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The thugs patrolling Bangkok's streets are prepared for violence and have the financial backing of a tiny group of the wealthiest people in the country.
Andrew Spooner reports from Bangkok, where the thuggish and anti-democratic PDRC is taking the country to the brink of civil war
It is the day before the general election and a gun battle is raging in broad daylight just north of Bangkok's city centre.
There, masked gunmen – armed with what expert military sources have described as Thai Army-issued weaponry – are firing at pro-democracy Red Shirt activists and local voters who've been attempting to allow the delivery of ballot papers from a depot blockaded by thugs from the violent, fascistic 'protest' movement, the Democrat Party-led People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC).
The Thai Democrat Party and their street front, the PDRC, don't really do democracy.
After boycotting this election, the second general election they've boycotted in eight years, this political party – led by dual British/Thai citizen, the Eton and Oxford educated Abhisit Vejjajiva, (the word 'abhisit' in Thai directly translates into English as 'privilege') who has recently been indicted for the murder of unarmed pro-democracy protesters in 2010 – have now moved their strategy back to the courts in the hope that the Constitutional Court and Election Commission will nullify the results of the Feb 2nd general election.
Thankfully, so far, the Constitutional Court has refused the Democrat's petition but to lodge these complaints the Democrats have claimed the election was neither 'free nor fair'. Of course, what the Democrats fail to mention is that it was their actions – such as shooting at and beating up ordinary voters who dared to try to vote – that were the root cause of the election being neither free nor fair.
One net result is that the so-called 'Party of the Army' are now being fully exposed to the opprobrium of the international community – Time magazine's withering oped 'Thailand's Democrat Party Is Hilariously Misnamed' points to a feeling towards the Thai 'Democrat' Party. Such is the shame the UK's Liberal Democrats feel towards the Thai Democrats, who are their allies in the Liberal International, their press office issued a blunt statement to LFF that the Lib Dems don't have 'nor have any intentions to have' any 'programmes or formal associations' with the Thai Democrats.
But this failure to grasp the simple mechanics of democracy was ever thus with the Thai Democrats. The only time they seem able to achieve power is not through democratic legitimacy or by producing a raft of policies that will attract votes, but by benefitting from a mix of street thuggery, politicised judicial and administrative interventions and support from the coup-happy Thai Army.
In their almost 70-year history they have never won an outright election victory and were last the biggest party in the Thai Parliament in 1992 with only a 20 per cent vote share – strangely, whilst despised by large sections of the Thai population, their allies in both the Thai aristocracy and the military are often on hand to 'aid' them to form a government.
Despite the desperate and pathetic denials by Abhisit – the PDRC leadership is made up entirely of former Democrat Party MPs and ministers and Abhisit himself has routinely attended and spoke at PDRC rallies – it's explicit that the PDRC are nothing more than a Democrat Party front.
Unfortunately the often ridiculous coverage of the PDRC rallies from the international media – the BBC's Jonathan Head has not only been asking questions on behalf of Democrat Party members, he also tweeted that he 'hugged' a member of the PDRC; it has also become routine to describe this band of thugs as 'colourful' and 'friendly' – where they are portrayed as 'legitimate' protesters, with equal standing to a democratically elected government belies the fact that they are little more than a rabble, with well-founded rumours that they are funded by Thailand's richest and most corrupt families.
Over the weekend the elections were held I was in central Bangkok and visited several of the polling booths and the PDRC/Democrat Party rally sites. The rally sites themselves occupy several key intersections in the centre of Bangkok, but on all the occasions I visited not once did the PDRC supporters total more than 1,000 people.
The rallies themselves are astonishingly well-funded with rock concert-style stages set-ups, including massive lighting rigs, giant TV screens and large PA sound systems whilst there is free food and free tents on offer for supporters. In addition PDRC leader Suthep Thuagsuban was recently photographed staying in the luxury US$1000 a night 'Majesty Suite' in Bangkok's five Star Dusit Thani hotel.
On the outer rim of the rally sites are military-style sandbagged blockades where thuggish looking and sometimes drunk PDRC/Democrat Party 'guards' threaten and intimidate those entering 'their' area of control, stopping and searching, at a whim, ordinary people passing through. There have been a number of reports of the PDRC 'guards' extorting money and even kidnapping and torturing persons who they deem a 'threat' to the rallies.
These thugs – I was told by a former Thai government cabinet minister that the leader of the PDRC, Suthep Thuagsuban, has deliberately recruited the most vicious low-level criminals he can find to act as guards – also patrol inside the rally sites and on each of the three occasions I made an attempt to photograph them they become instantly abusive and threatening.
So where now for Thailand?
Over the last 48 hours (14/15 Feb) there have been some attempts by the police to clear what Forbes magazine accurately described as Thailand's own version of Mussolini's Blackshirts from the streets but with the Thai Army – who are beyond any form of civilian and democratic control – offering these neo-fascists 'protection' it is hard to imagine they will be completely removed from Bangkok's streets just yet.
The Feb 2 general election is still uncompleted, with a couple of dozen constituencies still to finalise voting, and with the present Pheu Thai government operating at a 'caretaker' level a stalemate ensues – readers should be reminded that despite the low turnout and all the Democrat Party-led intimidation, violence and threats, Pheu Thai will certainly outpoll the Democrat Party's 2011 vote tally.
As events in Bangkok today reveal – two police officers and two protesters have been killed – the thugs patrolling Bangkok's streets are prepared for violence and still have the financial backing of a tiny group of the wealthiest persons in Thailand meaning that the only choice for the caretaker government is to move slowly and carefully. The threat of a serious escalation of violence and possibly civil war is now very real.
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23 Responses to "The threat of civil war is now very real in Thailand"
With all due respect….
What would the honarable author write when Thailand goes bangrupt,as in 97
Blaming a few thugs with a gun or a large crowd of unarmed farmers without payments?
secondly,comments in favor of ANY colored shirt is ridiculous,TIT is short for Bias and avoid loosing face, thus the truth.
In all honesty…i admire PM yingluck for her courage and determination, i even willing to believe she is real…….but her comes the TIT again……is she????
last but not least…..
red shirt movement, in large farmers, should be included in the decision making process in Thailand, don't you think?
How many grass root decision makers are choosen in the PT Phua Thai (red shirt) government????????????
TIT = This Is Thailand
Peter Montalbano
Wow. Not denying that things are getting ugly, but you sure are looking at this with one-sided glasses. If you were close to the scene during the similar redshirt occupation in 2010, you would have seen some SERIOUS thugs and thuggery. Right around the barricades, or any sensitive spots. Oh, do you see any barricades in Bangkok now, bristling with spears and tires ready to be set on fire? I'm not taking sides. Too many people have done that already. And especially farangs–who jump on anybody's bandwagon in this mess really, really irk me. It's already hard enough to imagine a way out, and this sort of rant just fuels the fires, IMHO.
Wow. I'm shocked how willingly Westerners are to call for a "balanced" view on a conflict, where one side is obviously trying to destroy democracies and is showing some serious fascist tendencies.
เจย์ เจมส์
In 2010, redshirts were protesting against an unelected government. Big difference. Protesting for democracy and against democracy.
edsmale .
Sure big difference. Red shirts put children on top of barricades and used them as human shields. Red shirts burned buildings. Very different indeed.
Andrew Spooner
Hi Edsmale
Here is a photo of PDRC/"Democrat" activists using children as human shields on their barricades – this looks systematic and not a one-off aberration as was the incident involving the Red Shirts in 2010
Here also is a photo of a PDRC/"Democrat" gunman shooting at locals who dared to oppose the PDRC/"Democrat" stopping ballot papers being delivered.
Here's a photo of a PDRC/"Democrat" supporter attacking the police with a machete.
Finally, here is an aerial video of PDRC/"Democrat" rioters attacking public buildings and trying to set them on fire.
Fueled by Thai court sentence abandon any government crackdown procedure despite having martial declaring law. With the sentence the mob could do more aggressive violent to topple Yingluck. How could the gov enforce the law ? It's time for pro-democracy now!
edsmale .
Your a funny guy.
kids sitting around during a street festival…complete with streetcsellers and entertainment…is hardly the same as kids held against their will during combat operations
a line of police replete with tear gas moving on one man, and that man is "attacking" police? 555
I see an arial view with flash bang grenades going off. If they wanted to burn buildings, buildings would have burned. As the red shirts burned over a half dozen.
a gunman yes. Who's gunman is unknown. As during a prior protest the government was proved to shoot their own police with black ops forces from government occupied buildings in an effort to incite violence, it is not surprising if they attempt such things again
good effort at deceit however. Krub.
Andrew Spooner
No, they is a systematic use of children and elderly people by PDRC as shields. As for "street festival" – that's a misnomer – they are grim, unfriendly rallies, controlled by aggressive armed men.
The use of one child on one occasion by a very stupid parent in 2010 was a one-off and clearly not systematic.
However that didn't stop the Abhisit govt shooting and killing unarmed 16yr old kids and also the people who tried to rescue them.
There has been two cases brought against the Red Shirts in terms of the fires in Bangkok (which all happened in areas that were under Army control) – the individuals concerned were all found innocent.
No, the gunman is not unknown – the police attempted to secure an arrest warrant as they knew who it was after very clear photos of the gunman's face were published. Amazingly the police were told "no" that the person they'd identified couldn't be picked up and questioned. Almost certainly Army brought in to support PDRC.
Peter Montalbano
Here it goes again. It's always one side is "for democracy," the other side is "against democracy." They've sold you that line. Come on, it's just not that simple. I was disturbed by Suthep's protests, especially when they started, but along the way I kept an open mind, and there's much more going on here. I'm not happy about the demagoguery on either side, but listen: Thaksin cares NOTHING for democracy. And whether or not he's fooled a majority, he is indeed pulling the strings here. Democracy has never been perfect in Thailand. And in fact Aphisit's government WAS elected. The fact that events leading up to that election were weird didn't make it less of an election. I lived here during a real military dictatorship. The Thais are now muddling their way toward figuring out what to do, but there is no clearcut right or wrong here. IMHO we need some totally new people to step up, but to frame this fight as "democracy" vs "dictatorship" is nonsense. I'd like to use a stronger word. Start looking a little deeper. Really.
Peter Montalbano
Read my reply, above, please. Nobody's a saint here. But when it comes to fascism, Mr. Thaksin stands head and shoulders above others here, despite the fact that he was elected. Your "obviously" up above is not obvious at all. Look deeper. Talk to some people on the other side. Suthep's rants are not all there is to it, by a long shot, and in any case "balanced" does not mean equating the value of a wrong side with a right side. What it means is looking clearly and objectively at situations. If you do that, you will abandon this rhetoric about fascits and blackshirts. What there is of that exists on both sides, and if you don't know that, you are uninformed.
Peter Montalbano
All I can say is that if you really buy into all that, unquestioningly as it seems, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn you may be interested in purchasing, cheap price! Anybody can post videos and claim they prove something. These certainly don't. Save it. I watched what happened in 2010, I was there around the front lines for much of it. You are talking through your hat, sorry.
edsmale .
Now you have fully identified yourself as a hack. As I have been to the rallies many times. Party is what they are. So hack away with your lies elsewhere.
Andrew Spooner
I've been to the rallies many times and they are not "parties". They are scary, weird and the speakers engage in relentless racist, misogynistic hate speech.
Andrew Spooner
I'm not sure what you "witnessed" in 2010 has any bearing whatsoever on the political content of 2014 but it is beyond any doubt that almost 100 civilians were shot in Bangkok in 2010 and not one was ever proven to have been armed or engaged in acts that would endanger life. Not one. The PDRC/Democrat rallies espouse extreme violence in an open attack on democracy and the rule of law. If you want to support that fascism, that's your choice, but others quite rightly will raise their voices against it.
edsmale .
Liar and hacker, plain and simple. Possibly not even in BKK at all. Anyone here can visit a rally and see how broad your lies are in less then 1 second. Koon ngo.
edsmale .
Yeah, the home made rocket launchers being fired from atop red shirt barricades endangered no one. What a piece of shyt you are.
Peter Montalbano
Come on, man. This is Thailand. Are you seriously using the fact that there were no convictions to say nobody on that side did bad things, like starting fires or killing people? Well, where were the convictions on the other side for you "100 civilians?" But I guess for you, that argument doesn't work both ways, right? Of course it was a mess, and bad things were done. But who ordered bad things done? I think most of the bad things were done by rogue elements and thugs on both sides, though I do believe the redshirts actually WANTED martyrs. The leadership wanted people on their own side to die. They came very close to reaching a compromise agreement, but it was quite clear that Thaksin nixed it. The government itself had nothing to gain from killings, and I don't believe the government itself wanted any. But it was definitely not a one-sided affair. If you don't know what i saw (I never used the word "witnessed,") in 2010 then I submit that you didn't spend a lot of time around the barricades or listening to what has to be characterized as hate speech coming from the stages and piped to all locations in red territory. I'm not going to post videos, but they are certainly out there.
Andrew Spooner
Peter, you seem to be unaware of the most basic facts. The Democrats have never won a majority and haven't been the biggest party in the Thai Parliament since 1992. That's simply indisputable. Abhisit has never won any kind of election – assuming power because a court dissolved the democratically elected party of government and the army held a gun to the head of the remaining MPs and demanded they form a "coalition" with Abhisit is not something that will ever resemble a democratic "election". Abhisit's assumption of power in 2008 was widely and accurately described as a 'judicial coup".
The Thai people have decided on multiple occasions they want the Thaksin-led political project to form their government.
If others want to oppose Thaksin they should do so democratically not by shooting at voters, strangling voters, beating voters, boycotting elections and whipping up hate.
The inescapable fact is that Abhisit/Democrats are reviled by large parts of Thailand due to their involvement in the deaths in 2010, by their assumption of power despite having no democratic mandate and by their arrogant dismissive disdain for millions of ordinary Thais.
Peter Montalbano
Basic facts? Please. I'm pretty well-read on the history of Thailand, having come here first during Thanom's dictatorship, and having worked in 2005 in tsunami relief in a government office under Thaksin's government–during which time I read a book on Thaksin–and saw how little the supposedly populist government itself was doing to help the victims of the tsunami. Don't give me words like "indisputable" and "inescapable fact." Those show what blinders you have on. You're right about the Dems never having a majority, but have you heard of coalition governments? And "large parts of Thailand," does that mean there's nobody but redshirts in the Northeast? That would be incorrect. And support for this government is on the wane, whether you approve or not. Let's agree to disagree. I would just urge you to open your mind and look at some things people on the "other side" are saying. I personally don't have a "side," and I think that's wiser.
Steve Todd
Andrew: "The Democrats have never won a majority and haven't been the biggest party in the Thai Parliament since 1992."
Peter: "have you heard of coalition governments?"
Andrew: "The inescapable fact is that Abhisit/Democrats are reviled by large parts of Thailand"
Peter: "does that mean there's nobody but redshirts in the Northeast?"
Peter: "And support for this government is on the wane, whether you approve or not."
I would strongly suggest not bothering with Peter anymore, Andrew. You simply can't debate people who argue against things you never even said, who claim authority based on time, and who rebuke impartiality and opinion stated as fact, then pepper their own posts with exactly that which they decry.
[Edited for bad grammar]
Peter Montalbano
Wow. Way over my head. I can't understand a line of this. Your intellect amazes me.
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A third major shareholder in crisis-hit lender Northern Rock yesterday lent its backing to plans giving investors a bigger say over the future of the stricken firm.
Swedish pension fund AP2 - which holds a 1.8 per cent stake - is reportedly set to support proposals from hedge funds RAB Capital and SRM Global which the mortgage lender's board says could hinder a rescue of the business.
SRM and RAB together own 18 per cent in Northern Rock, which has borrowed an estimated £25 billion from the Bank of England to keep afloat after a funding crisis sparked a run on the bank last September.
Their proposals - to be voted on at an extraordinary meeting in Newcastle on January 15 - call for restrictions on the board's ability to sell the company's assets or issue new shares.
Northern Rock chairman Bryan Sanderson has called the resolutions "potentially damaging" and urged shareholders to vote against the proposals.
But the support of AP2 - which was unavailable for comment - would give the hedge funds at least 20 per cent of the vote, with more backing likely to come from other private investors which own around 25 per cent of the shares.
The lender has 100,000 smaller investors and the Northern Rock Small Shareholders Group has emailed its members urging them to post their voting papers ahead of the meeting next Tuesday.
NRSSG head Robin Ashby said he planned to support the proposals and called on all shareholders to consider the resolutions carefully.
The hedge funds, which need more than 50 per cent of the vote to be successful, also intensified their campaign to drum up support with a series of national newspaper advertisements.
Despite its debt burden, SRM described Northern Rock as a "strong and viable" business, adding that the resolutions reflected best practice in protecting shareholder interests.
SRM said: "Northern Rock is nothing like the 'lame duck' that some would have you believe. The company has true value in its assets, its brand and its employees." But Northern Rock investors should withhold their support from proposals aimed at preventing a firesale of the stricken mortgage bank's assets, corporate governance lobby group Pensions and Investments Research Consultants (PIRC) said.
It advised Northern Rock investors to abstain, fearing "a restraint on the board's power to act in the best interest of all shareholders".
A consortium led by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin and the Olivant investment group are both bidding to rescue the bank, but funding efforts have been hindered by tighter debt markets since the credit crunch that originally tipped Northern Rock into crisis four months ago.
Investment bank Goldman Sachs is due to report to the Treasury on financing options for the company in mid-January before a final decision on the future of Northern Rock is taken in February.
Shareholders have favoured Olivant's plans to take a minority stake in the firm, pay off up to £15 billion of the Bank's debt immediately and rescue the lender with a new management team.
But nationalisation or administration looms for the business if a private-sector solution cannot be found.
The Government will have the final veto over any proposals for the company after it was forced to step in to guarantee deposits when thousands of customers queued for their savings.
The taxpayers' total potential exposure to the lender has been estimated at £57 billion.


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Glen P. Jackson, Ph.D.
Chemistry Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., West Virginia University
Dr. Jackson's long-term goal is to catalyze the progress of biomedical, analytical and forensic research through the development of mass spectrometric instrumentation. He currently has several major projects under way: 1) developing a new type of mass filter for operation at relatively high pressures (~1 Torr); 2) developing a new way of fragmenting gas-phase bio-ions using metastable atoms; 3) developing forensic applications of laser ablation electrospray ionization (LAESI); and 4) developing new forensic and clinical applications of isotope ratio mass spectrometry.
Teaching Fields
Forensic chemistry
Courses Offered
FIS 660 (Advanced
Forensic Chemistry)
D. Ropartz, P. Li, M. Fanuel, A. Giuliani, H. Rogniaux, G. P. Jackson, "Charge Transfer Dissociation of Complex Oligosaccharides: Comparison with Collision-Induced Dissociation and Extreme Ultraviolet Dissociative Photoionization " J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 2016, Accepted.
P. Li, W. D. Hoffmann and G. P. Jackson "Multistage Mass Spectrometry of Phospholipids using Collision-Induced Dissociation (CID) and Metastable Atom-Activated Dissociation (MAD)" Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 2016, 403, 1-7. (View at Elsevier)
M. Zhang, N. A. Kruse, J. R. Bowman, G. P. Jackson "Field Analysis of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in Soil using a Portable Solid Phase microextrction (SPME) and Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometry System" Appl. Spectrosc. (Special Edition on Mobile Spectrometers) 2016, 70(5), 785-793. (View at Sage)
F. Huelsemann, C. Lehn, S. Schneiders, G. P. Jackson, S. Hill, A. Rossmann, N. Scheid, P. J. H. Dunn, U. Flenker, W. Schänzer "Global Spatial Distributions of Nitrogen and Carbon Stable Isotope Ratios of Modern Human Hair" Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 2015, 29, 2111-2121. (View at Wiley).
R. E. Deimler, M. Sander, G. P. Jackson "Radical-Induced Fragmentation of Phospholipid Cations using Metastable Atom-Activated Dissociation Mass Spectrometry (MAD-MS)" Int. J. Mass Spectrom. (Special Edition on Biological Radicals) 2015,390, 178-186. View at Elsevier":http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijms.2015.08.009).
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W. D. Hoffmann and G. P. Jackson "Forensic Mass Spectrometry" Ann. Rev. Anal. Chem. 2015, 8, 419-440. (Link to PDF)
J. R. Almirall, G. P. Jackson, "Review: 27th ASMS Sanibel Conference on Mass Spectrometry—Security and Forensic Applications" J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom., 2015, 26, 695-698. View at Springer
H. B. Rashaid, P. B. Harrington and G. P. Jackson "Amino Acid Composition of Human Scalp Hair as a Biometric Classifier and Investigative Lead" Anal. Methods, 2015, 7, 1707-1718. View at RSC
W. D. Hoffmann, F. Jin, G. P. Jackson "Performance Evaluation of a Loeb-Eiber Mass Filter at 1 Torr" J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. (Focus on Harsh Environment and Field-Portable Mass Spectrometry), 2015, 26(2), 286-291. View at Springer
G. P. Jackson, Y. An. K. I. Konstantynova, A. H. B. Rashaid "Biometrics from the Carbon Isotope Ratio Analysis of Amino Acids in Human Hair" Sci. Justice (FIRMS 2013 Special Edition), 2015, 55, 43-50. View at Elsevier
W. D. Hoffmann and G. P. Jackson "Charge Transfer Dissociation (CTD) Mass Spectrometry of Peptide Cations using Kiloelectronvolt Helium Cations" J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 2014, 25, 1939-1943. View at Springer
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G. P. Jackson, Y. An. K. I. Konstantynova, A. H. B. Rashaid "Biometrics from the Carbon Isotope Ratio Analysis of Amino Acids in Human Hair" Sci. Justice (FIRMS 2013 Special Edition), 2014. View at Elsevier
H. B. Rashaid, G. P. Jackson, Peter B. Harrington, "Quantitation of Amino Acids in Human Hair by Trimethylsilyl Derivatization Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry" Enliven: Bio Anal Techniques 2014, 1(1), 1-12. View at Enliven
M. Zhang, G. P. Jackson, N. A. Kruse, J. Bowman, P. B. Harrington, "Determination of Aroclor 1260 in Soil Samples by GC/MS with Solid Phase Microextraction" J. Sep. Sci. 2014, 37(19), 2751-2756. View at Wiley
R. E. Deimler, T. T. Razunguzwa, B. R. Reschke, C. M. Walsh, M. J. Powell, and G. P. Jackson "Direct Analysis of Drugs in Forensic Applications using Laser Ablation Electrospray Ionization-Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LAESI-MS/MS)" Anal. Methods 2014, 6, 4810-4817. View at RSC
Harris, S. Hokanson, V. Miller, and G. P. Jackson "Fragmentation Differences in the EI Spectra of Three Synthetic Cannabinoid Positional Isomers: JWH-250, JWH-302, and JWH-201" Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 2014, 368, 23-29. View at Elsevier
N. A. Kruse, J. Bowman, D. Lopez, E. Migliore, G. P. Jackson, "Characterization and Fate of Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-Dioxins and Polychlorinated Dibenzofurans in Soils and Sediments at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Ohio" Chemosphere 2014, 114, 93-100. View at Elsevier
Z. Schwartz, Y. An, K. I. Konstantynova, G. P. Jackson, "Analysis of Household Ignitable Liquids and their Post-Combustion Weathered Residues using Compound-Specific Gas Chromatography-Combustion-Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry" Forens. Sci. Int. 2013, 233(1-3), 365-373. View at Elsevier
Y. An, Z. Schwartz, G. P. Jackson, "delta-13 C Analysis of Amino Acids in Human Hair using Trimethylsilyl Derivatives and Gas Chromatography-Combustion-Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry" Rapid Commun. Mass Spec. 2013, 27(13), 1481-1489. View at Wiley
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*Stars in their Eyes!*
They're doing deep breathing exercises and hearts are beating with anticipation at the popstars' secret hideaway. But as the clock ticks towards pop central's first eviction this weekend, it's still business as usual.
Today the team have vocal training with mentor and coach Mark Williams.
"I hear great qualities in every one of them," he said.
"I think they see me as aunty dad ... you tend to get close when you're looking into each other's eyes and mouths."
"Since day one that we met Mark I think every person here has come such a long way," Danielle Stearman said.
A CD has just been released with seven versions of Stevie Wonder's hit Superstition and last night the popstars delivered a combined jam for Today Tonight viewers.
Mr Williams heard it for the first time today and loved it.
For Julie Strickland, it is the first time she has had any singing lessons.
"I've never had vocal training so it's just fantastic for me to be having singing lessons and just getting all their - how the voice works - I never knew, I just sing," she said.
Azaria appreciates Mr Williams' experience and flexibility.
"Everyone has a different singing technique or a different style and he's adapted towards that style," Azaria said.
And Mr Williams admits it will be hard to say good-bye to one of the team, who will be voted off on Friday.
"The bond's got very strong and I don't think I've ever felt this before," he said.
Viewer phone-ins will decide who packs their bags each week.
To vote for your favourite popstar, dial 1902 555 777.


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Bee Cognition Lab
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"Foraging behaviour on occupied flowers: Is Bombus impatiens aggression greater towards heterospecifics or conspecifics?"
Student Researchers: Emily & Jeremy Shea, and Amanda Dumoulin
Bumblebees show a marked preference for flowers that are occupied by another bee, compared with flowers that are unoccupied. Our goal is to investigate the conditions under which workers engage in cheating behaviour, and how aggression in foraging could play a role in the success of the forager's ability to contribute to the colony. Bombus impatiens workers exploring the inside of a 3m x 3m x 3m flight cage encountered artificial flowers occupied with one of three different 3D printed artificial bees, representing both heterospecific and conspecific species. Opalithplättchen number tags were used to monitor individuals and record their foraging behaviour with 3 Vivotek IP8172P IP cameras. Results are available upon completion of this experiment.
Student Researcher: Katie Johnson
Although the physical brain structures of bumblebees (Bombus impatiens) are very small in size, previous research suggests that bees are capable of performing various associative behavioural tasks and solving complex problems (Giurfa, Zhang, Jenett, Menzel & Srinivasan, 2001; Loukola, Perry, Coscos & Chittka 2017, Muth, Papaj & Leonard, 2017; Strang & Sherry, 2014). In the present study, we plan to test the cognitive computational load capacity of bumblebees using the exclusive-or (XOR) problem based on a physical robotic model of sameness/difference principles (Cyr, Avarguès-Weber & Thériault, 2017). Operant conditioning procedures will be implemented through a discrimination task to teach workers to make the correct associative response to simple and 2-bit, 3-bit, and 4-bit compound stimuli. The bumblebees will be released into a T-maze apparatus and presented with a set of black, white and black/white combination squares. Access to a feeder of sugar-water acts as a reward for making a correct response of turning left or right. If the bees are able to learn the rules of the XOR problem, it is presumed that they possess high-functioning neural networks that allow them to overcome linear-separability problems. In the future results, the level of computational load capacity will lead us to a better understanding of the cognitive processing and perceptual skills of bumblebees.


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"Metabolic scope as a proximate constraint on individual behavioral variation: effects on 'personality', plasticity, and predictability"
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Peter A. Biro, Theodore Garland Jr., Christa Beckmann, Beata Ujvari, Frederic Thomas, and John R. Post (Aug 2018)
Aerobic metabolic scope can constrain expression of animal personality and behavior plasticity
Why do some individuals of a given species show consistent levels of average behavior over time and across contexts, while others vary in their behavior? And why do some show highly predictable behavior in a given context, while others vary widely about their average behavioral tendency? Peter Biro and his collaborators here present a novel energetic hypothesis for how minimum and maximum metabolic rates can together constrain the expression of behavioral variation at these different levels, limiting what animals can do in terms of finding food and mates, competing, and avoiding predators.
At its core, their hypothesis predicts that individuals with greater aerobic metabolic scope (= maximum − minimum metabolism) have the latitude to express greater variation and plasticity in behavior. The researchers test their hypothesis and show that replicate 'high-scope' genotypes of mice are more active on average, more plastic in their behavior, and less predictable than mice with low aerobic scope.
This is the first energetic hypothesis to predict and explain individual behavioral variation at all its hierarchical levels: mean (= personality), plasticity, and predictability, and is also supported by preliminary data on mice.
Behavioral ecologists have hypothesized that among-individual differences in resting metabolic rate (RMR) may predict consistent individual differences in mean values for costly behaviors, or for behaviors that affect energy intake rate. This hypothesis has empirical support and presently attracts considerable attention, but notably it does not provide predictions for individual differences in (a) behavioral plasticity or (b) unexplained variation (residual variation from mean individual behavior, here termed predictability). We outline how consideration of aerobic maximum metabolic rate (MMR) and particularly aerobic scope (= MMR − RMR) can be used to simultaneously make predictions about mean, among- and within-individual variation in behavior. We predict that while RMR should be proportional to an individuals' mean level of sustained behavioral activity (one aspect of its personality), individuals with greater aerobic scope will also have greater scope to express behavioral plasticity and/or greater unpredictability in behavior (= greater residual variation). As a first step towards testing these predictions, we analyze existing activity data from selectively bred lines of mice that differ in both daily activity and aerobic scope. We find that replicate high-scope mice are more active on average, show greater among-individual variation in activity, greater among-individual variation in plasticity, and greater unpredictability. These data provide some tentative first support for our hypothesis, suggesting that further research on this topic would be valuable.


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Gnocchi with Marinara and Fresh Spinach
(4 servings)
kosher salt (optional)
1 pound russet potatoes
3-4 large egg yolks
1/2 fresh grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 t nutmeg
1/2 t salt
1/4 t fresh ground black pepper
1 cup flour, plus more for dusting
1 recipe Garden Fresh Pasta Sauce or your favorite store bought brand
Fresh spinach
chicken sausage (optional)
fresh grated Parmesan Cheese
Preheat oven to 425.
Spread a layer of kosher salt on a baking sheet and arrange potatoes on top. Bake until a bit over cooked (about 45 minutes). Let sit until cool enough to handle, cut in half, and scoop out the insides.
Grate the potatoes on the large holes of a box grater. You should have about 2 cups. Make a mound of the potatoes on the counter with a well in the middle. Add the 3 eggs, salt, pepper, nutmeg and cheese to the well. Mix well with your hands. Sprinkle 1/2 cup of the flour over the potatoes and, using your knuckles, press it into the potatoes. Fold the mass over on itself and press down again. Sprinkle on more flour, little by little folding and pressing the dough until it holds together (try not to knead it, this will make the gnocchi tough). Work any dough on your fingers back into the dough. If the mixture is too dry, add another egg yolk or a little water. The dough should give under light pressure. It will feel firm but yielding. To test if the dough is the right consistency, take a piece and roll it with your hands on a well-floured board into a rope 1/2 inch in diameter. If the dough holds together, it is ready. If not, add more flour, fold and press the dough several more times and then test again.
On a floured surface, cut the dough into 4 equal pieces. Roll each piece into a rope about 1/2 inch thick. Cut into 1/2 in long pieces. Lightly flour the gnocchi as you cut them. You can cook these as us or form them into the classic Gnocchi shape using the times of the back side of a fork. We watched this YouTube Video and it made it way easier.
Lightly four the Gnocchi as you shape them and then place them on a parchment covered cookie sheet. If you will not be cooking the Gnocchi now, you can freeze them for a later use.
When ready to cook, bring a large pot of water to a boil and add salt. Drop the Gnocchi into the boiling water and cook for about 90 seconds from the time they rise to the surface. Drain the Gnocchi.
Place some Gnocchi in a bowl or on a plate. Top with fresh spinach, then sauce and finally shredded Parmesan and chicken sausage if desired. The heat of the Gnocchi and the sauce will slightly cook the spinach leaving a slight crisp to it. Delish!


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Publisher Desc. These duets were written for the composer's niece who is a violin teacher. They have been adapted so that either part can be played by any combination of woodwind and/or brass instruments. They are designed so that the first part is playable by a student in the early stages of development and the second part is playable by a more advanced student or the teacher. The five movements may be performed as a set or individually. Little Serenadehas some easy meter changes. Little Waltz makes use of a counter melody and is in arch form. Little Dance uses canon and imitation. Little Lullaby is in 6/8 and is lyrical. Little March has several themes separated by fanfare interludes. This piece was recorded by the Ardente Duo on the Emeritus label Hep Cats CD. Comes with a concert pitch score and parts for Woodwind C Book Woodwind Bb Book Woodwind Eb Book Woodwind Bass Clef Book Brass Bb Book Brass F Book Brass Bass Clef Book Tuba Book.
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Spiderduck's Best Underdogs of 2013
Sometimes, good games get critically panned, and it's a world where a Metacritic score below 70 means your game is bad. The Spiderduck writers have taken time to highlight the games they thought the gaming press at large didn't appreciate.
Mike Hewitt - Magrunner
If there were one word I had to use to describe Magrunner, it would be Portal with magnets. Ok, that is three words, but I don't care—Magrunner was the surprise of the year for me and a game that I can't stop thinking about even months after last playing it.
Every year it feels like, literally, hundreds of first person games are released; and it feels like every one of those first person games is about ventilating random Nazis (er, wait, now we ventilate middle easterners—because that is what constitutes evolution). Magrunner, on the other hand, is about the cerebral gymnastics required to solve mind bending magnetic puzzles in a 3-D environment. Oh, and Cthulhu, did I forget to mention Cthulhu?
Describing Magrunner isn't the easiest of things to do via text. Magrunner is clearly inspired by Portal—it's a first person platformer that revolves around a gun like puzzle device and a science facility descending into madness. Instead of the portals used in… Portal, Magrunner is about the manipulation of magnetic fields, represented by blue and red sphere-like zones. Like magnetic fields attract and opposing magnetic fields repel—and if that sounds simple then you obviously have never played Magrunner.
Obviously, Magrunner isn't a perfect game, since I'm talking about it as my favorite game with a Metacritic rating of 70 or below. Magrunner was often bogged down by mind-meltingly difficult puzzles that were often unintuitive. The biggest strike against Magrunner is that some puzzles were even harder to get past after you had figured out how to complete it—which is the antithesis of what a great puzzle game should be. Magrunner also had the strange idea of introducing aggressive enemies to some of the maps that forced you to solve puzzles while you simultaneously ran for your life, which, while sometimes providing for excellent game moments, often was nothing more than an exercise in frustration.
Even with all of those issues, the novel puzzle-solving mechanic and Lovecraftian atmosphere struck a chord with me. As with most puzzle games, there was nothing more satisfying than finally getting past a particularly challenging puzzle—I'd rank that feeling among one of the most satisfying in all of gaming.
I'll admit, I'm a sucker for a good puzzle game. That's probably why I consider Magrunner one of the hidden gems of 2013.
Marcus Lawrence - Remember Me
Remember Me in itself had some very interesting concepts. Building your own combos led to creativity and uniqueness. The memory remixing segments were truly inspirational, resulting in an experience I've never had. While I understand the reasoning behind the 70 congregated score on Metacritic, I personally believe it could have been received better. Shortcomings withstanding, Remember Me gave me my most unique experience this year. Why, you ask? Ever since I read previews on Dontnod Entertainment's new IP, I was most curious about the combo lab mentioned in almost all previews. Finally getting my hands on a copy of the game, I could put my curiosity to rest. At first, use of the combo lab is befuddling, but over time (and some practice), I figured out how to create combos to do my bidding. Need to gain some health and do extra damage in one combo? Pressens (4 different types of combo building blocks) built properly could do just that and more. 50,000 different combos can be mixed in the combo lab...wow!
What really made Remember Me memorable are the memory remix segments. It heavily reminded me of the scenes from Minority Report with Tom Cruise, where his character would rewind and fast forward time to find the killers. Instead of playing with time, protagonist Nilin tampers with the mind, more specifically...memories. By doing this, I was able to alter memories completely in my favor. These moments are few, but that's just how I like it, because there was no chance for the segments to become mundane. I really would have liked to see a sequel, but I highly doubt one will come given the reception it received. In any case, Remember Me is my choice for most underappreciated game of 2013.
Elliot Zeichner - Game & Wario
Game & Wario debuted at a time when the Wii U's library appealed to little of its user base. Offering a collection of mini-games at a budget price, it was a distinct departure from the more unique micro games of past WarioWare titles. Despite being more homogenized with the rest of other party-type games, Game & Wario's attempt to rejuvenate the Wii U's library may not have been successful, but it demonstrated how the GamePad's additional screen could be used with the television with a success rate of at least 25%. With three distinct instances, great potential was shown, which is important for other developers on the Wii U.
While the first few mini-games are not impressive, ranging from not making any substantial use between the GamePad and the TV screen to merely making the GamePad a controller with the touchscreen, Kung Fu changes things up by requiring the player to use both screens equally to play well. Looking at the GamePad allows for precision jumping, but the TV screen tells the player what upcoming obstacles there are. This becomes more relevant on later difficulties, and makes for a very organized interface in a platforming game.
The next example may not inspire other developers due to how referential it is to the rest of the WarioWare series, but it gives perspective for what might have been if Game & Wario kept with the formula. 9-Volt's Game has its own obstacles for each screen. With the GamePad, there's actual gameplay in the form of micro-games, but on the television, the player has to mind when the mother is going to catch them playing the games in the first place. If Game & Wario was like its predecessor, each set of micro-games would probably have their own gimmick such as this. Even though the potential is exclusive to the series, fans of WarioWare would be happy to get a glimpse into the series's evolution.
One of the last game truly shines above the rest, which makes it an appropriate end-game reward. Pirate turns the GamePad into an implement of defense against the hostility from the television, creating a distinct and equal dichotomy between the two screens. Despite its simplistic Simon Says-type nature, the potential for using the GamePad as such is comparable to games that utilize firearm peripherals. Since the GamePad doesn't look like any weapon in particular, the possibilities are various and new.
As a special note, the multiplayer games utilize only one GamePad, one of which has the players touch the screen at the same time, which has of yet been seen in the Wii U's library. Originally, Game & Wario was going to be built in with the Wii U as a sort of tech demo, but its demoted status as a budget title makes it obscure. Some, if not more than half of these games have the potential to be fleshed out into fully fledged games.
Greg Livingston - The Starship Damrey
I found the critical reception to The Starship Damrey weird. Critics often compared the game to point-and-click adventures, for better or worse. It does share some elements with the genre, since gameplay boils down to wandering, picking up items in one place, and applying those items in some other place. In practice, however, The Starship Damrey more closely resembles a digital comic (Snatcher) or visual novel (Hotel Dusk)--it's the same genre, it just goes by two different names.
Digital visual novel comics also rely on wandering around, talking to folks, and using items. Unlike your standard point-and-click affair, though, they severely limit your options for moving forward. The Starship Damrey achieved this by opening up rooms of the Damrey one by one; as each new room opened, you would find the way forward solely by exploring that room. As a result, progress comes easily and without much problem solving. This genre is much more about providing a noteworthy experience rather than a challenge.
This alone isn't enough to justify its place here, though. The Starship Damrey is also the strongest visual novel I've played.
It opens with the player as an amnesiac trapped in a sleep chamber aboard a derelict space ship. While there is a lengthy backstory to how you got there, it's left as optional post-game reading material; the story is instead about your journey in getting your bearings. Only the most crucial story elements are included in the normal course of the game, resulting in a story with no fat.
Damrey also employs a number of figurative elements which are shallow but still effective. The link between sleep and death is hit directly on the nose when you wake up in your sleeping chamber unaware of your previous life, and it remains the focus of the game as you find dead crew members.
My favorite figurative element, though, was how your helper robot stood in for the barrier of language. Unable to directly contact the outside world, you instead remotely guided a robot from inside your sleeping chamber. The robot's abilities are limited, meaning any task you undertake is handled awkwardly. Your only means of interacting with the outside world, this robot, is inaccurate in much the same way that language is; we use language to interact with others, but it is just an approximation of the ideas housed in our minds. This idea of miscommunication is drawn out by proceedings of the game, and it sheds light on your very identity.
The Starship Damrey is by no means deep, but its honed narrative scope and the ingenuity of its figurative aspects were both memorable.


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FARMERS and ranchers voted heavily for President-elect Donald Trump in the recent election. They did so because of the basic notion that regulations and, somehow, the polices of the past have left them behind, according to Chuck Conner, president and chief executive officer of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives.
Conner has spent the last two decades advocating on behalf of agriculture in Washington, D.C. He served as deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture during the George W. Bush Administration and was named acting secretary of agriculture when Mike Johanns stepped down in 2007.
Conner remains vocal on Trump's agricultural advisory committee.
Noting that it's "way too early to make policy predictions," Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence still "are well aware of where their bread is buttered," Conner said of the importance of rural America.
"Farmers and ranchers and people of rural America feel like they've been under attack for the last several years," Conner said. "It had a huge impact on how they responded in the last presidential election."
He cited the heavy regulatory hand of the Environmental Protection Agency as well as unfounded criticisms from consumers on how food is produced today.
Colin Woodall, vice president of government affairs for the National Cattlemen's Beef Assn. (NCBA), said EPA's "waters of the U.S." rule has been referenced several times by Trump; he and others expect that the rule will be an early regulatory target to strike down. "This will go a long way to provide relief to our members," Woodall said. "It will ease a lot of general jitters and fears in the industry."
Woodall noted that it will be incumbent upon NCBA and other trade associations to educate Trump on the importance of trade to agriculture. For example, if the U.S. takes no action on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, it results in $400,000 in losses per day for U.S. beef producers.
Conner reiterated that Trump's agricultural policy talking points acknowledged the value of agricultural exports to the farm economy. Trump's problem with trade has been largely focused on creating better opportunities within the manufacturing sector, not agriculture.
"Trump knows we're an agricultural export-dependent economy, but it sure would be great if we can keep some of these manufacturing jobs here in the United States. If the president-elect can pull that off, he'll go down as one of the greats," Conner said.
In the weeks since securing his win, Trump continues to fill in key roles in the government.
Conner downplayed rumors that he is on Trump's short list for agriculture secretary — or that his wife would even let him consider the job.
Many promises have been made that the next secretary of agriculture will have direct production agriculture experience, indicating that the lobbyists and politicians being mentioned for the post may not make the cut.
The statements made also have indicated that the EPA administrator will be a friend of agriculture.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said he already is preparing a detailed memo for his successor. "It's extensive, but I hope it's helpful," Vilsack said in an exclusive interview with Feedstuffs. "I would have benefited from something like that."
USDA accounts for 85,000-95,000 career employees or temporary hires. Only 300 people at USDA are political appointees, and all of them submit resignations at the end of an administration, after which the appointments will be either filled or reallocated.
A handful of undersecretaries require Senate confirmation, meaning the Trump Administration will have its work cut out for it in the days ahead.
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Boxing The Ugly Truth
This Documentary is a True Story. On The Rituals and Oath of Boxing. Most people had no idea that boxing is ran by Satanic Men of Power. The same men of power that control the Music Industry.
What you didn't know is that most of the Super Bowls,Basketballs Games,Tennis,Golf,Hockey,Baseball,MMA etc.. are all controlled by the Elites.
They tell whom will win and whom will lose. I know this is a shock to you, nonetheless
just open your eyes and pay attention to what's really going on.
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Love yr Wifey and Kids
Honor thy LORD, Honor thy Family.
Love yr Wifey and Kids=One Flesh.
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Boxing The Ugly Truth. (have a listen before you download)
I hope the Fam likes….(click the amazon link below)
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White Girls Twerking( no one owns the twerk shake )
This is a new segment on white girls twerking=Dance.
I would like to set the record straight about anyone claiming to
own this style of dance, young black females seem to thing they own this
style of booty shaking.lol OMG!
Anyways I hope you all likes.
Thanks for watching.
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College Degrees
This segment will cover the truth on college life. The lies of education.
College will keep you in debt so that the Elite will remain successful.
You want get this right away, Nonetheless just let it marinade like a fine
tune sauce. And research the things I say, be prepared for the shock of your life.
Thanks for watching.
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Buying Homes
The truth on buying homes, Believe it or not buying a house is nothing
but a debt collector=Making the 1% more wealthy billionaires.
I know a lot of Americans want get this because of their up
bringing. However all I can tell you is Mom & Dad lied to you.
And last do you really believe you will remain employed for the
next 32 years ???
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My Tutorial on Music & Film
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1. Digital Video Pixel Test and Stream to Disk
There are two main operations in the code. One in each while loop.
The stream to disk loop is the same as in all of our other data acquisition and streaming examples. The key being to use the win32 file API library. This turns off windows caching. This allows for the data to be streamed into the RAID array at a much higher rate than using the traditional LabVIEW file I/O functions.
The upper acquisition loop is written to acquire the digital data. Then using the LabVIEW Vision Module image acquisition VIs displays the image and performs a pixel test on it. Currently the test is a comparison of the current frame with an image from file. This test image could also be acquired from the board before hand, or from another device with minor modification to the code.
In this example the analysis being done is simple enough that the data acquisition is being called often enough to avoid buffering problems. If the image analysis become more complicated it would be better split this loop into two parallel loops one for data acquisition. The other for image processing and analysis. This would take advantage of LabVIEW's inherent parrallelism.


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Psycho-Pass is set in a dystopian future where it is possible to instantaneously measure a person's mental state, personality, and the probability that a person will commit crimes with a device installed on each citizen's body called the Psycho-Pass. It follows members of the Public Safety Bureau's Criminal Investigation Division and the crimes they investigate. The protagonist, Akane Tsunemori is a rookie inspector who just joined the Division. The protagonist is in-charge of solving the cases and keeping an eye on the Enforcers, who are latent criminals working under her. Veteran Inspector Nobuchika Ginoza, and enforcers Shinya Kogami, Tomomi Masaoka, Shusei Kagari, and Yayoi Kunizuka accompany her.
The story is well written and keeps the audience glued to their seats till the very end of an episode. Though just being a 22 Episode series, the anime is filled with action, drama and well-represented animation. Production I.G. does a very good job of bringing the manga to life with its brilliant animations and the OST's are just fabulous. The story follows Akane and her relationships with her team members. The antagonist in the anime is Shogo Makishima who is somewhat like the Moriarty, from BBC's Sherlock, but more sinister.
Being a sci-fi mystery anime, one would think that the anime contains only grim and dark scenes but it is not like that. The anime has its fair share of jokes which are short but might make you chuckle at times. Voice-overs are a crucial part of an anime; good voice over actor can make a bad anime worthwhile whereas a bad voice over actor can make a good anime sound like shit. But thankfully, Psycho-Pass is of the former type. The voice-overs are so amazing they pull you in from the first episode. The atmosphere is so well developed that you cannot leave the anime hanging in midway. Even the backstories are fleshed out, giving it a realistic feel. The side characters are also well developed, and also leave an impact on the overall plot of the story.
In short, in today's anime world of Shounen series like Naruto, Dragon Ball Z, Fairy Tail, One Piece, Psycho-Pass is something new and refreshing to watch. People who are craving to watch something unorthodox would really enjoy this anime, as it is a brilliant piece of work that might go unnoticed due to the dominance of shounen animes.
Also, Psycho-Pass will be getting a second season in October 2014, and rumors of an upcoming movie have also surfaced.


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Many people find it absolutely mind-boggling that a normal human being can solve a Rubik's cube. But here's the truth: It's not that hard.
Sure, it takes some practice, but if you take the time, you will be able to astonish almost anyone (except those people who understand that it is really not that hard to master The Cube.) In this post I am going to present some simple Rubik's cube FUNdamentals. (Yes. It's a terrible pun. I know that and you know that. Can we move on now?)
- There are 6 sides to a cube: White, Yellow, Orange, Red, Green, and Blue. You can tell what color a side is by the center square. The locations of these sides never change.
- White is ALWAYS opposite Yellow. Orange is ALWAYS opposite Red. Green is ALWAYS opposite Blue.
- Middle edge pieces (middles) will never be corners. Corners will never be middles. Centers, as stated above, are constant.
- Each piece of the cube has a specific "address". For example, the Blue, White, and Orange corner should end up when the cube is solved where the Blue, White, and Orange sides meet. Likewise, the Red and Green middle will need to end up in the middle position between the Red and Green faces of the cube.
Knowing these four truths makes the cube immensely less confusing.
Click here to move to the next section. Questions? Leave a comment.
This is a picture of a Rubik's cube without the moving pieces. See? The centers are constant! Can you predict the colors of the sides you cannot see in the photograph?


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The South India's largest packaging exhibition emerged grandly and concluded successfully at HITEX International Exhibition Centre in the sixth edition in the Hyderabad city. Featured 156 exhibitors, over 100 Running Machines and more than 50 Product Launches. The exhibition, held from 2-5 March 2016, witnessed a footfall of 7552 visitors with high interest in packaging, converting, processing and supply chain machineries.
Our sister concern Digiflex setup a exhibition stall and displayed flexo plates along with many leading players from the industry. The Show served as a global networking and business platform for all the participants.
The visitors could have a look at the latest developments in the industry. There were several product launches as well. "We got a very positive response from the visitors at the Show. Several inquiries were made and we look forward to convert them into deals very soon. The show was very well promoted and managed by the organizers," said Muralidhar Nalli, Managing Director.
The visitors at PackPlus South, though mostly had arrived from the various cities of South India, also attracted people from other parts of the country. PackPlus, being a one stop shop of packaging solutions, is the most informative and beneficial event for us.
The next edition of PackPlus will be held at Bangalore from 5 to 8 April, 2017.


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I have studied French and Comparative Literature at Århus University in Denmark and I got my degree in 1981, but found the employment prospects at the time fairly gloomy. Therefore I changed course and took most of an economical degree (HD), and later on I found employment as an IT consultant. However in 2006 I decided to relearn my 'lost languages' - basically the Germanic and the Romance languages plus Latin. Right now (mid 2008) I'm trying to add Modern Greek and Russian, later to be followed by the other Slavic languages.
It is really due to a beginner's error that my name page got the name "Editing Word lists ("Iversen's method")", but it is not totally off the mark. I see word acquisition as the most time consuming part of learning a language, and the use of word lists is a splendid way to learn a lot of words fast.


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Not the first book, but probably the best … a hands-on approach.
SOA Governance in Action is a hands-on guide for developers and technology leads who need to develop and implement policies for SOA projects. This book introduces the fundamentals of good governance, the best practices for implementing them, and how to support governance using various open source tools. You'll follow an extensive case study that addresses the areas of service design, security, testing, and performance.
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Part 1 Introduction
1. Introducing SOA governance
1.1. What is SOA governance?
1.2. How using SOA governance can help
1.3. Common pitfalls when introducing SOA governance
1.4. Requirements of an SOA governance solution
1.5. Getting started with SOA governance
1.6. Getting an overview of the available policies
1.7. SOA governance and open source
1.8. Summary
2. Setting up the SOA governance environment
2.1. Architecture of the SOA governance environment
2.2. Setting up the Eclipse environment
2.3. Introducing the traffic avoidance example
2.4. Configuring the general services and database
2.5. Checking out and configuring the REST services
2.6. Checking out and configuring the SOAP services
2.7. Setting up the SOA registry
2.8. Setting up the BAM application
2.9. Summary
3. Using a case study to understand SOA governance
3.1. Getting to know OpenGov
3.2. Explaining SOA governance using OpenGov products
3.3. Overview of the available services
3.4. Defining policies for the OpenGov organization
3.5. Summary
Part 2 Design-time policies
4. Service design and documentation policies
4.1. Complying with the self-documenting service policy
4.2. Following existing standards and definitions
4.3. Creating a reusable service
4.4. How to version services
4.5. Summary
5. Security policies
5.1. Encrypting a communications channel for sensitive data
5.2. Validating message integrity and non-repudiation
5.3. Using a centralized identity system
5.4. Using OAuth to allow other services to access your service
5.5. Reusing existing authorization services
5.6. Summary
6. Testing, performance, and the cloud
6.1. How to test your service
6.2. Using quality management tools
6.3. Developing for the cloud
6.4. Summary
Part 3 Runtime policies
7. Using tools for runtime governance
7.1. Runtime governance
7.2. Monitor performance and service usage
7.3. Security and documentation
7.4. Summary
8. Lifecycle support and discovering resources
8.1. Defining the lifecycle of a service
8.2. Creating a custom view for the policy
8.3. Defining the lifecycle of a policy
8.4. Discovery of a service and a policy in the service repository
8.5. Visualizing the information from the registry
8.6. Summary
9. Integrating SOA governance tools with existing tools and technologies
9.1. Enterprise integration
9.2. BPM engine integration
9.3. Language integration
9.4. What you should remember from this book
9.5. Summary
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Governance is a serious word for a simple idea—defining processes, roles, and expectations for a software project. It's especially important in SOA where you have multiple stakeholders, competing requirements, and complex integration tasks. Good SOA governance blends established best practices, strong management and monitoring tools, and the flexibility to embrace new technologies and patterns.
About the book
SOA Governance in Action shows developers how to apply governance concepts and implementation practices to achieve success in SOA projects. You'll learn practical techniques like building a metadata repository using WSO2 Registry or a custom monitoring dashboard using Bamos BAM. You'll also explore other supporting tools, such as using OpenAM, to implement security related policies. Along the way, you'll explore the nuances of writing policies that work for the project and click with your corporate culture.
Written for business application developers. Familiarity with Java and BPMN is helpful but not required.
What's inside
- Service design, security, testing, and performance
- Self documenting services, auditing, and running in a cloud.
- Supporting best practices with open source tools
- Examples using both REST and WS-*
About the author
Jos Dirksen is a software architect with extensive experience applying open source tools to integration and governance challenges. He is coauthor of Open-Source ESBs in Action.
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The Saturday before Easter the mailman returned. I hadn't seen him in more than a year.
Turns out he had transferred to a Post Office in Washington DC and was no longer delivering in my Baltimore hood.
But he was home for Easter and wanted to take off the edge by having a threesome with my partner "Van" and me.
He was still as handsome and tight-bodied as ever. A few pounds heavier but all in the right places.
Still it was a weird threesome.
It took him like an hour to prep. I thought he had fallen asleep in the downstairs bathroom.
Then he needed a drink.
Then a little weed.
Then Van and I started tag-teaming his little brown ass. But then he got spooked by us taking pics and abruptly left.
No biggie. You win some and lose some.
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On Wednesday 1st of November, Professor David Stirrup – principal investigator on 'Beyond the Spectacle' – spoke to KMTV about the history of Native North American presence in Kent, including the time which Pocahontas spent in Gravesend.
The project looks to document all forms of Native North American travel across the Atlantic, whether it resulted in return trips, onward movement into Europe, or even long-term residence in Britain.
Anyone who thinks they may have information of interest is asked to visit the project website at http://research.kent.ac.uk/beyondthespectacle.
Watch the full interview here.


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There are about 150 different types or strains of the human HPV virus. These include approximately 40 types that can infect the genital area. About 14 of the 40 genital HPV types, including among others, HPV-16 and HPV-18, are called high-risk HPV (hrHPV) types. These types can cause persistent infection and result in pre-cancerous changes to the cervix. If these pre-cancerous changes are not detected and the abnormal cells left untreated, it can result in cervical cancer, a serious and potentially life-threatening disease.
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Why is primary hrHPV testing used for cervical screening for women 30 years of age and older?
In women under 30, hrHPV infections are relatively common and are usually cleared by the immune system in two years or less. As a result, screening for women under 30 years of age could detect HPV infections that are short-lived (usually less than 2 years), creating unnecessary worry and possibly leading to unneeded and damaging treatment and expenses. However, once a woman is 30 years of age or older, the presence of hrHPV infections takes on special significance and requires further evaluation.
How about HPV testing for men and testing at sites other than the cervix?
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How about testing for low-risk HPV infection?
Infection with low-risk HPV does not cause cancer but can cause skin warts on and around the genitals, anus, mouth, or throat. Low-risk HPV types 6 and 11, for example, cause 90 percent of all genital warts, also called condylomata acuminata. There is no commercial test available to detect low-risk HPV infection. If you think you have genital warts or warts elsewhere on your body, you should see your healthcare provider for diagnosis and treatment.
If you test positive for high-risk HPV (hrHPV) types and you are a woman 30 years of age or older, clinicians will usually follow up with a Pap smear looking for abnormal cells. If the follow-up Pap smear shows significant abnormalities, the clinician will suggest additional testing that can include colposcopy and repeat hrHPV testing. Clinicians may also refer for additional testing if HPV types 16 and 18 are positive and the Pap smear is negative.
By using latex condoms the right way every time you have sex, you can lower your chances of getting HPV. But HPV can infect areas that are not covered by a condom, and as a result, condoms may not provide full protection against getting HPV. Being in a mutually monogamous relationship can also reduce your risk of getting HPV. HPV vaccine is approved for women and men 26 years of age or younger to help prevent genital HPV infections. On a case-by-case basis, some clinicians may recommend the HPV vaccine for individuals over age 26. For women and men over age 26, the vaccine may offer some degree of protection against future HPV infections.
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Here we are, at the finale of 10Y12M art subscription. It has been quite a journey, sharing a retrospect of looking into my studio and thoughts from the past ten years. First I will say thank you for celebrating this milestone with me. It has been an experience each month sending a wide spectrum of art and thoughts that I felt represented key elements of the last ten years. They have been delivered in all sizes and shaped packages with a great feeling knowing these works gave an insightful representation of my creativity. I hope my subscribers have enjoyed it and everyone else that has seen it progressing on the blog or facebook fanpage, has as well.
I spent December as artist in residence in Texas on my family's land, gathering supplies and tools for this work. I also spent the last month carrying them everywhere I went in Texas and eventually all the way back to The Netherlands. As I have returned to my studio, I thought about how fitting it was that for the last piece of 10Y12M, I found myself again in a temporary place, make shifting a work space, and a small percentage of struggle to bring it together, not unlike the state of my studio in the last few years of the ten. I myself am displaced the last month of the subscription from my studio in The Netherlands, a country populated with nineteen million people and the size of Maryland, where my biggest concern is staying dry and warm while maintaining a little personal space, to traveling to the deep country of Texas where rattlesnakes and panthers remind me I'm not alone in the wide open space.
No matter the contrast of the characteristics of the locations, I see that there is something in common wherever I find myself these days and that is the state of searching to create. It reminds me of the survival needs concept: food, clothing and shelter. At the root, we need a balance of these three and when one is lacking, we seek to fulfill its need. But in the survival of my creativity, I would replace the three with tools, supplies and space. For a while, I have felt my creativity production off balance, especially peaking during this past December. It is not what I imagined for this decade marker, to be at a junction of displacement. I will admit, when I weighed the hard work invested with what ten years had accumulated in terms of a progressing linear path, there was a small thread of panic.
But that was because of the perspective. Thinking of this turned my mind to remember all the different studios and places I've set up as work stations the last ten years and I realized to be at an imbalance is not so adverse. It presents an uncertainty and with that comes possibilities. In this thought a transition occurred. My mind has turned from looking back at assessments and accomplishments of the last ten years to the simplicity of how fluid and flexible creative energy can be, which is not determined by location, equipment, or accumulation, but by the force within.
Looking back seemed to be an essential experience in moving forward and seeing that I started with only my creativity, climbed to the top of the mountain then returned to as much as, my creativity, that was the true milestone. So in the last month of the last year of the first decade of my art career I am sharing a form of art that as it may pay homage to previous work, its great focus is that it looks ahead, symbolizing the ideas not yet created.
I have sent the subscribers a maquette and if you are not familiar with the term, it is simply a small scale version or model of an idea. It is used often in many fields of discipline to give a 3D body to a proposed work. I use it primarily when I am working on large scale projects that involve realization by other levels of participation.
In this case I am sending a maquette as the last edition of 10Y12M, which I consider a very large scale project. Metaphorically, it is equal to a model for potential. It is a mobile to speak of the kinetic energy of the future and its ungrounded possibilities, to speak for ideas to be reached, touched and moved. The shapes are derived from the inked typewriter keys that mark our existence. In weight and balance truth is perceived. And black, for the undiscovered of what stretches forward whichever direction we deem forward.


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Cross County Round 5 - Sunday 4th March 2018
This Sunday we have the final round of the Cross Country at Hill End in Farmoor. The clubs performance is at an all time high, with the men First in the their division and the ladies are in second. We'd like as many people there to support and take part as possible. contact Mike for more information at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I've found a small quirk with RecoverPoint not registering LUN name changes using RecoverPoint 3.1 SP 1, though I noted the same issue in previous versions as well.
I like to keep my LUN named with a naming convention with usage description. I also do my best to not delete a LUN if there's a chance I can reuse it in the near term. Removal of a LUN leaves unused tracks potentially between tracks used by other LUN, this becomes a greater concern when using MetaLUN. I'm just not a fan of having non-contiguous space on my disk and the process of a defrag can take a long time and puts a decent load on the disks with a performance impact.
All that said, I try to reuse my LUN requiring a rename upon reuse. Since most of the data is replicated via RecoverPoint most of the LUN have been previously configured. I've attempted to rename a LUN and immediately reuse and initialize replication again though the new LUN names were not picked up. Call it nothing short of anal retentive behavior but I don't like seeing the wrong volumes names in the properties views. I finally found that the method of purging the apparent caching of LUN names is the remove from the SAN storage group (or whatever HDS, Netapp, etc calls them), preforming a rescan on storage in RecoverPoint then re-adding and continue on with business.
I wish a simple rescan of storage on RecoverPoint would update the names but it's not the case.


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I walked the yard yesterday….looking for color:
The colors were beautiful, but were made just a little better with a feature called "color pop" on Windows Live Writer.
Just to show you the difference, here are the original untouched photos…..
There, full disclosure. Can you see the difference? Were you skeptical about those first photos from the start? They are so delicious but maybe too good to be true.


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2018 Hyundai Sonata Release Date, Specs, and Price – Hall and Oates's "She's Gone" was a slight hit when it was initially launched as a radio one in 1974. However, it wasn't until the music was re-released in 1976 that this last made its way in the direction of the leading of the Billboard maps and covered its position in put-songs historical past. Similarly, 1 may well think about Hyundai's refreshed 2018 Sonata the brand's rerelease of its seventh-age group mid-size sedan which was introduced for the 2015 model year. That Sonata was a nice adequate family a number of-doorway that neglected to catch on with the buying general public in the same manner that its slinkier precursor performed; Hyundai is wishing this updated version will climb higher up the sales charts.
In Hyundai's try to reinforce the Sonata's revenue, the company reworked almost every exterior element forward of the A-pillars. The entrance end's a lot more muscular maw blends Hyundai's new cascading grille design by having an aggressive reduce fascia, new headlights, and a reshaped hood. The rear is extensively reworked, as well, with a new trunk lid, taillights, and rear fender.
Along with final year's SE, Eco, Sport, Restricted, Sports 2.0T, and Restricted 2.0T trims, the 2018 Sonata is made available in a new SEL toned. Situated earlier mentioned the $22,935 SE and the $23,535 Eco, the $24,585 SEL is available common with a nearness essential and drive-switch begin, a potential driver's seat, warmed up top seats, and a USB port for the rear person inner compartment. A 7.0-in. touchscreen infotainment process with Apple CarPlay and Android os Auto compatibility, automatic front lights, and a blind-spot monitoring process are normal on all trim levels.
Read more: 2016 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid Concept
Nonhybrid 2018 Sonatas are inspired by the same trio of four-tube engines as prior to a 178-hp turbocharged 1.6-liter, a 185-hp 2.4-liter, and a 245-hp turbocharged 2.0-liter. The small turbo is set aside entirely for the Eco clip and is mated to a 7-speed twin-clutch automated transmission. The 2.4-liter once more couples with a half a dozen-pace auto, but the 2.0T trades its past 6-pace for a new 8-speed system.
The new transmission isn't likely to make the 2.0T drastically faster, but it really does elevate the EPA gasoline-economy numbers to 23 mpg town and 32 mpg road, up from 22/31 mpg. The fastest and a lot efficient Sonata possibly will be the Eco; Hyundai expects that model to pick up 1 mpg on the freeway score of the 2017 version, which is rated at 28/36 mpg. At the same time, the 2.4-liter's EPA scores are unaffected at 25/36 mpg for the SE and 25/35 for higher trim levels.