W$ is $\gamma$-invariant and defines an $r$-codimensional submanifold of $M_A$. Moreover, this manifold is biholomorphic to the Kato manifold $M_{A'}$, where $A'=\begin{tiny}
\begin{pmatrix}
  I_{l-r} & G' \\
  0 & B
 \end{pmatrix}
\end{tiny}\in{\mathrm{GL}}(n-r,{\mathbb{Z}})$ and the matrix $G'$ is the matrix having $l-r$ lines, all equal to $L$.

Let $\tilde{C}$ be the string of divisors in $\tilde{M}_A$ obtained by gluing the corresponding traces on $W_m$ of the exceptional divisor $E$ of $\hat{{D}}^{(k)}$. As in the proof of [@dl Proposition 1.11, Part I], it can be seen that $\tilde C$ is a formal sum of all the immersed irreducible compact hypersurfaces in $\tilde M_A$. Furthermore, we denote by $C=q(\tilde C)$ the corresponding cycle of divisors on $M$. Then $C$ has $k$ irreducible components $C_1,\ldots, C_k$, each coming from an irreducible component of $E$. Moreover,the generalized eigenspace of ${\beta}$: $$V({\beta})=\{v\in{\mathbb{C}}^n| \exists p>0 \ (A-{\beta}{\mathbb{I}}_n)^pv=0\}$$ and define $$V_0=\bigoplus_{\substack{{\beta}\in {\mathop\mathrm{Spec}}(A)\\ {\beta}\neq {\alpha}}}V({\beta})$$ so that we have $V\cong V({\alpha})\oplus V_0$.

Choose a Perron vector for $A^t$ acting on $V^*$, $f^*\in V({\alpha})^*$, so that $\langle f^*,f\rangle=1$. Write $a\in{\mathrm{Aut}}(V)$ for the automorphism defined by $v\mapsto Av$. Then $a(V_0)\subset V_0$, so $a|_{V_0}$ induces $a_0\in{\mathrm{Aut}}(V_0)$ and we have $a={\alpha}f^*\otimes f+a_0$.

\[limL\] For any $u\in V_0$, we have $\lim_{m\to\infty}\frac{1}{{\alpha}^m}a_0^mu=0$.

There exists a basis of $V_0$ with respect to which $a_0$ is represented by a matrix in Jordan normal form. Let ${\beta}\neq {\alpha}$ be an eigenvalue of $A$ and let $f_1,\ldots, f_r$ be a basis of generalized eigenvectors corresponding to a Jordan block for ${\beta}$. Namely, they verify: $$a_0f_1={\beta}f_1, a_0f_j={\beta}f_j+f_{j-1} \text { for } 2\leq j \leq r.$$ Since one has $|\frac{{\beta}}{{\alpha}}|<1$, we obtain


Kato matrix $A=\begin{tiny}\begin{pmatrix}
  I_l & G \\
  0 & B
 \end{pmatrix}\end{tiny}$ and write, via Lemma \[standardform\], $$F_A(z,w)=(z_1w^L,\ldots, z_lw^L, F_B(w)), \ \ (z,w)\in{\mathbb{C}}^{l}\times {\mathbb{C}}^{n-l}$$ where $L\in{\mathbb{N}}^{n-l}$. Note that a vector $x=(u,v)\in{\mathbb{C}}^l\times {\mathbb{C}}^{n-l}$ verifies $Ax^t=x^t$ if and only if $Gv^t=0$ and $Bv^t=v^t$. It follows that $Q:=\{v\in {\mathbb{C}}^{n-l}, Bv^t=v^t, Gv^t=0\}$ is of complex dimension $m(1)-l$.

Now, for any $v=(v_{l+1},\ldots, v_n)\in Q$, and for any $d_{s,t}\in{\mathbb{C}}$, $1\leq s,t\leq l$, it is straightforward to check that the vector field on ${\mathbb{C}}^n$: $$X=\sum_{s,t=1}^ld_{st}z_s\frac{{\partial}}{{\partial}z_t}+\sum_{p=l+1}^n v_pw_p\frac{{\partial}}{{\partial}w_p}$$ verifies $(F_A)_* X=X$. Since it moreover vanishes in $0$, it lifts, via $\pi$, to a holomorphic vector field on $W$ which is invariant to the gluing map, and hence it defines a holomorphic vector field on $M_A$. We have thus shown the inequality .

\[torus\] Let $A\in{\mathrm{GL}}(n,{\mathbb{Z}})$ be a Kato matrixinfection.
HSV-2 infection is widespread, with one study estimating that nearly 20% of the population worldwide is infected (Looker et al., 2008, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, October 2008, 86(10)). More women than men are infected, and the prevalence of the disease increases with age. High numbers of adolescents diagnosed with HSV-2 indicate that the prevalence across the population will continue to rise, as HSV-2 infection is lifelong.
Treatment options for HSV-2 symptoms are limited. Antiviral therapy, using compounds such as famciclovir, valaciclovir, or aciclovir, limits the duration of symptoms and, in some cases, speeds healing of lesions and reduces incidence of viral shedding. Antiviral drugs are not curative, however, and do not prevent recurrence of outbreaks or clear the virus completely. In addition, use of antiviral drugs requires


CTR-RAMP complexes are targets of the diabetes drug SymlinTM. Despite the clinical value of targeting CLR/CTR-RAMP complexes, the molecular mechanisms of peptide hormone recognition and RAMP modulation of CLR/CTR hormone specificity are poorly understood, in large part because of a lack of structural information for the peptide-receptor complexes. Hormone binding affinity and specificity are largely determined by the extracellular domains (ECDs) of the CLR, CTR, and RAMP integral membrane proteins. The goals of this proposal are to determine crystal structures of AM, CGRP, and AMY bound to their respective CLR/CTR ECD-RAMP ECD complexes in order to define the precise molecular architectures that determine selective peptide binding. In addition, we will correlate structure and function through biochemical and cell-based pharmacological experiments. We propose the following three aims: (1) DetermineThat's how ridiculous our situation has become. People are starting to question whether the problem is with sending kids to school, not with pervasive access to military weapons.

Garry Wills, writing for The New York Review five years ago, after the Sandy Hook grade school massacre:

The gun is not a mere tool, a bit of technology, a political issue, a point of debate. It is an object of reverence. Devotion to it precludes interruption with the sacrifices it entails. Like most gods, it does what it will, and cannot be questioned. Its acolytes think it is capable only of good things. It guarantees life and safety and freedom. It even guarantees law. Law grows from it. Then how can law question it?
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were designed and built just for HomePod) today than ever. This is the same lab that tests and helps design the ever-improving speakers in iPhones and iPads -- neither of which product has ever had a fan or hard drive.

The last chamber I saw was designed to listen specifically for electronic noise. For example, you don’t want HomePod to make any kind of noise when it’s plugged in, but not in use. If it was sitting on your night table, you wouldn’t want a hum or buzz coming from it.
Geaves said that the extent you have to isolate this chamber is even more important because you are listening for really small sounds.
The chamber itself sits on 28 tons of concrete. The panels are one foot thick which isWarner said, smiling behind her glasses. “I thought, This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.”

Special guest Paul Kafasis returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new HomePod, Farrago (Rogue Amoeba’s new soundboard app for the Mac), the Philadelphia Eagles' triumph over the "New England" Patriots in Super Bowl 52, and we stir up a controversy regarding a 10-year-old cocktail devised by the boys at You Look Nice Today.
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When you say "Hey Siri" near multiple devices that support "Hey Siri,"


by making HomePod more useful, even if that means opening up an SDK that allows for competitors to Apple Music. (Plus, with The Wall Street Journal reporting that Apple Music is set to overtake Spotify in U.S. subscribers, it doesn't seem like Apple Music needs any help.)
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ANY SORT OF HARDWARE INPUT, SUCH AS LINE-IN AUDIO. This means you can't connect HomePod to anything to use it as a "normal" speaker. This seems to greatly bother some people, but it should surprise no one in the aftermath of Apple's removal of headphone jacks from iPhones in 2016. HomePod is very much a "skating to where the puck is going to be" product, and Apple has believed for years that when it comes to personal audio, the puck is headingand match each account to the respective user's voice. That's a hard technical problem to solve, but so too is having a phone verify your identity by your face or fingerprint. And in the case of HomePod, I don't think this would have to be as secure as Face ID or Touch ID are. In the scenario I'm imagining, you could say something like "Hey Siri, remind me to stop at the bank on my way to work tomorrow" and if Siri wasn't confident about which household member you are, she could ask.
Another downside: Apple brags about Siri being smart enough to learn your musical tastes. But tied to a lone iCloud account, Siri is only learning the tastes of that user. If you're worried about your teenager


is AirPlay. Apple TV does support AirPlay speakers, and HomePod does work that way. From the main Apple TV home screen, just hold down the Play button on the remote and you can choose from available AirPlay speakers. Choose your HomePod and yes, it'll work. But that's only useful if Apple TV is the only input source you use on your TV. I suspect there are very few people for whom that's true. And even if you do use Apple TV exclusively, AirPlay 1 necessitates a second or two of latency. (More on that below.) HomePod is a standalone device, not a home theater component.
I can see why Apple did this. There's a wonderful simplicity to HomePod. There is no wonderful simplicity in the world of home theaterphone.2 As I mentioned above, when using HomePod to play content via AirPlay, you can still say things like "Hey Siri, pause" and "Hey Siri, turn up the volume". But, because of the limitations of AirPlay 1, there's some noticeable lag. With native (that is to say, non-AirPlay) audio on HomePod, "Hey Siri, pause" pauses nearly instantly. With AirPlay, there's a wee bit of extra lag -- just enough to make you question whether HomePod heard your command properly and take a breath to repeat the command. AirPlay 2 will hopefully improve this -- providing a better experience even for HomePod users with just one unit.
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DON'T PAUSE AFTER "HEY SIRI". People seem to naturally think they need to pause between saying "Hey Siri" and issuing the command or


There's no ugly AC adapter or power supply where the plug goes into the wall -- unlike the Echo's, it's just a normal power plug. My only complaint is that the glossy touchpad atop the HomePod is a fingerprint magnet. I wish it had a matte finish or an oleophobic coating.
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SETTINGS IN HOME APP. It took me a few days to realize this, but there are settings for HomePod in the Home app on your iPhone -- where by "you" I mean the person whose iCloud account was used to set up the device. In Home, if you just tap the icon for your HomePod device, it acts as a play/pause button. But if you press harder for 3D Touch, or long-press on the icon, it will openusers.
On the battery front:

Additionally, users can now see if the power management feature that dynamically manages maximum performance to prevent unexpected shutdowns, first introduced in iOS 10.2.1, is on and can choose to turn it off. This feature can be found in Settings → Battery and is available for iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus.

Being able to disable dynamic performance throttling is new -- if I recall correctly, all Apple had promised last month was that iOS would soon _show_ more information about your battery. [UPDATE: The first mention of a switch to control this behavior was in this interview Tim Cook gave to ABC News last week.]
Health:

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Campaign For Access to Emergency Contraception
Brown was involved in the campaign to make Plan B, the “morning-after pill,” available over-the-counter in the United States.

In 1999, the United States Food and Drug


Journalists help promote Hollywood celebrities while condemning average Americans for causing climate change. The same media go out of their way to ignore or excuse the hypocrisy of celebrity “environmentalists” who fly their private jets around the world, rent mega-yachts and live in massive mansions.

Avatar Director James Cameron warned of a future “world that’s in shambles” because of climate change, and said he believes “in ecoterrorism” yet, he owns an impressive private collection of motorcycles, cars, dirt bikes, a yacht, a helicopter, a Humvee fire truck and a $32-million submarine. ABC and CBS even praised Cameron for his submarine purchase, with CBS’s Gayle King saying she loved his “passion and curiosity.”

Leonardo DiCaprio ironically stood in front of the UN warning that “if we do not act together, wewill surely perish” – just three months after he had flown to Brazil on a private plane to borrow an oil billionaire’s 470-foot yacht. Yet, ABC News praised him for “not just talking the talk.”

MRC Business studied media coverage of 12 celebrity eco-activists, worth $1.9 billion, and found:

Media Outlets Give a Platform to Celebrities: Actors aren’t climate scientists. But when any of the 12 celebrities makes a statement about climate change, the media are quick to promote them. Whether it was DiCaprio’s UN speech calling for more regulations on businesses, or Cameron Diaz’s PSA asking average people to curb their carbon output, print and broadcast media eagerly rushed to interview them. In the last six months of 2014 alone, ABC, CBS and NBC interviewed these specific celebrities 25


times.

Overwhelmingly Positive Network Coverage: Not once during the 25 interviews on ABC, CBS and NBC in 2014 did the networks suggest that the celebrities’ lavish lifestyles might disqualify them from lecturing others. Instead, they have referred to them as “incredibly committed,” “responsible” and praised them for “promoting the cause” of combatting climate change.

Media Take Outrageous Claims Seriously: Cameron said “I believe in ecoterrorism,” and Entertainment Weekly didn’t bat an eye. Arianna Huffington said that SUV owners were funding terrorism, and then claimed she meant it as satire and no one objected. Yet, none of these claims were even mentioned on the broadcast networks that hyped the eco-activism of these celebrities, and they were still touted as credible voices for change.

Recommendations for Journalists

MRC Business has the following recommendations forLas Vegas on a chartered 747, according to The New York Post – just to attend two separate parties.

According to The Daily Mail (UK), “even if he flew on a commercial jet for all of flights, his carbon footprint so far [September 23] in 2014 would be a minimum of 40 million metric tons of CO2 spewed into the atmosphere, more than twice the average American output for an entire year.” And that was with three months left in the year!

The same article mentioned that a private jet’s carbon emissions can be more than 37 times higher than those produced by flying commercial. The New York Times also used this statistic, adding that some private jets (the article specifically referred to one that former-New York City Mayor Michael


of Tennessee) found that Gore’s “20-room home and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average,” according to an ABC News online story. Despite also briefly mentioning this in a newscast, ABC joined the other networks in praising Gore. In 2014 alone, there were five non-interview instances where the networks praised Gore for being a “climate activist.”

Despite this report, Gore told The New York Times on March 16, 2015, that he has reduced the environmental impact of his home, adding “I do walk the walk, and don’t just talk the talk.” How much he has reduced that impact, or whether or not this change was before or after the Tennessee Center for Policy Research report was not mentioned. The New Yorkbuprestid beetle are phloem feeders and all North American ash species are suitable larval hosts, including black ash (*F. nigra*), white ash (*F. americana*), and green ash (*F. pennsylvanica*) \[[@B4-biosensors-09-00123]\]. In Europe, EAB was first discovered in green ash species planted in Moscow, Russia in 2003, subsequently spreading 460 km over the following decade aided primarily by human activity and causing extensive mortality to indigenous European ash (*F. excelsior*) \[[@B5-biosensors-09-00123]\]. Subsequent spread of the insect in Europe has resulted in EAB largely eradicating *Fraxinus* species from many member states \[[@B6-biosensors-09-00123]\].

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potential efficacy of utilizing an e-nose technology for early detection of EAB-infestations at early stages, prior to the appearance of diagnostic symptoms in the tree crown and adult emergence holes in the lower bole, by using green ash as an initial test species in southern Arkansas. Our specific objectives were to: 1) develop effective, noninvasive sampling methods, potentially associated with periodically-timed plantation or forest-stand pest-damage surveys, for collecting VOC emissions within air samples derived from sampled wood cores for e-nose analyses, 2) establish e-nose based aroma signature (smellprint) patterns of wood-core volatiles from nonsymptomatic, uninfested trees and those in various stages of decline due to EAB infestations (ash decline classes) to develop an e-nose reference library (for assessing the health states of individual trees), 3) determine the potentialcores, were notably observed for differences in sensors that had no responses and in differences in relative intensity of responses of specific sensors to changes in VOC-metabolite emissions for each decline rating with associated different levels of EAB infestations.

A comparison of combined smellprint signatures resulting from simultaneous analysis of VOC metabolites from sapwood cores of trees from all four crown class ratings (different aroma classes) yielded a VOC smellprint profile showing more clearly the differences in sensor-response intensities of individual sensors in the array for all EAB-decline sample types ([Figure 3](#biosensors-09-00123-f003){ref-type="fig"}). The most obvious difference in smellprint signatures between samples types is the abundance of sensor responses to VOC-metabolites from healthy tree cores (green bars) that are absent in EAB-infested trees. Twelve separate sensors responded only to volatiles


from healthy tree sapwood cores, whereas only two sensors, including sensor S-14 (1481.31-1-H) and sensor S-29 (518.20-2-H), responded only to VOCs from EAB-infested sapwood cores and had no responses to VOCs from healthy sapwood cores.

Comparisons of differences in sensor-response intensities to VOC-emissions from healthy and EAB-infested cores (from trees in various stages of EAB-decline) provided data relating to changes or shifts in VOC production over time, as healthy trees become infested and infestation levels in sapwood increase proportionally to more advanced stages of decline. This comparison is possible because sensor-response intensities are semi-quantitatively correlated with concentrations of VOCs present in sapwood-core headspace. In the majority of cases (60%), sensor response intensities to VOC-emissions from EAB-infested sapwood were greater than the same sensor-responses to VOCs from healthy sapwood whenhealth class (decline rating) are presented with peak areas in [Table 3](#biosensors-09-00123-t003){ref-type="table"}. The relative quantities of VOC emissions for each sample type are grouped by sequential peak number and metabolomic clusters.

Metabolomic clusters were defined by whether constitutive VOCs produced by both healthy and EAB infested sapwood had metabolomic changes in relative quantities of VOCs produced. The groupings of sensor clusters were based on whether the peak areas were uniform, decreasing, or increasing in quantities of VOC-emissions from cores of EAB-infected trees relative to uninfested (healthy) control cores. Four constitutive VOCs (peaks 4, 5, 6, 13) were identified with uniform peak areas for both healthy and infested cores. Two VOCs (peaks 2 and 3) decreased in peak area for cores from infested trees (relative to healthy trees) with the


4, 5, 6, 13), identified with uniform peak areas from both healthy and infested cores, were identified as aliphatic diketones and esters, carboxylic acids, sulfhydril ketone, lactone, and bicyclic sesquiterpenes. Two VOCs (peaks 2 and 3) that showed decreased emission in cores from infested trees relative to healthy trees tentatively were identified as aliphatic aldehydes, ketones, and alkanes.

Two VOCs (peaks 1 and 9) that increased in infested cores relative to healthy cores were identified as a methyl ester and bicyclic monoterpene, respectively. Four additional VOCs (peaks 7, 8, 11, 12) which had uniform peak areas for healthy and infested cores, but much higher peak areas for putative near-EAB gallery cores, were identified as volatile, bicyclic monoterpenes, aliphatic alkanes, esters, cyclic monoterpenes, homocyclic ethyl esters, and possibly pyran monoterpenes.

Theesters, ketones, and alkanes. The two VOC emissions (peaks 3, 7), which were not specific to certain crown classes but were only occasionally produced in cores from both healthy and all EAB-infested sample types, were identified as aliphatic and heterocyclic thiols. The five VOC emissions (peaks 9-11, 14, 15) identified only from EAB-infested cores were identified as aromatic esters, monoterpenes, aliphatic esters, bicyclic sesquiterpenes, and monosequiterpene alcohols.

The most significant VOC emissions exclusively produced from EAB-infested cores were tentatively identified for peak 9 as 6-decenal (an aliphatic aldehyde) or methyl salicylate (an aromatic esters) and peak 14 as butyl salicylate (aromatic ester) or β-caryophyllene (a bicyclic sesquiterpene), peak 10 as nerol (a monoterpene), peak 11 as hexyl 2-butenoate (an aliphatic ester). Finally, peak 15 was identified as α-bisabolol oxide


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This modern use of the same wallpaper shows the scenes…

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Current in the unbiased system dot can only flow if it is driven out of equilibrium by the interaction with the detector, which is itself driven out of equilibrium by the applied bias voltage. This implies energy transfer from the detector to the system dot. However, energy transfer alone is insufficient to generate a directional current through the system dot. An energy-dependent tunnel coupling asymmetry to


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       Craigg E. Gould for Appellee, Gregory A. Woodard

        Derrick L. Knapp for Appellee, Admr. Ohio BWC
Case No. 14-11-22

PRESTON, J.

       {¶1} Defendant-appellant, Cassens Transport Company (“Cassens”),

appeals the September 29, 2011 judgment of the Union County Court of Common

Pleas finding plaintiff-appellee, Gregory A. Woodard (“Woodard”), is entitled to

participate in the Workers’ Compensation Fund because of an injury he sustained

in the course of and arising out of his employment with Cassens. For the reasons

that follow, we reverse.

       {¶2} Cassens is in the business of transporting automobiles. Woodard had

been employed as a “car hauler” for Cassens since 1976 and was assigned to

Cassens’ terminal located in Marysville,Ohio. As part of his job responsibilities,

Woodard loaded and delivered new cars to car dealerships throughout the

Midwest, eastern, and southern parts of the country. During a typical week,

Woodard was on the road for five or six days. Woodard was paid mileage for the

miles he drove, and he was also paid for loading and unloading the truck. While

employed with Cassens, Woodard traveled approximately 100,000 miles per year.

       {¶3} The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (“FMCSR”) require

drivers like Woodard to keep a driver’s log to record every change in “duty status”

for each 24 hour period. See 49 C.F.R. 395.8(a). For example, Woodard must

record whether he is driving, on-duty but not driving, sleeper berth, or off-duty.

49 C.F.R. 395.8(b). “Off-duty” status means Woodard is not on


bargaining agreement (“CBA”) with the

automobile transporters union states that “[c]omfortable, sanitary lodging shall be

provided by [Cassens] in all cases where an employee is required to take a

statutory rest period away from his home terminal * * *.”                         (Article 42, CBA).

The CBA allocates to Cassens the right to designate the place of lodging for their

drivers when the drivers are on the road and required to take their federally

mandated rest period. In addition to paying for gas, these accommodations are the

only expenses that Cassens is obligated to pay. Thus, Woodard is not reimbursed

for any other expenses—such as food, drink, or entertainment—incurred while on

duty or during hischecked into the Quality Inn and Suites,

located within two or three miles of the Lafayette terminal, and used the CLC

credit card provided to him by Cassens. Woodard was considered “off-duty” in

his daily driver’s log at this point and was relieved of any responsibility for

Cassens’ car carrier while at the hotel. Later that evening, Woodard ordered a

pizza, watched T.V., and went to bed. Around 2:00 a.m., Woodard woke up to use

the bathroom. Woodard walked into the bathroom and slipped and fell on the tile

                                       -5-
Case No. 14-11-22

floor, injuring his left knee.


         Both Woodard and

Robinson testified. On August 19, 2011, the trial court issued its opinion, finding

Woodard was entitled to participate in the Workers’ Compensation System,

because he received his injury in the course of and arising out of his employment.

      {¶13} On September 29, 2011, the trial court issued its final judgment

entry. Cassens now appeals from this judgment of the trial court, asserting the

following assignment of error:

      THE   TRIAL   COURT’S   DETERMINATION    THAT
      PLAINTIFF SUFFERED AN INJURY IN THE COURSE OF,

                      Griffith

subsequently filed a claim seeking workers’ compensation benefits, which was

denied by the trial court. The trial court cited the fact that Griffith was on his own

free time and had discretion regarding the use of his free time, in addition to the

fact that his participation in the basketball game was purely personal, as reasons to

support its conclusion that Griffith was not in the course of his employment when

he was injured. The Tenth District disagreed with the trial court and found that

“neither the fact that Griffith was on his free time nor that Griffith was engaged in

recreational activity [was] dispositive of whether he was in the course of his

employment.” Id. at ¶ 21. The court went on to find that Griffith’s injury


    responsibilities—i.e., preparing himself for his next work
       assignment. Although at the time he sustained his injuries,
       Jones was engaged in an activity associated with personal
       hygiene, we find that he was not on a personal errand.
       Therefore, contrary to the finding of the trial court, we conclude
       that Jones was “in the course of his employment” when he
       slipped in the bathroom after showering.

Id. at ¶ 20.

       {¶35} Here, the record clearly demonstrates that Woodard was a traveling

employee when he performed his week in furtherance of [the employer’s] business. Thus, upon
       review of the totality of the circumstances, we find that a
       sufficient causal connection between Lippolt’s injury and his
       employment exists and that Lippolt’s injury accordingly arose
       out of his employment with [the employer].

                                       -28-
Case No. 14-11-22

Id. at ¶ 26 (emphasis added).      The court in Jones provides a only cursory

explanation to


    {¶45} In applying this approach to the facts in Jones, Lewis, and the instant

case, it is difficult to imagine a need more personal than attending to one’s own

personal hygiene by taking a shower or making use of the bathroom facilities. If

the employer in Griffith could not reasonably contemplate that the claimant would

neglect his personal fitness needs, then surely the employers in Jones, Lewis, and

the case sub judice, also could not reasonably contemplate that the claimants

would neglect their most basic personal hygiene needs in order to avoid forfeiting

worker’s compensation benefits from a potential resulting injury.

      {¶46} After reviewing Lippolt, Griffith, and Jones together, the Tenth

District’s decision in Jones appears to be an outlier in that court’s jurisprudence.

Rather than thoroughly analyzingsample with the specific DNA.
PCR suffers from several shortcomings, the most serious of which being its lack of specificity. The effective hybridization temperature, i.e. the temperature in which the two strands of DNA hybridize, determines the specificity of the reaction. A low effective hybridization temperature results in a higher percentage of non-specific binding. In PCR this temperature, which is defined by the temperature of the annealing stage, is relatively low and this brings about non-specific binding of the probe to the target sequences resulting in amplification of undesired sequences which brings about a relatively high background reading.
This non-specificity also requires an additional and time-consuming detection procedure such as electrophoretic separation of the amplification products on an agarose gel, in order to separate between the various amplification products, and


z = x for g.
-3
Suppose 17*t + 2 = -15. Let w be 8/((9/3 - 0) + t). Solve 5*f = 14 - w for f.
2
Suppose -l + 6 = 3*d, -4*l = -2*l + 3*d - 9. Let q be (-6)/2 - (-9)/l. Let p be q/(3 + 2) - -4. Solve 3*x + x - p = 0 for x.
1
Let c be 4*((-317)/4 + 5 + -8). Let r be c/(-63) + (-8)/36. Suppose 5*z + 22 - 57 = -2*q, 2*z = -r*q - 7. Solve z*o - 5*o = -20 for o.
-5
Let w(q) = q**3 + 23*q**2 - 2*q - 19. Let f be w(-23). Suppose 4*u + 25 = 3*y, f*y + 29 = 31*y - u. Solve -y*l + 7 = -214*h + 2*i + 13. Suppose 0 = -12*x + 9*x + h. Solve 7*d - 4 = x*d for d.
-1
Suppose -5*o - 111*o + 7*o + 1526 = 0. Solve -o*s - 159 = -145 for s.
-1
Let m(d) = -181*d + 728. Let r be m(4). Solve -6*t = -r - 20 for t.
4
Let n be 3/(18/(-4))*(-429)/26. Let r(h) = -2*h + 24. Let g be r(12). Solve -n*f + 10*f + 4 = g for f.
4
Let c be (-140)/(-8)*(-1530)/(-357). Solve -24*l + 9*l = c for l.
-5
Let h be 4/(-6) - -6*(-6)/(-54). Let q be h*(-1)/35*-7. Solve u + 4*u - 25 = q for u.
5
Suppose -5*y - 95 = y - 4271. Solve 52 = -683*f + y*f for f.
4
Let o(g) = -g**2 + 37*g


48 for f.
2
Suppose 80*k - 76*k - 32 = 0. Let s = 4 + -1. Solve s*r + r + k = 0 for r.
-2
Let f(x) = -x**3 + x**2 + 7*x - 1. Let q be f(3). Suppose -3*n - 1 = -u + 1, 5*u - 3*n - 46 = 0. Let k = u - 5. Solve -k*t = -q*t for t.
0
Let g(b) be the first derivative of b**2 + 22*b - 12. Let z be g(-9). Suppose -2 = -4*q + 2*x + z, q + 12 = 5*x. Solve -q*c = -6*c - 3 for c.
-1
Let l(y) be the first derivative of -y**3/3 + 7*y**2/2 + 3*y + 11. Let f be l(7). Suppose -f*m = -11 - 16. Solve m*d -x*h. Suppose -5*u = -15, 6*d - 2*u - 3 = 3*d. Solve 0 = -h*y - d*y for y.
0
Let q(a) = -6*a**3 - 11*a**2 - 43*a + 5. Let g be q(-5). Solve -g + 731 = -9*z for z.
-4
Let k be -14*16/(-224)*2/1. Solve -7*q = -k*q + 15 for q.
-3
Suppose -13 = -i + 20*z - 15*z, -i = 4*z - 40. Suppose 12*o - 5*o - i = 0. Solve 0 = -0*d - o*d for d.
0
Let o be 11/((-22)/(-360)) - (-120)/24. Let s = 187 - o. Solve 0 = -0*w + s*w + 6 for w.
-3
Let d be 1 - (-4)/10 - 55476/(-460). Solve -43*l + 93 = -d for l.
5
Let p(h) = -h**2 + 61*h - 840. Let c be p(21). Solve


larger purpose than merely getting a reaction from an arena full of “Make America Again” gear-wearing supporters.

[So… How Does the White House Really Feel About Russia?]

He sketched out how he would counter messages from a liberal Democratic nominee — and notably, he did not mention more centrist Democrats who are considering a presidential bid, such as former Vice President Joe Biden, who already has a 7-percentage point lead over Trump in a hypothetical one-on-one race, according to a new poll.have installed.

This seems like the most viable solution to me. I think most in the security community would be okay with encrypted binaries being distributed before the vulnerability is announced / the actual patches are released.

To be more specific:

A vulnerability is found in a critical component by a security researcher. Upstream is informed, and works with major distributions such as Debian to do a coordinated disclosure at a specific time. Debian releases an encrypted binary and the disclosure time a few hours before the disclosure time. Debian machines poll, say, every hour for new binaries. Debian machines wait for the disclosure time and then try to fetch the decryption key and use it to install the binary.

When does it make sense to do this?

Such concerns have been voiced


Q:

Excel formula to determine if any cells in a range contain a value

This is probably quite a basic thing to do, but I've been looking around the internet and have tried several ways of doing it to no avail.
This is my spreadsheet
A1 - Blank  A2 - Text  A3 - Boolean  A4 - Boolean  A5 - Boolean
Cells A3, A4 and A5 contain true or false. Is it possible to return a value of true or false in cell A1 if any of A3, A4 and A5 contain true at least once, or false if they all contain false?
Many thanks if you are able to help!

A:

Consider..................:
=OR(A3:A5)

A:

Use this formula for this purpose:
=OR(A2:A5)

using LESS since Rails 3.1 already uses SASS, but if anyone here thinks its not a big deal using both, I'm open to suggestions however.
Any help or suggestion will be much appreciated

A:

I wrote a reasonably popular conversion of Bootstrap to SASS 1, 2, which allows you to define your own variables if you use a custom helper manifest, rather than the one included in the gem.
As an example, in the head of application.css.scss:
@import "bootstrap/reset";
@import "bootstrap/variables";

// overwrite variables here

@import "bootstrap/mixins";

@import "bootstrap/scaffolding";

@import "bootstrap/type";
@import "bootstrap/forms";
@import "bootstrap/tables";
@import "bootstrap/patterns";

// rest of your manifest

You can overwrite the supported variables before importing the rest of the bootstrap files, and these will also be accessible through the rest of your SCSS.


the religious dissenter and apostate.

And so it is that often even in societies like Britain, taboos against apostasy, and the open rejection and criticism of one particular religion, Islam, prevail.

This is despite how the freedom to criticise and reject religion is one of the foundations of our rights as Britons. The idea that the rights of the individual must be privileged over the rights of a collective has been established after centuries of slow, incremental struggle, and this struggle had central to it a rejection of the taboos of the Christian church.

To be part of a secular, liberal society, to be equal in this society, then, is to have the same freedom to participate, without being the victim of coercive silencing, in the kind of dissent against religioustheir mouths for too long. They are straight from whichever part of the body in which the free conscience resides, and they are utterances of liberation, of snuffed out, repressed conscience regaining its dignity by expressing itself.


    }

        }
        childVm.updateSection(networkConnectionSection).waitForTask(0);
        for (String ip : VM.getVMByReference(vcloudClient,childVm.getReference()).getIpAddressesById().values()) {
            System.out.println("        " + ip);
        }
    }
}

A:

I figured out that it was a bug in my code
this code was giving me always the same name
String neteworkName = vdc.getAvailableNetworkRefs().iterator().next().getName();

it should be
String neteworkName = networkConnection.getNetwork();

Q:

Cannot open output stream

For some reasons i have to set up on android SocketServer which waits for connection with computer. All is going good, socket with client (computer) is creating, but streams don't open. It's just pausing without any error or message.
client:
        s = new Socket(ip, 4567);
        ois = new ObjectInputStream(s.getInputStream());
        System.out.println("ois..");// not showing, so can't open input stream
        oos = new ObjectOutputStream(s.getOutputStream());
        System.out.println("oos..");  // same here

server:
        socket = new ServerSocket(4567);
        System.out.println("Waiting for connection,,"); // showing


     client = socket.accept();
        System.out.println("Connected"); //showing
        ois = new ObjectInputStream(client.getInputStream());

        System.out.println("ois.."); // not showing
        oos = new ObjectOutputStream(client.getOutputStream());
        System.out.println("oos.."); // not showing too
        System.out.println("Stream,s opened");

My apk has INTERNET premissions. I'm using 4567 port. Any other application doesn't block the port.
What can be wrong?

A:

Try opening the ObjectOutputStream first in your server.
    socket = new ServerSocket(4567);
    System.out.println("Waiting for connection,,"); // showing
    client = socket.accept();
    System.out.println("Connected"); //showing
    oos = newfor the distinct behaviour of epithelial CEACAMs during endocytosis have been described.

Recently, we made the surprising observation that phosphatidylinositol-3′ kinase (PI3Ks) activity is not involved in CEACAM3-triggered phagocytosis by human granulocytes [@pone.0039908-Buntru3], despite the well-characterized role of phosphatidylinositol phosphates (PIPs) in numerous endocytic processes [@pone.0039908-Indik1], [@pone.0039908-Araki1]. These findings prompted us to investigate the involvement of PI3K and PIPs in bacterial internalization via epithelial CEACAMs. We report here, that 3′-phosphorylated PIPs are not only enriched around bacterial uptake sites, but that blockade of PI3Ks severely reduces bacterial internalization via CEACAM1 and other epithelial CEACAMs. In line with a role of phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-phosphate (PI(3,4,5)P), overexpression of class I PI3K increases, whereas expression of SHIP, which dephosphorylates PI(3,4,5)P, reduces CEACAM1-mediated uptake. Surprisingly, PI3K-dependent endocytosis of CEACAM1 was not connected to cytoplasmic


determinants of the receptor or to its location in membrane microdomains, but rather required the extracellular Ig~C2~-like domains of CEACAM1. These data provide novel mechanistic insight into CEACAM1 endocytosis and suggest the existence of *cis*-interactions between epithelial CEACAMs and additional membrane proteins triggering PI3K-dependent uptake.

Materials and Methods {#s2}
=====================

Neisserial strains and growth conditions {#s2a}
----------------------------------------

Opa~52~ protein-expressing, non-piliated *Neisseria gonorrhoeae* strain MS11 (Ngo Opa~CEA~) and the isogenic non-opaque strain (Ngo Opa-) were kindly provided by Thomas F. Meyer (Max-Planck-Institut für Infektionsbiologie, Berlin, Germany). Opa~CEA~ protein-expressing, unencapsulated *Neisseria meningitidis* strain MC58 (ΔsiaD, ΔlgtA) (Nm Opa~CEA~) was obtained from Matthias Frosch (Institut für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie, Universität Würzburg, Germany). Both, *Neisseria meningitidis* and *N. gonorrhoeae* were grown as described before [@pone.0039908-Kuespert3] on GC agar plates (Difco BRL, Paisley, UK) supplemented with vitamins atenlargement of the highlighted area. Bars represent 5 µm. (**B**) 293 cells were transfected with the empty vector (pcDNA), HA-tagged CEACAM1 wildtype or CEACAM1-ΔCT. CEACAM expression was analysed in whole cell lysates (WCLs) by Western blotting with α-HA antibody (upper panels) and equal loading of the samples was demonstrated by α-tubulin antibody (lower panel). (**C and D**) Cells transfected as in (B) were pretreated for 30 min with 50 µM of PI3K inhibitor LY294002 (LY) or left untreated. Cells were infected for 2 h with Opa~CEA~-expressing gonococci and total cell-associated (C) or viable intracellular bacteria (D) were quantified. Bars represent mean values ± S.E.M of three independent experiments done in triplicate (n = 9). Numbers are expressed relative to cells expressing the respective receptor without PI3K inhibitor treatment. Significance was


293 cells were co-transfected with HA-tagged CEACAM1 or CEACAM3 together with GFP-tagged flotillin2. Following cells homogenization, the membrane fraction was extracted with 0.7% Triton X-100-containing buffer and loaded on a discontinous sucrose gradient (SG). After ultracentrifugation, eight distinct fractions were collected from top (low density: fraction 1) to bottom (high density: fraction 8) of the gradient and analyzed by Western blotting with antibodies against CEACAM, flotillin2 (flot2), or transferrin receptor (TfR). Detergent-resistant, low-density membrane components were identified mainly in fraction 2--4. (**B**) Cells were transfected as in (A) and CEACAMs were crosslinked using antibodies prior to homogenization. As indicated, some samples were treated for 30 min with 200 nM wortmannin (+WM) before crosslinking. Membrane fractions and Western blot analysis was as in (A). (**C**) Expression of CEACAMs, TfR,two-sided Student\'s t-test; \*\*\*, p\<0.001; \*\*, p\<0.01; n.s. -- not significant. (**G**) 293 cells were transfected with mKate-tagged CEACAM1 together with GFP-tagged Btk-PH domain and treated with MβCD before infection with Pacific Blue labelled Opa~CEA~-expressing gonococci. After 60 min, samples were fixed and analyzed via confocal microscopy. Arrowheads highlight gonococci associated with clustered CEACAM1. Insets show enlargement of the highlighted area. Bars represent 5 µm.](pone.0039908.g007){#pone-0039908-g007}

Bacterial uptake via several epithelial CEACAMs requires PI3K activity {#s3h}
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Neither the cytoplasmic part of CEACAM1 nor the transmembrane domain-mediated recruitment to membrane microdomains were mechanistically linked to the PI3K-dependent endocytosis of bacteria. Therefore, we wondered, whether bacterial uptake via GPI-linked epithelial CEACAMs, which lack cytoplasmic and transmembrane domains, also requires the generation of PI(3,4,5)P. Accordingly, cells were transfected with constructs encoding HA-tagged CEACAM1, CEA,


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her final fraudulent return, covering tax year 1999, in April 2000, nearly a year after her thefts had been discovered.

II

6
At sentencing, the primary issue that Vucko raised was whether her wire fraud and tax fraud counts had to be grouped under the provisions of § 3D1.2(c) or (d). Vucko argued before the district court that the wire fraud guideline, then § 2F1.1, relied on the same offense characteristic as the tax fraud guideline, § 2T4.1 — namely, the amount of loss. She also argued that the two charges essentially reflected the loss of the same money, even though the victims were different. The district court rejected this position, with the following explanation:

7
I'm satisfied that this is not double counting in any meaningful sense. I think we have twocount. Id. at 46. Immediately after so concluding, however, the court went on to concede:

27
As a matter of common parlance, Haltom's mail fraud and tax evasion convictions cannot readily be said to have caused "substantially the same harm." See U.S.S.G. § 3D1.2. The mail fraud damaged the private financial interests of Haltom's corporate clients; the tax offenses harmed the government. Absent a contrary directive in the guidelines themselves, we might have considered these harms quite distinct and concluded that Haltom's offenses were not groupable.

28
113 F.3d at 46. It nonetheless thought that grouping was compelled by the guidelines.

29
The First Circuit took a different approach in United States v. Martin, 363 F.3d 25 (1st Cir.2004). There the defendant also pleaded guilty to fraud and tax evasion, and the district court


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after launch if the
name is already taken.

~~~
CydeWeys
If they haven't delegated it yet then it's by definition not yet taken as far
as they're concerned, and they're the ones that make these decisions.

Let me put it in different terms: ICANN currently has a monopoly on the
issuance of new TLDs that has so far banked hundreds of millions of dollars
for them. There's no way in hell they're going to voluntarily give up this
monopoly and just let any random people start a new TLD without going through
them.

------
swiley
The article doesn’t mention how the .crypto namespace is managed. That’s
probably going to make or break this idea.

~~~
diggan
Don't have time (nor the interest really) but found the reference docs, seems
to explain how it works:

\-
[https://github.com/unstoppabledomains/zns](https://github.com/unstoppabledomains/zns)

\-
[https://github.com/unstoppabledomains/zns/blob/master/REGIST...](https://github.com/unstoppabledomains/zns/blob/master/REGISTRY.md)

\-
[https://github.com/unstoppabledomains/zns/blob/master/RESOLV...](https://github.com/unstoppabledomains/zns/blob/master/RESOLVERS.md)

\-
[https://github.com/unstoppabledomains/zns/blob/master/REGIST...](https://github.com/unstoppabledomains/zns/blob/master/REGISTRAR.md)

So in the end, I think there is a central registrar for eachChinese scam vehicle
[https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/01/21/opera-predatory-
loa...](https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/01/21/opera-predatory-loans/)

------
k__
Is it possible to add IPFS via extensions to Chrome and Firefox?

~~~
diggan
Not only possible but already done!

\- [https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion](https://github.com/ipfs-
shipyard/ipfs-companion)

\- [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipfs-
companion/nib...](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipfs-
companion/nibjojkomfdiaoajekhjakgkdhaomnch)

\- [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipfs-
companio...](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipfs-companion/)

And I think Brave already ships with IPFS-Companion installed.

~~~
techntoke
IPNS is so slow though, that publishing with IPFS is a whole different story.

~~~
k__
Would you mind to elaborate for someone who knows next to nothing about
IPFS/IPNS?

~~~
AgentME
Plain IPFS (without the IPNS part) lets you create links to files (or
directories) where the link is based on the hash of the files, and when
someone visits the link, their IPFS node will automatically look through the
peer-to-peer IPFS swarm to find any nodes hosting the files. Anyone that wants
to help host the files can pin the files in their node, and then their node
will mirror the files and help serve them to others. It's


basically Torrent
magnet links rebuilt to be usable for web browsing.

But one important detail about content-addressable storage systems like IPFS
(and torrents) is that the linked content can never change. The link
ipfs://QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Aardvark.html is
immutable and will only ever resolve to that specific version of the page.
That's fine if you're just sharing a specific version of a document, but it
means that this system alone isn't enough if you want to host a site that you
update. In order to solve that use-case, you need some mutable link to be
involved, like what DNS provides. If you have a standard domain name, you can
add a _dnslink TXT record to your domain that contains an IPFS link, and then
when someone visits the domain, IPFS-compatible browsers will see the _dnslink
TXT record, get the IPFS link from it,<mat-card class="material-card-sm mt-3">
<form role="form" novalidate [formGroup]="userSecurityForm" (ngSubmit)="updateSecurity()">

    <mat-form-field style="width:100%">
      <mat-select placeholder="Security Question" [(ngModel)]="objUserSecurity.securityQuestion" [formControl]="userSecurityForm.controls['securityQuestion']">
        <mat-option *ngFor="let question of questionlist" [value]="question">
          {{question}}
        </mat-option>
      </mat-select>
      <mat-error>
        <control-messages [isSubmitted]="isSubmitted" [control]="userSecurityForm.controls['securityQuestion']"></control-messages>
      </mat-error>
    </mat-form-field>

    <mat-form-field class="material-input-full">
      <input matInput type="text" [(ngModel)]="objUserSecurity.securityAnswer" placeholder="Enter Security Answer" [formControl]="userSecurityForm.controls['securityAnswer']">
      <mat-error>
        <control-messages [isSubmitted]="isSubmitted" [control]="userSecurityForm.controls['securityAnswer']"></control-messages>


The center of gravity of a golf club can be strategically positioned according to the desired performance of the golf club. Because the position of the center of gravity of the golf club is dependent on the distribution of mass of the golf club and because it is often desirable, for performance purposes, to move the center of gravity down toward the sole and/or away from the face of the golf club head, the face of the golf club head may be made thin in order to move mass to the sole and/or away from the face. Thinning the face permits the center of gravity to be more strategically positioned, but may have side effects, such as, for example, reducing the strength and/or durability of the face and/orwar in Vietnam was only made possible through a staged attack in the Gulf of Tonkin, which provided the problem that gave rise to the reaction of controlled media induced fear, and a uniting of popular support amongst the people for the all but necessary perception of an invasion of Vietnam as the only solution. In the very same way, this has been done many times throughout history, such as Hitler burning his own Reichstag building to justify the invasion of other countries, the Israeli’s deliberately sinking the U.S.S. liberty and blaming it on the Egyptians in order to bring the U.S. into the conflict, and the Japanese setting off an explosion on a train in order to blame China and justify an invasion of Manchuria.

21 st Century


Hegelian Dialect:

Some will say that this only happens in the past and that today it would be impossible to pull off. However, this couldn’t be more wrong. A perfect example being the War in Iraq and 9/11. Through manufactured events like the terror attacks of 9/11 and weapons of mass destruction propaganda, imperialistic wars of aggression by the state were approved by the public along with the fear-induced acceptance of a loss in civil liberties. The same exact thing is happening right before the people’s eyes in Syria, where the power players of the west aim to whip up enough public support to take over countries in the Middle East, such as Syria. This has largely been manufactured through the use of ISIS. It is now know throughcontrol their perceptions on issues, and steer them towards participating in an ulterior agenda. The goal is never to actually solve the root cause of the problem because doing so usually is directly against the agenda. So that leaves the important questions: who is behind this and what is the agenda?

The group behind the agenda is a small network of extremely wealthy and powerful people often referred to as the cabal of the New World Order, and their agenda is the further centralization of power into the hands of a small international elite group with the end goal of moving towards, and eventually establishing, a one-world government in which they are in control of. This has been building for quite some time and has been known and talked


within a few centuries
their numbers blanketed the earth. Fortunately, they showed no appetite for a
concerted push into the Three Seas.

The borders of the Ceneian Empire after each major conquest: Gielgath (2349), Cepalor (by the 2390s), Shigek (2397), Xerash and Amoteu (2414), Nilnemesh (2483), Cingulat (2484), Amarah (2485), Cironj (2508), Nron (2511), Ainon (2518), Cengemis (2519) and Annand (2525). The latter conquests were carried out by Triamis I, the Great, the first Aspect-Emperor of the Three Seas (2456-2577).

The fall of the No-God at the battlefield of Mengedda spelt
the end of the Consult's plan to destroy the world, but not the Consult
themselves. They retreated - according to some, taking the No-God's Carapace
with them - and sought refuge in Golgotterath. With initially thousands and
later millions of Sranc infesting all the landsbetween the Three
Seas and the Yimaleti
Mountains, the victorious armies of
Kyraneas and theirsorcerous allies were
unable to pursue. The ravages of the Indigo Plague of 2157 soon exhausted what was left of Ketyai strength, already pushed to breaking point by decades of warfare and accompanied by the death of Anaxophus V shortly after the end of the war, led to the collapse of Kyraneas.

Seswatha survived the Apocalypse, in fact living until 2168 when he died at the age of 79. Shortly after the end of the Apocalypse, with the School of Sehonc effectively destroyed, he founded the Gnostic School of Mandate, based in the fortress of Atyersus on the island of Nron. A year later he founded Attrempus on the mainland to the north-east. Fearing that his successors would forget


air the first new television episode of Star Trek in twelve years. It will be just over twenty-nine years since Star Trek: The Next Generation debuted, and just over fifty since the franchise started in the first place.

A new Star Trek TV show has been on the cards since Enterprise was cancelled in 2005, but development was delayed by the divorce between CBS and Paramount that saw the Star Trek rights split between the two companies. When Paramount began releasing its new Star Trek movies under the oversight of J.J. Abrams, CBS was also uncertain how to respond. It did not have the rights to make a TV show set in the Abramsverse and relations between the two companies were cool enough to make it unlikely they couldmore mixed reception emerge: an acknowledgement of the excellence of the cast (including the returning Nimoy) and some of the aesthetic choices, but also condemnation of, even by Star Trek standards, massive plot holes, forced humour and completely nonsensical sequences such as Vulcan's destruction being visible from a planet millions of miles away. Film critics were likewise split, many praising the effects and casting but bemoaning the story and the lack of intelligence in the script.

Benedict Cumberbatch turned in a reasonable performance in itself in Star Trek Into Darkness, but he was not a good fit for Khan.

The film's budget was $150 million, a record for the franchise but relatively modest by 2009 standards for a big-budget, effects-led action film. The film took $385 million worldwide, also a


Suriala ("Suiyela", according to Mandate sources)
gave birth to their son Nau-Cayûti. Celmomas knew that Seswatha and Suriala
shared a mutual affection and became concerned that Nau-Cayûti was not of his
blood. But such was his love for his friend - and his inability to conclusively
prove the truth of the matter - that he did not have him rebuked, merely
withdrawing his friendship for a time.

Seswatha was a master sorcerer but also a keen politician.
He befriended Anaxophus, a young prince of Kyraneas, and treated with
Nil'giccas, the Nonman King of Ishterebinth (the "Exalted
Stronghold"), as Ishoriöl was now more frequently called. Seswatha's
insights were keen, his mind sharp, his sorcery formidable and his manner one
of ease, all formidable attributes that saw him rise to become Grandmaster of
the Sohonc in his early thirties.

What happened next remainsa matter of great debate.
According to legend and The Sagas,
Seswatha received a delegation of Nonmen in Sauglish. History refers to them as Siqû, indicating they were there as teachers and advisors, not just as emissaries. Although the Nonmen
Tutelage was not reinstated, Seswatha had nevertheless forged closer ties with
Ishterebinth than had been seen since those times. According to some accounts,
Nil'giccas rewarded Seswatha's friendship with intelligence which was not so much disquieting as downright alarming.

It had been long known that the School
of Mangaecca had fled Sauglish to
seek refuge in Golgotterath. Its dark leader, Shaeönanra, survived thanks to
Inchoroi knowledge and his own sorcerous research. By the 14th Century, he had
even been given a new name: Shauriatas, "Cheater of Gods". The
Mangaecca had not been seen since, but their hand, and that of


been inclined to
distrust his old friend for the alleged betrayal with his wife, but he also
respected his judgement. In the end, Celmomas was convinced that Golgotterath
remained a threat to the world and that threat needed to be destroyed before it could unleash a horror that would bring about the end of everything.

The opening battles of the Apocalypse: 1. Sursa (2125). 2. The Great Investiture (2125-32). 3. Dagliash (2133). 4. The Burning of the White Ships, in Aesorea (2134). 5. Shiarau (2136).

In Year-of-the-Tusk 2123, Anasûrimbor Celmomas II called for
the Great Ordeal, the assembling of a vast host of armed and sorcerous might to
be cast at Golgotterath, to bring down and end the threat of the Consult
and the Inchoroi once and for all. Aörsi, which lay in the shadow ofAörsi fleet fled across the Neleöst to seek shelter in the Kûniüri
port of Aesorea,
where it was promptly destroyed by enemy agents in the event known as the
Burning of the White Ships.

In 2135 Nimeric took a mortal wound during the Battle of
Hamuir, dying soon afterwards. In the spring of 2136 Shiarau fell, and with it
Aörsi itself. Kûniüri stood alone.

The situation seemed bleak, but in 2137 Anasûrimbor
Nau-Cayûti, Prince of Kûniüri, won a stunning victory over the Consult at the
Battle of Ossirish. The armies of Kûniüri had been hard-pressed by a Consult
offensive, but Nau-Cayûti rallied his men by facing and slaughtering the Wracu
Tanhafut the Red in direct combat, a feat undreamt of since the Cûno-Inchoroi
Wars. Nau-Cayûti then led the victorious army to rout the Consult at the ruins
of Shiarau, driving the


q*g - 7 + 1. Let f(t) = 1634*t - 2. Let j be f(g). Round j to the nearest one thousand.
5000
Suppose -2386653 = -7*m + 63347. What is m rounded to the nearest one hundred thousand?
400000
Let r = 35 - 1. What is r rounded to the nearest one hundred?
0
Let s = -5180.9994982 - -5181. Round s to four decimal places.
0.0005
Let x = -94 - -93.9734. Round x to three decimal places.
-0.027
Let f = -222125.892 + 222118.892000708. Let c = f - -7. What is c rounded to 7 decimal places?
0.0000007
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-4000000
Let o = -24.7 +the space and we need to make sure that the definition we invoke does not involve particle motion relative to the space nor something fake stemming from an inappropriate frame choice.

In this section we will introduce two definitions, as to be called “*line acceleration*” and “*domain acceleration*”, respectively involving two length quantities: (i) the distance between two points in space and (ii) the size of a domain in space. For these two kinds of lengths the above tricky issue relates to the choice of two points for the line acceleration and the choice of the domain (i.e. its boundary) for the domain acceleration. With different choices (corresponding to different definitions) one might obtain very different conclusions about the acceleration/deceleration status.

In general, with a certain choice of frame (coordinate system),


fluid with the energy-momentum tensor $$T^{\mu \nu}=\rho u^\mu u^\nu \, , \quad u^\mu=(1,0,0,0) \, ,$$ the distance between two fixed points and the size of a domain with its boundary fixed in this coordinate space are simple and direct choices satisfying the requirements. In the following we will focus on this simple case of a dust fluid described in the synchronous gauge, and introduce two definitions of acceleration involving these two length quantities respectively.

Line Acceleration
-----------------

Regarding two points in space with the proper distance $L(t)$ between them at time $t$, it is reasonable to use $\dot{L}(t)$ and $\ddot{L}(t)$ to characterize the expansion/collapse status and the acceleration/deceleration status of the space in between. The expansion rate and the deceleration parameter for the proper distance $L(t)$ are defined in the usualway, as follows: $$\begin{aligned}
H_L & \equiv & \dot{L}/L \, , \\
q_L & \equiv & -\frac{\ddot{L}/L}{H_L^2} =
-\frac{\ddot{L}L}{\dot{L}^2} \, .\end{aligned}$$ The condition $\{ H_L > 0 \, , \, q_L < 0 \}$ corresponds to the accelerating expansion of the proper distance between these two points in space, which is dubbed “line acceleration” in the present paper. We have found examples of the line acceleration in a dust universe, as to be shown in Sec. \[rad\].

Domain Acceleration
-------------------

Another definition of acceleration, as dubbed “domain acceleration” in the present paper, has been widely used in the literature [@Buchert:1999er; @Sicka:1999cb; @Buchert:1999mc; @Buchert:1999pq; @Palle:2002zf; @Kolb:2005da; @Nambu:2005zn; @Rasanen:2006zw; @Rasanen:2006kp; @Wiltshire:2007fg; @Paranjape:2008ai; @Rasanen:2008it]. It is for a spatial domain $D$ with a finite volume $$\label{vd}
V_D \equiv \int_D\, \sqrt{h}\,d^3\!x ,$$ where $h$ is the determinant of the spatial


that when $r=r_D=1$, $\partial_t^2\sqrt{g_{rr}}=-4.9\times10^{-5}$ and $\partial_t^2\sqrt{g_{\theta \theta}}=-1.6\times10^{-4}\,$.[]{data-label="fig:qD1"}](./vq01.eps){width="0.65\linewidth"}

![The plots of the physical energy density $\rho$ and the quantities, $\partial_t^2\sqrt{g_{rr}}$ and $\partial_t^2\sqrt{g_{\theta
  \theta}}$, which characterize the local acceleration/deceleration status in the radial and the angular direction, respectively, for the second example in Table \[table:domain eg\]. Note that when $r=r_D=1.1$, $\partial_t^2\sqrt{g_{rr}}=-0.055$ and $\partial_t^2\sqrt{g_{\theta \theta}}=-0.43\,$.[]{data-label="fig:qD2"}](./vq1.eps){width="0.65\linewidth"}

![The plots of the physical energy density $\rho$ and the quantities, $\partial_t^2\sqrt{g_{rr}}$ and $\partial_t^2\sqrt{g_{\theta
  \theta}}$, which characterize the local acceleration/deceleration status in the radial and the angular direction, respectively, for the third example in Table \[table:domain eg\]. Note that when $r=r_D=1$, $\partial_t^2\sqrt{g_{rr}}=-0.23$ and $\partial_t^2\sqrt{g_{\theta \theta}}=-2.36\,$.[]{data-label="fig:qD3"}](./vq10.eps){width="0.65\linewidth"}

For a demonstration of the scales of the size and other quantities of this system, in Table IV we fix the only one unspecified unit by using the length unit: $0.1$Mpc, $1$Mpc,Table \[table:domain eg\] as a reference (denoted by the large dot).[]{data-label="fig:qdtopara"}](./vqrd.eps "fig:"){width="0.4\linewidth"} ![Illustration of the dependence of the deceleration parameter $q_D$ on the parameters $(t,r_D,\rho_0,r_k,n_k,h_k,r_t,n_t,h_{tb})$, using the second example in Table \[table:domain eg\] as a reference (denoted by the large dot).[]{data-label="fig:qdtopara"}](./vqrho.eps "fig:"){width="0.4\linewidth"} ![Illustration of the dependence of the deceleration parameter $q_D$ on the parameters $(t,r_D,\rho_0,r_k,n_k,h_k,r_t,n_t,h_{tb})$, using the second example in Table \[table:domain eg\] as a reference (denoted by the large dot).[]{data-label="fig:qdtopara"}](./vqrk.eps "fig:"){width="0.4\linewidth"} ![Illustration of the dependence of the deceleration parameter $q_D$ on the parameters $(t,r_D,\rho_0,r_k,n_k,h_k,r_t,n_t,h_{tb})$, using the second example in Table \[table:domain eg\] as a reference (denoted by the large dot).[]{data-label="fig:qdtopara"}](./vqnk.eps "fig:"){width="0.4\linewidth"} ![Illustration of the dependence of the deceleration parameter $q_D$ on the parameters $(t,r_D,\rho_0,r_k,n_k,h_k,r_t,n_t,h_{tb})$, using the second example in Table \[table:domain eg\] as a reference (denoted by


of further investigations:

$\bullet$ *How to understand these counter-intuitive examples?*\
$\bullet$ *Can inhomogeneities explain “cosmic acceleration”?*

Regarding the first issue, the common intuition about Eq.(\[consensus\]) may actually stem from Newtonian gravity that is a perturbed version of general relativity in the Newtonian limit with the Minkowski space-time as the background. Accordingly, this intuition may be valid only for considering the particle motion relative to a background space-time in a perturbative framework, but may be invalid for considering the evolution of space-time that is described by general relativity. For further understanding the cosmic evolution and other topics involving the general-relativity effects as the dominant effects, it will be helpful if one can build the intuition about general relativity, i.e., with which one can make a proper guess at the behavior of thealways negative for all $r$. Because $R(t,r=0)=0$, the sign of $R(t,r>0)$ should be the same as that of $R,_r$, i.e., $$\label{ltb_constraint4}
R R,_r > 0 \quad \mbox{ for } \; r > 0 \, .$$ This property will be used in Appendix \[app:NT\_example\] regarding the possibility of generating the domain acceleration with trivial $t_b(r)$.

Considering Eq. (\[eq2\]), $$\left({\frac{\dot{R}}{R}}\right)^2 = \frac{2
E(r)}{R^2}+\frac{2M(r)}{R^3} \, , \nonumber$$ for every term therein to be finite, we obtain $$\begin{aligned}
E(r=0) &=& 0 \, , \label{ltb_constraint5} \\
M(r=0) &=& 0 \, , \label{ltb_constraint6}\end{aligned}$$ because $R(t,r=0)=0$. From Eq. (\[eq3\]), $$\rho(t,r) = \frac{2M'(r)}{R^2 R,_{r}} \, , \nonumber$$ Eq. (\[ltb\_constraint3\]) requires $$\label{ltb_constraint7}
\frac{M'(r)}{R,_r(t,r)} \geq 0 \, .$$ Because $R,_r$ cannot change its sign, $M'(r)$ cannot change its sign either according to the above relation. Using the same reasoning for obtaining Eq. (\[ltb\_constraint4\]), from Eq.(\[ltb\_constraint6\]) we have $$\label{ltb_constraint8}
M(r)M'(r) \geq


the man remained stern and determined about something. All I heard were snippets of the conversation and Runt’s name a few times. The breeze carried words like “too small” and “looks bad for our breeding program”, but none of the words made any sense to me. We stopped our game of chase and focused all our attention on the argument. Runt seemed particularly disturbed by the exchange. His weak and nervous temperament made him especially vulnerable to any conflicts around him. He was shaking and trembling so I curled my body around him and licked him like Mother had always done until he stopped whimpering and trying to hide under the dog house.

Eventually the argument between the 2 humans seemed to come to a head and they botheven joined in some chase games with Grunt and the big boys. I had never seen him so happy and strong and for the first time I spent the day free from worrying about my little brother and took extra naps in the sun with my new freedom.Late in the day we saw Joey and his Mother getting into the car for a trip to town. He had not been down to play with us all day so I was a little disappointed that he had errands to run but was sure he would be back to play with us soon. Just like Mother, he always came back. Where else was there to go? Joey seemed particularly upset to have to leave us but his mother prodded him


would answer no questions about what had happened to Runt or when he would be coming back to play. She was so sad I tried to reassure her that Runt would be OK. I told her how he had been stronger than ever that day and had even pinned Pokey momentarily in a wrestling game. She was not to be comforted though and before long she told us that Runt had gone to a better place and we should not speak his name again. Everybody loved Runt, but I think I loved him most of all. I was happy to hear he was in a better place and knew that could only mean he was somewhere with Joey in the house living like a king. He would bea lot of heat. Although we still slept close together, the cool breezes at night kept us from getting too warm.Joey didn’t come to see us for a few days after Runt went to live in the house, but I knew it was because Runt was still just a baby and needed constant company and attention so he wouldn’t get lonely and miss us too much. But like us, Joey was young and soon was back outside in our pen playing with us every day. Since he loved me the most I knew he and I would spend the rest of our lives together, growing up and playing in the yard with all my brothers and sisters forever.

The yard in the pen was getting too small for us.


went and Brandy went with her. I was stunned. I knew there was world outside our farm but why would Brandy have to go there? Didn’t she belong here with her family? Who would she curl up with at night and play with during the day?Before I knew it Pudgy, and then Pokey, Belle, and Sunshine were spirited away in cars too. Even Peter seemed to find someone to overlook his ears. In a matter of one afternoon all my brothers and sisters were gone except me and Grunt. I just sat in the pen and whined. Where had they gone? Would they be back? Why hadn’t Mother or Joey stopped them? After dinner had been brought Mother came out of the house to explain things to us.Shelots of money and could have anything she wanted and she wanted me. Joey laughed right back and said I wasn’t for sale at any price! Oh how he loved me! Not even money could make my Joey give me up.Unfortunately, Joey’s father didn’t share these same sentiments. Later that night I heard Joey and his father yelling and arguing about me and how they could not turn down $1500 for a puppy when Joey was leaving for college next year and couldn’t take me with him anyway. In the end, Joey’s father won out and the next morning the girl arrived in a shiny little car, paid the money, and took me away from my Mother, my home, and Joey.The night before I left both Joey and


my Mother tried to explain things to me so I would understand why I had to leave. My Mother said “Dear Honey, I know you’ll miss us all terribly, but it is your place to go and live with a human family. They will become your Mother, brothers and sisters, and your friends. You will have food and a nice place to sleep and toys and someone to play with. They will always love you and you should always love them and obey them. I know you are still a baby and want to be with your mother3, but that’s not how the world of men works. Do you think this family could keep all the puppies? How would they feed and care for so many dogs? No,bad, Huh?” Indeed I had, but I still had to go and now she was holding me again! We could have avoided the first accident if she had put me down and now she seemed determined to squeeze a second, much more horrific mess right out of me. Luckily, just in the nick of time she set me down again and I ran to the nearest bushes so that I might Mess in somewhat private circumstances. This seemed to please Susie as she praised me the whole time and I quickly learned that Susie liked it when I went mess and didn’t like it at all when I only urinated. Although this fascination Susie held for my baser bodily functions made little sense to me, I made a


bed for me so I wouldn’t have to spend my first night away from my mother alone.Susie arrived home sometime in the middle of the night acting very strangely. She was wobbling around and all her words were slurred and garbled. I was so tired I could barely stay awake for more than a few seconds at a time, but I remember Susie and Karen fighting about me again.“What are you doing with my puppy!” Susie screamed.“We’re sleeping, you drunk bitch!’ Karen yelled back. “You just left her here with no food or company. What did you think I’d do? Just listen to her cry her little heart out until it was convenient for you to pay her some attention?!”“She’s my puppy and you can’t have her!” Susiefinished she let me back in and gave me a bowl of food before climbing back into bed.After I ate breakfast I surveyed the rest of my new home. The floor was littered with all kinds of new chew toys that came in matching pairs and smelled wonderfully of feet! I chewed a few of those for awhile and then found some marvelously tasty leather ropes that I could drag around the room as I chewed them to pieces. Susie would be so proud of me when she woke up! I was sure I chewed through the leather of all my new toys faster than any other dog she’d ever seen. After I played for an hour or so I curled up next to Susie’s bed to take


It asked as it surveyed the room looking for my bowl.

“Oh. I’m a puppy. I live here. I have lots of food! Please, help yourself. I’ve got water too, and toys and a warm bed for you. Can you stay? Can you please stay?” I knew I was whining and needy, but it wasn’t my nature to be alone.“Sure kid. I can stay for awhile. I have things to do and other friends to see, but I’ll make sure I come by and see you everyday. OK?”“Oh! Thank you so much. I don’t know where my owner went, but until she comes back I can’t stand being alone all the time!” I tried licking its face but it just growled at me.“I know kid. They do it everspittle flying in all directions as they lunged at me from the other side of steel mesh walls and doors. What was this place?

I immediately tried to run back toward the double doors and my beloved Susie, but the woman on the other side of my leash was stronger and even more determined than I was to get me down the stinking, slimy hallway toward what fate I could only guess. So cringing from the assaults on my nose, ears and eyes, quivering with fear at what my fate was to be, I arrived at my final destination. It was the cage furthest from the doors where I had entered and as far from safety and Susie as possible. The door was opened and I was shoved through


fatal car wreck and no one’s thought to see where the deceased’s dog ended up. The Cavalier King Charles rescue club will probably save him before its too late. Chester is a Labrador retriever that just grew too big and kept knocking down his owner. Training would have solved the problem but that takes time and most humans don’t like to spend valuable time and money cleaning up their messes. They just blame the dog and move on. Pugsly is a Bull dog. His owners had to have an exotic pet to get them attention so they bought Pugsly because he was white and therefore rare. They both worked full time and left poor Pugs locked up in a crate for 12 hours at a time from hisin it. So no, Boomer won’t be leaving here with a new family. Even the woman is scared of Pit Bulls, so this is an emergency and the man will come soon to put Boomer down.” Learned was so jaded he just recited the facts without anger. He’d been here a long time.I looked at Boomer’s loving face and generous smile and almost cried. He was wrong and would have to die. His poor family must have been crushed to move to a new town and be welcomed by the dog warden to take their dog away.19

A few minutes later the woman came into the kennel with a leash and some dog treats. She went straight to Boomer’s run acting like he was a vicious dog that needed


heard one last “Idiots!” and not another sound.“Will they really get to California?” I asked Learned.“I doubt it,” he replied cynically “but if they do, they won’t find the land of glory they think is there.”

I couldn’t sleep. I just lay on the concrete floor with my mind reeling from all I seen and heard since Susie had abandoned me. None of it made any sense. Was I just a toy to be thrown away like one of Susie’s old cell phones? Or was I something more, yet something less than a real living animal?After what seemed to be an eternity of mental agony I finally had to speak.“Learned? Are you still awake?” I asked sheepishly knowing he wasn’t. But I was wrong.“Yes little one, I’m awake. I’vewhat we observed. She had been hit by a car and could only drag her paralyzed body an inch at a time toward the light. She must have been trying reach the building for hours, yet no human stopped to help her. Her fur was crawling with biting ants trying to eat her alive, impatient to beat the fleas and ticks that infested her out for the last few red blood cells still in her tired body. She had long misshapen teats from countless litters of puppies and her ribs stuck out like the rungs of a ladder. How she provided milk for any young is beyond me, but she must have done her best.Her ears had been cropped badly by a home job and the scar tissue


she still hadn’t shown her face.“Where is she?” I asked Learned.“We’re closed on Sundays. The woman comes in late. Sometimes there are volunteers to feed us, sometimes there aren’t. She’s a god-fearing woman and this is “the Lord’s Day” so she has to go to church to pray and be told how bad or good she’s been this week.” He answered.

“But isn’t it bad that she’s forgotten about us? Wouldn’t her god be angry with her for being so mean?” I implored in my ignorance.“Not this god. He would have along time ago but now they don’t pay much attention to what he says if it requires actions instead of just words. Besides, if he were real, he probably would get mad, but in this world only thecare. This vet had no office, no other clients but a few puppy mills like the one under investigation and the several animal control officers themselves, and had had his licence suspended in the past several times. On my owner’s demand a well respected vet was allowed to examine the animals. All showed signs of starvation and mal-nutrition. It was recommended that two of the animals be put down. These allegations were backed up by laboratory analysis of the dogs blood as well as a physical examination.”“That night my owner received threatening phone calls from the abused dogs’ owner. Confused as to how his identity was revealed, he found out in the morning that Animal Control had given his name and number out claiming it was necessary under


your stupid bitch of an owner had left them here with you! That’s not Joey. He doesn’t even know Joey! You have to make a run for it Honey!” he yelled at me.“I. . . . I don’t understand Learned. What are you so upset about?” I stammered.The man turned to the woman and told her to shut the damn mutts up so he could hear himself think. She yelled at us to be quiet and then turned her back on both of us but forgot to completely shut the door.“Here’s the ‘doption fee like I’s promised you and the extra $20 s’ for you calln’ me to tell me she’s here. She’s a fine one and I sure do ‘preciate your business.” He handed her some greenbut before he even made contact the man slowly and calmly reached in his coat and brought out a shiny metal object. All the dogs were barking and leaping at the fronts of their cages. The beagles were singing “Puppy Mill, Puppy mill run Honey Puppy Mill.” Other dogs were encouraging either me, or Learned, or both “Run Honey! Kill him Learned!”Suddenly there was a loud booming crack and then silence. Learned slumped to the floor inches from the man’s feet.“Shoot that fucking crazy dog again!” The woman yelled. “I hate his pissing in the isle and his stupid looks and its time he was out of here!”The man pointed the metal object at Learned’s head and made the loud sound two more times. The last thing Learned


hairs that remained were dull and brittle. My muscles wasted away and before long my skin too had the black-grey appearance of all the others. It was from an infection the fleas carried from cage to cage as they ate our blood. I no longer felt the itch or burn from the parasites. I had become numb and insensitive to anything but hunger, thirst, and the need to breed when the time was right. My teats hung loosely from my body, stretched and deformed from puppies I could not wean nor escape. I was the perfect puppy mill bitch. Papered, well behaved, and fertile.I can’t dwell on this time of my life. I ashamed of the indignities I was forced to commit and my inability to love myforth until I vomited from the rolling motion. Suddenly a huge gust of wind pushed my cage all the way over and it came crashing down from its wobbly legs and smashed on the ground in the pile of a years worth of my messes. The wrenching motion broke the door free and it swung open. I was free. I could leave! But I just lay there trembling, unsure of what to do.

My muscles were weak. Could I still run? Where would I go? Was there anywhere better than this, or could things get worse? And then I realized, No, things could never be worse. At best I could escape and hide until I starved to death and was released from my torturous existence. I could go to


so long at first I was startled by the clean air. I hadn’t the strength to rise, but I was glad I was still alive to have one last chance to smell the real world and see the bright clear sunshine rise over the late spring river. And strangest of all the fleas had left my body! I still itched like mad but at least I could finally scratch and roll in the pine needles for some relief,I was hungry but there was nothing I could do about that. My thirst however, could be satisfied quite nicely from the river. I rose with aching bones and raw, sore pads but managed to make it to the shore and quench my thirst. My legs were trembling from the previoushad the strength I would have sunk my teeth into his leg to the bone, but alas, all I could do was growl and lie there giving him dirty looks.When the sound of my growl reached him jumped back and yelled “Oh shit! I’m sorry old dog. I thought you were dead. Are you OK? Are you hurt boy? Here, let me help you.” And he dragged me from the river into the warm sun. “I don’t know what to do for you, but I’ll go get help and be right back.” He told me. I just kept growling at him to leave me alone, but he seemed oblivious to my threats. Then, much to my relief he turned and ran back into the woods faster than he


before gently placing me in the back of his station wagon.“You’re the big animal lover.” He said sarcastically to the woman. “I can’t believe you’d just leave this poor dog here.”“I didn’t say we should leave her. I just thought you should be careful so you don’t get bit. I’m not thrilled about bringing a strange sick animal into my house where she could infect my dog, but I’m willing to do it. I just don’t want to get bit for my efforts.”“She didn’t bite me.” He said as he jumped into the driver’s seat. “Come on! You said we had to hurry.”“I said as soon as possible. Its Sunday morning and I doubt we’ll find a vet that can see her until tomorrow. I don’t want toseem heartless, but are you going to pay for it? I can’t afford it. I’ll do what I can to help but I’m broke and Vets need cash on delivery.”“Don’t worry about it. I’ll pay. Just make her OK.” He drove as fast as he could but kept on eye on my comfort in the rear view mirror so as not to jolt me too much.We arrived at a house on the river just a few minutes later and they both came to the back of the car to get a closer look at me.“Go into my room and get me the dog thermometer out of the small white chest of drawers. Don’t let the dog out! I don’t want him in contact with her until we know


what we’re supposed to do with her if she gets better.”“Maybe she’s lost and her owners are looking for her?” He asked hopefully.“This dog is in rotten shape. She’s been bred at least two times in the last year and looks 10 years older than she is. Her skin is rotting off and her ears are clogged with pus. She’s half starved and so weak I doubt she’s seen the outside of a cage in the last year either. Whomever owns her is not getting her back!” She snapped back at him, disgusted with his ignorance but already feeling guilty about being mean again.“Ok” he replied quietly, keeping a low profile like the males of all species quickly learn to do when faced with an irritated female.He liftedto give her back. She’s his property” My man said.“She’s not going back there!” The woman yelled.“Calm down” said the vet. “He’s right. The law says she has to go back, but I think if you saw the place you might find a way to pretend you don’t know that. I’ll give you the address and you go look around. If you still want to take her back I can’t stop you.”I knew humans couldn’t be trusted! He wanted to take me back to Mr. Bush. The woman didn’t want to do that, but she refused to keep me because I was too much work and too much trouble. All they had done was make me better so I could go back to hell for another year or


young man came over to talk to my man.“Hi,” He said. “That’s a beautiful dog you have there. My family breeds Golden Retrievers. I can’t wait til I graduate from college and get another dog”“Yes, she’s a great dog.” My man said as he stroked my head affectionately and looked at me with love in his eyes. “I rescued her a couple of years ago and I’ve never regretted it for a moment. Sometimes I think she rescued me too!”“I had one just like her” The young man said.He reached toward my head to pet me and as his hand came within inches of my face I lunged and sunk my teeth as deep into his flesh as I could! I heard bones crunch and tasted the warmwhite cinematography by Douglas Slocombe is at turns evocative and linear depending on if the shots are inside or outside. Regardless, he does good work. I also should mention that the score to the film featuring incidental music by legendary composer John Barry relies heavily on classical music and is very well done.

Overall, if you like a well-made drama, it will appeal to you. It is not overly sentimental, but it does try to make you feel something. Fans of realistic dramas will enjoy.

Video: How’s it look?

Sony have provided a great-looking new transfer in 1080p with an MPEG-4 AVC encoding and 1.66:1 aspect ratio from the vaults at Columbia. Sony are the best in the business in my opinion, and this is another great example of how much


Wednesday, December 3, 2008

'Tis the Season for Moving

I'm not entirely sure why, but several people I know are moving right now. I just moved last week. My brother is moving today ... and we get to help! And my BF's grandparents are moving tomorrow ... and we get to help again! Good thing we're both unemployed at the moment :)unknown. But also for the non-users the results do not show the expected relationship of noise intensity and hearing loss (Fig. [3](#Fig3){ref-type="fig"}).

Apparently, the variability between individual workers combined with confounding factors such as the use of hearing protection, differences in past exposure, slight TTS-effects, and the inaccuracy of the noise exposure estimations prevent us from making accurate predictions of the effects of noise intensity on hearing, even in a population of this large size.

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Hearing protection may have its greatest effect at high ambient noise levels. Workers exposed to higher noise intensities are obliged to wear hearing protection and are more bothered by ambient noise, making them more consistent in wearing their protection (Rabinowitz et al. [@CR35]). In lower ambient noise levels HPDs may interfere with


college. She was already interested in refugees; now she’s interested and involved.

Utica, a 20-minute drive from campus, has gained a measure of fame as a city revived by refugees. For decades, Utica lost people in droves as its industries died. Its population dropped from more than 100,000 in 1960 to an estimated 61,100 in 2015. The refugees have mitigated the slide. Since 1981, the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees has settled 15,000 people from around the world in Utica.

Recent U.S. census data show that 19 percent of Utica residents are foreign born and that a language other than English is spoken in 26 percent of its households. For its part, Utica has opened its arms to the new arrivals. In 2005, Refugees, the magazine of the Unitedbecame part of a summer research team working in classrooms with refugees and immigrants who’d been settled in Utica. What had been abstract thinking became deeper and personal as she considered what the relocation of refugees and immigrants meant to a community, how a community evolves with the newcomers and what happens to vulnerable populations.

“It was just such a human way to be thinking about these things because we’re building relationships with these people as we’re tackling these issues on a more intellectual level. So for me it was just incredibly moving,” Parker Zielinski recalls. “I was amazed at the openness and warmth of these people who had really gone through a lot of trauma — and here are college students sort of fumbling through, trying to understand