally and informally after the mid-Nineteen Eighties. Preceded bySucceeded byPeople’s Republic of KampucheaUnited Nations Transitional Authority in CambodiaToday half ofCambodiaOn 29–30 April 1989, the National Assembly of the PRK, presided by a smiling Hun Sen, held an extraordinary meeting to be able to make some, at first, largely beauty constitutional changes. The identify of “People’s Republic of Kampuchea” was officially modified to State of Cambodia (SOC)—a name that had been previously used proper after the 1970 coup—reintroducing the blue colour within the Cambodian flag and different state symbols, although the coat of arms remained virtually the identical. REVIEW: 24: Live Another Day Daniel Smith/FOX By James Poniewozik May 1, 2014 9:38 AM EDT In the early years of 24, after the 9/11 attacks, the common take was that the appeal of Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) lay in his strength: he was tough, decisive, and effective, offering the fantasy of security in an insecure time. But in the long run, I don’t think Bauer’s most important function was to fight our battles; it was to feel our pain. Season after season, he would suffer physically and spiritually, he would lose friends and lovers (and sleep), he would save the country and get run out of town. He was like a psychic pincushion, a sponge soaking up all the toxic emotion of the era, committing our sins and swallowing the guilt until he seemed 100 years old. (Albeit a spry 100!) As 24 returns for its new limited run, with the Bond-esque subtitle Live Another Day, much has changed. The setting is London. The season will be half as long (so we’ll really only live another half day). The old gang has busted up. A bitter, gruff Bauer is persona non grata in a world increasingly suspicious of government spy power. Chloe (Mary-Lynn Rajskub) has gone rebel, getting a goth makeover and going to work for a free-information hacker group whose members look like the cast of Wikileaks: The Musical. But the fact that “things have changed” is one of the biggest ways that 24 has stayed the same. The show’s longevity over eight seasons came partly because it adapted its thriller format to the current concerns of the moment each season. As the Iraq war loomed, it dealt with a push for war in the Middle East; as the occupation got brutal, so did 24‘s torture scenes; as the real-life war generated backlash, so did Bauer’s extreme measures on the show. And every year, Jack returned more grizzled and tormented, just as he does now. The fact that 24‘s new storyline involves drones, anti-surveillance groups, and the suspicion of government power is a change of subject, then, but not of format. The same goes for everything else about the first two hours of Live Another Day, which premieres May 5 on Fox. If you want a 24 very much like the show that went off the air in 2010, it will please you; if you’ve forgotten much about the show in the intervening four years, it might surprise you. Otherwise, 24 is very much 24, even if this one only adds up to 12. Watching the beginning two hours, it becomes clear how many of 24‘s rhythms have become ingrained in the muscle memory of TV; its twists and shocking reveals are now the standard language of dramas like The Blacklist. If you see a triumphant enemy framed a certain way, he’s about to get an explosive comeuppance; if someone shares an intimate confession with a partner, you can sense the double-cross coming; if someone with a nice ha

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offset motion sickness. St. John’s Wort tinctures are said to help ease the symptoms of depression. Tinctures are generally meant to be taken by mouth by placing drops on the tongue, the number of which varies depending on the tincture’s concentration as well as body size and age. Nedley said tinctures hit the bloodstream within seconds, so they’re especially effective if you have an acute condition like a broken bone or a cold. I was curious what kind of tincture to take if a person didn’t have a specific ailment, but just wanted to stay nourished. An “immunomodulator,” Nedley called it, and it’s a question she gets a lot. “Right now, especially given the current climate, I’m recommending medicinal mushroom tinctures,” she said. “It gets your immune system ready in case any pathogens come its way.” Infused oils, which can appear and be packaged similarly to tinctures, serve a slightly different purpose. They’re prepared by taking a carrier oil such as olive, sunflower, or jojoba, and combining it with fresh or dried plant material and letting it steep for a few hours. Infused oils can be used topically or internally, often topically in baths, as a moisturizer, or in salves, and internally for culinary purposes like making salad oils or dressings. Infused oils are a general relaxer and “get the blood moving,” Nedley said. She uses St. John’s Wort for one of her popular massage oils. When combined with essential oils (which are a more complex oil blend), infused oils can serve as aromatherapy as well. I spoke with another expert, Dr. Angela Knapp, a naturopathic physician at Integrated Health Care in Vineyard Haven. She said infused oils are a faster way to reap the benefits of these plant parts, because they only take a few hours to make as opposed to several weeks. But the result will be less potent in comparison to tinctures or salves, she said. Dr. Knapp also gave me a list of wild plants you can find here on the Island to make your own healing products. We’ll get to that soon. On to salves. Both tinctures and infused oils can be key ingredients in a salve. A salve is a medical ointment, cream, or balm used to soothe the surface of the body. They are made out of waxes and oils to make a material that is semi-solid. Salves stay thick and stable because they don’t usually contain any liquid unless a tiny tincture is added. Nedley says salves can be applied to ease any kind of skin ailment: eczema, poison ivy, bug bites, bruises, cuts, scrapes, etc. Salves are preferable to say, a lotion, because lotions are often made with questionable ingredients, whereas “salves are pretty straightforward,” she said. Nedley makes one infused with CBD that is rarely in stock. It’s called “Blue Moon” and it “lulls you to bed.” She recommends rubbing it on the bottom of the feet for quick absorption. She makes another one, the “All-Healing Salve,” that’s made with five different plants she harvests wild on the Island. Experts like Nedley and Dr. Knapp remind us there’s a pretty robust apothecary in our own backyards. “It’s always nice to forage your own medicine locally,” Knapp said. “We have so many amazing things on the Island.” When foraging, she said, it’s important to remember proximity to the road, and make sure you’re not in an area that’s sprayed with any pesticides. Yarrow grows as a weed all over the Island. It’s an astringent herb, which means it’s drying and good for swelling, Dr. Knapp said. Internally, it can help with drying out tissues or with excess fluid for conditions like edema. Yarrow is an antimicrobial and helps the immune system “battle anything you might be dealing with,” Knapp said. Blackberries and blueberries are also native to the Island. Berry leaves are nutrient-dense and high in cannabinoids, so it will help support the immune system and decrease stress. Nettle leaves are

offset motion sickness. St. John’s Wort tinctures are said to help ease the symptoms of depression. Tinctures are generally meant to be taken by mouth by placing drops on the tongue, the number of which varies depending on the tincture’s concentration as well as body size and age. Nedley said tinctures hit the bloodstream within seconds, so they’re especially effective if you have an acute condition like a broken bone or a cold. I was curious what kind of tincture to take if a person didn’t have a specific ailment, but just wanted to stay nourished. An “immunomodulator,” Nedley called it, and it’s a question she gets a lot. “Right now, especially given the current climate, I’m recommending medicinal mushroom tinctures,” she said. “It gets your immune system ready in case any pathogens come its way.” Infused oils, which can appear and be packaged similarly to tinctures, serve a slightly different purpose. They’re prepared by taking a carrier oil such as olive, sunflower, or jojoba, and combining it with fresh or dried plant material and letting it steep for a few hours. Infused oils can be used topically or internally, often topically in baths, as a moisturizer, or in salves, and internally for culinary purposes like making salad oils or dressings. Infused oils are a general relaxer and “get the blood moving,” Nedley said. She uses St. John’s Wort for one of her popular massage oils. When combined with essential oils (which are a more complex oil blend), infused oils can serve as aromatherapy as well. I spoke with another expert, Dr. Angela Knapp, a naturopathic physician at Integrated Health Care in Vineyard Haven. She said infused oils are a faster way to reap the benefits of these plant parts, because they only take a few hours to make as opposed to several weeks. But the result will be less potent in comparison to tinctures or salves, she said. Dr. Knapp also gave me a list of wild plants you can find here on the Island to make your own healing products. We’ll get to that soon. On to salves. Both tinctures and infused oils can be key ingredients in a salve. A salve is a medical ointment, cream, or balm used to soothe the surface of the body. They are made out of waxes and oils to make a material that is semi-solid. Salves stay thick and stable because they don’t usually contain any liquid unless a tiny tincture is added. Nedley says salves can be applied to ease any kind of skin ailment: eczema, poison ivy, bug bites, bruises, cuts, scrapes, etc. Salves are preferable to say, a lotion, because lotions are often made with questionable ingredients, whereas “salves are pretty straightforward,” she said. Nedley makes one infused with CBD that is rarely in stock. It’s called “Blue Moon” and it “lulls you to bed.” She recommends rubbing it on the bottom of the feet for quick absorption. She makes another one, the “All-Healing Salve,” that’s made with five different plants she harvests wild on the Island. Experts like Nedley and Dr. Knapp remind us there’s a pretty robust apothecary in our own backyards. “It’s always nice to forage your own medicine locally,” Knapp said. “We have so many amazing things on the Island.” When foraging, she said, it’s important to remember proximity to the road, and make sure you’re not in an area that’s sprayed with any pesticides. Yarrow grows as a weed all over the Island. It’s an astringent herb, which means it’s drying and good for swelling, Dr. Knapp said. Internally, it can help with drying out tissues or with excess fluid for conditions like edema. Yarrow is an antimicrobial and helps the immune system “battle anything you might be dealing with,” Knapp said. Blackberries and blueberries are also native to the Island. Berry leaves are nutrient-dense and high in cannabinoids, so it will help support the immune system and decrease stress. Nettle leaves are

a great herb for allergies and are also nutrient dense, according to Dr. Knapp. “We live in a world where farming soils are somewhat depleted of minerals,” she said. “So harvesting a wild herb like a nettle and making an infusion is a great way to increase minerals in the diet.” Wild mint and lemon balm, which are in the same family, are nervines, so they calm the nervous system. “Lemon balm is a great antiviral, so it’s a good thing to consider if you’re dealing with going back to school,” Knapp said. Mint, she added, is a great choice for calming the nervous system and digestive tract. So you’ve harvested some native plants. Now what? Dr. Knapp shared a quick how-to: “Take your foraged herb and add it to a blender. If you’re making a salve, use oil, and if you’re making a tincture, use alcohol or glycerin [or vinegar]. Use a 1 to 1 ratio, and blend in a blender or food processor. Let the blend sit for two to six weeks. Shake frequently to increase surface area of herb to liquid contact. Once it’s hardened, strain out the liquid. If you’re making a tincture, the liquid is your tincture. If you’re making salve, you have this oil base and you have to add beeswax, cocoa butter, or coconut oil.” If you’re making a salve, combine the oil with the wax or cocoa butter/coconut oil. Heat in a double boiler until the beeswax melts and the oil is integrated. Pour the blend into tins while hot. Let the blend sit until it firms up. Voila! You have a salve. Previous articleBattle of the boots Next articleMade on MVY: Kylee’s Essentials Made on MVY Made on MVY: Kylee’s Essentials Made on MVY: Beaded Mask Chains by Stefanie Wolf DITA maps are documents that organize topics and other resources into structured collections of information. DITA maps specify hierarchy and the relationships among the topics; they also provide the contexts in which keys are defined and resolved. DITA maps SHOULD have .ditamap as the file extension. Maps draw on a rich set of existing best practices and standards for defining information models, such as hierarchical task analysis. They also support the definition of non-hierarchical relationships, such as matrices and groups, which provide a set of capabilities that has similarities to Resource Description Framework (RDF) and ISO topic maps. DITA maps use topicref elements to reference DITA topics, DITA maps, and non-DITA resources, for example, HTML and TXT files. The topicref elements can be nested or grouped to create relationships among the referenced topics, maps, and non-DITA files; the topicref elements can be organized into hierarchies in order to represent a specific order of navigation or presentation. DITA maps impose an architecture on a set of topics. Information architects can use DITA maps to specify what DITA topics are needed to support a given set of user goals and requirements; the sequential order of the topics; and the relationships that exist among those topics. Because DITA maps provide this context for topics, the topics themselves can be relatively context-free; they can be used and reused in multiple different contexts. DITA maps often represent a single deliverable, for example, a specific Web site, a printed publication, or the online help for a product. DITA maps also can be subcomponents for a single deliverable, for example, a DITA map might contain the content for a chapter in a printed publication or the troubleshooting information for an online help system. The DITA specification provides specialized map types; book maps represent printed publications, subject scheme maps represent taxonomic or ontological classifications, and learning maps represent formal units of instruction and assessment. However, these map types are only a starter set of map types reflecting well-defined requirements. DITA maps establish relationships through the nesting of topicref elements and the application of the collection-type attribute. Relationship tables also can be used to associate topics with each other based on membership in the same row; for example, task topics can be associated with supporting concept and reference topics

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the 1930’s, an officer was clubbed to death by an inmate with a disassembled piece of a sewing machine. Famous Inmates Al Capone spent time here in a very well furnished cell. It was said he could be heard screaming on several occasions because he thought he was being haunted by one of the victims of the infamous Valentine’s Day Massacre. Willie Sutton, a notorious bank robber actually managed to escape in 1945 through a tunnel that took a team of men a year to dig. Once outside the walls, Willie was quickly captured. The Hauntings A locksmith doing restorations in cell block 4 was trying to remove a 150 year old lock from a cell door when a massive force overcame him. He believes that when he opened the gate it opened a pathway to the spirits who were trapped behind its bars. In review of the Ghost Adventure’s investigation there were a great number of findings. It was quite an intense episode. During Zak’s interviews of an eyewitness at the prison, he discovered there were many reports of phantom footsteps, noises, voices, moaning, screaming, several accounts of physical touching and pushing, apparitions, banging and many other accounts of unexplained happenings. The episode is 45 minutes long. If you have an interest and would care to see what they discovered while on site, start viewing at 13 minutes. This is where the first encounter is recorded. Zak is taking to a tour guide and they step inside Al Capone’s cell. Listen for what happens when another guide gives the history about reports that Al thought he was haunted. (If you are short for time, after the previous part, skip ahead to around the 22:30 mark.) When Zac starts to torment the ghosts, a clanking noise is captured. At 25 minutes they receive a spike on the EMF detector and moments after they recorded an EVP. I could go on and on with what they found and what happened to them during their stay. I’ll let you decide if you’d like to review more. If you decide you are interested, here is the link to the video: If you are among the bravest of the brave, you can pay a small fee to be scared out of your wits by people in full makeup and zombie attire who are stationed in cells throughout the jail. Walk through and tread lightly so as to not disturb the ghosts. watch your step however, the place is deteriorating and it adds to the image of a haunted location. “Terror Behind The Walls” has 6 different attractions on site that start on the weekends in September and run every day through the month of October, except Mondays. The last weekend is November 9. You may have to wait in line, but they make sure you are entertained while you hang out with your friends. For info, check out: Terror Behind the Walls. If that seems too much for you, they are open daily for prison tours. For a virtual tour, see the source documents below: Virtual Tour Video – “Inside Eastern State Penitentiary” 10 minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5PtNEbfL10 Picture of the prison from an aerial view: en.wikipedia.org Eastern State Penitentiary’s Official Website: http://www.easternstate.org/ SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY: THE NEXT WAVE OF PATENTS ON LIFE By Jaydee Hanson, Eric Hoffman Synthetic biology - the design and construction of new biological parts, devices and systems that do not exist in the natural world and the redesigning of existing biological systems to perform specific tasks - will bring the next wave of patents on living organisms. Synthetic biology not only poses new challenges to biosafety and biosecurity but also to our patent system. Discussions on gene patents must include synthesized DNA lest technology again jumps ahead of our patent system and we spend decades trying to play catch-up. Instead of inserting genes from one species into another, what is considered "traditional" genetic engineering, synthetic biologists claim that they aim to "create" life from scratch with computer-synthesized DNA or without the use of DNA entirely. Much of what is called "synthetic biology," however,

the 1930’s, an officer was clubbed to death by an inmate with a disassembled piece of a sewing machine. Famous Inmates Al Capone spent time here in a very well furnished cell. It was said he could be heard screaming on several occasions because he thought he was being haunted by one of the victims of the infamous Valentine’s Day Massacre. Willie Sutton, a notorious bank robber actually managed to escape in 1945 through a tunnel that took a team of men a year to dig. Once outside the walls, Willie was quickly captured. The Hauntings A locksmith doing restorations in cell block 4 was trying to remove a 150 year old lock from a cell door when a massive force overcame him. He believes that when he opened the gate it opened a pathway to the spirits who were trapped behind its bars. In review of the Ghost Adventure’s investigation there were a great number of findings. It was quite an intense episode. During Zak’s interviews of an eyewitness at the prison, he discovered there were many reports of phantom footsteps, noises, voices, moaning, screaming, several accounts of physical touching and pushing, apparitions, banging and many other accounts of unexplained happenings. The episode is 45 minutes long. If you have an interest and would care to see what they discovered while on site, start viewing at 13 minutes. This is where the first encounter is recorded. Zak is taking to a tour guide and they step inside Al Capone’s cell. Listen for what happens when another guide gives the history about reports that Al thought he was haunted. (If you are short for time, after the previous part, skip ahead to around the 22:30 mark.) When Zac starts to torment the ghosts, a clanking noise is captured. At 25 minutes they receive a spike on the EMF detector and moments after they recorded an EVP. I could go on and on with what they found and what happened to them during their stay. I’ll let you decide if you’d like to review more. If you decide you are interested, here is the link to the video: If you are among the bravest of the brave, you can pay a small fee to be scared out of your wits by people in full makeup and zombie attire who are stationed in cells throughout the jail. Walk through and tread lightly so as to not disturb the ghosts. watch your step however, the place is deteriorating and it adds to the image of a haunted location. “Terror Behind The Walls” has 6 different attractions on site that start on the weekends in September and run every day through the month of October, except Mondays. The last weekend is November 9. You may have to wait in line, but they make sure you are entertained while you hang out with your friends. For info, check out: Terror Behind the Walls. If that seems too much for you, they are open daily for prison tours. For a virtual tour, see the source documents below: Virtual Tour Video – “Inside Eastern State Penitentiary” 10 minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5PtNEbfL10 Picture of the prison from an aerial view: en.wikipedia.org Eastern State Penitentiary’s Official Website: http://www.easternstate.org/ SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY: THE NEXT WAVE OF PATENTS ON LIFE By Jaydee Hanson, Eric Hoffman Synthetic biology - the design and construction of new biological parts, devices and systems that do not exist in the natural world and the redesigning of existing biological systems to perform specific tasks - will bring the next wave of patents on living organisms. Synthetic biology not only poses new challenges to biosafety and biosecurity but also to our patent system. Discussions on gene patents must include synthesized DNA lest technology again jumps ahead of our patent system and we spend decades trying to play catch-up. Instead of inserting genes from one species into another, what is considered "traditional" genetic engineering, synthetic biologists claim that they aim to "create" life from scratch with computer-synthesized DNA or without the use of DNA entirely. Much of what is called "synthetic biology," however,

does not achieve this level of change. Nonetheless, in May 2010 J. Craig Venter and his team announced they had "created" the world's first organism with a synthetic genome. The success of Venter's team may be more in the area of patents that will apply to his new techniques than in actually having "created" synthetic life. Dr. David Baltimore, a leading geneticist at Caltech, described the work to the New York Times as "a technical tour de force" but not breakthrough science, but just a matter of scale ... He has not created life, only mimicked it." The Venter team could not get the cell to reproduce without placing the synthetic genome in a preexisting cell, which was naturally inclined to make sense of the transplanted DNA and to turn genes on and off. In effect, the bacteria did what they have done for eons: swap DNA. Still, this was the first time much of the public had heard of synthetic biology and was a wake-up call to many that current regulations around biotechnology are already outdated. Unfortunately, while Venter's team may have only copied the genome of a goat pathogen, their intellectual tour de force includes patenting each of the steps in the process that they used to make the copy. Nobel Prize winner, John Sulston, has argued that Venter is interested primarily in patenting the process to exclude 'free research' by others. In 1980, the Supreme Court ruled in Diamond v. Chakrabarty that genetically engineered life forms could be patented. The case was referring to more traditional genetic engineering (in this case, bacterium that was engineered to eat crude oil), but the court's ruling will undoubtedly be extended to the products of synthetic biology. The ruling states "...the patentee has produced a new bacterium with markedly different characteristics from any found in nature and one having the potential for significant utility. His discovery is not nature's handiwork, but his own: accordingly it is patentable subject matter."[4] Venter's inclusion of additional DNA to mark the synthetic genome as his own is an additional step that makes clear that his 'invention' does not exist in nature. Since then patents on naturally occurring genes and DNA sequences have been granted, despite the Court's clear message that naturally occurring DNA is not patentable. Currently, over 20% of the human genome has been patented as well as thousands of plant, animal, virus, and bacteria DNA sequences that have naturally evolved over billions of years but were pulled out of the commons into private hands through patents and intellectual property rights. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office currently argues that the mere act of "isolating" DNA is an inventive step worthy of a patent. While the Department of Justice has argued in a brief to the court that merely isolating DNA is not sufficient for a patent, the Venter team's work goes beyond isolating DNA to actually writing the sequence and getting it to "boot up" (their words!). Now, with synthetic biology, mere "isolating" is not even necessary. One could theoretically upload a DNA sequence onto a computer, "print out" an exact copy of that DNA sequence, and patent the synthetic DNA sequence as an invention. Less theoretical-and with many more commercial applications-is creating copies of natural DNA and making slight tweaks to the genome as the inventive step worthy of a patent. In effect, synthetic biologists are able to "evolve" organisms through computer algorithms and create novel DNA sequences that can be then be "printed" out and inserted into an organism. Patents have already been granted on many of the processes and products involved in synthetic biology, including patents on methods for building synthetic DNA, synthetic genes and DNA sequences, synthetic pathways, synthetic proteins and amino acids, and novel nucleotides that replace the letters of DNA. For example, in 2007 the J. Craig Venter Institute applied for a frighteningly broad patent of its "minimal bacterial genome" called Mycoplasma laboratorium. This organism was an attempt to create life with the minimum number of genes by cutting out as many DNA sequences as possible without removing its ability to reproduce or survive. U.S. patent numbers US2007 0264688 and US2007 0269862 describes

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NOL - going down further and the next support leve... When you should look at UOB bank stock? The Rich Get Richer with Bond Investing Comfortdelgro - Mini Ascending Triangle is forming 4 up trending stocks in US Market Investing Improving Europe Equity with ETF Linc Energy: More upside if it breaks above 0.70 r... ARTeam Lou Hei - 祝大家捞到风升水起 5 biggest Health Care Equipment & Services average... Singapore Exchange (SGX) at support Uptrend HongKong Stock - Great Wall Motor Company ... PING AN (02318.HK) target lifted to $107.5, rated ... 5 RULES to prevent a BIG losses in Trading Singapore REIT tax concessions extended for anothe... 15-year-old Bomber: I DON’T WANT TO DIE ! by Jeff Dunetz | Aug 26, 2008 | Other Folks, If you have any doubt about why we fight this war on terror…here is your reasons. Sunday Iraqi authorities “caught” a 15 year old girl named Rania who was duped into wearing a suicide belt “they claimed it wasn’t a bomb, it was for her her arthritis. They drugged her and sent her on her mission. See the video below and read the story, and understand why we are fighting Dazed Iraqi teen suicide bomber says she didn’t want to die By Leila Fadel | McClatchy Newspapers BAQOUBA, Iraq — The 15-year-old girl had the chubby cheeks of a child who hadn’t lost her baby fat when she was arrested Sunday by an alert policeman. Around her chest was a vest packed with explosives. The policeman chained her to the bars of a window, stripped off her dress, found the vest and deactivated the bomb. Had he not intervened, Rania would have been this year’s 31st suicide bomber in Iraq. A day later, Rania seemed in a daze as she spoke about the people who put her up to it: the relatives who forced her to don the vest and apparently drugged her, her husband, whom police accuse of being a member of the group al Qaida in Iraq, and her mother, who seemed to play a central role in turning Rania into a human bomb but whom she looked to as a rescuer.Sitting in the office of the Ministry of the Interior, Rania narrated a tale that at times was wrenching, at times highly improbable. She said in an interview Monday with McClatchy that she didn’t know that the wired vest was a bomb. But she also said she was suspicious from the moment her husband’s female cousins told her to wear it. The police would not provide her full name, nor would she in their presence. Rania has rheumatism, and her cousins told her that the vest would help her back, she said.”I asked, ‘Is it explosive?’ and they said ‘No,’ ” she said, her hair and body cloaked in the long, black abaya that many Muslim women wear to cover themselves. “I asked, ‘What are these wires?’ They told me it won’t explode. They said, ‘Don’t touch anything. Don’t play with the wires, and it will not explode.'”By Rania’s account, the older women gave her peach juice, which made her dizzy, and they walked her halfway to the square. For three hours, she said, she wandered side streets trying to find her mother to give the vest to her because she didn’t know what to do, before police detained her.”Thank God I got rid of this vest,” she said. “I was afraid I would explode.”According to Brig. Gen. Abdel Kareem Khalaf of the Interior Ministry, who arranged the interview, the vest had a yellow detonator button, covered with duct tape, but Rania said that she didn’t know it was there.As she told her story in Khalaf’s presence, she looked bewildered. Rania, a child bride, is from a poor family in the capital of Diyala province, north of Baghdad. She quit school in the fifth grade and married at age 1

NOL - going down further and the next support leve... When you should look at UOB bank stock? The Rich Get Richer with Bond Investing Comfortdelgro - Mini Ascending Triangle is forming 4 up trending stocks in US Market Investing Improving Europe Equity with ETF Linc Energy: More upside if it breaks above 0.70 r... ARTeam Lou Hei - 祝大家捞到风升水起 5 biggest Health Care Equipment & Services average... Singapore Exchange (SGX) at support Uptrend HongKong Stock - Great Wall Motor Company ... PING AN (02318.HK) target lifted to $107.5, rated ... 5 RULES to prevent a BIG losses in Trading Singapore REIT tax concessions extended for anothe... 15-year-old Bomber: I DON’T WANT TO DIE ! by Jeff Dunetz | Aug 26, 2008 | Other Folks, If you have any doubt about why we fight this war on terror…here is your reasons. Sunday Iraqi authorities “caught” a 15 year old girl named Rania who was duped into wearing a suicide belt “they claimed it wasn’t a bomb, it was for her her arthritis. They drugged her and sent her on her mission. See the video below and read the story, and understand why we are fighting Dazed Iraqi teen suicide bomber says she didn’t want to die By Leila Fadel | McClatchy Newspapers BAQOUBA, Iraq — The 15-year-old girl had the chubby cheeks of a child who hadn’t lost her baby fat when she was arrested Sunday by an alert policeman. Around her chest was a vest packed with explosives. The policeman chained her to the bars of a window, stripped off her dress, found the vest and deactivated the bomb. Had he not intervened, Rania would have been this year’s 31st suicide bomber in Iraq. A day later, Rania seemed in a daze as she spoke about the people who put her up to it: the relatives who forced her to don the vest and apparently drugged her, her husband, whom police accuse of being a member of the group al Qaida in Iraq, and her mother, who seemed to play a central role in turning Rania into a human bomb but whom she looked to as a rescuer.Sitting in the office of the Ministry of the Interior, Rania narrated a tale that at times was wrenching, at times highly improbable. She said in an interview Monday with McClatchy that she didn’t know that the wired vest was a bomb. But she also said she was suspicious from the moment her husband’s female cousins told her to wear it. The police would not provide her full name, nor would she in their presence. Rania has rheumatism, and her cousins told her that the vest would help her back, she said.”I asked, ‘Is it explosive?’ and they said ‘No,’ ” she said, her hair and body cloaked in the long, black abaya that many Muslim women wear to cover themselves. “I asked, ‘What are these wires?’ They told me it won’t explode. They said, ‘Don’t touch anything. Don’t play with the wires, and it will not explode.'”By Rania’s account, the older women gave her peach juice, which made her dizzy, and they walked her halfway to the square. For three hours, she said, she wandered side streets trying to find her mother to give the vest to her because she didn’t know what to do, before police detained her.”Thank God I got rid of this vest,” she said. “I was afraid I would explode.”According to Brig. Gen. Abdel Kareem Khalaf of the Interior Ministry, who arranged the interview, the vest had a yellow detonator button, covered with duct tape, but Rania said that she didn’t know it was there.As she told her story in Khalaf’s presence, she looked bewildered. Rania, a child bride, is from a poor family in the capital of Diyala province, north of Baghdad. She quit school in the fifth grade and married at age 1

4. She can barely read or write, and her accent is thick and difficult for an outsider to understand.According to her mother, Bassaad Salman, who sat with Rania and coached her during the interview, Shiite Muslim militias had displaced the Sunni Muslim family. Salman said that Shiite militias had kidnapped Rania’s father.Police said, however, that the single mother of five was an “emira,” a princess or leader in Al Qaida in Iraq. She said that she had no connection to the group.Their story has varied with each telling, according to police. One day after telling the police that she had no idea who the women were who put the vest on her, Rania told McClatchy that they were her husband’s cousins.By Salman’s account, Rania’s husband needed money for fertility treatments and planned to borrow it from the same cousins who put the vest on Rania, her mother said. The man wasn’t there when police went to her home.Rania admitted that she hadn’t wanted to get married.”I didn’t accept it out of choice. It was against my wishes,” she said. “My mother and uncle wanted it. . . . But he was good to me,” she said.She said that she and her family had discovered recently that her husband was with al Qaida in Iraq, which is thought to be behind most of the car bombs and suicide bombings directed at civilians.”I didn’t know, but in the last few days I learned that he was,” she said. She said she didn’t know whether her husband had planned for her to die that day. But she insisted that he cared for her.”He didn’t know she was going out,” her mother quickly corrected.”He didn’t know I was going out,” the girl echoed.Rania looked down and placed her head in her hands. She’d spent all day being questioned by Iraqi forces and coalition forces.”I didn’t want to explode,” she said. “I didn’t want to die.””I die 100 times when I think about this,” her mother added. “I think if she had cancer it would be better than to die like this.”As they readied themselves to return to their interrogation, Khalaf walked over to Salman. Angrily, he told her that he knew she was involved and that he knew she’d done this to her daughter.”Do you know God?” he asked. “Where is God in this?””I didn’t bring her the vest to kill the people,” Salman said. “I didn’t bring the vest for myself or to kill the people.””I will show you what the law says about your case,” he yelled. “I will show you. I will show you.””Just speak with me. Why don’t you speak with me?” Salman said to him.”We have all the information about you. You are a princess. They call you the princess,” he said. “Because the Americans are here you have a long tongue.”She tried to interrupt.”Shut up, and I will send the files myself to the criminal court and I’ll hang you,” he said. “Don’t make your tongue long again. We know everything about you . . . and those who have been killed, we know about all of them.”As for Rania, Khalaf said he was unsure what to do with her, unsure whether she knew what she was doing or was just a child who’d been drugged and manipulated into being a killer.The young police officer, Sabah Mohammed Khalaf, who threw himself at Rania when he realized she was wearing an explosive vest was awarded the equivalent of about $4,200.His commander, Col. Ali Ismail Fatah, said he thought that Rania didn’t know what she was doing.”She wasn’t in her right mind,” he said. “She did not seem to understand she was doing something terrible.”The young policeman not only prevented the loss of innocent life but also saved Rania from her fate.”Thank God I am finished from this vest,” she said. “I got rid of this vest. I didn’t explode.” Post published:17 May, 2021 Birgit Nilsson Stiftelsen to announce the 2022 Prize Recipient In exactly one year from today, on 17 May 2022, the fifth recipient of the Birgit Nilsson Prize will be announced on Birgit’s birthday. The largest Prize in Classical

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30%. Although cocaine placed at 23%, it accounted for 46% of black deaths, whereas heroin ravaged whites. Nearly half ranged between the ages of 30 and 59, averaging out at age 43. Whites trended younger, ages 30-39, with a prevalence amongst 20 somethings as well. African American deaths, on the other hand, tended to be well into their 40’s and 50’s. “At least several overdose deaths were reported in almost every local municipality.” A city news release describes an “epidemic” “sweeping across demographic and geographic boundaries.” “It defies conventional expectations about where drug problems occur and who is affected.” “All corners of the city” are affected, from Cudahy to St. Francis, South Milwaukee up to Shorewood, over to West Allies then through Wauwatosa. Wauwatosa, for instance, saw its heroin prevalence explode in 2008, putting its police department on notice. According to their 2008 annual report, 184.8 grams of heroin were captured by WPD Special Operations Group (SOG) compared to just 2.9 grams in 2007. The boom was loud enough to earn explicit reference in the report as “a significant increase.” Although 2009 saw the yield drop to 24.67 grams, over 13,000 pills were captured compared to 2008’s 337. Among the miscellaneous collection was Oxycontin, a drug included in the alderman’s report. Heroin climbed again from 2011, wherein 14 grams were captured, to 77 grams in 2013. Tosa PD SOG added crack cocaine to its capture list in 2012, the first time the drug appeared in a Wauwatosa annual report. Should anyone then consider it a coincidence that Tosa’s teens noticed growing crack use among peers after 2010? In their 2015 report, Tosa PD captured a staggering 95 grams of crack cocaine, and 46 grams of heroin. Youths everywhere, including Wauwatosa and West Allis are becoming well acquainted with Ms. China White (heroin) through tragedy. A few use the drug, but many more have either watched their friends become addicts or worse. Wauwatosa, statistically speaking–balancing a 90.1% white population against 4.3% for blacks–likely has a younger addict population. Exactly how young is unclear, as Tosa PD’s reports do not include age break ups for drugs. Additionally, these numbers only represent SOG’s captures, not the entire department. This leaves the exact scale of Tosa’s problem in question though make no mistake, it’s there, vivid, and it takes. –Improvement Means Moving Forward, Society And All– Image Source: Todd Huffman, Flickr, Creative Commons The contents of a needle exchange kit. Now is the time for WPD to learn from the work of colleagues, like Gloucester PD. The Massachusetts department was forced to break away from typical drug enforcement due to the scale of its own opioid crisis. The new year of 2015 saw four overdoses over its first four months in Gloucester. Opioid abuse in Gloucester drowned it’s department, forcing it to break drug war ranks. GPD Chief Leonard Campanello launched the Angel Program thereafter, offering addicts rehab over jail time. Leonard’s words to addicts were heartfelt and empathetic, “we are not ashamed of you.” Gloucester users were encouraged to come to the station, with or without drugs, and surrender to treatment. At that point, the individual is partnered with a volunteer “angel” to guide them through the rehabilitation process. Police transport them from the station to the hospital, where care of medical professionals is provided. The program had a slow, but hopeful start, and has mushroomed across other US states. Gloucester PD still, however, conducts opioid arrests on the street, seeking out sources for the drug

30%. Although cocaine placed at 23%, it accounted for 46% of black deaths, whereas heroin ravaged whites. Nearly half ranged between the ages of 30 and 59, averaging out at age 43. Whites trended younger, ages 30-39, with a prevalence amongst 20 somethings as well. African American deaths, on the other hand, tended to be well into their 40’s and 50’s. “At least several overdose deaths were reported in almost every local municipality.” A city news release describes an “epidemic” “sweeping across demographic and geographic boundaries.” “It defies conventional expectations about where drug problems occur and who is affected.” “All corners of the city” are affected, from Cudahy to St. Francis, South Milwaukee up to Shorewood, over to West Allies then through Wauwatosa. Wauwatosa, for instance, saw its heroin prevalence explode in 2008, putting its police department on notice. According to their 2008 annual report, 184.8 grams of heroin were captured by WPD Special Operations Group (SOG) compared to just 2.9 grams in 2007. The boom was loud enough to earn explicit reference in the report as “a significant increase.” Although 2009 saw the yield drop to 24.67 grams, over 13,000 pills were captured compared to 2008’s 337. Among the miscellaneous collection was Oxycontin, a drug included in the alderman’s report. Heroin climbed again from 2011, wherein 14 grams were captured, to 77 grams in 2013. Tosa PD SOG added crack cocaine to its capture list in 2012, the first time the drug appeared in a Wauwatosa annual report. Should anyone then consider it a coincidence that Tosa’s teens noticed growing crack use among peers after 2010? In their 2015 report, Tosa PD captured a staggering 95 grams of crack cocaine, and 46 grams of heroin. Youths everywhere, including Wauwatosa and West Allis are becoming well acquainted with Ms. China White (heroin) through tragedy. A few use the drug, but many more have either watched their friends become addicts or worse. Wauwatosa, statistically speaking–balancing a 90.1% white population against 4.3% for blacks–likely has a younger addict population. Exactly how young is unclear, as Tosa PD’s reports do not include age break ups for drugs. Additionally, these numbers only represent SOG’s captures, not the entire department. This leaves the exact scale of Tosa’s problem in question though make no mistake, it’s there, vivid, and it takes. –Improvement Means Moving Forward, Society And All– Image Source: Todd Huffman, Flickr, Creative Commons The contents of a needle exchange kit. Now is the time for WPD to learn from the work of colleagues, like Gloucester PD. The Massachusetts department was forced to break away from typical drug enforcement due to the scale of its own opioid crisis. The new year of 2015 saw four overdoses over its first four months in Gloucester. Opioid abuse in Gloucester drowned it’s department, forcing it to break drug war ranks. GPD Chief Leonard Campanello launched the Angel Program thereafter, offering addicts rehab over jail time. Leonard’s words to addicts were heartfelt and empathetic, “we are not ashamed of you.” Gloucester users were encouraged to come to the station, with or without drugs, and surrender to treatment. At that point, the individual is partnered with a volunteer “angel” to guide them through the rehabilitation process. Police transport them from the station to the hospital, where care of medical professionals is provided. The program had a slow, but hopeful start, and has mushroomed across other US states. Gloucester PD still, however, conducts opioid arrests on the street, seeking out sources for the drug

. Instead of impeding police work, the Angel program improves relations between police, communities, and “untouchables”. Milwaukee is an excellent candidate city for such a program, if only departments would give it a shot. Gloucester took the hardest step–piloting–and their initiative has shown promise outside the small town. In Milwaukee, smaller departments, like Wauwatosa, tend to pilot programs for use in larger departments. Whether it’s a new piece of equipment or strategy, smaller departments make for good contained experiments. For any department attempting to be seen as transparent, and community oriented, addressing issues in effective ways is critical. In Wauwatosa, the victims of the heroin crisis are young, whose faces offend prejudices people may have of what makes an addict. No longer can Milwaukee ignore it’s crisis. It’s imperative that radical, progressive measures are taken to bring the staggering number of over 800 overdoses down. This is indisputable, and in the face of these facts, departments like Wauwatosa PD have a choice. Either they can continue patterns of behavior shown to be ineffective to solve this problem, or they can adapt. May this article be seen as an plea to Wauwatosa PD: Consider piloting an Angel Program for Milwaukee, before it’s the hour grows even later. Tags: alderman report america 2016 article Bernie Sanders cop block corruption documentary drug abuse drug addiction drug war drug war ending film gloucester police heroin angel program heroin crisis independent media journalism marijuana marijuana reform Milwaukee milwaukee opioid overodoses milwaukee police news no victim no crime opioid crisis police police brutality police misconduct police reform pontiac tribune racial drug lines rehab revolution safe space facilitiy suburban drugs teenagers teens and drugs The Fifth Column transparancy wauwatosa police wauwatosa police shooting weed wars wisconsin wisconsin cops writing ← Navy SEAL Killed By IED In Iraq As Troops Pour Into Mosul Israel’s Blockade of Gaza is Inherently Violent → Everton in ‘ongoing talks’ for player’s signing – ‘Loan with obligation to buy at €10m+’ being discussed Home Championship Former Man United midfielder says Elland Road hostile buts wants massive Leeds... Former Man United midfielder says Elland Road hostile buts wants massive Leeds United back in the PL By Sport Witness - Former Manchester United star Darren Fletcher hopes Leeds United can get promotion back to the Premier League. The Elland Road side haven’t played in the top fight since they were relegated in 2004. Speaking to Mantality Magazine, Fletcher said one of his first away games for Manchester United was against Leeds United. The West Brom star remembers it being hostile, but at the same time it was one of the best atmospheres he’d experienced. Fletcher still thinks Leeds United are a big club despite their problems in recent years, and hopes they can get back into the Premier League, because that’s where they belong. “I think my second ever away game for Manchester United was against Leeds. It still sticks in my memory as one of the best atmospheres. It still rings as one of the most hostile environments I’ve played in. The rivalry between United and Leeds is big. It’s amazing how it’s stuck with me after all these years. Leeds is such a massive club and they should be in the Premier League, and hopefully they’ll get back to it one day because it’s another great rivalry for Manchester United,” said the midfielder. Leeds United haven’t played in the Premier League for over a decade, but will feel they have a chance of at least getting into the play-offs this season. Garry Monk’s side have put together a good run of results in recent weeks, leaving them just outside the play-off places. Leeds United next face leaders Newcastle United, a game which will be played in front of the first full house at Elland Road for six years. Previous articleManchester City star still running from ‘ghosts of the past’ Next articleWest Brom leading Southampton in race to sign midfielder, bids made, Arsenal interest claimed Sport Witness

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2022 and additional disclosures BiomX makes in its other filings with the SEC, which are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release, and except as provided by law BiomX expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to update forward-looking statements. LifeSci Advisors, LLC John Mullaly [email protected] BiomX, Inc. Anat Primovich Corporate Project Manager +972 (50) 697-7228 [email protected] Albums, Hip Hop, Music The Resurrection from the Geto Boys Turns 25 Years Old The Geto Boys is one of the illest groups to ever pick up a mic. They first hit the scene back in the late-80s and earned their first platinum plaque in 1991. We Can’t Be Stopped was the album and many have ranked it as one of the greatest hip hop albums ever. We Can’t Be Stopped is also known for the album cover as they exit the hospital. This is where Bushwick Bill shot himself in the eye. Speaking of Bill, rest in peace to him seeing he passed away in June of 2019. Two years later, the Geto Boys released their classic, Til Death Do Us Part. The Til Death Do Us Part album is where they replaced Willie D with Big Mike because of differences between him and Scarface. Three years later, they all reunited for their 5th album called The Resurrection. The Resurrection debuted as the #1 album when it was released 25 years ago today. The World is a Ghetto was the lead single and was just featured as my Throwback Thursday joint. The Resurrection eventually went gold and for me, this was another dope Geto Boys record. They released a video for Geto Fantasy, but it was never an official single. Overall, The Resurrection album was well-received by fans and critics. The World is a Ghetto, Geto Fantasy, Hold It Down, Point of No Return and Still are my top 5 tracks. Check out the track listing and stream links below. Ghetto Prisoner The World is a Ghetto Open Minded ft. DMG Killer 4 Scratch Hold It Down ft. Facemob Blind Leading the Blind ft. Menace Clan First Light of the Day Time Taker Geto Boys and Girls Geto Fantasy I Just Wanna Die Niggas and Flies A Visit with Larry Hoover Geto BoysHip HopMusicThe Resurrection Rick Ross Released Port of Miami 15 Years Ago Boyz II Men Cooleyhighharmony Turns 30 Years Old Today The Fugees Dropped The Score 25 Years Ago Today Posted inSports, William J. Ford Bogdanovic, Beal Lead Wiz Comeback Win Over Magic by William J. Ford March 5, 2017 October 30, 2020 Bojan Bogdanovic hit eight 3-pointers, including the eventual game-winner, in a 115-114 victory over the Orlando Magic at Verizon Center in D.C. on March 5. (Courtesy of the Wizards via Twitter) Thanks to a game-high 32 points from the streaking Bradley Beal and a career-best eight 3-pointers from newcomer Bojan Bogdanovic, the Washington Wizards came back from a 17-point second-half deficit Sunday to defeat the Orlando Magic, 115-114, at Verizon Center. Bogdanovic, playing in his sixth game since being acquired just before last month’s trade deadline from the Brooklyn Nets, hit his final 3-pointer on the right side of the arc with 46.8 seconds left in the fourth quarter, which turned out to be the game-winner. He scored 15 of his 27 points in the fourth quarter, including five of his eight 3-pointers. “It’s fun for all of us and the crowd also when you play good,” he said. “A completely different team stepped out of the locker room after [being down at halftime by

2022 and additional disclosures BiomX makes in its other filings with the SEC, which are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release, and except as provided by law BiomX expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to update forward-looking statements. LifeSci Advisors, LLC John Mullaly [email protected] BiomX, Inc. Anat Primovich Corporate Project Manager +972 (50) 697-7228 [email protected] Albums, Hip Hop, Music The Resurrection from the Geto Boys Turns 25 Years Old The Geto Boys is one of the illest groups to ever pick up a mic. They first hit the scene back in the late-80s and earned their first platinum plaque in 1991. We Can’t Be Stopped was the album and many have ranked it as one of the greatest hip hop albums ever. We Can’t Be Stopped is also known for the album cover as they exit the hospital. This is where Bushwick Bill shot himself in the eye. Speaking of Bill, rest in peace to him seeing he passed away in June of 2019. Two years later, the Geto Boys released their classic, Til Death Do Us Part. The Til Death Do Us Part album is where they replaced Willie D with Big Mike because of differences between him and Scarface. Three years later, they all reunited for their 5th album called The Resurrection. The Resurrection debuted as the #1 album when it was released 25 years ago today. The World is a Ghetto was the lead single and was just featured as my Throwback Thursday joint. The Resurrection eventually went gold and for me, this was another dope Geto Boys record. They released a video for Geto Fantasy, but it was never an official single. Overall, The Resurrection album was well-received by fans and critics. The World is a Ghetto, Geto Fantasy, Hold It Down, Point of No Return and Still are my top 5 tracks. Check out the track listing and stream links below. Ghetto Prisoner The World is a Ghetto Open Minded ft. DMG Killer 4 Scratch Hold It Down ft. Facemob Blind Leading the Blind ft. Menace Clan First Light of the Day Time Taker Geto Boys and Girls Geto Fantasy I Just Wanna Die Niggas and Flies A Visit with Larry Hoover Geto BoysHip HopMusicThe Resurrection Rick Ross Released Port of Miami 15 Years Ago Boyz II Men Cooleyhighharmony Turns 30 Years Old Today The Fugees Dropped The Score 25 Years Ago Today Posted inSports, William J. Ford Bogdanovic, Beal Lead Wiz Comeback Win Over Magic by William J. Ford March 5, 2017 October 30, 2020 Bojan Bogdanovic hit eight 3-pointers, including the eventual game-winner, in a 115-114 victory over the Orlando Magic at Verizon Center in D.C. on March 5. (Courtesy of the Wizards via Twitter) Thanks to a game-high 32 points from the streaking Bradley Beal and a career-best eight 3-pointers from newcomer Bojan Bogdanovic, the Washington Wizards came back from a 17-point second-half deficit Sunday to defeat the Orlando Magic, 115-114, at Verizon Center. Bogdanovic, playing in his sixth game since being acquired just before last month’s trade deadline from the Brooklyn Nets, hit his final 3-pointer on the right side of the arc with 46.8 seconds left in the fourth quarter, which turned out to be the game-winner. He scored 15 of his 27 points in the fourth quarter, including five of his eight 3-pointers. “It’s fun for all of us and the crowd also when you play good,” he said. “A completely different team stepped out of the locker room after [being down at halftime by

] 16 to get back in the game and to win the game. It’s really awesome.” Although Wizards head coach Scott Brooks was pleased with the victory, he expressed displeasure with the team’s defense, which allowed the Magic to score 61 first-half points and shoot 52 percent from the floor. Washington Wizards point guard John Wall speaks to reporters after a 115-114 victory over the Orlando Magic at Verizon Center in D.C. on March 5. (William J. Ford/The Washington Informer) “We defended one possession at the end of the game” Brooks said. “Our defense was really good for one possession tonight and that was it. We’ve been talking about this for the last couple of games. We all have it in us to be better defenders, but we have to do it individually and collectively as a group.” Sunday’s win kept Washington (37-24) in third place in the Eastern Conference, a game ahead of the Toronto Raptors (37-26), which lost Saturday to the Milwaukee Bucks. Despite allowing seven Magic players to score in double figures, Washington notched its 11th double-digit comeback win this season. Orlando led 88-71 late in the third quarter before the Wizards mounted its run. Beal, who twisted his left ankle after stepping on the foot of Magic small forward Terrence Ross in the first quarter, kept his hot streak going Sunday, scoring more than 20 points for the sixth straight game and the 10th time in his past 11. Ross, who joined Orlando last month via trade from the Toronto Raptors, led the Magic with 20 points. The Wizards begin a seven-day, five-game West Coast road trip Tuesday against the Phoenix Suns (21-42), which won at the buzzer Sunday against the Boston Celtics, a team two games ahead of the Wizards for the second seed in the Eastern Conference. All five teams the Wizards will face out West have a losing record. “We have a good opportunity to go against teams that don’t have a good record, but that doesn’t always mean [anything],” said point guard John Wall, who recorded his 40th double-double of the season with 19 points and 10 assists. “Phoenix is one of those teams playing well after the All-Star break. We just got to take one game at a time and try to finish the road trip with a winning record.” Wizards Push Hawks to Brink With Game 5 Win In "National" Wizards Blast Nets, Clinch Playoff Spot Wizards Blow Out Celtics Again in Game 4, Tie Series at 2 Tagged: Bojan Bogdanovic, Bradley Beal, nba, orlando magic, Terrence Ross, Verizon Center, washington wizards Architect and theatre lover, trained singer and dancer, Karen brings her rich skills and experience to set design for Endangered Productions. Karen Lambert graduated from Architecture in 1991. She has learnt professional singing and ballet and has always had a strong interest in Theatre. She helped facilitate the relocation of PACT youth theatre from the Corn exchange building in Sussex Street to a disused factory building in Erskineville. At this time, Karen was also the set designer of the Children’s Crusade and the set was able to be reused as the structure in the youth theatre’s new venue. Karen is resource conscious and loves the use of imagination to fill in the gaps. She has organised a wide variety of events that utilise her creative project management, design and facilitation skills. These include public space competitions, exhibitions and special commemorations. Karen has also worked in various creative roles in the public, private and not-for–profit sectors. Endangered Productions welcome all kinds of volunteers. There are opportunities for volunteers to learn and share skills our upcoming production of Peer Gynt. We particularly welcome skilled creative, perhaps retired, Super Citizens who are willing to act as mentors. Our productions will also provide work opportunities for professional musicians, singers, and actors. We love sponsors. By becoming a private or corporate sponsor you will contribute to the creation of quality, accessible music theatre in Sydney. Contact

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? My brother is a drug addict. I think he is doing cocaine but wouldn't be surprised if it were something else. He is 36 with two young children separated from their mother and the kids at this time. He first got hooked at the age of 18 or so while partying. He was hooked immediately. Close to death around 20 years old. Clean from cocaine for a good stretch but always had a beer or weed to smoke. The last three years he has been non working in my mom's basement doing his habit. She enabled him no doubt. I found out he cleared her bank account and stole anything of value to pawn. She removed herself from her house and he is in the basement. My dilemma is that anything I do help the situation my mom will undo (not intentionally). She is 71 but since losing my father her health has gone down hill big time as well as her mental alertness. She believes anything he says. Do I treat her as "senile" and take her home and possessions so he can't get them or do I let him die in her basement? I'm not sure what my role is supposed to be. I am the strongest in the family but it seems like I'm all alone in my efforts and I have a family to take care of myself. Any advice is greatly appreciated, I don't feel like I have much time left before it's too late for him. Your path is very difficult, because you mother completely misses the point. What you might want to attempt, and this will be hard, is to explain to your mother that your brother has a brain disease that is eventually going to kill him. She will probably not understand, because she doesn’t want to understand, or she’ll refuse any information that might change her mind. She wants to protect her son, even if that means killing him. If you have other family members it might be a good idea to get together with them and have a family pow-wow. I also recommend a call to Al-anon to seek the advice and counsel of people just like you who have had to deal with a mother in denial. It’s always good to hear from someone who has gone through the same thing, to learn what they did to help. Confronting your brother is probably going to not render anything other than a fight. If he’s living in your mother’s basement and has already robbed her of everything, he has no self-respect left in him and the disease has already taken over complete control of his life. If there was any way you could show your mother that he is in peril, she might be willing to either support you, or at the very least stay out of the way. Probably not. If the rest of the family is willing, especially his wife, you might be able to get him into treatment if there is any love for his children left in him. An intervention might help, but seek the counsel of a trained professional, as interventions are not necessarily like the ones you see on television, and all too many people think they can execute this sort of plan on their own. Treatment centers might be able to give you guidance. This may sound harsh, but if nothing works, maybe you can get help from law enforcement and have him arrested. Your mother, of course, will not press charges for all of the property he has stolen, but if he gets any worse he’ll die down there just as you stated. Law enforcement can be a friend and may be willing to try to help you. The intense cravings for more cocaine, even long after treatment, can cause so many addicts to relapse. Your brother needs treatment and a strong recovery program to help him turn his life around. In the months ahead, you’ll see how much is left of him and hopefully that will be enough to spark a desire in him to be a husband and father. Ex-Anglo Irish CEO Seán FitzPatrick was arrested at Dublin Airport by gardaí attached to the Office of the Director Corporate Enforcement (ODCE), following charges that relate to an investigation that has put former head of lending Patrick Whelan and former finance director Willie McAteer in court. The arrest was part of an ongoing investigation by officials from the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation and the ODCE into alleged financial irregularities at Anglo Irish at the time shares plummeted and the group needed a government bailout. FitzPatrick's arrest follows the appearance in court yesterday of two other former high-ranking executives at the

? My brother is a drug addict. I think he is doing cocaine but wouldn't be surprised if it were something else. He is 36 with two young children separated from their mother and the kids at this time. He first got hooked at the age of 18 or so while partying. He was hooked immediately. Close to death around 20 years old. Clean from cocaine for a good stretch but always had a beer or weed to smoke. The last three years he has been non working in my mom's basement doing his habit. She enabled him no doubt. I found out he cleared her bank account and stole anything of value to pawn. She removed herself from her house and he is in the basement. My dilemma is that anything I do help the situation my mom will undo (not intentionally). She is 71 but since losing my father her health has gone down hill big time as well as her mental alertness. She believes anything he says. Do I treat her as "senile" and take her home and possessions so he can't get them or do I let him die in her basement? I'm not sure what my role is supposed to be. I am the strongest in the family but it seems like I'm all alone in my efforts and I have a family to take care of myself. Any advice is greatly appreciated, I don't feel like I have much time left before it's too late for him. Your path is very difficult, because you mother completely misses the point. What you might want to attempt, and this will be hard, is to explain to your mother that your brother has a brain disease that is eventually going to kill him. She will probably not understand, because she doesn’t want to understand, or she’ll refuse any information that might change her mind. She wants to protect her son, even if that means killing him. If you have other family members it might be a good idea to get together with them and have a family pow-wow. I also recommend a call to Al-anon to seek the advice and counsel of people just like you who have had to deal with a mother in denial. It’s always good to hear from someone who has gone through the same thing, to learn what they did to help. Confronting your brother is probably going to not render anything other than a fight. If he’s living in your mother’s basement and has already robbed her of everything, he has no self-respect left in him and the disease has already taken over complete control of his life. If there was any way you could show your mother that he is in peril, she might be willing to either support you, or at the very least stay out of the way. Probably not. If the rest of the family is willing, especially his wife, you might be able to get him into treatment if there is any love for his children left in him. An intervention might help, but seek the counsel of a trained professional, as interventions are not necessarily like the ones you see on television, and all too many people think they can execute this sort of plan on their own. Treatment centers might be able to give you guidance. This may sound harsh, but if nothing works, maybe you can get help from law enforcement and have him arrested. Your mother, of course, will not press charges for all of the property he has stolen, but if he gets any worse he’ll die down there just as you stated. Law enforcement can be a friend and may be willing to try to help you. The intense cravings for more cocaine, even long after treatment, can cause so many addicts to relapse. Your brother needs treatment and a strong recovery program to help him turn his life around. In the months ahead, you’ll see how much is left of him and hopefully that will be enough to spark a desire in him to be a husband and father. Ex-Anglo Irish CEO Seán FitzPatrick was arrested at Dublin Airport by gardaí attached to the Office of the Director Corporate Enforcement (ODCE), following charges that relate to an investigation that has put former head of lending Patrick Whelan and former finance director Willie McAteer in court. The arrest was part of an ongoing investigation by officials from the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation and the ODCE into alleged financial irregularities at Anglo Irish at the time shares plummeted and the group needed a government bailout. FitzPatrick's arrest follows the appearance in court yesterday of two other former high-ranking executives at the

bank. Anglo Irish's former head of lending and a member of the bank's board from 2006 to 2009 Whelan joined former finance director McAteer for being charged with alleged financial irregularities at the bank. McAteer, the second most senior executive at the bank before his resignation in January 2009 was arrested and was in court for 16 charges, under Section 60 of the Companies Act. Whelan has now been identified as the second person to be charged under the same investigation and will be due to appear in court, however exact details over the charges related to him have not been released. Ireland's ODCE and the police launched a fraud probe in the lead up to the nationalisation of Anglo for over three years, which has included whether deposits were used to mask large withdrawals. McAteer's 16 charges relate to giving unlawful financial assistance in connection with the purchase of Anglo shares to 16 people in July 2008, after a failed attempt to prop up Anglo's share price after a stock market collapse. Recently renamed the Irish Banking Resolution Corporation (IBRC), Anglo Irish was nationalised in 2009 at the cost of €30bn from taxpayers. The group is still being wound down. Initially, money was given out by the bank to a select group, nicknamed the Maple 10, for the purchase of shares in the bank in 2008. The 16 people mentioned in the charges include six members of the Quinn family, some of whom are currently fighting their own lawsuits, as the IBRC chases debts of €2.8bn run up by former billionaire, bankrupt Sean Quinn senior. Sean Quinn senior's son Sean junior is also one of the 16 people cited. He was imprisoned last week for contempt of court after trying to hide €500m of property assets from the bank. The court heard that McAteer made no reply when the charges were put to him in the Bridewell garda station in Dublin city centre and was granted bail until 8 October by Judge Cormac Dunne with conditions. I come from generations of agricultural farmers in rural Mexico. At six months old, I immigrated to this country, passed off as my aunt’s child at the border. I grew up in a poor and blighted area of a small desert city in the Coachella Valley, a place where drive-by shootings were common. My parents worked round-the-clock in country clubs serving the rich guests, then spent their “off-time” landscaping desert gardens and cleaning homes to provide for three growing boys. I’ve worked a series of odd jobs since I could remember (I can tile your home, change a toilet, and install a water drip system). I was the first person in my family to graduate from high school, then to go on to college, and now to work a white-collar job. I’m one of the millions of people of color in the U.S. who share this journey. I had the blessing of going to Stanford on need-based financial aid. While I worked tirelessly to do everything “right” to secure a job — I was involved in several students groups, worked in DC over the summer, picked up a few fellowships along the way — I knew the majority of my classmates came from wealth. Their parents went to top Ivy league schools, ran Fortune 500 companies, and took family ski trips during winter. While I was at Stanford, I had no idea that my school sat in the middle of a tech boom. The proliferation of startups up and down the Bay would eventually contribute to my classmates’ own wealth, spurred by equity and IPO’s, but a career in tech wasn’t something that registered for me. While some of my classmates earned starting salaries of $80,000+, I was content to make $22,000 my first year out of college, and my parents were proud that I went to work in a suit every day. The technology industry is a $1.4 trillion industry and contributes to 10.4 million jobs in the U.S. These are well paying jobs and and high profile IPOs that are creating the next generation of millionaires, yet so many of us — particularly people of color, are shut out. The

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Berndt Toast to Tom, as well as my friend Bill (and Mimi, who was always at his side) Seay. I remember you and am thankful for our time together. Mike Lynch Cartoon in Prospect Magazine (UK) This month's issue of PROSPECT brings you a Mike lynch cartoon.... When I first came to New York City, I worked in some non-cartoonist jobs, mostly in higher education. I was working 40+ hours a week in my regular job, and commuting a total of 2 hours a day to our dinky Flatbush apartment. And I was taking classes at Parsons and assisting a comic book artist. I was a busy guy! As I moved up as an educational administrator, I had responsibility for more and more staff. And, while most people do their best, I was surprised by the number of people who just did not/would not do their work. I was naive. I really thought that NYC people were the best of the best. But, no. They're regular people -- some great, some so-so, some not. And so, as a guy whose job it was to make other people do THEIR jobs, I listened to a lot of excuses. And these people were not taking classes or assisting a comic book artist until midnight. All this came to mind when I was thinking up the above cartoon. I do have some very good memories of people that were great at their jobs -- but the shirkers, the excuse-makers, the lazy -- all drove me nuts. My goodness -- I just realized -- I was the pointy-haired boss!!! Ha ha. I enjoyed drawing the puff of smoke. The Mike Lynch/DeForest Kelley Connection I remember one time when I was a kid, my dad was getting off a plane (must've just come back from a University Film Association convention) and he greeted me first. I mean, I was there with the whole family, and I distnctly remember being singled out FIRST. Dad had a "second-hand handshake" from DeForest Kelley; a friend of his had met Kelley, shook HIS hand, and then this friend met Dad, shook HIS hand, and dad SAVED the next handshake for ME! Wow! It was cool. Hey, growing up in the Midwest, that is as close to a Hollywood celebrity as one can expect to get. So today I watching this old Kelley flick on YouTube (More about this 1949-50 program here.), and I suddenly remembered something: DEFOREST KELLEY WAS INFLUENCED BY MY GREAT GRANDFATHER TO GET INTO ACTING. It's true. Without my relative, there would have been some other guy as Dr. McCoy! My great grandfather was Austin Goetz, one half of a vaudeville act. The other half was his wife, Mimi Fae. They toured successfully -- albeit modestly -- throughout the Midwest. My Mom still has all their review clippings that they pasted in a scrapbook. In the later years, after decades of performing, they retired from the stage. Mimi Fae turned to Christian Science, and husband Austin wrote plays. Most of these were comedies of manners, rather dated droll plays that he hammered out on his maual typewriter and mailed into the Samuel French company. The chief appeal of these plays were that they were designed for one set, with a smallish group of actors. Let's turn to the fellow who would be known as Dr. McCoy. 30 years before STAR TREK, De Kelley was the teen-aged son of a reverend and lived in Decatur, Georgia. In the 1930s, when he was in high school -- He dated young ladies under the Reverend's strict eye, and therefore not very late, not very often, and not very successfully. He did manage to enjoy female company, however, acting in the Decatur Girls High School production of He Couldn't Take It, a comedy in three acts by Austin Goetz. -- From Sawdust to Stardust; The Biography of DeForest Kelley, Star Trek's Dr. McCoy By Terry Lee Rioux I think that this play, so early in his life, helped him decide to be an actor. I mean, this was

Berndt Toast to Tom, as well as my friend Bill (and Mimi, who was always at his side) Seay. I remember you and am thankful for our time together. Mike Lynch Cartoon in Prospect Magazine (UK) This month's issue of PROSPECT brings you a Mike lynch cartoon.... When I first came to New York City, I worked in some non-cartoonist jobs, mostly in higher education. I was working 40+ hours a week in my regular job, and commuting a total of 2 hours a day to our dinky Flatbush apartment. And I was taking classes at Parsons and assisting a comic book artist. I was a busy guy! As I moved up as an educational administrator, I had responsibility for more and more staff. And, while most people do their best, I was surprised by the number of people who just did not/would not do their work. I was naive. I really thought that NYC people were the best of the best. But, no. They're regular people -- some great, some so-so, some not. And so, as a guy whose job it was to make other people do THEIR jobs, I listened to a lot of excuses. And these people were not taking classes or assisting a comic book artist until midnight. All this came to mind when I was thinking up the above cartoon. I do have some very good memories of people that were great at their jobs -- but the shirkers, the excuse-makers, the lazy -- all drove me nuts. My goodness -- I just realized -- I was the pointy-haired boss!!! Ha ha. I enjoyed drawing the puff of smoke. The Mike Lynch/DeForest Kelley Connection I remember one time when I was a kid, my dad was getting off a plane (must've just come back from a University Film Association convention) and he greeted me first. I mean, I was there with the whole family, and I distnctly remember being singled out FIRST. Dad had a "second-hand handshake" from DeForest Kelley; a friend of his had met Kelley, shook HIS hand, and then this friend met Dad, shook HIS hand, and dad SAVED the next handshake for ME! Wow! It was cool. Hey, growing up in the Midwest, that is as close to a Hollywood celebrity as one can expect to get. So today I watching this old Kelley flick on YouTube (More about this 1949-50 program here.), and I suddenly remembered something: DEFOREST KELLEY WAS INFLUENCED BY MY GREAT GRANDFATHER TO GET INTO ACTING. It's true. Without my relative, there would have been some other guy as Dr. McCoy! My great grandfather was Austin Goetz, one half of a vaudeville act. The other half was his wife, Mimi Fae. They toured successfully -- albeit modestly -- throughout the Midwest. My Mom still has all their review clippings that they pasted in a scrapbook. In the later years, after decades of performing, they retired from the stage. Mimi Fae turned to Christian Science, and husband Austin wrote plays. Most of these were comedies of manners, rather dated droll plays that he hammered out on his maual typewriter and mailed into the Samuel French company. The chief appeal of these plays were that they were designed for one set, with a smallish group of actors. Let's turn to the fellow who would be known as Dr. McCoy. 30 years before STAR TREK, De Kelley was the teen-aged son of a reverend and lived in Decatur, Georgia. In the 1930s, when he was in high school -- He dated young ladies under the Reverend's strict eye, and therefore not very late, not very often, and not very successfully. He did manage to enjoy female company, however, acting in the Decatur Girls High School production of He Couldn't Take It, a comedy in three acts by Austin Goetz. -- From Sawdust to Stardust; The Biography of DeForest Kelley, Star Trek's Dr. McCoy By Terry Lee Rioux I think that this play, so early in his life, helped him decide to be an actor. I mean, this was

a way to hang out with girls! My great grandfather's play gave De Kelley a cool way to hang out with the chicks and get attention! Oh, and one of Austin Goetz's plays, "Hillbilly Courtship," was performed this year by the Dupuyer Community Players in Montana. This is pretty good stuff for a kid from Iowa! PS When I was in a junior high variety show at my Ohio junior high, my great grandmother commented how wonderful it was to hear that someone in the family was FINALLY going back into the thee-uh-tuh! The Boondocks: "Aaron has decided not to restart the strip." Today's Chicago Tribune has the story. H/T Mark Tatulli. Trek Clip Thanks to the ever observant Mark Evanier, here is a fun clip. Take a peek here. Like Mark says, saying anything else would spoil it. The Neighbors by George Clark I was fortunate enough to be at Don Orehek's home for a great dinner cooked by his lovely wife on Saturday. We had a grand time (except for heavy traffic on the way there thanks to heavy LIE volume). Sandy Kossin and his charming wife attended as well. At one point, Don went up to his studio and came back with a stack of originals of a panel titled THE NEIGHBORS by George Clark. I don't really remember how he said he came by them -- but one look at these wonderful cartoons and I grabbed my camera and got a few photos. Please remember that I was shooting these photos in their dining room, and so quality is not the best. A few of these, when you click on them, will blow up into giant size, so you can see Clark's dry brush technique. Below each, I've written the gag line, which you can make out in blue pencil at the bottom of the originals. These are all from the early 1960s. "Nothing going on out there. Back home on TV all that empty space would be filled with hard riding and shooting." I love the way Clark spotted in those mountains in the background. "I'm the rugged outdoor type while my wife likes sitting in an office. She took her job back and I took over here." This was over 40 years ago, way before Mr. Mom and all that. A rather progressive gag! "I thought you might like the tape recorder handy in case you hear some of his brighter remarks." This line was changed to "... in case you want to take down some of his brighter remarks." Nowadays, the kid would've just been put on drugs .... "This is the very efficient little restaurant I discovered. No head waiter needed to --- customers to their seats." Look at the coffee urn and cups -- all denoted with quick, masterly brush strokes. "I'm afraid your mother was right, dear. I DON'T make enough to support a wife and family." Love the suggestion of the laundry basket full of linen. "What a letdown THIS job is! I thought work in a hospital was full of thrilling drama -- excitement -- suspense!!" The panel ran from 1939 to 1976. Clark received the NCS Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award in 1961. Bentonville, Arkansas native George Clark was featured in this story on September 11, 2006, by Jennifer Turner from The Benton Daily County Record: “In 1939, he came (to Bentonville ) to visit,” Westby said, with a framed sketch in hand. “At some point, he pulled a piece of charcoal out of the fire... and sketched my mother and signed it.” Nice to see these, and I've got one more to share. But that will have to wait till later .... Mike Lynch Studio Mark Anderson visited and posted a photo at his blog here. I thought I'd add a key to it. Click to enlarge. This isn't really "my studio," just a corner of the living room here in our Brooklyn home. And, yeah, we got a lot of books. Too many! And they're not just cartoon books, they're all over the board: literature, history, cookbooks, bios, etc. The Comics in Canada: An Illustrated History The CBC has put together this

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ment to commence a process; discernible steps that each party is required to take to put the process in place; and a sufficiently clearly defined process to enable a court to determine objectively both the minimum required of the parties to the dispute in terms of their participation and when or how the process will be exhausted or properly terminable without breach. As regards any negative stipulation (the parties may not commence arbitration…), the event has to be sufficiently defined and its happening objectively ascertainable to enable the court to determine whether it has occurred. The problem with the particular clause in question was that the Judge could not ascertain what exactly the parties were required to do to comply. In particular, the clause failed to provide what form the process of conciliation undertaken by the Chief Executive would take, who was involved and what was required by way of participation. The same comment was made of the reference to the Panel. As such, the clause was too equivocal in terms of the process required, and too nebulous in terms of the content of the parties' respective obligations to be given enforceable effect. As to the negative stipulation, he considered that its purpose was only to reinforce the provisions generally and provide a cut off date. It was not intended to prevent any arbitration from being commenced in circumstances where completion of the pre-arbitration process proved impossible (as was the case here). Australian and Singaporean law position Recent Australian and Singaporean decisions also provide guidance, and indicate that the courts there will more readily enforce clauses requiring pre-arbitration negotiation processes. The Australian approach stems from the NSW Court of Appeal 2009 judgment in United Group Rail Services Ltd -v- Rail Corporation New South Wales.(2) The multi-tiered dispute resolution clause in this case required: a senior representative of each of the parties to "meet and undertake genuine and good faith negotiations with a view to resolving the dispute or difference"; that the matter, if unresolved, be "referred to the Australian Dispute Centre for mediation"; and a reference of the dispute to arbitration if it was not resolved by the senior representatives or mediation. Both parties agreed that the mediation provision was uncertain and unenforceable as the Australian Dispute Centre did not exist. However, after careful consideration of the English, Australian and New Zealand authorities, many of which were to the contrary, Allsop P (then President of the NSW Court of Appeal, now Chief Justice of the Federal Court) held that the requirement that senior representatives "meet and undertake genuine and good faith negotiations" was certain, had identifiable content and could be enforced. Most recently the Queensland Supreme Court stayed proceedings until there had been compliance with a multi-tiered dispute resolution provision. (3) The provision provided for disputes to be referred to a meeting of the Project Coordination Group to "attempt to resolve the dispute", then if unsuccessful to the Business Review Group to "meet and use its best endeavours to resolve the Dispute" and if unsuccessful the Chief Executive Officers "must meet within 10 Business Days and use their best endeavours to resolve the Dispute". If the Dispute was not resolved, claims of less than $1 million were to be referred to Expert determination, and claims of $1 million or more referred to litigation. It was submitted that the requirement that the Project Coordination Group "attempt to resolve" the dispute was uncertain as there was a lack of a readily ascertainable objective standard by which the Court could assess if the parties had complied with the requirement. In contrast to the English law position, the Judge rejected this submission and held that there was no uncertainty about the requirement to have a meeting and the Court was capable of assessing whether or not the parties had attempted to resolve the dispute, i.e. made an effort or endeavoured to do or accomplish such action. In Singapore, these issues were recently examined in International Research Corp PLC -v- Lufthansa Systems Asia Pacific Pte Ltd.(4) The dispute resolution clause required that any dispute be referred to the following in order: a committee of the parties' Contact Persons "for their review and opinion"; a committee consisting of Datamat's designee and Lufthansa Systems' Director of Customer Relations; a committee consisting of Datamat's designee and Lufthansa Systems' Managing Director "for resolution by them", and finally to SIAC arbitration. There was no specified requirements that any of these people meet within a certain timeframe or what steps they were required

ment to commence a process; discernible steps that each party is required to take to put the process in place; and a sufficiently clearly defined process to enable a court to determine objectively both the minimum required of the parties to the dispute in terms of their participation and when or how the process will be exhausted or properly terminable without breach. As regards any negative stipulation (the parties may not commence arbitration…), the event has to be sufficiently defined and its happening objectively ascertainable to enable the court to determine whether it has occurred. The problem with the particular clause in question was that the Judge could not ascertain what exactly the parties were required to do to comply. In particular, the clause failed to provide what form the process of conciliation undertaken by the Chief Executive would take, who was involved and what was required by way of participation. The same comment was made of the reference to the Panel. As such, the clause was too equivocal in terms of the process required, and too nebulous in terms of the content of the parties' respective obligations to be given enforceable effect. As to the negative stipulation, he considered that its purpose was only to reinforce the provisions generally and provide a cut off date. It was not intended to prevent any arbitration from being commenced in circumstances where completion of the pre-arbitration process proved impossible (as was the case here). Australian and Singaporean law position Recent Australian and Singaporean decisions also provide guidance, and indicate that the courts there will more readily enforce clauses requiring pre-arbitration negotiation processes. The Australian approach stems from the NSW Court of Appeal 2009 judgment in United Group Rail Services Ltd -v- Rail Corporation New South Wales.(2) The multi-tiered dispute resolution clause in this case required: a senior representative of each of the parties to "meet and undertake genuine and good faith negotiations with a view to resolving the dispute or difference"; that the matter, if unresolved, be "referred to the Australian Dispute Centre for mediation"; and a reference of the dispute to arbitration if it was not resolved by the senior representatives or mediation. Both parties agreed that the mediation provision was uncertain and unenforceable as the Australian Dispute Centre did not exist. However, after careful consideration of the English, Australian and New Zealand authorities, many of which were to the contrary, Allsop P (then President of the NSW Court of Appeal, now Chief Justice of the Federal Court) held that the requirement that senior representatives "meet and undertake genuine and good faith negotiations" was certain, had identifiable content and could be enforced. Most recently the Queensland Supreme Court stayed proceedings until there had been compliance with a multi-tiered dispute resolution provision. (3) The provision provided for disputes to be referred to a meeting of the Project Coordination Group to "attempt to resolve the dispute", then if unsuccessful to the Business Review Group to "meet and use its best endeavours to resolve the Dispute" and if unsuccessful the Chief Executive Officers "must meet within 10 Business Days and use their best endeavours to resolve the Dispute". If the Dispute was not resolved, claims of less than $1 million were to be referred to Expert determination, and claims of $1 million or more referred to litigation. It was submitted that the requirement that the Project Coordination Group "attempt to resolve" the dispute was uncertain as there was a lack of a readily ascertainable objective standard by which the Court could assess if the parties had complied with the requirement. In contrast to the English law position, the Judge rejected this submission and held that there was no uncertainty about the requirement to have a meeting and the Court was capable of assessing whether or not the parties had attempted to resolve the dispute, i.e. made an effort or endeavoured to do or accomplish such action. In Singapore, these issues were recently examined in International Research Corp PLC -v- Lufthansa Systems Asia Pacific Pte Ltd.(4) The dispute resolution clause required that any dispute be referred to the following in order: a committee of the parties' Contact Persons "for their review and opinion"; a committee consisting of Datamat's designee and Lufthansa Systems' Director of Customer Relations; a committee consisting of Datamat's designee and Lufthansa Systems' Managing Director "for resolution by them", and finally to SIAC arbitration. There was no specified requirements that any of these people meet within a certain timeframe or what steps they were required

to take to resolve the dispute. The arbitral tribunal held that the provision was too uncertain to be enforceable and therefore was not a precondition to the commencement of the arbitration. In contrast, the Judge held that the clause was certain and a pre-condition: the Court of Appeal's observations in HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Singapore) Ltd -v- Toshin Development Singapore Pte Ltd(5) on the enforceability of a provision to negotiate rent in good faith and the public interest in promoting the enforceability of good faith or friendly negotiation clauses were applicable to an obligation to refer a dispute to the specified committees; the steps were expressed in mandatory terms; and the arbitration clause expressly stated that disputes "which cannot be settled by mediation [the Court held this to be a reference to the negotiation process as set out above]" shall be settled by arbitration, making it clear that the process was a condition precedent. Importantly the Judge held that as the negotiation process was a condition precedent, the arbitral tribunal would not have jurisdiction before the condition precedent was fulfilled. In those circumstances, the Court would not be able to order that the proceedings in front of the tribunal be stayed while the parties complied with the procedure; rather the parties would need to comply with the procedure and then re-commence the arbitration. Fortunately the Judge held that the parties had in substance complied with the clause by conducting negotiations such that the condition precedent to arbitration was satisfied. What do we take from these cases? First, the importance of checking the position under the governing law of the contract and in the particular jurisdiction where the dispute is to be resolved. Second, if you do want the pre-arbitral procedure to be enforceable, make sure your clause is clear and use mandatory language such as "must" as opposed to "may". If you are unable to refer to a clearly defined procedure such as the CEDR Rules on mediation, then make sure the process, and what is required of the parties, is clearly set out in your clause. In addition, make sure any institution or procedure referred to actually exists. Further certainty will be added by making it clear when a party can commence arbitration or litigation. As a matter of good practice, always specify a clear time frame within which any preceding steps to resolve the dispute are to take place. Given that the effect may be to deprive a tribunal of jurisdiction, we always recommend including a carve-out so that if engaging in the pre-arbitration process is likely to cause prejudice (because, for example, the limitation period is about to expire), arbitration proceedings can be commenced. If you do not want the obligation to be binding, the best advice is to make it clear in the contract that the process is not a pre-condition and does not prevent either party from commencing arbitration. Even if a court or tribunal agrees with your position, you will have wasted time and money on reaching that stage. Clarity is always to be preferred over satellite litigation. For more detailed guidance, see our Quickguide: Tiered Dispute Resolution Clauses for more detail. Please click on the links below for the other articles in the February 2013 Arbflash: Asymmetric dispute resolution clauses: proceed with caution Anatomy of an arbitration Part I: Why arbitrate? Queen Mary 2012 survey on international arbitration practice: snapshot of key findings Arbitration in China: CIETAC developments Australian High Court considers constitutional challenge to Australia's international arbitration regime International round-up Investment treaty update (1) [2012] EWHC 3198 (Ch). (2) [2009] NSWCA 177. (3) Downer EDI Mining Pty Ltd -v- Wambo Coal Pty Ltd [2012] QSC 290. (4) [2012] SGHC 226. (5) [2012] SGCA 48. Denny’s Is Closed. What Is Going To Replace It? Tim Thomas Published: January 11, 2022 So Tuesday I was driving down Broadway and I had noticed that the Denny's on the corner of Broadway and State Fair was closed. For whatever reason, I had not noticed it before. The signs are down, and on all of

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Jerusalem’s Western Hill, was a Christian building constructed shortly after 70 A.D. and was composed, to a great degree, of stones/bricks from the previous Jewish temple. It is possible that it will play a role in end time prophecy (see Does the ‘Cenacle’ deal have prophetic ramifications?) as there is a chance the man of sin (the Beast of Revelation 13 and King of the North of Daniel 11) may sit in it (Who is the Man of Sin of 2 Thessalonians 2?). Perhaps the Church of Rome will end up, for a time, with the building it wants. Church of God on Jerusalem’s Western Hill Could this building, often referred to as the Cenacle, possibly have been the oldest actual Christian church building? Does the ‘Cenacle’ deal have prophetic ramifications? After a 20 year negotiation, the Church of Rome has negotiated the right to have Catholic mass in the building known as the Cenacle. It is in the area where the Church of God on Jerusalem’s Western Hill once stood. This is believed to be the location of the earliest Christian church building. How does the Bible define the ‘temple of God’ in the New Testament? Could this be the area where the ‘man of sin’ will sit in the “temple of God’ that Bible prophecy discusses in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4? This is a YouTube video. Why is a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem Not Required? Although people like Timothy LaHaye teach a third Jewish temple is required, who is ‘the temple of God” in the New Testament? Does the Bible require a rebuilt Jewish Temple? Here is a related item in the Spanish language ¿Por qué no se requiere un templo judío en Jerusalén? Here is a link to a sermon titled The Temple, Prophecy, and the Work. Nascent Sanhedrin structure and high priest: The plan is to start animal sacrifices this would fulfill prophecy! The reconstituted Sanhedrin wants the reimplementation of animal sacrifices. A related video is titled Sanhedrin pushing animal sacrifices. The Red Heifer, Jewish Beliefs, and the End of the World The Temple Institute is watching a ‘red heifer.’ Why might this be important in the sequence of end time events? Here is a related link in the Spanish language Novilla roja descubierta en EE.UU. e Instituto del Templo está interesado en ella. Here are links to two related videos in English: Red Heifers and the Fate of the World and The Red Heifer and the End of the World. Do You Practice Mithraism? Many practices and doctrines that mainstream so-called Christian groups have are the same or similar to those of the sun-god Mithras. December 25th was celebrated as his birthday. Do you follow Mithraism combined with the Bible or original Christianity? A sermon video from Vatican City is titled Church of Rome, Mithras, and Isis? Which Is Faithful: The Roman Catholic Church or the Continuing Church of God? Do you know that both groups shared a lot of the earliest teachings? Do you know which church changed? Do you know which group is most faithful to the teachings of the apostolic church? Which group best represents true Christianity? Jerusalem: Past, Present, and Future What does the Bible say about Jerusalem and its future? Is Jerusalem going to be divided and eliminated? Is Jesus returning to the area of Jerusalem? There is also a related YouTube video you can watch titled Jerusalem To be divided and eliminated. Who is the Man of Sin of 2 Thessalonians 2? Is this the King of the North, the ten-horned beast of Revelation 13:1-11, or the two-horned Beast of Revelation 13:12-16? Some rely on traditions, but what does the Bible teach? Here is a related link in Spanish/español: ¿Quién es el Hombre de Pecado de 2 Tesalonicenses 2? Here is a version in Mandarin: 主编： 谁是’大罪人’？Here is a link to a related YouTube video, in English, titled Who is the Man of Sin? Where is the True Christian Church Today? This free online pdf booklet answers that question and includes 18 proofs, clues, and signs to identify the true vs. false Christian church.

Jerusalem’s Western Hill, was a Christian building constructed shortly after 70 A.D. and was composed, to a great degree, of stones/bricks from the previous Jewish temple. It is possible that it will play a role in end time prophecy (see Does the ‘Cenacle’ deal have prophetic ramifications?) as there is a chance the man of sin (the Beast of Revelation 13 and King of the North of Daniel 11) may sit in it (Who is the Man of Sin of 2 Thessalonians 2?). Perhaps the Church of Rome will end up, for a time, with the building it wants. Church of God on Jerusalem’s Western Hill Could this building, often referred to as the Cenacle, possibly have been the oldest actual Christian church building? Does the ‘Cenacle’ deal have prophetic ramifications? After a 20 year negotiation, the Church of Rome has negotiated the right to have Catholic mass in the building known as the Cenacle. It is in the area where the Church of God on Jerusalem’s Western Hill once stood. This is believed to be the location of the earliest Christian church building. How does the Bible define the ‘temple of God’ in the New Testament? Could this be the area where the ‘man of sin’ will sit in the “temple of God’ that Bible prophecy discusses in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4? This is a YouTube video. Why is a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem Not Required? Although people like Timothy LaHaye teach a third Jewish temple is required, who is ‘the temple of God” in the New Testament? Does the Bible require a rebuilt Jewish Temple? Here is a related item in the Spanish language ¿Por qué no se requiere un templo judío en Jerusalén? Here is a link to a sermon titled The Temple, Prophecy, and the Work. Nascent Sanhedrin structure and high priest: The plan is to start animal sacrifices this would fulfill prophecy! The reconstituted Sanhedrin wants the reimplementation of animal sacrifices. A related video is titled Sanhedrin pushing animal sacrifices. The Red Heifer, Jewish Beliefs, and the End of the World The Temple Institute is watching a ‘red heifer.’ Why might this be important in the sequence of end time events? Here is a related link in the Spanish language Novilla roja descubierta en EE.UU. e Instituto del Templo está interesado en ella. Here are links to two related videos in English: Red Heifers and the Fate of the World and The Red Heifer and the End of the World. Do You Practice Mithraism? Many practices and doctrines that mainstream so-called Christian groups have are the same or similar to those of the sun-god Mithras. December 25th was celebrated as his birthday. Do you follow Mithraism combined with the Bible or original Christianity? A sermon video from Vatican City is titled Church of Rome, Mithras, and Isis? Which Is Faithful: The Roman Catholic Church or the Continuing Church of God? Do you know that both groups shared a lot of the earliest teachings? Do you know which church changed? Do you know which group is most faithful to the teachings of the apostolic church? Which group best represents true Christianity? Jerusalem: Past, Present, and Future What does the Bible say about Jerusalem and its future? Is Jerusalem going to be divided and eliminated? Is Jesus returning to the area of Jerusalem? There is also a related YouTube video you can watch titled Jerusalem To be divided and eliminated. Who is the Man of Sin of 2 Thessalonians 2? Is this the King of the North, the ten-horned beast of Revelation 13:1-11, or the two-horned Beast of Revelation 13:12-16? Some rely on traditions, but what does the Bible teach? Here is a related link in Spanish/español: ¿Quién es el Hombre de Pecado de 2 Tesalonicenses 2? Here is a version in Mandarin: 主编： 谁是’大罪人’？Here is a link to a related YouTube video, in English, titled Who is the Man of Sin? Where is the True Christian Church Today? This free online pdf booklet answers that question and includes 18 proofs, clues, and signs to identify the true vs. false Christian church.

Plus 7 proofs, clues, and signs to help identify Laodicean churches. A related sermon is also available: Where is the True Christian Church? Here is a link to the booklet in the Spanish language: ¿Dónde está la verdadera Iglesia cristiana de hoy? Here is a link in the German language: WO IST DIE WAHRE CHRISTLICHE KIRCHE HEUTE? Here is a link in the French language: Où est la vraie Église Chrétienne aujourd’hui? Here is a link to a short animation: Which Church would Jesus Choose? Posted in Church History | Comments Off on Have you seen the first Christian church building? Sabbath after the New Testament Did early Christians keep Saturday or Sunday? While there are various opinions about this, some of those opinions are not based upon biblical or historical fact. The Bible Sabbath Association, which is not a Church of God group (though it has members that are in the COGs, as well as members who are not), published a series of articles from me on this subject. The following is in the January-February 2018 edition of its The Sabbath Sentinel magazine which helps give additional historical information: Sabbath–Post New Testament By Bob Thiel, Ph.D. This is the fifth part of a five-part series explaining why certain early documents that are claimed against the seventh-day Sabbath are misunderstood and not actually against it. In my previous articles, I explained that the Greek word Κυριακήν did not mean Sunday and many have misinterpreted writings from the Didache and Ignatius of Antioch’s Letter to the Magnesians as endorsing Sunday. Thus, the earliest claimed post-New Testament documents cited as “proof” that the seventh-day Sabbath was done away truly did not do so. Is there other proof? If Jesus and/or His apostles did away with the Sabbath as many claim, then it would be reasonable to conclude that the later faithful disciples would not keep it. Yet, other records and writings demonstrate that the faithful did continue to keep the seventh-day Sabbath. It is well know that from the first century until about 135 A.D. the first fifteen bishops/pastors of Jerusalem all kept the seventh-day Sabbath and were all circumcised Jews (Eusebius. The History of the Church, Book III, Chapter V, Verses 2,3.& Book IV, Chapter 5, Verses 2-4, pp. 45, 71). Although they have their own biases, even the historians Philip Schaff and Johann Gieseler correctly noted: The Jewish Christians, at least in Palestine, conformed as closely as possible to the venerable forms of the cultus of their fathers, which in truth were divinely ordained, and were an expressive type of the Christian worship. So far as we know, they scrupulously observed the Sabbath, the annual Jewish feasts, the hours of daily prayer, and the whole Mosaic ritual (Schaff, Philip, History of the Christian Church, Chapter 9. Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc. 1997. This material has been carefully compared, corrected¸ and emended according to the 1910 edition of Charles Scribner’s Sons by The Electronic Bible Society, Dallas, TX, 1998.) While the Jewish Christians of Palestine retained the entire Mosaic law, and consequently the Jewish festivals, the Gentile Christians observed also the Sabbath and the passover (1 Cor. v. 6-8), with reference to the last scenes of Jesus’ life, but without Jewish superstition (Gal. iv. 10 ; Col. ii. 16) (Gieseler, Johann Karl Ludwig. A text-book of church history, Volume I, Chapter II. New York : Harper & brothers. Date 1857-80). It is known that early Jewish Christians did keep the Sabbath and biblical holy days. And as prophesied by Isaiah (Isaiah 56:1-7), so did the faithful Gentile Christians (and the Isaiah prophecy still has future application). Ignatius and Polycarp The faithful Gentile Christians were also keeping the Sabbath outside of Jerusalem. In the early second century, Pastor/Bishop Ignatius of

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an NBS. Source: own elaboration AU. NBS also have substantial potential for biodiversity benefits by increasing habitat connectivity, but the evidence for this remains limited (Pettorelli et al., 2021). In Figure 18, we advocate that both scale, context-dependency and target species should be considered when setting biodiversity targets when implementing an NBS, and, equally importantly, that well-adjusted monitoring should be a mandatory element to follow-up biodiversity outcomes both on the short- and long term. For each NBS, the types of targets may differ; for example, the target could be to increase the percentage of restored ecosystem area, the return of a locally extinct species, or an increase in the number of species in a given area. Ideally, an NBS should improve biodiversity over the long term and across a large area by linking conservation efforts with more specific NBS measures within the region. Provided that monitoring takes place, this link will also enable us to learn more of the efficiency of different NBS that can be applied in the Nordic region and to assess the effectiveness of these and eventually adapt further management to halt biodiversity declines. 5.1.3 Technical and ecological knowledge gaps of practitioners The design and construction, but also operation and maintenance of well-functioning NBS, that provide multiple benefits is often difficult. There are still evidence gaps for certain types of NBS and certain functions they are expected to fulfil or benefits to be obtained (Viti et al., 2022; Chausson et al., 2020). Local landscape and ecosystems conditions such as climate, soil type, slope and vegetation influence the performance of NBS (Seddon, 2022). It makes, for example, a substantial difference for the infiltration capacity if a raingarden is located on sandy (fast draining) or on loamy (slow/not draining) soil. For forest ecosystems, there is little knowledge on the benefits of NBS in forest types other than the most common spruce- and pine-dominated heath forests (e.g., groves, semi-open forests, young phases following natural disturbance). Scale is another important issue to consider when planning an optimal NBS, as different types of benefits might unfold differently at small or large scales or at a certain distance from the NBS intervention (Hutchins et al., 2021). For forest NBS it remains unclear how the regional application of NBS would unfold in comparison to local application and what would be the effects of a higher density of NBS interventions in comparison to those that are usually applied in commercial forests. There is also a trade-off between the multiple functions of NBS. It is unlikely that they can all perform optimally, simultaneously (El Harrak and Lemaître, 2022a). It is therefore difficult to predict exactly the effect or outcome of an NBS and to standardize NBS as can be done with technical solutions (Dorst et al., 2022). This might undermine the trust in NBS, in comparison to engineered and technical solutions. In addition, there is also often a higher competence in relation to technical or engineering solutions in the relevant public agencies, than on NBS, which leads to a preference for these types of solutions (sometimes called “grey solutions”) and inhibits increased adoption of NBS. To overcome this problem of technological path dependency, academic scholars suggested targeted NBS-education for infrastructure professionals (Davies and Lafortezza, 2019). If NBS are implemented, they might also underperform, because entrepreneurs lack expertise for the optimal design of NBS. The lack of regular and long-term monitoring and evaluation of NBS (see chapter 5.1.1) inhibits iterative learning on how to overcome NBS construction weaknesses in the future, which is also suggested by IUCN criterion 7 (IUCN, 2020). Tools like the IUCN guidance book for their Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions (IUCN, 2020) are very complex to use and resource demanding, but they take several of the challenges mentioned in this chapter into account. An increased application of such tools could thus help to overcome those challenges in the future, but this would require adequate training of business, practitioners and stakeholders in the field of NBS. There are several shortcomings in relation to socio-economic aspects of NBS, which are interw

an NBS. Source: own elaboration AU. NBS also have substantial potential for biodiversity benefits by increasing habitat connectivity, but the evidence for this remains limited (Pettorelli et al., 2021). In Figure 18, we advocate that both scale, context-dependency and target species should be considered when setting biodiversity targets when implementing an NBS, and, equally importantly, that well-adjusted monitoring should be a mandatory element to follow-up biodiversity outcomes both on the short- and long term. For each NBS, the types of targets may differ; for example, the target could be to increase the percentage of restored ecosystem area, the return of a locally extinct species, or an increase in the number of species in a given area. Ideally, an NBS should improve biodiversity over the long term and across a large area by linking conservation efforts with more specific NBS measures within the region. Provided that monitoring takes place, this link will also enable us to learn more of the efficiency of different NBS that can be applied in the Nordic region and to assess the effectiveness of these and eventually adapt further management to halt biodiversity declines. 5.1.3 Technical and ecological knowledge gaps of practitioners The design and construction, but also operation and maintenance of well-functioning NBS, that provide multiple benefits is often difficult. There are still evidence gaps for certain types of NBS and certain functions they are expected to fulfil or benefits to be obtained (Viti et al., 2022; Chausson et al., 2020). Local landscape and ecosystems conditions such as climate, soil type, slope and vegetation influence the performance of NBS (Seddon, 2022). It makes, for example, a substantial difference for the infiltration capacity if a raingarden is located on sandy (fast draining) or on loamy (slow/not draining) soil. For forest ecosystems, there is little knowledge on the benefits of NBS in forest types other than the most common spruce- and pine-dominated heath forests (e.g., groves, semi-open forests, young phases following natural disturbance). Scale is another important issue to consider when planning an optimal NBS, as different types of benefits might unfold differently at small or large scales or at a certain distance from the NBS intervention (Hutchins et al., 2021). For forest NBS it remains unclear how the regional application of NBS would unfold in comparison to local application and what would be the effects of a higher density of NBS interventions in comparison to those that are usually applied in commercial forests. There is also a trade-off between the multiple functions of NBS. It is unlikely that they can all perform optimally, simultaneously (El Harrak and Lemaître, 2022a). It is therefore difficult to predict exactly the effect or outcome of an NBS and to standardize NBS as can be done with technical solutions (Dorst et al., 2022). This might undermine the trust in NBS, in comparison to engineered and technical solutions. In addition, there is also often a higher competence in relation to technical or engineering solutions in the relevant public agencies, than on NBS, which leads to a preference for these types of solutions (sometimes called “grey solutions”) and inhibits increased adoption of NBS. To overcome this problem of technological path dependency, academic scholars suggested targeted NBS-education for infrastructure professionals (Davies and Lafortezza, 2019). If NBS are implemented, they might also underperform, because entrepreneurs lack expertise for the optimal design of NBS. The lack of regular and long-term monitoring and evaluation of NBS (see chapter 5.1.1) inhibits iterative learning on how to overcome NBS construction weaknesses in the future, which is also suggested by IUCN criterion 7 (IUCN, 2020). Tools like the IUCN guidance book for their Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions (IUCN, 2020) are very complex to use and resource demanding, but they take several of the challenges mentioned in this chapter into account. An increased application of such tools could thus help to overcome those challenges in the future, but this would require adequate training of business, practitioners and stakeholders in the field of NBS. There are several shortcomings in relation to socio-economic aspects of NBS, which are interw

oven with other shortcomings. One main issue is the lack of scientific and economic evidence on the costs and benefits of NBS over their complete lifetime. This results in incomplete cost-benefit analysis of NBS, so that NBS interventions cannot properly be compared with alternative, more technical solutions. A lack of information about the performance of NBS arises due to the lack of regular monitoring (see also chapter 5.1.1), but also because the observed benefits are not monetized and integrated into economic valuation and accounting methods (i.e., natural capital accounting), something which could facilitate the acquisition of funding (Toxopeus and Polzin, 2021). Regular monitoring is important, as the stream of benefits might change over time and it might take a while before the natural functions of NBS which generate their benefits are fully established. Concerning costs, it is important to consider, not only the implementation costs of NBS, but also the accruing management and maintenance costs over time. For example, minor urban NBS often require maintenance of their vegetation (i.e., pruning, fertilizing, irrigation), which could lead to higher management and maintenance costs than technical solutions like pipes or dams. On the other hand, any adjustment of NBS could be easier and less costly than modifications of technical solutions. The lack of information and uncertainty about costs and benefits of NBS makes it difficult to calculate reliable revenue streams and to develop appropriate investment plans for NBS (Swann et al., 2021), which leads to a second shortcoming. The second shortcoming is the lack of coordinated public and private funding for NBS. The diversity of benefits which NBS can deliver to different actors or societal needs, should ideally also be reflected by a certain breadth of funding sources. Currently this is not or only very seldom the case. Public funding for urban NBS often only relies on the budgets of water or park agencies ignoring i.e., the public health benefits of NBS or their contribution to less stormwater flooding, which is a clear benefit for the insurance sector. If evaluation of NBS does not include major benefits as well as co-benefits, the cost-benefit analysis is likely to underestimate the value of an NBS to the society. The acquisition of a larger spectrum of investors could potentially lead to the implementation of both larger as well as more NBS. A better coordination of public funding would probably help to solve the challenge of low private-sector engagement in financing NBS (Dorst et al., 2022). Another funding gap is that long-term operation and maintenance costs are currently often not funded as part of NBS project grants, but only the implementation of the NBS. There is consequently a risk of deterioration of NBS over time if sufficient funding for operation and maintenance is lacking. The mentioned shortcomings are also underlined by comments given by Nordic stakeholders during workshops held in November 2021: It is difficult to assess costs and benefits of NBS in comparison to more traditional technical solutions. We need better cost-benefit analysis for NBS. NBS can address several problems simultaneously and not only one problem at a time, but this is not reflected sufficiently in current cost-benefit analysis as not all benefits are considered. In addition, current cost-benefit analysis of NBS often do not properly consider the long-term benefits of NBS. This leads to the wrong impression that NBS are more expensive. NBS investors must be able to “see” the revenue they get from investing in NBS instead of other solutions. Incentive systems might help to mainstream NBS and to attract more private investment. Water companies should become creative on how to use their funds (mainly derived from water fees). What is important is that they deliver their services (producing drinking water, cleaning wastewater) and NOT how they do it. So, they should become more proactive in testing NBS instead of only building underground infrastructure. There is low awareness and knowledge about NBS among the general public. To get more funding from the government, more awareness about NBS is needed. If politicians are going to promote specific solutions like NBS, this needs to be understood by the general public and their voters. It is important to develop NBS in small steps instead of doing the revolution at once. Governance structures related to NBS (in a broad sense) differ between the different Nordic countries. This difference relates to how landowner rights have been defined (e.g

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words, when it comes to the Israeli occupation, the Christians have suffered more than their Muslim countrymen because they have more of what the Israelis want. Furthermore, the rising tide of Islamic fundamentalism is confronting the Christians with new problems against most of which they cannot protest without endangering the local social balance, indeed their Palestinian identity. Muslim fanatics have raise the Crescent on church towers, Christian cemeteries have been desecrated, the statues of the Virgin Mary destroyed and, for the first time ever, the Palestinian Christians are facing constraints on their way of life. In Gaza a Muslim fundamentalist stronghold, Christian women have to wear headscarves and long sleeves or face stoning, and Christian-owned shops have to close on the Muslim sabbath of Friday instead of on Sunday. These combined pressures come at a time of strain between the local Christian communities and both their local church leadership and the mainline churches of the West. The mainline churches in the West are accused of not doing enough to help them financially or drawing attention to their plight, for fear of appearing anti-Semitic and to a lesser degree anti-Muslim. The local church leaders are caught between their parishioners’ cry for help and the attitude of their mother churches and have been undermined by their identification with the latter. In addition to problems with the mainline churches, Christian evangelist groups from the United States, Holland and other countries support the State of Israel at the expense of local Christians. The evangelists accept the recreation of Israel as the prelude to the second coming to the extent of ignoring local Christian rights and feelings, a fact overlooked by Muslim zealots who blame the local Christians for not curbing their insensitive pro-Israeli co-religionists. Two subsidiary problems contribute towards closing the ring of helplessness which is choking the local Christian communities of the Holy Land. The suffering inflicted on them by others and the direct and indirect results of the neglect of outside Christianity still haven’t induced their local church leaders to cooperate in establishing a common, protective Christian position. The traditional quarrel, alongside other disputes between the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches, continues and its stands in the way of creating a constructive Christian front. Furthermore, the Israelis make the appearance of favouring them against their Muslim nationals, a divide-and-rule policy which contributes towards inflaming the feelings of ignorant Muslims who do not understand the reasons behind the Israeli actions and use them to justify whatever anti-Christian feeling exists. (pp. 2-4). The Palestinian Christian community has largely been middle class, assimilated and patriotic. They have provided the Palestinian people with a large number of businessmen and professionals, including a significant part of the membership and leadership of Palestinian nationalism and the PLO, as well as the civil rights lawyers working to defend the Palestinian people from persecution by the Israeli state and military. They have also been active establishing charities to provide for the Palestinians’ welfare. Said visits one, which specialises in rehabilitating and providing training for people physically injured and mentally traumatised by the Israeli armed forces. Visiting a Palestinian hospital, he also meets some of the victims of the IDF wounded and crippled by the IDF, including a young man shot by a member of the Special Forces simply for spraying anti-Israeli graffiti on a wall. This isn’t an anti-Semitic book, as Aburish talks to sympathetic Israeli journalists and academics, but he describes very clearly the violence and bigotry that comes not just from the Israeli state and army, but also from Jewish religious fanatics. In the first chapter he describes a group of Israeli soldiers sneering at Christian Palestinians, and how he deliberated placed himself between a group of Jewish schoolboys and an elderly Ethiopian nun going through one district of Jerusalem. The boys had first started insulting her, and then began throwing stones at her and Aburish before the local, Jewish inhabitants rushed into the street to drive them away. The churches and monasteries in that part of town are close to an area of Jewish religious extremists. They’re not usually physically aggressive, but they make it very clear they don’t like Christians being there. Nor is it anti-Muslim. The Christians community itself sees itself very firmly as part of the Palestinians. Many Christian men have adopted the name Muhammad in order to show that

words, when it comes to the Israeli occupation, the Christians have suffered more than their Muslim countrymen because they have more of what the Israelis want. Furthermore, the rising tide of Islamic fundamentalism is confronting the Christians with new problems against most of which they cannot protest without endangering the local social balance, indeed their Palestinian identity. Muslim fanatics have raise the Crescent on church towers, Christian cemeteries have been desecrated, the statues of the Virgin Mary destroyed and, for the first time ever, the Palestinian Christians are facing constraints on their way of life. In Gaza a Muslim fundamentalist stronghold, Christian women have to wear headscarves and long sleeves or face stoning, and Christian-owned shops have to close on the Muslim sabbath of Friday instead of on Sunday. These combined pressures come at a time of strain between the local Christian communities and both their local church leadership and the mainline churches of the West. The mainline churches in the West are accused of not doing enough to help them financially or drawing attention to their plight, for fear of appearing anti-Semitic and to a lesser degree anti-Muslim. The local church leaders are caught between their parishioners’ cry for help and the attitude of their mother churches and have been undermined by their identification with the latter. In addition to problems with the mainline churches, Christian evangelist groups from the United States, Holland and other countries support the State of Israel at the expense of local Christians. The evangelists accept the recreation of Israel as the prelude to the second coming to the extent of ignoring local Christian rights and feelings, a fact overlooked by Muslim zealots who blame the local Christians for not curbing their insensitive pro-Israeli co-religionists. Two subsidiary problems contribute towards closing the ring of helplessness which is choking the local Christian communities of the Holy Land. The suffering inflicted on them by others and the direct and indirect results of the neglect of outside Christianity still haven’t induced their local church leaders to cooperate in establishing a common, protective Christian position. The traditional quarrel, alongside other disputes between the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches, continues and its stands in the way of creating a constructive Christian front. Furthermore, the Israelis make the appearance of favouring them against their Muslim nationals, a divide-and-rule policy which contributes towards inflaming the feelings of ignorant Muslims who do not understand the reasons behind the Israeli actions and use them to justify whatever anti-Christian feeling exists. (pp. 2-4). The Palestinian Christian community has largely been middle class, assimilated and patriotic. They have provided the Palestinian people with a large number of businessmen and professionals, including a significant part of the membership and leadership of Palestinian nationalism and the PLO, as well as the civil rights lawyers working to defend the Palestinian people from persecution by the Israeli state and military. They have also been active establishing charities to provide for the Palestinians’ welfare. Said visits one, which specialises in rehabilitating and providing training for people physically injured and mentally traumatised by the Israeli armed forces. Visiting a Palestinian hospital, he also meets some of the victims of the IDF wounded and crippled by the IDF, including a young man shot by a member of the Special Forces simply for spraying anti-Israeli graffiti on a wall. This isn’t an anti-Semitic book, as Aburish talks to sympathetic Israeli journalists and academics, but he describes very clearly the violence and bigotry that comes not just from the Israeli state and army, but also from Jewish religious fanatics. In the first chapter he describes a group of Israeli soldiers sneering at Christian Palestinians, and how he deliberated placed himself between a group of Jewish schoolboys and an elderly Ethiopian nun going through one district of Jerusalem. The boys had first started insulting her, and then began throwing stones at her and Aburish before the local, Jewish inhabitants rushed into the street to drive them away. The churches and monasteries in that part of town are close to an area of Jewish religious extremists. They’re not usually physically aggressive, but they make it very clear they don’t like Christians being there. Nor is it anti-Muslim. The Christians community itself sees itself very firmly as part of the Palestinians. Many Christian men have adopted the name Muhammad in order to show that

there is no difference between themselves as their Muslim fellow countrymen. And historically they have been fully accepted by the Muslim community. Aburish talks to the headman of a mixed Christian-Muslim village. The man is a Christian, and historically Christians have formed the headmen for the village. The Christians also point with pride to the fact that one of the generals of Saladin, the Muslim leader who conquered Palestine back from the Crusaders, was a Greek Orthodox Christian. Aburish is shocked by how extremely religious the Muslim community has become, with Friday services packed and one of his aunts traveling to the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem to pray. This, like the less obvious religious revival among the Christians, is ultimately due to Israeli pressure and the failure of secular Palestinian politicians. There is no truth in politics, so they seek it instead in Islam and the pages of Qu’ran. And behind this rise in Islamic intolerance are the Saudis. Aburish recommends better Muslim-Christian dialogue to tackle this growing intolerance. Aburish hears from the Palestinians how their land is seized by the Israelis for the construction of new, Israeli settlements, how people are shot, beaten, injured and maimed, and the attempts to strangle Palestinians businesses. This includes legislation insisting that all tourist guides have to be Israeli – a blatant piece of racism intended to drive Christians out of the tourist business through denying them access to the many Christian shrines, churches and monuments that are at the heart of the industry. Christian charities and welfare services don’t discriminate between Christian and Muslim, but they are oversubscribed and underfunded. And the churches are more interested in defending their traditional institutional privileges than in helping their local flock. They look west, and are more interested in promoting and defending the churches’ response to the worlds’ problems as a whole, while the Palestinians are also being pulled east through their Arab identity. Senior Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox clergy are often foreigners, who cannot speak Arabic and may be to a greater or lesser extent indifferent to the needs and problems of their congregations. The Palestinian Christians are also hampered by the fact that they don’t want to acknowledge that they have specific problems as a minority within the wider Palestinian nation, partly for fear of further antagonising the Muslim majority. Nevertheless, some Palestinian Christians choose to remain, stubbornly refusing to emigrate while they could get much better jobs elsewhere. And all over the world, expatriate Palestinian communities are proud of their origins and connection to the land. Aburish even talks to one optimistic Palestinian Christian businessman, who believes that Cyprus provides the model for a successful Palestine. There local people have built a thriving commercial economy without having the universities and educational institutions Palestine possesses. And some Palestinian Christians believe that the solutions to their crisis is for the community to reconnect with its oriental roots, reviving the traditional extensive Arab family structure, which has served Arabs so well in the past. The book was published a quarter of a century ago, in 1993, and I’ve no doubt that things have changed since then. But not for the better. There have been recent magazine articles by National Geographic, among others, that report that the Palestinians are still suffering the same problem – caught between the hammer of the Israeli state and the anvil of Islamic fundamentalism. Christian Zionism, however, has become stronger and exerts a very powerful influence on American foreign policy through organisations like Ted Hagee’s Christians United for Israel. Netanyahu’s vile Likud is still in power, and Israeli politics has lurched even further to the right with the inclusion of Fascist parties like Otzma Yehudat – Jewish Power – in the wretched coalition. And some British churches maintain a very determined silence on the problems of the Palestinians. According to one anti-Zionist Jewish blog, the Methodist Church has passed regulations at its synod preventing it or its members officially criticising Israel. Because of the church’s leaders was friends with members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. I am very well aware of the long, shameful history of Christian anti-Semitism and how real, genuine Nazis have also criticised Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians and claimed that they’re just anti-Zionist, not anti-Semitic. I have

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by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Airfares are generally quoted per person in USD unless otherwise noted. For your convenience, TripAdvisor LLC calculates an average price for each hotel, which is based on the rates of available rooms obtained from our booking partners. For tours and attractions, the price displayed is usually the lowest available per person adult price. For any travel packages or deals listed, TripAdvisor LLC does not guarantee any specific rates or prices. In addition, average hotel prices are updated nightly and displayed in your preferred currency using prevailing conversion rates. Since these converted prices are estimates, please check with the booking site for the exact amount and currency. Furthermore, TripAdvisor LLC makes no guarantees for availability of prices advertised on our site. Listed prices may require a stay of a particular length or have blackout dates, qualifications or restrictions. Caledon Medical Cannabinoid Clinic Patient Referral Form For Patients/ For Healthcare Providers/ Patient Referral Form/ Medical marijuana includes cookies, brownies, Supreme Court rules September 10, 2015 / Cannabinoid Clinic OTTAWA—A former cannabis club head baker at the centre of a Supreme Court of Canada ruling is both thrilled and relieved after the high court struck down limits on what constitutes legally acceptable medical marijuana products. The court ruled unanimously on Thursday that medical marijuana can be legally consumed in a range of ways, from cannabis-infused cookies and brownies to cooking oils and teas. “I think across the country there will be a lot more smiles and a lot less pain,” said Owen Smith with the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, whose 2009 arrest was the focus of the decision. Smith was charged after police found hundreds of pot cookies and cannabis-infused olive and grapeseed oils in his Victoria apartment. He was acquitted at trial and won an appeal. The outpouring of gratitude since the ruling was handed down has been overwhelming, Smith said. He received a phone call from a mother who used cannabis-infused oil to treat her daughter’s epilepsy. “She was just overjoyed and in tears about the decision,” he said. “It’s been emotional, that’s for sure.” Not only was it a unanimous 7-0 ruling, but the court made a point of attributing the written decision to the entire court — something the justices do when they want to underline a finding. It was yet another rebuke of the Harper government’s tough-on-crime agenda. Until now, federal regulations stipulated that authorized users of physician-prescribed cannabis could only consume dried marijuana. But limiting medical consumption to dried pot infringes on liberty protections under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the court said. “The prohibition of non-dried forms of medical marijuana limits liberty and security of the person in a manner that is arbitrary and hence is not in accord with the principles of fundamental justice,” said the written judgment. The initial trial judge in Smith’s case gave the federal government a year to change the laws around cannabis extracts, but the court said Thursday its ruling takes effect immediately. Cheryl Rose, whose daughter Hayley takes cannabis for a severe form of epilepsy, said the 22-year-old’s seizures have dropped dramatically. Under the previous law, Hayley had to take 15 capsules of dried cannabis daily. Now, she will only have to take one concentrated capsule made with oil. “Without having extracts available for her, I don’t think we’d be able to keep it up. It’s way too much for a person to consume,” she said. “She’s finally going to fully have her life back.” Alex Repetski, of Thornhill, Ont., could have been charged with possession and trafficking for converting dried bud into oil for his 3-year-old daughter, Gwenevere, whose debilitating epilepsy has left her developmentally delayed. Since starting on the low-THC marijuana, Gwenevere has seen an incredible recovery, Repetski said. He no longer fears prosecution. Limiting medical mar

ijuana use to dried pot “limits life, liberty and security of the person” in two ways, the court said. First, the prohibition on possession of cannabis in forms other than dried pot places a person at risk of imprisonment when they wouldn’t face the same threat if they possessed dried marijuana buds. It also exposes people with a legitimate need for marijuana to other potential medical ailments, it stated. “It subjects the person to the risk of cancer and bronchial infections associated with smoking dry marijuana and precludes the possibility of choosing a more effective treatment.” The decision was the latest in a series of rulings by the high court against the Harper government on a variety of issues, including unanimously rejecting the ban on providing doctor-assisted death to mentally competent patients. Health Minister Rona Ambrose said she was “outraged” by the marijuana decision. “The big issue here is the message about normalization,” she said. “The message that judges, not medical experts, judges have decided something is a medicine.” Ambrose noted that marijuana has never faced a regulatory approval process through Heath Canada. “This not a drug,” she said. “This is not a medicine. There’s very harmful effects of marijuana, especially on our youth.” Source: thestar.com September 10, 2015 / Cannabinoid Clinic/ Cannabinoid Clinic Your insurance will cover medical ... Medical marijuana facility gets ... Caledon Medical Cannabinoid Clinic (CMCC)'s mission is to provide personalized, high-quality care. We have created a standard of practice that we believe in and would recommend for our own family members. Open Letter to Mark Emery, Canada's Prince of Pot Toronto Life March 2016: Legal(ish) and Half Baked Medical Marijuana seems to safely help chronic pain patients: Study Your insurance will cover medical marijuana soon, experts predict Medical marijuana facility gets zoning approval in Tecumseh Copyright © 2015 Caledon Medical Cannabinoid Clinic. All rights reserved. Website design by YESTEK Inc. Five Key Plays: Michigan at Bradley By Joe Stapleton 1) Michigan dominates the offensive glass Michigan’s offensive rebounding helped turn the game in the first half. John Beilein opted to utilize multiple two-post looks and Michigan was able to rebound 40 percent of its missed shots for the game. The Wolverines were able to dominate Bradley’s front line physically and were able to get pretty much any rebound they wanted – especially in the first half. This possession illustrates Michigan’s ability to grab offensive boards but also the fact that Michigan needs to become more efficient finishing its second chances. After Max Bielfeldt misses a 3-pointer in the corner, Mitch McGary rebounds the ball. McGary and Bielfeldt have been the Wolverines most consistent offensive rebounders on the season with offensive rebounding rates over 20 percent. On this play the duo combined to grab five offensive rebounds on one possession before finally tipping the ball in to end the possession. 2) Trey Burke with an acrobatic finish on the fast break There are usually at least a few plays in the course of every Michigan game where Trey Burke’s immense talent is on full display. This was one of those plays. Burke gets the ball from McGary and runs a one-man fast break right at Bradley’s Jake Eastman. Eastman actually does a remarkable job of avoiding contact, but Burke seeks it out. He goes right at Eastman and when he feels the contact, he turns mid-air and flips the ball in the basket. There just aren’t very many players in the country who can pull off a maneuver like that. This play also illustrates Michigan’s reliance on the fast break during this game. They botched a few opportunities for easy buckets in the first half due to poor passing, but in the second half the Wolverines shored it up and got some solid offense off the fast break. Given that Michigan rebounded almost 80 percent of Bradley’s misses, it had plenty of opportunities to get out and run. And with big men like Mitch McGary who are excellent at finding the

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OF GLOBAL WARMING (From France)... FITTING OCEAN LEVEL DATA TO GREENHOUSE PRECONCEPTI... GREENIE POLICIES DESTROY RAINFORESTS THE drive fo... MORE GREENIE MISANTHROPY: HOUSING PEOPLE IS BAD ... EARTH RELIGION DISPLACES THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST The... NUKES GET THE NOD IN BRITAIN! Tony Blair is rapid... A GREENQUAKE: BRITS GIVING UP ON KYOTO PROTOCOL I... SIR DAVID KING: GLOBAL AGREEMENT ON CO2 EMISSION C... US GOVERNMENT PUSHES CARBON SEQUESTRATION NONSENSE... SOLAR INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE MORE SIGNIFICANT... The Greenies Hate Us Oz Politics has found some s... COMMENT ON THE RECENT FOX FOLLY ABOUT GLOBAL WARMI... MORE TROUBLE FOR THE HOCKEY STICK (A summary of G... THE ICE AGE COMETH The weather has been on everyo... SOME DOCUMENTATION OF GREENIE MISANTHROPY Mankind... CLEAN GEORGE Post lifted from Tim Blair Guardian... FOX ADMITS ONE-SIDED SUPPORT FOR GLOBAL WARMING A... PREPARING THE PUBLIC FOR ANOTHER CLIMBDOWN: UK MIN... I DON'T THINK THE GREENIES WILL LIKE THIS IDEA! A... GLOBAL WARMING CAUSED BY THE RECENT REDUCTION IN P... Global warming treaty goes cold but not many know ... CALIFORNIA'S ACRYLAMIDE LUNACY A nutty politician... MORE ON THE MELTING ARCTIC Global warming has bee... SCIENTIFIC SCEPTICISM A JEWISH PLOT? Below is an ... IT'S ONLY GREENIE AGITATION THAT CAUSED WINDFARMS ... ENRON BACKED GLOBAL WARMING AND CLINTON/GORE Scan... GREENIES NOW TRYING TO STOP NANOTECHNOLOGY It is ... Nuclear Assault is a thrash metal band formed in 1984. After performing on Anthrax's debut album Fistful of Metal, bass player Dan Lilker was sacked from the group and decided to pursue a more aggressive style of music. He and former Anthrax vocalist and guitarist John Connelly formed Nuclear Assault. Joined by guitarist Mike Bogush and drummer Scott Duboys (later of Cities, Cycle Sluts From Hell and Warrior Soul and cousin of heavy metal manager Eric Greif) Read more on Last.fm Live in Ljubljana, Slovenia Live in Dunaujvaros, Hungary Third World Genocide Alive Again Live at the Hammersmith Odeon Two Questions That Help Answer “Are You Intrinsically Motivated?” November 2, 2019 January 20, 2019 by Jason Haaheim (The Attributes of Deliberate Practice: Commitment, Motivation, and Willpower) “It’s damn cold. My fingers are numb, and useless. With each breath, the intake is shocking, as if my lungs had already forgotten the frigid air inhaled only seconds before. I’m hunched with my arms curled around my knees in a desperate play to lose as little body heat as possible. And I’m so tired. Not just from the lack of sleep, but from the journey…this seemingly endless path. Tortuous and punishing. In moments like these, it’s hard not to ask ‘Why the hell am I doing this?'” Oh — sorry! That might have confusingly seemed like the caption to the scene above — the Teton Crest Trail winding through the snow fields of Grand Teton National Park. My bad, let me clarify: that was a retroactive journal entry from January 3rd,

OF GLOBAL WARMING (From France)... FITTING OCEAN LEVEL DATA TO GREENHOUSE PRECONCEPTI... GREENIE POLICIES DESTROY RAINFORESTS THE drive fo... MORE GREENIE MISANTHROPY: HOUSING PEOPLE IS BAD ... EARTH RELIGION DISPLACES THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST The... NUKES GET THE NOD IN BRITAIN! Tony Blair is rapid... A GREENQUAKE: BRITS GIVING UP ON KYOTO PROTOCOL I... SIR DAVID KING: GLOBAL AGREEMENT ON CO2 EMISSION C... US GOVERNMENT PUSHES CARBON SEQUESTRATION NONSENSE... SOLAR INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE MORE SIGNIFICANT... The Greenies Hate Us Oz Politics has found some s... COMMENT ON THE RECENT FOX FOLLY ABOUT GLOBAL WARMI... MORE TROUBLE FOR THE HOCKEY STICK (A summary of G... THE ICE AGE COMETH The weather has been on everyo... SOME DOCUMENTATION OF GREENIE MISANTHROPY Mankind... CLEAN GEORGE Post lifted from Tim Blair Guardian... FOX ADMITS ONE-SIDED SUPPORT FOR GLOBAL WARMING A... PREPARING THE PUBLIC FOR ANOTHER CLIMBDOWN: UK MIN... I DON'T THINK THE GREENIES WILL LIKE THIS IDEA! A... GLOBAL WARMING CAUSED BY THE RECENT REDUCTION IN P... Global warming treaty goes cold but not many know ... CALIFORNIA'S ACRYLAMIDE LUNACY A nutty politician... MORE ON THE MELTING ARCTIC Global warming has bee... SCIENTIFIC SCEPTICISM A JEWISH PLOT? Below is an ... IT'S ONLY GREENIE AGITATION THAT CAUSED WINDFARMS ... ENRON BACKED GLOBAL WARMING AND CLINTON/GORE Scan... GREENIES NOW TRYING TO STOP NANOTECHNOLOGY It is ... Nuclear Assault is a thrash metal band formed in 1984. After performing on Anthrax's debut album Fistful of Metal, bass player Dan Lilker was sacked from the group and decided to pursue a more aggressive style of music. He and former Anthrax vocalist and guitarist John Connelly formed Nuclear Assault. Joined by guitarist Mike Bogush and drummer Scott Duboys (later of Cities, Cycle Sluts From Hell and Warrior Soul and cousin of heavy metal manager Eric Greif) Read more on Last.fm Live in Ljubljana, Slovenia Live in Dunaujvaros, Hungary Third World Genocide Alive Again Live at the Hammersmith Odeon Two Questions That Help Answer “Are You Intrinsically Motivated?” November 2, 2019 January 20, 2019 by Jason Haaheim (The Attributes of Deliberate Practice: Commitment, Motivation, and Willpower) “It’s damn cold. My fingers are numb, and useless. With each breath, the intake is shocking, as if my lungs had already forgotten the frigid air inhaled only seconds before. I’m hunched with my arms curled around my knees in a desperate play to lose as little body heat as possible. And I’m so tired. Not just from the lack of sleep, but from the journey…this seemingly endless path. Tortuous and punishing. In moments like these, it’s hard not to ask ‘Why the hell am I doing this?'” Oh — sorry! That might have confusingly seemed like the caption to the scene above — the Teton Crest Trail winding through the snow fields of Grand Teton National Park. My bad, let me clarify: that was a retroactive journal entry from January 3rd,

2012, 5:45 am, as I climbed the steps down into my unheated practice cave, drinking coffee as quickly as possible while anxiously waiting for the space heaters to raise the temperature. That was, more or less, the scene of most of my mornings, pushing myself to get in a couple hours of practice before I left for work, and wishing the previous owners of my house had seen fit to run the heating ducts all the way to the addition in back — the addition that would become my timpani practice cave. No, the tetons journal entry went more like this: “It’s damn cold. The dark clouds have been threatening for over two hours; now they’re finally making good on those threats. We’d been climbing the north side of Alaska Basin when we felt the first drops. Still several miles below Hurricane Pass, we’ve wisely chosen to stay below the tree line, taking cover in a copse of pine as the sky flashed and thunderous reports ricocheted between the mountains. But this only slightly mitigates the punishing hail and icy rain. The pelting from these little freezing bullets makes me realize the waterproofing on my jacket shell has worn off, and I feel the dampness seeping down into my remaining layers. This is the worst cold — wet cold. The shivering convulses my whole body. With each breath, the intake is shocking, as if my lungs had already forgotten the frigid air inhaled only seconds before. I’m hunched with my arms curled around my knees in a desperate play to lose as little body heat as possible. And I’m tired from the journey…this seemingly endless path. In moments like these, it’s hard not to ask ‘Why the hell am I doing this?’” It’s Not Fun MAN…those were cold and difficult mornings. But as the old saying goes, “if it was easy, everyone would do it!” And of course, if everyone did it, then: The backcountry of our nation’s peerless national parks would be overrun by tourists, and In music, sports, and just about everything else, there would be no way to “distinguish the best from the rest.” Deliberate practice is not meant to be “fun.” When done right, it’s not inherently enjoyable. Think about the recipe I’ve been laying out in the preceding posts: You’re focusing specifically on things you’re NOT good at. You’re ripping yourself out of your comfort zone, zooming in on your warts with a high-powered microscope, and struggling to tame your ego in the process. You’re enlisting the aid of (often intimidating) teachers to dig into your known problems and to point out new failings you’d never even considered. You’re using self-recording feedback to unflinchingly catalogue your manifold deficiencies. You’re repeating things obsessively, consuming all of your available focus and concentration. …and you’re doing it until you’re completely exhausted. Yeah…it’s not necessarily an enjoyable walk in the park. And it’s not supposed to be. In Peak, Ericsson writes about his study of spelling bee competitors, noting that even the best spellers “didn’t like studying at all. None of them did…. The hours they had spent studying thousands of words alone were not fun; they would have been quite happy to do something else. Instead, what distinguished the most successful spellers was their superior ability to remain committed to studying…. How do you keep going? That is perhaps the biggest question that anyone engaged in deliberate practice will eventually face.” However, even though deliberate practice is neither “fun” nor inherently enjoyable, it should still be ultimately rewarding and gratifying. Much like a grueling trek up a snowy mountain, you might be suffering in the moment. You might be cold, wet, and exhausted. But man, it is SO worth it. It’s incredibly gratifying. The payoff is in the process, and the process of those hikes brings me incomparable fulfillment. But I get it: rigorous backcountry trekking is not for everyone. Nor is orchestral instrument performance. This is an essential piece of philosophy for younger musicians to absorb: not everyone is cut out for this life. Nor should they be! Your own interests and desires — your compatibility

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that include break and entry, theft, fraud, possession of stolen property and numerous court order violations. The offence dates stretch from September 2017 to last Thursday, when he was arrested. Saunders will be back in court Friday. p.s. Yes, good call on listing the nail polish in the description above—it’s gorgeous! This is amazing news Ashley… so happy for you! I hope your parents can see how happy this has made you… we certainly can! Hope the upcoming holiday is successful for you as well. A true parfum in the fact it has 20% fragranted oils in each 1 ounce glass bottle. Long lasting. No colors added. WONDERLAND-A unique luscious blend of fresh strawberries, goji berries, sun ripe raspberry, southern gardenia petals, jasmine, peach, white amber, coconut musk and a lovely dash of creamy vanilla! Net Wt: 1 fluid ounce in a glass bottle with fine mist sprayer [every single mist sprayer is tested prior to shipment to insure they work upon leaving]. *Please note that $10 buys you ONE 1 ounce glass bottle of parfum. Not two as depicted for product photography. An up-to-date version of the 2014 North Dakota DOT Drivers handbook can be found below. This is the online version of the North Dakota DOT Drivers Manual / Handbook straight from the DOT's website. These links are updated every time the handbook is changed so rest assured that the Handbook below is current. Check back every year for the newest edition of the North Dakota DOT Handbook; new stats, tips, and guides to the law are added with each addition. Also remember to share the handbook with your friends and family as it's a great way for them to brush up on their driving. Check out our DOT blog and sign up for our mailing list to stay on top of the ever changing driving laws in North Dakota. Every year try to understand how the new law will affect you and when they will be enforced. Please note it make take a minute or so for the Online North Dakota DOT driver's handbook to load. Please check out our other useful resources for the North Dakota DOT: North Dakota DOT Commercial Drivers Handbook, North Dakota DOT Motorcycle Riders Handbook, North Dakota DOT Teen Permit Practice Test. We don't know about any restaurants in Rowland yet. You can add the first restaurant if you submit one now! Need your car repaired? Visit car-repair-shops.com for auto repair shops in Rowland. We don't have any tags yet for restaurants in Rowland. We don't have reviews yet for any restaurants in Rowland. You can be the first reviewer if you review one now! Dream Big, by Speaker, Coach, and Author, Kathy Tuccaro, will be an eye-opening experience, that will at first, have you laughing at the light-heartedness of our guest, and then, will have you crying at the tragedies, that have befallen her. For the last five years, she has been driving the “largest vehicle in the world!!” If that doesn’t peak your interest, nothing will. You’ll love her story, and her unwillingness to let horrific multiple traumas, stop her from attaining the life she has always wanted. Listen, again, and again, and then take action in your own life to make changes, you never thought you could do. We are a Canadian-owned French language school located in the heart of Vancouver. We specialize in teaching the beautiful French language to adults, children, business people and government employees. At Sorbonne Language School, we pride ourselves on the high quality of our teaching, and on our dedication to our students. We strive to create French lessons which are focused and instructive, while at the same time being energetic and fun. We believe that a language is meant to be communicated to others, and we therefore put the focus on helping students to be able to communicate in French orally and in writing. All of our teachers are native speakers with many years of experience teaching languages. Whether you wish to travel to a French-speaking country, refresh the French you once studied, or learn French to improve your career, we can

that include break and entry, theft, fraud, possession of stolen property and numerous court order violations. The offence dates stretch from September 2017 to last Thursday, when he was arrested. Saunders will be back in court Friday. p.s. Yes, good call on listing the nail polish in the description above—it’s gorgeous! This is amazing news Ashley… so happy for you! I hope your parents can see how happy this has made you… we certainly can! Hope the upcoming holiday is successful for you as well. A true parfum in the fact it has 20% fragranted oils in each 1 ounce glass bottle. Long lasting. No colors added. WONDERLAND-A unique luscious blend of fresh strawberries, goji berries, sun ripe raspberry, southern gardenia petals, jasmine, peach, white amber, coconut musk and a lovely dash of creamy vanilla! Net Wt: 1 fluid ounce in a glass bottle with fine mist sprayer [every single mist sprayer is tested prior to shipment to insure they work upon leaving]. *Please note that $10 buys you ONE 1 ounce glass bottle of parfum. Not two as depicted for product photography. An up-to-date version of the 2014 North Dakota DOT Drivers handbook can be found below. This is the online version of the North Dakota DOT Drivers Manual / Handbook straight from the DOT's website. These links are updated every time the handbook is changed so rest assured that the Handbook below is current. Check back every year for the newest edition of the North Dakota DOT Handbook; new stats, tips, and guides to the law are added with each addition. Also remember to share the handbook with your friends and family as it's a great way for them to brush up on their driving. Check out our DOT blog and sign up for our mailing list to stay on top of the ever changing driving laws in North Dakota. Every year try to understand how the new law will affect you and when they will be enforced. Please note it make take a minute or so for the Online North Dakota DOT driver's handbook to load. Please check out our other useful resources for the North Dakota DOT: North Dakota DOT Commercial Drivers Handbook, North Dakota DOT Motorcycle Riders Handbook, North Dakota DOT Teen Permit Practice Test. We don't know about any restaurants in Rowland yet. You can add the first restaurant if you submit one now! Need your car repaired? Visit car-repair-shops.com for auto repair shops in Rowland. We don't have any tags yet for restaurants in Rowland. We don't have reviews yet for any restaurants in Rowland. You can be the first reviewer if you review one now! Dream Big, by Speaker, Coach, and Author, Kathy Tuccaro, will be an eye-opening experience, that will at first, have you laughing at the light-heartedness of our guest, and then, will have you crying at the tragedies, that have befallen her. For the last five years, she has been driving the “largest vehicle in the world!!” If that doesn’t peak your interest, nothing will. You’ll love her story, and her unwillingness to let horrific multiple traumas, stop her from attaining the life she has always wanted. Listen, again, and again, and then take action in your own life to make changes, you never thought you could do. We are a Canadian-owned French language school located in the heart of Vancouver. We specialize in teaching the beautiful French language to adults, children, business people and government employees. At Sorbonne Language School, we pride ourselves on the high quality of our teaching, and on our dedication to our students. We strive to create French lessons which are focused and instructive, while at the same time being energetic and fun. We believe that a language is meant to be communicated to others, and we therefore put the focus on helping students to be able to communicate in French orally and in writing. All of our teachers are native speakers with many years of experience teaching languages. Whether you wish to travel to a French-speaking country, refresh the French you once studied, or learn French to improve your career, we can

make your language-learning experience enjoyable and fulfilling. Feel free to Contact Us at any time should you have any questions about our French lessons in Vancouver. Why choose Sorbonne Language School? At Sorbonne Language School we firmly believe that a language is meant to be spoken! The theoretical side of language-learning is extremely important, and our teachers have many years of experience practising the art of teaching grammar, vocabulary and pronounciation in a clear, concise way. However we believe that students learn a language to be able to communicate in that language. From the first lesson at Sorbonne Language School we strive to make our students speak as much as possible in a warm, friendly, and relaxed atmosphere. Our students engage in role-plays, games, discussions, debates and other speaking tasks to encourage them to practise the skills that they learn with us as much as possible. Learning a language can be a fulfilling and exciting experience and our teachers are dedicated to having our student’s take away as much as they can from their lessons as possible. West Broadway and Cypress, 5 minutes walk from Granville and Broadway! We teach the French that francophones really speak! We teach French that you can actually use in everyday situations, and we encourage speaking throughout our classes. All our teachers are all native speakers with many years of experience who are passionate about teaching French. They are warm, friendly, dedicated and supportive as well as being experts in French language and linguistics. We pride ourselves on our excellent teachers. At Sorbonne Language School, our team of teachers have created textbooks that teach the fundamentals of real French, including reading, writing, speaking, listening and grammar. We specialize only in the French language and are passionate about teaching French in a way that is clear, concise and helps people really speak French! Teaching French is our passion and we strive to keep our rates as reasonable as we can so that learning French is affordable to all. We work with students to set up payment plans that they can afford. We never put pressure on students to take lessons with us and always give them time to make up their own minds. Customer Service is very important to us and we make sure our students feel they can discuss any subject with us openly. We feel strongly that students should feel comfortable and supported while language learning. Our teachers are friendly, patient and supportive as well as being fun! What if I have specific objectives? At Sorbonne Language School, we give many hours of private General and Business French a week as well as tutoring many children in private lessons. All private lessons are specifically tailored to the individual needs and objectives of the students. Our team have written 6 textbooks and over 100 lessons, and we have large library of books which allows us to find material whatever the needs of the student. We can help you improve your French! Whether you wish to improve your conversation skills, prepare for a vacation to a French-speaking country, refresh your knowledge of French or do business in French, our specialized courses are adapted to suit your needs. Choose between One-To-One or Group French classes. We also offer Business French classes at your location on our Business web page. Our teachers are highly experienced and professional and our French lessons are very interactive, promoting speaking as much as possible. We believe language learning can be a fun and rewarding experience! He has managed only two assists since his arrival and was an unused sub in his side's 2-0 win over Port Vale on Saturday. WIlson admits it has been an 'up and down' spell. “It’s been a bit up and down to be honest. I haven’t played as much as I would’ve liked and had an injury which was annoying. Washington proposed a constitutional amendment to establish a public education system. His public was white males who owned property. The public opinion influencing public policy has increased and diversified enormously since 1797, but the logic remains the same. The only justifiable reason to tax people without children for education is to provide for them a public good, a citizenry sufficiently informed to deal responsively with the ever more challenging problems of a rapidly changing world. That understanding changed completely when President Reagan�s Commission on Excellence in Education published �A Nation at Risk� in 1983, in which it was claimed that the United States was unable to compete in the global economy because of its �mediocre� system of education, in effect accusing teachers of treason. That there was no such competition

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. The Nervous Eaters are Boston punk pioneers which was formed in the mid-1970s and served as the house band for the Boston punk rock club, The Rat. They played with The Ramones, The Cars, Patti Smith, and plenty more. They also had the 1976 hit, ‘Loretta.’ The band dissolved in 1981, and has sporadically reunited throughout the years. This lineup of the band has existed since 2018, and the band is excited to be releasing all new music. Of his lifelong career in rock and roll, frontman Steve Cataldo says, “You get out there and do it. It doesn’t matter what vein of rock ‘n’ roll you’re in. If you’re creating art, it’s just in your system and that’s what you do.” Label: WICKED COOL RECORDS, LLC Monsters + Angels Artist: Nervous Eaters Few in Number, Harvard's Minority Faculty Face Additional Burdens Harvard is making efforts to diversify its faculty, but challenges remain By Karl M. Aspelund and Meg P. Bernhard, Crimson Staff Writers May 8, 2015 UPDATED: May 8, 2015, at 6:05 p.m. This is part II in a two-part series about diversity in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Part I ran on May 6. Foldout seats in University Hall’s second-floor Faculty Room fill up as 4 p.m. draws nearer. All voting members of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences are invited to the body’s monthly meetings here on Tuesdays, although the seats are all rarely filled. Today, a breezy May afternoon, a low hum fills the high-ceilinged room as professors from departments across FAS chat over tea and coffee, mingling with colleagues. A bell rings. The meeting will commence. Faculty meetings have taken place in this room since 1896, when it received its current name after extensive renovation. For more than a century, it has been a space in which members of Harvard’s flagship faculty come together and vote on legislation dealing with its policies. Occasionally, some Faculty members comment on the portraits hanging on the sea-foam colored walls of this room. The portraits mostly depict former University presidents and FAS deans, who historically, have primarily been white men. According to S. Allen Counter, a professor of neurology and the director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, there are no portraits of racial minorities in that room. {shortcode-302d2b1108c1afb9715dce4af7f023af34bc4798} Some Faculty members and administrators say this collection of portraits does not reflect the overall diversity of the Faculty today in 2015. “Go into the faculty meeting room of the FAS and look at all the pictures and the busts,” says Judith D. Singer, Harvard’s senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity. “That’s the old Harvard. The new Harvard should be much more reflective of the pools of people [here].” Indeed, over the past decade, FAS has seen a marked increase in the number of racial and ethnic minority faculty members and women within its ranks. Today, minorities represent about 19 percent of the Faculty, compared to 12 percent in the fall of 2000, according to the FAS Dean’s 2014 Annual Report. But while Harvard and FAS have institutionalized a hiring process designed to draw in more a racially and ethnically diverse faculty, some professors say that they feel there is more work to do to improve the work environment for those faculty after they enter Harvard’s gates. DOWN THE PIPELINE Increasing faculty diversity will improve the quality of teaching and research at Harvard, faculty members argue—prompting administrators to increase efforts to hire a diverse set of faculty members in recent years. “I sincerely believe that there are problems I can solve differently because of my unique background” as an African-American in the physical sciences, says Astronomy professor John A. Johnson, who in 2

. The Nervous Eaters are Boston punk pioneers which was formed in the mid-1970s and served as the house band for the Boston punk rock club, The Rat. They played with The Ramones, The Cars, Patti Smith, and plenty more. They also had the 1976 hit, ‘Loretta.’ The band dissolved in 1981, and has sporadically reunited throughout the years. This lineup of the band has existed since 2018, and the band is excited to be releasing all new music. Of his lifelong career in rock and roll, frontman Steve Cataldo says, “You get out there and do it. It doesn’t matter what vein of rock ‘n’ roll you’re in. If you’re creating art, it’s just in your system and that’s what you do.” Label: WICKED COOL RECORDS, LLC Monsters + Angels Artist: Nervous Eaters Few in Number, Harvard's Minority Faculty Face Additional Burdens Harvard is making efforts to diversify its faculty, but challenges remain By Karl M. Aspelund and Meg P. Bernhard, Crimson Staff Writers May 8, 2015 UPDATED: May 8, 2015, at 6:05 p.m. This is part II in a two-part series about diversity in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Part I ran on May 6. Foldout seats in University Hall’s second-floor Faculty Room fill up as 4 p.m. draws nearer. All voting members of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences are invited to the body’s monthly meetings here on Tuesdays, although the seats are all rarely filled. Today, a breezy May afternoon, a low hum fills the high-ceilinged room as professors from departments across FAS chat over tea and coffee, mingling with colleagues. A bell rings. The meeting will commence. Faculty meetings have taken place in this room since 1896, when it received its current name after extensive renovation. For more than a century, it has been a space in which members of Harvard’s flagship faculty come together and vote on legislation dealing with its policies. Occasionally, some Faculty members comment on the portraits hanging on the sea-foam colored walls of this room. The portraits mostly depict former University presidents and FAS deans, who historically, have primarily been white men. According to S. Allen Counter, a professor of neurology and the director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, there are no portraits of racial minorities in that room. {shortcode-302d2b1108c1afb9715dce4af7f023af34bc4798} Some Faculty members and administrators say this collection of portraits does not reflect the overall diversity of the Faculty today in 2015. “Go into the faculty meeting room of the FAS and look at all the pictures and the busts,” says Judith D. Singer, Harvard’s senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity. “That’s the old Harvard. The new Harvard should be much more reflective of the pools of people [here].” Indeed, over the past decade, FAS has seen a marked increase in the number of racial and ethnic minority faculty members and women within its ranks. Today, minorities represent about 19 percent of the Faculty, compared to 12 percent in the fall of 2000, according to the FAS Dean’s 2014 Annual Report. But while Harvard and FAS have institutionalized a hiring process designed to draw in more a racially and ethnically diverse faculty, some professors say that they feel there is more work to do to improve the work environment for those faculty after they enter Harvard’s gates. DOWN THE PIPELINE Increasing faculty diversity will improve the quality of teaching and research at Harvard, faculty members argue—prompting administrators to increase efforts to hire a diverse set of faculty members in recent years. “I sincerely believe that there are problems I can solve differently because of my unique background” as an African-American in the physical sciences, says Astronomy professor John A. Johnson, who in 2

013 became the first African-American to receive tenure from Harvard in the physical sciences. Harvard tenured its first African-American faculty member, Martin Kilson, in 1969, and since then, FAS has slowly added more minority faculty members to its professoriate. In 1988, nearly two decades after Kilson’s appointment, FAS included 26 tenured minorities in a faculty of 383, just 7 percent. In recent years, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith has prioritized increasing diversity in the faculty, he says. From 2011 to 2014, FAS extended 36 external offers to minority candidates and hired 25. In particular, in an effort to increase diversity in the Faculty, departments and administrators have identified the search and hiring processes for tenure-track faculty as important intervention points. “What has happened in the last 10 to 15 years is an increasing recognition that the search is the point of intervention,” says Singer, who has led the University-wide Office of Faculty Development and Diversity since 2008. “It’s really where things change.” According to FAS Dean for Faculty Affairs and Planning Nina Zipser, her office and FAS’s divisional deans keep track of junior faculty candidate lists in an effort to ensure that they offer a diversity of perspectives. From time to time, these administrators ask search committees to reconsider a list if the candidates have become too homogeneous, Zipser says. Beyond candidate lists, when considering the faculty search process, specialists often discuss the subject of implicit biases—the attitudes or stereotypes that cause people to value the achievements of those most like them and thus disadvantage minorities in the hiring process. One of these specialists is Mahzarin R. Banaji, a Psychology professor who advises Smith on faculty diversity and development. Banaji, who studies implicit biases’ effects on decision-making, often consults with committees and departments as they conduct their searches, and she helped inform a guide that Singer’s office circulated on best search practices. This awareness of implicit biases has played an active role in departmental hiring and governance at FAS, according to some professors. Johnson says that the leadership of Harvard’s Astronomy Department actively encourages minority faculty to voice their opinions and discuss diversity in the sciences; this atmosphere factored into his decision to leave the California Institute of Technology and come to Harvard as a junior faculty member, he said. Indeed, Astronomy department chair Abraham “Avi” Loeb calls ensuring diversity among his faculty “a main guiding principle” in his leadership of the department. Johnson, Loeb, and other Astronomy professors are currently discussing the creation of a program within the department for African-American Ph.D. students, an institutional approach to improving the environment for minorities in the department. Singer also points to the importance of addressing issues of diversity even before the hiring stage: How prospective faculty are drawn from graduate school pools, often called “the pipeline,” is “the first stage” to diversifying the faculty, she says. Says associate professor of Music Sindhumathi Revuluri: “The more diverse our admissions are for grad students, eventually that means the more diverse pool of applicants for tenure track jobs.” IN PURSUIT OF TENURE While Harvard is making efforts to recruit minority faculty members and diversify its professoriate, minority faculty members say that they still face unique challenges in pursuit of tenure at Harvard once they arrive. When reflecting on their time on Harvard’s tenure track, some minority faculty members say that they or their minority faculty peers feel that they must work harder to prove themselves and their scholarship. Survey statistics tell a similar story: According to the University-wide 2013 faculty climate survey, a little more than 40 percent of underrepresented minority faculty reported feeling the need to work harder to “be perceived as a legitimate scholar.” According to Michèle Lamont, a professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies, minority faculty members on the tenure track may in some instances feel that their work is undervalued, which could affect scholastic performance. “When you’re isolated and the only person in your group, then it’s very easy to lose

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. In practice I have found that plugging in the average DS Margin over a week or so produced fairly accurate results. This utility can help people keep an eye on their ADSL line stats to see if there are any patterns in line drops etc. This tool will try to ping the router at regular intervals to see if the router drops the connection when under heavy load etc. To be used on the RouterTech.Org forum - makes it easier to choose from the emoticons available. See the forum for more details. The are update packs (containing additional emoticons) that can be used by either utility. Software co-developed with John Latham to help monitor and save the router's log file(s). Will require permission from your firewall to access the Internet (it will simply ping Google to test the Internet connection). You must enter your router's password so that the tool can reboot the router and you may need to enter your router's IP address also. There is no reason to be concerned about the security of your password. This version works with Class II routers and can operate in a simplified 'shrunken' mode. Supports full pathnames for input and output files. Includes 'hidden' switch and will now continue moving through the script even if there is no WAIT after a SEND command. Does not require the Winsock.OCX dependency file. Sometimes you might want to find out what your external public WAN IP (the one that people on the Internet see) is. Perhaps you want to use a service, that provides more a friendly hostname like myhost.com, which needs to know your WAN IP. Emailer: This version can automatically send the WAN IP via email. Version 2.0.1 has more options, including auto-sending, closing on send and IP comparison so that it can send the IP only when it changes. Version 2.0.2 has a timer to check the IP at regular intervals (minutes). Service sender: This will automatically update the service 2mydns.com. To work you must create an account with them first. This may or may not work with similar services. This program can be used to toggle the Internet connection for a PC. For example if you wish to switch Internet access off during a particular time of day, then this program can be run once to disable all Internet communication, and then run again later to re-connect. Version 1: Very simple program. Will require permission from your firewall to access the Internet (it will simply ping Google in order to determine if an Internet connection is currently available). This program can be used to view, extract and create DLF files. It can also be used to create a batch install (via FTP) for the extracted files. It was based on thechief's (on the RouterTech forum) research and work on the DLF file structure. The DLF file format contains all the files of a particular router firmware in a single file. It is used by router's web interface to upgrade the router. This particular DLF format has a limit of just 15 characters for directory names and 30 characters for filenames, so you need to ensure that your directories are not too deeply nested and that the filenames are not too long. Version 1.0.5: This version has better file padding. This software allows the user to view and remove all the 'Local Area Connections' (LACs) stored in the Registry. This can be useful as the number of LACs stored often increases when one tries to install network connections repeatedly. Please be aware that removing one or more LACs may cause your system to become unreliable, therefore I advise you to use the backup function included in the program. However, the author does not take any responsibility for any problems that may result by LAC removal - use the program wisely and with caution. Version 1.0.1: This version has the option to export the LAC table to the clipboard. This software will list all the available Network adaptors installed on the PC on which it is run. This can be useful when troubleshooting. Has the ability to copy the table to the clipboard to be posted on the forum. Setup software for Class I routers - allowing new owners to get online in rapid time. There are two variations: the "Easy Setup and Config", and the "Quick Setup and Login" The Config versions attempt to set the ISP details from within the program, the Quick versions login to the router for the ISP details to be set from within the router. As long as other browser windows are closed

. In practice I have found that plugging in the average DS Margin over a week or so produced fairly accurate results. This utility can help people keep an eye on their ADSL line stats to see if there are any patterns in line drops etc. This tool will try to ping the router at regular intervals to see if the router drops the connection when under heavy load etc. To be used on the RouterTech.Org forum - makes it easier to choose from the emoticons available. See the forum for more details. The are update packs (containing additional emoticons) that can be used by either utility. Software co-developed with John Latham to help monitor and save the router's log file(s). Will require permission from your firewall to access the Internet (it will simply ping Google to test the Internet connection). You must enter your router's password so that the tool can reboot the router and you may need to enter your router's IP address also. There is no reason to be concerned about the security of your password. This version works with Class II routers and can operate in a simplified 'shrunken' mode. Supports full pathnames for input and output files. Includes 'hidden' switch and will now continue moving through the script even if there is no WAIT after a SEND command. Does not require the Winsock.OCX dependency file. Sometimes you might want to find out what your external public WAN IP (the one that people on the Internet see) is. Perhaps you want to use a service, that provides more a friendly hostname like myhost.com, which needs to know your WAN IP. Emailer: This version can automatically send the WAN IP via email. Version 2.0.1 has more options, including auto-sending, closing on send and IP comparison so that it can send the IP only when it changes. Version 2.0.2 has a timer to check the IP at regular intervals (minutes). Service sender: This will automatically update the service 2mydns.com. To work you must create an account with them first. This may or may not work with similar services. This program can be used to toggle the Internet connection for a PC. For example if you wish to switch Internet access off during a particular time of day, then this program can be run once to disable all Internet communication, and then run again later to re-connect. Version 1: Very simple program. Will require permission from your firewall to access the Internet (it will simply ping Google in order to determine if an Internet connection is currently available). This program can be used to view, extract and create DLF files. It can also be used to create a batch install (via FTP) for the extracted files. It was based on thechief's (on the RouterTech forum) research and work on the DLF file structure. The DLF file format contains all the files of a particular router firmware in a single file. It is used by router's web interface to upgrade the router. This particular DLF format has a limit of just 15 characters for directory names and 30 characters for filenames, so you need to ensure that your directories are not too deeply nested and that the filenames are not too long. Version 1.0.5: This version has better file padding. This software allows the user to view and remove all the 'Local Area Connections' (LACs) stored in the Registry. This can be useful as the number of LACs stored often increases when one tries to install network connections repeatedly. Please be aware that removing one or more LACs may cause your system to become unreliable, therefore I advise you to use the backup function included in the program. However, the author does not take any responsibility for any problems that may result by LAC removal - use the program wisely and with caution. Version 1.0.1: This version has the option to export the LAC table to the clipboard. This software will list all the available Network adaptors installed on the PC on which it is run. This can be useful when troubleshooting. Has the ability to copy the table to the clipboard to be posted on the forum. Setup software for Class I routers - allowing new owners to get online in rapid time. There are two variations: the "Easy Setup and Config", and the "Quick Setup and Login" The Config versions attempt to set the ISP details from within the program, the Quick versions login to the router for the ISP details to be set from within the router. As long as other browser windows are closed

, the Config variety should work - if not then the Quick version is more reliable. If you are unsure which to choose from the Full and Lite versions, try the Lite version. This simple utility monitors whether a certain IP address is pingable (e.g. this should be an IP of some website like www.google.com or similar) and also records the router's Internet connection stats (upstream/downstream speeds, SNR etc) at regular intervals. If the IP address does not respond to pings (logged as DOWN) then the utility will keep trying to ping the IP address until it responds (logged as UP). Two outputs are produced: 1) a CSV file with the full stats, 2) a text file with more condensed stats. Current version as of 21st May 2007. This utility is an extension to the Router Stats Keeper utility and it is able to do everything the Router Stats Keeper can do and more. Extra features include extended ping test, trace route and signal strength vs frequency graph. Release date: 5th October 2008. Winsock.ocx is no longer required. System log fetch and clear, visual tweaks. Release date: 28th October 2008. Ability to change where to start using the downstream bit allocation data. Release date: 26th September 2009. Option to name stats files based on the date and time. The main purpose of the Wireless Environment Builder (as the name suggests) is to rebuild the wireless environment of Class II routers. This may be useful if this has become corrupted and the wireless part of your Class II router has stopped working. Please see the readme for more information. For general router recovery it would be better to have a backup of the original environment (which can be obtained with the Router Upgrade Checker). This simple tool will help rebuild a trashed router environment by calculating the correct partition sizes. Choose a firmware file, a Flash ROM memory size, a bootloader type, click on the calculate button and the MTD values will be produced. You can even drag and drop a firmware file on to the MTD Calculator to select it! See the readme for full instructions. Includes optional MTD5 for PSPBoot routers. See the readme for full instructions. * Repair/restore your router's environment. * Upgrade your router's firmware. * Backup your router's environment and config. Please note that since this the first public release of this software, there may be bugs etc that have not been discovered yet and there are no guarantees that all features will work on all systems/routers. Includes many small changes/improvements and the ability to execute scripts at the bootloader. This version is able to run PCTool scripts which are in Unix file format. Most of the above programs will require the VB Runtime Files installed on your system. If any of these components are not installed on your PC then the respective programs will fail to run correctly, so they will need to be downloaded and installed on your PC. I have been saying for years that passwords, as a concept, need to go away. As implemented, passwords don’t work, and the ludicrous “complexity” requirements imposed my many companies are little more than a guarantee that the user will write their password down, which is one of the easiest ways for a system to be compromised. Here’s a cartoon from xkcd that illustrates why ridiculous password policies don’t even make sense from a security perspective. The gist of it is this: long passwords (passphrases, actually) are more secure than short ones. Now, I cannot imagine anyone managing to mandate a nine-character, mixed-case, random-character password on an organisation. But if you did, and you weren’t hanging from a tree by the end of the first working day, the CPU would take 43 years versus 48 days for the GPU. He then went on to add in mixed symbols to create “F6&B is” (there is a space in there). CPU will take 75 days, GPU will take 7 hours. What does this tell us? well, the stark reality is that even long and complex passwords are now toast. If you think you were being wise by forcing users to have randomisation in their passwords, then think again. It is utterly futile. A GPU of the type used by this chap is not unusual or high end. It is standard-issue stuff. Indeed, I have just sat

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ient marks of the Sun-God. The fixity of the birth-date and the variableness of the death-date are full of significance, when we remember that the one is a fixed and the other a variable solar position. "Easter" is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary[Pg 160] of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the Hero of a solar myth. These events are reproduced in the lives of the various Solar Gods, and antiquity teems with illustrations of them. Isis of Egypt like Mary of Bethlehem was our Immaculate Lady, Star of the Sea, Queen of Heaven, Mother of God. We see her in pictures standing on the crescent moon, star-crowned; she nurses her child Horus, and the cross appears on the back of the seat in which he sits on his mother's knee. The Virgo of the Zodiac is represented in ancient drawings as a woman suckling a child—the type of all future Madonnas with their divine Babes, showing the origin of the symbol. Devakî is likewise figured with the divine Kṛiṣhṇa in her arms, as is Mylitta, or Istar, of Babylon, also with the recurrent crown of stars, and with her child Tammuz on her knee. Mercury and Æsculapius, Bacchus and Hercules, Perseus and the Dioscuri,[Pg 161] Mithras and Zarathustra, were all of divine and human birth. The relation of the winter solstice to Jesus is also significant. The birth of Mithras was celebrated in the winter solstice with great rejoicings, and Horus was also then born: "His birth is one of the greatest mysteries of the [Egyptian] religion. Pictures representing it appeared on the walls of temples.... He was the child of Deity. At Christmas time, or that answering to our festival, his image was brought out of the sanctuary with peculiar ceremonies, as the image of the infant Bambino is still brought out and exhibited at Rome."[180] On the fixing of the 25th December as the birthday of Jesus, Williamson has the following: "All Christians know that the 25th December is now the recognised festival of the birth of Jesus, but few are aware that this has not always been so. There have been, it is said, one hundred and thirty-six different dates fixed on by different Christian sects. Lightfoot gives[Pg 162] it as 15th September, others as in February or August. Epiphanius mentions two sects, one celebrating it in June, the other in July. The matter was finally settled by Pope Julius I., in 337 A.D., and S. Chrysostom, writing in 390, says: 'On this day [i.e. 25th December] also the birth of Christ was lately fixed at Rome, in order that while the heathen were busy with their ceremonies [the Brumalia, in honour of Bacchus] the Christians might perform their rites undisturbed.' Gibbon in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, writes: 'The [Christian] Romans, as ignorant as their brethren of the real date of his [Christ's birth] fixed the solemn festival to the 25th December, the Brumalia or winter solstice, when the Pagans annually celebrated the birth of the Sun.' King, in his Gnostics and their Remains, also says: 'The ancient festival held on the 25th December in honour of the birthday of the Invincible One,[181] and celebrated by the great games at the Circus, was afterwards transferred to the[Pg 163] commemoration of the birth of Christ, the precise date of which many of the Fathers confess was then unknown;' while at the present day Canon Farrar writes that 'all attempts to discover the month and day of the nativity are useless. No data whatever exist to enable us to determine them with even approximate accuracy.' From the foregoing it is apparent that the great festival of the winter solstice has been celebrated during past ages, and in widely separated lands, in honour of the birth of a God, who is almost invariably alluded to as a

ient marks of the Sun-God. The fixity of the birth-date and the variableness of the death-date are full of significance, when we remember that the one is a fixed and the other a variable solar position. "Easter" is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary[Pg 160] of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the Hero of a solar myth. These events are reproduced in the lives of the various Solar Gods, and antiquity teems with illustrations of them. Isis of Egypt like Mary of Bethlehem was our Immaculate Lady, Star of the Sea, Queen of Heaven, Mother of God. We see her in pictures standing on the crescent moon, star-crowned; she nurses her child Horus, and the cross appears on the back of the seat in which he sits on his mother's knee. The Virgo of the Zodiac is represented in ancient drawings as a woman suckling a child—the type of all future Madonnas with their divine Babes, showing the origin of the symbol. Devakî is likewise figured with the divine Kṛiṣhṇa in her arms, as is Mylitta, or Istar, of Babylon, also with the recurrent crown of stars, and with her child Tammuz on her knee. Mercury and Æsculapius, Bacchus and Hercules, Perseus and the Dioscuri,[Pg 161] Mithras and Zarathustra, were all of divine and human birth. The relation of the winter solstice to Jesus is also significant. The birth of Mithras was celebrated in the winter solstice with great rejoicings, and Horus was also then born: "His birth is one of the greatest mysteries of the [Egyptian] religion. Pictures representing it appeared on the walls of temples.... He was the child of Deity. At Christmas time, or that answering to our festival, his image was brought out of the sanctuary with peculiar ceremonies, as the image of the infant Bambino is still brought out and exhibited at Rome."[180] On the fixing of the 25th December as the birthday of Jesus, Williamson has the following: "All Christians know that the 25th December is now the recognised festival of the birth of Jesus, but few are aware that this has not always been so. There have been, it is said, one hundred and thirty-six different dates fixed on by different Christian sects. Lightfoot gives[Pg 162] it as 15th September, others as in February or August. Epiphanius mentions two sects, one celebrating it in June, the other in July. The matter was finally settled by Pope Julius I., in 337 A.D., and S. Chrysostom, writing in 390, says: 'On this day [i.e. 25th December] also the birth of Christ was lately fixed at Rome, in order that while the heathen were busy with their ceremonies [the Brumalia, in honour of Bacchus] the Christians might perform their rites undisturbed.' Gibbon in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, writes: 'The [Christian] Romans, as ignorant as their brethren of the real date of his [Christ's birth] fixed the solemn festival to the 25th December, the Brumalia or winter solstice, when the Pagans annually celebrated the birth of the Sun.' King, in his Gnostics and their Remains, also says: 'The ancient festival held on the 25th December in honour of the birthday of the Invincible One,[181] and celebrated by the great games at the Circus, was afterwards transferred to the[Pg 163] commemoration of the birth of Christ, the precise date of which many of the Fathers confess was then unknown;' while at the present day Canon Farrar writes that 'all attempts to discover the month and day of the nativity are useless. No data whatever exist to enable us to determine them with even approximate accuracy.' From the foregoing it is apparent that the great festival of the winter solstice has been celebrated during past ages, and in widely separated lands, in honour of the birth of a God, who is almost invariably alluded to as a

'Saviour,' and whose mother is referred to as a pure virgin. The striking resemblances, too, which have been instanced not only in the birth but in the life of so many of these Saviour-Gods are far too numerous to be accounted for by any mere coincidence."[182] In the case of the Lord Buddha we may see how a myth attaches itself to a[Pg 164] historical personage. The story of His life is well known, and in the current Indian accounts the birth-story is simple and human. But in the Chinese account He is born of a virgin, Mâyâdevî, the archaic myth finding in Him a new Hero. Williamson also tells us that fires were and are lighted on the 25th December on the hills among Keltic peoples, and these are still known among the Irish and the Scotch Highlanders as Bheil or Baaltinne, the fires thus bearing the name of Bel, Bal, or Baal, their ancient Deity, the Sun-God, though now lighted in honour of Christ.[183] Rightly considered, the Christmas festival should take on new elements of rejoicing and of sacredness, when the lovers of Christ see in it the repetition of an ancient solemnity, see it stretching all the world over, and far, far back into dim antiquity; so that the Christmas bells are ringing throughout human history, and sound musically out of the far-off night of time. Not in exclusive possession, but in[Pg 165] universal acceptance, is found the hallmark of truth. The death-date, as said above, is not a fixed one, like the birth-date. The date of the death is calculated by the relative positions of Sun and Moon at the spring equinox, varying with each year, and the death-date of each Solar Hero is found to be celebrated in this connection. The animal adopted as the symbol of the Hero is the sign of the Zodiac in which the Sun is at the vernal equinox of his age, and this varies with the precession of the equinoxes. Oannes of Assyria had the sign of Pisces, the Fish, and is thus figured. Mithra is in Taurus, and, therefore, rides on a Bull, and Osiris was worshipped as Osiris-Apis, or Serapis, the Bull. Merodach of Babylon was worshipped as a Bull, as was Astarte of Syria. When the Sun is in the sign of Aries, the Ram or Lamb, we have Osiris again as Ram, and so also Astarte, and Jupiter Ammon, and it is this same animal that became the symbol of Jesus—the Lamb of God. The use of the Lamb as His symbol, often leaning on a cross, is common in the[Pg 166] sculptures of the catacombs. On this Williamson says: "In the course of time the Lamb was represented on the cross, but it was not until the sixth synod of Constantinople, held about the year 680, that it was ordained that instead of the ancient symbol, the figure of a man fastened to a cross should be represented. This canon was confirmed by Pope Adrian I."[184] The very ancient Pisces is also assigned to Jesus, and He is thus pictured in the catacombs. The death and resurrection of the Solar Hero at or about the vernal equinox is as wide-spread as his birth at the winter solstice. Osiris was then slain by Typhon, and He is pictured on the circle of the horizon, with outstretched arms, as if crucified—a posture originally of benediction, not of suffering. The death of Tammuz was annually bewailed at the spring equinox in Babylonia and Syria, as were Adonis in Syria and Greece, and Attis in Phrygia, pictured "as a man fastened with a lamb at the foot."[185][Pg 167] Mithras' death was similarly celebrated in Persia, and that of Bacchus and Dionysius—one and the same—in Greece. In Mexico the same idea re-appears, as usual accompanied with the cross. In all these cases the mourning for the death is immediately followed by the rejoicing over the resurrection, and on this it is interesting to notice that the name of Easter has been trac

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. She served as a missionary with the&... Herbert C. Ewert Herbert C. Ewert Age 91, passed away on Friday, November 24, 2017. Best friend and loving husband of the late Ann L. Ewert. Son of the late Bessie and Herb, Sr. Loving father of, Tom (Debra), Lori (Mark Loeffel) Sprecher, Bill (Janet), Steve (Megan) and Dad to Mike Hassett, Jim Hassett and the late Chris (Dr. Tim) Franson. Proud grandpa of Jenny, Jeff,... Daniel T. Zarske Daniel Thomas Zarske “Dan” Age 58, passed away on November 24, 2017 at his home with his beloved family at his side after a very strong battle against cancer. Dan is survived by his wife Veda, his daughter Samantha, and his sons Kenny and Kevin. He is further survived by his father, John ‘Don’ Zarske (the most supportive and smartest man he knew) ... Ralph G. Slowik Ralph G. Slowik Born to Eternal Life November 23rd, 2017, age 90 years. Beloved husband over, 56 years, to the late Ruth (nee Kuchenbecker). Dear father of Gregg and Terry Slowik and Jill (Richard) Lawonn. Grandfather of Justin and the late Ryan Slowik, Danielle (John) Kufahl and Matthew Lawonn. Great-grandfather of Kaelynn, Keiran and Kamden. Brother of Ray (Charmaine)... William J. Geiger October 22, 1936 - November 23, 2017 William J. Geiger "Bill" Passed away peacefully on November 23, 2017, age 81. Beloved husband of Nancy. Loving dad of John (Susi), Kathy, Susan (Edward) Schuhmann and Christine. Grandpa of Jennifer (Nathan) McKiver, Angela Malone, William (Nicole) Boldt, Joe (Caitlin), the late Jason Malone, Melissa Malone, Jesse Galarza, Zach Baade, Nancy Galarza.... Michael R. Miller April 10, 1951 - November 23, 2017 Michael R. Miller Of Wauwatosa, passed peacefully on November 23, 2017, at the age of 66, after a long illness of 25 years. Born April 10, 1951. Loving husband of Christine for 43 years. Brother of Susan (Terry) Wussow. Uncle of Shannon (Chuck) Larson and Stephanie (Dave) Wagner. Great uncle to Dylan, Grace and Oliver. Brother-in-law to Rick and Heidi Hecht and Rosi Hoak.... Carlene J. McMonagle May 24, 1936 - November 22, 2017 Carlene J. McMonagle November 22, 2017 age 81 years. Survived by her long-time companion John Barger. Loving mother of Jessica (Stephen) Geiss and Jordan (Suzanne) McMonagle. Grandmother of Patrick, Claire and Jackson McMonagle. Sister of Rosalie Easton, Cheryl Hansen and Walter Jordan. Further survived by her friend and father of her children Kenneth McMonagle, nieces,... Grace J. Jennaro July 29, 1931 - November 21, 2017 Grace J. Jennaro Entered Eternal Life on November 21, 2017. Beloved sister of Ann Jennaro Zingale. Also survived by cherished nieces, nephews and cousins. Preceded in death by her beloved parents Anton and Mary C. Jennaro, her siblings Rose, Marie, Myron, Tony and Miriam. Private family services were held at Old St. Mary’s Parish with entombment at Holy Cross... Barbara J. Martin Barbara J Martin (Née Slattery) 68 years old, passed away Monday, November 20, 2017 of natural causes. Barbara was born 10/

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, they would rather buy used than new and save a ton of money. Our listings are straight from Ebay so take a look and if you see something that interests you, just click for more info. Androsace are Alpine plants of great beauty, belonging to the Primrose order. Other families, like Primroses and Hairbells, come down to the hillpastures, the sea-rocks, or the sunny heaths, but these are more alpine than the Gentians, and as they are, among flowering plants, those most confined to the snowy peaks, so they are the dwarfest of this class. Androsaces are often high alpine plants, and it is only on the wellformed and cared-for rock gardens that one may grow more than a few kinds. Androsace must endure intense cold, which would destroy all shrub or tree life exposed to it. And here in spring they flower. Androsaces in cultivation enjoy small fissures between stones, firmly packed with pure sandy peat, or very sandy or gritty loam, not less than 15 inches deep. They should be so placed that no wet can gather or lie about them, and so planted in between stones that, once well rooted into the deep earth-all the better if mingled with pieces of broken sandstone-they never suffer from drought. It is easy to arrange rocks and soils so that, once the mass below is thoroughly moistened, ordinary drought has little effect. Most kinds thrive in full sun, the best aspects being south and west. A few kinds such as A. lanuginosa and sarmentosa do well in ordinary conditions of soil; but many of the dwarf kinds rarely thrive except in northern or hilly districts. When out of flower, it is easy to forget such tiny plants, so that they may suffer neglect while making the summer growth. A constant watch is needed for aphis, slugs, and red spider mites. Towards autumn syringing them with clear water does good, and a surface dressing of soil and stone-chips helps before winter, and should be renewed in spring, if need be, when all planting should also be done. When this top dressing is well done, fresh roots are often made from the underside of the prostrate stems, and this is a great gain. The woolly-haired kinds, which often fail from damp in our winters, should be planted in the crevices of upright rocks, or under ledges. The rocks among which they are planted should be well sunk in the ground with thin layers of good soil and broken stone between them; the roots delight in the layer of moist earth just under stones. They may be divided into two groups; one including such easily grown kinds as A. lanuginosa, and a second group forming stemless tufts, and found only in rocky clefts. Over forty species are known, and others may be found when the mountains of India, Thibet, and China are fully explored. About twenty kinds are found in the Alps, some extending eastward by way of Austria, or southward to the Pyrenees, where four others occur peculiar to that country. A large group belongs to the Himalayas, and reaches thence to China. The following list gives the best kinds in cultivation and of value for the rock garden. Androsace Albana - One of the mossy kinds, forming small rosettes of deeply-toothed oval leaves and dense heads of pale pink flowers from April to July. Androsace Alpina - A gem for the rock garden, not easily grown. Its tiny tongue-shaped leaves are in crowded rosettes, forming cushions of 2 or 3 inches high, covered in June with flowers-one from each rosette-rosy-purple with a yellow centre. It needs peat soil, moisture at the root, and a rather shady spot. Syn. A. ciliata. Androsace Brigantiaca - A pretty plant thriving only in sandy or granite soils and upon slopes shaded from strong sun. It comes very near A. carnea, but with leaves of deeper green, and pure white flowers. Androsace Carnea - One of the best kinds, early in flower, free, and easily grown in light soils without lime. It does not form rosettes, but little spreading shoots covered with narrow-pointed leaves of grey-green, and heads of rosy or pink flowers with a yellow eye. Water freely

, they would rather buy used than new and save a ton of money. Our listings are straight from Ebay so take a look and if you see something that interests you, just click for more info. Androsace are Alpine plants of great beauty, belonging to the Primrose order. Other families, like Primroses and Hairbells, come down to the hillpastures, the sea-rocks, or the sunny heaths, but these are more alpine than the Gentians, and as they are, among flowering plants, those most confined to the snowy peaks, so they are the dwarfest of this class. Androsaces are often high alpine plants, and it is only on the wellformed and cared-for rock gardens that one may grow more than a few kinds. Androsace must endure intense cold, which would destroy all shrub or tree life exposed to it. And here in spring they flower. Androsaces in cultivation enjoy small fissures between stones, firmly packed with pure sandy peat, or very sandy or gritty loam, not less than 15 inches deep. They should be so placed that no wet can gather or lie about them, and so planted in between stones that, once well rooted into the deep earth-all the better if mingled with pieces of broken sandstone-they never suffer from drought. It is easy to arrange rocks and soils so that, once the mass below is thoroughly moistened, ordinary drought has little effect. Most kinds thrive in full sun, the best aspects being south and west. A few kinds such as A. lanuginosa and sarmentosa do well in ordinary conditions of soil; but many of the dwarf kinds rarely thrive except in northern or hilly districts. When out of flower, it is easy to forget such tiny plants, so that they may suffer neglect while making the summer growth. A constant watch is needed for aphis, slugs, and red spider mites. Towards autumn syringing them with clear water does good, and a surface dressing of soil and stone-chips helps before winter, and should be renewed in spring, if need be, when all planting should also be done. When this top dressing is well done, fresh roots are often made from the underside of the prostrate stems, and this is a great gain. The woolly-haired kinds, which often fail from damp in our winters, should be planted in the crevices of upright rocks, or under ledges. The rocks among which they are planted should be well sunk in the ground with thin layers of good soil and broken stone between them; the roots delight in the layer of moist earth just under stones. They may be divided into two groups; one including such easily grown kinds as A. lanuginosa, and a second group forming stemless tufts, and found only in rocky clefts. Over forty species are known, and others may be found when the mountains of India, Thibet, and China are fully explored. About twenty kinds are found in the Alps, some extending eastward by way of Austria, or southward to the Pyrenees, where four others occur peculiar to that country. A large group belongs to the Himalayas, and reaches thence to China. The following list gives the best kinds in cultivation and of value for the rock garden. Androsace Albana - One of the mossy kinds, forming small rosettes of deeply-toothed oval leaves and dense heads of pale pink flowers from April to July. Androsace Alpina - A gem for the rock garden, not easily grown. Its tiny tongue-shaped leaves are in crowded rosettes, forming cushions of 2 or 3 inches high, covered in June with flowers-one from each rosette-rosy-purple with a yellow centre. It needs peat soil, moisture at the root, and a rather shady spot. Syn. A. ciliata. Androsace Brigantiaca - A pretty plant thriving only in sandy or granite soils and upon slopes shaded from strong sun. It comes very near A. carnea, but with leaves of deeper green, and pure white flowers. Androsace Carnea - One of the best kinds, early in flower, free, and easily grown in light soils without lime. It does not form rosettes, but little spreading shoots covered with narrow-pointed leaves of grey-green, and heads of rosy or pink flowers with a yellow eye. Water freely

in dry weather, and shelter from the sun in summer. Alps and Pyrenees. Seeds sown as soon as ripe. Androsace Carnea var. Eximia - A form of the last, hardier, more robust, and with larger flowers. It grows quickly into tufts 3 inches high, and if given dressings of light, gritty soil the prostrate shoots send roots from the underside. Androsace Charpentieri - One of the best, free in flower, and of strong growth in sandy soils. Rosettes of tiny, downy leaves in crowded masses, and rich rosy flowers hardly rising above the leaves in June and July, after other kinds have done flowering. Thrives best in crevices of sandstone or granite rock, facing south-west. Seed. Alps. Androsace Ciliata - A scarce plant from the Pyrenees, growing in small, dense columns of deep green leaves fringed along the edges, and crowned in April and May by large stemless flowers of bright rose. Granite soils. Androsace Cylindrica - Though classed as a species, this little plant is very like the last, and comes from the same region. It forms mossy tufts of rounded cone-like columns less than an inch high, covered thickly with hairs, with white flowers nestling in the centre during April and May. Pyrenees. Androsace Foliosa - One of the Himalayan kinds, beautiful and of free growth when well established. The leaves are not crowded into rosettes, but are large upon erect or trailing stems, grey with pale hairs, and turning reddish-purple in the autumn. The rosy-red flowers come upon long stems from June to September, and are large and in clusters sometimes of fifty flowers, lasting for a long time in beauty. It thrives in limestone soil, made light with leaf mould and grit, and mixed with plenty of broken fragments; in full sun, with moisture to the root in summer. Androsace Glacialis - In its wild state one of the most beautiful, growing in loose, flat tufts of branching stems clothed in downy leaves, and covered during early spring with flowers of pink paling to white. Thrives in clefts of sandstone rock, in full sun. Seeds. Alpine summits (always granite) at 6000 to 9000 feet. Androsace Helvetica - A charming plant of the mossy section, growing in neat rounded cushions of grey-green, hairy leaves set in rosettes, and lovely white flowers with a yellow eye. The flowers are so large as often to overlap. Thrives in gritty soil and partial shade, planted between limestone rocks closely set and deeply buried to secure moisture and drainage at the same time. Seeds. Alps and Carpathians. Androsace Hookeriana - A little-known kind from the Himalayas, at a height of 15,000 feet. Though hardy, it is apt to damp off in our winters, and should be planted in a mixture of peat and sand among rocks sheltered from wet. It has rosettes of oval, shining green leaves, and in spring deep pink flowers in small clusters. Androsace Imbricata - Pretty in leaf and flower, coming very near A. helvetica, but of denser growth, leaves narrower and silvery white with fine hairs, and white flowers set off by a bright rosy eye. Thrives in granite or sandstone grit in full sun. Seeds. Androsace Lactea - A free, strong-growing plant, making rosettes of shining green leaves, and in spring large white flowers with a yellow centre, in broad loose clusters of five or six. Easily grown in light limestone soil, in sun or partial shade. Seeds. Limestone rocks from 3000 to 4500 feet, from the Cevennes through the Alps into Austria. Androsace Laggeri - With clusters of narrow-pointed leaves, and flowers of bright pink paling towards the centre, gathered into showy little heads of six or eight. Very hardy, it is one of the earliest alpine flowers to open, starring the green tufts like a miniature Thrift. Sandy soil in partial shade, and no lime. Seeds or cuttings. Pyrenees.

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accinated – and 87.3% have received at least one dose. Boosters are now available and should be booked when individuals come eligible. Data demonstrates a waning in efficiency at the 6-month mark and the third dose will provide additional coverage to eligible populations. Book now before appointments are not available. Third dose eligibility is as follows: Residents over the age of 70 (Born in 1951 or earlier); Individuals who received a complete series of a viral vector vaccine i.e. two doses of AstraZeneca or one dose of Janssen; First Nation, Inuit, and Metis adults and their non-Indigenous household members; Health care workers and designated essential caregivers. The full list can be found here Additional pop-ups continue to be added across both counties. Pop-ups offer both first and second doses by appointment or walk-in. For third doses, please schedule an appointment. Individuals who are unable to access a vaccine due to barriers such as transportation, identification, or accessibility should call 519-427-5903 or email [email protected] for assistance. Those seeking their vaccine receipts are reminded they can access them online at covid-19.ontario.ca/proof-covid-19-vaccination The GO-VAXX Bus Saturday, November 13th – Canboro Community Centre – 7 Darling St. Dunnville ON Saturday, November 20th – Boston Public School – 2993 Cockshutt Rd, Waterford ON Mass Clinics Norfolk General Hospital (365 West St., Simcoe) Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. with walk-ins welcome (Pfizer only) Large groups encouraged to book online Vittoria Community Centre (35 Oakes Blvd., Vittoria). November 10 and 17, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pfizer only Dunnville Health Unit Office (117 Forest St. E., Dunnville) Appointments are recommended Riverside Exhibition Centre (151 Caithness St. E, Caledonia) November 8 and 9, November 15 and 16. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Information such as clinic dates, and how to register for community pop-ups can be found at www.hnhu.org/popup. For more information on the local vaccine rollout, visit HNHU.org/covax. Jeff Goldblum and Vinnie Tortorich Adam opens the show talking about teaching Sonny how to stand on a yoga ball. Adam then talks to Vinnie Tortorich about making breakfast for the kids, and which vitamins are good to invest in taking. After that, Adam takes fan phone calls about gender reveal parties, then talks with Chris Maxipada about this weekend’s Carolla Drinks event in Seattle. The guys all discuss how much they love road trips, and Gina tells the gang about her upcoming trip to Costa Rica. Before the break, Adam takes more calls about terrible commercials, big calves on a woman, and a hypothetical situation involving porn, and his kids turning 18. Jeff Goldblum is in studio next, and the guys talk about the upcoming Arroyo Seco Weekend, which Jeff will be performing at. Jeff then talks about the new film he is shooting, as well as completing work on Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. They also chat about collaborating with Woody Allen, playing jazz piano, and some great documentaries to catch up on. Bald Bryan also tells Jeff about his favorite underrated performances, and the guys discuss Paul Newman’s legacy. Later, Gina compliments Jeff for a performance she watched him in on stage, and Bryan talks to him about his vocal work on The Simpsons. As the show wraps up, Jeff talks about all the movies you’ll be able to see him in shortly. Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra will be performing at Arroyo Secon Weekend. For tickets, go to http://arroyosecoweekend.com. You can also follow Jeff on

accinated – and 87.3% have received at least one dose. Boosters are now available and should be booked when individuals come eligible. Data demonstrates a waning in efficiency at the 6-month mark and the third dose will provide additional coverage to eligible populations. Book now before appointments are not available. Third dose eligibility is as follows: Residents over the age of 70 (Born in 1951 or earlier); Individuals who received a complete series of a viral vector vaccine i.e. two doses of AstraZeneca or one dose of Janssen; First Nation, Inuit, and Metis adults and their non-Indigenous household members; Health care workers and designated essential caregivers. The full list can be found here Additional pop-ups continue to be added across both counties. Pop-ups offer both first and second doses by appointment or walk-in. For third doses, please schedule an appointment. Individuals who are unable to access a vaccine due to barriers such as transportation, identification, or accessibility should call 519-427-5903 or email [email protected] for assistance. Those seeking their vaccine receipts are reminded they can access them online at covid-19.ontario.ca/proof-covid-19-vaccination The GO-VAXX Bus Saturday, November 13th – Canboro Community Centre – 7 Darling St. Dunnville ON Saturday, November 20th – Boston Public School – 2993 Cockshutt Rd, Waterford ON Mass Clinics Norfolk General Hospital (365 West St., Simcoe) Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. with walk-ins welcome (Pfizer only) Large groups encouraged to book online Vittoria Community Centre (35 Oakes Blvd., Vittoria). November 10 and 17, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pfizer only Dunnville Health Unit Office (117 Forest St. E., Dunnville) Appointments are recommended Riverside Exhibition Centre (151 Caithness St. E, Caledonia) November 8 and 9, November 15 and 16. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Information such as clinic dates, and how to register for community pop-ups can be found at www.hnhu.org/popup. For more information on the local vaccine rollout, visit HNHU.org/covax. Jeff Goldblum and Vinnie Tortorich Adam opens the show talking about teaching Sonny how to stand on a yoga ball. Adam then talks to Vinnie Tortorich about making breakfast for the kids, and which vitamins are good to invest in taking. After that, Adam takes fan phone calls about gender reveal parties, then talks with Chris Maxipada about this weekend’s Carolla Drinks event in Seattle. The guys all discuss how much they love road trips, and Gina tells the gang about her upcoming trip to Costa Rica. Before the break, Adam takes more calls about terrible commercials, big calves on a woman, and a hypothetical situation involving porn, and his kids turning 18. Jeff Goldblum is in studio next, and the guys talk about the upcoming Arroyo Seco Weekend, which Jeff will be performing at. Jeff then talks about the new film he is shooting, as well as completing work on Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. They also chat about collaborating with Woody Allen, playing jazz piano, and some great documentaries to catch up on. Bald Bryan also tells Jeff about his favorite underrated performances, and the guys discuss Paul Newman’s legacy. Later, Gina compliments Jeff for a performance she watched him in on stage, and Bryan talks to him about his vocal work on The Simpsons. As the show wraps up, Jeff talks about all the movies you’ll be able to see him in shortly. Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra will be performing at Arroyo Secon Weekend. For tickets, go to http://arroyosecoweekend.com. You can also follow Jeff on

Twitter @JeffreyGoldblum. For more on Vinnie, visit http://vinnietortorich.com and follow him on Twitter @VinnieTortorich. Jupiter’s moon Io may have a magma ocean In our solar system, there are worlds of ice and worlds of fire. Jupiter’s moon Io is the best example of a world of fire, freckled with volcanoes and cracked by lava spills. There are many competing theories to explain the workings of this fire-orb. New research published in The Planetary Science Journal and presented at the 2022 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting narrows down what could be going on inside the volcanic world using computer simulations, suggesting that it hosts a scorching ocean of magma beneath its surface. Magma oceans are thought to have been a common feature of rocky planets and moons earlier in the solar system, but are almost nonexistent now as things have cooled down over time. Io’s searing sea could be the only surviving example, giving scientists the opportunity to observe one up close. “Whether a magma ocean exists or not essentially changes how Io operates, and it greatly affects the interpretations of various observations of Io,” says Caltech planetary scientist Yoshinori Miyazaki, lead author on the new research paper. On Earth, volcanoes are caused by our planet’s shifting tectonic plates. Io’s volcanoes arise from a very different mechanism, called tidal heating. In tidal heating, a large object—in this case, Jupiter—squishes and stretches another object near it through gravity, heating it up with friction. It’s sort of like mushing around clay with your hands until the substance becomes flexible and warm. Thanks to this geological phenomenon, Io has enough warmth to sustain its many volcanoes. “At Io, tidal heating has run wild, generating one of the most volcanically active worlds in our solar system, with over 100 active volcanoes at any given time,” says James Tuttle Keane, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who is not affiliated with the research team. “Because tidal heating is so extreme at Io, it makes it the best natural laboratory to understand this process.” Lava erupts on Io. NASA/JPL/University of Arizona There has been long-standing debate on what resides beneath Io. Before we even saw the surface of the hellish moon, scientists speculated there may be a magma ocean raging under the rocky crust due to Io’s wild tidal heating. However, once Voyager and Galileo revealed Io’s rugged terrain, astronomers began to doubt a subterranean magma ocean could support such heavy mountains. Scientists then pivoted to suggest the interior is just rock with little melted bits inside. A recent hypothesis proposed the interior could be something in between pure magma and pure rock—a partially molten mass called a magmatic sponge. “Think of a magma sponge like a dish sponge or a coral sponge, where both the solids and the liquids are entirely interconnected,” explains Tuttle Keane. “This means fluids, be it soapy dishwater or magma, can flow through the sponge, but the sponge still has some structural integrity.” [Related: We just got an up-close look at the largest lava lake in the solar system] This new work, though, uses computer models to show the interior of Io is unlikely to be a magmatic sponge—and a magma ocean makes much more sense given the existing observations of the Galilean satellite. Based on reasonable assumptions about the conditions inside Io, the computer simulations predicted that a magmatic sponge would quickly separate into different layers of magma and rock, creating the magma ocean. “Melt and rock tend to separate rapidly, just like the ice and water do in a slushie if you leave it for a while,” says University of California, Santa Cruz geologist Francis Nimmo, who wasn’t involved with this study. Magma and rock can take several different forms in the interior of a planet. James Tuttle Keane/Caltech Unfortunately, these models can’t definitively prove if Io does have a magma ocean. For that, we’ll need to send a probe back to the fiery little moon. Miyaz

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enced to a year in jail in that case, which she served awaiting trial, and three years’ probation . Later in 2018, after her release from jail, Grant shoved a probation officer down several steps after that officer found more malnourished animals in her home. She was sentenced to another six months in jail for that crime. Tags: Pets The international community has no choice than to work with the Taliban – Exiled former Afghanistan president says American lady shocked after phone she lost in Washington DC was put up for sale at a phone shop in Ghana (video) US President Joe Biden thinks his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will “move in” on Ukraine but does not want “full-blown war” Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has reportedly spent $2 million in campaign cash since resigning and still has $16 million left We found significant evidence of fraud committed by Trump Organization – N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James alleges Boris Johnson confirms mask-wearing and Covid passes will be scrapped in the UK by next week A Virginia man has been charged with abduction after a woman mysteriously vanished while taking out the trash at a convenience store A surgeon has apologized for posing with her patient’s fibroids and posting a photo on Instagram for her sorority’s founder’s day Huge asteroid safely passes close to Earth The world’s oldest man has died less than a month before his 113th birthday. A man charged with murder after a child was found dead in a barrel in Australian bushland. undersea cable destroyed in a volcano eruption in Tonga may take at least four weeks to be repaired, said New Zealand’s foreign ministry. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken travels to Europe amid mounting fears that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could be imminent. The influence of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) on the toxicity of cryoprotective agents in different liver cell types and on vitrification outcome in precision-cut liver and kidney slices Na Guan, Sylvia Blomsma, Marina de Jager, Gregory M. Fahy, Genoveva Groothuis, Inge de Graaf Nanomedicine and Drug Targeting Biopharmaceuticals, Discovery, Design and Delivery (BDDD) Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting Abstract › Academic Cryopreservation of precision-cut tissue slices would strongly improve their application possibilities in ADME-tox studies. Low toxic mixtures of cryoprotectant agents (CPAs) are needed for cryopreservation of cells, and tissues by vitrification. Many of these mixtures contain polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), a non-permeable macromolecule, but the effect of this agent on the viability of the tissue is unknown. We investigated the effect of adding or replacing PVP on the viability of precision cut liver and kidney slices before and after vitrification with special emphasis on the susceptibility of the different non-parenchymal cells (NPC) in the liver to PVP toxicity. Methods: PVP in the commercially available CPA M22 was replaced by a polymer that is one of the components of the PVP-free CPA Sol Z; the resulting solution was called CPR, and the polymer in Sol Z was replaced by PVP (called Sol ZP). The viability of PCLS was studied after loading the slices with one of the four solutions and after vitrification. Differential scanning calorimetry showed that adding or omitting PVP did not change the ability to prevent ice-crystal formation during vitrification of the CPAs. Results: ATP levels of PCLS treated with the PVP free Sol CPR were significantly higher than that of PCLS treated with M22 ((98% versus 78% compared to untreated controls), whereas ATP levels of PCLS treated with Sol ZP (85%) were comparable to that of PCLS treated with Sol Z (89%). HE staining of PCLS treated with the CPAs indicated that the viability of hepatocytes after treatment was comparable to that of control slices for all four solutions. However, non-parenchymal cells (NPC) in the sinusoidal space of PCLS

enced to a year in jail in that case, which she served awaiting trial, and three years’ probation . Later in 2018, after her release from jail, Grant shoved a probation officer down several steps after that officer found more malnourished animals in her home. She was sentenced to another six months in jail for that crime. Tags: Pets The international community has no choice than to work with the Taliban – Exiled former Afghanistan president says American lady shocked after phone she lost in Washington DC was put up for sale at a phone shop in Ghana (video) US President Joe Biden thinks his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will “move in” on Ukraine but does not want “full-blown war” Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has reportedly spent $2 million in campaign cash since resigning and still has $16 million left We found significant evidence of fraud committed by Trump Organization – N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James alleges Boris Johnson confirms mask-wearing and Covid passes will be scrapped in the UK by next week A Virginia man has been charged with abduction after a woman mysteriously vanished while taking out the trash at a convenience store A surgeon has apologized for posing with her patient’s fibroids and posting a photo on Instagram for her sorority’s founder’s day Huge asteroid safely passes close to Earth The world’s oldest man has died less than a month before his 113th birthday. A man charged with murder after a child was found dead in a barrel in Australian bushland. undersea cable destroyed in a volcano eruption in Tonga may take at least four weeks to be repaired, said New Zealand’s foreign ministry. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken travels to Europe amid mounting fears that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could be imminent. The influence of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) on the toxicity of cryoprotective agents in different liver cell types and on vitrification outcome in precision-cut liver and kidney slices Na Guan, Sylvia Blomsma, Marina de Jager, Gregory M. Fahy, Genoveva Groothuis, Inge de Graaf Nanomedicine and Drug Targeting Biopharmaceuticals, Discovery, Design and Delivery (BDDD) Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting Abstract › Academic Cryopreservation of precision-cut tissue slices would strongly improve their application possibilities in ADME-tox studies. Low toxic mixtures of cryoprotectant agents (CPAs) are needed for cryopreservation of cells, and tissues by vitrification. Many of these mixtures contain polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), a non-permeable macromolecule, but the effect of this agent on the viability of the tissue is unknown. We investigated the effect of adding or replacing PVP on the viability of precision cut liver and kidney slices before and after vitrification with special emphasis on the susceptibility of the different non-parenchymal cells (NPC) in the liver to PVP toxicity. Methods: PVP in the commercially available CPA M22 was replaced by a polymer that is one of the components of the PVP-free CPA Sol Z; the resulting solution was called CPR, and the polymer in Sol Z was replaced by PVP (called Sol ZP). The viability of PCLS was studied after loading the slices with one of the four solutions and after vitrification. Differential scanning calorimetry showed that adding or omitting PVP did not change the ability to prevent ice-crystal formation during vitrification of the CPAs. Results: ATP levels of PCLS treated with the PVP free Sol CPR were significantly higher than that of PCLS treated with M22 ((98% versus 78% compared to untreated controls), whereas ATP levels of PCLS treated with Sol ZP (85%) were comparable to that of PCLS treated with Sol Z (89%). HE staining of PCLS treated with the CPAs indicated that the viability of hepatocytes after treatment was comparable to that of control slices for all four solutions. However, non-parenchymal cells (NPC) in the sinusoidal space of PCLS

showed consistent changes in the morphology. Immunohistological staining for different NPC (stellate, Kupffer and endothelial cells) suggested that the viability of NPC cells was not improved by the new CPAs. After vitrification, the ATP level of PCLS treated with Sol CPR was 61 % and with M22 was 43% compared to slices exposed to the CPAs but not vitrified. This suggests that the removal of PVP from M22 has some protective effect on PCLS at both CPA loading/unloading and vitrification. Moreover, kidney slices treated with Sol CPR also showed higher viability after vitrification than slices that were treated with M22. Conclusion: PVP has no protective effect on the viability of liver and kidney slices after vitrification although it has been widely used for this purpose. We showed for the first time that damage due to CPA toxicity does not only affect the hepatocytes but also the NPC. Sol CPR is a promising CPA for the vitrification-based cryopreservation of PCLS, but further optimization of the vitrification technique is required to improve the viability of the slices after vitrification and re-warming. ISSX Online Abstracts Supplement 7 Guan, N., Blomsma, S., de Jager, M., Fahy, G. M., Groothuis, G., & de Graaf, I. (2012). The influence of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) on the toxicity of cryoprotective agents in different liver cell types and on vitrification outcome in precision-cut liver and kidney slices. ISSX Online Abstracts, Supplement 7(1). Guan, Na ; Blomsma, Sylvia ; de Jager, Marina ; Fahy, Gregory M. ; Groothuis, Genoveva ; de Graaf, Inge. / The influence of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) on the toxicity of cryoprotective agents in different liver cell types and on vitrification outcome in precision-cut liver and kidney slices. In: ISSX Online Abstracts. 2012 ; Vol. Supplement 7, No. 1. @article{097015850fdf491eae382b2b2844eac9, title = "The influence of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) on the toxicity of cryoprotective agents in different liver cell types and on vitrification outcome in precision-cut liver and kidney slices", abstract = " Cryopreservation of precision-cut tissue slices would strongly improve their application possibilities in ADME-tox studies. Low toxic mixtures of cryoprotectant agents (CPAs) are needed for cryopreservation of cells, and tissues by vitrification. Many of these mixtures contain polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), a non-permeable macromolecule, but the effect of this agent on the viability of the tissue is unknown. We investigated the effect of adding or replacing PVP on the viability of precision cut liver and kidney slices before and after vitrification with special emphasis on the susceptibility of the different non-parenchymal cells (NPC) in the liver to PVP toxicity. Methods: PVP in the commercially available CPA M22 was replaced by a polymer that is one of the components of the PVP-free CPA Sol Z; the resulting solution was called CPR, and the polymer in Sol Z was replaced by PVP (called Sol ZP). The viability of PCLS was studied after loading the slices with one of the four solutions and after vitrification. Differential scanning calorimetry showed that adding or omitting PVP did not change the ability to prevent ice-crystal formation during vitrification of the CPAs. Results: ATP levels of PCLS treated with the PVP free Sol CPR were significantly higher than that of PCLS treated with M22 ((98% versus 78% compared to untreated controls), whereas ATP levels of PCLS treated with Sol ZP (85%) were comparable to that of PCLS treated with Sol Z (89%). HE staining of PCLS treated with the CPAs indicated that the viability of

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collaborate in economic, political and cultural matters. With the US-backed "interim presidency" not going away, VA's Ricardo Vaz looks at the implications for Venezuela's foreign assets. Venezuelan Independence in a Nutshell Chávez the Radical XXVII: 'Beware of a Bolivarian Oligarchy!' Chávez the Radical XXVI: 'What are Privatizations?' Venezuelan Art Collective Reflects on the Past and Future of Popular Struggles Solidarity, Not Sanctions! Support Venezuelanalysis Venezuelan Campesinos Receive Land Titles, Celebrate Historic Santa Inés Battle More audios The Venezuelanalysis Podcast Episode 04: Anti-imperialist Media Strikes Back Dispatch: Chavismo Wins 'Mega-elections' The Venezuelanalysis Podcast Episode 03: Back to the Ballot If you are new to Venezuela or want to know background info, please see: Solidarity Groups Dr. Lee Merritt: No justification for experimenting on children by injecting them with COVID-19 vaccines – Brighteon.TV For orthopedic surgeon Dr. Lee Merritt, there is no way to justify experimenting on children by forcing them to take deadly Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines. Merritt voiced her opinion when she was interviewed Tuesday, Nov. 9, by “Connecting The Dots” host and conservative political commentator Dan Happel for Brighteon.TV. “There is no way you can justify vaccinating children based on risk versus benefit,” said Merritt. “And I think if anybody needs a kick to wake up, it should have done last week, when the FDA ruled on the basis of 17 advisors, none of whom voted to protect your children from being experimented on.” The doctor pointed out that what the country’s leading public health agencies like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should be doing when considering giving segments of the population certain medications is looking at the risks and benefits of doing so. Even if the COVID-19 vaccines proved to be effective, Merritt said there’s still no reason to give them to children because kids have an extremely low risk of contracting, let alone dying from, the coronavirus. Merritt pointed out how unethical it is to subject children to COVID-19 vaccines, the development of which was rushed for the benefit of Big Pharma companies who stand to profit from selling the vaccines. “This now is coming after your children, and if people don’t stand up for this, I don’t know what to do. I mean, this is the 11th hour, if you will,” she said. “Children have more of a risk of dying from lightning strikes than being killed by COVID.” Merritt noted that children in Europe were not dying from COVID-19. “A few got sick, but they had no deaths. And their teachers did not get sick and die at any greater rate than the background population. So, not only are they not dying from this, they’re not spreading it to adults,” she said. “If you started vaccinating that group with what we know [about] the risks – blood clotting, strokes, myocarditis, these are fatal things. There’s just no way to justify any risk to children.” (Related: Study: COVID-19 vaccine poses significant risks to children’s health.) Nearly a million kids aged 5 to 11 have already been vaccinated According to the White House, more than 900,000 kids between the ages of five and 11 have already received one dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine as of Wednesday, Nov. 10. The White House made it sound like it was an achievement to give nearly a million children the experimental and deadly vaccines just one week after the FDA and other vaccine regulators gave their approval. “Families across the country are breathing giant sighs of relief,” claimed coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients during a briefing with reporters at the White House. He added that President Joe Biden and his administration are continuing to work with states and healthcare providers to make the vaccines available for more children. Previous statements from the administration make it

collaborate in economic, political and cultural matters. With the US-backed "interim presidency" not going away, VA's Ricardo Vaz looks at the implications for Venezuela's foreign assets. Venezuelan Independence in a Nutshell Chávez the Radical XXVII: 'Beware of a Bolivarian Oligarchy!' Chávez the Radical XXVI: 'What are Privatizations?' Venezuelan Art Collective Reflects on the Past and Future of Popular Struggles Solidarity, Not Sanctions! Support Venezuelanalysis Venezuelan Campesinos Receive Land Titles, Celebrate Historic Santa Inés Battle More audios The Venezuelanalysis Podcast Episode 04: Anti-imperialist Media Strikes Back Dispatch: Chavismo Wins 'Mega-elections' The Venezuelanalysis Podcast Episode 03: Back to the Ballot If you are new to Venezuela or want to know background info, please see: Solidarity Groups Dr. Lee Merritt: No justification for experimenting on children by injecting them with COVID-19 vaccines – Brighteon.TV For orthopedic surgeon Dr. Lee Merritt, there is no way to justify experimenting on children by forcing them to take deadly Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines. Merritt voiced her opinion when she was interviewed Tuesday, Nov. 9, by “Connecting The Dots” host and conservative political commentator Dan Happel for Brighteon.TV. “There is no way you can justify vaccinating children based on risk versus benefit,” said Merritt. “And I think if anybody needs a kick to wake up, it should have done last week, when the FDA ruled on the basis of 17 advisors, none of whom voted to protect your children from being experimented on.” The doctor pointed out that what the country’s leading public health agencies like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should be doing when considering giving segments of the population certain medications is looking at the risks and benefits of doing so. Even if the COVID-19 vaccines proved to be effective, Merritt said there’s still no reason to give them to children because kids have an extremely low risk of contracting, let alone dying from, the coronavirus. Merritt pointed out how unethical it is to subject children to COVID-19 vaccines, the development of which was rushed for the benefit of Big Pharma companies who stand to profit from selling the vaccines. “This now is coming after your children, and if people don’t stand up for this, I don’t know what to do. I mean, this is the 11th hour, if you will,” she said. “Children have more of a risk of dying from lightning strikes than being killed by COVID.” Merritt noted that children in Europe were not dying from COVID-19. “A few got sick, but they had no deaths. And their teachers did not get sick and die at any greater rate than the background population. So, not only are they not dying from this, they’re not spreading it to adults,” she said. “If you started vaccinating that group with what we know [about] the risks – blood clotting, strokes, myocarditis, these are fatal things. There’s just no way to justify any risk to children.” (Related: Study: COVID-19 vaccine poses significant risks to children’s health.) Nearly a million kids aged 5 to 11 have already been vaccinated According to the White House, more than 900,000 kids between the ages of five and 11 have already received one dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine as of Wednesday, Nov. 10. The White House made it sound like it was an achievement to give nearly a million children the experimental and deadly vaccines just one week after the FDA and other vaccine regulators gave their approval. “Families across the country are breathing giant sighs of relief,” claimed coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients during a briefing with reporters at the White House. He added that President Joe Biden and his administration are continuing to work with states and healthcare providers to make the vaccines available for more children. Previous statements from the administration make it

clear that it has already procured enough vaccine doses to fully vaccinate approximately 28 million five- to 11-year-olds in the United States. According to Zients, parents of roughly 700,000 children have also booked appointments for their kids at local pharmacies to get the vaccine. As Merritt has pointed out, unless parents and other people are willing to resist giving children experimental and deadly vaccines, more children may begin experiencing the many adverse effects related to the COVID-19 vaccines. Happel and Merritt have a lot more to talk about regarding COVID-19 vaccines and the way the pandemic has been handled in the United States. Watch the entire Nov. 9 episode of “Connecting The Dots” with Dan Happel featuring Dr. Lee Merritt here: “Connecting The Dots” with Dan Happel airs every Tuesday from 5-6 p.m. on Brighteon.TV. Learn more about how children in the U.S. are being forced to take the experimental and deadly COVID-19 vaccines by reading the latest articles at Vaccines.news. Brighteon.com Tagged Under: big government, Brighteon.tv, children's health, Connecting the Dots, coronavirus vaccines, covid-19, Dan Happel, Lee Merritt, medical experiments, Medical Tyranny, pandemic, Resist, Vaccine injuries Tag: cloud seeding Snow Job By Zaffos | 03/02/2006 | Comments 0 Comment subhed Rocky Mountain Bullhorn, DATE (also published in Colorado Springs Independent, DATE) By Joshua Zaffos Heading through Blue Sky Basin at Vail Mountain on a recent powder day, the snow at the country’s most popular ski resort seems fluffier and fresher than that on other mountains. For the past three decades, the largest single-mountain ski area in North America has been polishing its claim that “There’s no comparison” when it comes to skiing and riding Vail. And the resort managers aren’t above using a little atmospheric alchemy to earn that edge. On days when the storm clouds are heavy and high, Vail Mountain ensures its runs stay stacked with deep snow by seeding the clouds with silver iodide to, supposedly, squeeze more water from the skies. According to some atmospheric scientists, cloud seeding can increase snowfall by 10 to 15 percent in a season, and Vail credits it among the reasons for its world-class reputation. A ground-based iodide generator used for cloud seeding. Vail seeds clouds to “make sure they have the premier ski area and snowpack in the state,” says Larry Hjermstad of Durango-based Western Weather Consultants, which has run Vail’s cloud-seeding operation for 29 years. “Granted, Vail was never intended to be [scientific] research,” says Hjermstad, who holds a master’s degree in atmospheric science from Colorado State University. Still, he says, “we’ve definitely been able to find consistent results” for increased snowpack at Vail. Ski resort officials aren’t the only parties expressing interest in cloud seeding. As more people flood into Colorado and the West stretching demand for water during the longest drought in centuries and an era of unintentional weather modification, thanks to global warming scientists and Western water managers want to explore whether cloud seeding could help slake the region’s thirst. Not everyone is convinced of the merits of cloud seeding, however. A 2003 expert-panel report by the National Academy of Sciences concluded that “there is still no convincing scientific proof of the efficacy of intentional weather modification efforts.” In the absence of definitive statistical evidence, cloud seeding often is considered hi-tech weather voodoo. Meteorological panacea Scientists at a General Electric laboratory stumbled upon the concept of cloud seeding in 1946, in Schenectady, N.Y. They discovered that dry ice shavings caused supercooled water droplets which remain liquid even at freezing temperatures to solidify into tiny ice crystals. More droplets attach to the frozen crystals until they get big enough to fall as rain and snow. The process augments precip

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be composed of multiple smaller-scale communities. Thus, an essential task in graph inference is detecting/identifying local (sub)communities. The resulting problem of community detection on graphs is well-studied (see the survey \cite{Fortunato2010Community}), with many available techniques including those based on maximizing modularity and likelihood \cite{Bickel2009,Newman2004,Snijders1997Estimation,Celisse}, random walks \cite{pons05:_comput,rosvall08:_maps}, spectral clustering \cite{mcsherry,rohe2011spectral,chaudhuri12:_spect,sussman12,rinaldo_2013,von2007tutorial}, and semidefinite programming \cite{hajek,abbe}. It is widely known that under suitable models --- such as the popular stochastic blockmodel and its variants \cite{holland,karrer2011stochastic,lyzinski15_HSBM} --- one can consistently recover the underlying communities as the number of observed nodes increases, and furthermore, there exist deep and beautiful phase transitions phenomena with respect to the statistical and computational limits for recovery. Another important question in graph inference is, subsequent to community detection, that of characterizing the nature and/or structure of these communities. One of the simplest and possibly most essential example is determining the (community specific) tendencies/probabilities for nodes to form link within and between communities. Consistent recovery of the underlying communities yields a straightforward and universally employed procedure for consistent estimation of these probabilities, namely averaging the number of edges within a community and/or between communities. This procedure, when intepreted in the context of estimating the parameters $\bm{\theta} = (\theta_1, \theta_2, \dots, \theta_r)$ of a collection of independent binomially distributed random variables $\{X_1,X_2, \dots, X_r\}$ with $X_i \sim \mathrm{Bin}(n_i, \theta_i)$, corresponds to maximum likelihood estimation with no restrictive assumption on the $\{\theta_i\}$. However, in the context of graphs and communities, there are often natural relationships among the communities; hence a graph with $K$ communities need not require $K(K+1)/2$ parameters to describe the within and between community connection probabilities. The above procedure is therefore potentially sub-optimal. Motivated by the above observation, our paper studies the asymptotic properties of three different estimators for $\mathbf{B}$, the matrix of edge probabilities among communities, of a stochastic blockmodel graph. Two estimators are based on maximum likelihood methods and the remaining estimator is based on spectral embedding. We show that, given an observed graph with adjacency matrix $\mathbf{A}$, the most commonly used estimator --- the MLE under no rank assumption on $\mathbf{B}$ --- is sub-optimal when $\mathbf{B}$ is not invertible. Moreover, when $\mathbf{B}$ is singular, the estimator based on spectral embedding $\mathbf{A}$ is often times better (smaller mean squared error) than the MLE under no rank assumption, and is almost as efficient as the asymptotically (first-order) efficient MLE whose parametrization depend on $\mathrm{rk}(\mathbf{B})$. Finally, when $\mathbf{B}$ is invertible, the three estimators are asymptotically first-order efficient. \subsection{Background} We now formalize the setting considered in this paper. We begin by recalling the notion of stochastic blockmodel graphs due to \cite{holland}. Stochastic blockmodel graphs and its variants, such as degree-corrected blockmodels and mixed membership models \cite{karrer2011stochastic,Airoldi2008} are the most popular models for graphs with intrinsic community structure. In addition, they are widely used as building blocks for constructing approximations (see e.g., \cite{gao,wolfe13:_nonpar,airoldi13:_stoch,klopp}) of the more general latent position graphs or graphons models \cite{Hoff2002,lovasz12:_large}. \label{subsec:background} \begin{definition} \label{def:SBM} Let $K \geq 1$ be a positive integer and let $\bm{\pi} \in \mathcal{S}_{K

be composed of multiple smaller-scale communities. Thus, an essential task in graph inference is detecting/identifying local (sub)communities. The resulting problem of community detection on graphs is well-studied (see the survey \cite{Fortunato2010Community}), with many available techniques including those based on maximizing modularity and likelihood \cite{Bickel2009,Newman2004,Snijders1997Estimation,Celisse}, random walks \cite{pons05:_comput,rosvall08:_maps}, spectral clustering \cite{mcsherry,rohe2011spectral,chaudhuri12:_spect,sussman12,rinaldo_2013,von2007tutorial}, and semidefinite programming \cite{hajek,abbe}. It is widely known that under suitable models --- such as the popular stochastic blockmodel and its variants \cite{holland,karrer2011stochastic,lyzinski15_HSBM} --- one can consistently recover the underlying communities as the number of observed nodes increases, and furthermore, there exist deep and beautiful phase transitions phenomena with respect to the statistical and computational limits for recovery. Another important question in graph inference is, subsequent to community detection, that of characterizing the nature and/or structure of these communities. One of the simplest and possibly most essential example is determining the (community specific) tendencies/probabilities for nodes to form link within and between communities. Consistent recovery of the underlying communities yields a straightforward and universally employed procedure for consistent estimation of these probabilities, namely averaging the number of edges within a community and/or between communities. This procedure, when intepreted in the context of estimating the parameters $\bm{\theta} = (\theta_1, \theta_2, \dots, \theta_r)$ of a collection of independent binomially distributed random variables $\{X_1,X_2, \dots, X_r\}$ with $X_i \sim \mathrm{Bin}(n_i, \theta_i)$, corresponds to maximum likelihood estimation with no restrictive assumption on the $\{\theta_i\}$. However, in the context of graphs and communities, there are often natural relationships among the communities; hence a graph with $K$ communities need not require $K(K+1)/2$ parameters to describe the within and between community connection probabilities. The above procedure is therefore potentially sub-optimal. Motivated by the above observation, our paper studies the asymptotic properties of three different estimators for $\mathbf{B}$, the matrix of edge probabilities among communities, of a stochastic blockmodel graph. Two estimators are based on maximum likelihood methods and the remaining estimator is based on spectral embedding. We show that, given an observed graph with adjacency matrix $\mathbf{A}$, the most commonly used estimator --- the MLE under no rank assumption on $\mathbf{B}$ --- is sub-optimal when $\mathbf{B}$ is not invertible. Moreover, when $\mathbf{B}$ is singular, the estimator based on spectral embedding $\mathbf{A}$ is often times better (smaller mean squared error) than the MLE under no rank assumption, and is almost as efficient as the asymptotically (first-order) efficient MLE whose parametrization depend on $\mathrm{rk}(\mathbf{B})$. Finally, when $\mathbf{B}$ is invertible, the three estimators are asymptotically first-order efficient. \subsection{Background} We now formalize the setting considered in this paper. We begin by recalling the notion of stochastic blockmodel graphs due to \cite{holland}. Stochastic blockmodel graphs and its variants, such as degree-corrected blockmodels and mixed membership models \cite{karrer2011stochastic,Airoldi2008} are the most popular models for graphs with intrinsic community structure. In addition, they are widely used as building blocks for constructing approximations (see e.g., \cite{gao,wolfe13:_nonpar,airoldi13:_stoch,klopp}) of the more general latent position graphs or graphons models \cite{Hoff2002,lovasz12:_large}. \label{subsec:background} \begin{definition} \label{def:SBM} Let $K \geq 1$ be a positive integer and let $\bm{\pi} \in \mathcal{S}_{K

-1}$ be a non-negative vector in $\mathbb{R}^{K}$ with $\sum_{k} \pi_k = 1$; here $\mathcal{S}_{K-1}$ denote the $K-1$ dimensional simplex in $\mathbb{R}^{K}$. Let $\mathbf{B} \in [0,1]^{K \times K}$ be symmetric. We say that $(\mathbf{A}, \bm{\tau}) \sim \mathrm{SBM}(\mathbf{B}, \bm{\pi})$ with sparsity factor $\rho$ if the following hold. First $\bm{\tau} = (\tau_1, \dots, \tau_n)$ where $\tau_i$ are i.i.d. with $\Pr[\tau_i = k] = \pi_k$. Then $\mathbf{A} \in \{0,1\}^{n \times n}$ is a symmetric matrix such that, conditioned on $\bm{\tau}$, for all $i \leq j$ the $\mathbf{A}_{ij}$ are independent Bernoulli random variables with $\mathbb{E}[\mathbf{A}_{ij}] = \rho \mathbf{B}_{\tau_i, \tau_j}$. We write $\mathbf{A} \sim \mathrm{SBM}(\mathbf{B}, \bm{\pi})$ when only $\mathbf{A}$ is observed, i.e., $\bm{\tau}$ is integrated out from $(\mathbf{A}, \bm{\tau})$. \end{definition} For $(\mathbf{A}, \bm{\tau}) \sim \mathrm{SBM}(\mathbf{B}, \bm{\pi})$ or $\mathbf{A} \sim \mathrm{SBM}(\mathbf{B}, \bm{\pi})$ with $\mathbf{A}$ having $n$ vertices and (known) sparsity factor $\rho$, the likelihood of $(\mathbf{A}, \tau)$ and $\mathbf{A}$ are, respectively \begin{gather} L(\mathbf{A}, \tau; \mathbf{B}, \bm{\pi}) = \Bigl(\prod_{i=1}^{n} \pi_{\tau_i} \Bigr) \Bigl(\prod_{i \leq j} (\rho \mathbf{B}_{\tau_i, \tau_j})^{\mathbf{A}_{ij}} (1 - \rho \mathbf{B}_{\tau_i,\tau_j})^{1 - \mathbf{A}_{ij}} \Bigr), \\ L(\mathbf{A}; \mathbf{B}, \bm{\pi}) = \sum_{\bm{\tau} \in [K]^{n}} L(\mathbf{A}, \bm{\tau}; \mathbf{B}, \bm{\pi}). \end{gather} When we observed $\mathbf{A} \sim \mathrm{SBM}(\mathbf{B}, \bm{\pi})$ with $\mathbf{B} \in [0,1]^{K}$ where $\rho$ and $K$ are assumed known, a maximum likelihood estimate of $\bm{\pi}$ and $\mathbf{B}$ is given by \begin{equation} \label{eq:MLE_naive} (\hat{\mathbf{B}}^{(N)}, \hat{\bm{\pi}}) = \operatornamewithlimits{argmax}_{\mathbf{B} \in [0,1]^{K \times K}, \,\, \bm{\pi} \in \mathcal{S}_{K-1}} L(\mathbf{A}; \mathbf{B}, \bm{\pi}). \end{equation} The maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) $\hat{\mathbf{B}}^{(N)}$ in Eq.~\eqref{eq:MLE_naive} requires estimation of the $K(K+1)/2$ entries of $\mathbf{B}$ and is generally intractable as it requires marginalization over the latent vertex-to-block assignment vector $\bm{\tau}$. Another parametrization of $\mathbf{B}$ is via the eigendecomposition $\mathbf{B} = \mathbf{V} \mathbf{D} \mathbf{V}^{\top}$ where $d = \mathrm{rk}(\mathbf{B})$, $\mathbf{V}$ is a $K \times d$ matrix with $\mathbf{V}^{\top} \mathbf{V} = \mathbf{I}$ and $\mathbf{D}$ is diagonal. This parametrization results in the estimation of $d(2K - d+1)/2 \leq K(K+1)/2$ parameters, with $Kd - d(d+1)/2$ parameters being estimated

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crash and a t-post embedded in his throat. His biggest regret about it all? What he never said to Samantha Shay. He's been in love with her for years and never had the guts to tell her. Now it's too late. Because after that night, Jake will never be able to talk again. When Jake returns to his small island home, population 5, 000, he'll have to learn how to deal with being mute. He also finds that his family isn't limited to his six brothers and sisters, that sometimes an entire island is watching out for you. And when he gets the chance to spend more time with Samantha, she'll help him learn that not being able to talk isn't the worst thing that could ever happen to you. Maybe, if she'll let him, Jake will finally tell her what he didn't say before, even if he can't actually say it. Cape Cod Serenades by Bella Andre, Melissa Foster Sorry, no description about this book. :( by Kristan Higgins New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kristan Higgins is back with a hilarious and heartwarming new story about a rich girl who discovers that a little hard work may be just the thing she needs… After her father loses the family fortune in an insider-trading scheme, single mom Parker Welles is faced with some hard decisions. First order of business: go to Gideon's Cove, Maine, to sell the only thing she now owns — a decrepit house in need of some serious flipping. When her father's wingman, James Cahill, asks to go with her, she's not thrilled… even if he is fairly gorgeous and knows his way around a toolbox. Having to fend for herself financially for the first time in her life, Parker signs on as a florist's assistant and starts to find out who she really is. Maybe James isn't the glib lawyer she always thought he was. And maybe the house isn't the only thing that needs a little TLC. Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house. But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven and demanding Fifty Shades. While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront the anger and envy of the women who came before her, and make the most important decision of her life. Anything He Wants 1: The Meeting by Sara Fawkes DOWN ON HER LUCK Lucy Delacourt's temp position isn't quite her dream job but it pays the bills… barely. The highlight of her day is riding the elevator in the mornings: she always manages to time it so that she sees the handsome stranger every day. He's fuel for her fantasies and way out of her league, but a girl can look, right? BUT NOT FOR LONG Everything changes however the day the handsome stranger seduces a stunned Lucy, first in the elevator then again in the parking garage after work. Completely out of character, she yields without a fight, but she has no idea her wanton acts with a man whose name she doesn't know will start a sensual chain of events that forever change her life. Because the sexy stranger is none other than Jeremiah Hamilton, billionaire CEO of Hamilton Industries, and one taste of the hot little temp isn't near enough to satisfy his need. The billionaire has big plans for the wayward temp, plans that have nothing to do with filing paperwork… Not Planning on You by Sydney Landon From the New York Times bestselling author of Weekends Required A Danvers Novel Suzy Denton thought she had it all: a great job as an event planner for Danvers International and a committed relationship to her high school sweetheart… But now her life has gone to hell in a hand-basket. Not only did she discover her fiancé cheating, but a recent corporate merger is making her job very

crash and a t-post embedded in his throat. His biggest regret about it all? What he never said to Samantha Shay. He's been in love with her for years and never had the guts to tell her. Now it's too late. Because after that night, Jake will never be able to talk again. When Jake returns to his small island home, population 5, 000, he'll have to learn how to deal with being mute. He also finds that his family isn't limited to his six brothers and sisters, that sometimes an entire island is watching out for you. And when he gets the chance to spend more time with Samantha, she'll help him learn that not being able to talk isn't the worst thing that could ever happen to you. Maybe, if she'll let him, Jake will finally tell her what he didn't say before, even if he can't actually say it. Cape Cod Serenades by Bella Andre, Melissa Foster Sorry, no description about this book. :( by Kristan Higgins New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kristan Higgins is back with a hilarious and heartwarming new story about a rich girl who discovers that a little hard work may be just the thing she needs… After her father loses the family fortune in an insider-trading scheme, single mom Parker Welles is faced with some hard decisions. First order of business: go to Gideon's Cove, Maine, to sell the only thing she now owns — a decrepit house in need of some serious flipping. When her father's wingman, James Cahill, asks to go with her, she's not thrilled… even if he is fairly gorgeous and knows his way around a toolbox. Having to fend for herself financially for the first time in her life, Parker signs on as a florist's assistant and starts to find out who she really is. Maybe James isn't the glib lawyer she always thought he was. And maybe the house isn't the only thing that needs a little TLC. Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house. But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven and demanding Fifty Shades. While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront the anger and envy of the women who came before her, and make the most important decision of her life. Anything He Wants 1: The Meeting by Sara Fawkes DOWN ON HER LUCK Lucy Delacourt's temp position isn't quite her dream job but it pays the bills… barely. The highlight of her day is riding the elevator in the mornings: she always manages to time it so that she sees the handsome stranger every day. He's fuel for her fantasies and way out of her league, but a girl can look, right? BUT NOT FOR LONG Everything changes however the day the handsome stranger seduces a stunned Lucy, first in the elevator then again in the parking garage after work. Completely out of character, she yields without a fight, but she has no idea her wanton acts with a man whose name she doesn't know will start a sensual chain of events that forever change her life. Because the sexy stranger is none other than Jeremiah Hamilton, billionaire CEO of Hamilton Industries, and one taste of the hot little temp isn't near enough to satisfy his need. The billionaire has big plans for the wayward temp, plans that have nothing to do with filing paperwork… Not Planning on You by Sydney Landon From the New York Times bestselling author of Weekends Required A Danvers Novel Suzy Denton thought she had it all: a great job as an event planner for Danvers International and a committed relationship to her high school sweetheart… But now her life has gone to hell in a hand-basket. Not only did she discover her fiancé cheating, but a recent corporate merger is making her job very

difficult — mostly due to Grayson Merimon, wealthy CEO. Gray is a man who goes after what he wants. And, after their first meeting, he wants Suzy. Even though he looks like every fantasy she’s ever had, Suzy is wary of the powerful businessman. She likes her newfound independence, even if her best friend thinks it’s an excuse not to risk her heart again. Besides, she doesn’t think Gray could ever be interested in a relationship with someone like her. When he calls her bluff, Suzy agrees to one night together. But when circumstances continue to throw them together — and with Gray determined to show her that two opposites can be a perfect fit — Suzy realizes that she might just have found the one man who can give her what she always needed… Tall, Dark & Heartless by R.L. Mathewson He should have left her and never looked back…… That's not how things played out for Caine, a nearly one thousand year old Pyte, who should have known better. Instead of walking away years ago, he has been watching over the only human who has touched his heart. He stays to protect her, at least that is what he tells himself. When trouble finds her, he knows that he should just cut his losses and walk away, but there is no fighting the hold the child, who has become a woman, has on him. Now they are both paying the price. Danni knows that she isn’t technically a Sentinel and is putting her life in danger every time she goes out on patrol. She isn't worried, she has a job to do. It is the only thing that matters to her anymore and she isn’t going to let it go without a fight. Unfortunately for her, she didn’t foresee her ex-boyfriend selling her out to a Master, being captured, getting locked up and stuck in a room with the cranky Pyte. The same Pyte that broke her heart years ago and wont stop glaring at her as if their little predicament is all her fault. Chasing McCree by J.C. Isabella Briar Thompson had it all. The right clothes, the right friends, the right car. Being popular was all that mattered. Her parents were rich and treated like royalty throughout the community. She thought her senior year of high school was going perfectly, until the night her drink was spiked at a party by one of her so called friends. That was the night she met Chase McCree. Chase wanted to go back to Montana. To the ranch and the wild, wide blue sky that went on forever. He wanted nothing to do with flashy cars or spoiled rich kids. But he found himself head over boots for the quirky cheerleader who turned her back on her social status. She befriended him when no one else would. Shunned and hurt by the people who were once her friends, Briar flees with Chase to his family ranch in Montana. There she discovers another world, and apart of herself she never knew. The cowboy wasn’t like anyone she’d ever met. The cheerleader wasn’t like anyone he’d ever met. Apart their lives didn’t seem to make sense, but together, they were chasing forever. Love's Rhythm by Lexxie Couper "His music moves the world. Can his love move her heart? " Nick Blackthorne knows all about words of love. They're the reason he's the world's biggest rock star. The irony? He turned his back on love a long time ago, lured away by the trappings of fame. An invitation to a friend s wedding is a stark reminder of how meaningless his life has become. When he enters that church, there'ss only one woman he wants on his arm the one he walked out on a lifetime ago. But first he has to find her, even if all she accepts from him is an apology. Kindergarten teacher Lauren Robbins once had what every woman on the planet desires. Nick. Their passion was explosive, their romance the stuff of songs and it took fifteen years to get over him. Then out of the blue Nick turns up at her door, and all those years denying her ache for him are shattered with a single, smoldering kiss. But molten passion can't hide the secret she's kept for all these years. Because it's not just "her" heart on the line anymore and not just her life that'll be rocked by the revelation.

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and marketing of women's fiction open this collection of four short stories and an unusual three-part novella. Jack London: An American Writer (1876-1916) A collection of seven critical essays, Jack London: An American Writer (1876-1916) reveals a complicated figure with a literary persona and a mass-market image. London rose from a working class background in Oakland, California, to prominence as one of the most famous and prolific authors in the world. Scholars have put him under a literary microscope since his death in 1916. Academics analyze his work, his political views, and his love life in an attempt to distinguish between the private man and the public figure, while modern writers find his creative output daunting. Veronica Swanson is a vivacious soccer investor from Madison, Wisconsin, who falls for Derek Fallon, a charismatic forward from Manchester, England. She signs him to the Madison Maelstrom, a losing team. Headstrong and stubborn, Derek solves her financial trouble in unorthodox ways, against the advice of Veronica and her attorney. He plays the game with fanatical zeal and stirs the growing crowd with lunacy. Soon every game is a sellout and his female admirers dub him "Romeo," pursuing him with the adolescent adoration of a rock star's band of groupies. The out-of-control situation escalates until Veronica and Derek must survive under the same roof in a relationship both comical and emotional as they ward off the fans and suffer tumultuous feelings as they fall in love. Valentino: Icon of Romance Women wept, yearned and fantasized about him. Men coveted and copied his mysterious style. And both lined the railroad tracks when his body was transported back to the Tinsel Town that made him famous. Based on over one hundred rare sources, this biography of actor Rudolph Valentino will thrill romantics and fans of silent film. Encased in a shroud of mystery is a fascinating individual concealed too long behind his persona. Charpentier sees in Valentino's appeal a precursor to the rise and enduring popularity of romance novels. Her introduction draws parallels between Valentino's oft-criticized persona and the perplexity expressed by romance novelists who sell millions of books but who are sneered at by critics. The common thread… is the mystery and mysticism of romance, which defies analysis. -Gregory Harris, The Book Page- Screen idol Rudolph Valentino is presented… as a mysteriously erotic screen personality shortchanged by the studios and denied the chance to play the more serious roles he desired. Charpentier has written extensively about Valentino in romance and nostalgia perio dicals…” -Publishers Weekly- An exclusive interview with Julia Ann Charpentier A suburb of Chicago. Where can fans write to you? [email protected] What inspired your biography on Rudolph Valentino? My admiration for the actor. What was your "writer's" day like when working on this book? I researched this bio-bibliography over the course of ten years. After publishing numerous articles, I realized I had learned enough about Valentino to write a book. Tell us about your family. They're distantly supportive. A black Bombay cat. What do you enjoy doing in your leisure time? Movies, music, long walks. Who's your favorite author? No favorites. I read the work of a lot of authors. What's your favorite book? No single book comes to mind. What's your favorite movie? "Jumanji" with Robin Williams (don't ask). Where's your favorite place? I love Southern California. What place, that you haven't already visited, would you like to visit? I'd like to see England and Australia. What's your favorite kind of music? I listen to soft rock. Goodbye, Spotify: Is This The Secret To Artist-Friendly Music Distribution? Artists are upset: The digital music revolution that was supposed to set them free is funneling more money to labels and rights holders than ever before. This company thinks they know how to fix it. By Tyler Hayes 3 minute Read Even the most well meaning start

and marketing of women's fiction open this collection of four short stories and an unusual three-part novella. Jack London: An American Writer (1876-1916) A collection of seven critical essays, Jack London: An American Writer (1876-1916) reveals a complicated figure with a literary persona and a mass-market image. London rose from a working class background in Oakland, California, to prominence as one of the most famous and prolific authors in the world. Scholars have put him under a literary microscope since his death in 1916. Academics analyze his work, his political views, and his love life in an attempt to distinguish between the private man and the public figure, while modern writers find his creative output daunting. Veronica Swanson is a vivacious soccer investor from Madison, Wisconsin, who falls for Derek Fallon, a charismatic forward from Manchester, England. She signs him to the Madison Maelstrom, a losing team. Headstrong and stubborn, Derek solves her financial trouble in unorthodox ways, against the advice of Veronica and her attorney. He plays the game with fanatical zeal and stirs the growing crowd with lunacy. Soon every game is a sellout and his female admirers dub him "Romeo," pursuing him with the adolescent adoration of a rock star's band of groupies. The out-of-control situation escalates until Veronica and Derek must survive under the same roof in a relationship both comical and emotional as they ward off the fans and suffer tumultuous feelings as they fall in love. Valentino: Icon of Romance Women wept, yearned and fantasized about him. Men coveted and copied his mysterious style. And both lined the railroad tracks when his body was transported back to the Tinsel Town that made him famous. Based on over one hundred rare sources, this biography of actor Rudolph Valentino will thrill romantics and fans of silent film. Encased in a shroud of mystery is a fascinating individual concealed too long behind his persona. Charpentier sees in Valentino's appeal a precursor to the rise and enduring popularity of romance novels. Her introduction draws parallels between Valentino's oft-criticized persona and the perplexity expressed by romance novelists who sell millions of books but who are sneered at by critics. The common thread… is the mystery and mysticism of romance, which defies analysis. -Gregory Harris, The Book Page- Screen idol Rudolph Valentino is presented… as a mysteriously erotic screen personality shortchanged by the studios and denied the chance to play the more serious roles he desired. Charpentier has written extensively about Valentino in romance and nostalgia perio dicals…” -Publishers Weekly- An exclusive interview with Julia Ann Charpentier A suburb of Chicago. Where can fans write to you? [email protected] What inspired your biography on Rudolph Valentino? My admiration for the actor. What was your "writer's" day like when working on this book? I researched this bio-bibliography over the course of ten years. After publishing numerous articles, I realized I had learned enough about Valentino to write a book. Tell us about your family. They're distantly supportive. A black Bombay cat. What do you enjoy doing in your leisure time? Movies, music, long walks. Who's your favorite author? No favorites. I read the work of a lot of authors. What's your favorite book? No single book comes to mind. What's your favorite movie? "Jumanji" with Robin Williams (don't ask). Where's your favorite place? I love Southern California. What place, that you haven't already visited, would you like to visit? I'd like to see England and Australia. What's your favorite kind of music? I listen to soft rock. Goodbye, Spotify: Is This The Secret To Artist-Friendly Music Distribution? Artists are upset: The digital music revolution that was supposed to set them free is funneling more money to labels and rights holders than ever before. This company thinks they know how to fix it. By Tyler Hayes 3 minute Read Even the most well meaning start

ups focusing on music discovery often neglect a growing industry concern–paying artists. It’s a nagging problem that doesn’t seem to have a good solution. That’s where Soundsupply comes in. The company markets itself as another service to help you discover your next favorite band, but they’re really after a much bigger goal: Changing the music buying process as we know it, and paying artists in the process. The model is similar to the curated subscription services that have been popping up for everything from cosmetics to coffee. Every month, Soundsupply gathers 10 handpicked digital music albums on a theme and sells the bundle for $15 for a limited time–just 10 days. An obvious deal for consumers, this model of selling music has also been more profitable for bands than any streaming service, in extreme cases by more than 400%. Last november, cofounder Tim Mortensen told me that one of the bigger bands featured in a drop (the company’s name for their bundles) made $1,200 on 10 days of sales on Soundsupply. In the 3-month timespan before and after the drop, the same band made just $2.95 from Spotify royalties. Although they won’t go into the specifics of dividing up payments, both Tim and his cofounder and brother, Eric Mortensen, said that each artist is averaging a little over $1,000 per 10-days drop. Another number that the brothers are proud of: Artists are paid that money about 48 hours after the drop ends, a quicker turnaround than almost any other service. Soundsupply started in early 2012 as a side project of the Mortensen brothers, which is also how they settled on the limited sale period: “I wish I had a scientific answer that talked about media cycles or pay periods, but the 10-day timespan was originally chosen because of how we had to run Soundsupply given the schedules of our day jobs. You can only ‘go to the bathroom’ so many times to respond to emails and fix website issues before your boss gets suspicious (or worried about your health),” says Tim Mortensen. “The one thing we’ve learned is that no matter how many days the drop runs, there are always people who miss it and email asking if they can still get in on a drop that has ended. We hate breaking hearts, but everything has to end sometime, right?” In early 2013, the two took on funding from Lightbank, which was an early investor in Groupon, and turned the project into a full-time business. The pair have since partnered with multiple music labels as well as the Vans Warped Tour, providing a themed drop featuring artists on the tour. That drop sold so well that it prompted the pair to explore other similar partnerships, including an upcoming bundle for a charity curated by one of the Mortensens’ favorite artists. The consensus among the labels who have signed on so far is that Soundsupply drops are good for business. Chris Hansen, who runs No Sleep Records, says that a drop “creates awareness for the artists, the albums, and the labels.” Matt Lunsford, owner of Polyvinyl Records, concurs. “We primarily view the drops as a way to increase music discovery for the artists on our roster,” says Lunsford. “Because Soundsupply’s users are engaged and paying for music, it seems more likely that they will discover a new band through the service than if they were given a free download or stream.” It’s tempting to view services like Spotify, Rdio, and Pandora as brand-new digital distribution mechanisms, but in many ways they’re working within the constraints created decades ago by the radio industry to move money around. According to these labels, Soundsupply represents a truly new take on leveraging digital media that they’ve never seen before. Selling bits in bulk makes money, paying for music creates a connection, and direct-to-artists/indie label sales means sharing the profits fairly. [Image: Flickr user Melissa J. Muller] Tyler Hayes is a Southern California native, early technology adopter, and music enthusiast. You can reach him at [email protected] O1 Properties invested $2.5 million in Lesnaya Plaza office centre refurbishment March 26, 2014 - Investment company O1 Properties announces the completion of Lesnaya

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lot of losers, too. Here’s the thing: You can gamble when you invest. But that doesn’t mean all investments are speculative bets that rely on luck to help you make money. In fact, at my firm we specifically advise against making speculative investments. When we help investment clients, we design a thoughtful strategy designed to help portfolios earn a reasonable return over time while avoiding excessive risks. Unfortunately, this kind of investing doesn’t make headlines. It’s boring — as it should be! No drama is a good thing when you’re investing for the long term. Instead, it’s speculative betting that grabs people’s attention and can make all investing feel like gambling. We need only look at the latest market madness to see how it plays out. The Latest Gambling Saga: GameStop’s Rise and Inevitable Fall At the end of 2020 and throughout January 2021, a group of individual investors banded together in an online forum to pump up the price of a beaten-down stock: GameStop. GameStop, a company arguably in trouble (opens in new tab) and certainly the target of short sellers (or those who bet against the future increase of value of a company’s shares), traded at about $18 per share before the madness began. As the users of the subreddit who started the rally, Wall Street Bets, piled into GameStop, the share price rose to a high of $483 in January — a gain of over 2,500% in a three-week span. As of late February, GameStop traded around $43 per share. 5 Danger Signs That You’re an ‘Immature’ Investor People should be afraid to lose all of their money if this was representative of strategic investing. But it’s not. The GameStop saga was a raw display of pure speculation. People gambled on the stock. And just like in a casino, a lucky few won big. Most everyone else went home with lighter pockets and losses. Other Ways to Speculate in the Financial Markets This is just one example, of course. Speculating happens in all kinds of ways when it comes to the financial markets. In financial terms, you’re speculating, or gambling, when you engage in any business transaction that risks a substantial loss in pursuit of the chance to rake in a large gain. Buying meme stocks (opens in new tab) like GameStop certainly fits the bill, and so does taking huge amounts of your income or net worth to dump into a single position (opens in new tab). Gambling is often easily influenced by herd mentality. It’s driven by emotion. There’s no analysis or fundamental reason why you’re choosing this stock or that asset. That’s what makes it speculative. Are You Gambling or Investing, and How Do You Know? If the GameStop rally was a classic case of speculation that is not representative of wise investing, it’s fair to ask what true investing actually looks like. There are many strategies that can work, but they all rely on systematic, rules-based systems that remove emotion and guesswork. To give you a sense of what this can look like, here are a few of the ways I personally invest: Contributing to a Retirement Plan Contributing to retirement plans, such as a 401(k), 403(b) or some kind of IRA (traditional, Roth, SIMPLE or SEP), is a good way to invest strategically. I invest in my company 401(k) through Vestwell (opens in new tab) as a way to build assets for my eventual retirement. I use dollar cost averaging to contribute money to the account. That means I contribute the same amount, at the same time each month, and I don’t deviate from that, regardless of what the market is doing at the time. I’m not concerned about day-to-day or even month-to-month market movements. I’m focused on the long term, and the data shows the market gains value over time. “Over time” might not even mean years — it’s more likely to mean decades! The dollars I contribute to the account are invested into a set of low-cost, globally diversified ETFs that mirror my risk tolerance and goals

lot of losers, too. Here’s the thing: You can gamble when you invest. But that doesn’t mean all investments are speculative bets that rely on luck to help you make money. In fact, at my firm we specifically advise against making speculative investments. When we help investment clients, we design a thoughtful strategy designed to help portfolios earn a reasonable return over time while avoiding excessive risks. Unfortunately, this kind of investing doesn’t make headlines. It’s boring — as it should be! No drama is a good thing when you’re investing for the long term. Instead, it’s speculative betting that grabs people’s attention and can make all investing feel like gambling. We need only look at the latest market madness to see how it plays out. The Latest Gambling Saga: GameStop’s Rise and Inevitable Fall At the end of 2020 and throughout January 2021, a group of individual investors banded together in an online forum to pump up the price of a beaten-down stock: GameStop. GameStop, a company arguably in trouble (opens in new tab) and certainly the target of short sellers (or those who bet against the future increase of value of a company’s shares), traded at about $18 per share before the madness began. As the users of the subreddit who started the rally, Wall Street Bets, piled into GameStop, the share price rose to a high of $483 in January — a gain of over 2,500% in a three-week span. As of late February, GameStop traded around $43 per share. 5 Danger Signs That You’re an ‘Immature’ Investor People should be afraid to lose all of their money if this was representative of strategic investing. But it’s not. The GameStop saga was a raw display of pure speculation. People gambled on the stock. And just like in a casino, a lucky few won big. Most everyone else went home with lighter pockets and losses. Other Ways to Speculate in the Financial Markets This is just one example, of course. Speculating happens in all kinds of ways when it comes to the financial markets. In financial terms, you’re speculating, or gambling, when you engage in any business transaction that risks a substantial loss in pursuit of the chance to rake in a large gain. Buying meme stocks (opens in new tab) like GameStop certainly fits the bill, and so does taking huge amounts of your income or net worth to dump into a single position (opens in new tab). Gambling is often easily influenced by herd mentality. It’s driven by emotion. There’s no analysis or fundamental reason why you’re choosing this stock or that asset. That’s what makes it speculative. Are You Gambling or Investing, and How Do You Know? If the GameStop rally was a classic case of speculation that is not representative of wise investing, it’s fair to ask what true investing actually looks like. There are many strategies that can work, but they all rely on systematic, rules-based systems that remove emotion and guesswork. To give you a sense of what this can look like, here are a few of the ways I personally invest: Contributing to a Retirement Plan Contributing to retirement plans, such as a 401(k), 403(b) or some kind of IRA (traditional, Roth, SIMPLE or SEP), is a good way to invest strategically. I invest in my company 401(k) through Vestwell (opens in new tab) as a way to build assets for my eventual retirement. I use dollar cost averaging to contribute money to the account. That means I contribute the same amount, at the same time each month, and I don’t deviate from that, regardless of what the market is doing at the time. I’m not concerned about day-to-day or even month-to-month market movements. I’m focused on the long term, and the data shows the market gains value over time. “Over time” might not even mean years — it’s more likely to mean decades! The dollars I contribute to the account are invested into a set of low-cost, globally diversified ETFs that mirror my risk tolerance and goals

. This is long-term money that I plan on not touching for another 29 years. Using Other Investment Accounts A retirement account is a great place to start investing. But once you contribute the maximum allowable dollars each year, you don’t have to stop there. You can also use a brokerage account — but not for stock picking. We advise clients to use the same low-cost, index fund approach that I described for my retirement account. Building a Business As a business owner, I am trying to grow the value of my company. While this avenue to investing isn’t for everyone, it is an option you may want to consider. To grow the value of my firm, I need to invest in people, technology, marketing and so on. I need to do this consistently over time, just like I consistently contribute to other investment accounts over time. Therefore, I consistently reinvest a share of the business’ profits back into the company itself. As the sole owner of the company with no shareholders or other partners, I could just as easily pull out the profits and take the cash now to improve my current lifestyle. But that’s not investing, and it doesn’t do anything to help me grow wealth for the future, which is the true goal and purpose of a sound investment strategy. You should be fearful of speculating or gambling, because doing so forces you to take outsized risks. You base your hopes of return on chance, rather than reasonable expectations. Investing, on the other hand, is a disciplined, calculated and tested approach built on facts. It’s a reliable way to build your assets and grow your wealth over time. 8 Investing Lessons Learned from an Insane 2020 Paul V. Sydlansky, CFP Founder, Lake Road Advisors, LLC Paul Sydlansky, founder of Lake Road Advisors LLC (opens in new tab), has worked in the financial services industry for over 20 years. Prior to founding Lake Road Advisors, Paul worked as relationship manager for a Registered Investment Adviser. Previously, Paul worked at Morgan Stanley in New York City for 13 years. Paul is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and a member of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) and the XY Planning Network (XYPN). In 2018 he was named to Investopedia's Top 100 Financial Advisors (opens in new tab) list. O. Reg. 246/94: APPORTIONMENT 1994 REQUISITIONS under Education Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. E.2 revoked or spent September 21, 2009 April 14, 1994 – September 20, 2009 Education Act Loi sur l’éducation APPORTIONMENT 1994 REQUISITIONS Note: This Regulation was revoked on September 21, 2009. See: O. Reg. 344/09, ss. 1, 2. 1. (1) In this Regulation, “apportionable sum required by a divisional board for elementary school purposes for 1994” means the excess of the total estimated expenditure of the board for elementary school purposes for 1994 exclusive of, (a) allowances and provisions for differences between the sum that the board requisitioned and the sum that the board ought to have requisitioned in a previous year for elementary school purposes from a local municipality in the school division, and (b) the portion charged to elementary school purposes of any expenditures incurred by the board in performing the duties of a municipal council, over the sum of the estimated revenues of the board for elementary school purposes for 1994 from sources other than local taxation and the amount in the reserve established under subsection 237 (2) of the Act for elementary school purposes; “apportionable sum required by a divisional board for secondary school purposes for 1994” means the excess of the total estimated expenditure of the board for secondary school purposes for 1994 exclusive of, (a) allowances and provisions for differences between the sum that the board requisitioned and the sum that the board ought to have requ

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. As if it wasn't fun enough to run around the Mushroom Kingdom with the wacky rabbids, now you can play Mario + Rabbids against a friend or family member in Versus Mode. The free update to the turn-based strategy game pits you and a competitor against each other on maps that get loaded with random items to spur the battle. Each of you gets to pick three characters that you can customize for the player-versus-player mode. The game, from Ubisoft, is a Nintendo Switch exclusive. Okami HD, the beautiful, charming action game in which you play as a wolf and have to defeat enemies by creating brush strokes and refreshing the landscape, has been remastered for PS4, Windows, and Xbox One. The artwork in the original 2006 release was stunning, and with modern graphics it's an absolute wonder. Thanks for this one, Capcom. Doom VFR from id Software and Bethesda brings the first-person shooter to PlayStation VR and HTC Vive. Hello Neighbor is a weird little game about sneaking into your neighbour's house. Because you think there's something in the basement and how else are you going to find out what it is? The catch is that the house is equipped with an artificial intelligence that learns how you're getting in and tries to put a stop to it. It's coming to Windows and Xbox One. Resident Evil 7 biohazard Gold Edition collects the game and all four downloadable content packs, including Not a Hero, which brings Chris Redfield back into the game. Available for PS4, Windows, and Xbox One. Dead Rising 4 has made the leap to PS4 with Frank's Big Package, which collects the game released last year for Xbox One and all the extras released since. Use these three Christmas celebration ideas, crafts, and more from children’s ministers just like you to make your holiday season special. Invite the families in your church to bring in their nativity sets from home. Set up the nativity sets on tables covered with tablecloths and candles. Make place cards with each family’s name by their set. Play Christmas music. Between worship services encourage families to see the different interpretations of Christ’s birth. At our Christmas Eve candlelight service, the children sang “Away in a Manger.” Two children portrayed Mary and Joseph. We shone a light on Mary and Joseph; the rest of the children’s choir held electric candles and stood to the left of the still-life nativity scene. To add to the “holy” atmosphere, I made stencils of a star and an angel. Then I projected them onto the wall above the still-life nativity with an overhead projector. It looked like the star and angel were shining over the stable in Bethlehem. It was a very simple concept, but the effect was beautiful and awe-inspiring. With this craft, children can celebrate the real meaning of Christmas. Have children tie the ribbon around the nail head and tie the ends of the ribbon into a knot so the ribbon forms a loop. Talk about how the babe in the manger was not only born for us, but he was born to die for us. Tell children that when they hang their ornaments on their trees, they can remember that Jesus died on a tree for us. 5 Building Blocks for Teaching Toddlers (+ 8 Critical Safety Tips)Christmas Bible Relay Game: Bethlehem or Bust! Long time HA guy. Started with Stanley X10 about 37 years ago. Moved to another X10 controller, the name of which I can't remember. Just too long ago. Then found the Ocelot and it was great. Moved to a new house 22 years ago and took my X10 with me. About 13 years ago the X10 modules started to fail, and so I made the move to Insteon using the ISY. Currently running the ISY at our house plus our recreational place. They have been great, with the only problem in the last 8 or 9 years being a couple of failed PLM modules. Now time to downsize. Started looking again to see what is new. Was seriously considering ST but decided as a tinkerer that it was too "appy" for me. Plus the cloud thing was scary. Was going to stick with ISY and the Zwave module, but thought it was time for a change

. As if it wasn't fun enough to run around the Mushroom Kingdom with the wacky rabbids, now you can play Mario + Rabbids against a friend or family member in Versus Mode. The free update to the turn-based strategy game pits you and a competitor against each other on maps that get loaded with random items to spur the battle. Each of you gets to pick three characters that you can customize for the player-versus-player mode. The game, from Ubisoft, is a Nintendo Switch exclusive. Okami HD, the beautiful, charming action game in which you play as a wolf and have to defeat enemies by creating brush strokes and refreshing the landscape, has been remastered for PS4, Windows, and Xbox One. The artwork in the original 2006 release was stunning, and with modern graphics it's an absolute wonder. Thanks for this one, Capcom. Doom VFR from id Software and Bethesda brings the first-person shooter to PlayStation VR and HTC Vive. Hello Neighbor is a weird little game about sneaking into your neighbour's house. Because you think there's something in the basement and how else are you going to find out what it is? The catch is that the house is equipped with an artificial intelligence that learns how you're getting in and tries to put a stop to it. It's coming to Windows and Xbox One. Resident Evil 7 biohazard Gold Edition collects the game and all four downloadable content packs, including Not a Hero, which brings Chris Redfield back into the game. Available for PS4, Windows, and Xbox One. Dead Rising 4 has made the leap to PS4 with Frank's Big Package, which collects the game released last year for Xbox One and all the extras released since. Use these three Christmas celebration ideas, crafts, and more from children’s ministers just like you to make your holiday season special. Invite the families in your church to bring in their nativity sets from home. Set up the nativity sets on tables covered with tablecloths and candles. Make place cards with each family’s name by their set. Play Christmas music. Between worship services encourage families to see the different interpretations of Christ’s birth. At our Christmas Eve candlelight service, the children sang “Away in a Manger.” Two children portrayed Mary and Joseph. We shone a light on Mary and Joseph; the rest of the children’s choir held electric candles and stood to the left of the still-life nativity scene. To add to the “holy” atmosphere, I made stencils of a star and an angel. Then I projected them onto the wall above the still-life nativity with an overhead projector. It looked like the star and angel were shining over the stable in Bethlehem. It was a very simple concept, but the effect was beautiful and awe-inspiring. With this craft, children can celebrate the real meaning of Christmas. Have children tie the ribbon around the nail head and tie the ends of the ribbon into a knot so the ribbon forms a loop. Talk about how the babe in the manger was not only born for us, but he was born to die for us. Tell children that when they hang their ornaments on their trees, they can remember that Jesus died on a tree for us. 5 Building Blocks for Teaching Toddlers (+ 8 Critical Safety Tips)Christmas Bible Relay Game: Bethlehem or Bust! Long time HA guy. Started with Stanley X10 about 37 years ago. Moved to another X10 controller, the name of which I can't remember. Just too long ago. Then found the Ocelot and it was great. Moved to a new house 22 years ago and took my X10 with me. About 13 years ago the X10 modules started to fail, and so I made the move to Insteon using the ISY. Currently running the ISY at our house plus our recreational place. They have been great, with the only problem in the last 8 or 9 years being a couple of failed PLM modules. Now time to downsize. Started looking again to see what is new. Was seriously considering ST but decided as a tinkerer that it was too "appy" for me. Plus the cloud thing was scary. Was going to stick with ISY and the Zwave module, but thought it was time for a change

. Looked at Homeseer extensively and was getting ready to order when I saw a video mentioning Hubitat. Read the forums, made my lists of what I want to do, watched all the Hubitat tutorial videos and decided that the Hubitat will do all that I want it to do. It is ordered and am eager for it to arrive and get going. After over 37 years of doing HA, I am excited for this device. Welcome to Hubitat! My old man used to yell at me all the time for screwing around with his X10 sensors. Usually sneaking in and out the house. That was quite a system back then and most likely got me into tinkering with electronics. Welcome aboard! Always nice to have new folks with experience join the discussion! I started using X-10 a long time ago as well. I took a break from HA while we were raising 3 children. I have been back in the game since 2014 (i.e. the SmartThings early days) and jumped on the Hubitat bandwagon just over a year ago. It been a great platform and community. Welcome aboard! You're going to enjoy Hubitat. I wasn't so sure early on either, however once I got things up and running the way I wanted it to, I realized how great the platform is. You'll soon realize that hubs are like potato chips... You can't have just one. Or even just two, some people even need four. I'm still an Insteon user (about half my lights). HE communicates between the Insteon hub and Hubitat with a great little Node.js app that Scott Keuster from the SmartThings community has been improving of the last few years. It allows local control of Insteon dimmers and switches. Contacts, leak sensors and motion sensors inputs are in the works too. @jeubanks has his running via ISY and a node.js server. It's a simple thing to build. You can run it on a Raspberry Pi no problem. Very light weight app built on the HASS Home Controller work. If you're still using Insteon, and if you're interested, I was just posting about this last night. Download Share Anywhere APK installer version 7.9. This website offers a complete information about the APK file you are downloading. The first thing you have to read is the antivirus report, given by more than 50 trusted and recognized antivirus, followed is to verify if the developer is the one you are looking for, in many cases the apps or games may have the same name but not be the correct developer, you can also find latest APK versions available and system requirement needed to install, and more. Here you can make a direct download of original Android Apps andAndroid Games installers, without packed, wrapped or any modification, files contain the signature of the official developers. You could also download Share Anywherefrom official Android apps stores like Google Play Store or Amazon Appstore, but maybe some apps or games could be not available on this markets. As we strive to love God, all around us, every day, there is a constant battle for our minds. That is why we need to study the Word of God, so we can know the mind of God and what He expects of us and how He wants us to live. You’re not going to learn that by reading the daily newspaper, listening to talk radio, staring at a computer, or vegging in front of the TV. That’s a beautiful passage in the Word of God to describe why the Word of God is so unique. Because everything we read here in this life tends to be contrary to what God’s Word is saying. We need to wrap ourselves in the Word of God as a way of getting to know God, so that we can love God with our minds. Congratulations to the Lady Knights basketball team on winning their first-ever Tip-Off Tournament this past weekend by beating Penn State Scranton 69-45 andPenn State Mont Alto 61-47. In Friday's night game against Scranton, Ja’Lynn Burton led the team with 22 points, 11 rebounds and 5 assists. Hannah Brown and Alexis Pinnick each added 11 points. Leana Borreli had 8 points and 6 assists. Wislene Verna had 6 points and 2 steals. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard,” said Coach Kasey Hicks

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35 cm. Podlouhlé kališní lístky dlouhé 2 až 3 mm mají úzký bílý lem. Žluté nebo světložluté korunní lístky jsou dlouhé 4 až 6 mm a široké 1 až 1,5 mm. Kvete od května do června. Druh je hmyzosnubný, pyl přenášejí hlavně včely. Ploidie je 2n = 40. Plody jsou pukavé, široce obvejčité až hruškovité, nafouklé šešule bez čnící čnělky, které bývají dlouhé 6 až 10 mm a široké 3,5 až 5 mm. Vyrůstají na odstálých stopkách, často obloukovitě ohnutých. Chlopně zralých šešulí jsou tvrdé, vypouklé, se střední žilkou a síťovitou žilnatinou na povrchu. Šešule obsahují ve dvou řadách uložená drobná (1,5 až 2 mm dlouhá) elipsoidní oranžově žlutá semena bez endospermu. HTS se pohybuje mezi 1 až 2 gramy. Ekologie Počítá se mezi synantropní druhy rostlin, vyrůstá téměř na všech stanovištích, nedaří se ji pouze na kyselých a zamokřených půdách. Pokud má dostatek vlhkosti pro vyklíčení, může mít později i poměrně sucho. Při počáteční růstové fázi snese i nízké teploty. Její vegetační doba je krátká, jen 3,5 měsíce. Přirozeně roste na úhorech a polích, za příhodných podmínek vyroste mnoho jedinců pospolitě. Je světlomilná, při silném zastínění krní. Rozmnožuje se výhradně semeny, na jedné rostlině jich může dorůst i několik tisíc. Klíčí velmi nepravidelně, část jich vyklíčí na podzim téhož roku po uzrání a mladé rostlinky přezimují a v růstu pokračují brzy z jara. Jiná semena klíčí až na jaře a další skupina semen zůstává po několik let připravených v semenné bance v půdě k vyklíčení ve vhodnou dobu. V ČR je malý zájem o pěstování lničky seté, proto je registrováno jen málo vhodných odrůd. Pokud se týká šlechtění, patří tento druh mezi velmi plastické druhy, daří se získávat odrůdy s požadovanými vlastnostmi. Dozrává ještě před řepkou olejkou a sklízí se běžnými obilnými sklízecími mlátičkami. Význam Z dřívějších dob je lnička setá známa jako plevel v obilovinách a lnu, nyní je tato situace již minulostí. V současnosti se pěstuje pro semena obsahující 30 až 40 % vysychavého oleje. Z 1 ha se jich sklidí asi 1,5 až 2 t (řepka olejka 2,5 t/ha). V České republice se nyní téměř nepěstuje. Lničkový olej je svým složením podobný spí

35 cm. Podlouhlé kališní lístky dlouhé 2 až 3 mm mají úzký bílý lem. Žluté nebo světložluté korunní lístky jsou dlouhé 4 až 6 mm a široké 1 až 1,5 mm. Kvete od května do června. Druh je hmyzosnubný, pyl přenášejí hlavně včely. Ploidie je 2n = 40. Plody jsou pukavé, široce obvejčité až hruškovité, nafouklé šešule bez čnící čnělky, které bývají dlouhé 6 až 10 mm a široké 3,5 až 5 mm. Vyrůstají na odstálých stopkách, často obloukovitě ohnutých. Chlopně zralých šešulí jsou tvrdé, vypouklé, se střední žilkou a síťovitou žilnatinou na povrchu. Šešule obsahují ve dvou řadách uložená drobná (1,5 až 2 mm dlouhá) elipsoidní oranžově žlutá semena bez endospermu. HTS se pohybuje mezi 1 až 2 gramy. Ekologie Počítá se mezi synantropní druhy rostlin, vyrůstá téměř na všech stanovištích, nedaří se ji pouze na kyselých a zamokřených půdách. Pokud má dostatek vlhkosti pro vyklíčení, může mít později i poměrně sucho. Při počáteční růstové fázi snese i nízké teploty. Její vegetační doba je krátká, jen 3,5 měsíce. Přirozeně roste na úhorech a polích, za příhodných podmínek vyroste mnoho jedinců pospolitě. Je světlomilná, při silném zastínění krní. Rozmnožuje se výhradně semeny, na jedné rostlině jich může dorůst i několik tisíc. Klíčí velmi nepravidelně, část jich vyklíčí na podzim téhož roku po uzrání a mladé rostlinky přezimují a v růstu pokračují brzy z jara. Jiná semena klíčí až na jaře a další skupina semen zůstává po několik let připravených v semenné bance v půdě k vyklíčení ve vhodnou dobu. V ČR je malý zájem o pěstování lničky seté, proto je registrováno jen málo vhodných odrůd. Pokud se týká šlechtění, patří tento druh mezi velmi plastické druhy, daří se získávat odrůdy s požadovanými vlastnostmi. Dozrává ještě před řepkou olejkou a sklízí se běžnými obilnými sklízecími mlátičkami. Význam Z dřívějších dob je lnička setá známa jako plevel v obilovinách a lnu, nyní je tato situace již minulostí. V současnosti se pěstuje pro semena obsahující 30 až 40 % vysychavého oleje. Z 1 ha se jich sklidí asi 1,5 až 2 t (řepka olejka 2,5 t/ha). V České republice se nyní téměř nepěstuje. Lničkový olej je svým složením podobný spí

še lněnému než řepkovému oleji. Má vysoký obsah kyseliny linolové, a proto může rychle podlehnout oxidaci, obsahuje téměř shodné množství vitamínu E jako řepkový nebo lněný a má relativně vysoký obsah cholesterolu. Surový olej je vzhledově i chuťově nevyhovující, musí se rafinovat. Olej je velmi vhodný i pro technické účely. Nyní se používá dovážený olej v kosmetice (mýdla, krémy atd.) a jako komponenty pro bionaftu, laky, barvy a fermeže. Lničkový olej lze využít jako zdroj v naší stravě nedostatkových omega 3 mastných kyselin ve studené kuchyni, případně v doplňcích stravy. Lničkový olej obsahuje i menší množství kyseliny erukové. Nařízení Komise (ES) č. 1881/2006 v platném znění povoluje obsah kyseliny erukové u lničkového oleje do 5 %, což více než u řepkového oleje. Podle nařízení Komise (EU) č. 2017/2017 (Katalog pro krmné směsi) lze semeno lničky, pokrutiny (výlisky, expelery) a extrakční šroty přidávat do krmných směsí. S některými kultivary lničky seté je také uvažováno jako s potenciální energetickou rostlinou, rychle roste a má slámu vhodnou pro spalování. Taxonomie Ve volné přírodě Česka se lnička setá vyskytuje ve dvou poddruzích, jeden je původní a druhý byl introdukován. Lnička setá pravá (Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz subsp. sativa, jarní forma; původní, Lnička setá Zingerova (Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz subsp. zingeri (Mirek) Smejkal, podzimní forma, mohutnější rostlina s více semeny; neofyt. Ohrožení Intenzifikací zemědělství, čistěním osiva a dodržováním agrotechnických opatření volně rostoucí lnička setá postupně mizela ze svých tradičních stanovišť. V roce 2000 byly "Černým a červeným seznamem cévnatých rostlin České republiky" oba její poddruhy prohlášené za nezvěstné taxony (A2). Novější obdobná publikace "Seznam cévnatých rostlin květeny České republiky" z roku 2012 se o nezvěstností nebo ohrožení lničky seté již nezmiňuje. Reference Externí odkazy Flora of North America: Camelina sativa Brukvovité Olejniny Nepůvodní flóra Česka Flóra Číny Flóra Indického subkontinentu Flóra jihovýchodní Evropy Flóra jihozápadní Asie Flóra Kavkazu Flóra Mongolska Flóra ruského Dálného východu Flóra Sibiře Flóra Střední Asie Flóra střední Evropy Flóra východní Evropy The Calthorpe Clinic, (now Marie Stopes International Birmingham), was an abortion clinic in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England that first opened in 1969. It was the first clinic in the United Kingdom opened exclusively for abortions

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humor in the chatroom is probably most similar to my sense of humor, so chatting with him felt natural Seven has a really rich and compelling backstory that explains how he became an agent and got to know V and Rika Seven’s relationship with his brother adds a lot of emotion to the story This route has the best explanation of who the hacker is and why he’s targeting RFA All of the other RFA members are really concerned about MC’s safety, and it’s adorable I especially liked Jumin’s role in this route, especially when they learn the truth about V (though his reaction definitely makes more sense if you have already played Jumin’s route) There are a lot of visual novel scenes and face-to-face interactions with Seven in this route You finally learn 707’s real name! Yes! Honestly, I’m not a fan of the “I’m going to make you hate me to protect you” trope 707 opens up really suddenly — it’s like a switch is flipped — and I would have preferred it to be more gradual I understand they do this for the sake of storytelling, but 707 calls and texts MC even when they’re in the same room! We learn V was involved with Mint Eye, but we do not learn exactly how he became involved or how it connects to Rika Fewer opportunities to interact with other members of RFA through chats You don’t actually attend the party or meet the other members of RFA in this route I didn’t feel the art scenes in this route were as well done as in Jumin’s Some tips for getting the Good Ending on 707’s route are: Choose the options that express trust in Seven’s decision-making as often as you can Do not allow him to push you away emotionally — it can be painful, but resist walking away! (this is most important!!) Ask for details about his life; he will respond sharply, but appreciate it (you’ll still earn hearts) You can joke around with him, but don’t only joke around; make it clear you see him as Saeyoung, not just 707 Listen to his suggestions about your safety and express happiness at being with him This route has a lot of “hubby” options…please, for the love of God Seven, don’t click those Trust V as much as possible, until his betrayal is finally revealed I also urge you to read 707’s After Ending. Unlike Jumin’s, it’s not for the sexy visual novel scene; it’s for the ambiguous conclusion. On Seven’s route, you can unlock additional content that comes after the conclusion of the story. I haven’t read it yet, but I’m told that the After Ending is important to understanding the basis for that conclusion. Zen is a musical actor with narcissistic tendencies but a loving heart. As Jaehee says when you ask her about Zen, he’s a 24-year-old workaholic with a dirty mouth yet he cares a lot about the people around him. You can feel the depth of that care in Zen’s route, when he comes to MC’s rescue more than once. TBH, I dreaded playing this route, because I didn’t want to alienate Jaehee and I wasn’t a huge fan of Zen in other routes (especially Jumin’s route). However, I was pleasantly surprised by the depth of the story and of Zen’s character! In Zen’s route, the main conflicts of the story are 1) keeping MC safe from the hacker and 2) a major PR scandal involving Echo Girl, his co-star on an upcoming project. Minor themes in the story include his estrangement from his family and Jaehee’s feelings for him (which she tries unsuccessfully to deny). If Zen is unsufferable on Jumin’s route, Jaehee is even worse on Zen’s route, given her disapproval of MC and her lack of any substantial evidence to back up her suspicion. However, Zen’s adorable dialogue throughout the route more than makes up for the suffering I experienced at Jaehee’s hands. The most problematic part of this route, IMO, was the rampant sexism. Zen is a sexist character in many of the other routes

humor in the chatroom is probably most similar to my sense of humor, so chatting with him felt natural Seven has a really rich and compelling backstory that explains how he became an agent and got to know V and Rika Seven’s relationship with his brother adds a lot of emotion to the story This route has the best explanation of who the hacker is and why he’s targeting RFA All of the other RFA members are really concerned about MC’s safety, and it’s adorable I especially liked Jumin’s role in this route, especially when they learn the truth about V (though his reaction definitely makes more sense if you have already played Jumin’s route) There are a lot of visual novel scenes and face-to-face interactions with Seven in this route You finally learn 707’s real name! Yes! Honestly, I’m not a fan of the “I’m going to make you hate me to protect you” trope 707 opens up really suddenly — it’s like a switch is flipped — and I would have preferred it to be more gradual I understand they do this for the sake of storytelling, but 707 calls and texts MC even when they’re in the same room! We learn V was involved with Mint Eye, but we do not learn exactly how he became involved or how it connects to Rika Fewer opportunities to interact with other members of RFA through chats You don’t actually attend the party or meet the other members of RFA in this route I didn’t feel the art scenes in this route were as well done as in Jumin’s Some tips for getting the Good Ending on 707’s route are: Choose the options that express trust in Seven’s decision-making as often as you can Do not allow him to push you away emotionally — it can be painful, but resist walking away! (this is most important!!) Ask for details about his life; he will respond sharply, but appreciate it (you’ll still earn hearts) You can joke around with him, but don’t only joke around; make it clear you see him as Saeyoung, not just 707 Listen to his suggestions about your safety and express happiness at being with him This route has a lot of “hubby” options…please, for the love of God Seven, don’t click those Trust V as much as possible, until his betrayal is finally revealed I also urge you to read 707’s After Ending. Unlike Jumin’s, it’s not for the sexy visual novel scene; it’s for the ambiguous conclusion. On Seven’s route, you can unlock additional content that comes after the conclusion of the story. I haven’t read it yet, but I’m told that the After Ending is important to understanding the basis for that conclusion. Zen is a musical actor with narcissistic tendencies but a loving heart. As Jaehee says when you ask her about Zen, he’s a 24-year-old workaholic with a dirty mouth yet he cares a lot about the people around him. You can feel the depth of that care in Zen’s route, when he comes to MC’s rescue more than once. TBH, I dreaded playing this route, because I didn’t want to alienate Jaehee and I wasn’t a huge fan of Zen in other routes (especially Jumin’s route). However, I was pleasantly surprised by the depth of the story and of Zen’s character! In Zen’s route, the main conflicts of the story are 1) keeping MC safe from the hacker and 2) a major PR scandal involving Echo Girl, his co-star on an upcoming project. Minor themes in the story include his estrangement from his family and Jaehee’s feelings for him (which she tries unsuccessfully to deny). If Zen is unsufferable on Jumin’s route, Jaehee is even worse on Zen’s route, given her disapproval of MC and her lack of any substantial evidence to back up her suspicion. However, Zen’s adorable dialogue throughout the route more than makes up for the suffering I experienced at Jaehee’s hands. The most problematic part of this route, IMO, was the rampant sexism. Zen is a sexist character in many of the other routes

, but in this route, you discover that he’s also a hypocrite. Despite all of his ranting about MC staying overnight with Jumin and other characters, Zen has no trouble at all asking MC to stay the night or voicing his fantasies about her. I have no problems with them staying together in and of itself, but the fact that living together before marriage is treated by many of the characters as sinful in multiple storylines feels outdated and, frankly, unrealistic. Again, I wrote this off as a product of cultural differences between the U.S. and Korea, but I couldn’t just forget about the sexism in the story — especially not on Zen’s route. You see, the major conflict between Zen and Echo Girl results from false sexual harassment allegations Echo Girl makes about Zen. While it’s an effective plot device in that it succeeds in sending Zen to rock bottom, this storyline completely contradicts my beliefs surrounding women and sexual harassment. This story casts doubts on women’s stories about public figures, suggesting that men are the victims in these situations. I understand what the developers were trying to do; I just don’t think it was the right plot device to use in this day and age. Zen has some of the sweetest dialogue of any of the characters in any of the routes Zen is one of the only characters with a rational reaction to the bomb in Rika’s apartment (i.e. he runs to MC regardless of reason, as opposed to encouraging her to “just trust V”) Zen’s backstory with his family reveals a lack of confidence that explains his narcissistic behavior, making it easier to empathize with him in this and other routes It’s easy to tell in this route whether or not you are making the “right” choices to get the good ending I LOVED Zen’s relationship with Jumin in this route, and MC’s relationship with Jumin as a result!! This is a personal opinion, but I love Zen’s use of pet names like “babe” or “honey” — it made me melt! There were a lot of art scenes in this route and they were all really well done Echo Girl’s storyline undermines women who come forward to report sexual harassment and assault. The women who come forward are more often the victims than the men accused, and this story portrays Zen as the victim. Yes, he didn’t do anything, but I see no reason to cast doubt on women’s stories like this Jaehee, Jaehee, Jaehee… I understand she’s in love with Zen, but I wanted to drop-kick her by the end It gets a bit old listening to Zen talk about how his looks are God’s gift to humanity (and having to play along with it) A bit like in Jumin’s route, there isn’t as much anticipation built up for the party because it’s overshadowed by Zen’s press conference Some tips for getting the Good Ending on Zen’s route are: Stroke Zen’s ego at every opportunity Make it clear you see his talent and not just his looks; don’t force him to give up his career for you (this is most important!!) Ask for details about his family; express empathy but encourage him to reach out to them Say you want to go visit Zen when he hurts his ankle Counter Jaehee’s concerns about Zen having a relationship without outwardly attacking her or the fans… this gets really frustrating, because you want to accuse her of being a jealous b*tch after the way she acts. But, if you want the Good Ending, then resist that urge! Encourage Zen to come save you from the hacker and express trust in RFA Avoid any option that says “Zenny,” as a general rule — these often appear in serious situations, when it’s not the right time to flirt Stay optimistic about Zen’s career, even when everything goes to sh*t After playing all four routes, I came to the following conclusions: Jumin was my favorite character. Zen’s route had the best romance. 707’s route had the best story. It’s difficult to choose a favorite route of these four, because they’re all so good for such different reasons. But, if I could only play one route ever again, I would pick Jumin’s route

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than they are in the print magazine. Like the artist Richard Prince before him, though, Moody walks a fine line in these works between purely fetishizing a woman’s body and providing a self-critical portrait of this very act. Perhaps their success as artworks is the inability of the viewer to reach a synthesis or conclusion in regard to which side of that line they exist on. Through the early 2000s, Moody would continue to work in many different veins, both on and off the computer, in most cases combining processes occurring in both locations. One of his most familiar icons, the molecular model, is an apt metaphor for this approach to artistic process between virtual and physical space. The molecular model is a unified structure composed of at least two discrete parts that is itself part of a larger structure. One work, style, or location of work can be thought of as one node or one atom in a larger network or molecular structure. Taking a cue from the artist Gerhard Richter, the heterogeneity of this larger network is, in part, where the art in Moody’s project occurs. His serial patterns of spheres or atoms, in which the focus is on a multiplicity of atoms in a larger pattern as opposed to a single atom, can be thought of in a similar way. Within this rhizomatic structure, though, one of the modes of production Moody returned to quite often is the one he developed in his temp office job—creating imagery in a piece of software, printing (and often re-printing…and further re-printing) the image out onto relatively inexpensive consumer-quality printer paper, cutting it up into asymmetrical shapes, and finally re-combining these shapes using linen tape on the back surface into large, optically-charged rectangular paintings. As this body of work developed, the patterns became more varied and visually maximized, developing into intense compositions with echoes of Russian Constructivism and late Kandinsky. Additionally, the paper he worked with became increasingly white in color—a reference to his own vocational shift from the corporate office to the home office. At around the time that these works achieved a level of self-consciousness within Moody’s project, though, he began to focus elsewhere, exploring the animated GIF file as a robust Internet-native art media. Moody had long posted digital drawings and paintings onto his blog, but with the GIF he found a more immediately powerful tool to make paintings expressly for the screen. GIFs are short, looping animations, composed of a relatively small amount of frames and file size. They have been a part of the vernacular visual lexicon of the Internet since the earliest days of the World Wide Web and have recently seen a surge of interest amongst digital natives on platforms like Tumblr and the website dump.fm. Part of the appeal (or, for some, lack thereof) of GIFs is the sense that they are aggressively, endlessly instantaneous and, hence, work well for communicating lowest common denominator images and ideas. However, this very crudeness also makes them particularly robust files to distribute socially, giving them a potential political efficacy that resonates with Walter Benjamin’s understanding of photography and cinema in the early 20th century. Moody’s embrace of the GIF came through the use of his pioneering art blog (that itself was the subject of a 2007 exhibition, “Blog,” at artMovingProjects in Brooklyn). He found that, as an Internet native media, GIFs, in a way, effectively cut out the middle man to showing paintings online. A photograph of a painting is often a poor substitute for the phenomenological impact of a “real” painting. If one’s painting is going to be viewed far more often in the context of a website or blog (as Moody’s work was) than why not make digital paintings? Furthermore, why not make those digital paintings move, catching the hyper-wandering Internet surfer’s eye? And, finally, why not use a file type associated with viral Internet meme culture, providing the paintings with a dynamic life outside of the artist’s website? With these points in mind, Moody began to experiment with GIFs. Like his ink jet painting works, the GIFs embrace visual immediacy, pixelation hearkening to a form of technological obsolescence, and a rigorous economy of materials that result in a certain roughness in appearance. One of his most widely-viewed GIFs (and, if not the first, among the

than they are in the print magazine. Like the artist Richard Prince before him, though, Moody walks a fine line in these works between purely fetishizing a woman’s body and providing a self-critical portrait of this very act. Perhaps their success as artworks is the inability of the viewer to reach a synthesis or conclusion in regard to which side of that line they exist on. Through the early 2000s, Moody would continue to work in many different veins, both on and off the computer, in most cases combining processes occurring in both locations. One of his most familiar icons, the molecular model, is an apt metaphor for this approach to artistic process between virtual and physical space. The molecular model is a unified structure composed of at least two discrete parts that is itself part of a larger structure. One work, style, or location of work can be thought of as one node or one atom in a larger network or molecular structure. Taking a cue from the artist Gerhard Richter, the heterogeneity of this larger network is, in part, where the art in Moody’s project occurs. His serial patterns of spheres or atoms, in which the focus is on a multiplicity of atoms in a larger pattern as opposed to a single atom, can be thought of in a similar way. Within this rhizomatic structure, though, one of the modes of production Moody returned to quite often is the one he developed in his temp office job—creating imagery in a piece of software, printing (and often re-printing…and further re-printing) the image out onto relatively inexpensive consumer-quality printer paper, cutting it up into asymmetrical shapes, and finally re-combining these shapes using linen tape on the back surface into large, optically-charged rectangular paintings. As this body of work developed, the patterns became more varied and visually maximized, developing into intense compositions with echoes of Russian Constructivism and late Kandinsky. Additionally, the paper he worked with became increasingly white in color—a reference to his own vocational shift from the corporate office to the home office. At around the time that these works achieved a level of self-consciousness within Moody’s project, though, he began to focus elsewhere, exploring the animated GIF file as a robust Internet-native art media. Moody had long posted digital drawings and paintings onto his blog, but with the GIF he found a more immediately powerful tool to make paintings expressly for the screen. GIFs are short, looping animations, composed of a relatively small amount of frames and file size. They have been a part of the vernacular visual lexicon of the Internet since the earliest days of the World Wide Web and have recently seen a surge of interest amongst digital natives on platforms like Tumblr and the website dump.fm. Part of the appeal (or, for some, lack thereof) of GIFs is the sense that they are aggressively, endlessly instantaneous and, hence, work well for communicating lowest common denominator images and ideas. However, this very crudeness also makes them particularly robust files to distribute socially, giving them a potential political efficacy that resonates with Walter Benjamin’s understanding of photography and cinema in the early 20th century. Moody’s embrace of the GIF came through the use of his pioneering art blog (that itself was the subject of a 2007 exhibition, “Blog,” at artMovingProjects in Brooklyn). He found that, as an Internet native media, GIFs, in a way, effectively cut out the middle man to showing paintings online. A photograph of a painting is often a poor substitute for the phenomenological impact of a “real” painting. If one’s painting is going to be viewed far more often in the context of a website or blog (as Moody’s work was) than why not make digital paintings? Furthermore, why not make those digital paintings move, catching the hyper-wandering Internet surfer’s eye? And, finally, why not use a file type associated with viral Internet meme culture, providing the paintings with a dynamic life outside of the artist’s website? With these points in mind, Moody began to experiment with GIFs. Like his ink jet painting works, the GIFs embrace visual immediacy, pixelation hearkening to a form of technological obsolescence, and a rigorous economy of materials that result in a certain roughness in appearance. One of his most widely-viewed GIFs (and, if not the first, among the

first GIFs to be purchased explicitly as a work of art), is OptiDisc (2007). This is an eighteen-frame animation depicting concentric circles that alternate at uneven intervals in color from black to red to blue to white, creating a crude, but hypnotic effect. The work resembles a target, a Modern art favorite famously used by Jasper Johns and Kenneth Noland. However, while Moody’s target possesses the same sort of visual punch that these others painters generated, there is also an embedded commentary about progress, be it technological or artistic, occurring here. Through the use of pixelated imagery, a pointedly small file size, and the uneven temporal intervals of the circles’ alterations in color, OptiDisc is at once both dynamic and pathetic, visceral and antiquated. This tension is what makes it interesting to think of as a work of contemporary art. The critic/curator Paddy Johnson, in her commentary on the work in the “Graphic Interchange File” exhibition text, writes that the GIF’s “emotive qualities last only as long as Moody allows a reverence for technology – in Moody’s world modernism is only an afterimage, its spirit eventually replaced by mechanical functionality.” Recently, Moody has continued to work with GIFs and also created a series of large glossy prints made with Paintbrush, Paint, and Photoshop. These prints feature complex layers of abstract iconography, much of which is created with a “spray paint” tool, as well as the representation of a crudely-drawn brick wall that functions as both a reference to the Modernist grid and to a wall tagged with graffiti. This blurring of the polish of Modern art and the rough, democratic aesthetic of street art is a fitting description of Moody’s artistic project in general. One of the acknowledged inspirations for his painting process comes from cyberpunk literature. As Moody describes it, cyberpunk inherited the British New Wave’s dystopian, yet hauntingly beautiful, near-future science-fiction vision, mixed it with a dose of cutting-edge computer science, and threw in the science-fiction novelist Samuel R. Delaney’s “street kid” protagonist, resulting in a scrappy form of visionary pop. One can see Moody, then, as a breed of cyberpunk artist–critically exploring the new, avoiding pretension, and approaching authenticity. Tags: art, bio, computer, cyberpunk, default, digital, gif, lo fi, microsoft, nasty nets, new media, paint, paintbrush, painting, photoshop, print, spray paint, studio, tom moody Posted in tommoody | Comments Off 0100101110101101.org (1) aids3d (1) artievierkant (1) benschumacher (2) bradtinmouth (1) charlesbroskoski (4) chriscoy (2) constantdullaart (1) coryarcangel (7) damonzucconi (5) dennisknopf (3) guthrielonergan (5) harmvandendorpel (3) hayleysilverman (2) jodi (1) joelholmberg (2) jonrafman (2) joshsmith (1) karialtmann (7) kevinbewersdorf (6) lancewakeling (1) louieschumacher (1) marisaolson (8) martijnhendriks (2) martinkohout (1) michaelbellsmith (2) michaelmandiberg (1) mikeberadino (1) nastynets (2) oliverlaric (2) parkerito (2) pascualsisto (1) paulslocum (1) petracortright (1) postercompany (2) ryantrecartin (2) sethprice (4) shanamoulton (1) tobiasmadison (1) tommoody (1) travishallenbeck (1) whitneyclaflin (1) Post Internet is proudly powered by

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that it is racist, homophobic, xenophobic, conspiratorial and other labels deliberately selected to create fear through the use of social media and networks to send frightening messages to citizens and gain positive public opinion? and thereby attempt to kill this social movement? Is the establishment of the so-called "great debate" a backdoor way for the LREM to campaign for the European... presidential elections? Is the time allotted to the President during this campaign in accordance with the rules of the CSA? These are all questions that the Human Rights Defenders did not answer. Action is also under way before the International Criminal Court to ensure that the President and the Minister of the Interior are sanctioned accordingly in view of all the abuses already denounced by Amnesty International and the UN. Reinforced by the following: online availability of a collective complaint form: https://forms.gle/FiqnvTcamfmvXJYg9 Facebook page of the initiative: https://www.facebook.com/events/701384743641140/ In any case, the Yellow Vest Movement has made it possible to highlight certain well-known dysfunctions in our society that have been denounced by some for years. It has given strength, courage to all those who did not dare to stop unsustainable working conditions, difficult living conditions and to communicate on causes hitherto ignored or it has allowed those who were already doing so to find the strength to continue fighting. It has made it possible to bring together profiles that did not meet before because of their differences and that today work together and set up social projects with the same objective: to get out of this system, no longer to be dependent on it but to be active in it for a better life. It is therefore important to remember as soon as possible that many projects have emerged from this movement, aimed at gradually changing this brutal system in which we live. Knowing that despite what is happening, the Government refuses to discuss and take into account the proposals posted on the platform of the Real Debate but also to respond to the workers' demands. It is clear that it could take measures to address the most pressing issues and work over the long term on issues whose immediate feasibility is not possible. The problem we have is that he doesn't have the will. It is therefore up to us to ensure that our way of life improves, to ensure that we supervise our employees, the members of the Government, to create our own structures and control bodies, to change our consumption habits, in short to co-construct our future. For my part, as long as I could, I would continue to fight. State agencies look to KU Med for help with psychiatrist shortage By BEN UNGLESBEE, The Lawrence Journal-World A widespread shortage of psychiatrists throughout the state has some state agencies looking to the Kansas University Medical Center for help in training more. Shawn Sullivan, secretary of the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, said his agency recently hired a consultant to review its operations. The consultant found that the agency, which manages three hospitals and contracts with 27 community mental health centers, needed to budget for more than three extra psychiatrists to meet its service needs. "The problem with that is we can't even come close to filling the psychiatrists that we have budgeted," Sullivan said. Throughout the state all but five counties — Douglas, Johnson, Sedgwick, Shawnee and Wyandotte — are federally designated mental health professional shortage areas. William F. Gabrielli, who chairs KU Med's psychiatry department, said rural areas have trouble attracting psychiatrists because the incomes are lower, there are fewer jobs available for working spouses and there is "less of a community of doctors," making practice more difficult without a professional network. Broken pipelines Gabrielli also attributed the shortage of psychiatrists to changes in a state program that once provided incentives for psychiatry students who promised to work in underserved areas after graduation. The program has since been narrowed by the state to excluded psychiatry and other specialties. Additionally, Sullivan pointed to the loss of Topeka's Menninger Clinic, a world-renowned psychiatric clinic that moved to Houston in 2003, as another broken pipeline for trained psychiatrists. Sullivan's department and other state ag

that it is racist, homophobic, xenophobic, conspiratorial and other labels deliberately selected to create fear through the use of social media and networks to send frightening messages to citizens and gain positive public opinion? and thereby attempt to kill this social movement? Is the establishment of the so-called "great debate" a backdoor way for the LREM to campaign for the European... presidential elections? Is the time allotted to the President during this campaign in accordance with the rules of the CSA? These are all questions that the Human Rights Defenders did not answer. Action is also under way before the International Criminal Court to ensure that the President and the Minister of the Interior are sanctioned accordingly in view of all the abuses already denounced by Amnesty International and the UN. Reinforced by the following: online availability of a collective complaint form: https://forms.gle/FiqnvTcamfmvXJYg9 Facebook page of the initiative: https://www.facebook.com/events/701384743641140/ In any case, the Yellow Vest Movement has made it possible to highlight certain well-known dysfunctions in our society that have been denounced by some for years. It has given strength, courage to all those who did not dare to stop unsustainable working conditions, difficult living conditions and to communicate on causes hitherto ignored or it has allowed those who were already doing so to find the strength to continue fighting. It has made it possible to bring together profiles that did not meet before because of their differences and that today work together and set up social projects with the same objective: to get out of this system, no longer to be dependent on it but to be active in it for a better life. It is therefore important to remember as soon as possible that many projects have emerged from this movement, aimed at gradually changing this brutal system in which we live. Knowing that despite what is happening, the Government refuses to discuss and take into account the proposals posted on the platform of the Real Debate but also to respond to the workers' demands. It is clear that it could take measures to address the most pressing issues and work over the long term on issues whose immediate feasibility is not possible. The problem we have is that he doesn't have the will. It is therefore up to us to ensure that our way of life improves, to ensure that we supervise our employees, the members of the Government, to create our own structures and control bodies, to change our consumption habits, in short to co-construct our future. For my part, as long as I could, I would continue to fight. State agencies look to KU Med for help with psychiatrist shortage By BEN UNGLESBEE, The Lawrence Journal-World A widespread shortage of psychiatrists throughout the state has some state agencies looking to the Kansas University Medical Center for help in training more. Shawn Sullivan, secretary of the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, said his agency recently hired a consultant to review its operations. The consultant found that the agency, which manages three hospitals and contracts with 27 community mental health centers, needed to budget for more than three extra psychiatrists to meet its service needs. "The problem with that is we can't even come close to filling the psychiatrists that we have budgeted," Sullivan said. Throughout the state all but five counties — Douglas, Johnson, Sedgwick, Shawnee and Wyandotte — are federally designated mental health professional shortage areas. William F. Gabrielli, who chairs KU Med's psychiatry department, said rural areas have trouble attracting psychiatrists because the incomes are lower, there are fewer jobs available for working spouses and there is "less of a community of doctors," making practice more difficult without a professional network. Broken pipelines Gabrielli also attributed the shortage of psychiatrists to changes in a state program that once provided incentives for psychiatry students who promised to work in underserved areas after graduation. The program has since been narrowed by the state to excluded psychiatry and other specialties. Additionally, Sullivan pointed to the loss of Topeka's Menninger Clinic, a world-renowned psychiatric clinic that moved to Houston in 2003, as another broken pipeline for trained psychiatrists. Sullivan's department and other state ag

encies are trying to reverse the loss. In the short term, some of the state's mental health needs can be met by telemedicine, Sullivan said. But in the long term his department wants to see an increase in psychiatrists coming out of KU Med, the state's only public medical school. Making that happen wouldn't be easy or cheap. Gabrielli said the school currently has about 10 general psychiatry residencies for each year's class. That's a small fraction of total medical residencies at KU Med. Making matters more difficult, each psychiatry residency costs KU Med about $100,000. "People have come to me and asked, 'Can you add another 10 doctors?'" Gabrielli said. "That would be a huge undertaking." Expanding training Gabrielli suggested that a rural training track could be set up to train students at community mental health centers, state hospitals and other mental health providers across the state. That would require finding capable mentors, housing for students and a host of other logistical details, but Gabrielli thinks it could be done for roughly the same amount of money as a residency in the current system. Gabrielli and Sullivan both said covering some education costs for students who practice in rural areas in the state could also help alleviate the shortage. Officials in the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services and other agencies have approached Gabrielli with questions about increasing the number of residents at KU Med, he said. "The discussions are early." Sullivan said he plans on having detailed discussions with Gabrielli and others at the Med Center in the coming weeks. Ultimately Sullivan and others would need to go to the Kansas Board of Regents and the Legislature. Conversations at the legislative level could begin soon, though Sullivan doesn't anticipate winning approval for expanded psychiatry training by the start of the next fiscal year. For now the state might have to keep scraping along without the psychiatrists it needs. "This has been a problem that's been growing for both hospitals and the mental health centers for the last couple years," Sullivan said. "We've increased pay… but we're still not having much success with recruitment or retention." Posted by Nick Sloan at 9:01 AM Labels: Health, KU Medical Center Happy Foods Ad Disqus for The Kansas City Kansan Legends OB/GYN Boulevard Limousine Holy Name Catholic School Apple Moves Mac Pro Production to China The $6,000 desktop computer had been the company’s only major device assembled in the U.S. Trade tensions are disrupting supply chains in China that have churned out electronics such as Apple's iPhone and Nintendo's Switch. Now companies are considering a move out of the country. Photo composite: Sharon Shi By Tripp Mickle and Yoko Kubota @Kubota_Yoko [email protected] June 28, 2019 9:32 am ET Apple Inc. is manufacturing its new Mac Pro computer in China, according to people familiar with its plans, shifting abroad production of what had been its only major device assembled in the U.S. as trade tensions escalate between the Trump administration and Beijing. The tech giant has tapped Taiwanese contractor Quanta Computer Inc. to manufacture the $6,000 desktop computer and is ramping up production at a factory near Shanghai, the people said. Apple can save on shipping costs for components given the proximity of many of its suppliers to Shanghai, rather than having to supply a factory in the U.S. While the Mac Pro isn’t one of Apple’s higher-volume products, the decision on where to make it carries outsize significance. Apple’s reliance on factories in China to manufacture its products has been an issue for the company, especially under President Trump, who has pressured Apple and other companies to make more in the U.S. With the previous Mac Pro model, released in 2013, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook trumpeted plans to build it in the U.S. Apple invested $100 million in tooling and other equipment for a plant in Austin, Texas, run by contract manufacturer Flex Ltd

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Returned Unwanted: Short Story of a So-Called Fallen Woman August 25, 2015 Uncategorizeda dark legacy, Catholic institution, convent, escape, fear, hope for healing, imprisonment, Ireland, loss, Magdalene laundries, memories, past life, reformatory, searching for meaning, short story, survival, unwanted girlsÉilis Niamh Crouched behind the boxes, the frightened girl huddles further into herself. She decides her head can’t be seen above the dusty wood. The dank cloying scent of encroaching mildew assaults her nostrils. Obviously, her parents and siblings have not lived here for some time, the house as left behind, as bereft of care and warmth as she. Small fingers and dainty hands grasp tighter around her knees. She has managed to crawl carefully, making no noise as she moved. Despite the tense atmosphere about her, she smiles cautiously at her accomplishment. Somewhere in the small corner of her psyche she notes that her smile has not been instantly slapped from her face. At this realization, she smiles again. . Her drab colored skirt spills in folds upon the floor, hiding her long nickers and rounded shoes beneath. Painfully slowly, she sucks in musty air to catch her breath. Too slowly. Her head spins dangerously. She has been running for a fortnight. Each cold fireless night she spent scavenging for table scraps from strangers who pitied her. Some had offered for her to stay the night, and always she refused. She was certain someone would match her to the picture of the missing runaway; it was a risk she could not afford to take. So far, upon each morning, she awoke stiff and shivering, but still a free person. Free? Was this what freedom would be like, then, days of silent screaming fear? She has no other reference point from which to answer the question. But she knows it is better, much better, than what she left behind. She had run across the cobbled courtyard and passed through the heavy iron gate, surprisingly left unbolted, unscathed. Hurrying straight for the dormitory had been a mistake, but an understandable one. She can only vaguely recall a life outside the confines of the reformatory, and what she recalls of it, she wishes to forget, just like her family chose to forget her. As much as the girl needed to hide, become invisible forever, part of her longed to be recognized, to have her name kindly spoken. She dared not hope she would be loved. But she did dare one last glance at the place, however repugnant. At least it had once been her shelter. She would not speak of it as home. She has never had a home. But the dormmates didn’t recognize her. She had spent too many years trapped within the penitentury’s high forbidding walls, a fallen woman who was told she was worthless and deserved the treatment she got, who dared to disagree. Strict rules and barbed words were not good enough for her then, but solid bars. Those hands which built such high and mighty convent walls blessed the forsaken who entered them within inches of their lives. And yet they have not won, not yet, the girl thinks now to herself. By the blood in her veins, she is still living. At least, within this meager existence of hunger and terror, she can choose the circumstances of her confinement, she can breathe in the cold morning air, she is allowed to think and to move and run. She can run through her confusion and her grief and her shame and her pain, and exhaust the memories out of her body. She could… Thoughts are interrupted. A board creaks above her head. Her heart almost stops beating. She knew her small taste of freedom couldn’t last long. Someone would see her and turn her in. But so soon? Should she try to run? She almost makes a bolt for the door. She knows doing so will make noise and give away her position, and worse things happen to those caught running than found hiding. With a sense of despair, she chooses to stay. She is weak in body and spirit now, she knows she will be outrun. The sisters will overturn the whole house until they discover her. Then they will take her back with them in chains. She refuses to think about what might happen after that. She does not know.

Returned Unwanted: Short Story of a So-Called Fallen Woman August 25, 2015 Uncategorizeda dark legacy, Catholic institution, convent, escape, fear, hope for healing, imprisonment, Ireland, loss, Magdalene laundries, memories, past life, reformatory, searching for meaning, short story, survival, unwanted girlsÉilis Niamh Crouched behind the boxes, the frightened girl huddles further into herself. She decides her head can’t be seen above the dusty wood. The dank cloying scent of encroaching mildew assaults her nostrils. Obviously, her parents and siblings have not lived here for some time, the house as left behind, as bereft of care and warmth as she. Small fingers and dainty hands grasp tighter around her knees. She has managed to crawl carefully, making no noise as she moved. Despite the tense atmosphere about her, she smiles cautiously at her accomplishment. Somewhere in the small corner of her psyche she notes that her smile has not been instantly slapped from her face. At this realization, she smiles again. . Her drab colored skirt spills in folds upon the floor, hiding her long nickers and rounded shoes beneath. Painfully slowly, she sucks in musty air to catch her breath. Too slowly. Her head spins dangerously. She has been running for a fortnight. Each cold fireless night she spent scavenging for table scraps from strangers who pitied her. Some had offered for her to stay the night, and always she refused. She was certain someone would match her to the picture of the missing runaway; it was a risk she could not afford to take. So far, upon each morning, she awoke stiff and shivering, but still a free person. Free? Was this what freedom would be like, then, days of silent screaming fear? She has no other reference point from which to answer the question. But she knows it is better, much better, than what she left behind. She had run across the cobbled courtyard and passed through the heavy iron gate, surprisingly left unbolted, unscathed. Hurrying straight for the dormitory had been a mistake, but an understandable one. She can only vaguely recall a life outside the confines of the reformatory, and what she recalls of it, she wishes to forget, just like her family chose to forget her. As much as the girl needed to hide, become invisible forever, part of her longed to be recognized, to have her name kindly spoken. She dared not hope she would be loved. But she did dare one last glance at the place, however repugnant. At least it had once been her shelter. She would not speak of it as home. She has never had a home. But the dormmates didn’t recognize her. She had spent too many years trapped within the penitentury’s high forbidding walls, a fallen woman who was told she was worthless and deserved the treatment she got, who dared to disagree. Strict rules and barbed words were not good enough for her then, but solid bars. Those hands which built such high and mighty convent walls blessed the forsaken who entered them within inches of their lives. And yet they have not won, not yet, the girl thinks now to herself. By the blood in her veins, she is still living. At least, within this meager existence of hunger and terror, she can choose the circumstances of her confinement, she can breathe in the cold morning air, she is allowed to think and to move and run. She can run through her confusion and her grief and her shame and her pain, and exhaust the memories out of her body. She could… Thoughts are interrupted. A board creaks above her head. Her heart almost stops beating. She knew her small taste of freedom couldn’t last long. Someone would see her and turn her in. But so soon? Should she try to run? She almost makes a bolt for the door. She knows doing so will make noise and give away her position, and worse things happen to those caught running than found hiding. With a sense of despair, she chooses to stay. She is weak in body and spirit now, she knows she will be outrun. The sisters will overturn the whole house until they discover her. Then they will take her back with them in chains. She refuses to think about what might happen after that. She does not know.

Then, with a start, she realizes they must have suspected her destination and were here in waiting for some time. It explains the mess strewn all about her, her hiding place only granted due to unheeded respect for other’s belongings in a frenzied attempt at a search. Why hadn’t she read the signs? It is too late. This time, the betrayer is no one but her self. To keep alert against her mind’s cries to shut down, she slowly begins counting backward from ten to one. Footsteps sound upon the stairs. She shuts her eyes. Follow The Sound of What Happens on WordPress.com THE COLUMBOPHILE The blog for those who LOVE Lieutenant Columbo… Columbo episode list Columbo facts View full episodes Episode Guide / Opinion / Season 3 Episode review: Columbo Swan Song Posted on March 11, 2018 by columbophile 95 Comments Following on from the underwhelming future shock of Mind Over Mayhem, Columbo returned to safer territory on 4 March 1974 in the musical form of Swan Song. Casting legendary country singer Johnny Cash in the role of legendary country singer Tommy Brown was a revelation. But does the episode live up to its star billing? Let’s tune up our guitars, get our tabernacle donations ready and put a pot of squirrel chili on to cook as we find out… Lieutenant Columbo: Peter Falk Tommy Brown: Johnny Cash Edna Brown: Ida Lupino Maryann Cobb: Bonnie Van Dyke Luke Basket: Bill McKinney Roland Pangborn: John Dehner Mr Grindell: Vito Scotti JJ Stringer: Sorrell Booke Tina: Janit Baldwin The Colonel: John Randolph Directed by: Nicholas Colasanto Written by: David Rayfiel (from a story by Stanley Ralph Ross) Score by: Dick De Benedictis Episode synopsis: Columbo Swan Song Biblical crooners Tommy Brown & The Lost Soul Crusaders are playing to a packed house in Bakersfield, California – just another leg on a mammoth touring circuit designed to raise funds in order to build a $5 million tabernacle to prove how much they love the Lord. This is not a shared goal, though. Lead singer Tommy (Johnny Cash) wants to have some fun with the money he’s earning. It’s his harpy-ish wife, Edna (Ida Lupino) that has her heart set on the tabernacle – and she’s blackmailing Tommy to ensure she gets her way. Edna’s kind heart and sunny disposition always came shining through! Former jailbird Tommy, you see, has been a very naughty boy. He’d been romping with one of his back-up singers, Maryann, since she was 16. Even though she was a willing participant, that’s still statutory rape and if Tommy won’t give his all to the tabernacle cause, Edna will blow the whistle and our mate Tommy will be back behind bars before you can say: ‘You’re a sanctimonious hypocrite of a Bible-spouting blackmailer and I’ve given you your last chance to be fair!’ Tommy cooks up a high-risk plan to rid himself of both Edna and Maryann and puts it into action immediately after the Bakersfield show. Knowingly piloting a light aircraft into heavy weather over the mountains to LA, Tommy drugs the pair with spiked coffee, then bails out of the plane using a home-made parachute that was hidden in his navigation kit box. As the plane crashes to fiery oblivion, Tommy lands nearby, breaking his ankle while landing before hiding the tell-tale parachute in a hollow log. He then drags himself painfully to the crash site and lies face down near the wreckage to be discovered by the first passers-by on the scene, looking for all the world as if he’s enjoyed a truly miraculous escape. “Former jailbird Tommy has been romping with one of his back-up singers, Maryann, since she was 16.” While Tommy is recovering in hospital, one Lieutenant Columbo has driven out to the

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we look for; percepts are what we actually get. We no longer look for signs of phlogiston. We’ve learned to look for rapid oxidation instead. Humor operates on a similar plan: it sets up a pregnant situation, creating a kind of expectant tension, which is fulfilled by a punch line that sidesteps our anticipation. Humor depends on category errors or misconceptions leading us astray, only to be set right by the surprising but non-threatening solution to a situation or riddle—like the magician pulling a rabbit out of his hat. The punch line of a joke fulfills the humorous situation with a novel flourish. We didn’t see it coming, so laugh with glee, a sure sign of relaxed tension. When we take matters seriously, surprise endings are heresy, so are not allowed. It is written: God created the universe. The universe currently exists. Therefore, God must also exist, Making whatever happens, happen. That is basically Osama bin Laden’s point regarding Allah in his “Letter to America” I referred to in my last post. True believers will win against the infidels because they are agents of Allah, who will see that it happen. If you don’t see the humor or irony in the initial assumption’s cropping up in the conclusion as if derived from the evidence, this blog probably isn’t for you. That’s the kind of trouble consciousness gets us into by not distinguishing between the level of detail in concepts and percepts. As my mailbox stands ready to receive its contents on any given day, concepts are mental boxes waiting to be filled by specific sensory details, fleshed-out or embodied, as it were, mythically if not factually. However you put it, concepts are empty containers until given sensory content to substantiate or fulfill them on particular occasions. To mismatch the two is to create category errors, which we mortals are prone to doing all the time. To take such convenient fictions as entropy, inertia, gravity, evil, sin, Satan, phlogiston, probability, or God herself as explanations for specific events is to switch from one level of consciousness to another midstream without knowing. Resident in the human mind, God is a category error waiting to happen again and again. We have the word; it must label something out there in the world, or so we believe. When concepts in set minds forcefully drive experience, the world is remade according to ideology, as if personal belief could be mapped onto the outer world of sensory events, taming it, cutting it down to the size of the mind rather than allowing the mind to grow by accommodating to actual experience. Creationism and theocracies are ample proof that we are prone to forcing ourselves on the Earth rather than attending to what the master teacher has to show us. Consciousness is given us so we can learn from experience and act appropriately in a world full of pitfalls and dangers. But we have increasingly come to put that process in reverse, using consciousness to adjust the world to our preferences. If the world doesn’t conform to our idea of what it should be, we whip it into shape by changing the world to our liking, rearranging it so incoming percepts conform to conceptual expectations we already have in mind. Instead of immersing our wild bodies in the flow of wild events—instead of learning the ways of the world—we domesticate the world by breaking it to our beliefs, forcing it to live up to our expectations and specifications. Beyond hubris, that leads to the end of the world as our ancestors once knew it. In the instance of my post office box, it leads to junk mail and endless solicitations for money. Concepts and percepts can only complement or complete one another; they are not causally related. They arise from different sources of experience, much as my mailbox cannot account for the mail it contains. It gives that mail a place where I can get at it, but there is no causal agency or relationship between them. Such mental slight of hand would be a category error, no matter how much I might want it to explain why things happen as they do. But I can’t blame my mailbox for the bills it contains. The causal agent is the hand of the postal employee who sorts the mail and inserts it into my box, and behind her, those who pay postage to have access to my mind and bank account. In the realm of the conscious mind, expectation, wishful thinking,

we look for; percepts are what we actually get. We no longer look for signs of phlogiston. We’ve learned to look for rapid oxidation instead. Humor operates on a similar plan: it sets up a pregnant situation, creating a kind of expectant tension, which is fulfilled by a punch line that sidesteps our anticipation. Humor depends on category errors or misconceptions leading us astray, only to be set right by the surprising but non-threatening solution to a situation or riddle—like the magician pulling a rabbit out of his hat. The punch line of a joke fulfills the humorous situation with a novel flourish. We didn’t see it coming, so laugh with glee, a sure sign of relaxed tension. When we take matters seriously, surprise endings are heresy, so are not allowed. It is written: God created the universe. The universe currently exists. Therefore, God must also exist, Making whatever happens, happen. That is basically Osama bin Laden’s point regarding Allah in his “Letter to America” I referred to in my last post. True believers will win against the infidels because they are agents of Allah, who will see that it happen. If you don’t see the humor or irony in the initial assumption’s cropping up in the conclusion as if derived from the evidence, this blog probably isn’t for you. That’s the kind of trouble consciousness gets us into by not distinguishing between the level of detail in concepts and percepts. As my mailbox stands ready to receive its contents on any given day, concepts are mental boxes waiting to be filled by specific sensory details, fleshed-out or embodied, as it were, mythically if not factually. However you put it, concepts are empty containers until given sensory content to substantiate or fulfill them on particular occasions. To mismatch the two is to create category errors, which we mortals are prone to doing all the time. To take such convenient fictions as entropy, inertia, gravity, evil, sin, Satan, phlogiston, probability, or God herself as explanations for specific events is to switch from one level of consciousness to another midstream without knowing. Resident in the human mind, God is a category error waiting to happen again and again. We have the word; it must label something out there in the world, or so we believe. When concepts in set minds forcefully drive experience, the world is remade according to ideology, as if personal belief could be mapped onto the outer world of sensory events, taming it, cutting it down to the size of the mind rather than allowing the mind to grow by accommodating to actual experience. Creationism and theocracies are ample proof that we are prone to forcing ourselves on the Earth rather than attending to what the master teacher has to show us. Consciousness is given us so we can learn from experience and act appropriately in a world full of pitfalls and dangers. But we have increasingly come to put that process in reverse, using consciousness to adjust the world to our preferences. If the world doesn’t conform to our idea of what it should be, we whip it into shape by changing the world to our liking, rearranging it so incoming percepts conform to conceptual expectations we already have in mind. Instead of immersing our wild bodies in the flow of wild events—instead of learning the ways of the world—we domesticate the world by breaking it to our beliefs, forcing it to live up to our expectations and specifications. Beyond hubris, that leads to the end of the world as our ancestors once knew it. In the instance of my post office box, it leads to junk mail and endless solicitations for money. Concepts and percepts can only complement or complete one another; they are not causally related. They arise from different sources of experience, much as my mailbox cannot account for the mail it contains. It gives that mail a place where I can get at it, but there is no causal agency or relationship between them. Such mental slight of hand would be a category error, no matter how much I might want it to explain why things happen as they do. But I can’t blame my mailbox for the bills it contains. The causal agent is the hand of the postal employee who sorts the mail and inserts it into my box, and behind her, those who pay postage to have access to my mind and bank account. In the realm of the conscious mind, expectation, wishful thinking,

and knowing about things share a similar low level of specificity, that is, abstraction. Which is very different from the level on which sensory events actually happen, the level of immediate sensory experience. Even the concept of the color red is colorless until exemplified. Just as my having a mailbox does not imply there is any mail in it, the concept “red” is a kind of code that acknowledges that red exists without providing an example or explaining how the eye sees it. It is more a particular wavelength or energy level, an idea in the mind. The concept of a circle is not a circle; it is more the recipe for generating a circle if you have a compass or a stake in the ground and piece of string. The concept of an automobile is neither Honda nor Chevrolet, though such brands may exemplify the concept. The concept honey cannot elicit the taste—that takes molecules on the tongue. The concept peace cannot calm a battlefield. Ideas are built from concepts in memory; things are built from sensory phenomena in perception. Joined together, related, or balanced as a conscious proposition, memorial concept with existential percept, we can eat strawberry shortcake (sensory fulfillment) for dessert (anticipatory concept), or design a mousetrap perhaps better than the ones we are familiar with. I can even reach into my mailbox and get my mail. But uncoupled and apart, one remains an empty idea, the other an uncategorized percept about which almost nothing is known. Jokes come in categories: men, women, sex, lawyers, sports, animals, religion, ethnic/national, elevators, etc., or simple challenges such as who?, what?, when?, where?, how?, why? A conceptual situation is set up, creating tension, which the punch line resolves in a specific yet surprising sensory payoff, the release of tension eliciting a smile or laugh, usually from an audience of a particular age or level of experience: Who was that gentleman I saw you with last night? That was no gentleman, that was my husband. What do snowmen eat for breakfast? Snowflakes. Where do snowmen keep their money? In a snow bank. You know you’re from New York when you think the major food groups are Chinese, Italian, Mexican, and Indian. How do you make holy water? You boil the hell out of it. Why do hummingbirds hum? They don’t know the words. Real life situation: Yesterday I came across a group of eight people in a knot trying to figure out how to move a woman in a wheelchair from an icy sidewalk into the passenger seat of a car at the curb. A voice apologized for blocking the sidewalk. Stepping into the street to get around, I asked: “How many people does it take . . . ?” Everybody laughed, the tension eased. They saw I wasn’t put out. The only mailbox joke I know is from a ten-year-old, so I’ll leave you with that: What do you call a man who sits in your mailbox? Bill. Filed in Categorization, Conception, Consciousness, Expectation, Memory, Perception ·Tags: Abstraction, Anticipation, Category Errors, Consciousness, Expectancy, Hands-on Sensory Experience, Humor, Ideas, Jokes, Levels of Resolution, Loop of Engagement, Mail, Past-Present-Future, Phlogiston, Post Office Box, Resolution, Specificity, Tension, Things, Time Machine, Time Travel Reflection 137: Project Consciousness On the evening of July 9, 2009, I handed a CD containing a PowerPoint presentation to a colleague from Taunton Bay Education Center in Hancock, Maine. The simple act of passing a compact disc from one hand to another ended one phase of a project, and opened way for using the contents to further understand the vagaries of eelgrass growth in Taunton Bay. The CD had been more than a month in the planning stage, based on a framework laid down 18 years earlier when local eelgrass monitoring was begun. The nature and significance of the small plastic disc was not evident in its physical form; it existed solely in the mind of one conscious being, namely me, the one who had made the PowerPoint based on 128 digital photographs taken that morning on an overflight of Taunton Bay. Phase one of the eelgrass monitoring project for

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't benefit equally with the rest of us from free speech. And so he reaches the conclusion at the end of the article that we have to level the playing field between the Salman Rushdies on the one hand and the West's Muslim minorities on the other. And the implication is that we should limit, though not necessarily eliminate, criticism of Islam and Muslims in order to level that playing field. But - remember back 25 years. How did Salman Rushdie get all that power that the playing field needs to be levelled? As Green writes: It is quite ironic that Rushdie, an ex-Muslim, wielded more power to shape popular opinions of Islam than all of Britain's Muslims combined. I'd say that is not true. Before the controversy erupted, Rushdie was a literary author. Known to those who read literature, and mostly just in England, but not well known to those who read books for entertainment, and almost unknown to the non-book-reading general public worldwide - the vast majority. Rushdie was not famous. He did not wield power. What gave Rushdie power were the protests. That's the real irony. Not the one that Green misidentifies, but the real irony is that it was the protests of Britain's Muslims, India's Muslims, and the fatwa of the Ayatollah Khomeini that gave Rushdie and his book the publicity that brought it to the attention of the wider public. Any power and influence Rushdie has as a supporter and promoter of free speech and as a critic of Islam can be attributed directly to Muslims using acceptable free speech and unacceptable violence to try and silence him. Muslims captured the attention of the world with their protests and made Salman Rushdie a living martyr. Muslims made him world famous, not just to the literary minority, but to everyone. It's like the Danish cartoons, mention of which Green also throws in in his argument about levelling the playing field. No-one outside of Denmark would know about them if a handful of Danish imams had not made a point of circulating them around the Islamic world, deliberately stirring up violent protests. Any unevenness in the playing field is not because the supporters of free speech have an unfair advantage in using it. No - it is ever present threat of violence that makes the playing field uneven and makes some voices silent. And that's where the free speech playing field need to be levelled - remove the threat of violence from those exercising free speech. * Which Luther College is not clear. There are several. ** I say "supposed" because he provides no evidence to support the idea that Rushdie actually made this assumption. Please take a moment to share your thoughts, pro and con, on this Meditation. Geek News, News, PlayStation 3 News, PlayStation 4 News, Trailers / Videos, Windows PC News, Xbox 360 News, Xbox One News Telltale Games Game of Thrones New Trailer and Details November 21, 2014 — Based on the award-winning HBO television drama series, Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series tells the story of House Forrester. Caught up in the events of The War of the Five Kings, they are placed in a precarious position where members of the household must do everything they can to prevent the house from meeting its doom. Today we can announce that some cast members of the series will reprise their roles in the game. While players will control five members of House Forrester in their story, the series will have them interacting with fan favorite characters throughout the season, including Tyrion Lannister performed by Peter Dinklage, Cersei Lannister performed by Lena Heady, Margaery Tyrell performed by Natalie Dormer, and Ramsay Snow performed by Iwan Rheon. Additional cast members will appear in later episodes. The game series is based on the world, characters and events seen in HBO’s TV show, which in turn is based on George R. R. Martin’s books (A Song of Ice and Fire).The events in the game series begin towards the end of Season Three of the series, and end right before the beginning of Season Five. Players will visit familiar locations such as King’s Landing and The Wall, as well as unfamiliar locations such as Ironrath, the home of House Forrester. House Forrester is a noble house from the Wolfswood in the north of Westeros.

't benefit equally with the rest of us from free speech. And so he reaches the conclusion at the end of the article that we have to level the playing field between the Salman Rushdies on the one hand and the West's Muslim minorities on the other. And the implication is that we should limit, though not necessarily eliminate, criticism of Islam and Muslims in order to level that playing field. But - remember back 25 years. How did Salman Rushdie get all that power that the playing field needs to be levelled? As Green writes: It is quite ironic that Rushdie, an ex-Muslim, wielded more power to shape popular opinions of Islam than all of Britain's Muslims combined. I'd say that is not true. Before the controversy erupted, Rushdie was a literary author. Known to those who read literature, and mostly just in England, but not well known to those who read books for entertainment, and almost unknown to the non-book-reading general public worldwide - the vast majority. Rushdie was not famous. He did not wield power. What gave Rushdie power were the protests. That's the real irony. Not the one that Green misidentifies, but the real irony is that it was the protests of Britain's Muslims, India's Muslims, and the fatwa of the Ayatollah Khomeini that gave Rushdie and his book the publicity that brought it to the attention of the wider public. Any power and influence Rushdie has as a supporter and promoter of free speech and as a critic of Islam can be attributed directly to Muslims using acceptable free speech and unacceptable violence to try and silence him. Muslims captured the attention of the world with their protests and made Salman Rushdie a living martyr. Muslims made him world famous, not just to the literary minority, but to everyone. It's like the Danish cartoons, mention of which Green also throws in in his argument about levelling the playing field. No-one outside of Denmark would know about them if a handful of Danish imams had not made a point of circulating them around the Islamic world, deliberately stirring up violent protests. Any unevenness in the playing field is not because the supporters of free speech have an unfair advantage in using it. No - it is ever present threat of violence that makes the playing field uneven and makes some voices silent. And that's where the free speech playing field need to be levelled - remove the threat of violence from those exercising free speech. * Which Luther College is not clear. There are several. ** I say "supposed" because he provides no evidence to support the idea that Rushdie actually made this assumption. Please take a moment to share your thoughts, pro and con, on this Meditation. Geek News, News, PlayStation 3 News, PlayStation 4 News, Trailers / Videos, Windows PC News, Xbox 360 News, Xbox One News Telltale Games Game of Thrones New Trailer and Details November 21, 2014 — Based on the award-winning HBO television drama series, Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series tells the story of House Forrester. Caught up in the events of The War of the Five Kings, they are placed in a precarious position where members of the household must do everything they can to prevent the house from meeting its doom. Today we can announce that some cast members of the series will reprise their roles in the game. While players will control five members of House Forrester in their story, the series will have them interacting with fan favorite characters throughout the season, including Tyrion Lannister performed by Peter Dinklage, Cersei Lannister performed by Lena Heady, Margaery Tyrell performed by Natalie Dormer, and Ramsay Snow performed by Iwan Rheon. Additional cast members will appear in later episodes. The game series is based on the world, characters and events seen in HBO’s TV show, which in turn is based on George R. R. Martin’s books (A Song of Ice and Fire).The events in the game series begin towards the end of Season Three of the series, and end right before the beginning of Season Five. Players will visit familiar locations such as King’s Landing and The Wall, as well as unfamiliar locations such as Ironrath, the home of House Forrester. House Forrester is a noble house from the Wolfswood in the north of Westeros.

Bannermen to House Glover, they have always offered unswerving loyalty to the ruling great house of the North – the Starks. The Forresters are seated at Ironrath, an imposing stronghold surrounded by towering ironwood trees. Built over fifteen hundred years ago by Cedric Forrester and his triplet sons, Ironrath is a testament to the strength and endurance of Ironwood. The Forrester house words are ‘Iron from Ice’, which echoes their belief that – like the ironwood itself – the adverse conditions and unforgiving landscape of the North only makes them stronger. The game will be played from five different points of view. Each is a member of House Forrester; either a direct family member, or a person in service to the House. Scattered across Westeros and Essos, each will play their part in seeking to save House Forrester from destruction. Playing as five characters not only reflects the epic scope of Game of Thrones, but is also something that the player needs to be mindful of. This is because the actions of one character can ripple out to affect the rest of House Forrester. Multiply the actions of one character by five, and you’re truly playing the Game of Thrones… where you win, or you die. Additional details on the series and its upcoming premiere episode, ‘Iron From Ice’ are forthcoming. Stay tuned to the Telltale Games Blog, twitter, and Facebook pages for more information as the premiere approaches, the first of six episodes, which will be arriving for download soon on PC/Mac, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and iOS, with additional platforms to be announced. For more information on Telltale Games, visit the official website, Facebook for Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series, and follow Telltale Games on twitter @TelltaleGames. For more information on Game of Thrones, HBO Global Licensing, and all of their titles, visit http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones, facebook.com/GameofThrones, store.hbo.com and twitter @GameOfThrones. game of thrones game of thrones: a telltale games series hbo telltale games Telltale Games Game of Thrones New Trailer and Details trailer Previous postBlitzkrieg III Word from the Front No4 Video Released Next postBohemia Interactive Releases MINIDAYZ Man dies after being stabbed to death on Las Vegas Boulevard sidewalk by: Caroline Bleakley LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Las Vegas police are investigating the stabbing death of a 55-year-old man on Las Vegas Boulevard. According to Lt. David Valenta, two men got into an altercation around 4:45 a.m. on the sidewalk near Park Paseo, which is south of Charleston Boulevard. The 55-year-old man was stabbed in the neck and ran into a motel lobby where he collapsed and died. The suspect, who is described as a light-skinned man, six-foot-tall, in dirty clothes was last seen running toward the east, police said. Valenta said police do not know what the suspect used to stab the victim. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department investigates a homicide reported at Las Vegas Blvd. and Park Paseo on Dec. 14, 2021. (KLAS-TV) The victim’s identity will be released by the Clark County Coroner’s Office. Las Vegas Blvd. was closed to traffic in both directions at Park Paseo while police conducted an investigation. Metro police are looking for anyone who might have witnessed what happened. If you have any information, you are urged to contact Metro’s Homicide Section at (702) 828-3521, or to remain anonymous, call CrimeStoppers at (702) 385-5555. Hoover Dam statues ranked among the luckiest places in the world Biden national security guidance calls to increase diplomacy, downplay nukes, end Afghanistan conflict President Joe Biden speaks at the Pentagon, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/Pool

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3733-3740. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5897 / AJAR2016.11522 SOSBAI – Sociedade Sul Brasileira de Arroz Irrigado. 2016. Arroz irrigado: Recomendações Técnicas da Pesquisa para o Sul do Brasil. Bento Gonçalves: Sosbai, Embrapa Clima Temperado. 200p. Timossi PC, Alves PLCA. 2001. Efeito da deriva de clomazone, aplicado isoladamente ou em mistura com ametryn, sobre características produtivas de laranjeira cv. ‘Hamlin’. Planta Daninha 19: 295-304. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0100-83582001000200019 Tuffi Santos LD et al. 2005. Crescimento e morfoanatomia foliar de eucalipto sob efeito de deriva do glyphosate. Planta Daninha 23: 133-142. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0100-83582005000100016 Tuffi Santos LD et al. 2006. Deriva de herbicidas e efeito de fungicida x herbicida em plantas jovens de pessegueiro. Planta Daninha 24: 505-512. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0100-83582006000300012 Wagner Jr. A et al. 2008. Deriva simulada de formulações comerciais de glyphosate sobre maracujazeiro amarelo. Planta Daninha 26: 677-683. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0100-83582008000300024 Yamashita OM and Guimarães SC. 2005. Resposta de cultivares de algodoeiro a subdoses de glyphosate. Planta Daninha 23: 627-633. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0100-83582005000400010 Zobiole LHS, Oliveira Jr RS, Visentainer JV, Kremer RJ, Yamada T, Bellaloui N. 2010. Glyphosate affects seed composition in glyphosate-resistant soybean. Journal Agricultural Food Chemistry. 58: 4517-4522. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jf904342t Posted in CPS Journal on March 28, 2018 by MKT Publishing. Leave a comment ← Incidence of anthracnose in auxin-treated soybean plants and seedlings in laboratory and greenhouse conditions Dynamic characters involved in grain yield and variability of wheat segregating populations → We've had a good time in Falmouth Harbour but so long as the weather is good we'll be leaving hopefully tomorrow to the north coast of Antigua . . then on to St Barts before heading to St Martin where we're told that we can get cheap boat stuff (I don't believe it - boat stuff is never cheap). Where we've been anchored we have seen mega-turtle, midi turtle and micro-turtle every day - 3 Hawksbills turtles, one a huge 3ft long, the others 2ft and 1ft, the come up to breathe right next to the boat when they're paddling about looking for turtle grass - they must think that we're now a permanent fixture so they get really close - of course you never know when exactly they will appear so

3733-3740. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5897 / AJAR2016.11522 SOSBAI – Sociedade Sul Brasileira de Arroz Irrigado. 2016. Arroz irrigado: Recomendações Técnicas da Pesquisa para o Sul do Brasil. Bento Gonçalves: Sosbai, Embrapa Clima Temperado. 200p. Timossi PC, Alves PLCA. 2001. Efeito da deriva de clomazone, aplicado isoladamente ou em mistura com ametryn, sobre características produtivas de laranjeira cv. ‘Hamlin’. Planta Daninha 19: 295-304. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0100-83582001000200019 Tuffi Santos LD et al. 2005. Crescimento e morfoanatomia foliar de eucalipto sob efeito de deriva do glyphosate. Planta Daninha 23: 133-142. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0100-83582005000100016 Tuffi Santos LD et al. 2006. Deriva de herbicidas e efeito de fungicida x herbicida em plantas jovens de pessegueiro. Planta Daninha 24: 505-512. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0100-83582006000300012 Wagner Jr. A et al. 2008. Deriva simulada de formulações comerciais de glyphosate sobre maracujazeiro amarelo. Planta Daninha 26: 677-683. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0100-83582008000300024 Yamashita OM and Guimarães SC. 2005. Resposta de cultivares de algodoeiro a subdoses de glyphosate. Planta Daninha 23: 627-633. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0100-83582005000400010 Zobiole LHS, Oliveira Jr RS, Visentainer JV, Kremer RJ, Yamada T, Bellaloui N. 2010. Glyphosate affects seed composition in glyphosate-resistant soybean. Journal Agricultural Food Chemistry. 58: 4517-4522. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jf904342t Posted in CPS Journal on March 28, 2018 by MKT Publishing. Leave a comment ← Incidence of anthracnose in auxin-treated soybean plants and seedlings in laboratory and greenhouse conditions Dynamic characters involved in grain yield and variability of wheat segregating populations → We've had a good time in Falmouth Harbour but so long as the weather is good we'll be leaving hopefully tomorrow to the north coast of Antigua . . then on to St Barts before heading to St Martin where we're told that we can get cheap boat stuff (I don't believe it - boat stuff is never cheap). Where we've been anchored we have seen mega-turtle, midi turtle and micro-turtle every day - 3 Hawksbills turtles, one a huge 3ft long, the others 2ft and 1ft, the come up to breathe right next to the boat when they're paddling about looking for turtle grass - they must think that we're now a permanent fixture so they get really close - of course you never know when exactly they will appear so

I have so far failed to get a picture. Adam's been happy as he's been able to watch some of the rugby for the 6 nations while we've been here - this is the only TV we watched from home since we set off last July, it's strange watching it. Falmouth harbour's been a pretty sociable place - too sociable at times - but we've got to know some great people here as well as the inevitable running into faces from months ago. We've spent a couple of evenings with Greg and Kath from Australia who we met briefly in the Saintes and who we've had some great laughs with (even though there have been headaches the next day), also John and Laura from the Saintes who are about our age and came over here on the Arc. We're run into a French family we keep on seeing every so often and also two ex-Azorean maritime police who've crossed the atlantic and are awaiting the wives visiting them soon. A guy called Ian is here who we met in Fuertaventura - his Atlantic crossing seemed like a bit of a nightmare compared to ours - he seemed to have everything go wrong - including a sail that came off and went under the boat and a fire on board, feel rather sorry for him as he arrived here from the atlantic and has been here for the past 2 months trying to get things fixed - puts our slightly leaky engine into context really - at least it hasn't stopped us going where we want. We took the bus up to St Johns the other day which is the Capital - I like going on buses as you get to sit and look out of the window at the countryside etc - St John's wasn't too much to write home about, some nice buildings down by the port but since there were 3 cruise ships docked there there were also lots and lots of tourists and lots of touts. There's a lot of Antigua we haven't done but we may well come back for race week or classics week since that is supposed to be an event to see. Home Premier League Chelsea Chelsea player ‘did everything’ to leave club, ‘very happy’ after transfer, at... Chelsea player ‘did everything’ to leave club, ‘very happy’ after transfer, at least he’s honest By Tom Coast - Moving back to Juventus after a summer spent under Antonio Conte at Chelsea, Juan Cuadrado looks very unlikely to ever return to Stamford Bridge. The Colombia international rejoined the Serie A side on a three-year loan, with Juventus paying £4m a season, and will then need to pay an extra £8.4m towards the end to make everything permanent. Never really adapting to Premier League football, the former Fiorentina star will now be delighted to be able to continue his career in Italy; a move the player pushed for throughout the summer. Speaking to JTV, relayed by Calciomercato, the 28-year-old explained what the move meant to him. He said: “It’s exciting. To see the stands and the noise the fans make, I’m excited by the public’s support. I did everything to come back, and thanks to God I’m here. I’m very happy.” Chelsea fans might not be thrilled at the prospect of one of their contracted players ‘doing everything’ to leave their club, but it must be said Cuadrado never really seemed happy in London. There were rumours Antonio Conte would make him a vital part of his team this season, being a big fan of his and all that, but, in the end, if a player really doesn’t want to be there, you cannot run the risk of having an under-performing protagonist on the pitch week in, week out. Previous articleJose Mourinho key in Tottenham Hotspur transfer, player compared to Xavi Next articleMiddlesbrough interested in La Liga midfielder, Karanka ‘shocking the world’, we take a look Tom Coast SNES Classic coming September 29th NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii 587 postsPage 1 of 591, 2, 3, 4, 5 ... 59 by Sarge Mon Jun 26, 2017 12:34 pm Holy moly, y'all. It's real, and it has Yoshi's Island and Star Fox 2! http://www.us

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balance. However, through the art of chanting we begin to bring a state of balance. When breath and sound are working together, we realize the magnificence of Life and how God became sound. One will also realize also that words are only approaching the tip of even greater benefits! Chanting and breath brings positive effects on the parasympathetic nervous system (the nervous system that tells us everything is ok). These effects are multiplied and the healing response is triggered, which translates into healing and stronger immunity. Chanting and heart health According to the Heart Math, chanting is known to promote general wellbeing, and it is great benefit for the cardiovascular system. One reason for this may be that singing demands a slower than normal respiration, which may in turn affect heart activity. Coupling of heart rate variability (HRV) to respiration is called Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA). This coupling has a subjective, as well as a biologically soothing effect, and it is beneficial for cardiovascular function. RSA is seen to be more marked during slow-paced breathing and at lower respiration rates (0.1 Hz and below). In this study, we investigate how singing, which is a form of guided breathing, affects HRV and RSA. Rhythm: Through repetition of the mantra, patterns of sound are inscribed onto the brain. The unconscious becomes the conscious. The automatic becomes the deliberate. The mindless becomes the heartfelt. The repetition frees us from our destination-fixation, that desire to rush to the end. The repetition is the whole point. Through repetition, the mantra washes over us, as the waves in the sea gradually get us wet. Projection: When we chant from the navel point while articulating the mantra, we not only stimulate the upper palate, but we vibrate the central channel by which prana, or life force, flows. For millennia, yogis have referred to this as the shushumna. This dual process is said to move us into the realm of anahat, or unconditional love. So far everything looks great, but how long will it take to achieve this promises? Everybody is unique, so how long it takes will depend the degree of dedication and determination over a period of months and years. Although we experience glimpses of the above mentioned benefits almost the same day, this taste will encourage us to go deeper into the chanting Yoga. In the guidelines below, you will be given an idea of what can be accomplished in a certain period of time. This will help you to set realistic goals. Reprogramming our habits “It takes 40 days to break a habit; 90 days to gain the new habit; 120 days and you are the new habit; 1,000 days and you are Master of it.” Chanting from minutes to hours will bring the following benefits: 3 minutes affects the electromagnetic field, the circulation and stability of the blood. 7 minutes begins to shift brain patterns, and the magnetic field surrounding the body increases in strength. 11 minutes begins to change the nervous and glandular systems. 22 minutes sees the three minds (i.e., the negative, positive and neutral minds) come into balance and begin to work together; the subconscious mind begins to clear. 31 minutes allows the glands, breath, and concentration to affect all the cells and rhythms of the body. Endocrine secretions are completely balanced as is the ethereal energy of the chakra (junction points of physical and spiritual centers). 62 minutes changes the gray matter in the brain. It stimulates the frontal lobe of the brain, as well as the pituitary and pineal glands. You work through the physical body, the emotions and mental states, stimulating higher, more subtle aspects of the self. The subconscious “shadow mind” and its psychological projections become integrated. 2 1/2 hours changes the psyche in its co-relation with the surrounding magnetic field so that the subconscious mind is held firmly in the new pattern by the surrounding field. You totally remake your psyche. These changes persist throughout the day and are reflected by positive changes in mood and behavior. Visit out CHANTING YOGA WEBSITE TODAY Alfredo Llorente Marcos (Chaitanya Swarup das) Ayurveda & Meditation Therapy

balance. However, through the art of chanting we begin to bring a state of balance. When breath and sound are working together, we realize the magnificence of Life and how God became sound. One will also realize also that words are only approaching the tip of even greater benefits! Chanting and breath brings positive effects on the parasympathetic nervous system (the nervous system that tells us everything is ok). These effects are multiplied and the healing response is triggered, which translates into healing and stronger immunity. Chanting and heart health According to the Heart Math, chanting is known to promote general wellbeing, and it is great benefit for the cardiovascular system. One reason for this may be that singing demands a slower than normal respiration, which may in turn affect heart activity. Coupling of heart rate variability (HRV) to respiration is called Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA). This coupling has a subjective, as well as a biologically soothing effect, and it is beneficial for cardiovascular function. RSA is seen to be more marked during slow-paced breathing and at lower respiration rates (0.1 Hz and below). In this study, we investigate how singing, which is a form of guided breathing, affects HRV and RSA. Rhythm: Through repetition of the mantra, patterns of sound are inscribed onto the brain. The unconscious becomes the conscious. The automatic becomes the deliberate. The mindless becomes the heartfelt. The repetition frees us from our destination-fixation, that desire to rush to the end. The repetition is the whole point. Through repetition, the mantra washes over us, as the waves in the sea gradually get us wet. Projection: When we chant from the navel point while articulating the mantra, we not only stimulate the upper palate, but we vibrate the central channel by which prana, or life force, flows. For millennia, yogis have referred to this as the shushumna. This dual process is said to move us into the realm of anahat, or unconditional love. So far everything looks great, but how long will it take to achieve this promises? Everybody is unique, so how long it takes will depend the degree of dedication and determination over a period of months and years. Although we experience glimpses of the above mentioned benefits almost the same day, this taste will encourage us to go deeper into the chanting Yoga. In the guidelines below, you will be given an idea of what can be accomplished in a certain period of time. This will help you to set realistic goals. Reprogramming our habits “It takes 40 days to break a habit; 90 days to gain the new habit; 120 days and you are the new habit; 1,000 days and you are Master of it.” Chanting from minutes to hours will bring the following benefits: 3 minutes affects the electromagnetic field, the circulation and stability of the blood. 7 minutes begins to shift brain patterns, and the magnetic field surrounding the body increases in strength. 11 minutes begins to change the nervous and glandular systems. 22 minutes sees the three minds (i.e., the negative, positive and neutral minds) come into balance and begin to work together; the subconscious mind begins to clear. 31 minutes allows the glands, breath, and concentration to affect all the cells and rhythms of the body. Endocrine secretions are completely balanced as is the ethereal energy of the chakra (junction points of physical and spiritual centers). 62 minutes changes the gray matter in the brain. It stimulates the frontal lobe of the brain, as well as the pituitary and pineal glands. You work through the physical body, the emotions and mental states, stimulating higher, more subtle aspects of the self. The subconscious “shadow mind” and its psychological projections become integrated. 2 1/2 hours changes the psyche in its co-relation with the surrounding magnetic field so that the subconscious mind is held firmly in the new pattern by the surrounding field. You totally remake your psyche. These changes persist throughout the day and are reflected by positive changes in mood and behavior. Visit out CHANTING YOGA WEBSITE TODAY Alfredo Llorente Marcos (Chaitanya Swarup das) Ayurveda & Meditation Therapy

#allweneedislove#anoasisoflove#becausewecare#bhaktiyoga#chantingyoga#compassion#enlightement#loveandcare#loveandtrust#oasisoflove#spiritualbeings#spiritualpeople#thevedictimes#vedictimes#yoga#yogaoflove Chanting Yoga, Hari Krishna das, Vedic Times An Introduction to Achintya-Bheda-Abheda Tattva November 30, 2016 Hari Krishna das Leave a comment The philosophy of Acintya Bhedabeda Tattva embodies the quintessence of all systems of Indian philosophy. Indian philosophy, embodied in the Vedic literatures, is over 5000 years old and inspired the birth of the two great Eastern religions, Hinduism and Buddhism. It has also greatly influenced the western world, particularly over the last 200 years. Most systems of Indian philosophy propound the view that the universe is fundamentally one, part of and pervaded by the Supreme Being, from whom it has emanated. As such, they maintain that the universe is not the outcome of blind chance, but that it is the result of intelligent design and that it has meaning and purpose. Furthermore, according to most systems of Indian philosophy the material universe, in which we live, is only part of an infinite and spiritual universe. Both the material and spiritual universe are considered energies of God, the Supreme Spiritual Being. The spiritual universe is defined as God’s internal energy, and the material universe His external energy. All living beings in the material world are essentially spiritual, and part of His internal energy. Finally, according to most systems of Indian philosophy, God is defined as a transcendental Person, endowed with consciousness, attributes and form, and who stands at the center and source of his infinite energies and emanations. At the cornerstone of this world view is the notion that God, and the universe emanating from Him, are essentially one and different. He is one, in that He is the origin of, and pervades all beings, and He is different, in that His energies have their own independent existence and identity. This independent existence and individual identity accounts for the world of many-ness and variegatedness.. The problem is, that the principles of oneness and many-ness contain a logical paradox, and appear to be mutually exclusive. On the bases of logic it is indeed hard to reconcile how one entity can be one and many at the same time. Within the different schools of Indian thought, philosophers and mystics have attempted to resolve this paradox by emphasizing one principle over the other, thereby reducing e.g. many-ness to a by product of oneness. Some schools of thought, taking a more extreme position, have even postulated that only oneness is real, and that the many-ness constitutes an illusion. Throughout the history of Indian philosophy this theme, and its implicit paradox, has been at the center of philosophical discussions. Thereby the oneness and many-ness principles do not just confine themselves to the relationship between God and His creation. The principle extends to virtually all areas of philosophy and science, such as the relation between matter and consciousness, between qualities and substance, between particles and fields, between energy and matter, and the personal and the impersonal. Interestingly, therefore, it appears that the principle of oneness and many-ness, with its inherent paradox, extends to all areas of reality. Within the history of western philosophy we also find the constant recurrence of the oneness versus many-ness theme, resulting in different schools of opposing thought. Thereby the parallels between Indian and western thinking are striking. Most notable is e.g. the discussion and debates that have flourished on the issue of realism and idealism, or the relation between matter and consciousness, during the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe. The great 16th century Indian philosopher and mystic Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu formulated a new principle, shedding light on the paradox, and making explicit what was already acknowledged implicitly by many great Indian thinkers. Caitanya stated that the principles of oneness and difference are inherently inseparable, that they always exist simultaneously, and that their simultaneous existence lies at the core of all metaphysics. He furthermore stated that the simultaneous existence of oneness and many-ness is called Acintya in Sanskrit, which means “inconce

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ИЦА OBRAZ PRESVYATUIYA ZHIVONACHAL’NAYA TROITSA “Image of the Most Holy Life-giving Trinity.” If you are a long-time reader here, there is no Church Slavic word used today that you have not seen before, so this is just a little review. UNEXPECTED GUESTS: A DETAILED OLD TESTAMENT TRINITY ICON On November 18, 2017 June 30, 2020 By DavidLeave a comment Many “Old Testament Trinity” icons are very basic, showing only the three angels who appeared to Abraham at the Oak of Mamre in the Old Testament story. The famous Old Testament Trinity attributed to Andrey Rublyov (there is now some controversy over who actually painted it) is a good example: In that famous icon, Abraham and Sarah were eliminated. But in other icons, things are more elaborate. Some painters liked to show much more of the story, as in this example: First, let’s look at the title: СВЯТАЯ И ЖИВОНАЧАЛНАЯ ТРОИЦА SVYATYA I ZHIVONACHALNAYA TROITSA “[The] HOLY AND LIFE-GIVING TRINITY.” Zhivonachalnaya means “to initiate or begin life — to be the source of life.” But we can translate it loosely into English as “life-giving.” At upper left Abraham has met the angels and is bringing them home (here “home” is one of the stylized buildings called “palaces” in Russian iconography, rather than the biblical tent): In the next image, he washes the dust from the feet of his angel guests: On the right side, dough is being kneaded to make bread for the visitors: At left, a calf is being slaughtered to provide meat for the angels (not a very angel-friendly thing to do, one would think now): At lower center is the main image, with the angels seated at a table, and Abraham and his wife Sarah waiting on them: Finally, at upper right we see Abraham and his wife seeing the departing guests off. Here is the major portion of the story as related in Chapter 18 of Genesis in the King James Version: And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said. And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it. And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. There is an interval in which the angels predict that Sarah will have a son, and then the guests arise and begin to leave, but Abraham goes with them a short way, to see them off. As he does so, he is told about the problems in Sodom, makes a deal, and then the angels leave and Abraham returns home. In the structure of the story, it is made clear that the three angels are really manifestations of Yahweh, the god of Israel. That is why in later Christian thought, the three angels came to represent the concept of the Trinity. Here is the same icon with a silver and gilt riza dated 1881 placed over it: It bears a porcelain plaque reading simply Svyataya Troitsa — “Holy Trinity.” AN UNREVEALING REV

ИЦА OBRAZ PRESVYATUIYA ZHIVONACHAL’NAYA TROITSA “Image of the Most Holy Life-giving Trinity.” If you are a long-time reader here, there is no Church Slavic word used today that you have not seen before, so this is just a little review. UNEXPECTED GUESTS: A DETAILED OLD TESTAMENT TRINITY ICON On November 18, 2017 June 30, 2020 By DavidLeave a comment Many “Old Testament Trinity” icons are very basic, showing only the three angels who appeared to Abraham at the Oak of Mamre in the Old Testament story. The famous Old Testament Trinity attributed to Andrey Rublyov (there is now some controversy over who actually painted it) is a good example: In that famous icon, Abraham and Sarah were eliminated. But in other icons, things are more elaborate. Some painters liked to show much more of the story, as in this example: First, let’s look at the title: СВЯТАЯ И ЖИВОНАЧАЛНАЯ ТРОИЦА SVYATYA I ZHIVONACHALNAYA TROITSA “[The] HOLY AND LIFE-GIVING TRINITY.” Zhivonachalnaya means “to initiate or begin life — to be the source of life.” But we can translate it loosely into English as “life-giving.” At upper left Abraham has met the angels and is bringing them home (here “home” is one of the stylized buildings called “palaces” in Russian iconography, rather than the biblical tent): In the next image, he washes the dust from the feet of his angel guests: On the right side, dough is being kneaded to make bread for the visitors: At left, a calf is being slaughtered to provide meat for the angels (not a very angel-friendly thing to do, one would think now): At lower center is the main image, with the angels seated at a table, and Abraham and his wife Sarah waiting on them: Finally, at upper right we see Abraham and his wife seeing the departing guests off. Here is the major portion of the story as related in Chapter 18 of Genesis in the King James Version: And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said. And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it. And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. There is an interval in which the angels predict that Sarah will have a son, and then the guests arise and begin to leave, but Abraham goes with them a short way, to see them off. As he does so, he is told about the problems in Sodom, makes a deal, and then the angels leave and Abraham returns home. In the structure of the story, it is made clear that the three angels are really manifestations of Yahweh, the god of Israel. That is why in later Christian thought, the three angels came to represent the concept of the Trinity. Here is the same icon with a silver and gilt riza dated 1881 placed over it: It bears a porcelain plaque reading simply Svyataya Troitsa — “Holy Trinity.” AN UNREVEALING REV

ELATION: THE “VISION OF JOHN THE THEOLOGIAN” On January 18, 2017 February 23, 2017 By DavidLeave a comment Here is a 15th-century four-type icon from Novgorod, in the northwest of Russia: The types it includes are: Upper left: The Resurrection of Lazarus. Upper right: The Old Testament Trinity. Lower left: The Meeting in the Temple. Lower right: Ioann Bogoslov and Prokhor (John the Theologian and his disciple and amanuensis Prokhoros). Today we will focus on the fellow in the fourth type, Ioann Bogoslov — John the Theologian: The obvious vertical crease running through John’s image (he is the one at left) is where two boards were joined in the panel on which the icon was painted. If you have been reading this site for some time, you will already know that John the Theologian is the Eastern Orthodox name for the apostle and evangelist John. We use the term “evangelist” for convenience, because no one really knows who wrote the Gospel called “of John.” The oldest manuscripts are anonymous. Nor does anyone know who wrote the two Epistles of John or the Revelation, also called the Apocalypse. Even though tradition attributes the Apocalypse to John, its style is so remarkably different from that of the Gospel that most consider it extremely unlikely to have have been written by the same person. In any case, the type from the Novgorod Icon of John and Prokhoros shows them sitting before a cave on the Island of Patmos. John is dictating and Prokhoros is writing. Tradition differs as to whether John wrote both the Gospel and the Apocalypse while on that island. Prokhoros as the disciple and secretary of John comes from tradition and hagiography. Traditionally, Prokhoros is supposed to have been one of the seven deacons named in Acts 6:5. Now keeping in mind the type of John and Prokhor and its association with the Apocalypse, today we will look at an icon type relating to the book in the New Testament called “The Revelation” or “The Apocalypse.” Αποκάλυψις — Apokalypsis — in Greek significes an “unveiling” or “revealing.” Apo- means “away from,” and kalypsis means a “cover”; so an apo-kalypsis is taking the cover away from something, revealing what was beneath it. Traditionally, as already mentioned, it was believed that the author of the Apocalypse was John the Apostle (though there were doubts about that as early as the 3rd century); but that attribution has generally been abandoned by modern scholars. So we don’t really know who wrote it. We do know that its acceptance as a part of the New Testament came late (it was the latest book generally accepted), and in the Syriac-speaking Church of the East it was only added in the 6th century. It has always been accompanied by controversy, not only about whether it deserves to be part of the Bible, but also over the meaning of its obscure and often bizarre visions and symbols. Even the German reformer Martin Luther did not think much of it, saying that that he found it “neither apostolic nor prophetic” and to most people of most denominations — lay or clergy — the Apocalypse was (and is) simply dark, obscure and puzzling. Though many people think of the book as the “Revelation of John,” that is not how the book identifies itself. Instead, it begins Ἀποκάλυψις Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἣν ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ ὁ θεὸς δεῖξαι τοῖς δούλοις αὐτοῦ, ἃ δεῖ γενέσθαι ἐν τάχει…. “The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his slaves what must soon happen….“ So it identifies itself as a revelation given to Jesus by God. The revealing by Jesus to John is secondary, as the sentence continues: …καὶ ἐσήμανεν ἀ

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diskCacheSize >= [self diskCacheSizeLimit]) { [self clearDiskCache]; } } } + (void)clearDiskCache { dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_BACKGROUND, 0ul), ^{ NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager]; NSString *savePath = [self savePathForURL:[NSURL new]]; NSURL *saveURL = [NSURL URLWithString:savePath]; if (saveURL == nil) { return; } NSArray *keys = @[NSURLNameKey, NSURLIsDirectoryKey, NSFileModificationDate, NSFileSize]; NSDirectoryEnumerationOptions options = (NSDirectoryEnumerationSkipsHiddenFiles); NSDirectoryEnumerator *dirEnumerator = [fileManager enumeratorAtURL:saveURL includingPropertiesForKeys:keys options:options errorHandler:nil]; for (NSURL *fileURL in dirEnumerator) { NSString *fileName; [fileURL getResourceValue:&fileName forKey:NSURLNameKey error:NULL]; NSNumber *isDirectory; [fileURL getResourceValue:&isDirectory forKey:NSURLIsDirectoryKey error:NULL]; NSNumber *fileSize; [fileURL getResourceValue:&fileSize forKey:NSURLFileSizeKey error:NULL]; if (_diskCacheSize > [self diskCacheSizeLimit] && [fileManager removeItemAtURL:fileURL error:NULL]) { _diskCacheSize -= [fileSize integerValue]; _numberOfFilesInCache--; if (_diskCacheSize <= [self diskCacheSizeLimit]) { break; } } } dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{ [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:GDIImageOperationCacheDirectorySizeCalculatedNotification object:self]; }); }); } + (void)updateDiskCacheSize { if (_isCalculatingCacheSize) { return; } _isCalculatingCacheSize = YES; __weak typeof(self) weakSelf = self; NSString *savePath = [self savePathForURL:[NSURL new]]; [NSFileManager calculateSizeOfContentsOfDirectoryAtPath:savePath completion:^(NSInteger numberOfFiles, NSInteger bytes) { _numberOfFilesInCache = numberOfFiles; _diskCacheSize = bytes; _isCalculatingCacheSize = NO; _hasCalculatedCacheSize = YES; [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:GDIImageOperationCacheDirectorySizeCalculatedNotification object:self]; if (_diskCacheSize > 0) { [weakSelf clearDiskCacheIfNecessary]; } }]; } + (BOOL)clearCacheForImageURL:(NSURL *)imageURL { NSString *imagePath = [self savePathForURL:imageURL]; if ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:imagePath]) { return [[NSFileManager defaultManager] removeItemAtPath:imagePath error:nil]; } [[self imageCache] removeObjectForKey:imagePath]; return NO; } + (NSString *)savePathForURL:(NSURL *)URL { NSString *savePath = [[self imageCacheDirectory] mutableCopy]; NSString *host = URL.host; if (host.length > 0) { if (host.length > 32) { host = [host substringToIndex:32]; } savePath = [savePath stringByAppendingPathComponent:host]; } savePath = [savePath stringByAppendingPathComponent:URL.relativePath]; return [savePath copy]; } static NSString *cacheDirectoryPath; + (NSString *)imageCacheDirectory { if (cacheDirectoryPath != nil && cacheDirectoryPath.length > 0) { return cacheDirectoryPath; } return [self defaultImage

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CacheDirectory]; } + (NSString *)defaultImageCacheDirectory { static dispatch_once_t onceToken; static NSString *documentsPath; dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{ NSArray *searchPaths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES); documentsPath = [searchPaths lastObject]; documentsPath = [documentsPath stringByAppendingPathComponent:GDIImageOperationSaveDirectory]; }); return documentsPath; } + (void)setImageCacheDirectoryWithPath:(NSString *)directoryPath { if (directoryPath == nil) { cacheDirectoryPath = nil; return; } // create the directory if needed and add a skip backup attribute. if ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:directoryPath] == NO) { NSError *error = nil; if ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] createDirectoryAtPath:directoryPath withIntermediateDirectories:YES attributes:nil error:&error]) { cacheDirectoryPath = directoryPath; } else { NSAssert(error == nil, @"Could not create image cache directory. Encountered error: %@", error); } } else { cacheDirectoryPath = directoryPath; } } + (NSURLSession *)imageURLSession { static NSURLSession *imageURLSession; static dispatch_once_t onceToken; dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{ NSURLSessionConfiguration *configuration = [NSURLSessionConfiguration defaultSessionConfiguration]; configuration.URLCache = nil; imageURLSession = [NSURLSession sessionWithConfiguration:configuration]; }); return imageURLSession; } + (NSCache *)imageCache { static NSCache *cache; static dispatch_once_t onceToken; dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{ cache = [[NSCache alloc] init]; cache.totalCostLimit = [self memoryCacheSizeLimit]; }); return cache; } @end /* * Interface (a): * ProcSleep(), ProcWakeup(), * ProcQueueAlloc() -- create a shm queue for sleeping processes * ProcQueueInit() -- create a queue without allocing memory * * Waiting for a lock causes the backend to be put to sleep. Whoever releases * the lock wakes the process up again (and gives it an error code so it knows * whether it was awoken on an error condition). * * Interface (b): * * ProcReleaseLocks -- frees the locks associated with current transaction * * ProcKill -- destroys the shared memory state (and locks) * associated with the process. */ #include "postgres.h" #include <signal.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include "access/transam.h" #include "access/xact.h" #include "catalog/namespace.h" /* TempNamespaceOidIsValid */ #include "miscadmin.h" #include "postmaster/autovacuum.h" #include "replication/syncrep.h" #include "storage/ipc.h" #include "storage/spin.h" #include "storage/lmgr.h" #include "storage/proc.h" #include "storage/procarray.h" #include "storage/pmsignal.h" #include "executor/execdesc.h" #include "utils/resscheduler.h" #include "utils/timestamp.h" #include "utils/portal.h" #include "utils/sharedsnapshot.h" /*SharedLocalSnapshotSlot*/ #include "cdb/cdblocaldistribxact.h" #include "cdb/cdbgang.h" #include "cdb/cdbvars.h" /*Gp_is_writer*/ #include "utils/gp_atomic.h" #include "utils/session_state.h" /* GUC variables */ int DeadlockTimeout = 1

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ce his retirement from the NFL during his skills training academy on July 14, Mike Nieto of The Times of Northwest Indiana reports, citing an email from Randle El's brother. Randle El, who turns 3... more Rookie signings remain ahead of previous CBA pace July 06, 2012 As pointed out Thursday on Twitter by Liz Mullen of the SportsBusiness Journal, there are currently 32 unsigned picks from the 2012 NFL Draft. None of the unsigned picks are from the final two rounds, and 12 teams have finished signing their entire... more Brandon LaFell poised for breakout year for Panthers July 06, 2012 As we count down the days to training camp, Around the League will examine one player from every team set for a breakout campaign in 2012. Next up: the Carolina Panthers. World, say "Hello" to Brandon LaFell. Actually, if you're reading this... more Eric Wood Bills center pays steep price for injuries July 06, 2012 Coming off a second major leg injury in three years, Buffalo Bills center Eric Wood has learned to be patient with his rehabilitation, reports Jay Skurski of The Buffalo News. "I havenâ??t tested it in any practice or anything, but a lot of that i... more Peyton Manning embraces Broncos iPad playbook July 06, 2012 In late April, "Around the League" pointed out how the Denver Broncos were among a growing list of teams scrapping their monster-sized playbooks for the iPad. Broncos linebacker D.J. Williams was even kind enough to show the Internets the playbook... more Tiger Jones AFL wideout reportedly to join Eagles July 06, 2012 The Philadelphia Eagles will be adding wide receiver Tiger Jones, currently of the Arena Football League's Philadelphia Soul, to the roster for the start of training camp , Ed Barkowitz of the Philadelphia Daily News reported in Friday's edition. T... more Matt Prater and Connor Barths contracts compared July 03, 2012 The Denver Broncos announced Monday that they had reached a four-year contract with franchised kicker Matt Prater. According to Mike Klis of The Denver Post, the contract is worth $13 million , or $3.25 million per season. That's just shy of the $3... more Louis Delmas key to Detroit Lions secondary July 03, 2012 As we count down the days to training camp, Around the League will examine one player from every team set for a breakout campaign in 2012. Next up, the Detroit Lions. Making the leap? The Lions are looking for "Da Missile" to launch this season.... more Charlie Peprah favored to start for Green Bay Packers July 03, 2012 With the release of three-time Pro Bowl safety Nick Collins for medical issues (neck) in March, the Green Bay Packers' starting strong safety position opposite is up for grabs. Lombardi: Take five With training camps right around the corner, Mich... more Mike Adams Steelers LT plays catchup before camp July 03, 2012 Pittsburgh Steelers rookie offensive tackle Mike Adams is penciled as the starter at left tackle. After missing the OTAs because of Ohio State's quarters system, Adams has to play catch-up to get ready for training camp , Zac Jackson of FOX Sports Oh... more New Orleans mayor Saints still loved after bounties July 03, 2012 During a discussion with Aspen Institute CEO Walter Isaacson at the Aspen Ideas Festival -- in (surprise!) Aspen, Colorado -- New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu expressed confidence that the discipline handed down by the NFL against the New Orleans Sai... more Fred Davis reportedly not in line for new Redskins deal July 03, 2012 Of the 21 players to receive the franchise tag this offseason, Washington Redskins tight end Fred Davis was one of the first to sign his tender, putting pen to paper on March 16, the day after franchised Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jacks... more Bengals overha

ce his retirement from the NFL during his skills training academy on July 14, Mike Nieto of The Times of Northwest Indiana reports, citing an email from Randle El's brother. Randle El, who turns 3... more Rookie signings remain ahead of previous CBA pace July 06, 2012 As pointed out Thursday on Twitter by Liz Mullen of the SportsBusiness Journal, there are currently 32 unsigned picks from the 2012 NFL Draft. None of the unsigned picks are from the final two rounds, and 12 teams have finished signing their entire... more Brandon LaFell poised for breakout year for Panthers July 06, 2012 As we count down the days to training camp, Around the League will examine one player from every team set for a breakout campaign in 2012. Next up: the Carolina Panthers. World, say "Hello" to Brandon LaFell. Actually, if you're reading this... more Eric Wood Bills center pays steep price for injuries July 06, 2012 Coming off a second major leg injury in three years, Buffalo Bills center Eric Wood has learned to be patient with his rehabilitation, reports Jay Skurski of The Buffalo News. "I havenâ??t tested it in any practice or anything, but a lot of that i... more Peyton Manning embraces Broncos iPad playbook July 06, 2012 In late April, "Around the League" pointed out how the Denver Broncos were among a growing list of teams scrapping their monster-sized playbooks for the iPad. Broncos linebacker D.J. Williams was even kind enough to show the Internets the playbook... more Tiger Jones AFL wideout reportedly to join Eagles July 06, 2012 The Philadelphia Eagles will be adding wide receiver Tiger Jones, currently of the Arena Football League's Philadelphia Soul, to the roster for the start of training camp , Ed Barkowitz of the Philadelphia Daily News reported in Friday's edition. T... more Matt Prater and Connor Barths contracts compared July 03, 2012 The Denver Broncos announced Monday that they had reached a four-year contract with franchised kicker Matt Prater. According to Mike Klis of The Denver Post, the contract is worth $13 million , or $3.25 million per season. That's just shy of the $3... more Louis Delmas key to Detroit Lions secondary July 03, 2012 As we count down the days to training camp, Around the League will examine one player from every team set for a breakout campaign in 2012. Next up, the Detroit Lions. Making the leap? The Lions are looking for "Da Missile" to launch this season.... more Charlie Peprah favored to start for Green Bay Packers July 03, 2012 With the release of three-time Pro Bowl safety Nick Collins for medical issues (neck) in March, the Green Bay Packers' starting strong safety position opposite is up for grabs. Lombardi: Take five With training camps right around the corner, Mich... more Mike Adams Steelers LT plays catchup before camp July 03, 2012 Pittsburgh Steelers rookie offensive tackle Mike Adams is penciled as the starter at left tackle. After missing the OTAs because of Ohio State's quarters system, Adams has to play catch-up to get ready for training camp , Zac Jackson of FOX Sports Oh... more New Orleans mayor Saints still loved after bounties July 03, 2012 During a discussion with Aspen Institute CEO Walter Isaacson at the Aspen Ideas Festival -- in (surprise!) Aspen, Colorado -- New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu expressed confidence that the discipline handed down by the NFL against the New Orleans Sai... more Fred Davis reportedly not in line for new Redskins deal July 03, 2012 Of the 21 players to receive the franchise tag this offseason, Washington Redskins tight end Fred Davis was one of the first to sign his tender, putting pen to paper on March 16, the day after franchised Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jacks... more Bengals overha

ul offense in preparation for season July 02, 2012 "NFL Total Access" continues with its "32 teams in 32 days" series. We decided to score some brownie points by writing an accompanying post each night. We'll focus on one goal that each team needs to accomplish before Week 1. Bengals bent on bette... more Corey White Marcel Jones sign with Saints July 02, 2012 The New Orleans Saints signed two more picks from the 2012 NFL Draft, fifth-rounder Corey White (a cornerback) and seventh-rounder Marcel Jones (an offensive tackle), vice president of communications Greg Bensel announced Monday . Financial terms o... more Kellen Davis set for bigger role with Chicago Bears July 02, 2012 As we count down the days to training camp, Around the League will examine one player from every team set for a breakout campaign in 2012. Next up, the Chicago Bears. Kellen Davis bound to do more than just block With the possible exception of... more Matt Prater signs fouryear deal with Denver Broncos July 02, 2012 Â Kicker Matt Prater believes he has earned his new four-year contract with the Denver Broncos. Â Franchise-tagged kicker Matt Prater signed a four-year contract with the Denver Broncos, the team announced Monday . "I'm really excited just... more Brian Hartline Ryan Tannehill had flashes in workouts July 02, 2012 Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brian Hartline had a bumpy offseason, missing last month's minicamp after an appendectomy and attending, but not participating in, some of the OTAs. Hartline, who wants one day to become an NFL general manager, used hi... more Jonathan Dwyer Steelers RB looking to slim down July 02, 2012 A final season with 1,395 rushing yards and 12 touchdowns at Georgia Tech could not help Jonathan Dwyer overcome a poor performance at the 2010 scouting combine. Concerns about his weight and conditioning caused the running back, who currently is lis... more Martez Wilson Saints DE sees himself in Hall of Fame July 02, 2012 Derick E. Hingle/US Presswire Martez Wilson hasn't played defensive end since high school, but the Saints want to see if he's still got it. Even with Jo-Lonn Dunbar headed toward free agency, and Jonathan Vilma showing a drop in on-field... more Martellus Bennett has new opportunity with Giants July 01, 2012 As we count down the days to training camp, Around the League will examine one player from every team set for a breakout campaign in 2012. We've wrapped up the AFC and are moving through the NFC. Next up, the New York Giants. Moving out of Jason... more Saints ticket sales unaffected by difficult offseason July 01, 2012 No NFL team has endured as tumultuous an offseason as the New Orleans Saints. League discipline for an illegal "bounty" program over the last few seasons will leave the Sainrs without coach Sean Payton and defensive captain Jonathan Vilma in 2012,... more Mike Sherman Brett Favre Packers will make up July 01, 2012 Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers went through a very public, very painful divorce after the 2007 season. Favre won three NFL MVP awards and one Super Bowl title during his 16 seasons with the Packers. Then the team moved on to Aaron Rodgers, a... more Available salarycap space for all 32 NFL teams July 01, 2012 As we turn over the calendar to July, and with training camps opening in a few weeks, it's a good time to look at how much salary-cap space remains for each team. According to a source with access to NFL salary-cap data, AFC teams have $162,554,428... more Tyrod Taylor Curtis Painter battle should intensify July 01, 2012 As a rookie

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if she stayed with him. William had neglected to inform Dana of anything related to the spill. He said nothing of the danger to her health, particularly that the chemicals would remain in his body for almost a week and could hurt her if passed to her by the exchange of bodily fluids. This could render her sterile, or worse yet, dead. Before the nefarious chemicals cleared his system, the couple went on a romantic trip coinciding with the time they were trying to start their family. After Dana confirmed her fears and William's lies by omission, she left him. Every night since she left, William has replayed this pageant in his head, searching for remedies. This night is no exception, and as these recollections roll through his head like waves intertwined with the darkness of sleep, William distinctly hears himself say out loud, "Dana will come back..." His voice trails off as sleep overcomes him, pursuing thoughts known only to him. Just over two months after Dana walked out, William awakens to hear the shower in his flat running. Half awake, he stumbles into the hallway toward the bathroom. As he starts to open the bathroom door, he becomes filled with joy when he inhales Dana's perfume wafting through the air. "Dana, you've come back!" William cries out enthusiastically. There is no response; he hesitantly steps into the steam-filled room. Stopping in front of the running shower, trying to see through the steam, and with sorrow in his voice, William attempts to lay bare his soul. "I am so sorry, dear—" His words are cut short, not by choice—there is a lot more to say; after all, Dana has returned. William's brain tries to interpret all the data in front of him, but one fact keeps drawing his attention. Red. Red? he thinks. It's not her favorite color, and it doesn't match this room. None of this makes any sense to William, and finally all he sees is red. His blood shoots out from the lacerated artery in his neck and covers everything in front of him. William stands with his arms at his sides for a second more and then collapses, as all of the strength of his being spatters the room. Standing right behind William, holding a long, broken piece of glass that smells of Dana's perfume and drips blood off one edge, is the dark figure. Blood runs down the broken glass as if it is bleeding. Letting the glass fall to the floor and shatter, the dark figure steps into the running water to clean the wound from the shard and remove any residual of the one once known as William Springer. The driver wakes up in a cold sweat from the dream when the intercom to the apartment buzzes. Simultaneously, the pager from Civil Central Command goes off. Unknown to the driver, both nuisances are from the driver's new partner. Neither seems to be a welcome addition to the driver's routine. Rising out of bed and quickly preparing for the arrival of their impromptu guest, the driver takes quick stock of their new domicile. The first room entered and put to use is a bathroom attached to the bedroom. It's just large enough to comfortably fit the standard necessities. Emerging from the bathroom, the driver assesses and appreciates the size and configuration of the bedroom. The short hallway out of the room has closed doors on either side before it opens up into a casual living room that features a half wall separating the kitchen into its own space. Across the living room from the hall is the main doorway. The driver opens the door. Standing in the doorway is a person facing the other way. The person is a few inches shorter than the driver and has long, black hair. The driver assumes that it is a woman because of the sound of her voice and her very nice hourglass figure. She is talking to someone, but no one is in front of her in the hall. "No, Ben, I will not be there." As the door opens to its fullest, she turns around quickly. As she turns, her hair glints its true color, which is a deep purple. "Ben! I have to go now. Yes, I will pass along the information about the appointment and the other thing. Don't worry." Ben's insistence can be felt in her curt responses to his unheard interrogation. With a deep, audible s

if she stayed with him. William had neglected to inform Dana of anything related to the spill. He said nothing of the danger to her health, particularly that the chemicals would remain in his body for almost a week and could hurt her if passed to her by the exchange of bodily fluids. This could render her sterile, or worse yet, dead. Before the nefarious chemicals cleared his system, the couple went on a romantic trip coinciding with the time they were trying to start their family. After Dana confirmed her fears and William's lies by omission, she left him. Every night since she left, William has replayed this pageant in his head, searching for remedies. This night is no exception, and as these recollections roll through his head like waves intertwined with the darkness of sleep, William distinctly hears himself say out loud, "Dana will come back..." His voice trails off as sleep overcomes him, pursuing thoughts known only to him. Just over two months after Dana walked out, William awakens to hear the shower in his flat running. Half awake, he stumbles into the hallway toward the bathroom. As he starts to open the bathroom door, he becomes filled with joy when he inhales Dana's perfume wafting through the air. "Dana, you've come back!" William cries out enthusiastically. There is no response; he hesitantly steps into the steam-filled room. Stopping in front of the running shower, trying to see through the steam, and with sorrow in his voice, William attempts to lay bare his soul. "I am so sorry, dear—" His words are cut short, not by choice—there is a lot more to say; after all, Dana has returned. William's brain tries to interpret all the data in front of him, but one fact keeps drawing his attention. Red. Red? he thinks. It's not her favorite color, and it doesn't match this room. None of this makes any sense to William, and finally all he sees is red. His blood shoots out from the lacerated artery in his neck and covers everything in front of him. William stands with his arms at his sides for a second more and then collapses, as all of the strength of his being spatters the room. Standing right behind William, holding a long, broken piece of glass that smells of Dana's perfume and drips blood off one edge, is the dark figure. Blood runs down the broken glass as if it is bleeding. Letting the glass fall to the floor and shatter, the dark figure steps into the running water to clean the wound from the shard and remove any residual of the one once known as William Springer. The driver wakes up in a cold sweat from the dream when the intercom to the apartment buzzes. Simultaneously, the pager from Civil Central Command goes off. Unknown to the driver, both nuisances are from the driver's new partner. Neither seems to be a welcome addition to the driver's routine. Rising out of bed and quickly preparing for the arrival of their impromptu guest, the driver takes quick stock of their new domicile. The first room entered and put to use is a bathroom attached to the bedroom. It's just large enough to comfortably fit the standard necessities. Emerging from the bathroom, the driver assesses and appreciates the size and configuration of the bedroom. The short hallway out of the room has closed doors on either side before it opens up into a casual living room that features a half wall separating the kitchen into its own space. Across the living room from the hall is the main doorway. The driver opens the door. Standing in the doorway is a person facing the other way. The person is a few inches shorter than the driver and has long, black hair. The driver assumes that it is a woman because of the sound of her voice and her very nice hourglass figure. She is talking to someone, but no one is in front of her in the hall. "No, Ben, I will not be there." As the door opens to its fullest, she turns around quickly. As she turns, her hair glints its true color, which is a deep purple. "Ben! I have to go now. Yes, I will pass along the information about the appointment and the other thing. Don't worry." Ben's insistence can be felt in her curt responses to his unheard interrogation. With a deep, audible s

igh, she ends the call and bends down to grab a bag that has sweet smells emanating from it. She holds it up and says cheerfully, "I brought some breakfast." The driver steps aside to invite her in. She walks in and starts straightaway to the kitchen. "I didn't know what you like, so I got a little bit of everything." "Thanks?! I don't know when the last time I ate was," the driver answers back, mostly to themself. Still standing in the doorway, slightly stunned by the smooth aggression of this visitor, the driver is trying to calculate why they aren't more alarmed. Maybe it is the lack of sleep, or maybe it is the speed and calmness of this intruder. The driver feels no imminent threat. Finally, collecting enough sense, the driver follows her into the kitchen, where she has laid out most of the food. She stops and extends her hand, saying, "By the way, I'm Remmington, your partner, but you can just call me Remmie." The driver takes her hand and shakes it. "Can I give you some advice? You didn't know who I was—you shouldn't have let me in." The driver offers a reply by silently removing a pistol and harness from under the back of their shirt and placing the items on an empty bookcase at the side of the room. Chuckling, Remmington replies, "You might just make it in the City. I am going to guess that either you have been here before or someone told you about how the City is." "Not exactly. I've never been here, and no one had to tell me about the City." The driver stretches out the fatigue from the previous day and considers that this is not the whole truth before continuing on with common knowledge about the City. "I understand that the City has the least amount of regulations in order to develop the best in technological advancements. This lack of regulation can lead to a rise in some types of crime." "That's a nice way of putting it. 'Some types' is right on. One week, some of these people are on top of the world, with the latest and greatest idea. The week after that, they are no one and have nothing. Take, for instance, what happened just last month to the CEO of Red Inc., which is the company that just made the new bio-eyes that the military was looking at for the shock troops. Well, just two weeks after Red Inc. got the contract, one of the smaller drug companies came out with a new recreational drug." She continues extracting breakfast, taking coffee rolls out of the bag and setting them on a plate. "At the release party, the Red Inc. CEO was one of the .005% of people 'who may become dependent' and as a result disappeared that night. For six weeks no one knew where he was. They only located him by locking out all of his M.E. cards. They found him stealing other peoples' cards. Without as much as a gulp of air, she continues, "Well, the military backed out of the deal immediately when the CEO first went missing. Now, to try and save itself, Red Inc. is marketing this product line to law enforcement. That thing was 90% of their projected annual revenue and critical for fueling other product lines." She takes a sip of coffee; the driver mirrors her movement unwittingly. This conversation doesn't seem to be boring the driver, so Remmington continues, "Some of the force are considering it. I know some have had it done, but it is hard to tell, because unlike the old bio-eyes, these look like real eyes. Red Inc. says they work just great, but if you read the fine print, sometimes the lights have gone out—there is a .0002% failure rate—leaving you totally blind." "Have the lights gone out for anyone on the force?" asks the driver. "No, not yet. But that would definitely be a career-ending moment. Okay, a couple of business things, and then I want to know more about you. First, at some point today, we have to go get our vehicle. Second, you have to see a medical examiner before next week—can't afford to have any 'defectives' working around here. Finally—now tell me about yourself, because I couldn't get any information from your file." "You read my file?" The driver wouldn't have been

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that’s an overreaction. To our eyes Cruz did fine. The guest spot gave him a chance to accomplish two tasks, one aimed at squelching a short-term PR problem, the other at establishing a persona for the longer-term run of the 2016 race. The short-term dealt with an incident over the weekend in New Hampshire at a town hall meeting where Cruz went through a litany of perceived administration shortcomings and then yelled, “Your world is on fire!” That roused a three-year-old girl in the audience. “The world is on fire?” piped up the tot, identified later as Julie Trant, who was there with her mother Michelle. Some media played this up, and by the time the game of aggregation exaggeration was over headlines were saying he’d scared the girl, Cruz complained in his Meyers appearance. “I was Freddy Krueger. I had fingernails. It was terrible,” Cruz said. In fact the girl wasn’t scared at all, the Texas lawmaker said. (Video of the event appears to bear this out.) He’d said that she and her mommy would douse the fire, and now the girl thinks Cruz is a fireman, apparently. Her mom confirmed this in interviews with local media. Cruz told Meyers that kids actually like him. He pointed to that time where he read the Dr. Seuss classic “Green Eggs and Ham” during a Senate filibuster. “I poll very well with three-to-six year olds,” said Cruz. His long-term task was a bit more complicated. To be a viable White House contender, Cruz needs to show he’s tough enough to satisfy GOP primary voters hungry for someone to fight what they perceive as the abuses of the Obama administration – but without being, you know, scary. That’s a fine line, and Cruz walked it. When Meyers asked him about the time his GOP colleague Sen. John McCain of Arizona called him a “wacko bird,” Cruz insisted that he and Senator McCain are now friends. He added that he’s now got a baseball hat in his office, made by a Texas constituent, that’s got a picture of Daffy Duck and the words “wacko bird” on the brim. “Merchandising opportunity!” said Meyers. On issues, Cruz kind of sped over the most conservative parts of his positions, and then framed his answer in a way meant to appeal to a more bipartisan crowd. He said that gay marriage is a states’ rights issue, for instance. States have been setting marriage laws for 200 years, and now the “federal government or unelected judges” shouldn’t be changing that, according to Cruz. (In this case “unelected judges” refers to the Supreme Court, but Meyers did not bring that up.) Cruz might have been a bit stiff on the Meyers show, but seemed able to handle all the policy stuff a late night host could throw his way. The Texas senator was a champion debater in school, remember. That’s going to make for interesting candidate debates during primary season. Get the Monitor Stories you care about delivered to your inbox. If he runs. Meyers asked him why he was spending so much time in the Granite State. “New Hampshire is lovely this time of year,” said Cruz. That got a big laugh. 14 Republicans running in 2016 USA Update Ted Cruz tells NASA chief to focus less on climate change and more on space exploration GOP senators warn Iran on potential nuclear deal Decoder Ben Carson leans into 2016 presidential bid: What are his chances? Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal Never cross the streams I knew nothing about enneagrams until yesterday You have to spend money to make money, am I right? How does Christian math work? What the hell, Chad? Anyone remember Pepsigate on ScienceBlogs? What if a priest is invited to my family gatherings? Little Women was lovely! 100% ready and champing at the bit hemidactylus on Now I’m physically incapable of seeing Richard Jewell, because of all the projectile vomiting lanir on You have to spend money to make money, am I right? tomh on Discuss: Political Madness All the Time brucej on

that’s an overreaction. To our eyes Cruz did fine. The guest spot gave him a chance to accomplish two tasks, one aimed at squelching a short-term PR problem, the other at establishing a persona for the longer-term run of the 2016 race. The short-term dealt with an incident over the weekend in New Hampshire at a town hall meeting where Cruz went through a litany of perceived administration shortcomings and then yelled, “Your world is on fire!” That roused a three-year-old girl in the audience. “The world is on fire?” piped up the tot, identified later as Julie Trant, who was there with her mother Michelle. Some media played this up, and by the time the game of aggregation exaggeration was over headlines were saying he’d scared the girl, Cruz complained in his Meyers appearance. “I was Freddy Krueger. I had fingernails. It was terrible,” Cruz said. In fact the girl wasn’t scared at all, the Texas lawmaker said. (Video of the event appears to bear this out.) He’d said that she and her mommy would douse the fire, and now the girl thinks Cruz is a fireman, apparently. Her mom confirmed this in interviews with local media. Cruz told Meyers that kids actually like him. He pointed to that time where he read the Dr. Seuss classic “Green Eggs and Ham” during a Senate filibuster. “I poll very well with three-to-six year olds,” said Cruz. His long-term task was a bit more complicated. To be a viable White House contender, Cruz needs to show he’s tough enough to satisfy GOP primary voters hungry for someone to fight what they perceive as the abuses of the Obama administration – but without being, you know, scary. That’s a fine line, and Cruz walked it. When Meyers asked him about the time his GOP colleague Sen. John McCain of Arizona called him a “wacko bird,” Cruz insisted that he and Senator McCain are now friends. He added that he’s now got a baseball hat in his office, made by a Texas constituent, that’s got a picture of Daffy Duck and the words “wacko bird” on the brim. “Merchandising opportunity!” said Meyers. On issues, Cruz kind of sped over the most conservative parts of his positions, and then framed his answer in a way meant to appeal to a more bipartisan crowd. He said that gay marriage is a states’ rights issue, for instance. States have been setting marriage laws for 200 years, and now the “federal government or unelected judges” shouldn’t be changing that, according to Cruz. (In this case “unelected judges” refers to the Supreme Court, but Meyers did not bring that up.) Cruz might have been a bit stiff on the Meyers show, but seemed able to handle all the policy stuff a late night host could throw his way. The Texas senator was a champion debater in school, remember. That’s going to make for interesting candidate debates during primary season. Get the Monitor Stories you care about delivered to your inbox. If he runs. Meyers asked him why he was spending so much time in the Granite State. “New Hampshire is lovely this time of year,” said Cruz. That got a big laugh. 14 Republicans running in 2016 USA Update Ted Cruz tells NASA chief to focus less on climate change and more on space exploration GOP senators warn Iran on potential nuclear deal Decoder Ben Carson leans into 2016 presidential bid: What are his chances? Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal Never cross the streams I knew nothing about enneagrams until yesterday You have to spend money to make money, am I right? How does Christian math work? What the hell, Chad? Anyone remember Pepsigate on ScienceBlogs? What if a priest is invited to my family gatherings? Little Women was lovely! 100% ready and champing at the bit hemidactylus on Now I’m physically incapable of seeing Richard Jewell, because of all the projectile vomiting lanir on You have to spend money to make money, am I right? tomh on Discuss: Political Madness All the Time brucej on

I knew nothing about enneagrams until yesterday SC (Salty Current) on Discuss: Political Madness All the Time donnagratehouse on You have to spend money to make money, am I right? Akira MacKenzie on Discuss: Political Madness All the Time Lofty on You have to spend money to make money, am I right? HATE ADS? Subscribe to FTB Ad Free. Please donate to our legal defense fund! Discuss: Political Madness All the Time The Pharyngula Wiki Social Justice and Economics Social Justice Llink Roundup PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris. This is a personal weblog. The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer. • a longer profile of yours truly • Nature Network • Mastodon • CuriousCat • the Pharyngula chat room (#pharyngula on irc.synirc.net) Follow @pzmyers View pzmyers's observations » I reserve the right to publicly post, with full identifying information about the source, any email sent to me that contains threats of violence. I support Americans United for Separation of Church and State. whywhywhy on Never cross the streams katahdin on You have to spend money to make money, am I right? johnson catman on Discuss: Political Madness All the Time American Humanist Association Canadian Atheist Ex-Muslims of North America Minnesota Atheists Rosa Rubicondior The Morning Heresy Alas! A blog Lance Mannion Secular Woman We Hunted the Mammoth Coyot.es Network Genomicron Genotopia Judge Starling (Dan Graur) NCSE Panda's Thumb SciAm blogs Scicurious Science after Sunclipse Scientopia Skulls in the Stars Telliamed Revisited The Well-Timed Period What's in John's Freezer? Scienceblogs Diaspora Aardvarchaeology Confessions of a Science Librarian Discovering Biology in a Digital World Dynamics of Cats Page 3.14 Starts with a Bang Rule of law is an illusion » « Spider eggs are all fine today Make it matter The woman who was assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh has revealed her identity — she’s a psychology professor named Christine Blasey Ford — and spoken up about the details of ol’ Party Boy Brett’s callous disregard for women. I won’t repeat the story here, but want to mention that she revealed herself reluctantly, and for good reason. By late August, Ford had decided not to come forward, calculating that doing so would upend her life and probably would not affect Kavanaugh’s confirmation. “Why suffer through the annihilation if it’s not going to matter?” she said. That’s the looming threat in this story, and you know it’s happening even now. Kavanaugh has no worries, he’s got a mob at his back, but you know that Professor Blasey is looking up at an avalanche of shit coming her way. It’s not fair, but it’s what always happens — we remember Anita Hill, right? There’s only one thing to do. Make sure that coming forward does matter. Stop that nomination cold. Feminism, Gender, and Equality, Politics, History, and Law SC (Salty Current) says “NEW: Statement from Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans.” Awful men, one and all. Kamaka says All the Authoritarians care about right now is tilting the courts. Majorities in Congress come and go, but Judicial appointments are forever. We are stuck with this nasty shit for the rest of our lives. damien75 says Good-bye Brett, that was a good run while it lasted. Send in the next clown. chrislawson says If only the US political system had a way to stop the nomination of a horrifically inappropriate appointment to a crucial public position. weylguy says Kavanaugh means nothing to Trump but a vote to keep Trump’s impending impeachment and crimes under control.

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13 3 Minutes The seasonally adjusted Kagiso Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) is a useful indicator of the state of health in manufacturing. It did recover slightly in October, increasing to 50.7 points from a revised 50 points in September. Despite the improvement, the index remains below the average reading of 52.7 recorded during the third quarter of 2013. What do our experts make of it? Odette Smith, Industry Analyst: Manufacturing and Mining, RMB: The manufacturing sector is still struggling. While it is beginning to show signs of improvement, it is too soon to say it has turned the corner as there are still many factors putting the sector under pressure. On the positive side exports in terms of value have improved, partly helped by the weaker rand and the Eurozone, which has just come out of recession. But, on the negative side, the weaker rand has also increased the cost of imports. Since imports have become integral to the manufacturing sector this will exert cost pressure. Manufacturers who have high local content in their products will derive greater benefit from the weaker rand and their competitiveness against imports is expected to improve. The sector is also facing local costs pressures as wage settlements have generally been above inflation, and electricity prices continue to rise at a level also above inflation.Capacity utilisation remains below its long-term average but has ticked up slightly. If the rand remains weak, capacity utilisation is likely to rise further. While manufacturing business confidence is showing signs of improving, it is still low. Craig Pheiffer from Absa Investments: The PMI is useful from a number of fronts because it talks to the underlying demand for goods in the economy from both domestic and international consumers. The improvement in the headline PMI is to be welcomed from a neutral (revised) reading last month but although it is in positive territory, it is only modestly so and highlights the ongoing fragility of the sector. The expectation that a weaker rand will save the domestic manufacturing sector as it makes our goods more competitive on the global stage is a little misguided, and to date the benefits of the weaker currency haven’t given the sector a dramatic boost. The increases in the sub-PMI’s for Business Activity and New Sales Orders are encouraging but the most encouraging element is the improved sub-PMI for Expected Business Conditions – that leapt from 51.8 points to 62.2 points and is probably predicated on an improved outlook for global growth in 2014 over 2013 and by extension, a greater demand from offshore for our locally produced goods. Coenraad Bezuidenhodut of the Manufacturing Circle: The recovery in the Kagiso Purchasing Management Index’s overall rating from its lowest point in five months in September (50.0, seasonally adjusted) to a fragile but stronger 50.7 shows that while the prolonged strikes in the automotive sector had severe impacts on manufacturing, the sector is on the rebound. In the wake of the recent Quarterly Labour Force Statistics release (showing manufacturing to have shed in excess of 60 000 jobs), a further drop in the Employment Index (from 49.5 to 49.4) is a worrying sign. It is, however, consistent with concerns raised earlier in the year that weak demand, increasing input costs (particularly as a result of rising administered prices), productivity that does not keep abreast of remuneration increases and the affordability of capital make mechanisation a necessary consideration where manufacturers are forced to act to protect their competitiveness. The Manufacturing Circle’s survey for the third quarter (to be released on 14 November) may provide a clearer picture in this regard. The decline in the price component (from 82.7 to 80.8) may not only be indicative of reduced input price pressure, but may also indicate that the opportunity afforded by the weaker rand for manufacturers to feed through these costs to the consumer and export buyers may have run its course. This may exacerbate margin squeeze again and undermine the sustainable performance of manufacturers. There are also still lagging effects of the recent auto sector strike, as suggested by the decline in the index component for supplier performance which dropped from 53.6 to 47.9, which rhymes with the sequence of the strikes. Man

13 3 Minutes The seasonally adjusted Kagiso Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) is a useful indicator of the state of health in manufacturing. It did recover slightly in October, increasing to 50.7 points from a revised 50 points in September. Despite the improvement, the index remains below the average reading of 52.7 recorded during the third quarter of 2013. What do our experts make of it? Odette Smith, Industry Analyst: Manufacturing and Mining, RMB: The manufacturing sector is still struggling. While it is beginning to show signs of improvement, it is too soon to say it has turned the corner as there are still many factors putting the sector under pressure. On the positive side exports in terms of value have improved, partly helped by the weaker rand and the Eurozone, which has just come out of recession. But, on the negative side, the weaker rand has also increased the cost of imports. Since imports have become integral to the manufacturing sector this will exert cost pressure. Manufacturers who have high local content in their products will derive greater benefit from the weaker rand and their competitiveness against imports is expected to improve. The sector is also facing local costs pressures as wage settlements have generally been above inflation, and electricity prices continue to rise at a level also above inflation.Capacity utilisation remains below its long-term average but has ticked up slightly. If the rand remains weak, capacity utilisation is likely to rise further. While manufacturing business confidence is showing signs of improving, it is still low. Craig Pheiffer from Absa Investments: The PMI is useful from a number of fronts because it talks to the underlying demand for goods in the economy from both domestic and international consumers. The improvement in the headline PMI is to be welcomed from a neutral (revised) reading last month but although it is in positive territory, it is only modestly so and highlights the ongoing fragility of the sector. The expectation that a weaker rand will save the domestic manufacturing sector as it makes our goods more competitive on the global stage is a little misguided, and to date the benefits of the weaker currency haven’t given the sector a dramatic boost. The increases in the sub-PMI’s for Business Activity and New Sales Orders are encouraging but the most encouraging element is the improved sub-PMI for Expected Business Conditions – that leapt from 51.8 points to 62.2 points and is probably predicated on an improved outlook for global growth in 2014 over 2013 and by extension, a greater demand from offshore for our locally produced goods. Coenraad Bezuidenhodut of the Manufacturing Circle: The recovery in the Kagiso Purchasing Management Index’s overall rating from its lowest point in five months in September (50.0, seasonally adjusted) to a fragile but stronger 50.7 shows that while the prolonged strikes in the automotive sector had severe impacts on manufacturing, the sector is on the rebound. In the wake of the recent Quarterly Labour Force Statistics release (showing manufacturing to have shed in excess of 60 000 jobs), a further drop in the Employment Index (from 49.5 to 49.4) is a worrying sign. It is, however, consistent with concerns raised earlier in the year that weak demand, increasing input costs (particularly as a result of rising administered prices), productivity that does not keep abreast of remuneration increases and the affordability of capital make mechanisation a necessary consideration where manufacturers are forced to act to protect their competitiveness. The Manufacturing Circle’s survey for the third quarter (to be released on 14 November) may provide a clearer picture in this regard. The decline in the price component (from 82.7 to 80.8) may not only be indicative of reduced input price pressure, but may also indicate that the opportunity afforded by the weaker rand for manufacturers to feed through these costs to the consumer and export buyers may have run its course. This may exacerbate margin squeeze again and undermine the sustainable performance of manufacturers. There are also still lagging effects of the recent auto sector strike, as suggested by the decline in the index component for supplier performance which dropped from 53.6 to 47.9, which rhymes with the sequence of the strikes. Man

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S GROUP 2019 BRIDGESTONE NHL WINTER CLASSIC® MEDIA CONFERENCE CALL – TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, AT 11 A.M. ET Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick, Eddie Olczyk, Pierre McGuire & Executive Producer Sam Flood Dial 334-323-0522 to Participate STAMFORD, Conn. – Dec. 17, 2018 – NBC Sports Group’s NHL broadcast team of Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick (play-by-play), Eddie Olczyk (analyst), Pierre McGuire (‘Inside the Glass’ Analyst), and executive producer Sam Flood, will preview the upcoming 2019 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic®, featuring the Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Ind., on a media conference call tomorrow, Tuesday, December 18, at 11 a.m. ET. Media interested in participating should call 334-323-0522; Passcode: 1222273. WHAT: 2019 NHL Winter Classic® Media Conference Call WHO: Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick, Eddie Olczyk, Pierre McGuire, Sam Flood WHEN: Tomorrow, Tuesday, December 18, at 11 a.m. ET NUMBER: 334-323-0522 The Bruins and Blackhawks will be making their third and fourth appearances, respectively, in the NHL Winter Classic®. Chicago’s previous appearances in the NHL Winter Classic include the 2009 NHL Winter Classic against the Detroit Red Wings at Wrigley Field (6-4 loss); a road trip to play the Washington Capitals in 2015 at Nationals Park (3-2 loss); and a matchup against the St. Louis Blues in 2017 at Busch Stadium (4-1 loss). Boston was the home club in its two NHL Winter Classic games; a 2-1 overtime win against the Philadelphia Flyers at Fenway Park in 2010 and a 5-1 loss to the Montreal Canadiens in 2016 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough. -NBC SPORTS GROUP- The AM5 socket Ryzen 7000 processors arrive in the second half of 2022. AMD returned to the game with its Ryzen processors and once again became competitive with Intel at a time when we thought it was no longer possible. The constant and concrete advancement of processors on Zen architecture has brought much-needed excitement to the processor market, which is why the presentation of what is to come soon is eagerly awaited. At CES 2022, AMD did not unveil the fifth-generation Ryzen desktop processors but confirmed the Ryzen 7000 arrives in the second half of 2022. It will be Zen 4 processors, built with a new 5-nanometer manufacturing process. AMD has revealed that it will move to a new socket, after using AM4 since 2016. Socket AM5 will be based on LGA design, which is a big change for AMD processors. From now on, the "pins" will be on the motherboard, instead of on the processors themselves, as has been the case with AMD so far. The exact standard for the AM5 socket will be the LGA1718. The good news though is that the coolers for the AM4 socket will still be compatible with the AM5. The new processors will be compatible with PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 standards, which means that the transition to the new generation of Ryzen will begin to move to a new standard of working memory. As DDR5 memories have just gone on sale, their prices are high, so count on the fact that switching to the Ryzen 7000 series will not be a cheap investment if you go for the DDR5 solution as a "stake" for the future. However, there is still a lot of time until then, and according to the latest information, it is possible that we could get alternative solutions such as an adapter that converts DDR4 memory into DDR5 type. Tags: Hardware News Washington State Justices’ Ruling Ignores Election By Heather Kays The Washington

S GROUP 2019 BRIDGESTONE NHL WINTER CLASSIC® MEDIA CONFERENCE CALL – TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, AT 11 A.M. ET Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick, Eddie Olczyk, Pierre McGuire & Executive Producer Sam Flood Dial 334-323-0522 to Participate STAMFORD, Conn. – Dec. 17, 2018 – NBC Sports Group’s NHL broadcast team of Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick (play-by-play), Eddie Olczyk (analyst), Pierre McGuire (‘Inside the Glass’ Analyst), and executive producer Sam Flood, will preview the upcoming 2019 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic®, featuring the Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Ind., on a media conference call tomorrow, Tuesday, December 18, at 11 a.m. ET. Media interested in participating should call 334-323-0522; Passcode: 1222273. WHAT: 2019 NHL Winter Classic® Media Conference Call WHO: Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick, Eddie Olczyk, Pierre McGuire, Sam Flood WHEN: Tomorrow, Tuesday, December 18, at 11 a.m. ET NUMBER: 334-323-0522 The Bruins and Blackhawks will be making their third and fourth appearances, respectively, in the NHL Winter Classic®. Chicago’s previous appearances in the NHL Winter Classic include the 2009 NHL Winter Classic against the Detroit Red Wings at Wrigley Field (6-4 loss); a road trip to play the Washington Capitals in 2015 at Nationals Park (3-2 loss); and a matchup against the St. Louis Blues in 2017 at Busch Stadium (4-1 loss). Boston was the home club in its two NHL Winter Classic games; a 2-1 overtime win against the Philadelphia Flyers at Fenway Park in 2010 and a 5-1 loss to the Montreal Canadiens in 2016 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough. -NBC SPORTS GROUP- The AM5 socket Ryzen 7000 processors arrive in the second half of 2022. AMD returned to the game with its Ryzen processors and once again became competitive with Intel at a time when we thought it was no longer possible. The constant and concrete advancement of processors on Zen architecture has brought much-needed excitement to the processor market, which is why the presentation of what is to come soon is eagerly awaited. At CES 2022, AMD did not unveil the fifth-generation Ryzen desktop processors but confirmed the Ryzen 7000 arrives in the second half of 2022. It will be Zen 4 processors, built with a new 5-nanometer manufacturing process. AMD has revealed that it will move to a new socket, after using AM4 since 2016. Socket AM5 will be based on LGA design, which is a big change for AMD processors. From now on, the "pins" will be on the motherboard, instead of on the processors themselves, as has been the case with AMD so far. The exact standard for the AM5 socket will be the LGA1718. The good news though is that the coolers for the AM4 socket will still be compatible with the AM5. The new processors will be compatible with PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 standards, which means that the transition to the new generation of Ryzen will begin to move to a new standard of working memory. As DDR5 memories have just gone on sale, their prices are high, so count on the fact that switching to the Ryzen 7000 series will not be a cheap investment if you go for the DDR5 solution as a "stake" for the future. However, there is still a lot of time until then, and according to the latest information, it is possible that we could get alternative solutions such as an adapter that converts DDR4 memory into DDR5 type. Tags: Hardware News Washington State Justices’ Ruling Ignores Election By Heather Kays The Washington

state Supreme Court on Sept. 4 rule the state’s charter school law as unconstitutional. The justices dug deep to justify their decision, referencing a definition of public schools from a 1909 case, School District 20 vs. Bryan. Instead of citing a particular right spelled out in the U.S. Constitution or Washington state’s constitution, the court based its ruling largely on its own, distinctive interpretation of the term “common schools.” The ruling essentially claims charter schools are not public schools, which could not be more blatantly false. Charter schools are public schools that have somewhat more autonomy than traditional public schools. Most states now have charter school laws on the books, so Washington’s law was not some kind of weird experiment, but rather right in line with other programs dozens of states and cities have already implemented. The court ruling is based on the absurd premise that charter schools are not accountable to taxpayers because they are not run by elected school boards. But the state’s 2012 charter law came into being because of a ballot initiative voted on directly by — you guessed it — the taxpayers of Washington state. They gave their approval at that time. Unlike traditional public schools, charter schools are also directly accountable to the parents of the children who attend them. Charter schools typically close within three years if they are not doing a good job. Failing public schools just go on and on, dooming more children to a poor education. The teachers unions and their allies who sued to stop the state’s charter law are forcing those students to remain trapped in their failing schools. Just who is it that’s acting as if they’re not accountable to the taxpayer here? It was particularly irresponsible for the court to delay making this decision until the school year was about to start, thus leaving hundreds of students in the lurch. Again, just who is it that’s acting as if they’re not accountable here? Liv Finne, director of education studies at the Washington Policy Center, notes the people of Washington passed the charter school law through the ballot initiative process because they wanted serious educational reform. The court is denying them their right to decide how their schools should be structured. “Just as schools across Washington open their doors to students, the state Supreme Court placed school reform in serious jeopardy,” Finne said. “For technical reasons, the court struck down the charter school law passed by voters in 2012. The state teachers union — the Washington Education Association, which funded the lawsuit against the charter school law — celebrated the ruling.” Finne says the state’s teachers unions have undue influence over education policy in Washington. She’s obviously right. “The ruling has shocked and upset the parents and families of the 1,300 children enrolled in one of Washington’s nine new charter schools,” said Finne. “Questions are now being raised about union influence on the Supreme Court. Public records show seven of the nine Supreme Court judges took maximum contributions from the state teachers union during their election campaigns.” The technical fixes necessary to correct this ridiculous ruling are simple: either change or remove the term “common schools” from state law or rewrite the definition of the term to include charter schools, which are, as noted earlier, public schools. That just happens to be what the voters of Washington have expressly communicated they want. Since the state’s courts won’t do the right thing for Washington’s children, it’s up to the Legislature to do so. The court made a disappointing decision in this case, and parents, teachers and taxpayers will all have to stand up and demand more. [Originally published at the Washington Herald] Heather Kays Heather Kays is a policy advisor to The Heartland Institute and former managing editor of School Reform News, a national monthly publication. News & Awards > Skelly & Couch projects triumph in RIBA regional awards 2021 The Malthouse, The King's School Canterbury: winner of 3 RIBA South East Awards 2021 © Philip Vile Skelly & Couch projects feature strongly in this year’s RIBA Regional Awards with five accolades presented by RIBA South East alone. In addition to a main prize, Tim Ronalds’ The Malthouse at The King’s School in Canterbury scooped two of the special awards for the South East region’s Building of the Year title as well as its 20

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Doritos and wondering what on earth he was doing there. Sinatra requested some music: “Connie Francis, if you have it.” Warne said he would search his iTunes library but might have to resort to one of his playlists. Sinatra, polite to a fault, had no objections. And so it is that in the painting, the tune that Sinatra and Ali are belting out is “Somebody Told Me” by The Killers. Warne circled the party in quiet contemplation, quietly marvelling at the tableau he had brought together. It all felt too surreal for words. Was that really Muhammad Ali reaching for the prawn skewers? Was that really Angelina Jolie lounged half-naked over a chair he had never seen before in his life? Was that really Anthony Hopkins in the character of Hannibal Lecter, flipping brains over on the barbecue? In a funny way, he still had his doubts. Ever since he was young, he had always had a vivid imagination. It helped him as a bowler, too: not until late in his career did he realise that his ability to envisage what a batsman would do before he did it was not a skill all humans possessed, but a preternatural, almost supernatural, talent. There were times when he felt like an actor, in a film he had already seen many times before. His reverie was broken by Martin, grabbing his shoulder and gushing about the ball that he had bowled to Andrew Strauss at Edgbaston. “It was fucking awesome,” he said. “We were on tour all that summer and we’ve got the cricket on in the tour bus, and I’m sitting there thinking, ‘fuck,’ but it was an absolute genius ball. Seriously, what a genius. You, Freddie Flintoff and Curtly Ambrose are my absolute favourite cricketers of all time. And Botham, obviously. Martin Crowe. Lara. Shaun Pollock. Kumble. Sachin Tendulkar. What’s he like to bowl at? I mean, Tendulkar, what a fucking genius…” It had all gone more perfectly than Warne had dared to hope. Everybody was getting on famously. Sinatra and Michael Clarke exchanged telephone numbers and agreed to go for a drink the next time they were passing through the same spacetime. Bruce Springsteen learned how to bowl a googly and promised to teach the E Street Band when he got back home. Everybody was having so much fun, in fact, that nobody even noticed the two large trucks pulling up outside the back gate; one bearing a giant water pump, the other carrying 150 industrial-sized bags of chips. Later, after the last of the guests had left and the sun was finally receding, Warne went back inside the house. He saw his phone on the dining table, and instantly a cold dread settled over him. Even before unlocking the home screen, he knew what he would find. There were 19 missed calls and eight unread texts from Gillespie. He had been at the front door all day, pleading for someone to let him in. “OK, that’ll be a wrap,” the producer announced, checking her phone for the time of her next shoot, a bunch of AFL players visiting a petting zoo in Collingwood. “That was great, thanks. We’ll just take some cutaways of the exterior, and then we’ll be out of your hair.” “No worries,” Warne said, but the film crew were already opening the door by that point. Warne fancied he saw a couple of them smirking conspiratorially to each other. They left promptly and without a second glance, and so they did not see the cricket ball above the garage door, hovering a few inches below the ceiling, still furiously spinning. Issue 18 of The Nightwatchman is out now and available in both print and digital formats. Evaluation of savings from an underground fan replacement project - De Canha, D., Pretorius, J.H.C., Laubscher, R., Van Rhyn, P. De Canha, D., Pretorius, J.H.C., Laubscher, R., Van Rhyn, P. Measurement and verification, Energy efficiency, Underground ventilation De Canha, D. et al. 2016. Evaluation of savings from an under

Doritos and wondering what on earth he was doing there. Sinatra requested some music: “Connie Francis, if you have it.” Warne said he would search his iTunes library but might have to resort to one of his playlists. Sinatra, polite to a fault, had no objections. And so it is that in the painting, the tune that Sinatra and Ali are belting out is “Somebody Told Me” by The Killers. Warne circled the party in quiet contemplation, quietly marvelling at the tableau he had brought together. It all felt too surreal for words. Was that really Muhammad Ali reaching for the prawn skewers? Was that really Angelina Jolie lounged half-naked over a chair he had never seen before in his life? Was that really Anthony Hopkins in the character of Hannibal Lecter, flipping brains over on the barbecue? In a funny way, he still had his doubts. Ever since he was young, he had always had a vivid imagination. It helped him as a bowler, too: not until late in his career did he realise that his ability to envisage what a batsman would do before he did it was not a skill all humans possessed, but a preternatural, almost supernatural, talent. There were times when he felt like an actor, in a film he had already seen many times before. His reverie was broken by Martin, grabbing his shoulder and gushing about the ball that he had bowled to Andrew Strauss at Edgbaston. “It was fucking awesome,” he said. “We were on tour all that summer and we’ve got the cricket on in the tour bus, and I’m sitting there thinking, ‘fuck,’ but it was an absolute genius ball. Seriously, what a genius. You, Freddie Flintoff and Curtly Ambrose are my absolute favourite cricketers of all time. And Botham, obviously. Martin Crowe. Lara. Shaun Pollock. Kumble. Sachin Tendulkar. What’s he like to bowl at? I mean, Tendulkar, what a fucking genius…” It had all gone more perfectly than Warne had dared to hope. Everybody was getting on famously. Sinatra and Michael Clarke exchanged telephone numbers and agreed to go for a drink the next time they were passing through the same spacetime. Bruce Springsteen learned how to bowl a googly and promised to teach the E Street Band when he got back home. Everybody was having so much fun, in fact, that nobody even noticed the two large trucks pulling up outside the back gate; one bearing a giant water pump, the other carrying 150 industrial-sized bags of chips. Later, after the last of the guests had left and the sun was finally receding, Warne went back inside the house. He saw his phone on the dining table, and instantly a cold dread settled over him. Even before unlocking the home screen, he knew what he would find. There were 19 missed calls and eight unread texts from Gillespie. He had been at the front door all day, pleading for someone to let him in. “OK, that’ll be a wrap,” the producer announced, checking her phone for the time of her next shoot, a bunch of AFL players visiting a petting zoo in Collingwood. “That was great, thanks. We’ll just take some cutaways of the exterior, and then we’ll be out of your hair.” “No worries,” Warne said, but the film crew were already opening the door by that point. Warne fancied he saw a couple of them smirking conspiratorially to each other. They left promptly and without a second glance, and so they did not see the cricket ball above the garage door, hovering a few inches below the ceiling, still furiously spinning. Issue 18 of The Nightwatchman is out now and available in both print and digital formats. Evaluation of savings from an underground fan replacement project - De Canha, D., Pretorius, J.H.C., Laubscher, R., Van Rhyn, P. De Canha, D., Pretorius, J.H.C., Laubscher, R., Van Rhyn, P. Measurement and verification, Energy efficiency, Underground ventilation De Canha, D. et al. 2016. Evaluation of savings from an under

ground fan replacement project. Abstract: The savings calculation methodology from a fan replacement project is presented in this paper. The fans replaced are part of the underground ventilation system in a platinum mine. Initially, 290 axial flow fans rated at 45kW were to be replaced with carbon fibre composite fans. According to the manufacturer, the carbon fibre construction allowed for an optimum blade shape which results in the carbon fibre fan being more energy efficient. However, after the first few fans were replaced, it was discovered that the mine’s blasting activities caused the carbon fibre fans to crack and eventually fail. Fortunately, the manufacturer was able to produce a steel fan with similar performance to that of the carbon composite fans and continue replacing old fans in the mine. The savings were independently verified according to the International Performance Measurement & Verification Protocol (IPMVP). This involved testing old and new fans in a BS848 test duct and comparing the old and new fans at various operating points on their fan curves and making adjustments for operating conditions such as air density underground vs at the test duct. It was found that the new fans saved 5kW on average, across a range of operating points. ©2016, authors View Details Download SOURCE1 Evaluation of savings from an underground fan replacement project 819 KB Adobe Acrobat PDF View Details Download Loss happens on the material plane. Yet what truly belongs to you cannot be taken away. Four of Cups Crystal Visions deck © U.S. Games Systems, Inc. Watch Now: Five of Cups Video Learn the meaning of the Five of Cups Tarot card in under a minute! The Five of this suit traditionally portrays the mess that is left after an emotional upheaval, such as a tantrum or fit of rage. Consequences run the gamut from a hangover and lost wages, to abuse and ruined relationships. This card is also sometimes called Inheritance, suggesting the cross-generational legacy of such tragedies. Violent family patterns magnified to a much larger scale can become war. The Five of Cups reversed represents a paradoxical situation wherein what seems like the worst thing that could happen actually creates a better circumstance. Any incoherent fear, once expressed and faced, can be transformed into a manageable issue. Then you are liberated from the dread of negative anticipation, wondering if the situation will blow up in your face. You are freer to act authentically as a result of this energy turn. The Five of Cups in this position advises you to tighten your belt, make do with less and show more appreciation for the things you do have. If something is truly yours, it cannot be lost. When you are experiencing feelings of loss, it may be because of an inappropriate emotional attachment. If you promise things that you cannot deliver, then you might be setting yourself up for disappointment to follow. In overestimating our abilities, we are forced to face our limits. Be grateful that as the cups fell, you lost only three of the five. Two are still intact, pristine and full of sacred energy. Do not cling to the setback. Focus on the potential. Five of Cups card in all decks. Mick challenges his fringe players Mick McCarthy last night challenged those players increasingly frustrated on Sunderland's first team fringe to stake their claim for regular football at Crewe Alexandra tomorrow. The Black Cats' boss fears he may be forced to leave behind injured trio Kevin Kyle, Colin Healy and Gary Breen when the team coach leaves for Cheshire this afternoon. But McCarthy sees the potential absence of three of this season's star performers as a golden opportunity for those players desperate to prove their class. "I know full well that when the team is picked there are a few grumbles and moans," explained the former Republic of Ireland boss. "I was a player myself and you always think you should be in the side. "There are players at this club who feel they should be in the starting 11 and I accept that. But I've had a great response from the lads who are fighting for a place. "If there is an opportunity to step in at Crewe, then those players handed a shirt have to grab their chance with both hands. If they don't do that then they know the injured players will be fit again sooner rather than later and they're back

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it will be important to continue to monitor how the self-employed are faring to ensure the level of government support is sufficient and well-targeted. Matthew Gray, Director, ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods, Australian National University and Nicholas Biddle, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University australians self employed work COVID-19, Top Stories Three ships, one virus: How a Princess fairytale became a COVID-19 nightmare Mental Health, Top Stories October 25, 2020 0Comments 0Likes Greater needs, but poorer access to services: why COVID mental health measures must target disadvantaged areas Armadale News Gosnells News Canning News Serpentine Jarrahdale News Feature Liftouts and SJ Extra Walkers wanted Express Letterbox Delivery Home Gosnells Former mayor reflects on his time in office Local Government Elections Former mayor reflects on his time in office By Examiner Newspapers - New City of Canning mayor Paul Ng says divine intervention won him the position and he was looking forward to working with the new council. After four years of service the time has come for former City of Canning mayor Paul Ng to move on. Mr Ng wasn’t re-elected for a second term and said he was disappointed, but also at peace with the election outcome. During his service Mr Ng said he spent most of his time in council and at home contemplating things related to Canning and he now sees this as an opportunity to spend time with his family. “I intend to continue contributing to the Canning community in some way but I will take some time to decide on how best to do so,” he said. “On a much lighter note, I do have a whole wardrobe full of self-tied bow ties,so I just might auction off some to help pay for my retirement.” While he has no intention of running again for mayor, he said these past four years of service have been both a privilege and a blessing. “There have been so many highlights, such as improvements against performance measures like the reduction in rate increases and improvement in Canning’s Financial Health Index,” he said. “It has been rewarding having overseen the organisation of many events like Mid Week Eats, Muddy Hands Festival and Youth Fest that have brought the community together. “Also conducting Australian Citizenship ceremonies which I estimated that I had conducted 89 and it has been wonderful welcoming our newest citizens, which reminds me of how fortunate we are to live in this country.” However, Mr Ng also said he faced some challenges when in council and said he had to find out the hard way, that every word he used must be carefully constructed. “There was the time when I used the word “salary” as a better understood term, while the good intentions were there, and I did salary sacrifice a total of $94,091 to the council (which no other Canning councillor has done), the very public debate during that time was unpleasant,” he said. “However, throughout the rest of my term as mayor, I did try to be more conscious of the subtleties of the English language. “Lastly, but perhaps the most arduous for the council in my view, is that partisan allegiances, rather than an independent and Canning-first approach, had undue influence on council decision-making. “This was, and will be, an ongoing issue. “I take this opportunity to wish the council every success in delivering best outcomes for the City of Canning now and into the future.” Previous articleDewhurst may return Next articleAmity wants a fighting chance Examiner Newspapers Fighting for farmers’ rights Jordan’s journey to a better life Losses for Perth against Adelaide, Brisbane Dancing Declan on a mission Scouts urge you to dob, dob, dob in a scammer Truck driver gets six years Local champs go blue Skatepark in line for a makeover Local woman’s black cockatoo mission Navy man’s high hopes A different Australia Day Trainlines down at night as Denny Ave works progress Get

it will be important to continue to monitor how the self-employed are faring to ensure the level of government support is sufficient and well-targeted. Matthew Gray, Director, ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods, Australian National University and Nicholas Biddle, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University australians self employed work COVID-19, Top Stories Three ships, one virus: How a Princess fairytale became a COVID-19 nightmare Mental Health, Top Stories October 25, 2020 0Comments 0Likes Greater needs, but poorer access to services: why COVID mental health measures must target disadvantaged areas Armadale News Gosnells News Canning News Serpentine Jarrahdale News Feature Liftouts and SJ Extra Walkers wanted Express Letterbox Delivery Home Gosnells Former mayor reflects on his time in office Local Government Elections Former mayor reflects on his time in office By Examiner Newspapers - New City of Canning mayor Paul Ng says divine intervention won him the position and he was looking forward to working with the new council. After four years of service the time has come for former City of Canning mayor Paul Ng to move on. Mr Ng wasn’t re-elected for a second term and said he was disappointed, but also at peace with the election outcome. During his service Mr Ng said he spent most of his time in council and at home contemplating things related to Canning and he now sees this as an opportunity to spend time with his family. “I intend to continue contributing to the Canning community in some way but I will take some time to decide on how best to do so,” he said. “On a much lighter note, I do have a whole wardrobe full of self-tied bow ties,so I just might auction off some to help pay for my retirement.” While he has no intention of running again for mayor, he said these past four years of service have been both a privilege and a blessing. “There have been so many highlights, such as improvements against performance measures like the reduction in rate increases and improvement in Canning’s Financial Health Index,” he said. “It has been rewarding having overseen the organisation of many events like Mid Week Eats, Muddy Hands Festival and Youth Fest that have brought the community together. “Also conducting Australian Citizenship ceremonies which I estimated that I had conducted 89 and it has been wonderful welcoming our newest citizens, which reminds me of how fortunate we are to live in this country.” However, Mr Ng also said he faced some challenges when in council and said he had to find out the hard way, that every word he used must be carefully constructed. “There was the time when I used the word “salary” as a better understood term, while the good intentions were there, and I did salary sacrifice a total of $94,091 to the council (which no other Canning councillor has done), the very public debate during that time was unpleasant,” he said. “However, throughout the rest of my term as mayor, I did try to be more conscious of the subtleties of the English language. “Lastly, but perhaps the most arduous for the council in my view, is that partisan allegiances, rather than an independent and Canning-first approach, had undue influence on council decision-making. “This was, and will be, an ongoing issue. “I take this opportunity to wish the council every success in delivering best outcomes for the City of Canning now and into the future.” Previous articleDewhurst may return Next articleAmity wants a fighting chance Examiner Newspapers Fighting for farmers’ rights Jordan’s journey to a better life Losses for Perth against Adelaide, Brisbane Dancing Declan on a mission Scouts urge you to dob, dob, dob in a scammer Truck driver gets six years Local champs go blue Skatepark in line for a makeover Local woman’s black cockatoo mission Navy man’s high hopes A different Australia Day Trainlines down at night as Denny Ave works progress Get

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control (IC50, 0.107 ± 0.010 μM). For L. major promastigotes, the NA42 (ED50)1 was 0.010 ± 0.002 μM, the NA42 (ED50)2 was 9.07 ± 1.07 μM, the NA134 (ED50)1 was 0.015 ± 0.003 μM, and the NA134 (ED50)2 was 15.1 ± 4.6 μM. Pentamidine was used as a positive control (IC50, 3.52 ± 0.46 μM). A similar biphasic inhibition curve was observed when we assessed compounds NA42 and NA134 for their activities against L. major promastigotes (Fig. 3B). However, these compounds did not show this biphasic effect against axenic L. mexicana amastigotes, with compound NA42 having an IC50 value of 9.01 ± 1.50 μM and compound NA134 having an IC50 value of 15.2 ± 2.0 μM (data not shown). Given its high lipophilicity, compound NA134 is expected to enter the parasite by passive diffusion. Assessment of the inhibition of [3H]hypoxanthine uptake by the TbH2 purine nucleobase transporter by compound NA134 revealed a Ki of 33.4 ± 11.3 μM (n = 3) (Fig. 2C), indicating that translocation via purine transporters is unlikely at therapeutically relevant extracellular concentrations. Evaluation of our library of 2,N6-disubstituted adenosine analogs showed that for antiplasmodial activity the purine skeleton requires substitution with bulky aromatic groups. Such derivatives (compounds NA48, NA117, and NA118) displayed little variation in their antimalarial activities, with IC50 values that hovered around 1.6 μM. We therefore believe that the antiplasmodial activities of these adenosine analogs in general might well be attributed to π-π interactions with heme molecules, which play a crucial role in P. falciparum metabolism (32). The classical antimalarial quinolines, quinine and chloroquine, are also believed to act via complexation to heme molecules (14, 15, 29), as are diamidines, such as pentamidine (33). Other studies by us (30) and others (20) on the antiplasmodial activities of adenosine derivatives also revealed that substitution of the parent adenosine structure with groups rich in π electrons favored their antimalarial activity. The targeting of the unique hemoglobin degradation pathways of Plasmodium would also be consistent with the relatively low levels of activity of these aromatically substituted compounds against Trypanosoma and Leishmania spp. (Table 1). Nevertheless, it cannot be excluded that targets other than heme complexation are affected, including a variety of nucleotide-dependent enzymes, such as cyclin-dependent kinases (13, 19) and the parasite's nucleoside salvage pathways (10). Late-stage trypanosomiasis, when parasites have invaded the central nervous system, is fatal if it is left untreated, and unfortunately, the available treatment for this cerebral parasitemia is highly unsatisfactory. Eflornithine, the sole drug developed in recent decades, is effective only against late-stage West African sleeping sickness and is very expensive (28). Considering the rapidly growing rates of resistance to melarsoprol (7, 21), the sole drug effective against East African late-stage HAT caused by T. b. rhodesiense, and the high cerebrotoxicity of this arsenical compound (3), there is an urgent need for the development of safe and efficacious drugs for the treatment of late-stage HAT. To combat the neuropathological form of the disease,

control (IC50, 0.107 ± 0.010 μM). For L. major promastigotes, the NA42 (ED50)1 was 0.010 ± 0.002 μM, the NA42 (ED50)2 was 9.07 ± 1.07 μM, the NA134 (ED50)1 was 0.015 ± 0.003 μM, and the NA134 (ED50)2 was 15.1 ± 4.6 μM. Pentamidine was used as a positive control (IC50, 3.52 ± 0.46 μM). A similar biphasic inhibition curve was observed when we assessed compounds NA42 and NA134 for their activities against L. major promastigotes (Fig. 3B). However, these compounds did not show this biphasic effect against axenic L. mexicana amastigotes, with compound NA42 having an IC50 value of 9.01 ± 1.50 μM and compound NA134 having an IC50 value of 15.2 ± 2.0 μM (data not shown). Given its high lipophilicity, compound NA134 is expected to enter the parasite by passive diffusion. Assessment of the inhibition of [3H]hypoxanthine uptake by the TbH2 purine nucleobase transporter by compound NA134 revealed a Ki of 33.4 ± 11.3 μM (n = 3) (Fig. 2C), indicating that translocation via purine transporters is unlikely at therapeutically relevant extracellular concentrations. Evaluation of our library of 2,N6-disubstituted adenosine analogs showed that for antiplasmodial activity the purine skeleton requires substitution with bulky aromatic groups. Such derivatives (compounds NA48, NA117, and NA118) displayed little variation in their antimalarial activities, with IC50 values that hovered around 1.6 μM. We therefore believe that the antiplasmodial activities of these adenosine analogs in general might well be attributed to π-π interactions with heme molecules, which play a crucial role in P. falciparum metabolism (32). The classical antimalarial quinolines, quinine and chloroquine, are also believed to act via complexation to heme molecules (14, 15, 29), as are diamidines, such as pentamidine (33). Other studies by us (30) and others (20) on the antiplasmodial activities of adenosine derivatives also revealed that substitution of the parent adenosine structure with groups rich in π electrons favored their antimalarial activity. The targeting of the unique hemoglobin degradation pathways of Plasmodium would also be consistent with the relatively low levels of activity of these aromatically substituted compounds against Trypanosoma and Leishmania spp. (Table 1). Nevertheless, it cannot be excluded that targets other than heme complexation are affected, including a variety of nucleotide-dependent enzymes, such as cyclin-dependent kinases (13, 19) and the parasite's nucleoside salvage pathways (10). Late-stage trypanosomiasis, when parasites have invaded the central nervous system, is fatal if it is left untreated, and unfortunately, the available treatment for this cerebral parasitemia is highly unsatisfactory. Eflornithine, the sole drug developed in recent decades, is effective only against late-stage West African sleeping sickness and is very expensive (28). Considering the rapidly growing rates of resistance to melarsoprol (7, 21), the sole drug effective against East African late-stage HAT caused by T. b. rhodesiense, and the high cerebrotoxicity of this arsenical compound (3), there is an urgent need for the development of safe and efficacious drugs for the treatment of late-stage HAT. To combat the neuropathological form of the disease,

drugs will have to cross the blood-brain barrier and, hence, will need to be lipophilic in character. The most active antitrypanosomal compounds resulting from our screen, nucleoside derivative NA42 and its nucleobase analog, compound NA134, in fact seem to meet that requirement, given their high c-log P values. The relatively low affinity for P1 and P2 transporters and for the H2 transporter of compounds NA42 and NA134, respectively, combined with their similar activities against the tbat1−/− and parental strains, reveals that these compounds must enter the parasite by passive diffusion across the cell membrane to cause their antiprotozoal effects. Accordingly, the higher hydrophobicity of compound NA134 compared with that of NA42 may well contribute to the higher trypanocidal activity of compound NA134. Other reasons for its higher activity might be that upon metabolism within the parasite, compound NA134 is already a substrate for phosphoribosyltransferases, whereas the ribosyl group of compound NA42 would first have to be hydrolyzed before entry into the nucleotide pool (16). Nevertheless, there is the possibility that these two molecules exert their antiprotozoal activities in their unmetabolized forms, for instance, by inhibiting certain ATP- or NAD(P)H-dependent enzymes, such as the kinases or enzymes involved in glycolysis. Over the past few years several studies that described the rational targeting of glycolytic enzymes by adenosine derivatives have appeared (6). Although various inhibitors of T. brucei and T. cruzi glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (6) and T. brucei phosphoglycerate kinase (5) have been identified, these compounds displayed antitrypanosomal activities only in the low micromolar range; i.e., they were 1 to 2 orders of magnitude less effective than compounds NA42 and NA134. Current antiprotozoal agents often derive their selectivity from selective accumulation by the parasite rather than the host cell (9). Although the 2,N6-disubstituted adenosine derivatives were, in principle, designed to be selectively accumulated by the parasite through active transport by the protozoan nucleoside and nucleobase carriers, they appear to have little affinity for the trypanosomal transporters. Nonetheless, the absence of mammalian cytotoxicity of compounds NA42 and NA134 indicates that their selectivity may come from intracellular biochemical or metabolic differences between parasite and host cells. Alternatively, the high tolerance of mammalian cells toward these nucleoside and nucleobase derivatives may be attributed to efficient mammalian drug efflux pumps which are capable of transporting lipophilic nucleoside analogs from mammalian cells (10). Their beneficial in vitro profiles make compounds NA42 and NA134 good candidates for further in vivo evaluation as potential therapeutics against African trypanosomiasis. Nasser El-Sabbagh and Hasan Ibrahim are gratefully acknowledged for their expert technical assistance. The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) is acknowledged for its financial support (to B.R.). Received 28 March 2007. Returned for modification 22 June 2007. Accepted 4 August 2007. ↵▿ Published ahead of print on 13 August 2007. ↵† Supplemental material for the article may be found at http://aac.asm.org/. Al Salabi, M. I., and H. P. De Koning. 2005. Purine nucleobase transport in amastigotes of Leishmania mexicana: involvement in allopurinol uptake. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 49:3682-3689. Al Salabi, M. I., L. J. Wallace, A. Luscher, P. Maser, D. Candlish, B. Rodenko, M. K. Gould, I. Jabeen, S. N. A

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Daniel building]] (built c. 1910), [[The Woolworth]] (2018-), former location of [[W. B. Tomlin]] grocery store (1900-1907), [[Shropshire & Daniel]] grocery store (1908-1921), [[Piggly Wiggly]] (1921-1922), [[Woolworth's]] discount store (1925–1961), [[The Slipper Shop]] (1970-1980s), [[Kinko's]] (1983), [[Bohemian Rhapsody]], [[Cloud Nine]] **** 1026½: former location of [[H. E. Isenberg]] (1919) *** 1028: former location of [[Electrik Maid Bakery]] (1922), ** 1028-1030: [[1910 Shropshire & Daniel building]] (built c. 1910), [[Cloud Nine]], former location of [[Piggly Wiggly]] (1921-1922), [[Woolworth's]] discount store (1925–1961), [[The Slipper Shop]] (1970-1980s), [[Kinko's]] (1983), [[Bohemian Rhapsody]] *** 1030: former location of [[Pryor Optical Dispensary]] (1970) *** 1028: former location of [[W. B. Tomlin]] grocery store (1900-1907), [[Stanfield & Holland]] (1919), [[Electrik Maid Bakery]] (1922), *** 1030: former location of [[Shropshire-Daniel Grocery Co.]] (1908-1921), [[Pryor Optical Dispensary]] (1970) ** 1032: [[Birmingham Apothecary]] (built c. 1910), former location of [[Highland Pharmacy]] (1905-1927), [[Physicians & Surgeons Apothecary]] / [[Physicians & Surgeons Apothecary|P & S Apothecary]] (1941-1970) ** 1034: [[Studio Arts Building]] (built 1910, burned 1986, rebuilt 1994) [[Waffle House]] (2013-), former location of [[Johnny Rockets]], [[Schaeffer Eye Center]] *** 2nd floor: former location of [[Studio]] night club (1995-), [[Eleven20]] night club (2006), [[Bacchus]] night club (2011-2015), and [[SKKY]] night club (2015-2017) ** 1036: former location of [[Bright Drug Co.]] (1922-1926), [[Bon Ton Sandwich Shop]] (1941-1949) ** 1001: [[1001 20th Street South]] (2020), former location of [[Highland Garage]]/[[Garrison Battery Co.]] (1926), [[Royal Tire Co.]] (1941-1949), [[Shiver & Hastie]] auto repair (1941), [[Hastie's Automotive Service]] / [[S. Lewis & Co.]] contractors (1949), [[Emily Shop]] (1970-1996), [[The Break]] (1990s-2019) ** 1001: [[1001 20th Street South]] (2020), former location of [[Highland Garage]]/[[Garrison Battery Co.]] (1926), [[Royal Tire Co.]] (1941-1949), [[Shiver & Hastie]] auto repair (1941), [[S. Lewis & Co.]] contractors (1949), [[Hastie's Automotive Service]] (1

Daniel building]] (built c. 1910), [[The Woolworth]] (2018-), former location of [[W. B. Tomlin]] grocery store (1900-1907), [[Shropshire & Daniel]] grocery store (1908-1921), [[Piggly Wiggly]] (1921-1922), [[Woolworth's]] discount store (1925–1961), [[The Slipper Shop]] (1970-1980s), [[Kinko's]] (1983), [[Bohemian Rhapsody]], [[Cloud Nine]] **** 1026½: former location of [[H. E. Isenberg]] (1919) *** 1028: former location of [[Electrik Maid Bakery]] (1922), ** 1028-1030: [[1910 Shropshire & Daniel building]] (built c. 1910), [[Cloud Nine]], former location of [[Piggly Wiggly]] (1921-1922), [[Woolworth's]] discount store (1925–1961), [[The Slipper Shop]] (1970-1980s), [[Kinko's]] (1983), [[Bohemian Rhapsody]] *** 1030: former location of [[Pryor Optical Dispensary]] (1970) *** 1028: former location of [[W. B. Tomlin]] grocery store (1900-1907), [[Stanfield & Holland]] (1919), [[Electrik Maid Bakery]] (1922), *** 1030: former location of [[Shropshire-Daniel Grocery Co.]] (1908-1921), [[Pryor Optical Dispensary]] (1970) ** 1032: [[Birmingham Apothecary]] (built c. 1910), former location of [[Highland Pharmacy]] (1905-1927), [[Physicians & Surgeons Apothecary]] / [[Physicians & Surgeons Apothecary|P & S Apothecary]] (1941-1970) ** 1034: [[Studio Arts Building]] (built 1910, burned 1986, rebuilt 1994) [[Waffle House]] (2013-), former location of [[Johnny Rockets]], [[Schaeffer Eye Center]] *** 2nd floor: former location of [[Studio]] night club (1995-), [[Eleven20]] night club (2006), [[Bacchus]] night club (2011-2015), and [[SKKY]] night club (2015-2017) ** 1036: former location of [[Bright Drug Co.]] (1922-1926), [[Bon Ton Sandwich Shop]] (1941-1949) ** 1001: [[1001 20th Street South]] (2020), former location of [[Highland Garage]]/[[Garrison Battery Co.]] (1926), [[Royal Tire Co.]] (1941-1949), [[Shiver & Hastie]] auto repair (1941), [[Hastie's Automotive Service]] / [[S. Lewis & Co.]] contractors (1949), [[Emily Shop]] (1970-1996), [[The Break]] (1990s-2019) ** 1001: [[1001 20th Street South]] (2020), former location of [[Highland Garage]]/[[Garrison Battery Co.]] (1926), [[Royal Tire Co.]] (1941-1949), [[Shiver & Hastie]] auto repair (1941), [[S. Lewis & Co.]] contractors (1949), [[Hastie's Automotive Service]] (1

949-1953), [[Emily Shop]] (1970-1996), [[The Break]] (1990s-2019) ** 1005-1035: [[Pickwick Plaza]] *** 1005: [[Sleek Sports Bar]] (October 2017-), former location of [[L. V. Clark residence (1899), [[Jack Moore Optical]] (1964-1970), [[The Outrigger]], [[Rube Burrows Food & Spirits]] (1980s-1996), [[Nirus]], [[Surin on 20th]], [[LaJaras]] (1999), [[Halfshells]] (2000-2006), [[World of Beer]] (2012-November 30, 2016), [[Magic City Brew]] (November 30-December 31, 2016) *** 1005: [[Sleek Sports Bar]] (October 2017-), former location of [[L. V. Clark residence (1899), [[A. B. Jones]] / [[O. C. Sparks]] / [[O. W. Vernon]] / [[R. H. Wind]] / [[W. J. Martin]] (1919), [[Jack Moore Optical]] (1964-1970), [[The Outrigger]], [[Rube Burrows Food & Spirits]] (1980s-1996), [[Nirus]], [[Surin on 20th]], [[LaJaras]] (1999), [[Halfshells]] (2000-2006), [[World of Beer]] (2012-November 30, 2016), [[Magic City Brew]] (November 30-December 31, 2016) *** 1007: former location of [[Scott's Apothecary]] (1964-1970) *** 1009-1011: former location of [[Allright Auto Park]] parking lot (1964-1970) **** 1009: former location of [[Whitman's Black & White Cab Co.]] (1941), [[McCrory Jewelers]] (1949) **** 1009: former location of [[Whitman's Black & White Cab Co.]] (1941), [[McCrory Jewelers]] (1949), [[Carl Traywick]] jeweler (1953) **** 1011: [[Momotaro]] rolled ice cream (October 2018-), former location of [[Thomas Bacon]] barber shop (1941), [[Five Points Radio Service]] (1949), [[Five Points Parking Lot]] / [[Acton's Toyville]] (1949), [[Texas Taco & Chili Co.]], [[Buffalo Cafe]], [[Sabor Tropical]] (2001-2014), [[Exclusive Apparel]] (2015-2018) **** 1011: [[Momotaro]] rolled ice cream (October 2018-), former location of [[Thomas Bacon]] barber shop (1941), [[Five Points Radio Service]] (1949), [[Five Points Parking Lot]] / [[Acton's Toyville]] (1949), [[Erle Plevine]] chiropodist (1953), [[Texas Taco & Chili Co.]], [[Buffalo Cafe]], [[Sabor Tropical]] (2001-2014), [[Exclusive Apparel]] (2015-2018) *** 1014: former location of [[San Sandwich Shop]] (1949) *** 1013: former location of [[O. Fortner]] (1919), [[San Sandwich Shop]] (1949) *** 1015: former location of [[U.S. Post Office Southside Station]] / [[White House Sandwich Shop]] (1

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was just staying back and letting him talk to me. Now I go up to him about anything and we talk." With pinch hitting almost being an art, Brown has also pumped pinch hitter Greg Dobbs for information, and Dobbs, who set the club's all-time single season record for pinch hits with 22 in 2008, has been more than willing to help. "I told him to be mentally ready. Do your homework. Watch video," Dobbs said. "He hasn't seen many of these guys, so he needs to become as familiar as possible with other team's pitchers. You do that by watching video. Pay attention to the game. Get in there and get swings to get loose during the game. When it gets to the fourth or fifth inning, start moving around. I'm trying to help him understand Charlie and understand the moves that he makes. "He's very eager to learn. He asks a lot of questions." Phillies center fielder Shane Victorino remembers what it's like to be a young player trying to prove yourself and climb the ranks. He said Brown is going about it the right way. He saw that firsthand during Saturday's Game 1 of the NLCS. "He loves to learn. He loves to watch. He's very good in that regard," Victorino said. "Domonic is one of those guys that has taken a lot of this in. Before his at-bat [Saturday] night he wanted to know and he was studying what [Giants starter Tim] Lincecum did throughout the game, and before he went up there, he mentioned to me how he's been pitching guys. I think it's good that a young kid like that is preparing himself for situations. And it's a big situation for him." It's one that Brown is loving. "I just try to enjoy every minute of it because you never know what kind of team I'm going to be on next year, if I'm going to get to the playoffs ever again," Brown said. "I'm soaking all this in and having fun with it." [email protected] Greg Dobbs Alarming new data on gender-based violence and impunity in Central America- US continues to criminalize, detain and deport children and families. In BlogTags asylum seekers, Central American Exodus, DACA, deportations, impunity in Central America, Mexico, TPS Advocates for LGBTQI organizations have noted an alarming increase in hate crimes against the LGBTQ population in El Salvador. November 19, 2019 – Over the past few days, new events have shed light on an entrenched climate of impunity in cases of gender-based violence, a major factor in causing women, girls and their families to flee for their safety. In El Salvador, courts ruled in favor of a judge accused of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl residing in a working-class neighborhood of San Salvador. The National Chamber of Criminal appeals concluded that Judge Eduardo Jaime Escalante committed a low-level violation, not a serious crime, because his groping of a 10 year-old-girl’s genital area was “brief, while her clothes were on and in a public area.” Salvadoran newspaper El Faro reported that the girl and her family fled the country in July. When the family’s initial attempt to leave the country resulted in an arrest and deportation back to El Salvador, they were met with threats for coming public about the assault. This case reflects the lack of protection victims of gender violence are granted and demonstrates the risks for those who attempt to seek justice by sharing their stories. Advocates for LGBTQI populations have noted an alarming increase in hate crimes in El Salvador. Recently, four LGBTQ people were killed, three of them trans women. Two of the four crimes occurred this past weekend. According to the organization COMCAVIS TRANS, there have been at least 151 cases of forced displacement of LGBTQ people between January 2018 and September of this year. These cases add to a history of hate crime impunity in El Salvador. Human rights organizations argue that the increase in hate crimes against the LGBTQ population is closely related to the current government’s decision to dismantle an office that advocates for public policies meant to benefit this population. Meanwhile, the high number of deportations from Mexico, El

was just staying back and letting him talk to me. Now I go up to him about anything and we talk." With pinch hitting almost being an art, Brown has also pumped pinch hitter Greg Dobbs for information, and Dobbs, who set the club's all-time single season record for pinch hits with 22 in 2008, has been more than willing to help. "I told him to be mentally ready. Do your homework. Watch video," Dobbs said. "He hasn't seen many of these guys, so he needs to become as familiar as possible with other team's pitchers. You do that by watching video. Pay attention to the game. Get in there and get swings to get loose during the game. When it gets to the fourth or fifth inning, start moving around. I'm trying to help him understand Charlie and understand the moves that he makes. "He's very eager to learn. He asks a lot of questions." Phillies center fielder Shane Victorino remembers what it's like to be a young player trying to prove yourself and climb the ranks. He said Brown is going about it the right way. He saw that firsthand during Saturday's Game 1 of the NLCS. "He loves to learn. He loves to watch. He's very good in that regard," Victorino said. "Domonic is one of those guys that has taken a lot of this in. Before his at-bat [Saturday] night he wanted to know and he was studying what [Giants starter Tim] Lincecum did throughout the game, and before he went up there, he mentioned to me how he's been pitching guys. I think it's good that a young kid like that is preparing himself for situations. And it's a big situation for him." It's one that Brown is loving. "I just try to enjoy every minute of it because you never know what kind of team I'm going to be on next year, if I'm going to get to the playoffs ever again," Brown said. "I'm soaking all this in and having fun with it." [email protected] Greg Dobbs Alarming new data on gender-based violence and impunity in Central America- US continues to criminalize, detain and deport children and families. In BlogTags asylum seekers, Central American Exodus, DACA, deportations, impunity in Central America, Mexico, TPS Advocates for LGBTQI organizations have noted an alarming increase in hate crimes against the LGBTQ population in El Salvador. November 19, 2019 – Over the past few days, new events have shed light on an entrenched climate of impunity in cases of gender-based violence, a major factor in causing women, girls and their families to flee for their safety. In El Salvador, courts ruled in favor of a judge accused of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl residing in a working-class neighborhood of San Salvador. The National Chamber of Criminal appeals concluded that Judge Eduardo Jaime Escalante committed a low-level violation, not a serious crime, because his groping of a 10 year-old-girl’s genital area was “brief, while her clothes were on and in a public area.” Salvadoran newspaper El Faro reported that the girl and her family fled the country in July. When the family’s initial attempt to leave the country resulted in an arrest and deportation back to El Salvador, they were met with threats for coming public about the assault. This case reflects the lack of protection victims of gender violence are granted and demonstrates the risks for those who attempt to seek justice by sharing their stories. Advocates for LGBTQI populations have noted an alarming increase in hate crimes in El Salvador. Recently, four LGBTQ people were killed, three of them trans women. Two of the four crimes occurred this past weekend. According to the organization COMCAVIS TRANS, there have been at least 151 cases of forced displacement of LGBTQ people between January 2018 and September of this year. These cases add to a history of hate crime impunity in El Salvador. Human rights organizations argue that the increase in hate crimes against the LGBTQ population is closely related to the current government’s decision to dismantle an office that advocates for public policies meant to benefit this population. Meanwhile, the high number of deportations from Mexico, El

Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras serve as evidence that more than a year after the “caravans” of asylum seekers fled from Central America, there are still no public policies in place that address the reasons that force people to leave their country of origin and seek asylum, indicating that many of these individuals and families will need to migrate again. In Honduras, the number of people deported has reached a shocking 100,000 in 2019. Sixty percent were deported from Mexico and 21,000 are minors. The number of Guatemalans deported in 2019 rose slightly in 2019 to 47,000 people. Around 42,000 Guatemalans have been deported from Mexico in 2019, about 4,000 more than the previous year. The Trump administration continues its relentless effort to criminalize, detain and deport immigrants and asylum- seekers On November 12, 2019 the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments for and against the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program after the Trump administration argued that maintaining the Obama-era program exceeded the scope of presidential authority and was therefore unconstitutional. DACA has protected 765,000 immigrant youth who came to the United States when they were children. The program protects them from deportation and has allowed them access to a work permit. The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed open to considering the Trump administration’s attempt to abolish DACA, an outcome that would shatter the hopes of recipients, their families, educational institutions and employers of transitioning to a pathway for lawful permanent residency. The Trump Administration, apparently concerned about negative reactions to its attacks on DACA recipients, trumpeted a new report that emphasizing the number of people who were denied access to the program or whose status was revoked after an arrest. In addition to the fact that these figures are relatively low, the Administration’s argument fails to acknowledge that DACA recipients grew in the United States and know no other home. This report should also raise alarms for human rights defenders, as it doubles down on the argument that the legal right to be in this country should be revoked after being arrested or committing a crime. Litigation efforts continue to block the Trump Administration efforts to cancel Temporary Protected Status, bolstered by a scathing new report from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that confirms that the Administration ignored data and recommendations from its own State Department and Embassy officials on country conditions, and instead made TPS cancellation decisions based on political considerations in an election year. The US also imprisoned a record number of immigrant and asylum-seeking children this fiscal year, with 69,550 children detained, an increase of 42% from the previous year. The impacts of the trauma from family separation and imprisonment has barely begun to surface, but it becomes clearer every day that the long-term harm to kids and families will stay with us for many years to come. Asylum Seekers from both Mexico and Central Americans in Danger US asylum claims from Mexican nationals are also being defacto blocked due to new rules. A recent report showed that 52% of the 21,398 people who are awaiting responses to asylum claims in 11 border cities are Mexican nationals. In response to that increase, the US Government has implemented an accelerated Humanitarian Asylum Review Process (HARP) designed to resolve asylum petitions in ten days, with the clear goal of returning people quickly to Mexico without due consideration of the merits of their request. The increase in asylum seekers from Mexico reflects an ongoing pattern of worsening security in parts of Mexico. News reports continue to document the extremely dangerous conditions facing Central Americans who have been returned to Mexico to await their asylum requests. Meanwhile, civil society groups in Mexico have called for an urgent and immediate resolution to the pending 60,000 asylum claims that languish in the Mexican system. The groups note that the Lopez Obrador government was able to offer immediate asylum to former Bolivian President Evo Morales, and call on the government to invest in speeding asylum requests for all. 2019: a year of humanitarian crisis driven by the US Asylum Blockade U

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s new entertainment sponsor By Gihon T Oct 27, 2021, 9:58am EDT Match Report: Inter vs Juventus Why Inter signed Alex Cordaz Listen to Gomez’s Previously Unreleased Demo Of ‘Someday’ From ‘Liquid Skin’ Reissue The deluxe edition of the band’s sophomore album, ‘Liquid Skin’, is out on 12 July. Photo: Scarlet Page Mercury Music Prize-winning alt-rockers Gomez have shared a previously unreleased demo version of ‘Someday’ from the forthcoming deluxe edition of their Liquid Skin album. You can check the track out below. “This is genuinely a complete mystery to me”, Gomez’s Ian Ball says of this version of ‘Someday’. “When we’re compiling stuff for this special deluxe thing we’re doing here, I raided a bunch of CDs from my dad’s attic, he’d kept a bunch of stuff. I think when I moved to the States, some of my stuff stayed in England and my dad got it and shoved it up in Les’ Loft, as it’s known. Sea Girls Shares A Warning On The Somber ‘Sleeping With You’ “When I was going through a bunch of the CDs just looking for stuff, alternate mixes and what have you, and I came across that tune that I personally have no recollection of whatsoever. So it’s possible I’m not involved in it, or it’s possible I was but I forgot it. But it’s definitely a Tom song, I could tell that much. “[‘Someday’] is definitely us, our band. I thought it was fun, I’d be curious to know if any of the other guys have memory of it. Tom probably would, but my memory of it is definitely blank. Which is not surprising really considering it was 20 years ago and we did do a lot of recording back then – it wasn’t easy to keep track of everything.” To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Gomez’s Liquid Skin, Virgin/UMC will be remastering the album and releasing a 2CD limited edition featuring 19 unreleased tracks, plus two accompanying vinyl editions on 12 July. Following his acclaimed remastering of the band’s debut Bring It On for the critically lauded 20th anniversary edition last year, Abbey Road’s Frank Arkwright has delved into the archive to remaster Liquid Skin from the original tapes. The 2CD will include 5 previously unreleased tracks, 4 previously unreleased alternate versions and 9 live tracks recorded at The Fillmore in San Francisco in 2000. There will be an accompanying remastered double LP release on black 180g vinyl + a D2C transparent limited edition. Gomez’s sophomore album that followed the Mercury Music prize winning Bring It On, Liquid Skin saw the band crystallize their unique British-Americana vibe, with breakout tracks such as ‘We Haven’t Turned Around’, as featured on the soundtrack to American Beauty. Related Topics:AlternativeGomezIan BallLiquid SkinMercury Music PrizeUMCVirgin Curtis Stigers Shares New Recording Of ‘You’re All That Matters To Me’ William "Bill" Wayne Most William “Bill’ Wayne Most was born on October 23, 1926, in Chelsea, Oklahoma to Erma and Herman Most. He was a stellar basketball athlete in Winganon and at Chelsea High School. He graduated in the Class of ‘44. He joined the Marines at 17, and married Fleeta O’Connor prior to serving in World War II and in the occupation of China. While overseas, a stillborn son, William Jr., was delivered. After he returned a daughter, Judy Faye, was born. Bill was a successful refrigerator repairman in Vinita, Oklahoma and Modesto, California. He taught refrigeration at Modesto Junior College, and went to Purdue University for additional training in summer for nearly 20 years. After his first wife passed, Bill married Jeannetta Tredway, and a second daughter, Krist

s new entertainment sponsor By Gihon T Oct 27, 2021, 9:58am EDT Match Report: Inter vs Juventus Why Inter signed Alex Cordaz Listen to Gomez’s Previously Unreleased Demo Of ‘Someday’ From ‘Liquid Skin’ Reissue The deluxe edition of the band’s sophomore album, ‘Liquid Skin’, is out on 12 July. Photo: Scarlet Page Mercury Music Prize-winning alt-rockers Gomez have shared a previously unreleased demo version of ‘Someday’ from the forthcoming deluxe edition of their Liquid Skin album. You can check the track out below. “This is genuinely a complete mystery to me”, Gomez’s Ian Ball says of this version of ‘Someday’. “When we’re compiling stuff for this special deluxe thing we’re doing here, I raided a bunch of CDs from my dad’s attic, he’d kept a bunch of stuff. I think when I moved to the States, some of my stuff stayed in England and my dad got it and shoved it up in Les’ Loft, as it’s known. Sea Girls Shares A Warning On The Somber ‘Sleeping With You’ “When I was going through a bunch of the CDs just looking for stuff, alternate mixes and what have you, and I came across that tune that I personally have no recollection of whatsoever. So it’s possible I’m not involved in it, or it’s possible I was but I forgot it. But it’s definitely a Tom song, I could tell that much. “[‘Someday’] is definitely us, our band. I thought it was fun, I’d be curious to know if any of the other guys have memory of it. Tom probably would, but my memory of it is definitely blank. Which is not surprising really considering it was 20 years ago and we did do a lot of recording back then – it wasn’t easy to keep track of everything.” To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Gomez’s Liquid Skin, Virgin/UMC will be remastering the album and releasing a 2CD limited edition featuring 19 unreleased tracks, plus two accompanying vinyl editions on 12 July. Following his acclaimed remastering of the band’s debut Bring It On for the critically lauded 20th anniversary edition last year, Abbey Road’s Frank Arkwright has delved into the archive to remaster Liquid Skin from the original tapes. The 2CD will include 5 previously unreleased tracks, 4 previously unreleased alternate versions and 9 live tracks recorded at The Fillmore in San Francisco in 2000. There will be an accompanying remastered double LP release on black 180g vinyl + a D2C transparent limited edition. Gomez’s sophomore album that followed the Mercury Music prize winning Bring It On, Liquid Skin saw the band crystallize their unique British-Americana vibe, with breakout tracks such as ‘We Haven’t Turned Around’, as featured on the soundtrack to American Beauty. Related Topics:AlternativeGomezIan BallLiquid SkinMercury Music PrizeUMCVirgin Curtis Stigers Shares New Recording Of ‘You’re All That Matters To Me’ William "Bill" Wayne Most William “Bill’ Wayne Most was born on October 23, 1926, in Chelsea, Oklahoma to Erma and Herman Most. He was a stellar basketball athlete in Winganon and at Chelsea High School. He graduated in the Class of ‘44. He joined the Marines at 17, and married Fleeta O’Connor prior to serving in World War II and in the occupation of China. While overseas, a stillborn son, William Jr., was delivered. After he returned a daughter, Judy Faye, was born. Bill was a successful refrigerator repairman in Vinita, Oklahoma and Modesto, California. He taught refrigeration at Modesto Junior College, and went to Purdue University for additional training in summer for nearly 20 years. After his first wife passed, Bill married Jeannetta Tredway, and a second daughter, Krist

i, was born. He was then married to Jean Wagstaff, for nearly 35 years. Through that marriage he openly welcomed her two children, Jerry and Jeanne, as his own. Throughout his life Bill served his church, the VA, the Masons and American Legion. He was Worshipful Master of lodges in OK and CA. He served as leader in the four Lodges of Scottish Rite in Stockton, Ca, where he was awarded the 33rd Degree. He also often went through the chairs in Eastern Stars, and served as Grand Worthy Patron for the state of Oklahoma. He served as Commander of the American Legion Post in Vinita numerous times. Bill is survived by his children, Judy Khoury, Kristi Most Tredway, Jerry and Angie Wagstaff and Jeanne and Ross McClish, and his partner for the past 12 years MaryJane DeLozier. He was proud of his 4 children, 8 grandkids, and 15 great-grandkids. Without a doubt, Bill was a dedicated father, husband, and friend who truly supported his community. He lived life to the fullest, was always ready to share a story, and everyone that met him left with a smile. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Shriners Children's Hospital or Cowboy Junction Church, or plant a tree in Bill's memory. View and sign Bill's online memorial at www.mmsfuneralhomes.com. William &#8220;Bill&#8217; Wayne Most was born on October 23, 1926, in Chelsea, Oklahoma to Erma and Herman Most. He was a stellar basketball athlete in Winganon and at Chelsea High School. He graduated in the Class of &#8216;44. He joined... View Obituary & Service Information The family of William "Bill" Wayne Most created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories. William “Bill’ Wayne Most was born on October 23, 1926, in Chelsea,... Send flowers to the Most family. Brad Pit is Coming Up With Bullet Train MichiganSportsZone Team What is Bullet Train Movie All About? Is Cast Announced? Sony announced Monday that David Letich’s Bullet Train will be released in theatres on April 8, 2022. To complete off its release schedule, the studio announced that the Jack Black and Ice Cube comedy Oh Hell No would be released on July 1, 2022, marking the start of the lucrative July Fourth period. Hopefully, 2022 will be the year when Hollywood recovers from the epidemic in a meaningful way. At least in terms of what we can anticipate to see in cinemas, there is a lot of promise on the horizon. “Bullet Train” is one such example. Even if the film isn’t currently on everyone’s radar, trust us when we say it will be. This film has everything going for it, from its stellar cast to its beloved source material and intriguing plot. The nicest part is that it isn’t based on an established property. Read More:- What Do You Know About Bob’s Burgers Season 12 “Bullet Train” is a forthcoming action/thriller based on Kotaro Isaka’s novel of the same name. The film begins with a bunch of assassins stranded on a train, and things quickly spiral out of control. It was made with a small team during Covid, but the studio was able to gather a stellar A-list ensemble for the occasion. Kelly McCormick, David Leitch, and Antoine Fuqua are among the producers. Ryosuke Saegusa, Yuma Terada, Brent O’Connor, and Kat Samick are the Executive Producers. The plot revolves around a group of hitmen and assassins aboard a train in Tokyo with opposing objectives. The project’s tone has been compared as a cross between Sandra Bullock’s 1994 action flick Speed and Liam Neeson’s 2014 airline thriller Non-Stop. Brad Pitt played the role of Ladybug He is an actor and film producer from the United States. He has won multiple awards for his performances, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and two Golden Globe Awards,

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our by calling from the warMachineArrayList A: First what we should do in these situation we should go to the Source where the fliesKmPerHour(); method is coming from. As we see here this method is coming from Flies interface What we know here is that this method belongs to the Airoplane class so in the arrayList we should check for instance of Flies Interface and typecast elements to Flies so then we can call the method So with the if(warMachineArrayList.get(i) instanceof Flies){ we check for Flies instances in the arrayList then we try to get the Airoplane that has the hightest speed with if(((Flies)warMachineArrayList.get(i)).fliesKmPerHour() > speedKmh){ airoplane = (Airoplane) warMachineArrayList.get(i); speedKmh = ((Flies)warMachineArrayList.get(i)).fliesKmPerHour(); And in the end we return an airoplane object public Airoplane getMaxAiroplane(){ Airoplane airoplane = null; int speedKmh = 0; for(int i=0;i<warMachineArrayList.size();i++){ if(warMachineArrayList.get(i) instanceof Flies){ if(((Flies)warMachineArrayList.get(i)).fliesKmPerHour() > speedKmh){ airoplane = (Airoplane) warMachineArrayList.get(i); speedKmh = ((Flies)warMachineArrayList.get(i)).fliesKmPerHour(); } } } return airoplane; } A: You can find instance with desired value by iteration over warMachineArrayList. Then you get some war mashine then check and cast and do what you need. Somting like that: for (WarMachine warMashine : warMachineArrayList ) { if (warMashine instanceof Airoplane ) { Airoplane airplane = (Airoplane) warMashine; // do with airplane anything you need } } Q: React Native error: Cannot find module 'jest-serializer' any one can help me? i have a problem when i run 'npm start'. this is the Error Message A: Try to run npm install jest-serializer before doing npm start. If that is still not working, rm -rf node modules npm install npm start Q: adb and multiple device simultaneously I am automating some test on android devices. I am using Jenkins in order to run the tests (via jobs) each job runs with a 95% success rate when only 1 device is connected to the machine but when I plug 2 android devices or more, it seems adb has some trouble and I get a 5% success rate. is it ok to run multiple instances of adb command? here is the command I run for each job: adb -s DEVICESERIAL shell am force-stop com.myapp.test adb -s DEVICESERIAL shell am force-stop com.myapp adb -s DEVICESERIAL uninstall com.myapp adb -s DEVICESERIAL uninstall com.myapp.test adb -s DEVICESERIAL install -r com.myapp adb -s DEVICESERIAL install -r com.myapp.test adb -s DEVICESERIAL shell am instrument -w TESTNAME/android.test.InstrumentationTestRunner adb -s DEVICESERIAL logcat -d -v time all command run with success but when the test starts and when I have multiple devices connected i get errors like for example: - Unable to find instrumentation target package - INSTRUMENTATION_STATUS_CODE: 0 - Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_INVALID_URI] at first I thought the test apk was not installed correctly, but when trying manually after the failure, it worked fine (so the test file is installed) again. Using 1 device only, everything is stable. Is there something special to do in order to install and run the test on different devices simultaneously? note that I have tried different usb ports, different cables etc... thanks Q: CMPLX Yields Undefined

our by calling from the warMachineArrayList A: First what we should do in these situation we should go to the Source where the fliesKmPerHour(); method is coming from. As we see here this method is coming from Flies interface What we know here is that this method belongs to the Airoplane class so in the arrayList we should check for instance of Flies Interface and typecast elements to Flies so then we can call the method So with the if(warMachineArrayList.get(i) instanceof Flies){ we check for Flies instances in the arrayList then we try to get the Airoplane that has the hightest speed with if(((Flies)warMachineArrayList.get(i)).fliesKmPerHour() > speedKmh){ airoplane = (Airoplane) warMachineArrayList.get(i); speedKmh = ((Flies)warMachineArrayList.get(i)).fliesKmPerHour(); And in the end we return an airoplane object public Airoplane getMaxAiroplane(){ Airoplane airoplane = null; int speedKmh = 0; for(int i=0;i<warMachineArrayList.size();i++){ if(warMachineArrayList.get(i) instanceof Flies){ if(((Flies)warMachineArrayList.get(i)).fliesKmPerHour() > speedKmh){ airoplane = (Airoplane) warMachineArrayList.get(i); speedKmh = ((Flies)warMachineArrayList.get(i)).fliesKmPerHour(); } } } return airoplane; } A: You can find instance with desired value by iteration over warMachineArrayList. Then you get some war mashine then check and cast and do what you need. Somting like that: for (WarMachine warMashine : warMachineArrayList ) { if (warMashine instanceof Airoplane ) { Airoplane airplane = (Airoplane) warMashine; // do with airplane anything you need } } Q: React Native error: Cannot find module 'jest-serializer' any one can help me? i have a problem when i run 'npm start'. this is the Error Message A: Try to run npm install jest-serializer before doing npm start. If that is still not working, rm -rf node modules npm install npm start Q: adb and multiple device simultaneously I am automating some test on android devices. I am using Jenkins in order to run the tests (via jobs) each job runs with a 95% success rate when only 1 device is connected to the machine but when I plug 2 android devices or more, it seems adb has some trouble and I get a 5% success rate. is it ok to run multiple instances of adb command? here is the command I run for each job: adb -s DEVICESERIAL shell am force-stop com.myapp.test adb -s DEVICESERIAL shell am force-stop com.myapp adb -s DEVICESERIAL uninstall com.myapp adb -s DEVICESERIAL uninstall com.myapp.test adb -s DEVICESERIAL install -r com.myapp adb -s DEVICESERIAL install -r com.myapp.test adb -s DEVICESERIAL shell am instrument -w TESTNAME/android.test.InstrumentationTestRunner adb -s DEVICESERIAL logcat -d -v time all command run with success but when the test starts and when I have multiple devices connected i get errors like for example: - Unable to find instrumentation target package - INSTRUMENTATION_STATUS_CODE: 0 - Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_INVALID_URI] at first I thought the test apk was not installed correctly, but when trying manually after the failure, it worked fine (so the test file is installed) again. Using 1 device only, everything is stable. Is there something special to do in order to install and run the test on different devices simultaneously? note that I have tried different usb ports, different cables etc... thanks Q: CMPLX Yields Undefined

Symbol with GCC I'm trying to hunt down a problem using complex literals when compiling with GCC. Consider the following #include <stdio.h> #include <complex.h> int main(void) { double complex z = CMPLX(0.0, -1.0); printf("z = %.1f%+.1fi\n", creal(z), cimag(z)); return 0; } (slightly modified from the reference page). If I compile with Clang, it works as expected. However, if I use GCC I get an undefined reference error gcc -std=c11 mwe.c mwe.c: 6:24 warning: implicit declaration of function 'CMPLX' ... mwe.c:(...) undefined reference to `CMPLX' I have tried this with GCC 4.7 and 7.2 on Linux and GCC 9 on MacOS. The error messages change, but the net result remains the same. Reviewing the reference for CMPLX, this should be valid C11. Based on this answer and this post, it appears like GCC accepted this construct before. My bottom line question is: Why can't I use CMPLX with GCC? A: It appears like this is caused by a header/library disconnect on the systems I have. Compiling with the -save-temps flag, it appears GCC uses the system header for complex.h. This means the selected Xcode SDK's usr/include/complex.h on MacOS and /usr/include/complex.h on Linux. On MacOS, the CMPLX macro is only defined when using Clang. The Linux I have is RHEL 6 meaning the header is aimed at GCC 3 which did not have CMPLX. Based on the discussion on this bug report, it looks like making sure the macro is defined is not up to GCC. The short answer is: The compiler/platform combination doesn't support it. Use the native compiler or update the system. Q: Difference between current transformers and power transformers In a current transformer, the primary current causes a magnetic field in the core, which in turn generates a current in the secondary. Fine. How come then that a power transformer outputs a voltage, and not a current? Isn't it the same principle? A: The difference is not in the phisical principle, just in the usage. The power transformer is used to convert voltage using the number of windings in the two coils as ratio, while the current transformer is just an inductor placed around a wire to sense the magnetic field caused by the changing current. So you use it to measure the (AC) current without breaking the circuit. But both the transformers output a voltage, basically, which is given by Faraday's induction law. The difference is that the power transformer is voltage driven, and the current is determined by the load on the other winding. Update for comment The transformer's principle is that a changing current will induce a magnetic field, and the magnetic field induces a voltage. Then there is Ohm's law, which implies that for a voltage applied to a load, you have a current proportional to the load's resistance. If you put them together, you have an infinite loop in which the current in the load has an influence on the magnetic field that generates the voltage on the load itself. That's how the current in the primary of the Power Transformer is determined. About the current transformer, you want the biggest possible load to avoid a significant current flowing in it, because it generates that feedback effect. A: Simple summary: A current transformer is a "normal" (voltage in):(voltage out) transformer that is optimised for a special task. A current transformer is ALWAYS operated with a defined load resistor. A constant K is able to be calculated based on load resistor and turns ratio such that Iin = Vout x k. See below for details. So Iin can be determined by measuring Vout. Despite the name, a current transformer works according to the standard transformer related equations (ignoring non idealities such as winding resistance). The primary is usually effectively a single turn, produced by running a wire carrying the circuit to be measured through the core. : * *Vout = Vin x Turns_Out/Turns_In ....

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earliest incarnation of Link, green tunic and all. The 32-page manga also explains that this hero tempered the Master Sword with his spirit, being destined to serve as its master for all eternity. Furthermore, the red loftwing from Skyward Sword also makes an appearance in the manga, somehow having lived for thousands of years, and choosing Link specifically because he is the reincarnation of the first Link. And when the first Link dies toward the end, Hylia says “I will ensure that your gentle, heroic spirit will live on eternally. And I… I shall shed my divinity. The next time we meet, I wish to stand before you as a simple human.†Keep in mind that this manga hasn“t been confirmed as canon to the series, but being included in Hyrule Historia is certainly strong support for that possibility. And to further support the theory that there was indeed a Link before Skyward Sword, Eiji Aonuma himself once stated in an interview the possibility of future Zelda games taking place before Skyward Sword. If this theory is accurate, we may very well see a future Zelda game taking place at the beginning of everything, with Link being Hylia“s chosen hero. Only time will tell... Hyrule Historia The son of a physician who herself lives with a disability, John grew up attuned to the value of advocating for the injured, the disabled, and the voiceless. In high school he volunteered in the brain injury and spinal cord injury wards of his local hospital. Over time, John’s passions grew to include economic, social, and of course, legal justice. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his bachelor’s degree in philosophy, and Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where he was a member of the St. Thomas More Law Honor Society. John clerked with prosecutor’s offices in Los Angeles and worked pro bono obtaining reparations payments for survivors of the Holocaust, before focusing his practice exclusively on representing injured individuals in civil cases, which he has done since 2010. John practiced in Bakersfield before joining Carpenter, Zuckerman & Rowley to work with Nick Rowley and CZ&R’s many other “leading lights” in 2016. Throughout his career, John has obtained outstanding results, recovering tens of millions of dollars in complex cases involving defective products, medical malpractice, elder abuse, motor vehicle collisions, unsafe premises, and assaults, as well as civil rights violations by government entities such as police departments and school districts. The injuries in these cases have included death, traumatic brain injury, paralysis, orthopedic injuries, chronic pain, and emotional and psychological injuries. John is grateful to be able to represent real people, whose stories he draws inspiration from every day. When he is not working, John participates in local charity events as well as regional, state- and nation-wide bar associations for trial lawyers and litigators. John is a graduate of Gerry Spence’s Attorney s College in Dubois, Wyoming. He resides in Ventura County. Preaching the Atonement by John Bowen. September 29, 2000 First of all, I should state that my main interest in this subject is the atonement in evangelistic preaching. By that, I mean preaching whose intended audience is those outside the Christian faith; I mean preaching whose primary intention is to teach, intrigue, draw and challenge the hearers to open their minds and hearts to Christ for the first time. Evangelistic preaching in my book does not necessarily mean large crusades: it may be as simple as a priest’ s Sunday homily when she is sensitive to the fact that visitors may be present who have no prior knowledge of the faith. The cross and atonement in Acts There is, in fact, a long-standing connection between the atonement and evangelistic preaching, going back to the apostle Paul, who, recalling his first visit to Corinth, reminded his readers that he “decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” Writing about evangelistic preaching has long taken up this theme. John Stott, for example, wrote back in 1967: Our evangelistic duty is . . . clear. We are to “preach Christ crucified.” And so vivid is our proclamation to be, that we must portray Christ cru

earliest incarnation of Link, green tunic and all. The 32-page manga also explains that this hero tempered the Master Sword with his spirit, being destined to serve as its master for all eternity. Furthermore, the red loftwing from Skyward Sword also makes an appearance in the manga, somehow having lived for thousands of years, and choosing Link specifically because he is the reincarnation of the first Link. And when the first Link dies toward the end, Hylia says “I will ensure that your gentle, heroic spirit will live on eternally. And I… I shall shed my divinity. The next time we meet, I wish to stand before you as a simple human.†Keep in mind that this manga hasn“t been confirmed as canon to the series, but being included in Hyrule Historia is certainly strong support for that possibility. And to further support the theory that there was indeed a Link before Skyward Sword, Eiji Aonuma himself once stated in an interview the possibility of future Zelda games taking place before Skyward Sword. If this theory is accurate, we may very well see a future Zelda game taking place at the beginning of everything, with Link being Hylia“s chosen hero. Only time will tell... Hyrule Historia The son of a physician who herself lives with a disability, John grew up attuned to the value of advocating for the injured, the disabled, and the voiceless. In high school he volunteered in the brain injury and spinal cord injury wards of his local hospital. Over time, John’s passions grew to include economic, social, and of course, legal justice. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his bachelor’s degree in philosophy, and Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where he was a member of the St. Thomas More Law Honor Society. John clerked with prosecutor’s offices in Los Angeles and worked pro bono obtaining reparations payments for survivors of the Holocaust, before focusing his practice exclusively on representing injured individuals in civil cases, which he has done since 2010. John practiced in Bakersfield before joining Carpenter, Zuckerman & Rowley to work with Nick Rowley and CZ&R’s many other “leading lights” in 2016. Throughout his career, John has obtained outstanding results, recovering tens of millions of dollars in complex cases involving defective products, medical malpractice, elder abuse, motor vehicle collisions, unsafe premises, and assaults, as well as civil rights violations by government entities such as police departments and school districts. The injuries in these cases have included death, traumatic brain injury, paralysis, orthopedic injuries, chronic pain, and emotional and psychological injuries. John is grateful to be able to represent real people, whose stories he draws inspiration from every day. When he is not working, John participates in local charity events as well as regional, state- and nation-wide bar associations for trial lawyers and litigators. John is a graduate of Gerry Spence’s Attorney s College in Dubois, Wyoming. He resides in Ventura County. Preaching the Atonement by John Bowen. September 29, 2000 First of all, I should state that my main interest in this subject is the atonement in evangelistic preaching. By that, I mean preaching whose intended audience is those outside the Christian faith; I mean preaching whose primary intention is to teach, intrigue, draw and challenge the hearers to open their minds and hearts to Christ for the first time. Evangelistic preaching in my book does not necessarily mean large crusades: it may be as simple as a priest’ s Sunday homily when she is sensitive to the fact that visitors may be present who have no prior knowledge of the faith. The cross and atonement in Acts There is, in fact, a long-standing connection between the atonement and evangelistic preaching, going back to the apostle Paul, who, recalling his first visit to Corinth, reminded his readers that he “decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” Writing about evangelistic preaching has long taken up this theme. John Stott, for example, wrote back in 1967: Our evangelistic duty is . . . clear. We are to “preach Christ crucified.” And so vivid is our proclamation to be, that we must portray Christ cru

cified before people’s eyes, as if placarding him on a public billboard. We are also to make it plain that Christ’s cross is the only ground on which God can accept sinners. The problem with this close association of evangelistic proclamation and the atonement, however, is that the apostles themselves do not necessarily preach the atonement in their evangelism. Sir William Ramsey, for example, writing in 1896, observed that Paul did not mention the cross in his sermon at Athens in Acts 17, and that he got very little positive response from his hearers. Ramsey concluded that the reason Paul spoke of preaching “Christ and him crucified” at Corinth (in Acts 18) was precisely because after that experience he returned to preaching the cross, which should have been the heart of his message all along. In fact, Ramsey revised this harsh judgment of Paul at Athens some years later (1913), and no commentator since has classed the “cross-less” sermon at Athens as a failure. John Stott has argued that Paul must have preached about the crucifixion at Athens, since “how could he proclaim the resurrection without mentioning the death which preceded it?” But the argument from silence is not very strong, specially in the light of the preaching of the cross earlier in the Book of Acts. In Peter’s sermons, for example, it is true that the cross is frequently mentioned, but his example is not one that a contemporary preacher could or should emulate. His message on the day of Pentecost is typical: This man . . . you crucified and killed by the hands of those outside the law. But God raised him up, having freed him from death. The cross is part of Peter’s argument because (a) it demonstrates the worst that human sin can accomplish (b) it is the sin for which his hearers most grievously need forgiveness and (c) amazingly enough, God is willing to forgive even this sin and (d) it prompted that demonstration of divine power called the resurrection. However, the constant emphasis on “you” (“you killed”, “you crucified”, “you had killed”) means that his argument is localized. It is not one that would have any applicability outside Jerusalem, and indeed the emphasis changes as soon as he preaches elsewhere. In spite of the recurrent theme of the cross, then, Peter never says anything like “Christ died for our sins” until much later, when he writes his first epistle. The fact is that, in spite of Paul’s strong statement in Corinthians, and although the cross is certainly mentioned in the evangelistic preaching in the Book of Acts, there is no real doctrine of the atonement to be found in Acts. Leon Morris, writing about The Cross in the New Testament, agrees. Though he argues plausibly that the death of Christ “underlies everything in Acts”, nevertheless: Luke does not give us a carefully thought-out system of theology, more particularly with respect to the atonement. What Peter has done, therefore, is to preach an understanding of the cross which is contextually appropriate. In fact, his language is so culturally relevant that it has a powerful and emotional effect on the hearers: three thousand are converted! The New Testament offers many such interpretations of the cross of Christ, and specifically of the atonement, which are more or less appropriate to different cultural settings. Different metaphors, common meaning The Apostle Paul, in particular, seems to be able to move without hesitation from one to another in a passage like 2 Corinthians 5. In verse 14, for example, he employs a metaphor of resurrection: Christ died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. Christ died and rose again: now, by being identified with him, we die to our old self-centered way of life and are resurrected to new life in his service. In verse 19, he switches to a different metaphor, this time from the world of relationships. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s sins against them. The language of alienation and reconciliation is relational language. God is a lover whose beloved has gone off with someone else, and he is hurt and angry. Paul says that in the death of Jesus, God is seeking to get back together with

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Sholom February 20, 2011 at 9:00 PM If your arguments are going to continue to fall along the lines of hairsplitting about different nefashos, per the Ramban, for instance, you had better jettison the rationalist approach to this. In fact later kabbalistic/chassidic writings discuss issues of the location of the soul, the seat of consciousness, in greater detail, and it would be an incomplete analysis to ignore these sources. E-Man February 20, 2011 at 10:40 PM The brain death issue should only be an issue based on a rationalistic approach. There are those who try to combine the mesorah with science. That woould, seemingly be people like Rabbi Shechter and Rabbi Willig that leave it as a safek chai safek maves because they see chazal as saying something and modern medicine being unclear as per chazal's explanation of what death is. And there are those like Rav Gedalia Shwartz and Rav Tendler who paskin that Brain death is death because it DOES fit chazal's explanation of death. Why on earth would anyone listen to a Rabbi that says modern science should be thrown out and we should just analyze what chazal say? That is ludicrous and against the Gemara. There are so many situations where we see, IN THE GEMARA, that Rabbanim consult the doctors of their day. Whether the medicine of the day is completely right or wrong it is THE ONLY UNDERSTANDING WE HAVE! Therefore, since Lo Bashamayim Hi, we have to make do with what we know and pasken based on that. That is why chazal said an 8 month old is not allowed to be saved on shabbos, but a 7 month old is, because the science of their day showed that to be "true." This whole attitude of science is wrong so ew don't use it denies everything found throughout Gemara, Rishonim and achronim. However, the argument between people who actually look at all the information is what matters. Some hold that modern science proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the brain dead person is dead according to our understanding of chazal;s definition. However, others hold it is a safeik whether science proves that to be the case. Natan Slifkin February 20, 2011 at 10:52 PM NONE of those people are using the rationalist approach. The rationalist approach realizes that the Gemara couldn't possibly say anything on the topic either way! Yannai Segal February 21, 2011 at 1:26 AM Interestingly enough my Rabbi's shalushudus drash was on keeping a clear logical focus when discussing abortion and end-of-life (brain death) issues. No halachic (or scientific) discussion whatsoever just pretty good exposition on what are the true issues, and what are distracting side issues. I always wonder where and why picks his topics... maybe he reads this blog? YA February 21, 2011 at 6:17 AM If that's true then how is one to make a psak halacha except to say it is not death because it is not dictionary-plain-as-anything- death? Your way makes for no leniency for ambiguous cases. You have gone from arguing for autonomy of science in Judaism to showing a less than clear familiarity with the boundary between autonomy and psak halacha. Ameteur February 21, 2011 at 8:01 AM "NONE of those people are using the rationalist approach. The rationalist approach realizes that the Gemara couldn't possibly say anything on the topic either way!" If what you say is true, then why don't you start with a less controversial issue like using electricity on Shabbat, or flying across the international date line, or any of the other modern inventions that were created in the past 100 years in which we have absolutely no sources to discuss them? This would be much more demonstrative of the key points of rationalism then an emotional topic like life/death issues. And if the principle doesn't apply to those other categories of modern technology that I discussed, please explain why this one does, but those don't. S. Benson February 21, 2011 at 1:25 PM The Gemara can

Sholom February 20, 2011 at 9:00 PM If your arguments are going to continue to fall along the lines of hairsplitting about different nefashos, per the Ramban, for instance, you had better jettison the rationalist approach to this. In fact later kabbalistic/chassidic writings discuss issues of the location of the soul, the seat of consciousness, in greater detail, and it would be an incomplete analysis to ignore these sources. E-Man February 20, 2011 at 10:40 PM The brain death issue should only be an issue based on a rationalistic approach. There are those who try to combine the mesorah with science. That woould, seemingly be people like Rabbi Shechter and Rabbi Willig that leave it as a safek chai safek maves because they see chazal as saying something and modern medicine being unclear as per chazal's explanation of what death is. And there are those like Rav Gedalia Shwartz and Rav Tendler who paskin that Brain death is death because it DOES fit chazal's explanation of death. Why on earth would anyone listen to a Rabbi that says modern science should be thrown out and we should just analyze what chazal say? That is ludicrous and against the Gemara. There are so many situations where we see, IN THE GEMARA, that Rabbanim consult the doctors of their day. Whether the medicine of the day is completely right or wrong it is THE ONLY UNDERSTANDING WE HAVE! Therefore, since Lo Bashamayim Hi, we have to make do with what we know and pasken based on that. That is why chazal said an 8 month old is not allowed to be saved on shabbos, but a 7 month old is, because the science of their day showed that to be "true." This whole attitude of science is wrong so ew don't use it denies everything found throughout Gemara, Rishonim and achronim. However, the argument between people who actually look at all the information is what matters. Some hold that modern science proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the brain dead person is dead according to our understanding of chazal;s definition. However, others hold it is a safeik whether science proves that to be the case. Natan Slifkin February 20, 2011 at 10:52 PM NONE of those people are using the rationalist approach. The rationalist approach realizes that the Gemara couldn't possibly say anything on the topic either way! Yannai Segal February 21, 2011 at 1:26 AM Interestingly enough my Rabbi's shalushudus drash was on keeping a clear logical focus when discussing abortion and end-of-life (brain death) issues. No halachic (or scientific) discussion whatsoever just pretty good exposition on what are the true issues, and what are distracting side issues. I always wonder where and why picks his topics... maybe he reads this blog? YA February 21, 2011 at 6:17 AM If that's true then how is one to make a psak halacha except to say it is not death because it is not dictionary-plain-as-anything- death? Your way makes for no leniency for ambiguous cases. You have gone from arguing for autonomy of science in Judaism to showing a less than clear familiarity with the boundary between autonomy and psak halacha. Ameteur February 21, 2011 at 8:01 AM "NONE of those people are using the rationalist approach. The rationalist approach realizes that the Gemara couldn't possibly say anything on the topic either way!" If what you say is true, then why don't you start with a less controversial issue like using electricity on Shabbat, or flying across the international date line, or any of the other modern inventions that were created in the past 100 years in which we have absolutely no sources to discuss them? This would be much more demonstrative of the key points of rationalism then an emotional topic like life/death issues. And if the principle doesn't apply to those other categories of modern technology that I discussed, please explain why this one does, but those don't. S. Benson February 21, 2011 at 1:25 PM The Gemara can

and does say things about death. That's why there is an argument! If the Gemara had said nothing, the nature of the arguments on brain death would be very different. Conversely, if the Gemara defined death as being, for example, "too weak to walk" or some other criterion? Then current argument would be even more strident as we would try to reconcile even more divergent opinions. IMHO, the challenge is the role of mesorah in light of modern knowledge. We apply principles as opposed to an "emunah shelaima" (lehavdil) to every opinion stated by every Rabbi over the past two millenia. Respect? Yes. But not necessarily agree. We also understand that despite tremendous advances in science, much of halacha doesn't change. All the biochemistry in the world will not make chazer kosher. All the changes in social mores will not make adultery permissible. All of physics in the world will not make carrying on Shabbos mutar...but a string on two poles will. E-Man February 21, 2011 at 7:28 PM Of course chazal discuss death. They just don't mention anything in depth. That is why we have Rabbis today, to extrapolate upon these subjects, but the basis is in the Gemara. For instance, electricity did not exist, so chazal could not have talked about it outright. However, modern day poskim apply chazal to electricity. How? Because they say that electricity is the same as fire and relate electricity to the fire that existed in chazal's time. Or they say it is not fire and one is completing the circuit and being over the malacha of boneh. Whatever the case, THE FOUNDATION for the halacha is always found in chazal, or it is a minhag. Rav Moshe feinstein applies chazal to so many modern halachas like artificial insemination. If you read through his teshuvas he quotes numerous chazals. I agree that chazal do not discuss modern issues outright, but modern poskim are suppose to extrapolate from their words to apply them to modern cases. Some poskim refuse to apply chazal to modern times and just say chazal talked about everything, that is absurd. However, chazal should be applied to the constantly changing world. If we can save someone by means that were not available (like the 8 month fetus) chazal would, of course, be extrapolated to say that we save the 8 month fetus. E-man, there are some cases that are so novel that you just can't find anything halachic in Chazal from which to draw conclusions. Surrogate IVF is one example; brain death is another. Rabbi, I disagree. True, many things are novel and chazal never discussed them. However, chazal's principles can and are always applied to any ruling. If you look into surrogate IVF you will see poskim using foundations of chazal for saying why the surrogate is not considered the mother or why she is. To say that chazal don't say ANYTHING on the subject is a mistake, in my opinion. They do not explicitly talk about many things, but like I said before, modern day poskim apply their principles to all areas of halacha. I am not claiming chazal actually discuss these things, but their principles are applied to everything, in the orthodox world. This is rationalist orthodox judaism. If you don't apply chazal's principles to everything, then how are you orthodox and not just reform or conservative? That is what defines orthodoxy or neo-orthodoxy, applying chazal and the Torah to every law. If I am wrong please explain. If we can't apply chazal to modern situations then how can we make modern laws? Here is an article that shows how chazal are considered when reviewing halacha as per what the halacha should be: http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/maternity3.html However, chazal's principles can and are always applied to any ruling. You can apply anything to anything if you are creative enough. You can even use Star Wars. But that doesn't mean that these sources genuinely resolve the question. Determining whether BSD is death requires sources that correctly differentiate between the function of the heart and the

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temple, and the whole city, was full of a multitude of people that were come out of the country, and which were the greatest part of them armed also, at which time Phasaelus guarded the wall, and Herod, with a few, guarded the royal palace; and when he made an assault upon his enemies, as they were out of their ranks, on the north quarter of the city, he slew a very great number of them, and put them all to flight; and some of them he shut up within the city, and others within the outward rampart. In the mean time, Antigonus desired that Pacorus might be admitted to be a reconciler between them; and Phasaelus was prevailed upon to admit the Parthian into the city with five hundred horse, and to treat him in an hospitable manner, who pretended that he came to quell the tumult, but in reality he came to assist Antigonus; however, he laid a plot for Phasaelus, and persuaded him to go as an ambassador to Barzapharnes, in order to put an end to the war, although Herod was very earnest with him to the contrary, and exhorted him to kill the plotter, but not expose himself to the snares he had laid for him, because the barbarians are naturally perfidious. However, Pacorus went out and took Hyrcanus with him, that he might be the less suspected; he also (19) left some of the horsemen, called the Freemen, with Herod, and conducted Phasaelus with the rest. 4. But now, when they were come to Galilee, they found that the people of that country had revolted, and were in arms, who came very cunningly to their leader, and besought him to conceal his treacherous intentions by an obliging behavior to them; accordingly, he at first made them presents; and afterward, as they went away, laid ambushes for them; and when they were come to one of the maritime cities called Ecdippon, they perceived that a plot was laid for them; for they were there informed of the promise of a thousand talents, and how Antigonus had devoted the greatest number of the women that were there with them, among the five hundred, to the Parthians; they also perceived that an ambush was always laid for them by the barbarians in the night time; they had also been seized on before this, unless they had waited for the seizure of Herod first at Jerusalem, because if he were once informed of this treachery of theirs, he would take care of himself; nor was this a mere report, but they saw the guards already not far off them. 5. Nor would Phasaelus think of forsaking Hyrcanus and flying away, although Ophellius earnestly persuaded him to it; for this man had learned the whole scheme of the plot from Saramalla, the richest of all the Syrians. But Phasaelus went up to the Parfilian governor, and reproached him to his face for laying this treacherous plot against them, and chiefly because he had done it for money; and he promised him that he would give him more money for their preservation, than Antigonus had promised to give for the kingdom. But the sly Parthian endeavored to remove all this suspicion by apologies and by oaths, and then went [to the other] Pacorus; immediately after which those Parthians who were left, and had it in charge, seized upon Phasaelus and Hyrcanus, who could do no more than curse their perfidiousness and their perjury. 6. In the mean time, the cup-bearer was sent [back], and laid a plot how to seize upon Herod, by deluding him, and getting him out of the city, as he was commanded to do. But Herod suspected the barbarians from the beginning; and having then received intelligence that a messenger, who was to bring him the letters that informed him of the treachery intended, had fallen among the enemy, he would not go out of the city; though Pacorus said very positively that he ought to go out, and meet the messengers that brought the letters, for that the enemy had not taken them, and that the contents of them were not accounts of any plots upon them, but of what Phasaelus had done; yet had he heard from others that his brother was seized; and Alexandra (20) the shrewdest woman in the world, Hyrcanus's daughter, begged of him that he

temple, and the whole city, was full of a multitude of people that were come out of the country, and which were the greatest part of them armed also, at which time Phasaelus guarded the wall, and Herod, with a few, guarded the royal palace; and when he made an assault upon his enemies, as they were out of their ranks, on the north quarter of the city, he slew a very great number of them, and put them all to flight; and some of them he shut up within the city, and others within the outward rampart. In the mean time, Antigonus desired that Pacorus might be admitted to be a reconciler between them; and Phasaelus was prevailed upon to admit the Parthian into the city with five hundred horse, and to treat him in an hospitable manner, who pretended that he came to quell the tumult, but in reality he came to assist Antigonus; however, he laid a plot for Phasaelus, and persuaded him to go as an ambassador to Barzapharnes, in order to put an end to the war, although Herod was very earnest with him to the contrary, and exhorted him to kill the plotter, but not expose himself to the snares he had laid for him, because the barbarians are naturally perfidious. However, Pacorus went out and took Hyrcanus with him, that he might be the less suspected; he also (19) left some of the horsemen, called the Freemen, with Herod, and conducted Phasaelus with the rest. 4. But now, when they were come to Galilee, they found that the people of that country had revolted, and were in arms, who came very cunningly to their leader, and besought him to conceal his treacherous intentions by an obliging behavior to them; accordingly, he at first made them presents; and afterward, as they went away, laid ambushes for them; and when they were come to one of the maritime cities called Ecdippon, they perceived that a plot was laid for them; for they were there informed of the promise of a thousand talents, and how Antigonus had devoted the greatest number of the women that were there with them, among the five hundred, to the Parthians; they also perceived that an ambush was always laid for them by the barbarians in the night time; they had also been seized on before this, unless they had waited for the seizure of Herod first at Jerusalem, because if he were once informed of this treachery of theirs, he would take care of himself; nor was this a mere report, but they saw the guards already not far off them. 5. Nor would Phasaelus think of forsaking Hyrcanus and flying away, although Ophellius earnestly persuaded him to it; for this man had learned the whole scheme of the plot from Saramalla, the richest of all the Syrians. But Phasaelus went up to the Parfilian governor, and reproached him to his face for laying this treacherous plot against them, and chiefly because he had done it for money; and he promised him that he would give him more money for their preservation, than Antigonus had promised to give for the kingdom. But the sly Parthian endeavored to remove all this suspicion by apologies and by oaths, and then went [to the other] Pacorus; immediately after which those Parthians who were left, and had it in charge, seized upon Phasaelus and Hyrcanus, who could do no more than curse their perfidiousness and their perjury. 6. In the mean time, the cup-bearer was sent [back], and laid a plot how to seize upon Herod, by deluding him, and getting him out of the city, as he was commanded to do. But Herod suspected the barbarians from the beginning; and having then received intelligence that a messenger, who was to bring him the letters that informed him of the treachery intended, had fallen among the enemy, he would not go out of the city; though Pacorus said very positively that he ought to go out, and meet the messengers that brought the letters, for that the enemy had not taken them, and that the contents of them were not accounts of any plots upon them, but of what Phasaelus had done; yet had he heard from others that his brother was seized; and Alexandra (20) the shrewdest woman in the world, Hyrcanus's daughter, begged of him that he

would not go out, nor trust himself to those barbarians, who now were come to make an attempt upon him openly. 7. Now as Pacorus and his friends were considering how they might bring their plot to bear privately, because it was not possible to circumvent a man of so great prudence by openly attacking him, Herod prevented them, and went off with the persons that were the most nearly related to him by night, and this without their enemies being apprized of it. But as soon as the Parthians perceived it, they pursued after them; and as he gave orders for his mother, and sister, and the young woman who was betrothed to him, with her mother, and his youngest brother, to make the best of their way, he himself, with his servants, took all the care they could to keep off the barbarians; and when at every assault he had slain a great many of them, he came to the strong hold of Masada. 8. Nay, he found by experience that the Jews fell more heavily upon him than did the Parthians, and created him troubles perpetually, and this ever since he was gotten sixty furlongs from the city; these sometimes brought it to a sort of a regular battle. Now in the place where Herod beat them, and killed a great number of them, there he afterward built a citadel, in memory of the great actions he did there, and adorned it with the most costly palaces, and erected very strong fortifications, and called it, from his own name, Herodium. Now as they were in their flight, many joined themselves to him every day; and at a place called Thressa of Idumea his brother Joseph met him, and advised him to ease himself of a great number of his followers, because Masada would not contain so great a multitude, which were above nine thousand. Herod complied with this advice, and sent away the most cumbersome part of his retinue, that they might go into Idumea, and gave them provisions for their journey; but he got safe to the fortress with his nearest relations, and retained with him only the stoutest of his followers; and there it was that he left eight hundred of his men as a guard for the women, and provisions sufficient for a siege; but he made haste himself to Petra of Arabia. 9. As for the Parthians in Jerusalem, they betook themselves to plundering, and fell upon the houses of those that were fled, and upon the king's palace, and spared nothing but Hyrcanus's money, which was not above three hundred talents. They lighted on other men's money also, but not so much as they hoped for; for Herod having a long while had a suspicion of the perfidiousness of the barbarians, had taken care to have what was most splendid among his treasures conveyed into Idumea, as every one belonging to him had in like manner done also. But the Parthians proceeded to that degree of injustice, as to fill all the country with war without denouncing it, and to demolish the city Marissa, and not only to set up Antigonus for king, but to deliver Phasaelus and Hyrcanus bound into his. hands, in order to their being tormented by him. Antigonus himself also bit off Hyrcanus's ears with his own teeth, as he fell down upon his knees to him, that so he might never be able upon any mutation of affairs to take the high priesthood again, for the high priests that officiated were to be complete, and without blemish. 10. However, he failed in his purpose of abusing Phasaelus, by reason of his courage; for though he neither had the command of his sword nor of his hands, he prevented all abuses by dashing his head against a stone; so he demonstrated himself to be Herod's own brother, and Hyrcanus a most degenerate relation, and died with great bravery, and made the end of his life agreeable to the actions of it. There is also another report about his end, viz. that he recovered of that stroke, and that a surgeon, who was sent by Antigonus to heal him, filled the wound with poisonous ingredients, and so killed him; whichsoever of these deaths he came to, the beginning of it was glorious. It is also reported that before he expired he was informed by a certain poor woman how Herod had escaped out of their hands, and that he said thereupon, "I now die

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station and the U.S. Embassy. The "lost wallet" scam continues to be common in Kazakhstan. One version of this swindle involves the discovery of a lost wallet in your presence. A first person will discover the wallet and offer to divide its contents with you. Then, a second person will appear, claim to be the owner of the wallet, and demand compensation for the missing money. A second version involves a person looking for a lost wallet, asking you if have seen it. The person asks you to reveal the contents of your pockets or bag to prove that you do not have the missing wallet. The wallet seeker will then surreptitiously steal your exposed valuables. When initially approached by the “finder” or “seeker” of the lost wallet, simply walk away. The embassy highly discourages taking private gypsy cabs in lieu of licensed taxicabs while in Kazakhstan. This applies especially to travel from the airport to the city upon arrival, where men posing as "meet and greet" airport facilitators have lured foreigners into cars purportedly to take them to their hotels. However, the driver then takes the passengers to a secluded destination and demands approximately $100 for gas to take the foreigner back to the city. All travelers should make prior arrangements with their contacts in Almaty for concrete identification upon arrival at the airport. Americans should not leave with anyone who does not show pre-arranged identification, even if the person is holding a sign with the traveler's name. The Embassy has received reports from American residents and visitors being victims of violent, late-night muggings. Americans are advised to travel in groups or pairs. Lone individuals often make easy targets for muggers. At night, try to remain in well-lit, populated areas. Visitors are encouraged to leave restaurants or bars if fights break out. Corruption by public officials, including law enforcement, has been reported frequently, especially at the airport in Almaty. Some foreigners have been told by customs or border guard officials that they must pay a $50-$500 fine for violating an undisclosed local regulation, despite the fact that the foreign citizen has fully complied with local laws. Some Americans have reportedly been asked to pay a large fine upon exiting Kazakhstan. When encountering such irregularities, U.S. citizens are advised to seek clarification from supervisory airport officials or contact the U.S. Embassy before paying. INFORMATION FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME: The loss or theft abroad of a U.S. passport should be reported immediately to the local police and the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate. If you are the victim of a crime while overseas, in addition to reporting to local police, please contact the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate for assistance. The Embassy/Consulate staff can, for example, assist you to find appropriate medical care, contact family members or friends, and explain how funds could be transferred. Although the investigation and prosecution of the crime is solely the responsibility of local authorities, consular officers can help you to understand the local criminal justice process and to find an attorney if needed. The local equivalent to the “911” emergency line in Kazakhstan is: 03 MEDICAL FACILITIES AND HEALTH INFORMATION: Medical care in Kazakhstan is limited and well below North American and Western European standards. The U.S. Embassy maintains a list of English-speaking physicians. Basic medical supplies, including disposable needles, anesthetics, and antibiotics can be in short supply. Elderly travelers and those with pre-existing health problems may be at risk due to inadequate medical facilities. Most resident Americans travel to Western Europe for serious medical treatment. Such travel can be extremely expensive if undertaken under emergency conditions. Travelers requiring prescription medications or specific brand-name medicines should bring sufficient supplies of medications and not rely on local availability. Tuberculosis is an increasingly serious health concern in Kazakhstan. For further information, please consult the CDC's Travel Notice on TB at http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/yellowBookCh4-TB.aspx. Some HIV/AIDS restrictions exist for foreign residents of Kazakhstan. Visitors applying for a work or residency permit, required for Americans who wish to spend more than 6 months in

station and the U.S. Embassy. The "lost wallet" scam continues to be common in Kazakhstan. One version of this swindle involves the discovery of a lost wallet in your presence. A first person will discover the wallet and offer to divide its contents with you. Then, a second person will appear, claim to be the owner of the wallet, and demand compensation for the missing money. A second version involves a person looking for a lost wallet, asking you if have seen it. The person asks you to reveal the contents of your pockets or bag to prove that you do not have the missing wallet. The wallet seeker will then surreptitiously steal your exposed valuables. When initially approached by the “finder” or “seeker” of the lost wallet, simply walk away. The embassy highly discourages taking private gypsy cabs in lieu of licensed taxicabs while in Kazakhstan. This applies especially to travel from the airport to the city upon arrival, where men posing as "meet and greet" airport facilitators have lured foreigners into cars purportedly to take them to their hotels. However, the driver then takes the passengers to a secluded destination and demands approximately $100 for gas to take the foreigner back to the city. All travelers should make prior arrangements with their contacts in Almaty for concrete identification upon arrival at the airport. Americans should not leave with anyone who does not show pre-arranged identification, even if the person is holding a sign with the traveler's name. The Embassy has received reports from American residents and visitors being victims of violent, late-night muggings. Americans are advised to travel in groups or pairs. Lone individuals often make easy targets for muggers. At night, try to remain in well-lit, populated areas. Visitors are encouraged to leave restaurants or bars if fights break out. Corruption by public officials, including law enforcement, has been reported frequently, especially at the airport in Almaty. Some foreigners have been told by customs or border guard officials that they must pay a $50-$500 fine for violating an undisclosed local regulation, despite the fact that the foreign citizen has fully complied with local laws. Some Americans have reportedly been asked to pay a large fine upon exiting Kazakhstan. When encountering such irregularities, U.S. citizens are advised to seek clarification from supervisory airport officials or contact the U.S. Embassy before paying. INFORMATION FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME: The loss or theft abroad of a U.S. passport should be reported immediately to the local police and the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate. If you are the victim of a crime while overseas, in addition to reporting to local police, please contact the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate for assistance. The Embassy/Consulate staff can, for example, assist you to find appropriate medical care, contact family members or friends, and explain how funds could be transferred. Although the investigation and prosecution of the crime is solely the responsibility of local authorities, consular officers can help you to understand the local criminal justice process and to find an attorney if needed. The local equivalent to the “911” emergency line in Kazakhstan is: 03 MEDICAL FACILITIES AND HEALTH INFORMATION: Medical care in Kazakhstan is limited and well below North American and Western European standards. The U.S. Embassy maintains a list of English-speaking physicians. Basic medical supplies, including disposable needles, anesthetics, and antibiotics can be in short supply. Elderly travelers and those with pre-existing health problems may be at risk due to inadequate medical facilities. Most resident Americans travel to Western Europe for serious medical treatment. Such travel can be extremely expensive if undertaken under emergency conditions. Travelers requiring prescription medications or specific brand-name medicines should bring sufficient supplies of medications and not rely on local availability. Tuberculosis is an increasingly serious health concern in Kazakhstan. For further information, please consult the CDC's Travel Notice on TB at http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/yellowBookCh4-TB.aspx. Some HIV/AIDS restrictions exist for foreign residents of Kazakhstan. Visitors applying for a work or residency permit, required for Americans who wish to spend more than 6 months in

Kazakhstan, must submit negative HIV test results with their application to the Migration Police in the city where they intend to work or reside. The results must be less than three months old. The city HIV clinic in the place of registration can conduct the test or may certify test results performed abroad. If the original test results are in a language other than Russian or Kazakh, they must be accompanied by an official translation. If a foreigner tests positive for HIV in Kazakhstan, he or she must depart the country. Please verify this information with the Kazakhstani sponsoring organization that can provide more information on the specific HIV testing procedures in the region of Kazakhstan where you intend to reside. TRAFFIC SAFETY AND ROAD CONDITIONS: While in a foreign country, U.S. citizens may encounter road conditions that differ significantly from those in the United States. The information below concerning Kazakhstan is provided for general reference only, and may not be totally accurate in a particular location or circumstance. Roads in Kazakhstan are in poor repair, especially in rural areas. Street lighting, especially on side streets, may be turned off at night. Drivers often ignore lane markings. Potholes are common, and are often dangerously deep. Pedestrians frequently dart out in front of cars. Visitors should drive defensively at all times as many local drivers do not follow traffic laws. Special caution should particularly be taken if driving at night. Road rage can be a problem, especially in and around Almaty, and a non-confrontational response to such behavior is strongly recommended. Accidents involving severe injury and/or death are common. Traffic police have reportedly stopped cars to extort bribes on main city streets and at periodic checkpoints on major highways. The road between Almaty and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, is especially treacherous at night or during poor weather. Americans and other travelers have been killed in traffic accidents on that road, and travel at night should be undertaken with great caution or avoided. Travelers should be particularly careful when using public transportation and taxis. Buses tend to be very crowded and can be unsafe and unreliable. Due to the danger of theft or assault, travelers should be selective regarding which taxi they contract and always avoid entering a cab that already contains persons other than the driver. Americans wishing to drive in Kazakhstan should possess a valid international driver's license. For specific information, travelers may contact the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan at 1401 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036, telephone (202) 232-5488. Please refer to our Road Safety page for more information. Visit the web site of Kazakhstan’s national tourist office and national authority responsible for road safety at http://www.kazakhembus.com AVIATION SAFETY OVERSIGHT: As there is no direct commercial air service to the United States by carriers registered in Kazakhstan, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has not assessed Kazakhstan’s Civil Aviation Authority for compliance with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) aviation safety standards. For more information, travelers may visit the FAA’s web site at http://www.faa.gov/safety/programs_initiatives/oversight/iasa. Kazakhstan remains largely a cash economy. Traveler's checks and credit cards are not widely accepted, except at large hotels and restaurants catering to international visitors. U.S. dollars can easily be exchanged for the local currency (Tenge) at local and authorized currency exchanges, but all denominations of U.S. currency except $1 bills must be new series (large portraits) and all must have been issued after 2000 and be in good condition (not worn or torn and without any writing or marks). Kazakhstan, especially in the mountainous southeast region, is an earthquake-prone country. The U.S. Department of State has ranked the earthquake threat level within Almaty as a Level 4 (the highest level assigned). Building practices within Kazakhstan do not generally meet U.S. seismic standards. In addition, local authorities do not have sufficient resources to respond to a large-scale disaster. American citizens traveling to Kazakhstan are encouraged to register with either the U.S. Embassy or the U.

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Successful applications could see last-mile projects receive up to a 50% contribution for eligible costs. Funding will also be available for improving connectivity to entire regions of British Columbia. Applications for transport fibre projects will be accepted beginning Sept. 1, 2018. A total of $16 million is available. “Connecting British Columbia has helped our province accelerate the growth of our digital economy. By leveraging funds from the private sector and other levels of government, the program has been critical in helping deliver the infrastructure projects B.C. needs to compete, now and in the future,” said Joel McKay, Northern Development Initiative Trust CEO. Submissions will be reviewed and assessed on a first-come, first-served basis. Applicants must demonstrate that their projects will be completed by March 31, 2020. This funding is part of $40 million that is committed in 2017 to expand the Connecting British Columbia program, which is administered by Northern Development Initiative Trust. An additional $83 million in funding from federal, provincial and local partners has been announced since January 2018, which will benefit an estimated 187 communities — including 69 First Nations and Indigenous communities. Northern Development has a passion for growing the economy of central and northern British Columbia. Communities, First Nations and businesses of the north are leaders in creating jobs, new revenues and improving the quality of life in the region, and the Trust is dedicated to supporting their growth. The Trust combines funding with smart thinking and since 2005 has found more than 3,166 ways to say “yes” to projects that help the region thrive. Metoo e6. Bola mouse sem fio. Name: Ir-x9. Package : Robotsky. Mouse com fio 4000 dpi. Red/ black. Rated working voltage: Adaptador de computador do bluetooth. O desempenho do mouse mx. Power switch for save power. Hand orientation: Wireless mause500hz (default). 10 million clicks. Shockproof, anti-drop. The official standard. Optical gaming mouse ergonômicoWi-fi do mouse. Optical resolutions: Rato macbook. Usb wired gaming mouse. Pen mouse color: K72337us. Meu uso. 95*66*40mm. 1600dpi optical gamer mouse. Tb05700. 8100172. Snigir. :135mm x 95mm x 87mm/5.27'' x 3.71'' x 3.4''(approx). 177.0cm/69.7in. Operation frequency:3200 dpi mouse sem fio. Windows,mac,chrome os,linux os or latest. Desktop, for office use, creative, for home use, laptop. Botão do mouse 9. Stainless steel color. Mini wireless pen mouse. Jogo de computador pc. Mouse wirelss for desktop. Usb receiver working distance: : Black mouse with led light. Fio de teflon. Jogo do rato verticais. Wholesale jogo do rato hxsj. Camundongos roda. Gm299. Foroureyes g9. Package content: Windows xp, vista, windows 7, windows 8, me, 2000 and mac os...or late. Fio de jogo do rato. 2 x aaa battery. Omron brand switch. Mouse holder/fixer. Dota rato. I use Joomla Social Comments and Sharing free. When I put ID code of page in field on the module, the FB buttons disappears! When I delete ID code of page in field on the module, the FB buttons is showing! Can you tell me where I'm wrong? Now I only put the page numbers in the likes button field, but.. Perhaps the page code should be displayed with some characters such as a suffix or ..? Yes! That's what we're talking about! app ID.. I just did not write it correctly. When I enter the numbers of app ID, the buttons disappear from the page. Fans of renowned artist Banksy are running to Miami's "The Art of Banksy" exhibition. The showcase, which is the first of its kind to feature

Successful applications could see last-mile projects receive up to a 50% contribution for eligible costs. Funding will also be available for improving connectivity to entire regions of British Columbia. Applications for transport fibre projects will be accepted beginning Sept. 1, 2018. A total of $16 million is available. “Connecting British Columbia has helped our province accelerate the growth of our digital economy. By leveraging funds from the private sector and other levels of government, the program has been critical in helping deliver the infrastructure projects B.C. needs to compete, now and in the future,” said Joel McKay, Northern Development Initiative Trust CEO. Submissions will be reviewed and assessed on a first-come, first-served basis. Applicants must demonstrate that their projects will be completed by March 31, 2020. This funding is part of $40 million that is committed in 2017 to expand the Connecting British Columbia program, which is administered by Northern Development Initiative Trust. An additional $83 million in funding from federal, provincial and local partners has been announced since January 2018, which will benefit an estimated 187 communities — including 69 First Nations and Indigenous communities. Northern Development has a passion for growing the economy of central and northern British Columbia. Communities, First Nations and businesses of the north are leaders in creating jobs, new revenues and improving the quality of life in the region, and the Trust is dedicated to supporting their growth. The Trust combines funding with smart thinking and since 2005 has found more than 3,166 ways to say “yes” to projects that help the region thrive. Metoo e6. Bola mouse sem fio. Name: Ir-x9. Package : Robotsky. Mouse com fio 4000 dpi. Red/ black. Rated working voltage: Adaptador de computador do bluetooth. O desempenho do mouse mx. Power switch for save power. Hand orientation: Wireless mause500hz (default). 10 million clicks. Shockproof, anti-drop. The official standard. Optical gaming mouse ergonômicoWi-fi do mouse. Optical resolutions: Rato macbook. Usb wired gaming mouse. Pen mouse color: K72337us. Meu uso. 95*66*40mm. 1600dpi optical gamer mouse. Tb05700. 8100172. Snigir. :135mm x 95mm x 87mm/5.27'' x 3.71'' x 3.4''(approx). 177.0cm/69.7in. Operation frequency:3200 dpi mouse sem fio. Windows,mac,chrome os,linux os or latest. Desktop, for office use, creative, for home use, laptop. Botão do mouse 9. Stainless steel color. Mini wireless pen mouse. Jogo de computador pc. Mouse wirelss for desktop. Usb receiver working distance: : Black mouse with led light. Fio de teflon. Jogo do rato verticais. Wholesale jogo do rato hxsj. Camundongos roda. Gm299. Foroureyes g9. Package content: Windows xp, vista, windows 7, windows 8, me, 2000 and mac os...or late. Fio de jogo do rato. 2 x aaa battery. Omron brand switch. Mouse holder/fixer. Dota rato. I use Joomla Social Comments and Sharing free. When I put ID code of page in field on the module, the FB buttons disappears! When I delete ID code of page in field on the module, the FB buttons is showing! Can you tell me where I'm wrong? Now I only put the page numbers in the likes button field, but.. Perhaps the page code should be displayed with some characters such as a suffix or ..? Yes! That's what we're talking about! app ID.. I just did not write it correctly. When I enter the numbers of app ID, the buttons disappear from the page. Fans of renowned artist Banksy are running to Miami's "The Art of Banksy" exhibition. The showcase, which is the first of its kind to feature

80 original works from the artist (including cult-favorite pieces “Balloon Girl” and “Flag Wall”), opened its doors at Magic City Studios to the public this week. “There is no reason why there shouldn’t be a Banksy hanging in every single major contemporary art museum in the world. He is the most powerful recognized artist of a generation that’s been completely ignored by the establishment thus far. I’m proud that together with the collectors we have been able to assemble this collection now being presented in Miami,” says Steve Lazarides, curator of the exhibit and former agent to Banksy. During Miami Art Week (December 6 through December 9), the exhibition will be extending its hours of operation so that guests can enjoy the one-of-a-kind art experience from 12 p.m. to 11 p.m. After Disney's 'John Carter" flop, Taylor Kitsch hopes to make a splash in "Battleship." Proportional strategy and luck are required to win Battleship, the family board game Peter Berg's loudly, proudly ridiculous soldiers-vs.-aliens blockbuster rather fancifully claims as its source. As played by Taylor Kitsch's beefy Navy lieutenant, however, victory requires no such niceties -- just the biggest explosives the military can provide. Overlong and underwritten even by the standards of summer f/x extravaganzas, this "Battleship" will nonetheless float with many on the strength of its boyish, eager-to-please razzle-dazzle. Bowing in Europe a month before its U.S. opening, pic should perform robustly enough to greenlight the sequel patently set up by its post-credits sting. Having already parlayed its beloved G.I. Joe and Transformers action figures into hit Hollywood franchises, toy manufacturing giant Hasbro has now turned its attention to its classic board-game collection. On the surface, the idea isn't as silly as it seems: A board game, after all, has more of a built-in narrative structure than a doll, though Battleship's miss-hit-sink trajectory perhaps tells a simpler story than most. Certainly, a lot of ships get sunk in fraternal writing duo Jon and Erich Hoeber's screenplay, though there the similarity ends; there's nary an in-joke about the game to be found here. Indeed, rather surprisingly coming from the writers of "Red," attempts at hip humor are few and far between; the film mostly lets the missiles do the talking. Extended pre-credits sequence gets past its science with impressive haste: We're here to play, after all, not to learn. The need-to-knows are that a "Goldilocks planet" (close enough to, and far enough from, the sun in order to sustain life, and therefore just right) has been discovered by NASA in a separate galaxy; the inhabitants of Planet G have responded to scientists' interstellar communications, and decided to pay a visit to Earth. Cut to Oahu, Hawaii, where jobless layabout Alex (Kitsch) is celebrating his 26th birthday in a dive bar with disapproving older brother Stone (Alexander Skarsgard), a straitlaced Navy recruit. After Alex commits a drunken infraction designed to impress leggy physiotherapist Samantha (Brooklyn Decker), Stone issues a final-straw demand: Alex is to join him in the Navy. In seemingly no time at all, Alex has graduated to lieutenant level despite equally feckless behavior in uniform, and is in a serious relationship with Samantha, whose stern dad (Liam Neeson) just happens to be commander of the Pacific fleet. All principals are conveniently involved, then, when Planet G's alien spacecraft crashes into the Pacific and rises ominously from the depths near the naval base in Oahu. A reconnaissance mission led by Alex and scrappy female officer Raikes (Rihanna) aggravates the visitors into opening fire, setting the stage for a protracted series of back-and-forth pyrotechnic attacks of increasing sound and fury until an abruptly curtailed finale. The comparatively limp mainland action, meanwhile, finds Samantha weathering the storm with paraplegic Army veteran Mick (real-life Iraq hero Gregory D. Gadson) and technical geek Cal (Hamish

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worst of food is to eat up the inheritance of orphan. The luckiest of people is one who takes heed of the reason behind others' misfortunes; and the unlucky is thus conceived in the womb of his mother. Sufficient for you is what satisfies your basic needs; surely the lag of one's journey will culminate in a grave six linear feet long; one's real goal will eventually be seen at the end, - and truth will surely manifest at the end. The results of one's actions will expose his initial intention; the worst story is a lie; the best death is that of a martyr; one who knows the value of adversities will bear them, and one who does not understand that will question the reason behind them. Allah will surely bring an arrogant person to humiliation. Whosoever vies to capture the world will reach a dead end, and whosoever obeys Shaytaan would have disobeyed Allah and finally, whosoever disobeys Allah will be punished in hell-fire." "Stay away from people who can't take responsibility for their actions and who make you feel bad for being angry at them when they do you wrong." © Al Yusra. All rights reserved. HOMEPAGE >> BLOG >> Meet our experts: Gareth Hatch and Lisa Reisman Meet our experts: Gareth Hatch and Lisa Reisman By Sandra Wirtz | Posted: August 8, 2011 at 1:53 pm If you haven’t had the chance to visit our experts page yet, we’d like for you to meet two of the people who joined the American Resources panel of thought leaders and industry experts from the very start. Gareth Hatch is a founding principal of Technology Metals Research, LLC. An authority in the area of REEs and other critical and strategic materials, Hatch is also the founding editor of Terra Magnetica and an editor at RareMetalBlog, a fantastic blog that keeps readers up-to-date on new developments in the REE world. We have highlighted some of his work here and here, and will be sharing his new research paper through our website in the near future. Lisa Reisman is co-founder and editor of the highly acclaimed metals website MetalMinerTM, the largest metals publication in the U.S. with a monthly readership of 36,000. Covering a range of topics from REEs and precious metals to international trade policy, she has appeared on programs for BBC Radio, NPR, MSNBC and FoxBusiness.com. We’ve highlighted some of her writing for MetalMinerTM, a website you should bookmark, here. To learn more about their work, and our other panelists, visit our experts page. Braun Silk Epil 9 Review – A Best Wet & Dry Cordless Epilator Why Buy The Braun Silk Epil 9? Great Features to Watch Out For How would you like to remove unwanted hair in just one stroke? According to Braun, creator of the Braun Silk Epil 9, this model is their next-generation cordless epilator as it can get rid of hair in just one stroke. Braun has improved its Epil line and has added some great features that make hair removal less fussy. Also, there are some new attachments and accessories that may improve your overall hair removal experience. Braun Silk Epil 9 Review – A Best Wet & Dry Cordless Epilator – Photo from Amazon The Braun Epil 9 is one of the most popular cordless epilators, and many say that it lives up to its predecessors. It is known as the best epilator for women of the year. It has several additional features to watch out for too. If you’re used to the Braun Epils of old, you’ll agree that the Epil 9 is better with a wider head because, with a larger head, you can remove more hair in just one pass compared to other Braun epilators. Since this is a wet and dry shaver, it is easier to remove stubborn hair as you can use it as you shower. It’s painless after regular uses as it glides closely over your skin. It has several accessories that help make hair removal more efficient. But the Epil 9 also has some drawbacks. Find out if this is the right cordless epilator for you in this Braun Epil 9 review. The very first thing you’ll likely say when you open

worst of food is to eat up the inheritance of orphan. The luckiest of people is one who takes heed of the reason behind others' misfortunes; and the unlucky is thus conceived in the womb of his mother. Sufficient for you is what satisfies your basic needs; surely the lag of one's journey will culminate in a grave six linear feet long; one's real goal will eventually be seen at the end, - and truth will surely manifest at the end. The results of one's actions will expose his initial intention; the worst story is a lie; the best death is that of a martyr; one who knows the value of adversities will bear them, and one who does not understand that will question the reason behind them. Allah will surely bring an arrogant person to humiliation. Whosoever vies to capture the world will reach a dead end, and whosoever obeys Shaytaan would have disobeyed Allah and finally, whosoever disobeys Allah will be punished in hell-fire." "Stay away from people who can't take responsibility for their actions and who make you feel bad for being angry at them when they do you wrong." © Al Yusra. All rights reserved. HOMEPAGE >> BLOG >> Meet our experts: Gareth Hatch and Lisa Reisman Meet our experts: Gareth Hatch and Lisa Reisman By Sandra Wirtz | Posted: August 8, 2011 at 1:53 pm If you haven’t had the chance to visit our experts page yet, we’d like for you to meet two of the people who joined the American Resources panel of thought leaders and industry experts from the very start. Gareth Hatch is a founding principal of Technology Metals Research, LLC. An authority in the area of REEs and other critical and strategic materials, Hatch is also the founding editor of Terra Magnetica and an editor at RareMetalBlog, a fantastic blog that keeps readers up-to-date on new developments in the REE world. We have highlighted some of his work here and here, and will be sharing his new research paper through our website in the near future. Lisa Reisman is co-founder and editor of the highly acclaimed metals website MetalMinerTM, the largest metals publication in the U.S. with a monthly readership of 36,000. Covering a range of topics from REEs and precious metals to international trade policy, she has appeared on programs for BBC Radio, NPR, MSNBC and FoxBusiness.com. We’ve highlighted some of her writing for MetalMinerTM, a website you should bookmark, here. To learn more about their work, and our other panelists, visit our experts page. Braun Silk Epil 9 Review – A Best Wet & Dry Cordless Epilator Why Buy The Braun Silk Epil 9? Great Features to Watch Out For How would you like to remove unwanted hair in just one stroke? According to Braun, creator of the Braun Silk Epil 9, this model is their next-generation cordless epilator as it can get rid of hair in just one stroke. Braun has improved its Epil line and has added some great features that make hair removal less fussy. Also, there are some new attachments and accessories that may improve your overall hair removal experience. Braun Silk Epil 9 Review – A Best Wet & Dry Cordless Epilator – Photo from Amazon The Braun Epil 9 is one of the most popular cordless epilators, and many say that it lives up to its predecessors. It is known as the best epilator for women of the year. It has several additional features to watch out for too. If you’re used to the Braun Epils of old, you’ll agree that the Epil 9 is better with a wider head because, with a larger head, you can remove more hair in just one pass compared to other Braun epilators. Since this is a wet and dry shaver, it is easier to remove stubborn hair as you can use it as you shower. It’s painless after regular uses as it glides closely over your skin. It has several accessories that help make hair removal more efficient. But the Epil 9 also has some drawbacks. Find out if this is the right cordless epilator for you in this Braun Epil 9 review. The very first thing you’ll likely say when you open

the box is how can a tiny epilator need all these accessories? There are just a lot of attachments that you may not need anyway, but who knows? Holding the Epil 9 is like holding a small but heavy, compact tool. You can hold it well, but women with larger hands may have to struggle. There’s no actual handle; you need to rely on the epilator’s smooth sides which can easily slip from your grip if you’re shaving in the shower. The dials are easy to move, but you must practice using it in dry conditions, finding the right setting that will work best before you start shaving wet. The Epil 9 has two dials in front to power on and toggle with the different speed settings. It’s a bit tricky for someone who relies on buttons, but after a few uses, you’re good. Braun’s claim that it can remove hair in one pass may be an overclaim because despite the wider head, hair varies in length and thickness and skin type may also add to the mix. It may depend on the user. This is a cordless epilator, so expect that it’s versatile, and you can easily remove hair in all the tightest spots because there’s no power cord getting in the way. The MicroGrip tweezer technology works as advertised with the ability to remove short hair better than waxing. But again, it may also depend on your hair and skin type. Braun is honest in claiming that using this epilator is painless after regular uses. Let’s face it; epilators are not for everyone. It will hurt during the first weeks of use, but you’ll get used to it eventually. Aside from the wider head, there are some features to look forward to in the Epil 9. First, it will work with pulsating vibrations, which will feel like a gentle massage to ease discomfort, especially during the first weeks of use. It has a pivoting head that will move across your body without effort. You’ll find the SmartLight handy as you can see any areas you’ve missed up close. With the light, you can also inspect your skin closely and look for fine hair so the results would be flawless. Since this is a wet and dry epilator, you can use it in water and wash it in water as well. It is safe and dermatologically –approved for hair removal, which is a plus for value. And when it comes to battery power, an hour’s charge will give you 40 minutes of non-stop operation. If it takes you only 15 minutes to use it, a full charge can be used for at least three days. The battery is non-removable, and this a common disadvantage of cordless tools and devices. We also write about best shower caps for women and best electric razor for men that you are also interested in. There are accessories that you will need and some you may not use at all. It comes with seven extras: a shaving head, trimmer cap, high-frequency massage cap, skin contact cap, charging stand, and a facial brush. The bonus facial brush can remove makeup and deep-seated impurities from skin six times better compared to just washing your face with soap and water. Specs And Features • With 40% wider head • With MicroGrip tweezer technology • Can be used wet or dry • With a lasting battery in one charge (full charge can last 40 minutes) • With 7 extra accessories and attachments • With bonus facial brush • With SmartLight • With a pivoting head • Can remove more hair in one pass • Can remove fine hair using SmartLight • Compact size • Can be used in the shower or the bath • Cordless operation • Comes with all the accessories you need • Is too small for women with big hands • No hair storage, so hair falls on the floor • The grip is challenging especially when used while bathing • Dial controls can be something to get used to • A lot of attachments you don’t need When it comes to wet and dry hair removal, the Braun Epil 9 cordless epilator stands out. It has handy features like a wider head to remove more hair, extra attachments, MicroGrip technology for fine hair, and a pivoting head and massage movements. It also has a few flaws

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).as_slice()) } } } fn next_char(&mut self) -> bool { self.chari += 1; self.chari < self.chars.len() } fn pop_ast(&mut self) -> Result<Ast, Error> { match self.stack.pop().unwrap().unwrap() { Err(e) => Err(e), Ok(ast) => Ok(ast), } } fn push(&mut self, ast: Ast) { self.stack.push(Ast(ast)) } fn push_repeater(&mut self, c: char) -> Result<(), Error> { if self.stack.len() == 0 { return self.err( "A repeat operator must be preceded by a valid expression.") } let rep: Repeater = match c { '?' => ZeroOne, '*' => ZeroMore, '+' => OneMore, _ => fail!("Not a valid repeater operator."), }; match self.peek(1) { Some('*') | Some('+') => return self.err( "Double repeat operators are not supported."), _ => {}, } let ast = try!(self.pop_ast()); match ast { Begin(_) | End(_) | WordBoundary(_) => return self.err( "Repeat arguments cannot be empty width assertions."), _ => {} } let greed = try!(self.get_next_greedy()); self.push(Rep(box ast, rep, greed)); Ok(()) } fn push_literal(&mut self, c: char) -> Result<(), Error> { let flags = self.flags; match c { '.' => { self.push(Dot(flags)) } '^' => { self.push(Begin(flags)) } '$' => { self.push(End(flags)) } _ => { self.push(Literal(c, flags)) } } Ok(()) } // Parses all forms of character classes. // Assumes that '[' is the current character. fn parse_class(&mut self) -> Result<(), Error> { let negated = if self.peek_is(1, '^') { try!(self.expect('^')) FLAG_NEGATED } else { FLAG_EMPTY }; let mut ranges: Vec<(char, char)> = vec!(); let mut alts: Vec<Ast> = vec!(); if self.peek_is(1, ']') { try!(self.expect(']')) ranges.push((']', ']')) } while self.peek_is(1, '-') { try!(self.expect('-')) ranges.push(('-', '-')) } loop { try!(self.noteof("a closing ']' or a non-empty character class)")) let mut c = self.cur(); match c { '[' => match self.try_parse_ascii() { Some(Class(asciis, flags)) => { alts.push(Class(asciis, flags ^ negated)); continue } Some(ast) => fail!("Expected Class AST but got '{}'", ast), // Just drop down and try to add as a regular character. None => {}, }, '\\' => { match try!(self.parse_escape()) { Class(asciis, flags) => { alts.push(Class(asciis, flags ^ negated)); continue } Literal(c2, _) => c = c2, // process below Begin(_) | End(_) | WordBoundary(_) => return self.err( "\\A

).as_slice()) } } } fn next_char(&mut self) -> bool { self.chari += 1; self.chari < self.chars.len() } fn pop_ast(&mut self) -> Result<Ast, Error> { match self.stack.pop().unwrap().unwrap() { Err(e) => Err(e), Ok(ast) => Ok(ast), } } fn push(&mut self, ast: Ast) { self.stack.push(Ast(ast)) } fn push_repeater(&mut self, c: char) -> Result<(), Error> { if self.stack.len() == 0 { return self.err( "A repeat operator must be preceded by a valid expression.") } let rep: Repeater = match c { '?' => ZeroOne, '*' => ZeroMore, '+' => OneMore, _ => fail!("Not a valid repeater operator."), }; match self.peek(1) { Some('*') | Some('+') => return self.err( "Double repeat operators are not supported."), _ => {}, } let ast = try!(self.pop_ast()); match ast { Begin(_) | End(_) | WordBoundary(_) => return self.err( "Repeat arguments cannot be empty width assertions."), _ => {} } let greed = try!(self.get_next_greedy()); self.push(Rep(box ast, rep, greed)); Ok(()) } fn push_literal(&mut self, c: char) -> Result<(), Error> { let flags = self.flags; match c { '.' => { self.push(Dot(flags)) } '^' => { self.push(Begin(flags)) } '$' => { self.push(End(flags)) } _ => { self.push(Literal(c, flags)) } } Ok(()) } // Parses all forms of character classes. // Assumes that '[' is the current character. fn parse_class(&mut self) -> Result<(), Error> { let negated = if self.peek_is(1, '^') { try!(self.expect('^')) FLAG_NEGATED } else { FLAG_EMPTY }; let mut ranges: Vec<(char, char)> = vec!(); let mut alts: Vec<Ast> = vec!(); if self.peek_is(1, ']') { try!(self.expect(']')) ranges.push((']', ']')) } while self.peek_is(1, '-') { try!(self.expect('-')) ranges.push(('-', '-')) } loop { try!(self.noteof("a closing ']' or a non-empty character class)")) let mut c = self.cur(); match c { '[' => match self.try_parse_ascii() { Some(Class(asciis, flags)) => { alts.push(Class(asciis, flags ^ negated)); continue } Some(ast) => fail!("Expected Class AST but got '{}'", ast), // Just drop down and try to add as a regular character. None => {}, }, '\\' => { match try!(self.parse_escape()) { Class(asciis, flags) => { alts.push(Class(asciis, flags ^ negated)); continue } Literal(c2, _) => c = c2, // process below Begin(_) | End(_) | WordBoundary(_) => return self.err( "\\A

, \\z, \\b and \\B are not valid escape \ sequences inside a character class."), ast => fail!("Unexpected AST item '{}'", ast), } } _ => {}, } match c { ']' => { if ranges.len() > 0 { let flags = negated | (self.flags & FLAG_NOCASE); let mut ast = Class(combine_ranges(ranges), flags); for alt in alts.move_iter() { ast = Alt(box alt, box ast) } self.push(ast); } else if alts.len() > 0 { let mut ast = alts.pop().unwrap(); for alt in alts.move_iter() { ast = Alt(box alt, box ast) } self.push(ast); } return Ok(()) } c => { if self.peek_is(1, '-') && !self.peek_is(2, ']') { try!(self.expect('-')) try!(self.noteof("not a ']'")) let c2 = self.cur(); if c2 < c { return self.err(format!("Invalid character class \ range '{}-{}'", c, c2).as_slice()) } ranges.push((c, self.cur())) } else { ranges.push((c, c)) } } } } } // Tries to parse an ASCII character class of the form [:name:]. // If successful, returns an AST character class corresponding to name // and moves the parser to the final ']' character. // If unsuccessful, no state is changed and None is returned. // Assumes that '[' is the current character. fn try_parse_ascii(&mut self) -> Option<Ast> { if !self.peek_is(1, ':') { return None } let closer = match self.pos(']') { Some(i) => i, None => return None, }; if self.chars[closer-1] != ':' { return None } if closer - self.chari <= 3 { return None } let mut name_start = self.chari + 2; let negated = if self.peek_is(2, '^') { name_start += 1; FLAG_NEGATED } else { FLAG_EMPTY }; let name = self.slice(name_start, closer - 1); match find_class(ASCII_CLASSES, name.as_slice()) { None => None, Some(ranges) => { self.chari = closer; let flags = negated | (self.flags & FLAG_NOCASE); Some(Class(combine_ranges(ranges), flags)) } } } // Parses counted repetition. Supports: // {n}, {n,}, {n,m}, {n}?, {n,}? and {n,m}? // Assumes that '{' is the current character. // Returns either an error or moves the parser to the final '}' character. // (Or the '?' character if not greedy.) fn parse_counted(&mut self) -> Result<(), Error> { // Scan until the closing '}' and grab the stuff in {}. let start = self.chari; let closer = match self.pos('}') { Some(i) => i, None => { return self.err(format!("No closing brace for counted \ repetition starting at position \ {}.", start).as_slice()) } }; self

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plrbuy | Aug 28, 2019 | PLR Buy News Feross Aboukhadijeh, maintainer of the StandardJS library, a JavaScript style guide, linter, and automatic code fixer, launched an experiment last week that places ads in the terminal in order to fund development. The experiment has since been paused after receiving negative feedback from the developer community, causing Linode, one of the initial sponsors, to remove its advertisement. “I think that the current model of sustaining open source is not working and we need more experimentation,” Aboukhadijeh said. “This is one such experiment.” He developed a module that inserts an ad whenever Standard 14 is installed. Sponsorship funds are designated to pay for maintainer time, which he defined as “writing new features, fixing bugs, answering user questions, and improving documentation.” Aboukhadijeh is a prolific developer who has authored more than 100 packages on npm that are downloaded 100+ million times per month. Standard is his most popular open source project and is used by high profile projects and companies, including Node.js, npm, GitHub, Automattic, and many more. Aboukhadijeh said his goal with the experiment is to make Standard and other open source projects healthier. “For complex reasons, companies are generally hesitant or unwilling to fund OSS directly,” he said. “When it does happen, it’s never enough and it never reaches packages which are transitive dependencies (i.e. packages that no one installs explicitly and therefore no one knows exists). Essentially, we have a public good which is consumed by huge numbers of users, but which almost no one pays for. Fortunately, there exists a funding model that usually works for public goods like this – ads.” Here is an example of the LogRocket ad that was part of the initial experiment: While some developers communicated support for open source maintainers to monetize their projects in whatever way they choose, the majority of feedback on GitHub, Hacker News, Reddit, and social media strongly criticized this particular approach. William Hilton, developer at Stoplight, speculated on the consequences of this type of advertising becoming a popular funding model: I do worry that npm install will just become a long trail of banner ads though eventually and it won’t scale. Because if every npm package adds ads, the noticeability of each ad will diminish. (Interestingly, the most valuable “realestate” will be packages whose banner is displayed last, so if it becomes a literal “race-to-the-bottom” people might add sleep statements to their post-install scripts so they are displayed nearest the bottom. What a dystopian installation experience!) He also noted that Yarn blocks the output of post-install scripts, which in this case would serve as built-in ad-blocking. Yarn’s maintainer chimed in on the thread with more context. “As maintainer of Yarn, I’m strongly against this pattern, although not for the reasons you might think,” Maël Nison said. “Post-install scripts deoptimize packages and break workflows. “Yarn already doesn’t print the build logs unless they make the installs crash, so this post-install script wouldn’t have any visible effect for our users. Still, I value the health of the ecosystem a lot, both from the point of view of maintainers and users, and I would be happy to discuss how we could satisfy this use case in a more integrated and less intrusive way.” Since this is a newer experiment and hasn’t gone mainstream, it’s not clear whether npm may decide to block all methods of serving advertisements through the terminal in the future. A new module called No CLI Ads was created in response to Aboukhadijeh’s funding module. It blocks ads from appearing in console output. npm-adblock is an alternative that functions in a different way. The existence of simple, albeit inconvenient, ways of blocking these types of ads may be all that is necessary to dry up any potential revenue stream. Feedback on this experiment demonstrates that there is wide support for finding a solution to the problem of open source funding, but most agree that terminal ads is not a viable option. In fact, many commenters identified this approach as the most annoying thing that a package maintainer can do, apart from removing the package. Developers do not wish to be spammed while installing a dependency. One commenter describes his terminal as “the one last stronghold” and “haven of peace” that

plrbuy | Aug 28, 2019 | PLR Buy News Feross Aboukhadijeh, maintainer of the StandardJS library, a JavaScript style guide, linter, and automatic code fixer, launched an experiment last week that places ads in the terminal in order to fund development. The experiment has since been paused after receiving negative feedback from the developer community, causing Linode, one of the initial sponsors, to remove its advertisement. “I think that the current model of sustaining open source is not working and we need more experimentation,” Aboukhadijeh said. “This is one such experiment.” He developed a module that inserts an ad whenever Standard 14 is installed. Sponsorship funds are designated to pay for maintainer time, which he defined as “writing new features, fixing bugs, answering user questions, and improving documentation.” Aboukhadijeh is a prolific developer who has authored more than 100 packages on npm that are downloaded 100+ million times per month. Standard is his most popular open source project and is used by high profile projects and companies, including Node.js, npm, GitHub, Automattic, and many more. Aboukhadijeh said his goal with the experiment is to make Standard and other open source projects healthier. “For complex reasons, companies are generally hesitant or unwilling to fund OSS directly,” he said. “When it does happen, it’s never enough and it never reaches packages which are transitive dependencies (i.e. packages that no one installs explicitly and therefore no one knows exists). Essentially, we have a public good which is consumed by huge numbers of users, but which almost no one pays for. Fortunately, there exists a funding model that usually works for public goods like this – ads.” Here is an example of the LogRocket ad that was part of the initial experiment: While some developers communicated support for open source maintainers to monetize their projects in whatever way they choose, the majority of feedback on GitHub, Hacker News, Reddit, and social media strongly criticized this particular approach. William Hilton, developer at Stoplight, speculated on the consequences of this type of advertising becoming a popular funding model: I do worry that npm install will just become a long trail of banner ads though eventually and it won’t scale. Because if every npm package adds ads, the noticeability of each ad will diminish. (Interestingly, the most valuable “realestate” will be packages whose banner is displayed last, so if it becomes a literal “race-to-the-bottom” people might add sleep statements to their post-install scripts so they are displayed nearest the bottom. What a dystopian installation experience!) He also noted that Yarn blocks the output of post-install scripts, which in this case would serve as built-in ad-blocking. Yarn’s maintainer chimed in on the thread with more context. “As maintainer of Yarn, I’m strongly against this pattern, although not for the reasons you might think,” Maël Nison said. “Post-install scripts deoptimize packages and break workflows. “Yarn already doesn’t print the build logs unless they make the installs crash, so this post-install script wouldn’t have any visible effect for our users. Still, I value the health of the ecosystem a lot, both from the point of view of maintainers and users, and I would be happy to discuss how we could satisfy this use case in a more integrated and less intrusive way.” Since this is a newer experiment and hasn’t gone mainstream, it’s not clear whether npm may decide to block all methods of serving advertisements through the terminal in the future. A new module called No CLI Ads was created in response to Aboukhadijeh’s funding module. It blocks ads from appearing in console output. npm-adblock is an alternative that functions in a different way. The existence of simple, albeit inconvenient, ways of blocking these types of ads may be all that is necessary to dry up any potential revenue stream. Feedback on this experiment demonstrates that there is wide support for finding a solution to the problem of open source funding, but most agree that terminal ads is not a viable option. In fact, many commenters identified this approach as the most annoying thing that a package maintainer can do, apart from removing the package. Developers do not wish to be spammed while installing a dependency. One commenter describes his terminal as “the one last stronghold” and “haven of peace” that

doesn’t serve ads from corporate overlords. “Selling ad-space is not innovative,” developer Matthias Hogerheijde said. “And it’s particularly unhelpful in my logs. For me, the issue is more that I don’t want stuff that doesn’t help me in my logs. I wholeheartedly agree with putting your ‘supported by company X’ in the readme. That helps me understand, it does resonate with me when I see certain companies donating money to OSS. I, too, want to live in a perfect world where every developer can live, pay rent and only work on projects they like. That perfect world for me does not include ads in my terminal.” Reddit commenters took humorous jabs at the idea, penning sample ads that interrupt the build process: Linode Pulls Sponsorship from Standard’s Terminal Ads Experiment Standard.js users who were unhappy with the ads in their terminals complained to the sponsors and Linode decided to remove its ad from the experiment. We hear you loud and clear. We’ve reconsidered and have removed the ad. — Linode (@linode) August 25, 2019 “We reconsidered after reflecting on the developer community’s reaction,” a Linode representative said on Twitter. “We still passionately support open source software along with @feross, but we’ll be more careful about experimenting in the future while continuing to innovate.” Prior to pausing the experiment, Aboukhadijeh reported he had raised $2,000, enough to fund five days worth of his time to release Standard 14. “If we are able to raise additional funds, the next thing I’d like to focus on is out-of-the-box TypeScript support in StandardJS (one of the most common feature requests!) and modernizing the various text editor plugins (many of which are currently unmaintained),” Aboukhadijeh said. “If others in the community are interested in taking the lead on any of these issues, I’d like to direct some funds to you.” The experiment isn’t entirely off the table, since it seems to have met one of Aboukhadijeh’s immediate objectives, despite annoying (and in some cases infuriating) the developer community. Four days ago, Standard locked the GitHub thread discussing the new funding model after it became too heated. The project’s maintainers are now evaluating this iteration of the experiment, but the discussion extends beyond the simple question of whether developers like ads in their terminals. A new thread on the project’s repo, titled “What’s wrong with Open Source right now?” has diverted some of the negative feedback into a broader, more productive discussion. The experiment has reignited important conversations about the sustainability of open source and where project maintainers want to see it go in the future. In a recent tweet, Aboukhadijeh shared a link to particular situation that one maintainer faced in supporting a free syntax highlighting library. After receiving urgent comments and emails following a release that had errors causing dependencies to break, Ivan Sagalaev, the original author of highlight.js, aptly summarized the current state of the relationship between businesses and open source projects: Dear fellow engineers, please take this build hiccup as an opportunity to explain to your particular business people that their entire intellectual property is a thin layer on top of a shaky foundation of open-source code lazily maintained by hobbyists or paid for by other businesses having their own goals in mind. If they really want stability they have to invest in it by, for example, hiring engineers to deal with myriad of dependencies, maintain local stable forks, contribute patches upstream, or whatever — the key point is that it should not look like it ‘just works’ on fairy dust. Would you like to write for WP Tavern? We are always accepting guest posts from the community and are looking for new contributors. Get in touch with us and let’s discuss your ideas. Home News Breaking News Absurd: Trendit Claims Just 273,000 Attended Chacham Ovadiah’s Levaya Absurd: Trendit Claims Just 273,000 Attended Chacham Ovadiah’s Levaya According to Israeli police reports, up to 800,000 people were at the levaya of Chacham Ovadiah Yosef zt”

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1.8 and up, you can use .addBack(). It takes a selector so you don't need to filter the result: object.find('selector').addBack('selector') Prior to jQuery 1.8 you were stuck with .andSelf(), (now deprecated and removed) which then needed filtering: object.find('selector').andSelf().filter('selector') A: I think andSelf is what you want: obj.find(selector).andSelf() Note that this will always add back the current node, whether or not it matches the selector. A: If you are strictly looking in the current node(s) the you just simply do $(html).filter('selector') A: Here's the right (but sad) truth: $(selector).parent().find(oSelector).filter($(selector).find('*')) http://jsfiddle.net/SergeJcqmn/MeQb8/2/ Q: Kendo Grid plumbing I'm trying to get the Kendo UI grid connected in my MVC3 app, but I'm not getting any data displaying. I think it should be simple, but I'm not seeing it. Here is my code: View: @model List<pests.web.com.Models.Workitem> @{ ViewBag.Title = "Worklist"; ViewBag.CurrentPage = "Worklist"; } <div id="grid"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> $("#grid").kendoGrid({ dataSource: { type: "json", transport: { read: { url: "Home/GetWorklist", dataType: "json", type: "POST", contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8", data: {} } }, columns: [ { field: "PartNumber", width: 90, title: "Part Number" }, { field: "ProcurementCode", width: 90, title: "Procurement Code" }, { width: 100, field: "Priority" }, { field: "Status" } ] } }); </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../Scripts/people.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../Scripts/kendo.web.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../Scripts/console.js"></script> <link href="../../Styles/kendo.common.min.css" rel="stylesheet" /> <link href="../../Styles/kendo.default.min.css" rel="stylesheet" /> Layout page: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>@ViewBag.Title</title> <link href="@Url.Content("~/Styles/Site.css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery-1.5.1.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/modernizr-1.7.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script> </head> <body> @RenderBody() </body> </html> Controller code I'm trying to call from the view: public class HomeController : Controller { [HttpPost] public ActionResult GetWorklist() { List<Workitem> worklist = PestsLogic.GetWorklist(); return View("Home", worklist); } } GetWorklist() is returning a few items. They are simple object with a few properties. Here's it is: public class Workitem { public string PartNumber { get;

1.8 and up, you can use .addBack(). It takes a selector so you don't need to filter the result: object.find('selector').addBack('selector') Prior to jQuery 1.8 you were stuck with .andSelf(), (now deprecated and removed) which then needed filtering: object.find('selector').andSelf().filter('selector') A: I think andSelf is what you want: obj.find(selector).andSelf() Note that this will always add back the current node, whether or not it matches the selector. A: If you are strictly looking in the current node(s) the you just simply do $(html).filter('selector') A: Here's the right (but sad) truth: $(selector).parent().find(oSelector).filter($(selector).find('*')) http://jsfiddle.net/SergeJcqmn/MeQb8/2/ Q: Kendo Grid plumbing I'm trying to get the Kendo UI grid connected in my MVC3 app, but I'm not getting any data displaying. I think it should be simple, but I'm not seeing it. Here is my code: View: @model List<pests.web.com.Models.Workitem> @{ ViewBag.Title = "Worklist"; ViewBag.CurrentPage = "Worklist"; } <div id="grid"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> $("#grid").kendoGrid({ dataSource: { type: "json", transport: { read: { url: "Home/GetWorklist", dataType: "json", type: "POST", contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8", data: {} } }, columns: [ { field: "PartNumber", width: 90, title: "Part Number" }, { field: "ProcurementCode", width: 90, title: "Procurement Code" }, { width: 100, field: "Priority" }, { field: "Status" } ] } }); </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../Scripts/people.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../Scripts/kendo.web.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../Scripts/console.js"></script> <link href="../../Styles/kendo.common.min.css" rel="stylesheet" /> <link href="../../Styles/kendo.default.min.css" rel="stylesheet" /> Layout page: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>@ViewBag.Title</title> <link href="@Url.Content("~/Styles/Site.css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery-1.5.1.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/modernizr-1.7.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script> </head> <body> @RenderBody() </body> </html> Controller code I'm trying to call from the view: public class HomeController : Controller { [HttpPost] public ActionResult GetWorklist() { List<Workitem> worklist = PestsLogic.GetWorklist(); return View("Home", worklist); } } GetWorklist() is returning a few items. They are simple object with a few properties. Here's it is: public class Workitem { public string PartNumber { get;

set; } public string ProcurementCode { get; set; } public int Priority { get; set; } public string Status { get; set; } } Is there anything obvious that I've got hooked up wrong? There are no error messages, just a blank page (with a title, though). Thanks! A: The problem was simply that I needed to move the references to the JS files to before I tried to use the Kendo grid. Q: Train Stacked Autoencoder Correctly I try to build a Stacked Autoencoder in Keras (tf.keras). By stacked I do not mean deep. All the examples I found for Keras are generating e.g. 3 encoder layers, 3 decoder layers, they train it and they call it a day. However, it seems the correct way to train a Stacked Autoencoder (SAE) is the one described in this paper: Stacked Denoising Autoencoders: Learning Useful Representations in a Deep Network with a Local Denoising Criterion In short, a SAE should be trained layer-wise as shown in the image below. After layer 1 is trained, it's used as input to train layer 2. The reconstruction loss should be compared with the layer 1 and not the input layer. And here is where my trouble begins. How to tell Keras which layers to use the loss function on? Here is what I do. Since the Autoencoder module is not existed anymore in Keras, I build the first autoencoder, and I set its encoder's weights (trainable = False) in the 1st layer of a second autoencoder with 2 layers in total. Then when I train that, it obviously compares the reconstructed layer out_s2 with the input layer in_s, instead of the layer 1 hid1. # autoencoder layer 1 in_s = tf.keras.Input(shape=(input_size,)) noise = tf.keras.layers.Dropout(0.1)(in_s) hid = tf.keras.layers.Dense(nodes[0], activation='relu')(noise) out_s = tf.keras.layers.Dense(input_size, activation='sigmoid')(hid) ae_1 = tf.keras.Model(in_s, out_s, name="ae_1") ae_1.compile(optimizer='nadam', loss='binary_crossentropy', metrics=['acc']) # autoencoder layer 2 hid1 = tf.keras.layers.Dense(nodes[0], activation='relu')(in_s) noise = tf.keras.layers.Dropout(0.1)(hid1) hid2 = tf.keras.layers.Dense(nodes[1], activation='relu')(noise) out_s2 = tf.keras.layers.Dense(nodes[0], activation='sigmoid')(hid2) ae_2 = tf.keras.Model(in_s, out_s2, name="ae_2") ae_2.layers[0].set_weights(ae_1.layers[0].get_weights()) ae_2.layers[0].trainable = False ae_2.compile(optimizer='nadam', loss='binary_crossentropy', metrics=['acc']) The solution should be fairly easy, but I can't see it nor find it online. How do I do that in Keras? A: It seems like the question is outdated by looking at the comments. But I'll still answer this as the use-case mentioned in this question is not just specific to autoencoders and might be helpful for some other cases. So, when you say "train the whole network layer by layer", I would rather interpret it as "train small networks with one single layer in a sequence". Looking at the code posted in this question, it seems that the OP has already built small networks. But both these networks do not consist of one single layer. The second autoencoder here, takes as input the input of first autoencoder. But, it should actually take as input, the output of first autoencoder. So then, you train the first autoencoder and collect it's predicitons after it is trained. Then you train the second autoencoder, which takes as input the output (predictions) of first

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CDomainParameters curve_params = this.mECAgreePrivateKey.Parameters; this.mECAgreePublicKey = TlsEccUtilities.ValidateECPublicKey(TlsEccUtilities.DeserializeECPublicKey( mServerECPointFormats, curve_params, point)); } public override byte[] GeneratePremasterSecret() { if (mAgreementCredentials != null) { return mAgreementCredentials.GenerateAgreement(mECAgreePublicKey); } if (mECAgreePrivateKey != null) { return TlsEccUtilities.CalculateECDHBasicAgreement(mECAgreePublicKey, mECAgreePrivateKey); } throw new TlsFatalAlert(AlertDescription.internal_error); } } } #endif #ifndef LEPTONICA_CCBORD_H #define LEPTONICA_CCBORD_H /* * ccbord.h * * CCBord: represents a single connected component * CCBorda: an array of CCBord */ /* Use in ccbaStepChainsToPixCoords() */ enum { CCB_LOCAL_COORDS = 1, CCB_GLOBAL_COORDS = 2 }; /* Use in ccbaGenerateSPGlobalLocs() */ enum { CCB_SAVE_ALL_PTS = 1, CCB_SAVE_TURNING_PTS = 2 }; /* CCBord contains: * * (1) a minimally-clipped bitmap of the component (pix), * (2) a boxa consisting of: * for the primary component: * (xul, yul) pixel location in global coords * (w, h) of the bitmap * for the hole components: * (x, y) in relative coordinates in primary component * (w, h) of the hole border (which is 2 pixels * larger in each direction than the hole itself) * (3) a pta ('start') of the initial border pixel location for each * closed curve, all in relative coordinates of the primary * component. This is given for the primary component, * followed by the hole components, if any. * (4) a refcount of the ccbord; used internally when a ccbord * is accessed from a ccborda (array of ccbord) * (5) a ptaa for the chain code for the border in relative * coordinates, where the first pta is the exterior border * and all other pta are for interior borders (holes) * (6) a ptaa for the global pixel loc rendition of the border, * where the first pta is the exterior border and all other * pta are for interior borders (holes). * This is derived from the local or step chain code. * (7) a numaa for the chain code for the border as orientation * directions between successive border pixels, where * the first numa is the exterior border and all other * numa are for interior borders (holes). This is derived * from the local chain code. The 8 directions are 0 - 7. * (8) a pta for a single chain for each c.c., comprised of outer * and hole borders, plus cut paths between them, all in * local coords. * (9) a pta for a single chain for each c.c., comprised of outer * and hole borders, plus cut paths between them, all in * global coords. */ struct CCBord { struct Pix *pix; /* component bitmap (min size) */ struct Boxa *boxa; /* regions of each closed curve */ struct Pta *

CDomainParameters curve_params = this.mECAgreePrivateKey.Parameters; this.mECAgreePublicKey = TlsEccUtilities.ValidateECPublicKey(TlsEccUtilities.DeserializeECPublicKey( mServerECPointFormats, curve_params, point)); } public override byte[] GeneratePremasterSecret() { if (mAgreementCredentials != null) { return mAgreementCredentials.GenerateAgreement(mECAgreePublicKey); } if (mECAgreePrivateKey != null) { return TlsEccUtilities.CalculateECDHBasicAgreement(mECAgreePublicKey, mECAgreePrivateKey); } throw new TlsFatalAlert(AlertDescription.internal_error); } } } #endif #ifndef LEPTONICA_CCBORD_H #define LEPTONICA_CCBORD_H /* * ccbord.h * * CCBord: represents a single connected component * CCBorda: an array of CCBord */ /* Use in ccbaStepChainsToPixCoords() */ enum { CCB_LOCAL_COORDS = 1, CCB_GLOBAL_COORDS = 2 }; /* Use in ccbaGenerateSPGlobalLocs() */ enum { CCB_SAVE_ALL_PTS = 1, CCB_SAVE_TURNING_PTS = 2 }; /* CCBord contains: * * (1) a minimally-clipped bitmap of the component (pix), * (2) a boxa consisting of: * for the primary component: * (xul, yul) pixel location in global coords * (w, h) of the bitmap * for the hole components: * (x, y) in relative coordinates in primary component * (w, h) of the hole border (which is 2 pixels * larger in each direction than the hole itself) * (3) a pta ('start') of the initial border pixel location for each * closed curve, all in relative coordinates of the primary * component. This is given for the primary component, * followed by the hole components, if any. * (4) a refcount of the ccbord; used internally when a ccbord * is accessed from a ccborda (array of ccbord) * (5) a ptaa for the chain code for the border in relative * coordinates, where the first pta is the exterior border * and all other pta are for interior borders (holes) * (6) a ptaa for the global pixel loc rendition of the border, * where the first pta is the exterior border and all other * pta are for interior borders (holes). * This is derived from the local or step chain code. * (7) a numaa for the chain code for the border as orientation * directions between successive border pixels, where * the first numa is the exterior border and all other * numa are for interior borders (holes). This is derived * from the local chain code. The 8 directions are 0 - 7. * (8) a pta for a single chain for each c.c., comprised of outer * and hole borders, plus cut paths between them, all in * local coords. * (9) a pta for a single chain for each c.c., comprised of outer * and hole borders, plus cut paths between them, all in * global coords. */ struct CCBord { struct Pix *pix; /* component bitmap (min size) */ struct Boxa *boxa; /* regions of each closed curve */ struct Pta *

start; /* initial border pixel locations */ l_int32 refcount; /* number of handles; start at 1 */ struct Ptaa *local; /* ptaa of chain pixels (local) */ struct Ptaa *global; /* ptaa of chain pixels (global) */ struct Numaa *step; /* numaa of chain code (step dir) */ struct Pta *splocal; /* pta of single chain (local) */ struct Pta *spglobal; /* pta of single chain (global) */ }; typedef struct CCBord CCBORD; struct CCBorda { struct Pix *pix; /* input pix (may be null) */ l_int32 w; /* width of pix */ l_int32 h; /* height of pix */ l_int32 n; /* number of ccbord in ptr array */ l_int32 nalloc; /* number of ccbord ptrs allocated */ struct CCBord **ccb; /* ccb ptr array */ }; typedef struct CCBorda CCBORDA; #endif /* LEPTONICA_CCBORD_H */ module ZeroClipboard::AssetsLoader def zero_clipboard_load_base zc_include_js('clipboard.min') + zc_include_js('clipboard_helper') + zc_include_css('clipboard') end private def zc_include_js(js) rbk_include_js("clipboard/#{js}") end def zc_include_css(css) rbk_include_css("clipboard/#{css}") end end require 'formula' class ZshHistorySubstringSearch < Formula desc "A zsh port of Fish shell's history search" homepage 'https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search' url 'https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search/archive/v1.0.0.tar.gz' sha1 'c64cab22664fc62479ccf687ba55410177a3f5d6' def install inreplace "README.md", "source zsh-history", "source #{opt_prefix}/zsh-history" prefix.install Dir['*.zsh'] end def caveats; <<-EOS.undent For setup instructions: more "#{opt_prefix}/README.md" EOS end end const express = require('express') const app = express() const port = 3000 app.get('/', function(req,res) { res.send('Hello World!') }) app.listen(port, function() { console.log(`Example app listening on port ${port}!`) }) namespace Santase.Logic.GameMechanics { internal class RoundResult { public RoundResult(RoundPlayerInfo firstPlayer, RoundPlayerInfo secondPlayer) { this.FirstPlayer = firstPlayer; this.SecondPlayer = secondPlayer; } public RoundPlayerInfo FirstPlayer { get; } public RoundPlayerInfo SecondPlayer { get; } public PlayerPosition GameClosedBy { get { if (this.FirstPlayer.GameCloser) { return PlayerPosition.FirstPlayer; } if (this.SecondPlayer.GameCloser) { return PlayerPosition.SecondPlayer; } return PlayerPosition.NoOne; } } public PlayerPosition NoTricksPlayer { get { if (!this.FirstPlayer.HasAtLeastOneTrick) { return PlayerPosition.FirstPlayer; } if

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. The chapter about the strong convexity, generating sets, and bodies of constant width in Banach spaces is rewritten, some of the results are formaluted for any Banach space instead of R^n. R.N. Karasev. “On a conjecture of A. Bezdek”, Discrete and Computational Geometry, 27:3, 2002, 419-439. In this paper I prove some generalizations of the following well-known problem (as far as I known, by Proizvolov). Let P be a convex n-gon in the plane, and suppose n points inside P are given. Then there exists a bijection between the points and the edges of P, such that all the corresponding triangles (formed by a point and its respective edge) cover P. There is another version, when triangles are required to be pairwise disjoint, instead of covering P. The problem has generalizations to higher dimensions. The question of A. Bezdek was: what is changed if the n points are not required to be inside P. This paper answers this question, along with some other results. R.N. Karasev. “On an analogue of the Caratheodory theorem for M-strongly convex sets” (In Russian), Modelirovaniye i Analiz Informatsionnyh Sistem, 8:2, 2001, 17-22. In this paper the notion of M-strongly convex set is studied. Let M be a closed convex set, then any intersection of a family of translates of M is called M-strongly convex set. It was shown before that M-strongly convex sets behave well, if the set M is generating (see above). In particular, in this paper an analogue of the Caratheodory theorem is established for M-strong covexity. It should be mentioned, that in this paper a lemma was proved, that could be of its own interest. Let A and B be convex compact sets in R^n, then the set difference of A and A+B (here is the Minkowski sum) is a contractible set. R.N. Karasev. “On the characterization of generating sets” (In Russian), Modelirovaniye i Analiz Informatsionnyh Sistem, 8:2, 2001, 3-9. In this paper the following type of closed convex sets is studied. The closed convex set M is called "generating" if any intersection of a finite number of translates of M is a summand of M w.r.t. the Minkowski sum. There is a large number of examples of generating sets, unit balls are generating, and any Cartesian product of generating sets is again generating. The main result of this paper claims that in the definition of generating sets it suffices to consider intersections of two translates instead of arbitrary number of translates. R.N. Karasev. “Transversals for the families of translates of a two dimensional convex compact set”, Discrete and Computational Geometry, 24:2/3, 2000, 345–353. In this paper a conjecture of Grunbaum is proved. Consider a family F of translates of a convex compact set in the plane, such that every two members of the family have a common point. Then the family F can be pierced by three points. The term "pierced" means that a set T of three points exists, such that any set K of the family F has non-empty intersection with T. In general, a point set, that "pierces" a family of sets F is called a "transversal" of F, the minimal size of a transversal for F is called the "piercing number" of F. The results were also published in Russian in Proceedings of the seminars at St.-Petersburg Department of the Mathematical Institute. Acting general manager Daniel Smee, left, and mayor Ben Shaw during last night's council meeting. NEGOTIATIONS for the use of buildings at Willow Court will continue despite concerns over the Derwent Valley Council’s handling of the process. Last night’s council meeting faced a second round of public questions about the way it conducted an expression of interest process in the use of buildings it owns on the former convict hospital site in central New Norfolk. After receiving advice that a probity inquiry had been launched into the EOI process, last month’s council meeting decided to lease three buildings to the New Norfolk Distillery and to start discussions with the Salamanca

. The chapter about the strong convexity, generating sets, and bodies of constant width in Banach spaces is rewritten, some of the results are formaluted for any Banach space instead of R^n. R.N. Karasev. “On a conjecture of A. Bezdek”, Discrete and Computational Geometry, 27:3, 2002, 419-439. In this paper I prove some generalizations of the following well-known problem (as far as I known, by Proizvolov). Let P be a convex n-gon in the plane, and suppose n points inside P are given. Then there exists a bijection between the points and the edges of P, such that all the corresponding triangles (formed by a point and its respective edge) cover P. There is another version, when triangles are required to be pairwise disjoint, instead of covering P. The problem has generalizations to higher dimensions. The question of A. Bezdek was: what is changed if the n points are not required to be inside P. This paper answers this question, along with some other results. R.N. Karasev. “On an analogue of the Caratheodory theorem for M-strongly convex sets” (In Russian), Modelirovaniye i Analiz Informatsionnyh Sistem, 8:2, 2001, 17-22. In this paper the notion of M-strongly convex set is studied. Let M be a closed convex set, then any intersection of a family of translates of M is called M-strongly convex set. It was shown before that M-strongly convex sets behave well, if the set M is generating (see above). In particular, in this paper an analogue of the Caratheodory theorem is established for M-strong covexity. It should be mentioned, that in this paper a lemma was proved, that could be of its own interest. Let A and B be convex compact sets in R^n, then the set difference of A and A+B (here is the Minkowski sum) is a contractible set. R.N. Karasev. “On the characterization of generating sets” (In Russian), Modelirovaniye i Analiz Informatsionnyh Sistem, 8:2, 2001, 3-9. In this paper the following type of closed convex sets is studied. The closed convex set M is called "generating" if any intersection of a finite number of translates of M is a summand of M w.r.t. the Minkowski sum. There is a large number of examples of generating sets, unit balls are generating, and any Cartesian product of generating sets is again generating. The main result of this paper claims that in the definition of generating sets it suffices to consider intersections of two translates instead of arbitrary number of translates. R.N. Karasev. “Transversals for the families of translates of a two dimensional convex compact set”, Discrete and Computational Geometry, 24:2/3, 2000, 345–353. In this paper a conjecture of Grunbaum is proved. Consider a family F of translates of a convex compact set in the plane, such that every two members of the family have a common point. Then the family F can be pierced by three points. The term "pierced" means that a set T of three points exists, such that any set K of the family F has non-empty intersection with T. In general, a point set, that "pierces" a family of sets F is called a "transversal" of F, the minimal size of a transversal for F is called the "piercing number" of F. The results were also published in Russian in Proceedings of the seminars at St.-Petersburg Department of the Mathematical Institute. Acting general manager Daniel Smee, left, and mayor Ben Shaw during last night's council meeting. NEGOTIATIONS for the use of buildings at Willow Court will continue despite concerns over the Derwent Valley Council’s handling of the process. Last night’s council meeting faced a second round of public questions about the way it conducted an expression of interest process in the use of buildings it owns on the former convict hospital site in central New Norfolk. After receiving advice that a probity inquiry had been launched into the EOI process, last month’s council meeting decided to lease three buildings to the New Norfolk Distillery and to start discussions with the Salamanca

Arts Centre about two others for a community arts hub. Responding to public questions last night, acting general manager Daniel Smee said there was no reason why those negotiations should not proceed at the same time as a probity audit. “The process of a probity review does not preclude the ongoing assessment and negotiations that are under way,” Mr Smee said. “The process of review is looking at what's occurred in the past and there's been no decision of council to cease the ongoing negotiations. Questioners included former councillor and Friends of Willow Court secretary Anne Salt, who resigned her seat on council the morning after last month’s council meeting. That meeting saw the council decide not to proceed with the Friends of Willow Court's EOI for the site, while opting to progress other proposals received after the closing date. In response to public questions at that meeting, general manager Greg Winton, now on leave, said all four EOIs had been assessed on their merits but he was aware of speculation that one had received preferential treatment. “I am commissioning a probity report to respond to those assertions,” Mr Winton said. Last night’s meeting also heard about advice that a decision to have councillors involved in the discussions for the leasing of council-owned sections of Willow Court could comprise the final decision-making process and expose the council to risk. “The mayor has advised he will speak with other elected members regarding this and council officers will continue discussions with proponents,” Mr Smee said in a report. Tony Nicholson asking a question about Willow Court at last month's meeting. Former mayor Tony Nicholson took up this issue during question time last night, asking why the council had gone ahead with its decision last month when the Local Government Act had clear guidelines on the conduct of councillors and their decision-making role. "Why did the mayor have to receive advice that such a decision may compromise the decision-making process and expose the council to risk?" asked Mr Nicholson, who is deputy chairman of the Friends of Willow Court. Mr Smee said it was not unusual for councils to appoint elected members to subcommittees or panels in relation to a matter that's before council. "So what has occurred is certainly not something that is out of the ordinary, but in terms of best practice the advice that has been received is that because of the fact that council is to make a final decision on this, having elected members involved is not best practice in terms of good governance," Mr Smee said. Mr Smee said he could understand why it had been decided to include councillors in the lease negotiations for the buildings at Willow Court. "Subsequently the advice has been received and those councillors have withdrawn from the process. What occurred is certainly not something that should have been known to councillors that this is something that is an absolute 'no-no'. I can understand why that decision was made, similarly I can understand why the advice has been provided." Posted by Ed at 1:07 PM Erin July 23, 2019 at 7:13 AM This is what happens when you vote for your mate.. Instead of Intellectually capable community members. Genealogy of Thomas Pope (1608-1883) and his descendants ...1840, Electa Leonard, daughter of William and Mary (Leonard) Wainwright (born Dec. 19, 1803, died in Elizabeth, N. J., Feb.... (Union township, N. J., New Jersey, United States - 1840) Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy (Volume copy 2) ...1849, the son of Commander Richard Wainwright, who died on the Mississippi in 1862 while in command of Farragut's flagship,... (Washington, D. C., Maryland, United States - 1862) Biographical sketches of graduates of Harvard university, in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Volume 3) ...August, 1664, was son of Francis Wainwright, of Ipswich, a merchant of distinction, whose wife was Philippa. He was fitted... (Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom - 1664) The New England historical and genealogical register (Volume vol 3) ...John Wainwright, sons of Col. John Wainwright, the wealthiest and most distinguished merchant of

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had given the “inside” information to clients who made profits from the information, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the tippee could not be held liable under the federal securities laws—for the simple reason that the insider from whom he received the information was not releasing the information for an improper purpose (a personal benefit), but rather for the purpose of exposing the fraud. The Supreme Court ruled that the tippee could not have been aiding and abetting a securities law violation committed by the insider—for the simple reason that no securities law violation had been committed by the insider. In Dirks, the Supreme Court also defined the concept of “constructive insiders,” who are lawyers, investment bankers and others who receive confidential information from a corporation while providing services to the corporation. Constructive insiders are also liable for insider trading violations if the corporation expects the information to remain confidential, since they acquire the fiduciary duties of the true insider. The next expansion of insider trading liability came in SEC vs. Materia 745 F.2d 197 (2d Cir. 1984), the case that first introduced the misappropriation theory of liability for insider trading. Materia, a financial printing firm proofreader, and clearly not an insider by any definition, was found to have determined the identity of takeover targets based on proofreading tender offer documents during his employment. After a two-week trial, the district court found him liable for insider trading, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed holding that the theft of information from an employer, and the use of that information to purchase or sell securities in another entity, constituted a fraud in connection with the purchase or sale of a securities. The misappropriation theory of insider trading was born, and liability further expanded to encompass a larger group of outsiders. In United States v. Carpenter (1986) the U.S. Supreme Court cited an earlier ruling while unanimously upholding mail and wire fraud convictions for a defendant who received his information from a journalist rather than from the company itself. The journalist R. Foster Winans was also convicted, on the grounds that he had misappropriated information belonging to his employer, the Wall Street Journal. In that widely publicized case, Winans traded in advance of “Heard on the Street” columns appearing in the Journal.The Court stated in Carpenter: “It is well established, as a general proposition, that a person who acquires special knowledge or information by virtue of a confidential or fiduciary relationship with another is not free to exploit that knowledge or information for his own personal benefit but must account to his principal for any profits derived therefrom.” However, in upholding the securities fraud (insider trading) convictions, the justices were evenly split. In 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted the misappropriation theory of insider trading in United States v. O'Hagan, 521 U.S. 642, 655 (1997). O'Hagan was a partner in a law firm representing Grand Metropolitan, while it was considering a tender offer for Pillsbury Company. O'Hagan used this inside information by buying call options on Pillsbury stock, resulting in profits of over \$4.3 million. O'Hagan claimed that neither he nor his firm owed a fiduciary duty to Pillsbury, so he did not commit fraud by purchasing Pillsbury options.The Court rejected O'Hagan's arguments and upheld his conviction. The “misappropriation theory” holds that a person commits fraud “in connection with” a securities transaction and thereby violates 10(b) and Rule 10b-5, when he misappropriates confidential information for securities trading purposes, in breach of a duty owed to the source of the information. Under this theory, a fiduciary's undisclosed, self-serving use of a principal's information to purchase or sell securities, in breach of a duty of loyalty and confidentiality, defrauds the principal of the exclusive use of the information. In lieu of premising liability on a fiduciary relationship between company insider and purchaser or seller of the company's stock, the misappropriation theory prem

had given the “inside” information to clients who made profits from the information, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the tippee could not be held liable under the federal securities laws—for the simple reason that the insider from whom he received the information was not releasing the information for an improper purpose (a personal benefit), but rather for the purpose of exposing the fraud. The Supreme Court ruled that the tippee could not have been aiding and abetting a securities law violation committed by the insider—for the simple reason that no securities law violation had been committed by the insider. In Dirks, the Supreme Court also defined the concept of “constructive insiders,” who are lawyers, investment bankers and others who receive confidential information from a corporation while providing services to the corporation. Constructive insiders are also liable for insider trading violations if the corporation expects the information to remain confidential, since they acquire the fiduciary duties of the true insider. The next expansion of insider trading liability came in SEC vs. Materia 745 F.2d 197 (2d Cir. 1984), the case that first introduced the misappropriation theory of liability for insider trading. Materia, a financial printing firm proofreader, and clearly not an insider by any definition, was found to have determined the identity of takeover targets based on proofreading tender offer documents during his employment. After a two-week trial, the district court found him liable for insider trading, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed holding that the theft of information from an employer, and the use of that information to purchase or sell securities in another entity, constituted a fraud in connection with the purchase or sale of a securities. The misappropriation theory of insider trading was born, and liability further expanded to encompass a larger group of outsiders. In United States v. Carpenter (1986) the U.S. Supreme Court cited an earlier ruling while unanimously upholding mail and wire fraud convictions for a defendant who received his information from a journalist rather than from the company itself. The journalist R. Foster Winans was also convicted, on the grounds that he had misappropriated information belonging to his employer, the Wall Street Journal. In that widely publicized case, Winans traded in advance of “Heard on the Street” columns appearing in the Journal.The Court stated in Carpenter: “It is well established, as a general proposition, that a person who acquires special knowledge or information by virtue of a confidential or fiduciary relationship with another is not free to exploit that knowledge or information for his own personal benefit but must account to his principal for any profits derived therefrom.” However, in upholding the securities fraud (insider trading) convictions, the justices were evenly split. In 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted the misappropriation theory of insider trading in United States v. O'Hagan, 521 U.S. 642, 655 (1997). O'Hagan was a partner in a law firm representing Grand Metropolitan, while it was considering a tender offer for Pillsbury Company. O'Hagan used this inside information by buying call options on Pillsbury stock, resulting in profits of over \$4.3 million. O'Hagan claimed that neither he nor his firm owed a fiduciary duty to Pillsbury, so he did not commit fraud by purchasing Pillsbury options.The Court rejected O'Hagan's arguments and upheld his conviction. The “misappropriation theory” holds that a person commits fraud “in connection with” a securities transaction and thereby violates 10(b) and Rule 10b-5, when he misappropriates confidential information for securities trading purposes, in breach of a duty owed to the source of the information. Under this theory, a fiduciary's undisclosed, self-serving use of a principal's information to purchase or sell securities, in breach of a duty of loyalty and confidentiality, defrauds the principal of the exclusive use of the information. In lieu of premising liability on a fiduciary relationship between company insider and purchaser or seller of the company's stock, the misappropriation theory prem

ises liability on a fiduciary-turned-trader's deception of those who entrusted him with access to confidential information. The Court specifically recognized that a corporation's information is its property: “A company's confidential information ... qualifies as property to which the company has a right of exclusive use. The undisclosed misappropriation of such information in violation of a fiduciary duty ... constitutes fraud akin to embezzlement – the fraudulent appropriation to one's own use of the money or goods entrusted to one's care by another.” In 2000, the SEC enacted SEC Rule 10b5-1, which defined trading “on the basis of” inside information as any time a person trades while aware of material nonpublic information. It is no longer a defense for one to say that one would have made the trade anyway. The rule also created an affirmative defense for pre-planned trades. In 2014, in the case of United States v. Newman, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit cited the Supreme Court's decision in Dirks, and ruled that for a “tippee” (a person who used information they received from an insider) to be guilty of insider trading, the tippee must have been aware not only that the information was insider information, but must also have been aware that the insider released the information for an improper purpose (such as a personal benefit). The Court concluded that the insider's breach of a fiduciary duty not to release confidential information—in the absence of an improper purpose on the part of the insider—is not enough to impose criminal liability on either the insider or the tippee.In 2016, in the case of Salman v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the benefit a tipper must receive as predicate for an insider-trader prosecution of a tippee need not be pecuniary, and that giving a 'gift' of a tip to a family member is presumptively an act for the personal though intangible benefit of the tipper. By members of Congress Members of the US Congress are exempt from the laws that ban insider trading. Because they generally do not have a confidential relationship with the source of the information they receive, however, they do not meet the usual definition of an “insider.” House of Representatives rules may however consider congressional insider trading unethical. A 2004 study found that stock sales and purchases by Senators outperformed the market by 12.3% per year. Peter Schweizer points out several examples of insider trading by members of Congress, including action taken by Spencer Bachus following a private, behind-the-doors meeting on the evening of September 18, 2008 when Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke informed members of Congress about the imminent financial crisis, Bachus then shorted stocks the next morning and cashed in his profits within a week. Also attending the same meeting were Senator Dick Durbin and John Boehner; the same day (trade effective the next day), Durbin sold mutual-fund shares worth \$42,696, and reinvested it all with Warren Buffett. Also the same day (trade effective the next day), Congressman Boehner cashed out of an equity mutual fund.In May 2007, a bill entitled the “Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, or STOCK Act” was introduced that would hold congressional and federal employees liable for stock trades they made using information they gained through their jobs and also regulate analysts or “Political Intelligence” firms that research government activities. The 2012 STOCK Act was passed on April 4, 2012. With Congress-sourced information In 2014, federal prosecutors issued a subpoena to the House Ways and Means committee and Brian Sutter, staff director of its health-care sub-committee, relative to a price move in stocks just prior to the passage of a law favorable to the companies involved. An e-mail was sent out by a “Washington-based policy-research firm that predicted the change [in the law] for its Wall Street clients. That alert, in turn, was based in part on information provided to the firm by a former congressional health-care aide turned lobbyist, according to emails reviewed

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h s , s o r t i n g , s e a r c h i n g , and mass s t o r a g e f i l e s . Physical use of t h e computer w i l l be minimal. Knowledge o f a programming language i s n o t required. Prerequisites: S t u d e n t should be c o m f o r t a b l e w i t h t h e m a n i p u l a t i o n of a b s t r a c t symbols a t a l e v e l which should be a t t a i n e d a f t e r taking f i r s t year calculus o r equivalent course i n the Natural Sciences. Consultation with t h e i n s t r u c t o r i s recommended p r i o r t o r e g i s t r a t i o n . D i s t r i b u t i o n : None Time: 11 Room: S c i e n c e H a l l 205 The B a s i c -- Concepts of Mathematics: The D e m y s t i f i c a t i o n o f Elementary Mathematics Instructor: Beverly Durkee - f o r t h o s e who t h i n k t h e y d o n ' t l i k e i t , who Mathematics made s i m p l e a r e a f r a i d of i t , o r who a r e m y s t i f i e d by i t , b u t who must g e a r up t o t e a c h i t t o elementary s c h o o l c h i l d r e n . The b a s i c s of a r i t h m e t i c and geometry o f t h e modern elementary s c h o o l w i l l be s t u d i e d P r e r e q u i s i t e s : None Distribution: None Time: I Room: S c i e n c e H a l l 205 Music I n t r o d u c t i o n t o Music Therapy Instructor: - Roberta M e t z l e r General overview of t h e f i e l d of music t h e r a p y where i t i s u s e d , with whom, and how. I n c l u d e s f i e l d t r i p s t o music t h e r a p y s i t e s i n Minnesota. Recommended f o r a l l s t u d e n t s p l a n n i n g t o major i n m u s i c t h e r a p y , and t h o s e i n t e r e s t e d i n g e n e r a l background i n f o r m a t i o n of t h e u s e of music f o r t h e r a p e u t i c r e a s o n s . Prerequisites: None D i s t r i b u t i o n : None Time: I Room: Music 120 Opera Opera I n s t r u c t o r s : Steve Gabrielsen James Johnson The p r o d u c t i o n of two o p e r a s i n c l u d i n g s i n g i n g , d a n c i n g , a c t i n g , s t a g e d e s i g n , choreography. l i g h t i n g and promotion. A week o f e v e n i n g performances. Costumes s u p p l i e d by s t u d e n t s . A u d i t i o n s w i l l be announced i n F a l l ' 7 6 . P r e r e q u i s i t e s : Permission of i n s t r u c t o r Distribution: Fine A r t s Time: I and I1 Room: Music Auditorium P i a n o Teaching Methods - I n s t r u c t o r : Diana Metzker A s t u d y o f t h e m a t e r i a l s and t e c h n i q u e s used i n t e a c h i n g piano t o t h e young s t u d e n t . No p r e v i o u s t e a c h i

h s , s o r t i n g , s e a r c h i n g , and mass s t o r a g e f i l e s . Physical use of t h e computer w i l l be minimal. Knowledge o f a programming language i s n o t required. Prerequisites: S t u d e n t should be c o m f o r t a b l e w i t h t h e m a n i p u l a t i o n of a b s t r a c t symbols a t a l e v e l which should be a t t a i n e d a f t e r taking f i r s t year calculus o r equivalent course i n the Natural Sciences. Consultation with t h e i n s t r u c t o r i s recommended p r i o r t o r e g i s t r a t i o n . D i s t r i b u t i o n : None Time: 11 Room: S c i e n c e H a l l 205 The B a s i c -- Concepts of Mathematics: The D e m y s t i f i c a t i o n o f Elementary Mathematics Instructor: Beverly Durkee - f o r t h o s e who t h i n k t h e y d o n ' t l i k e i t , who Mathematics made s i m p l e a r e a f r a i d of i t , o r who a r e m y s t i f i e d by i t , b u t who must g e a r up t o t e a c h i t t o elementary s c h o o l c h i l d r e n . The b a s i c s of a r i t h m e t i c and geometry o f t h e modern elementary s c h o o l w i l l be s t u d i e d P r e r e q u i s i t e s : None Distribution: None Time: I Room: S c i e n c e H a l l 205 Music I n t r o d u c t i o n t o Music Therapy Instructor: - Roberta M e t z l e r General overview of t h e f i e l d of music t h e r a p y where i t i s u s e d , with whom, and how. I n c l u d e s f i e l d t r i p s t o music t h e r a p y s i t e s i n Minnesota. Recommended f o r a l l s t u d e n t s p l a n n i n g t o major i n m u s i c t h e r a p y , and t h o s e i n t e r e s t e d i n g e n e r a l background i n f o r m a t i o n of t h e u s e of music f o r t h e r a p e u t i c r e a s o n s . Prerequisites: None D i s t r i b u t i o n : None Time: I Room: Music 120 Opera Opera I n s t r u c t o r s : Steve Gabrielsen James Johnson The p r o d u c t i o n of two o p e r a s i n c l u d i n g s i n g i n g , d a n c i n g , a c t i n g , s t a g e d e s i g n , choreography. l i g h t i n g and promotion. A week o f e v e n i n g performances. Costumes s u p p l i e d by s t u d e n t s . A u d i t i o n s w i l l be announced i n F a l l ' 7 6 . P r e r e q u i s i t e s : Permission of i n s t r u c t o r Distribution: Fine A r t s Time: I and I1 Room: Music Auditorium P i a n o Teaching Methods - I n s t r u c t o r : Diana Metzker A s t u d y o f t h e m a t e r i a l s and t e c h n i q u e s used i n t e a c h i n g piano t o t h e young s t u d e n t . No p r e v i o u s t e a c h i

n g e x p e r i e n c e r e q u i r e d but an average Class w i l l i n v o l v e p i a n o t e c h n i q u e and keyboard f a c i l i t y i s n e c e s s a r y . work w i t h p i a n o l a b s , o b s e r v a t i o n , t e a c h i n g and d i s c u s s i o n w i t h prominent p i a n o t e a c h e r s . P r e r e q u i s i t e s : Average piano t e c h n i q u e and keyhoard F a c i l i t y D i s t r i b u t i o n : None Time: I Room: Music 1 0 Make Your Own Music ---- Instructor: Robert Karlen O f f e r s an o p p o r t u n i t y f o r t h e i n t e r e s t e d s t u d e n t t o l e a r n about t r a d i t i o n a l and n o n - t r a d i t i o n a l systems and i n t h e c r e a t i o n of o r i g i n a l works of m u s i c ; and t o t r y h i s hand a t u s i n g any o f t h e s e systems i n c r e a t i n g h i s l h e r own compositions. S e r i a l , a l e a t o r y , and e l e c t r o n i c t e c h n i q u e s w i l l be i n c l u d e d . Prerequisites: Distribution: Open t o music majors a s an upper d i v i s i o n c o u r s e , and t o s t u d e n t s with l i t t l e o r no t r a i n i n g i n music a s a lower d i v i s i o n course. None Time: I1 Room: Music 20 Trends, I s s u e s , and Leadership & Nursing I n s t r u c t o r s : Pamela Larson Donna P e t e r s o n A course designed to i n v e s t i g a t e the current leadership responsibi i t i e s of the p r o f e s s i o n a l n u r s e and t h e t r e n d s and i s s u e s e v o l v i n g i n contemporary n u r s i n g p r a c t i c e . Prerequisites : Admission t o t h e Augsburg n u r s i n g program o r permission of i n s t r u c t o r . Distribution : None Time: I Room: F a i r v i e w School of Nursing Philosophy Topics i n S c i e n c e and R e l i g i o n : Or Adam Had Atoms Instructor: Kenneth B a i l e y T h i s c o u r s e w i l l c o n s i d e r some of t h e a r e a s of c o n f l i c t , whether r e a l o r o t h e r w i s e , between s c i e n t i f i c and r e l i g i o u s t h o u g h t . I t w i l l be l a r g e l y a d i s c u s s i o n c o u r s e , based upon a s s i g n e d r e a d i n g s . Chiefly, we w i l l be concerned w i t h t h e q u e s t i o n o f whether a r e l i g i o u s p o i n t of view can r e a s o n a b l y be m a i n t a i n e d i n a s c i e n t i f i c m i l i e u , and, i f s o , what f o r m ( s ) i t might t a k e . Prerequisites: Distribution: None Humanities Time: I1 Room: Old Main 25 Meister --- E c k h a r t a s M y s t i c

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core regime which will apply to probably quite a lot of the delegates on the call today. This sets out, again, trying to be proportionate, they have actually just selected effectively six governing and required functions. Some of those will be familiar to you. The interesting one is they've called specifically out the chair of SMF 9, again, relating back to my previous comments about how important the role of the chair actually is. Picking up all the executive directors as well. There's a nod very much the fact that a number of the firms within the extended regime are partnerships, so we have a new partner SMF as well, then typically your compliance and money laundry reporting officer. Then the one limited scope function that is required, i.e., for the vast majority of consumer credit firms is SMF 29. The next slide if I may please. The enhanced regime. This really does reflect what the regime we have in place for banks and building societies at the moment. As you'll see from the slide, and I'm not going to go through all of it there, you're going to have to have a responsibilities map, handover procedures, and I'll come back to those a little bit later. You'll have a variety of different other senior managers with their prescribed responsibilities. The key for the regulator with these enhanced firms, as Greg says, about 350 firms will be caught by this is that all areas of the business are covered. That's why you've got this overall responsibility, that senior management function as well to cover things such as HR, IT operations, although they are also going to be introducing a new SMF 24 specifically for operations and technology as well. The types of firm that are caught by the enhanced regime are the large firms, those effectively significant firms that could cause damage to a significant number of customers, and you've got them set out there in terms of firms with assets over 50 billion, intermediaries with more than 35 million in revenue, et cetera. The enhanced regime will not apply to limited-scope firms, or importantly to overseas branches as well, and in that case the overall responsibility requirement will not apply to those firms. If we could turn to the next slide please. The six criteria for assessing whether a firm will be in their enhanced regime. By the way, this is by entity only, so if you are a group with a variety of different firms all of which have a certain level, for instance, of funds under management, it is only if one of those entities actually exceeds and goes over the criteria that they will be caught by the enhanced regime. For group firms you could well have a scenario where in fact you'd have a firm that is in the enhanced regime, a firm that is in the core regime, and even potentially a firm that's in the limited scope in certain sort of conglomerate organizations. There we've got the various criteria, what happens if a firm actually migrates to the new regime in terms of the enhanced regime, and if they do but then they cease to meet that criteria they will remain within a year. We have asked the regulator whether or not firms could opt up, in fact, to have the enhanced regime applying to themselves if they're close to that criteria. At the moment the regulator is quite clear they'd like certainly firms to be caught where that criteria is actually breached. From that perspective we're unlikely to see the regulator encouraging firms to become enhanced albeit determined by your governance structure. It may well be that you do look at that more closely. The next slide please. All we have here, and I again am not going to go through these in detail, but these are the various functions that also apply in addition to those first ones. I've talked to the core regime there. As you will see they're calling out specific chairs of risk committees, audit committees, et cetera. SMF 7 just a note there, Greg mentioned about territorial aspects. This is the SMF that picks up, for instance, the overseas-based individual that is involved in the day-to-day running of the UK entity. Next slide please. As Greg mentioned earlier, there are additional prescribed responsibilities adding on to those ones we covered under the core regime, and these just hone in a little further around specific functions, whether it be internal audit, whether it be compliance, whether it be the risk function. Understandably, these are set for those larger firms that are impacted in the enhanced regime. Next slide please. Just

core regime which will apply to probably quite a lot of the delegates on the call today. This sets out, again, trying to be proportionate, they have actually just selected effectively six governing and required functions. Some of those will be familiar to you. The interesting one is they've called specifically out the chair of SMF 9, again, relating back to my previous comments about how important the role of the chair actually is. Picking up all the executive directors as well. There's a nod very much the fact that a number of the firms within the extended regime are partnerships, so we have a new partner SMF as well, then typically your compliance and money laundry reporting officer. Then the one limited scope function that is required, i.e., for the vast majority of consumer credit firms is SMF 29. The next slide if I may please. The enhanced regime. This really does reflect what the regime we have in place for banks and building societies at the moment. As you'll see from the slide, and I'm not going to go through all of it there, you're going to have to have a responsibilities map, handover procedures, and I'll come back to those a little bit later. You'll have a variety of different other senior managers with their prescribed responsibilities. The key for the regulator with these enhanced firms, as Greg says, about 350 firms will be caught by this is that all areas of the business are covered. That's why you've got this overall responsibility, that senior management function as well to cover things such as HR, IT operations, although they are also going to be introducing a new SMF 24 specifically for operations and technology as well. The types of firm that are caught by the enhanced regime are the large firms, those effectively significant firms that could cause damage to a significant number of customers, and you've got them set out there in terms of firms with assets over 50 billion, intermediaries with more than 35 million in revenue, et cetera. The enhanced regime will not apply to limited-scope firms, or importantly to overseas branches as well, and in that case the overall responsibility requirement will not apply to those firms. If we could turn to the next slide please. The six criteria for assessing whether a firm will be in their enhanced regime. By the way, this is by entity only, so if you are a group with a variety of different firms all of which have a certain level, for instance, of funds under management, it is only if one of those entities actually exceeds and goes over the criteria that they will be caught by the enhanced regime. For group firms you could well have a scenario where in fact you'd have a firm that is in the enhanced regime, a firm that is in the core regime, and even potentially a firm that's in the limited scope in certain sort of conglomerate organizations. There we've got the various criteria, what happens if a firm actually migrates to the new regime in terms of the enhanced regime, and if they do but then they cease to meet that criteria they will remain within a year. We have asked the regulator whether or not firms could opt up, in fact, to have the enhanced regime applying to themselves if they're close to that criteria. At the moment the regulator is quite clear they'd like certainly firms to be caught where that criteria is actually breached. From that perspective we're unlikely to see the regulator encouraging firms to become enhanced albeit determined by your governance structure. It may well be that you do look at that more closely. The next slide please. All we have here, and I again am not going to go through these in detail, but these are the various functions that also apply in addition to those first ones. I've talked to the core regime there. As you will see they're calling out specific chairs of risk committees, audit committees, et cetera. SMF 7 just a note there, Greg mentioned about territorial aspects. This is the SMF that picks up, for instance, the overseas-based individual that is involved in the day-to-day running of the UK entity. Next slide please. As Greg mentioned earlier, there are additional prescribed responsibilities adding on to those ones we covered under the core regime, and these just hone in a little further around specific functions, whether it be internal audit, whether it be compliance, whether it be the risk function. Understandably, these are set for those larger firms that are impacted in the enhanced regime. Next slide please. Just

in summary on the impact on incoming UK branches. Again, very similar to the regime that exists today where you just have a requirement for two senior management functions, the 21 which is effectively the chief executive, and in addition to that the money laundering reporting officer. It may well be though that you appoint a number of SMF 21s determined by size if you are an incoming branch. Next slide please. For the non-EEA branches, again, a similar regime to the one that exists at present where you have a wider scope of senior management functions and you do have prescribed responsibilities as set out there. Again, very much reflecting what we have in the existing environment. Next slide. Interestingly as part and parcel of the consultation the regulator took the opportunity to just try and, shall we say, tweak a few things that perhaps they hadn't thought about first time around, one of which being a responsibility for conduct rules. Interestingly enough, when I was at a session with the regulator not so long ago they actually stressed very importantly how they're judging the conduct rules and how firms actually implement them, the training arrangements, that they're not just a off-the-shelf arrangement, that it does reflect individual's roles and responsibilities as well. That's quite an interesting aspect there. The 12 week rule as well, this is where there is an unforeseen circumstance. Again, that rule is going to be covered into the new regime as well. I've already made reference to SMF 27 around partnerships, because that's going to apply to banks as well, because actually the regulator realized there are a number of banks that are in fact partnerships. That has been quite a run through what we have in terms of the regime. We deliberately put quite a lot of information on those slides for you to be able to look back on for information. We're going to touch in a moment on implementing the regime in the final 10 minutes. Just a point here in terms of some of the key supervisory areas that we've been considering over the course of the last 18 months or so. Talked about responsibilities maps. Firms have been reassessing those, making sure they have got good coverage, changing them as and when roles and responsibilities do change or new people come in. Similarly as we go round, statements of responsibility as well. Greg mentioned about the 300 words, very key in fact from the regulator's perspective that you are clear and concise and that you call out perhaps particular responsibilities, particular programs that you are responsible for. For instance, if it's your role to implement or to be responsible for the implementation of GDPR, then they'd expect that to be covered. Fit and properness, we've touched on. There's a couple of more things I'll come back to on that. Whistle blowing has certainly been an issue whereby we've seen firms spending time on their training, appointing a whistle blowing champion, getting a culture of speaking up, I think, is where the regulator's looking for. Handovers, firms actually just making sure that there is a clear handover process. Some senior managers are using it as an opportunity to have a living will to keep track of how their roles and responsibilities are going. We've touched on references and Greg is going to cover, now, the delegation area, so if we could have this next slide please. Yes, thanks Simon. Just very briefly we wanted to highlight this, because it really is the newest rule of the nine, the five baseline, the four senior manager conduct rules. This is probably the most significant development in terms of a new rule. It obviously applies just to senior managers and imposes a requirement they take reasonable steps to ensure that any delegation of their responsibility is to an appropriate person and that they oversee the discharge of the delegated responsibility effectively. This, as I had mentioned earlier, has always been a non-binding guidance, if you like, under the APER code of practice, but it is now a mandatory rule, because it's really part and parcel of this new accountability framework, but where senior managers, as they're often required to do, delegate the performance of their responsibilities to other individuals it's important to ensure that that is a delegation and not an abrogation. There's a wealth of guidance about what compliance with this rule looks like, and it emphasizes the fact that while you can delegate performance, you cannot delegate responsibility or accountability and that you need to supervise and monitor adequately the performance of

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for, manage, and minimize the damage resulting from extreme weather. The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). We also would like to thank Roger Fortier for technical support on this project. Agricultural Economics Research, 43(4), p. 18-25. King B.A. and Stark J.C., 1997. Potato irrigation management. In: University of Idaho Cooperative Extension System BUL-789. Lawford R.G., 1992. Research implications of the 1988 Canadian Prairie provinces drought. In: Natural Hazards, 6, p. 109-129. response of potatoes. In: 3rd Annual Manitoba Agronomists Conference, Winnipeg (MB), 10-11 December 2002, p. 172-178. http://www.umanitoba.ca/afs/agronomists_conf/2002/pdf/shaykewich.pdf. Statistics Canada, 2010. CANSIM-Crops and horticulture. http://estat.statcan.ca/cgi- win/cnsmcgi.pgm?LANG=E&C2DB=EST&ROOTDIR=ESTAT/&ResultTemplate=ESTAT/CII_FLst&SrchVer=2&ChunkSize=50&CIITables=2024. Accessed 2 February 2010. Tyrchniewicz A. and Yusishen B., 2000. Agriculture and Climate Change: Workshop Report, 23 March 2000. International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 15 p. Wilcox D., 2006. Manitoba not yielding to climate change? In: Manitoba Agronomists Conference 2006 Proceedings, 12-13 December 2006. Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Manitoba. Dr Mark Cresswell Impacts: Extreme Weather 69EG6517 Impacts & Models of Climate Change. Meet the next great gonzo engineering project: A 20-mile Red Sea-spanning bridge connecting Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The bridge has been spoken about for years and multiple attempts to begin work on it have fallen through; overcoming the odds now will be a feat of both political finesse and engineering. Post-revolution Egypt is reportedly about to embark on an audacious joint construction project with Saudi Arabia: A bridge over the Red Sea that would link the two country’s roads and railways. The bridge is slotted to take the form of a series of suspension spans and causeways on the lines of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Although the bridge is not expected to interfere with shipping, nearby Israel and Jordan are livid that construction could potentially hurt their geopolitical position–and the Egyptian public is worried the crossing is a sign of increased Saudi influence. The proposed 20-mile bridge would be built over the Red Sea at the Straits of Tiran, a series of narrow sea passages between Egypt and Saudi Arabia located near some of the world’s best scuba diving. However, the Straits of Tiran are also a highly strategic waterway–both Jordan’s lone seaport of Aqaba and Israel’s only Red Sea port, Eilat, send all their cargo through the straits. United Nations peacekeepers actively patrol the Straits of Tiran to guarantee freedom of navigation. According to Volkhard Windfuhr of German publication Der Spiegel, the Egyptian government formally approved construction of the bridge. The bridge will be a toll crossing; Egyptian authorities expect that payments from pilgrims traveling to Mecca will account for a large percentage of revenue. Der Spiegel claims that construction will be overseen by Egyptian general Abdul Aziz; however, a search of several Egyptian newspapers by Fast Company did not find any mention of Aziz heading the project in the local press. Meanwhile, Saudi Anglophone paper Arab News says merely that fresh studies have been launched on the project’s feasibility. After all, the Red Sea is one of the world’s most seismically active zones, and any bridge

for, manage, and minimize the damage resulting from extreme weather. The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). We also would like to thank Roger Fortier for technical support on this project. Agricultural Economics Research, 43(4), p. 18-25. King B.A. and Stark J.C., 1997. Potato irrigation management. In: University of Idaho Cooperative Extension System BUL-789. Lawford R.G., 1992. Research implications of the 1988 Canadian Prairie provinces drought. In: Natural Hazards, 6, p. 109-129. response of potatoes. In: 3rd Annual Manitoba Agronomists Conference, Winnipeg (MB), 10-11 December 2002, p. 172-178. http://www.umanitoba.ca/afs/agronomists_conf/2002/pdf/shaykewich.pdf. Statistics Canada, 2010. CANSIM-Crops and horticulture. http://estat.statcan.ca/cgi- win/cnsmcgi.pgm?LANG=E&C2DB=EST&ROOTDIR=ESTAT/&ResultTemplate=ESTAT/CII_FLst&SrchVer=2&ChunkSize=50&CIITables=2024. Accessed 2 February 2010. Tyrchniewicz A. and Yusishen B., 2000. Agriculture and Climate Change: Workshop Report, 23 March 2000. International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 15 p. Wilcox D., 2006. Manitoba not yielding to climate change? In: Manitoba Agronomists Conference 2006 Proceedings, 12-13 December 2006. Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Manitoba. Dr Mark Cresswell Impacts: Extreme Weather 69EG6517 Impacts & Models of Climate Change. Meet the next great gonzo engineering project: A 20-mile Red Sea-spanning bridge connecting Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The bridge has been spoken about for years and multiple attempts to begin work on it have fallen through; overcoming the odds now will be a feat of both political finesse and engineering. Post-revolution Egypt is reportedly about to embark on an audacious joint construction project with Saudi Arabia: A bridge over the Red Sea that would link the two country’s roads and railways. The bridge is slotted to take the form of a series of suspension spans and causeways on the lines of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Although the bridge is not expected to interfere with shipping, nearby Israel and Jordan are livid that construction could potentially hurt their geopolitical position–and the Egyptian public is worried the crossing is a sign of increased Saudi influence. The proposed 20-mile bridge would be built over the Red Sea at the Straits of Tiran, a series of narrow sea passages between Egypt and Saudi Arabia located near some of the world’s best scuba diving. However, the Straits of Tiran are also a highly strategic waterway–both Jordan’s lone seaport of Aqaba and Israel’s only Red Sea port, Eilat, send all their cargo through the straits. United Nations peacekeepers actively patrol the Straits of Tiran to guarantee freedom of navigation. According to Volkhard Windfuhr of German publication Der Spiegel, the Egyptian government formally approved construction of the bridge. The bridge will be a toll crossing; Egyptian authorities expect that payments from pilgrims traveling to Mecca will account for a large percentage of revenue. Der Spiegel claims that construction will be overseen by Egyptian general Abdul Aziz; however, a search of several Egyptian newspapers by Fast Company did not find any mention of Aziz heading the project in the local press. Meanwhile, Saudi Anglophone paper Arab News says merely that fresh studies have been launched on the project’s feasibility. After all, the Red Sea is one of the world’s most seismically active zones, and any bridge

built there would be at high risk of damage from a catastrophic earthquake. They don’t call it the Great Rift Valley for nothing. Discussions of the massive bridge project have been under way for a number of years. Egyptian-Saudi attempts to build the bridge were shelved for financial reasons in 2006. Then in 2008, the Saudi Arabian government began accepting bids for the rights to work on the Red Sea project, which is expected to cost an estimated $4 billion. It was delayed after Israel voiced objections to the project–which wasn’t the first time political tensions arose around the waterway. Egypt’s decision to close the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping was one of the primary causes of 1967’s Six-Day War. Gonzo engineering projects such as a bridge over the Red Sea–which, incidentally, would have helped Moses a lot back in the day–have a long history. The idea of a trans-Mediterranean bridge at Gibraltar or at some other nearby point has long been a theoretical exercise for engineers (even if geopolitical considerations mean the damn thing could never be built). That said, the scope of the bridge isn’t unprecedented: The People’s Republic of China has built some staggeringly long bridges including the 102-mile-long Danyang-Kunshan viaduct and the 70-mile-long Tianjin Grand Bridge. Here in the United States, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is a continuous bridge that is nearly 24 miles long. Despite Der Spiegel‘s piece on the project, much remains unsure. The Saudi Arabia-Egypt bridge has been spoken about for years and multiple attempts to begin work on the project have fallen through. Egypt is currently suffering through one of the worst economic downturns in years, and any attempt to build the bridge would come with a heavy Saudi price in terms of influence and economic concessions. Then there are the engineering and geopolitical concerns. However, if completed, it will be one of the most interesting public works projects of the decade. The headquarters of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington DC before renovations narrowed the hallway and lowered the ceiling. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Its statistics are so routinely cited as fact by all parties, factions and interests that “Statscan says” is effectively a Canadianism meaning “the following is true.” It’s hard to overstate how valuable that makes this dull little agency. It made me wonder, does the equivalent statement exists in the US? Has anyone ever said the same thing about the Bureau of Labor Statistics? The Census Bureau? Any fact ever? We’ve posted about stats blogs here before. Evelyn first wrote about some of her favorite stats blogs in 2013 with a reprise in 2015 and a post dedicated to the much maligned — although actually useful when used correctly and honestly — p-value. Given that some time has passed, I though we were due for a reprise to the reprise. So here we go. The Modified Bayes’ Theorem via xkcd. I was recently reminded of the statistician, political scientist and blogger Andrew Gelman when he posted an essay on the replication crisis to the special science at 40 series for the New York Times. Gelman co-writes a blog about statistical modeling, causal inference, and social science. On the blog Gelman addresses statistical methods and then some of the not-so-obvious subtleties of election statistics and voter turnout, and a whole bunch of other statistically infused and politically adjacent topics. Another fantastic stats blog is StatChat which is hosted out of the University of Auckland in New Zealand. I especially love blogger and biostatistician Thomas Lumley’s Briefly posts which give a roundup of recent interesting stats objects from the week, which is where I found the Statscan article that started all of this. You should also check out Simply Statistics, a great blog written by three biostatisticians. I really enjoyed their recent post on the intricacies of gathering data for their analysis on mortality rates from the hurricane in Puerto Rico. On the slightly more technical end, I also recommend Frank Harrell’s blog Statistical Thinking. Given my personal interests, I tend to lean towards statistics practiced in the service of social science. But if clinical and biomedical research statistics are the kind of thing that you think about in your quiet

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, it’s a top down 2D/pseudo-3D overhead perspective re-imagining of The Text Based Legend and Quest of Joe Hero. I’ll be sure to post a message when I release it. I might also post some previews before hand, but for now you can get a taste of the plot of the 360 game by playing the The Text Based Legend and Quest of Joe Hero. Links for the game below. The Text Based Legend and Quest of Joe Hero(EXE File) The Text Based Legend and Quest of Joe Hero(ZIP file) Tags: Deals and Sales, Microsoft, Online Gaming, PC, Retro, Website, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, XLM A Bigger Mario Carving Well I made another Mario chainsaw carving. I think I have about ten hours into the carving, about 8 hours with the chainsaw, and two hours with the stain. I finished it a while ago. I let it sit for some time before staining and sealing it. The entire carving is 4’8” tall. Because of the little cracks, I’m selling it for $400. E-mail me at [email protected] or preferably call me at 1 (586) 212-2999, if you have any question or are interstred in buying it or another carving(whether it’s video game related or not). Tags: Chainsaw carving, fan art, Mario, Nintendo Posted in Nintendo | 30 Comments » Game Influence is going through some changes. Game Influence is going through some changes. Please be patient. It may take some time. Tags: Nintendo Pokemon Heart of Gold and Soul of Silver Confirmed The official Japanese Pokémon site has recently confirmed what I, among other people, have predicted. No, not DawnSilver, and DuskGold, once again my guess for the next game’s title was wrong. But, yes that’s right, Nintendo is remaking Pokémon Gold and Silver for the Nintendo DS, they are calling the two titles Pokémon Heart of Gold and Pokémon Soul of Silver. They will be released in Japan later this year(the 10th anniversary of their original Pokémon Gold and Silver), no release date has been set in North America, but everyone is sure that it will come stateside. No other information has really been released, but if you look at what ninendo did to Pokémon FireRed and Pokémon LeafGreen, you can assume that Nintendo will add features from the current generation to the remakes. If any other news comes up, I’ll be sure to report them to you, so check back later. Pokémon Japan Tags: Game Boy Retro, Handhelds, Nintendo, Nintendo DS, Nintendo WiFi, Retro Introduction Necessary Hello out there to all you fellow gamers, I’m KalbooseThe180, and I would like to say that I take gaming with the utmost seriousness. So in that I deem to give all of you my complex thoughts and immense logic behind what I believe gaming to be. I am very excited at being able to discuss gaming down to the very core, so let us begin… First off I will say that I’m predominantly a 360 fan though that does not exclude me from enjoying other systems. As for the systems that I own I have an Xbox360, Xbox, PS2, Wii, numerous PCs, and a retro GameBoy. It is a great honor to be requested by Kuefler to discuss and elaborate on the world of gaming, so that’s really all that you need to know and once again I look forward to write for Kuefler and this Blog. To give you something to chew on for the meantime I recently had money burning a hole in my pocket so I decided to pick up two new games. Now I will start by telling you that I highly respect games that try something new, different, or have an interesting way of playing them(I like First Person Shooters as much as the next gamer, but it’s done a lot.). So one of these games happened to be Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia (I am always skeptical about anything that has numerous titles that tie together). Now I’ll admit that I was somewhat skeptical about them making a new PoP

, it’s a top down 2D/pseudo-3D overhead perspective re-imagining of The Text Based Legend and Quest of Joe Hero. I’ll be sure to post a message when I release it. I might also post some previews before hand, but for now you can get a taste of the plot of the 360 game by playing the The Text Based Legend and Quest of Joe Hero. Links for the game below. The Text Based Legend and Quest of Joe Hero(EXE File) The Text Based Legend and Quest of Joe Hero(ZIP file) Tags: Deals and Sales, Microsoft, Online Gaming, PC, Retro, Website, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, XLM A Bigger Mario Carving Well I made another Mario chainsaw carving. I think I have about ten hours into the carving, about 8 hours with the chainsaw, and two hours with the stain. I finished it a while ago. I let it sit for some time before staining and sealing it. The entire carving is 4’8” tall. Because of the little cracks, I’m selling it for $400. E-mail me at [email protected] or preferably call me at 1 (586) 212-2999, if you have any question or are interstred in buying it or another carving(whether it’s video game related or not). Tags: Chainsaw carving, fan art, Mario, Nintendo Posted in Nintendo | 30 Comments » Game Influence is going through some changes. Game Influence is going through some changes. Please be patient. It may take some time. Tags: Nintendo Pokemon Heart of Gold and Soul of Silver Confirmed The official Japanese Pokémon site has recently confirmed what I, among other people, have predicted. No, not DawnSilver, and DuskGold, once again my guess for the next game’s title was wrong. But, yes that’s right, Nintendo is remaking Pokémon Gold and Silver for the Nintendo DS, they are calling the two titles Pokémon Heart of Gold and Pokémon Soul of Silver. They will be released in Japan later this year(the 10th anniversary of their original Pokémon Gold and Silver), no release date has been set in North America, but everyone is sure that it will come stateside. No other information has really been released, but if you look at what ninendo did to Pokémon FireRed and Pokémon LeafGreen, you can assume that Nintendo will add features from the current generation to the remakes. If any other news comes up, I’ll be sure to report them to you, so check back later. Pokémon Japan Tags: Game Boy Retro, Handhelds, Nintendo, Nintendo DS, Nintendo WiFi, Retro Introduction Necessary Hello out there to all you fellow gamers, I’m KalbooseThe180, and I would like to say that I take gaming with the utmost seriousness. So in that I deem to give all of you my complex thoughts and immense logic behind what I believe gaming to be. I am very excited at being able to discuss gaming down to the very core, so let us begin… First off I will say that I’m predominantly a 360 fan though that does not exclude me from enjoying other systems. As for the systems that I own I have an Xbox360, Xbox, PS2, Wii, numerous PCs, and a retro GameBoy. It is a great honor to be requested by Kuefler to discuss and elaborate on the world of gaming, so that’s really all that you need to know and once again I look forward to write for Kuefler and this Blog. To give you something to chew on for the meantime I recently had money burning a hole in my pocket so I decided to pick up two new games. Now I will start by telling you that I highly respect games that try something new, different, or have an interesting way of playing them(I like First Person Shooters as much as the next gamer, but it’s done a lot.). So one of these games happened to be Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia (I am always skeptical about anything that has numerous titles that tie together). Now I’ll admit that I was somewhat skeptical about them making a new PoP

game, mainly due to how the trilogy ended with PoP: The Two Thrones. So after purchasing it and cracking the case open and popping the game in I was relieved to find that it was in fact a reboot of the series, and may I say a very good one at that. I can say for certain that those of you who enjoyed the pervious titles on the PS2 and Xbox will be happy to find that the series still has its appeal and basic construct of gameplay (Acrobatics and acrobatic fighting). But the reason that PoP is one of the shining examples of the kind of games I like is because for one the game is cell shaded, which adds a unique characteristic to the environment and to be honest I hardly noticed the cell shading after playing through it, the game also used the separation of regular gameplay and combat so you knew when you where fighting and when you where just playing (Unlike in the other PoP games where enemies where free roaming.). Another aspect that surprised me was the open world and pick-your-own-path within the game. Which I believe that the industry is moving closer and closer to games that are open and choice oriented. Also another interesting thing I noticed about PoP was the Achievements (Xbox360) could be obtained in a flowing constant manner, there were a few that you had to work for, but personally apart from Fable II’s achievement system I think that PoP has some of most obtainable achievements just through regular gameplay each around 10 to 20 points. Finally the best for last about PoP was that you could never die in the game, though you still received penalties for ‘almost dying’ but still the concept that in game you can never ‘die’ is another thing that I believe developers should be looking at and they have been. The aspect of gaming ‘death’ has plagued us all as gamers, I for one enjoyed the fact that I would never die in game, though there where penalties for failing. And that was just a taste of what is to come, I hope you enjoyed this small insight into my opinion of gaming and I assure you that I will do my best to provide you with accurate information regarding anything that I discuss. So I say good luck to you all, and good gaming! Tags: Game Boy Retro, PC, PS2, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360 Trip to the Game Store: December 30, 2008 A week ago, I went out for my last trip to the video game store for 2008. I of course went to Game Stop, not like I have much of a choice there with their monopolization of the market. I was looking forward to buying two more controllers for my Xbox 360, in addition of the two that I already own, but I was sadly disappointed when I found that they only had new wireless controllers and new Controller and Charger Bundles in stock. That’s right, no used wireless, no new wired, no used wired, no used off brand wired, and no new off brand controllers. The store only had the two most expensive packages for controllers. Why not have the used and cheaper controllers? Did Microsoft give money so Microsoft could dominate the controller market? Who knows. So what did I actually buy? Well, I just got Xbox 360 games, including Saints Row, Assassin’s Creed, Mass Effect, Sneak King(technically a classic Xbox game), College Hoops 2K6, and Sonic The Hedgehog. Sonic the hedgehog is a glitchappaloosa©. While you are playing, you are repeatedly reminded that it’s a game, with all of its visual problems. As soon as Sonic hits the water, his dies in the same fashion as he would if he fell of a cliff, same speed, same camera-follow, same everything; it’s very annoying. The game constantly has visual issues; the camera often doesn’t display the terrain at all, just displaying the non-terrain objects and Sonic. Oh yeah, the stickers where such a problem to get off, more then usual. Do they really need to put the stickers on the sleeve itself? Anyways, I’m having fun with my new games, I’ll be sure to report back if I feel anything needs to be shared about my experiences with them. Tags: Nintendo, Xbox, Xbox 360 I ordered Resident Evil: Degeneration through my Netflix membership; it shipped a few days ago, and arrived recently

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foliage extract is due to pH, the water extract was adjusted to a different pH. Fig. (2) shows that water extract of balsam foliage at pH 5 gave the best bacterial growth inhibition. Its ability to inhibit bacteria growth decreased as its pH increased to 10 (Fig. 2 Upper row). Phosphate saline at pH5 and 10 would not inhibit bacteria growth (not shown). The color of the extract also changed from light green to reddish brown as its pH was adjusted from 5 to 10. The color of the spruce budworm gut juice fed on balsam foliage is reddish brown with pH about 10.2 The bacterial growth inhibition ability of balsam foliage extracts, though heat stable (Fig 1, well D), was further reduced when excess BSA was added to the extracts (Fig. 2 Lower row). This result suggests that bacterial growth inhibition is probably due to some protein precipitating allelochemical(s) present in the balsam foliage. Because the color of the balsam foliage extract changes to red when its pH was adjusted to 10, and it precipitated BSA, it is suggested that the inhibition property in the balsam foliage extract is due to the presence of tannins. To confirm this, ferric salt was added to balsam foliage extract, gut juice and frass extract from foliage fed insects. All these three samples gave dark blue precipitate indicating the presence of tannins. On the other hand, gut juice from insects fed on artificial diet did not give blue color, indicating the absence of tannins. Paper Chromatographies Gut juice from insects fed on balsam foliage, commercial tannic acid and water extract of balsam foliage (all at pH10.2) were applied to the filter papers for paper chromatography. Maximum bacterial growth inhibition appeared at approximately the same position for all three samples. This indicated that the inhibition factor(s) in the three samples are similar or identical. The possible identification of tannins as the responsible agent for bacterial growth inhibition in the spruce budworm gut juice is summarized in Table 2. Possible Role of Plant Tannins in Preventing Bacterial Infection and Biologic Insecticides One of the main differences between field and laboratory insects is their diets. Laboratory raised spruce budworm feed on artificial diet with addition of antibiotics. Field insects feed on foliage. Therefore the gut contents in both insect populations are quite different. It is expected that the field-raised insect gut juice contains high concentrations of allelochemicals. Some of these allelochemicals may have effects on the bacteria in the insect gut. In this communication, we showed that gut juice from spruce budworm fed on foliage inhibited bacterial growth in a tryptic soy agar plate, and cleared bacteria from the insect gut. Though the allelochemical(s) responsible of such activity has not been isolated in this study, our experiments suggested that it belonged to tannins. However, it does not exclude other allelohemicals, and needs further identification. B. thuringiensis is the most successful biological insecticide. When it is used in controlling forest pests, e.g., spruce budworm, the results are not consistent, and seldom match with those from the laboratory [1, 2]. Lüthy et al. [3] showed that plant tannins would inactivate B thuringiensis δ-endotoxin. The high pH in the insect gut may have some effects on certain bacteria, however, it has been shown that B. thuringiensis spores would germinate at pH10.0 in the insect guts [6]. Septicemia also plays an important role in the efficacy of B. thuringiensis [4]. The present study shows that plant tannins would clear the bacteria from the insect guts, and inhibit their growth. All these may partially explain the lack of consistency of B. thuringiensis in the field trials. Although the mechanisms by which tannins inhibit bacterial growth and clears bacteria from insect guts, is not yet

foliage extract is due to pH, the water extract was adjusted to a different pH. Fig. (2) shows that water extract of balsam foliage at pH 5 gave the best bacterial growth inhibition. Its ability to inhibit bacteria growth decreased as its pH increased to 10 (Fig. 2 Upper row). Phosphate saline at pH5 and 10 would not inhibit bacteria growth (not shown). The color of the extract also changed from light green to reddish brown as its pH was adjusted from 5 to 10. The color of the spruce budworm gut juice fed on balsam foliage is reddish brown with pH about 10.2 The bacterial growth inhibition ability of balsam foliage extracts, though heat stable (Fig 1, well D), was further reduced when excess BSA was added to the extracts (Fig. 2 Lower row). This result suggests that bacterial growth inhibition is probably due to some protein precipitating allelochemical(s) present in the balsam foliage. Because the color of the balsam foliage extract changes to red when its pH was adjusted to 10, and it precipitated BSA, it is suggested that the inhibition property in the balsam foliage extract is due to the presence of tannins. To confirm this, ferric salt was added to balsam foliage extract, gut juice and frass extract from foliage fed insects. All these three samples gave dark blue precipitate indicating the presence of tannins. On the other hand, gut juice from insects fed on artificial diet did not give blue color, indicating the absence of tannins. Paper Chromatographies Gut juice from insects fed on balsam foliage, commercial tannic acid and water extract of balsam foliage (all at pH10.2) were applied to the filter papers for paper chromatography. Maximum bacterial growth inhibition appeared at approximately the same position for all three samples. This indicated that the inhibition factor(s) in the three samples are similar or identical. The possible identification of tannins as the responsible agent for bacterial growth inhibition in the spruce budworm gut juice is summarized in Table 2. Possible Role of Plant Tannins in Preventing Bacterial Infection and Biologic Insecticides One of the main differences between field and laboratory insects is their diets. Laboratory raised spruce budworm feed on artificial diet with addition of antibiotics. Field insects feed on foliage. Therefore the gut contents in both insect populations are quite different. It is expected that the field-raised insect gut juice contains high concentrations of allelochemicals. Some of these allelochemicals may have effects on the bacteria in the insect gut. In this communication, we showed that gut juice from spruce budworm fed on foliage inhibited bacterial growth in a tryptic soy agar plate, and cleared bacteria from the insect gut. Though the allelochemical(s) responsible of such activity has not been isolated in this study, our experiments suggested that it belonged to tannins. However, it does not exclude other allelohemicals, and needs further identification. B. thuringiensis is the most successful biological insecticide. When it is used in controlling forest pests, e.g., spruce budworm, the results are not consistent, and seldom match with those from the laboratory [1, 2]. Lüthy et al. [3] showed that plant tannins would inactivate B thuringiensis δ-endotoxin. The high pH in the insect gut may have some effects on certain bacteria, however, it has been shown that B. thuringiensis spores would germinate at pH10.0 in the insect guts [6]. Septicemia also plays an important role in the efficacy of B. thuringiensis [4]. The present study shows that plant tannins would clear the bacteria from the insect guts, and inhibit their growth. All these may partially explain the lack of consistency of B. thuringiensis in the field trials. Although the mechanisms by which tannins inhibit bacterial growth and clears bacteria from insect guts, is not yet

known at this time, one would assume that plant tannins bind to the bacterial cells, thus preventing them from growing and adhering to the gut. These tannins-bound bacteria would then pass out of the insect gut with the frass. It is interesting to note that consumption of cranberry juice has been recommended for the prevention of urinary tract infection [7]. Recently, tannins have been identified as the compounds in cranberries that are responsible for preventing uropathogenic phenotypes of P-fimbriated E. coli from adhering to urinary tract [8]. Moreover, our preliminary in vitro study also showed that pre-treatment of CfNPV with balsam foliage extract reduces viral infection in insect cells (not shown). Tannins are important constituents of many plants. The concentration of plant tannins in the insect guts would be expected to be the lowest as the insects coming out from their molts, or when their guts are empty. Based on this study, it is expected that biological insecticides, e.g. B. thuringiensis, would be most effective if they are applied at the time immediately following the molt. [1] Avorn J, Monane M, Gurwitz JH, Glynn RJ, Choodnovskiy I, Lipzitz LA. Reduction of bacteriuria and pyuria after ingestion of cranberry juice JAMA 1994; 271: 751-4. [2] Howell AB, Marderosian AD, Foo LY. Inhibition of the adherence of P- fimbriated E. coli to uroepithelial-cell surfaces by proanthocyanidin extracts from cranberries N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 1085-6. [3] Lehrer RI, Rosenman M, Harwig SSSL, Jackson R, Eisenhauer P. Ultrasensitive assays for endogenous antimicrobial polypeptides J Immunol Methods 1991; 137: 167-73. [4] Lüthy P, Hoffmann C, Jaquet F. Inactivation of delta-endotoxin of Bacillus thuringiensis by tannin FEMS Microbiol Lett 1985; 28: 31-. [5] Morris ON. Report of the 1979 CANUSA cooperative Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) spray trials Forest Pest Management Institute Report 1980; FPM-X-40: 75. [6] Morris ON. Report of the 1980 Cooperative Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) spray trials Forest Pest Management Institute Report 1981; FPM-X-48 : 74. [7] van Frankenhuyzen K. Effect of temperature on the pathogenesis of Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner in larvae of the spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana Clem (Lepidoptera: tortricidae) Can Entomol 1994; 126: 1061-5. [8] Wilson GR, Benott TG. Activation and germination of Bacillus thuringiensis spores in Manduca sexta larval gut fluid J Invert Pathol 1990; 56: 233-6. Track Your Manuscript Enter Correct Manuscript Reference Number: Submit Reference Number Published Contents Please Select VolumeVolume 17, 2023Volume 16, 2022Volume 15, 2021Volume 14, 2020Volume 13, 2019Volume 12, 2018Volume 11, 2017Volume 10, 2016Volume 9, 2015Volume 8, 2014Volume 7, 2013Volume 6, 2012Volume 5, 2011Volume 4, 2010Volume 3, 2009Volume 2, 2008Volume 1, 2007 Irina V. Kisele

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appreciate the great wonders of the world or any other famous attractions. There is a reason why famous places are famous – and no, it’s not because they are perfect for Instagram photos. There is usually a rich history behind them. One that was forged from the throes of love or the thorns of war; built for exemplary bravery or by almost supernatural craftsmanship. The more you know about them, the more you’ll able to value them. Try to imagine the era in which these structures were constructed or how they were formed (in the case of naturally occurring attractions). You will be fascinated. Take the Pyramids of Egypt for example, there are theories that they were not even constructed by humans! The precision and symmetry of some of these structures will leave you amazed! If you imagine the era they came from and the technology available to them to be able to complete construction, you’ll definitely appreciate them more. I find that going back to the same place can sometimes alter your perspective. Maybe your first visit was a bit off, maybe your expectations were too wild or there were too many tourists… Maybe you had to wait in line for hours and you just couldn’t find the time to settle and take everything in. Going back to the same attraction again (preferably at a less busy time) could give you a new sense of appreciation. In some cases, the initial expectation has worn off, along with the pressure to capture everything on camera. You find that you can now just simply enjoy being there and this makes a whole lot of difference. If you’re inclined to appreciating architecture, you can’t help but wonder why certain materials were used for construction. How these attractions have stood the test of time, survived thefts, earthquakes and several other natural or man-made disasters. Think about the intricate details in each of them, again, think about the technology and tools available to attain such precision. Some famous attractions like the Abu Simbel Temples, were completely moved from their original locations. I find this fascinating, don’t you? Who built these structures? Who were they built for? What were they used for? What are they being used for now? Why were they constructed in the first place? How were these attractions constructed or formed? How long did it take? How old are they? Ask yourself these questions, then think about the fact that you are actually there and you just might find yourself in awe and perhaps overwhelmed with emotions that bring you to tears…. Get a great price on Chevrolet Equinox tires when you visit your nearby Tires Plus Total Car Care location. Explore our full catalog of Equinox tires and browse tires by type, size, features, and more. Whether you're searching for tires built for speed, fuel-efficiency, or superior durability, you can count on our tire professionals to help you get the right tires, and to install each for maximum performance and control. At Tires Plus Total Car Care, we make it easy for you to fit a tire replacement or repair in your busy schedule. Ready? Choose a day that's most convenient for you and save time by booking an appointment online! We're even open on the weekends and on some holidays! Cite this article as: Blumenfeld Z. Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Agonist Debate. Clin Oncol. 2017; 2: 1315. The recent publications by Demeestereet a land the accompanying editorial in the journal of clinical oncology are intriguing [1,2]. We agree with the authors’ statement: “… pregnancy is the most accurate …for evaluating the efficiency of fertility preservation.” We have shown that GnRH a increased spontaneous conceptions (P <0.006), in addition to preserving Cyclic Ovarian Function (COF) (OR = 6.87) , in a large group of young women followed up for up to two decades. Ninety patients (62%) conceived 178 times in the GnRHa group vs. 31 patients experiencing 55 pregnancies (42%) in the controls (P <0.0003), generating 131 and 41 newborns (P <0.01), respectively . Spontaneous pregnancies occurred in 58% of the survivors in the GnRHa group, vs 34.9% of the controls (P

appreciate the great wonders of the world or any other famous attractions. There is a reason why famous places are famous – and no, it’s not because they are perfect for Instagram photos. There is usually a rich history behind them. One that was forged from the throes of love or the thorns of war; built for exemplary bravery or by almost supernatural craftsmanship. The more you know about them, the more you’ll able to value them. Try to imagine the era in which these structures were constructed or how they were formed (in the case of naturally occurring attractions). You will be fascinated. Take the Pyramids of Egypt for example, there are theories that they were not even constructed by humans! The precision and symmetry of some of these structures will leave you amazed! If you imagine the era they came from and the technology available to them to be able to complete construction, you’ll definitely appreciate them more. I find that going back to the same place can sometimes alter your perspective. Maybe your first visit was a bit off, maybe your expectations were too wild or there were too many tourists… Maybe you had to wait in line for hours and you just couldn’t find the time to settle and take everything in. Going back to the same attraction again (preferably at a less busy time) could give you a new sense of appreciation. In some cases, the initial expectation has worn off, along with the pressure to capture everything on camera. You find that you can now just simply enjoy being there and this makes a whole lot of difference. If you’re inclined to appreciating architecture, you can’t help but wonder why certain materials were used for construction. How these attractions have stood the test of time, survived thefts, earthquakes and several other natural or man-made disasters. Think about the intricate details in each of them, again, think about the technology and tools available to attain such precision. Some famous attractions like the Abu Simbel Temples, were completely moved from their original locations. I find this fascinating, don’t you? Who built these structures? Who were they built for? What were they used for? What are they being used for now? Why were they constructed in the first place? How were these attractions constructed or formed? How long did it take? How old are they? Ask yourself these questions, then think about the fact that you are actually there and you just might find yourself in awe and perhaps overwhelmed with emotions that bring you to tears…. Get a great price on Chevrolet Equinox tires when you visit your nearby Tires Plus Total Car Care location. Explore our full catalog of Equinox tires and browse tires by type, size, features, and more. Whether you're searching for tires built for speed, fuel-efficiency, or superior durability, you can count on our tire professionals to help you get the right tires, and to install each for maximum performance and control. At Tires Plus Total Car Care, we make it easy for you to fit a tire replacement or repair in your busy schedule. Ready? Choose a day that's most convenient for you and save time by booking an appointment online! We're even open on the weekends and on some holidays! Cite this article as: Blumenfeld Z. Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Agonist Debate. Clin Oncol. 2017; 2: 1315. The recent publications by Demeestereet a land the accompanying editorial in the journal of clinical oncology are intriguing [1,2]. We agree with the authors’ statement: “… pregnancy is the most accurate …for evaluating the efficiency of fertility preservation.” We have shown that GnRH a increased spontaneous conceptions (P <0.006), in addition to preserving Cyclic Ovarian Function (COF) (OR = 6.87) , in a large group of young women followed up for up to two decades. Ninety patients (62%) conceived 178 times in the GnRHa group vs. 31 patients experiencing 55 pregnancies (42%) in the controls (P <0.0003), generating 131 and 41 newborns (P <0.01), respectively . Spontaneous pregnancies occurred in 58% of the survivors in the GnRHa group, vs 34.9% of the controls (P

= 0.009). Similarly, two recent RCT’s publications, in the NEJM and JAMA [cited in 1] assessed the efficacy of GnRHa reporting promising data on fertility outcomes . Both studies found significant reduction in premature ovarian failure (POF) in the GnRHa arms (OR: 0.28-0.3; P <0.001-0.04) . The authors mention their study limitations: dropout rate of 50%, and 25% loss of follow-up or data unavailability. Although the original study “mandated the accrual of 157 patients to ensure a power of 80% and a type error I probability of 5%, enrolment was discontinued after the assignment of129 patients,” but only 63 patients were evaluated for POF, 31-32 in each arm, in 15 centers (1-3 patients/arm/center). Furthermore, five pregnancies occurred in patients with protocol-defined POF of “one FSH >40U/L measurement” challenging the accuracy of POF definition, and the resulting conclusions. Indeed, the study initially did not find a difference in POF rate after one year , but two years follow-up claimed: "… the number of patients who totally restored their ovarian function was significantly higher in the GnRHa group (P = 0.049) confirming results of AMH", (mean AMH was 1.4±0.35 ng/ml in the GnRHa arm vs. 0.5 ± 0.15ng/ml in the controls (P <0.04)) . The small number of the evaluated patients (type-I error) may explain the “negative” results after one year , the pendulum swinging to “positive” result at 2 years , and again switching back to negative conclusion at 5 years . In contradiction to the unbalanced editorial the two recently published experts’ opinion, 14th St Gallen international conference and expert consensus [7,8], support the use of GnRHa, stating that GnRHa therapy during chemotherapy proved effective to protect against POF and preserve fertility [7,8], with the highest level of evidence, IA . They state that the GnRHa co treatment increased the rate of subsequent successful pregnancies and did not compromise disease outcomes [7,8]. Oktay and Bedoschi claim that none of the studies favoring GnRHa effect for fertility preservation was blinded or placebo controlled, therefore unacceptable. On the other hand, they claim that the successful reports on ovarian cryopreservation should lead to accepting this method as an unequivocally established method for fertility preservation. How many of these reports were “blinded or placebo controlled” or even RCT’s? None. What is the justification of their double standard? Furthermore, Oktay and Bedoschi claim that primordial follicles do not have FSH receptors and their growth is unaffected by GnRHa. In contradiction, Zheng et al. demonstrated FSH receptorm RNA expression, by RT-PCR, in primordial follicles. More recently, Bhartiya and Singh , have identified two distinct populations of stem cells including very small embryonic-like stem cells (VSELs) and ovarian stem cells in OSE, responsible for neooogenesis and Primordial Follicle (PF) assembly in adult life, being modulated by FSH via its alternatively spliced receptor variant FSH-R3. If indeed FSH-R3 (lacking exon 10) is the key player to mediate FSH action on stem cells, one could easily explain why the extensive studies undertaken to search for mutations in exon 10 of FSH receptor have failed. Failure to detect FSH receptors on PF’s incorrectly suggested that initial PF growth is GN independent. However, the primers used for rt-PCR were selected from exon 10 whereas PF’s express FSH-R3 that lacks exon 10. Due to these and several other inaccurate points, these publications [1,2], are unconvincing and intriguing. The recent publication , by several leaders in fertility preservation seems to be in keeping with our opinion.

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Champions League talks. The current format was already a tough enough challenge after Ajax finished second in the Dutch league and had to go through three qualifying rounds. That meant starting before the domestic season kicked off, rather than in the group stage in September when the big leagues join. The road to facing Madrid, Juventus and next Tottenham started against Sturm Graz, the second-best team from Austria. Still, 53,000 fans were at the Johan Cruyff Arena, the stadium named after Ajax's greatest player. That route might be shut in future with no sure places for runners-up from leagues ranked outside Europe's top 10. Agnelli's comments at an ECA news conference last month caused concern. ''A champion will always be able to participate,'' Agnelli said of the Champions League's likely shape in five years' time. Yet Ajax is not a national champion, and nor was Monaco when launching Kylian Mbappe's career as another feel-good semifinalist in 2017 from the preliminary rounds. The last major Champions League negotiations in 2016 ended badly for other midranking leagues, such as Switzerland and Turkey. At that time, the big four leagues of Spain, England, Germany and Italy each got a fourth direct place in the 32-team group stage, ensuring more money for them at the expense of European soccer's smaller nations. Clubs took advantage of UEFA's leadership turmoil that year with veiled threats of a breakaway Super League. The relatively secret deal was criticized by soon-to-be UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin, who said the ''ideal model'' for Champions League qualification was the existing one. Back then, fourth-place teams in the big four leagues had to qualify in a playoff round, where Italian teams typically struggled. So Ajax, in a tight title race with PSV Eindhoven, will be back in the qualifying rounds next season unless it wins this Champions League because even the Dutch league winner does not get direct entry into the group stage. Another and more recent Super League threat came in a Football Leaks report in November. German magazine Der Spiegel published confidential documents revealing a Super League project linked to Real Madrid. The proposed 16-team lineup had AC Milan - which has not qualified for the Champions League in five years - among 11 founding members who could not be relegated. The five invited clubs included Marseille, which failed even to reach the knockout rounds of the Europa League this season. There was no place for Ajax. More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/apf-Soccer and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports Posts tagged "Feature" “Without Fear or Favor”: the Adolph S. Ochs Story 5 months ago Triangle 0 Written by: Devin Burrow, senior editor Adolph S. Ochs died after 57 years of dedicating himself to objectivity as a leader in the world of journalism. Several newspapers such as The New York Times and Chattanooga Times Free Press, which he owned detailed his life. As an entrepreneur of impartiality, Ochs stands out Read More FIRST DATE: Problems and Solutions Written by: Rylee Evans, staff writer Do you send another text? Do you pay the check? Do you ask them first? These are just some of the questions you ask yourself when you like someone. Let’s examine some dating fails and successes. There are so many grey areas and questions which make dating Read More Novice Art Critic Reviews: The Frist Art Museum Written by Samantha Burgess, managing editor Once you enter the Frist Art Museum and learn of its history, you will quickly realize how unique it is in comparison to other museums. The Frist Art Museum, a Nashville landmark founded in April 2001, is set up so that every six to eight weeks the museum creates Read More Bryan Triangle news team visits Baptist Press headquarters Written By: Rylee Evans, staff writer Nashville, Tenn–On Monday, January 28, it was a bright and early morning, (just kidding it was dark,) as the Bryan Triangle team met to leave for Nashville and explore both the Southern Baptist Convention Center Baptist Press headquarters and the Frist Art Museum. The team had the opportunity to Read More We have a new column: It’s no secret that

Champions League talks. The current format was already a tough enough challenge after Ajax finished second in the Dutch league and had to go through three qualifying rounds. That meant starting before the domestic season kicked off, rather than in the group stage in September when the big leagues join. The road to facing Madrid, Juventus and next Tottenham started against Sturm Graz, the second-best team from Austria. Still, 53,000 fans were at the Johan Cruyff Arena, the stadium named after Ajax's greatest player. That route might be shut in future with no sure places for runners-up from leagues ranked outside Europe's top 10. Agnelli's comments at an ECA news conference last month caused concern. ''A champion will always be able to participate,'' Agnelli said of the Champions League's likely shape in five years' time. Yet Ajax is not a national champion, and nor was Monaco when launching Kylian Mbappe's career as another feel-good semifinalist in 2017 from the preliminary rounds. The last major Champions League negotiations in 2016 ended badly for other midranking leagues, such as Switzerland and Turkey. At that time, the big four leagues of Spain, England, Germany and Italy each got a fourth direct place in the 32-team group stage, ensuring more money for them at the expense of European soccer's smaller nations. Clubs took advantage of UEFA's leadership turmoil that year with veiled threats of a breakaway Super League. The relatively secret deal was criticized by soon-to-be UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin, who said the ''ideal model'' for Champions League qualification was the existing one. Back then, fourth-place teams in the big four leagues had to qualify in a playoff round, where Italian teams typically struggled. So Ajax, in a tight title race with PSV Eindhoven, will be back in the qualifying rounds next season unless it wins this Champions League because even the Dutch league winner does not get direct entry into the group stage. Another and more recent Super League threat came in a Football Leaks report in November. German magazine Der Spiegel published confidential documents revealing a Super League project linked to Real Madrid. The proposed 16-team lineup had AC Milan - which has not qualified for the Champions League in five years - among 11 founding members who could not be relegated. The five invited clubs included Marseille, which failed even to reach the knockout rounds of the Europa League this season. There was no place for Ajax. More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/apf-Soccer and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports Posts tagged "Feature" “Without Fear or Favor”: the Adolph S. Ochs Story 5 months ago Triangle 0 Written by: Devin Burrow, senior editor Adolph S. Ochs died after 57 years of dedicating himself to objectivity as a leader in the world of journalism. Several newspapers such as The New York Times and Chattanooga Times Free Press, which he owned detailed his life. As an entrepreneur of impartiality, Ochs stands out Read More FIRST DATE: Problems and Solutions Written by: Rylee Evans, staff writer Do you send another text? Do you pay the check? Do you ask them first? These are just some of the questions you ask yourself when you like someone. Let’s examine some dating fails and successes. There are so many grey areas and questions which make dating Read More Novice Art Critic Reviews: The Frist Art Museum Written by Samantha Burgess, managing editor Once you enter the Frist Art Museum and learn of its history, you will quickly realize how unique it is in comparison to other museums. The Frist Art Museum, a Nashville landmark founded in April 2001, is set up so that every six to eight weeks the museum creates Read More Bryan Triangle news team visits Baptist Press headquarters Written By: Rylee Evans, staff writer Nashville, Tenn–On Monday, January 28, it was a bright and early morning, (just kidding it was dark,) as the Bryan Triangle team met to leave for Nashville and explore both the Southern Baptist Convention Center Baptist Press headquarters and the Frist Art Museum. The team had the opportunity to Read More We have a new column: It’s no secret that

the quality of reporting at The Triangle has been, well, relatively nonexistent for the last couple of years, just like our very own news source, “The Fourth Side.” Our two reporters, Cinna Kuhl and M. Bellisher, two very real people, promise to deliver objective and unbiased news about the most pressing news stories for the students of Bryan College—except, of course, for the completely unimportant topics that usually spread controversy across campus and those affiliated with the college. We don’t take a side on these issues, because we are “The Fourth Side.” ← You don’t have to wait three years and an election cycle (or two) Vandals in Victoria → Let’s ban old people from voting Posted on 12:55 pm, June 25, 2016 by Judith Sloan The best part of the Brexit victory is the ensuing head-explosions of the elites, the entitled, the Europhiles on the gravy train and the young’uns. Here is a piece from The Times, no less, which actually played a fairly straight bat during the campaign. The message is that old people are going to die and they won’t have to live with the consequences of Brexit, so they probably should be disenfranchised. It’s right, you know. You really have to laugh, particularly as it is written by someone called Giles. I had lunch with my mother on Wednesday and as our starters were being cleared away she turned to me and said, “So, Giles, how are you going to vote tomorrow?” And I replied, “why?” because I sniffed a trap. I’m not saying my mother loves a lunchtime broigus, it’s just that she doesn’t usually ask a question unless she already has a strong opinion of her own fired up and ready to go. On this, I was guessing she was for Brexit. My mother was (and remains) a great admirer of Margaret Thatcher, almost always votes Conservative, has an abhorrence of bureaucracy and red tape thanks to 40 years working in the NHS (and owning a house in France) and voted to leave the EEC in 1975. And so her answer astonished me. “I’m asking because whatever you vote, I’ll vote,” she said. “After all, I’m going to be dead soon so it doesn’t matter what I think. I won’t be affected.” If only every older person in Britain had had the humility to think the same way this week and pass on their vote to a generation more likely to be affected by the result. We’d still be in Europe this morning. We’d be laughing at how ridiculous it was to have had a referendum in the first place and just getting on with our lives. For make no mistake, it is the old people who did this to us. I assume you have seen the voting breakdown by age? In the 18-24 group it was 64 per cent to Remain and 24 per cent to Leave. In the 25-49 age group it was 45 per cent to 39. Only in the 50-64 bracket does the balance shift, going over to 49 per cent for Leave, as against 35 for Remain. And then among the over-65s it was an astonishing 58 per cent for Leave, against 33 per cent for Remain. The less time a person had left on earth to live and face up to their decision, in other words, the more likely they were to vote to leave the European Union. The wrinkly bastards stitched us young ’uns up good and proper on Thursday. From their stair lifts and their Zimmer frames, their electric recliner beds and their walk-in baths, they reached out with their wizened old writing hands to make their wobbly crosses and screwed their children and their children’s children for a thousand generations. (Except my mother — who wants it made clear that she was for Leave anyway.) I always knew it would turn out this way. From the moment the referendum was called, the polls showed a massive majority for Leave in the over-65 group — bigger than any differential in wage, education, geographical location or political leaning. And it was how I formed my eventual decision to vote Remain. I just knew that I could not vote with the old people. Because old

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you order. "Our pursuit and firm aim should be to ""Always fulfill our buyer requirements"". We carry on to produce and structure top-quality excellent solutions for equally our aged and new consumers and accomplish a win-win prospect for our consumers as well as us for Multinational Pain Relief Pad , Multinational Pain Relief Patch , Natural Pain Relief Patch , They are sturdy modeling and promoting effectively all over the world. Never ever disappearing major functions within a quick time it's a have to for yourself of fantastic good quality. Guided by the principle of Prudence Efficiency Union and Innovation. the corporation. ake an excellent efforts to expand its international trade raise its organization. rofit and raise its export scale. We have been confident that we have been going to have a bright prospect and to be distributed all over the world in the years to come. TheAngrySpark: Could Apple be the Next Big iConsole? EA seems to think so. Electronic Arts VP Eric Soderlund told industry site MCV that he believes the iCompany could successfully break into the home gaming console market, even though it would be no easy task. Personally, I think Apple has a great thing going with it's iPhone/iPod/iPad line of devices and entering into the battle for the living room might not be the greatest move right now. While it may be true that there are a lot of fun games on the App store- there are also an awful lot of clunkers... and a metric ton of shovelware. I would like to see Apple clean the shop up a bit and commit itself to real, retail quality, titles (at least for the iPad, the iPhone is just a mobile platform at heart) before they entered into another level of hardware competition. Ahyong, S. T.; O'Meally, D. (2004). Phylogeny of the Decapoda Reptantia: resolution using three molecular loci and morphology. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 52, 673-693. Ahyong, S. T.; O'Meally, D. ORCA is a Control Framework to provision virtual networked systems via Secure and Distributed management of Heterogeneous Resources over Federated substrate sites and domains. It was originally developed by the NICL Lab at Duke University, and is currently being developed jointly with Duke University by the Networking Group at The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI). ORCA-BEN development is currently being funded by the GENI Project Office, as one of the control framework prototypes for GENI, and the core control framework for GENI Cluster D. ORCA Documentation Statically built documentation. Howtos, manuals and customization. ORCA Guides page Older static documentation at Duke NICL. Use with caution. Configuring common authority actors NEW! Best practices for setting up distributed production environment NEW! NEuca-guest-configuration - creating guest images for use with NEuca. RENCI-owned NEuca cluster descriptions, BEN login required. Setting up SSH proxy tunneling NEW! Network driver development HOWTO - NEW! ORCA Beta Release Nov 2009? When I got pregnant, I was diagnosed with viral hepatitis — more specifically, the doctor said I am a hepatitis B carrier. What does that really mean? I don’t have any symptoms as far as I know. Both my kids and my husband have been vaccinated. But what do I have to do for myself? Do I have to be vaccinated? I am a bit worried about this and I would appreciate it if you can enlighten me regarding this query. In the United States, we usually think of hepatitis B as a sexually transmitted disease, and of course it can be spread in that way. But, if we look at hepatitis B from a world-wide perspective, the commonest form of transmission is probably from infected mother to newborn child. Therefore, it is now the standard of care to test all expectant mothers for this virus, so that their newborns can be promptly treated to prevent such transmission. Many women, like you, are surprised to learn that they are hepatitis B carriers, which means that they are chronically infected with the virus. There are a number of blood tests done to evaluate hepatitis B, and they can be useful in determining the stage of infection and how much risk there is of transmission from someone who is infected

to someone else, either sexually or to a newborn at birth. These tests measure various antigens, which are parts of the actual hepatitis virus itself, and the antibodies that our bodies produce against those antigens when we are infected or vaccinated. Three hepatitis B antigens are recognized: the surface (s) antigen, the core (c) antigen, and the e antigen. The s and e antigens can appear in the blood, and are commonly tested for. The c antigen remains in liver cells, and there is not a commonly used clinical test for it. The tests for the s and e antigens are usually noted as HBsAg, and HBeAg. Each of the antigens has a corresponding antibody, and clinical tests for all three are commonly done. These are the HBsAb, the HBcAb, and the HBeAb. (Ab is short for antibody, Ag for antigen). A complete panel of hepatitis B tests therefore consists of HBsAg, HBsAb, HBcAb, HBeAg and HBeAb. They are reported as positive or negative, not as numbers. So what do they mean? When a person if first infected with the virus, HBsAg and HBeAg appear in the blood. These indicate that the virus is duplicating itself in the body and is present in the blood. A short while later the HBcAb appears. This is simply the body’s response to the core antigen, and doesn’t tell us anything about how severe the infection is or whether it will become chronic. If the infected person is able to fight off the virus, which happens in about 95 percent of infected adults, the HBeAg disappears after about four months, and is replaced by the HBeAb. Slightly later HBsAg disappears and is replaced by HBsAb. The presence of HBsAb means that the immune system has successfully fought off the infection, and the person is not able to transmit the infection to others (although blood banks will never accept that person as a donor regardless). If HBsAg has not converted to HBsAb by six months, then the person is said to have chronic hepatitis, meaning that the virus is still infecting the liver. If HBeAg has not converted to HBeAb, then the person is considered to be highly infectious. A woman who is HBeAg positive when she gives birth has a 90 percent likelihood of infecting her newborn if the baby is not quickly treated. If she is HBsAg positive but has converted to HBeAb — meaning that she is less infectious — the chances of her infecting her newborn fall to about 10 percent. You apparently didn’t know that you were a carrier until this pregnancy, so possibly you had your first two children before the testing of expectant women was a routine practice. The fact they both escaped being infected means that you are probably in the HBsAg positive, HBeAg negative category, with a low risk of transmission. Your husband and both children have been vaccinated. This is of course crucial for your husband to prevent sexual transmission to him, and is now standard pediatric practice for all children to prevent them catching the disease sexually when they grow up. Vaccination is done with the HBsAg particle, produced by recombinant technology that ensures that no other viruses are in the vaccine. Someone who has been vaccinated should become HBsAb positive. The absence of HBcAb in people who have been vaccinated distinguishes them from someone who has had the infection and recovered from it. Vaccination would be pointless for you, since you are already chronically infected. There is treatment now for chronic hepatitis B, with interferon and a drug called lamivudine. Whether you would benefit from such treatment would depend on the age when you were infected (people infected as infants generally cannot be cured) and the state of your liver as determined by blood tests and a liver biopsy. After you are through with this pregnancy, you should be evaluated for treatment by a gastroenterologist. Your baby should be promptly treated after delivery, even though your first two children did not get infected, just on the off chance that he or she might fall in that 10 percent group. LONDON, March 23 (Reuters) - Britain's double Olympics gold-medal winning gymn

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2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 August 2016 July 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 December 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 April 2015 March 2015 I wasn’t going to climb Sri Pada (Adam’s Peak) In Sri Lanka, coconut deliciously goes with everyt Love the papery petals and the brushes of purple i Friday morning, the start of the weekend in Maldiv I once saw an art exhibit in NYC called the color A baby shark 🎶... I had the song stuck in my he Fresh from the sea...at last weekend’s Mermaid P At the fabulous Ganesh Temple last weekend for a c © 2015-2020 - Bridget DeMouy. All Rights Reserved. BREWING ARIZONA Info./Contact Pre-Pro Post-Pro AZ Brew Co. Brewery Links Breweriana Photos A-1 Beer Prints Hurray for Beer! Tri-State Brewery Ad ~ July 1933 The repeal of Prohibition in December, 1933, brought hope for a brighter and happier future at a time when jobs were scarce under the Great Depression. Providentially, Arizona’s brewing industry was reinvigorated. Nonetheless, only one brewery, the Arizona Brewing Company in Phoenix, was able to succeed and flourish. A number of breweries, such as the Tri-State Brewing Company in Glendale, made an attempt but fizzled prior to opening. Over the years, the Arizona Brewing Company experienced numerous obstacles, ownership changes, brand conversions, production difficulties with World War II, unprecedented expansion, and a pride in knowing its A-1 brand had become the state’s top-selling beer during the 1950s. With each hurdle, it found ways to emerge stronger as a consummate regional brewery. However, the one barrier it could not overcome was the “chain brewery” concept which had been a growing trend in the brewing industry. By the 1960s, a record number of regional breweries closed due to consolidation as larger corporate breweries proved more powerful and ruthless in their desire to outsell competitors. Corporate breweries eventually overtook the Arizona Brewing Company: Carling in 1964, National in 1966, the merging of Carling-National in 1974, and ultimately G. Heileman in 1979. Yet, throughout each change, its workers, who referred to themselves as the “A-1 Family,” remained relatively intact. The brewery’s closing in 1985 brought an end to the most prolific brewing venture ever to operate in the state. Since the 1960s, the rise of lighter and less compelling beers became the trend in the industry. Fewer breweries produced beer although the volume of beer rose through the continued efforts of Anheuser-Busch, Miller, Coors, and other corporate giants. By 1980, fewer than 100 breweries were operating in the United States. It became a dull and cheerless era for the brewing industry. 1993 ~ A-1 Brewery Looking South Just Prior to Demolition. 1970s ~ Arial View of the Brewery Looking North Copyright © 2010-2015 Brewing Arizona LLC. All Rights Reserved. Home » The Canal of Death Is Now an Economic Gateway for Eastern Europe The Canal of Death Is Now an Economic Gateway for Eastern Europe The canal from the Danube River to the port of Constanta is notorious in Romanian history. Thousands of political prisoners died to start it and a brutal dictator bankrupted the country while finishing it. Today, the 64-kilometer (40-mile) channel through rich

2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 August 2016 July 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 December 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 April 2015 March 2015 I wasn’t going to climb Sri Pada (Adam’s Peak) In Sri Lanka, coconut deliciously goes with everyt Love the papery petals and the brushes of purple i Friday morning, the start of the weekend in Maldiv I once saw an art exhibit in NYC called the color A baby shark 🎶... I had the song stuck in my he Fresh from the sea...at last weekend’s Mermaid P At the fabulous Ganesh Temple last weekend for a c © 2015-2020 - Bridget DeMouy. All Rights Reserved. BREWING ARIZONA Info./Contact Pre-Pro Post-Pro AZ Brew Co. Brewery Links Breweriana Photos A-1 Beer Prints Hurray for Beer! Tri-State Brewery Ad ~ July 1933 The repeal of Prohibition in December, 1933, brought hope for a brighter and happier future at a time when jobs were scarce under the Great Depression. Providentially, Arizona’s brewing industry was reinvigorated. Nonetheless, only one brewery, the Arizona Brewing Company in Phoenix, was able to succeed and flourish. A number of breweries, such as the Tri-State Brewing Company in Glendale, made an attempt but fizzled prior to opening. Over the years, the Arizona Brewing Company experienced numerous obstacles, ownership changes, brand conversions, production difficulties with World War II, unprecedented expansion, and a pride in knowing its A-1 brand had become the state’s top-selling beer during the 1950s. With each hurdle, it found ways to emerge stronger as a consummate regional brewery. However, the one barrier it could not overcome was the “chain brewery” concept which had been a growing trend in the brewing industry. By the 1960s, a record number of regional breweries closed due to consolidation as larger corporate breweries proved more powerful and ruthless in their desire to outsell competitors. Corporate breweries eventually overtook the Arizona Brewing Company: Carling in 1964, National in 1966, the merging of Carling-National in 1974, and ultimately G. Heileman in 1979. Yet, throughout each change, its workers, who referred to themselves as the “A-1 Family,” remained relatively intact. The brewery’s closing in 1985 brought an end to the most prolific brewing venture ever to operate in the state. Since the 1960s, the rise of lighter and less compelling beers became the trend in the industry. Fewer breweries produced beer although the volume of beer rose through the continued efforts of Anheuser-Busch, Miller, Coors, and other corporate giants. By 1980, fewer than 100 breweries were operating in the United States. It became a dull and cheerless era for the brewing industry. 1993 ~ A-1 Brewery Looking South Just Prior to Demolition. 1970s ~ Arial View of the Brewery Looking North Copyright © 2010-2015 Brewing Arizona LLC. All Rights Reserved. Home » The Canal of Death Is Now an Economic Gateway for Eastern Europe The Canal of Death Is Now an Economic Gateway for Eastern Europe The canal from the Danube River to the port of Constanta is notorious in Romanian history. Thousands of political prisoners died to start it and a brutal dictator bankrupted the country while finishing it. Today, the 64-kilometer (40-mile) channel through rich

farmland to the Black Sea is a gateway to world markets. Thirty years after the end of communism, it’s helped turn one of the European Union’s poorest members into its biggest exporter of wheat alongside France. The symbol of oppression and totalitarian vanity is now an example of the transformation of a country that endured some of the harshest conditions during the Cold War. The region that straddles the Danube in Romania and Bulgaria has made it a bread basket for centuries. But after fits and starts toward the free market, chronic shortages, corruption and political upheaval, it’s plugged into the world economy thanks to the EU’s open borders and money. The two Balkan countries received more than 30 billion euros ($33 billion) of aid that has modernized the agricultural industry. Romania exported 2.3 million tons of wheat since the season started in July, more than anywhere else in the EU so far, though France usually overtakes eventually. Bulgaria was third with 885,000 tons. Gheorghe Lamureanu remembers the canal project being resurrected by Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in the 1970s, when wheat sales abroad meant many people couldn’t get enough food. The 64-year-old farmer has worked the fields adjacent to the waterway for more than four decades and uses the canal to irrigate his fields. “The transition from communism was difficult,” said Lamureanu, as a farmhand chiseled thick clods of dirt from the blades of a two-meter-wide disc plow attached to a new tractor. “We were just used to being producers. We’ve never known how to sell, so we had to adapt.” Since joining the EU in 2007, local farmers improved seed stocks, bought new machinery and boosted output with EU agricultural subsidies. Output is outstripping domestic demand, making more of the grain available to ship abroad. Romania is also a key conduit for other countries in the region that are part of the EU’s open market. A majority of what Romania ships is not grown in the country. The Danube waterway brings product from farms in Slovakia, Hungary and Serbia. Practically all of Bulgarian wheat exports are domestically produced. Exports through Constanta might even beat the previous record set in 1989. The biggest hurdle to further expansion is the poor rail and road infrastructure in Romania and the quality of shipping facilities in Bulgaria. Transportation networks and port loading methods are still saddled with outmoded equipment built during state-controlled economic times that make loading slower than western ports. For growers, “technology has improved significantly, of course, due to accession,” said Petar Dimitrov, the head of Agricore, a grain commodities brokerage in the port city of Varna, Bulgaria. But for port handlers and shippers, “it’s all about logistics,” he said. “It’s a huge limitation.” Under communism, collectivized farms across eastern Europe sold produce for hard currency or traded goods for commodities such as oil and gas from the Soviet Union without considering the complexities of global trade. Following an early summer harvest, Lamureanu was getting the fields ready to replant seeds the following day for harvesting next year. “We’re happy now that we’ve begun exporting.” Across the border in Bulgaria, Orlin Panev’s 300 hectares of fields were already stripped and he is ready for the next planting season. Without the ability to increase farmland in the country “except by means of war” or control fickle weather conditions, Panev and other farmers are focusing on improving quality. Egypt is the biggest importer of wheat from the Black Sea region, while Bulgaria sends half its production to Spain. “The region has become a very serious factor, including in shaping international prices,” said Panev. Still, loading in both Constanta and Varna are limited by outdated technology. It uses large metal jaws and transfers the product one scoop at a time. Constanta is about to get a major competitive boost. A new grain storage and handling complex of 24 silos is set to transfer 72,000 tons a day onto ships, six times faster than the current available rate. The complex costs more than 50 million euros, mainly

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Companions of the Prophet (Sahaba) Migration to Abyssinia Ja'far b. Abi Talib • 'Abd Allah b. Mas'ud • 'Abd Allah b. 'Abd al-Asad • Abu 'Ubayda al-Jarrah • Shurahbil b. Hasana • Khalid b. Sa'id • 'Uthman b. 'Affan • Abu Hudhayfa • Miqdad b. 'Amr • Mus'ab b. 'Umayr • 'Uthman b. Maz'un Umm Salama • Umm Habiba • Asma' bt. 'Umays • Ruqayya bt. Muhammad • Umm Ayman • Safiyya bt. 'Abd al-Muttalib • Sawda bt. Zam'a b. Qays Died before Abu Talib • Yasir Lady Khadija (a) • Sumayya Muhajirun Imam 'Ali (a) • Hamza • 'Ammar b. Yasir • Abu Dhar al-Ghifari • Miqdad b. 'Amr • Bilal al-Habshi • Arqam b. Abi Arqam • Budayl b. Warqa' • Abu Rafi' • 'Abd Allah b. Mas'ud • Al-'Abbas b. 'Abd al-Muttalib • Khabbab b. Aratt • Usama b. Zayd• Abu Hudhayfa • Abu l-'As b. Rabi' • Talha • Al-Zubayr b. al-'Awwam • Ibn 'Abbas • Salman al-Farsi • Shurahbil b. Hasana • Khalid b. Sa'id • 'Uthman b. Maz'un • 'Uthman b. 'Affan • Sa'd b. Abi Waqqas • 'Amr b. Hamiq al-Khuza'i • Suhayb b. Sinan • Abu Bakr • Zayd b. Haritha • Abu 'Ubayda al-Jarrah • 'Ubayd Allah b. 'Abbas b. 'Abd al-Muttalib • Mus'ab b. 'Umayr• 'Abd Allah b. 'Umar Lady Fatimah al-Zahra' (a) • Fatima bt. Asad (a) • Umm Ayman • Umm Salama • Aisha • Zaynab bt. Jahsh • Ruqayya bt. Muhammad • Safiyya bt. 'Abd al-Muttalib • Sawda bt. Zam'a b. Qays • Zaynab daughter of the Prophet (s) • Umm Kulthum Daughter of Prophet Muhammad (s) • Asma' bt. Abi Bakr Jabir b. 'Abd Allah al-Ansari • Khuzayma b. Thabit • As'ad b. Zurara • Abu l-Haytham b. al-Tayyihan • Abu Qatada al-Ansari • Sahl b. Hunayf • 'Uthman b. Hunayf • Abu Lubaba al-Ansari • Zayd b. Arqam • Burayda b. al-Husayb • Abu Sa'id al-Khudri • Al-Habab b. al-Mundhir • Hanzala b. Abi 'Amir • Abu Ayyub al-Ansari • Abu Talha • Zayd b. Thabit • Al-Bara' b. 'Azib • Shaddad b. Aws • Abu Dujana • Khubayb b. 'Adi • Sa'd b. 'Ubada • Sa'd b. Mu'adh • Hudhayfa b. al-Yaman • Hassan b. Thabit • Mu'adh b. Jabal • Bilal b. al-Harith • Qays b. Sa'd b. 'Ubada • 'Abd Allah b. Rawaha • Sa'id b. Sa'd b. 'Ubada • Bashir b. Sa'd • Usayd b. Hudayr b. Simak • 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Ab

Companions of the Prophet (Sahaba) Migration to Abyssinia Ja'far b. Abi Talib • 'Abd Allah b. Mas'ud • 'Abd Allah b. 'Abd al-Asad • Abu 'Ubayda al-Jarrah • Shurahbil b. Hasana • Khalid b. Sa'id • 'Uthman b. 'Affan • Abu Hudhayfa • Miqdad b. 'Amr • Mus'ab b. 'Umayr • 'Uthman b. Maz'un Umm Salama • Umm Habiba • Asma' bt. 'Umays • Ruqayya bt. Muhammad • Umm Ayman • Safiyya bt. 'Abd al-Muttalib • Sawda bt. Zam'a b. Qays Died before Abu Talib • Yasir Lady Khadija (a) • Sumayya Muhajirun Imam 'Ali (a) • Hamza • 'Ammar b. Yasir • Abu Dhar al-Ghifari • Miqdad b. 'Amr • Bilal al-Habshi • Arqam b. Abi Arqam • Budayl b. Warqa' • Abu Rafi' • 'Abd Allah b. Mas'ud • Al-'Abbas b. 'Abd al-Muttalib • Khabbab b. Aratt • Usama b. Zayd• Abu Hudhayfa • Abu l-'As b. Rabi' • Talha • Al-Zubayr b. al-'Awwam • Ibn 'Abbas • Salman al-Farsi • Shurahbil b. Hasana • Khalid b. Sa'id • 'Uthman b. Maz'un • 'Uthman b. 'Affan • Sa'd b. Abi Waqqas • 'Amr b. Hamiq al-Khuza'i • Suhayb b. Sinan • Abu Bakr • Zayd b. Haritha • Abu 'Ubayda al-Jarrah • 'Ubayd Allah b. 'Abbas b. 'Abd al-Muttalib • Mus'ab b. 'Umayr• 'Abd Allah b. 'Umar Lady Fatimah al-Zahra' (a) • Fatima bt. Asad (a) • Umm Ayman • Umm Salama • Aisha • Zaynab bt. Jahsh • Ruqayya bt. Muhammad • Safiyya bt. 'Abd al-Muttalib • Sawda bt. Zam'a b. Qays • Zaynab daughter of the Prophet (s) • Umm Kulthum Daughter of Prophet Muhammad (s) • Asma' bt. Abi Bakr Jabir b. 'Abd Allah al-Ansari • Khuzayma b. Thabit • As'ad b. Zurara • Abu l-Haytham b. al-Tayyihan • Abu Qatada al-Ansari • Sahl b. Hunayf • 'Uthman b. Hunayf • Abu Lubaba al-Ansari • Zayd b. Arqam • Burayda b. al-Husayb • Abu Sa'id al-Khudri • Al-Habab b. al-Mundhir • Hanzala b. Abi 'Amir • Abu Ayyub al-Ansari • Abu Talha • Zayd b. Thabit • Al-Bara' b. 'Azib • Shaddad b. Aws • Abu Dujana • Khubayb b. 'Adi • Sa'd b. 'Ubada • Sa'd b. Mu'adh • Hudhayfa b. al-Yaman • Hassan b. Thabit • Mu'adh b. Jabal • Bilal b. al-Harith • Qays b. Sa'd b. 'Ubada • 'Abd Allah b. Rawaha • Sa'id b. Sa'd b. 'Ubada • Bashir b. Sa'd • Usayd b. Hudayr b. Simak • 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Ab

d Rabb • Aws b. Thabit al-Khazraji • Bishr b. al-Bara' Umm 'Umara • Rumaysa' bt. Milhan Badriyyun Imam 'Ali (a) • Hamza • Sahl b. Hunayf • Bilal al-Habashi • 'Abd Allah b. Mas'ud • 'Uthman b. Maz'un • Suhayb b. Sinan • 'Abd Allah b. 'Abd al-Asad • 'Ammar b. Yasir • Miqdad b. 'Amr • Al-Habab b. al-Mundhir • Abu l-Haytham b. al-Tayyihan • Ubayy b. Ka'b • Bashir b. Sa'd • Mus'ab b. 'Umayr • Zayd b. Haritha • Al-Zubayr b. al-'Awwam • Sa'd b. Abi Waqqas • Abu Bakr • Abu Talha al-Ansari • Shaddad b. Aws • Abu Dujana • Khubayb b. 'Adi • Sa'd b. Mu'adh • Mu'adh b. Jabal • Bishr b. al-Bara' • 'Abd Allah b. Rawaha • Abu Hudhayfa • Khabbab b. Aratt • Khuzayma b. Thabit • Ka'b b. 'Amr Converts after the Conquest of Mecca Hashim b. 'Utba b. Abi Waqqas • Abu Sufyan • Mu'awiya • Kharija b. Hudhafa • al-Khirrit b. Rashid al-Naji • Jarud b. Mu'alla • Al-Mughira b. al-Harith b. 'Abd al-Muttalib • Abu Mahdhura Other Companions Salman al-Farsi • 'Aqil b. Abi Talib • Hanzala b. Rabi' • Sulayman b. Surad al-Khuza'i • Sa'd b. Mas'ud al-Thaqafi • Hujr b. 'Adi • 'Amr b. al-'As • Malik b. Nuwayra • Khalid b. al-Walid • Aban b. Sa'id • Tamim al-Dari • Abu Musa al-Ash'ari • 'Adi b. Hatim al-Ta'i • Qutham b. al-'Abbas b. 'Abd al-Muttalib • Jariya b. Qudama • 'Abd Allah b. Ja'far • Abu l-Tufayl al-Kinani Safiyya bt. Huyayy • Maymuna bt. Harith • Umama bt. Abi l-'As b. al-Rabi' • Fidda • 'Atika bt. 'Abd al-Muttalib • Hind bt. 'Utba Muslim b. 'Awsaja • 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Abd Rabb • Anas b. al-Harith al-Kahili • Habib b. Muzahir • Ammar b. Abi Salama • Harith b. Nabhan List of Sahaba Retrieved from "http://en.wikishia.net/index.php?title=Abu_Qatada_al-Ansari&oldid=141634" Kanye West’s Coachella Merchandise Is Wildly Expensive (Photo by Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for ADIDAS) David Hookstead Smoke Room Editor-in-Chief April 22, 2019 9:11 AM ET Kanye West was selling some merchandise at Coachella, and none of it was cheap. His clothing prices at the music festival generated so much attention that it became one of the top moments Sunday on Twitter, and it’s not hard to see why. (SLIDESHOW: These Women On Instagram Hate Wearing Clothes) A single shirt with the words “Holy Spirit” on it was selling for $165. Socks, yes socks, were

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with “the theme of survival, how we are with our ancestors, ideas of colonialism and the creating of stories for new people,” she said. “It felt from my listeners that this was something they very much understood … I think it would’ve been different had we made (the show with) the Royal Ballet dancers.” It’s a three-part production with each act lasting about half an hour, broken up by two intermissions. In the second act, the audience will observe the dancers both in and out of character, which Hameed said is intended to engage viewers and underline that what they’re seeing is not “something over there from which they’re quite removed and quite comfortably safe” — that while on the one hand some aspects of the stories are futuristic, Atwood’s writing responds to the world we live in. “This is one of the brilliant things about Margaret Atwood,” said McGregor. “Her activism lies at the centre of the way in which she writes and she uses story to make us see ourselves in a different way.” “Her concerns are the big questions of our time,” said composer Richter. “And I think creative work can be a useful space to deal with those questions. It’s a sort of collective thinking through things.” As Hameed pointed out, Atwood regularly challenges claims that she’s pessimistic. “What she often says is, ‘It hasn’t happened yet. We still have a choice,’” said Hameed. “There is a sense that it isn’t entirely sewn up … that was something that we wanted to lean into. When you get Atwood, you get the whole package. You're not just getting a fiction writer. You’re getting somebody who’s very, very progressive and at the front of the environmental movement, and actively taking part in these things.” Scarborough playwright Kanika Ambrose shines a light on immigration and motherhood Patti LuPone, Scott Joplin’s ‘Treemonisha’ and a new Canadian opera highlight TO Live programming Soulpepper’s 2023 spring lineup includes adaption of a Chekhov classic, new jazz concert and Tony-nominated play about apartheid Part of what drew Atwood to McGregor’s work was that he’s known to be an innovator who works with cutting-edge and emerging technologies; another of his recent projects is the “ABBA: Voyage” concert currently playing in London, which features avatars of the famous quartet alongside a live band. Atwood welcomes such experimentation. “It’s not that the theatre has ever been without technology,” she said. “They were making great pits of hell in medieval times … It’s always been a medium that has used other media where it could.” When I spoke to them for this article, McGregor and Hameed were heading into technical rehearsals, the crux moment when all major elements of the production come together and when things emerge that might need to be cut or changed. This brings challenges, but “we’ve learned we have to trust the process and that, when things are difficult, we’ve got to dig deeper,” said Hameed. “There isn’t really any alternative.” “Well, what is stress?” asked McGregor when I asked him if this was nerve-wracking. “I’ve been doing this kind of process for 30 years and it never gets any easier. Of course, you do care about it. I really care about it. I care that in some way we do justice to those novels. Recently I’ve had Virginia Woolf on my shoulder and Dante on the other, but I can flick them off because they’re not with us anymore. But we’ve got Margaret very much on our mind.” As for Atwood herself, she has no idea what she’s going to see onstage on opening night: “I like being surprised,” she said. “I went to the premiere of the ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ opera in Copenhagen and didn’t know if it would be terrible or great. You’re just on the edge of your seat. That’s what you want. I am an audience member when I am in the theatre; I want what other audience members want. Surprise me, make me go wow!” “MADDADDAM” runs at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W., Nov. 23 to 30. See national.ballet.ca for tickets.

with “the theme of survival, how we are with our ancestors, ideas of colonialism and the creating of stories for new people,” she said. “It felt from my listeners that this was something they very much understood … I think it would’ve been different had we made (the show with) the Royal Ballet dancers.” It’s a three-part production with each act lasting about half an hour, broken up by two intermissions. In the second act, the audience will observe the dancers both in and out of character, which Hameed said is intended to engage viewers and underline that what they’re seeing is not “something over there from which they’re quite removed and quite comfortably safe” — that while on the one hand some aspects of the stories are futuristic, Atwood’s writing responds to the world we live in. “This is one of the brilliant things about Margaret Atwood,” said McGregor. “Her activism lies at the centre of the way in which she writes and she uses story to make us see ourselves in a different way.” “Her concerns are the big questions of our time,” said composer Richter. “And I think creative work can be a useful space to deal with those questions. It’s a sort of collective thinking through things.” As Hameed pointed out, Atwood regularly challenges claims that she’s pessimistic. “What she often says is, ‘It hasn’t happened yet. We still have a choice,’” said Hameed. “There is a sense that it isn’t entirely sewn up … that was something that we wanted to lean into. When you get Atwood, you get the whole package. You're not just getting a fiction writer. You’re getting somebody who’s very, very progressive and at the front of the environmental movement, and actively taking part in these things.” Scarborough playwright Kanika Ambrose shines a light on immigration and motherhood Patti LuPone, Scott Joplin’s ‘Treemonisha’ and a new Canadian opera highlight TO Live programming Soulpepper’s 2023 spring lineup includes adaption of a Chekhov classic, new jazz concert and Tony-nominated play about apartheid Part of what drew Atwood to McGregor’s work was that he’s known to be an innovator who works with cutting-edge and emerging technologies; another of his recent projects is the “ABBA: Voyage” concert currently playing in London, which features avatars of the famous quartet alongside a live band. Atwood welcomes such experimentation. “It’s not that the theatre has ever been without technology,” she said. “They were making great pits of hell in medieval times … It’s always been a medium that has used other media where it could.” When I spoke to them for this article, McGregor and Hameed were heading into technical rehearsals, the crux moment when all major elements of the production come together and when things emerge that might need to be cut or changed. This brings challenges, but “we’ve learned we have to trust the process and that, when things are difficult, we’ve got to dig deeper,” said Hameed. “There isn’t really any alternative.” “Well, what is stress?” asked McGregor when I asked him if this was nerve-wracking. “I’ve been doing this kind of process for 30 years and it never gets any easier. Of course, you do care about it. I really care about it. I care that in some way we do justice to those novels. Recently I’ve had Virginia Woolf on my shoulder and Dante on the other, but I can flick them off because they’re not with us anymore. But we’ve got Margaret very much on our mind.” As for Atwood herself, she has no idea what she’s going to see onstage on opening night: “I like being surprised,” she said. “I went to the premiere of the ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ opera in Copenhagen and didn’t know if it would be terrible or great. You’re just on the edge of your seat. That’s what you want. I am an audience member when I am in the theatre; I want what other audience members want. Surprise me, make me go wow!” “MADDADDAM” runs at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W., Nov. 23 to 30. See national.ballet.ca for tickets.

With files from Michael Crabb Karen Fricker is a Toronto-based theatre critic and a freelance contributor for the Star. Follow her on Twitter: @KarenFricker2 Hundreds of protests expected in response to Jeff Sessions' exit as U.S. Attorney General Image copyright 2013 Getty Images. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Alex Wong <p>Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Robert Mueller testifies during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee June 19, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. </p> By: Tim Meehan Hundreds of protests are expected to take place nationwide in response to former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' resignation; several of them are planned for locations around Western New York Thursday evening. They're being planned by a group called "Nobody Is Above The Law." The group fears that Sessions' departure as Attorney General may interfere with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 Election. According to the group's website, they're calling for protests to start at 5:00 p.m. in at least 900 cities. At least three of those protests are planned for Bidwell Park in Buffalo, the Gazebo in Barker Commons in Fredonia and outside of Rep. Tom Reed's Jamestown office. All Eyes on Lao Dam Tragedy Probe | The Bangkok Post The contentious Xayaburi Dam on the Mekong. Laos should give greater consideration of how hydropower affects communities living in and around dam sites and reservoirs. File photo Bangkok Post This article originally appeared in The Bangkok Post. In the wake of the tragic collapse last month of an auxiliary dam of the Xe-Pian-Xe-Namnoy hydropower project in southern Laos, the Lao government on Aug 7 announced a major review of hydropower projects across the country. All dams -- built or under development -- will be inspected for flaws in design and construction, according to the government statement. Further, the Lao government has temporarily suspended all new hydropower investments pending a review of the country's future hydropower development strategy. In direct response to the dam collapse -- a human-made disaster which killed over 30 people and forced thousands of others from their homes -- the government announced it would establish a task force to investigate the cause of the collapse and the failure of project oversight and warning systems. The investigation is to be chaired by the deputy prime minister and chairman of the Government Inspection Authority, with representatives from the Korean and Thai governments invited to observe the process. A spotlight is now shining on Laos's current energy strategy and the risks it poses to local populations. The proposed initiatives to investigate the Xe-Pian-Xe Namnoy dam collapse and review both existing dams and the country's future hydropower plans are welcome and appear to be a significant step in the right direction for development in Laos. In order for the Lao government's initiatives to be meaningful, the investigation and review process should be undertaken in a way that places affected communities -- the intended beneficiaries of the country's development and energy policies -- at the heart and centre of the process. Further, the Lao government should adhere to important core principles when undertaking the investigation and review to ensure their effectiveness. In particular, they should: act sincerely and conduct the processes in good faith; conform to international standards for independence; and ensure that the processes are open, transparent and accountable. To be open and accountable, the government needs to ensure adequate investment of time, resources and space. It needs to talk to affected peoples in Laos and neighbouring countries about their experiences of dams and their perceptions of the current policy. Doing this is essential in order to understand the impacts of existing projects and develop comprehensive findings for consideration in rebuilding the confidence of the people of Laos and the region following the disaster. To ensure independence, panels should be established with experts from both inside and outside the government and the hydropower industry, including academics with social and environmental expertise and civil society representatives. The investigation and review committees should enable the involvement of experts nominated by

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to secure your tickets. Had a fun shoot for Red Bull last weekend, the Wings for Life World Run in Denver. Since the global world run included events in 35 different countries, all starting at the exact same time, our shoot included a 2:45am call time and 4am race start. Thus the first two hours of the race, winding through the streets and suburbs of Denver, would be in complete darkness, with only the occasional street light illuminating the course. With impeccable timing, my new Nikon D4s bodies had arrived earlier in the week and it was a great opportunity to put them through the paces, not to mention leverage the incredible high ISO performance of a camera where 25,600 ISO is within the “native range” of the camera. Performance can be extended above this with the High ISO settings up to an incredible 409,600 ISO equivalent, but without the adequate time to test those settings, I stayed within the native range. The results were impressive to say the least. It boggles the mind to see how far low light performance has progressed in the last 5 years or so, first with the large gains of the Nikon D3, and now the continuing progression of more recent cameras. I’ll also note the new Group AF autofocus functionality exceeded expectations, locking on to runners in near darkness and holding focus in extremely difficult conditions, often backlit with support vehicle headlights. Red Bull Photo Team: Marv Watson, Lucas Gilman, Balazs Gardi and yours truly. All in all, it was a super fun shoot and was really pleased with quality and performance of the new gear in certainly challenging conditions! I’m really looking forward to working with the camera in the coming weeks to leverage all of its potential. CNC machined from 6082 aluminium or brass. The trigger blade is adjustable forwards/backwards by 10mm and can be twisted to a comfortable position. The blade can be mounted in 2 positions on the post for vertical adjustment. Fitting is straight forward. Only one pin needs to be removed from the trigger unit. The admission process at any school can be a daunting process. The Admission Team at UCC prides itself on doing everything possible to ensure a smooth and seamless experience for every family. Whether you’ve been investigating your options for years or this is your first inquiry at an independent school, you likely have a lot of questions. We encourage you to explore this section for basic information about the school and the admission process. After you've had a look around, if you still have questions we’ll be happy to answer them. On behalf of our school community, thank you for exploring Upper Canada College as a possible destination for your son. We see daily examples on campus, and in regular correspondence from our Old Boys, of how studying at UCC is a life changing experience. A cost-sharing plan for the project describing financial resources the unit and college may be willing to devote to the proposal. A plan for faculty professional development discussing how complementary teaching and learning techniques might be adopted. A schedule for course and/or program redesign to benefit from the new learning space. a plan for research, evaluation, review, and continuous improvement by the unit directly related to using the technology-enhanced space, adapting courses for active or distance/hybrid learning, or benefits realized in student success. The Office of Distance and Extended Learning should be consulted for additional support. I believe deep transformative healing occurs where body and consciousness meet. The degree that we are able to be present is the degree that we can access our own healing energy, a power that lies within every one. Where body, energy and consciousness meet lies the whole breadth of our existence; past, present, and, in the form of will and intention, our future. The feelings and thoughts we have about these things also lives there, making our physical form the densest layer of our energetic anatomy. Therefore working with body, emotion and consciousness provides a direct pathway to healing old wounds, grounding more fully in your life presently, and expanding your possibilities of what the future may hold. My curiosity has long lived in how mind and emotion effects the physical. It is the driving force behind all my work, as a facilitator, and as an artist. It was in fact, through choreography, that I first began to explore this theme. My dance pieces were “rich with psychological lures”, as a reviewer once described. Once

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was terrific, too. “The way they sing comes from the way they’ve grown up together, been in the same room together all these years,” he says. “I don’t think that exists anywhere in the world, this combination of talent, experience, family history and parents with the wisdom not to park them in front of televisions. It was an amazing thing to behold.” Then, in April 2012, Lauderdale asked them to join Pink Martini for a symphony show in Indianapolis. It was there that the idea of making an album together began to develop. “It was kind of the second time we’d really hung out with Thomas,” Amanda says, “and he slid the sheet music for Dream a Little Dream over across the table towards me. He had no way of knowing it, but that song was my lullaby growing up.” Lauderdale had the notion that August would strum the ukulele on the song, a Tin Pan Alley standard from the early ’30s. The only trouble was, August had never played the ukulele. “At first, it was really difficult,” he says. “But eventually you just keep at it, and your fingers mold into getting used to it.” Dream a Little Dream, with Amanda on lead vocal, Thomas on uke and Sofi on melodica, is the title track of the disc. In Stiller Nacht is on it. The rest of the lineup emerged by inspiration and serendipity. “I asked a lot of questions,” Lauderdale says. “‘Who all do you like? Who do you listen to? Who would you love to work with?’ At the top of the list was the Chieftains.” It turns out that Paddy Moloney’s venerable Irish group once shared management with Pink Martini, and the siblings journeyed to Dublin to collaborate with them on Thunder, one of three haunting New-Agey songs composed by August on the CD. (“My hope in reality,” says the lyric, “comes flowing from my dreams.”) There’s a cover of the ABBA song Fernando, Hushabye Mountain from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and carefully curated songs from China, Japan, Israel, France and Rwanda. And how could there be a von Trapp album without including any songs from The Sound of Music? In fact, Dream a Little Dream has two, The Lonely Goatherd and Edelweiss, and a guest vocalist on both is Charmian Carr, the original “sixteen going on seventeen” Liesl. Not long after making the film, Carr moved from acting to a career as a decorator, but she never stopped participating in Sound of Music events. At a 2000 singalong at the Hollywood Bowl, she met Lauderdale. While making Dream a Little Dream, he invited Carr to participate and she accepted without hesitation. Not only did Carr feel the von Trapps’ sound was “exquisite,” she says from her home in Encino, California, but she formed a quick and deep bond. “I told them they felt like my own children,” she says. In Portland, Amanda von Trapp says that singing with Carr was one of the high points of making the record. “Here are five people in the studio who would have no connection otherwise,” she says. “It’s so distant, but so close. She represented this story that our grandparents went through. And everybody loves this story, and her role especially, being Liesl.” The granddaughter of the brother of the person Carr played on screen pauses. “It was a little surreal,” she adds. Ben Yagoda – Smithsonian Magazine EVs ARE A Silver Bullet For Zero Emissions – Don’t Believe The Fossil Fuel Hype A report has been hitting the headlines in the UK about the carbon footprint of producing EVs. The main story is that (mostly due to the batteries) the manufacture of an electric vehicle means that it will need to drive 50,000 miles before an equivalent fossil fuel car becomes less green. This is not a complete lie – the carbon footprint of EV manufacture is (generally) higher than for fossil fuel cars at the moment. But leading on this headline figure obscures a lot of detail, and when you dig deeper, the motivations for the report become more questionable. The first eyebrow gets raised by the fact that this “new” report, entitled "Decarbonising Road Transport: There Is

was terrific, too. “The way they sing comes from the way they’ve grown up together, been in the same room together all these years,” he says. “I don’t think that exists anywhere in the world, this combination of talent, experience, family history and parents with the wisdom not to park them in front of televisions. It was an amazing thing to behold.” Then, in April 2012, Lauderdale asked them to join Pink Martini for a symphony show in Indianapolis. It was there that the idea of making an album together began to develop. “It was kind of the second time we’d really hung out with Thomas,” Amanda says, “and he slid the sheet music for Dream a Little Dream over across the table towards me. He had no way of knowing it, but that song was my lullaby growing up.” Lauderdale had the notion that August would strum the ukulele on the song, a Tin Pan Alley standard from the early ’30s. The only trouble was, August had never played the ukulele. “At first, it was really difficult,” he says. “But eventually you just keep at it, and your fingers mold into getting used to it.” Dream a Little Dream, with Amanda on lead vocal, Thomas on uke and Sofi on melodica, is the title track of the disc. In Stiller Nacht is on it. The rest of the lineup emerged by inspiration and serendipity. “I asked a lot of questions,” Lauderdale says. “‘Who all do you like? Who do you listen to? Who would you love to work with?’ At the top of the list was the Chieftains.” It turns out that Paddy Moloney’s venerable Irish group once shared management with Pink Martini, and the siblings journeyed to Dublin to collaborate with them on Thunder, one of three haunting New-Agey songs composed by August on the CD. (“My hope in reality,” says the lyric, “comes flowing from my dreams.”) There’s a cover of the ABBA song Fernando, Hushabye Mountain from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and carefully curated songs from China, Japan, Israel, France and Rwanda. And how could there be a von Trapp album without including any songs from The Sound of Music? In fact, Dream a Little Dream has two, The Lonely Goatherd and Edelweiss, and a guest vocalist on both is Charmian Carr, the original “sixteen going on seventeen” Liesl. Not long after making the film, Carr moved from acting to a career as a decorator, but she never stopped participating in Sound of Music events. At a 2000 singalong at the Hollywood Bowl, she met Lauderdale. While making Dream a Little Dream, he invited Carr to participate and she accepted without hesitation. Not only did Carr feel the von Trapps’ sound was “exquisite,” she says from her home in Encino, California, but she formed a quick and deep bond. “I told them they felt like my own children,” she says. In Portland, Amanda von Trapp says that singing with Carr was one of the high points of making the record. “Here are five people in the studio who would have no connection otherwise,” she says. “It’s so distant, but so close. She represented this story that our grandparents went through. And everybody loves this story, and her role especially, being Liesl.” The granddaughter of the brother of the person Carr played on screen pauses. “It was a little surreal,” she adds. Ben Yagoda – Smithsonian Magazine EVs ARE A Silver Bullet For Zero Emissions – Don’t Believe The Fossil Fuel Hype A report has been hitting the headlines in the UK about the carbon footprint of producing EVs. The main story is that (mostly due to the batteries) the manufacture of an electric vehicle means that it will need to drive 50,000 miles before an equivalent fossil fuel car becomes less green. This is not a complete lie – the carbon footprint of EV manufacture is (generally) higher than for fossil fuel cars at the moment. But leading on this headline figure obscures a lot of detail, and when you dig deeper, the motivations for the report become more questionable. The first eyebrow gets raised by the fact that this “new” report, entitled "Decarbonising Road Transport: There Is

No Silver Bullet" borrows heavily from information released over two months ago. The main example for battery EV carbon footprint is the comparison between the production of a Polestar 2 EV and a conventional Volvo XC40, stating that the former produces 24 tons of CO2 during manufacture where the latter only takes 14 tons. This is a fair comparison because both cars come from the same parent company, Geely. In fact, Polestar itself released the information in September, so the numbers seem legitimate. The reason why this report is rehashing the information as new appears to be in reaction to the UK government announcement of a ban on sales of new fossil fuel cars in 2030. The problem is that most of the articles are leading on the worst-case scenario and either not stating the detail or burying it as far down their pieces as possible. The 50,000-mile figure is assuming the EV is being charged with the average blend of electricity sources on the UK national grid, which includes a lot of renewable input now but still regularly uses a lot of fossil fuels as well, particularly natural gas. There are a number of live tools where you can see this blend, but my favorite can be found here.- Forbes Kaiya Bullock I had recently heard the reports of Electric Cars being worse than normal gas cars. I was confused and wanted to know the truth. Thank you for providing the resources for me to learn more. victoria minjarez Reading this article was very interesting and educating about how I had no idea about the truth electric cars are actually kinda damaging. Prof Jeff Victoria, read carefully. The goal of the fossil fuel companies was to make you THINK EVs were worse for the environment. They backed this "study". The article was pretty clear that the referenced study was at best "less than accurate." The Best Community Banks to Work For 2019 - Vista Bank: A people-first philosophy Vista Bank has put its own twist on the usual customer-first strategy. The golden rule—“people first”—at the $864 million-asset community bank in Dallas, Texas, starts with its own employees. “More than anything, we want to connect with our people so they know they are more than a teller or a credit analyst or a lender; they are an important part of Vista Bank,” says John D. Steinmetz, CEO and president. He credits Vista Bank’s culture and people with being instrumental in its success, which includes more than a century in business and explosive growth in the past decade. Vista Bank was founded by the McLaughlin family in 1912 in Ralls, Texas. For much of its history, the community bank focused largely on consumer and agricultural lending in West Texas. The bank has made a concerted effort in recent years to diversify its lending activity with commercial and industrial lending, real estate lending and expanding its business services. It has also expanded its geographic footprint. Bank assets have jumped significantly from about $166 million in 2009. Aside from the acquisition in 2017 of an $80 million-asset bank, all of that growth has been organic. Over the past 10 years, Vista Bank has nearly tripled the number of its full-time employees, from about 60 to nearly 150. Steinmetz believes the fact that the bank has maintained its company culture amid rapid growth is another testament to the effectiveness of its people-first mantra. “What has differentiated us over the years and has allowed us to have this success is our people,” he says. Click here for full story. As a company committed to innovation, we aspire to the highest levels of performance. Since the company launched in 2002, Aquatera has won numerous prestigious awards for innovation and its outstanding contribution to the renewable energy industry. Outstanding Contribution Award Scottish Green Energy Awards 2017 Continuing on from his success at the SCDI Highlands and Islands Business Excellence Awards in September, we are once again delighted to announce that our Managing Director, Gareth Davies, has won the Outstanding Contribution Award at this year’s Scottish Green Energy Awards. Gareth’s tireless work in the renewables sector has helped cement Scotland as one of the leading countries in the world for renewable energy development and research and we are delighted that he has received this award in recognition of this. Congratulations, G

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1 Well” and this past Wednesday, Mr. Handler’s outrage that the DRBC would consider granting two applications by Stone Energy was echoed over and over again by Hearing attendees. “After all, how can the DRBC even consider approving an application from a corporation which has already treated the Commission, its rules, The Basin and its environmental health with such disdain. To even hold a hearing on the application makes the DRBC complicit in rendering itself ethically and, perhaps, legally irrelevant,” said one speaker. Fracturing fluids injected underground may travel as much as 6,000 feet. Their direction is neither predictable nor controllable. A bus load of residents traveled three hours to comment at the hearing and were adamant that the DRBC schedule additional hearings in the Lower Delaware River Basin. “Philadelphia gets all its water from The Basin,” was a common refrain. *Practically speaking and considering New York State’s 8.8% unemployment rate (10.4% in New York City) should taxpayers be forced to underwrite landholder compensation for mineral rights just as Congress launches an investigation into gas drilling practices and their potential harm to the environment? Liz Bucar is a member of the "Vaudevilian Workforce" -- a writer, webworker, nurse-paralegal, community organizer and odd-jobber. "The personal and communal choices we make will determine the quality of air we and our children draw." Need a writer? Researcher? Editor? Please click the "Contact BIP" button at the top of any page. Sign me up for BIP posts! Breathing Is Political Blog at WordPress.com. Dedicated citizens fighting to protect our most valuable resources. Dhiraj Suvarna from Navi Mumbai, Other Graduate. LOOKS AFTER SETTLEME.. MAKES THE PNR REPOR.. MAKES THE DAILY SPR.. UPDATES THE HELD-OV.. CONFIRMS PAYMENTS .. SETTLES THE PAYMEN.. UPDATES THE POST-SE.. are one of expert skill area's of Dhiraj Suvarna . Dhiraj Suvarna is working in Human Resources industry. Citizen Cope has been performing professionally for a long time. Citizen Cope’s creations have been recorded by specialists such as Carlos Santana, Dido, Pharoahe Monch and Richie Havens. Leon Bridges is an American gospel and soul singer and songwriter. He was born Todd Michael Bridges, and is from Fort Worth, Texas. When he first started, Bridges just focused on writing songs and eventually learned how to play the guitar in order to create music for his lyrics. I have been trying to decide lately if I want to return to a paper calendar. One reason I haven’t is because I could not find one that fits all my needs. I think the search may be over. This Week’s Find is the Simplified Planner from Emily Ley. It’s smaller than the original so it can fit in a purse and a new page design that is easy to use and read. The assortment of accessories are an added bonus to an already great design. Can’t wait to order my new planner and get back to a paper…how I have missed you! Brian Welker, Houston, Tx. This is a very special one-of-a-kind NRA Browning with did a fantastic job. See Brian's letter in the Hunters' Report Section. Our wedding insurance comparison tables are designed to help you to find the right wedding insurance policy for your special day. We feature some of the best known wedding insurance brands, with details such as premium, policy excess and the total cancellation cover for each cover level. If you’re about to start planning your wedding and have decided to take out a wedding insurance policy, then you’ll naturally want to get the best policy for your needs. Our easy to use comparison table will help you to compare the costs and features of a number of popular products, that you can buy online today. Click on any of the column headings to sort by features and benefits such as excess, cancellation cover limit, premium etc, and click on ‘buy now’ to go to the insurer and buy online. As you plan the biggest day of your life, all attention is going to be focused on key details such as the wedding reception, the flowers

1 Well” and this past Wednesday, Mr. Handler’s outrage that the DRBC would consider granting two applications by Stone Energy was echoed over and over again by Hearing attendees. “After all, how can the DRBC even consider approving an application from a corporation which has already treated the Commission, its rules, The Basin and its environmental health with such disdain. To even hold a hearing on the application makes the DRBC complicit in rendering itself ethically and, perhaps, legally irrelevant,” said one speaker. Fracturing fluids injected underground may travel as much as 6,000 feet. Their direction is neither predictable nor controllable. A bus load of residents traveled three hours to comment at the hearing and were adamant that the DRBC schedule additional hearings in the Lower Delaware River Basin. “Philadelphia gets all its water from The Basin,” was a common refrain. *Practically speaking and considering New York State’s 8.8% unemployment rate (10.4% in New York City) should taxpayers be forced to underwrite landholder compensation for mineral rights just as Congress launches an investigation into gas drilling practices and their potential harm to the environment? Liz Bucar is a member of the "Vaudevilian Workforce" -- a writer, webworker, nurse-paralegal, community organizer and odd-jobber. "The personal and communal choices we make will determine the quality of air we and our children draw." Need a writer? Researcher? Editor? Please click the "Contact BIP" button at the top of any page. Sign me up for BIP posts! Breathing Is Political Blog at WordPress.com. Dedicated citizens fighting to protect our most valuable resources. Dhiraj Suvarna from Navi Mumbai, Other Graduate. LOOKS AFTER SETTLEME.. MAKES THE PNR REPOR.. MAKES THE DAILY SPR.. UPDATES THE HELD-OV.. CONFIRMS PAYMENTS .. SETTLES THE PAYMEN.. UPDATES THE POST-SE.. are one of expert skill area's of Dhiraj Suvarna . Dhiraj Suvarna is working in Human Resources industry. Citizen Cope has been performing professionally for a long time. Citizen Cope’s creations have been recorded by specialists such as Carlos Santana, Dido, Pharoahe Monch and Richie Havens. Leon Bridges is an American gospel and soul singer and songwriter. He was born Todd Michael Bridges, and is from Fort Worth, Texas. When he first started, Bridges just focused on writing songs and eventually learned how to play the guitar in order to create music for his lyrics. I have been trying to decide lately if I want to return to a paper calendar. One reason I haven’t is because I could not find one that fits all my needs. I think the search may be over. This Week’s Find is the Simplified Planner from Emily Ley. It’s smaller than the original so it can fit in a purse and a new page design that is easy to use and read. The assortment of accessories are an added bonus to an already great design. Can’t wait to order my new planner and get back to a paper…how I have missed you! Brian Welker, Houston, Tx. This is a very special one-of-a-kind NRA Browning with did a fantastic job. See Brian's letter in the Hunters' Report Section. Our wedding insurance comparison tables are designed to help you to find the right wedding insurance policy for your special day. We feature some of the best known wedding insurance brands, with details such as premium, policy excess and the total cancellation cover for each cover level. If you’re about to start planning your wedding and have decided to take out a wedding insurance policy, then you’ll naturally want to get the best policy for your needs. Our easy to use comparison table will help you to compare the costs and features of a number of popular products, that you can buy online today. Click on any of the column headings to sort by features and benefits such as excess, cancellation cover limit, premium etc, and click on ‘buy now’ to go to the insurer and buy online. As you plan the biggest day of your life, all attention is going to be focused on key details such as the wedding reception, the flowers

, whether to have just a photographer or should you hire a videographer and then of course there is the dress both full length and morning but what happens if something goes wrong and this perfect day which you have been planning for months cannot go ahead? Wedding insurance is not usually at the top of the happy couples’ ‘to do’ list but with the average wedding costing in the region of £25,000, surely insurance against cancellation or postponement is a ‘must have’ rather than an afterthought? Wedding insurance is an event based policy which provides cover if the wedding is postponed or cancelled due to a variety of circumstances which will be specified in the policy. A wedding can fall out of the diary for a number of reasons and these are not always associated with the key players, the bride and groom. The reception venue for example could have a problem such as a fire for instance or an unplanned closure for another reason or a key member of the party such as the mother of the bride may become unwell and be unable to attend. Wedding insurance can cover a number of things but in broad terms, it can protect items such as the hire of the wedding cars, the engagement and wedding rings or the cost of the honeymoon and it can cover circumstances which might lead to the cancellation or postponement of the whole event due for example to a fire at the hotel hosting the wedding reception or the illness or accident of one of the members of the wedding party. As with all insurance cover, each policy is different and will cover certain specified things. In simple terms, a fully comprehensive cover such as you will have with your car, will offer a broader and higher value cover than a budget policy which will be more defined or limited to specific items and/or circumstances and will therefore usually be much cheaper. Each provider is different so even a policy that appears to be the same on the face of it may differ in the finer detail, so it is really important to read the terms and conditions carefully before you buy so you know exactly what is covered and which circumstances will trigger the policy to pay out. Will wedding insurance cover a wedding abroad? Weddings in sunnier climes are becoming increasingly popular and are also potentially more expensive than getting married in a local hotel if you factor in the air fares and hotel accommodation for the entire wedding party. Some wedding insurance providers will offer cover for overseas weddings but it will certainly incur a higher premium than insuring for a wedding at home. Policies vary and terms and conditions also may vary depending on your chosen destination; a wedding on a beach in a tropical location may be more vulnerable to interruption from a weather based event than one in say the centre of Paris. Parts of the world which are deemed to be politically unstable may also incur a higher cost than for example European destinations and these are all genuine factors to consider. If the underwriter is charging a much higher premium for your dream wedding because of his assessment of the risk, then perhaps this is something you should seriously think about, after all, most people really don’t want to have to make a claim. When is the right time to buy wedding insurance? Because many weddings are planned months if not years ahead, some wedding insurance policies can be started as far away in time as two years prior to the date of the wedding. This sits well with those couples who are planning ahead and also making payments to secure services and suppliers months ahead of the big day, and very helpful if you are trying to spread the cost. It is preferable to have the cover in place before making any deposits or payments but some policies will cover transactions already made but you need to check the policy wording carefully before you buy as every policy differs. Some suppliers will have their own contingency cover and even with your own cover in place, you should discuss this with them so that you have a proper understanding of what may happen in the event of postponement or cancellation; you can’t receive compensation twice so in the event that there is duplicate insurance for some parts of the wedding package, the insurers will negotiate between them as to which policy will pay out. Some couples only think about insurance at the last minute, probably as they tot up the cost of everything and it is possible to buy cover at the eleventh hour. What is perhaps less obvious are the more distant situations where perhaps an elderly member of the party is taken ill six months before the big day and a postponement is made whilst medical treatment is ongoing – weddings

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applied sciences degree go to? Whether the region can hold onto its graduates varies considerably across Finland. For example, 88.4 % of Uusimaa graduates stay in Uusimaa after graduation. Only 37.1 % of Kanta-Häme graduates do. The biggest regions can hold onto their graduates better than smaller ones. Uusimaa is in a league of its own in this. But also Pirkanmaa, North Ostrobothnia, and Southwest Finland are doing well. They hold onto over 70 % of their graduates. Uusimaa is attracting university of applied sciences graduates from all over the country. At least 15 % of those graduates of all regions who find employment outside their study region found employment in Uusimaa. For some areas, this percentage is significantly higher. Uusimaa attracted particularly those with ICT degrees or a degree in the humanities. Pirkanmaa, North Ostrobothnia, and Southwest Finland attract graduates particularly from their neighboring regions. Primarily, though, university of applied sciences graduates found employment in their study region or in a neighboring region. Only Uusimaa and to a lesser extent Pirkanmaa attract graduates from all over the country. The tendency to move from one region to another varied also according to the study field. For example, about 80 % of ICT graduates found employment in their study region. In Uusimaa, about 95 % of them did. On the other hand, only 41.8 % of graduates in agriculture and forestry found employment in their study region. Most often these graduates found employment in their study regions in North Karelia (69.5 %), North Savo (66.7 %), and Kymenlaakso (62.5 %). All in all, Pirkanmaa, Uusimaa, North Ostrobothnia, and Southwest Finland employed more university of applied science graduates than they produced. Pirkanmaa, for example, employed 21 % more university of applied sciences graduates than it produced. Pirkanmaa employed, for example, about 23 % more humanities graduates, 34 % more business graduates, and 35 % more healthcare graduates than it produced. Employment after graduation in Finland: university graduates Between 2015 and 2019, Finnish universities produced 156 618 degrees, which is about 31 300 degrees a year. 44.8 % of those were Bachelor’s degrees, 49.1 % were Master’s degrees, 0.3 % were licentiate degrees, and 5.8 % were doctoral degrees. Humanities and the arts covered 17 % of these degrees, business administration and law about 17 %, technology about 15 %, and social sciences about 13 %. There were 127 different Bachelor’s degrees, 134 different Master’s degrees, and 184 different doctoral degrees. Here will only discuss graduates with Master’s degrees or higher as in Finland those with Bachelor’s degrees from universities often continue straight to the Master’s degree rather than enter the job market. By the end of 2019, 94.4 % of those who had received their Master’s degrees between 2015 and 2019 were living in Finland. 5.6 % had moved abroad. This percentage was particularly high, though, for the Svenska Handelshögskolan. Of its graduates from 2014-2018, about 15 % had moved abroad. 76.9 % of all university graduates had found employment after graduation in Finland. Only 4.9 % were unemployed. But there are significant differences between different fields. Those with a Master’s degree in business administration or law had the highest employment rate. 82.4 % of them had found employment after graduation. Those with a Master’s degree in natural sciences had the lowest rate of employment (58.2 %). They, however, had the highest proportion of those who were studying further (28.5 %). The unemployment rate was lowest for those with a healthcare degree (1.3 %) or technology (2.7 %). In terms of degrees, those with a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering (86.6 %) or education (85.

applied sciences degree go to? Whether the region can hold onto its graduates varies considerably across Finland. For example, 88.4 % of Uusimaa graduates stay in Uusimaa after graduation. Only 37.1 % of Kanta-Häme graduates do. The biggest regions can hold onto their graduates better than smaller ones. Uusimaa is in a league of its own in this. But also Pirkanmaa, North Ostrobothnia, and Southwest Finland are doing well. They hold onto over 70 % of their graduates. Uusimaa is attracting university of applied sciences graduates from all over the country. At least 15 % of those graduates of all regions who find employment outside their study region found employment in Uusimaa. For some areas, this percentage is significantly higher. Uusimaa attracted particularly those with ICT degrees or a degree in the humanities. Pirkanmaa, North Ostrobothnia, and Southwest Finland attract graduates particularly from their neighboring regions. Primarily, though, university of applied sciences graduates found employment in their study region or in a neighboring region. Only Uusimaa and to a lesser extent Pirkanmaa attract graduates from all over the country. The tendency to move from one region to another varied also according to the study field. For example, about 80 % of ICT graduates found employment in their study region. In Uusimaa, about 95 % of them did. On the other hand, only 41.8 % of graduates in agriculture and forestry found employment in their study region. Most often these graduates found employment in their study regions in North Karelia (69.5 %), North Savo (66.7 %), and Kymenlaakso (62.5 %). All in all, Pirkanmaa, Uusimaa, North Ostrobothnia, and Southwest Finland employed more university of applied science graduates than they produced. Pirkanmaa, for example, employed 21 % more university of applied sciences graduates than it produced. Pirkanmaa employed, for example, about 23 % more humanities graduates, 34 % more business graduates, and 35 % more healthcare graduates than it produced. Employment after graduation in Finland: university graduates Between 2015 and 2019, Finnish universities produced 156 618 degrees, which is about 31 300 degrees a year. 44.8 % of those were Bachelor’s degrees, 49.1 % were Master’s degrees, 0.3 % were licentiate degrees, and 5.8 % were doctoral degrees. Humanities and the arts covered 17 % of these degrees, business administration and law about 17 %, technology about 15 %, and social sciences about 13 %. There were 127 different Bachelor’s degrees, 134 different Master’s degrees, and 184 different doctoral degrees. Here will only discuss graduates with Master’s degrees or higher as in Finland those with Bachelor’s degrees from universities often continue straight to the Master’s degree rather than enter the job market. By the end of 2019, 94.4 % of those who had received their Master’s degrees between 2015 and 2019 were living in Finland. 5.6 % had moved abroad. This percentage was particularly high, though, for the Svenska Handelshögskolan. Of its graduates from 2014-2018, about 15 % had moved abroad. 76.9 % of all university graduates had found employment after graduation in Finland. Only 4.9 % were unemployed. But there are significant differences between different fields. Those with a Master’s degree in business administration or law had the highest employment rate. 82.4 % of them had found employment after graduation. Those with a Master’s degree in natural sciences had the lowest rate of employment (58.2 %). They, however, had the highest proportion of those who were studying further (28.5 %). The unemployment rate was lowest for those with a healthcare degree (1.3 %) or technology (2.7 %). In terms of degrees, those with a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering (86.6 %) or education (85.

7 %) were most likely to be employed after graduation. Graduates with doctoral degrees Between 2014 and 2019, 8 342 individuals received a doctoral degree or became a specialist in their medical field. 88.7 % of those doctorates lived in Finland by the end of 2020. 11.3 % lived abroad. This percentage is the highest for all education levels. Those with a doctoral degree in natural sciences move abroad particularly often (about 18 % of 2014-2018 doctorates). The employment rate of doctorate degree holders (80.2 %) is higher than Master’s degree holders from universities (76.4 %) or university of applied sciences degree holders in general (77.8 %). However, Master’s degree holders from universities of applied sciences have the best employment rate (88.2 %) of them all. Doctoral degree holders from healthcare (86 %), technology (82.2 %), and ICT (80.9 %) had the highest employment rates of all doctorates. Doctorates from the natural sciences had the lowest but it was still quite high at 76.6 %. Here it’s worth remembering that they also moved abroad more frequently than others. Those with a doctoral degree in medicine had a particularly high employment rate (91.9 %) as did those with a doctoral degree in electrical engineering (87.2 %). Also, specialist medical doctors were nearly always employed (84.8 %). Of all doctorate recipients, biologists had the lowest employment rate (73.2 %). Where do these university graduates end up? Uusimaa stands out among university graduates (Master’s and Doctorates) with its ability to hold on to them. 89 % of those who graduate from universities in Uusimaa also found employment there. North Ostrobothnia, Pirkanmaa, and Southwest Finland were able to hold on to about 60 % of such graduates. Of all of those graduates who didn’t find employment in their study region, 46 % found employment after graduation in Uusimaa. Particularly graduates from Päijät-Häme and Southwest Finland came to Uusimaa for employment. In addition to Uusimaa, university graduates also found employment in Pirkanmaa, Southwest Finland, and North Ostrobothnia. In contrast to Uusimaa, which attracted graduates from all over, these regions attracted graduates mainly from their neighboring regions. Again there are differences between fields. For example, those with an ICT degree tended to stay in their study regions. On average, about 75 % of them found employment nearby. In Uusimaa, over 96 % also stayed there. In contrast, in South Karelia only 26 % of them did. At the university education level, Uusimaa benefitted the most from the education given elsewhere in the country. Uusimaa employed 45 % more Master’s and Doctorate degree holders than it produced. Other regions educated more than they employed. Get the “Your Crash Course to Finland” online course – your gateway to all things Finnish – now from our online store. The mission of Finnwards is to help internationals thrive in their life abroad. We provide coaching, consulting, and training services that help them do just that. Check out our Services for Businesses and Organizations or our Expat Inspiration Catalog for more information! While we serve internationals and their employers all over the world, our specialty is Finland. With our help, internationals can build a uniquely Finnish life for themselves and their family. In addition to the coaching, consulting and training services, we also offer a wide selection of self-guided online courses about Finland. Contact us and let us help you or your employees succeed in their professional and private lives abroad and in Finland. Content creator at Finnwards Oy Minna knows what expat life is like. She's living one currently in Estonia. She also knows how to recruit foreign talent and how to manage on-boarding effectively. She did that for 10 years. She is passionate about expat coaching and cultural training. She enjoys creating interesting and helpful courses, training courses, blogs, and other content for internationals and their employers. Her particular interests are expat spouses and just workplaces. Latest posts by Minna (

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hard hat mixed in. He noted that his dad had a white hard hat sitting on the back seat with his name, “William Cross” stenciled across the back. “I’m not going to get radiation sickness or something right?” said David, only half-jokingly. “This plant has an excellent safety record, so I wouldn’t worry about it. Do as you’re told and follow your supervisor’s instructions and you’ll be fine.” The car slowed in front of a trailer with a sign marking it as, “Personnel Trailer 1” posted on the door. “This is it. Good luck, Son, and try not to embarrass me.” “Dad…When have I ever given you anything to worry about?” replied David with a sly smile. “O.K. Smart-ass. See you later.” His dad drove away, leaving David in a cloud of dust. It was scorching hot outside, and he bound up the steps to get out of the desert heat. The air-conditioning was a welcome relief, but he had to stop to let his eyes adjust to the dimmer interior. “You lost, Kid?” David turned to find himself looking up at an enormous man in beige coveralls holding a blue hard hat in one hand and glaring at him. “Um…No, Sir…I’m starting today…Uh…” “You’re going to work here?” asked the hulking man whose face reminded David of a stone gargoyle he saw once carved into a building. “Yeah…I was,” began David, but the big man cut him off again. “White hat or blue?” “Excuse me?” “You heard me, Kid. White hat or blue? You look too skinny for real work, so I’m guessing white.” “Leave him alone, Lyle. Why don’t you find something to weld, like your mouth,” came a new voice from deeper in the trailer. A second later, the owner, a slender middle-aged woman with short graying hair came walking in from out of a corner office. Lyle grunted like an angry bear but managed a half-smile that considerably softened his face. “Fine…Get the kid his white hat while I go do the real work that needs doing.” Posted in Genel A slightly reluctant captive Decision on tariffs: The first big test after the elections in Kosovo by Sofija Popović 02. 10. 2019. 02. 10. 2019. Kosovo Assembly; Photo: Kosovo Assembly Relations between Kosovo and Serbia, as well as Pristina’s 100% tariffs on goods from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, are major campaign themes ahead of the snap parliamentary elections in Kosovo, scheduled for 6 October. The elections are taking place against the backdrop of international actors, such as Washington and Brussels, becoming increasingly explicit in their messages to Belgrade and Pristina, that the normalisation talks must resume, and that the tariffs should be revoked quickly. Shpend Emini, Executive Director of the Democracy for Development Institute from Kosovo and a member of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG), stresses for European Western Balkans that the abolishing the tariffs and continuation of the dialogue with Serbia will be the first test of the new government after the elections, adding that such a decision will not be easy, especially since the condition for abolishing the tariffs may be that Serbia stops with the de-recognition campaign of Kosovo’s independence and obstruction of Kosovo’s membership in international organisations. However, despite the potential political cost of the decision to revoke tariffs and resume the dialogue, election campaign and statements of the candidates for Prime Minister show that the will to pave the way to the solution exists nonetheless. Some of the political parties have so far proposed the removing the tariff and replacing it with reciprocity. “Vetëvendosje! wants the reciprocity approach in which Kosovo will impose the same sanctions to those Serbia imposes toward Kosovo. Whereas, Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) is seemingly divided in this regard,” says for our portal Donika Emini, Executive Director of the CiviKos Platform and another member of BiEPAG. She adds that Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) seems to

hard hat mixed in. He noted that his dad had a white hard hat sitting on the back seat with his name, “William Cross” stenciled across the back. “I’m not going to get radiation sickness or something right?” said David, only half-jokingly. “This plant has an excellent safety record, so I wouldn’t worry about it. Do as you’re told and follow your supervisor’s instructions and you’ll be fine.” The car slowed in front of a trailer with a sign marking it as, “Personnel Trailer 1” posted on the door. “This is it. Good luck, Son, and try not to embarrass me.” “Dad…When have I ever given you anything to worry about?” replied David with a sly smile. “O.K. Smart-ass. See you later.” His dad drove away, leaving David in a cloud of dust. It was scorching hot outside, and he bound up the steps to get out of the desert heat. The air-conditioning was a welcome relief, but he had to stop to let his eyes adjust to the dimmer interior. “You lost, Kid?” David turned to find himself looking up at an enormous man in beige coveralls holding a blue hard hat in one hand and glaring at him. “Um…No, Sir…I’m starting today…Uh…” “You’re going to work here?” asked the hulking man whose face reminded David of a stone gargoyle he saw once carved into a building. “Yeah…I was,” began David, but the big man cut him off again. “White hat or blue?” “Excuse me?” “You heard me, Kid. White hat or blue? You look too skinny for real work, so I’m guessing white.” “Leave him alone, Lyle. Why don’t you find something to weld, like your mouth,” came a new voice from deeper in the trailer. A second later, the owner, a slender middle-aged woman with short graying hair came walking in from out of a corner office. Lyle grunted like an angry bear but managed a half-smile that considerably softened his face. “Fine…Get the kid his white hat while I go do the real work that needs doing.” Posted in Genel A slightly reluctant captive Decision on tariffs: The first big test after the elections in Kosovo by Sofija Popović 02. 10. 2019. 02. 10. 2019. Kosovo Assembly; Photo: Kosovo Assembly Relations between Kosovo and Serbia, as well as Pristina’s 100% tariffs on goods from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, are major campaign themes ahead of the snap parliamentary elections in Kosovo, scheduled for 6 October. The elections are taking place against the backdrop of international actors, such as Washington and Brussels, becoming increasingly explicit in their messages to Belgrade and Pristina, that the normalisation talks must resume, and that the tariffs should be revoked quickly. Shpend Emini, Executive Director of the Democracy for Development Institute from Kosovo and a member of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG), stresses for European Western Balkans that the abolishing the tariffs and continuation of the dialogue with Serbia will be the first test of the new government after the elections, adding that such a decision will not be easy, especially since the condition for abolishing the tariffs may be that Serbia stops with the de-recognition campaign of Kosovo’s independence and obstruction of Kosovo’s membership in international organisations. However, despite the potential political cost of the decision to revoke tariffs and resume the dialogue, election campaign and statements of the candidates for Prime Minister show that the will to pave the way to the solution exists nonetheless. Some of the political parties have so far proposed the removing the tariff and replacing it with reciprocity. “Vetëvendosje! wants the reciprocity approach in which Kosovo will impose the same sanctions to those Serbia imposes toward Kosovo. Whereas, Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) is seemingly divided in this regard,” says for our portal Donika Emini, Executive Director of the CiviKos Platform and another member of BiEPAG. She adds that Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) seems to

have the most flexible approach toward the tariffs because many of the key party members have indicated that they are willing to suspend tariffs and constructively deal with the dialogue. On the other hand, Emini emphasises that some Kosovo’s leaders, such as Ramush Haradinaj, promote a very risky agenda. Haradinaj is building his campaign on the “100% state” inspired by the 100% tariffs his government has imposed. Project manager at the Kosovo Democratic Institute (KDI) Jeta Krasniqi agrees that the tariffs will surely be an issue the new government will have to deal with. “Election might affect the dialogue process depending on who will form the government. Yet, what the political scene has learned in the last two years is the need for consensus which goes beyond party lines”, Krasniqi said, adding that, because of this, the new government will have to work on consensus building. A lukewarm approach to the EU Dialogue with Serbia has been one of the main conditions for the progress on EU accession path of both countries and, even though the Committee for Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament reaffirmed its support for visa-free travel of the citizens of Kosovo last week, the process has been slow at best over the past two years. Our interlocutors assess that, in spite of this, Kosovo’s orientation remains towards the West. According to Jeta Kraniqi, all political parties in Kosovo give their full support for the Euro-Atlantic agenda of the country. “Good example of this support was recorded during the last Assembly’s legislature when two of the biggest opposition parties were boycotting the proceedings of the Assembly due to the issues related to the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, yet would come back and vote for EU related legislation”, Krasniqi explains. However, during the current election campaign, the political parties are more cautious in promising visa liberalization or even setting a date for Kosovo’s EU membership, which has been also a feature of the previous campaigns. “Seemingly, the EU is not on the agenda. With the uncertainty surrounding the visa liberalization process, political parties in Kosovo are reluctant to include this issue in their programs”, Donika Emini says. This has a lot to do with the lack of EU perspective, the sense of isolation, and the general understanding that the EU will not be politically able to deliver, she explains. “The lack of delivery on the EU side might as well be used by the political elite to shift this attitude and re-define country’s foreign strategic partners”, Emini said. The times of uncertainty, with the new External Action Service being led by a non-recognizer (Spain’s Josep Borell), have contributed to the overall lukewarm approach of political parties toward EU integration process, with the only positive aspect being the lack of tendency to derail from EU or share negative approach or propaganda toward the Union, she concludes. AAKBelgrade - Pristina DialogeDonika EminiJeta KrasniqiKosovoKosovo election 2019LDKPDKShpend EminitariffsVetëvendosje Fajon: Electoral conditions in Serbia must be equal for all Đukanović: North Macedonia has secured its place in NATO One year after Savamala: No closer to the rule of law Marija Ignjatijević 25. 04. 2017. 06. 07. 2017. Vučić and Thaçi: Implementation of the Agreement on Justice [EWB Interview] Morvai: Citizens’ participation is crucial for the success of the Berlin Process Marko Mečanin 19. 12. 2017. 18. 12. 2017. Sofija Popović Journalist at the European Western Balkans, Researcher at the Centre for Contemporary Politics Clara Boustany v. Stephen Valkenborg et al: Discovery Application (Monaco) Application by Clara Moussa Boustany to take discovery from Stephen Valkenborg and Makram Abboud for use in divorce proceedings in Monaco, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Tracey Amon v. JPMorgan Chase NA: Discovery Application (Monaco & Switzerland) Application by Trace

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, you can always go for tunnels with the base number of required cards. The likelihood of requiring 3 extra trains is small, and any wild cards you don’t use to complete the tunnel, you have for future tunnels regardless of color – rather than being stuck with a now-useless color. That makes the draw of taking that one face-up wildcard so much more, whereas in regular TTR you generally just hope to get wild cards when you draw blindly from the deck. Like @Farmerlenny said, though, if you already have TTR, this doesn’t really add a ton more worth justifying a full-game purchase. But TTR: Europe makes a solid showing, so if you’re looking for your first TTR game, this is definitely a viable option. On the one hand, it would have been nice if this was a $20 expansion; on the other hand, it’s nifty that you can get this game and play it without having to shell out for the US version. You’ll just have to decide for yourself. Want another opinion? Check out The Board Game Family’s Ticket to Ride: Europe review. Farmerlenny's Rating 9 Futurewolfie's Rating 9 Your Rating: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 European setting adds an exotic feel (if you're American) Added elements (stations, ferries, tunnels) are clever without overcomplication Top notch components Larger card size is much preferred over the original tiny cards Improves a near perfect game! Futurewolfie says: Adds some clever new mechanisms to an already stellar game Maintains the excellent feel of the original Adds variety to the TTR formula Big cards are much nicer than tiny cards Needs more long routes (solved by purchasing the inexpensive 1912 expansion) It's a standalone expansion, but it's difficult to justify the cost of an entire new game if you already own the original. Tags: Europeexpansionsnemesis reviewNetwork Buildingset collectionticket to rideTicket to Ride Europetravelling FarmerLenny I'll try anything once, but my favorite games are generally middleweight Euros. Previous ArticleReview: Ticket to Ride Next Article Preview: For the Win Review: Trapper Keeper Game Review: Catlantis Expansion Exhaustion: The Mental Cost of “More” Discussion3 Comments Grant January 25, 2012 11:04 pm I love this game. Great review. FarmerLenny January 26, 2012 3:58 am Thanks! I love this game as well. mary lau November 8, 2012 11:19 am Reply To mary lau Cancel Reply Accessible to a wide range of ages and experience levels 60-60m (box says 60m) 2 to 5 (best with 3-5) Alan Moon English First Edition See your ad here: Contact Us for pricing! islaythedragon Load More... Follow our Instagram January 17, 2020 8/10 Review: Planet January 15, 2020 7.5/10 Review: Adventure Games: Monochrome, Inc. January 10, 2020 6/10 Review: Curios January 8, 2020 6.5/10 Review: Kingdomino Duel December 27, 2019 So, You Got a Board Game for Christmas. Now What? FarmerLenny on Review: Curios Schwarzie on Review: Curios David Roy on Review: Curios Spelkväll on Review: Marvel Champions All site content, including text, images, and graphics © 2015 iSlaytheDragon, all rights reserved. All photos on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. If you use one of our photos, please let us know via our contact form. The Long Take Lists and Miscellaneous Twenty (One) Years Hence: LA Conf

, you can always go for tunnels with the base number of required cards. The likelihood of requiring 3 extra trains is small, and any wild cards you don’t use to complete the tunnel, you have for future tunnels regardless of color – rather than being stuck with a now-useless color. That makes the draw of taking that one face-up wildcard so much more, whereas in regular TTR you generally just hope to get wild cards when you draw blindly from the deck. Like @Farmerlenny said, though, if you already have TTR, this doesn’t really add a ton more worth justifying a full-game purchase. But TTR: Europe makes a solid showing, so if you’re looking for your first TTR game, this is definitely a viable option. On the one hand, it would have been nice if this was a $20 expansion; on the other hand, it’s nifty that you can get this game and play it without having to shell out for the US version. You’ll just have to decide for yourself. Want another opinion? Check out The Board Game Family’s Ticket to Ride: Europe review. Farmerlenny's Rating 9 Futurewolfie's Rating 9 Your Rating: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 European setting adds an exotic feel (if you're American) Added elements (stations, ferries, tunnels) are clever without overcomplication Top notch components Larger card size is much preferred over the original tiny cards Improves a near perfect game! Futurewolfie says: Adds some clever new mechanisms to an already stellar game Maintains the excellent feel of the original Adds variety to the TTR formula Big cards are much nicer than tiny cards Needs more long routes (solved by purchasing the inexpensive 1912 expansion) It's a standalone expansion, but it's difficult to justify the cost of an entire new game if you already own the original. Tags: Europeexpansionsnemesis reviewNetwork Buildingset collectionticket to rideTicket to Ride Europetravelling FarmerLenny I'll try anything once, but my favorite games are generally middleweight Euros. Previous ArticleReview: Ticket to Ride Next Article Preview: For the Win Review: Trapper Keeper Game Review: Catlantis Expansion Exhaustion: The Mental Cost of “More” Discussion3 Comments Grant January 25, 2012 11:04 pm I love this game. Great review. FarmerLenny January 26, 2012 3:58 am Thanks! I love this game as well. mary lau November 8, 2012 11:19 am Reply To mary lau Cancel Reply Accessible to a wide range of ages and experience levels 60-60m (box says 60m) 2 to 5 (best with 3-5) Alan Moon English First Edition See your ad here: Contact Us for pricing! islaythedragon Load More... Follow our Instagram January 17, 2020 8/10 Review: Planet January 15, 2020 7.5/10 Review: Adventure Games: Monochrome, Inc. January 10, 2020 6/10 Review: Curios January 8, 2020 6.5/10 Review: Kingdomino Duel December 27, 2019 So, You Got a Board Game for Christmas. Now What? FarmerLenny on Review: Curios Schwarzie on Review: Curios David Roy on Review: Curios Spelkväll on Review: Marvel Champions All site content, including text, images, and graphics © 2015 iSlaytheDragon, all rights reserved. All photos on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. If you use one of our photos, please let us know via our contact form. The Long Take Lists and Miscellaneous Twenty (One) Years Hence: LA Conf

idential A review I am embarrasingly posting six months late … because Grad School. LA Confidential is the rarest of neo-noirs, a film aware of and capable of rekindling not simply the intricacy of film noir but its intimacy. By an astonishing margin, director Curtis Hanson’s best film, it’s also the strangest of birds, a true anomaly, the kind of film extinct twenty years later: a genuinely great mid-tier major studio film, not a maxi-budgeted blockbuster nor an indie darling nor an insufferably choked prestige pic but an honest-to-god mature studio film that thrives not simply on the currency of its ideas but the inimitability of its craft. LA Confidential is a muscular film, all muscle and sinew, but it isn’t macho. This story of men, both trigger-happy and frequently confused about which triggers they are firing, is remarkably attuned to the way various men find their personal idioms of masculinity incapable of fulfilling the requirements of the cutthroat world around them, a world that is too polyphonic, too multifaceted, too complex for any personal masculine script to truly master. As with any great classical Hollywood picture, which LA Confidential is most certainly a kindred spirit of, Hanson’s film thrives on the dialectical tension between a shoe-shined, slick narrative that is both a receptacle for and bulwark against the murmurs of unspoken desire beneath, the mutually-shared anomalies of the human condition which the film all but admits it cannot dwell on. Not because these desires and emotions aren’t worth analyzing but because part of their value is the push-pull between them and the surface narratives, the social pressures, the daily routines which ritualistically govern life and which often do their damnedest to put a latch on alternate expressions of humanity and ulterior desires which exist outside the normative spectrum of social expression. Which is to say: LA Confidential is both extremely adept at pitting men against each and dissecting the fragility of their various game(s) and the rulesets which pit them against each other, and equally adroit at exposing the conscious and unconscious conundrums of expression which keep them from admitting, usually to others but often even to themselves, what they really feel, and why they feel it. These whispers of character must remain interiorized, even secluded, in the film not because the film is unaware of their existence, but because it is deeply attuned to the conundrum that it cannot easily set loose the untold psychic needs which society tramps down upon on a daily basis. Specifically, humming beneath this relatively by-the-book, entertaining but merely competent story of police corruption are murmurs of threatened masculinity located in three men who seem eternally ready to be cracked. Ultimately LA Confidential is an almost allegorical construction, a film that tries to figure out the venn-overlap between Guy Pearce’s effete, by-the-books competency, Kevin Spacey’s smirking, supercilious superiority, and Russell Crowe’s brutish, bullish physicality. Each of these men finds themselves drawn into a plot in LA in the ‘50s, the specifics of which are irrelevant here, except to say that they increasingly spiral outward to implicate the entire city, as these things are wont to do. But the real link between these men is also the animating principle of the entire story, as well as the true test of the film’s mettle, its real thematic case to make. These are all men who compete for competency through different idioms of masculinity showing off and showboating. Only each of them, in different ways, finds that their archetypal demeanors, their self-consciously iconographic demeanors, may bend to a system that plays them all and feeds them various male-nesses that, for fear of rendering themselves vulnerable in public or private company, must refuse to consider the genuine intellectual, ethical, or emotional friendship of other men around them, as well as the skills the others possess. Doing so would emit rays of doubt about the supremacy of their own façade. In other words, each character is a dueling projection: a sturdily classical Warner Bros. B-picture type and an exploration, if not a critique,

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the treatment of adult patients with: Moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis (RA), in combination with methotrexate (MTX) Active psoriatic arthritis (PsA) alone, or in combination with MTX Active ankylosing spondylitis (AS) Moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC) who have demonstrated corticosteroid dependence or who have had an inadequate response to or failed to tolerate oral aminosalicylates, oral corticosteroids, azathioprine, or 6‑mercaptopurine for: Inducing and maintaining clinical response Improving endoscopic appearance of the mucosa during induction Inducing clinical remission Achieving and sustaining clinical remission in induction responders Important Safety Information For SIMPONI® SERIOUS INFECTIONS Patients treated with SIMPONI® (golimumab) are at increased risk for developing serious infections that may lead to hospitalization or death. Most patients who developed these infections were taking concomitant immunosuppressants such as methotrexate or corticosteroids. Discontinue SIMPONI® if a patient develops a serious infection. Reported infections with TNF blockers, of which SIMPONI® is a member, include: Active tuberculosis (TB), including reactivation of latent TB. Patients frequently presented with disseminated or extrapulmonary disease. Patients should be tested for latent TB before SIMPONI® use and during therapy. Treatment for latent infection should be initiated prior to SIMPONI® use. Invasive fungal infections, including histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis, candidiasis, aspergillosis, blastomycosis, and pneumocystosis. Patients with histoplasmosis or other invasive fungal infections may present with disseminated, rather than localized, disease. Consider empiric anti-fungal therapy in patients at risk for invasive fungal infections who develop severe systemic illness. Bacterial, viral, and other infections due to opportunistic pathogens, including Legionella and Listeria. The risks and benefits of treatment with SIMPONI® should be carefully considered prior to initiating therapy in patients with chronic or recurrent infection. Do not start SIMPONI® in patients with clinically important active infections, including localized infections. Closely monitor patients for the development of signs and symptoms of infection during and after treatment with SIMPONI®, including the possible development of TB in patients who tested negative for latent TB infection prior to initiating therapy, who are on treatment for latent TB, or who were previously treated for TB infection. Risk of infection may be higher in patients greater than 65 years of age, patients with co-morbid conditions and/or patients taking concomitant immunosuppressant therapy. Other serious infections observed in patients treated with SIMPONI® included sepsis, pneumonia, cellulitis, abscess and hepatitis B infection. MALIGNANCIES Lymphoma and other malignancies, some fatal, have been reported in children and adolescent patients treated with TNF blockers of which SIMPONI® is a member. Approximately half the cases were lymphomas, including Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The other cases represented a variety of malignancies, including rare malignancies usually associated with immunosuppression and malignancies not usually observed in children or adolescents. Malignancies occurred after a median of 30 months after the first dose of therapy. Most of the patients were receiving concomitant immunosuppressants. In the controlled portions of clinical trials of all TNF-blocking agents including SIMPONI®, more cases of lymphoma have been observed among patients receiving TNF-blocking treatment compared with control patients. In the Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA), and Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) clinical trials, the inc

the treatment of adult patients with: Moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis (RA), in combination with methotrexate (MTX) Active psoriatic arthritis (PsA) alone, or in combination with MTX Active ankylosing spondylitis (AS) Moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC) who have demonstrated corticosteroid dependence or who have had an inadequate response to or failed to tolerate oral aminosalicylates, oral corticosteroids, azathioprine, or 6‑mercaptopurine for: Inducing and maintaining clinical response Improving endoscopic appearance of the mucosa during induction Inducing clinical remission Achieving and sustaining clinical remission in induction responders Important Safety Information For SIMPONI® SERIOUS INFECTIONS Patients treated with SIMPONI® (golimumab) are at increased risk for developing serious infections that may lead to hospitalization or death. Most patients who developed these infections were taking concomitant immunosuppressants such as methotrexate or corticosteroids. Discontinue SIMPONI® if a patient develops a serious infection. Reported infections with TNF blockers, of which SIMPONI® is a member, include: Active tuberculosis (TB), including reactivation of latent TB. Patients frequently presented with disseminated or extrapulmonary disease. Patients should be tested for latent TB before SIMPONI® use and during therapy. Treatment for latent infection should be initiated prior to SIMPONI® use. Invasive fungal infections, including histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis, candidiasis, aspergillosis, blastomycosis, and pneumocystosis. Patients with histoplasmosis or other invasive fungal infections may present with disseminated, rather than localized, disease. Consider empiric anti-fungal therapy in patients at risk for invasive fungal infections who develop severe systemic illness. Bacterial, viral, and other infections due to opportunistic pathogens, including Legionella and Listeria. The risks and benefits of treatment with SIMPONI® should be carefully considered prior to initiating therapy in patients with chronic or recurrent infection. Do not start SIMPONI® in patients with clinically important active infections, including localized infections. Closely monitor patients for the development of signs and symptoms of infection during and after treatment with SIMPONI®, including the possible development of TB in patients who tested negative for latent TB infection prior to initiating therapy, who are on treatment for latent TB, or who were previously treated for TB infection. Risk of infection may be higher in patients greater than 65 years of age, patients with co-morbid conditions and/or patients taking concomitant immunosuppressant therapy. Other serious infections observed in patients treated with SIMPONI® included sepsis, pneumonia, cellulitis, abscess and hepatitis B infection. MALIGNANCIES Lymphoma and other malignancies, some fatal, have been reported in children and adolescent patients treated with TNF blockers of which SIMPONI® is a member. Approximately half the cases were lymphomas, including Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The other cases represented a variety of malignancies, including rare malignancies usually associated with immunosuppression and malignancies not usually observed in children or adolescents. Malignancies occurred after a median of 30 months after the first dose of therapy. Most of the patients were receiving concomitant immunosuppressants. In the controlled portions of clinical trials of all TNF-blocking agents including SIMPONI®, more cases of lymphoma have been observed among patients receiving TNF-blocking treatment compared with control patients. In the Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA), and Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) clinical trials, the inc

idence of lymphoma per 100 patient-years of follow-up was 0.21 (95% CI: 0.03, 0.77) in the combined SIMPONI® group compared with an incidence of 0 (95% CI: 0, 0.96) in the placebo group. In clinical trials, the incidence of malignancies other than lymphoma was not increased with exposure to SIMPONI® and was similar to what would be expected in the general population. In controlled and uncontrolled portions of the Phase 2/3 studies in ulcerative colitis (UC) with a mean follow-up of approximately 1 year, there were no cases of lymphoma with SIMPONI®. Short follow-up periods, such as those of 1 year or less in the studies above, may not adequately reflect the true incidence of malignancies. Cases of acute and chronic leukemia have been reported with TNF-blocker use, including SIMPONI®. The risks and benefits of TNF-blocker therapy should be considered prior to initiating therapy in patients with a known malignancy or who develop a malignancy. Postmarketing cases of hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma (HSTCL), a rare type of T-cell lymphoma, have been reported in patients treated with TNF blockers. These cases have had a very aggressive disease course and have been fatal. Nearly all reported cases have occurred in patients with Crohn’s disease or UC, and the majority were in adolescent and young adult males. Almost all of these patients had received treatment with azathioprine or 6-mercaptopurine concomitantly with a TNF blocker at or prior to diagnosis. A risk for the development for HSTCL in patients treated with TNF blockers cannot be excluded. Melanoma and Merkel cell carcinoma have been reported in patients treated with TNF-blocking agents, including SIMPONI®. Periodic skin examination is recommended for all patients, particularly those with risk factors for skin cancer. HEPATITIS B REACTIVATION The use of TNF-blocking agents including SIMPONI® has been associated with reactivation of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in patients who are chronic hepatitis B carriers. In some instances, HBV reactivation occurring in conjunction with TNF-blocker therapy has been fatal. The majority of these reports have occurred in patients who received concomitant immunosuppressants. All patients should be tested for HBV infection before initiating TNF-blocker therapy. For patients who test positive for hepatitis B surface antigen, consult a physician with expertise in the treatment of hepatitis B before initiating TNF-blocker therapy. Exercise caution when prescribing SIMPONI® for patients identified as carriers of HBV and closely monitor for active HBV infection during and following termination of therapy with SIMPONI®. Discontinue SIMPONI® in patients who develop HBV reactivation, and initiate antiviral therapy with appropriate supportive treatment. Exercise caution when considering resumption of SIMPONI®, and monitor patients closely. Cases of worsening congestive heart failure (CHF) and new-onset CHF have been reported with TNF blockers, including SIMPONI®. Some cases had a fatal outcome. Exercise caution and monitor patients with heart failure. Discontinue SIMPONI® if new or worsening symptoms of heart failure appear. DEMYELINATING DISORDERS TNF-blocking agents, of which SIMPONI® is a member, have been associated with rare cases of new-onset or exacerbation of demyelinating disorders, including multiple sclerosis (MS) and Guillain-Barré syndrome. Cases of central demyelination, MS, optic neuritis, and peripheral demyelinating polyneuropathy have rarely been reported with SIMPONI®. Exercise caution in considering the use of SIMPONI® in patients with these disorders. Consider discontinuation if these disorders develop. Treatment with TNF blockers, including SIMPONI®, may result in the formation of antinuclear antibodies and, rarely

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55 Cal.2d 646, 653—654, 12 Cal.Rptr. 483, 361 P.2d 15; In re Schoengarth, 66 Cal.2d 295, 302, 57 Cal.Rptr. 600, 425 P.2d 200.) Since the court had the power to suspend the imposition of the sentence for the maximum term of the life sentence, it was empowered under section 1203.1 to place defendant on probation for life. Accordingly, although defendant had served in excess of 8 years on account of the original life sentence when the court below granted the writ of habeas corpus on October 6, 1967, the granting of 10 years probation from and after that date did not do violence to section 1203.1. The combined effect of the sentence which had been set aside and the term of probation subsequently imposed was to place defendant under custody and supervision for a period in excess of 18 years but less than 19 years. Therefore, since the court could have placed defendant on probation for life, defendant cannot be heard to complain. The order is affirmed. 1. At the time defendant was informed against and at the time of his conviction, the sale of narcotics was prohibited by Health and Safety Code, section 11500. 2. The only question presented on appeal was whether defendant had validly consented to the absence of a juror and to have his case decided by a jury of 11 persons. In the course of its opinion, the court noted that there was no question of the sufficiency of the evidence: ‘We have examined the transcript and find the evidence more than sufficient.’ (188 Cal.App.2d p. 647, 10 Cal.Rptr. p. 613.) 3. In his notice of appeal from the order granting probation, defendant requested that the record on appeal include all proceedings of the prior trial; but the request was denied and only the oral proceedings of the court on the habeas corpus hearing and the subsequent resentencing proceeding were included in the record on appeal. 4. The record discloses that when defendant was first sentenced following his conviction, defendant requested an immediate pronouncement of judgment and no referral was made to the adult probation officer. FN5. Unless otherwise indicated, all statutory references hereinafter made are to the Penal Code.. FN5. Unless otherwise indicated, all statutory references hereinafter made are to the Penal Code. 6. In this connection it can be noted that section 2900.1 is a part of chapter 7 dealing with ‘Execution of Sentences of Imprisonment.’ MOLINARI, Presiding Justice. SIMS and ELKINGTON, JJ., concur. Hearing denied; MOSK and SULLIVAN, JJ., did not participate. All new issues published in January 2021 By date added Fanzines only By cover A century ago Today's updates Fanzines updated New Fanzines Free online (214) Classic Monsters (122) Fan! (98) Photonovel (90) Porn (21) Mainstream (20) Modern Horror (17) IMAGE ET SON/LA REVUE DU CINEMA Monthly Magazine from Paris ,France Ceased publication - First and last issue: 1946-1992 - Started as "Informations U.F.O.C.E.L." (= L'UNION FRANCAISE DES OEUVRES LAIQUES D'EDUCATION PAR L'IMAGE ET PAR LE SON). - Was called "IMAGE ET SON" (=Image and Sound) from October 1951 to 1969 and "La Revue Du Cinema" from 1969 to 1992. - Incorporating ECRAN in 1980. - Continued as LE MENSUEL DU CINEMA. - Published by Ligue franCaise de l'enseignement et de l'Education permanente

55 Cal.2d 646, 653—654, 12 Cal.Rptr. 483, 361 P.2d 15; In re Schoengarth, 66 Cal.2d 295, 302, 57 Cal.Rptr. 600, 425 P.2d 200.) Since the court had the power to suspend the imposition of the sentence for the maximum term of the life sentence, it was empowered under section 1203.1 to place defendant on probation for life. Accordingly, although defendant had served in excess of 8 years on account of the original life sentence when the court below granted the writ of habeas corpus on October 6, 1967, the granting of 10 years probation from and after that date did not do violence to section 1203.1. The combined effect of the sentence which had been set aside and the term of probation subsequently imposed was to place defendant under custody and supervision for a period in excess of 18 years but less than 19 years. Therefore, since the court could have placed defendant on probation for life, defendant cannot be heard to complain. The order is affirmed. 1. At the time defendant was informed against and at the time of his conviction, the sale of narcotics was prohibited by Health and Safety Code, section 11500. 2. The only question presented on appeal was whether defendant had validly consented to the absence of a juror and to have his case decided by a jury of 11 persons. In the course of its opinion, the court noted that there was no question of the sufficiency of the evidence: ‘We have examined the transcript and find the evidence more than sufficient.’ (188 Cal.App.2d p. 647, 10 Cal.Rptr. p. 613.) 3. In his notice of appeal from the order granting probation, defendant requested that the record on appeal include all proceedings of the prior trial; but the request was denied and only the oral proceedings of the court on the habeas corpus hearing and the subsequent resentencing proceeding were included in the record on appeal. 4. The record discloses that when defendant was first sentenced following his conviction, defendant requested an immediate pronouncement of judgment and no referral was made to the adult probation officer. FN5. Unless otherwise indicated, all statutory references hereinafter made are to the Penal Code.. FN5. Unless otherwise indicated, all statutory references hereinafter made are to the Penal Code. 6. In this connection it can be noted that section 2900.1 is a part of chapter 7 dealing with ‘Execution of Sentences of Imprisonment.’ MOLINARI, Presiding Justice. SIMS and ELKINGTON, JJ., concur. Hearing denied; MOSK and SULLIVAN, JJ., did not participate. All new issues published in January 2021 By date added Fanzines only By cover A century ago Today's updates Fanzines updated New Fanzines Free online (214) Classic Monsters (122) Fan! (98) Photonovel (90) Porn (21) Mainstream (20) Modern Horror (17) IMAGE ET SON/LA REVUE DU CINEMA Monthly Magazine from Paris ,France Ceased publication - First and last issue: 1946-1992 - Started as "Informations U.F.O.C.E.L." (= L'UNION FRANCAISE DES OEUVRES LAIQUES D'EDUCATION PAR L'IMAGE ET PAR LE SON). - Was called "IMAGE ET SON" (=Image and Sound) from October 1951 to 1969 and "La Revue Du Cinema" from 1969 to 1992. - Incorporating ECRAN in 1980. - Continued as LE MENSUEL DU CINEMA. - Published by Ligue franCaise de l'enseignement et de l'Education permanente

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the husband of Mr. Chun’s second daughter, emerged as a key player in procuring technologies for the Second Economic Committee from Europe, according to U.S., U.N. and European officials. Mr. Yun, 66, arrived in Vienna in 1985 as Pyongyang’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The English and German speaker led negotiations with the U.N. agency aimed at forging a nuclear-inspection agreement with North Korea, and he helped oversee a 1992 tour of his nation’s Yongbyon nuclear facility for Hans Blix, the IAEA’s then-managing director. “Yun was dedicated to turning things around. I truly believe that,” says Willi Theis, who worked closely with Mr. Yun as the head of the IAEA’s safeguards unit overseeing North Korea. Mr. Theis is now retired. Still, concerns grew inside the IAEA about Mr. Yun’s activities, as relations between Pyongyang and the international community deteriorated, according to IAEA officials. In 1993, North Korea broke off talks with the IAEA over the agency’s demands for an inspection of the country’s nuclear operations, and the U.S. charged Pyongyang with secretly stockpiling plutonium for atomic weapons. The next year, the Clinton administration threatened to bomb the Yongbyon facility if North Korea didn’t explain where the plutonium had gone. Mr. Yun grew embittered with the diplomatic process and mistrustful of the U.S. and its allies, according to IAEA staff and journalists who met with him. Mr. Theis says he spent hours discussing the process with Mr. Yun and pressed the Agency to remain engaged with Pyongyang. The West German-born nuclear inspector says he grew suspicious of Mr. Yun’s many trips to other European cities and his contacts with local companies. Mr. Yun even hinted to Mr. Theis that he might have no choice but to directly support North Korea’s nuclear-weapons programs if relations with the IAEA collapsed. “He came to the conclusion that dealing with the international community was totally disappointing,” said Mr. Theis in a phone interview from Austria. “Mr. Yun had definitely learned how to establish contacts with all types of people [while in Vienna]—not just from the IAEA, but managers of companies.” Mr. Theis’s concerns about Mr. Yun would be borne out in 2003, when a German businessman, Hans Werner Truppel, was arrested and eventually convicted by a Stuttgart court of selling 22 metric tons of aluminum tubes to Mr. Yun. The North Korean and his company, Namchongang Trading, used offices in Beijing and Shenyang, China, to place orders for the equipment, which is critical to building centrifuges needed to enrich uranium, according to a German Customs Bureau report. U.S. officials briefed on the case were alarmed that Mr. Yun conducted some of his business through the offices of Shenyang Aircraft Industry Co., a Chinese state-owned firm. In the ensuing months, the State Department aired its concerns about Mr. Yun’s activities to China’s government, according to former U.S. officials. But Beijing took no action. China’s ministries of foreign affairs and commerce didn’t respond to requests for comment. Shenyang Aircraft says it had no recollection of any dealings with Mr. Yun. Messrs. Chun and Yun have sought to accelerate North Korea’s weapons sales and procurement in recent years and allegedly have played important roles in strengthening Pyongyang’s military ties to countries such as Syria and Myanmar, say current and former U.S. officials. North Korea analysts believe most of these transactions have been conducted through Office 99, which they describe as an international sales office and slush fund for Kim Jong Il. “Anything that has to do with the imports and exports of weapons flows through Office 99,” says Oh Kongdan, a North Korea expert at Virginia’s Institute of Defense Analyses, a Pentagon-funded think tank. “It’s a royal patronage system.” U.S. officials say that since the late 1990s they detected through intelligence channels intensifying military cooperation between North

the husband of Mr. Chun’s second daughter, emerged as a key player in procuring technologies for the Second Economic Committee from Europe, according to U.S., U.N. and European officials. Mr. Yun, 66, arrived in Vienna in 1985 as Pyongyang’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The English and German speaker led negotiations with the U.N. agency aimed at forging a nuclear-inspection agreement with North Korea, and he helped oversee a 1992 tour of his nation’s Yongbyon nuclear facility for Hans Blix, the IAEA’s then-managing director. “Yun was dedicated to turning things around. I truly believe that,” says Willi Theis, who worked closely with Mr. Yun as the head of the IAEA’s safeguards unit overseeing North Korea. Mr. Theis is now retired. Still, concerns grew inside the IAEA about Mr. Yun’s activities, as relations between Pyongyang and the international community deteriorated, according to IAEA officials. In 1993, North Korea broke off talks with the IAEA over the agency’s demands for an inspection of the country’s nuclear operations, and the U.S. charged Pyongyang with secretly stockpiling plutonium for atomic weapons. The next year, the Clinton administration threatened to bomb the Yongbyon facility if North Korea didn’t explain where the plutonium had gone. Mr. Yun grew embittered with the diplomatic process and mistrustful of the U.S. and its allies, according to IAEA staff and journalists who met with him. Mr. Theis says he spent hours discussing the process with Mr. Yun and pressed the Agency to remain engaged with Pyongyang. The West German-born nuclear inspector says he grew suspicious of Mr. Yun’s many trips to other European cities and his contacts with local companies. Mr. Yun even hinted to Mr. Theis that he might have no choice but to directly support North Korea’s nuclear-weapons programs if relations with the IAEA collapsed. “He came to the conclusion that dealing with the international community was totally disappointing,” said Mr. Theis in a phone interview from Austria. “Mr. Yun had definitely learned how to establish contacts with all types of people [while in Vienna]—not just from the IAEA, but managers of companies.” Mr. Theis’s concerns about Mr. Yun would be borne out in 2003, when a German businessman, Hans Werner Truppel, was arrested and eventually convicted by a Stuttgart court of selling 22 metric tons of aluminum tubes to Mr. Yun. The North Korean and his company, Namchongang Trading, used offices in Beijing and Shenyang, China, to place orders for the equipment, which is critical to building centrifuges needed to enrich uranium, according to a German Customs Bureau report. U.S. officials briefed on the case were alarmed that Mr. Yun conducted some of his business through the offices of Shenyang Aircraft Industry Co., a Chinese state-owned firm. In the ensuing months, the State Department aired its concerns about Mr. Yun’s activities to China’s government, according to former U.S. officials. But Beijing took no action. China’s ministries of foreign affairs and commerce didn’t respond to requests for comment. Shenyang Aircraft says it had no recollection of any dealings with Mr. Yun. Messrs. Chun and Yun have sought to accelerate North Korea’s weapons sales and procurement in recent years and allegedly have played important roles in strengthening Pyongyang’s military ties to countries such as Syria and Myanmar, say current and former U.S. officials. North Korea analysts believe most of these transactions have been conducted through Office 99, which they describe as an international sales office and slush fund for Kim Jong Il. “Anything that has to do with the imports and exports of weapons flows through Office 99,” says Oh Kongdan, a North Korea expert at Virginia’s Institute of Defense Analyses, a Pentagon-funded think tank. “It’s a royal patronage system.” U.S. officials say that since the late 1990s they detected through intelligence channels intensifying military cooperation between North

Korea and Syria, focused on everything from the development of chemical weapons to missiles. In September 2007, Israeli jets bombed a facility in eastern Syria that U.S. officials say was a nearly operational replica of North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear reactor. As many as 10 North Koreans died in the Israeli attack, according to U.S. officials. Mr. Yun and Namchongang Trading are believed to have played a central role in brokering development of the facility. “That particular company was all over the nuclear trade. There’s no question about it,” says John Bolton, who served as the Bush administration’s top non-proliferation official. Both Syria and North Korea have denied cooperating on developing nuclear technologies. Over the past two years, U.S. and U.N. officials have also voiced concerns about North Korea’s deepening military ties with Myanmar, the Southeast Asian country formerly known as Burma. North Korea engineers have helped Myanmar build a maze of fortified bunkers to house senior government officials and military installations, according to Burmese defectors and commercial satellite photos. Current and former U.S. officials say Washington has intervened to block the transfer of Scud missiles to Myanmar from Pyongyang. In June, Japan’s Ministry of Economy and Trade banned Tokyo-based Toko Boeki Trading Co. and device maker Riken Denshi from conducting international trade after three of their affiliated executives, one of them an ethnic Korean, were arrested trying to send machine tools on an export-control list to Myanmar using a dummy company in Malaysia. The equipment could be used to develop either ballistic missiles or centrifuges for a uranium-enrichment program, according to weapons experts. And the U.N. in its May report said it was examining “suspicious” ties between Mr. Yun’s Namchongang Trading and Myanmar, possibly linked to these activities in Japan. The Obama administration, in response, has announced a stepped-up campaign to block North Korea’s ability to raise funds through the arms trade. In addition to the new sanctions, the Pentagon has said it will intensify the interdiction of ships and planes believed to be carrying North Korean arms. Still, Mr. Theis and other North Korea experts believe that it is only through dialogue that the West will be able to curb the North’s proliferation threat. Mr. Theis says he is recently lobbied the IAEA to allow him to return to Pyongyang to hold meetings with Mr. Yun. So far, he says, the IAEA hasn’t agreed. UPDATE 1: According to Reuters: President Barack Obama on Monday broadened U.S. financial sanctions on North Korea, freezing the U.S. assets of eight North Korean companies or agencies and four individual citizens. The U.S. Treasury released a fact sheet detailing U.S. allegations against the North Korean entities and individuals targeted under the new U.S. executive order and a previous one. The following is a summary: Companies and Agencies The Reconnainance General Bureau The Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) is North Korea’s premiere intelligence organization, created in early 2009 by the merger of existing intelligence agencies. The RGB trades in conventional arms and controls the North Korean conventional arms firm Green Pine Associated Corporation, which was also identified for sanctions under Obama’s order for exporting arms or related materiel from North Korea, the Treasury said. Green Pine Associated Corp. Green Pine was brought under the control of the RGB in 2009. The Treasury said it specializes in the production of maritime military craft and armaments, such as submarines, military boats and missiles systems, and has exported torpedoes and technical assistance to Iranian defense-related firms. Green Pine is responsible for approximately half of the arms and related materiel exported by North Korea and has taken over many of the activities of the Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation, according to the Treasury. Office 39 of the Korean Workers’ Party engages in illicit economic activity to support the North Korean government, the U.S. Treasury fact sheet said. Office 39 has branches throughout the nation that raise and manage funds and is responsible for earning foreign

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being diagonal we denote this graph by $G_{\mbox{\tiny{\rm diag}}}$. An important concept in G-Wishart and Inverse G-Wishart distribution theory is graph decomposability. An undirected graph $G$ is \emph{decomposable} if and only if all cycles of four or more nodes have an edge that is not part of the cycle but connects two nodes of the cycle. In Figure \ref{fig:MandG} the first, third and fourth graphs are decomposable. However, the second graph is not decomposable since it contains a four-node cycle that is devoid of edges that connect pairs of nodes within this cycle. Alternative labels for decomposable graphs are \emph{chordal} graphs and \emph{triangulated} graphs. In Sections \ref{sec:GWishartDistr} and \ref{sec:IGWdistn} we define the G-Wishart and Inverse G-Wishart distributions and treat important special cases. This exposition depends on particular notation, which we define here. For a generic proposition ${\mathcal P}$ we define $I({\mathcal P})$ to equal $1$ if ${\mathcal P}$ is true and zero otherwise. If the random variables $x_j$, $1\le j\le d$, are independent such that $x_j$ has distribution ${\mathcal D}_j$ we write $x_j\stackrel{{\tiny \mbox{ind.}}}{\sim}{\mathcal D}_j$, $1\le j\le d$. For a $d\times 1$ vector $\boldsymbol{v}$ let $\mbox{diag}(\boldsymbol{v})$ be the $d\times d$ diagonal matrix with diagonal comprising the entries of $\boldsymbol{v}$ in order. For a $d\times d$ matrix $\boldsymbol{M}$ let $\mbox{diagonal}(\boldsymbol{M})$ denote the $d\times 1$ vector comprising the diagonal entries of $\boldsymbol{M}$ in order. The $\mbox{\rm vec}$ and $\mbox{\rm vech}$ matrix operators are well-established (e.g. Gentle, 2007). If $\boldsymbol{a}$ is a $d^2\times1$ vector then $\mbox{\rm vec}^{-1}(\boldsymbol{a})$ is the $d\times d$ matrix such that $\mbox{\rm vec}\big(\mbox{\rm vec}^{-1}(\boldsymbol{a})\big)=\boldsymbol{a}$. The matrix $\boldsymbol{D}_d$, known as the \emph{duplication matrix of order $d$}, is the $d^2\times\{\frac{1}{2}d(d+1)\}$ matrix containing only zeros and ones such that $\boldsymbol{D}_d\mbox{\rm vech}(\boldsymbol{A})=\mbox{\rm vec}(\boldsymbol{A})$ for any symmetric $d\times d$ matrix $\boldsymbol{A}$ (Magnus \&\ Neudecker, 1999). For example, $$\boldsymbol{D}_2=\left[ \begin{array}{ccc} 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 \end{array} \right]. $$ The Moore-Penrose inverse of $\boldsymbol{D}_d$ is $\boldsymbol{D}_d^+\equiv(\boldsymbol{D}_d^T\boldsymbol{D}_d)^{-1}\boldsymbol{D}_d^T$ and is such that $\boldsymbol{D}_d^+\mbox{\rm vec}(\boldsymbol{A})=\mbox{\rm vech}(\boldsymbol{A})$ for a symmetric matrix $\boldsymbol{A}$. \subsection{The G-Wishart Distribution}\label{sec:GWishartDistr} The \textit{G-Wishart distribution} (Atay-Kayis \&\ Massam, 2005) is defined as follows: \begin{definition} Let $\boldsymbol{X}$ be a $d\times d$ symmetric and positive definite random matrix and $G$ be a $d$-node undirected graph such that $\boldsymbol{X}$ respects $G$. For $\delta>0$ and a symmetric positive definite $d\times d$ matrix $\boldsymbol{\Lambda}$ we say that $\boldsymbol{X}$ has a G-Wish

being diagonal we denote this graph by $G_{\mbox{\tiny{\rm diag}}}$. An important concept in G-Wishart and Inverse G-Wishart distribution theory is graph decomposability. An undirected graph $G$ is \emph{decomposable} if and only if all cycles of four or more nodes have an edge that is not part of the cycle but connects two nodes of the cycle. In Figure \ref{fig:MandG} the first, third and fourth graphs are decomposable. However, the second graph is not decomposable since it contains a four-node cycle that is devoid of edges that connect pairs of nodes within this cycle. Alternative labels for decomposable graphs are \emph{chordal} graphs and \emph{triangulated} graphs. In Sections \ref{sec:GWishartDistr} and \ref{sec:IGWdistn} we define the G-Wishart and Inverse G-Wishart distributions and treat important special cases. This exposition depends on particular notation, which we define here. For a generic proposition ${\mathcal P}$ we define $I({\mathcal P})$ to equal $1$ if ${\mathcal P}$ is true and zero otherwise. If the random variables $x_j$, $1\le j\le d$, are independent such that $x_j$ has distribution ${\mathcal D}_j$ we write $x_j\stackrel{{\tiny \mbox{ind.}}}{\sim}{\mathcal D}_j$, $1\le j\le d$. For a $d\times 1$ vector $\boldsymbol{v}$ let $\mbox{diag}(\boldsymbol{v})$ be the $d\times d$ diagonal matrix with diagonal comprising the entries of $\boldsymbol{v}$ in order. For a $d\times d$ matrix $\boldsymbol{M}$ let $\mbox{diagonal}(\boldsymbol{M})$ denote the $d\times 1$ vector comprising the diagonal entries of $\boldsymbol{M}$ in order. The $\mbox{\rm vec}$ and $\mbox{\rm vech}$ matrix operators are well-established (e.g. Gentle, 2007). If $\boldsymbol{a}$ is a $d^2\times1$ vector then $\mbox{\rm vec}^{-1}(\boldsymbol{a})$ is the $d\times d$ matrix such that $\mbox{\rm vec}\big(\mbox{\rm vec}^{-1}(\boldsymbol{a})\big)=\boldsymbol{a}$. The matrix $\boldsymbol{D}_d$, known as the \emph{duplication matrix of order $d$}, is the $d^2\times\{\frac{1}{2}d(d+1)\}$ matrix containing only zeros and ones such that $\boldsymbol{D}_d\mbox{\rm vech}(\boldsymbol{A})=\mbox{\rm vec}(\boldsymbol{A})$ for any symmetric $d\times d$ matrix $\boldsymbol{A}$ (Magnus \&\ Neudecker, 1999). For example, $$\boldsymbol{D}_2=\left[ \begin{array}{ccc} 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 \end{array} \right]. $$ The Moore-Penrose inverse of $\boldsymbol{D}_d$ is $\boldsymbol{D}_d^+\equiv(\boldsymbol{D}_d^T\boldsymbol{D}_d)^{-1}\boldsymbol{D}_d^T$ and is such that $\boldsymbol{D}_d^+\mbox{\rm vec}(\boldsymbol{A})=\mbox{\rm vech}(\boldsymbol{A})$ for a symmetric matrix $\boldsymbol{A}$. \subsection{The G-Wishart Distribution}\label{sec:GWishartDistr} The \textit{G-Wishart distribution} (Atay-Kayis \&\ Massam, 2005) is defined as follows: \begin{definition} Let $\boldsymbol{X}$ be a $d\times d$ symmetric and positive definite random matrix and $G$ be a $d$-node undirected graph such that $\boldsymbol{X}$ respects $G$. For $\delta>0$ and a symmetric positive definite $d\times d$ matrix $\boldsymbol{\Lambda}$ we say that $\boldsymbol{X}$ has a G-Wish

art distribution with graph $G$, shape parameter $\delta$ and rate matrix $\boldsymbol{\Lambda}$, and write $$\boldsymbol{X}\sim\mbox{\rm G-Wishart}(G,\delta,\boldsymbol{\Lambda}),$$ if and only if the non-zero values of the density function of $\boldsymbol{X}$ satisfy \begin{equation} p(\boldsymbol{X})\propto|\boldsymbol{X}|^{(\delta-2)/2}\exp\{-{\textstyle{\frac{1}{2}}}\mbox{\rm tr}(\boldsymbol{\Lambda}\boldsymbol{X})\}. \label{eq:GWishartDensKern} \end{equation} \label{def:GWdefn} \end{definition} Obtaining an expression for the normalizing factor of a general G-Wishart density function is a challenging problem and recently was resolved by Uhler \textit{et al.} (2018). In the special case where $G$ is a decomposable graph a relatively simple expression for the normalizing factor exists and is given, for example, by equation (1.4) of Uhler \textit{et al.} (2018). The non-decomposable case is much more difficult and treated in Section 3 of Uhler \textit{et al.} (2018), but the normalizing factor does not have a succinct expression for general $G$. Similar comments apply to expressions for the mean of a G-Wishart random matrix. As discussed in Section 3 of Atay-Kayis \&\ Massam (2005), the G-Wishart distribution has connections with other distributional constructs such as the hyper Wishart law defined by Dawid \&\ Lauritzen (1993). Let $G_{\mbox{\tiny{\rm full}}}$ be the totally connected $d$-node undirected graph and $G_{\mbox{\tiny{\rm diag}}}$ be the totally disconnected $d$-node undirected graph. The special cases of $G=G_{\mbox{\tiny{\rm full}}}$ and $G=G_{\mbox{\tiny{\rm diag}}}$ are such that the normalizing factor and mean do have simple closed form expressions. Since these cases arise in fundamental variational message passing algorithms we now turn our attention to them. \subsubsection{The $G=G_{\mbox{\tiny{\rm full}}}$ Special Case} In the case where $G$ is a fully connected graph we have: \begin{result} If the $d\times d$ random matrix $\boldsymbol{X}$ is such that $\boldsymbol{X}\sim\mbox{\rm G-Wishart}(G_{\mbox{\tiny{\rm full}}},\delta,\boldsymbol{\Lambda})$ then \begin{equation} \begin{array}{rcl} p(\boldsymbol{X})&=&\frac{|\boldsymbol{\Lambda}|^{(\delta+d-1)/2}}{2^{d(\delta+d-1)/2}\pi^{d(d-1)/4} \prod_{j=1}^d\Gamma(\frac{\delta+d-j}{2})}\, |\boldsymbol{X}|^{(\delta-2)/2}\exp\{-{\textstyle{\frac{1}{2}}}\mbox{\rm tr}(\boldsymbol{\Lambda}\boldsymbol{X})\}\\[1ex] &&\quad\times I(\boldsymbol{X}\ \mbox{a symmetric and positive definite $d\times d$ matrix}). \end{array} \label{eq:pXfullCase} \end{equation} The mean of $\boldsymbol{X}$ is $$E(\boldsymbol{X})=(\delta+d-1)\,\boldsymbol{\Lambda}^{-1}.$$ \label{res:GfullResult} \end{result} Result \ref{res:GfullResult} is not novel at all since the $G=G_{\mbox{\tiny{\rm full}}}$ case corresponds to $\boldsymbol{X}$ having a Wishart distribution. In other words, (\ref{eq:pXfullCase}) is simply the density function of a Wishart random matrix. However, it is worth pointing out the the shape parameter used here is different from that commonly used for the Wishart distribution. For example, in Table A.1 of Gelman \textit{et al.} (2014) the shape parameter is denoted by $\nu$ and is related to

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