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Frontotemporal dementia (Pick's disease…)
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease of the frontal and/or temporal lobe generally caused by mutations to proteins in the brain (e.g., Tau, progranulin). Pick's disease, formerly used synonymously with FTD, is actually a specific subtype of FTD that can only be diagnosed pathologically; therefore, the two terms are not synonymous. Onset usually occurs in middle-aged individuals (40–60 years). Early symptoms are characterized by inappropriate social behavior (e.g., disinhibition, apathy), but patients typically continue to exhibit normal intelligence and orientation. As the disease progresses, patients may develop motor deficits and akinetic parkinsonism as an end‑stage syndrome. Diagnosis of FTD is based on a combination of factors, including the clinical criteria of dementia and possible frontotemporal brain atrophy on CT or MRI. Further diagnostic procedures may be considered to rule out other possible causes of dementia. No effective causal treatment for FTD exists and symptomatic treatment is limited to associated symptoms (e.g., depression). The disease usually has a fatal outcome within six years.
FTD is a heterogeneous group of syndromes that involve degeneration of the frontal, insular, and/or temporal cortices; and manifest with a number of symptoms of dementia. FTD is sometimes still referred to as Pick's disease, but this term should be avoided.
FTD syndromes are often considered special types of Alzheimer's disease (however, initial symptoms are typically not memory‑related).
Age of onset: usually 40–60 years; (typically younger than DDx Alzheimer's disease!)
Prevalence: 3–4/100,000 in patients ≤ 65 years
Generally associated with pathological intracellular inclusion bodies; (Pick bodies) that are caused by mutations in tau or progranulin proteins
Also associated with ubiquitin inclusion bodies hypothesized to be caused by dysfunction of the ubiquitin proteasome system
Familial predisposition (autosomal dominant): ∼ 10–25% of FTD cases
General features of FTD
Early changes in personality and behavior → failure to observe social etiquette
Disinhibition (e.g., hypersexual behavior)
Exaggerated emotional display
Binge eating (particularly of sweet foods)
Changes in cognitive functioning
Intelligence, orientation, and memory initially intact
Aphasia (but no apraxia)
Lack of attention
Motor deficits
Parkinsonism (in later stages)
Pyramidal signs (e.g., tendon hyperreflexia, Babinski sign)
Patients with FTD display changes to personality and social behavior, but their memory generally remains intact!
The diagnosis of FTD syndromes is based on a combination of factors:
Clinical diagnosis of a dementia syndrome → see diagnostic criteria for major neurocognitive disorder (previously dementia) in accordance with DSM-5
Other tests to rule out or confirm specific abnormalities
CT/MRI: atrophy of the frontal and/or temporal lobes
Laboratory tests: to rule out other etiologies of dementia (e.g., infections, hypothyroidism)
Pathological changes in FTD are commonly referred to as frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD).
Macroscopic
Atrophy of the temporal and/or frontal lobes
Often beginning on one side and subsequently affecting both hemispheres
Histological
Nonspecific gliosis ; formation of microvacuoles and loss of neuronal tissue
Swollen neurons (= pick cells)
Detection of different types of intracellular inclusions in surviving neurons (tau or TDP-43 in approx. 90% of cases)
Pick bodies: cytoplasmic inclusions of aggregated tau proteins
Associated with Pick's disease
Found in ∼ 40% of patients with FTLD
Also found in other neurodegenerative diseases
Silver stain: classic Pick bodies stain positive, but many patients with tau inclusions stain negative
FTLD‑TDP: inclusions with hyperphosphorylated TDP‑43 (a protein involved in gene transcription)
References:[1][2][3][4]
See differential diagnosis of dementia subtypes.
The differential diagnoses listed here are not exhaustive.
No curative treatment exists → symptomatic treatment
Supportive therapy (e.g., behavioral therapy, speech therapy)
Dietary measures
Dementia symptoms: Cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine are usually not effective and may, in some cases, even worsen symptoms.
Depression: SSRIs (e.g., citalopram, PO)
Agitation, hallucinations, insomnia: atypical antipsychotics (e.g., olanzapine, PO), trazodone
Patients with FTD survive an average of six years after symptom onset (progression is usually faster than in Alzheimer's disease).
A common cause of death is intercurrent infection (e.g., pneumonia).
1. Kasper DL, Fauci AS, Hauser SL, Longo DL, Lameson JL, Loscalzo J. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education; 2015.
2. Lee SE, Miller BL. Frontotemporal dementia: Epidemiology, pathology, and pathogenesis. In: Post TW, ed. UpToDate. Waltham, MA: UpToDate. http://www.uptodate.com/contents/frontotemporal-dementia-epidemiology-pathology-and-pathogenesis?source=search_result&search=frontotemporal+dementia&selectedTitle=2~150#H12834144. Last updated September 7, 2016. Accessed March 31, 2017.
3. Kirshner HS. Frontotemporal Dementia and Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration. In: Frontotemporal Dementia and Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration. New York, NY: WebMD. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1135164-overview#a1. Updated April 12, 2016. Accessed March 31, 2017.
4. Barrett AM. Pick Disease. In: Pick Disease. New York, NY: WebMD. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1135504-overview. Updated June 7, 2014. Accessed March 31, 2017.
5. Lee SE, Miller BL. Frontotemporal dementia: Treatment. In: Post TW, ed. UpToDate. Waltham, MA: UpToDate. http://www.uptodate.com/contents/frontotemporal-dementia-treatment. Last updated September 21, 2016. Accessed March 31, 2017.
6. Manoochehri M, Huey ED. Diagnosis and management of behavioral issues in frontotemporal dementia. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2012; 12(5): pp. 528–536. doi: 10.1007/s11910-012-0302-7..
7. Onyike CU, Diehl-Schmid J. The epidemiology of frontotemporal dementia. Int Rev Psychiatry. 2013; 25(2): pp. 130–137. doi: 10.3109/09540261.2013.776523.
The University of California, San Francisco. FTLD Pathology. http://memory.ucsf.edu/ftd/medical/anatomy/pathology/single. Updated November 17, 2008. Accessed March 31, 2017.
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It is easy to see how this economistic conception of virtue, if true, provides yet further grounds for extending markets into every sphere of life, including those traditionally governed by non-market values. If the supply of altruism, generosity, and civic virtue is fixed, like the supply of fossil fuels, then we should try to conserve it. The more we use, the less we have. On this assumption, relying more on markets and less on morals is a way of preserving a scarce resource.
But to those not steeped in economics, this way of thinking about the generous virtues is strange, even far-fetched. It ignores the possibility that our capacity for love and benevolence is not depleted with use but enlarged with practice. Think of a loving couple. If, over a lifetime, they asked little of one another, in hopes of hoarding their love, how well would they fare? Wouldn't their love deepen rather than diminish the more they called upon it? Would they do better to treat one another in more calculating fashion, to conserve their love for the times they really needed it?
This economistic view of virtue fuels the faith in markets and propels their reach into places they don't belong. But the metaphor is misleading. Altruism, generosity, solidarity, and civic spirit are not like commodities that are depleted with use. They are more like muscles that grow stronger with exercise. One of the defects of a market-driven society is that it lets these virtues languish. To renew our public life we need to exercise them more strenuously.
I've complained before about Sandel's evidence-free mode of theorizing, and here we see him in fine speculative fettle. If market-driven societies crowd out altruism, generosity, solidarity, and civic spirit -- if in market-based societies these virtues languish -- then one would expect to see less of them in market-based societies. Right? But one does not.
By focusing on the marketability of particular things, Sandel misses the larger effect of an economy regulated by markets on the evolution of social morality. Movements for religious and lifestyle tolerance, gender equality, and democracy have flourished and triumphed in societies governed by market exchange, and nowhere else.
[T]here must be something wrong with Sandel's conclusion that "one of the defects of a market-driven society is that it lets these virtues [altruism, generosity, solidarity, civic spirit] languish." This is not a philosophical statement; it is an empirical, causal claim about how society works. And it is a familiar concern among market critics. More than two centuries ago, the royalist Edmund Burke warned of an "age . . . . of sophisters, economists, and calculators" and after him Karl Marx of a "time of general corruption, of universal venality" when everything "passed into commerce." Had they been right, liberal, market-based society would have been doomed, for even market enthusiasts know that social institutions—including markets—cannot function if people are the amoral and self-interested calculators of blackboard economics.
But that is not what happened. Markets have held their longest sway in Europe west of the Elbe and north of the Tiber and the Pyrenees, areas distinguished by their vibrant civic culture when compared to those with more short-lived exposure to markets, including the former Communist Party–ruled nations. The United States, readers will be surprised to know, is not far behind northwestern Europe in both survey and experimental measures of generosity, civic engagement, and interpersonal trust.
These aren't small corrections. These are direct refutations of Sandel's thesis. This ought to be embarrassing.
Bowles and Gintis' empirically-minded replies point to an oft-neglected fact which is nevertheless a fact: effective market institutions and effective government institutions flourish in the same cultural climate. This is one reason the market/government opposition sows confusion. Cultures in which markets work well are ipso facto cultures in which government works well, and vice versa.
The ur-public good is a culture of low-cost cooperativeness. Call it trust. Call it civic virtue. Call it social capital. Call it civilization. Whatever you call it, neither markets or government work well without it. This cuts both ways ideologically. If trust or whatever is high, government can be effective. But then so can voluntary alternatives to government, for the same reasons. The question is always what works best in this case. When trust or whatever is low, markets and voluntary civil society won't work so well. But then government in this case is likely to be predatory, which is the worst possibility. When trust or whatever is high, there's a good chance folks can do it without government. But if the problem really is intractable without bringing in state coercion to solve the problem, then folks shouldn't worry that much because the quality of governance is in this case likely to be high and the level of predation and corruption likely to be low. Effective government and effective markets are two sides of the same coin.


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Rediff.com » Sports » Defending champs Aus name 11 debutants in CWG squad
Defending champs Aus name 11 debutants in CWG squad
September 01, 2010 18:47 IST
Aiming to keep their perfect record at the Commonwealth Games intact, defending champions Australia on Wednesday announced a 16-member hockey squad for the October 3-14 mega-event in Delhi.
Australia will come into the Delhi Games as favourites having claimed the gold medal in every edition of the quadrennial event since hockey's introduction in 1998.
The Kookaburras have fielded 11 debutants in the squad.
Veteran Jamie Dwyer and Liam de Young will be participating in their third Commonwealth Games while Luke Doerner, Robert Hammond and Mark Knowles were part of the victorious Australia side at Melbourne Games in 2006.
Under coach Ric Charlesworth, Australia has won every major international tournament since January 2009, including the Hero Honda FIH World Cup in Delhi earlier this year.
However, Charlesworth sounded cautious and said the Kookaburras cannot afford to take any team lightly in the Delhi Games.
"We have had some great results over the past 20 months or so, however I still believe we are not solid yet and still have much to do. I have full confidence in the team we have selected as it has a good amount of experience and youth, however we will not get ahead of ourselves," Charlesworth said.
"We are the number 1 ranked team in the world, but I think that can give teams a bit more incentive when they face us. England are very capable of beating us as we saw at the World Cup. India and Pakistan will be at home in the heat of Delhi and with the reduced squad sizes makes things less predictable," he added.
Australia will also come into the event high on confidence after having registered its hat-trick of Champions Trophy title this year.
"We have great squad depth which is obviously what we are building towards, however it means that players need to make the most of their opportunities and the Commonwealth Games will give these players a chance to do that on a very big international stage," said Charlesworth.
Australian Commonwealth Games Association chief executive Perry Crosswhite said the country has high expectations from the team in the Commonwealth Games.
"It will not be easy but we know that if they do their best, as they did in 1998, 2002 and 2006, the 2010 Games tournament will be their hat trick for the year," Crosswhite said.
Team: Desmond Abbott, Nathan Burgers, Joel Carroll, Christopher Ciriello, Liam De Young, Luke Doerner, Jamie Dwyer, Robert Hammond, Fergus Kavanagh, Mark Knowles, Trent Mitton, Edward Ockenden, Simon Orchard, Matthew Swann, Glenn Turner, Jason Wilson.
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I've been postponing this article for almost two months, the only reason being the lack of time. I know I've been driving you crazy over the past few months with Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire Makeup Collection (swatches, photos) and you've already picked up on the fact that I'm absolutely in love with it. So even though I swatched and reviewed the entire Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire Lipstick Collection (video with some of the shades) in the tester packaging I wanted to purchase some of the colors just to have them in the original, gorgeous La Petite Robe Noire packaging. I would have bought more lipstick shades but not all of them are available here in Romania, especially some of the violet ones.
On a casual weekend day, I headed over Douglas Perfumery to take advantage of my 15% off Douglas Card and check out some of the beauty items on my list. Mainly I headed over to Douglas for Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire lipsticks (145.00 Lei / £21.50 / €29.50 for 2.8 g / 0.09 oz but I also got my go-to tonic lotion that I've been using for years, which is Clinique No.2 Clarifying Lotion which they have it in a 487 ml / 16.5 fl oz bottle.
I spent quite some time in front of Guerlain counter chatting with the nice Guerlain Beauty Advisor about makeup and Guerlain's best selling items and time flew away so fast. She was more than nice in showing me all the newness and talk me through some of Guerlain's new skincare items that I can really say it was one of the most pleasant shopping experiences I had when shopping in Romania. With my Guerlain purchase I also received for testing quite a few products but the most exciting one for me was, a deluxe sample of the new Guerlain Abeille Royale Lotion (info, photos) which I've been using for the past few weeks.
I also got two samples of Guerlain Orchidee Imperiale The Cream (3 ml / 0.10 fl oz) which I've also been using for over 2 weeks now. There's enough product in these samples to allow me to form an opinion either I do like this product or not and if I want to go along and purchase the full size. I knew about the amazing effects of Guerlain Orchidee Imperiale skincare and while I've been using The Cream only as a night cream I started to see the first signs and improvements in my skin quality, tone and how signs of aging are slowly starting to fade away. I do admit this cream would be a little bit to rich for me (I'm a combination sensitive skin type) so I wouldn't using it during the day, but as a night cream works just perfect and gives me the well needed hydration, while it keeps away the signs of aging.
With the purchase of Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire lipsticks or nail polishes you would have also got the complementary gift of 3 mini La Petite Robe Noire nail files, like I did, but I do admit I still find them to cute to use them. Probably I will file my nails with them but I just want to keep them untouched for a little bit longer. They have the perfect travel size so I will probably take one of them with me when I'll travel.
Some of the other samples where Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire Eau de Parfum and Guerlain Parure de Lumiere Light-Diffusing Foundation which I happily enjoyed.
Along with my Guerlain and Clinique purchases, Douglas also offered me a black Gucci makeup bag along with a Gucci Guilty Sensual Massage Gel (30 ml / 1.0 fl oz) which smells absolutely divine and I like to apply it on my skin after I shower so the scent will linger on my skin for hours.
The golden, transparent Azzaro bracelet was also a nice surprise that I found inside my Douglas bag along with the other products.
I really enjoyed shopping at Douglas that day and I remembered how often I did choose this beauty store for shopping when I was in Germany or Austria as they always gave me so many samples and products to try out, but they also had so nice and well prepared beauty advisors that could easily walk you through any brand and help you choose the right products.
I'm going back to Douglas this weekend as well but concerning Guerlain, I'm preparing my wallet for some skincare shopping of Aqua Vitale range and Abeille Royale at the end of the month.


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Frank Luke Jr. (ur. 19 maja 1897 w Phoenix, zm. 29 września 1918 w okolicach Murvaux) – amerykański as myśliwski z czasów I wojny światowej. Był specjalistą w niszczeniu balonów obserwacyjnych, które stanowiły 14 z jego zwycięstw. Należał do grona asów posiadających tytuł honorowy Balloon Buster.

Wyszkolenie
Frank Luke urodził się w Phoenix w stanie Arizona. We wrześniu 1917 wstąpił do US Army Signal Corps, które szkoliło pilotów wojskowych w School of Military Aeronautics w Austin w stanie Texas; następnie szkolił się w San Diego. Szkolenie bojowe odbył we Francji. W sierpniu 1918 otrzymał przydział do 27 eskadry, należącej do 1 Grupy Pościgowej.

Kariera pilota myśliwskiego
Pierwsze zwycięstwo odniósł na początku września, niszcząc niemiecki balon obserwacyjny. W połowie miesiąca miał już 11 zestrzeleń. Największy sukces odniósł 18 września, zestrzeliwując dwa balony i trzy samoloty. Nie był jednak z tego powodu szczęśliwy, ponieważ stracił przyjaciela Josepha Wehnera, również asa myśliwskiego, posiadającego tytuł Balloon Buster.

Od tej pory walczył z jeszcze większą brawurą, wielokrotnie wracając na samolotach tak uszkodzonych ogniem wroga, że nadających się już tylko do kasacji.

Ostatnia walka
29 września 1918 w rejonie Murvaux Frank Luke zaatakował i zapalił trzy Dracheny. Podczas walki jego SPAD S.XIII został trafiony przez obronę przeciwlotniczą, a sam Luke odniósł rany. Mimo to walczył nadal, atakując oddziały niemieckiej piechoty. Podczas kolejnego nawrotu silnik samolotu zgasł i Luke musiał lądować awaryjnie w polu. Otoczony przez niemieckich piechurów, nie zamierzając się poddać, Frank Luke wyciągnął swojego Colta i zaczął strzelać. Żołnierze niemieccy odpowiedzieli ogniem i jedna z kul ugodziła śmiertelnie Amerykanina.

Za swoje czyny Frank Luke został pośmiertnie odznaczony najwyższym amerykańskim wyróżnieniem – Medalem Honoru.

Odznaczenia
 Medal Honoru
 Krzyż za Wybitną Służbę (dwukrotnie)
 Krzyż Zasługi Wojennej (odznaczenie włoskie)

Bibliografia

Balloon Busters
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Wybitnej Służby (Stany Zjednoczone)
Odznaczeni Medalem Honoru
Urodzeni w 1897
Zmarli w 1918
Asy myśliwskie Stanów Zjednoczonych I wojny światowej
Ofiary I wojny światowej
Ludzie urodzeni w Phoenix

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Q: Why I can convert to this one type and not the other?
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This is the error that I got. Replacing
System.Collections.Generic.List(Of Object)

with
System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable(Of Object)

solves the problem.
I am aware that the second type is an interface. I am still confused.
But why?

A: Since lists are mutable(you can f.e. add items) you can't assign a List(Of String) to a variable of type List(Of Object)(even if every string is an object).
Every List(Of T) is also an IEnumerable(Of T), but as opposed to the list the interface doesn't support modifications(without casting it back to the real type). That's why the language allows to use the interface but not the list.
Consider what could happen if it was allowed on the list itself(C# link):
Dim giraffes As New List(Of Giraffe)
giraffes.Add(new Giraffe())
Dim animals As List(Of Object) = giraffes ' doesn't compile but what happened otherwise:
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Nurses denied entry to the UK last year despite staff shortage
A total of 60 overseas nurses were prevented from working in west London hospitals last year
Nathan Spendelow
The number of overseas nurses was limited until the shortage was recognised
Thousands of nurses were denied permission to work in the UK last year, despite healthcare providers struggling with chronic staffing shortages, according to new figures.
In London, 80 new nurses were prevented from starting work at University College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and 60 at London North West Healthcare NHS Trust.
The figures, obtained by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), show that a total of six London NHS trusts were affected.
The news comes after getwestlondon reported on the nursing vacancy rate of up to 30% in west London hospitals.
The statistics, taken from a Freedom of Information request by the RCN to the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), reveal that 2,341 applications by Trusts for Certificate of Sponsorship were refused between April and November 2015.
When an organisation recruits a nurse from outside the European Economic Area they must apply for a Certificate of Sponsorship.
Until November last year, nurses were not on the shortage occupation list (SOL) and as a result the number of certificates was limited.
These figures show the extent of the impact this was having on the number of nurses available to work in the UK.
Nursing has since been temporarily placed on the shortage occupation list.
RCN London Regional Director Bernell Bussue said: "Right across London, health employers are trying to address a shortage of registered nurses, yet the Government's artificial immigration cap has prevented nurses from coming to work here in our city.
"Our nursing colleagues from overseas have always played a huge role in London's health service and the government should value and support their work. London needs more nurses.
"Nursing should be kept on the Home Office shortage occupation list so that nursing staff are able to move and settle here in the numbers we need to keep patients safe."
A spokesperson for London North West Healthcare NHS Trust said: "In common with a lot of trusts in London we rely on nurses from overseas and we were pleased when nurses were added to the Home Office list of shortage occupations."
Thousands of nurses and midwives recently demonstrated in Downing Street against scrapping of bursaries.


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Angelo Massafra (23 March 1949) is an Italian Catholic archbishop of Arbëreshë ancestry, metropolitan archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shkodër–Pult since 25 January 2005.

Life
He was born on 23 March 1949 in San Marzano di San Giuseppe, a historic Arbëreshë community with Albanian ancestry in Apulia.

He was ordained a priest of the Order of Friars Minor on 21 September 1974 by the Archbishop of Lecce Francesco Minerva.

On 7 December 1996, Pope John Paul II nominated him bishop of Rrëshen and consecrated him bishop on 6 January in the St. Peter's Basilica. On 28 March 1998 he was appointed archbishop of Shkodër and on 25 January 2005, following the reorganization of the ecclesiastical circumscriptions of Albania, he became archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shkodër–Pult, born from the union of the archdiocese of Shkodër and the diocese of Pult.

He made ad limina apostolorum at the Holy See in 2008 and 2017.

See also

 List of Catholic dioceses in Albania

References

  Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su Angelo Massafra

Franciscan bishops
Italian Franciscans
1949 births
Living people
People from the Province of Taranto
Italian people of Arbëreshë descent


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Geographical changes
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) won the recent election, thus bringing to fruition the long effort of its founder, Imran Khan, to find a life after cricket. But in the process it also brought about a major change in the country's political geography. It not only managed to replace the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) in KP and Punjab, but it also managed to do so by breaking into Pakistan Muslim League –Nawaz (PML-N) strongholds that the PPP had conceded. Perhaps more significant, it managed to break into MQM strongholds in Karachi and Hyderabad, thus representing the long-overdue revulsion of the Muhajir community against its ghetto-isation.
Ever since the 1988 elections, the PPP has generally lost in Rawalpindi, Attock, Chakwal, Mianwali and Bhakkar districts. It is in these areas that the PTI's wins are most significant. The wins in central Punjab reflect those swing seats where the PPP has generally won whenever it also won in the centre. Perhaps more significant, and certainly at least as significant, the PTI won in the districts of Hazara Division. The seats in this area had been safe for the PML-N since 1988, even when the PPP and the ANP won enough seats to form the KP government. It is perhaps no wonder that the PML-N has found both of its KP Chief Ministers, Sabir Shah and Mehtab Abbassi, from this region. It should be noted that while the PTI had formed the KP government in 2013, it had lost in this area.
Even Lahore has seen the PTI move forward. In 1988, the PPP had split the district 5-4, but in 1990, it had only won one urban seat. In 1990, that too was lost, and Lahore district became solid PML-N territory from 1993 onwards, till 2013, when it lost a national seat for the first time in two decades. One mark of the change that had taken place is that Imran himself has won a Lahore seat, which he has failed to do in all his attempts since 2002.
Then there are the PTI victories in Karachi, which had been solidly MQM territory since the 1988 local body polls. Not only the MQM, but the PPP also lost its Lyari seat to the PTI. That too was as solid a seat as any. In fact, the only long time monopoly the PTI did not affect was that in interior Sindh, where the PPP has won big since it came into being.
One effect has been to bring back the country's largest city into the mainstream of national politics. It also means that Karachi and Hyderabad will look to the PTI to articulate their needs, and to fulfil them. It should be remembered that these political needs and aspirations are different now from when the MQM started to articulate them. Before the MQM, Muhajirs had voted for the JUP or the Jamaat Isalami. The former alone is still around; the latter is now moribund.
The PTI is supposed to have benefited from pre-poll rigging. It has been true that no ruling party has been re-elected since 1977 (and that election was part of the background to the Zia martial law). However, it is also true that no government has ever dissolved Parliament, except in 1993, when there has been a prior presidential dissolution. From 1988, dissolutions were by the President, until martial law was imposed in 1999. Since then, National Assemblies have run to term. However, in the last two assemblies, the Prime Minister had been ousted from his job after being disqualified from membership of the National Assembly. When the President dissolved, there would be accusations of corruption, and even prosecutions.
2018 was no exception, though it was noteworthy that the old binary of PML-N-PPP was now disrupted, especially in Punjab, where the PTI may well capture the provincial government, and where it won the bulk of its national seats. Has the PTI fitted itself into the binary? It depends on how well the party institutionalises itself. Is Pakistan heading towards a UK-like situation, where Labour gradually replaced the Liberals as the party of governance over a couple of decades at the beginning of the 20th century? It is significant to remember that the Liberals survived, to the extent that in 1974 they actually claimed nearly a fifth of the vote (though only 14 seats in a 650-seat House), and after a merger with the Social Democrats (which was essentially the right wing of the Labour Party), formed a coalition with the Tories in 2010-15, in their current Liberal Democrat avatar.
Or is the PPP about to face the fate of various factions of various parties in India, which have become 'regionalised', like the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal (a now-regional Congress faction), or the Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar (which hived off from a Janata faction)? The PPP has once again basically won in Sindh alone, where it has won a majority in the provincial assembly for the third term in succession. It should not rely on its interior Sindh strongholds. They may have held this time, but as we've learnt from Karachi, the Hazarajat and Punjab, strongholds ultimately fall.
Perhaps that is a lesson the PTI itself needs to learn. It can perhaps describe KP as a stronghold, but it has not won there with the same kind of metronomic regularity that the PML-N showed in the Hazarajat, the PPP in Lyari and the MQM in the rest of Karachi.
Another lesson is that the military is unforgiving of its protégés. Is it entirely without significance that both the PPP and the PML-N were founded by men who ultimately became military protégés? Both found that the realities of power made it impossible to satisfy the demands of the military and those of their supporters. The reaction of the military was almost as if their sin was having a support base of their own, rather than simply disobedience. Bhutto was hanged, and while Mian Nawaz has been flung in Adiala jail, the recent election saw every effort to make sure he did not win. Imran will have to find a balance between satisfying his supporters and keeping his backers happy.
That may not be possible. It should be remembered that both Bhutto and Nawaz pulled the military's irons out of the fire. After the surrender at Paltan Maidan, it was Bhutto who negotiated the return of the 90,000 POWs. It was Nawaz who went to Washington on a holiday to extract the Army out of the mess it had got itself into over Kargil. The author of the latter was the man who overthrew him. What Imran will have to watch out for is a military encounter with India. If he is needed to pull any Army irons out of that fire, he can be sure that he will find himself on the wrong side of it.
Another thing to watch is that Imran is not yet on the left. Bhutto was on the left, but at the same time, a fervent supporter of confrontation with India, and thus of the military narrative. Bhutto was also much more anti-American than Imran. That anti-Americanism is severely diluted. In the same way, it is to be seen how a party which relies as much on a diaspora increasingly based in the USA, can maintain anti-American feeling, even to the extent of rhetoric.
Pakistan has perhaps not yet moved past the Bhutto era. Imran's youth was when Bhutto was Prime Minister (PM). Perhaps electing as PM a sexagenarian was not the best way Pakistan could choose to get past it. Problem was, the 30-year-old leading the PPP now is Bhutto's grandson. Still, 1970 was the last time the country's political geography got such a major makeover.
The writer is a veteran journalist and founding member as well as executive editor of The Nation.
As we've learnt from the election results in Karachi, the Hazarajat and Punjab, strongholds ultimately fall.
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Verard M. Aas/http://presse30.no/Getty Images(OSLO) -- The Norwegian man arrested for Friday's attacks that killed 93 people reportedly plagiarized portions of his enormous manifesto from the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski.
Anders Behring Breivik was taken into custody within three minutes of police arriving on Utoya Island, where he is believed to have shot over 80 people, mainly youths. Breivik confessed to the shootings and to an earlier bombing at government buildings in Oslo that killed seven.
Authorities say that he had plenty of ammunition left upon his surrender. Reports also indicate that he may have used bullets designed to atomize inside the body in order to cause maximum injury.
A police spokesman in Oslo said that Breivik believed he had a ten to 30 percent chance of escaping.
A video attributed to Breivik that was found online contained disturbing images, anti-Muslim rhetoric, and belligerent messages calling for conservative martyrdom.
The suspect is also responsible for a 1,518 page manifesto, portions of which are believed to have been taken from or inspired by a similar diatribe by Ted Kaczynski.
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Records of one of the most active and important of the local organizations which opposed U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam, together with some personal papers of Sidney Peck, founding chairman, and miscellaneous records of other Cleveland anti-war groups. CAPAC records date to its organization as the Cleveland Coordinating Committee of the Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam and consist of correspondence and form letters, statements, handouts, and press releases. While there is little on the convention CAPAC called in June l970 which founded the National Peace Action Coalition, there is material on several local demonstrations and on relations with Cleveland labor unions. Most important of the other organizational records are those of the Cleveland Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, with which CAPAC cooperated. Here are included subject files on high school organizing, two SMC national conventions in Cleveland, and the Kent State 25 Defense Committee.
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Walking in Memphis
I live in the city where Martin Luther King was born, and I've always wanted to visit the place where he died. I got to do that a few weeks ago with my daughter and sister by my side.
It was an ambitious trip: I picked my daughter up from school an hour early and whisked her off with us through Alabama and Mississippi on U.S. Route 78 (where food at rest stops is almost nonexistent).
Me, at a foodless rest stop
The plan was to spend less than 24 hours in Memphis, turn around and drive back to Birmingham on Saturday evening to rest, and then go back to Atlanta in the morning (my sister's flight was at 1 pm).
Our first stop was at the National Civil Rights Museum which consists of the Lorraine motel and the building that used to house the motel where MLK's killer fired the shot from.
The view from James Earl Ray's bathroom
The tour started with a 30-minute documentary in which one of the pastors with MLK at the time of his assassination recounted the events that led up to it (including the final one, the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike). It was so emotional to walk around the exhibits and artifacts that show cased real newspaper clippings, memos, photos, and the like that promoted segregation in the South just a decade before I was born. One exhibit was a spin-the-wheel type that displayed more than 50 reasons why a Black person would not be allowed to register to vote. (They were all discouraging things like getting beaten, being given the runaround, and being told they answered a [trivial] question incorrectly.) That's one of the reasons why it makes me sick when people of African American descent say they don't vote in elections because it doesn't matter, or their vote doesn't count. How many of their ancestors would have loved to have that privilege? I wept as I walked through the replicas of a lunch counter where Blacks were beaten and arrested just for sitting down at it, and a bus like the one Rosa Parks probably rode on day after day. The civil rights movement ended only a few decades ago, but so many millions of us didn't live through it, don't fully understand it, and take it for granted.
Stax Museum
I had never heard of Stax Records, but the Stax Museum was made at that site to commemorate its legacy. It was acquired by Atlantic Records in the 70's, but was the former home to such artists as The Staple Singers, Otis Redding, and Isaac Hayes. The highlights for me were walls of gold records and 45s, as well as a spinning display of Hayes' "pimped out" Cadillac.
A short documentary was shown at the beginning of this tour as well, but I actually hadn't heard of most of the recording artists that were featured. One of the things the record executives touched on was how the multi-cultural company that once treated each other like family, suddenly bred mistrust once MLK was assassinated down the street. One said he was convinced that if that had not happened in Memphis, Stax would still be alive and kicking today.
Our third and final stop was at Elvis' mansion, Graceland. It was a pretty thorough tour, and his property was very well maintained (and watched over–the employees were in every room to make sure nothing was touched). Headphones guided you on the tour with certain items and parts of rooms/displays numbered. I've never been an Elvis fan, but I still found it interesting. I'm waiting for the MJJ's former Neverland Ranch to open.
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I missed your prior post about this collection. So glad I gave the patterns another look. I have some lovely tweeds in my stash perfect for these patterns.
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I'm with you Karen. I must have St. Brendan.
I think the bottom one would really suit you.
I love them both, but wish they were in lighter weight yarns.
For the record, Ravelry is showing this yarn as bulky but it's aran weight and these are knitted on 8s, I believe. You probably mean even lighter than that, but I wanted to note it!
Do you thnk the Brendan could be knit in letti lopi? I made the Stopover with size 10.5 needles and these call for 9 & 8.
That whole collection is incredible!
Isn't it? It's a perfect little wardrobe.
At first I thought you were crazy when you said the original photos made you sad. Then I started trying to figure out the details and realized that as a fashion spread they're great. To sell yarn and patterns, not so much. Glad there are more! And these colors are also awesome!
Beautiful items in the collection, I agree. Lovely colors also. I'm in love with the hats. However, I would think the St. Brendan, as lovely as it is, would be better with a darker color at the hip. The yoke will balance a smaller shoulder or bust, definitely; but, the camel color horizontally at the hip/bottom serves to widen that area. Am I being too (k)nit picky? I feel that spending so much time and love and money on a sweater, it should flatter every part of you.
Wiberg, I agree with you. My eyeballs fell on the floor when I saw the new and improved St. Brendan. After they stopped rolling around on the floor, they looked up and filled the hip area in with the dark yarn. Let the beautiful colorwork show off across the yoke and be done with it.
Hmmm… now how do I squeeze this baby in my queue? I seriously think it's going to explode!
I just see the black swath across the middle as slimming, but who knows. It occurs to me, though, that I might try it with the camel and grey swapped, just to see how it looks.
Love the dark colors in St. Brendan. Definitely added to my list. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for letting all of us know what we'll be knitting this year!


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Face Of Agulu Anambra State Posted on February 20, 2015
Buhari spotted downcast at Health Control centre at a London Airport
Former Military Head of State and presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, February 19, 2015 jetted out of the country to the United Kingdom (UK) for unspecified reasons.
According to Buhari's campaign organisation, APC Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO), the General is on a 'brief working visit' to the UK 'where he will hold meetings with several global institutions in the interest of Nigeria.'
Garba Shehu the, Spokesman for the APCPCO was quoted as saying:
"General Buhari would hopefully give a talk at the prestigious foreign policy hub, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatam House in London."
However, insider sources within the Buhari campaign team tell the Breaking Times, that the trip to the UK is connected to the deteriorating health condition of Buhari which has taken for the worse in the past two weeks. The campaign decided to whisk him out of the country to deceive secret medical attention away from the Nigerian media.
Of growing concern within Buhari's ranks is his failing health which the General had hoped to secretly attend to in the United States last month. But his application for a US medical visa leaked to the media and the General cancelled his trip to the US last month.
It would be recalled that General Buhari is reported to be suffering from prostrate cancer, a terminal illness and one of the most common forms of cancer in men.
A pro-Buhari political pressure group, Muslims For Buhari has recently been calling for prayers for the former Petroleum Trust Fund chairman as his health status has become more worrisome in recent times, which saw him collapse at a campaign rally in Calabar, Cross River State in January and more recently on Monday, February 16, 2015 when General Buhari was whisked away by his aides from his campaign rally in Borno State barely ten minutes after arriving the Ramat Square, venue for the campaign rally.
"The APC doesn't want people to know our principal is a very sick man," our source who works closely with the Buhari tells the Breaking Times. "He is gravely ill and the shift of the election date had dealt a big blow to our plans to wrap up the campaign. The toll on our candidate is visible now."
Our investigations also reveal that Buhari would also be consulting with international lawyers while in the UK over putting up a defence at the International Criminal Court on his behalf. Already, a petition of genocide and crimes against humanity has been filed at The Hague, Netherlands against Buhari over inciting his supporters to violence after losing the 2011 presidential election.
It can be recalled that families of the 800 victims who lost their lives of the violence unleashed in Northern states following General Buhari's loss at the polls, in an election that was widely adjudged to be one of Nigeria's freest and fairest, have filed a petition against Buhari at The Hague and want him tried for crimes against humanity. The petition and the campaign to have Buhari extradited to the Netherlands to face trial is gathering momentum and it is now a source of worry for the APC.
"Buhari will also be meeting secretly with international lawyers to see how the case at the International Criminal Court can be dealt with," our source who works on Buhari's strategy team told Breaking Times. "Though the APC is refusing to comment on the International Criminal Court issue in Nigeria, it is source of concern for us because it is one issue that will linger on after the elections whether we win or lose."
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Defenders in the air.
The military organization of every country normally consist of the army, naval and air force units. The air force units of a military organization refers to the military personnel responsible for conducting and execution of the air defense warfare strategies of the military organization. Around the world, air force units of every country may consists a combination of fighters, bombers and other aircraft flight defense personnel and teams. The air force are the military's defenders in the air.
1 How to find air force military records, including dicharge records (both honorable and dishonorable)
1.1 US Air Force military records.
1.2 The Royal Flying Corps(RFC)
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2 Requesting Air Force personnel records.
2.1 Basic Information Required
2.2 Addresses of Military Archives in the World.
How to find air force military records, including dicharge records (both honorable and dishonorable)
US Air Force military records.
In 1973, the US National Personnel Records Center or NPRC in St. Louis, Missouri was hit by a fire damaging many of the military records stored within including those of the air force military personnel. Due to this incident, air force military records can either be those ablaze by the fire while many of the air force personnel records in electronic format by October 1, 2004 were still retained by the Office of the US Air Force and other service personnel offices of the US Air Force. Depending on the year of discharge or retirement, air force service records are held and compiled on several military records storage facilities.
The Royal Flying Corps(RFC)
Founded in the year 1912, the Royal Flying Corps was the United Kingdom's first air service contingent. Starting from July 1914, the Royal Flying Corps became a separate unit from its former mother unit, the Royal Naval Air Service or RNAS. But on April 1, 1918, the unit was formed in alliance with the Royal Air Force or RAF as a unified contingent of the British army. As a result of the different mergers and transfers, British airmen and other interest parties in search of the military records of the Royal Flying Corps may find them in one or more record repositories of the British military. It is, therefore, vital in the search to exactly determine information about the subject airman's covering dates of services since only limited data may be readily available online.
The Royal Australian Air Force
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)was responsible for Australia's foremost aerial defense unit responsible in providing military air support, surveillance, intelligence, mobility, reconnaissance as well as aid and humanitarian missions. RAAF air squadrons, fighters, and bombers have been in the center of every major world battles such as the second World War, the Vietnam war and the Korean war. An active participant of the Desert Air Force in 1941 under the Royal Air Force Middle East command located in North Africa, RAAF provided and fielded approximately 1,000 combat squadrons of air support along with other Allied forces.
The Royal New Zealand Air Force Formed from the contingents of the British Royal Air Force that served until the end of the 1940s, the Royal New Zealand Air Force became officially New Zealand's foremost air defense wing in 1923. The Royal New Zealand Air Force along with the Allied Forces have fought during World War II as well as in the Malaysian, Korean, Vietnam and the Gulf war. They were also participants in the various global peace keeping missions initiated by the United Nations. The Royal New Zealand Air Force's combat duties have ceased to exist in the year 2001 upon the termination of the A-4 Skyhawks squadrons that dominated air defense during the World War II battles and other subsequent wars.
The Royal Canadian Air Force
Formed in the 1920 the Royal Canadian Air Force was incorporated in 1923 and granted the royal sanction by King George V in 1924. In February 1, 1968, the contingent was unified along with the Royal Canadian Navy and the Canadian Army to form the current mother unit of the Canadian Armed Forces.
Requesting Air Force personnel records.
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Basic Information Required
Name – Complete given first and last names including suffix or aliases like Jr., Sr., III
Rank- Last updated military rank or designation earned from the service.
Inclusive dates of service
Address – Complete postal address including state, region and zip codes.
Other Contact information – Other contact details such as contact telephone or fax numbers that may be deemed necessary for communication.
Purpose and specifics about the requested record.
How Military Personnel Records Are Requested?
Depending on the country for which your request will be addressed to, the military personnel, its next of kin and other interested parties will start initiating their search through the designated government archive and repository. The search normally start by researching through the internet.
Addresses of Military Archives in the World.
The following archive places are some of the most sought data banks and government archives:
United States of America:
National Personnel Records Center
Military Personnel Records
1 Archives Drive
Kew, Richmond, Surrey,
TW9 4DU
Treloar Crescent
Campbell ACT 2612
Freyberg House
2-12 Aitken St
Service interministériel des Archives de France
56, rue des Francs-Bourgeois
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Grilled shrimp cooked with bell peppers, onions and tomatoes.
grilled steak cooked with bell peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans, guacamole salad, and sour cream with 3 flour tortillas.
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Grilled shrimp, scallops, and tilapia cooked with onions, bell peppers, and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans, guacamole salad, sour cream, and 3 flour tortillas
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Grilled steak, chicken, shrimp, carnitas, and chorizo cooked with onions, bell peppers, and tomatoes. Served with 2 sides of rice, beans, guacamole salad, and sour cream with 6 flour tortillas.
grilled chicken cooked with bell peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans, guacamole salad, and sour cream with 3 flour tortillas.
Mixtas Fajitas
Combination of chicken and steak cooked with onions, bell peppers, and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans, guacamole salad, sour cream with 3 flour tortillas.
Fajitas Bajio
Tender sliced steak, chicken, and shrimp cooked with onions, bell peppers, and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans, guacamole salad, sour cream with 3 flour tortillas.
Fajitas Hawaiian
Grilled chicken, shrimp, and pineapples cooked with onions, bell peppers, and tomatoes. Served with rice, beans, guacamole salad, sour cream with 3 flour tortillas.
Fajitas de Camaron
Grilled shrimp cooked with onions, bell peppers, and tomatoes. Served with poblano rice, beans, guacamole salad, and sour cream.


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Marc Spector, Hoodoo Child, Dorian Breh and 3 others dapped this.
I remember when one of the c00ns up there performing with her was disparaging Africans as many c00ns on this forum do. Yet you'll see them tap dancing for white and latino people.
IVS and Wild self dapped this.
Simps and c00ns did that to get access to p*ssy and non black looking kids.
Marc Spector, Hoodoo Child and deeznutz93 dapped this.
Its all about pushing that black/brown coalition bullshyt for latinos to hop on the tangibles train since ados is pushing for stuff. AOC already been hustling, somehow turning redlined black communities into a mexican issue . nikka wanna fukk her so they let her slide.
Hoodoo Child, Dorian Breh, IVS and 2 others dapped this.
Guess they were tryna capitalize off of her being named MTV Legacy artist or some shyt.
Only Latinos ever capitalize. Natural dikk riders and they jump ship once they get on.
Marc Spector, Hoodoo Child, IVS and 5 others dapped this.
Did any Latinos ever shyt on you for being black or hate that you Jamaican?
But They leech off of black people accomplishments for the sake of a quick come up.
Hoodoo Child, Dorian Breh and Nintendough dapped this.
Dorian Breh, Those Who Run, 50CentStan and 1 other person dapped this.
Maybe she was the only random minority available? It takes time to prep for these shows and shyt and she ain't doing shyt.
Kane, Marc Spector, Hoodoo Child and 10 others dapped this.
Couldn't or Wouldn't? Lol we don't know enough to be mad at this really.


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Ethnicity pay reporting "an important next step" - ABI
The insurance industry is supporting efforts to introduce ethnicity pay reporting as a further step to improving diversity and inclusion across all job levels and in all sectors.
Responding to a government consultation on the idea, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has backed proposals to introduce a reporting requirement for firms to publish details of employees' pay, broken down by ethnicity and pay quartile.
The ABI says the rules should be kept close to gender reporting requirements to make the process as simple as possible, and to enable firms to consider the two reports in parallel to give them a better overall viewpoint. Collating such information should give firms a top-line view of the diversity and pay structure of their whole organisation, helping to identify where interventions may be needed.
Compiling ethnicity data will be more challenging for firms given they may not currently collect it, and there could be over 18 different categories in use.
Louise Hanson, Director of Advocacy at the ABI, said:
"We already know nearly 8 out of 10 ABI members have an inclusion strategy in place as part of increasing the diversity of the people they employ. Improving the sector's diversity is not just the right thing to do, it also makes business sense. In an incredibly competitive market, the firms which most closely represent the full range of customers they serve will have an edge over the competition.
"While collecting the data alone will not fix the problem, giving firms a better understanding of their own situation is an important next step. It will help enable employers to identify what interventions could be needed and where."
The ABI has collected its own data on diversity within its membership, which is available here, and an update is due in the next few months. Our first collection showed the sector's workforce to be 16% black, Asian or ethnic minority compared with 14% in the general UK working age population, but it was not possible to break this down across job levels.
Transparency on parental pay
ABI insurance and long-term savings members have committed to make information on parental pay policies transparent and easily accessible on their public websites....
Reflections on HeforShe mentoring
As part of his support for the HeForShe campaign, ABI Director General, Huw Evans, committed to mentoring women in the industry. Now in its second year, ABI's HeForShe…
Impatient for change
I'm not a stats person. I'm usually much more comfortable with words than I am with numbers, but working in an industry driven by data, I know the importance of hard stats to tell a story. And the ABI's annual diversity data collection is fundamental to understanding and telling the story of diversity and inclusion in the insurance and long-term savings industry.


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Rainbow Six Siege Rakes In A Billion Dollars, The Division 2 Fails To Meet Sales Expectations On Consoles
by Javy Gwaltney on May 15, 2019 at 11:56 AM
Today Ubisoft held its quarterly earnings call and overall, things look pretty great for the company financially. The publisher reports that 2018 was its strongest year ever, supported by its service games as well as mostly strong release sales. Overall, Ubisoft brought in over 2.27 billion dollars, a 17% increase over the previous year.
A big bulletin in the report was Rainbow Six Siege (shown) bringing in over a billion dollars for the company since its launch back in 2015. Not bad for a game that many doubted thanks to its rough launch. Far Cry 5 is also the biggest-selling game for Ubisoft's current generational titles. The publisher also made sure to call out its engagement numbers, pointing to Siege's audience of 45 million players, a 40% increase since last year.
However, on the less rosy side of things, Ubisoft reports that the console version of The Division 2 didn't meet the company's initial sales expectations (though the PC version is performing well). Given Ubisoft's investment in service structures for its game, it'll be interesting to see how microtransactions affect The Division 2's profitability in the year to come.
While The Division 2's lackluster performance might stand out amidst all the other success stories in this earnings report, it's worth keeping in mind that Ubisoft, like no other publisher out there, plays the long game, offering continuous support for titles like For Honor and Siege to court communities and keep players invested in the games. As far as The Division 2 goes, this seems like it could very much be a "lost the battle but will win the war" situation.
Javy Gwaltney
Javy has been fascinated by games ever since his father brought home a PC with Warcraft and Hover! installed and plopped it down in front of him. He's worked for Game Informer since 2015. You can find more of his work at javygwaltney.net


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Rally to support Dolores in Batavia!
Our friend Dolores Bustamanete needs our community support!! Join us this monday at 10:30 am in front of the Batavia Federal Detention Center, in Batavia, to support Dolores as she goes for her next immigration court appointment. Dolores is facing a difficult court, this could be her last and ICE can detain her and separate her from her family and comunity. She is a caring mother, good friend and workers rights activist and organizer. Her community work includes organizing farmworkers to stand up and have a voice against abuse and exploitation in Upstate NY. She has worked for many of the orchards in Upstate NY and currently is part of the board of Alianza de Mujeres Campasinas and the Workers' Center of Central NY as well as active members of Mujeres Divinas. We need to stand with her just like she has done for immigrant and workers rights in our community.
Nuestra amiga Dolores Bustamante necesita nuestro apoyo comunitario. Unete con nosotros el lunes, Julio 24 a las 8:30 am enfrente del centro de Detencion Federal de Batavia. Dolores es una madre dedicada a su familia, una buena amiga y defensora de los derechos de los inmigrantes y los trabajadores. Ella ha servido en la mesa directiva de Alianza de Mujeres Campesinas, El Centro de Trabajadores y es miembra de Mujeres Divinas. Es el momento de estar con Dolores y con todos los inmigrantes que se enfrentan al sistema de inmigración injusto.


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June is shaping up to be an exciting month for crypto with a number of main-nets and test-nets being rolled out. Having a mainnet blockchain can be important as it signals to major investors that the project wasn't a scam and that it actually works. Testnets are also an important milestone, signalling that there continues to be development work on the project being done even though a minimum viable product isn't ready to be released yet. Here are some to look out for in June 2018.
The ongoing market turmoil has been a real party pooper - destroying all the surrounding hype around cryptocurrencies that was there in 2017. A lot of people have sold their holdings, giving in to fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD).
If you got into crytpo without understanding the technology, then the drop in prices might have promoted you to sell and that's totally understandable. You don't want to be left holding the bags. There's also no reason for you to hold on to your coins since you have no interest in the technology.
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Scrambled egg whites with spinach and cream cheese!
Do it like a Greek!
cook it for 8 to 12 minutes and the mixture will be more like a porridge.
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Q: Persistent configuration of two screens I want to configure two screens side by side and want the configuration to persist a system restart. (I'm using xfce on Xubuntu 12.)
I've inspected old questions and the answers mentioned arandr and xrandr, and so I did create the (working) shell script that calls xrandr with appropriate options and arguments to fit my needs. Now I can place that script in some profile so that it will become active with every login.
My question is; is it possible to configure twin-screens in some system config file so that I need not have a xrandr based script executed each time?
As far as my investigation goes, the config file could be /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and the file contains sensible information for my twin-screen setup. But that configuration seems to be ignored.

A: Here's a solution that solved the issue for me (for Xubuntu 12):
In directory /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ create a file 45-custom_xrandr-settings (with Xubuntu 13 its name would have to be 45x11-custom_xrandr-settings). The content of the file is (for my case; adjust the definitions as necessary):
# The IDs of the screens
INTERNAL_OUTPUT="DVI-1"
EXTERNAL_OUTPUT="DVI-0"

# EXTERNAL_LOCATION, which can be one of: left, right, above, below
EXTERNAL_LOCATION="left"

case "$EXTERNAL_LOCATION" in
   left|LEFT)
       EXTERNAL_LOCATION="--left-of $INTERNAL_OUTPUT"
       ;;
   right|RIGHT)
       EXTERNAL_LOCATION="--right-of $INTERNAL_OUTPUT"
       ;;
   top|TOP|above|ABOVE)
       EXTERNAL_LOCATION="--above $INTERNAL_OUTPUT"
       ;;
   bottom|BOTTOM|below|BELOW)
       EXTERNAL_LOCATION="--below $INTERNAL_OUTPUT"
       ;;
   *)
       EXTERNAL_LOCATION="--left-of $INTERNAL_OUTPUT"
       ;;
esac

xrandr | grep $EXTERNAL_OUTPUT | grep " connected "
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    xrandr --output $INTERNAL_OUTPUT --auto --output $EXTERNAL_OUTPUT --auto $EXTERNAL_LOCATION
else
    xrandr --output $INTERNAL_OUTPUT --auto --output $EXTERNAL_OUTPUT --off
fi

Installed in the above specified directory this configuration file will then be executed automatically when the X session is started.


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Che Domanda!
Posted by Arwa Salah Mahmoud in Thoughts & Vents on September 29, 2014
Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice on the floor with her roller skates. Image from icollector.com
In the film Funny Girl, produced in 1968, Barbra Streisand plays the role of aspiring broadway star Fanny Brice. She forces herself into clubs and theaters trying to get herself on stage. When eventually she manages to drag the soul out of a director and he decides to hire her just to get her to stop yammering, he asks her "Can you roller skate?" With a brief pause she puts her hands to her waist and looks condescendingly at him, clearly offended by his question, and repeats his words with her nose in the air, "Can I roller skate??" She stresses so much on the "I" to emphasize her shock at his question.
The next scene is of Fanny sliding along the stage, completely off balance, taking down other skater dancers with her. She then justifies herself: "I didn't know I couldn't!"
To me, Fanny holds the secret recipe to success. She plunged herself into her dream and then began to struggle. She didn't sit on the shore and think how much she couldn't. In her mind, she was already there. She could roller skate, she could do anything a star could do.
Now that I go learn Italian twice a week. I'm Fanny Brice. Italian used to run around in my head all the time. There were times when I felt like it was simmering inside somewhere and just needed someone to lift off the lid. The more time passed with me not doing anything about it, the more frustration took over me, especially whenever I was supposed to understand that particular quote from Michelangelo as I read his biography, or felt the itch to jump into conversation with Italians, only to realize that all I'd be saying would be "Ciao! Come va?" (Hi! How are you?) and then idiotically repeating it if they ever answered.
Nevertheless, in my mind I spoke Italian. So whenever I remember that scene in the movie I realize that I wouldn't ever get myself on stage if I wasn't already there. And that goes with everything.
Can you speak Italian, Arwa?
Can I speak Italian?? Che domanda! (What a question!)
Can you ice climb, Arwa?
Can I ice climb?? Che domanda!
And so on ☺
I just need someone to lift off that lid and let all the aromatic simmering out. It's funny how I realized that getting that lid off was such labor. My teacher looks me in the eye and asks me a question that I can perfectly understand but instead of answering I get this choking sensation in my throat. Everything gets jumbled inside and I only manage to dig out sounds, completely irrelevant words, and verbs in their infinitive. Being the witty professional that he is, he pretends to struggle to hear me or understand me whenever I try to help myself with some Arabic or English.
The one thing I'll do differently from Fanny Brice is that I won't ever EVER say "I didn't know I couldn't!" I'm going to drag everyone with me into my field. Of course I can speak Italian! I'm gonna throw myself in the middle of it and wade through all the laughs and come out as dignified as I will continue to see myself. There's just no other way around this.
I've been having my comic moments with Italian, of course. So a sentence like "Nel tempo libero gli italiani vanno al caffè e parlano di calcio." (In their free time, Italians go to coffee shops and talk about soccer) Becomes to Italian speaking Arwa "In the liberal age, Italians used to meet in cafes and talk about calcium."
Good times. And a lot more to come. I'm rooting for my patient teacher. God bless him.
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Four Random Scenes From My Life
There was nowhere the cat could go but under the sofa. This was tremendous progress in its character. The pool man's pole was so high and creepy thin the cat was convinced it was going to get it. It had been lying down on its favorite chair when the giant pole began to rise and dip itself into the mysteries of the blue water. It was a lot of restraint for the cat not to rush inside and to wait it out under a nearby sofa. And that amazing feat of courage paid off. The pole monster didn't go much farther; it soon retreated. And the cat, forty-five minutes later, began to relax again, and the fur on its arched back and tail began to lay back in place, reverting the cat to its original size.
The cat had intellect and it was using it. The balance between instinct and intellect in its little head got the upper hand. Danger subsided. All was alright.
She'd been dreaming of this all her life. Since the age of sixteen she decided that she wanted to learn Italian. Because she was not the one paying for the lessons, her father insisted that she learned Spanish instead, said he would only pay for Spanish, and Spanish it was. She enjoyed it nevertheless but it didn't seem to satisfy the thirst for linguistic music inside her head. In her mind she could speak and understand every word. She could read it well. When she was old enough to pay for her own Italian classes she couldn't keep them up. She allowed work and politics and "faithful sisters" to define her life's purpose. Suddenly, rallying for bearded men who spoke shiny words became more important to her than speaking Italian. And she let the years go by.
Then one day she woke up from her slumber and decided it was time to get her life back. What was that language she so wanted to speak? She thought with a smile in her head. The moment finally came for her final stretch with it. She sat in front of the teacher, dumbfounded. Words were racing each other inside her head but none of them were the ones she wanted to use. Everything came up to her throat and choked in there while her teacher looked at her with a compassionate smile. The silence was murderous. But she would not let it kill her dream. She was listening to Italian, the teacher was promising her Italian, and all was alright.
She was in white, standing in a crowd of eager women from different parts of the world. There was a wall separating them from a destination they had traveled thousands of miles to reach. It was now only a few short steps away once the door opens through that wall. The talking and the chattering echoed in the vastness of the mosque. White marble pillars stood eternally around them, cloaked in gold carvings, perfumed with Oud – the time old Arabian incense. The coolness of the powerful air conditioners and the lingering scent of Oud elevated her. The crowd was suddenly a part of the divine experience. All those women, barred from his blessed presence by the misogynistic sheikhs that have come to take his place despite their false claims to be his humble followers. All those women, standing patiently, waiting for the male ego to subside so that they could be with him at last, and tell him how the men have broken their promise to him to treat them well.
Then all at once the door opened and the women flooded into the forbidden quarters of the grand mosque. Joy filled them as some of them began to ululate, allowing their instinct to challenge the sin-minded conservatism of the men around them. Tears began to stream down her face as she rushed towards the shrine of the prophet. She walked into the sunlit platform where she used to chase the pigeons when she was only seven as her mother sat quietly in a corner and prayed. Back then women were allowed this proximity to the prophet at all times. Back then the entire mosque was her playground. She kept walking, enjoying the sound of the pigeons' fluttering wings, stepping once again into her childhood, until she finally reached him. She stood there with a smile on her face, and all was alright.
She stared longingly at the wedding cake. She had been to a wedding in that hotel before and she knew how well they made those cakes. Most people she knew were chocolate cravers, she never was. Chocolate always came in handy to her on difficult times, but she was never a chocolate seeker. To her, the whiter the cake the stronger the lure, and if frosting was included her mouth would fill with saliva no matter what important event she was in. The wedding was coming to an end and she was worried they might forget to cut up the cake for the guests. Soon everyone began to leave and her heart began to sink when suddenly, her aunt came to her with a piece of the cake. She grinned and held it like an archaeologist would hold an ancient treasure. She took the first bite and peace drifted into her veins. And the world disappeared. And all was alright.
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