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Adventure Time Season 6 Episode 27
Finn meets a friendly civilization and a sees a mysterious crash site in a vision.
Serie: Adventure Time
Episode Title: The Visitor
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
When the powers of a single hero are not enough to save the world, the world's greatest heroes—Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, Ant-Man/Giant Man and Wasp—assemble to form…
Genre: Action & Adventure, Animation, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The Thundermans
Meet The Thundermans, a typical suburban family that happens to have astounding superpowers. At the center of the action are the 14-year-old Thunderman twins, who share the same bathroom, the…
Genre: Action & Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
An emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors who hold it together. They will tackle unique new cases…
MasterChef Australia
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Dinner Mate
It tells a story that how two young women become close friends by having dinners together. They happened to be arranged seated at the same table one time they went…
The trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family. Reddit Review: Parenthood is the most beautiful TV series of year 2010 It is a pleasure for…
A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins are born with the mythic ability to see, their father must protect his tribe against a…
Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist and professor, is recruited to help the federal government crack difficult cases. His intimate knowledge of human behavior and masterful understanding of the mind give…
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This little boy Bengal kitten is just 8 weeks old so he will change quite a bit over the next few weeks! Right now he is in the middle of the fuzzy stage so his beautiful coat is masked by longer guard hairs. It will start to develop into his clear adult coat around 12 to 16 weeks of age. Kratos are currently available as breeder/show prospect. Please inquire with any questions you may have! Parents PK-def & HCM tested.
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Everyone who reads this probably already knows that I have an interview with US Airways for a flight attendant position. In the back of my mind I have always thought it would be so interesting to work for an airline. I have always loved the airport because I loved the idea of being able to go somewhere new.
As you may know I'm having a terrible time trying to find jobs. I feel like I'm the only one of the secondary education majors to not get a substitute teaching job. That was really really hard because I worked so hard in school to come out with nothing. I also started to get fed up with the education job search because no one is hiring history teachers. I also don't have faith in my abilities which makes me put even more pressure on myself.
On Valentine's Day I figured I would look for flight attendant jobs on Monster.com. I thought this was kind of a far fetched idea because all you hear about are airlines laying off people and raising prices. However, it must have been my lucky day because I came across the posting for US Airways. I filled out the application that day and very shortly after I received a call for a phone interview. I was ecstatic.
However, that was short lived. I felt like the weeks were passing by with nothing. Honestly, it was only like two weeks but when you are ready to move onto bigger and better things that feels like a lifetime. I started to be very cynical about the job and my abilities. I was just about to give up when I got an e-mail. I started reading and my heart dropped because I thought they were telling me I wasn't good enough for the job. I cleared my mind and read it again and realized it was an e-mail I had already received. My friend told me that he thought maybe there was just a glitch in the system so I just let it be.
The next day I received another call from US Airways. They were calling to tell me that they wanted to set up an interview! I was so excited that I thought they said phone interview again so when the man on the other line told me the next available interview they had was on March 28 I thought it was kind of weird that they wouldn't have phone interviews until that late. I quickly realized that this was a REAL interview and good thing I don't have to work that week or else that would have made me look really bad!
I've never had a real adult interview before. I'm nervous but excited. I need to get an interview outfit. Ideas of where I can buy something kind of cheap for my interview? I'm also being flown out for the interview! I am not sure where yet, but I am thinking it's either Phoenix or Charlotte.
I started to feel guilty about this because I feel like I should be doing something more worth while, like teaching. However, I've been praying that God will lead me where He wants me. I realized that I am a pretty good worker. Yes, I get stressed a lot, but I rarely ever complain at work about my jobs. I am willing to work extra and help out co-workers. This type of attitude is what a follower of Christ looks like and if that is how God wants me to fulfill His will than so be it.
Please continue praying for me as I move on to the next stage of my life.
Yay Jazz! I can come over and help you put together and outfit. I'll be back in Cincinnati on the 25th!
WOW girl. this is awesome. i had NO idea you were even in this position!! i am excited for you & your interview :) :) :) i think you'll probably need something on the more formal/attendant-y end of things as far as clothes go, but I'm not sure. maybe a mock suiting in jersey? something that won't wrinkle too much since you'll be flying out!


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import unittest

from Src.BioAnalyzer.DataAccess.Entities.GenePrioritization.DifferentialDnaMethylationLevelValue import \
    DifferentialDnaMethylationLevelValue

class DifferentialDnaMethylationLevelValueTest(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_instance(self):
        diff_dna_methylation_level = DifferentialDnaMethylationLevelValue(**{'id_entrez':1,
                                                                             'value':0.1,
                                                                             'is_significant':True,
                                                                             'status':1})

        self.assertEqual(diff_dna_methylation_level.id_entrez, 1)
        self.assertEqual(diff_dna_methylation_level.value, 0.1)
        self.assertTrue(diff_dna_methylation_level.is_significant)
        self.assertEqual(diff_dna_methylation_level.status, 1)

    def test_properties(self):
        diff_dna_methylation_level = DifferentialDnaMethylationLevelValue()
        diff_dna_methylation_level.id_entrez = 1
        diff_dna_methylation_level.value = 0.1
        diff_dna_methylation_level.is_significant = True
        diff_dna_methylation_level.status = 1

        self.assertEqual(diff_dna_methylation_level.id_entrez, 1)
        self.assertEqual(diff_dna_methylation_level.value, 0.1)
        self.assertTrue(diff_dna_methylation_level.is_significant)
        self.assertEqual(diff_dna_methylation_level.status, 1)

    def test_equal(self):
        diff_dna_methylation_levels = [DifferentialDnaMethylationLevelValue(**{'id_entrez':1,
                                                                               'value':0.1,
                                                                               'is_significant':True,
                                                                               'status':1}),
                                       DifferentialDnaMethylationLevelValue(**{'id_entrez':12,
                                                                               'value':0.1,
                                                                               'is_significant':True,
                                                                               'status':1}),
                                       DifferentialDnaMethylationLevelValue(**{'id_entrez':1,
                                                                               'value':0.1,
                                                                               'is_significant':True,
                                                                               'status':1}),
                                       DifferentialDnaMethylationLevelValue(**{'id_entrez':14,
                                                                               'value':0.1,
                                                                               'is_significant':True,
                                                                               'status':1})]

        self.assertTrue(len(list(set(diff_dna_methylation_levels))) == 3)

    def test_validation(self):
        dna_methylation_level = DifferentialDnaMethylationLevelValue()
        dna_methylation_level.id_entrez = 1
        dna_methylation_level.value = 0.1
        dna_methylation_level.is_significant = True
        dna_methylation_level.status = 1

        try:
            dna_methylation_level.validate()
        except ValueError:
            self.fail('Encountered an unexpected exception.')

    def test_validation_fail(self):
        diff_dna_methylation_level = DifferentialDnaMethylationLevelValue(**{'value':0.1,
                                                                             'is_significant':True,
                                                                             'status':1})
        self.assertRaises(ValueError, diff_dna_methylation_level.validate)

        diff_dna_methylation_level = DifferentialDnaMethylationLevelValue(**{'id_entrez':1,
                                                                             'is_significant':True,
                                                                             'status':1})
        self.assertRaises(ValueError, diff_dna_methylation_level.validate)

        diff_dna_methylation_level = DifferentialDnaMethylationLevelValue(**{'id_entrez':1,
                                                                             'value':0.1,
                                                                             'status':1})
        self.assertRaises(ValueError, diff_dna_methylation_level.validate)

        diff_dna_methylation_level = DifferentialDnaMethylationLevelValue(**{'id_entrez':1,
                                                                             'value':0.1,
                                                                             'is_significant':True})
        self.assertRaises(ValueError, diff_dna_methylation_level.validate)

    def test_as_dict(self):
        diff_dna_methylation_level = DifferentialDnaMethylationLevelValue(**{'id_entrez':1,
                                                                             'value':0.1,
                                                                             'is_significant':True,
                                                                             'status':1})

        diff_dna_methylation_level_dict = diff_dna_methylation_level.as_dict()

        self.assertTrue('id_entrez' in diff_dna_methylation_level_dict)
        self.assertEqual(diff_dna_methylation_level_dict['id_entrez'], 1)

        self.assertTrue('value' in diff_dna_methylation_level_dict)
        self.assertEqual(diff_dna_methylation_level_dict['value'], 0.1)

        self.assertTrue('is_significant' in diff_dna_methylation_level_dict)
        self.assertTrue(diff_dna_methylation_level_dict['is_significant'])

        self.assertTrue('status' in diff_dna_methylation_level_dict)
        self.assertEqual(diff_dna_methylation_level_dict['status'], 1)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()

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Today is a special episode because I got to talk with another one of my dear friends here in Sacramento. Stephanie Dullanty is a birth doula, postpartum doula and birth photographer and mom to Rio. Stephanie and I met through Capital City Doulas and she is such a sweet and wonderful person. I am so happy to share her and her wife Martha's story of how they experienced conception, pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
If you are local to Sacramento, please check out our calendar at Capital City Doulas to see when the next Mama Talks event is.
Also, check out Capital City Music Together if you're local, or check out Music Together in your area if you're elsewhere.
You can find the show wherever you find your podcasts, or stream it directly here.


Kallen Printing is delighted for our client, Kelly Hartman Design Studio (Fishten), who picked up an Anvil for this one-of-a-kind art catalogue, "Once upon a pond". Skate marks criss-cross the front cover with a deboss and clear foil combination; silver foil on the spine represents a skate blade. Inside, the layered pages have been staggered trimmed to reference layers of ice. We love working together with creative people to produce custom pieces such as this!


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Smithsonian Women's Committee
Dedicated to advancing the Smithsonian's mission to increase and diffuse knowledge. Founded in 1966.
The Smithsonian Women's Committee celebrates fine American crafts through two signature events: the Smithsonian Craft + Design Show and Craft2Wear. From the funds raised at these shows the Committee awards grants and endowments throughout the Smithsonian.
About the SWC
About Grants
Craft+Design
Craft2Wear
Visionary Artists
SMITHSONIAN WOMEN'S COMMITTEE GRANTS
The all-volunteer Smithsonian Women's Committee (SWC) solicits, researches and awards grants to Smithsonian projects that bring knowledge, adventure, and discovery to the world. Funding for grants comes primarily from SWC's two signature events, the Smithsonian Craft + Design Show and Craft2Wear. Additional support comes from corporations, foundations and individuals through the SWC Grants Fund. To date, the SWC has supported the Smithsonian with grants and endowments exceeding $12 million.
The SWC often provides seed money for new research which may lead to additional outside funding or support for projects otherwise too small to be noticed for major giving. Every project the SWC awards through grants has an immediate benefit and is implemented and completed within one year of funding unless grantees apply for an extension.
In 2019, the SWC awarded 25 grants totaling $464,294. Each of these grants addresses one or more of the Smithsonian's Grand Challenges: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe, Valuing World Cultures, Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet, and Understanding the American Experience.

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The first part of a four-part series, Dr. Bill St. Cyr, Executive Director of Ambleside Schools International gives us the definition of joy: providing examples of what it is and is not, contrasting it with happiness, and establishing it as a foundation of character.
The Method of the Lesson, as described by Charlotte Mason, is marked by five steps. Bill and Maryellen St. Cyr, of Ambleside Schools International, continue discussing the of the Method of the Lesson, describing the reading of an episode, narration, and the second talk. While the teacher points to ideas in the text, the children must do the work of thinking and learning.
"The children themselves must do the mental work. They must engage their minds - they must do the attending; they must do the reflecting; they must make use of the ideas.
A renewing vision and philosophy of education must lead to an applied method. Bill St. Cyr of Ambleside Schools International discusses and gives examples of the first two steps of the 5-part Method of a Lesson used at Ambleside schools. It begins with a well-chosen text; this could be a book, a flower, or a musical composition. The relationship between the student and idea-rich texts is what Charlotte Mason meant by a living education. "Just as the human body needs nourishment and exercise to flourish, so the human mind needs the nourishment of ideas, but it also needs exercise. In exercising, the mind attends, it reflects, and it uses that which it is learning.
Is the true goal of education to learn? Or is it to win a prize and impress others? "Build the character; build the love for learning; build the passion to know; build the discipline to work well – [and] all of that takes care of itself." Ambleside Schools curriculum includes 16-17 subjects, following Charlotte Mason's idea of the importance of giving children as many relationships as possible at the very beginning of their lives. Bill and Maryellen St. Cyr, of Ambleside Schools International, discuss how to direct students' minds toward learning. "As a school, we've got to be very intentional about the kinds of relations we're cultivating, and the kinds of ideas that are ceding those relations.
How do adults effectively support children in habit formation? Habits are best cultivated in a relational manner that reflects genuine care; Charlotte Mason describes this relationship as the "friendly ally." Adults have to lay down the rails, do the leg work, stand beside the child, remain consistent, always joyful to be with the child. Bill St. Cyr, of Ambleside Schools International, discusses how to cultivate a habit of humility, beginning with sowing an idea and building an alliance around an idea.
How do we lift children above what is their nature? Charlotte Mason wrote, "Habits are to life as rails are to a train." Bill St. Cyr, of Ambleside Schools International, discusses the role habit formation plays in the lives of individuals. "Charlotte Mason was a hundred years ahead of her time when it comes to her understand of how the brain functions. She knew that when a habit was formed, there was a change in the very grey matter of the brain. We now know much more clearly how that happens." At Ambleside Schools, worthy habits, such as habits of kindness, attention, and careful work are intentionally and carefully formed in our students.
How Much Does the Student Care?
As you listen, use our study guides to assist you in making meaningful connections and increasing comprehension and memory.
Artificial incentives communicate that it is impossible to enjoy history, mathematics, science and literature in and of themselves; we just endure these parts of education to appease the adults and get to the "good stuff"- pizza and a movie.
Dr. Bill St. Cyr of Ambleside® Schools International discusses the sub-text implications of a reward based approach to work.
Cultivating children's tastes and directing their affections toward what is good, true, and beautiful begins with the development of deeply satisfying relationships with worthy literature, music, art, and more, as well as with a consistent habit of working well. "The atmosphere, the way in which work is talked about, the way in which work is engaged… that will communicate everything to a child about they will relate, how they should relate to work. In a place where hard work is normal, . . . where sweat is part of life, and when staying on task even when head and hand are tired is a good thing, a noble thing; it's what we ought to do; that's what we all do here," children see work as a normal part of life. Charlotte Mason described the deeply satisfying nature of completing set work with excellence; this good and noble habit is cultivated in students at Ambleside® schools and homeschools. Dr. Bill St. Cyr and Maryellen St. Cyr of Ambleside® Schools International discuss the importance of setting an atmosphere that supports a noble approach to work.
As you listen, use our study guide to assist you in making meaningful connections and increasing comprehension and memony.
Cultivating a taste for the good and beautiful begins with setting the Atmosphere. Beautiful music, art on the walls, wooden furniture all play a part in setting the tastes of a child. Dr. Bill St. Cyr, of Ambleside Schools International, notes that children don't innately know what is good, what they would like, but rather respond to what is in the Atmosphere. "She [an Ambleside student] had been introduced to beautiful music. Her natural appreciation for beautiful music had been cultivated such that when she heard something that was not beautiful, she was quick to recognize it.
Masterly Inactivity is a peaceful presence held by the teacher that gently calls, invites, a child back to a strengthening of the will – to sit up straight or say a kind word, for example. Dr. Bill St. Cyr, of Ambleside Schools International, discusses the importance of Masterly Inactivity and the toxic effects of the "Heavy Handed" teacher. "The teacher is preserving peaceful, good, instructive, life-giving atmosphere, and the way she does that is by practicing what Charlotte Mason called Masterly Inactivity.
The role of the teacher or parent in setting a classroom atmosphere of joy and order hinges on the nature of authority between the adult and the students. Does the teacher lead with an authoritarian or authoritative role? The authoritarian teacher leads by anxious and controlling means, setting an unpredictable and fragile atmosphere that squelches a student's love of learning, desire for growth, and sense of joy and peace. The authoritative teacher, as described by Charlotte Mason in School Education, leads as a person authorized by another, with immovable fixed principles in all matters of importance. Proper authoritative leadership lives peacefully under authority and is moved only by responsibility and what is good and right; selfish wants and needs are quickly dismissed. At Ambleside® schools and homeschools, weakness is not seen as a disturbance, but rather as an opportunity for discipleship; "It is good to be me here with you. . . . We're going to figure out a strategy to help you move in a more life-giving direction." Dr. Bill St. Cyr and Maryellen St. Cyr of Ambleside® Schools International discuss the distinctives of a proper approach to authority in the classroom that fosters an atmosphere of joy, curiosity, exploration, learning, and peace.
Atmosphere has a profound impact on setting our affections. Dr. Bill St. Cyr, Executive Director of Ambleside Schools International, discusses the atmosphere that supports the desire for working well, paying attention, and reading worthy books. Our affections are caught by the community we are surrounded by. "When you step into a classroom where everyone is paying attention, the easiest thing is to pay attention.
Chapter 1: The Foundation of Joy from Ambleside Schools International on Vimeo.
One of the most important responsibilities of a teacher is to set an atmosphere of joy in the classroom. The sense of joy is non-verbal, "in the air and breathed in" by the children – it's what Charlotte Mason called Atmosphere. Bill and Maryellen St. Cyr, of Ambleside Schools International, discuss the difference between happiness and developing a deep sense of joy. Often when people visit Ambleside member schools, they say, "There's peace here, a peacefulness, there's a sense of expression here by the students and by the teachers that's genuine, that's full of delight, full of joy….
What We Draw Children With Is What We Draw Children To.
Part 3: What Are We Drawing Students To? from Ambleside Schools International on Vimeo.


Lee Loader • View topic - High Point 45 ACP Carbine!
High Point 45 ACP Carbine!
Re: High Point 45 ACP Carbine!
That is very cool. Where I live I can't have any of those carbines, I think they are all very cool. 45 is awesome especially when you cast your own. How much BETTER if it is from a MOLD YOU DESIGNED. Totally COOL.
Ranch Dog wrote: Great, NOE has the standard diameter version of my design in stock. I will powder coat the bullets, so they feed nice and slick through the Load-Master.
I've had my Hi Point 45 ACP carbine for around 2 years now, it's one of my favorite guns to shoot and it's always a hit at the local group shoots, Hi Point made a few sales off those group shoots.
Two of my favorite bullets to shoot in the Hi Point as well as my Ruger P-90 in 45 ACP are the Lee 200 gr. SWC and the NOE 452-234 TL bullet that comes with FN, HP an cup point pins. I'm pretty much just casting HP's and cup point bullets with the NOE mold. I get equal accuracy with both the Lee and NOE bullets cast from 50/50 and powder coated.
I get good expansion with the NOE HP bullet as well.
Very nice, thanks for the report! Kind of hoping NOE would have had a sale email for the weekend but he didn't.
Ranch Dog wrote: Very nice, thanks for the report! Kind of hoping NOE would have had a sale email for the weekend but he didn't.
Try this coupon code and see if it still works flt001 I think it worth 5% if it's still valid.
Thank you, but too late. I went ahead and bought it full price as Al has done so much for me, and I know sales are slow this time of year, that it is worth supporting him.
I have the NOE design software database, so I moved the bullet design to my software and then imported the record to my Precision Reloading Records and QuickLoad. It looks like I will keep using the same Hercules Unique load of 6.5-grains so all I need to do with the Load-Master is switch the Carbide Sizing and Factory Crimp dies out when I switch between the Hi-Point rifle (standard dies) and Taurus pistol (oversize dies).
I was able to shoot the 4595TLS yesterday, what a hoot and darn if it isn't a 6" gong ringer at 50-yards! This rifle was set up by my FFL with the Bushnell First Strike sight rather than the BSA red dot that Hi-Point offers. Much neater package. I was shooting Independence ammo and went through it surprisingly quick.
My NOE mold arrived at the end of the week, so I need to get busy if I want to shoot it some more!
Oh, already have two 20-round magazines and a speed loader on the way from Hi-Point!
If you don't mind , what's HP get for the high cap mags ?
I think the 14 round Pro Mags were only $16-17 bucks , I think there was a sale or something .
RBHarter wrote: If you don't mind , what's HP get for the high cap mags ?
$28 each. I looked at Pro Mags online, $21 to $26. Honestly, I've tried Pro Mags with a number of firearms and after buying three SMLE mags, said never again.
I read that about an hour after I ordered 4 ....... I've run all 4 but one of them about 15 cycles with no bugs .
I read about the pro mags but I've had good luck with them where I couldn't get factory or they were really expensive .


Leviathan Fishing Adventures - Cusk-travaganza!
Extraordinary weekend with my annual ice fishing group last month (despite lackluster togue fishing). Altogether, the boys caught 5 cusk that were over 7 lbs, including 3 that were over 10 lbs.! Great job Ryan with the 10.5# fish and the 12# fish. Naturally, MKGS also got a beauty at 11.5# and 36" in length! Pictures to follow.


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Postponing 7 PPP deals means delaying public service – PPP chief
Mar 25, 2016 12:57 PM PHT
Chrisee Dela Paz
Getting PPP projects from advertisements to the tarmac seems to take ages
MANILA, Philippines – When it comes to lagging public infrastucture, the Philippine government usually turns to the private sector for help, but not always with success. (READ: PH's PPP thrust: Work in progress)
The auction for the P18.99-billion ($409.35-million) deal to modernize the Davao Sasa Port is among the 7 postponed public-private partnership (PPP) projects, facing the uncertainty of government continuity.
"We are mindful that postponement in procurement will mean delay in delivery of public services," PPP Center executive director Andre Palacios said, emphasizing the need for a final push to ensure the office's infrastructure legacy.
To start with the construction of more public infrastructure come next administration, these 7 crucial PPP deals should be awarded before June, Palacios said.
The Philippines is one of the countries that are continuously pushing for more PPP deals; it expects these to contribute about 40% of the Philippines' infrastructure financing gap until 2020.
But this will not be achieved without continuity.
Postponed PPP deals
Recently, the Department of Justice (DOJ) moved the bid submission for its P50.2-billion ($1.08-billion) regional prison project to April 20 from March 22, citing a request from a bidder.
The 3 bidders for the prison facility PPP deal are San Miguel Holdings Corporation, Mega Structures Consortium (led by Megawide Construction Corporation), and DMCI Holdings Incorporated.
For Palacios, "Bilibid inmates live in overcrowded, dehumanizing conditions. They urgently need facilities conducive to their reformation."
The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) has also moved the bid submission deadline for the 5 regional airport projects and the Davao seaport deal to an unspecified date from March 28.
The Davao seaport deal has been postponed anew due to delays in securing permits from government agencies.
A modern seaport in Davao is important as this "will allow Mindanao farm products to reach the global market," the PPP Center chief said.
The DOTC also postponed the bidding of the modernization of Bacolod-Silay, Iloilo, Davao, Laguindingan and New Bohol air gateways as it has yet to release a copy of the contracts.
"Further, in a few years, air passengers will experience NAIA (Ninoy Aquino International Airport)-type congestion in Iloilo, Bacolod, Bohol, Davao and Laguindingan airports. Expansion of these regional airports is necessary to avoid the expected congestion," PPP Center's Palacios said.
'Ready to help'
With the implementing agencies postponing PPP deals for various reasons, PPP Center's Palacios said his office is "ready to help DOJ and DOTC to complete the process by June 30."
The chief of PPP Center expressed concerns about the postponements, citing strong reasons for continuing the bidding for the 7 PPP projects.
Palacios cited 4 factors that will "strongly justify" completing the bidding for the DOJ and DOTC projects.
"First, the projects were properly reviewed and approved in 2014. Second, they have been going through a fair, transparent and credible procurement process for over a year now," the head of PPP Center said.
He added that the government has complied with all legal requirements, and has spent valuable resources to develop, approve and procure the projects.
"Fourth, there is genuine competition among serious bidders, both local and foreign, which will produce the best deal for [the] government," Palacios said.
PPP projects are not covered by the election ban, which will last from March 25 to May 8 of this year.
The Commission on Elections en banc confirmed this in its resolution issued on January 19, 2016. — Rappler.com
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Pickens No Longer a Wind Bag?
Pickens has dropped wind as part of his energy reliance plan, focusing wholly on natural gas. He's going with what he knows. Too bad he does not know more.


Marriage agreement is a new concept for Ukrainians. Not every woman even knows what is it for and how it works.
I can say that it won`t be easy to explain to a Ukrainian lady that you want to conclude a marriage agreement with her. I suggest you to be well-prepared for this conversation. You should be able to name her all the advantages of it. Your reasons should be very clear and understandable to her. Don`t be surprised if Ukrainian lady takes the proposition to sign a marriage agreement very emotionally at first. You should speak about it very carefully and choose the right words because it`s a very sensitive topic for Slavic women.
Until quite recently they had no idea what a marriage agreement is. Their mothers and grandmothers have never done it before. No one shared this experience with them.
Another problem is that Ukrainian ladies find marriage agreement anti-romantic. They can perceive your offer to sign a marriage agreement like your uncertainty in her and your feelings. She might think that it is a bad luck and there won`t be a happy future together if you think about the divorce in the beginning.
Now you know what the reactions you can expect from Ukrainian women on a marriage agreement. That`s why you should explain to her in the best way why would be better to conclude a marriage agreement.
Let`s discuss what a marriage agreement is and what the functions it serves.
Marriage agreement is a contract signed by couples before or after marriage. Marriage agreements are commonly known as "prenuptial agreements" or "prenups". Prenuptial agreements help to deal with the legal issues if the marriage breaks down. A well-drafted prenup can protect the parties` property and make separation less painful, reduce conflicts and save money on attorneys` fees.
It`s important to know that no one can be forced into a marriage agreement.
You can enter a marriage agreement in the case that both parties wish to do it.
It would be better to discuss and draw up a marriage agreement together with your beloved woman. Then there won`t be any surprises for her when you negotiate the contract with the lawyer. It`s better to enter a marriage agreement way before the wedding. If you start the process right before the wedding, your lady will feel some pressure on her. If you bring the topic about a marriage agreement half of year before the wedding for example it won`t look like the ultimatum from your side.
when one or both of the parties has a life-threatening job.
neither of you has a life-threatening work.
I hope you will never need to fulfill the obligations of the marriage agreement in the future but it is always good to have some kind of insurance. When you are done with the marriage agreement will be better to forget about it, leave it behind and concentrate on your relationship full of love and happiness.
We also recommend you to read about IMBRA form.


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Q: Mysql, php and time differences I have a datetime field in mysql. NOW() gives me 9am and UTC_TIMESTAMP() gives me 2pm. The client real time is 4pm.
There are posts that say I should use timestamp for TZ problems and others say to avoid it at all cost so now I'm confused.
The person who is generating the data (that is inserted to the DB) and the persons (clients) who read it, are both in the same TZ but the server and DB are located elsewhere. How can I make sure that the client will retrieve the date in his own TZ?

A: You are dealing with php server time zone, mysql server timezone and user's timezone. Obviously, all of them are different.
To keep user's original timezone, you need to save user's timezone in database(by location). and convert php or mysql timezone with that and show it accordingly.
I don't know if is there any other way to do so.
This will help  you to convert timezones: http://php.net/manual/en/class.datetimezone.php

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The latest EPA report shows a spike in toxic waste by US factories, only the second increase in 17 years.
Factories, power plants, and mines used to just dump their waste into waterways or on the ground, or they sent it up smokestacks. Out of sight, out of mind was the operating principle.
But that began to change with passage of landmark environmental legislation a generation ago - mainly the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act. Polluters started cleaning up, and more recently they've been required to report the kinds and amounts of toxic substances they emit.
Public and political scrutiny helped accelerate the cleanup of some 650 potentially dangerous substances at nearly 25,000 facilities around the country. Over the years, those yearly reports under the "Emergency Planning & Community Right-To-Know" law showed improvement.
But the latest national report card by the Environmental Protection Agency (with data from 2002) shows an increase in toxic pollutants, the second time that's occurred since reporting began 17 years ago.
In all, nearly 5 billion pounds of toxins were released into the environment in 2002, the EPA reports. That's undoubtedly less than before such reporting was required, but it is 5 percent more than the previous year, and it's likely that other toxic releases are missed in the total count.
For example, perchlorate, a toxic chemical used in military rocket fuel, has been found in the groundwater of at least 20 states. As a result, reported the Environmental Working Group last week, pregnant women and young children who drink milk from cows in California (home to many military bases) may be exposed to unsafe levels of the substance. State and federal regulators are considering new standards for perchlorate.
But former EPA officials and environmental watchdogs dispute that assertion, and they warn that government regulators are seriously underreporting the actual amounts of such dangerous pollutants as mercury, arsenic, and lead.
Using data gathered by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Environmental Integrity Project (founded by Eric Schaeffer, former EPA official) and the Galveston-Houston Association for Smog Prevention warn that levels of such carcinogenic substances as benzene and butadiene may be four to five times higher than reported by the EPA.
"Systematic underreporting happens today because most air pollution is now estimated, not monitored," says Kelly Haragan, a lawyer with the Environmental Integrity Project in Washington. "To make matters worse, the guesswork is being done by the polluters who have the incentives to keep numbers low ."
Industry officials strongly reject the charge that toxic pollutants are being underreported, and they assert that years of improvements in their manufacturing processes have increased environmental quality around the country.
"Refineries and petrochemical plants are among the most highly regulated facilities in the US," says Bob Slaughter, president of the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association. "The emissions limitations present in our air permits are fully protective of human health and the environment."
There undoubtedly will be political fallout. While the environment is not a top political concern for most people, it could be a deciding factor for undecided voters. The Bush administration wants to make the reporting of such toxics easier, and its proposed policy on mercury admissions has become very controversial.
"Carbon trading" programs, which allow relatively clean plants to sell pollution credits to dirtier facilities, have helped reduce emissions of carbon dioxide. The Bush administration favors a similar program for mercury, a substance far more toxic.
The administration also wants to lengthen the time frame for reducing overall mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants. (The Clinton administration proposed a 90 percent reduction by 2008; the Bush administration favors a 70 percent cut by 2018.) Environmentalists say a mercury-trading program would leave dangerous "hot spots" in certain geographic areas near power plants. Scientists with the industry-sponsored Electric Power Research Institute deny this.
But in a report to the EPA, 36 leading scientists affiliated with the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation in Hanover, N.H., recently warned that "mercury pollution in the environment is widespread and severe." As a result of elevated mercury in the environment, they noted, 45 states have issued advisories regarding fish consumption in areas encompassing 12 million lake acres and 473,000 river miles.
Tuesday is the deadline for public comment on the EPA's proposal on the trading of mercury emissions from power plants.


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Q: Use 2 functions in ajax request I am trying to pass 2 functions in ajax get request. But it doesn't seem to be working. What I am doing wrong here. I have very little ajax/js knowledge. Hence please help me out.
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    url: "activity.mainActivity",
    type: "GET",
    data: function(data) {
        data.from_date = $("#from_date").val();
        data.to_date = $("#to_date").val();
    },
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        for (var i = 0, len = data.columns.length; i < len; i++) {
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A: I found the solution. Silly me. :-).
data: function(data) {
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One challenge for people engaged in smart grids is determining which events to attend since there seem to be multiple conferences and seminars each week. April and early May have been exceptionally busy based on the industry events that have taken place that I thought I should attend. I attended two industry events, two major events that ABB sponsored, and a meeting with Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chu.
The largest of these four events was the IEEE T&D Conference and Exposition that was held in Orlando, Florida earlier this month. IEEE holds this event every other year and I have to think that it is easily the largest T&D equipment conference in North America. This year the attendance was over 13,000 people and the exhibition floor was expansive. I had a limited amount of time at the exhibition but I did spend most of the second day of the conference attending the smart grid program. This program included sessions on standards; lessons learned from deployments, public education, and customer engagement; and the future of smart grid including technology, policy, standards, and customer involvement. This last session was the most valuable from my perspective and provided insight from the speakers on the direction and issues facing grid modernization and smart grid investments.
One of the factors that limited my time at the IEEE event was the Ventyx Mindshare event that was also held in Orlando at the same time as IEEE. This event was sponsored by Ventyx, an ABB company, and provided a program for the Ventyx software users. The agenda included customer advisory board meetings, organization and product updates, overviews of product roadmaps, technical sessions related to the software applications, and a Solutions Pavilion for Ventyx and its partners' products. Attendance this year was the largest ever with additional customers in attendance based on the acquisitions that Ventyx made last year. Obvient Focal Point business intelligence software, Insert Key Solutions equipment reliability software, and the Mincom Ellipse enterprise asset management software were added to the Ventyx software portfolio last year.
From a smart grid perspective, I focused on the Mindshare sessions for the distribution management system, demand response management system, asset health center system, and integration of these applications to enterprise-level applications such as mobile work force enablement and enterprise work and asset management.
ABB hosts its Automation & Power World (APW) event each spring. This event was initially formed by combining the Automation World and the Power World events – the two events that preceded APW. Automation World was focused on customer training and automation products and Power World started as a sales training event for power products and systems. This year, APW was held in late April in Houston. We had sales training over the weekend and then the customer portion of the event immediately following Monday through Thursday. The total number of attendees this year was over 5000 people! The common element was the Technology & Solution Center that included over 130,000 square feet of product and systems exhibits – all ABB and its business partners. The customer program has been expanded to over 500 hours of educational training that included a business forum, customer case studies, hands-on training, panel discussions, and technical workshops. We had an extensive program for smart grid that addressed all facets of transmission technologies, distribution grid management, asset health management, and distributed energy resources including distributed generation and energy storage.
For me, one highlight of the Technology & Solution Center was the entrance to the exhibit area. We had this area dedicated to the ABB Industry Segment Initiatives (ISIs) which are global strategic growth initiatives that engage multiple divisions and businesses across ABB and focus on customer requirements and relationships with partners. The ISIs include smart grid, solar, wind, data centers, energy efficiency, water, rail, and electric vehicles. Leading the Smart Grid ISI for North America, I routinely work with my colleagues from the other ISIs since smart grid solutions frequently interface across these technologies, especially renewable generation, data centers, energy efficiency, and electric vehicle service infrastructure.
The Electricity Storage Association (ESA) held its 22nd annual meeting the first week of May in Washington, DC. The theme of the event was "Electricity Storage: Meeting the Challenges of an Evolving Grid." The event included a Technology Showcase and a technical program that addressed distribution and "edge of grid" energy storage, end-user and microgrid storage applications, and large-scale applications for generation and transmission. Sessions also discussed storage economics and the aggregation, integration, and control of energy storage.
There are two conclusions that I would make after attending the event. The first is that lithium-ion battery technology is receiving most of the attention for battery energy technology although the range of battery chemistries extends from lead-acid to flow-based technologies. The second conclusion is that one of the growth areas for battery energy storage is addressing the variability of renewable energy resources, particularly solar PV which can change rapidly with steep ramp rates. I attended the presentation at ESA given by Powercorp, the microgrid company that ABB recently acquired. This presentation included an example of how fossil generation and renewable generation can be effectively managed by a microgrid that incorporates both flywheel and battery energy storage. The flywheel provides fast response regulation and the battery energy storage provides additional storage to back up the flywheel and helps to address the variability of the renewable generation.
The National Alliance for Advanced Technology Batteries (NAATBatt) is launching a distributed energy storage (DES) initiative. I joined the NATTBatt DES group, consisting of approximately a dozen companies, in a recent meeting with DOE Secretary Chu to get support for the DES initiative and to present two specific recommendations.
The first recommendation was to establish DES technology as a focus among the different types of electricity storage technology being investigated by the DOE for stationary energy storage technology. Battery technologies that must be designed to be volume and weight restricted, such as those that will likely to be used in most DES applications, offer the prospect of creating a combined market for both stationary and automotive batteries. The prospect of this combined, multi-gigawatt market would be a catalyst for innovation, additional private investment, and electrification of transportation.
The second recommendation was to strongly request continued DOE support for DES demonstration projects. Although DES is a critical technology of the future, DES system costs are still too high to justify widespread commercial investment in those systems by utilities today. The fastest way down the cost curve is to support continued deployment of DES systems by utilities in geographically diverse demonstration projects that are small, inexpensive, and fast. These projects would give participating utilities the experience with DES systems that they need to identify the cost savings and to create the innovations necessary to push these systems into full commercial deployment.
The group is proposing to develop an outline of proposed projects in consultation with other utilities, battery and materials suppliers, and automakers. One immediate goal is to expand the NAATBatt DES working group by inviting these other companies to join the group.
It is great to see that the smart grid momentum continues to grow in North America. Over the next couple of years, the market analysts forecast growing investment in smart grid technologies, with distribution grid management, utility analytics, and distributed energy resources leading the way.


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Une taie cornéenne est selon le dictionnaire Littré le « nom qu'on donne vulgairement aux diverses taches blanches et opaques qui se forment quelquefois sur la cornée ».

Elle résulte de la cicatrisation d'une lésion de la cornée ; soit cette lésion ne touche que l'épithélium cornéen et la cicatrisation se fera sans traces en une semaine, soit elle touche le stroma et elle sera responsable d'une perte de transparence de la cornée et d'une cicatrice appelée « taie cornéenne ».

Causes

Toute lésion de la cornée peut générer une taie en cicatrisant.

 Traumatisme : plaie, brûlure.

 Infection : herpès, abcès de la cornée.

Clinique

C'est une tache blanche de taille et de forme variables, de densité variable, visible ou non par un tiers.

Elle est responsable d'une baisse de l'acuité visuelle plus ou moins marquée selon sa densité et sa localisation sur la cornée. Elle peut également être à l'origine d'une diplopie monoculaire (ne disparaissant pas à l'occlusion de l'œil sain).

L'ophtalmologiste évalue cette lésion au biomicroscope.

Traitement

Le traitement est habituellement chirurgical et consiste en une greffe de cornée (kératoplastie).

En cas de taie d'origine herpétique, une récidive de l'infection est possible sur le greffon.

Notes et références

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(Re)Viewing the Other: Gender Subversions in IndoFijian Performances
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CARTER, LORENZO (1767-7 Feb. 1814), frontiersman, community leader, and tavernkeeper, was Cleveland's first permanent settler, arriving in Cleveland on 2 May 1797 with his brother-in-law, Ezekiel Hawley (Holley, Holly), and their families. Lorenzo was born in Rutland, Vt., and on 28 Jan. 1789 married Rebecca Fuller. Until Apr. 1800, the Carters were the only white family in Cleveland, with other families who settled briefly there soon moving to Newburgh or Doan's Corners to escape the swampy environment. The Carters built a pretentious log cabin, used as an inn, with a garret, serving as a jail, on the east bank near the mouth of the CUYAHOGA RIVER. Cleveland's first wedding, of the Carters' house helper, Chloe Inches, and Wm. Clement of Ontario, on 4 July 1797; and the first social dance, on 4 July 1801, took place in Carter's home.
Carter, a Baptist, operated a ferry at the foot of Superior St.; constructed the first tavern in the city; and built the 30-ton schooner the Zephyr, a lake trading vessel (1808). He purchased 23-l/2 acres of land in 1802; and built the first frame house in Cleveland, which was destroyed by fire before completion. In 1802 he also built a blockhouse containing Carter Tavern, and constructed the first log warehouse in the city in 1810.
Carter was a constable for Cleveland Twp. and a major in the state militia. The Carters had 9 children: 3 boys, Alonzo, Henry, and Lorenzo; and 6 girls, Laura, Rebecca, Polly, Rebecca (2d), Mercy, and Betsy. Lorenzo and Rebecca died in infancy; Henry drowned in the river at age 10. The Carters purchased a large farm on the west side of the Cuyahoga River in 1810 which later became the property of Alonzo Carter. Carter died at age 47. His wife, Rebecca, died on 19 Oct. 1827. Both are buried in the ERIE ST. CEMETERY.


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Developer - HAL Laboratories
Release Date - June 1999
Kirby has appeared on many a Super NES and Game Boy in the past couple years, and he may be the most peculiar character of Shigero Miyamoto yet. Kirby's Air Ride (still a working title), is set to arrive on N64, but it's still a mystery as to when. And, in what form.
Most like a pink cream puff, but more amorphous, this animated, fluffy creature can swallow almost anything that gets in its way, and devours things twice its size with out a blink, absorbing that creature's powers. That's been the case in previous games, anyway. It seems as if Kirby's Air Ride will take on a different aspect, or rather, may do so. The game has been in development for a little over two years, and we've seen pictures of it in strikingly different forms. (Compare our early screen-shot with the later ones, the earlier ones have the early N64.com cap logo, and these came from a videotape from the 1995 Shoshinkai show.
Originally playable at Shoshinkai in 1995, the game featured a single-player and a four-player set-up, in which players rolled around on checkerboard surfaces like giant bowlling balls (which were, in fact, Kirby all rolled up). The environment looked more like a giant Italian tablecloth with undulating surfaces and obstacles and bad guys to avoid and bonuses and power-ups to pick up.
Now, with new screen-shots appearing from Japanese magazines, the game looks much "cooler." Kirby wears a baseball backwards cap and speeds through his smooth, much more detailed courses on what looks to be a snowboard, somewhat different from Kirby games in the past. Also, this game appears to contain more adventure and exploration than previous versions.
It also appears as if Kirby may not necesarily need a snowboard to move (like in the past), The landscapes have transformed into for more rural scenes, with orange orchards, star trails, oceans, and Nintendo's knack for designing with the full extent of its color palette, especially involving multi-color, rainbow designs. Recently, another stand-by, Mario Kart 64, featured a full course called the Rainbow Course, which was beautiful from a distance, but painful to stare at for any length of time. Hopefully, Nintendo won't go overboard this time.
Nintendo, however, has kept quiet about the game, and it's still not on the the 1997 schedule of games. But, having said that, the Kyoto, Japan-based videogame company moves at its own pace, and is full of surprises. The game could be out on retail shelves for winter holiday 1997 Who knows. In any case, the game looks more accessible to gamers who are above the age of 12 (thanks, Nintendo) and looks to continue evolving. We'll have more when we can get it.


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Q: At what energy do up and down quarks unbind? At what energy do up and down quarks unbind? Google does not seem to have a clear answer. Could someone please represent this mathematically?

A: Quarks do not unbind in the low energy regime. They are color charged, and thus confined1, the strong force between them does not fall off with distance (as is the case for the electromagnetic force with $\propto \frac{1}{r^2}$), but increases linearly with distance. Thus, you need ever more energy to pull two quarks apart, which is stored in "flux tubes" (essentially the strong field lines) spanning between the quarks. When the energy stored in the "tension" of these flux tubes2 exceeds that needed to create a quark-antiquark pair, they will sooner or later break up, and you'll have two pairs of quarks connected by shorter flux tubes then. You cannot ever have a free quark.

1No rigorous proof of confinement exists, though you can see confinement arising in some lattice models and through Polyakov loops on tori. QCD can be seen to have confining and deconfining phases, and the confining phases occur at the energy/density/temperature scales that are normal for our observations.
2Some models treat the flux tubes as strings with tension.

A: The other side of the coin then ACuriousmind 's answer is the quark gluon plasma. The quark gluon plasma

is a phase of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) which is hypothesized to exist at extremely high temperature, density, or both temperature and density. This phase is thought to consist of asymptotically free quarks and gluons, which are several of the basic building blocks of matter.[citation needed]. It is believed that up to a few milliseconds after the Big Bang the Universe was in a quark–gluon plasma state.

Within the plasma the quarks are asymptotically free

Asymptotic freedom is a feature of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the quantum field theory of the nuclear interaction between quarks and gluons, the fundamental constituents of nuclear matter. Quarks interact weakly at high energies, allowing perturbative calculations by DGLAP(name of equations) of cross sections in deep inelastic processes of particle physics; and strongly at low energies, preventing the unbinding of baryons (like protons or neutrons with three quarks) or mesons (like pions with two quarks), the composite particles of nuclear matter.

They are measuring quark gluon plasma at the LHC, at least fitting the data with models : Search for "quark gluon plasma lhc", as they can go to small distances/high energies.
The crux is "small distance high energy" . Thus quarks will always be confined at the energies we can achieve in the laboratory, the bag becomes bigger but we cannot see an individual quark. At the Big Bang energies, where there is a soup of free quarks and gluons, it is just that the bag becomes the whole universe at the time, and we will not be there to do experiments :).
In the BB chronology the quark gluon plasma is hypothesized between 10^-32 seconds and 1 second after the BB, in this plot the energies are between  10^14 GeV and 1 GeV. (These are just indicative numbers, and depend on the particular model.)


Online SC Parser, "z_User_Notification (User defined recipient)"
Does anyone know why there's only one "z_User_Notification (User defined recipient)" field?
(Not the pre-defined Bcc [ https://www.spamcop.net/mcgi?action=showadvanced, Personal copies of outgoing reports] field).
I think the simplest answer to why a restriction on how many copies "of every spam you submit " would be to limit the required outgoing bandwidth. Take a look at <Statistics> tab, Total spam report volume Currently there is something like 600,000 reports being sent in 24hrs.
Sending all reports to a third party could open SpamCop to charges of abuse clogging the email system. Reading into your question, I too want to report spam to multi activities. To do this when I submit spam I also address my email to several US gov actives and a group in Australia.
Not wishing/suggesting or desiring to link to adding another address to [personal preferences][Personal copies of outgoing reports] page, just put that in there so possible convo participants were clear about which [User_Notification (User defined recipient)] field I was referring to.
Re [Sending all reports to a third party could open SpamCop to charges of abuse clogging the email system] I hear you; I certainly do not wish to be counterproductive to SC in any way, it is by far & away the most effect tool I've used to reduce spam.
Re [I also address my email to several US gov actives and a group in Australia} I do this to, as in "forward" original spam to ACMA & FTC... If there are additional "gov agencies" I'd be keen to add them to my tool kit: would you mind kindly sharing the addresses/info of the authorities you report to please?
Are you referring to the " Re: User Notification " check-box and email entry box on the reporting spam page? I was miss lead by the link to the preference page.
In the beginning many users/contributors to SpamCop wanted to do some analysis of the spam they received, wanting to take advantage of the power of the parser tool. So to receive a copy of the spam Report without revealing (perhaps another) email address the "handling option" to send oneself a Bcc copy of the report was added.
As you may have notices, many SpamCop users do analysis of the source of the spam they receive and want to send report to destinations other than/ in addition to those identified by the parser. This is facilitated by the " Re: User Notification " check-box on the spam reporting page.
I understand why people have this concern. However, I have been using the same main email address sense March of 1996. I have given the email address to an uncounted number of companies/web sites etc over the years. Without any pre-filters active that address gets maybe 20 spam a day. When I checked this morning there were 15 new spam. These all are simply filtered out and reported with a single "submit" email. On the other hand, my domain received ~120 spam daily addressed to random (some obscene) mailboxes. These are even more easily filtered for reporting.
My point is the spammers have my mailbox/domain. Sending un munged spam Reports is not going to give anyone any new information, except (if they read them) the knowledge that I report their spam. Only once in this time have I identifiably been the target of retaliation. After two days all went back to normal.
Thank you for your comprehensive response & I'm sorry for the late reply.
Yes. I was trying to circumvent anyone getting confused, given there's 2 "User Notification" fields, ended up confusing you, big fail me!
Re [SpamCop.net screen layout and options is a legacy from "before time"], I like [SC.net/parser format]: it works & is very functional without a lot of unnecessary bells & whistles.
Re [In the beginning [analysis][Bcc copy of report was added], I'm glad, I like this and combined with all the SCF information/help & tips & tricks, I've finally been able to get on top of endless spam floods.
Re [many SpamCop users do analysis of the source of the spam they receive and want to send report to destinations other than/ in addition to those identified by the parser] Their analysis methodology/work/results has been hugely beneficial for me.
Re [forwarding original spam to ALL other parties] you & other SCF members have guided me on this before, I do get it, I just get cranky with scum.
Re [Only once in this time have I identifiably been the target of retaliation] The irony for me was, after 20 yrs of endless spam I stumbled onto SC, after a mth I hit a week with NO spam, initially, I thought they're may have been something wrong with my mail, then miffed, there's a certain satisfaction seeing the parser pump out its results & hitting "Send spam Report/s Now"
Sad but valid commentary. That's when I too contact my ISP.


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Don't take sets to the point of failure—where you absolutely can't perform another rep. You should never get to where you're turning purple and screaming like you're getting interviewed by "Mean" Gene Okerlund before WrestleMania. Most of the time, you want to end your sets two reps before total failure. Not sure when that is? The moment your form breaks down, or you're pretty sure it's going to break down, end the set.
However, protein isn't everything. Contrary to popular belief, carbohydrates and calories from fats are also important. To gain muscle, people who are slender or scrawny need to create a calorie surplus in order to bulk up. That means you need proteins and plenty of healthy carbs, vegetables and even some fats (think healthy fats like nuts, avocado, olive oil, etc.). Carbohydrates play a key role in building muscle. This macronutrient has gotten a bad rap for making people fat. However, if you work out properly, eating plenty of carbs is in your best interest. After training, it's ideal to ingest some carbs in combination with protein to help replenish your muscles' glycogen stores.
How much weight? Start with a pair of light dumbbell hand weights (2 to 3 pounds for women and 5 to 8 pounds for men). If you can't do 12 repetitions (or reps are the number of times you do the exercise) the weight is too heavy. If your muscles don't feel tired after 12 reps, it's too light. Adjustable weights that can be strapped to wrists or ankles may be convenient if you have arthritis in your hands. You can also use home or gym weight machines, or resistance bands.
Today I want to share with you some quality advice on how to gain weight. Now I caution you that this is for the really skinny guy looking to really gain weight because they barely have any meat on their bones. I know what it is like when you feel like you eat all the time and have nothing to show for it. I have been there. I also understand the feelings that you feel when people start to resent you because you can eat whatever you want and not ever gain a pound. They don't realize that to skinny guys, this is a curse more than it is a blessing at times.
Beta-alanine is a naturally occurring non-essential amino acid that comes into the body through foods that are rich in protein. The performance-enhancing aspect of beta-alanine (BA) is due to its ability to increase intra-muscular levels of carnosine. Increasing beta-alanine through supplementation may raise carnosine levels by over 60 percent in as quickly as four weeks.[6]
There have been a few reported renal health disorders associated with creatine supplementation [73,74]. These are isolated reports in which recommended dosages are not followed or there is a history of previous health complaints, such as renal disease or those taking nephrotoxic medication aggravated by creatine supplementation [73]. Specific studies into creatine supplementation, renal function and/or safety conclude that although creatine does slightly raise creatinine levels there is no progressive effect to cause negative consequences to renal function and health in already healthy individuals when proper dosage recommendations are followed [73-77]. Urinary methylamine and formaldehyde have been shown to increase due to creatine supplementation of 20 g/d; this however did not bring the production outside of normal healthy range and did not impact on kidney function [56,78]. It has been advised that further research be carried out into the effects of creatine supplementation and health in the elderly and adolescent [73,75]. More recently, a randomized, double blind, 6 month resistance exercise and supplementation intervention [79] was performed on elderly men and women (age >65 years) in which subjects were assigned to either a supplement or placebo group. The supplement group was given 5 g CM, 2 g dextrose and 6 g conjugated linoleic acid/d, whilst the placebo group consumed 7 g dextrose and 6 g safflower oil/d. CM administration showed significantly greater effects to improve muscular endurance, isokinetic knee extension strength, fat free mass and to reduce fat mass compared to placebo. Furthermore the supplement group had an increase in serum creatinine but not creatinine clearance suggesting no negative effect on renal function.
It can be hard to know where to start when beginning strength training. There are countless exercises you can do, some of which work some muscles, but not others. There are safety concerns to beware of, a wide variety of sometimes confusing equipment to help you in your efforts, and so on. With some familiarity of the basics of getting started with strength training, actually doing so can become far less daunting, and you can begin to craft a routine that is targeted toward helping you achieve your personal goals.
Many athletes follow a "loading" protocol of around 25 grams a day for five days, but this isn't essential. But as Ciaran Fairman notes in the article "Do I Need to Load With Creatine," you can also get the same benefits with around 5 grams a day, potentially with none of the mild side effects of the loading protocol, which include stomach pain and water weight gain. The catch is that you have to take it consistently. Don't skip it!
Heath suggests incorporating dropsets into your training routine by immediately decreasing the weight and repping out again to failure. "Dropsets overload the muscle with shorter rest periods and increasing volume which you need to grow," says Heath. "That overload improves your body's abilities to utilize more nutrients, natural growth hormone, and natural testosterone into those areas and makes the supplements you take more effective." Heath's favorite way to do dropsets is on a pin-loaded machine since it's faster to switch weights.
It has been argued that purposely overtraining for a brief period can be beneficial. One article published by Muscle & Fitness magazine stated that you can "Overtrain for Big Gains". It suggested that if one is planning a restful holiday and does not wish to inhibit their bodybuilding lifestyle too much, they should overtrain before taking the holiday, so the body can recuperate and grow during the prolonged rest period. Overtraining can be used advantageously, as when a bodybuilder is purposely overtrained for a brief period of time to super compensate during a regeneration phase. These are known as "shock micro-cycles" and were a key training technique used by Soviet athletes.[53]
Creatine synthesis primarily occurs in the liver and kidneys.[2][16] On average, it is produced endogenously at an estimated rate of about 8.3 mmol or 1 gram per day in young adults.[16][17] Creatine is also obtained through the diet at a rate of about 1 gram per day from an omnivorous diet.[16][18] Most of the human body's total creatine and phosphocreatine stores are found in skeletal muscle, while the remainder is distributed in the blood, brain, and other tissues.[17][18]
However, the basis of "take creatine after your workout" comes from a 2013 study published in the JISSN, which can be found here (open access too!). In this study, recreational male bodybuilders (19 men overall) were given five grams of creatine either before or after their workouts. They trained five days per week but were also directed to consume 5g on their rest days at any time they wanted. The workouts were fairly similar to most gym workouts, and the methodology (what they did and how they did it) suggests that the findings would apply to most weightlifters.
de Salles Painelli V, Alves VT, Ugrinowitsch C, et al. Creatine supplementation prevents acute strength loss induced by concurrent exercise. Eur J Appl Physiol 2014;114(8):1749-55.del Favero S, Roschel H, Artioli G, et al. Creatine but not betaine supplementation increases muscle phosphorylcreatine content and strength performance. Amino Acids 2012;42(6):2299-305. View abstract.
Generally, you should consume about 20 grams of protein with some carbs shortly after a workout. During the post-workout anabolic window, you'll also want to limit fats, which can slow the absorption of protein. While there is some recent research that suggests the window may actually extend up to several hours following exercise, there's no harm in getting nutrients in early as long as you're sticking to your overall caloric and macronutrient goals.
To do dips, place your hands at shoulder-width apart on a bench, with your body and feet stretched out in front of the bench. Slowly bend your elbows and lower your body down so that your butt nearly touches the floor. Lift back up with your arms to starting position; repeat, doing 3 x 8. If this isn't a high-intensity set for you, increase the resistance by lifting one foot off the floor.
Sandow organized the first bodybuilding contest on September 14, 1901, called the "Great Competition". It was held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Judged by Sandow, Sir Charles Lawes, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the contest was a great success and many bodybuilding enthusiasts were turned away due to the overwhelming amount of audience members.[4] The trophy presented to the winner was a gold statue of Sandow sculpted by Frederick Pomeroy. The winner was William L. Murray of Nottingham. The silver Sandow trophy was presented to second-place winner D. Cooper. The bronze Sandow trophy — now the most famous of all — was presented to third-place winner A.C. Smythe. In 1950, this same bronze trophy was presented to Steve Reeves for winning the inaugural NABBA Mr. Universe contest. It would not resurface again until 1977 when the winner of the IFBB Mr. Olympia contest, Frank Zane, was presented with a replica of the bronze trophy. Since then, Mr. Olympia winners have been consistently awarded a replica of the bronze Sandow.
Every gym has a guy shaped like a lightbulb. He's the one who neglects his lower body. If you don't want to be that guy, work your major leg muscles on the leg press machine. Place your feet on the plate with knees bent at 90 degrees. Grasp the handles and slowly push the plate out until your knees are straight but not locked. Pause and slowly return to the starting spot.


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The example shown in the animation refers to the anterior cruciate ligament whose deficiency produces a characteristic "anterior drawer". The KTJ4 joint by the insertion of the front pins tends to oppose such front sliding to create a moment of strength against the articular laxity presented.


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Asia struggles to explain Trump's N. Korea threat
Foster Klug
Seoul, South Korea — Was it a bluff? A warning that Washington would shoot down North Korea's next missile test? A restatement of past policy? Or simply just what it seemed: a straightforward threat of annihilation from the president of the United States?
Officials and pundits across Asia struggled Wednesday to parse Donald Trump's vow Tuesday at the U.N. General Assembly to "totally destroy North Korea" if provoked.
In a region well-used to Pyongyang's pursuit of nuclear weapons generating a seemingly never-ending cycle of threats and counter-threats, Trump's comments stood out.
South Korea officially played them down, while some politicians worried that Trump's words signaled a loss of influence for Seoul. Tokyo focused on his mention of Japanese citizens abducted by the North. Analysts across Asia expressed surprise, worry, even wry amusement, in one case, that Trump's words seemed to mirror threats normally emanating from North Korean state media.
Amid the speculation, the focus of Trump's belligerence, North Korea, remained silent in the hours after the speech.
Officials from the office of South Korean President Moon Jae-in, a liberal who has advocated dialogue with the North while being forced into a hawkish position by the North's weapons tests, called Trump's words a signal of Washington's strong resolve to deal with the North, but also essentially a repetition of the basic stance that all options will be considered when confronting Pyongyang.
Trump has previously threatened the North with "fire and fury." Pyongyang responded to those past remarks with a string of weapons tests, including its sixth and most powerful nuclear detonation and two missiles that flew over U.S. ally Japan.
Park Soo-hyun, a Moon spokesman, said that Trump's comments "reaffirmed the need to put maximum sanctions and pressure against North Korea's nuclear and missile provocations" so that Pyongyang realizes that abandoning its nuclear weapons is the only way forward.
Marcus Noland, a North Korea specialist with the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, said in an online post that Trump's threat will feed a long-standing North Korean narrative that claims that the United States poses an existential threat.
"With those words, President Trump handed the Kim regime the soundbite of the century. It will play on a continuous loop on North Korean national television," Noland wrote.
North Korea's regular weapons tests are an attempt to create an arsenal of nuclear missiles that can threaten U.S. troops throughout Asia and the U.S. mainland. Pyongyang tested its first two intercontinental ballistic missiles in July and claims that it can now accurately reach the U.S. homeland, though outside experts say the North may still need more tests before its weapons are fully viable. Each new test pushes the nation that much closer to that goal.
Some South Korean opposition politicians saw the comments as another sign that South Korea is losing its voice in international efforts to deal with the North's nuclear program.
Trump's U.N. speech came days after U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis created unease in South Korea by saying without elaboration that the United States has military options against North Korea that wouldn't involve the destruction of Seoul. The South Korean capital is within easy artillery range of the huge array of North Korean weapons dug in along a border only an hour's drive from greater Seoul's 25 million people.
Kim Su-min, a lawmaker in the People's Party, expressed worry that South Korean officials heard nothing from Washington before both Mattis' and Trump's remarks.
"The government should comprehensively review its diplomatic and national security system and do its absolute best so that our stance on critical issues related to the existence of our country and the lives of our people doesn't go ignored," Kim said.
Diplomacy meant to rid the North of its nukes has been moribund for years, and Pyongyang has made huge strides over the last several years in its quest for nuclear tipped missiles that can reach anywhere in the world. Trump has pushed Beijing, which is the North's only major ally, to do more to influence Pyongyang's behavior, so far to no avail.
A Chinese expert on North Korea was surprised by the vehemence of Trump's speech, saying "his rhetoric is full of military force."
Cheng Xiaohe of Renmin University said in an interview that he initially thought that "the U.S. had nearly declared war on North Korea." The speech signals that "if North Korea conducts another missile test, the U.S. is very likely to intercept."
Officials in Tokyo, meanwhile, welcomed a reference by Trump to North Korea's abduction of Japanese citizens in the 1970s and '80s.
"I think it means an understanding has gotten through" to the United States and other countries, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasutoshi Nishimura said, according to Kyodo News service.
Trump said, "We know it kidnapped a sweet 13-year-old Japanese girl from a beach in her own country to enslave her as a language tutor for North Korea's spies."
The girl, Megumi Yokota, was one of at least 17 people that Japan says North Korea kidnapped.
Andrei Lankov, a North Korea expert at Kookmin University in South Korea, described Trump's threats as similar to the type of bluffing that North Korea has used for decades.
"It's a bit funny to see how the U.S. president behaves in exactly the same way, using exactly the same words his North Korean counterparts have been using for decades," Lankov said.
Rhetoric that isn't followed by action will eventually undermine the U.S. image internationally. "It makes American threats far less efficient," he said.
Lankov said he expects North Korea to respond to Trump's threats with "equally powerful … equally comical" and "probably more ridiculous rhetoric."


Anyone who has ever been close to a seriously depressed child has undoubtedly been affected by the youngster's vulnerability, misery, and pain. Indeed, it is much like caring for a child who is in physical pain. For the child in the depths of depression, no activity is fun, nothing can be enjoyed, and no one can provide enough consolation or comfort. At times, the youngster may cry or whimper. There may be fits of defiance or rage and sometimes withdrawal into a numb, sullen silence. A child in this state tries the patience of parents and siblings. Remedies of every sort are tried, including gifts, punishments, bribes, lectures, pleading, and a host of others. Such efforts occasionally provide temporary relief, but more often they seem to make matters worse. Commonly, there is an emotional wall of anger and frustration between a depressed child and other fumily members that may inevitably lead to further isolation and withdrawal. If too much time passes without their being helped, many depressed children and adolescents come to believe that suicide offers the only real relief for their pain. Currently, there is a Depression Awareness Week that includes free screening at participating health and mental health settings around the United States and is designed to identify depression in adults, suggesting that society's awareness of depression and psychiatric disorders is focused to a large extent on adults.


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Hoon Named Interim Vice Chancellor and General Counsel
August 8, 2018 University Communications
Chancellor Randy Woodson has appointed Robert Hoon to serve as interim vice chancellor and general counsel, effective Sept 1. He currently serves as the university's deputy general counsel.
Hoon has 26 years of higher education service. Prior to joining NC State in 2015, he served as general counsel at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, held numerous business and legal capacities at Washington State University, served as assistant to the minority leader in the Washington State House and was a medical malpractice defense and construction litigator.
The chancellor has convened a nominating committee to guide a national search to replace General Counsel Eileen Goldgeier, who is leaving NC State for Brown University. Kevin Howell, vice chancellor for external affairs, partnerships and economic development, is chairing the committee.
Committee members include Carolyn Bird, chair of the faculty; Tom Cabaniss, Board of Trustees liaison; College of Education Dean Mary Ann Danowitz; Wade Fulghum, interim executive director for technology commercialization and new ventures; Sheri Schwab, interim vice provost for institutional equity and diversity; Janice Sitzes, chair-elect of the staff senate; Marie Williams, associate vice chancellor for human resources; and Lisa Zapata, senior associate vice chancellor for academic and student affairs.
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Why COP 27 was bad for polluters, good for us
Environment ConservationTOI PRINT
Chandra Bhushan
Updated: Nov 20, 2022, 20:52 IST
The 27th Conference of Parties (COP27) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which wrapped up in the early hours of Sunday at the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh, set things in motion that will have far-reaching implications for the international climate negotiations.
COP27 kicked off with the demand by the developing countries, especially least developed countries (LDCs) and small island nations, to set up a 'Loss and Damage' fund to compensate them for climate disasters. These countries, which have contributed the least to global warming, are now suffering annual losses in billions of dollars. For instance, the cost of the recent floods in Pakistan is estimated to be over $46 billion – 13.25% of the country's GDP.
Why this story
Two changes: accepting that biggest polluters will pay poor nations & pressure on China, India to contribute
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Kevin Swift, American Chemical Council's chief economist, recently predicted Ohio would attract billions of dollars in investment by 2023 for its promising plastics industry, according to WVXU Cincinnati. Swift believes investments will increase due to Ohio's massive shale deposits in the Utica and Marcellus shales, and its customer base for plastic and other industry products. For more, read the full story.


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Suspect Threatening Jewish Centers CAUGHT – He Is FAR From A Trump Supporter, This Is CRAZY!
03 Mar, 2017 by	Lisa Smith
Well, well, what do you know…the latest crime may come as a huge surprise to many, although it shouldn't. Police just apprehended a suspect connected with the bomb threats to Jewish schools, centers and a museum…the icing on top? The suspect is an ANTI-TRUMP FAKE NEWS reporter.
Reports revealed that on Friday, an unsealed federal complaint in a Manhattan court stated that Juan Thompson, 31, made some of the threats in his name and others in the name of a previous girlfriend, in a sad attempt to intimidate her.
By the looks of this bastard's Twitter account, it is the same Juan Thompson who worked for the Intercept and was discovered to have fabricated sources, quotes and created emails to convince his editors they were legitimate.
The FBI filed a formal complaint against Thompson, quoting a tweet sent from the account. The tweet requested an attorney because a "racist white girl" was calling in threats in his name.
You scroll down a bit on his twitter feed and you discover that Thompson's page is littered with anti-President Donald Trump, racist tweets.
He even had the balls to call for the president and 42 percent of Americans to be "taken out."
"Today, we have charged Juan Thompson with allegedly stalking a former romantic interest by, among other things, making bomb threats in her name to Jewish Community Centers and to the Anti-Defamation League," Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York , said, according to NBC. "Threats of violence targeting people and places based on religion or race – whatever the motivation – are unacceptable, un-American, and criminal."
Ann Coulter went ballistic, she tore apart liberal Talking Points Memo editor, Josh Thompson, who wrote a story critical of President trump's response to the Jewish community center threats.
More articles by Lisa Smith


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Tell us about games you are currently playing. "Quick hit" reviews.
Retrology
Postby Retrology » July 23rd, 2019, 4:22 pm
Finally got this game and have been playing it on vacation. I'm more than halfway in the main story and good lord this game is amazing. To be honest it has one of the best first impressions I've ever seen from a game, and it makes me feel like a kid again exploring everything it has to offer.
Simply put, it reminds me of Mario 64 and Mario World on the SNES for how fun it is to explore and find secrets. I know some people aren't as high on it as I am but it honestly might be the best Mario game I've ever played. This and BOTW have made me want to invest in more of the Switch library to see what it has to offer, and it's near impossible for me to put down.
DrLitch
Re: Super Mario Odyssey
Postby DrLitch » July 23rd, 2019, 9:32 pm
Odyssey was awesome. My one complaint though is that it did not challenge enough, particularly boss battles. I am sure finding all the moons is hard but, like Breath of the Wild finding Korock Seeds, the experience is not overly gratifying. There were some classic "only Nintendo could do this" moments, that boss on the desert level where you have to box his face in was an absolute hoot. Odyssey is right up there with Galaxy and Mario 64 and I do not think the game is overated - it is good clean fun.
Glen32
Postby Glen32 » July 26th, 2019, 8:00 am
Great game, although I don't like the motion controls.
Postby Herschie » October 26th, 2019, 4:30 pm
Never really got into this, but I recently picked it up and gave it another try. It's pretty cool, although is it weird that I prefer Mario 64 in all its scanlined glory? At least the controls aren't that much different in Odyssey. Actually I have been on quite the Mario kick lately since I work from home and often have a few minutes here and there to play a quick game. Super Mario 3 is where it's at!
Postby Voor » October 27th, 2019, 8:18 am
Herschie wrote: Never really got into this, but I recently picked it up and gave it another try. It's pretty cool, although is it weird that I prefer Mario 64 in all its scanlined glory? At least the controls aren't that much different in Odyssey. Actually I have been on quite the Mario kick lately since I work from home and often have a few minutes here and there to play a quick game. Super Mario 3 is where it's at!
Amen brother. SMB3 is just so satisfying. I think it's because the levels are so short but designed sooo well. That game is just an A+ When you consider the evolution of the world map, inventory items, secrets, I could go on and on.
And then SM World comes along and blows our minds again in a different way. Definitely an easier game, but very very charming and just a joy to play.
As much as I enjoyed SM64, and to an extent, Sunshine, I've just had little interest in Odyssey. I think when I heard that there are like 1000 moons coupled with no real chance of "game overing", makes it sound like a pure exploration game, which I'm not really into. Plus, motion controls.
Postby Matchstick » October 27th, 2019, 4:51 pm
Herschie wrote: Super Mario 2 is where it's at!
Postby Voor » October 27th, 2019, 6:37 pm
Matchstick wrote:
Ahhh, SMB2, in all its quirkyness, is an outstanding game. Very satisfying to play. I'm thinking about Speedrunning the warpless category.
Postby DrLitch » October 27th, 2019, 7:37 pm
Super Mario 2 was awesome. It had a fantastic base game to work itself around called Doki Doki Panic.
That said, hard to put it above 3 or SMW in the pecking order but certainly a better game than the originally intended sequel which was just more of what we saw in the original SM.
The Lost Levels were tough. Never have beaten them.
Been playing some New Super Mario, and man, is it by far my least favorite. I hate the physics, don't like Mario's extra moves, and the graphics are ugly.
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