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Add to Cart Add to Wishlist Features: Full metal billet style receiver CNC machined metal keymod rail Ambidextrous magazine catch Non-slip textured selector switch Ambidextrous mock charging handle Integrated MOSFET Programmable full auto or 3 round burst capability 6 position retractable GOS V3 stock Front and rear adjustable flip up sights Rear sling plate adapter for use with one-point slings Ergonomic motor grip Battery and Charger – Required to power your AEG; use a high quality battery and charger for best results. Spare Magazines – Stay in the fight longer by bringing more ammo with you. BBs – High quality precision 6mm BBs recommended; Use 0.20g – 0.25g BBs for best results. Silicone Oil – Basic cleaning and lubrication maintenance help keep your Airsoft AEG in top working order. The newest evolution of the G&G Combat Machine line up takes all the standard features that everyone has come to know and respect from the Combat Machine line and improves upon it by offering upgrades and modifications that are never seen at such a low price point, and yet done to such a high level of quality. The GC16 Warthog offers an entirely redesigned full metal receiver, borrowing from the ever popular billet style that has been seen more and more in the firearms world. Other improvements include and ambidextrous magazine release, ambidextrous mock charging handle, metal keymod handguard and a selector switch with a heavy duty detent that gives the user tactile feedback when changing fire modes. While the GC16 Predator knocks other AEGs in its price range out with its agressive styling, it's whats on the inside that counts most. Installed from the factory is a MOSFET, allowing the user to use LiPo batteries without worrying about damaging the gun and a programmable fire control which allows the shooter to choose either full-auto fire , or three round burst fire modes. Loaded with features and good looks the GC16 Warthog an excellent choice for any airsofter who is in the market for a gun that has all of the latest features and technology.700mm / 790mm (28.15"-38.19"), Adjustable2599g~260mm300rd Hi-Capacity. Works with Matrix, G&G, Tokyo Marui and other compatible M4 / M16 Series Airsoft AEG Magazines350~370 FPS (Measured with 0.20g BBs)14mm NegativeVer 2 Full Metal, Fully UpgradeableLong TypeSemi/Full-Auto, Safety9.6v Small Butterfly Type recommended (Battery not included. Wired to the rear with small Tamiya connector)Yes, AdjustableGun, Magazine, ManualG&G FPS Range: 350-370 About G&G Established in Taiwan in 1986, G&G has always been determined to make the highest quality Airsoft products. G&G continues to find new designs, better materials, and innovative systems to make our products stronger and more competitive. We always focus on customer's needs and we believe that a high-quality product is the best sales pitch. It is our continual goal that our customers can enjoy the best possible experience using our products, and we strive to deliver the best quality product as the key to our success. California residents click here for Proposition 65 warning

2) Budget a LOT of time. I'm sure experienced swatchers can do this more quickly, but it took me roughly 30 - 45 minutes per colour to do the full swatching/clean up/picture editing/posting on the blog. For the 11 colours I did, I spent about 4 hours on polish, and 2 - 3 hours on photo editing and posting. That's a LOT of work! 3) Sunlight is mandatory for great colour! Unless you have a professional photo studio, which I do not. I use a simple point and shoot camera, some white paper to provide a clean background, and the sun. 4) Keep an eye on the weather forecast! Living in the north, I'm at a serious disadvantage in winter when it comes to the window I have for swatching. At this time of year, I have a few hours of good strong sunlight that will let me take nice pictures, so I took advantage of every minute. Once summer rolls around, I'm sure the advantage will skew in my favour - I look forward to it! 5) Keep a glass of water nearby. Between the polish fumes and acetone fumes, your throat will get scratchy and dry. This leads directly to... 6) Work in a well-ventilated area to reduce exposure to noxious fumes. Acetone is NOT a fun thing to breathe in! 7) Do the colours you're working with really need a base coat? If it doesn't stain, then don't waste your time. And don't assume that dark colours will stain while light colours won't - ManGlaze's Fuck off and Dye is a hot pink that will stain your nailbeds as soon as you put it on, while the Deborah Lippmann Edge of Glory black creme I had on today didn't stain at all with no base coat through several applications. Test and be sure! 8)  Be expedient. I've yet to take a single picture that shows my thumb or my right hand, so now I just polish the four fingers on my left hand. This saves a lot of time and clean up! 9) Rushing your polish job will just end in misery later when you try and fix your mistakes in Photoshop.  10) On the topic of Photoshop, learn what's an easy post-processing fix, and what's just an invitation to torture. Ding your creme polish a bit? Not a big deal - that can be quickly and easily fixed in Photoshop. Got polish along your cuticle? You're gonna pull your hair out trying to fix it. 11) A small cosmetic brush and a bottle of pure acetone are your best friends for cleaning up your manicure. Take your time and gently brush away any mistakes along your cuticle, edges, and sides of your fingers. The pure acetone will just eat away the polish, so be careful!  12) Every second you spend cleaning up your nails before you take a picture means minutes saved afterwards. 13) Even if you don't see the mess on your nails, your camera will. A high resolution macro shot in sunlight is extremely unforgiving - every speck of stray polish, every bit of dry skin, every stray piece of pet fur will show up. 14) Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it's not there. Even if you can't see a mess on your cuticles, run the brush over them anyway because the camera will. 15) Think you're in the safe from camera mistakes with your base and top coat because they're clear? Think again. The macro setting and the sun will reveal any clear polish on your cuticles or fingers, making them look uneven and messy. Make sure to swipe the brush along your cuticles after your topcoat too! 16) When you finish cleaning up your cuticles with the brush, take a cotton pad and wipe down your fingertip and around your nail. This will clean up any polish that dripped with the acetone down your skin and collected in any lines on your fingers. Trust me, it's there. You'll be amazed what comes off on that cotton pad! 17) After all that acetone, your nails and fingers are going to be super dry. Give them a good slather of cuticle oil afterwards to help smooth things over. 18) After your nails are nicely cleaned up, take your pictures against a clean white background. Plain old printer paper will work fine for this. 19) Take a LOT of pictures from a ton of angles! You never know what you're going to capture by moving the camera a bit. You can sort out the good from the bad when you're in Photoshop That's it for now! I'm sure I'll have more to share as I continue learning how to swatch and photograph my manicures :)

If you thought the Raiders cutting Rolando McClain was good news, you're going to love this. As it turns out, according to Joel Corry of the National Football Post, there was language in McClain's contract that voided all remaining guaranteed money should he be suspended for conduct. Last season he was indeed suspended for two games for conduct detrimental to the team which means his remaining $3.635 million in previously guaranteed money is now voided. This brings his dead money against the cap from its previously assumed figure of $10.895 million down to $7.26 million - just $585k more than his 2013 cap hit would have been had he remained on the roster. Basically what this means is it the cost of cutting him is negligible compared to keeping him. But keeping him would have been far more costly to the team dynamic and you can't put a price on that. That said, actual monetary value is nice as well. In this case, for Rolando McClain, it was literally payback time. McClain officially became a free agent on Monday at 1pm Pacific time and the Raiders immediately began putting that $3.635 million to good use. In about 24 hours time, they signed two outside free agents - CB Mike Jenkins and S Usama Young -- and re-signed two of their own free agents - DE Andre Carter and CB Joselio Hanson. They are also believed to have tendered contracts to their remaining Exclusive Rights Free Agents - CB Brandian Ross, RB Jeremy Stewart, and OL Alex Parsons. The contract figures of the newly signed free agents are not yet known, so it is hard to know the Raiders' exact cap number at this instant. However, the most recent figure before the flurry of signings on Monday and Tuesday at about $8 million under the salary cap. You can figure the four signings carry a total cap hit between $3 million and $4 million which would leave the team with enough room to sign one or perhaps two more low cost free agents. If they do add a player or more than one, it would happen this week as off-season workouts begin next Monday. Free Agent quarterback Seneca Wallace is visiting on Wednesday and there is a decent chance the Raiders attempt to sign him to a minimum deal which would give the team three quarterbacks. The cap room will open up again for the Raiders once June 1rolls around and the a large portion of Michael Huff's cap hit is distributed to 2014. We can expect more additions at that time. Follow @LeviDamien

Hundreds of entries rolled down Carson Street today in Nevada's capitol to celebrate Nevada's 150th year of statehood. Did you attend? What did you think of today's celebration? Let us know in the comments.

Tippi Hedren, Noel Marshall and their daughter Melanie Griffith are not just a unique family for having made significant contributions to the cinema (Tippi was the star of the movie "The Birds" by Alfred Hitchcock, and Marshall was executive producer of "The Exorcist"). In fact, the family spent much of their life living on a farm in California where they shared not only the garden, but the living room and even the bed with a real lion. This crazy experiment was undertaken in order to film the catastrophic movie that was 'Roar' (1981). It was in production for 11 years and cost $17 million. #1 'Roar' During a trip to Africa in the 70's, the family came across an abandoned house that had been overtaken by lions. This was, ultimately, the exact moment they decided they wanted to create a movie based on this scene. The main idea of the movie was to educate the world about the danger of the extinction of lions, tigers and many other wild beasts. But first, they needed to learn how to live with them. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT

Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. Washington lawmakers are demanding an accounting of how many airport security badges have been lost or stolen around the country as an NBC News investigation reveals the problem may be bigger than originally thought. "Clearly there are an awful lot of things falling through the cracks and there's just no room for error when it comes to this issue. We need answers. They're not providing them," said Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), who chairs the Transportation Committee. Thune and two other committee members have sent a letter to the Transportation Security Administration seeking more information. As NBCDFW reported in March, more than 1,400 of the badges — which allow employees to access secure areas like runways and boarding gates — went missing at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport over approximately two years. Now, the station, in partnership with NBC San Diego, has learned that more than 270 badges went missing at the San Diego International Airport in the last two years. And some of those wayward badges were not reported for weeks or months — meaning they were not quickly deactivated. Workers are supposed to report a missing badge within 24 hours, and the San Diego airport authority said it plans to do more to ensure that rule is followed. The TSA said many airports have extra layers of security so workers need a code or handprint to get in, not just an ID badge. The agency said it's also working to step up background checks and random searches of workers who have ID badges nationwide. IN-DEPTH

By Robert Mullin CAISO last week provided an explanation of its decision to increase regulation requirements in response to the growing variability on its system. The ISO's Department of Market Monitoring last month called attention to the sharp rise in costs from the requirements, prompting the California Energy Commission to ask the ISO to justify the move. (See CAISO Regulation Costs Quadruple as Price, Procurement Jump.) During a Market Performance and Planning Forum last week, CAISO said it doubled its frequency regulation service requirement from late February to mid-June in response to recurring short-term generation forecasting errors stemming from variable wind and solar resources during late winter and spring. The forecasting problem is mostly isolated to spring, when high renewable output often coincides with periods of low loads in California. At the same time, weather patterns tend to be more erratic, often making it especially difficult to predict renewable output on a moment-to-moment basis. Regulation prices more than doubled shortly after the ISO increased its daily regulation procurement from 400 MW or less to as much as 800 MW in late February. Daily payments to regulation service providers surged from $100,000 to more than $400,000, the ISO's Monitor found last month. The ISO rolled back regulation requirements to previous levels for summer because of more predictable weather patterns. Further compounding the spring forecasting issue is the increasing adoption of residential rooftop solar, which is subject to the same variability as utility-scale projects. The ISO estimates it has nearly 5,000 MW in rooftop solar in its balancing area, with new installations added daily. Variability in behind-the-meter rooftop output complicates matters by causing loads to skew from forecasts depending on whether the sun is shining. The problem "happens more in the off-season — with more of the clouds coming in," said Amber Motley, CAISO short-term forecasting manager. "Timing and forecasting of [generation] ramps are very difficult. Forecasting cloud coverage is difficult." Variable wind production can also be a factor, with cold fronts making it difficult to predict the timing of wind ramps and changes in wind direction causing intermittency. Clyde Loutan, ISO senior advisor for renewable energy integration, said weather changes can occur too quickly to incorporate revised forecasts into the real-time market run. He also pointed out that forecasting errors are not covered under the ISO's real-time contingency dispatch process, which sets aside generation to allow the system to recover from major disturbances. "So you have to rely on regulation," Loutan said. "Seems like it's more a failure of the forecast," said Dan Williams, CAISO markets analyst at Portland General Electric. "And that should be changed by changing the market rather than rolling it into regulation." Loutan countered that he didn't know of any forecaster that could reflect the intermittency in the five-minute market. "When you think about how these markets were designed, they were really designed for conventional units," he said. Loutan also pointed to a clear financial incentive driving the ISO's increased requirement. "Back in January we had some pretty bad days when we didn't control the frequency well enough," he said. "For 11 hours, we had a hard time controlling the system. We found out that we were running out of regulation." If the condition had persisted longer than 30 consecutive minutes, the ISO would have been subject to as much as $1 million in NERC penalties, he said. Carolyn Kehrein, principal consultant for the Energy Users Forum, suggested that increased regulation costs should be allocated to intermittent resources if the forecasting problem continued and the ISO didn't develop new tools to deal with it. She said increased costs for intermittency should encourage the "right kind" of renewable development, such as geothermal. Wei Zhou, senior project manager with Southern California Edison, agreed with applying the cost-causation principle to the problem. "This is something that we're looking at long-term," said Loutan, referring to the forecasting issue at large. "But for now we just wanted to explain why we increased our regulation procurement."

Panhandling Guide No.13 (2002) by Michael S. Scott The Problem of Panhandling This guide addresses the problem of panhandling.† It also covers nearly equivalent conduct in which, in exchange for donations, people perform nominal labor such as squeegeeing (cleaning) the windshields of cars stopped in traffic, holding car doors open, saving parking spaces, guarding parked cars, buying subway tokens, and carrying luggage or groceries. The guide begins by describing the panhandling problem and reviewing factors that contribute to it. It then identifies a series of questions that might help you in analyzing your local problem. Finally, it reviews responses to the problem, and what is known about those responses from evaluative research and police practice. Generally, there are two types of panhandling: passive and aggressive. Passive panhandling is soliciting without threat or menace, often without any words exchanged at all—just a cup or a hand held out. Aggressive panhandling is soliciting coercively, with actual or implied threats, or menacing actions. If a panhandler uses physical force or extremely aggressive actions, the panhandling may constitute robbery. Isolated incidents of passive panhandling are usually a low police priority.1 In many jurisdictions, panhandling is not even illegal. Even where it is illegal, police usually tolerate passive panhandling, for both legal and practical reasons.2 Courts in some jurisdictions have ruled that passive panhandling is constitutionally protected activity. Police can reasonably conclude that, absent citizen complaints, their time is better spent addressing more serious problems. Whether panhandling and other forms of street disorder cause or contribute to more serious crime—the broken windows thesis—is hotly debated, but the debate is as yet unsettled.3 Panhandling becomes a higher police priority when it becomes aggressive or so pervasive that its cumulative effect, even when done passively, is to make passersby apprehensive.4 Panhandling is of greater concern to merchants who worry that their customers will be discouraged from patronizing their business. Merchants are most likely to call police when panhandling disrupts their commerce.5,† Police must also be concerned with the welfare of panhandlers who are vulnerable to physical and verbal assault by other panhandlers, street robbers†† or passersby who react violently to being panhandled.6 Panhandlers often claim certain spots as their own territory, and disputes and fights over territory are not uncommon.7 Broadly speaking, public policy perspectives on panhandling are of two types—the sympathetic view and the unsympathetic view. The sympathetic view, commonly but not unanimously held by civil libertarians and homeless advocates, is that panhandling is essential to destitute people's survival, and should not be regulated by police.8 Some even view panhandling as a poignant expression of the plight of the needy, and an opportunity for the more fortunate to help.9 The unsympathetic view is that panhandling is a blight that contributes to further community disorder and crime, as well as to panhandlers' degradation and deterioration as their underlying problems go unaddressed.10 Those holding this view believe panhandling should be heavily regulated by police. People's opinions about panhandling are rooted in deeply held beliefs about individual liberty, public order and social responsibility. Their opinions are also shaped by their actual exposure to panhandling—the more people are panhandled, the less sympathetic they are toward panhandlers.11 While begging is discouraged on most philosophical grounds and by most major religions, many people feel torn about whether to give money to panhandlers.12 Some people tolerate all sorts of street disorder, while others are genuinely frightened by it. This tension between opposing viewpoints will undoubtedly always exist. This guide takes a more neutral stance: without passing judgment on the degree of sympathy owed to panhandlers, it recognizes that police will always be under some pressure to control panhandling, and that there are effective and fair ways to do so. Related Problems Panhandling and its variants are only one form of disorderly street conduct and street crime about which police are concerned. Other forms—not directly addressed in this guide—include: disorderly conduct of day laborers; disorderly conduct of public inebriates (e.g., public intoxication, public drinking, public urination and defecation, harassment, intimidation, and passing out in public places); disorderly conduct of transients/homeless (e.g., public camping, public urination and defecation, and sleeping on sidewalks and benches, and in public libraries); disorderly youth in public places; harassment (usually sexual) of female pedestrians; pickpocketing; purse snatchings; robbery at automated teller machines (ATMs); trash picking (for

GOREILLAMAN CAWK COMMANDER - "Don't hate her. But I had a bad person interaction with her so im not a fan. Hate is a strong word tho" - want to elaborate bro? Sure. It was about idk a year maybe 2 ago and I was having a discussion with uncle creepy on Twitter of all places about followers. Basically he was wanting more and I have a decent amount so I said I would tell mine to follow him. She replied to my message with something along the lines of doubt this guy can help he probably buys his followers then called me pathetic. It was just an odd thing for a professional athlete and champion to say to someone on social media especially to someone who wasn't talking to her. But the interesting part was when I told her I don't buy followers I congratulated her on her win (she had just won the invitca title a few days prior) her tone completely changed and she was super friendly. I don't hate her because the situation is so petty and not important to anyone's life but I'm not rooting for her so I guess it upset me enough to sway me against her like that lol

Microsoft's Office team has been on a roll. In the few past months, it's been busy creating the upcoming Office 2016 for Windows, as well as new universal apps for Windows 10 that work on mobile devices just as well as the desktop. It turns out Mac users, however, will be the first to see what the team has up its sleeve this year. Microsoft has just released a preview of Office 2016 for Mac, which includes updated versions of Word, Excel PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook. All of these are now optimized for retina displays, support full-screen views and have revamped ribbon interfaces. As you'd expect, they're also connected to the cloud for accessing your files anywhere. Curiously, there's only support for Microsoft services at the moment: OneDrive, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint. Microsoft announced a partnership with Dropbox on its mobile Office apps last month, and recently began adding support for other platforms too, so we wouldn't be surprised if these made their way into Office for Mac by the time the full product is released. Of course, there are a ton of new app-specific features as well. Word's design tab helps manage layouts, colors and fonts throughout a document, while a navigation pane similar to the one in PowerPoint makes it easy to find the pages you're looking for. Comments are now threaded too, which should make editing sessions a lot less of a pain. Excel features improvements to charts, graphs, keyboard shortcuts and data entry, including a formula builder and autocomplete. New functions added in Excel 2013 for Windows helps make the app more powerful, while assuring your calculations will work across platforms. For users working on more complicated statistics, the Analysis ToolPak introduces several statistical functions like moving averages and exponential smoothing. PowerPoint is introducing a nifty 'Presenter View' feature, which basically works as a hub only the speaker can see; it can display your next slides, a timer and notes, while your audience only sees the current slide. There's also a new animation pane and slide transitions to add some pizzazz. The new Outlook is basically an update to what Microsoft introduced back in October, which isn't a bad thing. There's an improved conversation view that automatically threads your conversations, and message previews now show you the first sentence of an email in addition to the subject line. Finally, Microsoft has also been pushing out updates to OneNote recently, all of which are included in Office 2016. You can now organize your notes more effectively with tags, and use optical character recognition (OCR) to parse text from images and handwriting. Although Microsoft pushes out small updates to its Office for Mac intermittently, the last time the apps saw a full revamp was 2011. There isn't an exact launch date for the final version of the productivity suite, but the company says to expect it sometime this summer. If you want to give it a try, head on over to Microsoft's Office for Mac page – you can install it alongside your older version of Office if you want. Just keep in mind you'll have to be running OS X Yosemite to get it installed. ➤ Office for Mac 2016 Read next: Forget MVPs, startups need to create minimum 'lovable' products

Stacy talks with Muse drummer, Dom Howard. Talkin' hockey, the Steelers & their regard for Pittsburgh. Also, rapid fire with Dom on the US vs. the UK. Find out which he prefers when it comes to television, the food, music, *gasp* government, and...women.

After all, President Obama is no pushover. In 2013, he decided not to implement his "red line" threat to use force if Syria used chemical weapons again, overruling his secretaries of state and defense. On an earlier occasion, he overruled his entire national security team's proposal to arm and train the Syrian opposition. For better or worse, American intervention in Libya was Mr. Obama's decision, not Mrs. Clinton's. It is called the Obama administration for a reason. Second, as to why Libya deteriorated so dramatically after Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's fall, Mrs. Clinton worked as hard as anyone to stabilize the country. But in doing so, she was operating pursuant to restrictions imposed by the president, who established strict limits on the United States' military role. The president has come to regret limiting the American contribution to certain air assets and other unique capabilities needed at the outset of the air campaign. In an interview with Thomas L. Friedman, he said the lesson he learned in Libya is "the need to come in full force if you're going to do this"and that "there has to be a much more aggressive effort to rebuild societies." Third, the report's biggest flaw is the scant attention given to the consequences of inaction back in 2011 and the plausible policy alternatives at the time. Knowing Colonel Qaddafi's track record as a sponsor of terrorism and a brutal dictator (psychopath?), Western leaders had good reason to believe the regime's threats of mass murder. Five years later, in Syria we also have the clearest possible evidence of what happens when a brutal Arab dictator is left unchecked during a democratic uprising. The consequences of inaction there have been immense, with hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children killed and refugees overwhelming the region and destabilizing Europe. The truth is there were not a lot of options back in 2011. Once the Libyan uprising led to the Qaddafi crackdown, civil war became inevitable. The West did prevent that war from becoming a mass slaughter, which should be a source of satisfaction. The Libyan people certainly don't blame America for the chaos they are living through. So why are the administration's critics doing so?

Sydney architect Rana Abboud won a NAWIC Scholarship in 2013 to investigate the opportunities and obstacles for Augmented Reality in the practice of architecture. She reports for ArchitectureAU on her key research findings. Augmented Reality's potential for Architecture is huge. "AR" is any system that overlays, or 'augments,' the real world with digital information that seemingly co-exists. Today's AR applications hint at a future to come: virtual furniture may be overlaid in real time to check its size and appearance in a room; 'see-through' walls on a construction site allow builders to view pipes and mechanical ducting behind; and overlays of past and future buildings render the city a canvas for virtual data. As tech giants race to release wearable interfaces for ever greater augmentation of the physical world, the number of worldwide users consuming AR via portable media devices is expected to exceed 1 billion users by 2020. As recipient of the 2013 International Women's Day Scholarship awarded by the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC), I recently researched the Opportunities and Obstacles for Augmented Reality across key phases of architectural practice. My focus was on a subset of AR known as Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR), which applies the concept of AR in truly mobile settings, away from special-purpose work areas. With MAR, displays are portable, and range from smartphones, to tablets, to wearable Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs). My intent was to identify high-level uses for Mobile AR across key architectural phases, and explain the challenges currently preventing MAR's uptake by the Australian architecture profession. My focus question was: "What are the opportunities and obstacles for mobile AR in key phases of architectural practice – namely, design, construction, and post-completion?" Gartner's Hype Cycle with Augmented Reality overlay. The AR trail took me on a study tour across North America, Europe, and Oceania. With the support of NAWIC and Architectus, I met with AEC industry leaders, AR developers, software researchers, academics, and pioneers of AR in construction applications worldwide. I discovered that Augmented Reality had reached the pinnacle of news media hype in 2011, and that its users were now hurtling towards the 'Trough of Disillusionment.' I tried on Head-Mounted Displays, and found out the Google Glass was not true AR. I also uncovered a broad spectrum of Use Cases and AR prototypes relevant to architecture. Opportunities: Design AR can overlay a real site with a virtual design at full-scale. A growing number of AR developers and visualisation providers now offer AR platforms that enable 'walking tours' of a virtual building, from early design through to construction. Those from backgrounds outside the construction industry often struggle to decode technical planning documents, or interpret 2-D drawings to understand their 3-D implications. MAR applications promise to bypass such 'coding' and 'translation' models of spatial communication, and more intuitively convey the intended appearance, scale, and features of a proposed design. By using virtual components to stand in for physical objects, AR can save on the fabrication and material costs of real-world prototypes. AR platforms can also isolate individual elements within a spatial scheme for presentation at full scale. By using virtual components to stand in for physical objects, AR can save on the fabrication and material costs of real-world prototypes. Such applications are useful in clash detection, to visually detect overlaps between proposed virtual content and real world elements. Today's commercial applications in this area are limited to mass-manufactured objects, whose modular nature provides a compelling business case for AR platforms that communicate scale. MAR platforms can also augment physical models and drawings with unlimited virtual content. The most common augmentation of presentation media today is when a paper drawing, such as a 2D plan, becomes the marker for a 3D model overlay. But the value-add of AR is in communicating information that other media cannot, such as 4D content (information with a time component). Overlays need not be limited to visual applications either, as AR can draw on other senses to communicate elements of a scheme, such as the acoustics within a space. With AR, multiple users may share the same physical space and perceive the 'spatial presence' of a digital object, making it an ideal medium for collaborative problem solving. But while the most familiar uses in design today are in design visualisation, (such as with the Augmented Australia 1914-2014 exhibition planned for Venice), AR will increasingly inform the design process itself. With AR, multiple users may share the same physical space and perceive the 'spatial presence' of a digital object, making it an ideal medium for collaborative problem solving. MAR applications promise to bring the designer into more direct contact with the building site, allowing building designers to quickly contextualise and review their designs in situ. Opportunities: Construction

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It's Getting Better All The Time We've all been expecting a techno dystopia, a world shattered by climate change and deadened by social media. But what if the reverse is true? 2833 views Copy and paste the embed code on your website, blog post or article. Make sure Javascript is enabled. Journalism New York, New York 50,000 words 75% complete 2 publishers interested View publishers I'm John Biggs and I've been a professional cynic for the past decade. I saw where technology was headed and I was upset, not amazed. But something is changing and I want to tell you about it. "Yearly reminder: unless you're over 60, you weren't promised flying cars. You were promised an oppressive cyberpunk dystopia. Here you go," wrote Kyle Marquis in February 2015. For most of my life Marquis' words rang true. I saw the future as a slide into darkness, all Blade Runner and dirty bombs. But we are living in an era of unprecedented access to information and increasingly improved access to the resources needed to build a better world. All is not peaches and cream - yet - but I argue it will get there. This book is an examination of everything, from Bitcoin to VR, that will change our lives for the better. I will interview thinkers, makers, and doers and I'll speak to people from all walks of life. I want to tell a story in which we thrive instead of just survive. The Plan I intend to meet and interview the people doing the most good in the tech world - and some of the folks who might not be doing the most good. I intend to explore health, environment, and social interaction and bring in research from around the world on how technology is impacting us. I will write it in a conversational style - this isn't a boring term paper - and I'll treat it like my treatise on our better tomorrow. Why do I want to this? Because I owe it to my family and to promise them that things are going to be OK. I think things will become drastically different over the next decade and the next century but I disagree that the future is a downward slope. Entropy exists but the human will is stronger. We are living in an era of unimagined prosperity and peace. Despite the news media's tendency to lead with blood, we exist in a world where children today will live longer and happier lives than their parents. I may be wrong but I hope I'm not. Why paint a dystopian picture of the future when we can take a utopian photograph of the world around us right now and extrapolate out? I ran Gizmodo and CrunchGear and I'm currently the CEO of a Bitcoin company and East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. I have adopted new technologies with reckless abandon and I've seen just about every gadget pass before me over the past fifteen years. I know what is happening in the world and I can explain it. I'm a tech writer and I've seen just about every cool thing in tech pass through my transom. I'm ready to weigh in on exactly how everything fits together and I'm ready to try this medium for publication. If funded I'll write and produce the book in ebook and paperback form and if you back me I'll send you a copy. I love to write and this has been a dream project for me for a while. I'm the guy who can tell this story and I'm worried mainstream publishers don't want optimism when it comes to books about the future. Let's put that optimism back into the tech world. Why You? You're sick of naysayers. I know you are. You're sick of people telling you that things are awful and getting worse. I'm a paid cynic and I, myself, hate knee-jerk reactions to technology that suggest that everything from social media to robotics spells our doom. I don't believe that and neither do you. But I can temper this optimism with facts and you like that. You, like me, want the world to keep going after we're gone and we want to exist for the amazing things to come. We don't want jet-packs but we'd settle for green cars, robotic telepresence, and a new closeness to the world around us. I also want your input. I want to hear the good things you've learned over the years. I also want to hear your criticisms. I will create a forum for that as we begin writing together. But Tech Is Destroying Us! It isn't. It's making our lives better. You and I are in a conversation right now, mediated by your screen. I am telling you about something I want to write and you can tell me how to write it and you can support me or leave me hanging. I hope you'll join me and help disabuse

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<< Back to main By Tangotiger 04:23 PM ​Answer: current ultimate. Why? Well, let's say that you think it's a quick and easy tool. What else would you do? You might… well, use RE24 instead of wOBA. That's still part of the WAR framework, simply a different implementation. Maybe you want WPA? Sure, go ahead. Maybe you prefer Dewan to Lichtman? Sure. But all of that is still part of the same framework. That's why WAR is the ultimate tool: it allows you to swap in/out your various components. You can even choose to have a different scale for the fielding spectrum. You can even change the replacement level to something higher or lower. And still, you'd be using WAR. So, go ahead, and treat Fangraphs and Baseball Reference as something "quick and dirty". But I will promise you that whatever you will do will be even quicker and dirtier. What WAR does is give you a framework, and makes it very easy for everyone to have their own implementation. Don't like what you see? Well, you are being given a systematic, consistent framework to which you can build your own house. Go ahead and do it, and give us an open house to look at it. Or, complain that somehow these free WAR homes are not good enough and… well… keep wandering the streets with nowhere to sleep. The reality is that we all have some sort of WAR home. You just maybe don't know all the rooms in your own house, and the rooms keep changing, depending on which players come to visit. WAR at Fangraphs and Baseball Reference are merciless to its player guests.

I just arrived in Xalapa, Mexico - today was my first day of mushroom hunting. Here's what I found: Helvella sp. Helvella sp. A bolete, perhaps Retiboletus Scleroderma texense Psilocybe mexicana Cortinarius sp. Coprinellus disseminatus Panus neostrigosus My friends: Post Extras: Nice! I really like the Panus neostrigosus. Is that a Gomphus sp. in your tackle box, upper right corner..? -------------------- Post Extras: The mushroom stuffed into the upper right corner of my tackle box is a large Panus neostrigosus. Post Extras: wow, looks like a diverse group of fungi you found. I can't tell which are your favorites im gonna guess Panus neostrigosus and Psilocybe mexicana? Post Extras: Awesome pictures, thanks for sharing! I love how exotic and alien some of these mushrooms appear. -------------------- All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream Post Extras: awesome Psilocybe mexicana there alan Post Extras: -------------------- ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ***Psilocybin Mushrooms*** ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ _________A Practical Guide To Psilocybin Mushrooms_________ "Think about the species, not your scale". -NeoSporen "Mr. Joust, I see you don't actually partake in the psilocin, but it looks like it may partake in you!" -Gojira Post Extras: Are you gonna eat any of those? I would like to see a full on trip report inspired by some mexicana. Or a report from any exotic Psilocybe would be interesting. Have fun. -------------------- Post Extras: How closely related are P. mexicana and P. semilanceata? They look strikingly similar in many respects. Maybe this is an old question but just looking at those pics it occurred to a fool like me. And I'm sure our mycologists have a good detailed answer there... Beautiful shots BTW. I love seeing the variety in parts of he world that I have not yet visited. -------------------- ''Come back here you meddling kids! Drop those dog gone mushrooms 'fore I swip ya with my cane!!!'' Post Extras: Awesome finds, oh the things I'd give to be in Mexico after a good rain. -------------------- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Post Extras: Fantastic. I just watched one of your presentations on the mushrooms of Mexico. I also happen to be in the DF right now. I'm considering hitting up one of the parques here to do some hunting of my own. Any suggestion on one of the many parks to visit? I was considering heading over to Cumbres del Ajusco tomorrow. Great pictures! Best of luck on the hunt. -------------------- Join The Shroomery's Folding@Home Team! Step 1 :Go to this link in a Chrome Browser: http://folding.stanford.edu/nacl ?team=12679 Step 2: Put in a nickname Step 3: Continue on, while you help find cures for diseases. Post Extras: Quote: Hunter hunter said: Are you gonna eat any of those? I would like to see a full on trip report inspired by some mexicana. Or a report from any exotic Psilocybe would be interesting. No, I am going to save them for microscopy and DNA analysis. There were only three of them. Quote: Jondspops said: How closely related are P. mexicana and P. semilanceata? They are very far apart. P. mexicana is over by P. caerulescens, and P. semilanceata is over hy P. hispanica and P. fasciata. Quote: soozler said: I also happen to be in the DF right now. I'm considering hitting up one of the parques here to do some hunting of my own. Any suggestion on one of the many parks to visit? I was considering heading over to Cumbres del Ajusco tomorrow. The best places to hunt near DF are Popocatepetl and Nev

The TTIP trade treaty talks re-open in Brussels this week. We should not be reassured by the convenient 'leak' of a private letter between key TTIP advocates claiming the treaty poses no threat to the NHS. NoTTIP Day of Action on July 12. Rachel Megawhat / Demotix. All rights reserved. The NHS has become a key battleground for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the controversial treaty currently being negotiated in secret between the European Commission and the US government. Now that more and more people are becoming aware of the threat that TTIP poses to public services, the European Commission and its friends have found a new and inventive way of trying to bamboozle people into accepting it. On the eve of the sixth round of talks, which begin in Brussels this week, a 'private' letter from the EU's chief negotiator, Ignacio Garcia Bercero, to John Healey MP was conveniently leaked to the Guardian and Financial Times. The letter attempts to downplay the fact that public health services are included in TTIP, suggesting that there is no need to fear for the NHS as a result. The media went further, suggesting that there was to be a 'carve out' for the NHS, or that US companies would not be allowed to run public health services in the future. Both claims are entirely false. The first thing to note is that there is nothing new in the letter, nor any change in the EU's position. The European Commission has used exactly the same arguments to defend the inclusion of health, education and other public services in all previous trade agreements, as those of us who have been engaged in these debates for the past 20 years know all too well. Yet trade experts point out that public services are still highly vulnerable when they are included in negotiations, particularly when private operators have been granted access to public sector contracts, as is the case with the NHS. The second thing to note is that the letter came from the chief EU negotiator to one of the principal cheerleaders for TTIP in Britain. John Healey chairs the all-party parliamentary group on EU-US investment, and has been doing his best to prevent trade unions and campaign groups from joining opposition to TTIP over the past few months. Happily, all major trade unions in Britain are now part of the campaign to stop TTIP. So here are some basic truths on the NHS and TTIP, starting with the most important and getting more technical as they go on: 1. Health services, medical services (including midwifery and physiotherapy) and dental services are all included in the TTIP negotiations. We already knew this because we saw it with our own eyes in the EU's draft offer to the USA that was uncovered last month. Indeed, Garcia Bercero's letter acknowledges that health services are on the table. The only sector that has been excluded from the TTIP talks is audio-visual services, as a result of dogged insistence by the French. All other public services are in, and can be traded away for further liberalisation if the US negotiators so demand. If David Cameron wished to exclude the NHS or any other public service from the negotiations, he could do as the French government has done. All that is needed for this to happen, as the British Medical Association (BMA) has demanded, is for no mention of health services to appear in TTIP at all. In reality, of course, it is Cameron's government that has already opened up the NHS to private providers by means of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act. Why would he raise a finger to get it excluded from TTIP? 2. Garcia Bercero's letter also confirms another key charge from opponents of TTIP: that the NHS is open to attack under the new investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) rules that TTIP would introduce between the EU and USA. For the first time, US corporations would be able to bypass our domestic courts and challenge our national health policy decisions before ad hoc arbitration tribunals, and to sue us for hundreds of millions of dollars in 'damages' as a result of future policy changes that might affect their bottom line. This is one clear mechanism that would prevent any future government from bringing the NHS back into public sector hands, as the cost of compensating private providers would render such a move instantly unattractive. Garcia Bercero would like us to believe that future challenges to the NHS would be 'unlikely'. Yet the Slovak Republic has already lost a multi-million dollar case under similar rules to Dutch insurance company Achmea for reversing the country's earlier (and deeply unpopular) privatisation of health insurance. Tobacco giant Philip Morris is currently using ISDS provisions to sue the Australian government for billions of dollars over its new public health law that all cigarettes must be sold in plain paper packaging. Ken Clarke MP, the minister with responsibility for TTIP, has admitted that the UK

"Magic mushrooms," the recreational hallucinogen long associated with music festivals and hippies, may also one day prove to have a powerful pharmaceutical effect for people with treatment-resistant depression. In a small pilot study at the Center for Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, more than half of participants who took psilocybin, the active compound in psychedelic mushrooms, showed a marked improvement in their depression symptoms while also demonstrating the compound's safety in a supervised setting. This is the first clinical trial to use the active chemical compound in so-called "magic mushrooms" to treat major depression. If the findings are confirmed in larger studies, it could mean a change in the way we treat depression symptoms in those who don't respond to therapy and traditional medications, like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. What we knew before: Mushrooms from the genus Psilocybe contain psilocybin, which the human body breaks down into a substance called psilocin. This psychedelic substance then crosses the blood-brain barrier and binds to a specific serotonin receptor known as 5-HT2A, creating a profound alteration of consciousness that has been described as a mystical event, a spiritual journey or simply a "trip." Psychedelic compounds in LSD, ayahuasca and mescaline bind to this same receptor. Human beings have been consuming psychedelic mushrooms for thousands of years because of this effect, but it wasn't until the 1950s that scientists began examining psilocybin's therapeutic properties in earnest. Previous pilot studies have shown that psilocybin could be a promising new way to treat mental health symptoms like anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behavior and addiction. Those worried about the compound's effects on mental health needn't worry: Research shows that lifetime use of psychedelics like psilocybin is not an independent risk factor for mental health problems. Beyond binding with the 5-HT2A receptor, scientists don't really understand the chemical process that leads to this psychedelic experience. It's even less clear how having a mystical experience might produce long-term mental health benefits, but there are at least two theories, according to Dr. Stephen Ross, director of the Psychedelic Research Group at NYU Langone Medical Center. He was not involved in the study, but reviewed it. In the first theory, the memory of the "trip" -- which can be a profound and extremely meaningful experience -- could have a strong psychological effect on people, lifting their moods for months at a time. Alternatively, there may be a biological explanation: It's possible the binding of psilocin to the serotonin receptor sets off a cascade of yet-unknown chemical reactions that persist for weeks or months. The study details: Six men and six women with chronic, treatment-resistant, moderate to severe major depression consented to take two different doses of psilocybin (10 mg and 25 mg), separated by one week. There was no control group, and the participants and in what's called an "open label trial," the investigators all knew that they were either taking or administering psilocybin. During the dosing sessions, participants relaxed on a bed in a room with dim lighting and listened to music through earphones. Supervisors monitored their blood pressure, heart rate and the psychoactive effects of the compound intermittently for up to six hours after they took the pills, while psychiatrists offered support but mostly let patients have their own "inner journey," as the study put it, without interruptions. None of the participants experienced serious or unexpected negative side effects that required medical intervention from the dosing, though some reported mild anxiety, confusion, nausea or headache. The psychedelic effects peaked about two to three hours after dosing and then became negligible after about six hours. Most significantly, eight of the 12 patients responded extremely well to the psilocybin, meeting the criteria for remission from depression one week after the two treatments. After three months, five of them remained in remission, while another two continued to show improvement in their depression symptoms compared to baseline. Overall, all 12 patients showed at least some improvement in their symptoms for up to three weeks after the dose. The results seem promising, but there are some caveats. The overall positive response to the dosing treatment could in part be chalked up to the fact that the participants actively sought out the psilocybin trial and were probably expecting the medicine to work on some level, creating a bias in favor of the intervention. Indeed, five of the participants had already tried psilocybin at least once -- one just six months before the experiment, others ranging from 14 to 48 years prior. This past experience with a drug and its presumed positive effects could increase suggestibility and expectancy in people, which could affect the results. Double-blind trials in which neither patient nor therapist knows which intervention they received or administered, as well as the inclusion of a control group, could address these issues in

brunoreturns wrote: I used this variant with a friend yesterday, and we had a great time! I am not a fan of the core strategy cards, so the next time we play I am going to use mostly SE strategy cards, except that I will use Politics in place of Assembly and discard the Bureaucracy card, so that the mechanics are the same as in this game.

Well then. From Donald Trump's appearance on the Talk1300 radio show in New York this morning: Trump said the numbers were troubling and pointed to Hillary Clinton as proof that he probably won't get the kind of support among African-Americans that he deserves. "I tell it like it is," Trump said. "[Y]ou'll hear a political reporter go on and say it had nothing to do with race. But how come she had such a tiny piece of the vote? And you know, it's a very sad thing. "I have a great relationship with the blacks. I've always had a great relationship with the blacks. But unfortunately, it seems that, you know, the numbers you cite are very, very frightening numbers."

Sonic Boom officially welcomed the public to its brand-new space in the Robertson Building at 215 Spadina Ave. last month (and held a massive funeral party for its former Honest Ed's digs ). The change of address for the iconic record store, which has spent the last 13 years serving audiophiles in the Annex , with a newer location in Kensington Market , comes reluctantly after the sale of Mirvish Village forced them to vacate the lower portion of Honest Ed's . Thankfully, the big move hasn't wiped out the store's inventory or aesthetic. Many frantic hours were spent prepping the new Boom for its grand opening on September 27. The space was most recently used as an American Apparel factory outlet , and while the staff already had their work cut out for them to exorcise the ghosts of improperly dyed metallic jeggings from the premises, an equally difficult task was combining inventory from two separate stores into one unified location. As you may recall, Sonic Boom's original Bloor Street flagship was bigger than the one in Honest Ed's, hence the second branch in Kensington Market to house the overflow of vinyl and old-school paraphernalia. But with these new digs measuring a solid 13,000 square feet and centrally located on the southern edge of Chinatown, it made sense to bring everything together under one roof again. Walking up Spadina's east side, I was immediately greeted by the storefront's expanse of large windows, one emblazoned with the distinctive orange and blue logo. These massive glass panes will soon be filled with Sonic Boom's signature window displays designed by Tim Oakley, but for now they let a flood of sunlight wash over the front room. High ceilings and exposed wooden beams make for a decidedly more urban-chic feel than previous iterations of the shop. "The top floor is kind of a smaller representation of the store as a whole," says owner Jeff Barber. It has a little of everything, including new releases on CD and vinyl, audio accessories like Urbanears headphones and Crosley turntables, plus Herschel bags and other fashion accessories. The entirety of their book collection is shelved along the back-right wall, with a pretty replete catalogue of 33â…" paperbacks that's tough not to geek out over. The merch on this level is accented with a bit of quirky decor that'll be new to you unless you visited the Bathurst location during it's final days. The "Captain Fantastic" Elton John pinball machine is charming and totally makes sense in the midst of all this vintage music gear; the animatronic stuffed bear looming over a container of batteries may need to be explained to me, though. Descending down the stairs at the back of the room leads me into the vastly bigger basement, which contains the bulk of the music selection. The rows-upon-rows of new and used stock will be totally recognizable to any previous Sonic Boom patron - every music genre is still well-represented here, though with particular emphasis on rock and indie. A pretty sizable DVD and Blu-ray collection is starting to fill out the front half of the room, while display cases towards the back show off cool box-set and oddball collectables (for example: thanks to this setup, I now know that a Celine Dion/Anne Geddes collabo exists. Amazing). That back end of the basement is where Sonic Boom will continue the tradition of in-store concerts, which in the past have featured the likes of Dinosaur Jr., Sloan, Aimee Mann and The Weakerthans , just to name a handful. The stage isn't set up yet, but the stack of guitar amps and mic stands against the wall are a sure enough sign of live tunes to come. Leaving the Annex behind was surely a tough sell for both Sonic Boom's customers and crew, who've come to consider the store an integral part of the neighbourhood. But the new address' increased foot traffic, expanded space and close proximity to Queen and Spadina's many hip hangouts should ensure that not much will change for Toronto's largest independent music shop. "We're sad to leave the Annex," Barber says, "but we're excited about becoming a part of this neighbourhood." Writing by Shazia Khan. Photos by Matt Forsythe.

PORTLAND, Ore. – A man from South Korea has a dream to cycle from Canada to Argentina on a solo trip. But his dream has been cut short by a thief in Portland. Minhyeong Kim's black-and-red Scott Sub 40 and the racks on the front and back holding his possessions were stolen last Friday night. Kim parked his bike and locked it up outside the Fred Meyer store on Southeast Cesar Chavez Boulevard and Hawthorne Boulevard last Friday night. He went in to to buy some food and the bike was gone when got back outside 20 minutes later. The bike and almost all his gear, from a tent to a laptop, had vanished. He said it was his entire life, his home on wheels. Kim is a young man who spent the past two years saving and planning, to fly from South Korea to Edmonton, Canada, and then to ride his bicycle all the way down to Argentina. He had made it 1,500 miles in 35 days. But his trip was stopped in Portland. Kim said he loves Portland, but what happened hurt him, and he wants the thief to know that. "At first I'm very angry and sad because of you, but now I can forgive you," he said "I just want...return my bicycle for me." The Scott bike is mostly black with red graphics and is set up for long-haul touring. Anyone who sees it is asked to call Portland police at 503-823-3333. © 2018 KGW

If you didn't, even you're a huge Dodgers fan, don't be ashamed– very few other people noticed either. In fact, before the days of the internet it's likely no one would have mentioned it for years, if at all. The changes are quite subtle. Back in 2011, SportsLogos.net ran a post titled Dodgers Change Logo, Nobody Notices. Not many people noticed that post outside of the sports uniform blog scene. In only came to our attention today, nearly 2 years later. From the original article: The major minor-changes involve: The leading script into the 'o' of 'Dodgers', it's there in 2010, it's gone in 2012.the 'D' in 'Dodgers' also had a slight change, specifically the curl in the 9-o'clock region of the logo, it's much shorter in the 2012 edition.the flight lines of the baseball have been corrected. Not the most necessary change to ever occur but it does tidy the logo up nicely. As far as we can tell this it the first adjustment of the Dodgers primary logo since their move to Los Angeles from Brooklyn in 1958, that leading tail on the 'o' had been around in one-form-or-another since the 1930s. Perhaps especially because of the fact that it took even the most logo obsessed fans awhile to notice, the ultras over at Uni Watch were intrigued, so much that they landed an interview with the Dodgers Art Director, Ross Yoshida. Here's part of what he had to say: The most obvious change is the thickening of the ball and streaks and making the line weights uniform. This was done mostly to solve the problem of the red lines getting lost at smaller sizes. In addition, the Dodgers script was given an overall "refresh"—angles are sharper/cleaner and the script now has a more natural flow (the loop on the D, elimination of the stub on the o, the transition from the g to the e). The end of the underflourish also has an inverted scoop, subtly mimicking the underflourish on our jersey script. As far as we can tell by searching Uni Watch, there haven't been any other changes since the 2011/2012 season. If you're looking for a comprehensive list of Dodgers' logos, head over to SportsLogos.net's Dodgers page. Share the taco: Facebook Twitter Reddit Email

The start Each player has 8 cards and 3-5 pieces (depending on the number of players) of his color. A game board is built out of all players' cards at the beginning of the game randomly. Your pieces start on your Castle. It is always in a corner.

In these days of anxiety and alienation, Thanksgiving offers the warm embrace of inclusiveness. Particularly for many people with families and faiths rooted in other lands, no other holiday, not even the Fourth of July, has so great a capacity to make them feel American. A child of Orthodox Jewish immigrants could feel his apartness on other festivals celebrated by the larger society. Christmas, Easter, Halloween — all are distinctly Christian observances, no matter how temporal and commercialized they have become. They are inevitable reminders for some Americans that they are different. Thanksgiving's origins are also Christian. But it has evolved into something both secular and spiritual, a day devoted to family and amity. Perhaps that explains its unwavering appeal for believers and nonbelievers alike (even if many Native Americans understandably choose not to partake). Thanksgiving is at heart more than parades, or football or even country; there's no flag-waving or chest-thumping. It is about shared bounty and shared humanity. That's why the writer Saadia Faruqi, a Pakistan-born Muslim, welcomes the day. "For a Pakistani-American, Thanksgiving is as wholesome and normal a holiday as one can get," she said in a 2015 essay. "It is a time to be grateful, to spend time with family, and to have a little bit of fun." Though she never developed a taste for turkey, Ms. Faruqi wrote, the Thanksgiving table would most definitely be set — with tandoori chicken, daal and naan.

Just when I thought we'd have a long weekend without a big news dump, the WaPo published its story revealing Jared Kushner asked Sergey Kislyak to set up a channel of communication with Russia at Russian facilities at a meeting in early December. Jared Kushner and Russia's ambassador to Washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump's transition team and the Kremlin, using Russian diplomatic facilities in an apparent move to shield their pre-inauguration discussions from monitoring, according to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports. Ambassador Sergei Kislyak reported to his superiors in Moscow that Kushner, then President-elect Trump's son-in-law and confidant, made the proposal during a meeting on Dec. 1 or 2 at Trump Tower, according to intercepts of Russian communications that were reviewed by U.S. officials. Kislyak said Kushner suggested using Russian diplomatic facilities in the United States for the communications. The meeting also was attended by Michael Flynn, Trump's first national security adviser. That story — and additional details on Kushner's discussions with UAE — is the big headliner. But the fascinating detail is that WaPo received an anonymous letter with details of this meeting — and other things that the WaPo suggests it may not yet have confirmed — in mid-December. The Post was first alerted in mid-December to the meeting by an anonymous letter, which said, among other things, that Kushner had talked to Kislyak about setting up the communications channel. This week, officials, who reviewed the letter and spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence, said the portion about the secret channel was consistent with their understanding of events. For instance, according to those officials and the letter, Kushner conveyed to the Russians that he was aware it would be politically sensitive to meet publicly, but it was necessary for the Trump team to be able to continue their communication with Russian government officials. In addition to their discussion about setting up the communications channel, Kushner, Flynn and Kislyak also talked about arranging a meeting between a representative of Trump and a "Russian contact" in a third country whose name was not identified, according to the anonymous letter. So who could have sent the letter? First, consider the timing. The letter was sent within a few weeks of the meeting itself. In between the meeting and sending of the letter, these very same reporters got the scoop that the CIA believed Russia affirmatively wanted Trump elected, a scoop that pre-empted the President's call for a report on Russian tampering in the election. A week later, two of these reporters got another confirmation that John Brennan said the other agencies agreed with him on the view that Putin wanted Trump elected. The letter also got received a few days after John McCain got a copy of Christopher Steele's dossier (reportedly on December 9), followed just four days later by the last known and by far most incendiary installment of the dossier, which for the first time accused Trump's campaign of paying the DNC hackers. In other words, WaPo received the letter at a time when the IC was dumping a ton of information implicating Trump. So perhaps it was a spook who heard Kislyak's description of the meeting on an intercept. The dominant narrative on those intercepts, however, has said that the IC wasn't listening closely to Kislyak intercepts until after Russia did not retaliate in response to the hacking sanctions imposed on December 28, and didn't find the incriminating Mike Flynn conversations until around January 3. If that's right, then the IC wouldn't have heard about this meeting until weeks after the letter was sent. [Update: the NYT version of this–which appears to be damage control from the White House–cites a senior American official stating that they learned about this conversation "several months ago," which would put it after the letter was sent.] Of course, with the FBI and CIA getting their own raw feeds of data, it's possible one agency listened to the intercepts (and had the language skills to understand them) before another did. It's possible, for example, CIA learned about the meeting before FBI did so in the aftermath of the sanctions concerns. It's also possible that the Russians sent the letter — or even that Kislyak made up the Kushner claim as disinformation (remember, by this point there were leaks about FISA orders, with reports that Russian interlocutors were changing their communication habits). But it's unclear what Russia would have to gain by sending a letter in December, rather than waiting until Kushner had compromised himself. Doing so would eliminate all the control they had gained with the information. Which (barring a spook sending the letter) would seem to leave a Trump associate. Reportedly, WaPo's Miller said that the letter appears to come from someone inside the Trump transition. Anyone else at the meeting would seem to be an immediate target for Trump retaliation. Though it is possible that Mike Flynn sent the letter, realizing he was getting set up by Trump, which would make the delay

After a bizarre week, Jim McElwain is out at Florida, meaning one of the top 10 jobs in college football is open. The move means there could be as many as a half-dozen new head coaches in the SEC in 2018. Let's examine 10 candidates UF may consider. I think the Gators' options fit into three categories: the connected guys, the upstarts and the big names they might be able to woo. The Connected Guys with UF ties or local roots Dan Mullen, Mississippi State: He's an obvious choice. First-year Florida AD Scott Stricklin was his boss in Starkville. Mullen is a terrific offensive coach and that's something that should play well at a place that has been dreadful pretty much since Mullen left Gainesville almost a decade ago. He's 67–44 at a program that is the toughest to win at in the SEC West, and the Bulldogs are 6–2 this year. It's hard to think he can do much better in Starkville than he already has, and that includes two top-20 finishes in his eight previous seasons. On two different occasions he tried to get the Miami job, but was unable. It's hard to think he'd pass if Florida came within reach. Word is former Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley wasn't a big fan of Mullen's, but would he try and stand in the way of him getting this job or still have the juice to do that? Willie Taggart, Oregon: A South Florida native who is like the third Harbaugh brother, Taggart won at Western Kentucky and then won at USF, leaving Charlie Strong a stocked program, and he's done a very nice job pumping life back into the Ducks in his first year in Eugene. He and his staff are recruiting exceptionally well. Would he actually be tempted to come back home after moving his young family across the country for just one year? I'm not sure he could say no. Scott Frost, UCF: A Chip Kelly protégé, he's tearing it up in year two at UCF, which at 7–0 is the Group of Five's last unbeaten team. His name has come up often as a possible answer if his alma mater Nebraska pulls the plug on Mike Riley (I suspect it will). I'm told Frost might be more intrigued by a program with a stronger, much more fertile recruiting base than Nebraska—somewhere he can get tons of speed to fuel his system. A place like Florida would make a lot of sense. A question among some UF folks is whether the 42-year-old Frost is ready for this big stage. In retrospect, many realized, McElwain wasn't cut out for the job temperament-wise, and that figures to be something Florida will be mindful of in its search process. Charlie Strong, USF: Another former Urban Meyer assistant, Strong fizzled at Texas after three tumultuous seasons. He's doing well again in his first season at USF and is very well-connected around the state. He played a vital role in Meyer building a powerhouse at Florida, and Gator brass knows how well-respected he was inside the program. That should count for something. Does UF want someone more drawn to the spotlight than Strong? It just got rid of a guy who was not very comfortable under constant media scrutiny. Would it bring in another to replace him? The Big Names Justin Fuente, Virginia Tech: He's 17–5 with the Hokies after turning a downtrodden Memphis football program into a winner. That was impressive. Fuente is also not paid a fortune by FBS coaching standards, but has a very good situation in Blacksburg working for a well-regarded AD in Whit Babcock. He's got a good job now, but UF is an even better job. If you're the Gators, you've gotta kick the tires on this one. Gary Patterson, TCU: One of the best defensive coaches in football, Patterson has the Horned Frogs rolling. He's done wonders there and they've upgraded the facilities dramatically for him. They've even built him a statue. Still, it's no secret that he'd listen if it's a program that he felt gave him a much better chance at winning national titles. Kevin Sumlin, Texas A&M: His résumé and experience is better than most of the guys on this list. He's likely to be looking for another job this winter. He's proven he can recruit very well in the SEC against anyone. He's 49–24, has never done worse than 8–5 at A&M and did lead the Aggies to their first top-five finish in over 50 years. Chip Kelly: The biggest free-agent name in coaching. Kelly is as sharp and innovative as any offensive mind in football. His offense would be scary with access to the speed you can recruit at Florida.

Evidently, the Pittsburgh Steelers aren't the only team in the NFL making roster moves. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers joined the event by making a few moves of their own. David Gilreath, who recently spent a few weeks on the active roster due to the injuries to Jerricho Cotchery and Antonio Brown; was released on Monday. With Brown possibly ready to return, Gilreath became expendable when the team needed healthy bodies along the offensive line. As David DeCastro was officially welcomed back to the active roster, and John Malecki was promoted from the practice squad; Marcus Gilbert was placed on injured/reserve. Seeking depth at receiver, and possibly special teams, the Buccaneers signed David Gilreath once the Steelers placed him on waivers. To make room for Gilreath, the Bucs demoted safety Sean Baker to the practice squad and released former Steelers offensive lineman, Chris Scott. Because the Steelers had already planned to move forward without Gilreath, his loss won't have any immediate effects on the active roster preparing to take on the Baltimore Ravens. However, Gilreath makes the third Steeler prospect to be signed with a new team in recent days, with Ryan Lee signing with the New Orleans Saints and Toney Clemons signing with the Jacksonville Jaguars. With Cotchery expected to return before the end of the season, the Steelers will not have to rely on any more rookies to play wide receiver, barring injury. Although, it is interesting. The Steelers who began the year with five running backs and four receivers, now find themselves with five receivers and only four backs with Baron Batch on the practice squad.

On May 6, Iowa City Police responded to a report of a person looking into vehicles. The police report states that the suspect, Nicholas Rotter (32), Iowa City, tried to flee from authorities, first on a bicycle and then on foot. After being chased by police, he was taken to the ground. After apprehending Rotter, police searched his backpack and found 2.1 grams of marijuana, 3 grams of methamphetamine, and a pot style meth lab. The bicycle which Rotter originally tried to flee on was found to be stolen from a nearby residence. Rotter was arrested for possession of a controlled substance, intent to manufacture a controlled substance, theft, and assault on a police officer.

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars Move Ultra Flame Used by Mario Type Magic Magic power Effect None Element Fire Range One enemy Damage reduced N/A Ultra Flame is the last fire magic move Mario learns in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Mario learns this move at level 18, and it costs 14 FP. When used, Mario shoots a large amount of fireballs at enemies. This attack is stronger than both Fire Orb and Super Flame. Unlike the other two fire-based attacks, Ultra Flame has the potential to deal damage to all enemies. To perform the attack successfully, the player must hit the button repeatedly. Names in other languages [ edit ] Language Name Meaning Japanese ウルトラファイア Urutora Faia Ultra Fire

Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, warned in a speech to the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority conference today that "the courts are at risk" in the upcoming presidential election, lamenting that at least one current Supreme Court justice displays a "secular mindset." Sessions said that as the committee's ranking member during the confirmation hearings of Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, "I felt, like so many of you, the court hasn't been performing in a way we like it to." He repeated a criticism of Sotomayor that conservatives had leveled at her during her confirmation hearings, expressing dismay that she had approvingly quoted legal scholar Martha Minow's observation that in the law "there is no objective stance but only a series of perspectives — no neutrality, no escape from choice in judging," an acknowledgment of the hidden assumptions and biases that all judges bring to the law. Sessions said the quote "still makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck." "You see, this is a postmodern, relativistic, secular mindset and I believe it's directly contrary to the founding of our republic," he said. "So I really think this whole court system is really important," he added later in the speech, "and the real value and battle that we're engaged in here is one to reaffirm that there is objective truth, it's not all relative. And that means some things are right and some things are wrong, and we're getting too far away from that in my opinion and it's not healthy for any country and it's really not healthy for a democracy like ours that's built on the rule of law."

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Sep 11, 2007 - Children's charity the NSPCC has become the latest high profile organisation to be involved in a faking scandal - this time with made-up examples of child abuse. ... These featured a young girl who rang the service and talked of a baby-sitter "doing things to her she didn't like".

FEW COULD IMAGINE the ultra-conservative Vatican at the epicentre of a rebellion against rampant capitalism and its destruction of the natural world. The release tomorrow (June 17th) of what may well be the most radical papal encyclical in modern history strongly suggests we do indeed live in extraordinary times. A leaked draft of the encyclical (or teaching letter) suggests that Pope Francis, a boxer in his youth, is coming out swinging, warning of the need for truly radical steps to arrest the "unprecedented destruction of the ecosystem". Put plainly, he warned: "destroy Creation and Creation will destroy us". This pope is making some powerful new enemies The pope explicitly links bare-knuckle capitalism with both ecological catastrophe and growing inequality. Given that just 67 billionaires control more than half the entire world's wealth – each individual billionaire controlling more resources than an average 100 million people – it is clear that the pope is making some powerful new enemies. These same plutocrats bankroll politics and own the media in many countries, so the backlash against Francis will be epic. In recent months, the science-savvy pontiff, who holds a master's degree in chemistry, outraged neoliberals by dismissing 'trickle-down' economics as "a failed theory". He went on to warn that "the invisible hand of capitalism cannot be trusted". He also argued that "excessive consumerism is killing our culture, values and ethics… and the conservative ideal of individualism is undermining the common good". Francis is the first pope from the Global South, the part of the world that has been the loser as globalised capitalism concentrated more power and wealth in fewer and fewer hands. His experience in his native Argentina, which was torn apart by economic collapses has left Francis deeply sceptical of the very capitalism pretty much every Irish politician, economist and commentator believes is essential to 'grow the economy'. Economic growth has come with a fearsome price tag. Half of all the wild animals on Earth have disappeared since 1970, according to a major WWF study. On our current trajectory, within the next three or four decades most of what remains of the natural world will quite literally have been wiped off the face of the planet. This generation of humans is both living through and the driving force behind the greatest global mass extinction event in at least the last 50 million years. We are facing chaos on a scale not witnessed since World War II Meanwhile, despite the best efforts of the deniers to claim otherwise, climate change continues gathering both pace and momentum, setting in train processes that are, at least on human timescales, essentially irreversible. Polar scientists now calculate a minimum of five metres of sea level rise is already 'locked in' as a result of unstoppable melting events in Antarctica and Greenland. This is sufficient to redraw the map of the world, and render many of our great coastal cities uninhabitable over time. However, our current greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions pathway could, in just another decade or two, increase the amount of 'locked-in' ice melt to raise global sea levels by a staggering 20 metres over time. While global average temperatures have already risen by almost 1C, causing sharp rises in extreme weather events across the world, climate scientists warn that our ever-increasing GHG emissions as a result of burning fossil fuels are rapidly pushing the global temperature gauge towards the +2C 'red line'. Beyond this point lies a near future of weather disasters, famines, droughts and widespread economic and social disruption on a scale not witnessed since World War II. The ecological and climate emergency is quite literally the gravest threat human beings have ever collectively faced. While speaking as the head of the 1.2 billion-strong Catholic church, Francis stresses that this encyclical, Laudato si ("Blessed are You") is first and foremost a moral, rather than an overtly religious message. To drive home this point, the 200-page document will tomorrow be jointly launched by a Catholic cardinal, a Christian Orthodox church leader and a climate scientist who happens to be an atheist. The encyclical will make acutely uncomfortable reading for practising Catholics like Taoiseach Enda Kenny, who, in tandem with Environment minister, Alan Kelly, has decided – for short-term gain – to make ignoring climate change de facto government policy. This may be the most genuinely radical document in a generation The timing of Francis' intervention is propitious: the UN's major climate conference, dubbed COP 21, takes place in Paris in December, and the pope is taking to the road on an intensive lobbying campaign in support of a deal radical enough to avert disaster. Scientists are impressed. "The encyclical is probably going to have a bigger impact than the Paris negotiations", said Gavin Schmidt of NASA. "The attitudes hindering the path towards a solution…go from negating the problem to indifference, to

Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo at the University of Texas Annual National Security Forum October 12, 2017 Good afternoon everyone. It's great to be in Texas, and a privilege to be with you here at UT Austin. I very much look forward to our conversation today with Stephen Slick and to taking your questions. Espionage—the art and science of running assets and stealing secrets. This professional activity is at the heart of the organization I am now privileged to lead. In America, we don't do espionage for fun, although it often does bring joy and professional satisfaction. We don't do it to help American businesses or to gain information about Americans. No, in our Republic, the CIA's espionage is aimed at the singular purpose of collecting foreign intelligence to keep America safe. Period. Full stop. I raise this, because while it may seem trite, or even pedantic, it is, as I will share with you today, central to the effectiveness of the team I lead. So that will be my first point: the effectiveness derived from conducting espionage that is solely focused on supporting America's national security. The second thing you must know is that the CIA, to be successful, must be aggressive, vicious, unforgiving, relentless — you pick the word. We must every minute be focused on crushing our enemies and providing unfair advantage for our diplomats, our military and our President. This too may seem obvious, but it has not always been so straightforward. Today, I want to share with you why this matters and how we are punishing our enemies in order to defeat them. But before I return to why the purpose of CIA's espionage is so central to our success and to the fact that unceasing risk-taking is foundational, a quick reminder... At this very moment, there's a CIA team preparing for a mission in a very dangerous part of the world. There's not much of a US footprint there, nor is it a place where our brothers and sisters in the military can operate. The infrastructure our officers will need there will be built by the Agency's support specialists, who can set up shop anywhere on the planet. The communications and surveillance equipment they require will be provided by our science and technology experts, whose achievements are legendary. And if there's a need for cyber support, our Directorate of Digital Innovation staff will troubleshoot for them. The point is that CIA wouldn't be adding much value to the national security effort—or providing value for American taxpayers—if we confined ourselves to the relative comfort of world capitals and fancy embassies. The secrets of greatest utility are typically the ones embedded within the most rugged and hostile environments and possessed by those who do not share American values. If President Trump is to make the right policy choices there, he needs to understand the facts on the ground in the grittiest back alleys, densest jungles—in the hard places. Every day, including this one, CIA officers take extraordinary risks to put crucial intelligence in the hands of our President. A few weeks back I was with an officer a bit younger than most of you in this room, had early that morning come back from an operation that would be rejected as implausible by any worthy publisher. The President rightly counts on us to answer his questions about global threats, trends, and hotspots. And if we do our job right, we give an enormously unfair advantage to him and his top policymakers when it comes to dealing with foreign challenges. Now that our heads are collectively set in the world in which the CIA operates, back to the main mission for today. The CIA's Purpose and Why It Matters—A Comparison So, why do we do what we do? I don't mean simply why do we conduct intelligence. That's obvious. The important question is: For what purpose do we conduct espionage? This purpose matters. Let me show it by comparing our efforts with those of the Islamic Republic of Iran. At our founding, Americans were deeply skeptical of collecting intelligence, leaving the United States alone among the great powers in being reluctant to even get into the spy business. It took two world wars before CIA was established in 1947 as America's first comprehensive peacetime intelligence agency. Like all other elements of the US national security community, we take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. We strictly abide by our nation's laws. We're subject to oversight by the elected representatives of our fellow citizens. And as I said, because we conduct espionage that is solely aimed at supporting our country's national security, we work with a sense of duty, purpose, and righteous resolve—and we're a lot more effective because of it. Let's compare this with the intelligence service of the world's largest state sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran. The MOIS and IRGC intel services simply can't be as effective as the

KIRSTEN POWERS: It's not -- this idea that -- so Democrats believe that people are entitled to certain things. They're entitled to healthcare, they're entitled to food. They're entitled to some basic necessities of life. BILL O'REILLY: Yeah, free stuff. Free. Free. POWERS: What you call "free stuff" and what Jeb Bush calls "free stuff" that actually are necessities in life. So the problem with when he said "free stuff" is that he's talking about children getting food. He's talking about people who -- a lot of the people who receive welfare, even the adults are working poor. They're people who have jobs. But they don't have enough money to get food, so it's -- O'REILLY: Yeah, but that's -- that myth has been busted time and time and time again. POWERS: It's is not a myth, it's not even -- it's not a myth, no, no. O'REILLY: Sure it is. Look, if you look -- if you look at the studies of poverty -- POWERS: At least 50 percent are working. O'REILLY: Powers. If you look at the studies of poverty, most poor people in this country have computers, have big screen TVs, have cars, have air conditioning. This myth that there are kids who don't have anything to eat is a total lie. And -- POWERS: It is absolutely not a lie, and there actually are students -- O'REILLY: It is absolutely a total lie on a mass level. POWERS: There actually are students in New York City, there are kids in New York City who go all weekend without anything to eat except when they eat in the schools. That is absolutely a fact. O'REILLY: Oh, that is such the biggest baloney. You produce one. You produce one. You can't. POWERS: And I know it's a fact, I know that because of the churches that I have worked with in New York City who serve those children. I mean, it's an absolute fact. O'REILLY: There are food banks in these churches, and it goes back to the parents who are usually derelicts of some kind. POWERS: I'm sorry, Bill, but there are people who -- no, no. O'REILLY: And who squander the food stamps that come in, who sell them on the black market. This is insane. You are telling me that you believe in the United States of America, with all the entitlement programs and food stamps and everything else, there are urchins running around that don't have any food because of the system? POWERS: There are children. O'REILLY: No, it's their parents who are abusing them. POWERS: And -- they're children. And who -- being poor is not abuse, actually. Being poor is not child abuse. And there are people who actually work very hard and who still cannot make enough money to make ends meet and have enough food for their children. And I'm sorry that you refuse to believe that, but it -- O'REILLY: That is, look. The entitlement culture that we have in place, the entitlement culture we have in place -- public housing, food stamps, direct payments, all kinds of things have wiped that out.

Goofs When Joe sneaks into Edwina Burke's (Evergreen Headmistress) home while she's talking to Marie, he pulls out a yearbook. He looks into the yearbook and the name says "Adrian Pryce". Then when the shot zooms in, it says "Adrian Doyle Pryce". When Joe and Marie return back to the motel, Marie takes a picture of the yearbook photo where it now returns back to just "Adrian Pryce". See more

LONDON (Reuters) - At least 3 million barrels of Iraqi Kurdish oil are on ships heading to Asia, with trade sources naming China as a possible destination as the autonomous region expands efforts to establish independent oil sales in defiance of Baghdad. A flame rises from a chimney at Taq Taq oil field in Arbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region, August 16, 2014. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari Two sources with knowledge of the matter said Iraqi Kurdistan was in talks to potentially supply China with 4 million barrels of oil. Reuters was unable to identify the Chinese parties involved in the talks, which the sources declined to name, and it was not clear if the cargoes currently on the water were part of the discussions. A deal could place Beijing on a collision course with Baghdad, one of its major crude oil suppliers, which has tried to block the Kurdish sales that it says are illegal. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) argues they are allowed under the Iraqi constitution. "The Kurds are in the process of negotiations with the Chinese," said one of the sources, who asked not to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter. "China is buying up multiple origins of oil. So, there is not an issue from that side," the source added. "It will come down to price." Since May, Iraqi Kurdistan has shipped over 11 million barrels of crude from the Turkish port of Ceyhan. The Kurdish sales have been shrouded in mystery, and the KRG has declined to say who is helping it arrange the deals. Trading sources said they may have to discount the oil to attract buyers in a well-supplied market. According to a Reuters analysis of tanker tracking data, at least three Kurdish cargoes of 1 million barrels each have sailed from Ceyhan towards Asia in the past month, including one that was transferred to a supertanker near the Strait of Singapore on Monday. Prior to the latest shipments only one 1 million barrel cargo had gone to Asia, but the KRG may be seeking a new major buyer after an attempt to sell crude into the United States this summer became embroiled in a legal tangle. China's giant state-backed energy firms, including China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and PetroChina, together work on over a fifth of the Baghdad-run oil projects. But Beijing also has stakes in Iraqi Kurdistan's oil production through Sinopec's 2009 acquisition of Addax Petroleum [SASAAP.UL]. Establishing a buyer as large as China could provide reassurance to other countries and companies who would like to buy oil from the Kurds but fear the ramifications of crossing Baghdad, which has repeatedly threatened legal action. Senior officials at CNPC and Sinopec declined to comment. A spokesman from the KRG's Ministry of Natural Resources declined to comment when asked about the talks. "KRG crude, priced at a significant discount, is finding its way across the world to many destinations despite the reluctance of big trading houses due to backlash from (Iraqi state oil marketer) SOMO," said another source involved with the talks, who also declined to be identified. "As one of the world's biggest crude buyers, China is no exception. I believe that a deal is imminent for Chinese refineries to purchase KRG crude." SHIP-TO-SHIP The Ultimate Freedom suezmax tanker, carrying 1 million barrels of Kurdish oil from Ceyhan, this week carried out a ship-to-ship transfer of its cargo to the Northern Star, a Very Large Crude Carrier that can hold 2 million barrels of oil. The vessels were just outside the Singapore Strait in Malaysian waters. An official at the Malaysian Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) and the ship's captain confirmed a transfer between the two vessels took place. The Singapore-based head of shipping at Nathalin Offshore Company Ltd, which manages the Northern Star, denied its ship was involved in a ship-to-ship transfer. Two more Kurdish tankers, the United Dynamic and United Emblem, have sailed through the Suez Canal in the past week and are listed as heading to Asia 'for orders'. GROWING SALES After a stuttering start, Iraqi Kurdistan's oil sales now appear to be gaining momentum. More tankers have loaded at Ceyhan this week, while a number of deliveries in the eastern Mediterranean appear to have been made since the start of this month. The KRG's oil sales efforts increasingly resemble a cat-and-mouse game with Baghdad, with tankers loaded with crude frequently turning off satellite tracking before reappearing empty several days later. In some instances ships have sailed towards certain ports before sharply changing direction. A number of cargoes have gone to Israel, sources have said. MOL Group, which has assets in Iraqi Kurdistan, has also bought at least

Clashes started again on Syria's southern front, especially in Quneitra, between the factions and the Syrian forces, while militants committed a massacre in the countryside of Hama, killing 14 people. Twenty members of the Islamic State (IS, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS) were killed in Syrian air force raids over Raqqa governorate. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, "At least 20 IS members were killed and others were injured due to air force raids over a training base for IS militants," adding that 14 military vehicles were also destroyed. Armed groups in Golan launched an operation named "By the sun and its brightness" (Surat al-Shams) yesterday [July 10]. Brigades from the Military Council of the Free Army are participating in the operation, alongside others from the Ababil Horan Brigade, Martyrs of Damascus, the Husayn Bin Ali Battalion, Infantry Division 24, al-Haramain Brigade, Shabab al-Huda (Huda Youth Brigade), in addition to Jabhat al-Nusra, the Levant Liberation Band and Liwa al-Fatihin. This operation aims to take over the 90th Brigade's fort, affiliated with the Free Syrian Army in the middle area of Quneitra. The media office of the Syrian Rebels Front said they took over a military unit in Ain al-Darb and its neighboring farms. This operation is the first in months in the Golan, where militants were able to take over the Red Hills near the border with the occupied Golan, while the army was able to regain control over the middle area. This attack aims to secure larger areas under the control of militants on one hand, and to create a connection between the countryside of Quneitra and the countryside of Houran, on the other hand. It is intriguing that Jabhat al-Nusra is participating in the clashes alongside the Free Syrian Army after it distanced itself from previous battles due to the tension between them and the other factions in Houran, after the leader of Jabhat al-Nusra's military council, Ahmad al-Nehme was arrested. During the past few days, Jabhat al-Nusra invaded a number of villages that are under the control of the Free Syrian Army. The Syrian news agency, SANA, said militants committed a massacre in Khotab in the countryside of Hama, killing 14 people. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported, "The casualties included children and women, others were executed and their bodies dismembered by the brigades in that area." Minister of Justice Najm al-Ahmad declared that a committee is being formed to investigate what happened in the village. Sources affiliated with the armed opposition accused the dead of being "informants" who work for the Syrian forces. In Idlib, clashes continue around the Hamidiya camp, south of Maarat al-Numaan, while the Observatory for Human Rights said militants took over a checkpoint near the camp. Clashes also continue in the neighboring area of Madajen. In Hasakah, a suicide bomber from IS targeted a Kurdish People's Protection Units checkpoint in Ain al-Arab, around which clashes between IS and the Kurdish units have been occurring. In Eastern Ghouta, Jaysh al-Islam militants attacked an IS office in Midaa and Misraba, amid reports of the death of a number of IS emirs, including Abu Mohamed al-Homsi, Abu Jaafar and Abu Hamzeh. A source from the Jaysh al-Islam said the killer of "the Sharia judge" Ouns Kweider (Abu Himam al-Shami) has been "punished." There have also been reports of the death of the IS emir of the southern area of Damascus, Abu Siyah.

65863. (a) Each city, county, or city and county shall ensure that its housing element inventory described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 65583 or its housing element program to make sites available pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 65583 can accommodate, at all times throughout the planning period, its remaining unmet share of the regional housing need allocated pursuant to Section 65584, except as provided in paragraph (2) of subdivision (c). At no time, except as provided in paragraph (2) of subdivision (c), shall a city, county, or city and county by administrative, quasi-judicial, legislative, or other action permit or cause its inventory of sites identified in the housing element to be insufficient to meet its remaining unmet share of the regional housing need for lower and moderate-income households. (b) (1) No city, county, or city and county shall, by administrative, quasi-judicial, legislative, or other action, reduce, or require or permit the reduction of, the residential density for any parcel to, or allow development of any parcel at, a lower residential density, as defined in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (g), unless the city, county, or city and county makes written findings supported by substantial evidence of both of the following: (A) The reduction is consistent with the adopted general plan, including the housing element. (B) The remaining sites identified in the housing element are adequate to meet the requirements of Section 65583.2 and to accommodate the jurisdiction's share of the regional housing need pursuant to Section 65584. The finding shall include a quantification of the remaining unmet need for the jurisdiction's share of the regional housing need at each income level and the remaining capacity of sites identified in the housing element to accommodate that need by income level. (2) If a city, county, or city and county, by administrative, quasi-judicial, legislative, or other action, allows development of any parcel with fewer units by income category than identified in the jurisdiction's housing element for that parcel, the city, county, or city and county shall make a written finding supported by substantial evidence as to whether or not remaining sites identified in the housing element are adequate to meet the requirements of Section 65583.2 and to accommodate the jurisdiction's share of the regional housing need pursuant to Section 65584. The finding shall include a quantification of the remaining unmet need for the jurisdiction's share of the regional housing need at each income level and the remaining capacity of sites identified in the housing element to accommodate that need by income level. (c) (1) If a reduction in residential density for any parcel would result in the remaining sites in the housing element not being adequate to meet the requirements of Section 65583.2 and to accommodate the jurisdiction's share of the regional housing need pursuant to Section 65584, the jurisdiction may reduce the density on that parcel if it identifies sufficient additional, adequate, and available sites with an equal or greater residential density in the jurisdiction so that there is no net loss of residential unit capacity. (2) If the approval of a development project results in fewer units by income category than identified in the jurisdiction's housing element for that parcel and the jurisdiction does not find that the remaining sites in the housing element are adequate to accommodate the jurisdiction's share of the regional housing need by income level, the jurisdiction shall within 180 days identify and make available additional adequate sites to accommodate the jurisdiction's share of the regional housing need by income level. Nothing in this section shall authorize a city, county, or city and county to disapprove a housing development project on the basis that approval of the housing project would require compliance with this paragraph. (d) The requirements of this section shall be in addition to any other law that may restrict or limit the reduction of residential density. (e) This section requires that a city, county, or city and county be solely responsible for compliance with this section, unless a project applicant requests in his or her initial application, as submitted, a density that would result in the remaining sites in the housing element not being adequate to accommodate the jurisdiction's share of the regional housing need pursuant to Section 65584. In that case, the city, county, or city and county may require the project applicant to comply with this section. The submission of an application for purposes of this subdivision does not depend on the application being deemed complete or being accepted by the city, county, or city and county. (f) This section shall not be construed to apply to parcels that, prior to January 1, 2003, were either (1) subject to a development agreement, or (2) parcels for which an application for a subdivision map had been submitted. (g) (1) If the local jurisdiction has adopted a housing element for the current planning period that is in substantial compliance with Article 10.6 (commencing with Section 655

As a human species we tend to have an explosive curiosity for the world around us. I feel it is what makes us unique, and probably is what makes humans the dominant species. I was in the store the other day and I overheard someone else's child making the inquiring "why" repeatedly. I have to admit I often ask the question why in my own life, it's what drove me to study science. However, it's the obsession with the "why" that also causes us to sometimes think irrationally. There are absolute truths in the universe, but what makes something true? Often times we have our minds set so much on the "why" that we miss the entire "what" and "how". I feel the one absolute truth (no matter what you believe) is that we have no idea what absolute truth and knowledge is.                 I have always studied science to get answers to why things are the way they are. It wasn't until my last year of undergraduate that I realized that science doesn't have the answer why (I know that took a long time, but I always thought I just needed to learn more). That caused a deep sense of depression, heartache, and confusion inside of me. The truth is science doesn't teach "why", instead scientists answer the question "how". The laws of physics are defined not because Newton said "that's why gravity pulls on things", but because he observed a pattern of things falling due to some imaginary force. What is gravity, why does it exist? Those are two questions scientists don't know, and only one of them they are trying to answer.                 I feel the problem lies in the false perception we are given as children. Often times people talk about something we call "intuition". What is intuition? Google says it is "the ability to understand something immediately, without the need to conscious reasoning".  So when we say science is intuitive, it is because science is just how the universe works. Of course it's intuitive, it's because we see it every day of our lives. Few people stop to think the reason we aren't floating is because of gravity, they just intuitively know that gravity is working and always has. What bothers me is that we give a false impression that science and intuition go together. THIS IS WRONG. Why is quantum mechanics so difficult for people to comprehend? It is because you can't use intuition unless you are an experimental physicist or physical chemist.                 I finally started piecing the puzzle together after my first year of graduate school. Nothing "makes sense" in physics, it isn't meant to. Physics answers the question of how things work, and can be used to predict future events based on initial conditions. Quantum physics is the same thing as classical physics experimentation wise. Basically we do a bunch of experiments, and get certain results. The only difference between classical physics and quantum physics: the results. On a smaller scale we get new results, thus we are forced into creating new models for our system. However this does not mean that Newton was wrong, or that Einstein Dirac or Heisenberg was wrong. All this means is that quantum mechanics is a model that works on a smaller scale than classical mechanics. As my graduate quantum mechanics professor put it so elegantly "an electron does what an electron does, and it doesn't give a damn what you think." In other words things happen no matter the human reasoning behind it.                 This is why I like to talk about how humans don't know what absolute truths are out there. Science is a continually evolving field because our experiments get better, and we can build off of old models. We are continually learning "new" "truths", and sometimes throwing out old "truths". Our experiments can show how things work, but if we knew the "why" then science would be dead. The why is a by all end all, and really an impossible question to answer. "Why" leads to circular logic and will never be truly answered. So why the obsession with "why" is a question I don't know the answer to. After all it's a "why" question. It could be just a genetic trait built into humans, perhaps it's an evolutionary step to make us the critical thinking tool builders that we are today. It obviously has some benefit since it's built into us at birth. I do feel, however, it can be the cause of our logical downfall if we are too OCD about it.                 Perhaps this is the cause of religion in the world. If you are religious please don't be offended by my language here. I fully admit I do not have the answers, and perhaps there is a God or gods or flying spaghetti monster. With that logic, however, I also will tell you that you have no proof of a God or gods or flying spaghetti monster. This is exactly the topic that I would like to discuss.                 Often people try to "prove" religion or

Doug Schoen, a former consultant to Bill Clinton, argued the case that the Democrats should keep their ties to Wall Street in a NYT column this morning. While he does advance his argument with some red-baiting and bad logic, he uses tradition as a starting point. "Many of the most prominent voices in the Democratic Party, led by Bernie Sanders, are advocating wealth redistribution through higher taxes and Medicare for all, and demonizing banks and Wall Street. "Memories in politics are short, but those policies are vastly different from the program of the party's traditional center-left coalition. Under Bill Clinton, that coalition balanced the budget, acknowledged the limits of government and protected the essential programs that make up the social safety net. "President Clinton did this, in part, by moving the party away from a reflexive anti-Wall Street posture. It's not popular to say so today, but there are still compelling reasons Democrats should strengthen ties to Wall Street." Of course memories are not actually short, contrary to what Schoen claims. Many supporters of harsher policies directed against the financial sector remember the stock bubble whose crash led to what was at the time, the longest period without job growth since the Great Depression. They also remember a financial sector that continued to run wild as the housing bubble inflated. And they remember the Great Recession that followed the collapse of that bubble. And, they remember the government's bailout policies that ensured that the financial industry types would end up on their feet and not in jail. But Schoen does go beyond appealing to tradition. "America is a center-right, pro-capitalist nation. ... Even in May 2016, when Senator Sanders made redistribution a central part of his platform, Gallup found that only about 35 percent of Americans had a positive image of socialism, compared with 60 percent with a positive view of capitalism." It's good that Schoen found an occasion to denounce "socialism" and tout capitalism. It also has nothing to do with the issue at hand. Very few of the people criticizing Wall Street consider themselves socialists. In fact, many view the waste and corruption of Wall Street as being an obstacle to a more efficient productive capitalist economy. Given the enormous damage caused by the collapse of the last two Wall Street driven bubbles, there is a pretty good case here. Then we get some great unsupported assertions, which is something I guess you get to do if you were a buddy of Bill Clinton: "Fourth, demonizing Wall Street does nothing to bridge the widening gaps in our country. Wall Street has its flaws and abuses, which were addressed in part by the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. And yes, the American people are certainly hostile to and suspicious of Wall Street. But using this suspicion and hostility as the organizing principle for a major political party will consign Democrats to permanent minority status." Hmmm, "cracking down on Wall Street does nothing to bridge the widening gaps in our country," really? There are a lot of really rich people on Wall Street. If we applied a modest financial transactions tax and put many of them out of business, this wouldn't reduce inequality in the United States? If we limited the tax deduction for corporate interest payments and other loopholes that have allowed private equity people to become incredibly rich, wouldn't this help to bridge the gaps in the country? How about if we made low cost retirement accounts universally available, as is being done in California, Illinois, and Oregon, so that people didn't have to pay thousands of dollars a year from their 401(k)s to finance types for doing nothing. Wouldn't that help to close the gap? And suppose that instead of bailing out the financial industry we had prosecuted them for the crimes they committed during the buildup of the bubble and have continued to do since then. Wouldn't putting people with hundreds of millions or billions of dollars behind bars help to reduce the gap? It seems like just about everything that progressive Democrats have proposed relative to the financial sector would help to reduce the income and wealth gap. Basically Schoen is spewing nonsense here. He does have a couple of good points that are worth noting. He argues that it is, "hypocritical for Democrats to maintain ties to Silicon Valley and then turn their backs on the very people who help finance its work." Well financing its work has nothing to do with the time of day. Should we not prosecute a restaurant engaged in money laundering because they serve food to Silicon Valley types? But Schoen does have an argument that many Silicon Valley types (think Facebook, Google, and Uber) are engaging in practices that are as corrupt and harmful to the economy and society as the financial industry. It is hypocritical to give these Silicon Valley practices a green light while going after Wall Street. And Schoen scores big in pointing out: "In the 2016 election, the Center for Responsive Politics reports, employees and companies in the securities and investment industry donated more than $

Donnie Wahlberg is showing some love for Waffle House … again. The 47-year-old Blue Bloods star and New Kids on the Block singer made a stop at the popular chain restaurant in Charlotte, North Carolina late on Wednesday night — where he rewarded the staff with a $2,000 tip as well as front row tickets and backstage passes to his band's Total Package Tour. "My mom waited tables, and my dad tended bars– for years!" Wahlberg wrote on Instagram, captioning a photo of his $82.60 check and the Waffle House staff. "So, when I walk into a #WaffleHouse, and the staff treats me like a king, you better believe I treat them like queens! Thanks to the team at @wafflehouseofficial Charlotte, NC!" This isn't the first time Wahlberg has shown his generosity for Waffle House employees. In late June, Wahlberg stopped in for a meal at the restaurant in Edgewood, Maryland and left the overnight staff a $500 tip — tweeting a photo with Waffle House staffers Tyler Spangler and Angi Silen, whom he called a "great crew" and thanked for their "awesome service." On Wednesday night, Wahlberg — who has been documenting his Waffle House meals around the country on social — also took to Facebook live, where he interacted with the staff and patrons while waiting for his order of steak, eggs, grits and bacon to arrive. "This Waffle House is happening," he said, panning around the busy restaurant — his first stop in North Carolina after flying in from New York City, where he was filming Blue Bloods. "We need to come to Charlotte more often. This Waffle House is love. Everyone's in a good mood in this Waffle House. Southern hospitality!" RELATED: Celebrities Who Have Left Big Tips at Restaurants "We're just going to have to invite this whole Waffle House to the concert tomorrow," he said, first passing verbal invitations to his waitress, named Chocolate. "You going in the front row too!" Great crew at @WaffleHouse in Edgewater MD! Thanks for the awesome service! Night made! #WaffleHouse! pic.twitter.com/7OLoF2U0xr — Donnie Wahlberg (@DonnieWahlberg) June 26, 2017 Another night … Another @wafflehouse! Thanks to Darby, Cole and crew, at Youngstown, Ohio #WaffleHouse! pic.twitter.com/ID750zQfua — Donnie Wahlberg (@DonnieWahlberg) July 1, 2017 Another night – another waffle! Thanks to Bre, Kira & Marquan at Toledo, Ohio @WaffleHouse! You guys are awesome! Thank you! pic.twitter.com/AQE5P2WtzA — Donnie Wahlberg (@DonnieWahlberg) June 30, 2017 Wahlberg then asked another server named Trina if she's working tomorrow. "You gotta be sick. We're going to give you tickets. Everyone's going." Earlier in the cast, Wahlberg gave tickets to a fan named Jasmine too. "She was so nice — we're giving you backstage passes and tickets tomorrow for your mom too," Wahlberg said. "She's bringing her mom. She's coming tomorrow, she's going to meet Boyz II Men and all the New Kids." He knows a thing or two about restaurants too, co-owning the Wahlburgers burger chain with his brothers Mark and Paul. Though he admitted on Wednesday's Facebook Live, "If I'm not at Whalbergs, guess where I am? Waffle House." The Total Package Tour, which launched in May and includes Boyz II Men and Paula Abdul, is wrapping up its final four shows this weekend — with stops in Charlotte; Duluth, Georgia; Tampa, Florida; and Hollywood, Florida.

0 Shares They may not have had very many lines but their presence in a whitewashed world was enough to get my imagination going. Angelina Johnson from Harry Potter You know how when you're young and you really, really love a movie? Only there are little to no black people in it and so you cling to the one character in the background who looks like you and imagine this totally detailed world in your head for them? As a pre-teen, I was utterly obsessed with Harry Potter. The whiteness of the wizarding world wasn't lost on me, which is why I loved any mention of characters like Dean Thomas and Lee Jordan. They were reminders that black people – people like me – existed in the world I was so crazy about. One character I especially came to like was Angelina Johnson, to the point where I couldn't help but make up complicated storylines for her in my head. Just picture it: The Adventures of Angelina Johnson. While trying to avoid whatever fatal threat Hogwarts attracts each year, star Quidditch player Angelina Johnson struggles to keep family drama at bay, as her recently divorced muggle mother and wizard father butt heads over the safest environment for their only daughter. As the difficulty of her classes increases, the pressure is also on to find a career path that suits her. Will she decide to start her new adult life in a wizarding world that can be as painfully oblivious to its own prejudices as the muggle one she grew up in? Will she ever manage to get some quality alone time with her favorite Weasley twin? Can't any year at Hogwarts ever just run smoothly? Honestly, you don't know how badly I wanted this story to exist. I still do. Missandei from Game of Thrones I've never been a fan of the 'person who is freed then decides to serve as a choice' narrative. It's never struck me as genuine, or even realistic. Rather, it's a way for the (usually white) protagonist to continue to oppress people while still getting to keep their Good Guy title. Ever since her introduction, I've been waiting to learn more about Missandei. There's got to be something underneath that veneer of polite devotion. How does she really feel about Daenerys? What was her life like before Westeros's favorite white savior showed up? What does she really want to do, now that she's free? At this point in Game of Thrones, I'm so annoyed with so many of the plotlines that I'm really tuning in for the little things. I want to find out when Missandei and Grey Worm are going to start going steady. After that intense scene in the lake and the conversation that followed, they're officially my Game of Thrones OTP (One True Pairing). Here's hoping that Missandei can disentangle herself from Daenerys and whatever is about to go down with her next season. Does anyone else have the feeling that it's not going to be good? Jacqui from The Walking Dead A part of me knows that I should not have had high expectations for a show where a black man called T-Dog managed to exist for nearly 3 seasons as a sort-of main character without the viewer ever learning anything about his motivations or backstory. Still, I cringed watching the season 1 finale, when the group was content to let Jacqui stay at the CDC and end her own life through an explosion, but God forbid we lose Andrea. We never even got a hint of who Jacqui might be as a person. We couldn't take a break from Lori's messy love life or Andrea and Amy's boring fishing metaphors to learn how Jacqui came to be all alone? In an interview with AMC TV, actress Jeryl Prescott (who is a former university professor and seems like the coolest woman ever) shared her theory that Jacqui was rescued by Morgan and together they raised his adorable son. Head canon accepted! Tamara, that one black female hunter on Supernatural Being a hunter in the Supernatural universe is so dependent on not only being able to lie effectively, but to get other people to believe you. Thanks to the magic of being a white male, Sam and Dean are able to put on a Good Will suit and convince just about anyone that they're supposed to be wherever it is they're sneaking into. Would a black person impersonating law enforcement or the FBI have the same results? What about a black woman? On top of that, a lot of hunters seem like, well, rednecks. At least the ones Sam and Dean are exposed to. Being country doesn't mean you're racist, but there's bound to be some overlap, and I would love to see how things would play out for a black female hunter navigating two very different worlds that, unfortunately both suffer from similar problems. Are there any black female characters who you saw in the background of

The students at Twilight's School of Friendship are cramming for a "History of Magic in Equestria" exam in the school library when they discover a part of the school that no pony else knows about. When they decide to do some exploring they end up learning much more than they bargained for.

Product Research Features Controls Inputs and Outputs Features CEA-2006 Compliant: CEA-2006 is a new system of testing & measurement methods for mobile audio amplifiers. This voluntary standard advocates a uniform method for determining an amplifier's RMS power output and signal-to-noise ratio. The criteria for measuring power uses a DC input voltage of 14.4 volts and the RMS power output is measured into a 4-ohm load, with 1% or less Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) plus noise, and at a frequency range of 20 Hz to 200 Hz when applicable. Signal-to-Noise ratio is measured in weighted absolute decibels (dBA) at a reference of 1 watt into 4 ohms. CEA-2006 allows consumers to compare car amplifiers and receivers on an equal basis. The Kenwood KAC-9103D under CEA-2006 regulations is rated at 500 Watts RMS x 1 channel with a 94dBA signal to noise ratio. Mono-Power Amp Design: The Kenwood KAC-9103D is designed with specific features to power your subwoofers with a frequency range between 5-200 Hz. This amplifier is not designed to power a full-range speaker. 1-Ohm Stable: The Kenwood mono-amplifier is capable of handling load impedances down to 1-ohm. The amplifier is rated at 900 Watts RMS x 1 channel in 2 ohms at 100Hz with 1.1% THD. The amp is rated at over 900 Watts RMS x 1 channel in a 1ohm load. Class D Amplifier Design: The KAC-9103D is a Class D mono-block amplifier, which uses digital switching to amplify audio signals. This design results in high efficiency and less heat. MOS-FET Switching Power Supply: The amplifier utilizes a MOS-FET switching power supply providing thermal stability and efficient switching speeds guaranteeing performance and dependability. Parallel Connection: The amplifier is equipped with two pairs of gold-plated speaker terminals for an easy parallel subwoofer connection. Dressing Cover: The Kenwood KAC-9103D features a top cover that conceals all of its controls. This provides a very clean look as well as protects the amplifier's controls from being accidentally changed. The cover is held in place by two hex head screws. An allen-wrench is supplied to remove the cover. Low-Pass Filter: The KAC-9103D has a built-in 24dB/octave low-pass filter that is continuously variable from 50Hz to 200Hz. Bass Boost: The bass boost is adjustable from 0-18dB at 40Hz. Infrasonic Filter: This amp features an 18dB/octave Infrasonic Filter. Ultra-low frequencies that cannot be reproduced by a subwoofer do not become sound but become unnecessary oscillations, which affect sound by causing distortion. These frequencies also waste amplifier power and can cause damage to speakers. Setting the Infrasonic filter switch to 15Hz or 25Hz cuts the frequencies below the respective frequency to improve the reproduction performance of the speakers by eliminating harmful distortion. Phase Inverter: The amp has a switch that allows you to invert the phase of the speaker output. You can select 0° or 180°. Line Level Inputs: The RCA type line-level inputs have a gain (Input Sensitivity) control. The Input Sensitivity control will accept an input signal of 200mV to 5.0 Volts. Speaker Level Input: The KAC-9103D comes with a speaker level input harness. This feature makes it easier to add an amplifier to a factory radio or to a receiver with no preamp outputs. Line Level Output: The amplifier has a set of line level outputs for feeding a full-range stereo signal to another amplifier. It is the same signal that is input through the line inputs. The amplifier's crossovers have no effect on the line level output signal. Fan: There is a fan on top of the amp to help dissipate heat and ensure cool, reliable operation. There is a blue-LED that illuminates next to the fan when power is supplied to the amp. Power Indicator: When the power is turned on to the amplifier, the Power indicator will light up. This indicator will turn off with the amplifier and will turn off if the amplifier goes into protect mode. Protection circuitry: The amplifier features protection circuits that will turn the amp off in case of the following events to protect the amplifier and your speakers: Speaker output contacts ground Speaker wire short-circuits Unit malfunctions and DC is sent to speaker output Internal temperature is too high Loss of ground

Fitness fanatics should reach for the mustard and NOT spinach if they want to look like Popeye Fitness fanatics looking to build muscle should consider reaching for the mustard, a study has found. The steroid homobrassinolide, found in the mustard plant, increases muscle mass, the size of muscle fibres and appetite, research suggests. In addition, the effect when tested on rats was similar to anabolic steroids, which promote the growth of muscle and which are used illegally by athletes to improve performance. Spinach is out, and mustard is in as one way to build your muscle strength, according to a new study A team of scientists exposed rat muscle cells to different amounts of homobrassinolide and measured protein synthesis – the process in which cells build proteins – in cell culture. The result was increased production – vital for building muscles – and decreased breakdown of protein in the cells. Researcher Dr Slavo Komarnytsky, at North Carolina State University, said: 'We hope that one day brassinosteroids may provide an effective, natural, and safe alternative for age and disease-associated muscle loss, or be used to improve endurance and physical performance.' 'Because some plants we eat contain these compounds, like mustards, in the future we may be able to breed or engineer these plants for higher brassinosteroid content, thus producing functional foods that can treat or prevent diseases and increase physical performance.' Old school: Cartoon character Popeye missed a trick on not including mustard in his strength-diet Dr Gerald Weissmann, editor of the FASEB Journal, in which the study was published, added: ' The temptation is to see this discovery as another quick fix to help you go from fat to fit, and to a very small degree, this may be true. 'This study identifies an important drug target for a wide range of conditions that cause muscle wasting.' During the research healthy rats then received an oral dose of homobrassinolide daily for 24 days and changes in body weight, food consumption and body consumption were measured. Rats receiving the steroid gained more weight and slightly increased their food intake. Body composition was measured and showed increased lean body mass in the animals treated. This study was repeated in rats fed high protein diets and similar results were seen.

Story highlights China says U.S. anti-missile plans don't "help to solve the issue" North Korea has recently threatened to attack South Korea and the United States The Pentagon plans to add missile interceptors on the West Coast The United States' plans to beef up its missile defenses against North Korea are likely to inflame tensions that are running high over Pyongyang's nuclear program, China said Monday. "Bolstering missile defenses will only intensify antagonism, and it doesn't help to solve the issue," Hong Lei, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said at a regular news briefing in Beijing. The United States will deploy additional ground-based missile interceptors on the West Coast as part of efforts to enhance the nation's ability to defend itself from attack by North Korea, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Friday. The U.S. announcement came after North Korea recently threatened a pre-emptive nuclear attack on South Korea and the United States in response to stepped-up U.N. Security Council sanctions over its latest nuclear test last month. The threat from the regime of young leader Kim Jong Un was part of a recent barrage of vitriolic statements, which included a vow to nullify the armistice agreement that stopped the Korean War in 1953. Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's military Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's military North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with North Korea's first female fighter jet pilots in this undated photo released by the country's state media on Monday, June 22. He called the women "heroes of Korea" and "flowers of the sky." Hide Caption 1 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's military Kim stands on the snow-covered top of Mount Paektu in North Korea in a photo taken by North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun on April 18 and released the next day by South Korean news agency Yonhap. Kim scaled the country's highest mountain, North Korean state-run media reported, arriving at the summit to tell soldiers that the hike provides mental energy more powerful than nuclear weapons. Hide Caption 2 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's military Kim Jong Un, center, poses with soldiers on the snow-covered top of Mount Paektu in an April 18 photo released by South Korean news agency Yonhap. Hide Caption 3 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's military Kim visits the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang, North Korea, on April 15 to celebrate the 103rd birth anniversary of his grandfather, North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. Hide Caption 4 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's military Kim inspects a drill for seizing an island at an undisclosed location in North Korea in an undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on February 21. Hide Caption 5 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's military Kim speaks during a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo released February 19 by the state-run Korean Central News Agency. Hide Caption 6 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's military A picture released by the North Korean Central News Agency shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appearing without his cane at an event with military commanders in Pyongyang on Tuesday, November 4. Kim, who recently disappeared from public view for about six weeks, had a cyst removed from his right ankle, a lawmaker told CNN. Hide Caption 7 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's military Kim is seen walking with a cane in this image released Thursday, October 30, by the state-run Korean Central News Agency. Hide Caption 8 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's military Kim sits in the pilot's seat of a fighter jet during the inspection. Hide Caption 9 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's military This undated photo, released Tuesday, October 14, by the KCNA, shows Kim inspecting a housing complex in Pyongyang, North Korea. International speculation about Kim went into overdrive after he failed to attend events on Friday, October 10, the 65th anniversary of the Workers' Party. He hadn't been seen in public since he reportedly attended a concert with his wife on September 3. Hide Caption 10 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's military A picture released by the KCNA shows Kim and his wife watching a performance by the Moranbong Band on Wednesday, September 3, in Pyongyang. Hide Caption 11 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's military Kim tours a front-line military unit in this image released Wednesday, July 16, by the KCNA. Hide Caption 12 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's military Kim poses for a photo as he oversees a tactical rocket-firing drill in June. Hide Caption 13 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's military Kim watches a

Still loading... A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z AA AB AC AD AE AF AG AH AI AJ AK AL AM 1 Inputs Conclusion Closing costs overview Suggested 2 Common (Suggested) Input rent: 8,000 kr. State fees, can't be negotiated Registration of deed (fixed cost part) 1,660 kr. 1,660 kr. 3 Investment growth 6% 6% The actual cost of owning over this period corresponds to a monthly rent of 8,800 kr. If you add the opportunity cost (that is if you invest the downpayment in stock and keep investing the difference in monthly costs) then the costs of owning corresponds to a monthly rent of 11,400 kr.. Finally if you consider buying vs. renting at 8,000 kr. per month then BUYING potentially saves you 1877000 kr. over 15 years. Registration of deed (0.6%) 15,000 kr. 15,000 kr. 4 Home apreciation 1% 1% Registration of mortgage (fixed cost part) 1,660 kr. 1,660 kr. 5 Length of stay (in years) 15 15 Registration of mortgage (1.5%) 30,000 kr. 30,000 kr. 6 Registration of bank loan (fixed cost part) 0 kr. 0 kr. 7 Buy (Suggested) Registration of bank loan (1.5%) 0 kr. 0 kr. 8 Initial costs Banking fees. Can (and should!) be negotiated near 0 Establishing fee for mortgage 0 kr. 0 kr. 9 Cost of home 2,500,000 kr. 2,500,000 kr. Savings at 8,000 kr. rent: 1,877,256 kr. Transaction fee and rate cut on underlying bonds 20,000 kr. 20,000 kr. 10 Closing costs 86,820 kr. 86,820 kr. Approximate breakeven rent (costs) 8,800 kr. Registration service 0 kr. 0 kr. 11 Down payment 20% 20% Approximate breakeven rent (total) 11,400 kr. Establishing fee for bank loan 0 kr. 0 kr. 12 Initial repairs 20,000 kr. 20,000 kr. Expedition fee 0 kr. 0 kr. 13 Total initial costs 606,820 kr. 606,820 kr. How to calculate rent? Approximate breakeven for expected total costs Bank guarantee fee 1,500 kr. 1,500 kr. 14 Recurring costs 11,400 kr. Banking fees for optional services you can avoid Interest hedging fee 0 kr. 0 kr. 15 Mortgage amount 2,000,000 kr. 2,000,000 kr. Statement using G3-rent Renting: Buying: Interest hedging rate cut 0 kr. 0 kr. 16 Mortgage term 30 30 Actual costs Professional advice - can be avoided but lawyer assistance is encouraged Property inspectors fee 0 kr. 0 kr. 17 Mortgage type Principal and interest Initial costs 45,600 kr. 606,820 kr. Lawyer fee 5,000 kr. 5,000 kr. 18 Mortage interest 2.50% 2.50% Recurring costs 2,052,000 kr. 2,284,923 kr. Shop for a good offer Change of ownership insurance 12,000 kr. 12,000 kr. 19 Monthly mortgage payment pretax 7,857 kr. 7,857 kr. Net proceeds 45,600 kr. 1,299,646 kr. Those are left out as they apply to renting a new place too - add them to total closing costs if you are considering buying vs. staying in current apartment Extra rent 15,000 kr. 15,000 kr. 20 Monthly mortgage payment posttax 7,035 kr. 7,035 kr. Actual total costs 2,052,000 kr. 1,592,097 kr. Moving costs 5,000 kr. 5,000 kr. 21 Bank loan 0 kr. 0 kr. Speculative difference 22 Bank term 10 10 Opportunity costs 947,832 kr. 1,622,300 kr. 23 Bank interest 4% 4% Appreciation 0 kr. 194,207 kr. 24 Monthly bank loan payment pretax 0 kr. 0 kr. Expected total costs 2,999,832 kr. 3,020,190 kr. 25 Monthly bank loan payment posttax 0 kr. 0 kr. Actual yearly costs 171,000 kr. 132,675 kr. 26 Yearly maintenance 24,000 kr. 24,000 kr. Expected

Roman Polak didn't want his teammates to visit. The big scowling Czech defenceman was lying in a hospital bed, drifting in the fog delivered by his post-surgery painkillers. He is pretty sure he didn't have a TV, but he had a laptop ... yes, he definitely had a laptop. When asked about those five or six days, he can't remember much of what he did. But he remembers that he didn't want his teammates to see him like that. That stuck. It's been a long, slow, painful recovery for Leaf blueliner Roman Polak. ( Graig Abel / Getty Images ) "They had a tough schedule, and I didn't want them to see me, there," says Polak now, five months after 13 screws were installed to repair the broken leg he suffered in Game 2 of the Toronto Maple Leafs' first-round series against Washington. "I'd rather stay by myself. I don't know. I didn't feel good after the surgery, and it was painful, and I didn't want anybody to see me as I'm laying there in the bed, you know, struggling. I don't like that." He almost stumbles, the big tough guy, before a grin pushes his heavy, permanently five o'clock-shadowed cheeks to the side. "And I was on drugs too, so mostly I was just high. I probably wouldn't remember it." Article Continued Below Polak is in camp for the Leafs, and you can tell. In one drill at a morning skate before Tuesday's pre-season loss to Ottawa he pokes at centre Dominic Moore, and knocks down Patrick Marleau. He is also part of what might be the last generation of true smash 'n' bash defencemen. After he cross-checked Connor McDavid during a World Cup warm-up and Auston Matthews retaliated by cross-checking Polak, Polak's assessment of the Matthews hit was, "good technique." "He likes to hit people," says Matthews. "That's what that definitely told me. He actually hit me pretty good earlier that game." And while it's hard to be a basher in a league that gets faster every second, Polak was one of coach Mike Babcock's security blankets last season. But the injury — that half-twirl into the air, the landing — was gruesome, and it's a long road back. Goaltender Frederik Andersen was right next to former Leaf Stephane Robidas when he suffered one of his broken legs, and thought right away this was the same thing. "Well, he's just got to get healthy," says Babcock. "To tell you the truth, I haven't paid any attention to him, until he's in a situation to play in a game, it's just a matter of him on rehab." The night of the injury Polak was devastated: As teammate Nazem Kadri puts it, "he wasn't in good shape." Beyond his emotions, it was the most pain Polak had ever experienced, and that included the time a puck tore through his cheek and he returned to the bench with stitches. As the Leafs landed back in Toronto he felt the cabin pressure squeeze his leg: surgery provided some relief. And that was the start. "After three weeks here I went home, and I felt just useless," says Polak. "Because you are on the crutches and playing with the kids or something, and I just can't do anything. So you're there but you're not there, because you just can't help. So basically for my wife I was basically like the third kid." His 5-year-old daughter Isabella would dote on him, bringing him cookies, candy, and drinks; his 2-year-old son Markus delighted in swinging the crutches around. "He was smacking everything," says Polak, with a note of fatherly pride. (He has both their names tattooed in script on his right arm, and once wore matching Halloween costumes with Isabella.) He spent three months on crutches. When the cast came off, he found he was a one-legged man. Article Continued Below "Oh, there was nothing there," said Polak. "The thigh and the calf just disappeared." Roman Polak lies on the ice after being injured during the second period of Game 2 against the Washington Capitals ( Molly Riley/The Associated Press ) The rehabilitation clinic is outside his hometown of Ostrava, and it specialized in car crash victims — as Polak puts it, "they teach people to walk again, so they were prepared." He started by walking in the pool. But, uh, Roman ... how did you get there? "Yeah, I shouldn't have been driving," he says, abashed. "But I had a left foot on the brake and the right foot on the gas, and I had to lift

Pia Carrot Orange Developer Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Valencia Island Age: 23 Posts: 811 Quote: Gamer2020 Originally Posted by Spoiler: A-Ptch - I am working on an improved version. This should be removed when that comes out. Advance Map 1.92 - This should be removed because it is against the rules of the creator. Advance Map 1.92 Hacked - This should be removed because it is against the rules of the creator. Also the creator does not allow you to modify the exe. Advance Map 1.95 - This should be removed because it is against the rules of the creator. Advance Sprite, Icon & Position - Except for the position editor these tool have newer alternatives. This should maybe be removed but it can be argued against. Advance Text - No one should be using this program at all. It is a good idea but the program has many problems. A hex editor is best for text editing. Advance Trainer - This has a new alternative and should be removed. Cyclone Prototype - Outdated and should not be used anymore. Item Image Editor - Outdated and there is a better alternative. Item Manager - Outdated and there is a better alternative. LTMEP - Learnable ™ Editor Pro: Outdated and there is a better alternative. Misc. Editor - Shouldn't really be a tool but it can be argued against. Move Editor - Outdated and there is a better alternative. MTDE - Outdated and there is a better alternative. Multichoice Editor - This should really be done by hand. The tools leaves room for improvement. Nameless Sprite Editor - Not really dead so why is it here? No$GBA Debug Edition - Illegal to redistribute this. This is actually one of the reasons development stopped. NSE 2 - Nameless Sprite Editor 2: Not really dead. Shouldn't be here. Overworld Changer - I think NSE does this. I am not sure. Overworld Editor RE - I think NSE does this. I am not sure. Repointer - Better done by hand. Tile Molester - Outdated and there are better alternatives. VBA SDL H - An advanced VBA version for debugging GBA ROMs. VBA 1.7.2 - Not really needed. XSE - I have released an improved version. The old version should not be used. YAPE - Yet Another Pokémon Editor: Outdated and there are better alternatives. You have included a lot of tools in this that people should not be using. A couple of these have already been removed as far as I'm concerned. I agree with your point on a lot of the outdated tools. These things should best be left for users to use better alternatives unless they must absolutely use it. Cyclone, for example, while outdated can still serve some use. A couple of these have already been removed as far as I'm concerned. I agree with your point on a lot of the outdated tools. These things should best be left for users to use better alternatives unless they must absolutely use it. Cyclone, for example, while outdated can still serve some use.

From the NY Times, excerpt "Falser Words Were Never Spoken." …Gandhi's words have been tweaked a little too much in recent years. Perhaps you've noticed a bumper sticker that purports to quote him: "Be the change you wish to see in the world." When you first come across it, this does sound like something Gandhi would have said. But when you think about it a little, it starts to sound more like … a bumper sticker. Displayed brightly on the back of a Prius, it suggests that your responsibilities begin and end with your own behavior. It's apolitical, and a little smug. Sure enough, it turns out there is no reliable documentary evidence for the quotation. The closest verifiable remark we have from Gandhi is this: "If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. … We need not wait to see what others do." Here, Gandhi is telling us that personal and social transformation go hand in hand, but there is no suggestion in his words that personal transformation is enough. In fact, for Gandhi, the struggle to bring about a better world involved not only stringent self-denial and rigorous adherence to the philosophy of nonviolence; it also involved a steady awareness that one person, alone, can't change anything, an awareness that unjust authority can be overturned only by great numbers of people working together with discipline and persistence. When you start to become aware of these bogus quotations, you can't stop finding them…" ~ Bonus: Gandhi: how to be an effective Activist.

"Not All Men" they say as I give my shoes a questioning tap against the concrete to see if a solid kick would be a good enough deterrent. "Not All Men" they say as I stick my hand in my pocket to grasp my assisted opening knife when I notice a shadow on my tail. "Not All Men" they say as I duck around a blind corner to avoid the man I'm sure is following me. "Not All Men" they say as I square myself for a fight because his voice is raised and his hands are clenched in fists. "Not All Men" they say as I dig a heavy chain out of my bag because that girl is being harassed and I might need to step in. "Not All Men" they say as I open the blade and flip my knife into an icepick grip inside my sleeve because she told him no and he's starting to get violent. "Not All Men" they say as I wipe off my bloody knuckles because he hit her and like hell I was going to let him get away with it. "Not All Men" they say as I fight for my life and the lives of women on the streets and end up bruised and bloody for it.

Here are two small tricks that can help if you're making an isometric 2D game in Unity. Ok, so not actually isometric, but that's the term we're used to in videogames, so we'll go with it. These are quite basic and if you're working on such a game you've probably already tackled them your own way. This is our take on it, hopefully it's useful to someone. Sprite Ordering Normally in a 2D game there is no concept of depth, so if you simply place the sprites in the world, you'll most likely have objects appearing in the wrong order than what you'd expect in an isometric game. Thankfully Unity exposes Sorting Layer and Order In Layer properties for Renderers. A quick fix is to set the value of Order in Layer to depend on the Y position of the object. [ExecuteInEditMode] [RequireComponent(typeof(Renderer))] public class DepthSortByY : MonoBehaviour { private const int IsometricRangePerYUnit = 100; void Update() { Renderer renderer = GetComponent(); renderer.sortingOrder = -(int)(transform.position.y * IsometricRangePerYUnit); } } This solves the problem for the simplest case, when we assume all objects rest on the ground. Let's assume we want to have an object that is above the ground in the world, like placing a bird house on that tree. Just trying to place it in the world will treat the pivot of the object as being at ground level, with no way to both place it at a proper height and sort it correctly. There are several options for this. Just to get it out of the system, the first option is to add empty space to the texture below the bird house to make sure the pivot is at ground level (in Unity, the pivot can't be outside of the sprite). This is baaaad! This is wasting texture space, and all instances of that object will need to be at the same height in the game. There are other, less insane, options. One is having a height property in the DepthSortByY behavior and subtract it from transform.position.y when computing the sorting order. Another solution (which we went with) is allowing the DepthSortByY behavior to make the depth computation based on another object's transform. This way, the objects will be considered to be at the same point in space as their target and they'll have the same depth order, even if they're at different Y positions in the scene. In the bird house example, the bird house uses the tree's world position for its depth computations. This solution works better for our game, because it allows artists to move the item freely while staying at the depth (and not have to deal with editing the "height" parameter). And mainly because all the gameplay takes place in the ground's 2D plane anyway so all objects are guaranteed to have a root object that has the ground position. In your own game, it might be easier to just use the first option. [ExecuteInEditMode] [RequireComponent(typeof(Renderer))] public class IsometricObject : MonoBehaviour { private const int IsometricRangePerYUnit = 100; [Tooltip("Will use this object to compute z-order")] public Transform Target; [Tooltip("Use this to offset the object slightly in front or behind the Target object")] public int TargetOffset = 0; void Update() { if (Target == null) Target = transform; Renderer renderer = GetComponent(); renderer.sortingOrder = -(int)(Target.position.y * IsometricRangePerYUnit) + TargetOffset; } } This is how this example is set up in Unity: And this is how it behaves in practice: Ground Projection For certain visual elements and effect, we wanted them to look properly projected on the ground, but also not spend too much time on making art for them. The 'isometric' view of the game means that anything that is horizontally on the ground should look squashed vertically. For simple sprites, this is quite easy. Just draw them directly with the correct perspective and place them in the game. Things get more complicated when you need something that should be able to rotate in any direction. Like something to show the direction the character is moving in, or some visual effect sweeping the ground towards your attacking direction. Especially if these are things that are animated, drawing them manually for all possible orientations is out of the question (or so the artists claim). Our solution is: the artists draw and animate these effects as if viewed top-down, and the programmers take care of transforming them at runtime to look as if they were projected on the ground. Without any transformation

At first, when considering the possible presidential candidacies of Republicans Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney, you might think, "How could these patrician white scions of political families be any more alike?" When you think the word "could," the tone of your voice should bend upward, like a lady in a black-and-white film from the 1950s. So you might be surprised to find out that, in fact, there are several ways in which Bush and Romney—neither of whom have officially confirmed they are running, by the way—are actually quite different from one another. And, if they do decide to run for the Oval Office, these differences will play a major role in determining which becomes the favored choice of all the other patrician white men in the country. Because make no mistake: if the GOP voting bloc is a pie, then Bush and Romney are competing for the exact same slice. FAMILY As the Republican primary campaign shapes up, both Bush and Romney appear to be the legacy choices available to voters with a mind for the history of our beautiful, bizarre nation. The legacies they represent, though, differ significantly. Mitt's father, George, was elected governor in Michigan three times, by increasingly large margins. That's an improvement on Mitt, who gave up on being governor of Massachusetts after just one term. He left office in 2007 to focus on the first of his (so far) two unsuccessful presidential bids. On the presidential level, Romney made it further than his old man. Though Mitt and George share the same number of failed White House runs, George never won the Republican nomination. He briefly challenged Barry Goldwater in the 1964 primary before withdrawing, then got thrashed by Nixon in 1968, after attributing his previous support for the Vietnam War to "brainwashing." Jeb's family looks a little different. Aside from his father's 1992 re-election campaign, the Bush men have dominated their attempts to hold elected office, both as governors and presidents, a stark contrast with the Romneys. If there's a more dynastic family in the United States than the Bush clan, there are being very quiet about it. RELIGION As you know—and if you don't, congratulations on just learning how to walk—Mitt Romney is a Mormon. This does appear to have played a role in voters' conceptions of him; a Pew research poll in 2011 said a remarkable one out of four voters would be less likely to vote for a Mormon candidate. Although you might assume that, like his older brother W., Jeb is a card-carrying evangelical booster, that isn't true. He's actually a Catholic, having converted to his wife's religion two decades ago. This could come in handy appealing to Hispanics, a demo that Republicans have had their eye on for a while, and it will also likely increase his appeal with the evangelical cohort that tends to make up a large percentage of Republican voters. Because Jeb's Catholicism hasn't hurt his social-conservative bonafides—as governor of Florida, he opposed stem-cell research and abortion rights, and famously stepped in to intervene in the 2003 Terri Schiavo case—all of which will make him an acceptable candidate for the far right, even if he isn't Mike Huckabee or Rick Santorum. CONSERVATIVE BONAFIDES On that note, the big question for both Bush and Romney is whether either is conservative enough to win the Republican nomination. Twice previously, Romney has proven he can twist and warp himself to be palatable enough for his party's conservative base, but not without serious effort and grumbling from the right-wing. In 2008, the man who'd brought socialized healthcare to Massachusetts ran as the party's conservative option, suggesting that he had switched sides on both abortion rights and healthcare, and that he had also championed the war in Iraq. As the Atlantic's David Graham points out, Romney knew he couldn't get to the right of the Tea Party in 2012, so he, focusing on a promise to turn around the country's economy. Graham suggests that Romney's ID in 2016 will be "Compassionate Conservative Champion of the Poor," which, considering his 47 percent speech in 2012, is sort of like Ted Turner going vegetarian. Meanwhile, Bush's positions on social issues may be party-approved, but he has two huge red flags to address. The first is his position on immigration reform, a stance that has become more progressive since leaving the governor's office, particularly in his support for a "pathway to citizenship" for undocumented immigrants. The second is his championing of the Common Core education system, which conservatives hate. Like really, really hate. Nate Silver claims this won't be as big a deal as we might think, but the Breitbarts of the world beg to differ, and if Bush is going to carry his support into the nomination, he'll need to talk the GOP into it. PRIVATE

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1. Wiz Khalifa - We Dem Boyz 2. Party Favor - Bap U 3. Calvin Harris - Here to China (with Dillon Francis feat. Dizzee Rascal) 4. Bassnectar - Blow (2015 Version) 5. Flosstradamus - Underground Anthem (Woolymammoth remix) 6. Two Fingers and Noisia - Salah 7. GTA - Red Lips (Skrillex remix) 8. Torro Torro - Make a Move 9. Torro Torro - Make a Move (Skrillex remix) 10. Skism & Laxx - Hostile (Eptic remix) 11. Bad Royale - Real Ruff Stuff (feat. Ragga Twins) 12. 1DAFUL - Bruh Its Lit (HAAKEYE remix)/with Rihanna - Bitch Better Have My Money acapella 13. Rihanna - Bitch Better Have My Money (GTA remix) 14. Zhu x Dj Snake - Faded 2.0 15. Gioni - Trigger 16. Gutter Brothers - House Of Ill Repute 17. Borgore (feat. G-Eazy) - Forbes 18. Barely Alive - The Riddler 19. Milo & Otis - Trap Arms 20. Skrillex & Diplo - Jungle Bae (feat. Bunji Garlin) 21. aywy. & EphRem – Adderall

Men are everywhere. We're the politicians, the church leaders, the business owners and the sports stars. Pick up a paper and the media's full of us, we're the murderers, the rapists, the scandal makers and the crooks. Tune into a random radio phone-in and you'll soon find out what we think about football or politics. You'll see us in the cinema; we're the goodies and the baddies in almost every major film – the protectors and the perpetrators, the cowards and the clowns. So why do we need an International Men's Day ? Are 364 days of patriarchal power and privilege not enough for us? Well, we may always have a point of view about the world outside – and we may still occupy most of the senior positions in the outside world – but what's happening inside men? Twelve of us men will kill ourselves today, in the UK alone, and for each man who dies there will probably be an external factor we can point to, such as a divorce, drug addiction, debt or unemployment. But what's happening inside the dozens of men who die from suicide each week, when the internal pain of living another day becomes greater than the fear of killing yourself? And what's happening inside the rest of us men, those of us who aren't suicidal but still face challenges in life: the overweight, the unemployed, the lonely and the sick? The fathers struggling to connect with their kids, the partners in unhappy or abusive relationships, the stressed-out workers with not enough life in their work-life balance and the low-paid and unemployed men who face the emasculating shame of being a man who can't provide? On the surface men have it all – the jobs, the money, the cars, the clothes, the power, the authority and the free time to play golf, watch football and laugh at Jeremy Clarkson. On the outside men are always acting out – drinking to excess, harassing women in the streets, grooming kids for sex and keeping the police and prison service busy. But what's happening inside men? From the day we are born, we are fed a story that there are only two types of men in the world. Men are either heroes or villains, we're either strong or weak and there is no shade or colour between the black or white choice of being a good man or a bad man. What's it like for men, living within these narrow confines, between a heroic rock and a villainous hard place? Take the daily onslaught of social media campaigns repeatedly telling the world how awful men are to women. How is the average man expected to respond? We have two choices – pick a box – hero or villain. Either we step into the protector role, like a good little man and speak out against the bad men ruining the world for our womenfolk – or we're a villain. Men's expected role in the gender war – as in every other war – is to choose a side; goodies or baddies. You either wear the "this is what a feminist looks like t-shirt" or you're a woman-hater; you either fight against the Germans or you're a traitor; you either support Emma Watson's #HeForShe campaign or you're a misogynist or a rape apologist. What's it like for men to have such limited choices – and if men have all the power, why don't we just give ourselves more choice? The challenge we face as men, is that these rigid masculine roles have been locked in place by a silent conspiracy between the socially conservative and progressively liberal. The sexist rallying cry of traditionalists has long been "women and children first"; for the liberal feminists, their sexist motto is "women and girls first". Can you see who's missing from both of those slogans? It's the invisible gender in both his forms – the good man and bad man. Who puts women and children first? It's the good man. Who do women and girls need protecting from? It's the bad man. When William Hague was still Foreign Secretary, he made an official announcement that "all men" should feel shame about war crimes against women – and to fail to do so was "unmanly". That's right male citizens – you're either a good man feeling shame or bad "unmanly" man – pick a box. So what's happening inside of the nation's men when we are repeatedly called upon to pick a box? Goodie or Baddie? Hero or Villain? Perpetrator or Protector? The truth is, most of us are neither good nor bad. Most men are somewhere in the middle of the statistical bell curve that defines the male population. Most men are not murderers, rapists, wife beaters or street harassers. Most men are not politicians, church leaders,

State officials in West Virginia have filed a civil rights lawsuit against a middle school, alleging that it covered up the sexual assault of at least two girls by two male students who are relatives of employees of the school district. The compaint alleges that the two boys sexually assaulted several female students repeatedly. When the students sought punishment for the offenders, members of the Burch middle school administration attempted to conceal the case and threatened the girls with discipline and, in some cases, also took retaliatory action against them. The state attorney general, Patrick Morrisey, filed a suit in the Mingo county circuit court on Thursday against the Mingo county board of education, five of its employees and the two minors accused of the assault, along with their parents. He said the school has "continued conduct and actions" against the girls since a guidance counsellor was first informed of the accusations in the spring of last year. "The two male students have avoided criminal investigation, prosecution, or meaningful punishment due to the actions and conduct of the administrators and teachers at Burch middle school and the Mingo county board of education," Morrisey said in the suit. "Instead of a meaningful investigation by the school, upon information and belief, the female victims have been disparately treated and punished, while the alleged male perpetrators have been 'taken care of'." The school is in Delbarton, West Virginia – a 579-person town less than 10 miles from the Kentucky border, in the heart of West Virginia's coal mining industry. The two boys accused of committing repeated acts of sexual abuse against female students at the middle school are relatives of school district employees. One of the victims said that during one assault, one of the boys told the other: "Don't worry, [your relative] will take care of us." The first victim listed in the complaint did not immediately report the case because of fear and embarrassment, but two other girls, who said they had been abused, told the school guidance counsellor, Hester Keatley, that the victim had been attacked. Keatley, a defendant in the case, questioned the girl and the school principal, Jada Hunter, said she would be calling the girl's mother. The suit states that the two suspects abused the girl on the school's campus and on school buses. The girl told her mother for the first time about the accusations before Hunter's phone call, but did not go into detail about the abuse until later, at which point her mother repeatedly called the principal, who did not reply for several days, eventually calling the mother and telling her "she had taken care of it". A meeting was held with the parents of the victim, the fathers of both male suspects and Melvin Cunningham, a teacher and coach at the school who is also a defendant in the case. One of the fathers said his son had admitted he committed the acts, but Cunningham and Hunter said there were no witnesses so the girl's accusations could not be proven. Both threatened disciplinary action against the girl if she continued to make complaints. During the current semester, the victim shared a class with one of the defendants. On the first day of school, he saw her in class and promptly walked out of the room, the suit says. The victim's schedule was soon changed so she had classes with students in a lower grade. Hunter told the victims' parents she would take action, and told them not to call police. They understood this to mean Hunter was contacting authorities. In March of this year, they learned she had not done so. School policy mandates a call to law enforcement within 48 hours of disclosure of sexual abuse. "Every action taken by defendants was either to minimalise the allegations against the boys and/or to protect the alleged male juvenile perpetrators," Morrisey wrote. He also said that relative of one of the boys was "directly involved in the handling and investigation into the allegations against the relative" and in decisions relating to his punishment. Morrisey called the school's investigation "ineffective, non-existent and/or designed to elicit contradictory and/or less incriminating statements from the females." The other victim in the suit, a 13-year-old girl, was subjected to sexual abuse in the school's computer lab, where she sat next to the boys. Another attack occurred on a field trip, where she was "forcibly penetrated". The day after she was first questioned by police, in April, middle school administrators cited her for "bullying" after she had blocked her Facebook account from a niece of a teacher at the school. A day later, she was written up again for "insubordination". On 24 April, Melissa Webb, the middle school's current principal and a defendant in the case, blocked a trooper from taking another victim's statement. The injunction seeks to block the defendants from intervening in the state's ongoing criminal

PORTLAND, Ore. February 1, 2012. Yellow-cedar, a culturally and economically valuable tree in southeastern Alaska and adjacent parts of British Columbia, has been dying off across large expanses of these areas for the past 100 years. But no one could say why--until now. "The cause of tree death, called yellow-cedar decline, is now known to be a form of root freezing that occurs during cold weather in late winter and early spring, but only when snow is not present on the ground," explains Pacific Northwest Research Station scientist Paul Hennon, co-lead of a synthesis paper recently published in the February issue of the journal BioScience. "When present, snow protects the fine, shallow roots from extreme soil temperatures. The shallow rooting of yellow-cedar, early spring growth, and its unique vulnerability to freezing injury also contribute to this problem." Yellow-cedar decline affects about 60 to 70 percent of trees in forests covering 600,000 acres in Alaska and British Columbia. The paper, "Shifting Climate, Altered Niche, and a Dynamic Conservation Strategy for Yellow-Cedar in the North Pacific Coastal Rainforest," summarizes 30 years of research and offers a framework for a conservation strategy for yellow-cedar in Alaska. Some key findings include: The complex cause of yellow-cedar decline is related to reduced snow, site and stand characteristics, shallow rooting, and the unique vulnerability of the roots to freezing in low temperatures. Low snow levels and poor soil drainage lead to impact root injury and the eventual death of yellow-cedar trees. The tree thrives in wet soils, but its tendency to produce shallow roots to access nitrogen on these sites made it more vulnerable when spring snow levels were reduced by climate warming. Yellow-cedar health depends on changing snow patterns, thus locations for appropriate conservation and management activities need to follow the shifting snow patterns on the landscape. Some responses to shifting climate are expected to be complex and difficult to anticipate. Long-term multidisciplinary research was needed to determine the true role of climate in the health of yellow-cedar and untangle it from other processes and natural cycles in forests. The yellow-cedar is a slow-growing tree; many are 700 to 1,200 years old. The tree has long been culturally significant to Native Alaskans who use it to make paddles, masks, dishes, and woven items. The wood is also very valuable commercially (for home and boat building) because of its straight grain, durability, and resistance to insects. Attention is now directed toward a solution to protect and manage yellow-cedar, as coastal Alaska is expected to experience less snow but a persistence of periodic cold weather events in the future. Scientists are working with partners in the Alaska Region of the Forest Service to use this new information as the framework for a comprehensive conservation strategy for yellow-cedar in Alaska in the context of a changing climate. "We also have ongoing projects with colleagues in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska on planting and thinning to favor yellow-cedar on suitable habitat," adds co-lead author and station scientist Dave D'Amore, "especially on well-drained productive soils where most of the commercial forestry exits. Silvicultural techniques can be used to nudge the ecological niche of yellow-cedar, making it more competitive on these favorable sites." ### Other coauthors of the synthesis are Paul Schaberg, U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station; Dustin Wittwer, U.S. Forest Service, Alaska Region; and Colin Shanley, The Nature Conservancy. Read the paper online at http://www. aibs. org/ bioscience/ current_issue. html . Contact: Paul Hennon, [email protected], (907) 586-8769 The Pacific Northwest Research Station is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. It has 11 laboratories and centers in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington, and about 425 employees.

A recent survey found that 67% of the Americans polled had a favorable view of Microsoft. It's too bad the question was so vague, I'd like to know if that same percentage trusts Microsoft without any reservations. In general, the coverage of the court findings in the Microsoft case have not mentioned any of the facts that led Judge Jackson to rule against Microsoft. So I thought it might be a good idea to go over some of the specific allegations against Microsoft that have been ignored in most discussions. Rather than going through them all, and there are plenty, I'll concentrate most on Microsoft's campaign to squash an one of their competitors in the early 1990's, Digital Research Inc. To set the scene, I'd like to take a stroll down memory lane. As someone who lived through this seemingly early phase in computer history, I am recalling this from memory, so bear with me. Back in the days when computers were not rated solely by MHz, but also by which Intel processor they had in them, a single office might have "286", "386" and "486" computers in them all at the same time. Windows 2.something was out, and it ran on top of DOS 4. At that time, basically the early 1990's, Windows was not a clear standard operating system. However, it was a step in the right direction, and it ran neatly on top of DOS (disk operating system), which was the operating system that all PCs used back then. IBM had a faltering version of DOS (IBM DOS), Microsoft has it's version (MS DOS), and a new star on the scene, Digital Research Inc., had come up with a new and improved version of DOS, known as DR DOS. The problem with DOS back then was the infamous 640Kb memory barrier, and how to use extended or expanded memory for applications larger than 640Kb. There was a heck of a lot of idle memory in PCs at that time, and people were looking for ways to use that extra memory, other than setting up a "RAM-drive". Digital Research was about to release a new version of DOS, "DR DOS 6", and Microsoft was very worried. According to Microsoft's own documents and internal email messages, DR DOS 5 was a superior product to their own upcoming "MS DOS 5", it was cheaper, and it would be out first. At that point, they began a campaign to flood the information channels with hype about MS DOS 5, and how it had advanced memory management, and was superior to all other products. This is standard business practice, but what followed, as outlined in Microsoft's own internal documents and memos, went far beyond that. Microsoft released MS DOS 5 in 1991 and Windows 3.1 in 1992. They were both big hits. DR DOS 6 was coming out, and was considered a superior product by many power users, and sold well. Then owners of DR DOS started getting error messages when they tried to install Windows 3.1 on their systems. It turns out that the developers of Windows were instructed to "make sure DR DOS has problems with Windows". The following are selected Microsoft emails that were entered into evidence in the trial. Microsoft's David Cole emailed Phil Barrett on September 30 1991: "It's pretty clear we need to make sure Windows 3.1 only runs on top of MS DOS or an OEM version of it," and "The approach we will take is to detect DR DOS 6 and refuse to load. The error message should be something like 'Invalid device driver interface." Microsoft had several methods of detecting and sabotaging DR-DOS with Windows. One was to have Smartdrive detect DR-DOS and refused to load it for Windows 3.1. There was also a version check in XMS in the Windows 3.1 setup program which produced the message: "The XMS driver you have installed is not compatible with Windows. You must remove it before setup can successfully install Windows." This was not true, but rather, was an attempt to undermine the competition. Brad Silverberg, the Microsoft exec who had been responsible for Windows 95, emailed Jim Allchin (now Senior Vice President of MS) on September 27th 1991: "after IBM announces support for dr-dos at comdex, it's a small step for them to also announce they will be selling netware lite, maybe sometime soon thereafter. but count on it. We don't know precisely what ibm is going to announce. my best hunch is that they will offer dr-dos as the preferred solution for 286, os 2 2.0 for 386. they will also probably continue to offer msdos at $165 (drdos for $99). drdos has problems running windows today, and I assume will have more problems in the future." Jim Allchin replied: "You should make sure it has problems in the future. :-)". Andy Hill emailed David Cole, Windows group manager: "Janine has brought up some good questions on how we handle the error messages that the users will get if they aren't using MS-DOS.

Pope Francis Has Unsettled Me I'll be honest. I was shocked at what Pope Francis said in an interview published yesterday. I was disturbed because I knew that his comments would be used against pro-life and traditional marriage activists. I knew that sidewalk counselors would be told by those supporting abortion that the pope told them not to be "obsessed" with abortion. Traditional marriage supporters would also be told that the pope said, "Who are you to judge?" I'll be honest, I was disturbed. While it's clear that the pope is not changing Church teaching he is clearly changing the emphasis. The pope with a few words has unsettled so much. With a few words the pope has unsettled me. But I thought and prayed about it yesterday and finally came to the realization that maybe that's not such a terrible thing. The Catholic faith was never meant to be a settled one. We are called to light the world on fire with love. And I wondered if this was a moment to afford me the opportunity to consider my faith differently. To deepen it. I know that I can be guilty of being a bit abrasive and mocking towards those who disagree with the Church's teaching on life and marriage. Smarter people than me can tell you what the pope was saying but what I took from it was that the pope was telling us that there is so much more to the faith than the anti-abortion movement and the defense of marriage. He wasn't discounting them, but he was inviting us to a deeper understanding of the faith. Our faith is not an either/or. We are called to live in the fullness of the gospel. We are called to love everyone. Everyone. And I think that's something I need to work on. It's not enough to be right. We're called to love. It's much harder. I think the pope was reminding us that we are a religion of "yes." It's like when you get married your "I do" is also an "I never will" to millions of women on the planet. But that's, of course, not what we focus on. This pope has unsettled me. And I am grateful.

In response to an article from Daily Beast reporter Yashar Ali published on October 26, Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein challenged "the willful misinformation and manipulative framing" of the Daily Beast article as "a blatant smear attack and hypocritical attempt to suggest conflicts of interest in my environmental and economic justice-focused campaign." Dr. Stein noted: "If Mr. Ali is truly interested in conflicts of interest of political candidates and their families, where is his disclosure on the conflict of interest posed by Chelsea Clinton's position as a director of the corporate owner of the Daily Beast, IAC? He has created an imagined conflict of interest, perhaps to distract from the very real, harmful conflicts of interest in the Clintons' pay-to-play schemes, back-room fundraising, and quarter-million dollar speeches for the predatory banks, health insurance industry, and fossil fuel tycoons, who have directly benefited from Hillary Clinton's policy record as Senator and Secretary of State, as well as from Bill Clinton's actions as President." Mr. Ali has failed to show a conflict of interest in Dr. Stein's investments, as her policy positions have consistently opposed the interests of the companies that form a portion of most index and mutual fund profiles. By his logic, he insinuates that the 50 million plus Americans who have retirement accounts invested in mutual and index funds - including school teachers, public workers, and employees of any company that provides such funds to workers as a benefit - can never speak out or organize against corporate abuses. This disingenuous shaming exercise is an effort to silence dissent, and a blunt attempt to bully people into refraining from exercising their democratic rights to free speech and political action. Below is Dr. Stein's full rebuttal to the Daily Beast, which updates her original comment sent prior to publication: Like many Americans who hold retirement accounts, pension funds, or who invest in the American economy, my finances are largely held in index funds or mutual funds over which I have no control in management or decision-making. Sadly, most of these broad investments are as compromised as the American economy - massively degraded as it is by the fossil fuel, defense and finance industries. Over the years I have taken steps to divest from the worst of these holdings - transferring my checking and savings accounts from Bank of America largely to a credit union, and divesting from GE, Dupont and Merck stocks I had been given decades ago. While I have explored "green" mutual funds, I found their investments in fracking and large scale biofuels not much better than the non-green funds. I have not yet found the mutual funds that represent my goals of advancing the cause of people, planet and peace. Admittedly I have not spent a lot of time researching elusive ethical investments. I prefer using my time fighting for social, economic and ecological transformation, and recycling capitalist money into the fight to do so. I was fortunate to have inherited over a half-million dollars from my parents. I have used this resource to help build the social and political movements needed for transformative change. I used this money to jump start my presidential campaigns in 2016 and 2012, statewide campaigns before that, and to help build the Green Party -- because, unfortunately, the most green, just investments won't count for squat if the corporations and the super rich funding the Democrats and Republicans are still calling the shots. I also used this money to support my work with radical non profits, including the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities, and the Global Climate Convergence. Of note, my husband and I hold separate investments that reflect somewhat different approaches to money management. These separate holdings are reported as such in my FEC filing. Participating in the American economy by holding investments in mutual funds, retirement accounts, and index funds is a far cry from the Clintons' back room fundraising and quarter-million dollar speeches for the predatory banks, health insurance industry, and fossil fuel tycoons. It's also a world apart from the predatory economics, taxpayer bailouts, and tax-dodging of Donald Trump. To the contrary, these investments are what tens of millions of working Americans must do to secure crucial resources for retirement. To suggest an equivalence betrays either mind-boggling cluelessness, or more likely, the attack-dog mentality of the Clinton-protection press, hitting on true proponents of social change in order to defend the precarious empire of the political elite. The Daily Beast is suggesting that participating in the American economy is incompatible with working to change it. This is comparable to the position taken by anti-climate change press (like at Fox news) who say that riding in a car or airplane means you cannot criticize fossil fuels. Unfortunately, to change public policy, one must participate in the economy enough to generate the resources to create change, ideally in a way that minimizes damage and maximizes change. We need real options for ethical investing, including investments in the cooperative economy. Retirement security should be a human right, guaranteed through expanded Social

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Gabbiadini's future has yet to be decided and is currently in stand by. At the moment a sale seems to be blocked because Napoli is not intent on selling him until they have secured a replacement. Fiorentina would like 15 million on top of Gabbiadini and this has been considered too much by Napoli. His future is still up in the air as Everton make a rebound offer of 23 million. Napoli has already said no as they refuse without having an alternative and having secured a substitute as there is still no deal with Fiorentina for Kalinic. The azzurri aren't accepting, Gabbiadini's future is still up for grabs. @EddieBenedetti

Kudzu and the California Marriage Amendment by Rick Moen August 25, 2008 (last updated August 6, 2018) This past century, large portions of the American South have been consumed by an unintended side-effect. I refer to the infamous "kudzu" vine, imported from Japan for its stunning erosion-control properties. This tactic worked: Crumbling riverbanks and hillsides were stabilized all over the South — but, then, everyone realized with mounting horror that this hardy legume is almost completely unstoppable anywhere protected from hard freezes, growing at the awesome rate of a foot per night and reaching heights of 100 feet. Entire abandoned houses have been observed to vanish under a kudzu carpet, over a summer growing season. It's now considered a pest; sometimes, an outright menace. The plant can be used with caution, where its invasive side-effect is known and planned for — but the point is that it was deployed without understanding its full effects. Laws' side-effects, likewise, can render them self-defeating (though, on the bright side, bad laws are easier to eradicate than kudzu): I'm going to explain, below, why recently popular marriage-definition legislation like California's November 2008 "California Marriage Protection Act" (an initiative state-constitutional amendment) creates kudzu-class unintended side effects its proponents haven't anticipated and will find horrific — in that they're going to end up mandating and legally sanctifying exactly the sort of same-sex marriages they're intending to ban. Please note: Yr. humble author is deliberately avoiding the question of whether same-sex marriage is desirable, an offense against God, and so on. (For what it's worth, said author is a heterosexual genetic male, happily and monogamously married to qty. one (1) heterosexual genetic female. So, this essay is not a sneaky ploy to induce gender confusion in unwary citizens.) It's not that I don't have opinions on that contentious question. It's just that they're not relevant to what I'm writing about. In short: I'm going to show that recent legislation restricting marriage to "a man and a woman" — regardless of whether you consider that effort good, bad, or indifferent — is going to produce harmful, unintended side effects (maybe even for you, your family, your friends, and so on), exactly the opposite of what proponents intend. I'll not be moralizing, and this isn't lobbying from the "intersex" movement or anyone else. I'm just a regular hetero guy, quietly telling you what's starting to happen, why, and how to see for yourself. OK? Marriage Protection Meets Biology Here's the sort of law we're talking about: Proposition 8 Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry: Initiative Constitutional Amendment SECTION I. Title This measure shall be known and may be cited as the "California Marriage Protection Act." SECTION 2. Article I. Section 7.5 is added to the California Constitution, to read: Sec. 7.5. Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. Now, that's simple and should have predictable, orderly results, right? I'll bet the Soil Conservation Service guys in the 1950s thought that about kudzu, too. The biggest problem is that laws like the California initiative will make the courts decide who is male and who is female — and all available decision criteria create unavoidable miscarriages of justice that will, or should, dismay initiative proponents. You're probably thinking, about now, that I'm going to exaggerate the sex-definitional1 problem: Probably, you and everyone you know is unambiguously male or female — or at least has always believed himself or herself to be so, and nobody's challenged that, and nobody's likely to. That's true, absolutely: Only maybe one live birth in 100 has some non-standard sex anatomy, and genetic anomalies are slightly rarer than that. However, let's talk about those 1-in-100 or 1-in-1000 cases — because those could be you, or your aunt, or your best friend — and because our system of law has to deal with 1-in-1000 situations, too. An illustrative example: Let's say you're an adult woman. You were always female; you never had any doubts about this. You have all the right parts and none of the wrong ones; you think of yourself as a gal. You get married. (Yes, I do mean to a man.) Somewhere down the road, your genes get tested: To your astonishment, it says you're not only not XX (double-X being the classic female chromosome pairing), but in fact XY (classic male chromosomes). Testing shows your blood to be loaded with

Dear Parent of the Average Child, I'm sorry. Your child is wonderful.  She is always at school on time, does her homework most everyday, works well on her own and is patient with those around her.  I really wanted  to go tell your daughter how proud of her I was of the work she was doing today. I was about to but you see I had a young girl  over in the corner crying because she hadn't had breakfast. Another was tromping around the classroom in winter boots. It's May. When I asked her to change she told me she didn't have any other shoes. I needed to send them and my CEA down to the office to see if we had some food and any extra shoes in lost and found.  Oh and over in the other corner there was a  boy screaming at the top of his lungs because, well no one is sure why. He is on a list to see a specialist, they hope to have a plan in place for him soon. Of course it has been 3 months, but the specialist teacher is overworked and only at our school a few days a week so we have to be patient.  More children trickled in. One girl told me that her backpack is at Mom's but she was at Dad's last night. He forgot to send a lunch. She also wanted to tell me about her Dad's new girlfriend but she told me I wasn't  to tell mom because it's was secret.  A young man tells me his cat died last night. Another lost a tooth! Exciting until he sees the blood, thenthe fear sets in. A child came in a little late looking afraid and tentative. She watched carefully what was going on but was too afraid to join in.  Everyone agrees that the child's fears aren't normal and that she needs some counselling but there are only so many hours in a day. They might be able to see her for one or two sessions next month. I started to head over to help her. Your daughter, wonderful child that she is, helps her put away her things and leds her to her desk.  I was about to head over and say thank you but I notice 3 boys in the corner playing rough. I ran over to stop them and have a conversation about expected behaviour at school. I also tried to throw in a lesson on non-violence while I was at it. I turned back to look for your daughter. I haven't forgotten that I wanted to check in with her but I look up and realise I should probably begin teaching the lesson of the day. I told myself I would check in with her later.  This was all before 9am. Many other things  happened during the day that made it very difficult for me to check in with your wonderful daughter.  Students with learning disabilities, diagnosed and not diagnosed. Students with special needs and with behaviour problems. Students who are needier or put up their hand more often. Students who yell louder. I realised after a day of running from child to child and crisis to crisis, I never did get a chance to check-in with her today. I don't mean to leave your daughter alone but she seems to be doing just fine without me. I hope it is true. I'm sorry. I feel terrible. Would you mind telling her how proud I am of her? Let her know I appreciate her? I will check-in with her tomorrow. From Your Child's Teacher Authors Note: I have 23 little treasures in my room. I care about them all. I want to teach them all and see them all succeed. I've had more days like this one than I would like to admit. When I think about a classroom without class limits or I think about a school system with even less specialist teachers and less services for our students, I worry. I wonder how many average kids go unseen everyday. I honestly don't think I can do this job under those conditions. Somedays I wonder how I do it now.  I know for a fact I won't be able to do it well.   Please, please please understand how important this issue is.  I didn't become a teacher for the paycheck or the glory. I became a teacher because I wanted to help kids do amazing things with their lives.  I want that for all my students. I want to do my job well. That means that I need the tools to do that. This includes a reasonable class size and help from specialist teachers. That is why I'm willing to take a 10% pay cut and walk out inspite of the threats. For me isn't about the money. Its about the kids.

SARAH FERGUSON, PRESENTER: After a series of scandals, the live animal export trade is supposed to be enjoying a boost, with strong support from the new government and the recent reopening of key markets in the Middle East. But now there are allegations that some rogue traders may be putting the whole industry at risk. A 7.30 investigation has discovered a trail of paperwork suggesting export documents may have been falsified, flouting strict national and international laws designed to protect countries from importing diseased animals. We've also uncovered evidence that one of Australia's biggest exporters may be breaching the system set up just three years ago to protect Australian animals overseas. The Australian Department of Agriculture is now investigating these allegations and has formally requested 7.30 hand over evidence obtained for this story. Matt Peacock has this exclusive report, which contains some confronting images MATT PEACOCK, REPORTER: Once again this month, Australian livestock is being transported to Bahrain and Egypt, following long suspensions of a trade that's been dogged by controversy. But now 7.30 has uncovered possible criminal conduct at the heart of the industry. There is evidence to suggest that key export documents have been falsified. MELISSA PARKE, LABOR MP FOR FREMANTLE: Well I think that if there has been doctoring of any documents, then the full force of the law should be brought to bear on that. That's criminal action. MATT PEACOCK: After the trade to Indonesia was suspended three years ago, new rules called the Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System, or ESCAS, were introduced, which hold exporters responsible for animal welfare all the way from the farm through to an approved abattoir overseas. BARNABY JOYCE, MINISTER FOR AGRICULTURE: This system tries to balance the needs of having a trade that brings a fair return back to Australian farmers and the desire by the Australian people to have animals treated humanely. MATT PEACOCK: But 7.30 can reveal a major breakdown in the system, with possible breaches of the law and claims by animal welfare advocates that a Perth-based exporter, Livestock Shipping Services, or LSS, is flouting the rules, leading to ongoing cruelty against Australian animals. It's here in this office in a quiet suburban backstreet in Perth that LSS is based and I've been trying to get an interview with its live export manager, Gary Robinson - so far, to no avail. But Mr Robinson has expressed in other media interviews his contempt for the ESCAS process. GARY ROBINSON, GM, LIVESTOCK SHIPPING SERVICES (ABC Radio, 15 Oct. 2013): It's failing exporters because exporters can't operate their business properly. It's failing producers because producers are receiving half the price that they should be receiving for their livestock. It's failing our customers because they are offended that the Australian Government wants to apply these rules on them. MATT PEACOCK: Gary Robinson is no stranger to controversy. 18 months ago, he was Middle East manager for another major exporter, Wellard, and was involved in one of the most infamous incidents in the history of the live export trade. Wellard's ship, the Ocean Drover, was refused permission to unload in Bahrain after authorities there declared the sheep onboard were diseased. It was a claim that was later disproven. Wellard diverted its shipment to Pakistan. But once the Pakistan Government realised Bahrain had rejected the shipment, it moved in to conduct a brutal cull. Pakistan, on that trip, I remember you stated afterwards that it was horrible, that it was appalling to see. MAURO BALZARINI, CEO, WELLARD: One of the worst thing in my life, definitely. It was touching for me as well. Very - I took it very personally. MATT PEACOCK: 7.30 has now discovered that the documents used to gain permission to land the sheep in Pakistan appear to have been falsified. Each export shipment needs a Certificate of Australian Origin, in Perth, issued here at the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce. Certificates have a series of stamps and signatures to prove their authenticity. The problem is that we've got this document which, unlike your stamp, it doesn't have the date below it. And also up here, it's a written number, but you do what? You put a stamp on that, don't you? VICTORIA WILLETTS, FREMANTLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: We do, yes. MATT PEACOCK: According to the Chamber of Commerce, the certificate was never authorised. So that's a stamp there, compared to this where it's just been written in.

71 Very simple to make although with a long preparation time. The soup, if cooked as directed will result in a very tasty soup. It's worth the effort, a real homemade recipe. I'm not sure if I did something wrong, but my rice absorbed all the juices and this just became mush. :/ Asign 0 1 Very simple to make although with a long preparation time. The soup, if cooked as directed will result in a very tasty soup. It's worth the effort, a real homemade recipe. Read more Joey & Jenessa 0 1 It's a keeper! Very good as is; but we're tinkerers and we: -added small chunks of 1 avacado -1 cup of cilantro -drained the onion mix of excess oil before adding the other items (the soup has ... Read more yd4eva 88 10 I just finished making this soup & i must say it is amazing. My taste buds were dancin'! It has a bit of a spice to it & im really not the spicy type but in this case it was perfect. My family h... Read more vrgirl 16 11 This is super popular with everyone I've made it for. However, I do make my own chicken stock, and I shred the chicken instead of using pieces - also, I make the rice separately - because if you... Read more K. Spinks 55 5 This is my favorite soup when I go to Peruvian restaurants and I was hoping the recipe came out well. It was great! I doubled the cilantro because whenever I've had aguadito before, it's been ... Read more Ashley 161 43 Delicious soup! Very authentic recipe. I just added some celery in with the onion to cook, and little more garlic. I feel like I'm in Peru eating this soup. Tastes and looks just like it's suppo... Read more Norma Zumaeta 32 5 Hangover, colds, flu, getting it back together recipe!! it tasted like home! however I substituted the "minced serrano chile" mainly because as a Peruvian I had no idea what it was, with aji am... Read more Karen Gale 55 1 I made this last night and we really enjoyed it. I skipped the rice to save on a few carbs. My adult children even took home the left overs. I will definitely make this again. I cut the chic... Read more

Mike Rogers: 'Hundreds' of Americans with ISIL connections The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says hundreds of Americans are known to have associated with the Islamic militant group fighting in Iraq and Syria. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) said on "Fox News Sunday" that it's hard to track all Americans who have traveled to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant but that the intelligence community is following everyone it can identify. "The problem is there is no sure number," he said. "It's in the hundreds that we believe have at least [at] one time traveled and participated and trained with them." (Also on POLITICO: Rogers: 'Don't do stupid stuff' isn't working) Rogers said the United States does have good legal tools to hinder citizens who are known associates of the group. "We have a law on the books; we should use it, and we should be aggressive in using it," he said, referring to the material support of terrorism statute. As ISIL grows in Syria and Iraq, Western nations have become increasingly concerned that citizens who train with the jihadist group will use their passports to return home and recruit or carry out an attack. British Prime Minister David Cameron announced increased security measures for his country Friday and said he would propose measures to make it easier to revoke passports for British citizens with ties to terrorist groups. Rogers called on President Barack Obama to take stronger action against ISIL to make sure it can't recruit Americans and get its members into the United States. "ISIL would like to have a Western-style attack to continue this notion that they are the leading jihadist group in the world," Rogers said.

His children use the "modern art installation" as an impromptu goal, but it also serves as a reminder of the constant need for the Prime Minister to keep thinking of radical solutions to the unprecedented economic and political challenges he faces. Many in his own party are increasingly of the opinion that Downing Street and the Government's key figures may be failing to rise to the challenge. Britain is back in recession and the crisis in the euro looks likely to condemn this country to a lost economic decade. Mr Cameron does not "see a time" when the austerity programme will end. The budget was regarded as a presentational disaster and George Osborne, the Prime Minister's key lieutenant and ally, is facing questions over his position that seemed unthinkable last year. Mr Cameron is struggling to persuade even his own MPs to support government policy and there is a growing clamour for a more Right-wing agenda. The relationship with the Liberal Democrats appears to be in a state of permanent limbo with relaunches for the Coalition an almost monthly occurrence. After a frenetic first 18 months bringing radical new policies for welfare, schools and health, Downing Street aides talk of "mid-term blues" as Labour remain consistently ten points ahead in the polls. TORY DISQUIET WITH THE LIB DEMS Mr Cameron says he understands the grumbling and that even he becomes "frustrated" that he cannot always get his own way. But he urges his supporters and the public to give him time to see the fruits of the Coalition's work. "If you're in government, you don't get everything you want," he says. "I'm the Prime Minister; I don't get everything I want. Sometimes you have to, we have to, hammer out compromises around the Cabinet table, or in your department. And, if you lose the argument, you have to support the position. "Obviously it's been a very tough time to be in government but I think the most important thing is we've given Britain a secure plan for getting out of the debt and the deficit and the difficulties that we inherited. "The sense I get of the mood of the British public is of very fair-minded people: they say it's very difficult, they're quite pessimistic about the state of the world and the state of the world economy and their own finances. They know it's tough, they know it's difficult, they know that none of these things are going to be easily done." Mr Cameron appears to have some sympathy for the dozens of Conservative MPs who defied the whips to vote against policy on Lords reform and Europe. Although the rebels are highly unlikely to be offered government jobs in the reshuffle expected this autumn, the Prime Minister indicates that their careers have not been forever blighted. "If no one who ever voted against the Government [got a] ministerial office ... [Iain] Duncan-Smith wouldn't be in the Cabinet. I think politics has changed, there are people who come with more strong and independent views. It's difficult in coalition because sometimes you're coming forward with proposals that your coalition partners are more enthusiastic about than you are." The comments are likely to intensify Lib Dem suspicions that the Prime Minister is not really intent on a hard-line approach to ensure that the Coalition's policy deals become reality. THE FUTURE OF THE COALITION Mr Cameron has obviously been dedicating a lot of time to thinking about the changing nature, and possibly form, of the Coalition over the next three years. Key decisions on airports, wind farm subsidies and social care have been delayed in recent weeks, and future assumptions about how the relationship will function are being reconsidered. For example, the Coalition was due to agree a programme for public spending from 2014 to 2017. Discussions are due to begin later this year or early next year, but the prospect of a wide-ranging, three-year deal now seems remote. Instead, the Prime Minister suggests a shorter agreement may be under consideration. "We talked about the need to have one. But how many years it runs for, how exactly it works, we're going to spend more time talking about that. I think what matters is taking the big decisions about the future. I much prefer to approach it from the decisions, and then work out how we are going to [do it], how many years. I want us to make some very big decisions about housing policy, welfare policy, how we fund infrastructure. Let's work out how these decisions trade off against each other." He also indicates that the Coalition may function differently in the year before an election. His preference is for the current arrangement to run to May 2015. But asked whether it may switch to "confidence and supply", where Lib Dems would not vote to bring the Government down but would not support a policy agenda, he replies: "I think the Coalition will run to 2015. How exactly you separate before an election and fight an election

As the Internet and its younger retarded brother, the social media, slowly enter the deep-end of the pool together, the frequency of 'morally grey situations' starts increasing. This is only natural—for those that know technology (the users of the Internet) cannot see beyond it, and those who do not know technology (the users of social media) cannot see into it. So when Sagarika Ghose is bad-mouthed on Twitter and the BBC >covers it with an article titled: "Why are Indian women being attacked on social media?", we should refrain from jumping to certain conclusions. Conclusions like Ms. Ghose's assumption that women abused on Twitter tend to be 'liberal and secular' or that her online abusers must be angry at 'women who speak their mind.' Or even (a BBC-drawn conclusion) that the Indian patriarchal mentality is 'carrying over to the Internet.' While the above statements may be justified, and even correct, the broader aspect of online abuse cannot be as simple as that. It is at, its heart, a clash of civilisations. A battle royale between netizens and the Twitterati. From 1995 to nearly 2005 – 2006, the Internet encouraged free discussion of even the most taboo topics—as in most forums, people were able to wrap a cloak of anonymity around themselves. During this period there was no Facebook, no Twitter. Before the advent of social media and its ilk, a person's online identity could not possibly represent the whole of a person's actual identity! This was because for the most part, people functioned on the Internet under some nickname or the other. Indeed, many of the Internet's earliest communities (IRC, various bulletin board messaging systems etc) were built in such a manner that an individual's personal identity played no role in the functioning of these forums. Indeed, a derivative of this principle was that users were actually discouraged to shed parts of their personal identity to be able to function on these forums. Why was this , you ask? For the simple reason that there was no way to verify ones identity, even if you wanted to reveal it! Rubber ducky This indirectly led to a different definition of identity itself. You could be Indian, Chinese, American, Russian, gay, straight, male, female—all depending merely on what you fancied on being that day. In fact, this phenomenon became so prevalent; the founder of 4Chan put a word to it. He called it 'fluid identity'. Moving from being one person to the other, nobody could stop you. These principles were embraced, which lead to slurs like f***er, w**re, s**t becoming commonplace. Why? Because the Internet initially, was at its essence, home to basically an anonymous pool of people from around the world. And when you call somebody a w**re, what you are essentially doing is reducing their identity down to the most simplest level. It was commonly assumed that everybody would lie about who they were, and by slandering everyone with an insult, they could move discussion forward from there onwards. Almost how in certain tribal groups, when a boy becomes a man, he is given a new name and then only allowed to lead his life. Similarly, bringing your own ethnicity or political affiliation or orientation of any form to the Internet was simply not necessary - as the Internet would remove it anyway. In some forums, it was considered almost rude to draw attention to yourself in that fashion. And this is what people, who take offense to online abuse, are truly missing. You see that blue, ostentatious check mark symbol next to Sagarika Ghose's Twitter handle? The Twitterati and Facebook personalities who embrace the confirmation of their own real-world identities—and indeed broadcast to the whole Internet that "yes, this is the true Sagarika Ghose" are trying to bring the physical world's notion of identity onto the Internet. And this is where our problem starts. Political scientist Samuel Huntington gained prominence for his theory—t >he Clash of Civilisations— where he postulated that all sources of conflicts in the future would not be ideological, but rather cultural in nature. Identity mismatch And do we not see this happening, twenty years later, on the Internet? On the one hand you have the old users of the Internet with notions of fluid identity, and on the other hand you have social media users who wish to reclaim their right to be offended! It is a clash between users of websites with different identifying natures, with different cultures. The point here is that, for users of the old Internet, it is not just Sagarika Ghose who is a s**t, but in that everybody is a s**t. What would be ideal at this point, however, is for both camps to understand each other's stance and together develop a new concept of online identity

ISL 2017: Bengaluru FC beat India U-19 National Team, Daniel Lalhlimpuia scores The Blues missed Sunil Chhetri and Udanta Singh, who were busy with national team duty. A near-full strength Bengaluru FC were made to sweat on Friday when they faced a resilient India U-19 national team in a friendly. The Blues won the match 1-0, courtesy Daniel Lalhlimpuia's first half strike. The Indian Super League (ISL) side missed the services of star players Sunil Chhetri, Gurpreet Singh Sandhu and Udanta Singh, who left for Macau along with the national team. The defending champions of the Federation Cup will be facing North Korean side 4:25 SC in the second leg of the AFC Cup semi-final on 13th September, having thrashed them 3-0 in the first leg at home. On the other hand, the India U-19 team also has its hands full, with the SAFF U-18 championship slated to start in a fortnight. With all players born on or after 1st January 1999, the India U-19 team will have the full squad to choose from in the U-18 tournament. India have been grouped with Bangladesh and hosts Bhutan, and will be eager to win their maiden title having finished second best behind Nepal in the inaugural edition. Article continues below "It was a good effort by our young boys, especially against a strong Bengaluru FC who also had foreigners in their line-up," Floyd Pinto, the coach of the U-19 team told Goal after the match. Bengaluru had earlier played two friendlies in Spain during their pre-season tour, but lost 4-2 and 3-0 against UCAM Murcia and Bani Yas respectively.

Update: The Carolina Panthers announced Saturday that they have exercised LB Luke Kuechly fifth-year option in the coming months. ——— To no surprise, Panthers GM Dave Gettleman told reporters on Tuesday that they will exercise LB Luke Kuechly fifth-year option in the coming months. "I'd have to be brain-dead not to," Gettleman said, per Joe Person. Because Kuechly was a top-10 pick back in 2012, his fifth-year option will be based on transition tender for his position, which would be the average salary for the top-10 inside linebackers last year. It's worth mentioning that this tender is guaranteed for injury only, and won't prevent them from working out a long-term contract extension in the coming months. Kuechly, 23, already has a Defensive Player of the Year award and is clearly in the discussion for being the best inside linebacker in the league. Kuechly is entering the final year of his four-year, $12.58 million rookie contract and stands to make a base salary of $2,105,265 for the 2015 season. In 2014, Kuechly recorded 153 tackles, three sacks, one interception, a forced fumble, a recovery and 11 pass defenses for the Panthers. Pro Football Focus has him rated as the N0. 1 inside linebacker out of 60 qualifying players.

When A$AP Rocky sat with director Dexter Navy to flesh out the visual conceit for the rapper's song "L$D," he wanted it to be "trippy." "Whenever a fellow emcee, or a rapper, or somebody puts out a music video that's dope, I'm either hating or inspired," Rocky told TIME. "I really enjoy good visuals." And what better opportunity to experiment with imagery, than with a psychedelic, drug-induced love song about LSD? The music video borrows heavily from Gaspar Noé's 2009 psychedelic fantasy film Enter the Void (which, if you ask Noé, also inspired Kanye West's 2010 music video "All of the Lights"). "I watched that film," said Rocky, "and at the end of the day, we wanted to do something that was inspired, that paid homage to it without taking from that storyline or that plot." The Jim Jonsin-produced record is the third single from Rocky's sophomore album, At. Long. Last. ASAP., which debuted at #1 on both the Billboard 200 and the R&B/Hip-Hop charts. This is his second consecutive #1 on the Billboard 200. The Harlem native is currently on a joint tour with Tyler the Creator with special guests Danny Brown and Vince Staples. In January 2015, Rocky's record label founder A$AP Yams died of a drug overdose.

TORONTO, ON - SEPTEMBER 18: Head coach Tom McLellian looks on from the bench while playing Team Finland in the second period during the World Cup of Hockey at the Air Canada Center on September 18, 2016 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) That sure didn't take long. About as long as McDavid to Matthews to Eichel, turns out, as this Team North America have gone from longshot on the World Cup of Hockey odds board to favoured to knock off Russia in Monday night's feature, and now the third choice to win the whole tournament. That's a pretty staggering turnaround in terms of perception. Online sportsbook Bodog pegged Team North America's 23-and-under young 'uns as 11-to-1 to win the tournament just before it began, with Russia the four-to-1 second choice behind favoured Canada. Earlier in the summer, the kids were as long as 20-to-1. Now, off a pair of contrasting openers - NA was way too much for Finland in their opener, while Russia looked humdrum in losing to Sweden - and the kids are favoured to beat the Russians and go to 2-0 according to the latest odds on Monday's game, and sit right behind Sweden at 4-to-1 to win the tournament, while Russia has dropped to fourth in the reckoning at 9-to-1. In Europe the spread between the Swedes and team NA is a little wider, though not by much. Canada remains odds-on to win, of course, and this one against Russia will doubtless be a much different proposition than the opener. But at least as far as the betting numbers are concerned, the Canada vs. North America final matchup that would warm the cockles of the continent's puckheads, not to mention Gary Bettman, looks very much alive.

Which Spanish language paper should I enrol in? The appropriate entry point for Spanish language papers depends on your current level of Spanish. Each enrolment is ultimately at the discretion of the Spanish Programme, but the following broad guidelines apply. Students who have never studied Spanish or whose experience of Spanish is minimal and dates from many years ago, or who have only completed one year at high school, should enrol for SPAN131. This paper is designed for complete beginners. Students who have studied Spanish for two or three years at high school in the relatively recent past, or have completed SPAN131, should enrol for SPAN132. For students who have completed four to five years at high school, or who have NCEA Level 2 or 3 in Spanish, or an equivalent qualification, SPAN231 or SPAN232 might be the appropriate paper to enrol for. This paper reviews and consolidates the major grammar points from NCEA Levels 2 and 3. eVision does not understand that students may be eligible for a paper such as SPAN132 or SPAN232 on the basis of their prior learning and current level of Spanish - eVision will only see a student who does not have the prerequisite (SPAN131 and SPAN132 respectively) and will require that you seek "Special permission" to enrol in that paper. "Special permission" is easily acquired - email [email protected] if you have any further queries or need assistance with your enrolment. To see the programme requirements for a BA in Spanish, BA(Hons) in Spanish and DipLang in Spanish – click here Papers *Not offered in 2018 100 Level Papers 200 Level Papers 300 Level Papers 400 Level Papers (Honours)

Prev. [Title for Previous Page] Next [Title for Next Page] March 22, 2014 VIEW SINGLE PAGE Bitcoin 101 First, we have to get a handle on what the heck this Bitcoin thing is. The tech behind Bitcoin is so cool I personally get almost apoplectic when I think about it. It can be used not only for money, but for the transfer of anything that conveys ownership of property. However, this is the primary reason Bitcoin is failing. Techno-geeks tend to get wrapped up in the technology -- not the conceptual potential -- and end up talking about topics only a small group of people (other techno-geeks) can understand. To help better explain what Bitcoin actually is, take a $20 dollar bill (or any other amount) out of your wallet and look at it. What is it worth? "Well, $20 dollars of course," is most likely the usual indignant reply. But what does $20 dollars mean? Where does it come from? We all know The Federal Reserve issues all currency for the United States. And then further elucidate on how it becomes $20 dollars. Believe it or not, U.S. currency was created out of thin air. The whole value of our currency is a faith-based system. We all accept the same belief that it has value. And such it is with Bitcoin. All it requires is the belief in it. And as of now, a lot of people believe Bitcoin is about as real as a unicorn. Although technically the Fed can create money out of thin air, the central bank cannot simply print money as it wants. As with anything that has a higher supply than demand, the value will go down. As long as people have faith in a currency, a central bank can issue more of it. Since Bitcoin has no central bank, there will only ever be the capped supply of 21 million bitcoins. That finite amount creates an inherent scarcity within the Bitcoin system, which creates value. Unlike gold, if Bitcoin does fail, it cannot be melted into a pretty piece of jewelry. So whether we are talking about gold or bitcoins, gold only has a higher "store of value" because more people believe it does, and not just because it can be made into something else. In reality, Bitcoin is no different than gold -- a faith-based system with less followers. There is a floor to the value of gold because of that faith, but only from our perceived belief that mining has any value. And if faith-based systems (like religion) have shown us anything, it's that they have an amazing ability to survive regardless of the "reality" that tries to poke holes in its beliefs. However, because this little religion of Bitcoin has fewer followers and leaps-of-faith required to suspend logic, we can decide -- en masse -- not to believe in it. And then Bitcoin is just worth nothing. "Didn't that Bitcoin exchange in Japan lose all of those peoples' money? See it is unsafe!" The transparency of Bitcoin is actually far superior to our current banking models. In fact, it is now becoming clear that instead of following basic Bitcoin security and transparency practices, Mt. Gox (the oldest Bitcoin exchange that recently shut down) was operating in an opaque centralized model more akin to existing banking systems. Following the banking model and not the Bitcoin model is what led to its demise. This is where some people, who do not realize how our monetary system works, either get excited with me or want to shut me up for completely frying their synapses. The difference between bitcoins and regular money A notable difference between the U.S. monetary system and Bitcoin is that Bitcoin technically has no banking system. As such when people exchange the currency between each other there are no bank fees (or ones so extremely negligible as to have little to no fiduciary meaning). And that is where the first transformative aspect of the currency is. It's like cash -- when you exchange it with someone, there is no bank involved taking a cut. However, unlike cash, there is actually a simple record of the exchange -- how much and between which wallets. There is a very public and transparent record of every Bitcoin exchange ever done. The currency is inherently more transparent than cash. Why is it so transformative? It's transformative because of its two unique properties: no bank fees and no personally identifiable information being exchanged. And it is these two qualities that the U.S. banking system does not possess. To show you how transformative and powerful those two unique properties are, there are a whole range of possibilities. However, let me explain three business models and one unique group of people who will be profoundly affected by Bitcoin. Publishing and content models The internet was supposed to usher in a whole new era of publishing -- and it did. But what that publishing model became was neither what we deserved nor what we wanted. What

VR homage to the classic arcade game Missile Command. This first release version contains the basic gameplay. Future updates will add extra features and enhanced content. Setup Instructions Windows Oculus Rift Unzip to desired directory and run "VR Missile Control 1.0.2.exe". Android Google Cardboard Install "VR Missile Control 1.0.2.apk" file and run the VR Missile Control app. Minimum Requirements Windows Oculus Rift This is built with Oculus Home 1.3.0. Windows 7 Xbox or Ouya gamepad Other minimum requirements for Oculus Rift. The actual game has pretty low requirements. If you can run other Oculus software, then this should run well. Android Google Cardboard I'm not sure what the minimum requirements are. Android 4.1? I can play it on a Nexus 4, so it probably runs on anything less than 3 years old. Playing Instructions Launch missiles to defend your cities from incoming missiles and smart bombs. You start the game with 6 cities and 1 bonus city. You earn a bonus city every 10,000 points. You start each wave with 3 bases that contain 10 missiles each. You get bonus points at the end of each wave for remaining missiles and saved cities. Windows Oculus Rift The game supports the Xbox and Ouya controllers. Other controllers may work, but the buttons have not been mapped in this version. Head Tracking - Aim X Button - Launch Missile From Left Base A Button - Launch Missile From Center Base B Button - Launch Missile From Right Base Start Button - Pause Back Button - Recenter Camera Android Google Cardboard Supports Ouya controller with above controls. Also supports single button input for trigger use. Head Tracking - Aim Trigger - Launch Missile From Nearest Base Tilt Viewer 90° Clockwise - Pause Legal Information (C)2016 Out Of My Mind LLC

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What do antiques and sandwiches have in common? They bring people together. It stood solid. The cast-iron stove a pillar of warmth and comfort. It was the hub, the water cooler if you will, of the late 1800s and early 1900s. It brought people together to share in a source of warmth, meals, and conversation. Today this antique stands as the symbol of Potbelly Sandwich Shop to convey their neighborhood shop attitude: THE POTBELLY STOVE. This symbol can be seen throughout the shop: Originally founded as a small antique shop in Chicago, Illinois, Potbelly Sandwich Shop has made its way to Bethlehem. It is now nestled in the Schoenersville Centre as of November 2015. This franchise was named as one of the nation's 500 fastest growing companies by INC Magazine in 2005, but do not let that deter you. Potbelly aims to shy away from becoming another fast food establishment. How? Through good vibes. LOCAL IMMERSION: First, each franchise owner is responsible to decorate their shop with antiques from the city they reside in. LOCAL LIVE MUSIC: Second, they have live music every Monday and Wednesday. Their current entertainers are: Ken Purcell and Clint Dye. To book a gig at Potbelly you can shoot an email to Ethan, the Franchise Owner, at [email protected]. SERVICE: Third, they also guarantee no more than an eight minute wait time. Their promise: Fresh, fast, and friendly. This brings me to an interesting tidbit I read in a Thrillist article "11 Things You Didn't Know About Potbelly Sandwich Shop." #3.) They have hidden pig-themed messages in every shop. I even spotted one in the Bethlehem location – a wooden silhouette of a pig with a "P&H" on it. The "P" stands for pigs and the "H" for hogs. This sign stands as a reminder that: pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered. This slogan acts to teach employees to never to skimp the customer, cheat the customer, or serve the customer something unless is was made that day. Sounds a bit intense, but the sentiment is to be appreciated! If you haven't heard of Potbelly, that's a-okay! Let me introduce you more to what they are known for: Hot Peppers If you skim the Internet for Potbelly Sandwich Shop you will see oodles of posts noting their Hot Peppers. This condiment is actually an Italian relish of pickled veggies called Giardiniera. Their website totes it as "a unique hot pepper recipe with just the right amount of heat." I agree. It was on the A Wreck sandwich (soon to be described) and they had a nice kick! Straw Cookies Presentation can be everything. That's why I had to get a milkshake when I visited Potbelly! They have mini sugar cookies they thread onto the straw of their hand-dipped milkshakes. I saw them all over Instagram and they are adorable. Talk about dessert after dessert! Both the hot peppers and straw cookies are also retail products at the shop. POTBELLY CHOICE Prepare yourself for this one. Potbelly serves both Pepsi and Coca Cola on one fountain soda dispenser. Wild, huh? Potbelly made the choice not to make the choice between their soda vendor, merging the battle of the brands. Now onto the meaty details of the main dish: SANDWICHES. THE SANDWICHES The sandwiches I tried were A Wreck and The Mediterranean. A WRECK: Salami, roast beef, turkey, ham, and Swiss cheese (additions: hot peppers, lettuce, tomato, mayo, and spicy mustard) I highly suggest the addition of the hot peppers as it amps this sandwich up a notch. THE MEDITERRANEAN: Zippy hummus, feta cheese, artichoke hearts, crispy cucumbers, and roasted red peppers (additions: chicken and avocado) This sandwich had everything I love shoveled on freshly made bread. The artichoke hearts were my favorite! Their zippy hummus was also delicious. Plus you can never go wrong adding avocado to anything. There is also a Potbelly Secret Menu. This consists of a lot of sandwich combinations. One is the Wrecking Ball which is the A Wreck sandwich above with the addition of meatballs. The whole list can be found on Thrillist. Bethlehem-wise, the current most popular sandwich is The Italian and the most popular milkshake is the Oreo. So if you're looking for a quick

This is the parable of the bottle of wine that promises so much and delivers so little. It begins with my mother who called to say she'd been given a bottle that looked very impressive. What was it, I asked. ''Oh, I knew you'd ask that. I don't know. It's a New Zealand sauvignon blanc. That's good isn't it? And it's from Marlborough, which I know is good too. [Heavy sigh] All right, I'll go and look… It's called, I don't know how to pronounce it but… Wairau Cove.'' I'd never heard of it but as it turned out I got to try it the very next evening when my friend Olly brought a bottle to a dinner, saying he'd ''bought it for a fiver, reduced from £10 so it ought to be fantastic". Oh dear. This wasn't auspicious. Wine sold at "half price'' is rarely worth any more than you pay for it, and sometimes not even that. The psychology works like this: even though many of us are suspicious of ''half-price deals'', since they're usually created by hiking the initial price so high that it can be dropped again, we still have a hazy idea that hidden away in the £5 we are not forking out there must be some sort of bonus. What bothered me even more was the New Zealand connection. This country isn't known for discounting heavily. Instead it forged a reputation based on quality, persuading us to spend a bit more to buy a mouthful of its clean, green land, as the slogan goes. New Zealand wines commanded a higher average bottle price here than any other country's wine and the premium worked in our favour, too: we paid for good wine, we got good wine, a state of affairs more unusual than you might think. Admittedly, some were better than others, but by and large New Zealand, because it hadn't rushed to supply supermarkets with low-priced, undrinkable tat, was a brand you could trust. The erosion began in 2008 when a huge harvest led to a grape glut. Wine, much of it still good, was sold off cheap. Problem: once you introduce people to cheap, they start expecting it. Result: that's what they get, often at the expense of quality. A year ago we paid an average of £6.43 for a bottle of New Zealand wine. Today, thanks to increased discounting, it has dropped to £6.02 per bottle (still way ahead of France, its closest competitor at £5.01, or the general average of £4.39). Wairau Cove (which I discovered is sold at Tesco) – now back up at £9.99 – is as good an example as any of the sort of NZ sauvignon blanc £5 buys you. The best I can say about this wine is that it had a strong elderflower taste and would have been a brilliant buy to add to a punch made of cordial, soda, wine and lemon juice. As a glass of wine it smelt tired, had lost its fresh zing and had the starchy, watery taste of slices of raw old potatoes. At dinner, I noticed my friends trying small sips then abandoning it for something – indeed, anything – else on the long, crowded table. If you can't rely on the name of New Zealand to guarantee the quality of your wine, you end up having to play detective and here, besides the offer, there were two big clues that all might not be well. The first was the name: Wairau Cove is neither a winery nor a place. It might sound familiar because Wairau Valley is a subregion of Marlborough (incidentally, asked if the grapes actually come from there, Tesco could only say that ''the vast majority of them had") but Wairau Cove doesn't actually exist. The second was the small print on the back label that indicated the wine was bottled in the UK. Together these two clues point in one direction: bulk wine. Bulk wine is wine sold off in liquid mass by co-operatives and wineries who don't want to bottle it themselves. In the case of established wineries this might be because they want to get rid of tanks they don't consider good enough to sell under their own label, or because they have a surplus from a rapidly ageing vintage they need to jettison before the next one comes on-stream, or for some other reason. With Wairau Cove, the bulk wine comes from several sources but there are four key suppliers. Tesco refused to say who but I understand these include Pernod-Ricard (whose Montana – or Brancott Estate, as we must now call it, but that

Kass McQuillen stands in the jungle with Tasha Fox, holding a hatchet in one hand, and Spencer Bledsoe's life in the other. They are debating what to do with his future. Tribal Council looms, and the two Luzon women must make a call: Cut Spencer, the challenge asset they don't trust, or cut J'Tia Taylor, the challenge disaster they do trust. Tasha agonizes over the decision, unsure of which way to turn, so much so that she'll still question the call later that night at Tribal. For Kass? It's whatever. She does not care if the hatchet falls on Spencer. She does not care if the hatchet falls on J'Tia. She just wants to bury the hatchet and move on. "To me, just make a decision, and live with it," the California-based attorney says, describing the situation. "But that's my life. I have to make decisions for people and live with them all the time. Am I the hatchet man for J'Tia or Spencer? I can live with either decision. Either one is the same gamble for me, because I can't predict what's going to happen tomorrow." This is how Kass views Survivor. Cut this person, cut that person, cut all of the persons, as long as you're cutting forward. But she believes people view her as someone who cuts aimlessly. "The public perception is that I'm an idiot," she tells me on the day before Survivor: Cambodia — Second Chance begins. "That's great, because I personally know that I'm not. Every move I made was the only thing I could do to further my game." I don't know how many of the Second Chancers view Kass as an idiot, but I do know that several of them view her as dangerous, unpredictable, and at least a little bit terrifying. Exhibit A: Stephen Fishbach. "She scares me," he tells me a couple of hours after my chat with Kass. "She seems so rational and funny and smart, but uniformly I have heard that she's erratic and vindictive." There are many pop culture touchstones one can use to describe Kass McQuillen, one of the single most iconic villains of the modern Survivor era. Lucy yanking the ball away from Charlie Brown is the one we hear the most. It's a fairly innocuous comparison, but there are more merciless metaphors to explore. In fact, let's dig into it with a game. Who said the following: Kass or The Joker? 1. "Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos." 2. "I want to destroy it." 3. "We all know I'm chaotic sometimes." 4. "I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve." Spoiler: Kass owns two of the four. The first and final quotes come from The Dark Knight, the second comes from Survivor: Cagayan, and the third is from our conversation in Cambodia. This is the person who crowned herself Chaos Kass on the same night she burned an entire alliance to the ground, without remorse, without blinking an eye, with a single flip of the vote. This is the person who baffled the winner of her first season so thoroughly that he started speaking llama, the way a Gotham City gangster would lose his mind at the slightest whiff of Joker venom. ("My goal is to make everyone speak an animal language by the end of this season," she tells me.) Anarchy for anarchy's sake is not her sole purpose; you probably won't see Kass burning a pyramid of cash anytime soon, at least not intentionally. But when it comes to the game, she derives visible, undeniable pleasure from her enemies' pain. It's no wonder that so many of her future competitors are freaking out. "Kass named herself Chaos Kass. Do I need to say more?" says Kelley Wentworth when I speak with her. "She's [expletive] nuts, and I'm sure she's coming in here saying we're all [expletive] idiots." Well, to be fair, Kelley, she isn't saying that about all of you. When I first see Kass at Ponderosa, she's heading toward my cabana, walking slow, cutting through the rain with her gaze aimed low. She's the first and last person of the day to deny me when I offer her a spot in front of the fan. She's done with creature comforts. She's all about the heat of the land at this point. How about the rest of her cast mates? "They're cracking already," she grins with glee. "It's great." Kass is not wielding a weapon when we speak, but within the first five words of our conversation, I know that she packed the hatchet. ON THE NEXT PAGE: Chaos in Cambodia There are few places to hide at Ponderosa. The Survivors sleep in tents, positioned in front of

Andy Dalton is basically Peyton Manning, Jr. Or something. (USATSI) When you think of Peyton Manning -- even the FIESTY 2014 version -- you think of an all-time great signal callers, a legend in the pocket, gigantic, red forehead marks and the word elite. Andy Dalton? Not so much minus the redhead part anyway. But turns out, as NBC noted on Sunday night when Dalton's Bengals played the Cardinals, the two have remarkably similar numbers through three years in the NFL. Dalton and Peyton Manning's numbers in the first 3 years of their careers are remarkably similar #SNF pic.twitter.com/1bqeM8B314 — SNF on NBC (@SNFonNBC) August 25, 2014 Now none of this means Dalton will go on to become the next Manning. It's much easier to throw touchdown passes in this day and age and the Bengals certainly offer a better opportunity for success than Manning's Colts. But it also points to the fact that Dalton is an undervalued property in the NFL. He gets ripped for never winning a playoff game and for having great weapons and a great defense. But the guy has put up some good numbers his first three years.

The incident occurred in the midst of a heated national debate over the public prominence of the Confederate battle flag (CBF) after Roof was revealed to have posed for a photo with the banner before embarking on his murderous rampage. The Southern Poverty Law Center documented a spike in rallies and "flaggings" — events where supporters march or ride with the CBF to show their "rebel pride" and "southern heritage" — in the aftermath of the shooting. Groups like the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), Virginia Flaggers and young upstarts like the South Carolina Secessionist Party, all object to perceived attacks on their constructed cultural memory. While the participants at such events are generally older white males, the CBF has found unlikely supporters in a small group of African American neo-Confederates who identify with the banner. The very existence of these black "southern heritage" activists is as infuriating to the neo-Confederate movement's militant right as it is confusing to the mainstream left. The split over who can claim southern identity reveals deep rifts within the movement that have become more pronounced since 2015. The derisive term "Rainbow Confederates" refers to those who acknowledge the contributions of African Americans and other minority groups — willing or not — to the extension of the longest violent uprising against the federal government to date. In 2014, League of the South (LOS) President Michael Hill published a piece on the LOS website, titled "If The South Was Right Then Why Are There Rainbow Confederates?" Notice, however, that I'm not saying a person is a Rainbow Confederate if he merely is interested in the historical accuracy of who fought for whom. After all, history is history. I am saying a person is a Rainbow Confederate if he takes that position in order to placate the Cultural Marxists and to justify the Southern cause in the name of political correctness. For Hill and the League, acknowledging the contributions of black Americans to the Old South's last ditch struggle for survival is tantamount to acknowledging that they have a right to exist in the present day. Within the black Confederate narrative lies a threat to their assertion that the "southern nation" consists solely of "anglo-celtic" Christians. Discussing the sentencing of the individuals who participated in the Douglas County armed confrontation, Matthew Heimbach of the Traditionalist Worker's Party described the flagging incident that spurred it as "not a white nationalist Confederate flag rally" but a "multicultural one, a 'Rainbow Confederate' one". In a video, titled "The Constitution Does Not Apply To White People," Heimbach stated that the event was one where: "…the South wasn't about fighting for the great Anglo-Saxon Southland as George Wallace would say, or as many of our founders and the men who actually fought said, that they were fighting for white interests, and of course the creator of the Confederate Battle flag said that it was a white man's flag. But that doesn't matter to "Rainbow Confederates". Much like conservatives, they care more about an agenda, about freedom and enlightenment era principles, instead of what the history is." African Americans did provide physical and material support to the CSA throughout its existence by performing tasks normally associated with chattel slavery in that period, and in scattered instances toward the close of the war by taking up arms. Most often appeals to this fact by "Rainbows" disregard the core truth that black Confederates were operating in a system of coercion and oppression where the penalty for non-compliance was corporal punishment or death. In touting African American neo-Confederates like H.K. Edgerton, Arlene Barnum, and Anthony Hervey, "heritage" groups are attempting to distance themselves from the more radical wing of the neo-Confederate movement, with its calls for a second secession and return to the slave state. In his "Rainbow Confederates" piece Hill stated: The plain fact of the matter is that the Confederate armies were led and staffed overwhelmingly by white men. And they were fighting for the particular interests of their own Folk. The interest of those folks — as Hill makes clear by citing Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Alexander H. Stephens — was the preservation and expansion of the southern slave state. Hatewatch does not list heritage groups like the SCV or Virginia Flaggers as hate groups, though they choose to spend their time and money valorizing the darker parts of our history. Yet in their effort to gloss over the legacy of slavery in the South, these groups strengthen the appeal of Lost Cause mythology, opening the door for violent incidents spurred by the rhetoric of cynical individuals like Michael Hill and Matt Heimbach when the public prominence of those icons is threatened. That this climate emboldened a group demanding blacks "respect the flag" to terrorize a young girl's birthday party

More than just a fancy name. TURNIGY nano-tech Lipoly batteries were designed from the ground up with serious performance in mind. Utilising an advanced LiCo nano-technology substrate that allows electrons to pass more freely from anode to cathode with less internal impedance. In short; less voltage sag and a higher discharge rates than a similar density lithium polymer (non nano-tech) batteries. For those that love graphs, it means higher voltage under load, straighter discharge curves and excellent performance. For pilots it spells stronger throttle punches and unreal straight-up performance. Excellent news for 3D pilots! Unfortunately with other big brands; numbers, ratings and graphs can be fudged. Rest assured, TURNIGY nano-techs are the real deal, delivering unparalleled performance!! Lithium Polymer batteries are used in many RC hobby industries. Over the last few years, Lipo batteries have become the most popular battery choice for anyone looking for a longer run time and higher power. Lipo batteries weigh less and can be made into almost any size or shape. Lipo batteries have higher capacities, hold more power and have a higher discharge rate, meaning they pack more punch. For safe use and storage of Lipo batteries, you need to follow the rules and treat the batteries with the respect they deserve. Specs: Capacity: 5000mAh Voltage: 8S1P / 8S Cell / 29.6V Discharge: 65C Constant / 130C Burst Weight: 1066g (including wire, plug & case) Dimensions: 153x49x71.7mm Balance Plug: JST-XH Discharge Plug: XT-90 Advantages over traditional Lipoly batteries; • Power density reaches 7.5 kw/kg. • Less Voltage sag during high rate discharge, giving more power under load. • Internal impedance can reach as low as 1.2mO compared to that of 3mO of a standard Lipoly. • Greater thermal control, pack usually doesn't exceed 60degC • Swelling during heavy load doesn't exceed 5%, compared to 15% of a normal Lipoly. • Higher capacity during heavy discharge. More than 90% at 100% C rate. • Fast charge capable, up to 15C on some batteries. • Longer Cycle Life, almost double that of standard lipoly technology. The nano-core technology in lithium ion batteries is the application of nanometer conductive additives. The nanometer conductive additives form ultra-strong electron-conducting networks in the electrodes which can increase electronic conductivity. These additives create the ability for imbibition in the carrier liquid to supply more ion channels. This improves the ability of ion transmission and ion diffusion. Through improving electronic conductivity and ion transmission, the impedance is reduced and the polarization of high rate discharge decreases greatly.

The man believed to be the filmmaker behind the controversial anti-Muslim film that has sparked rioting in the Middle East is a twice-convicted felon who has served time in federal prison. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula of Cerritos was convicted in 1997 of possession of ephedrine and hydriodic acid, materials commonly used to manufacture methamphetamine, according to court records. Authorities testified that they found $45,000 of cash in a paper bag when they pulled over Nakoula. A deputy testified that Nakoula was transporting pills from a storage facility in Downey to Lake Elsinore. PHOTOS: Attack on U.S consulate in Libya And in 2010, he was convicted of bank fraud after engaging in a scheme to create fake identities and open credit cards in those names, then draw tens of thousands of dollars from the phony accounts. He was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison but was released early in June 2011. Nakoula has denied being the filmmaker, according to the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Los Angeles. Bishop Serapion said Nakoula called him Thursday morning and "denied completely any involvement." The bishop said Nakoula called the reports of his connection to the film "a political thing" and also suggested that the media might have been confused. Since an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya on Tuesday that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, Nakoula has been reclusive and has refused to answer the door of the four-bedroom home where he lives.

by Two of the most important characters in Navaho mythology are twin miracle-performing sons of White-Shell Woman, Yólkai ?stsán, chief goddess. This plate pictures the leader of the two—the first conceived and the first-born, whose father is the sun. His name means "Slayer of Alien Gods," from aná, alien; ye, gods; agán?, to kill. By him, with the assistance of Tobadz?schí?n?, his twin brother, were killed numerous bird, animal, rock, and human monsters, typifying evils, who wantonly destroyed human life. When the Spirit People came upon this earth from below they made six sacred mountains, four on the distant horizon at the cardinal points and two in the centre, Chó?li and Tz?lhnúhod?íhl?. On the eastern slope of Chó?li, brought forth as the daughter of Earth and Sky, was born Yólkai Estsán, White-Shell Woman. First Man took her to his home near Tz?lhnúhod?hl?, where she matured in twelve days into a beautiful woman with supernatural powers. Later she lived in a home of her own at the foot of this mountain. It was while there that she gave birth to twin boys who became saviours of their people, slaying alien gods who were fast depopulating the earth. Yólkai Estsán would often lie on the eastern slope of the mountain as the sun rose through the morning, and when the day grew warm would seek the shade of jutting rocks from which trickled shining drops of water. Quite unknown to herself she had conceived one day from the sunbeams and the dripping water. When she became aware that she was to become a mother Yólkai ?stsán was made very happy, for she did not enjoy living alone. Soon she found herself the proud possessor of twin boys. The first-born and the stronger came to be known in his youth as Nayé?n?zgan?, Slayer of Alien Gods; the other was always known as Tobadz?schí?n?, Born From Water. Their prenatal life covered a period of only twelve days, and maturity was attained in thirty-two days after passing through eight changes, one of which came every four days. At that time the earth was infested with great giants, foreign gods, who were rapidly destroying the people. Of these, Yé?tso, Big God, as large as a mountain, was the only one in human[pg 099] form. The others were Man-eating Bird, Rolling Stone, that crushed all in its path, Tracking Bear, and Antelope, who killed without mercy. Fearing lest some of these monsters learn of the presence of her boys, Yólkai ?stsán kept them hidden away on the mountain side, but they chafed under confinement, so she made them bows and arrows and let them play about, but admonished them not to stray far from home. The boys promised to obey, but not long afterward, because in reply to their questions their mother told them she did not know who their father was, they became sulky and broke their promise, going off toward the east. They would go and search for someone who knew. When on a small knoll a long way from home they heard a whispered "Sh-h." "Are you afraid, my younger brother?" asked Nayé?n?zgan?. "No!" was the quick response. Four times they heard the whisper, and then two of the Wind People appeared. "We saw you travelling eastward," said they, "and came to caution you. The land is cursed with alien gods who kill for pleasure; beware of them! Why do you journey thus alone without your father?" "Our father! Alas, we know nothing of him and are now starting on a search to learn. Do you know who he is?" asked the boys. "Yes, the Sun is your father; but if you think to find him you will have to travel far eastward and cross the wide, wide waters." Nayé?n?zgan? turned to his younger brother and said, "Síts?l?, let us go." The Sun was then overhead. Being in fact of a holy nature, the boys covered distance rapidly and by mid-afternoon had passed well beyond the limits of their homeland. There they[pg 100] came upon an old woman sitting beside a ladder projecting from a hole. She asked them who they were and whither they were going. They told her to the Sun, whose sons they were, but whom they had never seen.

This week, the management group overseeing Germany's Nürburgring Nordschleife moved to ban manufacturers from attempting and publishing timed laps on the famed, 13-mile course. For car enthusiasts who judge modern sports cars by how quickly they can round the circuit, it's an unthinkable, if not wholly unexpected, turn of events. For Christian Von Koenigsegg, it's even more disappointing; the news comes just days before he was to spend a week at the circuit with the new Koenigsegg One:1 hypercar in hopes of setting a lap record. It's part of Koenigsegg's three-year plan to establish the One:1 as the fastest production car in the world. It was early Tuesday morning when I received an urgent phone call from Christian. In two days, I was to jump on a plane with my team to capture the Koenigsegg lap-time effort for our upcoming 4K documentary, APEX, which we're producing in conjunction with Sony. This is the final chapter in a storyline that follows the past three years of auto manufacturers battling it out for technological dominance in producing halo cars for the next decade, cars including the Porsche 918, McLaren P1, and Ferrari LaFerrari. All have shown what they're worth on the track, but the Koenigsegg One:1 has yet to do so. Now we have a new story to tell: The Nürburgring benchmark of sports-car superiority has come to a screeching halt, and the Koenigsegg One:1's place on the leaderboard is in jeopardy. We'd been on stand-by to fly across the Atlantic (on moments' notice) to capture Koenigsegg's attempt. This time, helicopter crews were ready to go, logistics were sorted, and travel was booked. The sudden notification from Nürburgring management couldn't have come at a more inopportune moment for everyone. The decision to ban timed laps stems from an accident earlier this year at a VLN race, involving driver Jann Mardenborough, in which a spectator was killed. Track management reacted by imposing a speed limit at Flugplatz, where the crash occurred. Since then, management has imposed further restrictions in other high-speed sectors. This is a particularly disappointing development for Koenigsegg, since the One:1's flat-out speed in those sectors would likely have given it a lap-time advantage. In Tiergarten, for instance, a long, fast section where Christian estimates the One:1 could easily hit 300 kph, speed is now restricted to just 200 kph. Official word from Nurburgring management is that these restrictions will be reviewed at the end of the year, but for the time being, manufacturers like Koenigsegg are banned from attempting lap-time runs — even if they've rented out the entire track for themselves. The Koenigsegg team and the One:1 are now stuck in a holding pattern. They have a car that's ready to attack the northern loop. Their simulations and data suggest they've got a good chance to best their competitors. Even Koenigsegg's past track data suggests their best segment times, when stitched together, would undercut the Porsche 918's official 6:57 time by double-digit seconds. But there's a twist to the story. After the initial restrictions were in place, Lamborghini ran its new Aventador SV and published a sub-seven-minute lap time. Nürburgring management claims Lamborghini's attempt happened one day before they issued the latest round of restrictions. Yet at the same time, WTCC laps have been allowed to ignore all speed limits all together? What's the deal? We're investigating. So what's next for Koenigsegg and our film, APEX? The helicopter crews are ready, the One:1 is ready, but we don't have anywhere to run the car. Is there a new benchmark to be set? Should nearby Spa Francorchamps, another long, high-speed track with motorsports provenance, become the new venue for lap time tests? Maybe a stateside circuit like the four-mile West Grand course at VIR would fit the bill? What about setting an endurance record? Let the Reddit car forums march with their keyboards and pitchforks. Author: J.F. Musial www.apex-the-movie.com Special Thanks to Robb Holland and Mike Spinelli for details and help writing this article.

About Locale Emulator and the concept of locale emulation itself I came across this program a while ago myself, and was just as amazed by its premise. I looked at the source code, and saw lots of involved low-level NT kernel voodoo I don't understand, instead of the code I tend to use to solve this kind of problem. Truly, this must be an amazing piece of software, I thought... until I tested it with th135 and noticed that it rendered the Music Room text as exactly the same garbage you see when running the game without any locale emulation. Yeah, it did display 東方心綺楼 in the title bar and correctly referenced the 御首頂戴帳 folder, but overall I'd consider this to be a worse alternative to AppLocale. So I did some research, and it turns out that this thing merely implements the bare minimum of functionality necessary (namely, changing the system ANSI code page in memory) to purportedly keep games from crashing. Anything just a bit more involved (and the text rendering in recent Tasofro games certainly is) appears to be outside of its scope. I wouldn't trust it. (But hey, at least it produces nice crash dumps.) Oh, and of course th14 would still crash if it is in a path containing characters outside its emulated locale. It saddens me that we have to continue to play this locale game, with any inferior AppLocale knock-off being heralded as The Perfect Solution. On the other hand, thcrap is the proof that you can most solve issues with this locale crud and then some by writing wrapper functions that expect and return UTF-8 instead, and defining a fallback code page (not "locale") for compatibility. Yes, it's a mostly stupid and mindless affair (there are some functions you need to wrap more creatively, but they are few and far between), but given thcrap's premise of being a multilingual patcher, I see no other way. And since it's a rather high-level implementation, it also works on every Windows version since 98, as well as in Wine. So, for those who are on XP, Vista or Linux and need a solution other than AppLocale, this is how you would use thcrap's UTF-8 wrapper part for any application: Download thcrap and extract it. Open Notepad, paste {} , and save this as null.js . Right-click thcrap_loader.exe and create a new shortcut. Right-click the new shortcut and click Properties. Add null.js , followed by a space, followed by the full path to your game's executable, to the end of the the Target field. For example, if you wanted to play Hopeless Masquerade, you'd have something like "C:\Full\path\to\thcrap_loader.exe" null.js "C:\Full\path\to\Touhou 13.5 - Hopeless Masquerade\th135.exe" in the Target field. Rename the shortcut, and put it anywhere you like. Run the game by clicking the shortcut. There will be bugs. I'd like to keep this thing small and simple, and hence, I'll only add functionality once I notice that something needs it; I also wouldn't have a test case otherwise. As a result, it might even break things that would work if you ran the game without any locale emulation at all. Please tell me; I'd like to get these fixed, too. About Unicode and locales on Windows Firstly, there is no such thing as a "Unicode locale" (or, to use correct terminology, a system ANSI code page for the UTF-8 encoding). Yes, if Windows had one, we wouldn't have these problems to begin with. However, Microsoft shows no signs of ever moving into this direction. They even have valid reasons; this would break with the entire history on Unicode in Windows, but more on that later. Instead, every Windows system is set to a specific system code page, which can be one of these. And yes, even though UTF-8 appears in this list, it is impossible to use it as an ANSI code page (which is exactly what we would need). I agree that changing your system locale is an overly drastic measure that should be disapproved of. If you look at the definition of the term "locale", the code page is only one aspect among many others. It saddens me that this term is used almost synonymously to "code page" in the otaku scene, only because locales on Windows are fixed entities (you cannot, for example, run your system in an American English locale using the Shift-JIS encoding, although that would make perfect sense

Hello, The Apache Any23 PMC are proud to announce the immediate release of Any23 1.0 which is a major release for the project. Anything To Triples (Any23) is a library, a web service and a command line tool that extracts structured data in RDF format from a variety of Web documents. Currently it supports the following input formats: * RDF/XML, Turtle, Notation 3 * RDFa with RDFa1.1 prefix mechanism * Microformats: Adr, Geo, hCalendar, hCard, hListing, hRecipe, hReview, License, XFN and Species * HTML5 Microdata: (such as Schema.org) * JSON-LD: JSON for Linking Data. a lightweight Linked Data format based on the already successful JSON format and provides a way to help JSON data interoperate at Web-scale. * CSV: Comma Separated Values with separator autodetection. * Vocabularies: Extraction support for CSV, Dublin Core Terms, Description of a Career, Description Of A Project, Friend Of A Friend, GEO Names, ICAL, lkif-core, Open Graph Protocol, BBC Programmes Ontology, RDF Review Vocabulary, schema.org, VCard, BBC Wildlife Ontology and XHTML. A release report for this release can be accessed here http://s.apache.org/Ull Although we suggest that you use and consume the Any23 Maven artifacts there are also a number of other download options on our downloads page as well as documentation for how you can include Any23 in your projects. http://any23.apache.org/download.html Thank you in advance Lewis (On Behalf of the Any23 Project Management Committee) -- *Lewis* Received on Friday, 16 May 2014 21:32:28 UTC

While proponents of mandating a higher minimum wage claim it would help Michigan residents get off food stamps, the evidence from past increases shows this not to be true. In 2007, the minimum wage in Michigan increased from $5.15 an hour to $6.95 an hour. That year, the number of people on food stamps increased from 1.1 million to 1.2 million. In 2008, the minimum wage increased again from $6.95 an hour to $7.15. Again, the number of food stamp recipients went up from 1.2 million to 1.26 million. Yet, the left-leaning Center for American Progress recently released a report that claimed raising the minimum wage to $10.10 would get at least 110,000 families in Michigan off food stamps. President Obama and political allies are pushing for the higher mandated wage. The Center for American Progress has strong ties to the Clinton and Obama administrations. The group's president, Neera Tanden, worked as director of domestic policy for the Obama-Biden presidential campaign and also has worked as policy director for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. "The economy is complex and there are many factors working among each other," said James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. "Michigan's experience shows that the direction of the economy is the most important factor in whether food stamp rolls increase or decrease." The Employment Policies Institute cited a half dozen studies and analyses from 2003 to 2009 that highlights why a correlation between minimum wage and food stamps is on shaky ground. EPI pointed out that in 2009, the average family income of those earning minimum wage was more than $48,000. The 2009 U.S. Census stated that 16.5 percent of those earning minimum wage were raising a family on minimum wage. The remaining 83.5 percent were teenagers living with working parents, adults living alone or married couples with dual incomes. And EPI cited a Ball State University study that found when the federal minimum wage increased by 40 percent from July 2007 to July 2009 there were 550,000 fewer part-time jobs as a result of the increase. According to EPI, when employers are faced with higher labor costs, they hire workers with more work experience and higher skill levels. Workers with lower skills and less work experience are pushed out of the market for jobs. Mandating a higher minimum wage also is associated with job losses. A Congressional Budget Office report released in February said increasing the wage mandate to $10.10 per hour would lead to the loss of about 500,000 jobs. The report also said some employees would be paid more, but that would come at the expense of others being laid off. The laid off workers would be more likely to use food stamps and other government programs. The results of the Center for American Progress study contradict what studies have shown about minimum wage, said Antony Davies, an associate professor of economics at Duquesne University. "Increases in the minimum wage may or may not result in an increase in overall unemployment," Davies said. "However, increases in the minimum wage do result in a shifting in employment away from lesser skilled, lesser educated workers toward higher skilled, higher educated workers. Minimum wage increases provide increases in incomes for workers who keep their jobs, but cause decreases in incomes for workers who are laid off." Davies said in times of prosperity, food stamp use declines because more people are working. Also, when the economy is thriving, there tends to be an increase in minimum wage. "There is no causal relationship between minimum wage and food stamps, rather rising incomes are driving both of the measures," Davies said. Small business owners in Michigan say a mandated wage increase would lead to layoffs and higher prices. ~~~~~ See also: Who Is Behind the Minimum Wage Increase Drive? Bars, Restaurants Could See 280 Percent Increase In Costs With Minimum Wage Ballot Proposal Schauer, Other Michigan Dems Call For Higher Minimum Wage While Paying Their Interns Nothing Debate Du Jour: Minimum Wage Takes Center Stage Minimum Wage For Thee But Not For Me? Harming the Competition: Why some companies want a higher minimum wage Minimum Wage Increase: A Serious Effort or Just Rhetoric? Minimum Wage, Maximum Harm Big Business Supports Minimum Wage Hikes

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"The Art Behind the Tape" is a Coffee Table Book exploring the History of Mixtape Cover Art. For those that know me and specifically those who are in my email database,it is a known fact that i have been toying around with this "History of Mix tapes" project for quite some time. After purchasing a book on rappers and there jewelry collection(BLING BLING),i started to think about what other hip hop related stories there are that haven't been told. Very naturally it dawned on me that no one has told the story about the history of mix tapes,especially the cover art. I found that interesting, especially since it's such a global phenomenon. For months i wrestled with the idea, i even thought i would give it to another writer,and let them tell the story(bad idea,glad i didn't do it). So i took to the drawing board and started to put pen to the pad and jot down a list of dj's who shaped the game. Finally my idea started to take some shape and form. The initial idea shifted a little though. At first i was going to write a coffee table book based on the entire history of the mix tape movement. Then i decided,nah maybe i will film a documentary on the history of mixtapes (in the works as i type). So now that the idea has some form and shape to it,i again put pen to the pad and started to shake it up a bit. Since i plan on directing a documentary on the entire history of mixtapes, I figured the book should be a little different. Me and my creative team decided to focus on the cover art instead of the dj's. This new direction allows for the documentary and book to focus on mix tapes but from two different angles. I remember as a kid i would stare at album covers and marvel at some the art work. For instance A Tribe Called Quests "Low End Theory", De La Soul's "3 Feet High and Rising",to Big Daddy Kane's "Long Live the Kane". All three covers gave you a mental picture of the music before you heard one song. Surprisingly mix tape covers have taken on the same role. For example, Dj Drama's early Gangsta Grillz series artwork looked better than some of those artists album covers. When Dj Clue wanted to separate himself from the pack,it was the imagery done by the crew from P Type Graphics. History was starting to repeat itself in a very important way. With all of these thoughts bouncing in my head,i thought what better way to represent them than to write a book displaying this very dope piece of mix tape history. From that thought forward i decided to put together a coffee table book displaying a visual history of mixtape art. From the days when the Kid Capri's of the world just wrote dates on their tape "Kid Capri 2-18". To the current era where a mix tape dj would commission a skilled graphic designer to craft a piece of marketable art that would allow the tape to compete with an album. So there you have it,my idea in all its glory. I felt the best way to do it is for me to do it. Going the traditional route and seeking a publishing house would be cool,but what if they wanted to change the direction? What if they only wanted to cover the dj's they felt were MTV material,no thats not the real story. I want to tell the story from an insiders perspective,from the perspective of a kid who bought and coveted mix tapes. I want the visual history to include the Dj Green Lantern's as well as the Dj iroc's,and everyone in between. At its core hip hop is all about independence and self expression. I feel it is my duty as a card carrying member of the hip hop community to tell this story the right way! -DJ MARS

Playboy magazine is putting the clothes back on. Executives for the magazine's parent company revealed that the publication will no longer publish fully nude photos of women as part of an upcoming redesign in a piece published Monday by the New York Times. The change will take effect in March 2016. According to the Times, Playboy editor Cory Jones approached magazine founder Hugh Hefner last month with the idea to drop nude photos from the print edition. Hefner, who is still listed on the masthead as editor in chief, gave the idea his blessing. Also Read: Playboy Slaps MediaTakeOut With Lawsuit Over Azealia Banks Nude Photos "You're now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free," Playboy CEO Scott Flanders told the paper. "And so it's just passé at this juncture." Playboy's print circulation, once measured in millions, is now about 800,000, according to Alliance for Audited Media. The magazine will still include photo spreads of women in provocative poses. But the move marks the latest step away from depictions of nudity, which were banned from the magazine's website last August.

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"Signs point to Dexter Fowler staying in Colorado," writes ESPN's Jerry Crasnick, citing both the Rockies' large asking price for the outfielder and potential trade partners' concerns about Fowler's ability to hit outside of Coors Field (Twitter links). Fowler has a career .882 OPS at home and just a .698 OPS on the road over his five-year career, and he put up an even larger set of splits (.984 OPS home/.720 OPS road) in 2012 when he posted a career-best .300/.389/.474 slash line for the Rockies. A rival executive tells Crasnick that the Rockies are asking for a "sky high" return for Fowler, who is projected to get a raise to $4MM in his second year of arbitration eligibility by MLBTR's Matt Swartz. The Braves were interested in Fowler but balked at giving up two top prospects, according to CBS Sports' Danny Knobler. Fowler would have been Atlanta's leadoff hitter, as the Braves are still looking for a table-setter since they intend to use the newly-signed B.J. Upton in the middle of the lineup. The Rockies want a similarly large trade package in exchange for Michael Cuddyer, Knobler reports. Cuddyer is seven years older than Fowler but comes with cost-certainty (two years and $21MM remaining on his contract) and is more proven as a hitter outside of Colorado.

Preferring composition isn't just about polymorphism. Although that is part of it, and you are right that (at least in nominally typed languages) what people really mean is "prefer a combination of composition and interface implementation." But, the reasons to prefer composition (in many circumstances) are profound. Polymorphism is about one thing behaving multiple ways. So, generics/templates are a "polymorphic" feature in so far as they allow a single piece of code to vary its behavior with types. In-fact, this type of polymorphism is really the best behaved and is generally referred to as parametric polymorphism because the variation is defined by a parameter. Many languages provide a form of polymorphism called "overloading" or ad hoc polymorphism where multiple procedures with the same name are defined in an ad hoc manner, and where one is chosen by the language (perhaps the most specific). This is the least well behaved kind of polymorphism, since nothing connects the behavior of the two procedures except developed convention. A third kind of polymorphism is subtype polymorphism. Here a procedure defined on a given type, can also work on a whole family of "subtypes" of that type. When you implement an interface or extend a class you are generally declaring your intention to create a subtype. True subtypes are governed by Liskov's Substitution Principle, which says that if you can prove something about all objects in a supertype you can prove it about all instances in a subtype. Life gets dangerous though, since in languages like C++ and Java, people generally have unenforced, and often undocumented assumptions about classes which may or may not be true about their subclasses. That is, code is written as if more is provable than it really is, which produces a whole host of issues when you subtype carelessly. Inheritance is actually independent of polymorphism. Given some thing "T" which has a reference to itself, inheritance happens when you create a new thing "S" from "T" replacing "T"s reference to itself with a reference to "S". That definition is intentionally vague, since inheritance can happen in many situations, but the most common is subclassing an object which has the effect of replacing the this pointer called by virtual functions with the this pointer to the subtype. Inheritance is a dangerous like all very powerful things inheritance has the power to cause havoc. For example, suppose you override a method when inheriting from some class: all is well and good until some other method of that class assumes the method you inherit to behave a certain way, after all that is how the author of the original class designed it. You can partially protect against this by declaring all methods called by another of your methods private or non-virtual (final), unless they are designed to be overridden. Even this though isn't always good enough. Sometimes you might see something like this (in pseudo Java, hopefully readable to C++ and C# users) interface UsefulThingsInterface { void doThings(); void doMoreThings(); } ... class WayOfDoingUsefulThings implements UsefulThingsInterface{ private foo stuff; public final int getStuff(); void doThings(){ //modifies stuff, such that ... ... } ... void doMoreThings(){ //ignores stuff ... } } you think this is lovely, and have your own way of doing "things", but you use inheritance to acquire the ability to do "moreThings", class MyUsefulThings extends WayOfDoingUsefulThings{ void doThings { //my way } } And all is well and good. WayOfDoingUsefulThings was designed in such a way that replacing one method doesn't change the semantics of any other... except wait, no it wasn't. It just looks like it was, but doThings changed mutable state that mattered. So, even though it didn't call any override-able functions, void dealWithStuff(WayOfDoingUsefulThings bar){ bar.doThings() use(bar.getStuff()); } now does something different than expected when you pass it a MyUsefulThings . Whats worse, you might not even know that WayOfDoingUsefulThings made those promises. Maybe dealWithStuff comes from the same library as WayOfDoingUsefulThings and getStuff() isn't even exported by the library (think of friend classes in C++). Worse still, you have defeated the static checks of the language without realizing it: dealWithStuff took a WayOfDoingUsefulThings just to make sure that it would have a getStuff() function that behaved a certain way. Using composition class MyUsefulThings implements UsefulThingsInterface{ private way = new WayOfDoingUsefulThings() void doThings() { //my way } void doMoreThings() { this