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Economy must be fueled by energy sources. Natural gas runs manufacturing, electrical generation and some synthetic chemistry. It is critical. Europe goes nowhere without natural gas. Liquified gas from the US costs way too much.
 Simply put, Europe's addiction to Russian gas remains a fact of life and with the continent's own gas production on the decline, Europe needs to import much bigger volumes of gas and lots of it is going to come from Russia.
 The amazing part has been the dogged resistance by Germany to the US pressure tactic to abandon Nord Stream 2. The US even threatened to sanction German companies; US Congress passed resolutions calling for an end to construction of the pipeline. Germany's manufacturing economy is dependent on imports for 98% of its oil and 92% of its gas supply, and cheap gas is the lifeblood of its export-based economy.
https://indianpunchline.com/europes-gas-alliance-with-russia-is-a-match-made-in-heaven/
Eurasian integration threatens American power dominance.
We don't really need to fight and destroy everything, do we?
Russia's comparative advantage derives from its geographical expanse by developing an East-West corridor connecting Northeast Asia with Europe, and a North-South Corridor that links India, Iran and Russia. Moscow sees itself as a stabilising factor in Eurasia by bringing together the entire continent with economic connectivity to ensure that it becomes multipolar and no one state or region can dominate....
Halford Mackinder[1] said we don't think of Asia and Europe as a single continent because sailors couldn't voyage around it. Today the Northeast Passage, NEP, along Russia's northern coast, links the Pacific and Atlantic coasts while a network of pipelines and air, rail, road and fiber routes are knitting Mackinder's World Island into 'Eurasia' despite Kissinger's warning, "Domination by a single power of either of Eurasia's two principal spheres–Europe or Asia–remains a good definition of strategic danger for America. For such a grouping would have the capacity to outstrip America economically and, in the end, militarily."
http://thesaker.is/russia-china-and-the-european-peninsula/
The Argument for a Neo-Nixonian Foreign Policy, to limit China's rise to global dominance, is presented here.
This article presumes that the nature of "national interests" will not be redefined in a more cooperative way.
I believe it must be, for life on Earth to persist recognizably.
 Japan is a critical element of the "Iron Quadrilateral." Under no circumstances can it be hung out to dry. Nor can it be merely assumed that the Japanese can then take care of themselves if the U.S. pulls out of its long-term relations. This is an area where Trump, or his successor, needs to consider our alliance structure in East Asia with greater care.
 Japan, along with India and Russia, will form part of a critical potential counterbalance to China over the next few decades. The U.S. should consummate the "Asian Pivot," started under Obama but under-resourced. It should also shift the lion's share of our defense investment in Europe towards East Asia. In a nutshell, if Trump wants savings from reducing our overseas posture, it should come from NATO and Europe, not East Asia.
 President Trump, or his successor, should not view the U.S.-Indian relationship primarily through the lens of trade. While India will certainly seek to retain its options and geopolitical independence, the U.S. should do nothing to undermine what should be a budding friendship. Even at the risk of allowing India greater latitude on trade than most other nations, America should continue to try to develop economic relations while also seeking to facilitate India's military cooperation with other Asian-based powers. This would include not just Japan, but Australia as well. In essence, the U.S. should cultivate the so-called "Quad."
 Without a dramatic change from the status quo of foreign policymaking in Washington, America's strategic position will further decay and facilitate the rise of a Sino-centric world order inimical to U.S. interests and values. But by referring back to one of our greatest strategists, America can create a long-term policy that effectively confronts what is likely to be the greatest geopolitical challenge this country has ever faced.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/its-time-for-a-neo-nixonian-foreign-policy/
This article looks at the vulnerability to "Omniviolence" in the modern world, as technology is able to leapfrog the monopoly-on-violence, which characterizes the State, as we know it. The State decides who will be imprisoned and executed, or roughed up by the police force. The State defends peasants from gangs and foreign powers.
The internet opens people up to blackmail, asset theft and coercion.
This essay looks at the possibility of wiping out all the people in a city like New York, using a few shipping containers full of tiny drones with thimble-sized shaped explosive charges to target things that look like heads.
How would the State protect from this attack (or use it)?
What is presumed here is the continued spread of mass produced industrial technology for cheap, and the concentration of humans in vast mega-cities.
I personally think we need to spread out to where we can grow vegetables and ride bikes places, to decentralize.
http://nautil.us/blog/omniviolence-is-coming-and-the-world-isnt-ready
How Private Equity Vampires Are Killing Everything
Hostile takeovers by vulture capitalists use leveraged loans to buy companies like Sears, sell off long-accumulated assets, borrow massively, buy back stock to raise the price of the stock the vultures hold, so they can sell it, let the company die, and find another to bleed to death.
This is killing the host. The parasites are running the business. This can be prevented with different financial laws.
https://www.thenation.com/article/private-equity-deadspin/
Auto Industry Recession is Tanking Global Economy
This may not be a "problem". 7 year payments on a $65,000 pick up truck are "normal" around here.
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/recession-auto-industry-tanking-global-economy
Democratic politicians have a blind-spot for cars and excessive driving.
 Sanders' plan aims to speed up this process by offering a "cash for clunkers"-style grant program that would purchase electric vehicles for low- and medium-income drivers. Over 10 years, the plan would cost $2.1 trillion, enough for roughly 54 million EVs at today's average price of $36,600 each. It is the largest single expenditure in Sanders' $16.3 billion climate plan.
 Matthew Lewis, a climate and urban policy consultant in Berkeley, said Sanders' plan is an inefficient way to spend such a large outlay. "Even as a symbolic victory, it's not much of a victory," Lewis said. "It's like, 'Congratulations, you just threw away enough money to build a great public transit system in every city in the country.'"...
 "Depending on how much you drive, a car that's 10 to 12 years old might actually be better for the environment than replacing it with an electric vehicle," Lewis said.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-democrats-baffling-blind-spot-on-carbon-emissions_n_5da4db19e4b0cad669a9b705
America's food-chain map.
Truck everything thousands of miles in multiple steps, irrespective of distance, invisibly to the grocery shopper. "Sustainable"?
https://www.fastcompany.com/90422553/the-first-map-of-americas-food-supply-chain-is-mind-boggling
US Embassy pressures Thailand not to outlaw Round-Up. Thailand seeks to limit medical risks.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-embassy-pressures-thailand-monsanto-poison-ban/5693861
Traditional Chinese Agriculture, 9000 years of empirical wisdom is not destroyed yet.
Deeply informative, though dryly written.
http://factsanddetails.com/china/cat9/sub63/item1892.html
Cat sends this good analysis of identity-politics-warfare from Taki. (Look at Taki's picture for perspective.)
"Transmenstrual cyclists" are genetic males, who identify as dominant-female-bicycle-racers. The size and musculature are winning advantages in bicycle racing.
This effectively crushes feminism, and gags feminist voices who object. Extremely clever, sort of...
Transgendered people are grossly misused in politics. The vast majority of my transgender patients have sought to lead normal lives without publicity.
 Conservatives sometimes speak of trannyism as a cult, but they get it backwards. They write as if it's the trannies who are in the cult.
No, the trannies are a tool to put us in a cult, a process that starts by changing our names. As cult guru Tim Conway (not the Dorf guy) writes in his manual for successful culting, name changes "help effect a psychological 'death' to the old ego-persona."
 A good cult leader always begins by assigning initiates a new name.
 So, now we're all named "cis." We're no longer "normal," we're "cis." We've been renamed. Why? Because to the left it's all about seeing how much we're willing to take. If they can make us accept a new name, they can pretty much make us do anything.
https://www.takimag.com/article/tyranny-triumphant-part-i-transmenstrual-cyclists/
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The French call this a salad; we call it dinner. Granted, we took some liberties with the traditional salad, adding potatoes to make it heartier. Use a sturdy lettuce like frisée or romaine.
Cook bacon in a large, nonstick skillet over medium heat until done, about 5 minutes. Remove bacon, reserving fat. Add potatoes to pan; cook 5 minutes. Add leeks and continue cooking until potatoes are done, about 10 minutes, stirring frequently.
Combine oil, vinegar, mustard, salt and pepper in a small bowl; whisk well.
Toss frisée with dressing. Place on serving plates. Top each serving with potatoes, egg, crumbled bacon and cheese, if using.


258 licensed grape wine wineries in British Columbia (305 total licensed wineries). 152 are members of the BCWI. BCWI membership represents 95% of total grape wine sales and 94% of total BC VQA wine sales in British Columbia.
BC VQA wine continues to be the second-best selling category in BC, with approximately 20 per cent (dollar sales) of the market, ahead of all wine-importing countries, and behind only British Columbia non-VQA wines (including 100% BC wines, and "Bottled in British Columbia – From International and Domestic Wine").
844 tons harvested in 2014, yielding an estimated 253,200 litres.
960 tons harvested in 2013, yielding an estimated 288,000 litres.
476 tons harvested in 2012, yielding an estimated 142,800 litres.
670 tons harvested in 2011, yielding an estimated 201,000 litres.
419 tons harvested in 2010, yielding an estimated 125,000 litres.
232 tons harvested in 2009, yielding an estimated 70,000 litres.
420 tons harvested in 2008, yielding an estimated 126,000 litres.
515 tons harvested in 2007, yielding an estimated 155,000 litres.
500 tons harvested in 2006, yielding an estimated 150,000 litres.
253.4 tons harvested in 2005, yielding an estimated 76,020 litres.
525 tons harvested in 2004, yielding an estimated 157,500 litres.
Top varietals are Riesling, Pinot Blanc, Vidal, Pinot Noir, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Gewürztraminer.
Please note that the average rate of increase in the price of BC VQA wine is 0.1% less than the rate of inflation.


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In the United States alone, more than 29 million Americans have diabetes.
Industry-funded researchers say they've developed a way to improve the accuracy of a standard diabetes test.
"We think our approach will enable many patients and their doctors to do a better job controlling blood sugar levels and reduce the long-term risks of heart attack, stroke, blindness and kidney failure" associated with diabetes, said Dr. John Higgins, associate professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
At issue is the HbA1c test, also known as the A1c test, which is used to diagnose diabetes. It also identifies people with prediabetes and provides insight into how well blood sugar is controlled over a three-month period among those monitoring their disease.
The A1c test "measures how much sugar a person's blood cells have soaked up since the time the cells were produced," Higgins said.
"Before the test was available, patients and clinicians only knew what a person's current blood sugar level was. But effective treatment of diabetes depends on knowing what the blood sugar level has been since the previous checkup," Higgins explained. "The HbA1c test provided the first available estimate of a patient's blood sugar level over the past several weeks."
For millions of diabetics worldwide, the A1c test forms the basis of their treatment. In the United States alone, more than 29 million Americans have diabetes, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The test can be inaccurate, however. How much that matters is up to debate.
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Higgins said the errors are significant. But another specialist, Dr. Joel Zonszein, said the test is rarely inaccurate and "is a good test for the great majority" of patients.
"Patients with diabetes can be properly monitored and treated with the tools we have," said Zonszein, director of clinical diabetes at Albert Einstein College of Medicine's University Hospital in New York City.
"In my experience, the main issue is that individuals with diabetes don't often check their A1c values," said Zonszein, who wasn't involved with the new research.
For the new study, Higgins and his colleagues used an advanced mathematical formula, or algorithm, to analyze blood sugar levels through the HbA1c test.
This enabled the scientists to account for variations in the age of blood cells among different people, Higgins said. Hemoglobin in red blood cells accumulates sugar over time, and is a major reason for differences in test results, he said.
In more than 200 patients included in the study, Higgins said the new approach reduced significant errors from about one in three to about one in 10. These were errors large enough to affect treatment decisions, he said.
Since people with diabetes often get A1c tests every three months, Higgins said the new approach could improve their monitoring and treatment.
Higgins declined to estimate how much it would cost to add the new calculations to existing tests. But he anticipates the extra expense would be less than the cost of the A1c test itself. And in defense of any higher pricing, he added, "diabetes becomes very expensive if blood sugar levels are not well-controlled."
The study was funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and Abbott Diagnostics, a company that develops laboratory medical tests. The study authors, including Higgins, are listed as inventors on a patent application linked to the findings.
Higgins said the researchers are looking for partnerships that would allow labs to use the algorithm to improve HbA1c testing.
Zonszein said the study findings appear valid, although the algorithm "has not been challenged and/or compared with other possible mathematical models."
For now, however, "this is research, and it is not a practical model that needs to be implemented," he said.
The study appears in the Oct. 5 issue of Science Translational Medicine.
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One of the more difficult tasks in every parent's life is the day that they have to take their child to the dentist. Your child, if they are like most children, will fight tooth and nail to get out of going to the dentist's office. This is due in large part to the unfounded fear that going to the dentist inspires. However, if you find the right pediatric dentist for your child, they will be well-versed in pediatric dentistry techniques that can help your child overcome their unfounded dental anxiety. This will help you to avoid the headache of fighting with your child to give them the care they need and will help your child to build lifelong good dental health habits.
One of the reasons that children in particular fear the dentist is all of the frightening and intimidating tools that they use in their practice. And none are more confounding to young children than the drills and other tools that are used for tooth extractions and repair (restorative procedures). The appearance of the drills as well as the grinding sounds and vibrations they make can be terrifying even to adults.
However, there is another technique that pediatric dentists can use to improve upon the experience and make tooth extractions less frightening for your child. This is known as a hard tissue laser. First of all, most children find the concepts of lasers to be "cool" or at the very least, interesting. Secondly, the appearance, sounds, and vibrations of traditional tooth extraction drills are all eliminated.
The procedure is also quite efficient, even for primary teeth. Lasers are precision tools that allow the pediatric dentist to pinpoint the exact location of cavities or other tooth damage and work only on those specific areas. And, if the tooth needs to be extracted, the laser precision makes the process quick, easy, and reduces postoperative bleeding and infection.
Standard, traditional dental x-rays require your child to be moved from a standard dental examination room into another room specifically for x-rays. This can cause your child anxiety as it is unfamiliar. Additionally, your child is fitted with a heavy vest that lays across their chest and abdomen, and they have uncomfortable plates wedged in their mouth to bite down on.
As such, standard dental x-rays can be problematic for children. However, with the use of digital x-ray technology, your child can be spared much of this stress. Digital x-rays use small, comfortable sensors and can be taken right in the regular dental examination room. Additionally, digital x-rays expose your child to significantly less radiation than traditional x-rays.
When you take your child to the dentist, make sure that their dentist is up-to-date on the latest in pediatric dental techniques and technologies. This will help your child to feel more comfortable going to the dentist and relieve their stress and anxiety. If you're seeking out a pediatric dentist, look to North Phoenix Pediatric Dentistry or other pediatric-specific dentists in your area.


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Written by Etan S. Chatlynne on September 22, 2016 . Posted in Patent Law Blog
Five years ago, C ongress created the Patent Cases Pilot Program (PCPP) to increase the expertise of district court judges in patent cases. Yesterday, the Federal Judicial Center released its Five-Year Report on the PCPP, as required under the statute. The results were underwhelming. Where it counted, they were disappointing.
On its face, the key value of the PCPP stemmed from its empirical approach to determining how the level of judicial expertise in patent law correlates with appellate reversal rates. Under the program, certain district courts designated certain judges as Pilot Judges. These district courts funneled patent cases to the Pilot Judges, in theory enabling these Pilot Judges to become more experienced in patent law than their non-Pilot-Judge colleagues.
Congress tasked the Federal Judicial Center with analyzing the effects of this increased expertise and preparing progress reports on its findings. According to the express language of the statute, the reports at years five and ten were to compare "the rate of reversal by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit . . . on the issues of claim construction and substantive patent law" between Pilot and non-Pilot Judges.
The Five-Year report is 45 pages long and includes 33 tables. Yet as to the statutorily required analysis concerning reversals by the Federal Circuit, the Five-Year Report included little. Hampered by a lackluster data set, the authors concluded that "the substantive outcomes are not significantly different between affirmance and reversal" between Pilot and non-Pilot Judges. As to reversals specifically on claim construction the authors remained silent. Further, the authors expressed pessimism that the Ten-Year Report would provide additional insight. They concluded that "further investigation of appellate court decisions of pilot cases is unlikely to produce fruitful results." In other words, a key—if not the primary—purpose of the PCPP likely will not be realized.
A few years ago, I wrote an article entitled, "On Measuring the Expertise of Patent-Pilot Judges: Encouraging Enhancement of Claim-Construction Uniformity." I explained that Congress apparently created the PCPP having hypothesized that greater patent-law experience among district judges should correlate with a lower reversal rate at the Federal Circuit. The PCPP was therefore modeled as an experiment to test this hypothesis. Although the hypothesis and the structure of the experiment appeared reasonable, I concluded that this experiment would likely be unable to produce data from which the hypothesis could be evaluated. Specifically, I determined that there existed a confounding source of systematic error in the experiment. The source of this error was, and remains, two divergent approaches to claim construction condoned by the Federal Circuit.
Much has been written about the Federal Circuit's inconsistent approaches to claim construction, including by the Federal Circuit's own Judge Kimberly Moore in her dissent from an order denying rehearing en banc in Retractable Technologies, Inc. v. Becton, Dickenson & Co. I won't belabor the point here except to note that the case of Marine Polymer Technologies, Inc. v. Hemcon, Inc. remains a stark reminder of this intra-circuit disagreement. In Marine Polymer, the en banc Federal Circuit split 5 to 5 on the issue of claim construction because the ten judges could not agree on the correct approach to claim construction.
Because "the name of the game is the claim," and the rules to this game remain unclear, it may have been unrealistic for Congress to launch the PCPP expecting that reliable conclusions could be drawn from a study of appellate reversal rates. Perhaps Congress will take note of the Five-Year Report's authors' belief that further investigation of appellate decisions will not be fruitful. If so, perhaps Congress will attempt to right the PCPP ship. I suggest that they do so by addressing the claim-construction divide at the Federal Circuit. The Ten-Year Report might prove quite fruitful if its analysis could be based on nearly five years of reversal-rate data collected during a period in which there exists a single claim-construction framework.
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On any given day, the need for food assistance in Onondaga County is great. Because of your support of United Way of Central New York, the network of services we fund includes 19 programs dedicated to alleviating hunger in our community all year long.
For example, in 2019 funding from United Way of Central New York to the Food Bank of CNY's Retail Partnership Program helped to provide nearly a million pounds of food directly to 43 emergency food programs in Onondaga County.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought a wave of uncertainty and unemployment to Central New York that drastically increased the need for food assistance and changed the landscape for local nonprofit agencies.
In response, United Way of Central New York, Central New York Community Foundation, Allyn Foundation, and other foundations as well as Onondaga County and the City of Syracuse, moved to create the COVID-19 Community Support Fund. Through civic and corporate donations, the fund has raised $1.5M and distributed over $800,000 to 65 local projects.
Funds have been used to bolster and expand the food efforts of many programs currently funded by United Way of Central New York's Community Program Fund, including Syracuse Jewish Family Service's AgeWise, Salvation Army of Syracuse's Barnabas Residential, Booth House, and Transitional Apartments & Parenting Center, and Rescue Mission's Food Service Center.
The COVID-19 Community Support Fund grants also provided additional capital to United Way of Central New York funded agencies, allowing them to quickly meet the growing demand for food by offering the flexibility to create new programs.
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Features of Film Development
If before that only attempts were made to shoot using large formats, then only with the introduction of 9.5-16 mm it was possible to see professionally shot cinefilm. These films were really practical, helped to create amateur films. They were often used:
for home purposes;
took with them on vacation;
for family meetings.
They helped to shoot any amateur dramas, comedies in color. Currently, cinematography could use this film only if it was necessary to save on the budget.
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If you're looking for a decent popcorn movie that's all about giant freakin' monsters stomping around our world while we helplessly watch with a bit of an "arrogance of man" message, then Godzilla is your movie. It's not a great flick, but it's a good movie that follows more in the tradition of the original movies and makes up for that 1998 disaster of a flick by the same name.
For me, the most depressing thing about this movie was the opening scene. It's a flashback to 1999 (which, I think, is the second summer movie that has a 90s flashback – Spider-Man 2 being the other). I saw the "1999" title and sat there thinking, "1999? That wasn't that long ago" …before quietly doing the math in my head.
The flashback introduces an incident in Japan where a mysterious series of earthquakes takes out a nuclear reactor as well as sets up our main characters. The main character, Ford, is a boy at this point, and his parents work at the reactor.
Flash-forward to present-day, and Ford is an adult and a demolitions expert in the Navy who has just returned home to his wife and son in San Francisco.
He has to race to Japan to bail out his father, who, after losing their mother in the accident, has become a conspiracy theorist chasing a theory that the accident at the plant was not a natural occurrence. He believed something caused those quakes and the government has been covering it up ever since.
Cut to Japan, Ford bails his father out. Dad (played by Bryan Cranston) is determined to retrieve data disks from their old home, which has been quarantined because of the radiation from the reactor, because it will give him the definitive proof about his theory.
For no apparent reason, Ford goes with his dad, and that kicks off the wild ride of the plot involving the humans.
Every aspect of the human story is pretty forgettable. Ford goes to help his dad, then spends the rest of the movie trying to get home to his family. Along the way, he continually manages to be dragged into the conflict with the monsters. Ford could have handed the story off to another couple of characters and we could have followed them from point B to C. They could hand the story off to other characters to go from points C to D, and it wouldn't have mattered.
The plot isn't anything you haven't heard of before: Stupid humans unwittingly awaken something they have no hope of controlling or understanding. Big monster starts leaving a trail of destruction. Although presumed dead (because the humans awoke something else back in the 50s and then immediately tried to kill it), Godzilla suddenly shows up and is now somehow aware of and in pursuit of the "bad" monster.
The big difference is that instead of tearing up Tokyo or New York, the big battle ends up heading for San Francisco. So, at least ,in one sense, we at least get to see massive destruction of a different city.
There are a few scenes that dwell on the arrogance of man and argue that despite our bumbling of mankind to destroy our world, nature will find a way to restore the balance.
I kid, but let's face it – We're here to watch giant freakin' monsters duke it out – and they do. Sort of.
That's probably the most disappointing part of the movie. Just as we start to see the big fight scenes between Godzilla and the bad guys, the director decides that's a good time to cut over to see what Ford or the other characters are doing.
The creature itself is also back to the one we know from our childhood and not the oddball super-big yet somehow also super-stealthy creature from the 1998 version. This Godzilla isn't all that concerned about all of the military hardware following or attacking him.
Overall, though, it's still a decent homage to the original movies from the 60s. Like Pacific Rim, it's a fun flick to see in IMAX. Like disaster movies? Like giant monster movies? Godzilla is your movie.
Okay, the Amazing Spider-Man 2 had some great scenes in it. Every fight scene with the web head doing his thing, swinging through the city, fighting the bad guys while making wisecracks and just plain having fun was amazing. The first confrontation with Electro had a great bit that really gave us a feel for what Spidey's spider-sense does.
There's a couple of nice scenes with Spider-Man and a little nerdy kid.
Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone have great chemistry on-screen and are annoyingly cute to watch even though the are-we-or-aren't-we-dating story drags on for far too long.
At the end of the day, though, you have a few great scenes wrapped up in a mess of a 2hr, 22min film that milks the love story as long as it can yet rushes to introduce villains, transform them via the most ridiculous means, and turn them against Spider-Man with very little back story. That wouldn't be such a bad thing if it weren't for the fact that the bad guys will likely be back in the sequels.
The movie has the elements there, and if they were shaken up and re-assembled in a different order, you might have wound up with a better overall story.
The movie focuses so much on OSCORP that it seems a shame that those two bits were cut from the film because it could have helped build up this larger epic conflict between OSCORP and the Parker(s).
(BEGIN SPOILER) – Skip this section if you don't want to know anything about the movie.
Harry comes back to visit his dying father. His father reveals his legacy and fills him in on the research that he was doing with Richard Parker and that Peter may be the "key" to Harry's survival.
After Norman dies, Harry is going though his father's "Special Projects" files and stumbles across the research into the radioactive spiders. He also sees that Peter has been under surveillance and finds a video diary entry from Norman discussing his belief (but can't prove) that Peter may be Spider-Man.
Now, Harry has motivation to start hanging out with Peter again in order to rebuild their friendship. Show several quick scenes of them together (not the same sequence – make it clear that it's different dates).
Later, they have the conversation in OSCORP that we see in the trailer where Harry is showing Peter the surveillance footage while Harry quietly watches Peter and wonders if his father was right about the idea that Peter is Spider-Man.
This would occur before Harry asks Peter to help him locate Spider-Man because he may be the key to saving Harry's life.
Although The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has some great moments in it, they're not enough to overcome the weakness of the overall story. It's a decent popcorn summer movie, but it could have been better or at the very least mercifully shorter.
This is a great FAQ (WARNING: SPOILERS!) that jokes about a lot of the good and bad elements of the film. It's written by Rob Bricken who wrote another ingenious FAQ last year about Star Trek: Into Darkness.


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Book Review: House of Earth and Blood
March 3, 2020 • adult fiction, book review, By Alexa, Crescent City, fantasy, House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas
House of Earth and Blood is the first novel in Sarah J. Maas' brand-new adult fantasy series Crescent City, and it's brilliant. Bryce Quinlan, half-Fae and half-human, is irrevocably changed on the night that her closest friends are murdered by a demon. When similar murders begin happening again in Lunathion, Bryce gets involved in the investigation. With help from friends and foes alike, including her official Fallen Angel partner Hunt Athalar, Bryce's investigation leads her deep into the underbelly of her beloved City. But it quickly becomes clear that the murders are only a small fraction of the real conspiracy and that there are more powerful dark forces a play.
Let's get the obvious out of the way: I loved House of Earth and Blood.
I have been a fan of Sarah's work for years now. Every time she releases a new novel, I'm always impressed by her gift for storytelling. She manages to outdo herself every single time! It's not just the consistent demonstration of her technical skills that continues to wow me, but it's also the evidence of how her imagination and creativity continue to flourish. There's an unspoken but implied promise with every book that there will continue to be new, exciting stories and lovable characters to come from her for as long she keeps on writing – and that's certainly true of this book.
Three things you can expect from House of Earth and Blood (and really, these are hallmarks of all Sarah's work):
A+ worldbuilding
Crescent City (otherwise known as Lunathion) is fascinating. I'm convinced that it must exist, because everything about it just felt true. The sensory experiences of sight and sound and smell and taste and feel as Bryce and company travel the city. The colorful history and structured society where everyone has their place. The rich lore for each race, which sharpens into something even more specific when considered on the individual level. It is, admittedly, an intricate and complex world that proves a bit of a challenge to keep straight in your head, and readers will find themselves thrown right into it from the very first page. But it's impossible to resist its lure (or at least it was for me) and I really enjoyed learning all about this world, though I can't help feeling like we've only really scratched the surface. (It reminded me a bit of New York, both in terms of the vibe I got while reading and in my own experience of 'learning' the Big Apple.)
A well-plotted tale
I'm partial to fantasy stories that include a murder mystery investigation plot, so this story was immediately appealing to me. The beginning leans heavily on the set-up: immersing readers directly into this world, introducing the main players and inviting readers to witness the inciting incident that divides Bryce's life into a "before" and an "after. But once everything is, so to speak, on the table, the story takes off. Not only do Bryce and Hunt begin their actual investigation (complete with both being sneaky and seeing some action), but it is also revealed that there is more going on in the city, including bargains, secrets and political unrest. And on top of that, we also get great character development (on an individual level and in relation to one another, but more on that shortly). It's a compelling mix of plot threads that Sarah wields with a deft hand, and the result is incredibly satisfying to read.
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When it comes right down to it, the real way this novel earned its place in my heart was through the characters. Sarah's ensembles are always something to eagerly anticipate, and I love this new cast! There's a lovely variety of individuals, and whether I loved them immediately or it took a little (or a lot) more time to care for them, by the end, I just wanted to hang out with everyone and be a part of their stories. I appreciate, as always, that these characters are multi-faceted; they are gifted and they are special, but they are also flawed and that makes them feel real. Their relationships (and I mean across the board because there's quite the variety in this aspect as well) are also equally complex and feel incredibly dynamic (and relatable on a whole lot of levels). It is delightful to have more fictional folks to love, and I will happily follow them to whatever end. Especially my newest favorite heroine, Bryce Quinlan, who stole my heart away (and I'm happy to let her keep it) with her fierce, flawed, fabulous self.
Clearly, House of Earth and Blood blew me away, as I'd already suspected it would. It was a welcome and entertaining escape from reality to dive deep into this tale, and I'm sure readers will appreciate it for that. But, in my case, it was even more special to discover that there were aspects that resonated with me on an emotional level. It was clear that Sarah poured a lot of her heart into these pages, and that raw authenticity came across so clearly that it touched my heart in turn. House of Earth and Blood was a spectacular start to a brand-new series, and I can't wait for more!
House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City #1) is out today, March 3, 2020 from Bloomsbury.
I received a copy from the publisher for review, but all opinions stated here are my own.
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Ah, I can't wait to read this one! So glad you enjoyed it so much :]
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Winter weather can be harsh and driving conditions can quickly change with poor visibility plus snow and ice on the roads – so be prepared when driving this winter and take extra care when planning your journey.
Ensure your windscreen washer is topped up.
Stick to the main roads where you can and avoid exposed routes.
Many road users have been concerned by rumours that they could be fined for driving with snow on their roofs.
Snow on the roof can cause a danger not only for the driver but for other drivers on the road - it can slide down the windscreen while the car is moving, dangerously obscuring the view and putting added pressure on the wipers.
It is illegal to drive with an obstructed view and drivers could be prosecuted. However police are taking a common sense approach.
Should an incident occur, each case will be taken on its own merits, looking at the circumstances involved.
There's no law stopping you from clearing snow and ice on the pavement outside your home or from public spaces.
For a more detailed weather report, visit the MET Office website for the North East of England.
The Highway Code advises that you must use headlights when visibility is seriously reduced – generally when you cannot see for more than 100 metres (328 feet) or the length of a football pitch. If you do use fog lights they must be switched off when visibility improves. This applies equally to front and rear fog lights. When there's fog around visibility can seriously deteriorate in a matter of seconds. Be extra vigilant and drive only as fast as conditions allow and maintain a greater distance between you and the car in front.


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Q: Parsing multiple lists with parameters from the command line in python I am writing a program that should take multiple files as input, where for each file a list of arguments is given. The call could look like:
python myprog.py  \
--file picture1.svg --scale 3 --color false \
--file picture2.svg --scale 1 --color false \
--file pictureX.svg --scale 11 --color true \
-o output.svg

In my case the order of the files matters as well as the correct grouping of the arguments, of course. So I expect finally to receive a dictionary
[["file":"picture1.svg", "scale":3, "color":"false"],
["file":"picture2.svg", "scale":1, "color":"false"],
["file":"pictureX.svg", "scale":11, "color":"true"]]

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What I found so far is to:

*

*use action="append" using argparse.

import argparse
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Call file list with parameters')
    parser.add_argument('-f', '--file', type=str, nargs='+', action='append',  help='file list')
    parser.add_argument('-o', '--output', type=str,  help='output file')
    args = parser.parse_args()
    print(args)

The call would look like:
python myprog.py  \
--file picture1.svg scale:3 color:false \
--file picture2.svg scale:1 color:false \
--file pictureX.svg scale:11 color:true \
-o output.svg

This will give me a list of three lists  that I can theoretically parse
[["picture1.svg", "scale:3", "color:false"],
["picture2.svg", "scale:1", "color:false"],
["picturex.svg", "scale:11", "color:true"]]

This would not work optimally for automatic help generation at argparse, will not allow to declare default values, etc. Otherwise seems for me the most optimal solution

*The other way would be to generate lists of parameters like

parser.add_argument('-c', '--color', type=str, nargs='+', action='append',  help='color list')
parser.add_argument('-s', '--scale', type=int, nargs='+', action='append', help='scale list')

which would be called like:
python myprog.py  \
--file picture1.svg --scale 3 --color false \
--file picture2.svg --scale 1 --color false \
--file pictureX.svg --scale 11 --color true \
-o output.svg

resulting in list of lists:
[["picture1.svg", "picture2.svg", "picturex.svg"],
["scale:3", "scale:1", "scale:11"],
["color:false","color:false", "color:true"]]

The advantage is in handling everything by argparse. However, if some parameters (for example the second score) are missing, the correspondence between the parameters can not be ensured.

*The final possibility I see is to use json as input. It can be easily parsed into the object we want. However, all the advantages of the command line parser will disappear.

What do you think would be the optimal solution, one of the above, or did I overlook something and there is another elegant way to do this?
Thank you!

A: Well, I think I found a way it is supposed to be by argparse.
We can have our own datatypes as command line arguments. So referring to the problem above, we can create a class, somthing like:
class Filetype():
    patterns = {
        'filename': re.compile(".*\.svg"),
        'scale': re.compile("scale:(\d+\.*\d*)"),
        'color': re.compile("color:(True|False)+"),
    }

    def __call__(self, value):
        a = self.patterns["filename"].match(value)
        if a:
            return {"file": value}

        a=self.patterns["scale"].match(value)
        if a:
            return {"scale": a.group(1)}

        a=self.patterns["color"].match(value)
        if a:
            return {"color": a.group(1)}

        raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError(
                "'{}' should be either: (1) a file name (*.svg), (2) 'scale:FLOAT' parameter, or (3) 'code:[True|False]'".format(
                    value))
        return value

Now, let us add an argument to the parser. The "type" paramter does the work
 parser.add_argument('-f', '--file', type=Filetype(), nargs='+', action='append',
                        help='list of file names with parameters')

we can call our program now with:
python myprog.py  \
--file picture1.svg scale:3 color:false \
--file picture2.svg scale:1 color:false \
--file pictureX.svg scale:11 color:true \
-o output.svg

This seems to be a better compromise. Though we have to perform even simple checks ourself, we can still produce a meaningful error message and argparse still does the heavy work for us

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A helpful tutorial on how to build computer games, starting with the initial idea for the game and on to programming languages and platforms. Good guide for beginners.
UDK™ (Unreal Development Kit) GAME DEVELOPMENT is written with newcomers to the UDK in mind. It is arranged so that each of the core foundational UDK components is considered in depth and one by one, in the best order in which to tackle them. Reading this book, you'll explore such key topics as meshes, materials, textures, sounds, and lights. As you do, you'll discover how to build a number of levels, or mini-games, that feature music, animated characters, weapons, destructible scenery, lighting effects, particle systems, and more.
Covers each essential step for creating a complete role-playing game, including a character creation screen and a combat system. This book serves as a comprehensive introductory guide for readers who are new to programming or new to programming for games. The student is shown how to load and draw bitmaps, create sprites, render a game world, keep track of inventory and character stats, and build tools: a level editor, character editor, item editor, monster editor. Every chapter contributes toward a growing game library that is used to improve and add new and more advanced features to the game, and when the student is finished they will have created a complete game.
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Q: When is $ 999\cdots$ a perfect square? I'm interesting to look more about property of  this number $ 999\cdots$ , for even digits which form that number it's clear that's not a perfect square for example :$ 99=10^2-1,9999=10^4-1,\cdots$ , Now my question is: what about if the numbers of digits of  $ 999\cdots$ is odd ? how i proof or disproof that is a perfect square or nor ?
Note: The trivial case is for $n=1$  which is $9$

A: The only number consisting entirely of nines that's a perfect square is $9$ itself.
Suppose $999$ were a perfect square.  It would have the form $(2n+1)^2$ with$n$ a whole number.  Therefore
$(2n+1)^2=4n^2+4n+1=999$
$4n(n+1)=998$
So $998$ has to be a multiple of $4$, but that doesn't work because the last two digits $98$ would have to be a multiple of $4$ and they aren't really so.  So, the second equation above has no whole number solutions, the first equation can't have any such solutions either and $999$ fails to be a perfect square.
The same thing happens with any number ending with $99$, since the last two digits are what ultimately decides what can be a multiple of $4$.  Once we have two nines at the end, therefore, there can never be a perfect square.

A: Any odd perfect square is of form $4k+1$ for some $k$. Now let $$a^2=10^{n}-1$$if $n\ge 2$ we have $$a^2=10^2\cdot10^{n-2}-1=4k-1$$which can't be a perfect square. So the only perfect square may be among those numbers with $$0\le n<2$$or $$0,9$$which are the only solutions.

A: Write: $$10^{2n+1}-1 = a^2$$
so $a=2k+1$ and now we have $$2^{2n+1}5^{2n+1}= 2\underbrace{(2k^2+ 2k+1)}_{\rm odd}$$
so $2^{2n+1}=2$ and thus $n=0$. Finally we have $9 = a^2$ so $a=3$.

A: To make $\underbrace{999\cdots 9}_{n\text{ many}}$ a perfect square, we need $9\cdot\underbrace{111\cdots 1}_{n\text{ many}} $ a perfect square. As, $9$ is already a perfect square, we need $\underbrace{111\cdots 1}_{n\text{ many}}$ to be a perfect square. But, observe that, $$11\equiv 3\pmod{4}\\ 111\equiv 3\pmod{4} \\ 1111\equiv 3\pmod{4}$$ in general, $$\underbrace{111\cdots 1}_{n\text{ many}}=2\underbrace{77\cdots 7}_{n-2\text{ many}}×4+3\equiv 3\pmod{4}$$
But, any odd perfect square can be of the form $4k+1$. Hence, none of the numbers is a perfect square.

A: Write the number from the form
$a=\underset{n}{\overline{\underbrace{9999...9}}_{10}}=10^{n}-1 $
a perfect square$ \Rightarrow a=k^{2}\Rightarrow 10^{n}-1=k^{2}\
\Rightarrow 10^{n}=k^{2}+1$
Our $(k^{2}+1)$ is not a perfect square because it is sandwiched between the squares of two consecutive numbers   $ k^{2}$  and $ (k+1)^{2}$   Which $k^{2}\lt k^{2}+1\lt (k+1)^{2}$
$k^{2}\lt 10^{n}\lt (k+1)^{2}$
For $a$ to be a perfect square, $10^{n}$ must not be a perfect square and be in the form of $k^{2}+1$
We study two cases (even and odd)
$n=2\lambda,n=2\lambda+1:\lambda\in N$
1) $n=2\lambda\to 10^{n}=\left( 10^{\lambda} \right)^{2}$  This does not fulfill the condition $k^{2}\lt 10^{n}\lt (k+1)^{2}$(There is no perfect square between the )
2)$n=2\lambda+1\Rightarrow k^{2}\lt 10^{2\lambda+1}\lt (k+1)^{2}$
$3^{2}\lt 10\lt 4^{2}\to 3^{2}.10^{2\lambda}\lt 10^{2\lambda+1}\lt 4^{2}.10^{2\lambda}$
$\left( 3\times 10^{\lambda} \right)^{2}\lt10^{2\lambda+1}\lt \left( 4\times 10^{\lambda} \right)^{2}$
$k^{2}\lt 10^{2\lambda+1}\lt (k+1)^{2}$
$k=3\times 10^{\lambda},k+1=4\times 10^{\lambda}\Rightarrow 3\times 10^{\lambda}+1=4\times 10^{\lambda}$
$\to 10^{\lambda}=1\Rightarrow \lambda=0$
$(\lambda=0)\to a=10^{n}-1=10^{2\lambda+1}-1=10-1=9$
Abstract / The number $999\cdots$ It is impossible to be a perfect square if the number of its digits is an even number, and it can be a perfect square in the case of the number of its digits being odd in one case, which is the number is $9$

A: Any number that is a square, and does have more then one digit, consists of at least one even digit.
So a square can not have only odd digits.
With other words $999\dotso$ can not be a square.


If we turn into a society where, as Earl Mardle says at A Networked World, 80 percent of the population has a blog, will we wind up with a Big Brother culture where we can't pick our nose in our car for fear of being humiliated on someone's weblog? Or will the positive aspects of a more transparent society outweigh the Big Brother negatives?
As the privacy backlash grows -- as it surely will in a society where those who don't have blogs still will have camera phones and friends with blogs -- what sort of new standards of law or etiquette will arise?
My knowledge that BeniciaNews.com enables anyone to post comments (which has been possible almost since our launch) or articles (for more than two years) has affected my behavior at least in small ways.
Having seen comments on the message board about people's driving habits, I am more cautious when I'm behind the wheel. The possibility of being ticketed, getting in an accident or injuring myself or others already were deterrents to speeding or rolling through the new stop signs that seem sprout weekly. Living in Benicia, the possibility that someone might rate my driving in a message board is yet one more reason to drive carefully. At least til I get out of town, where citizen journalists are few and far between (for now). Just kidding. Really, officer.
I've been watching the growth of Citizen Media for a year now and it seems to me that it is just hitting its straps and if it keeps up this way, there will be no great need to protect journalists because, when 80% of the population has a blog as a matter of course, and just naturally wants to talk about things they do and see and, dammit, gets the idea that they can ask questions and publish the answers, that bright line between "the public" and "the professional" will fade quickly away.


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Q: Installation problems with DS Bulk loader on Ubuntu I'm trying to install the DS Bulk Loader as reported here: https://docs.datastax.com/en/dsbulk/doc/dsbulk/install/dsbulkInstall.html
but that's the problem:
I follow the procedure but I don't know how follow the part about "Java executable is required".
So, cause it is the first time that I'll do an executable in JAVA...I have to copy as shown points 1, 2., 3., on a .jar?
and what's about the part about #Remote JMX configuration into the link?
Thank you

A: It is basically saying that you must have Java installed on the operating system, for DSE currently, this would be recommended to be Java 8. (Either OpenJDK or Oracle).
If you are just performing a single load / export, then the JMX is not necessarily of relevance, that is for monitoring purposes.


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HIV infections in women have maintained an ascendant tendency but, contrary to predictions, promiscuity is not the critical element, as most reports involve women infected by their permanent partner, a context in which it is rarely –perhaps never– possible to use the required protection, due to sociocultural or informative factors.
2. Material and methods:
A historical-perspective type analysis of 100 HIV-positive women from urban and rural areas, between 18 and 45 years of age, 90% of whom had monthly incomes below 6 minimum wages, whose male partners were previously infected, and with a minimum of 8 years of shared living before the HIV diagnosis in the woman.
3. Results:
In 7 of every 10 cases, the male partner never used a condom, and no woman reported using the feminine condom. The average frequency of unprotected vaginal coitus was twice per month, which means approximately 340 events of vaginal coitus over a 10-year exposure period. Anal coitus was practiced by 45% of these couples, with a range of 1 to 6 events per year, and 93% of the male partners reported hidden bisexual conduct. Their sexual activity –anal coitus– normally involved male strangers (7 of every 10 cases). Alcoholism was involved in 6 of every 10 cases and, on average, no condom was used in 50 per cent of those encounters.
4. Conclusions:
The fact that the greatest risk factor for women who acquire HIV is exposure through sexual relations with their permanent male partners, where few or no preventive measures can be taken –or are even promoted– reveals not only the danger of infectious exposure but also shortcomings in protecting human rights, which apparently do not advance here as we are dealing with an often veiled and highly dangerous unit in terms of people's physical and emotional integrity: the family.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Reactive.Linq;
using System.Reactive.Threading.Tasks;
using MS.Core;

namespace System.Security.AccessControl
{
    public static class __AuditRule1
    {
        public static IObservable<T> get_Rights<T>(
            this IObservable<System.Security.AccessControl.AuditRule<T>> AuditRuleValue) where T : struct
        {
            return Observable.Select(AuditRuleValue, (AuditRuleValueLambda) => AuditRuleValueLambda.Rights);
        }
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Get ready to be taken to a world beyond your imagination. "What Lives Inside" with Colin Hanks, Oscar-winner J.K. Simmons and Catherine O'Hara premieres exclusively on Hulu today (March 25, 2015).
Divided into four episodes the full series will be available on YouTube and www.whatlivesinside.com starting on May 6th, 2015.
Dell presents "What Lives Inside" which is about the son of an absentee father (Colin Hanks) who finds himself on a journey of self-discovery after the death of his father, a well-known and acclaimed children's puppeteer who was widely celebrated for his creativity. The son discovers a mysterious world of his dad's creation and finds himself on an adventure that will soon unlock his own creativity.
The film has been directed by two-time Oscar-winner Robert Stromberg and features a soundtrack created by James Newton Howard. Fans had the chance to submit sketches and drawings for inclusion in the social film. Many great sketches were selected to appear on the big screen. On www.whatlivesinside.com you can find a gallery of audience submissions.
While mourning the loss of his world-famous puppeteer father (J.K. Simmons), Taylor (Colin Hanks) finds himself mysteriously transported to the magical world of his father's show.
Colin Hanks and Catherine O'Hara both starred in "Orange County".


Sim::OPT::Morph is morphing program for preparing model instances (in text format) to be given to simulation programs in design-aimed explorations. Sim::OPT::Morph is controlled by the Sim::OPT module, which manages the structure of searches.
More specifically, Sim::OPT::Morph can manipulate the text files constituting the description of models for simulation programs. The general function dedicated to that aim recognizes variables by position on the page (determined by row number and position of the list element in that row - no embedding of markers in files) and modifies them through linear variations - so to perform translations ("linear" option), or rotations ("2drotation" option), or text substitution ("wordchange" option) -, and possibly propagation of constraint with user-defined rules.
Additionally, Sim::OPT::Morph features several specialized functions which are specific to the ESP-r building performance simulation platform; those functions can manage the simulation program directly, through the shell, or by manipulating model configuration files. Some of these functionalities involve operations in which the Radiance lighting performance simulation platform is called through ESP-r.
Configuration files for propagation of constraints may be specified in addition to a configuration file. Propagation of constraints can be used to direct the morphing of models and give to the morphing operations greater flexibility. Propagation of constraints can target the model configuration files and/or, in the case of ESP-r, trigger modification operations performed through the shell and regarding geometry, solar shadings, mass/flow network and controls.
Annotated examples can be found packed in the "optw.tar.gz" file in "examples" directory in this distribution. They constitute the available documentation. Additionally, reference to the source code may be made.
Copyright (C) 2008-2015 by Gian Luca Brunetti and Politecnico di Milano. This is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3.


Good masculine cards are hard to come by! And when I saw this one that Connie made, I knew I wanted to CASE it. Special thanks to Connie for always posting the greatest projects! At first glance, you may just think this card is created with one piece of Stampin' Up!'s awesome wood-grain paper…….but look again. It is actually made with 1″ strips that are cut, sponged for shading, and then attached to cardstock on the diagonal for a true "wood plank" look. Isn't this cool??? Yes, it takes up a little more paper, and yes, it takes a little more time to create, but the amazing end-product is totally worth it, don't you think?
I also wanted to provide my customers with an "easier" version of this same card. I knew that a couple of ladies would prefer to make a quicker card, so I was realistic and prepared another sample, shown below. To make this card even quicker, make sure you use the Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets that Stampin' Up! offers. I attached it to Old Olive and to the wood grain paper that I used for the word "friend". No more messing with glue all over the place! This is a wonderful product that many don't even realize we sell! Details on all supplies used are shown below. Click on any image below and you'll get to my online store where you can order anything you want, even Clearance Items!
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Best System of a Down Albums
Every song is great. My favorite ones are Chop Suey!, Toxicity, Aerials and Forest.
Toxicity has to be their best album, you rarely see someone arguing about that
If you have to introduce a friend to System of a Down, this album is the key
I love every single song of this album. every time I hear Aerials it gives me goosebumps
I have listened almost all their songs since 2014, in the last month I listened the full albums, in my opinion
1. Mezmerize
2. System of a Down
3. Toxicity
4. Dreaming
5. Steal this album
While I love every song on Toxicity, this album is more musically complex with tracks like Question! and B.Y.O.B, and then you have plain awesome metal headbangers such as Cigaro and Old School Hollywood. It's extremely tough to choose between this and Toxicty, however this album will always hold a place in my heart which Toxicity cannot.
5.System of a Down
4.Steal this album!
3.Hypnotize
2.Toxicity
1.Mezmerize
(But every album is beautiful)
Sad Statue is the best song by System of a Down, no doubt.
Their most heaviest and pure album to date. Sugar and Spiders are played on the radio but those are underrated. Chop suey is good but let's be Honest you can sick of it easily. This album is new almost every time you hear it
They did this without commercial viewpoint, or they at least had less to worry about what people thought and who bought them, that is why this is there purest and best work.
The only System Of A Down album without a bad track on it. It's heavy, it's raw, it's creative in new and astounding ways and it was truly ahead of its time.
This album is if you told a bunch of guys with guitars, drums, bass, and a mic to go mad. Sounds amazing
Mezmerize and Hypnotize are almost at a tie but mezmerize had better songs
My favorite one. I don't get why people like mesmerize better, but whatever.
They achieved their ultimate potential with hypnotize.
This has more amazing songs then Mezmerize
Steal This Album!
The best of the 5 for me without a doubt. It has the perfect combination of heavy riffs, melodies and harmonies. I can listen to the whole album from start to end in a way that I can't do for the rest of them.
This album is very underrated, it has some elements that was used in toxicity and later influenced the sound in Mezmerize/Hypnotize. I think it deserves more appreciation.
I believe this album is the best of the 5. The vocals are amazing, I'm a sucker for harmonies, even not the best ones (see Roulette)
Their best album by far. It has my favourite System Of A Down song on it. (Ego Brain)
Storaged Melodies
Has some really good songs, but the songs that are with other people (don't go off wondering, feel good etc are pretty bad in my opinion) Blue, Marlamade, Storaged, Johnny, and Temperr are just some of my personal favorites
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Barcelo.com Barceló Experiences Morocco Tangier What to see and do
Things to see in Tangier
What to see in Tangier, a city loved by artists
Tangier is a true portrait of a multicultural port city – a tranquil gateway to the African continent. Discover what to see in this city and the magic that emanates from its medina, beaches and souks.
The Caves of Hercules: the resting place of a legend, just a stone's throw from Tangier
Everyone who visits Tangier should make an effort to discover the Caves of Hercules: a fascinating site of geological and mythical importance.
Gran Teatro Cervantes in Tangier: more than a century of history
With more than a century of history and the glamour of countless big hits, the Gran Teatro Cervantes is currently being refurbished to restore it to its former glory.
Grand Mosque of Tangier, a ticket straight to paradise
The Grand Mosque of Tangier is one of the most important landmarks in this lively city in northern Morocco and its green hues invite the faithful to step straight into paradise.
9 April 1947 Square, the entrance to Tangier's Medina
The best way to start your visit to Tangier's Medina is through 9 April 1947 Square (or the Grand Socco), a social meeting point and daily shopping area.
Cape Malabata: magic and beauty by the sea in Tangier
Situated 10 kilometres from Tangier, Cape Malabata receives a large number of tourists as well as famous, influential people seeking peace and quiet
Kasbah Museum in Tangier, history inside a palace
A visit to the Kasbah Museum in Tangier allows you to get to know one of the most important places in the city, a space that houses interesting historical and artistic pieces.
The Tangier American Legation, a space for diplomacy
The Tangier American Legation is a space for diplomacy in Tangier, a visit on which one can see unique documents and many works of art.
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Eventful Day for Roush Fenway in iRacing #ProInvitationalSeries
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (March 22, 2020) – It was an eventful and drama-filled 100 laps in Sunday's eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series race from the virtual Homestead-Miami Speedway, where Ross Chastain challenged his No. 6 Oscar Mayer Ford for the lead early before going on to finish 14th, while Chris Buescher and the No. 17 Fastenal Ford was caught up in a couple of late-race incidents to finish 28th.
Chastain rolled off from the fourth position after posting a quick lap early in Sunday's qualifying session from the 1.5-mile track, while Buescher fired off 21st.
Chastain put the Oscar Mayer eFord up front and on camera early and often, running inside the top-five for the opening 25 laps. After a series of cautions to open the first quarter of the event, Chastain restarted fourth at lap 27 before being turned by the No. 24 machine, suffering heavy damage. He would use one of his two allowed resets on the day, and by lap 50 was back up to 14th.
With 40 to go, Chastain made a big strategy call with a fuel-only stop, which put him P2 on the restart with 34 to go. From there he got shuffled back just a bit but remained inside the top-10 with 10 to go, before going on to finish 14th.
Buescher had a somewhat unlucky day in his Fastenal eMachine, getting caught up in a multi-car incident early on. He was then assessed a penalty after reportedly passing a car under yellow, forcing him to start at the rear of the pack.
After a spin just after the halfway break, Buescher lined up 13th with 25 laps left but unfortunately was collected in another incident before going on to finish 28th.
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Some relationships are meant to be. When Elizabeth Sesselberg, RN, interviewed for a job at VNSNY in 1979, she was hired on the spot. In the decades since, she has served in various areas of the organization, including acute care in the Bronx. She is so inspired by the legacy of VNSNY founder Lillian Wald that she used to stop by Wald's grave regularly when visiting her family in Rochester. Like her predecessor, Elizabeth also goes above and beyond for people in need, both in her nursing work and on her own time. For many years, she made Christmas meals for patients without relatives nearby, and drove through the city with other volunteers to deliver the meals and gifts that VNSNY had purchased with charitable care dollars.
Elizabeth also gives out of her own pocket, making a financial contribution to VNSNY each year to sustain and enrich the charitable care that VNSNY provides. Her recent gifts include support for the Soto Scholarship to Promote Diversity in Nursing, an award named in honor of longtime VNSNY nurse Elsie Soto that is given to especially promising nursing students to advance diversity.
Elizabeth donates to the scholarship because she knows how valuable education is to a nurse's future—and how valuable nurses are to health care's future. "Health care itself may be changing, but what hasn't changed is the care and consideration that nurses give to our patients," she says. "Patients come in all kinds and have different needs, but their basic needs are the same: they need our compassion, our understanding, and our teaching. Our goals as nurses remain the same as well: we want to give people the skills and capacity to manage their own care, so they can have the best quality of life possible."
Support VNSNY's charitable mission with a gift today.


Stoneyhill Farm is a small 10 acre farm in North Central Massachusetts. Our farm breeds Cairn Terriers and West Highland White Terriers.We can give credit for our girls to one breeder, Mrs. Raili Jacoby. She has consistantly produced beatiful Westies for over 30 years. We think she sold us her best two girls, Shayla who is almost three and Lily who will be two. Both will be bred this year, to an outstanding male who has achieved much in his lifetime.


Anton Paar expands the product portfolio for particle characterization by the acquisition of the corresponding division from CILAS (Orléans, France). The PSA instruments are based on the light scattering principle or image analysis. They give information about the size distribution and shape of particles. Applications range from investigations into dry powders to studies of particles in dispersions.
The new products will be integrated into Anton Paar's existing business area Particle Characterization. Jakob Santner, division manager of the Business Unit Characterization: "For Anton Paar GmbH this acquisition is an important step to expand the portfolio in particle analysis. The instruments from CILAS are internationally acknowledged quality instruments for the measurement of nanoparticles and microparticles and represent an excellent addition to our Litesizer™ product line. We now offer our customers measuring systems for an enormous measuring range. This begins with particles of the size of a single water molecule and ends with pebble-sized particles." CILAS has been developing cutting-edge laser technologies for more than fifty years. Philippe Lugherini, Chairman and CEO of CILAS: "We are extremely happy that Anton Paar will continue this product line that we have pioneered for years now. The PSA business will definitely benefit from the global instrumentation strategy of Anton Paar."
The instruments in the PSA series expand the current portfolio of instruments for particle size measurement based on dynamic light scattering, extend the available size measuring range with instruments based on the principle of laser diffraction, and add the technology of image analysis to Anton Paar's product range. The application areas are diverse. The pharmaceutical and chemical industries, in particular, as well as companies and institutions in the fields of cosmetics, food, and building materials show specific interest.
Laser diffraction is capable of measuring size distributions of particles in dry powders or in liquid dispersions. The measurable sizes usually range from the upper nanometer range up to a few millimeters. Via image analysis it is possible to gain insight into the shape of the particles. A practical example: the knowledge and control of the powder particle size and shape is used to increase the efficiency of medical products.
Anton Paar GmbH was established in 1922 as a one-man locksmith's workshop. Today, over 2,000 employees worldwide develop, produce and distribute high-quality measuring instruments for the determination of properties such as density, temperature and viscosity as well as high-precision mechanical parts and assemblies. Anton Paar has strong links with universities and research laboratories worldwide. The company is owned by the Santner Foundation, which invests in research in the field of science and technology as well as in the rehabilitation of drug addicts.