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Ultimately, yes. Algae has a tendency to overrun aquatic ecosystems. A good example of this is Hawaii's coral reef systems. Certain bays around the islands now host invasive algae blooms that can overrun reefs if unchecked. When the reefs die, species that depended on them for survival die. Sometimes a sort of balance can be formed even after this where a new food chain is establish, since some organisms feed on algae and others yet feed on that organism. This is referred to as an alternative stable state. But in a lot of cases, this doesn't happen. Algae has a tendency to deplete nutrients in the water, and too much algae will actually remove the dissolved oxygen from the water killing off even the species that can feed on it. All the same, algae does fix a large amount of carbon dioxide. I'd imagine if there was enough cause for it, people could look into creating algal blooms, but there would be likely severe consequences.
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This kind of socialism is usually coupled with stakeholder capitalism, in which the people who actually produce things own the means of producing them. For example, a company that makes pottery is owned by the workers who make the pottery.
This sort of system provides everyone with a few things that they are entitled to, and then leaves the rest to a sensibly controlled capitalist economy. It's still socialist, because the main tenet of socialism (that the means of producing something be owned by the producers) is maintained.
(The means of producing, for example, the water that everyone drinks, is owned by everyone. To keep things reasonable, people form government to take care of owning that means of production for them. This is often confused with the idea that the government owns the resource, instead of the people owning the resource by proxy of the government. The means of producing, for example, pottery, is owned by the people actually making the pottery, in an employee owned sort of cooperative business. So, you still have a healthy capitalist economy, without shit being exploited by the greedy as easily.)
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So i guess i have to brush up on heat amounts transfered by radiation. I was mainly testing the concept and not thought about actual amounts, considered the device perfect in all ways in the bounds of known laws, and wondered why i think i can break one.
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I am here to write about a composition about public transportation in Somalia specially the capital city Mogadishu where there is a little public transport comparing to our neighboring countries. there is a scarcity of public transport and there is one type and model which Van as well as very distracted roads which may cause collateral damage.
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You forgot the actual best tip of all: FEED your pet well. If you can buy your food at a grocery store, I'd start thinking twice. Remove foods that contain corn for instance, dog's cannot digest it. There are plenty more examples, but essentially we are what we eat, and the same goes for dogs. I worked with a vet who once said if people just fed their dogs better food, I'd probably be out a job. Eating well prevents future illness, reduces chances for joint and bone problems, cancers, vision and nearly loss, baldness or rough coats, infections, and disease, and way, way more. If you're unsure, ask a nutritionist, your vet's generally have their own expensive brands they're willing to sell you. But only because they get a kickback, and their brands are generally nothing special. (Unless there's a special food req'd for a condition)
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But, fortunately, people living in this area all use these bikes carefully, so we don't care so much that thing.
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I can see that you have had a few answers detailing the differences between Rover 2020 and Curiosity so lm going to give you a site to check out at Nasa. Type in Google” Rover body Nasa Mars “ this should give you the technical specifications for the Rover.
Good reading. Hope that helps you.
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We just wanted to let you guys know of some changes in order to keep the te= rminations being processed in a timely manner.
It appears that all Netco e= mployees may be taken off of systems access for Enron this weekend.
In cas= e this is true, Darron and I have transitioned from handling these requests= .
Greg Couch is going to be leading the estate risk effort and Pat Ryder a= nd Chance Rabon will be handling all termination list issues.
Please send = these lists to these three people in lieu of Darron and I.
As a side note,= could you send an updated financial termination list(if this list has chan= ged since you sent it to me Kim) to these guys so that they can verify deal= s are moved to the proper book.
It is probably a good idea for future term= ination scripts to come through Greg before going to IT because of several = book moves we have made to facilitate reporting to Ed McMichael.
For examp= le the price book has been basically split into three books.
Please shout = with any questions or concerns you may have.
Thanks.
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I think politicians will say absolutely anything to get elected, including making promises they have neither the intention nor ability to keep.
I know that the voters will believe what they want to believe.
I also know that Biden has been carrying China’s water for most of his political life and that undercutting China’s industry is not something Biden will do.
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Analytics may be put to apply in numerous industries over more than a few roles, there exist a surplus of possibilities in sectors like Banking, Retail, Textile, Healthcare, Automotive, Consulting, and so forth. It relies upon upon one’s hobbies and talents, an person also can pick out to specialize in greater superior streams like Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
These are a few roles which someone can specialised in Analytics can pick out from;
Big Data Analytics Architect
Big Data Engineer
Financial Analyst
Marketing Analytics Manager
Business Intelligence and Analytics Consultant
Analytics Associate Metrics and Analytics Specialist Database Administrator
Fraud Analyst
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Hi, Jeremy and Francis: Just to confirm that we are going to meet at Larry's desk at 3:00 PM tomorrow afternoon.
Thanks a lot for your help!
George Huan
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The Federal Reserve is a central bank of the United States. Ultimately they act as a lender of last resort for other banks. (Like when a bank needs to pay a debt but doesn't have the physical cash on site). It effects our economy by changing the interest rate that it will lend money to other. When it's lower, more will borrow causing more cash in the system which will then lower the value of a dollar. (and the opposite for a higher interest rate).
They also have other responsibilities that I can't explain.
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Jeff, Wasn't sure who "survived" in California, glad to hear you're still on board.
Given the Enron situation, what can you tell me about coverage in California?
Will you and/or any other Enron level employees cover the CPUC and legislative proceedings?
If appropriate, should Transwestern consider contracting a lobbyist, if yes, any recommendations?
We no longer have Mark Baldwin under contract due a conflict of interest.
With the new legislative session coming up after the first of the year, I just want to be prepared for what we need to do.
Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Glen
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Bluffdale, UT – OGIO congratulates Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/ Kawasaki’s Blake Baggett on his first win of the season at the Daytona Supercross at Daytona International Speedway. Baggett’s win also moved him into second place in the championship point’s battle.
Last week’s winner Dean Wilson had a night he’d rather forget after a mid pack start and going down on the second lap. Wilson dug deep and finished the night off with an eighth place.
Look for Baggett and Wilson back on the podium this weekend in Indy.
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Men, Women, Children, and Subterraneans of the United States,
The events of this morning have added 200,000 people to the population of our country and an opportunity to expand our knowledge of things we formerly took for granted. No one expected a natural disaster to uncover a whole new race below our feet, but with the usual grace of the American people, we will rise to the occasion. As always, I, as your President, am working hard with Congress to find the best solutions for all American people. And of course, welcome to our new neighbors!
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Hello reader. .. I couldn't find a subreddit specific to my question and figured the crowd here would be gentle, so here goes. I hate looking at my reflection when I'm in public or in the presence of others. I avoid looking at mirrors because I want to pretend I'm invisible, and figure if I can't see how awkward and weird I look then it can't hurt me. But it's often in the back of my mind. I hate photos and being recorded. I hate seeing myself via these mediums and when I do, I cringe and feel ashamed. Other info: yes, I'm very self-critical and am a perfectionist. If it's of relevance I had Anorexia and have since recovered and feel happy with my body. As a young teen I was very thin, had bad posture, terrible buck-teeth, unwashed hair in an unflattering style, and glasses. I still have glasses, anyway. I got my teeth fixed, my hair fixed (and wash every day now) and am still thin but healthily so. I bloomed a little late due to my self-inflicted weight loss but am somewhat happy with my looks. .. yet I still feel like I want to disappear and not be seen. I have good qualities and am good at quite a few things, and can fake confidence well. I have friends and hobbies. Quite a few males have expressed interest in me over the years. Nobody has ever told me I'm ugly or weird or any of these things I feel. Please help me out. Give me your thoughts, I just need to flesh out why I'm feeling so bad about myself. Have you felt this way? Why do I hate seeing myself? Thanks in advance.
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It's an article taken from the AIP, which was down earlier today so I used the about.com cache. The AIP tends to publish very accessible articles of interest in physics; it's always worth checking out. :)
Also, I fixed the URL and the markup.
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At the start of the film Darkseid was a lot younger than he was in the “present” and perhaps less mature:
With that being said, just because he was using a weapon, doesn't make him a “brute”.
It just means he liked to get his hands dirty and join his troops in battle.
While its true he seems a but more contemplative in the present:
In the future timeline he is still joing in on the fighting except now he has the Omega Effect:
And he also gets his hands dirty in the comics so it's pretty accurate:
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EP Thompson, *The Making of the English Working Class*
Herbert Gutman, *Work, culture, and Society in Industrializing America*
Andrew Cohen, *The Racketeer's Progress*
For someone looking for a fantastic way to learn a hell of a lot about US history in a short time (or to, perhaps, study for PhD exams or write a lecture, or . . ., or . . .,) Eric Foner, ed.: *The New American History* is unbeatable.
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Fascinating Facts About Space:
Vastness of Space: Space is unimaginably vast, with the observable universe spanning over 93 billion light-years in diameter. It contains countless galaxies, stars, planets, and other celestial objects.Empty Space: Despite its vastness, outer space is mostly empty. In the vast expanse between celestial objects, there are extremely low densities of particles, resulting in a near-vacuum environment.Extreme Temperatures: Space experiences extreme temperatures. In some areas, such as deep space, temperatures can drop to near absolute zero (-273.15 degrees Celsius), while in close proximity to stars or other energetic sources, temperatures can reach millions of degrees Celsius.Cosmic Microwave Background: The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a faint radiation present throughout the universe. It is the remnants of the hot, dense early universe, and its discovery provided strong evidence for the Big Bang theory.Black Holes: Black holes are regions in space with extremely strong gravitational forces that prevent anything, including light, from escaping their grasp. They form from the remnants of massive stars that collapse under their own gravity.Time Dilation: The concept of time dilation states that time runs slower in regions with intense gravitational fields or high velocities. This phenomenon has been observed and confirmed through experiments and observations of fast-moving objects and objects near massive bodies.Cosmic Expansion: The universe is expanding, with galaxies moving away from each other. This expansion was discovered through observations of distant galaxies and is believed to have started with the Big Bang.The Speed of Light: Light travels at a staggering speed of approximately 299,792 kilometers per second (186,282 miles per second). This means that light from distant stars and galaxies takes a significant amount of time to reach us, allowing us to observe the universe as it was in the past.Exoplanets: Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. Since the first confirmed discovery in 1992, thousands of exoplanets have been identified. They vary in size, composition, and distance from their host stars, raising intriguing possibilities for the existence of habitable worlds.Space Debris: Earth's orbit is cluttered with debris from old satellites, spent rocket stages, and other fragments. This space debris poses a significant challenge for space missions and can potentially collide with operational satellites.Astronomical Units: Astronomical units (AU) are commonly used to measure distances within our solar system. One AU is the average distance between the Earth and the Sun, approximately 150 million kilometers (93 million miles).The Multiverse Hypothesis: The multiverse hypothesis suggests that our universe may be one of many universes that exist, each with its unique physical laws and properties. While still speculative, this idea is being explored by physicists and cosmologists.
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Zimin, I have talked to Alex about it.
I don't think that the additional seminars will crowd out the brown bag lunches.
The seminars are really targeted to people who recently joined the group and have very limited, or zero, exposure to energy markets.
For most members of the group it should be the piece of cake.
Brown bag lunches are not that time intensive, except for the speaker.
Plus, we ran out of days available for lunch meetings.
Vince
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Bill: I am hoping we can count on you for the domestic political update.
We should have a lot to talk about this time.
Please let me know.
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Here's the situation: co-worker who is senior to me had to take a sudden leave. He didn't come back. I stepped up to the plate and did both his job and mine for three months. My boss posted the position through our HR department, and I applied (and interviewed) for it. During the last three months, and even during the interview itself, I was told repeatedly I was doing a great job, that everything was going well, all the work was getting done ahead of schedule, etc. Heck, during the actual interview, my boss told me, "you clearly know how to do this job. " So imagine my surprise (and outrage) when I was told yesterday that the position was offered to an external candidate. I knew better than to say anything stupid when he told me (he even had the audacity to say, "I think you'll really enjoy working with (new hire). ") so I just said, "thank you for the information, " got up, and left his office. Haven't talked to him since. Still pretty pissed, but I don't want to do or say anything that might cost me my job or a future pay increase. So here are the lemons from which I'm hoping to make lemonade - a. k. a. ,
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The primary reason is fairly simple:
AA-level games (the top quality, big name ones) now average well over 20GB in size, and many top 75 or more GB.
That's more than will fit on a DVD (about 5GB) and even more than will fit on a Blu ray disc (50gb).
Worse, MOST PCs made in the past 10 years don't have a Blu Ray player, and perhaps only a simple majority have DVD player.
Thus, there is no reliable way to produce media that you can count on your prospective audience to be able to use.
Things like USB thumb drives are expensive to make and easily broken or lost.
Physical media for PCs became a losing idea about the time that broadband became ubiquitous. And so PCs abandoned media in the late 2000s.
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A number of books and articles investigated the relationship between corporate and advertising interests and news coverage. In the May/June 2000 issue of Columbia Journalism Review, Lowell Bergman wrote an article entitled, "Network television news: With fear and favor." Bergman sums up his findings by saying, "Executives of the network news divisions say that they will report any story of public interest and import without fear or favor, without considering its potential commercial consequences. They say that, but they do not believe it" (p. 50).
Karl Idsvoog's journal article, "TV sitting on stories to improve ratings," claims that "the decision on when (or if) to run a piece is no longer determined just by asking is the report concise, clear, and well produced; is it fair, thorough and accurate? There are now more critical questions. What's the lead-in? Where do we place the promotion? Will it deliver better numbers on Monday or Wednesday?" (Idsvoog, p. 38). However, he adds that "in the long run, adhering to a higher standard of ethics delivers a higher standard of performance" (p. 39).
Carol Guensburg examines the ethical dilemmas of news reporting that involve the media agency's owner in the December 1998 issue of American Journalism Review (p. 10). In "When the story is about the owner," she determines that it is up to the individual journalists and news operations to continue reporting important stories, regardless of the impact they may have on corporate or advertising interests (Guensburg, p. 11).
American Journalism Review's October 1998 article by Jane Kirtley, "Second-guessing news judgment," looks at the issue of FCC regulations of news coverage (p. 86). She notes that having the governmental agency get involved in news coverage would likely lead to the consequence that "broadcasters will be discouraged from covering controversial issues at all" (Kirtley, p. 86).
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This could also be used for the 55 word challenge. It was harder than I'd thought it be. This isn't a story as much as it is a thing-that-happened. Also, the picture Imgur chose for me was difficult to interpret.
55 words.
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http://imgur.com/gallery/7EjKI
The auditorium lights dimmed, and an unprecedented gathering of scientists and feminists hushed as a lone man in a white coat took to the stage.
"Ladies and gentlemen, for millennia society has been blighted by the act of rape. That is about to change, thanks to my work. I give you - The Electro Vagina!"
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>Assuming the distance traveled took 1 minute
I'm going to have stop you right there. Relativity (which is what we're talking about) deals with the terrible truth that, when you have objects moving at different speeds, you can't actually just say that "the time taken was X" or "the distance traveled was Y," because those values will change depending on your "frame of reference." That's a fancy way of saying, whether you're the man on the river bank who sees a boat appear to float by, or whether you're the man on the boat who sees the bank appear to float by in the opposite direction.
In this case, from the perspective of the clock (or any people) on the ground, the rocket travels some distance in a minute. From the perspective of the clock (or any people) on the rocket, the time that passes is very slightly less.
This may sound completely paradoxical, but don't worry! If you include some kind of device on the rocket that measures the distance it travels, that number will *also* be very slightly less! So actually, the rocket has the same speed in both frames of reference: the faster it moves relative to the launcher and destination (which remain stationary with respect to one another), it travels a shorter distance in proportionally shorter time.
This may still sound paradoxical! Well, sorry, it isn't. We've actually done this, a lot. When experimental results seem to support something that crazy, a lot of people will try to disprove it or come up with other explanations for the measurements. They haven't yet, and Einstein published a while ago.
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I can take a scan from my official rulebook that I got in the official box of my official Dutch Hanabi if you want but it's the same thing as what I linked. Another example here: Here in the abbacusspiel translation to english: Also this guy says RR is the only version that has this rulechange: I can't find any futher information on these 2 pages that says you can't. They either say you can or don't mention it at all:, And if that wasn't enough, here the designer says go for it:
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1. The French explorer de LaSalle explored the Great Lakes, Mississippi River, and Gulf of Mexico in the 1600s and claimed the entire Mississippi River basin for France. However the French did little to colonize the vast territory, and as a result of its defeat in the Seven Years War, France ceded the eastern portion of the territory to England and the western portion to Spain in 1763. Under pressure from Napoleon, Spain gave the western portion back to France in 1800, and Napoleon sold it to the United States in 1803.
2-3. As others have noted, the French culture had little influence outside of the southern part of what is now the state of Louisiana, near the mouth of the Mississippi River. North of there, the French influence is confined mostly to place names, such as St. Louis, Missouri. In southern Louisiana, however, the descendants of French colonists (many of whom relocated from Canada) form a distinctive ethnic group who still speak a French dialect.
4-6. Judging from the fate of other territories between the eastern United States and the Pacific Coast, it is likely that the United States would have annexed the Louisiana territory by conquest if they had not done so by purchase. It's worth noting that for years much of the territory was considered a desert, unfit for farming, until the discovery in the 19th century of one of the world's largest underground reservoirs, the Ogallala Aquifer.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more clearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. Alas, as we get up in life, and are more preoccupied with our affairs, even a holiday is a thing that must be worked for. To hold a pack upon a pack-saddle against a gale out of the freezing north is no high industry, but it is one that serves to occupy and compose the mind. And when the present is so exacting who can annoy himself about the future?
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Jeff: At your request I am offering this memo to explain the status of the agenda items before the CPUC on the issue of suspension of the direct access program.
There are two pending draft decisions at this time, the first is the proposed decision of ALJ Barnett (Item H-7 on the last agenda) which was modified by a changed version submitted by Pres.
Lynch at 2:45 pm on 9-5-01, the day before the last meeting.
This version indicated that direct access was suspended as of the date of the order (which would have been Sept. 6) and states in another ordering paragraph that the utilities are to advise their customers that the suspension is effective Sept. 6, 2001, specifically naming that date.
This order would have been interpreted to suspend direct access as of Sept. 6 if it had been voted out that day.
The other item, Agenda Item H-7A on the last agenda, is the Bilas alternate decision which calls for hearings to determine the impact of direct access on the issuance of bonds, and does not suspend direct access at this time.
Please be advised that the suspension date contained in H-7 can and probably will be changed before the orders are considered at the CPUC meeting on Sept. 20.
Either the Sept 6 date will be changed to the 20th of Sept., or some other specific date could be inserted at all the locations in the order dealing with the suspension date.
All that is required to make this change is the distribution of a changed page on the Escutia table before the Commission meeting.
Thus, it is important for all direct access supporters to continue to urge the Commission, especially Commissioner Brown, to support a suspension date later than Sept. 6, because it is so easy for the date to be altered under Commission procedures.
Please let me know if you require any additional information on this subject.
Mike Day Goodin, MacBride, Squeri, Ritchie & Day
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I want to begin with one thing: I don't have a favorite sport or something on that, but I really like to do exercises for my body.
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I entered this deal in the system with the wrong term date.
I entered this as a Dec-00 deal.
The term is 11/23 - 11/30/2000.
My fault.
I corrected Sitara.
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Attached is a revised version of the consent to assignment.
This version is specific to the ESA deal, but I'm told that the TurboPark version can be expected to be close to the same.
Kent, I'm awaiting final Enron input on the facility agreement as well, and I will let you know as soon as I get it.
Thanks,
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Every morning on The Style Blog, we celebrate the best footwear weve come across. Now, for your benefit, its all in one place.
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Walk in these down the boardwalk.
Walk in these when you're feeling sick of summer.
Walk in these to your crucial mid-week meeting.
Walk in these... no, actually, bike in these to work.
Walk in these no matter what you're wearing.
Walk in these before summer's over.
Walk in these to... your car?
Walk in these to get noticed.
Walk in these to the grocery store.
Walk in these to work this morning.
Walk in these the next time you take her out — tonight?
Walk in these wherever you go, because espadrilles are this summer's solution to another scorcher.
Walk in these to your computer, then explore sidmashburn.com, the just-launched online home of the storied Atlanta store.
Walk in these the next time you ditch the office for the mountains.
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Mexico, with constantly staggering economic growth and horribly unequal income distribution has had (I would say since the 20s or 30s, maybe even earlier) several powerful families that run crime sindicates. each family does "business" (drug sales/production/transportation, prostitution, extortion, assassination) in a set region that belongs to them and them only. Police, governors, judges, your grandma, many people are involved. "Las Familias" have sunk deep into the society's fabric. since gangs dont tend to be the nicest folk, there is often regional conflict, but rarely anything on the current scale. Why the boom now?
A couple of factors explain this recent surge, the primary one being President Felipe Calderón's push to pretty much end the gangs. This has meant the military (as the police force is to corrupt) literally walking tanks into towns, breaking into houses, etc (there have been allegations of human rights abuses, but nothing widespread yet). The gangs have panicked, some have lost revenue and all have started to step up their own arsenal and start kidnapping to raise not just money but public fear.
To make matters more complicated, there are questions about Calderon's connections, and some even believe he is simply helping friends rather than trying to make society safer. little has been confirmed either way.
Im afraid that wasnt as if u were 5, but if your still interested [this article goes in depth](/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/07/14/can_mexico_fix_its_image_problem?page=0,0) and analyzes posible outcomes.
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Louise, Thanks for your reply to my email.
The fixes implemented over the weekend appear to have worked extremely well.
I am sure that the changes your team made also contributed to the record 147 external and 263 total trades that I executed today.
Thanks for all your help.
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The liberal outrage over don king saying the N-word really angers me. The white yuppie progressives can go fuck themselves, shame on blacks
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But about my self im gonna have it to becouse my brother alwys talks about it and i agree with that broad knowledge .
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The gas pedal is traditionally connected to the throttle valve. Picture a pipe with a circular disc in it, the gas pedal pulls this down and the disc now allows different amount of air to go through the pipe. Now the more air that comes in the more air that goes to the engine, so the engine needs to have more gas, a mass flow sensor measures the amount of air that travels into the engine, usually this is mounted directly after the throttle.
More air, more gas, and the engine has to do all 4 cycles faster. Now the engine is cycling faster so the crankshaft and everything spins faster. This causes the revolutions per minute to go up (rpms)
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Our Client is a family run Group with over one-hundred years' experience in the transport industry. The Group is now proud to represent Audi, Volkswagen, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Skoda, Renault and Dacia in East Anglia. With showrooms located in Suffolk and Norfolk, our Client can offer both new and used cars, commercial vehicles and aftersales services such as MOTs, servicing, repairs and parts.
As an Aftersales Manager you will play a crucial role in driving business forward and inspire the team to ensure that every customers experience is exceptional.
The ideal candidate will be friendly, professional, naturally confident and strong leadership skills. You will have the ability to implement change and strengthening our business.
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In my workplace, relatively few calls to support have to do with hardware knowledge issues. Most have to do with software usability or hardware reliability. Letting people use their own hardware will not directly address these issues, but it will create a nightmare for compatibility, especially in mobile environments. It's hard enough of those of us working in user experience getting stuff to play nice with each other AND get users to understand it without throwing hardware and OS compatibility issues into the mix. Not to mention the front line support staff training would have to be completely-reworked and new documentation developed for each new OS environment and major hardware platform adapted. There's very good reasons why we standardize where we can.
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Hey all, I'm headed in tonight to get my nose pierced, and I've heard mixed things about whether to go with a ring or a stud. (And of course, I'll be discussing my options with my licensed professional as well! ) Ultimately, I'd like to be able to wear a ring or a stud once the site has healed, but I'd like to minimize healing time and keloid formation (if that wasn't obvious to begin with), especially before I head out of the country in June! I've heard that the angle that piercers pierce for a stud is different than for a ring, so I pretty much want to make sure that I don't get it pierced with the "wrong" type of jewelry, as I've heard that some people who get their nose pierced with studs aren't able to pull off rings/hoops as much due to the angle with which the initial piercing was performed. Is there any truth to this? If it's any help, I've definitely probably got to change to a stud either way by the beginning of July, as I'll be starting a full-time job where I will need to look professional, and I'll probably be starting off with a stud until my coworkers understand that any nose piercing I have shouldn't influence their ideas regarding my work ethic. .. THANKS IN ADVANCE, I'll make sure to check back before I have any needles shoved anywhere! (T-minus approx. 1 hr)
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That sounds a hell of alot like what this guy was saying. He also mentioned Schrodinger's Cat as an example for why the interference pattern stopped upon observation. I just don't see the bridge from the double slit to the universal wavefunction.
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CSS is used to style webpages. Any web page consists of a number of different parts working together. HTML is used for inserting and organizing content and CSS is used for positioning/styling content. There are many other languages used on the web, but these two are more or less the backbone.
CSS is written in chunks where it attributes a bunch of styling rules to a specified part of the webpage. For example, in the HTML for this page here the blue header up at the top is given a specific identifying name: "header". The person writing the page could've called it anything they wanted, but they decided to call it "header" (a very common choice for something like that). I know this because I'm looking at the page's source right now.
Now, the header section in HTML is nothing more than a box with some text and links and a picture in it. That's the *content*. The *style* is controlled by the CSS. In the CSS document it will tell the browser that it wants to change something about the "header" section by writing #header. Immediately following the #header will be two brackets like these {}. The browser then understands that whatever is between those brackets applies to the "header" section. In the CSS code, in between those brackets, they specified that the background color would be light blue by writing "background-color: #CEE3F8;" There are a few other styles done to the header box but hopefully you kinda get the picture.
Here's an example of *this page's* CSS for the header section.
\#header {
border-bottom: 1px solid #5F99CF;
position: relative;
background-color: #CEE3F8;
z-index: 99;
}
The browser looks for the part of the HTML called "header" and applies those styles to it.
**tl;dr:** CSS documents tell the browser how to *style* the given HTML. It can tell the browser where to place things, how big to make them, what to use as a background color or image, etc. It is organized by chunks of content and use specify which chunks it wants to change by using the names found in the HTML to style the right parts.
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Is it me, or is Ding wearing the look of a man who's just found his arch enemy in bed with his missus? #angryman #scowl
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VMware Player - a free tool that allows users to run virtual machines on PCs operating under Linux or Windows. The program is useful for beta-testing software. Unlike commercial programs VMware Workstation, VMware Player utility can not create virtual machines. However, it can offer a few ready applications that can be downloaded from the site developer. VMware Player is also compatible with the machines be in Virtual PC and Symantec LiveState Recovery.
The latest version adds support for additional guest operating systems:Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2, Asianux Server 3. 0 Service Pack 1, openSUSE 11. 1, Ubuntu 8. 10, Ubuntu 8. 04 LTS. In addition, added experimental support for Fedora 11, FreeBSD 7. 1, Mandriva Linux 2009, Novell SLE11. 0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. 3, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. 8, Sun Solaris 10 Update 6, Ubuntu 9. 04.
Download VMware Player, you can here.
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After continuing to play musical chairs with the west eol products, I think we have decided on a plan.
Keith and Frank will handle the prompt and term basis.
This includes the monthly basis, daily basis, and gd index for SJ, ROX, Scal, CG, and Malin.
They will make certain that the gd index products are out there for all terms.
Cary Metz is managing the Perm products.
I will handle the prompt month physical fixed price and index for all of the index points.
The term physical index will be coming soon.
The rest of the group will continue to manage their cash index points for the next day trading, while adding the BOM physical with a basis link to Monique's GD BOM products.
I would like to get the cash products out on eol by 7:15 each morning.
The early info will come in handy as we approach winter.
Let me know what you think.
Steve and Matt have started a pilot program in the NW for rolling out their next day cash products after 11:00 am each day.
We will look into rolling out the SW in the future.
We are in the process of sending out the "odd lot" notice to our customers regarding all products on eol.
We will change our product minimum to one mmbtu in the next week.
You may want to discuss this with your direct customers before the mailout.
With the addition of Olivia Newton-John to my Scour selection, it is no secret that we have a new commitment to physical in the west.
If you review your customer contact sheet and discover an old customer that we haven't contacted in some time, then call them and visit.
We will be using EOL and the brokers for physical volumes, but nothing beats the direct phone call for the baseload phys.
Thanks,
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Yeah, [it's been pointed out](http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/j2kzr/why_does_the_product_of_two_negative_numbers/c28mn4y). I have a thing against edits that break the flow of the discussion and render other people's comments redundant or cryptic, which is why I'm keeping it this way. I hope it's not too much of a problem.
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I just spoke to Mark Taylor and he has requested that we be more specific about the nature of the project we are working on in our confidentiality agreements.
On a going forward basis can you please provide that information along with the other info you give me.
Thanks!
I will be out of the office Monday and Tuesday.
If you have a RUSH Confidentiality Agreement that can't wait until Wednesday, call Mark Taylor at x37459 and he will find someone else in our Group to prepare it.
Louise, don't worry about Continental.
Mark is working on getting it signed in my absence!
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Isn't that just quantum entanglement?
Teleportation is a protocol to transfer a quantum state (particle) from one party to another by using only classical communication.
We first prepare (in the same room) two particles in some "entangled state". Then I give you one of the particles and you go off where ever, say, the moon. This is our shared resource: We each have one particle out of a two particle system that was created in the past.
Now suddenly I get a new particle. I don't know its state, and observing it will destroy it. Nevertheless, I want you to have it, but you're on the moon. Using our shared resource I can now apply some operations on my two particles, you apply some on your one particle. I then observe my particles, call you and tell you to perform some more operations, and viola, your particle is now in the exact state that my particle used to be, but mine isn't anymore.
Unfortunately, our shared resource is now useless. If we want to transfer more particles, we should've prepared more such pairs in advance.
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Nothing ever changed for Jameson. During the day, he sat alone in his one room shack on the westernmost shore of the Pitcairne Islands.
It was evening, and Jameson's routine for evenings was to sit on the nearest cliff in a wicker chair, overlooking the lonely glass waves of the Pacific stretching far away. There was a bottle of soda nestled in the grass between his feet.
He heard the sound of bicycle tires on rocky soil approaching him from behind. It was his neighbor, Connie. He knew without looking. She was an older woman, but just as determined to hold to her routine as he was.
"Jameson, the radios are all dead."
Jameson kept his eyes on the water. "Yep."
Connie lowered the kickstand of her bicycle.
"Why do you suppose that is?"
Jameson reached between his legs and picked up the glass bottle of soda.
"Dunno, Connie."
"See you in church?"
"See you then. Take care."
Connie's kickstand creaked, and the old woman bicycled off down the dusty road until, finally, Jameson was alone. He sat back in his wicker chair, crossed his ankles on the cool grass, and popped the cap on his soda.
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"Octoberfest tomorrow!"
"Wow, already?"
"You down?"
"I dunno."
"Come on."
"Well maybe..."
"Why not?"
"Midterm Tuesday..."
"Study tonight!"
"I could..."
"Definitely!"
"When tomorrow?"
"Round 1:30."
"Where?"
"My place."
"And then?"
"Atwater market."
"Who's coming?"
"Just friends."
"Alright then."
"Excellent!"
"See ya."
"Can't wait!"
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Everyone has narcissistic traits. It's only a matter of to what degree of the traits one possess. Thus, just because one blocks and unblocks does not necessarily mean that they are narcissist. One can also pose a question of why people with borderline Personality do the same thing (block and unblock). Additionally, one can also argue that you asking such a question is you also trying you deal with and explain someone's behavior due to your own narcissistic injury that you experienced because of that behavior. Remember, we are all born with some level of narcissistic traits, hence there's healthy narcissism and unhealthy narcissism. Additionally, the process of falling and being in love and in a relationship its self can lead one to experience many conflicts that may lead to such behavior. My point is don't pathologise by giving people such lables without necessarily proving us with the full context.
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Let's talk about electricity first. How does it get to your house?
Now everyone could have a smelly old generator in their garage, that they would have to repair and buy fuel for. But it is a easier for a lot of people to get together and pay a company to run one great big generator, and sent electricity over the power lines.
So when you turn on your TV, you don't care where the electricity comes form...it is someone else's problem, and they just send you the bill.
Cloud computing works the same way. If you are a small business, instead having a bunch of computers in your basement, you pay someone else to set up a bunch of big computers and connect to it via the internet. You and other people share those computers, and pay for what portion they use.
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I'm old enough to remember the "good old days" of smoking on flights and having comfy, enjoyable flights. To me, the biggest change has been the flying public, not the airlines. Flying used to be more expensive (I remember a RT EWR-SAN was 660 in 1980 dollars: about 2000 today) and as a result the flying public was nearly free of riff-raff. People dressed well and behaved well. Lots of politeness and knowing nods. Nowadays, of course, it's all flying buses. Cram in the human garbage, sit them down and fly their fat asses from A-B with the least possible amenities. Cheap flights means Ma and Pa Kettle can fly across country to visit the grandkids three times a year. Frat boy drunks can weekend in Vegas or Miami for the price of two weeks of beer. Flight discomfort has little to do with the seats or the food. It has more to do with the unbathed troll sitting next to you and the screaming infants behind you. It's the huge lines at check-in and the humiliating security checks. There is nothing to look forward to any more. Your mind remains fixed on the destination because the journey is no longer enjoyable.
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>I didn't state that Augustine was a strict fideist, but that the Augustinian position regarding faith and logic is fideistic
So he's not a fideist, his thought is just fideistic?
>How else would you classify the Augustinian position on the role of reason as regards faith, or as regards natural law?
Natural law? That's a confusing category to introduce, could you elaborate?
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"Alright Martha, I'll go grab the milk right now. Don't worry, just work on other stuff until I get the milk. Jayden's party is going to be perfect," I tell her as I walk out the door.
'*Jeez. I hate it when she goes all uptight.*' I think while I walk. I let my mind wander to other things like my job, my friends, my income, when suddenly I come across something very weird. There is a very large boulder in the middle of the park across the street. Stranger yet, there seem to be a few people kneeling down, heads down in a prayer-like fashion. I decide that this boulder and these people are probably more interesting than the milk I've been demanded to purchase.
"Hey, what uh, what's going on?" I ask one of the men. He doesn't stop kneeling down. "Are you under some kind of vow of silence or something?" I ask. But that doesn't seem right. They aren't monks or anything, they are in all appearance, average people. Men in suits and basketball shorts, women in dresses and short-shorts. "What's so special about this rock?" I ask to the same man I tried to talk to earlier.
Nothing. Annoyed, I grab his shoulder. Then he collapses. I would have passed out or vomited if I weren't in shock. My mind seemed to shut down. It wasn't possible. The man's face was gone. Not just his face, but the skin and most of the muscle. It looked as if something had hollowed out everything but the back of his head. I look around and check all of the others and realize that all of them are in the exact same condition as the first man. I vomit on the ground and collapse to my knees myself.
^ **Edit: I had something here before about aliens, but it got screwed up by my formatting failures, so I'm just gonna end the story here and leave the rest to your imagination...**
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When we arrived there, last summer in July, the owners welcame us with a magnificent basket of fresh fruits in the room and a variety of drinks in the fridge all included in the room's fee.
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In what way? Did you think Notre Dame was the best team in the country? If not you clearly put them in the title game due to the impressiveness of them going through a schedule undefeated. What the link is saying is Stanford going 8-1 through their current schedule is more difficult than Ohio State and Baylor having gone undefeated through there's. It's not saying Stanford is the second best team, it's saying Stanford is the second more meritorious team. Much as Notre Dame wasn't considered by many to be the "best" team at the end of the year, but they had completely the hardest task in CFB that year.
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There are 365 days in the year and 52 Sundays.
That leaves 313 days left in the year. What will you do with them?
Being a follower of Jesus is not a once a week thing… or perhaps twice a week if you’re super religious. God is not up there taking church attendance in Heaven as a basis for salvation or love or approval. He is looking at your heart.
God is doing wonders in the earth today – miracles and healings of every kind… I am blessed to be a small part of what He is doing. But it doesn’t come by religion, it comes by relationship with the Living God. It comes by intimacy with Jesus.
30″And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. 32And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.
I pray that things written here will give you a hunger for more and will stir up an unquenchable passion for Jesus in your heart.
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PM #SheikhHasina in @user speech terms #terrorism as global challenge and urges world leaders to work together to unroot it from everywhere.
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Not entirely sure why this is on /r/adventuretime really (except for the many shared habits of the fanbases), but I'll give my two cents. I've watched the show, it isn't bad and I enjoyed most of it. I really like cartoons in general and this one is pretty damn good (all star cast, emmy-nominated songs, surprisingly relatable characters, sight-gag filled active animation). .. But I'll never get the way the fanbase acts about it. I don't understand where the huge leap occurs between liking a show and self-identifying as a brony and turning it into a secret club with special emoticons and hidden pony avatars. They are also some of the worst shippers in the history of mankind. Just because the main cast is all female they're all lesbian to the worst parts of the fanbase, even when they're shown not to be. Don't get me started on the fact that Rule 34 for it is so prevalent that it even has its own name. ಠ_ಠWhat is wrong with leaving something that is simple alone? Watching a show doesn't have to be a life philosophy and there doesn't have to be a romantic subplot between the main characters to enjoy it the way it is. At least in Adventure Time the majority of bad ships have expressed some romantic interest in Finn (mostly because he is a celebrity) so they aren't pulling something from nothing. Also every side character (even the stock ones that they just use to populate crowds) that is shown seems to be given a fandom name, fandom ships, and some crazy obsession or personality trait. This puts the creators, who are active in the community to some extent, in the awkward position of only having two choices: letting the fanbase write for them in blatant fanservice (often killing a joke to please the fans, like with Ditzy Doo Derpy) or "betraying" the "fanon" in a way that for some reason seems a similarly outrageous offense to punching a fan's mother. In most fanbases it's considered a somewhat funny in-joke when the creators stomp all over fanon (especially Adventure Time), but some people are WAY too involved in their nonexistent characters and would probably flip shit if, for example, a certain background pony's name was revealed to be anything but Octavia.
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Okay so, before my GF and me came together, I knew she was struggling with anxiety and a very low self-esteem. It was okay and I was happy to help her. Fast forward a year. She has terrible ups and downs, going from getting tickled and laughing to crying and not talking to me for about half an hour. Of course this is an extreme example but it was one of those I knew I did not know what to do. I have tried talking to her about these problems but when I do, she starts crying and ignores everything I say until I apologize for what I have said. I know I probably should not do that but whatever. She often says how happy she is to be in a relationship with me (I am happy too, as long as we do not argue about the smallest things! ). She says she does not want to be without me, does not know how to deal with life without me. In short: I am afraid she would harm herself (which she did in the past) if I would leave her. I kinda feel dragged into a relationship with not way out. .. and right now I am thinking about breaking up because I do not know how to deal with that. Sorry if I forgot something, I really have a lot of things going through my mind right now and just wanted to type it out.
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@user And you're cheerfully defending a group of unchecked, armed thugs who've shown a history of racism, violence, and lies.
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Met early this morning with Jack Steward (pres.
of CMA) and Keith McCrea (lawyer for CMA) to follow up on the meeting that Steve and I had with them regarding the proposal Ken Lay was pushing last week: They like taking Tx out of the MOU, they like getting DWR out of the power purchase business, and they think that Edison's MOU needs a little haircut.
McCrea pushed back initially on core/noncore ("why should it be mandatory to go the market?
"), but after much discussion they agreed that our idea for core/noncore has a lot of merit.
Our idea is that 1) the core/noncore would take effect in 18-24 months, when the markets settle and prices come down, 2) everyone (core and noncore) should pay for DWR's "past" purchases, since everyone consumed it, 3) core customers should take IOU generation, QFs and DWR contracts (which eliminates the core's "net short" position, and 4) noncore would go to market and would not have to pay for any of DWR's "going forward costs" (since core gets them, in exchange for getting all the low-cost IOU generation) I told them we are still crunching the numbers to see what the rate effects would be and would share it with them when we're done.
While they are supportive of this approach and agreed that it would be useful to continue to flesh it out, they are not convinced that it will get the necessary support to get passed.
They are also withholding final judgment until they see all the numbers, i.e., we've still got some work to do.
They are very cynical about anything getting solved in California, and are extremely upset about the PUC's proposed rate decisions released by the judge and Loretta Lynch.
They place very little trust in the Governor or the Legislature.
Interestingly, the rate increase decisions, coupled with calls in Sacramento for an immediate move to core/noncore, makes our proposal very attractive to CMA.
Nonetheless, they said that they will continue to engage and are willing to commit to continue meet to try to get California's mess resolved.
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The aim of this report is to outline what are the best places to have fun in Valencia for young people, what facilities exist for them and how these could be made better.
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I added Paul Walker on Xbox but he just spends all of his time on the dashboard. #dark #humor #funny
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My boyfriend and I are going to relocate next year, and I'm considering applying to UMASS Boston. We would loooove to live there, but I'm concerned that the cost of living would be even more expensive than the place we live now (Boone, NC, if anyone has heard of it. Typical mountainous resort area). I have only been in Boston for a total of maybe 7 hrs while I was waiting for a flight, so I have no idea about location of boroughs, the school, or anything really. Okay, what we are looking for is a 2BR, dog friendly apartment for maybe 800-850, but no more than that. It doesn't need to be in town, but I'd like for it to be somewhere that I don't have to use my car to get to class if at all possible. Do you guys have any ideas of apartment/house leads I can follow? Also an idea of the general cost of living for a couple of college students?
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Obviously we don't know the full extent of what can and can't be done without the game having a significant amount of time in the hands of the public. However this thread is meant to give us an idea of what heroes we can still expect in the game without making up full character concepts. The developers have stated to the streamers, pros, and youtubers invited to play overwatch at their offices that "heroes are designed around what sort of niche roles are not currently filled by the roster. " And have implied that once they believe all the niches are filled that they will stop making not heroes. I apologize for not siting a source as it was a video I saw a while ago and I had not though about this until now. The point of the thread is to give us an idea of what sort of heroes and mechanics could still be added during the beta without the need for a while character concept.
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Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional is the most comprehensive book on the Python ever written. Based on Practical Python, this newly-revised book is both an introduction and practical reference for a swath of Python-related programming topics, including addressing language internals, database integration, network programming, and web services. Advanced topics, such as extending Python and packaging/distributing Python applications, are also covered.
Ten different projects illustrate the concepts introduced in the book. You will learn how to create a P2P file-sharing application and a web-based bulletin board, and how to remotely edit web-based documents and create games. Author Magnus Lie Hetland is an authority on Python and previously authored Practical Python. He also authored the popular online guide, Instant Python Hacking, on which both books are based.
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Had a great time this weekend with Workers Union Ensemble performing ‘The Virus Within: Hearing HIV’ at Southampton University’s Science and Engineering Day. Ben Oliver’s work with scientist Chad Swanson has resulted in a wicked three-movement piece which uses strands of DNA and nucleotides in musical form. Fascinating from both a scientific and musical perspective, we are looking forward to touring this around the UK over the next few years.
Here is a snapshot of the fascinating project my group Workers Union Ensemble were involved with earlier this year.
‘Hearing HIV‘ brings together contemporary music and cutting edge scientific research. In collaboration with virologist Chad Swanson, Benjamin Oliver has composed a new three-movement work for ensemble and electronics that musically explores HIV replication processes and how innovative ‘Shock and Kill’ treatments might provide a cure for HIV.
This video is of extracts from the premiere at Guy’s Chapel, King’s College London, on 15 February 2018. You can watch all three movements in full here. Or why not come and see us live in Southampton in 2019? Exact dates and times to be finalised but check the Workers Union Ensemble site for the latest info.
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In some ways, yes. As far as I know, their architectural and scientific achievements weren't matched anywhere in the western or near-eastern world (I don't know too much about ancient China, though.)
Despite this, like most people in the world, the majority of Romans lived in pretty awful conditions and did not get much benefit from all of these neat advancements, especially once you moved outside of the Italian cities.
So, the answer is not yes, but it is not no, either.
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*LONDON (AP) - University College London - Department of Physics & Astronomy has reported the discovery of a large mass, most likely an asteroid, which will collide with the earth in 150 years. There is no known way to divert the mass with current technology. Scientists admit that it is impossible for us to have any appreciable effect on it's trajectory. For all practical purposes, our planet is doomed...*
When the news first broke, people were for the most part, unimpressed. 150 years was too far into the future for them to really be concerned by it. Surely something could be done. Besides, it would not affect them. They would be long dead by then.
The next generation was a bit more concerned about the looming disaster. They had far fewer children. They were generally more on edge. Crime rates soared. However, for the most part, life went on as usual. Still, they would live out their lives and the event would not affect them in any meaningful way. Perhaps their children would find a solution.
By the third generation people were born into a world that would cease to exist within their lifetimes. The future suddenly became a priority.
The entire world now focused all their resources, all their scientific effort into coming up with a viable solution. For the first time in human history they became one people. Countries forgot their disagreements, wars were abandoned. Every human breath, every human effort was geared towards a single goal. To save their world.
They had finally become what we already know we can be. As you all know, it was far too late for that to save them.
What few of us *could* be saved fled the Earth when the asteroid was still well outside the solar system. We are the children of the race of man.
This is why we must remember the people of Earth, my students. They never realized their true potential until it was too late. We must learn from their mistake and not allow our own people to become apathetic. This is why we teach you this lesson.
There was a saying back on earth. "Those who forget history, are doomed to repeat it."
We, the people of the planet *Terra*, will never forget.
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**Went for a bit of a different approach, hope thats ok? I'm new here.**
Wordless in our search for food, only spattering sounds of tiny claws on concrete. The terrible giants are certainly gone for the time being, as even the haunting glow of the noise box have ceased for the night. There are a few sources in the air tonight, but we remember to beware that nutty, woody smell. The lightning snap that snatched up our brother and soaked his fur with the dark ooze within was well renowned in our family; none of us would ever let our hunger betray us to the same end. No, tonight our noses guide us amongst the fuzzy and funky stinks that had been haphazardly left strewn about. Suddenly, gold! The olfactory glory drew us scampering towards the source. Atop the hard, irregular rectangle, and sunken into the white circles therein lie the holy grail. The shards of a chocolate cookie crumbled carelessly across what is now a very shrine to our fickle overlords. We feasted on the crumbs with revelrous fervor, digging into those circular dimples of the plastic box, when suddenly, all was alight. Thundering footsteps, and then, a shriek from Karen. "MOM! THERE'S A MOUSE IN THE BASEMENT ON MY VIDEO TAPE!" Damn.
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The 903 area code includes Texas cities Athens, Carthage, Centerville, Corsicana, Denison, Greenville, Henderson, Jacksonville, Kilgore, Longview, Marshall, Mt. Pleasant, Palestine, Paris, Rusk, Sherman, Texarkana, Tyler.
Nearby area codes are 214, 254, 318, 430, 469, 580, 870, 936, 972 and 979.
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My sister and I are not as I'd like to be, I think we are as close as she'd like to be. I've made attempts, but I've learned the thing to do is let her come to me, or reach out and let her talk about herself. I tried to be there for her when our Dad died, when our Mom nearly died, when she got married, when she got pregnant, and when she lost her job. When she was engaged I was not even her third choice for Maid of Honor, (she got mad at the first two. ) Now the twins are due. My niece has club feet, I have cerebral palsy. I thought my sister might see me as a good mentor for my niece and name me as a Godparent. I never pushed this with her. In my heart I knew I wasn't in the running because she and my Mom had a not subtle discussion in front of me about how the children must be raised near to our hometown if something happened and how Godparent wasn't a big deal. (I live 2 hours away. I would have moved. ) My sister's Maid of Honor announced on Facebook she is The Godmother for both children. According to my sister she'll be Aunt Maid of Honor. It is a great thing that people love my niece and nephew, and really "aunt" and "godmother" are just words. Yet, I feel very rejected. My sister isn't religious, and it doesn't mean she needs to choose me as guardian if something happened. Plus The Godmother is already Aunt and Godmother to children in her family. It would have been a big deal to me to be Godparent to either of the children. Not just for my relationship with them, but also for my relationship with my sister. I sense that my sister doesn't particularly care if I'm in her children's lives. (And I want to be. ) So, what can I do to stop these feelings? (Without speaking to my sister) because I firmly believe that these are my feelings, I should be able to control them. And talking to her does not work, I've tried with regard to other issues. ) Finally, I know this is not a huge issue, but I don't have anyone to go to in my actual life.
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Since FTL technology doesn't (and unless we discover some new physics, can't) actually exist, we can't really be sure how collisions would behave at those velocities. Technically traveling FTL "conventionally" would require infinite energy, so colliding with anything should destroy the universe. Even just by existing it should collapse the universe into a singularity. So clearly this FTL technology uses some kind of work around, like slipping through another dimension or getting rid of its mass or warping space time. In those situations, it might not even be possible to collide with an object in normal space, and if you did it almost certainly wouldn't behave like you'd expect under normal physics.
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The residents of Tower Block 31 are terrified after witnessing the brutal murder of a young man. The case is left unsolved, due in large part to their collective silence. A year later, with their building marked for demolition, the witnesses begin to find themselves picked off one by one by a mysterious sniper out for justice. Pitted against not only the sniper’s deadly traps, but also each other, the residents must figure out a way to escape their own building…or die trying.
Featuring critically hailed performances by Jack O’Connell (300: Rise Of An Empire) and Sheridan Smith (Quartet) and co-starring Ralph Brown (Stoker), and Russell Tovey (BBC’s Being Human), Tower Block is a pulse-pounding thriller that delivers gritty action and relentless suspense!
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I sprained my ankle a week ago today, and until two days ago, I'd been able to walk on it pretty well, after 2 days of crutches. But on Thursday I started getting serious pain in the back left of my ankle (I rolled my left ankle to the outside). Anyways, on to my real question. I've been looking around the Internet and couldn't find anything related to my case. Whenever I sit up after having my feet up for an extended period of time I get excruciating pain all throughout my foot and my ankle. Is this simply from the blood rushing back to my foot? Or possibly something more? And why does this happen if it's more common than I thought?
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Reducing spending gets you less debt. Tax cuts give more debt (at least in the short term, long term is debatable).
So tax cuts and reduced spending doesn't really solve much about the deficit. Similarly, tax hikes and increased spending doesn't do much either.
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Okay Reddit, first time I made an account here. So there's this girl that I liked for about four years, but I only started talking to her my senior year. I really like her but I have no idea how she feels about me, probably feels nothing. I'm scared to text her because of my anxiety, but when I do text her she only responds half the time. Half of those conversations can go an hour, half only last a few minutes. I always have to text her, she never texts me first. I just want for once for her to text me first. Pretty sure I have an unhealthy obsession with this girl. She is the only thing I think about and I don't know why. I know I should just give up, but then I feel like I can't because of all the time that would be wasted. I could've hung out with her over the summer because she agreed to, but I was too scared to text her for the entire summer-what the fuck is wrong with me? I need some input on what I should do, because it's really affecting every aspect of my life. I just want her so much. Some of you will probably think I'm crazy, and most likely you're right, but I don't know what to do. We go to different universities, not too far from each other, but still she's surrounded by other guys that can potentially do what I couldn't do, and I hate that feeling. It makes me so angry thinking about this, because I wasted three years of high school and waited for my senior year to finally fucking do something. I really hate myself for doing nothing. It's all my fault, not hers. This isn't just some stupid crush that I can get over. It's not like "your first love" because I liked other people before. I just don't like the pain like the time I found out this girl I really liked was a lesbian.
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Firstly as everybody know the cost of the fuel is increasing more and more, adding to those the bill that own a car will bring, it became immediately clear that it is cheaper go around by public transport.
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A perfunctory list:
-Time
-What caused the universe to exist
-The origin and nature of qualia
-Various scientifically established "psi" phenomena
Often, though, unexplained phenomena that stray too far from accepted theoretical frameworks are denied altogether. That is, until a framework is designed, at which point everyone conveniently forgets that it was denied.
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This is by far the weirdest I've ever had AND heard of. .. I walk into my backyard from my house and circuit a roundabout created by our above-ground pool to get to the shed. My (now ex) girlfriend's dog is sitting in a shallow tray and rotating at an alarming speed. It barks a few times and I continue walking the circuit. I see my ex, completely naked except that her naughty bits are covered by a thick layer of straggly black fur. She's sitting in a pool of mud and dragging her ass across it like a dog with her legs in the air. I get mad at her and tell her to get dressed, to which she replies 'He's only making me get dressed because (blank) is here'. She disappears and I mount the stairs to the pool. Now, I don't know if anyone remembers this, but there was this weird girl on youtube a few years back, her videos were just her, staring at the camera and doing nothing. I only ever watched like, 1 joke reaction video to her. Apparently it stuck with me though. That girl shows up and is dressed in a geisha costume, face paint and all. As a testament to how completely random this dream was, this is her only appearance. All of the sudden there are lots of people there and they are chanting for a mutual friend of me and the ex's to do 'the reactor thing'. He jumps in the pool with a ball and starts spinning in the center of it, not moving the water or anything, but just kind of chilling. Next thing I know there are bubble versions of random shapes scribing an orbit around this guy, some of them operated by other random people and some of them just free-floating. A bubble chair hits me in the back of the head and when I look up again, everything is gone except there is an entire marching band in the pool. They all start walking toward the audience and play a final tune. Some of them go down on one knee, presumably to asphyxiate underwater. An announcer says 'And that was the brentwood marching band. How about a round of applause! ' And I'm the only one clapping.
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Marcelito Pomoy recently appeared at “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” He is the latest Filipino to guest in this popular talk show.
He was interviewed first by Ellen and an interpreter helped Marcelino answer the questions. Marcelito said that at h didn’t immediately believe that he got an invite from the show and initially thought that it was a spam email. Even after he had a Skype call with a representative of the show he still had doubts. It was not until his ticket was emailed to him that he finally got convinced that it was real!
The Kapamilya singer and Ellen talked about Marcelito’s humble beginnings. According to Marcelito, he started to sing at early age of seven and learned that he had this gift to switch voices at the age of eighteen. Ellen also asked Marcelito about his experience living in the streets and finally ending up as winner at the 2012 Pilipinas Got Talent. Marcelito said that he worked as a Pin boy and was paid Php 50 for each and slept at the streets at night. He said that he joined the contest with the inspiration that he would be able to see his family.
Ellen said that he was thrilled with Marcelito Pomoy ‘s videos and was excited that he is in the show.
Related topics for this article: "reynaldo [email protected] comp"
Is Enrique destined for Liza Soberano?
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Conservation laws prevent things absolutely. So if a process requires angular momentum to be violated or energy to be magically created then it definitely can't happen. Otherwise, it pretty much will. You are right though that for quite a lot of purposes it's not much difference. On the other hand, remember that with _n_ copies of a process with small probability, it can be still quite large that **something** happens, if _n_ is big enough.
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Why are scientists more concerned about the impact of CO2 in the atmosphere than water vapor?
Water vapour might be the major contributor to the greenhouse effect, but the only way water vapour will increase and push temperatures up further is for there to be an initial increase in temperature. That initial increase has to come from something else such as an increase in CO2 or in solar activity. What we’ve seen since industrialisation and especially since the 1970s is a huge increase in our emissions. This is what is driving temperature change. Temperatures have risen a degree since the 1970s. And it’s not natural because solar activity is falling and the environment adds and takes out CO2 in roughly equal amounts; we only add it, thus the large increase. In fact, it’s increasing about 100 times faster than coming out of the last glacial period.
Studies have found that for every degree increase in temperatures from our CO2 causes another degree increase due to the increase in water vapour (because warming means more evaporation, thus more water vapour in the air). Given it’s about a 1:1 relationship. An increase in CO2 comes first then temperature increase. For water vapour, it’s the other way round: temperature increases first, then water vapour. When you look at what’s actually causing temperatures to increase, water vapour drops out as per the diagram below. This is why scientists are more concerned about CO2 (and methane) than water vapour.
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My uncle Jon always told me of the day all currency was gone. It was at the time when every man was poor, aside from a select few. The United States government had appointed but four intelligent, kind men to use the government's budget properly and to rescue the US's economy from hitting rock bottom. The men, then known as the treasure keepers, had succeeded making several well thought out reformations, and by the time of their death, the country's economy had been restored to it's former glory.
When the original treasure keepers had died, their children were to take over. On the date of August 4th, 2012, Samantha Barnes and Aron Noble, two of the new treasure keepers were found dead.
"Poison", Jon remarked with a look of despair in his eye. Only two months ago, Jon had been promoted to an Inspector in New York's Finest. At the time, Jon had never been more excited when he heard the few, fine words from the chief of police.
"Welcome back, Inspector Barnes."
But now, the badge he wore was not of honor, but of shame. Ever since Samantha had died, he was a shadow of his former self.
"Who could have wanted to poison her? She did nothing to harm anyone!" Jon said to the chief.
"Samantha and Aron had one thing in common. They were treasure keepers."
"Then why haven't James and Alex died yet?" The inspector asked.
"That's what I was wondering."
**Chapter two and stuff**
"James, are you sure this will work?"
"Of course it will, Alex, all we have to do is manipulate the system. They make it so easy for us!" James and Alex were always the best of friends growing up. They both shared the same rebellious feelings against their parents, and they grew closer. They had orchestrated the plan a year ago, and all their cards were in play but one. The piece of paper Alex had to sign, to eliminate all currency, and set the world back years.
"They were better times," James said. "Less greedy, rich people, when every man had an honest trade." And with that said, Alex sighed and wrote his signature on the piece of parchment.
It was then that currency had been completely wiped from the United States, causing an economic crisis across the entire world.
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Everyone else pretty much covered it but also, there’s no WAY Tony would do that.
Okay, if it were some dumb easy mission, maybe as a joke but they’re never really on a mission that the police could handle so, no. Off track, anyway my point is Tony knew what they were up against he knew how serious this was (I mean, saving half the universe, here) and he wouldn’t ever do something like that even if he was may at him, which I don’t think he was anymore, anyway.
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When you write a program, your program uses a certain amount of memory. That memory contains two things: The actual program, and the 'data' area. The program is a bunch of machine-language instructions that tell the computer what to actually do. The data area is where the result of calculations performed by the instructions are stored.
When you start your program, the operating system tells it "OK, you're allowed to have from memory address 1 to memory address 10 for your program. Keep in mind though, that from 1 to 5 is your instruction area, and from 6 to 10 is the only place you're allowed to write stuff."
Now lets say a hacker figures out that instead of writing to memory at addresses 6 to 10, he can write to memory at address 5. When the program is running and executes the instructions at address 5, it will now execute the code that the hacker has put there, instead of the 'safe' instructions that used to be there. This code could do anything -- including give the hacker superuser privileges on the system.
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Fellow Ents yesterday was a sad day for me. I was driving my way through the terrible state of Nebraska (sorry Nebraskans but your state sucks), going from Colorado to Minnesota, so the whole state. I was minding my own business and BOOM pulled over for speeding. It was stupid of me to speed but thats not what I want to talk about. The officer asked me to come sit in his car (front seat) while my girlfriend remains in my car, which made me nervous and who wouldn't be. he writes me my speeding ticket then says to have a nice day. I open the door and he says "do you have a minute? " I say no I have much driving to do. He then says "do you have any marijuana? Its not a big deal I just want to know. " I say no officer, have a nice day. He tells me to shut the door and asks me 3 or 4 more times if I have weed, how much I have, and continually reassures me its alright to have a little. I know whats up and just stick to my story "no officer I do not have any weed. " "well if I ask your girlfriend will she tell me the same thing? " I tell him yes she will. "okay I'll be right back. " I have briefed my girlfriend on her rights and I am pretty confident she'll do the right thing. Next thing I know I see her pick up my backpack and hand over my weed. SHIT. The officer comes back and tells me he now has probable cause. I get charged with possession and paraphernalia, which costs 440 but is only a civil citation. Needless to say I was not happy with the girlfriend when I got back to the car. I taught her how to answer questions and not do anything stupid. Turns out the officer told her that I had said I had weed in the car, so he needed her to hand it over. She complied which gave him reason to search. Is it legal for the officer to tell a blatant lie to gain access like that? It makes my blood boil so bad that he would do that and then come back and joke with me about weed and tell me I had a sweet pipe. I feel like I know the answer, but do I have any legal ground to stand on in regards to an appeal?
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Consider that the brain is far from perfect. Evolution works as incremental steps — Band-Aids and minor improvements patched on. The result is a hodge-podge that presumably worked well in hunter-gatherer days, and less so in the modern high-speed technical revolution amongst over-population. The brain was not designed by a genius brain architect, all in one swell foop.
Therefore, some of the old mechanisms that have been useful have been retained for over like a million years or more, including the various chemicals that still manage brain characteristics.
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Attention Blackberry User: You are receiving this notification to alert you that e-mail services to your Blackberry device will be unavailable between the hours of 8:45 a.m. and 12 midnight CST on Sunday, November 25th for maintenance.
During this outage, email services to the Blackberry handheld will be interrupted, however, pin-to-pin paging will not be affected.
If you have additional questions regarding this outage, please contact the North American Resolution Center at 713-853-1411.
Thanks for your cooperation and understanding, Enron Global Messaging
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Your premise is flawed. Hindi has so much baggage from arabic and other misc languages, that it cannot be called Sanskrit AT ALL.
Standard Hindi however was deliberately created to remove all these “outsider” influences and create a language that was VERY close to sanskrit.
Unfortunately nobody speaks standard Hindi.
From spoken language perspective, Marathi or Gujrathi would have more in common with Sanskrit than Hindi.
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That's a really broad question, sadly not easily answered (or else maybe biocontrol would be easier!).
In the lab, it often depends upon their type of functional response, and if the experiment is kept up for many generations, the type of density-dependence.
In the field, things like immigration, emigration, other species, intraspecific competition, behavior, multi-trophic cues (e.g. plant cues that a prey item is present), and many more complicate the hell out of things.
Sorry if this is a crappy answer, it's kind of hard to give a thorough one without writing you twenty pages!
Any more specific questions?
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Description The Post Mount Rural Mailbox is made from galvanized steel for durability.(YOUR CHOICE OF BLACK OR WHITE MAILBOX) The mailbox is mounted on a wood post for stability and is designed in a standard size to accommodate all of your mail. Your choice of lettering color. Mailbox is rust resistant and U.S. Postmaster General approved. The mailbox also features an aluminum flag and steel latch for convenient operation.
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Haven't met a person who could out shit me. My poo isn't a loud long one, its a very loud shotgun blast crap that is followed by a liquid flow of everything that I had eaten in the past 10mins. I'll do this on purpose too. Once my stomachs is in poo mode, I'll consume a normal meal. It literally takes 10-15mins before I feel it fall into my intestine. When the time comes, I unleash a hell fire of crap that not only gives me temporary lift but scares the crap out of anyone around me. Nothing like forcing 4lbs of shit out of your asshole all at once.
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