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The Queen authorized John Gordon, Earl of Sutherland, to act against Iye MacKay and his territory. With the support of Huntly and the regent's commission, the Earl of Sutherland gathered a substantial force and, for the first time in history, an Earl of Sutherland led an invasion into MacKay's lands. Earl John assembled his troops and advanced into Strathnaver, engaging in widespread destruction and securing strategic locations to prevent any chance of escape. Upon realizing that Iye MacKay refused to confront him in battle, Earl John laid siege to Borwe, a key stronghold located near Far. After a brief siege, he captured the fort and executed Rory MacKean-Voir, its commander. | AI |
Critiquing military recruitment requires an examination of the broader processes of militarization and the social and political impacts of both preparing for and engaging in military action (Dalby, 1996: 656). This paper argues that the RAF's BPotS images, with their specific representations of spaces, places, and people, are deeply problematic, particularly as they aim to encourage military enlistment. The paper is structured into four sections. First, it reviews literature on popular geopolitics, military recruitment, and comics to contextualize the issues raised and establish a foundation for analyzing the BPotS campaign. Second, it traces the history of war comics, outlines common conventions in the genre, and conducts a textual analysis of the BPotS images. The third section expands on this analysis, offering a detailed visual examination of BPotS through the lens of comics aesthetics. | AI |
I thought Till might help bring us closer, but Paul grew increasingly uneasy with the dolls and eventually prohibited them from staying in our bedroom. We separated not long after Till arrived. Now, as a single woman, I often take my babies out in one of their four strollers, visiting the local park or the ASDA superstore to try on baby clothes. Even though the babies are not real, I find that people enjoy interacting with them. I love dressing them up and taking them shopping around town with me. | AI |
Health insurance in the United States is largely provided as an employment benefit. Federal programs like Medicare and Medicaid offer coverage to non-working adults, children, and individuals with incomes below the federal poverty level. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has significantly reduced the number of uninsured individuals, particularly by expanding access for those ineligible for Medicaid. Despite this progress, millions of Americans remain without coverage. A key provision of the ACA encouraged states to expand Medicaid eligibility, allowing individuals with annual incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty level to qualify. | AI |
Variation involves modifying existing candidate solutions to generate new ones, typically through genetic operators such as mutation and crossover. The evaluation step assigns an objective value to each new candidate solution by assessing its performance on the problem, in this case, the WDN problem. During the selection step, a subset of both the previous (parent) and new (child) solutions is chosen to form the next iteration’s set of parent solutions. This experiment focuses on altering the genetic operator used in the variation step. | AI |
I now turn to the short-term aspects. We are all grateful to the Vice-President for setting up a high-level working party with a view to achieving results in the short term too. I can only call on the 15 governments to instruct their civilian and military advisers to actually deliver solutions to the Vice-President by the end of the month, so that we will have something concrete to consider in June, and so that the Vice-President can respond to practical requests and take practical action, such as occasionally using military areas for civil aviation. We must therefore proceed with practical solutions, for we cannot have the same situation this summer as last summer: congested airspace, stacked aircraft, the pointless, constant combustion of kerosene in the air, i.e. environmental pollution of the first order! Let us hope that if the Member States really provide the Vice-President with what she wants, she can then present us with a good proposal that also includes short-term measures which can enter into force this summer. | HUMAN |
We are indeed living at a historic time, the kind of occasion where the crisis calls into question all certainties, and minds are more open to change. These are very special moments, and they do not happen every day. We have to understand that it is really one of those moments where there is some higher plasticity and then, when we can make a real change, these are moments when we know that today's decisions will have a decisive impact on tomorrow's reality. Change is what we need now. Change not to go back to the solutions of the past, but to find the solutions of the future, the solutions of the 21st century of the globalised world. | HUMAN |
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is a useful tool for analyzing audience needs. By examining each level of the pyramid, you can explore how your topic connects to these needs. This framework is especially effective as a brainstorming tool when preparing speeches. Psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed that people are driven by their needs and strive to fulfill them. While we won’t explore the broader theory in detail, it’s important to recognize that addressing these needs can be a key factor in engaging your audience. | AI |
Having crossed the stream by means of a ferry, we found that the irons of all our pack-boxes required alteration, and we could not halt at a better place than Eyrarbakki to have them attended to. These irons, which attach the pack-box to the pack-saddle, are the nightmare of Icelandic travel; and travellers cannot be too particular in having them of the most careful construction, also of the best material possible; again, if anything be amiss with them, they should be always attended to at the earliest opportunity, or a breakdown is sure to occur in some inconvenient or outlandish place; and, but for the Icelanders’ remarkable faculty for improvising ways and means, such occasions would cause a serious delay in a day’s march. Eyrarbakki is one of the principal trading stations in the south of Iceland. It is situated upon a dreary sandbank, the view from which is most monotonous and depressing, while the wailing roar of the formidable breakers, which here extend a long distance out to sea, is melancholy in the extreme. | HUMAN |
Not long afterwards his cousin, slightly heavy with wine, went to bed. Clarges, abnormally wakeful, tried to read _Bell's Life_ which lay before him and waited until Bovey was fast asleep. They occupied the same room, a large double-bedded one, which opened into a bathroom and parlour _en suite_. When he was perfectly certain that his cousin was sound asleep, so sound that "a good yelp from the county pack, and a stirring chorus of 'John Peel' by forty in pink could not wake him," thought Clarges, the latter undertook his delicate task and accomplished it. He did it quickly and skilfully with a tiny lancet he found in his cousin's well-appointed travelling bag. | HUMAN |
Rome had more manpower and moneyhe could not get locked down. His entire strategy relied on him moving quickly and not getting pinned down. If Rome could quarantine him to 1 region they’d be able to bleed him of supplies and neutralize the threat. So if Hannibal got locked down in a siege for weeks he would be giving up his mobilityIt also didn’t help that Hannibal’s lieutenants had a hard time coordinating with his movements when commanding separate bodies of troops, and/or winning battles without him present. Two different reinforcement attempts from Beneventum were annihilated before they could reach Hannibal, and cities like Capua and Tarentum were recaptured by the Romans in his absence. | HUMAN |
As the first postulate, let us assume that, at the fundamental level, the energy/matter comprising the Universe is far from equilibrium, that it exists as an evolving flow, and that the energy/matter comprising and flowing through the Universe spontaneously self-organizes on multiple spatiotemporal scales into metastable, interconverting flow/circulation patterns (organizational forms). These forms are manifested at the corresponding levels of the organizational hierarchy as elementary particles, atoms, molecules, cells, organisms, ecosystems (including human organizations and economies), planetary and stellar systems, galaxies, and so forth. All of the scale-specific manifestations/forms of flowing energy/matter are thus interconnected and co-evolve as a nested set of self-organizing and interdependent structures-processes. | HUMAN |
Let me also briefly enlarge upon the social dimension of the problem of the closure of undertakings. Although there is no doubt that the closure of a plant is a matter for the management of the enterprise in question, we cannot, however, disregard the fact that the many restructurings currently in progress in Europe are not all comparable with each other. Some are the result of clear economic decisions and have been discussed frankly with the workers and their representatives, while others, regrettably, carried out without regard for labour law, force people, unprepared, into unemployment. | HUMAN |
The Thirteenth Amendment was enacted following the Civil War to advance equality between Black and white citizens. It explicitly states that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude ... shall exist within the United States,” U.S. Const. amend. XIII, § 1, and grants Congress the authority to enforce its provisions, U.S. Const. amend. XIII, § 2. The Supreme Court has broadly interpreted this authority, affirming that Congress can actively enforce the prohibition of slavery and involuntary servitude and pass legislation to eliminate “all badges and incidents of slavery in the United States.” | AI |
Rough around the edges: Bill de Blasio - a wild-haired activist known as Bill Wilhelm - protesting against rising college fees at a rally in April 1981. Wild-haired: Bill de Blasio, pictured in NYU's Loeb Student Center in September 1980, was active in student politics. When Dante starred in a campaign ad in August touting his father's skills, left-leaning de Blasio vaulted from. fourth place to first in the Democratic primary. A Quinnipiac poll released shortly after the debut of the 'Dante' ad found 30 per cent of Democratic primary voters preferred de Blasio, compared with Christine Quinn’s 24 per cent and Bill Thompson’s 22 per cent. | HUMAN |
After earning a BA in psychology, I began working with the Division of Youth Corrections in Denver, CO, at a Residential Treatment Facility (RTC). The facility focused on behavior modification, assigned caseworkers to each youth and their families, and aimed to teach problem-solving skills and accountability. The youth were confined for various reasons, ranging from gang-related offenses to being designated as dependent by social services with no alternative placements. The unit housed a mix of high-risk and low-risk youth, as well as those with conduct disorders and mental health challenges. This combination often led to negative outcomes, as low-risk youth adopted harmful behaviors from high-risk peers, and those with conduct disorders frequently targeted youth with mental health issues. | AI |
The ageing population is one of the EU's most important challenges, but also one of its biggest opportunities. The rise in life expectancy linked to ageing is certainly an extraordinary social achievement and a success of our time, as Europeans today are leading longer and healthier lives than ever before. However, this success also confronts European society with a number of challenges, in particular in the area of employment and social protection. In addition, old age is often associated with illness and dependency, and older people can feel excluded from employment, as well as from family and society. For these reasons, ageing can also be considered a challenge. | HUMAN |
Then, a couple of years later, we got a 6502 co-processor connected via the 'tube' - an expansion port on the BBC micro. This more than doubled the memory, and ran faster. But various optimizations didn't work. You could no longer write directly to screen address-space, as this was still in the hosts address-space, whereas user programs now executed in the co-processors address space. But, excitingly, there were API calls that allowed you to read/write to/from memory in the host system, so I wrote a (very simple) windowing system that stored the graphics contents beneath each window in the host memory, while executing on the co-processor. | HUMAN |
That is why we must not lower our guard. That is why there needs to be more prevention, more information and more rehabilitation but, above all, more resources, and those resources need to be utilised properly. There needs to be support for families, because the problems of AIDS victims become family problems, and action needs to be taken to make a series of behaviour and lifestyle choices healthier and more appropriate. The aim is to have a measurable health result, and the specific aim is to ensure that, in time, these problems are increasingly reduced. | HUMAN |
There is a significant risk of a serious humanitarian crisis developing in the coming months, particularly in areas populated by Serb refugees. These regions currently face severe challenges, including limited access to electricity, which is available for only about an hour each day. Additionally, terrorist groups are extorting protection money to allow the passage of essential medicines, further exacerbating the lack of security. These groups are also targeting and destroying Orthodox churches, which serve not only as places of worship but also as important elements of Europe's shared cultural heritage. | AI |
The slabs on one side of this gallery had been entirely destroyed, except at the eastern end; and from the few which still remained, every trace of sculpture had been carefully removed by some sharp instrument. Along the opposite wall (that to the right on leaving the great hall) only eight bas-reliefs still stood in their original position, and even of these only the lower part was preserved. Detached fragments of others were found in the rubbish, and from them I ascertained that the whole gallery had been occupied by one continuous series, representing the different processes adopted by the Assyrians in moving and placing various objects used in their buildings, and especially the human-headed bulls, from the first transport of the huge stone in the rough from the quarry, to the raising of these gigantic sculptures in the gateways of the palace-temples. On these fragments were seen the king in his chariot, superintending the operations, and workmen carrying cables, or dragging carts loaded with coils of ropes, and various implements for moving the colossi. | HUMAN |
Despite being an introspective person and a psychologist, I had never noticed these things before. The relationship played a crucial role in this realization. While friendships also reveal new aspects of myself, I can maintain a level of superficiality if I choose, and I have significant control over when, where, and how long I spend time with friends. Relationships, however, often disrupt these patterns, bringing deeper insights to the surface more quickly. | AI |
My comment to people in similar situations, is to always remember that if you have that much savings, you are closer to retirement than you realize. If you can live off of a 4% drawdown, then you have very little risk long term of ever touching your principle in a very conservative index fund investment (stock markets historically in the US average 4% above inflation, and I suspect that's true globally). I'm not sure what the russian equivalent to Vanguard is, but I'd he surprised if you didn't have access to similar low cost investment. | HUMAN |
While many of the stories are the same at both sites, they're typically on Slashdot well before they're on SN. Many low-quality submissions get through on SN, as well, most of which would have no chance at Slashdot. Of these lowquality submissions at SN, many of them come from a small number of frequent contributors who are known to consistently send in biased and inflammatory submissions. While Slashdot's editors aren't known for doing a good job, we aren't seeing anything better out of SN's editors, and in fact I'd say they're doing a worse job based on some of the submissions I've seen there that have made it to the SN front page. | HUMAN |
The report fails to address the disproportionate impact of natural disasters on poor countries, which lack the resources to manage even minor consequences. These nations are severely limited in material and human capacities, such as hospitals, medical professionals, and transportation systems. This vulnerability is compounded by historical and ongoing exploitation by capitalist entities from the world’s most powerful countries, leaving them in persistent poverty. | AI |
Europe just looks on, while their school books still teach Turkish children that the Armenian genocide is a fabrication of history. People were right to say that we should listen carefully to the criticisms levelled against those who want to rewrite history. It is disgraceful! Turkey still refuses to recognise the rights of peoples – not just the Armenians, but the Kurds as well – while Europe remains hypocritically and shamefully silent. We no longer have a Europe of human rights, but a Europe that could not care less about human rights! | HUMAN |
Regarding dependent claims 21 and 23, Godfrey describes cementing the area downhole from the pay zone using a cementing shoe to create a gas-tight chamber before introducing fracturing fluid into the treatment zone (col. 5, l. 29-46). However, the reference does not address setting a packer in the wellbore downhole from the treatment zone as claimed. Browning, as discussed in the rejections of independent claims 1 and 16, proposes placing a packer below the oil-bearing seam to reduce the volume of combustion needed to achieve the pressure required for fracture creation or extension, particularly in deep wells (col. 4, l. 42-68). | AI |
The central prediction with the highest accuracy should fall within the scale variation of the preceding order. Regarding perturbative convergence, the individual jet spectra receive significant corrections, which cancel out in the inclusive distribution, so we require the corrections to the individual pT,1 and pT,2 distributions to converge. Additionally, the second jet distribution shows sensitivity to scale choice, particularly when comparing scales µ = pT and pT,1, sometimes leading to unphysical behavior such as negative cross sections. To address this, we introduce a criterion based on the second jet distribution and its scale uncertainty, ensuring predictions yield physical, positive cross sections. This approach allows a thorough evaluation of each scale's behavior based solely on perturbative predictions before any comparison with experimental data, which is discussed in Section 5. | AI |
Initially, I was concerned that "Rize" might fall into the same pattern of misrepresenting the African-American experience through skewed perspectives often perpetuated by ignorance and media narratives aimed at shaping perceptions for "White America" and the broader world. However, within just a few minutes, it became clear that my assumptions were entirely misplaced. "Rize" stands out as an exceptional film, demonstrating the true potential of cinema. It proves that a movie's quality isn't determined by a high-budget rehash of the repetitive, uninspired content Hollywood has been producing for years. | AI |
A functional self-driving car system must address differences in human driving behaviors and preferences, as well as regional variations in cultural norms and legal regulations. It also needs to handle complex driving scenarios that involve social interactions and decision-making. Existing planning algorithms for autonomous vehicles are typically designed with a strong emphasis on caution, which is essential for safety. However, excessive caution can hinder the completion of necessary driving maneuvers. For instance, merging into heavy traffic often requires assertive actions to prompt other drivers to adjust their speed. | AI |
In this process, fuel is burned using a mixture of oxygen and recycled flue gas (RFG). Unlike traditional fossil-fuel power plants that rely on air as the oxidant, an oxy-fired plant uses an air separation unit to generate a stream of oxygen. This oxygen is then mixed with RFG to create an oxygen-enriched gas for combustion. The recycling of flue gas is essential to control the flame temperature, which would otherwise become excessively high if pure oxygen were used. Once moisture and impurities are removed from the flue gas exhaust, high-purity CO2 is obtained. | AI |
This paper explores people's aspirations for cities of the future. It examines the city aspirations of those who live in Britain's two largest cities, London and Birmingham. Set within the context of national and international commitments to radically reduce carbon emissions by 2050, people's aspirations for cities are evaluated in light of their alignment or clash with the carbon reduction agenda. Thus the paper interrogates whether people's hopes for cities of the future are in line with carbon reduced ways of living or not. Furthermore, the particular challenge of creating a carbon reduced future in democratic countries is that the measures proposed must be acceptable to the electorate. | HUMAN |
Your blog demonstrates strong writing skills that surpass what I’ve encountered in some professional settings. Continuing to blog is a good approach, and creating a GitHub repository for your side projects could help showcase your abilities to potential employers. Additionally, improving your spoken English or American English could be beneficial, as language proficiency can sometimes be a barrier. Enhancing this skill may help you overcome certain stereotypes more effectively. | AI |
Ben Chapman played the Gill-man in most of the scenes filmed at Universal City, California, with the water sequences shot at Park Lake on the studio's back lot. The costume was extremely restrictive, preventing Chapman from sitting and causing overheating during the 14-hour days he wore it. To cope, he often remained in the studio's back-lot lake and regularly asked to be hosed down. Additionally, the headpiece limited his vision, leading to incidents like accidentally scraping Julie Adams' head against the wall during the grotto scenes. | AI |
When John Singleton made Higher Learning,it received vitriolic reviews from pseudo-intellectual charlatans that label every film that dealt with issues race as propaganda. The rest of the masses just slept-on it or allowed clownish so-called hip hop ragazines like Jive...oops I meant Vibe magazine to persuade their opinions. So I understand why he would make brainless MTV-style fodder like 2 Fast 2 Furious, Illegal Tender and Baby Boy. I believe he would have still made movies of substance like Higher Learning if Higher Learning was universally accepted(with all its flaws) and not universally panned. The whole story of the film revolves around Jody(Tyrese Gibson) and his problems in his life revolving his mother's new boyfriend Melvin(Ving Rhames), His baby mother Yvette(Taraji P. Henson) and his day to day struggle around making ends meet with his partner Sweetpea(Omar Gooding). | HUMAN |
Hercules, the widowed Duke of Ferrara, is anxious that his son Tiberio should marry Dulcimel, daughter of Gonzago, Duke of Urbin; but, finding that he cannot persuade his son to marriage, he declares that he will himself marry Dulcimel. Tiberio is sent to the Court of Urbin to negotiate on his father's behalf. Hercules follows in disguise to watch the issue, and attaches himself (under the name of Faunus) to Tiberio's train at Urbin, where by adroit flattery he quickly gains the favour of Gonzago and the confidence of the courtiers. Dulcimel falls in love with Tiberio, and determines to make him her husband. She imposes on her father, Gonzago, a weak-minded lord with a boundless belief in his own wisdom, by a pretended discovery of Tiberio's love to her; and Gonzago, acting throughout under the impression that he is foiling Tiberio, becomes in the hands of his witty daughter the instrument by which her project is accomplished. | HUMAN |
And sometimes you're really busy and overwhelmed? And please stop rolling your eyes while you try to act like just because your bar is the busiest in town that it somehow puts you above the character flaws you have expressed. I hope you get fired so you can start experiencing true frustrations in life. I get that this is a thread that asked for people to vent, but you really have no clue how easy your job is on the easy-to-hard spectrum of jobs out there in the world. To top it off, even some of the hardest jobs in America don't even compare to labor jobs overseas where people work in brutal, toxic, lethal conditions all day just for a few bowls of rice of pay. | HUMAN |
The filmmakers clearly aimed to highlight the struggles of migrant workers in America, particularly in California, and their passion for the subject is evident. While I share their concern for this overlooked group, the film itself is poorly executed. The writing is weak, the cinematography is subpar, and the characters are reduced to exaggerated stereotypes of Americans, often reflecting common misconceptions about Mexicans, such as assuming all Spanish speakers or self-identified Latinos are Mexican. The filmmakers’ enthusiasm for their message leads them to overload the screen with factoids, giving the film the feel of an educational piece or a VH-1 Pop-Up Video rather than a cohesive narrative. | AI |
We should not just throw in the towel in the face of contamination when, with the right policy, there is no contamination, because products or seeds which cause such widespread contamination cannot be released. So what we need is freedom of choice for consumers and, please, rather than giving Christmas presents to the seed industry, give us a timetable today. We want to know what the Commission is planning to do and if it really is prepared to accept Parliament's democratic resolution and wait until we have adopted a resolution on the Scheele Report. | HUMAN |
Shusett and Goldman were on set to make minor script adjustments, with Goldman noting that changes amounted to "less than one percent." Verhoeven often filmed scenes multiple times, sometimes requiring up to twenty takes, but he adhered closely to the script and generally avoided improvisation. However, certain scenes, like Benny's death, lacked detailed direction, leading to mostly improvised dialogue. Despite Verhoeven's initial reluctance to use a second unit director—having dismissed three during *RoboCop*—Armstrong eventually handled 1,200 setups and all fight scenes, earning Verhoeven's approval. Armstrong's first task was filming Schwarzenegger drilling into cement. | AI |
John Dee is featured in *The Sandman*, played by David Thewlis. This version, consistent with his earlier appearances, is the son of Ethel Cripps and Roderick Burgess. After escaping prison with the help of his mother’s protection amulet, which grants immortality, Dee begins a search for the Dreamstone. Along the way, he encounters a Samaritan named Rosemary, who aids him in his quest. Upon finding the Dreamstone, Dee gives his amulet to Rosemary and seeks refuge in a diner. There, he uses the Dreamstone to manipulate the staff and customers into turning on each other. Ultimately, Dream intervenes, defeats Dee, returns him to prison, and places him in an eternal sleep. | AI |
A British jihadi fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq has become notorious on social media for his love of junk food - confessing that he even dreams about KFC and Nandos while waging jihad. Known by the nom de guerre Abu Hamza al-Britani, the 21-year-old Londoner of Pakistani origin is regularly teased about his insatiable appetite by his fellow ISIS militants, who have branded him 'fat' and advised him to stop eating so much ice cream. As well as his apparent gluttony, Abu Hamza's other favoured topic of conversation is the pet kitten he left behind when travelling to fight on the frontline. The terrorist has repeatedly posted messages about and photographs of the ginger cat named Anbar, which he described as 'my princess'. Although Abu Hamza spends much of his time talking about his pets and uploading photographs of junk food, the terrorists shares the same chilling desire to die in the name of radical Islam as other Britons fighting for the terror group, with his Twitter biography claiming he is 'seeking Martyrdom'. | HUMAN |
In November 2009, the examiner observed "significant effects" in the section addressing the impact of the Veteran's headaches on his employment but did not provide further explanation. This finding aligns with the earlier discussion, as the Veteran is unable to work during episodes of completely prostrating headaches. However, the standard for evaluation is severe economic inadaptability. The June 2016 examiner clarified that the Veteran's economic inadaptability was only "moderate" because the frequency of the headaches was insufficient to cause severe interference with his employment. | AI |
The choice of analytical method determines the index used to quantify BBB permeability, of which there are several (Panel 6 in Fig. 1). It is important to note that measurements of ‘permeability’ may be inaccurate if the substance is actively transported, metabolised, or secreted by the BBB. In addition, the experimental situation may cause increased systemic production, or may trigger CNS production, of an endogenous substance being used to study BBB function, or may result in reduced systemic clearance with potential confounding effects. Although there is a tendency to refer to the effect of systemic inflammation on ‘BBB permeability’, this terminology can be confusing, since permeability usually reflects diffusibility of substances across the BBB and traffic across the BBB is not governed by diffusion alone. | HUMAN |
The Thirteenth Amendment was passed in the aftermath of the Civil War as an attempt to promote equality between black and white citizens. The language declares that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude ... shall exist within the United States,” U.S. Const, amend. XIII, § 1, and empowers Congress to enforce its provisions, see U.S. Const, amend. XIII, § 2. The Supreme Court has interpreted this *991grant of power broadly, finding that Congress can affirmatively enforce the ban on slavery and involuntary servitude, and enact legislation to erase “all badges and incidents of slavery in the United States.” | HUMAN |
This situation raises questions about potential connections and conflicts of interest. The church/school, a large and financially influential organization, has strong ties to the city government, the local legal community, and real estate developers. Many real estate attorneys we’ve consulted are affiliated with the church/school and are either unable or unwilling to provide their services to us. Additionally, for years, companies purchasing units in the condo complex operated through multiple shell corporations, obscuring their activities until recently. | AI |
Effective coordination of RAPS across regions is essential to ensure proper mental health care for children and adolescents. This includes strengthening connections between primary health care and related fields such as education, social work, and law, which are critical for comprehensive care. Inadequate services or poor integration between available resources can distort the demand profile observed in CAPSi. Initiatives like continuing education and matrix support can enhance the effectiveness of interventions and improve access to quality care for children, adolescents, and their families. | AI |
The issue of whether the First Amendment obligates a school to permit specific student speech—as addressed in *Tinker*—differs from the question of whether the First Amendment requires a school to actively endorse particular student speech. The latter issue pertains to educators' control over school-sponsored activities such as publications, theatrical performances, and other expressive endeavors that students, parents, and the public might reasonably associate with the school's endorsement. Such activities can be considered part of the school curriculum, regardless of whether they take place in a traditional classroom, provided they are overseen by faculty and intended to convey specific knowledge or skills to participants and audiences. | AI |
this is possibly the most beautiful of the early Lumiere shorts. A boat rows from the front of the screen away from the audience to the back, while to the right, women wait on the port. The camera, as usual, does not move, but the play of sunlight on the waves are gorgeous, and the rippling movement is so vibrant, especially within such a static frame, that it looks like one is watching an actual scene behind glass. As with 'Demolition d'un mur', the real frisson of the film comes from the unexpected. The scene proceeds as expected, the boat moving steadily along. | HUMAN |
Commissioner Barnier, you consistently advocated for a progressive stance during the Convention. We collaborated effectively on numerous efforts, but I am now disheartened by the Commission’s alignment with certain governments rather than the majority of parliaments, which oppose any changes to the Convention’s draft. This suggests to me that the Commission is out of touch. Additionally, I am unclear about what positive results the IGC is expected to achieve. It is easy to foresee the inevitable disputes and bargaining that will arise, creating a chaotic environment where the situation is likely to deteriorate further. | AI |
Sim City is another good example of this. Even as a child when I first played the original, I remember reacting to the tax model in the game and how it affects net migration, as it was nothing like what I knew from Norway (and indeed, it bears little resemblance to how things works in most of Europe). A newspaper in Norway recently had to social economists play the most recent Sim City game to review the economic model, and their response was pretty much that they saw it as what in Norway would be considered a far right populist fantasy based on a range of economic assumptions that pretty much only the furthest right party in our parliament believes in. | HUMAN |
Parliament has consistently emphasized, over many years, the importance of applying general data protection principles to measures such as the transfer of PNR data or access to SWIFT banking data, ensuring these principles can be implemented at an individual level. However, this aspect is often overlooked. Consequently, Parliament has also stressed the need for EU-wide standards that can be agreed upon with the US. As the rapporteur for the EU’s framework agreement with the US, I must underscore the significance of these standards applying not only to EU-level agreements but also to agreements made by individual Member States. It is clear that this is a shared area of competence, meaning bilateral agreements between Member States and the US will continue to exist alongside EU agreements. | AI |
This off-the-beaten-track album is astonishingly unique, deserving of far wider listening! The CD is a unique collection of songs in what has been called a "World/Folk style," featuring talented singer songwriter James R. Newell. A singer songwriter with roots in blues and the music of Nashville (where he studied at Vanderbilt), Newell has skillfully adapted the lyric poetry of the great 14th century Persian Sufi Poet Hafiz of Shiraz to American folk music idioms. He has created an eclectic blend of world and folk melodies which effectively make available the classic beauty of Hafiz's lyrics to the modern, English speaking listener. The country aspect of the music can easily be overstated. | HUMAN |
The film’s animation is a key aspect, blending various techniques such as traditional and experimental animation, CGI, and live-action elements. While these styles may appear disjointed when viewed separately, they come together cohesively, each contributing to the overall mood and tone. The story is set in modern-day Tokyo and centers on a protagonist who is on the verge of losing his childhood girlfriend. The narrative takes a turn into the fantastical, leading the characters on a surreal journey that profoundly transforms them. | AI |
What's interesting to me is the severe level of misunderstanding of each group to the other. I generally avoid media, don't have TV service, avoid Facebook, etc. But in some rare life instances it gets forced on me and I see what seems to be a media portrayal of what is just a characterization of the "other side", whichever side that may be. In my experience, both sides have good motives for the most part and truly care for and love other people. And in my experience, both sides think that the other side doesn't love people or have good intentions because they don't agree with X, while fully misunderstanding or dismissing the issue. | HUMAN |
Rawles has lived in San Jose, California; near Orofino, Idaho; near Smartsville and Fremont, California; and near New Washoe City, Nevada. Rawles notes that the location of his ranch in the United States is kept secret, but that he lives somewhere west of the Rockies. The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung asserts that the ranch is in northern Idaho. Others have claimed that the "undisclosed location" of the ranch is in Nevada, Utah, Wyoming or even in Central America. A CNN Europe article written before his first wife died noted that Rawles "... lives on a ranch in an undisclosed location with his wife (who he refers to in his blog affectionately as 'the Memsahib') and their children. | HUMAN |
The map, created using data from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, shows the global obesity crisis is still a growing issue, as every continent faces a weight issue. The results show the rising epidemic of fatness across the globe, with high levels of obesity across most of Europe, the Middle East and North America. In the UK, more than 25 per cent of the population is reported as obese, whereas France, Italy and Sweden fared considerably better, with an obesity rate of less than 10 per cent. In the U.S., 33 per cent of people are obese, while 27 per cent of Australians carry too much weight. A person is considered obese if they have a Body Mass Index (BMI) is over 30, and severely obese if they have a BMI of over 40. | HUMAN |
Cosby arrived at the school to accept what he believed was the Lifetime Achievement in Comedy award, presented by the Harvard Lampoon, appearing enthusiastic and engaged. O’Brien later remarked, "He came out, and that’s when I saw his mastery. He didn’t rely on prepared material; he just went out there, but in that distinct Bill Cosby style, with his rhythm and presence." This occurred as numerous women continued to come forward with allegations of rape and sexual assault against Cosby spanning several years. | AI |
A suppression hearing was held and the following facts were established: Detective Gist received information on July 19, 1977 that the proprietors of a local pharmacy were suspicious of two young men they observed in their store. The pharmacists *48 had "checked around" ascertaining that the pair had been seen in other pharmacies as well. The pharmacists followed the pair when they left their drug store and determined that they were staying in a motel a block from the store. Detective Gist found in checking with other motels in the area that the pair had stayed in two other motels during that week. Detective Hall and Detective Thorpe joined in the investigation. | HUMAN |
The company was given the power to transport to its American territory all persons who should go willingly, but the corporate body alone was to decide what liberties, if any, the emigrants should enjoy. In fact, the only restrictions in the charter upon the company and its court of assistants were that they should license no man "to rob or spoil," hinder no one from fishing upon the coast of New England, and pass "no law contrary or repugnant to the lawes and statutes of England." Matthew Cradock was named in the charter the governor of the company. | HUMAN |
The professors, to the number of seven, who were members of the Church of England, were to be members of the council, so that, although no religious test was required of them, it was reasonably certain that none but persons of that denomination would be appointed to professorships. These terms were much complained of, and surely it was absurd to place a provincial college under the control of a single denomination which could not claim more than one-third of the population of the province as belonging to its communion. It is stated in Fullom's _Life of Sir Howard Douglas_, who was lieutenant-governor of the province at the time, that the charter would have been much less liberal than it was if it had not been for his efforts. The Bishop of Nova Scotia and the Bishop of London desired to confine it entirely to students belonging to the Church of England, and to make subscription to the thirty-nine articles a condition precedent to the granting of degrees in arts. | HUMAN |
Incidentally, Boeing was forbidden by the federal government from discriminating against those African-American workers, as they might well have in an earlier era. The Fair Employment Practice Committee which forbade discrimination against these African-American workers was created to implement FDR's Executive Order 8802. That executive order was motivated in no small part by FDR observing American defense companies discriminating against German-Americans and Italian-Americans, which he considered to be a threat to the war effort. This executive order was one of the first times the federal government ever took any action against racial or ethnic discrimination in the workplace. | HUMAN |
Coliform bacteria, typically measuring 1 to 10 μm in size, are protected during UV wastewater disinfection when embedded within particles larger than 10 μm in diameter (Emerick et al., 2000). A higher UV fluence is required for microbial inactivation in the presence of particles and humic substances, and even greater fluence would likely be needed to inactivate antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Damage caused by LP mercury lamps primarily affects pyrimidine and purine nucleobases, as these biomolecules absorb UV light most effectively at 254 nm (Dodd, 2012). Additionally, since proteins have an absorption peak around 280 nm, UV at this wavelength could damage repair enzymes and hinder DNA repair processes. | AI |
Engineers use the concepts described in the previous section to analyze and design freezing processes and to select proper equipment by establishing system capacity requirements. Proper design of a freezing process requires knowledge of food properties including specific heat, thermal conductivity, density, latent heat of fusion, and initial freezing point, as well as the size and shape of the food, its packaging requirements, the cooling load, and the freezing rate and time (Heldman and Singh, 2013). All of these parameters can be calculated using the information described in this chapter. | HUMAN |
In the eighth-season premiere, "The List", Jim recounts to the camera crew how Robert California was hired as branch manager over the summer, but immediately quit, drove all the way to Sabre headquarters in Florida, and then convinced Jo to give him her position as the company's CEO (in reality, Bates left The Office due to her commitment to Harry's Law). However, Jo remains as chairman of the board, and Robert still refers to Jo as his boss. Later in season 8, Nellie Bertram re-appears, having been hired (off-screen) by Jo as Sabre's President of Special Projects. At the end of season 8, it is announced that Jo Bennett has sold Dunder Mifflin to David Wallace. Jo further plans to liquidate all of Sabre's assets, thereby effectively permanently dissolving the company. | HUMAN |
Yet few people take into account the fact that non-British European users of Google Books, for example a Belgian or Polish internet user, will not even have access to those 20% of e-books. The service covers mainly English-language titles, and any European publishers or authors wishing to join the programme will have to deal with Google themselves. Europeans will have free access only to the least attractive categories of book - titles which are in the public domain and whose copyright has long since expired, for example, books in the Bibliothèque nationale de France which have not been taken out for 200 years. This will not result in a complete electronic library of European titles being built up. | HUMAN |
Before concluding, I would like to address three questions raised by speakers. Mr. van der Waal mentioned the letters sent by the Committee on Transport to Mr. Kinnock, one of which proposed establishing a new group of experts on inland waterway transport. The committee will receive a response soon, and while I am already aware of its general content, I can confirm that Commissioner Kinnock does not currently see the need to create this new expert group. He will provide further details when possible. Additionally, he noted that the Commission will maintain close contact with the socio-economic sector related to inland waterways and will consult with the sector through existing committees and ad hoc groups to gather their opinions and recommendations. | AI |
Deciding whether to use medication for ADHD is a personal choice, as there is no universal solution. Around 20% of individuals do not respond to standard stimulant medications, and some may have co-occurring conditions that make stimulants less effective or unsuitable. Others may experience mild symptoms or have adapted their lifestyles in ways that minimize the impact of ADHD, sometimes even finding benefits in certain traits. For example, entertainers and athletes often leverage the positive aspects of ADHD or manage symptoms through regular physical activity. | AI |
A 145-mile pipeline was built to transport oil to the Persian Gulf, along with a costly refinery on Abadan Island. As prospecting efforts uncovered significant oil deposits in Persia, Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, dispatched a commission of geological experts led by a rear-admiral to investigate. Based on their findings, the British Government decided to assume control of the operation. In May 1914, the _Anglo-Persian_ company emerged into public awareness, having previously operated in relative obscurity. The negotiations and subsequent contract with the Admiralty had been conducted in strict secrecy. When Churchill presented the matter to Parliament and sought approval for the agreements, it was met with considerable surprise. | AI |
In the left panels, fidelity is computed at every Tn = n|G|∆t. By contrasting top and bottom panels, we verify that the performance of NRD improves significantly as |G| increases, while PDD1 and PDD2 remain essentially unchanged. This explains the crossing between these two curves and the randomized protocol in the case of |G| = 256. The strong enhancement resulting from parallelism becomes then evident and suggests that better deterministic sequences ought to exist. In this sense, the selection of an efficient PDD sequence is a posteriori motivated by the study of a stochastic scheme. | HUMAN |
The judge reviewed the document and noted that it contained separate requests to charge. He examined these requests and made the appropriate notations on the paper. However, he did not read the first paragraph, assuming it was merely a summary of the case. The judge only became aware of the mention of a written charge when his secretary informed him that the plaintiff’s counsel had referenced such a request. This occurred after the jury had been instructed and had retired but before a verdict was reached. | AI |
Tomorrow we will visit Clonmacnoise, and tonight, as I read about it, my thoughts become a chaotic mix of crosses, round towers, haunted castles, and ancient manor houses. In my mind, I am swept through forest aisles in a frantic rush, pursued by dogs, geese, fairies, and ghosts, until I reach the hill of the fairies. There, I am put on trial for high treason due to my doubts about their powers. A headless monk presides as judge, while a sheep with a long claw acts as prosecutor. My fingers seem to drip with blood, and I am about to be handed over to the dogs of Wingfield when I hear someone say I am snoring and should go to bed. Perhaps that is true, so good night. | AI |
This album is a genuine lost gem and a revelation on a couple of levels. Firstly, although only 4 of the 13 songs on this CD were originally released by Atlantic back in 1971 and the rest of the tracks were left in the vault for decades, Dusty's performances were thoroughly amazing and the variety of songs gave her many moods and textures to display at a time when her voice was clearly stronger than ever. Indeed, along with her ABC/Dunhill "Cameo" album from 1973, Dusty's vocal agility was never more impressive. This is particularly evident on the "Faithful" tracks since producer Jeff Barry chose a Spartan production sound with minimal orchestration much of the time, allowing Dusty's vocals to really stand out. On this album, she tackles a lot of styles - pop, soul, rock and gospel. | HUMAN |
The Newbie Melody has remained a memorable piece of music for many old-school RuneScape players, evoking nostalgia for simpler times in our younger years. Composed by Ian Taylor, the MIDI track’s layered melodies and shifting sections capture the essence of a RuneScape journey in just 3 minutes and 43 seconds. Listening to it can feel like stepping back into the early 2000s, a period often remembered as less complicated. It’s not uncommon for the music to stir strong emotions, even tears, as it brings back memories of starting out on Tutorial Island, where everyone began as a “noob” with no choice but to learn the ropes. | AI |
Raffles had been invited to speak by his old college friend, who was now the headmaster. However, we were not staying at the school-house but at the house where we had both lived as boys. The place had changed hands since then; a wing had been added, and the small studies now had electric lighting. The quad and the fives-courts, however, looked exactly the same, and the ivy around the study windows was no thicker. In one boy’s room, we found the familiar print of Charing Cross Bridge, which had been passed around the studies since a contractor’s son sold it upon leaving. Even more striking, there was the remains of a stuffed bird that I had once cared for daily when it and I belonged to Raffles. | AI |
However, Middle Tennessee has Democratic roots based on liberal economic policies, most famously Franklin D. Roosevelt's Tennessee Valley Authority. Middle Tennessee voted strongly for Bill Clinton of neighboring Arkansas, but Middle Tennessee native Al Gore narrowly lost the region in 2000—a loss that ultimately cost him Tennessee, and the election. In contrast, it was one of the few regions in the country which voted more Republican than in 2004. This is largely due to a growing social conservative trend in the region, particularly in the Nashville suburbs; some of the most politically active churches in the state are located there. | HUMAN |
The tolerance values were assumed to match the standard deviations of the design parameters, with the specific values used in this analysis detailed in Table 2. Similar to the approach for I-beams, it was conservatively assumed that all negative geometrical tolerances could occur simultaneously, except for the column length, which considered positive tolerances to represent an extreme case and was not constrained by mass tolerance requirements specified in manufacturing standards. The capacity reduction factor for hollow section columns was initially calibrated using experimental data from Key et al. [36]. | AI |
They will encourage you to dismiss common sense, even though it forms the essential foundation for everyday human interactions and is adequate for predicting future outcomes. Rather than relying on practical judgment, they will push you to pursue what they label as true and exact knowledge, setting it apart from what they deem mere opinion. Even if this ideal of precise knowledge were attainable, it would likely be irrelevant to practical life. Do not be swayed by their exaggerated ideas of virtue, justice, or their opposites. These concepts are straightforward human principles, not overly complex, and their primary purpose is to guide decisions about rewards and punishments. | AI |
A series of car bomb attacks in Iraq resulted in at least 37 deaths and numerous injuries, according to Iraqi officials. Three of the bombings occurred in Shi'ite areas of Baghdad, while the fourth took place in a Kurdish neighborhood in Kirkuk, a city in the oil-rich northern region. Police reported that the initial attack struck a row of small restaurants in the Shi'ite district of Sadr City on Thursday night, leading to 11 fatalities and injuring 25 others. | AI |
A business's lifecycle stage and industry significantly shape its funding strategies. Industries vary in their financing needs and opportunities. For instance, opening a pizzeria would require a physical location, pizza ovens, and dining furniture, leading to expenses like monthly rent and the purchase of equipment. This contrasts with a service-based business, such as a website development firm, which typically demands far less investment in physical assets. | AI |
Artists associated with Art F City have created a calendar titled 'Artists as Pandas in the Nude,' featuring notable artists, dealers, and writers posing naked as pandas. Photographed by Rachel Stern, the project aims to raise funds to support the blog’s operations. The idea for the calendar was reportedly sparked by the shutdown of the popular 'panda cam' at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., which occurred during a U.S. government shutdown last year. The live feed of Mei Xiang, the zoo’s famous panda, was cut off shortly after she gave birth to her cub, Bao Bao. In response, the artists engaged in continuous panda-themed activities, streaming them live on their website to counter the blackout. | AI |
It turns out he is a student at the school right next to us, and we therefore meet in the lunchbreak a couple of days after. Me and a couple of my buddies are right about to enter my school when i hear his voice behind me. He asks if we can talk and i say "Yeah, lets talk right here". Turns out he wasn't as tough when it was just us talking, i feel like the adult proposing that we should probably just shake hands and stop our argues. | HUMAN |
You don't expect for Karajan/BPO famously polished sound to work for Stravinsky's savage masterpiece. Somehow it does. It's a very German rite, almost bourgeois, but it brings forward the mystery and subtle menace (e.g., in the Cercle des adolescents), that may be missed by the more "manly" renderings (e.g., Gergiev/Kirov, or my reference Metha/LAPO) sometimes. The sound is exceptionally good. For once the DG engineers seem to have left home their 57 mikes and weird 4D mixing, and produced a natural sounding, three-dimensional, very dynamic LP! | HUMAN |
Ferdinand Veillet-Devaux, known as the Count of Sancy, secured a 1,200-hectare concession in Sidi Thabet in 1866 to establish a stud farm. By 1873, facing financial troubles, he blamed the Tunisian government and demanded significant compensation. When the French consul in Tunis, Viscount Charles Vallat, refused to back his excessive claims, Veillet-Devaux turned to his brother-in-law, General du Barail, then serving as Minister of War. Under this pressure, Kheireddine conceded and signed a new agreement with Veillet-Devaux on July 9, 1877, granting him 3,000 hectares on the condition that he build a stud farm within a year. However, lacking sufficient funds, Veillet-Devaux failed to fulfill this requirement, leading the Tunisian government to reclaim the property. | AI |
In 1906 the _Deutsche Bank_ and the _Disconto Gesellschaft_ took under their control the great company of _Nobel Brothers_, in Russia. They founded, at Bremen, the _Europeanische Petroleum Union_, a trust which amalgamated the principal European oil interests, and was to give Germany the certainty of European preponderance. They absorbed the _Akverdoff_ company at Grosny, created the _Spies Petroleum_, and undertook the conquest of the oil industry in the Caucasus and in Apsheron. From 1911 to 1914, German capital and German interest predominated in the whole of Central and Eastern Europe, in Scandinavia, and even in Turkey, for the _Deutsche Bank_ became an associate of Great Britain in the _Turkish Petroleum_, the sole concessionnaire of the Sultan for the oil of Mosul and Bagdad. This was the time when Sir Ernest Cassel, a little Frankfurt Jew, who became one of the lords of British finance and whose grand-daughter and heiress married a cousin of the King of England in July 1922, was striving to avert the impending world War by bringing French, British and German interests into association wherever possible. | HUMAN |
You might reasonably ask, "If psychoanalysis cannot be objectively verified or demonstrated, how can one learn it or be convinced of its validity?" The truth is, studying psychoanalysis is challenging, and few master it fully. However, there is a practical approach. Learning psychoanalysis begins with self-study, specifically through examining one's own personality. This goes beyond simple self-observation, though it can be loosely described as such. By gaining some understanding of psychoanalytic techniques, one can analyze a range of common and widely recognized psychological phenomena within oneself. | AI |
(NL) Mr President, I voted against the Roure report for a number of basic reasons. One of them is that Member States are perfectly well able to enact statutory safeguards against racism, in other words EU action in this area is fundamentally at odds with the subsidiarity principle. The Framework Directive is also an attack on freedom of expression. Whilst it is acceptable to combat racism - and by racism I mean the specific incitement to or the use of violence - it is not acceptable to confuse this concept with legitimate public debate, such as opposition to mass immigration, opposition to Islamisation or the defence of national identity. | HUMAN |
He surpassed his wife in one notable aspect: Christian charity, as he rarely, if ever, spoke of others’ faults. It’s possible he believed his wife addressed the topic sufficiently for both of them. Mrs. Talbot made it a habit to visit neighbors whenever she heard of their troubles or misfortunes, claiming her purpose was to offer sympathy. If illness struck a household, she was invariably present. However, it often seemed her friends might view her as one of "Job’s comforters," as no sickness or misfortune was severe enough to prevent her from predicting something worse. She frequently claimed to receive warnings of illness and misfortune, both for her own family and others. | AI |
Through numerical calculations, we demonstrate that the Skyrme continuum QRPA, in its current formulation, satisfies the sum rule for dipole and quadrupole responses with natural parities. Additionally, we show that incorporating velocity-dependent terms improves the description of the strength function and transition densities of multipole responses compared to earlier continuum QRPA approaches that relied on residual interactions of simple contact forces. The paper is structured as follows: the formulation is detailed in the next section, while Section III presents numerical results for the isovector dipole and isoscalar/isovector quadrupole responses in neutron-rich oxygen and calcium isotopes. | AI |
She connects this argument to the nature of accounting, emphasizing its importance within the current economic system. Drawing on Marxist theory, she explains that accounting technologies are instrumental in controlling labor and extracting surplus value by enhancing productivity and suppressing wages. To support her point, she references Bryer's (2006) assertion that accounting serves as capitalism's primary control system, providing senior managers with objective measures for generating and realizing surplus value (Cooper, 2015: p. 75). Additionally, she notes that the working class's position within capitalism necessitates accounting to regulate and direct their activities, ensuring the maximization of surplus. This underscores the inherent class-based nature of accounting and its information. The paper's central focus is to explore how critical accounting researchers can effectively challenge and transform society, aiming for a more emancipated and equitable social order. Within this context, the concept of praxis emerges as a recurring theme in critical accounting literature. | AI |
Reading the Comics: I’ve finished Season 5 and now waiting on Season 6 so in the meantime I’m just reading the comics and I got to say they’re very different but this is where the story shines the most, I’m caught up to where Negan had killed Spencer and also counterattacked Rick’s shooting and is staring at him in the face. Here are some of my thoughts on the comparisons between the show and the original story. I think Andrew Lincoln has done an amazing job portraying Rick, can’t really think of another actor to portray someone afraid to kill a little zombie girl to being someone who would anyone kill anyone to protect his group. I can see why people were excited about Negan coming into the story, Rick and Negan are absolutely the Batman and Joker of this series and their interactions are worth more than any shooting or explosion or anything else in my opinion. | HUMAN |
The defendant argues that the evidence did not support the trial judge’s conclusion regarding the plaintiff’s disability. The report includes a detailed summary of medical testimony spanning over twenty-five pages, but there is no need to examine it extensively or address its inconsistencies. It is sufficient to note that medical experts testified the plaintiff’s heart and nervous condition was severe, that working would likely worsen his condition, and that while he might be capable of some work, the extent could not be precisely determined. They further stated he should avoid work altogether, as any form of labor, whether light or demanding, requiring attention or effort, would ultimately harm his health. Continuous work, they concluded, would likely lead to further deterioration and a shortened lifespan. | AI |
The circumstances recited are sufficient, in our judgment, to make petitioner liable in equity for the tax. Perhaps her present admission that she expects to pay the tax from the property, which she tacitly admits she is holding in trust, may also make her liable at law for the tax. It is unnecessary to draw any fine-spun distinctions between the liability at law and the liability in equity. If either is shown to exist— the other facts being present, i. e., a transfer without consideration, exhausting the assets and the amount received being in excess of the tax liability — the burden resting upon the Commissioner has been sustained. Phillips v. Commissioner, supra; United States v. Garfunkel, 52 Fed. ( | HUMAN |
> Even in non-capitalist societies people should never consider the belief > that people enter careers for moral reasons as true. [...] The reason is > that the careers/fields most important for the health of society, need to > function correctly in any case and by a system that's designed for even if > we're all sociopaths. Nope; such a cynical approach that doesn't lead to healthy outcomes. What you're saying flies in the face of millenia of accumulated wisdom on human development. It is definitely a subject with tons of nuance, but in essence humans are malleable, and do respond to expectations/environment. | HUMAN |
Mass is a measure of the quantity of matter in an object, determined by the number and types of atoms and molecules it contains. Unlike weight, mass remains constant regardless of location, meaning an object’s mass is the same on Earth, in orbit, or on the Moon. However, directly counting and identifying all the atoms and molecules in an object is highly impractical, so mass is rarely calculated in this way. | AI |
Community interaction is a huge part of a game like this. I'm not saying Blizzard should bend over backwards for everything that the community wants, but they should definitely take a page out of the books of Mark Rosewater and Tabak from WotC. Mark Rosewater is a community figure and a game designer and Tabak was a rules manager. Both have very active tumblrs where people can ask questions and they answer consistently. Mark specifically takes blame and admits when he was in the wrong, but he also tries to explain as much as he can the design decisions they make. Rosewater also has a podcast that he makes while driving to work. | HUMAN |
I feel like I should discuss this with him but I don't know how without coming off controlling. He is too much the type to ignore an advance like its fine and act like it didn't happen. Without a straight up rejection all three of these girls just kept prodding until it crossed the line to where I felt disrespected. Because of stuff like this I've had girls message me and harass me via Facebook because either they couldn't get the hint or he FINALLY gave them a definitive no. I get that he thinks they're his friends and he doesn't want to make drama but I'm really unsure what to do. | HUMAN |
Due to its solubility, NaHSO4 can be metered into NaBH4, avoiding a small amount of bubbles in the delivery line due to spontaneous reaction of NaBH4 with seawater. It is found that NaHSO4 can be metered in for H2O:NaBH4 ratios ≥9:1. In pure water, transition metal catalysts in combination with NaBH4 can generate full yields of hydrogen gas. The by-product is sodium metaborate, NaBO2. In pure water (or in seawater), some acid accelerators, i. e. , NaHSO4, can be made to generate a full yield of hydrogen gas if significantly more accelerator is added. | HUMAN |
William Hague and Angelina Jolie, who were previously described as an unlikely pair when seen together in London last summer, reunited today to open a research center at the London School of Economics. The 36-year-old actress had partnered with the former Foreign Secretary in 2012 to launch a campaign aimed at ending violence against women in conflict zones. She returned to London to support the initiative and promote its goals. The two were once again seen together, continuing their collaboration on this cause. | AI |
The first concerns the erratic way in which prices have been changing: at one point USD 10, then 140 a short time ago, now it is back to 100. In fact there seems to be a disconnection between the way the product itself is appreciating and the financial market that is based on that very same commodity. However, in the long term, it seems to me to be fairly clear that speculators will always be active as long as it is our perception that global energy needs - which continue to grow - are not based on a new energy mix that is less reliant on hydrocarbons. | HUMAN |
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