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So, I'm into crypto currencies. Rather heavily.
I'm perhaps reflecting on what has brought me to where I am today. This can have been unconscious or conscious behaviours and decisions or both. Irrespective, these would have been driven by motives, incentives, disincentives. Behavioural economics.
A good framework to reflect on what has brought someone to where they are might be the categorisations of secondary motives. Primary motives are those biological imperatives – fight, fuck, dash up a tree to escape a mammoth, sleep in the branches. From that perspective, someone might argue that I'm here driven by the potential of crypto to make me cash and with cash you can buy Lambos and with Lambos you can get people to perpetuate your genes with. And pay for cheeseburgers to fill your belly and builders to put up thick walls that will defend you from whatever stands in for the threat previously posed by those mammoths.
Secondary motives are learnt. They're social. These social motives can be split into categories of 1. Achievement motives, 2. Affiliation motives, 3. Aggression motives, 4. Power motives, and 5. Curiosity motives.
So using these as a framework, I'll analyse what brought me here and derive from these motivations, where I am going.
- Achievement motives
Achievement is the pursuit of excellence. I will admit that I spent my 20s more in the pursuit of recreational drugs and hedonism. I've spent my 30s ever since trying to catch up. Trying to make the best of, in relative terms, winning the genetic lottery of having an above average IQ, that I had wasted for over a decade. I've spent the last few years attaining academic qualifications that have, as Einstein rightly identified, trained me to think as opposed to purely helping me absorb facts. And as a result of this enhanced ability to think in terms of my field, it has helped me pursue informally areas such as economics which, critically, help you to think…critically.
So, I've attained the ability to think along the way and have a thirst for achievement. At some point these paths have winded and converged on the potential of crypto. This democratised, decentralised, levelling technology that potemtially gives us the opportunity to improve society, drag us out from under the yolk of establishment politics, lemon socialism. The ability to improve a society based on the free market, meritocracy and transparency. And when something is that fucking good. That fucking promising and you've been a bum for too long, you want yo be a part of it. You want to be front and centre.
- Affiliation motives
We are social animals. We look to be a part of a tribe. For mutual benefit that speak to those biological imperatives again. However, through my studies and my work, I am fully committed to the model of open, colaborative interaction. Communities with shared purposes can help each other build. Tribes wouldn't just have one guy sticking the slabs on top of each other to keep the sabre-toothed tiger out. They'd work together. SO I'm here, writing this now as I obviously want that community around me that can help me grow and achieve what I want to achieve. And in turn I can hopefully help others. That mutual benefit of sharing ideas, experimentation, constructive criticism and building is the gel that creates genuine learning and development.
- Aggression motives
I believe this relates to both destructive death urges as well as productive life urges. We are all taking a risk here. There is a chance that the mighty governmental ban hammer will fall everywhere at once. No matter how small. While we believe that the free market will always win out, not all would escape the heavy toll extracted by the old system chasing down the new. "The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters" is what Antonio Gramsci wrote in one of Mussolini's fascist prison cells. And maybe our want to smash the old system, that of vested interests controlling and snuffing out innovation, is one of that destructive aggression. Or one which wants to bring life. Maybe they're the same thing. So, we want to destroy the shit old state of things and bring to life a better world.
- Power motives
So power motives relate to our desire to have power over others or at least influence them. We might want to be a success in the sphere of crypto or just simply investment so we have the financial clout and influence to get people to do shit for you. I feel personally, that I'd like the power to not be under the power of someone else. To be able to financially extricate myself from having someone else having that power over me. To be my own boss.
- Curiosity motives.
Easy. You just want to see where this road goes. It's possibly going to go somewhere new and exciting. Between the days of recreational drugs and parties and applying myself, I travelled a lot. And then travelled some more. I took a train from Beijing to fucking Finland and then a boat and then some more trains to London a few years ago. WHy do we do this? Because we want to see something new. We want to look out the window through the haze of four cans of strong Muscovite beer and wonder how the fuck these guys in Siberia live at 30-. We might even get out and speak to them. The internet gives us the opportunity to find out new things and now the Internet of money is perhaps giving us the opportunity to see a new world too.
tl;dr and result of reflection – I want the fact that I'm on this ride, earlier than most, to help me be a success and make up for some time (enjoyably) wasted, so I can be independent and enjoy this journey to who the fuck knows where.
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Limiting lung cancer screening to high-risk smokers and former smokers who quit within the past decade could improve the cost-effectiveness of screening programs, according to a microsimulation modeling analysis of more than 500 different screening policies.
The most cost-effective scenario identified in the analysis was annual screening of smokers between the ages of 55 and 75 with 40 pack-years or more of smoking, or former smokers with ≥40 pack-years who quit smoking less than 10 years prior to screening assessment, reported Lawrence F. Paszat, MD, of the Institute for Clinical Evaluation Sciences Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Toronto, and colleagues.
Contrary to expectations, the analysis found annual screening to be more cost effective than biennial screening, they wrote in PLOS Medicine.
This screening strategy was estimated to reduce lung cancer mortality by 9.05% compared with no screening, with an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of $33,825 U.S. dollars per year of life gained.
This finding suggests that limiting screening to people with substantial smoking histories may allow lung cancer screening to be implemented in a cost-effective manner, the researchers noted.
"The level of lung cancer risk at which an individual is eligible for lung cancer screening should be considered before implementing lung cancer screening policies," the researchers wrote. "Future research should investigate the cost-effectiveness of lung cancer screening selection based on accurate lung cancer risk prediction models using suitable risk thresholds."
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends annual lung cancer screening with low-dose CT for smokers between the ages of 55 to 80 who have at least a 30-pack-year smoking history and former smokers quitting within the past 15 years of the same age and smoking history, provided the person has a normal life expectancy.
The American Lung Cancer recommends that clinicians with access to high-volume, high-quality lung cancer screening and treatment centers should initiate a discussion about lung cancer screening with patients, ages 55 to 74, who have at least a 30-pack-year smoking history, currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 years, and who are in relatively good health.
"Despite lung cancer screening being recommended by a number of organizations, the cost-effectiveness of lung cancer screening is uncertain; concerns have been raised on the potential costs of implementing lung cancer screening," the researchers wrote.
They noted that past studies evaluating the cost-effectiveness of screening considered just a few screening policies and provided limited information on how different characteristics of the policies impacted the cost-effectiveness of screening.
Their microstimulation modeling analysis was informed by numerous data sources, including the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP), Ontario Cancer Registry, smoking behavior surveys, and the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST).
The microsimulation model was used to analyze 576 different lung cancer screening policies starting in 2015 for people born from 1940 to 1969 in Ontario, Canada. The scenarios varied by age at the start and end of screening, smoking eligibility criteria, and screening interval.
Outcomes included lung cancer deaths averted, life-years gained, percentage ever screened, costs (in 2015 Canadian dollars), and overdiagnosis.
"Assuming a cost effectiveness threshold of $50.000 Canadian dollars ($41,114 U.S. dollars in May of 2015) per life-year gained as acceptable for the Canadian health care system, Scenario #2 was considered optimal: current and former smokers (who quit ≤10 years ago) who smoked ≥40 pack-years would be screened annually between ages 55-75, yielding an incremental cost effectiveness ratio (ICER) of $41,136 Canadian dollars ($33,825 U.S., May 1, 2015) per life-year gained," the researchers wrote.
While conceding that the strategy would not identify as many cancers as that used in NLST, they concluded that it would be more cost effective, while reducing false-positive screens and lung cancer overdiagnosis.
In an accompanying editorial, Steven D. Shapiro, MD, of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, wrote that refining lung cancer screening criteria in the era of value-based medicine remains a challenge.
"The hard fact remains that when cost-effectiveness enters the decision of whether to screen, some cancers will be missed that otherwise could have been caught early and cured," he wrote."Cost-effectiveness thresholds like the one used in this manuscript -- modeled to be effective if disease-related costs per life-year gained were less than $50,000 Canadian dollars -- is reasonable, albeit somewhat arbitrary, and may be best determined by a nation's societal values and capability."
He added that beyond societal benefit, over-testing can harm those screened, through increased radiation exposure, false positive imaging results and unneeded invasive procedures.
He added that while the fine-tuning of screening strategies and advances in imaging should lead to improved early diagnosis in the future, "it is important not to lose sight of the fact that if smoking were eliminated, then lung cancer would be an orphan disease."
The study was funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Cancer Care Ontario and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.
Some co-authors disclosed support from the Dutch National Institute of Public Health and the Environment and The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development.
Paszat and co-authors disclosed no relevant relationships with industry.
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PLOS MedicineSource Reference: ten Haaf K, et al "Performance and cost-effectiveness of computed tomography lung cancer screening scenarios in a poulation-based setting: a microsimulation modeling analysis in Ontario, Canada" PLoS Med 2017; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002225.
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PLOS MedicineSource Reference: Shapiro SD "Refining Lung Cancer Screening Criteria in the Era of Value-Based Medicine" PLoS Med 2017; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002226.


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|Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Jean le Rond d'Alembert, pastel by Maurice Quentin de La Tour.
|16 November 1717
|29 October 1783 (aged 65)
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Jean le Rond d'Alembert (16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie. D'Alembert's method for the wave equation is named after him.
Born in Paris, d'Alembert was the illegitimate child of the writer Claudine Guérin de Tencin and the chevalier Louis-Camus Destouches, an artillery officer. Destouches was abroad at the time of d'Alembert's birth, and a couple of days after birth his mother left him on the steps of the Saint-Jean-le-Rond de Paris church. According to custom, he was named after the patron saint of the church. D'Alembert was placed in an orphanage for found children, but was soon adopted by the wife of a glazier. Destouches secretly paid for the education of Jean le Rond, but did not want his parentage officially recognised.
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D'Alembert first attended a private school. The chevalier Destouches left d'Alembert an annuity of 1200 livres on his death in 1726. Under the influence of the Destouches family, at the age of twelve D'Alembert entered the Jansenist Collège des Quatre-Nations (the institution was also known under the name "Collège Mazarin"). Here he studied philosophy, law, and the arts, graduating as bachelier in 1735. In his later life, D'Alembert scorned the Cartesian principles he had been taught by the Jansenists: "physical premotion, innate ideas and the vortices".
The Jansenists steered D'Alembert toward an ecclesiastical career, attempting to deter him from pursuits such as poetry and mathematics. Theology was, however, "rather unsubstantial fodder" for d'Alembert. He entered law school for two years, and was nominated avocat in 1738.
He was also interested in medicine and mathematics. Jean was first registered under the name Daremberg, but later changed it to d'Alembert. The name "d'Alembert" was proposed by Johann Heinrich Lambert for a suspected (but non-existent) moon of Venus.[citation needed]
In July 1739 he made his first contribution to the field of mathematics, pointing out the errors he had detected in L'analyse démontrée (published 1708 by Charles René Reynaud) in a communication addressed to the Académie des Sciences. At the time L'analyse démontrée was a standard work, which d'Alembert himself had used to study the foundations of mathematics. D'Alembert was also a Latin scholar of some note and worked in the latter part of his life on a superb translation of Tacitus, from which he received wide praise including that of Denis Diderot.
In 1740, he submitted his second scientific work from the field of fluid mechanics Mémoire sur la réfraction des corps solides, which was recognized by Clairaut. In this work d'Alembert theoretically explained refraction.
In 1741, after several failed attempts, d'Alembert was elected into the Académie des Sciences. He was later elected to the Berlin Academy in 1746 [1]
In 1743 he published his most famous work, Traite de dynamique, in which he developed his own laws of motion.[2]
When the Encyclopédie was organized in the late 1740s, d'Alembert was engaged as co-editor (for mathematics and science) with Diderot, and served until a series of crises temporarily interrupted the publication in 1757. He authored over a thousand articles for it, including the famous Preliminary Discourse. D'Alembert "abandoned the foundation of Materialism"[3] when he "doubted whether there exists outside us anything corresponding to what we suppose we see."[4] In this way, D'Alembert agreed with the Idealist Berkeley and anticipated the Transcendental idealism of Kant.
In 1752, he wrote about what is now called D'Alembert's paradox: that the drag on a body immersed in an inviscid, incompressible fluid is zero.
In 1754, d'Alembert was elected a member of the Académie française, of which he became Permanent Secretary on 9 April 1772.
D'Alembert was a participant in several Parisian salons, particularly those of Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, of the marquise du Deffand and of Julie de Lespinasse. d'Alembert became infatuated with Mlle de Lespinasse, and eventually took up residence with her.
He suffered bad health for many years and his death was as the result of a bladder illness. As a known unbeliever, D'Alembert was buried in a common unmarked grave.
In France, the fundamental theorem of algebra is known as the d'Alembert/Gauss theorem.
He also created his ratio test, a test to see if a series converges.
The D'Alembertian operator, which first arose in D'Alembert's analysis of vibrating strings, plays an important role in modern theoretical physics.
While he made great strides in mathematics and physics, d'Alembert is also famously known for incorrectly arguing in Croix ou Pile that the probability of a coin landing heads increased for every time that it came up tails. In gambling, the strategy of decreasing one's bet the more one wins and increasing one's bet the more one loses is therefore called the D'Alembert system, a type of martingale.
Diderot portrayed D'Alembert in "Le reve de D'Alembert" ("D'Alembert's Dream"), written after the two men became estranged. It depicts D'Alembert ill in bed, conducting a debate on materialist philosophy in his sleep.
The Andrew Crumey novel "D'Alembert's Principle" (1996) takes its title from D'Alembert's principle in physics. Its first part describes D'Alembert's life and his infatuation with Julie de Lespinasse.
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Jean le Rond d'Alembert (16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie.


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Take how we choose our leaders. They're all either from the ranks of Big Money or are owned by Big Money.
Even the daughter of the Poor Boy from Lubao is a slave to the interests of Big Money.
Will we see another product of Presidential progeny take the country's helm at a time when tough decisions have to be made and the country needs to be steered decisively away from the whirlpool of economic recession.
The greatest damage done to our peoples' psyche by the Arroyo government is not the hundreds of billions of pesos it has stolen from the nation's coffers by now, but the sickening of the spirit and amorality as well as apathy that prevails in our state's affairs -- everything from getting a cedula to bidding for billion peso projects. Transactionalism is how you describe what's happening in Philippine government these days.
We cannot have another leader who believe and acts out his or her belief in a middle ground between right and wrong. We cannot have someone who is willing to sit on a fence as long as his interests are protected. We cannot have someone who is willing to sit on a fence when people are dying left and right for their causes.
One candidate Presidential candidate, instead of telling the people about how he's going to lead the country has resorted to media gimmickry.
Mr. Oras na, Mr. Padyakito, or Mr. Palengke or whatever you want to call Manuel "Mar" Roxas II is playing the rich man who loves the masses. Surely, the maseses will lap it up because they scarcely look beyond the pretended affections that mask his ambition.
How Mr. Roxas II will be as a President can be hinted at by looking at how his grandfather and name sake acted as a leader during one of the most difficult times in Philippine history: the Japanese Occupation. Here's an excerpt from Saul Berg's Post Liberation Struggle in the Philippines.
Osmena and his "guerrilla" faction of the Nacionalistas are threatened with possible defeat in the coming elections at the hands of Roxas, the darling of the collaborators.
Roxas' corkscrew career is typical of Filipino politics. Leaving his office of Senate president, he became a brigadier general in the Usaffe (US Army Forces in the Far East) at the beginning of the war.
Taken prisoner by the Japanese, he soon was busy working for the puppet government, whose constitution he wrote. However, Roxas kept contact with the more "respectable" guerrillas, and was at one time in a Japanese prison camp for
six months as a result of his activities.
Nevertheless he rejoined the puppet government later and was a member of the cabinet when the Americans landed. Escaping from the puppet capital at Baguio, he reached the American lines and was given a clean political bill of health by MacArthur.
All the out-and-out unvarnished collaborators are hiding beneath the skirts of this
The Manila Daily News and the Star-Reporter, who praise puppet President Jose Laurel as the savior of the Philippines, acclaim Manuel Roxas as their presidential candidate.
He is the hero of the collaborationist Congressmen and Senators, the man who will kick the guerrillas out of office and put government back into the hands of the "experienced, responsible people."
Horace in chapter III, 6 of "Odes" says "For the sins of your fathers you, though guiltless, must suffer."
And Roxas, if he becomes President, will be the second instance where a President's child cleaves to a flawed legacy.
The first had been Gloria Macapagal Arroyo whose father Diosdado Macapagal was nearly impeached because of the Blue Book scandal. An account of it is written in Agoncillo's Philippine History where a cabinet memeber of Diosdado Macapagal was found taking money for favoring a bigtime businessman in his deals with the government. Word of it leaked to the press and eventually, congress was set to impeach the President. Macapagal escaped embarassment (which is probably his saving grace) by whisking the bigtime businessman out of the country and thereby stopped any investigation into the bribery. It was said that money flowed all the way to the President's office.
Does the account sound familiar? Does it bear some resemblance to NBN ZTE and the Fertilizer Fund Scam? My contention is that it does.
If we have Roxas as President, perhaps we may see him sitting on the fence on a lot of issues.
A true leader makes a difficult stand, not when its easy but when it is difficult and when the risks are greatest.


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Today, Cabin Media announced that 3 time Grammy award winning artist Nelly will be headed to Sault Ste. Marie!
Best known for songs like "Hot in Herre", "Ride Wit Me" and his collaborations with artists like Kelly Rowland, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera (just to name a few), Nelly has also appeared on country music charts with guest appearances on songs by Tim Mcgraw and Florida Georgia Line.
This show is to be held at the recently opened Soo Blaster on Tuesday March 20th, 2018. Tickets go on sale this Wednesday, December 13th and can be purchased online at http://www.cabinmedia.ca/nelly
Please note that this is a 19+, licensed event.


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Every oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) company acquires oil and gas properties either directly from landowners or from other lessees. These transactions come in many forms and sizes but occur daily in good times and bad times.
At the same time, E&P companies typically do not act alone in developing their oil and gas properties and often enter into agreements of various kinds with other companies to jointly explore, develop and produce oil and gas properties. Many such relationships do not raise any legal issues concerning anti-competitive conduct, but some recent high-profile cases have emphasized the need to observe some basic concepts.
The late Aubrey K. McClendon, the former CEO of an active E&P company, was recently indicted for alleged violations of antitrust laws in bidding to acquire oil and gas leases during a period from 2007 to 2012.1 While this particular case involved criminal charges, improper conduct also raises the possibility of civil charges by the government and private actions by injured parties.
According to the Indictment, McClendon "and his coconspirators knowingly entered into and engaged in a combination and conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition by rigging bids for certain leasehold interests and producing properties. The combination and conspiracy engaged in by the defendant, Aubrey K. McClendon, and his co-conspirators was in unreasonable restraint of interstate commerce in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act (15 U.S.C. § 1)." According to the press release2 issued by the US Department of Justice:
[t]he indictment alleges that McClendon orchestrated a conspiracy between two large oil and gas companies to not bid against each other for the purchase of certain oil and natural gas leases in northwest Oklahoma. During this conspiracy, which ran from December 2007 to March 2012, the conspirators would decide ahead of time who would win the leases. The winning bidder would then allocate an interest in the leases to the other company. McClendon instructed his subordinates to execute the conspiratorial agreement, which included, among other things, withdrawing bids for certain leases and agreeing on the allocation of interests in the leases between the conspiring companies.
The indictment contains few details, but, apparently, executives from two companies agreed that only one of them would bid to acquire leases and producing properties, and, if successful in that bid, would share the properties with the other company at cost. The arrangements were kept secret and the selling party was not informed of the arrangement.
While the criminal indictment against a well-known CEO is certainly newsworthy, another civil case from a few years ago holds more practical lessons for E&P companies. In a 2012 Colorado federal court case called United States vs. SG Interests I, Ltd., et al.,3 the government considered antitrust issues in arrangements for the joint bidding to acquire federal oil and gas leases. This was the first time that the United States challenged under antitrust laws a joint bidding arrangement for mineral rights leases administered by the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM). In that case, one set of bids made pursuant to a memorandum of understanding among several companies were found to violate antitrust laws, but another set of bids that were "ancillary to a broader joint development and production collaboration" were found to be permissible and not contrary to the antitrust laws.
Bid-rigging agreements generally are among the types of restraints on competition that courts have condemned as per se unlawful. The government has the discretion to decide whether to bring criminal or civil charges when dealing with per se antitrust offenses. In the SG Interests case, the government stated that it chose to pursue a civil action because the joint bidding agreement was performed under a written memorandum of understanding (MOU) drafted by attorneys.
The government entered into a settlement agreement with the SG Interests defendants that called for a monetary payment (the government alleged that it suffered damages given that BLM allegedly received less money for the lease interests because of the unlawful agreement). In its "Response of Plaintiff United States to Public Comments on the Proposed Final Judgment," 4 explaining its recommendation for the proposed final judgment and remedy in the case, the government articulated the application of an exception to theper se rule:
Applying this analysis to an auction setting, a naked agreement between competitors not to bid against each other is properly treated as per se unlawful. On the other hand, a joint bidding agreement that is ancillary to a procompetitive or efficiency-enhancing collaboration may be lawful under the rule of reason. Significantly, lawful joint bidding "contemplates subsequent joint productive activity, which entails a measure of risk sharing or joint provision of some good or service." 12 PHILLIP E. AREEDA & HERBERT HOVENKAMP, Antitrust Law ¶ 2005d, at 75 (2d ed. 2005). For example, if a firm, which cannot or might not otherwise compete on a particular bid, joins with another firm to pool resources or share risk, their joint bidding might increase competition by increasing the number of bidders.
The unlawful bidding arrangement took place against the backdrop of discussions among the parties under an MOU about a broader agreement, but any such broader collaboration remained just a "vague possibility." However, the second, lawful arrangement took place later, pursuant to a more concrete collaborative arrangement. The factors relevant to that characterization were these:
[The lawful collaboration was formed] … after significant negotiations between the parties, was reflected in an agreement that provided for joint exploration and development of lands located within the defined area. It was specifically designed to facilitate the efficient production of gas and included provisions for the joint acquisition and ownership of leases in the area, for conducting joint operations, and for building and operating a pipeline system to transport gas to end-users which required substantial capital investment. Defendants' agreement to share ownership of future leases acquired by either party aligned their incentives to cooperate in achieving the goals of the collaboration and discouraged any one Defendant from appropriating an undue share of the collaboration's benefits. Defendants' collaboration, thus, allowed them to pool their resources and share the risks of exploration for, and development of, the natural resources, which provided an opportunity to realize significant production efficiencies.
Joint bidding arrangements and "area of mutual interest" provisions are quite common in the upstream business. Indeed, the bidding arrangement that the government deemed lawful in SG Interests was memorialized in an Area of Mutual Interest Agreement and an Option and Participation Agreement to jointly acquire and develop leases and pipelines in the relevant area.
As the SG Interests case suggests, when used properly in the context of collaborative efforts, these arrangements would be deemed to be in compliance with the antitrust laws. The US antitrust agencies, in their"Antitrust Guidelines for Collaborations Among Competitors,"recognize that "competitive forces are driving firms toward complex collaborations to achieve goals such as expanding into [new] markets, funding expensive innovation efforts, and lowering production and other costs." The antitrust laws encourage procompetitive collaborations that help achieve these goals, as is often the case with joint bidding and development arrangements among E&P companies.
Parties must be careful to utilize these arrangements only in the context of a larger collaboration that will withstand antitrust scrutiny from the government or private parties. The government will examine the facts, such as those quoted above, to see if the collaboration is one in which, to use the government's language from SG Interests, "procompetitive efficiencies arise."


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Leadership Columbus has announced its Class of 2014.
Leadership Columbus has announced its Class of 2014.
The program, designed to develop, connect and inspire emerging and existing leaders in the Columbus area, selected 54 individuals from a pool of candidates to participate in the 10-month program. Selection is made based on qualifications and commitment to the community.
The class includes Reynoldsburg resident Toya Johnson, Workforce Development Manager, City of Columbus Department of Public Utilities.


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Nestle Milano, the B2B coffee offering where looking for a fresh new way to help their sales staff visually explain the advantages of their product. After designing a bold new (and very brand-ownable) campaign illustration style we set forward in telling their story through voice-overed animation.
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Mata Whori Rides Again
I'd heard Vanity Fair was trying desperately to get Judy Miller to write a deep dish piece for them, but I guess they were unsuccessful and instead got Seth Mnookin. Still nothing from either Judy or Pinch himself, but looks like plenty on-the-record disgust from her colleagues. I remember reading that story about Judy's glorious return to the newsroom and thinking "my God, they must've kidnapped their kids."
Mnookin describes step-by-step how the reporters, including Don Van Natta and Janny Scott, were picked to write that October piece and how Miller often failed to cooperate fully with them. She allegedly refused to talk to Scott because she had not bothered to write to her in jail.Like her WoodMill counterpart, I guess Judy is holding back all the sizzle for her own book deal, which there is reportedly abject little interest in outside of fellow sex-in-disaster aficionado Judith Regan. I think they should collaborate, something catchy like War Tips for Hot Chicks: Gettin' It On at Ground Zero and the Green Zone.
Von Natta talks about Miller putting him off even as she had time to talk with Lou Dobbs and Barbara Walters. "That was pretty amazing to me," he tells Mnookin, author of "Hard News," the recent book about the Jayson Blair/Howell Raines blowout. "I'm a colleague of hers, I'm trying to get an interview, and she doesn't have time for that, but she has time for Barbara Walters."
Von Natta came to believe that what Miller was saying at the time was so "preposterous" she must be "saving it all for a book."
The Vanity Fair article reveals that the Times team actually finished a draft of that piece exactly a week before it appeared. Adam Liptak, one of the team members, recalls printing it out at 3 a.m. on a Saturday morning and reading it in the cab home, before deciding, "This thing sucks and I don't want my name on it. ... There was no logical reason why she couldn't tell us her testimony." So it went through another week of drafting, with Miller finally convinced, partly on the advice of her Times friend David Barstow, to reveal her grand jury testimony.
Elsewhere, Mnookin pulls no punches in stating that over the years Miller "had built a reputation for sleeping with her sources," had dated one of Sulzberger's best friends, Steve Ratner, "and had even, for a time, shared a vacation home with Sulzberger," whatever that means.
He hits Sulzberger hard with quotes from various unnamed Times people, who say things like, "Post-Howell, Arthur and Judy were both looking at resurrecting their reputations. And Arthur was so oblivious he didn't care about the repercussions."
I know, I know. They can thank me later.


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In celebration of Halloween, I've decided to review an OVA, Kakurenbo, a fitting psychological thriller for the mood. So, do join me for a game of hide-and-seek, will you?
Among the ruins of the city, there is a game only children can play. It is called "Otokoyo"; a game of hide-and-seek. But whenever children play this game, one by one they would disappear into the blinds of the buildings… The story begins when a boy enters the world of Otokoyo, to find his missing sister.
The story is simple enough: there is a game of Otokoyo that takes place in a desolate city, and children are spirited away. The OVA follows a kid who is searching for his sister, who supposedly disappeared in a previous game of Otokoyo. Now, I'm not going to spoil anything, since that'll just take all the fun away for you viewers. So, instead I'll just list the pros and cons of this good OVA.
Kakurenbo is very good at ramping up the creepy factor, as you're thrown into this world with very little background. It slowly gets more scary over time, as you unravel the truths and follow the adventures of the children with no way of discerning their background, as they are all wearing fox masks as per the rules of Otokoyo. You get to learn enough about them within the time constraint of this OVA, and there have been some truly nice scary twists with them. Kakurenbo also borrows a bit from Japanese folklore, with some truly menacing oni (demons). There is no violence here, as it is more of a psychological thriller, so do expect some twists!
The art is certainly unique, as it is made entirely of 3D CG and cel-shaded animation. This style really fits the creepy atmosphere, and the designs of the demons are bold and exude fitting terror. The design of the city is also really nice giving a subtle steam punk style, with some extremely good use of lighting from the neon signs and fluorescent lights. As the story is simplistic, the spooky visuals and detailed animation really makes up for this shortfall. The music is pretty good at setting up the atmosphere and strikingly at the critical moments as well.
Now for the cons. This OVA is too short, around 30 minutes long. If it was longer, then it would be better at building up the suspense, since one element of horror stems from not knowing what you are up against. We see the oni right near the beginning of the OVA, and I feel that this made the show less spooky since they are seen clearly. Also, there weren't as much characterization of the children, as they are mostly archetypes that we can identify with. The characters are decent enough, but not too great or worse.
This OVA is not downright scary, but rather creepy, so if you're looking for a show that will scare you outright, this isn't for you. Those who enjoy psychological mystery thrillers with a hint of Japanese folklore plus a subtle steam punk style will like this OVA, but don't expect it to be perfect! I, for one, enjoyed this OVA very much for its nice use of visuals and mysteries. Now then, are you ready to partake in this frightful game of Otokoyo?


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All Ms. Carroll wanted for her birthday was a cake from the local Oklahoma City Walmart.
But halfway into her trip, she found herself stalled in the middle of the road. The 75-year-old's motorized wheelchair gave out on her, ruining the only real plan she had for the day.
Or so she thought.
When officers Travis Verneir and Amy Hanson from the Oklahoma City Police Department arrived on the scene, they took her to Walmart in their patrol car and got her the cake. The good deed was posted on Facebook, and, as a result, Ms. Carroll is getting more than just that cake for her birthday.
CHECK Out These Other Police Officers Being Kind
"Police work comes in a lot of different forms. Sometimes it's about being a servant and helping people to make a difference," Verneir told KFOR-TV.
People have been leaving cards and gifts for Ms. Carroll at the station, and one wheelchair company has reached out and offered to fix her wheelchair for free.
(WATCH the video below or READ the full story at KFOR-TV)
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Are you having issues when adding/creating a location to your schedule event?
Here are some helpful tips on creating a new location for your scheduled event and to ensure that you have the correct Google map up and running!
- From your team calendar, select the "Create a Team Event" link:
- Create your game/event as needed. When setting the location of your event let's assume you can't find your location from the drop-down menu; select the link "Find or add new"
- Enter the appropriate country, province/state, and city. Remember, you should enter the city of the location exactly as it appears on Google maps. Select "+ New Location" from the drop-down menu:
- If you can't find the location from the drop-down menu, select "+New Location". When entering the location address, be sure to enter it as it appears on Google maps – it's best to cross-reference the address with Google first before entering the address. Use the "Description" window for any additional location details, such as directions to the main entrance, parking etc…
- Select "Add Location" when finished
- Select "Save" to create your new location:
Note: Once you select "Save" and create your location this will be saved into our database and you won't be able to make future location changes on your end. So be sure to enter the correct location details. Of course we all make mistakes, so if you do happen to need to change location details, i.e. address corrections, contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com and we can do that for you.
- Your location is now created and you'll now find it on your drop-down menu. Now "Create" your event.
- If all location details are correct, you will see the correct map details on your event summary page:
In sum, here are a few key things to remember:
- When entering a new location for an event, it's best to first cross-reference the address with that listed on Google. Once you have the correct address from Google, be sure to enter the address into the new location window precisely as it appears. Otherwise, any typos in the address will most likely produce an incorrect location map, or fail to produce a map at all.
- It is also important to enter the specific locale/district of a location rather than the general city/area. So, if the address of a park is listed in Burnaby, it's best to indicate it as such, rather than simply specifying it to be in Vancouver.
- In the case where you're selecting a location that is already listed on the drop-down menu that is producing an incorrect map, or even no map at all, then that means the location details that we have on record are incorrect. In this case, let us know and we can have that location deleted on our end so that it will no longer appear in the location listing on the drop-down menu.
- Perhaps you're looking to create a location for a baseball field, or a park that has no specific address listed on Google. The best thing to do in this case is to list an address closest to the baseball field/park (according to google maps) so that a general area map is produced on your event details. You can then specify exact directions to the park/field in the event description box.
And hey, we all make mistakes, so if there is an incorrect address for a location simply let us know and we can easily have that updated for you so that your event location corresponds to the correct map.


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Phil Ivey is what 28 yrs old and never had a real job, My Hero.
FSN Will Hold $60 Million Tournament
Players Will Buy In for $10 Million
Fox Sports Network has teamed up with soon-to-be-launched Mansionpoker.net to sponsor the largest single-table tournament in the history of poker.
The 43-week Mansionpoker.net Pokerdome Series is slated to debut on Sunday, May 15, 2006. A few weeks later, a six-person winner-take-all tournament takes place at the series' first "mega-event" on July 12 in which the winner receives $60 million. Each player will buy in to the event for $10 million. Phil Ivey is the first person to sign up for the event. FSN will release a name of a participant a month until the entire field is set.
But that's just the beginning.
The series will go on for the next three years and will be played in the soon-to-be-built "Pokerdome" arena. The Pokerdome will contain a poker table, complete with an automated card tracking system, integrated chip counting capabilities, hole card-cam, and robotic cameras focused on each player's face.
It will also come equipped with special cameras and card technology that allow viewers to see the burn cards before dealers flip the active cards, plus a rabbit-hunting camera for each hand, letting fans know what would have happened if each hand went to completion.
The first event will take place at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. The next two "mega-events," which will be held in 2007 and 2008, will have prize pools of $75 million and $100 million.
Mansionpoker.net will be launched sometime in 2006.
12 days till xmas!! I've won $500 since Friday and that puts me + $2100 the last 2 weeks. For the first time in my semi-pro poker career I don't need my pay check on the 15th to pay bills. I hope this is the beginning of a full time pro career for me. We'll see. I'm playing a full 8 hrs tonight and I'm already +$100. As you can see Kassandra and I are ready for Christmas, are you?


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"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."
The procedure when dealing with allegations of abuse by teachers is horrendous for the accused. The strict adherence to Child Protection Policy means that the affected teacher is required to immediately leave the school, speak to nobody, and wait at home for further instruction by the relevant authority. Suspended from duty, and in a state of considerable anguish, some teachers have had to wait up to two years or more for their case to be heard in court. In the interim many suffered broken relationships, mental breakdowns, bankruptcy, and some even committed suicide.
I too have contemplated suicide – I still do today as I have no money, no job and I lost my home. Two years ago, one lonely and despondent evening, I exchanged a couple of e-mails 'live' with Michael Gove. He closed his last e-mail with :
The other day on interview, he said : "We need to restore the authority of a teacher and that's why we're giving them new powers to make it easier to exclude or to detain children who misbehave and to protect them from false allegations."
All that Michael Gove has given teachers is the forlorn and unrealistic expectation that their case will be dealt with anonymously and powers that will back-fire on the teacher. He knows that teachers need protection and support. He knows that the process for handling allegations against teachers will inflict incalculable damage to such an extent that some commit suicide, most will never return to teaching. "Anonymity" doesn't sound like a form of protection ? Troops going into battle expect better protection than 'anonymity' !
|Protection :
|That which protects or preserves from injury; a defence; a shield; a refuge.
No, that definition of protection makes no reference to anonymity or maybe Michael Gove has a different dictionary !
The bottom line is that Michael Gove has not given teachers protection or support. No one has addressed the problem and dangers of allegations against teachers. Until that fact is understood and resolved, teachers will continue to suffer and live in fear and education standards will continue to erode.
Michael Gove, his advisors, union leaders and all educational bureaucrats are fully aware of the most dreadful impact on the life of a teacher on the day when they become accused of an assault on a child.
They know that the teacher will be subjected to inhuman levels of stress and pain to such an extent that some will kill themselves – a quantifiable fact.
Is it murder ? To deliberately subject any human being to stress with no regard for them or their feelings, knowing that they will be broken and destroyed by the process; suicide, in these circumstances, by definition, must be murder.
Legal Analysis of Murder
William Blackstone (citing Edward Coke), in his Commentaries on the Laws of England set out the common law definition of murder as :
"when a person, of sound memory and discretion, unlawfully killeth any reasonable creature in being and under the king's peace, with malice aforethought, either express or implied"
The first few elements are relatively straightforward; however, the concept of "malice aforethought" is a complex one that does not necessarily mean premeditation. The following states of mind are recognized as constituting the various forms of "malice aforethought" :
- Intent to kill,
- Intent to inflict grievous bodily harm short of death,
- Reckless indifference to an unjustifiably high risk to human life, or
- Intent to commit a dangerous felony.
There it is "Reckless indifference to an unjustifiably high risk to human life."
How many more teacher's lives must be destroyed ? How many more deaths, murders must there be before this most horrendous system is finally replaced.
I challenge Michael Gove to look at me, at my example. I am innocent, life destroyed, supported by medication. I live every day, every hour, every minute knowing that those responsible lied and cheated. I know that for the rest of my life, I must suffer the pain of a sentence that I do not deserve. A criminal can expect fair and just treatment and a sentence that is finite. I do not even have that expectation and that my suffering will ever end. There is no escape from this prison created by policy and procedure - total anonymity is delivered to those accountable and responsible !
Realize that the very thought of harming or abusing a child is horrible - to assault a child is to fail in life. To commit such a crime does warrant stern measures but the consequence of being falsely accused is a nightmare – which becomes so much worse when you are found guilty by a corrupt school management system of a crime that you did not commit !
Contrary to what is being claimed by Michael Gove, anonymity is a relatively minor consideration, the press coverage of teacher allegation cases is low and stories that are covered usually originate from events that took place many years ago. Google searches confirm this observation.
When the very fabric of all that you once held dear has been taken, the resulting shame and pain prevents most people from coming forward. But occasionally, others find the strength. I close with this item that I found on the TES website :
"I was a successful and confident Curriculum Head in a large establishment when a student made a false allegation against me. A full Safeguarding process swung into action and I was suspended. The experience was soul destroying and that first weekend into the suspension left me seriously contemplating suicide; I had done nothing wrong but what if I couldn't prove that ?
I was one of the lucky ones. The Head of HR and Principal ensured my absolute support and protection from the moment I was suspended. They were objective and followed procedure, of course, but took every legitimate step to ensure my safety and well-being and even when I was totally exonerated after clearly withstanding scrutiny, ensured that I too received after-care with access to Counselling and Support. I will always be thankful that they managed with compassion and concern and professionalism.
The experience still haunts me and yet despite the way in which I was protected and supported, I had left that establish around 9 months later as my confidence has been dented beyond repair. I am now a Senior Manager in another establishment but have to admit to being almost paranoid around Safeguarding issues.
Sadly, so many professionals are left to endure a terrifying experience with no support, care and protection and I know of numerous people who have left the professional in an untimely fashion."
My heart does go out to them and all teachers who have suffered such experiences and to all teachers in the future - sadly this mess is fated to continue. My desire and ambition is to make a difference, to maintain my personal and lonely campaign to provide protection for teachers and to end this evil process, bringing those responsible to account.
I had intended to close this entry with a list of some reported teacher suicides but, apart from the fact that their stories reduced me to tears, it seems morally wrong for newspapers to report such tragedies for little reason, purpose or benefit ... many reports clearly demonstrate the 'lynch mob' mentality of 'there's no smoke without fire' !
I have no wish to cause those families further distress by publicizing such stories and I leave you to explore and to consider this waste of human life, the needless deaths of so many teachers - Google key phrases such as 'teacher hanged' or 'teacher suicide' - sadly there are many and recent too !
Many reported suicides relate to cases where an allegation had been made against the teacher whilst others describe cases where teachers have been stressed beyond breaking point by a system that knows no compassion and that provides no support.
So just how many teachers have been sacrificed over the years ? How many more futile tragedies do we need before Michael Gove and everyone else realizes that the British education system and its management structures kill teachers !
"The Little Protector"
Take control of your class the easy and painless way : Pull trigger and solve all your worries and problems and ours too !
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i went last year to the international festival of country music at wembley arena, thought it was absolutely appalling, low attendance and very poorly managed.
i notice it has not been revived again...
never really being a fan of self-publicists, i was interested to read in the Wimbledon Guardian that mervyn conn has been arrested on rape charges
[Source: 1:09pm Friday 1st August 2014 in News Your Local Guardian: Photograph of the Author Exclusive By Louisa Clarence-Smith, Reporter
Your Local Guardian: Mervyn Conn Mervyn Conn
Country music mogul Mervyn Conn has been arrested by police in connection with an alleged rape and sexual assault, the Wimbledon Guardian can reveal.
It is understood the 80-year-old music promoter, who helped launch the career of Nashville legend Johnny Cash, was arrested by police at Gatwick Airport on Monday, July 14.
A woman is believed to have claimed that Mr Conn, who lives in Wimbledon, raped and sexually assaulted her when she was a teenager, between 1975 and 1977.
The woman reported the alleged assaults, in the areas of Wimbledon, Westminster and Wembley, to police earlier this year.
The allegations were initially made to another police force and subsequently received by the Metropolitan Police in March this year.
Mr Conn, who is known for launching the International Festivals of Country Music at Wembley Arena in the 1960s, is believed to have boarded a plane to Italy when officers took him to a police station for questioning.
He was bailed to return to a police station in September.
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Service's Sexual Offences Exploitation and Child Abuse Command are investigating the allegations.]
In 1989 Mervyn Conn was convicted of serious sexual assault on his 19 year old receptionist Margaret Malloy, upheld on appeal. Mervyn Conn attacked her just 4 days after she started working for him.
[Source:The Front Page Headline of the Sun Newspaper dated Thursday 7th December 1989 says,
Judge Robin Laurie says of Mervyn Conn, 'Without the victim's consent you embraced her and fondled her genital area'. The judge imposed an eight week prison sentence and 1000 pounds compensation.
The Judge concludes, 'A custodial sentence is the only way this Court can properly deal with the circumstances'.
Mervyn Conn pleaded guilty, admitting indecent assault at London's Southwark Crown Court. Yet he appealed the sentence imposed; that prison was too harsh. The Appeal Court maintained the eight week sentence, but suspended it for two years. This is unambiguous. Guilty, with an eight week suspended sentence and 1000 pounds compensation. After all, he pleaded guilty, and said it was a 'moment of madness'. (Royal Courts of Justice, Friday 12th January 1990. Case Number 89/6677/Z2. File name: CONN/896677Z2. File number 019900112. Before Lord Justice Lloyd, Mr. Justice Tudor Evans and Mr Justice Owen. Regina v. Mervyn Harold Conn)
Yet when we read Mervyn Conn's book Mr Music Man, he says on Page 179 last paragraph,
'...I needed support after an employee made false allegations about me, which ended up all over the front pages of the papers'.
Mervin Conn continues, 'I was up for a knighthood and all that disappeared because mud sticks, even if you have been found innocent by the Courts. Tainted by this false accusation I found I was out of the Hurlingham Club'.
Let us make no mistake, despite what Mervin Conn writes in his book, the Sun correctly states 'his lawyers appealed the jail sentence'.
an article from the telegraph (thursday 7th december 1989) again shows mervyn conn's previous conviction for serious sexual assault.
only the sentence was appealed, not the conviction (sentence appeal date friday 12th january 1990) (Case reference CONN/89/6677/Z2)
column two of the article states 'he denied another three indecent assaults on miss malloy and a fourth on another woman. These were left on file'.
i only mention this to put the record straight because mervyn conn tells everyone he was clearer on appeal (his book 'Mr Music Man
which is currently on sale where even now he shows no remorse for his actions [at p179 '...mud sticks, even if you have been found innocent by the courts].
and [...even though I won the case on appeal..]


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Gen. Tom Stafford bravely deals with my nervous giggling and dorkiness. April 14, 2012. Photo by me.
I'm basically copying this text from my Tumblr blog, As Only NASA Can, but I wanted to recap my Apollo 16 Anniversary experience at KSC. Oh, it was beyond amazing.
Anyway, we did our bus tour and disembarked at one point near the shuttle/Apollo launch pads (39A to be specific). A bus rolled up and out came Stafford and Gordon. Gordon was drinking water like a boss. He was dispatched to the other tour bus.
Anyway, TP (Tom Stafford's nickname) strolled up to our group. I seriously thought I was going to collapse and couldn't believe it. I've been looking at pictures of this guy in books for over 30 years and to see him in real life - knowing he was real and not some unreal figure from a book who accomplished all the things he did - was downright surreal.
I muttered something incomprehensible about Apollo 10 ("That looked fun!" - One of the derpiest comments I've ever made to anyone) and he was like, "Yeah. I did that. With John Young and Gene Cernan." In the same voice most people say, "Yeah, I went to the store." I couldn't stop smiling. Having TP look directly at you is crazy.
After our bus tour (I sound like such a jerk, but I've seen the KSC facilities and was in a stupor by this point) we disembarked again at the Apollo Saturn V center. He was standing there being pursued by some dudes who wanted to talk. I went up to him and just said, "General, I just want to shake your hand." He smiled and shook my hand and said, "Why, thank you, young lady." Now I can tell my descendants that I shook a space pioneer's hand. Holy crap.
I didn't get an opportunity to speak to Duke, Mitchell or Haise (everyone was pretty pressed for time) but it was so weird to see those guys there and not in my space books I collected as a child. Duke still looks boyish and young. Mitchell is DEEP and strikes me as being extremely intelligent and underrated. Haise was unexpectedly hilarious. Here's a real snippet from their panel discussion:
Member of audience: What does the moon smell like?Also, Charlie Walker is the nicest dude ever. He's another one I used to read about in the 1980s. Holy CRAP I can't believe any of this stuff happened to me. I am still in shock. Walker's lecture was pretty awesome, too and very inspiring. He worked for McDonnell Douglas and ended up becoming an astronaut himself. Amazing.
Duke: Well, you don't get to smell it in the suit, but the dust in the LM smelled like gunpowder.
Mitchell: Yeah. It smelled like lava.
Haise: Well… (At this point everyone cracked up)
Charlie Duke, Edgar Mitchell and Fred Haise, April 14, 2012. Photo by me.


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Cry Wolf: a HERO Television Special
The experimental subjects of S.H.A.D.O.W. where the lucky ones die quickly.
"The monster never dies."
-- Stephen King, "Cujo"
The Revenants are the Warp-enhanced and virally-altered super-soldiers in the service of SHADOW Company. They are part of the original Kill Team project designed to field an elite task force of mercenaries that are mainly immune to the Insania Virus and whose combat effectiveness could match those of Starspawn, mutants or other similar empowered threats. Only the infusion of the Amaranthus serum has kept the infected members from succumbing to the full effects of the virus and become abominations themselves.
All Revenants by far have been females due to the fact that the serum was derived from a woman's genetic structure, namely that of the mysterious alien hunter Shroud.
Violeta Fantomas (Lavender) undergoing a painful transformation.
The term Revenant originally refers to a visible ghost or animated corpse that was believed to have been brought back from the grave. Initially derived from the Latin word reveniens meaning "returning", these mythical creatures became part of folklore throughout the centuries. The stories depict them as coming back to fulfill a specific task such as to seek revenge for any wrongdoing or simply to terrorize the living. Revenants are sometimes compared to vampires and zombies due to their similar traits.
According to Marzanna Kriegvogel, she first heard the term from Shroud after the alien hunter had injected her with what would be later revealed as the Amaranthus serum, which effectively suppressed the Insania Virus within her and also brought her back from the jaws of Death.
Not Dead, but Not Truly Alive
Ever since SHADOW Company's conception, they have conducted innumerable biochemical and genetic experiments conducted in order to create perfect soldiers using Starspawn remnants. All attempts have been costly failures with the project being left in shambles and almost scrapped until the Deadly Nightshade shared the secret of the Amaranthus serum with Kimberly Anne Foxglove.
Starting with Foxglove herself, other victims of the Insania Virus were carefully sought out and picked by Nightshade. These chosen few displayed signs of augmentation by Warp energies as evidenced by the powers they displayed. Upon their infection by the alien virus, they underwent various stages of metamorphosis even as they resisted the degenerative effects. As they reached the point of corruption and oblivion, the Amaranthus serum was administered, preventing them from regressing into semi-bestial states and enabling them to maintain their humanity in both body and mind.
Like Nightshade before them, the new recruits were snatched away from Death and gifted with preternatural abilities such as abnormal senses, strength, dexterity, stamina and a regenerative Healing Factor in addition to their already compelling Warp powers. Their extremely high tolerance of discomfort and pain gives credence to the allegory of remnants being nothing more than zombies that retained their intelligence, bringing much fear, disdain, and anxiety to those familiar with their background.
Along with the abilities granted to them by the mysterious Warp, and when coupled with their intensive military training and state of the art weaponry, these Revenant soldiers have become a force multiplier in conflicts that are auspicious to SHADOW's interests.
Edelweiss members battling an abomination in the sewers.
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"Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?!"
-- Mary Shelly, "Frankenstein"
Being part human and part alien, and technically undead, Revenants exist on borrowed time. Being part of the dreaded Kill Team Edelweiss, they are specifically tasked with the most dangerous missions particularly those involving Starspawn. However, they are not expendable, as they are considered to be very expensive high maintenance assets and have proven themselves in battle time and time again. Their success rate is such that SHADOW's military analysts have deducted that each highly-trained and well-equipped Kill Team Revenant is equivalent to a full company of "normal" Real World special forces operatives and just about the same number of the DAU's mercenaries.
Their kill record is also commendable, having been responsible for the purge of at least a dozen major Starspawn, scores of lesser abominations and perhaps a few thousand minions. This tally does not include the casualties inflicted against non-extraterrestrial foes, Nightshade's detonation of a nuclear device on the island of Banoi that killed over fifty thousand people, as well as other missions not related to extra-terrestrials.
Despite their supposed immunization to the Insania Virus, Foxglove has ordered the whole team of Revenants (including herself) to be placed under observation since she (correctly) suspects that the Amaranthus serum did not eradicate the Insania Virus, but merely suppressed its more terrible effects.
These series of regular examinations and treatments include specially prepared aerosol inhalers called Inhibitor Packs also called I-Packs for short. These inhalers are either built into the respirator units of the Edelweiss Combat Shrouds or kept in separate kits for quick use on the field. The inhibitors must be taken by the Revenants on a daily basis as various forms of difficulties are known to arise. Although a rare occurrence, ailments such as chills, malaise, high fever, and muscle cramps, seizures, coughing and vomiting of blood resulting from the lack of treatment may plague even the tenacious Revenants as the Insania Virus seeks to overwhelm their hardiness.
Besides the fear of further viral mutation of their physical forms, the Revenants are also checked by prudently selected psychologists to ensure that they maintain their mental stability. Notwithstanding the stress resulting from their continual training, security and combat operations and their isolation from society in general, the sway of the Insania Virus extends to one's very psyche oftentimes driving the infected to high levels of aggression and uncontrollable rage.
While the present Edelweiss unit has not succumbed to any of the more detrimental effects of the virus, the fate of the previous luckless Kill Teams serves as a reminder of caution. Three teams required termination due to their modifications going wrong, while a fourth went rogue and had to be destroyed as well. Because of this, Foxglove and SHADOW's board of directors chose not to take any chances by putting the current Edelweiss squad under perpetual surveillance.
Undead versus undead! The Edelweiss member Rosemary stands alone against a group of zombies.


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1. Everyone that you talk to thinks that you've never seen a Starbucks and you only eat what you grow.
Contrary to popular belief, farmers are pretty much exactly like you. We may not have a Starbucks on every corner, but there's definitely one in the next town. And we shop at Walmart, Kroger, Schnucks, or Hy-Vee just like you.
In college, I had someone ask me once if I had food flown in to our house via helicopter.
Uh, no.
2. Everyone thinks that your wardrobe consists exclusively of overalls, Carhartt, and maybe cowboy boots and skimpy dresses like they see on CMT.
Fact: farmers shop at the same stores that you do. The farm women I know show up looking like a million bucks with their knee-high boots and cute infinity scarves.
Farm girls DO have two complete wardrobes though. While I have rarely seen a country girl in overalls, there's no way she's wearing her nice boots out in the field. She's got work clothes and dress clothes, but she won't look like a country bumpkin when she heads to town.
I bet you couldn't even pick out the farm women in a crowd in Chicago!
3. Everyone assumes you must grow a small plot of vegetables because you're too sweet to be one of THOSE farmers.
Today, the socially acceptable sort of farmer to be is the small, farmers market or road side stand sort of farmer. But I didn't grow up on a farm like that.
I'm trustworthy, very normal, and excited to advocate for farmers. And I'd argue that there aren't really THESE farmers and THOSE farmers. There are just farmers. Some are big, some are small. Some are conventional and some are organic. Almost all are family owned and almost all are farmers you could feel comfortable buying from.
I did grow up on one of THOSE farms. And I'm proud of it.
4. Everyone wants to come and visit.
Perhaps the best part of being a farmer's daughter is that everyone wants to see a farm first hand and its exciting to be a part of their excitement.
There is nothing quite like a farm on a clear night. City folks have never seen that many stars. There is nothing so awe inspiring as the sight of all those acres of land that my dad farms and cares for every single day. To be given the task to steward God's land is an amazing blessing.
How exciting is it to share this with the world?


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- LivingInPink99
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Hi girls!
I had my 1st "wedding related" party last night (boy does that make it feel real!) thrown by my aunts. They weren't crazy about bar hopping in downtown Chicago, which is what my bridesmaids and I are planning for next month.
These ladies were the absolute sweetest and threw a fantastic party! I'll let the pictures speak for themselves….
Everyone who attended:
The front of the house was so cute, and it had our monogram!
They made me a special bench to sit on…chevron, pink, and sparkly? Doesn't get any better:) and notice the panty bouquet on the left!
There was soooo much food. And cheesecake "balls". Because cheesecake.
We played the "guess who brought which panty game" and I went from having 1 right the first round, to getting all 7 right the second round! So much fun:) definitely recommend it if you're looking for a cute game!
A little decor shot:
Everybody went home with a sweet little favor of pedicure sets with new nail polishes and all sorts of fun things:)
It was an absolute blast and I'm very lucky to have such awesome ladies in my life!:)


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Paris expo Porte de Versailles, 1 Place de la Porte de Versailles, Paris, France 48.831200, 2.288164
ENOVA Paris is a relatively new technology fair for electronic measurement, vision and optics. It is held annually at Porte de Versailles. The 2018 edition will take place from 23 to 24 October and is expected to welcome over 350 exhibitors and 5200 visitors. The key themes of the 2-day programme will include embedded systems, IoT (the Internet of Things), smart cities, M2M (Machine to Machine), e-health and more. They will be implemented in ENOVA's international congresses, round tables, conferences, business meetings and various workshops.
With the ever-growing interest from decision-makers, research laboratories, technology developers, digital stakeholders, designers, start-ups and entrepreneurs, ENOVA is gradually turning into a major platform. The event launched its own Innovation Awards which acknowledge the most innovative technology and initiatives, presented at ENOVA. The categories Quality/Safety, Productivity, Embedded systems, Smart object usage and Favourite visitors' innovation. The awards are highly anticipated, along with ENOVA's FabLabs, allowing interdisciplinary initiatives between students, researchers, professionals and project teams.
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DOCTENA is a company dedicated at improving access to healthcare by enabling patients to book an appointment online. After the successful launch of our platform in Luxembourg (www.doctena.lu), in Brussels (www.doctena.be), in the Netherlands (www.doctena.nl ), in Switzerland (www.doctena.ch), in Germany (www.doctena.de), and in Austria.
If you are looking for a fast-moving growth oriented start-up in Digital Healthcare, this is it!
We are looking for talented and entrepreneurial team members.
Your role as Systems Engineer is central to the success of this mission, as your contribution will be to help increasing the number of patients and doctors using DOCTENA.
We Are Hiring For Immediate Start:
Cloud Systems Engineer (AWS) (m/f)
Job Description
As a Systems Engineer you will be responsible for the cloud operations of our platforms and you will ensure our high uptime and performance requirements. In collaboration with other IT functions, you will provide input into the technical vision of Doctena. You will combine your extensive technical experience with your understanding of the business to ensure the success in the defined lifecycle of the services and projects of your area.
You will remain hands in and work with teams to develop infrastructure/operations solutions in a highly paced agile, cloud based environment. You will champion our operational practices to ensure a high quality outcome for our business.
Doctena is experiencing massive growth and our traffic and user numbers increase by two-digit percentages every month.
Your Profile
- You have expert skills in systems administration (Linux, AWS), configuration management, automation
- You have advanced skills in implementing solutions that scale and perform for millions of users, adopting SOA patterns
- You have proven experience in developing long-term system architecture and infrastructure strategies
- You bring expert skills in cloud operations, especially Amazon Web Services
- You have experience in enterprise monitoring, and in security
- You are hands-in, result-oriented, practical, and not afraid of unknown situations
- You embrace DevOps and are a team player
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- You speak and write English
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You will join a team of young passionate people dedicated to building the best online medical service offering in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Germany. The position is based at our headquarters in Luxembourg, or in the headquarters of our german company Doctena Germany GmbH in Berlin.
We offer a full-time contract with attractive salary package and benefits according to your experience.
We consider working for a promising start-up to be a lifestyle choice rather than a job choice. Our positions are challenging, but also come with amazing advantages and fulfilment to those who earn them.
We are a young fast-growing company. Strong performers have heaps of opportunities to grab.
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J.N photographed by Christina
I have spent most of this week with my sister, as we come to terms with the loss of our friend. The funeral was on Wednesday, a Lutheran service with hymns, prayers, a choir and piano pieces. The music was beautiful, as was the eulogy, but seeing three of my friends as pallbearers, their beautiful manly faces contorted with grief, as they walked out of the church with the body of our friend, that was the most painful part. The friends and family stood collectively outside the church for one last prayer as J.N's mother touched his coffin for the last time and as the car pulled away and there was complete and utter silence. Then it rained, and the funeral party stood about in the rain, lost for a while, before finding shelter back inside the church or under awnings, no one ready to leave just yet.
When we did leave, "the kids" (J.N's friends), went for our own wake for him at a nearby pub, we filled a courtyard and stayed for hours, sharing stories, memories and condolences. And trying to understand, coming to terms with the finality of his last act and forgiving him. A moving scene; his university lecturers beside his ex-girlfriends, school friends, fellow artists and musicians and house mates.
Yesterday I spent the day with my sister again and our school friend Woody, who flew down from North Queensland for the funeral, he was very close to J.N. Woody has grown into such a beautiful man and it was wonderful to see him, and such a pity about the circumstances.
On a final positive note, we have found a little rental and been approved. It is an old little two bedroom terraced cottage right in the heart of Brisbane, built in 1873. A little run down, but has a lot of charm, cheap rent and a great location.
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Hi! I'm Kali, I began my trip as an 18 year old Australian traveler, and am now a 21 year old… Still Australian traveller. I finished high school in 2013 and begun my travels on the 26th of April 2014. I have been saving up for this trip since 2008, busking every year and living off hand me down clothes to save every cent I could.
Sometimes this blog documents my day to day experiences, but now mostly just special moments or special places I've visited. I began my trip in Morocco and since then have travelled/lived in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Greece, Croatia, Norway, Poland, England and Argentina. If you have a read through my posts you'll see I'm very far behind. But that's life. I'm too busy exploring and enjoying every day to keep this thing perfectly updated.
My adventures continue everyday. I am currently in a small town in the countryside of Argentina getting to know the family of my boyfriend. The plan is to stay here for a little, practising my Spanish and relaxing while continuing my studies online.
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