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After the wipeout, Great Southern investors stand to lose homes
Rebecca Dillon and husband Glenn in front of their Glenmore Park home in Western Sydney. Source: News Corp Australia
THOUSANDS of people who put $1.8 billion into in a failed blue gum, grape vine and olive tree scheme and who face being paid a paltry $16 at best for every $10,000 they invested are also threatened with the double jeopardy of bankruptcy as banks are given the green light to foreclose on the estimated $398 million in outstanding loans used to finance plantations.
Of the 47,000 people who invested in the Great Southern Managed Investment Schemes between 2005 and 2008 — many had lost their life savings, their superannuation and houses — thousands now face a threat of unrestrained bank proceedings to recover failed investment loans within four weeks.
Hundreds of people, who were unable to repay the loans or stopped paying on legal advice, now face the prospect of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, which bought the bad loans only two weeks before the collapse of Great Southern, laying claim to their savings or homes.
A Victorian Supreme Court hearing due on October 27-28 would decide whether to approve a settlement deal on the Great Southern investment failure between some investors, former directors, liquidators and the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, which could give the people who invested the $1.8bn a return of $3.35m, or about 0.16c in the dollar.
Almost $20m would be given to MacPherson and Kelley, the lawyers acting for the investors in the settlement.
In determining whether the settlement is just, the court would also decide whether Bendigo Bank could demand payment of the loans — some of which have doubled since 2009 due to compound interest — from the investors within two weeks. If the court rejects the settlement the decision would revert to a prepared 2000-page judgment by Justice Croft in the Victorian Supreme Court last July, which was suspended because the parties agreed to settle.
Since the settlement in May there have been more than 1000 objections lodged by investors who are arguing they were poorly advised and that Bendigo Bank should share the responsibility for the losses and bad loans.
If the Supreme Court approved the agreed settlement it would declare the loans valid and authorise the bank to seek 100 per cent repayment with interest.
The decision would also cut off various cases of maladministration brought against Bendigo Bank's handling of the Great Southern loans that are being pursued with the Financial Ombudsman, which have been suspended pending a decision.
Rebecca Dillon, a mother of three who lives in Glenmore Park in western Sydney, yesterday said she and her husband Glenn borrowed about $300,000 in 2007 on financial advice to invest in Great Southern as a long-term investment for superannuation.
"We were close then to owning our own house, I was having another baby and we were looking for an investment for the future,'' Ms Dillon said.
"Now we owe Bendigo Bank $600,000 and if that is called in we will have to sell the house — and that won't even cover it all," she said.
Phillip Brown, of Oyster Bay in south Sydney, appealed to Parliamentary committee chairman Bill Heffernan, who inquired into the managed investment schemes involving blue gums supposedly for woodchips, to get Bendigo Bank to share some of the responsibility for the "bad judgments and mistakes" that were made.
"Why should they be given the power to recoup all outstanding loans and interest in full, rather than equally share the loss with the borrower, particularly under the very dubious circumstances of issuing the loans in the first place?" Mr Brown said.
Senator Heffernan told The Australian last night that there should be a full parliamentary inquiry into the collapse of the Great Southern managed investment schemes and the sale of the debt to Bendigo Bank just two weeks before the collapse.
"It seems to me the law has protected the perpetrators of what is a tragedy for many families and they have been smart enough to stay ahead of the game by going into bankruptcy and other methods to avoid the wrath of giving poor advice," he said.
"Having conducted an inquiry into part of these schemes it was evident that this was a dead set dodgy deal. A deal driven by profits for the promoters out of fees and not out of productive product," Senator Heffernan said.
"Most of the investors thought they owned the land where the trees and grapes were grown — it wasn't the case and if nothing was produced from these investments the investors lost but the promoters won.
"This is a couple of billion of dollars in pain for mum and dad investors who have lost their houses and superannuation. "The questions of conflicts of interests between banks and promoters also need to be investigated," Senator Heffernan said.
Alan People, of Ryde in northwest Sydney, was introduced to the Great Southern scheme through his accountant, also an "accredited" adviser for Great Southern, in June 2008.
Mr People made a $45,000 investment in Great Southern's olive groves through loans, in what was an attempt to invest in his children's education over the long term.
"There would be little or no returns over the short-term, but we were told there would be investment return in the medium- to long-term.
"That time period was good for my children's education as my wife was pregnant and it lined up nicely with the idea of having money down the tract for school or university," Mr People said.
He has now been told with interest, penalty interest and "exit fees" he owes Bendigo and Adelaide Bank $90,000 if the settlement in the Victorian Supreme Court is approved.
His accountant was encouraging an investment of $140,000 which would have meant a $14,000 commission for him.
"I was recommended to invest $140,000. I just said 'no way I don't know enough about this'. I would have gone bankrupt if I had."
Bendigo Bank refused to comment yesterday but in May stated: "Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has entered into an agreement to conclude the class actions brought by investors in managed investment schemes operated by Great Southern.
"Under the agreement, which is subject to approval of the court, the bank's borrowers who are members of the class actions have admitted that their loans are valid and enforceable and have provided broad releases from future litigation."
The Abbott government has come under fire for how a similar plantation managed investment scheme, Timbercorp, was handled and the Commonwealth Bank's handling of investors and finanical planners.
Great Southern investors have also been critical of the corporate regulator ASIC, with one investor telling The Australian they are "gobsmacked" by ASIC's lack of action. The Great Southern scheme attracted investors with the promise of long-term returns on their investment and a short-term tax incentive.
Large amounts of the investments were funded through loans provided by Great Southern, facilitated by financial planners who recommended investments and received a 10 per cent commission for each investment.
One financial planner, Stephen Navra, had 247 of his clients invest with Great Southern.
Now Mr People says he can see Great Southern for what it was: a Ponzi scheme.
"You saw people were making money off this and you thought 'oh it's fine'. But they were just using the money from new people they had signed on."
By May 2009, less than a year after making his investment, Great Southern was in administration. Mr People said he was advised only a month before that his loan had been transferred to Bendigo and Adelaide Bank.
"The loans were transferred about a month after I signed up for it in July 2008. Then in August the grove lots were assigned.
"By April, I got a letter saying that my loan had been transferred to Bendigo Bank. By May the company was in administration."
Even then Mr People said he was not particularly concerned due to the insurance he had paid on the loans, which he was assured by Great Southern was extensive.
That $20m in insurance for Great Southern is set to be eaten up by lawyers, administrators fees and some clients, but goes next to nowhere to covering the almost $400m still owed
"Now they are demanding we all pay our loans back, plus the interest over the last 4½ years, plus penalty interest on top and an early exit fee."
Author: Dennis Shanahan
Source: The Australian
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<?php

namespace PhpCollection\Tests;

use PhpCollection\Sequence;
use OutOfBoundsException;
use stdClass;

class SequenceTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    /** @var Sequence */
    private $seq;
    private $a;
    private $b;

    public function testGet()
    {
        $this->assertSame(0, $this->seq->get(0));
        $this->assertSame($this->a, $this->seq->get(1));
    }

    public function testIndexOf()
    {
        $this->assertSame(0, $this->seq->indexOf(0));
        $this->assertSame(1, $this->seq->indexOf($this->a));
        $this->assertSame(2, $this->seq->indexOf($this->b));
        $this->assertSame(-1, $this->seq->indexOf(1));
    }

    public function testLastIndexOf()
    {
        $this->assertSame(3, $this->seq->lastIndexOf(0));
        $this->assertSame(1, $this->seq->lastIndexOf($this->a));
        $this->assertSame(2, $this->seq->lastIndexOf($this->b));
        $this->assertSame(-1, $this->seq->lastIndexOf(1));
    }

    public function testFilter()
    {
        $seq = new Sequence(array(1, 2, 3));
        $newSeq = $seq->filter(function($n) { return $n === 2; });

        $this->assertNotSame($newSeq, $seq);
        $this->assertCount(3, $seq);
        $this->assertCount(1, $newSeq);
        $this->assertSame(2, $newSeq->get(0));
    }

    public function testFilterNot()
    {
        $seq = new Sequence(array(1, 2, 3));
        $newSeq = $seq->filterNot(function($n) { return $n === 2; });

        $this->assertNotSame($newSeq, $seq);
        $this->assertCount(3, $seq);
        $this->assertCount(2, $newSeq);
        $this->assertSame(1, $newSeq->get(0));
        $this->assertSame(3, $newSeq->get(1));
    }

    public function testFoldLeftRight()
    {
        $seq = new Sequence(array('a', 'b', 'c'));
        $rsLeft = $seq->foldLeft('', function($a, $b) { return $a.$b; });
        $rsRight = $seq->foldRight('', function($a, $b) { return $a.$b; });

        $this->assertEquals('abc', $rsLeft);
        $this->assertEquals('abc', $rsRight);
    }

    public function testAddSequence()
    {
        $seq = new Sequence();
        $seq->add(1);
        $seq->add(0);

        $this->seq->addSequence($seq);

        $this->assertSame(array(
            0,
            $this->a,
            $this->b,
            0,
            1,
            0,
        ), $this->seq->all());
    }

    public function testIsDefinedAt()
    {
        $this->assertTrue($this->seq->isDefinedAt(0));
        $this->assertTrue($this->seq->isDefinedAt(1));
        $this->assertFalse($this->seq->isDefinedAt(9999999));
    }

    public function testIndexWhere()
    {
        $this->assertSame(-1, $this->seq->indexWhere(function() { return false; }));
        $this->assertSame(0, $this->seq->indexWhere(function() { return true; }));
    }

    public function testLastIndexWhere()
    {
        $this->assertSame(-1, $this->seq->lastIndexWhere(function() { return false; }));
        $this->assertSame(3, $this->seq->lastIndexWhere(function() { return true; }));
    }

    public function testFirst()
    {
        $this->assertSame(0, $this->seq->first()->get());
        $this->assertSame(0, $this->seq->last()->get());
    }

    public function testIndices()
    {
        $this->assertSame(array(0, 1, 2, 3), $this->seq->indices());
    }

    public function testContains()
    {
        $this->assertTrue($this->seq->contains(0));
        $this->assertTrue($this->seq->contains($this->a));
        $this->assertFalse($this->seq->contains(9999));
        $this->assertFalse($this->seq->contains(new stdClass()));
    }

    public function testExists()
    {
        $this->assertTrue($this->seq->exists(function($v) { return $v === 0; }));

        $a = $this->a;
        $this->assertTrue($this->seq->exists(function($v) use ($a) { return $v === $a; }));

        $this->assertFalse($this->seq->exists(function($v) { return $v === 9999; }));
        $this->assertFalse($this->seq->exists(function($v) { return $v === new \stdClass; }));
    }

    public function testFind()
    {
        $a = $this->a;

        $this->assertSame($this->a, $this->seq->find(function($x) use ($a) { return $a === $x; })->get());
        $this->assertFalse($this->seq->find(function() { return false; })->isDefined());
    }

    public function testIsEmpty()
    {
        $this->assertFalse($this->seq->isEmpty());
        $seq = new Sequence();
        $this->assertTrue($seq->isEmpty());
    }

    public function testAdd()
    {
        $this->seq->add(1);
        $this->assertSame(array(0, $this->a, $this->b, 0, 1), $this->seq->all());

        $this->seq->sortWith(function($a, $b) {
            if (is_integer($a)) {
                if ( ! is_integer($b)) {
                    return -1;
                }

                return $a > $b ? 1 : -1;
            }

            if (is_integer($b)) {
                return 1;
            }

            return 1;
        });

        $this->assertSame(array(0, 0, 1, $this->a, $this->b), $this->seq->all());
    }

    public function testUpdate()
    {
        $this->assertSame(0, $this->seq->get(0));
        $this->seq->update(0, 5);
        $this->assertSame(5, $this->seq->get(0));
    }

    /**
     * @expectedException InvalidArgumentException
     * @expectedExceptionMessage There is no element at index "99999".
     */
    public function testUpdateWithNonExistentIndex()
    {
        $this->seq->update(99999, 0);
    }

    public function testAddAll()
    {
        $this->seq->addAll(array(2, 1, 3));
        $this->assertSame(array(0, $this->a, $this->b, 0, 2, 1, 3), $this->seq->all());

        $this->seq->sortWith(function($a, $b) {
            if (is_integer($a)) {
                if ( ! is_integer($b)) {
                    return -1;
                }

                return $a > $b ? 1 : -1;
            }

            if (is_integer($b)) {
                return 1;
            }

            return -1;
        });

        $this->assertSame(array(0, 0, 1, 2, 3, $this->a, $this->b), $this->seq->all());
    }

    public function testTake()
    {
        $this->assertSame(array(0), $this->seq->take(1)->all());
        $this->assertSame(array(0, $this->a), $this->seq->take(2)->all());
        $this->assertSame(array(0, $this->a, $this->b, 0), $this->seq->take(9999)->all());
    }

    /**
     * @expectedException InvalidArgumentException
     * @expectedExceptionMessage $number must be greater than 0, but got -5.
     */
    public function testTakeWithNegativeNumber()
    {
        $this->seq->take(-5);
    }

    public function testTakeWhile()
    {
        $this->assertSame(array(0), $this->seq->takeWhile('is_integer')->all());
    }

    public function testCount()
    {
        $this->assertCount(4, $this->seq);
    }

    public function testTraverse()
    {
        $this->assertSame(array(0, $this->a, $this->b, 0), iterator_to_array($this->seq));
    }

    public function testDrop()
    {
        $this->assertSame(array($this->a, $this->b, 0), $this->seq->drop(1)->all());
        $this->assertSame(array($this->b, 0), $this->seq->drop(2)->all());
        $this->assertSame(array(), $this->seq->drop(9999)->all());
    }

    /**
     * @expectedException InvalidArgumentException
     * @expectedExceptionMessage The number must be greater than 0, but got -5.
     */
    public function testDropWithNegativeIndex()
    {
        $this->seq->drop(-5);
    }

    public function testDropRight()
    {
        $this->assertSame(array(0, $this->a, $this->b), $this->seq->dropRight(1)->all());
        $this->assertSame(array(0, $this->a), $this->seq->dropRight(2)->all());
        $this->assertSame(array(), $this->seq->dropRight(9999)->all());
    }

    /**
     * @expectedException InvalidArgumentException
     * @expectedExceptionMessage The number must be greater than 0, but got -5.
     */
    public function testDropRightWithNegativeIndex()
    {
        $this->seq->dropRight(-5);
    }

    public function testDropWhile()
    {
        $this->assertSame(array(0, $this->a, $this->b, 0), $this->seq->dropWhile(function() { return false; })->all());
        $this->assertSame(array(), $this->seq->dropWhile(function() { return true; })->all());
    }

    public function testRemove()
    {
        $this->assertSame(0, $this->seq->remove(0));
        $this->assertSame($this->a, $this->seq->remove(0));
        $this->assertSame(0, $this->seq->remove(1));
    }

    /**
     * @expectedException OutOfBoundsException
     * @expectedExceptionMessage The index "9999" is not in the interval [0, 4).
     */
    public function testRemoveWithInvalidIndex()
    {
        $this->seq->remove(9999);
    }

    public function testMap()
    {
        $seq = new Sequence();
        $seq->add('a');
        $seq->add('b');

        $self = $this;
        $newSeq = $seq->map(function($elem) use ($self) {
            switch ($elem) {
                case 'a':
                    return 'c';

                case 'b':
                    return 'd';

                default:
                    $self->fail('Unexpected element: ' . var_export($elem, true));
            }
        });

        $this->assertInstanceOf('PhpCollection\Sequence', $newSeq);
        $this->assertNotSame($newSeq, $seq);
        $this->assertEquals(array('c', 'd'), $newSeq->all());
    }

    protected function setUp()
    {
        $this->seq = new Sequence();
        $this->seq->addAll(array(
            0,
            $this->a = new \stdClass(),
            $this->b = new \stdClass(),
            0
        ));
    }
}

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Q: Editing/extracting a Column expression in google refine / OpenRefine i'm using Google Refine v2.5.  I created a column that uses some complex logic to fetch info from a url, but I realized I need to tweak it.  Is there any way for me to edit or extract the expression I used?
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A: All expressions used for facets, transformations, and column additions are kept in the history that you can access by clicking on the history tab in the preview dialog.

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Margrave Ernest I of Baden-Durlach (7 October 1482, Pforzheim – 6 February 1553, Sulzburg) was the founder of the so-called "Ernestine" line of the House of Baden, the line from which the later Grand Dukes descended.  He was the ruling Margrave of Baden-Pforzheim from 1533 and resided in Pforzheim from 1537.  In 1565, his son Charles II moved the capital to Durlach and thereby changed the name of his country to Baden-Durlach.  He had to deal with the upcoming Reformation and the frequent Ottoman wars in Europe.  In this turbulent time, he tried to maintain a neutral position between the Protestants and Catholics.  He did not participate in the Schmalkaldic War.

Life
Ernest was the seventh son of the Margrave Christopher I of Baden and Ottilie of Katzenelnbogen.

Ernest was at first – like most of his brothers – destined for the clergy and was ordained in 1496 in Graben-Neudorf by the Vicar General of Diocese of Speyer.  But he was not willing to renounce his inheritance and changed from a spiritual career to a military one.  In 1509 he participated in the campaign of the Emperor Maximilian I against the Republic of Venice.

His father, Margrave Christopher I, proposed to make his fifth son, Philip I his sole successor, since Philip was most qualified to govern the country and Christopher wanted to avoid a division of his territory.  On 18 June 1511, Christopher demanded that the Estates of Rötteln, Sausenberg and Badenweiler salute Philip, but they refused.  On subsequent meetings of the Estates in Rötteln and in 1512 in Kandern, they refused to pay homage to Philip, because they would not be drawn into the internal struggles of the house of Baden.  Ernest had threatened the Estates that he would respond with violence if they were to pay homage to his brother.

Ernest administered parts of Baden on behalf of his father from 1515 onwards, as did his brothers Philip I and Bernhard III.  After Philip's death, Bernard III and Ernest divided the country into the Margraviates of Baden-Baden ("Bernhardine line") and Baden-Durlach ("Ernestine line").  The two parts were reunited in 1771 under Margrave and later Grand Duke Charles Frederick, a descendant of the Ernestine line, after the extinction of the other lines.

Marriages and issue

The befitting marriage: Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach
The Margrave first married on 29 September 1510 with Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach (born: 25 March 1494; died: 31 May 1518), the daughter of Margrave Frederick I of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach.  They had the following children:
 Albert (born:  July 1511; died: 12 December 1542), participated in the Austrian war against the Turks in 1541 in Hungary and died on the way back in Wasserburg am Inn
 Anna (born: April 1512; died after 1579)
 married on 11 February 1537 to Count Charles I of Hohenzollern (born: 1516; died: 8 March 1576)
 Amalie (born: February 1513; died 1594)
 married in 1561 Count Frederick II of Löwenstein (born: 22 August 1528; died: 5 June 1569)
 Marie Jacqueline (born: October 1514; died: 1592)
 married in February 1577 to Count Wolfgang II of Barby (born: 11 December 1531; died: 23 March 1615)
 Marie Cleopha (born: September 1515; died: 28 April 1580)
 married in 1548 Count William of Schultz (died circa 1566)
 Elizabeth (born: 20 May 1516; died: 9 May 1568)
 married firstly in 1533 Count Gabriel von Salamanca-Ortenburg (died: December 1539)
 married secondly on 30 July 1543 Count Conrad II of Castell (born: 10 July 1519; died: 8 July 1577)
 Bernhard (born: February 1517; died: 20 January 1553), ruling Margrave

First morganatic marriage: Ursula of Rosenfeld
The Margrave's second marriage was in 1518 with Ursula of Rosenfeld (died: 26 February 1538), the daughter of George of Rosenfeld. This was a morganatic marriage. During Ernests's lifetime, it was controversial whether his son Charles could inherit the Margraviate.  In the end, Charles could only inherit the margraviate from his half-brother because the guardians of his cousins in the Bernhardine line did not object.  In 1594, this morganatic marriage was cited in the imperial court as an argument when Margrave Ernest Frederick — a grandson of Ernest – contested the right to inherit of the children of Margrave Edward Fortunatus and Marie of Eicken.

They had three children:
 Margaret (1519–1571)
 married on 12 November 1538 to Count Wolfgang II of Oettingen (1511–1572)
 Salome (d. 1559)
 married in 1540 Count Ladislas of Hag (born: 1495, died: 31 August 1566)
 Charles II (born: 24 July 1529; died: 23 March 1577), ruling Margrave

Second morganatic marriage: Anna Bombast von Hohenheim
The Margrave married his third wife on 1 March 1544.  She was Anna Bombast of Hohenheim (died: 6 June 1574).  This marriage produced no children.

Ancestors

References and sources

 Pütter: Ueber Mißheirathen Teutscher Fürsten und Grafen, Göttingen, 1796, pp. 83–91
 Christoph Meiners, Ludwig Timotheus Spittler (eds.): Mark-Graf Ernst von Baden und Ursula von Rosenfeld, die Stamm-Eltern des noch blühenden Badischen Hauses, in: Göttingisches Historisches Magazin, vol. 4, Hanover, 1789, pp. 737–772 online
 Casimir Bumiller: Ursula von Rosenfeld und die Tragödie des Hauses Baden, Gernsbach, 2010,
 Karl Seith: Das Markgräflerland und die Markgräfler im Bauernkrieg des Jahres 1525, Karlsruhe, 1926
 Johann David Köhler: Die sehr seltene Fürstl. Badenische Brüderliche Eintrachts-Medaille von A. 1533, in: Im Jahr 1729 wöchentlich herausgegegeber Historischer Münz-Belustigung, part 1, Nuremberg, 1729, pp. 361–368

Footnotes

See also
 Baden
 List of rulers of Baden

External links
 Image of the Margrave Ernest Fountain in Pforzheim from: Bildarchiv Foto Marburg – Image Index of Art and Architecture

Margraves of Baden
Margraves of Baden-Durlach
People from Pforzheim
1482 births
1553 deaths
16th-century German people
Military personnel from Pforzheim

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Raycast, Linecast, sphere collider or capsule collider?
Just wondering what is faster/more reliable? I know that the sphere collider is faster than the capsule collider, what about raycasts vs linecasts? And also one of the casts vs one of the colliders? I plan on using this in a real-time bullet system like the ones seen in the STALKER series, but I would like to know which of these is more reliable, I heard that particles use super fast sphere collisions instead of raycasts (I think they said it in the microstar demo thing), does that mean that collisions > raycasts?
I suggest you run the test yourself. In 30 to 60 minutes you could have your answer. If I was around my desktop, I might run the test out of curiosity.
Add a number of widely spaced objects to the scene.
Add an FPS script to the scene.
Create a script that does one type of cast repeatedly in a single frame. Do a GUI.Label or GUIText that reports the number of iterations. Add a key that increases the number iterations per frame.
Do a build. Building for your target platform is best, but any build is better than running the test in the editor. The results in the editor often don't reflect runtime results.
Run the app and increase the iterations until you see an FPS slowdown. Keep increasing until the FPS becomes unusable.
Repeat with the different kinds of raycasts.
I expect that linecasts and raycasts of similar distance will be comparable. Don't know your application for this information, but keep in mind Collider.Raycast(). Raycasting against a single collider is usually far more efficient that raycasting against the scene. Also for complete results, you may want to test other factors like the complexity of meshes used in the test.


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The Ratings Game
LinkedIn downgraded after strong run-up
By Dan Gallagher
IPO underwriter J.P. Morgan cites valuation over fundamentals
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — LinkedIn Corp. was downgraded to a neutral rating by J.P. Morgan on Monday, becoming the first of the company's IPO underwriters to remove its buy rating after significant run-up by the stock over the last month.
In early trades, LinkedIn LNKD slumped nearly 5% to $104.75. The stock first broke the $100 mark late last week after debuting on May 19 at an opening price of $83.
Doug Anmuth of J.P. Morgan said his move on Monday "is based on valuation rather than fundamental concerns." He maintained his $85 price target on the shares, noting that the company's earnings report on Aug. 4 is expected to show strong year-over-year revenue growth driven mainly by its Hiring Solutions business unit.
"We continue to believe LinkedIn is disrupting both the online and offline job recruitment markets, and deeper corporate penetration and increasing member engagement will drive strong results over the next few years," Anmuth wrote.
Even with Monday's loses, LinkedIn shares are trading well above Wall Street's current price targets. Three other brokerages who participated in the IPO — Morgan Stanley, UBS and Bank of America Merrill Lynch — rate the shares as a buy. Read last week's story on LinkedIn's valuation.
LinkedIn went public on May 19 at an IPO price of $45. It was the first of what is expected to be a slew of high-profile social networks to go public; Groupon and Zynga have both filed initial IPO papers and are expected to make their debut later this year.
Social network giant Facebook has not yet filed papers, but is widely expected to make a similar move in the early half of 2012.
The debut of the Google+ social network service from Google GOOG, +1.98% has drawn strong initial interest, and may offer up more competition for LinkedIn and Facebook. The company said in its earnings call last week that more than 10 million people signed up for the service during the first week of its invite-only beta test.
Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research, who has an overweight rating on LinkedIn, wrote in a note to clients on Monday that the strong uptake of Google+ "proved that any social or professional network is switchable."
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Firestone Redundants 76 Workers
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A staff at Firestone Liberia shows Daily Observer's Publisher, Kenneth Y. Best, some finished products produced at the Firestone rubber wood factory.Authorities at the Firestone Rubber Company in Firestone recently laid off 76 of its workers due to what it calls losses at its Rubber Wood Factory and admits a plan to shut it down anytime soon.Recently, Margibi County District #1 Representative Tibelrosa S. Tarponweh visited Division #16 in Firestone on a call from a group of downsized employees at the Rubber Wood Factory. The aggrieved workers complained that their loss of employment has caused hundreds of family members and relatives to go hungry and their children may not continue their education due to their lack of capacity to pay their fees should they leave the dwelling places of the company.The spokesperson of the redundant workers, Vadimani Kollie, said Firestone has not given them what they deserve even though the company has asked them to stop working. He expressed concern over his children and those of his fellow workers.In an attempt to seek some help in favor of residents of Gazon Town, Firestone Division #16, Representative Tarponweh said his quest is that the government should buy pieces of Firestone furniture in order to allow the company to make money and keep the workers. "I understand what the company is going through but I am also worried about the aftermath of its (Firestone's) decision leading to the reduction of manpower," he said. He added that he has consulted with Margibi Senator Oscar Cooper who also has expressed interest in seeing to it that Firestone reconsiders its decision and call back the workers it has laid off.He expressed the hope that the government does business with Firestone by buying the different set of furniture produced in order to allow the company to keep residents in the area and others who have migrated there in search of livelihood to remain at work.Firestone Liberia's outgoing general manager and chief executive officer, Eduardo Garcia, said business is for profit-making, but when conditions are so unfavorable that challenge a business against its progress and longevity, the wise thing to do is to close the business down. Stockpiles of Processed Firestone rubberwood, which the company says has sat in the factory without buyers for over a year.Treated wood as well as furniture for households, schools and offices, are produced at the Rubber Wood Factory, and sold in the country.Garcia told the Daily Observer recently that there appears to be no remedy to challenges the business was encountering, even if the government should come in to do business with his company."We were in a meeting recently with the Representative of this district where we clearly made our concern known that we cannot continue this business, while there is no profit," he said.Mr. Garcia said that the recent laying off of workers at the factory was predicated upon the losses his company continues to experience, which poses a serious challenge in meeting payroll requirements.He said due to lots of financial constraints, the company is indebted in the sum of over U$200 million."People think all is well with Firestone-Liberia, but it is not so. We are seriously challenged with making more money due to low prices of rubber on the world market. We don't decide the price of rubber but Singapore, and another important thing the public should know is that Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, and Ivory Coast are among other high natural rubber producing countries that have greater advantages than us," Garcia said.He added that while Liberians' desire for Firestone to begin manufacturing of rubber products in the country is good, what they need to know is that the cost of manufacturing of rubber materials in the country is too high."While is true that we want more Liberians to work with our company, the conditions on the ground are not favorable for us to venture into manufacturing. We would have to import everything we need for the manufacturing, and getting quality equipment from overseas to Liberia is nothing to joke about," Garcia said.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
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Backcourt key to Coyotes' victory
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SAN BERNARDINO – The emergence of one player and the re-emergence of another paved the way for Cal State San Bernardino Friday as the Coyotes slipped past Dominguez Hills 84-75 at Coussoulis Arena. Senior guard Prentice Harris tallied 21 points and senior wing Yoseph Yaisrael added a career-high 19 to spark Cal State (19-5, 15-4), ranked No. 16 nationally and No. 2 in the West Region. "When we can knock down those shots it opens everything up," Harris said. "They look at us, now there are driving lines for other guys. It adds another whole dimension to the offense." One disturbing trend continued for the Coyotes, however, as Oliver's squad has struggled to close out the first half and start the second. The Coyotes led by as many as 11 in the first half, that lead coming on a 3-pointer by Harris that made it 33-22. They still had a double-digit lead with 1:03 left in the half at 42-32, but then gave up five straight points and led only at the break. The Coyotes then missed five of their first six shots from the field to start the second half, with a 3-pointer by Yaisrael that upped the lead to 46-42 being the only made basket. "Those guys really carried us, especially in the first half," Coyotes coach Jeff Oliver said. "They are seniors, so they're guys that have been in our system the longest. That's really what you like to see from them in a big game." That duo set the stage with their shooting prowess. Harris scored 14 in the first half and Yaisrael added 11, going a combined 7-for-9 from 3-point range. Ivan Johnson added eight before getting into foul trouble, benefitting inside from the attention defenders had to pay to the perimeter. The Coyotes led by three at 53-50 nine minutes into the half. An 8-0 run, highlighted by back-to-back 3-pointers by Chet Johnson and Yasirael, increased the margin to 11. It got interesting again late as Cal State led 71-69 with 2:45 left. Marlon Pierce knocked down a 3 to stretch the lead back to five. Yaisrael then hit two free throws and Harris added four in a row to put the game out of reach. The Coyotes shot 42.4 percent (28-for-66) from the field. They actually fared better from long distance, hitting 13-of-26 with five players factoring into that total. Ivan Johnson and Pierce also finished in double figures with 14 and 11 points, respectively. Chet Johnson had a solid all-around game with nine points, a team-high seven rebounds, four assists and three steals. With three games left, the Coyotes trail CCAA frontrunner Humboldt State by one game. Tonight they host UC San Diego, a team they lost to 69-63 in January. 42-37 WOMEN Dominguez Hills 56, Cal State S.B. 38 The Coyotes shot just 27.3 percent (15-for-55) from the field and lost to Dominguez Hills 56-38, damaging their playoff hopes. The Coyotes (16-8, 12-7) are No.7 in the region, with the top eight making the playoffs. Dominguez Hills (13-10, 10-9), which is ninth, could go ahead of the Coyotes in next week's poll. Junior center Vanessa Wilt totaled 11 points, seven rebounds and two blocks, while freshman guard Krystal Urzua had 10 points and three assists. 160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You're all set! read more
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Bruce Ellis Benson (born 1960) is a professor of philosophy at Wheaton College in Illinois.

Bibliography

Books written

Pious Nietzsche: Decadence and Dionysian Faith. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.

References

External links
 Wheaton Faculty Bio
 Bruce Ellis Benson website
 SCPT Online - Bio
 Baker Academic - Liturgy as a Way of Life
 Christian Anxiety on Word Press
Review of Pious Nietzsche in "Books and Culture"

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Miho Takagi of Japan waves during a ceremony after winning the silver medal in the women's speedskating 1,500-meter race at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
BEIJING (AP) — When most champions get off the slopes or the ice at the Beijing Olympics, they are handed Bing Dwen Dwen, the chubby panda mascot of the Games.
Where are the medals? They usually come later at a special ceremony — a system introduced in 1988 at the Calgary Games.
But immediately after competition, the winning athletes in Beijing receive a plush toy panda, stuffed inside a plastic shell that is meant to represent ice. Bing, in fact, means ice in Chinese. The toy is also adorned with a golden wreath.
Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris won his third Olympic bronze medal on Monday and said he loved the prize that came with it.
"I always claimed back in the day that my spirit animal is a panda. I love pandas," he said.
A similar ritual unfolded at the Pyeongchang Games four years ago. There, immediately after winning gold, silver or bronze, medalists got Soohorang, a striped white tiger that served as the mascot for those Games.
The tradition of giving a mascot to the winners has existed for more than a decade at the Youth Olympics.


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Wilkin handed one-match ban
metrowebukmetroTuesday 17 Jul 2007 7:30 pm
Jon Wilkin
St Helens' Great Britain forward Jon Wilkin will miss Friday's Super League derby with Wigan after being handed a one-match ban for his dismissal against Bradford last Friday.
The 21-year-old back rower became the second player to be sent off in Super League this year when he was shown a red card for a high tackle on Bulls substitute Matt James in Saints' 10-4 defeat at Odsal.
Wilkin was found guilty of a reckless tackle when he appeared before the Rugby League's disciplinary committee and, in addition to his ban, was fined £300.
It means he will be free to play in the first Challenge Cup semi-final against Bradford at Huddersfield on Saturday week.
Wakefield prop Danny Sculthorpe was also handed a one-match ban and a £300 fine after being found guilty of a deliberate high tackle "with no consequence".
Sculthorpe, who was put on report for the challenge during his side's 24-23 home defeat by Huddersfield, will miss Friday's derby at Leeds.
Sculthorpe's Wakefield team-mate Adam Watene was cleared to face the Rhinos when he was found not guilty of making a dangerous tackle in the same match.
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Q: Titanium.Network.HTTPClient caches responseData. How do I prevent that?
I was wondering how to prevent Titanium.Network.HTTPClient from caching my responseData? This is happening on android in the directory /sdcard/Android/data/com.packagename/cache/_tmp the files follow this pattern for their filename tihttp-XXXXXXXXXXXtmp. I've already implemented a custom cache in the apps private data directory. So I don't need it to happen twice and waste the users precious data space on their sdcard. Plus the cache in the sdcard isn't always there.

A: var client = Ti.Network.createHTTPClient({
     onload : function(e) {
         Ti.API.info("Received text: " + this.responseText);
         alert('success');
     },
     timeout : 5000,
     cache : false,

 });

The above works for iPhone only after a bit of looking, but if you set the headers directly to the request, it should work for both iPhone and Android:
client.setRequestHeader('Cache-Control','no-cache');
client.setRequestHeader('Cache-Control','no-store');

This must be called after open, but before the request is sent, i.e.:
var client = Ti.Network.createHTTPClient();
client.open('GET','http://google.com/');
client.setRequestHeader('Cache-Control','no-cache');
client.setRequestHeader('Cache-Control','no-store');
client.send('nice');


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Slettegård er/var en lille hovedgård i Hjortdal Sogn i Vester Hanherred, lidt nordøst for Hjortdal Kirke. Slettegård ligger ved Slette Å, hvor der også har været en vandmølle, mellem landsbyen Hjortdal og Svinkløv Klitplantage. De ældst kendte ejere var i midten af 1400-tallet af slægten Griis. De oprindelige bygninger nedbrændte i 1842.

C. Klitgaard beskrev stedet som følger: "Når man ad Oldtidsvejen fra Hjørring til Fureby fortsatte ad Stranden til Slette Å den Vej, Knud den Hellige fulgte, da han 1086 fra Børglum Kongsgård søgte til Aggersborg for på den anden side af fjorden at fortsætte ad den gamle hærvej sydpå gennem Jylland og der drejede ind i landet over Slette Hvarre for sydpå over Kollerup at komme til Aggersund, kom man forbi Hjortdal Kirke og hovedgården Slette i dette sogn, der med sin tidligere lille Vandmølle ved Slette å ligger på et frodigt terræn omgivet af et af sandflugt-hærget areal, i hvilket højdedraget Svinkløv rager 63 m op."

Referencer

 Slettegårds historie
Ejere af Slettegård

Herregårde i Jammerbugt Kommune
Herregårde i Thisted Amt


William Foxwell Albright, "The eighteenth-century princes of Byblos and the chronology of Middle Bronze," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 176 (Dec. 1964): 38-46.
William Foxwell Albright, "Further light on the history of Middle-Bronze Byblos," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 179 (Oct. 1965): 38-43.
Horst Beinlich, "Osiris in Byblos," Welt des Orients 14 (1983): 63-66. Ronald Wallenfels, "Redating the Byblian inscriptions," Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 15 (1983): 79-118.
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Ray J Is Getting Sued For $30 Million Over A Scooter Business
A man named Jean Paul claims that Ray J screwed him over.
By Sharon Lynn Pruitt
Ray J may be seeing the inside of a courtroom soon.
According to TMZ, the Love & Hip Hop star is being sued to the tune of $30 million by one of his former associates, a man by the name of Jean Paul, who describes himself as a "trendsetter, nature lover, and bike aficionado."
As Paul tells it, he and Ray J talked about starting a business marketing electric scooter bikes back in 2015. Paul claims that Ray J, who he says "arguably maintains a certain level of celebrity," agreed to become an investor and use his fame to promote the bikes as a celebrity endorser.
Paul went ahead and started the business, but he says that his former business partner then went behind his back and "secretly" launched another scooter business to compete with his, and now Paul wants Ray J to pay up.
Ray J has yet to comment publicly on the situation.
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The General Administration Department has asked the Chief Ministers office to issue a directive to a host of government Secretariat employees, including 50 assistants, who have gone on leave to prepare for the maiden Kerala Administrative Service (KAS) preliminary examination, to join duty soon.
The note issued by General Administration Secretary K.R.Jyothilal says the mass leave has derailed the routine functions of the Secretariat and would derail the functioning of various departments, especially since the Assembly session is scheduled to begin on January 31.
Going on leave to try for another job reflects the lack of social commitment of the employees.
It causes a lot of difficulties for the public as the government could not request the Public Service Commission to recruit fresh hands to fill the vacancies. Hence, the government should discourage the attempts of employees for career advancement at the cost of serving the public, the note says.


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Heart; Prevention
The internet can be hazardous to your health. Really!
Joseph A. Hill, M.D., Ph.D. Internal Medicine - Cardiology
The rise and reliance on the internet and social media for medical news has had some dangerous side effects.
One of the most powerful health risks facing all of us in 2019 – and in the foreseeable future – is the proliferation of medical misinformation.
Every day, it spreads across the internet through platforms like Google, Facebook, YouTube and other social media, and patients end up making health decisions – sometimes life and death decisions – based on faulty and flat-out incorrect material.
That's why earlier this year, as Editor-in-Chief of Circulation, I rallied more than 20 of my colleagues at the most prominent cardiology journals to co-author an article sounding the alarm about medical misinformation. As physicians and scientists, we can no longer stand around with our hands in our pockets as patients are misled by the dubious opinions of pundits, politicians and media personalities.
A part of the solution to this thoroughly modern problem could be found, ironically, in a work published over 2,000 years ago. Aristotle's Rhetoric teaches us there are three essential elements to the power of persuasion:
Logos, the strength of the argument
Ethos, the credibility of the source
Pathos, understanding the listener's viewpoints
Many of us think logos is sufficient – that making a strong case should be enough. Plenty of people are passionate about hot-button medical issues such as vaccines, but that does not give them ethos – credibility.
As physicians, we often have the courage of our convictions and the science to back up our recommendations, but we must devote more attention to the other pivotal component of influence, pathos.
By better understanding our patients' hopes and fears, we can build trust, show compassion, and ultimately arm them with the information they need to separate fact from fiction when it comes to making their health care decisions.
Follow the science, not the salacious headlines
There are plenty of reasons to embrace the internet – it provides instant access to information, and it gives everyone a voice. But when it comes to health care, it's important to "vet the message" and be able to decipher the medically trained voices from the shrill, biased ones.
Complicating matters further, fake medical news tends to spread faster than the truth. I suppose it's human nature to be enticed by a sensational headline, but this is not a game. Medical misinformation puts people in harm's way; here are just a few examples of how:
Staining the reputation of statins: Statins are the "gold-standard" for high cholesterol treatment.
They have been studied more than nearly any other drug and have been proven safe and effective, saving millions who are at high risk of heart attack or stroke. But stories exaggerating the side effects of statins, or leveling false claims about them causing cancer or memory loss, have caused many patients to stop taking their medication. Or refuse it entirely.
The benefits of statins are invisible; patients don't always recognize that the medication helped them live another year without a heart attack or a stroke. But when they stop taking them, it puts their lives at risk.
Linking vaccines and autism: There is zero evidence to suggest vaccines cause autism, and a great deal of scientific data proves it is not true. But the claim has spread so fast and far that it has led to measles outbreaks in major cities around the globe, putting people at risk unnecessarily. Measles is not just a little rash that you get over in three or four days. It can have life-threatening consequences. And it is important to recognize that when a parent withholds vaccination from a child, they are putting others at risk, not themselves, namely their child and the child's contacts.
Questioning the value of 3D mammograms: Just recently, USA Today published an article suggesting hospitals are pushing women to get 3D mammograms, or tomosynthesis, rather than 2D mammograms simply to pad the bottom line. But as my colleague Dr. Basak Dogan, Director of Breast Imaging Research at UT Southwestern, details in a recent article, 3D mammograms provide very specific advantages, including finding smaller cancers earlier. It is also the preferred screening modality of the American Society of Breast Surgeons and covered in full by most insurance companies.
It's important for patients to have the facts, not just innuendo.
5 ways to separate medical fact from fiction
There is a lot of credible health news online, but there is also a sea of suspect material. Here are a few ways to tell the difference:
Identify the source: Professional health organizations (.org), government agencies (.gov), and medical institutions (.edu) provide a wealth of excellent online health information, and you can identify them by the last three letters of their web address. A ".com" website indicates a for-profit entity, which may be OK, but consider its source and motivation.
Review the research: Oftentimes, media outlets will cite a study and provide a link. Click through and review the research yourself. Some studies have small sample sizes or may seem too preliminary. Or the article may overstate the findings. Judge for yourself.
Check the date: With the speed of medical advances today, it's best to seek the most current health information. Even trusted sites may have outdated material.
Narrow your search: Develop a list of trusted health sites, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and UT Southwestern's MedBlog, where the articles are authored by physicians and scientists. Start there and expand out if you're not finding the answers you need.
Trust your instincts and talk to your doctor: The internet is a logical place to start, but you should talk with your doctor before making a major health decision. I tell my patients, I will give you my recommendation based on modern science and my experience as a cardiologist. But, ultimately, it's your body and your life. You make the decision. I just want to make sure you have all the facts before you do.
Taking steps to stem the tide of misinformation
In March, the American Medical Association sent a letter to the CEOs of the major social media channels urging them to help combat misinformation about vaccines.
Personally, I would love to sit down with them and tell them that we in the academic medicine community stand ready to help stem the tide of medical misinformation and make a difference on a grand scale. We can review content from a scientific standpoint and develop a set of standards for credibility.
Because when it comes to health information, the public and our patients deserve the truth.
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Cpl. Reinhold H. Klemke
Courtesy of Johnny & Margaret Thon Files, 04/30/1945
Cpl. Reinhold Klemke is Killed in Action in Germany April 21st; Left From Niobrara County in March, 1942
Thon book No. 4
Cpl. Reinhold Klemke, serving with the Ninth U.S. Army in Germany, was killed in action, April 21st, according to word received here last Saturday from the youth's parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Klemke, of Snyder, Nebr. They had received the official war department notification two days previously. Details, as usual, were lacking.
Corporal Klemke was attached to Troop C. 360th Cavalry, Mechanized Division of Reconnaissance squad and had been in overseas service since last fall. He embarked from the states in September, and had been in service a little more than three years, being inducted in March 1942. According to local relatives, he had also been serving as an interpreter, and during the last of his service was assisting medical at the front.
Corporal Klemke was a brother to Mrs, P. J. Owens of Lusk; Mrs. Martin Glandt of Manville; and Emil Klemke of the divide community. Other survivors besides his parents are five brothers. T/5 August John Klemke, with the 3rd Armored Division in Germany; Elmer and Paul of Snyder, Nebr.; Elvin of Fremont, Nebr.; and Herman of Dalton, Nebr.; and three sisters, Mrs. Elmer Pasold Snyder, Nebr.; Mrs. Leo Alexander of Houston, Tex.; and Mrs. Alma Brosius of Evin, Tex.
He had lived in Lusk for several years prior to induction and had made his home with Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Owens and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hansen. He had been employed by Oscar Bostrom as a carpenter.
The Lusk Herald
Two More Men Are Killed in Germany
The surrender in Germany came too late to save the lives of two more local men fighting in Germany.
Word was received here by relatives on Saturday that Corporal Reinholdt H. Klemke was killed in action in Germany, April 21.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Klemke, reside at Snyder, Neb., and received the customary telegram from the War Department on May 3rd. No other details as to how Cpl. Klemke met his death were given.
He was a former resident of Lusk and well known here, as he worked at the carpenter trade with Oscar Bostrom for about a year and a half.
Surviving him in this immediate vicinity are his brother, Emil Klemke, and two sisters, Mrs. P.J. Owens and Mrs. Martin Glandt, besides many cousins and other ralatives. Besides his parents he has three sisters and five brothers residing elsewhere. One of the brothers is with the Third Army in Europe.
Cpl. Klemke went overseas last September and for a time acted as an interpreter, but it is thought he was serving with the medical corps rescuing wounded men from the battlefield when he was killed.
(This article continues about the other young man killed, Cpl. Alfred L. Schutt.)
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This clip is made by four persons.
It has about four magical girls of the "Mami" "Sayaka" "Kyoko" " Homura", and "Madoka",composition expressed respectively.
Music is "Thinker-Reprise-" ,it is the ending music of GAME "ARMORED CORE 4" was arranged.
We think that we link to magical girls which this music continued fighting in PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA.
Because it is made by the edit method by which each is different, it may seem that there is no coherence, but we hope to see until the end.
Dial in early is a bad idea.
That blue flash looks like a glitch in some parts. D: And it dragged on a bit. But I love that you focused on each girl! Very nice character profiling :) 6/10.
It's a bit too long. Effect looks roughly.
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WarClown – Crooks of Justice
5 years ago tennesseehorrornews
Hey everybody! I really appreciate you stopping by to check out the music reviews. See, I've always been of the mind that horror doesn't stop with movies. My goal here is to get some of the music that I truly enjoy into the ear holes of as many people as I can. Is it all going to be horror punk full of zombies and shit? No. I mean, yeah I'm sure that will come up too but there will be a lot more than that. My only requirement is that it be dark enough to be relevant to our site and our readers. Every review will start by discussing why the album is relevant and maybe some interesting tidbits then I'll get into the meat of the review. I think it'll be fun. That being said, let's get down to it,
This album deals with all manner of real world dark shit. There's betrayal, war, violence, death, and it starts out with a sample from They Live for fuck's sake. Also, metal and horror have always been a good match to me. The imagery, the aggression, the communities, and the fact that most people making both horror and metal are just doing it for the love of the game make the two a match made in Hell.
WarClown are from right here in Knoxville and don't let the name fool you, these dudes are all business. Thery're more war than clown, I guess you could say. Also, in the spirit of full disclosure I know these dudes, one of the guitarists is a close friend of mine and he brought me a copy of their new album to review which was super cool. That won't change how I feel about the album though.
It just so happens that this is a solid ass album. If I had to describe WarClown's sound I would say it is the bastard child of thrash and groove. Big hooky riffs, killer leads, and drums and bass that make you want to mosh with your living room furniture…that might just be me. Whatever. The influences are in plain view but the sound is still original. There is no aping here, just tracks that are, sonically, love letters to the good old days of metal. Crooks of Justice is full of tracks that are sure to move a room but don't lack in lyrical substance. In fact, let's take a closer look at some of my favorite tracks on the album. It wasn't easy to narrow down, but I did it.
Peace Through Superior Firepower: This one starts with some fairly melodic leads and then you get crushed under a ten ton riff going about ninety miles an hour. Like the Hell Priest himself, this track sinks its hooks in deep and doesn't let go. There's a moment to breathe about midway through the song with some deep gravely spoken word reminiscent of Down- era Anselmo and a bass line that was so good I had to rewind the track and hear it again. My gaming chair almost caught an elbow over this song. Yeah, it's like that.
Hammer and Coin: I was so stoked to see this song on the album. I've seen it done live a few times; it's a crowd favorite that never fails to get the room moving. The riffs are infectious and driving, aggression just fucking oozes out of every note and it all comes together, forms a hand, and grabs you by the balls. The end table was destroyed in a one-man wall of death. It was glorious.
Guilty and Deceived: No pretense, no real build up, it just hits you like a straight right to the throat. Then there's the breakdown. Holy shit dude. I'm a fan of a good breakdown and this one made my beard grow. This is the final track on the album and I think it might be my favorite. It closes out the album really well and leaves you with that buzz that you feel when silence replaces the organized sonic chaos that was once there. I'm currently typing this from the kitchen table because at about the three minute mark my desk lost its life to a good hard shove.
If you dig some good groove injected with thrash and some originality go pick up Crooks of Justice. Make sure you lift with your legs though, because this one is fucking heavy. You can get a physical or digital copy here and while you wait on your copy to come in you can check the album out on Spotify. Go check out their Facebook page and see if you can catch them live, you won't regret it.
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Quant Biol. 2014 Jun;2(2):59-70.
Target specificity of the CRISPR-Cas9 system.
Wu X1, Kriz AJ2, Sharp PA3.
David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA ; Computational and Systems Biology Graduate Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA ; Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
The CRISPR-Cas9 system, naturally a defense mechanism in prokaryotes, has been repurposed as an RNA-guided DNA targeting platform. It has been widely used for genome editing and transcriptome modulation, and has shown great promise in correcting mutations in human genetic diseases. Off-target effects are a critical issue for all of these applications. Here we review the current status on the target specificity of the CRISPR-Cas9 system.
CRISPR; Cas9; genome engineering; off-targets; target specificity
The CRISPR-Cas9 system
The sgRNA (purple) targets the Cas9 protein to genomic sites containing sequences complementary to the 5′ end of the sgRNA. The target DNA sequence needs to be followed by a proto-spacer adjacent motif (PAM), typically NGG. Cas9 is a DNA endonuclease with two active domains (red triangles) cleaving each of the two DNA strands three nucleotides upstream of the PAM. The five nucleotides upstream of the PAM are defined as the seed region for target recognition.
Target specificity of the CRISPR-Cas9 system
Factors that impact Cas9 specificity
(Top) Before Cas9 is introduced to the system, specificity can be modified by altering the architecture of the single guide RNA (sgRNA) or the Cas9 protein itself. (Middle) At the DNA level, beyond the PAM requirement for binding, closed chromatin and methylated DNA negatively impact Cas9 binding, while increased abundance of Cas9/sgRNA complexes and guide sequences in the genome positively impact Cas9 binding. (Bottom) Although Cas9 can transiently bind DNA that is complementary to only a small seed sequence in the sgRNA, only sequences with extensive complementarity to the guide will be cleaved or direct activation or silencing of targeted genes.
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Traditionnellement, le terme correspond à la côte des comtés de Hancock, de Harrison et de Jackson.

Géographie du Mississippi
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'Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop'
Journalist Vikki Tobak dug deep into the world of outtakes from over 100 hip-hop photoshoots and paired them with interviews and essays from industry legends for the new book Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop. Throughout the 300-page journey that is Contact High, you'll explore the contact sheets from photographers who played critical roles in bringing the visuals of early hip-hop to the world at large. Barron Claiborne's photographs of the Notorious B.I.G. in the crown. Jamil GS's photos of Jay-Z next to the boat. Janette Beckman's shots of Slick Rick. Whether it's the iconic album covers, t-shirts or posters that we all know and love, the imagery in this book is perfect for music and photography fans alike. There's also a pretty deep foreword by Questlove that seals the deal.
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