bars and other features. The following year, the company moved its headquarters to Redmond, Washington, and went public at $21 a share, raising $61 million. By the late 1980s, Microsoft had become the world’s biggest personal-computer software company, based on sales. In 1995, amidst skyrocketing purchases of personal computers for home and office use, Windows 95 made its debut. It included such innovations as the Start menu (TV commercials for Windows 95 featured the Rolling Stones singing “Start Me Up”) and 7 million copies of the new product were sold in the first five weeks. During the second half of the 1990s, Internet usage took off, and Microsoft introduced its web browser, Internet Explorer, in 1995.

In 1998, the U.S. Department of Justice and 20 state attorneys general chargedIt wasn’t quite love at first sight. But it was close.

I still remember the exact moment it happened. It was one hour and fifteen minutes into the pilot. When Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds walks onto the deck of Serenity, sizes up the hostage situation unfolding, and shoots the undercover Alliance agent in the head without breaking his stride, I literally rose off of my dorm bed and whooped. It was the kind of surprise that made me realize Firefly wasn’t going to be just like any other show. I fell, and I fell hard.

That almost never happens, when it comes to me and television. Usually, I need several episodes to fall in love with a new series. That’s sort of the point of TV, in my experience; you’re supposed


in my early twenties and I didn’t know who I was or what I wanted out of life. Things weren’t as simple as they had seemed just a few years ago. College was ending soon, and I would be forced out into the world to make it on my own. I was confused about a lot of things, but Firefly was a comforting constant in the midst of so much confusion, a kind of emotional touchstone. I knew I loved it, and having even one thing I was sure about helped provide some stability in an otherwise unsteady stage of life.

Having Katelyn there helped, too. She was my confidant, my source of encouragement. And although it might sound crazy, her love of Firefly, as gradual as it wasbeen married for over five years. There have been many other shows we’ve enjoyed together, some more than others. But no matter what comes next, Firefly will always be the first show we watched together—the one that brought us together. For that reason, I now have more than one reason to love it.

Matt Grant is a Brooklyn-based writer and lifelong SFF enthusiast. He is a contributor to Book Riot and the book news correspondent for Literary Hub. You can find out more on his website: www.mattgrantwriter.com or follow him on Twitter @mattgrantwriter.


lots of exercise and uncomfortable beds. I could not wait to be in my own bed, then I get home and can’t sleep. Typical. At least I will get a head start on work.

Before I can get in the shower my phone rings. It’s my mom. Kenny, my brother, is sick and in the hospital. He passed out at school. He had been getting sick before we left China 3 days ago. I was sure it was nothing major, a cold, maybe the flu coupled with some malnutrition and freezing weather. I could see Kenny skipping dinner to save a few bucks. He lived in Zibo, a third tier city in China where good, healthy food was often expensive and difficult to get. My mom seemed unusually worried,were doing everything we could trying to find a way to get him transferred somewhere else. Somewhere where they could look for and give us specifics. These Chinese doctors did not seem to know what was going on (if they did know what was going on they could not communicate it). Initial quotes for him to be flown to a major city were over $100,000 USD. I briefly thought how much more physically fit I would become once I sold my car and started biking to work.

By this point my friend and co-worker Nick knew something was wrong. After a brief explanation, he suggested I contact our customers in Beijing. I contacted Annie, who I had met here in America and Yvonna who I had visited while in


seemed better than he was that night, but about the same as the previous morning. The doctors were not overly concerned about his temperature (at least from what I could understand). They came and visited, talked amongst themselves and left. Emily was definitely concerned about his temperature, but given how bad he had looked before my arrival, she was far less panicked than I. Regardless, his condition hadn’t really improved since my arrival. I decided we needed to get a real thermometer as soon as possible (and some real soap), so we could at least accurately measure his temperature, should his fever come back.

I went back to the hotel to take a shower. I couldn’t help but feel that any one of these nights he could take aremember as a child we would discuss what we were thankful for. Family, friends and health were always included. This thanksgiving was no exception, I had never been so thankful for my family and their health. For friends, co-workers and acquaintances who would repeatedly dropped everything to help out however they could. I have never been more thankful than I was that night.

Kemily

Emily had been by Kenny’s side day and night for days on end. I snapped the cover photo one afternoon when she allowed herself a brief nap. Emily had been using Kenny’s phone (T-Mobile international data FTW!) to communicate with me. Occasionally during all the texting back and forth I would react to seeing texts from Kenny (even though he wasn’t well enough to text) and


get excited. To help prevent this, I changed the contact in my phone to Kemily, keeping the “K” for when Kenny would be able to text again. To this day I still refer to them as the single entity Kemily. I was impressed with the bravery it took Kemily to move to Zibo (and later Japan) and I am grateful for all that they have meant to each other. I can’t help but think without Emily’s constant support throughout the ordeal, things would have turned out much worse for Kenny.

The day before our flight home I was out in Shanghai looking for giant-sized clothes (I was on round 4+ of underwear). I texted Kemily asking what they were doing. I expected the usual answer, “Kenny was sleeping.” Iprong of the Cort test is satisfied in this case.
The second inquiry under the Cort approach is whether there is evidence of an express or implicit legislative intent to negate the claimed private right of action. As the Court noted in Cannon:
(T)he legislative history of a statute that does not expressly create or deny a private remedy will typically be equally silent or ambiguous on the question. Therefore, in situations such as the present one `in which it is clear that federal law has granted a class of persons certain rights, it is not necessary to show an intention to create a private cause of action, although an explicit purpose to deny such cause of action would be controlling.' Cort, 422 U.S. at 82, [45 L.Ed.2d 26, 95


and Nationality Act shall be examined as therein provided by an officer other than the arresting officer, unless no other qualified officer is readily available and the taking of the alien before another officer would entail unnecessary delay, in which event the arresting officer, if the conduct of such examination is a part of the duties assigned to him, may examine the alien. If such examining officer is satisfied that there is prima facie evidence establishing that the arrested alien was entering or attempting to enter the United States in violation of the immigration laws, he shall refer the case to an immigration judge for further inquiry in accordance with Parts 235 and 236 of this chapter or take whatever other action may be appropriate or required underis in the United States in violation of law and for issuance of an order to show cause and warrant of arrest prescribed in Part 242 of this chapter. (Emphasis supplied).
In this case, it is undisputed that Plaintiff was arrested on July 11, 1979 and therefore no Service officer was sent to process him until July 13, 1979; a time period clearly in excess of that prescribed above. Furthermore, regardless of whether Plaintiff was granted voluntary departure or not, as asserted by the INS, the language in § 287.3 to the effect that; "in any event" the arrested alien will be presented within 24 hours, establishes an absolute duty to present all aliens, even those who have been granted voluntary departure, within 24 hours before one of the


class of *715 officers enumerated in § 287.3. This duty was breached as soon as Plaintiff remained detained beyond 24 hours without having been so processed.[5]
It also appears that Plaintiff was detained in contravention of the directive of Gordon Ruth, who on July 11, 1979 was the Service Regional Commissioner for the Northern Region; a jurisdictional area which includes the State of Michigan. Exhibit 12 attached to Plaintiff's brief discloses that on January 10, 1978, Ruth informed all district directors and officers in charge within the Northern Region and chief patrol agents therein, via a memorandum, of the Service policy pertaining to apprehension and detention of aliens determined to be illegally in the United States. The policy statement provides in pertinent part:
It has been past practice to conductwhite and blue.

Maybe it was more than a coincidence that the opponent at Rogers Centre that day was the Tampa Bay Rays, whose lack of fan support has raised questions about their future in Florida. Could the Gulf Coast's loss be Canada's gain? Too early to tell, but at least Florida fans will always have the Marlins. D'oh!

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"The later part of the year 2013 saw the government of Zimbabwe making lukewarm efforts to address challenges bedeviling
the mining sector that civil society groups working in this sector have been highlighting relentlessly for years with very limited response from government. Despite the mining sector failing to achieve the projected growth of 17.1 in 2013 statistics from the ministry of mines indicate that mining has significantly contributed to Zimbabwe’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from an average of 10.2 percent in the 1990s to 19.9 percent in 2009 and 2013 surpassing agriculture.
Similarly, figures from the Zimbabwe Investment Authority for 2013 also reveal an upward trend of the mining sector attracting 207 million out of the 660 million worth of investment with the remainder 460.30 million falling into other 5An industrial designer's take on the purported iPhone 5

Recent photos and video that allegedly depict the iPhone 5 -- or parts of it anyway -- left some people underwhelmed. But designer Don Lehman takes a closer look, and he thinks the depicted gadget looks pretty boss.

We've been hearing about an upcoming "unibody" iPhone since before the 4S version of the gadget hit the streets. And lately, we've been seeing lots of images on various enthusiast sites of a purported unibody iPhone 5.

In addition to teaching you what, exactly, a "unibody" is -- essentially a single piece of metal that's been hollowed out so it can hold the phone's guts -- Lehman's post will get you hip to designery jargon such as "bosses" (screw attachment posts), and it'll also


that was gathered from multiple sources while focusing attention on key metrics intended to truly impact the patient and family experience.

Once key metrics were identified, focus groups, including frontline staff and middle management, were held to design dashboards to be used for dissemination of these data. The voice of the patient was determined to be best measured at both the individual unit level as well as across inpatient care services as a whole. The dashboard end users, frontline staff, and management expressed desire to receive unit-level data including patient comments in order to tailor the patient care experience to the patients being cared for in each area. The decision was made to include patient comments, in raw form, directly to frontline staff.

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Visualization of the patient experience dashboardthemes---admission, discharge, meals, nursing care, physician care, personal issues, and overall assessment---and integrated into the tool. This section, derived from both patient survey data as well as that captured during nurse rounding, was a step toward further transparency and accountability for the patient experience. Creation of this tool is entirely automated. Data are pulled from repositories housing each data source into a central table staged for the creation of the dashboard. A Structured Query Language script is then refreshed, using the click of a button, in order to autopopulate the dashboard with current data, streamlining this reporting mechanism. The dashboard is distributed monthly to every inpatient unit as well as management and senior leadership, integrating this dashboard into ongoing reporting and oversight processes.

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The development of a patient


patient experience outcomes.

**Heather M. Limper**, PhD is a research assistant professor at the Center for Clinical Quality and Implementation Research and the associate director of the Implementation Science Core at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

**Alison S. Tothy**, MD is the former chief experience officer at the University of Chicago and is a certified patient experience professional. She is dedicated to driving transformational change to align patient experience and engagement with organizational missions, visions, and strategies. With a focus on reconnecting people to what matters most to them. she is a forward thinking innovator dedicated to constructing an engaging and collaborative culture that builds organizational growth, employee and physician engagement, and customer loyalty.
- -3) + 15. Let s = 30 + -3. Suppose -8 = b*y - s*y. Is y greater than 10/11?
True
Let i be 9/(-18) + 462/876. Suppose -4*t = g + 7, 2*t = 3*g + 4 + 3. Which is bigger: i or t?
i
Let o = 20 - 23.2. Let b = -105.9 - -109. Let x = o + b. Is 11 < x?
False
Let v = -25956 - -25930. Which is bigger: v or -249/10?
-249/10
Suppose 6432 = 11*r - 35*r. Let c = r - -222. Is -44 greater than or equal to c?
True
Let d(j) = -2*j + 18. Let s be d(11). Let f = 45 - 43. Let o be (f/3)/(5/36)*-1. Which is smaller: s or o?
o
Let y(p) = -p**2 + 7*p - 12.


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For 25 years The Des Moines Register has sponsored a bicycle ride that crosses the state of Iowa from the Missouri River to the Mississippi. The bike ride known as RAGBRAI (the Registers Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa) has grown from 300 riders in its first year to over 15,000 riders thiscandlelight. He followed his dreams, and
carved out a life as a poet, earning an endowed 'Robert Frost' professorship at the University of Massachussetts in Amherst. Robert's poetry paints impressions of his rural Iowa childhood,
not just rosy images, but remembrances which include his brother's death as a soldier in World War II. One poem, 'The Wheel of Summer,' describes his farm-boy experience of castrating pigs.
It was this poem which was once described as, 'The best poem ever written...on that particular subject!' Living In Iowa walks the land of Joseph Langland's childhood with a true Iowa son.
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4th student in 2nd grade having a twin sibling. Some say it with many of the 2nd and 1st graders along with a set of 4th grade twin girls and found not only how much they have in common, but also what distinguishes them. We pretty much stay out of their way, though, and let them be kids e response: Do an impersonation of someone famous.
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This is a story about a family striving for a quality lifestyle, who just happen to choose the woods and rolling hills of Eastern Iowa. Wendy, Sam and their two young daughters live on a farm but since Sam admits he would win the worsthoned are not forgotten. Through oral histories of over 100 Iowa journalists, they hope to preserve and honor the men and women who wrote the stories. Living i [28 minutes]

Feature #1: 'Out of Hitler's Reach' Scattergood Hostel
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Storyline: Most people known about Oskar Schindler and the 1100 lives he saved during the Holocaust. However, few know of the Quaker farmers and college kids who saved 185 European refugees right here in West Branch, Iowa. From 1939 to 1943, the Iowa prairies became a safe haven for those trying to escape Hitler. Here Europeans found refuge at the Scattergood Hostel, a temporary community run by


the Iowa State Fair. Shep was his first of more than a dozen Border Collies he's trained. The 8-year-old Shep is a wise, veteran sheep herding dog. Dave discusses the intelligence of the dogs, the fact that they are bred for herding, while a sheep dog trainer is not and therefore needs as much or more training. 'You should never think you know more than the dog,' he says. 'The how-to part of sheep herding should be left up to the dog.'
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Storyline: The rolling hills and sparkling creeks north of Decorah are part of Joseph Langland's being. He grew up on the border of Iowa and Minnesota, one of nine children in a Norwegian immigrant family. And while the other boys dreamed of farming or playing baseball, Joe hid away in a narrow limestone cave, writing poems with a stubby pencil by candlelight. He followed his dreams, and carved out a life as a poet, earning an endowed 'Robert Frost' professorship at the University of Massachussetts in Amherst. Robert's poetry paints impressions of his rural Iowa childhood, not just rosy images, but remembrances which include his brother's


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Feature #1: 'Project Reality,' prisoners counsel troubled youth.
Feature #2: 'Clear Thinking,' Family in Clear Lake is saving the shoreline from development.
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Feature title: Reality Check; Producer: Nikki Tundel; Contact: John Goetz;
Phone: (319)372-5432; Address: Iowa State Penitentiary, 31 Ave. G, PO Box 316, Fort Madison, IA 52627
Storyline: For more than 3 years, the inmates at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison have been sharing their realities with troubled youths from across the state. As part of a program called Project Reality, men serving life sentences have shared their bad choices and the resulting consequences with more than 1000 young Iowans - and are continuing to do so in hopes of givingcombining his own experiences, characters, situations from his imagination and family stories. Meskwaki spirituality, prophecy, tribal lore and history and casino gambling are several of the topics that Ray tackled in his novels through the eyes of the fictional character, Edgar Bearchild. Living in Iowa shares Ray s a writer through his readings and commentary about his life as a member of the Meskwaki Nation of Central Iowa near Tama. We ss a performance in song and dance by Ray, his wife, Stella, and their nephew, Rocky.
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Storyline: Iowa has more newspapers per capita than any place in the country and perhaps the world In an era when


plastic was beautiful.
Officer Springer -Ride-Along - Sam Springer is an activist in his community of Creston, in fact he rides along with Captain Lonnie Novy in the Ride-Along program with the Creston Police Force. Sam has been so vigilant in upholding the law that the police swore him in as an official officer with his own badge and radio code number. Learn how this has not only been a great opportunity for Sam, who has cerebral palsy, but has also benefited the police force.
Tim Wiegand update -See the progress of Tim Wiegand, an ISU pre-med student who fought the effects of chemotherapy through Tae Kwan Do. He was married in 1998 and is enjoying his fourth year of remission.
Psychedelic Bubbles -The program closes with psychedelic colors moving ontour of the opera house, led by board member Ralph Helmick, we'll see a performance by Scott and Michelle Dalziel and we'll learn a little history about the What Cheer Scotch Band and it's leader Jimmy Dalziel. FEATURE #2: 'Simply Divine' (Belmond Pastor) Celestyne De Vance Contact: Celestyne DeVance Phone: Address: Belmond, IA
Storyline: Celestyne DeVance and her husband, Curtis, both Methodist pastors found their way to the flat plains of north-central Iowa last summer. They had been appointed to small all white rural churches. This African American couple from Baltimore were brought to Iowa because the Methodist conference was aggresively recruiting ethnic minorities. Celestyne is pastor for Belmond's United Methodist Church. Since she was appointed, church attendance has tripled and the people of Belmond have received her well.


Hunter, Director of Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs Phone: 281-7471 Address: Hotel Fort Des Moines
Storyline: Dan Hunter is a man who wears many hats. He's probably best known as a singer/songwriter who has made hay poking fun at politicians, both local and national. At the same time, though, Dan Hunter Creative Services was busy providing media and strategic services to political candidates. Dan is also an accomplished poet, playwright and screenwriter, having written musicals and comedies, in addition to books of poetry and prose. Along the way, he's been teaching songwriting, playwriting and creative writing to K thru 12 students funded by grants from the Iowa Arts Council. Today, as director of Iowa's Department of Cultural Affairs, Dan has come back home to Iowa to dole out thosebeen working on for months. Unfortunately, his attempt fails, and he's left with only wreckage and a hope for a successful attempt in the future. FEATURE #2: 'Taking Root' (Orchid Man) Carson Whitlow Producer: Nancy Heather Contact: Carson Whitlow Phone: (515) 993-4841 (home) Web page: www.orchidmall.com Contact name cleared? __x__Yes Storyline: Orchids grow all over the world, there are 28,000 different varieties found in the wild. And while they can grow everywhere from the arctic circle to the tropics, our own Iowa varieties are facing serious survival problems. They're becoming rare, and even endangered, because they're picky about the elements in their soil. Carson Whitlow of Adel, Iowa has been studying orchids for more than 40 years. And he's one of the top 'orchidologists' in the world. Working


to be married. Now the tradition continues as their children and grandchildren are also having weddings in this 135-year-old building that hasn't changed much over the many years. A married couple who are both ministers, Linda and Bob Myren, enjoy taking turns conducting wedding ceremonies, as many as 19 last Valentines Day and about 600 every year. Living in Iowa was there on a day of a dozen weddings and found out what the attraction is to getting married at a little brown church in a vale. The Biggest Game in Town - Every fall since 1986, The 13 Quad Cities area high schools have competed in a 6-week food drive known as The Student Hunger Drive. While the first year's 26,000 pounds of food wa [28 minutes]

Walkingdedicated member and rides regularly with Captain Lonnie No [28 minutes]

From Moon River to Wall Lake, Iowa's most famous crooner, Andy Williams, returned home last year after a 60 year absence. We'll celebrate his homecoming on this LIVING IN IOWA special and hear how his fame began as the youngest member of the Williams Brothers family foursome. [28 minutes]

All aboard for LIVING IN IOWA as we take a round trip into Iowa's past and uncover the history of the underground railroad. Drop on over to Dottie's place, where a cup of coffee and some friendly chitchat just might land you on the longest running radio show in Iowa. And walk the Eddyville dunes with a couple whose stand on sand has changed the course of history by changing


the story of a Marshalltown couple's 12,000 mile road rally from Peking to Paris. Visit a home for people of all abilities that's turning an institution into a family. Then LIVING IN IOWA presents a loving look back at Gladys Black, the woman affectionately known as "The Bird Lady of Iowa." [28 minutes]

A helping paw. That's what a paralyzed woman's new service dog is offering her. Be there when the doors open to newfound freedom. Meet a colorful Iowa character with the gift of gab who's a real gas! Tank up together, with a service station owner that has the whole town talking. What could be more powerful than the atom bomb? A World War II veteran discovers the answer to that question when he falls in lovedifference
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Storyline: As winter is finally giving way to spring, we look back at some of the ways the cold air and precipitation beautify the Iowa countryside. Even though winter is mostly painted in shades of gray, the extremes of the season combine for some lovely, if not colorful, landscapes.
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In honor of Holocaust Remembrance month, Living in Iowa takes a look at 33 drawings created by world-renown print artist Mauricio Lasansky. Also on the program, ISU Extension Climatologist Elwynn Taylor reveals his not-so-secret passion for teaching us about


time and torn by the weight of their own fabric. But thanks to the persistence of The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and to the guidance of the State Historical Society, these relics of this nation's great internal struggle are getting the preservation they need and deserve. In addition, the history of each flag is being researched so that its story can be told to future generations of Iowans. Their stories tell of a state, barely 15 years old, that sent 75,000 soldiers to the battlefields, more men per capita than any other state. Nearly one in five died fighting to preserve the Republic.
SIDEROADS: Farragut Producer: Chris Gourley Contact: See Producer
Storyline: In 1870 the people of Lowland in Southwest Iowa said 'Damn the torpedoes! Fullwhen Kid Rex was found. They hope to keep 'Tinker' in Iowa, but look for the dinosaur to bring around $10 million when completed. Right now, they want Iowa kids to enjoy the b [27 minutes]

FEATURE #1: Shared Living: Senior citizens in Iowa City share their homes with younger students. FEATURE #2: Shinkendo: West Branch couple teaches Japanese sword martial art. FEATURE #3: Alternative Lifestyle: Ames couple lives a simple life. SIDEROADS: Bridges of Marion County. CLOSE: Queen Anne's Lace Flowers in a field by Saylorville Lake.
FEATURE #1 Shared Living 'A Fair Share' Producer: Jack Shepard Contact: David Purdy, director, Shared Housing of Johnson County Address: The Senior Center, 28 South Linn, Iowa City Phone: 319-356-5215 & 319-887-2796
Storyline: One of the tragedies of old age is that, for


Katie Hefel, Angie Toomsen, Matt Mullin and Angie Den Adel. All in their early to mid-twenties, all from Iowa and all graduates from the University of Northern Iowa, they are living in the Big Apple trying to find success in the theatre business. After moving to the city, they started their own company called the Key Theatre in the hopes to produce their own productions. The Key Theatre is comprised of nearly 40 people - most are from Iowa and also graduates of UNI. So far, they have produced two plays - 'Eastern Standard' and 'Boston Proper.' Living in Iowa traveled to New York City to see 'Boston Proper', an in-your-face comedy about a group of self-absorbed twenty-year-olds in the late 1970s. We got to know the Iowamust make adjustments in their daily lives. On Living in Iowa this week, explore how the demographic changes in Marshalltown have affected the police department, the schools and the local hospital. All of these institutions must face challenges in making the community work for everyone. In early 2001, Marshalltown became a Model Community in a statewide effort to recruit new Iowans, including skilled immigrants. Viewers can learn more on this week his week, Living in Iowa catches up with singer/songwriter Dan Bern. Bern has made quite a name for himself in folk music circles. He has been described as 'the next Bob Dylan' by more than one music critic, and is known for his sharp wit and biting satirical lyrics.
Bern and his band, 'The International Jewish Banking Conspiracy,'


recently opened for fellow folksinger and producer, Ani Difranco at Carnegie Hall. Living in Iowa was on hand for the band and also spent some time in the artist hen asked why he writes songs, he replied, 'Why did you stop? All children make up songs. They put their thoughts into music. I just didn stop doing that.'
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Iowa ith a G. The G stood for 'Glider' but there are those who wore the emblem who will tell you it stood for guts. They were the original stealth pilots. They were glider pilots who during World War II would deliver troops, munitions and supplies behind enemy lines. With the help of glider pilots from Iowa, Side Roads host Paul Berge tells the story of the men who quietlyhorrific events of September 11, Varina, Iowa resident Betty Nielson felt compelled to do something about her grief. Betty decided to make quilts for each family of the 9/11 victims. What started out as a generous goal has become even bigger as families are in need of not one, but sometimes two or three quilts at a time. This week on Living in Iowa, meet Betty Nielson and her friend Pat Archer who together started Freedom Quilts.
Also this week, meet Laura Berkson, cantorial solist at Temple B ove of the Jewish faith could make happy music together in Des Moines. Berkson is a singer/songwriter who was considering becoming a rabbi when she moved to Des Moines. Her short-term job as a cantorial soloist changed her mind, and she


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Defying the odds, a space probe navigates successfully through the asteroid fields between Mars and Jupiter, sending back data about distant planets, while continuing its trajectory toward the edge of our solar system. This is the mission of Pioneer 10, watched closely by Dr. James Van Allen of Iowa City.
This week on Living in Iowa, meet Dr. Van Allen and discover how he designed the only instrument on board the Pioneer 10 that is still sending back information that will help determine the boundary of our solar system. Celebrating its 30th Anniversary, the Pioneer 10 mission is 7.5 billion miles out in space, or about twice the distance from Earth to Pluto
Also this week, Living in Iowa features this segment, Siskow takes viewers to Sheffield, which has preservedfor Christmas called y is Born. [27 minutes]

He has been called the world owa e 70th anniversary of his first recital. This time he didn hare the piano bench with his music teacher. Living in Iowa was in the audience for the concert, and went along with him to his alma mater, North High, where he received a special declaration.
Williams also tells the story of his first big break, the recording of , , Williams has recorded 115 albums, 18 of which have gone gold or platinum.
Also this week, viewers can witness a time capsule for a gentler way of life through the eyes of Amana photographers. Though photography was forbidden in the mid-1800s among Amana Colonies settlers, a group of prominent members of Amana society felt that


documenting their lifestyle in a rapidly changing world was more important than obeying the rule against taking pictures. The photographers took great care to capture photos and Living in Iowa shares them and tells their stories this week.
Finally this week, Living in Iowa introduces viewers to Canine Musical Freestyle - dog dancing. Linda Farr of Ankeny and her golden retriever Keeper are the national champions in this sport, dancing to everything from country to disco in competitions around the U.S.
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Things are changing in Marshalltown. In 1990, 97 percent of Marshalltown residents were white, largely of European decent. By the 2000 census, almost 13 percent of Marshalltown descendents of the Purhepecha Indians of Mexico.
As in all towns experiencing a rapid and significant influx of immigrants, both the new-comersan abandoned three-mile road-racing course that winds through wooded hills southeast of Indianola. Living in Iowa is there for a trip down memory lane in vintage sports cars at Greenwood Roadway, where there hasn't been a race since 1966.
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How is a young war photographer who was killed on the job in 1993 still inspiring young people today- even students in Iowa? Find out as Living in Iowa remembers Reuters photographer Dan Eldon, and visits with his mother and people in Iowa who are using his art and way of life to influence others.
s, their real potential, Eldon. ng that could happen if you don rsonal journey to find meaning in her brother is documented in Dying to Tell the Story, which will air Thursday, January 30 at


- in the aisles.
[28 minutes]

Catch up with Robert James Waller to see what he's up to these days and visit the Col Ballroom, owned by the Quad Cities Mexican American Organization, a group of people who were once denied entrance because of their skin color. Musical guest--The Blue Band. [28 minutes]

Meet some Iowan heroes who helped defeat our enemies abroad during World War II. Not only did the Tuskegee Airmen have outstanding records, they excelled despite facing institutionalized racism. (** Shorter version: Meet the Tuskegee Airmen from Iowa, World War II heroes who excelled despite racism in the military.)
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At one time, basketball was the only game in town for high school girls in Iowa. Through the direction of E. Wayne Cooley, however, Iowa grew to be knownand Maggie Mulvey from Cedar Falls-who have such a strong devotion to helping others that they are among the winners of the Herbert Hoover Uncommon Student Award. The award is designed to identify and honor Iowa high school students who are making a difference in their communities and the world.
And on Side Roads this week, find out about the airie as Paul Berge takes viewers to the Prairie Learning Center at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge near Prairie City.
Living in Iowa airs Thursday, March 20 at 7 p.m. and Friday, March 21 at 8:30 p.m. and Tuesday, March 25 at 6:30 p.m. on statewide Iowa Public Television. Living in Iowa invites phone calls at 800-532-1290 and email at its updated web site: iptv.org/livinginiowa. For more information, visit


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This week on Living in Iowa, viewers can meet a young woman who is truly caught in the middle. Born in the United States in 1980 to Iraqi parents, Hend moved to Iraq at the age of two and spent most of her formative years there. She lived there during the Gulf War and in 1999 came to Iowa to be a student at Iowa State University. Today, she is torn between her ties to and memories of Iraq, and the freedom and independence she has experienced here.
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This week Living in Iowa takes a look back at when prisoners of war were held in Iowa. Many stories from overseas POWs in World War II are filled with terrible cruelty and death. In America, however, prisoners of war were kept in camps that met the standards ofseries P.O.V.: Discovering Dominga follows Denese as she returns to her hometown in the hills of Guatemala.
Also this week, Living in Iowa continues to offer something a little different - the opportunity for weekend travelers to visit unique and fun-filled locations in Iowa with Side Roads host and humorist Paul Berge. Each week, Paul will take any transportation necessary - car, tractor, airplane, or horse - to bring viewers just the right mix of tourist tips and funny bits from around the state.
This week, in South Central Iowa, Living in Iowa visits several unique and interesting places, including:
Warren County Fairgrounds in Indianola
Osceola side Casino Resort
Prairie Trails Museum in Corydon
Stephens Forest near Lucas
Francesca ts Iowa State University. In the 2002-2003 school year, ISU celebrated the 20th anniversary of Art


the dedication of the first statue honoring Iowa outstanding records, they excelled despite facing institutionalized racism in the American military.
Also this week, Living in Iowa visits with Thomas Sutherland. In 1985, Sutherland was taken hostage in Lebanon, and was held captive for six and a half years st period of time any Western hostage has been held in captivity. Host Morgan Halgren talks to this Iowa State University graduate about his first-hand experience with terrorism.
On this week , Kyle Munson introduces viewers to Fat Tuesday and the Greasefire Horns. Octogenarian Iowa Blues Hall of Fame inductee Jimmy Prior leads the group, who is accomplished in both original and cover material. Their blues style can go anywhere from soft acoustic to an in-your-face electric sound that will leave yourvery studio where it was painted, a place Grant Wood called '5 Turner Alley,' just a few blocks away from the museum. The studio, still much like it was when Grant lived there, has recently been opened to the public.
Also in this episode, take a stroll down memory lane with Morgan Halgren to one of her favorite Living in Iowa segments from 1998 with members of the Iowa Grotto, a local chapter of the National Speleological Society. Cold Water Cave is one of the largest caves in Iowa and gets its name because cold water is constantly running through it. The cave also has several large speleothems which are mineral deposit formations such as flowstones, stalactites and stalagmites.
Then, join Paul Berge on a Side Road that leads to


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Even though the jungle people of Panama protected their privacy with poison darts and the penalty was death for strangers caught on the nearby islands after sundown, a pioneering female photojournalist from Emmetsburg dared to live with them and became their friend. In the early 1960s, Marjorie Mills Vandervelde studied primitive cultures around the globe with a passion that made a difference in her life as well as theirs. She wrote books for adults and for children, intended to teach respect for native people, hoping to build bridges between primitive cultures and the so called educated world. This week, Living in Iowa explores Vandervelde's photographs, magazine articles and books, and what they say about the unfamiliar lifestyle of the people of Panama.
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This three-pronged mixture of indigenous hunter-gatherers, early farmers, and a later wave of migrants parallels the prehistory of Europe, also illuminated by ancient DNA in recent years. There, migrating farmers brought agriculture from the Near East to Europe, where they mixed with local hunter-gatherers about 7000 years ago. Then later waves of Bronze Age migrants—in Europe’s case, herders from the Central Asian steppe—moved in and established the population structure scientists see today. (Researchers, including Reich, have also documented a similar pattern in South Asia.)

“The two are twin phenomena happening at about the same time at different ends of Eurasia,” says Charles Higham, an archaeologist who studies Southeast Asia at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, and wasn’t involved in the work. “Human beings are inquisitive,


reasonable services to certain areas annexed by it in 1975.
(5) Jackson would be adversely affected by permitting Ridgeland this annexation.
Chancellor E.G. Cortright answered Jackson's objections in this way:
"There has been a material change in the facts since the 1975 annexation case: (1) There has been substantial residential development within the City of Ridgeland and much of that development has been in the southern and eastern portion of the City. This development is continuing and appears to be moving toward Ridgeland's southmost eastern boundary and the area in tract III sought to be annexed. (2) The area between Ridgeland's eastern boundary and the Old Canton Road, which the court previously found to be basically pasture and woodlands, is beginning to develop. All of the experts seemed to agree thatroads into the interior of Section 32 is understandable and is of no substantial significance. Future roads into the area will inevitably coincide with the future development. Logically, the area would be better served if the location of such interior roads were in the future coordinated with the location and types of developments to be positioned in the area. There are good main roads around this area sufficient to accommodate interior developments. The present development of a substantial water system by Ridgeland around the periphery of this tract puts the City in an advantageous position to assist in developing the area as its needs arise. To view that portion of Section 32 that is now outside of Ridgeland as undeveloped is not to recognize a true picture-as the


annexed. The fire department of Ridgeland now consists of a substantial number of volunteers, but they appear well equipped and trained and are adequately meeting the needs of Ridgeland. There is no reason to believe that an expansion of the fire department would not follow any annexation. A new fire station and police department in tract III is already contemplated and would be centrally positioned to serve the needs of the existing town and tract III. The already existing water lines of Ridgeland into the populated portions of tract III lends assurance to the City's ability to perform adequately in this area.
"Ridgeland as it exists is unquestionably a small town but it is one that has sustained rapid growth in recent years. Furthermore, it has kept up withawaiting approval of a grant before building sewer lines in the area. Ridgeland stands ready to pave the streets as soon as the sewer lines are laid. It is to Ridgeland's credit that it annexed this blighted area and assumed a responsibility which probably represented a liability to the City.
"Jackson also raises the point that there are no recreational areas presently planned by Ridgeland in tract III. However it must not be overlooked that the eastern portion of tract III abuts the *156 Ross Barnett Reservoir which is a substantial recreational area in its own right. Furthermore, the City plans a recreational park on the west side of tract III in conjunction with its proposed fire and police facilities. Although not touched upon by the evidence, common knowledge


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118
Let k(g) = -12*g**2 + 10*g - 6. Determine k(1).
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161
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Let x(w) = 3*w**3 + 21*w**2 + 26*w + 9. What is x(-6)?
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Let c(v) = -406*v + 14193. Calculate c(35).
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573
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4
Let t(v) = -v**3 - 46*v**2 - 429*v + 39. Give t(-33).
39
Let t(r) = 3*r**3 + r**2 - 3*r - 4. What is t(-2)?
-18
Let u(m) = -117*m - 364. Give u(-3).
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Let h(n) = 2*n**3 + 7*n**2 - 9*n + 4. What is h(-5)?
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Let v(f) = -31*f**3 - 2*f**2 + f + 1. Determine v(-1).
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Let r(w) = -2*w**2 - 42*w - 221. Give r(-21).
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Let z(l) = 3*l**2 + 7*l + 79. What is z(0)?
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Let p(t) = 10*t - 660. Determine p(66).
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Let y(n) = 3*n**3 - 28*n**2 + 51*n - 7. Give y(3).
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Let p(u) = u**3 - 33*u**2 - 1363*u - 277. Determine p(57).
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Let x(m) = -11*m**3 + 45*m**2 +


period. Compare prevalence r.

infant mortality rate the ratio of the number of deaths in one year of children less than one year of age to the number of live births in that year.

maternal mortality rate a rate in which the numerator is the number of maternal deaths ascribed to puerperal causes in one year; the number of live births in that year is often used as the denominator, although to make a true rate the denominator should be the number of pregnancies (live births plus fetal deaths). Called also puerperal mortality rate.

perinatal mortality rate the ratio of the number of the sum of fetal deaths after 28 or more weeks of gestation (stillbirths) and deaths of infants less than 7 days of age in one time period andpopulation to the sum of the number of live births and fetal deaths after 28 or more weeks of gestation (stillbirths) in that same time period and population.

postneonatal mortality rate the ratio of the number of deaths in a given year of children between the 28th day of life and the first birthday relative to the difference between the number of the live births and neonatal deaths in that year; the denominator is sometimes simplified, less correctly, to the number of live births. The ratio is sometimes approximated as the difference between the infant mortality rate and the neonatal mortality rate.

prevalence rate the number of people in a population who have a disease at a given time; the numerator is the number of existing cases of disease at


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This reform package is wide-ranging. It will give the parties in Scotland and Wales the ability to set all their own policy and control over the selection of candidates. These elements are uncontroversial.

But a row has been running for days on whether the leaders in Scotland and Wales should be able to appoint someone to the UK NEC. This goes to the heart of the power struggle in the Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn's supporters are worried it could mean their ability to push through changes on the executive is threatened. So they've been trying to remove that part of the package.

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NEC chairman Paddy Lillis, whoQ:

Unique identifier for user profiles in Windows

For a client/server application I need to centrally store parts of the configuration information that usually goes into the users profile directory.
The client application would on first use write a file or registry entry with a GUID into the current profile. This GUID would subsequently be used as a key in the configuration database on the server.
Now I'm wondering if Windows user profiles already have unique identifiers I could use instead of generating my own GUIDs.
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Is it possible for an app on Google App Engine to listen on multiple ports? For example, I'm running an app in Go, and I'd like to use both ListenAndServe (the default HTTP server) and also ListenAndServeTLS. These listen on different ports. Will this work? Will GAE allow me to listen on multiple port sockets, or will it prevent one from listening? Further, if I want to only run one listener, can I do that on a non-standard port (other than 80)?

A:

You should use Compute Engine or Managed VM for this.
As @Tim Hofman mentioned it's not possible on app engine.
From docs:

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This still leaves a gaping “digital divide” that exacerbates existing inequalities: you are more likely to be offline if you are female, poor, or live in a rural area or a low-income country.

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This case is controlled by the principles established in Bell v. Wolfish, 441 U.S. 520, 99 S.Ct. 1861, 60 L.Ed.2d 447 (1979)  and in two subsequent Supreme Court decisions following that opinion: Hudson v. Palmer, ___ U.S. ___, 104 S.Ct. 3194, 82 L.Ed.2d 393 (1984); and Block v. Rutherford, ___ U.S. ___, 104 S.Ct. 3227, 82 L.Ed.2d 438 (1984).

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in December 2013. At the conclusion of the hearing, the court orally issued a

partial order addressing some aspects of Hutchinson’s motions but reserved

decision on several remaining points, which it adjudicated in a written

supplemental order issued in April 2014. The effect of the orders was to grant

Hutchinson’s motions in part and to deny them in part. In its written order, the

court stated:

      At the close of the hearing the court issued an oral decision as to both
      motions, including detailed findings of fact and conclusions of law
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See M.R. App. P. 8. “The purpose of the appendix is to make available

to each justice of the [C]ourt those documents from the record that are particularly

important to the review of the issues on appeal.” M.R. App. P. 8(c). Although the

contents of the appendix are also included in the record on appeal, see M.R.

App. P. 8(c)(2), the appendix ensures that all members of the Court, whose

chambers are located in various locations throughout the state, have access to

important elements of the record.                See State v. Heikkinen, 477 A.2d 749,

750 (Me. 1984) (per curiam).

       [¶6] The appendix in every appeal must include certain documents, which

include a table of contents,arguments on appeal in an effective

and meaningful way.3 Additionally, because Hutchinson did not complete the

steps necessary for preparation of a transcript, it is impossible for us to consider his

challenges to the court’s order on his motions or the claims relating to his

attorney’s representation of him at the hearing. Instead, we are left only with a

written order that, by its own terms, is incomplete, because the court expressly

treated it as a supplement to the verbal order issued in the courtroom at the

conclusion of the evidentiary hearing. This is a wholly inadequate basis for proper

appellate consideration of the issues that Hutchinson articulates in his brief.4

        [¶11]    Because Hutchinson’s material failure to comply with the basic

requirements applicable to the submission of


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Due to this fragmentation, the foremost feeling that prevailed throughout the interviews was the sense of responsibility in providing the ideal gestational environment for 'my pregnancy'. Women repeatedly discussed the virtues of focussing attention on the fetus rather than being perceived as self-absorbed with their body weight."*"It's what you give your baby that is more important rather than what you think of yourself isn't it?"* (Jean, 2^nd^ pregnancy, Overweight BMI)"

While this focus illustrated a moralistic perspective, it also exemplified good mothering norms as consuming a healthy diet was essential for providing the fetus with all the nutrients required for its growth and well-being."*"I would like to think that I have done everything possible to make sure that the baby is healthy and when it is born, has aLocus of control -- internal ('me') {#Sec9}

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the weight gain on 'me' could be controlled by their behaviours, not all lifestyle behaviours were equally easy to control. Diet was considered easier to control than physical activity, because of the numerous barriers to physical activity (discussed in Theme 2). However, the most difficult part of dietary self-control related to cravings. Women felt that cravings were very difficult to ignore, and they had to exert an immense amount of self-restraint."*"I've got more control over my diet, because I've got more time to think about that, when I go out for lunch at work, and you can either choose to have something ridiculously fattening or go for a salad, so obviously I've got more control over my diet, but don't have control over my exercise, because I simplyinformation and advice was usually about 'more risky' behaviours such as smoking or alcohol, with the specific aim of reducing or ceasing such behaviours. However, advice and information on other 'less risky' behaviours such as diet and exercise during pregnancy was less clear-cut \[[@CR49]\]. This was similarly echoed in this study as women indicated that they received information on behaviours to avoid during pregnancy, whereas weight management information was limited. It is possible that this was a result of the lack of gestational weight gain guidelines within the current UK NICE guidelines for weight management during pregnancy \[[@CR8]\] in the UK, at the time of study. Women were therefore receptive to information from non-medical sources, but relied on their own '*common sense'* to sift reputable from non-reputable information.


extent of these feelings of fragmentation and any association with weight-related behaviours. Moreover, as midwives were perceived by women to be the experts during pregnancy, future studies could also document the experiences and challenges faced by midwives in the UK in providing suitable information on diet, physical activity and gestational weight gain.

Designs of future interventions should take into account this fragmentation, by being aware of the justifications women ascribe to which promote the consumption of unhealthy foods and demote the importance of physical activity during pregnancy. Interventions should therefore target both dietary and physical activity behaviours and be combined with counselling sessions to address any body weight conflicts that may influence behaviours, as well as to dispel myths related to weight gain, physical activity, and diet.

A levels

: to dismiss defendant's counterclaims for breach of implied covenant to act in good faith and for malicious prosecution pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6), Fed.R.Civ.P. In the alternative, plaintiff moves for summary judgment on said counterclaims. Plaintiff also moves for partial summary judgment on defendant's affirmative defense of payment.

*28 1. Breach of Implied Good-Faith Duty

In his first counterclaim, defendant asserts, inter alia,
3. That the loan documents which form the basis of Plaintiff's complaint were arranged by Carl E. Kelton, Jr. in concert with agents/employees of Plaintiff in violation of both state and federal banking laws, to channel the loan proceeds to Carl E. Kelton, Sr.
4. That at all material times herein, Plaintiff had actual knowledge of the financial circumstances of Carl E. Kelton, Sr., that he could not qualify for


IV, plaintiff asserts that defendant breached its "duty to exercise reasonable care not to contribute to the forgery of his name on an instrument on which City Bank was payor or drawee." Complaint at ¶ 8. Defendant contends that said claim should be dismissed because plaintiff cannot show that defendant owed such a duty to City Bank.
Defendant's argument ignores the provisions of New Hampshire's Uniform Commercial Code (UCC).[9] Under RSA 382-A:3-406(a) (Supp.1993), "[a] person whose failure to exercise ordinary care substantially contributes ... to the making of a forged signature on an instrument is precluded from asserting the alteration or the forgery against a person who, in good faith, pays the instrument or takes it for value or for collection." Under this provision, a person whose negligence substantiallycontributes to the making of a forged signature is liable to a person who pays the instrument in good faith. Accordingly, defendant's motion for summary judgment on Count IV must be denied.

C. Plaintiff's Motion for Rule 11 Sanctions
Plaintiff moves for the imposition of sanctions against defendant under Rule 11, Fed.R.Civ.P., on the ground that defendant's motion to dismiss (treated herein as a motion for summary judgment) was frivolous.
Under the recently amended Rule 11, effective December 1, 1993,
By presenting to the court ... a ... written motion ..., an attorney ... is certifying that to the best of the person's knowledge, information, and belief, formed after an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances:
(1) it is not being presented for any improper purpose, such as to harass or to cause unnecessary


no platform or maintenance fees and a guarantee of no more than 5% increase annually.

Abstract

Stock markets are the barometers of an economy. They are very sensitive to the news and can measure economic pressures to forecast economy. They react momentarily to crises that might be triggered by such events as a currency crisis, a debt crisis, a political crisis, or an accounting fraud crisis. According to technical analysts, drastic decreases in stock prices recover from their crash value rapidly since these decreases are realized with low traded values. The overreaction hypothesis affirms that extreme price movements are subsequently adjusted by opposite direction. This chapter analyses these assertions by measuring the impacts of the crises on the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) over the last decade. The duration of thehad become embittered by the harsh Carthaginian rule in their city, sided with the Romans and Hannibal was forced to retreat. It was a decision the Locrians soon began to regret. Scipio, who had arrived at Locri at some point during the siege, left Pleminius in charge of the city, and the legate and his men turned out to be far worse than the Carthaginians had ever been. Pleminius’ soldiers, no more than a band of brigands, soon began pillaging the city and they even stole the treasures in the famous temple of Persephone.[2] Women, girls and young boys were raped. At one point, Pleminius’ men clashed with those of the two tribunes, who had confiscated a silver cup from one of the looters. Pleminius was furious and


wanted to flog the tribunes, but they were rescued by some of their own soldiers. These men now charged at Pleminius, roughed up his lictors and mutilated the legate himself by cutting off his nose and ears. Pleminius was left for dead, but survived.

Some Locrians sent word to Scipio in Messana about what had happened. The consul sailed back to Locri on a Syracusan hexareme (a ‘six’) to investigate the affair. Here Scipio made a dreadful mistake, his mind perhaps set too much on preparing for the invasion of Africa. The consul acquitted Pleminius and instead blamed the violence on the tribunes. They were clapped in chains to be sent back to Rome for trial. When Scipio had returned to Sicily, Pleminius had the tribunes dragged before him,tortured, mutilated and murdered. Their bodies were left outside to rot. The Locrians who had dared report his crimes to Scipio also paid for it with their lives.

In a bout of religious fervour, the decemviri sacris faciundis had consulted the Sibylline Books and had found an oracle that predicted that when a foreign enemy brought war to Italy, he could be defeated if the Mother of the Ida (Mater Idaea) was brought from Pessinus to Rome. The Mater Idaea was the goddess Cybele or Magna Mater (Great Mother), a mother goddess whose cult originated in Phrygia. The Phrygian city of Pessinus was the centre of the cult, and it was a city way outside the Romans’ zone of influence. Fortunately they still had close ties with King Attalos


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In contrast to image classification, the task of semantic segmentation involves the occurrence of several classes per image at different pixel positions. Thereby, the cross-task knowledge between old and new classes can be distilled image-wise by jointly learning from the outputs of a pretrained teacher model and the labels for the new task. Previous approaches are either restricted to settings, where the additional classes have no overlap with the old ones [@Tasar2019], or rely on labels for both old and new classes [@Michieli2019]. We, however, introduce a *generally applicable technique that learns on new data solely from labels for the new classes* and outputs of a pretrained teacher model as shown in Fig. \[fig:general\_overview\].from the dataset the model was initially trained on.

Previous approaches in semantic segmentation either employ a binary classification loss between each class and the background [@Tasar2019], thereby assuming non-overlapping classes when extending the model, or they make use of labels for old and new classes alike [@Michieli2019]. In contrast, we do only use training labels for the new classes and do not assume new classes to have no overlap with the old classes, allowing the application to more general use cases.

Incremental Learning for Semantic Segmentation {#sec:3}
==============================================

We conduct our main experiments with the classes defined by the Cityscapes dataset [@Cordts2016]. We divide the official Cityscapes training dataset into three training subsets of approximately equal size, as described by Table \[tab:dataset\_definition\]. The idea of our experimental setup is now that


            $\underline{64.0}$                         $\textbf{68.4}$                             $\textbf{62.2}$

\[tab:comparison\_data\_based\]

Experiments and Discussion {#sec:4}
==========================

In this section, we start with describing our experimental setup. Afterwards, we first compare our method to model-based methods and then to various teacher-based methods on the Cityscapes dataset.

Experimental Setup
------------------

We conduct our experiments utilizing the deep learning library `PyTorch` [@Paszke2019]. The network architecture is the `ERFNet` encoder-decoder structure [@Romera2018]. In our experiments we keep the network structure unchanged exceptcan initialize the weights randomly at each training stage, which we adopted due to improved results, and even one could use a completely different network structure in stage $\mathrm{T}_2$ which could be used to upscale or downscale an existing model according to hardware requirements. However, for comparability of the different methods we keep the initial network architecture unchanged and only extend the last layer by additional output feature maps for the additional classes.


coupled with the geometrical layout and the actual experimental settings. Diffraction orders with an exit angle $\alpha_f$, which is close to the critical angle of the substrate or the grating effective layer (Yoneda band) [@Soltwisch2016], are most affected. The number of usable diffraction orders is critical for the reconstruction process, as it directly limits the possible complexity of the reconstructed model. To achieve an upper estimation of the numerical errors, we simulated 1000 randomly distributed geometrical grating layouts within the parameter boundaries for the extraction of the quasi-exact diffraction intensities. The identical grating layouts were simulated with the numerical discretization which will later be used in the specific grating reconstruction process (see Table \[table\_\_gratings\]). We then compared every diffraction intensity with the corresponding quasi-exact computation. The results of thisSuppose 2*s - 2*m - 248 = 0, -r*m = -5*s - k*m + 630. What is the tens digit of s?
2
Let t(y) = -y**2 - 3*y + 3. Let i be t(-3). Suppose -4*x = -i*x - 345. What is the units digit of x?
5
Let n(s) = 5*s**3 + 7*s**2 - 26*s - 181. What is the units digit of n(18)?
9
Suppose 17*d + 4565 = 28*d. Let a = d + -253. What is the tens digit of a?
6
Let s(w) = 36 + w**2 - w - 46 + 0*w**2. Suppose 4*k + 60 = -5*l, -14 = k - 0*l + l. What is the hundreds digit of s(k)?
1
Suppose 2 = -2*l, -3*p + 35 = -5*l + 3. Suppose 0 = -y + 4*r +


Mendi Blackhawks in order to continue their rugby league careers.

Jordan Kenworthy proved equally impressive in both attack and defense during a 2016 season cut short by injury. “Jordan is a highly rated and hardworking footballer.” Woolf Said.

“He is in the same mould as a Niemoeller, in that he is strong, determined, and has the type of work ethic that we value here at the Blackhawks. He will certainly make a valuable contribution to the team.”

In his 13 matches Kenworthy crossed for 6 tries and averaged an impressive 29 tackles per match. The NSW born Lock has a Mal Meninga title to his name with the Townsville Stingers (who are now known as the Townsville Mendi Blackhawks) and has been with the Cowboys since 2014.

Consistent five-eighth Ty Carucci wasA high school student on a mission to end lunch shaming – singling out students with cafeteria debt – is now working to raise money to assist New Jersey students.

Christian Cordon-Cano, the Florida-based founder of www.SchoolLunchFairy.org, has reached out to the Collingswood School District and offered to assist students. He had read Wednesday's story on PhillyVoice about reported lunch shaming at the district's high school.

The story included an interview with an Oaklyn father who said he believes his children were stigmatized by the practice of lunch shaming in the district, though a schools official disagreed.

“Lunch Fairy raises funds to help kids pay for school lunch at public schools,” explained Cordon-Cano, who founded the group in April.

“If a kid doesn´t have money to pay for lunch that day, they


Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said early Tuesday that U.S. health officials do not know how many Americans have been tested for coronavirus.

Azar said during an interview on CNN’s “New Day” that some tests have been conducted by private labs and hospitals.

“We don’t know exactly how many because hundreds of thousands of our tests have gone out to private labs and hospitals that currently do not report in to CDC [the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]," Azar said.

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"We’re working with the CDC and those partners to get an IT reporting system up and running, hopefully this week, where we would be able to get that data, to keep track of how many we’re testing."

CNN’s @johnberman: “How many Americans have been tested at this point?”

HHS Sec.Azar: “We don't know exactly how many because of hundreds of thousands of our tests have gone out to private labs and hospitals that currently do not report into CDC.” https://t.co/RjnNEEH7wd pic.twitter.com/xQo7pw9Zjl — New Day (@NewDay) March 10, 2020

Azar also said a study by the American Enterprise Institute found that the U.S. could be testing 10,000 people a day, potentially increasing to 20,000 a day by the end of the week.

The Atlantic reported Monday that they could only verify that 4,384 people have been tested for the coronavirus nationwide after surveying local data from across the country.

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“Does that seem ballpark accurate to you?” CNN’s John Berman asked Azar on Tuesday.

“I just wouldn’t want to speculate. Listen, my hallmark here is that I’m going to tell you what I


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New Release: Freya's Mates (Pack Seduction, #2)

Freya's on her own, lost in a new city. Being of royal blood, every male shifter would kill to have her as a mate. Staying in hiding is her number one priority.

When hunger leads her to the rear of a night club in search of food, she comes across a human who arouses a new desire within her.

Once inside the club, she's caught skipping out on her bill and forced to deal with the club owner and bartender, both sexier-than-sin shifters. Will she be able to submit to the three men? Can there be a future with a human mate?

Be Warned: menage a quatre romance, menage sex, anal sex

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"You look cold," said Gideon. All three men moved in on herhand and placed it on her breast. Gideon's golden eyes traced the movement. She half expected him to snap the human's wrist in two for daring to touch her, but his guarded stance softened and he began unbuckling his pants instead.

Once shirtless with his zipper down, Gideon ordered her to her knees. She knew his alpha lion would demand to dominate with a new male in the room, and she reveled in every minute of it. The floor was cool on her knees, but only an afterthought. She pulled the flaps of his pants wider and freed his cock from his boxers. Up close, he was massive—long, thick, and virile. She imagined that heavy cock being rammed into her achy pussy, but her needs would have to wait


== 1 ? SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_TYPE_BOOLEAN : SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_TYPE_INTEGER;
	uinfo->count = 2;
	uinfo->value.integer.min = 0;
	uinfo->value.integer.max = mask;
	return 0;
}

static int snd_sbmixer_get_double(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol, struct snd_ctl_elem_value *ucontrol)
{
	struct snd_sb *sb = snd_kcontrol_chip(kcontrol);
	unsigned long flags;
	int left_reg = kcontrol->private_value & 0xff;
	int right_reg = (kcontrol->private_value >> 8) & 0xff;
	int left_shift = (kcontrol->private_value >> 16) & 0x07;
	int right_shift = (kcontrol->private_value >> 19) & 0x07;
	int mask = (kcontrol->private_value >> 24) & 0xff;
	unsigned char left, right;

	spin_lock_irqsave(&sb->mixer_lock, flags);
	left = (snd_sbmixer_read(sb, left_reg) >> left_shift) & mask;
	right = (snd_sbmixer_read(sb, right_reg) >> right_shift) & mask;
	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sb->mixer_lock, flags);
	ucontrol->value.integer.value[0] = left;
	ucontrol->value.integer.value[1] = right;
	return 0;
}

static int snd_sbmixer_put_double(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol, struct snd_ctl_elem_value *ucontrol)
{
	struct snd_sb *sb = snd_kcontrol_chip(kcontrol);
	unsigned long flags;
	int left_reg = kcontrol->private_value & 0xff;
	int right_reg = (kcontrol->private_value >> 8) & 0xff;
	int left_shift = (kcontrol->private_value >> 16) & 0x07;
	int right_shift = (kcontrol->private_value >> 19) & 0x07;
	int mask = (kcontrol->private_value >> 24) &(kcontrol->private_value >> 8) & 0xff;
	int left_shift = (kcontrol->private_value >> 16) & 0x0f;
	int right_shift = (kcontrol->private_value >> 24) & 0x0f;
	unsigned char val1, val2;

	spin_lock_irqsave(&sb->mixer_lock, flags);
	val1 = snd_sbmixer_read(sb, reg1);
	val2 = snd_sbmixer_read(sb, reg2);
	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sb->mixer_lock, flags);
	ucontrol->value.integer.value[0] = (val1 >> left_shift) & 0x01;
	ucontrol->value.integer.value[1] = (val2 >> left_shift) & 0x01;
	ucontrol->value.integer.value[2] = (val1 >> right_shift) & 0x01;
	ucontrol->value.integer.value[3] = (val2 >> right_shift) & 0x01;
	return 0;
}


Amplifier (disambiguation)

An amplifier is a device for increasing the power of a signal. It may (also) refer to:

Electronic amplifiers
 Audio power amplifier
 Charge-transfer amplifier
 Class-D amplifier
 Differential amplifier
 Direct coupled amplifier
 Distributed amplifier
 Faithful amplification
 Headphone amplifier
 Instrument amplifier
 Bass instrument amplification
 Guitar amplifier
 Keyboard amplifier
 Instrumentation amplifier
 Low-noise amplifier
 Multistage amplifier
 Negative feedback amplifier
 Operational amplifier
 Preamplifier
 Programmable-gain amplifier
 RF power amplifier
 Valve amplifier
 Valve audio amplifier
 Valve audio amplifier technical specification
 Valve RF amplifier

Other amplifier types
 Fluidic amplifier
 Magnetic amplifier
 Mechanical amplifier
 Optical amplifier
 Pneumatic amplifier
 Torque amplifier

Other uses
 Amplifier (band)
 Amplifier (Amplifier album)

 Amplifier (Dance Exponents album)
"Amplifier" (song) by Imran Khan
 "Amplifier", a song by the dB's from the album Repercussion
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 Amplification (disambiguation)Q:

What is the purpose of PD_SENSE in the Raspberry Pi 4 power circuit?

Here the schematics of the USB-C power input of the Pi 4 :

You can see that there is a resistor connected to the USB_CC lines of the USC-C socket, the other side is labelled PD_SENSE and is going into an analog input port of the MXL 7704 power management IC (AN1). This would enable the Pi to read the voltage of the CC line via the I2C bus of the power management IC.
What is the purpose of this, i.e. what is this used for ?
A few possible purposes I can think of, none of which make much sense to me :

The Pi 4 uses a passive power delivery, so it could read the advertised capability


original post question still stands, could someone confirm, what (if anything) the Pi 4 firmware is doing with PD_SENSE ?

A:

PD_SENSE will tell the RPi it is connected to a USB-C compliant host. This could be used to detect (a) when the RPi is powered via the GPIO connector or (b) when the RPi is connected to a USB host using a legacy cable (USB-A to USB-C) as opposed to USB-C to USB-C.
Other possibilities don't seem to be logically possible:

Cable orientation detection is not possible with a single resistor. Nor is it necessary, as the USB2.0 signals are routed to both D1 and D2 pairs.
OTG dual-function port would require the CC1/CC2 pins to be toggled between GND and VBUS, yet they are permanently grounded. The overview page also statesThursday, May 21, 2015

Pleasurable Punishment

In this Best out of 3 Rounds Match the rules are simple. The person who wins each fall gets an anything goes Punishment. The winner gets to do whatever they want to the loser.

Cali wins the first round and removes Cadence's top, enjoying some time with her perfect breasts. The fight must go on however, and the girls get back to it for Round 2. Now that Cali has had a taste, she is determined to win the match and turn Cadence into her little love slave.

And of course, she does just that! Cadence submits and must let Cali kiss and rub her body in any way she desires. Cali takes full advantage of her win, tribbing on Cadecne's leg while they make out


Q:

Angular 4 HttpClientModule

How does this code change wrt to the new HttpClientModule, where mapping from response.json() is not required.
    //uses Http
    getLegalTerms(): Observable<legalterm[]> {
        return this._http.get(this._legalTermUrl)
        .map((response: Response) => <legalterm[]> response.json());
    }

i get nothing back if I do the following
    //uses HttpClientModule
    getLegalTerms(): Observable<legalterm[]> {
        return this._http.get<legalterm[]>(this._legalTermUrl)
    }

I am subscribing in the component class in the same way in either case
     ngOnInit() {
        this._legalTermService.getLegalTerms()
         .subscribe((legalTerms: LegalTerm[])  =>  {
The calcium ionophore A23187 evokes and potentiates antiviral activity of interferon.
Calcium ionophore A23187, which causes a rapid efflux of Ca2+ from cells, evokes an antiviral response in mouse LB, simian COS-1, Hela, human amniotic (U), baby hamster kidney (BHK), and VERO cells against Sindbis (SBV) and vesicular stomatitis (VSV) viruses. The degree of antiviral activity depends on the type of cell, virus, and the dose of A23187. A23187 inhibits the production of infectious VSV; however, VSV particle production was not significantly inhibited as measured by viral RNA and viral proteins. The VSV released from the A23187-treated cells is deficient in VSV glycoprotein (G) and membrane (M) protein. A23187 potentiates the antiviral activity of interferon (IFN) against SBV and VSV in mouse LB and human U cells. It is


of an issue it becomes).
You need to be careful of the two extremes. If the "horde" stats are too high (too many hit points, defenses too high, etc.) you'll end up making the player characters largely irrelevant compared to the defending force. If the horde stats are too low, then it will start to feel like the player characters are wiping out an entire army single handedly (which may very well be what you're going for :) ).
You will also want to watch out for interactions with the various status conditions. Knocking a horde prone won't really feel right, and dazing them might be a little weird. So would having the entire defending force be "dying" and waiting for some healing. You might simply make them immune toduring removal of small IOFBs because most of them can be removed with intraocular baskets. Even when removed with forceps, only slight grasping force can overcome the weight of the IOFB. A large and heavy IOFB with irregular surface is most prone to drop during grasping. The fluid filled vitreous cavity can somewhat decrease the weight of the IOFB according to Archimedes' law and dampen acceleration of the foreign body, but this still seems inadequate to prevent retinal damage in case of large heavy particles. To solve this problem, instillation of perfluorocarbon liquids (PFCLs) on the retina before removal of the foreign body has been advocated.[@b1-jovr-5-1-178-617-1-pb],[@b2-jovr-5-1-178-617-1-pb] The specific gravity of PFCLs is 1.89--2.03 times greater than that of water,[@b3-jovr-5-1-178-617-1-pb] therefore they remain on the retina, but the difference


fats to avoid and which to eat more of.

The Label Says... Trans Fat

What it does: Research shows that trans fat is worse for you than other fats because it raises LDL (bad cholesterol) levels while lowering HDL (good cholesterol) levels and increasing inflammation, which is linked to heart disease and diabetes.

Where it comes from: Trans fat occurs naturally in red meat in small amounts, and it's made artificially for use in processed and bakery foods. Both types are equally bad for you, but people typically eat more of the artificial kind. A store-bought cookie can have between one and two grams of trans fat.

How much you need: The USDA recommends eating as little trans fat as possible; the American Heart Association suggests limiting intake to less than 1could not have done anything to avoid this particular accident," said Schram's attorney, Muskegon's James Marek.

"These types of cases are tragic for everyone involved," said Muskegon County Chief Assistant prosecutor Timothy M. Maat. "However, like a person who operates a car without a driver's license, a person who illegally has a controlled substance in their blood stream is not legally allowed to drive a car. When a death results from an accident when a defendant could not legally drive, it is then left to the Judge to decide an appropriate sentence depending on the facts and circumstances of each case."

Maat declined to give the exact amount of THC found in Schram's blood, or whether she appeared to be under the influence at the time of the crash.

"Defendant's blood


that killed his pregnant girlfriend and their unborn, third-trimester baby.

Like Schram, Wilson appeared grief-stricken at his sentencing. He wore his girlfriend's ashes in a vial around his neck at his sentencing. Wilson's lawyer, like Schram's, argued that marijuana hadn't played a role in the crash. His THC amount was low, and the couple had been driving on an unfamiliar road.

Another similarity is that in both cases the families of the victims didn't push for sentences to state prison with a minimum of a year or more - which both defendants could have faced under the sentencing guidelines that judges refer to in court.

In Schram's case, "the sentencing guidelines were calculated at a minimum range starting at 29 months," Maat said. "However, the court also considered the input ofKik, which is best known for developing its eponymous messenger app with hundreds of millions of users.

Kik started Kin as a way to monetize its messenger app. It held a token sale in 2017 to jumpstart the Kin economy, Kik claimed in its filing.

The case centers around the application of the Howey Test, the general rule the SEC uses to determine whether an asset is a security. Essentially, if an ICO constitutes an investment contract, then it also constitutes a security under US law.

All securities sales in the US have to be registered with the SEC. Kik didn’t register, so the SEC alleges that the ICO for Kin was illegal because it constituted an unregistered securities sale.

Kik, on the other hand, maintains that the ICO wasn’t a securities


sale because Kin isn’t a security. “Kik promoted Kin as a medium of exchange to be used in a new digital economy, not as an investment opportunity,” it wrote in its filing.

It points to the Terms of Use, which “constitute the entire agreement” between Kik and purchasers of the Kin tokens: notably, that Kik’s only obligation to users was to deliver tokens, and that tokens are to be used for the Kin ecosystem—they’re not an investment opportunity.

The court case has nearly bankrupted Kik, which has since fired over 80% of its staff and sold off its messenger app. A spokesperson for the Kin Foundation—the non-profit that maintains the network—told Decrypt that it has spent $6 million on the case so far.

Was profit expected?

The SEC insists that Kin’s investorsthe trenches became the focus of Allied assaults.

Siege of Sevastopol

The Allies were able to restore many supply routes when winter ended. The new Grand Crimean Central Railway, built by the contractors Thomas Brassey and Samuel Morton Peto, which had been completed at the end of March 1855[23] was now in use bringing supplies from Balaclava to the siege lines. The railroad delivered more than five hundred guns and plentiful ammunition.[23] The Allies resumed their bombardment on 8 April 1855 (Easter Sunday). On 28 June (10 July), Admiral Nakhimov died from a head wound inflicted by an Allied sniper.[24]

On 24 August (5 September) the Allies started their sixth and the most severe bombardment of the fortress. Three hundred and seven cannon fired 150,000 rounds, with the Russians suffering 2,000