Adj.1.dire- fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency" desperate critical- being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency; "a critical ...
At the 22d CPSU congress in 1961 the attack on Stalin was continued, and the reputations of many purge victims of the 1930s were rehabilitated. Stalin's body was removed from its place of honor in the Kremlin next to Lenin's; his name was erased from the geography of the USSR (e.g....
Not the power grid failure mind you -- rather the al Qaeda attacks that were scheduled to take place in its event (i.e. suitcase nuke or rigged plant meltdown). Having grown up in East Dearborn (the largest Arab population outside the Middle East), I knew quite well of bin Laden's...
A cgMLST analysis was performed to investigate the relationships between the 89 Kyrgyz B. melitensis strains and strains from Asian countries to place them in a (supra) regional context. A total of 54 strains from Turkey, Iran, Kuwait, Syria, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Pak...
was still waiting for the findings of cyber-firm CrowdStrike, which the Democratic Party had hired in place of the F.B.I. to find out who had breached their servers, Obama told Clapper and Dept. of Homeland Security head Jeh Johnson not to wait. So with the election looming, the two ...
Sufi principle of divine love writes this beautiful poem, where all thoughts about time, place, action and consciousness are lost; negatives cancel negatives of this world and only He (God)is, Was, and shall Be: "Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?
“The only way I can do this is to do all of the steps myself,” says Ryan, who lives on a rural side road south of Carleton Place, near Franktown. He uses his own sawmill to cut the rectangular “blanks” from which he crafts a baseball bat. The blanks — rectangular blocks 36...
However, a lack of capacity (budgets, staffing, expertise) at the local level has been recognised to have created an implementation gap, where plans are in place but they are not always fully realised at the local level. This may also impact on coordination between lev- els. For example, ...
melitensis strains and strains from Asian countries to place them in a (supra) regional context. A total of 54 strains from Turkey, Iran, Kuwait, Syria, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Pakistan, and China were cho- sen for comparison (Fig. 6, Additional file 2: ...
42–43). While I do not wish to paint everyone with the same brush or draw equivalences where they do not exist, it seems it is currently common-place to designate most of Europe’s citizens—and those who would risk life and limb to become European citizens—as ‘second-class.’ To ...