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Five Reasons Alien: Covenant Is Bad And Should Feel Bad
Lemme just get this out of the way so you can decide it invalidates my opinion entirely. I liked Prometheus. I thought it was an enjoyable, pretty alright film. It was a lot better when there were more overt references to the Alien franchise, such as Shitty Scientist A turning into a pseudo-Xenomorph and jumping […]Read More

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We are heading into another renovation. Why, you might ask? Well, it's been 12 years since the last one and things need to get done. Obviously, we've chosen another contractor, with whom we shall have a better relationship, hopefully. It really doesn't take much: honesty and communication. That's all we ask. Don't leave us hanging and for damn sure, don't lie to us. We have been hung out and lied to and to be honest, it's difficult to get over. But I'm going in with a positive attitude.
We are adding a master ensuite and walk in closet to our bedroom, and we are updating the main bathroom. We will move into the basement guest suite to remain in the house while the work is getting done. The dreaded demolition starts April 9.
I tell you this because we have been entertaining like mad, knowing that the next few months will be chaos and dust. So I've been cooking like crazy and gearing up blog posts so I don't skip a beat. My best friend and her picky-eater- hubby came by for brunch so I made these tasty crackers. Needless to say, hubby passed on them.
Gluten-free, Low Carb, Herbed, Olive Oil Crackers
Makes about 33 crackers
- 100 g almond flour
- 20 g coconut flour
- 20 g psyllium husk
- 5 g salt
- 30 mL Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 1 egg
- A good pinch of thyme leaves
- A good pinch of rosemary
- A good pinch of dehydrated onion and garlic, ground into a powder
- Pre-heat the oven to 350°F (175° C).
- Using the metal blades in your food processor, add all the ingredients and pulse until entirely combined and resemble small peas.
- Pour onto a large sheet of parchment paper and push toward the centre. Lay another piece of parchment on top. Roll out between two pieces of parchment to about 0.5 mm (1/16″) thick.
- Cut into shapes using a pizza wheel and a kitchen ruler. (I cut small triangles that were about the size of chips).
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until they begin to get a golden tone. Allow to cool completely on a wire rack. They will firm up as they cool.
- Store in an airtight container.
- Serve with your favourite dip or cheese.
- This is a modification of this earlier recipe.
- The crackers have good body and are sturdy enough to hold dip or cheese.
- I used dried herbs because it's still winter here and my herb garden is still hibernating!
- We were just in Spain and of course, I purchased some wonderful olive oil. This is the one I used for this recipe.
- Feel free to flavour with your favourite herbs or spices.


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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has received a huge update on Steam today which also adds Metal Gear Online for all the users, even those who haven't taken part in the recently held beta.
If you have taken part in the beta test for Metal Gear Online, you will have to download just 1 GB of the update data. However if you never downloaded and tried the beta, you will be required to download around 3.7 GB of data for the full Metal Gear Online.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has a multiplayer mode called Metal Gear Online. This mode was available to all the PS4 and Xbox One users since October of last year, but it was confirmed to launch in late January 2016 for PC users. Judging from this recent update, the mode is now officially available for all the owners who have bought Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain on Steam.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is the last game in the series by acclaimed director Hideo Kojima. Kojima left Konami after the completion of the game to form his own studio called Kojima Productions. He is currently working on a new project for the PS4 and PC.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain was released on September 1st, 2015 for the PS4, PS3, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC.
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text: Honorary President Message The International Police Association is one of the most unique and interesting social organizations in the world. This fraternal organization is dedicated "to unite in service and friendship all active and retired members of the law enforcement service throughout the world." The IPA strives to enhance the image of the police in its member countries, and to facilitate international cooperation through friendly contacts between police officers of all continents. It therefore pleases me to notice that the basic ideas of friendship and solidarity among police officers in all countries, as introduced in 1950 by our Founder Arthur Troop, are still very much alive with the IPA family. Our Association has had an incredible development over the past 55 years and that is something that is still going on today. The fact that the positive development has been achieved, not through direct advertising, but through personal contacts between police officers in different countries, proves the strength behind our ideals. It seems that despite all dissension between people and states, there is still a place for friendship and solidarity across the borders. Friendship is the primary goal of our Association and friendship is something that one can of course prove during the difficult times. Friendship is when someone makes an effort to do something for another unconditionally, taking into consideration the other person's rights, respecting those rights and therefore not attempting to limit them. If we distance ourselves from our friends out of self-interest, then we have already given up on that friendship. With there few words I welcome you to the new updated and dynamic website and I assure all our Members that we will continue to update them on all issues concerning the International Police Association.


text: An intense search was launched in Keswick for a young special needs child. Shortly after 5 O'clock Friday afternoon Edward Majewski called from his home on Market Street in the Town of Keswick and reported that his 5-year-old grandson, who is autistic, hadn't been seen for about 40 minutes. Shasta County Sheriff's Deputies started searching immediately and they were soon joined by Cal-Fire, the CHP and the BLM, as well as numerous Keswick area neighbors. The boy was found by Cal-Fire and a neighbor walking on the Sacramento River Trail about a half mile from home. He was uninjured and returned to his family.


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|Sex Files
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|Hollywoodland | Intl. Notebook
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|May 28 2019
Confidential still managed to entertain, even if its stories were of a less invasive nature than before. But notwithstanding the new rules of engagement, some targets received particularly scathing treatment. Liz Taylor and Richard Burton were among them. The magazine says their legendary affair on the set of Cleopatra began as a studio publicity stunt, which backfired when Taylor actually fell for Burton—and into his bed. That may be true, but failure can be relative. On one hand Taylor's squeaky clean image was ruined forever, but on the other the story of her affair generated immense amounts of free press for Cleopatra.
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We managed to buy this issue of On the Q.T. published in July 1963 for seven dollars, which is about the range we prefer for a tabloid that's often overpriced. Inside we found Shirley MacLaine, Melina Mercouri, Elsa Martinelli, Richard Burton and Liz Taylor. As expected the focus is on Hollywood, but in this issue the piece that jumped out at us was an insider's account of the Italian paparazzi lifestyle written by top paparazzo Vito Canessi. He details his techniques for obtaining photos, his legal obligations, and the lengths some paps go to in getting saleable shots.
Though paparazzi come under the umbrella of defenders of press rights, with their often malleable ethics they're probably not people you'd have at your dinner table. It often works that way. Rights defenders tend to be either people actually testing the limits of rights, or people negatively affected by forces that would curtail those rights. Either way, they're sometimes outside the social mainstream. But the rights they defend apply to all. Thirty scans below.
|Vintage Pulp
|Feb 12 2017
This National Spotlite published today in 1968 features cover star Naemi Priegel, a West German television actress and singer who reached the height of her fame during the 1970s. Inside are many interesting Hollywood tidbits, including former child star Hayley Mills allegedly describing herself as a tigress in bed, Marlon Brando beating up two party crashers, Elvis Presley breaking the arm of someone to whom he was demonstrating a karate hold, Richard Burton being pursued by a chorus girl who claimed he fathered her child, Gene Tierney and her husband Howard Lee getting into a public spat, and John Wayne slugging an autograph seeker who mistook him for Robert Mitchum. Was any of this stuff true? We have no idea, but it sure is interesting reading. You can see more in the same vein at our tabloid index, located at this link.
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This issue of The National Tattler hit newsstands today in 1974, and as you can see, it lacks a certain something compared to issues of the 1960s. The earlier Tattler featured fantastically exploitative stories conjured from the darkest reaches of the editors' imaginations, while the 1974 version has content that is—amazingly—mostly true. Mostly. We're not sure about Richard Burton turning to a faith healer to help with his drinking problem, and if he did, it didn't work. Alcohol problems plagued him until his death.
|Intl. Notebook
|Nov 8 2014
This issue of National Informer appeared today in 1970, with an unknown cover model and, unusually for Informer, stories about three actual celebrities—Walter Hickel, Richard Burton, and Jean Seberg. Hickel had been caught using public money to redecorate his congressional office and is deservedly raked over the coals by Informer. Burton endures a mere sideswipe for comments about how heroic he'd be if he found himself on a hijacked plane. Seberg's affair (or non-affair) with Black Panther Bobby Seale is rehashed over an entire page. If Informer had kept this sort of thing up they'd have begun to resemble a real newspaper, but no worries—didn't happen. And a good thing, because we love Informer exactly the way it usually is—devoid of truth. Highlight of this issue: The (not so) Great Criswell uses his column of psychic predictions to promote himself, saying, "I predict that Tapesty in Terror, starring Vampira and myself, will soon be seen as an hour TV program in September 1971, so watch for it." And guess what? The worst prognosticator in history got even that wrong. Tapestry of Terror never made it to television.
|Hollywoodland | Vintage Pulp
|Oct 30 2014
Top Secret is in fine form in this issue from October 1962 as it goes after all the biggest celebrities in Hollywood and Europe. Treading the line between journalism and slander is no easy feat, but take notice—Top Secret's editors and hacks manage to pull off a high wire act. And of course this was key to the tabloids' modus operandi—they had to present information in a seemingly fearless or even iconoclastic way, yet never actually cross the line that would land them in court.
|Vintage Pulp
|Dec 30 2013
Liz Taylor and her tan star on this cover of Confidential published this month in 1964. The magazine was just a shadow of its former self by this point, but the inside stories still manage to raise eyebrows and give the impression of tabloid spies in every corner of Hollywood. Simon Lee Garth's exposé accuses Richard Burton of being an abusive drunk, but that was not a scoop—other tabloids had written the same. But elsewhere, investigative journo Beverly Hillis (nice, right?) shares the amusing story of Elvis Presley throwing a party at which only women were invited. Apparently "swivel hips", as Confidential refers to him, paraded around in a series of bizarre costumes and generally acted the fool, prompting some (but crucially not all) of his guests to leave in a huff. In another story Jack Asher writes about bottomless swimsuits worn by gay men as a response to the topless women's suits that had appeared on European beaches, and also tells readers the fashion house Lanvin Paris had begun selling a bottomless suit for women. We don't buy that one for a minute, but there are some interesting photos of women wearing breast-baring dresses. Elsewhere in the issue you get tabloid fave Jayne Mansfield and her husband Mickey Targitay, Peter Sellers sexing himself into a heart attack with Britt Ekland, Barry Goldwater playing dirty politics, and an impressively tasteless graphic of Malcolm X. All below.
|Vintage Pulp
|Nov 21 2013
Rampage returns to Pulp Intl. after a six month absence with this issue published today in 1973. The cover star and interior models are unknowns, and the stories are mostly fiction (a fiend stomps a girl's guts out, a ghost rapes a girl in graveyard, a husband shoots out a rival's eyes, a wife shoots her husband because he wanted a beer) but the editors do expend a bit of column space on two real people. The first is Richard Burton, who they call a hopeless drunk with violent tendencies—not a newsflash, since other tabloids had already covered his drinking issues to death. Of marginally more interest is a story on Peter Duel, a little-known figure today, but one who was a major star during the 1970s, half of the famed duo from the hit television show Alias Smith and Jones. Rampage claims Duel did not commit suicide in December 1971, but rather was murdered. The evidence? The testimony of a medium who communicated with Duel's spirit and reported that the aggrieved entity said, "They… murdered….me! I… was… murdered..! Oh God..!" And of course, ghosts being famously elliptical, Duel transmitted all this across the ether without uttering the name of a single assailant.
The last item of note in Rampage is the group of predictions by Mark Travis. His predictions are usually so off as to be pure comedy, but eerily, he nails a few this time. For instance, he predicts the development of a cream that can allow a person to be whatever shade they wish. While many current day Americans have perhaps heard of these only in relation to porn stars whitening their anuses, skin whitening creams are in fact a multi-billion dollar industry in places like Japan, India, and China, where paleness is perceived as an indicator of wealth. The fact that people could so blatantly kowtow to racist paradigms is another issue entirely. We'll get into that another time maybe. Travis also predicts that American highways will all become toll roads, and that's of course a wet dream of today's privatization sect, and one that's coming closer to fruition every day. Okay, Travis missed a few too. Goat's milk has not become a major part of the American diet yet. And as far as we know, Mexico has not yet offered instant citizenship to Americans who purchase property over the border. But here's the thing about predictions—there's no time limit. If they haven't come true yet… just wait. We predict that we'll have more issues of Rampage soon. Scans below.


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Yay! I was selected to be a brand ambassador for K'NEX this year. What does that mean? It means that they send our family products to use and review. All opinions regarding the products are my own.
What they sent this week was the Mighty Makers Deep Sea Dive set. Mighty Makers is their new line they've created in an effort to increase young girls' interest in building sets. My initial reaction to a new line of products "girl colors" wasn't entirely positive, to be honest. I mean, the whole gender-specific-toy issue is one that can frustrate a lot of people, including my daughter who is not a lover of pink and gets generally disgruntled about "girl" toys being marketed in the typical way. Until we received this particular set, my daughter Elliott had no issues building with K'NEX sets in primary colors. Imagine that, right?
However….she really got excited about this set! The set design, box, and -yes- the colors appealed to her. Coincidentally, she's been watching documentaries lately about sea creatures and learning about marine biology. This set and the timing of its arrival could not have been better! She thinks she might even pursue marine biology as she gets older and this kind of just reinforced that. Chalk up a point for Mighty Makers!
She busted right in, sorted pieces (that's my girl!), and got busy building.
She adored the little diver and fish.
She snacked on veggies as she worked happily and (yay!) quietly. Feed your body, feed your mind.
Before long, she was finishing up the bottom "ocean" part.
Working on the boat was more detailed and I think she enjoyed it immensely.
She was thrilled with the completed scene and looks forward to building the other two options that are part of this set. That will be another happy afternoon for my future marine biologist!


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If you attended last month's Story Project, you know what a spectacular evening it was!
In honor of Citizens Project's 20 year anniversary, the Story Project hosted past Divine Award recipients Richard Skorman, Mary Lou Makepeace, Rosemary Harris Lytle and John Weiss for an evening of remembering our community and connecting Citizens Project's past to its future.
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Hindus around the world celebrate the holy month of Shravan dedicated to Lord Shiva. It is celebrated for 30 days and devotees observe fast and perform special 'abhishek'. In Hinduism, the meaning of 'Shravan' is described as 'to hear' means you should remain as silent as possible – less speaking more listening to religious and spiritual things. There is also a story of Markandeya associated with this month.
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Event-B Statemachines
The Event-B Statemachines Plug-in provides a way of adding state machines directly in to Event-B machines. The statemachines generate additional guards and actions which are added to the events that exist in the same machine. It offers a UML-like diagram editor for state machines, as well as a state machine animation facility based on the ProB Animator.
The iUML-B Statemachines plug-in is available for installation from the Rodin update site (Modelling Extensions category). Version 2.1.x and greater requires at least Rodin 3.x.x. For Rodin 2.8.x or earlier, install Version 2.0.x.
The iUML-B Statemachine Animation plug-in is available from the Rodin update site (Verification and Validation category). Version 2.1.x and greater requires at least Rodin 3.x.x. For Rodin 2.8.x or earlier, install Version 2.0.x.
The plug-ins require EMF and GMF frameworks, Event-B EMF framework, Event-B EMF Extensions framework, Event-B diagrams framework and , for animation, ProB - all of these dependencies will be installed automatically during installation installation.
Using the tool
The tool consists of a standard UML-like graphical editor for state machine diagrams, an integration to Event-B Explorer and a translator to Event-B language. Some of these may seem familiar to you if you have experience with UML editors or UML-B plug-in for Rodin.
To start the modelling all you have to do is to select a machine in the Event-B Navigator that you would like to extend with state machines and right click to get the Context Menu. Then select Add Statemachine from the context menu. An input dialog will appear asking you to name the new state machine. After that you should see the new state machine appear in the contents of the machine in the navigator. Double click on the statemachine in the navigator in order to open the statemachine diagram editor. In addition, there are Open and Delete actions available for state machine in the context menu of the navigator. These allow to open a state machine in editor (shortcut is double-click) and delete a state machine (shortcut is Delete key).
Diagram Editor
To edit a state machine in the diagram editor you simply double-click it in the navigator. The tool creates a diagram file for you with the same name as the root state machine.
Working with the editor is straightforward. The element creation tools are available from palette, divided into three categories: States, State Features and State Links. When a diagram element is selected on canvas the Properties View shows its available properties (if you cannot find it, please go to Rodin's menu Window > Show View > Properties). This view allows you to modify important features of each diagram element that will affect its translation.
Diagram editing is possible by using either a single editor, as state machines support unbounded level of nesting, or multiple editors - by opening each specific state machine in a separate editor (select Open Diagram from context menu of a nested state machine after right-clicking it). As nesting depth of state machines and number of states grows and the model becomes large this can be a useful feature.
After a state machine is complete it can be validated to make sure it has no semantic errors and translated to Event-B. When translated, it can be animated with ProB.
iUML-B contributes four toolbar buttons which perform the following actions:
- Validate - Runs the validator to check that the state-machine model is well-formed
- Translate to Event-B - Generates the Event-B that the State-machine represents. (Automatically runs the Validator first)
- Start Animation - Animates the state-machine diagram (using ProB)
- Stop Animation - Stops the state-machine animation and returns to the Event-B editing perspective
Diagram Elements
The diagram allows to create the following State elements:
- State
- Initial
- Final
- Junction
- Fork/Join
- Any
A state can have nested state machines, added from State Features (also called parallel (or orthogonal) regions). A state may own invariants (or theorems) which are defined as Event-B predicates. States can have transitions from one to another, created from State Links.
Transition Event Elaboration
Transitions have a many-valued relation to Events via a property attribute called elaborates. This means that the transition contributes its behaviour (state change as well as any attached property features) to existing events in the same Machine. The relationship is flexible and powerful. A single transition can elaborate many events representing different cases and/or several transitions in different statemachines can elaborate the same event so that the statemachines are forced to synchronise on those transitions. [Note that you should take care not to specify an event that can never be enabled. For example, if two transitions in the same statemachine elaborate the same event].
Transition Properties
A transition can be endowed with any of the features that are normally contained in events (i.e. parameters, witnesses, guards, actions). These features are added in the properties view when the transition is selected. They will be copied into the elaborated events when the state-machine is translated. Hence, although the state-machines are envisioned as ancilliary to a regular Event-B model, all modelling can be done from the diagram if so desired. [Note that only guards may be added to transition segments that target a junction (see below)].
A junction pseudo state is available from the diagram palette. Incoming transition segments to a junction generate a disjunctive guard. I.e. the transition may fire from either of the incoming transition's source states. Junctions can be cascaded if required in order to build a bigger disjunction.
Junctions can also be used to split the transition path so that the incoming disjunction is contributed to all of the outgoing paths
Note: transition segments that target a junction may not elaborate events.
Forks and Joins
A fork/Join pseudo state is a available from the diagram palette. (The same pseudo state node is used for both fork and join). A fork is used so that a single transition can enter several parallel nested statemachines (which must all have the same parent state). A join is used to exit several parallel nested statemachines.
An any pseudo state is a available from the diagram palette. An any state is used to represent all of the states at the same level in the state-machine. Hence a transition whose source is an any state can fire irrespective of the current state of the statemachine. Note that the semantic is the same as a transition whose source is the parent state (statemachine boundary). Hence the any state is mostly used in the root level state-machine where there is no parent state.
A statemachine can be lifted to a set of instances so that the statemachine represents the behaviour of all of these instances. This is similar to statemachines that are owned by a Class in the classic UML-B. In fact the feature will be used for this purpose when iUML-B class diagrams are available. The generated Event-B is lifted by adding an extra parameter to each elaborated event in order to represent the contextual instance. The name of this parameter can be specified for the state-machine. The instance set and the self-name are both set in the properties view for the state-machine. [Note that currently instances must be constants or carrier sets, variable instance sets are not yet supported].
The semantics of Event-B state machines differ from those of UML. Like Event-B, UML-B semantics are based on the underlying concept of spontaneous atomic guarded actions that change the state of the variables. Comparing with other commonly used semantics such as UML, UML-B has no concept of external events that may trigger transitions, no ability whereby one transition may invoke another and, as there is no so-called `big-step', terms such as `run to completion' have no meaning. (All these things can be, and often are, modelled explicitly when required by constructing suitable control variables and guards).
Translation to Event-B
State machines, states and transitions are contained within an Event-B machine and generate new elements in that same machine upon translation. There are two alternative translations available which are selectable from the properties view of the root level statemachine.
- In the Enumeration translation, a single variable is generated for each statemachine. Its type is an enumerated set which is generated from the states of the statemachine or, for a lifted statemachine, a function from the instances set to this enumeration.
- In the Variables translation, a variable is generated for each state of the statemachine. The type of these variables is BOOL or, for a lifted statemachine, a subset of the instances set.
In either case, invariants are generated to ensure that the statemachine (or a particular instance thereof) is only ever in one of its states at a time and that the hierarchy is obeyed. Transitions contribute guards and actions, representing the state change of the transition in the chosen data representation, to the events that they elaborate. An invariant in a state will be translated into Event-B by adding an anticedent that the state is active (i.e. the statemachine is in that state).
There are some semantic rules that must be obeyed in order for a state machine model to be valid and translatable to Event-B. These rules are implemented in the validation framework and are checked either when validation is called explicitly from the context menu, or before the translation. Note that the set of rules is currently not complete thus not guaranteeing full correctness of the model.
Rules: [NEEDS UPDATING]
State machine
- Name must be valid (not null, nor empty string)
- When Instances is defined, the self-name must be valid
- Must have exactly one initial state if it is a root-level state machine
- Must have exactly one initial state if it is a nested state machine with outgoing local transitions (going from a state to parent state or ANY state)
- Cannot have more than one final state.
- Concrete state machine cannot have refined states
- Refined state machine cannot have concrete states
Initial state and transition
- Initial state must have at least one outgoing transition
- Initial state cannot have any incoming transition
- Transition cannot go directly from initial state to final state.
Final state
- Final state must have at least one incoming transition.
- Final state cannot have any outgoing transition.
State (not initial nor final)
- State name must be valid (e.g., not null nor empty string)
- Any invariants' name must be valid (e.g., not null nor empty string)
- There cannot be two invariants with the same name.
- Invariants' predicate must not be null
- Concrete state cannot contain refined state machines
- Source and target states must not be null
- Source and target states must not be dangling states.
- Source and target states must be valid states.
- Must elaborate and event if it is on the root-level state machine (either its source or target belongs to a root-level state machine).
- It is in a nested state machine and not initial or final (its source/target is not initial and final state).
Not all the rules are strict i.e. violation of certain rules is not considered an error as it doesn't cause translation problems, but keeping a model semantically correct means everything will be translated as intended.
The diagram editor, as mentioned, has two ways of checking the diagram model against these rules: selecting Validate from the diagram context menu or running a translation. After validation completes, it produces feedback in the form of a dialog, which lists any warnings or errors. The elements that violate specific rules are marked with error/warning markers, which are listed in the Rodin Problems view, as well as displayed on the diagram.
Known Problems
Implicit Context extends chain becomes broken. This only applies when using the Enumerated Translation which generates an implicit context to define the enumeration set of states]. If you refine a machine containing a State-Machine without translating the refined statemachine (i.e. because your refinement didn't alter the statemachine) then subsequent refinements that do alter the statemachine introduce errors because the link to the abstract implicit context is not maintained. A work-around is to translate the statemachine of the middle refinement even though you didn't change the statemachine. This will create an empty context to maintain the chain. Alternatively you can manually edit the extends of the implicit context in the refined level to link to the abstract implicit context. However, you can only do this using the Rose editor's Advanced tab because the generated implicit context is read-only to other editors.


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With 30 years of experience, Heinz Performance is a well established name in the car and tuning world.
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Every car and motorcycle is unique. Developing your own software is therefore of the utmost importance. Thanks to our years of experience, we manage to develop such software and continue to optimize it.
The programs for that software are developed on a 4×4 test bench. This makes it possible to approach reality up to 95%. The lost 5% is due to the isolated environment in which work is being done.
Improving or tuning the engine can be done internally in the chip or externally via a module. We do these optimizations for all common car brands such as BMW, Audi, Mercedes, Porsche, Opel and many other brands. Select your car brand above, then choose the model and the engine and we immediately show the profit you achieve with our chip tuning. Price is also mentioned per model.
Improving a car can go very far. That is why we speak globally about 3 stages of improvement. Below, you will find a little more explanation about the 3 stages.
We measure your car on our specialized 4 × 4 power bank. Based on this measurement, we individually adjust the engine management of your vehicle. The bottom line is that we adapt the program and that parameters such as ignition, injection and the like are custom-made on our power test bank. All values are of course within the safety standards imposed by the manufacturer.
We improve the performance of your engine by replacing a number of components around the engine. Intake and exhaust systems are often not optimized by manufacturers, because they want to keep the sound of the vehicle low. If we ensure that the engine gets more air (e.g. with a sports air filter), a lot of power can be gained. The same principle also applies to exhausts.
We replace parts of the engine. This can range from replacing a turbo or camshafts to increasing the cylinder capacity.


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Groundnut is grown on a large scale in almost all the tropical and sub-tropical countries of the world. Production of oilseeds has grown almost double in last 12 years from 176 lakh MT in 2000-01 to 321 lakh MT in 2012-13. In addition, cottonseed has emerged as a significant source of edible oil for India. Other significant sources of edible oil are copra, palm oil, rice bran and oil meals.
Total world production of groundnut in 2012-13 may amount to approximately 37.19 million tonnes (2011-12: 35.33 million tonnes). China, India, United States, Nigeria, Burma, Argentina and Indonesia are the major producers of groundnut globally. India exported 5.35 lakh metric tonnes of groundnut worth Rs. 4,065.38 crores during the year 2012-13. Major Export Destinations were Indonesia, Vietnam Social Republic, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand.
Groundnut production in Kharif (2012-13) was 26.20 lakh tonnes and the same was 41.75 lakh tonnes in Rabi 2011-12 in India. The major producers of groundnut are Gujarat (26.34 %), Andhra Pradesh (19.08 %), Rajasthan (17.68 %), Tamil Nadu (9.54 %), Karnataka (7.63 %), Madhya Pradesh (7.25 %) and Maharashtra (5.34). The major groundnut growing districts in Karnataka are Chitradurga, Dharwad, Belgaum, Bijapur, Raichur, Bellary and Bidar.
Kharif groundnut is expected to hit the major markets from the month of November onwards. There is an upward revision of minimum support price to Rs. 4000/q. Keeping in view of the rainfall, cropped area, stock position an econometrics price analysis of groundnut for the benefit of farmers to take suitable marketing decisions are made by the NAIP -Market Intelligence wing of the Department of Agricultural Marketing, Cooperation and Business Management, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. The last fifteen years monthly modal price data of Challakere market using time series model was analysed. Based on the analysis and Market survey, it is forecasted that from November 2013 to December 2013 the prices to be around Rs. 3600-3800 per quintal and the prices level increases only from March 2014 onwards. Farmers are advised to sell well dried and sorted groundnut to realize better prices as storage will not result in profits. This forecast is valid for current market sentiments. Although groundnut oil is nutritionally superior, the prices of palm oil, soybean oil and cotton seed oil has a bearing on groundnut market sentiments.
The MSP is fixed at Rs. 4000/q. But the market prices are likely to be Rs. 3700-3800/q. Hence, it is recommended that the Government of Karnataka can make arrangements for procuring groundnut at MSP for the benefit of farmers.
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Dr.C.P.Gracy, Jyoti Naik, Nagashree,N.
Department of Agricultural marketing co-operation and business Management
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Last year did urban youth no favours whatsoever. The student protests followed by the riots were, among other things, a PR disaster. In Southwark a group of young artists and entrepreneurs have got together and decided it's time to rehabilitate that image.
One Little Spark is a pop-up shop and gallery in the heart of East Street Market showing and selling work inspired by the surrounding area and created by young local artists. There is clothing for sale sporting the slogan "I love Walworth" and a variety of other Southwark inspired products.
The space looks fantastic and is testament to what a group of young people can achieve in a very limited time with very limited budget. The premises belongs to the Peabody Trust and have been lent to the group by Southwark Council who are in full support of the project.
Every Sunday will be a 'meet the artist day' with the hope that local people will visit and talk about the area; what they love, what they want to change and share memories from days gone by.
This Friday you can meet the team, and the artists at the launch party between 2-4pm. The Mayor of Southwark; Loraine Lauder, will be cutting the ribbon on what will hopefully be the beginning of a transformative project.
Find One Little Spark at 57-59 East Street, SE17 2DJ from Friday 9 until Sunday 25 March.


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2013 Volkswagen Golf R Cabriolet - 270HP and 350Nm
Volkswagen has released a new promo video of the upcoming 2013 Golf R Cabriolet. The high-performance open-top car is identical to the concept version unveiled at GTI-Worthersee in 2011.
The Golf R Cabriolet comes with aerodynamics package including a new aggressive front fascia, aerodynamic side skirts and a dual exhaust system. There are also LED DRLs, some gloss black accents and Talladega-style alloy wheels fitted with low-profile tires.
The interior boasts embroidered leather seats, a flat-bottom sports steering wheel and R logos all around.
The model will be powered by the 2.0 liter turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine with 270HP (199 kW) and 350Nm (258 lb-ft) of torque. 0-100 km/h in 5.9 seconds and a top speed of 250 km/h (155 mph).
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This special series, produced in 2018, features former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III, speaking at a private event organized and recorded by "The Aaron Harber Show TM" prior to his appointment by the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") as the Special Counsel (e.g., Special Prosecutor) in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential Election.
We decided to create this series because Robert Mueller is referenced in the news daily by a number of parties but he does not personally respond to statements made about him. Because most Americans have not had the opportunity to see him in an unrehearsed setting, we have created this opportunity as a public service for citizens to hear Mueller firsthand discussing his career prior to serving as DOJ Special Counsel and make their own evaluations of him.
In the beginning, Aaron describes the event featuring Mueller to the audience consisting of over 200 personnel from the FBI, DEA, ATF, Secret Service, Federal Marshalls, Police Captains and Officers, Sheriffs and Sheriff Deputies, Firefighters, DOJ officials, other Homeland Security personnel and other First Responders along with 200 high school students from communities across Colorado and 100 invited members of the public.
Aaron then hands the microphone over the former Secretary of the Interior and former U.S. Senator Ken Salazar, who was Mueller's law partner at the time the event was recorded. Salazar gives a detailed explanation of his history and relationship with Aaron and then goes on to give a similarly detailed introduction of Mueller.
Mueller then takes the stage to answer questions posed by Aaron, who already did two full-length programs with the him when he was the Director of the FBI.


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The government and media promotion of militarism and war reached fever pitch this week in the lead-up to Anzac Day, the centenary of Australia's participation in the disastrous British-led invasion of Turkey's Gallipoli Peninsula on April 25, 1915, during World War I.
The wall-to-wall propaganda, which is part of the four-year WWI centenary, is unprecedented. On current estimates, Australian governments—federal, state and territory—will spend over $400 million on the centenary, double the combined totals being expended by Britain, France, Germany, New Zealand and Canada.
The funds are being used to produce a vast array of newly-commissioned Gallipoli-themed works and events—music, dance, drama, visual arts, travelling military displays, seminars and books, as well as war history scholarships and research grants. Such is the barrage of military-theme broadcasting that someone visiting the Australia for the first time could easily think they had arrived in a country under military rule.
Leading the media juggernaut is the state-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). While commercial networks are airing hours of WWI centenary shows and broadcasts, none can match the sheer volume of material being churned out by ABC.
Announcing its Anzac Day coverage this year, ABC managing director Mark Scott declared that the broadcaster would ensure that every citizen could "immerse" themselves in what he claimed was the "most significant moment in the nation's history"—that is, Australia's involvement in the invasion of Turkey. "Drowning the population in Anzac militarism and war" is a more accurate description of the ABC's centenary coverage.
Plans for the ABC's war programming were initiated in 2013, under the former Gillard Labor government.
While Australian governments have always claimed that they do not intervene in the network's programming decisions, the Labor cabinet instructed the ABC to produce a range of shows to "commemorate and raise awareness of the Anzac Centenary." This would not be confined to WWI but "all the conflicts in which Australia has participated," it said.
Additional funding would be provided, not just for radio and television documentaries and shows, but also for other programming on a range of media delivery platforms, including TV interstitials, vignettes and on-board airflight snippets.
While all this is promoted as "raising awareness" and "honouring the dead," its purpose is to promote Australian martial traditions, stifle broad anti-war sentiment, justify current military interventions in the Middle East and condition young people in particular for even more disastrous imperialist conflicts.
In line with the government directives, ABC television, radio, digital services and online content over the past month has been dominated by Gallipoli military history and related documentaries, dramas and interviews, along with readings from war veterans' letters and "personal stories" from soldiers' relatives.
Many of the programs are very similar in giving a sense of the horrors of the battlefield, the suffering of soldiers and the impact on their families. But very few even touch on the reasons for the war and why lives were being squandered over the Gallipoli Peninsula. Those reasons lay in the imperialist rivalries and predatory ambitions of all the Great Powers and their allies.
The network's live coverage of Anzac Day events commences tomorrow at 4.25 a.m. and continues without interruption until 7 p.m. This includes direct broadcasts of the Gallipoli military ceremony in Turkey, military marches in all Australian state capitals and speeches by the governor general and the prime minister, all of which will be replicated on the ABC's radio network.
Hundreds of ABC jobs were axed in the Abbott government's budget last year but no expense has been spared for the war centenary coverage. The ABC, in fact, has despatched 38 radio and television reporters, presenters, camera crew and technicians to cover the Gallipoli military ceremony in Turkey.
Contacted by the World Socialist Web Site yesterday, an ABC spokesman said the network was provided with additional funding by the Department of Veterans Affairs. But he refused to disclose how much, or what the network was spending for either Anzac Day or the four-year war centenary.
Every ABC department is involved in one way or another. There will be separate DVD releases of the military dawn services—at Gallipoli, France and Australia—and the Anzac Day marches in every Australian capital city.
A special interactive app, Gallipoli: The First Day, has also been developed in conjunction with the Department of Veterans Affairs, along with a range of commercial products. These include a DVD recording of an Anzac Symphony, which is being premiered in Istanbul and numerous music and spoken word recordings and books.
ABC-TV Education and related broadcasting services are targeting children and teenagers with dramas such as Small Hands in Big War, based on children's war diaries, and My Place, set in Australia during WWI. There is a Behind the News Special, which includes a quiz show for teenagers on the war centenary.
Yesterday, ABC's Radio National featured a program telling parents how to "explain" WWI and war deaths to children. For pre-schoolers, the ABC will publish Lest We Forget, a children's picture book.
ABC managing director Mark Scott yesterday sent out a newsletter to all employees, urging them to "absorb as much of our coverage as possible" because they would be subjected to an internal survey.
ABC staff would have to tell the network "what you loved, and what we could do better," he said, so that management could plan "big, pan-ABC projects that really highlight the ABC's unique position in Australian life." In other words, the state-funded network will be intensifying the war centenary propaganda.
None of this, of course, is simply about history. Included in ABC programming this month is Radio National's Retrospect: War, Family and Afghanistan, an audio and interactive online digital series involving six former Australian soldiers. On Monday, ABC-TV's "Four Corners" combined archival interviews with Gallipoli veterans with commentary from current members of the military in a program entitled Anzac to Afghanistan. The purpose of these programs is to whitewash Australia's involvement in the illegal occupation of Afghanistan and cover up the war crimes perpetrated in that country.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Labor Opposition leader Bill Shorten constantly use the war commemoration to justify Australian military involvement in the bogus US-led war on terror and the current intervention in Iraq. When Abbott visited New Zealand this week, he pointedly drew comparisons between the Gallipoli campaign 100 years ago and what he called the "sons of Anzac" fighting in the new US-led war in Iraq and Syria.
The flood of Anzac programming underscores the degree to which the ABC is being transformed into an open propaganda arm of the government and state apparatus. Its carefully cultivated reputation for objectivity and even-handedness, which was always within the bounds of what was acceptable to the political establishment, has been abandoned as it has become a vehicle for the glorification of militarism and war.


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Many of the machines in your gym probably get a bad rap. Compared to the free weight compound movements like squat, bench press, and deadlift, the Hammer Strength and Nautilus machines in your gym often look a little soft. Bodybuilders will sometimes see them as inferior, designed for women, children, and the elderly, never to be touched by a strong man seeking to add muscle to his frame. However, this is not true. It is very possible – and often advantageous – to use the machines in your gym to keep the muscle and strength gains coming. Let's examine some of these advantages!
Joint wear & tear
As we age, the cartilage in our muscle groups tends to wear away over time. No matter how much we stretch, how well we eat, or how healthy we eat, we're going to be facing the prospect of surgeries in our 50s or 60s if we're still lifting heavy. One key to keeping your joints healthy as you age (or keeping problems areas from inflammation when you are younger) is to use machines from time to time. Same pump, less wear n' tear!
Avoid the weight
Is it nearly impossible to get into the free weight section of your gym at 6 pm on a weekday? Chances are, the place is packed with people training chest, biceps, and shoulders, leaving very little room for you to get in there. Instead of losing your pump walking in circles waiting for a turn on a bench, why not move over to the very empty, inviting machine presses or curls? You'll get the same pump, without all the waiting!
Training around soreness
If you completed a monster back day yesterday, you're probably limping around the gym today, aching any way you turn. Hopping on a flat bench and attempting a heavy bench press today will leave you in excruciating pain as the lats and biceps are recruited to help you to move the weight. You should try using machines in these situations. You'll be able to isolate the muscles of the pectorals without recruiting so much assistance from support muscle groups which may be in need of rest today!
Muscle group isolation
There will always be times when you just want to focus upon a single muscle group, without bringing in many support groups. When larger muscle groups are asked to control and lift a free weight, they will often recruit support muscle groups, or secondary muscles, to help move the work. For example, your triceps and shoulders might end up doing more work then your pectorals on an incline bench press movement. Machines can help to alleviate this problem by allowing you to focus solely upon the primary group being trained.
Interestingly, if you look at some of the biggest professional bodybuilders in the sport as they train, particularly before a show, you'll notice that many of them will use machines almost exclusively. For them, the name of the game is adding new muscle to their body through small incremental increases in weight used on movements over a period of years, along with consistent caloric surplus eating that leads to the gain of new muscle. Follow these tenets for your own growth, making machines an integral part of the progressive training process.


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How Do You Plan a Park That's Meant to Flood?
When the team from SWA Group, an international landscape architecture firm, collaborated with the Buffalo Bayou Partnership on a master plan for Buffalo Bayou Park, they faced unique challenges they hadn't quite encountered before. Not only is ours an urban park that runs along a natural, running body of water, it's surrounded on both sides by development. And since the bayou is inextricably linked to Houston's drainage system, they knew that at times, the park was going to get really, really wet.
"The first and largest obstacle is just the fact that if you're trying to put in permanent park improvements, and anything below the very tops of the slopes will go underwater relatively frequently—at least a couple times a year," says Scott McCready, a principal at SWA.
Because of this, the plan called for raw concrete and galvanized steel, which holds up in floods and is easy to clean afterward. All of the electrical wiring is above the floodplain, and the lighting fixtures include an automatic off-switch which activates when waters rise to a certain level.
The lawn has been reduced by about 50 percent, McCready says, replaced by nearly 14,000 trees, as well as wildflowers and native grasses whose more robust root systems absorb more water deeper into the ground. These plants provide the additional benefit of creating a natural habitat for local wildlife and allowing park-goers to experience nature rarely glimpsed in an urban setting.
The result is both seductive and surprising: a protected pocket of Houston's native landscape, in the middle of the busiest part of the city, that feels entirely removed from urban life. "We wanted to create a place for people, but we also really wanted to maintain and enhance the quality from an ecological standpoint. That involved compromises, including natural banks. We left a rough natural bayou edge, and it's not going to be a perfectly pristine edge," McCready says. "It will gradually erode on the edges, and it requires a lot of maintenance. That was a calculated risk and consideration for the project long-term."
That maintenance includes removing silt buildup on bayou banks, which can sometimes add eight inches or more after a significant rain event, as well as removing invasive species from the water and its banks and cleaning up after floods. Meanwhile, some parts of the park—like Johnny Steele Dog Park, which has gone underwater in every major rain event since its opening—will always require a higher level of maintenance.
"We kept the park where there was basically an existing dog park, and it's in a low spot. It was understood that it would go underwater, but it was exacerbated in this record year. And it also rained a lot while we were under construction, so it was harder for the plants, which help absorb water, to get established early on," McCready says, adding that the Partnership is exploring maintenance options that might help mitigate the impact of flooding.
Like so many others, McCready sees the park as a game-changer. "At the end of the day, parks and trails aren't just things that are nice to have, they're things that are necessary to have for the health and happiness of Houston's citizens," he says. "It's an added benefit where we already have a natural area existing. It helps get Houstonians back in touch with the natural systems that aren't easily identified in the core of the city, and to still be able to see that firsthand raises awareness about the importance of preserving and enhancing them."


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This is an ideal accessory for those unfortunate enough to still be lugging around a laptop that doesn't have a built-in Wi-Fi card. If you're tired of hiding that embarrassing protrusion from the slot of your notebook at Starbucks, now you can get something that will give you wireless access and make you look like a cutting-edge geek at the same time.
Asus has come up with what it calls "the world's smallest 802.11n USB 2.0 card," which comes with its own cradle that plugs into your computer and proudly sits upright in full view like an announcer's microphone. Not only that, but it really is on the forefront because the company says it works with the latest version of 802.11n Wi-Fi (100 Mpbs) as well as the older "b/g" speeds, according to Slippery Brick. So take heart: That Pentium dinosaur of a laptop may still have some life in it yet.


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I have not seen many DE lists with Reavers in them. Stelek recently threw a fun one out there
3 units of 8 Reavers with FNP (using the Homoculi) and Duke to reroll combat drugs.
A few Wrack & Trueborn squads
I like this, but I'd still run Ravagers. I haven't considers Wracks yet, so I am still with the stock Warriors/Wyches lists at the moment.
BOLS article on Reaver Jetbikes, it is very sweet. Take a gander.


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When A Child Says Something Brilliant and Magnificent…
I Call It, "The Quote of the Day"
Situation: It was the end of the day. Barrett was tired and close to tears. But we had promised a crab catching expedition. So, while talking to PopE, I used the secret "spell-it-out" code of parents (and grandparents) everywhere.
Me: "Ahhh… PopE, we need to go, if we're going to go, because someone is T-I-R-E-D and getting C-R-A-B-B-Y."
Barrett: "Grandma, are you spelling out cuss words because PopE doesn't allow you to say them?"


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The Value of Shabbat
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Recently a guy in my school asked me what I do without my phone on Shabbat. I told him that I spend Shabbat having intimate conversations with my family and friends. He responded by telling me that I am missing out on so much that life has to offer because of my religion.
I then asked him what he does on Friday nights. He responded with "Friday nights are crazy: I party with my friends and enjoy my life."
The thing is, I don't believe that I am actually missing out on much. The opportunity cost of keeping Shabbat and spending Fridays and Saturdays with family and friends is simple getting drunk and wasting your time doing absolutely pointless things. Seriously, ask any successful person how they reached their goal, and they will NEVER tell you that they accomplished anything through partying and wasting as much time as possible. Like if you ask Bill Gates his secret to success, I promise you he will never answer with "go to the club every Friday, chill with your friends, and make sure you waste as much time as you possibly can." Life is honestly sooo short – in my opinion we need to live through it carefully by acting upon our values, as opposed to drinking every day while saying "YOLO."
This brings me to the question of "What are our values?"
Sadly, today's modern society values the amount of instagram followers you have. "I can't talk to people who have less than 500 followers on instagram." "Did you see what Kylie Jenner was wearing?" "OMG Ashley is totally wearing too much makeup in that pic." Although this might sound funny, those are actually quotes I hear from real people. In our lifetime, more people probably know about the Kardashians than about the government. I recently watched a video on youtube of a guy asking simple questions, such as "what are the 3 branches of the US government?," and people had no clue. Those exact same people were able to name all of the Kardashian sisters, their broken relationships, and even their favorite food.
The one thing I hope all of you guys can take away from this is that there are more important things that we can do with our lives than watch "I love North and Kanye." I truly have nothing against Kim Kardashian but come on. What is really important in our lives is spending time with our family, building relationships with our friends, and putting quality effort into such important things in life. For that reason, I find Shabbat very important: I get to enjoy special moments with my friends and family. On regular days, when all of us have our phones out, we spend time together, but if we hang out for 1 hour, at least 20 mins will be spent taking selfies, showing each other cool things on instagram, and the like. That is why we as Jews are blessed to have this gift of Shabbat, a single day when we can just reflect on what is important in our lives.


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Who doesn't? Generating traffic to your website is the ABC of digital marketing. But, getting them there is only the beginning of your challange
A million visitors a day won't help your business if those visitors aren't the right ones. If they're not in the market for what you sell, all that traffic will amount to nothing. Our job as a marketing agency, is to grow your website's traffic, but we focus on the right kind of traffic. We work with you to create a custom strategy based on your specific customer base and prospects' needs and desires.
Blogs are anchors for inbound marketing, so we start by quickly building up our clients' blogs. High-quality, relevant blog content not only attracts traffic to your site, but it also builds your reputation as a thought-leader in your industry.
With a blog as a reposit for your quality content, you can use social media to reach out and hook traffic back to your website. Social media marketing isn't just about volume and numbers; it's about engaging influencers and creating a powerful distribution channel for your high-quality, thought-provoking content. Be where the conversations are. And then start leading those conversations.
What is it that your future customers want to know about? What needs do they have that you can meet better than anyone else? This is where an effective inbound marketing strategy comes into play. We can help you integrate SEO into your strategy so your website will move up in the search engine result rankings.
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For Immediate Release, November 24, 2014
Feds Agree to Protect More Habitat for East Coast's
Most Endangered Whales by 2016
BOSTON— A deadline for expanding critical habitat protections for the North Atlantic right whale — one of the world's most endangered whales — has been set in response to a legal settlement agreement. Each year most of the 500 North Atlantic right whales remaining on Earth migrate from their feeding and breeding grounds off the U.S. Northeast to their nursery areas off the Southeast. But only a tiny portion of this expansive range is protected as federally designated "critical habitat" under the Endangered Species Act, making the whales more vulnerable to threats that include commercial fishing gear, ship strikes and oil drilling.
The settlement requires the federal government to make a final decision by February 2016 about where and how much additional habitat should be protected.
"If these whales are going to survive in the long run, we need to protect the most important waters where they live, eat and raise their young," said Sarah Uhlemann, a senior attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity. "Every year these endangered whales have to navigate a virtual obstacle course of threats on their migration along the coast — an ocean dense with fishing nets and lines, crisscrossed by speeding vessels and increasingly roaring with underwater noise."
In 2009 a coalition of environmental and animal protection groups formally petitioned the National Marine Fisheries Service to significantly expand habitat protections to include all of the whales' nursery and breeding and feeding grounds. The petition pushed to expand the whales' protected area more than tenfold, from roughly 4,000 square miles to more than 50,000 square miles.
Although the Fisheries Service has repeatedly acknowledged that expansion of critical habitat area is needed to protect right whales, it failed to move forward. Last spring, the groups filed suit in federal court in Boston to force action. The settlement agreement, filed on Friday, sets a legally binding deadline for the Service to issue a final decision.
Ralph Henry, senior attorney for The Humane Society of the United States, said: "The National Marine Fisheries Service's protracted failure to take action leaves whales vulnerable to injury and death in their most essential habitat areas. Protecting the right whale's vital habitat is the most common sense step toward moving this species out of the emergency room and onto the path to recovery."
The groups' petition seeks expanded protection for the whale's calving grounds off Georgia and northern Florida, critical feeding habitat off the Northeast coast and the mid-Atlantic migratory route between calving and feeding grounds. In areas designated as critical habitat, the federal government must ensure that activities including commercial fishing, vessel traffic and oil drilling will not diminish the value of the habitat or reduce the whale's chance for recovery. This is especially important because most whales run the gauntlet of ocean dangers twice each year, migrating south to north and back again.
"The North Atlantic right whale is truly a species in crisis. Its population is perilously small and the whales face numerous threats, yet for years the Fisheries Service has refused to act," said Jane Davenport, senior staff attorney at Defenders of Wildlife. "Expanding protected areas is critical to the North Atlantic right whale's survival and recovery and this decision can't come soon enough."
The primary threats to imperiled right whales are ship strikes and entanglement in commercial fishing gear. In response to conservation groups' prior actions, the agency recognized these threats by issuing a rule requiring reduced ship speeds and a rule requiring fisheries to reduce the amount of gear in the water. But the whales are also seriously threatened by habitat degradation, rising noise levels (which distress whales and can interfere with their communication), climate change, ocean acidification and pollution. Today's agreement will help further address these threats.
Regina Asmutis-Silvia, executive director for the Whale and Dolphin Conservation, said: "Right whales have the potential to recover. The choices we make now are the deciding factor as to whether our grandchildren will have the opportunity to see live North Atlantic right whales off our coasts, or only be able to read about them in history books."
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If you're among the millions of Americans that have noticed your auto insurance premiums skyrocketing in recent years then you may want to thank the people in your life who habitually text and drive. Since 2009, the average, annual U.S. car-insurance premium has risen over 17%, to $926 in 2016, according to trade group Insurance Information Institute.
And, just like Obamacare, that rising premium is simply the socialization of added risks created by people making bad life decisions...like driving their cars at 80 miles per hour on a crowded freeway while simultaneously looking down at their phones to text about the latest Kardashian rumor.
Of course, auto insurance rates are rising despite all of the high-tech, anti-collision bells and whistles that have been added to vehicles (at a very hefty price, we might add) over the past decade as seemingly no amount of gadgetry can offset the benefits of actually keeping your eyes on the road...no matter what Tesla would have you believe.
According to a note from the Wall Street Journal, 36% of drivers admitted to texting and driving in a State Farm survey in 2015, which we assume means that the real number is roughly double that.
It's "an epidemic issue for this country," said Michael LaRocco, chief executive of State Auto Financial Corp., at an insurance-industry conference last month.
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., the largest U.S. auto insurer by market share, said 36% of the people it surveyed in 2015 admitted to texting while driving, and 29% said they access the internet, compared with 31% and 13%, respectively, in 2009.
State Farm's survey found that 52% of respondents in 2011 owned a smartphone, and 88% owned one in 2015.
"Distracted driving was always there, but it just intensified as more applications for the smartphones became available," said Bill Caldwell, executive vice president of property and casualty at Horace Mann, in a recent interview. The insurer expects to raise rates 8% this year, on top of average 6.5% increases in 2016.
Oddly enough, insurance payouts started to spike right about the same time the first iPhone hit the shelves in 2007.
Meanwhile, as if texting and driving weren't bad enough, roughly 20% of people admitted to State Farm that they regularly snap selfies from the driver's seat and about 10% record videos....because why not?
The alarms being sounded by the industry are based partly on internal investigations to determine causes of policyholders' crashes. Many insurers collect police reports, witness statements and their own drivers' accounts in costlier wrecks, executives said. In claims that involve litigation, they may obtain drivers' phone records, they said.
State Farm began surveying the public in 2009 to assess behind-the-wheel phone use. Drivers that participated in the survey acknowledge the distractions of their smartphones, according to State Farm, but many continue to use them. In the latest survey, about one-fifth of drivers admitted taking photos with their phones and a 10th recorded video. Both these activities were added to the 2015 survey.
"Those are big numbers, and they are going in the wrong direction," said Chris Mullen, who heads State Farm's technology research.
Of course, life is just a little better when we spread the wealth around to pay for the bad decisions of others...just ask Obama.


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The Electric Ginger Kool-Aid Acid Test Experience
How To Avoid Death By Gingercide, by Red Vickerson
The Argentine and I had been friends
on the surface for years, but secretly we
tried snubbing the other out like
Spy vs Spy on mescal or a sadistic,
Red-Headed road runner facing off
against a better looking (somewhat)
version of the Javier Bardem villain in Skyfall
(But no less dark and certainly as deadly. )
Little did the mad southerner know,
his usual concoctions, (likely some type
of hybrid new age tantric majick mixed
with the older school brouhaha of
dark variety I suspected but could never prove)
all the while, it boosted my tolerance.
Because you see, when you're a red-headed-
Bastard-step-child living in an anti-ginger world,
you build a certain second skin, see.
You learn to Suspect interference,
to anticipate anti-Ginger sentiment
at every turn and to remain
Ginger proud
On the outside
at all times.
I took to parading my belief's
as a humorous shtick in around
2005 and flipped quite the return out of it,
not to mention a back log
of information on hundreds
of involved parties in public displays of "G-Hate"
I became like the Stasi or the KGB, or G-Men
and kept similarly laborious notes.
I invested in a new phraseology;
Gingerfictation, Gingiduce, and
Ginscrimination namely.
To which he even playfully executed
a response of late
Which included full on Gingercide;
the ultimate party gift!
The gingerier the better!
And how fucked that gingerier
is an accepted word!
(see http://hernanjmonzon.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/how-to-kill-a-ginger/ )
I spent hours re-watching every red-head
Coded film (2,227 or so)
and found all the necessary algorithms
of hate to confirm my suspicions;
a worldwide plot to eradicate us
has failed time and time again,
because we are the chosen ones,
and must mobilize, as my weekly
pamphlet and webcast
"The Red Truth Diaries" explores
in more detail.
(see "The Red Mailbox: Stories for the
Formation of a New Red Initiative")
In the end this endless war
will undoubtedly burn
but will be forced to take small and minor place
amidst the greater atrocities of oppression in history.
But we will keep absorbing souls,
and gaining freckles for each one,
like vampires, in the folkloric pop culture
Et al. public subconscious long after every
Other demon has been vanquished, extolled,
We. Are. Le'(Gin)gion.
(drinks anti-freeze, absorbs another soul,
Moves on, cackling like Ron Howard
During the 2001 Oscars saying yeah bitches!
A Beautiful Mind is an allegory for my people!
When I use Albino's I'm really saying
We will rule one day,
and forced Gingrifying will
take place in every city.
A mass, unconsentual
Gingrification, indeed.
It will be like when the Christians
Fucked the Jews out of Rome and
Ieverything went to shit, but more epic.
And it will be me and the Argentine there
laughing, piss-poisoned-drunk and only
to willing to encourage mayhem further.
Such it is, being the Red Other.


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Suadi Arabia, Riyadh: His Excellency, Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Eng. Abdul Latif bin Abdul Malik Al-Sheikh, honors Al Arabia Outdoor Advertising for sponsoring and participating in the first Saudi Smart Cities Conference organized by the Ministry and held in Riyadh on the 16th of May 2017.
The conference explored topics related to the future development of Saudi cities, including intelligent urban planning, smart city governance, and intelligent mobility among many others. The participation of Al Arabia in this event emphasizes the importance of the outdoor advertising industry in building the identity of smart cities as well as the industry's adoption of technology and innovation towards the formation of the futuristic cities.
The conference drew over 700 participants from around the world, and included a competition for Saudi youth to provide innovative smart solutions for Saudi cities in smart urban planning, intelligent transportation, smart Hajj and many others.
Commenting on the recognition and the sponsorship, Mohammed al-Khereiji, CEO of Al-Arabia Outdoor Advertising said: "We are delighted to receive the Arab Foreign Advertising Award from His Excellency the Minister, and we are proud to be the strategic partner of the first Saudi Smart Cities Conference under the slogan 'Smart Solutions for a Better Life.' As a leading company in the outdoor advertising industry, we have a lot to contribute towards innovative future solutions that keep pace with the needs and requirements of the people, in addition to the social and economic development of Saudi cities. It is important that these contributions are in line with the programs implemented by the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs towards building the identity of these cities to achieve sustainable urbanization in the Kingdom."
"We will continue to support innovative Saudi initiatives and contribute to the economic, social and cultural development of the Kingdom, in line with vision 2030 and our responsibility and role as a leading Saudi company in the outdoor advertising industry." Al Khuraiji added.
The Smart City concept is about using ICT to improve urban lifestyles, achieve sustainability, find intelligent solutions to address urban and environmental problems, and manage cities and infrastructure in effective and smart ways. Several countries are developing and implementing strategies and action plans to build smart cities in accordance to specific policies.
The support extended by Al Arabia Outdoor Advertising to the conference reflects the company's ability and willingness to adapt to future changes and provide innovative smart outdoor advertising solutions and interfaces that are compatible with the cities.
The partnership with the conference reflects Al Arabia's commitment in addressing their clients evolving needs in light of the continuous technological progress and the development of business models.
As part of its social responsibility and business strategy, Al Arabia supports innovative local initiatives in Saudi Arabia and is dedicated to serving the Saudi society.


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On 19 December 2016, the city of Berlin was struck by an atrocious attack at a Christmas market that left 12 people killed and 48 injured.
UNICA President Prof. Luciano Saso, Members of the Steering Committee, and the staff of the UNICA Secretariat extend condolences to the families, relatives, and friends of those killed in the attack. We share the grief of and stand in solidarity with the communities of our two Berlin-based universities, Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
While commemorating the memory of innocent victims of the Berlin attack, we do not forget about all those suffering from terrorism, violence and cruelty, whether in Berlin, Aleppo, Ankara, or elsewhere in the world.


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The BlackBerry Priv comes with Google's Android OS, the device will also feature additional security from BlackBerry.
Now BlackBerry has revealed some more information on how its security will work on the Priv and on Google's Android platform.
You can see a list of the security features below that have been incorporated in the new Priv handset.
- BlackBerry's Hardware Root of Trust, a unique manufacturing process that injects cryptographic keys into the device hardware, providing a secure foundation for the entire platform.
- Verified Boot and Secure Bootchain, which uses the embedded keys to verify every layer of the device from hardware to OS to applications in order to make sure they haven't been tampered with.
- A hardened Linux kernel with numerous patches and configuration changes to improve security.
- FIPS 140-2 compliant full disk encryption on by default to protect your privacy.
- The BlackBerry Infrastructure, a secure distributed global network that transmits petabytes of encrypted data to and from the world's most powerful leaders and professionals.
- BES12, the leading Enterprise Mobility Management platform used by the world's most powerful governments and corporations.
You can find out more details about the security on the new BlackBerry Priv smartphone at the link below, the handset is expected to go on sale next month.
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