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6 Evil Corporations in Movies (With Terrible Business Plans)
The unethical, profit-hungry megacorporation is a pretty standard movie villain; they sacrifice morality for money, giving the hero something to fight against while also demonstrating the evils of capitalism in perhaps the most ham-handed way possible.
But when you think about it, despite all their supposed greed, they're pretty terrible at making money.
#6. Weyland-Yutani (Alien series)
The Business Plan:
1. Capture the universe's most dangerous, uncontrollable creature.
2. ???
3. Profit.
What They Did Wrong:
Let's face it, alien xenomorphs are a terrible investment. They don't follow orders, you can't trap or control them and the only way they can breed is by killing every human in the vicinity. Nevertheless, where every sane person sees an unstoppable plague of violent death from beyond the moons, the megacorporation from the Alien series sees only profit.
How? Well, that's never quite clear.
As the story progresses over four films, it becomes embarrassingly apparent that Weyland-Yutani, supposedly some kind of space-exploration company, uses all of its mainstream operations as a front for their secret master plan to collect and domesticate aliens--a project that carries a 100 percent failure rate over the two hundred years they've been trying.
"Well gentlemen, the first two centuries didn't pan out but we have big plans for the third."
And although they never see any return on their investment, their methods only become more elaborate and costly. In Aliens, for instance, they waste mind-boggling amounts of money terraforming some shithole moon just because they caught wind that there might be aliens nearby.
You can just imagine the board of directors calculating their profit margin year after year, frowning at the annual 10-billion-dollar hemorrhage that occurs every time they lose a thousand employees and a secure facility to an alien massacre they provoked. And that's before the litigation begins.
Building better worlds by slowly killing off the human race.
Weyland-Yutani is clearly making money doing something, or else they couldn't afford to build all of those ships and complexes the aliens always wind up chasing people around in. Just stick with whatever that is. It's like finding out BP is secretly trying to weaponize sharks at the expense of one exploding oil rig per quarter.
Besides, what's the plan, to sell the aliens to the military as weapons? That's never going to pay off because as scary as they look, they don't make very good soldiers. Really, they're only good at killing unarmed people running scared through dimly lit corridors.
But should humanity ever go to war with milk-filled, effeminate androids,
the profits are going to come rolling in.
#5. Tyrell Corporation (Blade Runner)
The Business Plan:
Sell android "replicants" for slave labor; when they burn out in four years, sell new ones.
What They Did Wrong:
While it may be ethically irresponsible, creating replicants with a four-year lifespan was a stroke of business genius. It's a textbook example of installing built-in obsolescence in a product so you're forced to keep buying. It's the foundation upon which a high-tech economy is built.
Unfortunately for the Tyrell Corporation, that's probably the only good idea they ever had. What's really baffling is why a company that designs robot workers for menial labor would waste millions of dollars making those robots so lifelike that nobody can tell them apart from regular human beings without an insanely sophisticated psychological exam.
These things are built to be soldiers, miners and sex slaves, so giving them anything beyond two arms and a set of genitals is like giving your washer and dryer a set of legs so you have to chase them around the house every time you want to do a load of laundry.
A bottle of Coke does taste better when you have to wrest it away from a resistant, sentient robot.
Indeed, the biggest problem in the Blade Runner universe is that the damn replicants keep escaping, forcing the LAPD to set aside an entire division dedicated to rounding them up all the time. Nobody is going to want a piece of equipment that not only is designed to fall apart after four years, but is also prone to escape the first chance it gets.
Here's an idea - make the replicants look like this:
Why even restrict yourself to the human form when you can design robots for the purpose they are intended? It makes sense for a soldierbot to have machine-gun arms, and people desperate enough to use a sexbot don't really care what it looks like as long as it doesn't insult their masculinity.
"Sh- she can't point and laugh, right?"
And, for the love of god, don't bother programming them to feel pain, oppression and resentment, otherwise your customers have no incentive to purchase your product instead of just rounding up illegal immigrants.
While we're on the subject of robots...
#4. Omni Consumer Products (RoboCop series)
The Business Plan:
Transform dystopian Detroit into the utopian Delta City. The problem is that crime has run amok, so they contract with the city to run the police department and wipe out crime once and for all. With robots.
Peter Wellerobots, to be specific.
What They Did Wrong:
We completely understand that much of RoboCop is satire, mocking corporate greed an America's war on crime.
The rest was explosions.
But what is baffling is how the greedy, money-hungry corporation was so bad at making money.
Seriously, their grand plan was to buy Detroit. Then they were surprised to find there were complications? How long did they expect it to take to convert Detroit from an impoverished, crime-ridden hellhole into this futuristic engine of economic growth? Fifty years? A hundred? The stockholders were OK with that plan?
"Don't you see? We'll simply kill Red Forman. It's foolproof!"
But then, where normal companies solve all their problems using expensive, high-powered lawyers, with Omni you replace the word "lawyers" with "robots." Seriously, they build robots for reasons where building robots doesn't even make sense. Putting aside the obvious issue with their beta testing (which involves live ammunition in the executive boardroom)...
"Shouldn't we at least take the bullets out of it before the demonstration?"
"Screw that, sounds like work."
...let's look at the basic plan of throwing billions into a project to replace the police force with ridiculously huge and overpowered stop-motion robots.
Most cops--even ones in Detroit--will go their whole career without shooting anybody. It's a job that involves dealing with people: investigation, getting stories out of witnesses, getting cooperation from informants and gathering evidence to prosecute bad guys. Omni's first solution for this is a walking tank with four automatic cannons and two rocket launchers. All of that shit is too big to even fit in a car or drive to a crime scene.
We get it, Omni is evil. But ED 209 is not even an effective evil cop--its communication consists of three or four pre-recorded voice clips--it can't extort money from people or make veiled threats or do anything a greedy corporation needs it to do.
And really, even the RoboCop program is a failure. They wound up with one model that works, though all his time is spent trying to defeat all the giant malfunctioning death machines and ninjabots the company keeps releasing into the community without adequate testing.
Really, no amount of testing would ever make this abomination
"adequate" for anything other than being horrifying.
All other attempts are expensive failures. Rather than cancel the program (you'd think the lawsuits would be piling up nicely by that point), they decide to build a robot with a brain from a dead drug-addicted sociopath. Hey, here's an idea: Take the billions you spent on that and hire enough human police to position them every 10 feet throughout the city.
After all, this is a publicly traded company (they mention selling stock more than once). You'd think their wasteful cyborg division would be getting skewered by Jim Cramer on a daily basis.


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ANDERSON, S.C. – Equaling its highest hit total on the season of 14, Anderson University baseball was unable to keep up with the offensive attack of UNC Pembroke, as the Trojans dropped the third game of the series, 14-7, Sunday afternoon at Anderson Memorial Stadium.
The Trojans matched Saturday's Game One total of 14 hits, as four players notched two hits for the day. Left fielder Nathan Galliford paced the lineup with a 2-for-5 afternoon, headlined with a long two-run home run that cleared the center-field wall. For the senior, the round tripper was his second in as many days, which currently leads the team.
Also totaling two hits was second baseman Kyle Bailey who matched Galliford's 2-for-5 effort with two runs scored and an RBI. Bailey now leads AU with six hits and a .462 batting average for the young season.
First baseman Steven Cooper was the final Trojan to a post a 2-for-5 afternoon, driving in one run to go along with a run scored. The sophomore was one of five players in the lineup to record extra base hits, joining shortstop Brett Cash, who recorded his first hit of the season, Bailey and senior David Jones.
"I'm disappointed with the effort today," Anderson head coach Joe Miller said. "We hit the ball, but we have to stop the other team from scoring as many runs. Despite the loss, I'm excited for the future with the lineup with the way we hit the ball today, because we faced some quality pitchers this weekend."
The Braves captured the series sweep, as they totaled 42 hits for the three-game set, including 21 on the day. Leading the way for UNCP was second baseman Daniel Fraga who closed the series 7-for-16 after posting four hits for the afternoon. Following Fraga was third baseman Jordan Edgerton with a 4-for-6 performance with two doubles. For the series, Edgerton, who was named to the NCBWA Preseason All-America Team prior to the start of the season, went 6-for-13 with three doubles and three RBI.
UNC Pembroke, which entered the weekend ranked No. 16 nationally in the College Baseball Lineup Poll, improves to 3-0 for the season, matching its start from a season ago in which the Braves strung together nine straight wins, eventually closing their season with a 38-16 record.
Anderson looks to get back on the winning track on Tuesday when it heads to archrival Erskine for the first leg of a season-long three-game series. First pitch from Grier Field is slated for 2 p.m.


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Let $W_t$ be a standard one dimension Brownian Motion with $W_0=0$ and $X_t=\int_0^t{W_sds}$. With the help of ito formula, we could get $$E[(X_t)^2]=\frac{1}{3}t^3$$ $$E[(X_t)^3]=0$$
When I try to employ the same method to calculate the general case $E[(X_t)^n]$, I got stuck. I guess $X_t$ should be normal distribution since it could be the limit of the following $$\lim_{n\rightarrow \infty}{\sum_{i=0}^{n-1}{W_{t_i}(t_{i+1}-t_i)}},$$
where $ W_{t_i}\sim norm(0,\sqrt{\frac{t_i}{n}}).$
If it is true, the problem would be trivial.
Update: Thanks for all the suggestions. Now I believe $X_t$ is a Gaussian process.
How about for this integral $$Y_t=\int_0^t{f(W_s)ds}$$ if we assume that $f$ is some good function, say polynomial or exponential, i.e $$Y_t=\int_0^t{e^{W_s}ds}$$ $$Y_t=\int_0^t{[a_n(W_s)^n+a_{n-1}(W_s)^{n-1}+...+a_0]ds}$$


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I'm reading Brown's theorem in Hatcher and Brown's original paper. I am confused by the assumptions concerning the generalized cohomology theory, which is defined axiomatically by the Eilenberg-Steenrod axioms except the dimension axiom. Brown replaced the dimension axiom by the condition that the nth cohomology group of a point is countable for nonzero n, and Brown said this condition couldn't be weakened. The wedge axiom used by Hatcher to define reduced cohomology theory, however, implies that the nth cohomology group of a point is trivial. This seems contradictory. Can somebody please help me?
The most general reference I know for Brown Representability for cohomology is Neeman's book on triangulated categories. There even fewer of the Eilenberg-Steenrod axioms are assumed (additivity is not). It's so general that it should cover both cases you list. In this sense, Brown was wrong and his ideas could be made to work more generally, without a countability hypothesis. For homology theories the story is more subtle and countability is often needed. In Neeman's book this theorem is one of the big goals, so it's stated in the introduction and proved close to the end (chapter 12 I believe). Check it out on Google books for a preview
Hatcher's Theorem 4E.1 in his 'Algebraic Topology' book is equivalent to Brown's Theorem II version (4.6) in his 'Cohomology theories' paper. Countability of coefficients is only required for Theorem II version (4.5). The first theorem is for cohomology theories defined on all CW-complexes, and the second one for those defined on finite CW-complexes. It looks like if the countability hypothesis were necessary if we wanted to represent cohomology theories defined only on finite CW-complexes, but this hypothesis was removed by Adams in 'A variant of E. H. Brown's representability theorem'.


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WELLSBURG - At the end of 80 minutes of soccer action between the Weir Red Riders and the Brooke Bruins Tuesday, one coach felt like his team missed a chance to get a win while the other saw his squad grow up in front of his eyes during the 1-1 tie.
"We had some bad luck," said Weir head coach Joe Pepe. "We had plenty of opportunities, especially in the second half, say the last 30 minutes we were all over the goal.
"It could have been four or five to one, but lady luck just wasn't with us this time."
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SLIDE TACKLE — Weir's Josh Groves slides in to knock the ball away from Brooke's Trent Radcliffe at the Brooke Athletic Complex Tuesday. The Red Riders and the Bruins played to a 1-1 tie.
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Added Brooke head coach Brian Cerullo, "I think we grew a lot tonight. This was the best game we played all year. I'm pleased with the game we played and we need to carry it over next week. We have (Wheeling ) Park next."
In the end they were both proud of their teams' efforts.
"Like I said, this is definitely the best game we've played all season," said Cerullo. "Everything started to come together today. I was pleased with our goalie and our defense.
"Weir came out and attacked really hard in that second half and we held up for 35 minutes, we just needed 40 to get the win."
Added Pepe, "This team has a lot of character. They're all friends and they all get along well. They know if someone is having a bad game then someone else is in their trying to pick each other up.
"I can't say enough about this team with our assistant coaches Milan Martich and George Barney. They've been working hard with the kids. It's just one of those things. It would have been nice to come away with the win, but you can't take anything away from Brooke.
"Any time Weir and Brooke plays, anytime Weir and Oak Glen plays, every time any of us plays there's that fire burning."
The Bruins struck with the game's first goal at the 28:35 mark of the first half. Doug Hardsouk played the ball out wide to James Harrick who lasered a shot from the right side past Weir goalie Matt Tenaglio into the left side of the net for the 1-0 Brooke lead.
"It was a miscommunication on our part, and we put that behind us after the goal," said Pepe. "The defense played extremely well. Everybody picked it up."
Added Cerullo, "We worked on putting the ball where we can make the keeper nervous and make the defense nervous.
"I'm not sure if there was confusion or not, but we found the back of the net on the shot. We'll take it."
That was the last time a shot beat Tenaglio, who ended up with eight saves. Weir had opportunities to tie in the first half with none better than penalty kick less than a minute after the Bruins goal. Shane Davis blasted a shot to the left, but Zachary Ciccolella, who saved 13 shots on the evening, dove and made the save.
With the score still 1-0 Brooke, Weir kept a consistent attack on the Bruins in the second half, but each time, whether by Ciccolella save or shots going wide or high, Brooke was able to maintain its thin lead.
"The second half we came out and played like we should have been playing," said Pepe. "If you saw how we missed the goals, a foot high or a foot over here, it was just one of those things."
Added Cerullo of his goaltender, "He was an animal today. He's been stepping up all year, and today he was pretty untouchable."
Then the Red Riders' broke through on a corner kick with under five minutes in the game. Alex Hannah sent the ball to the front of the net, Josh Groves played it off his foot to Ryan Duke who knocked it into the right side of the net off the bounce to tie the game at 1-all with 4:33 left.
Weir (7-1-1) hosts St. Clairsville Thursday.


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As season nears, we answer the big questions
High school football season officially begins Wednesday. Wednesday? What, already?
Yep. It's time for the first group of schools — ones that didn't partake in spring practice — to begin the five-day conditioning period mandated by the CIAC. The second group begins a week from today.
What does that mean? It's time to whet our collective football appetite, of course.
To get it all started, we've come up with 25 questions (and what can be construed as answers) about the upcoming season. We will answer five today, five more on Tuesday and then post the remainder of them on the Red Zone blog.
Let's get started:
Which of the Naugatuck Valley League's three new divisions will be most competitive?
It sure looks as though the NVL Iron will be the best from top to bottom. Naugatuck, Woodland and Wolcott shouldn't be far removed either way from what they were last year, and Torrington and Watertown are teams on the rise.
The NVL Copper has a clear favorite in Ansonia, but the Chargers won't be what they were last year. They will face division rivals Derby and Seymour within the first four weeks of the season. Oxford and St. Paul will be in rebuilding mode.
Waterbury's own division, the NVL Brass, is Holy Cross' to lose — as it may be for the foreseeable future — but the other four squads should play some competitive games against each other.
Is Ansonia a shoo-in to break Cheshire's consecutive wins record?
No way. The Chargers have won 43 straight, six shy of the Rams' all-time mark. But Ansonia will have its least proven team in four years and faces two rivalry games in the first four weeks (Derby on Sept. 19 and Seymour on Oct. 2).
The Chargers should be favored through Week 5, though, and would have a chance to tie the record in the NVL-SWC Challenge on Oct. 17 at Newtown. Yep, that's last year's SWC champion, which boasts great size all over the place and one of the state's best receivers in Julian Dunn.
And finally, should Ansonia navigate those waters, the record-breaker would be at home Oct. 24 against Holy Cross, a team that usually plays the Chargers as well as any NVL bunch.
How much improvement will the NVL's northern teams show?
Torrington and Watertown will both definitely be better than they were last year.
The Indians went 1-10 a year ago but have a new coach in Luigi Velardi, who has plenty of support throughout town and has attracted the program's highest turnout in recent memory. Plus, plenty of underclassmen from last year's group return.
The Red Raiders won three of their final four games last season and could be a real thorn in the sides of the NVL Iron's top squads. Second-year coach Gaitan Rodriguez is confident that junior quarterback Connor Finn can elevate himself to be among the league's best.
Who will emerge as the NVL's best quarterback?
Now that Woodland's Tanner Kingsley and St. Paul's Logan Marchi have graduated, the door is open for a new group of seniors to shine. The top three returning quarterbacks all prefer to use their arms, but they're also exceptionally mobile.
Naugatuck's Jason Bradley (2,650 yards, 38 TD; 10 rush TD) is the preseason favorite as he enters his third year of starting. Wolcott's Vincent Gambino (2,756 pass yards, 35 TD) and Derby's Michael Kreiger (2,214 pass yards, 24 TD; eight rush TD) aren't far behind.
Finn, Crosby's Mike Marshall and Holy Cross' Joe Kalosky should also be in the mix.
How will Woodland's offense change after losing Tanner Kingsley?
Things have been quiet out of the Hawks' camp, but it sure seems like the right time for new head coach Tim Phipps and his staff to switch back to the wing-T offense.
There's no natural quarterback like Kingsley waiting in the wing, and Woodland is stacked with running back talent. Sean McAllen (1,586 yards, 16 TD) enjoyed a breakout sophomore year, and if Coby Vaccarelli returns from another ACL surgery, it would make for a terrific one-two punch.
Plus, the Hawks bring back their four best offensive linemen and may have the league's best group.
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I recently saw a recruiting page for a software company where one of the requirements was "Excellent knowledge of C++."
Now, I know this somehow implies as expert knowledge of C++, but where exactly does expert knowledge fit into. Is it the knowledge and experience of (let's say) eight years of programming in the language, having and knowing the ins and outs of a specific domain. Or, is it a more brush-up, surface approach to one or more domains and a at the same time a more detailed understanding of the whole language?
For example, you cannot be an expert at writing system drivers and game engines at the same time. So, where does this excellent or expert knowledge fit into?


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Wednesday, June 6, 2012 - 07:00
for the outstanding achievements of being the first American railroad to win the coveted International Brunel Award.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 - 07:00
A historic journey for the space shuttle that will permanently call New York home.
Monday, June 4, 2012 - 07:00
The MTA Long Island Rail Road has your ticket to see history in the making as Triple Crown contender "I'll Have Another" makes his run for the 144th Belmont Stakes this coming Saturday, June 9.
Monday, June 4, 2012 - 07:00
Talk about a room with a view! Seven new peregrine falcon chicks are living in their parents' nesting boxes high atop three MTA bridges
Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 07:00
Congratulations to all our winners! Twenty-five individuals and groups had been accepted into the Music Under New York (MUNY) program after performing at the program's 25th annual auditions held on May 16.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 07:00
Third Tunnel of Four Underneath Sunnyside Yard Completed in Nine Weeks
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 07:00
Bridge and Tunnel Officer Anthony Presley was honored by Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes at his annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Day Awards.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 07:00
MTA New York City Transit wants customers to know that there are two kinds of traveling MetroCard Service Centers: the MetroCard Bus and the MetroCard Van. Both vehicles make regularly scheduled stops in all five boroughs each month.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 07:00
Whether your destination is the Hamptons or Montauk Point on the South Fork or such North Fork destinations as Mattituck and Greenport, the LIRR is dedicated to making the journey convenient and comfortable, while you save time, money and energy getting there.
Friday, May 25, 2012 - 07:00

This weekend, we rehabilitated in the Bronx and Brooklyn and four stations on the  Line.

Friday, May 25, 2012 - 07:00
The LIRR offers money-saving special Beach Getaways to 12 of Long Island's finest beaches -; including Jones Beach State Park, Long Beach and an assortment of Fire Island beaches to suit everyone's tastes.
Friday, May 25, 2012 - 07:00
MTA Metro-North Railroad hopes to attract a restaurant tenant to the historic Poughkeepsie Station, which has undergone $40 million in restoration and passenger facility improvements.
Friday, May 25, 2012 - 07:00
Have you seen the oversized white cocoon enveloping the Throgs Neck Bridge near Ferry Point in the Bronx?
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 07:00
The MTA honored two police officers for saving the lives of three Long Islanders in April.
Monday, May 21, 2012 - 07:00
In a continuation of the ongoing effort to improve and upgrade bus travel throughout the City, the MTA will roll out Select Bus Service (SBS) along the S79 this September.
Monday, May 21, 2012 - 07:00
Elevator reliability is at 98.1 percent during the first quarter in 2012, up from 96.7 percent in 2010. Escalator reliability is at 96.2 percent, up from 91.6 percent in 2010.
Monday, May 21, 2012 - 07:00
For 15 years, the value of real estate in Grand Central Terminal has soared four-fold, and now, as the building prepares to turn 100 years old, the MTA has created two large new spaces to lease for the first time ever. The spaces are envisioned for sit-down restaurants.
Friday, May 18, 2012 - 07:00
This week, New York City Transit's Eagle Team members were presented with a 2011 Unit Citation for the excellent work they performed throughout the year.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 07:00
The sound of harmonious voices and musical instruments from across the globe echoed into the granite halls of Grand Central today as the MTA held its 25th annual auditions for its Music Under New York program.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 07:00
During the bustle of the evening commute at Penn Station, LIRR President Helena Williams recognized two 37-year, charter members of Mail&Ride -; the LIRR's widely-popular monthly ticket home-delivery service.


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|Charter For Reform of Arab Condition
[Unofficial translation, courtesy 'Arab News']
The Arab heads of state, after surveying the current situation in the Arab World, have noticed the silence that has gone on for too long, and the inexplicable disregard for the explosive situation in this area. This apparent paralysis and lack of recourse has provided the opportunity to some to attack and undermine legitimate Arab interests and rights.
In recognition of these facts, we believe it is high time to urge for an awakening of the Ummah [Islamic community] to solidify its will and to demonstrate its resolve to prove its vitality and its ability to face the threats and challenges of the latest developments and the consequences they entail. By responding to these challenges collectively, with determination and vitality, we will be fulfilling, first and foremost, the requirements that Allah demands of us when He decrees that He would not change the circumstances of those who do not change themselves in the first place.
Having deliberated on the long overdue but crucial requirements that our collective efforts need in terms of seriousness, integrity and commitment, they resolve to adopt a new Arab Charter. This Charter must ensure the protection of lawful Arab interests and needs, it must build the structure of joint Arab action on the basis of the strongest and not the weakest of links, and it must direct both inter-Arab and international relations and guide the Arab World in its relations with the international community. All that would necessitate specific mechanisms and clear programs to guarantee unequivocal and sincere implementation of Arab summit proclamations.
Consequently, and in the name of God Almighty, we have undertaken an oath to our people to work with steadfastness and determination to guarantee Arab sovereignty, safety and territorial integrity, and to boost our defense capabilities. We reconfirm our readiness to bear our responsibility to back the Palestinian Authority and the tenacity of its people in their occupied homeland while facing Israeli policies of brutality, occupation and siege.
The Arab leaders also renew their commitment for a just and lasting peace that is based on legitimate Arab rights, and further announce their commitment to try and implement the Arab Peace Initiative with all those who support peace the world over. For it is our enduring conviction, as the initiative indicates, that a just and lasting peace is impossible without Israeli withdrawal from all territories occupied in 1967, and without enabling the Palestinian people to exercise their legitimate, and internationally recognized, rights, which include the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. Furthermore, it is our conviction that the Arab Peace Initiative represents the minimum requirements to enter into normal relations with Israel, on the basis of related international resolutions, and in implementation of the Madrid Conference resolutions and the principle of Land for Peace.
The Arab heads of state decide that internal reform and enhanced political participation in the Arab states are essential steps for the building of Arab capabilities, and for providing the conditions for a comprehensive awakening and development of Arab human resources. Internal reform is needed in order to respond to the requirements for positive integration within the field of international competition, to achieve sustainable development, and to deal objectively and realistically with the myriad of novel changes in the economic sphere, especially with the emergence of huge economic blocs, the rise of globalization and what it provides in opportunities and imposes in challenges, and the accelerating development in the technological, communication and information areas. The Arab world shall continue to be an important tributary in the flow of human civilization in all its aspects.
Moreover, we express our adamant refusal of any external and non-legitimate aggression against any Arab state. Therefore, we are committed to the peaceful resolution of all inter-Arab conflicts. We will stand united against any Arab state guilty of aggression against another Arab state, irrespective of motives or circumstances. In this stand the Arab countries harbor no enmity toward anyone; their sole objective and intent is to defend their legitimate interests, and to channel their energies to serve international peace and security.
Given the fact that economics is the basic cornerstone for the strength and viability of states, the present Arab economic cooperation lacks conviction and credibility. To amend this situation would entail drawing up a plan for the establishment of the Greater Arab Area for Free Trade no later than 2005. Moreover, this plan should contain no exceptions and no technical or administrative restrictions. At the same time trade policies that are based on unified tariffs and duties should be forged with the end objective of creating a tariffs union in 10 years. These measures will enable the establishment of the Common Arab Market (CAM).
Additionally, since Arab economic cooperation should be founded on sound economic principles, it is of the utmost importance to support and encourage the private sector. This necessitates providing an environment conducive to private initiatives and investments, and which is attractive to both Arab and foreign capital. Above all, making use of Arab human resources, know-how, and expertise must form the bedrock of such an endeavor.
As such, whosoever is sincerely and wholeheartedly resolved to dedicating all his resources and capabilities toward implementing this new Charter in a serious and precise manner, his efforts shall be welcome. Those who find that these principles do not suit their aims and objectives cannot be a part of this joint Arab effort, and they would have the choice to act according to the dictates of their own particular inclinations. Henceforth, it will no longer be acceptable to promise what we cannot deliver.
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Mobile Crisis provides emergency crisis intervention services conducted in the field, early intervention in the field before situation escalates to critical crisis point, and consultation services provided to consumers, support systems, mental health providers and shelter providers. Assistance with linkage to outpatient mental health services. It has involuntary treatment evaluation capacity and determination of appropriate level of care. Psychiatry available for short-term medication services. Available to all adult residents (18 - 59 years of age) regardless of insurance.
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The new plant will provide Johnson Matthey with additional capacity for catalysts to meet the increase in demand from the introduction of tighter EU emissions legislation coming into effect from January 2014.
Johnson Matthey has officially opened a new 60 million
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manufacturing facility in Macedonia, the company said on
The new plant will provide additional capacity for catalysts to
meet the increase in demand from the introduction of tighter emissions legislation coming into
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The facility, which uses world class design and manufacturing
equipment to produce a new generation of catalysts for both
light duty and heavy duty diesel applications, was opened by
Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski.
The extended facility in Macedonia will have an additional
two manufacturing lines and brings the sites total
capacity to around 10 million catalysts. The site currently
employs 450 people and the extension will create an additional
200 jobs.
Johnson Mattheys initial investment in the Macedonian
facility has been a success, the company says. That
combined with projected increases in catalyst
demand are the main drivers for the expansion.
The new extended plant will predominantly produce SCR
(selective catalyst reduction) catalysts used to reduce emissions of oxides of nitrogen
(NOx) from diesel engines.
I would like to thank the Prime Minister and his
government institutions for their continued support over the
last five years," said John Walker, executive director of
Johnson Mattheys emission control technologies
"Our facility here in Macedonia is seen as a benchmark of
manufacturing excellence within Johnson Matthey and is
recognized by our customers for its world-class manufacturing
design, technology and employees," he
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Republic of Macedonia with the lowest taxes is the place to invest.It is good for business and job opportunity for the Macedonians.Macedonia's government of N. Gruevski is most honest in the Balkans and wider. To Johnson Mathey,congratulation on your extension and thank you for the support to Macedonia!
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I am looking forward to see as soon as posibal, your investmants in Masedonija, in area near Tetovo. This is because I am an mechanical engineer with scecijality in hydrotechnic, pneumatics and automaticsm and I got right on professional title, with total score 8,81.I have an professional eksperiance for 15 years, working in this field.My English is verry good, also I am speeking Germanu language.The working activities that I have performed previosly consist of:-installation and commissioning of high process and high automatic equipement for completely automatic waste water treatment plants-constructing and designing of Hydraulis machines-mechanical maintenance of hydraulic and pneumatic systems-also team working,according previosly prepared plan for preformance, aii working activities were finished perfectly from my side and under my supervision.Also I am 41 years old, I have a wife and two children.I hope that mu letter of intent will be taken into consideratin durring deciding and positively recruit, because I was sennding this letter and my CV, a few times, from the begining od Jonson meti investmants in Macedonia, but I never got any answer.Please answer my letter and CV, this time.My mobil phone is:00389-71-223-942 and:00389-78-860-033, Best wishes
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When I bend the string, my fingers pressing on the bended string always easily go under the upper string. I think part of the issue is that my strings are quite high, but after fixing the height down a little bit, I still can't make it completely right. And I saw in some tutorial videos one almost presses on two strings and bend them all up, though they actually only ought to bend the lower string. Is that right way to do it?
If you bend the thin E string, I can't see any other way than that the B and sometimes G string will also follow in the same movement. They are not making a sound since they are not touching the frets. So the tutorial videos are showing the correct way of doing it.
First of all adjust the action/height on your electric guitar , this link may help you or you can just google it . For your second issue, suppose that you want to bend 8th fret of second string (this note is
Don't think it is really an issue. Sometimes adjacent strings are pushed too, so they bend as well, silently. Sometimes the adjacent string goes over the bent string as its pushed underneath.Does it really matter? If people like Hendrix had spent (wasted) their time thinking 'is this the correct way to do it' we'd still be in the dark ages.Whatever works best for the individual is best.No-one should have the right to state on the internet: 'This is the proper way to do this'when trying to show the world how THEY do it. But the internet seems to be the new Bible.


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- 07 March 2013 10:34
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Anyone who has been paying attention to the football media over the past few years might have been waiting for this one.
From the moment that the teamsheets were issued to journalists at Old Trafford for Tuesday's Champions League clash between Real Madrid and Manchester United, you could have clicked your stopwatch and awaited the first Wayne Rooney to City story.
Well, Simon Rice of the Independent got there first as he speculated on City as one of Rooney's possible next port-of-calls after Sir Alex Ferguson opted to drop Croxteth's finest export since Francis Jeffers.
Rice reasons: "Rooney's infamous transfer request in 2010, a move which has been highlighted as a possible reason Ferguson will be prepared to do away with him, led to the possibility he might move to City which led United to offer him wages of £250,000-a-week.
"Roberto Mancini is always on the look out for new players and is yet to replace Mario Balotelli who left in January. "
2+2=4 or an idle exercise in slinging names at the wall in the hope that something sticks? The Guardian's Jamie Jackson reckons it's the latter.
"Manchester City have no desire to revive their interest in Wayne Rooney despite the uncertainty over his future at Manchester United, with the player's reputed £300,000-a-week salary pricing them out of the market," Jackson wrote.
"City came close to signing the forward in October 2010 when Rooney agitated for a move away from Old Trafford, claiming the club lacked ambition.
"But despite the wealth at City, they are not prepared to match the salary which, with add-ons, is believed to be around £300,000 a week."
In other transfer news, City have been linked with Arsenal's Carl Jenkinson and Crystal Palace's Jonathan Williams in the Daily Mirror and Daily Star respectively.
Elsewhere, attention is gradually shifting away from the Champions League and towards the batch of FA Cup quarter-finals taking place this weekend.
David Flitcroft (brother of ex-City skipper Garry) is in charge of the Tykes and he has been previewing the task that awaits his side on Saturday evening.
"There's a lot of excited fans as well, I think there's 6,000 coming and we could quite easily have got rid of 12,000," Flitcroft said.
"It's a real day out for the fans, who've had a lean time of it these last few years, so I'm delighted for them and the board.
"The club in general, I think we needed this pick-me-up."
Luke Steele is likely to start in goal for Barnsley and he revealed on Football365.com that he believes he'll be facing off against the finest in his position around.
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Finally, in case you missed the tweets and the footage from Inside City, a host of the first-team squad attended a glitzy event at Hugo Boss in Manchester City centre last week.
Manchester Evening News journalist Dianne Bourne was there to interview the boys, to grill them on their style secrets and attempted to uncover the squad's dodgiest dresser.
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LG512A: BEGINNING GREEK A. Tom Parker.
DESCRIPTION: This three-quarter course will cover the basics of Greek grammar, syntax, and vocabulary to enable the student to begin study of the New Testament in Greek. Various linguistic tools will be discussed as aids in translation. Emphasis will be placed on readings in the New Testament itself to supplement the exercise in the grammar.
SIGNIFICANCE FOR LIFE AND MINISTRY: One of the most basic elements in interpreting the text of the New Testament is understanding the language in which it is written. Students who successfully complete this year should, with the use of various resources, be able to consult the Greek text as a part of the exegetical task, and should be able to evaluate critical theological and exegetical positions which purport to be based on some feature of the Greek text.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: By the end of this three quarter track each student will demonstrate the ability: (1) to read aloud in the Greek language and to write legibly in its standard script; (2) to recognize a basic vocabulary and set of forms; (3) to understand its basic grammar and syntax; (4) to use the standard exegetical tools in translating and analyzing the original language.
COURSE FORMAT: The class will meet weekly for three and a half hours, for quizzes, discussion of prepared assignments, informal lectures, and reading of New Testament passages, for a total of 35 contact hours.
· See the Biblical Division Bibliography http://moodle.fuller.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=3002
PREREQUISITES: None
RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: M.Div.: GRK (when 3 quarter sequence is successfully completed);
MA: Elective; MACL: None
FINAL EXAMINATION: Yes
This ECD is a reliable guide to the course design but is subject to modification.


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BELLMEAD (January 10, 2013)—Four Bellmead teenagers were being held Wednesday in the McLennan County Jail charged with robbery and engaging in organized crime after another student reported he had been robbed.
Trevon Jamar O'Leary, 18, was the only one who remained in jail Thursday morning ordered held on bonds totaling $50,000, charged with robbery and engaging in organized criminal activity.
Alton Trayvon Hawkins, 17, also was charged with robbery and engaging in organized criminal activity but on Wednesday posted a $20,000 bond and was released.
Roderick Lamond Stubblefield and Marcus Labaron Evans, both 18, also were held on the same charges but both posted a $10,000 bond each and were released Wednesday, jail records show.
Bellmead police Detective Mike Miller said the four were arrested in connection with a robbery that was reported last Thursday night during which a LaVega High School student said he was robbed by a group of four other students with whom he'd been hanging out earlier that day.
The victim reported one of his attackers held him in a choke hold while the others went through his pockets and stole his watch and cellular telephone.


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On-campus parking is available at the Ohio Union South Garage, just a little south of the center, which is reserved for visitors' use until 4 PM on weekdays. After 4 PM on weekdays and on weekends, visitor parking is available in that garage, as well as at the nearby Arps Garage. We recommend parking in Ohio Union South Garage, as it is better equipped to handle visitor traffic and should get you in and out more quickly. These are your closest options to the Wexner Center, Mershon Auditorium, and Weigel Hall. Click here for rates and more info.
When larger events are taking place at the Wex or at a neighboring venue, special event parking may be set up in one of these garages. During these times, drivers will need to pay $5 (cash only) to enter the garage, and will not be charged upon exit (provided you leave by 6 AM the following day). Please hold on to your garage ticket, as it may be needed to exit the garage.
Convenient parking for the Wexner Center is also available at the South Campus Gateway garage, located one block east of North High Street between 9th and 11th avenues (see rates on the Gateway page).
All parking areas on campus are subject to football game day parking policies on home football Saturdays. Please expect increased traffic and a higher demand for parking in the campus area on those days.
Wheelchair-accessible parking is available in the Ohio Union South Garage. There are also a very limited number of spaces in front of Mershon Auditorium; please note that some of these are reserved for Ohio State permit holders.
A very limited amount of short-term metered parking is also available in front of Mershon Auditorium.
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I have only been on SE for a short while (and I really only find Stack Overflow relevant at all, all the other sister sites I've checked so far are very low quality).
What disturbs me on Stack Overflow and on other sites are how up-voting and down-voting work. Basically, to get a lot of up votes you need to do this:
Write a short summary that is somewhat correct. Highlight at least one word.
- Make a list
- Stating the same thing
- As the short summary
Maybe add an additional summary stating the same thing as the first one. Also add some very cheesy sample with
code tag.
And if you have more than some K rep you will be up-voted 5 times in matter of minutes.
I wonder, is this some old guideline or what am I missing? Why do we need the lists to consider an answer worthy to up vote?
Also, this behavior is a lot worse on the non-c/c++-related tags.
Personally I've stopped up-voting all answers following this pattern unless they really contribute to the question (when the answer was posted) just because I find them way too cheesy, am I breaking some guideline?


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To make a cold air return duct in my wall, can I simply use the studs and drywall to create the duct or do I have to use sheet metal also?
Panning seems to be allowed for return ducts only. I'm not sure if it is code compliant for all states, but it is allowed in the northeastern US. My house has one area that is "panned" in such a maner on the return duct. It is not lined inside, just normal 2x construction. The outside is panned with sheet metal.
This is an alternative to the sheet metal.
According to my city building inspector (in Utah) dry wall is fine for the cold air return only. The only time you might pan the area for a cold air return is when you have an open wall that is left unfinished.


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Fall 2010
Fall 2010 Executive in Residence
Paula Summa, BBA '78, MBA '84
General Manager, ibm.com
IBM Corporation
Monday, November 29
12:00 p.m.
Gottesman Room
Pleasantville campus
>> Click to see photos and highlights from the event
As the General Manager of ibm.com, Paula Summa leads a 5,000 person worldwide team responsible for driving approximately 11 % of IBM's total revenue. The ibm.com organization consists of 33 global inside sales centers throughout the world and has a global web presence in 83 countries, in 35 languages.
Ms. Summa has held various financial roles in her career with IBM, working with the various geographies and business units, primarily in the Sales and Distribution organization. Paula's first executive role was as Director of Accounting for U.S. Operations in Sales and Distribution, then she became Director of Financial Planning in Corporate Headquarters for IBM's Worldwide Marketing and Services Units.
Paula's talents were soon leveraged as Controller for Latin America from 1994-1996. In May 1996, Paula became the first Chief Financial Officer of IBM's Global Small and Medium Business Organization, which was followed by her heading the Global Business Partner Organization and ibm.com as Vice President of Finance and Operations. From January 1999 - October 2002, she was promoted to Vice President of Finance and Operations for IBM Global Financing. Paula then assumed the role of Vice President of Finance and Operations for Global Sales and Distribution, where she lead a staff of 7000 financial professionals until January 2006 when she was promoted to General Manager of ibm.com.
Ms. Summa is a member of the IBM Integration and Values Team, a recipient of the IBM YWCA award (Women's Achiever Award), and is a member of the advisory board at Pace University's Lubin School of Business.
Paula graduated from Pace University, summa cum laude, with a BS degree in Accounting, and was valedictorian of her graduating class. While working at IBM, she received an MBA in Finance from Pace University, where she graduated with honors.
General Manager, ibm.com, IBM Corporation
Monday, November, 2010
Lubin's Associate Dean for Communications and External Relations, Barbara Rose Aglietti, introduces ibm.com General Manager, Paula Summa BBA '78, MBA '84, who lectured on "Pathways to a Smarter Planet."
"The world is globally integrated, but we need to work smarter." - Paula Summa
"Technology can help with smarter supply chains, smarter traffic, smarter energy, smarter tracking of inventory..." - Paula Summa
Pace student leader Taylor Vogt discusses how the Pace chapter of Students for a Smarter Planet is working with IBM to engage students to be active participants in using computing power to solve business problems.
Communications Director for ibm.com, James Keller, with Paula Summa, and Taylor Vogt
Pleasantville students were honored to speak with Ms. Summa.
Pace faculty and administrators with Ms. Summa after her lecture


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This information was provided by an unrestricted educational grant from Integral PET Associates, LLC.
Clinically, a PET Scan can locate metabolic defects in the human body often before they have caused structural damage. It can do this with high sensitivity and reliability. This is a great advantage in deciding treatment courses and in diagnosing various conditions.
Since PET accurately and sensitively measures function or physiology in the human body it can detect problems before they cause irreversible damage to tissues. It may also detect response to treatment earlier than many other techniques, such as CT or MRI scans.
The areas in which PET is making critical contributions are cancer, heart disease, and neurology.
PET can detect active tumors in the body with very high sensitivity. Active tumors have a high metabolism and therefore high demand for glucose. In this way malignant tumors may be distinguished from benign tumors and hidden tumors may be found. Also the response of tumors to treatment (surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy or gene-therapy) may be seen and measured earlier by PET than many other techniques. Successfully treated tumors are destroyed physiologically often long before there is significant shrinkage of tumor volume. In this way stressful treatments can be assessed and completed earlier than might otherwise be possible.
Blood flow and glucose metabolism in the muscles of the heart may be accurately measured by PET. These measurements are made by imaging the distribution of intravenously injected radiolabeled ammonia (blood flow) and glucose (metabolism). Areas of low blood flow but normal metabolism in the heart muscle indicate heart muscle that may be repaired by restoring blood flow (repairing the appropriate coronary artery), while areas of matched low blood flow and metabolism may already be irreversibly damaged and so require other treatments. In addition blood flow in the heart may be measured at rest and after exercise to detect partly obstructed arteries in the heart responsible for angina.
Seizures or epilepsy often start from a single focus of abnormal tissue in the brain. When the frequency and intensity of seizures do not respond well to medication, surgery may provide permanent relief. In any event, injection of a tiny amount of radiolabeled glucose is used to image the metabolism of the brain by PET. If you were to have a seizure around the time of glucose injection the seizure focus would be an area of intense metabolism (and uptake). Between seizures the focus shows up as an area of decreased metabolism in the brain.
Brain trauma often results in subtle changes in brain anatomy and physiology, which may have marked effects on cognition and emotion. The physiological changes underlying these longer term effects of closed head or brain injury can frequently be demonstrated with PET scans of the brain.
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