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For our latest Alphabet Dating adventure Blair and I went to the Scottish Owl Centre, taking date inspiration from our good pal Alan Partridge. I joked to friends beforehand that it would be interesting, as I thought it had potential to be a bit of a lame day out, BUUUUT it was actually amazing.
I think we went at the right time of year (the last Sunday of their public open hours in November, before they switch to private groups only for Dec/Jan), as it was fairly quiet so we got to walk around and see the owls without there being too many other people in the way (*cough* noisy kids *cough*). There's tons of owls to see, from all corners of the world, and all shapes and sizes.
If you go I definitely recommend you check out the tiny owl section (so small!), and the live flying display (one flew so low it brushed past my hair!). All in all, a great afternoon out.
I wasn't really planning on writing a blog post about it but I took so many photos of cute owls that I just had to share them, so enjoy!
That last one is called Tony and he's only 1.5 years old. Awwww!


Do you devote lots of time considering your the teeth? You should, since folks observe your the teeth more than you may be thinking. Should your dental care video game needs tips, this information will enable you to. We've gathered a summary of dental treatments ideas to provide you with the smartest grin actually.
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The Liberia Netherland Business and Culture Council ventured to the Netherlands this month. We had an opportunity to speak at a seminar, touching specifically on Liberia's agriculture, energy, medical and logistics sectors. This was a great opportunity to reach out to Dutch businesses with an interest in entering the Liberian market.
In this edition of our Newsletter you may find more on this networking event and its impact, including some relevant news to keep you up to date on Liberia's economy and business environment.


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11 Horror Movie Tropes Stranger Things Handles Better
It is very nice to see opposite sex characters interact without immediately being sexualized.
By Rhys Pugatschew Updated Jan 5, 2019 08:55 PM EDT
We all know Stranger Things is a great show that has us asking more questions than finding answers. After season two, the storm of questions grew even more. Luckily, Netflix recently confirmed season three and the Duffer brothers are writing to end the series at season four. As such, our questions will eventually be answered, we're halfway there.
Such curiosity and intrigue are what has us hooked, but there are many more reasons why Stranger Things has captured our hearts. Looking back on the show (while we impatiently wait for season three), it's interesting to compare the differences between Stranger Things and most horror movies. There are a series of clichés and tropes that most horror movies follow in a very specific way.
For example, if the story is centered around children, they are the only ones that experience the horror, often helpless against it, and the adults never listen to them. Stranger Things deviates greatly from such tropes, often using the deviation to dive into character development and story depth. As such, I have compiled a list of 11 Horror Movie Tropes Stranger Things does better.
1. PTSD
Alright, one of my favorite horror movies as a kid was Halloween; easily one of the greatest in the genre. The music alone is enough to set anyone on edge. At the end of each movie, Michael Myers is conquered in some way and at least one person is left alive. Usually, Laurie Strode, if we're perfectly honest.
Despite the great build-up, the well-placed jump scares, the music, there is one thing that never happens to the surviving characters. We never see Strode truly deal with what she witnessed and did to survive Myers – sure we see her in an asylum at the beginning of one movie, but nothing ever comes of it. We never see flashbacks, panic attacks, survivor's guilt, nothing. Strode went through a series of horrible events that would grant her respect from the most seasoned veteran, yet none of the movies show that.
Stranger Things, in contrast, does. None of the characters come out of the Upside-down with the same stone determination as Strode. Nancy, for example, can hardly bear to be alone in the shower after her first encounter. Every time she closes her eyes, the Upside-down is right there. It haunts her, even with the knowledge that she is more or less safe. Stranger Things allows her to be scared and react to horrible events in a way a real teenager would.
Or Joyce, after Will tells her to run with the lights in season one. Despite having seen the demogorgon come out of her own wall, she still goes back and braves it. She can't sleep in the room, but she stays there. Joyce is clearly living in a constant shuddering, trembling fear, but she draws courage and strength to find and save her son.
That's not even to include Eleven or Will in the entirety of season two, who's PTSD is part of the plot.
2. Relatable Investment
Stranger Things takes the time (and good writing) to make us care for the well-being of each character. Rather than presenting us with a set of shallow teenagers or paper cutouts of what Stephan King thinks children are like, Stranger Things contains a cast of imperfect yet extremely relatable human beings.
The boys, for example, act as boys would and play the ever-relatable game of DnD. We're all nerd here after all. Even if you never played the game as a kid, you can see your own adult campaigns in the boys' interactions.
On the adult side of things, Joyce's loss of a child is an experience all adults and parents can understand. Our instinct to protect and care for children is at work here. Most adults can see themselves in Joyce's shoes, going at any length necessary to get her son back – no matter how crazy.
Another relatable character is Nancy, a teenager that just wants to try out life and do so honestly. Even after her fight with Barbara, Nancy stays true to her friend and searches high and low until she can't anymore. After that, Nancy is a force of nature when it comes to Hawkins Lab and the Upside-down, she's mourning her friend, her own guilt over what happened, and at the same time, exacting what revenge she can.
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3. Human Altruism
Nancy, like so many Stranger Things characters, is allowed to make the right decision. This makes the entire show all the more believable despite the "magic" of Eleven and the Upside-down. Unlike the rampant selfishness promoted in most horror movies, Stranger Things shows good people being good. No one is left behind, no one is left for dead, no one is sacrificed for the greater good. Well, save for the various soldier deaths in both seasons, but they don't really count as characters.
Nonetheless, in any other horror movie, Nancy would suddenly become the selfish cheerleader that forgot Barb even existed. Nancy certainly wouldn't have sacrificed her new relationship with a boy to go after Barb the way she did in the show.
Hopper is another great example. Horror movies would stick him in the selfish box the moment he drank whiskey before going to work in the morning. Outside of Stranger Things, Hopper would never believe Joyce or remotely give her the time of day until he saw the demogorgon himself.
This selfish box, I might add, was actually addressed during the first Hawkins Lab interrogation scene in season one. Instead of stepping into that selfish box, Hopper pulls a fast one and outsmarts Dr. Brenner, to a certain extent. Needless to say, every character in Stranger Things has the remarkable ability to make the right decision.
4. Existing Horror
Monster are usually what makes horror movies horrifying: Michael Myers (the masked psychopath with a machete), Pennywise (the clown with sharp teeth), or stalking monster #34 that drips on everything.
Sure, the demogorgon drips too, and certainly strikes a terrifying figure, but it is nothing more than a MacGuffin. The demogorgon (and the Upside-down by extension) drives the narrative without actually being there, appearing only when the climax deems it necessary.
The demogorgon is behind every conversation and every action the characters take; it is not something to simply react to with screams of fear and a lot of running. The demogorgon does not drive the plot of running and ever more powerful weapons. This is a horror allowed to horrify without relying on action or gore. I would almost akin the demogorgon to Hannibal, rather than Myers or IT; a monster more scare when it's not on screen, than when it is.
5. World Building
Granted, world building is somewhat of a requirement for a show set in a past that a large part of their audience doesn't remember. Still, Stranger Things sets down rules and regulations for its fictional world of Hawkins.
Most horror movies don't really bother with world building, much less establishing a town and the area around it. Such shallow worlds are ruled as "modern day" and never explained further. Stranger Things goes the extra mile with Hawkins. Not only is the town set in a very specific time period, it's a town small enough that everyone has known everyone at least since high school. It shows in almost every interaction, no matter how new the characters are to the audience.
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6. Adults Aren't Stupid
Though Stranger Things is very much a tribute to Stephan King novels, the show does not allow the adults to be stupid. In a given King novel that stars children, you'll notice the trope that only the children see and understand the horror. The adults do not listen to the point of stupidity and their own death.
In Stranger Things, an adult is the first to believe that something more is going on. Joyce is absolutely adamant that Will is out there, a determination that leaks into the kids. Hopper also turns out to be a surprisingly smart and clever detective, connecting what others might have seen as especially disconnected facts. Even Nancy's parents, in all their ignorance, do try to listen to their children in their own way. They are not stupid so much as very determined to be normal.
7. Don't Fumble Your Keys
Everyone knows that moment in a horror movie where you are screaming at the characters to do anything but what they are; grab a shot gun, a wrench, get the key in the door and stop fumbling your keys for the next five minutes. With one exception, most characters in Stranger Things are allowed to be smart when running away from the horror.
In the very first episode, Will Byers does try to call for help, does grab a shot gun, and does exactly what we would do in his situation. Later on, Jonathan and Nancy put together a very good plan for luring and killing the demogorgon, something we would absolutely try to do.
The show even allows the trap to work to a certain degree. Any other horror movie would have it fail spectacularly with a series of gore-filled slap stick thrown in; Nancy would have stepped on the bear trap and there would have been a full ten minutes of getting her out while the demogorgon inched closer. No, everyone in Stranger Things is allowed to be smart and be far more active in their roles as victims.
8. They're Not Just Children
Children in most horror movies are disposable and completely helpless when they are not becoming the horror themselves. Their use is often restricted to amplifying the horror by dying in a grotesque way. In contrast, Stranger Things allows children autonomy. They can put together comprehensive plans (even bringing snacks along), and execute them without failing just because they are children.
Nancy and Jonathan's trap applies here too, along with any plan the main boys come up with. I especially admired the quick thinking it took to hide from the helicopter; even I would have forgotten to hide the bikes, so points to the those very clever kids.
9. Not That Sexual Feeling
The trope of opposite sex pairs that are never able to be in the same room without being attracted to each other is not limited to horror movies, all media suffers this. As such, I was pleasantly surprised to find that come Jonathan and Nancy's team-up, neither ended up dating or having sex.
Even after the very strong hint to Nancy that Jon likes her, she still wanted him in her bed when she felt too scared to sleep alone. Their relationship builds much more slowly, even if it is clear that they like each other, they are very slow to act on it. It's a pleasant surprise, especially with young adult characters. Both of them took a lot of time, years in fact, to acknowledge any feelings they had towards each other. Never mind that Nancy and Jonathon having sex was long after their "shared trauma" as it were.
Another example is Joyce and Hopper, a romance that isn't even hinted at until season two. Even then, it is very one-sided. Joyce is very much into Bob and how normal he makes her feel. Any other horror movie would never have introduced Bob and had Hopper and Joyce at least engaged by the end of the first season. As such, it is very nice to see opposite sex characters interact without immediately being sexualized.
10. Known Horror
There is still enough mystery surrounding the demogorgon, like it's level of intelligence and reproduction process, that keeps the characters of Stranger Things on edge. Heck, besides Eleven, we have no idea how to kill these things. Guns have just made us feel better rather than do any damage.
Despite the creature being a large mystery, it is still, as Dr. Brenner stated, a predator. That the demogorgon is guaranteed to arrive if someone started bleeding makes it a great deal more predictable and understandable than say, Myers or Pennywise. A known horror that is still scary is quite unique and rare in the horror genre. Usually the thing is purposely unpredictable so that again, the characters are only required to react.
11. Death Is Not Necessary
Though it has yet to be seen if everyone dies by the time season four rolls around, the lack of mass death in Stranger Things for at least the first two seasons is quite remarkable. Other than the soldiers Eleven and Dr. Brenner kill, Barbara is the only one to die in season one.
Only one death is very remarkable for a horror show. Instead of mass killings, Stranger Things allows the mystery of the demogorgon and the Upside-down to speak for itself. The horror is less in the actual monster, and more in the situation and world the Duffer brothers have built for their characters.
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One dead, two injured in shooting at Church's Chicken restaurant in San Diego
Alex Riggins and Lyndsay Winkley, The San Diego Union-Tribune on Nov 6, 2019
Published in News & Features
SAN DIEGO -- A woman was killed and two other people were injured in a shooting at a Church's Chicken in Otay Mesa on Wednesday, police said.
The shooting happened about 5:30 p.m. at the fast food restaurant at Del Sol and Picador boulevards, San Diego Police Sgt. Kevin Gibson said.
Officers at the scene reported that a man went into the restaurant, placed a food order and then opened fire, Gibson said, citing information he heard over police radio. It appeared that at least one of the victims was a Church's Chicken employee.
At least two ambulances and one San Diego Fire-Rescue Department engine went to the scene, according to an online Fire-Rescue Department incident log. One of the victims, a 28-year-old woman, died at a hospital. The other two victims' injuries do not appear to be life-threatening.
The suspect was described as a thin, black man who was last seen wearing a blue Chargers beanie, red sunglasses and a dark sweater. He may have fled the area in a blue car.
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CRICKET FIGHT!!! No Cartman, I said "Cricket Fight" as in where two crickets are forced to battle one another in an arena of death. These insect on insect violence isn't just survival of the fittest out in nature, but where humans bet on crickets to beat up other crickets. And people are spending a ton of money on the sport.
Cricket fighting is huge in China where the sport has been a beloved pastime dating back to the Tang dynasty that came into power in 618 AD. Despite the extremely long history and popularity, gambling on cricket fighting is illegal. This week, an illegal cricket fighting ring was broken up and with it an exorbitant amount of money. Looks like someone forgot the first rule of cricket fight club.
Cricket fighting is no joke. There are different weight classes and even uniformed referees in this blood sport. Each boxing bug gets their own room because they're stars in their own right. To motivate the bugs to greatness, there is a framed photo of a cricket named Hongyaqing, which translates to "a black cricket with two red teeth." Hongyaqing is a big deal around these parts because he won the 2004 National Cricket Fighting Championship.
One of the insect trainers had 70 crickets ready to fight to the death. Another fighting cricket owner won $20,000 in a single match when his bug pulled off an upset. A bug made more in a 5-minute match than you make in eight months. Let that sink in.
You had better pray to the bug fight gods that the cricket you have all your money on doesn't have too much nitric oxide. Scientific studies have found that nitric oxide controls the bug's fight or flee decision-making. If a cricket gets hit too many times then the cricket brain will release nitric oxide into its system causing the little bugger to run from the fight.
These cricket fights are cute compared to the fight-to-the-death carnage that happens at Japanese bug fights. Interspecies brawls including Scorpion vs Giant Hornet, Red Lobster Vs Killer Beetle, and Giant Asian Hornet vs Centipede.


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Listen to David Gilmour Go Solo and Chrissie Hynde Cover The Beatles on One Night in 1986
On Feb. 9, 1986, David Gilmour, Pete Townshend, Chrissie Hynde and Annie Lennox shared a bill at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
By Catherine Araimo | February 9, 2018 | 2:31pm
Photo: Getty Images Music Features David Gilmour
Did you know that Paste owns the world's largest collection of live music recordings? It's true! And what's even crazier, it's all free—hundreds of thousands of exclusive songs, concerts and videos that you can listen to and watch right here at Paste.com, from Dizzy Gillespie to The Kinks to Public Enemy to HAIM. Every day, we'll dig through the archive for the coolest recording we have from that date in history. Search and enjoy!
On Feb. 9, 1986, The Who's Pete Townshend and Colombian musician Chucho Merchan hosted the Colombian Volcano Disaster Appeal Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall to benefit a volcanic disaster in Colombia that had occurred just months before. The bill that night featured solo sets from a who's-who of frontpeople without their venerated bands, including Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders), Annie Lennox (Eurythmics), David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) and Townshend, who took the stage with his side band, Deep End (and even brought up his oldest daughter, Emma). Gilmour, who had assembled an outstanding band in what was a rare solo performance, played two tracks from his second solo album, 1984's About Face, in addition to a pair of classics from Pink Floyd's dark opus, The Wall. During this time, Gilmour and Pink Floyd mastermind Roger Waters were locked in legal battles surrounding contractual disagreements with the band, and Gilmour had begun to explore solo musical pursuits.
Listen to David Gilmour do an emotional "Comfortably Numb" as his set-closer for this unique benefit concert, which was recorded for the King Biscuit Flower Hour radio show.
Here's Chrissie Hynde digging into her Pretenders megahit, "Back on the Chain Gang."
...and returning for a cover of The Beatles' "In My Life."
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Q: Python list updaitng even when condition evaluates to False Why is the longest_palindrome variable updated when the isPalindrome() function evaluates to False? The if/else condition is not behaving as I would expect.
def palindromeCutting(s):
    if s == "":
        return ""

    letters = list(s)

    while len(letters) > 0:
        tmp = []
        longest_palindrome = []

        for i in range(len(letters)):
            tmp.append(letters[i])

            if isPalindrome(tmp):
                print("updating longest with tmp")
                longest_palindrome = tmp
            print("longest_palindrome:",longest_palindrome)

        if len(longest_palindrome) > 1:
            l = len(longest_palindrome)
            letters = letters[l:]
        else:
            return "".join(letters)

def isPalindrome(arr):
    left, right = 0, len(arr) - 1

    while left <= right:
        if arr[left] != arr[right]:
            return False
        left += 1
        right -= 1

    return True

The output for this when run with s = "aaacodedoc" is:
longest_palindrome: ['a']
longest_palindrome: ['a', 'a']
longest_palindrome: ['a', 'a', 'a']
longest_palindrome: ['a', 'a', 'a', 'c']
longest_palindrome: ['a', 'a', 'a', 'c', 'o']
longest_palindrome: ['a', 'a', 'a', 'c', 'o', 'd']
longest_palindrome: ['a', 'a', 'a', 'c', 'o', 'd', 'e']
longest_palindrome: ['a', 'a', 'a', 'c', 'o', 'd', 'e', 'd']
longest_palindrome: ['a', 'a', 'a', 'c', 'o', 'd', 'e', 'd', 'o']
longest_palindrome: ['a', 'a', 'a', 'c', 'o', 'd', 'e', 'd', 'o', 'c']

A: you are referencing tmp with longest_palindrome.
So they both point to the same object.
After 3rd iteration tmp object is still growing so the longest_palindrome does also.

longest_palindrome = tmp

You can try by copying / creating new object with the same content:

longest_palindrome = tmp[:]

A: The problem is that you are setting longest_palindrom to tmp. From that point on, tmp and longest_palindrom are pointing to the same object. Whenever tmp is modified, the modification is reflected on longest_palindrom, and vice-versa.
To avoid that, you could instead set longest_palindrom to a copy of tmp, replacing the line
longest_palindrom = tmp

by
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Stylistics has become the most common name for a discipline which at various times has been termed 'literary linguistics', 'rhetoric', 'poetics', 'literary philology' and 'close textual reading'. This Handbook is the definitive account of the field, drawing on linguistics and related subject areas such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, educational pedagogy, computational methods, literary criticism and critical theory. Placing stylistics in its intellectual and international context, each chapter includes a detailed illustrative example and case study of stylistic practice, with arguments and methods open to examination, replication and constructive critical discussion. As an accessible guide to the theory and practice of stylistics, it will equip the reader with a clear understanding of the ethos and principles of the discipline, as well as with the capacity and confidence to engage in stylistic analysis.
39. Coda: the practice of stylistics Peter Stockwell and Sara Whiteley.
Peter Stockwell is Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Nottingham and a Fellow of the English Association.
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Big Pharma Pills will have Nano devices to track patients
The emerging field of nanotechnology is currently gaining a lot of attention across many industries. Nanotechnology allows scientists to manipulate individual atoms and molecules to create unique materials and even micro-scale devices, and this is leading to a wide range of applications in clothing, textiles, electronics and even food and medicine.
Sounds great, right? Except for the fact that, like genetic modification of food crops, nanotechnology tampers with Mother Nature in a way that's largely untested for safety. And here's something really bizarre: The pharmaceutical industry may soon begin using nanotechnology to encode drug tablets and capsules with brand and tracking data that you swallow as part of the pill.
To really explain how this works, let me simplify how nanotechnology works so you'll see why this is so bizarre (and potentially dangerous). Instead of using materials and elements as they're found in nature to build and construct things, nanotechnologists are deconstructing the basic building blocks of these materials and elements to make completely new ones. In other words, nanoscientists are reconstructing the molecular building blocks of our world without yet knowing what it will do to humans and to the environment.
The long-term consequences of nanotechnology are still largely unknown because not a single formidable study has ever been conducted on this emerging science that proves it to be safe. In fact, most of the studies that have been conducted on nanotechnology show that it's actually detrimental to health and to the environment (which I'll cover further, below).
But that hasn't stopped Big Pharma from potentially adopting it for use in a new tracking and identification system that could be integrated into the very drug pills and capsules that millions of people swallow every day.
By the way, I've also posted a video explaining all this. Check it out here: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=93626…
Nano-encrypted bar code in every dose
Now don't get me wrong. Big Pharma isn't the only industry using nanotechnology despite a complete lack of safety evidence. "Nanoparticles" are present in sunscreens, fabric protectors, plastic food liners, and other products. But what's different about the nanoparticles soon to be found in a pill near you is that they are capable of storing data about where the drug was made, when it was made, and where it has traveled.
It's a lot like the bar codes used on parcels to track them along their shipping journeys, except that in the drugs, it's a molecular bar code that people will be swallowing. During digestion of the pill, the nano data bits will be distributed throughout your body and can become lodged in your body's tissues.
A company that's introducing this system for pharmaceuticals, says it this way on its website:
"In the NanoEncryption process, NanoCodes are incorporated directly onto tablets, capsules and vial caps. These codes may be associated with an unlimited amount of manufacturer-determined data, including product information (strength and expiration date), manufacturing information (location date, batch and lot number) and distribution information (country, distributor, wholesaler and chain)."
So if you take these drugs, you'll be swallowing nano "hard drives" that can store data — data that will be distributed throughout your body and can be read by medical technicians who could then track what drugs you took in the past. And what's the rationale for this? According to the company, it's to "defen[d] against pharmaceutical counterfeiting and illegal diversion".
It sounds like a good idea, right? Unfortunately, there's a whole lot more to this technology than meets the eye.
Editor's Note: UPDATE 1 — The company originally mentioned in this story now denies what NaturalNews reported. Their own website text as quoted in this story, was apparently misleading, and they now claim they do not use nano "material" of any kind to achieve their nano encoding. We are temporarily removing the name of this company from this story while we attempts to sort out the truth of the matter. In the past, we've had many company rush to change their own website text after we ran a story on them. All quotes published in this story were 100% accurate at the time of publication, and we made a good faith attempt to report this story accurately.
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Nobel Laureate: "Put virus genes in bacteria and feed them to people"
Barry J. Marshall, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2005 and clinical professor with the University of Western Australia,
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said people might, in the future, be vaccinated by swallowing capsules instead of by using needles.
He made his remarks at the World Expo's third theme forum, which opened on Sunday in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province.
"The project I've been working on is to develop vaccines that look like a food product. I think that's the future beyond the needles, to have vaccines look more like food," he said.
"I worry about my family. I have a grandson. Recently he had five needles on one day. It's very stressful for small children to have vaccination needles, so it would be much better if we could have vaccines like medicines," he said. "You don't have to go to the hospital or doctor, maybe you could go to the pharmacy or drug store or the super market," he said.
"Ten or 20 years from now, probably many vaccines would be like that, so much easier for so many people not have to worry about influenza, measles, chickenpox," he said.
"For example, one project we are undertaking showed some early successes in animals. The project is that we can take the influenza virus genes, put them into the bacteria so the bacteria look a little bit like influenza, then feed the bacteria to somebody," he said.
"You could see in the future this could be like some food product, capsule bacteria. But when you swallow it, it will start living in your stomach for a few weeks. During that time, your immune system will be activated but you will also be vaccinated against influenza," he explained.
In 2005, Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in recognition of their 1982 discovery that a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, is one cause of mankind's most common and serious diseases, peptic ulcer disease.
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Great Gatsby curve
(Redirected from Great Gatsby Curve)
The Great Gatsby curve is a chart plotting the relationship between inequality and intergenerational social immobility in several countries around the world.
The curve was introduced in a 2012 speech by chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Alan Krueger,[1][2][3] and the President's Economic Report to Congress,[4] using data from labor economist Miles Corak. The name was coined by former Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) staff economist Judd Cramer,[5] for which he was given a bottle of wine as a reward.[6] The curve relates intergenerational income elasticity—a measure of the persistence of incomes between parents and their children—and inequality in the United States and twelve other developed countries,[7] though some versions of the curve include developing countries.[8] Countries with low levels of inequality such as Denmark, Norway and Finland (all located in European Scandinavia) had some of the greatest mobility, while the two countries with the high level of inequality—Chile and Brazil—had some of the lowest mobility.
The name of the curve refers to Jay Gatsby, the character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. Gatsby embodies the (paradoxical) concept of mobility, rising from being a bootlegger, to leading the Long Island north shore social set.[9]
Journalist Robert Lenzner and lawyer Nripendra Chakravarthy call it "a very frightening curve that requires policy attention."[9] Krueger predicted that "the persistence in the advantages and disadvantages of income passed from parents to the children" will "rise by about a quarter for the next generation as a result of the rise in inequality that the U.S. has seen in the last 25 years."[7]
Journalist Timothy Noah argued the effect results from growing inequality:
"you can't really experience ever-growing income inequality without experiencing a decline in Horatio Alger-style upward mobility because (to use a frequently-employed metaphor) it's harder to climb a ladder when the rungs are farther apart."[7]
Another journalist argued that a connection between income inequality and low mobility could be explained by the lack of access for un-affluent children to better (more expensive) schools and if this enabled access to high-paying jobs; or to differences in health care that may limit education and employment.[10]
However, some argue that the apparent connection may arise as an artifact of heterogeneous variance in ability across nations, questioning the need for intervention. It was shown that the manner in which the intergenerational income elasticity is defined, is by design associated with inequality.[11] Harvard economist Greg Mankiw noted that "this correlation is not particularly surprising", showing that comparisons of more diverse groups (like the US) with less diverse groups (like the population of Denmark) will automatically exhibit this phenomenon even when there are in fact no differences in the processes of mobility between these groups, i.e., the curve is an artifact of diversity.[12] His quote:
Germans are richer on average than Greeks, and that difference in income tends to persist from generation to generation. When people look at the Great Gatsby curve, they omit this fact, because the nation is the unit of analysis. But it is not obvious that the political divisions that divide people are the right ones for economic analysis. We combine the persistently rich Connecticut with the persistently poor Mississippi, so why not combine Germany with Greece?[12]
A blog[13] by M.S. at The Economist replied to Mankiw's counter-argument as follows:
The argument over the Great Gatsby curve is an argument about whether America's economy is fair. With his Germany/Greece and Mississippi/Connecticut analogy, Mr Mankiw has stumbled on a very convincing point: whether you are rich or poor in Europe or America depends to a great extent not on your own qualities or efforts, but on where you happen to be born. America is not a meritocracy, Mr Mankiw is saying; not only do those born rich tend to stay rich and vice versa, just being born in one state or another makes a huge difference to your lifelong earnings. Amazingly, he seems completely unaware that this is the case he's just made.
Economist Paul Krugman has also countered Mankiw's arguments in his column.[14]
Carter Price of the WCEG suggests "the line to serfdom" as an alternative name on the grounds that it may better convey the meaning of the correlation.[15]
Economy of the United States
Income inequality in the United States
Socioeconomic mobility in the United States
Great Divergence (inequality)
List of countries by income equality
Gini coefficient
^ Krueger, Alan (12 January 2012). "The Rise and Consequences of Inequality in the United States" (PDF).
^ Krugman, Paul (15 January 2012). "The Great Gatsby Curve". New York Times.
^ "The Great Gatsby Curve - Explained". Bloomberg Visual Data. 6 October 2013.
^ "Economic report of the President" (PDF). United States Government Printing Office. February 2012.
^ Nicorvo, Jay Baron (19 April 2015). "The 1 Percent Plays us for Suckers: There is no Meritocracy and They've Strangled the American Dream". Salon.
^ Greeley, Brendan (12 December 2013). "The Gatsby Curve: How Inequality Became a Household Word". Bloomberg.
^ a b c Noah, Timothy (13 January 2012). "White House: Here's Why You Have To Care About Inequality".
^ Corak graphs 25 countries, Krueger limits his to developed countries and lists 10
^ a b Lenzner, Robert (26 March 2012). "Income Inequality From Generation To Generation". Forbes.
^ DeParle, Jason (4 January 2012). "Harder for Americans to Rise From Lower Rungs".
^ Berman, Yonatan (7 Sep 2017). "Understanding the Mechanical Relationship between Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility". SSRN 2796563.
^ a b Mankiw, Greg (18 July 2013). "Observations on the Great Gatsby Curve".
^ S., M. (22 July 2013). "The Great Gatsby curve - Don't worry, old sport". The Economist.
^ Krugman, Paul (22 June 2013). "Greg Mankiw and the Gatsby Curve".
^ Price, Carter (11 March 2014). "A response to another attack on the Great Gatsby curve—and can we call it the "line to serfdom" instead?". Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
Stewart, Matthew (June 2018). "The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy". The Atlantic.
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Robbins Geller Defeats Defendants' Motion to Dismiss in Corrections Corporation of America Litigation
On December 18, 2017, the Honorable Aleta A. Trauger of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division, denied defendants' motion to dismiss in Grae v. Corrections Corporation of America. Amalgamated Bank, as Trustee for the LongView Collective Investment Fund ("Amalgamated"), is serving as lead plaintiff in this action on behalf of a proposed class of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired securities of Corrections Corporation of America ("CCA") (now known as "CoreCivic") during the February 27, 2012 through August 17, 2016 class period.
CCA is a publicly traded real estate investment trust ("REIT") that owns and manages correctional, detention and residential reentry facilities. As of 2015, CCA was the largest private corrections company in the United States, managing more than 65 correction and detention facilities in 19 states and the District of Columbia. The case alleges that CCA and certain of its officers violated the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act") by making materially false and misleading statements and omissions to investors regarding CCA's business and operations.
Defendants' motion to dismiss challenged whether plaintiff had sufficiently alleged material misrepresentations, loss causation and scienter, three of the elements that a plaintiff must demonstrate to prevail on a securities fraud claim under §10(b) of the Exchange Act and SEC Rule 10b-5(b). In upholding Amalgamated's claims regarding materiality and falsity, Judge Trauger ruled: "[I]t is sufficient that Amalgamated has pled that CoreCivic and its executives repeatedly claimed or suggested that the company's history of quality services had gained it the faith and esteem of its government partners, when, in fact, the perceived low quality of its services was leading one of its most important client relationships to the brink of collapse. The court will not dismiss Amalgamated's claims for having insufficiently pled falsity or materiality." Regarding the loss causation claims, Judge Trauger further stated that Amalgamated "amply alleges that CoreCivic gave a misleadingly incomplete picture of the issues that ultimately resulted in the DOJ's shift, and CoreCivic concedes that it was that shift that caused the loss in value of its stock." Finally, the court rejected defendants' contentions relating to scienter, stating: "The PSLRA sets a high bar for a plaintiff attempting to plead scienter. Construing that high bar as an insurmountable one, however, would transform that Act into a sub rosa repeal of Section 10(b). CoreCivic has identified no evidence that Congress intended such a result." In conclusion, the court found that Amalgamated adequately plead "enough to satisfy Rule 12(b)(6), Rule 9(b), and the PSLRA."
The Robbins Geller attorneys litigating this case are Darren J. Robbins, Dennis J. Herman, Willow E. Radcliffe, Christopher M. Wood and Christopher H. Lyons.
Grae v. Corrections Corporation of America, No. 3:16-cv-2267, Memorandum (M.D. Tenn. Dec. 18, 2017).
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The Bagatelles, Op. 33, for solo piano were composed by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) in 1801–02 and published in 1803 through the Viennese publisher . The seven bagatelles are quite typical of Beethoven's early style, retaining many compositional features of the early Classical period.

The first bagatelle, which is in the key of E-flat major, is perhaps the most well-known of the set. It is in the form A–B–A. The A section starts with the right hand playing a soothing melody, and the left hand accompanying it with broken chords. The B section, which starts with the key of E-flat minor, plays a simple melody, then modulates to the original key with the B-flat major scale and then the E-flat major scale, then back to the A section.
The second bagatelle, in C major, is the perhaps the second hardest of the set. It contains third scales, arpeggios, and a continuous left hand scale.
The third bagatelle, in F major, starts off with the right hand playing the introduction and the left hand playing arpeggios.
The fourth bagatelle, in A major, the middle section is in the key of A minor.
The fifth bagatelle, which perhaps is the hardest of the set, is in the key of C major. It starts off with arpeggios, a little similar to Chopin's Étude Op. 10, No. 1. After the introduction, the right hand and the left hand play the melody with their 4th and 5th fingers. After the C minor section it goes back to the main theme.
The sixth bagatelle, is in the key of D major.
The seventh and final bagatelle, is in the key of A-flat major. It starts off with the left hand playing staccatos, and the right hand playing the melody.

See also
Bagatelles, Op. 119
Bagatelles, Op. 126

External links

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1803 compositions

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The rib that had been causing nerve and vascular impingement might turn into jewelry. Per the AP, Hughes said, "Plating it with some sort of precious metal is one way to go." That definitely is one way to go. The screws removed after my ankle surgeries are still in a jar at home by the TV. I still think it's quite the display.
Hughes is looking to help this Twins staff this year as he did in 2014, when he set the strikeout-to-walk ratio at 11.63 (186 strikeouts to 16 walks). Hughes earned the 2015 Opening Day start after his first season with the Twins. Here's hoping he and the rest of the pitching staff are effective this year! Opening Day is coming up!


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High school wrestling: South's Cox and Salisbury's Gaither find gold
Published 9:40 pm Saturday, February 19, 2022
Jacob Cox (South) won his third state championship Saturday. File photo by Wayne Hinshaw, for the Salisbury Post
Jaden Gaither — submitted photo
GREENSBORO — Jacob Cox's third wrestling state title on Saturday brought relief, while Jaden Gaither's first one brought disbelief.
"Winning a third one felt amazing, felt every bit as good as I thought it would," Cox said. "I'm sitting here thinking about it the whole journey now, and the feeling is more relief than anything. I worked so hard and for so long to do this."
Cox, a South Rowan senior, made school and county history with his triple play on the mat.
Rowan County has produced a number of two-time state champions, including recent South double dips by Logan Lambert and Logan Durham, but Cox is the first to win three titles.
Cox won the 113-pound championship in 2A as a sophomore and made the major jump up to 138 pounds as a junior. He stayed at 138 this school year, but South moved up to 3A, so the landscape changed some.
Cox wasn't fazed.
"3A may have made it a little harder, but 2A or 3A, it's basically the same tough kids and the same tough matches," Cox said. "It's the same grind."
Cox went undefeated as a junior and senior and closed his career with a staggering stretch of 82 consecutive victories.
Cox didn't register any pins on his way to the state title, but he dominated. His four victories in Greensboro were a 16-1 tech fall, followed by 9-1, 16-6 and 13-4 major decisions.
While Cox has been dominant for years, Gaither, a 225-pound football linebacker wrestling linemen in the heavyweight division, defied long odds to become a state champion.
In December, Gaither didn't even make the championship round of the Rowan County Championships. West's Christian Hercules beat South's Jacob Fuentes in the final after Fuentes beat Gaither.
"After the football season, Jaden was underweight to be competing in his weight class," Salisbury coach Matt Coble said. "But he put in the time and the work and he learned to use his athleticism and quickness to his advantage against bigger guys."
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Gaither got on a roll then and racked up three straight pins. The third pin made him a state champion.
"His opponent made a mistake and Jaden got outside on him," Coble said.
Gaither ended a drought for Salisbury wrestling titles. The Hornets hadn't celebrated a state champ since Tre Jackson and Joseph Figueroa both won in 2010.
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN & HIS WORKS
COLLECTING TOLKIEN BOOKS
TOLKIEN BOOK SHOP
Tuesday 28 July 2015 - Tolkien Calendar 2016: Illustrated by Tove Jansson
Monday 27 July 2015 - The Amateur Lord of the Rings
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Projecting Tolkien's Musical Worlds - A Study of Musical Affect in Howard Shore's Soundtrack to Lord of the Rings by Matthew Young (09.10.07 by Pieter Collier) - Comments
Explaining the meaning or affect of a piece of music is by no means an easy task.
However, some success has been found through the work of Philip Tagg, whose technique consists of breaking down a musical example into minimal units of musical meaning (called musemes), comparing those units to other musical examples possessing sociomusical connotations, and demonstrating a transfer of musical affect from the music possessing sociomusical connotations to the object of analysis.
While Tagg's studies have focused mostly on television music, this document expands his techniques in an attempt to analyze the musical affect of Howard Shore's score to Peter Jackson's film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. This work studies the ability of Shore's film score not only to accompany the events occurring on-screen, but also to provide the audience with cultural and emotional information pertinent to character and story development.
After a discussion of J.R.R. Tolkien's description of the cultures of the inhabitants found in Middle-earth, this work dissects the thematic material of Shore's score, focusing on his incorporation of the music and culture of Tolkien's text into his film score through instrumentation and style, as well as utilizing musematic analysis to argue the musical affect of Shore's major themes that is projected on the audience.
Additionally, leitmotiv analysis is used to trace the major themes throughout the trilogy, and to investigate how Shore's alterations of the themes modify their musical affect. By comparing Shore's film score to Tolkien's text, considering the visual representation the score accompanies, as well as by comparing Shore's themes to other music possessing connotations, an argument is made that Shore's score does more than accompany Jackson's screen.
Since Shore's score reflects music and culture as described by Tolkien, and the themes correlate appropriately to other music which reflect similar cultures, Shore's score plays an integral part in influencing the audience's perception of the inhabitants of Middle-earth.
Additionally, Shore's modification of established themes throughout the trilogy aid in the audience's emotional understanding of the evolution of the characters of the films.
This book is directed toward any individual, musician or film enthusiast, who appreciates the ability for a film score to heighten the overall movie experience.
Estimate: 92 pages
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We have been discussing the Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual (BPSS) model of addiction. We've used this model to answer the question "How do people get addicted?" So far, we have reviewed the biological reasons people can get addicted. The biological portion of the BPSS model considers addiction a brain disease with biological, chemical, and genetic roots. We've also reviewed the psychological reasons people can get addicted. The psychological portion of the model views addiction as a learned behavior, a problem of faulty thinking, or of developmental delay. Other psychological disorders also contribute directly or indirectly to the development of an addiction.
Psychology is concerned with understanding individual human behavior. In contrast, sociology is concerned with understanding the behavior of larger groups (families, organizations, societies, cultures). Sociologists and psychologists both study the influence of these groups on individual behavior. From a sociological perspective, addiction is a harmful behavior that affects both individuals and groups. As such, we can only understand and correct addiction within the context of the society in which it occurs.


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First Line: A partially open door always has a question in it.
When she learns that her dear friend Sarah Nunamaker doesn't have long to live and wants to see her, 63-year-old Maxine ("Maxie") McNabb packs her Winnebago and-- with her miniature dachshund Stretch riding shotgun-- hits the road. It's a long journey from Alaska to Grand Junction, Colorado, and when Maxie arrives, Sarah only has time for a brief cryptic message before she dies.
Maxie has no time to grieve; however, she's been appointed executor of Sarah's will. Then Sarah's house is broken into. Someone is searching for something, and Maxie's hoping she has the edge in finding it. Her friend had a penchant for secret hiding places, and Maxie just might be able to find the elusive object someone is willing to kill for.
I was in the mood for a soft-edged, intriguing mystery filled with excellent characters, and that's exactly what I found in The Serpents Trail. Already familiar with Sue Henry's Jessie Arnold mysteries set in Alaska, I wanted to see what a wandering sixtysomething widow with a small dog and an RV could do.
Maxie McNabb is in the minority in the crime fiction community of characters. She's in her sixties. She's widowed after two happy and fulfilling marriages and has no inclination to go that route again. Her friends and her dog Stretch supply all the companionship she needs. She's also got itchy feet and loves to travel all over the continent in her Winnebago. I rapidly fell in love with her independent spirit and level-headedness. Another aspect of her character that I deeply appreciated was that she possesses no desire to be either a victim or a hero. She's smart; she knows her capabilities; and she gets help when she needs it. We need more characters like Maxie McNabb in crime fiction.
In many ways, the mystery is a treat, with Sarah's habit of creating secret hiding places all over her house and having a will that creates altogether too much interest amongst those who may inherit. People aren't always who they seem either, and that will and those suspicious characters are the deciding factors in Maxie's little trip to Salt Lake City to do a little sleuthing in Sarah's family tree. The only jarring note in the entire book was the fact that the ending wasn't quite convincing-- but that doesn't bother me much. I've already ordered other books in this Maxie and Stretch series!
Characters of different ages have different perspectives, and we need to hear from all of them!
I bought this when it first came out in paperback and enjoyed it so much I bought the next one. Then I bought a Nook. Now, I need to go find that second one and read it!
Excellent idea, Marty! I'd hate to tell you how many books I have here that have gotten moved gently to the side when newer pretties grab my attention.


That's a convoluted way of saying F-A-N-T.
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I'm all for a double dip, this year.
Give me Fant and then Drew Sample or Trevon Wesco and I'm a happy man. If Fant's not there, then Kahale Warring would be my preference because he's the one with TE1 upside, albeit with a fairly low floor.
One thing is for sure, BB won't get desperate. He might not draft nor sign a TE at all.
Thoughts on Sternberger? You see him as more of a move TE, I'm guessing? He will likely go higher than warranted.
He'll have too I think. I don't see a TE room of Lacosse, Izzo, Hollister and Anderson being that viable.
Yup, a move TE. I can see it with a double dip for an inline TE later but I think this team needs a Y TE so that the running game matches what we were doing last year.
Who was that 7'6" dude today against Duke?
Oh God! I'm not going to have to learn how to spell that name again am I?
Interesting concept. Maybe Bill goes without a TE or an outside WR this year and completely f**ks with the rest of the leagues minds.
I wanted an OT anyway. Now, we might look for an OT, who can be the 6th OL when needed.
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The International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2020, a quarter of the world's population will have been affected by a data breach. In today's hyper-connected world, these breaches are a looming threat for many organizations and their leaders. For example, Oracle's Mark Hurd notes a data breach as one of the greatest concerns for an organization, from a business risk perspective. The extensive and variable risks businesses face upon falling victim to a data breach can be damaging to revenue and reputation, and managing the aftermath can be very costly. Here, we're reviewing four damaging after-effects of a data breach.
Financial loss
For many, the most fateful consequence of a data breach is the financial loss incurred. Depending on the nature of the breach, there are various financial problems that can result. Businesses that suffer breaches may have to grapple with costs incurred from containing the breach, compensating affected customers, realizing a decreased share value and heightened security costs. Although business leaders can't definitively forecast how or if financials will be affected in the event of a breach, historically, the losses are significant. Studies show 29% of businesses that face a data breach end up losing revenue. Of those businesses, 38% experience a loss of 20% of more. Additionally, according to the 2018 Cost of Data Breach Study, the average cost of a data breach in the U.S. is $7.91 million.
Reputational damage
In today's hyper-connected world, news travels fast. Even those whom may have never heard of your company will likely hear about a breach within the days following. The damage a data breach can have on a business can be devastating, particularly if the breach was an avoidable one or put customer data at risk. Lost confidence, negative press, associated identity theft, and potential customer's views toward your company can all take a hit, leaving dark clouds over your reputation and creating long-term complications. Survey research shows, in the event of a breach, consumers are quick to turn their backs, with 65% of data breach victims reporting lost trust in an organization as a result of a breach. Additionally, 85% will likely tell others about their negative experience, with 33.4% using social media and 20% commenting directly on a company website. With all the attention pointed at you after a breach, it's crucial to ensure your aftermath-management is handled properly. If not, you risk losing current and potential customers to competitors who may be viewed as more secure.
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Operational disruptions
From the moment your data is compromised, to the entire investigation and recovery process, the effects of a data breach significantly impact business operations. Depending on the severity, data breaches can result in a complete loss of important data, which requires victims to spend long periods time recovering. The most common course of action in these scenarios is to totally shut down operations until a solution is found, allowing for ample time to focus on finding the source of the breach. Unsurprisingly, this has a trickle-down effect. The longer operations are shut down, the more likely customers are to leave, which can result in even more lost revenue. Sadly, 60% of SMBs close within six months of a cyber attack.
Cyber breaches involving individual's personal information often result in class-action lawsuits. In recent years, examples of breaches that affected consumers and led to tens of millions of dollars being paid out via lawsuits and settlements include Target, Home Depot, and Neiman Marcus. Tack on all the legal fees that go along with these payouts, and businesses stand face much higher costs than most can prepare for. In some cases, authorities may even restrict companies from performing certain operations until legal investigations are complete, which can lead to additional long-term issues.
If you feel you've noticed a pattern among these four sections, you'd be correct. What makes each of these after-effects so devastating is how they are all circumstantially linked to one another and how once you get caught up in one issue, the other three are soon to follow. Preparing yourself for the threat of an attack and taking proper preventative measures is the best way to ensure your business doesn't fall victim to a cyber breach. If you organization doesn't take cyber security seriously, there could be serious consequences.
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A Washington insider says that an Iran with nuclear capability would transform the power balance in the Middle East and set the region for nuclear war
Anthony Cortisman, a former director of intelligence assessment for the Secretary of Defense, who is now a top strategic guru at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says that if Iran achieves it's goal of a nuclear weapon of mass destruction the entire power-balance of the Middle East will be changed and it will set the stage for a nuclear war in the region.
Cortisman says that theoretically it is possible that the Israeli State, economy and organized society would survive such an almost mortal blow; however, Iran would not survive in the normal sense of the term.
The possibility of a nuclear war in the Middle East, should Iran acquire a nuclear weapon of mass destruction, is very viable says one strategic planner; however, Bible prophecy has additional information about this possible scenario for the Middle East as well.
Anthony Cortisman the strategic guru in Washington says that a nuclear confrontation between Iran and Israel would kill millions of Iranians and leave Israel crippled, but the Jewish State would survive.
This scenario that at this point in time is possible, if all intelligence from the region is correct, is only in the mind's of the analyst. But from the pages of Bible prophecy this potential war, nuclear or not, will take place according to the ancient Jewish prophets.
Ezekiel mentioned Iran specifically as a nation that will form a coalition with other nations to attack Israel and endeavor to destroy the Jewish State, that's in Ezekiel 38:5 where Iran is referred to as Persia.
Bible prophecy does not mention that nuclear weapons will be used but the prophets do say that the total destruction of the Jewish State is on the agenda of the alignment of nations against Israel in the last days, as found also in the prophetic books of Daniel, Joel and Micah.
The assessment that there could be a nuclear war in the Middle East and soon is close to what Bible prophecy calls for in the last days. Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.
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• On Dec. 13, 1621, the first American furs to be exported from the continent leave for England. The colonists developed an economic system in which their chief crop, Indian corn, was traded with Native Americans to the north for highly valued beaver skins, which were in turn profitably sold in England.
• On Dec. 12, 1913, two years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "Mona Lisa" is recovered inside Italian waiter Vincenzo Peruggia's hotel room in Florence. Peruggia had participated in the heist with a group of accomplices dressed as Louvre janitors.
• On Dec. 9, 1926, young clarinetist Benny Goodman records his first solo, 16 bars of a song called "He's the Last Word." Sadly, his father was hit by a car and killed on the same day Goodman recorded the solo.
• On Dec. 11, 1936, after ruling for less than one year, Edward VIII becomes the first English monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne. He chose to abdicate after the British government, public and the Church of England condemned his decision to marry American divorcée Wallis Warfield Simpson.
• On Dec. 10, 1963, Frank Sinatra Jr., who was kidnapped in Lake Tahoe, Calif., is allowed to talk briefly to his father. The kidnappers revealed the drop point for the ransom money and the location where Frank Jr. could be found. To avoid a public scene, law enforcement officials picked up the young Sinatra and brought him home in the trunk of their car.
• On Dec. 14, 1980, a CIA report claims that the Soviet Union delivered nearly $7 billion worth of military assistance to Third World nations such as Syria, Iraq and South Yemen. The report suggested that Soviet arms sales were dangerously increasing instability and the chances for war.
• On Dec. 8, 1993, the North American Free Trade Agreement is signed into law by President Bill Clinton. NAFTA was heavily criticized by Reform Party presidential candidate Ross Perot, who argued that if NAFTA was passed, Americans would hear a "giant sucking sound" of American companies fleeing the United States for Mexico.
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Q: How 'this' keyword works? I cannot understand what is bob.setAge = setAge doing.  Is anybody can explain how it works?
var bob = {
    name: "Bob Smith",
    age: 15
};

var frank = {
    name: "Frank Wolf",
    age: 32
};

function setAge(newAge) {
    this.age = newAge;
}

bob.setAge = setAge;
bob.setAge(23);

A: The value of this will be determined during the time of invocation of the function. So, when you invoke it with bob like this
bob.setAge(23);

inside setAge, this will refer bob. So, 23 will be assigned to bob's age attribute.
You can dynamically attach that function to any object and invoke setAge. For example,
frank.setAge = setAge;
frank.setAge(26);

will set the age of frank to 26.
Note : If you simply invoke the setAge function without any object, like this
setAge(10);

then JavaScript will make sure that the this will refer the global object. But if you are executing this in Script mode, this will be set to undefined and setAge will fail. Because, you cannot set age on undefined.

A: bob.setAge = setAge; ---> bob.setAge (like a reference variable) will now refer to setAge function so that you can call it like bob.setAge(23) , As you are calling it from bob object. this will refer to bob inside setAge function

A: basically setAge is just a function. that suppose to alter the value of the property age.
ones you do
bob.setAge = setAge;.

you add to the object bob the method setAge that will now alter the value of bob's Age.
so now after invoking bob.setAge(23);
the age changes from 15 to 23.