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Re: Wiz-Board Rules, Links, Traditions and HOF Posts Thread
by doclinkin
montestewart wrote: Last Sunday, I took a young friend (I call him my foster nephew, he's my foster son's younger brother) out to get his Christmas/birthday present. He bought a pair of Lebrons. I didn't even flinch. He knows what he wants, and they looked pretty sharp. Wednesday, another friend took him to the Wizards Heat game.
That game was the most exciting this year to me, and my father-in-law (who's REALLY OLD) was much more engaged and excited than usual, as I'd call out the leads to him: 24-12, 36-12, 43-18. But he's been watching the Wizards too long. "It's too early to get excited." He was concerned that they didn't widen the lead before the half, calmed down when they came out fighting in the 3rd quarter, then started to announce the Wizards collapse (that's usually when he starts calling for Vesely).
But Wall, Nene, Booker and friends put on a show for us in the 4th. How can I complain about any aspect of that game? I even liked Maynor. No matter how much I question this team's direction, I'm a fan, and I'm going to enjoy a win like this just as I enjoyed (and completely lost my voice over) the Wizards beating the Celtics the year they won the championship (without Arenas), and beating the Cavs 108-72 in the playoffs (without Arenas), and beating the Thunder and the Lakers in the strike season. I like me some wins, especially the unexpected ones.
I texted my foster nephew's foster mom about what a great game he saw. She said he came home all smiles, sporting his Lebrons, bragging about how the Wizards had held Lebron under 30 points and shut down Wade.
A great game. Very satisfying.
Wiz kicked LeBron's butt-- thread,
by miller31time
In response to the Ruff-and-Tuff new posters determining who, of this board, is a true Wizards fan and who isn't based on how positive or negative they are, The Consiglieri's HOF response....
The Consiglieri wrote: How about the fact that we're fans of a team that's <word I cant say> since the freaking Carter Administration? How about that. There's not a fan on this board that isn't die hard. If any fan in here was suspect in terms of loyalty, they wouldn't be a fan of the team in the first place. In what way exactly has this pile of manure with a wand of a franchise ever rewarded the loyalty of its long suffering fan base?
Incompetent management across multiple owners, multiple GM's, multiple coaches: Check
Innumerable moronic trades in which we've consistently gotten owned: Check
Horrendous draft day decisions year after year, decade after decade: Check
Hideous use of cap resources, amnesty provisions, and 2nd round picks: Check
Incompetent use of D League and refusal to own your own team: Check
Total failure season in and season out w/fewer playoff appearances than the Clippers/Warriors/Cavs in the last 25 years: Check
Total Seasons with more than 42 wins in the past 30 years 3< : Check (1996-1997 and 2004-2005)
Owner and Management not committed to the draft, or rebuilding the proper way: Check
Owner and Management unaccountable regardless of track record, and job safe: Check
Owner and F.O. built around friendship/loyalty rather than professionalism, and talent: Check
Total Failure to build a competitive team in any season at any point that could challenge for a title since the Shah ran Iran: Check
Is there anything anyone on the planet could say that's more absurd than challenging the fandom of individuals that not only support a team with this miserable of a track record, but also, post daily/weekly/monthly/yearly about all things related to said team, knowing full well its run by incompetents with no interest save, preserving their job and paycheck (EG), and receipts (Leonsis), and housing players that know full well the team is a trash compactor designed to grind up NBA title dreams, and replace them with salary chasing, grab the next buck cynicism?
There are no fans on the planet more loyal than fans of this team, of the Cavs, hell of the Clippers pre-Paul/Blake.
If you're a fan of this team for more than 10 minutes you deserve a gold star, fan for years, for life? Nobody can impugn your devotion or loyalty, 10 posts, or 10,000,000.
Just Absurd.
Posted: Sun Mar 2, 2014 6:19 pm
by montestewart
All time hilarious are the wizards better without Eric Maynor? title, but couldn't figure out how to capture it in a topic directory or 1st page screen shot. OP is hilarious too.
BruceO wrote: Five in a row..
If he were on this squad we'd have easily won six of the last five games
are the wizards better without Eric Maynor?
This = funny.
= not funny = Wizardry = obsession with fetid fowl consumption.
Posted: Mon Mar 3, 2014 6:46 pm
Postby pineappleheadindc on Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:01 am
I was out of the house all day, so I recorded the Knicks vs Bulls game. Just watched it, well just the first half actually. New York sucks. Nobody's even trying. And it's not like they have incentive to tank, they will be sending Denver their pick.
There's no defensive effort. No help on D. Nobody makes any effort. Noah took a board for Chicago and he, a center, dribbled to coast-to-coast for an uncontested jam. Nobody made an effort to stop the ball.
Tyson Chandler remains a pouting, lazy female dog whose primary attribute seems to be that he is tall. The Knicks collection of guards couldn't hold their own at Barry Farms. J.R. Smith .... SMH....I'm struggling to find words mean and crappy enough to describe his game. But the English language does not possess a single word that can combine stupid, self-possessed, uncaring, selfish, overrated, and dog poo.
Their coach lacks any self respect. When the Knicks went down like 19-4, he didn't bat an eye. I would lined up 5 completely new guys at the scorer's table. Popovich would done the same thing, but also skinned those dudes alive. Then, they'd be on the first plane out to Charlotte.
The current Knicks are an affront to the noble game of basketball. They are a franchise with a long and storied tradition. Their fan base does not deserve this disaster. I know in this situation, the normal thing is to fire the coach. The thinking is that you can't fire all the players. To which I respond: why not.
The Knicks are not going anywhere. They have one asset, Melo, who is going to jump ship at he end of the season (if he doesn't, he's crazy). Start the rebuild now. Unload everyone if there are any takers. If there's a team who has injured players with a shorter contracts or are hard working character guys, see if you can get them for any able-bodied Knick. Move everyone.
I am a basketball, primarily NBA basketball, fan. I don't have to watch the home town Wizards to enjoy watching a game. But I'm hereby on strike from watching any more Knick games. They're horrible to watch and I refuse to add to the ratings when they're on tv.
by Nivek
montestewart wrote: The Wizards end this season on a 13-game losing streak, miss the playoffs, but silence criticism of losing a 1st rounder in the deepest draft of any sport ever. Theo the Lyin' attributes the team's failure to injuries, not EG, whose contract is renewed for another three years. Wizards luck out and move up in the draft, picking 3rd again, where they choose Marcus Smart, because he can back up either position, he sounds smart, he's the rookie equivalent to a veteran ("a coach on the floor"), they had injury concerns with Embiid and Randle (hangnail), EG had never been to Australia so he couldn't scout Exum, and everyone in the front office was on the same page with the Smart pick (the keep calling it "the Smart pick"), and some other reasons that no one could understand. Gortat signs elsewhere, everyone pretends that was the plan all along. Porter has a season ending injury in the offseason, so Ariza is signed to a 4 year/$40 million deal. Booker and Gooden get 3 year/$12 million deals. Ariza, Booker and Gooden proceed to show that their best years are behind them. Nene has three season ending injuries in one year. Beal has a season ending injury, but to everyone's disappointment, he comes back. Center is largely manned by Charles Jones de jours. The team totally sucks, but Wall has an all-NBA year and leads them to an only slightly worse record, bad enough to miss the playoffs, but good enough to lose the 2015 pick. Wall is angry that the team drafted a point guard, and is tired of losing: "I know we have to earn our wins, and I don't mind sucking it up, but when the front office keeps making questionable moves…maybe I'm in the wrong city." The next year EG makes a blockbuster trade that moves Nene and Ariza for, I don't know, Bogut or somebody, and Terd posts that he enjoys the smell of chastened, know-nothing fans. In 2016, the team finally makes it to the playoffs as an 8th seed, and Leoni proclaims "We have arrived!" and states that this is exactly according to the timetable that he had laid out with full transparency countless times. He raises ticket prices again and resigns EG for another three years. The team is swept in 4 games, all by double digit margins, the last a 124-83 massacre on their home court. At the beginning of 2016-2017, Wall starts agitating for a trade, and EG drags his heels so long that when he finally moves Wall, the Wizards get a nothing prospect, a tired veteran, and a late 1st round pick in return. Did I mention that the team either sells, trades away, or stashes in perpetuity every 2nd round pick? I don't think any of this merits green font at all.
From this thread.
Posted: Tue Apr 8, 2014 11:45 pm
by MarcoPolo
I don't know who exactly said that, but it was one of the best responses since I'm here
(maybe @hands11):
A: Wall has no idea how to use a pick.
B: So he's like EG in a way
by AFM
That was me thanks
Monte getting all handsy in the Countown to Firing EG thread.
montestewart wrote:
miller31time wrote: A capped out Wizards team in a historically weak Eastern Conference is now 7th and falling.
Extensions for everyone!
Look, I've explained this before in another thread a long time ago for a very long time over and over, it's exactly as Ded explained over in Ted Steak numerous times all a long since the beginning. THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN AT NIGHT! Last year, the team too a big step forward, faghting for 9th seed for the first time in a long. This year, 7th, maybe 8th seed, probably swept in the first round. They will talk their lumbs this year, but then:
2015: maybe 6th or 7th weed, take the series to six or maybe seven gems
2016: 5th or 6th weed, make it tooth second round, maybe take one game before exiting
2017: 4th or 5th weed, advance to second round, take series to sex games before exiting
2018: 3rd or 4th weed, advance to second round, take series to a seven games before exiting
2019: 2nd or 3rd weed, advance to second round, take series to a seven games before exiting
2020: 2nd weed, advice through first to arounds, sweat in ECF
2021: 1st or 2nd weed, advance through first and second round, win one in ECF
2022: 1st weed, advance to ECF, take the series to seven games before existing
2023: 1st weed, win ECF, swept in filials
2024: 1st weed, win ECF, win one in finials
2025: 1st weed, win ECF, take finals to six games
2026: 1st weed, win ECF, take finals to severin games
2027: 2nd weed (starting toofad, but not to late), win NBA championhips. Man, will EG be happy!
You see, it's pretty much just like I explained, by Ted's calculations, according to plan, each year the team will get incremationally better, and learn a little something a long the way. I'd start planning for that big 2027 celebration right now. It's going to be quite a puberty.
BY request. The Ji saga. Board history:
nate33 wrote:
AFM wrote: Can someone enlighten me on the history of "Ji"?
Referenced a lot on these boards and I ALWAYS feel like its a big inside joke that I'm not in on. And honestly. that hurts a little.
He's the former incarnation of Jay81.
He has an odd fascination with forecasting weather, and he of course gets mercilessly pounded by the board whenever he is wrong. But his biggest claim to fame is in being a world class jinx. He had a stretch back in the Eddie Jordan era that whenever he started a thread, it was a guaranteed loss. It was truly uncanny. And it was made all the more infuriating because he constantly started game threads without giving anyone else a chance.
IIRC correctly, he ultimately redeemed himself by predicting that we would land the #1 overall pick in the John Wall lottery. When he started the lotto prediction thread, the board went apoplectic, but Ji had the last laugh.
pineappleheadindc wrote: .
If I could expand on Nate's comments a bit. Nate's a gentleman, so he'll be kind with his description of the Ji experience.
Ji isn't just a jinx. He's a JINX. Just about every game thread he'd start would guarantee a Wizards loss. As Nate says, it's uncanny.
And he wouldn't just JInx the team in a "normal" fashion (if there is such a thing). I swear, Ji would willfully and purposefully wait until the Wizards got a nice little winning streak going, maybe 3 in a row or so, then he'd swoop in to start a game thread in front of whoever had started game threads for the little winning streak and guarantee a loss. I swear he did it on purpose just for laughs.
I think Ji is actually a meteorologist IRL. It's scary for me to write this -- but I think he makes his living at weather forecasting. And, like his uncanny skill at killing Wizards winning streaks, Ji was (under his original screen name) horribly bad at weather forecasting. Not bad, but BAD.
He'd usually start new threads with titles such as "Historic Snowstorm Headed to DC Area on Tuesday!". And when Tuesday came, what would happen?
Yeah, it would never snow. Not only would it not snow, it would be clear and warm. He did it again and again, to the point where nobody would believe him.
And Ji was a troll in a good way. He knew where the line was. The worst he'd ever do was drop something like "Nice game, way to play guys". On a losing team's game thread. For something equally innocuous, another mod banned (suspended?) Ji. But I swear, his Ji screen name is still active.
Oh, and Ji had this habit of starting random, duplicative threads. Just because.
And that's the essence of Ji, "just because". Yeah, he's a JInx, yeah he screwed up weather forecast after weather forecast, yeah he was a sneaky troll, and yeah -- he'd just jam the front page with needless new threads. Why? Just because.
But through it all, he was and is OUR Ji. He never took umbrage to folks harassing him about his weather forecasting acumen, or his ability to JInx the Wizards or yelling at him for starting yet ANOTHER new thread about Eddie Jordan. No...he was and is a good-hearted poster and was (when he posted more) a really important member of the daily RealGM Wizards board community.
He posts now as Jay-something or another. But I wish he'd go back to his original screen name. And I wish he'd come back more regularly to post often. It's not the same board without Ji.
Lastly, Nate noted how Ji finally redeemed himself by calling the Wizards moving up in the lottery to get John Wall. I've found the thread and it (for us old timers) makes for fun reading. Link: viewtopic.php?f=35&t=1011900
dckingsfan wrote:
doclinkin wrote: From that thread
Ji wrote: Well if its any consolation.. when the caps were up 3-1 against Montreal, i sent out a public question on facebook asking everyone if they wanted to play Philly or Boston in the next round.
I need this jinx to end because all my friends think I am a jinx and this would end it all if we got John Wall. I could post game threads,etc
so funny.
We'd be on a win streak, the thread starter from the prior game thread was due to start a new one, Ji would see a cherry hanging low on the tree (the Charlotte LOLcats for instance) and rush in there to start a Game Thread trying to break his shxtstreak. Inevitably we'd lose, and the more often he did it the more ridiculously awful the outcome. Inevitably something terrible would happen. The "not possible" game may have been ji. But the final straw was definitely the game Gil blew his knee out.
Really it was a mercykill that an overzealous Heat mod 86'ed him.
And somehow after that he changed his name to Jay, and made a baby, and people started respecting his weather reports and all crazy kinda things happened. So who knows. Luck can turn, maybe. Maybe you put in enough hopeless enthusiasm long enough and eventually the wheel turns. Maybe.
Maybe. Though cross your fingers and try not to get your hopes up. Still makes me jumpy if he starts even a weather thread. Remember this guy revels in disaster. He's the first guy every year to advocate tanking for lotto balls.
This needs to be HOF history material
keynote wrote:
Tiny Too wrote: Supposedly, Wroten and Carter-Williams went to management. They didn't like that Maynor, as a veteran, insisted they, as rookies, carry his gear on the road trips.
In their defense, Maynor's bags are full of bricks and have no handles.
From The Official Eric Maynor Shrine ®
Lessons in ubertrolling from an old jedi master:
pineappleheadindc wrote:
JWizmentality wrote:
That's what I get for perusing the General board. My offense, baiting the fan base. Isn't that some BS? If that's the case the whole Craptor board should be suspended. I haven't been suspended since the potassium on the toilet seat incident back in high school, and to be honest I'm kinda disappointed because I always figured miller31time would be the one to pop my cherry. Alas, he has missed his opportunity.
At the very least I took the Craptor bastard down with me. All I did was call them out for complaining about the refs, there was no name calling or anyth....actually I may have referred to them, in a very flattering way, to an aspect of the female anatomy....and I may have said he was possibly on some contraband but it was all in jest I assure you.
And I have no remorse nor have I learned anything from my incarceration. This rehabilitation has failed miserably, and I may in fact be much worse.
Dude, what the hell is wrong with you? Don't you know how to troll by now? Copy/paste your offending post, so we can see what did you in.
Listen to me, there are only two ways to troll that make the endeavor worthwhile.
1) Lead the lemmings off of the cliff.
In this scenario, it's important for you to express sadness and outrage that the Raptors lost to such an inferior team as Brooklyn. Get folks into the habit of "hell yeah-ing" after your posts. Then, introduce something really stupid and work hard to get the lemmings to follow you. These can include (a) Introducing a conspiracy theory about how the dark forces of the NBA have paid off members of the Raptors squad or coaching staff to throw the game. "Player x really never liked Toronto anyway. Just watch, in 2015 he's gonna jump to some other team and Adam Silver will 'accidentally award them the number 1 pick in the lottery. It sucks that the entire NBA hates Toronto so much". Try and get a mass of folks to repeat your conspiracy theory. OR pick a marginal player or head coach and question their effort. Your ultimate goal is to get a thread full of vitriol aimed at one of their own for made-up (perceived) slights such as a lack of effort or commitment or that they're just stupid.
2) Insult, but couched as a compliment.
"Player X (of the Raptors) really knows how to hustle. Probably in the top 5 in the NBA in hustle. If only he had just mid-level skills (or bb IQ like player Y), he'd be unstoppable. I wonder why the Raptor front office is being so cheap with such a valuable player asset like him that they won't hire him a skills coach?" Try and get the masses angry at the organization.
Calling an entire group of people the same name as female body parts -- amateur.
Been quietly doing a 'Number 2" ^^ all over the Bulls board. Helps if it is also true.
I'd add: number 3) poormouth gloating
"We suck so bad and here are all the reasons why you really should be beating us. Geez, how terrible it must be to be beaten by a good-for-nothin sack-of-suck like our squad. Y'all must be really heaps of turds to let that happen. I'd be miserable if I were you."
Only, you know, phrased a wee bit more sympathetically. Then you get them all to try and ante up in the poker game of 'YOu think YOU suck, here's how bad WE suck'. I'll see your inept dysfunction and raise you a seven footer with the hairdo of a standard poodle.
This current breed of Chicago poster is tougher to dislike though. Tough to hate on a squad of hardworking hustlefxcks who dive for loose balls and scrap for everything, so it's easier to contain the schadenfruede. Now if this were Miami well I'm pretty sure I mighta gotten banned by now as well...
doclinkin wrote:
fishercob wrote: This will do wonders for Nene's persecution complex. I bet he's going to watch game 4 from an actual cross.
Selfish, unrepentant, beyond disaapointing. 20 year old Bradley Beal had more self control and respect for his teammates.
It takes balls to admit you were wrong.
Well then maybe he can admit that he was partially to blame.
From the Nenê thread.
by hands11
Post#27 Re: Wizards "impressive" in their u
Tue Jun 17, 2014 9:35 am by fishercob
Summary of this thread so far:
The SportsVU guys says he's impressed with how the Wizards have used the data.
People respond by saying "the Wizards management sucks, so......no."
Nuh uh, Yuh huh ensues.
I know I risk angering Ruz with this comment, but what a stupid discussion. The reason it's stupid is because no one here knows what we're actually arguing about -- including my friend Nivek who himself said he has very little contact with the front office any more.
Here's what we don't know:
(1) What data the Wiz are mining from SportsVu
(2) How they're using it. Specifically, we don't know who is analyzing the data, the conclusions they're drawing from it, and how they're communicating it to the decision makers in the front office and on the coaching staff -- nor do we know if and how these decision makers are using it.
What we actually know is that this guy said he's impressed by what the Wizards are doing. That's pretty much it.
That this guy's statement would morph into a referendum on long two's, Eric Maynor, etc. is abjectly stupid and a demonstration of this forum performing way, way below its potential. We know next to nothing about the subject at hand -- and that's okay. It's okay to not have the answers all the time. It's okay to just pose questions and wonder. Uninformed certitude is the worst.
by TGW
WallTown02 wrote: It doesn't matter what the odds of success were. It's zero if you don't try. There is no defense here.
The model franchise, Spurs, use every resource possible to upgrade their team. They have multiple 2nd rounders playing meaningful roles on a championship team. They have multiple assets overseas. Yes, they sold a 2nd this year. They also traded for another. Their team is much deeper than ours. Yet they continue to add pieces in any way possible.
We on the other hand, have multiple open roster spots, but think we can't add talent in the 2nd round. It would be way too difficult to make this "tough & deep" roster. Meanwhile, we're likely to spend about $20 million annually on TWO former 2nd round picks!!!
Selling the pick benefits ONE person. Ted Leonsis. It doesn't give the team the best chance of improving. Arguing otherwise is simply being a blind homer.
From the Grunfeld A Great GM. Proves Doubters Wrong thread:
closg00 wrote:
hands11 wrote: Yet some how William Shatner had a long productive career and still has work.
And in the end, he always won.
And yeah, that sneaking up behind you. That's was EG. Which was the one thing you got right and was the point of the post to begin with.
There-in lies the incredibly low bar that you (but not most here), are willing to accept. Shatner indeed has had a long career, but has he been anything other than a hack and mediocre "working" actor his entire career? You're giddy to have Shatner, we want a Brando or De Niro.
You have to half patients. Sucks doesn't combover ninth. Ita'ss excremental.
Posted: Wed Jan 7, 2015 12:52 am
fishercob wrote:
Wes_Tiny_Abe_ wrote:
Jason Collins is a BORING gentrification era gay.
The real gays in DC were over at 12" Dance Records on P Street back in the day.
99% of the employees who worked there and customers who shopped there were all openly gay.
From men dressed as women all the way to shirtless muscular incredible hulk body type dudes on rollerblades that place was just as gay if not gayer than any gay nightclub in DC or Baltimore.
I remember walking up to the register one time with a stack of albums I wanted to purchase and the cashier behind the register ignored me, pulled out a mirror and started applying lipstick and other makeup products to his face. "I'm busy right now" "Just leave the albums on the counter and come back and pay for them in 10 minutes" he said.
Sometimes the store phone would ring and nobody would answer it because they did not want to lower the music and disrupt the live in store DJ who was mixing house records in the back of store.
I still have one of their shopping bags.
One of these days I might frame it along with many of my other shopping bags from local businesses which have long since closed just to remind myself how interesting this city was before the CVS, Starbucks and Whole Foods invasion.
HOF post.
Posted: Thu Feb 5, 2015 12:10 pm
dupe, see below
queridiculo wrote: Washington is on pace for their best season record in 36 years, so unless Wittman smuggles a gun into the locker room, solicits a prostitute and **** in Leonsis shoes, he will be back next year.
Countdown to Don Newman Being Named Interim Head Coach
dupe, see above

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


If Jesus Christ stood before us today in front of our church at the pulpit and asked the congregation, "Do you Love your enemies?" And, "Do you forgive everyone all the time for EVERYTHING, or as I taught Peter, 70X7?" How many of us could He grant the "Kingdom of Heaven" and "Eternal Life" to?
We have been greatly deceived about the message of Jesus Christ for over 400 years.
You see, to "go to war" and to "kill your enemies" is anti Christ, and the Voice of the Holy Spirit is drowned out by wanting to seek vengeance. Vengeance Is Gods.
Unconditional Forgiveness restores the mind to sanity by removing judgment. We cannot judge. Our judgment is not good at best.
The Father gave us a Holy Spirit when our Savior ascended to Heaven. The Holy Spirit is the "Great Comforter" promised by Jesus Christ. He is here, and He is Now.
To know the truth that sets us free, we Must practice, Unconditional Forgiveness. There is no other way for the "Christian" follows of Christ Jesus to experience the Kingdom of Heaven.
As you begin to make an attempt to "love your enemies" the ego does not like it. The Holy Spirits' home is the "Kingdom of God" or the Mind. The egos home is the body. The body is not eternal, mind is. The mind has to be stilled of all the fearful, judgmental mind chatter of the ego. This is accomplished by our willingness to Forgive, thus Love our enemies. Simple. Just not easy. We must take the Burch rod to ourselves. No one can eat our food for us.
You are not alone in the Atonement process. The Holy Spirit needs your faith in Him to heal your mind. If we feel the need to harm our enemies in any way, we will not enter Heaven in this life, or the next. All mental illness is rooted in judgment.
We are mentally ill Christians if we believe Jesus Christ taught kill thy enemies.
The reason Dr. Martin Luther King could do what he did was because he was a follower and "practicer" of the teachings of Jesus Christ.
The concept of enemies is unknown in Heaven because Gods Creation is one. We are all one. One is confusing to those who see two. The reason for the paradox is our insane judgment brought about by fear.
There is no fear in perfect love. Perfect love casts out all fear. Seek your Father, and the devil flees. Forgiveness silences the ego by our willingness to listen to the Holy Spirit and His call to love.
We are spirit. God is spirit. To know God we must seek Him in spirit. Spirit is consciousness. Consciousness is the medium created by our Father to know Him. Lord Jesus Christ rules this spiritual consciousness, not with fear but with love. He is an equal ruler. Meaning, He wants to give you the Kingdom via His Atonement.
The Atonement undoes all our "sin" or mis-thinking of the past. Showing us a world our eyes could never see. Your guilt is gone, He atoned for all our mistakes, past and future.
However, to understand the true meaning of the teachings of Jesus Christ we MUST UNCONDITIONALLY FORGIVE EVERYONE.
In closing, we are free. Jesus Christ has freed us. But knowing this is not enough. We must experience Salvation to understand the Atonement completely.
Imagine what it would be like to live with no worries, and no cares. To be peaceful and happy all day everyday. Never to be sick, and never to be afraid of the future. If we can imagine that, we are beginning to understand the substantial nature of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.


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Everyone is at home during lockdown. But why do women only do kitchen chores mostly?
Bijeesha Budhathoki April 7, 2020
Illustration: Oxford Human Rights Hub
Sabitri Neupane lives with her husband, son, daughter, and mother-in-law in Salyantar, a village in Dhading district, west of Kathmandu. This middle-aged woman works for an NGO as a part-time staffer whereas her husband is a secondary-level teacher at a nearby government school. Her son and daughter, with the age difference of only 15 months, had come to Kathmandu for higher studies after they passed the 10th grade in 2012.
After the government imposed the nationwide lockdown amid the outbreak of the coronavirus worldwide, all members in the Neupane family are together in their village home today; the couple's respective offices are shut, so are the children's colleges.
"On regular days, I, alone, do kitchen chores, but thankfully, my daughter is at home now and she is helping me out with my daily job now," expresses Neupane, adding she, however, has complaints that her husband and her son are mostly busy with their mobile phones, television, news, and whatnot. They rarely help her in the kitchen and other cleaning works until there is an emergency, Neupane adds.
One might assume that the practice of treating household chores as 'women's work' or 'women's sphere' is prevalent in villages only, but city dwellers are also not much different though there are a few exceptions. Otherwise, at this prime time of lockdown, when all the family members, male and female alike, are restricted inside the home, they should have ideally shared the chores. But this is not the case, observe gender scholars and activists.
Maintaining the status quo
Anisha Bhattarai, an anthropologist associated with Social Science Baha, observes that though the Nepali society has undergone various changes in the society, traditional gender roles are intact. "Patriarchal cultural notion that household chores fall only under the women's domain is still prevalent dominantly in our society and unless these notions change consciously, from within the practitioners, both male, and female, there would not be any major change in the gender dynamics."
But Bhattarai clarifies that this might not be the case when either of the couple is working from home currently. As there might be extra pressure on them for being more productive, some might be spending more time in their office work than the usual working hours at the office. In this case, even if a man is willing to learn, partake and continue their involvement in household chores, the unavailability of time obstructs him.
Gender activist Sanjog Thakuri has additional views. "The major factor that contributes to the continuation of traditional gender roles is the socialisation process. How one is groomed since their birth and what s/he observes while growing up determines how they understand and conduct their gender roles further," he clarifies.
He exemplifies this process, "When a boy sees her mother doing all the kitchen and household works like cooking, dishes, and laundry, he also observes that her mother is only engaging and teaching his elder or younger sisters in the family about these works. He grows up with an idea that 'this is not my work' and acts accordingly."
Such values would be very difficult to change even in this free time because it is rooted in their psyche very deeply since their childhood.
Rachana Upadhyaya, a researcher at the South Asia Institute of Advanced Studies, seconds Thakuri. She states, "How you perform your gender roles is determined by how one is brought up in and outside the home. These are ingrained within you."
Bhattarai and Thakuri view that there are other possible causes of the inactive roles of the men in household chores, even in this lockdown period. Bhattarai thinks some men might not want to add extra burden to their already occupied mind. If they wish to contribute to the kitchen, they have to learn how to cook and clean the mess. Why would they bother doing so when someone is already doing so? This happens especially when they are grown thinking it is a woman's job, Bhattarai says.
Even when they sometimes do some household jobs like arranging their beds or making tea, they rarely feel like "I am doing my job". Instead they feel like "I am just helping either my mom or wife or sister, suggest both Thakuri and Bhattarai.
Another probable reason for this, as observed by Bhattarai, is the desire within the men to maintain the supremacy or power that they think they have over women in the patriarchal social structure.
Unlocking the barrier
But since both men and women are at home now and both have time, could not this period of lockdown be an opportunity to break these gender stereotypes?
Upadhyaya believes that a transformation into a more equitable, gender-friendly society is possible if people have a desire to do so. But then, she also clarifies that gender roles are not the issues that can be changed overnight; the change takes time. Different processes of socialisation contribute to changing the values which exist since ages ago.
Nonetheless, Thakuri feels that this can be the right opportunity to engage the children, boys in particular, in the family in household chores, make them learn, practise and continue this for a lifetime. They need to be shown that household chores are to be performed by everyone, and not only the women; they need to be taught that all the responsibilities should be shared between them equally.
But the womon like Neupane and her husband are perhaps yet to realise that. Consequently, the mother-daughter duo in the family is busy offering the two men in the family whatever they please in lunch and snack and dinner.
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Individual study: The effect of prescribed fire on insect herbivory of the rare grassland perennial, northern blazing star Liatris scariosa, Kennebunk, Maine, USA
Vickery P.D. (2002) Effects of the size of prescribed fire on insect predation of northern blazing star, a rare grassland perennial. Conservation Biology, 16, 413-421
Native sandplain grasslands have declined by over 90% in New England, USA, since the settlement of Europeans. Remaining grasslands persist as small, isolated fragments and many species have declined or become locally extinct. To ensure persistence of the remainig fragments, there has been intensive management using a variety of techniques such as prescribed burning, the effects of which have been well documented for some taxa. However, the effects of prescribed burning on native plants and invertebrates are less well understood. Of particular concern is the rare grassland perennial northern blazing star Liatris scariosa var novae-angliae, which has disappeared from 69% of sites where it formally occurred. At seven unburnt (for a minimum of five years) study sites in Maine and Massachusetts, northern blazing star suffered 65% seed loss to two species of microlepidopteran moths (Tortricidae) and there was no juvenile recruitment. In this study, the effects of the size and frequency of prescribed fire on seed predation of northern blazing star is documented.
Study site: Kennebunk, is a 240 ha sandplain grassland managed by The Nature Conservancy, in northeast USA. It is divided into 16 management units that are burned every 2-5 yrs. Burn units were 13-20 ha in area, apart from one smaller one of 6 ha in size.
Temporal effects of burning on northern blazing star flowering: In 1994, eight burn units were selected which covered a range of burn histories:
1) burned within 6 months
2) burned between 6-12 months previous
3) burned between 22-60 months previous
4) units not burned for at least 60 months (control)
One control unit was burned in November 1994. In each unit, one blazing star flowering stem was collected for each of 20 genets in October 1994 (pre-control burn) and 1995 (post-control burn). Each flower stem was examined for evidence of seed predation, and a flower head was classified as predated if there were one or more caterpillars on the flower or if seeds showed signs of being eaten.
Effect of burn size on seed predation by moths: Two widely separated burn units (>400 m apart) that had been burned within the last six months were selected. A line transect from 40 m outside the burn unit to 120 m within the burn unit was created at each site. In September 1994, 20 flowering stems of northern blazing star were collected within each of the following distances from the burn boundary: 0-40 m unburned (outside the burn unit); 0-40 m burned; 40-80 m burned, 80-120 m burned. Flowers were examined as above.
Temporal effects of burning on northern blazing star flowering: In four units that had been burned within 12 months of October 1994, there was an average seed predation of 16%, compared to an average seed predation of 89% in four units burned over 22 months previously. By October 1995, seed predation in the four units burned within 24 months was on average 83%, corresponding to an average increase in seed predation of 68%. In contrast, the three units not burned for at least 34 months showed no change in seed predation levels. Finally, seed predation in the fourth unit (control unit) that was burned in November 1994 declined by 66% from 87% in October 1994 to 22% in October 1995. These results suggest that in the year after burning there is significantly less seed predation than in subsequent years.
Effect of burn size on seed predation by moths: There was a significant reduction in seed predation with distance from the edge of the unit: outside of the unit average seed predation was 45%; at 0-40 m burned, average seed predation was 28%; at 40-80 m average seed predation was 17%; and at 80-120 m average seed predation was 5%.
Conclusions: The results suggest that burning reduces seed predation during the first post-burn year. Furthermore, the effect of distance suggests that the moths that eat the seeds are dispersal limited, which allows them to rapidly recolonise burned areas close to an unburnt area, but prevents them from efficiently spreading to patches over 80 m from the unit edge. The authors suggest therefore that burn units should be sufficiently large (>10 ha) to ensure that the moths are unable to spread to the core of the unit for at least one year.
Note: If using or referring to this published study please read and quote the original paper. This is available from http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0888-8892. Please do not quote as a conservationevidence.com case as this is for previously unpublished work only.


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Home Technology This is how the trend game works online
This is how the trend game works online
What's the hype about "Wordle" all about? Photo: Screenshot powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/, 01/14/2022 A free puzzle game is conquering the online world: Wordle. How it works and where the hype comes from – we explain it. Whether it's Twitter, Instagram or other social media: Gray, yellow and green boxes are currently appearing everywhere with which users want to share their success. To be precise: your success in the online game "Wordle". Whether in the USA, Great Britain or Germany: the Internet game has been on everyone's lips for a few days – probably mainly thanks to the minimalist game principle. "Wordle", as some might assume, is not a Swabian word, but probably a Combination of the English "Word" and the inventor's last name, "Wardle". Wordle is about guessing words. Or rather: a word every day. Because that's all there is to the original version of Wordle. At the beginning, the player receives 5 gray boxes that must be filled with an English word. The game then indicates whether the letter:
occurs in the searched word and is in the right place (green),
occurs in the word but is not yet in the right place (yellow), or
does not appear in the word at all (grey).
Now you have 6 attempts to find the word of the day. There is no second attempt or a new word – only the next day. Some players immediately notice the similarity to the logic game "Mastermind", which works on a similar principle. A certain color sequence must be found out by successive guesses. It was one of the most popular games in the world in the 1970s. Buy "Code Finder" wooden strategy game online (DISPLAY) Wordle was invented by Josh Wardle back in 2020 during the lockdown. It was originally planned as a gift for his partner and was initially only played by the two of them. Wardle's partner then contributed a list of 2500 English words that can be typed into the game. Josh Wardle is no stranger to the internet: he caused quite a stir with his actions "The Button" (2015) and "Reddit Place" (2017). After Wardle put the game online, he also added a feature that allows players to share their game success in the form of colorful boxes without revealing the word of the day.
Wordle alternatives are partially deleted
The original Wordle game is free for the browser. It is not available for download as an app or in any other form. Resourceful business people who want to benefit from the current hype have of course already copied Wordle's very simple gameplay and offered paid apps in the Google and Apple app stores. The apps, which were sometimes offered for annual fees of 30 dollars, were partly deleted from the app stores. However, there are still a few Wordle alternatives available as an app. As a rule, you can play as many puzzles in one go as you want and not all apps are chargeable. But the original Wordle version is the browser game.
Is there Wordle in German?
The Wordle game that is currently so hyped works exclusively with English words. But of course there are word and logic puzzles with German words that can be just as much fun and usually contain more than one puzzle per day. Examples of these apps include Word Guru, Word Cross, and Word Blitz. However, they all work according to slightly different game principles than Wordle. Who knows – maybe it won't be long before a German version of Wordle appears on the web. Also Read: 70 Games For Kids – Have Fun Indoors
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package org.openqa.selenium.example.reader;

import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedCondition;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Wait;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

import static org.openqa.selenium.Keys.ARROW_RIGHT;

public class MigratedTest {
  private static final String BASE_URL = "http://www.google.co.uk";
  private WebDriver driver;

  @After
  public void tearDown() throws Exception {
    driver.quit();
  }

  @Test
  public void demoReaderPlay() {
    driver = new FirefoxDriver();

    driver.get(BASE_URL + "/reader/play/");

    WebElement getStarted = driver.findElement(By.id("welcome-get-started-button"));
    getStarted.click();

    Wait<WebDriver> wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30);
    wait.until(titleChangesFrom(""));

    moveToNextSlide(driver, wait);
    String currentTitle = moveToNextSlide(driver, wait);

    driver.findElement(By.id("current-entry")).sendKeys(ARROW_RIGHT);
    wait.until(titleChangesFrom(currentTitle));
  }

  private String getCurrentTitle(WebDriver driver) {
    WebElement div = driver.findElement(By.id("current-entry"));
    return div.findElement(By.className("entry-title")).getText();
  }

  private String moveToNextSlide(WebDriver driver, Wait<WebDriver> wait) {
    String firstTitle = getCurrentTitle(driver);

    driver.findElement(By.id("entry-nav-next")).click();

    return wait.until(titleChangesFrom(firstTitle));
  }

  private ExpectedCondition<String> titleChangesFrom(final String firstTitle) {
    return new ExpectedCondition<String>() {
      public String apply(WebDriver driver) {
        String currentTitle = getCurrentTitle(driver);
        if (!firstTitle.equals(currentTitle)) {
          return currentTitle;
        }
        return null;
      }
    };
  }
}

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Доуни́нгия Бачигалу́пи () — вид цветковых растений рода  семейства .

Ботаническое описание
Однолетнее травянистое растение с прямостоячим ветвистым стеблем, несущим в узлах мелкие ромбовидные листья. На конце каждой ветви находится 1 или более цветков, каждый 1—2 см шириной.

Цветок имеет 2 верхние доли, плоские, прямые или закрученные назад, с жилками тёмно-синего цвета. Три нижние доли срастаются в одну трёхзубчатую поверхность с тёмно-синими жилками и жёлтыми пятнами посередине, обрамлёнными белым. Тычинки срастаются в одну прямостоячую пурпурную нить, несущую тёмные пыльники.

Плод — растрескивающаяся коробочка 2—5 см длиной.

Ареал и местообитание
Произрастает на западе США от Калифорнии до Идахо, где растёт на влажных лугах и около прудов.

Ссылки
 Jepson Manual Treatment
 USDA Plants Profile
 Фотографии

Колокольчиковые
Флора Северной Америки
Таксоны растений, названные в честь людей

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Cydonia
by Paul Cooper
It's little known how particular the Pitchfork copy editors are. Though they're said to parse each review for ...
It's little known how particular the Pitchfork copy editors are. Though they're said to parse each review for illogicalities, flagrant lapses in concentration, and general sloppiness, they rarely concern themselves with write-ups of indie rock mainstays. In matters ambient and chill, though, they override even the editor-in-chief's judgment. Why should this be?
The copy editors' tasks are so crucifyingly dull that the only way to retain a knowledgeable and well-balanced team is to give each editor top-of-the-line headphones so that they may enjoy the soothing tones of chill-out discs while lazily perusing their articles. As a result of years of marking up copy while submerged in deep, deep chill, the copy editors have gained an acute knowledge of their preferred genre. The department recently voted Coco Steel and Lovebomb's Balearic ambient record Sun Set "the most chamomile disc of the 90's."
The department has been defection-free since Nathan Scrote, a fine interpreter of Brent DiCrescenzo's prose, left without a word after working himself into a caffeinated tizzy over Moby's "disrespectful" mixes of Brian Eno's "Fractal Zoom." But since that wet Wednesday afternoon, the team has remained cohesive and love-bound. It's almost as if they'd all drunk of Milton the Monster's tincture of tenderness.
Well, not quite. Rumors of disruption started up again on the Tuesday that the Orb's Cydonia was to be released. The editor-in-chief found fragments of vicious pink hi-lighter marker on the boardroom carpet. Elsewhere, red pencil shavings were scattered into Mrs Neshanigan's handbag-- what had the Pitchfork eurythmacist done to deserve such treatment?
An extensive report from the internal affairs department reported that the copy editors had taken premature and violent exception to Cydonia. Nonplussed at Aki Omori's vocals and doot-doot-doo's on "Once Again," the band's sixth album did not sit well with them. Their resented prevented further listening. In their resistance to anything other than another re-rerun of U.F.Orb, they never stopped to admire the breakbeat melodica dub of "Promis" or the rolling echoes and classically Orb-ular processing effects on the lilting "Ghostdancing."
Recalling Orbus Terrarum's "Slug Dub," "Turn It Down" concludes with an excerpt of a knighted Welshman telling tall tales of the local brewery's dark and powerful ale that sustained his generation through Nazi bombardment and forced rationing. Drifting in, possibly from some moments left off the Robert Fripp/Orb collaboration FFWD, "Egnable" is a Monty Python-esque monologue based on IKEA self-assembly instructions and upholstering manuals. After such headspace adventures, the Orb return to clubbier material with the Front 242 DMT trip of "A Mile Long Lump of Lard," and "1.1.1," which could have easily come off Krust's Coded Language. Cydonia closes with the circa 1989 "Terminus," a lengthy, spaced-out ambient trundle around the universe-- exactly the type of adventuring that distinguished them over a decade ago.
Though Cydonia is far from being a dull, sequencer-heavy Namlook ambient release, it regrettably sounds irrelevant in today's climate. No one will deny the importance of the band's first two albums, but by the time they released the frighteningly claustrophobic Orbus Terrarum, the glitch of Oval and the algorithm of Autechre had turned the electronic scene microscopically inward.
Out on the dancefloor, Dr Alex Patterson and his cohorts' "Land of Oz" chillout has little meaning to the kids who've made hard house and trance the world's most in-demand genres. The Orb now find themselves creating breakbeat tracks that can't fairly compare with the dangerous dark of Dave Tipper or Rennie Pilgrem. Cydonia will confuse those who haven't followed the band's advice ("An Orb is for life, not just for Christmas") and grown up with them. They'll rightly demand to know why these guys are considered pioneers. While it's so tempting to me, a longtime admirer of Dr LX journeying, to find all manner of excuses and apologies for the stalled and self-reminiscing Cydonia, I have to concede that it may be time for the Orb to make a Mir-like re-entry into Earth's atmosphere and collide with a Taco Bell sign in the middle of the Pacific ocean.
Alternatively, the Orb could cop a few moves from the similarly named Orbital, who've managed to remain strikingly meaningful over a similar length of time. Orb fans should reflect on why indie-apostates such as Radiohead have turned to Richard D James for guidance rather than Dr Patterson, whose love of Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream once seemed to chime perfectly with Radiohead's own.
The Kosmos would show sublime and gracious irony if some 'Crasher kid, twenty years hence, discovered Alex Patterson and decided to give him one more bite of celebrity pie, just as Patterson did for Gong's has-been guitarist, Steve Hillage. Encouraging such System 7 fantasies is, in fact, the primary recommendation of the Pitchfork Internal Affairs Division report on the unrest within the copy-editing department. After a few spins of The Water Album and 777, staffers' write-ups will once again be freed from the stranglehold of pendant participles.


You don't see this perennial from the middle east very often in our gardens. Its a great, low water long lived plant with dramatic, showy flowers. Spikes to 4′ tall are clouds of large starry yellow fragrant flowers. Blooms appear in May and June and are showy for weeks. Grassy blue green leaves form a clump at the base. Rich, well drained soil with little to no summer water once established. Mass for a very showy effect. Remove spent flowers and you are left with relatively good looking low arching blue green leaves. Must have full sun and a bit of patience to bloom. We try to sell them in bloom to avoid the wait. Moderate deer resistance. Winter deciduous. Long lived.


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Defeated & Frustrated: Climate Activists Turn to Terror, Go Berserk
"The global warming movement as we have known it is dead. It was done in by a combination of bad science and bad politics"
This was Walter Russell Mead in his blog on The American Interest. Two weeks ago, the foundation graph of IPCC's theory to Global Warming was proved a fraud by a new peer review study. Now an external inquiry constituted jointly by the UN and IPCC to look into the working of the IPCC concluded that the IPCC made claims with high confidence levels when in reality they had little or no evidence for it.
So what happens to the core faithful of the movement? They apparently are still to come to terms to the death of their movement. Rudderless, this small rag tag army is increasingly taking to violence and fascist ideology.
"The politicians have failed. Now it is up to us. We must break the law to make the laws we need: laws that are supposed to protect society, and protect our future. Until our laws do that, screw being climate lobbyists. Screw being climate activists. It's not working. We need an army of climate outlaws.
The proper channels have failed. It's time for mass civil disobedience to cut off the financial oxygen from denial and scepticism. If you're one of those who have spent their lives undermining progressive climate legislation, bankrolling junk science, fuelling spurious debates around false solutions, and cattle-prodding democratically elected governments into submission, then hear this:
We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work. And we be many, but you be few."
This was Gene Hashmi, Greenpeace India's Communications Director. See our archive posting here. His outburst showed that as early as April this year, these astro-turf "Greens" knew that they were losing the battle. Hashmi's battle cry was a forewarning what a defeated and humiliated army would degenerate to - violence, terror etc.
That peace as in "Greenpeace" is just a camouflage for unlawfulness that permeates their core ideology is illustrated by Hashmi's call
"We must break the law to make the laws we need".
We can ask, what kind of law can we expect from the modern day Hitler Youth movement who subscribe to the law of the jungle and readily take law into their hands? James Lovelock, one of the ideologues of the movement confirms the fascist underlining of the movement:
"It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while, in order to save humanity."
In late July this year, Greenpeace activists temporarily shut down dozens of BP gas stations across London to protest the company's handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and to draw attention to environmental problems stemming from the world's reliance on petroleum. A month later, they broke into the safety zone surrounding Cairn Energy's drilling rig Stena Don in Greenland by forcing their entry. The Government of Greenland reacted strongly:
"This constitutes an obvious illegal act that disregards the democratic rules. It furthermore constitutes a severe violation of the safety regulations put in place to protect human lives and the environment. The drilling in progress has therefore been stopped and Greenpeace has once again succeeded in impeding Greenland's opportunities to secure the economic foundation for its people's condition of life.
The Greenland Government regards the Greenpeace action as being a very grave and illegal attack on Greenland's constitutional rights. It is highly disturbing that Greenpeace in its chase on media attention with all measures breaks the safety regulations put in place to protect people and the environment.
The Greenland Government condemns the illegal action, but remains however confident that the police and the executive authorities will continue to ensure that the legal business activities can continue undisturbed. Through a comprehensive inspection program, it has been demonstrated that Cairn's drilling programme in Greenland has been executed according to very high safety standards. All government requirements have been met conscientiously and the Greenland Government therefore remains fully confident about Cairn's activities in Greenland."
Greenpeace however was unrepentant. In their blog their proudly stated that their act of vandalism:
"..actually stopped it. The drills stopped turning."
The four Greenpeace activists had been arrested and we can expect them to get exemplary punishment - all for "the cause" which Greenpeace gloats about!
How dangerous the Greenpeace model of protest on the rank and file of the environment movement is illustrated by the hostage crisis in Discovery Channel in the US a few days ago. James Lee, an Asian American, entered the lobby of the sprawling building waving a handgun with a package and metallic canisters strapped to his body and took hostages. He is reported to have yelled "Saving the Planet means saving what's left of the non-human wildlife by decreasing the Human population. That means stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting human babies!" He was shot dead by the police with the hostages unharmed!
Earlier this year, a Brazilian couple shot dead their two children before shooting themselves. The reason: they feared global warming consequences! Like Lee, they were incited to violence after watching Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth!.
Before trying the 'save the world', we should be actually trying to save the environment movement from astro-turf "Greens' who focus on imaginary than real problems and subscribe to ends justify means philosophy that are being seized by anti-green forces to paint the whole environment movement as total nut cases. Any democratic movement should uphold the rule of law but not glorify instances of breaking it as Greenpeace does. The human rights movement does itself a gross disservice by keeping silent on blatant violation of the rule of law by the likes of Greenpeace. This includes the production of apocalyptic communications that leads to trigger acts of terror such as we faced in Discovery Channel.
The popular climate skeptic blog, WUWT has just broke the news that the wing of US Homeland Security, START Terrorism Center - University of Maryland, in a new report concludes that the deadly hostage-taking incident at the Discovery Communications headquarters in suburban Washington, D.C. meets the criteria of a terrorist act! START maintains a Global Terrorism Database (GTD). Who knows? A membership with Greenpeace would put you in this list! Read more at WUWT.
selsey.steve September 3, 2010 at 2:52 AM
James Lee shot dead? Good.
GreenPiss 'activists' arrested? Good
Hope they go to jail for a looooong time.
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A nyakörv (eredeti cím: Danny the Dog, az amerikai piacon Unleashed) 2005-ben bemutatott francia–amerikai–angol akciófilm Louis Leterrier rendezésében. A forgatókönyvet Luc Besson írta, a filmzenét a Massive Attack (Danny the Dog címmel zenei albumuk is megjelent) szerezte. Az akciókoreográfiát Jűn Vó-pheng készítette.

A főbb szerepekben Jet Li, Morgan Freeman és Bob Hoskins látható.

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Dannyt (Jet Li) kiskorában rabolta el Bart (Bob Hoskins), miután megölte a kisfiú édesanyját. Bart úgy bánik Dannyvel, mint egy kutyával, nyakörvet is kell viselnie. Bart verőgépnek nevelte Dannyt, aki bármit megtesz "gazdájának", amikor az leveszi a nyakörvet róla. Amikor Danny nem Bart parancsait teljesíti, egy padló alatti zugban tölti az idejét, egy kis képeskönyvvel. A férfi érzelmi képességei egy kisgyerek szintjén maradtak, mivel Bart sohasem tanította meg neki, mit jelent a szeretet. Egyik nap Danny véletlenül összetalálkozik Sammel (Morgan Freeman), a vak zongorahangolóval, aki mostohalányával, Victoriával együtt a zene szeretetének segítségével visszaadja Dannynek emberi érzéseit és megszabadítják a nyakörvétől. Danny megtapasztalja, milyen emberi lényként élni, és új családra lel Sam és Victoria személyében. Bart azonban nem hajlandó elengedni "harci kutyáját" és ráküldi a férfira a verőlegényeit, majd amikor Danny mindegyikükkel végez, a hosszú évek alatt a férfira gyakorolt érzelmi nyomását próbálja felhasználni Danny ellen, visszaédesgetni a férfit a nyakörvbe, hogy menjen vele "haza". Danny Barthoz idézett utolsó mondata annyi: "Ez az én otthonom" (Samre és Victoriára utalva), majd szinte halálra veri kegyetlen fogvatartóját, Sam azonban megakadályozza, hogy Danny megölje a férfit, emlékeztetve Dannyt arra, hogy már nem "kutya", hanem emberi lény, és nem süllyedhet le Bart szintjére. Az utolsó jelenetben Sam és Danny Victoria zongorahangversenyét nézi a színházban és Danny arcán könnycseppek csordulnak le, ahogy édesanyja zongorajátékára emlékezik.

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Kritikai fogadtatás
A Rotten Tomatoes kritikusai összességében 65%-osra ítélték a filmet, dicsérve Li színészi játékát (mindamellett megjegyezve, hogy akció közben még mindig meggyőzőbb, mint drámai színészként), de nem voltak elégedettek a történettel és azzal, hogy a vadul brutális akció nem igazán fér össze a film érzelmesebb jeleneteivel. A Metacritic hasonló eredményre jutott, 58 pontot ítélve az alkotásnak.

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This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Michael Gross. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Tremors Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Michael Gross (born June 21, 1947) is an American television, movie, and stage actor who plays both comedic and dramatic roles. His most notable roles are fatherly figure Steven Keaton from Family Ties and graboid hunter Burt Gummer from the Tremors film and television series.
Gross was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Virginia Ruth, a telephone operator, and William Oscar Gross, a tool designer. He attended high school at Kelvyn Park High School on the north side of Chicago. He received his drama degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago before attending Yale University for his Master of Fine Arts degree. His sister, Mary Gross, is a former Saturday Night Live cast member.
Gross is known for his role as Steven Keaton in the 1980s sitcom Family Ties, and as "Burt Gummer" in the Tremors movies and subsequent TV series. The sketch of the Keaton Family during the opening sequence of Family Ties was, in fact, drawn by Gross, himself. He also guest starred in an episode of the sitcom Night Court, in which he played a sexual predator to Markie Post's character, Christine Sullivan.
His other television credits include Boston Legal, How I Met Your Mother, Batman Beyond, ER, Law & Order, and two of its spin-offs: SVU and Criminal Intent.
Gross had a special cameo in 2000 on Spin City as a therapist to Michael J. Fox's character on Fox's final show as a regular on that program.
Born in Chicago, Michael Gross (Burt Gummer) received his B.A. from the University of Illinois and his M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. After graduating in 1973, he went straight to regional theatre and spent tree seasons with the Actors Theatre of Louisville, where he appeared in the title role of the "Oedipus the Kind" and in "That Championship Season," among others. His off-Broadway credits include "Private Lives," "Endgame," "Geniuses" and "No End of Blame," for which he won an Obie Award in 1982. He made his Broadway debut as Greta, the drag queen, in "Bent" with Richard Gere and David Dukes. He also performed in the Mark Tapor Forum's repertory productions of "The Real Thing" and "Hedda Gabler."
Gross made his film debut in Sidney Lumet's "Just Tell Me What you Want" (1980) with Alan King and Ali McGraw and followed with the part of Dr. Jay Marshall in "Big Business" opposite Bette Midler.
But it was "Family Ties," one of the most successful situation comedy runs in television history, and only the second television show for which he had ever auditioned, that catapulted Gross into the limelight.
Among his other extensive television credits are the television movies "A Letter to Three Wives," "Cook and Perry: The Race to the North Pole," "A Girl Named Sooner," "Summer Fantasies," "Right to Die" and "In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders."
Gross has been married to casting director Elza Bergeron since June 2, 1984, and they have two children.
Gross is a passionate railfan with an extensive collection of railroad antiques. He is an amateur railroad historian, photographer, modeller, and part-owner in a working railroad, the Santa Fe Southern Railway, a former branch line of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway which operates between Lamy and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is also the spokesman for the World's Greatest Hobby campaign sponsored by the Model Railroad Industry Association that promotes the hobby of model railroading. He has also been a spokesperson for Operation Lifesaver, a campaign promoting safety at railroad grade crossings. Beginning in 2009, Gross is the "celebrity spokesman" for the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.
Coincidentally, Gross and his Family Ties co-star Meredith Baxter (who played his wife Elyse Keaton), were born on the same date, June 21, 1947.
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I have received my receipt number on first week of this month from one of my employer in US. Happy to hear that from my employer.
I don't see my name and passport number or any other details upon entering receipt number at check case status section in USCIS website.
Hey, there is no way you can see your details online. The only is ask your employer for a copy of I-797C. This will show the receipt number, your name, filing date and receipt print date.
Any one from accenture bangalore got the H1B approval email from RMS team? I got an email saying that result will be announced in June month.
Even in Accenture HDC some of them got acceptance mails. Most of them in my DU, including me got awaiting confirmation mail only.
for an appropriate update from the USCIS.can we treat it as rejected or still we have chance?
anyone from IBM got updates today?
Any update in HCL Noida on H1B……………….How much more we need to wait for status…………….Or Already they shared status with selected Guys ?
No update from Bangalore HCL too.
On top left Click on check USCIS case status buttion..
if you selected in lottery you will get receipt number.
🙁 For me it still showing "Your Case Recipt# is not updated in the system". Does it means no hope for me now ?
How many ppl from hcl got the file no, is the rate looks high or only few people got the file no ?
Any one got the file no from HCL bangalore ? is there any chance still ?
yes, people Bangalore got their receipt no on 15/May.
Heard like few of my friends received receipt numbers last week between May 13th and May 15th 2015 at HCL Chennai and Bangalore.
I am waiting for the results.. did anyone from Accenture receive the result ?
When will this wait end ?
Got update just now from in E-Mail from Accenture India people mobility that the application got picked up…hoping other people might also get similar acceptance. No update on the status in RMS site.
I got the mail as we are still awaiting the lottery status of your H1B application from USCIS. What are the chances now ?
What about Wipro? I know few people got the confirmation of lottery pick on May 12 from GIMS. Did any one get after that May 12?
My 2 friends got email on 15th May from Wipro GIMS .
Hold on for May 19th and May 22nd.
How did you know this details?
is this the no of receipts sent as a whole of for Wipro alone?
So, do you think we can still have some hopes and wait till end of the month?
I have heard people getting status update randomly during the last two weeks. But a lot of people are still waiting. So ai think we still have chances.
Still any chances for infy guys??
Any news for HCL? Still didnt received any update on status did anybody got any news from h1b team?
Is there any news for any TCS associate?
Nope..still no update..any idea when are they going to communicate it to us?
Has GI team received all accepted cases or some are yet t come?
Do we still have chances?
I'm still waiting for an update from GI. Are there any chances still?
No update in the online portal till now. Is still there a chance? Please help me with a reply.
Anyone from Infy got status update on or after May 15?
Do u hve any idea hw many in infy received updates so far?
I hve heard very few got it….
You are right. Very few people have gitbso far.
I am in post completion OPT.
I have applied in AD / RP.
I did not get any receipt notice till now nor checks been cashed.
Can you please reply what are my chances of getting H1B.
Anybody facing the same, please reply.
Is there any chance that I get my lottery results . My employer said that I may be put in waiting list so asked me to wait… I don't get it… Anyone please respond .
I have a small business finding and screening H1-B applicants for jobs in the U.S. Then I get the employer and the job together and hopefully they win the lottery. This year I had 20 applicants. So far only 1 has informed me that he had won the lottery. This is not good. I am worried about the integrity of the system.
Any update from Accenture ?
Guys, I heard from my employer that my names is picked up in lottery but my receipt has not yet been received . I am wondering if this at all happens that lottery is picked up and receipt still awaited.
Receipt generation and lottery pick up must be simultaneous process?
I heard there is something waiting List – which also comes under lottery picked up . and the confirmation for waiting list candidates may or may not happen based on some other rejections etc.. Is this correct ?
There is no concept of waiting list in H1B.So if your case is picked up in the lottery then u are thru in the process.You should be able to get the receipt number.
Congratulations and All the very best for your assignment.
Goodluck, Thanks for the wishes.
My employer (A consultant basically) has informed me that my name is picked up and he is waiting for attorney to revery with receipt details. I am in kind of dilemma about the fact, If my name is picked up then there has to be receipt number generated and if not then there is no point of consultant to tell me that my name is picked up – he is getting no benefit of sharing a happy information (If that is not true) . I am not sure where do I stand, although consultant is asking me to keep patience.
Your patience would definitely bring some good fortune – lottery may or may not be symptom of fortune but surely the act of waiting patiently will make you gain something good, All the best to you too!
Can we still wait for the receipts number for NONAD/RP or is it over for this year quota.Iam still eagrly waiting for it.
Got receipt number and status got changed to Acknowledgement received.What does that mean ??
On April 13, 2015, we received your Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker, Receipt Number EAC**********, and sent you the receipt notice that describes how we will process your case. Please follow the instructions in the notice. If you do not receive your receipt notice by May 13, 2015, please call Customer Service at 1-800-375-5283. If you move, go to uscis.gov/addresschange to give us your new mailing address.
Please anyone can confirm what it means ?
I don't mind congratulating someone for getting selected. But I hate to answer such stupid folks.. Maybe there should be an IQ test or IQ score as part of requirement documents.
Hello u got receipt number and u do not understand what's that?? People like u get picked up with no use and many qualified people are getting cooked up to listen the news. Please god show some mercy. Give some knowledge to such people ..
Guys any NEWS from Accenture ?
Not yet..Accenture looks like the only company which is yet to start sending out the lottery status..
Hi, my employer said that my application is picked up by knowing that the cheque got encashed .but its been 10 days I didn't get the receipt.Does cheque encashment means that I am selected in the lottery.if yes then how long will it take to get the receipt number.plz guide.
My status is still opened in INSZOOM can any one have idea what does that mean ?
Means they haven't received reject notice and your chances are on.
Any idea how many got h1b lottery confirmation out of RP(65K).
We can never determine that 🙂 As its totally random in RP..
Very few have received it.
Did any one from infosys mcity chennai got receipt?
I heard from one person that his status is updated on 4th may..
Hi , Did any of you get the notification stating that your petition were not selected in 2016 H1B Lottery ?
MY wife will be 8 months pregnant by the time we ready to fly on H1 visa. Will she be allowed to enter into the USA because of her pregnancy's stage ?
If she has a valid visa I can't see why not, but that is just my guess. What I think can be a problem are the airlines. Probably depends on how close she is to due date.
Airlines won't allow her to fly if she is in 36th week of pregnancy.. Otherwise it is ok.. You need to consult doctors though..
Make sure you have good insurance 🙂 Pregnancy cost rather medical cost is very high in USA without insurance. e.g. My insurance was sent bill of $36000 only for c-sec delivery by hospital. Without insurance it goes from your pocket..
I guess No. They will not allow . I am not expert in this maner. Better to get confirm from experts.
There is no way they can stop her for reason of pregnancy. It is domestic help from parents(Which takes job of Nanny or maids here) .. Which is issue when parents travel due to daughter or daughter-in-law's pregnancy. The only issue could be with airline.. My friend shifted here from Europe during her pregnancy. I have seen my Indian friends and american ladies travelling in/out country all the time till 7 th 8th month..
And moreover pregnancy is not decease or virus for which they could stop her..
On April 13, 2015, we received your Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker, Receipt Number EAC15XXXXXXX, and sent you the receipt notice that describes how we will process your case. Please follow the instructions in the notice. If you do not receive your receipt notice by May 13, 2015, please call Customer Service at 1-800-375-5283. If you move, go to uscis.gov/addresschange to give us your new mailing address…..
I have the receipt number with me. Does that mean I was picked in the lottery?
If I have been picked, what are the chances for approval/rejection? Does it depend on any parameter?
All documents provided were true.
Sorry. Ok I know I was picked. I just want to know the reasons for rejection apart from presenting fake documents, if any.
Can I go for stamping in January 16 now?
Fantastic notion for a lens Sandy.
I applied h1b premium processing for advanced degree. I got the receipt on 23 rd april, but not a final decision yet. is it over for me?
You should know something by end of this week. As PP cases are given decision or RFE within 15 working days from 28-April.. So by 18 th May max you should know..
I have got a Case Number. EAC-15-******.
How to confirm that it's mine ?
If I have a case number from my employer,does that mean that I have been picked in lottery ?
Ask for receipt copy. That will have your name on it.
I know ppl in IBM Pune who got Case Number.
My case status in INSZoom is closed.what does it mean?
10 out of 40+ people who applied out of my account in BLR location, got their receipts. The most recent receipt received date was last weekend.
Our manager as per his discussion with immigration internal team, says, last year FY2015, the last known receipt received was on Aug 5th. Also for FY 2015 last yr, if say X number got picked up in lottery then, 50% of the X – receipts came in month of May, another 30% of X in june, and 10-20% of X in August.
Yeah , You're correct , We can hope still Aug end in IBM , but we move forward ,chances are less.
I got receipt no EAC151******* from my employer today.I check in USCIS web site and it shows still waiting people can hope until 13th May to get receipt no .
Actually i don't believe on my employers they are big lairs.Is there any way i can conform receipt no they have given is mine?
You can ask for a copy of the receipt which USCIS sent to them, it should have ur name on it.
Didn't got any receipt but still hoping for the best.
got mail from ISG for rejection , Please reach to WPC Spoc for you also ..
I got the receipt number in iAura..but there is not official mail from ISG.. who can confirm the i'm selected in lottery ?
Yes …. That means you are selected…………Congrats…….Are you from Noida …Chennai or Banglore HCL………….
Any one from cts bangalore got confirmation/receipt by today/6th May.
(Vermont; Regular Processing) I have not received any notice and the check has not been cashed… Is there any chance still? Or not?
Still now I did not get any info regarding my cheque encash from my employer, so any hope for me ????
I got mail from ISG for rejection , Please reach to WPC Spoc for you also ..
Was the mail sent by ISG or through iaura ?
when you receive the rejection mail from Iaura?
Its updated for HCL Noida or HCL Chennai…I have not heard any update in HCL Noida uptil now…..
Below is the update for me. Does any one know what this mean?
Have you got any mail also from iAura…When your iAura updated.
No mails received. Was just browsing through iAura and found the receipt number updated. Am from Chennai.
Any one from HCL America got the receipt number updated on Iaura who are on L1?
I did L1-H1 COS.I see a receipt number for my case.But no email from iAura yet.
Anyone from Cognizant-EIM received the receipt today ?
Kindly let me know upto when we can expect receipts for regular processing.
Game is over ??? or still few overs left??
Got the Mail from wipro Immigration….. i am picked….. 🙂 🙂 … now waiting for Travel….
i think you guys were not even filed by wipo. i could see some burning smell here.
Anyone from Capgemini got update?
No yet, did you tried contacting? I did but no response over email or call.
They asked me to wait for another 2-3 weeks.
Did you got the case id?
No..they just asked me to wait.
i got a mail from immigration team with receipt no. It says on usics that my case was received. Still wondering what does this mean.
Your H1 pettion was filed by Capgemini?
Congratulations for recipt no., that good news. Yes. my case is by capgemini financial business service.
Anyone have received any update from Capgemini financial services usa inc? Actually I case(NA-Regular) has been filed by them but I didn't received any mail yet.
I mailed them also but not got any response.
Acknowledgement could also mean for shipping label. So ask for receipt number starting EAC/WAC to make sure. As your organization might have different status codes and desc.
is H1B lottery completed for the year 2016 ?
I hope you can wait till this Friday…..
Any one in infosys mcity chennai got receipt??
Not yet. Im waiting too.
Anyone from Infy MCity got the good news. This is my second year and am already loosing hope.
Friends any news from HCL from any location ??
Guys, Any update from IAura or ISG ?
If selected what is the message and if rejected then what is the message you all got ?
As of now I did not got any message from IAura or ISG team.
On April 28, 2015, we updated your name for your Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker, Receipt Number EAC15XXXXXXXX. If you move, go to uscis.gov/addresschange to give us your new mailing address.
The receipt numbers are updated in iAura for few guys. Below is the update for me but unsure what this really mean!
On April 28, 2015, we updated your name for your Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker, Receipt Number EACXXXXXXXX.
i also got reciept number from i aura..but no confirmation mails from i aura or ISG.


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Das Ismail-Somoni-Denkmal ist eines der markantesten Bauwerke der tadschikischen Hauptstadt Duschanbe.

Das Denkmal erinnert an Ismail I., der im 10. Jahrhundert als Emir das Reich der Samaniden in Zentralasien zu großer Macht geführt hat und in Tadschikistan als Nationalheld gilt. Das Denkmal wurde 1999 anlässlich des 1100-jährigen Jubiläums des Reiches der Samaniden errichtet.

Lage
Das Denkmal steht in zentraler Lage der tadschikischen Hauptstadt auf dem Platz der Freundschaft, östlich des Flusses Warsob. In unmittelbarer Nähe des Denkmals befinden sich der Rudaki-Park und das tadschikische Parlament.

Aufbau
Das Denkmal besteht aus einem mehr als 25 Meter hohen Bogen, auf dessen höchsten Punkt eine Krone als Herrschaftssymbol platziert ist. Vor diesem Bogen befindet sich die Statue Ismail I. auf einem Sockel, der über rote Marmorstufen zu erreichen ist. Seitlich des Treppenaufgangs befinden sich zwei Löwen mit gekreuzten Beinen. In der rechten Hand hält die Statue das vergoldete Wappen Tadschikistans.

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Weblinks

Denkmal in Asien
Erbaut in den 1990er Jahren
Duschanbe
Kunst (Tadschikistan)
Personendenkmal (Herrscher)
Skulptur (1999)
Triumphbogen


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Ratified: 18 February 2021
The Philippines has signed and ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), and has been legally bound by it since 19 May 2021.
Alan Peter Cayetano, the then-secretary for foreign affairs of the Philippines, signed the TPNW when it opened for signature on 20 September 2017. He urged nuclear-armed states to sign the treaty and said: "If we listen to each other, we will hear the same thing. We have no need for nuclear weapons."
In September 2020, the president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, announced in a video statement to the UN General Assembly that he had "asked the Philippine senate to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons". The senate provided its concurrence on 1 February 2021.
In a statement, Duterte hailed the ratification as a "milestone", reinforcing the country's resolve together with the international community in pursuing a world free of nuclear weapons for peace, security, and the survival of all humanity.
The Philippines deposited its instrument of ratification with the UN secretary-general on 18 February 2021, becoming the 53rd state to ratify or accede to the TPNW. The foreign ministry held an event on 19 May 2021 to commemorate entry into force of the treaty for the Philippines.
Alan Peter Cayetano, the then-secretary for foreign affairs of the Philippines, signs the TPNW in New York on 20 September 2017. Credit: UNOLA
Teodoro L. Locsin Jr, the secretary of foreign affairs of the Philippines, speaks at an event to commemorate the entry into force of the TPNW for the Philippines on 19 May 2021. Credit: Philippine DFA
In accordance with Article 2 of the TPNW, the Philippines submitted a declaration to the UN secretary-general on 17 June 2021 confirming that it does not own, possess, or control nuclear weapons, has never done so, and does not host any other state's nuclear weapons on its territory.
Per Article 12, the Philippines has promoted universal adherence to the TPNW, including by co-sponsoring and consistently voting in favour of an annual UN General Assembly resolution since 2018 that calls upon all states to sign, ratify, or accede to the treaty "at the earliest possible date".
In a statement to the United Nations in 2019, the Philippines hailed the TPNW as "a landmark agreement that fortifies the nuclear disarmament architecture" and "delegitimises once and for all the use of nuclear weapons". In 2021, it said that the treaty "represents efforts towards the universalisation of global norms against nuclear weapons".
The Center for Peace Education at Miriam College, an ICAN partner organisation in the Philippines, promotes adherence to the TPNW in 2019. Photo: CPE
The Philippines participated in the negotiation of the TPNW at the United Nations in New York in 2017 and was among 122 states that voted in favour of its adoption.
In its opening statement to the negotiating conference, the Philippines said that it attaches "great importance" to the cause of disarmament, as the country's constitution "mandates us to adopt and pursue a policy of freedom from nuclear weapons in our territory".
It said that it is cognisant of "present geopolitical realities", and it is precisely because of these realities that we must work to free the world of nuclear weapons: "There will never be a better time than now to discuss the prohibition of such weapons."
In its closing statement, the Philippines said that "more important than language unambiguously denouncing nuclear weapons is the hope of getting everyone on board in putting all nuclear weapons firmly on the path of complete, total, and irreversible extinction".
In 2016, the Philippines co-sponsored the UN General Assembly resolution that established the formal mandate for states to commence negotiations on "a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination".
Bayani S. Mercado, the head of the Philippine delegation to the negotiating conference for the TPNW, delivers a statement in June 2017. Credit: ICAN
Loreta Castro, an ICAN campaigner from the Philippines, delivers a statement during the TPNW negotiations in June 2017. Photo: ICAN
The Philippines was among 127 states that endorsed a "humanitarian pledge" in 2015–16 to cooperate "in efforts to stigmatise, prohibit, and eliminate nuclear weapons". The pledge was instrumental in building momentum and support for convening the TPNW negotiations.
In 2014, a regional roundtable meeting was held in Tagaytay, the Philippines, with officials, academics, and campaigners from across Southeast Asia to discuss "the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons and the prospects for a ban".
Officials and campaigners from across Southeast Asia meet in the Philippines in 2014 to discuss the prospects for a ban on nuclear weapons. Photo: CPE
Students from the Medical Action Group in the Philippines show their support for ICAN at a hospital in Manila in 2013. Credit: ICAN
Philippine Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Center for Peace Education
Medical Action Group
Progress in 2021 towards universalising the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
First Committee reaffirms support for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons


Forget about customer feedback falling on deaf ears: the designers at Altra heard you all loud and clear, and as a result, updated the Women's Superior 3.5 Trail Running Shoe. The Superior 3.5 touts not only more accurate sizing, for a more comfortable fit and feel, but also features a stronger, more durable upper to assure added longevity and structural support. Meaning, you're able to forget about that sloshy, washed out feeling that you might've incurred in the past. Additionally, the outsole now features a slight flare on the lateral side to provide better traction, stability, and braking. The EVA midsole, complete with A-Bound and InnerFlex technology, provides shock attenuation, energetic transitions, and a cush feel underfoot, while the TrailClaw outsole promotes rip and grip in all sorts of conditions. And, not to mention, the StoneGuard rock protection safeguards your foot from all sorts of trail-side obstacles, so you can focus on the objective at hand.
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I'm terrible about updating my running shoes, but I feel like with these I can get away with it. I wore my last pair of superiors until they basically became a road shoe - no tread left. I just received my new ones and they're just as good as I remember! The toe box is very roomy, and I love the zero drop. I'll keep buying these for years to come.


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Jordan Tripp, who was drafted in the fifth round out of Montana in the 2014 NFL Draft, is ready to begin training camp and make a name for himself in the NFL.
Tripp, who had a stellar senior season and shined at the Senior Bowl and NFL Combine, knows that all of that no longer matters because now it's about what happens in the NFL against bigger, stronger and faster players. However, he's not ready to back down from any type of challenge.
"You know, you get down there and you know you've got to hit the ground running. You either show up and perform or you don't stick around. It's plain and simple," observed Tripp.
Tripp played outside linebacker at Montana but the Dolphins have been experimenting with him at inside linebacker as well. It isn't clear at this point where he will end up settling in but could even learn both positions and be a versatile guy on the depth chart. While he may not compete for a starting job this year, he's expected to have an impact on special teams.
"One of the things that Coach Joe Philbin's big on is doing things right, listening to detail. You know, when a coach tells you do do something, you do it that way and you do it their way. And I think a lot of the Montana kids have that instilled in them from the coaches we've had up here, and just the type of work ethic they carry when they go to this program," Tripp said.
Tripp has the tools to become a starter in the NFL but he will need to add muscle and become a little bigger to sustain the rigors of a starting linebacker. If Tripp works hard, he may find himself in the starting lineup sooner than most people think.


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Catherine Kearns
Biography and Interests:
Title: Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics and the College
Education: Ph.D. Cornell University 2015
Office: Classics 411
E-mail: cmkearns@uchicago.edu
Areas of Specialization: classical archaeology; Bronze-Iron Age social, cultural, political history; landscape and environments; archaeological method and theory; spatiality
Catherine Kearns' research examines the intersections between social and environmental change in Mediterranean landscapes during the Iron Age period. Her first book project, Unruly Landscapes: Environment and Society on Ancient Cyprus, analyzes the emergence of Archaic communities on the island of Cyprus through their land use practices, rural economies, and experiences with changing climates. In addition to her work in landscape archaeology, she also studies environmental history, urbanism and hinterlands, and concepts of space and place in antiquity. These themes recur throughout her course offerings, such as "The Greek Countryside," which explores textual and material evidence for social and economic practices in the hinterlands of the classical polis. In recent years she has co-directed fieldwork on Cyprus through the Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project, using geophysics, field survey, excavation and geospatial analysis to identify Iron Age rural settlements, for which she has been awarded ACLS, Loeb Classical Library Foundation and university grants.
New Directions in Cypriot Archaeology, co-edited with Sturt W. Manning (Cornell University Press, 2019)
"Cyprus in the surging sea: spatial imaginations of the eastern Mediterranean." Transactions of the American Philological Association 148.1 (2018)
"Mediterranean archeology and environmental histories in the spotlight of the Anthropocene." History Compass 15.10 (2017)
Manning, S.W., G.M. Andreou, K.D. Fisher, P. Gerard-Little, C. Kearns, J. Leon, D. Sewell and T. Urban. "Becoming urban: investigating the anatomy of the Maroni Late Bronze Age urban complex, Cyprus." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 27.1 (2014)
"Building social boundaries at the hybridizing first-millennium BC complex of Vouni (Cyprus)." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 24.2 (2011)
Honors, Awards, Fellowships and Grants:
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship
American Institute of Archaeology Publication Subvention Grant
The Greek Countryside
Strabo's World: Early Geographic Traditions
Early Travel Writing: Pausanias in Roman Greece
Ancient Mediterranean Environments
Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics and the College
Ph.D. Cornell University 2015
Classics 411 (Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 11am-12pm)
cmkearns@uchicago.edu
C. Kearns CV


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