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Blue Wing Wild Horse & Burro Complex Gather, Environmental Assessment Scoping Comments due 4/7/16
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Samantha Gooch, Wild Horse & Burro Specialist, Project Lead (sgooch@blm.gov)
Humboldt River Field Office, Bureau of Land Management
5100 East Winnemucca Boulevard, Winnemucca, NV 89445
Tel. (775) 623-1519/1518
Attention: Steve Sappington, HRFO Asst. Mgr., ssapington@blm.gov; Winnemucca BLM District Manager Email comments may be submitted: BLM_NV_Blue_Wing_Complex_EA@blm.gov & are due 4/7/16.
Subject: Blue Wing Wild Horse & Burro Complex Gather, Environmental Assessment Scoping Comments
Dear Ms. Gooch & BLM officials:
Thank you for the recent tour to various sectors of the vast Blue Wing Complex of Wild Horse & Wild Burro Herd Areas (HAs) and Herd Management Areas (HMAs) that occurred on Sat. Mar. 19 & Sun. Mar. 20. It was great to get out on the public lands and really see, hear, etc., what is going on with the ecosystem. I appreciate your willingness to explain the BLM's plan for these areas and its wild horses and burros and to allow me to ask questions and express my concerns. This type of field trip is an important facet of our nation's democracy and I wish more people would take an interest in their public lands and what is present and occurring here.
Nonetheless, in all honesty I must firmly object to and protest BLM's plans concerning the relatively small populations of wild horses (Equus caballus) and wild burros (Equus asinus) remaining in this vast and legal complex of 7 HMAs/HAs that was established by the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 (WFHBA). As our guide, you (Gooch) repeatedly stated there were around 2 million acres of legal areas for the wild horses and burros in the Complex, which I took it to correspond to the original 1971 Herd Areas where the equids lived at the passage of the WFHBA. However, in the BLM Nevada News release from the Winn. District Office of March 4, 2016, it states that "the complex is comprised of 1,230,364 acres. Perhaps this corresponds to the HMAs that have been reduced from the HAs. However my examination of the 2007 Public Lands Statistics (USDI) gives a different set of figures for the seven HMAs/HAs (see below). Is the case that there has been a shrinkage of the original area from 2 million to 1,230,364 acres? If so, this would indicate a substantial reduction of 39% of the lands to which the wild equids were originally entitled. This should then mean that the wild horses and burros would get a much fairer treatment on those lands that remain as their HMAs, particularly as concerns their share of the life-sustaining resources, i.e. forage, water, shelter, and other habitat requirements.
I am very concerned here because I notice that right after the announcement states there are 1,230,364 acres in the legal Blue Wing Complex, it goes on to state that: "[m]anaging wild horse and burro populations is necessary to maintain healthy and viable wild horse/burro herds and prevent deterioration of range and water resources." Then it continues that: "there are currently an estimated 1,733 wild horses and 704 wild burros in the Blue Wing Complex" …and that "AMLs [Appropriate Management Levels] for the Blue Wing Complex are 333-553 wild horses and 55-90 wild burros." I notice that in Fiscal year 2007 the AML for wild horses was set at 770 individual, so the allowable wild horses have been cut about in half during the past decade, which, in my opinion, is very unfair, given the large acreages to which they are legally entitled! Also, the BLM announcement makes no mention of all the other user types in the Complex, chief among which appears to be cattle and, to a lesser extent, sheep ranchers, recreational vehicle users, and mining companies. This strikes me as very narrow and exclusionary and signals a possible set-up, or tendentious line of reasoning, that targets the wild horses and burros for blame and, so, for large-scale reduction. Further analysis of the situation has confirmed these suspicions; and here are two major reasons:
A. I have divided BLM's current populations estimates in the Complex of 1,733 for wild horses and 704 for wild burros into 1,230,364 acres. The results indicate that there are 710 legal acres per individual wild horse and 1,748 legal acres per individual wild burro in the Complex at present. This is surely not an overpopulation but is well below the carrying capacity for this ecosystem, where one wild horse per 200 acres and one wild burro per 130 acres would still be reasonable in the high, wet, cool deserts of the northern Great Basin. These unfair population assignments are aimed at taking away the resources to which the Blue Wing Complex's wild horses and burros are entitled! Here is an important reminder about the law: according to Section 2 ( c ) of the WFHBA, the legal wild horse and burro areas were to be considered as follows: "… the amount of land necessary to sustain an existing herd or herds of wild free-roaming horses and burros … and which is devoted principally but not necessarily exclusively to their welfare in keeping with the multiple use management concept for public lands." Clearly, the wild horses and burros are not being provided the "principal" share of resources in the Blue Wing Complex, nor are they being given "principal" status in this complex – but rather they are being marginalized where they should be honored as top priorities! The whole complex taken as a whole has scant numbers of wild horses and burros, and they are far from filling their ecological niche here (see my discussion on Reserve Design below).
B. Currently assigned AMLs show outrageous numbers of allowed acres per individual wild horse and per individual wild burro! The AML for the Blue Wing Complex for wild horses is between 333 at the low end and 553 at the high end for an average wild horse AML of 443 horses. The AML for the Blue Wing Complex for wild burros is between 55 at the low end and 90 at the high end for an average wild burro AML of only 67.5 burros. Thus, at the average of 443 wild horses, there would be 2,777 acres per individual wild horse and at the average of 67.5 wild burros, there would be 18,228 acres per individual wild burro within the complex. In other words, our BLM officials, supposedly the public servants who fairly uphold all the laws of our nation and who fairly represent all the citizens of the United States, must think Americans are either so stupid or so uncaring as to allow this extreme inequity toward the rightfully present wild horses and burros on their own legal lands to pass as something fair and just and in accordance with the law, when nothing could be further from the truth! Both AMLs are terribly unjust and in my opinion illegal, and the AML for the wild burros, of which so few are left, is a sure set up for their inbreeding and die out! To maintain that such a low population number is genetically viable is very misleading and makes a mockery of the true science of Conservation Biology, in my professional opinion as a wildlife ecologist! (See below re: IUCN SSC wild equid population viability standards.)
… We toured major portions of the Blue Wing Complex on the 19th and 20th of March, and I closely observed and photographed the land and its life community, including the wild horses and burros. It became apparent to me during the tour that livestock, primarily cattle but also considerable numbers of sheep, are being given the main share of the grazing resources as well as the water and that other disturbance factors operating in the Complex, notably recreational vehicles including OHVs/ORVs/ATVs and motorcycles as well as mining operations are also having a major detrimental effect upon the ecosystem. When I questioned the BLM officials guiding the tour concerning the relative proportions of resources being allocated to livestock grazers versus wild horses and burros, I was given evasive answers and Wayne, the BLM Range Conservationist, has yet to deliver to me, as promised, the exact figures concerning how the rangeland forage resources, or AUMs (Animal Unit Months), are divided up among the various animal grazers including cattle, sheep, wild horses, wild burros, deer, bighorn, elk, and other wildlife animals including rabbits. I would still appreciate receiving this information and fully intent to give further input as the Environmental Assessment process continues beyond this initial Scoping stage.
Another aspect of public lands protection and management that I am very concerned about are the allotment fences that may be disrupting the free-roaming life style of the wild horses and burros. This important issue was never addressed during the tour, but I expect that it will be in the E.A. It should definitely be addressed as it relates to the wild equids natural rest rotation of foraging patterns over the seasons and course of years … something they naturally perform. Please remember that their free-roaming life style is part of the core provisions for these animals in the WFHBA. This natural movements, i.e. their natural freedom, should not be overly thwarted within their legal areas!
The issue of PZP administration to wild horses and burros was given much approving attention during the tour by you (our chief guide & wild equid specialist, S. Gooch). I am very alarmed because of this! You expressed a strong support for its blanketing application, or darting to all the wild mares. On the first day of the tour, I indicated that some serious adverse effects are caused by PZP both to individual wild horses and their social units, i.e. their bands and herds. I appreciated your allowing me to voice my concerns in spite of another supposed wild equid advocate trying to over-talk me, especially when I described the sound alternative to the PZP approach – Reserve Design. I mentioned some of the biologists who have documented these detrimental and adverse effects of PZP both to individual wild horses and their families and regional populations. I here take the opportunity to give you a list of some of the published studies that corroborate my concerns about both the short- and the long-term effects of PZP, and I urge you and other officials and wild horse/burro supporters to carefully read these and not just cite Dr. Jay Kirkpatrick's works, which are not impartial, since he was the inventor of PZP and widely promoted it throughout his career and via his Center for Conservation Biology in Billings, MT. Here are some of the peer-reviewed sources publications I would like you to carefully consider:
Ransom, J.I. Cade, B.S., & Hobbs, N.T. 2010. Influences of immunocontraception time budgets, social behavior, and body condition in feral horses. Applied Animal Behavior Science 124: 51-60.
Powell, D.M. 1999. Preliminary evaluation of porcine zona pellucida (PZP) immunocontraception for behavioral effects in feral horses (Equus caballus). Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science 2: 321-335.
Powell, D.M. & Monfort, S.L. 2001. Assessment: Effects of zona pellucida immunocontraception on estrous cyclicity in feral horses. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science. 4: 271-284.
Nunez, C.M.V., Adelman, J.S., Mason, C., & Rubenstein, D.I. 2009. Imunocontraception decreases group fidelity in a feral horse population during the non-breeding season. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 117: 74-83.
Nunez, C.M.V., Adelman, J.S., & Rubenstein, D. I. 2010. Imunocontraception in wild horses (Equus caballus) extends ovulatory cycling beyond the usual foaling season. In review, possibly published now.
Smith, J. 2010. The inoculation of porcine zona pellucida and its behavioral and physiological effects on the feral mares of Shackleford Banks. Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
Linklater, W.L., Cameron, E.Z., Stafford, K.J., & Vetma, G.J. 2000. Social and spatial structure and range use by Kaimanawa wild horses (Equus caballus: Equidae). New Zealand Journal of Ecology 24: 139-152.
Klingel, H. 1975. Social organization and reproduction in equids. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility. Pages 7-11.
Asa, C.S. 2002. Equid reproductive biology. Pages 113-117 In: IUCN SSC Equid Action Plan. P.D. Moehlman, Editor. Gland Switzerland.
Nunez, C.M.V. 2009. Management of Wild Horses with Porcine Zona Pellucida: History, Consequences, and Future Strategies. Ch. 4 In: Horses: Biology, Domestication, and Human Interactions. Ed. J.E. Leffhalm, Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
http://www.researchgate.net/publications/258994432.
Sadlier, R.M.F.S. 1969. The Ecology of Reproduction in Wild and Domestic Mammals. Methuen & Co., Ltd., London, U.K.
Further analysis of 7 HMAs/HAs in Blue Wing Complex according to Public Lands Statistics FY 2007 (USDI, Washington DC): The following are the HMAs in the Blue Wing Complex where the wild horses and burros were recently allowed to remain as best I can determine. Included here are the original codes assigned to the areas and their acreages. These start in the extreme northeast and work to the extreme southwest along this elongated Complex, according to the map in my possession and which I obtained from BLM (Nevada Herd Management Areas, BLM, Nevada State Office, 2/18/11).
1. Jackson Mountains, NV 0208, 275,300 HA & HMA acres + 8,399 other acres; Horse AML: 217; 305 horses present in 2/2003; Burro AML: Zero, zero burros present in 2/2003.
2. Kamma Mountains, NV0214, 54,410 HA & HMA acres + 2,980 other acres; Horse AML: 77; 53 horses present in 11/2005; Burro AML: Zero, zero burros present in 11/2005.
3. Lava Beds, NV0215, 232,928 HA acres + 71 other acres; 232,880 HMA acres + 68 other HMA acres; Horse AML: 148; 102 horses present 11/2005; Burro AML: 16; 18 burros present 11/2005.
4. Seven Troughs, NV0216, 131,409 HA acres + 17,474 other acres; 131,388 HMA acres + 17,474 other acres; Horse AML: 156; 108 horses present in 11/2005; Burro AML: 46; 47 burros present in 11/2005.
5. Blue Wing Mountains, NV0217, 17,854 HA & HMA acres + zero other acres; Horse AML: 36; 20 horses present in 11/2005; Burro AML: 28; 19 burros present 11/2005.
6. Shawave Mountains, NV0218, 87,790 HA & HMA acres + 19,288 other HA & HMA acres; Horse AML: 73; 52 horses present in 11/2006; Burro AML: Zero; Zero burros present in 11/2006.
7. Nightingale Mountains, NV0219, 72,754 HA & HMA acres + 3,690 other HA & HMA acres; Horse AML: 63; 46 horses present in 11/2005; Burro AML: Zero; 3 burros present 11/2005.
Sums:
Number of Original 1971 Herd Areas (HAs): 7;
Number of Herd Management Areas (HMAs): 7
Total number of original HA acres in 7 original HAs: 872,445 BLM acres + 51,902 other acres
Total number of HMA acres in 7 HMAs: 872,376 acres + 51,899 other acres
Total BLM + other acres for 7 HAs: 924,347 acres
Total BLM + other acres for 7 HMAs: 924,275 acres
Total wild horse AML for 7 HMAs: 770 wild horses
Total wild burro AML for 7 HMAs: 90 wild burros (high limit of present 2016 AML)
Total wild horses present as of FY 2007: 686 wild horses
Total wild burros present as of FY 2007: 87 wild burros
Number of legal HMA acres per remaining individual wild horse: 1,347 acres per individual horse
Number of legal HMA acres per allowed (AML) individual wild horse: 1,200 acres per individual horse
Wild Burros zeroed out from 4 HMAs: Shawave, Kamma Mtns., Jackson Mtns., & Nightingale Mtns.
Burros still allowed AML above zero in Lava Beds (AML = 16), Seven Troughs (AML = 46), and Blue Wing Mtn. (AML = 28).
Total legal acres for Lava Beds, Seven Troughs, & Blue Wing Mtn. HMAs for burros: 399,664 acres
Planned density for wild burros in 3 HMAs: 399,664 divided by 90 = 4,441 acres per individual burro.
As of FY 2007 there were 399,664 divided by 84 remaining burros = 4,758 acres per individual burro.
COMMENT: THIS IS PRACTICALLY A WILD-HORSE-&-WILD-BURRO-EMPTY ECOSYSTEM AND CONSTITUTES A TRUE SUBVERSION OF THE WILD FREE-ROAMING HORSES AND BURROS ACT! AND THE PRESENT 2016 SITUATION IS EVEN MORE OUTRAGEOUS! THE WILD HORSES AND BURROS MUST RECEIVE MORE RESOURCES AND BE ASSIGNED HIGHER POPULATION NUMBERS. TO FAIL TO DO THIS IS A SURE PRESCRIPTION FOR THEIR DYSFUNCTION, THWARTED ADAPTATION, INBREEDING, AND DEMISE!
After reviewing the numbers above, I cannot fail but to conclude that there is a terribly unjust conspiracy operating among BLM officials at all levels, whether the Humboldt River Field Office, the Winnemucca District Office, the Nevada State Office, or the NationaL Washington, D.C. Office and the traditional enemies of the wild horses and burros who are chiefly public land ranchers but also include other agencies such as the Nevada Department of Wildlife representing hunter interests and other exploiters of the public lands including mining and energy companies. Whichever way one looks at the assigned AMLs, they are extremely unjust and basically a prescription for decline and demise of the wild horses and burros. The provision for the wild burros is tokenism at its most shameless and shows the planners to be oblivious to any sense of decency or consideration of the burros themselves and their long-term ecological adaptation and very survival itself!
I come away from this review with a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, knowing that the wild horses and burros are being mocked and set up for cruel torture, and practical elimination, set up to be genetically non-viable, not allowed to adapt naturally to the ecosystem of the Blue Wing Complex, planned for unnatural tampering with their most intimate reproductive organs (PZP darting) and on a massive scale. These are all crimes that the WFHBA said not to do, yet our very government officials appear to be planning these abuses of the wild horses and burros in complicity with the wild horses and burros worst enemies! I can only voice my strongest and most honest objection to this despicable mockery of the wild horses and burros themselves, most of all, and of the American people and the WFHBA law which their Congressional representatives unanimously voted for. It is a sad state of affairs that our nation has reached with this "plan" for the wild horses and burros of the Blue Wing Complex! It is a sinister plan that rivals other notorious genocides for America's Native Americans, the Buffalo, the Wolf, the Grizzly Bear, and so many other fellow species that modern man has derided, belittled, denigrated, mocked, blamed, and made scapegoats of! It seems that the issues of truth and fairness, or justice, hardly enter into the minds of schemers who seem to idolize decadent ways of life and status quos that are killing life on Earth, and concerning which they seem to be either oblivious or simply not to care!
I can only pray that my words will not fall on deaf ears, that some true spark in the consciences of those who read them may be ignited and that much less cattle and sheep, ORVers, mining and other forms of violence against the ecosystem may be enacted and that a much larger number of wild horses and burros will be allowed to restore their respective populations here in their legal areas on the public lands. It is they, the horses and burros themselves who should be teaching us humans how to live better on this wonderful planet Earth. They are ancient presences and true healers of the land and ecosystem – and if we humans will only allow them, they will show us the way to a healed and harmonious relation with the Rest of Life. …In the ultimate analysis, if we humans do not wake up soon, it will be too late!
Remember that 2,500 reproducing individuals is the true viable population size in the wild for an equid species according to the IUCN SSC Equid Specialist Group as noted on page 5 of its Action Plan for the world's remaining equids, a figure many times greater than your AML for the burros and several times greater than your AML for the horses (Duncan, P. 1992. Zebras, Asses, and Horses: An Action Plan for the Conservation of Wild Equids. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Equid Spec. Group, Gland Switz.) Also remember that "in the wild the true vigor of the species is preserved," which is so true! And if any species deserve to have their true vigor and long-term survivability on Earth preserved it is the horse and the burro, real paragons of Nature!
I end these scoping comments with a call for you to greatly reduce the cattle that are camping on the various springs you showed us on the tour, and any other similar water sources throughout the Complex. Please do not blame the deterioration of these watering areas on the wild horses and burros. This alarming situation is not their fault! Do not set them up for blame, make them scapegoats for ecological abuses whose true perpetrators are people, not these restorers of the North American ecosystem. And also consider the pumping by wells I mentioned during the tour and how this affects the water tables, especially in the mountains, for there is definitely a strong relation. Also consider that the erosion caused by heavy rains is related to the overgrazing and ORV abuse of highland watersheds, since the "living sponge" that could absorb and equitably release this water over the seasons and that is present in healthy vegetation and soils is destroyed by these human-foisted influences.
I strongly recommend that you erect strong fences around the springs and stream sources, etc., and that you provide for strong watering troughs on the sides of these for large herbivores such as the wild horses and burros, mule deer, and livestock. There are some excellent fence and trough supplying companies that can meet our needs here in a very adequate way. This will allow these springs, streams, ponds, lakes, and headwaters to be restored; and it is of crucial importance to the survival of the ecosystem that they be so restored. As the saying goes: 'water is the lifeblood of the desert.'
During the tour it surfaced that in certain areas, collisions were occurring between vehicles and wild horses and burros as well as other animals such as deer and cattle, mainly around highly transited public roads. In these areas, I very much recommend that you erect the Strieter-Lite vehicle headlight reflectors. These have proven very effective in nearly eliminating such accidents involving many kinds of animals, from large herbivores like horses, deer, and cattle to smaller ones like rabbits and coyotes. The website of the company is Strieter-lite.com and a knowledgeable representative of the company I recommend you contact is Ms. Julie Keller, a highly educated wild horse advocate who has introduced these ingenious devices to the State of Nevada, as elsewhere. Her email is JulieKeller0404@ATT.net and telephone is (775) 830-7739.
Finally, I urge you to check out my Reserve Design proposal in Ch. IV of my book The Wild Horse Conspiracy (www.amazon.com/dp/1461068983). Reserve Design is a branch of Conservation Biology that I studied and whose sound principles I have followed in my career as a wildlife ecologist, including in the Andes of South America. By taking a win-win Reserve Design approach to the Blue Wing Complex, this splendid area could be restored and made to flourish as a wild-horse-&-burro-containing ecosystem, which is an enhanced ecosystem – and I am fully willing to help you realize this, both as a professional ecologist and as one whose ancestral pioneer roots are in the Lovelock area. But it is incumbent upon we people to possess the humility and the patience, the wisdom, the good faith and uplifted vision to not just make but to let this happen … to allow the horses and burros and the whole complex of plants and animals to restore their own inter-harmonization, as they surely can and will if only we humans allow. We should respectfully learn from rather than arrogantly impose upon them.
In the Blue Wing Complex, as in the Earth itself, the choice is ours. Do we merely allow old and destructive ways of life to continue their headlong course to further disaster, or do we courageously chose to follow a realistic, proactive course into the future, one lighted by a positive vision for all that life can yet become, meaning ALL of life, including these ancient presences known as the horses and the burros. They have done so much for us humans over the centuries, even millennia, but their greater place and role is in the awesome natural world that gave them birth over millions of years and which all Earthlings, including those of us in human form, should greatly respect and set about to restore to its full well-functioning and in its fuller glory!
Craig C. Downer
Wild Horse and Burro Fund/Andean Tapir Fund
Minden, NV 89423


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Home games Absolution: Was It That Bad?
Absolution: Was It That Bad?
Olly Smith November 20, 2016 games
Many people know me as the guy who loves Hitman games. It's been a part of me ever since my cousin showed me Silent Assassin when I was seven years old. I remember spending hours on that first mission, titled 'Anathema', where you had to infiltrate a Sicilian villa, rescue a priest and kill the kidnapper. Immersive sims are fun for the fact that players feel they're in a believable world - where they have agency, full control over their environment and experience a narrative that isn't necessarily force-fed to them. The Hitman games have executed this mantra perfectly.
I think I'm in the majority when I say Hitman: Absolution was a bad move for the series. The iconic design of open-ended assassinations was omitted in favour of linear action-stealth missions and a bigger focus on narrative over the simulation. There was a calculated scoring system that punished players who wanted to explore the freedom of the levels and experiment with gameplay tactics. Most of the time you were going from point A to B, occasionally killing someone, and avoiding every other NPC wearing the same outfit as you at the risk of being compromised. Despite Absolution being the first game in the series to properly take advantage of the rendering power of the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, these flaws turned off many fans from enjoying it.
But is it really so bad?
The people who say "story was never a part of Hitman" forget about Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. Regarded as one of the best (albeit frustrating) in the series, Silent Assassin's narrative was built around Agent 47 wanting to leave the life of a contract killer and live a peaceful life in Sicily. Not long after retirement, he's put into a situation where he must work for the ICA again and perform contracts in return for them helping him find the kidnapped Father Vittorio. 47's story is also explored in other titles; Codename 47 is an "origin story" of sorts, showing his upbringing, early jobs, and the destruction of the people who made him. Hitman: Contracts and Blood Money also explore 47's character - particularly an injury he receives during the timeline of each game. While the synergy between story and gameplay might be more overt in Absolution, it's important to recognise how both have complemented each other in past games. When you think of it in this regard, missions such as 'The King of Chinatown' and 'Streets of Hope' don't seem that ludicrous.
The story and setting in Absolution just seem right to me. With the game being developed at the time that "gritty reboots" were popular (looking at you Spec Ops: The Line), there's no need for colourful vistas, extravagant hotels and beautiful beaches. 'Old Man 47' is past his prime. He's on the run from police, who have no doubt caught wind of his past missions. He's got to save a girl and solve a mystery. It's a noir tale that needed to be told. If this were a Splinter Cell or Deus Ex game, nobody would care about the glaring changes in tone. For me, the noir atmosphere was a risky move but I think IO-Interactive nailed it.
The disguise system was also a negatively received feature of Absolution. While hardly anybody would bat an eye to 47's disguises in previous games, this time round anybody wearing the same outfit as you would become suspicious. I understand the frustration, as it made many areas of the game incredibly difficult, but it also felt realistic to me. If I'm a cleaner in a hotel, I'm probably going to know every other cleaner that works there. If I don't, I'm going to at least question the ones I don't know. Sure, if I'm a police officer, I'm not going to know every other officer in the city. That's crazy. But if we're going from Blood Money's lack of disguise detection to Absolution's flawed-but-realistic approach, I'll take the latter any day.
And to those who say Absolution's characters were too over-the-top and silly, remember that Contracts featured a Scottish morbidly obese crime lord called "The Meat King", defending himself from kidnapping charges for his brother's murder of a girl, while also hosting a BDSM party in an abattoir in Romania. Blake Dexter is tame compared to that.
What I'm getting at is that Hitman: Absolution is not a perfect game, nor is it a good Hitman game. But it excels at a lot of things, namely its graphics, atmosphere, controls and story which are all excellent when dissociated from previous games. The combat is absolutely brutal, the best of the series; the guns feel awesome and responsive. It's the best Hitman game that isn't a Hitman game.
By Olly Smith on November 20, 2016
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Monarch Archetype
Edition of 250 pieces
B05 ARCHETYPE
The Monarch 'Archetype' features a beautiful frame in hand-forged 'Twist' damascus by Chad Nichols, inlaid 10,000 year-old fossil Woolly Mammoth tooth. The blade is hand-forged 'Hornets Nest' damascus steel by Mike Norris. The one-hand button lock and the thumb stud are set with citrine gem stones.
The Monarch is a simple design that is easy on the eye and effortless in the hand; the elegant shape of the handle on this design is also an ideal canvas to showcase exotic materials.
The 'Archetype' features a perfect synthesis of William Henry's most admired and distinctive forged metals, and exotic materials; a distinctive personality statement to be worn and used for a lifetime before being handed down to another generation.
Handle 3.58" (90.9mm)
Hand-forged damascus
Damascus steel was a term used by several Western cultures from the Medieval period onward to describe a type of steel created in India and used from about 300 BC to 1700 AD. These blades were characterized by distinctive patterns of banding and mottling reminiscent of flowing water. They were reputed to be not only tough and resistant to shattering, but capable of being honed to a sharp and resilient edge. William Henry's damascus is made from several types of steel welded together to form a billet.
The patterns vary depending on how the damascus artist works the billet. The billet is drawn out and folded until the desired number of layers are formed. William Henry damascus billets are forged with a minimum of 300 layers. William Henry works with a handful of the very best damascus artists/forgers in the U.S.
Fossil Mammoth tooth
From a Woolly Mammoth that walked the Earth at least 10,000 years ago.
Modern humans coexisted with woolly mammoths during the Upper Paleolithic period when they entered Europe from Africa between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago. Prior to this, Neanderthals had coexisted with mammoths during the Middle Paleolithic and up to that time. Woolly mammoths were very important to Ice Age humans, and their survival may have depended on these animals in some areas.
The woolly mammoth is the next most depicted animal in Ice Age art after horses and bisons, and these images were produced up to 11,500 years ago. Today, more than five hundred depictions of woolly mammoths are known, in media ranging from carvings and cave paintings located in 46 caves in Russia, France and Spain, to sculptures and engravings made from different materials.
William Henry's fossil Mammoth tooth is harvested in Alaska and Siberia. It is a rare and mesmerizing material, the last legacy of a legendary creature that roamed the earth at the dawn of mankind.
Citrine is a variety of quartz whose color ranges from a pale yellow to brown due to ferric impurities.
The name is derived from Latin citrina which means "yellow" and is also the origin of the word "citron." Sometimes citrine and amethyst can be found together in the same crystal, which is then referred to as ametrine.


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Codul lui Da Vinci (în engleză The Da Vinci Code) este o ecranizare a romanului omonim de Dan Brown, care a avut lansarea mondială pe 19 mai 2006, fiind regizat de Ron Howard.

Drepturile cinematografice pentru film au fost cumpărate pentru 6 milioane de dolari americani.  Începerea filmărilor era programată pentru mai 2005, însă anumite întârzieri au făcut ca filmările să înceapă doar pe 30 iunie 2005.

Muzeul Luvru a permis utilizarea locațiilor sale pentru filmări, în timp ce Abația Westminster a refuzat să permită accesul camerelor de filmat pe amplasamentul său.  Catedrala Lincoln a înlocuit Abația Westminster, primind 100.000 de lire sterline pentru drepturile de filmare.  Filmările în Catedrala Lincoln au început în august 2005.  În aceași perioadă au început și filmările în Temple Church din Londra.

Hans Zimmer a compus coloana sonoră originală a filmului.

Reacții

Premiera de la Cannes

Premiera peliculei la Festivalul de la Cannes a avut parte de o reacție rezervată din partea celor peste 2.000 de spectatori și critici de film care au vizionat filmul. Scena în care personajul jucat de Tom Hanks îi dezvăluie agentei de poliție, interpretată de către Audrey Tautou, că ea este urmașa lui Iisus Cristos, a stârnit hohote de râs în sală. La final, în loc de aplauze, filmul a primit doar fluierături.

Vatican
La o conferință desfășurată pe 28 aprilie 2006, secretarul Congregației pentru Doctrina Credinței, o congregație a Vaticanului, arhiepiscopul Angelo Amato, a cerut boicotul versiunii cinematografice a Codului lui Da Vinci; el a declarat că filmul este "plin de calomnii, ofense și greșeli istorice și teologice".

Cardinalul Francis Arinze, Prefect al Congregației pentru Cultul Divin și Disciplina Sacramentelor de la Vatican, a cerut întreprinderea unor măsuri penale împotriva producătorilor acestui film.
"Aceia ce Îl blasfemiază pe Cristos și scapă exploatând predispoziția creștină de a-i ierta și de a-i iubi chiar și pe cei care ne insultă. În alte religii, insultarea fondatorului ar atrage de la sine mai mult decât vorbe din partea credincioșilor. Aceștia și-ar impune punctul de vedere dureros de clar", a declarat Arinze în cadrul unui documentar, intitulat "The Da Vinci Code: A Masterful Deception" (Codul lui Da Vinci: O Decepție Despotică'').

Moldova

Mitropolia Chișinăului și a Întregii Moldove, subordonată canonic Patriarhului Moscovei, a făcut un apel către credincioși să boicoteze filmul "Codul lui Da Vinci", pe care l-a calificat drept instigare la ură față de creștinii ortodocși.

Într-un comunicat de presă difuzat pe 16 mai 2006, Mitropolia Basarabiei le recomanda enoriașilor săi să manifeste rezerve și discernământ față de film, menționând faptul că preoții din această mitropolie, în predicile lor, vor atenționa enoriașii despre mesajul dăunător și necreștin al filmului. Mitropolia Basarabiei este subordonată direct Patriarhiei Române.

Filmul a avut premiera în Republica Moldova pe 18 mai în rusă și pe 19 mai în română.

Totodată Benone Farcaș, vicar general al Episcopiei Catolice de Chișinău, a comunicat pentru agenția Basa-Press că romanul este bazat pe legende și fabule și în acest fel lovește în valoarea creștinismului: "Biserica Catolică și cea Ortodoxă din Republica Moldova nu vor fi în stare să anuleze difuzarea acestui film, pe motiv că producătorii filmului și agenții economici urmăresc câștiguri bănești considerabile. Creștinii singuri trebuie să decidă dacă doresc ca prin prezența lor să contribuie financiar la o asemenea blasfemie".

NOAH
Organizația Națională pentru Albinism și Hipopigmentație (NOAH) a Statelor Unite și-a exprimat îngrijorarea față de personajul Silas, care ar da un nume prost albinoșilor. Se pare că producătorii filmului au decis să păstreze înfățișarea lui Silas în ciuda acestor preocupări.

Distribuție
 Tom Hanks — Robert Langdon
 Ian McKellen — Sir Leigh Teabing
 Alfred Molina — Episcopul Aringarosa
 Jean Reno — Bezu Fache
 Audrey Tautou — Sophie Neveu
 Jean-Pierre Marielle — Jacques Saunière
 Paul Bettany — Silas
 Jean-Yves Berteloot— Remy
 Jürgen Prochnow— Vernet
 Etienne Chicot — Membru al Opus Dei
 Seth Gabel— Cleric

Coloana sonoră
Coloana sonoră oficială a fost lansată pe 9 mai 2006. Muzica filmului a fost compusă de Hans Zimmer, a cărui muncă a rezultat în nominalizarea la Premiile Golden Globe 2007 pentru cel mai bun disc original.

Piesele incluse pe disc sunt:
 "Dies Mercurii I Martius" (6:03)
 "L'Esprit des Gabriel" (2:48)
 "The Paschal Spiral" (2:49)
 "Fructus Gravis" (2:50)
 "Quodis Arcana" (6:07)
 "Malleus Maleficarum" (2:19)
 "Salvete Virgines" (3:14)
 "Daniel's 9th Cipher" (9:31)
 "Poisoned Chalice" (6:19)
 "The Citrine Cross" (5:22)
 "Rose of Arimathea" (8:12)
 "Beneath Alrischa" (4:23)
 "Chevaliers de Sangreal" (4:07)
 "Kyrie for the Magdalene" (scris de Richard Harvey) (3:55)

Albumul a primit multe critici pozitive.

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Legături externe
  Sit web oficial
  Trailere în română
  Sit de promovare în română
  /  Despre "Codul lui Da Vinci" – The Internet Movie Database
  Pagina Cinemagia
  Trailer oficial – Apple Trailers

Filme americane
Filme din 2006
Ecranizări de romane
Filme cu vânătoare de comori
Filme regizate de Ron Howard
Filme Sony Pictures
Filme Columbia Pictures

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Littérature
 Vivre, recueil de textes français de Pierre Guyotat, paru en 1984 ;
 Vivre ! (Huozhe), roman chinois de Yu Hua, paru en 1993.

Cinéma

 Vivre, film français de Robert Boudrioz, sorti en 1928 ;
 Vivre (Vivere), film italien de Guido Brignone, sorti en 1937 ;
 Vivre (Ikiru), film japonais d'Akira Kurosawa, sorti en 1952 ;
 Vivre ! (Huozhe), film chinois de Zhang Yimou, sorti en 1994 ;
 Vivre !, film français d'Yvon Marciano, sorti en 2009 ;
 Vivre, film russe de Vassili Sigarev, sorti en 2012 ;
 Vivre, film russe de Youri Bykov, sorti en 2010 ;
 Vivre (Living), film britannique de Oliver Hermanus, sorti en 2022.

Musique

Chansons
Vivre, chanson de Carole Vinci, représentant la Suisse au Concours Eurovision de la chanson 1978 ;
 Vivre, chanson de Michel Berger, enregistrée en 1980 et sortie en  2022 ;
Vivre, chanson de Guy Bonnet, représentant la France au Concours Eurovision de la chanson 1983 ;
 Vivre, chanson initialement enregistrée par la chanteuse Noa en 1997, puis incluse dans la comédie musicale Notre-Dame de Paris (1998) ;
Vivre, chanson de Vitaa sortie en 2015 ;
 Vivre, chanson et clip vidéo composés par Igor Matvienko.

Albums

 Vivre, second album du chanteur Pierre Barouh sorti en 1966 ;
 Vivre, album de la chanteuse Rose Laurens sorti en 1982 ;
 Vivre, premier album de la chanteuse Sarah Michelle sorti en 2009.

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Election preview Five seek seats from Cal-Orange
October 16, 2020 /in Top Stories /by JO News
The five candidates running in the Nov. 3 Caledonia-Orange State Senate race all have one thing in common—they believe Vermont's legislature needs to take decisive action for a COVID-19 economic recovery.
Democrat Jane Kitchel and Republican Joe Benning are the incumbents. Democrat Matt Choate, Republican Charles Wilson, and independent JT Dodge are challenging. Two are lifelong Vermonters, while three have lived in the state for decades. They range in age from 49 to 63.
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Effort underway to dissolve school district
BRADFORD—Scores of Newbury residents have signed a petition asking the selectboard to hold a town vote on dissolving the Oxbow Union Unified School District.
The petition asks that the board hold a vote for Newbury residents to withdraw from the new OUUSD as soon as June 30, 2021.
As of now, the petition has attracted more than 90 signatures which have been verified by the Newbury Town Clerk. The petition is on the agenda for the Oct. 14 selectboard meeting.
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Welch accused of NEK shooting
September 27, 2020 /in Top Stories /by webmaster
BURLINGTON—A 34-year-old Haverhill man could face life in prison after being accused of shooting and killing Michael Pimental in 2018.
Federal prosecutors announced a new indictment last week against several co-conspirators involved in Pimental's death, and they accused John Welch of shooting Pimental on Oct. 13, 2018.
Pimental's bullet-riddled body was found by a property owner along the wooded edge of his driveway in Concord, Vermont on Oct. 14, 2018. The same day, Pimental's girlfriend Krystal Whitcomb, 28, of Waterford, and Michael Hayes, 38, of Washington, D.C., were taken into custody by police in Benton after a traffic stop.
Investigators say the found blood belonging to Pimental in the silver Cadillac Hayes was driving at the time of the stop. The Cadillac was registered to Pimental. Police also recovered three firearms, 2,600 bags of heroin, and $20,000 in cash.
Authorities said they found Whitcomb and Pimental had been distributing heroin out of their residence in Waterford. They also charged her father, Shawn, in connection to the case.
In February 2019, Welch offered to sell a firearm to a person in New Hampshire, according to a news release from the U.S. District Attorney's Office in Vermont. Shortly thereafter, law enforcement found Welch along the side of the road in Bath, trying to dig frozen ground with a shovel.
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Dognappings reported, but no dogs taken
HAVERHILL—There has been a recent uptick in the amount of attempted dog thefts reported in the Haverhill area.
On Sept 6, Haverhill Animal Control Officer Andrea Brissette posted this on Facebook: "I have heard a lot about dogs being stolen out of vehicles and out of their own yards. It seems to be a growing issue in our area." She went on to advise people not to leave their animals unsupervised and to leave their dogs at home when they have to run errands.
Under that post, Haverhill resident Pauline Corzilius commented that a car with Vermont license plates recently pulled up to a woman's yard in Bath and attempted to lure her dogs into their car, a report confirmed by the Bath Police Department. They were not successful. BPD said they are investigating the incident.
She also noted that there was a similar rash of dog thefts about four years ago in the St. Johnsbury area.
Brissette said she does not have many details, other than a few reports of possible attempted thefts. And it does not sound like any dogs have actually been stolen.
Still, dognapping is not unheard of and British authorities have reported an increase in dog thefts since the pandemic as dog prices have risen.
In the United States, an estimated 2 million animals are victims of dog theft each year. High-value breeds are at the highest risk of being targeted to be resold for a profit. It's a scheme known as "dog flipping."
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Board proposes $16.9M budget
BRADFORD—Maybe a third time will be the charm.
The Oxbow Unified Union School District Board met last week to finalize a third proposal, trimming another $190,000 from the 2020-2021 budget, after voters rejected two previous versions.
The online audience continues to grow with every meeting held remotely, which is a plus, according to the board, which is searching for ways to reach constituents and share information. Last week's meeting on Sept. 16 had 44 attendees who listened in, a number that has increased over time.
Board members have been grasping to find why voters have rejected the budgets.
Other than Bud Haas, a former school director at Bradford Elementary School, most feedback reported at the Sept. 9 meeting encouraged the current direction of the school system and its board of directors. This seemed to influence the thinking of the board as a whole and leave the essential outline of the budget intact.
Haas recommended holding a town meeting style vote rather than a ballot, a commitment by the board to have articles of agreement ready for the next annual meeting that would assure voters no schools would close, renaming the district immediately to clarify confusion on the "Oxbow" district, and admitting that moving the supervisory union offices to the Copeland building was a mistake. Haas also noted that one of the other forced merger districts in Vermont has been permitted to dissolve in a recent state board decision.
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Accused carjacker faces stiffer charges
NORTH HAVERHILL—A Lebanon man is now facing charges of manslaughter and negligent homicide in connection with a November 2019 assault and carjacking of a 79-year-old North Haverhill man who later died of his injuries.
The Grafton County Superior Court Grand Jury handed up both indictments earlier this month charging Brenden P. Harriman, 22, with negligent homicide and reckless manslaughter stemming from the Nov. 4, 2019 incident.
Authorities said the elderly victim, David Dickey, had pulled up to a stop sign at the intersection of Route 10 and Horse Meadow Road in North Haverhill when Harriman approached his vehicle and asked if Dickey was going to Bradford.
Police said Harriman had just been released from the Grafton County House of Corrections on pretrial conditions after he had been arrested for an unrelated assault.
Dickey allegedly told Harriman he was heading toward Woodsville and offered him a ride, according to the affidavit of Haverhill Police Department Detective Derek Sullivan.
Sullivan said when the Jeep reached the Walmart parking lot along Route 10, Harriman allegedly threatened to stab Dickey with a knife, which he did not display.
Dickey pulled over but refused to exit his vehicle, at which point Harriman allegedly hit Dickey in the face forcing him to eventually exit the Jeep. Harriman then got into the driver's seat and drove away on Route 10, Sullivan said.
Police found Dickey near the location of the assault. He had fresh blood on his face and clothes, but refused medical treatment at the scene.
Later in the afternoon, Lebanon police located the stolen Jeep in that town. Shortly afterward police observed Harriman leaving an apartment he was known to frequent and placed him under arrest.
Police said Dickey later sought treatment at Cottage Hospital in Woodsville, and was flown to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center with injuries that included a broken nose and facial fractures. He also had suffered from a possible "myocardial infarction" similar to a heart attack caused by emotional stress.
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That being said the role of product management is like a craft one hones over time. I don't think it is easily taught and I don't think it is easily learned. It comes with time, experience and lots of mistakes. I excel in the lots of mistakes category so I guess in some sense I am still learning and trying to improve.
I try to listen to lots of podcasts, still haven't found a good PM podcast, and I read a lot. Plus – I try lots of products. I use my own as well. Personally I am always baffled when you hear people give product advice and you find out they don't use a lot of products apart from the main ones everyone uses. There is no right or wrong when it comes to product taste since it is a taste and I think taste improves with experience. So I like the school of hard knocks when it comes to acquiring taste – you have to have built some things and you have to have used a lot of things. Of course this is not relevant to the folks who have an idea and build their own stuff – I think that is a different form of PM. I wish I was talented enough to have the coding skills to build my own stuff but alas I don't. Probably never will.
All that being said I am always looking for tools and techniques to get better at what I do.
So I use the tools to manage the team and other tools to convey ideas to the people in the company. I guess then the rest of it is the things I use to manage myself, my ideas and my communication. Communication is so huge and this is why slack is just taking off like a rocketship. Communication is key. Really interested to see how slack will tackle email. Asana is partially tackling email but I will admit that a lot of my interaction with Asana is actually via normal email.
Looking for any comments or ideas on this stack of ideas or products.
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Thursday, September 27, 2007, By News Staff
Pramod Varshney named Distinguished Professor in Syracuse University's L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer ScienceSeptember 27, 2007Kelly Homan Rodoskikahoman@syr.edu
Pramod K. Varshney, professor of electrical engineering and computer science in Syracuse University's L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (LCS), has been appointed a Distinguished Professor by Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric F. Spina.
"Dr. Varshney is highly deserving of this honor, as his distinguished scholarship has had a significant impact in engineering around the globe," says Spina. "He pioneered a large fraction of data fusion algorithms that engineers use to solve a wide range of important practical problems. Beyond his international stature, Pramod is a true Syracuse treasure who has contributed significantly to the L.C. Smith College."
"Pramod is a wonderful scholar whose research in data fusion is of central importance to our information-based society. All recognize society's need for data fusion, and few have the scholarship to do this precisely, accurately and reliably," says Shiu-Kai Chin, interim dean of LCS. "Pramod is one of the very few with a deep understanding of this important field. Besides being a distinguished scholar, Pramod is a superb colleague with much wisdom that is a blend of scholarly insight, high standards, compassion and kindness. We in the L.C. Smith College are proud to see him recognized as a Distinguished Professor."
Varshney, who has been a member of the Syracuse University community since 1976, is one of the world's foremost experts in the area of information and data fusion. A native of India, he came to the United States to study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned a bachelor's degree, master's degree and a Ph.D. there in just six years and came to SU as an assistant professor at age 24.
He began working in data fusion in the 1980s, when the field was new, and is now regarded as one of its pioneers. Data fusion is the integration of information from different sources — whether they be sensors such as radars and cameras, or humans — into a single, unified result. While most of his early work in data fusion was used by the military, Varshney's recent work, including image processing and remote sensing, has been used in a myriad of ways — by NASA, in studying indoor air pollution, in the medical field and even in agriculture.
Varshney is a much-sought advisor for students working on graduate degrees. In his 30-plus years at SU, 40 students have earned their doctorates under his tutelage; another 10 are now in progress. He has written or edited three books, including "Distributed Detection and Data Fusion" (Springer-Verlag, 1997), which is considered an important landmark for the field of data fusion. He has also published more than 450 papers in leading journals and conferences and served as a consultant to several major companies.
In addition to his role as a professor, Varshney serves as research director of the CASE Center at SU, and leads the information management and intelligent control efforts for the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems. He is also an adjunct professor of radiology at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse.
Varshney was named a fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1997 and received a Chancellor's Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement from SU as well as the Third Millennium Medal from the IEEE in 2000. He serves as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Aerospace and Electronic Systems (AES) society of the IEEE. He also served as president of the International Society of Information Fusion in 2001.


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Q: to retrieve a Japanese or localized string from a file I have the below code to retrieve a Japanese or localized string from an mht file. i have used almost all the encoding params listed here(unknown,string,unicode,bigendianunicode,utf8,utf7,utf32,ascii,default,oem) and verified. it always prints the junk characters instead of original Chinese or Japanese name
$log = "c:\scripts\meta.mht"
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write-host (Get-Content $log)[$indx] | out-file -encoding string c:\scripts\temp1.xml

can some one help me how to print the localized string? which encoding param should i use?
i have tried with all the listed params but no luck (unknown,string,unicode,bigendianunicode,utf8,utf7,utf32,ascii,default,oem)
thanks in advance.

A: Try changing your encoding for Get-Content like this:
write-host (Get-Content -Path $log -Encoding UTF8)[$indx] | out-file -encoding UTF8 c:\scripts\temp1.xml

I'm not sure if you'll need UTF8 or UNICODE, try both for Get-Content and Out-File.

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Gov. Doug Ducey's budget includes substantial increases for K-12, above inflation funding. But there's room for even more.
Opinion: Gov. Doug Ducey's budget includes substantial increases for K-12, above inflation funding. But there's room for even more.
Legislative Democrats have a very good chance to obtain substantially more funding for K-12 education than proposed in Gov. Doug Ducey's budget.
If they play their cards right. Which means not overbidding their hand.
Ducey's budget proposes significant increases for K-12 education, above inflation funding. And he includes a lot of increases for social programs Democrats support.
In short, there is a lot in Ducey's budget for legislative Democrats to like. Which is why their ritualistic criticisms seemed forced.
Given the huge surplus and continuing robust revenue collections, however, there's room to do even more. And given the tight numbers in the House and more Republican moderates in both chambers, adroit Democratic legislative maneuvering could produce more.
Does the rainy-day fund need that much?
Ducey wants to beef up the state's rainy-day fund to a cool billion dollars. That would require a deposit of around $540 million.
There's a case to be made for this. That would put the state's rainy-day fund in the range, as a percentage of general fund revenues, that fiscal wonks recommend.
But there is also reason for skepticism that such a sum would remain in waiting until the skies open up and the rain begins to pour. Politicians get itchy fingers when there's a huge sum of cash just sitting around watching the weather.
That's been true of even the current $460 million rainy-day fund. The Legislature authorized the interest on it to be scraped off and given to the arts. And it has authorized the Departments of Economic Security and Public Safety to borrow from it.
State law currently limits the rainy-day fund to 7 percent of general fund revenue, on the lower end of what makes fiscal wonks comfortable. Topping the fund off at that figure would cost around $260 million, or $280 million less than Ducey is proposing.
The budgeteers for both the executive and legislative branches are projecting future revenue growth substantially below what the state is currently enjoying. Based upon that, there is little room to plow the big current surplus into new ongoing spending and still have a budget in balance a few years hence.
But if projected revenue growth was goosed by just a half percentage point a year, there would be room to convert the $280 million difference between what Ducey proposes as a rainy-day deposit and the current cap into ongoing spending and remain in balance in the out years.
That would still have future revenue growth comfortably below current rates, and with a rainy-day fund in excess of $700 million as a cushion.
So, what should this additional money be spent on? Here's my advice, for what it's worth (which, to legislative Democrats, probably isn't much): Put it into completely restoring Additional Assistance funding to the schools.
The history of this funding source leads to a confused public discussion about it. It was created from the merger of two programs to fund what was known as soft capital needs: books, desks and the like. But the Legislature long ago permitted Additional Assistance monies to be spent on anything. Today, it's just another fungible source of revenue for schools.
But it's not voter-protected. So, as part of the response to the recession, it was cut to the bone.
Ducey has proposed restoring it over five years. His budget includes the second year of restoration.
Restoring it in one fell swoop in next year's budget would cost around $200 million more than Ducey has proposed. Or within the difference between Ducey's proposed rainy-day deposit and the 7 percent cap.
In Ducey's budget, the School Facilities Board is back in the business of building new schools and making major repairs to existing ones. If Additional Assistance were fully restored, the schools would be very close to pre-recession funding levels. State funded all-day kindergarten would be the only big-ticket item remaining.
A bipartisan coalition in favor of fully restoring Additional Assistance in next year's budget should be feasible in the Legislature. But it probably requires Democrats taking the initiative and being willing to vote for the budget if it is included.
What would constitute Democrats overbidding their hand? Asking for dozens of budget additions, rather than one big one. Or contending, as Senate Minority Leader David Bradley did, that the fully phased-in corporate tax cuts should be on the table.
Democrats haven't had a legislative leader capable of producing results from the minority since Alfredo Gutierrez left the Senate in 1986.
The opportunity has never been greater.


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Mirage News Science	June 8, 2019 2:53 am AEST Date Time
Surprising enzymes discovered in giant ocean viruses
Finding could represent new drug target for human pathogens
A new enzyme has been discovered in giant ocean viruses.
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Results of a new NSF-supported study led by researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Swansea University Medical School increase our knowledge of viruses — in the sea and on land — and their potential to cause life-threatening illnesses.
The findings, which describe newly identified genes in mysterious "giant" ocean viruses, could lead to new drug targets for viruses linked with human diseases. The work is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Scientists searched more than 8,000 virus genomes and found that many newly-discovered giant ocean viruses contain genes for an enzyme called cytochrome P450.
P450 enzymes are common in animals, plants and bacteria, but finding them in new viruses was unexpected.
"In animals, P450 enzymes metabolize drugs, make steroid hormones, and defend against pollutants," says biologist John Stegeman, senior author of the paper and director of the Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health, which is jointly funded by NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. "We have yet to find out what the enzymes are doing in these viruses, but they are unique, unlike P450s in any other organism."
Adds David Lamb, lead author and a scientist at Swansea University Medical School, "We know that giant viruses may be linked with some forms of pneumonia, so gaining a better understanding of them will help us develop ways of tackling those viruses."
Finding P450 genes and enzymes in diverse viruses opens a new window on the evolution of these important enzymes, Stegeman says.
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Legend of Zelda fans have another chance at symphony tour
Big news for Legend of Zelda fans who missed last year's Symphony of the Goddesses tour: you've got another chance to make good on it! (Via Joystiq). In a surprise announcement, Nintendo has announced what essentially shapes up into an encore tour of the 25th anniversary orchestral event from not too long ago. As per the official announcement as follows:
"By popular demand, 'The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses' concert series is returning with "Season 2″ to eight cities from last year's tour and is coming soon to even more locations in North America. Based on one of the most popular and beloved video game series of all time, the tour features live orchestral performances of theme music from Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda franchise."
The locations referred to in the prior statement include Atlanta, Ga., San Fransisco, Cal., Seattle, Wash. and Austin, Tex, along with first-time stops in Baltimore, Md. and Grand Rapids, Mich. As for the specifics of the material for season 2 of the tour, fans can expect more of the same from last year plus new material spanning even more of the Zelda canon that highlights Majora's Mask, Spirit Tracks and Link's Awakening.
The performances will be moderated by Jeron Moore, with Eímear Noone and Chad Seiter respectively serving as conductor and music director.
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Advised the shareholders of telerob Holding GmbH, a German-based market leader in the development and manufacture of advanced bomb disposal robots and integrated threat response vehicles, on the sale of the Company to Cobham plc, the UK-based, internationally operating aerospace, defence and security technology group
Maxinutrition Group Holdings Limited
Advised GlaxoSmithKline Plc, the UK listed international pharmaceutical and consumer company, on its acquisition of Maxinutrition Group Holdings Limited, a UK based sports nutrition business, from Darwin Private Equity
Clyde Process Solutions plc
S-Process Equipment International S.à r.l. (Schenck Process)
Advised S-Process Equipment International S.à r.l. ("Schenck Process"), a global leader in bulk material handling, providing applications incorporating weighing, feeding, screening and automation solutions, on its acquisition of Clyde Process Solutions plc, a global provider of pneumatic conveying and air filtration solutions for process industries
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Scott Wilson Group plc
URS Corporation
Advised Scott Wilson Group plc, a LSE listed global integrated design and engineering consultancy, on its sale to URS Corporation, a global provider of engineering, construction and technical services
Chloride Group plc
Advised Emerson Electric Co., a diversified global technology and industrial company, on its acquisition of Chloride Group plc, a manufacturer of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems
Camelot Group plc
Ontario Teachers' Pensions Plan
Advised the shareholders of Camelot – Cadbury, De La Rue, Fujitsu, Royal Mail and Thales – on the sale of their shareholdings in Camelot, the operator of the UK National Lottery, to Ontario Teachers' Pensions Plan
Acted as Financial Adviser and Joint Sponsor to Rexam plc, a leading global consumer packaging group, on its rights issue
Pension Trustees of Galiform PLC
Advised the Pension Trustees of the Galiform PLC Defined Benefit Pension Scheme to negotiate a revised schedule of payments to fund its deficit
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Advised Bemis Company, Inc., a global supplier of flexible packaging and pressure sensitive materials, on its acquisition of Alcan Packaging's Food Americas business
Provided financial advice to Inchcape, the leading independent international automotive retailer, on its assessment of funding and strategic options, resulting in a significant rights issue to strengthen the balance sheet
Tesco Personal Finance Group Limited
Advised Tesco plc in relation to its acquisition of the 50% interest it does not already own in Tesco Personal Finance Group Limited, a joint venture with The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc. Tesco Personal Finance offers a range of retail insurance and banking products under the Tesco brand
Dobbies Garden Centres plc
Advised Tesco plc in relation to its public cash offer to acquire the 35% of Dobbies Garden Centres plc which it does not already own
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Cookson Group plc
Advised Foseco plc, a provider of consumables to the Foundry and Steel industries, on a recommended cash offer from Cookson Group plc
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Acted as financial adviser to Tesco plc on its recommended acquisition of Dobbies Garden Centres plc, one of the UK's largest garden centre retailers
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Ltd. and Stefano Pessina
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Advised Rentokil Initial on the sale of its electronic security division to United Technologies Corp.
Gallaher Group plc
Advised Gallaher Group plc, the world's fifth largest tobacco company, on a recommended cash offer from Japan Tobacco Inc
John Laing plc
Henderson Equity Partners
Advised John Laing plc, the leading UK infrastructure investor and developer, on a recommended cash offer
Advised WH Smith PLC on the demerger of its Retail business
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Waren Acquisition Limited
Advised Warner Chilcott on approaches received and on recommended proposed acquisition by Waren Acquisition Limited, a vehicle funded by DLJ Merchant Banking and J.P. Morgan Partners, later joined by Bain Capital Partners and Thomas H. Lee Partners
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Baroness Retail (a consortium of CVC, TPG and Merrill Lynch)
Advised the independent committee of the Board of Directors of Debenhams plc, a leading UK department store chain, with regards to the sale of the company
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Texas Pacific Group, Bain Capital, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners
(subsidiary of Diageo plc) Advised Diageo plc on sale of Burger King Corporation restaurant system.
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Advised Tesco PLC, Britain's largest retailing group, on its acquisition of T&S Stores plc, a publicly listed convenience store retailer operating in the UK.


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The archives and special collections staff have previously written here in Around the D about our enthusiasm for and collaborations with the college's budding Digital Studies initiative. At the end of 2013, Davidson was awarded an $800,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant in order to "create a curricular model of digital studies that can be replicated by other small liberal arts colleges." According to the 2014 – 2015 College Catalog, Digital Studies at Davidson "gives students an opportunity to pursue coursework and research related to the digital tools, cultures, and practices that permeate everyday life" by focusing on three areas: digital creativity, digital culture, and digital methodology.
President D. Grier Martin's 1962 memorandum on acquiring an IBM 1620 for academic use.
President Martin's closing remark, "that computers will inevitably influence thinking in many fields and therefore it is highly desirable that Davidson students and faculty should have first hand experience with one," seems particularly apt. We're looking forward to another semester of the Davidson community experimenting and learning using our now numerous computers – just as we have been for over 50 years!


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It is distributed in a main house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms and an annex with a spacious bedroom and a bathroom.
The large terrace with jacuzzy and its 7,000m2 plot with field and forest invite the outside enjoyment and the Ibizan climate.


Today Sega opened the official page for the auditions for the female characters of the brand new mainline Yakuza game.
While not much is known about the game itself, the announcement finally confirms that it will be on PS4, continuing with a tradition of PlayStation exclusivity (at least at launch) that has perdured since the first game of the franchise.
The audition seeks ladies over 20 living in Japan to play the role of "main-class characters." It doesn't matter whether they are part of a professional agency or not. The deadline for the application is April 21, 2019.
Those who will pass will appear in the game as the "hero's friends" (the wording used is "nakama," which can be used for many different meanings that can range from "friend" to "comrade" or "partner"), a copy of the game, and a monetary prize.
We also learn that the characters played by the successful applicants will "fight together" with Ichiban Kasuga, even if it remains to be seen if this is meant literally.
The audition will be hosted in three stages from May to early June, with the announcement of the winners coming in July 2019. This timeline is interesting because it means that the game could still come out this year in Japan, possibly during the traditional December window.
Below you can check out some artwork featured in the website and showcasing Ichiban Kasuga with a female silhouette. It'll certainly be interesting to see how this game will shape up, and we'll probably know a lot more this summer. In the meanwhile, you can also check out today's new assets for the Yakuza 5 PS4 remaster.


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Podcast: Home Grown Radio
50 Cent Celebrates 15 Years of "Get Rich or Die Tryin'"
By DJ Hed Feb 7, 2018
Can you believe it's been 15 years since 50 Cent released his debut studio album, Get Rich or Die Tryin'? Crazy, right?
Well 50 took to Twitter to celebrate the anniversary and had a few words for his friend and Hip-Hop veteran, Eminem. The Queens rapper wrote, "This is my Boy right here for life. l love this guy he gave me my shot, and Ran with it. Classic."
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import React from 'react';

function SocialNetworkAccounts(){

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        "fa-pinterest-square",
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        "fa-youtube-square"
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This can be used for any of the tools; just insert the name of the tool in place of 'CEB Press' and the software will generate the rest of it based on this.
What the machine does. The very first sentence of the Intro page should be a one sentence description of the machine in plain English. e.g. "The Liberator is a machine that makes building blocks out of soil", "RepRap is a 3D printer; it can make plastic objects of any chosen shape."
Problem Statement. Explain the advantages of this sort of technology. Why did we want to build it? What issue the tool is aiming to address e.g. "building a low-cost, high performance CEB press at $3k in materials, where the competition charges $45k for the finished product, to increase access to this environmentally-friendly, low-cost, and high performance building method"
ToolName Development. We need to figure out a system of version control. Possibly a graphic indicating prototype number, a chart or number showing the stage of the GVCS Development Template. Maybe display this as a progress bar like the Lasersaur open development site. When a tool is in an development stage, this page should be updated frequently and kept up-to-date.
ToolName Bill of Materials. Weblinks to suggested sources. Prices.
Buy ToolName. This will raise funds for OSE. We can sell both kits and finished devices. This should be used only for tools with Full Product Release status.
*ToolNameicon.jpg - icons from Isaiah on blue background like the one to the right. Entire set will be put up at the Product Ecologies page. Make sure to upload icons as files with names of the format "ToolNameicon.jpg". It won't work if you name it something else, like "ToolName Icon.jpg", "Icon for ToolName.jpg" etc.
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If you're looking for urban living, historic homes, tree-lined streets, city parks, and street shopping instead of malls, you'll want to consider Northeast Portland.
Originally one of Portland's streetcar suburbs, Northeast Portland underwent a great building boom from 1890-1913. During that time, Northeast Broadway, one of the district's main thoroughfares, evolved naturally into a busy strip of restaurants and shops needed to support Portland's growing eastside population. Although modern automobile travel and convenient MAX light rail service render many of the Northeast neighborhoods a quick 7-10 -minute jaunt to Portland's downtown core, Northeast Portland seems charmingly detached from the bustle of the city center.
The seeds of gentrification were planted during World War II, when African Americans from the South flowed into Portland to take jobs in the shipyards. Portland officials and community members, from real estate agents to bankers, pushed the black community into a small area called Lower Albina, near the present-day Rose Quarter, through redlining and other now-illegal practices. White Portlanders fled, and the city began a long pattern of disinvestment. Street and sidewalk repairs were neglected, and the city did little to develop businesses or enforce housing codes, said Dr. Karen Gibson, the PSU professor, who wrote a study in 2007 called Bleeding Albina: A History of Community Disinvestment, 1940-2000.
Download a map of Northeast Portland. Visit the largest Oregon mall for shopping located in Northeast Portland by clicking here.
Hollywood Farmers Market Northeast Hancock Street between 44th and 45th avenues. Saturdays mornings, May-November. More information at hollywoodfarmersmarket.org.
King Neighborhood Farmers Market Northeast 7th Avenue and Wygant Street. Late morning to early afternoon on Sundays, May-October. More information at portlandfarmersmarket.org.
Lloyd Farmers Market Oregon Square at Northeast Holladay Street between 7th and 9th avenues. Tuesdays, June-September. More information at lloydfarmersmkt.net.
Walk Score helps you find a walkable place to live. Walk Score is a number between 0 and 100 that measures the walkability of any address. Portland is the 12th most walkable city in the U.S. We have created a Walk Score for each of the neighborhood profiles below. Please note that we use an address in the center of each neighborhood to determine the Walk Score. Scores will vary in a neighborhood depending upon the address.
Ainsworth & NE Parks Loop Begin at Fernhill Park, NE 42nd & Simpson for this 3-mile, 6,000 step walk.
Alameda Ridge & Stairs Begin at NE 50th & Sandy for this 3.75 miles, 8,000 steps walk with some great views.
Hollywood to Rose City Golf Course Begin at NE 45th & Hancock for this 3.2 miles, 6400 steps walk.
Irvington Homes & Trees Begin at NE 15th & Broadway for this 2.6 miles, 5,000 steps walk and discover some of northeast's Heritage trees.
Three Parks Walk Begin at Knott Street Park, NE 112th & Russell for this 2.25 miles, 4,500 steps walk through Knott Street, John Luby and Merrifield Parks.
Transit Score provides a 0-100 rating indicating how well an address is served by public transportation. Ratings range from "Rider's Paradises" to areas with limited or no nearby public transportation.
In 2009, the non-profit Transportation for America named the Portland-Vancouver area as the ninth-safest metro area for pedestrians.
Here are neighborhoods in Northeast Portland that have details profiles. The profiles include housing costs, crime stats, history, etc.
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