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Birthplace: | Liverpool, Merseyside, UK |
Death: | Died in TITANIC at sea |
Cause of death: | Died in the sinking. Body Not Recovered |
Place of Burial: | Atlantic Ocean |
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About Thomas Holland
- Name: Mr Thomas Holland
- Born in Liverpool Merseyside England
- Age: 28 years
- Marital Status: Single.
- Last Residence: at 38 Walton Village Liverpool Merseyside England - Map
- Occupation: Reception Steward
- Last Ship: Olympic
- Victualling crew
- First Embarked: Belfast on Monday 1st April 1912
- Died in the sinking. Body Not Recovered
Mr Thomas Holland, 28, was born in Liverpool.
He was on board the Titanic for her delivery trip from Belfast to Southampton. When he signed-on again, in Southampton, on 4 April 1912, he gave his address as 38 Walton Village, Liverpool. His last ship had been the Olympic. As a first class steward he received monthly wages of £3 15s.
Holland died in the sinking. His body, if recovered, was never identified.
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Ueberschall has released Rare Grooves Vol.1. Here's the full story in their own words...
The wild, wild seventies - experiments in all areas and of course in music! This decade has stretched the borders of technology and expanded the sounds and styles in a wide range. It is not without a cause, this decade has been sampled most by producers and DJs. Rare Grooves exactly offers this feeling but on a legal base.
Rare Grooves brings the time and the feel of magnetic tape recordings into your DAW. Due to financial and technical limits of smaller studios of that era, sound experiments were a crucial part when finding one's personal sound. Among the favored stylistic devices were tape saturation up to the VU-meter's limits, lurching tape-delays, unusual reverbs, amplifier feedback an of course a good portion of overdrive - real garage sound.
Rare Grooves focuses on the early era of Funk where groovy soul-beats and energy-charged rock-elements still had an impact on this genre. This makes this library the perfect choice for hip-hop, breakbeat, crossover- and dance-tracks; be it for music production, mix tapes, soundtracks or advertisements.
Rare Grooves consists of 10 construction kits with a total of 734 loops. The kits cover a tempo range from 78 to 122 BPM. Kits 1 to 9 include intro, parts A and B, break and outro. Construction kit 10 contains 9 tracks of different classic breaks designed to be used in all other kits.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Cody Ross helped the Boston Red Sox rebound from a frustrating loss.
Ross had a home run and four RBI, Felix Doubront won his third consecutive start and the Red Sox beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-3 on Thursday night.
"I was going after this game tonight," Boston manager Bobby Valentine said. "The guys really wanted this game, and I was just going to do everything we could to win it. Just frustration [from Wednesday's loss], and we wanted to get back into the winning ways."
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The Red Sox were beaten 2-1 on Wednesday. The Rays' go-ahead run scored when Ross, in right field, had problems with the Tropicana Field roof and had to backpedal to catch Luke Scott's shallow sacrifice fly.
Ross extended Boston's lead to 5-2 Thursday on a two-run single off reliever Wade Davis with two outs in the eighth.
"Cody was big," Valentine said. "Cody will give you everything he has, and it's enough for me."
Doubront (4-1) allowed two runs and six hits over 5 2/3 innings. The left-hander was hit on the ear by a ball during batting practice Tuesday and cleared one day later to make his scheduled start.
Matt Moore (1-4) gave up three runs and five hits in six innings for Tampa Bay, which had its four-game winning streak snapped.
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Moore retired his last 10 batters. He struck out eight and walked one.
Alfredo Aceves, the fifth Boston reliever, got four outs for his eighth save. He allowed B.J. Upton's RBI single with two outs in the eighth.
After falling behind in the count 0-2, Ross worked a bases-loaded walk off Moore to put the Red Sox up 1-0 in the first. Moore avoided further damage by striking out Daniel Nava to end the inning.
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Patrolling The Middle Passage
Congress agreed to join Britain in suppressing the brutal and cunning slave trade, but Southern influence hamstrung the Navy when it came to enforcing the law
October 1958 | Volume 9, Issue 6
When she was well over the liori/oii her Spanish commander had her hove to, stripped of all identifying marks, and further disguised with a coat of black paint, lie then sailed back, landing well south of the Congo to get "slaved" quickly and away. It was a calculated risk, but it paid off. In a short time the Rebecca had taken aboard almost 1,200 Negroes, mostly men and boys, who woidd letch perhaps .8400,000 at Cuban prices. Just as the last few were coming on board, the Vixen hove in sight. As the Rebecca hastily weighed anchor, the Vixen , finding her warning shots ignored, opened fire in earnest at long range. But her gunnery was not all it might have been. The Rebecca got to sea unscathed anil, thanks to her Baltimore breeding, soon showed her heels to the puffing little teakettle.
The homeward voyage was uneventful. The slaves were landed on a small island oil' the south coast of Cuba to be shifted a few at a time to mainland plantations. The beautiful clipper was scuttled and burned so as to leave no trace of these doings, and her crew went their separate ways with bulging pockets. Even alter paying them oft and destroying a valuable 550ton ship, the Rebecca 's owners probably netted $150,000 on the voyage, the equivalent of three-quarters of a million dollars today.
Between them, the caper ol the Rebecca —curried out under the Stars and Stripes—and that ironical miscarriage ol justice in the Mary Ann case point up two curious, interconnected scandals that were at their ripest a hundred years ago: the genius of American shore authorities lor making the antislaving laws look foolish, and the U.S. Navy's poor record in bringing slave ships to book.
Neither the Rebecca nor the Mary Ann sighted an American man-of-war; even when she tried hard, the Mary Ann hadn't been able to find one. The reasons were that, at the time, the U.S. African squadron had only five ships and that nobody in Washington really wanted them to prove much anyway.
The Navy's poor showing was more the fault of politicians than of commodores, in i8j2, six years before the Mary Ann affair, the United States had formally agreed with Britain that each should maintain olf the West African coast an antislaving squadron mounting a total of at least eighty guns. Regularly spurred by zealous antislavcry cabinet ministers, the British Navy, except during the short naval emergency of the Crimean War, always assigned ships far in excess of this requirement. The American squadron, on the other hand, was seldom much above quota and often fell well below it. Number of ships, not of guns, was the crucial thing, anyway. Relying mostly on speed and guile, slavers seldom tried to shoot it out. When overhauled they would knuckle under to an S-gun schooner as readily as to a j-l-gun frigate, and ten small vessels could patrol five times as much coast as could the two frigates that would answer the gun requirement. The British Xavy, which meant business, used such small men-of-war on this duty, their squadron averaging eighteen vessels in the period 1842-57. The squadron of the U.S. Navy averaged four.
The treaty would have been more effective, too, had it stipulated the number of ships actually on patrol. The British got much time-on-the-job out of theirs by basing them at Sierra Leone, next door to the Gallinas, or on the island of Fernando Po, just off the concentrated slaving nests of the African coast. The U.S. squadron was based in the (Jape Verde Islands, z,ooo-odd miles from the Congo, 800 from the Gallinas. More than half the time, the American ships were refitting in port or voyaging between base arid station, in the mid-18.40's the United States brig Truxtun , tor instance, though she sailed under an unusually brisk commander, spent only 181 days cruising on station out of a total West African hitch of 468 days.
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wikiHow to Choose Your Very First Ball Jointed Doll (BJD)
Do you want to buy your first doll? Well, ball-jointed dolls can be very enjoyable--but unfortunately--the dolls are not really that cheap. They are really expensive. Probably $120.23 USD. WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP... So how can you actually determine that the doll you pick is worth the price? How can you figure out which doll is right for you? If you're wondering about this yourself, read on!
1Choose your kind of facial feature. Think of what kind of facial features you want your doll to have. How wide open their eyes would be or how close they would be? You must know what kind of eyes you'd like. What is the shape of the eyes/nose/lips? This can be very tricky, but you will need to know it since it would be your first 'dream doll'. Or you can just think of what your dream guy/girl would look, or take a look on your favorite actor/actress. It would help you a lot. But keep in mind that you that what you want may not be in the one single sculpt since they are made by sculptors, which also have different preferences on faces, so be ready to accept it but if you find a mold that is similar to what you want then it would be better to take note on that doll or bookmark it, but don't buy it so fast! Browse for some more, there may be other sites that have a more similar face that looks like what you exactly want.
2Choose your doll's personality. Do you want it to be sweet/shy? Do you want it to be cool or attractive? You must have it in mind, but really it's up to you if you want him/her to have a personality.
3Let them have their background story. Have their backstory ready! Did he/she come from a noble family? Was he/she abandoned? Is he/she a prince/princess? Or is he/she just a normal person. You really don't have to set them a back-story but it would be better if you gave them a personality just as said on the above. It would also be proper to set the personality and back-story to be compatible to each other, for an example if he/she was abandoned then his/her personality would either be that he is an emo/ emotionally poor, etc. They must blend together.
4Have clothes set for them. Most of the dolls are bought nude. It's just much cheaper that way, but it doesn't have a face-up, dress, eyes, or wig. So you'll need to buy them separately, but really, it's fine enough for you to be able to choose what you like. It is better to buy them from the same site that you brought your doll with, since it would be less for the shipping cost. So you must set the doll's clothes or choose them according to the personality and background story you set them with. Remember! they must blend together. For an example, if he was abandoned then his/her personality is emotionally unstable. So then it would be better to have him wear clothes that would show his personality. In this matter, black clothes are favorable.
5Choose the face-up. The face-up must also blend to his/her personality, background and clothes/accessories. Just as stated on the first 3 paragraphs; there are different types of them. So then if you buy a nude doll, you'll need to have his/her face-up but since you're a beginner, and probably doesn't know how to put face-up on them you should--preferrably--have their face-up custom-made. Except it would cost more, so choose a doll whose face-up and facial features you like, so you can order them on their regular face-up.
6Have a PayPal account. Of course, first of all in purchasing your first doll you'll need to have a PAYPAL account, since all of the bids are bought online, but if you're in Korea And Japan (where bids are mostly made) then you can search for them if you're in the vicinity, and purchase them directly from their shop. But keep in mind that they most likely will not have an actual store. They usually have online shops, so be ready to have a Credit card since you'll need it for PayPal; and Wi-Fi or internet connection if you want to be updated everyday about your dolls and to see your e-mails, regarding your questions to the online store.
7Browse different kind of sites. Since there are a lot of sites online that you can purchase ball jointed dolls from, you don't need to be impulsive and just buy it. Who knows if you will ever find your dream doll on other sites? So be a good researcher and STAY CALM.
8Now you're done! Have fun, and maybe show others your BJD!
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Almond and Grain Tart (Pastiera di Mandorle)
- 2 cups flour
- 1 large egg, beaten, plus 2 yolks, beaten
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted with 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil and cooled
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups fresh ricotta
- 1 1/2 cups sliced blanched almonds, ground to powder in food processor
- 1/2 cup cracked wheat, soaked in water overnight
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons orange flower water
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 6 eggs, separated
- 1/2 cup orange blossom honey
Mound the flour on a pastry board. Make a well in the flour and place the egg, yolks, sugar, butter and olive oil mixture, and the vanilla in the center. Proceed as you would with fresh pasta, bringing the flour in bit by bit from the sides. When the dough comes together, knead until smooth, then allow to rest 10 minutes. The dough will be very soft; chill if necessary.
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Roll the dough out to a 12-inch circle with a thickness of 1/8-inch. Fit the pastry to the inside of a 10-inch tart pan and set aside. In a large bowl, combine the ricotta, almonds, cracked wheat, sugar, orange flower water and cinnamon and mix well to combine. Add the egg yolks and mix to incorporate completely. In a separate large bowl, whip the egg whites to soft peaks with a whisk or electric mixer. Carefully fold the egg whites into the ricotta mixture with a spatula. Pour the mixture into the pastry and bake for 45 to 50 minutes, until the crust is golden and the filling is solid. When cooled, slice and serve with the honey.


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I was discovered walking down my street on the way to rugby training!
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At school, playing a lot of sport, being a kid!
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Player: Dan Carter
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Beckenham, England—A traditional English, friendly, warm pub or a fish & chips shop
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Comparison of Vascular Remodeling Between Different Antianginal Medication Evaluated by Noninvasive ECG-gated Fundus Photographic Evaluation
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
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Recruitment status was: Not yet recruiting
Recruitment status was: Not yet recruiting
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Treatments for stable angina includes drug therapy such as calcium-channel blocker, beta blocker, and ACEI/ARB. To obtain good prognosis in patients with coronary artery disease,preventing or correcting the progression of atherosclerosis and dyslipidemia is more important than relieving angina symptom. Dysfunction of microvessel is one of the most important factor in patients with coronary artery disease. Recently, we developed the new non-invasive method of evaluating the microvessel in fundus. With this methods, we will compare the effect of each drug (beta blocker, CCB, ARB).
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Stable Angina |
Drug: Diltiazem treated group Drug: Bisoprolol treated group Drug: Candesartan treated group |
Phase 4 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Single Blind (Subject) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Comparison of Vascular Remodeling Between Different Antianginal Medication Evaluated by Noninvasive ECG-gated Fundus Photographic Evaluation |
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Diltiazem hydrochloride
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Further study details as provided by Seoul National University Hospital:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Wall to lumen ratio of fundus vessel [ Time Frame: baseline, 9 months ]Measurement of change in the ratio of wall thickness to lumen of the fundus vessel from baseline to 9 month follow up
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- lipid parameter [ Time Frame: baseline, 9 months ]Measurement of change in total cholesterol, triglyceride, LDL, small dense LDL, and HDL
- Serum markers of inflammation [ Time Frame: baseline, 9 months ]CRP
- Change of nitrate need [ Time Frame: baseline, 1 months, and 3 months ]Measure of change of nitrate need
Estimated Enrollment: | 150 |
Study Start Date: | September 2013 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | December 2015 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | January 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: Diltiazem treated group
Diltiazem 180mg treated group
Drug: Diltiazem treated group
Diltiazem 180mg for 9 months
Active Comparator: Bisoprolol treated group
Bisoprolol 5mg treated group
Drug: Bisoprolol treated group
Bisoprolol 5mg for 9 months
Active Comparator: Candesartan treated group
Candesartan 32mg treated group
Drug: Candesartan treated group
Candesartan 32mg for 9 months
Ages Eligible for Study: | 30 Years to 80 Years (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Stable angina patients whose coronary lesions is confirmed by angiography or receives PCI
- Unstable Angina/NSTEMI patients who completed PCI for main lesions
- Either systolic > 130mmHg or diastolic > 80mmHg, or patients with anti-hypertensive drugs
Exclusion Criteria:
- STEMI patients within one month
- Variant Angina
- Liver function abnormality or renal failure
- History of Hypersensitivity to testing drugs
- Severe heart failure(NYHA class>3) or uncorrectable hematologic disease
- Woman possible to be pregnant
- Uncontrolled diabetes
- Expected life span < one year
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Korea, Republic of | |
Seoul National University Hospital | Not yet recruiting |
Seoul, Korea, Republic of | |
Principal Investigator: Hyo-Soo Kim, MD, PhD | |
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 24, 2017
Responsible Party: | Hyo-Soo, Kim, Seoul National University Hospital |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01162902 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
ABC Trial |
Study First Received: | April 30, 2010 |
Last Updated: | December 15, 2013 |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Angina, Stable Vascular Remodeling Angina Pectoris Chest Pain Pain Neurologic Manifestations Nervous System Diseases Myocardial Ischemia Heart Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases Vascular Diseases Signs and Symptoms Pathological Conditions, Anatomical Pathologic Processes Candesartan |
Candesartan cilexetil Diltiazem Bisoprolol Antihypertensive Agents Calcium Channel Blockers Membrane Transport Modulators Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Vasodilator Agents Sympatholytics Autonomic Agents Peripheral Nervous System Agents Physiological Effects of Drugs Adrenergic beta-1 Receptor Antagonists Adrenergic beta-Antagonists Adrenergic Antagonists |
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Looking back: The Rebels split a pair of home games, coming up short in a chance for a big RPI win against Florida (64-60) then holding off a struggling but fiery South Carolina team (66-62).
Looking ahead: The Rebels have a bye during the week and don't play again until a 7 p.m., trip to Alabama, a game to be televised by ESPN2.
Who's hot: Murphy Holloway. Holloway was a member of the South Carolina squad last year, though he sat out per NCAA transfer rules. He received an NCAA waiver upon his return to Ole Miss and had 14 points, 11 rebounds, four assists and three steals against the Gamecocks.
Who's not: Bench freshmen. The playing rotation has whittled down, and minutes are fewer for LaDarius White and Maurice Aniefiok. White got four minutes and was 1-for-2 shooting, Aniefiok two minutes and was 0-for-1.
RPI watch: Ole Miss begins the week with an RPI of 41. The Rebels have a chance for a quality RPI win at Alabama, which begins the week at 35 in the RPI.
Bottom Line: The Rebels missed a chance for a great statement win against Florida but were able to successfully navigate the quick turn of Thursday-Saturday games. They avoided the dolldrums that often come from a close, emotional loss, and that wasn't easy to do against a South Carolina match-up zone that kept the Rebels from extending the lead and getting way out in front in the game's final minutes.
N11 UL Monroe W, 60-38
N14 Grambling W, 69-39
N18 n-Drake W, 63-59
N19 n-Marquette L, 96-66
N21 n-TCU W, 80-69
N25 Miami (OT) W, 64-61
D1 at DePaul W, 70-68
D4 at Penn State W, 72-70
D10 Miss. Valley State W, 80-56
D14 La.-Lafayette W, 66-54
D17 at Southern Miss L, 86-82
D21 1-Middle Tenn. L, 68-56
D30 at Dayton L, 62-50
J7 *at LSU L, 81-55
J11 *Arkansas W, 71-63
J14 *at Auburn (2OT) L, 69-68
J18 *Miss. State W, 75-68
J21 *at Georgia W, 66-63
J26 Florida L, 64-60
J28 *South Carolina W, 66-62
F4 *at Alabama [ESPN2] 7 p.m.
F9 *at Miss.State [ESPN/2] 6 p.m.
F11 *Auburn [FSN] 6 p.m.
F16 *Vanderbilt [ESPN/2] 8 p.m.
F18 *at Kentucky [SEC] 3 p.m.
F22 *at Tennessee [CSS] 6 p.m.
F25 *LSU [SEC Network] 12:30 p.m.
F28 *at Arkansas [ESPNU] 6 p.m.
M3 *Alabama [SEC] 3 p.m.
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Danny Kennedy is an entrepreneur, an activist, and the author of the book Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy— and Our Planet—from Dirty Energy (2012). He founded Sungevity, a leading global residential solar power company and is also Cofounder and President of the world's only Incubator and Accelerator for solar entrepreneurs - known as the SfunCube in Oakland, CA. Danny sits on the Boards of several solar start-ups including Mosaic, Powerhive and Sunergise. He serves with several non-profits including the Board of the Solar Foundation, the Clean Tech Council of the Sierra Club and WRI's New Innovators Council.
I work in solar every day. I dream about distributed solar. I think about it in the shower. Is that enough? As Chairman of the Board of Sungevity Australia – a country that already has over 1 million solar homes or more than 10% of households providing electricity to the grid – I understand the dynamics of maturing PV markets. In Europe, I see how DG is destroying giant utilities that are not keeping up with the change. I have been involved in more forecasts than I care to remember and the only thing I know is that the modular nature and distributed architecture of solar technology in particular means we always underestimate how quickly the shift to DG will occur. And I am working with a variety of companies in emerging markets, where we are leapfrogging central station models altogether, and see even more evidence of how quickly disruptive distributed power will be.
My experience starting a successful business in the space that has doubled revenue every year, now employs about 500 people worldwide, and has thousands of happy customers with a net promoter score greater than anyone in the industry. I have also made a habit (and another company – the SfunCube) out of supporting other solar entrepreneurs to succeed so I know a little about the praxis of getting startups from a great idea to revenue and beyond. The work of making SFUN, solar for universal need, is what I now do with most of my time and I look forward to working with the Accelerator teams.
I wrote a book about it called the Rooftop Revolution. We need this not just to save ourselves from climate change but to undo so many of the perverse issues related to fossil fuels and central station power supply. The concentration of wealth and political power by vested interests in the incumbent technology set is something I think distributed generation models seriously challenge – by having SFUN we can take back the power both literally and figuratively for the people. And we can create lots of jobs and economic opportunity at the same time. What else could I possibly be doing?


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Oppenheimer Comments on Google, OpenTable Relationship
Oppenheimer has published a research report on OpenTable (NASDAQ: OPEN) and its relationship with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG).
In the report, Oppenheimer writes, "Following a conversation with OPEN management, we believe the company has strengthened its relationship with GOOG. Yesterday, we saw a 7% intraday low in OPEN shares following GOOG's decision to remove the Zagat pay-wall and provide free restaurant reviews to Google+ members. Initially, investors viewed this as a negative for OPEN, as there have been concerns that GOOG might look to compete with OPEN. However, OPEN is now offered as the primary reservation function app on Google+, suggesting GOOG is not looking to compete, but to partner. We expect the shares to rally as investors better digest this news."
Oppenheimer maintains its Outperform rating on Google, which closed yesterday at $588.23 while maintaining its Perform rating on OpenTable, which closed at $39.64.
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There was a time in my life, just like every other woman I know, where I thought eating 'light' was the best thing I could do for my figure. But several years ago I made a switch to eating more naturally. I cut out artificial ingredients and looked for recipes that used food in its least processed state. And while my weight has not changed since making this switch, a few other things have: my nutrient intake has improved along with my satisfaction with what I am eating (double bonus)!
As I mentioned before, when I was eating light foods my weight was the same as it is now and that is because I was eating larger portions of the light foods. I have always had a pretty good sense of my own satiety levels so I wasn't over eating but it was taking more of the light food to make me feel full. Now that I eat the richer natural foods I find that a smaller portion is perfectly satisfying. 'Light' eating can be detrimental if you don't ever include foods that satiate you. If you never feel full, you'll over eat. I know it's a hard transition to make but I would really encourage you to swap out some of your 'light' foods for 'real' foods. I think you'll discover that they taste great and fill you up, plus they are more nutritious!
You won't find light butter, butter spray, low calorie bread, fat free dressing, Splenda, Equal, fat free cream cheese, light yogurt, diet soda (or any soda) in my house. Unless you have a health condition (like diabetes) I would encourage you to work your diet away from these. Just because food science has allowed us to make these products doesn't mean we need them. Our bodies need nutrients and phytochemicals which are never found naturally in these products. Any 'regular' recipe can be made healthy– just slash the fat, salt and sugar and enhance the flavors with herbs and seasonings.
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australiaJun 27th, 2011 05:57 AM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
I saw one going, a bit beat up but all original.
Threw up a low-ish bid, resigning myself that it'd get soundly beaten, and forgot all about it.
until this morning. Opened my email and found I was the successful bidder in a near empty field.
A bit shocked, actually.
makes up for the Jag bridge cover I failed to re-bid on and lost at $1.25.
Is the U.S on holidays at the moment and everyone is busy doing other things? I really did think I didn't have a chance to win that Jag within my budget.
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Market's down on a lot of stuff in general.
Seen a few vintage pedals go for 1/3 of market lately, from sellers with good reps, good photos, etc.
Los Angeles, CA, USAJun 27th, 2011 12:22 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search
Congrats on the Jaguar. Unfortunately here in the US many of us are just broke, that's all.
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it arrived yesterday and I only had time to pick it up and rush to a gig. After a quick unpack and retune it got used on stage when the lead singer broke a string on his G&L ASAT (I was mixing sound). He loved it. Even the lead guitarist (who runs a guitar shop with a zillion guitars in it) liked it.
it's in much better condition than the photo's lead me to believe.
I'm stoked (pictures soon)
Here's the question though: It's totally original - even the solder joints haven't been touched. I'm trying to get a lead-guitarist friend switched on to the Jaguar sound. He's used my '62 Jag and suggested a treble-bleed cap over the volume pot to make changes in volume more flexible.
Should I?
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At least not yet.
Use it yourself for a while and then see if you think it should be done.
You lucky bastard :)
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I have a very minty 1965 CAR on route.... Great time to be buying guitars compared to 2006
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Interactive Autism Network (IAN) Research is a scientific study where individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), their families, and qualified researchers throughout the United States work together to understand ASD. IAN Research connects researchers to individuals with ASD and their families to uncover the secrets of this complex disorder. Participants provide information in a secure online setting about diagnosis, behavior, family, environment, and services received. Participating parents report on their child's progress over time. Adults with ASD share information about their experiences and needs. Researchers from different institutions throughout the country will work with this information to learn about the effect and interaction of factors such as genetics, environment, and treatment, as well as the current situation and needs of those affected by ASD. IAN Research will match willing individuals and families with appropriate local and national research projects. | Project Status ONGOING 2009 |
Funder | Autism Speaks |
Fiscal Year Funding | $1,320,000.00 |
Project Number | Project number unavailable |
Principal Investigator | Law, Paul |
Received ARRA Funding? | No |
Strategic Plan Question | Question 7: What Other Infrastructure and Surveillance Needs Must Be Met? (Infrastructure) |
Strategic Plan Objective | 7C. Develop and have available to the research community means by which to merge or link databases that allow for tracking the involvement of people in ASD research by 2010. IACC Recommended Budget: $1,300,000 over 2 years. |
Federal or Private? | Private |
Institution | Kennedy Krieger Institute |
State/Country | Maryland |
Web Link 1 | Interactive Autism Network (IAN) (External web link) |
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History/Related Projects | Interactive Autism Network (IAN) |
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Month: February 2015
Intel Server Chips going on to some limit…! For notebooks for the vast population, I do not even have a Core i3…!
Friday, February 6, 2015
Intel Server Chips going on to some limit…! For notebooks for the vast population, I do not even have a Core i3…!
Intel's Xeon E5-2600/1600 v3 CPUs Bring Haswell to the Server Space
Posted 09/08/2014 at 9:33am | by Paul Lilly
Intel's Core i9 "Gulftown" Six-Core Processor Pictured
Posted 08/03/2009 at 10:00am | by Paul Lilly
A big boost for Xeon
Intel today announced its new Xeon processor E5-2600/1600 v3 product families designed to crunch through diverse workloads and the growing needs of data centers. These new processors sport several enhancements that Intel claims will result in up to a three-fold increase in performance compared to the previous generation (Xeon E5 v2 family). Among those enhancements are more processing cores and an upgrade from Ivy Bridge to Intel's Haswell architecture.
While the core count ceiling for Intel's previous generation Xeon X5 v2 CPUs was set at 12, the new Xeon E5-2600 v3 product family tops out at up to 18 cores per socket and 45MB of last-level cache. On top of this, an extension to Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel AVX2) doubles the width of vector integer instructions to 256 bits per clock cycle for integer sensitive workloads and delivers up to 1.9x higher performance gains, Intel says.
Getting bored with Core i7 already? That's okay, because word on the web is that Intel plans to release its six-core Gulftown processor sometime in the first half of 2010, and possibly by Q1.
What's believed to be the first product shots of the six-core part have been leaked to the web. Likely to be called Core i9, the pictures show off the new chips in a dual-socket motherboard that's either an existing Xeon-based socket LGA1366 mobo or a next-gen Skulltrail platform. Either way, that's 12 cores of processing power, and 24 cores with hyperthreading enabled.
According the alleged screen grabs, the engineering sample spied in the photos comes clocked at 2.4GHz courtesy of a 133MHz bus speed and 18X multiplier, along with 12MB of L3 cache.
…Intel Server Chips going on to some limit…! For notebooks for the vast population, I do not even have a Core i3…!
…ANYBODY going to catch up with this American technology…! No doubt that never by normal means…!
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Harmful economic systems as a cause of hunger and poverty
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The standard economic model of how economies work is that people produce and exchange goods. Governments exist to provide "government goods"— things that people cannot provide for themselves, such as national defense. Thus the standard economic view is that activities are essentially productive. While this view has made for a thriving profession of economics, it is not a correct view of reality. The principal difficulty is that there is economic activity that is unproductive and harmful (from the point of view of those being harmed), and that this is a key feature of the economic organization of societies. What follows is a brief analytical description of these societies and how it affects people's welfare and development.
Many societies are run on this basic set of principles. Take and maintain control of the government. Use powers of the government to obtain income. Key elements of this process are described in five sections:
- Introduction
- Obtaining income
- Keeping people oppressed/preventing revolution
- Avoiding overthrow
- Restricting entry
A sixth section discusses the impact of harmful economic systems on poor and hungry people and on development. A seventh section Reducing harm gives a too brief discussion of what people are doing to improve matters.
- Production vs. harm basic statement. The basic idea and activity in productive societies is helping to produce goods—things that are useful to someone—food, light bulbs, cars—and then exchanging the income received for goods that are desirable to you.
The fundamental economic mechanism exists in "harmful" economic societies as well. But these goods (or the resources that produce them) can be reallocated through force, as well as law backed by force. Simply put you can produce goods, or take them away from others, which is why we describe these societies as harmful. The highest stratum—the ruling class—obtains goods through means which may be described as unproductive or extractive.
2. Conquest and conflict historical overview. Armed conflict, the fight by groups for control of the government or territory (frequently possessing natural resources), has been throughout history the principal way in which harmful economic societies have been established. Its importance continues today. The results of conflict have been the domination of the winning side over the losing and the establishment of a pattern of income and resource allocation favoring the winners.
Examples would be the Hittite empire (Wikipedia 2013), the Assyrian empire (Wikipedia 2013), the Roman empire (Wikipedia 2013), the Norman conquest of England (Wikipedia 2013), the conquest of the territory that became the United States by various European powers and then the government of the United States, the British empire (Wikipedia 2013) and the Japanese Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere (Wikipedia 2013).
Control over labor power is also an important way of using power to obtain income, with serfdom (Wikipedia 2013), slavery (Wikipedia 2013), and debt bondage (Wikipedia 2013) as important examples. Forced labor (ILO 2013) is the general modern term. Also see Unfree labor (Wikipedia 2013). Caste systems (Wikipedia 2013) can also confine people in certain types of work, with the Dalits (Wikipedia 2013) in India being an example.
3. Basic overview. The central idea is that there are winners and losers. To have a simple model of history and harmful economic societies, we would say that conquest establishes control by a small group over a large group. Once the conquest is completed, much fewer 'domination' resources are needed, and, in addition to arms, other resources/methods of control are used, such as domination of the political and judicial system. Moreover, transfer of ownership of resources such as land, labor and natural resources takes place, and more subtle forms of control are employed. The small group can of course be the elite of another country which has happened frequently in the past, as the examples above illustrate.
Economists have developed some models that incorporate both production and conflict.1 When game theory is employed in models that incorporate both conflict and production those that obtain resources through conflict are known as the "winning coalition," terminology that will also be used here.
4. Other structures of harm. Harm as a means of obtaining income can exist in other ways as well. These include theft, robbery, and larger scale organized crime (Wikipedia 2013), such as the Mafia (Wikipedia 2013) or drug cartels (Wikipedia 2013).
Obtaining income
- Basic statement. The principal ways in which income is obtained in a harmful economic system are twofold: 1) obtain it through the government, or 2) use the government to obtain and maintain sources of income that are (apparently) obtained in other ways. These are not substantially different, but may appear so at first.
2. Obtaining income from the government. There are a wide variety of means in which government officials and others obtain revenue from the government. The first thing to recognize is that people at the top of government, or those who have significant control over the government but who are not government officials—often entrepreneurs or corporations—can and do plunder resources coming into the government. Government revenue is often not devoted to productive services but siphoned off by those in control of the government. Such activity is typically referred to as corruption. A nation expects that its national resources will be used for the benefit of the nation. However, very large amounts of such revenue are often used to enrich those who control or have influence with the government. People at lower levels of government can obtain income too, by not providing services which they are paid to provide, by charging for services which they should provide, or by taking goods, such as medical supplies or automobiles/trucks, which should be used for government service.
3. Using the government to obtain resources. Privileged groups can often obtain access to national resources. The allocation of natural resources such as oil and the income therefrom frequently go to international corporations, allies of high government officials, and government officials themselves. These structures of domination, control and income distribution have been going on for centuries and have resulted in highly unequal societies. For example, the Spanish conquest of Latin America resulted in a society where land and other natural resources and larger scale economic opportunities were in the hands of a few. This unequal distribution of land and income has persisted to this day.
See harmful economic systems: obtaining income for specific current examples of these practices and further discussion. Behavior of the type described here has also been referred to as Kleptocracy (Wikipedia 2013) and Crony capitalism (Wikipedia 2013).
Keeping people oppressed/preventing revolution
1. Basic statement. In essence, there is part of the population that is living well because of their control of assets and people. (This in the economic model referred to above is the winning coalition and it will also be referred to here as the ruling class.) The people whose assets and income have been reallocated don't like this and thus there is the threat of revolution—overturning the minority in benefit of the majority. This is prevented in a number of ways.
2. Preventing revolution is at bottom accomplished by force. Peasant rebellions, a frequent occurrence in history, illustrate both the discontent of the productive sector and the use of force in repressing it. One Chinese expert says that there were peasant rebellions almost every year in China, while a Russian expert says that in the period between 1801 and 1861 there were no less than 1,467 peasant risings in various parts of the Russian empire [Lenski, 1966, p. 274]. That even more did not take place may be explained in part by referring to the saying of Aristotle, "If you strike at a King, you had better kill him," with its implicit threat of the dire consequences of failure. Certainly a very clear way of keeping people oppressed and unable to move to a situation that might be characterized as democratic, is terrorizing the subject population, including beatings, murder and torture. Especially important is killing leaders of the subject population(s) or otherwise keeping them from being a source of unrest (by such means as imprisonment, exile, or bribery). Controlling how people are able to communicate, including tracing what they say for possible reprisal, is also important.
3. Key groups. Nonetheless, force is not the complete story of how a winning coalition establishes and mantains control. For many countries in relatively recent times, groups who have been importantly represented in the sector that has political and economic control are capitalists, both national and foreign, landlords, the military, a group that we might refer to as "educated civilians" including government functionaries and politicians, foreign governments, and more rarely and more debatably, organized labor. Why was the winning coalition that ended up in control of the state formed from members of at least some of these groups who are far from representing a majority of the population? The central part of the answer seems to be that these groups have power capabilities useful in capturing, controlling and operating the state apparatus (Anderson 1967). The military has control of the largest part of the armed force. Capitalists and landlords have resources and organization that they can use to obtain influence.
The educated civilians derive their power from a number of sources. They have the ability to run the "ship of state." As lawyers and administrators they often perform crucial functions for capitalists and landowners as well. As politicians, they have special skills in putting and keeping a coalition together, and as writers and orators they can mobilize support for their coalition. This is not to say that these roles cannot be performed by others, such as landowners or the military, just that they are often performed by these educated civilians.
Organized labor, to the extent that it is in the winning coalition, seems to derive an important part of its power from its ability to disrupt the functioning of crucial sectors of the economy and from its potential as an armed force, factors which tend to put organized labor in opposition to the military. In addition, they, like landlords and capitalists, have economic and organizational strength, and where elections are a factor, some degree of voting power as well.
Foreign governments have both organization and control over financial resources that can be used in such diverse ways as financing the election of sympathetic nationals or providing a "carrot" incentive to hard-pressed governments through foreign aid. As suppliers of modern armaments, often on generous terms, the large foreign governments also have an influence through the military, which is no less important for being derivative. They control, or greatly influence, major international institutions such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization, whose decisions affect developing countries. Finally, one or more developed country governments may use force against a developing country government.
- Some strategies.
One favorite way of maintaining oppression is to stay in power for a long time, frequently by manipulating or subverting an ostensibly democratic legal framework. Election fraud/rigged elections is a principal way of staying in power.
A second way—certainly a very clear way—of keeping people oppressed and unable to move to a situation that might be characterized as democratic, is terrorizing the subject population, including beatings, murder and torture. Especially important is killing leaders of the subject population(s) or otherwise keeping them from being a source of unrest (by such means as imprisonment, exile, or bribery).
Controlling how people are able to communicate, including tracing what they say for possible reprisal, is also important.
In essence, there is part of the population that is living well because of their control of assets and people. The people whose assets and income have been reallocated don't like this and thus there is the threat of revolution—overturning the minority in benefit of the majority. This is prevented in a number of ways. There are two powerful ways of changing a harmful economic system—through revolution, or through democracy. Both have been common in the past and today. Revolution has been frequently thwarted by successful opposition by the existing government and its allies or by a revolutionary movement evolving into an oppressive government. See the further discussion under Reducing harm below. See Harmful economic systems: Keeping people oppressed for specific current examples of these practices.
Avoiding Overthrow
- Basic statement. Avoiding overthrow is very similar to preventing revolution. However, what is emphasized in this section is preventing overthrow by others who would maintain a structure of harm.
Two important issue areas are:
- the struggle for control of the government
- how is a structure of harm maintained?
- The struggle for control of the government
Key ways in which the struggle for control of the government occurs is through armed conflict, coup d'etats and and other more or less violent, more or less legal, government reorganizations.
Armed Conflict. There are many examples of armed conflict in the world today. Examined more closely this conflict is typically over control of the government or specific territory—often territory with natural resources. Thus this conflict is over who will establish control over government/territory and subsequently over control over resources, including the power to tax, arrange oil leases, and so on. Examples would be conflict between the more-or-less established government and rebel or other groups, conflicts between governments, done surreptitiously or openly, and conflicts between governments, and conflict between government and organized crime.
In conflict, in addition to the struggle for control over resources or power, there is typically great harm done to ordinary people, such as murder, amputation of limbs, rape, and taking of family food and other resources. (This can be so bad that an end to conflict, even if it then means establishment of an organized system of oppression, is preferable to people.) Revolution against an unjust government (see section above) also causes conflict. It is often difficult to decide if armed conflict is a way to gain resources, or a reasonable reaction against injustice, or a reasonable reaction by government to what is viewed as dismemberment of its territory. This in a particular circumstance is usually debatable, however it is possible to form an opinion based on the evidence.
Coup d'etats, '"revolutions," and other means There is a substantial amount of more or less violent, more or less legal, rearrangements of governments or attempts to do so. Coup d'etat is where one group, typically members of the government/winning coalition and also typically including at least a segment of the military, oust those at the top of the current power structure and replace those people with their own. (The overthrowing group does not want to refer to its seizure of power as a coup, and thus uses terms such as revolution.) (See Wikipedia 2013 and Luttwak 1968.) There is also quite a bit of "jockeying for power" which can involve such actions as removing a threatening member of the ruling coalition or changing the rules, such as rewriting the constitution so that the President is not limited in the number of terms he can stay in office. These actions, if unsuccessful, can result in a coup.
3. How is a structure of harm maintained?
Ways in which a structure of harm is maintained include the following.
A key use of the revenues of the winning coalition is to pay the members of the coalition suffficiently so that they will not be tempted to overthrow or reform the current coalition. The gradiation of rewards and status within the winning coalition helps keep costs of maintaining the winning coalition down, and provides 'career paths' for those in the winning coalition.
Installing loyal supporters in key areas is important for those at the top of the winning coalition.
Terror in its various forms, and controlling means of communication, can help those at the top of the winning coalition keep other coalition members in line, just as they are useful in preventing revolution.
Various things strengthen the cohesion of the ruling class. The ruling class can often be a racial or religious minority in society. This in itself provides cohesion. The threat of overthrow by the majority can serve to increase cohesion. There can also be the development of a ruling class ideology to strengthen cohesion (e.g. the divine right of kings), ideologies which often include the disparagement of those who the winning coalition needs to control.
See Harmful economic systems: avoiding overthrow for specific current examples of these practices.
Restricting entry
- Basic statement. Restricting entry to the harmful sector is necessary, because an income differential exists between the productive sector and the exploitative sector. If free entry, the standard assumption made in economics, were allowed into the harmful sector, incomes in the two sectors would be equalized. Barriers to entry into the harmful sector include:
- being of a different tribe, nationality or religion
- racism or other strong prejudice against a given group.
- How barriers to entry work. The way barriers to entry work is to limit access to worthwhile employment, as well as other social advantages such as education and ability to marry outside of one's class or group. Typically minorities/ordinary people have been disparaged in some way—for their supposed (lack of) intelligence, personal appearance or for some other reason. People can be marginalized because of their skin color, ethnic origin, income level or indications of same, such as names. For example in the US south before the 1960s, African Americans were not allowed to drink from the same water fountains as whites, shop in most stores, eat in the same resturants, or live in the same neighborhoods. Their personal characteristics such as intelligence and appearance were disparaged. They were referred to in insulting ways. Basic justice was denied them. Schools were much worse. Such discrimination limits peoples opportunities and diminishes their sense of self-worth. There has been a reaction against this sort of disparagement and oppression in many ways in many countries, but it still persists.
See Harmful economic systems: restricting entry for specific current examples of these practices.
The impact of harmful economic systems on the welfare of poor people and development.
The influence on the welfare of poor people and the development of poor nations is profound.
1. Resources, both governmental and other resources, such as natural resources, are directed toward members of the ruling coalition, not to the benefit of all. For many governments, the government/people in the government and their allies, in spite of lip service to the contrary, are not principally engaged in helping the people of the country, but rather in helping themselves. This has, and continues to have, a disastrous effect on the incomes of poor people and development.
2. Conflict. There is a substantial amount of conflict in the world, most of it in developing countries. The 2012 Human Security Report says that there are 30 to 40 state-based armed conflicts per year on average; there were 23 non-state (neither side was a state) armed conflicts in 2009; and there were 19 cases of one-sided violence in 2009, the last year for which statistics were available (Human Security Report Project 2012). According to the latest estimate by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, at the beginning of 2011, 43 million people were forced to flee their homes with 26 million displaced within their own country, 15-16 million refugees (displaced to another country) and 1 million asylum seekers. Conflict is the principal cause of this displacement. 3. There is a very unequal distribution of income and this has persisted over centuries It is important to remember that harmful economic systems have existed throughout history, and a key result has been very unequal distribution of income. There is a 'dead hand of the past' though perhaps most of us, including standard economists, recognize it only dimly. In the United States, for example, the Native Americans were almost totally pushed off their land, ending up with a few small, or if larger, hardscrabble, areas of land. Slavery oppressed African Americans from the beginning of European settlement in North America, and though ostensibly freed after the Civil War, severe oppression continued for 100 years or more. This in a country that many view as a model of democracy. In other areas of the world control of countries and resources by a minority has also resulted in serious income inequality. [Give Latin America example.] The result is that poor people have substantially less income. This lower level of income is not just missing out on a few luxuries. It is a major cause of malnutrition, which causes greater infant mortality, stunting and reduced cognitive ability. It is a major cause of poor health–many basic services such as clean water, waste disposal, and essential health services are not available at all. It is a major cause of poor education.
4. Barriers to entry also inhibit people's incomes and life chances. It is not simply a matter of income as discussed in point 3. Caste, race, ethnic group, and gender can keep people from education, from jobs, from having the rights of citizens, and from social interaction with the "elite" including marriage and other forms of social inclusion. People cannot rise—they are kept in their "station in life."
See Harmful economic systems: Impact on poor people for specific current examples of these practices.
Reducing harm
This section gives a too brief discussion of what people are doing to improve matters.
There has been a struggle for thousands of years by human beings in many different ways against the sort of subjugation described in this special report. To name just one very important example, the world's religions have worked to establish a set of principles for human relationships that were very much against oppression, and though the religions were persecuted for doing so, they did manage to establish at the very least a set of guidelines for human behavior. In all countries of the world there has been a struggle against injustice, and attempts, which have met with increasing success, to establish the societal frameworks for a more just and equitable society. This is a long (and inspiring) story which we cannot recount here.
The current efforts in the world to reduce harm include reducing corruption, moving to more democratic governments with established rights and processes (by means such as reducing the influence of the military and improving the fairness of elections—and having them! and reducing police brutality), and, internationally, reducing the advantages which developed nations have assigned to themselves through their control of international institutions, such as United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. In recent years, there have been important efforts to have elections that express the will of the people and to implement policies that reflect an electoral mandate. Nations are evolving from power structures that have been based on some combination of military, economic and political control to ones that increasingly reflect the wishes of the (often very poor) people. This evolution has not been easy, and it is far from complete.
See Harmful economic systems: reducing harm for specific current examples of these practices.
Lane Vanderslice is the editor of Hunger Notes
End notes:1. Jack Hershleifer appears to have begun the consideration of conflict and other examples of harm in standard economics with his 1991 article "The Technology of Conflict as an Economic Activity." This article recognized that there are two main approaches to obtaining income: production and conflict, and provides an introductory analysis of some key issues when conflict was possible. A second early, basic article was Stergios Skaperdas' 1992 article "Cooperation, Conflict, and Power in the Absence of Property Rights."
Anderson, Charles W. 1967. Politics and Economic Change in Latin America. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce and Alistar Smith. 2011. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics New York: Public Affairs.
Hershleifer, Jack. 1991. "The Technology of Conflict as an Economic Activity." American Economic Review 81: 2(130-134).
Human Security Report Project. 2012. Human Security Report 2012. Vancouver: Human Security Press. http://hsrgroup.org/docs/Publications/HSR2012/2012HumanSecurityReport-FullText-LowRes.pdf
International Labor Organization 2013. Forced labor http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/forced-labour/lang–en/index.htm
Lenski, Gerhard E. 1966. Power and Privilege. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Luttwak, Edward. 1968. Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett.
Skaperdas, Stergios. 1992. "Cooperation, Conflict, and Power in the Absence of Property Rights." American Economic Review 81:4(720-734).
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. 2012. State of the World's Refugees 2012. http://www.unhcr.org/publications/unhcr/sowr2012
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A dramatic doomsday warning to the world
A dramatic doomsday warning to the world
By Lynn Ringenberg
Updated 1:00 PM ET, Fri January 23, 2015
(CNN)In a dramatic warning to the world, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Thursday that the iconic Doomsday Clock has ticked forward by two minutes. This new setting of three minutes to midnight indicates "the probability of global catastrophe is very high," said Kennette Benedict, executive director of the Bulletin, which was founded by former Manhattan Project physicists after the atomic bombing of Japan.
3 minutes to midnight
2015: "Unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity, and world leaders have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe. These failures of political leadership endanger every person on Earth." Despite some modestly positive developments in the climate change arena, current efforts are entirely insufficient to prevent a catastrophic warming of Earth. Meanwhile, the United States and Russia have embarked on massive programs to modernize their nuclear triads—thereby undermining existing nuclear weapons treaties. "The clock ticks now at just three minutes to midnight because international leaders are failing to perform their most important duty—ensuring and preserving the health and vitality of human civilization."
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cardin ramirez julien + aedifica complete rio tinto alcan planetarium
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following their winning entry in an international design competition, the architectural collaborative cardin ramirez julien + ædifica has completed the 'rio tinto alcan planetarium' in montreal, canada. in their scheme, the team emphasizes an intimate connection to nature in the visitor's experience. starry skies are typically viewed outside of urban areas. thus, the intent was to implement the essential qualities of the outdoors into the building's design.
the structure is distinguished by two enormous truncated cones oriented toward the sky, reminiscent of telescopes viewing distant stars. these large drums also help to identify the institution among neighboring landmarks such as the olympic stadium and the biodome.
the building's enormous truncated cones establish it among the scale of other structures in the park
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housed within the giant cylindrical volumes are the planetarium's two theaters, which differ in their functionality and presentation abilities. their hemispherical shape is the optimal form for displaying the sky. the 'chaos theater' is a multimedia environment with no fixed seating. the other, dubbed the 'milky way', contains established chairs, and presents astronomical exhibits. it is finished on its outer shell with bands of wood, referencing an outdoor habitat, as well as the striations on the surfaces of planets like saturn and jupiter.
the drums are clad in aluminum sheating
photo by stéphane brügger
vegetation and seating around the building help to establish gathering spaces for public use
photo by stéphane brügger
a key objective was to make the entire site desirable and occupiable by the public. areas surrounding the structure, as well as an accessible green roof, offer human scaled spaces for views and relaxation. the planetarium joins three adjacent institutions, the botanical garden, the insectarium, and the biodome, to form a complex of facilities dedicated to the investigation of life.
a staircase accesses the public green roof
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photos by stéphane brügger
the visitors' procession from the main entrance to the theaters involves a gradual decrease in light levels, allowing the eye to slowly adapt to the eventual darkness of the exhibitions. the interior environment is made more comfortable through passive ventilation strategies, such as stack effect and operable windows and shutters. the structure aims to receive LEED new construction platinum certification.
photo by stéphane brügger
the 'milky way' shell is characterized by its cladding
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photo by stéphane brügger
the planetarium volumes are hemispherical in shape, and provide engaging astronomical views
photo by david giral
site plan with adjacent landmark structures including the biodome and olympic stadium
floor plan / level 0
project info:
location: montréal, québec
client: espace pour la vie (space for life)
architects: cardin ramirez julien + ædifica
mechanical + electrical engineer: dupras ledoux
structural + civil engineer: snc lavalin
scenography + multimedia: go multimedia
landscape architecture: fauteux et associés architectes paysagistes
food services: bernard et associés
code consultant: sylvie destroismaisons
building envelope consultant: patenaude trempe
universal accessibility: société logique
LEED consultant: exp
photography: stéphane brügger, david giral


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Basically, if it became law, it would change the standard state-owned colleges and universities use in determining whether a student has violated campus policies against sexual assault/rape/etc.
The general concept, as I understand it, is this: it's a violation of the policy unless the person you're groping or boaning has manifested consent in some affirmative fashion. I assume that it doesn't have to be verbal, but can also include grabbing your penor or making shadow puppets of people boaning. But presumably the proponents of this would say that the idea is to change from an environment where the starting assumption is that you can do whatever you want to a woman unless she actively resists or expresses clear objection, to an environment where the starting assumption is that everyone's physical integrity (or whatever buzzword gets used here) is to be respected unless and until they clearly indicate they want to do the wild thing with you.
Question: What if she's drunk and claims sexual assault? Or what if the woman is vengeful and decides to put you through this form of legal hell? Then isn't that her word against yours? We already know that if either happens, the defendant will be guilty by the court of public opinion.
Are we eventually going to have to sign contracts of consent in order to avoid litigation and criminal prosecution? Because the concept itself isn't hard to understand at all..


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PERRY COUNTY – Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2939 and its ladies auxiliary announce this year's Patriots Pen essay-writing contest.
Students in sixth through eighth grades are eligible for the contest. Home-schooled students are encouraged to enter as well.
This contest gives students an opportunity to write essays expressing their views on democracy with the prospect of winning U.S. savings bonds. The top national prize is a $10,000 U.S. savings bond.
This year's topic is "What patriotism means to me."
Essays must be 300 to 400 words in length, must be original and typed with no added color or art.
Deadline for students is Nov. 1. Essays can be dropped off at the VFW post.
For more information, contact Sharon Shreve at 547-4497, Betty Sweeney at 547-8172, Tom Patrick at 719-4214 or the post at 547-4756.
Winners from each school will receive a $25 check from the women's and men's auxiliary units.
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Congratulations to David Tennant whose critically-acclaimed performances as Hamlet have earned a best Shakespearean performance trophy at the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards.
In a strong year for Shakespeare, Tennant shares the award with Professor Yana/Master actor Derek Jacobi, who garnered similar acclaim as Malvolio in Twelfth Night. Jacobi is of course a veteran Shakespearean actor of many years standing.
The David Tennant-starring production of Hamlet was completely sold out in advance.


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The long awaited sequel to The Mayor's Daughter: Draft Pony! Jessica has finally passed her challenge, elevated from draft pony to show pony. She still struggles to come to terms with this new life, a life where her waking and sleeping life are filled with bondage, confinement, and punishment when she breaks the rules. She knows, though, that it will be a better life now that her days as a draft pony are behind her. But this all changes when a new girl is brought into the Officer's mill. For now, the new girl is the draft pony, filling the role that Jessica left behind. But for how long? Jessica can quickly see that the new girl is stronger than her, faster than her. In a fair competition, Jessica knows that she would lose. What will Jessica do to ensure her place as the show pony? How far will she go to protect her newly won status. This book, the second installment of The Mayor's Daughter Trilogy, features strict bondage and pony play as Jessica and the new girl struggle within the confines of the Officer's mill. It picks up right where the last book ends off, exploring Jessica's new life as a show pony. Fans of the first book will find the same level of detailed, intricate bondage in the sequel, but with the added psychological element of the interplay between Jessica and the new ponygirl.


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Some of my artsy stuffs I decided to put up here.
I mostly draw animals/anthro- that sort of thing.
And since I know it's coming, NO- I am not a furry. An interest in animal and anthropomorphic art a Furry does not make. There are many other factors that come into play in that department. I also have a fursona, but the similarities with the fanbase basically stop there.
Animals are where I started drawing, therefor I'm more comfortable drawing them than much other subject matter.
I sometimes try to get myself into drawing anime-- humans, namely. Though I typically don't like the results and almost always have to strongly reference.
Anyway, here's some of it, it may be mixed in terms of how recent they all are- and I may have to stretch it all out in multiple posts at a later date:
That's it for now- I'll throw some more stuff in here later.