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Jayson Anthony Paul (born December 10, 1984) is an American professional wrestler better known by the ring name JTG. He is best known for his time working with the WWE. During his time there, he was a member of the tag team Cryme Tyme along with Shad Gaspard. His last match was on the September 20, 2013 episode of Superstars where he lost against Santino Marella. On June 12, 2014, JTG was released from his WWE contract. Championships Ohio Valley Wrestling OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (2 times) (with Shad Gaspard) Pro Wrestling Illustrated He was ranked #84 of the top 500 singles wrestlers by PWI in the PWI 500 in 2010.
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2D or two-dimensional objects have two measurements: width and length, like a square. 2D objects do not have depth, like 3D objects. The simplest 2D shape is a triangle. A 2D object can have any number of sides, making shapes such as pentagons and hexagons. The sides can bend to make different angles. 2D objects can even have sides that go through each other. Two dimensional space is a mathematics tool, and it has many kinds of uses in computer science, geometry, the making of software, and also in paper. Computing Geometry
Deal Slammed For Rockaway Scammer Rosen's Rockaway condominium apartment right on the boardwalk at 133 Beach 120 Street. A Bronx judge has postponed sentencing for Rockaway resident Charles Rosen, who pled guilty in October to felony charges of grand larceny and forgery in connection with tens of thousands of dollars looted from the Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Clubs, including about $20,000 that was used to furnish and refurbish his Rockaway oceanfront condominium. Rosen, whose Rockaway apartment is at 133 Beach 120 Street, pled guilty as part of a plea deal that would have fined him $5,000 and forced him to make restitution of $38,575, a fraction of the more than $1.2 million the city says he and others stole from the charity. This week, however, a number of Gloria Wise's relatives pled with the court to insure that Rosen spends some time in jail. "My sister's name has been dragged through the mud," Juanita Garrido, whose sister, Gloria Wise, died in 1993 and was the founder of the club that served kids and the elderly at Co-op City. "[Rosen] took her legacy." About 500 letters and petitions with more than 1,000 signatures were turned over to the judge, Bronx Supreme Court Judge John Byrne, calling for him to reconsider the plea deal that called for a fine and partial restitution. The petitions call for Rosen to serve anywhere between three and seven years in jail. The city had charged that Rosen used more than $20 thousand of the money he stole to fix up his Rockaway apartment. No new sentencing date has yet been set.
Charles Oakley (born December 18, 1963) is a retired American NBA basketball player. Oakley played for the Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks, Toronto Raptors, Washington Wizards and Houston Rockets. African-American basketball players New York Knicks players Chicago Bulls players Toronto Raptors players Washington Wizards players Houston Rockets players Sportspeople from Cleveland 1963 births Living people American basketball players
Apple today announced its third quarter earnings ended June 29, 2013 with posting revenue of $35.3 billion and quarterly net profit of $6.9 billion, or $7.47 per diluted share. The company sold 31.2 million iPhones, 14.6 million iPads, 3.8 million Macs. The company’s Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $23.05 per share of the company’s common stock which will.” For the fourth quarter, Apple provided the following guidance: revenue would be between $34 billion and $37 billion, gross margin between 36 percent and 37 percent, operating expenses between $3.9 billion and $3.95 billion and other income/(expense) of $200 million. Photo Credit: Flickr/Andy on Flickr
The 2020-21 United States election protests were a series of protests across the United States after the 2020 United States presidential election between then-President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden. The election was held on November 3, 2020. Biden won the election with 306 votes in the Electoral College to Donald Trump's 232. Before the election Donald Trump claimed without any evidence that there was election fraud. He refused to give up and him and his allies attempted to overturn the results of the election. Trump filed dozens of legal challenges to the results, which were rejected by at least 86 judges, some that Trump even hired. The courts found that his claims had no evidence to prove that there was fraud. Pro-Trump protesters, including groups such as the Proud Boys, took part in many protests in Washington, D.C., state capitals, and other locations across the nation to show that they did not agree with the election results and shout Trump's claims of election fraud. On January 6--the day when the U.S. Congress counts the electoral votes--Trump supporters got together for the "Save America" rally where people heard speeches from Trump and Rudy Giuliani. Before the speeches were over, a large mob of protesters marched on to Congress and stormed the building. Congress was in session at the time, certifying the Electoral College vote count. Several buildings in the U.S. Capitol complex were evacuated, and protesters broke past security to enter the U.S. Capitol building, including National Statuary Hall. After the storming of the U.S. Capitol, at least 36 House Democrats called for Trump's immediate impeachment and removal by Congress. Armed supporters of Trump have continued protesting after of the storming of the US Capitol. As of January 10, armed protests were being planned at the state capitals of most states. Thousands of soldiers were sent to protect the capital, and by the inauguration ceremony for Biden, up to 25,000 soldiers were sent to guard against anymore threats to security. Protests have continued in some U.S. cities after Biden became president. Protest Protest in support of Donald Trump started on November 4. November 4 In Phoenix, Arizona, pro-Trump protesters joined together and demanded that the city's remaining votes be counted. November 5 In Atlanta, while poll workers inside State Farm Arena counted ballots, pro-Trump protesters gathered outside chanting "Stop the cheat!" November 7 In Lansing, more than 500 Trump supporters protested at the state Capitol over what they thought was a cheated presidential race that led to Biden's election as the president. November 14 In Washington, D.C., thousands of protesters went to support President Trump's election claims. December 19 In Sacramento, police made several arrests near the California State Capitol as pro-Trump and anti-Trump protesters fought over the results of the presidential election. January 4 Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested and charged with destroying a Black Lives Matter sign at a historic black church in Washington, D.C. during the pro-Trump rally on December 12. January 5 On January 5, 2021, Washington D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser sent 340 of the District of Columbia National Guard due to an protest of pro-Trump supporters who planned to rally that evening. January 6 On January 6, the protesters planned to march to the United States Capitol. A crowd of thousands of Trump supporters first listened to a speech by Trump. He told them again the election had been stolen and said, "We will never give up. We will never concede. ... Our country has had enough. We're not going to take it anymore." He urged them to march on the Capitol and "show strength". Many people then marched on the Capitol, where they got past the police, broke windows, and stormed inside the Capitol building. They marched through Statuary Hall. Rioters took over the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's office, flipping tables and ripping photos from walls; there was looting in the Capitol. Many police officers were injured in the violence at the Capitol. One died of his injuries, and another committed suicide over the following weekend. A woman was shot inside the Capitol and later died; no information has been told about the shooter. At least one improvised explosive device was found on Capitol, and another was close by at the headquarters of the Republican Party. January 9 In Frankfort, around 100 protesters with weapons joined together for a "patriot rally" outside the Kentucky State Capitol while both chambers of the General Assembly were in session. January 17 The FBI reported that protests were being planned at all United States state capitols and in Washington, D.C., and that they are likely to take place from January 16 to 20. In Lansing, protests at the Michigan Capitol had about 150 people and many Michigan National Guard people were on site to keep peace. Some protesters with AR-15 rifles joined other pro-Trump supporters at the Capitol. In Austin, a crowd of about 100 protesters, many armed and supported gun rights, gathered outside the Texas Capitol. People thought it would be violent but it was not. There were no reports of any fights.
This is a general guide how to monitor a web site with Operations Manager 2007. - Start the console, click Authoring and then expand Management Pack Templates - Right-click Web Application and choose add monitoring wizard - Add monitoring Wizard – Monitoring Type: Select Web Application and click Next - Add monitoring Wizard – General Properties: Input name, description and select a management pack, then click Next - Add monitoring Wizard – Web Address: Input the URL, click test and verify that the URL works, then click Next - Add monitoring Wizard – Watcher Node: Select the machine that will as watcher node, click Next - Add monitoring Wizard – Summary: Verify your settings and then click Create You can click on your new web application and then click “Record a browser session” or “Edit web application settings” to setup more advanced configuration for your web application monitoring. […] SCOM 2007 – content of web site Hi SCOMpiec, Please take a look at this post, There are Ops Mgr 2007 groups at microsoft.public.opsmgr.* —– Regards Anders Bengtsson […]
Boldt Castle is a gilded age mock castle in the Thousand Islands region of New York State, USA. The six-story castle assumes a Scottish Baronial style. Castles Buildings and structures in New York (state)
10/27/09 10:35 PM ET More than money created champs' rosters Homegrown talent, shrewd trades shaped Phils, Yanks By John Schlegel and Doug Miller / MLB.com There's more than one way to build a World Series roster, and the Yankees and Phillies are both proof that you actually need more than one way to get there.
Right ascension (abbreviated RA; symbol a) is the astronomical word for one of the two coordinates of a point on the celestial sphere when using the equatorial coordinate system. It is the celestial counterpart to longitude. The other coordinate is the declination. The moon, planets and stars all have their own right ascension. Many of them are listed in an almanac. Using arithmetic, the object's right ascension and declination indicate where to look in the sky to see the object.
RetailMeNot co-founder Guy King has much to be thankful for this holiday season. In early December, he and co-founder Bevan Clark sold the online coupon directory to WhaleShark Media for a reported US$90 million. The business was launched four years ago with only $30.00 in startup funding. That may seem like a lot of money to pay for a coupon site. But RetailMeNot will generate about $30 million in 2010 revenue and the business model is extremely lean (employing about five people), which means that almost all of this revenue is profit. Anthill’s James Tuckerman caught up with King in the studios of Media Saints shortly before the 2010 Christmas break to talk about RetailMeNot, the sale price and Groupon-mania. Guy King talks about RetailMeNot, WhaleShark Media and Groupon-man.
The green-thighed frog (Nyctimystes brevipalmatus) is a frog from Australia. It lives near the east coast of Australia near Brisbane. The green-thighed frog is mostly brown with black stripes from its mouth to its front legs. Its thighs are light blue or green with black spots. They live near temporary bodies of water that dry up for part of the year. According to the IUCN Red List, green-thighed frogs are endangered because people cut down the forests and build roads and railroads in the places where they like to live, because of fires and pollution, and because of invasive species. Green-thighed frogs lay eggs that float together on top of the water. The tadpoles hatch within one day, stay tadpoles for 40 days and most become frogs before they are 100 days old.
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John Michael Doar (December 3, 1921 - November 11, 2014) was an American lawyer and senior counsel with the law firm Doar Rieck Kaley & Mack in New York. He was known as being the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights from 1960 to 1967, during the civil rights years of the administrations of presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Doar died in New York City, New York from congestive heart failure, aged 92.
Viking Olov Björk – 1918 - 2009 Professor. Viking Björk was active as a cardiothoracic surgeon during the era of rapid development in modern techniques and management of lung and open heart surgery. He was the head of cardiothoracic surgery in Uppsala 1958-1966 and received a professorship in 1962. In 1966 he was called to the chair of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and was appointed head of the Thoracic Surgical Clinic at the Karolinska Hospital. He remained the leader of this clinic for 27 years and retired in 1983. During the Second World War, Viking Björk received scholarships to study lung tuberculosis with Monaldi at the Carlo Forlanini Institute in Rome and travelled to Brompton Hospital in London where he worked with Russell Brock. He learned the principles of pulmonary surgery from Tudor Edwards and Clement Price Thomas and wrote the monograph Bronchogenic Carcinoma based on 348 treated patients. After returning from London he was invited to work with Clarence Crafoord at the Sabbatsberg Hospital in Stockholm. After two years of hard developmental work he successfully performed extracorporeal brain perfusion in a 27 kg dog for 33 minutes with the aid of a disc oxygenator. The blood in the apparatus was oxygenated using rotating discs of stainless steel covered with silicone to assure blood compatibility. His doctoral thesis presented in 1948, “Brain perfusions in dogs with artificially oxygenated blood”, laid the foundation for early development of open cardiac surgery in Sweden. At Sabbatsberg Hospital pioneer work was performed such as the world’s first aortic coarctation resection on October 19, 1944 and the second successful operation in the world using a heart-lung machine on July 16, 1954. Viking Björk was in charge of pulmonary surgery and performed more than 1500 lung operations. He introduced postoperative respirator treatment as a part of lung resection procedures in patients with reduced lung function and devised osteoplastic roof thoracoplasty after lung resection in patients with tuberculosis during the 1950’s. He introduced left heart catheterization by direct needle puncture from the back to the right of the spine. The patient was given a sip of alcohol (a “snaps”) prior to the examination in case the needle penetrated the oesophagus. A catheter could be passed through the needle and via the left atrium into the left ventricle and aorta. Viking Björk’s impressive scientific contributions included 438 published papers on topics including myocardial protection, obstructive cardiomyopathy, transatrial approach and detachment of the septal tricuspid leaflet for repair of ventricular septal defects, techniques to repair atrio-ventricular septal defect, modification of the Fontan procedure and many other papers on surgical correction for congenital heart defects. Viking Björk never hesitated to report complications such as the dangers associated with deep hypothermia, the risk of suturing the circumflex coronary artery during mitral valve surgery and the risk of left ventricular rupture after mitral valve replacement. He performed the first coronary artery bypass operation in Sweden in June 1970 and introduced the use of the internal mammary artery graft in 1972. Viking Björk was dissatisfied with the prosthetic heart valves available at that time. His name is associated with the Björk-Shiley mechanical tilting disc valve which was introduced clinically at the Karolinska Hospital in January 1969. A large number of papers and five dissertations were based on careful haemodynamic evaluations and follow-up of patients who received the Björk-Shiley valve. The valve was refined several times regarding material and opening angle. For a while it was the most widely used mechanical prosthesis world-wide. The Björk-Shiley valve suffered the disaster of outlet strut fracture during the early 1980’s, a problem which terminated the use of this prosthesis. Viking Björk was a hard-working, dominating, energetic and enthusiastic surgeon with a world-wide contact network. Love for his home county and his family permeated throughout life. He enjoyed sailing in a fresh breeze and to watch the timber on his forest lands grow. During his long career he travelled to medical centres and meetings all over the world to lecture and learn about cardiothoracic surgery. He was appointed Honorary Member of the American Association of Thoracic Surgery and the American College of Cardiology. The Thoracic Clinic at the Karolinska Hospital was highly regarded and surgeons from countries including Poland, Italy, Finland, Ecuador and Brazil came to visit, and some of them stayed for many years to learn cardiac surgery. His clinic was an academic educational institution and apprenticeship school. Members of his team became leading surgeons and heads of departments in Uppsala, Örebro, Gothenburg, Linköping, Lund, Karlskrona and Huddinge in Sweden, in Kuopio in Finland, Quito in Equador and Debrecen in Hungary. Torbjörn Ivert, MD Department of Thoracic Surgery Karolinska University Hospital Stockholm, Sweden Dan Lindblom, MD, PhD Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Anesthesiology Karolinska University Hospital Stockholm, Sweden Christian Olin, MD Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery University Hospital Linkoeping, Sweden Stockholm, March 2009 This obituary will also be published in The Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal Add comment
Adam Stejskal (born 23 August 2002) is a Czech professional footballer. He plays as goalkeeper for Austrian Second League club Liefering. He also plays for the FC Salzburg squad in the UEFA Youth League 2021-22. Club career He started with his local clubs FC Zbrojovka Brno and FC Svratka Brno. Then he went to the Red Bull Salzburg Academy in Austria. 2019 he became part of the FC Liefering squad. Stejskal made his debut for Austrian Second League side Liefering on 24 July 2020 against Juniors OO. He was in the starting XI. Since the 2022/23 season he is in the first squad. For the 2023/24 season he then moved to league rivals WSG Tirol. International Stejskal played for the Czech U15, U16, U17 and U20 national football team. Honours Austrian Champion:2023 Career statistics Club
Praise the Lord! The Southern Baptist Convention is likely to elect a black President this summer. Praise the Lord! The Southern Baptist Convention is likely to elect a black President this summer. This is the 18th time I am able to proudly say that the beautiful lady standing beside me is my Valentine. In the summer of 1994 I was home from graduate school, visiting my parents in southern Illinois. After a week of vacation, I said goodbye to my parents and pulled out of the driveway in my little blue Honda CRX for the lonely twelve hour drive back to Fort Worth, Texas. As I drove away my prayer warrior mother cried out in her heart, “Lord, it’s time!” You might be thinking, time for what? Time for her son to meet “the one.” In a matter of weeks her prayers (plural because she had been praying for my future wife for several years) were answered. Here’s how it happened. The last weekend of August I got a call from a buddy of mine who wanted me to go with him to a singles fellowship that evening at Southwayside Baptist Church. I didn’t really want to go. But Tim was persistent, saying, “Oh, come on man, who knows…you might even meet your future wife there tonight!” Who could walk away from an offer like that! I truly didn’t expect that to happen. Continue reading My Lovely Valentine Young man, I urge you, “flee sexual immorality” ( 1 Cor. 6:18) if you love life. “Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience” (Eph. 5:6). Flee the occasions of it, – the company of those who draw you into it, – the places where you might be tempted to it. Read what our Lord said about it in Matthew 5:28. Be like holy Job: “Make a covenant with your eyes” (Job 31:1). Flee talking of it. It is one of the things ought not so much as to be named. You cannot handle tar and not be defiled. Flee the thoughts of it: resist them, mortify them, pray against them, – make any sacrifice rather than give way. Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there is little fear about your deeds. – J. C. Ryle, Thoughts for Young Men, pp. 30-31. Being the host network for this year’s Super Bowl afforded NBC the opportunity to showcase the talent of their various shows. They did it in the imitation of a Broadway musical, starting off with the cast of 30 Rock and shifting to the casts of the Office, Community, and other NBC offerings, including nightly news anchor Brian Williams. What really intrigued me was the lyrics to the song…”The Brotherhood of Man.” It clearly was not a celebration of testosterone or the theme for a men’s conference. It clearly was a song about humanity. ‘Brotherhood’ definitely referred to humanity as a whole and ‘man’ clearly was used in the generic ‘person’ sense. So here’s my point…if a liberal, secular television network has no problem using masculine language to refer to men and women in general, as has been the case in English and other languages for millennia, why are some evangelical Christians so convinced it is necessary to switch to gender-inclusive language in some of our English Bible translations?
Wade Andrew Williams (born December 24, 1961) is an American movie, television, and voice actor who is best known for his role as Brad Bellick in Prison Break. Williams was born on December 24, 1961 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He studied at Rutgers University and at the University of Tulsa.
Is there an object oriented support package (like CLOS) for Scheme that is readily ftp-able? Also the R^3 MIT-Scheme manual does not seem to want to reveal the use of macros on their system (for obvious reasons), does anyone have any information on how to use them? Thanks. Jason Leigh
The Tatar language is a Turkic language that is spoken by the Tatar people, and is the official language of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. Alphabets Like many other Turkic languages, different alphabets are used to write the Tatar language. Cyrillic In Russia, the Tatar alphabet is Cyrillic by a federal government law passed in 2002. It has 39 letters, of which 33 are the same as in Russian. The other 6 (and their positions in the alphabet) are: @ (between A and B) Zh' (after Zh) N' (after N) O (between O and P) U (after U) H (between Kh and Ts) Latin In 2001, the government of the Republic of Tatarstan created a Latin alphabet for the Tatar language called Zamanalif. But the next year, the federal government did not allow it to be made official. The Zamanalif alphabet has these 35 letters: A, A, B, C, C, D, E, F, G, G, H, I, I, I, J, K, L, M, N, N, O, O, P, Q, R, S, S, T, U, U, V, W, X, Y, Z There was another Latin alphabet for Tatar called Yanalif. It was used from 1928 to 1940, when it was replaced with Cyrillic by a Soviet law. Arabic There have been two Arabic alphabets used to write Tatar: Iske imla and Yana imla. Iske imla is the older of the two and was used until 1920, when it was changed to become Yana imla and remained in use until it was replaced by the Latin Yanalif alphabet. However, Tatars in China still use Iske imla. Since 2012, it is possible for people and organizations to write to the Tatarstan government in either the Latin or Arabic scripts, but the government has to answer in Cyrillic.
Competitive teams from the campuses of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute at UC Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Merced, Davis, and Davis Health submitted proposals for collaborative research projects for the signature seed funding program of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute. Ten teams received a one-time award of up to $60,000 each for interdisciplinary work that can lead to larger research programs and extramural grant proposals. For more about CITRIS Seed Funding, see the program webpage. Sustainable Infrastructures Multi-hazard risk analysis to inform distribution grid upgrades for reliability and resilience Researchers will develop probabilistic methods for modeling regional power distribution networks exposed to different types of natural hazards. Principal Investigators: Yu Zhang (UC Santa Cruz), Scott Moura (UC Berkeley) Automatic building fault detection and diagnostic system using smartphones Researchers will build a smartphone app whereby commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) sensors are added to a mobile phone that can be used by facilities’ crews to detect and diagnose problems. Principal Investigators: Alberto Cerpa (UC Merced), Avideh Zakhor (UC Berkeley) People and Robots Soft robotic, autonomous and intelligent wireless router (ScAILeR) This project aims to demonstrate an intelligent system that can move autonomously, interact with, learn from, and adapt to its environment for optimal and robust functionality and survivability. Principal Investigators: Michael Wehner (UC Santa Cruz), Ruzena Bajcsy (UC Berkeley), Linda Katehi (UC Davis) Apparatus design for coral reef sampling, a biomimetic study of corallivorous fish The project’s goal is to generate a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) apparatus for collecting hundreds, or even thousands, of coral tissue samples for large-scale genetic studies. Principal Investigators: Hannah Stuart (UC Berkeley), Peter Wainwright (UC Davis) Health Real-time detection of inflammatory biomarkers in exhaled breath Researchers will design and benchmark a novel microfluidic total analysis system (uTAS) suitable for real-time detection of inflammatory and oxidative stress biomarkers present in exhaled breath condensate. Principal Investigators: Cristina Davis (UC Davis), Nicholas Kenyon (UC Davis Health) Active soft wearables, a novel approach to mobility and rehabilitation Researchers will develop two test fixtures, for the upper and lower extremities, to systematically evaluate ergonomics and effectiveness of applying loads via active soft orthotic devices. Principal Investigators: Fadi Fathallah (UC Davis), Michael Wehner (UC Santa Cruz) New patient-centered visualization methods for predictive learning algorithms: a pilot study in heart failure decision support This project aims to develop patient-centered, uncertainty-aware visualization methods for displaying predictions in context to uncover early warning signs and communicating decision support insights for both clinicians and patients. Principal Investigators: Kwan-Liu Ma (UC Davis), Katherine Kim (UC Davis Health) Policy Lab Bots and misinformation on Facebook: prevalence, activity, and effects This project will offer a foundational overview of the prevalence and activities of bots on Facebook, model the role of bots in the spread of misinformation on public Facebook pages over time, and identify bot influence on the hostility of user discussions. Principal Investigators: Magdalena Wojcieszak (UC Davis), Gireeja Ranade (UC Berkeley) Cognition to action in extreme events: policy interventions for disaster risk reduction Researchers will use rapid prototyping to explore how to make city-scale transportation models, visualizations, and communication strategies effective and responsive to community needs when constituents must make life-altering decisions. Principal Investigators: Thomas Maiorana (UC Davis), Kenichi Soga (UC Berkeley) Women in Technology Comparative analysis of interdisciplinary training for STEM scholars This project seeks to collect comparative cross-campus data on two STEM graduate curriculums at UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz that make questions of gender and social justice fundamental to STEM training. Principal Investigators: Kalindi Vora, Sara Giordano, and Sarah McCullough (UC Davis), Jenny Reardon and Karen Barad (UC Santa Cruz)
Haigazian University (; ) is a university in Beirut, Lebanon. It opened in 1955. It offers Bachelor's degrees in the Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Economics. It also offers Master's degrees in the Arts, Sciences and Business Administration. The university is supported by the Armenian Evangelical Church. It was opened for the Armenian community in Lebanon. However, it is open to students of all nationalities.
Weight Management in Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis - Study Details - Tabular View - No Results Posted - Disclaimer - How to Read a Study Record - Liver histology score (NASH-Clinical Research Network [CRN] scoring system) at 48 weeks - Weight reduction at 48 weeks - Insulin sensitivity at 48 weeks - Liver function test at 48 weeks - Inflammatory markers and adipokine levels at 48 weeks - Quality of life chronic steatohepatitis on liver biopsy. - Elevated alanine or aspartate aminotransferase values (ALT > 41 or AST > 34) within 3 months of enrollment - Absence of another form of liver disease - Body mass index between 25-50 kg/m2. - At least 18 years of age - Absence of significant alcohol consumption (more than one standard drink per day). - Able to walk 2 blocks or a quarter of a mile without stopping - Willing to complete a two-week run-in period with successful completion of self-monitoring records. Exclusion Criteria: - < 18 years of age - Significant alcohol consumption (> 1 standard drink per day) - Contraindications to obtaining a liver biopsy - Unable to walk 2 blocks or a quarter of a mile without stopping - Currently pregnant or pregnant in the previous six months - Currently engaged in an active weight-loss program or taking weight-loss medication - Report conditions that, in the judgment of the investigators, render potential participants unlikely to follow the protocol for 12 months, including illness likely to be terminal within 2 years, plans to move, substance abuse, or other significant psychiatric problems To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor. Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00266019 Publications: Keywords provided by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK): Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Articles with 'species' microformats The paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera, also known as Morus papyrifera L.) is a type of flowering plant that belongs to the Moraceae family. It is originally from Asia, including countries such as Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, Myanmar, and India. It is also cultivated in many other regions and has been introduced as a species in parts of Europe, the United States, and Africa. It is sometimes referred to as the "tapa cloth tree". People in Asia and some Pacific Islands have been cultivating this plant for many centuries for food, fiber, and medicine.
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ISO 8601 is an international standard to describe dates and times in the easiest way possible for computers to understand. This standard is based on putting the biggest types of numbers first and the smallest types of numbers last. Because years are bigger than months, and months are bigger than days, they are put in the order of YEAR-MONTH-DAY. A basic ISO date for today looks like --. The basic ISO time is :. Another very important principle is that when a computer or human puts ISO 8601 dates into alphabetical order, they are also in chronological order. People can also use these dates, but it is currently not common for people in any country to write dates using this standard in their day-to-day lives, though many Asian countries follow YEAR-MONTH-DAY order.
In the beginning of December 2012, the W3C Provenance Working Group issued a call for implementations. As of February the 25th 2013, 64 PROV implementations were reported to the W3C Provenance Working Group [1]. These implementations took different forms ranging from stand alone applications (30), to reusable frameworks and libraries (10), to services hosted by third parties (9), to vocabularies (21), and constraints validation modules (3). The objective of this blog post is to examine how PROV is being used. In particular, I will identify the prov concepts that are commonly used, and attempt to give an explanation of the figures obtained. In my analysis, I will focus on the first three components of PROV [1], viz., component 1 (Entities and Activities), component 2 (Derivations) and component 3 (Agents, Responsibility, and Influence. The chart in Figure 1 summarizes the usage of concepts PROV in implementations of type Application, Framework/API and Service. In total, 40 implementations fall in those categories. The chart distinguishes between the consumption and the generation of a given concept by implementation. For each concept, the chart shows the number of implementation that consume instances of that concept, produce them, or both consume and produce them. Figure 1: Coverage of PROV concepts in implementations of type Application, Framework / API, or Service. The analysis of this chart shows that the concepts in the three components Entities/Activities, Agents, Responsibilities, Influence, and Derivations are covered by the implementations. However, the frequency by which those concepts are covered varies. In particular, we observe that a large proportion of implementations supports (most of the) core concepts of PROV. PROV core concepts are illustrated in Figure 2. Specifically, the following core concepts: Entity, Activity, Agent, Usage and Generation, are supported by almost all implementations. Association and Derivation are supported by more than 3/4 of the implementations. Figure 2: PROV core concepts. On the other hand, we observe that the core concepts of Attribution, Communication and Delegation are supported by less than half of the implementations. Specifically, 19 out of 40 implementations support Attribution, 14 support Delegation, and 12 support Communication. In the case of Attribution and Communication, one can argue that they are actually (indirectly) supported by most of implementations. This is because Attribution can be inferred using a chain of Generation and Association, which are supported by most of implementations. Similarly, Communication can be inferred using a chain of Generation and Usage, which are supported by most of implementations. On the other hand, we observe that the number of implementations that support Plan, which is not part of the core concepts illustrated in Figure 2, is large. Half of the implementations support this concept. This can be explained by the fact that most implementers felt the need to link the provenance traces produced by their system to the recipe that was followed. Figure 3: Coverage of PROV by Vocabularies that use PROV Figure 4: Coverage of PROV by vocabularies that extends PROV Figure 3 and 4 illustrates PROV concepts that are used and extended, respectively, by implementations of type vocabulary. In total, the working group received 8 vocabularies that use PROV concepts, and 13 vocabularies that extend them. The two charts confirms the observation made in the case of implementations of type applications, frameworks and Services. Most of PROV concepts seem to be used and extended by vocabularies. The frequency by which they are supported is different from one concept to another. In particular, (most of the) core concepts of PROV are supported by the majority of vocabularies. It is worth underlining that PROV is still in the process of being adopted. The existing implementations that we analyzed in this blog post show how PROV constructs create a firm foundation for provenance interoperability. [1] [2]
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini (15 May 1942 - 28 September 2018) was a Swazi politician. He was Prime Minister of Eswatini, from 1996 to 2003 and again from October 2008 to September 2018. He was also an executive director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In 2017, Dlamini was admitted to an ICU in April 2018 in Mbabane. Dlamini died September 28, 2018, less than a month after stepping down as Prime Minister at age 76.
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Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (21 August 1929 - 7 October 2017) was a Soviet/Russian historical linguist. His main topic of study is Indo-European languages. Works He is best known for his glottalic theory of how consonants are spoken in Indo-European languages and for placing point of origin for these languages in the area of the Armenian Highlands and Lake Urmia. He was born in Moscow. Vyacheslav Ivanov's father was Vsevolod Ivanov, one of the most famous Soviet writers. His mother was an actress. She worked in the theatre of Vsevolod Meyerhold. His childhood was filled by disease and war, which he spent in Tashkent. Ivanov died in Moscow on 7 October 2017 at the age of 88.
So I have to be honest about something, and I'm just going to come right out and say it so I can immediately stifle any ridiculous idea your imagination can conjure. I have a wicked fear of being left out. Or left behind. Or left. Wicked. So, there's that. When I got to school to pick Fin up on Thursday there was some weird mommy dynamic going on. One of the mama's I usually chat with a little had run into a friend and the other one was giving me the brush-off (or so I have decided in my paranoia). All of a sudden I felt like there had been a "make friends" social that I had missed. Seriously, I had to rack my brain to try and figure out if there WAS something I had missed. So I picked Fin up and fretted the rest of the day. After the kids were asleep, and it was just me and Woob in our quiet room, I pelted him with questions: Should I be worried about this? Does it matter if the other mommies are friends? Does it matter if I have no mommy friends in his class? Do you think I could have done something to irritate them already? And then again, does this really matter? Like any good husband, he stared at me for a few minutes, hoping that I would answer at least some of those myself and take the heat off of him. And like any good wife, I started over-explaining my fears. I know that at some point it does matter. At some point his social standing may indeed be decided by his mama's buds even more so than his own. And I get that. I lived that myself. And I'm sure we'd see alot less of James if I didn't like Monika so much. On the flip side, as I laughingly told Moni the next day, even if the boys decided they didn't like eachother, we'd say tough tatas. But does it matter now? (Its amazing when you have children how closely you have to examine every teeny decision that could have any impact on their future and who they might become...) The consensus was that, no it doesn't really matter yet. A relief, I don't have to play nice just yet. And then Woob injected that it "wouldn't hurt to start being sweeter." After a long argument on the difference between "sweet" and "nice", it was still suggested that I try being a little nicer and perhaps a little more approachable. So I asked Woob a question I'm sure no husband wants to hear... No, I did not ask him if I was "her" size. I asked him to give three adjectives to describe me, and they didn't have to be nice one's. Brave, I know. He tossed out: Honest, Loyal and Bossy. I guess that last one caught a look because he ammended it to Organized. Ok, I agree. Even with the bossy. I know who I am, and mostly I'm pretty proud of all of it. Sure I still have days where I feel like my body is the enemy (as I'm sure anyone who has had two kids close understands), but my personality? Not so much. I have some sharp edges and I choose to embrace them rather than file them down. I am, probably above all things, honest. And often, that comes as incompatible with nice. And I am loyal, fiercely so, which can also butt up against nice. And Bossy? Yeah. Even if I'd asked him for 10, I don't think Nice would have been one. Possibly kind, or empathetic, considerate maybe, but not nice. And I'm ok with that. And I'm glad that at least for now I can just rest happy with my friends who are ok with that too. Maybe next year I'll try being the Nice mom. At least until the boys out me. Heh. Sunday, October 19, 2008
Sarunyoo Wongkrachang (17 October 1960 - 10 June 2020) was a Thai actor, director, screenwriter, singer, producer, activist and host. He was born in Samut Songkhram Province, Thailand. He was known for starring as Lord Jom Rajasena in Ong Bak 2 (2008) and Ong Bak 3 (2010) and as Surachi in 13 Beloved (2006). He also directed and wrote Kon Khon (2011). Wongkrachang died on 10 June 2020 of liver cancer at a hospital in Bangkok, aged 59.
WHEELING - The Linsly girls' basketball team may be disappointed about not qualifying for next week's Ohio Valley Athletic Conference 2A tournament, but the its play certainly didn't show it Thursday night at the Stifel Field House. With freshman standout Morgan Brunner doing her usual thing by scoring 20 points and J.J. Jackson coming off the bench to add 10, Linsly (9-8) never trailed during a repeat 63-30 triumph against Bishop Donahue. ''It was real disappointing," Coach Erica Hall said of the near miss of capturing an OVAC berth. ''We had a tough game against Trinity and I was hoping that if we won it, we would be able to get in but we came up one point short.'' Bishop Donahue’s Kelsey Schau (13) goes for a shot while defended by Linsly’s Rosey Raths (20) during their game Thursday night. For Bishop Donahue (5-13), the setback followed a familiar script. ''Turnovers, missed shots and rebounding,'' were the main items Coach Don Gillis talked about. ''We did not do anything right. Linsly has a very good team and they intimidated the heck out of us.'' Bishop Donahue had more turnovers (seven) than points (six) in the first quarter as the Cadets scored 11 straight points while exploding to a 20-4 lead before the visitors' Kat Polinski closed out the opening eight minutes with a basket. Rosey Raths got Linsly off and running early with a drive to the rim for a layin, followed by Miriam Nwachukwu's stickback goal. After Ali Bauer's baseline bucket put the Lady Bishops on the board, Brunner's dish to the right wing ended in a three-point basket by Krista Emch. Donahue's Morgan Carroll rebounded a teammate's missed shot and put the ball off the glass into the net to make it a 7-4 game before Linsly began its 11-0 run with another inside goal by Nwachukwu. Back-to-back Bishop Donahue turnovers resulted in run-out goals by Brunner. Jackson then stole the ball and midcourt and sailed in for another layup and a 15-4 advantage. Brunner then set her feet and drained the first of her two 3-pointers on the night and she added two free throws a few seconds later after the Bishops again turned the ball over. Selena Ghaphery struggled from the floor while being the main focus of the Linsly defense, but she began the second quarter with a floater from in the lane to pull the Bishops to within 20-8. However, Brunner immediately countered with a triple and picked up another assist when she delivered an nice pass to Raths. Emch's bank shot for a triple from the top of the circle gave the Cadets their first 20-point lead8. Brunner's seven points and five from Emch in the quarter extended the halftime advantage to 40-11. Linsly put the game in cruise control the entire second half as both teams emptied their benches. The lead was 49-19 entering the final quarter. Donahue, just 12 of 47 from the field, did not have a double-digit scorer. Bauer finished with nine points, while Carroll's six points were next on the list. When asked about the high-scoring Brunner's willingness to share the basketball by finding an open teammate, Hall responded, ''We play as a team and that says a lot about all of our girls. ''Everyone can take credit for the good things we do and they also take responsibility for the things we need to improve on." 1500 Main St. , Wheeling, WV 26003 \| 304-233-0100 © 2014. All rights reserved.\| Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Kaveri is a river, starting from Karnataka, and drains into the Bay of Bengal, in the state of Tamil Nadu. Rivers of Tamil Nadu
Watch with Kristin It's more fun than doing it alone Breaking News 30 Rock Crash Delays Filming Just more proof that Tina Fey is possibly some kind of superwoman...or at the very least a good luck charm. NBC confirms that there was a car crash Wednesday night on the set of 30 Rock that sent a few actors to the hospital. "An automobile accident occurred Wednesday night while filming a scene in Long Island City," NBC tells us. "Some actors were grazed by one of the cars involved. They were examined at a local hospital and released." According to the New York Post, the accident "nearly killed a 9-year-old boy." However, our sources tell a different story... "It was scary, accidents always are, but it honestly wasn't that big of a deal," says a source familiar with the situation. "The actors involved were just a little shaken and had a few minor scrapes and bruises." We're told that a taxi veered up onto the sidewalk, causing the actors, including Tina Fey and a 9-year-old actor, to dart out of the way. The taxi crashed into another car which was not an NBC vehicle. The EMTs suggested a few of the actors head to the hospital as a precaution. According to sources, everyone involved is fine, but the shoot was canceled for the night. Meanwhile, despite how that promo photo below may look, that wacky Tracy Jordan was not behind the crash this time. 31 Comments
Pizza Tower is a 2023 platform game created by the indie developer Tour De Pizza and released for the Windows. The game follows pizza chef Peppino Spaghetti as he traverses a tower to save his pizzeria. The gameplay consists of increasing score, keeping combos going, finding secrets, and moving fast. Peppino has a lot of moves and attacks to do these things. At the end of each level, the player activates an escape sequence in which they must return to the beginning of the level while a timer goes down. Unlike most other platform games, the player does not have health or lives. Pizza Tower was released on January 26, 2023. It was positively received by reviewers and players alike. They praised its gameplay, aesthetics, music, humor, and similarities to the Wario Land series.
Spike-signal coherence Obtains a measure of coherence between a set of spike times and a continuous signal (e.g. the local field potential - known as spike-field coherence), as a function of frequency (Hz). The coherence value is bound between 1 and 0, for a perfect and a complete lack of coherence respectively. In the case of spike-field coherence, a coherence value of 1 at a particular frequency indicates spikes perfectly phase locked to this frequency component within the local field potential. A full explanation of the function's usage is included within the function. Please feel free to get in contact for suggested improvements and/or the detection of bugs. 인용 양식 Timothy Olsen (2022). Spike-signal coherence (),테고리 태그 Community Treasure Hunt Find the treasures in MATLAB Central and discover how the community can help you!Start Hunting!
Sina Motalebi (Motallebi, syn mTlby; born 21 April 1973 in Tehran) is an Iranian journalist, based in London. He is currently the Editor of ZigZag magazine, a website based on the content of journalists and citizen's contributions following their distance journalism training course provided by the BBC World Service Trust. Sources Sina Motalebi's father arrested - IFEX 1973 births Living people Writers from Tehran Iranian journalists BBC newsreaders and journalists
I belong to a neighborhood book club; we’ve been meeting for nearly eight years now. Our first selection of 2016 was A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. Our choices are all over the place — we’ve read everything from Twilight to The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — but this was one of the first books we’ve read so soon after it was published. Usually I’m a quick reader but it took me a very long time to get through A Little Life, which is a lengthy novel spanning 50 years of friendship shared by four college roommates. It’s the most beautiful book about friendship and loyalty and love I think I’ve ever read, but it’s easily the most brutal book I’ve ever come across in a very long time. I knew by about page 50 that Jude was going to break my heart; every day I was dreading reading more about him and learning more about his horrific past. Yanagihara said in a recent interview that her hope was that people understood sometimes life doesn’t get better, but that doesn’t mean life is not worth living. (She also said she hoped it would sell 5,000 copies. It went on to become a finalist for a National Book Award.) This wasn’t the first book I’ve read in which the protagonist’s life does not get better. Our book club read The Kitchen House a while ago, and the general consensus was that the book literally should have had the subtitle It Just Gets Worse. I’ve read Khaled Hosseini’s brilliant novels about Afghanistan, but the one that sticks with me the most is A Thousand Splendid Suns, in which an illegitimate child grows up to be an abused wife who cannot have any children of her own. She is forced to watch her husband take a new wife, and inexplicably falls in love with the new wife’s baby. When she finally snaps and kills her husband after years of enduring humiliation and unimaginable pain, she’s sentenced to death. As she’s contemplating her life while facing a firing squad (it’s just as pitiful than Jude’s, in my honest opinion), she finds herself thankful that she was able to love and she was eventually loved in return, and she couldn’t ask for more than that. I never fail to tear up just thinking about that. (War and Peace, to provide more of a comparison, is among other things a struggle to find meaning in a difficult life, as if discovering that meaning–religion, money, social status, glory from the battlefield, marriage and children, lack of freedom resulting from capture by the enemy–will in and of itself make life worthwhile. In A Little Life, Jude struggles with a horrific childhood that he can’t seem to overcome or really even talk about, despite the love and support of close friends. He goes on to become a successful lawyer (all the friends become renowned in their respectful fields) and eventually is able to enter a loving relationship with his best friend Willem. After that happened there was a good 200 pages of the book left and I was so tempted to quit right there and be content with the two of them riding off into the sunset together. The worst part wasn’t finally learning what had happened to Jude when he was a child. It wasn’t him losing his legs, or his eventual suicide. It was the sudden death of Willem–Jude’s rock and lifelong friend–in a car crash that had me bawling and doing my worst ugly cry since the ending of A Thousand Splendid Suns. I was so angry at the author, at giving Jude happiness and then snatching it away, at leaving one friend at the end of the book mourning the deaths of the other three at way too young an age. I couldn’t read anything else for a while afterward. I guess I could be more thankful that my boring life (tentative Online Offal memoir title, don’t steal) isn’t as tragic, but I can’t help thinking about those whose lives are just like those characters in the books I’ve read, and trying to deal with resulting melancholy.
For the cheese from Normandy, see Brillat-Savarin cheese Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1 April 1755, Belley, Ain - 2 February 1826, Paris) was a French lawyer and politician, and gained fame as an epicure and gastronome: "Grimod and Brillat-Savarin. Between them, two writers effectively founded the whole genre of the gastronomic essay." Biography Brillat-Savarin was born in the town of Belley, Ain, where the River Rhone separated France from Savoy. He studied law, chemistry and medicine in Dijon and practiced law in his hometown. He was born Jean Anthelme Brillat, but adopted his second surname because an aunt named Savarin left him her entire fortune on the condition that he adopt her name. In 1789, at the start of the French Revolution, he was sent as a deputy to the Estates-General that soon became the National Constituent Assembly, he became well lknown for some of his speeches, particularly one supporting capital punishment. He returned to Belley and was for a year the elected mayor. At a later stage of the Revolution there was a bounty on his head, and he sought political asylum at first in Switzerland. He later moved to Holland, and then to the new-born United States, where he stayed for three years in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Hartford, living on the proceeds of giving French language and violin lessons. For a time he was first violin in the Park Theater in New York City. He returned to France under the Directory in 1797 and acquired the magistrate post he would then hold for the rest of his life, as a judge of the Court of Cassation. He published several works on law and political economy. He remained a bachelor, but he counted love as the sixth sense: his inscription of the Physiognomie. to his beautiful cousin Juliette Recamier reads "Madam, receive kindly and read indulgently the work of an old man. It is a tribute of a friendship which dates from your childhood, and, perhaps, the homage of a more tender feeling...How can I tell? At my age a man no longer dares interrogate his heart." His famous work, Physiologie du gout (The Physiology of Taste), was published in December 1825, two months before his death. The full title is Physiologie du Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendante; ouvrage theorique, historique et a l'ordre du jour, dedie aux Gastronomes parisiens, par un Professeur, membre de plusieurs societes litteraires et savantes. " The book has not been out of print since it first appeared, shortly before Brillat-Savarin's death. Its most notable English translation was done by food writer and critic M. F. K. Fisher, who remarked "I hold myself blessed among translators." Her translation was first published in 1949. The philosophy of Epicurus lies at the back of every page; the simplest meal satisfied Brillat-Savarin, as long as it was executed with artistry: Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking. Influence Brillat-Savarin cheese, the Savarin mould, a ring mould with a rounded contour, and Gateau Savarin are named in his honour. His reputation was spread to a wide television audience by Chairman Kaga of the TV series "Iron Chef" which introduced to millions the quote "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." Brillat-Savarin is often considered as the father of low-carbohydrate diet. He considered sugar and white flour to be the cause of obesity and he suggested instead protein-rich ingredients. Sure enough, carnivorous animals never grow fat (consider wolves, jackals, birds of prey, crows, etc.). Herbivorous animals do not grow fat easily, at least until age has reduced them to a state of inactivity; but they fatten very quickly as soon as they begin to be fed on potatoes, grain, or any kind of flour. ... The second of the chief causes of obesity is the floury and starchy substances which man makes the prime ingredients of his daily nourishment. As we have said already, all animals that live on farinaceous food grow fat willy-nilly; and man is no exception to the universal law. Eneas Sweetland Dallas wrote Kettner's Book of the Table, a Manual of Cookery, 1877, a treatise on gastronomy based on the work of Brillat-Savarin. Dallas published his book under the pseudonym of A. Kettner. Quotes He compared after-taste, the perfume or fragrance of food, to musical enharmonics (Meditation ii): "but for the odour which is felt in the back of the mouth, the sensation of taste would be but obtuse and imperfect." An avid cheese lover, Brillat-Savarin remarked: "A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye." "The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star." "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." "A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. 'Much obliged,' said he, pushing the plate aside, 'I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.'" "To receive guests is to take charge of their happiness during the entire time they are under your roof.'" "Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one that has rendered us the most important service in civic life." "The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.
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Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass (31 October 1815 - 19 February 1897) was a German mathematician. Most of his work is about using logic as a thorough foundation of analysis. He mainly used power series for this. He also provided foundations for the theory of elliptic functions, differential geometry and the calculus of variations. The Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem is named in his honour: according to the theorem, every bounded sequence of real numbers has at least one limit point. He criticised earlier mathematicians for using assumptions too often, and being too vague in their definitions. 1815 births 1897 deaths German mathematicians
I met Arline Lyons in 2008-2010 when I was working as a translation project manager. I’ve always been really impressed with her professionalism as a translator, so I wanted to talk to her about her study experience and her translation practice. You can find her recent work on sake at Taste Translation and Discover Sake. - What was your overall path to fluency in Japanese? - The importance of immersion in learning Japanese - What kind of language study did you do while working on JET? - What does it take to keep your language skills “alive”? - When and how did you become literate in Japanese? - How did you decide to get your masters? - The world of patent translation - What is translation memory and how does it work? - Translation groups - Institute of Translation and Interpreting - French group - German group - ITI’s JNET - How and how much time do freelance translators market themselves? - What do translators need to pay attention to when adding a new client? - What strategies should new translators take when looking for clients? - Chris Durbin? - Subcontracting, direct clients, and machine translation - When and how did you decide to become more specialized as a translator? - When you study specialized terminology, do you study the Japanese terms concurrently with the English? And at the top I talked about some Google search strategies, which I wrote about for the Japan Times back in April 2018.
Lojze Grozde was a Slovenian student who was killed by partisans during World War II. His death is recognised as martyrdom by the Catholic Church. He was beatified on June 13, 2010. Early life Grozde was born on May 27, 1923 in the village of Gorenje Vodale, Trzisce near Mokronog in Lower Carniola, Slovenia. He was an illegitimate child. When he was four years old, his mother married. His stepfather chased him away each time he wanted to see his mother. Later, because Lojze was a good pupil, the stepfather became friendlier towards him, and so he remained at the house and his aunt took care of him. She saw to his schooling and sent him to a school in Ljubljana, where she was working as a servant. Some benefactors helped her support her nephew. He stayed at the Marijanisce boarding school and attended Classical Secondary School (Klasicna gimnazija) in Ljubljana. There he was an outstanding student; but found time for literary creativity too and so became poet and writer. He was a member of Catholic Action and a member of the Marian Congregation. Towards the end of his high schooling World War II was approaching. Circumstances were becoming increasingly strained. This was also the time when Lojze had to make a decision about his vocation. He sought his path in life through meditation and learning, in deep prayer, and in apostolic work for others. Death During his summer vacation of 1942 he did not go home because there was a lot of violence and it was not easy to travel. It was only for New Year 1943 that he decided to visit his relatives. He asked for a permit to travel home. First he visited a friend of his at the village of Struge. On 1 January 1943, the first Friday, he attended mass at the monastery at Sticna, where he received communion for the last time in his young life; then travelled by train from Ivancna Gorica to Trebnje, where he found he could not travel further because the rails had been destroyed. He decided to continue to Mirna on foot, and on the way he rode in a cart. By the first house at Mirna he had to get out of the cart because a partisan guard seized and interrogated him. On him they found a devotional book, The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis and a booklet on Our Lady of Fatima. He was taken to a nearby inn and interrogated, tortured, and killed. Three hours earlier the seminarian Janez Hocevar, who wanted to visit his relatives in nearby Sentrupert, had been also shot. Lojze Grozde was suspected of being an informant; the communists saw in him the mentality that they deprecated and persecuted. Soon rumors spread about cruel way the Tone Tomsic Partisan Brigade, which had conquered Mirna, celebrated the New Year. Some others maintain that Grozde was not tortured. Other sources state that he was tortured. On 23 February 1943 the fate of Lojze Grozde was partly revealed, indicating that he had been tortured. Schoolchildren picking snowdrops found his corpse. Although there were traces of torture on his body, the corpse itself was uncorrupted. His body was taken to nearby Sentrupert, where a committee made a report. The body of Lojze Grozde was buried at the cemetery in Sentrupert because it was impossible to take it to his home parish of Trzisce under the difficult circumstances of those days. The news of the violent torture and death of this innocent student struck fear among people and shocked the students in Ljubljana. Beatification On the 50th anniversary of the death of Lojze Grozde, the Archdiocese of Ljubljana started a process to recognize his martyrdom and also his beatification and canonization. When Pope John Paul II visited Slovenia for the first time in 1996, he mentioned Lojze Grozde twice. He said, "The servant of God Lojze Grozde is just one of innumerable innocent victims of Communism that raise the palm of martyrdom as an indelible memory and admonition. He was a disciple of Christ." Pope Benedict XVI said that "saints are not the past, but they represent the present and the future of the Church and society. They fully realized love in truth, which is the highest value in Christian life; their figures are like prisms that in various casts reflect the unique light of Christ." On March 27, 2010 the news came from Rome that Pope Benedict XVI had affirmed the martyrdom of Lojze Grozde. Thus a solemn beatification is allowed that took place at the Slovenian eucharistic congress in Celje on June 13, 2010. In his introduction to the biography of Lojze Grozde by Anton Strle, who is also a candidate for sainthood, Taras Kermauner wrote: "Grozde combines the ardour and apostolate of Friderik Baraga, the asceticism and suffering of Janez Francisek Gnidovec, a gift for organization, and the Slovenian national consciousness of Blessed Anton Martin Slomsek ... He symbolizes the entire martyrdom suffered by Christians and Catholic Slovenians during World War II and afterwards for their affiliation to their faith ... His personality should be returned to the common Slovenian consciousness of heroes that have been praised and elevated to the first plane as the only models. Today a man like Grozde is needed as our model - a martyr, a saint. Not a man of aggressive military action thinking he will put forward God with arms and the blood of other or foreign people ... I do not fear to write that Grozde belongs among the greatest young Slovenians; that his attitude is fitting and most precious." Film and TV Moj glas zliva se v prosnjo (My voice melts together in supplication - Slovenian) Documental Emission - Film on RTV Slovenia-1, Programm One. Speaks Archbishop and Metropolite from Belgrade Stanislav Hocevar, Jesuit Miha Zuzek and others.
T. For some reason it reminds me of the speed of light (which I learned in 4th grade was 186,000 miles per second). Why does the possibility of my blog posts reaching people years after I'm dead remind me of the speed of light, you ask? Because the light we see from stars at night has had to travel so far (even at 186,000 miles per second) that we don't see it until years after it left its source. We are in fact seeing many stars now that died long ago. But their light is just reaching us. A stretch, I admit, but fascinating never the less (at least to me). So as long as Google doesn't go belly up and dump all of their blogger.com servers, my posts could very well drift through the Internet forever. So my blog, in a sense, makes me immortal. This is kind of scary when you think of the volumes of crap floating around in cyberspace that in essence will never go away. I mean, it's not all quality material like I produce. I wonder if at some point the expanding universe of data on the Web will explode or implode like a reverse big bang theory. What will happen to all of the videos of cats on trampolines and foodie posts about Denny's Baja Moons Over My Hammy? Could they mutate into something worse than Facebook or, gasp, Twitter? Maybe it's time that someone figured out a way to give it all a big flush and send all of the crap on the Web to a treatment center somewhere in the cloud. Then we can all start from scratch. I call this theory, Blog Rasa. A man has to dream.
Christopher Robert "Chris" Evans (born June 13, 1981) is an American television, voice, and movie actor. He is known for his roles as Johnny Storm/Human Torch in Fantastic Four and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and as Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2011-2019). Evans was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts on June 13, 1980. Filmography Movies Television Video Games
‘Welcome To The Love & Freedom World’ Concert, released by Mira Sound Germany on Audio-CD, DVD and as Download, is Michel Montecrossa’s concert for the Mirapuri World Peace Festival 2016 in Mirapuri recorded live in the Omnidiet Hall of Fame on 2nd July 2016. Michel Montecrossa, Mirakali and Diana Antara present 28 peace-awareness songs in English and German like ‘Welcome To The Love & Freedom World’, ‘Heroes Of The Bright Earth’, ‘Sunmessage #2’, ‘Love Reborn’, ‘Love & Peace Forever’, ‘Under Palm Trees’, ‘Brothers And Sisters Of Love’, ‘Good Heart’, ‘Frieden Lacht’, ‘In Mirapuri Where I Ball With You’, ‘Ocean’, ‘The World Of Love And Friendship Action’, ‘World Love Song’. Michel Montecrossa says about the ‘Welcome To The Love & Freedom World’ Concert: “To take a stand for Love & Freedom is the heart and blood of all my songs and of all songs by Mirakali and Diana Antara. Together we sing them to give hope, happiness and strength to the people of the world.” The Songs, Disc One: - Welcome To The Love & Freedom World - Heroes Of The Bright Earth - Sunmessage #2 - Love Reborn - Sweet Magic - In Mirapuri We Are At Home - Divine Child - We All Are Dreaming - People Of The Bright Earth - Haven Of The Future - Love Is Sweet, Love Is Cool - Beauty From The Heart - Love & Peace Forever - Under Palm Trees The Songs, Disc Two: - Brothers And Sisters Of Love - Good Heart - Frieden Lacht - Guardian Of The Bright Earth - Welcome Song - Beyond Borders - In Mirapuri Where I Ball With You - Ocean - Angel Nation - Love Of My Heart - The World Of Love And Friendship Action - I Feel At Home In Your Embrace - World Love Song - Festival Of Love & Freedom Song
In mathematics, divergence is a differential operator that associates a vector field with a scalar field. In a vector field, each point of the field is associated with a vector; in a scalar field, each point of the field is associated with a scalar. Given a vector field , the divergence of can be written as or , where is the gradient and is the dot product operation. Divergence is used to formulate Maxwell's equations and the continuity equation. Related pages Curl Vector calculus
Over signed a major league deal with another team. That pick has since been written off, although there’s now talk that Lee could sign a deal. The Milwaukee Brewers saw Prince Fielder depart over the off-season. They replaced Fielder with Mat Gamel, who recently went down for the year with an ACL injury. That opens up a spot at first base, with a lot of rumors saying the Brewers could pursue Lee to fill that void. The Pirates would get a compensation pick for Lee if he signed with the Brewers prior to the draft. This pick wouldn’t come from the Brewers, so there would be no need to delay the signing on their part. The disclaimer is that Milwaukee would have to sign Lee to a major league deal. That’s an important disclaimer at this point in the year. Typically, when players are signed at this point, they’re signed to minor league deals. This allows the player to treat the minors as a sort of Spring Training. Eventually the player becomes ready for the majors and the club calls him up. This is currently happening in Tampa Bay’s system with Hideki Matsui. If Lee were to sign a minor league deal, the Pirates wouldn’t receive compensation. If he was added to the major league roster before the draft, the Pirates could lobby for a pick, although that’s not a guarantee. The Red Sox, for example, lost Dan Wheeler on a minor league deal. Wheeler was added by Cleveland to the Opening Day roster. Yet Boston still didn’t get a pick for Wheeler, even though he cracked the majors out of Spring Training. There’s a small chance that the Pirates could get a pick if Lee signs, but for that to happen, Lee would have to sign a major league deal. He’d have to be in excellent shape to make that happen at this point in the year, and even if he’s in good shape, his swing would have to be up to speed to immediately step in against major league pitching. So even if he does sign, odds are he would sign a minor league deal, making it nearly impossible to get a pick. Tim….did you see this from Bob Smizik? Doesn’t say much for our over slotting… I wonder how other teams are doing with their over slotting? I didn’t see it, up until I clicked that link. My response to the over-slotting players is that it is too early to be concerned with a lot of these players. There’s reason for concern with some of them. For me, scouting reports matter more in the lower levels than numbers. These guys are working on new pitches, focusing on their fastball, making minor adjustments to their delivery. It’s not really about the numbers, but it’s about getting them developed. Two examples I could give are Zack Dodson and Ryan Hafner. Both have poor numbers this year. In the Prospect Guide I said that Hafner could be this year’s version of ZVR, because he doesn’t throw with consistently high velocity, and has a tendency to leave a few balls up in the zone. So when I see his .295 BAA and two homers in 11.2 innings, there’s some concern. Dodson has great stuff that can dominate lower level hitters. We saw that last year. But despite the numbers last year, his command struggled at times, and he was inconsistent. It just didn’t show up in the stat line. He could put up strong numbers again, but he wouldn’t be making the changes to put up those strong numbers in the upper levels. It’s kind of like the situation with Jameson Taillon last year. I saw him a lot, saw that his stuff could easily dominate that level, and said on a few occasions that I felt if he just pitched and didn’t focus on development, he’d have an ERA below 2.00. This year he’s incorporating his secondary stuff more, and he’s also seeing improvements on his fastball command. Because of that, we’re seeing those dominant numbers. In short, the numbers don’t tell the story with a lot of these guys. If they didn’t worry about making adjustments you’d see some excellent numbers. But you also wouldn’t see those numbers as the players moved up the ladder, since they would have been focused on dominating A-ball hitters, rather than developing their game to work at the upper levels. Thanks Tim… I appreciate the writeup… No problem. One other example I thought of after posting. Last year ZVR was hammered in the first half, then had success in the second half. That was a prime example of what I was talking about. The only thing that changed was that ZVR started pitching off his curveball in the second half, which is a very good pitch. That led to his success, but he didn’t show improvements with his fastball command, which led to the first half struggles. And that’s why he’s currently in extended Spring Training, because he still hasn’t fixed those issues, and he can’t pitch off his curveball forever. The guy who retired already, is beyond concern. The Pirates inability to draft and/or develop talent hasn’t gone away. Way too early to make that claim.
Nurlu is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
: Windows Server 2012 certification. - Completing the 10979 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals course. Candidates can achieve this certification by passing the following exam(s). - Microsoft 70-533 The certification exam can be registered and attempted within 3 months of course/module completion at Logitrain training centre on weekdays during normal business hours (excludes public holidays) /> (Course material provided is shown above) -. This course is likely to add to the employment related skills of the participants. The skills developed are likely to be used in the course of being an employee or working in a business. - Information Technology (IT) professionals who have some knowledge of cloud technologies and want to learn more about Microsoft Azure. - IT professionals who want to deploy, configure, and administer services and virtual machines in Microsoft. - Engineers who have used DevOps approaches to optimize the management and lifecycle of the software in their organisation 4: Managing Virtual Machines. Having previously learnt how to implement virtual machines students will now learn how to manage the machines they have implemented.Lessons Module 9: Implementing Content Delivery Networks and Media Services. In this module students learn what a content delivery network is and how to implement one. They then move on to look at Azure Media Services, and how to utilize media in Azure.Lessons.Lessons.
Broomhill which includes the areas of Sheffield of Broomhill, Crookesmoor, Endcliffe, and Tapton, is one of the 28 wards in City of Sheffield, in the country of England. It is in the western part of the city and covers an area of 2.7 km2. The population of this ward in 2001 was 16,800 people in 5,700 houses. Districts of Broomhill ward Broomhill Broomhill is a suburb of western Sheffield, England. Mostly created in the nineteenth century. The area is just west of the main building of the University of Sheffield, it is known for its large student population, and was identified in 2003 as the richest area apart from London for overall wealth. Crookesmoor Crookesmoor is north of the University of Sheffield's main building housing its law department and sports centre, east of Crookes and south of Walkley. A residential area, it has a large but decreasing student population and is home to Crookes Valley Park. Endcliffe Endcliffe is southwest of Broomhill and is a rich residential area, housing Birkdale School (aprivate school) and three student buildings, which are part of the University of Sheffield. Tapton Tapton is west of Crookes. It is home to Tapton School. Sheffield
Videotron Music Service Violates Net Neutrality: Consumer Groups It took only five days for the first legal attack to target Videotron’s “Unlimited Music” program. You may recall that the service allows Videotron customers to stream Stingray, Rdio, Google Play, Deezer, and Spotify without using their data plans. A consortium of Canadian consumer advocacy groups such as the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, the Council of Senior Citizens’ Organizations of British Columbia (COSCO), and the Consumers’ Association of Canada (CAC) have collectively submitted a Part I application to the CRTC, targeting Videotron’s newly launched Unlimited Music service. In short, the consumer advocacy groups argue that Videotron is exempting certain subscribers from paying fees for certain types of data, which violates the Telecommunications Act and the CRTC’s Mobile TV decision. They also argue that Videotron gives “undue preference” to certain customers and conclude that Unlimited Music makes Videotron’s mobile service “more attractive and less expensive to use at the expense of all other Internet use,” hence violating the rules laid down by the telecom regulator. The fact is, there is a precedent that made headlines just earlier this year: Videotron and Bell were caught giving “unlawful preference” to their TV services. On the other hand, Videotron says its Unlimited Music service doesn’t fall into the same category because it works with multiple partner services, and the company says it is open to teaming up with even more. Geoff White, external counsel with the PIAC, however, argues that Unlimited Music violates the principles of net neutrality. In an email sent to the Globe and Mail, Videotron commented on the allegations: .” The CRTC declined to comment, but we will likely get a response to the application as soon as the regulator has enough information from the parties involved. That means about four months.
John Paul "JP" Karliak (born May 11, 1981) is an American actor, voice actor and comedian. He is known for voicing characters, such as Linus in The Stinky and Dirty Show and Wile E. Coyote in Wabbit/New Looney Tunes. Karliak was born John Paul Karliak on May 11, 1981 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. 1981 births Living people Actors from Pennsylvania American voice actors Comedians from Pennsylvania
If you can, please donate to the legal fund via GoFundMe or PayPal. Previous Chapter: Trolling the Trolls \| Next Chapter: Who is Aaron Greenspan? Greenspan’s Birthday Gift I was 25 years old the day Aaron Jacob Greenspan doxxed me. I remember, because he did it on my birthday. While everyone was sending me birthday wishes on Facebook, the supposed creator of Facebook wanted to give me a different kind of gift –– the kind you’re forced to carry for the rest of your life. I thought it was going to be a good birthday. My friends had planned a surprise for me after work, so I was in a good mood. While I was waiting for some code to compile I opened Twitter to do what I always did when I had a free moment: browse the timeline to catch up on news, debunking any false or misleading info about Tesla I found along the way. Whenever I commented on a news story that was unusually deceptive, I would also try and do some research on where it came from, who was behind it, and what their motives were. On that fateful day, the Twitter timeline algorithms happened to send me a tweet from an account called “PlainSite” claiming that Tesla’s Model 3 had a problem with the screen freezing. I posted a screenshot of the tweet, along with my opinion that the Model 3 had what was hands down the most amazing, most responsive touch screen I’d ever seen in a car. It was so much better than anything else –– like an iPhone touchscreen compared to those old plastic ones you had to push in. Whoever was tweeting as “PlainSite” had clearly never used a Model 3 touchscreen before. PlainSite in the News I had seen PlainSite mentioned in the news several times, and they were always tweeting negative info about Tesla –– it wasn’t the first time I’d seen anti-Tesla tweets from that account. I wondered: What was this organization I had been seeing in the news, and what did they have against Tesla? Back then I was honestly genuinely confused by where the TSLAQ movement was coming from: Were these really people? Was this something set up by Russia or Saudi Arabia to hold back clean energy? Was it the oil industry, the legacy auto industry? Wall Street hedge funds? Even though @tesla_truth was supposed to be funny, I genuinely wanted to know. As I explored and researched the topic, I would share what I found on Twitter. Most TSLAQ accounts kept their identity secret, but not PlainSite. When I googled the non-profit charity, the answer was right there: “PlainSite is run by Aaron Greenspan”. Well, who the hell is Aaron Greenspan? Is that a real person? Kids, heed my advice: Don’t ask questions you don’t want to know the answer to. The Inventor of Facebook The Google results for Aaron Greenspan’s name were filled with stories where Aaron claimed he had invented Facebook. I burst out laughing –– it was too funny to be true. I’d had some great times on Facebook in college and high school, where Facebook was an essential communication tool and a core part of academic life. The Social Network was and still is one of my favorite movies, even more so now that I know how much Aaron hates it (because he’s not in it). To state the obvious, Aaron Greenspan did not invent Facebook. Not at all. Not even a little bit. Based on that, my first impression of Aaron was that he seemed at least a little bit delusional. That’s what was so funny to me: Here was this guy saying Tesla was a total fraud that was about to go bankrupt, which didn’t match my experience or predictions for the future at all. He was trying his best to convince everyone, and seemed to be extremely well connected with mainstream journalists. But wait –– just a few years ago he was telling everyone he invented Facebook. How seriously are you going to take the guy who honestly believes, from the bottom of his heart (assuming he has one), that he is the inventor of Facebook and Mark Zuckerburg just stole the idea from him? It’s like if you asked someone for directions to the mall, and they told you they just flew there on the back of a gorilla. They might follow up by pointing you in the right direction, but you probably don’t want to take anything they say too seriously. At the very least, you’ll want to double-check those directions. Naturally, I had to tweet about how Aaron Greenspan, the guy posting anti-Tesla tweets as “PlainSite”, seriously believed that he invented Facebook. Direct Message Warnings My @tesla_truth account had just around 300 followers at the time, and many of them found Greenspan’s claim of inventing Facebook as funny as I did. But in addition to liking and commenting on the tweet, my direct message inbox (which was open to anyone) instantly lit up with half a dozen messages from different people offering more information about Greenspan and his charity. It seemed there were a lot of people on the internet who didn’t like Aaron, and they warned me to be careful tweeting about him. Many said that they were afraid of him. Some of the accounts messaging me about Greenspan also mentioned he was in court dealing with a restraining order that week. I was instantly intrigued. This Greenspan guy seemed like quite a character, and a nasty one at that. Were these the kinds of people behind TSLAQ? I went to check out PlainSite online, which purported to be a charitable website run by a non-profit that allowed anyone to search public data. To try and figure out how the website worked, I entered my own name and saw that there were no results. I then entered the name of my startup, Smick, assuming there would at least be basic public registration info –– but there was nothing. I concluded that PlainSite wasn’t actually searching public databases at all, and instead only contained information that Aaron Greenspan had manually collected, selected, or published himself. Most of the Twitter messages I received about Aaron Greenspan seemed to be true. I never looked it up until I started researching this story, but it turned out Greenspan was in fact in court dealing with a restraining order the day after my birthday: I went back to my Twitter thread about Greenspan claiming he invented Facebook, and added a new tweet mentioning the court hearing over a restraining order taking place that week. The next time I checked my Twitter Direct Message Inbox, there were even more messages about Aaron Greenspan –– including one from @AaronGreenspan himself. To be honest, I was a little star-struck. I was just a little random Twitter account with a few hundred followers. I talked about things I saw in the news every day, but very few people cared. I’d never had someone in the news I was covering actually message me before. I was surprised and amused: Cold that really be Aaron Greenspan himself? But Greenspan was not amused at all. He was enraged, and began threatening me from the very first message he sent: Aaron Greenspan’s Threat Aaron Greenspan’s message said “Please delete the following:”, followed by a URL shortened link. At this point, I didn’t think anything unusual was going on. It was my birthday, and I had just tweeted about something I’d seen in the news like any other day. My goal was not to harm Aaron, defame him, or spread “false information”. I was just tweeting my own thoughts and opinions, with the best information I had. Anyone was welcome to message me politely if they had a problem with a tweet or believed it was inaccurate. They could even reply publicly if they wanted to. Most times if someone was upset about something or corrected one of my tweets, I would just delete it. They’re just tweets after all, and the objective was never to be an asshole or harm anyone. Given all that, when Aaron Greenspan messaged me I wanted to hear out his concerns and remove or correct any false tweets if necessary. That’s why I clicked on the link to see what exactly he wanted me to delete. Based on what I already knew about Aaron Greenspan, I should have known better than to try and have a conversation with him man to man. It turned out the purpose of the link wasn’t to show me what he wanted deleted at all. Instead, he had set a trap. The link pointed to an image file on his web server, allowing him to monitor the server logs for the IP address of my San Francisco apartment. Once he had the IP address, he could cross-check it against PlainSite’s search history from the same IP, and as luck would have it my search history included my own name. In retrospect, I should have been more careful, but I thought that I was playing around with a charity’s website. It never occurred to me that the site owner would threaten me and attempt retaliation simply for tweeting about the news. Aaron Greenspan’s threat was simple: Delete the tweets about me, or else. Or else what? He made it crystal clear: If I didn’t immediately delete the tweets about him he promised to doxx me, which is internet slang for when you post someone’s identity and personal information online against their will and without their consent in an attempt to incite harassment towards them. The idea is to make them fear for their safety so they do what you want. I was shocked that Greenspan cared so much about a random Twitter account with a few hundred followers, and wondered what would be the right thing to do. If Aaron had messaged me saying, “Hey can you please delete that tweet. It’s inaccurate because of x, y, and z”, then I would have listened to him. Using a misleading message to obtain my IP address by force and threatening retaliation unless I stayed silent about him seemed to suggest that most of what I’d heard about Aaron Greenspan was true –– this was a really nasty guy. Deleting the tweets would have been the easy and safe thing to do, but how many other people had Greenspan and his “charity” silenced? How many more would he target if no one was brave enough to speak up? This was TSLAQ: People like Aaron Greenspan. These were the nasty people spreading false negative information about Tesla I had started @tesla_truth to learn about. With that in mind, I decided to take a risk and keep the tweets up for the public good. It seemed like the right thing to do. What was the worst Greenspan could do to me over a tweet? On top of that, although I didn’t know it at the time Greenspan’s threat was a blatant violation of the Twitter rules. Twitter’s Private Information Policy clearly states:.Twitter Rules In addition, Twitter’s policy on the distribution of hacked materials states: What is in violation of this policy? We define a hack as an intrusion or access of a computer, network, or electronic device that was unauthorized or exceeded authorized access. Behaviors associated with the production of materials which would count as a hack under this policy include: Unauthorized access or interception, or access that exceeds authorization (for example, from an insider), to a computer, network or electronic device, including breaches or intrusions Disclosing materials where there is evidence that they were obtained through malware or social engineeringTwitter Rules Greenspan’s fake URL shortened link to his web server, sent under the guise of an honest request, was an act of social engineering designed specifically with the objective of unauthorized access and interception of my personal information. Under Twitter’s definition of a hack, all of the materials obtained via this trick screenshot link constitute hacked materials in violation of Twitter’s rules. More broadly, Aaron Greenspan’s threats also violated Twitter’s rules against abusive behavior and harassment..Twitter Rules There’s no other way to spin it: Greenspan’s threats to doxx me if I didn’t delete the tweets about him were an attempt to harass me, intimidate me, and silence my voice. Many people have suffered physical and emotional hardship, myself included, because PlainSite is somehow still allowed on Twitter. Naturally, this was far from the first time Aaron Greenspan and his “charity” PlainSite had violated the Twitter rules. Previously, the PlainSite account had been permanently suspended multiple times from Twitter for sharing people’s private information without their consent, in violation of Twitter’s policies: In addition, his personal @AaronGreenspan account had been suspended as well: It breaks my heart to see that Greenspan was suspended from Twitter in October 2018, but somehow managed to convince administrators to restore his account. October was one month before I created @tesla_truth, and three months before I first encountered Aaron Greenspan on my 25th birthday. If they had just kept his account suspended, all the pain, suffering, harassment, and stalking I’ve endured over the last two years never would have happened. With Greenspan’s “charity” Twitter account restored, he was free to violate the policy again and strike his next victim. And strike again he did, violating the exact same private information policy he was suspended for again on my birthday. Birthday Doxxing When I refused to bow to Aaron Greenspan’s threats and delete the tweets about him, he made good on his word and doxxed me within an hour. Greenspan insulted me by calling me a failure, and then began stalking me. He looked through all my posts to make one thing clear: Every move I made would be followed so that he could hurt me if he needed to. He revealed my real name without my consent and used photos I had tweeted to track my movements. He then shared the name and location of my family’s business which he found by looking at my LinkedIn profile. This was concerning because my family and a lot of people I cared about worked in that office, and I didn’t want anyone to hurt them. Since the company only had one office, anyone who saw his post could use it to easily find me in real life. Sure enough, I immediately started receiving strange threatening text messages, phone calls, and letters after the doxxing. People would say things like “I’m at Del Taco”, referencing a restaurant next to our office building to imply that they were close by and watching me, ready to act at any time should I cross TSLAQ. Despite Greenspan’s threats and doxxing souring my birthday, I tried to shrug it off. “Don’t let this creep get to you, that’s what he wants”, my friends told me. I tried to forget the strange text messages and calls, hoping it was just someone messing with me for reasons unrelated to Greenspan doxxing me. “So what if Greenspan shared the name behind my @tesla_truth account?”, I thought at first. Unlike TSLAQ, I wasn’t tweeting to manipulate the price of stocks and felt that I had nothing to hide. I was naive. I could never have imagined the lengths Aaron Greenspan would go to in order to try and make my life hell. This is a guy with no job, no life, and nothing to do except torment his perceived enemies –– including people and journalists who did nothing more than say Mark Zuckerberg invented Facebook. People in my Twitter DMs warned me, “be careful, this guy will ruin your life” but I didn’t take them seriously enough. What was the worst he could do, and how much did he really care about some random guy’s tweets? Looking back, I wish I’d taken all the warnings about Aaron Greenspan in my direct messages to heart. When the Twitter rules talk about “physical, emotional, and financial hardship”, that’s not abstract for me anymore. I’ve lived those words, and understand them more deeply than anyone should have to. Immediately after doxxing me on Twitter, Aaron Greenspan placed a phone call to the office of our family’s business. He demanded that the company fire me immediately, or face retaliation. After he got off the phone with the company, he attempted to contact my Dad. I found out the next day when my Dad asked “Who is Aaron Greenspan?”. I couldn’t believe he would do so much over a few tweets. This guy was really every bit as crazy as I’d heard. Doxxing Aftermath After Greenspan called my office and my Dad, I decided to return his call myself. I found his phone number on the PlainSite website and gave it a call. But as the phone rang, I thought better of it. The guy was clearly crazy, and any attempts to talk to him would likely only lead to more tweets and harassment targeted in my direction. So when he picked up the phone, I pretended to be a telemarketer working for the phone company until he hung up. I wasn’t too eager to tweet about Greenspan and face further retaliation, but I still mentioned him sometimes when he said something crazy or I saw him in the news. Aaron was not ready to let it slide: Every time I tweeted about him, I faced false accusations and threats to remind me to stay quiet or else. For example in retaliation for some tweet I can’t remember, Greenspan accused me of illegally selling shares in my company to strangers online. U.S. securities law only allows selling shares in private companies when certain conditions are met, so he essentially falsely accused me of violating securities laws. Of course, Smick had never sold any shares to the public but that didn’t matter. By falsely claiming “you can buy shares online” Greenspan sent a clear message: Keep quiet about me and my business, or I’ll target your business. He also threw in another lawsuit threat for good measure, as a way to try and scare people away from any involvement with my company. In another example, he falsely accused me of running a red light. The copyrighted video he stole and re-uploaded to his “charity” Twitter and YouTube accounts included the location where the car was driving, as part of Greenspan’s continued efforts to stalk and track my location from my public posts. Besides the fact that an accusation of running a red light is absurdly trivial, I wasn’t even the person driving the car in the video. I had just posted it to demonstrate that Autopilot had recently added the ability to detect red lights and warn the driver to stop if needed. It was just a regular part of my coverage of Autopilot, which often involved posting videos from others on a daily basis. To prove that I was the driver in the video, Greenspan’s charity Twitter account stole a copyrighted photograph of my car with my license plate exposed and tweeted it below the video. Of course, this photograph offered no proof at all. While it’s true my Model 3 was black, that was the “default” color for the Model 3 at the time –– the only color choice that came at no extra cost. Pretty much everyone my age stretching to afford a Model 3 picked the default color at the time. The real purpose behind sharing a photo of my car was for Aaron to continue to harass me, stalk me, and share my personal information online with people who wanted to harm me. “Great”, I remember thinking, “Is someone going to recognize my car and license plate and vandalize it now?”. I loved that car, so it wasn’t pleasant to think about. Greenspan admitted he wasn’t even sure I was driving the car but still chose to expose more of my personal information anyway, not to mention the address of my friend’s apartment in Los Angeles. Just like the birthday doxxing, I laughed off Greenspan’s attempts to harass and threaten me as minor annoyances. In a way, it was almost kind of funny to see him obsess about me so much that he had to constantly hurl false accusations of minor crimes like “running a red light”. At least at first, Greenspan’s attempts to threaten me into silence fell flat on their face. Black Mail A few weeks after Aaron Greenspan doxxed me on my 25th birthday, I received a black envelope in the mail at our office that was slightly more concerning. Inside there was no letter, and no words at all: Just the photo from when I got caught with weed at Holy Ship. I gulped hard. My parents still didn’t know about what happened, and I wasn’t too eager for them to find out. With a one-word change in the mailing label, that envelope could have been sent to my Mom or my Dad. That piece of mail had no words, but the message was clear: If you continue talking about Aaron Greenspan and his “charity” PlainSite, this will come out. I was being blackmailed, somewhat literally. I couldn’t believe what was happening. I had never expected my stupid “Steve Jobs” account to illicit such a crazy response. Now I was being stalked and threatened, all because I tweeted about some “charity” that inexplicably hated Tesla. I should have gone to the police then and there, but I just threw the letter away in a public dumpster a few miles away from the office since I was afraid of someone seeing it in the trash. I hoped that if I ignored it, it would all just go away. Unfortunately, it never did. How could this be happening? What kind of charity stalks, harasses, and threatens critics online –– even if they only have a few followers? If I was going to protect myself, I needed to learn more about Aaron Greenspan’s “charity”, the Think Computer Foundation (doing business as PlainSite) –– and about Aaron Greenspan himself. Read Chapter. 6 thoughts on “Chapter 6: Meet Aaron Jacob Greenspan” Greenspam is literally the worst lol hahahah I know litterally the worst guy ever 😂 Ikr!!! And he’s competing against 7.594 billion people so it’s not like that’s an easy task! He might not have invented facebook but he’s a champion in my book, brother. 🤣🤣🤣 Love the posts, there needs to be a book written about the Tesla shorts though. Must be named, “the short shorts” When do we hear more about Jim? 😉 chapter 8 hahahaha
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The top prize in the 2014 Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence has been awarded to Jeta Abazi, journalist from Kosovo at a closing ceremony held in Belgrade, on Friday. For the eighth year in a row, 10 promising journalists from across the region will present the investigative reports they developed at part of BIRN’s annual Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence scheme. Vlad Odobescu, a Romanian investigative reporter and a participant in last year’s Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence, has won a Hubert Humphrey Fellowship in the United States. Two alumni from the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence have won awards this month for their work in 2013. Arbana Xharra, editor of Kosovo daily Zeri and an alumna of the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence, was given two awards in December for her journalistic work during 2013. Bajrami was awarded in December in the UN Development Programme in Kosovo’s eighth annual Awards for Best Journalistic Stories that contribute to the fight against corruption in Kosovo..?
Harold Thomas Pace Hayes (April 18, 1926 - April 5, 1989), editor of Esquire magazine from 1963 to 1973, was a main architect of the New Journalism movement. He hosted a public television interview program, worked briefly as an editorial producer for (and, with Robert Hughes, the first cohost of) 20/20.
Yeah, yeah, I know today is Friday. (Unlike Dr. Gren, who at the end of today's lecture said, "What day is it today...? Friday...?" He's said stuff like that before, the poor guy.) However, today is the post that should have been done yesterday: the infamous Let's Mock the Flor-Ala Tweets weekly post! Hurrah and all that. I didn't get the post done yesterday because I was working on my research paper and then went to the ghost tour on campus. I finished my research paper today. It was only supposed to be 6-8 pages and it is actually, including the works cited page, 16 pages. I have emailed Mrs. Howell to ask if this is okay. If I must cut portions of it, I will be frantic come Monday looking for a few more sources in Collier. It was a very easy topic for me, okay?! And I got really into the cosmic ray theory of cloud formation and corresponding climate fluctuation. It made sense, and I had to detail what the opposition said to it and write a rebuttal. And that took space. Also I had to explain how the ozone layer worked. I am afraid at that point I went a little chemistry-happy and started rambling happily about diatomic nitrogen and oxygen and molecular bonds. But, hey, it's important to understanding how it works!!! All right, I am a nerd. So what? The ghost tour wasn't very scary. I used to be petrified of Halloween stuff, but now I'm like, "Meh, your fake-blood-y mask is so totally fake. I can see the little plastic tubes, etc." So I was good! The only time I began to become a little creeped out was when Mrs. Glass was telling us how a chest of drawers was pushed across a locked bedroom from the inside upstairs in the O'Neal house, leaving tracks in the half-inch of dust on the floor, but no footprints. Or how footsteps would come down the stairs each night, always stopping on the last step before reaching the ground floor, and go back upstairs. I will, however, now think of Molly in the Off-Campus Bookstore and Jeremiah in Wesleyan (and his poor dad) every time now. I did look for Mrs. O'Neal today. No luck. Didn't really expect to see her, but you never know... :) Apparently, Sherman stayed in Wesleyan and threatened to reduce Florence to ashes. grumbles about the Union's scorched earth policy Even Sherman admitted that, according to what he had been taught at West Point, he deserved to be tried for war crimes. Now ROBERT E. LEE kept the South's side of the war as civil as he could... However, lest I go into a War for Southern Independence rant, I had better continue. Apparently, Mr. Hentz's piano playing can be heard in Willingham Hall sometimes. I want to know what is in the attic at Willingham that they have to barricade the stairs up to it off with desks and chairs. Is it a mundane reason like bad flooring, or something else entirely? LOL, I'm so melodramatic. We also heard about Priscilla, who apparently still haunts the Guillot even though O'Neal Hall isn't there anymore, and R. C. Fuller (I do hope I have his initials right), who jumped off the roof of Bibb Graves in the 60's after learning he had cancer and whose whistling can apparently be heard sometimes. Now, for the tweets of the week! "I just LOVE being told that I'm going to hell for wearing shorts, playing sports, and having a tattoo on my way to class!" Haha. Now, I didn't see this Brother Micah for myself, but I have no doubt that he is charming individual and meant all of this with the deepest and most sincere Christian charity. coughs suspiciously I think I would have liked to have seen that whole affair. Someone removed ESPN form the com building? Bwahaha. Apparently some people can't live without sports. Getting rid of CNN probably wouldn't hurt, either. Gah, the spread of politics. As I have heard somewhere, "Soldiers and diplomats are both essential for a war. Soldiers are necessary to end the war and diplomats are necessary to start it." Of course, sometimes you also have nutty presidents who hurl their countries headlong into bloody wars. I'm looking at YOU, Wilson and FDR. FDR did his level best to get us into WWII- he GAVE Britain airplanes and warships, for crying out loud; an American soldier helped spot the Bismarck for Britain to sink it; and FDR gave orders for us to gun down the Bismarck if it entered our waters!-, and as for Woodrow Wilson.... sigh... when Sigmund Freud says you're a nutcase, you're a nutcase. "We need a crazy Christian preacher alert system at Una so we know when to watch/avoid the amphitheater." I so totally agree! It should be standard Lion Alert programming. "I should be working right now but I'm too busy watching two girls have a brutal argument outside Bibb Graves." LOL. I am really wondering now what the argument was about... "Just saw a guy sagging so bad his pants were literally around his knees. You stay classy." Yup, there's few things worse than getting trapped in a mass of people behind some huge dude you can't get around, his britches around his knees and his boxers billowing in the breeze behind him.... Ew. Just ew. "Just saw a squirrel walking so close to a person I thought it was their dog. They are too comfortable with us." Let's just deed the campus over to the squirrels right now, shall we? They act like they own the place, anyway. Speaking of squirrels... I once heard a squirrel described in baby talk as a 'squiggle'. I now cannot see a squirrel without thinking 'squiggle' to myself. Or 'rat with a fuzzy tail', courtesy of Dr. Bibbee the first day of last semester. Yep... my life at UNA so far would have been a lot more boring without Dr. Bibbee and Dr. Gren. Thank heavens for the funny professors and the absent-minded/funny professors. In Pace Christi, Elyse
Italian literature is written in the Italian language, especially in Italy. It may also refer to literature written by Italians or in other languages spoken in Italy, often languages that are very similar to modern Italian, including regional varieties and dialects. Italian literature begins in the 12th century, when in different areas of the peninsula the Italian vernacular started to be used to write books. The Ritmo laurenziano is the first text of Italian literature. History One of the first examples of Italian literature is the tradition of lyric poetry sung in Occitan. This tradition arrived in Italy by the end of the 12th century. In 1230, the Sicilian School became famous for being the first style in standard Italian. Dante Alighieri, one of the greatest of Italian poets, is important and famous for being the author of La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy, c. 1308-1320). Renaissance humanism developed during the 14th and the beginning of the 15th centuries. Early Italian humanists, such as the lyric poet Francesco Petrarca and the Neoplatonist philosopher Marsilio Ficino, were highly educated Classical scholars and great collectors of old manuscripts. The development of the drama in the 15th century was very great. In the 16th century, the main feature of the time following the end of the Renaissance is that it perfected the Italian character of its language. Niccolo Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini were the chief originators of the science of history. Pietro Bembo was an famous and important figure in the development of the Italian language and an influence on the 16th-century renewed interest in the works of Petrarca. In 1690, the Academy of Arcadia was created with the goal of "restoring" literature by copying the simplicity of the old shepherds. In the 18th century, the political condition of the Italian states began to improve, and philosophers spread their writings and ideas throughout Europe during the Age of Enlightenment. Apostolo Zeno and Metastasio are two of the important figures of the age. Carlo Goldoni, a Venetian playwright and librettist, created the comedy of character. The leading figure of the 18th-century Italian literary revival was Giuseppe Parini. The ideas behind the French Revolution of 1789 gave a special direction to Italian literature in the second half of the 18th century. It began with the publication of the book Dei delitti e delle pene (On Crimes and Punishments, 1764) by Cesare Beccaria. Patriotism and classicism were the two ways of thinking that motivated the literature that began with the Italian playwright and poet Vittorio Alfieri. Others include the poets Vincenzo Monti and Ugo Foscolo. The Romantic movement had as its organ the Conciliatore, established in 1818 at Milan. The main initiator of the reform was the Italian poet and author Alessandro Manzoni, known for his historical novel I promessi sposi (The Betrothed, 1827-1842). The great Italian poet of the age was Giacomo Leopardi. The bookish movement that happened before and at the same time as the political revolutions of 1848 was represented by four writers: Giuseppe Giusti, Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi, Vincenzo Gioberti, and Cesare Balbo. After the Risorgimento, political literature became less important. During the first part of this period, two different tendencies of literature against Romanticism appeared: the Scapigliatura and Verismo. The most well-known figure of Verismo was the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga, author of I Malavoglia (The House by the Medlar-Tree, 1881). Important early 20th-century Italian writers include Giovanni Pascoli, Italo Svevo, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Umberto Saba, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Eugenio Montale, and Luigi Pirandello (winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature). Neorealism was developed by Alberto Moravia. Umberto Eco became successful with the detective story Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose, 1980). Novel Prize winners Six Italian authors have received the Nobel Prize in Literature. These are Giosue Carducci, Grazia Deledda, Luigi Pirandello, Salvatore Quasimodo, Eugenio Montale, and Dario Fo. Some of the most important books of the Italian literature The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri I Promessi Sposi by Alessandro Manzoni Il Decamerone by Giovanni Boccaccio Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto Il fu Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello Ultime lettere by Jacopo Ortis di Ugo Foscolo Se questo e un uomo by Primo Levi Il barone rampante by Italo Calvino I Malavoglia by Giovanni Verga Il Principe by Niccolo Machiavelli La Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso Cuore by Edmondo De Amicis Il deserto dei Tartari by Dino Buzzati La coscienza by Zeno di Italo Svevo Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Il piacere by Gabriele D'Annunzio Myricae by Giovanni Pascoli Canti by Giacomo Leopardi Uno, nessuno e centomila by Luigi Pirandello Il nome della rosa by Umberto Eco La casa in collina by Cesare Pavese Il gattopardo by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa I Vicere by Federico De Roberto Mastro don Gesualdo by Giovanni Verga Writings on the subject De Sanctis, F., Storia della letteratura italiana. Napoli, Morano, 1870 Momigliano, A., Storia della letteratura italiana. Messina-Milano, Principato, 1936 Sapegno, N., Compendio di storia della letteratura italiana. La Nuova Italia, 1936-47 Croce, B., La letteratura italiana per saggi storicamente disposti. Laterza, 1956-60 Russo, L., Compendio storico della letteratura italiana. Messina-Firenze, D'Anna, 1961 Petronio, G., Compendio di storia della letteratura italiana. Palermo, Palumbo, 1968 Asor Rosa, A., Sintesi di storia della letteratura italiana. Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1986 De Rienzo, Giorgio, Breve storia della letteratura italiana. Milano, Tascabili Bompiani, 2006 [1997], Ferroni, G, Storia della letteratura italiana, Milano, Mondadori, 2006 Italian literature
Labour is finally set to release information on the shadow cabinet’s meetings with media proprietors, Guido learns, with the data now being collated covering the first year of Starmer’s leadership. Guido first pointed out the transparency black hole from the party back in 2019, after spotting Corbyn’s team had failed to release the data for three years. So much for Leveson… While Starmer has no choice in releasing the meetings given his current No. 10 transparency push, Guido understands the blackspot from 2016 to 2020 will remain undeclared, given it would be the responsibility of the former Leader of the Opposition’s office, many of whom are now no longer involved with the party. Corbyn’s meetings with Skwawkbox and Novara Media will be lost to the mists of time… This is the roll call of wrong ‘uns who tried to implement Leveson 2. Fortunately for the freedom of the press, they failed by nine votes. Abbott, rh Ms Diane Alexander, Heidi Ali, Rushanara Allin-Khan, Dr Rosena Amesbury, Mike Antoniazzi, Tonia Ashworth, Jonathan Austin, Ian Bailey, Mr Adrian Bardell, Hannah Barron, rh Sir Kevin Beckett, rh Margaret Benn, rh Hilary Berger, Luciana Betts, Mr Clive Black, Mhairi Blackford, rh Ian Where are you moving to, John? MPs have voted against Ed Miliband’s Leveson 2 amendment by a majority of nine. And… I understand Labour will not be pushing the section 40 amendment to the Data Protection Bill to a vote, meaning newspapers will not be liable for legal costs in libel actions they win. Big victory for investigative journalism. — Kevin Schofield (@PolhomeEditor) May 9, 2018 Labour have just confirmed to Guido that the Watson amendment will not go to a vote. They didn’t have the numbers and have bottled it. Victory for the free press. Ed Miliband, Tom Watson, Max Mosley, Impress, Hugh Grant, John Cleese, Brian Leveson, Gary Lineker, Steve Coogan, Evan Harris… your boys took one hell of a beating (well, just)… Tonight the Commons votes on Tom Watson and Ed Miliband’s amendments declaring war on press freedom. The amendments are a Trump-style assault on the media, outrageously attempting to force publishers to pay both sides’ legal costs even if they win a dispute – a reform that will potentially bankrupt media companies. Watson and Miliband, backed by former fascist Max Mosley and Hacked Off’s press-hating millionaire celebrities and oligarchs, last night lost the support of the Guardian. In an excoriating statement condemning Watson and Miliband, Guardian News and Media warn the amendments “would further erode press freedom and have a severe chilling effect for the news environment in the UK”. They are particularly damning of Watson: .” These amendments are driven by Watson and Miliband’s personal loathing of the free press, rather than any concern for victims of intrusion. Miliband has semi-retired from his £77,000-a-year job as MP for Doncaster North – he seems to spend most of his time making podcasts and he couldn’t be bothered to turn up for the Syria debate last month. Even the Guardian is horrified by this blatant attempt by Watson and Miliband to undermine the free press in Britain. Any MP who votes for their amendments tonight is an enemy of press freedom… In a 2014 speech delivered to mark the second anniversary of the Leveson Inquiry, Labour media supremo Tom Watson said: .” The Tories have written to Jeremy Corbyn to raise the issue “that the Labour Party has not published any transparency data relating to meetings with proprietors, editors and senior media executives since the last general election.” Transparency details used to appear on the party’s website, listing contact between frontbenchers and the media. Today Guido cannot find any such information. Despite Max Mosley giving £500,000 to Tom Watson to get him to push the Leveson agenda, Labour has broken its very own Leveson pledge… We do not now know which media moguls and senior editors Jeremy Corbyn has met. Morning Star’s editor will probably be on the list…
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Nanatsu no Taizai: Ban no Bangai-hen Titles: The Seven Deadly Sins OVA, The Seven Deadly Sins: Ban's Side Story, 七つの大罪バンの番外編, Nanatsu no Taizai OVA Description: Aired: Jun 17, 2015. OVA bundled with the 15th volume of the manga, featuring the sin of greed, Ban, as the central character. Status: Ongoing Released: 2015 Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen, Supernatural Watch Nanatsu no Taizai: Ban no Bangai-hen Online: Already Rated! You have already rated this series. Already Rated! A guest has already rated this series using your current IP address ().
Char kway teow (sometimes also spelled as char kuey teow, ) is a food made with stir-fried noodles made from rice. It comes from Southeast Asia. The dish is of southern Chinese origin. In Hokkien and Teochew, char means 'stir-fried' and kway teow refers to flat rice noodles. It is made with flat rice noodles () or kway teow (; ). The noodles are between 0.5 and 1 cm wide. They are stir-fried over very high heat with garlic, light and dark soy sauce, chilli paste, whole prawns, shelled blood cockles, chopped Chinese chives, slices of Chinese sausage and bean sprouts. Other thngs that are commonly added include fishcake and belachan. The dish was first created and cooked for Chinese laborers in the Southeast Asia region. It has become popular within the region from the late 20th century onwards. It is very popular in Malaysia and Singapore. The dish is said to be unhealthy because it has a high amount of saturated fat. This is because it is traditionally stir-fried in pork fat with pork lard.
Asian Development Bank to help fund Tonga’s renewables-plus-storage push The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to part-fund a US$53.2 million undertaking to power Tonga with renewable energy, including the installation of 22.2MWh of energy storage. The ADB has approved a grant of US$12.2 million for the Tonga Renewable Energy Project, through the much larger Pacific Renewable Energy Investment Facility, which is worth US$750 million in total. ADB is providing up to US$200 million of that funding. Tonga is trying to reduce the carbon intensity of its energy mix and reach 50% renewable energy by 2025, then 70% by 2030. The islands burn around 13 million litres of diesel fuel each year to supply 95% of Tonga’s electricity according to a document on the project prepared by Tonga Power Limited, the Pacific island Kingdom’s sole electricity supplier, together with the Ministry for Meteorology, Energy, Information, Disaster Management, Environment, and Climate Change. Those two organisations will implement the programme, while Tonga’s Ministry of Finance and National Planning will execute it. The deployment of several renewable energy and battery storage facilities will help cut that diesel consumption by about 7 million litres per year, with the project expected to have a 25-year lifetime. At present about 10% of the country’s GDP is spent on the cost of importing fuels. - Multiple battery energy storage systems will be deployed on the island of Tongatapu, complementing existing solar and wind generation facilities. Independent Power Producer (IPP) contracts are expected to be created for these systems. - Grid-connected solar power plants, as well as “small” battery storage systems for Eua and Vava’u islands - Small-scale battery energy storage and renewables-based hybrid systems on five of Tonga’s outer islands - Build-out of further capacity and support for project management, including engagement with local communities, such as training up local workers. The UNFCCC Green Climate Fund will contribute around US$29.9 million and the Government of Australia around US$2.5 million towards costs, with those grants also administered by the ADB. Source: energy-storage.news (7)
Charles Henry "Chuck" Noll (January 5, 1932 - June 13, 2014) was an American football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). He played for Cleveland Browns from 1953 to 1959. He was the only head coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1969 to 1991. He has more Super Bowl wins (4) than any other head coach in NFL history, and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993. Noll was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He went to the University of Dayton on a football scolarship. Noll died on June 13, 2014 in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, aged 82. He had Alzheimer's disease and heart disease.
The Washington High School boys soccer team was front and center Wednesday night at the board of education meeting. The school board and district officials recognized the team and their coaches at the start of the meeting. Each player received a certificate from Superintendent Dr. Lori VanLeer, along with a goody bag. The team finished its season with a second-place finish Nov. 11 at the MSHSAA Class 3 State Championship. VanLeer called the team’s season “historic,” noting it’s the furthest a soccer team has ever gone in the district. “You all showed tremendous grit and tenancity . . . and were a ton of fun to watch,” she said. VanLeer said Blue Jay pride was evident by the large number of fans who turned out to watch as the team headed to state. The team members are as follows: Christian Longseth, Ottmar Escalante, Jared Lopez, Jake Fregalette, Zach Subke; Trent Lewis, Michael Andrews, Conlan Jarvis, Brock Laughlin, Jeremiah Collins; Marcus Berariu, Greg Kruse, Cody Pilgram, Gabe Lopez, Zach Batson, Tristan Sarchette; Matt Ruth, Lane Miller, Andrew Eckelkamp, Josh Beuke, Noah Bay; Zach Harms, Chase Hall, Carter Kleekamp, Caleb Bay and team manager Dalton Cruzen. The head coach is Derek Schriewer. The soccer team also recently served as the grand marshal of the Downtown Washington Inc. Holiday Parade of Lights.
Eussenheim (or Eussenheim) is a community in Main-Spessart in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany. Geography Location Eussenheim is on the river Wern in the Wurzburg Region, in the Frankisches Weinland ("Franconian Wineland"). The community has the following Gemarkungen (traditional rural cadastral areas): Aschfeld, Buhler, Eussenheim, Hundsbach, Munster and Obersfeld. There is also a hamlet in the community called Schonarts.
Remember the days before Alien vs. Predator (2004) premiered in theaters? You know, the days when it was not a requirement to hate Paul W.S. Anderson; but rather, a life choice similar in gravity to deciding one’s career, underwear preference and toilet paper roll position. Once again, we here at the Cavalcade of Schlock ask you to journey with us back to simpler times when all we knew from Anderson was the terrifying Event Horizon (1997) and the greatest Enter the Dragon (1973) remake, Mortal Kombat (1996) and take a look at the first installment of the Resident Evil series. Milla Jovovich stars as the aptly unnamed, amnesiac protagonist, an employee of the evil Umbrella Corporation (Traveler’s Insurance, I’m looking at you!), the world’s leading developer for all things technological, pharmaceutical and Frankensteinian. Jovovich is a security operative stuck dealing with hordes of zombies after a botched theft of Umbrella’s T-Virus and an artificial intelligence-controlled security system kill everyone in Umbrella’s underground lab. Luckily, Jovovich is not alone. Joining her amidst an assortment of cookie-cutter paramilitary types are the always-annoying Michelle Rodriguez and the always under-used Colin Salmon. Anderson does an excellent job of getting the action started early and maintaining that momentum throughout the course of the film. (Also, starting with a semi-nude Jovovich doesn’t hurt.) However, Anderson is hindered by a low-budget. Get ready for a lot of shots that either look like the interior of every office building in which you have ever worked or else some unidentifiable void. What should be atmospheric and/or a creepy technological installation comes across at best Syfy Saturday fodder and at worst an Uwe Boll film. Compare this with Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis (2005) and tell me if there’s much of a difference. While the action is fairly non-stop, the bulk of the action is based around classics of video game logic: the “go here to get something over there working,” the “find the artifact,” and the old standby “OHMYGOD WHY WON’T YOU DIE?” Adding to the video-game-en-scène are a heavily techno-inspired Marilyn Manson soundtrack, awkward/fixed camera angles, random piano blares, and frequent looks at the “map screen.” While these may seem like detractors, I found these homages enriched the film if only because Anderson did not randomly inject actual screen shots of the game into the film like other German-directed video game films (House of the Dead (2003)) My only real complaint is that 90% of the film is not scary. If you have seen any zombie movie before, you’ve seen all the scares, jumps, and pop outs in this film. [SPOILER] However, the ending sequence from the exit of the Hive to the final shot are truly scary. If only because the sequence pops out of nowhere and tonally feels like nothing else in the film. [END SPOILER] But, if you’re looking for a soild horror/action film, you could do worse than join the world's skinniest action star for 90 minutes of zombie ass-kicking. That and the end shot is absolute gold.
Wild Kratts is a 2011-2021 Canadian children animated educational television series produced by 9 Story Media Group and Produced in association with TVOKids, Tele-Quebec PBS Kids and Knowledge Kids Children's television series
Within its international expansion program, Cazcarra Image Group has been present at Cosmoprof International Fair, held from March 30 to April 2, in the Italian city of Bologna. There, it has introduced four lines of professional products for the entire Personal Image sector of Europe and other countries: Ten Image (Make-up), Fashion Nails (Nails), FX Make Up Secrets (Special Effects) and Permanent Image (micro-pigmentation, piercing, tattoos). Cazcarra also introduced as a novelty at Cosmoprof its new and exclusive high level make-up products line, Glamorous Look Collection, The magic of Glamour. During the four days of the event a number of importers and distributors interested in its products lines visited the Cazcarra stand. Furthermore, the professional public attendance was high at all times in the exhibition, who watched the continuous make-up and nails demonstrations, performed by the Cazcarra specialists. This strong activity attracted the attention of a lot of media that covered the event, all the professional magazines of Italy went there to get to know about the Cazcarra proposals and TV channels as important as RAI, Sky, Italia 1, Canale 5, RETE 4, TV Rumania or TV Croatia showed our work and our brand to the entire country and to most part of Europe. Cazcarra highly values the interest raised among the importers, professionals and media of the different countries and the repercussion in the international expansion of the company.
Stephen Root (born November 17, 1951) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice artist, and comedian. He is best known for doing many voices in movies and TV shows. He voiced Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickland in King of the Hill, Zeb Zoober in The Country Bears and Junjie in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness.
HGDP opponents vindicated after five years of controversy A US National Research Council (NRC) report released October 21 has unambiguously rebuffed the controversy-plagued Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP), a project that proposed to collect DNA samples from over 700 groups of people - mostly indigenous communities - from around the world. "The HGDP's survival is now definitely in question" says RAFI's Executive Director Pat Mooney, "if it's not a spent force, it is certainly marginalized in the scientific community and in very deep difficulty." According to the prominent NRC committee of ethicists, scientists, and lawyers, a global survey of human genetic diversity is merited; but the HGDP proposal is both ethically and scientifically inadequate. According to the NRC committee: "Following an exhaustive examination, the committee found the [HGDP] proposal does not clearly explain the purpose of the project or provide the necessary safeguards for protecting participants." "We welcome the official rejection of the HGDP," says Jannie Lasimbang of Sabah, Malaysia and President of the Asian Indigenous Peoples' Pact, "especially considering HGDP never seriously consulted and worked with the subjects of the proposed project and never fully addressed concerns raised by dozens of indigenous peoples' organizations across the world." Mooney concurs "Many of the NRC's most important findings echo positions indigenous people, RAFI, and other NGOs have maintained for years; but which were dismissed by the HGDP." "But now, on many important points," says Edward Hammond of RAFI "the NRC is backing us up." Since 1993, RAFI has publicly maintained the HGDP is ethically flawed and has displayed "fundamental failures in comprehending the socio-political environment in which the Project must perform." Many of the NRC's findings reiterate the concerns RAFI's Research Director, Hope Shand, expressed in testimony before the committee in September (see). As recently as April, 1997 RAFI wrote to scientists associated with the HGDP urging that the HGDP disband in light of its consistent failure to respond adequately to the concerns of indigenous peoples, and because the HGDP was impeding dialogue on the broader goal of protecting human diversity. The NRC concurred; it found the HGDP's proposal so lacking that the project was disregarded in favor of taking a fresh look at the merit of research on human genetic differences. "NSF, NIH, and other potential funders of human genetic diversity research need to pay close attention to the committe's findings," Mooney says, "If heeded, they may clear the way to begin serious dialogue about ethically sound possibilities of protecting human genetic diversity which avoid the HGDP's numerous failures." Indigenous people say the design and implementation of a survey of human genetic diversity must include their full participation. And, according to Leonor Zalabata Torres, an Arhuaco indigenous person from Colombia, "that means indigenous peoples' control over samples after collection and full protection from patents claims on our tissues" "There should be no military access to the samples under any circumstances," says RAFI's Hammond. In the past year the World Medical Association has expressed concern about the potential development of genetically-targeted weapons and the US Department of Defense has begun to discuss population-targeted biotech weapons in future combat scenarios. The NRC recommends that if a diversity study goes forward it should be intergovernmentally controlled and that the US Government "should initiate discussions with the international agencies that may govern a global survey." Hope Shand, RAFI's Research Director says "Since 1993 we have consistently maintained that if any global study of human diversity was to be undertaken, it must be conducted under the umbrella of an intergovernmental organization and with the full informed consent and participation of indigenous people." Shand points out HGDP consistently refused to submit itself to UN supervision. The NRC report isn't all good news. "The diagnosis on the HGDP is good" says Mooney "but the prescription for an alternative survey can only be developed and implemented in full collaboration and with the approval of research subjects." The NRC says that a survey must be UN-managed, current ethical guidelines are inadequate, sample and information distribution pose problems, and patenting is problematic; but then recommends limited funding for diversity collection. "The NRC clearly shows it is inappropriate to begin; but then, perhaps in a move to please overeager government funders, recommends money should be spent on a non-HGDP diversity study." says Shand, "That would result in a piecemeal approach that is inconsistent with the NRC's call for a complete research protocol - which would require UN-supervision and research subjects approval - to be in place before consent procedures, much less collection, can start.." There are areas of the NRC report that need clarification. For instance the NRC recommends funding for "projects originating in the US" without clearly indicating the geographic scope of potential sampling. Hammond asks "Will the US government, which has patented indigenous peoples' cells, use that ambiguous phrase to bypass the NRC conclusions about UN supervision and Human Rights and collect globally?" "The suggestion to sample immigrants in the US is disturbing" says RAFI's Jean Christie, "is the US government going to fund the DNA-mining of people who immigrate to that country? Will the US ask for both a green card and a gene card?" Notably, the NRC recognizes and draws attention to the problems that patents cause for research on human genetic diversity. Echoing years of statements by indigenous people and NGOs, the NRC concludes "much or most of the international controversy over collecting genes to study human genetic variation would disappear if the patenting of genes and gene sequences were outlawed." "Patents aren't the only problem but they're on the right track" says Shand, "Though the NRC cops-out on the logical conclusion that there should be no patents allowed on materials a human diversity survey collects, indigenous people and NGOs do not.." "We've said it before and we'll say it again," says Abadio Green Stocel, who testified before the committee and is the president of the National Indigenous Peoples' Organization of Colombia, "no patents, period." "In short," Mooney summarizes "in light of the committee's conclusions on ethics and Human Rights, there is no way that collections can go ahead now." "It is amply clear that collections would be premature," says Alejandro Argumedo of Indigenous Peoples' Biodiversity Network (IPBN) "Let's get it straight: First we need to see if a project that meets the approval of research subjects can be designed. Then - and only then - can a discussion of funding collections start.." In the meantime, indigenous peoples organizations worldwide have called for a global moratorium on the collection of human DNA samples. RAFI supports the moratorium. The Rural Advancement Foundation International Hope Shand or Edward Hammond Tel: (919) 542-1396 Pittsboro, North Carolina (US) Jean Christie Tel: (613) 567-6880 Alejandro Argumedo Contact via tel: (613) 237-5361 Cuzco, Peru
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reposting all stories from previous account (radioblog) When Charlie signs Bella up for some karate lessons, she discovers that her ex- sophomore Biology lab partner is now a hot bod karate master. Suddenly, she isn't so reluctant to attend some quality self defense lessons. (Smut, AH) He was a thirty two year old Biology teacher who had a bargain with a twenty eight year old English teacher concerning lab reports and cafeteria duty. (B/E, smut) Trotsky's apprentice, Edward, goes to Sulphur to find release. He finds a certain brown eyed beauty to give him just that. Is there something behind those brown eyes? written for Age of Edward contest ('09).
Laire is a commune. It is in Bourgogne-Franche-Comte in the Doubs department in east France.
Examples of resource-constrained creativity across western China – particularly those related to mobility and transportation. . I studied many vehicles over the course of my grant. Beginning with diesel-powered agricultural vehicles being user-retrofitted for urban life, I also investigated smaller motorcycle-engine powered three-wheelers that had evolved from cargo-transporters into mobile restaurants and people-movers. During my time in China, I also noticed many interesting behaviors surrounding China’s two-wheeled electric vehicles (electric scooters and electric bicycles – or e-bikes) – and particularly around charging them. Similar to the other vehicles I studied, e-bikes have been exported in staggering numbers to other countries – countries with users who have vastly different preferences and sets of constraints from those in China. While Chinese companies are adept at selling affordable products across the globe, the countries to whom they sell are not always equipped with the resources to design supporting infrastructure for such products (although I’ve seen repurposing and hacking go quite far). Just as adoption curves vary (but are connected) for automobiles and gas pumps, the same holds true in the e-bike ecosystem. While pumps in the world’s (formal) gas stations are largely identical, there is already a universal means of charging an e-bike: a wall socket and an extension cord. However, that is not always the best solution in all contexts, such as where electricity is spotty or unreliable, where there are a high concentration of users in one place wanting to charge rapidly. CHENGDU Wander the leafy streets and alleys of Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan Province and a city of 14 million famous for its teahouses and pandas, and one can’t help but notice conspicuous yellow boxes adorning the walls and sidewalks. Keep track of where you spot them, and you’ll see a pattern emerge: they tend to cluster around the walls and sidewalks surrounding convenience stores and bicycle shops. These modest yellow boxes are the street-level infrastructure that keeps Chengdu’s tens of thousands of electric bicycles and scooters in motion – an important task, considering that the number of electric-powered bicycles in China just passed the 200 million mark (over one in ten of China’s population). Though no stranger to automobiles, with an estimated 2.2 million private passenger vehicles (New York City, by comparison, has around 1.8 million), Chengdu’s flat geography and mild climate makes electric bicycles a popular transportation choice year-round. Intersections are filled with the whirring of electric motors as swarms of them pull away from traffic lights. With so many riders, there are a commensurate number of charge-boxes across the city, with a ten-minute charge costing either one or one and a half yuan (US $0.16 or 0.24). All the charge-boxes I saw in Chengdu were coin-operated, meaning the stores to which they were connected always had to have one yuan coins available to trade with customers hoping to use the machine. The ownership arrangements for the machines vary: some locations (mostly bicycle repair shops) have purchased their machines outright for 1100 kuai (US $175) from the manufacturers, while certain convenience stores located in high-traffic and high-visibility areas were approached by the manufacturers of the charge-boxes to engage in a profit-sharing arrangement wherein the manufacturer installs a machine for free and keeps half of the machine’s income each month. According to one convenience store owner, “[customers] usually play with their cellphones or call someone,” and further observation and conversations revealed that most customers tended to wait nearby while charging. Customers charging up at bicycle repair shops “seldom” buy other items, though convenience store owners said a few customers bought snacks or drinks while waiting for their charge, particularly during weekends and evening rush hours (though overall still “less than 50% [of riders]”). A conversation with one user, a roving repairman who lives in Chengdu and specializes in odd household jobs, yielded a glimpse into the challenges of charging on the move. A typical day has him crisscrossing downtown multiple times on his electric scooter, performing tasks ranging from fixing leaking pipes to installing air conditioners. His erratic schedule and route makes it a challenge to plan around his scooter’s battery capacity. To mitigate the risk of running out of battery while driving between jobs, he carries his scooter’s adapter along with him in his toolbox and attempts to find an available outlet to plug into whenever he arrives at a customers’ residence for a job. Through scouting for outlets he saves money and time by avoiding having to stop to charge his scooter. “As you see, I don’t always get it right,” he admits with a grin as we talk on the steps of a bicycle repair shop, his scooter humming quietly as electricity flows into its battery from the charge-box perched on the shop’s steps. “My business is [unpredictable], and I don’t know where and how far I’ll go each day – it all depends on who calls me and when. I like [these charging machines] though… they are convenient, and I can find one nearby when I need one.” OPPORTUNITY: INFORMATION/INCENTIVE DISSEMINATION One concerning charge-box practice (though which also hinted at a higher potential) was the affixing of nationalist propaganda to them. I noticed several charge-boxes that sported an identical decal, which read, “The Diaoyu Islands belong to China, boycott Japanese goods, starting with me.” Though the appropriateness of placing politically motivated (or otherwise incendiary) messages upon a piece of commonly used urban infrastructure is open to debate, this reveals a potential function of a charging station as a point of disseminating information – modern China’s sidewalk version of the water cooler. Using NFC capabilities in one’s phone to pay for the services, one could also capitalize upon that interaction to connect one to their surroundings at a moment when one has some time on their hands whilst waiting for their vehicle to charge. Besides freeing both customer and shopkeeper from the onerous task of needing a coin handy in order to pay for the charger, imagine if swiping one’s phone over the machine could notify you that your friend was in the adjacent super market, or that that supermarket was having a sale on your favorite flavor of ice cream. Publicly owned chargers could display automatically updating and timely municipal information. SHENZHEN While charge-boxes are ubiquitous in Chengdu, this is not the case for all cities (though with few exceptions, electric bicycles are legion in urban China). As one resident of Chengdu observed of their city, the charge-boxes tended to cluster on “smaller, narrower streets [around Chengdu]”. In Shenzhen, the first of China’s Special Economic Zones and a major global manufacturing hub, such streets tend to be generally scarcer than in Chengdu. Although Shenzhen lacks the same degree of formal charging stations, it compensates in more “work-unit” centered solutions; charging solutions there often tend to be both developed by and centered around the employees of a given building, which builds a social aspect in to charging one’s electric bike or scooter. Of the offices I spoke with, all stated their willingness to have people who were not their employees charge their electric bicycles there. Says one office manager, “Very little electricity is used, so it’s a small thing for us.” That isn’t to say that yellow “charge-boxes” were completely absent from Shenzhen. A few can be spotted in similar places to Chengdu’s, such as mounted on convenience stores. I did notice one charge-box being employed in a particularly novel fashion: a restaurant based in a dense residential neighborhood had a trio of electric bikes plugged in to a charge-box next to the entry to his restaurant. After some confused questioning on my part, the owner revealed he purchased a charge-box solely for charging his restaurant’s stable of electric bicycles. “These [e-bikes] are for delivering food to people [who live in the neighborhood],” he explained, gesturing to the surrounding high-rise residential towers with their rows of illuminated windows reaching up into the night sky. Why buy a charge-box instead of adopting the “social” system employed by the other offices around Shenzhen? “This [charge-box] charges [the e-bikes] much more quickly than if I just plugged them in to the wall, and during meal times a driver might need to make a longer trip, or deliver many orders on a single trip, so I always keep [the e-bikes] fully charged.” The following day, I found myself in a neighborhood of Shenzhen filled with wholesale markets – along with the accompanying infrastructure to package and ship goods bought across China and the world. In an alley behind a mall specializing in cellphone components, I stumbled upon this scene: A bird’s nest of wires, bikes, batteries, and chargers, threaded across the front of a delivery and logistics shop. Walking in, I explained my interest in understanding how they used their e-bikes. These “extreme users” seemed at the upper reaches of the spectrum when it came to using and managing e-bikes, with all of the rich experience to boot. As we spoke, the shop’s dispatcher explained, “The chargers and batteries are a common type [across all of our e-bikes] – if a bike is out of electricity, [the rider] just takes a spare battery.” Everyone has their name written on their bike’s charger, as the company’s couriers use their e-bikes both for business and personal transportation. All riders have also bought a spare battery (for which there is a lively secondary market in many Chinese cities – fueled primarily by theft), and keep it charging at the shop in case they need to swap out quickly between deliveries. OPPORTUNITY: ENTERPRISE SOLUTION The above cases in Shenzhen have illustrated in various ways an unmet need: the space for an enterprise-scale charging solution. The numerous offices relying upon running an extension cord out to charge their employees’ e-bikes create a risk of tripping, and also must frequently repair or replace the extension cord due to lacking the robustness necessary for prolonged exposure to the elements (and shoes of passing pedestrians). Were there a means of installing a charger to which access could be controlled and managed through use of cellphones’ NFC capabilities, it could prove convenient for employees commuting to the area were they able to access the charger on a subscription basis (unlimited charges for a set monthly price at any of the manufacturer’s charge-boxes in the city). By purchasing a charge-box for the explicit purpose of rapidly charging his trio of e-bikes, the restaurant owner was signaling his prioritization of quick recharging. Although a not insignificant cost for his restaurant, he values the certainty that at least two of his e-bikes will be rapidly charging and ready to make long delivery runs with little notice. Finally, consider what type of charging solution would be needed to eliminate the need for each of the courier shop’s riders to purchase a spare battery for their e-bike. Consider how a rapid-charging solution for a business relying upon more than half a dozen e-bikes would function. Although the dispatcher considered the present system “simple”, the strip of tape along the floor that reads “Please park [e-bikes] inside of the yellow line!” implies that it’s only with strict management in this space-constrained office that parking and charging patterns do not interfere with the numerous package runners and delivery men rushing in and out of the building. The prospect of limiting emissions, as well as reducing the need for space-consuming parking lots and gas stations, is a tempting externality of the e-bike revolution in the developed world. Lowering barriers to charging will accelerate the demand curve, meaning more people will feel confident purchasing an e-bike, driving more sales of both e-bikes and chargers. The implications for the developing world are even more significant, however. A recent New York Times article mentioned the potential benefits of wireless solar power to resource-constrained and off-grid contexts: “Power drives almost everything else — cooking without gathering wood and inhaling smoke, clean water, radios, fans, eventually TVs..” Overlooked is another potential boon that greater electricity access could bring: more ubiquitous, affordable, and reliable infrastructure to charge e-bikes, in turn creating environmentally-friendly competition to the aspiration to own petrol-consuming motorcycles and cars. The potential to curtail developing contexts’ dependency upon fuel for mobility would be within the realm of possibility – but not without appropriate charging infrastructure designed for the variety of circumstances and conditions in which they’d be used. Hence, while what constitutes the “ideal” charger will vary by place, it makes sense to start analyzing the behaviors and norms surrounding e-bike charging in the context furthest along the e-bike adoption curve today: urban China. frog We are more than 600 strategists, researchers, designers, and technologists. Our work solves problems, anticipates the future, and advances the human experience. Write a Comment
Carbonate is a comune in the Province of Como in the Lombardy region in Italy.
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Walls is a town in DeSoto County, Mississippi, United States. Towns in Mississippi
Michelle Tan’s article in today’s Business Times highlights a trend that I’ve been mulling over the past few months – New suburbans now at prime resale prices. Real estate pundits often have differing views that will adjust and vary as market situations unfold, but the familiar mantra “location, location, location” is a cardinal rule that transcends practically all differences of opinion and changing market sentiments. So why is it that buyers have been snapping up brand-new homes in the suburbs or non-core districts, and paying more for these mass-market leasehold units than they’d necessarily pay for a freehold prime district property in a more mature development? I put it down to Singapore’s obsession with the bright, new and shiny. I am hard-pressed to think of another country as enamoured with “newness” as Singapore. Where else is it a norm for cars to be scrapped by the time they turn 10? And I dare say Singapore must be the only place in the world where people look at an old building and are more likely to think “can enbloc or not?” rather than marvel at how well the architecture has withstood the test of time. This disposable, throw-away culture is rather disturbing. And it’s not just the sentimental, tree-hugger side of me that’s talking here. From a logical investor’s point of view too, it doesn’t pay to place too high a premium on newness. Newness is a depreciating asset quality, since it diminishes with each passing year. Location on the other hand, is not. In fact, given the limited supply of prime land, versus the flood of mass-market Government Land Sales, location is a scarce and thus a definite appreciation catalyst. Furthermore, while a tired old condominium can be remedied by investing a little extra cash into renovation work (and more mature developments will naturally have accumulated sizable sinking funds for upgrading/refurbishment works as compared to newer projects), no amount of additional capital outlay is going to teleport your apartment in the boondocks to a more desirable prime location. Of course, market mispricing like this presents a good opportunity for smart investors to buy an undervalued prime property and wait for the market to recalibrate. Are you primed for an acquisition yet?
Indian Trail is a town in Union County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, 33,518 people live in Indian Trail. Towns in North Carolina
American Mineralogist - GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute. Abstract The inability to culture the majority of microorganisms from natural habitats has been well documented. In response to this constraint, the development and application of culture-independent methods for studying microbial communities have been a focus of microbial ecology for the past several years. Molecular approaches, in particular, offer great potential to investigate the role of microorganisms in areas as diverse as biogeochemistry, pollutant remediation, and disease causation. The purpose of this review is to give a brief critique of nucleic acid-based techniques currently used in microbial ecology, to serve as a reference for those wishing to employ such techniques, and to examine the applicability of these techniques toward studying the biogeochemical roles of bacteria, especially as related to metal cycling and biomineralization. Although published reports on the application of molecular techniques to biogeochemical and biomineralogical problems are scarce, this review aims to familiarize biogeochemists and biomineralogists with the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches. Advances have been made in describing the diversity of uncultured microbial communities, detecting/identifying specific cells and functional genes in environmental samples, detecting in situ activities of specific microorganisms, and determining some of the factors controlling gene expression in in vitro studies. However, the current methods provide limited quantitative information about natural processes. Acknowledging these limitations can assist the development of methods to answer basic questions concerning the in situ distribution and activities of microorganisms. Studies relating these in situ measurements of microbial activity and distribution to the physical and chemical microenvironment will ultimately permit a better understanding of the importance of microorganisms in mineral formation and dissolution processes.
Richard Corben (October 1, 1940 - December 2, 2020) was an American illustrator and comic book artist. He was best known for his comics seen in Heavy Metal magazine. He was the winner of the 2009 Spectrum Grand Master Award and the 2018 Grand Prix at Angouleme. In 2012 he was elected to the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. Corben died of heart surgery-related problems on December 2, 2020 at the age of 80.
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Little Dancer of Fourteen Years () (1881) is a statue by Edgar Degas. The work measures 81 inches in height. The subject is a young dance student named Marie van Goethem. The relationship between van Goethem and Degas is uncertain. It was not unusual for the young dancers of the Paris Opera to seek protectors from among the well-heeled visitors at the back door of the opera. The statue was shown in Paris at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition of 1881. It received mixed reviews. Most critics were shocked by the piece. They thought it was ugly. Degas exhibited it inside a glass case. Some thought it was a medical specimen. The head and face were thought grotesque and primitive. The dancer is dressed in a cotton skirt and is wearing a hair ribbon. For a finishing touch Degas used a wig made of real hair. He covered it with wax. The only parts not covered with wax were the ribbon given to him by van Goethem and the tutu. Each museum that shows this figure gives it a different tutu. The original wax model was acquired by Paul Mellon in 1956. The sculpture was originally made in wax before it was cast in bronze. Degas's wife and daughter made the decision to have 27 of them cast in bronze. The casting was undertaken at the Hebrard foundry in Paris from 1920 until the mid-20th century. These statues posthumous Degas bronzes can be seen in many museums. Sixty-nine original sculptures in wax and mixed-media survived the casting process.
Homeless alcoholics drink in comfort at 'wet houses' In Minnesota, some chronic alcoholics are offered a roof over their heads without being ordered to stop their drinking. Critics call Anishinabe Wakiagun a place of death, but to its 45 residents, one of whom has been here 11 years, it is more like a lifeline. One resident of the People's House wheels a bicycle down an upstairs corridor, cursing as he goes. A few doors along, drinking buddies get rowdy over a bottle of cherry vodka. And downstairs, a sign on the outside security door warns against bringing firearms inside. The Minneapolis area's three wet houses vary in approach but all share one common - and controversial - feature: within these walls, no-one stops you drinking. There are rules. Drinking has to be in the privacy of your room. Don't abuse the staff. And mouthwash, which contains high concentrations of alcohol and is a cheap favourite among chronic alcoholics, is banned. But if you want to drink yourself into a stupor, or even to death, then go ahead. While some have, most do not, says Michael Goze, chief executive officer of American Indian Community Development Corp, which runs the centre. Saving money According to People's House research, its residents indulge in fewer, shorter binges between stays than alcoholics who have not spent time at the centre. (The average stay is 21 months, the centre says). The centre says it saves the county more than $500,000 (£312,441) per year by reducing detox admissions, emergency room visits and jail bookings. But Mr Goze says the centre reinforces a more fundamental point: you don't have to be sober to have a home. "There's a lot of subsidised housing throughout the city," he says. "Are there rules about whether people drink or don't drink? There are not." At Wakiagun (the name is Ojibwe), residents are well fed and have access to on-site medical advice. 'I crave it' Jesse Beaulieu, 28, says it represents the difference between life and death. "If I wasn't here right now," he says, "I wouldn't be alive." Death and alcohol have shaped Mr Beaulieu's life since he was a child. His mother died of cirrhosis of the liver in 2004. His aunt, also an alcoholic, died of exposure on waste ground behind a drug store. His brother found her body and committed suicide. Mr Beaulieu threw himself off a bridge in an attempt to follow suit. He says he is trying hard to shake the habit, but it's hard. Temptation literally comes knocking on the door most evenings, in the shape of fellow residents looking for someone to drink with. "Sometimes," he admits, "I just crave it." But there lies the challenge of the wet house. Unlike other, more prescriptive treatments, it gives you choices. Options For Joe Mihalik, an alcoholic since age 18, that is what matters. "When someone tells me I can't do something, I'm going to do everything in my power to do that," Mr Mihalik, now 54, says. "That's kind of vanquished here. They're saying 'go ahead and drink', and all of a sudden the options fall in my lap." The People's House doesn't provide alcohol - residents must buy their own. It is not hard to find them on the nearby streets, scraping together a few dollars by holding up "homeless" or "hungry" signs at traffic intersections, or collecting cans for recycling. 'Cures, not indulgence' A couple of residents, most of whom are Native Americans, make decorative dream catchers and sell them on the street or at craft fairs. Wet houses are not without their critics. Hennepin County Commissioner Jeff Johnson finds the whole concept deeply flawed. "We really do enable behaviour that is destroying these people's lives," he says. "And we have the taxpayers' help with that. And I just think that's wrong." In difficult economic times, Mr Johnson says, tax dollars should go towards cures, not indulgence. Mr Mihalik disagrees. "I've been in and out of 12 treatments," he says. "I can sit at the head of the class. I can graduate with flying colours. But I'm drinking two weeks after I graduate. Alcoholism is terminal. It's not curable." One last drink Mr Mihalik has been in wet houses for the past six years and thinks he may just be ready to move on. He looks healthier and more determined than most residents of the People's House. Jesse Beaulieu is still some way behind. But as he sits in the safety of his own room, drawing and writing poetry, and occasionally falling off the wagon, he's working on his demons. "My life is now on the brink," he writes in a poem entitled One Last Drink. "Do I let my boat float or sink? "I don't care what anyone thinks. "I got to answer the question: do I take one last drink?"
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Professional Reference articles are written by UK doctors and are based on research evidence, UK and European Guidelines. They are designed for health professionals to use, so you may find the language more technical than the condition leaflets. Park (PD) - eg, metoclopramide.[2] - Parkinsonism may also occur following encephalitis or exposure to certain toxins - eg, manganese dust, carbon disulfide, severe carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. Epidemiology A systematic review of European studies reports wide variation in incidence and prevalence, possibly due to genetic and environmental factors, but also due to differences in methodology.[3]. - Another recognised factor includes pesticide exposure.[4] - Small-scale studies have suggested that patients born in the spring have a higher incidence of PD.:[6] -. Criteria for the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease[7] The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommends using the UK Parkinson's Disease Society (PDS) Brain Bank Criteria for diagnosis:[8] Step 1: diagnosis of Parkinsonian syndrome Bradykinesia (slowness of initiation of voluntary movement with progressive reduction in speed and amplitude or repetitive actions) and at least one of the following: - Muscular rigidity. - 4- to 6-Hz resting tremor. - Postural instability not caused by primary visual, vestibular, cerebellar or proprioceptive dysfunction. Step 2: exclusion criteria for Parkinson's disease - History of repeated strokes with stepwise progression of Parkinsonian features. - History of repeated head injury. - History of definite encephalitis. - Oculogyric crises. - Neuroleptic treatment at onset of symptoms. - More than one affected relative. - Sustained remission. - Strictly unilateral features after three years. - Supranuclear gaze palsy. - Cerebellar signs. - Early severe autonomic involvement. - Early severe dementia with disturbances of memory, language and praxis. - Babinski's sign. - Presence of a cerebral tumour or communicating hydrocephalus on CT scan. - Negative response to large doses of L-dopa (if malabsorption excluded). - Exposure to MPTP. Step 3: supportive prospective positive criteria of Parkinson's disease Three or more are required for the diagnosis of definite PD: - Unilateral onset. - Rest tremor present. - Progressive disorder. - Persistent asymmetry affecting the side of onset most. - Excellent response (70-100%) to L-dopa. - Severe L-dopa-induced chorea. - L-dopa response for five years or more. - Clinical course of ten years or more. - Hyposmia. - Visual hallucinations. Long-term problems After an initial 'honeymoon period', 50-90% of people who have received L-dopa for 5-10 years may experience the following; however, they are less likely to occur in those whose symptoms begin after the age of 70 years: Motor fluctuations - When (ie is otherwise well medicated) they will not be improved by increasing their dose. - Their treatment options include physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech and language therapy (SALT). Parkinson's disease dementia This is dementia occurring more than one year after diagnosis of PD. It is similar to Alzheimer-type dementia but has three typical features: - Presence of Parkinsonism in the limbs. - Frequent visual hallucinations. - Frequent fluctuations in lucidity. Sudden deteriorations may be mistaken for intercurrent illness - eg, urinary tract infection - but the mid-stream specimen of urine is negative, and the patient becomes better. PD dementia is difficult to treat, as confusion and hallucinations may be worsened by the treatment of PD - dopamine agonists. Atypical antipsychotics (eg, quetiapine), are effective without worsening the Parkinsonism. Differential diagnosis - Benign essential tremor - far more common; tremor is worse on movement (eg, PD. - Huntington's disease - can present earlier with rigidity instead of chorea when Parkinsonism is not expected. Normally, there is family history. - Wilson's disease - earlier onset with characteristic Kayser-Fleischer rings and hepatitis. - Corticobasal degeneration - manifest by obvious signs of cortical dysfunction - eg, extrapy 'atypical Parkinsonism syndromes' are a group which look like PD but are much more severe. Median survival is only seven years compared with the normal lifespan in PD. They include: - Multiple system atrophy - may also present with Parkinsonian symptoms, often with a poor or temporary response to levodopa therapy. See separate Multiple System Atrophy article. - Progressive supranuclear palsy - characterised by paresis of conjugate gaze with initially problems looking up and down on request, advancing to difficulty in following objects up and down. Referral Refer people with suspected PD quickly (and untreated) to a specialist (with expertise in the differential diagnosis of this condition) for diagnosis. NICE states that people with suspected mild PD should be seen within six weeks, but new referrals in later disease with more complex problems require an appointment within two weeks.[8] Investigations The diagnosis is clinical. Other investigations focus on excluding other causes of the presentation:[9] - CT or MRI brain scan: - For patients who fail to respond to therapeutic doses of L-dopa (at least 600 mg/day) administered for 12 weeks. - MRI scanning is needed to exclude rare secondary causes (eg, supratentorial tumours and normal pressure hydrocephalus) and extensive subcortical vascular pathology.[1] - Functional MRI and CT imaging are useful research tools. Blood flow changes monitored by these methods and correlated with functional disability are providing useful clues as to the structural abnormalities which cause Parkinsonism and PD.[10] - Transcranial sonography has been recommended for the differentiation of PD from atypical and secondary Parkinsonian disorders, for the early diagnosis of PD and for the detection of subjects at risk for PD. However, the technique is not universally available and requires some expertise.[7] - Positron emission tomography (PET) scanning with fluorodopa can localise dopamine deficiency in the basal ganglia, while autonomic tests and sphincter electromyography may support a diagnosis of multiple system atrophy. - Genetic testing may be required - eg, Huntington's gene. Fewer than 5% of all PD cases are caused by known single-gene mutations.[7] - Olfactory testing to help differentiate PD from other Parkinsonian disorders.[7] - Further investigations for young-onset or atypical disease may include measurement of ceruloplasmin levels (Wilson's disease) and syphilis serology. Associated diseases - Dementia: the prevalence of dementia in PD ranges from 20-40%, with a 2- to 6-fold increased risk compared with control populations.[11] - Depression: occurs in approximately 45% of all patients with Parkinson's disease, does not correlate with the stage of motor deficits and reduces the quality of life independently of motor symptoms.[12] Management See separate article Parkinson's Disease Management. Complications These include: - Infections - Aspiration pneumonia - Bed sores - Poor nutrition - Falls - Contractures - Bowel and bladder disorders Prognosis Slowly progressive with a mean duration of fifteen years. Severity, however, varies widely. It follows a relatively benign course in some patients, who may show little disability after twenty years. Others may be severely disabled after ten years. A recent study suggests, perhaps not surprisingly, that patients whose condition develops at an early age have shorter lifespans than those with later-onset disease.[13] Did you find this information useful? Further reading & references - Parkinson's disease; NICE CKS, December 2014 (UK access only) - Lees AJ, Hardy J, Revesz T; Parkinson's disease. Lancet. 2009 Jun 13 373(9680):2055-66. - Drug-Induced Parkinsonism; Parkinson's UK - von Campenhausen S, Bornschein B, Wick R, et al; Prevalence and incidence of Parkinson's disease in Europe. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2005 Aug 15(4):473-90. - Elbaz A, Tranchant C; Epidemiologic studies of environmental exposures in Parkinson's disease. J Neurol Sci. 2007 Nov 15 262(1-2):37-44. Epub 2007 Jul 27. - Postuma RB, Wolfson C, Rajput A, et al; Is there seasonal variation in risk of Parkinson's disease? Mov Disord. 2007 Jun 15 22(8):1097-101. - Diagnosis and pharmacological management of Parkinson's disease, Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network - SIGN (January 2010) - EFNS/MDS-ES recommendations for the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease; European Journal of Neurology (Jan 2013) - Parkinson's disease in over 20s: diagnosis and management; NICE Clinical Guideline (June 2006) - Smaga S; Tremor. Am Fam Physician. 2003 Oct 15 68(8):1545-52. - Shagam JY; Unlocking the secrets of Parkinson disease. Radiol Technol. 2008 Jan-Feb 79(3):227-39. - Hauser RA et al; Parkinson Disease, Medscape, Jan 2013 - Lemke MR; Depressive symptoms in Parkinson's disease. Eur J Neurol. 2008 Apr 15 Suppl 1:21-5. - Ishihara LS, Cheesbrough A, Brayne C, et al; Estimated life expectancy of Parkinson's patients compared with the UK population. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2007 Dec 78(12):1304-9. Epub 2007.
Kamala Harris, the 49th and current vice president of the United States, has family members who are notable in politics and academics. The Harris family became the immediate second family of the United States, when Kamala Harris inaugurated as the 49th vice president of the United States on January 20, 2021. The Harris family is of African and Jewish descent. American families
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