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Patrick or "Pat" was one of the three clones of Michael van Patrick created by the Initiative.
Throughout the events of the rampaging MVP clone, KIA, the aftermath of the Skrull invasion and followed by the insane Thor clone, Patrick became the only clone to survive these unfortunate events. After the death of the MVP clone, Michael, Patrick publicly unmasked himself, revealing to the media that the Initiative had secretly cloned MVP. This revelation allowed Norman Osborn to indefinitely close down Camp Hammond.[2]
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Today I'm jumping on board for the official launch of paranormal romance novel Blood Roses, the second in the Blackthorn series, where humans live alongside vampires in a dystopian world. Vampires who just want to live their lives without prejudice, away from stereotypical beliefs and prophecies… or so they'd have you believe. A world filled with danger lurking around every corner, where romance threatens to unfurl like a dark rose in the least expected circumstances.
Lindsay J. Pryor's first book in the series, Blood Shadows, was a fabulous hit with fans of this type of fiction back in November.
Now she's back with Blood Roses – another promising tense and dangerous love story which I can't wait to get my hands on.
Twilight fans – Blackthorn vampires do not sparkle.
Shades of Grey fans – the sexual tension in this series will knock your socks off.
Vampire Diaries fans – think much, much darker and you might be ready to step into Blackthorn.
Lindsay writes thrilling, fast paced romance which you'll either drink in one sitting or have to put down simply for a breather!
As a current fan of vampire fiction and an avid reader looking for something a little different to my usual chick lit, I was delighted to discover Lindsay and the Blackthorn series. I would never have thought of reading Paranormal Romance but am very glad I did. I'd highly recommend you try this fabulous new creation; you won't be disappointed.
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Goldman Sachs' Facebook deal is just the latest example of how Wall Street favors the big guys.
Everybody's talking about Goldman Sachs' deal to invest $450 million of its own capital in Facebook and to raise another $1.5 billion from its wealthy clients to do the same. The deal raises fascinating questions. Does it violate the Volcker rule (a provision in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform bill named after its proponent, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker), which is meant to limit the amount of money banks may risk in proprietary investments? Probably not. Is the deal's structure, which presents that $1.5 billion as coming from a single investor, a way to game the Securities and Exchange Commission rules requiring companies with more than 499 investors (as Facebook would be if each investor were counted individually) to file financial statements as a public company would? Of course!
But the true fascination in this deal is that somebody is getting something most of us can't have. You need multiple millions to invest your money at Goldman Sachs. (The firm doesn't disclose precisely how much, which brings to mind the old adage, "If you have to ask, you can't afford it.") These very wealthy clients are stampeding to make a (relatively) early-stage investment in a smoking-hot company. Who wouldn't do the same, given the chance? While Goldman does have mutual funds for non-millionaires, these average Joes won't get any Facebook shares. (Did you even have to ask?)
Goldman's Facebook deal is just one more piece of evidence that the claim Wall Street's made repeatedly over the last two decades—average individual investors can compete on a level playing field with the big boys!—is total bunk. The regulators have sometimes, sort of, tried to make it true, but these efforts have either failed or made things worse.
The last time there was an investor frenzy surrounding start-up Internet companies was during the late-1990s dot-com bubble. After it burst and many individual investors lost most of their money, it turned out that the "research analysts" working for Wall Street investment banks, who had been telling investors that stocks could double, triple, fly to the moon, were doing so not because they believed it was true, but because saying so could help their firms win lucrative investment-banking business. Meanwhile, big investors were often getting advance notice of important information from companies.
To solve this problem, the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2000 implemented "Regulation Fair Disclosure" (otherwise known as Reg FD). This rule required companies to disclose material information to all investors at the same time. Elaborate mechanisms were put in place to prevent research analysts from being influenced by the bankers. In addition, the SEC made Wall Street firms pay a $1.4 billion settlement. Goldman's share was $110 million.
Did the world became a better, safer place? Um, no. Rather than improve their research departments, brokerage firms made them a backwater, so the quality of information available to average investors went down, not up. At the same time, so-called "expert networks" sprouted. These are firms that specialize in putting big investors, particularly hedge funds, in touch with "experts"—maybe in the medical community, or inside technology firms—to help those big investors get an informational edge on everyone else. The SEC and the Justice Department are currently trying to figure out how much of that information qualifies as insider trading. Even if most of it doesn't, it's perfectly clear that big investors found a new way to keep—actually, to increase—their edge.
You don't have to be a cynic to wonder whether the Goldman-Facebook deal is just Wall Street's latest trick to inflate stocks in the post-2008 financial market. Using research analysts to whip individual investors into a frenzy is no longer kosher, so maybe the new method is to create such an aura of exclusivity that by the time Facebook does go public, investors will be absolutely crazed, allowing Goldman and the others to sell their stakes at a high price.
During the past four decades regulators made various changes to introduce greater competition into the stock market, with the idea that a more competitive market would be more hospitable to individual investors. Before 1975, the commissions that big Wall Street firms charged to trade shares were fixed, and they were fixed at a high level. That made trading a relatively easy, lucrative business. Then the commissions were deregulated, opening the door to upstarts, like discount brokerage firms. In 1998, the Securities and Exchange Commission allowed the use of "alternative trading systems," which competed directly with established exchanges like the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. In 2005 the SEC basically endorsed automated trading. Anyone with a computer would be able to start a trading platform. All these changes were supposed to level the playing field between the big guys and the little guys.
But it turns out that all orders to buy and sell stock aren't created equal. In recent years, the SEC's rule changes have enabled "dark pools," or private markets where big investors can trade their shares without tipping off outsiders, to become a big chunk of the market. (Like most brokerage firms, Goldman owns a dark pool.) According to the Wall Street Journal, such markets accounted for fully one in three U.S. stock trades in December. The arrangement makes a certain amount of sense for big investors because in a market where other traders constantly try to capitalize on big investors' positions, anonymity can let the big guys execute their trades more efficiently. But critics worry that the rise of these walled-off trading systems makes prices less transparent and accurate for everybody else. In November 2009, the SEC proposed rules on dark pool trading, but the agency has yet to make any final decisions.
Wall Street firms also have the advantage of faster computer systems able to keep track of a market accelerating ever faster. These systems are better than anything any individual could hope to access. Traders now engage in something called high-frequency trading, which uses automated computer programs to process all sorts of information faster than any mere human ever could. High-frequency traders argue that they increase liquidity, but critics say that they create a two-tiered system in which those with access to this technology can steal returns from those without—usually individual investors. A variation on high-frequency trading is "flash trading," which allows privileged traders to see buy and sell orders before they are transmitted to the broader market, which is patently unfair. Many people believe the "flash crash" last spring, in which the market basically seized up, confirmed some of the dangers of this newly automated world. (In 2009, the SEC moved to ban flash trading, and in early 2010 it asked for comments on market-structure rules, but the agency has yet to take action on either proposal.)
Do you even need to ask whether Goldman is a major player in high-frequency trading?
I could continue, but let's end on a happy note. There actually is a silver lining in some of this, which is that distinctions between big investors and little investors aren't always real. You can't compete because you're a little guy. But your pension fund or your mutual fund is a big guy—a big guy made up of lots of little guys—and therefore might benefit from a venture-capital investment you can't access on your own, or from dark pools.
Conceivably we will one day look back at the Goldman-Facebook deal and smirk with schadenfreude. Goldman's big investors aren't getting Facebook on the cheap. According to the New York Times, the deal values Facebook at $50 billion, nearly twice the $27 billion that Google was worth after its first day as a public company. Goldman's clients are also paying up for the privilege—Goldman will collect a 4 percent up-front fee and 5 percent of any profits, according to the Times. In other words, even Goldman's wealthiest clients aren't guaranteed a killing. Only Goldman is. Which is yet another reason that it's good to be Goldman Sachs.


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The core element of a Tecton IP system is the SERVALAN IP camera recorder. This is the component that records and manages the connection to each camera. Each SERVALAN unit will do this for up to 18 IP cameras. For larger systems, many Servalan units are used in parallel. This provides a system with very high resilience, since you are not reliant upon a single, highly loaded server. Instead, a Tecton system distributes the work load amongst its components, so there is no single point of failure.
Pictures are displayed by the Tecton VIMMO. This convenient module is small enough to mount on the back of a monitor, and powerful enough to display high resolution video. The VIMMO receives network data and decodes it into pictures which are transmitted to the monitor by HDMI or DisplayPort connection.
For simple systems, Tecton have designed a TOUCHSCREEN interface, based upon the Vimmo technology. This allows unfamiliar or inexperienced operators to be effective immediately with little or no training.
For larger systems, or those with more sophisticated control requirements TECTON VMS provides a graphical interface for security system management, not only controlling video, but alarms, access control, asset tagging and more.
The Servalan is an application specific piece of hardware, designed and manufactured by Tecton in the UK. At it's heart is our very own operating system, written by Tecton engineers to avoid the security issues that come with using off-the-shelf software. A Servalan will exist on a network without ever requiring anti-virus software, since it is not based upon Windows, Linux, Unix, BSD or any other commonly available general purpose OS.
In practice, one or more Servalan units will be connected to a local area network. An installer will connect your chosen IP cameras to the network also. The system is formed when the camera signals are directed towards the Servalan in a process we call mapping. To make this process as simple as possible, Tecton provide the software tools to map the cameras, and configure the system. Once a camera is connected to the Servalan, it will maintain that connection and record the camera automatically. The system will even automatically recover after a network failure or power outage.
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Equal parts Pop, Baroque, commercial, and street, Ryan McGinness's psychedelic paintings merge slick biomorphic abstraction with surrealistic imagery. Trained as a graphic artist, McGinness transfers and subverts the images and techniques of commercial illustration—logos and symbols, silkscreening, hard edges, and vibrant colors—into his boldly graphic yet graceful works. "My paintings are composed of many units of meaning," he says. "Individual drawings come together to create non-linear narrative mindscapes—random access memories." McGinness has translated these same concerns across a range of mediums, creating sculptures, projections, and immersive installations of fluorescent light. His recent work Women: Blacklight Paintings & Sculptures (2012) exploded his body of nude figurative studies into an installation of glow-in-the-dark sculptures and exuberant, layered paintings. Of his predilection for neon, McGinness has said: "When I look inward, those are the colors I see."
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As the in decade of the 1970s was ending a one-time Saturday Night Live comic deadpanned an ongoing routine that he introduced as follows:
Well, the "me" decade is almost over, and good riddance, and far as I'm concerned. The 70's were simply 10 years of people thinking of nothing but themselves. No wonder we were unable to get together and solve any of the many serious problems facing our nation. Oh sure, some people did do some positive things in the 70's -- like jogging -- but always for the wrong reasons, for their own selfish, personal benefit.
Well, I believe the 80's are gonna have to be different. I think that people are going to stop thinking about themselves, and start thinking about me, Al Franken. That's right. I believe we're entering what I like to call the Al Franken Decade. Oh, for me, Al Franken, the 80's will be pretty much the same as the 70's. I'll still be thinking of me, Al Franken. But for you, you'll be thinking more about how things affect me, Al Franken. When you see a news report, you'll be thinking, "I wonder what Al Franken thinks about this thing?", "I wonder how this inflation thing is hurting Al Franken?" And you women will be thinking, "What can I wear that will please Al Franken?", or "What can I not wear?"
You know, I know a lot of you out there are thinking, "Why Al Franken?" Well, because I thought of it, and I'm on TV, so I've already gotten the jump on you. So, I say let's leave behind the fragmented, selfish 70's, and go into the 80's with a unity and purpose. That's what I think. I'm Al Franken."
I think of this old routine almost every time I hear current discussions of taxes. The universal request of every imaginable group is to extol the virtues of not taxing me. Raise the incremental tax rate on the poor overtaxed upper 2 percent of income earners? No, they will retaliate by not hiring new employees. It is straight out of the 1979 Al Franken routine: want good things to happen to the economy? Just lower my taxes. If you raise them, "small" business will not hire. (Just like oil companies will tell us how taxing energy will strangle the economy. And soft drink companies will extol the threats to our freedom if ingesting their chemical concoctions were to become incrementally more expensive).
All of these arguments seem individually plausible until you note the common theme of naked self-interest.
Now, I'd like to see my taxes lowered as much as anyone. But the arguments advanced to the effect that they will cause high income taxpayers to retaliate by not hiring new employees make no sense. There is a complete disconnect between my personal experiences in running a business for three decades and the arguments I have seen advanced in the current debate. At the very least, they fail to distinguish between gross revenue (which is not taxed) and profits, which are taxed. Joe the Plumber obviously did not understand this difference, but any real business will.
Let's take a small business with $10 million in revenue and $1 million in profits as an example. Not the image conjured up by the term "small business"? Well, think again, "small businesses" include businesses a lot larger than this.
We are told that failure to extend the Bush era tax cuts will prevent these businesses from hiring. Let's examine this claim. The current top tax rate is 36 percent. If we fail to extend the Bush era tax cuts, this will increase to a whopping 39.6 percent, a nominal 3.6 cents on each additional dollar of profit. (But not even on ALL of the profit, just the profit in excess of $373,650 since high income taxpayers still get the benefits of lower brackets for everyone. So their additional tax is about $22k on a million of profit.)
We are asked to believe that these businesses will no longer have the money to hire new employees if they don't get to keep these 2.2 cents on the dollar. Really? Let's look at two scenarios:
Scenario #1: Owner takes the million in profits and either pockets the profits or spends it on a lavish extended foreign travel vacation involving lots of first class travel (all on foreign airlines) and extended stays at five star resorts. Tax consequence: he has to pay about $320k in taxes on the $1 million of company profits used to fund his vacation (less if he owns a home or has other deductions). So the poor fellow only has about $680k for his vacation.
Scenario #2: Owner spends the $1 million on new employees to expand his business. A dollar of profit spent on an employee is no longer profit, it is a business expense. His taxes are zero, since he no longer has any profits. And no proposal by anyone has ever considered changing this accounting fact.
So how does any tax on profits inhibit the hiring of additional employees? In fact, quite the opposite is true. Incrementally higher taxes on profits actually are a slight incentive to hire additional employees. It costs a company in the 40 percent tax bracket about 60 cents to pay $1 in additional wages.
But I wouldn't make too much of this modest incentive. In thirty years of running a business, taxes on profits have never played any role whatsoever in decisions to hire new employees. Not ever. Why? We hire new people when our workload requires it. And for no other reason. And I find it hard to imagine any rational business making hiring decisions on any other basis.
This is not to say that other taxes cannot impact business decisions under some circumstances. For example, property taxes and employment taxes must be paid regardless of company profits. And an argument can be made that high business property taxes create a disincentive to the attraction of capital intensive industries, such as manufacturing. Since these are often pay high wages, this can be a counterproductive strategy for local development officials.
The top incremental tax rates were as high as 91 percent when Eisenhower was President. To argue that a top tax bracket of 39.6 percent will inhibit hiring makes about as much sense as the claim that it would transform our capitalist economic system into socialism. That argument is so ludicrous that it might even make the self-obsessed 1979 Al Franken character blush.


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Konami has been teasing some big unannounced surprises for Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker. Word of one of these appears to have leaked out in advance.
Famitsu reveals that Konami and Capcom are teaming up for an industry shaking collaboration that will see Monster Hunter elements appear in Peace Walker. Snake will get to battle the massive beasts from the Monster Hunter series, with Monster Hunter mascot character Felyne appearing in a support role. Additionally, familiar Monster Hunter elements like "well cooked meat" will appear in Peace Walker, changed up a bit to "well cooked rations."
We're labeling this as an industry shaking announcement because Monster Hunter is one of the hottest gaming franchises in Japan. The last PSP entry has topped shipments of four million -- in Japan alone.
With such a big tie-up, and the cooperative play that PSP owners seem to love, Peace Walker could end up doing some major numbers in its home territory.
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AbstractIn order to survive, eukaryotic cells must be in constant communication with the exterior environment. Not only is the cell dependent on the uptake of nutrients and the transmission of metabolic, neuronal and proliferative signals, it also has to protect itself and the organism from microbial invasion. As the vital barrier and the primary interface of the cell with its exterior environment, the limiting membrane is important for the detection of and accurate response to extracellular signals (e.g. from receptors, ions, nutrients and pathogens) and the entry of molecules into the cell, thereby contributing to long-term cell survival.
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|II Malerød L., Stuffers S., Brech A., Stenmark H. (2007) Vps22/EAP30 in ESCRT-II mediates endosomal sorting of growth factor and chemokine receptors destined for lysosomal degradation. Traffic. 2007 Nov;8(11):1617-29 The paper is not available in DUO. The published version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0854.2007.00630.x
|III Filimonenko M., Stuffers S., Raiborg C., Yamamoto A., Malerød L., Fisher E.M., Isaacs A., Brech A., Stenmark H., Simonsen A. (2007) Functional multivesicular bodies are required for autophagic clearance of protein aggregates associated with neurodegenerative disease. J. Cell Biol. 2007 Nov 5;179(3):485-500 The paper is not available in DUO. The published version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200702115
|IV Progida C., Malerød L., Stuffers S., Brech A., Bucci C., Stenmark H. (2007) RILP is required for the proper morphology and function of late endosomes. J Cell Sci. 2007 Nov 1;120(Pt 21):3729-37 The paper is not available in DUO. The published version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.017301
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I used to work for a software company that dealt in this arena and supported some pieces that helped pencil both leases and traditional finance deals. Specifically I worked directly with finance managers on the product to make sure it calculated correctly. I was constantly amazed on how they'd shoe in bad rates, BS fee on top of BS fee, automark sales price to MSRP for cars that normally never did, etc. But consumers always think "monthly price". There were a few that seemed to be pretty honest and only defaulted a $500 lease aq. fee and defaulted to a MF that was reasonable, but a vast majority always defaulted new deals to horrid numbers.
I strongly suggest traditional finance for everyone. Leasing, unless you are an expert and come armed with your own laptop and a strong understanding of how it all fits together you are making yourself extremely vunerable.
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He is smart. He is conservative. (He is handsome, too, but that's for another time.) So what's the problem with talk-radio superstar Sean Hannity? Why am I driving around shouting at the radio and punching his phone number into my cell phone?
It's the Catholic Church. Hannity wants to talk about the Church and public policy, but he isn't up to snuff on his theology. It's maddening. I'm gnawing my knuckles.
Half the hot news stories in the past year touched on matters of Catholic theology. (Yes, I know: There is a lot of messy stuff in the Church, but that is because people do not follow the teachings – the message is valid, the practitioners are often weak. That's another column, too.) We have had the sex scandal. We've had endless rounds of talking heads debate "just war theory."
Did the pope condemn the war in Iraq as "unjust?" (For the record – no, he did not.) We had Bishop Weigand of Sacramento advise politicians, including California Gov. Gray Davis, that you are not a Catholic in good standing if you support abortion. Now, we have that slobbering pack of the usual jackals after Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa.
During his "Hannitization" broadcast on Thursday, Sean laid out the controversy over Sen. Santorum with clarity. The senator commented on the Texas laws concerning sodomy. He said if the courts found a right to privacy and applied it as an absolute, across the board "right," then other forms of "privacy" would be pushed – bigamy, polygamy and incest. Santorum raised a vital issue: At what point do we draw a line between personal freedom and the destruction of our family-based society?
The homosexual lobby shrieked. They accused the senator of equating them with gross forms of immorality. They demanded that Republicans discipline Santorum for his "discriminatory" remarks. They want Santorum unhorsed before 2008.
Sean said, "I've read the transcript and that is not what Santorum said." Sean deftly pointed out that the senator made a constitutional point, had not actually lumped gays in the same category as bigamists, but had logically noted that by extension, such broadly interpreted privacy laws would soon cover – well, you name it.
Hannity then quoted Santorum's response when he was challenged about his "discriminatory" attack on homosexuals. The senator said, "I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts." So far, so good, Sean is accurate.
But, here it comes. Santorum is Catholic. Hannity is Catholic. Hannity thinks he understands where Sen. Santorum finds his distinction between homosexuality (a condition) and homosexual activity. Hannity correctly points out that the Catholic Church makes that same distinction, a "hate the sin but love the sinner" distinction. And Sean holds – justly so – that senators have a right to religious convictions. If the folks of Pennsylvania are uncomfortable with Santorum's convictions, they can address their worries at the polls.
However, Sean doesn't see it the way Santorum sees it. After all, if you are a homosexual, homosexual acts are what you do, thus the distinction seems moot. Sean parses the idea of sin. Well, hey, you know, the Church also says pre-marital sex is a sin (true). That's soft-headed, but Hannity is entitled to his opinion even when it is not in conformity with the teachings of his faith. Next Sean claims that the Church has slacked up a bit on its teaching, adopted a "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy on homosexuality. Now Hannity is sliding off center.
I'm jabbing at my phone. No, no, no. We can't let this get by. Hannity identifies himself as a Catholic, and now he tells the listening public that the Church has mellowed out on homosexuality. Lots of Sean's fans will take that as gospel. He's wrong, but they will think he knows what he is talking about (because he usually does).
A caller beats me to it. The caller is polite and he knows more than Hannity in this case. "Sean, you're making me crazy," the caller laughs. "Take a look at the Catholic Catechism, number 2357: It says 'homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.'"
Amazingly, Hannity – the publicly acknowledged Catholic Hannity – asks "What catechism is that?" Now, I'm crazy too. Jab, jab at the phone. Again the caller is on the money, "THE Catechism." But Sean isn't interested. Sean dismissed the Catechism because, he says, he has consulted theologians on this matter and they say something different. This is dangerous.
The issue of legitimizing homosexuality necessarily attacks our social fabric. Strong voices against codifying homosexual "rights" are the Catholic Church and lay Catholics, like Santorum, in public life. No theologian can blunt what the Church teaches on this issue. (The Church teaches that discrimination against homosexual persons is wrong, but that homosexual acts are immoral. The same principle applies to kleptomaniacs – it is not a sin to have the temptation, only to steal. We cannot marginalize groups of people for their weakness, but we must denounce wrong deeds. It is an important distinction.)
The caller is good, but not good enough to convince Hannity that theologians do not matter. I can't get through on the Hannitization lines, so here it is Sean – my 99 percent Hero Talk King – here it is: Forget theologians. They are just like competing talking heads – some are right, some are wrong. Theologians do not trump the Catechism. Theologians, like politicians, come in left and right, wishful thinkers and socialist tinkerers.
If anyone is a Catholic in a profession that catapults him or her into the public arena, they will need more training than an altar boy. Get to know the Catechism. Keep it on your desk. The Vatican regularly yanks on theologians who tend to wander off the edge – but many slide over anyway. You can't trust them. Get a Catechism of the Catholic Church if you plan to publicly discuss what the Church says.
(In the Catholic Church there is a place where the buck stops. But that is not on any theologian's desk. In Islam, for instance, a mullah can make a proclamation that the Koran demands jihad against the West, and another equally insistent Islamic theologian proclaims that Islam means "peace." There is no arbiter for Islam. No one can appeal to a definitive teaching on Islam – it is up for grabs. But in the Catholic Church it is the Magisterium that sifts 2,000 years of Catholic teaching and applies it to the particular challenges of each generation. That teaching is found in the Catechism.)
(Theologians may disagree with those definitive teachings – they have free will. But their opinions are of no interest to me as a Catholic. I want authenticity, otherwise why bother?)
Why does any of this matter to non-Catholics? It is crucial because the news and the teachings of the Catholic Church will continue to converge. Other faiths will also speak out, but for better or worse, the Vatican has an international voice. Politicians and world leaders must wrestle with the great moral questions of our day. Ahead are public policy debates over cloning, euthanasia, sex-trafficking laws, family laws, homosexual unions and adoptions, parental rights and, most ominously for religious freedom, the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
Already in a Dutch court, a homosexual group tried to bring suit against Pope John Paul II for denouncing homosexual acts as offensive to families. Do you think that they would have done that if the Church had a "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy?
Last week in Geneva, the international homosexual lobby convinced European nations to introduce a resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Commission. The resolution asks "all states to promote and protect the human rights of all persons regardless of their sexual orientation." The resolution calls on "treaty monitoring bodies" to give "due attention" to violations. The lobbying group seeks protection for sexual orientation and "expression."
Sen. Santorum, the Catholic Church and others who defend marriage and family against a militant agenda of homosexual "rights" and "marriages" had best speak up soon, before their right to free speech earns a free ticket to an international court on a charge of human-rights violation.
Call Hannity today – let's get the word out.
Mary Jo Anderson writes for Crisis magazine and contributes frequently to WorldNetDaily.


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Is it better to make intention simultaneously with articulatulating the opening Takbeer or can it be made before? What is the view of ulamaa on this matter? I have read the previous answers، but this really gives me a hard time during prayers.
The intention (niyyah) is a condition of the prayer being valid, and the prayer is not valid without the intention, because the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: "Actions are but by intention, and each person will have but that which he intended." What is meant by intention is resolve, and its place is in the heart.
End quote from al-Mughni, 1/287
The intention may accompany the opening takbeer, or it may come before it.
Some scholars even said that there may be a long time between the intention and the prayer, so long as the intention is not cancelled.
See: al-Mawsoo'ah al-Fiqhiyyah, 13/219
Al-Mardaawi said in al-Insaaf (2/23):
Others said: there may be a long time in between, so long as it (the intention) is not cancelled. Abu Taalib and others narrated (i.e., from Imam Ahmad): If he goes out of his house intending to pray, then this is the intention. Do you think that he would say the (opening) takbeer without intending to pray?
This is what is implied by the words of al-Khuraqi and it is the view favoured by al-Aamidi and Shaykh Taqi al-Deen in Sharh al-'Umdah. End quote.
Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
This opinion is more correct, because his intention is accompanied by the ruling, so long as he does not intend to cancel it. When the adhaan is given, if this man does wudoo' for prayer, then the intention escapes his mind, then when the iqaamah is given for prayer he starts to pray without forming a new intention, his prayer is valid because he did not cancel the first intention. So the ruling on it is still connected to the action because of the words of the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him): "Actions are but by intentions." This man had intended to pray, and nothing happened to cancel out his intention.
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The first thing to come to light, hiding in the boot, was a was a very nice, boxed Cricket ball motor. Nothing special but according to the guarantee slip it is the same age as me! It looks as if it has never been used and still has its inspection tag.
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In recent months another trend seems to be escalating. Large life-long collections of Meccano are being auctioned off or offered for sale within the community. These collections of parts can be enormous especially if the owner is someone who does not take their models apart! Many of these collections are sold on an all or nothing deal and Sue an I have bought the odd collection like that in the past. Others are subjected to the ravages of the auction house and often do not make the sort of money the owner/family expect.
Between all this mayhem you will find there is some level ground. We have documented here on our blog, and earlier on our website, that we have purchased built up models. Normally this is because they are Meccano-built dealer display models and are bought (usually rescued) with the aim of refurbishing them to their original grandeur. Occasionally we will buy made up models for the parts as we did a few years ago when we bought a complete SML 4 Blocksetter - see HERE.
The owner had built it from good clean or new parts and although when we went to collect it, he was in the progress of building another huge model, he could not bring himself to take it apart, preferring to buy more stock.
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A similar thing happened on Saturday. There, on the dealer's table, were a couple of models built in red/zinc. As anyone who knows us, that is our preferred colours scheme. Closer inspection revealed that there was a lot of 'extended-range' parts and some large stainless steel plates. Not to everybody's taste, but we like all modern parts, genuine Meccano or not, so long as they are generic parts that Meccano 'might' have made. The models had been built by the seller and again he said he did not want to take them apart after spending so much time building them. He went on to say that he was happy for the buyer to take them apart as they had been sitting in his loft for some considerable time anyway.
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Published in News on November 4, 2009 1:46 PM
Terry Lee of Mount Olive uses a pair of mules to pull an old one-row tobacco stalk cutter Tuesday afternoon. He and Shayne Williams, also of Mount Olive (not pictured), spent the day cutting several fields in the Mar-Mac community. Lee said they work for free simply because they enjoy doing things the old-fashioned way, and because it helps keep their mules in good shape and accustomed to pulling a plow.


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The College of Applied Biology Act ( the "Act" ) authorizes the College of Applied Biology ( the "College" ) to regulate its members: professional biologists, registered technologists and in training members. Through the Act the Provincial Government has given this authority to the College to protect the public of British Columbia.
In order to meet its mandate, the College establishes, monitors and enforces standards of conduct and a Code of Ethics for its members. The Act provides the legal authority to investigate allegations that a member has fallen below those standards and to take disciplinary action against the member, where warranted. The College has instituted a Discipline process, which sets out how a complaint is filed and the investigation and subsequent discipline processes.
The Act also provides members of the College with the right to certain titles. Only members with active status who are members in good standing can use titles under the jurisdiction of the College.
Rule 15 of the College Rules states:
15.3 A person may make a complaint in writing where the complainant believes that a member of the College has:
15.3.1 practiced biology in an incompetent manner; or
15.3.2 been guilty of professional misconduct, conduct unbecoming a registered member, or a breach of this Act or the Rules.
To see an overview of the Discipline Committee process click here. If a Hearing is ordered another process comes into play and an overview of this process can be viewed here.
For more detailed information on particulars within the Discipline Process please go the following links:
- Discipline Process - provides links to applicable rules and policies.
- How to Make a Complaint - outlines the process for filing a complaint.
- Title Rights - provides information on title protection.
- Discipline Digest - discipline decisions are published here.
- Summary of Complaints - provides stats on actions by the Discipline Committee.
- From the Chair's Perspective - from College Matters December 2013 Issue.
- Ethicsology 101: Guidance on Principle 9 of the College Code of Ethics - from College Matters December 2013 Issue.
- Discipline: Process and Expectations - from College Matters December 2013 Issue.
If you require additional information please contact the office at 250-383-3306 or email at [email protected] .


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The Ordos
Force Shards
This technique is an elegant manifestation of the psyker's killing will in the form of multiple hovering blades of destructive force, visible as hazy distortions in the air. When activated, the psyker brings a number of force shards into existence equal to his willpower bonus. The force shards hover around the psyker, acting as a potential barrier to incoming attacks. Any opponent attacking the psyker when he has one or more force shards orbiting suffers a -10 to weapon skill or ballistic skill tests. The force shards can be launched singly or as a group at ranged targets. The psyker makes a ballistic skill test to his the target, and deals 1d10 rending damage with a bonus of +1 damage per psy-rating. For every degree of success, the psyker hits his target with an additional force shard, up to the total amount of shards generated by this technique. Additionally, the force shards have a penetration value equal to the psy-rating used in the technique.


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Social media spoilers are inevitable when the broadcasting network decides to block-out selected events and save them for primetime. This became evident to me as I experienced the Olympics during the first three days.
It began on Friday when I settled to watch the opening ceremony. At this time I briefly considered the fact that the broadcast was not live on the East Coast of the United States, where I live. I also realized that people on the West Coast would see the opening extravaganza three hours after me.
I said to myself that it did not matter because viewing a delayed broadcast of an opening event, sure to be considered historic, would not change my viewing experience. Such a situation is equivalent to one's willingness to watch a television series knowing that it is a recorded production.
Things were different when I selectively viewed the first events on Saturday live on Bravo, CNBC, MSNBC, and NBC Sports. The multiple broadcasts were also complemented with apps for mobile media, well supported with the nbcolympics.com website.
Throughout the day I checked Twitter and Facebook for updates and comments. I soon learned that Michael Phelps took fourth place in the Men's 400m Individual Medley, while Ryan Lochte took first, winning the gold. However, I was not able to experience the historic moment until primetime on NBC. At this point I was more interested in knowing how it happened, and was no longer invested in the event as I would have, had it been live.
The same thing happened again on Sunday when Lochte and Phelps participated in the men's 4x100-meter freestyle relay only to come second to France. Again, I learned about this in the late afternoon, but I waited to view it during primetime on NBC.
The decision by NBC to select certain events, from earlier in the day, and broadcast them during primetime began to be discussed as soon as Saturday, and by Sunday, stories were written on different online publications. Entertainment Weekly, in particular, ran two extensive stories. NBC apparently made its decision in order to attain higher ratings during its primetime broadcast. Understandably some people are quite unhappy about NBC's decision, which is why, as I write this, the hash tag #nbcfail is still going strong with rants.
After viewing the events on Sunday night, however, I don't think that the problem for NBC is that selected events are shown well after they take place. The problem, in my view, is that NBC appears to be selecting the wrong events for delayed broadcast at night.
To be specific, both on Saturday and Sunday during primetime, NBC went back and forth between gymnastics and swimming. When swimming came on, I could not help but think that I was about to see something which had already taken place. But with gymnastics, I did not mind the delayed broadcast at all. Why, I thought? I came to the conclusion that it has to do with the type of sport.
Swimming is an action sport, which deals with extreme physical performance dependent on time. It is defined by exciting moments such as when your favorite athlete does not even take third place. Add to this the possibility of breaking a world record, and you are sure to have a nail-biting experience as a viewer. Such thrill is unlikely to happen with a delayed broadcast of a major swimming competition such as Lochte's and Phelps' once it has been spoiled earlier in the day due to social media and online news sources.
Gymnastics, on the other hand, is a sport about physical strength, precision and gracefulness. Add to this the fact that it depends on points given by judges who, in large part, rely on aesthetics, and we have a dynamic that is closer to viewing a theatrical performance, and not so different from viewing the opening ceremony. Gymnastics is one of my favorite categories in the Olympics, and I don't think I have ever experienced them live.
NBC's situation actually makes apparent the fact that major networks need to better understand how to create a worthwhile experience for viewers who are likely to know already much about sporting events that took place early in the day (in this case the Olympics) which they decide to deliver during primetime.
If a network decides to hold out on a sport defined by its physical excitement, such as swimming, then an effort should be made in creating a viewing experience about how and why something happened and not "what will happen." This approach would then make the juxtaposition of swimming and gymnastics a better fit given their differences as I explained. With this more realistic approach Bob Costas will not have to say "no spoilers" as he introduces the taped segment of Lochte winning gold while Phelps takes none, hoping that the viewers will have a thrilling experience. I did not.


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Bollywood drama "Life in a Metro" will receive a simultaneous release Friday in theaters around the globe and online.
Pic was produced by Indian conglom UTV; online component of the release will be handled by Rajshri.com, the broadband portal operated by Rajshri Films.
"Metro" is the third Indian pic to experiment with simultaneous distribution in theaters and on the Internet after Rajshri's own "Vivah" and previous UTV title "Hattrick."
Anurag Basu-helmed pic preemed in London on Tuesday night and receives commercial theatrical releases in the U.S., India, Blighty, Dubai and Australia. Simultaneous Web release is seen as reaching nonresident Indian populations in other parts of the world.
"With the online premiere, we are mainly targeting the South Asian diaspora," said UTV spokesman Siddarth Kapur.
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A new Quinnipiac poll finds that Sen. Bob Menendez's approval ratings have plummeted 15 points in less than a month. Only 36% of New Jersey voters approve of the job Menendez is doing, while 41% disapprove. In January, before widespread coverage of scandal allegations, 51% of voters approved of the recently reelected Menendez, while only 33% disapproved. The drop is an almost unheard of reversal of fortune.
70% of NJ voters are aware of the allegations surrounding Menendez and steps he allegedly took to benefit Dr. Salomon Melgen, a major donor to his campaign. Among these voters, 67% believe the allegations are worth investigating. Only 23% believe the allegations are politically motivated.
"By almost 3-1, voters think the Menendez charges are worth investigating. About one quarter think it's just politics," said Maurice Carroll, Director of Quinnipiac University's Polling Institute.
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The Senator is currently on a "fact-finding" trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Hopefully for his political career, he'll return with the facts necessary to answer the allegations against him.


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20. Are you saying that because of lack of trained
personnel the hazard test cannot be introduced until 2002?
(Mr Cameron) No, the Driving Standards Agency feel
that there is a need to research and test the questions etcetera
before they can implement it. Our view is that it could have been
implemented earlier but that we are happy that it is going to
be implemented rather than not implemented, though we feel it
could have been implemented earlier.
21. I am looking at a document published by
the DSA in winter 2000, so it is a current document, and they
refer to the hazard perception, outlining how it will apply, who
it will apply to and how the test will work. If the documentation
is there, and this is what they are issuing to people, why is
it going to take so long for it to be brought in?
(Mr Cameron) That is a very good question and we questioned
the same thing ourselves.
22. Did you get an answer?
(Mr Cameron) No, we did not. The answer we did get
was that there was a need to make sure that there were sufficient
scenarios in order to make the test a viable and proper test.
We believe that is still no excuse and that it should be brought
in much earlier. If it is important from a road safety point of
view, then our conception is that it should be in much earlier.
23. I referred to best practice in my previous
question and you said yes, this is being pushed by the Agency
and you accept that. Is this against best practice that it is
taking so long to introduce the hazard test?
(Mr Atkinson) It seems an undue delay to get the test.
24. As against the best practice.
(Mr Atkinson) Yes; as against the best practice.
25. Have you made representations on that particular
issue to any other body than the Driving Standards Agency?
(Mr Atkinson) To the DETR in general.
26. What was the response from the DETR?
(Mr Cameron) That they are guided by what the Driving
Standards Agency tell them that they can do in the time that is
27. So we have invented the wheel.
(Mr Cameron) Yes; re-invented the wheel again and
28. What representations have you made about
the rationalisation which is taking place as far as test centres
themselves are concerned?
(Mr Atkinson) We do not appear to be consulted on
the estate which the Driving Standards Agency have; we merely
receive notifications of changes to the estate in that if test
centres are closing or if new centres are opening we are informed
of the event rather than consulted upon it. We have not particularly
given formal representation to the Agency about the test centre
closures which have taken place, although informally we have consulted
with the Chief Executive about particular issues which have taken
place. We have referred to situations.
29. Do you not mind where they are? Why have
you not said anything about it?
(Mr Cameron) We have asked on a number of occasions
to have some idea of the template which they use to decide which
centres are going to be closed.
30. Surely they set that out at the beginning
of their report.
(Mr Cameron) Not to any great extent.
31. Have you questioned them in detail?
(Mr Cameron) Not in any great detail and we have asked
on many occasions for a template to decide how far from one centre
somebody will have to travel. Unfortunately the DSA have not been
able to come up with that as yet.
32. Do you think that is in fact the reason
for the backlog of people waiting for their driving test? Do you
believe this is part of the reason?
(Mr Cameron) There seems to be an ad hoc decision
to close a centre more on the cost of the centre, we feel, rather
than on the requirements of the number of people in that area,
the demographics, etcetera. We feel it is very much judged on
cost rather than on necessity and certainly not on priorities
from the public's point of view.
33. You do not accept then that they are providing
a service in real terms.
(Mr Cameron) We accept they are providing a service,
but not as good as it could be.
34. A very poor service.
(Mr Cameron) Yes, and certainly as far as test centre
closures are concerned it would seem that there is no real ability
to judge why they are closing the centre and when they do close
a centre then that does cause terrible problems with regard to
35. In a practical sense what example do you
have of that which you might be able to furnish us with? Do you
have one?
(Mr Cameron) Yes. For example, they recently closed
one of the centres at Oxford and that meant that they were totally
unable to give anybody a test in Oxford for the conceivable future.
They would not open the books far enough in advance to provide
a test at all. It is purely because one centre had been closed.
In fairness I have to say it was not closed because DSA wanted
to close it, it was closed because the lease ran out and they
were unable to renew the lease.
36. When that happens in an area, surely you
make representations in letter form to the Chief Executive. What
responses are you getting to any of those letters you write? You
must do that surely. It is affecting your business.
(Mr Cameron) We usually get the answer that they have
a problem, they are trying to overcome it, they are desperately
trying to get another centre. One of the difficulties is that
this does not raise its head until such time as the problem is
actually there.
37. How much notice do you get then?
(Mr Cameron) Of a test centre closure?
38. Yes.
(Mr Cameron) For the one in Oxford none at all.
(Mr Atkinson) We get notification, we get the press
release in effect that the test centre has closed.
39. You do not get any notice at all.
(Mr Cameron) No, not with one like that. The reason
for that was because they were in negotiation with the landlord
and there was a possibility that that could come to a successful
conclusion, so they did not want to go public. The problem is
that it throws into total disarray any planning for somebody trying
to learn to drive.


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Nottingham Theatre Royal
The second of the Colin McIntyre Classic Thriller Season 2014 follows on from last week's "The Ghost Train". Written by Nicholas Ridley, son of Arnold Ridley who wrote "The Ghost Train", and Mansfield's Chris Ponka.
The set is the same as last week, but this is because fictitious Am Dram society, The Lemon Tree Players, are set to present a production of "The Ghost Train", little do they realise that they themselves would be wrapped up in a murder mystery to rival that of any fictitious plot.
There are a few new faces in the production, as well as a few of the regular names, Andrew Ryan, in a completely different role from last week's under cover detective, Susan Earnshaw, Jeremy Lloyd-Thomas and Sarah Wynne Kordas. The new names keep the cast fresh and provide some very nice comic touches, especially Alan Magor as the slightly "wet behind the ears" Barrie.
Tabs Productions Company show just how versatile they are with this "play within a play" play and while using the premise of the Arnold Ridley story, the characters and storyline is completely different.
To be honest, I don't think Nicholas Ridley is quite the writer that his dad was because this storyline was no where near as strong as "The Ghost Train" but instead offers a more of a comedy play, which if truth be told, is what the play is billed as, and succeeds under this heading. Saying that though, the ending is more open ended than "The Ghost Train" and possible leaves the door open for another episode for The Lemon Tree Players.
Some nice jumpy bits, good lighting effects and sound and another unexpected twist as to who will be the undercover detective this time. Despite not being as strong as the week's before excellent play, this is entertaining and provides laughs as well as the thrill element.
"Shadow Of The Ghost" is at the Theatre Royal until Saturday 9 August 2014