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Primary logo must include city name and team name.

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A basketball must be incorporated into one of the team logos (primary, alternate, etc.)

So the recent trend toward rondels gives teams the opportunity to kill three birds with one stone. Even if it’s leading us toward a boring, monolithic NBA.storage section 23 and the horizontal CCD 9.
With reference to FIG. 4, the image section of the frame transfer type CCD image sensor includes a p-type Si substrate 18, a gate oxide film 4 formed on the p-type Si substrate 18, and a plurality of vertical CCD electrodes 26 arranged on the gate oxide film 4. One of drive signals I.sub..PHI.1 to I.sub..PHI.3 is applied to every three vertical CCD electrodes 26.
As illustrated in FIG. 4, a single pixel 27 corresponds to three vertical CCD electrodes 26. Herein, a single pixel means a region surrounded by the vertical CCD electrodes 26 in the number associated with the number of phases of drive signals 24 constituting one stage of CCD and the channel stop regions 8. There are formed


this time, the next signal charges are transferred into the horizontal CCD 9 by next transfer operation of the storage section 23, and then read out of the output section 10.
After signal charges associated with an image have been all read out through the horizontal CCD 9, the drive signals 24 applied to the image section 22 and the drive signals 25 applied to the storage section 23 become high-speed transfer pulses again, and then the next signal charges are transferred to the storage section 23. In the same manner as mentioned above, signal charges associated with an image are successively read out pixel by pixel.
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players that the story developed.

I've thought about this notion a bit more, especially as it relates to communal storytelling games.

I mentioned the notion of granularity in my post on the Forge, but I hadn't really formulated my ideas too clearly as I was writing the post. Now I've had some more time to think about it, and now that I've riffed a bit further off Jason Godesky's ideas, I present a more coherent notion for a currency of storyline element introduction.

Players would gain a fixed number of points at the start of play, maybe a dozen.

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What about the following hypothetical question?

What does ‘a man's best friend is his dog’ mean?

Would that question be on-topic today on EL&U? Would a question that didn't even attempt to look up its meaning survive longer than a couple of hours on the main page? Then why should it be any different if the question is about its origin?
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The main motivation for considering our study of compactification in the context of quantum cosmology lies in ascertaining how this process takes place. Indeed, this is crucial for extracting classical predictions from any multidimensional unifying theories. In fact, no cosmological description can be considered complete till specifying the set of initial conditions for integration of the classical equations of motion. Furthermore, since the quantum cosmological approach of Hartle and Hawking [@hh] allows for a well defined programme for establishing this set of initial conditions, it is quite natural to extend this approach to the study of the issue of compactification in higher-dimensional theories. This programme has been already applied to many different quantum models of interest


very close point to $=0$, we get
\beq
S_E=\int_0 ^{\Delta\tau}{d\tau \frac{6\pi}{k} \left[
-\tau -\frac{\tau}{4}+
\tau^3e^{-d\alpha \phi}(e^{-2\alpha\phi}-1)^2\frac{\Lambda}{3}
+\frac{1}{\tau}e^{d\alpha\phi}\frac{2\pi k}{e^2}v_1
\right]},
\eeq
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setting $a=e\^$, the integration yields\\
\beq
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\displaystyle -\frac{5}{8}e^{2\mu}+e^{4\mu-d\alpha \phi}
\left(e^{-2\alpha \phi}-1\right)^2\frac{k\Lambda}{72\pi}
&\mbox{, for $v_1=0$}~,
\\
+\infty &\mbox{, for $v_1\neq 0$}~.
\end{array}\right.
\label{eq:3.9}
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Since, with a suitable choice of the metric, we can have
 $=e\^[-S\_[E]{}]{}$ near the past null infinity
(see ref. \cite{jh}), $\^-$, we can
easily obtain the boundary conditions. This analysis is simplified
by introducing the following new variables:
\beq
\begin{array}{l}
x=e^{\mu}\sinh\phi \\
y=e^{\mu}\cosh\phi~,
\end{array}
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such that the past null infinity $\^-$ now corresponds to the
lines $x=y$ and $x=-y$. The boundary conditions on $\^-$, that are
shown in Table 1, can be easily obtained from (\ref{eq:3.9}).  For all
over $\^-$, the normal derivative vanishes, $=0$.

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   {  }        1. Introduction {#sec1-ijerph-17-00174}
===============

The success of electronic commerce (EC) is dependent on the internet infrastructure online services \[[@B1-ijerph-17-00174]\]. A new model of communication via e-mail, internet, e-travel, web services, and social media has increased in customer service, and the role of traditional communications such as the telephone has decreased \[[@B2-ijerph-17-00174]\]. The high-tech environments enable transactions to take place through virtual channels, no longer requiring the physical presence between customers and service providers. The trend is away from face-to-face contact and toward online services \[[@B2-ijerph-17-00174],[@B3-ijerph-17-00174]\].

A focus on developing online consumers is central to business models in electronic commerce \[[@B4-ijerph-17-00174]\]. Travel agents and managers must learn how to maintain customer relationship quality and continuance intention, and they must understand the influence of antecedent factors in the e-tourism environment. Specifically, e-tourism has


serve their needs and expectations.

2.2. Relationship Quality and Continuance Intention in E-Tourism {#sec2dot2-ijerph-17-00174}
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According to the expectation disconfirmation model, a customer's continuance intention is influenced by service quality and customer satisfaction \[[@B14-ijerph-17-00174]\]. In an e-commerce B2C model, it has been shown that customer satisfaction influences consumers' continuance intentions as the outcome of cognitive, affective, and conative loyalty \[[@B15-ijerph-17-00174]\]. Furthermore, relationship quality has a positive influence on repurchase intention in B2B e-commerce \[[@B16-ijerph-17-00174]\]. Satisfaction and trust have been examined as a single entity, where the relationship quality was considered as a second-order construct \[[@B16-ijerph-17-00174]\]. The present study shows that relationship quality consists of satisfaction and trust, which can predict a customer's continuance to purchase the product or service in the e-tourism environment. Customer satisfaction and trust are examined as separateservice quality, information use, use, user satisfaction, and net benefits \[[@B18-ijerph-17-00174]\]. This develops a different definition regarding the information system \[[@B19-ijerph-17-00174]\]. The system quality consists of response time, system reliability, and system availability, which have a positive impact on the perceived ease of use and usefulness of website \[[@B18-ijerph-17-00174],[@B20-ijerph-17-00174]\].

Service quality is defined as the user's perceptions regarding the service performance \[[@B21-ijerph-17-00174]\]. Service quality measures the discrepancy between what the customer feels and needs and what is offered accordingly to fulfill the customer's expectations \[[@B20-ijerph-17-00174],[@B22-ijerph-17-00174]\]. For example, service quality on multi communication mechanisms enables the user to have their complaints responded to in a timely manner.

Information system success has been measured in four dimensions: completeness, accuracy, format, and currency \[[@B23-ijerph-17-00174]\]. For information quality, the user-perceived effectiveness of system quality


Survey Collection {#sec3dot2-ijerph-17-00174}
----------------------

The questionnaire was targeted to online travel users such as students, information technology users, manufacturers, and customers in finance, public service, and medical fields, who have experience buying domestic or international travel itineraries such as air tickets, reservations, and car rentals, as well as experience booking hotels and other services in e-travel (e.g., Ezfly, Eztravel, Skyscanner, tripadvisor). We chose websites that were the most popular and where the systematic system can easily be accessed by personal computer (PC) and cell phones, with flexible times and affordable prices for young or elderly people. The data were collected over two months in Taiwan. For more information regarding the survey items, refer to [Appendix A](#app1-ijerph-17-00174){ref-type="app"}. To maximize the respondents' awareness on this survey, we contacted the respondents by emailresults showed that perceived value has a positive and significant effect on continuance intention through the mediator of customer satisfaction, PV--SAT--CI, with a Sobel-test statistic (z = 3.10, \*\* *p* \< 0.01). Consequently, customer trust has a positive and significant effect on customer continuance intention through customer satisfaction, TR--SAT--CI, with a Sobel-test statistic (z = 2.31, \* *p* \< 0.05). Second, the study also accesses the variance-accounted-for (VAF) ratio by accounting effect (indirect effects/total effects = VAF). Thereby, we can determine the extent to which the dependent variable is directly explained by the independent variable and how much of the target construct variance is explained by the indirect relationship via the mediator variable \[[@B38-ijerph-17-00174],[@B39-ijerph-17-00174]\]. If the VAF ratio is less than 20%, it shows a non-significant mediating effect;


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As for storage:

100-1000 bytes for meta information, versus
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conventions: PD as the partial derivative term $\left( \left| \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_{i}} \right| \right)$, PD value as the PD expression tested at the nominal values of parameters ($\overline{\textbf{x}}$), and PE as the absolute value of parameter error, exposed in [Table 1](#tbl0010){ref-type="table"} ($\Delta x_{i}$). In that way, the contribution of a parameter $x_{i}$ to the total model output error can be comprehended as the multiplication of its correspondent PE and PD value.

Observe that a high PD value for a specific parameter suggests a strong correlation between the parameter value and the output range. On the other hand, a large value for the PE of a parameter can lead to a strong correlation, even when its PD value is quite negligible. Noticeably, while the PE of a given parameter iseach parameter itself) and the *k* total-order effects (the contribution of each parameter itself plus all its interactions with other parameters) [@br0390].

Since we want to assess the reduction in model output uncertainty, we compute the *k* total-order effects ($S_{Ti}$), estimating Equation [(8)](#fm0080){ref-type="disp-formula"} as proposed in [@br0390]. Equation [(8)](#fm0080){ref-type="disp-formula"} must be read as the total sensitivity index for parameter *i* ($S_{Ti}$), that is equal to the expected variance that would be left if all factors, except $x_{i}$, could be fixed, divided by the total model variance, i.e., the normalized mean-variance with which parameter *i* contributes to the model output. For a detailed explanation of the Indexes calculation and their interpretation, we refer the reader to [@br0390].$$S_{Ti} = \frac{E_{\mathbf{X}_{\sim \mathbf{i}}}(V_{x_{i}}(Y|{\mathbf{X}_{\sim \mathbf{i}}))}}{V(Y)}$$

Where: $E( \cdot )$ is the Expectation of mean argument,


mortality and probabilities of infection are special cases of the Equation [(9)](#fm0090){ref-type="disp-formula"} in which the value of *η* is equal to 1. We can implement the proposed equation in more cases than the classical exponential-based equations. For future investigations, we propose to select different locations and carefully estimate VC parameters to compare both Equations [(3)](#fm0030){ref-type="disp-formula"}-[(9)](#fm0090){ref-type="disp-formula"} and determine the best fit for VC. Thus, it will only be possible by reducing the uncertainty in the VC parameters.

5. Conclusion {#se0140}
=============

From the literature analysis of VC equations, it was possible to propose a basic structure that reduces VC output space. We attested that the most important parameters in VC vary according to its confidence intervals and the mathematical structure itself. Also, during the review of biological concepts that compose VC, itreagents, materials, analysis tools or data.

S. Arboleda-Sanchez: Conceived and designed the experiments; Performed the experiments.

M.E. Puerta-Yepes: Contributed reagents, materials, analysis tools or data.

D.P. Lizarralde-Bejarano: Analyzed and interpreted the data.

Funding statement {#se0180}
-----------------

This work was supported by Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia Tecnologia e Innovacion COLCIENCIAS Colombia (grant number 111572553478).

Competing interest statement {#se0190}
----------------------------

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Additional information {#se0200}
----------------------

Supplementary content related to this article has been published online at [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e02577](10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e02577){#inf0170}.

No additional information is available for this paper.

Supplementary material {#se0150}
======================

The following Supplementary material is associated with this article:MOSQUITOSUPERVIVENCE.XLSXExperimental data: the number of female mosquito deaths per day for the Bello population.MOSQUITOSUPERVIVENCE.XLSX

We thank to our colleagues from *Biología y Control de Enfermedades Infecciosas* who provided mosquitoes data. We thank to Prof. Carlos Mario vélez for assistance, insight and expertise that greatly


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378. The Goonies (1985)

Director: Richard Donner

Every generation has a film that will always be carried in its heart. This madcap, Spielberg- produced adventure about a gaggle of treasure-hunting brats stuck in booby-trapped mazes is that film for anyone born around 1980. Read Review

377. Mean Streets (1973)

Director: Martin Scorsese

Try to watch this remembering that, at the time, nobody had heard of Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro or Harvey Keitel. You're watching the start of a new cinematic era. Read Review

376. Zodiac (2007)

Director: David Fincher

How do you turnsamurai armour put you off - abetted once again by Toshiro Mifune (here a businessman whose son is kidnapped), Kurosawa proved himself a master of any genre he deigned to tackle. Read Review

339. Spirited Away (2001)

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

For too many, this was an overdue introduction to the crazy-beautiful delights of Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli - and also a reminder of the wonderful mythologies that thrive far beyond the boundaries of Disney's magic kingdom. Read Review

338. Jules Et Jim (1962)

Director: François Truffaut

Truffaut's deeply affecting love-triangle drama came at (or rather, helped form) the crest of the revolutionary French New Wave, and its zest remains untainted. Read Review

337. 300 (2006)

Director: Zack Snyder

Falling just 37 places short of its ideal spot, Snyder's buff, beefy comic adaptation slammed Sparta onto the cinematic


last day of school in 1976 Texas, but it’s Richard Linklater’s capturing of teenage hang-ups that gives this eternally likable film ‘cult classic’ status. Read Review

243. Heimat (1984)

Director: Edgar Reitz

The running time is 924 minutes. It takes that long to tell the story of 20th century Germany through one family drama. Part One was said to be one of Kubrick’s favourite films — you won’t be bored. You might, however, need the toilet. Read Review

242. King Kong (1933)

Director: Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack

A pioneer in special effects, it's also an argument that effects don’t matter. Yes, the ape is clearly, to the modern eye, a crudely animated doll, but you’re too convinced by Kong as a character to notice. Read Review

241. Brighton Rock (1947)

Director: John Boulting

Ifcasting Jack Nicholson as a mobster Mephistopheles in a picture that finally snagged Scorsese an overdue Oscar. Your votes prove it wasn’t purely a sentiment-driven award, though. Read Review

207. The Misfits (1961)

Director: John Huston

Perhaps a surprise inclusion, given it’s not generally considered Huston’s best picture, but holds a place in hearts as the final film of both romantic leads: Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable. Read Review

206. The Exorcist (1973)

Director: William Friedkin

Obviously here because it’s a brooding meditation on faith, fear and the challenges of child-rearing... Not because of the whole unfortunate onanism-with-a-crucifix incident. Or the extreme profanity. Or the pea soup... No. Read Review

205. The Addiction (1995)

Director: Abel Ferrara

Christopher Walken is a vampire; vein-draining is a drug metaphor; Abel Ferrara is an art-house and exploitation auteur. Read Review

204.


Germarostes

Germarostes is a genus of pill scarab beetles in the family Hybosoridae. There are at least 70 described species in Germarostes.

Species
These 72 species belong to the genus Germarostes:

 Germarostes abruptus (Petrovitz, 1973) c g
 Germarostes allorgei (Paulian, 1947) c g
 Germarostes anchicayae Paulian, 1982 c g
 Germarostes antiquus (Erichson, 1843) c g
 Germarostes aphodioides (Illiger, 1800) i c g b
 Germarostes argentinus (Ohaus, 1911) c g
 Germarostes batesi (Harold, 1874) c g
 Germarostes bidens (Bates, 1887) c g
 Germarostes brunnipes (Germar, 1843) c g
 Germarostes bugabensis (Arrow, 1903) c g
 Germarostes carinatus (Paulian, 1982) c
 Germarostes carltoni Howden & Gill, 2005 c g
 Germarostes columbianus Paulian, 1982 c g
 Germarostes costulatus Paulian, 1982 c g
 Germarostes crassicollis (Arrow, 1903) c
 Germarostes degallieri Paulian, 1982 c g
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"Well, arrest him!" "Ow!" "Stop!" "My ears!" "What do you think you're doing?" "!" "Like the song says, Lesser Sage..." ""With the ringing of the bell, the Sages knew where they must dwell."" "Ow!" "Like the song says, you Sages, it's time for you to go back where you came from." "Yes!" "Yes!" "To the sky!" "And they must go on wings of fire!" "Wings of fire!" "Wings of fire!" "Wings of fire!" "Wings of fire!" "Wings of fire!" "We are your gods!" "This is outrageous!" " Look, we are your gods." " I am your god." "We're the Sages." "Hands off of your god." "No." "No." "Wait a minute, people." "There's no reason to interpret" ""The Song of the Sages" so literally." "Kafar!" "Kafar!" "Stop them!" "Weproduced in the “DC and AC voltage charging” than in the “DC voltage charging”. The reason for this is considered that reverse electric discharge (i.e., electric discharge from a photoreceptor to a charging member) occurs between a charging member and a photoreceptor in the “DC and AC voltage charging”. Therefore, the number of electric discharging in the “DC and AC voltage charging” is much more than that in the “DC voltage charging”. An actual utilization of the “DC voltage charging” is typically difficult due to problems, such as, unevenness of the potential of a charged photoreceptor due to the change of a gap distance, and unstable discharge. Therefore, it is considered to be preferable that the “DC and AC voltage charging” be employed for the non-contact type charging


that filming is caused by wax added to toner and adhered to the surface of the image carrier. Moreover, it is assumed that filming is caused by the surface of the image carrier damaged by a cleaning blade or a cleaning brush and carrier particles in a developer. However, these assumptions are not confirmed completely by experiment.
Thus, it is desirable to provide a charging device that prevents an occurrence of a filming phenomenon, extends each useful life of an image carrier and a charging member, and provides a high quality image without uneven density, and to provide an image forming process cartridge, and an image forming apparatus including such a charging device.holes in their games and we need to be far better to create chances."

The Kings will be boosted by the return of the former Norris Trophy winner Doughty and a possible return by another veteran defenseman in Jake Muzzin, who missed the first two games with an upper-body injury.

With Vegas in command of the series, coach Gerard Gallant expects Los Angeles' best game of the series as his team attempts to put a stranglehold on their inaugural postseason series and wonders what effect the double-overtime affair will have on both teams.

"The Kings are going to come out real hard," Gallant said. "I don't know what Game 2 is going to take out of both teams. I don't think the pace will be quite the same as it was


because the guys are pretty tired and beat up from five periods of hockey on Friday. They are going back to their building and I am sure they are going to come out hard and play real hard. Los Angeles is a great hockey team. It's a great series so far."

Haula, whose game-winning goal was his first career overtime score, mapped out the strategy in the hopes of moving one win away from a series victory Sunday night.

"We just keep playing the same way," Haula said. "We did our job at home and now we go there and go to their building. It's going to be harder. They are going to be better and we know that. We have to be better and it's going to be alaser (Spectra Physics). The laser beam passed through a 40x water-immersion objective (NA 0.8, Olympus) through which fluorescence light was collected as well. Imaging was controlled by the software package HelioScan written in LabView [@pone.0081177-Langer1].

Dye uptake in the applied bulk loading protocol is known to be a slow process [@pone.0081177-Stosiek1] that can take 0.5--3 h [@pone.0081177-Ohki1] depending on the species under investigation: In our experiments with zebra finches, fluorescence levels within cells reached stable values roughly 30--60 minutes after dye injection. Thereafter we started recording movies. While imaging we played back auditory stimuli through a loudspeaker positioned centrally ca. 20 cm in front of the bird. We placed a microphone right next to the bird\'s beak to record the auditory scenery, allowing for post-hoc detection of disturbing sounds


and exclusion of affected recordings. During imaging, there was a constant faint high-frequency tone generated by the scanning mirrors of the microscope.

HVC is situated superficially in the posterior pallium. It is covered by a layer of parahippocampus and separated from it by the lateral ventricle (LV). The thickness of parahippocampus over HVC decreases from medial to lateral and from anterior to posterior. Whereas medial anterior HVC can be obstructed by a few hundred micrometers of tissue, only a thin layer of a few tens of micrometers separates lateral HVC from the brain surface. To avoid deep tissue imaging, we imaged mainly in lateral parts of HVC, roughly 2.5 mm lateral of the sagittal sinus. When we moved the optical plane from the surface to increasing depths (along zchose neuropil ROIs in regions of roughly constant OGB-1 intensity and not obviously containing ROIs of other types. To assess background fluorescence we also chose ROIs in dark areas, mainly blood vessels, from which we calculated the time and space-averaged fluorescence signal . To compute the calcium signal in all ROIs corresponding to cells and neuropil, we first subtracted from the spatially averaged fluorescence signal, resulting in . Based on within a ROI we calculated the relative percentage changes, i.e., the calcium transient signal aswhere represents the time average of over the entire recording session. In the end, to remove very slow drifts, we high-pass filtered using a fast Fourier transform with cutoff frequency 0.06 Hz.

Event-triggered average: There were large differences between sampling rates of fluorescence recordings and


in a given ROI and the simultaneously recorded average signal in all other ROIs of the same type (estimate of population response). We calculated CCs for different stimulus types during presentation of auditory stimuli and during baseline periods.

Distance effect: To assess pairwise CCs as a function of distance between ROIs, we binned distances between ROI centers into 20 µm bins and averaged CCs over ROI pairs at equal distances (both for stimulus and baseline periods). We explored changes of bin size by a factor of two but did not find qualitative differences to the reported results.

We fitted the pairwise CC data as a function of ROI distance by an exponential curve of the form , where represents the distance between ROI centers. The fit of parameters , ,and was computed using a downhill simplex algorithm. In the case of HVC~X~ neurons and WN stimulus conditions, we excluded three outliers from the dataset before fitting. These data points were less than 10 µm apart and had CCs \>0.25.

Auditory response dynamics {#s2j}
--------------------------

Auditory responsiveness varied widely among ROIs, even among ROIs of a given type. Only very few cells were strongly driven by auditory stimulation (visible in single-trial responses). An exceptionally responsive (non-identified) auditory cell is shown in [Figure 3 A](#pone-0081177-g003){ref-type="fig"}. This cell displayed (ΔF/F) transients to sound onsets on the order of 10%. In this cell we estimated the latency of calcium responses to sound onsets. The presentation of auditory stimuli was not synchronized with acquired frames in the microscope, therefore the time lags between stimulus onset


ROI types and for different auditory stimuli. HVC~X~ neurons are strongly excited by BOS (yellow) but weakly inhibited by WN (blue) and rBOS (red). A very similar finding applies to neuropil, but not to astroglia in which auditory stimulation only elicits weak responses. The Z-score cumulative distributions during baseline periods (black) are antisymmetric and centered around zero, they depict the range of Z-scores associated with baseline signal fluctuations. **B** Distribution of d′ values in different ROI types and stimulus pairs. HVC~X~ neurons clearly prefer BOS over rBOS (orange, median d′ = 1.13) and BOS over WN (green, median d′ = 1.25), but display no differential responses to WN vs. rBOS (purple, median d′ = 0.05). A similar behavior is seen in neuropil, though there the preferences for BOS over rBOS (median d′ = 0.76) and BOS= 4*s - x. Suppose -3*m = -m - s. Calculate the remainder when 8 is divided by m.
2
Let w = -11 - -8. What is the remainder when 7 is divided by -1 - w - (-5 - -3)?
3
Let b be 2/7 - (-6)/(-21). Suppose 0*l + 5*l = 15. Suppose a + 5*k = -b*a + l, 3*a + 2*k - 22 = 0. What is the remainder when 14 is divided by a?
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We’re less than a month away from the season three finale of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and as we’ve seen with last week’s excellent episode, the show is building towards something big. In the past, S.H.I.E.L.D. has made it a point to drastically change the show during the finales, allowing for the ability to constantly reinvent itself going forward. That doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon, at least, going off of the newly released press release for episode twenty, titled “Emancipation“. Interestingly enough, last week, we’d gotten a look at the synopsis for the two part season finale – which you can check out here – but this is the first we’re hearing in regards to the episode leading up to that.

For those looking for a tie-in forall steps must be approximately identical; that is, they must form a geometrical row in order to avoid irregularly alternating large and small gearing ratios.
It is an object of the invention to provide a manual transmission comprising an auxiliary transmission which, deviating from the geometrical grading, results in a gear grading .phi. which increases in the direction of the lower gears.
This and other objects are achieved by the present invention which provides a manual transmission of a motor vehicle, comprising transmission gears that include a plurality of forward gears and one reverse gear, synchronizer clutches which shift the gears, with all of the transmission gears being arranged such that they can be shifted only by simultaneous closing of two of the synchronizer clutches which are assigned to each


the gearwheel pair of G2 and the gears G4 and G6 which are connected behind it as an auxiliary transmission. The third gear G3 is formed by the gearwheel pair of G5 and the gears G4 and G6 which are connected as an auxiliary transmission. Since the gearwheel pairs of G4 and G6, which already exist in the manual transmission, are used as the auxiliary gears, additional gearwheel pairs are not required so that the manufacturing costs and the installation space of the transmission may be kept very low.
Other objects, advantages and novel features of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the invention when considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.668 F.2d 1006
Joseph David ROUSAN, Appellant,v.UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.
No. 81-1460.
United States Court of Appeals,Eighth Circuit.
Submitted Jan. 21, 1982.Decided Jan. 27, 1982.

Joseph David Rousan, pro se.
Thomas E. Dittmeier, U. S. Atty., Michael W. Reap, Asst. U. S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo., for appellee.
Before BRIGHT and ARNOLD, Circuit Judges, and DAVIES,* Senior District Judge.
PER CURIAM.

1
On March 4, 1977, the appellant, Joseph David Rousan, pleaded guilty of conspiracy to illegally distribute heroin in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) (1) and 846.  Thereafter the remaining three substantive counts of the four count indictment were dismissed and appellant was sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A) to a term of twelve years imprisonment to be followed by a special parole term of five years.

2
On December 3, 1980, the sentencing court,1 on


offense."

5
447 U.S. at 385, 100 S.Ct. at 2251.  The Court held it did not.  The sua sponte action of the sentencing court in deleting the special parole term of five years from appellant's sentence is all that was required under Bifulco and appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus was properly denied.  See United States v. Diaz, 655 F.2d 580 (5th Cir. 1981); United States v. Bland, 653 F.2d 989 (5th Cir. 1981); United States v. Noble, 653 F.2d 34 (1st Cir. 1981); United States v. Anderson, 652 F.2d 10 (9th Cir. 1980).

6
Affirmed.

*
 The Honorable Ronald N. Davies, United States Senior District Judge for the District of North Dakota, sitting by designation

1
 The Honorable H. Kenneth Wangelin, United States District Judge for the Easterndiscussed by Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz, quest director of Cyberpunk 2077, in an interview with a Polish news outlet . The interview was translated to English and posted tosub Reddit. This bit of information flew under the radar as everyone, including myself, were busy reporting on the religious aspects of Cyberpunk 2077. After looking into the current outrage from all sides over the removal of genders I decided to look at my notes on Cyberpunk 2077 and took another look at the translated interview I linked. Right at the very end of the interview was the revelation that genders would not be binary and that your choice of voice would determine how the residents of Night City referred to you. Since the interview was over a month ago things may


Austria‘s Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache of the far-right Freedom Party has said he is stepping down after an embarrassing video of him was published by two German newspapers.

The far-right leader announced his resignation on Saturday, plunging the country into a political crisis just days before key European Union (EU) elections are held from May 23 to 26. He will be replaced by Transport Minister Norbert Hofer.

“I tendered my resignation as vice chancellor of Austria to Chancellor Kurz, and he accepted this decision,” Strache said in a televised statement.

Freedom Party (FPO) leader Strache was shown in the footage published on Friday by two German newspapers meeting a woman posing as the niece of a Russian oligarch in 2017, shortly before the election that brought him to power. In theOhSnapBacks

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each confounder $j$, fit a linear, logistic, or Poisson regression of $x_{ijt}$, as appropriate given its level of measurement, on $\overline{x}_{i,t-1}$ and $\overline{d}_{i,t-1}$, and then compute the response residuals, $\hat{\delta}(x_{ijt})$.

2.  Find a set of weights, $rbw_{i}$, such that:

    1.  in the weighted sample, the residuals, $\hat{\delta}(x_{ijt})$, are orthogonal to all future treatments and the regressors of $x_{ijt}$; and

    2.  the relative entropy between $rbw_{i}$ and the base weights, $q_{i}$, is minimized.

The weighting solution can then be used to fit any MSM of interest.

Application to Causal Mediation
-------------------------------

Residual balancing can also be used to estimate an MSM for the joint effects of a point-in-time treatment, $D$, and mediator, $M$, in the presence of both pre-treatment confounders, $C$, and a set oftreatment is continuous, it is generated as $D_{t}\sim N(\mu_{t}=-D_{t-1}+\gamma^{T}X_{t}+(-0.5)^{t},\sigma_{t}^{2}=2^{2})$, where $D_{0}=0$ and $\gamma=\alpha(1,-0.5,0.25,0.1)^{T}$. Here, we use the $\alpha$ parameter to control the level of treatment-outcome confounding. We consider two values of $\alpha$, 0.4 and 0.8, corresponding to scenarios where treatment-outcome confounding is mild and strong, respectively. Finally, the outcome is generated as $Y\sim N(\mu=250-10\sum_{t=1}^{3}D_{t}+\sum_{t=1}^{3}\delta^{T}X_{t},\sigma^{2}=5^{2})$, where $\delta=(27.4,13.7,13.7,13.7)^{T}$. To assess the impact of model misspecification, we use the same DGP, but we recode the “observed” covariates as nonlinear transformations of the “true” covariates: specifically, $X_{t}^{*}=(X_{1t}^{3},6\cdot X_{2t},\log(X_{3t}+1),1/(X_{4t}+1))^{T}$. We then use only the transformed covariates, $X_{t}^{*}$, to implement IPW, its variants, and residual balancing. Note that the conditional mean model for $X_{jt}^{*}$ is still correct when the treatment is binary but incorrect when the treatment is continuous.

For each scenario described previously, we


skewed sampling distributions, especially when the covariates are strongly predictive of treatment. By contrast, residual balancing is roughly unbiased, and its estimates appear approximately normally distributed, regardless of the level of confounding. Second, the results in Figure 1 indicate that residual balancing is much more efficient than IPW-GLM, especially when the level of confounding is high. In addition, with a high level of confounding, both IPW-GLM-Censored and IPW-CBPS yield much less variable estimates than IPW-GLM, but this gain in precision comes at the expense of greater bias. Residual balancing, by contrast, improves efficiency without inducing bias.

Figure 2 presents another set of violin plots based on simulations with a continuous treatment and correct model specification. As before, the bias for IPW and its variants increases substantially with the levelthis figure also indicates that IPW-GLM is extremely biased and inefficient, that censoring the weights reduces bias and improves efficiency, and that residual balancing yields by far the most accurate and efficient estimator among all methods. Note that residual balancing even outperforms IPW based on the true propensity scores, despite the fact that the confounder models are now misspecified.

The Cumulative Effect of Negative Advertising on Vote Shares
============================================================

In this section, we illustrate residual balancing empirically by estimating the cumulative effect of negative campaign advertising on election outcomes (@lau2007effects [@blackwell2013framework; @imai2015robust]). Drawing on U.S. senate and gubernatorial elections from 2000 to 2006, @blackwell2013framework used MSMs with IPW to evaluate the cumulative effects of negative campaign advertising on election outcomes for 114 Democratic candidates. MSMs are appropriate for this problem because


proposed, such as censoring the weights (@cole2008constructing) or constructing them with CBPS (Imai and Ratkovic [-@imai2014covariate; -@imai2015robust]), but these corrections are not without their own limitations.

In this article, we proposed the method of residual balancing for constructing weights that can be used to estimate MSMs. In contrast to IPW, residual balancing does not require models for the conditional distribution of exposure to treatment and/or a mediator. Rather, it entails modeling only the conditional means of the post-treatment confounders, and because it simultaneously imposes covariate balancing and minimum entropy conditions on the weights, the method is both more efficient and more robust to model misspecification than IPW. It is also much easier to use with continuous treatments, which obviates the need for arbitrary quantile binning as is often employedlength, end will be taken as buffer's length
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could be mitigated. The main aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and factors associated with alcohol use among high school students in eastern Ethiopia.

Methods
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Study setting and context
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The study was conducted in Harar town located 525 km east of the capital city, Addis Ababa. Harari Regional State is one of the nine regions in Ethiopia and Harar town is its capital city. The town has nine high schools from grades 9 to 12 attended by adolescents. The total number of students enrolled in these schools in the academic year at the time of the study was 6523.

Study design and sample size
----------------------------

A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in April 2010 among high school students to assess the prevalence of alcohol use and its predictors. The sample sizeinspected and multicollinearity among variables was examined using simultaneous entry linear regression. Adjusted and unadjusted odds ratios (OR) and their 95% confidence intervals (CI) were used as indicators of strength of association. A p-value of 0.05 or less was used as the cut-off level for statistical significance.

Ethics statement
----------------

Ethical clearance was obtained from Institutional Research Ethics Review Committee of Haramaya University, College of Health Sciences (Date, March 04, 2010). A letter of cooperation was written from Haramaya University and further approval was obtained from the regional health bureau and then the surveyed schools. The objective of the study was explained to the study participants. They were briefed about the confidentiality of their response and the importance of providing correct and accurate information, and that participation was voluntary. All participants


20.2 - 24.2%) respondents had ever drank alcohol, 179 (10.4%; 95% CI 9.0-11.8%) have drank alcohol in the past 30 days. More males (254; 68.3%) than females (118; 31.7%) were ever drinkers. The mean age of drinkers was 17.5 years, 17.3 for males and 17.8 for females. There was no difference in mean age of drinking by sex (t = 1.909, p = 0.06). Two hundred and ninety six (79.5%) of the respondents drank alcohol in bars and restaurants, while 62 (16.7%) drank at home. The majority of the drinkers (60.5%) drank alcohol with their friends and 119 (32.1%) consumed with their parents. Thirty eight percent of the participants were living with people who drank alcohol (living arrangements include 46.0% with father or mother; 17.2%, brothers or sisters;of the latest weather information for passing aircraft, as a floating oceanographic laboratory, and as a search-and-rescue ship for downed aircraft and vessels in distress, and engaged in law enforcement operations. During her Coast Guard career she also visited places as diverse as Adak, Alaska; Yokosuka, Japan; the French Frigate Shoals, and Laysan Island.

In 1954 she was transferred to Honolulu, Hawaii, which remained her home port for the rest of her Coast Guard career, and continued her ocean station duties in the Pacific from there.

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ministry professional interested in the rise of what is commonly called “secular spirituality,” that is, a spiritual sensibility devoid of religious overtones or attachments. The rise of secularism has spawned an interest in spirituality separate from institutional religion and defines itself in terms of the experience of awe, wonder, and mystery in the absence of a belief in transcendent reality. This course explores the increasing popularity of this experiential concept in the secular world and its implications for traditional religion.

Required Reading:

Post-Biblical Religion: Essays in Secular Spirituality by John H. Morgan (Mishawaka, IN: GTF Books, 2017). Available from the GTF.

Understanding Ourselves: Essays in the History & Philosophy of the Social Sciences by John H. Morgan (Mishawaka, IN: GTF Books, 2017). Available from the GTF.

Recommended but not Required Background Reading:

Naturallyof the key themes of Rahner's thought.

Thinking about Peace: John Macquarrie

John Macquarrie’s exposition of the issues regarding peace is quite relevant to today’s world and church. Macquarrie’s book The Concept of Peace provides an intellectual and spiritual “springboard” for exposing and critiquing the issues of peace in a variety of ministry settings. How are we to think about and preach peace? How can we develop a “praxis of peace” for our ministry settings? What can critical theology contribute to the praxis of peace?

Recommended Reading: The student is encouraged to research the biography of John Macquarrie in order to supplement the material in The Concept of Peace. Sources might include: John Macquarrie: On Being a Theologian. Ed. John H. Morgan. SCM Press, 1999

The Trinity: Education in Catholic Doctrine

Objectives: To


soars following the festive period.

He said excess waste lining London’s streets during the holidays leads to a spike in complaints from people wanting to be rid of the animals.

He said: “There will be bin liners overflowing and bursting open with leftovers which is heaven for foxes.

“They also prefer feather over fur, so chicken and turkeys will go down nicely”.

Approximately 10,000 foxes live in London, roughly a third of Britain’s total urban fox population. Mr Keightley says they are attracted to the waste from homes and takeaway restaurants.

The fox controller, who charges between £350 and £450 for a culling session plus £50 to £75 per fox killed, says customers commonly complain of foxes rummaging through their bins, keeping them up at night or destroying their gardens.

On average Mr Keightleyanalytics firm Distimo.

"I almost decided to stay indie and work on [the app] Whiskey as much as possible to make a living on that," Soffes wrote in the blog post. "I'm glad I didn't."

Instead, Soffes recently started working at popular payments app, Venmo, where he now enjoys a nice steady paycheck.


[A study on the effect of slower speech rate produced by the speech rate converter].
This study was concerned with the effect of the speech rate converter, invented by cooperation of NHK Science and technical research laboratories with the ENT Department, Tokyo Medical College. The converter can make the speech rate up to 1.6 times slower with little change in voice quality and personal features, so that the spoken language can be easily understood especially by aged people and foreigners. The test sentences consisted of 40 frequently used conversational sentences and 40 synthesized sentences, and were read by a female announcer at a rate of approximately 500 moras/minute and recorded on a DAT tape. Twenty-one subjects, with the average age of 77.4 years, were instructed to listen to eachfor 2D electrophoresis, Run 3). Each of these preparations of membrane proteins was resolved through SDS-PAGE. After staining and de-staining of the gels, sample lanes were sliced as shown in Figure [1](#F1){ref-type="fig"} (Run 1), and subjected to in-gel trypsin digestion of proteins prior to elution of peptides for analysis by LC-MS-MS. Thus, there were three sets of data obtained from the analysis of proteins prepared by three different approaches (Runs 1-3). By incorporating three different methods of RBC membrane protein isolation in this study, conclusions from RBC proteome analysis were believed to be independent of the methods used.

![**SDS-PAGE of RBC membrane proteins**. Sample of coomassie blue stained SDS-PAGE gel containing RBC membrane proteins from AD (Alzheimer) subjects and age matched controls (Normal) from Run 1. The numbers on


control samples. Several criteria were used to determine which proteins displayed a significant increase or decrease in their level in samples from AD subjects in comparison to samples from normal control subjects. (1) Protein entries with only one peptide match - considered insignificant - were removed. This step removed 170 proteins, leaving 615 proteins for further consideration. (2) To make the data more reliable, proteins with a unique score less than 25 were deleted. This step reduced the number of proteins to 548. (3) Proteins detected only in one run - considered insignificant - were eliminated. This step reduced the list of proteins to 224. (4) Among these 224 proteins, three accession numbers had no specific protein name or little available information - and so, were not consideredQ:

Greasemonkey script to add parameter to URL

I'm not good at JS so I've been toying around with some Greasemonkey scripts I've managed to find, but they didn't perform as expected. What I want is very basic:
Check if the URL within a domain contains the variable lang - either ?lang or &lang
If the URL contains that variable, check its value: If the value is en do nothing, if however the value is anything else, replace it with en
If the URL doesn't contain the variable lang add it to the end of the URL, as in &lang=en
Any ideas?

A:

try {
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    var updateUrl = updateQueryStringParameter(url, 'lang', 'en');
    console.log(updateUrl);
    console.log(url != updateUrl);
    if (url


Bleach roleplays, and his Hollow half is named Keel. I roleplayed Keel kicking the crap out of Kyte and vice versa many times. Now before you even go there, I didn't just say, "Welp, nothing to do. KEEL ENCOUNTER TIME!" No. I did it when Kyte was under stress and aggravation and down in the dumps, as any Vizard who hadn't mastered his Hollow would encounter. There was a rule on the site that other people of your race had to teach you second release. At this point no one had second release and I was the strongest Vizard on the site. I taught myself Bankai inside my inner world while hiding out in hostile territory. Why? Not because I was trying to be Billy Bada**. There wasyour eyes. You want to kill him. You want to bleed him as he begs for mercy after what he did to you. Follow me, and I can give you the power to do that.

As he spoke, a rip in the fabric of reality opened behind him, revealing an endless plane of swirling red energy; chaos incarnate. It was a portal to all of those who wished to know the truth.

I will leave this open for only five minutes. If you truly wish for the power to crush him, you will take it. If not...it will forever be closed to you.

And with that, Kyte turned, and walked through the portal.

And in response,

____ wrote:

____ followed Kyte through the portal.

With all of the detail they just expended on you, you


have inside information. Of course, as to public education, it appears that the goal behind it in the first place, at least the one given credit for it, was to produce a socialistic society. I think we are nearly there...though it took more than 1 decade as was planned. Well GOD knows HIS own. And what must come to be, will come to be... I am so glad for you that your children have turned out as you would have desired...truly a blessing!!Elizabeth in WA

Oh dear. Looks as if I may have to read Harry Potter. I tried once for the same reason you mentioned and find they don't qualify on "my accepted list" because of the heavy duty witchcraft aspect...if it were presented as an evil, I'dyou can get enough of these types of people for phrases like “depression”, or other similar topics, that that traffic can actually combine, and begin to eclipse the traffic for “weight loss.”

But the long tail is only one aspect of SEO. As you start thinking about your blog, the first place you need to start is: Your domain name.

Unless you are a huge brand like Nike or Starbucks, people are probably not searching for your company name. They are likely searching for the product or service you provide (sports shoes, or coffee.)

One of the most important pieces of good SEO is your domain name. You need to ask yourself when you start our blog, “Will people search for my company, or my product or service?” Also, what will


was a member of the United Auto Workers, Local 855 (the "union"), which had a collective bargaining agreement with Ford.  Degan was covered by various Ford/union pension plans, the plan at issue here having been incorporated into a 1967 agreement.

4
Ford made a business decision to close the New Orleans facility in 1970, when Degan was forty-five years old.  Ford offered the employees of that facility, including Degan, several options:  relocation out-of-state;  receipt of lump-sum separation pay;  or receipt of "sub-pay"--the separation amount spread out in installment payments over a one-year period.  In his affidavit, Degan testified that, in answer to his queries, representatives of Ford and the union advised him of a special benefits package available to New Orleans employees:  Ifbe done.  When Degan inquired as to why he was being treated differently from Sylvera, the official told him that Ford had "made a mistake" in Sylvera's case and was not likely to do so again.  Degan contends that he made numerous amicable attempts, to no avail, to convince Ford and the union that he should receive the package of benefits to which he believed he was entitled.

9
In September 1981, Degan retained counsel, who made a written demand upon Ford for the early-retirement benefits, retroactive to Degan's fifty-fifth birthday.  In February 1982, Ford refused the demand, offering the same explanation given to Degan two years earlier.

10
II. Summary Judgment See-Saw.

11
Degan filed suit in Louisiana state court in March 1986, claiming breach of contract and seeking both


or omissions" that occurred in this case, namely, the oral assurances from Ford and union representatives that he would receive early-retirement benefits, occurred during the 1970 plant closing, and thus his cause of action is not preempted by ERISA and its limitations statutes.

31
We have held previously, however, that interpretations of the "act or omission" clause of section 1144(b)(1) are "confined to acts or omissions that set in motion legal proceedings other than causes of action."    Woodfork v. Marine Cooks & Stewards Union, 642 F.2d 966, 971 (5th Cir. Unit A Apr. 1981) (citing administrative and criminal proceedings as examples of "proceedings other than causes of actions").  Our reasons for so holding were two-fold:  First, interpreting "act or omission" in the broad manner Degandesires, that is, as excepting from ERISA preemption any suit in which some of the facts occurred prior to 1975, would render the first clause of section 1144(b)(1) superfluous.  Id.  In other words, under Degan's interpretation it would not matter when the cause of action arose so long as the relevant acts or omissions occurred prior to 1975.

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Second, we found that creating such a broad exception would conflict with Congress's goal of providing access to federal courts for litigants seeking to enforce their rights under a collectively-bargained pension plan.  See id.  (citing 29 U.S.C. Sec. 1132(a)(1)(B)).  Degan therefore cannot include Ford's and the union's oral assurances as pre-1975 acts or omissions that would exempt his cause of action from ERISA's preemptive reach.7

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Thus, we


growth rates of the individual tubeworms collected could be estimated.

The individual and population level approaches indicate that larger Escarpia laminata individuals live longer than 250 years. An Escarpia laminata tubeworm fifty centimeters in length is predicted to be 202 years old. This species therefore lives much longer than its relatives, Lamellibrachia luymesi and Seepiophila jonesi. This lifespan is also far beyond estimates based on universal scaling laws for Escarpia laminata’s body size and ambient temperature.

According to Durkin, Escarpia laminata’s extremely low death rate has helped it evolve a very long lifespan. The results support longevity theory, which states that in the absence of any external threats natural selection will select for individuals that show signs of ageing more slowly and can reproduce continually into their old age.

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told ITV, “We don’t approve of what Saudi Arabia does, we don’t like what they do, but they are a necessary evil in combating other regimes. And of course, ultimately they have a lot of oil.”

View the ITV documentary here: Exposure: Saudi Arabia Uncovered

Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.is whether the trial court correctly dismissed counts II and IV because Hadley failed to state as a matter of law a cause of action for wilful and wanton misconduct against Alexander. We find that Hadley stated a cause of action for wilful and wanton misconduct. The dismissal of counts II and IV was error.
One matter is very clear: teachers are not liable for ordinary negligence in the performance of their supervisory duties. (Thomas v. Chicago Board of Education (1979), 77 Ill.2d 165, 395 N.E.2d 538; *21 Merrill v. Catholic Bishop (1972), 8 Ill. App.3d 910, 290 N.E.2d 259; Woodman v. Litchfield Community School District No. 12 (1968), 102 Ill. App.2d 330, 242 N.E.2d 780.) The School Code confers upon a teacher the status of a parent or


they still had to stop and seek permission. And as Aaron Williamson points out, that may not be their reaction. Uneven playing field

The patent grant Facebook uses gives it, and no one else in the project, special rights and protections. That makes open source developers nervous, for the same reasons as contributor agreements do. The whole value of software freedom to an open source project is it creates a safe space where everyone is equal and protected from everyone else's motivations. Carving out extra rights for you alone is sociopathic, and sadly, the community has plenty of examples of unequal rights being eventually abused. Implied grant voided

Many open source legal authorities believe that by granting permission to use software for any purpose, even licenses with no mention ofMenu

Lessons learned (2) – a thickened skin

One of the nice things about putting one’s work out to the public eye is that when it shines upon your work, it can be a very nice feeling. But on the other hand, when that eye frowns and a certain hardness appears, it can quickly turn into a harsh spotlight, picking out all your flaws which stand on display.

The shining part first. I’m pretty good at dealing with a five-star review. I mean, I sit forward, reading and nodding, and then sit back with a generally satisfied feeling. I’m rubbish at taking a compliment in person; I stand awkwardly, wondering what the person is expecting me to say in reply to them saying they’ve enjoyed this odd thing I’ve put together


to think what the reaction might have been if a blogger, the Puzzle Doctor, hadn’t convinced me to take out a lot of the much harsher swear words in the first draft due to this very idea.

But beyond that? A reader either does or does not accept bad language. It’s no reflection (I think) on the merits of the book. Therefore we shrug, and move on. I read about a similar type of review, even more extreme, recently. An indie author (afraid I can’t remember who) got a review stating that the physical quality of the book was lacking, with pages torn and the ink on the page running. One star. The book, of course, was only available as an eBook.

The other type of one-star review, though, isreason these almost invariably strike the target it that they make a criticism you may well recognise, because it’s probably sitting in your own mind somewhere.

Tricks of the Trade may well be a bit slow off the mark. It’s the first book in a series, so we have to introduce the characters and give a bit of background before we get into the actual death, and whodunit and howdunit stuff. I think even the top authors struggle with getting through the background. And it was only my second effort as an author, and thus is as riddled with stylistic errors as one might imagine.

Suddenly my nightmares came home to roost! I had been found out, as a bogus author, as just an ordinary person who had pretended to


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Solution or lacquer adhesives are bonding compositions which achieve a solid state and resultant strength through evaporation or removal of solvent. This is in contrast to hot melt adhesives which achieve a solid state and resultant strength by cooling from an elevated temperature. In other words, the application of heat melts the hot melt adhesive and after the heat source is removed, it solidifies simply by cooling. Hot melt adhesives are widely used in industrial applications because they can be used to form strong bonds very quickly. However, the difficulty associated with applying hot melt adhesives at elevated temperatures has greatly limited their usage in many applications.
Solution adhesives offer an advantage over hot melt adhesives in that heating is not required in their application to a substrate. Solution


adhesives are widely utilized in general purpose and household applications because of their ease of application. Solution adhesives are also the adhesive of choice in a wide variety of industrial applications, such as those where the application of a hot melt adhesive would be difficult or impractical.
Copolyester resins are frequently utilized in solution adhesive compositions. Such solution adhesive compositions are simply prepared by dissolving the copolyester resin in a suitable organic solvent. It is highly desirable for the organic solvent to have a low boiling point. This results in faster rates of solvent evaporation and consequently reduces the time required for bonding. The copolyester resins utilized in solution adhesives commonly contain repeat units which are derived from terephthalic acid and isophthalic acid. Unfortunately, solutions of such copolyester resinsnecessary to construct the pump station and the sewer lines leading to and from the station. Pylon also agreed to indemnify Rossmoor Sanitation and its agents against any loss for damages to persons or property arising out of the construction. The contract also contained a proviso to the effect that Rossmoor Sanitation's engineer (Toups) would have the right to supervise and direct Pylon's work.
Pylon, Inc. commenced construction of the pump station and connecting lines. The construction of the pump station constituted only one part of multiple activities in progress at Leisure World. Rossmoor Corporation, the parent company, had a general superintendent, a foreman, and seven inspectors working within the development, as well as a safety director, whose responsibilities included supervision of Rossmoor Sanitation's construction activities. This safety inspector


were present at the job site, together with an A-frame  a portable derrick used to install pipe. The A-frame was to be utilized in lowering the Y-shaped pipe into the trench.
Cagigas and another employee descended into the trench on the aluminum ladder located at the east end of the trench where they had been working before lunch. They apparently carried some excess dirt to the other end of the trench where Olson could remove the surplus soil with the scoop and place it on the north bank of the excavation. Plaintiff Widman was ordered to operate the A-frame to lower the Y-pipe into place. He evidently was unfamiliar with the operation of the derrick and was unable to perform the work so he traded places with thedo certain work carefully, he cannot escape responsibility by delegating the work to an independent contractor, e.g., where the employer has a license to excavate for sewers, water pipes, or to grade or pave streets and, by the terms of a municipal ordinance, is required to exercise certain precautions and avoid such dangerous conditions, he is liable for injuries due to any failure of the independent contractor to take such precautions or to avoid such dangerous conditions; and (4) where an employer operates under a public franchise (e.g., a public carrier, a public utility, or other public service corporation), he or it may be liable for the negligence of an independent contractor. (See 2 Witkin, Summary of Cal. Law (1960), Torts, §§ 311, 312, 313, pp. 1506-1509.)
Notwithstanding the


Bedford v. Bechtel Corp., 172 Cal. App.2d 401, 407 [342 P.2d 495].) In a like vein, the general contractor has been protected against liability for injury to the subcontractor's employee on the premise that it would be an extremely onerous burden to place upon him the duty to enforce all statutory safety provisions where he lacked control of the means utilized to achieve the planned purpose. (See Hard v. Hollywood Turf Club, 112 Cal. App.2d 263, 274-275 [246 P.2d 716].)
The general rule has been followed in at least one California case which is strikingly similar to the factual situation presented in the case under review. In Abrons v. Richfield Oil Corp., 190 Cal. App.2d 640 [12 Cal. Rptr. 271], a judgment of nonsuit was affirmed where the employeeof an independent contractor was injured when dirt caved in upon him in a ditch he was digging; the court determined that the employer should not be exposed to liability when he exercised no supervision or control over the contractor's employees, furnished no materials, and had no representatives on the job.
But even in cases involving injury or death to the contractor's employee, there are various factual situations in which the owner has been held legally responsible: (1) Where the employee was injured by some condition of the owner's premises over which the owner retained control and where the owner's duties to the employee were those owing to a business invitee; (2) where the owner furnished the equipment, or was obligated by contract to do so, and the equipment


suit against the city and the subdivision owner; the city had authorized the owner-contractor to install the sewer lines; the owner-general contractor retained a subcontractor to do the sewer work; the subcontractor failed to follow safety orders; under his contract with the city, the owner-contractor agreed to comply with safety precautions against the cave-in of trenches; the city was awarded a judgment of nonsuit but plaintiffs obtained a judgment against the owner-contractor; in affirming the judgment, the reviewing court held that where an activity involving possible danger to the public is carried on under public franchise or authority, the one engaging in the activity may not *746 delegate to an independent contractor or subcontractor the duty or liability imposed upon him by the public authority, and that theof ditches, trenches and other excavation than from accidents occurring in any other type of construction work.
(3b) Rossmoor Sanitation also maintains that the classification of deep excavation work as an ultra-hazardous activity would expose to liability every poor widow who retains an independent contractor to build her a swimming pool. At first blush, the argument seems to have some integrity, not merely because it involves a widow, but could logically extend to every homeowner or small businessman who hires a contractor to construct any improvement requiring substantial excavation. Nevertheless, the analogy between the widow, small homeowner and small businessman simply fails to apply to Rossmoor Sanitation. Rossmoor cannot equate itself with the average layman. In the first place, the evidence indicates that the Laguna Hills development was a


building project of great magnitude; in actuality, it involved the creation of what could be characterized as a city. Rossmoor Sanitation undertook a significant role in this grand-scale development. *747 Unlike the ordinary person, its officials and employees were knowledgeable in all phases of construction work and recognized, or should have recognized, that the digging of a 14-foot trench was likely to create a peculiar risk of physical harm to others unless special precautions were taken. (See Rest. 2d Torts, § 416.) Rossmoor Sanitation officials had actual knowledge, as distinguished from the ordinary layman, of the existence of the safety order requiring the precautionary bracing or shoring of all trenches over five feet in depth (tit. 8, § 1541, Cal. Div. Indus. Saf., Constr. Saf. Orders) inasmuch as      # Forward via client.
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Q:

how does the processor read memory?

I'm trying to re-implement malloc and I need to understand the purpose of the alignment. As I understand it, if the memory is aligned, the code will be executed faster because the processor won't have to take an extra step to recover the bits of memory that are cut. I think I understand that a 64-bit processor reads 64-bit by 64-bit memory. Now, let's imagine that I have a structure with in order (without padding): a char, a short, a char, and an int. Why will the short be misaligned? We have all the data in the block! Why does it have to be on an address which is a multiple of 2. Same question for the integers and other types?
I alsohow the allocation will be used.
For allocations smaller than sizeof(max_align_t), you can return memory that's merely naturally aligned (e.g. a 4-byte allocation aligned by 4 bytes) if you want, because you know that storage can't be used for anything with a higher alignment requirement.
Over-aligned stuff like the dynamically-allocated equivalent of alignas (16) int32_t foo needs to use a special allocator like C11 aligned_alloc.  If you're implementing your own allocator library, you probably want to support aligned_realloc and aligned_calloc, filling those gaps that ISO C leave for no apparent reason.
And make sure you don't implement the braindead ISO C++17 requirement for aligned_alloc to fail if the allocation size isn't a multiple of the alignment.  Nobody wants an allocator that rejects an allocation of 101 floats starting on


final characteristic features of the said leaven, to naturally stabilize, during at least 4 weeks, and up to 8 weeks or more, under classic conservation conditions (temperature lower than 10xc2x0 C., preferably between 0 and 4xc2x0 C.) not only the microbial populations but also the physico-chemical characteristic features of the leaven while permitting the use of the said leaven as fermentation agent for the fermentation and the raising of the baker""s dough, directly at the moment of kneading during the manufacture of a leavened bread, within the frame of a direct manufacture process, that is to say a process which comprises one single kneading step.
The stable and ready-to-use baker""s leaven or sourdough according to the invention is obtained by the use:
a) of at least one non malted grainensure the conservation of the leaven, that is to say first the conservation of a living biomass comprising at least 1.109 lactic bacteria at the end of the term of the conservation of the leaven,
on the other hand, to permit, even after its conservation, the fermentation and the making of a leavened bread appreciated by the consumer.
The research work carried out in connection with the invention has shown that the conservation of the leaven depends on its pH, on the amount of lactic acid, on the amount of acetic acid and, also, to a lesser extent, on the amount of alcohol.
Only the non-dissociated forms (that is to say non ionized forms) of organic acids are capable of passing through the cellular membrane of the microorganisms; consequently, these non-dissociated


leaven or sourdough the composition of which is defined by the parameters consisting of
the revivable biomass of bacteria and of yeasts
the amounts of lactic acid and acetic acid which are present and which in principle no longer change significantly
the controlled and stable pH.
The process should be considered as a whole wherein it is necessary to control:
the different steps of the production of biomass, of lactic acid, of acetic acid and of alcohol in function:
of the sugars which are present and of the metabolism of each strain,
of the competition between the different strains, the said competition being limited by the separate multiplication of each microorganism and said competition can also be limited by seeding the leaven with each preparation of microorganisms at different moments,
the direct and the indirect introductionsthe conservation times and at the temperature conditions above defined, enables making a leavened bread after 6 hours of fermentation of a dough seeded with the said leaven added at about 15% with respect to the flour used at the moment of kneading and with a maximum of 0.2% of the baker""s yeast.


opposition-controlled legislature.

Following an unofficial vote on Sunday, in which millions of Venezuelans cast ballots to reject Maduro's proposal, Trump called Maduro "a bad leader who dreams of becoming a dictator".

Trump's administration is also planning targeted sanctions, likely against Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez and the Socialist Party's second highest figure Diosdado Cabello, for alleged human rights violations, US officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Those sanctions could be rolled out as early as Tuesday, one of the officials told Reuters, but may be delayed as Trump's administration reviews all its options.

The sanctions would freeze the officials' US assets and prohibit anyone in the US from doing business with them.

It would be the first phase of new actions the Trump administration is considering, including possible targeted sanctions against Venezuela'svital oil sector.

Venezuela is the third largest foreign oil supplier to the US, after Canada and Saudi Arabia, exporting about 780,000 barrels per day of crude.

Trump unpopular in Venezuela

While that could bankrupt the Maduro administration and worsen already grave food shortages, hitting Venezuela's energy sector could also raise US domestic gasoline prices, which would be unpopular with Americans.

Any sanctions by Trump, who is largely unpopular abroad, could also be used by Maduro to bolster his accusations that Washington is trying to sabotage leftism in Latin America, and could unite the ruling Socialist Party just as fissures were emerging.

On Monday, the opposition coalition called for a 24-hour nationwide strike and massive protests in the days to come to force Maduro to step down before the end of his term


of its U.S. broker-dealer, a relationship that allowed the affiliate to use margin loans from the U.S. broker-dealer to finance the costs of hedging swap trades with customers. The margin loans lowered the borrowing costs incurred to hedge these swap trades and reduced the U.S. broker-dealer’s customer reserve account deposit requirements by tens to hundreds of millions of dollars per day.

The SEC found that Morgan Stanley’s affiliated transactions violated the Customer Protection Rule and that as a result of inaccurately calculating its customer reserve account requirements, it submitted inaccurate reports to the SEC. Morgan Stanley provided substantial cooperation during the SEC’s investigation and has agreed to review its compliance with the Customer Protection Rule and to take remedial steps to improve its calculation processes. Morgan Stanley also significantlyincreased the amount of excess funds it maintains in its customer reserve account. Without admitting or denying the findings, Morgan Stanley agreed to pay a $7.5 million civil penalty, to cease and desist from committing or causing any similar violations in the future, and to be censured.

So how did MS' Delta One desk and rehypothecated customer collateral get involved? Here is the answer, in all its excruciating detail:

The Issue: Financing Firm Hedges of Customer Swaps

Within MS, there are several subsidiary broker-dealers. Among them are MS&Co, which is a U.S. broker-dealer subsidiary of MS, and MSIP, which is a U.K. broker-dealer subsidiary. Across these broker-dealers, MS offers its customers a prime brokerage platform, including access to Delta One Structured Products (“DSP”) desks that offer customers synthetic exposure to specific