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The actress received a standing ovation when she stood at a podium and told the world, "I am gay."
Ellen Page came out Friday night at the podium of the Human Rights Campaign's Time to Thrive conference. In her speech, she slammed stereotypes about masculinity and femininity that encourage the scrutiny of anyone who doesn't embody them.
"I try not to read gossip as a rule," Page said, "but the other day a website ran an article with a picture of me wearing sweatpants on the way to the gym. The writer asked, 'Why does [this] petite beauty insist upon dressing like a massive man?'"
She answered the question, "Because I like to be comfortable," to applause. "There are pervasive stereotypes about masculinity and femininity that define how we are all supposed to act, dress and speak. They serve no one. Anyone who defies these so-called 'norms' becomes worthy of comment and scrutiny. The LGBT community knows this all too well."
Page suggested we all take five minutes each day to recognize one another's beauty rather than tear each other down for not fitting a norm, which, she admitted, the film industry she works in only promotes.
I'm here today because I am gay. And because… maybe I can make a difference. To help others have an easier and more hopeful time. Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility.
I also do it selfishly, because I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered. And I'm standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of all that pain. I am young, yes, but what I have learned is that love, the beauty of it, the joy of it and yes, even the pain of it, is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being. And we deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.
The crowd stood and cheered. Watch her speech and try not to cry.


Soapbox: Will The Force Awakens be more than just Star Wars Greatest Hits?
I have a confession to make about this latest article in The Pop Culture Studio's Star Wars series: it was inspired by a "Hitler Reacts To…" meme. In it, the Fuhrer expresses a less than glowing appraisal of the latest trailer for Star Wars – Episode VII: The Force Awakens, and in amongst the lunatic ravings is buried one very strong argument, one that I couldn't help agreeing with: everything great about the trailer is rooted in copying the original films in the series.
Don't get me wrong – I'm incredibly excited to see The Force Awakens. It's hard not to be, especially after watching the trailers, where we've been treated to lightsabers, stormtroopers, Han and Chewie, and the Millennium FREAKING Falcon, all set to a John Williams score.
But you know what else got me excited, a long time ago (in cinema far, far away…or Australia at least)?
Although I'm fairly moderate in my views on the Star Wars prequel trilogy compared to the more virulent of online critics, I can't say that any of them lived up to the hype built by their respective trailers, so my point is, when it comes to the Star Wars franchise, my excitement is tempered by a degree of rational scepticism.
It follows then that as much as I'm looking forward to the new movie, I can't escape the feeling that I'm going to be let down again, and in this case, I think it won't be because The Force Awakens deviates too much from what I loved about the original Star Wars trilogy (which was one of many issues with the prequels) but more that it will be too the same.
And it really does all look a bit too familiar. There's a striking desert landscape that I'm told isn't Luke Skywalker's home planet but which looks exactly the same, there are Tie-Fighters dogfighting the Falcon inside the bowels of a huge structure just like the end of Return of the Jedi…heck, even Darth Vader's burnt out helmet makes an appearance!
I have to say, these things wouldn't bother me so much, if it weren't for who was in the director's chair.
J.J. Abrams is a talented storyteller, and I've enjoyed a lot of his work, but if he has a weakness, it's that he tends to recreate in his own films what he loves about the films of others, rather than using that inspiration as a jumping off point to develop something new and wholly unique.
Take a look across his films, and whether it's his recent Star Trek reboot and its sequel (which provided a much needed shot of adrenaline to that franchise, but didn't bring anything new to the sandbox) or original features like Super 8 (a delightful film that owes everything about it to vintage Spielberg), you'll notice that Abrams modus operandi is often to update and rework existing concepts, rather than dreaming up new ideas of his own.
For the new Star Wars trilogy to truly soar, it will need more than just flashy new types of lightsaber and even cooler astro droids. The real reason the original three movies were able to launch a pop culture phenomenon that's lasted nearly 40 years was because they didn't ape exactly what had come before.
For all that creator George Lucas drew on matinee serials, Kurosawa films, classic mythology, 1950s westerns and more to build his fictional universe, he used it all to make something totally new, and crucially, he imbued his new creation with a sense of wonder.
From the first frame of Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope, Lucas astounded viewers with sights they'd never seen before, constantly amazing them with new spaceships, creatures and worlds, and it's this feeling that Abrams will have to recapture if he's truly going to succeed.
So what I'm really hoping for come opening day of The Force Awakens in December is that we get more than just a slight tweak of what we liked about the original trilogy and everything we didn't hate about the prequels.
I've got my fingers crossed that Abrams has more in store for us; that he'll use familiar characters, settings and other iconic elements to reacquaint us all with this world we love so much, before launching off in a new direction so that we can meet new friends and enemies of all different species, explore unimaginable new planets and thrill to inventive new set pieces.
Ultimately, it seems that for The Force Awakens to be a truly satisfying film on its own merit, it needs to take a leaf out of the book of that other space franchise revived by Abrams, and go boldly where no Star Wars film has gone before!
So what do you think? Is The Force Awakens in danger of being too similar to the original Star Wars trilogy? And is that a bad thing? Let me know in the comments below or on Twitter or Facebook!


Since welcoming back guests to Fort Young Hotel in January 2018, we are delighted to share that the hotel is near full capacity, all by virtue of leisure travelers from near and far. With our prized landmark location in Dominica's capital city, along with many of the country's sites reopening nearby, we are once again the go-to hotel for travelers, adventure seekers, corporate retreats and locals alike.
"We're thrilled to see so much interest in Dominica and Fort Young Hotel in the past few months from leisure travelers, groups and corporate visitors," said Marvlyn James, Fort Young Hotel's general manager. "We anticipate continued momentum throughout the remainder of 2018." Dominica's recovery efforts are thriving, with many of the island's most popular attractions reopen, including Indian River, Emerald Pool, Cabrits National Park and Trafalgar Falls, among others.
With Fort Young Hotel's new "Caribbean Adventure Getaway" package, guests will receive four nights' accommodations, full daily breakfast, airport transfer, tours of three of Dominica's most celebrated attractions—Titou Gorge, Trafalgar Falls and Emerald Pool—and canyoning in the rainforest. There's simply no better way to experience the island's reemerging splendor than with this guided exploration package, valid until December 14, 2018.
Currently, 41 of our 72 rooms are available for booking, in addition to many of the core amenities, including the pool, waterfront Warner's Bar, in-room spa services and one of the meeting facilities now open for guests to enjoy. Our newest amenities include Jacko's, a poolside bar, and an expanded boardwalk. We are looking forward to fully reopening in February 2019. But, for now, we're welcoming guests with open arms—along with countless, unforgettable experiences for each and every person to enjoy.


Special Note to our Non-English Speaking Friends – We Have Poipus!
The title of this play contains a made-up word which means purpose – that we have a purpose for being here on this earth.
The puppets mispronounce the word "purpose" which is how we got the title of the play. Instead of saying purpose they use a word that is somewhat similar in sound to the English word purpose.
You may want to make up a word which is pronounced similiar to the way you pronounce the word in your lanquage which means "purpose". This made-up word would be for the puppets to use when talking about their purpose and for the title of this play in your language.


As a lifelong Detroiter and a documentary filmmaker, I seriously considered making a documentary film on Mayor Dave Bing and his four and a half year-long tenure as Mayor of the Motor City. However, I realized after a moment of reflection that someone else had already made that movie.
It was called Weekend at Bernie's, with Mayor Bing playing the role of Bernie Lomax. What is left of Kwame Kilpatrick's political machine, of course, played the parts of Richard and Larry in that movie.
There is no point in me making yet another sequel to that movie. I suppose this means that will just have to figure out a different project to work on in the coming months instead.


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Fuseta era una freguesia portuguesa del municipio de Olhão, distrito de Faro.

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Fue suprimida el 28 de enero de 2013, en aplicación de una resolución de la Asamblea de la República portuguesa promulgada el 16 de enero de 2013 al unirse con la freguesia de Moncarapacho, formando la nueva freguesia de Moncarapacho e Fuseta.

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Antiguas freguesias de Olhão

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Lumad workers get Tupad funds
By Rhoda Grace Saron on October 7, 2019
The Department of Labor and Employment XI (DOLE) has conducted its first "Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers Program" (TUPAD) payout last Monday at the recently discovered Ata-Manobo village in Davao del Norte as part of the continuous pouring of services and socioeconomic development to disadvantaged community.
1st Lt. Amadeuz VJ Celestial, the Civil-Military Operations (CMO) officer of the 60th Infantry Battalion, said 100 residents of Sitio Tapayanon in Kapalong each received P3,960 for a 10-day work.
"This is such a great help. At least we'll have money to buy our needs," Datu Bansing Balanban, Tapayanon tribal chieftain, told reporters in vernacular. "We have to wait for several months when our abaca is ready to be sold before we can earn a tenth of this money."
DOLE XI Regional Director Raymundo Agravante facilitated the payout with team from DOLE Davao del Norte Office.
They were transported by a Philippine Air Force's Huey chopper in a 45-minute flight from the 10th Infantry Division headquarters in Mawab, Compostela Valley.
"I admit it is our first time here," Agravante told villagers during a short welcome program there. "Just the same, DOLE comes (here) ready to give to you the services that you need.
"We will determine later on what else we can do to alleviate your situation and make your lives better," he added.
The activity also highlighted the conduct of the ocular visit by the Service Convergence Camp (SCC) heads of agencies led by National Anti-Poverty Commission Sec. Noel Felongco.
Other agency heads who joined the visit included Kapalong Mayor Maria Theresa Timbol, Kapalong Indigenous Peoples' Mandatory Representative Datu Arturo Davao, Department of Trade and Industry Davao del Norte Provincial Director Romeo Castañaga, 1001st Infantry Brigade Commander Col. John Oberio and 60th Infantry Battalion Commander Lt. Col. Gilbert Ombos.
The agencies—together with Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Department of Health (DOH), Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and select local government units and civil society organizations—are expected to deliver their counterpart services to Tapayanon on the slated SCC later this month.
A second batch of TUPAD worker beneficiaries from Tapayanon will also be receiving their payout later this month.

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How China Manipulates Online Audiences
Project Contents
Full project title: How China Manipulates Online Audiences: A Novel Approach Using Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence
As an authoritarian state with extensive resources to develop AI and algorithmic tools, China serves as an important case study to better understand how authoritarian states use these tools for social control. By understanding how China uses AI and amplified online rhetoric, we can anticipate how other authoritarian states may develop such capacities.
In a world where information and data are increasingly tools by which nation-states and other actors pursue their objectives, it is incumbent on researchers to unpack the digital mechanisms used by these actors. Additionally, it is important to develop better measures to gauge the extent to which manipulated text and images are perceived and absorbed by international audiences.
This project approaches AI in two ways—first, as a research tool and second, as a point of research itself. Specifically, it develops novel AI NLP tools to, in turn, investigate how China is developing and strategically deploying AI and other tools for social control and online discourse manipulation.
In the first instance it focusses on understanding how China is developing AI to control its domestic population, then works to develop novel AI NLP tools to identify how, and with what degree of success, China is using sentiment to manipulate international social media algorithms and thereby amplify its messaging toward international audiences. Finally, it also seeks to quantify the degree to which audiences amplify and echo this messaging.
Dieter Schwarz Stiftung gGmbH
Project dates:
November 2022 - October 2023
Hannah Bailey
Project role: Researcher
Hannah Bailey studied for an MSc in the Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute. Research interests include China-US relations and China's use of online censorship, with a focus on automated content analysis.
Research Programme on AI, Government and Policy
This programme supports research on AI, Government and Policy.
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Our Family Reimbursement Programs provide monetary assistance to people with developmental disabilities who live with their family in New York City. The programs are funded by OPWDD.
The purpose of Family Reimbursement programs is to compensate families for expenses not reimbursed by other means, but which directly benefit the person with a disability. There are no age restrictions for the applicant, but they must qualify for services from OPWDD. The review committee will consider income, the nature of the request and the applicant's award history when prioritizing applicants. The committee will meet approximately once per quarter (every 3 months) to review applications. Applications are reviewed in the order that they are received if they are complete. The fiscal year begins on July 1st and ends on June 30th of the following year.
A request for reimbursement funds should not be for an ongoing need, rather; an item or short-term service that will enhance the quality of life of the person with a disability, and can be for items not yet purchased. Some examples include camping costs, adaptive toys, educational devices, and special appliances or furniture required due to a specific need of the person with disabilities. Only one check, however, will be issued per award.


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Deparia medogensis är en majbräkenväxtart som först beskrevs av Ren-Chang Ching och S.K.Wu, och fick sitt nu gällande namn av Z.R.Wang. Deparia medogensis ingår i släktet Deparia och familjen Athyriaceae. Inga underarter finns listade.

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2003 Daytona 500
The 2003 Daytona 500, the 45th running of the event, was held on February 16 at Daytona International Speedway. 2000 NASCAR Busch Series champion Jeff Green won his second career Winston Cup pole (his first was at Bristol in 2001). Prior to the race, the drivers paid tribute by having decals in their cars in honor of the astronauts who were killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster two weeks earlier, similar to the 1986 Daytona 500 in which they paid tribute to the fallen crew members of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
The race ended after 109 laps when rain had begun pouring on the track. Michael Waltrip won the race for the second time in three years, giving him his third NASCAR Winston Cup win; all of his wins to that point had been in races held at Daytona. It was the first of Waltrip's two wins in 2003, both coming in restrictor plate races (he later won the EA Sports 500 at Talladega in October for his fourth- and to date, last- Cup win). For the first time since 1966, the race was stopped due to rain; at 272.5 miles, this was the shortest ever Daytona 500 race.
During the race, Ryan Newman had a wild accident in the tri-oval, his #12 Dodge tumbling end over end. Fortunately, he was not injured in the crash. Following the incident, both Penske Racing and new manufacturer Dodge were investigated because of the quality of the car.
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Spend your evening in Palm Springs, California with dinner, drinks and these three beauties as we celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Knots Landing on Tuesday, November 12 2019.
An evening with the actresses of KNOTS LANDING — Michele Lee, Joan Van Ark and Donna Mills. A look back at their amazing careers, with clips, conversation and a Q&A segment.
Knots Landing, which debuted 40 years ago, is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on CBS from December 27, 1979, to May 13, 1993. A spin-off of Dallas, it was set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles and initially centered on the lives of four married couples living in a cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle. By the time of its conclusion, storylines had included rape, murder, kidnapping, assassinations, drug smuggling, corporate intrigue, and criminal investigations; and was the longest-running primetime drama on U.S. television after Gunsmoke and Bonanza.[1]
Knots Landing was created by David Jacobs (one-time writer of Family and later producer of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) in conjunction with producer Michael Filerman (who would also later co-produce Falcon Crest). Although a spin-off of Dallas, the concept predates that series, and was rebuffed by CBS in 1977, as the network wanted something more "saga-like". Jacobs then created Dallas, which the network accepted and premiered in 1978. After Dallas became a hit, Jacobs was then able to adapt Knots Landing as a spin-off series by way of incorporating characters introduced in the parent series. The series was largely inspired by a 1957 movie No Down Payment but also by the 1973 Ingmar Bergman television miniseries Scenes from a Marriage.
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Petition to Recall Governor Gavin Newsom
Sign this Petition to start a recall of Governor Gavin Newsom
The Constitutional position on the removal of the Governor is that a Governor of a state is an appointee of the President, and he or she holds office "during the pleasure of the President" (Article 155 and 156). If the Governor continues to enjoy the pleasure of the President, s/he can have a normal term of five years. Now ,the President is bound by the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers under Article 74, so it is the central government which appoints or removes the Governor.
The Supreme Court interpreted the constitutional provisions in the B. P. Singhal vs Union of India and laid down some binding guidelines:
The President, in effect the central government, has the power to remove a Governor at any time without giving him or her any reason, and without granting an opportunity to be heard.
However, this power cannot be exercised in an arbitrary, capricious or unreasonable manner. The power of removing Governors should only be exercised in rare and exceptional circumstances for valid and compelling reasons.
The mere reason that a Governor is at variance with the policies and ideologies of the central government, or that the central government has lost confidence in him or her, is not sufficient to remove a Governor. Thus, a change in central government cannot be a ground for removal of Governors, or to appoint more favorable persons to this post.
A decision to remove a Governor can be challenged in a court of law. In such cases, first the petitioner will have to make a prima facie case of arbitrariness or bad faith on part of the central government. If a prima facie case is established, the court can require the central government to produce the materials on the basis of which the decision was made in order to verify the presence of compelling reasons.
But, we recently have seen these guidelines being violated and it has happened time and again.


Four days and 50 reader views into our baby blog's existence, we have been priveleged to receive a number of letters to our darussophileATyandexDOTru address. All of them deal with our Towards a New Russian Century? core article (which is, in addition, the most popular item on this blog by far – possibly because colleen was kind enough to link his winthrop88 blog to it).
The biggest critique of it, voiced by colleen and the letter writer DP, was my neglect of the topic of peak oil in my analysis of geopolitics in the next 20-30 years.
It's hard to predict the world in 2030. For example, if peak oil is a reality then maybe all bets are of especially if a replacement to fossil fuels is not developed.
Russia economic growth of 6-7% started when oil was $12 / barrel. Future growth predictions for the world are suspect. Not enough energy to power this growth. The world is not capable of producing much more than the 85m barrels that are being produced today and this will by all accounts decline. If the world would grow at a 3% rate that would mean by 2020 the world would need 120m barrels a day.
We respectfully disagree with this point about peak oil stalling world growth. Firstly, there is no shortage of other energy sources – shale oil, tar sands, etc. It might not be cheap, but extracting these is already more than feasible at today's prices. There are still plenty of coal reserves, which can be liquified (as happened in apartheid South Africa).
The adjustment might dampen world growth, as people invest in energy conservation and renew vehicle fleets with lower gasoline consumption. Yet even in the 1970's, when oil prices spiked and the GDP of the advanced industrialized countries was twice as energy intensive as today, growth continued nonetheless – albeit at a slightly slower space than in the previous two decades and marred by stagflation.
By the time Hubbert's slope turns into a really large negative number, a great deal of progress will have been made into renewables and energy conservation. For instance, solar power will start booming from 2015 onwards, when its costs are projected to draw near to commercial rates for grid power (or sooner, allowing for tax breaks); meanwhile, the auto manufacturers will be churning out much less energy intensive plug-in hybrids and fully electric vehicles.
In the 1970's, the oil spike came suddenly at a time when the US economy was twice as energy intensive as today and it was due to supply-side disruptions, as opposed to today's smooth demand driven growth. Energy conservation, renewables and oil extraction technology lagged far behind today's. Nonetheless, from 1970-79, US GDP / capita grew at an average rate of 2.3% / annum, an increase over 2.0% / annum from 1950-1970. Granted, unemployment rose (1.3% in 1960, 11.2% in 1983) and growth in labor productivity per hour worked fell from 2.3% during the years of the miracle economy to just 0.6% in 1973-79 – however, during the years of cheap oil in 1979-1996, it rose to just 0.8%, while GDP growth / capita fell even further to 1.5%. Since 2000 and the return of expensive oil, however, the US has chugged along well, doing better than the continental European countries (at least until very recently).
We can only conclude that ultimately, oil prices don't really have that much of a big impact on the economic growth of its consumers.
Another point raised by DP was that of US debt, which was to cut short its aspirations to remain a global hegemon. Among concerns listed was the sovereign debt of 9tn $, the current account deficit and the declining value of the dollar.
We don't think the US is in a particularly bad position in respect to its macroeconomics. 9trn $ public debt is 65% of US GDP, but that is the same as France (64%), and lower than Germany and Canada (both 68%), Italy (107%) and Japan (a whopping 178%). As for the housing bubble, this is a worldwide phenomenon – granted it is worse in the US than in most countries, but it is not exceptionally bad. Finally, the declining value of the dollar is just a sympton and a correction of the twin deficits. This will make it easier for the US to pay off its (dollar-denominated) debt and raise its exports – which has indeed begun to happen recently and thus cut its current account deficit as a % of GDP.
Another reader, CL, criticized the article for neglecting demographics, claiming that Russia and the European countries will be unable to exert power due to their decreasing populations.
Let's try to see where this argument comes from. Traditionally, a decline in population is associated with bad things – war, famine, pestilence. This is because for much of human history, populations declined only under the aforementioned Malthusian conditions. The modern world of emancipated women, sexual revolution and the Pill has only recently given people the choice of purposefully limiting family size, and this fundamental fact should not be forgotten.
As I've already mentioned in my Reading Russia Right article, population decrease in Russia in 2007 was of the order of 0.15% / annum, and the trend was positive. But even linearly assuming that its population falls by 0.2% / year to 2030 (hitting 136mn) and that America's continues growing at today's 0.9% to 2030 (hitting 371mn), will it really matter that much? Its economy will still be much larger relative to the US than it is in 2008 (due to economic convergence). Furthermore, absolute economic size is only one of the components of what makes a superpower. Its position in hi-tech; the advantages accruing to it from global warming; its military-strategic and energy strength, will all be virtually unaffected – even in this worse-case demographic scenario.
Furthermore, in economics, what matters isn't the population or its growth rate per se, but the dynamics of the working age population as a percentage of the whole population – the dependency ratio. More people working generally translates into more wealth and a more stable pension system. According to Goldman Sachs (Dreaming with BRICs, pp.8), from 2005 to 2030 it will decline from 67% to 60% in Russia, compared with a similar decline in China and with a 62% to 54% decline in the G6. Hardly apocalyptic.
Granted, both Brazil and India will have healthier demographic profiles in that respect than China, Russia or the West. However, the real value of their young populations can be called into question due to their poor skills (as mentioned in Towards a New Russian Century?).
Furthermore, any demographic decline in Europe, Russia and Japan can be more than mitigated by increasing their labor force participation rate (especially amongst youth and 50+ year olds) up to American levels. This is a social decision with regard to which they are all wealthy enough to make a free choice.
Ultimately, all this discussion of demographics might well become moot sooner than we can imagine. 25 years, if the more ardent prophets of SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) are right.


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notes: input determines hits and damage. EX is faster and does more damage.
notes: A non exable counter move. 3p is a high counter, 3k is the low counter.
notes: Input determines where the teleport goes. Forward goes forward and vice versa. Punch/kick determines range.
Shin Akuma is a monster with insanely damage possibilities. He's a boss tier character.
Terrible shame you decided against the target combo being cancelable.
His LK Tatsumaki knocks the enemy back just a bit too much on the first hit for the obligatory SRK followup to hit properly. Only one or two hits connect on most occasions. I know I've brought this up a lot, but his Tenma Gou Zanku still launches him at an odd angle, and I've just noticed the timing that he gets knocked back at is sort of delayed.
I mixed waru's and Pot's versions together and got that. I'll look at it again, but... I dont think its that bad.
Needs more POTS. I'm sure you've noticed I'm kinda nit-picky, so it should be a given I brought that up again.
Old Pots isnt as good as new Pots. His stuff isnt always as perfect as people make it out to be. Waru's isnt either for that matter and that was where the previous vel came from.
-sighs- I left out another AILevel trigger in EX shoryuken. And Lk tatsu is an infinite. Fixing both.
Yeah, I'm definitely of the opinion some of his works need tweaking. But yeah, I was kinda raised (Mugen-wise) on his stuff.


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How George Lucas Prevented Spaceballs Merchandising
Mel Brooks tells how George Lucas put the squeeze on Spaceballs toys.
By Tony Sokol | January 2, 2022 |
Photo: MGM/UA
There's a reason George Lucas wouldn't let people play with Mel Brooks' Spaceballs toys, and it's not what you think.
In the Star Wars universe, the empire always strikes back, but sometimes preemptively. Princess Vespa scooters, Lone Starr Pez dispensers, Barf air bags, and Prince Valium chewables are just a few things the retail market never got the chance to see because Mel Brooks' Spaceballs merchandise never got off the launchpad.
"Merchandising is where the real money from the movie is made," the learned Yogurt explains in the 1987 science fiction comedy. "Spaceballs the T-shirt! Spaceballs the coloring book! Spaceballs the lunchbox! Spaceballs the breakfast cereal! Spaceballs the flame-thrower! (The kids really love that one.)"
Brooks may be a comic genius, but he missed out on the most lucrative aspect of filmmaking: the toys. Sure, he proved how to make more money from a flop than a hit in his film and play and film The Producers, but he didn't raffle a single seat from The Twelve Chairs, and he bought them retail, but wouldn't break up the set. Of all the genres Brooks has lampooned – horror, westerns, psychological thrillers – none produce more mockable and marketable nick-nacks than space opera. The idea to breach and pastiche new frontiers came to Brooks at his then-10-year-old son Max's Star Wars–themed birthday party.
"I thought, science fiction," Brooks writes in his book All About Me! My Remarkable Life In Show Business, via Literary Hub. "Now there's a genre I haven't wrecked yet."
The idea opened possibilities to skewer such beloved galactic debris as "Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and, reaching back for more fun, the unique and campy director Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space. It was a genre rich with opportunities for devastating satire."
The genre is also rich in the vast wealth of toys, gadgets, and collectibles. Rick Moranis, who parodied Star Wars' villain Darth Vader in the role of Dark Helmet, "brilliantly improvised one of his most famous scenes in the movie, the one in which he gets caught playing with little action figure versions of Lone Starr, Princess Vespa, and himself," Brooks said.
As perfect as this looks on screen, it never materialized on the loading docks for store shelves. "Even though in the movie itself we have Dark Helmet playing with action figures, we never sold any," Brooks said.
In spite of the recurring gag which runs through Spaceballs, no actual merchandise was ever marketed. The movie was made for it, and the concept made it into the film, but no collectibles were ever used to promote the movie, sold at shops, or hawked at conventions. The decision came from on high.
"The same way I called Alfred Hitchcock to get his blessings on High Anxiety, I sent the Spaceballs script to Star Wars creator George Lucas," Brooks wrote. "He said he had seen Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein and was a big fan. He enjoyed the script, and only had one real caveat for me: no action figures."
Under First Amendment law, parody has greater license to borrow material when it comes to copyright infringement cases, but proprietary rights carry their own precedents. Brooks envisioned Spaceballs as an intergalactic version of Frank Capra's 1934 classic It Happened One Night. He recognized Star Wars for its similar historical cinematic impact. As art, they were ripe for picking. As commerce, they had thorns because they needed protection, and Brooks took Lucas' counsel respectfully.
"He explained that if I made toys of my Spaceballs characters they would look a lot like Star Wars action figures," Brooks said. "And that would be a no-no for his lawyers and his studio's business affairs department. So, he gave his blessing to make my funny satiric takeoff of Star Wars as long as I promised that we would not sell any action figures."
Because he was in on the joke, Lucas signed a fair use agreement allowing Brooks to spoof Star Wars characters, as long as Brooks agreed he wouldn't compete in the merchandising marketplace.
"And that was one of the rules we didn't break," Brooks writes.
This implies the comedy director who co-created Get Smart with Buck Henry could break as many other rules as that show's insidious KAOS espionage agency. The exchange with Lucas didn't only instigate a series of self-referential jokes to the legal caveat itself in the film, it inspired larger comment on the inherent cynicism of the motion picture practice.
While Brooks followed the standards of satiric practices, he freely toyed with the quantum physics of product placement. While he couldn't lease a factory in the toasted-oats mecca of Battle Creek, MI., to box up "Spaceballs: The Breakfast Cereal," he gleefully covered Dom DeLuise in "bubbling cheese and studded with slices of pepperoni" to better deliver his role as Pizza the Hut, and in 30 minutes or less.
Merchandise or not, Spaceballs is a tremendously effective send-up of a perennial favorite, which has in some ways come to overshadow its subject matter.
"I've even gotten some letters from young fans that saw Spaceballs before they saw Star Wars," Brooks wrote. "They would often ask me why Star Wars wasn't so funny." This alone justifies a "Spaceballs: The Breakfast Cereal" box-top collectible surprise like a Schwartz-powered ring Cracker Jacks prize.
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← JOHN CARMODY. The federal Parliament reasserts its authority – and the Speaker's.
PEPE ESCOBAR. US elites remain incapable of understanding China →
ERIK PAUL. Resurgent racism in Australia's foreign policy.
By P&I Guest Writers | On 22 February 2019
Australia's banning Huawei points to a resurgent racism in foreign relations. Australian foreign policy should disengage from the military alliance with the US and adopt a more sustainable economy and independent foreign policy.
Australia's Five-Eyes Western spying agency is targeting China as the greatest emerging threat to the neoliberal world order. Australia's intense political campaign against Chinese telcos Huawei and ZTE providing 5G technology became policy when Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on 30 October 2018 banned both companies from the 5G rollout.
Banning China from supplying equipment for the next generation of the Five-Eyes nations is widely viewed as part of a global struggle among great powers for the control of markets and technology. The economic war being waged between the US and China in the growth of global markets and infrastructure is a clash of capitalisms, hiding the rise and struggle of great and nationalistic powers.
Western political and intelligence elites argue that China is a threat to world peace because it is hostile to freedom and democracy. The view that China is a danger to the US and should be dismembered is embedded in Washington's policy to confront and control any power perceived as a threat to its national interest.
China's rising global economic and military power, with a population of more than 1.3 billion, is a clear challenge to the US-led neoliberal global order. China will be the world's largest economy by the end of this decade. What China wants is recognition of its rightful place in the world order as an equal power to that of the US. US rhetoric is that it must maintain unilateral global power because of its 'manifest destiny' to bring freedom to the rest of world.
Australia's confrontation with China is reminiscent of earlier times when Japan's bid to include a racial equality clause in the Covenant of the League of Nations was defeated by the Anglo-Saxon solidarity of Britain, US, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Canada. Japan's demand for racial equality at the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference was thwarted by US and Australian racism to support European allies' colonial empires. Nationalist Party Prime Minister William Hughes' deep hostility towards Asians publicly humiliated the Japanese government and the Chinese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference and played a significant role in Australia going to war against Japan.
The victorious Allied Powers' peace terms of economic immiseration for Germany and a reordered world political map were precursors to World War II and some 50 million deaths. What fraternized these countries together was their incestuous fixation on 'whiteness' and their rights to dominate and exploit others. William Edward Dubois, a black American sociologist and human rights activist, described 'whiteness' as a new proprietorial religion, claiming ownership of the earth.
Both world wars and the cold war were indispensable catastrophes to construct a US empire of more than 1000 military installations spanning the world. Since President George W Bush declared war 'on terror', an Anglo-American solidarity is being reaffirmed in an increasingly bitter conflict with China. Brexit suggests a pronounced shift towards the US while Australia is more firmly configured in the US military alliance to defeat China's existing regime.
While race has been toppled from its earlier eminence by the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, its toxicity is being reasserted in rising inequality between nation-states. Symptomatic of the conflict is the US military coalition with Britain and Australia to recapitulate an older Anglo-Saxon solidarity, reshaping the Middle East and planning for war against China.
China is an economic superpower and has gained a strategic right to oppose US containment policy in the South China Sea and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region. US opposition to China's demand for equality in world affairs is reminiscent of US racial discrimination before World War I. President Trump is widely viewed as a white nationalist intent on furthering US military global dominance, confronting China as an evil nation, and redrawing the map of the Middle East and the rest of the world.
Huawei's drama signals Australia's forceful engagement with the US policy for regime change in China and to dismember the country. The national culture war being played out in the media is a call for patriots to prepare for war. Australia denies the right of China to share power with the West and remains committed to US global hegemony.
The US democratic regime is deeply flawed and its integrity increasingly corrupted by vested interests. Many US influential voices have been highly critical of US foreign policy in recent years. Chalmers Johnson, scholar and former national security adviser, wrote extensively on the threat of US militarism and imperialism to the republic and the world. He argued that a US imperial presidency was gathering strength 'at the expense of the constitutional balance of governmental power as militarism takes even deeper root in the society'.
The US-China struggle for power is the epicentre of a world crisis. Globalisation has stalled, the global market is fragmenting. US democracy is not working for the public interest, and the biosphere's condition for human existence continues to deteriorate. Climate change threatens the sustainability of global capitalism and the Australian neoliberal economy.
Australian foreign policy should disengage from the military alliance with the US and adopt a more sustainable economy and independent foreign policy. US unilateral power imposed on the rest of the world leads to corruption, racism and imperialism. There needs to be a concert of major powers, bringing together China, India, Russia and the EU, to balance the role of the US as the sole world power. A collaborative partnership is required to balance power and address the common threats to humanity.
Erik Paul is at the University of Sydney in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies. He is a researcher specializing in Australia's relations with the Asia-Pacific and issues of regional and world peace. His latest book is Australia in the US Empire, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
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Version helper for 1.2+ initialized!
Looks like an older dll being used for whatever reason. Are you sure that the copied dll in system32 is of the correct version?
Yes, the classes and the dlls where taken from the same jpct.zip. If I run it from the eclipse IDE it runs without problem. This happens only when I run the applet from a web page. Its strange. I deleted an copied the dlls again and nothing. this weekened I will try again with a new download from today to see if that helps.
Maybe an old dll resides in the applet cache? You can empty that caches via the Java control panel.
Well, I cleaned everything and still having the problems. I guess it may be something with eclipse. I loaded an old applet made with jpct and after making a few few changes it didnt run. I did undo the changes but never worked again.
When I try to run the applet in my pc it says: Acces denied to read file. So I signed the applet and now it never finds the files. I cant get my applets to work now. The same applets that used to work. I am confused.
Anyway. Back to the original problem I am still having the same problem after cleaning the cache of the browser and cleaning evertything from the java option in the control panel.
Have you scanned the whole machine for lwjgl.dlls?
mm yes, I had a dll copied in the firefox directory.


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package org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.bucket;

import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentFactory;
import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentParser;
import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentType;
import org.elasticsearch.index.query.BoolQueryBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.index.query.MatchAllQueryBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.index.query.MatchNoneQueryBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryBuilders;
import org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryRewriteContext;
import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.AggregationBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.BaseAggregationTestCase;
import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.bucket.filter.FiltersAggregationBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.bucket.filter.FiltersAggregator.KeyedFilter;
import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.bucket.terms.TermsAggregationBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.support.ValueType;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Collections;

import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.equalTo;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.instanceOf;

public class FiltersTests extends BaseAggregationTestCase<FiltersAggregationBuilder> {

    @Override
    protected FiltersAggregationBuilder createTestAggregatorBuilder() {

        int size = randomIntBetween(1, 20);
        FiltersAggregationBuilder factory;
        if (randomBoolean()) {
            KeyedFilter[] filters = new KeyedFilter[size];
            int i = 0;
            for (String key : randomUnique(() -> randomAlphaOfLengthBetween(1, 20), size)) {
                filters[i++] = new KeyedFilter(key,
                        QueryBuilders.termQuery(randomAlphaOfLengthBetween(5, 20), randomAlphaOfLengthBetween(5, 20)));
            }
            factory = new FiltersAggregationBuilder(randomAlphaOfLengthBetween(1, 20), filters);
        } else {
            QueryBuilder[] filters = new QueryBuilder[size];
            for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
                filters[i] = QueryBuilders.termQuery(randomAlphaOfLengthBetween(5, 20), randomAlphaOfLengthBetween(5, 20));
            }
            factory = new FiltersAggregationBuilder(randomAlphaOfLengthBetween(1, 20), filters);
        }
        if (randomBoolean()) {
            factory.otherBucket(randomBoolean());
        }
        if (randomBoolean()) {
            factory.otherBucketKey(randomAlphaOfLengthBetween(1, 20));
        }
        return factory;
    }

    /**
     * Test that when passing in keyed filters as list or array, the list stored internally is sorted by key
     * Also check the list passed in is not modified by this but rather copied
     */
    public void testFiltersSortedByKey() {
        KeyedFilter[] original = new KeyedFilter[]{new KeyedFilter("bbb", new MatchNoneQueryBuilder()),
                new KeyedFilter("aaa", new MatchNoneQueryBuilder())};
        FiltersAggregationBuilder builder;
        builder = new FiltersAggregationBuilder("my-agg", original);
        assertEquals("aaa", builder.filters().get(0).key());
        assertEquals("bbb", builder.filters().get(1).key());
        // original should be unchanged
        assertEquals("bbb", original[0].key());
        assertEquals("aaa", original[1].key());
    }

    public void testOtherBucket() throws IOException {
        XContentBuilder builder = XContentFactory.contentBuilder(randomFrom(XContentType.values()));
        builder.startObject();
        builder.startArray("filters")
            .startObject().startObject("term").field("field", "foo").endObject().endObject()
            .endArray();
        builder.endObject();
        try (XContentParser parser = createParser(shuffleXContent(builder))) {
            parser.nextToken();
            FiltersAggregationBuilder filters = FiltersAggregationBuilder.parse("agg_name", parser);
            // The other bucket is disabled by default
            assertFalse(filters.otherBucket());

            builder = XContentFactory.contentBuilder(randomFrom(XContentType.values()));
            builder.startObject();
            builder.startArray("filters")
                .startObject().startObject("term").field("field", "foo").endObject().endObject()
                .endArray();
            builder.field("other_bucket_key", "some_key");
            builder.endObject();
        }
        try (XContentParser parser = createParser(shuffleXContent(builder))) {
            parser.nextToken();
            FiltersAggregationBuilder filters = FiltersAggregationBuilder.parse("agg_name", parser);
            // but setting a key enables it automatically
            assertTrue(filters.otherBucket());

            builder = XContentFactory.contentBuilder(randomFrom(XContentType.values()));
            builder.startObject();
            builder.startArray("filters")
                .startObject().startObject("term").field("field", "foo").endObject().endObject()
                .endArray();
            builder.field("other_bucket", false);
            builder.field("other_bucket_key", "some_key");
            builder.endObject();
        }
        try (XContentParser parser = createParser(shuffleXContent(builder))) {
            parser.nextToken();
            FiltersAggregationBuilder filters = FiltersAggregationBuilder.parse("agg_name", parser);
            // unless the other bucket is explicitly disabled
            assertFalse(filters.otherBucket());
        }
    }

    public void testRewrite() throws IOException {
        // test non-keyed filter that doesn't rewrite
        AggregationBuilder original = new FiltersAggregationBuilder("my-agg", new MatchAllQueryBuilder());
        original.setMetadata(Collections.singletonMap(randomAlphaOfLengthBetween(1, 20), randomAlphaOfLengthBetween(1, 20)));
        AggregationBuilder rewritten = original.rewrite(new QueryRewriteContext(xContentRegistry(), null, null, () -> 0L));
        assertSame(original, rewritten);

        // test non-keyed filter that does rewrite
        original = new FiltersAggregationBuilder("my-agg", new BoolQueryBuilder());
        rewritten = original.rewrite(new QueryRewriteContext(xContentRegistry(), null, null, () -> 0L));
        assertNotSame(original, rewritten);
        assertThat(rewritten, instanceOf(FiltersAggregationBuilder.class));
        assertEquals("my-agg", ((FiltersAggregationBuilder) rewritten).getName());
        assertEquals(1, ((FiltersAggregationBuilder) rewritten).filters().size());
        assertEquals("0", ((FiltersAggregationBuilder) rewritten).filters().get(0).key());
        assertThat(((FiltersAggregationBuilder) rewritten).filters().get(0).filter(), instanceOf(MatchAllQueryBuilder.class));
        assertFalse(((FiltersAggregationBuilder) rewritten).isKeyed());

        // test keyed filter that doesn't rewrite
        original = new FiltersAggregationBuilder("my-agg", new KeyedFilter("my-filter",  new MatchAllQueryBuilder()));
        rewritten = original.rewrite(new QueryRewriteContext(xContentRegistry(), null, null, () -> 0L));
        assertSame(original, rewritten);

        // test non-keyed filter that does rewrite
        original = new FiltersAggregationBuilder("my-agg", new KeyedFilter("my-filter",  new BoolQueryBuilder()));
        rewritten = original.rewrite(new QueryRewriteContext(xContentRegistry(), null, null, () -> 0L));
        assertNotSame(original, rewritten);
        assertThat(rewritten, instanceOf(FiltersAggregationBuilder.class));
        assertEquals("my-agg", ((FiltersAggregationBuilder) rewritten).getName());
        assertEquals(1, ((FiltersAggregationBuilder) rewritten).filters().size());
        assertEquals("my-filter", ((FiltersAggregationBuilder) rewritten).filters().get(0).key());
        assertThat(((FiltersAggregationBuilder) rewritten).filters().get(0).filter(), instanceOf(MatchAllQueryBuilder.class));
        assertTrue(((FiltersAggregationBuilder) rewritten).isKeyed());

        // test sub-agg filter that does rewrite
        original = new TermsAggregationBuilder("terms").userValueTypeHint(ValueType.BOOLEAN)
            .subAggregation(
                new FiltersAggregationBuilder("my-agg", new KeyedFilter("my-filter",  new BoolQueryBuilder()))
            );
        rewritten = original.rewrite(new QueryRewriteContext(xContentRegistry(), null, null, () -> 0L));
        assertNotSame(original, rewritten);
        assertNotEquals(original, rewritten);
        assertThat(rewritten, instanceOf(TermsAggregationBuilder.class));
        assertThat(rewritten.getSubAggregations().size(), equalTo(1));
        AggregationBuilder subAgg = rewritten.getSubAggregations().iterator().next();
        assertThat(subAgg, instanceOf(FiltersAggregationBuilder.class));
        assertNotSame(original.getSubAggregations().iterator().next(), subAgg);
        assertEquals("my-agg", subAgg.getName());
        assertSame(rewritten,
            rewritten.rewrite(new QueryRewriteContext(xContentRegistry(), null, null, () -> 0L)));
    }

    public void testRewritePreservesOtherBucket() throws IOException {
        FiltersAggregationBuilder originalFilters = new FiltersAggregationBuilder("my-agg", new BoolQueryBuilder());
        originalFilters.otherBucket(randomBoolean());
        originalFilters.otherBucketKey(randomAlphaOfLength(10));

        AggregationBuilder rewritten = originalFilters.rewrite(new QueryRewriteContext(xContentRegistry(),
            null, null, () -> 0L));
        assertThat(rewritten, instanceOf(FiltersAggregationBuilder.class));

        FiltersAggregationBuilder rewrittenFilters = (FiltersAggregationBuilder) rewritten;
        assertEquals(originalFilters.otherBucket(), rewrittenFilters.otherBucket());
        assertEquals(originalFilters.otherBucketKey(), rewrittenFilters.otherBucketKey());
    }

    public void testEmptyFilters() throws IOException {
        {
            XContentBuilder builder = XContentFactory.contentBuilder(randomFrom(XContentType.values()));
            builder.startObject();
            builder.startArray("filters").endArray();  // unkeyed array
            builder.endObject();
            XContentParser parser = createParser(shuffleXContent(builder));
            parser.nextToken();
            IllegalArgumentException e = expectThrows(IllegalArgumentException.class,
                () -> FiltersAggregationBuilder.parse("agg_name", parser));
            assertThat(e.getMessage(), equalTo("[filters] cannot be empty."));
        }

        {
            XContentBuilder builder = XContentFactory.contentBuilder(randomFrom(XContentType.values()));
            builder.startObject();
            builder.startObject("filters").endObject(); // keyed object
            builder.endObject();
            XContentParser parser = createParser(shuffleXContent(builder));
            parser.nextToken();
            IllegalArgumentException e = expectThrows(IllegalArgumentException.class,
                () -> FiltersAggregationBuilder.parse("agg_name", parser));
            assertThat(e.getMessage(), equalTo("[filters] cannot be empty."));
        }
    }
}


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<note> DEFAULT PARAMETERS. The value of "isb_default_input_kscore.xml" is recommended. Change to "isb_default_input_native.xml" for native X!Tandem scoring.</note>
	<note type="input" label="list path, default parameters">res://isb_default_input_kscore.xml</note>

<note> FILE LOCATIONS. Replace them with your input (.mzXML) file and output file -- these are REQUIRED. Optionally a log file and a sequence output file of all protein sequences identified in the first-pass can be specified. Use of FULL path (not relative) paths is recommended. </note>

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	<note type="input" label="output, log path"></note>
	<note type="input" label="output, sequence path"></note>
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<note> Actual Fasta file</note>
     <note type="input" label="list path, taxonomy information">res://FullMapReduceTaxonomy.xml</note>
     <note type="input" label="protein, taxon">yeast_orfs_all_REV.20060126.short.fasta</note>
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<note> PRECURSOR MASS TOLERANCES. In the example below, a -2.0 Da to 4.0 Da (monoisotopic mass) window is searched for peptide candidates. Since this is monoisotopic mass, so for non-accurate-mass instruments, for which the precursor is often taken nearer to the isotopically averaged mass, an asymmetric tolerance (-2.0 Da to 4.0 Da) is preferable. This somewhat imitates a (-3.0 Da to 3.0 Da) window for averaged mass (but not exactly)</note>
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<note> MODIFICATIONS. In the example below, there is a static (carbamidomethyl) modification on C, and variable modifications on M (oxidation). Multiple modifications can be separated by commas, as in "80.0@S,80.0@T". Peptide terminal modifications can be specified with the symbol '[' for N-terminus and ']' for C-terminus, such as 42.0@[ .  </note>

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<note> REFINEMENT. Do not use unless you know what you are doing. Set "refine" to "yes" and specify what you want to search in the refinement. For non-confusing results, repeat the same modifications you set above for the first-pass here.</note>
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Biden Announces Order for Half of New Vehicles to Be Zero-Emission by 2030
President Biden announced he will sign an executive order requiring zero admissions from half of all new vehicles sold by 2030 as well as a reversal of Trump's vehicle standards and $174B for electric vehicle infrastructure.
Biden to order half of all new vehicles to be zero-emission by 2030
On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced that he will sign an executive order requiring that 50% of all vehicles sold by the year 2030 will have to have zero emissions.
"The future of the auto industry is electric — and made in America," Biden said in a tweet. "Today I'm signing an executive order with a goal to make 50% of new vehicles sold by 2030 zero-emission — and unveiling steps to reverse the previous administration's short-sighted rollback of vehicle standards."
Reversal and tightening of Trump-era standards except for two
Biden's tweet slammed the Trump administration for rolling back fuel efficiency and tailpipe emissions standards that had been stricter under regulations put in place by the Obama administration, NBC reported. However, the Biden administration will not only restore them but in some areas will make them more stringent.
The only standards from the Trump administration that will be left in place are those for miles per gallon until the model year 2024 and for greenhouse gas emissions until the model year 2023, NBC reported.
White House releases "fact sheet" on the 2030 vehicle plan
The White House released a fact sheet on Thursday morning, the Western Journal reported.
"Specifically, the President will sign an Executive Order that sets an ambitious new target to make half of all new vehicles sold in 2030 zero-emissions vehicles, including battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, or fuel cell electric vehicles," the White House press release said. "The Executive Order also kicks off development of long-term fuel efficiency and emissions standards to save consumers money, cut pollution, boost public health, advance environmental justice, and tackle the climate crisis."
Biden calls for $174 billion in spending for electric vehicle infrastructure
Earlier this year, President Biden called for $174 billion in federal spending to build an infrastructure of a half-million electric vehicle charging stations across the country.
Currently, the biggest impediment to adopting electric vehicles is the lack of charging stations and the fear people have of running out of battery.
Experts say that without federal investments to create an electric vehicle infrastructure, it will be difficult to make emission-free vehicles viable on a wide scale for Americans.
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Resolution 52: Governor Corbett and Mayor Nutter's Attack on Philadelphia Public Education and Public Service
Submitted by AFT, AFSCME and UNITE HERE
Referred to the Executive Council
Those who work in Philadelphia public schools, represented by the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, and those who provide the city's vital public services, represented by AFSCME District Councils 33 and 47, do so out of a sense of mission: they want to help kids, they want to care for those who are most vulnerable, and they want to ensure that the vital public services that keep our city moving are reliably provided to build a better Philadelphia for all.
But educators and public employees are under attack from forces intent on rolling back the promise of equal opportunity, basic fairness and responsive government.
Governor Corbett and his legislative partisans are leading the attack. While extending $2.4 billion in tax breaks to corporate special interests and political donors, including expanded favors for energy and telecommunications companies, Corbett eliminated assistance to 69,000 financially distressed Pennsylvanians suffering from illness, disability or domestic violence; cut environmental funding by 20 percent and slashed more than $1 billion from public education, including more than $304 million from Philadelphia's schools.
Right now, Governor Corbett is holding hostage $45 million in federal assistance targeted for Philadelphia schools. Holding back the money is part of his plan to boost his sagging poll numbers by manufacturing a crisis in which schools are starved, children are denied the education they deserve and teachers are blamed for the disruption.
Instead of standing up to Corbett and demanding the federal funds Philadelphia schools were promised and desperately need, Mayor Michael Nutter has joined Corbett in scapegoating hardworking public employees and educators, while continuing tax breaks for large corporations.
And even though Philadelphia teachers have offered substantial contract concessions by forgoing pay increases and making changes to health care benefits, the mayor dismisses these concessions and continues his push to eliminate the ability of educators to speak up for public schools and fight for the things students need—like a safe and welcoming school to attend, with a rich curriculum and extracurricular activities, where teachers have the support they need in order to improve their instruction and students receive the services they need in order to be ready to learn.
When Mayor Nutter wanted the support of city workers, he said he would work to negotiate a fair contract for public employees and improve public services for all Philadelphians. AFSCME District Councils 33 and 47 have demonstrated flexibility in working with the city, but the mayor has not kept his word. Instead, Nutter has focused on advancing the Corbett agenda, attacking public employees, cutting services and granting tax breaks to big corporations.
City workers in Philadelphia have now gone five years without contracts or wage increases, have paid significant increases for their health care and suffered relentless attacks from Mayor Nutter's administration. Under Mayor Nutter, the number of city workers living in poverty has doubled.
While both AFSCME DC 33 and DC 47 have attempted to negotiate a solution with the Nutter administration, he has gone to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to impose a contract that means cuts to vital services, wages reductions and less retirement security.
Mayor Nutter's failed policies have cut vital services to the residents of our city. Because of his failures, library doors often remain locked and fewer people work in our recreation centers. It's time for Nutter to change course, stop putting the Corbett agenda and the interests of large corporations ahead of the interests of the people of Philadelphia, and negotiate a fair contract for educators and municipal workers.
The labor movement stands with neighbors, parents, students and community leaders in condemning these attacks on the schools and the vital services on which our city relies. We are united in calling on Mayor Nutter to reverse course and stand up for a better Philadelphia for all by:
1. Demanding the immediate release of the $45 million in federal assistance targeted for Philadelphia.
2. Instructing the mayor's representatives on the School Reform Commission to demand the funding necessary for our schools to educate students, and shelve further plans for school closings, budget cuts and giveaways to market-based reformers.
3. Working with parents, teachers, students and community leaders to put politics aside, fix the damage already inflicted, raise additional revenues by eliminating unnecessary tax breaks for wealthy corporations, collect taxes which are overdue, and do what's right for Philadelphia children, families and public schools.
4. Immediately working with the City Council to identify and raise additional revenues in the form of fair-share assessments on wealthy tax-exempt Philadelphia institutions, such as the University of Pennsylvania.
5. Collaborating with teachers and city municipal employees to find fair solutions through good faith negotiations rather than using this manufactured fiscal crisis or the courts to attack collective bargaining and dismantle vital public services.


Mood swings manifest when you are having a nervous breakdown. You might find yourself bursting out in anger unexpectedly in situations you would normally be calm. If you're going through an emotional roller coaster, you should get checked out. This indicates a serious problem.
Clinical depression is a big symptom too. If you find yourself gaining or losing a lot of weight because of an eating disorder, or thinking a lot about self-torture and suicide, it is time to visit a psychologist.
If you find yourself avoiding social situations and deliberately missing out on get-togethers you previously would have enjoyed, it is also another symptom. You may find yourself preferring to be lonely rather than enjoying some time out with your closest friends.
Living life with worries about things that are usually unavoidable, manageable or even out of our hands usually gives us more stress than its worth. If you're having financial or personal problems confiding in a close aide might help but even if that doesn't rescue you and it gets very serious, you should be seeking medical therapy before things get worse. Living a life with stress and tension can lead to serious heart-related problems including palpitations.
A troubled mind can play tricks on you. People suffering from hallucinations may provide harm to people around them or even to themselves. Victims of hallucinations are usually unable to identify the difference between illusion and reality. It is nearly impossible to convince them otherwise.
Human's are usually goal-oriented and like to follow a routine and achieve their respective goals in life. If for some reason you feel tired and don't want to get out of bed, or even wake up feeling tired, don't want to do any activities or have lost track of your goals. Who know's, you may just be lazy but it never hurts to get checked out.
Life can be tough and we can all go astray. Many people drink alcohol on a regular basis and even try drugs for their own reasons. If you for some reason find yourself dependent on these vices you may have some underlying unresolved issues which a psychiatrist could help figuring out. Think about setting up that appointment.
Having the death of a close one or a regretful event re-run in your head can be a terrible thing. That happening uncontrollably is unimaginable. People who face these flashbacks have been through events that caused them severe mental trauma. Their mind's keep recalling that event again and again and it impairs their ability to lead a normal life. This happens mostly with soldiers who see brutal scenes while doing their duties.
A person's surroundings account for a lot of their self-esteem. The people they grow up with, the way they treat them and the achievements they are able to make in life define a person. Some of us face people and events that drag down their self-esteem to a debilitating point where they can no longer function properly in society. This can lead to isolation and then clinical depression. Love your family, especially those that are challenged, they need you the most.
If you are continuously finding it difficult to sleep and are trying different methods to induce sleep such as drugs or over the counter medicine, you better check up the causes behind it. Insomnia can occur because of anxiety issues which should not be there. Most people who can't sleep well don't function too well because of the lack of sleep and energy. Insomnia usually occurs when a person is not mentally at peace and is usually resolved by changing the way a person leads their life.
Ever had a nervous breakdown? How'd you deal with it? Tell us in the comments below. You can also check up on this post about a self discipline program and see if that helps!


HOWTO - Active Directory Services not needed in Windows 10 Pro?
We are using Office 365 Cloud services for at least 5 years and the benefits is no way close to compare managing your own services e.g. Active Directory (AD), Exchange Server, SharePoint and File Server.
My Office 365 users are more secure thanks to the Multi-Factor Authentication feature, where you can use your smart phone to receive a six pin codes to complete your identification and authentication process.
The latest version of Windows 10 Pro, also give you the option to login using your username and password you use with Office 365 or other business services from Microsoft e.g. Outlook.com, XBOX, etc.
You still have an option to configure your workstation using the Active Directory. You will be able to see "Domain join instead" on the lower right corner of the screen.
For this example, I will use my Office 365 username and password to setup my workstation.
I enter my Office 365 username e.g. email address em@que.com, click Next to continue. The next page is to enter my password. I have Multi-Factor Authentication enabled, so the setup also ask to verify my account. I enter my six pin codes to proceed.


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James Edwin Duerden
Home/Personalities/James Edwin Duerden
James Edwin Duerden was a Zoologist; world authority on corals, ostriches and wool. He was born in Burnley, Lancashire on 7th April 1865 and died in Nottingham on 4th September 1937. He was the eldest child of a cotton-weaver and he had to go to work in the mills at the age of 12. At 30 he married Margaret Jane Howarth, a teacher at the local day school where he obtained his early education. Working in the cotton-mills by day and attending the night school of the Mechanics' Institute at Burnley, he became their first exhibitioner to the Royal College of Science, London, in 1885. Three years later he was appointed demonstrator in biology and palaeontology at the Royal College of Science, Dublin, and the next year obtained his A.R.C.S. (advanced zoology). In 1890 he became a member of the Irish Fisheries Survey (1890 – 1895), writing a number of papers on the marine fauna, particularly the Coelenterata and Polyzoa. In 1895 he became curator of the Science Museum of the Institute of Jamaica at Kingston, where he set up a marine laboratory, and in 1897 made a careful study of aboriginal Indian remains. Between 1901 and 1905 his primary interest was corals. In 1901 he became the Bruce Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and led the Carnegie Institute expedition to the Hawaiian Islands to study the Pacific corals. During these years he became the world's foremost authority on corals.
In 1905 Duerden was appointed professor of zoology at Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, where he turned his attention to local farming problems. In this connection he commenced a study of the ostrich, publishing numerous papers on the bird, and discovering the stalked para-pineal vesicle, until then unknown in any bird. For a number of years he was the officer in charge of ostrich investigations, Grootfontein School of Agriculture. When the ostrich-feather industry collapsed he began a study of wool and became Director of Wool Research for the Union of South Africa. In this study, as with ostriches and corals, he became in his time the leading international authority. On his retirement to Leeds in 1935 he continued his work on wool as a honary member of the Wool Research Laboratory, Torridon, and honoraryFellow of the Zoological Department at Leeds University. He died from a broken neck, the result of a fall in a bus while he was on his way to a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Works: As Duerden published 124 scientific papers between 1893 and 1933, suffice it that those treating of South African subjects appeared principally in the Journal of the Royal African Society, the Records of the Albany Museum, the S.A. Journal of Natural History and the S.A. Journal of Science.
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SA Bank says it will raise interest rates by as much as 1% for its loans
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SA Bank has said it will hike interest rates for the first time in more than three years and it expects to add as many as 1,200 new employees to the bank's staff.
The Bank of South Africa said on Thursday it would increase the average interest rate it charges on existing loans to 5.8 per cent from 4.5 per cent, which will take effect from April 1.
"We're going to make a decision on our lending and it will be the first of the year," SA Bank managing director Sihong Lee said in an interview.SA Bank has faced criticism from its critics for being too dependent on government funds, and for being slow to boost lending to poor areas.
It has also faced criticism for its poor service for consumers.
It had warned on Wednesday that it may cut or postpone lending to the black market, citing the recent shortage of loans and lack of a market for foreign exchange.
"For us, it's not about profitability, it is about quality of service.
And that is what we have to work on," Lee said.
He said the bank would continue to cut rates, and that interest rates will be adjusted by the bank when rates are expected to rise.
"There will be adjustments," he said.
"That will be based on a number of factors, and what we can see on the ground."
He said that the bank was now focusing on building the country's infrastructure.
"We're trying to increase the supply of services in a way that will enable the country to live and work," Lee added.
The bank will also launch an online platform to help people find loans and mortgages.
"This will be an essential tool for borrowers and their families to access credit," Lee told reporters.
"The online platform will allow borrowers to see if their loan is in default and help them determine whether they have to repay their loan or refinance."
The bank's loan-to-value ratio has declined since the end of 2013 to below 6.5 percent from 7.1 percent.
"We are on a path to becoming a more efficient lending institution and we have a very strong team of people who are ready to take on these new challenges," Lee continued.
The banking industry is struggling as more and more borrowers are forced to borrow from the black economy.
As part of its efforts to help the country become more self-sufficient, the government has launched a range of schemes to help businesses, particularly small- and medium-sized enterprises, pay back loans.
The South African Development Community (SADC) has pledged $2 billion over five years to build more schools, hospitals and roads.
But it has been accused of being too cautious in its response to the worsening economy.
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Of all manufacturers of tongkat ali products worldwide, we are the one who is most careful to avoid-heavy metal contamination.
This is quite evident already from the fact that already in 2003, we considered the issue important enough to dedicate its own domain to it, tongkatali-heavymetals.com.
This is in line with the facts that most countries have published guidelines for maximum acceptable traces of heavy metals in human consumables.
We at Sumatra Pasak Bumi aim to stay below a tenth of what government regulations consider OK, and often we achieve a mark of one hundredths of what would pass public health officials.
Fact is: no heavy metals at all is best.
The following metals are usually meant when the talk is about heavy metals' negativ impact on human health: lead, cadmium, mercury.
Two of them are neurotoxins: lead and mercury. Cadmium is carcinogenic and messes with bones.
A fourth element, arsenic, is often grouped together with poisonous heavy metals, even though it's neither heavy, nor a metal. It's cancerous like cadmium, and damages the urinary tract, among others.
The periodic table's four horsemen of the apocalypse have wise men take cover. Don't consume herbals if you don't know how the manufactureerer addresses the problem.
This approach excludes 99 percent of what is on the market.
The tongkat ali which Sumatra Pasak Bumi processes into extract is traditionally collected deep inside rain forests, up to 50 kilometers from roads, and certainly hundreds of kilometers from industries. There is also no mining within a radius of hundreds of kilometers. This is important for the heavy-metal profile of our extracts because most heavy-metal contamination stems from human activities.
Minimal dosages of tongkat ali, as commonly sold, have no effect. If you want to avoid higher dosages of a single agent, you should stack herbals with a similar effect.
But fake tongkat ali has killed numerous people. Better be careful!
If you live somewhere in the countryside, you may want to consider growing your own tongkat ali. We are a full-service tongkat ali company, and thus also sell seeds.
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: The Honest Company, Kroger, Nvidia and more
A Nvidia logo is seen on the company's building at an industry park on February 7, 2019 in Tianjin, China.
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CureVac — Shares of the German biopharmaceutical company continued to fall after it released primary efficacy results Wednesday for its Covid-19 vaccine candidate, which demonstrated an interim efficacy of just 47%. The stock is trading down about 40% midday.
Novavax — After CureVac reported disappointing results from a study of its Covid-19 vaccine, shares of Novavax added 2%. Novavax on Monday said its Covid vaccine is 90% effective.
The Honest Company — The Honest Company's stock dropped 9% following the baby and beauty store's first earnings report. The company reported first-quarter revenue of $81.0 million compared with analysts' estimate of $79.3 million, according to Refinitiv. Guggenheim downgraded the stock to neutral from buy. "Although we remain positive on the underlying fundamental outlook, we are downgrading the shares to NEUTRAL given the more balanced risk-reward and lack of an apparent catalyst, in our view, to materially increase our top-line expectations or valuation multiple," Guggenheim said.
Nvidia — Shares of Nvidia gained over 4% after Jefferies raised its price target on the semiconductor stock to a Wall Street high of $712.41. "We see NVDA as a major beneficiary of the 4th Tectonic Shift in Computing, in which parallel processing captures share in the computing market," Jefferies' Mark Lipacis said. "We think NVDA's decade-long investment in CUDA has resulted in a multi-year competitive advantage."
Lennar — Shares of the homebuilding company rose about 2% in midday trading. On Wednesday, Lennar reported earnings of $2.65 per share, topping estimates of $2.36 per share, according to Refinitiv. The company is dealing with higher input costs and a labor shortage, but the lack of homes for sale in the U.S. helped raise prices and expand Lennar's profit margins significantly over a year earlier.
Danaher — The medical equipment maker's stock rose about 4.5% after announcing it will buy the privately held biotech company Aldevron for $9.6 billion in an all-cash deal. Aldevron produces plasmid DNA, mRNA and proteins to help biotechnology and pharmaceutical customers and has a deal with Moderna to supply plasmid DNA, a requirement for making vaccines.
Kroger — The supermarket chain's stock rose over 4% after it reported earnings, lifted its profit guidance and dialed up buybacks. Kroger reported earnings per share of $1.19, beating analyst estimates by 19%, and revenue of $41.3 billion.
Fisker — Shares of the auto company rose more than 2% midday after finalizing a long-term manufacturing agreement with Magna International. Production of the Fisker Ocean SUV is set to begin November 2022 at Magna's carbon-neutral facility in Graz, Austria.
— CNBC's Hannah Miao and Maggie Fitzgerald contributed reporting
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History of Our Motto
Our National Motto
On Sunday, February 7, 1954, President Dwight David Eisenhower (34th President) gave a radio address that emphasized the importance of Godliness and spirituality in American history. "Out of faith in God, and through faith in themselves as His children, our forefathers designed and built the Republic," Eisenhower said. The president gave a brief civics lesson during his radio address that recalled the struggles of the Pilgrims, the testing of George Washington at Valley Forge, and the determined battle of Abraham Lincoln to save the Union: All of these men shared a steadfast belief in God.
According To Einsenhower:
Faith is the one unifying feature of the American Experience.
At a time of surging popular piety, many Americans welcomed this kind of spiritual direction from their president.
Place of Meditation
Although Eisenhower embraced religion, biographers insist he never intended to force his beliefs on anyone. In fact, the chapel-like structure near where he and his wife Mamie are buried on the grounds of his presidential library is called the "Place of Meditation" and is intentionally inter-denominational.
At a Flag Day speech in 1954, he elaborated on his feelings about the place of religion in public life when he discussed why he had wanted to include "under God" in the pledge of allegiance: "In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future; in this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war."
"by the millions, we speak prayers, we sing hymns, and no matter what their words may be, their spirit is the same:
"IN GOD WE TRUST."
The Legal Date
On July 30, 1956, two years after pushing to have the phrase "under God" inserted into the pledge of allegiance and after his radio address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a law officially declaring "In God We Trust" to be the nation's official motto. The law, P.L. 84-140, also mandated that the phrase be printed on all American paper currency.
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