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Spider-Man: The Top 10 Villains
March 20, 2016 The Overseer Leave a comment
Everyone wants a piece of Spider-Man. He's a skinny little fellow with a big mouth and an absurd ability to make foes four times his size look like bumbling fools. He's basically every high school nerd's dream come true, on paper. That may in fact be a huge part of the appeal of the Spider. Everyone who's ever been picked on by a much bigger, aggressive jock bully, has had a desire to mop the floor with that bully. Spider-Man makes that happen, just about every time he's forced to tangle with a bad guy, and he's done so to men as mean as the following…
10 Kraven the Hunter
As far back as I can remember, Kraven never had a very valid reason to beef with Puny Peter Parker. As I recall, the encounters of this nature generally stem from Kraven's desire to overcome his most formidable prey. In other words, it's just a form of competition for the infamous big game hunter. But as history has shown us, the Spider tends to out-duel the hulking and crafty Kraven.
9 Lizard
Doctor Conners was once a decent guy. Then he had a big brain fart in his laboratory and injected himself with that bad-news-all-over-it lizard serum. The result? A massive, agile lizard capable of basically controlling all different sorts of reptiles and bashing skulls with that tremendous tail of his. Naturally, the Lizard stands out a bit, and that means many a collision with Spider-Man is guaranteed business.
8 Electro
Electro is just a disgruntled dude, and who can blame the guy? He was just a hard-working guy who happened to have a terrible injury on the job. This, naturally made Maxwell Dillon eager to throw a few lightning bolts and let off some steam (Bennett… sorry, it was too easy), and well… Spider-Man can't let that insanity happen in such a booming metropolis. Hence the many battles these two have had. Electro has some very dangerous abilities, but he comes up just a bit short in the brains department, which has enabled the Spider to get the upper hand time and again.
7 Vulture
Adrian Toomes has always been one of Spider-Man's most compelling and interesting villains. The man has true brainpower on his side, being am inventor with ingenuity in his blood he's always seemed to have the potential to defeat Spider-Man. All that said, while Vulture may have the creativity to come up big in a showdown with the wall-crawler, he lacks the heart and seems to fold when things don't go his way. Never a good thing when you're fighting a youngster with a heart as big as Texas.
5 Carnage
Cletus Kasady ran into a symbiote that changed existence as he knew it. It also connected him to Venom forever. But Carnage didn't exactly live in Venom's shadow. No. This nasty wreaks his own havoc where he can when he can. While Carnage may be considered the "spawn of Venom," he can actually do a few things that Venom can't, like form his black and bloody gooeyness into sharp or serrated blades. We're talking about a whole new challenge for Parker. But, as is the case with Venom, Kasady doesn't always know when to quit while ahead. Spidey's just too smart for this kind of villain.
4 Sandman
Flint Marko rocks. Not because he's a great guy or anything, but because he was shapeshifting and manipulating the elements in unique ways longer than just about every nemesis on this list. The first time we see that sand mold itself into a giant hand, and the Sandman bellows "Okay Spider-Man! Now it's just you 'n me! Once I finish you off, nobody'll be able to stop me," we know that this is a foe who can create very interesting problems for the Web Head. I'm still aching to see an outstanding filmmaker bring the Sandman to the big screen in a way that does him true justice (sorry, Raimi, there was quite a bit left to be desired by Spider-Man 3).
3 Venom
Venom was the first major villain born into the Marvel universe during my time. I missed the introduction of other greats included in this lineup, but I was here and collecting in 1988, when this uber intimidating alien symbiote with the power to completely brainwash its host while bulking up to epic proportions was introduced by David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane. Although we didn't see much of the true Venom in The Amazing Spider-Man #299, he does have one of the most memorable cameos in history. It's hard to shake that image of Venom in the shadows, his grin stretching to grotesque dimensions as he welcomes Mary Jane home, "Hi, Honey…" That sums up the creepiness and control of Venom, perfectly.
2 Doc Ock
Another one of Spider-Man's oldest rivals, Doctor Otto Octavius scared the urine out of me as a child. I can't recall which issue of Amazing Spider-Man I was reading, but I remember I hadn't been reading long when my parents picked up a random issue. That issue featured Ock and boy did that haunt my dreams for a while. The thing is, Dock Ock is still frightening. He's edgier in his more recent appearances and Alfred Molina did the character beautiful justice in Sam Raimi's second franchise film. This is a multi-layered character that has been as savage as imaginable and as sympathetic as a child who's lost his way home. Amazing villain, and no doubt one of the finest antagonists ever created in the comic world.
1 Green Goblin
If Spider-Man has a legitimate arch nemesis, it's Green Goblin. This guy framed Parker for murder. This guy tortured Spidey in a bid to turn him to the dark side. He worked up an elaborate clone saga. This guy just about completely ruined Parker's life when he played a very direct role in the death of one of Peter Parker's first true loves, Gwen Stacy. Parker has taken a lot of "Ls" at the hands of the Green Goblin, and if anyone had the resolve and grit to kill the iconic character, it would no doubt be the green one. Where the future will take us – with any rendition of Green Goblin – remains to be seen, but you've got to expect the Green Goblin to cause more turmoil down the line, one way or another.
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The Past is the Present
The night before the start of The Past is the Present workshop, I went through all of the albums in my house. We were asked to bring old pictures or photo albums and think of how we would approach the workshop. Months before I had started interviewing my father as we both looked at pictures from his days in Lebanon in the late 1970s and early 1980s when he was sent there for peace keeping mission through Nepal Army. I grew up looking at those pictures. The terrain and the people my father posed with in each picture were very different from Nepal. My intent was to understand my father as a young person from Kathmandu living a life no one in his family could have ever imagined.
On the first day of the workshop, Pablo laid out the pictures in a thematic way to show us how he worked to arrange pictures of his own family. Seeing these pictures laid out, I started looking at them through a different lens. The task at hand was to figure out our own personal history as well as find a collective historical narrative bringing the past to the present in how each of the participants saw ourselves in these pictures.
What emerged for me was a story of presence and absence. Most of these pictures were of my father's because I realized he was the one with the camera. If he was around, which was sporadic in my early years, then there were pictures of us. The absence of pictures of me, my brother and my mother while my father was away became obvious to me for the first time. When my father was absent his pictures were present but the life my mother lived looking after two young kids weren't captured by any camera. Along with the pictures, I also read diaries that my father kept in those years and the texts further illuminated the pictures for me because they also spoke of those absences, of him living away from us.
What started as individual projects soon took a collaborative form. At the end, all 11 participants were familiar with each other's pictures, the individually derived meanings behind each picture and identify layers of connection between all projects, obvious or tangential.
For me, the five days spent looking at pictures, arranging and rearranging them and reading the diaries alongside gave me a better understanding of my parents as individuals. This is just a beginning for me and I am intent on making this a long time project, one that I hope will strengthen my relationship with my parents as we still grapple to live with the grief of losing my younger brother who would have been 30 years old this year.

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I'd really prefer a strongly typed signature that doesn't require the cast but I've had the devil of a time finding documentation for this syntax.
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Can anyone explain it with an example or provide the right search terms?
One of the things puzzling me is how to control whether the event is consumed. The definition for EventListener is
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As per Basarat's answer I've tried to specify a stronger signature but that was incompatible with the EventListener interface, which is why I was looking at the definition already posted above.
Emboldened by the fact that Basarat came up with the exact same approach, I tried this
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which no longer upsets the compiler, but it's not a huge improvement on the cast.

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Biden hosts Mexican, Canadian leaders for North American summit
'We have to drive an inclusive economic recovery and make sure all of our people share in the benefits,' says US president
Michael Gabriel Hernandez | 19.11.2021
US President Joe Biden hosted his counterparts from Mexico and Canada on Thursday for the first North American summit in five years as they sought to hash out differences on major issues, including immigration, trade and climate change.
Biden praised Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, emphasizing that the leaders can address the challenges in their relationship "if we just take the time to speak with one another -- by working together."
"We have to drive an inclusive economic recovery and make sure all of our people share in the benefits, have to manage the challenges of unprecedented migration into our hemisphere, and to take on inequity that continues to deny opportunity to too many people," he said at the White House.
"As leaders, we share an innate understanding that our diversity is an enormous strength, that we are best able to reach our potential when we unleash the full range of our people's talents," he added.
The gathering of North America's leaders was an annual occurrence before former President Donald Trump came to office, and its resumption included separate meetings between Biden and Lopez Obrador and Trudeau and meetings between Vice President Kamala Harris and the Mexican and Canadian leaders.
Amid an ongoing breakdown in the global supply chain, the leaders agreed to form a trilateral coordination mechanism that the White House said would be tasked with defining "essential industries to minimize future disruptions, recognizing that North America needs resilient, sustainable, diverse, and secure supply chains to ensure our economic prosperity and security."
The leaders also agreed to work on improving vaccine access in Latin America, the Caribbean and globally, according to a White House statement.
Differences between the US and Mexico on migration were not mentioned by the executive mansion, but it noted that the leaders agreed to create a regional strategy to reduce methane emissions, particularly from the oil and gas sectors.
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most democrats no. the bill a give the pentagon flexibility in deciding where to cut but did not touch the $85 billion the sequester will cut from the economy, a cut that could cost three-quarters of a million jobs this year, which would boost both the unemployment rate and income inequality. maybe that's exactly what some members of congress really want. for more let's go to economist and roosevelt institute senior fellow jeff madrick welcome back to the show. >> it's good to see. >> john: it's great to see you although under disconcerting circumstances. fdr's theme song was "happy days are here again." i would like to say with the record set for the dui we would like to say that happy day for most americans but that the knows the case. >> that's not the case yet. it seems more repulsive that this is going on.
past how scary it is. now income and equality, we're almost out of time,, do you see any politician or any group right now making that their top priority at all, jeff? >> i have a big problem that there isn't. it's too bad that they got evicted from the zuccotti park. they did a pretty darn good job of doing that in the old days but everyone is talking about deficits balancing the budget. when obama flew in the towel before his 2009, talking about how he had to worry about deficits, we started losing the game and getting a strong recovery. >> john: you should stick around for tonight's f-block when we talk about how much money america blew in iraq. >> i know it's a big number. >> john: it's despicable. jeff madrick, thank you so much for coming on the program.
still works in studio. but if you look at the president's plan on the white house website i know you don't like the internet, but you would see cuts like $400 billion in health savings made by reducing payments to drug companies hospitals by $30 billion. encouraging efficient care for savings of $50 billion. refiguring social security for savings of $130 billion. but bill o'reilly is far from the, alot of so-called objecttive observers have have this claim that both sides are equally to blame for the sequester. according to the washington post claims neither party has staked out anything like a serious negotiating position. is bill o'reilly writing for the post now? what are we doing here.
ridiculous. >> john: your blame is strategy. how are we going to play this, how are we going to explain it to the public, did they go overboard in terms of the explanation. but in terms of the en pass and why this deadline was not reached, you cannot argue that both sides are to blame. it began the first week of his inauguration, it has run throughout thinks administration. if you're a republican obstructionist and the press blames obama for your behavior, why a you would you change your behavior? in the hagueelin the hagel nomination this was hard ball by the republicans. >> john: we have to get a republican back in the white house or the republicans in congress will never complain about deficit again for the rest of their lives. >> exactly.
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asking to be answered. one of the things that was good today is that there were a number of senators coming in, mostly republicans, but certainly senator widen, who has been a proponent of the president turning over the rules of the road for this killing program, he went to the senate floor and supported senator paul on this. this is something that all senators should be demanding. this is part of checks and balances between congress and the president. this really is a moment. if the president can continue to make these broad claims and hide the rules from congress, which should be part of the checks and balances then we're not going to have that constitutional separation of powers be very meaningful. this really is a key moment for i think the country and people should really tune in to it.
extreme circumstances there could be some uses of force. but again the bigger problem is that the administration has not been forthcoming with congress, forth coming with the american people about the killing and what are the rules of targeted killing of drone strikes both domestically and abroad. >> john: and with speculation what other presidents would do with these powers down the road. thank you so much, christopher anders, and raha wala, again, we could go on this all night. i hope you'll come back, but thank you so much for your time. >> thanks for having us. >> john: why is wall street so happy when nobody else is? coming up. our micro-thin blades are thinner than a surgeon's scalpel to put less stress on your skin by gliding through hair. fusion proglide from gillette. the best a man can get.
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>> john: welcome back to "viewpoint"." today senator rand paul got his jefferson smith on and did a real actual filibuster. it was amazing to watch. on facebook michael dillon brennan wrote, i don't like him and most of the time, he's he's a tool. he has a point. i totally agree. michael, rand paul certainly has a point. and he certainly can be a tool. but when you want to fix things, sometimes, my friend, it takes a tool. if you have a comment for the show, tweet us at "viewpoint" ctv or john fugelsang or use # #viewpoint or post it on our facebook page. where does the tea party stand on today's political climate?
than immigration facing the tea party. let's talk about getting this country money making again. >> you said the tea party was about economics. what has a bigger impact on economics than the immigration issue. >> i agree 100%. >> john: it's time to declare a winner and when we play ask a tea partyer, the winner is tea partyer scotty nell. >> thanks. >> john: i want to thank my guests. thank you for playing our little game. you can't win the white house without 60% of the latino vote. do you want to know where the deficit came from? guess how much the iraq war cost. it's higher. it's in the f-bomb coming up next. featuring two kinds of lobster tails. (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying.
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Pensions drop off shows our saving failure
Fewer than half of those sold a personal pension still save into it four years later. The figures underlining the parlous state of our long-term savings were released recently by City watchdog the Financial Services Authority.
They raise important questions about investment advice. Some people are clearly being sold investments they do not need or cannot afford, as salesmen follow the heady scent of commission.
The numbers holding onto their pensions have dropped dramatically in less than a decade, especially among those sold by independent financial advisers (IFAs).
Of those sold a personal pension by an IFA in 1993, 70.5% were still saving four years later. Of those sold one in 2002, just 42.3% were still paying into it four years on.
In fact these so-called 'persistency' rates are lower for pensions sold by IFAs rather than tied advisers who simply flog products for a bank or insurance company - normally you would expect it to be the other way around.
So what's going on? My hunch is that some IFAs are not as clean as they would have us believe. Huge commissions have been on offer from insurance companies including Norwich Union to lure IFAs into their fold.
Standard Life has made its Self Invested Personal Pension look very attractive. It brought in huge sums via IFAs but much of the money went straight into funds that investors could have gained access to via a much cheaper stakeholder pension.
The charge, then, is that some IFAs have been churning pensions (that is persuading investors to give up one and switch to another) in order to boost their commission cheques.
Of course it can be in investors' interests to switch funds from time to time in search of better investment performance.
But as the FSA says in its persistency report: 'If investors buy policies on the basis of good advice, they would not normally be expected to give them up, unless unforeseeable changes in their personal circumstances meant they genuinely felt that they had no alternative.
'Where investors have been sold a contract that turns out to cost more than they can afford, they may feel that they have no option but to cease or reduce the premiums.' Of course, other factors can affect persistency. Higher interest rates will have squeezed some family budgets, divorce will have hit others.
But these cannot explain why almost six in every ten people who bought a personal pension from an IFA in 2002 gave up on it within four years. Something does not smell right here and my instincts tell me that greed and commission are at the bottom of it.
Fidelity addresses UK funds
• It seems someone at Fidelity has finally decided to address the performance of their UK funds, which outside of Anthony Bolton's UK Special Situations are pretty mediocre.
Two funds holding more than £1bn of savings between them have had new managers installed with immediate effect. The £752m UK Growth Fund has been disappointing to say the least, and frequently appears in experts' lists of funds to abandon.
This year it has underperformed the FTSE All Share by 4.5% according to researcher Morningstar - and it underperformed the index in each of the previous three years. Yet it charges investors 1.5% of their savings for active management while Fidelity's tracker fund has done a better job for 0.3% a year.
Last year the tracker fund made 16.5% while UK Growth grew by just 6.72%. So far this year the tracker is up by 4.16% against 2.41% for UK Growth.
The other fund to get a new manager is the £271m UK Aggressive. While this has performed considerably better than the UK Growth Fund, it has failed to put in the sort of performance achieved by the best of its competitors.
I won't trouble you with the names of the new managers - you won't have heard of them and neither have I. What matters is whether they produce better returns for investors. On that subject Nicky Richards, chief investment officer of UK and European Equities at Fidelity International, says: 'For the past year or so, they have run either pilot portfolios or segments of funds. Both have delivered the strong returns that investors should expect of Fidelity.' I'm glad someone at Fidelity has realised what investing is all about - now let's see if they can deliver.


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Councillor defends estate after Grove Hill drug dealer jailed
Teesside's courts are tough on drug dealers.
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That is the message delivered to a troubled Middlesbrough estate by Teesside's most senior judge.
Judge Peter Fox QC, the Recorder of Middlesbrough, locked up 39-year-old Colin Brady for possession of class B drugs with intent to supply.
Judge Fox said: "If I were not to send you straight to prison today the word would get round Grove Hill within five minutes and that would be that the courts are soft on amphetamine. That is not a message I am prepared to send out from this court today."
But the judge's comments have prompted a local councillor to spring to the defence of the maligned estate.
Cllr Garry Clark, who represents the Beechwood ward that encompasses part of Grove Hill, said the judge should be careful not to label an area.
Cllr Clark said: "The message has got to be that drugs will not be tolerated on our streets, but the judge should be careful about labelling an area - there are many families here who never touch drugs."
A police raid on Brady's Keith Road home in June uncovered a stash of amphetamine, commonly known as speed, worth £1,119.
The bulk of the powder was hidden under the kitchen sink with a set of electronic scales.
Elsewhere in the house was a small quantity of cannabis, plastic grip-seal bags and rubber gloves, said Harry Hadfield, prosecuting.
Brian Russell, defending Brady, said he only sold drugs to friends, people known to his friends, and family, and claimed he turned to dealing to ensure users were not getting "ripped off" by unfair quantities.
Brady pleaded guilty to possessing a class C drug and possession of a class A drug with intent to supply and was jailed for 18 months.
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Eddie used his palms as megaphone to modulate his voice during 'the shades go down' chant of "Daughter".
This is an audience single camera video of the show. DVD is by TWM. Picture quality is poor suffering from graining, as if the video was stretched from lower resolution source, camera is always jogging.


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Q: Test Class SeeAllData=true Annotation I am creating a test class that will test my controller class which uses almost 5 to 8 objects that has many DML statements like insert and delete, however I am feeling a little bit worried about not getting the result like in my controller class. As a turnaround I used the SeeAllData=True annotation in order not to make sample data for each object and to cover most of my codes.
Question:
When using the SeeAllData=True annotation, will it also do the DML statements in the actual record and reflect in the database?
Sample:
@isTest SeeAllData=True
public with sharing class ControllerTest
{
    static testmethod void sampleTest()
    {
     //Codes that will test the Controller using the data from the annotation
    }
}

A: Using the SeeAllData annotation will only give your test methods access to the existing data in your org. I don't think you should be using it, instead create each of the records that you need for your test cases inside your test method.
All the records that you insert in your test methods are only saved to the database within the test context and completely isolated from the original existing data in your org.

A: Test methods have a built-in "rollback" function that is implicitly called at the completion of every test. Not only will data created within the test method not persist, any changes that occur to "live" data will also not persist. This means that even with SeeAllData=true, you can never accidentally modify or delete "live" data, because it is guaranteed to be rolled back.


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A basic outline of the expected pattern of children's development.
- Can hold their head up for several seconds and lift their head and chest when lying on tummy.
- Can hold rattle for a few moments, but cannot usually look at it, at the same time.
- Legs are not strong enough for holding weight when standing.
- Follows adults with eyes, moves head where the noise comes from.
- Shows eagerness when offered milk.
- Presses palms together, and clasps hands.
- Makes noises when happy.
- Turns head to sound.
- Stops crying to sound of rattle.
- Quietens to sound of familiar voice.
- Shows pleasure when handled, and talked to.
- Shows distress at loud noises and excitement at sounds, which he likes.
- Stares at parent or carer when being fed.
- Reacts happily to familiar situations.
- Plays with feet when lying on back. Sits upright supported.
- Kicks legs alternately. Will take weight on legs when held. Bounces. Rolls over.
- Stares at toys within reach, and grabs toy with both hands.
- Uses whole hand to hold toys. Palmar grasp.
- Passes toy from hand to hand. Watches toy fall.
- Starts to make tuneful double or single syllable sounds, eg 'muh-muh'.
- Turns to where familiar voice comes from. Listens to voice.
- Laughs to self while playing, also screams with delight and with irritation.
- Holds hands up to be lifted.
- Touches breast or bottle when being fed.
- Manipulates toys very well. Watches them at the same time.
- Is still friendly with strangers unless startled or familiar adult isn't there.
- Loves 'Rough and Tumble' play.


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Nord Stream 2 withdrawn application for route in territorial waters of Denmark
It is necessary in order to protect Nord Stream 2, as well as its shareholder and European investors from Austria, France, Germany and the Netherlands from possible financial risks
in Denmark, Featured, National Security, News, Nordic News, Politics
Home Nordic News Denmark
Nord Stream 2 withdrew the application for the route in territorial waters of Denmark to the south of Bornholm, terminating the application process that lasted more than two years. This was stated by the CEO of Nord Stream 2 Matthias Warnig, as it was reported on the Nord Stream 2 website.
"Both Nord Stream 2 and our investors need legal certainty and protection of legitimate expectations, which means a transparent and predictable decision-making process, especially against the backdrop of the advanced construction progress in the waters of the four other countries through which the pipeline stretches," Warnig said.
It was stated that withdrawal of the original application was necessary to protect Nord Stream 2's shareholder and the European investors from Austria, France, Germany and the Netherlands against the risk of further delays and financial losses.
Denmark launches new restrictions on parental divorce
WashPost Gives Left Reality Check on Nordic 'Socialism'
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg addresses climate march in Copenhagen
Denmark: Leonora reveals staging details
Why Danes take EU elections far more seriously than other Europeans
"More than 2 years ago, Nord Stream 2 submitted the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and application for the route through Danish territorial waters which follows the proven route of the existing Nord Stream pipeline preferred by the Danish authorities. Subsequently the Continental Shelf Act was amended giving the Minister for Foreign Affairs the right to veto the laying of pipes in territorial waters based on national and international considerations, meaning that the Minister has to give a recommendation on the application – positive or negative – prior to handling by Danish Energy Authority (DEA). Such recommendation has been pending since January 1, 2018, when the new law came into force. Even until today, there has been no indication as to when this process would end and thereby when a permit could be granted by DEA," the message says.
As it was reported earlier, Nord Stream 2 pipeline will run straight through the Baltic Sea, delivering Russian natural gas directly to Germany. For once, U.S. Democrats and Republicans in the US agree on that the project is a really bad idea.
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Tags: DenmarkGas PipelineNord Stream 2Russian Gas


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In June 2016, Goldcorp was named one of Corporate Knights magazine's Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada. In the same year, the company was also ranked among Canada's Top 100 Employers. Goldcorp has repeatedly been accused of harming the environment, livestock, and public health in multiple studies by advocacy groups and activists, contaminating areas with toxic heavy metals by its mining activities. These allegations have been refuted by the company and none of these allegations have been proved in a court of law. The company's track record around transparency, policies and practices has improved since a damning 2010 study accused the company of human rights violations.
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Tag Archives: Crimea – US – EU – UKRAINE – RUSSIA
I'm not a Big Fan of Paul Manafort, but….
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Barack Obama, Crimea - US - EU - UKRAINE - RUSSIA, Hillary Clinton, Media propaganda, middle-east, Paul Manafort, Progressives, Vladimir Putin
(There are lies, and damned lies…." -Mark Twain)
Unified Patriots by Vassarbushmills
I'm absolutely delirious in my dislike for the Associated Press.
And it's all about honesty and dishonesty.
Now, personally I've never known Mr Manafort to lie, but I suppose he has uttered an untruth here and there, especially in his term as (unpaid) campaign manager for Donald Trump (March-August) in 2016. Why we know this is because all of Trump's campaign staff lied during those months.
Just ask the Associated Press. Or CNN. Or the New York Times, etc, etc.
I know you're thinking, in this day and age, there are many sides to the truth. But in fact there is usually only one in any given set of circumstances. Courts of law and the Rules of Evidence, while allowing many versions of the truth to be sworn to, provide rules that a jury can only find one to be the superior truth, and that all must abide by that finding.
In many parts of the world, for centuries, this rule of law has defined civilization. In America, as well as other free societies, the media has always been (sort of) exempt from this rule, while still subject to certain natural laws and punishments that just natural follow when they step too far out of line with the truth in trying to mold public opinion.
Next to corrupt politicians, card sharks and drummers of whiskey cut with kerosene, I think local editors were the most likely liars to find themselves tied to the front end of a cow-catcher, or being tarred and feathered with hot oil. Like the ancient biblical tradition of throwing prophets who turned out to be wrong over a cliff, I think being honey-dipped, at least the cuffs of one's fine $500 Armani, is a tradition worth recapturing[…]
Jews in Donetsk, Ukraine Ordered to Register or be Deported (UPDATED)
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Anti-Semitism, Crimea - US - EU - UKRAINE - RUSSIA, Propaganda, USA
As for those who are claiming this news a hoax, get a life. John Kerry confirmed that Jews in Donetsk, Ukraine were ordered to register.
…Kerry's comments follow a report in Israel's Ynet News that a leaflet was circulating in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, demanding that Jews register — as well as provide a list of property they own — or else face deportation and revocation of citizenship. Pro-Russian activists have asserted partial control over some government buildings in that city….
Jewish Press
…On the first day of Passover this week, three armed men in the eastern Ukrainian province of Donetsk distributed flyers warning Jews to "register" themselves and their assets with the new pro-Russian government, according to the novosti.dn.ua website….
Pro-Russian separatists are occupying the building where the Jews were told the register.
The flyer was written in the Russian language and bore the symbol of Mother Russia at the top of the page and that of the Donetsk People's Republic at the bottom. It was allegedly signed by Denis Pushilin, chairman of the Donetsk interim government but no ink signature is seen on the paper….
Dear Ukraine citizens of Jewish nationality,
Due to the fact that the leaders of the Jewish community of Ukraine supported (Stepan) Bendery Junta, and oppose the pro-Slavic People's Republic of Donetsk, [the interim government] has decided that all citizens of Jewish descent age 16 and older, residing within the territory of the republic, are required to report to the Commissioner for Nationalities in the Donetsk Regional Administration building and register by May …
'ID and passport are required to register your Jewish religion, religious documents of family members, as well as documents establishing the rights to all real estate property that belongs to you, including vehicles. Evasion of registration will result in citizenship revocation and you will be forced outside the country with a confiscation of property. A registration fee of $50 is required.'
Timing is everything. The notices were distributed outside a synagogue as prayer service ended on the eve of Passover.
Reblogged from The Mad Jewess
If McCain had never interfered in the first place regarding the affairs of Ukraine, would we see this?
Another clusterf'ck of a miserable failure in foreign affairs under Obama and his war-hawk buddy: John McCain. I told everyone from the beginning that Jews would come under this type of atmosphere in Ukraine and I was called a 'Russian propagandist….'
Continue Reading – JEWS Under McCains/Obama's New Leadership In Donetsk, Ukraine Forced To Register
Some are saying that this is a hoax. While others are saying that this is about stirring up trouble. Have we learned nothing from the sins of the past?
The Mad Jewess is right. This is a freaking disaster and the Communist elites aka American bureaucrats aka anti-Christians and anti-Semites destroying this nation are up to their elbows in the chaos in the Ukraine. They are stoking the flames of hate and war.
Less than an hour ago, I left the following comment on Facebook under another post: "Willful blindness should be a mortal sin."
Take heed America. Silence is consent. History must by no means be allowed to repeat itself.
P.S.: The other night, my former neighbor's son whom I have known since he was born (now 35 years old) stopped by. Well as he walked past my room, aware that I am a blogger, this indoctrinated useful idiot aka low information voter muttered a remark that was anti-Semitic and to make a long story short, I really let him have it.
He just stopped by again today to pick up some mail his mother had forwarded to my address. Thus, it was the perfect opportunity for me to share with him what is going on in the Ukraine. Well, big mouth was shocked.
I made sure to mention that history was repeating itself because several generations of indoctrinated idiots across the world were brainwashed into becoming anti-Semites.
He stood there silent for a few minutes taking in my remarks. Finally, he asked (I could have punched this fool), "well what happens after they're done with the Jews?"
I told him not to worry, "We will not be left out of the culling. If successful in their evil endeavors, once that mission is accomplished, they're going after the next group on their list and so on and so on."
No snarky remarks today. End of discussion.
I repeat America, speak out or forever hold your peace. Silence is consent.
http://themadjewess.com/2014/04/16/jews-under-mccainsobamas-new-leadership-in-donetsk-ukraine-forced-to-register/
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/jews-ordered-to-register-in-donetsk-ukraine/2014/04/17/
Ukrainian armed operation in the East founders with troop defections to pro-Russian militias
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Crimea - US - EU - UKRAINE - RUSSIA
…The five or six armored personnel carriers which rolled in the embattled town of Slavyanks with Russian flags Wednesday, April 16, turned out to be part of the Ukrainian military operation whose crews instead of cracking down on the pro-Russian militias joined them. According to some Western intelligence sources, a large number of regular Russian soldiers have crossed the border into Ukraine and they too are boosting the pro-Russian militias' ranks. The Kiev government's "anti-terror" operation in East Ukraine is accordingly breaking up. debkafile reported earlier Wednesday:
Expectations of fruitful results from the meeting are low. But the fact that all the parties are talking offers Ukraine its last hope of escaping a bloody civil war….
Continue Reading – Ukrainian armed operation in the East founders with troop defections to pro-Russian militias
As reported by the DailyMail.co.uk:
Ukraine's offensive against separatists in the east of the country got off to a disastrous start today, with Kiev admitting its armoured vehicles had been seized by pro-Russian militants.
A column of armoured personnel carriers arrived in the rebel-held city of Slavyansk flying Russian flags, carrying men claiming to be Ukrainian soldiers who had switched allegiance.
The defence ministry in Kiev this afternoon then confirmed that vehicles had been captured in the flashpoint area of Kramatorsk.
'A column was blocked by a crowd of local people in Kramatorsk with members of a Russian diversionary-terrorist group among them,' it said. 'As a result, extremists seized the equipment.'
Another 15 armoured troop carriers full of paratroops were surrounded and halted by a pro-Russian crowd. They were allowed to retreat only after the soldiers handed the firing pins from their rifles to a rebel commander….
http://www.debka.com/article/23849/Ukrainian-armed-operation-in-the-East-founders-with-troop-defections-to-pro-Russian-militias
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2605828/Tanks-bearing-Russian-flag-roll-cities-eastern-Ukraine-Vladimir-Putin-warns-country-brink-civil-war.html
70 Years after Soviets Liberating it from Nazi, Germany – Russia Reclaims Crimea
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Crimea - US - EU - UKRAINE - RUSSIA, Germany, nazi, Soviet Union
On 17 March 1944, the Soviet Army began the process to liberate Crimea from Nazi Germany.
Exactly 70 years ago, on 17 March 1944, the Soviet Army started the operation to release Crimea from Nazi Germans pic.twitter.com/ymHjaB2oQk
— ClassicPics (@History_Pics) March 17, 2014
March 17, 2014, seventy years later to the date, Russia reclaims Crimea as its own.
Indeed, timing is everything down the date of the Crimean referendum. So how did the United States government, the appeasers that they are not see this coming? Better yet, did they even give a damn? H/t The Gateway Pundit.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/03/70-years-after-liberating-crimea-from-nazis-russia-reclaims-it-as-its-own/
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/03/18/russia-formally-reclaims-crimea-its-own/zlMwDVzEjfPFHydJo726VP/story.html
Obama, his pen, and his phone have been brought to you by the racketeers and con artists of the non-existent Republican Party
Crimea - US - EU - UKRAINE - RUSSIA, Progressive Repbublish establishment, Progressives
Impeach Obama, McConnell, and Boehner Today
3/17/14 image via Lucianne ======================
Ed. note: The point isn't that Obama should go to war with Putin. The point is Obama phone calls and "Executive Orders" aren't a threat to anyone outside the US. He's made it clear he cares nothing for borders and laws of the United States so he becomes a laughingstock when he lectures others about respecting those things.
The Rupert Murdoch, Fox News enabled GOP is anything but a political party. It's this country's greatest enemy. It makes fortunes conning innocent Americans:
3/17/14, "Report: GOP Consultant Class Continues to Get Fabulously Rich," Breitbart, Matthew Boyle….
Click here to view original web page at impeachobamatoday.blogspot.com
Crimeans vote 95.5 per cent in favor of joining Russia; Ukrainian prime minister vows to hunt down 'separatist leaders' who pushed through referendum
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Crimeans have voted 95.5 per cent in favour of joining Russia in a disputed referendum according to preliminary results with 50 percent of ballots counted, local authorities said.
Referendum commission chairman Mykhaylo Malyshev said 3.5 per cent had voted to remain in Ukraine with wider autonomous powers and 1.0 per cent were 'spoiled ballots'.
The result comes after Ukrainian prime minister Arseny Yatseniuk vowed to hunt down the 'separatist leaders' in Crimea, warning that the 'ground will burn under their feet'….
95.5% of Crimeans voted in favor of joining Russia with 50 percent of the ballots counted? Oh boy.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2582006/Voting-begins-controversial-Crimean-referendum-region-split-Ukraine-annexed-Russia.html
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Josh Carter | Posted: 10 Mar 2020 | Updated: 8 Nov 2020
BYU finishes Lamkin Classic with best round to place eighth
CHULA VISTA, Calif. — The BYU men's golf team shot a third-round 285 (-3) Tuesday to finish the Lamkin San Diego Classic in eighth place.
"It wasn't quite the tournament we were looking for," BYU head coach Bruce Brockbank said. "We struggled with the Bermuda grass from the fairways and were not able to consistently get the ball close enough to the hole. Peter (Kuest) played another solid week and Carson (Lundell) played two great rounds, including a solid 67 to lead the team today."
Kuest led the team with a third-round 71 (-1) and a final score of 213 (-3) to finish the tournament tied for fifth. The result marked Kuest's seventh top-10 finish of the season. The senior tallied 11 birdies at the two-day event and carded an eagle in the third round on hole 17.
Lundell posted a team-best five birdies Tuesday and no bogeys to finish with a third-round 67 (-5) and a total score of 215 (-1). Lundell finished tied for 14th for his third top-15 finish of the season. Rhett Rasmussen followed, finishing four strokes behind Lundell after shooting a third-round 75 (+3) to tie for 34th place.
Brock Stanger and Kelton Hirsch wrapped up the scoring for the Cougars, tying for 80th and 86th places, respectively. Stanger posted a third-round 72 (E) and a final score of 228 (+12), while Hirsch carded a 79 (+7) Tuesday and a total of 230 (+14).
BYU ended the Lamkin Classic with a combined score of 867 (+3), finishing just 11 strokes behind tournament-winner Tennessee. Arizona State, San Diego State, Texas A&M and Cal rounded out the tournament's top-five, while WCC foe San Francisco placed sixth.
Additional WCC opponents Saint Mary's and Santa Clara finished tied for 10th and in 12th, respectively, while San Diego took 13th and LMU placed 18th.
Dunaway ties for first at Coronado Individual
Competing in the Coronado Individual, Spencer Dunaway tied for first place with a third-round 71 (-1) Tuesday and a three-round total of 212 (-4). Cole Ponich also participated in the individual event held about 12 miles northwest of the Lamkin Classic and tied for 15th with a total score of 220 (+4).
The Cougars will compete next in The Goodwin on March 26-28 at Stanford Golf Course in Stanford, California. Live stats and the leaderboard will be available on Golfstat.com.
Final Individual Results
Peter Kuest 72 70 71 213 -3 T5
Carson Lundell 69 79 67 215 -1 T14
Rhett Rasmussen 70 74 75 219 +3 T34
Brock Stanger 79 77 72 228 +12 T80
Kelton Hirsch 80 71 79 230 +14 T86
Spencer Dunaway* 72 69 71 212 -4 T1
Cole Ponich* 68 79 73 220 +8 T15
*Competing in the Coronado Individual
Final Team Results
Tennessee 285 291 280 856 -8 1
Arizona State 292 284 284 860 -4 T2
San Diego State 286 294 280 860 -4 T2
Texas A&M 294 285 282 861 -3 4
Cal 294 285 283 862 -2 5
San Francisco 291 284 288 863 -1 6
Colorado State 291 289 285 865 +1 7
Colorado 285 299 286 870 +6 9
Ole Miss 281 308 285 874 +10 T10
Saint Mary's 300 288 286 874 +10 T10
Santa Clara 298 295 282 875 +11 12
San Diego 300 297 280 877 +13 13
Long Beach State 292 301 286 879 +15 14
Arizona 290 304 290 884 +20 15
Sam Houston State 297 296 294 887 +23 16
UC Davis 302 304 292 898 +34 17
LMU 302 303 297 902 +38 18
Air Force 303 308 299 910 +46 19


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NONE: DecoderOptions = 0x0000_0000 # type: ignore
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No option is enabled
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NO_INVALID_CHECK: DecoderOptions = 0x0000_0001 # type: ignore
"""
Disable some checks for invalid encodings of instructions, eg. most instructions can't use a ``LOCK`` prefix so if one is found, they're decoded as :class:`iced_x86.Code.INVALID` unless this option is enabled.
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AMD: DecoderOptions = 0x0000_0002 # type: ignore
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: AMD decoder: allow 16-bit branch/ret instructions in 64-bit mode, no ``o64 CALL/JMP FAR [mem], o64 LSS/LFS/LGS``, ``UD0`` has no modr/m byte, decode ``LOCK MOV CR``. The AMD decoder can still decode Intel instructions.
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FORCE_RESERVED_NOP: DecoderOptions = 0x0000_0004 # type: ignore
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Decode opcodes ``0F0D`` and ``0F18-0F1F`` as reserved-nop instructions (eg. :class:`iced_x86.Code.RESERVEDNOP_RM32_R32_0F1D`)
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UMOV: DecoderOptions = 0x0000_0008 # type: ignore
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Decode ``UMOV`` instructions
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XBTS: DecoderOptions = 0x0000_0010 # type: ignore
"""
Decode ``XBTS``/``IBTS``
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CMPXCHG486A: DecoderOptions = 0x0000_0020 # type: ignore
"""
Decode ``0FA6``/``0FA7`` as ``CMPXCHG``
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OLD_FPU: DecoderOptions = 0x0000_0040 # type: ignore
"""
Decode some old removed FPU instructions (eg. ``FRSTPM``)
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PCOMMIT: DecoderOptions = 0x0000_0080 # type: ignore
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Decode ``PCOMMIT``
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LOADALL286: DecoderOptions = 0x0000_0100 # type: ignore
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Decode 286 ``STOREALL``/``LOADALL`` (``0F04`` and ``0F05``)
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LOADALL386: DecoderOptions = 0x0000_0200 # type: ignore
"""
Decode 386 ``LOADALL``
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CL1INVMB: DecoderOptions = 0x0000_0400 # type: ignore
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Decode ``CL1INVMB``
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MOV_TR: DecoderOptions = 0x0000_0800 # type: ignore
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Decode ``MOV r32,tr`` and ``MOV tr,r32``
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JMPE: DecoderOptions = 0x0000_1000 # type: ignore
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Decode ``JMPE`` instructions
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NO_PAUSE: DecoderOptions = 0x0000_2000 # type: ignore
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Don't decode ``PAUSE``, decode ``NOP`` instead
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NO_WBNOINVD: DecoderOptions = 0x0000_4000 # type: ignore
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Don't decode ``WBNOINVD``, decode ``WBINVD`` instead
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UDBG: DecoderOptions = 0x0000_8000 # type: ignore
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Decode undocumented Intel ``RDUDBG`` and ``WRUDBG`` instructions
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NO_MPFX_0FBC: DecoderOptions = 0x0001_0000 # type: ignore
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Don't decode ``TZCNT``, decode ``BSF`` instead
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NO_MPFX_0FBD: DecoderOptions = 0x0002_0000 # type: ignore
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Don't decode ``LZCNT``, decode ``BSR`` instead
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NO_LAHF_SAHF_64: DecoderOptions = 0x0004_0000 # type: ignore
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Don't decode ``LAHF`` and ``SAHF`` in 64-bit mode
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MPX: DecoderOptions = 0x0008_0000 # type: ignore
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Decode ``MPX`` instructions
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CYRIX: DecoderOptions = 0x0010_0000 # type: ignore
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: Decode most Cyrix instructions: ``FPU``, ``EMMI``, ``SMM``, ``DDI``
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CYRIX_SMINT_0F7E: DecoderOptions = 0x0020_0000 # type: ignore
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Decode Cyrix ``SMINT 0F7E`` (Cyrix 6x86 or earlier)
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Linnaeus University, Faculty of Technology, Department of Mathematics. Natl Res Univ Informat Technol Mech & Opt ITMO, Russia.
A fundamental particle in physical space subject to conservation of momentum and energy, and characterized by its average mass and its position is methodologically supplemented with an information processor - a classical Turing machine - and a randomizer both defined on an information space localized on every particle. In this way the particle can be considered a generalized Darwinian system on which natural selection could act steering the evolution on the information space of the algorithms that govern the behaviour of the particles, giving rise plausibly to emergent quantum behaviour from initial randomness. This theory is applied to an EPR-Bohm experiment for electrons in order to analyse Bell inequality violation. A model for the entanglement of two particles has been considered. The model includes shared randomness - each particle stores its own randomizer and that of its partner - and the mutual transfer of their algorithms - sharing programs - that contain their respective anticipation modules. This fact enables every particle to anticipate not only the possible future configurations of its surrounding systems, but also those of the surrounding systems of its entangled partner. Thus, while preserving locality and realism, this theory implies outcome dependence - through shared randomness - and parameter dependence - through shared anticipation - for entangled states and, as a consequence, the violation of the Bell inequality in an EPR-Bohm experiment.
Khrennikov, A. & Alodjants, A. (2019). Classical (Local and Contextual) Probability Model for Bohm-Bell Type Experiments: No-Signaling as Independence of Random Variables. Entropy, 21(2), 1-20, Article ID 157.
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Technology, Department of Mathematics. Natl Res Univ Informat Technol, Russia.
Natl Res Univ Informat Technol, Russia.
We start with a review on classical probability representations of quantum states and observables. We show that the correlations of the observables involved in the Bohm-Bell type experiments can be expressed as correlations of classical random variables. The main part of the paper is devoted to the conditional probability model with conditioning on the selection of the pairs of experimental settings. From the viewpoint of quantum foundations, this is a local contextual hidden-variables model. Following the recent works of Dzhafarov and collaborators, we apply our conditional probability approach to characterize (no-)signaling. Consideration of the Bohm-Bell experimental scheme in the presence of signaling is important for applications outside quantum mechanics, e.g., in psychology and social science. The main message of this paper (rooted to Ballentine) is that quantum probabilities and more generally probabilities related to the Bohm-Bell type experiments (not only in physics, but also in psychology, sociology, game theory, economics, and finances) can be classically represented as conditional probabilities.
Recently Dzhafarov and Kon published the paper advertising the possibility to use the coupling technique of classical probability theory to model incompatible observables in quantum physics and quantum-like models of psychology. Here I present comments on this paper by stressing advantages and disadvantages. (C) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Recently, the methods of quantum theory, especially quantum information, started to be widely applied outside of physics: in cognitive, social sciences, economics, finance, decision making and biology. We propose a quantum-like model: the information laser. The basic assumption is the discrete structure of state spaces related to the quantization of information. The information field acts in the form of indistinguishable quanta of social energy analogue to photons. The massive flow of information acts as a laser pump. In this framework, an information selection process by agents under constant pressure of massive repeated information leads to collective resonance effects in analogy with laser cavity and stimulated emission. In order to make operational parallels between physical lasers and the information laser we identify the essential features of laser operation. An application to the analysis of recent disruptive social events (colour revolutions) is discussed. Social analogues to the laser are also considered through the model of Echo Chambers induced by the Internet and Adam Smith's invisible hand.
Natl Acad Sci Ukraine, Ukraine.
We develop the p-adic model of propagation of fluids (e.g., oil or water) in capillary networks in a porous random medium. The hierarchic structure of a system of capillaries is mathematically modeled by endowing trees of capillaries with the structure of an ultra metric space. Considerations are restricted to the case of idealized networks represented by homogeneous p-trees with p branches leaving each vertex, where p > 1 is a prime number. Such trees are realized as the fields of p-adic numbers. We introduce and study an inhomogeneous Markov process describing the penetration of fluid into a porous random medium. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Technology, Department of Mathematics. National Research University of Information Technologies, Russia.
Several concepts stemming from three apparently divergent approaches to quantum mechanics—Bohmian Mechanics, QBism, and Time-Symmetric Quantum Mechanics—are interwoven in an information-theoretic Darwinian scheme applied to fundamental physical systems that might contribute to shed light on some long-standing quantum mechanical conundrums.
Khrennikov, A. & Loubenets, E. R. (2018). Evaluating the Maximal Violation of the Original Bell Inequality by Two-Qudit States Exhibiting Perfect Correlations/Anticorrelations. Entropy, 20(11), Article ID 829.
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Technology, Department of Mathematics. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia.
We introduce the general class of symmetric two-qubit states guaranteeing the perfect correlation or anticorrelation of Alice and Bob outcomes whenever some spin observable is measured at both sites. We prove that, for all states from this class, the maximal violation of the original Bell inequality is upper bounded by 32" role="presentation">32 and specify the two-qubit states where this quantum upper bound is attained. The case of two-qutrit states is more complicated. Here, for all two-qutrit states, we obtain the same upper bound 32" role="presentation">32 for violation of the original Bell inequality under Alice and Bob spin measurements, but we have not yet been able to show that this quantum upper bound is the least one. We discuss experimental consequences of our mathematical study.
In this critical essay, I present my personal reflections on QBism. I have no intrinsic sympathy neither to QBism nor to subjective interpretation of probability in general. However, I have been following the development of QBism from its very beginning, observing its evolution and success, sometimes with big surprise. Therefore my reflections on QBism can be treated as "external observer" reflections. I hope that my view on this interpretation of quantum mechanics (QM) has some degree of objectivity. It may be useful for researchers who are interested in quantum foundations, but do not belong to the QBism community, because I tried to analyze essentials of QBism critically (i.e., not just emphasizing its advantages, as in a typical QBist publication). QBists, too, may be interested in comments of an external observer who monitored development of this approach to QM during the last 16 years. (However, this paper cannot serve as an introduction to QBism. It neither concerns the philosophic issues around QBism.) Two sections are devoted to comparison of QBism with two interpretations of QM, the Växjö and information interpretations, which are close to QBism in two very different aspects, probabilistic and informational. The second part of the paper is devoted to interpretations of probability, objective versus subjective, and views of Kolmogorov, von Mises, and de Finetti. De Finetti's approach to methodology of science is presented and compared with QBism. One of the outputs of this comparison is understanding of restrictiveness of QBism, where the subjective probability viewpoint is applied only to QM. One of the main messages of this paper is that QBism has to be completed by CBism (classical physics Bayesianism). Finally, the possibility to use QBism as the general interpretational basis for applications of the quantum probabilistic formalism for decision-making outside of physics (in cognitive, social, and political sciences, psychology, economics, finances) is considered.
Lozada Aguilar, M. A., Khrennikov, A. & Oleschko, K. (2018). From axiomatics of quantum probability to modelling geological uncertainty and management of intelligent hydrocarbon reservoirs with the theory of open quantum systems. Philosophical Transactions. Series A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering science, 376(2118), Article ID 20170225.
Aseguramiento Tecnol Pemex Explorac & Prod, Mexico.
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Mexico.
As was recently shown by the authors, quantum probability theory can be used for the modelling of the process of decision-making (e.g. probabilistic risk analysis) for macroscopic geophysical structures such as hydrocarbon reservoirs. This approach can be considered as a geophysical realization of Hilbert's programme on axiomatization of statistical models in physics (the famous sixth Hilbert problem). In this conceptual paper, we continue development of this approach to decision-making under uncertainty which is generated by complexity, variability, heterogeneity, anisotropy, as well as the restrictions to accessibility of subsurface structures. The belief state of a geological expert about the potential of exploring a hydrocarbon reservoir is continuously updated by outputs of measurements, and selection of mathematical models and scales of numerical simulation. These outputs can be treated as signals Dfrom the information environment E. The dynamics of the belief state can be modelled with the aid of the theory of open quantum systems: a quantum state (representing uncertainty in beliefs) is dynamically modified through coupling with E; stabilization to a steady state determines a decision strategy. In this paper, the process of decision-making about hydrocarbon reservoirs (e.g. 'explore or not?'; 'open new well or not?'; 'contaminated by water or not?'; 'double or triple porosity medium?') is modelled by using the Gorini-Kossakowski- Sudarshan-Lindblad equation. In our model, this equation describes the evolution of experts' predictions about a geophysical structure. We proceed with the information approach to quantum theory and the subjective interpretation of quantum probabilities (due to quantum Bayesianism).
Fudan Univ, Peoples Republic of China.


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The Eighth Edition of the Coin World Almanac is a massive one-volume, 700 page reference that places vital coin collecting and industry specific facts that you need to know right at your fingertips.
The Eighth Edition of the Coin World Almanac is a massive one-volume, 700 page reference that places vital coin collecting and industry specific facts that you need to know right at your fingertips. Th ebook features chapters on topics such as the United States Mint, U.S. Coins, World Coins, U.S. Paper Money, Counterfeit Coins, Grading Coins, Numismatics and the Law and much more.


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Q: Making a clicked row editable I'm creating the following table dynamically with an edit button on each line.

<?php echo $f1; ?>
<?php echo $f2; ?>
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<input class="edbuttons" type="button" value="Edit">

When the edit button is clicked I'd like the cells in the row to be converted to text boxes, but I can't work out how to do it. I've spent hours searching the net for the right syntax, but can't find anything that does what I need.
The idea is that when edit is clicked the user can modify the data on the row and click a save or cancel button that would appear in place of the edit button.
I've added a class to the edit button to use as a selector, but I'm not sure if that's the most efficient method.
Any help gratefully received!

A: Jeditable is a good plugin for that.
You may also want to look at the new html5 contenteditable attribute. Setting it to true will allow you to edit the text inside.
http://html5demos.com/contenteditable

A: Put both the text and an input box with that text inside the table cell:

My text goes here

    <input type="text" name="whatever" value="My text goes here" style="display:none;"/>

Then have your edit button toggle both of them:
//if you have jquery:
$('#myText div').toggle();
$('#myText input').toggle();

If you aren't using jquery, you can use javascript to change the display of each.
Obviously there are other little things to work out, but that's the general idea for a way to make it appear like you're making text turn into an input box.


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Cash Business
By: Mike Farrell, Multichannel News
Cable operators are warming to a new way to measure their health.
With the economy reeling, basic subscribers drifting away and no more double-digit growth in operating cash flow, analysts and cable operators are using the metric to highlight the inherent strength of the industry.
While cable may no longer be the growth industry it once was — and has 1.4 million fewer subscribers in the past 18 months to prove it — it is consistently doing one thing it never has done before: It is generating cash. Lots of it.
Free cash flow, essentially the cash left over after capital expenditures and interest payments are made, is not the only metric to watch. But it is gaining steam as an indicator of financial strength during a period when the overall economy has battered companies across the board.
It's a slight departure for the cable industry, which has primarily been gauged by cash flow (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), mainly because of its capital intensity. But as capital expenses have fallen sharply over the past few years, free cash flow has emerged as one of the better indicators of financial health.
"Smart investors look at everything — they look at RGU growth, they look at EBITDA and they look at free cash flow," said Collins Stewart media analyst Tom Eagan. "If you look at just one metric without the others, you could be missing something. You look at RGU growth to see what the future earnings potential may be. You look at EBITDA to see how much they're generating in an ongoing operations basis before capex. And they have to look at free cash flow because it gives you a sense after you invest in the plant and invest in growth how much you have left over."
While free cash flow is gaining traction, it will still be years before cable companies are gauged by the same metric as other Fortune 500 companies like General Electric or ExxonMobil — net income. Although Comcast and Time Warner Cable have been the most consistent earnings generators, the other public MSOs have not raked in earnings. And even those that have been reporting net income have been slightly inconsistent (Time Warner Cable had four straight years of net earnings, but posted a loss of $7.3 billion in 2008 because of one-time charges).
Cash flow is simply a smoother valuation metric, considering the vagaries of cable economics that impact earnings: heavy debt loads for some operators; acquisitions and accounting charges; swings in interest expense due to swaps, floating-rate debt or foreign currency exchanges; and changes in tax rates and payments.
The bigger operators — Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cablevision Systems — have generated increasing amounts of free cash flow at least since 2004. The difference this year is that all of the cable companies are reporting significant free-cash-flow growth. And they are doing it in one of the worst recessions in memory.
"Someone laughed at me because I said we're hitting a sweet spot that has been anticipated for a long time," said Time Warner Cable senior executive vice president and chief financial officer Robert Marcus. "It's a strange thing to say on some of the most difficult RGU net-add environments that we've ever experienced, probably the most difficult."
The gains in free cash flow have been especially dramatic in the past two quarters and were not limited to just the bigger players. The five publicly traded cable companies generated a combined $2.48 billion in free cash flow in the first six months of 2008. In the first half of 2009, the free cash flow tally was $4.1 billion, a 65.3% increase. No other metric comes close to that growth rate. Not cash flow (up 7.4% in the first half of 2009); not revenue (up 6.9% in the first half). Nothing.
Also in the first half of this year, all five publicly traded cable operators reported positive free cash flow — the first time that has ever happened. Comcast led the way with $2.5 billion of free cash flow in the first half of the year, a 36% increase over the first half of 2008. Next in line was Time Warner Cable, with $1.03 billion in free cash flow in the first half, a 27.9% increase; Cablevision Systems, with $402.6 million in free cash flow, a 23.9% increase and Mediacom with $62.5 million, a 396.3% increase.
Even Charter Communications, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on March 27, managed to show positive free cash flow of $66 million for the first half of the year, compared to a $523 million free cash flow deficit in 2008. The main factor in that performance was that Charter didn't have to make payments on its debt through the bankruptcy period.
When Charter has to start servicing its obligations again, once it emerges — hopefully by the end of the summer — its debt load will be considerably lighter and it can theoretically start generating free cash flow on a consistent basis.
Marcus said he has been touting the free-cash-flow mantra to investors for the past 18 months. While the cable business has weathered slowing subscriber growth, he added, it is still performing well in a bad economy. Cable's revenue growth has been steady and a new top-line driver is on the horizon in the form of business telephony service.
"The punch line of all of that is that we're [the industry] able to generate that growth while still generating a huge amount of free cash flow," Marcus said. "And the reason were able to do that is in large measure due to the fact that, after years and years of increasing capex relative to revenue, we're now in a mode where we're able to decrease capex on both an absolute basis and as a percentage of revenue as revenue rises."
Still, being able to maintain some level of growth in the other metrics is important, because there are several ways to manage for free-cash-flow growth. The easiest is to cut off the capex spigot entirely, which would result in big gains in free cash flow, but would ruin the business in a matter of months as no investment would be made for new equipment, new services or customer support.
What's harder is to find a balance between reasonable capital expenditures and free cash flow. "The main driver is continued OIBDA growth and the ability to manage capital expenditures," Marcus said.
Mediacom has had the most dramatic rise in free cash flow — it was up more than five times in the first half of this year — to $62.5 million from $12.6 million in the first six months of 2008. The company said at the beginning of the year that it expected to increase free cash flow by more than 10 times to $1 per share ($67 million). In the second quarter, Mediacom raised that full-year guidance to at least $1.30 per share.
Mediacom executive vice president and chief financial officer Mark Stephan said the road to that growth was basically paved with good business sense and execution across the entire cable industry.
"We're actively managing capex, devoting more and more to success-based investment and doing all the right things to maintain our very reasonable cost of debt," Stephan said. "If you can manage these outlays wisely and continue with operating cash-flow growth, you can grow free cash flow at a rapid clip."
Helping Mediacom to fuel that rapid rise in free cash flow was a big drop in capital expenditures — to $225 million in the first half of 2009 from $290 million in the same period in 2008, a 22% decline.
When Cablevision was spending a lot of money to build out its network and drive penetration of new services to industry-leading levels, its capex was about 20% to 25% of revenue. Today, now that its penetration gains have leveled off, capex represents about 10% of revenue.
Mediacom's capex is now less than 15% of revenue, a level Stephan believes the company can maintain, even with driving penetrations higher and making product development investments to maintain its competitive position. Couple that with operating cash flow margins of about 38%, and free cash flow growth becomes "a question of how well we manage interest expense and our balance sheet and this is where we have excelled historically," Stephan added.
For the rest of the industry, capex as a percentage of revenue ranged from about 17% (for Time Warner Cable) to 9.9% (Cablevision) in the first half of the year. And those percentages are down across the board — capex was 20% of revenue at TWC and Charter in the first half of 2008.
Not everyone is convinced that the free cash flow train will continue to run smoothly. The high growth numbers cable operators are enjoying now are essentially a product of the sluggish economy and declining subscribers, argued Pali Research analyst Richard Greenfield.
"On a relative basis, you're seeing Cablevision and Mediacom outperform expectations," Greenfield said. "But everyone is seeing a significant boost in free cash flow as subscriber growth slows. The difference is with Cablevision it's more because penetration levels are at maturity as with the rest of the companies it is far more related to the economy."
Once RGU growth returns to past levels as the economy recovers, in Greenfield's view, free cash flow will wane. In a recent report, he estimated that Cablevision will grow free cash flow by 52% in 2009 to $754 million and by 24% in 2010 to $935 million. But the analyst believes that free cash flow will decline by 12.7% in 2009 and by 29% in 2010 at Time Warner Cable and by 27.8% and 12.5%, respectively at Comcast.
Marcus took exception to Greenfield's logic. While TWC is making no predictions, Marcus said, he can't see how a company can grow subscribers and revenue and lower capital expenditures and not generate more cash.
"We will be spending more but all-in, your free cash flow ought to go up," Marcus said. "It would be a pretty strange phenomenon if, over a long period of time, our business would be better off if we didn't sell units."
Cable cash flow comparison
Dollars in millions
Q2 '09 Q2 '08 % Change 1H '09 1H '08 % Change
Source: Individual company and analyst reports
OCF: Operating Cash Flow
AOCF: Adjusted Operating Cash Flow
OIBDA: Operating Income Before Depreciation and Amortization
AOIBDA: Adjusted Operating Income Before Depreciation and Amortization
FCF: Free Cash Flow
Revenue $8,938 $8,553 4.5% $17,773 $16,492 4.9%
OCF $3,535 $3,351 5.5% $6,979 $6,525 7%
FCF $1,170 $1,163 0.6% $2,536 $1,865 36%
Q209 Q208 % Change 1H09 1H08 % Change
Revenue $4,474 $4,298 4.1% $8,838 $8,458 4.5%
OIBDA $1,645 $1,525 7.9% $3,109 $2,927 6.2%
FCF $664 $475 39.8% $1,031 $806 27.9%
Cablevision Systems
Revenue $1,876 $1,708 9.8% $3,798 $3,438 10.5%
AOCF $636.6 $595.9 6.8% $1,228 $1,113.7 10.3%
FCF $232 $250 (7%) $402.6 $324 23.9%
Mediacom Communications
Revenue $364.5 $349.5 6% $724.9 $689.2 5.2%
AOIBDA $136.8 $130.1 6.6% $271.9 $255.9 6.3%
FCF $31.1 $5.4 475.9% $62.5 $12.6 396.3%
AOIBDA $638 $591 8% $1,254 $1,136 10.4%
FCF $175 ($362) N/A $66 ($523) N/A
Cash Flow: What's in a name?
Cable operators define free cash flow in different terms, but generally speaking, it's the cash derived from the business after capital expenditures and interest payments are made. The official definitions from the publicly traded cable operators.
Source: http://www.multichannel.com/article/339628-Cover_Story_Cash_Business.php?rssid=20061
Source: Company and SEC filings
Time Warner Cable: "The company defines Free Cash Flow as cash provided by operating activities (as defined under GAAP) plus excess tax benefits from the exercise of stock options, less cash provided by (used by) discontinued operations, capital expenditures, cash paid for other intangible assets, partnership distributions and principal payments on capital leases."
Comcast: "'Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities' (as stated in our Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows) reduced by capital expenditures and cash paid for intangible assets; and adjusted for any payments related to certain non-operating items, net of estimated tax benefits (such as income taxes on investment sales and nonrecurring payments related to income tax and litigation contingencies of acquired companies)."
Mediacom: "Free Cash Flow: adjusted operating income before depreciation and amortization and non-cash, share-based compensation charges, less interest expense, net, cash taxes and capital expenditures."
Cablevision: "We define Consolidated Free Cash Flow from Continuing Operations, ('free cash flow'), which is a non-GAAP financial measure, as net cash from operating activities (continuing operations) less capital expenditures (continuing operations), both of which are reported in our Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows. Net cash from operating activities excludes net cash from operating activities of our discontinued operations."
Charter: "Free cash flow is defined as net cash flows from operating activities, less capital expenditures and changes in accrued expenses related to capital expenditures."