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Top 10 Android Phones Below 10000 RS 250$
Phone 1 :
Spice Mi-310: Price: Rs 8,999 or $186.838
Tech Specs: Equipped with Android 2.2 OS, the phone has a 3.1-inch capacitive HVGA touch screen. It sports a 2 megapixel camera and also has the push e-mail feature. The phone offers memory card support capacity up to 16 GB.
Phone 2:
Micromax Andro A60: Price: Rs 6,999 or 145$
Tech Specs: The phone runs Android 2.1 OS and features a 3.2 megapixel camera. Measuring a 2.8-inch touch screen, the phone has 150MB of internal memory and supports up to 32GB external memory card. It has a 600 MHz processor.
Samsung Galaxy Pop S5570: Price: Rs 7,900 or 164$
Tech Specs: Featuring a 3.14-inch capacitive touch screen, the phone runs Android 2.2 OS. It has a 3 megapixel auto focus camera with 3x digital zoom. The phone is powered by a 600 MHz processor. It has 164 MB of internal memory that is expandable up to 32GB.
Huawei IDEOS Chat U8300: Price: Rs 8,199 or 170$
Tech Specs: The phone runs Android 2.1 OS and is powered by a Qualcomm 800MHz processor. Sporting a 2.6-inch touch screen display, this QWERTY phone has a 3.2 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom. Its memory can be extended up to 16 GB using a microSD card.
Sony Ericsson W8: Price: Rs 9,600 or 199$
Tech Specs: Sony Ericsson W8 is a Walkman phone that runs Android 2.1 OS. Powered by a 600 MHz Qualcomm, the phone features a 3-inch capacitive touch screen display. It has a 3.2 megapixel camera. The phone's memory can be extended up to 16GB.
LG Optimus Me P350: Price: Rs 8,399 or 174$
Tech Specs: The phone has a 2.8-inch touch screen display and runs Android 2.2 OS. Sporting a 3 megapixel camera with 2x digital zoom, the phone has 155 MB of internal memory, expandable up to 32GB using a microSD card.
Micromax A70: Price: Rs 8,000 or 166$
Tech Specs: This 3G enabled phone comes engineered with Android 2.2 OS and has a 3.2-inch capacitive touch screen. Powered by a 600MHz processor, the phone features two cameras - a 5 megapixel rear camera and a 0.3 megapixel front camera. It also has a microSD card slot to expand memory up to 32GB.
Spice Mi-270: Price: Rs 6,499 or 134$
Tech Specs: It is a dual SIM phone that runs Android 2.2 OS and is powered by a 600 MHz processor. Sporting a 2 megapixel camera, the phone features a 2.8 inch touch screen display. Its memory is expandable up to 16GB.
Samsung Galaxy Fit S5670: Price: Rs 9,900 or 205$
Tech Specs: The phone has a 3.31-inch TFT touch screen and runs Android 2.2 OS. Sporting a 5MP camera with 3x digital zoom, the phone has 160MB of internal memory, which is expandable up to 32GB.
Phone 10:
Karbonn A1: Price: Rs 6,999 or 145$
Tech Specs: This is the first Android phone from Karbonn. The phone comes with a 2.8-inch touch screen and is based on Android 2.2 OS. Powered by a 600MHz processor, the phone has a 3.2 megapixel camera and expandable memory up to 32GB.
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Ravikantbpl September 23, 2011 at 1:02 AM
SABHI KI NAJAR SONY ERRECSON PAR HI TIKEGI.... BUT I LOVE NOKIA....
Tower December 20, 2011 at 2:07 PM
Nokia is the most reliable cell phone for me. No matter how hard it is in use, i love it so much.
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Nokia has been the number mobile phone company in the world and the rest follows. However, with the recent advancement of technology, Nokia failed to penetrate the market with their latest mobile phones. There are Samsung, HTC, Apply and Blackberry that are ready to compete with each other. Nokia should get another platform instead of staying loyal to Symbian OS.
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Oct 5, 2018 - Energy & Environment
Saudi crown prince insists the Aramco IPO is still alive
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Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Photo by Nicolas Asfouri/Getty Images.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said delayed IPO plans for state oil giant Aramco will go forward in late 2020 or early 2021, according to a new interview with Bloomberg.
Why it matters: The massive listing — initially slated for late 2018 — is designed to raise tens of billions of dollars to fund the kingdom's economic diversification plans. But it's been repeatedly pushed back, and a few weeks ago looked dead, or at least in a deep freeze.
"Everyone heard about the rumors of Saudi Arabia canceling the IPO of Aramco, delaying that, and that this is delaying Vision 2030," bin Salman told Bloomberg. "This is not right."
Yes, but: There's reason for skepticism, as this isn't the first time the Saudis have brushed off reports of IPO delays, or if they have enough appetite for the type of transparency that would come with an Aramco IPO.
And there's still the challenge of meeting bin Salman's hoped-for $2 trillion valuation, which several analysts doubt. Saudi officials also have not made key decisions, such as the stock exchange or exchanges on which Aramco shares would be listed.
The bottom line: MBS said the multi-year delay stems from plans to first have Aramco obtain a controlling stake in Sabic, the kingdom's petrochemicals giant. According to Bloomberg, he said that after the Sabic deal is done in 2019, a year will be needed before the IPO.

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Benchmade 755 MPR (Mini Pocket Rocket!) M390, Wicked Edge .5 Micron @ 23 degrees.
The 755 MPR is a mini bulldog. I really believe it could cut through ductwork.
Nice black on black, to bad the lock is silver. A MiniGrip 555(HG) was my first good knife, carried it a few years, I've also gifted mini-grip's to some of my friends.
For some reason all the sudden I was to get a PM2 (tho not bad enough to sell anything else) which is weird cause I used to hate them.
When I'm done, I'll just have to lift the lid and I'll be able to choose any knife I want to carry.
No more rummaging through boxes and drawers, which is why I've been carrying the same knife for over a year.
Wow man nice collection, I especially like that little 480-1 Shoki! Pretty rare blade now days. I spent a few months searching for one including asking my contact at BM, he was able to find me one NIB at a dealer but the place wanted so much for it I passed and bought my sebbi instead.
I can't believe you spotted the Shoki. Not for everyone.
I didn't know they were out of production. It was going to be tomorrow's carry. I got more to choose from.
Yep, absolutely beautiful little blade and can't complain about the materials either. I like the Paul lock BM on the right too, what's it?
Benchmade bought LoneWolf knives and made one run of the PAUL Axials, and discontinued the line.
The one on the right is a BM 235 PAUL Axial. Under the LoneWolf brand, they had names.
Spyderco Sage CF Plain, CPF-S30V, Wicked Edge .25 micron @ 18 degrees. She is sharp, passing HHT-3 of the hair hanging test with flying colors!
Ouchyfoot, you have a wonderful collection.
Just this for me today.
This flat and small sized EDC lives in my shoulder pocket.
The curved blade excels in opening packages.
...and no, you don't have to be a sailor or a commercial fisherman to carry one of these.
I mostly carry it at my northern cottage, and it would be especially handy in rural environs. I have several. You can get this type of knife for as low as $10 (not this one). The wharncliff blade is great for cutting rope, water pump hosing, pruning etc. And I do use that slot for loosening shackles.
But the best part is the marlin spike. Designed for loosening knots and mending nets, it does more than that. Poking, shimming, digging, gouging, just what we all need. How often have you messed up a blade because you needed to pry something and the proper tool wasn't at hand. This spike is indestructible. The perfect tool.
The blade and the marlin spike both have their own seperate frame locks.
I've had my eye on that Vallotton since it was released. Just never pulled the trigger.
I guess I should do something before it gets discontinued.
Bunch of gorgeous blades in this thread…..
I have been looking at knives since the start of this thread, I hate you all!
Today was a Strider clone day. Looks exactly like a Strider, right down to the Bos heat treated flame logo. Cost less than $17. Seen here hanging out with my Texas Poker.
Very nice, I'll have to get one sooner or later and definitely not at Strider prices.
This is my only Kershaw knife.
Hmmm. I'm trying to decide on tomorrow's carry, but I can't figure out which is the real DPX H.E.S.T., and which is the $10 chinese knockoff DPX.
I wonder if that Masonic symbol inlaid into the grip is a clue?
...or the lack of a massive slab of titanium?
I sure hope I get this figured out.
The Vantage has left my pocket!
Hmmm. I'm trying to decide on tomorrow's carry, but I can't figure out which is the real DPX H.E.S.T., and which is the $10 chinese knockoff DPX.
…or the lack of a massive slab of titanium?
Funny you posted that today, just last night I was thinking about how I haven't bought a knife in 2014 and a person owes me some money and I was thinking about getting a HEST when they pay me. I'm gonna try to find me a mill spec with Sleipner (but when I looked at them last [months ago] the mill spec was hard to find then.
Lots of great looking knives on here. I nearly always carry this SRM-733. Since I frequently tend to misplace things, I keep it attached to my light and the size makes it more difficult to misplace. And if I do lose it, I'm only out $10 or so.
This knife is affectionately known as the "poor mans sebenza", although it is neither budget or affordable by a "poor man"
Released by the Bradley Cutlery Co. as an alternative when sebenza production was sparse and sporadic.


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Captain Marvel 2 needs new directors
23rd January 2020 | by Simon Brew | Comments
Marvel is seeking to bring Captain Marvel 2 to the screen in 2022, but a change of directors is required.
Development continues on the sequel to the hugely successful Captain Marvel, but there's been a shuffle of personnel on the project.
The first film was co-written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, and now we hear that they won't be back for the second. They had been set to direct again, but now won't be doing so. There's been no massive falling out though, and they're still involved with a possible spin-off series for the Disney+ streaming platform.
Furthermore, Megan McDonnell has now been hired too to write the script for Captain Marvel 2.
Brie Larson will of course reprise the title role in the new movie. Marvel is now on the hunt for a female director to take the helm, and the plan is to have the movie in cinemas ideally in 2022.
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Saudi beheads man for murder
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Saudi Arabia beheaded a man Thursday for murdering a fellow tribesman, the interior ministry said, the latest in dozens of executions this year that have alarmed rights campaigners. Hadi bin Rashid al-Dosari, a Saudi national, was convicted of stabbing to death a fellow tribesman following a dispute, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
The beheading in the eastern town of Al-Ihsa raises to 62 the number of death sentences carried out in the kingdom this year, despite international concern.
A United Nations independent expert called in September for an immediate moratorium on the death penalty in Saudi Arabia.
Christof Heyns, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said trials "are by all accounts grossly unfair" and defendants are often not allowed a lawyer. He said confessions were obtained under torture. Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia's strict version of sharia law. SAPA


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D.C. Politics
House Republicans take unprecedented step to upend local D.C. law
Marchers walk up Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol to support statehood for the District of Columbia on April 15, 2016, in Washington, D.C. Amid a new push for statehood, D.C. confronts a wall of opposition in Republican-led Congress. (Aaron Davis/TWP)
By Aaron C. Davis
Aaron C. Davis
A divided House of Representatives dealt a blow to the District's attempt at self-government Wednesday by voting to nullify a D.C. ballot measure that allowed the city to spend local tax dollars without congressional approval.
The House voted 240 to 179 to strike down the 2013 ballot measure, saying the District overstepped its legal authority — and the U.S. Constitution — by trying to excise Congress from the city's budget process.
Two Democrats, Reps. Jim Costa (Calif.) and Brad Ashford (Neb.), sided with Republicans to pass the bill, which also forbids the city to take any future action that alters its relationship with Congress. President Obama has threatened to veto the bill.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) said the bill was needed because "the D.C. government is running fast and loose with the Constitution," which grants Congress authority over the nation's capital. "The current D.C. government needs to be reined in," Ryan wrote in a statement. "We will not allow Congress and the Constitution to be undermined."
The vote brought months of simmering tensions between District leaders and Congress's Republican majority to a boil on the House floor — and brought relations between Congress and its host city to perhaps their lowest point in recent years.
The District's nonvoting House member, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, led Democrats in blasting Republicans as "despots" and "hypocrites" and accused them of running the nation's capital as a "plantation" where 700,000 residents live without the power to decide their own matters.
At issue is a ballot measure — approved overwhelmingly by D.C. voters — that said the city has a right to spend its own tax dollars as it wishes, much the way the 50 states do.
The measure, which had the backing of a D.C. Superior Court judge, allowed the District to spend its $13 billion budget — comprised mostly of local revenue — without first submitting it to Congress as part of the federal budget.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led the floor fight for the bill and said it was rooted in the Constitution.
In an interview, he advised Democrats in the District and elsewhere agitating for statehood to attach the city's residential neighborhoods to Maryland if they want the same rights as a state.
"D.C. is not a state," he said. "And statehood is not going to happen on my watch."
One after another, Republicans cited the specific article, section and clause of the Constitution that grants Congress "exclusive authority" over the workings of the federal district.
No, D.C. doesn't live off of federal funds, and no, it's not necessarily Congress's job to manage our budget. Washingtonian staff writer Benjamin R. Freed dispels some misconceptions about control over the District. (Adriana Usero/The Washington Post)
But Democrats pushed back, saying that times change and Congress needs to adapt to the fact that a district carved from swampland with few residents is now a major metropolis.
"The same Constitution protected slavery and said certain people of color were worth three-fifths . . . ," said Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.). "Same Constitution. But we changed it. . . . The fact that you exercise your will over an entire city just because you can does not make it right or noble. In fact, if we follow the logic of my friends of the other side, why not take over? Let's do rezoning. Let's do emergency preparedness. Let's run the EMT and the fire department. Let's take over mental-health services. Why go only halfway? I'm curious. Why is it only the budget?"
Democratic Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) called the bill an exercise in hypocrisy on the part of Republicans. "We're witnessing the party that proclaims itself to be the champion of local autonomy and less federal involvement in local affairs . . . do exactly the opposite," he said.
Rep. José E. Serrano (D-N.Y.) said that Republicans "use Washington as the place to manifest their discontent or desire" on social and budget issues they can't control even in their home states, he said.
Ryan cited "real consequences" to giving D.C. budget freedom. "The D.C. government wants to use revenues to fund abortions in the District. House Republicans will not stand for that," he said.
Rep. Michael C. Burgess (R-Tex.) noted it was as recently as the 1990s when Congress had to bail out the District from financial distress under Mayor Marion Barry.
And Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), the author of the bill, said the District wouldn't have achieved its current financial health without its special reliance on Congress.
"If, indeed, everything is turning up roses, it is indeed the status quo . . . that truly has the authority rested and vested here in this esteemed body" to oversee District finances, he said.
Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law professor at George Washington University, said he believed that D.C. officials did not have the legal authority to spend their own tax dollars. But the reaction on Capitol Hill marks a new low in the relationship between the District's Democratic leaders and their Republican overseers in Congress, he said.
"It's positively toxic," he said.
In recent weeks, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) had cast the showdown with Congress as a first step toward making the nation's capital the 51st state. The District has a larger population than Vermont's or Wyoming's, and its residents pay more in federal taxes than those in 22 states.
If the House bill becomes law, it "shakes the foundation" of home rule, Norton said. If the Senate passes the bill, it will be the only time since the city won partial home rule in 1973 that Congress has acted to repeal a D.C. law retroactively.
"If you never felt like a despot before, I hope that side of the aisle understands what it feels and looks like now," Norton said Wednesday, pointing to Republicans on the House floor.
The 51st state: D.C. is about to declare its independence — from Congress]
D.C. mayor calls for vote on D.C. statehood
D.C. prepares for constitutional convention in June
Clinton vows to be a champion for D.C. statehood — Trump, not so much


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Christopher de Lerisson Cazenove (Winchester, 17 de diciembre de 1943-Londres 7 de abril de 2010) fue un actor inglés. Comenzó a ganar notoriedad en la década de 1970, cuando trabajó en la serie de televisión The Duchess of Duke Street. Su popularidad aumentó cuando interpretó a Ben Carrington en la serie estadounidense Dynasty.

Biografía
Christopher Cazenove nació el 17 de diciembre de 1945 en Winchester, en el seno de una familia con ancestros hugonotes. Cursó estudios secundarios en el Eton College y se formó como actor en el Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, del que egresó en 1966.

Su primer trabajo en teatro fue Hombre y superhombre en el Phoenix Theatre de Leicester en 1967. Debutó en cine en 1970, en Julio César. Algunos de sus siguientes papeles fueron en largometrajes como Royal Flash (1975), East of Elephant Rock (1977), Amanecer zulú (1979) o Heat and Dust (1982). En televisión trabajó en la serie estadounidense A Fine Romance. Entre 1976 y 1977, interpretó a Charlie Tyrrell en la serie The Duchess of Duke Street. En 1985 interpretó al Barón en la adaptación televisiva de la novela Kane y Abel y al capitán Preston en Jenny's War. Entre 1986 y 1987, encarnó a Ben Carrington en la serie estadounidense Dynasty en treinta y seis episodios. Fue este papel el que le dio popularidad internacional.

En 1990 actuó en la película Tres hombres y una pequeña dama, secuela de Tres hombres y un bebé. En 2001, interpretó a John Thatcher, padre del personaje de Heath Ledger en A Knight's Tale. Ese mismo año, consiguió el papel de Row Colemore en la serie dramática Judge John Deed, donde trabajó hasta 2003. Desde 2005 hasta 2008 interpretó a Henry Higgins en el musical My Fair Lady. Su último trabajo en televisión fue en la serie de la BBC Hotel Babylon, emitida en 2009.

Entre 1973 y 1994, estuvo casado con la actriz Angharad Rees, con quien tuvo dos hijos. El mayor, Linford, murió en un accidente automovilístico en 1999.

Cazenove falleció el 7 de abril de 2010 debido a una septicemia que padecía desde finales de febrero. El actor se encontraba internado en el Hospital Saint Thomas de Londres. Estaba en pareja con Isabel Davis, con quien mantuvo una relación de siete años.

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KARINJ, Armenia — The journey from Yerevan to the northern province of Lori normally takes four hours, but with the one main road undergoing repairs in the summertime, the car trip through Armenia's wild green mountains can now stretch on all day.
A few visitors finally reach the the public school in Karinj, a village of about 700 people in this rural, sparsely populated region bordering on Georgia. The stately, Soviet-style building still holds many of the era's relics — musty gymnasium equipment, wooden desks and chairs, and even the same strict teaching method once modeled decades ago.
In one tucked-away, bright classroom on a recent Saturday afternoon, a group of 13 students chatted freely in a semi-circle and giggled at the presence of guests. Their teacher encouraged them to stand up and share family traditions, and to also show how they constructed their completed LEGO mindstorms robots — customizable, moveable creations they program by applying lessons of physics, math and engineering.
In a poor, rural school in Armenia, this mix of science and free-flowing creativity in a classroom is still rare — but it might increasingly be what is necessary to help the country face some of its most challenging socioeconomic problems.
Leading Armenian health and education NGOs are driving forward a progressive educational technology strategy to rethink development in this lower middle-income, south Caucasus country: Infuse creative, technology-centered education into the classroom to provide youth with adaptable work and life skillsets, and boost their chances of finding jobs in their hometowns, or within Armenia.
"When you go to these villages you see that these kids are kind of hopeless, in a way. They are disappointed and their main angle is to come to Yerevan, or think about leaving to work in Russia, as their fathers have done, and this is a real problem," said Ester Hakobyan, a programs director for the Children of Armenia Fund, or COAF. She led the session in the "SMART" classroom on storytelling, designed to teach kids the art of collecting family historical stories and sharing tales, skills they could use if they go into the local tourism industry.
"What we try to do is create some kind of future in the villages for these kids," she explained.
While migration from Armenia has slowed since the 1990s, weak economic conditions have contributed to more than 250,000 people leaving the landlocked country of just 3 million since 2008. About 30 percent of Armenians live below the national poverty line and in Lori — the province with the highest rate of migration — it is common to find households temporarily absent of men, who have gone to work in Russia.
Yet despite the lack of available jobs within Armenia, which faces an unemployment rate of about 16 percent, the country has seen a recent growth in its IT sector. And Armenian health and education NGOs such as COAF and the learning initiative the Tumo Center for Creative Technologies, are finding they can bring low-income, rural students into the wave of Armenia's rising tech scene.
The work also has the potential to replicate in other countries facing similar problems of high rates of youth unemployment and migration, and so Armenia's experiences could have much to teach the rest of the world, according to COAF and Tumo Center.
COAF's SMART Center, which remains under construction, will launch next year.
COAF and the Tumo Center, both founded by members of the Armenian diaspora — Turkish-born, New York-based businessman Garo Armen and Lebanese born, Dallas-based telecommunications businessman Sam Simonian, respectively — are both quickly scaling up ed tech initiatives throughout the country.
The six-year-old Tumo Center has a flagship, soaring building in Yerevan — originally constructed for $20 million — where it hosts up to 7,000 students aged 12-18 at any time for free, tailored four-week long after-school programs. Students develop their own personal learning plans through a software system that encourages them to take different courses in animation, game development, web development, digital media and other creative fields based on their preferences and performance. Teachers are Armenian experts, and also international field experts who travel for the short courses.
"It [the work of the Tumo Center] is complimentary. We are not substituting, saying we replace the Armenian schools," explained Marie Lou Papazian, the managing director of Tumo Center, a Lebanese-born Armenian who moved from New York to oversee the center.
She spoke from her office inside the Tumo Center, a hub of constant activity, late one recent afternoon. Students streamed throughout the glass building to play games and work on mobile computer workstations — individual computer desktop and chair sets, whose power and ethernet cable are connected to the ceiling, allowing the user to move seamlessly across a room. Down the hall, auditions for an advanced music class were underway.
International interest in the Tumo Center's unique, individualized model, and unanticipated student engagement, has come in tandem, as the center has expanded to other small cities in Armenia, with support of the Central Bank of Armenian and some private sector groups. The public-private partnership model is also at play in Yerevan, where it rents out space to tech companies, including the image software application PicsArt.
Moving beyond Yerevan, Armenia's largest, capital city, to address "brain drain" across the country is a shared goal of COAF, a partner organization that has opened up six "SMART" ed tech rooms, including the one in Karinj, over the last two years. Students, and also adults in the community, can access these rooms to research — not just play games, as they sometimes do at home — on computers to learn about the environment, health and to also build robots. Some instruction is in English.
Ester Hakobyan engages with students in a SMART room in Lori, Armenia.
COAF, which traditionally centers is work in education, health care and infrastructure, will open a SMART Center in early 2018 in Lori — a building now underway whose vision could match the grandeur and scale of the Tumo Center. The glass, one-level structure will flow with the mountains, explained the architect, Paul Kaloustian, of Beirut, giving visiting students an immersive feeling when they come to take free courses in technology, business and civil engagement, arts and music and environmental practices.
One challenge is to draw in adults from surrounding communities. They might struggle to either physically reach the center, or feel like they have nothing to gain from it. There is a sharp divide between Armenia's younger and older generations, explained Straight, who spoke of Armenia's "lost generation" of older women in particular, who learned few skills — beyond sewing, cooking and farming during the Soviet times — that they are now able to translate into work.
Shahane Halajyan, COAF's SMART Initiative manager, says that Armenia has no option but to ensure that communities can be engaged with ed tech.


Today is a special day just like yesterday and last Sunday night. The reason the word "special" comes to mind is because Paula and I have brought something back to life from the past and it seems to function just as well today as when we put it in mothballs 3 years ago.
That something is KDCL Media, along with And Then Some Again Productions and it can mean only one thing.
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A Gyűrűk Ura filmtrilógia zenéjét Howard Shore szerezte, a stúdiófelvételkor pedig vezényelte is. A három film hangszerelése igen bonyolult volt a rendező (és a rajongók) minőségi elvárásai, valamint a nagy (több mint 12 órás) terjedelem és a változatos zenei megoldások (szimfonikus és elektronikus hangszerek együttes alkalmazása) miatt.

Shore (a filmzenék történetében egyáltalán nem egyedüliként) az egyes helyeknek, fajoknak, eseményeknek külön-külön zenei témát (ún. vezérmotívumot) írt; ezért egyes dallamok a filmzene hallgatása közben többször elő- és előjönnek, különféle variációkban. A komponáláskor apró részletekre is ügyeltek, így például a móriai jelenetek aláfestésekor a kórus törpül (khuzdul nyelven) énekelt, a film elején lévő prológus Szauronhoz kapcsolódó jelenetei alatt pedig a Tolkien által a gonosz teremtmények számára alkotott Fekete Beszéd nevű nyelven énekelnek, hasonlóan a jelenetekhez kapcsolódó tünde, rohani stb. nyelvű betétek is színesítik a zeneművet.

A három film zenéjét a klasszikus zeneszerző, Richard Wagner ihlette.

Shore a Gyűrű Szövetségéért és a Király Visszatérért megkapta a legjobb eredeti filmzenének járó Oscar-díjat, valamint A Király visszatér végén hallható "Into the West" (Nyugatra) című dalért pedig (Fran Walsh-sal és Annie Lennox-szal megosztva) a legjobb eredeti betétdalét is.

A zenemű sztenderd kiadásaiból számos elem kimaradt, pl. egyes rövidebb betétdalok, illetve a filmtrilógia bővített verzióihoz használt témák – ilyen pl. a Gyűrű Szövetsége bővített verziójában annak a jelenetnek a zenéje, amelyet a Megyéből menekülő hobbitok egy éneklő tünde-csapat menetelésekor hallanak (a könyvbeli Gildor Inglorion-szakasznak megfelelő jelenet)). Ezek egy újabb, audiofil jellegű kiadásba, a Complete Recordingsba kerültek.

 Motívumok
Becslések szerint Howard Shore a trilógia számára 80 vezértémát alkotott meg.

A legfőbb témák:
 Az Egy Gyűrű-téma
 A Szövetség-téma
 A Megye-téma
 A Fekete Lovasok-téma
 Középfölde-téma
 Vasudvard-téma
 Lothlórien-téma
 Mordor-téma
 Gollam-téma
 Rohan-téma
 Keselyüstök-téma
 Gondor-téma

 Filmdalok

Mindhárom epizód a szimfonikus / neoklasszikus motívumok mellett kapott egy-egy önálló, a könnyűzene keretein belül önállóan is életképes (sőt, Enya dala önállóan is megjelent, mint az énekesnő egyik single-je), amit jeles énekesnők hangja fémjelzett. Ezek részei a soundtracknak, mindegyik az epizódhoz kapcsolódó soundtrack végén helyezkedik el, és a filmben is, ugyanis többnyire a végefőcímben használták fel őket.
 A Gyűrű Szövetsége – Enya – May It Be (Legyen így)
 A két torony – Emiliana Torrini – Gollum's Song (Gollam dala)
 A király visszatér – Annie Lennox – Into the West (Nyugatra)

 Filmzenék
 A Gyűrűk Ura – A Gyűrű Szövetsége
The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring

Zeneszerző: Howard Shore és Enya

Kiadási dátum: 2001. november 20.

Hossza: 71:24

Számok

 "The Prophecy" – 3:54
 "Concerning Hobbits" – 2:55
 "The Shadow of the Past" – 3:33
 "The Treason of Isengard" – 4:01
 "The Black Rider" – 2:48
 "At the Sign of the Prancing Pony" – 3:14
 "A Knife in the Dark" – 3:34
 "Flight to the Ford" – 4:15
 "Many Meetings" – 3:05
 "The Council of Elrond", benne az "Aníron (Aragorn and Arwen motívuma)" (szerezte és előadja Enya) – 3:49
 "The Ring Goes South" – 2:03
 "A Journey in the Dark" – 4:20
 "The Bridge of Khazad Dum" – 5:57
 "Lothlórien" – 4:34
 "The Great River" – 2:43
 "Amon Hen" – 5:02
 "The Breaking of the Fellowship" – 7:21
 "May It Be" (szerezte és előadja Enya) – 4:16

 A Gyűrűk Ura – A két torony
The Lord of the Rings – The Two Towers

Zeneszerző: Howard Shore

Kiadás: 2002. december 10.

Hossza:72:46

Számok:

 "Foundations of Stone" – 3:51
 "The Taming of Sméagol" – 2:48
 "The Riders of Rohan" – 4:05
 "The Passage of the Marshes" – 2:46
 "The Uruk-hai" – 2:58
 "The King of the Golden Hall" – 3:49
 "The Black Gate Is Closed" – 3:17
 "Evenstar" (Isabel Bayrakdarian) – 3:15
 "The White Rider" – 2:28
 "Treebeard" – 2:43
 "The Leave Taking" – 3:41
 "Helm's Deep" – 3:53
 "The Forbidden Pool" – 5:27
 "Breath of Life" (Sheila Chandra) – 5:07
 "The Hornburg" – 4:36
 "Forth Eorlingas" (Ben Del Maestro) – 3:15
 "Isengard Unleashed" (Elizabeth Fraser & Ben Del Maestro) – 5:01
 "Samwise the Brave" – 3:46
 "Gollum's Song" (előadja Emilíana Torrini) – 5:51

 A Gyűrűk Ura – A király visszatér

The Lord of the Rings – The Return of the King

Zeneszerző: Howard Shore

Kiadás: 2003. november 25.

Hossza: 72:05

Számok:

 "A Storm Is Coming" – 2:52
 "Hope and Memory" – 1:45
 "Minas Tirith" – 3:37
 "The White Tree" – 3:25
 "The Steward of Gondor" – 3:53
 "Minas Morgul" – 1:58
 "The Ride of the Rohirrim" – 2:08
 "Twilight and Shadow" – 3:30
 "Cirith Ungol" – 1:44
 "Andúril" – 2:35
 "Shelob's Lair" – 4:07
 "Ash and Smoke" – 3:25
 "The Fields of the Pelennor" – 3:26
 "Hope Fails" – 2:20
 "The Black Gate Opens" – 4:01
 "The End of All Things" – 5:12
 "The Return of the King" – 10:14
 "The Grey Havens" – 5:59
 "Into the West" (Annie Lennox) – 5:49

 A "Complete Recording" kiadások

A filmzenék elkészülte után Howard Shore ismét stúdióba vonult, és elkészítette a Complete Recording'' kiadásokat, amelyek a bővített dvd-ken elhangzó összes zenei anyagot is tartalmazzák, díszdobozban. Egyelőre csak külföldön kapható, és információink sincsenek afelől, hogy tervezik-e a magyar kiadást.

A Gyűrűk Ura – A Gyűrű Szövetsége

The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring

Zeneszerző: Howard Shore. Szövegek: J.R.R. Tolkien, Philippa Boyens, David Salo.

Kiadás: 2005. december 13.

Hossza: 3:00:35 (Három lemezen)

Első lemez:

 "Prologue: One Ring to Rule Them All" – 7:16 [Prológus: Egy Gyűrű mind fölött…]
 "The Shire" – 2:29 [A Megye]
 "Bag End" – 4:35 [Zsáklak], benne "The road goes ever on and on" (ének: Sir Ian McKellen)
 "Very Old Friends" – 3:12 [Régi jó barátok]
 "Flaming Red Hair" – 2:39 [Lángoló vörös haj/Egy rég várt ünnepély]
 "Farewell Dear Bilbo" – 1:45 ["Ég veled, drága Bilbó!"]
 "Keep It Secret, Keep It Safe" – 8:45 ["Tartsd titokban, rejtsd el!"] (ének: Sir Ian Holm,  Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd)
 "A Conspiracy Unmasked" – 6:09 [Egy leleplezett összeesküvés]
 "Three Is Company" – 1:58 [Hármasban sem rossz]
 "The Passing of the Elves" – 2:39 [A tündék átkelése/Nemestündék]
 "Saruman the White" – 4:09 [Fehér Szarumán]
 "A Shortcut to Mushrooms" – 4:07 [Toronyiránt a gombákhoz]
 "Strider" – 2:34 [Vándor]
 "The Nazgul" – 6:04 [A Gyűrűlidércek], benne "Song of Lúthien" (zene és ének: Viggo Mortensen)

Második lemez:

 "Weathertop" – 2:14 [Széltető/Tőr a sötétben]
 "The Caverns of Isengard" – 4:54 [Vasudvard gödrei]
 "Give Up the Halfling" – 4:49 ["Add át a félszerzetet"]
 "Orthanc" – 1:06 [Orthanc]
 "Rivendell" – 3:26 [Völgyzugoly]
 "The Sword That Was Broken" – 3:34 [A kettétört Kard]
 "The Council of Elrond Assembles" – 4:01 [Elrond Tanácsa összeül]
 "The Great Eye" – 5:30 [A Nagy Szem]
 "Gilraen's Memorial" – 5:01 [Gilraen szobra]
 "The Pass of Caradhras" – 5:04 [A Vörösfoki hágó]
 "The Doors of Durin" – 6:03 [Durin kapuja]
 "Moria" – 2:27 [Mória]
 "Gollum" – 2:26 [Gollam]
 "Balin's Tomb" – 8:30 [Balin sírja]

Harmadik lemez

 "Khazad-dum" – 8:00 [Khazad-dûm]
 "Caras Galadhon" – 9:20 [Caras Caladhon]
 "The Mirror of Galadriel" – 6:21 [Galandriel tükre]
 "The Fighting Uruk-hai" – 11:32 [Az Uruk-hai harcosok]
 "Parth Galen" – 9:13 [Parth Galen]
 "The Departure of Boromir" – 5:29 [Boromir eltávozik…]
 "The Road Goes Ever On… (Part 1)" – 5:58 [Az útnak vége nincs soha… (1. rész)]
 "May It Be" – 3:26 [Talán] (írta és előadja: Enya)
 "The Road Goes Ever On… (Part 2)" – 3:41 [Az útnak vége nincs soha… (2. rész)] (ének: Ben Del Maestro)

A Gyűrűk Ura – A két torony

The Lord of the Rings – The Two Towers

Zeneszerző: Howard Shore. Szövegek: J.R.R. Tolkien, Philippa Boyens, David Salo.

Kiadás: 2006. november 7.

Hossza: 3:08:12 (három lemezen)

Első lemez

 "Glamdring" – 3:50 [Glamdring]
 "Elven Rope" – 2:19 [Tündekötél]
 "Lost In Emyn Muil" – 4:14 [Eltévedve Emyn Muilban]
 "My Precious" – 2:56 ["Drágaságom!"]
 "Uglúk's Warriors" – 1:41 [Uglúk harcosai/Az uruk-hai orkok]
 "The Three Hunters" – 6:12 [A Három Vadász]
 "The Banishment Of Éomer" – 3:54 [Éomer száműzése]
 "Night Camp" – 2:50 [Éjszakai táborozás]
 "The Plains Of Rohan" – 4:14 [Rohan mezei]
 "Fangorn" – 5:13 [Fangorn]
 "The Dead Marshes" – 5:07 [A Holtláp/Át az ingoványon]
 "Wraiths On Wings" – 2:07 [Szárnyas lidércek]
 "Gandalf The White" – 6:47 [Fehér Gandalf/A Fehér Lovas]
 "The Dreams Of Trees" – 1:54 [A Fák álmai/Énekek az entasszonyokról]
 "The Heir Of Númenor" – 6:50 [Númenor örököse]
 "Ent-draught" – 2:53 [Az entek itala]

Második lemez

 "Edoras" – 4:34 [Edoras]
 "The Court Of Meduseld" – 3:10 [Meduseld csarnoka/Az Aranycsarnok]
 "Théoden King" – 6:12 [Théoden király] (ének: Miranda Otto)
 "The King's Decision" – 2:07 [A király döntése]
 "Exodus From Edoras" – 5:42 [Kivonulás Edorasból]
 "The Forests Of Ithilien" – 6:37 [Ithilia erdői]
 "One Of The Dunedain" – 7:13 [Egy dúnadán] (ének: Isabel Bayrakdarian)
 "The Wolves Of Isengard" – 4:22 [Vasudvard farkasai]
 "Refuge At Helm's Deep" – 3:59 [Menedék a Helm-szurdokban]
 "The Voice Of Saruman" – 1:11 [Szarumán hangja]
 "Arwen's Fate" – 3:58 [Arwen sorsa] (ének: Sheila Chandra)
 "The Story Foretold" – 3:38 [A megjósolt történet]
 "Sons Of The Steward" – 6:02 [A helytartó fiai]
 "Rock And Pool" – 2:54 [Szikla és tó]
 "Faramir's Good Council" – 2:20 [Faramir jó tanácsa]

Harmadik lemez

 "Aragorn's Return" – 2:11 [Aragorn visszatérése]
 "War Is Upon Us" – 3:35 ["A háború itt van"]
 "Where Is The Horse And The Rider?" – 6:15 ["Hol a ló és a lovasa?"]
 "The Host Of The Eldar" – 2:50 [Az eldák serege]
 "The Battle Of The Hornburg" – 2:52 [Kürtvári csata]
 "The Breach Of The Deeping Wall" – 3:03 [A szurdokfak áttörése]
 "The Entmoot Decides" – 2:06 [Az ent-tanács döntése]
 "Retreat" – 4:40 [Visszavonulás] (ének: Elizabeth Frazier)
 "Master Peregrin's Plan" – 2:31 [Peregrin úrfi terve]
 "The Last March Of The Ents" – 2:31 [Az entek utolsó menete] (ének: Ben Del Maestro)
 "The Nazgul Attack" – 2:45 [A nazgûl támadása]
 "Theoden Rides Forth" – 5:47 [Théoden kilovagol] (ének: Ben Del Maestro)
 "The Tales That Really Matter" – 12:01 [A nagy regék, amikre mindenki emlékszik]
 "Long Ways To Go Yet" – 8:05 [Még hosszú út vár], benne "Gollum's song" (ének: Emiliana Torrini)

A Gyűrűk Ura – A király visszatér
The Lord of the Rings – The Return of the King

Zeneszerző: Howard Shore. Szövegek: J.R.R. Tolkien, Philippa Boyens, David Salo.

Kiadás dátuma: 2007. november 20.

Hossza: 3:49:15 (négy lemezen)

Első lemez

 "Roots and Beginnings" – 6:30 [Gyökerek és kezdetek]
 "Journey to the Crossroads" – 2:17 [A keresztút felé]
 "The Road to Isengard" – 2:17 [Vasudvard felé]
 "The Foot of Orthanc" – 4:41 [Az Orthanc lába]
 "Return to Edoras" – 1:51 [Visszatérés Edorasba]
 "The Chalice Passed" – 1:50 [Az átadott kehely]
 "The Green Dragon" – 0:34 [A Zöld Sárkány] (ének: Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan)
 "Gollum's Villainy" – 2:09 [Gollam tőrbe csal]
 "Éowyn's Dream" – 1:24 [Éowyn álma]
 "The Palantír" – 3:09 [A palantír]
 "Flight from Edoras" – 2:18 [Menekülés Edorasból]
 "The Grace of Undómiel" – 6:20 [Undómiel kegyelme] (ének: Renée Fleming)
 "The Eyes of the White Tower" – 4:32 [A Fehér Torony szemei]
 "A Coronal of Silver and Gold" – 8:26 [Egy ezüst és arany korona]
 "The Lighting of the Beacons" – 9:01 [A jelzőtüzek meggyújtása]

Második lemez

 "Osgiliath Invaded" – 8:47 [Osgiliath lerohanása] (ének: Ben Del Maestro)
 "The Stairs of Cirith Ungol" – 2:41 [Cirith Ungol lépcsői]
 "Allegiance to Denethor" – 3:20 [Hűség Denethorhoz]
 "The Sacrifice of Faramir" – 4:08 [Faramir áldozata], benne "The edge of night" (zene és ének: Billy Boyd)
 "The Parting of Sam and Frodo" – 4:04 [Samu és Frodó elválása]
 "Marshalling at Dunharrow" – 4:57 [Gyülekezés Dúnhargban]
 "Andúril – Flame of the West" – 3:28 [Andúril – Nyugat Lángja]
 "The Passing of the Grey Company" – 4:12 [A Szürke Sereg távozása]
 "Dwimorberg – The Haunted Mountain" – 2:26 [Dwimorberg – a Kísértethegy]
 "Master Meriadoc, Swordthain" – 1:40 [Trufiádok mester, a rohani nemes]
 "The Paths of the Dead" – 6:22 [A Holtak Ösvénye]
 "The Siege of Gondor" – 9:01 [Gondor ostroma]
 "Shelob's Lair" – 8:53 [A Banyapók odúja]
 "Merry's Simple Courage" – 2:09  [Trufa bátorsága]

Harmadik lemez

 "Grond – The Hammer of the Underworld" – 1:33 [Grond – Az alvilág pörölye]
 "Shelob the Great" – 5:13 [A Nagy Banyapók]
 "The Tomb of the Stewards" – 3:58 [Helytartók sírja]
 "The Battle of the Pelennor Fields" – 4:10 [A csata Pelennor mezején]
 "The Pyre of Denethor" – 2:59 [Denethor máglyája]
 "The Mûmakil" – 0:57 [A mûmakok]
 "Dernhelm in Battle" – 2:06 [Dernhelm csatában]
 "A Far Green Country" – 1:28 ["Egy távoli zöld ország…"]
 "Shieldmaiden of Rohan" – 5:07 [Rohan harcos leánya]
 "The Passing of Théoden" – 2:16 [Théoden halála]
 "The Houses of Healing" – 2:58 [Az ispotály] (ének: Liv Tyler)
 "The Tower of Cirith Ungol" – 4:41 [Cirith Ungol Tornya]
 "The Last Debate" – 4:21 [Az utolsó haditanács], benne "Asëa Aranion" (ének: Sissel)
 "The Land of Shadow" – 6:30 [A Homály Földjén]
 "The Mouth of Sauron" – 8:15 [Szauron szája] (furulya: Sir James Galway)
 "For Frodo" – 3:17 ["Frodóért!"] (ének: Ben Del Maestro)

Negyedik Lemez

 "Mount Doom" – 4:09 [A Végzet Hegye] (ének: Renée Fleming)
 "The Crack of Doom" – 4:02 [A Végzetkatlan]
 "The Eagles" – 2:24 [A sasok] (ének: Renée Fleming)
 "The Fellowship Reunited" – 12:18 [Újra együtt a Szövetség] (fuvola: Sir James Galway, ének: Viggo Mortensen, Renée Fleming)
 "The Journey to the Grey Havens" – 7:35 [Út Szürkerévbe] (furulya: Sir James Galway)
 "Elanor" – 1:28 [Elanor] (furulya: Sir James Galway)
 "Days of the king" – 11:10 [A király napjai], benne "Into the west" (ének: Annie Lennox)
 "Bilbo's Song" – 2:57 [Bilbó dala]

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using System;
using AccountServer.Handler.Data;
using AccountServer.Lang;
using ZyGames.Framework.Game.Sns;
using ZyGames.Framework.Game.Sns.Service;
using ZyGames.Framework.Common.Timing;
namespace AccountServer.Handler
{
    /// <summary>
    /// User login
    /// </summary>
    public class Login : BaseHandler, IHandler<LoginInfo>
    {
        public ResponseData Excute(LoginInfo data)
        {
            long userId;
            int userType;
            string passportId;
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(data.RetailUser) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(data.RetailToken))
            {
                ILogin login = LoginProxy.GetLogin(data.RetailID, data);
                login.Password = DecodePassword(login.Password);
                var watch = RunTimeWatch.StartNew("Request login server");
                try
                {
                    if (login.CheckLogin())
                    {
                        watch.Check("GetResponse");
                        userId = long.Parse(login.UserID);
                        passportId = login.PassportID;
                        userType = login.UserType;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        //DoLoginFail();
                        throw new HandlerException(StateCode.Error, StateDescription.PassworkError);
                    }
                }
                finally
                {
                    watch.Flush(true, 100);
                }
            }
            else
            {
                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(data.Pwd) || data.Pwd.Length < 5)
                {
                    throw new HandlerException(StateCode.Error, StateDescription.PassworkLengthError);
                }
                data.Pwd = DecodePassword(data.Pwd);
                //快速登录
                RegType regType;
                userId = SnsManager.LoginByDevice(data.Pid, data.Pwd, data.DeviceID, out regType, data.IsCustom);
                if (userId <= 0)
                {
                    throw new HandlerException(StateCode.PassworkError, StateDescription.PassworkError);
                }
                passportId = data.Pid;
                userType = (int)regType;
            }

            return AuthorizeLogin(userId, passportId, userType);
        }

    }
}


text:
public class IntDeclarationNode extends DeclarationNode
{

    public String id;

    public int acceptAll(Visitor v)
    {
        return v.visit(this);
    }

    public int acceptMe(Visitor v)
    {
        return v.visit(this);
    }

    public IntDeclarationNode(String id)
    {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public String toString()
    {
        return "IntDeclarationNode (line " + line + ") - int " + id;
    }
}


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Ligand-gated_ion_channel
Ligand-gated ion channel
Neurotransmitter-gated ion-channel transmembrane region
Symbol Neur_chan_memb
InterPro IPR006029
SCOP 1cek
TCDB 1.A.9
OPM family 14
OPM protein 2bg9
Available PDB structures:
1oedE:242-483 2bg9E:242-389 1dxzA:260-291 3mra :301-325 1a11 :276-298 1cekA:276-298 1eq8E:276-298 1motA:277-304 1vryA:281-337
Neurotransmitter-gated ion-channel ligand binding domain
Symbol Neur_chan_LBD
SCOP 1lxg
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The Ligand-gated ion channels, also referred to as LGICs, or ionotropic receptors, are a group of intrinsic transmembrane ion channels that are opened or closed in response to binding of a chemical messenger, as opposed to voltage-gated ion channels or stretch-activated ion channels.[1]
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3 Example: nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
4 Classification and examples
4.1 The Cys-loop receptors
4.2 The ionotropic glutamate receptors
4.3 The ATP-gated channels
5 Clinical relevance
The ion channel is regulated by a ligand and is usually very selective to one or more ions like Na+, K+, Ca2+, or Cl-. Such receptors located at synapses convert the chemical signal of presynaptically released neurotransmitter directly and very quickly into a postsynaptic electrical signal.
Many LGICs are additionally modulated by allosteric ligands, by channel blockers, ions, or the membrane potential.
Each subunit of the pentameric channels consist of the extracellular ligand-binding domain and a transmembrane domain. Each transmembrane domain in the pentamer includes four transmembrane helixes.[2]
Example: nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
The prototypic ligand-gated ion channel is the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. It consists of a pentamer of protein subunits, with two binding sites for acetylcholine, which, when bound, alter the receptor's configuration and cause an internal pore to open. This pore, permeable to Na+, allows Na+ ions to flow down their electrochemical gradient into the cell. With a sufficient number of channels opening at once, the intracellular Na+ concentration rises to the point at which the positive charge within the cell is enough to depolarize the membrane, and an action potential is initiated.
Classification and examples
Many important ion channels are ligand-gated, and they show a great degree of homology at the genetic level. The Ligand-gated ion channels are classified into three superfamilies:
The Cys-loop receptors
anionic
GABAA
α1 (GABRA1), α2 (GABRA2), α3 (GABRA3), α4 (GABRA4), α5 (GABRA5), α6 (GABRA6)
β1 (GABRB1), β2 (GABRB2), β3 (GABRB3)
γ1 (GABRG1), γ2 (GABRG2), γ3 (GABRG3)
δ (GABRD), ε (GABRE), π (GABRP), θ (GABRQ)
GABAC
ρ1 (GABRR1), ρ2 (GABRR2), ρ3 (GABRR3)
Glycine (GlyR)
GlyR-α1 (GLRA1), GlyR-α2 (GLRA2), GlyR-α3 (GLRA3), GlyR-α4 (GLRA4)
GlyR-β (GLRB)
cationic
5-HT3 serotonin receptor
5-HT3A (HTR3A), 5-HT3B (HTR3B), 5-HT3C (HTR3C), 5-HT3D (HTR3D), 5-HT3E (HTR3E)
nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR)
nAChR-α1 (CHRNA1), nAChR-α2 (CHRNA2), nAChR-α3 (CHRNA3), nAChR-α4 (CHRNA4), nAChR-α5 (CHRNA5), nAChR-α6 (CHRNA6), nAChR-α7 (CHRNA7), nAChR-α8 (CHRNA8), nAChR-α9 (CHRNA9), nAChR-α10 (CHRNA10)
nAChR-β1 (CHRNB1), nAChR-β2 (CHRNB2), nAChR-β3 (CHRNB3), nAChR-β4 (CHRNB4)
nAChR-δ (CHRND), nAChR-ε (CHRNE), nAChR-γ (CHRNG)
The ionotropic glutamate receptors
GluR1 (GRIA1), GluR2 (GRIA2), GluR3 (GRIA3), GluR4, alternatively called GluRA-D (GRIA4)
Kainate
GluR5 (GRIK1), GluR6 (GRIK2), GluR7 (GRIK3)
KA1 (GRIK4), KA2 (GRIK5)
NMDA
NR1 (GRIN1)
NR2A (GRIN2A), NR2B (GRIN2B), NR2C (GRIN2C), NR2D (GRIN2D)
The ATP-gated channels
P2X
P2X1 (P2RX1), P2X2 (P2RX2), P2X3 (P2RX3), P2X4 (P2RX4), P2X5 (P2RX5), P2X7 (P2RX7), P2XL1 (P2RXL1)
Ligand-gated ion channels are likely to be the major site at which anaesthetic agents have their effects, although unequivocal evidence of this is yet to be established.[3][4] In particular, the GABA and NMDA receptors are affected by anaesthetic agents at concentrations similar to those used in clinical anaesthesia.[5]
Chronotropic
Receptor (biochemistry)
Glycine receptor
P2X Receptor
Sodium ion channel
^ Connolly CN, Wafford KA (2004). "The Cys-loop superfamily of ligand-gated ion channels: the impact of receptor structure on function". Biochem. Soc. Trans. 32 (Pt3): 529–34. doi:10.1042/BST0320529. PMID 15157178.
^ Cascio M (2004). "Structure and function of the glycine receptor and related nicotinicoid receptors". J. Biol. Chem. 279 (19): 19383–6. doi:10.1074/jbc.R300035200. PMID 15023997.
^ Krasowski MD, Harrison NL (1999). "General anaesthetic actions on ligand-gated ion channels". Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 55 (10): 1278–303. doi:10.1007/s000180050371. PMID 10487207.
^ Dilger JP (2002). "The effects of general anaesthetics on ligand-gated ion channels". Br J Anaesth 89 (1): 41–51. doi:10.1093/bja/aef161. PMID 12173240.
^ Harris RA, Mihic SJ, Dildy-Mayfield JE, Machu TK (1995). "Actions of anesthetics on ligand-gated ion channels: role of receptor subunit composition". FASEB J. 9 (14): 1454–62. PMID 7589987.
Membrane transport protein: ion channels
Ca2+: Calcium channel
Voltage-dependent calcium channel (L-type/Cavα(1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4), N-type, P-type/Cavα(2.1), Q-type, R-type, T-type, β-subunits (β1, β2, β4), γ-subunits (γ2) • Inositol triphosphate receptor • Ryanodine receptor • Cation channels of sperm • Two-pore channel
Na+: Sodium channel
Navα (1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.7, 1.9) • Navβ (1, 3, 4) • Epithelial sodium channel
K+: Potassium channel
Voltage-gated (Kvα (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 4.2, 4.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 10.1, 11.1/hERG) • Kvβ (1, 2), Shaker gene, KCNE1) • Calcium-activated (BK channel, SK channel, SK3) • Inward-rectifier Kir (1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2)) • Tandem pore domain K2P (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9)
Cl-: Chloride channel
Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator
Porin
Aquaporin (1, 2, 3, 4) • Voltage-dependent anion channel (1)
Cations: TRP
TRPA (1) • TRPC (1, 2, 3, 4, 4AP, 5, 6, 7) • TRPM (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) • TRPML (Mucolipin-1) • TRPP (1, 2)• TRPV (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Other/general
Voltage-gated ion channel • Ligand-gated ion channel • Cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channel (α1, α3, β3, H1, H2, H4) • Stretch-activated ion channel
Ion channel, receptor: ligand-gated ion channels
Cys-loop receptors
5-HT receptor (5-HT3 serotonin receptor (A)) - GABA receptor (GABA A (α1, α2, α3, α5, α6, β1, β2, β3, γ2, ε), GABA C (ρ1)) - Glycine receptor (α1) - Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α1, α2, α3, α4, α5, α7, β2, β3, β4, δ, ε, (α4)2(β2)3, (α7)5, Ganglion type, Muscle type)
Ionotropic glutamate receptors
AMPA (1, 2, 3, 4) - Kainate (1, 2) - NMDA (1, 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D)
ATP-gated channels
Purinergic receptors (P2X (1, 4, 5, 7))
Categories: Membrane biology | Ion channels | Electrophysiology | Ionotropic receptors | Neurochemistry | Molecular neuroscience
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Thu, Aug 2nd 2018 12:14pm - Tim Cushing
It's been awhile since we've discussed the TSA's ground-focused efforts. It's going to get acronym-heavy here shortly, so I'll set the stage. The TSA oversees more than just airports. It's also been known to wander around bus stops and weigh stations, hoping to catch less upwardly-mobile terrorists before they can kill us for our freedoms.
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Since VIPR is there to catch terrorists, the Fourth Amendment is generally overlooked to remove the warrant requirement standing in the way of national security efficiency. VIPR units rely on citizen tipsters and their own unassailable hunches to search trucks, buses, rental vehicles, luggage… pretty much anything it can get its hands on. It must be working because no one has blown up a federal building with a Uhaul truck since the last time the government failed to prevent it from happening.
This may be the only metric being used by the TSA to justify the existence of its VIPR squads. A recent Inspector General's report [PDF] notes VIPR activities blow through a whole lot of taxpayer cash, but seem to have little to show for it.
Despite dedicating approximately $272 million to ground-based activities, including VIPR operations, FAMS could not demonstrate how these activities contributed to TSA's mission. During our assessment of FAMS' contributions to TSA's layered approach to security, we determined that FAMS lacked performance measures for the 24 strategic initiatives and most ground-based activities outlined in its strategic plan. Additionally, FAMS' VIPR operations performance measures fail to determine the program's effectiveness.
The best way to feel like something is working well is to never test that theory. The TSA's mission is literally "travel safety," so you'd think ground efforts covering two areas where plenty of mileage is racked up (buses, trucks) would be having some measurable effect. But that would be assuming the TSA and its underlings care about operational efficiency and it's apparent they don't.
Not only could VIPR units not justify their existence, but the grounded Air Marshals don't actually know how much is being spent getting nothing useful done.
FAMS could not provide a budget breakout by division or operational area. Without effective performance measures or detailed accounting of funds, FAMS cannot ensure it is maximizing its resources to address its highest risks and cannot measure the value of its investments in these ground-based activities.
The only thing FAMS has in place to measure effectiveness values looking busy over making America safer. The report points out the only metric used by VIPR/FAMS is "output-based" rather than "outcome-oriented."
FAMS insists the VIPR program mere existence is proof positive of its effectiveness. Can't bust terrorists if they're too intimidated by federal agents milling around aimlessly.
FAMS contends that the highly visible nature of VIPR operations deters potential terrorists.
The OIG disagrees with this assessment, pointing out that if FAMS is going to use that argument, it should at least come up with some supporting facts before attempting to rely on it.
FAMS should measure progress based on whether VIPR operations improve the security of our transportation systems, including whether deterrence significantly contributed to this outcome. Measuring VIPR operations' deterrence capacity is important, considering that FAMS relies on its visible presence to dissuade potential attackers. Without well-developed, outcome-oriented performance measures, FAMS cannot adequately assess whether operations contribute to increased transportation security.
While the TSA did concur with the OIG's recommendations, it still took the time to complain about the report's original title. According to the TSA, the draft title was a little too ego-bruising, so it recommended one that softened the blow (and removed FAM from the headline). The OIG met it a little less than halfway.
TSA requested the Office of Inspector General modify the report title to TSA Lacks Effective Performance Metrics for Ground-based Assignments. They asserted there is an implication from the title of the draft report, FAMS Could Not Demonstrate the Value of Its Ground-Based Assignments, that the assignments do not provide value. Although we disagree that our report made such an implication, we modified the title of the final report to FAMS Needs to Demonstrate How Ground-based Assignments Contribute to TSA's Mission.
I guess the new title restores some hope: FAMS may one day produce supporting evidence for this perceived value. Until then, truckers and bus passengers will be hassled by federal agents hoping to stumble across VIPR program value while performing warrantless searches of people and vehicles.
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Comments on "Report: TSA's Ground-Based VIPR Teams Are Expensive, Quite Possibly Useless"
Agammamonsays:
There were almost no ground-based terror attacks using 'intermodal' transport before VIPR and there are almost no ground-based terror attacks using 'intermodal' transport after VIPR.
What more evidence do you need?
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Mason Wheelersays:
I thought that was going to resolve to a different YouTube video. Well played…
That One Guysays:
"If I can't see it, then they're not there."
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I challenge the need for the security theater in the first place. I would rather the TSA budget be used for education and drug and alcohol treatment. At least if we are going to throw away billions a year, we can get some benefit out of it beyond a make-work program. Changing the titles of those involved to make them think they will somehow qualify for Homeland security afterward is just cruel.
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"It must be working because no one has blown up a federal building with a Uhaul truck since the last time the government failed to prevent it from happening."
priceless.
Ninjasays:
Report: TSA Is Expensive, Definitely Useless
FIFY.
Eriksays:
I'm trying to picture what their approach must be, especially at a bus station. I keep picturing the scene in The Fugitive where Harrison Ford is being chased by US Marshals in a Chicago govt building and yells to some nearby cops "Officer, there's a man in a blue topcoat waving a gun and screaming…at a woman."
(Couldn't find it on YouTube)
My first reaction would be to tell them to stay away and call 911.
Anonymous FBI Agentsays:
"A recent Inspector General's report [PDF] notes VIPR activities blow through a whole lot of taxpayer cash, but seem to have little to show for it."
What we at the FBI do is get an agent to talk a disgruntled religious nutbag into building a "bomb" with no real bomb parts (we give them the parts so we know it's not really a bomb), then we tell them they need to blow up something with it (we tell them what to blow up with the not-bomb so we know it's safe), then we arrest the idiot and presto, we've successfully stopped a terrorist attack. It's that easy. The TSA should do the same thing. As long as the numbers some in that we're doing something, people don't give a shit if we're the ones setting up the whole thing and trapping people with it or not.
It's a win-win.
Anonymous FBI Agent's Editorsays:
Edit: … As long as the numbers COME in. Damn letter jumped around when the not-bomb went off and didn't kill forty-two people that we'll report that we saved from a terrorist attack.


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… a small minority of people have attacked the film's ethnically diverse casting as "anti-white."
"#BoycottStarWarsVII because it is anti-white propaganda promoting #whitegenocide," read a tweet Monday from an account called End Cultural Marxism. The same Twitter user also called J.J. Abrams, the movie's director, a "Jewish activist" and "an anti-white nut."
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Published on August 26, 2015 at 12:22 pm by Victor Omondi in Hedge Funds, News
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Albania, First Kingdom of - Joanna, Duchess of Durazzo (1348 - 1368)
The Kingdom of Albania (Albanian: Mbretëria e Arbërisë, Latin: Regnum Albaniae) was established by Charles of Anjou in the Albanian territory he conquered from the Despotate of Epirus in 1271. He took the title of "King of Albania" in February 1272. The kingdom extended from the region of Durrës (then known as Dyrrhachium) south along the coast to Butrint. A major attempt to advance further in direction of Constantinople, failed at the Siege of Berat (1280–1281). A Byzantine counteroffensive soon ensued, which drove the Angevins out of the interior by 1281. The Sicilian Vespers further weakened the position of Charles, and the Kingdom was soon reduced by the Epirotes to a small area around Durrës. The Angevins held out here, however, until 1368, when the city was captured by Karl Thopia. In 1392 Karl Thopia's son surrendered the city and his domains to the Republic of Venice.
Charles I and Charles II ruled as Kings.
Charles II surrendered his rights to Albania to his son Philip in 1294. Philip reigned as Lord of the Kingdom of Albania.
In 1332, Robert succeeded his father, Philip. Robert's uncle, John, did not wish to do him homage for the Principality of Achaea, so Robert received Achaea from John in exchange for 5,000 ounces of gold and the rights to the diminished Kingdom of Albania. John and his successors took the style of Duke of Durazzo.
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Found: Giant Drawings of Warriors, Etched on Peru's Desert Hillsides
They were discovered with drones.
by Cara Giaimo April 06, 2018
Found: Giant Drawings of Warriors, Etched on Peru's Desert Hillsides
Nazca Lines
Giant ancient line art drawn in the Peruvian desert so large that it can only be fully seen from the sky.
"The Condor," from above. Paul Williams/CC BY-SA 2.0
A few months ago, a team of archaeologists sent a fleet of drones flying over the Peruvian desert. They were looking for something new, but familiar: signs of looting around protected heritage sites. Instead, they found something old and strange: giant images, sketched into the sand by ancient civilizations.
As Michael Greshko reports at National Geographic, the team discovered "more than 50 new examples" of geoglyph art in the region's Palpa province. Some of them are so-called "Nazca lines," drawn by the Nazca culture "which held sway in the area from 200 to 700 A.D.," writes Greshko. "However, archaeologists suspect that the earlier Paracas and Topará cultures carved many of the newfound images between 500 B.C. and 200 A.D." (You can see images of the new lines over at Nat Geo.)
"The Spider," an arachnid-shaped set of Nazca lines. monikawl999/Public Domain
Nazca lines—sometimes styled as "Nasca lines"—are massive desert drawings, visible only from above. Many depict animals, plants, and mythical creatures, and some stretch as long as 890 feet. Very little is known about the culture that created them—or about its predecessors, the Paracas and Topará—including exactly why or how they were drawn. The discovery "opens the door to new hypotheses about [the drawings'] function and meaning," archaeologist Johny Isla, co-director of the Nasca-Palpa Project, told National Geographic.
Rather than being carved into flat ground, most of these newly discovered lines were drawn into hillsides, suggesting that people in villages below could look up and view them. They're also focused on a different subject matter: "Most of these figures are warriors," one archaeologist told the outlet.
"The Hummingbird" was damaged by trespassers in 2014. Diego Delso/CC BY-SA 4.0
These days, when Nazca lines show up in the news, it's often because people have accidentally destroyed them. Earlier this year, a truck driver plowed through one of the sites, marring the design with tire tracks. Back in 2014, Greenpeace protesters unrolled a banner right next to a giant geoglyph hummingbird, and left footprints. It was this destruction, ironically, that led the Peruvian archaeologists to start using satellites and drones to map the lines and inspect the nearby sites.
In doing so, they "have flagged hundreds of potential sites that Peruvian archaeologists will continue ground truthing this fall and winter," Greshko writes. More lines may be discovered yet.
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