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Hammond Park is an Archdiocesan Catholic Primary School. Catholic schools exist to further the mission of the Church. Priority for enrolment is given to Catholics who witness the Catholic faith in their homes and who participate regularly in the life of a worshipping community. Acceptance of children will be at the discretion of the Principal, in line with the 'Student Enrolment Policy (1994)' issued by the Catholic Education Office of WA.
An application for enrolment booklet must be completed, as fully as possible, for every child enrolled. A non refundable application fee of $35 must accompany the enrolment book. On offer of enrolment at HPCPS a deposit of $50 must be paid to the school office. This deposit secures your position and is credited to your school fees account. The school has EFTPOS facilities. Provision for bookings for children to be enrolled in future years is available.
Before an application can be considered, the following conditions must be met:
Parents/guardians are required to complete in full the enrolment booklet
Arrange an interview with the Parish Priest. A reference form for the Priest can be downloaded from this page.
Parents/guardians must provide birth and Baptismal certificates and immunisation records
Parents/guardians and the children to be enrolled attend an interview with the Principal.
Parish Priest Reference
To obtain a Parish Priest Reference from Father Dat Vuong in the parish of Mater Christi, the process is as follows:
Complete the Parish Priest Reference available from this web site
Phone the Mater Christi Parish Office 9417 4763 or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to ascertain which Masses Fr Dat is celebrating the coming weekend
Approach Fr Dat after Mass with your form and request him to complete his section of the form on your behalf
Father may complete it immediately and hand it back to you to take to the school, or, he may accept it and complete it at a later time and forward it to the school on your behalf.
The forms must only be given to and completed by Father Dat Vuong the Parish Priest (not the Assistant Priest or any other member of the parish community).
NB. Parish Priest Reference Forms must be completed by the Parish Priest of the parish where you attend Mass.
During the interview with the Principal
The Catholic /religious focus and priority of the school is outlined
The learning/social and any specials needs of the child/ren are discussed
Parents/guardians must be prepared to accept the conditions of enrolment fully in respect to each and every child.
Enrolment does not automatically follow as a result of an application. Because there are limits to class sizes, children may have to be placed on waiting lists.
Applications will be considered in the following order of priority:
Criteria for Enrolment
Catholic students from the Parish with a Parish Priest reference
Catholic students from outside the Parish with a Parish Priest Reference
Other Catholic students
Siblings of non-Catholic students
Non-Catholic students from other Christian denominations
Other Non-Catholic Students
Parents, on enrolment of their children in Hammond Park Catholic School need to:
Be supportive of a full Catholic Education for their child.
Realise that Kindergarten / Pre-Primary is a very necessary first step in the education of their child, and necessitates the child continuing in Year 1 at this school.
Support the educational and spiritual programme of the school.
Pay school fees, except in cases of genuine hardship, where alternative arrangements may be made by appointment with the principal. Associated with the school fees are a Building Levy and Amenities Fees.
Levies and associated fees are non-refundable.
Work cooperatively with and within the school.
Be actively involved in the life of the school.
Ensure their child attends school in correct and FULL school uniform, maintained in good repair, thus encouraging development of the school community pride and self-discipline.
Each application for enrolment will be considered individually. The final decision on acceptance is at the discretion of the Principal. This policy is reviewed from time to time to reflect the directions of the Archbishop/Catholic Education Office.


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Simpsons ŠKODA are pleased to be in association with Great Yarmouth & Caister Golf Club for the Ian Boon Memorial Golf day on Sunday 13th September.
The event is in its second year of running and is in remembrance of former Captain Ian Boon who had been a member of the club for 40 years. The event will have approximately 100 people taking part with a BBQ on afterwards.
Proceeds from the day will be going to the Sandra Chapman Centre at the James Paget University Hospital. Last year, over £3,000 was raised which the Club are hoping to beat this year.


There has been apprehension at Ungwan Lambu, a predominantly student settlement in the Keffi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State following the outbreak of suspected Salmonella Enteritis disease.
It was gathered that one person has died from the epidemic which broke out in the area last week.
Investigation by Northern City News revealed that those affected by the disease were mostly Nasarawa State University students living in Angwan Lambu, a student settlement close to the campus.
Some students, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said some victims of the epidemic were on admission at a school clinic.
"Even though we are not medical personnel, the day we observed that our colleague was ill was when he was stooling and at the same time vomiting consistently.
"We asked him to visit the medical facility of the school and what we can tell you as far as we know was that his case was suspected to be cholera or diarrhea because the vomiting was too much," a student explained.
A community leader in Angwan Lambu, Mallam Abubakar Mohammed, disclosed that one Ramatu Abdullahi, a housewife and a mother of eight lost her life to the disease a day after she was admitted to the General Hospital.
When contacted, the NSU Public Relations Officer, Mr. Abraham Ekpo, confirmed that some affected students were admitted to the school clinic, noting that the medical officials from the state's ministry of health who investigated the incident had not released their findings to the institution.
"We are only but caregivers and as a management, we don't take lightly issues affecting our students; we first suspected it was cholera, but the intervention of the state ministry of health has doused the tension in the area.
"I know some medical officials from the state ministry of health visited the school clinic but I am not aware of the outcome of their findings," he stated.
But the Director, Primary Health Care in the state ministry of health, Dr Ibrahim Adamu, said samples from the patients indicated that the outbreak was caused by Salmonella Enteritis disease.
According to him, the disease has similar symptoms with cholera and is associated with severe fever, headache and weakness of the body.


For over 20 years, City Club of Eugene has been a place where citizens of Eugene, Oregon are invited to participate in civic discourse to promote engagement with local issues and community affairs. Their forums have been attended by thousands and are broadcasted weekly on KLCC. At a time where civil discourse all-too-often gives way to political chaos, the work of City Club could not be more important.
Unfortunately City Club of Eugene has also been threatened by a financial crisis. One of their biggest sources of revenue in the past has been sponsorships, but many sponsoring organizations chose not to renew their support while the new executive director has had difficulty attracting new sponsors.
After a conversation with City Club of Eugene's leadership, I discovered that the organization lacked the power of storytelling when it approached local businesses and groups in search of support. Oftentimes, the sponsorship was seen by both parties as City Club looking for a donation, without much focus on what City Club had to offer a sponsor in return.
Working with a team, I was able to reframe City Club's approach to seeking sponsors. The organizations it approached already had a goal– to reach out to the community and attract customers. If City Club could position itself as a promising means of accomplishing that goal, sponsoring the organization would seem like a no brainer! And in fact, with regular attendees and radio broadcasts, City Club had the sort of audience many businesses were looking for.
All we had to do now was to make this clear.
After a couple weeks of strategic planning, brainstorming, and writing, we were able to present to City Club of Eugene a whole new approach to sponsorships- one that focused on storytelling.
Among the items we delivered to City Club's leadership were a brief guide on how to apply storytelling principles, suggested internal protocols on how to affirm the value of a sponsorship to a partner organization, recommendations as to how to incorporate sponsor promotion into social media posts, and a sponsor-promoting script to be read at the start of community forums and radio broadcasts.
The reception by City Club of Eugene's leadership was enthusiastic and optimistic about being able to overcome their financial situation. As of our last follow up, the executive director mentioned that the outlook was positive for the next year-and-a-half, at least.
In every story, a character has a goal and is called to action in pursuit of that goal.
In this particular story, Eugene businesses have a goal of reaching audiences, and now City Club could call them to take action by becoming club sponsors.


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import com.azure.cosmos.models.CosmosItemResponse;
import com.azure.cosmos.models.PartitionKey;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils;

import java.util.UUID;

class SyncWriteBenchmark extends SyncBenchmark<CosmosItemResponse> {

    private final String dataFieldValue;
    private final String uuid;

    SyncWriteBenchmark(Configuration cfg) throws Exception {
        super(cfg);

        uuid = UUID.randomUUID().toString();
        dataFieldValue =
            RandomStringUtils.randomAlphabetic(configuration.getDocumentDataFieldSize());
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    @Override
    protected CosmosItemResponse performWorkload(long i) throws Exception {
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        CosmosItemResponse<PojoizedJson> response;
        if (configuration.isDisablePassingPartitionKeyAsOptionOnWrite()) {
            // require parsing partition key from the doc
            return cosmosContainer.createItem(BenchmarkHelper.generateDocument(id,
                dataFieldValue,
                partitionKey,
                configuration.getDocumentDataFieldCount()));
        }

        // more optimized for write as partition key is already passed as config
        return cosmosContainer.createItem(BenchmarkHelper.generateDocument(id,
            dataFieldValue,
            partitionKey,
            configuration.getDocumentDataFieldCount()),
            new PartitionKey(id),
            null);
    }
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	/////// VERSION: 1.7.2
	/////// DEVELOPERS: See DEVELOPERS.md in the top folder
	/////// LICENSE: See LICENSE.md in the top folder
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			if (Status == "Weapon_Clicked") then
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			end
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Quest.playerReachedRequirements =
	function(thePlayer, bOutput)
		if ( thePlayer:isQuestFinished(Quests[28]) ) then
			return true
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	function()
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Quest.onAccept =
	function(thePlayer)
		outputChatBox("Officer: Wir m\\uessen dringend die Tatwaffe finden.", thePlayer, 255, 255, 255)
		outputChatBox("Officer: Melde dich falls du weitere Hinweise findest!", thePlayer, 255, 255, 255)
		return true
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Quest.onResume =
	function(thePlayer)
		if ( thePlayer:isQuestActive(Quest) ~= "Finished" ) then
			Quest:triggerClientScript(thePlayer, "Accepted", false)
		end
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Quest.onProgress =
	function(thePlayer)
		return true
	end

Quest.onFinish =
	function(thePlayer)
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Quest.onTurnIn =
	function(thePlayer)
		outputChatBox("Officer: Wir werden die Waffe nun untersuchen.", thePlayer, 255, 255, 255)
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Quest.onAbort =
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The USD is an excellent barometer for commodity price strength and it's pointing to a continuing uptrend in 2018. Economic data supports the case.
Global commodity prices started a major recovery in Q1 2016. Energy markets played a core role in this recovery. Brent crude doubled in price from 27 $/bbl in Jan 2016 to 54 $/bbl by year end. European coal prices also doubled across 2016 to finish the year at 78 $/t.
Energy prices continued to rise in 2017 with crude up another 23% (to 67 $/bbl) and coal prices up 21% (to 95 $/t) by year end. Gas prices also rose significantly in Europe and Asia, despite healthy volumes of new supply.
Entering 2018, prices rises in energy markets are starting to look stretched from a fundamental perspective. Spot oil and coal prices are above consensus benchmarks for the long run marginal cost (LRMC) of new supply. And gas markets will need to absorb large volumes of committed new supply coming online across 2018-20.
So what are the chances of commodity prices continuing to rise in 2018?
Jan 2018 has seen an important shift in currency markets. The US dollar has declined sharply against other major currencies, breaking out of its three year trading range (from 2015-17). A falling USD may have important implications for energy markets, given the strong negative correlation between the USD and commodity prices.
The USD has historically been an excellent barometer for major commodity price moves. This is illustrated by the inverse relationship between the USD index and crude prices shown in Chart 1.
Correlation does not necessarily imply causation and the drivers behind this inverse relationship are complex. But the historical consistency of the inverse USD vs commodity price correlation means it is worth watching closely.
The USD decline is being driven by shifting investor expectations of monetary policy and capital flows. European currencies (EUR, GBP) are rising against the USD, in response to a stronger economic growth outlook and rising inflation expectations. These factors may force European central banks to start to normalise historically loose monetary policies. Capital is also flowing out of the US (weighing on the USD) as economic growth strengthens in Europe, Asia and South America.
So if a declining USD points to higher commodity prices, is this consistent with the fundamental drivers of commodity markets?
The catch phrase of 2017 was 'synchronised global growth'. This is illustrated by a wall of green blocks in the 2017 columns of Chart 2 and it is driving higher commodity demand. The last time this synchronisation occurred was back in 2009-10, a period of rapidly rising commodity prices (see Chart 1).
2017 was dominated by a falling USD and rising commodity prices. So far markets are pointing to a continuation of this trend in 2018.
Commodity markets are notoriously vulnerable to the effects of inelastic short term supply curves. Commodity demand tends to rise more quickly than the ability of supply to respond. Prices rise rapidly as a result until new supply can be brought online. This can lead to curve backwardation and prices rising above the LRMC of new supply.
There is evidence of this dynamic currently in the coal, oil and LNG markets (although there are more temporary seasonal drivers for LNG). Strong Chinese demand is an important factor for all three markets. If the pace of demand growth continues to outstrip supply response this year, commodity prices may continue their upward trend in 2018.


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Farmer Innovation Leads to World-Class Chocolate in Ecuador
By Molly Mitchell
Photo by Joe Tobiason
Damariz Robles picks an orange from just above her head, chops it in half and squeezes. A startling volume of orange juice cascades from the fruit in her hand. She pulls the same trick with a vibrant red cacao pod, and everyone gathered around her takes turns breathing in the heavenly aroma wafting up from the white fruit inside.
Damariz Robles credits her orchard's abundance to continual innovation and learning. Photo by Joe Tobiason.
Robles, a Heifer project participant in Ecuador, credits her orchard's abundance and quality to her dedication to innovation and a mindset of continual learning. Through a process of constant experimentation, Robles formulated her own arsenal of organic insecticides, pesticides and fertilizers that enable her to run her cacao orchard 100 percent organically, severing her dependence on traditional chemical products. One of her personal inventions, an all-natural fertilizer she refers to as BIOL (shorthand for biological fertilizer, as opposed to chemical), won an innovation contest held by Heifer Ecuador in honor of their 25th anniversary. The contest focused on small-scale farmer technology, and about 70 Heifer farmers participated. Robles received $600 for her win and used the money to purchase a motorized scythe to make tending her cacao orchard more efficient.
Robles shows her organic fertilizer. Photo by Joe Tobiason.
Robles has been running an organic operation for two years now, and she feels that the switch is good for her product and profits as well as beneficial to the environment and public health. First of all, it saves money. "We're saving what we would be spending on chemicals. Chemicals are not cheap, and they harm people's health as well," Robles said. Even more importantly, the cacao is better than ever. "When we were using chemicals, we got small pods," Robles said. "When we use organic, we get big pods, and the color is different." Not only do her cacao trees produce bigger pods, the cacao itself is top-notch.
She uses her fertilizer on the other types of trees in the orchard as well, and it is to the organic fertilizer that she attributes her oranges' super- juiciness and her grapefruits' unusual sweetness. Keeping a diverse orchard is one of Robles' secrets to growing her flavorful, aromatic cacao. "We also have orange, grapefruit, and that gives the cacao flavor," she said. "If we cut down everything else, the cacao will have an uninteresting flavor." The presence of the other fruit trees in the cacao orchard influences the flavor of the cacao that grows there, and therefore the chocolate that will eventually come of it. "This farm's [chocolate] is sought out. People love it, because – smell that baby, it smells great. That's why it's so prized," she said.
Robles inspects her organic insect traps. Photo by Joe Tobiason.
Her prize-winning fertilizer isn't the only trick up Robles' sleeve. She increased the volume of her harvest with another organic alternative. It is necessary to spray an herbicide around the bottoms of the trees to prevent other plants from choking the cacao plants, but when she used a traditional chemical herbicide, the pods at the bottom of the plant would die, too. Now that she uses her own organic formula, she is able to harvest an additional pound of cacao per tree. Multiplied by the hundreds of trees in her orchard, that's a significant uptick in production and income.
"Chop and drop" is another way Robles fertilizes her orchard. When pruning cacao trees, either for better growth or culling pods that are sick with disease or fungus, rather than taking the organic "waste" material away, she simply leaves it on the ground where it falls — she chops it, and then lets it drop. The leaves, branches and pods break down and serve the same purpose as mulch — and it's free, organic and efficient.
Cacao pods serve as free mulch on Robles' farm. Photo by Joe Tobiason.
Pests are always a problem for farms, and dealing with them without industrial chemical solutions is a huge challenge. Robles has a trick for that, too. She created an organic bug trap. Insects are drawn inside a container filled with "pineapple rind, brown sugar and some little secrets I don't just tell everybody," Robles laughs. The insects can get in, but they can't get out.
"I seduce the moths," she said with a grin. "They fall in love, they come in, [and] it's fermented so they get drunk and fall into the water."
Robles works extraordinarily hard to make her organic orchard work. "I get up at 4 o'clock in the morning to make breakfast. I am the wife, the companion, the workmate. I am all those things. I have meetings ... the triple workday of women. We get up at 4 o'clock in the morning, and we keep going. We have to do like that to live in the countryside," she said.
Robles, with her husband, Gualberto Garcia, and her dog, Rufo. Photo by Joe Tobiason.
Robles is experimenting with new recipes all the time, and she uses material only from her farm. "We've done insecticide with garlic, with hot pepper. We tried step by step. We saw that we could make [it with] garlic and hot pepper. Then, we looked for barbasco — that they throw into the river to kill the fish — and then we looked for nettle because it's also a good insecticide. So we innovate, we try something new, and we see what gives us the best results. And then we teach other people who can also keep the cacao organically. Because, what's the point if we have money, but then death will follow us if no one else is pulling up their socks."
Robles' passion and curiosity is carrying her far, and she is teaching and learning new things all the time as part of Heifer's women farmers' co-op in her area. "You never finish learning," she said. "There's always something new to learn. Always. While you're alive, you can't say, 'I know all about that.' You say, 'Can I listen and learn something new?'"
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Deacon, James. "Nordiques Move to Colorado". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 18 March 2016, Historica Canada. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/nordiques-move-to-colorado. Accessed 18 July 2019.
Deacon, J., Nordiques Move to Colorado (2016). In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/nordiques-move-to-colorado
Deacon, James, "Nordiques Move to Colorado". In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Article published March 17, 2003; Last Edited March 18, 2016. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/nordiques-move-to-colorado
Deacon, James. The Canadian Encyclopedia, s.v. "Nordiques Move to Colorado", Last Edited March 18, 2016, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/nordiques-move-to-colorado
Nordiques Move to Colorado
Article by James Deacon
Published Online March 17, 2003
Last Edited March 21, 2014
The writing, in both languages, had been on the wall for years, so there was no surprise last week when the money-losing Quebec Nordiques finally died.
The writing, in both languages, had been on the wall for years, so there was no surprise last week when the money-losing Quebec Nordiques finally died. The wake was quiet in Quebec City, where the team began 23 years ago in the World Hockey Association before joining the National Hockey League in 1979. At a largely emotionless news conference, team president Marcel Aubut and the other shareholders - the Quebec Labor Federation pension fund, La Mutuelle insurance company, the Daishowa paper company and the Metro-Richelieu grocery store chain - announced that they had sold the franchise to COMSAT Entertainment Group of Bethesda, Md., for $103 million. Aubut claimed that the team could not survive in the NHL's smallest market without a new, publicly funded arena and ongoing government support. But Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau instead offered to buy out Aubut and underwrite some team deficits for two years while the provincial government conducted a feasibility study on the arena. That, the owners decided, was not enough - and now the soon-to-be-renamed Nordiques are off to Denver.
The Nordiques were killed by a disease that afflicts many small-market teams - including the Winnipeg Jets who, a week before, narrowly escaped the same fate as the Nordiques when a proposed deal to move them to Minneapolis fell through. In Quebec, said Aubut, "The new realities of the hockey industry, the size of the Quebec City market and the absence of adequate government help sounded the knell of the Nordiques." Their revenues from advertising, TV and ticket sales did not cover skyrocketing payroll costs. And, tired of Aubut's near-constant complaints, Quebec fans had steeled themselves for the inevitable. They failed to fill the 15,399-seat Colisée for some playoff games against the New York Rangers, and only 300 fans turned out for a save-the-Nordiques rally. As well, Aubut, a federalist, was at odds with the separatist provincial and civic leaders. When asked if the province would make a last-ditch effort to save the team, Parizeau replied: "I have more important things to deal with than Mr. Aubut's every little twitch."
The NHL's governors will have to approve the sale and settle on a transfer fee to be paid to the league - possibly as high as $14 million. Even if that fee comes off the sale price, the vendors will make a handsome profit: they bought the team in 1988 for about $15 million. COMSAT, meanwhile, can be equally pleased with its end of the bargain. The company, which already owns a National Basketball Association franchise in Denver, plans to have both teams playing out of the city's McNichols Sports Arena until the new $130-million Pepsi Center is completed prior to the 1997-1998 season. The Rocky Mountain city is getting not an expansion franchise but one of the league's most talented teams. "We're bringing winners into Denver," enthused COMSAT president Charlie Lyons. Quebec's loss, Colorado's gain.
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They make for gripping headlines straight out of the world of John Le Carré: two hundred businesses operating in Canada that are secretly under the control of the Chinese government; a thousand Chinese intelligence agents based in Canada in order to carry out economic espionage, monitor Chinese dissidents and groups such as the Falun Gong, and recruit informants and "agents of influence"; two cabinet ministers in provincial governments and municipal politicians across Canada who are "under at least the general influence of a foreign government." These are real stories, however, that have emerged in Canada over the last 20 years. All of them pertain to Canada's relationship with China in the recent past and have relevance to the present and future relationship between the two countries.
This paper will explore the meaning of these headlines by contextualising them in the wider history of the Cold War but more importantly by examining the motivations behind them within the long history of Canadian anxieties around immigration and Diasporic communities combined with the rise of an increasingly post-national Canada with its concomitant dual citizens.
Ultimately, the paper will argue that the Cold War continues in a post-Cold War world and that the factors that have led to China becoming a now dominant Canadian security concern outside of the threat of terrorism are only going to continue unless a rethinking of binary categories commences. What the paper will not do is assess the extent of Chinese espionage and infiltration within Canada because that would require access to the records of Chinese intelligence agencies. There does clearly appear to be a consistent theme of exaggeration across the claims but that does not deny that there has been and continues to be Chinese espionage and other influence within Canada. My focus is on how Canadian officials understand this threat and what factors affect its construction.
So what is going on here? There is no question that China like other major nations conducts espionage including against Canada. But this situation is more complex than has been fully acknowledged. Some of this complexity emanates from what in a broad sense can be called globalisation including increased economic integration. Equally important in this globalised context is the development of a multicultural, diverse, mass immigration post-national society of the type that Canada has become through the arrival of several hundred thousand immigrants per year. The notion of dual loyalty among many immigrants, particularly those with dual citizenship, although at times deployed as a slur, also reflects the complexity of identity in the 21st century as people increasingly view themselves through multiple identities instead of a single fixed one. This has considerable implications for domestic intelligence agencies now and in the future.
First, there is the matter of espionage carried out by dual nationals. There have been a number of high profile cases in the United States of Chinese-Americans accused of economic espionage on behalf of the Chinese government. Both convictions and acquittals have followed, demonstrating the potential intricacies involved in such cases. Two different American studies found in the post-Cold War period dual loyalties as a growing motivation for those involved in espionage. This is in a country where more than 25% of workers involved in science and technology were born outside of the United States. Overall, the foreign born population of the United States is about 13%. These factors are even more prevalent in Canada where the foreign born population is 20% and the immigration system is constructed around prioritising high-skilled immigrants.
Despite the complexities around it, espionage remains easier to determine than the most obtuse category of "agent of influence" that has been alleged of some Chinese-Canadians. The concept most resembles the Cold War construct of subversion and is highly problematic in an era of multicultural and diverse societies based on high levels of immigration in which many newcomers have multiple loyalties. More reflection is required, including by intelligence agencies, on the implications of these increasingly post-national nation states for constructs that date from the Cold War. The reality of Canada and the United States in the 21st century might require rethinking the entire notion of an "agent of influence." The alternative is the increasing suspicion and criminalisation of immigrants, be they from China or elsewhere.
Steve Hewitt is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and the American and Canadian Studies Centre at the University of Birmingham. He has written extensively on issues related to security and intelligence in the past and present. Currently, he is working on a history of terrorism and counter-terrorism in Canada. He tweets @SteveHewittUK. This article forms part of the IAPS Dialogue series on America in the 'Asian Century', a symposium joint-funded by the Department of American & Canadian Studies, and the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at the University of Nottingham. Image Credit: CC/ Wikimedia Commons.


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Young Shooting Victims: Malala, Parkland and Sandy Hook
What common experience have Malala Yousufzai and some of the young shooting victims of Parkland and Sandy Hook schools shared? After being at the receiving end of life-threatening shootings, they became targets of the slings and arrows of conspiracy theorists alleging the attacks were staged. Malala acknowledged this fact in her video message to American student marchers recently.
Malala Yousufzai:
Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head by Pakistani Taliban in Swat Valley in 2012. She luckily survived after being airlifted to a hospital in Pakistan where the doctors operated on her to save her life. Later, she went through additional surgery and rehab in England where she is now a student at Oxford University.
As if her physical ordeal was not enough, some anti-West right-wing conspiracy theorists attacked her for being a willing participant in a "staged" shooting to defame Pakistan. The fact that Malala was given multiple awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize, only added to the anger of such groups.
Parkland School Shooting Survivors:
The students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, saw a mass shooting in February, 2018. Seventeen people were killed and seventeen more were wounded, making it one of the world's deadliest school massacres.
Michael Kugelman, an American analyst at Woodrow Wilson Center, sees some parallels between Malala and Parkland school shooting survivors. Here's what he wrote in a op ed for Pakistan's Dawn newspaper about those attacking Parkland shooting survivors:
" A similar story is playing out now in the United States......These haters say the grieving victims (of Parkland mass shooting) attract attention they don't deserve, come off as sanctimonious and self-righteous, are frauds, and are "being funded" and "given scripts." The gun massacre survivors are branded as Nazis, targeted in doctored photo campaigns, and even mocked for college rejection letters..."
Sandy Hook Mass Shooting:
Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 children of ages 6-7 years and six adult staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, United States.
As the parents grieved for their lost babies, they were subjected to conspiracy theories branding their tragedy an elaborate hoax. They were accused of being hired actors in a performance staged to bring down the National Rifle Association to kill the Second Amendment.
March For Our Lives:
Students across the United States organized a protest they called March for our lives to demand gun control laws. At the marches, Malala Yousufzai spoke live via video link to acknowledge similarities between her shooting and the Parkland shooting. Malala explained what she and the Parkland survivors share in common: They experienced violence and injustice, and they decided to speak out.
School Mass Shootings:
The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida has brought back the horrible memory of the tragic mass shooting at Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan on December 16, 2014. The Peshawar school mass shooting claimed 149 lives, making it the world's second deadliest mass shooting at Beslan school in Russia where 334 people were killed.
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The Parkland, Florida school shooting was the world's 10th worst with 17 dead. Five of the world's 10 worst mass shootings have occurred in the United States. The rest of them were one each in Russia, Pakistan, Kenya, Israel and the United Kingdom.
Peshawar School Shooting:
On the morning of December 16, 2014, six gunmen affiliated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP) entered the Army Public School in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar and started shooting. All six were foreign nationals, included one Chechen, three Arabs and two Afghans.
By the time the Pakistani Army commandos arrived and killed the attackers, 149 people including 132 students, ranging in age between eight and eighteen years, lay dead.
The Peshawar attack galvanized the Pakistani people to take on the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other terrorist groups. The Pakistani military launched a nation-wide operation Zarb e Azb to bring about a dramatic reduction in terrorist violence in the country.
Parkland School Shooting:
On the afternoon of February 14, 2018, a lone gunman entered and started shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Seventeen people were killed and fourteen more were taken to hospitals, making it the world's 10th deadliest school massacre. The suspected, 19-year-old Nikolas Jacob Cruz, was arrested shortly afterward and confessed, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office.
The suspect was a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. He had been expelled and was angry. He used an AR-15 assault rifle to quickly kill over a dozen of his fellow students.
AR-15 is easily available in the United States, It has become a weapon of choice for mass shootings in America. 2017 Las Vegas mass shooter who killed 58 people also used a modified AR-15 rifle.
Conspiracy theorists' attacks on survivors of Parkland school shootings in US state of Florida are no different than similar attacks on Malala Yousufzai in Swat Valley, Pakistan. They have all been accused of being part of staged attacks for political purposes.
While school shootings have occurred in many countries around the world, no other country has seen as many and as frequently as those in the United States. New York Times analysis of the Gun Violence Archive found that there have been 239 school shootings since 2014, including those on college campuses, resulting in 138 deaths. The biggest reason accounting for it is the ease of access to the deadliest of assault weapons in America. Will the US Congress act this time in defiance of the gun lobby? Given the track record of US legislators after worse massacres than Parkland, I wouldn't hold my breath. However, the response of the students has been much stronger and more sustained than in the past. I hope that they succeed where others have failed.
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Two Pakistani girls shot; two different responses. For some, that reeks of hypocrisy
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/20/us/malala-sabika-different-reactions-trnd/index.html
The comparisons with Malala Yousafzai began as soon as Sabika Sheikh was identified as one of the victims of the Santa Fe High School massacre.
Both are Pakistani girls:
One, Malala, was shot on her way to school by a militant in Swat, near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.
She survived.
The other, Sabika, was shot by a fellow student inside a school in Santa Fe, Texas.
She died.
But, as many ruefully pointed out, that's where the comparison ends.
Will Sabika be the next Malala, asked Asfandyar Bhittani, who writes for the Frontier Pakistani blog.
"Nope," he said. "We all know Sabika Sheikh will be forgotten before next weekend."
After Malala was shot, her cause was taken up globally. She became the face of the barbarism of the Taliban, which didn't hesitate to shoot a child in the head to stop girls from attending school.
Today, Malala, 20, is an activist for women's education and the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner. (Malala hasn't commented on Sabika's death. CNN has reached out to her but has yet to hear back.)
"We sacrificed thousands of our servicemen so people overseas could be free and have an education and be rid of the gun-toting Taliban," Ranita Sharif, a teacher in Birmingham, Alabama, told CNN. "When we will be free of the gun-toting murderers here?"
At the root of the frustration is the notion that Sabika's death will do nothing to effect change in America's scourge of gun violence.
These are the victims of the Santa Fe High School shooting
"Sabika died trying to get an education too," Asif Hussein, a Pakistani-American who lives in Atlanta, told CNN. "Will there be a Malala-like movement for her? Or will we just get more of the same - 'thoughts and prayers'?"
Sabika was one of eight students who, along with two teachers, died at Santa Fe High School on Friday. The 17-year-old was in an exchange study program. She was supposed to return home to Karachi for the Eid holidays.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi summed up the tragedy of her death. "Extremist activities are not limited to one nation or region alone," he said.
"They are an international problem."
Investigators say school shootings have become the American equivalent of suicide bombings — not just a tactic, but an ideology. Young men, many of them depressed, alienated or mentally disturbed, are drawn to the Columbine subculture because they see it as a way to lash out at the world and to get the attention of a society that they believe bullies, ignores or misunderstands them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/us/school-shootings-columbine.html
SANTA FE, Tex. — The exact reasons a teenage gunman shot his fellow students and teachers here at Santa Fe High School remain a mystery. His model for carrying it out is more clear.
The 17-year-old junior wore a black trench coat and fired a sawed-off shotgun, the same attire and weaponry used by the two gunmen who killed a dozen students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999.
He wore a T-shirt with the phrase "Born to Kill" on it in bold, similar in design to those worn by the Columbine attackers, which read "Wrath" and "Natural Selection."
His crude arsenal included canisters of carbon-dioxide gas and Molotov cocktails, two types of explosives used by the Columbine gunmen.
The picture he had posted of his trench coat on Facebook showed a small red-star medallion with the Communist hammer-and-sickle on the collar, the same type of button a Columbine gunman attached to his boot.
It was not the first time a high school suddenly engulfed in gunfire and death found itself looking for clues in the random symbology of a nearly 20-year-old mass shooting that has become, it seems, the standard by which youthful gunmen across America have come to measure themselves.
The 20-year-old attacker who killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in 2012 had compiled an enormous mass-murder spreadsheet and materials on the Columbine attackers on his computer, including what appeared to be a complete copy of the official Columbine investigation.
In his manifesto, the 23-year-old student who shot and killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in 2007 had called the Columbine gunmen by their first names and described them as "we martyrs."
The May 18 mass shooting at Santa Fe provides the latest evidence of a phenomenon that researchers have in recent years come to recognize, but are still unable to explain: The mass shootings that are now occurring with disturbing regularity at the nation's schools are shocking, disturbing, tragic — and seemingly contagious.
Interviews with law enforcement officials, educators, researchers, students and a gunman's mother, as well as a review of court documents, academic studies and the writings of killers and would-be killers, show that the school-shooting copycat syndrome has grown more pervasive and has steadily escalated in recent years. And much of it can be traced back to the two killers at Columbine, previously ordinary high school students who have achieved dark folk hero status — their followers often known as "Columbiners" — in the corners of the internet where their carefully planned massacre is remembered, studied and in some cases even celebrated.
#Malalayousafzai: "I still don't understand why people have to get married. If you want to have a person in your life, why do you have to sign marriage papers, why can't it just be a partnership?" #Malala #Vogue #Pakistan https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/malala-yousafzai-facts
Everybody knows Malala Yousafzai's name. But not everything about the extraordinary young activist's life is common knowledge. For one thing, she has a private Instagram account (and her feed is filled with pictures of the sky).
The recent Oxford University graduate – she gained an honours degree in philosophy, politics and economics in 2020 – has been part of the fight to educate young girls ever since she was shot by the Taliban in 2012. Today, the 23-year-old is the author of several books, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in history, and the founder of the Malala Fund. As she graces the July cover of British Vogue, delve into some lesser-known facts about the humanitarian.
She was once an enigmatic BBC blogger
At the age of 11, Yousafzai started blogging for the BBC under the pseudonym Gul Makai, about life under Taliban rule in Pakistan. In 2020, a biographical drama entitled Gul Makai was released about Yousafzai's life. You can still read her blogs here.
Her education has been fittingly stellar
When the Taliban took control of Malala's town in Pakistan's Swat Valley, the extremists cracked down on girls going to school. Yousafzai attended Khushaal Public School, previously run by her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai. She was on the bus home from school in October 2012 when she was shot in the head by a masked gunman. After relocating to Birmingham in England, she studied at Edgbaston High School for Girls, and then Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford University.
"I Know The Power A Young Girl Carries In Her Heart": The Extraordinary Life Of Malala
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She knows how to deliver a memorable quote
Yousafzai has delivered countless memorable speeches in front of crowds, and penned shareable quotes in her writings. "When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful," she wrote in her book I Am Malala. During the first-ever Youth Takeover of the UN in 2013, she said: "So let us wage a global struggle against illiteracy, poverty, and terrorism, and let us pick up our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world."
The Truth about the Afghan Girl - by Rafia Zakaria
https://rafia.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-the-afghan-girl
So as innocent and hapless migrants were drowning in the English Channel as the English and French watched , the white savior industrial complex came up with a story to reiterate just how noble and good white people really are. The story involved the infamous "Afghan Girl" whose actual name is Sharbat Gula and whose photo was taken without consent some three decades ago by National Geographic photographer Steven Curry at a refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Here is the New York Times Story which hails the fact that Sharbat Gula has received asylum in Italy while ignoring the fact that National Geographic and Steven Curry have stolen from her for decades by NEVER sharing a single penny of the millions they have made from her image.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/world/europe/afghan-girl-national-geographic.html
Here is Sharbat Gula"s real story which I wrote about a few years ago;
"In late 2014, the National Geographic website published a list of five of its most memorable covers and the stories behind them. Among the five was Steve McCurry's photograph of the green-eyed Sharbat Gula, a young Afghan girl living in a refugee camp in Pakistan. The other covers featured a dog named Betsy, a very tall tree, an ape named Koko and a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park.
The "Afghan girl" was left nameless when her picture appeared in June 1985. It was only years later that the magazine returned to find her. The 2002 story on finding the "Afghan girl" renewed the picture's popularity before Ms Gula was forgotten again.
So it was until last month, when Pakistan's authorities arrested her in Nauthia in north-west Pakistan and charged her with using fake documents to remain in the country.
The judge ruled that under existing laws, Ms Gula would have to be deported. Things looked dismal for Ms Gula, who suffers from Hepatitis C and is the sole breadwinner for her family, until last Saturday, when a government official announced that she would be permitted to stay on humanitarian grounds.
But according to the latest reports her deportation is actually going to take place later this week.
It is tragic that Pakistani authorities will not let Sharbat Gula stay. Her dependence on their mercy illustrates the vast chasm between the photographer who took her picture and her own hapless life. Bits and pieces from National Geographic's own reporting reveal more of the story.
A 2002 article begins with the revelation that Ms Gula "remembers her anger" at being photographed back in 1985. McCurry insisted that she told him "he could take her picture." No explanation is provided as to how the angry Ms Gula, who did not speak English, would have communicated this to McCurry.
The rest of the 2002 story is a challenging read: Pashtuns are "the most warlike of Afghan tribes" and Sharbat Gula has skin "that looks like leather".
Even more alarming are the pictures that go with it, not for Ms Gula's lost youth but for the fact that they show her being subjected to a DNA test, and reveal the use of a forensic examiner and a forensic sculptor to aid in confirming her identity.
As the saga of Ms Gula's arrest unfolded, the old orientalist binary was at work: the government officials of a poor, foreign country wrangling with an even poorer woman, the ugly fight of the wanting versus the wanting watched by a morally superior West, smug inside its own sealed borders.
At the heart of this debate is the assumption that photographs represent real and unassailable truths, that the details of their composition and arrangement are always incidental and politically neutral. As critic Teju Cole has pointed out, this assumption is false and misleading.
Far closer to the truth is the fact that in arranging and selecting subjects and pictures that resonate with western imaginings of the exotic and wild Orient, these pictures confirm existing prejudices.
The "Afghan girl" is an example of just that, its feral undertones and high contrast colours confirming precisely the stereotypes seated in the western mind.
Good photography can shred the clichés and enable a deeper, more accurate seeing than the most superficial kind.
None of this has been true in the case of the forgotten Ms Gula, her nameless childhood picture worth more than her penniless, middle-aged reality."
Steven Curry and National Geographic need to be held responsible for the theft of millions of dollars from Sharbat Gula. But of course, when opportunistic white men and white, orientalist institutions like National Geographic steal from them …. it is entirely okay."
Christopher Clary
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I've always found this graphic by
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to be very effective at showcasing that the United States is uniquely homicidal country. Even accepting that there is evil everywhere, you need a story about why evil in the United States disproportionately kills so many more here.
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Alvi congratulates APS survivor on his President of Oxford Union election
https://thefrontierpost.com/alvi-congratulates-aps-survivor-on-his-president-of-oxford-union-election/
President Dr Arif Alvi Sunday congratulated Ahmad Nawaz, a survivor of Army Public School, Peshawar terrorist attack on being elected as President of Oxford Union.
The president on his Twitter handle, said that youths were the biggest hope of Pakistan. Despite all setbacks, Pakistan would keep on shining and rising, he added.
Ahmad Nawaz had lost his brother Harris in the heinous Peshawar massacre on 16th December 2014 along with other students and members of the teaching staff.
"Our biggest hope are youth of Pakistan. I congratulate Ahmad Nawaz, an APS survivor who also lost his brother Harris in the heinous Peshawar massacre, on being elected as President of Oxford Union. We must register that despite all setbacks Pakistan will keep on shining & rising," the president posted.
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Emma Stone's Comments About Turning 30 Are A Must-Read, Even If You Haven't Reached That Milestone Yet
By Meghan DeMaria
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Emma Stone is turning 30 in November, and she has a lot of feelings about it. Stone talked to her pal Jennifer Lawrence for the September issue of Elle, and the La La Land star shared plenty of words of wisdom during the conversation. Emma Stone's thoughts on turning 30 can be inspiring to people of any age, but they'll especially resonate with women in their 20s.
During the conversation, Stone talked a lot about the importance of friendship, especially in adulthood. When Lawrence asked why that's so important, Stone responded,
"I think friendship is pretty much everything. Here's another turning-30 thing I've realized: You pick your family. You realize that your friendships, the people who go with you into these next phases of your life — you're choosing your family."
Not every friendship is lifelong, and that's natural. But by 30, you'll likely know who will be lasting players in your life, which can be important for the rest of adulthood. And in some cases, chosen family can be just as important as biological family, as Stone pointed out. The actor also shared that she's had more time to spend with friends recently, since she took six months off from filming any new projects.
It's fitting that Lawrence is the one interviewing Stone about her thoughts on this subject, too. Lawrence and Stone have an iconic celebrity friendship, and it sounds like it was easy for Stone to share candid thoughts about growing up with her old pal. The actors told W magazine in January that they first became friends because they had a mutual stalker — a terrifying start to their relationship, but also a fortuitous one. The two A-listers now have each other's support in navigating Hollywood together, no matter what.
During the interview with J-Law, Stone also shared that her 20s were full of both ups and downs. It sounds like she views turning 30 as a milestone, too. She explained,
"My 20s were a really interesting time, and there's been a lot that has happened in these past 10 years, both positive and not as positive. It's weird how much turning 30 crystallizes your life. Instead of just living the dreams that I had in my youth and getting to do the job that I love to do and making friends and going through all of that, it's like, Now what do I actively want as an adult?"
Stone also shared that her views on marriage and becoming a mom have changed in recent years. "As a teenager, I was like, I'm never getting married, I'm never having kids," she said. "And then I got older and I was like, I really want to get married, I really want to have kids."
It's normal to change positions on life steps like these, and it's normal to reflect on milestones like your 30th birthday. But it's not every day that celebrities are so open and honest about what the experience is like for them. It's refreshing to see Stone speak so openly about her own experience getting older, and to hear she's not afraid of her 30s.
Entering a new life stage can be daunting for anyone, and it's nice Stone is embracing the next phase of her life with open arms. It sounds like the last decade really has put a lot of things in perspective for the actor, and her statements are sure to resonate with plenty of 20-somethings.


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Chicken-Fried News: Sole purpose
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Happy holidays are in order for the Logan County Detention Center staff. They recently received six new cell phones in very unique gift packaging. Well, technically the package was delivered for an inmate and the cell phones would have been contraband, but that's semantics.
While processing Nike shoes delivered for an inmate, officers noticed cutouts in the insole. Upon further inspection, they found six mini cell phones total — three in each shoe. Logan County sheriff Damon Devereaux said he has never seen anything like it before.
"That would be a phone, I would imagine, about the size for any of those American Girl Dolls or dolls of that same size," he told KFOR. "I wouldn't even think that was a real phone, but you can certainly call on it."
The phones were each about 3 inches long — smaller than a standard crayon — so they easily fit in a small space cut out from the insole of the shoe, almost like the sole purpose for a phone that small is to smuggle into places that don't allow them, like prisons or high school classrooms. (Chicken-Fried News does not condone the smuggling in of tiny, American Doll-size phones in any establishment that prohibits phones of any size.)
Contraband cell phones are so notorious that Oklahoma Department of Corrections director Scott Crow has even called them the No. 1 security threat for state prisons. In fact, Oklahoma Department of Corrections locked down several prisons across the state in September after an estimated 150-200 inmates initiated fights, leaving one dead and several others injured. Officials said communication via contraband phones facilitated the violence, so Gov. Kevin Stitt signed an executive order authorizing several agencies to research and implement technology to help combat the issue.
"Contraband cellphones in our state prisons have become a serious public safety concern in Oklahoma," Stitt said. "This is a technology issue that must be answered with a technology solution in order to efficiently and effectively improve safety for our inmates, Department of Correction employees and citizens of Oklahoma."
It doesn't seem like much has happened yet beyond research, but once officials identify the most cost-effective solution, they said they will work to implement it. In the meantime, we've got to give props to the Logan County officers and their keen eye for shoe insole cutouts, which is not a sentence we ever thought we'd be writing.
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This base class clocks in at 11 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page SRD, leaving us with 8 pages of content, so let's take a look!
The base class engineer as presented herein has d8 HD, 4+Int skills per level, proficiency with simple weapons as well as with light, medium and heavy armors, but not shields and receives a 3/4-BAB-progression and good Ref- and Will-saves. The engineer begins play with Craft Construct as a bonus feat and treats her engineer level as a caster level for the purpose of qualifying for magic item creation and feat-prerequisites. The engineer can create spell-trigger and spell-activation items. From the very first level on, the engineer also has a crafting pool of equivalent GP-value for crafting purposes, beginning with 100 gp and scaling up to 100K at 20th level, with the respective levels being cumulative. The gold may also be used for repair-purposes.
The first unique component of the class would be the automaton, also gained at first level – this is a construct of the engineer's size with a shape roughly equivalent to that of the engineer. Repairing the automaton does not cost gold, but the Craft-DC to repair it is 10 + class level and takes 1 day. Per success, the engineer repairs 1d6 times class level HP. Repairing a destroyed automaton increases the DC by +5. Spells like make whole and rapid repair apply to the automaton. Automaton base stats for sizes small, medium and large are provided. Automatons receive d10 HD and they do not have a Con-score, instead gaining bonus-HPs based on size. The automaton receives 3/4 HD-progression and BAB-progression as well as 1/4 Base-save-progression. The automaton receives a scaling natural armor bonus that begins at +1 and increases up to +12. The Str-score bonus increases from +0 to +14 and similarly, Dex-bonuses gained throughout the levels increase from +0 to +4. The automaton begins play with DR 2/adamantine and increases this value to up to DR 15/adamantine. The automaton begins play with a slam attack and increases the number of slam attacks it can perform to up to 4, though the progression here is a bit odd: The automaton has 2 slam attacks until15th level, where the automaton receives suddenly +2 attacks.
Now, the ardent reader may realize that the automaton is a bit weaker than the eidolon, for example – there is a reason for this. The automaton is designed to be worn by the engineer, and so is every construct the engineer makes, though only the respective engineer can wear a given construct. Entering or exiting a construct is a full-round action. Upon entering one of her constructs, the respective engineer may utilize the construct's physical ability scores, attacks, magic immunity, DR and the resistances provided by the construct traits, with class abilities and the like being used with the construct's ability scores, but the engineer does retain her own HP. Magical item benefits do not extend their benefits from the engineer to the worn construct and spellcasting is impossible while wearing a construct. On a downside, the magic resistant effects of e.g. magic immunity and the like also apply to beneficial effects and spells targeted at the engineer. Any damage that surpasses the DR-value is taken by BOTH engineer and automaton. Upon being rendered unconscious, an engineer's construct follows its last orders and for the purpose of arcane spell failure and the like, worn constructs count as heavy armor that apply a 50% arcane spell failure chance as well as no armor check penalty. Armor and construct-wearing cannot be stacked.
Starting at 2nd level, the engineer may choose one of the talents of the class, the construct modifications. An engineer receives an additional construct modification every 2 class levels attained after 2nd level and said modifications are automatically applied to all constructs she has at no additional cost. The modifications include improved AC, attribute bonuses as well as additional movement modes like flight or burrow speed. While the latter options could have imho used a slightly more finetuned availability, the base level requirement prevents them from breaking any game – kudos for getting that right! Teaching a construct language, allowing them to disguise themselves, replicant-style, as living entities, bonus elemental damage and energy rays, Grab, Size-increase and golem-like traits, maneuver tricks – there is a lot to customize here and high level engineers may even add limited fast healing to the constructs they create.
Now, the ardent reader may have noticed that the repair-speed provides a pretty nasty detriment for the engineer – one that would render the class all but useless at higher levels. (Think about all those HP and how long healing THAT would take…) – hence, at 3rd level, an engineer makes 1 week worth of Craft-progression in a single day, making not only construct crafting feasible, but also meaning that she can actually properly pursue the adventuring career. 5th level provides a teamwork feat and extends all teamwork feats the engineer has to the constructs…but my playtest did show that even quicker repairs were somewhat problematic in the mid-level range…a fact another class ability cleverly mitigates: Starting at 7th level, engineers may Int-mod + 1/2 class level times per day, repair constructs by patching them up, granting them 1d8 temporary hit points per two class levels. These last for 1 hour per level and cannot raise maximum hit points above that of the construct. Activation action is a standard action, a swift action while wearing the respective construct to be patched.
At 9th level, 1/day, an engineer may, as a full-round action, jury-rig constructs to replace a construct modification with another one, gaining a limited wildcard-flexibility, one that extends to all her constructs at 17th level. High level abilities include taking only half damage while wearing the construct, construct-disabling/controlling with a touch and finally, even quicker crafting progression as a capstone.
Editing and formatting are excellent, I noticed no glitches. Layout adheres to Rogue Genius Games' two-column full-color standard and the pdf comes fully bookmarked for your convenience. Jacob Blackmon contributes his great, original art – aesthetics-wise, there is nothing to complain here.
Indeed, neither is there much to complain about in the craftsmanship or rules-language of Stephen Rowe: The engineer tackles a pretty complex concept in an easily understood, concise manner and presents a cool take on the power-armor-wearing class (as opposed to Interjection Games' full-blown Mecha-PrC, for example). Indeed, I was pretty positively surprised by how deceptively tight the balancing of the automaton is: You see, the issue with constructs lie in their massive array of immunities in combination with the difficulty of healing them: If you provide full healing, they inevitably end up as OP, while too stringent restrictions result in the respective class being unplayable due to not being able to heal up…ever. The feat of this class lies in its elegant solution of this issue, one that takes the non-linear power/damage-progression of PFRPG into account, with increasing flexibility to maintain functionality at higher levels. In one sentence: This class is, from a design stand-point, much more impressive than a cursory first glance would lead you to believe. Indeed, the class does play surprisingly well and can be considered to be a welcome addition to the roster of classes, though obviously one that belongs into experienced player hands, mostly due to the automaton-rules and the requirement for separate and hybrid stats. There is one thing I was missing from this pdf beyond a tad bit more unique automaton-tricks and that would be favored class options, but ultimately, both of these gripes boil down to me being nitpicky. Barring true complaints, I can settle on a final verdict of 5 stars for this well-crafted class.
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What are the ways ions and molecules can move across the cell membrane?
passive diffusion for charged molecules depend on what?
 gradient and electrical gradient = "electrochemical gradient"
The combined difference in concentration and charge influences the distribution and direction of diffusion of ions.
What molecules can easily pass through the cell membrane?
What is osmotic pressure (∏)?
The pressure required to stop the flow of osmosis of a solute into a solvent.
Note: The osmotic pressure increases with the solute concentration.
Describe the "osmotic coefficient" signified by phi and the "reflection coefficient" signified by sigma is the van't hoff equation.
If the reflection coefficient is 0 in the Vant hoff equation what does that mean? If it is 1?
what is the relationship between osmotic pressure and osmolarity?
- high osmolarity (high amount of solute particles/L) means high osmotic pressure!
Why are ion channels in the cell membrane useful?
How are ion channels characterized?
How are ion channels selective?
Depends on critical region of pore called the selectivity filter. Selective ion channel properties include: chemical groups within the pore, the pore size, pore charge, activation type, inactivation type.
What are the three main ways ion channels are gated?
Open and close in response to changes in the tension of the membrane.
What is the Voltage Sensor?
In order for ion channel proteins to be voltage gated, the protein must have residues that sense voltage. The voltage-sensing region of most voltage-gated ion channels is though to be on the 4th transmembrane segment, consisting of a series of positively charged amino acids.
What are thermo-regulated ion channels?
What are light-gated ion channels?
What are some factors of the selectivity filter"
What kind of transport are ion channels?
What is carrier mediated transport?
- Can be both active and passive.
what are 3 characteristics of carrier-mediated transport?
What are 3 carrier-mediated transports? What are their characteristics?
What is a common example of facilitated diffusion?
Primary involves the direct use of energy while Secondary involved the indirect use of energy (Transport is driven by the energy already stored in the concentration gradient of another molecule).
rate at which conformation change in transport protein occurs.
What is Active Transport? Provide an example.
erythrocyte anion exchange protein...facilitated diffusion by a carrier protein...what type of port?
This system helps transport H2O back into the blood (regulation of osmolarity). Transport of these ions from the lumen of kidney to the interstitial space and eventually into the bloodstream allows H2O to tag along with them.
How does coupled-carrier transport work exactly?
How are amino acids absorbed into the cells?
Amino acids are absorbed via Na+ dependent co-transport.
What is a common way to maintain low intracellular calcium?
for proper regulation of intracellular ezymes, secretory processed and muscle contractile systems.
The block Na+K+Cl- pumps, leading to Decreased sodium reabsorption, which leads to decreased water reabsorption to the body. Which finally leads to increased water excretion (diuresis) that was not taken back up into the bloodstream.
What are cardiac glycosidases and are are they useful for people having a heart attack?
extracellular side of the pump. Why would digitalis help a person having a heart attack? Inhibition of the pump causes membrane depolarization, which opens voltage-gated Ca2+ channels. The increased influx of Ca2+ stimulates greater contractile force in the heart, therefore stronger pumping action.
True or False. Glucose is higher inside the intestinal epithelia cells than in the lumen of the blood.


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The European Union (EU) and Japan have agreed to broaden the range of medicines for which they will recognise each other's inspections of manufacturing sites.
The current mutual recognition agreement (MRA) between the EU and Japan has been operational since 29 May 2004. It allows regulators to rely on good manufacturing practice (GMP) inspections in each other's territories, to waive batch testing of medicines that enter Japan from EU countries and vice versa and to share information on inspections and quality defects. Thanks to this agreement, regulatory authorities in the EU and Japan can make better use of their inspections resources by reducing duplication of inspections in each other's territory.
The scope of this agreement has now been extended to include sterile medicines, certain biological medicines including vaccines and immunologicals, and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) of any medicine covered in the agreement. This means that authorities from the EU and Japan have agreed that they have equivalent regulatory and procedural frameworks for inspections of manufacturers for these products and can therefore rely on each other's inspections.
The full scope of the MRA now covers chemical pharmaceuticals, homeopathic medicinal products (as long as treated as medicinal products and subject to the GMP requirements in Japan), vitamins, minerals and herbal medicines (if considered as medicinal products in both parties); certain biological pharmaceuticals including immunologicals and vaccines, APIs for any of the above categories and sterile products belonging to any of the above categories.
In the EU, inspections of manufacturing sites are carried out by national competent authorities from EU Member States. In Japan, GMP inspections are conducted by the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) and the 47 inspectorates of the prefectures.
This is the first update of the original MRA agreement. As part of the product scope expansion project, Japan also evaluated and recognised as equivalent all EU competent authorities for human medicines inspection.
The biological pharmaceuticals, including immunologicals and vaccines, in the scope of the agreement are: medicinal products produced by cell culture utilising natural microorganisms or established cell lines; medicinal products produced by cell culture utilising recombinant microorganisms or established cell lines; and medicinal products derived from non-transgenic plants and non-transgenic animals.
The update of applicable legislation and recognition of the equivalence of all EU Member States was formalised through an exchange of Diplomatic Notes with Japan published in the Official Journal of the EU.


A beautiful set of 2 Fantail Peacock Tree Decorations.
Add a colourful touch to your Christmas tree with this set of two Fantail Peacock tree decorations from Gisela Graham. Adorned with vibrant sequins, these decorations are in the shape of peacocks and their fantails in bright peacock tones.


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Two Hour Wargames launches All Things Zombie Kickstarter
Two Hour Wargames has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a line of 28mm zombies for their All Things Zombie game.
From the campaign:
A line of metal 28mm metal miniatures for use with All Things Zombie and other horror games. Includes Zombies, Vampires, Werewolves and more!
We're trying to get funding for a line of 28mm miniatures to go with the Final Version of our Origins Award Winning Miniatures Game, All Things Zombie.
With the release of the supplement, High Rise to Hell, we've completed the circle of horror by adding Vampires, Werewolves, Casters and more to your zombie games. It's our goal to offer a variety of miniatures in a consistent scale to satisfy all your horror gaming needs and we have the sculptor to do it!
We've already successfully funded and completed a similar project in 15mm but the demand for 28mm is such that we're going to give it a try!
Perfect for any horror game and sci fi settings. Check it out!
Crowdfunding Horror Kickstarter News Two Hour Wargames
New Dead Man's Hand terrain in the Great Escape Games store
Final hours for The Women of "The world of For-Ha" Kickstarter campaign


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Distribución
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All call for those who served aboard the USS Intrepid
Posted: February 7, 2018 9:43 PM
by Brian Neale
NEW YORK, NY — An "All Call" for former crew members of the legendary aircraft carrier USS Intrepid has been issued.
The World War II aircraft carrier is now home to the The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and former crew members are being called back to celebrate the ship's 75th anniversary of its commissioning.
The Museum is also accepting donations of personal artifacts and memorabilia from former crew members and their families.
Each item added to the Museum's collection helps express and interpret Intrepid's stories of service, and serves to educate and inspire more than one million visitors each year.
The USS Intrepid launched in April 1943 and was commissioned in August 1943. It sailed the Pacific ocean during World War II and participated in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. It survived five kamikaze attacks and one torpedo strike.
It was decommissioned after the world but was given a second life during the cold war as an attack carrier and then an anti-submarine carrier.
During the space race, the Intrepid also served as the recovery ship of a Mercury and Gemini space mission.
The ship was decommissioned in 1974 and in 1982 became the foundation for the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City.
Intrepid's 75th Commissioning Anniversary Celebration Weekend is open to the public, and will feature programs and events specifically tailored for former crew members and their families, as well as opportunities for members of the public to interact with our visiting former crew members.
People who served aboard the Intrepid or their families can find out more information about the homecoming weekend by clicking here.
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#sudo snap install --classic goland
sudo snap install --classic android-studio
sudo snap install --classic code
sudo snap install --classic code-insiders
sudo snap install --classic slack
sudo snap install --beta sqlitebrowser

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echo "- Vscode"
echo "- Vscode insider"
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What do actor Samuel L. Jackson, actress Janet Jackson and NBA coach Phil Jackson all have in common? I'll give you a hint. It's not just their last name. The answer lies deep within the realm of astrology.
These three Jacksons, comprising of a Capricorn, a Taurus and a Virgo, are all members of the prestigious group known as the Earth signs. When one thinks of the Earth, images of a dense and solid foundation of life spring to mind… and similarly the Earth zodiac signs tend to be very solid and grounded in their character.
But to give you a bit more insight into the traits and characteristics that make up these zodiac signs here are seven eye-opening truths about what it really means to be born under the earth element!
1. Earth signs make security a priority and they avoid taking stupid and unnecessary risks.
The Earth signs work hard to make sure that their world is safe and secure for both themselves and their loved ones at every stage throughout life.
Instead of jumping into risky situations head-first like a fire sign might do, they try to be more conservative and cautious in their decision-making choosing to fully evaluate the pros and cons of any major move before they make it.
Don't get it twisted though: Earth signs are far from 'dull' or 'boring'… they're just smart enough to look before they leap.
2. Earth signs feel a strong sense of duty.
The Earth signs generally feel an extremely strong sense of duty and responsibility in everything that they do.
Whether it's their responsibility to their family and loved ones, their dedication towards their work and career or basically any other obligation that they have in life they always take their duties seriously.
Because of this these signs make for some of the most dependable and reliable personalities in all of the zodiac. They're always looking out for the best interests of others and when the s#*t hits the fan they're often the ones who step in to save the day.
3. Earth signs are known as the 'builders' of the zodiac.
The Earth signs are often referred to as the builders of the zodiac because they're not afraid to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty in order to create something amazing.
They're able to work in a very methodical way by breaking down big and complicated tasks into much smaller and more manageable chunks which ultimately allows them to finish the job every time.
They're also ridiculously resourceful and are able to make a little go a long, long way.
4. Earth signs love to indulge in the finer things in life.
The Earth signs don't just work their asses off for nothing… hell no. They're working towards a life of comfort and they wont stop until they get there.
They have a taste for all of the finer things in life whether that be just eating out at a nice restaurant or going all out on five star luxury cruise across the globe.
They may sometimes need to be careful that their materialistic side doesn't get the best of them and they can occasionally get a little caught up trying to 'keep up with the Joneses'… but for the most part their aspirations serve as a healthy source of motivation.
5. Earth signs can be stubborn and wary of change.
From time to time the Earth signs can be a bit, well, stubborn as hell.
It's not because they want to be difficult but they have certain values and principles that they find it hard to compromise on.
They can also be resistant to sudden and drastic changes and prefer to question whether something really is "better" before they go and change their whole approach to it.
6. Earth signs are practical and grounded in reality.
Just like a 1,000 year old Oak tree the Earth signs all have their feet firmly planted in the ground.
They're not the types to get caught up in overly idealistic and unpractical ideas just because they sound nice and prefer to focus on real world solutions that they know can be accomplished.
It's not that they aren't ambitious because you better believe they are. They're just realistic and would rather not waste all of their time on some pipe dream.
7. Earth signs are goal-setters and persistent as all hell.
If there's one thing that Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn wont do it's allow a pesky little setback or obstacle to get in the way of them achieving their dreams.
They understand that any great accomplishment takes time and persistence and that making mistakes is often just part of the process.
It might take a day, a month, a year or maybe even longer but if they really want something then they always get there eventually thanks to their sheer persistence.