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RENTON — Seahawks receiver Doug Baldwin has a knee issue that is "a little bit of a problem" and will be sidelined for at least a few more weeks, coach Pete Carroll said after Tuesday's practice.
Baldwin took part in the first two days of training camp last Thursday and Friday but has watched from the sidelines the last three days with a wrap on his left leg.
Carroll said Baldwin came to camp with a sore knee and it was decided to give him time now to get the knee healed before the regular season.
"Working on taking care of a little bit of a sore knee coming into camp," Carroll said. "And we are just going to give him a good break here to get started. Just take our time with it and be patient."
Asked how much time, Carroll said "we're going to give him a couple of weeks here before we bring him back out to make sure we ramp him back up properly. We came into camp a little bit off and just wanted to make sure we take care of him. We know exactly what is going on and he is doing some special treatments to make sure we are taking care of him and and want to bring him back into shape so we can really get him ready for the long haul."
Carroll was otherwise vague about exactly what the issue is with Baldwin's knee, saying only he has a knee issue when asked to elaborate.
Baldwin has fourth-longest active streak of consecutive starts among NFL receivers with 88 and ranks fourth in Seahawks' history in receptions with 443, is expected to again lead a Seattle receiving corps that has undergone a significant makeover the last few years.
The Seahawks also have been without receivers David Moore, who has a hip issue, and Brandon Marshall, who continues to be limited while recovering from ankle and toe injuries. That has had Seattle usually going with a starting receiving duo of Tyler Lockett and Jaron Brown with Marcus Johnson as the third receiver the last few days.
Carroll also said defensive end Dion Jordan will be out a while with what he said is a "stress issue on his other leg" that is not related to the knee surgery he had in the spring. The NFL Network reported that Jordan has "a stress reaction in his shin" and that the Seahawks are being cautious to try to prevent it from becoming a stress fracture.
"He's going to be a while," Carroll said. "The word is it's going to be a while. He's got a little bit of healing to do so it's going to be a while."
Jordan is on the PUP (Physically Unable to Perform List) which allows him to go on the regular season PUP list if the injury lingers. Players can come off the PUP list at any time during the preseason. But if Jordan were to begin the regular season on the PUP list he would not be allowed to practice or play the first six weeks of the season. After the sixth week he could return to practice and the team would then have three weeks to either activate him or place him on Injured Reserve (the window to return to practice is from weeks 6-11).
The Seahawks gave Jordan a tender as a restricted free agent that pays him just over $1.9 million with the idea that he could help replace Michael Bennett after Jordan had four sacks in five games last season.
"That was a position we were really hoping he was going to be a factor," Carroll said.
Asked if the Seahawks will need to "do some shopping" to add to the pass rush, Carroll said "we're always shopping."
One of the other pass rushers Seattle is counting on this season, Marcus Smith, sat out Tuesday with what Carroll said is a hamstring issue. But he seemed to indicate it is not a serious injury.
There did not appear to be any new significant injuries in Tuesday's practice.
However, remaining absent is free safety Earl Thomas, who has now held out of five days of training camp — he could be fined up to $40,000 for each day missed.
Asked if there has been any communication between Thomas and the team, Carroll said simply "no."
In an interview later Tuesday on The NFL Network, which made its annual training camp appearance at the VMAC, Carroll reiterated there have been no talks with Thomas since his holdout began.
"We did communicate a while back, but really there has been kind of a clear stance and so there hasn't been much talk about it right now," Carroll said. "We really miss Earl not being here. Wish he was here. He's one of us and all that. We're really going to work with the guys that we've got, the guys that are fired up to be out here playing with us. That's really where our focus is right now."
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As 2017 burned, things in my life began to shift in a way I had never seen before. I had changed jobs, I had watched my relationship crumble and I had completely lost myself. I no longer noticed who I was when I caught my own reflection. My head felt like unfamiliar territory and I was exploring it alone. I didn't like who I was becoming, I no longer held on to the things I had invested my passion in. Instead, I became somebody who was simply surviving.
As I moved home, I collected my broken pieces and took them to my therapist for the first time. It took me six weeks until I was finally willing to begin the process of being glued back together. Up until that point, I was still convinced that I could do it myself with enough determination. As I poured my heart and soul into my recovery, I began to understand things that I didn't even realise were happening. I began to pick apart my adoption and my disaster of a first relationship. I have spent my life blaming myself single handedly for both of these situations, only to find out I didn't need to. I can now see – and accept – my responsibilities and leave it there.
It took me a lot to accept the fact that I needed to take some time away from the world to focus on my life. I needed some time to commit myself fully to my recovery and the journey I wanted to be able to take. It was fine, I could scale my life back to the bare necessities until my heart was full and I was ready to take on the world.
Or so I thought.
I decided to stop writing late last year. It wasn't a conscious decision, I didn't wake up one Tuesday deciding to just put the laptop down and step away. But slowly, as I began talking about my problems in therapy, I stopped talking about my problems to Word. I think if anything, it was a natural shift. I promised myself I would return in January 2018 and that I would be ready to go; a whole new and improved version of myself.
As Christmas rolled around, I tried and tried again, but I couldn't form the words I felt I needed to form. My head no longer connected to my fingers. I managed to muster up two posts, one about 2017 and one about my plans for the year ahead. 2018 for the longest time has felt like it was going to be a stand out year for me, and it has – both professionally and personally for both good and bad reasons. But it didn't feel right coming to DanCooleDaily, it felt unfamiliar.
I began to worry that I had maybe lost my creativity forever.
Three weeks ago, I sat down with my therapist who looked at me and asked me one simple question;
"why don't you write anymore?"
It was in that moment that I knew why.
In two and a half years I had gone from writing about what cakes I was baking to how I was struggling to live in my head. I had built up a relationship with so many of you who were depending on me to feel like you weren't alone. I had begun earning decent money from brand deals and talking at conferences. There was so much pressure on me that I just stopped.
You see, I never ever want to let anybody down. My therapist will tell you all that its one of my biggest hang ups, mentally. The fear of letting somebody down, of making them disappointed in me.
I have never written for money or views or 'fans'. I have never written on DanCooleDaily because it was my intention to turn it into a career. I wrote to save myself. I wrote because it was the only place I could express how I was truly feeling. It was the way I would let my parents know what was really going on. The views and the money and the rest of it are great bonuses, but it's never why I started and thats what I was scared of. I was scared that I would begin wanting those things.
So, I subconsciously stopped.
That was until May, when my mum got a little sick. I don't need to go into the details of what was wrong or what happened in the months that followed. But what I do need to tell you is that seeing my best friend going through something with such strength and courage gave me two feelings.
The first was inspiration. It inspired me, taught me the stereotypical lesson that life is too short and you need grab it by both hands and run with every opportunity you are given, regardless of the outcome, you need to say that you tried.
The second was fear. I was absolutely terrified and shook to see my whole world helpless. The doctors fixed her and patched her up and she is better and we as a family are moving forward with this new found breath of life and I am so grateful each and every human who has touched our lives over the last 12 weeks.
In my state of panic whilst my mum was in hospital a couple of weeks ago, I picked up my laptop and began writing an open letter to her. I have no intention of making that letter public, or even sharing it with her, but it lit a fire in me that I thought had been extinguished forever.
I am sorry that it took me so long. I am sorry that I failed twice to make a comeback. In hindsight, I was not in the mind frame for either of those attempts. Now I am happy. I am working on a documentary about mental health. I am a confirmed panelist for this years Adoption UK Conference and I am still writing that book.
Things are changing around here. You will see that over the next few weeks.
To those of you who understand, thank you for allowing me to take the time to mend myself.
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BOS Newsletter — August 21th, 2018
BOScoin Signs MOU with Korea Cashback
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Korea's first blockchain project BOScoin (www.boscoin.io, CEO: Yezune Choi, Company name: BlockchainOS, Inc.) announced today that it had entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Korea Cashback Inc. (CEO: Youngmin Kim) at the Seoul Center of Korea Tourism Organization, forming a strategic partnership with the company to develop a global travel platform (tentatively named "Woti").
BOScoin is planning to introduce the distributed-network-based Human Identity Authentication for Woti, a platform which provides useful information for travelers using LBS (location-based service), so as not to violate personal information protection acts that are strengthening worldwide, more specifically the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), Europe's personal information protection act.
Woti will be serviced via a mobile app, providing travel and commercial information that can be helpful for FITs (Free Independent Travelers). The platform will also allow users to play in-app games or solve quizzes and let them earn rewards, such as entrance tickets or discounts at hotels or restaurants, anywhere in the world. This truly global platform, where travel agencies and travel service providers can participate from around the world, is working to accelerate the launch of new services by developing partnership support programs.
BOScoin is currently developing "BOS-Net," a blockchain-based MainNet for public financing, and is striving to discover and nurture corporations that will run financing projects on BOS-Net through its "Reverse ICO Partner Program," announced during the June Community Meetup.
"We signed an MOU with Korea Cashback because we considered the company to be a suitable partner for us to expand the business into a global platform, with its outstanding know-how and achievements in the domestic travel industry," said BOScoin CEO, Yezune Choi. "We are going to hold a BOScoin Partner Community Meetup soon to showcase the partnerships and the progress we have made to date."
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CEO Youngmin Kim joined Segye Tour Co., Ltd. in 2000 and since then has been engaged in the tourism industry. The know-how and various experiences accumulated throughout his career will be the basis for the project with BOScoin. Korea Cashback is gaining attention as a company that will contribute to the development of the tourism industry by virtue of being selected as the Preliminary Venture Business in Korea's tourism industry and receiving support via crowdfunding by Korea Tourism Organization (KTO). These were part of KTO's businesses launched in May 2018, aiming to nurture tourism venture companies which will create new values and synergies based on creativity, innovation, technology, etc. by cooperating with existing tourism companies.
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JERUSALEM — The announcement set Israel abuzz with suspense late Monday afternoon: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a "dramatic statement" to deliver at 8 p.m., at the start of the most heavily watched news hour.
Would it be about Iran? Hezbollah? Hamas? The Trump peace plan?
The subject, it turned out, was an existential threat not to Israel, but to Mr. Netanyahu's career.
For seven minutes on live television — enormously valuable exposure with elections only three months away — Mr. Netanyahu railed against a corruption investigation into his dealings with several Israeli media tycoons that is widely expected to culminate soon in an indictment on bribery and other criminal charges.
The investigation was "biased," Mr. Netanyahu complained. He demanded an opportunity to confront the state's witnesses, on television, before any potential trial, so all Israelis "will know the whole truth."
He scoffed at the idea that one of the main accusations against him — buying positive news coverage, in exchange for government benefits worth hundreds of millions of dollars — could amount to bribery: "A joke," he said. "An absurdity!"
And then he suggested one of his chief rivals in the April elections, the centrist candidate Yair Lapid, was guilty of the same thing; called himself and his family victims of a "terrible witch hunt" orchestrated by the political left; and claimed that those leftist adversaries wanted him to sacrifice Israel's security, but that he would "never do such a thing."
At least one television channel cut away midspeech.
Others carried the full performance, which was indeed dramatic if not quite in the way Mr. Netanyahu intended. The announcement, a chorus of political rivals and analysts quickly concluded, was the drama of a hunted animal sensing that the hunters were closing off his escape routes.
"Bibi is a-f-r-a-i-d," Ehud Barak, the former prime minister who defeated Mr. Netanyahu in 1999 and is angling for another run, wrote on Twitter.
Chemi Shalev, a columnist for the newspaper Haaretz, wrote that Mr. Netanyahu's belief "that his procedural demand to confront states' witnesses is worthy of a dramatic prime-time address to the nation is A. Disturbing B. A sign of his escalating hysteria."
It was also an exploitation of his position to commandeer a prime-time audience for purely selfish political purposes, his detractors charged.
"Simply embarrassing to see," said Itzik Shmuli, a member of Parliament from the Labor Party, who called the prime minister's speech "a curtain of smoke meant to get the public to forget one simple fact: He is drowning in severe accusations. He is neck deep."
From Mr. Netanyahu's camp there was largely silence: Miri Regev, the culture minister, declared, "I believe in the prime minister's innocence," according to the newspaper Maariv, but hers was the loudest immediate expression of solidarity.
For months as the inquiries proceeded, Mr. Netanyahu reassured his supporters with a steady and constant refrain: "There will be nothing, because there is nothing." But his tactics belied his unperturbed pose: He attacked the press who reported the allegations, the police who investigated them, and finally the prosecutors who oversaw the cases.
He has tried to project calm, but has also displayed an erratic side as the legal pressure mounted: After insisting in November that for national security reasons, Israel should wait to hold elections until the fall, Mr. Netanyahu reversed himself a month later. He called elections for April 9, in what appeared to be an attempt to notch a wide re-election margin before the attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit, could render his decision on an indictment.
Mr. Netanyahu then began arguing that, since he was entitled to a hearing after Mr. Mandelblit announces his decision and before an indictment is issued, and since there might not be time for that process to play out before voters go to the polls, Mr. Mandelblit owed it to the people to delay announcing his decision until after the vote.
That one did not fly: Mr. Mandelblit instead let it be known that he was speeding up his timetable accordingly.
Now, with Mr. Mandelblit reportedly only weeks away from rendering his decision, Mr. Netanyahu appears to have calculated that there will be an indictment after all — that there is, at last, something — and he has shifted tactics to try to pre-emptively discredit it by impugning the motives of those responsible.
Mr. Netanyahu's coalition chief, David Amsalem, recently suggested that the prime minister was being framed and that "millions of people won't accept this."
The Ministry of Justice put out a terse statement defending the inquiry into Mr. Netanyahu after his speech on Monday, saying: "All parts of the investigation into the prime minister's cases were conducted professionally and thoroughly."
Nahum Barnea, a veteran columnist for Yediot Ahronot, said Mr. Netanyahu's goal was to alarm his core political base, which has repeatedly rallied to his side over the years when he has portrayed himself as a victim, into thinking that the prosecution was nothing more than an attempted coup.
"It's like Trump," Mr. Barnea said, alluding to the American president's similar claims of a witch hunt against him. "He focuses on the base and what I call the tribe: not only Likud voters but the other right-wing parties. He's trying to put some fear into them, to get them to put their personal loyalty to him over their faith in the legal system."
Yet to watch Mr. Netanyahu, 69, wearing a tie on Monday in exactly the same hue as the Israeli flags that flanked him, was to see someone other than the smooth, self-assured leader whose swagger has carried him through one scandal or challenge after another in his decade in office.
He looked down repeatedly at his notes, blinked frequently through what appeared to be watery eyes, and showed little of the smirking scornfulness with which he has dismissed the allegations against him in the past.
"Today, the makeup covered it up," said Mr. Barnea, "but under the makeup, the guy sweats."


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Walking through Assignment more Generally¶
Let's explore assignment in general. Try tracing this example.
- 1
- The variable a is not used in defining the variable b.
- 12.3
- The variable d is set to a copy of the value in variable b. The variable b still holds the value 12.3 as well.
- "b"
- The variable d gets assigned the same value as the one stored in b.
- "d"
- The variable d gets its value from the variable b.
csp-3-7-2: What is the value of variable
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The sequence of statements in a program is very important. Assignment doesn't create some kind of relationship between the names, like in mathematics. The variable
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- var1 is 45, var2 is 45
- The variable var1 was set to 45, but that gets changed in line 2, before var2 gets set to any value at all.
- var1 is 45, var2 is var1
- Both variables contain numeric values, because those are the only values in this program.
- var1 is 17.3, var2 is 45
- The variable var2 never gets set to 45 in this program.
- var1 is 17.3, var2 is 17.3
- The variable var1 is first set to 45 and then changed to 17.3, and then, var2 gets the value from var1.
csp-3-7-4: What are the values in
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var2 after this program runs?
We can see values (including the values for named variables) by printing them. It's a useful way to see what's going on inside a program. Try running this example where we're having the computer calculate the number of days in three weeks:
- 7, 7*3, daysInWeek*3
- The values will actually be computed and numbers will be printed.
- daysInWeek, numDays, numDays2
- The variable names will not be printed.
- 7, 21, 21
- The first print will print the value of daysInWeek (7), the second the value of numDays (21), and the third the value of numDays2 (21).
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- The value for daysInWeek will be computed and assigned.
csp-3-7-6: What three values are printed when this program runs?
csp-3-7-7: The following program should figure out the cost per person for a dinner including the tip. But the blocks have been mixed up. Drag the blocks from the left and put them in the correct order on the right. Click the Check Me button to check your solution.bill = 89.23
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10 people went to a restaurant for dinner. Each guest ate 1 appetizer and 1 entree. The whole party shared 1 dessert. Write the code to calculate and print the total bill if each appetizer costs $2.00, each entree costs $9.89, and dessert costs $7.99. It should print 126.89.
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Prudence returns to accounting, but not to the economy
International accounting standard-setters have at last recognised the error of their ways and relented on the question of prudence, which they plan to re-instate as a fundamental accounting principle. Bank auditors will have to form an independent view on loan recoverability, rather than rely on the potentially biased judgements of management.
A regime that allows banks to flatter revenues by failing to recognise loan losses until actual default instils a cavalier culture, in which dodgy high-risk activity is treated as the norm. Since 2009, 117 banks with operations in the US (including several based in the UK) have paid $200 billion in fines and negotiated settlements for proven acts of money laundering, financing terrorist activities, rigging currency markets and defrauding clients. Loretta Lynch, the new US Attorney General, has found that "the banks' actions were criminality on a massive scale".
The unprecedented level of penalties against miscreants and their institutions may give comfort to those baying for redress, but criminal convictions in the US have become largely symbolic due to the practice of granting waivers. Banks now regard sanctions as part of the cost of doing business, and the rate of reoffending is clear evidence that waivers run counter to deterrence. If criminal sanctions do not deter, why bother to impose them, other than to enrich regulators? By contrast, the State Treasurer of California, to his credit, has banned HSBC from accepting deposits of state funds because of concerns about money laundering, sanctions violations and tax evasion.
Remember Arthur Andersen? What finally brought it down was desertion by clients, following withdrawal of its state practising licence when found guilty of obstructing justice by shredding Enron documents. Sanctions, to be effective, must include the removal of licences to operate.
Playing the government's own game
Financial delinquency comes as no surprise. Institutions are merely playing the game of "follow-my-leader". Fiat money counterfeiting by central banks and suppression of interest rates to the point of extinction have produced speculative asset bubbles and state expenditure wasted on construction projects that few would have voted for. The 2008 financial crisis contained all the lessons that, if learnt, would have avoided its recurrence. Instead we have witnessed recourse to monetary policy that, although intended to stimulate economic productivity, has had the opposite effect.
Illusory liquidity may flatter the finances of those that get their hands on it first, but it does nothing to irrigate essential functions in the economy because savings, from real production, have generated none of it. Record corporate profits and dividends, share buy-backs and cash hoards in major enterprises may do wonders for share prices and pension funds, but if they represent nothing more than the effect of unrealistically cheap credit and fake money flooding the system, the bonanza that follows is not only unsustainable; it is a veritable financial time bomb that will make 2008 look like child's play.
Banks, having at last woken up to the hazard of lending against overvalued collateral, now preside over a lack of real liquidity in the market place: banks' balance sheets, bloated with fiat bond deposits, dissemble solvency but even they don't trust the adequacy of their reserves. As a result, lending to even the most solid companies is virtually frozen.
Lessons in unintended consequences
We have observed the law of unintended consequences in action many times. Remember the US government's 1990s policy intended to encourage home ownership in poorer communities, often with ethnic minorities?
Blatant electoral bribery, masquerading as noble aspiration, created a massive speculative housing bubble and the issue of 27 million sub-prime loans, proving only that the road to hell is paved with good intentions – an alternate expression of the same law.
This phenomenon is known as "cognitive dissonance", or holding on to two irreconcilable ideas at the same time – as did the Weimar Chancellors and the Zimbabwe Central Bank. Both believed that the only way to feed the poor and save them from the ravages of rampant price inflation was to print more money.


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Headland Amenity brings its range of innovative turf nutrition, health and management products to BTME 2103 at Harrogate.
Using the latest technology to offer greenkeepers practical solutions to turfcare issues, Headland will introduce Xtend 10-10-10+2Mgo at the show. This is a unique pre-seeding fertiliser ideal for use on golf tees, fairways and surrounds as well as winter sports pitches, cricket outfields and racecourse turf.
Suitable for application after any renovation work and after cutting, Xtend 10-10-10 uses Crystal Green, a new source of slow-release phosphorus, nitrogen and magnesium recovered from UK waste water. With additional slow release nitrogen providing release for up to three months, a composted organic base, seaweed meal and humic acid, the product is able to aid germination and gentle establishment of new grasses.
Xtend 10-10-10 will provide natural, effective nutrition over a long period while helping to cut workloads for greenkeeping teams with its slow release action.
Headland will also feature its mini prilled fertiliser formulations, Multiverdo 13-0-46 and Multigreen 24-0-24.
Multiverdo is a fine prilled potassium nitrate suitable for all turf, providing immediately available nitrogen along with good levels of plant hardening potassium. The sulphur free formulation works rapidly under cooler temperatures to aid early establishment, and plant hardiness.
Sulphur content is a key factor in the treatment of anaerobic soil conditions or 'Black Layer'. Many turf areas show anaerobic conditions (oxygen deficiency) at certain times of the year, primarily as a result of water-logging caused by excessive rainfall, compaction, poor rootzone construction and/or drainage.
Applying fertilisers containing sulphur in an anaerobic soil situation can encourage the sulphur-respiring bacteria present and exacerbate the situation.
However, by utilising Multiverdo 13-0-46 potassium nitrate, clear benefits can be recognised. Multiverdo 13-0-46 has no sulphur content and contains nearly 50 per cent oxygen as part of its chemical analysis, acting to create an oxidising environment in the rootzone and help to counteract soil anaerobicity.
Multigreen 24-0-24 is a mini controlled release fertiliser for fine turf. Nutrients are released according to soil temperature alone over a period of up to six months during the growing season. Multigreen 24-0-24 can be used as a low rate, 'base feed' to supplement liquid overfeeding and is ideal for use in free-draining sand dominated rootzones, which may be deficient in potassium. It can be used for turf cut below 6mm, providing a gentle but consistent release of nutrients.
Headland Amenity's Sales and Marketing Director Andy Russell comments: "We have some exciting products to show to Course Managers and Greenkeepers at BTME, spearheaded by Xtend 10-10-10 which takes the latest technology to utilise a waste product which can really enhance establishment and turf recovery. Headland fertilisers not only offer great results from the turf but can also help to cut greenkeepers workloads by providing nutrition over a longer period."
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What it's like to spend four days working the mammoth tech convention. (Jason Bracelin/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
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Casino owner Derek Stevens announces his new property Circa, coming to Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas in late 2020. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Visitors to CES can pick up a coupon at the AutoX booth that will get them a hamburger delivered by AutoX's autonomous vehicle.
Seoul-based parent technology company Monit's diaper sensor can alert parents to a full diaper. (Bailey Schulz/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Holographic TVs, Table Pong and facial recognition software are some of the things on display in the Innovation and Gaming hall at CES 2019. (Heidi Fang/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Nikon Inc. is showcasing its new Z6 and Z7 digital cameras at CES 2019. (Scott Davidson/Las Vegas Review-Journal)


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Airbus A330-243, G-OMYT, 24 June 2013
Aborted takeoff following right engine power loss, Manchester Airport, 24 June 2013
Airbus A330-243, G-OMYT
At approximately 105 kt on a takeoff roll on Runway 23R at Manchester, the right engine failed, emitting a flash and smoke from the exhaust. The crew quickly established that there was a loss of power and aborted the takeoff, brought the aircraft to an emergency stop on the runway and taxied clear using the unaffected left engine. Inspection of the right engine revealed there had been a failure of a single HP turbine blade which had detached, resulting in a high power engine surge and further secondary damage to the IP and LP turbines and nozzles. The blade failure was caused by high cycle fatigue (HCF) crack propagation with crack initiation resulting from 'Type 2 sulphidation' corrosion.
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Bache-Gabrielsen Cognac joins Family Brands Alliance
The Family Brands Alliance, a travel retail partnership between Waldemar Behn and Pallini Limoncello, has welcomed a third member to the venture – Bache-Gabrielsen Cognac.
The alliance was established at the TFWA World Exhibition in Cannes, France, to support both firms in the face of "globalisation and consolidation within the travel retail industry", which they said had become a "challenge for medium-sized family-owned companies".
Its aim is to allow the groups to optimise and grow their manpower for sales and marketing, and also have a "balanced" product portfolio.
Now, with Bache-Gabrielsen on board, the trio of firms will make their Family Brands Alliance debut in Singapore next month at the TFWA Asia Pacific Exhibition and Conference, in Basement 2, stand B34, where each company will showcase its products.
Rüdiger Behn, CEO of Waldemar Behn, which owns Danzka vodka, said: "The alliance has already shown a very positive impact for both founder companies Behn/Danzka and Pallini.
"The idea of joining forces and keeping the high service level middle-sized family-managed and owned companies are known for has worked out."
Bache-Gabrielsen was founded in 1905 by Thomas Bache-Gabrielsen, and is overseen today by his great-grandson and company president, Hervé Bache-Gabrielsen.
Hervé Bache-Gabrielsen said: "When Rüdiger Behn and I met, I realised the potential for us as a family-owned and run company. We share the same values, dreams and passion, and the synergies within this partnership, which allows us to stay fully independent but better serve the travel retail world on a global level."


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We spoke online with Goatse employee "Weev" on Wednesday night and learned that the exploit was more of a threat than many think. We also asked about the motivations of the security group. Why, as reported in their recent blog post, did they destroy the list of 114,000 influential iPad subcribers after giving it to Valleywag blogger Ryan Tate?
Note: The following interview transcript was excerpted, edited and paraphrased.
SF Weekly: So who do you think is responsible, Apple or AT&T?
Weev: Both. Apple coded the hook to pass the ICC-ID to AT&T -- it's
both their failures, no question about it. Both didn't see the potential
for abuse.
SF Weekly: In your opinion, what would be the worst case
scenario, if this had not been exposed. Is the NYTimes right, in making
everyone shut off their 3G?
Weev: Well someone with nefarious intent could have scraped a
complete [database] of iPad 3G subscribers and emailed them all an exploit
payload and owned [a lot] of iPads or owned the influential people
harm can an email address, plus the ID of the iPad with which it is associated do? Emailing from the list of 114,000 iPad users would
increase your likelihood of reaching an iPad as opposed to any old email list, useful if you've got an exploit or hack specifically designed to infiltrate iPads; Goatse was able to scrape the email addresses and iPad IDs of
a lot of immediately recognizable people.
Someone more sinister could have used these addresses to send influencers an email with a link that, if clicked on,
could allow the hacker to take over some of the iPad. Reports from the Cansecwest security conference have shown that vulnerabilities continue to plague the iPhone and other mobile devices.
Weev: We did this as "niceguy" as we could. WSJ wrote anLater Weev implied that the person who found the iPad bug might not be able to pursue his current career if outed, hinting at the prominence of the tipster.
article that implies pretty strongly that we are criminals. We did not
publically release the dataset, we waited until we confirmed the system
was secured before we went public with technical details. I hope they
don't try to get charges pressed but if charges are pressed we will
fight it and win.
SF Weekly: Why destroy the data ethically [from your end], when Ryan Tate has a copy and is probably more vulnerable to hacking?
Weev: There's probably more of an attack surface for me than for
Tate and there's simply no more reason for me to have the data: It
served its purpose for me. I'm just like a PR agent in this scenario.
There's absolutely no reason for me to have it, the story is broken.
Hopefully nobody will press any criminal stuff.
SF Weekly: What do you mean by PR agent?
Weev: Well this wasn't my find. The dude that owned the iPad -- He doesn't wanna be named. If I said his name, you'd know it. He's
probably super easy to serve.
SF Weekly: So what are your main motivations?
Weev: Listen I'm an artist, a real one -- I don't hang my
work on some gallery wall for douchebags to gawk at. Our
motivation is to make art and to provoke human thought and to advance
the human condition. Uninterested in lawbreaking, want to make more
art. Don't need to break law to make art.
SF Weekly: Was it illegal to obtain the emails? The process of obtaining, wasn't that against the law?
Weev: Do not believe so. Regardless, I did not do it. I am just a publication agent.
SF Weekly: So if AT&T offers you a job. Will you consider?
Weev: Absolutely. Goatse security is open to contracts from anyone. We put our client's interests first.
you wouldn't want anyone else to see. Imagine your boyfriend texted his home alarm code because you accidentally set it off, and you had included his name and address in your contacts list; People in the mobile era constantly, innocently exchange sensitive information.
Will our iPads be safer now, because of this? Despite the 4 chan-derived name and general shady Internet troll rhetoric of Goatse, yes, for the moment.
Follow us on Twitter at @alexia and @sfweekly.


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Blackjack Strategy Required For Winning Blackjack Game
21 Feb
Some people believes that Blackjack is the only gambling game in which player has a perfect chance against the house. Here you can know that how one can increase their odds of winning.
Do you play free bingo online? Not, then keep reading.
- Forget all the superstitions and meaningless belief which you have about the game of blackjack. If you really want to beat casino than your real mathematical calculation and fast developing planning will play the main role.
- You need to have deep learning and knowledge about the basics strategy required in Blackjack. It is better to learn statistically sound strategy, and know the right method to play each and every hand in your sleep.
- Understand the opposite person to whom your are facing in the blackjack game. The house gets its advantage reason being if the dealer and both the player busts then the house wins(money is immediately collected once the player busts). This is one of the great obstacle to overcome.
- You need to understand that what types of cards are beneficial, and what cards favoring the house. Cards with small numbers gives benefit to house(usually six or less than six).
- The player get benefit from large cards. The dealer mostly bust his stiffs(dealer does not get the opportunity to hit).
- You should know that how to exploit it. Player have to bet only when there is more high cards rather than low cards, the player would definitely win. The player should have to bet more as there is more number of high cards, and should restrict his/her betting when there is more number of low cards. This is the key to dominate blackjack.


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From environmental challenges to nationalism, what is the future of international law? Three of our brightest legal minds – Philippe Sands QC, a barrister and Professor of Law at University College London; Judith Levine, an independent arbitrator and formerly Senior Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague; and Julian Burnside QC, a Melbourne barrister with a particular interest in human rights cases – discuss law in a world on the edge. Hear their insights into climate change, genocide in Myanmar, colonialism in Chagos Islands, refugees, and the future of world trade and investment, with ABC Radio's Eleanor Hall.
Philippe Sands (International)
Philippe Sands QC is Professor of Law at University College London and a practising barrister. He is author of Lawless World and Torture Team and numerous academic books. His last book, East West Street won numerous prizes, including the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Prix Montaigne. His new book is The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive, follows a 10-part BBC podcast and radio series. He is President of English PEN and a member of the Board of the Hay Festival.
Judith Levine (Australian)
Judith Levine is an independent international arbitrator based in Sydney, sitting in cases in Singapore, Switzerland, France and the UK. Previously, she served as senior legal counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. Many of the complex legal disputes she has worked on and written about have been at the cutting edge of international law, including cases related to law of the sea, corruption and ethics, sports law, climate change, and business and human rights.
Julian Burnside (Australian)
Julian Burnside QC is a Melbourne barrister specialising in commercial litigation. He is a former president of Liberty Victoria, and has acted pro bono in many human rights cases, in particular concerning the treatment of refugees. He is the author of Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice, Wordwatching, Watching Brief, and Matilda and the Dragon. He compiled a book of letters written by asylum seekers held in Australia's detention camps, published as From Nothing to Zero. In 2004, he was elected as a Living National Treasure, and in 2009 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia. In 2014, he was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize.
Eleanor Hall (Australian)
Eleanor Hall is host of The World Today, and occasionally fills in as host on ABC TV's The Drum. She has two decades of reporting experience with ABC TV News, including working on 7.30, Lateline and Foreign Correspondent. She was the ABC's Washington correspondent in the late 1990s and she worked for five years in the Canberra parliamentary press gallery. Prior to joining the ABC, Eleanor freelanced for US National Public Radio from Central America and worked at WGBH in Boston as the youngest ever recipient of the Harkness Fellowship. She earned her Masters in Journalism from Columbia University in New York, and has been a fellow at Oxford University's Reuters Institute where she submitted a paper on the Obama e-campaign. In 2012, she won the European Union's Journalism Award.


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Surely one of the most useful projects Norm?s ever built for the shop is this work table. It?s a light weight, yet sturdy, assembly table that is easily raised up on casters to move around the shop as necessary. The mechanism for the caster assembly was borrowed from a nearby scenic shop where mobility is essential. Also with the table, Norm creates a storage cart for his collection of woodworker?s clamps. When he needs several clamps, he can easily wheel over his collection to make his choice.
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Co Chair Collection
The design's versatility is the result of a thoughtful construction and a wide array of materials: the Co Chair is easy to customize to create the desired expression and experience. Distinguished by a wide veneer back, the chair's proportions allow freedom of movement and provide maximum comfort.
Together, mutually, in common: the words that define the prefix 'co-' are at the heart of our new Co Chair design. Conceived in collaboration with The Office Group and Norm Architects, the multifunctional chair adapts to a wide range of needs and interior styles.
Founded in 2003 by Charlie Green and Olly Olsen, The Office Group (TOG) is a leading provider of design-led and flexible offices, meeting rooms and co-working spaces for startups, small businesses, and larger, more established businesses. TOG allows members to work across multiple locations and enables companies to grow, downsize or exit a space quickly and cost-effectively. TOG is focused on creating inspirational workplaces with a genuine sense of community, as highlighted by the inclusion of spaces such as libraries, screening rooms, cafés, gyms and gardens. As TOG expands its portfolio and client base, the company remains focused on continuing to define innovative ways to address how people wish to work.
Our Co Chair series proves that comfort doesn't have to come at the cost of beauty. Equal parts elegance and ease, its graceful minimal, modern frame and supportive, angled backrest make sitting a pleasure—for however long it lasts. The new Co Lounge Chair continues the collection's legacy, combining steel, woodworking and upholstering skills and unexpected comfort to create an iconic chair for relaxation that fits seamlessly into any setting. It addresses the space and design challenges shared by spaces both private and public, making it as appealing in homes as in shared areas like conferences, boardrooms, and touch-down co-working lounges.
The Co Chair's slender yet robust powder-coated steel frame defines the intriguing geometric silhouette – and delivers high durability. Optional veneer armrests adding another aesthetic and functional dimension, serving both for added comfort and for suspending the chair off the floor for easy cleaning.
Drawing on The Office Group's extensive knowledge of workplace needs, the Co Chair pairs a lightweight, sleek profile with great seating comfort – and the option to stack up to 10 chairs in a compact tower. Aesthetically, the design's contoured form and warm materials bring Norm Architects' signature, human-centred minimalism to residential and hospitality applications.


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THE tragic death of a young rugby ace in a horrific car accident is being marked in a poignant funeral tribute this Saturday.
Heartbroken family and friends will gather at Capel Seion in Llanrwst to pay tribute to Myfyr Lloyd Thomas, the 20-year-old farmer who was killed last Friday night.
The popular rugby player will be buried in his favourite Nant Conwy number 13 shirt on Saturday morning.
Ysgol Dyffryn Conwy headteacher Ifor Efans is expected to say a few words in tribute to his ex-pupil and Ysbyty Ifan Young Farmers Club member.
Myfyr was travelling along the A5 near Betws-y-Coed visiting his girlfriend Ffion Owen in Llangernyw when the accident happened at around 7.45pm.
He leaves a devastated family behind at Bryn Nebo Farm, including his 48-year-old dad Meirion, mum Edna, 47, and older brother Eilir, 22, who also plays for Nant Conwy.
The close-knit community has been rocked by the tragedy while Nant Conwy Rugby Club cancelled its scheduled games at senior, youth and junior level last Saturday as a mark of respect.
Chairman Humphrey Hughes said everyone at the club was in a state of shock.
"The whole community is devastated. The Thomas family is much loved and highly thought of in the village," he said.
"Myfyr was a big part of the rugby club, which he joined when he was only eight. He grew into an exceptionally good player and was a strong first team centre.
"He will be greatly missed, not only for his strong tackling skills but also for his remarkable character. It's such a tragic loss of a young life – we're all pulling together to support the family in their time of need."
The Nant Conwy star died instantly when his green Rover 25 was involved in a collision with a blue Nissan Navara two and a half miles east of Betws-y-Coed.
The driver of the Navara and two children went to Ysbyty Gwynedd with minor injuries and were later discharged.
Two other children were unhurt and the emergency services were called to free one casualty.
The funeral takes place this Saturday at 10.45am at Capel Seion, Llanrwst. The family would like donations to go toward Wales Air Ambulance and Nant Conwy Rugby Club.


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Life's Levitas
- onSeptember 4, 2018
- Vol.41 Autumn 2018
- byPyun Hye-Young
Every now and then, Yoon Sung-hee and I talk about writing. Of course, most of the time we talk about other things—fun things, things we're worried about, places we want to go, places we've traveled to together. But every once in a while, we talk about a story or novel we're working on. Not things like, The writing isn't going well, or I'm buried under deadlines, or Writing is hard. We both know well enough that fiction doesn't always go the way you think it will and that sometimes you just hit a block, so we don't bother whining about that. Nevertheless, when you are in the middle of working on a new story, you can't help but think of nothing but that story, so when you do happen to meet someone, the story tends to find its own way out of you, like a yawn or a cough escaping.
That was the case with Sung-hee's story, "While They Laughed." We were hanging out and chatting and having a good time when she casually mentioned the title. Smiling and laughing was what we did every time we met. That time as well, we had eaten our fill of delicious food, exchanged funny stories, and planned our next trip together. Meanwhile, I found myself feeling more relaxed about the writing that wasn't going the way I wanted it to, about the deadline bearing down on me, and even about the uncertainty of making a living as a writer.
After she told me the title, I couldn't stop repeating it to myself. It was a fun phrase to say out loud, and it made me curious to know what happens in the story. We moved on to talk about something else, but in the back of my mind I was still imagining what might follow a phrase like "while they laughed." The characters in Sung-hee's stories love to smile and laugh: they smile at the small things, laugh at jokes, smile to hide their embarrassment, smile before apologizing, and laugh instead of cry. They laugh as if laughter is their only duty in life. I assumed that this story, too, would feature more smiles and laughter than frowns and tears. In fact, I couldn't help thinking that this wonderful title was a perfect fit for every one of her stories.
When I finally did get to read the story, I paused for a long time between the first and second paragraphs. Yoon Sung-hee has a very elliptical writing style. Her stories have to be read slowly to give readers time to fill in what happens in the white spaces between her sentences. In this story, the narrator falls asleep while remembering dipping his big toe into the water the first time he went swimming, after which his nephew calls the narrator's friends with some sort of news. You have to keep reading to find out what the news is. Once you do, you realize that the opening scene, in which the narrator and his nephew appear to be having a funny chat about the nicknames the nephew uses for people in his cell phone's contacts list, was probably him instructing his nephew on who to contact after he dies. You belatedly realize the sadness of witnessing a man's dying wish.
The narrator's funeral is attended by three friends: Yeong-jae, Min-gi, and Seong-min. The story revolves around the three of them moving the narrator's green sofa to each of their homes in turn—the same green sofa that they had stolen ten years earlier from a theater in a fit of anger at a boring movie that they'd watched on the day of the college entrance exam. After his death, his friends fight over who will get the sofa. They decide that it should go to whoever can prove he was the bigger fool in life, and Min-gi wins. Together, they carry the sofa-turned-keepsake to Min-gi's house. But Min-gi's mother objects, and the sofa is taken to Yeong-jae's house instead. Yeong-jae's room turns out to be too small for the sofa, so they carry it one last time to Seong-min's rooftop patio.
Meanwhile, the narrator, unseen by the others, has become a ghost and is seated on the sofa as it is moved from Min-gi's to Yeong-jae's to Seong-min's homes. The journey of the sofa is also the four friends' final journey together, as well as the narrator's opportunity to bid farewell to each friend in turn. Korea has a unique mourning tradition called noje, which refers to carrying the funeral bier to a close friend's or relative's house for a simple, informal memorial service. In that sense, the green sofa becomes the narrator's funeral bier, carried to his friends' homes as part of this noje tradition.
At Seong-min's place, the three friends sit on the sofa under a stolen parasol, stare at a potted plant, and share the food they've brought with them. Japchae noodles, pollock fritters, green chili pancakes, seasoned bracken—the kinds of foods you're just as likely to find at a feast as at a funeral. As they eat, they laugh uproariously over every little thing for no reason.
While they laugh, the narrator's ghost sees their futures. Long after the main character has died, his friends' lives continue on, dull, boring, and unlucky at times, but always accompanied by laughter. Min-gi, who'd long been a shut-in, emerges from his house and begins to explore the world. He becomes a middle-aged man who feels at peace even while struggling to change a flat tire during his journeys. Yeong-jae, who takes fifteen pills a day, studies hard and masters a great deal of trivia, which enables him to win a TV quiz show and become the quiz king. Seong-min, unfortunately, dies young after becoming a father and is reunited with the main character.
Life cannot be solved through laughter alone, and we cannot spend our days doing nothing but laughing. But if laughter vanishes, then we are forced to walk through life alone and lonely, over a road unevenly paved with blessings and coincidences, happiness and unhappiness. And yet, when we laugh together, sadness, weariness, and failure lift their weights from our hearts ever so slightly. That is why laughter can make us feel as if we are floating. Sung-hee never claims that pain and sorrow have passed, or that laughter will solve everything. She knows that optimism of that kind isn't very trustworthy and is too distant from the truth, so she only hints at the failures experienced one after the other by the dead and the soon-to-be dead. Nevertheless, just like laughter, even the sorrow of losing a friend and experiencing life's loneliness can bring on the trustworthy consolation of momentary levity. In this way, Sung-hee's stories are the closest thing to real life.
Translated by Sora Kim-Russell
Author's Profile
Pyun Hye-Young is an assistant professor of creative writing at Myongji University. She has received the Hyundae Literary Award, Yi Sang Literary Award, and Dongin Literary Award. The French edition of Aoi Garden (Dans l'antre d'Aoï Garden) was published by Decrescenzo éditeurs and Ashes and Red (Cendres et rouge) by Philippe Picquier. The Hole and Ashes and Red are forthcoming from Arcade Publishing in 2017.
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(English) Choked riverbeds worsen floods in Kashmir
सितम्बर 09, 2014
(English) Rushing down from Jammu and Kashmir in India, the flooded Chenab, Jhelum, Ravi and Indus rivers are now inundating large parts of Punjab in Pakistan, and threatening Sindh
As Sindh braces for floods, large areas around the city of Jhang have already been submerged. The flow of water in the Jhelum and the Chenab – which meet near Jhang – exceeded the carrying capacity of the Trimmu head-works. As a result, more than 300 villages in Athara Hazari and Ahmad Pur Sial tehsils (sub-divisions of a district) were inundated by over 20 feet of water. Standing crops on more than 100,000 acres of farmlands were destroyed.
According to official estimates around 700,000 inhabitants of Jhang district have been affected, with a significant number without shelter.
While a major part of Jhang city has been saved by breaching parts of the Trimmu head-works, road links from Jhang to Chiniot, Sargodha, Shorkot, Multan, Bhakkar, Layyah, Dera Ghazi Khan, Dera Ismail Khan, Khushab and Mianwali have been destroyed.
Ahmad Kamal, spokesperson of Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), said: "Trimmu has been saved at a high cost. Five districts of Punjab — Sialkot, Gujranwala, Jhelum, Hafizabad and Narowal – have been swamped where a population of 150,000 has been affected." He added that over a million people have been affected across the country.
Chaudhary Muhammad Aslam Kamboh, engineer at the Trimmu head-works, said standing crops of rice, sugarcane and fodder on 88,895 acres were destroyed in Jhang and adjacent areas.
"According to its design, the total capacity of Trimmu is 640,000 cusecs (cubic feet per second) but this was reduced to 600,000 cusecs as de-silting of the head-works was not carried out for several years," he said. "At present, about 531,000 cusecs of floodwater is passing through the head-works and it is feared that the floodwater will damage Trimmu severely."
A torrent of 810,000 cusecs in the Chenab hit Trimmu after devastating Marala, Khanki and Qadirabad. Kamboh said the flood situation at Trimmu would persist until Friday.
A flood emergency has been announced in the surrounding localities of Jhang towards Multan. The Provincial Disaster Management Authority has urged people living along the riverine belt of the Chenab to evacuate as floodwater approaches Multan. Over 33,000 people have been evacuated already.
As the floodwaters reached southern Punjab, army helicopters and boats were on standby at the Panjnad head-works – the confluence of the Indus and its five major tributaries Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej. This is an area where residents of 35 villages on the banks of Chenab and Sutlej are under threat – 600,000-700,000 cusecs of floodwater is expected to pass through the head-works between Friday and Monday.
Then it is Multan's turn to face the wrath of the angry waters. Authorities fear breaches at Muhammadwala and Sher Shah (railway) bridges. If that happens, the floodwaters will affect Multan district, though the city should be safe.
The breach near Muhammadwala head-works seems imminent because of the faulty design of the bridge. Irrigation department officials told the newspaper Dawn that the bridge had been built by diverting the river six kilometres, and that was the point where the water pressure was increasing.
Meanwhile, Pakistan's Flood Forecasting Division (FFD) has predicted high flood in the river Ravi at Sidhnai on Friday and Saturday. The discharge at this point was 62,528 cusecs at 4 pm on Thursday and was expected to rise to 70,000 cusecs. Ravi joins the Chenab near Ahmadpur Sial. The waters then head to Multan.
The authorities said flooding in the Ravi would add to the peak in Chenab, creating more problems in the region.
Further downstream in Sindh, the FFD forecast high to very high flood (600,000 to 700,000 cusecs) in Indus at Guddu on Monday, and at the Sukkur barrage between Tuesday and Wednesday. Officials said peaks could inundate Muzaffargarh, Rahimyar Khan, Rajanpur, Jacobabad, Ghotki, Shikarpur and Sukkur districts.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has already expressed his dissatisfaction over the performance of the irrigation department and the Sindh Irrigation and Drainage Authority in the strengthening of dykes and clearing all waterways to avert floods.
Visiting the Katcho Bhindi protective embankment in Ghotki on Wednesday, Shah showed his displeasure and ordered strengthening of the embankment within four days. He also directed the district administration to evacuate 'katcha' (riverbed) communities, cautioning them to establish the relief camps at some distance from the embankments.
Ahmed Junaid Memon, chief engineer at the Sukkur barrage, reportedly told the chief minister that over 150,000 katcha residents from Khairpur, Kingri, Gambat and Sobho Dero talukas would be affected by the flood.
Upstream in India, meanwhile, the floodwaters started to recede in the Kashmir valley and adjoining areas in the Jammu region. Residents of Jammu are livid as they feel relief and rescue efforts have been concentrated in the valley, while a larger number of people may have been killed in Poonch and Rajouri areas of the Jammu region.
As the waters recede, bodies are being found beneath collapsed houses or on roads no longer flooded. The death toll – over 200 at last count – is rising.
Nearly half a million people in Jammu and Kashmir are still unable to get out of their marooned homes. But many of them no longer wish to be rescued, as they fear their homes may be looted in their absence. They want food, drinking water, medicines and blankets instead. The army has accordingly rejigged the focus of its operations, while the state government continues to remain largely paralysed.
With no electricity and with almost all telecommunications still dysfunctional, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah admitted that he had not been able to get in touch even with his senior officials in the first days of the floods. He claimed that the situation was improving.
India's Home Minister Rajnath Singh told the media on Friday that around 130,000 people had been rescued so far in Jammu and Kashmir. Apart from cities and towns, 700-odd villages in the state had been completely inundated, he said. Even as the minister was speaking in New Delhi, reports were coming that a village with 40 houses in the Rajouri area of Jammu had been wiped out by a landslide, and there was no sign of any survivors.
As rescuers fan out and more such incidents come to light, on both sides of the disputed Kashmir border between India and Pakistan, the immediate worry is about spread of water-borne diseases. As autumn approaches in the Himalayas, the next worry is about finding suitable accommodation for those rendered homeless.
Authorities are now giving no thought to the human activities that have worsened the flood damage manifold, but they will have to start working on those areas soon, if such disasters are not to be repeated. Due to climate change, such bouts of heavy rain as led to these floods are becoming more frequent and more severe.


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The first official teaser trailer for the highly anticipated sequel, The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part has just dropped.
Set years after the events of the first film, a new threat in the form of LEGO DUPLO invaders arrive in Bricksburg to wreak havoc, setting the film's heroes Emmet and Lucy (Chris Pratt and Elizabeth Banks), and their friends on an adventure of cosmic proportions to defeat them.
It looks like all the charm and humour from the first film is back in this sequel, with its first teaser trailer providing plenty of laughs.
We get to see some new characters, as well as some returning ones like fan-favourite LEGO Batman (Will Arnett), who was the star of his own LEGO film not too long ago.
Much like the first film, the animation style looks amazing here; a completely computer generated world that looks like it's made out of, and animated with real LEGO pieces (or as close as possible).
The film is directed by Mike Mitchell with Trisha Gum as co-director, with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who wrote and directed the first film, returning as co-writers and producers.
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part features the voice talents of Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Tiffany Haddish, Alison Brie, and Stephanie Beatriz.
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When I approached Eric and asked him whether he wanted a drink from the bar, he asked for a glass of tonic water instead. He did not want to eat either.
My first impression of this gentleman was positive. He was a "Datok" at that time.
"Datok" is a title bestowed upon a man by the King of Malaysia for some noble deeds he has contributed to his nation. It's equivalent to the title of "Lord" in England.
Therefore Eric was to be addressed as Datok Eric Chia (years later he was awarded the "Tan Sri" title which is more prestigious than the former).
When Eric disembarked at Penang Airport, he gave me a warm smile but did not say anything to me. I bade him farewell.
I had the opportunity to serve Eric a few times travelling from Singapore to other parts of Malaysia v v. He never once ate on the flight nor drank alcohol. He loved his tonic water. Eric was a very quiet pax.
A year later, I met Eric again. This time it was from Singapore to Tokyo. Again, Eric turned down the offer of the first class meals.
He sat at first class B707 Sky Lounge most of the time during the 7 hr flight.
My curiosity got the better of me and I took the courage to ask Eric why he kept refusing to eat on his flights.
He looked up at me and replied " I do not like aircraft food but I will eat once I arrive at Tokyo". " How about you, young man?" he asked me. I told him we crew did not have much of a choice because food was expensive in the Marounochi Hotel and besides it was winter and we coudn't go out to eat.
Without hesitation, Eric invited me and all my crew to dinner that night at the Copacabana Night Club and Restaurant which one of the most posh night spots in Tokyo.
When we checked in at the Marounochi, 2 limos were waiting for us. Eric had instructed him Japanese limo drivers to fetch us to the Copacabana.
We met Eric at the Copa and had dinner with him and his Japanese manager.
We were being served and entertained by gorgeous Japanese hostesses. Eric told we guys could bring the Japanese hostesses back to our hotel for the night.
Needless to say, 2 of my crew had a nice time with their hostesses that night.
The next time I happened to meet Eric was on a flight from HNL to HKG. He flew in from LA and I took over the flight from HNL to HKG.
On that flight I was surprised he wanted to eat on board.
My first class crew dressed his table for the meal.
The next thing I saw, Eric folded up the table cloth and asked the crew to take it away. Now he didn't wanna eat. His body language showed he was displeased with my stewardess.
Eric wore his eye shade, reclined his seat and went off to sleep without saying a word to me or my crew.
Half way through the long flight, Eric got up from his seat and went to the toilet. It was then he realised I was working on the flight.
I brought Eric up to the upper deck Biz class "cove" and asked him what happened earlier. He told he was very hungry and decided to eat his supper. However, the bread rolls the stewardess served him was not hot. He was not so much upset because the rolls were not hot but rather the excuses the stewardess gave him.
Although Eric complained to me about the stewardess's attitude towards him, he cautioned me not to write a bad report about her. "Give her another chance"..he said to me.
For breakfast, my chief steward Muthusamy ( Eric once bought Muthu and his crew a very expensive seafood dinner in HKG) prepared a nice and hot bowl of porridge for Eric ( he was famished otherwise he won't eat aircraft food)
You see, Eric was a kind man. He was good to us without any motive. Many paxs tried to be nice to us because they had their own agendas or motives if I may call them. Most were "chee ko peks" and wanna try on the stewardesses but not Eric.
He was a class above many millionaire or even billionaire paxs whom I have served in my 35 years of flying.
I had served many multi-millionaires as well as billionaires. One would be considered lucky if these wealthy paxs did not give trouble on board, let alone be given tips or dinner treats.
Even well known politicians were not gracious to the crew who served them.
Some of these first class paxs made use of us because they were "after" our stewardesses. Some were nice because they wanted upgrading or something else. But not Eric. He simply wanted us to be happy when we had him on the flights.
It was not unusual for Eric to buy us expensive meals if we meet him overseas. He was not only generous to the crew but sided the crew when other paxs abused us.
He once told a Caucasian first class pax to "F*** off " for abusing the crew. He shouted at that pax and told him he (Eric) would buy over that seat if he wasn't happy about it (that idiotic pax abused the crew because the seat could not be reclined fully).
At HKG airport, I was told Eric almost punched a pax for shouting at the poor airport staff who had worked so hard to ease the pain of the paxs over a delayed flight.
A favourite IFS ( Supervisor) of Eric's was given $300k to settle his debts when Eric came to know of his problem.
I read about how the immigration detained Eric in the US because of his attitude towards the whites. He once told me he didn't like the whites.
A minister or if I am not wrong the PM of Malaysia intervened and got Eric out of detention.
I felt sorry and deeply saddened when I heard Eric passed away a few years ago.
To us, he was more than a good first class pax. Eric was a friend and one whose presence never failed to brighten us on the flight.
Thank you Tan Sri Eric Chia......may you R.I.P


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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said that travellers flying domestically and internationally from Australia's airports will face tighter security measures after the authorities thwarted an apparent plot to "bring down an airplane".
Authorities ramped up security at all major Australian airports after counter-terrorism police thwarted the alleged terrorist plot.
Several homes in Sydney suburbs were raided and finally four men were arrested after uncovering plans to carry out an attack with an improvised device, according to police. The authority believes that the suspects were inspired by the Islamic State militant group.
The travellers were requested to limit their checked and hand baggage. They were further noticed about the delays caused by additional security measures. The nation's busiest hub, Sydney saw the major security tightening rules and similar measures were extended to all major international and domestic terminals across Australia on Saturday night.
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin on Sunday said officers are "investigating information indicating that the aviation industry was potentially a target" of the planned attack. He declined to discuss potential charges that the four men in custody might face. None of the men worked in the airport industry, he said. Wearing gas masks and ballistic armour, and backed by fire crews and specially trained paramedics, officers from the Joint Counter Terrorism Team stormed five properties in the Sydney suburbs of Surry Hills, Lakemba, Punchbowl and Wiley Park
Virgin Australia and Qantas Airways informed its passengers via text messages, emails and on their social media platform about the expected delays.
Australia, a close ally of the United States, has been on heightened alert for attacks by home- grown militants returning from fighting in the Middle East, or their supporters, since 2014.
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Angel's thoughts are spot-on. He made a disturbing amount of snap judgments and generalizations in his video which just made it seem like he didn't bother to learn about people or their situations. Apparently, all the guys he saw were "obnoxious douchebags" or "brutes," and he just learned that by driving past them in a car. Everything to him was clear-cut: any guy with a woman doesn't deserve her as much as he did.
I'm making an educated guess, but i'd have to say that a courtesan would not have helped because he didn't see people as individuals. When we log on to the forum or decide to party with a lady, we enjoy many different aspects that Rodger would not understand. Clients don't just chase after looks, they want a woman with a complementary personality whom they would like to learn about. To the shooter, that would be a foreign concept.


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