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Suspended! Leagues declare war on indiscipline
in All News, Sports / By: BVI News Online on June 21, 2017 at 3:13 PM /
Guy Malone speaking at the press briefing today
Amid plans to make each disciplinary action applicable across all basketball leagues in the territory, President of the BVI Basketball Federation Guy Malone today disclosed that the player involved in a recent fight at a match venue in Road Town has been suspended indefinitely.
He did not name the player at the centre of the physical altercation, which ended up involving at least 10 young men. The fist-fight happened at the Multi-Purpose Sports Complex in Road Town on June 11 when a match was being played.
Malone noted that, following subsequent investigations, he realized that the basketball player who was involved in the fight was suspended previously from the Julian Fraser Save the Seed National Basketball League in Sea Cow's Bay.
Malone, who was speaking today during the launch of Fraser's league in Sea Cows Bay, said the player would not have been allowed to participate in the Road Town competition, if it had been known that he was suspended from the Sea Cows Bay league.
In response to that oversight, Malone proposed that the different basketball leagues should work towards greater communication and collaboration.
He explained: "We had an incident on opening night [of the basketball league in Road Town], and it's after that incident I learnt that the player in question was banned from this league [in Sea Cows Bay]. I didn't know that. If we knew that, then he wouldn't have been allowed to play [in the Road Town league]."
"So we sent a strong message with respect to what happened (the fight) that he is suspended indefinitely and I hope that..the other leagues will carry on that message," Malone continued. "Fans come out and they want to be able to be comfortable and they want to enjoy a game. I don't think that they want to enjoy a fight or any sort of brawl."
Malone explained why suspension of the basketball player involved in the fight is considered indefinite.
"We make a decision of suspending indefinitely because honestly, as an executive body, we didn't speak to the Honourable Fraser league management [and] we didn't speak to Virgin Gorda…"
"With respect to not having a conversation with the other leagues, I made the decision as president to my executive that it's not fair [to ban] from the other leagues. So let's suspend indefinitely and, when we meet as a full body, then we put these things in place and we come up with what is best, because a person might be suspended for something a little simpler than a fight. And if you are saying suspension – he can't play. So we have to weigh the pros and cons on how we move forward and how best we all are in collaboration," added Malone.
Not in Sea Cows Bay!
Meanwhile, Fraser made it clear that no indiscipline will be tolerated during his league that will run from Saturday (August 19) until November 5.
He added that, from the outset, the management of his league decided it would not accept players suspended by the managements of the basketball leagues in Road Town and Virgin Gorda.
Fraser also suggested that discipline in his league would be easily enforceable, considering that the league is a totally private undertaking, and the venue where it is being held is also privately owned.
"We had set up a rule from inception that, if you are banned or suspended from any of those leagues [in Road Town or Virgin Gorda] you can't play here [in Sea Cows Bay]. And I won't expect that any player believes that they gonna come to this facility – and this is an advantage that we have; this is private [facility]. There is no public money going around here."
"Any player going to believe that they are going to come here [and] disrespect us, well you gonna get suspended. I don't know if the other leagues are gonna take them up. But, if they go to the other leagues and they behave in a disrespectful manner, they cannot play here [in my league at Sea Cows Bay]. That's plain and simple," Fraser declared.
Julian Fraser


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EU, Russia: Iran nuclear deal within reach
May 20, 2021 -- News Tags: 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), 2021 Vienna Nuclear Talks, Ballistic Missiles, China, E3, European Union, European Union Official Enrique Mora, Former US Pres. Donald Trump, France, Germany, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran, Iran Nuclear Dispute, Iran-U.S., Iran's Ballistic Missile Program, Iranian nuclear development, Iranian Nuclear Dispute, Iranian Proxy Militias, Iranian Uranium Enrichment, Iraq, Islamic Republic of Iran, Israel, Israel News, Israel Now, Israeli Minister of Energy Yuval Steinitz, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Lebanon, Russia, Russian Envoy Mikhail Ulyanov, Syria, Terrorism, The United Kingdom, United States, US President Joe Biden, US Sanctions on Iran, US State Department Spokeswoman Jalina Porter, US-Iran Hostilities, Yemen
The European Union official charged with leading talks to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal with Iran has expressed confidence that agreement will soon be reached.
"I am quite sure that there will be a final agreement. … I think we are on the right track and we will get an agreement," said Enrique Mora, who is the Chief of Staff of for the EU's High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana.
Mora made his statements to reporters at the end of a fourth round of negotiations of indirect talks between Iran and the United States in Vienna. He added that there is a common understanding on what is needed for a US return to the deal, the lifting of related sanctions and the resumption of nuclear commitments by Iran.
Russia's Envoy to the Vienna Talks as well as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mikhail Ulyanov echoed Mora's assessment. He wrote on Twitter yesterday that a deal is "within reach" after the achievement of good progress, and expressed hope that the fifth round expected to begin next week will be the final one.
US State Department Spokeswoman Jalina Porter said the talks had "really helped to crystallize towards the steps that need to be made by Iran as well as by the United States." She added that lead American negotiator Rob Malley will fly home this week and that the delegation will return to Austria "earlier next week."
"It can be said now that the framework and structure of the agreement has been defined and many clauses of the agreement are being negotiated," Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Abbas Araqchi, told Iranian state TV.
European allies of the US, along with Russia and China, have been working since 6 April to bring both the Washington and Tehran back into compliance with the JCPOA. Former US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the agreement in May 2018 and re-imposed stiff sanctions on the Islamic Republic that had been lifted under the deal, after which Iran openly began breaching nuclear curbs set by the agreement.
The last round talks resumed in Vienna on 7 May. Since Iran refused to hold direct talks with the US, the remaining JCPOA parties – Iran, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany – have been holding negotiations in the basement of a luxury hotel while the American delegation is based at another hotel across the street.
The crux of the original agreement, that was also reached in Vienna in 2015, was Iran's commitment to rein in its nuclear program to make it harder to obtain the fissile material for a nuclear weapon in return for relief from US, EU and United Nations sanctions.
The Trump administration and Israel have long accused Iran of covertly violating the accord in pursuit of atomic bombs and ballistic missile development, while also engaging in malign regional behavior through the funding and arming of its terrorist proxies – such as Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria, and the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Any new deal with Iran, says Israel, must mandate a wider scope and greater enforcement.
Jerusalem has never believed the agreement was stringent enough to block Tehran's quest of acquiring atomic weapons capability.
The administration of President Joe Biden has indicated willingness to renegotiate the JCPOA, once it has returned to compliance with nuclear limitations it has openly breached since the US reversal. The Ayatollah regime has declared it will only adhere to nuclear curbs after sanctions re-imposed by Trump have been lifted.
Washington maintains that Jerusalem has received advance notification of any prospective dialogue with Iran; while Israeli officials suggest they have secured a behind-the-scenes conversation with the Biden White House in which their concerns are being heard.
Israeli Minister of Energy Yuval Steinitz insisted in March that any new nuclear deal between the West and Iran should be "dramatically improved" from the previous agreement. As part of his responsibilities as Energy chief, Steinitz is also in charge of Israel Atomic Energy Commission and a member of the Security Cabinet.
An eventual new pact with the West over Iran's nuclear program "should be dramatically improved," he stressed, explaining that the "previous agreement is far from being sufficient" and that the Ayatollah leaders of the Islamic Republic are guilty of "violating all their commitments."
Meanwhile, other European diplomats are sounding a note of caution over reaching a new deal with Iran by stressing that success is not guaranteed.
Senior diplomats from Britain, France and Germany (known as the E3) issued a joint statement yesterday acknowledging that there has been some tangible progress and emergence of an outline of a final deal, but that, "There are still some very difficult issues ahead. We do not underestimate the challenges that lay before us."
After holding a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Zavad Zarif in Dublin, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney also cited progress, but added: "A deal is far from done though because this is a big technical negotiation."
Officials are hoping to reach agreement before Iran's presidential election in mid-June out of concern the campaign could affect the outcome of the Vienna talks.
There is a more pressing 'soft deadline' tomorrow upon expiration of Tehran's temporary agreement with IAEA on the monitoring of some of its nuclear activities.
The E3 diplomats stressed in their statement that it is vital that Iran and the UN atomic watchdog agency find a way to ensure the continuity of inspection. "IAEA access will of course be essential to our efforts to restore the JCPOA – as a deal cannot be implemented without it," said the British, French and German statement.
Following Iran's 21 February declaration it would immediately halt IAEA snap inspections, the organization's Director General Rafael Grossi was able to secure an arrangement for "necessary" monitoring for up to three months. Tehran nevertheless confirmed it would go ahead with its plan to slash other cooperation with the agency.
Had it not been for an urgent flight to Tehran to reach the temporary deal, Grossi said, "the situation would not, I repeat, would not be reversible or recoverable. We would be basically flying blind, without any idea of what would be taking place in terms of enrichment activities and other relevant activities."
Details of the deal are confidential but Grossi described it as a black box-type system in which data is collected that can only be accessed by the IAEA later.
"This is a system that allows us to continue to monitor and to register all the key activities that are taking place throughout this period so that at the end of it we can recover all this information," the IAEA Director General said at a US Nuclear Threat Initiative think-tank event.
"In other words, we will know exactly what happened, exactly how many components were fabricated, exactly how much material was processed or treated or enriched and so on and so forth."
This system does not apply to the core monitoring of Iran's most important declared facilities such as its enrichment sites – which predate the JCPOA, however, a senior diplomat told Reuters, and applicable only to measures added under the deal including the measurement of enriched uranium in real time.
Grossi expressed hope in February that a new monitoring deal with Iran would be forged at a higher level while his technical accord is in place – an apparent reference to efforts to salvage the 2015 nuclear pact.
"Some say at the end of it, if Iran wants (to) and there is no agreement, they will destroy this information. Yes, but if at the end of it there is no agreement – everything is destroyed. There is no confidence anymore," Grossi said.

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Dissociable roles of the ventral, medial and lateral striatum on the acquisition and performance of a complex visual stimulus-response habit.
Article date: 1991/11/26
Journal name: Behavioural brain research (ISSN: 0166-4328)
The effects of discrete bilateral ibotenic acid lesions to 3 areas of striatum were examined on a conditional visual discrimination task involving temporal frequency (SLOW vs FAST flashes) that had previously been shown to be sensitive to the effects of dorsal striatal dopamine depletion. Two of the groups, namely, those with nucleus accumbens (ACC) and lateral caudate-putamen (LCP) lesions, were very disrupted in the acquisition of the task. The nature of the respective impairments of the 2 groups was dissociable, however. The performance of the ACC group could be improved either by manipulations of stimulus duration or inter-stimulus interval, implying an attentional deficit. In contrast, the rats with lesions of the LCP were not significantly improved by any of the behavioural challenges. Their performance was characterised by a bias to respond to the SLOW discriminandum. Under conditions of non-reward, the LCP group extinguished their responding at a similar rate to control rats whereas the ACC group were very much more persistent. Lesions of the medial caudate-putamen failed to affect any index of performance significantly. These data suggest that the LCP is necessary for the acquisition of arbitrary stimulus-response rules and that damage to an equivalent area in humans, such as in Huntington's disease, may explain deficits of procedural memory. The second part of the experiment investigated the effects of ACC lesions on established performance of the schedule. The lesioned group behaved identically to the ACC group that had been lesioned prior to acquisition, both in terms of accuracy and degree of persistence in extinction, further implying the role of attentional factors and inflexibility in the lesion-induced deficit.
Author List: Reading P J, Dunnett S B, Robbins T W
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Mesh terms: Animals; Caudate Nucleus/physiology; Corpus Striatum/anatomy & histology; Discrimination (Psychology)/physiology; Discrimination Learning/physiology; Extinction, Psychological; Feeding Behavior/physiology; Learning/physiology; Male; Motor Activity/physiology; Nucleus Accumbens/physiology; Photic Stimulation; Psychomotor Performance/physiology; Putamen/physiology; Rats;


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Q: Static static resources going through DispatcherServlet In my Spring webapp I have annotated my dispatcher servlet like this:
  <tx:annotation-driven />
    <mvc:annotation-driven />
    <context:annotation-config />
    <context:component-scan base-package="com.myapp.package.controller" />

    <mvc:resources location="/css/" mapping="/css/**" />
    <mvc:resources location="/script/" mapping="/script/**" />
    <mvc:resources location="/img/" mapping="/img/**" />
    <mvc:resources location="/fonts/" mapping="/fonts/**" />

    <!-- Uso de Tiles -->
    <bean id="tilesConfigurer" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
        <property name="definitions">
            <list>
                <value>/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml</value>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>
    <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
        <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView" />
    </bean>

Now by activating spring's debug mode on log4j.properties, I've checked that every resource (even static resources) goes through DispatcherServlet, which I don't even know if it's expected behavior. The fact is, by debugging the processRequest method I've checked that this method is somehow causing high memory consumption on serving each webpage, my guess being that every static resource is being held in memory by this method.
This is the log output for a static resource such as jquery script library:
14:14:23,569 DEBUG RequestMappingHandlerMapping:220 - Looking up handler method for path /script/jquery/jquery-1.9.1.min.js
14:14:23,575 DEBUG RequestMappingHandlerMapping:230 - Did not find handler method for [/script/jquery/jquery-1.9.1.min.js]
14:14:23,576 DEBUG SimpleUrlHandlerMapping:169 - Matching patterns for request [/script/jquery/jquery-1.9.1.min.js] are [/script/**]
14:14:23,576 DEBUG SimpleUrlHandlerMapping:194 - URI Template variables for request [/script/jquery/jquery-1.9.1.min.js] are {}
14:14:23,576 DEBUG SimpleUrlHandlerMapping:124 - Mapping [/script/jquery/jquery-1.9.1.min.js] to HandlerExecutionChain with handler [org.springframework.web.servlet.resource.ResourceHttpRequestHandler@101f75b5] and 1 interceptor
14:14:23,576 DEBUG DispatcherServlet:912 - Last-Modified value for [/myapp/script/jquery/jquery-1.9.1.min.js] is: -1
14:14:23,576 DEBUG ResourceHttpRequestHandler:173 - Trying relative path [jquery/jquery-1.9.1.min.js] against base location: ServletContext resource [/script/]
14:14:23,577 DEBUG ResourceHttpRequestHandler:178 - Found matching resource: ServletContext resource [/script/jquery/jquery-1.9.1.min.js]
14:14:23,577 DEBUG ResourceHttpRequestHandler:132 - Determined media type 'application/javascript' for ServletContext resource [/script/jquery/jquery-1.9.1.min.js]

As far as I can tell it's properly identifying it as a static resource.
Is my configuration right? Shouldn't static resources be served directly instead of going throuhg Dispatcher Servlet? Could it be that every resource is being kept in memory on serving it to the response?

A: <mvc:resources location="/css/" mapping="/css/**" />

means that the dispatcher servlet will, indeed, serve static resources located in /css for any URL starting with /css/. This is what allows serving static resources from the classpath, for example, instead of serving them from static files in the webapp.
If you don't want the Spring servlet to serve static resources, the do as the documentation indicates:
<mvc:default-servlet-handler/>

A: If you've done configured something with Spring, Spring will handle it.
When you provide a config with this element
<mvc:resources location="/css/" mapping="/css/**" />

Spring registers a SimpleUrlHandlerMapping bean with a mapping between the specified mapping and a ResourceHttpRequestHandler for the location.
The DispatcherServlet registers all HandlerMapping beans it finds in the ApplicationContext. One of these will be the SimpleUrlHandlerMapping above. If a request arrives which the SimpleUrlHandlerMapping can handle, the DispatcherServlet will use it. The SimpleUrlHandlerMapping will then delegate to the appropriate ResourceHttpRequestHandler which will serve the static resource.

Could it be that every resource is being kept in memory on serving it
  to the response?

No, the ResourceHttpRequestHandler does not cache the content of the resource.

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namespace core {

static_assert(sizeof(RelativeAddress) == sizeof(uintptr_t),
              "RelativeAddress has the wrong size.");
static_assert(sizeof(AbsoluteAddress) == sizeof(uintptr_t),
              "AbsoluteAddress has the wrong size.");
static_assert(sizeof(FileOffsetAddress) == sizeof(uintptr_t),
              "FileOffsetAddress has the wrong size.");

namespace detail {

template <>
const AddressImpl<kRelativeAddressType>
    AddressImpl<kRelativeAddressType>::kInvalidAddress(~0U);

template <>
const AddressImpl<kAbsoluteAddressType>
    AddressImpl<kAbsoluteAddressType>::kInvalidAddress(~0U);

template <>
const AddressImpl<kFileOffsetAddressType>
    AddressImpl<kFileOffsetAddressType>::kInvalidAddress(~0U);

std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& str,
                         const AddressImpl<kRelativeAddressType>& addr) {
  return str << base::StringPrintf("Relative(0x%08X)", addr.value_);
}

std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& str,
                         const AddressImpl<kAbsoluteAddressType>& addr) {
  return str << base::StringPrintf("Absolute(0x%08X)", addr.value_);
}

std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& str,
                         const AddressImpl<kFileOffsetAddressType>& addr) {
  return str << base::StringPrintf("FileOffset(0x%08X)", addr.value_);
}

}  // namespace detail

namespace {

int Compare(const AddressVariant& av1, const AddressVariant& av2) {
  if (av1.type() < av2.type())
    return -1;
  if (av1.type() > av2.type())
    return 1;
  if (av1.value() < av2.value())
    return -1;
  if (av1.value() > av2.value())
    return 1;
  return 0;
}

}  // namespace

AddressVariant& AddressVariant::operator=(const AddressVariant& other) {
  type_ = other.type_;
  value_ = other.value_;
  return *this;
}

bool AddressVariant::operator<(const AddressVariant& other) const {
  return Compare(*this, other) < 0;
}

bool AddressVariant::operator<=(const AddressVariant& other) const {
  return Compare(*this, other) <= 0;
}

bool AddressVariant::operator>(const AddressVariant& other) const {
  return Compare(*this, other) > 0;
}

bool AddressVariant::operator>=(const AddressVariant& other) const {
  return Compare(*this, other) >= 0;
}

bool AddressVariant::operator==(const AddressVariant& other) const {
  return Compare(*this, other) == 0;
}

bool AddressVariant::operator!=(const AddressVariant& other) const {
  return Compare(*this, other) != 0;
}

bool AddressVariant::Save(OutArchive* out_archive) const {
  uint8_t type = static_cast<uint8_t>(type_);
  return out_archive->Save(type) && out_archive->Save(value_);
}

bool AddressVariant::Load(InArchive* in_archive) {
  uint8_t type = 0;
  if (!in_archive->Load(&type))
    return false;
  type_ = static_cast<AddressType>(type);
  return in_archive->Load(&value_);
}

std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& str, const AddressVariant& addr) {
  static const char* kTypes[] = {"Relative", "Absolute", "FileOffset"};
  DCHECK_GT(arraysize(kTypes), addr.type_);
  return str << base::StringPrintf("AddressVariant(%s(0x%08X))",
                                   kTypes[addr.type_], addr.value_);
}

}  // namespace core

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using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace TWCore
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Pool Interface
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T">Type of the pool</typeparam>
    public interface IPool<T>
    {

        /// <summary>
        /// Pool count
        /// </summary>
        int Count { get; }
        /// <summary>
        /// Preallocate a number of objects on the pool
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="number">Number of objects to allocate</param>
        void Preallocate(int number);
        /// <summary>
        /// Get a new instance from the pool
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>Object instance</returns>
        T New();
        /// <summary>
        /// Store the instance back to the pool
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="obj">Object to store</param>
        void Store(T obj);
        /// <summary>
        /// Get current objects in the pool
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>IEnumerable with the current objects</returns>
        IEnumerable<T> GetCurrentObjects();
        /// <summary>
        /// Clear the current object stack
        /// </summary>
        void Clear();
    }
}


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Discussion in 'iMac' started by jakesaunders27, Dec 13, 2013.
My dad has a high end 2012 27" iMac which he uses for personal use and a midrange HP laptop which he uses for work. Is there any way that when he works from home he is able to use the iMac as a display for the HP laptop with target display?
That's exactly why I am planning to go with a mini and Monoprice 27" display. I can use the display with anything, and when it's time to upgrade the processor/graphics I'm not buying new glass.
I'm not a gamer so the graphics penalty is not too important to me.
My plan as well when my 2008 24" iMac bites the dust. However, it's still running fine, no hardware issues and it's fast enough for me.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the problem, but if he's still liking OS X, then he could power up the laptop and use Microsoft Remote Desktop (free on App store) to log into his laptop, and use it from there. Fullscreen works rather well, been using my Win 8.1 desktop from my Mac when I want to use Office 2013 (got win version for $10 thru work).
The only difficulty is when I'm going to the lower left to get Win Start to come up and I go too far, and activate my OS X hot corner. That's just me not being careful with mouse placement.
I have the win Desktop for gaming mostly, prefer doing everything else in OS X.


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Q: Is there an html special character for a down-right arrow? I'm posting a few audio files on my website, and for some of them they have videos.  I would like to have it laid out like this:
AUDIO FILE:
|
-->  VIDEO FILE
I know that
↵

makes a carriage return (↵), but I don't know a way to make that face the opposite way.

A: You want Unicode codepoint U+21B3  ↳
You should be able to type
↳

in the document. But be aware that not all your users may have the glyph for this character on their computer.

A: No, there is no HTML entity for a downward arrow with a corner rightwards but you can get it with a numeric character reference (see below).  Of course, you can also use an image.
↳ will render the Unicode character you are looking for, assuming your document is using a compatible charset and your browser supports it.

A: don't depend on extended characters like these. you will usually end up with cross-browser character issues. use images instead.
p.s: if you really want to go that way, webdings3 has that character (0x39 character code). you can check it from Windows' Character Map Editor (charmap.exe) tool.

A: You can use ↳ (↳)for the character you want.  However, as @Emir says, you shouldn't rely on extended characters.

A: Check out http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/arrows.html for an entire list of arrows. Multiple styles and options are available.

A: Using CSS transforms you could transform the character.
↵

Cross browser Css transforms


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Regarding you, I have to say as much as you try and project yourself as being the site matriarch if people don't agree with you can become a nasty foul-mouthed bitch. It's your way or the highway and I suspect you're the type of person that would never admit to a mistake. Those types of people have few friends and I think this site is your best friend so with that I say I hope our paths never cross again and go fuck yourself. Oh, and as we know you always have to have the last word so go ahead but please be brief.
admin, curious how a new member with pics of only a plastic doll can prove verification. No human pics just a doll. The member claims to be male but posts in the female category for Best Image and Banner pics. Sincerely asswipe.
I have to agree Freddy, the majority of folks here want to see real people not a profile of only fake plastic silicone dolls yet he/she enters the doll into Best Member/Top Image area as a female but the profile says its a male member.
Yet the so called Male has his plastic doll in the Female Category of the Top Member contest so is it a male or female member that was verified?
Maybe we need a category for plastic dolls. At first glance you click on the profile thinking its a hot chick then you realize all the pics are plastic dolls. How does a plastic doll hold up a pic for verification purposes?
fine dining at the all you can eat buffet
she was great
Reverse pile driver
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By DeepThroatThis 27,Jun,22 13:42
finally escaped
Not sure any suggestions?
I have 10 Treasure Chests, wasn't expecting this......any suggestions?
they sold there souls for the money.....shame on them
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Chiquita banana curve
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blow job....just like back and enjoy while Rachel worships your bone.
big cock surprise
hard and smooth
anyone want to rim this?
listen to the camera girl
By DeepThroatThis 04,Mar,22 21:33
Doubt China will get involved now knowing world sanctions can cripple an economy ....they don't want there peeps working full time jobs in the rice fields again. They value there economy and the business of running a country more then putin.
Fuck Putin he could be another Hitler if he goes unchallenged
By DeepThroatThis 17,Feb,22 06:01
Don't go anywhere love your videos
I just heard that Viagara helps cure covid fatigue as it opens the blood vessels in the entire body
Jelking every day sure helps keeping lead in your pencil
I've had a couple of smaller girls say..."don't hurt me" so i always respected that and never pounded them to hard
11 year old post WTF lol...am I in a time warp
Who gives a fuck
It's not just the wall it's the msg that was sent when Biden took office. He stopped construction of the wall immediately. Social media then light up....hey no wall. The cartels and drug runners took full advantage of it and promoted it to the migrants all over central and South America. I'm not against immigration but it has to be done legally. What's currently going on is a disgrace.
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Even CNN is sounding the alarm. "CNN sounds alarm on Biden's poor poll numbers: 'A very bad sign'"
"Enten described how a large majority of voters also thought that Biden had only accomplished "some or very little" since taking office.
"They don't think that Joe Biden has gone to office and done very much," he said. "If you're not doing anything, the real way to solve that is to do something."
Please you can't compare the Berlin or China wall to the southern border
No....a WALL, they would not come then. If it was finished we would not have this problem.
We screen, test and vette people coming in on planes, trains and automobiles but if you walk in across a river nothing.
Good one, and just curious how have the new moderators been determined. She used to ne a moderator for most of the groups if not all of them.?
Thanks sherryann he should be reconized. Thank you scorps
FIRST OF ALL I DID NOT CREATE THIS. A MEMEBER DID AND I SAVED IT. CAN'T REMEMBER WHO BUT THANK YOU AND PLEASE LET US KNOW WHO POSTED THIS FIRST BECAUSE IT IS MORE MEANING FULL NOW THEN 9 MONTHS AGO. AGAIN THANK YOU.
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP and his cabinet accomplished...
1. Trump recently signed 3 bills to benefit Native people. One gives compensation to the Spokane tribe for loss of their lands in the mid-1900s, one funds Native language programs, and the third gives federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Montana.
2. Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch.
3. Trump signed a law to make cruelty to animals a federal felony so that animal abusers face tougher consequences.
4. Violent crime has fallen every year he's been in office after rising during the 2 years before he was elected.
5. Trump signed a bill making CBD and Hemp legal.
6. Trump's EPA gave $100 million to fix the water infrastructure problem in Flint, Michigan.
7. Under Trump's leadership, in 2018 the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world's largest producer of crude oil.
8. Trump signed a law ending the gag orders on Pharmacists that prevented them from sharing money-saving information.
9. Trump signed the "Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act" (FOSTA), which includes the "Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act" (SESTA) which both give law enforcement and victims new tools to fight sex trafficking.
10. Trump signed a bill to require airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding Moms.
11. The 25% lowest-paid Americans enjoyed a 4.5% income boost in November 2019, which outpaces a 2.9% gain in earnings for the country's highest-paid workers.
12. Low-wage workers are benefiting from higher minimum wages and from corporations that are increasing entry-level pay.
13. Trump signed the biggest wilderness protection & conservation bill in a decade and designated 375,000 acres as protected land.
14. Trump signed the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per year to clean tons of plastic & garbage from the ocean.
15. He signed a bill this year allowing some drug imports from Canada so that prescription prices would go down.
16. Trump signed an executive order this year that forces all healthcare providers to disclose the cost of their services so that Americans can comparison shop and know how much less providers charge insurance companies.
17. When signing that bill he said no American should be blindsided by bills for medical services they never agreed to in advance.
18. Hospitals will now be required to post their standard charges for services, which include the discounted price a hospital is willing to accept.
19. In the eight years prior to President Trump's inauguration, prescription drug prices increased by an average of 3.6% per year. Under Trump, drug prices have seen year-over-year declines in nine of the last ten months, with a 1.1% drop as of the most recent month.
20. He created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally staffed it with veterans and direct family members of veterans.
21. VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance, with more than 4,000 VA employees removed, demoted, and suspended so far.
22. Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to provide veterans access to access to mental health treatment as they transition to civilian life.
23. Because of a bill signed and championed by Trump, In 2020, most federal employees will see their pay increase by an average of 3.1% — the largest raise in more than 10 years.
24. Trump signed into a law up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for millions of federal workers.
25. Trump administration will provide HIV prevention drugs for free to 200,000 uninsured patients per year for 11 years.
26. All-time record sales during the 2019 holidays.
27. Trump signed an order allowing small businesses to group together when buying insurance to get a better price.
28. President Trump signed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act that provides funding for states to develop maternal mortality reviews to better understand maternal complications and identify solutions & largely focuses on reducing the higher mortality rates for Black Americans.
29. In 2018, President Trump signed the groundbreaking First Step Act, a criminal justice bill which enacted reforms that make our justice system fairer and help former inmates successfully return to society.
30. The First Step Act's reforms addressed inequities in sentencing laws that disproportionately harmed Black Americans and reformed mandatory minimums that created unfair outcomes.
31. The First Step Act expanded judicial discretion in sentencing of non-violent crimes.
32. Over 90% of those benefitting from the retroactive sentencing reductions in the First Step Act are Black Americans.
33. The First Step Act provides rehabilitative programs to inmates, helping them successfully rejoin society and not return to crime.
34. Trump increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by more than 14%.
35. Trump signed legislation forgiving Hurricane Katrina debt that threatened HBCUs.
36. New single-family home sales are up 31.6% in October 2019 compared to just one year ago.
37. Made HBCUs a priority by creating the position of executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs.
38. Trump received the Bipartisan Justice Award at a historically black college for his criminal justice reform accomplishments.
39. The poverty rate fell to a 17-year low of 11.8% under the Trump administration as a result of a jobs-rich environment.
40. Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have reached their lowest levels since the U.S. began collecting such data.
41. President Trump signed a bill that creates five national monuments, expands several national parks, adds 1.3 million acres of wilderness, and permanently reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
42. Trump's USDA committed $124 Million to rebuild rural water infrastructure.
43. Consumer confidence & small business confidence is at an all-time high.
44. More than 7 million jobs created since election.
45. More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.
46. More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs created since his election.
47. Trump appointed 5 openly gay ambassadors.
48. Trump ordered Ric Grenell, his openly gay ambassador to Germany, to lead a global initiative to decriminalize homosexuality across the globe.
49. Through Trump's Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team (ACTeam) initiative, Federal law enforcement more than doubled convictions of human traffickers and increased the number of defendants charged by 75% in ACTeam districts.
50. In 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismantled an organization that was the internet's leading source of prostitution-related advertisements resulting in sex trafficking.
51. Trump's OMB published new anti-trafficking guidance for government procurement officials to more effectively combat human trafficking.
52. Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations arrested 1,588 criminals associated with Human Trafficking.
53. Trump's Department of Health and Human Services provided funding to support the National Human Trafficking Hotline to identify perpetrators and give victims the help they need.
54. The hotline identified 16,862 potential human trafficking cases.
55. Trump's DOJ provided grants to organizations that support human trafficking victims – serving nearly 9,000 cases from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018.
56. The Department of Homeland Security has hired more victim assistance specialists, helping victims get resources and support.
57. President Trump has called on Congress to pass school choice legislation so that no child is trapped in a failing school because of his or her zip code.
58. The President signed funding legislation in September 2018 that increased funding for school choice by $42 million.
59. The tax cuts signed into law by President Trump promote school choice by allowing families to use 529 college savings plans for elementary and secondary education.
60. Under his leadership ISIS has lost most of their territory and been largely dismantled.
61. ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed.
62. Signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs.
63. Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers.
64. Trump issued an Executive Order prohibiting the U.S. government from discriminating against Christians or punishing expressions of faith.
65. Signed an executive order that allows the government to withhold money from college campuses deemed to be anti-Semitic and who fail to combat anti-Semitism.
66. President Trump ordered a halt to U.S. tax money going to international organizations that fund or perform abortions.
67. Trump imposed sanctions on the socialists in Venezuela who have killed their citizens.
68. Finalized new trade agreement with South Korea.
69. Made a deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe.
70. Withdrew the U.S. from the job killing TPP deal.
71. Secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and $12 billion in Vietnam.
72. Okay' d up to $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade retaliation.
73. Has had over a dozen US hostages freed, including those Obama could not get freed.
74. Trump signed the Music Modernization Act, the biggest change to copyright law in decades.
75. Trump secured Billions that will fund the building of a wall at our southern border.
76. The Trump Administration is promoting second chance hiring to give former inmates the opportunity to live crime-free lives and find meaningful employment.
77. Trump's DOJ and the Board Of Prisons launched a new "Ready to Work Initiative" to help connect employers directly with former prisoners.
78. President Trump's historic tax cut legislation included new Opportunity Zone Incentives to promote investment in low-income communities across the country.
79. 8,764 communities across the country have been designated as Opportunity Zones.
80. Opportunity Zones are expected to spur $100 billion in long-term private capital investment in economically distressed communities across the country.
81. Trump directed the Education Secretary to end Common Core.
82. Trump signed the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund into law.
83. Trump signed measure funding prevention programs for Veteran suicide.
84. Companies have brought back over a TRILLION dollars from overseas because of the TCJA bill that Trump signed.
85. Manufacturing jobs are growing at the fastest rate in more than 30 years.
86. Stock Market has reached record highs.
87. Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.
88. African-American unemployment is at an all-time low.(was until Covid bullshit)
89. Hispanic-American unemployment is at an all-time low.
90. Asian-American unemployment is at an all-time low.
91. Women's unemployment rate is at a 65-year low.
92. Youth unemployment is at a 50-year low.
93. We have the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded.
94. The Pledge to America's Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans.
95. 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future— the highest ever.
96. As a result of the Republican tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
97. Record number of regulations eliminated that hurt small businesses.
98. Signed welfare reform requiring able-bodied adults who don't have children to work or look for work if they're on welfare.
99. Under Trump, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history.
100. Reformed Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors 100's of millions of $$$ this year alone.
101. Signed Right-To-Try legislation allowing terminally ill patients to try experimental treatment that wasn't allowed before.
102. Secured $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
103. Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
104. U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high so we are less dependent on oil from the Middle East.
105. The U.S. is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.
106. NATO allies increased their defense spending because of his pressure campaign.
107. Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord in 2017 and that same year the U.S. still led the world by having the largest reduction in Carbon emissions.
108. Has his circuit court judge nominees being confirmed faster than any other new administration.
109. Had his Supreme Court Justice's Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh confirmed.
110. Moved U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
111. Agreed to a new trade deal with Mexico & Canada that will increase jobs here and $$$ coming in.
112. Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.
113. Imposed tariffs on China in response to China's forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices, has agreed to a Part One trade deal with China.
114. Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.
115. Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.
116. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by Trump doubled the maximum amount of the child tax credit available to parents and lifted the income limits so more people could claim it.
117. It also created a new tax credit for other dependents.
118. In 2018, President Trump signed into law a $2.4 billion funding increase for the Child Care and Development Fund, providing a total of $8.1 billion to States to fund child care for low-income families.
119. The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) signed into law by Trump provides a tax credit equal to 20-35% of child care expenses, $3,000 per child & $6,000 per family + Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) allow you to set aside up to $5,000 in pre-tax $ to use for child care.
120. In 2019 President Donald Trump signed the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act (CARES) into law which allocates $1.8 billion in funding over the next five years to help people with autism spectrum disorder and to help their families.
121. In 2019 President Trump signed into law two funding packages providing nearly $19 million in new funding for Lupus specific research and education programs, as well an additional $41.7 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the most Lupus funding EVER.
122. Another upcoming accomplishment to add: In the next week or two Trump will be signing the first major anti-robocall law in decades called the TRACED Act (Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence.) Once it's the law, the TRACED Act will extend the period of time the FCC has to catch & punish those who intentionally break telemarketing restrictions. The bill also requires voice service providers to develop a framework to verify calls are legitimate before they reach your phone.
123. US stock market continually hits all-time record highs.
124. Highest GDP growth in American history.
125. Almost 400 miles of wall built.
I don't think he's ever had one accomplishment. He fucks up every thing he touches.
When I filed my first tax return


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Marco Polo Field
Green Canyon 608, 160 miles south of New Orleans
First oil
Tension Leg Platform (TLP), owned by Deepwater Gateway
Platform type
Moses TLP by MODEC International LLC
APC firm capacity
50,000b/d and 150MMcf/d
Export pipelines
18in/20in gas and 14in oil, owned by GulfTerra
120,000b/d and 300MMcf/d
8in to 28in diameter (1.2in wall thickness)
390ft x 76in diameter (up to 2in wall thickness)
Work-over rig
1,200hp
6 x dual casing production risers, 2 x export pipeline Steel Catenary Risers (12.75in and 18in), 12 (future) flowline risers, 6 pre-installed I-tubes for umbilicals
Gas pipeline length
75 miles - from GC608 to GC236
Subsea interconnect
GulfTerra-owned Typhoon Gas Pipeline at the existing Y-assembly in GC236 to form Anaconda
Oil pipeline length
GulfTerra-owned Allegheny
The Marco Polo platform produced its first oil in March 2004.
The hull of the world's deepest water TLP en route from South Korea to Gulf of Mexico.
The Marco Polo hull supports topsides over three deck levels.
The platform is a Moses TLP, designed by MODEC International and Sea Engineering.
Topsides being installed on the Marco Polo platform.
The Marco Polo field is located in Green Canyon block 608, 160 miles south of New Orleans. It is fully owned and operated by Anadarko Petroleum. The field was discovered in April 2000 and lies in water 4,300ft deep. It produced its first oil in March 2004. The field is drained by six delineation wells with an average net pay of 292ft. It is expected to produce approximately 50,000 barrels of oil and 150 million ft³ of gas per day.
TENSION LEG PLATFORM (TLP)
The field is being developed by the world's deepest water Tension Leg Platform (TLP) which is owned by Deepwater Gateway, a 50/50 joint venture company between GulfTerra Energy Partners and Cal Dive International. This Moses TLP is designed by MODEC International and Sea Engineering.
The hull was fabricated at the Samsung Heavy Industries Yard SHI Koji Island, South Korea. The first steel was cut in July 2002 and it was loaded out in June 2003. The hull travelled 13,000 miles and arrived in Texas in August 2003. It was installed that November.
The hull has a weight of 11,500kips (5,750t) and a 55,000kip (27,500t) displacement. Its payload is 28,000kips (14,000t) and it has a width (tip to tip) of 344ft. The height from the bottom of the base to the top of the column is 196ft although it has a draft of 129ft when operating normally.
The hull supports topsides over three deck levels. Designed by Alliance Engineering and constructed in Corpus Christi, it weighs 6,300t (lift weight) or 7,250t (operating weight). It can accommodate 26 people in its quarters. The processing capacity is 120,000 barrels of oil and 300 million ft³ of gas per day. Well operations are carried out by a 1,200hp work-over rig. The platform is classified by ABS.
The platform has six dual casing production risers as well as two export pipeline steel catenary risers (12.75in and 18in). In addition, there are six pre-installed I-tubes for umbilicals and provision for 12 (future) flowline risers.
The TLP is anchored to the seabed by eight 28in-diameter tendons with a 1.2in wall thickness. The tendons are secured to the seabed by piles measuring 390ft with a 76in diameter. They have a wall thickness of up to 2in.
OIL AND GAS PIPELINES
The oil and gas are exported by a pipeline system owned by GulfTerra. The gas pipeline extends approximately 75 miles from Green Canyon 608 to Green Canyon 236 (with a water depth of 1,750ft). There is a subsea interconnect with the GulfTerra-owned Typhoon gas pipeline, where the two form the Anaconda Gathering System. The capacity of Anaconda is 320 million ft³ of gas, expandable to 430 million ft³.
The oil pipeline runs approximately 36 miles to Green Canyon 164 (where the water depth is 2,800ft). The 12.75in steel catenary riser and 14in pipeline leads to the subsea interconnect with the GulfTerra-owned Allegheny oil pipeline. This has a capacity of 120,000 barrrels/day of oil. It then connects with the Poseidon Oil Pipeline system (36% owned and operated by GulfTerra) and the Cameron Highway Oil Pipeline System (50% owned and operated by GulfTerra) on the Ship Shoal 332 platform.
K2 FIELD TIED BACK TO MARCO POLO
The K2 field, located on Green Canyon Block 518 in the Gulf of Mexico, will also be tied back to the Marco Polo platform with first production expected in 2005. Anadarko has a 100% working interest in the block. The K2 North No. 2 well encountered a total of 165ft of net oil pay and increases the size of the K2 North discovery. It was spudded in December 2003 in 4,000ft of water and was drilled to a total depth of 29,180ft.
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Home Big Finish CONFIRMED: 'Class' Returns in Big Finish Audios
CONFIRMED: 'Class' Returns in Big Finish Audios
Mat Greenfield
Big Finish Productions has today confirmed the cast of 2016 Doctor Who spin-off 'Class' will reunite for six new audio stories.
Spread across two volumes, 'Class: The Audio Adventures' is due for release in August 2018. All six stories are set during the original run of the TV series. Big Finish regular Scott Handcock takes on director and producer duties while also penning one of the scripts.
FROM THE WORLDS OF DOCTOR WHO, BIG FINISH PRESENTS 'CLASS'.
The entire main cast will reprise their roles with Greg Austin as Charlie, Fady Elsayed as Ram, Sophie Hopkins as April, Vivian Oparah as Tanya, Jordan Renzo as Matteusz and Katherine Kelly as Miss Quill.
Along with Handcock, who will write the final story 'Tell Me You Love Me', volume one will feature Roy Gill's 'Gifted' and Jenny T Colgan's 'Life Experience'. Volume two will kick off with 'Everyone Loves Reagan' by Tim Foley, 'Now You Know…' by Tim Leng and closes with 'In Remembrance' by Guy Adams.
Sophie Aldred, Greg Austin and Katherine Kelly
But it's not just familiar faces slated for a return. The series will find the students of Coal Hill Academy crossing paths with characters from the Doctor Who universe. Such as Sophie Aldred reprising her role as Ace, companion to the Seventh Doctor. Ace has a history with Coal Hill School having beaten up a Dalek in its corridors back in 'Remembrance of the Daleks'. With the Daleks also set to appear in the 'Class' audio series, it sounds like they want to another round with Ace's baseball bat.
On setting up Ace vs Daleks Round Two, Scott Handcock said, "Of course I couldn't resist linking up to the Doctor Who universe, and bringing Ace and the Daleks into the world of Class has been an absolute treat. And for full authenticity, we're lucky to have series composer Blair Mowat return to the world of Class as well."
Mowat composed the score for the original TV run of 'Class' and has been a mainstay on Big Finish's 'Torchwood' range. The man has form when it comes to scoring audio revivals of Doctor Who spin-offs!
Jordan Renzo (Matteusz Andrzejewski) and Greg Austin (Charlie Smith)
Nicholas Briggs, executive producer and voice of the Daleks, said, "Big Finish has a strong tradition of venturing into all areas of the Doctor Who universe, so it's great that we're invading Coal Hill Academy too. We've had so many requests from listeners about us producing audio drama based on Class, so this is something we've been keen to do for some time. For me, personally, it's going to be great to bring some good, old fashioned exterminating to the format!"
Series Creator Patrick Ness at the Class Premiere, Oct 2016
Announced in late 2015 and debuting in October 2016, 'Class' was about five students at Coal Hill Academy. Alma mater of the Doctor's granddaughter and former workplace of the Doctor's companion, the school has been a hotbed of weird goings-on for decades. With the arrival of mysterious Miss Quill, Coal Hill's alien past hits back big-time. Though popular on iPlayer, showrunner Patrick Ness departed the show soon after its lukewarm reception on BBC One. In September 2017, BBC Three confirmed that the show would not be renewed for a second series.
Want to feel slightly older? Check out my coverage of the 'Class' premiere event!
Sophie Hopkins (April MacLean), Vivian Oparah (Tanya Adeola), Taj Atwal (Reagan Harper) and Fady Elsayed (Ram Singh)
Each volume of 'Class' is available for pre-order now at £20 on CD or £15 on download from the Big Finish website. They will remain at this price until general release when it will be available for £23 on CD or £18 on download. Both volumes can be ordered as a bundle for £38 on CD and £28 for download. All CD purchases from the Big Finish website unlock an exclusive download copy via the website and app.
Which characters from the Whoniverse do you want to hear cross paths with the Class? Let us know in the comments!
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Ryerson Contract Lecturer Promotes Anti-Semitism Through Social Media
by Ben Shachar
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/24819/ryerson-contract-lecturer-promotes-anti-semitism
In December 2016, the Israeli Students Association at York University received numerous complaints from Israeli students at Ryerson concerning the social media use of a Contract Lecturer within Ryerson's Department of Geography & Environmental Studies.
After a thorough investigation, it was concluded that the lecturer is in fact using her publicly-accessible Twitter page to spread anti-Semitism. She repeatedly uses the anti-Semitic slur "Zio". "Zio" is an ethnic slur that has been popularized by David Duke and the American Klu Klux Klan. She calls members of the public "zio-trolls" and uses the pejoratives "zio-murderer" and "zio-fanatic". Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, a human rights advocate and member of the House of Lords, says that "Zio" is a "modern-day racist epithet" and "a term of abuse, pure and simple". London Mayor Sadiq Khan says "the use of the word 'Zio' has become a racist term against Jewish people in the way 'homo' was used in the 60's and 70's".
Furthermore, the lecturer makes xenophobic generalizations about Israelis and shares links to infamous neo-Nazi websites. For example, one article that she shared features classic anti-Semitic imagery and asserts that the "Rothschilds and their minions" are engaged in a "planetary hostile takeover operation".
The lecturer's apparent anti-Semitism and xenophobia appear to be in violation of Ryerson's Discrimination and Harassment Prevention Policy. Given her public promotion of anti-Semitism, Jewish and Israeli students at Ryerson may quite reasonably feel unsafe, unwelcome, or intimidated in her classes.
The Israeli Students Association, in conjunction with Ryerson students, submitted a complaint on December 12th, 2016. Despite acknowledging the complaint and forwarding it to the Office of Vice Provost Faculty Affairs and Human Resources, Ryerson University has made no further efforts to engage with students on this issue. Ryerson University must act immediately to correct this egregious oversight.
In fact, soon after the complaint was filed, the lecturer made her Twitter page and the offending posts inaccessible to the public. This suggests that the Ryerson administration notified her of the complaint and counselled her to make her social media accounts private. In lieu of any communication from the Ryerson administration, we can assume that their solution to this complaint was to simply sweep it under the rug.
B'nai Brith Canada has since contacted Ryerson University and is pursuing the complaint.


Indy's latest adventure plays out in dramatic fashion thanks to new gameplay features such as brawling combat. This time, in addition to using his trademark whip and pistol, Indy can engage in fierce hand-to-hand combat against foes, many of whom are well-versed in martial arts. Improvised weapons such as shovels, chairs and table legs also can be used to fend off adversaries. The result is a more immersive and more Indy-like gameplay experience, set amidst spine-tingling movie-like action sequences, such as a rickshaw chase in Hong Kong and a spectacular battle atop moving gondolas in the South China Sea area.
– Explore levels across the globe from Ceylon and Istanbul to Hong Kong and beyond.
– Shotguns, submachine guns, improvised weapons – and of course, Indy's trusty whip and pistol.
– Fierce fighting action and hand-to-hand combat.
– Original storyline with new villains, wicked enemies and an alluring partner.
– Leap, swim, climb and punch your way through exotic locales.
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"""
Start at the infrastructure for OStatus, including webfinger,
user profiles, etc.
"""

import logging
import urllib
import urllib2

from tiddlyweb.control import readable_tiddlers_by_bag
from tiddlyweb.store import StoreError, NoUserError
from tiddlyweb.model.tiddler import Tiddler
from tiddlyweb.model.user import User
from tiddlyweb.web.handler.search import get as search
from tiddlyweb.web.http import HTTP404, HTTP400, HTTP415
from tiddlyweb.web.util import (server_host_url, encode_name,
        get_serialize_type, tiddler_url)
from tiddlywebplugins.tiddlyspace.spaces import space_uri
from tiddlywebplugins.tiddlyspace.web import determine_host
from tiddlyweb.wikitext import render_wikitext
from tiddlywebplugins.utils import get_store
from tiddlywebplugins.tiddlyspace.template import send_template

def add_profile_routes(selector):
    """
    Add the necessary routes for profiles and webfinger.
    """
    selector.add('/.well-known/host-meta', GET=host_meta)
    selector.add('/webfinger', GET=webfinger)
    selector.add('/profiles/{username}[.{format}]', GET=profile)

def profile(environ, start_response):
    """
    Choose between an atom or html profile.
    """
    http_host, host_url = determine_host(environ)
    if http_host != host_url:
        # Or should it be a 302?
        raise HTTP404('No profiles at this host: %s' % http_host)

    _, mime_type = get_serialize_type(environ)
    if 'atom' in mime_type:
        return atom_profile(environ, start_response)
    elif 'html' in mime_type:
        return html_profile(environ, start_response)
    else:
        raise HTTP415('Atom and HTML only')

def atom_profile(environ, start_response):
    """
    Send the atom profile, which is actually a search
    for tiddlers modified by the user.
    """
    username = environ['wsgiorg.routing_args'][1]['username']
    search_string = _search_string(username)
    environ['tiddlyweb.query']['q'] = [search_string]
    return search(environ, start_response)

def html_profile(environ, start_response):
    """
    Send the HTML profile, made up for the user's SiteIcon,
    their profile from their space, and their most recently
    modified tiddlers.
    """
    username = environ['wsgiorg.routing_args'][1]['username']
    usersign = environ['tiddlyweb.usersign']

    store = environ['tiddlyweb.store']

    try:
        _ = store.get(User(username))
    except NoUserError:
        raise HTTP404('Profile not found for %s' % username)

    activity_feed = profile_atom_url(environ, username)

    profile_tiddler = Tiddler('profile', '%s_public' % username)
    try:
        profile_tiddler = store.get(profile_tiddler)
    except StoreError, exc:
        raise HTTP404('No profile for %s: %s' % (username, exc))

    profile_text = render_wikitext(profile_tiddler, environ)

    tiddlers = store.search(_search_string(username))
    tiddlers_list = readable_tiddlers_by_bag(store, tiddlers, usersign)

    avatar_path = '/recipes/%s_public/tiddlers/SiteIcon' % username

    start_response('200 OK', [
        ('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=UTF-8')])

    return send_template(environ, 'tsprofile.html', {
        'css': ['/bags/common/tiddlers/profile.css'],
        'username': username,
        'activity_feed': activity_feed,
        'avatar_path': avatar_path,
        'space_uri': space_uri(environ, username),
        'profile': profile_text,
        'tiddler_url': tiddler_url,
        'environ': environ,
        'tiddlers': tiddlers_list})

def host_meta(environ, start_response):
    """
    Send the host_meta information, so webfinger info can be found.
    """
    http_host, host_url = determine_host(environ)
    if http_host != host_url:
        # Or should it be a 302?
        raise HTTP404('No host-meta at this host: %s' % http_host)

    start_response('200 OK', [
        ('Content-Type', 'application/xrd+xml')])

    return send_template(environ, 'hostmeta.xml', {'host': http_host})

def profile_atom_url(environ, username):
    """
    The atom url of a profile, given a username.
    """
    return (server_host_url(environ) +
            '/profiles/%s.atom' % encode_name(username))

def webfinger(environ, start_response):
    """
    Display the webfinger information for a given user.
    """
    http_host, host_url = determine_host(environ)
    if http_host != host_url:
        raise HTTP404('No webfinger at this host: %s' % http_host)

    username = environ['tiddlyweb.query'].get('q', [None])[0]

    if not username:
        raise HTTP400('No account provided to webfinger query')

    if username.startswith('acct:'):
        username = username.split(':', 1)[1]
    username = username.split('@', 1)[0]

    start_response('200 OK', [
        ('Content-Type', 'application/xrd+xml')])

    return send_template(environ, 'webfinger.xml', {
        'username': username,
        'host': http_host})

try:
    from tiddlywebplugins.dispatcher.listener import Listener as BaseListener

    class Listener(BaseListener):
        """
        Define a dispatcher listener that sends a PuSH ping.
        """

        TUBE = 'pushping'
        STORE = None

        def _act(self, job):
            """
            Do the action of sending the ping when a job (a tiddler)
            is received from the queue.
            """
            if not self.STORE:
                self.STORE = get_store(self.config)
            info = self._unpack(job)

            tiddler = Tiddler(info['tiddler'], info['bag'])
            try:
                self.STORE.get(tiddler)
            except StoreError:
                return None  # Tiddler's not there, no need to notify
            user = tiddler.modifier
            if self._user_has_profile(user):
                self._send_ping(user)

        def _user_has_profile(self, user):
            """
            True if the user has opted in for profiles by creating
            a profile tiddler in their public bag.
            """
            try:
                tiddler = Tiddler('profile', '%s_public' % user)
                self.STORE.get(tiddler)
            except StoreError:
                return False
            return True

        def _send_ping(self, user):
            """
            Formulate and send the PuSH ping.
            """
            data = {
                    'hub.mode': 'publish',
                    'hub.url': profile_atom_url(
                        {'tiddlyweb.config': self.config}, user),
                    }

            try:
                target = self.config['atom.hub']
            except KeyError:
                return None
            encoded_data = urllib.urlencode(data)

            try:
                response = urllib2.urlopen(target, encoded_data)
                status = response.getcode()
                logging.warn('sent %s to %s got %s',
                        encoded_data, target, status)
                if status != '204':
                    logging.warn('non 204 response from hub: %s', status)
            except urllib2.HTTPError, exc:
                if exc.code != 204:
                    logging.warn(
                            'urlopen errored with %s when publishing to hub',
                            exc)
            except urllib2.URLError, exc:
                logging.warn(
                        'urlopen errored with %s when publishing to hub', exc)
            except AttributeError, exc:
                logging.warn('error when publishing to hub: %s, %s',
                        exc, response.info())
except ImportError:
    pass

def _search_string(username):
    """
    Construct the search string to be used for creating
    the recent tiddlers for this username.
    """
    return 'modifier:%s _limit:20' % username


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Sherri Jefferson. Sherri Jefferson, $9.99 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-0-9654656-5-6
Jefferson, an attorney and advocate against child exploitation and sex slavery as well as an author, successfully sheds light on the inefficacy of America's "war on drugs." Jefferson uses protagonists David (D-Money) and Solomon (Cali) Johnson, two boys struggling against poverty in 1960s Detroit, as the vehicles for her message. Their story is set against a backdrop that deftly combines historical facts, quotations, and observations, through which Jefferson dynamically paints America's ever-changing sociopolitical and cultural landscape. Though the story of the Johnson brothers provides some thread for Jefferson's message, their story and details are so generalized and sparsely scattered throughout the narrative that they are lost in the shuffle. This is especially true toward the end of the book, in which Jefferson explains the process and ramifications of the Johnson brothers' ineffective counsel, blurring the line between fact and fiction. Although Jefferson's language is straightforward and her views are compelling regarding the politics of the war on drugs and how it has led to discrimination and victimization of certain ethnic groups, at times, her oversimplified and sweeping claims detract from the strength of her argument. But the book delivers its message, especially with the suggested discussion topics at the end of the book. (BookLife)


text:
5 Basic Steps to become a YouTube Partner
by Shikha
YouTube is the first largest video hosting provider in the world. YouTube, after being the second largest search engine in the world and being owned by Google, everybody in the world wants to be the partner it. However, the YouTube partner program is presently available in 20 counties. Almost 1 billion people visit YouTube every day and as such there cannot be any better web hosting than YouTube. So, everyone who wants to earn money seems it as the great opportunity.
Becoming a partner with the YouTube is neither a big task nor requires a huge investment. The concept behind the idea of becoming the partner of YouTube is just creating some amazing videos. Then publish the videos of YouTube channel and once you publish the videos you have to follow all necessary strategies that will build an audience for your video. That means you need to increase YouTube subscribers free.
Signing Up for YouTube:
The first and foremost thing that you need to become a partner of YouTube is signing up for YouTube. You need to attain at least 18 years of age otherwise you will not be allowed to get a family account through the payment system.
After that, you have to agree on the terms and condition of YouTube partner program terms by clicking on the 'I Accept' button.
Then select the monetizing option by clicking on 'Monetize My Video' button. Once you click on that button, you have to wait for the approval of YouTube.
Generally, most of the people get the approval within a second. Once your proposal for partnership is accepted by YouTube you will be given 'Partner verified' status on your YouTube account.
Creating a Google AdSense account:
Once you become a partner you will start earning money by creating an AdSense account through the YouTube account.
For getting paid through YouTube partner you must have an AdSense account. AdSense account is only allowed to those who have attained 18 years of age.
You have to provide an email address to the AdSense account which you have used to link to your YouTube account and provide your full name, address and bank details. Also, read and follow Adsense Program Policies. If any violation found in your account then Google will not allow your Adsense account.
When Google verified all information then AdSense account will be created.
Login to AdSense account:
Once your AdSense account is created, you can log in to AdSense account and start earning the revenue. You can use your AdSense account to keep track of your earning. You should able to see all your revenue statement in your AdSense account.
Using the added feature:
You should access some additional features such as live streaming, in-video programming as well as custom thumbnails facility. These are very important features of YouTube hosting as these features increase the chances to get YouTube subscribers free.
One essential way to increase YouTube subscribers free is to play around with all these added features by using at least one new feature a week in the video. You can also add a new segment to get real YouTube subscribers.
For example, if you add a live streaming feature for one week then you can go for in-video programming in the next week. This is how you can play with these added features and which will help you to provide new content to your viewers.
Selecting different types of advertisement:
You should use various types of advertisement or videos as the same type of videos will make your audience dull and unappealing. It is very important that your video becomes very interesting and appealing.
That is the reason why it is required to choose from a variety of different advertising types of video. It is required to do a little bit of experiment while picking different types of advertising for your videos.
While sometimes a video with full bold visuals and words on the screen can work best for you, in some other situation you can also go for the banner ad as it also has a great chance of distracting the attention of the viewers.
Apart from that, another excellent way is to go for the paid subscription. If you go for a paid subscription there is a huge chance to get real YouTube subscribers.
YouTube Partner Program Eligibility and Thresholds
Once you have applied for the partner program, it checks for the Eligibility. To become partner of the YouTube your channel must have 4,000 watch hours within a year and 1000 subscribers. YouTube monetize your channel and if you cross the threshold of 1000 subscriber and 4000 watch hours then you will automatic become YouTube partner.
If in the first year you couldn't meet the threshold then it will automatically check for next year and whenever you will meet threshold it will approve your request for being a partner.
To become a partner one more essential term in eligibility criteria is your channel must have videos which are created by your own, it should not include any copied content.
Being YouTube Partner you will get 55% of total revenue earned by YouTube by displaying ads on your Channel.
How to know your account is approved for YouTube Partnership
If your channel is approved as a YouTube Partner then your revenue will automatically start. If your channel doesn't comply with any of terms mentioned in Partnership Policy then your account will not be approved and your revenue will not start.
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package frc.t4069.year2.utils;

import edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.AnalogChannel;
import edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.AnalogModule;
import edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.PIDSource;
import frc.t4069.year2.robots.Constants;
import frc.t4069.year2.robots.subsystems.Shooter;

public class Potentiometer implements PIDSource {

    private int m_potChannel;
    private double zeroVoltage, slope;

    public Potentiometer(int channel, double degreeIntercept, double slope) {
        m_potChannel = channel;
        this.zeroVoltage = degreeIntercept;
        this.slope = slope;
            AnalogModule.getInstance(AnalogModule.getDefaultAnalogModule()).setSampleRate(100000);
            AnalogModule.getInstance(AnalogModule.getDefaultAnalogModule()).setOversampleBits(channel, 6);

    }

    public double pidGet() {
        return getAngle(true);
    }

    public double getAngle(boolean degrees) {
        double degs = (getVoltage() * slope) + zeroVoltage;
        return -degs;
    }

    public double getVoltage() {
        return AnalogModule.getInstance(AnalogModule.getDefaultAnalogModule())
                .getAverageVoltage(m_potChannel);
    }
}


text:
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface XMLTextManager : NSObject

/** There are 2 way to get string
 1. @string/[key] : return string from Localizable.strings file
 2. [text]        : return text
 */
+ (NSString *)textWithString:(NSString *)string;

@end


What's better than relaxing beside the ocean at a luxury resort, cool drink next to you, being waited on hand and foot? How about doing the same thing aboard a megayacht, where all those amenities and more are yours? And instead of having to share the pool, sauna, or watertoys with strangers, the only other guests around are your family or close friends, and nearly every venue is private. Well that's what you'll get and more aboard the elite yachts that comprise "The World's 10 Most Expensive Charters."
Our annual list includes only those motoryachts that were in charter as of presstime as well as those that are being offered to the public, not just to friends of the owner. We've skipped over yachts that do single-cabin bookings; rather, our focus is yachts that cater to a single party.
And as you'll see from the list, these guests are catered to in myriad, special ways. So enjoy and dream. Who knows? One of these yachts may be yours for a week some day.