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I gave four examples of how the Russian position is internally inconsistent and illogical in relation to what Russia or its representatives have said themselves. Additionally, I think it's fairly hard to come up with charitable interpretation of a position which allows and even encourages whosale slaughter of civilians. For me, anyway. That's the bottom line: Russia has attacked a sovereign country and kills civilians night and day. Justifying that perspective, to use your word, is hard, even if Ukraine is, for example, rather a long way away from qualifying into the EU because of its various internal problems. Your point, as a general point, does have validity and is seen rather a lot in American politics, for example, i.e. in how many Democrats and Republicans perceive and comment upon the view of the opposing party. That's a given. But applying that point to this specific instance does look rather inappropriate. Because, for example, both fearmongering about the threat of NATO and at the same time emptying your western front for NATO to walk in is, indeed, illogical. As is both disdaining the west and sending your children there.

That's crazy talk.

Probing Uranus is top priority this decade. I'm guessing with that headline one journalist's life aims are now complete.

Its been destroyed in the comics a few times, and has been repaired by the Celestials, by Doctor Strange and Thor (who was channeling the Odin-Force), by Surtur, by Thor again using God Tempest (a galaxy sized galactic storm) and by Angels. I think once the hammer repaired itself.

Triumph of the Will was distributed by UFA. Prior to the Nazi takeover of film in Germany, UFA made a science fiction film F.P.1 antwortet nicht (lit "F.P.1 doesn't answer"). The movie about a race by an idealist, Lt Droste to create a floating platform in the Atlantic for air travel being sabotaged by less-inspired industrialists and political types. Meanwhile Drost, his friend Ellison (a flying ace) and Claire, who owns the docks the plans for the floating platform were created in have a romantic triangle to sort out. A big success, the film inspired an insult to Hitler where he was referred to in the early days of his rise to power as "P.G.1 antwortet nicht." (meaning "Parteigenosse 1 antwortet nicht," or "Party Member 1 doesn't answer.") Maybe you had to be there. But I imagine Hitler took some satisfaction when he took over UFA and had them put out Triumph... F.P.1 was directed by Karl Hartl, an Austian who remained working for the Austrian arm of the German government when they nationalized UFA. Hartl returned to directing post-war in Austria and did so until the early 60s. He died in 1978. F.P.1 starred Hans Albers as the flying ace (who went on to do another sci-fi film that squeaked under the Nazi control, Gold). Albers also stayed in Germany, but as a big star he never endorsed the Nazi party. Albers, after the end of WWII and unlike many actors who stayed in Germany, was able to find work even if in a much reduced fashion, usually in wise old man roles. Partially this was due to his early popularity, partially because he never endorsed the Nazi party and partially because he had a Jewish partner, Hansi Burg. While they stayed partners during the war, for her safety he got her to Switzerland; Albers was so popular he didn't get blacklisted even though the Nazi's knew of the relationship. He died in 1960, having become increasingly dependent on alcohol. His female lead was Sybille Schmitz as Claire. She also stayed in Germany during the war, but post-war her career never recovered despite the fact she had a contentions relationship with the Nazi run film industry. Finding few film roles and spiraling in drugs and depression, she committed suicide in 1955. The third lead, Droste, went to Paul Hartmann. He too stayed in Germany, and like Albers he continued to work after the war through 1969 (and appeared in the 1962 film the Longest Day). He died in 1977. Peter Lorre had a small part as the photographer friend of Albers; Lorre famously fled Germany, first to England and the to the US where he had a long career as heavies in dramatic and comedic roles. Similarly writer Kurt Siodmak, whose book the film was based on and who co-wrote the screenplay, fled Germany, ending up in the US where he changed his name to Curt Siodmak and wrote and directed a veritable 'who's who' list of films that would be recognized by Monster Kids (including The Wolf-Man and I walked with a Zombie) F.P.1 like other big productions in the early sound period was made three times. Once in German, once in French and the Second in English. The French version, called I.F.1 Ne Répond Plus stared Charles Boyer as Ellison. Boyer was already an international star, starring in films made in several countries. While he enlisted during the early part of WWII, he was discharged to make films in the US as it was believed that would support the cause better. He would continue acting in films into the mid-70s. In declining health himself, he committed suicide after the death of his wife. Claire was played by Danièle Parola who made several films in multiple countries in the late 20s and 30s. She was married to actor André Daven and died in 1998. The role of Droste went to Jean Murat who continued making films through the war for France and into the 1960s. He passed away in 1968. The French version of the film is considered lost. The English language version of the film ended up being a much shorter film than the German original. It was released as F.P.1 in the UK, then reissued as Secrets of F.P.1 and released as F.P.1 Doesn't Answer in the US and Where the Light house Shines Across the Bay in Australia (literally WTF Australia?) and starred Conrad Viedt (Cesare in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari and Gwynplaine in The Man Who Laughs) stars as Ellison. Viedt had a long career in German and UK film, but died young due to a congenital heart condition in 1943. Jill Esmond, Laurence Olivier's first wife, stars as Claire. Her acting career slowed down after Olivier and she divorced so Olivier could marry Vivian Leigh; presumably this was as she had to take care of their son. Olivier and Esmond remained friendly through the rest of his life, and he never stopped paying her alimony. Their son recalls her writing to him late in her life that she still loved Olivier despite everything. She died in 1990. Leslie Fenton played Droste; Fenton was born in the UK but his family had emigrated to the US when he was young. He made many films in the 20s and 30s before becoming a director. His second career was cut short by WWII where he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve and was wounded during Operation Chariot. Post war her returned to the US and directed a few more films before retiring in the late 1950s. He died in 1978. So all this is the wind-up, but given the Nazi-era film stuff, I thought it might be interesting background. I watched the Secrets of F.P.1 version of this film. Its definitely early sound filming, and I think the shortened running time particularly hurts understanding the relationship triangle between Ellison-Claire-Droste and I think makes the motivations of the saboteurs less clear. But its an engaging early film anyhow, and other than a few quibble about things not being clear in the film, worth watching I think.

Alternatively, just install Firefox on the new system, then replace the AppData\Local\Mozilla and AppData\Roaming\Mozilla folders with the originals from your old system. I've done this a number of times when I haven't wanted to re-setup settings and extensions on a new system or VM, and then I just clear the personal data...but you don't have to clear the personal data, . As for Windows, I've seen that happen to other people before too. Well, to myself a few times as well, but um...well, that's usually a two minute fix for my personal devices, .

Got a shipping notification, my hardware will - any issues aside - arrive on Thursday, so that gives me all of tomorrow to prepare. Not exactly my most favorite part, but I am looking forward to the reduced loadng times.

Berbers on the Barbary Coast --> Bearbears on the Bearbeary Coast. Practically writes itself.

The Russian position is inherently contradictory in so many ways and doesn't bear much scrutiny. For instance: 1) Russia acts as if NATO is a threat and intends to attack it. 2) Russia also clears essentially all of its western front in order to attack Ukraine, because it knows perfectly well that NATO has no intention to attack it, ever. Or: 1) The ship Moskva sunk because there was a fire on board. 2) Retaliatory attacks on Ukraine are needed because the ship Moskva sunk. Or: 1) Major Russian figures publicly regard the west as corrupt and despise it. 2) Major Russian figures also send their own children to the west because they know life is so much better there. Or: 1) Russia's special operation in Ukraine is intended to protect Russian life. 2) 44% of the citizens of Mariupol, by far the most demolished city, were ethnic Russians. (This, however, is perfectly in line with the old Soviet thinking. All countries either neighboring the Soviet Union or within its sphere of influence knew perfectly well that if the Soviet Union came to "help" you, it meant that it was either coming to "oppress" you or, more likely, "kill" you.) Etc. For the psychologically inclined, this is an excellent study in cognitive dissonance. Also, madness.

Head of cabbage, stewed tomatoes, tomato puree, extra water, garlic, onion, a small amount of jalapeno (including the jar juice), a little meat (the falls into texture bits type not the chunky pieces type), bit o' salt. Then when you put it in your bowl, you stir in a tablespoon or two of the thick 5% Fage greek yogurt I like. Hubby said it was the "best tomato soup he's had." ...looks like a big bowl of kim chi soup because of the color and cabbage, haha, but tastes more akin to a soup version of stuffed cabbage/tomato sauce dishes maybe. Anyway, apparently it was successful.

I think a short duration would help deter martial classes multiclassing with a druid just for the spiritshift, and encourage you to use it wisely rather than recklessly. Would also help distinguish it from wizards who have pretty long durations for summoned weapons and Citzal's Enchanted Armory. Maybe keep the base duration but turn off PL scaling for spiritshift duration? It would be similar to Ascendant's Ascended state duration scaling with intellect but not PL. I feel that spiritshifts should feel like the martial equivalent of a cipher's Ascended state.

@BruceVC I found an article about a San Francisco school that forces poorly performing 9th grade students into "ethics study course" and it seems to have good results: This Ninth Grade Class Shows Critical Race Theory Has A Place In Schools (forbes.com)

Hope this helps.

https://casel.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/SEL-in-Elementary-Math-8-20-17.pdf SEL instructions for Elementary schools seem to focus on how students are able to focus better on studying and how to do group work and to link math to real world. All things in that instruction sound pedagogically sound for me.

Nothing. Nothing at all. And it should not be. This very morning I am working on a project in Ohio where it it cost prohibitive to use fiber optic to extend a CPRI interface to a node that is nine miles (roughly 15 km) from the hub. So we are planning on using microwave to create the link. My job is to plan and design the hop. Well, the first step is to plot the exact distance and bearing between the GPS coordinates of the hub and node. You do that using a pen, paper, calculator and the Haversine Formula you might have learned in Trig. It's a method for plotting distance and directional vectors between two points on a sphere. Because even at that distance the curvature of the Earth must be accounted for. And Haversine does not care about your feelings.

Yes, most likely a bug. I will look into it. Basically : - Without form specific abilities, Spiritshift weapons have a hard time keeping up with unique weapons. Mowdyr (that I always use as a non build specific power weapon for comparison purpose) has a 20% lash and up to 20% speed up + 2 additional abilities. The values above are set so an endgame MC Spiritshift weapon has a slightly above 40% lash, with very good PEN. - I made it scaling, because no one complains about low level Spiritshift - I made it PL scaling so SC druids (who indeed don't get buff from a martial MC) still gets good enough in melee (granted that even Shifter should remain casters above all) - It has to be considered that Spiritshift is the only druid self buff. And costs 2 talents to keep up. That's why I think it has to be good. Even priests get Minor Avatar eventually. And Wiz has an unique spell which adds 30% lash on top of anything their weapon has. Wizards have Grimoire swapping, Priest get "borrowed" abilities and Holy radiance, Druids have Spiritshift as a signature abilities. - PoE1 Druid did loads of damages. That was fun. This mod doesn't bring it to a comparable level though. Now I changed so much stuff that it should be watched in next version. I'm potentially thinking about reducing Spiritshift duration or rising the Cooldown : better to have a low duration and always valuable Spiritshift than able to be kept up for a long time but meh value. Not sure it will be needed though. Edit : Maybe 120s Cooldown for Druid, 75s for Shifters.

couldn't helped but be reminded o' a recent video. obvious this is kinda tongue-in-cheek, and perhaps too soon for some, but am thinking your comment 'bout target audiences is what is essential. we chuckle at the vid we link, but a handful o' obsidian posters is gonna reflexive whataboutism or worse, they is gonna outright identify with z... whatever z is. viewing propaganda dispassionate, particular fascist propaganda, is never gonna fully explain its success. what made those pre-war rallies work is they were bypassing reasonable and rational. too many dismissed a fringey and extreme movement seeming led by a funny little caricature o' a man 'cause they were looking at the rallies and marches rational and reasonable. focus on trump and what trump says is a mistake. the crowd cheered, and the crowds kept growing. am betting you watch trump rallies and marvel at how willful obtuse must be those cheering and supporting, but you ain't the target audience. current gop has realized that thanks to the almost unique US republican scheme, they got a formula which succeeds with a populist who is only speaking to 20-30% o' the US population. putin is extreme popular in russia, far more popular than is trump in the US, and some o' that approval is justified. russians were freezing and starving during the 1990s, while western nations were ignoring the suffering. after ww2, japan and germany were rebuilt with the aid o' a whole lotta western money. after the cold war the carcass o' the soviet union were seen as a source o' potential plunder by domestic gangsters as well as foreign multinationals. putin may be a bad guy, but he did save a whole lotta russians and they will never abandon him. period. add to this a kinda endemic russian conspiracy theory mentality coupled with (understandable if not reasonable) NATO/western fear, loathing and envy such that no source other than state tv/media is gonna be believed, and the current russian propaganda which looks transparent silly to you or Gromnir is widely accepted by russians. ... and 'cause the predictable whataboutism responses will derail the thread, am gonna observe how am actual looking forward to the new thor movie, and will make this a legit segue by observing how we were one o' the folks who saw merit in taika waititi's jojo rabitt. am believing the writer o' the recent hawkeye tv show co-wrote new thor with taika waititi, so that is also a plus for us. HA! Good Fun!

Maybe he won't notice the game will be about teddy bears in Morocco...

I generally agree with this but that totally represents my in-laws in Russia... though if it must be said, I cannot say whether those same sentiments are as widely held by the majority of Russians.

and o' more relevance is fact what is being described in the forbes article ain't actual crt in any meaningful sense. mentioned earlier how well intentioned libs is making the situation worse by attempting pushback by embracing the talking point and slipshod vernacular o' the gop bloggers who made crt a thing. am gonna note how a linked study in the forbes article refers to crp and not crt. culturally relevant pedagogy http://lmcreadinglist.pbworks.com/f/Ladson-Billings (1995).pdf am gonna admit the methodology described by gloria ladson-billings shows just how limited were the study conducted, but we did find interesting how the great bulk o' scholarly work tended to focus on explaining minority failure as 'posed to identifying common elements o' minority success, and ladson-billings were coming at the problem from the more novel direction. regardless, for the crp efforts from ladson-billings, class size is not a relevant factor so much as is finding a culturally responsive approach. competent teachers who were able speak to engage their minority students showed success, if those educators in fact believed in the educability o' their students. the sfusd program looks to be an effort to systematic apply a few o' the lessons gleaned from crp research as 'posed to needing rely on individual competent teachers capable o' overcoming cultural communication obstacles developing their own schemes to promote learning o' historically disenfranchised groups. HA! Good Fun! ps didn't make clear, but creating a crp enlightened curriculum does not instant transform crp into crt.

Yeah, the German version is supposed to be better, but I had time to watch the short English version. I wish the French version wasn't lost, as it'd be fun to see all three versions. I was just a victim of time though with respect to the German version. I don't think there will ever be consensus on Riefenstahl, whose works were acclaimed at the time for their technical skill even if their role as Nazi propaganda (and thus her role as well) makes them notorious. I thought Brooks had met Riefenstahl when she was in Germany as well? I know G. W. Pabst (Die Büchse der Pandora, Tagebuch einer Verlorenen) had been the co-director of Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü and they all date to 1929.

Some genius decided having teams compete by seeing who can close off the most items was a good idea. Now some drama has unfurled as some team took another teams items and closed them, thus stealing them. Was funny as I have the same first name as the team lead of the supposed thief, I log on to find an endless stream of snarky Teams messages and accusing emails until someone realized it was the wrong person This happens too often, really, I come on and find people talking to me about some random crap because they can't read.

Speaking of "sound" treatments, I read this interesting result recently: Diabetes successfully treated using ultrasound in preclinical study It "sounds" almost like an archaic medical treatment, but if it works that will be enormous.

Yes, yes and yes! I whole-heartedly second that. I like the analogy but actually Cipher Ascended = God Mode. If memory serves me well, I think you had actually written about how you abandoned an Ascendant run because it was just getting a few Time Parasite casts then spamming Amplified Wave faster than enemies could get back up - stupidly powerful combo? I may very well be confused about who wrote that. Even with pretty sweet buffs courtesy of Eric, IMHO Spiritshift is NOT God Mode. Or at least not Ascended Ascendant God Mode.

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@Amentep I came across Triumph of the Will because of Leni Riefenstahl, the director of the film, whose name was mentioned alongside Louise Brooks' as they apparently shared an early director, whereupon I saw that she was a Nazi collaborator and became a director. It was difficult not to be interested in what an apparently famous female Nazi director cooked up in the 1930s for the party. It sure was an experience. I don't really know anything about the silent film era or thereabouts - I was mostly just interested in Louise Brooks' work, of which there isn't much. I may or may not check out F.P.1 at some point, although it seems like the longer German version of the film was received better than the English...and they certainly got the better movie poster, which is often the ultimate arbiter of quality, .

Thats what is being trumpeted but I think thats mostly for the old and infirm. Every person Ive know that caught the virus (with or without vaccination) reported that the infection was a nothingburger.

Yes I had my booster and the rest of my family did as well. It doesn't last very long this variant in SA for most people. Normally 3-4 days of flu symptoms like fatigue and feverish. I think it would be worse if people weren't vaccinated? I think its spreading because we have stopped our lockdowns so its inevitable and this new variant is the most contagious

Ah, if only basic math was exciting enough to engage 8-year old kids by the numbers alone. I'm going to address the last statement "We are lagging behind much of the rest of the world" first. That is tied completely to economics and poverty. It isn't the textbooks. It isn't the teachers. It isn't the curriculum. Poor states have poor test scores. States that don't spend money on students don't see growth. It is a cycle of inequity. This is, of course, a simplification, because poverty can change drastically, county to county, district to district, and school to school. Now back to the SEL, or CRT, or whatever buzzword you want to give to teaching to the whole child and not just their number-sense. It's important. They are kids. A few will probably be really into the numbers and will thrive no matter what, but most are going to need incentive. They are going to need to be engaged. Representation is important. Girls Who Code is a great example of that. Ok, I'm on Spring Break, so I'm out of energy to talk about education.

Please don't reduce the Spiritshift duration. It's already too low IMO. Raising the cool down period would be preferable I think.

No, its nothing like that. Thanks for the suggestion but Monty is right. Putins war is madness and the media commentary from Russia is pure propaganda from Putin and it is irrational, inconsistent, illogical, spurious and hyperbolic and it must be rejected with the contempt it deserves

edit: irv pankey played on the rams ol as a left tackle for a decade, but for most o' that time he played opposite o' jackie slater (rt). is understandable few save hardcore rams fans recall his name.

Triumph of the Will (1935). "The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany." It was about the time Hitler smiled at me and looked into my soul that I realized that I may have made a mistake in sating my morbid curiosity as to what a Nazi rally propaganda film would look like. What's up with fascists and their outrageously flamboyant theatrics and pageantry, anyways? I basically just watched two hours of Nazis marching in a parade, except instead of being for entertainment, it's supposed to instill some kind of wonderful sense of national pride. Obviously, I'm not the correct target audience for this seeing as I hate Nazis, but man, I just don't get it.

Demophobia I believe it's called. I get very irritable around large crowds.

hm, personally this is not really my experience, at least in terms of what they get, especially for multiclass set ups. perhaps the upper limit on power for non-druid martials is much higher, but to me druid spiritshift has a pretty decent expected value, especially considering it comes as part of a versatile spellcasting package. wildstrike frenzy being janky and the spiritshift duration being too short (shifter base duration should be the standard) seem like sufficient angles to attack spirit shift from, since IME spiritshift is mostly frustrating because for most druids it lasts such a short time, not so much that its autoattack is weak.

Well some movies simply have bad sound mixing, there is no way around that. The disclaimer here is that I do not have a good sound system, but I did help my brother get a decent one and upon doing research nothing does everything good. It's always a give and take, and about what you care about, be it bass, vocal, balance, etc...

"Wrinkle Resistant Shirt" (in the US at least) = lots of embedded formaldehyde that you cannot actually wash out entirely. Even if it's not plastic-fibers. Although I think you could maybe get to a point where 50% of it is gone. Maybe. That chemical is in freaking everything now, from cosmetics, clothes, bedding, rugs, memory foam/plastic fibers, EVERYTHING. I seem to not be bothered too much by small amounts of gas-off air exposure but direct skin contact wreaks havoc. So after a while new carpets won't bother me a lot nose wise but I cannot lie down on them for more than 60 seconds. I remember lying face down on carpets as a kid. Didn't bother me then for whatever reasons (did they use less chemicals in carpets back then or I just hadn't become sensitive yet?). Now I'd have a big red itchy patch on my face. Anyway ... just a reminder that that seeming acne and/or eczema or skin swelling flare up might come from one of those millions of products around your home that you may suddenly have become sensitive too. It's not always your diet or anything "exotic".

So is this politics or random weird stuff? Status Kuo - Florida banned almost half its math books from school CNN - Florida bans math books that might have CRT references

How about when you do actually invest a good chunk of change into a decent sound system...only to discover that you straight up still do not like having the volume high enough where you can hear all the dialogue due to excessive volume in other parts of the film? I sure love either having to manually raise and lower volume constantly or just enable subtitles on all-English films in order to not get headaches. It's part of the reason why if I'm going to watch a film by myself, I really have zero qualms about just putting on my headphones and watching it at my PC instead (hell, even a tablet with headphones is better if it means being able to hear everything while not getting a headache...).

The version is almost ready (might take time cause I don't have much time for the release notes though). I have buffed Spiritshift, Fury subclass and Druids in general quite a lot, so it might require some tweaks later. As a summary : - Spiritshift weapons now deals both Slash / Pierce (except Fury) - Wildstrike now gives 10% + 3/(PL -1) lash - Greater Wildstrike now gives 10% + 5/PL lash Fury gets : - 8-13 damages -> 10-15 damages (3s recovery, dual wield) - Wildstrike buff - +10% damages per kills up to 30% under storm blight shift (plus the regular duration extension). This is especially strong in situation where Garden of Life is strong for other subclasses. Bonus : - all spirit shift bonuses stack with everything - Shark does +25% BASE damages. - Wolfs added bonus Vs disengagement attacks - Stag : a Stag companion like carnage effect on crit. Basically a pseudo Wildstrike Frenzy. - Better Weather the Storm - non random Blight Summon So quite a lot of changes for druids. And there are also changes for other classes / items etc...

I dont really talk about any of the wars, but I am interested in the systems used in them. Its a bit surprising to see the current performance of a supposed "(near) peer" rival.

Scientists Have Eradicated Liver Cancer in Rats Using Non-Invasive Sound Waves (sciencealert.com)

Last months trip to New York has borne fruit. We have a new customer and a new project. It will probably be a year (maybe more) before I play a role in that project. G & I spent six days there and had a great time. But I'm glad I don't live there.

In addition the the buffs we already have, add here some suggestion you want to see for the Milk Molar system. The ones I'd like to see: Inventory space +X% to all weapon durability +X% to all armor durability +X% to all consumable duration/durability (torches, meat, smoothies...) Hauling capacity +X% Damage for type of weapon (slash, stab, smash...) +X% Defense for type of armor (light, medium, heavy) Dodge chance Personally, I think the "Damage for type of weapon" and "Defense for type of armor" are most needed to create character identity. Maybe I come back with more! what's your ideas?

My nephew is continuously sick (I don't think I've seen him without a runny nose), but then again so was his father when he was a kid, now he's the terminator. It can sometimes be like that with kids. Hopefully your nieces get better and stronger than ever soon. While we are on the matter of being sick, I have a fever for two days now, my head hurts and I actually feel sick unlike when I had corona. I guess the regular old flu is back and wants it's interest.

perhaps is a bit more (unnecessarily) complicated. way we were taught is green and scallion get used interchangeable for the same thing. is a number o' different onion genus plants which when immature produce green onions/scallions. however, is our understanding most store bought scallions/green onions is gonna be o' the same genus and species as the spring onion... and am admitting we don't know the genus and species but is common referred to as the welsh onion. for practical purposes, scallions/green onions is a bit sharper than spring onions. ... is more confusing as the "welsh" in welsh onions don't refer to wales. a national symbol o' wales is the leek, another distinct member o' the onion genus, whereas the welsh onion is a kinda pejorative referring to its alien origin. ff to 3:50 we use leeks frequent as we enjoy the garlic flavour. HA! Good Fun! ps multiple auto-correcting o' our spelling from genus to genius

Will Transformers Take Over Artificial Intelligence? This was a pretty interesting read. But, God help me, when I read the title this was where my brain went: