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New record broken with over 7,600 new cases in 24 hours: Murcia Covid update January 12
Murcia Covid indicators still on the rise, including fatalities and hospitalisations
The curve of the sixth wave in the Region of Murcia is showing no sign of decreasing, or even plateauing, as yet another record was broken on January 11 with over 7,600 cases in just 24 hours.
Despite hopes that the Omicron variant could be releasing its grip on Spain, the current wave has not yet peaked and experts are now debating changing the approach to coronavirus and treating the virus as an endemic rather than a pandemic.
As the virus continues to infect more and more people in Murcia, other Covid indicators, such as hospitalisations and fatalities, are also rising, causing increasing pressure for the healthcare system, especially local health centres.
In an effort to safeguard the Region's most vulnerable, the authorities have suspended all care home visits for the next two weeks and, for the remainder of the population, the current measures are expected to be extended until February 4.
After Monday's figure for new infections surpassed all previous daily figures with 6,612 cases, Tuesday's daily cases broke the record once again, with 7,636 cases marking the highest number of new diagnosis in one day since the start of the pandemic.
Active cases and hospitalisations
The number of Murcianos with coronavirus is now 32,894, of whom 32,406 are in self-isolation at home. However, 488 Covid-positive patients are in a more serious condition and have required hospitalisation, with 90 people currently in the Region's intensive care units with the virus.
Seven more deaths were reported in the latest update on January 12, bringing the death toll to 1,882. The recent Covid victims were aged between 65 and 94, highlighting the vulnerability of this age group, whose incidence rate is the lowest in the Region by far (1,339.7 compared to the average of 3,687.9).
Vaccine uptake has not been as high as the authorities have hoped in recent months, especially when it comes to the booster jab. Recent data from the Ministry of Health show that only 28.3% of 50- to 59-year-olds have showed up for their third dose (figure from Friday January 7), placing Murcia as the second lowest autonomous community in Spain when it comes to top-up jabs.
In the municipality of Cartagena, those aged between 20 and 35 have the lowest vaccination rate and regional data show a similar pattern amongst younger members of the population. Health authorities continue to urge residents to get their jab as soon as possible using the easy online booking system.
The 7-day and 14-day cumulative incidence rates are two other Covid indicators which are still on the rise in the Region. In the past 24 hours, the 7-day rate has grown from 2,140.1 cases per 100,000 inhabitants to 2,292.7 while the 14-day rate has risen by around 40 points to 3,687.9 cases.
People in their 20s have the highest rate in Murcia, with their 14-day incidence standing at 5,536.8; almost 2,000 points higher than the regional average.
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Synthesis of acyclic α,β-unsaturated ketones via Pd(II)-catalyzed intermolecular reaction of alkynamides and alkenes
Norie Momiyama, Matthew W. Kanan, David R. Liu
SCI - Chemistry
We report an intermolecular oxidative coupling of alkynamides and terminal alkenes to synthesize E-α,β-unsaturated ketones under very mild conditions using catalytic Pd(II) and an oxidant. An 17O isotope labeling experiment implicates a cyclic oxypalladation intermediate in this reaction.
https://doi.org/10.1021/ja068886f
Published - 2007 Feb 28
10.1021/ja068886f
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Oxygen-17 Medicine & Life Sciences
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Momiyama, N., Kanan, M. W., & Liu, D. R. (2007). Synthesis of acyclic α,β-unsaturated ketones via Pd(II)-catalyzed intermolecular reaction of alkynamides and alkenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 129(8), 2230-2231. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja068886f
Synthesis of acyclic α,β-unsaturated ketones via Pd(II)-catalyzed intermolecular reaction of alkynamides and alkenes. / Momiyama, Norie; Kanan, Matthew W.; Liu, David R.
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 129, No. 8, 28.02.2007, p. 2230-2231.
Momiyama, N, Kanan, MW & Liu, DR 2007, 'Synthesis of acyclic α,β-unsaturated ketones via Pd(II)-catalyzed intermolecular reaction of alkynamides and alkenes', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 129, no. 8, pp. 2230-2231. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja068886f
Momiyama N, Kanan MW, Liu DR. Synthesis of acyclic α,β-unsaturated ketones via Pd(II)-catalyzed intermolecular reaction of alkynamides and alkenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2007 Feb 28;129(8):2230-2231. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja068886f
Momiyama, Norie ; Kanan, Matthew W. ; Liu, David R. / Synthesis of acyclic α,β-unsaturated ketones via Pd(II)-catalyzed intermolecular reaction of alkynamides and alkenes. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2007 ; Vol. 129, No. 8. pp. 2230-2231.
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1. Don't spend it because it's too much of a problem. Give it back or don't collect it.
2. Give it to a group to promote local hotels and fish camps.
3. Hire a professional marketing firm to promote not only the hotels and camps, but tourism.
We are rich in history, we are world known for our lakes and fishing, we have a great tennis complex on Daniel Island, one of the best ecotourism (Water Trail Programs) in the state. I think this does make our county a tourist destination and with some good marketing it will only get better. You can view this meeting on the Berkeley County Facebook page to get the whole picture. Look at the video (5:57 time frame).
I encourage all of my friends in Berkeley County to call or write your council member and voice your choice of these options.
Reader urges community to get out and vote!
We have an upcoming election that is very important for the Daniel Island community to turn out and vote. There's some confusion because the local municipal elections are on Nov. 7, but Daniel Island has little beyond an affordable housing bond referendum to vote on in that election. The city election is for the even-numbered council districts and we are in District 1.
The election that will have the most impact for Daniel Island is the S.C. House District 99 Republican Primary a week later on Nov. 14 to fill the seat after it became vacant when Jim Merrill resigned after pleading guilty in the on-going Statehouse corruption probe. District 99 is very spread out and includes Daniel Island, Hanahan, Cainhoy, Goose Creek and the northern portion of Mount Pleasant. Three of the four Republican candidates running in the primary are from Daniel Island. We risk splitting the vote and allowing the election to go to the lone Mount Pleasant candidate, Mark Smith.
I have closely evaluated the candidate's chances of winning and strongly believe that the race will come down to Smith and Nancy Mace, a Daniel Island resident. Nancy is a conservative businesswoman that has a thorough understanding of the issues most impacting the District 99 voters. Most of the district is in Berkeley County, but several members of the Charleston County Republican Party are strongly promoting Smith's candidacy to swing the seat to Charleston County. A strong voter turnout on Daniel Island will negate their efforts and ensure the seat remains with a Berkeley County resident.
There are several issues where the State Legislature has a major impact on Daniel Island. Therefore, it behooves us to elect someone with a vested interest in our issues. Senator Larry Grooms and Merrill have done an excellent job of warding off the State Ports Authority and prevented negative development that could have happened on the south end of the island. This is not a done deal, so we still need strong leadership and someone that's interested in making sure that the development on the south end of our island does not have an adverse impact on Daniel Island property values.
We also need someone that will push for the Department of Transportation to move forward more quickly on the widening of Route 526 and Clements Ferry Road. If you have driven up Clements Ferry to the new Philip Simmons High School and K8 school, you realize just how dire the situation is.
I could go on, but these two issues alone should be enough to motivate Daniel Island voters to turn out on Nov. 14 to vote for Nancy Mace. Please go to the polls on Nov. 14 and take a few minutes to vote in this very important election.


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var expect = require('chai').expect,
    corsModule = require('../../src/cors');

describe('azure-mobile-apps.cors.origin', function() {
    it('allows protocol/port variations on an allowed hostname', function() {
        var cors = corsModule({
            origins: [{
                host: 'some.site.example.com'
            }, {
                host: 'wildcard.*.example.com'
            }]
        });

        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('http://some.site.example.com')).to.be.true;
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('http://wildcard.any-thing.here.example.com')).to.be.true;
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('https://some.site.example.com')).to.be.true;
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('https://wildcard.any-thing.here.example.com')).to.be.true;
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('http://some.site.example.com:12345')).to.be.true;
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('http://wildcard.any-thing.here.example.com:12345')).to.be.true;
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('https://some.site.example.com:12345')).to.be.true;
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('https://wildcard.any-thing.here.example.com:12345')).to.be.true;
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('ms-appx-web://wildcard.whatever.here.example.com')).to.be.true;
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('ms-appx-web://some.site.example.com')).to.be.true;
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('ms-appx-web://wildcard.foo.bar.here.example.com:12345')).to.be.true;
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('ms-appx-web://some.site.example.com:54321')).to.be.true;
    });

    it('allows and ignores embedded username/passwords in an allowed hostname', function() {
        var cors = corsModule({
            origins: [{
                host: 'some.site.example.com'
            }, {
                host: 'wildcard.*.example.com'
            }]
        });
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('http://user:pass@some.site.example.com')).to.be.true;
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('http://user:pass@wildcard.any-thing.here.example.com')).to.be.true;
    });

    it('disallows disallowed hostnames', function() {
        var cors = corsModule({
            origins: [{
                host: 'some.site.example.com'
            }, {
                host: 'wildcard.*.example.com'
            }, {
                host: 'null'
            }]
        });

        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('http://subsite.some.site.example.com')).to.be.false; // Subdomain
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('http://site.example.com')).to.be.false; // Parent domain
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('http://subsite.some.site.example.com.tld')).to.be.false; // Strange suffix
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('http://wildcard-mismatch.example.com')).to.be.false; // Close, but not close enough
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('http://wildcard.?.example.com')).to.be.false; // Illegal char in wildcard
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('http://wildcard.my\nvalue.example.com')).to.be.false; // Linebreak in wildcard
    });

    it('allows null filesystem origins when null is specified', function() {
        // This whitelist allows any legal http/https hostname
        var cors = corsModule({
            origins: [{
                host: 'null'
            }]
        });

        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('null')).to.be.true; // Most browsers send this for filesystem origins
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('file://')).to.be.false; // Safari 5 send this for filesystem origins
    });

    it('allows only specific origins when * is specified', function() {
        // This whitelist allows any legal http/https hostname
        var cors = corsModule({
            origins: [{
                host: '*'
            }]
        });

        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('http://foo.com')).to.be.true;
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('https://bar.com')).to.be.true;
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('ms-appx-web://mysillyapp.com')).to.be.true; // iframe in Windows Modern Apps uses this
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('no.protocol.example.com')).to.be.false;
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('unknown://example.com')).to.be.false;
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('null')).to.be.false; // Most browsers send this for filesystem origins
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('file://')).to.be.false; // Safari 5 send this for filesystem origins
    });

    it('allows a trailing slash in an origin, but no other path', function() {
        // This whitelist allows any legal http/https hostname
        var cors = corsModule({
            origins: [{
                host: '*'
            }]
        });

        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('http://localhost/')).to.be.true;
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('https://localhost:12345/')).to.be.true;
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('http://localhost/path')).to.be.false;
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('https://localhost:12345/path?and=query')).to.be.false;
    });

    it('does not allow anything when whitelist is explicitly empty', function() {
        var cors = corsModule({
            origins: []
        });
        expect(cors.isAllowedOrigin('http://localhost')).to.be.false;
    });
});

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It's really interesting what parents are focusing on these days and educators are focusing on. Everyone is focusing on test scores and grades and how a kid is performing, as opposed to what we call mastery, what they're really learning and understanding. And the problem with this myopic focus on performance and grades is that you lose the big picture. What we really want are kids who can succeed in the twenty-first century. They need to know how to collaborate. They need to know how to be creative. They need to know how to think critically. Think outside the box. They need to be healthy and resilient. And they need to have integrity. And so with the focus only on grades, your forgetting about all these other really important things that you need to do for your kid. So your question shouldn't be, "Honey how'd you do on the History test?" It should be, "How was school today? What was exciting? What challenged you? How are your friends?" Anything besides the grades and the test scores. That's how we're going to end up focusing on the right things.


Nationwide Layoffs Modest in May - 24/7 Wall St.
Layoffs were moderate nationwide in May, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, which is known for tracking the trend. There were 31,517 layoffs this month. That number is down from 36,081 in April. One month does not make a trend, but it is still part of a national surge in jobs, which has sent joblessness to a rate of 3.9%.
So far this year, employers have announced 207,977 job cuts, 6.2 percent more than the 195,895 announced through the first five months of 2017.
Retail leads all sectors in job cuts this year, with 69,316, 4,946 of which occurred in May. Retailers have announced 24 percent more cuts than through the same period last year, when 55,910 cuts were announced. So far this year, Challenger has tracked 2,565 store closures.
Health Care/Products companies announced the second highest number of job cuts in May, with 4,003, for a total of 21,453 this year. Companies in the Services sector announced 19,363 cuts, with 4,698 in May.
No one should be surprised by the retail number as the brick-and-mortar segment of retail continues to fall apart and traditional retailers continue to close stores. Certainly, earnings from some of the largest retailers were bleak last quarter.
As late spring and summer progress, the Challenger number should be expected to range between 30,000 and 40,000, with retail layoffs continuing to lead the way. If the numbers go higher, there is good reason to worry that the jobs market may have turned for the worse.


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October 4, 2020 / by emptywheel
Andrew McCabe Delays Testimony to SJC, Calling In-Person Testimony a "Grave Safety Risk"
Virtually every book about the FBI or the Mueller investigation that has come out in recent years has described that Andrew McCabe is a superb briefer — meaning, in part, he can present complex issues to a hostile audience clearly. That's why the reason his attorney, Michael Bromwich, gave for delaying testimony that was scheduled makes a lot of sense.
As a letter Bromwich sent to Lindsey Graham laid out, McCabe agreed to a voluntary interview in September, provided a series of conditions were met. One — that McCabe have access to his unclassified calendars and notes — has already been thwarted by DOJ, which refused to turn them over (as Bromwich laid out in a letter to Michael Horowitz last week, after inventing reasons not to share the materials that might make McCabe's testimony more useful, FBI admitted they wouldn't turn them over because of McCabe's lawsuit against the Bureau).
But another of the conditions was that the testimony be in person. Bromwich noted that Republicans spoke over both Sally Yates and Jim Comey when they earlier testified remotely. "[A] witness answering questions remotely via videoconference is at a distinct disadvantage in answering those questions," Bromwich wrote. "A fair and appropriate hearing of this kind – which is complex and contentious – simply cannot be conducted other than in person."
But the COVID outbreak among those who attended the Federalist Society super-spreader event last weekend has made such in-person testimony too dangerous.
Mr. McCabe was still prepared to testify voluntarily and in person on October 6 as recently as the latter part of this past week. However, since that time, it has been reported that at least two members of your Committee – Senators Mike Lee and Thom Tillis – have tested positive for Covid-19, and it may well be that other members of the Committee and staff who plan to attend the hearing will test positive between now and then, or may have been exposed to the virus and may be a carrier. Under these circumstances, an in-person hearing carries grave safety risks to Mr. McCabe, me, and senators and staff who would attend.
McCabe is not wrong. There's abundant reason to distrust Lindsey Graham's claimed negative test. Mike Lee was haranguing publicly at several public events last week before he was diagnosed. And Chuck Grassley (who has far more mask discipline than his colleagues, but who was unmasked for part of the Comey hearing last week) refuses to be tested.
Still, it's crazy that SJC has become too dangerous for a regular oversight hearing, but Lindsey still plans to push on with the Supreme Court confirmation process that caused that COVID outbreak.
Copyright © 2020 emptywheel. All rights reserved.
Originally Posted @ https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/10/04/andrew-mccabe-delays-testimony-to-sjc-calling-in-person-testimony-a-grave-safety-risk/


From a rankings perspective, a victory would be the second-biggest win in South Carolina's football history. The Gamecocks beat then-No. 1 Alabama 35-21 on Oct. 9, 2010. South Carolina has never beaten a second-ranked team.
The Gamecocks would be eliminated from the SEC East race with a loss. If they beat the Bulldogs and beat Florida on Nov. 11 and Georgia loses to either No. 16 Auburn or Kentucky in the coming weeks.
The Bulldogs are the first ranked opponent South Carolina has played this season. The Gamecocks' four SEC wins have come against teams with a combined 1-18 conference record. South Carolina was 1-4 against ranked opponents in Muschamp's first season as head coach.


COMPLETE pending punch list. New construction craftsman style home conveniently located in J-town! This home features an open floor plan w/ 4 bedrooms, 2-1/2 baths. Living room has vaulted ceiling & fireplace. Kitchen has an abundance of cabinetry plus a huge island! The pocket office is conveniently located off the kitchen. 1st floor master suite w/ dbl bowl vanity, tiled shower, & large walk-in closet. Upstairs offers 3 large bedrooms, a loft area & a full bath. You'll love the finish level which includes quartz in the kitchen, laminate flooring in main areas, shiplap, & more. Need even more space? The basement has a rough in for a future full bath & can be finished out! Neighborhood features pond and walking trail!
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In some of the classes I teach every semester, we begin the term by studying indigenous religions. That somewhat unwieldy term really just means "native," and is used as a handy (if not entirely satisfactory) label for the broad category of traditional religious or spiritual paths practiced by localized, relatively small-scale, often tribal cultures around the globe: Native American, traditional African, Australian aboriginal, Inuit (Eskimo), and many others.
Each of these quite diverse forms of religion grew up in isolation from each other, and each of them is actually a broad subcategory masking an immense amount of even greater diversity (there are actually many different kinds of Native American religions, many different African traditional religions, etc.).
Nevertheless, there are also a number of common themes and elements which many of them seem to share with each other (which in itself is rather remarkable and interesting, if you think about it, given their independent origins and development in parts of the world quite distant from each other).
We often start the semester by studying some of these characteristic features shared in common by so many otherwise seemingly unrelated indigenous religions.
Students learn about animism (the belief that everything in nature — even seemingly "inanimate" objects — is in some sense alive, often possessing an indwelling spirit of its own), polytheism (the belief in multiple gods, often constituting a pantheon of deities, each in charge of various aspects of nature or natural forces), ancestor veneration (or "ancestor worship," essential for keeping the potentially troublesome spirits of the deceased at peace), rites of passage (ceremonies marking entry into important new phases of an individual's life cycle), and various other key elements frequently featured among indigenous religions worldwide.
I suspect that sometimes, some students may start thinking: well, this is all very interesting, and perhaps good to know; but how, if at all, does any of it relate to me?
They may begin to wonder: what, if anything, do any of these common features of such frankly strange and faraway "indigenous religions" have to do with, say, my own religion?
So, in class, I often try to make some interesting (if not downright tantalizing) "interfaith" connections for them. I attempt to point out some occasionally rather striking similarities that seem to exist between some of the unfamiliar indigenous religions which we're currently studying, and some other religions which may be much more personally familiar to them.
Certain prominent features found among representative religions of some rather remote and rather alien indigenous cultures, it turns out, actually have some pretty notable parallels which can be found (if you look for them) within certain equally prominent features of some of the world's largest and most popular religions — including some which happen to be among the predominant faiths within our own modern Western culture.
Some of these areas of seeming overlap between such initially strange-seeming indigenous religions on the one hand, and several major world religions (which some students in my classes may personally belong to) might be the sorts of things which many newcomers to the study of religion might not necessarily notice right away, or think of on their own.
However, once pointed out, they can be quite eye-opening — and can also underscore the possibility that, in at least some ways, our own religious sensibilities and those found among many indigenous cultures may not be so very different after all (let alone literally "worlds apart").


Joining John as special guest at all shows is Kentucky singer/songwriter Tyler Childers, who released his breakout debut Purgatory in 2017 and recently played Chicago's Lollapalooza festival and supported Jack White in Minneapolis. Steeped in the sounds of the Appalachian South, Childers' debut is bluegrass-infused, semi-autobiographical tracks co-produced by Grammy winners Sturgill Simpson and David Ferguson. Says Rolling Stone of tracks such as 'Whitehouse Road', Childers' music sounds like, "A raw look at the darker regions of modern-day Appalachia, where bluegrass is in the soul, but cocaine is in the blood." Watch his NPR Tiny Desk concert here.


This is a template for a future compatibility guide to running Linux with the HP Mini 1104 laptop. If you have the HP Mini 1104 and are running Linux on it please consider editing this page or adding a comment below with your compatibility details. By contributing you will help other people running this laptop or trying to make a decision on whether to buy it or not.
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Me encanta Linux, este dispositivo en relación con linux tiene algunos problemas de Wifi lento y Video, espero que muy pronto pudiesen arreglar estos fallos, ya que la hp mini 1104, la utilizo para trabajo cotidiano.


I think we can all agree that JMU's campus is absolutely beautiful. But incase you're looking for evidence, here are some photos we found on Instagram that capture the special atmosphere of our school.
Just in case you missed him at Saturday's game, here's our #mcm showing off his school spirit.
Glad #JMU won their game yesterday! #godukes! // Here's a shot from when I got field access during parent's weekend last year.
For more photos of campus life, check out JMU on Instagram @jamesmadisonuniversity and share your photos using #JMU!


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Discussion Topic: Youth Marine Leader Suspended Over Mock Drill Rifles
By Dave Hurteau
From the Denver Post:
_Marie Morrow is likely to find out today whether she will be expelled from school for having fake rifles used as props in a youth marine group on school grounds.
_The 17-year-old Cherokee Trail High School senior was suspended Feb. 5 after other students saw the props in her vehicle and notified school officials. . . .
_"I can't even believe it," Morrow said Thursday. "They could have said, 'Slap on the wrist, no, no, don't do it again.'
_"I acknowledged I made a mistake, but I didn't know I was breaking any laws."
Colorado has a "zero-tolerance" law when it comes to guns on school campuses, and even a facsimile of a gun or rifle that looks real is considered a dangerous weapon.
And this update from the _Marine Corps Times:
A 17-year-old drill team commander for the Young Marines will be allowed to return to school next week after she was barred from classes for having the team's mock rifles in her SUV in the school parking lot. . . . __
_"This has been a tiring experience," Morrow said. "I'm glad to go back and be a regular kid."
Check out both articles and tell us your reaction.


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Maximilian Mizerski
@maximilian2000
An all-American MUTT.
All those twitter users talking about avoiding the draft are all cowards. It really shows the true colors of leftists. They entirely lack any masculine virtues.
BLEECHED.
I've never heard any black person make a distinction between "he be workin" and "he workin" say those interchangeably. For example, "so you be sayin we wuz kangz n sheit?"
In Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson, there's a time when Steve Jobs talks to this very prominent abstract artist who told Jobs that sometimes, he just splashes a bunch of lines on a canvas without thinking about it and sells it at the same price he would his other art. If I were to put my mind into the body of a popular abstract artist, and I did something silly like draw a weird face on a basketball, I would be able to sell it for over $100,000 myself. I think rich people just buy this stuff because it makes them fell superior, that they can just burn massive amounts of money on really stupid things. https://youtu.be/ANA8SI_KvqI
This guy made a statue of a middle finger that was displayed in a high traffic area in Milan. A lot of people passing by who say that must've felt very unpleasant. That middle finger statue and his work of Pope John Paul II, the man who made Catholics around the world wake up about communism, being struck by a meteor (killed) shows that he has no respect for anything, and I would imagine that his lack of respect extends to all of the beautiful art before him. He can't appreciate the massive amount of passion that went into making art in the past that is the source of beauty of past art. He's simply a degenerate making work with the value of fecal matter.
This is one of the few games I'm actually going to buy.
You have to remember that almost all of those people punished that way were some of the worst human beings who ever lived; just absolute psychopaths.
9:00 But the Chinese are still exploiting us. Anybody with a strong conscience wouldn't contribute to such a thing.
They will always vote Democrat, because a black person will be shunned by most blacks if it is found out that he had voted Republican. Also, blacks tend to really hate law enforcement, even if they don't commit any crime, because law enforcement results in blacks going to prison, never mind the fact that most of those people who go to prison are sociopaths, but blacks don't put that into consideration. Also, most blacks really love welfare, and the majority of them are currently on welfare, not that they are dependent on it, it just makes life more convenient for them in the short term, and they don't tend to be nearly as interested in investing into the future like people of virtually any other race. They don't care if the welfare state will eventually result in this nation being in ruins.
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A Cautious Look at Big Data
Brett Stupakevich
Big data can provide companies with powerful insights about everything from customer behaviors and preferences to new product opportunities.
Big data can provide companies with powerful insights about everything from customer behaviors and preferences to new product opportunities. As cited in a recent article featured in MIT's Technology Review, big data is used by companies such as Netflix to predict customer behavior, recommend products and deliver social media ads. But as the Technology Review article also mentions, big data can "have dangerous results."
For instance, a new paper cited by Technology Review, entitled "Six Provocations for Big Data," presented at a recent Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society, lists some of the reasons that businesses and other organizations should take a cautious approach to using big data. While consumer privacy issues are among the most evident issues decision makers should concern themselves with, big data can also provide organizations with distorted or incomplete views of customer and market trends.
Kate Crawford, an associate professor at the University of New South Wales, who co-authored the "Six Provocations" paper with Microsoft senior researcher Danah Boyd, writes that big data doesn't always offer accurate predictions about people's behaviors. This is partly true when organizations over rely on information about people's behaviors as expressed in social channels such as Facebook or Twitter.
Part of the problem here is that comments that people post in social media don't provide companies with complete views of their behaviors, attitudes, or preferences, Crawford tells Technology Review. Says Crawford, "Facebook is not the world." Nor is Twitter. Research that Crawford and Boyd conducted reveals that while tweets are commonly analyzed by companies to understand and act on people's moods and attitudes about politics and other aspects of life, roughly 40% of people who sign onto Twitter do so only to listen and not to post. This suggests that posts come from certain types of people and don't represent a more random sample, according to Crawford and Boyd.
Leveraging a Wider Range of Data Sets
Companies can benefit greatly from the use of big data, analytics, and predictive algorithms to help predict future customer behavior and to spot other business trends. However, as Crawford notes, data that's shared by people in social media doesn't provide companies with complete views of their customers. Indeed, companies can benefit from a wider range of data sets that's available to them by analyzing data that customers share through the multiple channels they use to interact with companies, including recorded contact center calls, email, online and mobile. But companies shouldn't stop there. A growing number of companies are beginning to blend insights from customer interaction data along with transactional and operational information.
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I would want a narrower spacing between the table rows and more spacing/padding from the table border itself like:

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When I do:
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The whole rows and the padding from the border increases. I want the padding between rows much narrower than the padding from the table borders. In other words I would want the outer padding increase, not the inner rows padding.

A: Is this what you want?
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Guardian Angel-4 Out of the Frying Pan, part 3 of 3
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Jill continued. "In this world, I would imagine the Arabs, not the Swedes, are exploring and settling the New World."
"About twelfth century, do you think?" Ethan suggested as he carefully considered his surroundings. "About five hundred years less advanced than your Earth." He spoke to Lars. "No knowledge of gunpowder." Lars nodded but kept his mouth closed as he looked around.
"Fifteenth century since the Hadj," Ali Pasha said, clearly not following the conversation.
"Now, don't jump to any conclusions," Jill interjected. "To begin with, advanced is such a subjective term. It is not really useful for establishing parallel dates. Second, I know of at least one group of European explorers who only brought enough technology, like bows and arrows, to be equivalent to the Natives Americans they faced to not scare them off. They hoped to establish an equal and friendly relationship."
"Oh?" Ethan looked in her eyes. "And how did that turn out?"
"Many scalps taken," Jill said and giggled and covered her mouth as if she just said a swear word.
"Only a quarter Cherokee?" Ethan asked. Jill nodded, and Lars caught up with the information and guffawed.
"Waiting, waiting, waiting! Everybody, please be waiting in speaking." Ali Pasha interrupted them all, even as the women came back with trays of food and musical instruments of several kinds. A couple of eunuchs brought the drink, which at least in this Islamic world was none-the-less alcoholic, no doubt, because the water could not be trusted, and one man also brought a head covering for Jill which sported a thick veil.
"Eat. Quieting. I am thinking.' Ali Pasha pointed to the food. He looked pensive, not upset, but like a man who was trying to digest too much all at once.
Jill did not fight the head covering, but immediately lowered the veil and tried some of the food. Ethan decided it must be all right, and Lars, especially, ate his share. Two women in a corner of the big tent strummed quietly on mandolins. A third woman blew softly on a flute in a rather European, almost Gallic kind of tune, and Ethan thought it was much nicer than the background music he was used to at his fast food hangout. The food was better too; not that he was surprised.
Ali Pasha spoke at last when he looked like his head was going to explode. "How is it Englanders and Sveedish come to this place? Is there many houses, cities inland we do not know? You say you coming from another world. But did you not spring from trees and scare my men?"
"No." Jill spoke while Lars and Ethan filled their mouths with food. "We came from another earth, not a new part of this world, but a different world altogether." She proceeded to go into a rather detailed explanation and repeated herself a couple of times when Ali Pasha and Lars had questions.
"Most daily decisions mean nothing. Most incidents echo across many worlds. The differences blend in and the mystery of life goes on," she said. "It takes a major change, and often a series of changes to establish a new world-line, and even then they often run in parallel where they can for centuries—you know, like the same people falling in love and having the same children and so on." She glanced at Ethan as she talked about children and the look in her eyes almost stopped his heart.
"Like if Alexander the Great got assassinated along with his father, that might have changed things." Ethan suggested, out of a need to change the direction of his thinking.
Jill nodded slowly. "Like the Christ was born in my world, but I am sorry. I do not know if Mohammed was ever born."
"No!" Ethan and Ali Pasha spoke together.
Jill nodded. "We don't know any world where the Christ did not minister. Not my subject, but I understand it has made for some interesting theological discussions in some circles. But then, we don't know anyone who traveled between worlds that early, except maybe one world."
" But this is the world!" Ali Pasha insisted. He called to the eunuchs and had them bring both a map and a table. "This is the world," he repeated as he got up from his seat for a closer look at the map and dismissed the female musicians. Shortly, just the four of them plus Manomar were looking over the medieval looking parchment. Lars said he liked the drawings of the dragons in the sea. Ethan was glad that this time he did not have to ask for a map. "This is the real world, even if not the only world." Ali Pasha was getting it, but slowly.
Ethan let his finger trace the lines. "I would guess Charles Martel lost at Tours." He said.
"He did, or it was a tie." Lars nodded. "But his grandson made Aquataine and Iberia subject states, and Christianized them."
"But not in this world." Ethan countered. "Here, the Arabs and Moors went on to swallow up the territory of the old Roman Empire, including England." Ali Pasha nodded. "I can't tell about Ireland." Ethan squinted.
"Allah's curse." Ali Pasha said. "No one can rule those barbarian infidels."
Jill tugged on Ethan's sleeve. "Did I mention I was a quarter Irish?"
"I suspected by your good right arm." Ethan said. He stuck his chin out in a dare.
Jill responded by making a fist and putting it up to his face. "And don't you forget it." She grinned, as did he.
"Newlyweds." Lars nudged the Arab who got a big smile of understanding.
"Mister and Missus Hill." Ethan spoke quickly.
"Lucas." Jill corrected him just as quickly.
"My name is not Lucas." Ethan responded.
"So you want me to be Jill Hill?"
"Jill Lucas-Hill would work." She shook her head. "How about Hill-Lucas?" He tried again. "Hill would work with Jillian."
"When did you turn into a grunt?" Jill asked.
"Hey!" Ethan got a little sharp. "This marriage wasn't my idea."
"Fine! Then we'll call it off."
"Not in a million years," he said softly as she stuck her fist in his face again and grinned.
"Okay." She did not seem to mind the arrangement, and from the look in her eye, Ethan was led to hope that he was in way over his head.
"Definitely marriaged." Ali Pasha sighed. "I have three just as stubborn, but rest are nice."
"Ya. My Angelica has a mind of her own, but my Kirstie helps her Papa. Do you have children?"
"Twenty-one," Ali Pasha admitted.
Lars whistled. "You must be a very rich man."
Ali Pasha shook his head. "But a scholar must appear right."
"Appearance." Jill underlined the word and nudged Ethan
"The map." Ethan interrupted them all and brought them back to task. "I imagine the Turks took Vienna early on." Ali Pasha nodded again. After that, it was easy to see where the Moslems swallowed the world including several Mogul states in India and the descendants of the Khans in China, but they had all been converted to the Prophet.
"Where are the Lutherans?" Lars asked. He furrowed his brow, but Ali Pasha did not know the word.
"Christians," Jill suggested.
"There are Christians in many places," Ali Pasha responded with a wave of his hand across the map. "And many of them are not slaves. They have their own places apart for living."
"The ghettoization of Christendom." Jill named it.
"They do money well." Ali Pasha nodded. "Helping this expedition, example."
"And Jews?" Ethan had to wonder.
Ali Pasha looked serious. "I am thinking there are some few in Palestine. Simple peasants for sheep herding, I am thinking."
"Face it gentlemen. This is a Moslem world." Jill concluded.
"And five hundred years behind," Lars said proudly, as if to suggest that the Moslem way was inferior.
Jill looked like she wanted to say something sharp, but held her tongue. When she finally spoke, Ethan figured it was a very edited comment. "Let us just say, given the level of technology, this is not a place where you would want to be stranded."
"I agree." Ethan encouraged her. "So now that there is light to see what you are typing, what say we move on?"
"No!" Ali Pasha interrupted with volume and a great waving of his hands. "I am not believing, but not disbelieving. Please. I am an inquirist. I come to this New World to study stars and natural things."
"Shaman?" Ethan wondered.
"Shh. Scientist, I think," Jill said as Ali Pasha went babbling on.
"I am thinking disappointed because stars here are as home, and grass and trees are as grass and trees, but now you tell me about worlds and I know nothing. Please. Of one I do believing, that you are knowing much I do not know. These things I must be knowing also."
Jill patted the man's distraught hand. "I was about to say we can't go anywhere until the transitional unit has time to recharge. Would you mind if we stayed a couple of days? We would hate to impose on your hospitality."
"Manomar! Oh, you are being here already. Make for my womans friend and lucky man a tent, and for the big one, Mister Lars, make two tents." He added some words in his native tongue, clapped his hands several times and gave more orders as people and faces appeared. There was a lot of excitement in the camp after that, but Ethan felt an excitement all his own at the prospect of getting Missus Lucas-Hill-Lucas all alone.
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package me.trifunovic.spaceassault.game.enemies;

import me.trifunovic.spaceassault.game.GameActivity;

import org.anddev.andengine.engine.Engine;
import org.anddev.andengine.entity.shape.IShape;
import org.anddev.andengine.entity.shape.modifier.IShapeModifier;
import org.anddev.andengine.entity.shape.modifier.IShapeModifier.IShapeModifierListener;
import org.anddev.andengine.entity.shape.modifier.LoopModifier;
import org.anddev.andengine.entity.shape.modifier.PathModifier;
import org.anddev.andengine.entity.shape.modifier.PathModifier.IPathModifierListener;
import org.anddev.andengine.entity.shape.modifier.ScaleModifier;
import org.anddev.andengine.entity.shape.modifier.SequenceModifier;
import org.anddev.andengine.entity.shape.modifier.ease.EaseSineInOut;
import org.anddev.andengine.entity.sprite.AnimatedSprite;
import org.anddev.andengine.opengl.texture.region.TiledTextureRegion;
import org.anddev.andengine.util.Path;

public class EnemyShip2 extends AnimatedSprite implements IEnemy {

	private final Engine mEngine;
	private boolean killed;
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	private static int health = 2;

	public EnemyShip2(float pX, float pY, TiledTextureRegion pTiledTextureRegion, final Engine engine) {
		super(pX, pY, pTiledTextureRegion);
		mEngine = engine;
		killed=false;
		health = 2;
		GameActivity.enemies2.add(this);
		this.animate(GameActivity.ANIMATION_FRAMELENGTH);
	}

	public int getHealth(){
		return health;
	}

	public int hit(){
		health = health - 1;
		return health;
	}

	public boolean isKilled(){
		return killed;
	}

	public static EnemyShip2 reuse() {
		final EnemyShip2 enemy = GameActivity.enemiesToReuse2.get(0);
		enemy.killed = false;
		health = 2;
		GameActivity.enemies2.add(enemy);
		GameActivity.enemiesToReuse2.remove(enemy);
		return enemy;
	}

	public void addToScene() {
		mEngine.getScene().getBottomLayer().addEntity(this);
	}

	public void removeFromScene() {
		killed=true;
		this.clearShapeModifiers();
		this.addShapeModifier(new SequenceModifier(
				new IShapeModifierListener() {
					@Override
					public void onModifierFinished(
							IShapeModifier pShapeModifier, final IShape enemy) {
						mEngine.runOnUpdateThread(new Runnable() {
							public void run() {
								mEngine.getScene().getBottomLayer().removeEntity(((EnemyShip2) enemy));
								GameActivity.enemiesToReuse2.add(0,(EnemyShip2) enemy);
								GameActivity.enemies2.remove((EnemyShip2) enemy);
								((EnemyShip2) enemy).setScale(1);
							}
						});
					}
				}, new ScaleModifier(0.3f, 1, 0)));
	}

	public void folow(Path path, float speed) {
		this.addShapeModifier(new LoopModifier(new PathModifier(speed, path,
				null, new IPathModifierListener() {
					@Override
					public void onWaypointPassed(
							final PathModifier pPathModifier,
							final IShape pShape, final int pWaypointIndex) {
						if (pWaypointIndex == 6) {
							mEngine.runOnUpdateThread(new Runnable() {
								public void run() {
									((EnemyShip2) pShape).removeFromScene();
								}
							});
						}

						if (pWaypointIndex != 0 && pWaypointIndex != 6)
							((EnemyShip2) pShape).fire();
					}
				}, EaseSineInOut.getInstance())));
	}

	public void fire() {
		if(GameActivity.options.getSoundEffects()==true)
			GameActivity.shotSound.play();
		if (GameActivity.enemyBulletsToReuse.isEmpty()) {
			final EnemyBullet metak = new EnemyBullet(this.getX() + 10,
					this.getY() + 30, GameActivity.mEnemyBulletTextureRegion,
					mEngine);
			metak.addToScene();
		} else {
			final EnemyBullet metak = EnemyBullet.reuse(this.getX() + 10,
					this.getY() + 30);
			metak.addToScene();
		}
	}

}


YouTube – My Generation live in Lyon, Feb 15 2007.
In late 2006, I sold my Mexican Fender Starburst Jazz Bass to an artist in New York. He didn't care that I didn't have an amp for him to test it on, and told me he needed it for an art installation in Lyon about the Who. He neglected to mention that the bass would be destroyed– he must not have known that I'd have given him a discount for that.
Incidentally, the artist, Christoph Draeger, created a series of works about disasters like plane crashes. One of his works features a plane crash that happened in the early 60s about a block from my apartment, where he bought the bass from me.