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Dr Alasdair C. Whyte is a singer/songwriter/writer from An Sàilean/Salen. He works predominantly in Gaelic.
Dr Alasdair C. Whyte balances his academic career with a career as a singer/songwriter/writer/presenter. Described as 'one of the most emotionally affecting singers of his generation' (Tim Chipping, fRoots), Alasdair was awarded the Men's Gold Medal for unaccompanied solo singing at the Royal National Mòd at the age of 19. He has recorded original and traditional songs on various albums, including a solo album (Las, 2012) and three albums with the band WHYTE (MAIM, 2021; Tairm, 2019; Fairich, 2016). MAIM is one strand of a collaboration between WHYTE and Theatre Gu Leòr whose other strands include the critically-acclaimed theatre production MAIM (2020) and a book of Alasdair's original writing exploring related themes of language shift, cultural loss and the climate emergency in Mull (Maim-slè, released 2021). His academic writing to date has focussed on the place-names of Mull and Glasgow. He was named Gaelic Ambassador of the Year by The Scottish Government in 2019.
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Lindsey Leupold I hate you, I hate your brother Matthew, and I hate your son Dallas for killing my daughter. I never thought that I could hate this deeply and this passionately… may you see what you've done on every night that you close your eyes. May the guilt of what you did to her eat away at your mind and may you never have a moment of peace. May everyone you know turn against you, and may you never harm another child. So mote it be.
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Too often I have to stop and ask myself why I have this need to reach out to a total complete stranger to share my pain with them. As soon as you tell them that your child was recently murdered, they get this blank look on their faces, and in your own head you're asking yourself why you ever opened your mouth. I don't know why this need exists. This need to tell people that monsters are real, and that they took my child from me. I just know that it's there (this all consuming need) and ever present. I wish death was not such an uncomfortable thing to talk about. It's like this presence that hovers around you and follows you everywhere. You just feel like grabbing anyone who will listen, shaking them and screaming in their face that she's gone and she isn't coming back.
I am forever grateful for my husband and those around me who love me. I am especially grateful for those who magically appeared from the woodwork when Mary died, those who I had not seen or heard from since childhood. I know I've been distant, and for that I'm sorry (I owe a few of you a phone call). And while I may smile, post a joke or two, or hit Like once in awhile, I am still broken. The joy that I found in a lot of things, those things just don't seem that fun anymore so I find other things to occupy my time and keep my mind off of things. Know that I love you. Know that while I may not talk to you that it's not personal. Thank you to those who are sticking by me in my silence. I'm still here, in pieces, but I'm here. Thank you.
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On February 5, 2016 February 5, 2016 By Shyla Fairfax-OwenIn Horror, Shyla's Stories, Submitted Stories (Guest Posts)5 Comments
By Shyla Fairfax-Owen and Aurora Van Roon
For most of her life, Anna had been a lovely, quiet girl; proficient at hiding her desires, fears, and obsessions. Normalcy was what she strived for, but her desires… they caused an ache in her stomach that would not easily go away. And so inevitably there came a time to give in, wholly and completely, to the lust that set Anna apart from all the people she had ever known. The blood, and how it felt slipping through her fingers and on her skin, was what she needed more than anything else. Tonight was the night.
With a startling eagerness, Anna tied up her long hair and stuffed it under a cap and hood, only meagrely aware of her own attempts at disguise. Nothing about the process would be quite as rational as it would appear. Rationality and desire – Anna worked hard to tie these concepts together but knew that her need was strong enough to drag her out the door in the silent, deadly, heat of the night. Resistance only weakened her. The harder she fought against her nature, the further she slipped from the strength and power it endowed. No more. No more weakness. Tonight, she would feast.
The heat lay like a blanket on the city, dousing it in a sticky silence. She thrived in the silence. It afforded her the opportunity to hear her own blood pumping in her veins. Moreover, in the thickness of the quiet she could finally sort through the voices in her head, and listen to the whispers of the sleeping city. Their nightmares called to her while so vulnerable they lie, unknowing. Blissful ignorance was the sweetest blood of all.
Anna knew in her heart she shouldn't prowl so close to home, but the second she smelt the honey-sweet smell of the child's blood, it beckoned her closer. Outside, the wind was just cold enough to assure her that she wasn't dreaming. The sound of the crunching leaves underfoot made it all the more real as she stalked through the dark streets – a predator. She had never felt so alive.
Her heart was racing now. She moved with the tempo and approached the window quicker than she expected. Her rational side cried at her to not look, to go further, to find another. But the smell.
Besides, she had been so controlled and stubbornly good most of the time – hadn't she earned this? yes, she believed she had. And if she hadn't… Well, Anna could do nothing now but follow that scent of that innocently throbbing artery that would spill luxuriously across her face soon enough.
She peeked into the window. There he was. His dark hair caught the moonlight, framing his beautiful, youthful face. She watched his slow deep breaths. The blood. Anna desperately wanted to savour these last moments before the chaos, but she couldn't. She leapt forward, half conscious. When it was over, it was all a blur; an event that had burrowed deep inside of her bones and become a part of her forever. She knew that, even in the after-haze of a satisfaction so powerful it tingled her very being.
She looked down at the cold, lifeless body. He was so young. The silence came again and with it the sweet sound of his blood, now in her veins. She felt rejuvenated and oddly without shame. She smeared the blood from her face to her neck; tried to stretch its sweetness as far as it would go. Eventually, Anna knew, she'd need more.
The blood stained the tips of her fallen hair. As she stared at the drops that fell to the floor, pooling, she felt that ache return. She loved the feel of the blood, inside and around and on every part of her.
But the happiness faded quickly, until she almost couldn't bear the loss.
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On November 19, 2015 By Shyla Fairfax-OwenIn Fantasy, Horror, Submitted Stories (Guest Posts)1 Comment
GUEST POST BY JENN HUDDLESTON
There are certain things about human skin that you can only really appreciate after you've had to forcibly break free of it. Its strength, for one thing, is incredible. Particularly against tears. Without something sharp to slice through it, skin will stretch with surprising resilience against a literal ton of force. I learned this the first time I shifted. Watching as the bones in my greater extremities began to elongate, I wondered why they didn't just split through my feet and fingertips. Until they did, of course, and then I blacked out from the pain of it. For mostly obvious reasons that first time was a complete mess. Like a lot of us, I had no clue what was happening to me. I'd contracted it a month or so before, and hadn't been in contact with the person who gave it to me since (that situation was also a mess, but that probably qualifies as obvious too).
That night I was mercifully alone in my house (my three roommates, all in their early twenties, were away at their respective night gigs). It began as a series of cramps – the kind that double you over and make you wish it was somehow socially acceptable to conduct your life from the comfort of a warm bath. I'd been watching some trash TV show and I remember that despite the blinding pain I'd had the presence of mind to close my laptop (being found as a contorted corpse in the living room is traumatic enough – no need to have your nearest and dearest associate your death forever with a screenshot of RuPaul's Drag Race). For some reason I truly believed that everything would be ok if I could just make it to the bathroom: In the bathroom I could be as disgusting as was necessary to ride out this sudden sickness (Food poisoning? Appendicitis? Delayed-onset alcohol poisoning?). Moving seemed to make the cramps worse though, and the pain spread like boiling whiskey from my abdomen throughout the rest of my body. I can remember tasting copper as wave after wave of nausea hit me, though I don't think that I actually vomited. By the time I found the staircase, the skin on my arms and legs had started to burn. I didn't realize it then, but at this point the epidermis was spontaneously separating from my muscle tissue. By the time I made it to the upstairs bathroom, my upper lips must have split because the face (a generous term) I saw in the mirror looked something like an aborted cat fetus forcing its way out of a sausage. Slick, shiny scales had begun to emerge beneath my scalp.
There's not a lot I can remember after that. Things went red and the night itself is a blank. I must have run into something pretty foul though, because whatever it was gave me wicked bad indigestion the next morning.
If I'm honest, something had felt off with me for a couple of weeks before the full shift. Flu-like symptoms, lethargy, bumps, itching and unusual discharge – all of the things a Google search will tell you amount to cancer, AIDS, or herpes. In short, the imminent demise of you or your social life. There's a special kind of dread that comes with the possibility of real illness. All of a sudden you can't just ignore the timestamp on your body and the puniness of your life. This is the mortal meat that you occupy, and there's a chance that you fucked it irreparably for a lay, or a hit, or a high. I was worried enough to book a physical (at least I could be retroactively responsible), though I've cancelled the appointment since. The dating pool in my town is shallow enough, and for a while there were rumours about something going around, something else – but this isn't exactly the sort of thing you can campaign about with pamphlets. Or list in your Tinder profile.
Not that I got out that much anyway. There's really only one person who could have given me this. They've probably given it to many others. That thought, for some reason, is one that's stuck with me. In those moments when I believe that my life might not be over – I fixate on this idea of the bug existing in others. Passing between us, linking us through this strange, unmentionable horror.
It feels as though I've been in hiding for months now, beneath my human skin. On most days I could pass for normal, and sometimes I almost forget what's really there. How many others live this way? Do they worry that the horror might consume them too? Do they care? I spent most of my twenties dodging serious relationships out of a pretty basic fear of emotional fallout. I get that I was lonely then, but that's nothing to what I feel now. Every day I wake up knowing that, with one touch, I could destroy the people I love. My body is poison, and worse than that; it's insatiable. Even on my best days, the days I believe that I can control it, or somehow embrace it as part of myself – there's only so long I can ignore the hunger. It's been three months now, and my appetites have not waned. Even without the shift I crave meat. Weeks before the change, I can feel the scales beneath the skin, straining it. It will hold, but I never know for how long.
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Her Unburdening
On September 29, 2015 November 23, 2015 By Shyla Fairfax-OwenIn Dark Realism, Horror, Submitted Stories (Guest Posts)1 Comment
GUEST POST BY PENNY LONG
It arose from her. It uncoiled itself from her bowels, shrugged itself off from her heart. She sighed a long, world-weary sigh and breathed it out with the vapour of the wine she had drunk, exhaled all the disappointment that she had tucked away in her being, not to be seen by others. Her sins, her opinions, the unredeemed monologue of her suffering, all these loosened themselves from her, like the button of her jeans that she had undone before sitting down. Some sought company with her other secrets – the cravings crawling into empty bowls in the sink, frustrated longings creeping under the bed. Unkind thoughts formed themselves into a film on the window behind her, making the room just a little bit darker. And the howling, lamenting unforgiveness oozed across the floor and sat erect in the chair opposite her. All these unacceptable things once settled, the sad loneliness finally found itself a place next to her on the couch, the last and most deeply hidden, stowed away in the lining of her nervous system, hiding in the hooded lids of her eyes, peering out always from its hiding place, observing the lives of others. Relieved of the need to carry her secrets inside her, lighter now, she breathed in the air of her home, the lingering aromas of stew and sadness.
Sitting alone, yet not alone, she stared at the screen in front of her and pretended not to see all the things that slithered and scuttled around her. All the bits of lies, the sarcastic remarks she had uttered that evening, the unintended wounds she had received gradually found their way into the dust on the cushions, each showing itself in her peripheral vision on its way. Occasionally one distracted her from the story she was watching, forcing her to relive an uncomfortable moment before it wheeled its way to the ceiling to join the heavy canopy of regrets. She populated her solitude. She allowed her consciousness to fill the apartment. Her thoughts and ideas, repentance and lamentations found their usual homes in the empty chairs, on the unused side of the bed. When at last they had all been released, she looked around her. Ignoring the darting and glaring of that troupe of transgressions, she perused the familiar furnishings, her eyes sliding past the carpet stain and the regret, affirming her condition: Home. Alone.
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Microgravity imparts multiple deleterious effects on human physiology, which must be resolved as a prerequisite for enabling humans to engage in extended space expeditions. A summary of these negative impacts on various physiological systems is listed in Table 1 below. Nanomedicine might have the capacity to prevent or counteract the effects of microgravity (e.g., bone loss, neurological damage, soft tissue degradation, and detrimental ocular conditions to enable humans to endure prolonged missions to Mars and beyond, to the further reaches of deep space.
Here, we briefly articulate what might be possible through the application of advanced nanomedicine toward addressing the deleterious effects of microgravity on other critical soft tissues, such as the brain, spinal cord, nervous system, and DNA. The functionality of degraded or destroyed populations of neurons and glial cells, as well as neuronal circuitry might be nanomedically restored through the use of targeted nanocarriers, which may precisely transport the appropriate molecules, biomaterials, and stem cells to any damaged sites of the nervous system to initiate efficacious repairs. Multilayered electrospun polymeric nanofiber scaffolds (Figure 1) may be self-assembled from constituent components in vivo and used to support the growth of stem cells. Nanofiber scaffolds comprised of electrospun polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)/chitosan nanofibers (~Ø 221 nm) were demonstrated by Alhosseini et al. to create microscale pores at their interstices, which facilitated cell tethering and migration, the proliferation of blood vessels, as well as to enable cellular nutrient and waste exchange.
PC12 nerve cells from rat adrenal medulla were cultured on a PVA/chitosan nanofiber scaffold in vitro and observed to respond positively to the support. They also exhibited higher levels of attachment, propagation, migration, and viability in contrast to a pure PVA nanofiber scaffold. The presence of chitosan appeared to provide several physicochemical and biological factors that were amenable to the nerve cells including reduced nanofiber diameters, more surface resident amine and decreased water content. In a further neural engineering study by Jang et al., the growth of E18 rat hippocampal neurites traced the micropatterns of a substrate that were established by octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS) and pristine carbon nanotubes (Figure 2), which biomimetically emulated extracellular matrices. It was suggested that a cell adhesion protein (poly-l-lysine (PLL)), which was coated onto the substrate, was a critical factor for attachment, guidance, and elongation.
Further in the future, with the advent of mature Molecular Manufacturing (MM), it might be possible to affect real time brain repairs almost instantaneously via sophisticated indwelling nanomedical devices. This strategy may sustainably negate the deleterious effects of both ionizing radiation and microgravity toward addressing the possibility of cumulative damage manifesting in the brain as the result of prolonged exposure to the space environment.
In the space environment, microgravity in conjunction with ionizing radiation may negatively impact a number of DNA repair mechanisms. Subsequent to extensive studies of astronauts and cosmonauts it was revealed by Rowe that human exposure to microgravity induces a considerable decline in serum magnesium (Mg); an antioxidant and calcium blocker, which is critical for the binding of telomerase to DNA. Telomerase facilitates telomere elongation, chromosome stability, and the promotion of transcription and replication. Insufficient levels of magnesium results in oxidative stress, accelerated cell senescence, unstable DNA, as well as reduced protein synthesis and mitochondrial performance.
It was demonstrated that when human endothelial cells had no access to Mg for only two hours, they showed elevated levels of 8-hydroxy-deoxyguanine (in contrast to controls), which is a key DNA repair product that is generated in response to oxidative stress-induced DNA damage. To maintain ample concentrations of Mg under microgravity conditions, Mg loaded nanoparticles may have the capacity for the prolonged release of Mg ions, to sustain healthy plasma levels and those within intracellular compartments, which diminish over time and may not necessarily be related with concentrations in the plasma.
Svidinenko designed a conceptual sophisticated DNA repair nanorobot (Figure 5) that might transit along the duplex (similar to a bead on a chain). DNA damage would be detected immediately upon entering through the input port. When approaching the output port, the damaged DNA segment would be mechanically stabilized, where after the deficient base pairs would be removed and rapidly replaced by a dedicated "sequenator", which could be considered as akin to the operation of a film-editing mechanism. The excised DNA segment would be then be discarded from a discharge port to be naturally degraded.


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China Is Making Hong Kong Less Stable and More Violent
A neighbor who she addressed as auntie told her Xiao Bao left to work in the city. (Image: Estial via wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0)
For years, Hong Kong was perceived as a neutral region by the rest of the world even though the city was overseen by Communist China. The "one country, two systems" agreement allowed the city to have a democratic, open society that none of the Chinese cities ever had. This is what allowed Hong Kong to prosper and become the financial hub of the east. However, China is diminishing Hong Kong's neutrality and thereby slowly taking away its premier business and political status.
Not neutral anymore
Ongoing protests in Hong Kong are the perfect example of the friction that exists between the city and Beijing. The Chinese government is determined to shut down protests and enforce its authoritarian rules. After all, if Hong Kong is allowed to maintain its liberal society, people in other Chinese cities might also start to question why they are being denied such freedoms.
"We will see a different Hong Kong… The very reason for Hong Kong's existence — the rule of law, respect for the police, for public institutions, respect for the judiciary, the bureaucracy — everything has been eroded," Lynette H. Ong, a China expert at the University of Toronto, said to The New York Times.
The police, bolstered by strong support from China, have become increasingly aggressive against protestors. Many have been needlessly beaten up and arrested. One teenager was even shot. Beijing has boosted the number of troops along the Hong Kong border, keeping it ready when invasive policies have to be adopted.
Martin Lee Chu-ming, called the grandfather of Hong Kong democracy, is very apprehensive about the future of his city. He was not only the founding chairperson of Hong Kong's first political party but also played a crucial role in drafting the Basic Law that gives the citizens the freedom they currently enjoy. Lee believes that the protests are Hong Kong's way of proving that Beijing's power is not invincible. He is also critical about how the police have slowly become okay with using violence.
Martin Lee Chu-ming is worried about Hong Kong's future. (Image: wikimedia / CC0 1.0)
"Carrie Lam's administration is dysfunctional. The police are now in effect governing Hong Kong. The extreme tactical force they're using has bred public loathing and resentment… Each evening I watch the live television coverage and don't go to bed until I see the kids have made it home safely," he said to The Conversation.
The economic effect
The concern over Hong Kong's future is putting the city's economy into jeopardy. "We found modest net outflow from HKD deposits in Hong Kong and modest net inflow of FX [forex] deposits in Singapore," Goldman Sachs Group said in a recent note to investors (The Straits Times). In August, local currency deposits registered the biggest decline in over a year.
The economy of Hong Kong is at risk due to the conflict between the state and protestors. (Image: Screenshot / YouTube)
Kyle Bass, the founder of Hayman Capital Management, warned that Hong Kong is facing the threat of a "severe" economic collapse as protests continue. He predicted that the city's foreign exchange reserves will continue to deplete in October, while a significant chunk of capital will flee the region over the next 12 to 18 months.
In September, Fitch cut Hong Kong's credit rating from AA+ to AA. This was the first time since 1995 that the credit rating agency had downgraded the city. Fitch also lowered Hong Kong's credit rating outlook from stable to negative.
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The game is set during the events of the Clone Wars that started at the climax of the movie Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. In the game, the player is expected to take command of a Clone commando team, made up of elite Clone troopers. These "clone commandos" have been specially bred at the clone factories on Kamino. The commando team will travel to various locations in the Star Wars universe, including Kashyyyk, Geonosis, and the derelict spacecraft, The Prosecutor.
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This is my first post on samygo, so i want to send my appreciation to everybody who made this great job.
my tv is ue46f8000 with T-FXPDEUC_1135.0 firmware. reading this site i was able to go back to 1125 using 0000 firmware.
and then installed root using 1st post of this thread (i presume this is latest root method ??). i cant block OTNSupport in service since it is greyed out so i blocked access to samsung sites using my router.
the root went ok and i have a working telnet/ftp. after enabled sshd from /mnt/etc/init.d the dropbear is started but login is not allowed (used SamyGO as password). previous posts reported that sshd is working so i wonder if there is another updated root version or i must find on forum a solution (new dropbear/scripts ?) and put it on my current root ?
With F8000 in order to block OTN support you need to enable the extended menu as defined in the wiki section.
- with TV IR extender method using WAV files as specified.
After having enabled extended menu you can disable OTN Support.
With SSH I had the same issue and I needed to enable it from telnet.
I do not remember the right procedure but if you look in the forum there is a discussion about how to enable real telnet and SSH in E/F Series.
Hi everyone! I am new to this forum, so please forgive me if my post is not inline with the forum rules!
1) Install the 0000 Firmware.
Are these the only steps that need to be followed? Can someone guide me with the first 3 steps? Maybe a video (if possible). I managed to disable OTA/OTN updated from the Engineering Menu.
Thank you in advance, and once again I am sorry if I have broken any forum rules. It's not that I am trying to get spoon-fed, I did try to read the relevant threads. It's just that there are multiple active threads, and so I got confused. I don't want to hard-brick my TV. I have soft-bricked a couple of android phones in the past, but it was possible to unbrick them. I am not sure whether that will be the case with a TV, so just being cautious.
Gentlemen, I have a problem with my TV series F6, I had root and oscam for 1.5 years and everything worked until the oscam began to cut and finally fell, so I made a new pendriv from samygo uploaded and everything ok green and now I have a problem that TV every 3 minutes reboots and so on and over, but after removing the pendriva TV works but no longer works smart-hub, what can I or what should I do?


US President Donald Trump has said a new FBI director will be appointed "fast", following the controversial dismissal of James Comey.
"We can make a fast decision," Trump told reporters on his way to fly to southern Virginia on Saturday.
Trump said it is "possible" that the new FBI director will be announced before he leaves for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Trump is scheduled to leave for the kingdom on Friday 19 May.
The White House, however, has provided no deadline for filling in Comey's place.
Trump's administration is scheduled to interview the first four candidates, among a dozen candidates being considered for the post, on Saturday.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy Rod Rosenstein will interview acting FBI director Andrew McCabe, Texas Senator John Cornyn, former federal prosecutor Michael Garcia and former assistant attorney general Alice Fisher, The New York Times reported.
Andrew McCabe, 49, is a career FBI agent.
He has taken part in a number of high-profile investigations, including probes into the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 and the attacks against US installations in Benghazi, Libya in 2012.
John Cornyn, 65, is the number two Republican in the Senate.
He served as Texas attorney general before his election to the Senate in 2002.
Michael Garcia, 55, served as assistant secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and US attorney under former president George W. Bush.
Alice Fisher, 50, headed the Justice Department's criminal division, also under former president Bush.
Other candidates include former New York police commissioner Raymond Kelly, former Republican senator Kelly Ayotte, and South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy.
The Senate must approve whoever is chosen as Trump's nominee for the post.
Meanwhile, Trump faces bipartisan criticism from Senate members for firing Comey.
The Democrats and some Republicans are dissatisfied over the abrupt termination of Comey's appointment, describing the dismissal as "troubling".
At the time, Comey was running an investigation into the Trump campaign's possible links with Russia.


He tapped the roof of his truck with his fingernails.
It would take a lot of money to repair the roof and erase the water damage.
A metal roof replaced the old shingles.
Thunder exploded and then the hail started, drumming on the roof like large marbles.
If Eden succeeded, Xander died, a fact he didn't learn for many years after she left him writhing in agony on the roof of a tavern.
A swan dive off the roof sounds good right about now.
Ully cursed as he moved to seek cover from the downpour. Safe beneath his jungle roof, Toby watched him. The brave, cheerful Ully that sat with him in Hell seemed lost in the underworld, and Toby began to suspect there was another reason their jailer, Jared, had freed them.
Giovanni, dating from 1576, is famous for its rich inlaid marbles, its Brussels tapestries, its roof painted by Matteo Preti (1661-1699), the picture by Michael Angelo da Caravaggio of the beheading of John the Baptist, numerous memorials of the knights and other relics.
No matter what she said, getting him back meant financial security - a roof over her head and everything that went along with it.
Releasing the break, she slapped the lines on the back of the mules and clicked her tongue against the roof of her mouth.
The roof was so constructed that one could stand up in the middle of the trench and could even sit up on the beds if one drew close to the table.
The roof must not be quite flat, for a slight fall is necessary in its upper surface to allow water to drain away into gutters placed at convenient points.
In diameter; it has two or three niches, and a conical roof formed by the gradual inclination of the walls to the centre.
The girl, greatly astonished, ran to lean over the edge of the roof, and saw the man walking rapidly through the air toward the ground.
The officer began to write, but just as he finished the first word, a bomb came through the roof of the house and struck the floor close by him.
The Indians had advanced so far as to regulate the effect of the wind by a mat suspended over the hole in the roof and moved by a string.
The roof was the soundest part, though a good deal warped and made brittle by the sun.
But my house occupied so sunny and sheltered a position, and its roof was so low, that I could afford to let the fire go out in the middle of almost any winter day.
Some fifteen men with merry shouts were shaking down the high wattle wall of a shed, the roof of which had already been removed.
Although there is a giant chicken on the roof of the establishment, they do serve other specialties.
Quinn lit the large stove to stave off the cold as rain pounded the metal roof above us.
The rain on the roof was soothing.
The outside camera is virtually undetectable under a roof overhang.
"Put your hands on the roof," Larkin demanded.
She recalled falling asleep on the roof and knew Evelyn to be too tipsy to carry or drag her down to her room.
Dean's mind churned the details of the recent happenings, trying to make sense of Shipton's orchestrated plunge to the river, and the strange reactions of those still sleeping beneath Bird Song's roof, and elsewhere.
The broad arches allowed fresh air and the clear fiberglass roof let the sunshine in while keeping the rain out.
The roof on the old house had been replaced, but the house stood empty and forlorn.
Alex had given her more than a roof over her head and food.
If it hadn't been for the tree falling on the house, that roof still wouldn't be repaired.
She climbed onto the roof of the mansion then approached the peak.
Rough cedar posts that still had remnants of limbs supported the porch roof, and an old vine rocker sat beside the door.
The rain beat on the roof with a steady roar, and thunder cracked like a giant whip.
While Simonides was outside, the roof of the house caved in and killed everyone.
There we sat together under that part of the roof which leaked the least, while it showered and thundered without.
And then fresh sparks went up above the wood, as if the roof fell in, and we all shouted "Concord to the rescue!"
A blue-robed man, whose fittest roof is the overarching sky which reflects his serenity.
Who is there?--there beyond that field, that tree, that roof lit up by the sun?
Knocked the roof and ceiling all to splinters!
While you are under my roof, you will treat me with respect.
Bill said one of the limbs of the tree had gone through the roof over Carmen's bedroom – all the way down and punctured her mattress.
Sofia, a circular edifice of about 760, now modernized, the roof of which is supported by six ancient columns, is a relic of the Lombard period; it has a fine cloister of the 12th century constructed in part of fragments of earlier buildings; while the cathedral with its fine arcaded facade and incomplete square campanile (begun in 1279) dates from the 9th century and was rebuilt in 1114.
On the roof? asked the girl.
Snow soon covered her arms as she crossed the roof to gaze into the well-lit courtyard.
Here he set fire to the cedar roof of the palace of Xerxes as a symbol that the Greek war of revenge against the Persians had come to an end.
Maybe it was the near-inaudible buzz or the rain on the roof, or my imagination, by I actually napped, for about twenty minutes.
As there is no dormer on the roof, the ceilings slant downward on each side.
It looked as though it had fallen on the roof over her bedroom.
The old house sat quiet, the roof above her bedroom covered with a blue tarp.
Eventually, rain drumming on the porch roof lulled her back to sleep.
In height, though the conical roof has long been destroyed.
Much damage was done to the tower, and the nave roof perished, for the fire reached practically every part of the building, though the stonework of the nave suffered comparatively little.
The roof of the nave is of Moorish plaster work.
These cavities are completely roofed by a layer of cells; in the centre of the roof is a pore surrounded by a ring of special cells.
A large, iron chandelier hung from the rafters of an A-frame roof high above.


Have been vet checked to calve from now through August.
They average right at 1,075 lbs. & have recently been worked.
They come to cubes & are tagged with their age & palpation in their ear.
They'll put babies on the ground this spring & summer.
$1,065 per head if Buyer Takes All... Excluding Unmerchantable Cattle, with free delivery within 300 miles of Temple TX.


1.	Many critics have written that The Chosen is a distinctly American novel. They argue that the novel's plot is centered on the concept of the American dream, the ideal that anyone can have the opportunity to become anything. Do you agree or disagree with this analysis? Could the novel take place in another setting?
2.	Discuss Judaism in The Chosen. Why are there no important non-Jewish characters? Why is the novel restricted to a Jewish environment?
3.	In The Chosen, every character, event, action, and idea seems to have a parallel, an opposite, or a complement. Identify several such relationships, and explain the purpose they serve in the novel.
4.	Why do you think Potok chose to tell the story from Reuven's point of view? What narrative advantages does Reuven have over Danny? What advantages does Reuven's limited first-person perspective have over an omniscient third-person perspective?
5.	Compare Reb Saunders's political ideology to David Malter's. At times, each father feels threatened by the other's views. At other times, each father displays strong respect for the other. How are the two men different from one another, and how are they are similar? How can they both dislike and respect one another at the same time?
6.	Where are women in The Chosen? How do they play a part in the story? If they are absent, why do you think Potok excluded women's voices?
7.	Throughout the novel, Potok uses imagery of eyes, glasses, and other items associated with vision and perception. What do these images symbolize? Discuss several examples, including at least two in which eyes reveal a character's feelings.


Honda will unveil the 10th generation 2016 Honda Civic in Detroit and Los Angeles on September 16th 2015. The new Civic features a very dynamic styling as always, and a first time seen cabin backward design in the Civic.
The 10th generation Civic is inspired by Honda Civic Concept unveiled at 2015 New York Auto Show. The car gets Honda's new Flying H front end with bold chrome grill, sleek LED headlamps and sporty bumpers. The most attractive part is the rear with boomerang taillights extending on to the boot.
The new Civic will be powered by an all new 1.5L Tubro V-TEC engine. The same engine in Honda Jade RS produces 150 Ps of power and 203 Nm of torque. It is paired with a CVT unit with 7 stepped ratios.
Honda might think of launching the car in India as well in second quarter of next year probably with an addition of diesel engine, which could be the 1.6L i-DTec currently powering the Civics of this day worldwide.


Dharavi based (Mumbai) activist Bhau Korde in Paraisopolis with artist Barbela for an URBZ workshop.
Our obsession with mixing and merging urban landscapes and histories just moved to another level. We decided to let go of photoshopping for a bit and actually take a piece of Mumbai to Sao Paulo.
As part of the Sao Paulo Calling Exhibition curated by Architect Stefano Boeri and organized by the Secretariat de Habitaçao de Sao Paulo, images from Dharavi (Mumbai) became a part of the streetscape of Paraisopolis (Sao Paulo).
Residents of Paraisopolis chose pictures that appealed to them and in some ways corroborated their life, location or scenario across these two neighbourhoods that exist on either side of the globe.
Residents will exhibit them in their homes, shops, streets so that passers by can get a glimpse of the neighbourhood that is both so far away and astonishingly close in spirit. This live mashup continues to do what our mashed-up images always did – reveal connections across cities, to show they often emerge from similar impulses. From street vendors, to retailers, from residents to travelers, the neighbourhoods of Paraisopolis and Dharavi share as much in common as their distinct histories allow.
Together they represent the default mode in which the world is urbanizing when it is not being tamed by master planners and real estate developers. As we have shown in previous mashups there is no reason to view locally driven urban development as illegitimate. In fact, it is the acceptance of these local dynamics that have produced the celebrated heritage fabric of Italian old towns and the futurist urbanscapes of Tokyo's suburbs.
That look of surprise and recognition, when people from Paraisopolis first saw the Dharavi images transformed into powerful gestures of solidarity as they lovingly chose their preferred image and stuck it firmly inside their worlds.
It was like a warm heartfelt handshake across thousands of miles.


Sanders is right, of course, about not going down that road, but down that road, again? Who's to say the the U.S. is not already interfering, there? I doubt even Congress or the White House knows to what extent the CIA has been active in Venezuela and what role the U.S. has played to create the current unrest, there. Not that any of us will ever know, of course. The Empire is ever cautious about airing its dirty laundry.
If Bernie Sanders had not been betrayed by a complicit and corrupt DINO Party establishment, think where we might be today…who Bernie might have appointed to leadership positions and roles, and how the world would look today, rather than under the odious malignant and ignorant mental case figurehead of the criminally destructive and corrupt trump regime!
The same entrenched forces, serving wealth and corporate campaign bribery for the quid pro quo policy decisions they pay for, are still resisting, undermining and subverting progressive values, issues and agenda, and progressive newly-elected people's representatives…the DINO servants of wealth and the status quo of highly questionable integrity, morality, and servitude to those forces that bribe them are highly malleable…it is only a complicit political strategy they stand their ground at all on any critical issues the people demand of them! Their silence and/or waffling timidity on such issues and their diversions tell their story!
While it's of course important that Sanders makes anti intervention comment there is no need to condem Maduro.
Just keeping anti communism alive and well!
It was a very disappointing statement from Bernie, no mention of the causes or of C.I.A. election meddling .
I just can imagine the people pouring out of Venezuela right now, with the reported street demonstrations and looting.
So, um, where will they go? Not to Brazil.
Is Mexico ready for this?
After careful consideration, and after consultation with my family, I wanted to announce here, on Commondreams.org, that I am now a Florida senator and will take Marco Rubio's place. I have called his office to inform him of my decision, and asked that his constituents call me directly on all senatorial matters. I have also informed him that he no longer has the power to work in his office in DC or to even call himself a senator. I tried really hard to freeze his assets and to cut his district off economically from the outside world, but I am just one person, and I failed at that. Sorry. This will have to do for now.
See, we all argue every day about should we take over the Democratic Party, should we work to form a third party, all a waste of time. Little did we know that we could declare ourselves president, a senator, mayor, or even president. Screw organizing and trying to win elections, let's just appoint Chomsky to be president, and let him form a new government. Trump's gone folks, it's over. Let's also look around local DSA chapters and see who we want to take the place of Hoyer, Pelosi and Schumer too. Anyone want to be governor of Georgia? Lots of really sketchy things went on in that election. The president of France, 17% approval rating and facing unrest, supports what is going on in Venezuela. So, I take it, if no one in the Yellow Vests declares themselves president, maybe someone here can step up. Who wants to be president of France?
All kidding aside, I called dibs on Florida's senate seat. You can be president of France or governor of Georgia, back off my senate seat. I will NOT be governor of Maine, too cold there.
We have been intervening directly since the Dubya failed coup attempt to overthrow Chavez. And more recently with brutal sanctions.
Oh, they can go to the country that has gotten over 10 billion from us since 2000. Among the deadliest places in the world for journalists, has among the most internally displaced people in the world, a place where indigenous groups are dealing now with land grabs that is amounting to cultural genocide, deadliest place for union organizers, a country that is largely controlled by death squads, a country where thousands of politicians, organizers and activists have been killed since the 1980's. A country where over 80 Catholic priests have been killed since the mid 1980s because they were trying to defend the poor. A country not only controlled by paramilitaries, but also drug lords and corrupt politicians. The recent right wing president (Uribe) of this country was named by the DEA as one of the worst drug offending politicians in the early 1990s in his country. Evidence came out that paramilitaries actually met on his ranch to plan hits and his campaign manager was arrested for smuggling cocaine. Colombia, a great democracy, and Venezuela's neighbor. We haven't done to Colombia what we have done to Venezuela, can you image how much worse it would be if we did? No, we have given it massive amounts of aid, and our CIA essentially created its paramilitary system as a means of fighting back against social movements. They're helping us in Venezuela, and in no way does what we have done in Colombia or places like Central America make our rhetoric about human rights and democracy look absurd.
Abby Martin of the Empire Files did a pretty impressive investigatory piece on Venezuela and the real cause of the unrest there.
My thoughts exactly. I thought there were sanctions and embargoes against Venezuela which has furthered the starvation of the people which has been assisted by the wealthy elites in the country. So there is no actual proof that we are working with the wealthy elites to overthrow the socialists during the last 19 years?
Yes, I seen her work and makes you wonder what to believe, however, I know the US gov't has had it hand in all of it. The resources of this nation is the goal of the multi nationals that our government serves. But like I said in my last post, corruption trickles down meaning they know what is going on so get mine while I can??
I'll second your appointment to be the Senator from the proud state of Florida.
Thanks. You are now my chief of staff. Congrats! See how this new "democracy" works? Let's call it the Rubio Doctrine.
The news out of France is rich , and as usual rife with hypocrisy.
Macron has claimed Maduro as an illegitimate leader of Venezuela. He claims Maduro using violence against protestors and calls for even more sanctions. Meanwhile In France the yellow vests are being tear gassed and beaten as they protest a government with popular support far lower than Maduro.
I hereby recognize Didier Guillame as Frances legitimate leader.
Bernie Sanders is simply parroting imperialist views.
There is no way to know what society in Venezuela would be like without bipartisan US destabilization and attempted coups.
Democrats have undermined democracy in Venezuela in partnership with republicans and Bernie has worked with democrats through it all. He is a senior member of an imperialist war government.
May I ask you Bernie: WHY NO MENTION OF ELECTION MEDDLING IN THE 2016 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION? Bernie, why oh why did you say: "we have to back Hillary, because we cannot allow Trump to become POTUS"!
Thanks Joan. Looks like I'm coming out of retirement after 13 years.
Careful, Florida has a lot of swamp critters already.


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Q: Capture Layout resize before API 11 I am dynamically creating a board, made of views that are dynamically set in a relative layout. In my onCreate i call the constructor of my Board class that creates everything:
    @Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main_layout);
    RelativeLayout boardLayout = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.layoutBoard);
    board = new Board(this, boardLayout);

}

In my Board class I set the rules for the layer and I also need to set the size of the views I display, and I calculate them starting from the values of boardLayout.getWidth() and boardLayout.getHeight()
Now the problem is that all the actual draw on the screen is performed only after the end of the onCreate method, so at the moment of the creation, the width and height of the layer are zero.
So I decided to set the size using:
    boardLayout.addOnLayoutChangeListener(new RelativeLayout.OnLayoutChangeListener() {
        @Override
        public void onLayoutChange(View v, int left, int top, int right,
                int bottom, int oldLeft, int oldTop, int oldRight, int oldBottom) {
                board.setParentLayoutSize(left, top, right, bottom);
        }
    });

Unfortunately this method is available only from API 11 and I must stick to API 10 as a maximum.
How could I perform this? Is there a way to listen to layout changes without using this method?
Thank you!

A: The most elegant solution is to extend RelativeLayout class, then you can just override onSizeChanged:
protected void onSizeChanged (int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh)

If you need to know the size just after inflate you can try to measure view manually: so call measure(...) than layout(...) and then getMeasuredWidth()/getMeasuredHeight should return the correct size. But this is more tricky, don't use it if you're not sure how it works.

A: After hours that I could not find anything, I wrote this message and immediately discovered this:
How to retrieve the dimensions of a view?

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A few weeks back, I posted something about a recent study showing a higher rate of suicide, or contemplation of suicide, among Asian American women. Almost 16 percent of U.S.-born Asian American women -- compared to 13 percent of all Americans -- have contemplated suicide in their lifetimes.
Our friend Jen Wang from Disgrasian recently appeared as a guest on NPR's Tell Me More, along with Aileen Duldulao, lead author of the research, to discuss these disturbing findings: Asian-American Women More Likely To Attempt Suicide.
It's a really good, frank conversation about a topic that does not get discussed enough in our community -- with deadly consequences. Much props to you, Jen. You did a great job. Listen to the radio story, or read the transcript here.


Rugby Gardens is an eclectic Victorian home in Brooklyn's Historic Flatbush. When you arrive you feel as if you've stepped back in time. The beautiful original artwork and colorful palette of the house offer a welcoming feeling.


text:
namespace {

class SignalTest : public ContextTestBase {
 public:
  // These tests should time out if the callback doesn't get called.
  void TestSignalSyncToken(const gpu::SyncToken& sync_token) {
    base::RunLoop run_loop;
    context_support_->SignalSyncToken(sync_token, run_loop.QuitClosure());
    run_loop.Run();
  }

  // These tests should time out if the callback doesn't get called.
  void TestSignalQuery(GLuint query) {
    base::RunLoop run_loop;
    context_support_->SignalQuery(query, run_loop.QuitClosure());
    run_loop.Run();
  }
};

CONTEXT_TEST_F(SignalTest, BasicSignalSyncTokenTest) {
#if defined(OS_WIN)
  // The IPC version of ContextTestBase::SetUpOnMainThread does not succeed on
  // some platforms.
  if (!gl_)
    return;
#endif

  gpu::SyncToken sync_token;
  gl_->GenSyncTokenCHROMIUM(sync_token.GetData());

  TestSignalSyncToken(sync_token);
}

CONTEXT_TEST_F(SignalTest, EmptySignalSyncTokenTest) {
#if defined(OS_WIN)
  // The IPC version of ContextTestBase::SetUpOnMainThread does not succeed on
  // some platforms.
  if (!gl_)
    return;
#endif

  // Signalling something that doesn't exist should run the callback
  // immediately.
  gpu::SyncToken sync_token;
  TestSignalSyncToken(sync_token);
}

CONTEXT_TEST_F(SignalTest, InvalidSignalSyncTokenTest) {
#if defined(OS_WIN)
  // The IPC version of ContextTestBase::SetUpOnMainThread does not succeed on
  // some platforms.
  if (!gl_)
    return;
#endif

  // Signalling something that doesn't exist should run the callback
  // immediately.
  gpu::SyncToken sync_token(gpu::CommandBufferNamespace::GPU_IO,
                            gpu::CommandBufferId::FromUnsafeValue(1297824234),
                            9123743439);
  TestSignalSyncToken(sync_token);
}

CONTEXT_TEST_F(SignalTest, BasicSignalQueryTest) {
#if defined(OS_WIN)
  // The IPC version of ContextTestBase::SetUpOnMainThread does not succeed on
  // some platforms.
  if (!gl_)
    return;
#endif

  unsigned query;
  gl_->GenQueriesEXT(1, &query);
  gl_->BeginQueryEXT(GL_COMMANDS_ISSUED_CHROMIUM, query);
  gl_->Finish();
  gl_->EndQueryEXT(GL_COMMANDS_ISSUED_CHROMIUM);
  TestSignalQuery(query);
  gl_->DeleteQueriesEXT(1, &query);
}

CONTEXT_TEST_F(SignalTest, SignalQueryUnboundTest) {
#if defined(OS_WIN)
  // The IPC version of ContextTestBase::SetUpOnMainThread does not succeed on
  // some platforms.
  if (!gl_)
    return;
#endif

  GLuint query;
  gl_->GenQueriesEXT(1, &query);
  TestSignalQuery(query);
  gl_->DeleteQueriesEXT(1, &query);
}

CONTEXT_TEST_F(SignalTest, InvalidSignalQueryUnboundTest) {
#if defined(OS_WIN)
  // The IPC version of ContextTestBase::SetUpOnMainThread does not succeed on
  // some platforms.
  if (!gl_)
    return;
#endif

  // Signalling something that doesn't exist should run the callback
  // immediately.
  TestSignalQuery(928729087);
  TestSignalQuery(928729086);
  TestSignalQuery(928729085);
  TestSignalQuery(928729083);
  TestSignalQuery(928729082);
  TestSignalQuery(928729081);
}

// The GpuFenceTest doesn't currently work on ChromeOS, apparently
// due to inconsistent initialization of InProcessCommandBuffer which
// isn't used on that platform. Restrict it to Android for now.

#if defined(OS_ANDROID)

class GpuFenceTest : public ContextTestBase {
 public:
  GpuFenceTest();
  ~GpuFenceTest() override;

  void TestReceive(base::OnceClosure quit_cb,
                   std::unique_ptr<gfx::GpuFence> gpu_fence) {
    EXPECT_TRUE(gpu_fence);
    received_gpu_fence_ = std::move(gpu_fence);
    std::move(quit_cb).Run();
  }

  std::unique_ptr<gfx::GpuFence> received_gpu_fence_;
};

GpuFenceTest::GpuFenceTest() = default;
GpuFenceTest::~GpuFenceTest() = default;

CONTEXT_TEST_F(GpuFenceTest, BasicGpuFenceTest) {
  // Skip test if GpuFence is not supported.
  if (!gl::GLFence::IsGpuFenceSupported())
    return;

  GLuint id1 = gl_->CreateGpuFenceCHROMIUM();
  EXPECT_NE(id1, 0U);

  // These tests should time out if the callback doesn't get called.
  base::RunLoop run_loop;

  base::OnceCallback<void(std::unique_ptr<gfx::GpuFence>)> callback =
      base::BindOnce(&GpuFenceTest::TestReceive, base::Unretained(this),
                     run_loop.QuitClosure());

  // Receive and store a local GpuFence.
  context_support_->GetGpuFence(id1, std::move(callback));
  run_loop.Run();

  gl_->DestroyGpuFenceCHROMIUM(id1);

  // GPU fence should be valid.
  EXPECT_TRUE(received_gpu_fence_);

  // Send a copy of this fence back via command buffer GL.
  GLuint id2 = gl_->CreateClientGpuFenceCHROMIUM(
      received_gpu_fence_->AsClientGpuFence());
  gl_->ShallowFlushCHROMIUM();
  EXPECT_NE(id2, 0U);
  EXPECT_NE(id2, id1);
  gl_->WaitGpuFenceCHROMIUM(id2);
  gl_->DestroyGpuFenceCHROMIUM(id2);
}

#endif  // defined(OS_ANDROID)

}  // namespace

#endif  // GPU_IPC_CLIENT_GPU_CONTEXT_TESTS_H_


Check out the latest news in the OpenStack and cloud worlds. This week, compare OpenStack and AWS's DBaaS, choose between proprietary and open source clouds, and more!
Tesora CEO Ken Rugg described the advantages of using OpenStack Database as a Service, and explained how it compares to Amazon's data services like like RDS or DynamoDB. He highlighted features such as the Tesora DBaaS platform's ability to run in the data center or public cloud, the large support of the community around OpenStack DBaaS, and the platform's ability to operate 16 different databases within a single framework.
The Australia-based company atmail, founded in 1998, provides email solutions for service providers, hosted service provider, telecoms, global corporations and government agencies in Australia and the USA. Recently, atmail decided to use OpenStack for their deployments. This simplified their solutions and in turn made them more cost effective. Atmail chose DreamHost's DreamCompute cloud computing platform to power their new cloud-based email solutions, which is a fully open source compute service.
Ken Rugg posted his response to a recent blog post published by Rob Hirschfeld, stating his opinion on OpenStack's need to focus on core services or run the risk of burning out. Rugg continued to discuss the duality of OpenStack– as both a platform, a community, and as both. He argued that there is great value in OpenStack being a collection of projects that deliver cloud infrastructure, developed with a common governance model.
Recently, BMW and Volkswagen both demonstrated that they are embracing open source while building their private clouds. Volkswagen stated that with the progress of OpenStack constantly evolving as well as its increasing popularity, no single proprietary vendor will be able to keep up with OpenStack's development model. This is a clear indication that private cloud platforms will continue to be built on open source platforms moving forward.
Azat Mardan described his experience as a Technology Fellow at Capital One as they increasingly embrace open source. Mardan detailed how Capital One has learned that open source software is actually more secure and reliable for their specific needs. They have formalized open source guidelines and their developers are committed to contributing patches to the open source solutions they use; at OSCON 2015, Capital One released their first open source project, Hygieia.


It's a new day today, the sun is shining brightly, there are many people bustling across the streets, I can hear the sweet chirping of birds outside, I wake up from my sweet slumber to face a new beginning. My mom kisses me on the head and prays to god for the health of her child. I smile at her and she cuddles me up in her arms. I can smell the sweet fragrance in the air; it reminds me of someone I had known a long time ago. My mom makes me ready to face the world for the first time. Though I might be too young to speak, I understand something pleasant is in store for me today. I catch her hand and step outside into the busy street. I see many people, some old and some young all of whom are rapt in attention; they are too busy looking at me who seems to be the centre of attraction today.
I can't make out who these people are, but I am sure that they are good people with a specific purpose in life.
I see a lovely house ahead, the door opens and I am welcomed by a charming girl; I think she is an angel from the abode of heaven, I feel a bit shy, I run into the house with my heart in my mouth, it's a new feeling altogether. An old lady enters the room clad in her snow white apron, she teases me by pulling my shirt, I don't know how to react and I begin to cry. My mom picks me up and carries me in her arms. I feel protected in her arms. I hold her tightly as I fear I might lose her.


"In the last century, we have more river incision in this area than expected. Something caused these rivers to start eroding a lot more," said lead author Sarah Schanz, a former UW doctoral student who is now a postdoctoral researcher at Indiana University. "We know the Teanaway River has eroded into bedrock before, naturally—it has some terraces that are 1,800 years old. But this current cycle is anthropogenic, or human-driven."
"This is the first time that we've been able to pinpoint erosion into bedrock due to human action," Schanz said. "Most rivers are eroding at about a tenth of a millimeter per year. This is about 100 times that amount."
Collins also noticed unusual river terraces, the stepped structures along the river bank resulting from cycles of the river flooding and then running more quickly, cutting a new channel deeper into the sediment. He led a 2016 study that calculated short-term changes in the Teanaway's western fork and suggested logging may have caused the river to cut a new channel.
Before logging roads existed, companies built temporary "splash dams" high up on the slope with all the logs and then broke up the dam with tools or explosives. Released water helped send logs shooting down to the mills.
"It was such an event that schools closed, and newspaper records show it really well," Schanz said. "People who are still alive today, some of their earliest memories are of going to see it."
"If you have too much sediment, you're basically protecting the river from erosion. But if you have not enough sediment, as that sediment is moving along, it starts to hit the bedrock and erode it," Schanz said.
David Montgomery, a UW professor of Earth and space sciences, and the other two co-authors used many techniques to analyze the four youngest terraces on the river's edge, including LIDAR maps, carbon dating of rocks and computer models. In 1999 the team even hammered nails into the bedrock and measured the erosion rates directly.
"This is a direct topographic signature of the Anthropocene, the 'age of humans' that we now live in," Montgomery said. "The finding that terrace surfaces in the Teanaway are recently-abandoned floodplains suggests that similar landforms around the world may also reflect the influence of human activity."
"It's sort of a hand-wavey linkage at this point, but I think this could be prevalent worldwide," said Schanz. "It's just not a signal that we've known to look for before."
"I think the human part is really interesting, but what has broader implications, for me, is the proof that if you change how sediment moves through a river, you can change erosion rates," Schanz said.


Hiroto Kyoguchi is the eighth fighter in boxing history to be awarded The Ring championship at junior flyweight.
Kosei Tanaka talks to Nick Skok from The Ring about his excellent victory over countryman Ryoichi Taguchi and his plans for the future.
Although light heavyweight contender Badou Jack will be facing Marcus Browne on Saturday night, no reigning titlist is beyond his radar.


Homegrown Artists: A collection of visual works from the talented Dublin painter, printmaker and photographer Kevin Judge.
My name is Kevin Judge and I am an artist from Dublin.
I'm a recent graduate from NCAD where I studied Printmaking for two years. It's also there that I tried my hand at painting and realised I was pretty good at it, from there I decided that's what I want to pursue. Historically painting is the most important medium, and personally I've always found paintings to be way more interesting. My paintings are mostly figurative and representational while also trying to bring in elements of humour and pathos. I also like to include references to seventeenth century Vanitas paintings.
You can catch Kevin's works in the 'Emerging Artists' exhibition in St.Patrick's University Hospital which runs until October 31st.


In September 2017 we were awarded a $4.8 million project over 3 years to conduct a national-scale assessment of Singapore's Natural Capital (ecosystem services).
As a global leader in green urban development, Singapore has recognised that the quality of the natural environment is important to economic performance and livability. However, significant challenges exist in incorporating the environment into holistic, national-scale planning. While the economic benefits of urban development are simple to calculate, we lack comparable information for environmental assets (termed natural capital). Methods to assess natural capital at a national level have been developed for several temperate nations, but these are not readily applicable to tropical nations such as Singapore, where climatic conditions, ecosystems and national priorities are different.
The objectives of this project are to assess the current status and health of Singapore's major ecosystems, and quantify their economic and societal value. This analysis will provide the first national-scale assessment of Singapore's natural capital, and the first assessment for a tropical, heavily urbanised country. The project will also predict potential future changes in natural capital, and identify trade-offs and synergies with future urban development. The assessment of future changes will be supported by the development of an interactive decision-support tool that will provide information on natural capital to decision-makers.
The project is led by Dan Friess (NUS Geography) and Adrienne Gret-Regamy (ETH Zurich) and involves PIs and collaborators from Singapore-ETH Centre, NUS, NTU, Singapore-MIT Alliance and the National Parks Board.
Natural Capital Singapore is kicking off in the first half on 2018. Stay tuned for updates.


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Q: Dell Inspiron 1545 - "plugged in, not charging" A family member brought me their Dell Inspiron 1545 a few hours ago (I'm a software engineer so I know how to fix any and all computer issues, right??). They just bought a new battery for it that won't charge. After exhausting my Google-foo, I see three possible solutions:

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*Bad motherboard (I don't think this is the case).

*Bad battery.

*Bad charger.

I'm thinking that #3 is the most likely because they are using a generic power supply. If everyone is agreed, or at least leaning in that direction, is there anyway to bypass this "feature" of Dells?
Any help is appreciated!

A: Try this:
Disconnect AC
Shutdown
Remove battery
Connect AC
Startup
Open Device Manager
Click the plus (+) sign next to Batteries category, right-click all of the "Microsoft ACPI Compliant Control Method Battery" listings, and select Uninstall In the "Confirm Device Uninstall" dialog box, click OK. (it's ok if you only have 1 of these).
Click the plus (+) sign next to System Devices.
Right-click the "ACPI Fixed Features Button" and select Uninstall. In the "Confirm Device Uninstall" dialog box, click OK.
Shutdown
Disconnect AC
Insert battery
Connect AC
Startup

A: You can only charge a batter if

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*the power manager chip thinks your power adapter has extra juice
to charge the battery and

*battery reports it can be charged.

Charging a battery without enough current may reduce its life, so if your computer is under heavy load, the chip may choose to stop charging or even draw power from the battery.
Lithium batteries have a narrow operation temperature range. If it's too cold or hot, safety mechanisms will prevent charging.
Of course, the power adapter, the manager chip or the battery may be faulty.

A: Dell notebooks are notorious for not charging batteries with adapters that aren't branded Dell.  Your best bet is to order an adapter straight from Dell, or a Dell specific adapter from eBay or a local computer store.
I did retail computer repair for three years, servicing approximately 5 Dell notebooks per day, 5 days a week.  We had universal AC adapters with tips to fit that would provide power to turn on the notebooks, but only the Dell branded adapters would charge the battery.
I don't know why this would be the case, but it was.

A: Update your BIOS.
It has fixed this issue for me a few times. Especially if you are using the factory Dell charger. This also works for the after-market adapter as well.

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*Check the AC adapter - it should have 19volts DC with at least 90 watts output.  If it is less than 19 volts or if it is less than 90 watts it may power the laptop up, but not charge it.

*Remove the battery.  Plug in the AC Adapter.  Turn on computer.  If the computer won't start up only on AC power, you're toast.  Try with their original AC adapter, or call around for your friends - MOST Dells use the same power adapter.  Try an original adapter of at least 90 watts.

*If it boots, go into the BIOS setup using the F2 key.  Go into the POST Behavior screen.  Look for Adapter.  This setting either warns you the power supply is inadequate or doesn't.  Make sure it is enabled.  Reboot, do you get a warning message on bootup that the power supply is inadequate?
Let us know how things work out.

A: Fully discharge the battery by running the computer on battery mode and then remove and re-fix the battery. Then charge the battery for more than one hour (if the battery is working, charging light will be off after charged) and then switch on.

A: I tried all of the above with no success. I ended up replacing the power jack which comes in the form of an actual board.
http://www.amazon.com/INSPIRON-1545-POWER-CHARGER-BOARD/dp/B005CLMDPM
The old board had an obvious burn out on one of the pins so my hopes for success increased at that point. Put everything back together plugged in the charger and wallah! Fixed! Finally!


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Home MMO News LotRO Updates: New Update, New Raid, And Old Festival (With New Mount)
LotRO Updates: New Update, New Raid, And Old Festival (With New Mount)
Jason Winter
It's been a busy week for Standing Stone Games. The Lord of the Rings Online got its new update on Monday, minus the raid that was supposed to be its centerpiece. That was delayed for a couple days but is live now, and yesterday brought the return of the Yule Festival.
There might be a page talking about the new festival somewhere on the LotRO site, but since the front page is still touting the Fall Festival — which ended Nov. 1 — we're not sure where to find it. Still, there's evidence via Twitter that the festival is live, and it has what appears to be a new elk mount for players to earn and ride.
As for the new raid, Abyss of Mordath, and the rest of update 21.3, you can read about that on the forums — again, the only place on the site that appears to mention the big content update at all. "Keep it secret! Keep it safe!" is a good mantra when you're trying to hide the One Ring, but it doesn't make for great marketing policy. Maybe Gandalf really is in charge of things.
Standing Stone Games
Jason Winter is a veteran gaming journalist, he brings a wide range of experience to MMOBomb, including two years with Beckett Media where he served as the editor of the leading gaming magazine Massive Online Gamer. He has also written professionally for several gaming websites.


At BICRAD, Women's Imaging involves all areas of breast imaging. These exams all serve a different purpose but admittedly, they can appear very similar to our patients. That is why we'd like to take the time to discuss the difference between these women's imaging exams.


I am a little confused in regards to the finance available for postgraduate study.
Basically I studied at undergraduate level and achieved my degree in Hospitality B 2013. I funded this course via Student finance England.
I am now looking to do a PGCE - will I be able to apply to Student Finance to cover my tuition fees?
Student finance supports the PGCE the same way it did your undergraduate, and you will also get a loan and grant too, aswell as a bursary depending on what PGCE you decide to study. I think minimum bursary is £9000 if you're doing primary, and shortage subjects such as secondary mathematics get £20,000 dependent on the degree class you achieved in your undergrad.
Used up 4 years of student finance, will they still cover my PGCE??
PGCE after 4 year undergrad - can I get student finance?


BERLIN (Reuters) - The German economy is not heading towards recession, but the government is discussing fiscal measures to support growth, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier was quoted as saying on Thursday.
"Germany is not currently at the beginning of a recession, even if there are unresolved problems in international trade with Brexit and the United States," Altmaier told Handelsblatt newspaper in an interview.
The German economy contracted by 0.2 percent in the third quarter. Industrial output figures for October and November have pointed to meagre growth in the fourth quarter.
The Federal Statics Office will publish preliminary gross domestic product figures for the fourth quarter and 2018 as a whole next Tuesday. Economists speak of a technical recession when there are two consecutive quarters of contraction.
"For nine years now, we had moderate and healthy growth rates without overheating and the economy will continue to grow this year," Altmaier said.
The government will present updated 2019 growth forecast at the end of January, he said. In October, the government predicted 1.8 percent growth for this year.
Altmaier called for lower corporate taxes to help companies, but he admitted that he had yet to convince Finance Minister Olaf Scholz.


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The latest generation of high intensity Magnetic Separators will be on display on the Bunting Magnetics stand (Hall B2 Stand 133) at Bauma 2019. The metal and mineral separators are used widely in the mineral processing, quarrying and recycling industries.
Bauma (April 8-14, 2019) is held in Munich, Germany ever three years. There are internal and external exhibition areas displaying a wide range of equipment for construction, mining, mineral processing and recycling. A reported 583,736 visitors from 219 countries attended Bauma in 2016, seeing 3,425 exhibitors from 58 countries.
"Bauma provides an ideal opportunity to meet many of our existing customers and introduce ourselves to new potential clients," explained Dave Hills, Bunting's Head of Sales.
On stand 133, the Bunting Magnetics and Master Magnets team are present to help companies with product purification or metal recovery.
High intensity Magnetic Separators are used to remove weakly magnetic particles from non-metallic minerals such as feldspar and silica sand. The Electro Magnetic Filter on display is designed to remove magnetically susceptible minerals from mineral and ceramic slurries and glazes. An electromagnetic coil is used to project a high magnetic field into a centralised cannister containing a magnetic matrix. During processing, magnetic particles are captured on the points of the matrix. A larger Electro Magnetic Filter has just been added to the Master Magnets mineral processing laboratory in Redditch UK. This provides mineral processors with the opportunity of conducting controlled tests to prove the separation capability.
The dry purification of non-metallic minerals is possible using the high intensity Rare Earth Roll Magnetic Separator. Separation demonstrations on a laboratory-scale model will take place in the stand.
The Overband Magnet is commonplace in the quarrying, mining and recycling sector and a smaller model will be on display. The Overband Magnet is mounted across permanently fixed conveyors and on mobile plant (e.g. screens and crushers) to remove larger tramp metal. There is a constant stream of Overband Magnets under manufacture at the Redditch plant, with many shipped overseas.
Commonly, the Overband Magnet works in conjunction with a Metal Detector. The Metal Detector identifies non-ferrous metals such as manganese steel. On the stand will be a Model TN77 Metal Detector, one of the most popular used in quarries and mining operations all over the world.
The need to successfully recover and recycle waste materials has never had a higher profile. Within the Master Magnets product portfolio are magnetic separators to recover ferrous metals and Eddy Current Separators for the separation on non-ferrous metals. A new generation of magnetic separator now successfully recovers stainless steel, with contracts agreed in January 2019 for the manufacture and supply of three Stainless Steel Magnetic Separators (SSSC). Demonstrations on a laboratory-sized SSSC will take place on the stand.


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"If more comics were this smart, funny and action-packed, we wouldn't need movies."
By Derrick Sanskrit / Posted on 06 May 2011
You can do anything better than anybody. The only thing you can't do is remember your own life. Sounds like a kickass take on The Bourne Identity or Memento, right? This simple setup is the basis of Taskmaster, the four-issue miniseries published by Marvel Comics in 2010 and collected this week as Taskmaster: Unthinkable.
A longtime B-level supervillain, Taskmaster has a special form of muscle memory that allows him to recreate any action he sees performed. Think photographic memory, only the information he retains is physical. This unique skill has made him one of the most formidable foes in the Marvel Universe, as he is capable of utilizing the agility of Spider-Man, the melee skills of Captain America, the accuracy of Hawkeye and so many more. It's no surprise that with all of this skill Taskmaster has been especially useful in training new generations of warriors on both sides of the endless super-human war. Frequently employed by the likes of Hydra and AIM (two of the most prominent organizations of bad guys in the Marvel Universe), Taskmaster is responsible for the armies of nameless grunts that somehow manage to pose a threat to Iron Man and the Fantastic Four. He's even recently been hired by SHIELD (the good guys) to train the incoming classes of Avengers students. Primarily, though, Taskmaster is a mercenary, taking on jobs with no concern for the ramifications and following through with surgical precision.
Those reflex memories come at a price, though, as every new movement he learns overwrites his own memories of life beyond fighting. So when word spreads that Taskmaster narc'd enemy intel to Steve Rogers (former Captain America, current head of U.S. counterterrorism) a bounty of one billion dollars goes on his head, dead or alive. Loyalties are out the window. Everybody wants that money. More importantly, everyone wants to snuff out the snitch. Everyone. The hooded villain doesn't remember any of this, though. He doesn't even remember his own students who have come to kill him. The book follows Taskmaster as he tries to remember his past while on the run from every organized crime syndicate in the Marvel Universe.
This is where the most surprising and endearing element of Taskmaster: Unthinkable kicks in – this book is hilarious. In addition to the aforementioned AIM and Hydra, writer Fred Van Lente brings in obscure gangs Cyber Ninjas and Lords of the Living Lightning but also introduces 18th-century survivalists Militiamen, technopunk Trenchcoat Mafia and obvious Monty Python nod The Inquisition. Most amazingly, though, is the new organization of former henchmen, the Minions' International Liberation Front, led by Redshirt the Über-Henchman. No sooner are these two names revealed than we are treated to the following exchange:
Jefte Palo's art is gritty and dynamic, perfectly balancing the shadows of the criminal underworld with the tension-breaking humor. There's a lingering sense of dirt and impurity, as nobody in this story is truly clean and nearly everyone has an ulterior motive. In terms of sheer storytelling flare, there are few elements in the book that play off as perfectly as overlaying art of superheroes performing actions over Taskmaster recreating their movements. The visual trick is used sparingly throughout the book, but to magnificent effect.
The protagonist runs into a series of zany characters that make him seem well-adjusted on his journey to uncover the secret of his past and clear his name. It's an espionage thrill ride that surpasses any Matt Damon film. The self-contained tale filled with personal drama and bombastic action is perfect for new readers, but there are plenty of references to current and past Marvel continuity to elate longtime Marvel nerds.
If more comics were this smart, funny and action-packed, we wouldn't need movies. Our favorite "superhero" comic of 2010, now available in bookstores nationwide. Highest possible recommendation.
captain america, marvel, memento, monty python, spider-man, taskmaster, the bourne identity
The Best Comic I'm Reading At The Moment: Ultimate Comics Spider-Man


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Symeon I of Constantinople
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Maria Megale Komnene (Greek: Μαρία Μεγάλη Κομνηνή), known as Maria of Trebizond (Greek: Μαρία της Τραπεζούντας), (died 17 December 1439) was the third wife of the Byzantine emperor John VIII P...
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Basilios (or Basilius) Bessarion (in Greek Βασίλειος Βησσαρίων) (2 January 1403 – 18 November 1472), a Roman Catholic Cardinal Bishop and the titular Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, was one of...
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Niketas Scholares
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Ikhtiyar al-Din Hasan ibn Ghafras or Ikstiyar al-Din Hasan ibn Gavras (died 1192) was a courtier and long-time vizier of the Seljuk Sultan of Iconium, Kilij Arslan II (reigned 1156–1192).He was a memb...
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Gregory Gabras
Gregory Gabras (Greek: Γρηγόριος Γαβρᾶς) was the son of the Byzantine governor of Trebizond, Theodore Gabras who was involved in a minor unsuccessful rebellion against the Emperor Alexios I Komnen...
Theodore Gabras
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Constantine Gabras
Constantine Gabras or Gavras (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Γαβρᾶς) was the governor or doux (duke) of the Byzantine province of Chaldia, centred on the Black Sea port of Trebizond and its mountainous hinte...
Eudokia of Trebizond
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Michael Palaiologos (son of John V)
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Mariam, daughter of Bagrat IV of Georgia
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John VIII Xiphilinos (Greek: Ιωάννης Η΄ Ξιφιλίνος), a native of Trebizond, was patriarch of Constantinople from 1064–1075. He was the uncle of John Xiphilinos the Epimator. John VIII also wrote a...
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Anna of Trebizond, Queen of Georgia
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George Amiroutzes
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If you need a little more pink sparkle in your life we have good news for you: Too Faced's Glow Job Peel-Off Glitter Mask is being re-stocked. This sparkly pink, gold-infused, glitter peel-off mask sold out almost immediately when it was released in early December. But fret not, if you missed out on your chance to try out this delightful product, now's your chance.
Jerrod Blandino has been wanting to launch a pink glitter peel-off mask for quite some time now, but he had to wait until the beauty technology caught up to his dream. Luckily, peel-off masks are now a staple in the beauty world, and Jerrod's addition will certainly become one of our faves.
If you've never tried a peel-off mask before, this is the perfect place to start. Too Faced's mask is exfoliating and radiance-boosting, and since it leaves your skin smooth and soft, it's the perfect thing to use when prepping your skin for makeup.
The Too Faced Glow Job Radiance Boosting Peel-Off Glitter Mask will be available on January 8th at noon PST.
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Druhá strana (v anglickém originále The Other Side) je 2. epizoda 4. řady sci-fi seriálu Hvězdná brána.

Děj
Dlouhá a krutá válka na planetě Euronda zlikvidovala atmosféru planety a zmenšila populaci na minimum. Euronďané, nyní žijící v podzemí zde objevili hvězdnou bránu, a pomocí ní se jim podařilo kontaktovat planetu Zemi. Nabízejí pozemšťanům vyspělejší technologii z jakékoliv oblasti výměnou za pravidelné dodávky tzv. těžké vody, kterou využívají pro své reaktory. Americká armáda, nadšená z možnosti získat vyspělé technologie samozřejmě souhlasí. Jen Daniel Jackson má námitky. Nelíbí se mu, že Euronďanům slepě důvěřují, a o místní válce nic neví.

Postupně se ukáže, že váhání dr. Daniela Jacksona bylo na místě. O generaci zpět začali Euronďané válku s dalším národem na této planetě, tzv. Ploditeli (míšenci, anglicky: Breeders), které se rozhodli zcela eliminovat. Neštítili se ani toho, kompletně zničit atmosféru planety a zahubit tak všechen nepřizpůsobivý život. Při tom doufali, že tím vyhladí i Ploditele. Ti ovšem přežili a ve válce jsou jim silným protivníkem.

Po tomto zjištění SGC od dohody s Euroďany odstupuje, a Jack O'Neill navíc pomocí dálkově řízené stíhačky zničí eurondskou základnu. Tím Ploditelé získají převahu.

Zajímavosti
 Podle jediného, špatně rozeznatelného záběru, jsou Ploditelé také Lidé. Nebylo zjištěno, proč se jim říká Ploditelé či míšenci. Eurondské informace o tom, že "...ploditelé se rozmnožují se vším..." tak mohou být pouze propaganda.

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