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Peruse book selling sites and notice any recent books that have no subtitles. Notice those that do use subtitles. You will get a "feel" for when to use and when not to use.
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Inspired by their location of origin such as abandoned buildings, old industrial areas and brownfields, the artist Plotbot KEN's subjects revolve around a world of science fiction and dark-age-scenarios. Plotbot KEN is one of Germany's most noteworthy young urban artists.
Since when have you been creatively active?
For as long as I can remember. Ever since I was little, I have been fascinated by music, graphic design, photography and graffiti.
Was it art that found you, or you who found art?
It was probably a mix of both.
Every print is unique, as subjects are printed on an original document telling its own personal story. Where do those maps come from?
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Your works always seem to be in perfect harmony with its surroundings of abandoned places, old industrial areas and brownfields. Explain your attraction to such locations.
It all started with the "Teufelsberg" in Berlin. As one of the premier listening posts during the cold war the giant radar unit was used by the western occupying forces. No longer used for interception it now serves as a host for cultural activities. During the summer of 2012 we were colouring external surfaces for the creative event "Artbase". Aside from the five meters high facade, the guardhouse by the entrance gate we worked with a totally burnt out building, hidden and remote from the actual festival ground. Walls were covered by graffiti only here and there, the back part being totally untouched. Total destruction. Walls out of metal were totally rusty creating exceptional textures. For not being part of the festival, not many people saw it. However, luckily, photographers captured the aesthetic of the moment.
Until today I have been predominantly drawing in abandoned places and preferring locations that are rather hard to access. The right background is very important and crucial – especially for choice of subject. In an abandoned slaughterhouse, for example, I created a wall drawing of five meters in height depicting a Victorian doctor for plagues. Vultures just waiting for their part of the arrangement surround him. The presence of the doctor reaches as far as into the single cells of the arcades. This hall was the last part of the slaughterhouse, which was known as Europe's largest one. A building consistent of a long corridor with various arcades was used to dry the guts for further processing. The building next to it was a leather factory. Hence, in this very place, following "nothing goes to waste" they slaughtered and processed the industrial mass production's output over a century.
Your works depict a world of dark-age-scenarios and resemble disaster movies. How do your subjects arise?
They mirror present times. Our constant demand for energy, the global industrialisation and the resulting conflict of power and resources. Scenes from countries where war has long became mundane. The continuous pollution of the environment and the already appearing effects on human and animal. Phenomenons such as the modification of seeds and plants, factory farming and the manipulation of the climate result in a gloomy picture of the future. Instead of investing time and money in attempts of reducing hunger and poverty, it seems as if research for nuclear weapons and other funding for war equipment is much more likely to be supported. The global race seems like a war between neighbours, which now shows collateral damage. Only in one area of the Antarctica there are three atomic submarines, 17.000 containers of nuclear waste, 19 vessels for nuclear waste and 14 reactors of the Russian North Sea Fleet lying on the floor of the ocean. Similar to the case in Chernobyl and Fukushima the possible explosion of the reactor imposes a terrible threat. As the recovery of the "K-141 Kurs" has proved, it is technically possible to move those submarines. However, the main motive seems to have been accusation and not so much to do nature a favour.
My art wants to become an emblem. I use it as a form of creative reaction to our current condition.
2010 Le Grande Finale / ATM Gallery, Berlin (Group Show)
2010 ARTAQ – 1st Urban Art Awards Festival / Stattbad Wedding, Berlin
2011 Hatch & Superplan presents: Oversized & Underpriced Round 3 / Superplan, Berlin
2012 TACHELES BIENNALE 2012 / Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin
2012 Artbase 2012, Berlin 2012 Stroke Artfair 12 / Postbahnhof, Berlin
2013 Solo Show Xlab Corrosive Art / Farm, Berlin
2013 Art on Snow, Bad Gastein
2013 Kissed by A.MUSE (Artweek), Berlin
2014 Project M/3 2014, Urban Nation, Berlin
2014 Ink and Ride / Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg
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Pride is a great event no matter where you are, how big your pride gets, or how many organizations are a part of it. This was a particular special Capital Pride for me. I was honored as one of five Capital Pride Heroes Award Recipients. I was so surprised and happy, when I got that call.
Also I'm being inducted into the DC AIDS Heroes Exhibit at the International AIDS Conference that is happening in Washington DC July 22nd-27th. I will definitely be there for about two days at the conference because that is all I could afford. But there is the Gay Men's Health Summit that I have already registered for and that is separate from the International AIDS Conference, but I will be attending that as well from July 20th-21st. These events for very informative and I suggest everyone attend. HIV affects and can infect us all.
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That gala, the ''Heroes Gala & Silent Auction,'' is Wednesday, May 30, marking the start of Capital Pride, which ends Sunday, June 10, with the Capital Pride Festival. But the celebration of these heroes has already begun.
Barnett, executive director of metro D.C.'s Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL), says he learned of the honor about two weeks ago, adding that while the award may be in his name, he ''absolutely'' hopes that it will help with his organization's work.
''It's a huge honor,'' says Barnett. ''My hope it is it will raise awareness of SMYAL's mission.''
Being a hero means, however, that Barnett may have to forgo marching with the SMYAL contingent in the June 9 Capital Pride Parade. Traditionally, a hero rides alone – in a convertible, of course. He has no doubt the SMYAL parade showing, already on track for something big, will be just fine.
''I'll definitely miss being a part of the SMYAL contingent this year, but it's going to be a memorable contingent even if I'm not part of it,'' Barnett promises.
Bell, whose BOI Marketing & Promotions gives D.C. its annual Capital Queer Prom, says she'll miss hitting the parade with her prom peers, but she certainly won't have time to dwell on it. She'll be too busy helping with an array of women's events during Capital Pride, performing at the festival, and on and on. It's that sort of community involvement, though, that's raised her to hero status.
''I'm completely honored to have this award in that, one, I was nominated, and, two, the board selected me,'' Bell says. ''Every year, I'm completely in shock that people continue to notice the work that I do. It's motivation for me to continue what I'm doing. That other people recognize it is absolutely amazing, truly an honor.''
Platte, founder of the DC Cowboys, plans on running back to the cowboys' rolling parade stage after making it through the route on hero duty, saying the parade is enough fun to warrant two or three rides along the route.
With the DC Cowboys dance troupe having entertained in the District and well beyond for nearly two decades, Platte knows what he's talking about. He's enjoyed more than his fair share of Capital Pride festivities. That makes it all the more appropriate that the cowboys have scheduled their last appearance for the Capital Pride Festival, adding even more weight to this special honor.
''I'm truly honored to be recognized for all the good work this organization's done,'' Platte says of his cowboys, stressing that the title of Capital Pride Hero isn't really his alone. ''This honor has to be shared with all the dancers, past and present, and the fans.''
Between being named Capital Pride Hero and the DC Cowboys curtain call, Capital Pride will obviously be an emotional time for Platte. ''It's exciting. It's nerve-wracking. It's sad. It's all the emotions tied together,'' he shares.
There's also good reason for Benecke, co-founder of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), to experience an extra jolt of emotion as she rides the parade route, remembering back nearly 20 years when participated with less jubilation, more determination.
''I will always remember marching in the Capital Pride Parade in 1993 when DADT was being debated, just before C. Dixon Osburn and I founded SLDN, seeing straight colleagues from law school in the crowd applauding the military veterans group I was marching with,'' says Benecke, an Army veteran, of walking with Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Veterans of America, emphasizing an appreciation of Capital Pride being not just for the LGBT community but for allies as well.
Of course, the award itself is not too shabby.
''The national capital area has been my home for 20 years. D.C. has been a beacon for me,'' she says. ''To have one's community recognize your life's work is deeply gratifying.''
Simply being in Benecke's company as a fellow Capital Pride Hero is also gratifying, says Terry-Smith, just starting service with the volunteer Maryland Defense Force, thrilled to be named with a co-founder of SLDN.
The recognition as hero, however, comes not for defending his state, but largely for helping individuals defend themselves from HIV, or better cope with the virus if already infected. While his service to the community has been recognized by The DC Center, DC Leather Pride and others, Terry-Smith says this particular honor tells him his activism has greater impact than he realized.
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Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death; it's most common among seniors but it can strike at younger ages, even in childhood. And yet for many…stroke remains a mystery.
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FURLAN: If your pipes are plugged, you have to find where that hairball is in your shower drain or your pipes. And it's usually in the trap-in the U part of the drain-so the same thing with the blood vessel. The straight part usually the clot doesn't stop there but when it hits that U turn, or where the blood vessel branches, that's where it gets stuck.
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FURLAN: So the brain does not tolerate a cut-off of its nutrients, of its blood supply, for very long. That's why we have to act fast when we're treating stroke.
Without oxygen that blood flow brings, brain cells start dying at a rapid clip--32,000 a second. Doctors sometimes refer to a golden "3 hour window" after stroke onset, when treatment can have the most effect.
The go-to drug for busting a clot right at stroke onset is called TPA, which was FDA approved in 1996--a date that many in the field regard as a groundbreaking moment in stroke care.
Along with TPA, new devices allow doctors more time to unplug the clot. They can thread a catheter up through the blood vessels and actually suck out the clot. Back to pipes' expert, Anthony Furlan at UH:
FURLAN: Using the plumbing analogy, if you use that snake in your drain to pull the plug out, so these devices pretty much work like drain snakes, if you will, and pull that clot right out of the artery.
The drug TPA then, would be like Draino.
So, with most strokes, the problem is a blockage that can starve the brain of oxygen.
How can we tell if this is happening to us or someone around us?
FURLAN: The hallmark of stroke is sudden. I mean you're fine, just like we're sitting here talking and boom, I'm blind.
Loss of vision is one symptom of a stroke. So is loss of speech or abrupt paralysis of a limb or numbness down one side of the body…these are all indications of a stroke. There's one symptom conspicuously absent from this list though: pain.
FURLAN: Stroke is a painless thing. In fact you can touch the surface of the brain during surgery and there's no pain. The brain is a painless organ, interestingly enough. So pain almost never is a symptom of stroke.
The only exception, says Furlan, is the pain of sudden intense headache, which can be a symptom of a rarer type of hemorrhagic stroke, which is a bleed in the brain.
If you experience even just a few moments of these symptoms--sudden intense headache, paralysis, speech loss or the others--and then they pass, you still need to seek care, experts say, because these are warning events--called Transient Ischemic Attacks, or TIAs, and they indicate a larger problem on the horizon. After a TIA, chances are high that you're in for a stroke.
The best medicine is, of course, prevention. Dr. Furlan:
FURLAN: I mean you can cut your risk of having a stroke in half--in half--by just treating your blood pressure and your risk factors.
Risk rises appreciably with high blood pressure and cholesterol, diabetes, lack of exercise, obesity, and smoking.
The odds of surviving a stroke have increased dramatically in the last 20 years and strides have been made in recuperation when treatment begins quickly. For many though, the damage is permanent. Again, Dr. Furlan.
FURLAN: It's a very difficult thing to say treat a 50 year old person who is working in the morning and now is totally paralyzed, can't talk, and can't see, and is going to be that way for the rest of his or her life. And that's what a stroke does.


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Whoops! I almost let two months go by since my last show. I've been playing plenty of games, so here's a session report & feedback show to describe my inability to play economic games with any skill! But as badly as I've been doing at them, I'm still interested. In fact, I'm even more interested in the games because it feels like there's something everyone else understands about their strategy . . . that I don't! Two plays of one game, four plays of the other, and I'm still struggling. What I really need is for someone to make a play-by-web version of either of these games, then I could really practice. (I've gotten pretty good at Brass that way.)
The previous few episodes generated a ton of great feedback, and that's what I really wanted to share on the podcast. Keep 'em coming--all of your podcasters love feedback.


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Josh Fox's film Gasland has stirred up a lot of controversy over the environmental damage caused by shale gas drilling. Shale gas reservoir rock lies many thousands of feet below the surface, with the depth depending on the location. In order to get the gas to flow up to the wellhead, operators drill down to the shale rock layer, and then apply a process called hydraulic fracturing to "open up" the rock. This requires injecting a fracturing fluid into the shale at very high pressure. This fluid is mostly water, but also contains hundreds of nasty chemicals.
Where do the gas, the chemicals, and the contaminated water end up? The best outcome says that all three 1) flow up to the wellhead, where they are captured or produced; or 2) stay trapped in the shale rock many thousands of feet below the surface. This description is over-simplified, but basically correct. The gas industry wants you to believe this story. Josh Fox wants you to believe that these gas or fluids get loose, flowing into the water table or the air, and thus polluting both.
Which story should you believe?
You should believe both of these stories. How many times in the last 40 years have we seen this narrative play out? The answer is too many times to count. Does drilling and hydro-fracking sometimes pollute the environment? Sure it does! Does a bear shit in the woods? On the other hand, shale gas production is perfectly safe most of the time. No one really knows how frequently drilling pollutes the environment in a serious way, which is really the immediate issue at hand.
But we need to step back and look at the Big Picture. Do we need the natural gas? Yes, indeed—see my Betting The House On Shale Gas. Do we want to further pollute the environment? No, of course not—see any story on the BP oil spill. This is the bed we have made, and now we have to sleep in it.
Where are the wind farms, and the solar concentrators, and the whatevers which are supposed to alleviate pressures to produce more & more natural gas? They don't exist! We could re-frame that question. Where are the natural gas vehicle fleets & infrastructure that could alleviate pressures to produce more & more oil? They don't exist! I could go on and on here, and the answer would always be the same: They don't exist!
OK, why don't they exist? Once again, we get into two narratives. The oil & gas industry will tell you that renewable energy is not up to the task of replacing fossil fuels. The environmentalists will tell you the political power of the oil & gas industry prevents us from implementing renewable solutions. I could write a book about this too, but take note: we are still trapped in the same old pointless conflict. People want a sustainably clean environment, but they also want their homes heated (or cooled) and their lights to come on when they flip the switch.
In other words, we want to have our cake and eat it too. How do we break out of this vicious circle? One way we could have escaped would been to have a coherent, universally agreed upon energy policy in place over the last 3 decades after the energy dislocations of the 1970s and early 1980s. That policy could have been amended as circumstances changed. But it was way too much for us to expect such a wise policy in Cowboy America. No can do—we'll just make it up as we go along.
So, we don't break out of this vicious circle. This infantile Fossil Fuels versus The Environment debate has gone on for about 40 years now. This noise will continue well into the future until all the Big Questions have finally been resolved. And that resolution will mean that sometime in the 21st century, we will have exhausted most of our exploitable fossil fuel resources, and we will have trashed the planet.
All because we wanted to have our cake and to eat it too.
Here's the Hydrofracking Wars video from Tech Ticker. There's an update to that report here.
Note: pause the video when it's finished to prevent it from playing again


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October 30, 2012, 4:34 pm
Day's Best: Those political prairie dogs
It's far from the biggest political story out there, but we must admit that it did make us chuckle.
Someone posted mini presidential campaign signs outside prairie dog burrows north of Boulder — both Romney and Obama signs. What a hoot.
Can coyote campaigning be far behind?
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"Great! A long hard day at work, now this at home?" swore Mala.
Stale smoke, cigarette butt filled ashtray, empty liquor bottle, bunch of discarded tissues, among others greeted Mala, as she unlocked her apartment door.
"I need to find an apartment of my own,"vowed Mala.
A trainee in a BPO, Mala earned just enough to survive in a shared apartment. Mala had steadfastly refused to earn extra by working odd hours. She preferred time for herself, angering her manager. Not anymore.
"I shall work like a machine and earn more," she resolved.
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This is an effort to write aflash fiction effort with the Friday fictioneers, 17thAug, 2018, using picture prompt provided by Yvette Prior.


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The 3200 block of Burgundy St. in the Bywater is looking more and more like Magazine Street uptown. Now that's not necessarily a good thing if you're an artist who moved to the Bywater in the first place because it was affordable, but if you're in town looking for an unusual and emerging area, it's a good thing. First, check out Christopher Porche-West's photography gallery on the corner, A Studio on Desire, at 3201 Burgundy. Christopher is best known for his early portraits of the Mardi Gras Indians, but his gallery is another thing altogether. His constructions and assemblages incorporate his photographs celebrating New Orleans life (as well as that found in Africa and Haiti), with architectural found objects. Shrines, really, some of them are, and extremely moving works. Porche-West observes cultures and people, and portrays them honestly. He's the real deal-he's been there on that corner from way back when. Here's a piece on NPR describing his work about the Indians. But today you can walk across the street from his gallery and enter one of the coolest new restaurants in town, Maurepas Foods. At 3200 Burgundy St., Maurepas Foods has been getting lots of press-The New Orleans Times-Picayune food critic recently gave it a glowing three-bean review. It's "New American" food, with vegetables getting the center of attention, but besides a wonderful plate of roasted beets, you can get goat tacos, or grilled shrimp with herbs, all in a former corner store with a hipster vibe. It's loud, with all those ancient walls, and it's buzzing, and it's very Bywater. Probably won't find it uptown on Magazine St., but the food is worthy of anywhere.
There's a fetching little shop, Bon Castor, at 3207 Burgundy. It just opened in February, and it's absolutely adorable, showing off desirable handmade objects all sourced from local Bywater artists. The owner moved to town and thought, why can't I buy a birthday present in this great neighborhood? Amy Knoll, who also is a part-owner of Lost Love Lounge, another Marigny establishment, opened the shop, and it's really taking off. Everything's sold on consignment; it's Etsy come to life! And if you don't feel up to the hubbub of Maurepas Foods, there's another cool restaurant next door to Bon Castor, called Suis Generis. (Yes, that's how it's spelled). It's smaller than Maurepas Foods, with about 40 seats and a DIY-decorated ambiance, but with equally distinctive small-plate fare, and somewhat larger plates if you're really hungry. There's a great wine and cocktail list, and the menu really does change with the seasons. It's a seriously local joint, both in conception and execution. It's open for brunch on weekends too.
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Etihad Airways expands UAE check-in and baggage allowance options ahead of busy summer
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, and considered the World's Leading Airline by World Travel Awards is is expanding check-in options in Abu Dhabi city, Al Ain, and Dubai this summer, and offering each passenger the 5kg additional baggage allowance.
Passengers using the facilities can drop their baggage and collect their boarding pass from 24 to 6 hours before flying, which enables passengers to enjoy a more relaxed travel day.
Passengers travelling with only hand luggage can use Etihad Airways' online check-in service up to 24 hours before flying. They can print boarding passes straight away, saving significant time at the airport. More information can be found by visiting etihad.com.
Peter Baumgartner, Etihad Airways' Chief Commercial Officer, said: "The summer is Etihad Airways' busiest season at Abu Dhabi Airport and we will see thousands of UAE residents heading home to visit family and friends.
"Every year Etihad Airways introduces new options to assist the travel experience of our guests and the additional check-in options and baggage allowance now being offered will certainly help ease the pressures that can arise when going on summer holidays."
Etihad Airways is also advising passengers to book their summer flights as soon as possible to avoid disappointment as the peak summer period approaches.
The Abu Dhabi-based airline has seen a significant increase in bookings to several of its key destinations, particularly in Europe and North America, as customers from the Middle East organise their summer travel.
Etihad Airways will operate 94 flights a day out of Abu Dhabi this summer, an 8 per cent rise on the 87 daily flights that operated during the same season in 2012.
Etihad Airways now offers flights to 92 passenger and cargo destinations across an expanded network that includes the recently launched flights to Washington D.C., Amsterdam and Sao Paulo.


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Program Name: ManageFirst: Customer Service
Program Duration: 1 Day or 4 Class Sessions or Online Course
Program Location: PWC Hospitality Training Facility or Online
Program Cost: $199 Online or $299 In-Class. Price includes book and exam
This class focuses on Customer Service topics. It includes essential content plus learning activities, case studies, professional profiles, research topics and more that support course objectives. The text and exam are part of the ManageFirst Program® from the National Restaurant Association (NRA). This edition is created to teach restaurant and hospitality students the core competencies of the Ten Pillars of Restaurant Management. The Ten Pillars of Restaurant Management is a job task analysis created with the input and validation of the industry that clearly indicates what a restaurant management professional must know in order to effectively and efficiently run a safe and profitable operation. The ManageFirst Program training program is based on a set of competencies defined by the restaurant, hospitality and foodservice industry as those needed for success.


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Google sees rise in surveillance
The United States leads the world in government requests for Google's user data, according to a transparency report the search company released Tuesday.
In the first half of 2012, U.S government entities made nearly 8,000 requests for user information from all of Google's products — including Gmail, search, Google Docs, etc. The number of requests from the U.S. jumped 26 percent from the previous six months, when 6,321 requests were made. Government officials wanted information on 16,281 accounts, the company said.
The report shows governments around the world not only increased their requests for data, but sharply increased requests to Google to remove content.
"Government surveillance is on the rise," Dorothy Chou, a senior policy analyst at Google, wrote in a blog post announcing the report.
The company issued its report in the midst of the rapidly unfolding scandal involving former CIA director David Petraeus — and gradually emerging details of an FBI probe that serves as a fresh reminder of how email is a tool for law enforcement investigations. Civil liberties groups want federal law updated to require a warrant for all Internet-based communications.
In 2010, Google began issuing its transparency reports twice a year. The report covers all of Google's products, and court orders, warrants, subpoenas and phone calls made to its legal or public policy teams. Google also reports how frequently it complies with the requests. For example, Google reports that it complied with 90 percent of the U.S. requests for user data.
Other companies such as Twitter, Dropbox, LinkedIn and Sonic.net have also begun to reveal government requests they receive.
In the first half of 2012, Google received 20,938 inquiries from government entities for user data, a 15 percent increase from the previous six-month period. After the U.S., other top countries making the requests are India, Brazil and France.
After remaining flat from 2009 to 2011, government requests to remove content spiked 70 percent this year, to 1,791 requests to remove 17,746 pieces of content.
The U.S. was second only to Turkey in requests to Google to remove content in the first half of this year, with 273 requests, as compared with 501 from Turkey.
This article first appeared on POLITICO Pro at 1:41 p.m. on November 13, 2012.


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ericevogt needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
2 winners were selected from 134 designs submitted by 33 freelance designers.
We need a logo which conveys integrity, trust, quality storage, electronically certified sourcing of fine French wines, or Provenance.
Desired Color Scheme:
Burgundy, Gold, White
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The logo needs to blend the concepts of the classic, historic great wines of Bordeaux, reassuring the chateau and the customer of impeccable quality and provenance through the use of innovative, reliable electronics and large scale databases.
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glassware & plasticware.
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OpenUp! is a growing network of European institutions from the natural history domain, providing multimedia objects to the Europeana portal www.europeana.eu. This includes digitized specimens, natural history artwork, animal sounds, and videos. The OpenUp! Natural History Aggregator for Europeana is coordinated by the Botanic Garden und Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (BGBM), Freie Universität Berlin, and AIT-Graz (Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft mbH).
Collections provide standardised metadata via the BioCASe Provider Software (Biological Collection Access Service), the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) or the Museum standard LIDO. During the aggregation process that includes the harvest, transformation and transfer of scientific metadata, these items are enriched by i) literature references, ii) geo names, and iii) multilingual common names of plants and animals to increase the accessibility of objects by non-scientific users.
13 European countries take part in the OpenUp! Network and contribute more than 8 million records by now.
Data providers benefit from reaching new audiences, increasing web traffic to institutional websites and gaining better visibility towards research funding organizations and also within society.


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Given a list of US states, remove all the states that start with the letter N. If
s1 = 'Alabama Montana Nebraska Vermont Nevada';
s2 = 'Alabama Montana Vermont ';
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Sorry about the problem. It's fixed now and you're in the lead.
If I dont know any US city name, then I cant solve. Atleast it should not have space. Eg NewJersy not New Jersey. This is not matlab related. Its US related.
I do not linke this problem as you must realize that there are two-names states which start with "New" or with "North". This needs to be analyzed before for people who don't know the names of all states, like me (I'm Spanish). I agree with Vivek that these doble name states should appear without space, but knowing that the only strages are "New" and "North", the problem is not that difficult.
Could you explain how to put the spaces.For example,why the s2 of the second case has seven spaces?
Problem description says "remove" when it actually means "replace with space character". This might trip some people up because the verification is very unforgiving in this sense.
No matter what I do the assertion fails. I have tried three different solutions and for all I get the same result even though I get the correct answer in my computer. Can someone help!!! thanks!
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I am having a hard time getting started with this program. It can be written in any language (but I prefer java or maybe C).
I have been given a graphs in the form of an adjacency list in a text file. My goal is simply to print the distance of the single source shortest path in the graph (that is, starting at node 0 and visiting every node with a minimum weight, and then print the weight). Some of the lists are huge (over 100,000 nodes) but here is the format of the list:
n=1000 m=8544
25 244
108 275
140 273
24 187
43 182
This is just the first few lines of the file, but the format is:
n= number of nodes
m= number of edges
then there is a blank line separating each node. On the next line, the node is named (only node 0 and 1 are shown in this example). After the name of the node, each line shows two numbers. The first number is the neighbor nodes name, and the second number is the weight of the edge. So in the example I gave, there are 1000 nodes with 8544 edges. The node named "0" is neighbors with "25" and the weight is 244. Node "0" is also neighbors with "108" and its weight is 275. Node "1" is neighbors with "24" with weight 187, etc...
THIS GRAPH IS UNDIRECTED, BUT THE EDGES ARE ONLY MENTIONED ONCE IN THE LIST! (you can obviously travel from 0 to 25, but you can also travel from 25 to 0 even though 0 is NOT listed in 25's adjacency list, it is just to be assumed that all edges are traversable in both directions).
I know how to read in files and parse them, and I know how the algorithm works (if I had a picture of the graph in front of me). I am just having a hard time connecting this adjacency list to the algorithm to the actual code. How would you do this and what data structures would you use? (I am not asking for code, unless you really want to write some. I just need something to spark my brain).


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Giza Beata
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A graduate of the Roman Turczynowicz Ballet High School in Warsaw. In 1998 she received an artistic scholarship from the Fundacja Balet (Ballet Foundation). After graduating she worked for the Wrocław Opera, at the beginning as coryphaeus, and later as a soloist. In 2005 and 2006 she was a soloist of the Theater Görlitz ballet and between 2006 and 2008 a soloist of the Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz. Ever since April 2008 she has been a soloist of the Baltic Dance Theatre.
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To open the 2011 fall season, the Harvard Men's Golf team traveled to Long Island to face conference rivals Yale and Princeton. The weekend's event was played at Sebonack Golf Club in Southhampton, NY, one of America's best modern courses. Sebonack, next door to Shinnecock Hills and National Golf Links, is a beautiful par 72 Jack Nicklaus design that borders the Great Peconic Bay. It plays a long 7,534 yards from the back tees and is well protected by severely undulated greens.
The H-Y-P was restarted last year after a long hiatus. This event is an excellent opportunity to bring together three Ivy League schools and provide a competitive format as a backdrop for building friendship and bonds among team members. Saturday's schedule included a practice round and a dinner event hosted by Yale alums.
On Sunday morning, the Crimson arrived at the picturesque Sebonack ready to beat Princeton and Yale.
Kevin McCarthy '14, leading off for the Crimson, faced a veteran Princeton opponent and a Yale freshman. He played well to beat Patrick Wasserman of Princeton 4&3, but fell just short of Yale's Thomas Greenhalgh.
Seiji Liu '14 played a great round of golf against seniors Jeff Hatten (Yale) and Chase Lovett-Woodsum (Princeton). He defeated Lovett-Woodsum 3&1, but Hatten of Yale holed a 20-foot putt on the 18th hole to square away his victory.
Freshman Akash Mirchandani '15 played very well in his collegiate debut, defeating Will Davenport of Yale 3&1. Unfortunately, his strong Princeton opponent, Bernie D'Amato, prevailed 4&3.
Captain Tony Grillo '12 played against Evan Harmeling (Princeton) and Brad Kushner (Yale), but finished short in both matches.
Mark Pollak '12 played extremely well for the Crimson and was victorious in both matches. He beat Russell Holmes of Yale 3&2 and Greg Jarmas of Princeton 2&1.
Theo Lederhausen '14 struggled with the putter and lost his match against Sam Bernstein of Yale 3&2, but beat Taylor Peck of Princeton 1 up.
After all matches were tallied, the Crimson scored one below Yale but secured a decisive victory over Princeton. Although the loss to Yale was disappointing, it was a very enjoyable weekend of golf and Ivy League camaraderie. The H-Y-P tradition continues to be a success, filled with good competition and strong friendships.
The team is excited for next weekend's tournament at Beth Page in New York, where they aim to improve upon yesterday's performance.
Match 1:
Thomas Greenhalgh (Y) def. Patrick Wasserman (P), 4&3
Kevin McCarthy (H) def. Wasserman (P), 4&3
Greenhalgh (Y) def. McCarthy (H), 2-up
Match 2:
Jeffrey Hatten (Y) def. Chase Lovett-Woodsum (P), 3&2
Seiji Liu (H) def. Lovett-Woodsum (P), 2-1
Hatten (Y) vs. Liu (H), halved
Match 3:
Bernie D'Amato (P) def. William Davenport (Y), 2&1
D'Amato (P), def. Akash Mirchandani (H), 5&4
Mirchandani (H) def. Davenport (Y), 2&1
Match 4:
Bradley Kushner (Y) def. Evan Harmeling (P), 2-up
Harmeling (P) def. Antonio Grillo (H), 5&4
Kushner (Y) def. Grillo (H), 6&5
Match 5:
Greg Jarmas (P) def. Russell Holmes (Y), 2-up
Mark Pollak (H) def. Jarmas (P), 2&1
Pollak (H) def. Holmes (Y), 3&2
Match 6:
Sam Bernstein (Y) def. Taylor Peck (P), 6&5
Theo Lederhausen (H) def. Peck (P), 1-up
Bernstein (Y) def. Lederhausen (H), 3&2


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MONCTON, N.B. — A man suspected of fatally shooting three New Brunswick Mounties and wounding two others in Moncton appeared today in provincial court.
Justin Bourque appears in Moncton court, charged with three counts of murder for shooting of RCMP officers
By Canadian Press and Postmedia News
MONCTON, N.B. — A man suspected of fatally shooting three New Brunswick Mounties and wounding two others in Moncton appeared today in provincial court.
Justin Bourque is facing three charges of first-degree murder and two charges of attempted murder.
Bourque was arrested shortly after midnight today inside a police perimeter in the city after one of the worst mass shootings in the RCMP's history.
He appeared in court, packed with about 70 people, under heavy guard.
Bourque was remanded to appear in court July 3 after the Crown and defence asked for a month to prepare.
His appearance lasted about five minutes and Bourque did not speak or show any emotion, staring forward at the judge while he was in court.
A tactical officer armed with an automatic rifle stood at the back of the courtroom.
The RCMP say the 24-year-old Moncton man was unarmed at the time of his arrest and taken into custody without incident.
A nerve-racking manhunt for him lasted nearly 30 hours.
Supt. Marlene Snowman says weapons were found near the wooded residential area where Bourque was taken into custody.
Dead are David Ross, a 32-year-old dog handler with the force, who is expecting his second child with his wife, a nurse, in a few months, Fabrice Georges Gevaudan, 45, and Douglas James Larche, 40. Ross was from Victoriaville, Que. Gevaudan was from France, and Larche was from Saint John, NB.
Two officers, Darlene Goguen and Eric Dubois, are recovering from their injuries.
At an early morning news conference Friday, RCMP Assistant Commissioner Roger Brown said there have been no funeral plans made yet, but they will release the information as soon as they know.
The city was gripped with fear after a heavily armed man dressed in army fatigues opened fire on RCMP officers responding to several 911 calls about a strange-looking individual walking through a trailer park.
As relieved residents woke up Friday to news that the killer had been caught, thoughts turned to mourning the loss of three RCMP officers.
"It's time to put the shoulders to the wheel and get through this together," Brown said.
"This is a trying time for our members as we have lost three of our own and two more are hospitalized. I commend our members for their dedication and professionalism as they were able to stay focused on the task at hand and getting results throughout this ordeal bringing the situation to a quick end. The work of our members was professional and effective. They deserve my utmost respect," Brown said in a morning press conference.
The details come at the end of more than 24 hours of tension and nerves. The RCMP in Moncton arrested the alleged shooter just after midnight Friday in a resident's backyard.
Michelle Thibodeau said officers dressed in SWAT clothing swarmed her backyard in the dark and rain and ordered Justin Bourque to the ground. Not a shot was fired.
"They started yelling, 'Come out with your hands up!' and they had their guns loaded," said Thibodeau, 21.
"About five minutes later, Justin surrendered himself and he said, 'I'm done,' and then they arrested him and brought him to my frontyard where they had him sprawled on the ground."
She said the experience was scary.
"I'm still shaking," she said. "My heart dropped to my stomach and I felt quite sick actually. It was a moment I'll never forget."
Linda Peacock, who lives a few doors down from where the arrest was made, said she was relieved the suspect had been apprehended.
"It's very upsetting to know that he was so close to my home," Peacock said. "I'm very glad they got him."
RCMP confirmed Bourque was unarmed at the time of his arrest, but weapons were found nearby. They said Bourque was arrested without incident.
As news spread about the arrest, relieved and grateful residents, many of whom have been confined to their homes in an area cordoned off by police, gathered on the streets, hugging, cheering and honking horns.
Now that the person suspected of killing three RCMP officers and injuring two others is in custody, the shocked city can turn its attention to mourning their loss.
The drama began Wednesday night when officers responding to calls of a man carrying guns were shot dead.
For Moncton resident Sylvie Mazerolle, it was a matter of trying to keep life normal for her five-year-old son who couldn't understand why he wasn't going to daycare and couldn't go outside to play.
There was a man, she explained Thursday to the typically energetic boy, who has done some bad things and was outside.
"I'm just trying to keep a sense of normal mood for my son's sake," Mazerolle said. "We took a drive to Shediac and had a treat, then went to the docks to look at the boats, then to grandma's house and home to plant the garden."
Mazerolle remembers how terrified she was when, as a child, a manhunt was on for Allan Legere, a convicted killer known as the "Monster of the Miramichi" who had escaped from prison and gone on a rampage in the area in the late 1980s, then hid out in the woods before being captured again in 1989. She doesn't want her son to know the same fear.
Friends of the alleged shooter were flummoxed as to what could have happened to their friend, with whom they shared a love of heavy metal music.
"He loved Megadeth but what he did had nothing to do with it," Chris Gould said. "And he's no trained assassin and no militant."
In fact, he said, their friend had a great sense of humour, impersonating animated characters Beavis and Butt-head, among others.
He loved his guns and hunting, but never did the friends hear Bourque talk about wanting to kill anyone, let alone police officers.
"Something really ticked him, but we don't know what," Gould said outside the Deluxe Fish and Chips restaurant where
dozens of people gathered Thursday afternoon to watch police, with guns drawn, surround a building. "He was home-schooled all his life and had a really religious family, but that has nothing to do with it either."
Cameron Keeping, who once worked with Bourque at Walmart, said he last saw his friend on Sunday where a few guys got together at Bourque's trailer, smoked a joint and watched Cosmos, "a weird space movie."
"He was an awesome guy and was the life of the party," Keeping said. "He was more into music and drinking than guns."
The friends said they never saw any signs of depression or anger in their friend, and all were "blown away" when they saw the news.
More than 800 law enforcement officers have been killed in Canada since confederation. And, while the number of annual deaths has been declining steadily for years, these events show just how dangerous a job it can be. We have honoured the memory of those fallen officers as best we can here.
The shootings in Moncton also brought back memories of an RCMP tragedy in Mayerthorpe, Alta., on March 3, 2005, when Constables Anthony Fitzgerald Orion Gordon, Lionide (Leo) Nicholas Johnston, Brock Warren Myrol and Peter Christopher Schiemann were shot and killed.
Officials with the Horizon Health Network initially said the Moncton Hospital was treating two people who were listed in stable condition. The hospital was placed on Code Orange after the shootings to prepare it to handle multiple casualties as extra staff were brought in. RCMP said on Thursday afternoon that one of the wounded officers had been released.
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Event cause traced to airflow change inside containment building
Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania - Outage workers at Three Mile Island Unit 1 who were sent home Saturday evening returned to work Sunday and today and normal outage work has resumed.
About 150 workers stationed in the containment building of TMI Unit 1, which was shut down nearly a month ago for a planned refueling outage and steam generator replacement, were sent home late Saturday afternoon when monitors detected small amounts of airborne radiological contamination inside the containment building.
"Things are back to normal," Site Vice President Bill Noll said. "We are back performing outage activities as we had originally planned."
Outage work not associated with the containment building involving more than 3,000 other plant and temporary workers continued throughout the weekend.
No contamination was found outside the containment building and the event never posed a threat to the health or safety of employees or the public.
Tests of the containment workers over the weekend confirmed that no employee received radiation doses above what they might normally see doing work in the containment building.
As of Sunday night, tests showed that 12 of the 150 workers received a detectable amount of radiation. The highest was 38.4 millirem, less than 1 percent of the annual federal occupational exposure limit. A millirem is a measure of radiation exposure. The federal occupational limit is 5,000 millirem per year for workers; Exelon has a more conservative standard of 2,000 millirem per year.
The inside airborne contamination was caused by a change in air pressure inside the containment building that dislodged small irradiated particles in the reactor piping system. Some of the small particles became airborne inside the building and were detected by an array of monitors in place to detect such material. The air pressure change occurred when inside building ventilation fans were started to support outage activities. The site has modified the ventilation system to prevent future air pressure changes.
The shutdown of Unit 1 on Oct. 26, planning for which began more than four years ago, involves refueling of the reactor - which currently has no fuel in it - and replacement of the unit's two steam generators. The plant will remain shut down until that work is completed.
Beginning Saturday afternoon Exelon Nuclear took a series of steps to voluntarily inform the NRC, state officials, other key stakeholders and the media as soon as technical information could be confirmed.
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Breckenridge: Adventure the world through the Banff lens
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The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour comes to Breckenridge Saturday, showcasing mountain-oriented short films from around the world.
The tour brings a selection of the shorts shown during the 2012 summer festival at the Banff Center in Canada. It's said to be the largest and one of the most prestigious mountain festivals in the world, and the tour aims to bring the films to the masses by way of 400 community stops in 35 countries around the world.
Action. Environment. Adventure. Exotic landscapes and remote cultures to what's happening in one person's "backyard." It's all in the festival's world tour – and it comes to the Riverwalk Center in Breckenridge Saturday night. Tickets cost $20 and are still available. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the screening begins at 7:30.
Films are chosen based on audience popularity as well as award-winning favorites. In "Crossing the Ice," Australian adventurers tackle a journey across Antarctica to the South Pole and back again – unassisted. More than 1,000 kilometers of ice await the travelers, who face both an unmet record as well as a Norwegian out for the same title – and he has a head start.
Another film, "The Dream Factory," is an abridged version of the latest from Teton Gravity Research, which showcases the past, the present and a glimpse at the future of freeride skiing and snowboarding.
In "Flow Hunters," the world's best paddlers head to New Zealand, and an all-disabled crew of friends attempt to ascend Yosesmit's iconic El Capitain in "The Gimp Monkeys."
Other films include "Industrial Revolutions," "Lily Shreds Trailside," "Moonwalk" (a full moon like no other!), "On Thin Sea Ice 2," and "Reel Rock 7: Honnold 3.0."
Proceeds from the annual event benefit the Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center, an organization dedicated to outdoor adventure education serving all people, with a specialized focus on serving those with disabilities and special needs, according to the organization's website. Those visiting the center experience wilderness, ski slopes or participate in one of the centers' many outdoor classrooms.
As the largest fundraiser of the year, the sell-out crowd of 750 people helped rake in roughly $24,000 net profit last year, all of which goes into the organization's general operating fund to help knock down fees for attending the camps at the nonprofit's five sites.
Mark your calendars for the next fundraiser for the Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center: The Breckebeiner 60k Nordic Ski-a-Thon and snowshoe race on March 23. Individuals can ski or snowshoe 60k, 30k or 12k at the Breckenridge Nordic Center.
For Banff Mountain Film Festival general admission and private reception tickets, call (970) 453-6422 or visit http://www.boec.org. General admission tickets are also available at the Breckenridge Welcome Center on Main Street. The 5:45 p.m. reception includes food, drinks, advanced seating and a private viewing of competition photography.
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Vice Premier Deng (center) and members of his party are shown with Hughes Tool Chairman Raymond M. Holliday (wearing raincoat) and Hughes Tool President James R. Lesch (behind Deng) as they arrived at the company's facilities in Houston.
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Hughes Tool Company, a client of our Houston office, was host to His Excellency Deng Xiaoping, Vice Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, Vice Premier Fang Li and other members of (he Chinese delegation that visited the United States earlier this year.
Hughes Tool was one of only three manufacturing facilities toured by the mainland Chinese during their stay in this country. According to Gene Harris, DH&S partner in charge of the Hughes Tool engagement, the press party was so large — some 250 representatives of local, national and international communications media — that it was necessary to limit their number to a pool of sixty during the tour of the Hughes facilities.
At least one of the reasons for the visit to the Houston headquarters of Hughes may have been the long-standing business relationship between Hughes Tool and the People's Republic of China. China is an important customer of Hughes in the Far East. Since 1973, it has been a
In tab building, Hughes President James Lesch (light suit at left) pauses with H.C. Dill (I.), director of research for Hughes Tool, and Bob Lockhart (2nd I.}, China sales representative for the company, as Vice Premiers Fang Li (r., foreground) and Deng (2nd r., foreground) study special exhibit of products of Hughes Tool Co. and its subsidiaries.


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The objective of the livelihood initiative is to enhance sectoral size and productivity growth in key livelihood sectors for employment generation of the poor. This will be achieved by making investments in technical assistance, service provision and setting up of market support mechanisms
Selection of Livelihood Activities
As part of the project preparation process a study of the livelihood patterns and potential in the six chosen districts was commissioned to answer the following questions key to the design of the project. These were as follows:
- To identify which are the key livelihood sectors in the six districts in which the poor can participate and benefit,
- To understand what are the constraints, opportunities, value chains for the selected livelihood sectors,
- To determine what are the key interventions that are needed to be made by the project within these sectors to enable the poor to benefit.
The study has shown that over 80% of the rural poor depend on a basket of livelihoods that revolve around agriculture labour and subsistence animal husbandry. Dependence on agriculture is primarily based on share cropping or agricultural labour in paddy cultivation. Consequently, the lessons from the pilot projects have shown that credit for food security in lean months is a critical need of the rural poor which leads to spiraling indebtedness to a variety of moneylenders.
Keeping these learnings in view the project proposes to universalize food security within the project. To supplement food security indirectly it is proposed to raise the productivity of paddy, the universal food crop grown in every village of Bihar, through a system for rice intensification and participatory varietals selection and promotion programme. The second most common livelihood activity identified by the study is cattle rearing. For cattle rearing and dairying to be an income generating activity the study has identified integration of mobilized SHG and VO members to the successful institutional model identified by the study of the dairy cooperative (COMPFED) federation working in all the selected districts.
The study has identified a large number of specific farm and non-farm based livelihood activities being undertaken in each of the six districts and provided the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities in each sub-sector. A majority of the non-farm sector activities occur in smaller geographical clusters with specific caste based community groups employed in them. Based on the wider list provide by the study the following activities have been chosen for adoption in the project districts using the criteria of a)number of poor communities employed in the sector b) existence of service provider organizations with domain experience willing to partner the project c) value chain linkages feasible within the state.
Based partially on the study and partially on the learnings from the pilots the following sectors have been identified for intervention in the project.
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I'm currently in Galicia with my wife and three lil ones. We were riding around the other day and a song came on that had bagpipes and a guitar in it. It was the coolest bagpipe song I ever heard. It was kind of "rock n rolly" but not a real hard rock and I don't think it had any vocals in it, but it was amazing. I have searched youtube and google with limited knowledge of the song and no luck and now have come here to you fine folks who probably know what song it is. I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction with the limited information I am giving here. Please, if anyone knows or is willing to post a guess for me that would be great. They were jamming on those bagpipes.
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Statute of Finwë and Míriel
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The Statute of Finwë and Míriel was a judgment made by the Valar concerning Elvish marriage. This ruling would ultimately have a major effect upon the history of the Noldor and the Children of Ilúvatar in general.
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Finwë, the first High King of the Noldor, and his wife Míriel Serindë had a child named Fëanor. Unfortunately, the strain of bearing Fëanor caused Míriel to become weary and die. She left her body and went to the Halls of Mandos. For a while Finwë was patient with her, but eventually he became deeply saddened by her absence. He also wished to have more children. Míriel continually refused to return to life, however, so Finwë went to the Valar for help.
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Unfortunately, Finwë's petition proved very difficult to aid, because the Valar knew that it was against the design of Eru for the Elves to marry more than once. Míriel's death itself, moreover, was a quite abnormal event in a blessed land like Aman, and the Valar were perturbed both by it and her refusal to return.
Manwë, after hearing Finwë's request, thus asked Mandos to make an official ruling on what should happen to Elvish marriages marred by death. Mandos answered that if the dead spouse declared his or her intention never to return to life as long as the world lasted, then the living spouse could remarry. However, a waiting period of no fewer than ten Valian years would have to occur between the dead spouse's declaration and the official severance of the marriage, in order to allow the dead individual a chance to change his or her mind.
Remarriage could only occur in this manner because, if the dead spouse returned to life and found his or her partner remarried, strife would result. Furthermore, because Elvish males and females were equal, the simultaneous union of one to more than one of the opposite sex was seen as unnatural. Because marriage was chiefly a union of the body, remarriage could occur only if one of the spouses was unbodied, and intended to remain so until the end of time (since marriage was supposed to be a life-long union). Since it was deemed wrong for the living spouse to constrain the dead one to remain unbodied, the living could not remarry unless the dead permitted them to.
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Hours after Republican Joe Coors filed federal election records Thursday showing he has donated $3.1 million to his congressional campaign, the candidate filed another disclosure revealing an additional $275,000 infusion of his own cash.
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The dynamics of Taiwanese politics have altered dramatically in less than six weeks, starting from the initial protest outside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei by the Sunflower movement, for both better and worse.
Many Taiwanese were inspired to see the surge in grassroots civic nationalism and the younger generation cooperate to demand a more accountable government — especially in relation to cross-strait affairs.
The major political parties were reduced to the roles of spectators as students and other activists debated national policy, using new media to broadcast their views nationally and internationally.
For those Taiwanese who are middle-aged or older, it harked back to the heady days after Martial Law was lifted in July 1987.
However, this past week has seen President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) administration and other agencies — badly humiliated by the recent protests — strike back in politically cynical and possibly illegal ways. The paper-thin veneer of democracy that has cloaked them for years has been stripped away.
For those under the age of 35, too young to remember the Martial Law era or born after it was lifted, it has been a shocking revelation. For those older, it has been a frightening reminder of an authoritarian era that most thought had gone forever.
The back-to-the-future flashbacks began in the pre-dawn hours of Monday, when Taipei police used water cannons and batons to remove antinuclear protesters who had occupied Zhongxiao W Road on Sunday. Police also allegedly manhandled several photographers and journalists.
The location and tactics revived memories of May 29, 1990, and the protest against the legislature's confirmation of former general — and father of the present Taipei mayor — Hau Pei-tsun (郝柏村) as prime minister. The police used water cannons near the intersection of Zhongxiao E and W roads and Chungshan S Road and near the Legislative Yuan. When the demonstrators fought back with rocks and Molotov cocktails, the police used rocks, batons and water cannons against them in a very violent confrontation.
Then on Tuesday, the Ministry of Justice announced the execution of five death-row inmates in a stunningly self-serving move that was aimed firstly at drawing attention away from all the protests and, secondly, appealing to the more conservative sections of society who support capital punishment.
Two of the inmates, brothers, had been convicted of murders committed in China on the basis of evidence provided by Chinese authorities — despite the infamously politicized and corrupt Chinese legal system.
On Wednesday, photographs were posted online of documents detailing the National Police Agency's (NPA) organization of an "Internet Army" to monitor online activity opposing the cross-strait service trade pact, nuclear power and wind turbines. The cyber task force was instructed to try to "neutralize" statements critical of the police.
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The Ma government is returning to its roots — the paranoia and totalitarianism of the White Terror era — when freedom of expression was harshly curbed, students were encouraged to spy on one another and the Government Information Office specialized in disinformation campaigns.