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Bravia (stylized as BRAVIA) is a brand of Sony Visual Products Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, and used for its television products. Its backronym is "Best Resolution Audio Visual Integrated Architecture". All Sony high-definition flat-panel LCD televisions in North America have carried the logo for BRAVIA since 2005. BRAVIA replaces the "LCD WEGA" which Sony used for their LCD TVs until Summer 2005 (early promotional photos of the first BRAVIA TVs still bearing the WEGA moniker). In 2014, In the part of Sony  President and CEO Kasuo Hirai's plans to turn Sony around, BRAVIA was made into an subsidiary rather than just a brand of products.

BRAVIA televisions and their components are manufactured in Sony's plants in Mexico, Japan, and Slovakia for their respective regions and are also assembled from imported parts in Brazil, Spain, China, Malaysia and Ecuador. Principal design work for BRAVIA products is performed at Sony's research facilities in Japan, at research and development department at the Sony de Mexico facility in Baja California, Mexico, and at the Sony Europe facility in Nitra, Slovakia.

The brand was also used on mobile phones in North American, Japanese and European markets as of 2007.

Product range

TVs
In May 2013 Sony introduced their first 4K BRAVIA TV models smaller than X900 from late 2012. In May 2015, Sony launched their first lineup of Android television Bravia models, which allows users to easily access content from services like YouTube, Netflix and Hulu as well as install apps and games from the Google Play Store. Noteworthy for being the first Android TV available, Sony's Android TVs are now integrated with the Google Assistant for controlling home automation and voice commands.

In September 2016, Sony announced that TVs older than 2012 will lose access to YouTube.

Sony introduced their first 4K Ultra HD OLED Android TV under the BRAVIA brand, named as the A1E in January 2017 with an X1 Extreme processor. The A8F was the next OLED TV introduced by Sony at CES 2018. At IFA 2018, the A9F with an X1 Ultimate processor was unveiled. In 2019, Sony introduced newer version 4K OLED models, A8G and the Master Series A9G, followed by the A8H in 2020. For 2021 Sony offered the world's first cognitive intelligence TVs with its latest XR A.I. Cognitive Processor in the new A80J and Master Series A90J.

Accessories
In April 2007, Sony launched the BRAVIA TDM-IP1, a docking cradle to permit playback of audio and video hosted on an Apple iPod on a BRAVIA model television.

Current accessories available include a Skype camera (CMUBR100) and Wi-Fi adapter (UWABR100).

Sony Bravia Internet TV and Video
Sony Bravia Internet Video first became available in late 2009 on Internet enabled Bravia TV's, later becoming available on Sony Blu-ray and home theatre systems. The original Bravia Internet Video was built around Sony's XMB interface and had several streaming media partners including: Amazon Video On Demand, YouTube, Yahoo!, Netflix and Sony Video (Qriocity). 2011 saw a revamp of Bravia Internet Video, with a rework of the interface and an added Skype capability.

Sony Bravia Internet TV is the first TV to incorporate Google TV, currently only available in the US. It plans to revolutionize IPTV.

XBR8 is a series of Sony BRAVIA LCD High Definition Televisions. They were released into the US marketplace starting in September 2008.

The 46- and 55-inch models of the XBR8 series features an RGB LED backlight system which Sony calls Triluminos. The new backlight system is claimed to provide a truer and higher color spectrum and allows this series of televisions to rival plasma displays in terms of dark blacks. This model also marked the debut of Sony's new video processor, the BRAVIA Engine 2 Pro. The display panel uses ten-bit processing and offers the 120 Hz MotionFlow technology.

The XBR8 line offers two screen sizes; the 46" (KDL-46XBR8) was released on September 29, 2008.  The second model, the 55" (KDL-55XBR8) became available for order in October 2008.

In the United Kingdom, recent Bravia Televisions also include YouView built in, which gives users access to an interactive EPG in addition to on-demand services from the BBC and ITV incorporated into a single search menu.

Green TV
For sale in Japan on July 30, 2008, Sony's green product, a new flat-panel 32-inch TV for ¥150,000 (US$1,400; €900) BRAVIA KDL-32JE1 offers ecological consumers the advantage of 70% less energy consumption than regular models with same image quality. For consumers who rely on electricity generated from carbon dioxide emitting sources, it reduces carbon dioxide emissions totaling 79 kilograms (174 pounds) a year.

Mobile phones

Sony uses a BRAVIA image processing engine in high-end mobile devices produced by its Sony Mobile Communications, starting with the Xperia arc model in 2011.  Subsequent flagship models of Sony's smartphone range such as the Xperia S, and Xperia Z use enhanced versions of the BRAVIA engine.

In addition, BRAVIA brand phones have been produced by Sony/Sony Ericsson. BRAVIA brand phones are able to watch 1seg terrestrial television.

For NTT DoCoMo

FOMA SO903iTV (Released in June 2007)
FOMA SO906i (Released in June 2008)
FOMA SO-01C (Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc) (Released in March 2011)

For au by KDDI
U1 (Released in December 2009)
S004 (Released in May 2010)
S005 (Released in November 2010, successor of S004)

Internals
The LCD panels within BRAVIA TVs are manufactured by Sony Corporation with a special architecture. Since 2010, the high end Bravia LX, HX and selected NX series use a 10th gen Sony Bravia ASV panel. The 8th gen SPVA panel from Sony LCD continue to serve other midrange and budget Bravia models.

Many Sony televisions with USB connectivity run Linux.

Upgrading and maintenance
The software can be upgraded via a USB type A interface labeled "DMEx / service only" and via the Internet for later models.

2006–2007 models may be updated using a memory stick or USB. Depending upon the country and TV standard the tuner may need a service device to update it.

It appears that units manufactured through November 2005 for sale in Asia and North America contained
a software bug that prevented the device from powering up/down after 1200 hours. A free upgrade is available.

Uses and features
Can be used to watch live TV
Can stream original contents from streaming apps
It is supported by Dolby audio

Region locking
Sony TVs sold in 2019 and earlier are region locked, which limited apps and media to be playable only in the same region that the TV was purchased from. However, as of 2020, with the release of the H series BRAVIA TVs, this is no longer the case, and any language can now be selected.

Language table
The two letters after the Sony TV codename in the build number denote the region.

References

Sony products
High-definition television


That is the patched rom. Patch application will take approximately 4 minute s , 16 second s. Yeah that was it, it was inside another folder and not on desktop with the xDelta file. There should be two new files there now. I have my save data now but it is a few days old but really it doesn't matter considering I didn't do much in the last few days except get new pokemon. I am sure I have done it right but really I am a confused person with this stuff.
So, I downloaded a version of Mono, and can't figure out how to run that. Any help on these three situations would help tremendously, thanks. Tick the box next to the code 12. Well actually I am extremely lucky. Where applicable, text has also been changed to reflect these changes. Blaze Black and Volt White were also - with one minor exception - the first of their kind to be made.
If not, there is a problem with your install 8. Those are the quickest ways to know. Then click 'add new' again 13. Registered users can also use our to download files directly from all file hosts where it was found on. Specifically, it's to do with the two originally version exclusive legendaries, and the colours of Shellos, Gastrodon and Basculin. Specifically, it's to do with the two originally version exclusive legendaries, and the colours of Shellos, Gastrodon and Basculin.
Do you have any mates who have windows? If you're looking for a challenge designed by someone who thinks they know the Pokémon games in and out and considering my ridiculous amount of knowledge about them and my three walkthroughs, I certainly hope I do! Download the non-python version of xDelta3 6. OnClick EventArgs e at System. OnClick EventArgs e at System. Make sure you have my firmware hacks file 2. What if Delibird actually had some stats? Go into the folder you extracted earlier called 'Firmware Files'.
I'd like to say that it being the first means something, but unfortunately it really doesn't in the long run. Click open in the main window 5. That is the patched rom. Click it and That's it, you're done amigo! How about a Samurott with Shell Smash? There's a couple odd balls that are late such as Torkoal or Stunfisk as they were tough to place, but the majority are available before the sixth badge is up, and the majority of them are available at Nimbasa City or prior. It's older than Snow Leopard, and I haven't updated yet. Make sure that both files xdelta and rom are on the desktop. But thank you for the direction to that thread although not what I'm asking for.
Extract the two archives to your desktop. Download the non-python version of xDelta3 6. This ended up being combined with Kazo's tool due to a rather annoying bug that stopped Rangers giving berries to you if you used the tool, as witnessed by a fair few people near the beginning of 3. Eventually a message with code in it will appear, just click ok 9. My post was directed towards the creator of the thread seeing as he successfully edited pokemon types. What am i doing wrong? It would be better than having a wild encounter in a grass patch with said legendary. So, I downloaded a version of Mono, and can't figure out how to run that.
Between you and me, they are broken as hell! When the program starts up, click 'select patch' 6. Sorry to all those who got confused eg. It must be either English European or American, though. The Clean version takes out some of the content, so that the actual Pokemon, their level up moves and attacks are left unchanged. These mostly just show some of the first bits; you'll have to play it to see the rest! How about a Samurott with Shell Smash? The legendary version will allow you to get all 649 Pokémon if you don't mind screwing the presentation up a bit. Blaze Black and Volt White also offer a 'clean' version, which is a relatively blank slate, keeping the 649 hack but eliminating all of the Pokémon changes.
Just help me get cheats working. I hope that this does not disadvantage people in any way. Go into the folder called 'Tools', and then the one called 'Rudolph Anti-Piracy Patch' 3. Then type '2' and press enter If the program crashes, then try again. I'm pretty sure the save file will work as long as the region and the file name is the same as the save file.
Move all the files in that folder into the root of your cart 4. What if Delibird actually had some stats? If not, there is a problem with your install 8. Go into the folder called 'Pokesav' 3. There should be a rom. Kazo in particular can also be thanked for the 1.
If file is multipart don't forget to check all parts before downloading! If you still have trouble downloading pokemon white u clean rom rar or any other file, post it in comments below and our support team or a community member will help you! Blaze Black and Volt White encompass a variety of differences to the original games. You can also share pokemon white u clean rom rar or any other file with the community. What I would like to know is, is there a snowball's chance in a fight with Groudon that I can get this to work? Summary Pokémon Blaze Black and Pokémon Volt White are edits of the regular Pokémon Black and White versions which self-contain all 649 Pokémon, allowing a player a large amount of variety. Open 'Ubuntu Software Center' or your distributions equivalent 4. Although this one has its fair share of annoyances, too.


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Frankrigs U/20-fodboldlandshold () består af de bedste franske fodboldspillere der er 20 år gamle eller yngre udvalgt af FFF.

Sejre
 Verdensmesterskaberne:
 Vinder i 2013
 Jeux de la Francophonie :
 Vinder i 1994
 Finalist i 2001

Trænere
 1996 – 1997 : Gérard Houllier
 1997 : Raymond Domenech
 2000 – 2001 : Raymond Domenech og Jean-François Jodar
 2001 – 2002 : Jean-François Jodar
 2004 – 2006 : Francis Smerecki
 2006 – 2007 : Philippe Bergeroo
 2007 – 2008 : Jean Gallice
 2008 – 2009 : Luc Rabat
 2009 : François Blaquart
 2010 – 2011 : Francis Smerecki
 2011 - 2012 : Philippe Bergeroo
 2012 - 2013 : Pierre Mankowski
 2013 - 2014 : Ludovic Batelli
 siden 2014 : Francis Smerecki

Eksterne henvisninger
 Nyheder fra U20 landsholdet på FFF's hjemmeside

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Q: Sequence of steps browser will follow to read the cached image/content Lets say that i have img tag like this,
<img src = "myimage.jpg" width ="50" height = "50">

When browser first encounter this, it will download the image file and will render it. When again refresh my page, when the browser encounters this line, will it send request to download the file again or it will read from the cache. What are all the sequence of process it will take.
Another Q. comes to my mind immediately is, well if i change the image content but not the image name(myimage), If browser reads the cached image, the content of the image will not be identical with in my server. How to overcome this issue?
Not satisfied with the answer. Can some one tell me, What are all the sequence of process browser will do in these cases?

A: The browser will send a request for the image to the server even if it has it cached already (at least according to the network log in firebug). As far as I know, the server returns a "last downloaded/modified date" which can trigger a new download if too much time has passed (normally after 3 days or so the browser will redownload cached content).
The easiest way to overcome this is to add a version or release date to the filename so that the browser will ignore its cache.

A: What the browser does depends on the HTTP header that was returned with the image the first time. Depending on the cache settings for the response, the browser can:

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*Request the image again,

*Request the image if it has changed, or

*Use the image in the cache without asking the server

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It's the Time of the Season for TIBCO
SOA is all the rage, and TIBCO is riding high on customer demand, but is it hiding its true brilliance?
Anders Bylund
(TMFZahrim)
Updated: Nov 15, 2016 at 12:44AM
Published: Mar 30, 2007 at 12:00AM
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We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors.
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If enterprise software were songs, this company would start beat-boxing any minute now.
Business-management software maker TIBCO Software (NASDAQ:TIBX) just delivered a pretty good quarter in a seasonally weak period. Management doesn't really do quarterly guidance anymore, focusing instead on full-year performance, but it said that the results matched internal expectations on every level.
TIBCO delivers a service-oriented architecture (SOA) -- think modular, on-demand, Web-based software -- that helps other companies run their businesses more efficiently. It's a recognized leader in its niche, winning industry awards for years and beating the likes of BEA Systems (NASDAQ:BEAS), IBM (NYSE:IBM), and Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) whenever it signs a new customer.
In last night's earnings call, CEO Vivek Ranadive said that he's seeing increased demand for virtualization of services, networks, and data. Businesses are looking for ways to tie a patchwork of management tools -- a mix of in-house tools and third-party software growing haphazardly over the years -- into a coherent suite with unified controls. That's precisely what TIBCO does best.
Ranadive thinks we're at the start of a strong product cycle. The whole SOA concept is still new and unfamiliar to many CIOs, but if you can't tell by the blue-chip service providers that have jumped onto the bandwagon, I'll just come out and say that it's the wave of the future.
The market seems disappointed today, as TIBCO's share price is down about 5% as of this writing on a generally buoyant day for the overall market. I think that's a shortsighted reaction to a really very nice result. Management is selling itself a bit short by leaning on non-GAAP earnings figures. On that basis, growth looks anemic, but GAAP earnings improved by 67% year over year, and cash flows easily outran the revenue uptick, as well.
In many ways, TIBCO is like that hip, beat-boxing kid on American Idol. The whole package is there, but it's hard to see that because of the high gloss on the surface. Let your hair down and belt one out, TIBCO. You'll look so much better if you stop pooh-poohing your stock-based compensation and whatnot.
Further Foolishness:
TIBCO Awash in Cash: Fool by Numbers
Foolish Forecast: TIBCO Crossing the Rubicon
SOA: The New Software Bazaar
Can You Write a Song, Dawg?
Fool contributor Anders Bylund holds no position in any of the companies discussed here. You can check out Anders' holdings if you like, and Foolish disclosure is always in tune.

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But even if your school doesn't offer these types of financial aid, don't worry. You can still choose between merit-based scholarships, athletic scholarships and scholarships for those who show promise in dance, music, etc. Don't be afraid to consider these and see whether they're a fit for you.
Often, school websites only have general information about scholarships. If you want to know more, or if the website doesn't say anything about financial aid for international students, don't hesitate to dig deeper. Look for their Office of Scholarship and Financial Aid, note their contact details, and send them an inquiry letter.
If you can't figure out which scholarship suits you best, an admissions counselor can help. They can tell you how much financial aid you need, what options are available to you, and what you need to do to keep those scholarships, among other things.
Fortunately, most schools have online databases for these counselors. Vanderbilt University, for instance, has admissions counselors in all 50 states. Likewise, the University of Oregon has people who are specially trained to advise international students. Feel free to drop them a line and check whether they can give useful information you've never heard of before.
In general, colleges and universities are the best sources of financial aid. But you don't have to limit yourself to them. You can always explore other options for lightening your college expenses.
For example, search for less-expensive schools that offer the program you want. Use independent databases such as the International Financial Aid and College Scholarship Search. Apply for government scholarships, such as the Fulbright Program for non-U.S. students and the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program. Consider taking out student loans, which are more accessible than scholarships.
Alternatively, find other ways to supplement your allowance. Take a paying job on campus. Apply for online jobs, which you can do after you're done with schoolwork. Keep your school expenses to a minimum, but don't forget to enjoy yourself once in a while.
Hopefully, you learned a little more about financial aid in the U.S. It's not always easy to find it, especially when you're an international student. But if it can make your college life easier and help you graduate to fulfill your career dreams in your respective field, it's worth all the effort, right?
Anum Yoon is an international student currently working in the U.S. on her OPT. She spends all her free time running a personal finance blog for fellow millennials and international students over at Current on Currency.


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Celebrate Leadville's Irish History
If you're looking for St. Patrick's Day fun in Leadville, Colorado, check out these happenings:
St. Patrick's Day, Thursday, March 17
Ski Cooper: Spend the day skiing or riding Cooper's slopes. Take a run through family friendly Leprechaun Lane, new this season! Can you find all six of the wooden shamrocks? They were made by Leadville local and Cooper board member Howard Tritz. For apres ski, toast St. Patrick's Day at Katie O'Rourke's Irish Pub!
Ski Cooper, Colorado
St. Patrick's Day Parade: Come see this short but spirited parade. The Mount Massive pipe band will play festive Irish music. Join us again in September for our annual Practice St. Patrick's Day Parade (pictured below), when the weather is a bit warmer!
Harrison Avenue (the main street), Leadville
After the parade, say slainte at these celebrations:
Corned Beef and Cabbage at the Silver Dollar Saloon: Cooked and served by the Leadville Lions Club
315 Harrison Avenue, Leadville
📷: @breckmountains
Irish Red Ale at Two Mile Brewing Company: Raise a glass at America's highest brewery
Live Music at the Golden Burro: Join Local Revelers Dean, Ryan, Lucas and James and the Oro City String Band
Leadville's Irish Miners
In the Silver Rush days of the late 1800s, Irish immigrants came to Leadville to work the mines. Historians estimate more than 3,000 Irish lived in Leadville during that time period, making them the largest ethnic group.
They set the basis for the labor movement in Colorado. They asked for a pay raise from $3 to $4 per day for the dangerous work they did underground. Many are buried in unmarked graves at Leadville's Evergreen Cemetery. Now, an effort is underway to honor them.
Coming Soon: Irish Miners Memorial
This fall, an Irish Miners Memorial is expected to be unveiled in the cemetery. To learn more, watch Embracing Our Heritage: Colorado's Irish Miners Memorial. Speaker Jim Walsh shares fascinating history. He is an associate professor in the Political Science Department of Colorado University Denver specializing in labor and the Irish diaspora.
Irish Twin City
You can also read about the effort to make Leadville a sister city of Ireland's Allihies, a copper mining community that many of Leadville's Irish immigrants came from.
Free Online Program on Leadville's Legendary Couples
The Irish Network of Colorado is also presenting a free program, "Leadville's Legendary Couples – Love in the Cloud City," on Zoom on Wednesday, March 23, 2022, at 6:30 p.m.
Be sure to join us to learn about and celebrate the luck of the Irish!


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Teens and Unions Take Over Glasgow as Greta Thunberg Declares UN Climate Talks a 'Failure'
Brian Kahn
Published 3 months ago: November 6, 2021 at 5:35 am -
Filed to:alok sharma
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks on the stage of a demonstration in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo: Jon Super, AP)
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — The leaves of Kelvingrove Park are a patchwork of yellow and green, caught between summer and fall, life and death. A stiff wind stirred the boughs above a throng of strikers who gathered there on Friday to send a message to negotiators in the conference rooms at United Nations climate talks 1.6 kilometres away: The time for promises is over. The era of climate action has to begin.
The scene in Kelvingrove felt a bit like a school reunion as climate strikers from around the world met up, some for the first time in two years. The pandemic forced a movement that was gaining force through mass demonstrations to scramble and organise online. But with the Glasgow talks going and vaccine access spreading — albeit still incredibly unevenly — the strikes are back. Cries of "climate justice" echoed off the city's buildings as police cleared a path from Kelvingrove to George Square at the heart of the city's downtown.
Indigenous Leaders Are at the Forefront
An Indigenous protester seen through a sea of police officers. (Photo: Brian Kahn)
Thousands of demonstrators were led by a delegation of Indigenous activists who have become a moral centre for the climate justice movement. The strike also brought in Scottish trade unionists who are fighting for fairer wages. Glasgow sanitation workers turned out to support the youth because the youth turned out to support them.
A New Climate Movement Is Forming
SMB unionist Chris Mitchell flashes a thumbs up. (Photo: Brian Kahn)
"Climate justice and social justice go hand in hand," Chris Mitchell, the branch convenor for Scotland's GMB union refuse workers, said. "At the end of the day, we've had a lot of support. We've been on strike for five days, and a lot of the activists have come and supported us so we wanted to show our solidarity back."
Unions and the climate movement have increasingly become aligned around the world, including in the U.S. The Texas AFL-CIO voted earlier this year to endorse a green jobs plan and just transition. The International Trade Union Confederation also endorsed a major global climate strike in 2019. But seeing the flags of GMB flying next to climate groups like Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion represents an even closer alignment that could be a potent political force.
Doctors Showed Support Kids — and Call Out Evildoers
Doctor Helena Clements holds a sign with Doctors for XR. (Photo: Brian Kahn)
Other workers also took time off to show up and support the young adults. Helena Clements, a paediatrician, came to highlight the grave health crisis climate change poses to kids. Indeed, climate change is already making people sick and causing death now. A recent report from the Lancet, a premier medical journal, underscored just how bad things are for the present, let alone the risk future generations will face.
"This was the first year where I can say confidently that I and my patients very clearly experienced the impacts of climate change," Jeremy Hess, co-author of the U.S. policy brief, emergency medicine physician, and director of the Centre for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington, told Earther at the time the report came out.
"There's no point in me looking after the health of children if we don't look after the planet," Clements said of why she made the six-plus hour trip to Glasgow from Nottingham. "We're here as Doctors for XR raising the role of financiers in funding climate change."
Youth Are Tired Off Promises Alone
A protester displays the Extinction Rebellion symbol on a stop sign in George Square. (Photo: Brian Kahn)
At the UN climate talks, Friday was dubbed a youth day. "Wherever I have been in the world, I have been struck by the passion and the commitment of young people to climate action," COP26 President Alok Sharma said in a statement. "The voices of young people must be heard and reflected in these negotiations here at COP."
What those voices are calling for is more action that backs up promises. They're also calling for a system change, one that doesn't rely on the goodwill of capitalist overlords to address the climate crisis. On that front, COP26 has been a bit of a mixed bag so far. A contingent of countries has committed to no longer funding fossil fuels abroad, a concrete plan that brings public finance to bear on the clean energy transition. (There are still some loopholes, but it's a good step.)
However, major private financial institutions have mostly made a splashy-sounding pledge about firms with $US130 ($176) trillion in assets going on a net zero pathway that's been panned as greenwashing by the likes of Greta Thunberg and the Financial Times alike. U.S. leaders at the talks, including John Kerry, have also a very business-oriented approach to the crisis given Congress' inability to pass strong climate provisions to date.
'COP26 Is a Failure'
Protesters in the streets of Glasgow. (Photo: Brian Kahn)
"It is not a secret that COP26 is a failure," Greta Thunberg told the group after a string of other speeches in George Square. "It should be obvious that this crisis cannot be solved with the same methods that got us into it in the first place."
'We Want Justice'
Kortney Brooks and Lewis Adair at George Square. (Photo: Brian Kahn)
Thunberg's sentiments were echoed by Lewis Adair, a 17-year-old, who came on a class trip to the protest from an hour away, who said before Thunberg took that the stage that "some world leaders have maybe been giving empty promises" even as he remained hopeful they could deliver on them. Friday's show of force in the streets (along with protests planned for Saturday) are meant to be a counterweight to privatizing the climate crisis.
"It's important to have our voices heard and let everybody know that we want a change," said Kortney Brooks, a 16-year-old who was on the same class trip. "We want justice. There's a lot of young people here who want them to hear our voices. And hopefully, we get that change."
Wolf Blitzer Gets Lost on the Way to UN Climate Talks
Greta Thunberg 'Urgently' Seeks Help to Evacuate Afghan Youth Climate Activists
Hearing Greta's Message
Greta Thunberg Urges World To 'Unite Behind The Experts' As Youth Climate Strikes Move Online


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Walmart has rolled back the price on the Kidkraft Castlewood Wooden Play Set to $799 (regularly priced at $1,748.75).
Features an upper and lower playhouse, two slides, rock wall and multiple swings.
Tons of unique features that the kids will love for years.


"When we started this project, I was somewhat skeptical that the machine would find any viable synthetic alternatives—after all, these are blockbuster drugs worth gazillions of dollars, and I was sure that the respective companies had covered the patent space so densely that no loopholes remained," says senior author Bartosz Grzybowski, a professor of chemistry at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea) and the Polish Academy of Sciences and the lead developer of the organic synthesis software Chematica. "It turns out that the loopholes are there, and we can find new retrosynthetic pathways that circumvent the patents entirely."
Those pharmaceutical patents protect the company's intellectual property while also preventing competitor companies from using certain key synthetic solutions—developed painstakingly by experiment to maximize yield, increase purity, and reduce costs—when attempting to produce desired compounds. To get to viable unpatented options, the researchers "froze" challenging portions of each target molecule, forcing the computer to substitute unconventional yet chemically plausible approaches on the basis of mechanistic rules. They tested their system out on three notable commercial medicines with different chemical hurdles: linezolid, a last-resort antibiotic; sitagliptin, an antidiabetic drug; and panobinostat, a multiple myeloma treatment.
"Intellectual property" is an illegitimate concept that is impossible to enforce.
Those who defend the concept are the enemies of free thought, and liberty.
Don't worry. The software involved will eliminate patents on (existing) production methods. IANAL, and it will take most of a decade, but it is coming. A new and less expensive way to manufacture a give product or precursor? Have at it. Patents on chemicals not found in the body--or in some other existing lifeform? Again, gets you past the first hurdle (novelty) on patents.
Of course, additive manufacturing, AKA 3d-printing, is going to induce another collapse in what is patentable. If I make a replacement widget for some machine using 3d-manufacturing, to get it faster than ordering from the manufacturer, am I violating the manufacturer's patents?


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Wisconsin Voters Head to Polls Today for Recall Primaries
Wisconsin voters are voting for something important today. They're voting in primaries for Democratic opponents to face the the six Republican Senators who helped ram through Governor Scott Walker's bill to eliminate collective bargaining back in March. But it just wouldn't be a Wisconsin election without more dirty tricks from Republicans, right? So of course, working voters are facing a particularly dirty trick from Walker's allies today.
As the AFL-CIO reports:
Today, Wisconsin working family voters are taking another step to take back their government from Gov. Scott Walker's (R) radical, anti-family, anti-community, pro-Koch Brothers agenda. And they have to defeat a Republican dirty trick to do it…these primary elections have been marred by Walker supporters who recruited fake candidates to run in the elections in an attempt to sow confusion among voters. The winners of today's elections will face the six Republicans in an Aug. 9 general election.
But workers are on the case. Union members, including many UFCW members, are out in force to knock on doors and educate folks about the primary candidates today. The vote today is an important first step in recalling the Walker Six. A gain of even just three seats would break Walker's stranglehold on the Senate. So all eyes are on Wisconsin today–and if you're a Wisconsinite, don't forget to vote!


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A panoramic view of RNA modifications: exploring new frontiers
Zijun Zhang1,
Eddie Park2,
Lan Lin2 &
Yi Xing1,2
Meeting report on the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on RNA Modifications and Epitranscriptomics, held in Suzhou, China, 13–17 November, 2017.
Methods for transcriptome-wide analyses of RNA modifications—highlighted as the 'Method of the Year 2016' by Nature Methods—have recently revealed highly dynamic 'epitranscriptomes', in which RNA modifications regulate gene activities and cellular phenotypes in health and disease. The Cold Spring Harbor Asia (CSHA) conference on RNA Modifications and Epitranscriptomics highlighted cutting-edge research in this rapidly evolving field. The conference was organized by Michaela Frye (University of Cambridge, UK), Chuan He (University of Chicago, USA), Tsutomu Suzuki (University of Tokyo, Japan), and Yungui Yang (Beijing Institute of Genomics, China), and included more than 50 talks and hundreds of attendees.
Diverse types of RNA modifications
More than 140 types of chemical modifications have been found in RNA. N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is the most prevalent type of reversible internal modification in eukaryotic mRNAs. Chuan He (University of Chicago) characterized m6A-modified transcripts as entering a separate track of fast decay and fast translation mediated through m6A reader proteins. One reader protein, YTHDF2, promotes m6A-mediated mRNA decay, while another reader protein, YTHDF1, promotes mRNA translation. The He group also discovered FTO and ALKBH5 as erasers of m6A modification, and found that these proteins have important functions. Misregulation of m6A-associated processes leads to stalled cell differentiation and human diseases, in particular cancer.
Another RNA modification, 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC), was characterized by Francois Fuks (Free University of Brussels (ULB), Brussels). The Fuks group developed hMeRIP-seq for transcriptome-wide mapping of 5hmC. Their studies of 5hmC characteristics in mammalian embryonic stem cells (ESCs) revealed its enrichment at the mRNA transcription start sites.
RNA tailing is another prevalent type of RNA modifications. To study the regulation of RNA tailing, Narry Kim (Seoul National University, South Korea) and colleagues developed TAIL-seq, which determines transcriptome-wide poly-A tail length and 3' end modifications simultaneously. Using TAIL-seq, they identified CNOT as the major deadenylase and elucidated the mechanistic interactions between the two CNOT subunits, CNOT6/6L and CNOT7/8, and the poly-A binding protein PABPC1. After PABPC1 and CNOT remove poly-A tails, the uridylation-catalyzing enzymes TUT4 and TUT7 add a U-tail to deadenylated mRNAs. More recently, the Kim group discovered that guanylation is catalyzed by a subset of TUTs and slows down deadenylation. The interplays of deadenylation, uridylation, and guanylation reflect a complex regulatory network of RNA modifications at the mRNA 3' ends.
RNA editing is an abundant RNA modification. Jian Lu (Peking University, China) discovered that adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing has provided an adaptive evolutionary force through systematic analyses of RNA editing sites in Drosophila brains. Eddie Park (UCLA, USA) reported widespread population and allelic variation of A-to-I RNA editing in human cells and proposed a mechanism that is based on RNA secondary structure.
New types of RNA modifications are being discovered. Mark Helm (Johannes Gutenberg-University, Germany) reported an LC-MS-based method to identify novel RNA modifications. A proof-of-concept study detected KDka427, a new RNA modification with a thioacetal structure. Further applications of this method may contribute to an expanding epitranscriptome vocabulary.
Functional impacts of RNA modifications
Elucidating the functional significance of RNA modifications has been a major goal for the field. Numerous talks focused on the impacts of RNA modifications in various biological processes and diseases.
In virology, m6A regulates viral infection, as shown by Stacy Horner (Duke University, USA) in Flaviviridae, a family of RNA viruses. Specifically, m6A marks the positive-sense-stranded RNA genomes of viruses in this family and regulates the viral replicative life cycle. The presence of m6A on viral functional elements suggests an additional layer of gene regulation in virus-host interactions.
The immune response is also regulated by RNA modifications. Brenda Bass (University of Utah, USA) presented findings on the roles of A-to-I RNA editing by ADARs (adenosine deaminases that act on RNA) and dsRNA termini-dependent cleavage by Dicer in immune response. ADARs mark cellular dsRNAs to preclude the antiviral response mediated by Dicer in invertebrates. Bass and colleagues elucidated the mechanisms of differential ATP requirement by invertebrate Dicer and its relationship with the recognition of self versus non-self dsRNAs. Xuetao Cao (Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China) discovered that in antiviral immune responses, DDX46 inhibits immune response by retaining m6A-modified antiviral transcripts in the nucleus. On the other hand, TET2 represses the expression of SOCS3, an inhibitor of the JAK3 pathway, by binding and oxidizing m5C in the SOCS3 3'-UTR, thus promoting infection-induced myelopoiesis. Jianlong Wang (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA) also described critical roles of TET2 and RNA m5C oxidation in the post-transcriptional regulation of endogenous retrovirus (ERV) and ERV-associated genes in pluripotent stem cells.
Taurine modification of uridine in mitochondrial transfer RNA plays a critical role in decoding during protein synthesis. Tsutomu Suzuki (University of Tokyo, Japan) and colleagues found that the lack of this modification is a primary cause of mitochondrial diseases, and proposed 'RNA modopathy' as a new class of human diseases. Kazuhito Tomizawa (Kumamoto University, Japan) demonstrated the essential role of taurine modification and its catalyzing enzyme Mto1 in mitochondrial translation and in control of the proteostasis network, which has therapeutic implications for mitochondrial diseases.
RNA modifications have emerged as an important regulatory axis of tumorigenesis. In subtypes of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), Jianjun Chen (University of Cincinnati, USA) discovered that the m6A eraser FTO acts as an oncogene in certain AML cells, and that inhibiting FTO activity can suppress leukemogenesis. Furthermore, an oncometabolite, R-2-hydroxyglutarate (R-2HG), exerts a broad anti-tumor activity by inhibiting the FTO/m6A/MYC/CEBPA signaling axis in FTO-high AML cells.
RNA modifications play a critical role in cell fate determination. Michaela Frye (University of Cambridge, UK) demonstrated that several mechanisms of RNA modifications, in particular non-coding RNA modifications, regulate stem cell functions by providing a molecular rheostat for protein synthesis in fast response to environmental stimuli. For example, tRNA methylation responds to oxidative stress and regulates protein synthesis in stem cells.
The mRNA cap is a collection of structures on the 5' end of mRNA that recruit proteins mediating RNA processing, export, and translation. Victoria Cowling (University of Dundee, UK) described the identification of the mRNA cap methyltransferase RAM and its regulatory role in ESC differentiation, and reported how its methyltransferase-independent characteristics had been revealed by cross-linking and immunoprecipitation sequencing (CLIP-seq) and chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq) experiments.
Several studies highlighted the functional roles of RNA modifications in germline cells. Qi Chen (University of Nevada, USA) illustrated the intergenerational transmission of paternally acquired traits via sperm. In particular, he described paternally acquired metabolic disorders that are induced by a high-fat diet and transmitted through the epitranscriptomic markers m5C and m2G on small non-coding RNAs in mice. Mofang Liu (CAS, China) discussed the piwi/piRNA machinery in mammalian spermiogenesis and human male infertility, and revealed a novel mechanism for regulated packaging of genomic DNA into functional sperm. Ramesh Pillai (University of Geneva, Switzerland) introduced a critical role of the m6A reader YTHDC2 in facilitating the meiotic gene expression program during mouse spermatogenesis. In oocytes, as shown by Donal O'Carroll (MRC Center for Regenerative Medicine, UK), TUT4 and TUT7 catalyze uridylation and are required to sculpt certain transcripts for the maternal transcriptome, whereas the m6A reader YTHDF2 regulates transcript dosage during oocyte maturation and is a key determinant of egg quality.
Eric Phizicky (University of Rochester, USA) and colleagues characterized the highly conserved 2'-O-methyltransferase Trm7 in yeast. Trm7 mutants grow slowly and have translation defects in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe, and they are associated with intellectual disability in humans.
Jean-Michel Fustin (Kyoto University, Japan) presented work demonstrating the control of circadian rhythm by m6A modification. The mRNAs of several clock genes have high m6A levels, often in their 3'-UTRs, and inhibition of m6A stabilizes these transcripts and prolongs the circadian period.
Interplay between RNA modifications and other RNA regulatory processes
A recurring message at the conference was the interplay between multiple types of RNA modifications and other RNA regulatory processes. For example, an important molecular consequence of RNA modifications is differential affinity for RNA-binding proteins. Yungui Yang (Beijing Institute of Genomics, China) and colleagues identified YTHDC1, an m6A nuclear reader that specifically recognizes m6A-modified transcripts and regulates exon splicing by promoting or antagonizing splicing factor binding. In a re-analysis of previously published m6A-LAIC-seq data and related datasets, Li Yang (CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, China) discovered a global downregulation of A-to-I editing in m6A-positive compared to m6A-negative RNA populations, suggesting a negative correlation between m6A modification and A-to-I editing.
RNA modifications also mediate mRNA translational control. Richard Gregory (Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard University, USA) described a looping mechanism between stop-codon-associated m6A writer METTL3 and the eIF complex that regulates protein expression. This looping mechanism ensures that ribosomes are more efficiently recycled in METTL3-bound mRNA transcripts.
RNA modifications in plant biology
One session of the conference was dedicated to RNA modifications in plants. Xuemei Chen (UC Riverside, USA) presented a role for the TREXII complex in miRNA biogenesis, export, and loading onto AGO1 in Arabidopsis. The Chen group also identified HESO1 in catalyzing pre-miRNA uridylation. Uridylation of trimmed pre-miRNAs promotes their degradation.
Rupert Fray (University of Nottingham, UK) presented a study of the m6A methylation complex in plants. The identified components include MTA (METTL3), MTB (METTL14), FIP37 (WTAP), Vir (KIAA1429), and Hakai, a novel m6A writer that may also be conserved in mammals. Guifang Jia (Peking University, China) presented the identification of the first plant m6A eraser, AtALKBH10B. AtALKBH10B regulates the floral transition and vegetative growth in Arabidopsis.
Methods for epitranscriptome sequencing
Several speakers presented novel methods for epitranscriptome sequencing. Dan Dominissini (Tel Aviv University, Israel) presented work on Nm sequencing. Leveraging the differential reactivity of 2'-O-methylated (Nm) and 2'-hydroxylated nucleosides, Nm-seq identifies Nm sites at base resolution and characterizes the unique features of Nm modification. Chengqi Yi (Peking University, China) presented CeU-seq and m1A-MAP, sequencing methods for detecting pseudouridine and N1-methyladenosine (m1A), respectively. Specifically, m1A-MAP leverages m1A induced mis-incorporation to achieve single-base resolution for m1A site identification, revealing the enrichment of m1A at the 5'-cap and 5'-UTR.
Shengdong Ke (Rockefeller University, USA) presented efforts in developing m6A-CLIP to enable comprehensive, single-base-resolution mapping of m6A sites across the transcriptome. Yang Yu (CAS, China) presented a highly efficient and sensitive CLIP method called GoldCLIP that omits all gel purification steps to characterize transcriptome-wide protein-RNA interactions.
Our understanding of the landscape, regulation, and functions of RNA modifications has advanced tremendously in the past few years. This CSHA conference brought together a multidisciplinary group of researchers studying RNA modifications in diverse biological systems using a broad range of approaches. With many questions still to be answered, we are excited about future scientific explorations at the new frontiers of RNA modifications and epitranscriptomics.
We thank conference speakers for their helpful feedback and comments on the meeting report.
EP was supported by National Institutes of Health postdoctoral training grant T32AR059033. LL received funding from the National Institutes of Health (R01GM121827). YX received funding from the National Institutes of Health (R01GM088342).
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Zhang, Z., Park, E., Lin, L. et al. A panoramic view of RNA modifications: exploring new frontiers. Genome Biol 19, 11 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1394-4


This year was a compliance year for rules meaning the IAAF has introduced new rules that we bring into alignment with our rules in order to be in compliance as our rules must follow theirs.
Item 19- athletes in horizontal jumping events as well as high jump and pole vault will not only be required to wear a number on either the front or back.
Item 23- dealing with assistance to athletes who have fallen during running events where athletes will not be allowed to be helped to their feet by another competing athlete without disqualified for receiving assistance.
Item 28- will now require actual surveys to be done of temporary facilities such as those used for street and town square events.
Item 52- IAAF now specifies in all field events except pole vault the time to initiate an attempt has been reduced from 1 minute to 30 seconds. Pole vault remains 1 minute. Additional time is allowed when field size is reduced late in competition.
Throws: Grazing of the back of the circle is no longer a foul.
Item #41, 166.4 adopted to USATF Rules (THANK GOODNESS) "In any 800 meter race, including a final, where for any reason there are more athletes competing than lanes available, the Technical Delegate(s) shall determine in which lanes more than one athlete will be drawn." This means they won't do a waterfall start like last year.
IAAF adopted a rule about not allowing certain shoes with unique traits because it's termed an unfair advantage to have a shoe that isn't made public to the average person. (Mainly this is referring to the Nike 2:00 hr marathon shoe). USATF decided to not include this particular wording of the rule so that shoes that aren't "available to the average person" are still permissible, they just can't have mechanisms involved that give unfair advantages (i.e. springs or something).


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Ethereum Classic Soars After Coinbase Announces ETC Listing
On Monday Coinbase announced that Ethereum Classic will be added as an crypto asset along side BTC, LTC, ETH & BCH. Currently ETC is the 18th-largest crypto on the market with 1.6 billion in market cap.
There is no specific date on when ETC will be available on Coinbase, they mentioned in a blog post that the addition would be in "coming months"
Following this announcement ETC got quite the boost in the markets, soaring from $12.81 to $16.40 in less than an hour. ETC is currently hovering around $15 at the time of writing.
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Bitcoin's price just shot to $34,000 despite plunging as low as $30,000 earlier today. The leading cryptocurrency trades for $33,950 as of this article's writing and is up over 15% in the past 24 hours.
Bitcoin's latest leg higher comes after a strong drop earlier today, as mentioned earlier.
After peaking at $33,000 in the morning, BTC plunged from $33,000 to $30,000 in the span of two hours.
Bitcoin quickly rebounded as buyers defended the key $30,000 support level. The cryptocurrency has been increasing ever since that bounce and now trades at new all-time highs.
Altcoins are continuing to outperform BTC. Ethereum is up 8.5% in the past 24 hours while most other altcoins have gained only a handful of percent.
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Customers will be able to trade up to $20,000 a week, rather than the originally announced $10,000.
On Thursday, PayPal's crypto trading and payments went live for all eligible customers in the United States.
Per its updated announcement, PayPal ended its waitlist for customers looking to use cryptocurrency in the U.S. Trading features a limit of $20,000 per week, which is double the originally announced $10,000.
PayPal ultimately plans to make crypto payments available at 26 million merchants globally.
A representative said that PayPal will notify U.S. customers about the general availability of crypto services in the coming days.
Dan Schulman, CEO of PayPal, noted that the shift to supporting crypto was driven by what he sees as an "inevitable" drift toward virtual currencies.
"The shift to digital forms of currencies is inevitable, bringing with it clear advantages in terms of financial inclusion and access; efficiency, speed and resilience of the payments system; and the ability for governments to disburse funds to citizens quickly."
Much-anticipated global services are expected to launch at the beginning of 2021, alongside crypto payments on Venmo. PayPal initially announced its plans to integrate crypto three weeks ago. The announcement led to a boost in BTC price.
As part of its crypto services, PayPal received the first conditional Bitlicense from the New York Department of Financial Services, one of the most hawkish sub-national financial regulators in the U.S. Many noted that the terms of PayPal's crypto services would entail that coins bought on the platform would not be able to leave, likely as part of its compromise with regulators in bringing crypto services to such a wide user base.
Story from Markets Bitcoin Breaks $15K as Investor Numbers Peak
Bitcoin's rally is still going as investors continue to accumulate the cryptocurrency, ignoring overbought signals on technical indicators.
Bitcoin (BTC, +8.80%) rose to $15,017.05 at 10:50 a.m. ET (15:50 UTC) on Thursday, its highest level since January 2018.
The price gains happened as global equities rally. European stock indexes are up around 1% on the day and U.S. stock indexes such as the S&P 500 are up over 2%.
The cryptocurrency is now up 7.8% over the past 24 hours and over 108% on a year-to-date basis, according to CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index.
Amid the price rally, the number of "accumulation addresses" has risen to a record high of 519,228, according to data source Glassnode.
The metric has risen by 3% in the past four weeks alongside bitcoin's rally from $10,500 to $15,000. "It shows retail flow … investors accumulating amid the price rally," Denis Vinokourov, head of research at the London-based prime brokerage Bequant told CoinDesk in a Telegram chat.
Also, accumulation addresses are up over 9% in 2020, meaning investors have been accumulating coins throughout the year, possibly creating upward pressure on prices.
Notably, the number of bitcoins locked in accumulation addresses has gone up 20% to 2,818,447 BTC this year.
Accumulation addresses are those that have at least two incoming "non-dust" transfers (representing minuscule amounts of bitcoin) and have never spent funds. The metric does not include addresses belonging to miners and exchanges and excludes addresses active more than seven years ago to adjust for lost coins.
Bitcoin accumulation addresses and price
Source: Glassnode
In a sign of confidence in the cryptocurrency's long-term prospects, investors accumulated coins during the March crash and also during the price drop in September. On both occasions, the price dip was short-lived.
The recent rise in both accumulation addresses and prices indicates the market participants are not worried about a chart-driven sell-off and foresee a continued rise in prices.
Bitcoin's 14-day relative strength index (RSI) has been indicating overbought conditions since Oct. 20, when bitcoin was trading near $11,700. So far, the technical pullback has remained elusive.
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Yule Blog 2010-11: Dwelling in Darkness, Seeing A Light
As the Christmas season draws to a close and the return of regular blogging looms, I'm looking back over my short life as a writer on religious matters and thinking about how writing on religion is and is not like writing on other controversial topics.
There's no doubt in my mind that it's important to write about religion. Many people, both religious and non-religious, are affected by the religious beliefs and cultures around them; few of us know enough about how religion works and how different religious faiths and traditions shape the world views of the people and nations with whom we interact.
But it's also true that writing about religion has its perils. One, which should be evident to anyone who has followed the comments to my Christmas posts, is that religious writing stirs up powerful and sometimes angry feelings. There's a reason why our grandmothers told us never to discuss politics and religion at the dinner table.
And perhaps more dangerous still, there's the hypocrisy charge. There is nothing our society likes better than to mock the pretentiously self-righteous when the lies come unglued and the feet of clay are laid bare. The famous televangelist caught in a No-Tell Motel with a lady not his wife, the family values spokesman caught in a pay to play tryst with a person of an inappropriate gender: our whole society dissolves into gales of laughter and malicious glee as yet another saint gets revealed as just another sinner.
Your jittery blogger, no freer from the Seven Deadly Sins than your average aging American Baby Boomer, can't help but feel a bit nervous stepping into this dangerous space. What gives me the right to tell others what is true, or beautiful, or good? Is my own conduct so exemplary, my spiritual development so advanced that I should be telling everyone else how it's done?
There's an instinct to answer all of these questions in the negative, and to just shut up about religion and morals. And that instinct has some backing. Take for example the words of Jesus as reported in the King James Version of the gospel of Luke (6:42), "How canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye."
Clean up your own yard first, then join the neighborhood improvement committee.
Fair enough, and a casual glance around my moral front yard reveals a couple of dumpsters worth of rubbish that needs to be cleared away, but there's a problem here. If only perfect people were allowed to write about faith and morals, nobody will ever say anything on the subject. Parents wouldn't try to teach their kids right from wrong, teachers wouldn't try to help students build moral character, sponsors in 12 step programs wouldn't give advice to their sponsees about how to avoid that next drink or pill. No minister, rabbi, imam or priest would stand before a congregation to preach a sermon. No Buddhist monk would give advice to the faithful; no Sufi master would counsel disciples on how to approach God.
For some, like the group of atheists renting billboards this holiday season to denounce all religions as scams, this would sound like excellent news. But before too much time, even the most violent atheists would begin to notice that something was wrong.
Society really does depend on the virtue of its members. Self restraint and moral behavior really are the foundations of liberty. If people don't behave right, nothing can protect us from the consequences.
The weaker the hold of virtue on a people, the stronger the state needs to be. If people don't voluntarily comply with, for example, the tax codes, the enforcement mechanisms of the government need to be that much stronger. If more people lose their moral inhibitions against theft, and against using violence against the weak, then society has to provide a stronger, tougher police force — and give them more authority under less restraint.
Yet at the same time the state becomes stronger, it loses control of itself. When the moral tone of a people declines, bureaucrats and the police are not exempt from the decay of morals. They steal; they abuse their authority; they manipulate the processes of the state to serve themselves and their favored clients. The courts become corrupt; the security services link up with the crime syndicates. Night falls.
This is not some abstract fear; history and the world today are full of places where the collapse of moral values blights daily life and undermines the prospects for development. I've been to many countries where nobody trusts the courts, the police, the politicians or the journalists. None of them are nice places to be.
Sadly, people do not spontaneously choose to behave like angels. Virtue has to be cultivated and developed. Young people have to be persuaded, cajoled, admonished and above all inspired to seek wisdom, self control, a life of service and all the other virtues that are necessary for our civil lives as well as for the fullest development of our true selves. Older people have to be reminded of their ideals, encouraged to live up to them and to continue fighting the good fight through the long years of adulthood and middle life.
For some people, reason, commonsense and a strong innate moral constitution makes it possible to live a decent and useful life without the comforts and restraints of religion. But for many more, only the feelings of awe, gratitude and fear occasioned by the awareness of a Creator can give them the strength and will to set out on the earnest and difficult road of struggle on the path to a moral life. More, that inner sense needs to be refreshed: people need to hear the message expressed in compelling terms, and they need to hear it again and again through a lifetime.
All this can only happen if a lot of people who are still fighting their own private moral battles stand up on their hind legs in public and praise those virtues that they have not fully attained. The recovering alcoholic has to tell the newcomer that there is hope for a better future — even if nobody knows better than a recovering alcoholic how easy it is to take that beckoning drink. The pastor has to encourage the couples in the congregation to strive to fulfill the ideal of a faithful marriage even if his or her own marriage hasn't been spotless. The intellectual, struggling with questions and doubts about the meaning of faith, must share the best case for faith with a wider audience — or no one will benefit from a lifetime of study and reflection.
Does this mean that I'm arguing for a world of morality based on systematic hypocrisy? GK Chesterton's father, I once read, never went to church himself but always carried a Prayer Book on Sundays to set a good example for the lower orders. Would we be any better off if we added hypocrisy to the lengthening list of our social sins?
It's not that bad. There is a line, I think, that separates the posturing hypocrite from the honest (but flawed) advocate for morals and faith. There is a difference between the honest advocacy of hope and the self-glorification of a moral poseur.
In any case, developing a sensible, honest and penetrating discourse about corrosive human failings and their social consequence is a job that simply has to be done, particularly in a society like ours where the cultures of desire and indulgence run so rampant. I'm not thinking just or even primarily of sex, though this riveting Atlantic Monthly essay on the effects of internet pornography on our society provides much food for thought. It is a culture of restraint and virtue that prevents (at least some) bankers from ripping off their clients and the government, that holds politicians back from the worst kinds of demagoguery and dirty tricks — and that punishes those who break these unwritten rules.
Let's not over dramatize or fall into moral panic. Our national culture is not going entirely downhill. The wide and deep hatred of racism that exists in our culture, for example, is a real improvement over the past. There are some other ways in which we seem to be a less brutal, more caring society than we once were. But the signs overall are not good. The social tolerance for greed and self-indulgence that we've developed, the prevalence of materialism, the debasement of popular culture, the unscrupulous exploitation of human sexuality for commercial purposes: these are not making us happier, more free, or, as a society, more just.
A twelve day stint as a faith blogger has left me morally challenged by the complexities and the ambiguities this work involves. But it's also left me feeling that this kind of work, somehow, has got to be done. If we leave religion out of our national conversation about values, politics and culture we end up with a vapid conversation that doesn't address the deepest realities that move most of the people in this country. And the problems we face today can't be addressed constructively without getting into the deep stuff and asking the hardest questions about the things that matter most.
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Suits recap: 'Admission of Guilt'
Harvey and Mike risk a lot with their latest scheme
By Chancellor Agard
February 15, 2017 at 11:00 PM EST
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S6 E14
Comedy,
This week, Harvey and Mike's renewed partnership continues as they dive headfirst into their latest ethically questionable gambit. Unfortunately, in their quest to get Mike into the bar, they end up letting down several of their colleagues. Thankfully, the one person who doesn't suffer too much from their shenanigans is Rachel, who has her own fun and enlightening team-up in the episode.
The risk of this going sideways increases at the beginning of the episode when Harvey informs Mike that he'll have to run this lawsuit through the legal clinic to make it look legitimate since they need an admission of guilt to actually make the stock drop. Mike is unsure about this, as he should be. But, alas, he agrees to do it anyway, marches into the office the next day, and gives Oliver the task of researching every case that Velocity Data Solutions has settled. Meanwhile, Harvey forces Craig, a.k.a. the crooked New York Bar guy, to schedule a hearing for Mike.
Although Oliver kind of sucks in court, he's really good at doing research and ends up finding six mining suits. Apparently, Velocity works in mining, and some employees tried suing for health complications from said mining; however, they settled and signed NDAs. So Mike approaches one of the employees, who is dying from cancer, and convinces him to break his NDA, which would break 150 other NDAs.
Worried about the consequences of what Harvey and Mike have gotten themselves into, Rachel shows up at Harvey's apartment to chat. She makes Harvey promise that he'll pull the plug on this tomfoolery if the risk becomes too great. Harvey gives her his word, but then immediately breaks it. See, Mike meets with Velocity Solutions CEO James Palmer, who refuses to budge on the NDAs and threatens to crush his legal clinic. So, Mike, thinking on his feet, lies and says Pearson Specter Litt is his co-counsel. That increases the risk even more because Harvey was trying to stay away from this case so that it didn't look too suspicious. Obviously, Harvey goes along with Mike's audible, but he's not happy about it. Now that they're in this together, this means they have to find a way to try 150 cases. Luckily, Harvey has 10 eager new associates ready to help.
Unfortunately, Mike's gambit also forces Harvey to break his word to another person: Louis. Before Mike dragged him further into this, Harvey had agreed to partner up with Louis to indulge a demanding CEO of a couture company with a meeting. But, alas, Harvey backs out of that, which actually disappoints Louis, who was looking forward to partnering up with Harvey on something. And you really feel for Louis thanks to Rick Hoffman's empathetic performance. Without Harvey, Louis decides to recruit Rachel and Katrina to help him.
It shouldn't come as a surprise to hear that Nathan is not happy about what Mike's doing, especially since Mike didn't consult him about taking on this case or about partnering with Pearson Specter Litt. Nathan accuses Mike of trying to use this case to get his old job back at Pearson Specter Litt, but Mike says that's not what he's doing and reveals that he turned down a better-paying consultant offer to come work there. Yeah, that shuts Nathan up, but he still suspects Mike is up to something.
NEXT: Mike's lies come out
Mike and Oliver take their boxes and head to Pearson Specter Litt to get to work on all of these cases. Oliver's first meeting with Harvey is hilarious and ends with Harvey threatening to shove a record where the sun doesn't shine since he found Oliver touching his things (at Mike's urging, because Mike is a troll). You would think Oliver's experience at the firm would improve, but instead he just finds himself getting intimidated by the associates, who are getting their work done faster than he is. Mike swoops in with a pep talk, and Oliver reveals that he knows Mike doesn't have an ulterior motive for taking on this case because he cares more about winning.
That little chat with Oliver awakens Mike's conscience even more because he hates having to lie to Nathan and, especially, to Oliver. But Harvey reminds him that he's actually trying to do good for the miners — and Oliver, by having him work on the case. Mike reveals that watching Oliver fail in the court was the reason he decided to go through with this because he hated feeling powerless. For Mike, the desire to never feel that way again makes this risk totally worth it.
The next day, Harvey and Mike file all of their suits, which, naturally irritates multiple people. First, there's Craig, who confronts Mike outside of the legal clinic and threatens to pull the plug on his hearing if this suit isn't wrapped up soon enough. Then, Palmer pays Harvey a visit with a very generous settlement offer of $350 million, but Harvey refuses without an admission of guilt. Unfortunately, Harvey's refusal confirms what Palmer suspected: Harvey and Mike are doing this for his competitor Craig, who has the power to make Mike a real lawyer. Even though the case is falling apart, Harvey threatens to go after Velocity for stealing Craig's technology, but the CEO tells him the situation is a lot more nuanced than that.
Meanwhile, Katrina and Rachel come up with a fine dining-themed presentation for Louis' client. Honestly, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed watching these two work together. There were two moments that stood out: First, Katrina thanks Rachel for setting up her gig at her father's firm. Then, later on in the episode, Katrina shares what it was like to work for Robert. It was great, she says, adding that Robert was beaming the day he made Rachel her job offer, even though she rejected it. That revelation takes Rachel by surprise but ultimately makes her feel great because it calms her worries about turning her father down and helps her realize how much respect he has for her.
Alas, Katrina-Rachel bonding time is the only good thing to come out of their team-up with Louis. Even though they give a great presentation, the couture CEO is annoyed that Harvey didn't show up and ends up firing Pearson Specter Litt as a client. Louis doesn't handle rejection well, but this time it leaves him feeling more demoralized than anything else. He doesn't lash out or get angry with Donna for suggesting he use Rachel and Katrina. Instead, he simply goes home and spends some time with Tara, who is more than willing to hear him talk about his bad day. There's a tenderness to their interactions that really works.
Mike returns to his office at the legal clinic, where he finds Oliver waiting to confront him. Oliver demands to know what Mike has to gain from pursuing this case. Seeing no other option, Mike admits that he did so he can get into the bar. Disgusted, Oliver tells him he needs to come clean to Nathan. And just like that, Mike has lost Oliver's trust, which probably stings quite a bit since it was clear he was enjoying their working relationship. Moreover, I don't think Mike expected he'd be the one admitting his guilt in tonight's episode.
Following up on Parker's tip, Harvey digs into Craig's past and discovers he lied. A mistress didn't give his proprietary info to Velocity, Craig did. Craig was promised a job if he leaked the information, but Velocity Solutions pulled the deal at the last minute and deposited some money in an offshore account to implicate him. (So Harvey kind of got his admission of guilt, right?) That's enough to convince Harvey that the deal is off, and he orders Craig to make sure Mike passes his ethics interview with the bar or else.
After tonight, there are two episodes left in the season, and I find myself very interested in seeing how things shake out. Will Mike actually become a lawyer, or will Craig find a way to screw Mike and Harvey over? Knowing this show, it'll probably be the latter.
I can't tell you what's going on with the Donna, Benjamin, and The Donna storyline. At this point, I don't know what purpose it serves; however, I will LOL if The Donna somehow ends up saving the day in the finale.
Rachel found out that she passed the bar without having to do an interview. She's going to be a lawyer!
Do we think Katrina telling Rachel how great it was to work with Robert is setting up Rachel deciding to leave the firm?
Gabriel Macht,
Rick Hoffman,
Sarah Rafferty
S7 E15 Recap
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Suits recap: 'Pulling the Goalie'
Suits recap: 'Inevitable'
Suits recap: 'Bad Man'
Suits recap: 'Hard Truths'
Suits recap: 'Donna'
S7 E9 Recap
Suits recap: 'Shame'
Suits recap: '100'
Suits recap: 'Full Disclosure'
Suits recap: 'Home to Roost'
Suits recap: 'Brooklyn Housing'
Suits recap: 'Divide and Conquer'
Suits recap: 'Mudmare'
Suits recap: 'The Statue'
Suits premiere recap: 'Skin in the Game'
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Suits recap: 'Quid Pro Quo'
Suits recap: 'Teeth, Nose, Teeth'
Suits recap: 'The Painting'
Suits winter premiere recap: 'She's Gone'
Suits midseason finale recap: Season 6, Episode 1
Suits recap: Season 6, Episode 9
The Blacklist finale recap: Will the real Katarina Rostova please stand up?
The Handmaid's Tale recap: The 5 biggest moments in 'Unknown Caller'
The Voice recap: Who will advance to the finale?
Blindspot recap: The call's coming from inside the house
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. recap: Who needs couples therapy when you share an alien mind-prison?
The Gifted recap: Wrestling with guilt
Marvel's Jessica Jones finale recap: End of an era
Black Mirror 'Striking Vipers' recap: Love in the time of fighting games
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. recap: Eros and Thanatos
SNL recap: Paul Rudd toasts Saturday Night Live in season 44 finale with musical guest DJ Khaled
RuPaul's Drag Race season 11, episode 10 GIF recap: Nipple magic and nonsense
RuPaul's Drag Race crowns season 11 winner: America's Next Drag Superstar is...
Billions recap: There can be only one left standing
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills recap: 'It's 5 o'clock everywhere'
Black Mirror recap: 'Smithereens'
RuPaul's Drag Race season 11, episode 11 GIF recap: Westward no!
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. recap: Would you rather date an influencer or an alien bat parasite?
The Handmaid's Tale recap: The 5 biggest moments from 'Under His Eye'
The Voice recap: The Top 13 perform for a spot in the semifinals
Game of Thrones recap for season 8, episode 5: Queens of the ashes
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CNN's Jake Tapper Questions the Patriotism of Double-Amputee War Hero
Remembering When Nancy Pelosi Claimed 2016 Election was "Hijacked"
Mozilla: We Must Do MORE to Silence Wrongthink on the Internet
Last Time Dems Took Their Eye Off the Ball, a Pandemic Was the Result
Nikki Haley on Trump's Twitter Ban: "This is What Happens in China"
Sean Hannity: Anyone Who Charged Capitol Should Be "Arrested and Prosecuted"
Mark Levin: This Election Has Put Us Into a "Constitutional Crisis"
Kamala Harris Blatantly Steals Anecdote From Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Last, Fakest News: Trump's Phone Call With GA Sec of State
Nancy Pelosi's First Priority: Changing House Rules to Be "Gender-Inclusive"
Trump Finally Bans CNN's Clown Prince From the White House
Wednesday afternoon, President Donald Trump finally had enough of the insufferable antics displayed daily by CNN's clown prince of journalism, Jim Acosta. Trump's disgust with Acosta reached the breaking point when the reporter* asked a meaningless, propaganda-driven question about the campaign ad showing illegal immigrants acting like violent hooligans. Trump advised Acosta to let him run the country and worry about CNN and its low ratings. That should have ended it, but Acosta – never one to easily cede the spotlight – kept pushing his luck, even violently yanking the microphone back from a female staffer who was trying to keep the press conference moving along.
Trump's ire boiled over. He told Acosta he was a "rude, terrible person" who should not be employed by CNN. This led NBC's Peter Alexander to lamely stick up for Acosta, to which Trump replied, "Yeah, well I'm not such a big fan of yours, either."
Later, when Acosta tried to come back to the White House to do an 8:00 PM stand-up for CNN, he was informed by Secret Service that his pass has been canceled and that he was no longer permitted on the premises.
While the banishment of Jim Acosta has been a long time coming, it naturally afforded CNN yet another chance to play the martyr and pretend that Acosta's suspension has some relevance to the state of press freedom in this country.
Acosta's suspension "was done in retaliation for his challenging questions at today's press conference," said the network in a statement. "In an explanation, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders lied. She provided fraudulent accusations and cited an incident that never happened. This unprecedented decision is a threat to our democracy and the country deserves better."
No, Jim Acosta is a threat to our democracy with his unserious, WWE-style reporting, and our country certainly deserves better. Day after day, Acosta goes to the White House with one mission and one mission only: Make such a spectacle of himself that he gets to be in the headlines. And over and over again, it works. Have you noticed that he's the only one who does this? There are plenty of virulently anti-Trump reporters in that press pool, but whenever you hear of a reporter acting an absolute fool, it is always this guy. He doesn't want to uncover the news, he wants to BE the news.
In one sense, we regret that Trump has given Acosta exactly what he most wanted. In another, this was an entirely appropriate course of action that should have been implemented months ago.
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Signed with the Mariners for 4 (!) years, $37.5 million. Whoa.
Lackey and the Angels agreed to a $3.76 million, one-year contract. Also, John Boy was CRAZY after the all-star break and went 8-1. Plus he's 4 years younger than Jarrod Washburn.
Lackey could easily double for Christopher Knight AKA Peter Brady on his next reality show.


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R'lyeh
Semantic Presence
Shub-Niggurath
One of the more disturbing of the Ancient Ones, this shaggy, fetid, unbelievably foul entity is often referred to as the "Black Goat of the Woods With a Thousand Young', although it would appear that 'Filthy Black Mutant Goat-Thing of the Woods With Horrendous Rank Tendril-things and Oh My God What the Hell is That' would be a more accurate title.
No-one really knows what Shub-Niggurath is thinking about, and it seems that, so far in recorded hystory, no-one has thought to ask.
The 'Thousand Young' refers to Shub-Niggurath's spontaneously-spawned offspring, greasy tentacled non-things that are part forest-creature and part hideous mistake, shambling uglifications that are worshipped and feared in various hidden locations throughout the world (three such locations are Goatswood in the UK, Bane's Grove in the USA, and Prestonwood in Australia). As one of the main procreators in the Outer Gods posse, Shub-Niggurath may be far more important than preternaturalists have thus far dared to speculate (Choirs, 1986), and has even been called 'the All-Mother and wife of the the Not-to-Be-Named-One' by some electromancers and media-archaeologists. Only time, and more painstaking and memetically-challenging research, will tell.
Shub-Niggurath, when not spawning gross and extravagant Dark Young on the Planet Earth, spends most of its time at the center of the universe, slowly dancing and writhing around Azathoth to the post-electronica interdimensional ancient-school beats that the Ancient Ones seem to enjoy so much.
It rarely speaks in rhyme, and is totally incapable of reciting any limerick.
Subvertising
Taking an ad and wrecking it for personal pleasure. Or: the Art of Cultural Resistance through Jamming and Inverting the orignal mind-control messages of the Cryptogon, eventually redefining and reclaiming one's environment from the Corporate Beast(s) that rule everything.
SurRealisation
SurReality
Supercompanies/Megacompanies
Like the Hypercompanies, but a tiny bit smaller.
Smoking Ritual
Tamash
One of the alleged 'ambassadors' for the Outer Gods, Tamash ('the Ascrutable') is a dedicated fan of the works of Matt Groenig, and performs death-defying slights of hand that really have to be seen to be believed. Really, he is quite the showman. Spectacular hat-work, and what he can do with a standard white rabbit will make your hair stand on end.
Tamash has elongated narrow eyes, long-lobed ears, long thin fingers, and is often found wearing a sparkling top hat and wielding a Ringmaster's Vest; when not doing the dirty work of the Demon-Thing Azathoth, he enjoys hiding a small ball under one of three cups, then quickly rearranging them, and asking himself which cup hides the ball.
He always guesses correctly.
(The) Tasmanian Rapper
One of Nyarlathotep's earthly disguises, this apparition is a tall, lean, hairless man with skin the blackness of ebony, Caucasian features, a big hip-hop puffa jacket, and hooved feet. This manifestation of the 'Crawling Chaos' is constantly Rapping, keeping it both 'street' and 'wickid', and has a Tasmanian accent.
When in Melbourne, this apparition chooses to stay at the Fogolar Furlan Bar and Bistro, Preston.
(The) Third Ear
Tsathoggua
Enjoys self-adulation almost as much as Marshall Mathers or Busta Rhymes, and is in fact the only Great Old One who has espressed overt desire to be worshipped by the modern humyn species, not content to be worshipped merely by our primal ancestors (Smith, 1932). As well as having set up a line of designer clothing, Tsathoggua makes a lot of the fact that it is directly related to Cthulhu, Ithaqua and Hastur the Unnameable, although what precisely such a claim means is uncertain at best.
Some claim that Tsathoggua came to Earth from Saturn; others insist that a creature known only as Wuthoqquan's Bane arrived with him, although its wherabouts are unknown. Certainly there are certain Saturnic characteristics about Tsathoggua, not least its insatiable desire for wearing enormous colourful rings.
When not on Saturn or writhing around Ashtar'Oth at the 'centre' of the Non Ens, Tsathoggua dwells far below the earth's surface in that region known only as the Black Gulf of N'Kai. There, the bulbous slug-demon spends most of its time in bloated sleep, awakening "only to accept sacrifices or answer a sorcerer's call... If he is satiated with food, he responds to visitors in a non-threatening, even friendly manner. If Tsathoggua is hungry, the would-be interviewer had better have an acceptable sacrifice ready" (Peterson, Sullivan, Wallis (et al), 1988).
Like nearly every uberdimensional Ancient Thing encountered, Tsathoggua is a constant shapeshifter, with evidence that, unlike many of its hypergalactic 'peers', it can voluntarily alter its form as it wishes (Fallworth, 1944).
(The) Universal MegaConspiracy
Also known as the Real World, the Way Things Are, the Status Quo, the Inevitable March of Progress, the "I Can't Believe It's Not Democracy", the Cryptogon, the Swarm, the Nest, the Pinks, the Octopus, the Babylonian Brotherhood, the Normals, the Mainstream, the Bohemian Illuminati, the Keepers of Dagon, the Raelian Embassy Movement, the Normagonial Pinkapus, the Cryptostreamic Swarmatron, and the New World Order.
It is not just that all the little conspiracies that you've heard all your life are real; they are only the tip of the iceberg. Sure, it all began as a joke, but the more we analysed, the more we saw. JFK was not just assassinated by the FBI; he was rubbed out by aliens. And the aliens aren't just extraterrestrial, oh no; they're extradimensional. And they're not just here to control our politics and mutilate our cattle; they are the same creatures who upended our evolution by breeding with us centuries ago, disguised as 'angels'. And they are lying to us about their reasons for doing all of this; there must be better ways to do what they say they're doing.
The Universal MegaConspiracy is all-inclusive. It tends to involve everything, and everyone. It involves all the hidden tricks, traps and traditions that work to keep most of the world poor, powerless, and desperate for "more". It involves the Ancient Ones, and involves the space programme. It involves saxophones and skyscrapers, cabbages and kings. It involves all of those structures underlying and interconnecting the global political, economic and perception-management-systems currently in operation on this planet; maybe it involves the very nature of perception itself.
The only way to deal with the Universal MegaCon is to adopt the strategy employed in the childrens' song 'Going on a Bear Hunt':
"We can't go over it (can't go over it)
We can't go under it (can't go under it)
We'll have to go through it!"


These are the top ranked and most loved projects of Jan 19, 2019. Each day, dozens of new crowdfunding projects are launched which makes it hard to find the best ones. Our crowdfunding community votes for the projects they like and the top are listed here!
A children's publication about trailblazers and creativity.
A portable multi-color light source with an integrated battery in a waterproof case + accessory kit.


Darcy Lee Donate Me Money So I Can Buy A House VirTual ReaLity Artificial Intelligence 911: Diablo 3 Auction House.
New Video Card ATI HD7750 + D3 Update.
Diablo 3 Box Guest Passes and Notepad.
Recently i've been playing with the Diablo 3 Gold and Real Money Auction Houses. I've been buying gear on the Gold Auction House and then re-listing it on the Real Money AH with mark-up to make a profit.
I started with $2.50 in my Paypal account and have worked my way upto currently having $55 US dollars in my paypal account with another $11 in sales due to clear overnight tonight, so really i've got $66 US.
Not only do I have $66 US dollars but I also have 10 legendaries all valued between $5-$15 US dollars listing value on the RMAH which are currently all listed and waiting for someone to purchase them.
All I did was research the markets and bought low and sold high using the price difference between the two different Auctions houses. I buy gold off the gold AH for US $0.25 cents a million.
With the US $2.50 I had in my paypal account I bought 10 million gold and then bought one item off the gold AH. I sold that item at a profit and then once the money had cleared I had enough money to purchase enough gold to now buy 2 items from the Gold AH. I just continued in this pattern of purchasing gold looking for bargains on the gold AH and re-listing them with mark up on the RMAH.
It's taken about 3 weeks to earn that money so it's not like you'll be able to earn enough to make a decent living but if you have some spare time like me then this is probably something you can do to earn some extra money. The game has paid for itself so far. But it is a dying game. It's nearly a year old now and people will be moving away. An expansion will revive things but that's probably a year or two away.
What the Diablo 3 AH Looks Like.
It's has been fun getting sales of things and watching the profits roll in. It's getting harder now though as well. There don't seem to be as many bargains as there once was. I do wish that I had been doing this earlier.
One really good way of getting gear that will fetch a good price is to bid on items. You basically need to be there when the auction closes but you can get gear this way alot cheaper than sometimes paying the buyout price. Sometimes it's worth the wait to place a bid not to get the gear straight away . You should place a bid at the max of what you think the item is worth and on how much of a mark-up you can place on it.
If you plan of using Diablo 3 RMAH then stats to look for are Critical Strike Chance, Attack Speed and Critical Strike Damage. Anything with one or two of these stats is worth alot of gold. These stats also when combined with Vitality and one of the primary stats Dexterity, Strength or Intelligence make them item even more expensive.
With the money I have earned i'm going to purchase World of Warcraft - Mists of Pandaria and some game time and start playing that again. That at least is my hope. I also hope to make a lot more money from the Diablo 3 RMAH as I make better choices in gear selection and learn to price stuff more efficiently for sales.
If you own the game and you have some free time and a couple dollars in your paypal account then you should definitely look into trading on the AH for some spare dollars and a bit of entertainment. You don't even have to play the actual game you can just trade pretty much like what I do. If you persevere and do the maths you should make a profit.


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Research Updates: women's health
Below are short extracts from research updates about this subject - select more to read each item.
SEIDL and STEWART, Toronto Hospital, Canada review the scientific literature (115 references) regarding common alternative remedies for the treatment of menopausal symptoms.
ROBERTSON and colleagues, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center USA investigated whether water baths during labour are associated with development of chorioamnio1
CUMMINGS, Homoeopathic Midwifery Service, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, Republic of Ireland has published a brief introduction to the principles of homoeopathy and to how homoeopathy can be prescribed safely and effectively for women1
MATHIAS and colleagues, Woman's Hospital of Texas, Houston 77054 USA investigated the neuromuscular activity of the gastrointestinal tract in women with endometriosis to assess the effects of diet and drug therapy upon1
VEAL reviews (20 references) a variety of complementary treatments for infertility. The author writes that complementary therapists operate under a more holistic view of infertility treatment than their allopathic health professional c1
Comments: It is indeed sad that women have to resort to pain killers for PMS, when a substantial body of clinical literature exists detailing the therapeutic value of using dietary modification and herbal products for symptom relief. Readers are initia1
FLYNN and colleagues, University of British Columbia's (UBC) Department of Family Practice, Canada conducted a review of the literature in order to learn which factors influencing perineal integrity could be modified b1
SINGH and colleagues, Complementary Medicine Program, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore USA write that 30%-80% of women are believed to be affected by premenstrual syndrome (PMS). The authors studied to prov1
ESKELAND and colleagues, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen Norway conducted a study to evaluate the efficacy of low-dose supplementation of iron with and without a haeme componen1
CAMPBELL and colleagues, Hunter Centre for Health Advancement, Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia studied the rates of premenstrual symptoms, treatments tried, perceived efficacy of such treatments, the proportion of women who sought help for1
COMMENTS: Considering that a majority of men suffer from some degree of BPH as they age, it is interesting to note that the research being reported is of such a basic and fundamental nature, reflecting the infancy of effective treatments using conventi1
CARRARO and colleagues, Perre Fabre Medicament, La Chartreuse, Castres, France, noting the controversy regarding the relative efficacy of treatments for the relief of symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), compared the1
PASQUALI and colleagues, V and M McLean Department of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas USA, note that very little is known regarding the physiological role of Vitamin A (retinol) and its derivatives, the retinoid1
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