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Self-Help and the Cult of Banality
(originally published in 2015)
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night. -Dylan Thomas
The operation runs smoothly. Hundreds of Chinese child laborers sit hunched over on the cold concrete basement floor, the florescent lights flickering, each of the children scribbling hundreds of inspirational quotes per day. The skittering of a cockroach is heard, and the sudden heartless thud of a stiletto stabs the thing in the center, a white paste oozing out onto the shivering floor. Tony Robbins—motivational speaker extraordinaire—stands over the children, pacing the aisles in his stripper heels, his whip dragging on the floor beside him. Only the sound of frantic scribbling can be heard, along with Tony Robbins' heels clicking on the impenetrable callousness beneath him. His thin porno mustache twitches. He opens his mouth, white saliva pooling at the corners of his lips, making a smutty moist sound as it smacks open, and he booms, "MAKE MEEEE MONAYYYYYY!!!" And the little children scribble furiously. "It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped," one bucktoothed boy writes. "We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish," a five year old with a bowl cut and a runny nose, writes.
This place was a fortune cookie factory for years, with the same child laborers previously scribbling good common sense and lotto numbers, but Tony Robbins highjacked the place years ago, and uses the kids to write his books. He's worth $480 million, and suffers from illiteracy and adulthood ugliness. But over the years, he's inspired millions to buy his books and pay for his courses and motivational lectures on how to become rich. It's something the Cult of Scientology excels at, convincing throngs of boorishly inept humans to give the institution all their money to become free from all their problems.
There have been countless others before Robbins, promising you heaven, health, love, money, tits, happiness. There was Robert Tilton, the famous televangelist, who's demographic was predominately old women in the American South and Midwest with only a high school education and an average income of between $15,000 and $25,000. Tilton raked in $80 million a year from contributions, one hundred percent tax free. Discovered in a Primetime special in 1990, donations and pleas for prayer didn't go to Tilton at all, but rather straight to his bank, depositing the money directly and tossing the personal letters into the dumpster behind the bank. There's Creflo Dollar, another MegaChurch pastor, who started a fundraising campaign to buy a $65 million private jet. There's Kenneth Copeland, who used his private jet not to preach, but to ski and hunt and kill endangered animals. But Tilton, Dollar, and Copeland used and use religion as their face, pandering to the incorrigible stolid masses in order to lift themselves from their flaccid arrangements of manhood. What Tony Robbins has accomplished is a mastery over the vulnerable without using religion. The philosophia perennis generalized for any woman or man.
You don't need to listen that closely to realize they are selling you dog shit wrapped in Reynolds wrap. But then again, men like Robbins are attracting tens of millions of people to their bro-ish fallow theater. You have to wonder why he keeps coming out with books promising you these are the steps to your financial freedom, as opposed to his previous ones. Tony Robbins is the high priest of all the others. There is Tai Lopez, a pubic-bearded general of sexless adulthood, showing you his Lambourghuini (which turned out to be a rental) in his garage, next to his "seven new book shelves" of two thousand new books appropriately also in his garage. Because I always go to my garage when I need a new book. He reads a book a day, because . . . because he reads good. He quotes Conrad Hilton, the founder of Hilton Hotels, (who was also a charged rapist), and tells you to remain an optimist, that optimism will eventually get you your new Lambo.
Then there is Lewis Howes, a regular guy who still dreams of being a high school jock, who played two games of arena football before breaking his wrist, thus ending his career. He starred on my college's football team, a Division III Christian Science school who lost to the worst college football team in the country. He called up a girl I know very well, and asked her to buy him a plane ticket to fly him out to see her so he could fuck her. And he recently made the New York Times Bestseller list with his book about how to be great. It's called the School of Greatness. In his highlighted Facebook video, he teaches you the ten best ways to make money on the internet: 1) teaching and training. 2) providing a service. 3) creating and selling a product. These are his top three, in his words. The androgynous auto-objectification of such a vaguely non-comedic skit, along with the brittle hysteria of telling someone the best way to make money is to make something and sell it, is so horridly adolescent, so mockingly stupid and obvious, you ought to punch a male stripper in the dick. You can purchase an hour conference call with Lewis for $497. I have $14 to my name and a pack of condoms I got for free at Planned Parenthood. A kid from my college bought thirty copies of his book, like a lost evangelical, passing out copies to homeless people at the airport. I just don't know anymore. Here at Paradise of Storm headquarters, we know the importance of intellectual bravery. Last week, someone found my blog by searching for "throbbing dick." Another found it by searching for "rob palm oil with penis before fucking besides a dead man in my home town." Another was "iggy azalea yoga pants fit a little too well naked." I pride my readers in asking about the big issues, and together we try to nudge ourselves closer to the answers.
On the other hand, I am as much a follower as anyone. We idolize women and men of sun. Over the years, I've passed through phases of literary idolatry, pretending to shadow the brazen obsessions for beauty that was lived by the likes of Rimbaud and Celine and Baudelaire and Thompson. I've mimicked all their writing styles, drunk and drugged away endless nights, slept with as many women as I could, in some sort of vague pedantic discipleship of the great men who also put pretty words together. I began sailing strictly because of Hemingway. At one point I began writing standing up, slamming away on my typewriter, allowing the breeze to blow through the curtains and across my chest, certain that if this is how Hemingway did it, then so could I. But there is a justified egotism in our ubiquitous want for recognition. A ballet dancer could never merely dance in her bedroom. A singer could never sing to himself. And a writer strains to earn his or her laurels. The ephemeral orgasms in the daily struggle. As a young writer, Hunter S. Thompson would type out the entirety of The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises over and over, just to feel what it was like to write masterpieces. When we realize we're not becoming the sports stars and the rock stars that we first imagined we'd become, we turn to more achievable men. Bankers. Writers. Politicians. Alcoholics.
But then there are Lifestyle Entrepreneurs. Motivational speakers. Social Media experts. The smarmy inbred tanning salon men who sell snake oil on the internet. They write self-help books and host podcasts, with hundreds of thousands of listeners paying for subscriptions, writing notes on how to make it rich. They use phrases like, "Your life is your message to the world. Make sure it's inspiring," with a picture of a footpath winding through a sodden morning forest. Or "Your greatness is not what you have, it's what you give," scribbled casually over the sepia stained silhouettes of girls twirling their hair. The magniloquence of their egodystonicity is something from the bowels of poetry . . . a vague enough catch-phrase stolen from a bunch of fortune cookies. They are the actual vampirish cult leaders of the modern age. Their horoscopic forgery is basic enough to inspire misandry. They steal the insanity from the beautiful. Until there is nothing but a bow tie and a forced smile. We need the gorgeous and the awful, the theater of wilderness and rage. Woman and man will always have a bowl of porridge in the drought, a last glimmering maxim that shines beyond the distance.
In Kant's What Is Enlightenment? he describes man's inability to free himself from the herd, from his timid nonage that prevents him from maturing into his hypothetically innate state as Übermensch. Man's craving for instruction. Craving for "laziness and cowardice." Kant quotes the Roman poet, Horace: Sapere aude! Dare to know! Dare to be wise! It's a challenge for bravery, to walk into the unknown night without Tony Robbins holding your hand. Enlightenment, freedom, wisdom, knowledge itself, is the courage to find the beautiful alone, to shiver in the silver strands, to rage and rage until the sky burns spectacle.
Posted on May 14, 2019 by Guy Walker Posted in Pop Culture, Satire and Cynicism	Tagged Creflo Dollar, Lewis Howes, religion, Robert Tilton, Self Help, televangelists, Tony Robbins	1 Comment
Jordan Peterson and the Last 12 Commandments
In the end, Jordan Peterson tore his own flesh off until he was just a sobbing human scab, warning the world of a postmodernist nightmare in which everyone had shitty posture and didn't pet the neighborhood cats.
Nobody knows what Jordan Peterson wants. His sad enthusiasm for pedantry seems to be all that he's capable of—his strange and gruesome moanings are like that of a schizophrenic homeless man screaming endlessly about the color of the paint used in an alleyway. "It's not scarlet!! It's a deep vermillion!!!" It's just this that makes him seem so useful—he is so tirelessly eager to talk about mysticism and Bible stories and peoples' preferred pronouns, that some people actually pay attention for a while, more just to see if the Toronto-based professor will collapse in a self-made reservoir of tears, or if he'll explain a pumpkin's sexual proclivities. He tours from under the gleaming shamble of academic superstardom, as mobs of college-age males gather to see him speak; his mighty edifice of reason and purpose—the very reason his name erupted into the mainstream—is his refusal to ever mention non-binary pronouns, things like 'zim' and 'zir' instead of 'him' and 'her.' And a storm of grotesque and frolicsome self-flagellation ensued, everyone protesting everyone else
But it's his recently published book that has finally blueprinted a path of self-help for intelligent people, not the parading outrageous eulogies and feel-good confidence that everyone else corrals around. The Tony Robbins types. The sociopathic calmness of Wayne Dyer. The fanatical grandfather approach of Zig Ziglar. Peterson's book is 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. Its initial burst sold well, perhaps enough to ignite its own cultural revolution, a steaming courtship of suited-up bros hustling to get laid like real men, their pomaded hair-dos gone solid with bacon grease, their long noodle fingers reaching out like a Tim Burton animation figure, reaching for anything, reaching to pet every cat they can get their hands on (Rule #12), reaching to cover their mouths so they don't bother children skateboarding (Rule #11), reaching to clean their room (Rule #6).
Cleaning your room is a contrarian dangerous act—this is actually what Peterson argues—because it's going to upset your other filthy plebeian family members. They will resent your aristocratic order, resist against your clean dishes because clean dishes are shiny ornaments defying the laws of decay—the universe is a driving rod spiraling out of control, with supernovas of dirty bed linens and used condoms exploding with entropic infinity. Entropy says that dogs' natural state is defecating on the street, cracks in the asphalt burst into forests. It says every window eventually smashes into a million little pieces, instead of the other way around—instead of the sandy beaches magically forming themselves into polished rectangles. It can take years of labor and a lifetime of money to build yourself a house, but only minutes to destroy it in a fire. The fetid extravagance and overall weariness of the world would swell into mountains of feces summiting over the roofs of houses, and canopies of morning glories would suffocate the tallest buildings; the extraordinary granite faces of El Capitan will turn to helpless farts of dust taken away by the winds. Cleaning your room is the great defiant act for young white men in the early twenty-first century; it's the ostended philosopher's cry that has made all too real Nietzche's Will to Power. The compounding evolution of history's great thinkers and influencers have climaxed with the enunciation of Rule #1. Stand up straight with your shoulders back, and the rest follows.
Jordan Peterson is only trying to make this world more orderly. When he comes, clasping the metal bathroom handle with his delicate bone-peaked fingers, he screams something indecipherable about Carl Jung being a god. He doesn't ejaculate across the backside of the upturned toilet seat; rather, he floods himself into a funnel, which diverts everything neatly into a mason jar—a clean organized system of Monday to Sunday bathroom vessels, stacking them in chronological order, and shipping them down the Euphrates. On weekends, he heads to the desert with a broom and goats pulling a cart of human chattel, sweeping the dirt into perfectly symmetrical cone piles, instructing his men to organize the granules from smallest to largest, and from shade to hue. He goose steps loudly into toy stores in the middle of the day and constructs all the puzzles in the most brazen defiant manner, afterwards laying the cardboard sceneries out side-by-side. "Get your store in order, Bucko," he croaks, leaving with a few more greased-up men than before, the kind who see Patrick Bateman in American Psycho as a heartrending icon, a misunderstood hero of sorts.
Always tell the truth; or, at least, never tell a lie. Rule number whatever. It doesn't matter anymore. Jordan Peterson has triumphantly binded the most sordid avenues in plastic wrap, the animality and bivouacs of sweat are now sterilized packages of saltine crackers. People line the glistening streets, waving a million kekistani flags, tossing handfuls of rice at the sun, asking Peterson what he will do next, now that his cheese-guzzling victory for meagerness has spread everywhere, now that skateboarders can do synchronized kick flips, now that the once terraqueous throes of the outdoors have been turned into a cathedral of cruel lividity. There's nothing interesting anymore. The whores have become Youtube personalities, doing makeup tutorials to become Pepe the Frog. The jazz players are teaching basic chords to three-year-olds, vowing no further refittings of their once popular improvisations. The beggars and schizophrenics have bundled their pubes into charity hair depositories; they wear three-piece suits, and host Bible study groups. Everyone quit school, and just watches Jordan Peterson videos on the Internet, because "education is so easy now."
It's very clear where this is all headed. Jordan Peterson has corralled an army, men of coruscating morality have strapped themselves to two-by-fours to keep their backs straight. They are forever panicked about the spread of postmodernism, unclear of what it actually is, occasionally sobbing into brutal fits and extended months of anorexia. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn—author of The Gulag Archipelago—is the only other author they know, and they repeat the name over and over, like men with a single and severe mention in their turrets. The intellectual Mount Everest has finally been summited by a pristine masculinity, a polished thousand-foot cock standing perfectly straight in the storm of diversity. Jordan Peterson stands atop of the violet shiny bald head, his stance spread wide, the brittle gusts of wind billowing his long coattails, the crooked pulsing veins zig-zagging down like bolts of lightning, and the final and extraordinary explosion of cum rocketing Jordan Peterson to the stars.
Posted on May 16, 2018 May 16, 2018 by Guy Walker Posted in Current Events, Philosophy, Politics, Pop Culture, Uncategorized	Tagged alt-right, carl jung, gulag archipelago, jordan peterson, philosophy, religion, Self Help	Leave a comment


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"Serum is Ready": AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine likely to get India's approval by next week
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By Sampurna Maity
India could be the first country to show a green signal to the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as it continues to examine the data from its trials.
AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine is likely to get India's approval for emergency use by next week. This comes after Serum Institute of India (SII) – its local manufacturer submitted the additional data sought by the authorities, according to the sources.
India could be the first country to show a green signal to the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as it continues to examine the data from its trials. The country wants to start vaccinating its citizens from the next month.
The AstraZeneca vaccine shot is being considered vital for lower-income countries and those in hot climates. This is so as it is easy to transport, it cost lesser, and can be stored at normal fridge temperatures for a longer period.
Along with AstraZeneca, India is also considering the emergency use authorization applications for vaccines made by Pfizer Inc and Bharat Biotech. On December 9, India's Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) reviewed the three applications and sought for more information from all the three companies, including from Serum Institute of India (SII), the manufacturer of AstraZeneca shots.
SII has provided the data sought by the authorities, according to the sources. However, the authorities waited for some more details from Pfizer and expected some more information from Bharat Biotech.
Indian health officials were in direct contact with their British counterparts over the AstraZeneca shot and that there were "strong indications" an approval would come by next week, says the source.
AstraZeneca's expected approval by India comes after it's late-stage trials in the UK and Brazil released earlier this month showed the vaccine had an efficacy of 62% for trial participants given two full doses, but 90% for a smaller sub-group given a half, then a full dose.
"Serum is ready," said one of the sources. "Initially, we may get around 50 million to 60 million doses."
India however, has not yet signed a vaccine supply deal with any company. Although SII has already stockpiled more than 50 million doses of the AstraZeneca shot and plans to make a total of 400 million doses by July.
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Our one-group Creche and one-group Nursery are settled-down on the street level of the institution, in two adjoining rooms which are intimate and full of music and singing every day. The decoration of the room consist of toys, pictures of the children's family, apple-trees, pear-trees, and seasonal decorations all around the room. This is what welcomes the children day by day. We are very proud of our well-equipped gym where the physical education and the some Creche and Nursery programmes are held. In the Creche, as well as in the Nursery, two- two well-trained , nursery workers take care of the children, who are committed to their profession. The cultural and national worth and traditions take place in our daily life, so we sing and play some musical instruments regularly. We are also proud of our vegetable garden and of our own anthem.
The doctor of the institute visits us in every month to check on the children and to give advices to the parents. The cooperation with the parents is necessary to succeed in the execution of our program . That's why it is important for us to give widespread information to the parents.
Our mixed-group kindergarten is part of the Delfino institute in the 11st district of Budapest. It is located in the greenbelt of the district and it can be easily reached by car and public transportation, as well. The toys, the sandbox, the garden and the vegetable garden give opportunity to the children to experience and to observe. The furniture, fixtures and equipments ensure that the children feel comfortable and these help them developing their skills. The well-equipped gym gives place for different gymnastic sessions and for some of the programs of the kindergarten.
In our Kindergarten, 4 well-trained colleges take care of the children. The leader of the kindergarten has university education in leading a kindergarten. The kindergarten teacher has university degree, the nursemaid speaks English as a native speaker. Their attitude and work help developing the children's skills and create a benevolent atmosphere in the group. The dentist and the doctor of the institution visits the children regularly and gives advices if it is needed.
To prevent cold season illnesses we created a salt room on the first floor. This room gives place for sessions with the speech therapist as well.
Cooperation with the parents is necessary to succeed in the execution of our program . That's why it is important for us to give widespread information to the parents. With this method, the parents get up-to-date information about everything that is happening in the kindergarten. The Kindergarten carries the parents' point and suggestion and the leadership of Delfino takes notice of it as far as possible.
The main part of a child's life is playing tightly connected to learning.
We regularly organize cultural programmes and outings.
We hope that the years spent in Delfino will make the children happy and that it will be a permanent memory to everyone.
The Delfino Children's Centre is an institution in the 11th district of Budapest which is a demanding, new-built, 300 m2 big building and has a formal testimonial. We have Nursery, Creche and Kindergarten groups as well which are all bilingual (Hungarian and English). When a child finishes the nursery it is possible for the family to attend the kindergarten too. With our tutorial system we would like to emphasize the importance of the daily communication with the family.
We offer extra programmes for the kindergarteners in the afternoon, such as language courses, pre-school sessions, cooking and different gymnastics. We have programmes for the parents as well as lectures with invited visitors and baby-mother club. Our accentuated service is a salt-room which can be a great help during the period of cold season. Our big garden is a perfect place to develop the children's skills and fantasy.
Every child is talented in something, our duty is it to encourage them.
Our institution is closed for 2 weeks in the summer and for 1 week in winter.
The registration in the nursery, creche and the kindergarten is ensured during the whole year in case of free spaces.
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With 5 Months To Go, More Than $4 Million In Political TV Ads Have Aired In Michigan
The Biggest Spenders On Broadcast TV Ads Have Been The Campaigns Of Gubernatorial Candidate Shri Thanedar and U.S. Senate Candidate Sandy Pensler
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LANSING (JUNE 6, 2018) — Candidates and the groups that want to help get them elected have aired more than $4 million in broadcast TV ads in Michigan so far this year.
As of Monday, June 4, Michigan voters had viewed an estimated $4.45 million in political ads on broadcast TV in 2018, according to the Michigan Campaign Finance Network's analysis of Kantar Media/CMAG ad-tracking data and Federal Communications Commission filings.
The total does not include spending on cable TV ads and social media ads, which are more difficult to track but have seen heavy spending from candidates and groups this year.
There are still two months before the Aug. 7 primary election and five months before the Nov. 6 general election. This year, Michigan voters will select a new governor, a new attorney general and a new secretary of state. They'll also select a U.S. senator, fill two seats on the Michigan Supreme Court and choose candidates for all 148 seats in the state Legislature.
The top spender on ads so far in 2018 has been Democrat Shri Thanedar, a businessman from Ann Arbor who's running for govenror. As of the end of 2017, Thanedar had given his own campaign $5.9 million, according to campaign finance disclosures. It's a campaign that has aired an estimated $1.91 million in broadcast TV ads as of June 4.
He's heavily out-spent his two main competitors for the Democratic nomination. Former Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer hasn't aired any broadcast ads so far. Former Detroit Health Director Abdul El-Sayed has aired about $35,000 in broadcast ads.
On the Republican side, three of the four candidates for governor have aired broadcast TV ads. A handful of outside groups are also airing ads about the GOP candidates.
Lt. Gov. Brian Calley's campaign has aired an estimated $421,000 in broadcast TV ads. Two PACs that support him have also been active. Gov. Rick Snyder's Relentless Positive Action PAC has aired an estimated $343,000 in broadcast ads, and Calley Continues the Comeback, a Super PAC, has about $63,000 in broadcast ads. The Super PAC has also been active on cable TV.
Both the Relentless Positive Action PAC and Calley Continues the Comeback can accept unlimited contributions but are supposed to act independently of Calley's campaign.
Relentless Positive Action PAC's top donors have been Roger Penske of the Penske Corporation, who gave $250,000 and William Parfet, former CEO of MPI Research, who gave $100,000. Calley Continues the Comeback has received $250,000 from Parfet, $250,000 from T.E. Adderley of Kelly Services and $200,000 from Daniel DeVos of DP Fox Ventures.
Attorney General Bill Schuette's campaign has aired about $76,000 in broadcast TV ads. But a nonprofit and a Super PAC that support him have been heavier spenders.
The social welfare organization Fund for Michigan's Tomorrows doesn't have to disclose its donors and has aired about $408,000 in broadcast ads. It's been the top non-candidate ad spender so far in Michigan.
The Super PAC, Better Jobs, Stronger Families, has aired about $136,000 in broadcast ads. Its top donors have been Kojaian Properties Inc., which gave $250,000, Oakland Financial Corporation, connected to the Moroun family, which gave $250,000, and Peter Karmanos of MadDog Technology, who gave $250,000.
Dr. Jim Hines, of Saginaw, has aired about $5,000 in broadcast TV ads so far. The fourth GOP candidate for governor, state Sen. Patrick Colbeck, hasn't aired any broadcast TV ads at this point, according to MCFN's tracking.
U.S. Senate Race
Republican Sandy Pensler, a businessman from Grosse Pointe, has been the lone U.S. Senate candidate airing broadcast TV ads in Michigan so far, according to MCFN's tracking. His campaign has aired about $587,000 in broadcast TV ads. He's also aired many ads on cable TV.
According to campaign finance disclosure, Pensler has loaned his own Senate campaign $5 million.
Pensler is competing for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate with Detroit businessman John James. Both candidates want to challenge incumbent U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat from Lansing, in the fall.
Other Nonprofit Spenders
Three other nonprofit organizations that don't have to disclose their donors have been active on the TV screens in Michigan.
Michigan Families for Economic Prosperity has focused on criticizing U.S. Reps. Mike Bishop, a Republican from Rochester, and Fred Upton, a Republican from St. Joseph, for their stances on health-care and tax issues. The group has aired an estimated total of $261,000 in broadcast ads.
The group describes itself as "a coalition of advocacy leaders working to ensure that all Michigan residents have an equal opportunity to succeed."
From the other side of the political spectrum, the Iowa-based American Future Fund, has praised Upton and U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg, a Republican from Tipton, for their stances on internet privacy. The group has aired about $111,000 in broadcast ads in Michigan so far.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, American Future Fund has previously taken money from organizations connected to the Koch family.
A third nonprofit, Faithful Conservatives for Michigan, has been airing ads promoting former state Rep. Kevin Daley, a Republican from Lum. Daley is running for the state Senate this year. The group has spent about $83,000 on broadcast TV ads. It's also aired cable and radio ads.
House Energy Chairman Gary Glenn, a Republican from Williams Township, is running against Daley in the Senate race, and Glenn has alleged that the group is being funded by utility companies. Read more about that situation here.
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The specialists at the Swedish Cerebrovascular Center are extremely skilled and experienced in diagnosing and treating patients who have had a TIA.
Like ischaemic strokes, TIAs are as a consequence of regionally decreased blood move to the brain, causing focal neurological signs. Decreased blood circulate results from both embolism right into a cerebral provide artery (from the center, or the great proximal vessels, extracranial or intracranial arteries, usually affected by atherosclerosis), or in situ occlusion of small perforating arteries.
If you suppose your Mac is already infected with a keylogger, then you'll want to run a malware scan with a program specifically designed to detect and eliminate a wide range of keystroke loggers. You may already have anti-virus or anti-malware software in your laptop, however not all applications of this ilk are designed to dig up malware that's as properly hidden as the typical keylogger. As talked about in the beginning of this article, MacScan has a definition list of over 70 identified Mac keyloggers, and is a worthwhile piece of software program to check out in the event you think somebody might be monitoring your keyboard.
Good factor he did. Arnold was having a TIA, brief for transient ischemic assault. TIA's are like mini-strokes, and put individuals at critical threat of having a full-blown stroke, typically inside hours or days. If Arnold had ignored his signs, and never obtained care at Sunnybrook's High-Risk TIA Unit with its dream team of experts, he doubtless would International Health not be golf 3 times a week like he does now. Doctors discovered a serious blockage within the carotid artery in his neck, which is a critical purple flag. Surgery is often the repair, but the trick is getting it accomplished rapidly in case you are having symptoms.
If an I.T. professional would not know learn how to use Wireshark or some other packet sniffer to know what packets are being sent out of the community, they in all probability shouldn't Health Examination be calling themselves I.T. professionals. Up to 30 p.c of people who have a TIA experience a stroke in the following year, 10 p.c may have a stroke inside 30 days and of that group, and half of them can have a stroke within two days.
Ask your physician about determining your threat of TIA and stroke. Doctors usually assess your threat for each stroke and coronary heart illness (which causes angina and heart attacks) together. This is as a result of the underlying drawback with both situations is the construct-up of fatty plaques in blood vessels. provides families with the necessary information and support to care for his or her dad and mom, spouses or other elderly family members.
Definition and analysis of transient ischemic attack: a scientific assertion for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Stroke Council; Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia; Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention; Council on Cardiovascular Nursing; and the Interdisciplinary Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease. The American Academy of Neurology affirms the value of this statement as an academic software for neurologists. Stroke 2009;40:2276-ninety three.
Before being discharged from the hospital, patients who have been identified with TIA should receive clear instruction to make sure that they perceive the necessity for a complete and rapid workup by way of shut observe-up care. Also important for sufferers is schooling on stroke symptoms, the necessity to call emergency services instantly if any of those signs happen, and the contact number for emergency services (911 in the United States and Canada).


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November 2011 Monthly Archive
A Salute to Those Who Serve
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Christmas Concert For the Troops took place on Dec 6, 2011 in Washington D.C. in honor of the men and women who serve our country, with performances by The Beach Boys, The National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marvin Hamlisch, and a program of holiday surprises. Actor John Stamos as the evening's host. Country star Lorrie Morgan and …
Marvin Hamlisch honored at the National Arts Club
NEW YORK — Melissa Manchester and Lucie Arnaz headlined fellow stars at a fabulous evening honoring Marvin Hamlisch at the National Arts Club on Sunday, November 20. Stunning musical performances by Broadway, television and film stars, Melissa Manchester, Lucie Arnaz, Karen Ziemba, Brian d'Arcy James, Kevin Earley, Emma Hunton, Capathia Jenkins, and KLea Blackhurst. A charming touch was added with …
Idina Menzel and the Kitchener-Waterloo Orchestra conducted by Marvin Hamlisch
TORONTO — Idina Menzel makes her first live apperance in Toronto to a sold out crowd at the Royal Conservatory downtown. This concert however was very special for the simple fact that it was being taped live, for a PBS special that will be airing the concert in March as well as a live CD and DVD. The moment I …
Review- Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra-Theme: Broadway.
MILWAUKEE — One doesn't so much tell Broadway history as sing and play it. The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and its principal pops conductor, Marvin Hamlisch, took a musical jog through a century of Broadway history Friday evening. The program, "Marvin Does Broadway," began with a George M. Cohan medley and ended with tunes from Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the …
Review: High-energy dancing, singing lift the Pops
PITTSBURGH, PA — The Pittsburgh Symphony Pops hooked up with high-energy dancing to open its season Thursday night with a program meekly titled "Ballroom With a Twist." "Ballroom Boogie" would be more like it, because this show mixed styles with joyous abandon. The orchestra was pushed back into the shell to create considerable depth for the dancers at the front …
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Similar to YUMI, SARDU, and XBOOT. Though I prefer YUMI out of all of them. This a good alternative.
Standalone Executable. stealth?. Didn't find any settings files /registry in sandbox.
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Excellent. I've seen a few multi-distro creators and was hoping one of them was portable. Great if you have a very big thumb drive sitting around not doing anything and want to put something on it in case of emergency.
MultiBootUSB v7.30 released (changelog at http://multibootusb.org/news/).
Updated it. I don't remember it leaving any Temp files before but I guess it does now. Also seems to leave them dumb trolltech qt4 reg keys too. I know temp files are an exception to the stealth rule but how about the trolltech stuff? Sure it leaves a trace but it does nothing and sometimes doesn't really tell you what application was used. Even CCleaner lets you clean those keys out just like temp files.
yeah, me too. i'm just using portable apps on a secondary partition and re-install the OS from time to time.
edit: btw, next release of SARDU will supposedly be free of adware.
So it need to be completely re-tested and instructions about possible extraction added to the entry.
Userfriendly, are you still here?
8.1.0 is extractable with 7zip or uniextract. Still leaves the same temp files. Doesn't seem to have trolltech regkeys anymore. Not tested very much.
MultiBootUSB version 8.1.0 writes to AppData- C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Temp\multibootusb folder containing 3 sub-folders- iso_cfg_ext_dir, preference and syslinux. For me MultiBootUSB is not portable.
I hate when exit confirmation (Do you really want to quit multibootusb?) cannot be disabled.


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Upland Brings In Velto To Fill Council Gap For The Next Two Years
Posted on January 18, 2019 by Venturi
The four-fifths strength Upland City Council on Wednesday selected Planning Commissioner Bill Velto to serve out the remainder of the council term to which Councilwoman Janice Elliott was elected in 2016.
In 2018, Upland held its first by-district council election in its 112-year history. Up for election were the council positions in districts 2, 3 and 4. While her 2016 electoral victory entitled her to remain in the at-large position she held until December 2020, Elliott would not be eligible to seek election to the council the year her term was coming to an end at that point because she is a resident of District 2. Thus, to ensure her continuation in office beyond 2020, she opted to run last year. She defeated her only opponent, Yvette Walker, 4,138 votes or 54.23 percent to 3,492 votes or 45.77. Elliott's assumption of the District 2 council position necessitated that she resign from the at-large post she held and the council last month resolved to fill that vacuum by appointment. Fifteen people applied for consideration. At a special meeting of the council held on January 7, the city council took a single vote with regard to one of the applicants, former Councilman Glenn Bozar, but deadlocked 2-to-2, failing to come to a consensus. The panel then reduced the field to eight finalists, one of whom, Ralph Cavallo, withdrew before the remaining seven were interviewed at a special board meeting on Wednesday this week, January 16.
That evening, several members of the public weighed in on those seven, who included Velto, Bozar, Shannan Maust, Lois Sicking-Dieter, Carlos Flores, Neil Gerard and Eddie Limbaga.
Jim McJoynt told the council, "This is such an important phase we're taking care of today, I would like to suggest that today [you hold the beginning of] a multi-tiered interview, at the end of the day you consider reducing the seven candidates down to three and have this held again where it would be easier to really establish what that candidate stands for. I just think this is so important that …a process should be established that we get the top three candidates established so we can come again next week. I know that's taking a lot of time but the fact is… it is so important we make sure we are getting the correct candidate on the dais."
Marjorie Benesh said, "I urge you today to vote for Lois [Sicking-Dieter] for the at-large seat on the Upland City Council. She is dedicated, passionate and virtuous. She has the skills to serve on the Upland City Council. If you want to encourage civic engagement and maintain the parks, I urge you to vote for Lois. She will see that she gets these things done. She has the skills. She is an excellent communicator, which means she listens and asks questions."
Bridget James said, "I am here to remind the council that Upland's citizens' right to vote on their choice for a sitting council member has been taken from them yet again. It is not a democracy for representatives to choose a representative for us. If it wasn't for the right to vote, none of you would be sitting on this dais right now. I am asking to choose our own representative for this vacant, at-large seat, a seat that should be chosen by us, the voters. We are entitled to a vote, now, and the only people denying us the right to vote is the current council. This process of candidate applications has been flawed from the inception, when, with seven minutes of little or no discussion on December 10, you three decided to take our right to vote away. You deny us our constitutionally protected rights."
Sylvia Yan praised Sicking-Dieter as a "big believer in developing youth leadership. Lois has very impressive professional skills and experience. As an engineer and registered nurse, she is very data driven, logical, patient, with care about others no matter your age, background and nationalities. I strongly believe Lois is the one to put aboard to make Upland the best city in which to live. Support Lois Sicking. She won't let you down."
Barbara Poppa said, "The two new members and Janice are the voters' vision for Upland's future. We want someone who will align themselves with this vision. If you are unable to select someone today, and you hold a special election, it will take time we don't have and cost taxpayers money." The council needed to be composed of "workhorses who will work for us, not showhorses guided by special interests," Poppa said. "Glenn Bozar is the logical and prudent choice. He is the only one who has been a former councilman for Upland. He has proven himself to be true to the residents and financially astute. He has no support from special interests."
Jim Thomas said, "Knowing you carry the responsibility of doing what is best for all of Upland, I strongly encourage you to make a selection and necessary appointment as soon as possible. Deferring to a city election would be a very poor citywide expense for this very short term appointment."
If no consensus formed, Thomas said, "Rather than holding fast to the one and only right person in your individual minds, collective compromise of another well-qualified-enough individual that would meet the requirements would be preferred and would avoid a costly city election, which would make the very short tenure of this appointment even much shorter."
Terry Dean said she is all for Lois Sicking-Dieter. "This is not a difficult question," said Dean. "There is no need for a special election. I have a question to ask of you: 'How is it that Lois Dieter is not the best qualified candidate?' I look forward to hearing your answer."
Toval Hoching said that the city could not go wrong with Carlos Flores. "He has taught us a culture of service, to just go in there and serve and don't think about ourselves," said Hoching. "Because of the quality of the type of guy that he is and leader that he is, I hope you guys vote for him. He's a great guy."
Linda Russell said, "We know you are under a lot of pressure to go one way or another way. We just hope you will be able to interview people and ask the questions that are important to you and not only sense the answers that people give but sense the attitude and the heart with which they give those answers, because you need someone on the council who will work with all four of you. That will help support you and reunite our city. I personally think that Lois Sicking would do a great job. I also think that Bill Velto would."
Karen May called for "a neutral process that is fair to all the candidates, based on a criteria that everyone agrees on ahead of time so its not decided after the fact how people are going to be evaluated."
Dave Montoya said he always admired Upland and had come there to live but said, "It's pretty clear this town's in bad shape. I know that those of you guys who are elected are trying to do your best, but actually I don't agree with either solution."
Montoya told the council that the position should simply be left vacant. "The special election will cost too much for the taxpayers in a city that needs every dollar and cent," Montoya said. "Appointing someone without the will of the voters is also undemocratic, in my view. I think you guys should work together until we have another election and be able to work in that time for the people that elected you to these positions."
City Attorney James Markman said state law will not allow the position to remain vacant, and that it had to be filled either by appointment or election.
Steven Morris said the 2018 election was the "dirtiest in Upland history." He said the Upland Coalition of Concerned Citizens group was a "cabal. Two people on the council are part of the Upland Coalition of Concern Citizens." He said council candidates Glenn Bozar and Shannan Maust were also members of Coalition of Upland Concerned Citizens. Furthermore, he said, Bozar was associated with the Pattison family, which he implied was a disqualifier in and of itself. He referred to Councilwoman Janice Elliott as "self serving Janice." He said she commented "inappropriately about city business on Facebook." He said Janice Elliott is in favor of appointing Bozar and that Bozar was not qualified to be a member of the council because in 2010 he sued a contractor who did work on his house and did not prevail in the lawsuit.
Steve Bierbaum said he did not believe "having a special election for a position that will last less than two years, costing thousands and thousands of dollars" would be wise. "Money paid for an election now in the middle of a fiscal year where it sounds like we don't have a lot of money I don't think would be a good choice," Bierbaum said. He said he was a member of the Upland Coalition of Concern Upland Citizens, and that those participating in the group were "people concerned about the city they live in."
David Wade said, "I would ask you please not to make a decision on the spur of the moment today. Digest this, call for a meeting and come up and tell us what's going on. I think the citizens deserve you guys to really go over everything that is said and deliberate." He indicated that Steve Morris was being too harsh. Wade noted that he was himself the administrator of a social media site devoted to Upland called "Upland Politics." Wade said, "The good, bad and the ugly happens. It is hard to police these things. There's a lot of trash talk on there [on his and other social media sites]. You guys need to hire the best person. I heard conversation of this going to a vote. That's ridiculous. You have people on a list that you agree on. There's at least one [qualified] person on that list. This should not go to a vote before we do some fiscal things around here like fix my alley, fix my friends' alleys. Work on the infrastructure. We don't need to waste money on a vote where by the time it happens there will be a year and a few months of it."
April McCormick offered her perspective that the 2016 Upland municipal race was far dirtier than the 2018 contest, and she referenced a political action committee expenditure of $24,000 to send a hit piece targeting Glen Bozar when he was running against current Mayor Debbie Stone. That mailer utilized quotes from the same lawsuit Bozar had brought against a contractor alleged to have done inadequate work on his home which Morris had referenced, McCormick said. Had the political action committee not interceded with the hit piece, McCormick opined, "in Glenn's race in the few weeks before the general election in 2016, he'd be the mayor right now. That's just my personal opinion." Furthermore, she said, if the 2016 mayor reelection were held today, Bozar would prevail.
"We don't have any money for a special election," McCormick said. "I would urge the members of the new council to realize that Glenn takes a lot of heat the same way that the three of you took a lot of heat before this election. That's because he represents everything that the outgoing establishment was not, and they went out because the public looked at the situation and said, 'This is absolutely despicable. We're not going to stand for it anymore and come hell or high water there is going to be change.'"
McCormick said the council needed to make a timely decision, and that if it did not, a recall effort would ensue.
"If the decision cannot be made by the February 8 deadline, this goes to a special election," McCormick said. "I think whoever causes it to go to a special election will be in the special election, as well."
After some discussion with regard to procedure, the seven candidates were heard from. Councilman Rudy Zuñiga, who replaced establishment candidate, incumbent Councilwoman Carol Timm, in the November 6, 2018 race for District 4 council member, and Councilwoman Elliott supported Bozar as their first choice.
Elliott said Bozar presented the advantage of having extensive experience in his role as council member from 2012 until 2016. She said, "Somebody who's brand new to the council would take some time to get up to speed."
Moreover, she said, "He was my behind-the-scenes mentor for the past two years." She said both Felix and Zuñiga could rely on him to orient them with regard to a multitude of issues that will confront them in office.
Elliott asserted that Bozar had impeccable credentials as a taxpayer advocate who had demonstrated his commitment to the residents by taking the city to court twice over tax issues and prevailing. She said Upland needs a financial watchdog and that there was no one better for the role than Bozar.
Mayor Debbie Stone, who defeated Bozar in the 2016 election, did not appear inclined toward supporting him in the least. Stone, who has a reputation among many of the region's elected officials with whom she she serves on joint powers and shared authority boards as being somewhat dimwitted and intellectually challenged herself, referred to Bozar as "shortsighted."
Felix appeared to have been wound up against Bozar as well, and he revealed in his discussion of the issue that he considered the city's employees to be one of his own crucial constituencies.
"He's very knowledgeable," Felix said of Bozar. "He's very intelligent. I respect that about him But the quality he does not possess is respectful (sic)."
Zuñiga confronted Felix on that assessment, asking him if Felix had himself been personally disrespected by Bozar. Felix said that when he ran for city council in 2016, he had consulted with Bozar, who told him he needed to get a campaign consultant. "That spoke volumes," said Felix. Zuñiga pointed out that Bozar was at that point involved in his own mayoral campaign and that what Bozar had done was give him good advice.
Zuñiga asked Felix if he had ever himself been personally disrespected by Bozar. Felix said he had not, but that others had told him about occasions when Bozar had been disrespectful.
"You're running off of secondhand information and that's what you're going with," said Zuñiga.
Felix then changed tack in explaining his opposition to Bozar.
"He's a great guy," Felix said, but added, "Right now our employees – their morale is at an all-time low. Our employees, I feel, would not be very content with having Glenn Bozar there. He was here two years ago and he felt the employees were already overpaid. We're in labor negotiations right now. We're at an impasse. We can't have someone who is going to divide the council or is gonna divide our staff with our city manager. We need a more positive person."
Felix was further dismissive of Bozar's status as a taxpayer advocate and stated that Upland doesn't need a financial watchdog. He said he would not budge on Bozar.
Elliott and Zuñiga were unable to drum up the requisite third vote for Bozar.
The council then considered Sicking-Dieter, the former chairwoman of the Upland Parks and Recreation Committee, and Neil Gerard, the vice president of the Upland Community Foundation, but again only Elliott and Zuñiga voted for them.
The fourth effort by the council to arrive at an acceptable candidate involved Velto, who was a first choice of both Stone and Felix.
Elliott then joined with the mayor and Felix in supporting Velto.
After the meeting, Elliott said, "I have known Bill for the last two years and have been impressed by his congeniality, sense of humor, intelligence, knowledge of Upland, knowledge of land use, and work ethic. I don't know him well enough to address his position on critical issues pertaining to Upland but his responses to our questions really impressed me. Rudy does not know Bill and had less confidence than I did about Bill's contribution to our future meetings."
Elliott said she understood that there would be some who were displeased with the outcome of the selection process. She said that despite that, "Our new city council will continue to need your support, inspiration, ideas, and perspectives on issues. Please be patient and kind," she asked.


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This is actually last week's photo challenge and I just got time to upload it now. The theme is: Textured. Can you see the texture there? It's my soft cubicle wall at the office with a Walhi pin on it. FYI, Walhi is an environment NGO from Indonesia. Thanks for your attention, now move to this week's photo challenge. Go go go!
Yah.. sayang amataaaan… Ayo ayo pasti bisa.. aku juga telat2 tapi dirapel semua.. hihihi..


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Farrah Abraham to Amber and Jenelle: Dump Your Men!
Farrah Abraham is no longer a member of the Teen Mom franchise.
The polarizing ex-reality star was fired well over a year ago due to her refusal to stop filming soft porn videos.
But this doesn't mean Abraham doesn't still have opinions on the Teen Mom franchise, especially when two prominent members of that franchise have recently been in the news.
Jenelle Evans just regained custody of her kids after losing them for several weeks due to the dangerous environment she's created at home.
Amber Portwood, meanwhile, may now lose custody of her young son after getting arrested on felony assault charges.
Where does Abraham stand on these women and what has gone wrong for them?
The disgraced star was asked this question by TMZ and was very happy to provide a few answers…
1. Farrah's Got Takes!
Abraham has never met a camera she didn't want to speak to. In this case, she was approached on the street by TMZ, with daughter Sophia by her side.
2. What is a Hatchet?!?
The interview started with Farrah being told Amber attacked boyfriend Andrew Glennon with a "hatchet." It was allegedly a machete, actually, but we had to mention this because Abraham replied: "What's a hatchet?"
3. Let's Get to the Heart of These Issues, However
What does Farrah think of Amber's arrest? Of her reported assault against Glennon, while he was cradling the couple's one-year old son?
4. Abraham Was Not Shocked
"I am not trying to be mean, but I pretty much saw it coming, because Amber doesn't have custody of [10-year-old daughter Leah]," she said, citing one of Portwood's previous arrests, in 2010, during which she was convicted of domestic battery towards Leah's father, Gary Shirley.
5. Trying, Yet Failinh
"I'm pretty sure even though she's trying her hardest to be a great mom and have new opportunities to being a mom, she probably lost custody of her new child," Abraham added. "She's just not good in relationships, and still being on Teen Mom hasn't made her tougher or maybe learn her lesson."
6. No Sympathy. At All.
What about Amber having been diagnosed as bipolar? Doesn't that matter here? It's no excuse, Farrah says. "Amber has always sought help, and how much help do you need?" she asked TMZ.
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"I seek a worthy Kombatant."
To honor his murdered brother, Kuai Liang entered the second Mortal Kombat tournament to exact revenge against Scorpion. With his retribution complete, he returned home to assume leadership of the Lin Kuei clan, as its Grandmaster, the second Sub-Zero turned the organization into one of Earthrealm's most dependable allies.
Your incompetence leaves me cold.


Oakleigh Cannons have ended South Melbourne's undefeated start to the season with a well-earned 2-0 victory over their rivals at Jack Edwards Reserve.
Bentleigh Greens came, saw and conquered Elcho Park on Saturday afternoon, running out 1-0 winners at game's end but not before a solid, hard fought duel with bottom side North Geelong.
The Warriors lived up to their name and took it right up to the high flying Greens, with the only goal of the game coming in the 48th minute, courtesy of Matthew Thurtell amidst much controversy.
Dandenong Thunder and Werribee City have played out a pulsating 2-2 draw at George Andrews Reserve on Saturday night.
New signings James Goulopoulos and Archie Tomic made immediate impacts at their new club with debut goals as did Deng Aguek of Werribee with veteran Simon Colosimo also getting on the scoresheet.
A first half burst from Northcote City FC led them to a 3-1 win over Green Gully SC at John Cain Memorial Park on Sunday.
Calvin Mbarga, Jordan Wilkes and a spot-kick from Marino Gasparis were too much for a 15th minute goal from Gully's Hakeem Aloraibi.
Heidelberg secured top spot temporarily on Friday night, prevailing 2-1 winners over Pascoe Vale at CB Smith Reserve.
A Daniel Heffernan double was enough to secure the three points for Heidelberg despite a second half goal from Paco's Adrian Talarico.
Avondale FC and Melbourne Knights have played out a scoreless draw at Doyle St on Saturday afternoon.
Both teams had chances to score a telling goal, particularly in the second half, but neither could break the stalemate as the points were ultimately shared.
Hume City has recorded an important victory with a come-from-behind 2-1 win over Port Melbourne at JL Murphy Reserve on Friday night.
An opener from Kamal Ibrahim in the 54thminute was not enough for the hosts as new signings Theo Markelis and Paul Harvey struck to send Louie Acevski's men home with the three points.
Goals to Lambros Honos and new signing Mirjan Pavlovic proved to be the difference on a horror night for the visitors in which they lost Dane Milovanovic to injury and had Michael Eagar sent-off late on.


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HEC-HMS pour Hydrologic Modeling System (en français système de modélisation hydrologique) est conçu pour simuler les processus de précipitations-ruissellements des bassins versant dendritiques. Il est conçu pour être applicable dans un large éventail de zones géographiques et inclus un très grand nombre de paramètres permettant de résoudre un grand nombre de problèmes.

Description
Le logiciel permet de simuler les eaux de ruissellement de grands bassins versant fluviaux ainsi que de petits centres urbains par exemple. Le programme permet de générer des hydrogrammes qui peuvent être utilisés directement ou en collaboration avec d'autres logiciels pour, par exemple, des études de disponibilité des ressources en eau, la planification de l'assainissement urbain, des prévisions des inondations, l'impact de projet d'urbanisation sur les ruissellements, la conception d'ouvrages de protection des crues etc.

Le programme permet pour chaque processus de choisir parmi plusieurs choix de modèles mathématiques qui sont des formules empiriques et permettent la simulation de chaque flux. Chaque modèle mathématique inclus dans le programme est adapté à des environnements différents et à des conditions différentes. Faire le bon choix nécessite la connaissance du bassin versant, les objectifs de l'étude hydrologique et une expertise.

HEC-HMS est un produit du Hydrologic Engineering Center de l'US Army Corps of Engineers. Le programme a été élaboré à partir de 1992 en remplacement de HEC-1, qui a longtemps été considéré comme un standard pour les simulations hydrologiques. HEC-HMS offre les mêmes capacités de simulation, et comprend également un certain nombre de nouvelles fonctionnalités qui n'étaient pas inclus dans HEC-1. Il fournit également une interface utilisateur graphique pour le rendre plus facile à utiliser. Le programme est maintenant largement utilisé et accepté pour de nombreuses études officielles notamment pour le Federal Emergency Management Agency aux États-Unis.

Voir aussi
 Hydrologie
 HEC-RAS

Références

Liens externes
 HEC-HMS page d'Accueil à la Hydrologic Engineering Center

Hydrologie

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Q: Shifting to a disjoint subvariety Let $X\subset \mathbb{A}^8$ be a subvariety of dimension 3.
Show that there is a vector $v\in k^8$ such that $(X+v)\cap X=\emptyset$.
(remark: $X+v=\{x+v|x\in X\}$)

A: Consider the difference morphism $d:X\times X\to k^8: (x,x')\mapsto x-x'$.
Its image $Y=d(X\times X)\subset k^8$ is not necessarily closed (but is constructible: Chevalley's theorem).
We may  however consider the closure $\overline Y\subset k^8$ of that image: that closure is an affine variety.
The morphism between affine varieties $d:X\times X\to \overline Y$ is dominant (meaning has dense image), so that $\text {dim}(\overline Y)\leq \text {dim} (X\times X)=6$.
This implies that $\bar Y\subsetneq k^8$ and a fortiori that $Y\subsetneq k^8$.
Hence there exists a $v\in k^8\setminus Y$.
That this vector $v$ is not in the image $Y$ of $d$  means exactly that for all $x,x'\in X$ we have  $v\neq x-x'$ or equivalently that $(X+v)\cap X=\emptyset$ , just as required.

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Honor Fraser Gallery is pleased to present early photographs by William Leavitt in the Spotlight section of Frieze New York.
William Leavitt has spent over five decades exploring the potential of constructed spaces and the role of science fiction in the collective imagination. The presentation will include seven photographic works from 1969 through 1977 that demonstrate early experiments with imagery and offer insights into Leavitt's continuing practice.
These early works laid the foundation for William Leavitt's expansive practice that now encompasses sculpture, drawing, painting, plays, and films. Drawing upon contemporary American culture, Leavitt opens a wealth of possibilities.