Teaching Activity. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 6 of Voices of a People's History of the United States on the early women's movement, including their efforts for social, racial, and political equality.
Teaching Activity. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. 15 pages. Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 12 of Voices of a People's History of the United States on internal dissent over American expansionist policies.
Teaching Activity. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. 16 pages. Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 5 of Voices of a People's History of the United States on the Revolutionary War as "a rich man's war and a poor man's fight," as well as the failure of early Americans to complete a full revolution.
Teaching Guide. By Douglas Selwyn and Jan Maher. 2003. A guide to a different way of teaching history—start from today and keep asking questions.
Teaching Activity. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. 18 pages. Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 7 of Voices of a People's History of the United States on the American policy of "Manifest Destiny" and Native American resistance to their own displacement.
Just an Environment or a Just Environment?
Teaching Activity. By Hyung Kyu Nam. 2003. Explores the multiple causes of racial segregation and environmental racism, and helps students understand how institutional racism is perpetuated in the post-Civil Rights era.
Teaching Activity. By Teaching Tolerance. Introduces students to the role of the labor movement in securing contemporary benefits such as the 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, and workplace safety regulations.
Teaching Guide. Edited by Kathy Emery, Linda Reid Gold and Sylvia Braselmann. Foreword by Howard Zinn. 2008. 456 pages. Readings and lessons on the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project.
Teaching Activity. By Jennifer Rosebrook. Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 20 of Voices of a People's History of the United States on the legacy of scandal since the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate break-in.
Teaching Guide. By Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana. Foreword by Wendy D. Puriefoy. 2011. The uses and methods of the Question Formulation Technique.
Teaching Guide. Edited By Linda Christensen, Stan Karp, Bob Peterson, Moé Yonamine. 2019. Offers practical guidance on how to flourish in schools and classrooms and connect in meaningful ways with students and families from all cultures and backgrounds.
Teaching Guide. By Nancy Schniedewind and Ellen Davidson. 4th Edition. 2014. Full of activities to help students explore inequalities and cooperation.
Teaching Activity. By Robert Standish. Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 22 of Voices of a People's History of the United States on Panama, the 1991 Gulf War, and the War on the Poor in the United States.
Teaching Guide. By Bill Bigelow. 2008. Lessons to introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of U.S. history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. Published by Rethinking Schools.


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The Mayor of Islington's Chauffeur
Islington Gazette, 16th November 1979
News of the World, 18th November 1979
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Troyhand said: May 16, 201411:00 pm
http://www.drumcorpsplanet.com/forums/index.php/topic/106263-omg-could-we-have-been-so-young/page-5
Posted 29 October 2007 – 05:12 PM
Corps with the name Blue. Hmmm.
[PIC]
"THE BLUES WITH THEIR PROUD COLLECTION OF TROPHIES FOR 1976"
"Last May the Blues appeared at the Evening News Show of Shows at Windsor doing
their usual high standard displays and the opening fanfare there. The event ran for 5
evenings and the Blues had the honour of opening the show each evening, and also
playing at the Finale's.
"Next month the band are to perform in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen and the
Duke of Edinburgh where they will play a royal fanfare to welcome them into the London
borough of Islington.
"September will be their last major event when they will join the top youth bands of
Britain in a Royal JUBILEE march past from Horse Guards Parade to Buckingham Palace.
in the presence of H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester and other members of the Royal
Family. The man behind this giant venture is the commanding officer of THURROCK
D. & T. C. BANDMASTER Dave Loader, who is well known in the youth band scene."
***Hackney & Islington Youth Band***, also know as "The Blues", England, 1977.
"The Blues" band performed for Queen Elizabeth II during the 1977 Queen's Silver Jubilee. The Alberta All Girls did not. However, the Alberta All Girls performed the song Amazing Grace for Pope Paul VI outside of Rome Italy in August of 1977. Regardless, no photos could be published without consent as per Royal and Vatican protocol.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19870113&id=WqNAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=k6UMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1627,2067232
Glasgow Herald – 13 January 1987
Writer jailed
A writer who planned to kidnap, torture, and sadistically kill young boys for sexual pleasure was jailed for 10 years at the Old Bailey yesterday. James Holland, 58, of Finsbury Park, London, was also convicted of plotting to assault indecently boys under 16, and to assault boys under 16 with intent to commit buggery. His friend, John Youatt, 39, of Exeter, Devon, was jailed for three years. He was acquitted of plotting to murder boys, but convicted of the other charges.
http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Prevention-order-offender/story-11655558-detail/story.html
This Is Devon – 11 September 2010
Plymouth sex offender banned from unsupervised contact with children
A SEX offender has been banned by a court from having unsupervised contact with children.
Plymouth magistrates put a sexual offences prevention order on ***63-year-old John Youatt*** after hearing teenage boys had been visiting his home in Ernesettle.
Youatt, of Coltishall Close, did not contest the order, which will run indefinitely.
He was sentenced to five and a half years in jail in 1999 by a judge at Exeter Crown Court for indecency with a 12-year-old in Plymouth.
Magistrates ruled an order was necessary to protect the public from serious sexual harm.
The four prohibitions ban him being in the company of anybody under 18 in public or in private, excepting on public transport.
He is also prevented from contacting or attempting to contact anybody under that age by any means save in the course of a 'legitimate business transaction'.
Youatt must not 'sleep, remain or reside' in any home where there is a child unless with the express permission of the authorities or the parents — and those parents must have prior knowledge of his previous convictions.
He is also banned from taking part in any recreational or voluntary activity which is likely to lead to unsupervised contact with boys under the age of 18.
Tom Bradnock, applying for the order on behalf of Devon & Cornwall Police, told the court that Youatt had 'been in the company of teenage boys at his home address'.
Andrew Cooper, for Youatt, confirmed he would not contest the order.
Youatt is already signing the Sex Offenders' Register.
Troyhand said: May 17, 201412:18 am
http://www.blackkalendar.nl/content.php?key=10685
James Holland (Jail)
Age: 58 (68 after sentence)
Crime: conspiracy to murder
Date Of Sentence: 1 Jul 1987 (for 10 years)
End Of Full Sentence: 1 Jul 1997
Source: http://www.courtnewsuk.co.uk/crime_archive/?id=7858
James Holland was convicted of conspiracy to murder and sentenced to 10 years.
together with his gay lover he conspired to kidnap, rape and murder young boys including new born children and choir boys.
Troyhand said: May 17, 20148:13 pm
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C13431212
This record is closed
Closed For 84 years
Opening date: 01 January 2064
Reference: J 267/846
James Arthur Holland, David Andrew Gibson, Samuel Irwin, Francis Lambert Page and Norman Vincent Wade: variously charged with buggery, indecent assault and gross indecency. Orderable at item level
Date: 1979 Jan 01 – 1979 Dec 31
Arrangement: The naming of a defendant within this catalogue does not imply guilt
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former references: in its original department: 79/0816
Legal status: Public Record
Closure status: Closed Or Retained Document, Open Description
Access conditions: Closed For 84 years
FOI decision date: 2011
Exemption: Personal information where the applicant is a 3rd party
Troyhand said: May 18, 20146:47 am
http://www.picklesnet.com/mhgs/mhgs%20where.htm
Moseley Hall Grammar School
Youatt, John
Retired Technical Director
johnyouatt@yahoo.com
http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/john-youatt/60/528/786
Google has put in some effort to clear John Youatt's past from the web. I wonder who he was technical director for? Lots of info on his family lineage in Exeter, nothing on him beyond his grammar school info.
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bobchewie said: December 29, 20146:54 pm
Interesting as this fits with a chauffer car hire company in southwark and it connecting to
Sidney Cooke

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When I first tried MCT oil a while ago, I didn't know about the potential side effects and digestive discomfort. If you are new to MCTs, make sure you start with a small amount (such as a teaspoon) and gradually add more to avoid stomachache and/ or diarrhoea.
Achieving optimal ketosis hinges on finding the right balance of macronutrients (or "macros" in keto-speak); these are the elements in your diet that account for the majority of your calories, a.k.a. energy—namely, fat, protein, and carbohydrates. By the way, it's often "net grams" of carbohydrates that are counted toward your daily intake; "net" deducts the amount of fiber in a food from its carbohydrate total.
Short-term results for the LGIT indicate that at one month approximately half of the patients experience a greater than 50% reduction in seizure frequency, with overall figures approaching that of the ketogenic diet. The data (coming from one centre's experience with 76 children up to the year 2009) also indicate fewer side effects than the ketogenic diet and that it is better tolerated, with more palatable meals.


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#include <aws/core/utils/HashingUtils.h>
#include <aws/core/Globals.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/EnumParseOverflowContainer.h>

using namespace Aws::Utils;

namespace Aws
{
  namespace FraudDetector
  {
    namespace Model
    {
      namespace ModelEndpointStatusMapper
      {

        static const int ASSOCIATED_HASH = HashingUtils::HashString("ASSOCIATED");
        static const int DISSOCIATED_HASH = HashingUtils::HashString("DISSOCIATED");

        ModelEndpointStatus GetModelEndpointStatusForName(const Aws::String& name)
        {
          int hashCode = HashingUtils::HashString(name.c_str());
          if (hashCode == ASSOCIATED_HASH)
          {
            return ModelEndpointStatus::ASSOCIATED;
          }
          else if (hashCode == DISSOCIATED_HASH)
          {
            return ModelEndpointStatus::DISSOCIATED;
          }
          EnumParseOverflowContainer* overflowContainer = Aws::GetEnumOverflowContainer();
          if(overflowContainer)
          {
            overflowContainer->StoreOverflow(hashCode, name);
            return static_cast<ModelEndpointStatus>(hashCode);
          }

          return ModelEndpointStatus::NOT_SET;
        }

        Aws::String GetNameForModelEndpointStatus(ModelEndpointStatus enumValue)
        {
          switch(enumValue)
          {
          case ModelEndpointStatus::ASSOCIATED:
            return "ASSOCIATED";
          case ModelEndpointStatus::DISSOCIATED:
            return "DISSOCIATED";
          default:
            EnumParseOverflowContainer* overflowContainer = Aws::GetEnumOverflowContainer();
            if(overflowContainer)
            {
              return overflowContainer->RetrieveOverflow(static_cast<int>(enumValue));
            }

            return {};
          }
        }

      } // namespace ModelEndpointStatusMapper
    } // namespace Model
  } // namespace FraudDetector
} // namespace Aws

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How To Read A EPT Pregnancy Test?
The Error Proof Test is more commonly referred to as the EPT Test. When you take an EPT pregnancy test, you can rest assured that your result is accurate and easy to read. Women love EPT and have been using this pregnancy test for years. When it's time for you to take a pregnancy test, you want to take the best test. You want one that is affordable and reliable. If you are like many women, you want a pregnancy test that will tell you a few days earlier than your missed period if you are pregnant. If you are like most women, you want options. With EPT, you have options.
You have two choices when it comes to taking an EPT test. You can choose the tried and true standard test, which features a plus or minus sign as a result, or you can choose the digital test. The digital test simply uses the words, "pregnant?" and "not pregnant?" to inform you of your current condition. It's foolproof and easy to read.
Like many of the pregnancy tests on the market, the EPT test is sensitive enough to tell you if you are pregnant up to five days early. However, if you wait until the morning that your period is due to take the test, your results are 99 percent accurate. Testing five days early means you have slightly more than a 50 percent chance of accuracy with your result. The reason for this is your body. Every woman is different. This means that some women produce enough of the pregnancy hormone earlier than others, allowing them to see a positive result on a pregnancy test early. Other women, however, do not produce enough of the hormone early enough for a positive result five days before their missed period.
The EPT pregnancy test is more sensitive than many other tests. This means that even if you do not get a positive result five days before your period, it will still detect hCG in lower levels, which means your chances of a positive result before your missed period increase every day.
Both the standard and the digital test are easy to use. You can choose between holding the absorbent tip of the pregnancy test in your urine or urinating in a cup and dipping the stick in there. Whichever manner you choose to test, you should always read the instructions carefully. Even if you have tested before, all pregnancy tests work a little differently. This means that the amount of time the test must be exposed to your urine might differ or the wait time might differ.
Once you take the test, lay it on the counter in an upward position. Be careful to never turn the test upside down, because it could alter the results of the test. Once you've waited the instructed time, look at your test. If you use the standard test, you will see a plus sign in the first display if you are pregnant. A minus sign will appear if you are not. The second display should have one line, which merely lets you know that the test is in working condition. If you used the digital test, the words on the display will tell you if you are pregnant or not pregnant.
Women who use the EPT test are happy with the results. It's sensitive enough to work early, easy to use, and the instructions are clear and concise. Many women swear by this test and will never use anything else. For a reliable pregnancy test that's sensitive and simple, use the EPT pregnancy test.


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Марлена Янссон (; ) — шведская ориентировщица, трёхкратная чемпионка мира по спортивному ориентированию.

В юниорском возрасте выиграла две серебряные медали на молодёжном чемпионате мира в 1990 году — в индивидуальной гонке и в эстафете.

Три раза в составе шведской эстафетной команды выигрывала золотые медали чемпионатов мира (1991, 1993 и 1997).
Дважды становилась призёром в эстафете — серебро в 1995 году в Германии
и бронзовые медали на чемпионате мира 1999.

Единственную индивидуальную медаль чемпионатов мира завоевала в Германии в 1995 году, когда разделила третье место
со своей соотечественницей Анной Бугрен (). Обе спортсменки показали одинаковый результат (29 мин 29 сек)
на короткой дистанции ( ) и им обеим были вручены бронзовые медали.

Марлена Янссон обладательница Кубка мира 1994 года. По результатам 1996 года в общем зачете Кубка мира она стала второй, уступив только три балла победительнице Гунилле Сверд.

Примечания

Ориентировщики Швеции
Ориентировщики по алфавиту

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The Posh Jewelry Items You Need This Winter
By Allison Berg | February 12, 2018 | Watches & Jewelry
With her latest contemporary jewelry collections bedecking Hollywood royalty and enlivening Bergdorf Goodman cases, Sarah Hendler is designing pieces for women who appreciate and understand beauty, functionality and high-quality design.
FROM LEFT
Multicolored gemstone Ethel ring in 18K yellow gold with hot pink enamel, $3,675
One-of-a-kind Gemfields Zambian emerald Shirley double-spear earrings in 18K yellow gold with pavé diamonds, $14,500
One-of-a-kind rubellite Shirley double-spear earrings in 18K yellow gold with blue enamel, $13,200
Working alongside her husband, chef and restaurateur Vinny Dotolo, Sarah Hendler has opened critically acclaimed L.A. spots Animal, Son of a Gun, Petit Trois and Trois Mec—but she's also the jewelry designer behind baubles favored by Kristen Bell, Madonna, Mandy Moore, Ruth Negga and Michelle Williams.
"Vinny is the first to acknowledge that I helped build his business and encourages utilizing his notoriety to complement my brand," she says. Now a bona fide tastemaker, stylists like Arianne Phillips, Karla Welch and Thomas Christos choose Hendler's creations to grace red carpets.
Her attention to detail and loyalty to local artisanship have everything to do with growing up in New York in the 1980s and '90s. Enamored with Broadway and Fifth Avenue luxury, she meticulously observed power in how and why women wear jewelry. "It's more than just a trend," she says. So with Valentine's Day around the corner, Hendler recommends honoring relationships with sincerity. A Sarah Hendler 18K gold, enamel and diamond Ethel ring, one-of-a-kind gemstone earrings or heartshaped quartz or topaz ts the occasion. Then, take in dinner at one of her favorite New York eateries like Prune, Wildair or Estela. sarahhendler.com, bergdorfgoodman.com


Van Chan Wild Boar black tea is collected by Vietnamese hill tribes from wild growing tea plants and is named after the wild boars that roam the mountain slopes. The liquor is a brilliant dark copper colour, very smooth, rich, peppery and malty in taste.
This Van Chan Wild Boar black tea is plucked by local hill tribes around Van Chan, Yen Bai Province. It is harvested from wild trees that grow at an altitude of 1,300 metres and above. These trees grow on the high forested mountain slopes completely naturally, without any human interference so under perfect organic conditions. April 2018 harvest.
This Van Chan Wild Boar black tea is quite similar to a high grade Assam, although it does have an extra dimension due to the terroir, as well as the traditional whole leaf processing methods employed.
The dry leaves are very dark in colour and are medium sized. The liquor is a brilliant dark copper colour and has an intriguing aroma of peppery green vegetables. It has an extremely smooth taste that is a little sweet; we find it rich, malty and a somewhat peppery. Van Chan Wild Boar is very reminiscent of a good strong Assam but is not as high in tannins and has a very clean finish. A very satisfying and thirst quenching cup overall that would easily please any fan of Assam and pleasantly surprise others.
These leaves are best brewed with water at 90°C for around 2 minutes. Definitely experiment with re-brewing the tea leaves. It's also best taken without milk or sugar but can be brewed stronger, in which case, it can take a little bit of milk or lemon to taste.
This Vietnamese Van Chan Wild Boar was first featured in our Wild November Curious Tea Subscription Boxes.


At Kibworth Dental & Implant Clinic in Kibworth we offer patients private orthodontic treatment only.
Treatment usually lasts from 18 months to two years, during which visits to Kibworth Dental & Implant Clinic are needed every four to six weeks.
There are many different types of braces. Some are removable, which you take out at night, to eat a meal, or clean. Some are fixed and stay in all the time. NHS braces are made of metal, but at Kibworth Dental & Implant Clinic we offer clear braces for private treatments- which use clear ceramic brackets, so you can hardly see them on your teeth.
Following completion of your course of treatment, you will be required to wear a retainer for a number of hours a day or at night, to ensure your teeth remain in their new position. Your Kibworth Dental & Implant Clinic dentist will advise you of how long you need to wear your retainer for on completion of your treatment.
To book an initial consultation and find out more about the options available at Kibworth Dental & Implant Clinic in Kibworth call us on 0116 2796565.


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Libraries are always the best learning aids for students as well as teachers. In olden days students mainly spent their free time in libraries because it's the room where we can find the number of books and journals to read. Which was completely different in languages styles and colure, certain people are really addictive of reading books but some don't have that skill of reading and enjoying the books. In this modern era technology also know n as libraries because we can see different types of books online and we can read it without paying any money. You need not go and walk towards the library in single touch you can get what you want. In libraries, we can see the books are placed in order and there will be one person who will direct us towards the books we need. The searching of books in the library itself is an interesting process when we get that particular book which we were searching for a long time when we get it makes us really happy and satisfied. Like that on the internet also when you search for something we have to give some time for it to work. You will get what you need easily and quickly.
Libraries are a source of information and students usually reads and follow books for reference and some read it for pleasure. Public libraries are filled with old and new books and at the same time, internet libraries are also the bundle of books. Quality can be trusted by both sources. Students can blindly trust the information's attained through both libraries. In public libraries, you have to go personally and have to search for those books. But maybe in some cases, certain old books r new books are not available in public libraries such books can be seen online. They can easily get it the resources are fully secured and effective for students learning the process.
The college and higher studies educational are mainly formed outside the classroom. They must depend on libraries and online books. It really helped students to make their knowledge deep into the learning process only textbooks and materials are not enough in the studying process. They can easily get the related information's which are really useful and encourages their personal skill of reading. Students can save that book on their website and read it when they want or they can read it online when they want so online libraries really effective and safe for students using.
Online libraries are easy and convenient for students. They don't need to travel from one place to another and it's free from the coast they can download it and read it when they are free. It's easy to search in single touch they can search it through the link they can share it too. They can quickly message their friends and send that particular link so that you can help your friend. It's safe and secure for students in every sense. As we have basic skills in technological devices we can easily get to know the mode of searching for information.
Libraries are always played important role in studies for students. It's not only helped students but also helped teachers. As we now in the technological influenced world the using methods are also changed. Now an online library plays its role. And students are really getting positive and good resources which enhance their learning skills and also encourage reading skills.
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Cosmic Miracles
© Copyright 1994/2006 by Timothy Conway, Ph.D., based on John Gribbin, Theodore Roszak, Paul Davies, George Ellis, et al.
Our existential situation together is certainly a mass of Cosmic Miracles piled one upon another.
Physicist-philosopher James Jeans remarked early in the 20th century that the universe looked to him a great deal "more like a great thought than like a great machine." And Jeans' contemporary, scientist Arthur Eddington, simply suggested: "the stuff of the world is mind-stuff."
Various parameters of the universe are exquisitely, astonishingly "fine-tuned." Without such fine-tuning, the universe simply would not have flourished these last 13.7 billion years (the best age estimate for the universe, revealed by the 2006 WMAP project).
The initial "boundary conditions" had to be absolutely perfect for a stable universe to come into being. Moreover, many factors had to be maintained in a perfect balance at various stages over time for the universe to continue its existence. Such fine-tuning and perfect balance have led many cosmologists to conclude that a Super-Intelligence underlies the cosmos.
Let's look at some of the amazing "coincidences" or "miracles" that characterize our universe. There are dozens and dozens of these "just so," "perfectly fine-tuned" parameters. We'll cover only several here. I've discussed many more of these cosmic miracles in the opening chapter of an upcoming book, Spirit, Science, and Deep Wonder.
One of the great cosmic anomalies is that at every epoch in the universe, for instance, at the initial "Planck time" of 10-43 second old (the smallest "moment" in physics), at 1 second old, at 300,000 years old, and today, nearly 14 billion years later, the critical density had to be "just right." Critical density had to be perfectly balanced at a level insuring that gravity would be strong enough to cancel any infinite expansion of the universe, yet weak enough to prevent the premature collapse of the universe. Esteemed science writer John Gribbin states: "If the Universe could have any density at all, why should it just happen, by coincidence, to sit right on the dividing line between being open and being closed—why should it be as big as possible without being infinite? This discovery is even more surprising because, throughout the past 15 [13.7] billion years, the density must have been getting further away from the critical value. It is very difficult to balance the opposing mechanisms of expansion and gravity. ... The Universe seems to have been set up, in the beginning, with just such a precise balance between being open and being closed." (In the Beginning, Little, Brown & Co., 1993, pp. 163-4) Just how fine-tuned is the "critical density" factor? Well, when the universe was 1 second old, it had to be "flat" (balanced between open and closed) to one part in 1015: "the amount by which the density differed from the critical value was represented by a decimal point followed by 14 zeros and a 1. If the value of the critical density is set at 1, then when the Universe was one second old the actual density was between 1 and 1.000,000,000,000,001. ... A Universe that is flat to one part in ten today, and was flat to one part in 1015 at the age of one second, must have been flat to one part in 1060 at the moment of creation, the Planck time.... Even a tiny deviation from flatness during the first second of the Universe would have been quickly magnified, making life impossible.... But these conditions are so extreme that they make the mind boggle." (John Gribbin, pp. 164-6)
Another cosmic miracle: the parameters during the sudden inflationary period of the early universe (10-35 second old), which allowed the universe to become full-blown and stable after it apparently emerged as a mere "bubble" of spacetime, a "ghostlike virtual reality" emanating out of a "quantum fluctuation"—such inflation parameters had to be just right, by a stupendously precise degree. Otherwise no universe would have stabilized into existence. One big question, for instance, is what brought the inflationary period to an end at exactly the right moment? For if it had expanded too much, no universe could be sustained.
Alan Guth is a respected cosmologist and a primary developer (along with Andrei Linde) of the much-discussed inflationary model of the universe. This model, say materialists, obviates the need for any Creator of the Big Bang event because, in this model, it is "the laws of physics" operating at the level of the vacuum that are themselves responsible for emanating the universe. Yet Guth, at the conclusion of his long-awaited book on inflationary theory, provocatively declared that we are "left with one deep mystery of existence: What is it that determined the laws of physics?" (The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997, p. 276.)
The Four Forces of physics happen to have certain necessary strengths and are balanced together in remarkable ways. The electromagnetic force is arbitrarily given a strength of 1. The force of gravity has a strength of only 10-38; the strong force (which holds the atomic nucleus together) has a strength of 1,000 on this scale. And the weak force (responsible for radioactive decay, and for the way in which a neutron can eject an electron and turn itself into a proton) has a strength of 10-10. If any of these 4 forces were just slightly, slightly stronger or weaker than they happen to be, the universe could never have happened. Atoms would not have formed through nucleosynthesis, the delicate biochemistry of life would have been impossible, and so forth.
The mass of the neutron and of the proton are nearly the same. This is puzzling. "There is no explanation for this in terms of standard physics; it is just one of the facts of life that a neutron weighs just 1.29 MeV more than a proton." (Gribbin, p. 183) Yet if the masses were too different, no universe would have formed.
Here's another of our cosmic miracles: the chemical processes inside stars have to be just right for stars to form. Two particularly crucial processes involve the nuclear energy levels of alpha particles vis-à-vis carbon-12 and oxygen-16. Gribbin: "There are two remarkable coincidences which allow life-forms like us to exist at work inside stars. The first makes it possible for carbon to form at all; the second prevents all the carbon turning into oxygen, but allows enough oxygen to be made to carry the process of nucleosynthesis on up the chain to iron-56." (p. 173)
Given that the mysterious "dark energy and dark matter"—which are not any kind of energy or matter known to us—comprise about 96% of the physical universe (according to the 2006 WMAP findings), and that fully 99% of "ordinary, known matter" (the trillion galaxies each containing an average of 100 billion stars) is in the form of hydrogen and helium atoms, then, clearly, the earth and all other planets, their life-forms, the atmospheres we breathe, and our own bodies involve a kind of matter (carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, etc.) that represents just 0.004 per cent of the mass of the universe. And, again, how very unlikely that any of this "special stuff" should have arisen at all to form planets and sentient organisms. (from Gribbin, p. 41)
Water is another peculiarity. Our planet is dominated by it and life as we know it depends upon water. (Our bodies are largely comprised of water.) Yet biochemist Lawrence Henderson of Harvard University, writing in the second decade of the 20th century, deeply intrigued by the "fitness" of earth's environment which seemed uncannily "prepared" to host life, was especially interested in water's many unusual properties, compared to other substances. For instance, the ability of water to dissolve a wide range of substances is unique. It is an efficient thermal conductor. It has remarkable surface tension. Very importantly, water expands on freezing into ice, and the ice floats on top of the water. If ice sank when it froze, the way solids "ought" to when freezing out from the liquid form of the same substance, then in the winter ice would settle at the bottom of lakes and oceans, not the top. The water would lose energy and eventually ice would build up and freeze everything. But ice floats, and forms a protective cover, keeping warm the water below, stopping evaporation, and serving as an insulator. Moreover, water stays in liquid form even at relatively high temperatures, and does not evaporate away as comparable substances would at the same temperature. (See Gribbin, pp. 174ff.) From his various studies of water and other substances, Henderson concluded that "matter and energy have an original property, assuredly not by chance, which organizes the universe in space and time.... The biologist may now rightly regard the universe in its very essence as biocentric." (quoted in Theodore Roszak, Voice of the Earth, Simon & Schuster, 1992).
"The range of coincidences that have to be explained by any satisfactory theory of how and why the Universe came to be as it is is vast.... The more you look at the way our Universe is set up, the more it seems to be set up in a very odd way, to encourage nucleosynthesis and the formation of stars, planets and people.... The extent to which the coincidences of cosmology... favor us is truly astonishing." (John Gribbin, pp. 174, 185, 168)
Astronomer Fred Hoyle, a longtime atheist who turned into a believer in some kind of Super-Intelligence after his breakthrough work on the aforementioned anomalous internal chemistry of stars, has declared it looks as if "the laws of physics have been deliberately designed with regard to the consequences they produce inside stars." He has also described the Universe, and the carbon and oxygen resonances in particular, as a "put-up job." He declares: "A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature." Hoyle also stated, "I do not believe that any scientist who examined the evidence would fail to draw the inference that the laws of nuclear physics have been deliberately designed with regard to the consequences they produce inside stars." (quoted in T. Roszak)
Cosmologist Paul Davies believes that "a hidden principle seems to be at work organizing the cosmos in a coherent way." "It is hard to resist the impression of something—some influence capable of transcending spacetime and the confinements of relativistic causality—possessing an overview of the entire cosmos at the instant of its creation, and manipulating all the causally disconnected parts to go bang with almost exactly the same vigor at the same time, and yet not so exactly coordinated as to preclude the small scale, slight irregularities that eventually formed the galaxies, and us."
Esteemed space-time expert George Ellis states: "The symmetries and delicate balances we observe [throughout the cosmos] require an extraordinary coherence of conditions and cooperation of laws and effects, suggesting that in some sense they have been purposefully designed (i.e., they give evidence of intention, realised both in the setting of the laws of physics and in the choice of boundary conditions for the Universe). This is the basic theological view.... To make sense of this view, one must accept the idea of transcendence: that the Designer exists in a totally different order of reality or being, not restrained within the bounds of the Universe itself. A scientific analogue of this idea is given by the now commonplace concept [from John Wheeler, and, especially, leading theorists of Superstring or M Theory] of the imbedding of the Universe in a higher dimensional space, where ultimate reality (the higher dimensional space) is of a different order to the reality experienced by those restricted, by their structure and sensory apparatus, to the 4-dimensional imbedded space time.... Thus we may envisage the transcendent Creator at all times maintaining the nature of the physical world so that a chosen set of laws of physics govern its evolution....It should be noted that none of this is in contradiction to standard physical understanding of the Universe. Rather what we have is an extra layer of explanation offered for the physical world we see around us, ... a meta-physical explanation for the existence and nature of physical laws.... Pure chance is very difficult to sustain, despite its logical unassailability, for it seems a totally inadequate explanation of the complexity we see ... nor can it satisfactorily explain morality and the desire for meaning.... Comparing the different possibilities, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Design concept is one of the most satisfactory overall approaches when broadly conceived." (G. Ellis, Before the Beginning: Cosmology Explained, London: Boyars/ Bowerdean, 1993, pp. 97-8, 120-7).
I, for one, would argue that scientifically, metaphysically and theologically it makes far better sense to speak in terms of the Divine Superintelligence or Absolute Spirit emanating the universe within ItSelf rather than externally "designing" or "creating" the cosmos (like a clockmaker standing separate from his clock), but that, as they say, is another story, to be discussed elsewhere….


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Luke Hemmings may be a busy man with the tour and all the concerts this holiday season, but that doesn't mean that he isn't keeping tabs on his rumored flings like Aleisha McDonald, Chrissy Costanza and Bea Miller! But 5 Seconds of Summer singer has been distracting his fans away from girlfriend rumors by luring them away with his desire to be completely naked if he were a superhero.
5 Seconds of Summer is now taking things a little easier as the end of the year draws close. After the Michael Clifford passport fiasco, in which he had to be absent at 5SOS' Jingle Bell Ball concert in London because he lost his passport, the boys have been looking to calm things down before they hit 2015 hard!
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But with rumors about Aleisha McDonald, Chrissy Costanza and Bea Miller floating around, it's hard to believe that 5 Seconds of Summer singer really thinks that he is not ready for a relationship.
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Q: For a cordinate system $(U,x^1,\ldots , x^d)$ show that $[\partial / \partial x_i,\partial / \partial x_j]=0 $ on $U$. I'm working through Warner's Foundations of Differentiable Geometry and stuck on this question. Let  $(U,x^1,\ldots x^d)$ be a coordinate system on $M$, show that $[\partial / \partial x_i,\partial /\partial x_j]=0 $ on $U$.
I'm confused on what this question is asking. Are we supposed to apply $[\partial / \partial x_i,\partial /\partial x_j]$ to an arbitrary function $f$ defined on $U$ and use that partial derivatives commute? Or since $\partial /\partial x_i$ is a basis for a vector field on $M$ should we interpret $[\partial / \partial x_i,\partial /\partial x_j]$ a vector field and show that is it is zero on $U$.
If $[\partial / \partial x_i,\partial /\partial x_j]$ is not a vector field could you explain what kind of object it is in your answer.

A: You can prove it with both ways, as you described above. Let $M$ be a differentiable manifold  with a coordinate chart $\big(U,\phi=(x_1,...,x_n)\big)$ and $X:=[\frac{\partial }{\partial x_i}, \frac{\partial }{\partial x_j}]$. Let's begin with your second way.
1. First Solution
Of course any Lie bracket is always a vector field. Moreover, if $\xi, \eta$ are smooth vector fields, then $[\xi, \eta]$ is a smooth vector field too. As you said before, $\{\frac{\partial }{\partial x_i}\}_{i=1}^n$ is a basis for the space of vector fields, and so $X=\sum\limits_{i=1}^n a_i \frac{\partial }{\partial x_i} $ , where of course $a_i=X(x_i)$
  are the coefficient functions on $U$.
In order to show that $X\rvert_U\equiv 0$, you have to show that $a_1=...=a_n=0$. Βut for $m \in \{1,..,n\}$ we have
  \begin{align*}
   a_m=X(x_m)=\bigg[\frac{\partial }{\partial x_i}, \frac{\partial }{\partial x_j}\bigg](x_m)&=\frac{\partial }{\partial x_i}\bigg(\frac{\partial }{\partial x_j}(x_m)\bigg)-\frac{\partial }{\partial x_j}\bigg(\frac{\partial }{\partial x_i}(x_m)\bigg)\\
   &=\frac{\partial }{\partial x_i}(\delta_{jm})-\frac{\partial }{\partial x_j}(\delta_{im})=0
  \end{align*}
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Another way to prove that $[\frac{\partial }{\partial x_i}, \frac{\partial }{\partial x_j}]\equiv 0$ is to show that
  $X_p=0$ for every $p\in U$, or, in other words,
  \begin{equation*}\tag{1}
  \frac{\partial }{\partial x_i}\Big\rvert_p\bigg(\frac{\partial }{\partial x_j}\Big\rvert_p\bigg)-\frac{\partial }{\partial x_j}\Big\rvert_p\bigg(\frac{\partial }{\partial x_i}\Big\rvert_p\bigg)=0,
  \end{equation*}
If $f\in C^\infty(M)$, then $f\circ \phi^{-1}:\mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}$ is differentiable, and  $$\frac{\partial}{\partial x_j}\Big\rvert_{p}(f)=\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_j}\Big\rvert_{p}=\frac{\partial (f\circ \phi^{-1})}{\partial u_j}\Big\rvert_{\phi(p)},$$ hence
  $$\frac{\partial }{\partial x_i}\Big\rvert_p\bigg(\frac{\partial }{\partial x_j}\Big\rvert_p(f)\bigg)-\frac{\partial }{\partial x_j}\Big\rvert_p\bigg(\frac{\partial }{\partial x_i}\Big\rvert_p(f)\bigg)=\frac{\partial^2 (f\circ \phi^{-1})}{\partial u_iu_j}\Big\rvert_{\phi(p)}-\frac{\partial^2 (f\circ \phi^{-1})}{\partial u_ju_i}\Big\rvert_{\phi(p)}=0.$$
  Since $f$ was arbitrary, $(1)$ holds.

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27-year-old Fukazawa Misaki and 29-year-old Hazuki are sisters who are polar opposites in both lifestyle and personality. Although they would hurt each other's feelings, they would also make up for each other�fs deficiencies.
What will happen when Misaki moves in with her sister? As these two sisters clash while living under the same roof, their values start to change little by little.
In the start of this drama, the idea is already relatable and enjoyable to continue watching. You wonder about Hazuki (Matsushita) and why her sister has suddenly come back into her life. Of course, the main character is Hazuki's sister, Misaki (Ishihara) and how she lives a seemingly carefree life.
Most of us who have siblings has been through the daily battles and yearning to live like the other one, but in the end love one another relentlessly. This is similar but with more chaos and comedic moments. All the actors do well in their roles and we see a deep connection.
The only issues with this drama is the concept of time. We have no idea for how long Misaki was away from her sister's life, nor how much time jumps from episode to episode. This goes for love interests too as some spark quickly, while others with history are already in a confusing state. Maybe if I watched it again, and paid closer attention, I could see the difference in change, but a drama should be able to do that the first time you watch it.
Overall it was very enjoyable and something I would watch again. It brought me to near tears with some emotional spots, but that could be because of my life experience. All in all, it is a great watch for women wanting a calm, yet funny story to watch while relaxing at home.
I absolutely love this. They avoided nearly every complaint I ever have with dramas. They deal with a serious illness without being overly melodramatic. They also don't try to drag out a simplistic story for ten episodes by using excessive drama or silly plot twists. They use the format and length to the best of it's benefits, which is really the main point of failure for most shows to me. There are two main characters, they each have several jobs, several love interests, their own friends, and distinct personalities, consequently, it feels like so much happens and changes over the course of this series, and there is never a dull moment throughout its entirety.
This is primarily a family themed drama, something I'm not much of a fan of, but again they are able to portray it emotionally touching without becoming to sappy. And besides, it has just as much to offer in the way of comedy and romance as well. I really have nothing bad to say about this drama at all, but if I try to force myself to find a fault, it would be that in trying to do so many things, it falls short of perfection in a few aspects, particularly the romance. In other words, the very reason that this is wonderful, is the same reason it is not extraordinarily wonderful. Still, I completely love it.
Started watching it because of Nao Matsuhita which is a good thing because Satomi Ishihara's Misaki was one of the most irritating, unlikable characters I've seen in awhile. Of course, it turns she's not a totally selfish a-hole and everybody lives happily ever after. Women will like this drama, men, probably not as much.
Fun and relatable, but time frame seemed too fast for a relationship to really be built. Ishihara is surprising in this as she usually plays a quiet role. She also acts so much more younger than her age is...Good job also by Matsushita, very good at her character and emotions.
Lovely dorama about sisterly love and, more generally, about the things we should actually pursue in life (family, love, etc.). I particularly enjoyed Ishihara's and Hirayama's performances!
It took me so long to finish this. It was so draggy. The reason I rated it as well as I did is because the ending was nice.
Good drama about sister's who are complete opposites but are bonded my their family and love for one another.
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A video went viral which was filmed secretly by Beth Lili in which it was clearly seen that the male sponsor of the housemaid was trying to rape the lady and she was trying to save herself by pushing him away and threatening him with a knife.
After this video, Filipino housemaid Beth Lili uploaded live videos of herself to her Facebook page in distress and being harassed both sexually and physically abused by her employer.
She was begging for help, requesting to rescue her and allow her to travel back to her country Philippines. She explained in her video that her employer both man and woman mistreat her.
Following his lead, the Saudi Government and the Law Enforcement Agencies including the Police Department and the Court Systems are very keen to look, uptake, and provide justice.
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Wall of silence on warranties
CITY car dealers are keeping tightlipped after the announcement that MG Rover will not be honouring warranties.
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Administrators PriceWaterhouseCoopers said that Rover cannot honour the warranties on Longbridge-made cars because of the perilous financial situation.
The company said Rover dealers would not be reimbursed for repairs to customers' cars and it was up to individual dealers to handle customers' concerns.
Thousands of car owners could now be left in the lurch and unable to claim their free services under the warranty scheme.
But as The Evening Mail attempted to find out what arrangements dealers had made for customers, they responded with a wall of silence.
We contacted seven dealers across the city but several refused to give a comment and the remainder did not reply to repeated messages.
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Kay Odysseos, spokeswoman for the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, said: "We can't speculate on what's going to happen."
Bert Morris, director of the AA Motoring Trust, said: "This has to be resolved. People have bought a product in good faith with a warranty. This does impact on the whole of the car industry."
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The new Kirby game came out last Friday. It's called Kirby: Triple Deluxe. When the title was first announced, I thought that maybe that meant it would be a sequel to Kirby Super Star, as that game was called Kirby Super Deluxe in Japan. Upon further contemplation, I realized that it's just a hackneyed way of calling it Kirby 3D without actually calling it Kirby 3D. Bravo, Nintendo.
While it's not a Super Star sequel, Kirby 3D is still pretty much exactly what one would want from a Kirby game. It's adorable, the powers are a lot of fun to play with, and the bosses are elaborate and interesting. Much to my surprise, the soundtrack is terrific. I don't know why I was so surprised by that though. Maybe because of the depressingly disappointing soundtrack in Yoshi's New Island.
Anyway, It's Kirby through and through. If you've played a [regular] Kirby game, you've played this. It's a fun romp through a bunch of levels where you get to eat guys and wear fun hats. The new Hypernova ability is a lot of fun, but that's not what really got to me. For the first time ever, I've been totally won over by the included mini-games. Or, as the Kirby series likes to call them, sub-games. And really, that is a better moniker, because these extra games are anything but mini.
The first, and the most immediately attractive, is Kirby Fighters. It's multiplayer, and up to four players can choose a permanent Kirby ability, then duke it out. It's a little bit like a tiny version of Smash Bros, but it still plays like Kirby. If that's not immediately clear, what I mean is that the Kirbys move just like they do in the main game. There aren't any special fighting game physics or nuances added for this mode. I stress this point because for some reason my mind expects Kirby to control the way he does in Smash Bros, but he doesn't, and it's a little weird at first. But still, it's plenty of fun, and the abilities seem to be fairly balanced.
I haven't actually played Kirby Fighters with another person yet, but I imagine that it's got to be a good time, because the single-player mode is a lot of fun. If you play alone, there's a fun little arcade mode where you play a sequence of seven fights against CPU players. There's a training mode where you can set up a custom match and pound on CPU Kirbys, which is pretty much the equivalent of the multiplayer experience. With four difficulty levels and nice set of arenas that draw from past Kirby games, there's a lot here to like.
The only thing that makes me sad about Kirby Fighters is that you only get to choose from ten abilities: Sword, Hammer, Cutter, Parasol, Archer, Ninja, Beam, Whip, Fighter, and Bomb. There are 25 abilities in the main game, and while some are cut for obvious reasons (Crash, Mike, Sleep), I cannot fathom why others (Bell, Leaf, and Spear) aren't included. Or Wing! My beloved Wing ability got cut and I demand to know why! Heck, the new Circus power is perfectly suited for this sub-game, but it's curiously absent, too.
What would be nice is if in the next Kirby game, there was a bigger, fuller version of Kirby Fighters. Let all of the abilities have their chance to shine, whether they're viable contenders or not. I'm sure someone out there would be pleased as punch to try to eke out a victory with Wheel or Stone. They should even put in the cooler powers that were only in one or two games, like Mirror and Animal. I would absolutely go to town in a Kirby Fighters where I could rock an upgraded version of Kirby: Squeak Squad's Magic ability.
The other sub-game in Kirby 3D is Dedede's Drum Dash, which is a fun mix of platformer and rhythm game. The idea of the game is to bounce along with Dedede to the end of the stage, only the platforms that line the way are drums. You'll jump from drum to drum, avoiding enemies and collecting coins along the way. It's a fairly easy game if you're just going from start to finish, but it's incredibly difficult if you want to get you a good score.
Dedede automatically bounces off each drum, to about the top of the bottom screen. Pressing A when you hit the drum will propel him higher, up to the top screen, and sequential jumps will go even higher, up to the very top. You have to time your bounces properly to follow the trail of coins and avoid the baddies, but it's a lot more difficult than it looks, as you're also trying to aim for the next drum. If you muck it up, Dedede will stumble, losing his jump power, and you'll lose sync with the song.
You also have to press A to bang a drum along with the backbeat at the height of each jump. Not only does this bump up your score, but it also keeps you aloft for a little longer, letting you pass over large enemies and clear wide gaps. This is where I have the most trouble, because my mind cannot fathom the idea of backbeat. I was stuck forever and gave up on Rhythm Heaven because as much as I tried, I could not pass the Lockstep game, which has you alternate tapping along to the beat and backbeat. It's not quite so bad in Dedede's Drum Dash though, because you have a visual cue (the apex of Dedede's jump) to go along with the musical one.
Getting it all together is tough, and takes a lot of practice, but I can already see the fruits of my labour growing. At first, my performance was atrocious, but now I'm doing okay. Earned a silver medal in the first stage, I did. Each level gives out two kinds of medals, too. The overall performance medal, from bronze through platinum, and then four special medals four each course. These special ones are for completing certain objectives, like clearing a stage quickly or collecting all the coins. Sadly, Dedede's Drum Dash only has four stages, but mastering them will keep you busy for a very long time to come. It really helps that the game is incredibly fun and borders on addictive.
It doesn't seem like Nintendo has any plans for it, but these sub-games could benefit greatly from DLC add-ons. Since each stage is based around a song, Dedede's Drum Dash seems like an obvious candidate for DLC stages. Some more beginner-level stages would be nice, too, as the current offering goes from "tough" to "maddening" pretty quickly. Extra DLC abilities would be the way to go for Kirby Fighters. Hell, maybe even a few new arenas or options like an item switch.
I would readily pay a buck for an extra Dedede level or a couple new Fighters abilities. That's an important point though: make it a buck. Plants Vs. Zombies 2 ensured that I'll never buy any of it's DLC by pricing it way too high. $3 for one plant? No way in Hell. Nuts to you, EA.
At the end of the day, Kirby: Triple Deluxe is a wonderful package, made all the better by a couple of sub-games that are actually interesting. Both of them are fun and deep enough that they could be their own game. I mean, just look at how much I wrote about them alone! This was supposed to be a medium-length blog post, but it ended up being a whole article. And I hardly even did any senseless rambling! funny how things work out like that.


We tested the .40 S&W Winchester Train and Defend in several different guns including this suppressed Glock.
One of the first questions I ask when testing a new product of any kind is "What's different or unique about this?" In the case of Winchester Train and Defend Ammunition, there are a few "unique" elements to consider.
It's simple, especially for newer shooters. For practice, use the boxes marked Train. When you load your gun with self-defense ammo, use the boxes marked Defend. When we live this stuff day in and day out, it's easy to forget that newer shooters don't necessarily know the difference between practice and defense ammo. If you use defense ammo to practice, you'll spend a lot of money. If you use practice ammo for defense, it won't be nearly as effective.
The two variants, Train, and Defend are designed to act and feel similar. The Defend ammo has premium expanding projectiles and low-flash powder, while the Train version does not. However, the weight of the bullets and associated recoil feeling are similar – by design. Your defense ammo will behave in your gun just like the practice stuff you take to the range.
It's standard pressure ammo, not jacked up +P+Infinity+ stuff. The reason is for controllability. Recoil is less and muzzle flip is minimized, allowing the shooter to make accurate hits and faster follow up shots.
So that's what's supposed to be different about Winchester's Train and Defend, so is it? Let's take a look a the .40 S&W loading to see.
Like most brand name ammunition, reliable function was a non-issue. I fired it from three different .40 S&W guns, a Beretta PX4, and FNS 40 and a Glock 22. Technically, it was a Glock 31 (.357 Sig) but I swapped out the barrel with a Lone Wolf .40 S&W conversion barrel, essentially making this gun functionally identical to a Glock 22. For you techies, yes, the Lone Wolf has traditional rifling unlike the octagonal rifling in factory Glock barrels, but that won't make any significant difference in testing here.
As expected, this ammo runs fine, at least in these two guns. Besides, most malfunctions are magazine and gun related anyway, so no big surprise here.
I set up my Shooting Chrony Beta Master Chronograph 15 feet downrange and proceeded to clock some rounds. Here's what I found when I fired both the Train and Defend versions from a Glock 22.
Accuracy was excellent from all three test guns.
For accuracy, I mounted a Bushnell Elite 3500 Handgun scope on all three handguns. How, you ask? I used the UM Tactical Rail mount, which attaches to the Picatinny rail on a semi-automatic pistol and wraps around the slide. This provides a scope mounting platform up top that does not interfere with the semi-auto cycling of the slide. It's a really cool solution. The Bushnell Elite 3500 provides up 2x to 6x magnification with plenty of eye relief. This setup allows me to obtain very precise sight pictures at 25 yards, even with my failing eyesight. Yes, I still have to do my part and manage the trigger, but fixing the sight picture takes most of the human error element out of the equation. I used sandbags stabilized by a 25-pound bag of lead shot to provide a solid shooting platform on a sturdy wooden bench.
I fired 5-shot groups and measured best three shots to factor out some of the human error.


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Curse, The (1987)
The Curse (1987)
Studio: Scream Factory
Release date: February 23rd, 2016
Reviewed by: Brett Gallman (@brettgallman)
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I didn't know a whole lot about The Curse before sitting down to finally watch it. Mostly, I knew it belonged to one of those series that isn't really a series at all, and I'm horrible about committing myself to a franchise until I own every entry, no matter how loosely related they may be. Had I looked closely at the credits of the first film, I might not have put it off for so long because few things put me at ease more than seeing "An Ovidio G. Assonitis" production at the top of a movie. I know this makes me seem like a lunatic to most reasonable people, but hear me out: at the very least, you're rarely bored whenever Assonitis is involved.
This more or less holds true with The Curse, a late-80s American co-production that also boasts one "Louis" Fulci as an associate producer (imagine my delight when that credit appeared). One name you won't find is H.P. Lovecraft's, even though David Chaskin's script is ostensibly an update of "The Colour Out of Space" that transports the macabre New England tale to rural Tennessee. It's here that the Crane family finds themselves fending off overtures from a realtor (Steve Carlisle) looking to flip their land into a lucrative government contract. However, the land is less attractive when a mysterious object falls from the sky; initially dismissed as the refuse from an airplane, it begins to leak a substance into the soil that eventually wreaks havoc on anything—and anyone—that consumes the nearby water.
Both Fulci's participation and the gooey nature of the substance hint that The Curse will be a goopy, gross exercise, and it is—eventually. Given the pedigree, you might be surprised by how patiently director David Keith (yes, that David Keith) operates here. I don't know that you'd consider this film a slow burn, but it isn't exactly in a hurry to serve up a bunch of splatter. Instead, the effects unfold relatively subtly, with the various farm animals freaking out and turning on their owners (a chicken attack against the Crane's young daughter is remarkably frenetic and disturbing). People begin to act erratically, too, and this is not to mention the unsightly boils that begin to fester on their skin. Something isn't quite right—even tomatoes are exploding into a splattery paste, the apples rot from a worm infestation.
Of course, it wouldn't be an Assonitis production if you didn't think most of the characters didn't already act a bit erratically, if not eccentrically. The Curse doesn't disappoint in this respect, as the Crane clan is plenty strange before a goddamn meteor lands in their backyard. Technically a blended family that's struggling to get along, this brood has some issues ranging from the typical step-sibling rivalry to "holy shit, the undersexed mom (Kathleen Jordon Gregory) is banging the farmhand in his little shack every night." Weirdly, the religious fundamentalist patriarch (Claude Akins) doesn't make a big fuss over the latter, though I guess you can't prove he didn't straight up murder the farmhand, who disappears from the film without a mention. This is Tennessee, after all. That shit would probably stand in a court of law.
Speaking of which, The Curse authentically captures its location; from the Crane's obnoxious oldest son (Malcolm Danare) watching Tennessee football while sporting a Vols jersey to the small, bumpkin town's distrust of outsiders, Keith nails down the general vibe of his home state. The rustic flavor extends all the way to the score, which blends banjo strums into ominous, choral wailings, sort of like Hee Haw meets Amityville (and of course a character actually watches an episode of Hee Haw at one point). There's a distinctiveness to the voice here that keeps The Curse worthwhile as the horror elements simmer on the backburner, as it's peppered with the sort of oddball moments you expect from an Assonitis production, like realtor trying to wine and dine a Tennessee Valley Authority rep (John Schneider, who emerges as the hero, thus securing the film's southern-fried credentials).
An impromptu striptease involving the local doctor (Cooper Huckabee) and his wife (Hope North) provides a nice distraction, as do the increasingly manic performances from Gregory and Akins, the latter of which becomes a walking embodiment of hellfire and brimstone as hell actually swirls around him. It's here that Fulci—who reportedly actually shot the second-unit effects work—makes his imprint, as the Maestro orchestrates a signature gore symphony that's worthy of his name. Bloated cow corpses explode with maggots, grotesque human flesh warps, blood flows, and one character practically evaporates into a puddle of viscera in the most rad body-melting display this side of The Fly or Robocop. For a moment, The Curse taps into the vaguely apocalyptic vibe of Lovecraft's work; when combined with Fulci's penchant for gore-drenched hellraising, it truly feels as if hell has unloosed—even if it just involves exploding obvious miniatures.
Even if the characters are suddenly secondary, all but engulfed by the whirling dervish of effects, The Curse goes out with quite a bang. In many ways a happy medium between the outrageously inane and truly dreadful late-era Italian output, Keith's film is just competent and eccentric enough to warrant some praise. Its investment in plot and characters may be minimal at best, but it at least bothers to arrange a colorful set (and Wil Wheaton, whose presence has gone unremarked on because, well, he's sort of unremarkable here) before shoving them onto the Grand Guignol stage. If nothing else, it has convinced me to check out the other three films in this franchise—even though I should know better, of course.
The Curse has been so far under my radar over the years that I actually just bought it on DVD late last year; naturally, shortly thereafter, Scream Factory announced it would release it alongside The Curse II as part of a Blu-ray double feature. Normally, that sort of thing would sting, but this is actually quite a worthwhile upgrade since Scream's disc presents both films in their original 2.35:1 aspect ratio (the DVD release cropped both). Since both films pop with garish, effects-laden palettes, the lush, high-definition transfers should be a treat for anyone who has only seen them in a compromised format.
These improved presentations—plus the relatively budgeted price for the double feature—make up for the lack of a double feature, and the release nicely compliments Scream's previous release of Catacombs, aka The Curse IV. No word yet on if they plan on adding Curse 3: Blood Sacrifice to their ranks, but I'm sure they'll get right on it now that I'm about to buy the DVD. You're welcome.


Postmark gives you a unique email address to send your emails to, but it's not easy to remember and it's on our domain. You will probably want an easier to remember address on your own domain, like reply@yourdomain.com. Postmark also has MX Record support if you have access to update DNS records, but in the mean time (or if you don't have control of the DNS records) we recommend using Gmail/Google Apps as a simple forwarding service to provide your users with an email address at your domain.
One of the main reasons to use Google's mail forwarding is that Gmail will handle a fair amount of any inbound spam that your inbox might start to catch before it even gets to Postmark, potentially saving you parse credits. We've also tested with Gmail and know that the + sign filter works with Postmark's "MailboxHash" parsing.
Create an email address on your Google Apps account that you want your customers to send mail to. It's common to have the username be the action that the customer wants, like reply@yourdomain.com to reply to comments or upload@yourdomain.com to upload image attachments. Once you've created this address and verified that it can receive email, you can configure forwarding.
Log into your new email account, and then click the gear icon at the top right of any Gmail page, then click Mail settings.
Click the first drop-down menu in the "Forwarding" section, and click "Add new email address".
Enter your custom Postmark email, it should look like yourhash@inbound.postmarkapp.com For security, Gmail will send a verification to that email address.
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Click the Activity page for that server.
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Back in your Gmail account, select the "Forward a copy of incoming mail to..." option and select your forwarding address from the drop-down menu.
Select the action you'd like your messages to take from the drop-down menu. You can choose to keep Gmail's copy of the message in your inbox, or you can send it automatically to All Mail or Trash. You might want to keep a copy of inbound email in Gmail, as Postmark only stores messages for 15 days.
You also can set up filters to forward messages that meet specific criteria, if you want to be more specific about which emails get forwarded along to Postmark for parsing.


It would seem a paradox but Vung Tau gains a lot from being the biggest crude oil extraction centre of Vietnam. As a result it has a more able infrastructure compared with many cities in the country and it's easy to get around and see the many sights.
For the historic Con Dao Island, one should not miss the opportunity to visit the infamous prisons and their 'tiger cages' before heading off to see the island's beautiful National Park and other locations.


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The test has a total of 50 questions, and should take around 10-15 minutes to complete minutes to complete.


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The studio also gave us our first tease of what the film—shot in Cuba over the course of four very fast weeks—actually looks like. Watching the teaser, it's still pretty hard to tease out what Guava Island is actually about, though. Certainly, Glover and Rihanna are both present, as is an island itself. No guavas are in evidence. At one point, we see a bird.
Still, Murai and Glover have produced some pretty fantastic work in recent years—including some of the most memorable episodes of Atlanta, and the fascinating video for "This Is America"—so it's pretty hard to write them off at this point, extant guavas or no. You can check out the film, starting at 12:01 a.m. Pacific time on Saturday, for free via a special landing site Amazon built for the event.


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"Australia-South Asia: Contestations and Remonstrances"
JEASA, The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, kindly invites you to submit 5,000 to 8,000 word articles on the topic "Australia-South Asia: Contestations and Remonstrances".
Insofar as this issue seeks to draw attention to the multifarious encounters which have occurred between South Asia and Australia from the nineteenth century to modern times, we are particularly interested in essays that tackle aspects of the epistemological differend that may have informed these encounters and their various manifestations, as well as the possibly unsettling impact which specific South Asian perspectives may have had, or still have, on the delineation of an alternative historical narrative for Australia, also in terms of the narrativisation of Aboriginal oppression since European settlement.
Some questions we are keen to see addressed in the essays include, but are not limited to, the following:
What are the tensions, discontents and challenges, both old and new, that characterise the relationship between the two regions?
How do cultural texts (including literature, film, music, and sporting practices, among other discourses or activities) grapple with the changing relationship between South Asia and Australia in the context of global capitalism?
How do cultural texts imagine (or reimagine) the historicity of the ties between the two regions as well as their future?
In what ways have Australian and South Asian (mis)readings of each other been encouraged (or, conversely, mitigated) by a common (or not so common) experience of imperialism?
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How are South Asia and its citizens currently represented by Australia's white settler culture, notably in today's contexts of large-scale immigration and the so-called refugee crisis?
What are the linguistic dilemmas or difficulties besetting South Asian–Australian cultural intersections, as represented in diasporic and/or in white settler corpuses? Publication of selected papers will take place in JEASA's second issue of 2017, which is expected to be published by the end of the year. Essays are due by 1 August 2017.
As Australian studies is a cross-disciplinary field of studies, article topics relating to any branch of 'Australian studies' will be acceptable, including History, Literature, Culture, Film Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Media Studies, Architecture, Geography, Spatial Studies, Environment, Political Science, Indigenous Studies, Gender Studies, Linguistics, Translation Studies, Education, Sociology, Art History, Religion, Philosophy, Music – or indeed articles exploring other related fields of inquiry and/or inscribed at any fertile crossroads between the aforementioned categories. Note that, while the 'South Asian' region is usually limited (as by the Encyclopedia Britannica) to 'the Indo-Gangetic plain, peninsular India, and Sri Lanka', essays relating to South East Asia will also be considered.
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Ethernet/IP typically employs active star network technology. This type of network is easy to set up, operate, maintain, and expand. It allows mixing of 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps products, and is compatible with most Ethernet switches. Ethernet/IP is used with personal computers, mainframes, robots, input/output (I/O) devices and adapters, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and other devices. The specification is supported by the Industrial Ethernet Association(IEA), ControlNet International (CI), and the Open DeviceNet Vendor Association (ODVA).
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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a media conference at Iran's embassy after he attended the Developing-8 summit in Islamabad November 22, 2012. Israel has a "childish" desire to attack Iran and Tehran is capable of defending itself, Ahmedinejad said on Thursday. REUTERS/Mian Khursheed(PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3AQUH
Ahmadinejad camp brazenly assaults Iranian judiciary
August 15, 2017 Social and Political
Al-monitor — Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his inner circle have been at the center of a storm on the Iranian political stage in recent weeks, with senior aide Hamid Baghaei hurling brazen accusations of rights abuses at the judiciary.
AUTHOR Fereshteh Sadeghi
Baghaei, a former vice president for executive affairs, made the accusations on July 26 after being released from 18 days in detention, his second imprisonment without any charge. Law enforcement officers first arrested him in June 2015, only freeing him after seven months.
Soon after Baghaei's latest detention, Ahmadinejad slammed the move as a grave injustice and called for his immediate release. In an open letter on July 9, the former president openly accused political rivals of deliberately targeting him and his aides, writing, "They attack us when they quarrel with each other or make peace with each other … even if they can't settle their scores, again they come to settle their scores with us." In a second letter, Ahmadinejad wrote that Baghaei had gone on a hunger strike and warned that he would hold the judiciary responsible for any harm to his health.
Reacting on July 16, judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei, without naming Baghaei, threatened that Ahmadinejad could be charged for his letters. He also vaguely spoke of "another defendant in a separate case who had confessed to giving 2 million euros [$2.3 million] to that person [Baghaei]." Without further elaboration, Ejei added, "[Baghaei] is held in proper conditions. He signed a paper, admitting that he prefers to remain alone rather than going to the communal ward."
When Baghaei was hospitalized on July 25, Dolat-e Bahar, Ahmadinejad's unofficial website, released footage of the ex-president and his inner circle standing behind the hospital gates, being denied a visit. In one video, Ahmadinejad complained, "Who are the people who give these orders?" In another video, he said, "We couldn't see him and couldn't make a phone call to him. Nonetheless, we can stay in the hospital's yard until morning."
Baghaei was released on a bail of 200 billion rials ($6.1 million), which is said to have been raised by Ahmadinejad supporters. Immediately after his release, in a public gathering, he bluntly condemned the judiciary, accusing it of unlawful imprisonments.
"Please go and see what is going on inside our prisons," Baghaei charged, saying, "There was a guy in our cell who had been there for 13 months without any charge or trial, and he hadn't contacted even his family; he had a kid. … Let's assume that he is a criminal. Then you have to take him to court and punish him. He'd gone crazy, losing his mind. … Why? What for? When you then tell [the responsible official] that what he is doing is against the law, he says: 'It's my decision. …' Did we have a revolution for this? Did our youth make sacrifices in the shah's jails and during the revolution to see a bunch of corrupt people come to power?"
Baghaei also cited his interrogator, named "Ghassemzadeh," as having told him, "President [Hassan] Rouhani's brother Hossein Fereydoun had accepted a 600 billion rial [$18.3 million] bribe to find a position for an individual on Bank Mellat's board of directors, and we will summon him soon." Of note, Fereydoun was arrested July 16 on financial crime charges and released a day later after posting 350 billion rials ($10.7 million) for bail amid hospitalization for high blood pressure.
Baghaei further rejected any financial misconduct among Ahmadinejad aides and directly denounced Ejei for stating that he didn't want to enter Evin prison's communal ward. He said, "When did I say that? Why are you lying? He is a liar! Mr. Ejei is lying now, just as he used to lie when he was at the Intelligence Ministry. … Tell him to bring that paper [he claims I signed]." Ejei notably served as intelligence minister under Ahmadinejad's first term (2005-2009) before being dismissed.
Within a day of Baghaei's remarks, Tehran's prosecutor general, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, announced the filing of "another complaint" against him. Interrogator Bijan Ghassemzadeh also denied Baghaei's claims regarding Fereydoun.
Al-Monitor spoke with conservative political strategist Amir Mohebbian about what may be behind the public clash between Baghaei and the judiciary. He said, "Although they [Ahmadinejad's circle] act based on very complicated cult-like mechanisms and have their own view about political events, the current circumstances, particularly after their [Ahmadinejad and Baghaei's] failed presidential bid and the way they are treated [on the Iranian political stage], have forced them to react in this manner."
He added, "Therefore, the judiciary's quick reaction raises eyebrows about the politicization of Baghaei's case. And it is what Ahmadinejad wants." When asked about the possible ramifications of Baghaei's accusations, Mohebbian told Al-Monitor, "Baghaei's comments add pressures, as all political factions are unanimous when it comes to complaining about the judiciary."
Given Ahmadinejad's strident anti-establishment rhetoric, Al-Monitor asked Mohebbian whether he thinks the former president is capable of capitalizing on dissenting voices to gradually become a new opposition leader. In Mohebbian's view, that is an unlikely prospect. He said, "Neither the Reformists nor the conservatives trust him, so he has very slim chances to become a new opposition pole."
Prominent Reformist politician Mohammad Ali Abtahi agrees, telling Al-Monitor, "Mr. Ahmadinejad cannot stand as an opposition leader because he has lost all his social and human capital. I don't see any future for him." Abtahi, who served as vice president under Reformist Mohammad Khatami, elaborated, "Mr. Ahmadinejad really wants to be seen as the leader of an alternative movement, but he has been unable to draw supporters. And by the way, I don't think our people and the entire leadership have forgotten his presidency and [will] allow his return [on the political stage]."
Remaining silent for two weeks, Ejei on July 30 dismissed Baghaei's criticisms, saying, "Those remarks are not true. … They see themselves as important people, but we shouldn't pay attention to them. I personally don't want to file a complaint against them." Yet he ominously added, "Anyone from Ahmadinejad's clan who acts against the law will be prosecuted."
In the view of Abtahi, who was imprisoned in connection with the unrest in the aftermath of Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election in 2009, the judiciary has been tolerant toward the former president. He told Al-Monitor, "The judiciary would have acted differently had Reformists behaved similarly." Mohebbian takes Ejei's warning more seriously, concluding, "The Islamic Republic has proved time and again that it doesn't hesitate to confront political figures who go way beyond its 'security red lines.'"


Police this morning have arrested a man who was involved in an overnight standoff with officers in San Jose.
Police said the man, who was intoxicated and armed, was taken into custody around 4:15 a.m. The standoff lasted about 10 hours.
The incident occurred at a residence on North 12th Street after officers received a report of a man pulling a gun on someone and then barricading himself inside the home, police said.
Police said there were no reported injuries during the standoff, and no hostages were taken.
Homes in the immediate area were evacuated as a precautionary measure, police said.