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The primary G1/S cell cycle checkpoint controls the commitment of eukaryotic cells to transition through the G1 phase to enter into the DNA synthesis S phase. Two cell cycle kinase complexes, CDK4/6-Cyclin D and CDK2-Cyclin E, work in concert to relieve inhibition of a dynamic transcription complex that contains the retinoblastoma protein (Rb) and E2F. In G1-phase uncommitted cells, hypo-phosphorylated Rb binds to the E2F-DP1 transcription factors forming an inhibitory complex with HDAC to repress key downstream transcription events. Commitment to enter S-phase occurs through sequential phosphorylation of Rb by Cyclin D-CDK4/6 and Cyclin E-CDK2 that dissociates the HDAC-repressor complex, permitting transcription of genes required for DNA replication. In the presence of growth factors, Akt can phosphorylate FoxO1/3, which inhibits their function by nuclear export, thereby allowing cell survival and proliferation. Importantly, a multitude of different stimuli exert checkpoint control, including TGF-β, DNA damage, replicative senescence, and growth factor withdrawal. These stimuli act though transcription factors to induce specific members of the INK4 or Kip/Cip families of cyclin dependent kinase inhibitors (CKIs). Notably, the oncogenic polycomb protein Bmi1 acts as a negative regulator of INK4A/B expression in stem cells and human cancer. In addition to regulating CKIs, TGF-β also inhibits cdc25A transcription, a phosphatase directly required for CDK activation. At a critical convergence point with the DNA- damage checkpoint, cdc25A is ubiquitinated and targeted for degradation via the SCF ubiquitin ligase complex downstream of the ATM/ATR/Chk-pathway. However, timely degradation of cdc25A in mitosis (M-phase) via the APC ubiquitin ligase complex allows progression through mitosis. Furthermore, growth factor withdrawal activates GSK-3β to phosphorylate Cyclin D, which leads to its rapid ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation. Collectively, ubiquitin/proteasome-dependent degradation and nuclear export are mechanisms commonly used to effectively reduce the concentration of cell cycle control proteins. Importantly, Cyclin D1/CKD4/6 complexes are explored as therapeutic targets for cancer treatment as researchers have found this checkpoint to be invariantly deregulated in human tumors.
Selected Reviews:
Besson A, Dowdy SF, Roberts JM (2008) CDK inhibitors: cell cycle regulators and beyond. Dev. Cell 14(2), 159–69.
Gil J, Peters G (2006) Regulation of the INK4b-ARF-INK4a tumour suppressor locus: all for one or one for all. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 7(9), 667–77.
Malumbres M, Barbacid M (2009) Cell cycle, CDKs and cancer: a changing paradigm. Nat. Rev. Cancer 9(3), 153–66.
Musgrove EA, Caldon CE, Barraclough J, Stone A, Sutherland RL (2011) Cyclin D as a therapeutic target in cancer. Nat. Rev. Cancer 11(8), 558–72.
Skaar JR, Pagano M (2009) Control of cell growth by the SCF and APC/C ubiquitin ligases. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 21(6), 816–24.
Sparmann A, van Lohuizen M (2006) Polycomb silencers control cell fate, development and cancer. Nat. Rev. Cancer 6(11), 846–56.
Tzivion G, Dobson M, Ramakrishnan G (2011) FoxO transcription factors; Regulation by AKT and 14-3-3 proteins. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1813(11), 1938–45.
van den Heuvel S, Dyson NJ (2008) Conserved functions of the pRB and E2F families. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 9(9), 713–24.
Yang JY, Hung MC (2009) A new fork for clinical application: targeting forkhead transcription factors in cancer. Clin. Cancer Res. 15(3), 752–7.
We would like to thank Dr. Hans Widlund, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, for contributing to this diagram.
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Can You Plug An Inverter Into A Jackery
The Jackery is a portable power station that allows you to charge your devices quickly. Its easy-to-read LCD display shows you how much power the unit is taking in and out, and it can even show the charging temperature and type. This portable power station can power small coolers and USB devices as long as you aren't afraid to wire it. It also has a USB port to connect to your computer.
The Jackery Power Station is portable and can power almost everything you need in the home. With a 15 amp maximum load, it's ideal for your computer workstation or a studio strobe. It can also power LED lights and TVs. The Jackery also includes a handy LED flashlight, which some people might find gimmicky, but it's useful for navigating and spotting things in the dark.
The Jackery Explorer 1000 is a versatile portable power station, ideally suited to people who travel a lot. Its solar panels and lightweight design make it easy to carry and use. If you run out, the flashlight can be used as a backup. The Jackery Explorer 1000 is a better option than other portable power sources. You can also build your own system and save money on the process.
The Jackery Explorer 1000 can take up to 163W solar input. This unit produces 18V from each of the solar panels. Two 100W panels cannot be connected in parallel. A Jackery's battery life can be reduced from seven to fourteen hours to seven or fourteen hours. And while the solar panel is an excellent option for long-range traveling, it doesn't work very well with the use of AC/DC power. The Jackery is the ideal portable power source for outdoor activities.
A generator is an option when you are on location. Small petrol-driven generators are perfect for lighting but are noisy and often smelly. There are many options for filming that don't require fossil fuels. Jackery's Explorer 1000 electric power pack is similar to a cell-phone. It also features a mains plug output so that your appliances can be powered even when there's no electricity.
The Jackery's battery is rated for 500 cycles of discharge and recovery to 80% capacity. While this is a great performance for its size, it could do with better input and larger portable panels. It's still a reliable backup power source. A car charger is also included. A wall charger allows you charge the unit with an AC adapter or wall outlet. Jackery also offers a parallel adapter for solar panels that allows you to charge them directly from your car's battery.
The Jackery Explorer 1000 is a great portable power station for camping. Although it is smaller than a microwave oven, this unit can power all your electronics for hours or even days. Its noise level is much lower than that of a portable gas-powered generator. It has a rugged exterior and a wide range of ports. Compared to gas-powered portable generators, the Explorer 1000 is an excellent choice for many outdoor activities.
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Who goes to Notting Hill and takes photos in front of a brick wall? Holla.
James and I walked and walked, and walked but me being me I wasn't happy with anywhere so I ended up settling for a brick wall. A brick wall. Lord only knows.
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Loving this look! The t-shirt is so cute, love how subtle it is!
Beautiful photos, and lovely outfit!
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Stunning Fresh Triumphs For Lucy Shuker and Rafael Nadal
Lucy Shuker beat top seed Katharina Kruger to win the Israel Open;
The latest chapter in a stunningly successful first third of the year for the irrepressible Brit.
Meanwhile Rafael Nadal saw off all contenders in Barcelona, notching his 400th clay court win.
In the Barcelona final he defeated the Greek teenager, Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-2, 6-1 to claim an incredible eleventh title there.
Nadal is surely the greatest clay court player of all time. But Shuker is arguably the greatest wheelchair tennis player in the world, when you take into account the fact that her level of disability is far more severe than the other women on the circuit.
Shuker is actually ranked eighth in the world – partly because the amount of physical restriction she has to overcome is not fully recognised, at least not in terms of separate competitions for women of similar disability levels.
Not that Lucy ever complains. And she simply said this of her victory over her German opponent in Israel:
'I think 2018 has been a great year so far in terms of doubles titles, winning the Sydney Super Series, Georgia Open and Cajun Classic Super Series titles.
'But last week in Israel I was really happy to secure my first singles title of the year, beating the World No. 6 in the final 6-0 6-2.
'This was a really encouraging performance for me and I was also really happy to bring home the Israel Open doubles title, teaming up with fellow country-woman Louise Hunt.
'It has been a good couple of weeks of competition for me, following the World Team Cup Qualification event in Portugal in which I was part of the GB women's team that qualified for the World event at the end of May, beating Russia in a doubles showdown that finished just after midnight.
'Thank you for all your continued support, it really is instrumental in helping me to achieve and strive towards my goals.
'My next set of competitions in May are the Korea Open and Japan Open, I will keep you updated with how it all goes out there.
Many thanks as always,
Go Lucy! We think you are fantastic – and we reckon the best way to express that for now is to put you on a par with Nadal again this week – because Rafa wasn't too shabby in Barcelona either!


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I find it ironic that where Jesus was raised—in the backyard of his earthly life—Evangelical churches were disallowed status to marry, own buildings, and even have a bank account.
The good story is that which once was, no longer is.
The good news came in November by way of Pastor Munir Kakish at the WEA's General Assembly in Indonesia. He told me the story and then opened a leather-bound folder. There, he proudly showed me, was the signature of President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority (PA).
What I saw was what many Christians for 12 years had prayed for. This declaration gives legal status and governmental recognition to a national alliance called Local Evangelical Churches in the Holy Land.
And this is a very big deal.
For these churches, their pastors and members, this was such a sweet moment. For 12 years, Pastor Kakish—president of this newly formed alliance of Evangelical churches—knocked with regularity at the doors of government, gently but with determination and with a good dose of religious stubbornness.
His point to the government was that as Palestinians, we can better serve our community when you allow our churches to join together as an Evangelical Alliance. He also argued to the PA that not only does it allow Evangelical churches to speak with a single voice to government and the broader society, but it also gives government access to this community of Christians with just one call.
Forty years ago, among 50,000 self-identified christians in a land of 4.5 million (mostly Muslims) Evangelical churches were planted. They started in small tents, moving eventually into homes and, in time, to small rented buildings. Living in the wide swings of Israeli/Palestinian attempts to craft national boundaries and identities, these small and fragile churches grew, serving people and their needs.
But they suffered under three issues which would discourage most pastors.
First, the area know as the West Bank is a Muslim world. Even though their homes are in the land of Jesus, Islam dominates in a relatively benevolent, but overpowering manner. The Christian community is dominated by historic churches: various Orthodox and Roman Catholic.
In 2018, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was closed down by the government because the churches which oversee it had not paid their taxes. To get a picture of this cultural reality, Google the groups which oversee the Holy Sepulchre Church and read of their fractious fights and debates.
The Holy Land is as complex a region as one can find. Crowded land. Relatively small populations. Yet the multiple layers of control, ownership, and historical memory, inter- and intra- religious hostilities so often becomes the ruling narrative.
In that world are small but visible and vocal Evangelical churches— Palestinian followers of Jesus. They are often caught between Christians who believe Israel has total land rights and those who defend Palestinians, these growing churches seek a place of influence, looking for ways to make known the gospel of the One raised in their neighborhood.
Paradoxically, while Evangelical Palestinian churches now have their legal status as an Alliance, their colleagues in Israel are denied having a registered alliance by the Israeli government.
Botrus Mansour, chair of the Convention of Evangelical Churches in Israel (CECI), and a member of the WEA, told Christianity Today that they would like to be recognized by the Jewish authorities.
This Israeli Alliance made up of five Evangelical denominations—Assemblies of God, Baptists, Christian and Missionary Alliance, the Nazarenes, and the Open Brethren—has the same needs as those in the West Bank: rights and freedom to oversee social issues in matters such as marriage/divorce, buildings registered in the name of their church, and such fundamental tools as conducting business with a bank account in the name of the church, rather than having to use someone's personal account.
In this age of mega stories, massive movements, big churches, and global ministries, I look at this one story in the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority as a lesson in leadership.
Here, a persistent pastor, week after week, year after year went to the courts of government. Quietly, not demonstrating. Asking, not demanding. Creative, persistent, and resourceful.
He cranked it up a notch by arranging with WEA's Deborah Fikes to meet various officials in the UN in New York. Then, he invited the Secretary General of the WEA, Bishop Tendero, to meet President Abbas. In time, the government woke up and agreed to give the churches their legal status. This was such a sweet moment for Pastor Kakish, his churches, and the people.
However, what is their freedom? So, I asked him. Here was his response:
"It's important to know that the PA have no authority over us as a church. Our constitution gives us freedom to preach and serve as defined in our by-laws. We are free to evangelize. Now we have civil rights which we didn't have before. We can register our buildings in the name of our churches."
Is there any kind of persecution?
"There is none from the PA… we have full freedom. I write articles in newspapers. We enjoy freedom to knock on doors and invite people to church. We can rent a hall or hotel for evangelistic meetings, Christmas and Easter events. We have full freedom to minister to our people and invite them to our services."
What message can I give to our wider church? I asked. His response was simple and surprising:
"Brian, ask your tour groups that when they come to the Holy Land, they will visit us Christians in the West Bank as well. We want to be encouraged by you, and we want you to know us, so you can pray for us."
Take that from a pastor whose life and energy is given to tell people, living in the backyards of Nazareth, about Jesus.
Brian C. Stiller
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"A plural wife is not half as much a slave as a single wife. If her husband has four wives, she has three weeks of freedom every single month." - Martha Hughes Cannon, plural wife and first woman state senator in the U.S.
"That blonde girl. That's your wife? Nice. Hey, you got one like that, who needs twelve?" - Carmine "The Beans" Pasquale, fictional mobster portrayed by Mark DeCarlo
Some Latter-day Saints seem embarrassed by our polygamous past, willing only to hastily point out that we no longer practice it and try to end the discussion there, though in fairness there are many times and places where in-depth discussion of this topic isn't quite appropriate. Others choose to reject it as an erroneous practice made up by Joseph Smith; but this would make him a deceitful and lecherous monster unworthy of the Holy Ghost, let alone his prophetic calling, and in my view would completely undermine the legitimacy of the religion he founded. The Church itself, though never hiding it, has tried to move beyond it and didn't talk about it much until a set of groundbreaking essays released in 2013-14 (well after I had written this, thank you very much). I say there's nothing to be embarrassed about. It was commanded by the Lord, and from a historical standpoint it's simply fascinating. I, like many others, have several polygamists in my ancestry.
The term "polygamy" refers only to having more than one spouse, and what we generally think of as polygamy is more properly called "polygyny", or having more than one wife. Having more than one husband is known as "polyandry". Both are found in the animal kingdom (minus the marriage component) and evolutionary psychology suggests that humans are, by nature, a polygynous species. From an adaptive standpoint polygyny is good for females (who find it much easier to get a mate) and not so good for males (who find it much harder). Anyway, within the Church (as within Islam and other polygamous cultures) polygyny was the acceptable form, but for the sake of using the same terminology as everyone else, I'll jus refer to it as "polygamy".
Polygyny vs. polyandry - know the difference.
The Roots of the Practice
Marriage between one man and one woman is God's standard. In most times and places, polygamy is against His law, but in Old Testament times He authorized or commanded its practice by several men, including prophets. Increasing their posterity was one reason for it, but there could be and probably are other reasons that we can only speculate on. When the gospel was restored to the Earth through Joseph Smith, polygamy was temporarily part of the package as a restoration of all things, but again, we can only speculate on the other reasons. Several benefits that it brought to church members have also been postulated. The common hypothesis among some Saints that it was necessary due to a shortage of men, however, is not supported by the actual demographic data (maybe there was a shortage of good men, but that's just life).
The principle of plural marriage was taught to Joseph Smith as early as 1831 and he took his first plural wife, Fanny Alger, in 1833. His next wife, Lucinda Morgan Harris, was not taken until 1838, and the rest were taken between 1841 and 1843. It appears that he eventually had about thirty-four wives (including his first wife, Emma), but there may have been more. The historical records are sketchy because all such marriages were illegal and therefore conducted in secret; in fact, a resolution disavowing polygamy was passed by William W. Phelps and a church assembly in August 1835 and became part of the Doctrine and Covenants for over forty years. Joseph also taught the principle to some fellow church leaders, who began practicing it as well on a smaller scale, but the revelation was not formally written down until July 12, 1843, and would not be canonized as Doctrine and Covenants 132 until 1876 when it replaced the anti-polygamy resolution.
Emma Smith was dead-set against the practice from the beginning and rebuffed Hyrum Smith's attempts to explain the revelation to her in a way that she would accept. She begged Joseph to let her burn his original written copy of it, and he agreed because he had it memorized anyway. Eventually she came to terms with it and from then on alternated between reluctant support and adamant opposition; sometimes getting along with plural wives and sometimes fighting with them, and usually insisting that he let her choose them. On her deathbed she stated, "No such thing as polygamy, or spiritual wifery, was taught, publicly or privately, before my husband's death, that I have now, or ever had any knowledge of... he had no other wife but me, nor to my knowledge did he ever have." This is the position still held by the Community of Christ (formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day [sic] Saints).
For those involved polygamy was often a trial of faith. Both the men and the women asked to participate in the practice were usually disturbed at first, but sought and received their own spiritual witness that it was the will of the Lord. Some women did decline Joseph's proposals, and faced no repercussions for doing so. Joseph himself procrastinated doing it until an angel with a flaming sword threatened to destroy him otherwise. (Contrary to some misrepresentations, this was only in reference to the practice itself. The angel never commanded him to marry any particular woman, and Joseph did not use the story as leverage to persuade any particular woman.) On one occasion he asked an already-married man, Elder Heber C. Kimball for his wife Vilate. After much agony, Elder Kimball agreed, only to learn that it had just been a test, like when the Lord commanded Abraham to sacrifice Isaac.
On fourteen occasions Joseph actually was sealed to already-married women in what at first glance looks like polyandry, which is forbidden in D&C 132 and was not practiced by other church members. The original husbands consented and the women continued to live with them. While Joseph more than likely had sexual relations with some of his wives, it's apparent that he didn't with these ones. The reasons for these anomalies are unclear, but they were probably experiments as the newly revealed sealing power and its implications were figured out. Some women couldn't be sealed because their husbands were unworthy or not members of the Church, so Joseph helped ensure their exaltation. Other women whose husbands were faithful members still wanted to be sealed to the Prophet in a dynastic chain, not understanding that being sealed to someone else was sufficient for their exaltation. Interestingly, many of these widows were resealed to Joseph in the Nauvoo Temple after his death, with their living husbands acting as proxies.
Critics often claim that Joseph sent men on missions so he could marry their wives while they were gone, but this claim only demonstrates their gullibility for poor scholarship. Of the eleven men whose wives he was sealed to, only one, Orson Hyde, could fit in this category. The four extant antagonistic accounts we have contain demonstrably false and/or contradictory information (for example, half claim Orson was aware of the marriage and the other half claim he wasn't). After Joseph's death, Orson's wife was sealed to him, and since it's against church policy for one women to be sealed to multiple men, this implies that the entire story may have been a fabrication. Most damning to the critics' assertion, perhaps, is the fact that Orson had been on his mission for an entire year before Joseph allegedly married his wife. Does it really sound like Joseph got him out of the way for that very purpose?
Several of Joseph Smith's wives were widows considerably older than him. His youngest was Helen Mar Kimball (daughter of Elder Kimball), aged fourteen (and possibly also Nancy Winchester at the same age, though the evidence is spotty). A few others were sixteen or seventeen. Though uncommon by the 1840s, such young marriages were acceptable both by the legal age of consent (ten) and American frontier culture (minus the polygamy aspect). Development was judged more by size than age; a person capable of doing adult work was an adult. Regardless, the evidence indicates that, like the so-called polyandry, Helen's was an eternity-only dynastic sealing with no sexual relations. She continued to live with her parents and Joseph died just over a year later, after which she married a man named Horace Whitney.
Helen struggled to have a normal life but maintained and defended a testimony of plural marriage until she died. In her 1881 biography she reminisced: "I have long since learned to leave all with [God], who knoweth better than ourselves what will make us happy. I am thankful that He has brought me through the furnace of affliction & that He has condesended [sic] to show me that the promises made to me the morning that I was sealed to the Prophet of God will not fail & I would not have the chain broken for I have had a view of the principle of eternal salvation & the perfect union which this sealing power will bring to the human family & with the help of our Heavenly Father I am determined to so live that I can claim those promises."
The magnitude of Joseph Smith's sexual relations with some of his wives is unknown, but Emma is the only one known to have borne his children. In any case, assumptions that he instituted polygamy to satisfy his libido are, to put it plainly, ridiculous. The early 1840s may have been a simpler and more innocent time, but prostitution is called the world's oldest profession for a reason, and going to a brothel like a normal person would have been less complicated and easier to keep secret than writing the Book of Mormon, creating a soon-to-be global religion from scratch, and eventually giving his life for it. Anyone who still has questions about Joseph Smith's polygamy after reading this section or the Church's own essays is advised to see Brian C. Hales' website, which is by far the most thorough and well-researched compendium in existence, even though critics dismiss it with a wave of a hand because he's a Latter-day Saint.
The Move West
Rumors of polygamy were a contributing factor in Joseph Smith's murder and the persecution of the Latter-day Saints. During his lifetime he issued carefully-worded denials that were technically true but deliberately misleading. He and the others involved saw plural marriage as a sacred and spiritual practice distinct from worldly polygamy, and saw no hypocrisy in publicly condemning the latter while privately practicing the latter. It's clear in hindsight that Joseph struggled to balance the virtue of honesty with the very real need to protect his and his people's lives. After Brigham Young took over in his stead and the Saints fled from the United States to what was then Mexico, however, things changed. Polygamy evolved to focus more on building up large families and building a cohesive people. It also went public in and out of the Church.
Brigham Young proclaimed, in a discourse often quote-mined by critics, "It is the word of the Lord, and I wish to say to you, and all the world, that if you desire with all your hearts to obtain the blessings which Abraham obtained, you will be polygamists at least in your faith, or you will come short of enjoying the salvation and the glory which Abraham has obtained. This is as true as that God lives. You who wish that there were no such thing in existence, if you have in your hearts to say: 'We will pass along in the Church without obeying or submitting to it in our faith or believing this order, because, for aught that we know, this community may be broken up yet, and we may have lucrative offices offered to us; we will not, therefore, be polygamists lest we should fail in obtaining some earthly honor, character and office, etc,' - the man that has that in his heart, and will continue to persist in pursuing that policy, will come short of dwelling in the presence of the Father and the Son, in celestial glory. The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy."
Brigham Young is perhaps the most famous polygamist of all time. Yet of first learning the principle from Joseph Smith he stated, "It was the first time in my life I had desired the grave, and I could hardly get over it for a long time. And when I saw a funeral, I felt to envy the corpse in its situation." Obviously he got over it by the time he publicly announced the practice in 1852 and ended up with perhaps as many as fifty-five wives (the absolute number is unclear because some weren't temple marriages, some were less public than others or didn't live with him, and so forth). He only had fifty-six children, however. Mark Twain wrote of him, "He was an absolute monarch - a monarch who defied our President - a monarch who laughed at our armies when they camped about his capital - a monarch who received without emotion the news that the august Congress of the United States had enacted a solemn law against polygamy, and then went forth calmly and married twenty-five or thirty more wives."
Indeed, the federal government back east soon began prosecuting the Church. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 with the promise "to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy and slavery", and it "prohibited" the former beginning with the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act of 1862. This law was intended to punish bigamy and adultery, and since plural marriage fit neither category, the Latter-day Saint judges and juries of Utah felt no guilt for failing to enforce it. The federal government didn't enforce it either, largely owing to the more pressing matter of the American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln told an visitor from Utah to Washington D.C., "Stenhouse, when I was a boy on the farm in Illinois there was a great deal of timber on the farm which we had to clear away. Occasionally we would come to a log which had fallen down. It was too hard to split, too wet to burn, and too heavy to move, so we plowed around it. You go back and tell Brigham Young that if he will let me alone I will let him alone."
The Poland Act of 1874, however, aimed to enforce the Morill Act by moving court jurisdiction in the territories from local courts to federal appointees. George Reynolds, secretary to the First Presidency, was asked to turn himself in for a test case of the act's constitutionality. The Church felt that the law unconstitutionally infringed on religious freedom, and to strengthen its case the revelation on plural marriage became canonized scripture in 1876. But in 1879, Supreme Court Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite rendered the decision in United States v. Reynolds that while laws "cannot interfere with mere religious belief and opinions, they may with practices. Suppose one believed that human sacrifices were a necessary part of religious worship, would it be seriously contended that the civil government under which he lived could not interfere to prevent a sacrifice?" Thus with this absurd comparison the Court set an important precedent for limitations on religious freedom.
This was followed by the Edmunds Act of 1882, which made it a felony to even state a belief in plural marriage, ignoring the Court's ruling just three years earlier and blatantly violating the U.S. Constitution by any definition. After this, polygamous husbands - including Apostles - were pursued and arrested en masse. Many of them went into hiding or lied to protect themselves. In their absence, their wives and children suffered greatly from the lost income. Others escaped to Mexico (again) and Canada where polygamy was tolerated.
By 1885 even John Taylor, successor to Brigham Young, was forced to go into hiding and direct the Church's affairs vicariously for the rest of his tenure. In his last public appearance on February 1, he said, "Very well, what would you advise us to do? Are we suffering any wrongs? Yes. Well, what would you do? I would do as I said some time ago. If you were out in a storm, pull up the collar of your coat and button yourself up, and keep the cold out until the storm blows past. This storm will blow past as others have done; and you will see that many of the miserable sneaks who are active in those measures, and who are crawling about your doors, and trying to spy into your houses, etc., will be glad to crawl into their holes by-and-by. Well, what will you do? Get angry? No, not at all. Let these men have their day and pursue their own course; we will protect ourselves from them as well as we can."
President Taylor's death in 1887 was probably hastened by the stress of the situation, and he was thus widely regarded within the Church as a martyr of religious persecution.
Congress went a step further with the Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887 which, in addition to outlawing polygamy yet again, dissolved the Church as a legal entity and allowed the government to seize its assets. Church leaders got around this by giving assets to loyal monogamist members, but it wasn't enough. In April 1889 John Taylor's successor, Wilford Woodruff, began refusing permission for new plural marriages, and in October he told a reporter that the Saints had no intention of evading or ignoring the anti-polygamy laws. The next year, 1890, the Edmunds-Tucker Act was upheld by the Supreme Court in Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints v. United States. The federal government then stood poised to confiscate the Church's sacred temples, defiling them and halting the sacred ordinances within.
Finally, on September 23, President Woodruff received a revelation known as the Manifesto, which ended plural marriage as an official practice and was later canonized in the Doctrine and Covenants. The magnitude of this revelation is difficult to imagine today; after decades of practicing and defending polygamy at such a cost, it was nearly as earth-shattering as doing away with temple sealings altogether. In 1894, he received another revelation that ended the dynastic sealing of members to church leaders or other non-relatives, such as had frequently been done with Joseph Smith, and solidified the current policy of only sealing families to each other.
The Aftermath of the Manifesto
Some members and even Apostles continued practicing polygamy, either because they disagreed with the Manifesto or its wording was too vague (plural marriages in Mexico and Canada continued, for instance). Eventually in 1904 the public scrutiny of the Reed Smoot hearings made it clear that polygamy was still being practiced, and President Joseph F. Smith issued a Second Manifesto clarifying that anyone practicing polygamy would be excommunicated. Apostles John W. Taylor (son of the former church president) and Matthias Cowley refused to abide by this policy and resigned from the Quorum of the Twelve in 1905, with Taylor being excommunicated in 1911 after further resistance. Both were posthumously reinstated years later. Apostle Richard R. Lyman was excommunicated for polygamy as recently as 1943, but was later rebaptized and had his full priesthood privileges restored posthumously. Polygamous men today must divorce all but one of their spouses in order to be baptized into the Church.
Polygamy was a huge trial for members of the Church, and remains a trial for those who struggle to accept its history today. Yet this trial unified the Saints and strengthened their faith. It also served its purpose to "raise up seed unto [the Lord]" as stipulated in the Book of Mormon. As I mentioned, I have several polygamists in my ancestry on my mother's side. (My father's parents were converts.) I'm just one of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Latter-day Saints who owe our existence in part to the practice. My mother doesn't like to talk or think about it, though, which is understandable. In all, polygamy contributed greatly to a strong nucleus of the Church in Utah that enabled it to endure and thrive into the twentieth century and beyond.
Though the practice is now forbidden in mortality, some modern Latter-day Saints will practice polygamy in the next life. Elder Charles W. Penrose wrote that "In the case of a man marrying a wife in the everlasting covenant who dies while he continues in the flesh and marries another by the same divine law, each wife will come forth in her order and enter with him into his glory", and this is corroborated by a section in the Church Handbook of Instructions. President Harold B. Lee wrote this brief poem after marrying his second wife:
My lovely Joan was sent to me: so Joan joins Fern
That three might be, more fitted for eternity.
O Heavenly Father, my thanks to thee.
Miniscule break-off sects that still practice polygamy in the backwoods of the Western United States or even in plain sight are not affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at all. Warren Jeffs and his crimes have nothing to do with us. The federal government's current approach is to leave polygamists alone unless they molest underage girls or commit incest, and that's as it should be. The Book of Mormon teaches that the Lord's default standard is monogamy, and Latter-day Saints should avoid spurious speculation that polygamy will be required for exaltation. The vast majority of Saints who have ever lived never practiced it. Elder Heber C. Kimball wrote in October 1855, "The principle of plurality of wives will never be done away, although some sisters have had revelations that, when this time passes away and they go through the veil, every woman will have a husband to herself."


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Eskimos league-leading sack attack showing no signs of slowing down
Gerry Moddejonge
Kwaku Boateng walks off the field at The Eskimos practice on July 30, 2018 at Commonwealth Stadium ahead of their next home game against Saskatchewan. Shaughn Butts / Postmedia	Shaughn Butts / Postmedia
Ever try taking a bone away from a hungry dog?
That's kind of what it seemed like when Edmonton Eskimos defensive end Kwaku Boateng came up with a sack on the opening drive of a 41-26 win over the Toronto Argonauts on Friday, only to have it turn into a roughing-the-passer penalty on a coach's challenge.
But all that ended up doing, of course, was whet the appetite of the rest of the rabid pack — one that leads the Canadian Football League with 30 sacks at the midway mark of the season.
The penalty pushed Toronto into the red zone, where McLeod Bethel-Thompson was summarily taken down behind the line of scrimmage by Nick Usher on the next snap, and Almondo Sewell on the one after that.
"The fact that we got so many penalties, especially at the jump, that just got us even more angry and more furious," said Boateng, who finished the game with two tackles and a sack that counted for his fifth of the season.
That ties him with veteran defensive tackle Almondo Sewell for second on the team behind defensive tackle Mike Moore's six sacks.
"With the defence that we have, we have aggressive people across the board so if one person's teeing off, everyone wants to compete to that same level," Boateng said. "So I think that in a way, that actually fired us up. And then in the second half, you saw that they adjusted and put a lot more people in protection and whatnot, because in the first half, we dominated them."
The Eskimos won the sack battle 4-0, with Jesse Joseph rounding out the scene.
"It ain't enough, we should have had 12 of them out there," said Sewell. "There was a couple we let him out of the pocket. When you play teams like that, you've got to capitalize."
Afterward, Boateng was left thinking of the one that got away.
"Obviously, it would have been nice to keep that one, but the refs are trying to do what they're paid to do," he said. "I did graze his facemask, but I think there has to be a conversation of, 'What is a true facemask (contact) that interferes with the play?'
"If I just graze your helmet, is that really a facemask, if I'm not grabbing it?"
Then again, the Eskimos only have themselves to blame for any added attention they get from officials, considering they lead the league in penalties and penalty yards.
That being said, the Eskimos only drew one other flag in the first half, on their way to finishing with a season-low six penalties for 53 yards.
"I think for the most part, we are a resilient defence and we're just getting after it no matter who we're playing," said Boateng, whose squad will face a Winnipeg Blue Bombers team they allowed to score a season-high four touchdowns against them in a 28-21 loss at IG Field in Week 3. "When you have a defence like ours and an offence that is able to capitalize on our advantage, we're a scary team.
"So we're not too worried about it."
And perhaps Chris Streveler and the rest of the Bombers offence feel the same way, considering their pass protection ranks second in the league after allowing 11 sacks in nine games, second only to the three sacks allowed by the Eskimos.
"The meat of the schedule's coming up," said Sewell, who will follow Friday's first-place showdown with back-to-backs against the defending champion Calgary Stampeders in the annual Labour Day series, before facing the East Division-leading Hamilton Tiger-Cats. "We've started chasing that first-round bye right now. We're all taking it one game at a time.
"We'll get there eventually."
It's the same philosophy the defensive front takes toward opposing quarterbacks, having only been shut out of the sack column in one game this season.
"That's what they do, they get after it and work on it every day," said Eskimos defensive line coach Demetrious Maxie. "That's who we are and what we need to be all the time, but it doesn't always happen like that."
And they will have their hands full with trying to get a handful of Streveler, who is starting in place of the injured Matt Nichols in just his fifth CFL game, and third against the Eskimos.
"I believe he is a better quarterback because he is versatile. He can run the ball, he can pass the ball and he was a solid quarterback in college," Maxie said. "Last year, he got that opportunity to step in and did a pretty good job against us then.
"And I think it's going to carry over, so we've got to make sure we stay in his face and make sure that we disrupt him someway, somehow."
And early on, too, whether they end up counting or not.
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Keith Tucker is Chairman of the Orthopaedic Data Evaluation Panel (ODEP) and the Beyond Compliance (BC) advisory group, and a member of the NJR implant performance committee. He is a retired consultant orthopaedic surgeon previously employed at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, 1978-2012.
Can you tell us a little about how and why you entered the world of orthopaedics?
As a medical student (1963-8), I found orthopaedics and trauma interesting. As an A&E SHO I found fractures the most interesting part of the work. I knew I wanted to do surgery and I knew I had manual dexterity. I had to do an orthopaedic job for the FRCS and so applied to work as SHO to the pioneer of THR, Ken McKee. The rest took care of itself. Registrar at Addenbrooke's and the SR on the Pott rotation. Appointed to Norwich in 1977 as a general orthopaedic surgeon with a paediatric interest.
What about your particular specialities – to what extent did you steer a deliberate path?
The patients I saw determined my path. I took over the McKee firm at the N&N, which meant I did a lot of hips and revision. I was also responsible for paediatric orthopaedics for a large part of East Anglia (single handed) for 30 years.
You chair the Beyond Compliance Advisory Group. Can you explain the role of Beyond Compliance?
Beyond compliance has been set up to assess the risk of new implants and monitor their progress for at least the first 3 years of their life so as to try and prevent the well documented problems of the past or at least minimise the damage if they perform badly.
You also Chair the Orthopaedic Device Evaluation Panel (ODEP). Can you tell us about the role of ODEP – does it provide a "Which Report" for Orthopaedic devices?
ODEP benchmarks hips, knees and now shoulders at 3,5,7,10 and 13 years against an agreed standard and then publishes its results. It is used worldwide.
How do ODEP and Beyond Compliance sit with respect to the roles of NICE, MHRA and the NJR with respect to implant certification and evaluations?
It was set up by NICE but they are no longer involved with the running of either system. They seem to have disowned us and rarely seek our advice. MHRA are stakeholders in BC. BC works with NJR data and many firms use data from NJR in their ODEP submissions.
Beyond the certification and evaluation of novel techniques and devices, what are the barriers to adoption and how can we accelerate patient access to novel technologies?
Many surgeons are fed up with manufacturers selling unproven implants. If a manufacturer has something good they need to persuade the surgeons and the procurement officers in a hospital.
What do you believe are the most significant technological developments that have benefited patients during your career and why?
a) Arthroscopy (I was one of the first to use an arthroscope in the UK). Arthroscopy revolutionised the management of knee pathology, particularly meniscal tears. Previously, the teaching was to remove the whole meniscus through a large incision and keep the patient in a cast of massive bandage for 2 weeks or so. Arthroscopy helped sew the seeds for the day surgery culture.
b) The development of contemporary total knee replacement replacing the hinge designs where the results were often poor and often associated with significant complications. The number done these days bear witness to their success.
c) Interlocking nails. Before interlocking nails were available most patients with a femoral shaft were treated with bed rest and traction for up to about 3 months in hospital. With interlocking nails the patient is nowadays often home in a day or so provided they do not have other pathologies to keep them in hospital.
In terms of non technological advances the most important by far is the introduction of the biologics in the treatment of inflammatory arthritis. Only a few years ago, our operating lists invariably had a patient with rheumatoid arthritis on it for either spine, hip, knee, shoulder, elbow, hand or foot surgery. The numbers of rheumatoid arthritis patients requiring surgery has dropped amazingly and this terrible disease has been tamed without any worrying side effects in the vast majority of patients.
What developments do you envisage are yet to come in the next couple of decades?
Machine learning should make it possible to be able to compare one x-ray with another with absolute precision. That is to say if a hip replacement has moved out of line by no more than a millimetre or so it could be measured. This is not possible with standard x-rays. Machine learning should make radiostereometric analysis (RSA) redundant.
Who has been the person or people that you have found most inspirational and influential to your career development?
J. G Taylor, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Norwich. A completely dedicated surgeon who looked after his patients with great care and whose standards were exemplary.
My trainees who challenged my knowledge and thinking and set the pattern for what I found was the most enjoyable part of my career, teaching.
To potential trainees: It will be tough and there will be days when you worry that you have not done as well as you might. Don't do it unless it fascinates you and you genuinely want to help people. You will have to work very hard but it is likely to be inwardly and academically very rewarding.


I can't believe I still have another 2 months to go and yet I feel stressed that I haven't prepared much for the baby! One common question that I get is: but don't you still have Nilia's old clothes? Well, no. My best friend is the second child of her family and she always told me how she felt sorry for herself because she always got stuff from her older sister and nothing felt personally for her. So I decided not to save Nilia's clothes for the second baby. I gave them all away to charity. Well I am using couple of things such as the stroller, baby crib with the matching drawers and the baby car seat. The rest I will have to buy. So I have now started my haunt for baby clothes and baby stuff and I really need to make a list of what I might need and perhaps pack that hospital bag?
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It's a phone that will stand up well for the next two years, at least.
The LG G7+ ThinQ launched for about US$870 in Singapore this June to an advertising blitz with Korean boy band BTS that got buyers fawning over the cute K-Pop band members as much as the phone itself.
But to be sure, some of that magic and musical influence accompanying the launch has rubbed off on the device.
Along with a very decent wide-angle camera, its "Boombox speaker" was pegged as another product differentiation that would allow you to enjoy a loud and rich music experience.
And that's certainly stood the test of time. Even compared to something like the Pixel 3 with its dual front-facing stereo speakers, the LG still sounds great five months on.
Moreover, this is one of the few premium phones in 2018 that still ships with a headphone jack (along with phones by Samsung). Good news if you can't do the dongle life!
LG's G7+ ThinQ on display at the Singapore launch event back in May/June.
Obviously we can't get far into any hands-on this year without talking about notches – and yes, the LG G7+ ThinQ has a 6.1-inch notch display.
But unlike the new Pixel 3 XL which I wrote about recently, with this device LG has gone for a more understated and slimmer notch that is much closer to the iPhone X's.
But LG is giving you the option to turn the notch off by blacking it out entirely, in which scenario it becomes the exclusive terrain of the status bar/notification area without being available for use in apps or multimedia.
By default, LG actually ships the device with the notch hidden.
But after two minutes of fiddling about in settings, I reverted it to my preferred mode of allowing the home screen and apps to bleed over into the notch area.
I personally like that edge-to-edge look, but to each their own.
Five months after launch, you can pick up the LG G7+ ThinQ in Singapore for about US$570.
That's a fair bit less than something like the US$800-900 Pixel 3, but it's also a lot more expensive than the likes of the US$120 notched OPPO Realm 2 that I wrote about earlier this month.
With that in mind, I can say this: the G7+ ThinQ is much closer in overall specs, build quality, and experience to the Pixel 3 than OPPO's entry-level Realm 2, which was aggressively targeted at Asia's emerging markets.
At the price it retails for today (US$570), it's a tall, slim, elegant, and very well built Android phone that, as of late-2018, sits firmly in the mid-market price range – but still leans very much to the premium end of the market in overall user experience and specs.
We've got a rear-facing, dual-lens 16-megapixel (f/1.6) camera that achieves an edge over some of the competition thanks to its second wide-angle (f/1.9) lens.
The LG G7+ ThinQ with the notch area blacked out.
In day-to-day use, this is a more-than-capable camera that can capture an awful lot in the frame when you switch over to wide-angle mode.
It also does portrait mode on both the rear and front cameras very well, producing a live in-viewer bokeh rather than processing the image post-snap, which can be helpful in determining whether you're getting the right shot before you take it.
The front-facing selfie camera is an 8-megapixel (f/1.9) shooter that holds up well in general use, though doesn't support a wide-angle mode.
Compared to some of the cameras we're seeing on flagships launching in late-2018, I think it's fair to say this is a solid mid-market shooter that won't disappoint your Instagram account.
The LG G7+ ThinQ with the camera open.
Also worth noting is that LG rolled out 4K video recording at 60 FPS in late-June via a firmware update, though I must admit I haven't used the video-recording rigorously as I tend to use my phones primarily for photos.
The LG G7+ ThinQ has a vibrant and bright LCD display with a high pixel density (564 PPI), meaning the screen is sharp and pixels are impossible to distinguish with the eye.
Blacks are nice and deep and whites are really white, even compared to some newer OLED panels I've seen lately.
Oh, and this display gets really, really bright. Viewing angles are great, too. It's definitely not a display you would call "washed out" or muddy.
Though as with Samsung's screens, colours can be quite saturated. That's not necessarily a bad thing, it's more about personal preference. Personally, I like it.
I'm pleased to say that LG's skinned version of Android 8.0 Oreo is so much more usable, fast, responsive, and bug-free than it was in its early years.
It's actually a very nice interface that is powered under the hood by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Octa-core with a generous 6GB of RAM.
The 3,000mAh battery supports Quick Charge 3 and wireless charging, and in my experience holds up well through a typical day.
The 128GB of internal storage (again, quite generous) is expandable up to 2TB with a microSD.
The fingerprint scanner round back is fast and responsive, unlocking in tenths of a second, and in general daily use this thing flies – as you would expect of a premium offering by LG in 2018.
Available in gray, black, and blue, the G7+ ThinQ is feels fairly solid (not exactly light) but slim in the hand and is housed in a metal chassis with a glass backing.
Like a lot of the premium devices we've seen this year so far, it's IP68-rated for water and dust-resistance.
A button on the side of the phone button launches Google Assistant and cannot be remapped. Double tapping the button launches Google Lens.
I found both use cases to my preference over an LG-proprietary AI like Samsung has attempted with Bixby and its corresponding hardware button on the side of its phones.
To conclude, this is a sleek little phone that most buyers would be happy with, especially at the lower price point as we head into late 2018.
It's also worth noting that the G7 ThinQ was given Editor's Choice by The Verge in July – a much coveted award that it can be proud of.
That was well earned, and should be fairly obvious of the G7+, too, for anyone who decides to take a closer look.


Hi guys I was wondering what main weapon is better for gunships.
I'm planning on getting longstrike and a couple other hammerheads so is the Ion cannon or rail gun better for this.
And I have also ordered Farsight to be my Warlord.
Well the easiest way for me has been running three psykers and Spamming smite and other destructive powers. And then backing it up by 2 15 man death company squads with jump packs and 5 thunder hammers each. Lemartes and a sanguinary priest buff them and kill things.
Yeah isn't cadia like a daemon world now or something. Or at the least a very very dead world.
I didn't think you got the regiment bonus if you took a super heavy auxiliary detachment.
Just finished a game against Eldar. I ran Imperial guard and after 6 rounds I emerged victorious 28-0.
Nah my fave has to be the banehammer. That half movement rule with no advancing allowed is really helpful. It allowed to kill Mortarian turn 2.
I was wondering if the Imperial knights are a part of the adeptus mechancus codex or if they might have one in the future.
They look interesting and a good, different force from what I currently own.
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Q: Simple question about sockets PHP
Could you please tell me, what happens in this script:

$conn = fsockopen($server, 43);
fputs($conn, $some_string."\r\n");

What kind of data will be sent to the server? GET? POST? PUT? And how should I do same job with cURL? CURLOPT_whatShouldIWriteHere?
Thanks!

A: This is not an HTTP request, just a pure TCP/IP data transfer.
As such, it's neither GET nor POST nor any other HTTP verb.

A: It guess that sends a raw string to the server without any header. I don´t think that CURL will do the same (always send some protocol headers), but you can do the same with netcat
> server=192.168.1.1
> some_string=hello
> nc $server 43 <<.
$some_string
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A: It is a tcp socket - no HTTP at all. It will simply send whatever $some_string contains.
If you want to use HTTP, use CURL. See the PHP docs for an example.

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Q: Swift good coding practice: If statement with optional type Bool So I've been developing an app in Swift, and today I spent nearly an hour debugging a problem that turned out to be completely unexpected. It all resulted from the code below.
if (hero.isAI) { //isAI is a Bool

}

The problem was that this if statement ALWAYS returned true. So I thought that maybe I was setting isAI to true somewhere but in the end I realized that I declared isAI as an optional type as shown below.
var isAI: Bool!

when it should have been
var isAI: Bool

This resulted in the if-statement not checking if isAI was true, but instead checking if it contained a value.
So to be safe now I make sure to write my if-statments like this
if (hero.isAI == true) { //isAI is a Bool

}

So my question is, what are my options to avoid this problem in the future? (this problem seems extremely dangerous, especially when working on a team on a large project).
Should I always write my if-statment explicitly, should I just avoid the optional type for Bools altogether?
Note that I did not have this problem in Xcode Beta 2. This problem came about when I upgraded to Xcode beta 3. I think because in Beta 2 Apple handled implicitly unwrapped Bool in an if-statement by checking its value rather than checking if it contains a value.
Lastly, below is an example of which if-statements run given an optional Bool to better help people understand the problem.
let myBool: Bool! = false

if (myBool) {
    //Runs
}

if (myBool!) {
    //Won't Run
}

if (!myBool) {
    //Runs
}

if (myBool == true) {
    //Won't Run
}

A: my advice is to use this nice coalescing ??
if textfieldDate.text?.isEmpty ?? true {
    // the text is either nil or empty but its all we want to know
}

A: This is a known issue that is being tracked on the SwiftInFlux repo, which includes this quote from Chris Lattner on the Apple developer forums.

This problem exists with any optional of something that conforms to
  the LogicValue protocol (e.g. nested optionals, optional of bool,
  etc). We consider it serious issue that needs to be fixed for 1.0 and
  have some ideas, but haven't settled on a solution yet.

So, this issue doesn't just effect optional Bools, but any optional type that conforms to the LogicValue protocol (defined as).
protocol LogicValue {
    func getLogicValue() -> Bool
}

Anyway as far as recommendations on how to work around this go, it's hard to recommend any one specific solution considering that Apple hasn't given an indication of how they intend to solve this in the future, but I would imagine that continuing to explicitly check the value of the Bool would be the way to go.
if (hero.isAI == true) {
    // stuff
}

In fact, after some further reading, the quote listed above continues to read:

For this common case, the simplest answer would be to produce a
  warning for "if x" and require someone to explictly write "if x !=
  nil" or "if x == true" to make it explicit what they want.

A: If the bool is part if Core Data (aka NSNumber), you should do it like this.
if (isHero.isAI?.boolValue != nil)

Regards


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from clr import AddReference
AddReference("System")
AddReference("QuantConnect.Common")
AddReference("QuantConnect.Algorithm.Framework")

from QuantConnect.Data.UniverseSelection import *
from Selection.FundamentalUniverseSelectionModel import FundamentalUniverseSelectionModel
from itertools import groupby
from math import ceil

class QC500UniverseSelectionModel(FundamentalUniverseSelectionModel):
    '''Defines the QC500 universe as a universe selection model for framework algorithm
    For details: https://github.com/QuantConnect/Lean/pull/1663'''

    def __init__(self, filterFineData = True, universeSettings = None, securityInitializer = None):
        '''Initializes a new default instance of the QC500UniverseSelectionModel'''
        super().__init__(filterFineData, universeSettings, securityInitializer)
        self.numberOfSymbolsCoarse = 1000
        self.numberOfSymbolsFine = 500
        self.dollarVolumeBySymbol = {}
        self.symbols = []
        self.lastMonth = -1

    def SelectCoarse(self, algorithm, coarse):
        '''Performs coarse selection for the QC500 constituents.
        The stocks must have fundamental data
        The stock must have positive previous-day close price
        The stock must have positive volume on the previous trading day'''
        if algorithm.Time.month == self.lastMonth:
            return self.symbols

        filtered = [x for x in coarse if x.HasFundamentalData and x.Volume > 0 and x.Price > 0]
        sortedByDollarVolume = sorted(filtered, key = lambda x: x.DollarVolume, reverse=True)[:self.numberOfSymbolsCoarse]

        self.symbols.clear()
        self.dollarVolumeBySymbol.clear()
        for x in sortedByDollarVolume:
            self.symbols.append(x.Symbol)
            self.dollarVolumeBySymbol[x.Symbol] = x.DollarVolume

        # return the symbol objects our sorted collection
        return self.symbols

    def SelectFine(self, algorithm, fine):
        '''Performs fine selection for the QC500 constituents
        The company's headquarter must in the U.S.
        The stock must be traded on either the NYSE or NASDAQ
        At least half a year since its initial public offering
        The stock's market cap must be greater than 500 million'''
        if algorithm.Time.month == self.lastMonth:
            return self.symbols
        self.lastMonth = algorithm.Time.month

        filteredFine = [x for x in fine if x.CompanyReference.CountryId == "USA"
                                        and (x.CompanyReference.PrimaryExchangeID == "NYS" or x.CompanyReference.PrimaryExchangeID == "NAS")
                                        and (algorithm.Time - x.SecurityReference.IPODate).days > 180
                                        and x.EarningReports.BasicAverageShares.ThreeMonths * x.EarningReports.BasicEPS.TwelveMonths * x.ValuationRatios.PERatio > 5e8]

        sortedByDollarVolume = []
        sortedBySector = sorted(filteredFine, key = lambda x: x.CompanyReference.IndustryTemplateCode)

        percent = self.numberOfSymbolsFine/float(len(sortedBySector))

        # select stocks with top dollar volume in every single sector
        for code, g in groupby(sortedBySector, lambda x: x.CompanyReference.IndustryTemplateCode):
            y = sorted(g, key = lambda x: self.dollarVolumeBySymbol[x.Symbol], reverse = True)
            c = ceil(len(y) * percent)
            sortedByDollarVolume.extend(y[:c])

        sortedByDollarVolume = sorted(sortedByDollarVolume, key = lambda x: self.dollarVolumeBySymbol[x.Symbol], reverse=True)
        self.symbols = [x.Symbol for x in sortedByDollarVolume[:self.numberOfSymbolsFine]]
        return self.symbols

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Oil Insurance Limited (OIL) Declares $250 Million Dividend and Modifies Two Components of the Rating and Premium Plan
Stocks and Financial Services Press Releases Thursday March 28, 2019 15:57
HAMILTON, Bermuda--28 Mar--PRNewswire/InfoQuest
OIL held its 2019 Shareholder's Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Thursday, March 21st at the Hamilton Princess in Bermuda. During the meeting, it conducted the review and approval of the 2018 annual financial statements as well as the election of directors.
For 2018, OIL recorded a $404.6 million underwriting loss. After factoring in net investment losses and administrative expenses, OIL's net loss for the year was $675.6 million. For additional information about OIL's 2018 financial results, please visit www.oil.bm to view our audited financial statements. After the review of the year-end financials, shareholders approved the financial statements and the re-appointment of KPMG as auditors for the fiscal 2019 year.
In addition, the Company reported at the AGM that the Board of Directors had declared a dividend in an aggregate amount of $250 million to all shareholders on record as of January 1, 2019 payable on or before August 30, 2019.
Theodore Guidry II, Chairman of the Board, explained, "The Board decided to authorize the $250 million dividend after carefully reviewing the company's multi-year Capital Management Plan. Despite the 2018 financial results, the plan clearly indicated that there was capital available to pay a dividend without negatively compromising the capital and financial strength of the company. As in the past, it is our policy to return available capital to the shareholders when prudent to do so."
Lastly, the shareholders approved two changes to the Shareholders Agreement. The first decision protects the company from future potential credit losses. Commencing in 2019, all shareholders must be investment grade if they wish to elect or continue to elect the Retrospective Premium Plan that allows a shareholder to retroactively purchase up to 40% of the $400 million limit on a strict dollar of premium for dollar of loss basis over the subsequent five-year period. The second decision eliminates the need for shareholders to declare assets located in the Offshore Region of the Gulf of Mexico for purposes of determining pool percentages in the Offshore Designated Named Windstorm pool. This decision was warranted as a matter of equity given that OIL excluded coverage for Offshore Gulf of Mexico Windstorm starting in 2018.
Bertil C. Olsson, President & CEO, commented that, "While 2018 turned out to be financially challenging, OIL is focused on creating long term value and we continue to enjoy a strong commitment and belief in the system by our dedicated shareholder base. Including 2018, OIL has charged its shareholders $2.1 billion in premium over the last five years while returning $1.8 billion of dividends during that same period. While premiums did increase in 2019, the recently announced dividend will offset a significant amount of that increase for our members. OIL continues to operate from a position of strength and will continue to offer long-term value to the world's leading energy companies."
George Hutchings, Senior Vice President & COO, stated that, "The most important accomplishments of 2018 were operational. Several strategic initiatives were completed including delivering on our promise to provide our shareholders with detailed Data Analytics at the Annual General Meeting, further improvements to our offering for the Renewable Energy industry as well as Standard & Poors upgrading OIL by one notch to "A" Stable in September 2018. We also continue to see strong interest from energy companies around the world and are pleased to announce that Braskem S.A. joined the mutual in December 2018 as our first South American member."
After the AGM adjourned, the Board of Directors met and elected Theodore Guidry II as Chairman of the Board and Fabrizio Mastrantonio as Deputy Chairman for 2019.
For more information about OIL's property coverages and related value go to www.oil.bm.
Oil Insurance Limited (OIL) insures over $3.0 trillion of global energy assets for more than fifty members with property limits up to $400 million totaling more than $19 billion in total A- rated property capacity. Members are medium to large sized public and private energy companies with at least $1 billion in physical property assets and an investment grade rating or equivalent. Products/coverage offered include Property (Physical Damage), Windstorm (excluding Offshore GOM), Non Gradual Pollution, Control of Well, Removal of Wreck, Terrorism, Cyber, Construction and Cargo. The industry sectors that OIL protects include Offshore and Onshore Exploration & Production, Refining and Marketing, Petrochemicals, Mining, Pipelines, Electric Utilities, Renewables and other related energy business sectors.
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What is Peta Wilson Net Worth 2023: Overview, Interview
Peta Wilson is an actress, model, and creator of lingerie best known for playing the title character in the hit show "La Femme Nikita" (1997-2001). Let's know more about her and look at Peta Wilson net worth, records, career and more.
What is Peta Wilson's Net Worth and Salary 2023?
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Peta Wilson is an Australian actress and model most widely recognized for her role as Nikita in the television series 'La Femme Nikita.' Wilson's estimated net worth is a whopping $10 million.
This wealth has been accumulated through her work in the entertainment industry, including acting in film and television, modeling and producing. Her many projects have included the television series 'Mission: Impossible' and 'The Lord of the Rings films.
Wilson's success has made her an international star, with fans worldwide. She continues to be a force to be reckoned with in the entertainment industry, and her net worth is a testament to her hard work and dedication.
Wilson's salary for this role was reported to be $350,000 per episode. This salary made her one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood at that time. Since then, she has starred in numerous films and TV shows, and her current salary is unknown.
On November 18, 1970, Peta Wilson was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Peta Wilson is the daughter of retired Australian Army Warrant Officer Darcy Wilson and caterer Karlene White Wilson.
She was born in Papua New Guinea and raised in Australia. After working as a model in Europe and Australia, she moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue a career in acting.
Wilson pursued acting training under Arthur Mendoza at the Actors Circle Theatre and Tom Waits at the TomKat Repertory Group. She finally received a chance to make her big-screen debut in Linda Kandel's drama "Naked Jane" in 1995.
Then, in Kirk Harris' "Loser" (1996), Peta played Alyssha Rourke, and a year later, she co-starred with Viggo Mortensen in "Vanishing Point" (1997).
Her most notable performance was as Nikita in the action-drama series "La Femme Nikita" by Joel Surnow, which ran from 1997 to 2001.
Wilson's character, who is dressed for death, appeared in 96 episodes of the show about the anti-terrorist group Section One. Wilson was nominated for a Saturn Award and a Gemini Award in 1998 and 1999 due to his performance in this role.
Meanwhile, Peta co-starred in the 2000 thriller "Mercy" with Ellen Barkin and Wendy Crewson as the detective who looks into brutal serial killings. She played Vickie Kittrie in the film.
Wilson portrayed Mina Harker, a well-known "Dracula" figure essential to the quest of the legendary Victorian Age heroes, in the 2003 movie "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," which starred Sean Connery and Stuart Townsend.
The movie's $180 million global box office haul greatly boosted Wilson's net worth.
By the end of the decade, Peta had acted in two different dramas: "Gardens of the Night" with Gillian Jacobs, John Malkovich, and Ryan Simpkins; and the drama "Superman Returns" (2006) with Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey, and Kate Bosworth (2008).
Peta appeared in an episode of the award-winning crime drama "CSI: Miami" in 2010, and in 2012, she established the Wylie Wilson lingerie line in Los Angeles.
Wilson's most recent little role was in the 2015 thriller "Dutch Kills," yet all of her endeavors have increased her riches.
In terms of her private life, Peta Wilson dated the filmmaker Damian Harris from 1997 to 2000; the two share a son. There are no rumors of any further romantic relationships. She enjoys art, gardening, cricket, swimming, and horseback riding.
In the television movie Joe and Max, she played real-life actress Anny Ondra (2002). She also appeared as the vampire Mina Harker in the 2003 movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Peta Wilson age is 52 years old.
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Capital City ranks 4th highest in the NATION for HIV rates
By Summer Tadlock | June 27, 2019 at 7:04 PM CDT - Updated June 27 at 7:04 PM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Thursday is National HIV Testing Day.
Right now, there are more than one MILLION people living with HIV and according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jackson ranks 4th highest in the nation for HIV rates.
RELATED STORY: CDC: Jackson #4 in the nation for HIV infection rates
Today, organizations across the country gave the community an opportunity to roll up their sleeves and get tested for free.
"During National HIV Testing Day, not only do we want everyone to get tested, we want you to know no matter what the outcome there are solutions for you," said Deja Abdul-Haqq.
Abdul-Haqq is the director of organizational development for My Brothers Keeper, a community-based group that works with HIV infected individuals.
10,000 Mississippians live with HIV -- and many more are unaware of their infection.
"Talking about HIV and sexuality and gender understanding is a really big deal in the south," said Abdul-Haqq. "Once we start talking about it in the south more.. we will start to see a change in tide regarding our sexual and reproductive health."
Abdul-Haqq says Jackson has an endemic on its hands and it's OUR responsibility to put a stop to it.
"We have a responsibility to know our own status by getting tested and creating a safe place for people wanting to get tested," she said. "We all have a global responsibility to understand what HIV is and taking care of ourselves and each other."
When it comes to knowing your HIV status, Abdul-Haqq says the worst thing you can do is wait for the symptoms.
"DON'T wait for the signs," she said. "Actually, don't wait for anything. Make today the day you get tested. It is the only way you will know and knowing is freedom."
Whether you are HIV positive or negative, Abdul-Haqq says there is always hope.
"Get that finger prick. Wait the 20 minutes. Get the results, and based on the results, decide what the next step is to live healthy -- because it is not a death sentence. It is a life changer, but not a death sentence."
Copyright 2019 WLBT. All rights reserved.
Summer Tadlock is a multimedia journalist for WLBT and Fox40 News in Jackson, MS
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Koljeno este un sat din comuna Rožaje, Muntenegru. Conform datelor de la recensământul din 2003, localitatea are 630 de locuitori (la recensământul din 1991 erau 599 de locuitori).

Demografie
În satul Koljeno locuiesc 411 persoane adulte, iar vârsta medie a populației este de 28,9 de ani (27,7 la bărbați și 30,2 la femei). În localitate sunt 117 gospodării, iar numărul mediu de membri în gospodărie este de 5,38.

Referințe

Legături externe
 Koljeno (Rožaje) pe Wikimapia
 Koljeno (Rožaje) Map — Satellite Images of Koljeno (Rožaje) (Maplandia)

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Palatable Bugs for the Victorians: Entomophagy, Class and Colonialism in Vincent M. Holt's Why Not Eat Insects?
Duché, Elodie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2677-6854 (2023) Palatable Bugs for the Victorians: Entomophagy, Class and Colonialism in Vincent M. Holt's Why Not Eat Insects? Journal of Victorian Culture. (In Press)
Entomologists and proponents of insect food have often seen in Vincent M. Holt's Why Not Eat Insects? (London: Field & Tuer, 1885) the work of a precursor. Holt's plea to consume insects in Victorian Britain, as an aid to address food poverty and diversify Western diets, certainly resonates with the environmental and social predicaments of the twenty-first century. However, the text and the context of this publication have not been fully examined. The book has attracted comparatively little attention from historians who are yet to unravel why and how Holt could raise the very question 'why not?' This article aims to bridge this gap, with a close reading of the sources and the language deployed by Holt, who heavily relied on European travel writings to make his case. Relocating Why Not Eat Insects? in this context throws into relief how issues of class and colonialism were constitutive of a wider discussion about eating insects in English-speaking prints in the nineteenth century. To explore this, the article also investigates responses from readers in the 1880s and 1890s, through reviews published in the British Isles, Australia, and the United States. Ultimately, examining these aspects alerts us to the dangers of celebrating Holt as a pioneer of insect food and an inspiration for the twenty-first century, for Holt partook in what Lisa Heldke terms 'cultural food colonialism', which we are at risk of reproducing when using his text uncritically and regardless of its social and colonial context.
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D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain > DA550 Victorian era, 1837-1901
D History General and Old World > DC France
D History General and Old World > DU Oceania (South Seas)
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namespace nacl_io {

class PassthroughFs : public Filesystem {
 public:
  PassthroughFs(const PassthroughFs&) = delete;
  PassthroughFs& operator=(const PassthroughFs&) = delete;

 protected:
  PassthroughFs();

  virtual Error Init(const FsInitArgs& args);
  virtual void Destroy();

 public:
  virtual Error OpenWithMode(const Path& path, int open_flags, mode_t mode,
                             ScopedNode* out_node);
  virtual Error OpenResource(const Path& path, ScopedNode* out_node);
  virtual Error Unlink(const Path& path);
  virtual Error Mkdir(const Path& path, int perm);
  virtual Error Rmdir(const Path& path);
  virtual Error Remove(const Path& path);
  virtual Error Rename(const Path& path, const Path& newpath);

 private:
  friend class TypedFsFactory<PassthroughFs>;
};

}  // namespace nacl_io

#endif  // LIBRARIES_NACL_IO_PASSTHROUGHFS_PASSTHROUGH_FS_H_


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News / Ram temple issue BJP's hidden agenda: Sharad Yadav
Ram temple issue BJP's hidden agenda: Sharad Yadav
2:27 PM, 6 May 2014
RSTV ADMIN
Claiming Ram Mandir as BJP's hidden agenda, JD (U) chief Sharad Yadav said that the saffron party wants to use Varanasi as the epicentre to spread communlism in the country.
Varanasi, May 6 (PTI): Attacking Narendra Modi for using Lord Ram's picture on the stage backdrop at a rally, JD (U) chief Sharad Yadav today charged that Ram Temple issue was BJP's hidden agenda and the party has chosen Varanasi as the epicentre to spread communalism in the country.
"BJP's hidden agenda was Ram temple issue and they want to spread communalism in the entire country for which they had chosen Varanasi as its centre to commence," Yadav told reporters here.
The JD (U) chief is in the temple town to campaign for AAP Chief Arvind Kejriwal, who is taking on BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi from here. Yadav said that his party is extending support to Kejriwal in order to save the country from communal forces. Holding various public meetings in the city, he was seen appealing to people to support Kejriwal and not to get fooled by the so called Gujarat development model.
He visited the residence of late environmentalist Veer Bhadra Mishra at Tulsi Ghat here to pay him a floral tribute.
Yadav said that in his political career spanning over 40 years, he had raised the issue of Ganga several times in the Parliament and for implementing measures so that the river may be saved from getting polluted. He emphasised that if steps aren't taken to protect Ganga, people might face acute water crisis in near future.
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Q: UDP client assigns free port too late In C#, .Net 4, I have a need to send a UDP message on a port and listen for responses on the same port.
I was using a fixed port, but a customer ran into an issue with that, so I want to use any available port.  It seems like I can do that by using 0 for the port number, but it isn't working.  Digging into that some more, it appears it doesn't assign the port until it is actually used, so my two bind statements might be going to different ports.
From MSDN:

"If you do not care which local port is used, you can create an
  IPEndPoint using 0 for the port number. In this case, the service
  provider will assign an available port number between 1024 and 5000.
  If you use the above approach, you can discover what local network
  address and port number has been assigned by calling the
  LocalEndPoint. ... If you are using a connectionless protocol, you
  will not have access to this information until you have completed a
  send or receive."

Trouble is, I want to set up my send and receive on initialization.  If I wait until the first send to set up the receive, I might miss some responses.  Is there a better answer than just sending a garbage message to assign the port so I can finish the initialization?
My code:
    public bool InitializeSockets()
    {
        try
        {
            IPAddress localaddr = LocalIPAddress();
            localep = new IPEndPoint(localaddr, 0);  //(was port 50000);

            //-----------------------------------------------------------------
            // set up listener port for responses coming back on the same port
            //-----------------------------------------------------------------
            listener = new UdpClient();
            listener.ExclusiveAddressUse = false;
            listener.Client.SetSocketOption(SocketOptionLevel.Socket,
                SocketOptionName.ReuseAddress, true);
            listener.Client.Bind(localep);

            detailsOutputText = "Ready to listen on " + localep;

            ustate = new UdpState();
            ustate.e = localep;
            ustate.u = listener;

            //------------------------
            // set up broadcast port
            //------------------------
            bcast = new UdpClient();
            bcast.Client.SetSocketOption(SocketOptionLevel.Socket,
                SocketOptionName.ReuseAddress, true);
            bcast.Client.Bind(localep);

            //-------------------------------
            // start listening for responses
            //-------------------------------
            msgRxCallback = listener.BeginReceive(new AsyncCallback(DiscoveryCallback), ustate);

            return true;
        }
        catch (Exception exc)
        {
            if (exc is SocketException)
            {
                // This only catches if another process has opened that port without sharing it
                // or if firewall blocks it?
                MessageBox.Show("Error opening IP address:Port : " + localep;
            }
            else
                MessageBox.Show(exc.ToString());
            return false;
        }
    }

Thanks

A: Two options:

*

*Create a configuration file that contains the port number. On initialization, read the config file and use that port number when setting up the clients. Supply a config file with a default port number, and give your customer instructions about how to change it if required.

*In your initialization, create a receiver, give it a very short receive timeout, and call Receive. That will cause the port to bind. You can then get the local end point and use that when you create your sender. See Can I set the timeout for UdpClient in C#? regarding setting the receive timeout.


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Law and Daily Life
Birth Control Sabotage: Is It Illegal?
By Deanne Katz, Esq. on January 25, 2013 12:09 PM
We've all heard horror stories about someone hiding or destroying contraceptives, or poking holes in a condom. There's a term for that: birth control sabotage. But is it illegal?
The major concern: Contraceptive sabotage forces one partner into having unprotected sex. That could result in reproductive coercion -- a.k.a. a baby that someone thought he or she took steps to prevent. Or even more dangerously, it could lead to a sexually transmitted disease.
Part of the problem is that sexual and reproductive coercion are not common terms. But even if more people understood and reported it, would it be a crime?
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists seems to think it is, or at least they're grouping it in the category of violence against women, reports U.S. News and World Report. In an upcoming medical journal, they assert that birth control sabotage is an under-recognized problem.
Their definition of this kind of violence also goes further than just poking holes in condoms. They include instances where a young woman is forced to have unprotected sex or otherwise coerced in relation to reproductive choices.
While what the organization is doing is certainly admirable, their idea of "reproductive coercion" doesn't necessarily fit well into the law. Why? The professions use different definitions.
According to these medical professionals, sabotaging methods of birth control is "violence," what the law might call an assault. So does coercing someone to have sex. And so does exposing someone to an STD.
But the law sees things differently.
Coercing someone to have sex obviously falls under rape laws. There are specific personal injury claims you can make against someone who exposes you to an STD. And sabotaging birth control isn't something that's commonly charged as a crime, although it might fall under fraud.
The legal and medical communities talk about things differently, which means the term "violence against women" can encompass different things.
But the law certainly protects victims of violence. Both state and federal laws criminalize sexual violence and physical violence, against both women and men. There are also civil claims a victim can make to receive compensation. To provide help and guidance, there are attorneys who focus on helping victims.
Birth control sabotage and reproductive coercion may not become legal terms, as parts of those acts are already encompassed in various statutes. But victims can still seek recourse and protection under the law.
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