The father of a year-old North Philadelphia boy has been charged with beating the child to death. Authorities said yesterday there was evidence that the boy might have been abused in the past.
Taijim Chamorro, 21, of the 2900 block of North Orkney Street, is accused of murder in the death of his son, also named Taijim Chamorro. A CAT scan disclosed that the boy had previous head injuries and rib fractures, authorities said.
Homicide Capt. Michael Costello said police were working with the city's Department of Human Services, which is contacted in cases of suspected child abuse. Costello said there might have been a previous abuse report that was deemed unfounded.
Ted Qualli, spokesman for Human Services, said the agency had "had no prior contact with this family."
The boy's father initially told detectives he fell down a dozen steps with the child in his arms on Thursday.
Chamorro said he was preparing a bath for his son and decided to get some toys for the tub that were on the first floor of the rowhouse. When he fell, he told police, the child fell with him. He said he thought the boy was OK because he continued to make normal baby sounds.
It wasn't until he undressed Taijim that he saw a red spot on the boy's body and the child began showing signs of distress, he told police.
The child's mother, who had gone to the store with the couple's 3-year-old daughter about 15 minutes earlier, returned home to find her son unconscious and the father screaming for help. They called 911 and took the boy to Episcopal Hospital. He was transferred to Temple Children's Medical Center to be treated for head trauma, police said.
At Temple, doctors ordered a CAT scan that showed the tot's previous head injuries and serious rib fractures, authorities said.
He remained on life support in critical condition until his death Saturday. An autopsy the next day confirmed that the child died of blunt-force trauma to the head, police said.
The child's mother told authorities she had noticed bruises on her son in the past and had asked Chamorro about them. The father told her the infant must have received the bruises while playing, police said. The mother told police she had never been abused and had never seen Chamorro abuse the children, authorities said.
Doctors and pathologists reported that the boy's injuries were not consistent with a fall and it was later concluded that the injuries were inflicted with a fist, authorities said.
When Chamorro was taken into custody Sunday, he gave a different story that authorities did not detail yesterday.
Yesterday, family members gathered at Chamorro's home, where they counted out $343 collected so far for the boy's funeral. They placed a shrine of candles and stuffed animals outside the rowhouse.
The suspect's father, Ramon Chamorro, 53, said his son was a good parent. He never saw his son abuse the children and was shocked to hear of the arrest, he said. "When I found out it happened, I said, 'It couldn't be,' " he said in Spanish to his sister-in-law Juanita Pacheco, 43, of New York, who translated.
Contact staff writer Barbara Boyer at 215-854-2641 or bboyer@phillynews.com.
Inquirer staff writer Stephanie L. Arnold contributed to this article.


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Филипп II, герцог Орлеанский (;  — ) — регент Французского королевства при малолетнем короле Людовике XV в 1715—1723 годах, «внук Франции», племянник Людовика XIV.

Детство и юность

Филипп родился 2 августа 1674 года в семье Филиппа I Орлеанского и его второй супруги — принцессы Палатинской из Баварского дома Виттельсбахов. При рождении он получил титул принца Шартрского. Воспитателем умного и способного мальчика был назначен аббат Дюбуа, однако в качестве наставника он не оправдал возложенных на него надежд: Филипп не получил должного образования, хотя и имел интерес к естественным наукам.

Принц с юных лет проявил своё неравнодушие к женскому полу, что при дворе его дяди — Людовика XIV вовсе не порицалось.

В возрасте семнадцати лет Филипп женился на пятнадцатилетней мадемуазель де Блуа, сестре герцога Мэнского, узаконенной дочери короля Людовика XIV и его фаворитки мадам де Монтеспан.

В 1701 году, после смерти отца, Филипп Шартрский получил титул герцога Орлеанского.
Филипп был крайне честолюбив — его не устраивало положение «вечно второго», как иногда называли герцогов Орлеанских. Он даже попытался претендовать на испанский трон вместо намечавшегося на это место внука Людовика XIV (будущего Филиппа V, Испанского). Это привело к длительной размолвке с Людовиком XIV.

Регентство

Политика регента

К 1715 году во Франции сложилась непростая ситуация: у Людовика XIV из прямых наследников оставался в живых только пятилетний правнук — Людовик, герцог Анжуйский (будущий Людовик XV). Перед своей смертью, последовавшей 1 сентября 1715 года, король назначил Филиппа Орлеанского регентом королевства. Так началась эпоха, названная впоследствии эпохой Регентства.

Своей резиденцией регент выбрал Пале-Рояль. Распорядок дня Филиппа Орлеанского несколько отличался от рабочего ритма Людовика XIV, начинавшего трудиться в шесть утра и заканчивавшего далеко за полночь. В девять утра регент садился работать и до обеда читал донесения, отвечал на депеши или принимал послов. После десерта он возвращался в свой кабинет и вел заседания совета. После пяти часов вечера для Филиппа не существовало никаких важных дел — получение удовольствий было для него важнее возложенной на него миссии.

В начале 1710-х гг. французский королевский дом поразила серия смертей (в основном от оспы и краснухи). Людовик XV также производил на современников впечатление крайне болезненного младенца. В случае его смерти ближайшим родственником оказывался Филипп V Испанский, который, хотя и отказался по Утрехтскому миру от прав на французский престол, имел намерение добиваться пересмотра этих условий с оружием в руках.

Исключение из престолонаследия испанского короля делало регента потенциальным наследником престола. Он приблизил к себе проницательного аббата Дюбуа, который совершил то, что казалось немыслимым, — заключил альянс Франции с её давнишними врагами, Англией и Голландией (1717). Это соглашение стало прелюдией к Войне за французское наследство, которую испанский король проиграл. Филипп изменил и государственную политику в отношении священников — янсенистов, преследуемых в правление Людовика XIV.

Филипп Орлеанский вёл активную переписку с Петром I, полагая, что Россия может быть надёжным союзником для Франции. (Союз Франции, Пруссии и России был заключён в Амстердаме 4 августа 1717 года). Имела место и личная встреча царя и регента: Пётр находился в Париже с 7 мая по 20 июня 1717 года. В результате этой встречи возник смелый проект — женитьба Людовика XV на младшей дочери Петра — Елизавете. Однако со смертью Петра I в 1725 году от этой мысли пришлось отказаться — с воцарением Екатерины I авторитет России значительно упал.

Полисинодия

Регент делал попытку реформировать государственное правление и в 1715 году вводил систему коллективного руководства — полисинодию, когда статс-секретариаты были заменены коллегиальными советами, куда привлекались представители аристократии. После упразднения советов регентства в 1718 году вернулись к прежнему порядку правления.

Система Ло (Лоу)

В эпоху Регентства появились первые бумажные деньги. Джон Лоу, предприимчивый шотландский авантюрист, следуя примеру Английского и Шотландского банков, созданных в 1694—1695 годах, основывает в 1716 году частный банк с правом выпуска банкнот. Банк Лоу тотчас выпускает бумажные деньги, руководствуясь единственным желанием создать бумажные заменители золотых и серебряных монет.

Чтобы упрочить кредитоспособность банка, в августе 1717 года Лоу создает Западную торговую компанию, а регент предоставляет Лоу монополию на торговлю оружием и табаком с Канадой, Китаем, Индией. В мае 1719 года Западная торговая компания реорганизуется в Индийскую компанию.

С декабря 1718 года частный банк Лоу становится государственным банком Франции — Королевским банком. Тысячи представителей всех социальных слоев ежедневно скупают акции банка. За несколько месяцев выпускается более 600 тысяч акций, цена которых в 40 раз превышает их номинальную стоимость.
5 января 1720 года Джон Лоу назначается на пост генерального контролёра финансов.

Однако крах системы Лоу неизбежен; с падением «дутых» акций рухнул и его банк.
В декабре 1720 года финансовая катастрофа обретает такой размах, что Джону Лоу приходится бежать в Брюссель.

Экономические последствия применения «системы Лоу» имели не только негативную сторону повсеместного банкротства во Франции. Государство уплатило часть своих долгов и увеличило доходы в казну. Кроме того, эта финансовая система способствовала развитию торговли по обе стороны Атлантики. Но с политической стороны её последствия были катастрофичны. В литературе часто встречается определение «афера Лоу».

Частная жизнь

Следуя примеру всех французских королей, Филипп Орлеанский избрал себе официальную фаворитку — Мари-Мадлен де Ла Вьевиль, графиню де Парабер (фрейлину герцогини Беррийской), впоследствии её сменила мадам де Фалари.

Помимо них, среди любовниц герцога значились актриса Шарлотта Демар, маркиза де Сабран, жена лейтенанта гвардии мадам Феран д'Аверн.

Французский двор эпохи Регентства имел самую дурную репутацию в Европе. Его именовали не иначе, как «вертеп». Однако герцог Орлеанский старался оградить маленького короля от дурного влияния своих придворных — молодой Людовик XV был поручен заботам добродетельной герцогини де Вантадур и священнику де Флёри (будущему кардиналу).
Существуют сведения, что Филипп Орлеанский пытался уничтожить ребёнка-короля с целью занятия престола. Однако подтверждений подобным фактам в серьёзных исторических источниках нет.

8 декабря 1722 года в возрасте семидесяти одного года скончалась принцесса Елизавета Шарлотта Пфальцская. Смерть любимой матери так потрясла регента, что вызвала тяжелейшую депрессию.

2 декабря 1723 года Филипп Орлеанский скончался в Версале на руках своей возлюбленной — мадам де Фалари. Похоронен в Сен-Клу. Сердце регента находится в Королевской капелле в Дрё.

Дети
От своей жены Франсуазы Марии Бурбон (мадемуазель де Блуа) имел семерых детей:
 Мария Луиза Елизавета (1695—1719), замужем за Карлом, герцогом Беррийским и Алансонским;
 Луиза Аделаида (1698—1743), мадемуазель Орлеанская, аббатиса;
 Шарлотта Аглая (1700—1761), мадемуазель Валуа, замужем за Франческо III д'Эсте;
 Людовик (1703—1752), герцог Орлеанский;
 Луиза Елизавета (1709—1742), мадемуазель Монпансье, замужем за королём Испании Луисом I;
 Филиппа Елизавета (1714—1734), мадемуазель Божоле;
 Луиза Диана (1716—1736), мадемуазель Шартская, замужем за Людовиком Франсуа Конти.

Также у регента были внебрачные дети от многочисленных любовниц (в том числе Жан-Филипп-Франсуа Орлеанский).

Генеалогия

А. С. Пушкин об эпохе Регентства
В своём незаконченном произведении «Арап Петра Великого» А. С. Пушкин дал ироничную характеристику эпохе Регентства:

«По свидетельству всех исторических записок ничто не могло сравниться с вольным легкомыслием, безумством и роскошью французов того времени. Последние годы царствования Людовика XIV, ознаменованные строгой набожностию двора, важностию и приличием, не оставили никаких следов. Герцог Орлеанский, соединяя многие блестящие качества с пороками всякого рода, к несчастию, не имел и тени лицемерия. Оргии Пале-Рояля не были тайною для Парижа; пример был заразителен… Алчность к деньгам соединилась с жаждою наслаждений и рассеянности; имения исчезали; нравственность гибла; французы смеялись и рассчитывали, и государство распадалось под игривые припевы сатирических водевилей»

Другие факты

Французские колонисты дали основанному ими в Луизиане поселению (1718) имя Новый Орлеан с аллюзией на титул регента. Луизиана в целом и Новый Орлеан в частности сохраняют в США до настоящего времени элементы французской культуры.

В кино
 «Пусть начнётся праздник» — режиссёр Бертран Тавернье (Франция, 1975); в роли Филиппа II Орлеанского — Филипп Нуаре.
 «Горбун» — режиссёр Филипп де Брока (Франция, 1997); в роли Филиппа II Орлеанского — Филипп Нуаре.
 «Лагардер. Мститель в маске» (Lagardère, ТВ) — режиссёр Анри Эльман (Франция, 2003); в роли Филиппа II Орлеанского — Пьер Жерар (Pierre Gérard).
 «Обмен принцессами» — режиссёр Марк Дуген (Франция — Бельгия, 2013); в Филиппа II Орлеанского — Оливье Гурме.

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Правители Европы XVIII века
Регенты Франции
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Участники войны за испанское наследство
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Sometimes it takes a village to teach a robot. Computer scientists have shown that crowdsourcing can be a quick and effective way to teach a robot how to complete tasks. Instead of learning from just one human, robots could one day query the larger online community, asking for instructions or input on the best way to set the table or water the garden.


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Q: IOS - second launch of my app going auto in background when I start my application from Xcode, the application works properly, but if I close and then open the app again, it goes into the background automatically without control. How can I fix this bug ?

A: There are some crash types those will not be happening when running the app via Xcode.
For example:
If the app launch takes too long, that app will be crashed. Basically it's not a crash, but app needs to be launched quickly without delay which is expected by operating system.
So You need to make sure that you are not doing any heavy operations on Main Thread during app launch especially on below methods in AppDelegate
func application(_ application: UIApplication, willFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey : Any]? = nil) -> Bool {

// Avoid heavy loads on main thread here
    return true
}

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {

// Avoid heavy loads on main thread here
    return true
}

Also I received a crash a few years back when I tried to add an objective c struct to my NSObject class without allocating memory of struct variable. But this crash was unable to reproduce when I was running my app via Xcode and only happened when I launch the app without Xcode. So I made that struct variable as a pointer and did memory allocation as like (BoothStructure*)malloc(sizeof(BoothStructure) * count), after that there was no crash.
So please analyze your crash using crash logs as well and check if it meets any one of above scenario.
To check crash log of development build:
Open Xcode -> Connect your iOS device which has/had the crashed app -> Window -> Devices and Simulators -> View Device Logs
To check crash log of production build(you should add your developer account in Xcode that is used to publish your app):
Open Xcode -> Window -> Organizer -> Select your app from the list of apps -> Select crashes tab in segmented controller at top -> Select your build version.

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Discussion in 'Patch Notes' started by Chris, Dec 19, 2017.
The Dark Magic Event returns! To learn more about the event click here!
- Designed two new instances for this years event. The White Witches Lair, and Krampus's Lair for Naughty Children.
- Each of the new instances is a massive two stage dungeon with new monsters, new challenges and should be considered extremely difficult.
- Note: While these instances have an ironman system, they were not designed or tested with the expectation that someone can solo them.
- Designed 30+ new creatures to be included in these new instances. These creatures will primarily spawn in the instances and with a few exceptions the overworld.
- The two new instances will allow players 105minutes to complete them, compared to 60 minutes allowed during the existing instance.
- In order to obtain the scrolls for these new instances players must successfully complete one of the current classic events and loot the final chest.
- Each instance has a 20% chance to reward you with a scroll for one of the new instances.
- You will also have a very small chance to obtain one of the new scrolls when killing one of the new creatures during an scripted overworld event.
- Note: Event scrolls do not drop in the instances themselves.
- Added a variety of holiday lanterns to match past holiday colors.
- Added frozen lamp posts for players to use for home decor.
- Added frozen suits of armor for players to use for home decor.
- Allowed suits of armor addons to retain their deed hue when placing or deeding.
- Treasure maps obtained during holiday events like christmas and halloween when taking place in trammel will no longer be linked to the trammel map.
- Resolved a problem with the world alert system not reporting correct information to our moderator bot.
- Resolved a problem with the Nu'jelm guard zone due to some bad math.
Given the addition of drastically more monsters that tie into our Christmas event we have expanded the slayer system to include 4 new types of holiday slayers.
These slayers will only drop from opposition holiday creatures and will not be part of any loot pool outside of holiday events. They will also only be effective against creatures in holiday events. The existing slayer system was not designed to support our extensive holiday additions.
- These slayers will drop when defeating monsters commonly round in the Frozen Continent and Ice Fortress events.
Dark Elf Slayer - Effective against dark elves, spirits, and other monsters commonly found in the Frozen continent and Ice Fortress events.
- These slayers will drop when defeating monsters commonly found in the Hidden Village and Santa's Lair events.
Frost Bane - Effective against Frost warriors, the white witch and other monsters found in the Lair of the White Witch instance.
Flame Bane - Effective against flame warriors, the anti-reindeer, Krampus and other monsters found in the Krampus's Lair instance.
- Found and fixed a problem where the Harrower results did not properly expire allowing players to keep the scoring gump up to spy on later Harrower attempts.
- Players will have 15 minutes to review their scores after the harrower is successfully killed.
- Updated the horrible trammel public moongate prompts to something that we feel would be more applicable on OSI in 1999.
- While the classic method of checking the phases of the UO Moon using a spyglass(did that ever work?) to determine where the gate will go is a classic mechanic.
- It is also extremely tedious for players and just results in people hopping the gate 20 times to get lucky on the right destination.
- Rather than use this system we were able to use the art available in the client and match the gumps to the same look for when you pick a town to start in.
- Dangerous towns like Buc's Den are colored in red, and Ocllo is green to signify the new player program.
- Players can either click the gem on the map or the gem next to the name on the right side of the menu to travel to that town.
- Players can also now select Serpents Hold, Cove and Nu'jelm as travel destinations.
- Added 11x11 moongate regions to the locations selected for the Cove and Serpent's Hold moongates.
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There's a difference from the last post in the new slayers that isn't clear. Will Repond no longer work?
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Will the scrolls from previous years be updated to this loot table? Didn't know if say my blue ones from last year (or maybe even 2015??) Will drop the slayers for green ones or red ones?
Yes. All existing scrolls will qualify for the new changes.
- While the classic method of checking the phases of the UO Moon using a sextant (did that ever work?) to determine where the gate will go is a classic mechanic.
I remember this, it was a pain!
The new menu looks great!
@Chris you probably caught this by now but Maginicia is missing it's "i" on the moongate map.
Very awesome job on these updates! Marry Christmas 2017 everyone!
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Awesome work as usual !!! Thanks!
So, my "a new lute of Elf Slaying" that dropped off an Elf not a Dark Elf works on Elves and not Dark Elves?
Yes, Once the next patch goes in the name will be corrected.
Oh it still hasn't been fixed? My friend and his dragons all died because I kept failing provo, now we know why .
Spyglass, not sextant. It did work but even back in-era most people hopped moongates 50 times rather than use one.
Thanks, I will update my comments on that. Been so long I could not remember which it was. Hopefully the new changes are something that still feels like something we could have seen in 1998. I always wondered why they used that for selecting towns when starting on the server, but not for anything else ingame.


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Screentime before bedtime may leave people feeling groggy in the morning. Cell phones, computers and TVs emit blue light. And exposure to that bluish light during the two hours before bed can keep us from getting a good night's rest, a new study finds.
It cut down the number of minutes people slept. It also left them feeling groggy in the morning.
It's been known for quite a while that "blue light is bad for sleep," observes Shadab Rahman. He was not involved in the new study. His work sleep at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Mass., does, however, study how light affects the body's internal "clock." Its natural cycles tell us when to sleep and when to get up in the morning. These cycles are known as our circadian (Sur-KAY-dee-un) rhythms. The light of day and the dark of night both work to help keep this internal clock running on a roughly 24-hour cycle.
Computers, televisions, tablets and other electronic devices give off all colours of light. And, he notes, evidence has been emerging that these screens — and especially the blue light they give off — can disrupt the body's clock. Data show that this blue light tends to make us more alert at night. That makes it harder to fall asleep get all the rest we need.


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Dr. Seuss On Malaria: 'This Is Ann ... She Drinks Blood'
August 20, 2012 • As a captain in the U.S. Army during World War II, Theodor Geisel created a booklet warning troops against the dangers of malaria and how to avoid contracting it.
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Know The Enemy: Scientists Use Genetics To Get Ahead Of Malaria
June 15, 2012 • An international team of researchers based in the U.K. say they've taken a big step forward in tracking the malaria parasite's evolution and predicting hotspots of potential resistance.
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Shoddy Drugs Threaten Malaria Treatment
May 22, 2012 • From 20 to 42 percent of the malaria medicines examined in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were crummy or counterfeit. The poor quality of the medicines threatens people's health and raises the odds for drug-resistant disease.
New Type Of Resistant Malaria Appears On Thai-Burmese Border
April 5, 2012 • Malaria parasites resistant to the last, best drug treatment, called artemisinin combination therapy, or ACT, are infecting people along the border of Thailand and Myanmar. And it arose independently of the resistant malaria found in Cambodia. Now health workers face a two-front war.
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Researchers Say Malaria Deaths Are Twice The Official Count
February 2, 2012 • If the new numbers are right, it means there's little chance that malaria deaths can be cut to near-zero by 2015, just three years from now. That was the goal set last year by the World Health Organization.
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Malaria Vaccine Cuts Infection Risk By Half, Study Says
October 18, 2011 • Several thousand young African children who got three doses of the experimental vaccine had about 55 percent less risk of getting malaria over a year than those who got a control vaccine against rabies or meningitis.
Experimental Malaria Vaccine Slashes Infection Risk By Half
A Remnant From Algae In Malaria Parasite May Prove Its Weakness
August 30, 2011 • Scientists say a new finding may help them design or look for specific kinds of drugs that inhibit a critical chemical for the malaria parasite.
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Is Malaria Control In Africa Failing?
August 18, 2011 • Malaria is rebounding in a Senegalese village as mosquitos become resistant to insecticide-treated bednets and some people lose their immunity to the disease. This could mean that the global strategies to eliminate malaria are fundamentally flawed. But some health experts question this interpretation.
A Road Map For Ending Malaria Deaths
July 6, 2011 • The World Health Organization said it's possible to end deaths from malaria as soon as 2015. Now the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is out with a map that shows how it could be done.
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Using Mosquitoes To Put The Bite On Malaria
April 25, 2011 • Coming up with vaccine against malaria has proven to be exceedingly difficult. Dutch researchers have found some small success by "vaccinating" people with mosquito bites.
Fight Against Malaria Shows Progress In New WHO Report
December 14, 2010 • Malaria cases have been cut by almost 50 percent in 11 African countries, according to a World Health Organization report documenting eradication efforts since 2008. The report also says the disease was eradicated in Morocco and Turkmenistan.
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It turns out Facebook received a bit of help under the hood before it unveiled the newly revamped Facebook Messages on Monday.
Some of the new people brought in to upgrade the new messaging system, as well as some of the IP behind the new social aggregation layer, actually arrived courtesy of startup Zenbe, a company we first profiled back in 2008. Back then, Zenbe was primarily focused on aggregating various social and communications platforms into one interface. Starting to sound familiar?
Back in October, Zenbe officially shut down its webmail component, instead choosing to focus on some of its other social sharing tools. At the time, it seemed unusual that Zenbe would shutter its oldest product. In retrospect, it all makes some sense.
CEO Alan Chung discussed the new Facebook messaging product on the official Zenbe blog, noting, "We here at Zenbe are happy to have played a small role in this: a few months ago, three of our engineers joined Facebook as part of a talent acquisition."
To be clear — Zenbe itself wasn't acquired — just some of its engineers and the assets related to the Zenbe Mail product. Zenbe will continue to build new social products, including its upcoming app, Shindig, which will use the Facebook Social Graph to let people share photos with their friends in real-time.
Zenbe Mail is just the latest example of how talent and IP acquisitions make their way into broader Facebook products. Last month, Facebook acquired the IP behind the popular file sharing service, Drop.io, nabbing Drop.io's founder as a new employee in the deal.


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Africa: Major Losses Shift Islamic State, Al-Qaida's Balance of Power
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Washington — Across the United States and many other Western countries, the threat from Islamist terror groups has been increasingly overshadowed by the threats from other extremist groups, some of whom have proven to be more deadly in recent years.
But despite a rise in far-right and white-supremacist-driven terrorist threats, counterterrorism officials have been careful not to overlook the still persistent threat from groups such as the Islamic State and al-Qaida.
"Jihadism is, yes, it is the main threat right now still in the Netherlands," Netherlands Justice and Security Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius said in response to a question from VOA during a visit to Washington in late November.
"Now you see the threat. You see still the ideology," she said. "But the firm organization and the level of organization, also in Europe and in our country, that's breaking down."
Targeting IS and al-Qaida leadership
One reason for the breakdown – both the Islamic State, known as IS, ISIS or Daesh, and al-Qaida suffered significant setbacks in 2022.
"It was certainly a year of decapitations," Edmund Fitton-Brown, a former senior United Nations counterterrorism official, told VOA.
Despite concerns about a possible IS resurgence, the United States dealt the terror group a "significant blow" when its leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, blew himself up following a nighttime raid by U.S. special forces.
Less than eight months later, IS was hit again, losing Abu Ibrahim's replacement, Abu al-Hassan, after a raid by rebels with the Free Syrian Army.
In between, a series of operations by the U.S., partners such as the Syrian Democratic Forces, and allies such as Turkey, kept the pressure up, contributing to the death or capture of at least 10 key IS leaders in 2022.
Already, the U.S. appears to be cracking Islamic State's defenses, with officials telling VOA they have information on the group's new leader, known only by the nom-de-guerre, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi.
Should the U.S. be able to track him down, the impact could reverberate across the jihadi world.
"That starts to look like they have a real problem," Fitton-Brown, the former counterterrorism official, told VOA.
"It's as if the thread of wool (is) just being pulled and pulled and the sweater is coming to pieces, and they can't seem to stop it," he said. "At what point does this actually sort of weaken the brand to the point where … it's where people, that people cease to actually want to identify with it because it starts to stink of failure?"
Setback for Al-Qaida
Al-Qaida also was dealt a considerable setback in August, when a U.S. drone strike killed its leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri in his residential compound in Kabul, Afghanistan.
"Justice has been delivered," U.S. President Joe Biden said, announcing al-Zawahiri's death to the world. "No matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the United States will find you and take you out."
Since then, al-Qaida leadership has been somewhat quiet, its succession plans strained, with al-Zawahiri's likely successor stuck in Iran.
And Western fears about the terror threat emanating from Afghanistan have yet to materialize, with top U.S. counterterrorism officials saying that the IS affiliate there, IS-Khorasan, like al-Qaida, has been sufficiently weakened that it cannot make good on its desire to launch attacks against the West.
Instead, the nexus of the jihadi terror threat continues to shift elsewhere.
Countering terror threat from Africa
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told a forum in California earlier this month that the al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen, known as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, (AQAP) remains the most dangerous and the most capable of attacking the West.
Not far behind is al-Qaida's Somali affiliate known as al-Shabab, which has been financially supporting al-Qaida's core leadership, and which has long harbored a desire to strike at U.S. and Western targets in Africa and beyond.
"The number one I would say probably that we're most concerned about is the threat of al-Shabab in East Africa," Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs Chidi Blyden told VOA during a virtual briefing this month with the Defense Writers Group in Washington.
"We have partnered with the Somalis to ensure that we are trying to degrade their capability to hurt the partners in the region, as well as their intent or capability to be able to have attacks outside of their current location," Blyden said.
To help counter al-Shabab, the U.S. earlier this year decided it was necessary to keep a "small, persistent presence" of about 500 U.S. troops in Somalia – a move welcomed by the new Somali government.
But other terror groups, including al-Qaida and IS affiliates the Sahel have also made gains.
"There's a conglomeration of violent extremist organizations that are in the Sahel that are also of concern to us," Blyden said. "Their impact on populations in the Sahel and surrounding coastal West African countries is something that we are working with our partners to try and understand more."
The past year also saw some countries, such as France, begin pulling some of their counterterrorism forces out of the region.
Some experts fear, as a result, more problems are likely.
"The probability that an al-Qaida group conducts an international terrorist attack continues to rise as the regional branches strengthen and counterterrorism pressure lifts," Katherine Zimmerman, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, told VOA via email.
"Even with the intelligence capabilities the U.S. has–and they are many–the risk that such an attack slips through is slightly higher because of shifts in counterterrorism resources as the global terrorism threat has changed," she said. "It seems as the U.S. footprint shrinks in counterterrorism theaters, so too, does the visibility."
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1955. Typescript. Abstracted in Dissertation abstracts, v. 16 (1956) no. 5, p. 883. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-68).
The use of nonaqueous solvents in capillary electrophoresis (CE) was investigated. Nonaqueous solvents used included methanol, ethanol, acetonitrile, dimethylformamide, and molten salts. Both indirect, and direct UV detection as well as electrochemical detection were examined. The behavior of electroosmotic flow and Joule heating was examined as well as selectivity patterns for a variety of inorganic and organic ionic species. Analytes examined included inorganic anions, alkali and alkaline earth metal ions, alkanesulfonates, alkyl sulfates, linear alkylbenzensulfonates, derivatized and free amino acids, and fatty acids. Selectivity was dependent not only on the nature of the solvent, but also on the nature and concentration of the electrolyte. With many inorganic ions completely reversed separation order relative to aqueous systems was observed. Although the addition of metal ions caused changes in resolution, complete separation of alkanesulfonates (C2-C16) and alkyl sulfates (C8-C18) was possible by a change from protic (methanol) to aprotic conditions (addition of acetonitrile). The partial separation of positional isomers of linear alkyl benzensulfonate homologues (C10-C15) was achieved in methanol/acetonitrile mixtures. The complete separation of alkali and alkaline earth metal ions, which has not been reported to date, and separation of potassium and ammonium were observed in a methanol/imidazole electrolyte. Significantly different migration order was achieved for dansylated amino acids compared to aqueous systems. Changes in selectivity of free amino acids were possible in basic and acidic electrolytes. Complete separation of a wide range of fatty acids (C1-C20) was possible in less than 20 min. The unique selectivity patterns in nonaqueous solvents was related to changes in solvation and ion-interaction effects. The ability to easily adjust selectivity via choice of electrolyte and to inject aqueous samples directly into the nonaqueous electrolytes suggests that such systems may offer significant advantages for many analytical problems. The results illustrate that when selectivity, efficiency, quantitation, and detection limits are taken into consideration, nonaqueous CE approaches should, in many situations, offer a unique alternative to aqueous based CE analyses. Electroosmotic flow was appreciable, and was cathodal in basic solutions. Reversal of electroosmotic flow was observed in the presence of an excess of a strong acid (HCl or HClO4) in the separation electrolyte. The nature of electrolyte anion (chloride, perchlorate, and acetate) and solvent (methanol/acetonitrile mixtures) had significant effects on the electroosmotic flow in acidic conditions. Evidence was observed for ion adsorption (protons and anions) on to silica surfaces and ion-interaction in the electrolyte. Adsorption and ion-interaction could be used to control both the direction and magnitude of electroosmotic flow. Reproducibility of electroosmotic flow was good under appropriate experimental conditions (%RSD = 1.1).
Effective detection of bacterial pathogens in large sample volumes is a challenging problem. Pre-concentration routines currently in practice before the actual detection process are cumbersome and hard to automate. An effort is made to address the problem of volume discrepancy between day-to-day samples and the concentrated samples needed for analysis. Principles of conceptual design are used in formulating the 'Need Statement', 'Function Structure' and in identifying the 'Critical Design Parameters' and 'Design Constraints'. Electrokinetic phenomena are used to exploit the surface charges on bacteria. Electrophoresis is used to transport the bacteria to electrode surface and "Electrostatic trapping" is then used to capture these microbes on the electrode surface. The captured microbes can then be concentrated in a concentrator unit. A prototype microfluidic device is fabricated for showing the proof of concept. Optimization is done to minimize hydraulic power consumption and wetted volume. Observations from the initial prototype device along with the optimization results are used in building a new prototype device. Operation of this device is demonstrated by capture of bacteria from flow. Qualitative studies are conducted and preliminary quantification is also done.
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AthleticTOThe Donostiarra act in the tip and Williams return to the band
Ipurua be the scene of the return to the ownership of Aritz Aduriz.The Donostiarra return to the starting eleven after a few games of absence. Their presence displaces the band that has so far acted as spearhead of the team,Iaki Williams.As he has rehearsedBerizzoin the training this week.
The absence of Aduriz has highlighted the dependence of the lions on him, causing the scoring figures to be significantly lower than when the batter is on the green.In addition, in the few minutes he has played after overcoming his physical problems he has proven to be successful, as demonstrated by scoring against Real Sociedad a goal that will be canceled out of play.
Williams on the other hand return to a positionin which he seems to feel more comfortable. Feeling that the scoring weight does not rest on your shoulders seems to release the player in a certain way and allows you to deploy a better version. Since his arrival to the first team, when he has played the best he has been starting from the sides.
This duo returns to a field in which the last course were already decisive.Williamspele for a ball in an action of pure faith and put a measured center to aAdurizthat was imposed on the defenders to score the only goal of the clash with a magnificent header.
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Golden Horn and Tower, two similarly-shaped peaks along the PCT north of Rainy Pass, are among Washington's highest 100. Both have steep eastern sides, easy western ones, and interesting summit blocks. I had meant to tag both last summer, but ran out of energy after taking the hard way up Tower. At something like 25 miles and 4,000 feet of gain, I though Golden Horn would be another good moderate day before my first serious outing.
Starting up the PCT at a civilized hour, I hiked the 2,000 foot climb to Cutthroat Pass, then traversed and descended to the oddly-located Granite Pass. While it is a saddle between Pine and Swamp Creeks, the trail passes by rather than going over it, and no sane person would use it as a pass. Continuing along the sweeping traverse to Methow Pass, I left the trail a bit too near Snowy Lakes, picking up the well-established use trail a few hundred yards into the scrub.
Passing near the lower lake, the scenery was reminiscent of the Sierra, with open meadows and golden peaks; the larches, weird deciduous conifers common to the eastern Cascades.
Near the upper lake, I left the remnants of the trail to make a long, ascending traverse over dirt and scree to the ridge southeast of the peak. There were occasional cairns, but not enough traffic to have created a trail. The summit is imposingly vertical from the approach, but the cairned route around to the southwest provides class 2-3 access to the summit block. The true summit is reached by a few quick 4th class moves on the northwest side, "protected" by the inevitable Cascades nest of useless tat.
After taking in the surroundings for a bit, including the mis-labeled Mount Hardy to the west, I returned to the trail, jogging the flats to pass the time. At Cutthroat Pass, I was perplexed to find a gaggle of people dressed for a bike tour, helmets and cleats included. They proved to be a friendly group of Canadians, who had apparently ridden down the west side and over highway 20, and were headed back to their igloos in the Great White North via Omak. I took a few group photos, then took off jogging back to Rainy Pass, passing a few backpackers on the way. Snow conditions were similar to what I found in late July last year, confirming my impression the previous day that the hills are dry.


Celebrate the Summer Solstice up at the Farm by kicking off our first Field Day!
Field Days are open farm days that are free to the public. Each Field Day is structured to have a series of workshops, a community brown bag lunch, and tours of the Farm. Its an opportunity for all who are interested to come and experience the Farm, see what we're growing and explore what we're doing!
Summer Solstice occurs midsummer when the sun reaches its northern most position in the sky for the Northern Hemisphere. (that's us in North America!) On this day, we experience a significant turning point in the year— as the longest day in the year, each day starts getting shorter and the nights longer after the summer solstice. This time is associated with change, nature and new beginnings. At the Farm we will celebrate the solstice with a Field Day where we will focus on shifting gears in your own urban farm and the basics for how to harness the natural resources available such as sunlight, water and plant material to grow your own plants!
Water is a valuable resource and we are actively promoting water conservation. So how do you water your garden when there is a water restriction? With harvested rainwater!! Get introduced to the basics of rainwater collection and storage as well as how to implement a rainwater harvesting solution for irrigation in the urban context. Philip Prinzivalli of Newburgh's Conservation Advisory Council will co-lead the workshop on how to build your own affordable rainwater harvesting system.
Learn how to start your own Backyard Compost Pile. Cold Composting is a good introduction into composting and requires minimal effort to produce compost over the course of one to two years. Starting a cold compost pile is an essential first step to nutrient rich soil for growing your urban garden. Get the scoop from our farm manager, Marcel, on what to throw into the pile and what to keep out, and lay the foundation with good compost for your plants.
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and women who died in Vietnam.
died stateside due to their service in Vietnam.
Division of the U.S. Army Infantry.
he felt his country had publicly appreciated Vietnam veterans.
granite walls to pay tribute to their memories.
due to exposure to this powerful herbicide.
in the Vietnam War and later died as a result of their service.
We honor and remember their sacrifice."
made the ultimate sacrifice for their country."
not eligible to be placed on the Vietnam Memorial wall.
from the war, and it has helped a nation to heal."
American soldiers who died in Vietnam will be read aloud.
the In Memory plaque will never be read aloud.
Memorial Wall, is there to recognize these veterans.


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10 Sure-Fire Ways To Spot An Emotionally Immature Adult
Photo: Creatopic / Shutterstock
Brit Brogaard
Little Prince (or Princess) Syndrome, when it occurs in adulthood, is also known as Peter Pan Syndrome. The condition does not figure in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), so it is not considered an official mental disorder.
But it is a common condition, one which often results from an overly protective mother (or father) — a helicopter mom, or a parent who gives their son or daughter free-range, and too much praise and attention, during childhood and adolescence. Such parental behavior is also sometimes referred to as emotional incest.
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Peter Pan Syndrome is traditionally thought of as a situation in which a grown man is childish and immature, despite his age. But in today's culture, with so much helicopter parenting, it's safe to assume that both men and women can exhibit these behaviors.
Little Prince (or Princess) Syndrome is related to, but not identical to, Little Emperor Syndrome, a term that is primarily used to describe Chinese boys with no siblings who behave like little tyrants.
Little Princes and Princesses, as I define them, are grown men or women who act as if they are selfish children, narcissistic teenagers, or irresponsible young adults, and feel entitled to behave as they see fit.
The following is a list of emotionally immature signs to look out for, traits typical of someone living with Little Prince or Princess Syndrome.
(For simplicity's sake, I use the term Little Prince below and refer to the role of mothers, not fathers, but the signs are applicable to all genders.)
1. He is in touch with his mom almost every day.
She is more "in" his life than anyone else. She checks up on him and worries about him, even though he is a grown man. She might buy his clothes and his groceries, and do his laundry for him.
2. He acts like a child, a teenager, or a person who is much younger than he is.
He might throw temper tantrums or party all night with people 10 years younger than him.
3. He acts as if women should serve him.
He expects to be taken care of and be pampered on-demand. He will happily take but never give.
4. He cannot maintain a long-term, stable romantic relationship.
Former partners end up becoming his enemies or new playmates.
RELATED: The 5 Types Of Men You Should Never Fall In Love With — Ever
5. He is commitment-phobic in nearly all areas of life, despite having a needy attachment style.
It can take him six months to commit to buying a new sofa.
6. He has few, if any, close friends.
His "friends" consist mostly of his mom and the strangers he meets when out playing or partying.
7. He is often passive-aggressive.
Meaning he has a tendency to engage in an indirect expression of hostility through acts such as subtle insults, sullen behavior, stubbornness, or a deliberate failure to accomplish required tasks.
8. He is a narcissist or exhibits childish selfishness.
If something is even mildly inconvenient, he will resist doing it.
9. He is financially irresponsible.
He spends too much money playing, partying, or chasing after women.
10. He rarely thinks anything is his fault.
He blames everyone around him for everything that goes wrong in his life, even his mother if he can't find another scapegoat.
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It's unusual for a Little Prince to possess every one of these traits, so it can be hard to identify them.
Their ability to lure you into their world with their childish innocence and charm makes it even trickier, but their concerned mothers, and their own irresponsibility and selfishness, eventually give them away.
RELATED: Relationships Aren't Built For Selfish People — If They're Doing These Things, Run!
Berit "Brit" Brogaard is a co-author of The Superhuman Mind.
This article was originally published at Psychology Today. Reprinted with permission from the author.


Maidenhead, UK, 11 April 2019 – Sword GRC, a supplier of specialist governance, risk and compliance solutions, has announced John Nichol as the keynote speaker for its UK Sword GRC Global Conference, being held on 17th October 2019, at The Dorchester Hotel, London. John Nichol, retired Royal Air Force navigator, TV presenter and best-selling author of 'Tornado Down', will share his personal career experiences, including his capture in the Gulf War and present his insights on modern day risk in everyday life. The first conference in the Sword GRC series is being held in Washington DC on 24th & 25th September 2019 in the Hyatt Regency Reston. The third and final conference date is 12th November at The Grand Hyatt, Melbourne. Delegates at each of the events will also have the opportunity to attend workshops and network with industry peers.
Keith Ricketts, Vice President of Global Marketing at Sword GRC said; "We are delighted to welcome John Nichol as our keynote speaker for our London Conference. With risk playing a key part during his active service, his insights and experiences on how to mitigate and manage risk successfully will, we hope, stimulate lively discussion amongst our delegates. Our aim for our conferences is always to provide a forum to challenge attendees about how they address risk and compliance and give them the opportunity to discuss ideas and best practice with fellow industry colleagues.
During his 15 years' service, John Nichol served as a Tornado Navigator in Air Defence and Ground Attack roles. Shot down during the first raid in the Gulf War in January 1991, John was captured, tortured and paraded on television, provoking worldwide condemnation and providing one of the most enduring images of the conflict. John is the author of fifteen books including the Sunday Times best-sellers 'Tornado Down' and 'SPITFIRE – A Very British Love Story'. He has written features and comment for all of the national newspapers and been a consultant and presenter for GMTV, the BBC, Sky & ITV News, The One Show, CNN and Cutting Edge.
The London GRC Conference will also feature Caspar Berry, renowned entrepreneur and professional poker player as a guest speaker.
The US and Australian Conferences have prestigious notable speakers heading their agendas. Lynn Brewer, Enron Whistleblower and Founder of The Integrity Institute® and The Integrity Index – a revolutionary new corporate rating system – will be speaking at the US Conference, while the Australian event will host prize winning author, comedian and artist, Anh Do.


Geek Question of the Day: Some things that end up on the cutting room floor are actually pretty memorable so tonight I'm asking you all; What are your favorite deleted scenes or bloopers and why are they interesting to you? Obviously any source is good for this one. Feel free to use YouTube links if needed!


Do you honestly think bots will be gone? And you are the solution? NCWest didn't/couldn't find a way in 14 years, so it's either in their best interest to keep it that way, or they are lacking staff. It's never going to change, until the end of L2.
Forgotten temple all the way to 40. Best exp/adena. Another options prior to FT, you can do orc barracks in a way you hunt between few spawn spots of commanders, and every hour you kill as minimum of 3 of them.
Anyone else get banned for no reason?
Even if you use nostromo, but you are afk while doing so, it's considered 3rd party software usage. How NC find out about you beeing afk is another questions and a mystery to us, the players.
Yes, the button can be spammed, in sense you can use it on a different toon with your alt(s). And beg 3rd party users to do it as well. I'm one of the most legitimate players of the server, so, i can afford to take any room i want, at any time. And there's nothing you can do about it (Part of the game). But when you start abusing the button, not only you irritate me, but you also beg for punishment by a GM.
Good fixes, i think the server is alright, except the fact, not all 50+ zones are with improved exp/adena. For some people using c or higher grade weapons is just not sustainable.
IF you got banned, it means that you are filthy bot. One of many. And that's the end of it.
Dear NCSoft, please, for player's sake, implement some kind of penalty for repeatable report button abusement, this is getting of hand. Every day i'm doing my dailies and some clueless, nerdy, but juvenile and inexperienced people are spamming this button repeatable on my chars. I'm happy to be checked/investigated if needed, but the fact i have to enter every day some numbers is just beyond annoying already. Thanks for the attention.
WoW, stop spreading lies about the server. There are no parties going on. I was speaking about legit parties, unlike yours (automated bot party). Cya, lol.
Yep, its happening to me every day in Aligator island, some clueless people calling me a bot and abusing the system. It's just boring to enter all the numbers... QQ.
What are you dreaming about? LOL. The server will last as it is for another couple of months before it merges into another (probably Aden) And this is highly suggested, because atm Gludio is dead. There are no 40+, not to mention 50+ parties going on, there is no PvP, there's nothing interesting to do while ingame.
With the current prices of computer hardware, including SSD (120gb ~ 30$), might not be a bad idea to buy one.


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Dispute Between Neighbours – this is a true story…A town councillor in Wales, Mark Easton, had a beautiful view of the mountains, until a new neighbour purchased the land below his house and built a new home.The new home was 18 inches higher than the planning dept had approved, so Mark Easton, mad about his lost view, went to the local authority to make sure they enforced the roof line height.The new neighbour had to drop the roof height, at great expense.Recently, Mark Easton called the planning dept, and informed them that his new neighbour had installed some vents on the side of his new property.Mark didn't like the look of these vents and asked the planning dept to investigate.When they went to Mark's home to see what the vents looked like, this is what they found... Click on the Images to see them bigger.
I would be doing that too…LOL…You can have a bit of a laugh out of a bad situation…Good on them..Now they can remember the incident with a smile.


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Urban Research Theater
Jan 30, 2006 by Andy Horwitz	in Etcetera
Urban Research Theater is looking for participants. We don't know much about them, but it seems like an interesting project. According
The Urban Research Theater is an ongoing laboratory for practical research in physical and vocal craft. Elements of work such as movement structures and song fragments are used as tools toward the development of quality in awareness and precision with spontaneity.
There is an ongoing call for participants to join the work in 2006. The group is open to dancers, actors, singers, performance artists and practitioners of traditional forms such as yoga, meditiation, and the martial arts.
A commitment of between one and six months will be negotiated on an individual basis. The schedule is Sunday through Thursday evenings, about twenty hours per week. There is a space rental contribution of $125 per month.
To apply, send a letter of interest and CV to urt@junkriver.org
For more information about Urban Research Theater visit www.urbanresearchtheater.com
About the author Andy Horwitz
Andy Horwitz is the founder of Culturebot.org. He is a writer, cultural programmer and creative strategist. He is a 2014 recipient of the prestigious Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for his new research project, Ephemeral Objects: Art Criticism for the Post-Material World and currently lives in Los Angeles.


There has been a landmark judgment for the treatment of social media data in German court.
The constitutional court ruled that parents can inherit the contract between their child and a social media platform in the same way they would be able to inherit physical documents such as diaries and private letters. "From an inheritance law view, there is no reason to treat digital content differently," the court said.


Brian Garrett, b. Belfast, 1937, educated at Methodist College and Queen's University Belfast. Long term partner in leading Belfast firm of solicitors, now senior legal consultant and Deputy County Court Judge. Chairman, Northern Ireland Labour Party, 1972-74.Visiting Fellow (1977-78) Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. Has served as a member of the Northern Ireland Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights, and on various committees of the Law Society of Northern Ireland. Joint Deputy Chairman, Northern Ireland Independent Commission for Police Complaints (198891). Member of the Council of the International Bar Association.


Are you having difficulties with the electrical features of your dishwasher? In many cases this could be because the circuit board is faulty. This replacement PCB could be the key to having your dishes coming out sparkling clean again.


According to a Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) news release in January of this year vehicles are the single greatest source of pollutants in Northern Virginia. To improve air quality, vehicle emissions must be inspected by a certified emissions inspection station before your vehicle registration can be renewed.
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Government of St. Kitts and Nevis to provide LIAT in over EC $1 million in emergency funding support
The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis to provide emergency funding support of over EC $1 million to LIAT, the Caribbean airline headquartered in Antigua, at a meeting of the Federal Cabinet on Saturday (April 27th, 2019)
Coming out of a presentation to the Federal Cabinet, which was made by a three-member delegation from LIAT on March 11th, 2019, an advisory committee led by Hilary Hazel, Financial Secretary in the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis, was established to review LIAT's proposals and make recommendations on the way forward.
Along with representation from the Ministry of Finance, the Committee that Cabinet established comprised representatives from the Office of the Prime Minister, the St. Kitts Tourism Authority, the Ministry of Tourism and the St. Christopher Air and Sea Ports Authority (SCASPA).
During the March 11th presentation, LIAT's General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Diane Shurland, LIAT's Chief Financial Officer Rojer Inglis and Chief Commercial Officer Audra Walker informed the Federal Cabinet that the cash-strapped regional airline required immediate financial assistance from countries that benefit from its operations.
The LIAT high-level representatives also proposed for the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis to enter into a Minimum Revenue Guarantee (MRG) arrangement with the airline.
The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis agrees in principle with the idea of participating in an MRG arrangement on the basis of further discussions and negotiations with high-level representatives of LIAT.
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Do feuds ever really end? Is history ever really in the past? "The World Made Straight" asks these and other big questions as it adapts Ron Rash's novel, telling the story of a 17-year old North Carolinian who gets tangled up with drug dealers in the mountains sometime in the 1970s, diving deep into film noir/pulp territory while occasionally flashing back to Civil War-era brutality. The movie never entirely rises to the height of its ambitions, though: there are moments when you can practically hear it straining to impart significance to what is, in the end, a fairly standard sensitive-young-criminal-in-over-his-head story, and the final stretch seems torn between wanting to resolve everything with violence and telling us violence never solves anything.
You certainly couldn't accuse the novel's adapter, Shane Danielsen or its director David Burris of aiming too low. If you succumb to the film's very deliberate rhythms, there's much to admire here, including the desaturated widescreen photography (by Tim Orr, who has shot many films by David Gordon Green), which seems at least partly inspired by the silvery Civil War photographs of Mathew Brady; the acting, by an admirably focused cast that includes a bearded and deep-voiced Noah Wyle ("E.R.") and singer-songwriter Steve Earle; and Earle's score of bluegrass-flavored instrumental cues and quiet yet menacing songs, which enfolds and subsumes the film in the manner of Leonard Cohen's bard-like contributions to "McCabe and Mrs. Miller."
Jeremy Irvine of "War Horse" stars as Travis, a high school dropout with a good heart but a tendency to take moral shortcuts that set him ever farther back in life. The story begins with Travis getting fired from his grocery store job for giving food to a homeless man; soon he falls in with a pot dealer named Leonard (Wyle), who lives in a trailer with his drop-dead-gorgeous blonde girlfriend, Dena (Minka Kelly), a drug addict and unnervingly blatant flirt. Their association begins when Travis cuts a marijuana plant from the property of Carlton (Earle), Leonard's main rival in the region, and sells it to Leonard.
Here, as elsewhere, the film goes the extra country mile to invest standard crime movie types with rich, eccentric life: Leonard is a former high school teacher who lost his wife, daughter and job in an incident tactically withheld till later in the story, and though he has a honeyed bourbon drawl and a beer-drinker's gut-first walk, there's something intriguingly private and sensitive about him. He keeps Civil War literature in a bookcase above his bathroom toilet, hunts for Civil War relics with a metal detector, and listens to Aaron Copland records, which he somewhat peevishly defends against the complaints of Travis' dull-witted buddy (Haley Joel Osment), who thinks it's terrible and boring.
Leonard warns Travis that it's not a good idea to steal pot from feared criminals, but the kid won't listen, and during a return trip to Carlton's property, he gets his foot stuck in a bear trap, passes out, and finds himself in Carlton's house, with the bearded, bearish crime boss looming over him. Earle is a revelation here: he's given decent performances elsewhere, notably in David Simon's HBO series "The Wire" and "Treme," but this is a full-bodied character turn filled with right-on choices, including the measured, vaguely philosophical way that Carlton delivers threats, as if he's always speaking hypothetically even when describing exactly what he's going to do to someone. After a brief stay in a clinic where Travis is tended by a kind nurse and future love interest named Lori (Adelaide Clemens of the Sundance series "Rectify"), he returns home to his family only to get kicked out, and holes up with Leonard, who takes a somewhat fatherly interest in the young man's fortunes and encourages him to study for his GED.
In all, however, the metaphorical and historical weight that the film places on the story's shoulders sits rather awkwardly, and the characters just can't bear the weight, even with Earle's plaintive and heroically un-ironic songs ringing out on the soundtrack. Like "Out of the Furnace," a present-day crime drama with similar elements that's set in similar terrain (though much farther north), "The World Made Straight" never figures out how to smoothly integrate its straightforward melodrama and literary pretensions. The music and photography sure are magnificent, though: every frame a painting, every scene a song.


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Q: Solving intercept / equivalence point / crossing point of where two Weibull regressions meet I'm looking to solve the point where 2 opposite Weibull functions meet.  I'm using the drc package, with a type 2 Weibull having 2 parameters in R. I've fit both lines to my data, and now I have the e and b intercepts for the functions defining each line.  I would like to now solve for where the x values are equivalent.
The Weibull (type2) 2 parameter function is:
$$
f(x)= 1-\exp\left[-\exp\left(b\times (\log(x) - \log(e)\right))\right]
$$
exponential decay line:
           Estimate Std. Error   t-value p-value
 b:(Intercept) -2.226194   0.225339 -9.879323       0
 e:(Intercept)  1.209326   0.072042 16.786444       0

exponential increase line:
               Estimate Std. Error   t-value p-value
b:(Intercept)  1.616248   0.145047 11.142956       0
e:(Intercept)  1.837511   0.072107 25.482970       0

Ideally I would also like to get a confidence interval for this point. I have this run in R so if I could input a suggested code that would be great.
This is for a paper I'm writing, and I would add the solver of this question to this publication.  In the paper, I'm using the Weibull function to model a PCR reaction.
Here is the code for the exponential increasing instance:
  # first import the raw data:
  # I pull it from Excel

> CCrelative <- read.xlsx('CC relative fold increase.xlsx', 1)
> colnames(CCrelative) <- c("MolOffTarget", "x1", "x2")
> print(CCrelative)
   #here it is after the import

      MolOffTarget    x1    x2
    1      50001.0 8.474 8.372
    2       5001.0 7.795 7.617
    3        501.0 7.090 7.291
    4         56.0 6.258 4.803
    5          6.0 2.093 1.890
    6          1.5 0.911 0.679
    7          1.1 0.480 0.508

  #now set the minimum of each column to 0 by subtracting the lowest value from each
> CClog0 <- transform(CCrelative, x1 = (x1-(CCrelative[7,2])), x2=(x2-(CCrelative[7,3])))
      #now normalize to the maximum value
> CClogT <- transform(CClog0, x1 = (x1/(CClog0[1,2])), x2=(x2/(CClog0[1,3])))
      # now make the first column log10 scale
> CClogT <- transform(CClogT, MolOffTarget = log10(MolOffTarget))
      #now merge columns x1 and x2 into a new data frame
> CClogT2 <- data.frame(rep(CClogT$MolOffTarget, 2), c(CClogT$x1,CClogT$x2))
> colnames(CClogT2) <- c("MolOffTarget", "FAM")
> CClogT2.W2.2 <- drm(FAM ~ MolOffTarget, data = CClogT2, fct = W2.2())

Here is the code for the exponential decay:
> CCvicRelative <- read.xlsx('CCvicRelative fold increase.xlsx', 1)
> colnames(CCvicRelative) <- c("MolOffTarget", "x1", "x2")
> print(CCvicRelative)

  MolOffTarget     x1     x2
1      50001.0 -0.717 -0.706
2       5001.0 -0.565 -0.567
3        501.0 -0.360 -0.349
4         56.0 -0.001  0.584
5          6.0  1.568  1.582
6          1.5  1.767  1.822
7          1.1  1.802  1.844
      #now set the minimum of each column to 0 by subtracting the lowest value from each
> CCvic0 <- transform(CCvicRelative, x1 = (x1-(CCvicRelative[1,2])), x2=(x2-(CCvicRelative[1,3])))
      #now normalize to the maximum value
> CCvicT <- transform(CCvic0, x1 = (x1/(CCvic0[7,2])), x2=(x2/(CCvic0[7,3])))
      # now make the first column log10 scale
> CCvicTlog <- transform(CCvicT, MolOffTarget = log10(MolOffTarget))
      #now merge columns x1 and x2 into a new data frame
> CCvicT2 <- data.frame(rep(CCvicTlog$MolOffTarget, 2), c(CCvicTlog$x1,CCvicTlog$x2))
> colnames(CCvicT2) <- c("MolOffTarget", "VIC")
> CCvicT2.W2.2 <- drm(VIC ~ MolOffTarget, data = CCvicT2, fct = W2.2())

Apologies it's coming up a bit funny on this HTML.
It took me a bit to get used to this package.  I was using Bioconductor packages before.
I made a mistake with the Weibull function earlier. The correct one is now present.

A: The intersection point
The intersection point $x^{*}$ of the two functions $f_{1}(x)$ and $f_{2}(x)$ with parameters $b_{1}, e_{1}$ and $b_{2}, e_{2}$ is given by:
$$
x^{*}=\exp\left[(b_{1}\log(e_{1})-b_{2}\log(e_{2}))/(b_{1}-b_{2})\right]
$$
Here is a small R script depicting your example:
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# The parameters
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

b1 <- -2.226194
e1 <- 1.209326

b2 <- 1.616248
e2 <- 1.837511

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Setting up a plot
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

x <- seq(0, 5, by=.01)

f <- function(x,e, b){
  1-exp(-exp(b*(log(x) - log(e))))
}

par(bg="white", cex=1.2)
plot(f(x, e1, b1)~x, type="l", ylim=c(0, 1),
las=1, lwd=2, ylab="Function value")
lines(f(x, e2, b2)~x, col="steelblue", lwd=2)

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Calculate the intersection point
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

x.meet <- exp((b1*log(e1)-b2*log(e2))/(b1-b2))
x.meet
[1] 1.442003

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Check if the intersection point corresponds with the graphic
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

abline(v=x.meet)
axis(side=1, at=x.meet, label=round(x.meet,2),
font=3, col.axis="purple")
f(x.meet, e1, b1)
[1] 0.49129
f(x.meet, e2, b2)
[1] 0.49129

Confidence intervals
Here is the code I've come up with to perform the non-parametric bootstrap in R(note: I have copied your data into csv-files):
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Load packages
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

library(drc)
library(boot)

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Load data and prepare them
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

path <- "F:/" # change path according to your system

CCrelative <- read.table(paste(path, "CC relative fold increase.csv", sep=""), header=T, sep=";")

CClog0 <- transform(CCrelative, x1 = (x1-(CCrelative[7,2])), x2=(x2-(CCrelative[7,3])))
CClogT <- transform(CClog0, x1 = (x1/(CClog0[1,2])), x2=(x2/(CClog0[1,3])))
CClogT <- transform(CClogT, MolOffTarget = log10(MolOffTarget))

CClogT2 <- data.frame(rep(CClogT$MolOffTarget, 2), c(CClogT$x1,CClogT$x2))

colnames(CClogT2) <- c("MolOffTarget", "FAM")
CClogT2.W2.2 <- drm(FAM ~ MolOffTarget, data = CClogT2, fct = W2.2())

CCvicRelative <-read.table(paste(path, "CCvicRelative fold increase.csv", sep=""), header=T, sep=";")

#now set the minimum of each column to 0 by subtracting the lowest value from each

CCvic0 <- transform(CCvicRelative, x1 = (x1-(CCvicRelative[1,2])), x2=(x2-(CCvicRelative[1,3])))

#now normalize to the maximum value
CCvicT <- transform(CCvic0, x1 = (x1/(CCvic0[7,2])), x2=(x2/(CCvic0[7,3])))

# now make the first column log10 scale
CCvicTlog <- transform(CCvicT, MolOffTarget = log10(MolOffTarget))

#now merge columns x1 and x2 into a new data frame
CCvicT2 <- data.frame(rep(CCvicTlog$MolOffTarget, 2), c(CCvicTlog$x1,CCvicTlog$x2))
colnames(CCvicT2) <- c("MolOffTarget", "VIC")
CCvicT2.W2.2 <- drm(VIC ~ MolOffTarget, data = CCvicT2, fct = W2.2())

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Combine the data into one data frame
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

combined.data <- data.frame(
  MolOffTarget=c(CClogT2$MolOffTarget, CCvicT2$MolOffTarget),
  values=c(CClogT2$FAM, CCvicT2$VIC),
  ind=c(rep("FAM", 14), rep("VIC", 14)))

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# The bootstrap function
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

intersection_boot_fun <- function(data, indices) {

  data.temp <- data[indices,]

  fitFAM <- drm(data.temp$values[data.temp$ind=="FAM"] ~ data.temp$MolOffTarget[data.temp$ind=="FAM"] ,  fct = W2.2())
  fitVIC <- drm(data.temp$values[data.temp$ind=="VIC"] ~ data.temp$MolOffTarget[data.temp$ind=="VIC"] ,  fct = W2.2())

  coefFAM <- coef(fitFAM)
  coefVIC <- coef(fitVIC)

  b1 <- as.numeric(coefFAM[1])
  e1 <- as.numeric(coefFAM[2])

  b2 <- as.numeric(coefVIC[1])
  e2 <- as.numeric(coefVIC[2])

  x.intersect <- exp((b1*log(e1)-b2*log(e2))/(b1-b2))

  x.intersect

}

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Bootstrapping and inspecting the results
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

results <- boot(data=combined.data, statistic=intersection_boot_fun, R=50000, strata=combined.data$ind)

results

Bootstrap Statistics :
    original     bias    std. error
t1* 1.442003 0.03151577   0.1268457

#jack.after.boot(results) # influential observations

plot(results)

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# BCa confidence intervals
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

boot.ci(results, conf=c(0.95, 0.99), type="bca")

Intervals :
Level       BCa
95%   ( 1.303,  1.708 )
99%   ( 1.258,  1.844 )

The output of the bootstrap gives the original estimate, which is about 1.44 in this case. It also gives the bias, which is the difference between the mean of the bootstrap samples (which is about 1.474 in this case) and the original estimate. Technical note: The bootstrapped samples are stored in results$t and the mean could be calculated by mean(results$t). The standard deviation of the bootstrap samples is also provided, it is about 0.13. The bootstrap bias-corrected and accelerated (BCa) gives a 95%-CI from 1.30 to 1.71. We can't use a normal approximation to calculate the confidence interval, as the bootstrap samples are clearly not normal:


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Accused Toronto Killer Praised Woman-Hating Mass Murderer Moments Before Attack
Moments before allegedly killing 10 people in a van attack, Alek Minassian, 25, posted online about 'supreme gentleman Elliot Rodger,' the woman-hating mass murderer.
Olivia Messer
Updated 04.25.18 12:23AM ET / Published 04.24.18 12:07PM ET
via Linkedin/Youtube
The man accused of mowing down pedestrians in a bloody rampage in Toronto on Monday expressed his support moments before the attack for a mass murderer who became a hero of the fringe men's rights movement.
"The Incel Rebellion has already begun! We will overthrow all Chads and Stacys! All hail the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger!" Alek Minassian wrote on Facebook shortly before he allegedly used a van to kill 10 people and wound another 14. A Facebook official confirmed the authenticity of Minassian's post to The Daily Beast on Tuesday and noted that his account has been removed from the site.
Elliot Rodger killed six people during a 2014 shooting spree in Isla Vista, California. The 22-year-old called himself an "incel," or an involuntary celibate, a phrase invoked by men's rights activists who feel rejected by women.
Before killing himself, Rodger left behind a 137-page manifesto that described how he felt shunned by women and sought revenge. He had also reportedly showed an interest in Nazis and had conducted internet searches about how to "silently kill" with a knife.
Four years later, 25-year-old Minassian allegedly drove a white rental van for nearly a mile on a sunny spring afternoon along Yonge Street, just north of midtown Toronto, colliding with people on the sidewalk. Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders said Minassian was not known to local authorities before Monday's attack.
Minassian was charged on Tuesday with 10 counts of first-degree murder and 13 counts of attempted murder. Officers noted at Tuesday's press conference that authorities expect one additional attempted murder charge to be filed before the case is concluded.
And while there's no publicly stated motive, Minassian's Facebook post sheds new light on the alleged killer.
Detective Sgt. Graham Gibson confirmed at a Tuesday afternoon press conference that Minassian left a "cryptic message" on social media just before "deliberately striking" pedestrians. Gibson said the victims of the attack were "predominantly female" but said he could not speak to the motive.
Minassian would not be the first to reference Rodger before killing. Nikolas Cruz, who has confessed to killing 17 people in a Florida high school earlier this year, is just the most recent notorious figure to have celebrated the killer online.
And Alexandre Bissonnette, who killed six people and injured 19 more at a Quebec mosque in January 2017, reportedly searched "Elliot Rodger" online the day before the shooting.
Canada's École Polytechnique massacre, which killed 14 women in 1989, was committed by Marc Lépine, who said he was "fighting feminism" by murdering the school's female engineering students.
Only one of the victims of Monday's attack has been identified: Anne Marie D'Amico, who "succumbed to her injuries," according to a press release from her employer.
Toronto Mayor John Tory said on Tuesday that, although the remainder of the victims will not be publicly named for several days, "every possible resource" has been dedicated to the task of confirming their identities.
Minassian reportedly lived with his parents in an upper-middle-class Toronto neighborhood, where fellow residents told the Globe that "he didn't really make eye contact or say hi," but "didn't seem malicious or spiteful."
The accused killer also served for two months in the Canadian Armed Forces but did not complete his recruit training and "requested to be voluntarily released," Vice News reported.
Tory said Monday: "Toronto was a great city yesterday. It's a great city today. And it will be a great city tomorrow.
"The people who call this city home are shaken and we mourn together," he added. "But we are not broken, and we will not be broken."
@OliviaMesserolivia.messer@thedailybeast.com