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Chick-fil-A plans to close their restaurant at Colony Square in Midtown Saturday, June 23, with plans to reopen next year. The restaurant, located in the street level portion of the mixed-use development, originally opened in 1981 and was one of the earliest Chick-fil-A restaurants in the now 2,000+ unit chain.
Image courtesy of @Crazy4ChickFilA
Given its location in a largely weekday business space, the restaurant already closes early (for a
Chick-fil-A
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at 3 PM on Saturdays, and will do so tomorrow, too.
Sources tell ToNeTo Atlanta that Colony Square Chick-fil-A operator William Bowling does plan to participate in the company's First 100 promotion when his restaurant reopens. Given its "city" location, it's unclear yet what version of the First 100 the Colony Square opening will feature, but it will no doubt get plenty of attention.
As ToNeTo Atlanta has mentioned previously, in recent years, Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A has invested heavily in rebuilding a number of high-profile local restaurants including those on Smyrna, in recent years, Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A has invested heavily in rebuilding a number of high-profile local restaurants including those on North Druid Hills in Atlanta, Cobb Parkway and Windy Hill Road (Cumberland), Newnan, Sandy Springs East Cobb and most recently, the Rome Dwarf House, slated to close at 10 PM tonight and reopen in November as "Truett's Chick-fil-A."
During the time that the restaurant is closed, at least one other nearby Chick-fil-A will supply a limited menu to would-be patrons of the Colony Square restaurant via an on-site kiosk. The restaurant is expected to reopen on six to eight months but its opening is dependent upon the moving timeline of North American Properties and their overhaul of the development that was originally completed in phases between 1969 and 1975.
The new Chick-fil-A is expected to be about the same size and in about the same location as the current restaurant. Representatives from Chick-fil-A were not immediately available to provide clarification as to the reopening timeline or any other details regarding the reopening.
Starbucks, Chick-fil-A's neighbor in Colony Square, will also close and reopen next year, but they have yet to announce a planned timeline.
Austin, Texas-based Oz Rey will manage Colony Square's upcoming food hall "Main & Main," which promises "20 local, independent chef-driven food stalls and two bars offering a variety of regional and global fare."
What are your thoughts on the recent updates to Atlanta area Chick-fil-A restaurants? Are you excited about the changes planned for Colony Square? What type of restaurant would you like to see open in Colony Square? | 1,265,700 |
Dr. C Vijay Kumar: Most of us found hair at the back of the shirt, entangled in the comb, on the collar, on the pillow, and maybe at the workplace. You have made countless efforts to make your hair look healthy and strong.
Using the aggressive method of drying or to comb the hair
You need to know that the hair breaks easily when they are wet. Tying it tightly, brushing, and combing it when they are wet will make them weak from roots and eventually they will fall out. It is also possible that they can get rough. Let them dry naturally.
Using hot water for hair wash
Enjoying a hot bath can be fun, but not at the cost of hair fall. Hot water can make the hair extremely dry and brittle. Preferably use warm water and then move to cool water when you want to rinse then thoroughly. Also, it strips away the natural oil from the scalp.
In case, the problem of hair fall is increasing at a fast pace then you need to seek the help of the doctor. You can consult our doctor for Hair Transplant in Vizag as it permanent solution for the hair loss issue.
Enjoying tight hairstyles
Hairstyles change quite often and they also include tight braids. This can affect the hair follicles from the roots which are not ideal for the scalp. If you pull them very tightly they will get damaged. Also, make sure while sleeping you never tie them tightly.
Neglecting the oil massage
At times, people do not prefer applying oil on the scalp because of its smell or it seems tacky. Well, in that case, you need to work on your hair care regime as soon as possible. Use coconut, amla, or olive oil as they provide nourishment to the hair follicles. Do this at least twice a week as they improve blood circulation in the scalp.
Use of hair styling tools Regularly
When hair is exposed to heat in excess, then it can create a lot of problems. A blow dryer or other heat styling products should be limited. Keep them at the lowest settings to reduce hair damage.
Use of cheap hair products
No doubt, the market is filled with hair products and getting something at a reasonable price is liked by everyone. But, what if after its usage the hair get affected or damaged. Make sure you get the products of trusted brands only. Additionally, the styling gels and sprays should be used only when it is required, otherwise, they make the hair sticky and stiff.
Not taking your diet properly
At times, because of the hectic schedule, we even force ourselves to skip our meals. But, this is neither good for health nor for the hair. This is going to make even everything worse. The hair should get the right amount of protein and essential nutrients. | 1,265,701 |
By then, Miranda had written and starred in “In the Heights,” his first show on Broadway, and he “had enough money in the bank” when he tried to buy his first apartment, he said. But that money wasn’t enough to overcome his short credit history. As a result, Miranda had to ask his father to co-sign on his mortgage, according to the interview.
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“There is so much I wish I knew about money when I was first starting out my adult life, but in particular, the importance of building good credit,” said Miranda, 37.
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His experience shows one of the major challenges some people face when it comes to accessing loans: It often takes credit to get credit.
In addition to looking at factors such as income, lenders typically like to see that you have a steady track record of paying your bills on time before they approve you for a loan. Opening a credit card can be one of the easiest ways to build that payment history because the monthly loan payments are tracked on a consumer’s credit report, says Matt Schulz, senior industry analyst for CreditCards.com.
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But like Miranda, many millennials who are nervous about taking on too much debt are shying away from plastic. Some 49 percent of millennials surveyed in January said they do not have a credit card, according to CreditCards.com. Some young workers may be nervous about borrowing after graduating into a tough job market and struggling to pay back their student loans, Schulz said.
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One option is to start building credit by using a secured credit card, which requires you to provide a few hundred dollars up front as collateral, Schulz says. Typically, you would receive a credit card with a spending limit up to the amount of money you provide. So say you put down $500, you would be able to charge up to $500 on your credit card. The cards provide an actual credit line and can be used for everyday purchases, he says.
You may lose your cash deposit if you fall behind on payments. But if you pay your bill on time each month, that steady track record may help you to qualify for other loans in the future, including a traditional credit card, Schulz says.
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Most people will have a decent credit history if they follow a few key rules, Schulz says.
Pay your bills on time — every bill, every month, he says. Keep your balances low, preferably by paying off your credit cards in full each month so that you can minimize interest charges. And don’t apply for credit too often, since those applications can ding your credit score, he says.
“If you do those things and keep doing them over time, your credit is going to be fine,” Schulz says. | 1,265,702 |
todd/github/css-controls > browserify lib/css-controls.js --standalone css-controls --outfile dist/css-controls.js... releasing 0.1.1 [master f200ecc] Release 0.1.1... To [email protected]:twolfson/css-controls.git * [new tag] 0.1.1 -> 0.1.1... post-release # npm publish npm http PUT https://registry.npmjs.org/css-controls... + [email protected]... complete
On projects that require squashed commits, I work on a historical branch (e.g. dev/how.i.dev ) then git-sqwish to a squashed branch (e.g. dev/how.i.dev.squashed ). git-sqwish is a command in my fork of git-extras that was rejected in a PR. It performs the following:
Assert current branch is up to date with master
Delete branch named current branch + '.squashed'
Checkout master to current branch + '.squashed'
to Copy all files from currenct branch to current branch + '.squashed'
to Commit file changes in one commit
This has the same result as git rebase -i with the bonus of:
You can use git-merge in your historical branch
in your historical branch 1 merge conflict per git-pull (due to using git-merge over git-rebase )
$ touch def $ git add -A $ git commit -m "Touched def" [dev/touch.files daeabc7] Touched def... $ touch ghi $ git add -A $ git commit -m "Touched ghi" [dev/touch.files 991ee10] Touched ghi... $ git sqwish master Switched to a new branch 'dev/touch.files.squashed'... [dev/touch.files.squashed d9dd664] Touched ghi Touched def 0 files changed create mode 100644 def create mode 100644 ghi $ git log commit d9dd664114a19dd57bbb37b70f9fcce8e7df60bd Author: Todd Wolfson <[email protected]> Date: Sat Jul 27 16:12:26 2013 -0700 Touched ghi Touched def
My laptop is a Lenovo W520.
My operating system is Linux Mint 14.
My browser of choice is Firefox with Firebug as my development tools.
For the recordings in this post I used rprichard's x11-canvas-screencast. | 1,265,703 |
Recent evidence suggests that the Affordable Care Act is helping to reduce the burden of medical debt for American consumers. Yet, especially in states that have not expanded Medicaid, millions of Americans still lack insurance and many plans offer thin coverage. The result is that in 2014, 64 million people were struggling with medical debt, the leading cause of bankruptcy in the United States. In my latest Demos report, “Enough to Make You Sick: The Burden of Medical Debt,” I explore how medical debt affects household finances and why we need more aggressive policies to reduce medical debt.
My report details the results of two surveys (in 2008 and 2012) Demos commissioned to explore the finances of lower to middle-income households carrying credit card debt. I find that households carrying medical debt on their credit card are more likely to take extreme measures to pay off their debts and forgo care. Medical debt has significant negative impacts on household finances, even when people are insured. A public option could help reduce the chances of people taking on medical debt, and that more rigorous consumer protection could mitigate the consequences.
The Good News
I compare the 2008 and 2012 surveys to find trends in credit card debt. Among those with medical debt on their credit card (the “medically indebted” for the purposes of my report), average total credit card debt fell from $11,019 in 2008 to $8,762 in 2012, a 20 percent decline. Medical debt alone fell from $2,055 in 2008 to $1,679 in 2012, an 18 percent decline. One likely source of these declines is the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act (CARD Act). Studies show that the CARD Act dramatically reduced fees for credit card users. Research by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau suggests the CARD act reduced hidden credit card fees, saving consumers billions of dollars. Households are also carrying less credit card debt due to out-of-pocket medical expenses and medical debt that is not on credit cards. It’s possible the Affordable Care Act played a role, but many of its key provisions hadn’t been in effect for long enough to conclude that they played a major part in the decline. However, these declines could also be explained by the improving economy. While the situation has become rosier across the board, my research suggests large negative impacts for households that are carrying medical debt.
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TRAVERSE CITY, MI – People who have recently been diagnosed with COVID-19 coronavirus were out-and-about in Traverse City while showing symptoms.
The Grand Traverse County Health Department is advising the public of two possible exposure sites. The county has three confirmed coronavirus cases as of Tuesday, March 24.
Anyone who was at the Target store on South Airport Road West in Traverse City between 5-6 p.m. on Sunday, March 22 should self-monitor for coronavirus symptoms, which include fever, cough, body aches and shortness of breath, the department said.
The second exposure site is Cherry Capital Airport, the department said. Anyone who was on Delta Flight DL4991 departing from Detroit Metro Airport and landing at Cherry Capital on Monday, March 16, should self-quarantine until Monday, March 30.
Anyone experiencing symptoms should contact their healthcare provider.
“Community exposure is a worst-case scenario when conducting case investigations at the health department as it increases the potential for community transmission,” said Wendy Hirschenberger, Grand Traverse County Health Department’s Health Officer.
She asked residents to take Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s “shelter-in-place" order seriously by staying home, especially if you’re sick. The order went into effect on Tuesday.
As of Tuesday, the state had 1,791 confirmed coronavirus cases, and 24 deaths from the virus. Forty-one of Michigan’s 83 counties are home to a resident who contracted coronavirus. About 85% of the COVID-19 cases -- 1,561 of 1,791 -- are in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties.
“We will undoubtedly see a toll on our Northern Michigan healthcare systems if people do not comply with the Governor’s “Stay Home, Stay Safe” executive order,” Hirschenberger said.
PREVENTION TIPS
In addition to washing hands regularly and not touching your face, officials recommend practicing social distancing, assuming anyone may be carrying the virus. Health officials say you should be staying at least 6 feet away from others and working from home, if possible. Carry hand sanitizer with you, and use disinfecting wipes or disinfecting spray cleaners on frequently-touched surfaces in your home ( door handles, faucets, countertops ) and when you go into places like stores.
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We are apart but not alone.
Are we flat yet?
YES!
Canada has a 0.3659 degree curve.
That's a 0.0059 degree difference from yesterday and 0.1027 degree difference from a week ago!
This curve is an average angle of total confirmed cases over 10 days. This means the closer to 0 degrees the fewer new confirmed cases! You can help to flatten the curve simply by practising proper hygiene, physical distancing and, wearing a mask if necessary.
Per province progress
Please note it's not fair to base progress just on a curve since the province's testing strategy can affect this curve.
Newfoundland and Labrador has a 0.047 degree curve. 0 degree difference from yesterday. -0.0002 degree difference from last week.
degree curve. Prince Edward Island has a 0 degree curve. 0 degree difference from yesterday. 0 degree difference from last week.
degree curve. Nova Scotia has a 0 degree curve. 0 degree difference from yesterday. -0.0059 degree difference from last week.
degree curve. New Brunswick has a 0.0329 degree curve. 0 degree difference from yesterday. -0.0002 degree difference from last week.
degree curve. Québec has a 0.297 degree curve. 0.022 degree difference from yesterday. 0.1112 degree difference from last week.
degree curve. Ontario has a 0.3896 degree curve. 0.019 degree difference from yesterday. 0.1461 degree difference from last week.
degree curve. Manitoba has a 0.826 degree curve. 0.0445 degree difference from yesterday. 0.0946 degree difference from last week.
degree curve. Saskatchewan has a 0.4337 degree curve. 0.0255 degree difference from yesterday. 0.1006 degree difference from last week.
degree curve. Alberta has a 0.3869 degree curve. -0.046 degree difference from yesterday. -0.0139 degree difference from last week.
degree curve. British Columbia has a 0.7575 degree curve. -0.1218 degree difference from yesterday. -0.0189 degree difference from last week.
degree curve. Yukon has a 0 degree curve. 0 degree difference from yesterday. 0 degree difference from last week.
degree curve. Northwest Territories has a 0 degree curve. 0 degree difference from yesterday. 0 degree difference from last week.
degree curve. Nunavut has a 0 degree curve. 0 degree difference from yesterday. 0 degree difference from last week.
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their patients actually pay. Patients are covered by a variety of insurers, all of whom offer several plans, for which any individual patient has a different copayment and deductible, which he may or may not have met.
Let’s say, though, with a click of a button, a patient’s out-of-pocket costs for any given recommendation are readily available to both doctor and patient. There will be some situations for which two treatments with similar risk-benefit profiles exist, but costs are clearly divergent. Patients with systemic lupus, for example, often choose between two drugs, Imuran and CellCept; the benefits and risks of the drugs are similar, but the latter costs ten times as much. Under these circumstances, asking a patient to consider price in their choices seems wise.
But many common clinical scenarios are more complicated. Take heart-attack treatment, for which, Ubel and colleagues note, costs can approach forty thousand dollars per year. (The report from which the figure is derived actually suggests a range of three thousand dollars to forty thousand dollars, depending on the plan.) Heart-attack care typically begins when a patient comes to the emergency room with chest pain. A stent procedure to open a blocked artery is often life-saving, but only if done quickly. The longer you wait, the more heart muscle dies.
During my cardiology training, it was my job to describe the benefits and risks of this procedure to patients, and ask them to sign consent forms. I went over each risk in painstaking, non-jargon-y detail. You quickly learn, though, that certain risks are far more disturbing than others. Say “kidney damage,” which, while unlikely, is one of the more common complications, and most people seem relatively unfazed. Say “limb loss,” however—which, while possible, is unbelievably rare—and people panic. In weighing risks and benefits in these situations, it’s not the likelihood of the risk that matters but the ease of imagining it.
Now consider this same scenario and add to the list of potential risks, “Full disclosure: this might cost you as much as forty thousand dollars.” All of a sudden you have injected into a litany of the unfamiliar a “risk” that could not be more familiar: money. Who would not fixate upon this cost information in making medical decisions?
It’s also hard to quantify and convincingly describe the long-term costs of not getting treatment. So while it may be possible to tell someone the cost of a stent procedure, it will always be much more difficult to put a price on not getting the stent—which often includes frequent hospitalizations for heart failure, complicated medical regimens requiring intensive lab monitoring, devices to help the heart pump more efficiently, and sometimes even a heart transplant. | 1,265,707 |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It made a big splash when scientists announced in 2006 that images from a NASA spacecraft indicated water apparently had flowed on the surface of Mars in the past decade but new research casts doubt on that finding.
Gully channels in a crater in the southern highlands of Mars, taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, are shown in this image released by NASA September 20, 2007. REUTERS/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/Handout
Other scientists on Friday said new images and computer simulations strongly indicate that a landslide of sand and gravel is a more likely explanation for the bright deposits in gullies previously touted as evidence of recent water flow.
“We started off not thinking that we were going to debunk anything. I absolutely thought it was going to be liquid,” Jon Pelletier, a professor of geosciences at the University of Arizona who led the new study, said in a telephone interview.
Using previous images from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor and newer, higher-resolution readings from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the team created three-dimensional pictures of one of the geological formations showing downhill flow in a crater.
The scientists then ran computer simulations of what conditions might have caused such a formation. Flows of liquid water did not really match the formation in the computer models but flows of dry, granular material like sand and gravel matched it almost perfectly, they reported in the journal Geology.
“What we’d hoped to do was rule out the dry flow model -- but that didn’t happen,” University of Arizona planetary sciences professor Alfred McEwen said in a statement.
Pelletier said his research cannot absolutely rule out that liquid water created the flow formation, measuring about 1,600 feet long and up to 330 feet wide.
Another possibility is that flows of thick mud containing about 50 percent to 60 percent sediment with a consistency similar to molasses or lava might be responsible.
“The simplest explanation is that it is dry, granular flow,” Pelletier said. “We think that the simpler explanation is probably the correct one.”
The presence of water on Mars is a hot topic for scientists. They have presented strong evidence of huge deposits of frozen water at the Martian poles and point to geological features that indicate that large bodies of water have flowed on the planet’s surface in the distant past.
Water is a key to the question of whether life, even in the form of mere microbes, ever existed on Mars. On Earth, all forms of life require water to survive.
Kenneth Edgett of Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, who was involved in the 2006 study suggesting the flows were liquid, declined comment. | 1,265,708 |
on an offensive tackle and allowed the running back to bounce outside and break containment.
Another time he had a shot at a tackle for a loss after spilling a counter play, but the running back ran through his tackle attempt and picked up big yardage.
Those plays, however, were anomalies in the four games I watched. Most of the time he was just kicking ass.
Did I mention yet he was just as effective lining up on the left edge as he was lining up on the right?
Because, yeah...
Size.
Athleticism.
Hustle.
Upside.
I’m not sure what more you could ask for.
Maybe the only thing I didn’t see from Chubb that I would want to were a few more power rushes, but even that’s just a minor criticism. He did use some long-arm moves very effectively as a counter move, but still.
And with the strength and pad level he showed in other parts of his game, I don’t think Chubb will have any problem incorporating a few more bull rushes into his arsenal.
So even my minor criticism isn’t much of one.
I don’t know if Chubb is the *best* edge rush prospect I have ever broken down, but he definitely appears to be one of the safest. NC State even let him pass rush inside a couple of times in those four games. With his frame, there is always a chance a team could bulk him up a little and use him as an interior pass rusher if he has issues out on the edge. On the field, from what I have seen, the guy just looks like a sure thing.
It’s going to be up to him to continue working hard at his craft and getting better, but I do feel like the sky is the limit. Bradley Chubb is going to make some defensive coordinator’s job a lot easier for the next decade or so, provided he stays healthy. While this is the first breakdown I’ve done for this draft class, I would still expect him to go pretty high in the first round this year.
Since I don’t have access to all-22 for college football games, I use the next best thing for my draft profiles and go to Draft Breakdown where they post the TV copy of a bunch of top prospects’ games already cut up and ready to go. Because Draft Breakdown only had three games for Bradley Chubb, I also had to track down the FSU game with good old Google.
For the purposes of this breakdown I watched Chubb play against South Carolina, Marshall, Florida State, and Louisville. Those represented the first, second, fourth, and sixth games on North Carolina State’s schedule last season, respectively. | 1,265,709 |
A Queensland Police Service senior constable has been fined $1,500 over an incident captured on video in which he pulled a gun on a couple for allegedly speeding along an outback highway.
Key points: Senior Constable Stephen Flanagan was found guilty last year
Senior Constable Stephen Flanagan was found guilty last year No conviction was recorded as Flanagan suffered from undiagnosed PTSD
No conviction was recorded as Flanagan suffered from undiagnosed PTSD Flanagan has since been fined $1,500 for the incident
Senior Constable Stephen Flanagan was found guilty of assault and deprivation of liberty in a Brisbane court in December last year over an incident on the Landsborough Highway near Longreach in May 2015.
The recording showed the police officer swearing and honking on the highway before pulling his gun on the couple.
Flanagan assaulted the man when he held the gun to his back.
Magistrate Paul Kluck ordered no conviction to be recorded and accepted the officer suffered from undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
In sentencing submissions, defence lawyer Stephen Zillman presented a psychological report that showed his client had been diagnosed with PTSD, of which he was unaware at the time of the offence.
Lee Povey (right) and his partner Anna Lisa Cruse were assaulted by Flanagan when driving home to Mount Isa last year. ( AAP: Dan Peled )
"A mature man of mid-40s, a police officer of some 26 years, commits these two offences — one would immediately question how that could be so," Mr Zillman said.
He said the answer was in the psychological report, because otherwise the behaviour was "quite bizarre".
Prosecutor Jodie Wooldridge said while police officers did confront some challenging situations, they had a responsibility to uphold the law.
"It remains highly relevant that the defendant committed the offences whilst on duty as a police officer, and in committing the offences has acted contrary to his sworn duty as a police officer to uphold the law," she said.
"To have acted as he did, and to have utilised his firearm and his handcuffs as he did, was an abuse of trust that had been placed in him by the Queensland Police Service and the community at large."
She said if an ordinary member of the community had acted like this, a fine would not be adequate.
No conviction was recorded.
Appeal already filed
Queensland Police Union solicitor Calvin Gnech said an appeal against the conviction had already been filed.
"He is relieved this part of the process is over but his main priority at the moment is his welfare," he said.
Mr Gnech said once the appeal process was finalised, Flanagan would face police disciplinary proceedings.
He is currently receiving treatment for PTSD. | 1,265,710 |
find himself immune from weaker moments and regrets. But he never shied away from a tough decision. He never took the easy way out. He never gave up on his crew or the people he swore to protect, even in the toughest of times and the most hopeless of situations. He was a soldier, a leader, and a man.
That may be the greatest achievement of Edward James Olmos in his portrayal of the protagonist in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica. He played a captain who always carried the dignity of his uniform, but also showed his humanity in the face of his herculean task. He was reasoned and practical, but also open-minded and caring. He loved his ship; he loved his crew, and he fulfilled his duty to both, as a leader, a father, an admiral, and a friend. Adama certainly made mistakes during his command, but that’s part of what made him great. He owned them, learned from them, used them to teach his crew and help those close to him. It can be easy to lose the realism in the world of science fiction, but Adama always felt real, and it’s why he’s the greatest captain to ever guide humanity home.
1. Jean Luc Picard
Jean Luc Picard is everything that a captain should be. He’s a strategist, a diplomat, an explorer, and a man of action. He knew exactly when to use the olive branch of diplomacy and when to simply power up the phaser bank. He knew when to solicit the advice of his senior officers and when to take charge and give orders. He knew when to proceed with caution and carefully consider the situation and when to forge ahead and take a few risks. In the final analysis, Picard fought, negotiated, explored, taught, and above all else led his way to the top of this list.
There are two things that particularly distinguish Captain Picard. First and foremost, his capacity for lateral thinking. Adversaries and interlopers constantly threw him into uncharted and unknown problems and situations. Whether it was Q, the Romulans, or the ever-popular malfunctioning holodeck, Picard showed an innate ability to think outside of the box and reach the right solution. Second, Patrick Stewart imbued the character with an unrelenting gravity in all his words and actions. Each captain in the annals of Star Trek put his own spin on the captain’s chair, but it was Stewart with his classical training who shined in episodes like “Family” and “Chain of Command” and elevated the role into something more. The viewers felt the weight, the significance, and the emotion in each moment Captain Picard was on screen. It’s what makes Jean Luc Picard the best individual to ever boldly go where no one has gone before, and the greatest captain in outer space. | 1,265,711 |
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It is "almost inevitable" that your blood will take the first steps towards leukaemia as you age, researchers show.
The cancer is often associated with children, but some types become more common with age.
The study, published in the journal Cell Reports, showed 70% of healthy people in their 90s had genetic errors that could lead to leukaemia.
The researchers warn that the number of cases could soar as life expectancy increases.
The team at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, outside Cambridge, analysed the blood of 4,219 people.
They focused on accurately testing for errors in the DNA that are linked to the blood cancers. If one blood cell in a hundred carried such a mutation they would pick it up.
The results were a surprise.
They suggest 20% of people in their 50s have potentially cancerous mutations rising to 70% in people in their 90s.
One of the researchers, Dr George Vassiliou, told the BBC News website: "We had suspected people had these mutations, but didn't expect they would be an almost inevitable consequence of ageing.
"What it is saying is that a lot more people than expected are starting on the path to leukaemia, but thankfully only a few make it to the end."
Dramatic impact
While progression to leukaemia is currently rare, the scientists believe it could become more common as life expectancy increases.
Dr Vassiliou added: "There is one warning for the future, if there was a significant extension of life expectancy then there could be a significant increase in leukaemia.
"We don't know what percentage of people would go on to develop leukaemia, it might be one in 1,000 or even one in 100 or more and that would have a dramatic impact."
One in three girls and one in four boys born today are expected to live to 100.
Stem cells in the bone marrow manufacture blood.
It takes multiple mutations to transform one from a normal cell into a cancerous one.
With enough mutations it can dominate the production of blood either producing defective blood cells, or one just one type to the exclusion of others.
The researchers believe that searching the blood for such mutations may identify people at high risk of developing leukaemia who may, in the future, be targeted with preventative therapies.
Dr Kat Arney, from Cancer Research UK, said: "We know that the risk of developing most types of cancer increases with age.
"This is a fascinating and important study highlighting how the genetic makeup of blood cells changes as we get older, and may contribute to the development of leukaemia.
"It will be interesting to see if this kind of technique can be applied to other types of cancer too." | 1,265,712 |
On Saturday at 6 p.m., High Five Co-op brewery will celebrate its first official membership meeting, the Sixer Mixer, at The Factory in the Heartside district of downtown Grand Rapids.
Like a food swap, attendees will be able to share experimental home brews and favorites from their stashes as well as meet and mingle with beer enthusiasts in the community. While the event is in celebration of early official members, it is open to all local home brewers.
“Members and non-members alike will get the chance to drink some really crazy beers that people will bring out of their cellars and their homebrews that made us start this idea in the first place,” says Nicholas Lavelle, president of High Five Co-op. Attendees will even have the opportunity to taste pilot beers from the cooperative.
“We definitely encourage everyone to come. It is open, even if you just pop in for a beer and see what we’re about,” says Tiffany Ewigleben, secretary of the co-op.
“It’s much more of a community than just a hobby,” says co-op board member Eric Pell. He encourages home brewers to take the time to get to know suppliers and other brew enthusiasts in the area. Pell says the Sixer Mixer is the perfect opportunity for that.
The cooperative sold its first memberships at $150 beginning September 9, 2013. Since then, it has grown to include over 80 members and has hosted four informal meet-ups and membership buy-ins at various tap rooms in the area.
"We've seen a lot of interesting things brewing with the local area breweries and the most surprising thing to me was the amount of collaboration already present in the Grand Rapids brewing community," says Lavelle.
“[Community support] has all been really positive,” says Ewigleben. “That’s just the nature of the people that work within [the brewing] industry. They’re just cooperative in spirit.”
“It’s neat seeing all the breweries work together,” says Pell, praising the camaraderie in Grand Rapids brew culture. “Everybody gets along so well and that’s helped us greatly too with our membership party events and collaboration beers.” Pell says other local breweries are often enthusiastic to help with the goals of the co-op.
“Education is a really big component of what we are and what we want to do,” says Ewigleben. The cooperative hopes to teach home brewers about the process and how to expand their ferments by providing them with professional resources.
The mixer will take place at The Factory. Guests 21+ and current Michigan residents are welcome to bring their own brews. RSVP here. | 1,265,713 |
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday afternoon issued an emergency proclamation for Sonoma and Los Angeles counties due to the effects of the Kincade and Tick fires, which have "destroyed structures, threatened homes, & caused the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents."
According to an Associated Press update on Friday evening, howling winds that have fueled the destructive fires were beginning to die down. But the respite was not expected to be a long one. Residents in the northern part of the state were girding for another round of power outages aimed at preventing what are expected to be the strongest gusts in years from sparking still more blazes this weekend, AP wrote.
Meanwhile, the state utility that has been criticized for imposing blackouts in order to prevent such wildfires says a transmission line that it didn’t shut off may have been the source of a blaze that was raging out of control in the Golden State.
The Kincade fire near the Northern California town of Geyserville so far has burned at least 49 buildings and 34 square miles and prompted evacuation orders for some 2,000 people.
It was driven by the strong winds that had prompted Pacific Gas & Electric to impose sweeping temporary blackouts affecting a half-million people in Northern and Central California. PG&E resorted to the shutoffs after fallen power lines and other electrical equipment were blamed for several blazes in recent years.
However, PG&E said Thursday it didn’t de-energize a 230,000-volt transmission line near Geyserville that malfunctioned minutes before the fire erupted Wednesday night. The company reported finding a “broken jumper” wire on a transmission tower that evening.
PG&E WORKER TARGETED IN 'DELIBERATE ATTACK' IN CALIFORNIA
PG&E CEO Bill Johnson said it was too soon to know if the faulty equipment ignited the fire, adding that the tower had been inspected four times in the past two years and appeared to have been in excellent condition.
In shutting off the electricity, PG&E cut power to the distribution lines that supply homes, but not to its long-distance transmission lines.
The disclosure comes after a PG&E worker was targeted in an attempted attack earlier this week, officials said.
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In that incident, the worker’s front passenger seat window was reportedly shot at by a projectile. The employee was not injured in the incident and the projectile was believed to be fired by a pellet gun.
PG&E President and CEO Bill Johnson had called the incident a “deliberate attack” and called on communities to stop such acts of “violence,” according to SFGate.
Fox News’ Gerren Keith Gaynor and The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 1,265,715 |
to prosecute certain offenses, it can help pave the way to decriminalizing the offense altogether.
Implementing a radical new vision can introduce these sorts of hitches, Lang said. But she says the relationships Cabán has formed with community organizations can help the new DA transform Queens into a borough where sex workers are permitted to do their work without being criminalized, even in the face of other opposition.
Decrim NY plans to continue developing policy with Cabán, and has discussed ways that local groups can help field reports about harassment, assault, and exploitation from sex workers—people who have historically been hesitant to come forward for fear of prosecution. “Right now people don’t report things to the police because when they do they get arrested, or police laugh at them or misgender them,” Luo said.
Luo and other Decrim NY members have been pushing for a legislative fix for the ways sex workers are currently criminalized in New York. In May, the group met with lawmakers in Albany to lobby for two bills: one that would repeal a state penal code that criminalizes “loitering for the purpose of engaging in prostitution,” and another that would provide criminal record relief for those convicted of sex work-related crimes. And this month, the organization rolled out a full decriminalization package, which proposes changes to almost a dozen state laws. But even unprecedented support from lawmakers like State Senators Julia Salazar and Jessica Ramos wasn’t enough to get the legislation through this session.
Lang says that could change with Cabán. When a district attorney declines to prosecute certain offenses, it can help pave the way to decriminalizing the offense altogether —it’s a test run of sorts, said Lang. It can also demonstrate to residents that decriminalizing a certain behavior doesn’t jeopardize public safety or bring with it any particularly dire consequences.
“The sky didn’t fall when we stopped prosecuting marijuana in Manhattan, and that made it easier to advance the argument for decriminalization in the legislature,” Lang said. “Once you’ve tried something, it’s less threatening.”
There are still plenty of groups that insist on painting sex work as something lurid, an activity that will invite unfettered crime and moral corruption to their neighborhoods. But with Cabán’s victory and a growing national spotlight on decriminalization efforts, advocates see glimmers of hope.
Garcia—a Queens resident who, years ago, spent 18 months at Rikers Island for a prostitution-related offense—can imagine how things would have gone differently if Brown, the district attorney at the time, had adopted a policy similar to Cabán’s. Or how Layleen Polanco might not have died earlier this month in that same jail if she hadn’t been criminalized as a sex worker. | 1,265,716 |
Social media platform Twitter has reportedly temporarily suspended the account of investigative journalism group Project Veritas following its publication of internal documents from Silicon Valley company Pinterest.
According to journalist James O’Keefe, Twitter has limited the account of the investigative journalism group Project Veritas following the group’s publication of internal communications from Pinterest. O’Keefe wrote in a tweet that Project Veritas “has been temporarily suspended from posting for tweeting internal communications from @Pinterest which show them calling @benshapiro a ‘white supremacist’.” The tweet can be seen below along with a photo of a warning
Breaking News: Twitter has decided that investigative journalism is in violation of their terms of service – @Project_Veritas has been temporarily suspended from posting for tweeting internal communications from @Pinterest which show them calling @benshapiro a "white supremacist" pic.twitter.com/eJNDWEfanf — James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) June 12, 2019
A person familiar with the situation told Breitbart News that the Project Veritas account was locked for violating the Twitter Rules, specifically the private information policy, but clarified that Project Veritas was not locked out due to the content of their communications.
Still, it would seem that the most likely violation of Twitter’s privacy policy was the publication of the Pinterest communications. Twitter’s private information policy states:
You may not publish or post other people’s private information without their express authorization and permission. We also prohibit threatening to expose private information or incentivizing others to do so.
It would seem that Twitter considers the internal communications of Pinterest staff to fall under this guideline, which is otherwise aimed at preventing “doxing,” or exposing the private details of an individual. But, in that case, it appears that many journalists may be at risk of suspension for publishing newsworthy private information. Project Veritas has previously published a large amount of content about Twitter that could be viewed as private information, including undercover recordings of private conversations. Breitbart News reported on this work by Project Veritas here.
According to the internal Pinterest communications published by Project Veritas, the tech firm labeled conservative commentator Ben Shapiro as a “white supremacist.” This information comes from a private Slack channel used by Pinterest for work purposes; O’Keefe reportedly asked the Pinterest insider who provided him with the info if the policymaker’s at Pinterest discussing Shapiro had simply been expressing their opinion, but the insider stated that “this was actually in a war room where policymakers were making decisions about content.”
The whistleblower has reportedly since been fired. Read more at Project Veritas here.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or email him at [email protected] | 1,265,717 |
among politicians and the public in the United States over U.S. plans to accept Syrian war refugees.
"We're living in a very difficult time," he told CNN. "There's a lot of Islamophobia out there, a lot of anti-Muslim sentiment, fueled by pundits here and there trying to blame a whole community for the acts of a few."
Nizaam Ali, a 23-year-old college student who said he knew Farook from mosque, said Farook prayed two to three times a week during his lunch break at the Dar Al Uloom Al Islamiyah of America mosque in San Bernardino. Ali said he had not seen any signs of radicalization or extremism.
Farook told Ali that he married his wife, whom he met online, in July 2014. Ali added that Farook’s wife wore the niqab, a scarf that covers most of the face, which was something Farook had mentioned he liked about her.
OBAMA REITERATES CALL FOR GUN LAW REFORM
The San Bernardino rampage was the deadliest U.S. shooting incident since the December 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in which 27 people, including the gunman, were killed.
There have been more than 350 shootings this year in which four or more people were wounded or killed in the United States, according to the crowd-sourced website shootingtracker.com, which keeps a running tally of U.S. gun violence.
"I don't think any community is immune," San Bernardino Mayor Carey Davis told CBS. "Certainly, we don't anticipate that kind of thing happening here. It was a shock."
Davis, whose largely working-class city is 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles, said on Twitter he had a "heartfelt conversation" about the killings with Obama, who used the incident to make another call for gun law reform to reduce the likelihood of mass shootings.
"We're going to have to, I think, search ourselves as a society to make sure that we can take the basic steps that would make it harder - not impossible but harder - for individuals to get access to weapons," Obama said at the White House.
He ordered flags to be flown at half-staff in memory of the shooting victims.
Ten people remained hospitalized at two hospitals on Thursday - two in critical but stable condition, five in fair condition and three in good condition, the hospitals said.
(Additional reporting by Suzannah Gonzales in Chicago, Mark Hosenball, Susan Heavey Megan Cassella, Julia Edwards, Doina Chiacu, Lesley Wroughton and Roberta Rampton in Washington; Eric M Johnson in Seattle and Lisa Richwine and Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles; Writing by Bill Trott; Editing by Will Dunham and Cynthia Osterman) | 1,265,718 |
Updated Georgia brewery tour regulations to be in effect by May 26th
The long-awaited update to the Georgia brewery tour rules / regulations will go into effect by May 26th. After being submitted the regulations had to go through a 30 day comment period and public hearing, then a 20 day waiting period. They have been sent to the Secretary of State and will go into effect as soon as they are published, which should be no later than May 26th.
Most of what the updated regulations implement are things Georgia’s brewers had already won with the passage of SB63 last year, with a few small additions. These “new” regulations are good for brewers, but definitely not a final solution. Here are the main things Georgia breweries will be able to do:
Sell tours at variable prices. Prices could vary depending on the “amount and quality of alcohol included in the free tastings and souvenir” subject to limitations prescribed in existing alcohol code. All tours must be paid for in advance.
Use social media to alert the public where their products are available.
Allow third-party ticket sales.
Sell food. Regulations will address exactly how this can be implemented.
Allow third-party food sales.
When SB63 went into effect many breweries saw increased revenue in tasting rooms. However, a policy bulletin update from the Department of Revenue stopped variable pricing, forcing breweries to enact a “one-size-fits-all” format that definitely didn’t fit all. Some chose to stop to-go offerings and offer a tour and tasting only at $10-$12, others priced slightly higher and included some to-go souvenirs for everyone. This change meant a huge drop in revenue for some, one brewer told me his tasting room sales dropped by 50% after the policy bulletin was issued.
Georgia still has plenty of fighting to do to get our laws where they need to be, but this will loosen the reins a bit. Our neighbors in Alabama have seen a lot of positive change over the last few years. They won the right to serve beer for on-site consumption in 2011 and this year won the right to sell up to 288 oz. of beer to-go, which goes into effect June 1st. Not only has this encouraged more breweries to open but it’s also fostered growth (and jobs) for existing breweries. As we mentioned in our Huntsville Road Trip Report, Straight to Ale is opening a second facility that will increase their production by 300% and double their workforce.
I’m sure we’ll get our laws in line one day, we’ve only been at this a short 20 or so years. By 2050 I’m confident you’ll be able to buy a pint at a brewery, but not two pints, that’s crazy talk. | 1,265,719 |
At least 26 people have been killed in clashes in Kyrgyzstan's second-largest city of Osh, officials say.
More than 400 people were wounded in the fighting, which is reportedly between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbek groups.
The cause of the clashes was not immediately clear. A state of emergency has been declared in the southern city.
Osh is home to a large ethnic Uzbek community and was the power base of former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who was overthrown in April.
According to local reports, fighting broke out between rival gangs and developed into gun battles late on Thursday.
The current situation demands self-restraint, wisdom and patience from all of us Roza Otunbayeva, Interim President In pictures: Kyrgyz unrest
Gangs of young men armed with metal bars and stones attacked shops and set cars alight.
Firefighters tried to put out the flames, but angry youths reportedly threw stones at them.
Local journalists say a group of young men attacked soldiers and took their weapons.
Residents say the shooting continued into Friday morning.
A number of buildings, including cafes, a local TV channel and a theatre, were also said to be on fire.
Many of the injured were being treated for stabbing and gunshot wounds, health ministry spokeswoman Yelena Bailinova told the Associated Press news agency.
Image caption Officials say the shooting has stopped
More than 40 were reported to be in a serious condition.
The interim government, which came to power after Mr Bakiyev's removal, has been struggling to impose order in the city ever since.
The leaders of Russia and China have appealed for calm.
The political crisis has raised fears of a civil war in the country, where both Russia and the US have military bases.
Gun battles
Interim President Roza Otunbayeva said those responsible for the violence were "trying to destabilise Kyrgyzstan and plunge it into fighting or conflicts".
She called on people to show restraint and "not yield to provocations".
It appears that the majority of the properties attacked belonged to ethnic Uzbeks.
In recent weeks, several incidents have prompted fears of inter-ethnic violence between Uzbeks and Kyrgyz.
The country's interior and defence ministers are reportedly travelling to the region.
Mr Bakiyev fled with his family to Belarus after clashes between government forces and protesters on 7 April, which left at least 85 people dead in the Central Asian state.
The violence was the culmination of months of discontent over rising prices and allegations of corruption in Kyrgyzstan, which had been regarded as one of the more progressive states in the region.
The interim government has promised to hold elections in October, after a constitutional referendum on reducing presidential powers. | 1,265,720 |
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Here’s your next challenge as a founder of a start-up: Sell your company to a digital behemoth for tens of millions of dollars, then buy it back for a fraction of the cost. Oh, and keep the change.
On Monday, About.me, an online identity Web site, announced that it had done just that, buying itself back from AOL, which acquired the company two years ago.
About.me lets people create a digital business card with links to sites like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Tony Conrad, a venture capital investor and co-founder of About.me, said in a phone interview that he chose to repurchase his start-up because he thought it could thrive in a more autonomous setting.
“I think we can build it so much faster, and so much better, by making it independent again,” he said. “There’s no obvious leverage in being part of the AOL media network, and there’s no synergy and integration.”
Mr. Conrad, along with Ryan Freitas, also a co-founder of About.me, will take full control of the site this week. AOL did not return a request for comment.
AOL’s decision to offload About.me is another signal that AOL is not interested in competing with social media Web sites, like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google Plus, which are all vying to become the billboard for people’s online identities.
But where AOL is turning away, Mr. Conrad says he sees opportunity.
“People shouldn’t leave it to Google to define who they are based on an algorithm,” Mr. Conrad said, adding that there is not one place that defines a person’s identity online. “Facebook is your social graph; Twitter your communications network; LinkedIn is great for people that have real accomplishments, but it’s not their real identity.”
Over the last year, AOL has been slicing and dicing products that do not fit into its media fruit bowl. The company has cut staff that were part of the AOL Instant Messenger group and is continuing to focus its energies on content acquisitions, including The Huffington Post and TechCrunch.
Although Mr. Conrad would not disclose the exact amount he paid to buy back About.me, he said that it was a fraction of what AOL had paid, adding that it had simply became “a cost center to AOL.”
About.me also plans to announce a $5.7 million financing round this week with money coming from several Silicon Valley venture firms including True Ventures, where Mr. Conrad is a partner, Google Ventures, Founder Collective, CrunchFund and Ron Conway, one of Silicon Valley’s most prolific investors. AOL will maintain an 8 percent ownership stake in the company. | 1,265,721 |
discussion about religion didn’t bother her until she received the text containing a passage from Proverbs and admonishing her to maintain “military bearing.”
“Your commander has been patient with you, but I have little use for threats and guilt trips from subordinates,” Murray said in a screenshot of text messages included in the report. “ ‘The mouths of fools are their undoing, and their lips are a snare to their very lives.’ Something I was reading yesterday that you should heed. Do not be foolish with your words.”
“I knew it wasn’t right, but didn’t know what to do about it,” the major told investigators.
Murray acknowledged in his interview that during his first commander’s call, he told his airmen that he is a Christian, “but I don’t expect everyone to be one. I do expect that they seek out and define a spiritual pillar for themselves.”
Murray said he didn’t recall saying “there are no atheists in foxholes,” though he admitted it was possible.
Murray also said he didn’t buy the birthday cards, or notice the religious messages in some of them.
“If I signed a birthday card with a religious message in it, I was not tracking,” Murray said. “That would be weird.”
Transgender complaints
A transgender airman filed a complaint against Murray after an April meeting to discuss that airman’s plans to leave the Air Force for medical reasons stemming from his depression and anxiety.
The transgender airman, whose name was redacted from the documents, alleged Murray made a remark in the meeting, in reference to mental illness and transgender status, that he “could not separate the two.”
The airman said in his complaint that he interpreted that to mean Murray thought all transgender people are mentally ill. He also said he didn’t bring up his transgender status in the meeting prior to Murray’s comment.
The airman also alleged Murray said, in reference to his transgender status, “We let you guys serve now.”
He felt Murray’s comments amounted to harassment and a hostile work environment by his commanding officer.
Murray disputed that characterization of his remarks to the investigator.
Murray said he may have made a comment about transgender people having a statistically higher rate of anxiety and depression, and that “as his commander I was informing him that there were many helping agencies to assist him with his circumstances.”
The investigation substantiated the allegation of discriminatory harassment.
“The statements were numerous and significant, and had the harmful effect of insulting and denigrating” the transgender airman, the investigator wrote. | 1,265,722 |
Angelina Jolie and singer Melissa Etheridge.
Since Angelina Jolie elected to have a double mastectomy after learning she had the breast cancer gene mutation earlier this year, she has been hailed as a "hero" and an "inspiration" by many.
But it seems that singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge views Jolie's decision differently. She has labelled the choice to have a preventative mastectomy "fearful" rather than "brave".
In an interview with the Washington Blade Etheridge (herself a breast cancer survivor) was asked what she thought about Jolie's recent New York Times op-ed, in which the actress revealed the news of her mastectomy and breast reconstruction.
"I have to say I feel a little differently," she said.
"I have that gene mutation too, and it's not something I would believe in for myself. I wouldn't call it the brave choice. I actually think it's the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer.
"My belief is that cancer comes from inside you, and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It's the stress that will turn that gene on or not. Plenty of people have the gene mutation and everything, but it never comes to cancer," she continued, noting that surgical removal of one's breasts is "way down the line on the spectrum of what you can do" to lessen your risk of the disease.
"I've been cancer free for nine years now, and looking back, I completely understand why I got cancer," she added. "There was so much acidity in everything. I really encourage people to go a lot longer and further before coming to that conclusion [of a mastectomy]."
Regardless of Etheridge's views on the matter, Jolie's announcement has had one undeniably positive repercussion: there has been a massive increase in the number of women ringing help lines for advice on breast cancer. So much so that they have termed it the "Angelina effect".
Cancer Council Victoria says there has been a 1033 per cent increase in the number of calls its help line is receiving following the decision by Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie to undergo a double mastectomy.
In response, the Cancer Council is hosting an hour-long free national web seminar, known as a webinar on June 25 from 7.30pm dealing with breast cancer in the family.
Guest speaker Mary-Anne Young, Senior Genetic Counsellor at the Peter McCallum Familial Cancer Centre, said providing women with a forum to ask questions and access information was invaluable.
"We hope this webinar will reduce unnecessary anxiety we have seen in patients since Ms Jolie's announcement and provide women with the resources of where to go next if genetic testing is an option," she said.
- with AAP | 1,265,723 |
From the man who infamously declared, on Election Night 2016, that Donald Trump’s win over Hillary Clinton was “whitelash” to a black president, CNN commentator Van Jones had a vastly different tone Tuesday night. The President’s address to a joint session of Congress was applauded by many for the emotional tone struck while speaking to the wife of slain Navy SEAL Ryan Owens; to which Jones declared “He became President of the United States in that moment. Period.”
“There are a lot of people who have a lot of reason to be frustrated with him, to be fearful of him, to be mad at him,” he continued, “But that was one of the most extraordinary moments you have ever seen in American politics period.”
He described that portion of the speech as “extraordinary” and said that for those who held out in their belief that Trump could be presidential and unifying, “they should be happy with that moment.” But he had a dire warning for Democrats who think that they can just stroll into the White House in four years:
For people hoping that maybe he would remain a divisive cartoon, which he often finds a way to do, they should begin to become a little bit worried tonight. Because, that thing you just saw him do, if he finds way to do that over and over again, he'll be there for eight years. Now, there is a lot he said in that speech that was counter factual, that was not right and I oppose and will oppose but he did something tonight that you can't take away from him. He became president of the United States.
CNN’s Gloria Borger, who once whined that Trump didn’t pay tribute to Hillary, was also taken by the “humanity in their exchange.” She also approved of how Trump missed outlandish reports that the raid, in which Owens was killed, yielded no valuable information. “He quoted General Mattis, basically said “don't take my word, this is what I was told by the secretary of defense is that there were things of value that will be of use to your country,” she said.
As the discussion came back around to Jones, he again had a warning for his fellow progressives for how to deal with a surging Trump:
What it does is, it forces a reset for the progressives now. In other words, there was a particular way to deal with him up until tonight, rely on him to be a divisive cartoonish clown and continue to offend and insult people to pull your base up. And if you assume he's going to stay in that, you run a particular type of thing against him. If he figures out how to do stuff like that to the Democrats, I think the Democrats have to reset.
Transcript below: | 1,265,724 |
It's illegal in Albuquerque to live out of a parked car, but many people are doing it on Iron Avenue.Action 7 News was first to report on several homeless people living in and sleeping in their cars near downtown Albuquerque.As a transgender person, Rose said she prefers her Volvo over any shelter. Now, Action 7 News has learned her choice to stay in the car is illegal.City law reads, "No person shall stand, stop or park a vehicle on any street for the principal purpose of … living within the vehicle."VIDEO: Living out of your car illegal in ABQEven though it's technically illegal to live out of a parked car, Albuquerque police said they rarely enforce the law."The last thing we want to do is cite somebody or make an arrest, because somebody is living out of their car. The goal is to get them help," Albuquerque police Officer Simon Drobik said.Drobik said if the person is a repeat offender, they could be cited for criminal trespassing, but that is a last resort.City Councilor Isaac Benton, who represents the stretch of Iron Avenue where homeless are sleeping, said he's not happy police aren't arresting lawbreakers.Benton said city laws need to be enforced, but his office has decided against putting up signs to prohibit overnight parking on Iron Avenue. The reason being he doesn’t want to push the problem onto another street.
It's illegal in Albuquerque to live out of a parked car, but many people are doing it on Iron Avenue.
Action 7 News was first to report on several homeless people living in and sleeping in their cars near downtown Albuquerque.
As a transgender person, Rose said she prefers her Volvo over any shelter. Now, Action 7 News has learned her choice to stay in the car is illegal.
City law reads, "No person shall stand, stop or park a vehicle on any street for the principal purpose of … living within the vehicle."
VIDEO: Living out of your car illegal in ABQ
Even though it's technically illegal to live out of a parked car, Albuquerque police said they rarely enforce the law.
"The last thing we want to do is cite somebody or make an arrest, because somebody is living out of their car. The goal is to get them help," Albuquerque police Officer Simon Drobik said.
Drobik said if the person is a repeat offender, they could be cited for criminal trespassing, but that is a last resort.
City Councilor Isaac Benton, who represents the stretch of Iron Avenue where homeless are sleeping, said he's not happy police aren't arresting lawbreakers.
Benton said city laws need to be enforced, but his office has decided against putting up signs to prohibit overnight parking on Iron Avenue. The reason being he doesn’t want to push the problem onto another street. | 1,265,725 |
As we speak I’m hungry a.f and tired from work.
Nevertheless,
Theres are huge 5 gram nug of pound cake and the urge to hit it and tell you what it feels like is overwhelming.
Off we go.
London Pound Cake Lineage:
London Pouncake, A cross between sunset sherbert and another unknown heavy indica.
Bred by the Cookie Fam
Creators of many exotic strains in California.
Smell:
The cure has to be there
Remember the smell of the weed has a lot to do with genetics but also how well the cannabis is cured.
Luckily this dank was cured properly.
Lemon, Pine and Cardboard Box Smell
Lemon zest, pine and cardboard box hints abound. (you know that inside of the cookie box cardboard smell that is synonymous with the gsc strains)
It’s pungent and this weed is not easy to hide if you have it in your pocket.
Looks: large very dense buds with hues of color and dark orange hairs.
How does this strain feel when smoked?
To put it simply, Very very relaxing and heavy.
Immediately after the first snap of the the feeling was apparent on the top of my eyebrows and top front of my head.
Nice body high ensued
Of course a a bit of numbing throughout the body was noticeable as with most indica heavy strains.
Hard to get stuff done, it was very heavy
Lets be honest, weed is different for everyone however this strain was especially lazy for me.
Getting stuff done was difficult but if you want to lay on the beach be lazy or even reflect on life this is your go to right here.
No paranoia
Especially suggested because due to its indica nature the paranoia or negative thinking was absent.
Instead you are left with a remarkably relaxing cultivar, and to top it off it has great stress relieving properties and not as racy as you would expect from a high thc hit.
(This is not medical advice simply testimony)
Dreamy and sleepy
The type of dank where you may end up daydreaming.
Knocked out for 20 minutes!
Obviously this is exactly what just happened to me… Zoned out for about 20 minutes.
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Thanks for reading guys here is a good all around rating.
Rating Strains and Takin’ Names.
Effect: 4.7
Smell: 4.2
Bag Appeal 4.2
Total rating 4.36
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Trust me when I say that I love Daleks. With a few exceptions, Dalek episodes always turn out to be some of my favorites from a season. Unfortunately, this is an exception.
The episode started out well enough, though a little awkward, with the Doctor pulling a soldier out of a ship that was about to self-destruct. She’s…reluctant to trust, but eventually Clara, the Doctor, and some random soldiers are all miniaturized and insert into a “good Dalek” that needs a Doctor.
“Into the Dalek” just fell short for me after the wonderful season premiere. I didn’t care for the cheesey, “No, Doctor, YOU are a good Dalek.”
What I did like was the antibodies, especially since we just studied those in my biology class. When Clara complained that they’re only trying to help, the Doctor replied with, “Can you control YOUR antibodies?” The answer is no, no you can’t.
Another glimpse of Missy after a soldier gave her life to help the Doctor. Now I’m wondering if Missy is somehow simply collecting those who died for the Doctor. First the clockwork robot (who I believe killed himself; the Doctor doesn’t physically push people/things to their death) and now the soldier who gave her life, only asking for the Doctor to do something great and name it after her.
Moving on, we had “Robot of Sherwood”. It was better. The banter between the Doctor and Robin Hood was fun and Clara’s fangirling was appreciated. Ever notice that the companions are the ones who change their clothes to blend in while the Doctor just keeps to his usual attire?
The twelfth Doctor is not amused. Why? Because Robin Hood isn’t real! Right?
Welcome to the second episode of the season where there are robots in the complete wrong time and place. I didn’t care for the golden arrow “quick fix” that got the robots far away enough not to wipe out England. Shooting an arrow into a fleeing spaceship to help with the gold content? Okay, Moffat.
The writers need to seriously step up their game for the rest of the season. I have absolutely no complaints about Capaldi and his portrayal of the twelfth Doctor, but his plot lines have been seriously lacking. Hopefully, next week’s episode will live up to the Doctor Who standards that we are so used to expecting. It looks creepy enough.
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Mediaite had to revamp an entire article after one of its senior reporters mistook a strikeout sign at a World Series game Wednesday night for a KKK symbol.
While most people in America were enjoying one of the most exciting sporting events in U.S. history, Mediaite senior reporter Josh Feldman spent his Wednesday night tweeting about the potential civil war caused by a prospective Donald Trump presidency.
There is a non-zero number of people who want Trump to win so they can call dibs on being the leader of the Resistance. — Josh Feldman (@feldmaniac) November 3, 2016
I’m concerned about what Trump could do on the world stage. America will not turn into The Hunger Games. Not in his first term anyway. — Josh Feldman (@feldmaniac) November 3, 2016
But Feldman’s reverie was briefly interrupted when he thought he saw a Ku Klux Klan sign in the stands during Game 7.
“K” is the baseball symbol for a strikeout, so naturally the KKK sign Feldman saw simply represented three strikeouts. But rather than do the 10 seconds of research necessary to discover this, Feldman raced ahead like Custer into Little Bighorn, hastily writing and publishing a story titled “Wait, What’s That KKK Sign Doing At The World Series Game?”
People on Twitter quickly corrected Feldman’s embarrassing blunder.
[dcquiz] “It’s standard. K means strikeout. Fans often tally them with placecards, but unfortunately the pitcher had 3 at the moment,” Twitter user Andrew Kirell explained to Feldman.
Mediaite scrambled to contain the error by reframing the piece to blame “some Twitterers” for the KKK mistake.
“UPDATE- This post has been updated to reflect the fact that it was NOT a KKK sign, it was signifying the number of strikeouts,” the post reads now. Feldman’s name has also been removed from the post, which is now credited generically to “Mediaite Staff.”
Feldman tweeted out an apology, saying he needed to do more reading up on “sportsing things.”
Apologies for the fuckup. Need to do more reading up on sportsing things. — Josh Feldman (@feldmaniac) November 3, 2016
Meanwhile, as least one person on Twitter blasted the strikeout explanation as “mansplaining.”
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Health and longevity are frequently conflated. After all, aren’t people living longer precisely because they’re healthier? Instead, aging brings with it new health challenges that are all too familiar to anyone who has cared for an aging relative or is getting older themselves. In the current American health-care system, those maladies are treated individually, usually by specialists hired to deal with individual diseases or bodily systems. Often, older age becomes a series of health emergencies, growing more and more frequent as people get older.
“The problem is that physicians, in doing what they’re supposed to be doing, don’t look at the big picture,” Olshansky argued. “We’re supposed to look at the big picture.” But patients can’t become experts on everything, and as people age, it becomes harder for the very elderly to effectively advocate for themselves within the byzantine world of American medicine.
Susan Golden, another panelist and the director of the dciX innovation program at Stanford University, noted that shifting this system would require changing how the medical profession is structured. “It would be better if we had primary-care physicians as our navigators,” she said. “In Denmark, primary-care providers are paid more than specialists, and that’s a good idea.* It puts prevention up front and embeds it into the system.”
Golden said that if people are living longer lives, maintaining their health in the long term will require an emphasis on healthy habits starting in childhood. She also noted that it will require the political will to dismantle the structural disparities that impact the health of people of color and those living in poverty.
Olshansky expects to see major advances in increasing the American health span within his lifetime. “I’m extremely optimistic that the science has now caught up with the idea that we can modify our own biology and slow down the process of biological aging,” he said. “Not for the purpose of making us live longer, but for the purpose of extending the period of healthy life.”
In the meantime, Olshansky and Golden both emphasized that prevention is better than treatment, and that eating a healthy and diverse diet, getting plenty of sleep, and exercising regularly are reliable ways to make your life span, whatever it might be, more enjoyable.
For at least one other popular health tactic, they were less enthusiastic. “Everybody always asks about nutritional supplements as some sort of magical elixir,” Olshansky said. “I’m going to be frank: The vast majority of people who are taking nutritional supplements thinking it’s going to extend their life are really just producing expensive urine.”
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Firefighters are trying to determine what sparked a three-alarm building fire that forced the evacuation of nearby businesses and prevented access to Highway 243 in Banning Thursday morning.
The fire was reported about 8 a.m. in a 15,000-square-foot building at Lincoln Street and San Gorgonio Avenue and it produced a black plume of smoke that was visible in the Coachella Valley.
“There were multiple reports of explosions when the fire started,” Cal Fire Capt. Fernando Herrera said at the scene. "There wasn't any one spot you could say wasn't on fire."
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Eighty-two firefighters responded to the blaze and the fire was contained by 10:45 a.m.
The business is Apollo Masters Corp., a decades-old company that produces a lacquer formula for making master discs which are then used to make vinyl records. Employees were inside when the fire began, but Herrera said none of them were injured.
The company could not be reached for comment Thursday.
Riverside County Environmental Health officials will investigate whether the environment was impacted by harmful chemicals used at the facility.
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Banning staff said there was no indication the city's water supply was affected, but fire officials warned of runoff that came from fire hoses and entered drainage that led to a creek bed.
Authorities cordoned off a 3,000-foot radius and businesses across the street from the fire were evacuated.
Occupants of homes and businesses a block away were ordered to shelter in place. They were allowed to leave their properties, but could not re-entered the closed area.
Banning High School was just outside the closed area and Herrera said students and staff weren't affected beyond having to go around the closed area once classes let out for the day.
Also impacted were motorists using Highway 243 to and from Idyllwild, since it exits onto San Gorgonio Avenue. All traffic was detoured around the fire scene.
Banning residents said they had no interest in approaching the fire as it burned.
"I could smell the smoke from my living room and it was bad," said Christina De La Rosa, 49. "I saw it from my window and debated whether I should leave or not. I thought there might be an explosion."
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Madhya Pradesh sex scandal: A local court has granted police remand of four suspects
Police officers have also been targeted in the sensational extortion racket in Madhya Pradesh that "honey-trapped" senior bureaucrats and eight former ministers with more than 1,000 explicit videos, chats and audio files, a senior officer has alleged. The officer has claimed that high-ranking members of the force were implicated in an attempt to tarnish their reputation because some officers were jealous of work done in important cases.
The police officer, who spoke to NDTV over the phone, said he would write letters to the Indian Police Service (IPS) and the state government.
"How can such a senior officer make statements without verifying facts? Such statements don't just damage a particular officer's reputation... ultimately it discredits and damages the image of entire police department of the state," the officer told NDTV over the phone.
On Thursday the officer in-charge of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) had said senior officers were suspected of "quid-pro-quo benefits".
The dispute started because of reports that the investigation into what has come to be called as a "honey-trap" racket led to a flat in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh that had been taken on rent by Madhya Pradesh Police.
The police officer who spoke to NDTV clarified the flat was only a guest house for Madhya Pradesh Police officers on official work.
"The flat was taken on rent out of source money at our disposal to render guest house/safe house to cops who fail to find suitable accommodation while on special operations outside the state. Is this wrong?" he asked.
"I can understand senior officers becoming jealous and being distracted by the success of another officer.., but they shouldn't stoop to such lows," he said, adding that he also intended to make the office of Chief Minister Kamal Nath aware of the situation.
The flat has reportedly been rented by a member of the Cyber Cell of Madhya Pradesh Police. The officer has been asked to give an explanation.
Screenshots of WhatsApp messages from the mobile phones of senior IAS officers have also come under scrutiny.
Meanwhile, on Friday a local court granted police remand of four suspects.
Shweta Sapnil Jain, 48, and Barkha Soni, 35 will be in custody till September 30 and Arti Dayal, 34, and Monica will be in custody till October 1. Arti Dayal has protested her innocence, claiming officers at a police station in Indore had forced her to sign a blank paper.
According to police the racket, which was busted last week, was run by five women who used sex workers and college students to trap and extort money. More than 200 mobile phone contacts uncovered in raids suggest the scam may not have been limited to Madhya Pradesh. | 1,265,731 |
COLOGNE, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Adblock Plus, the #1 most downloaded browser add-on in the world, today announced that all advertisements on Reddit, the leader in online social news and entertainment, meet Adblock Plus’s ‘acceptable ads’ guidelines and therefore will be whitelisted for Adblock Plus users.
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91. And given the sheer amount of experimental and artistic elements in this film, there is the undeniable danger that Rey will be looked upon as a demo-reel showcasing Atallah’s versatility rather than a film in its own right.
Some of the images seem to be inspired by Christian iconography, supported by the use of fitting music in some scenes. Betrayed by a Judas character in his very own promised land, Tounens – a king with no army and no entourage – becomes an almost Christ-like figure. An imprisoned and exiled messiah robbed of the opportunity to provide salvation for his people. And that might just be how a fantasist like Tounens may have seen himself.
The acting is very good, and the male lead actor Rodrigo Lisboa has to be commended for committing entirely to this role and communicating all of Atallah’s ideas. Apart from indigenous extras, the only other actor in this film is Claudio Riveros in a supporting role. All other roles are played by actors with papier-mâché masks who (with one exception) have barely any lines. Riveros, like Lisboa, nicely manages to play the same scenes twice with entirely different moods and personality traits, in accordance with the two different perspectives presented to the court.
The indigenous characters are mostly silent (wearing tribal masks); while others are given room to voice grievance to the gods without actually really interacting with Tounens. That way, the suffering of the natives is hinted at and becomes an underlying theme; while they are at the same time kept completely out of any active role in the story, which symbolises their historic marginalisation.
The cinematography by the well-known Benjamín Echazarreta is also very good, but there is often not much left of the original work given the many effects “inflicted” upon the footage afterwards. What you notice is that Rey makes far less use of “grand” landscape shots than Escape from Patagonia: while that latter film did put the vastness of the land at the centre of the story, Rey focuses on Tounens’s isolation, and the ever-shrinking world of the Mapuche, which required mostly narrow frames. Not to mention that for tonal reasons there is also lots of rain and mist in Rey.
As I said, Rey is not so much a narrative film, but more a work of art. It is worth watching, but you probably should be a battle-hardened arthouse fan to do so. I enjoyed some aspects of the film, and others I did not. But the film clearly has artistic merit, it is tonally consistent (unlike Zama), and Atallah seems to have achieved exactly what he set out to do, so I will overall rate this film at 5.5 out of 10. | 1,265,733 |
do so without fear of contradiction. Now the balloon has popped. Democrats have won the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. The only way the Republicans can reverse that trend is by resisting the delusions of the paranoid bullies, dropping the bigotry, detoxifying the party and nominating a genuine moderate — in short, coming to terms with how America is rather than how they believe it to be. I don’t see it happening any time soon.
Meanwhile, the true believers try to console themselves with new delusions. In one comment thread on The Corner, someone wailed, accurately, that conservatism had failed. Another responded: “Naw the American people failed… Conservatism has always succeeded. America is now unworthy of it.”
It’s reminiscent of one of Oscar Wilde’s quips: “The play was a great success, but the audience was a total failure.” The difference is that Wilde was trying to be funny.
UPDATE: I just came across two illuminating pieces by Grist’s David Roberts. In this one, from 2010, he discusses climate denialism as a symptom of conservative factphobia and quotes Rush Limbaugh babbling about “The Four Corners of Deceit: Government, academia, science, and media,” which doesn’t leave much untainted except, presumably, the Rush Limbaugh show. And in this July post he examines polarisation. When pundits talk about a divided America they tend to present it as symmetrical problem: six of one, half a dozen of the other. However the stats show a dramatic imbalance. Between 1974-2004 the average Republican congressman moved almost four times as far to the right as the average Democrat did to the left; 70% of Republican voters define themselves as conservative while only 40% of Democrat voters think of themselves as liberals. Says Roberts:
Today, the national Democratic Party contains everything from the center-right to the far-left. Economically its proposals tend to be center to center-right. Socially, its proposals tend to be center to center-left. The national Republican Party, by contrast, has now been almost entirely absorbed by the far right. It rejects the basic social consensus among post-war democracies and seeks to return to a pre-New Deal form of governance. It is hostile to social and economic equality. It remains committed to fossil fuels and sprawl and opposed to all sustainable alternatives. And it has built an epistemological cocoon around itself within which loopy misinformation spreads unchecked. It has, in short, gone loony.
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*** So there’s some technical issues stopping people from either getting the whole show or playing it at all on some of the apps. Our hosts Podbean are looking in to it. In the meantime, you can download (or stream) the episode directly HERE and we’ve also put it up on Soundcloud. ***
Ah, the offseason. A quiet time for reflection and fun and games on the show. Or so we hoped. But nothing could have prepared us for the Vancouver Whitecaps bloodletting that took place at the club’s end of season media day last Tuesday.
We look back at all the big talking points from the Whitecaps’ very own red wedding. Is there a locker room divide? Is there a culture problem at the club? Who’s to blame? Plus we play you the thoughts of veteran Mexican midfielder Efrain Juarez on it all.
What’s next for the club? There’s a new manager coming in but do the changes need to go much deeper? Also what will he make of what happened and what he’s coming in to and will he even have much of a squad to inherit?
With a number of player’s futures very much up in the air, we look over a few and sit down with goalkeeper Spencer Richey after his return from a season long loan with FC Cincinnati. Will he be heading back there? Plus we talk fan abuse and struggling to settle in with Felipe, look the weekend’s action around MLS, and much more.
Here’s the full episode rundown of the main segments from the show:
03.27: Vancouver Whitecaps end of season bloodletting
21.43: Efrain Juarez interview and the locker room divide
37.14: Whitecaps front office and ownership chat
53.50: Rebuilding the ‘Caps – new identity needed, MDS, head coach search, do we need a technical director?
71.11: Whitecaps player chat – Waston, Kamara, Marinovic
83.12: Spencer Richey interview and chat
92.43: Felipe interview and chat
104.28: MLS round-up
116.51: Wavelength – Linus.maybe – Not Another Football Song
122.13: BC Soccerweb headlines – a look at some stories from around the football world
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Salesforce/Glassdoor It should hardly come as a surprise that Salesforce's Dreamforce conference, which took place in San Francisco this week, would provide an abundance of material for anyone looking for evidence of a tech bubble.
More than 170,000 techies poured into San Francisco for the big event, which has been described as Burning Man for the enterprise-software business.
Fleets of pedicabs shuttled visitors around the city, a giant concert featuring the band Foo Fighters was held on the waterfront, and a massive cruise ship was docked by the bay to accommodate those unable to secure a hotel room.
But the zeitgeist may have best been captured during a brief moment earlier in the week, when real money was actually fired out of guns into the streets.
The backstory
SalesLoft, an Atlanta-based startup that makes software to help salespeople sift through their leads, knew it had to do something a little different to stand out from the crowd at the conference.
The first part of SalesLoft's plan was to create a fake presidential campaign for Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.
The second part was to use cash-shooting guns, originally intended for bachelor parties and the like, to literally shoot wads of slogan-stamped $2 bills — which exist and are legal tender — into the streets of San Francisco.
These are the guns, in a picture provided by SalesLoft:
And these are the $2 bills, stamped with the "Benioff for President" slogan and a SalesLoft link:
Tweets, confusion and disappointment
"We did shoot the guns off a bridge, but the results were not as exciting as I had hoped," explains SalesLoft CEO Kyle Porter.
At the time that SalesLoft tried its money-gun experiment, "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer was filming an episode of his popular show from the street outside of Dreamforce. The SalesLoft team thought it'd be funny if they shot the money into the background.
But then the wind picked up and carried the money away.
"The money was shot, people picked it up, and went on their way," Porter says. "Some tweeted about it and some were confused."
And that was the end of the money-shooting experiment, but not the end of SalesLoft's campaign to get Benioff elected to office. All told, Porter says Salesloft gave out $250 worth of its two-dollar bills.
It's almost certainly not the end of the debate about the tech bubble.
Recode reporter Carmel DeAmicis asked Jim Cramer about this incident — apparently, he saw the guns go off, but didn't realize it was real cash. You can watch Cramer's reaction in the video below: | 1,265,736 |
Senior Republicans and Democrats in Congress have vowed to investigate Trump’s communications following a Washington Post report this month that she sent hundreds of emails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules.
The discovery alarmed some advisers to President Trump, who feared that his daughter’s practices bore similarities to those of Clinton, who used as personal email server while secretary of state during the Obama administration. As a candidate, Donald Trump repeatedly attacked Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign for her email practices, prompting campaign audiences to chant, “Lock her up!”
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Ivanka Trump told ABC that she had forwarded any relevant email sent to her personal account to her government account in accordance with the Presidential Records Act and that the emails in question contained no classified information.
“There really is no equivalency,” she said. “All of my emails that relate to any form of government work, which was mainly scheduling and logistics and managing the fact that I have a home life and a work life, are all part of the public record. They’re all stored on the White House system. So everything has been preserved. Everything has been archived. There just is no equivalency between the two things.”
“All of my emails are stored and preserved,” she added. “There were no deletions. There is no attempt to hide. There’s no equivalency to what my father’s spoken about.”
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Her comments largely echoed those of President Trump, who told reporters last week that his daughter “wasn’t doing anything to hide her emails.”
In a statement earlier this month, a spokesman for Ivanka Trump’s lawyer acknowledged that the president’s daughter occasionally used her private email before she was briefed on the rules, but he said none of her messages contained classified information.
In the ABC interview, Ivanka Trump also said she and her family have nothing to fear from the ongoing investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“I know the facts as they relate to me and my family, and so I have nothing to be concerned about,” she said.
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A vital Calgary food bank will be shutting down next year.
Calgary-area veterans who use the services of the Calgary Veterans Food Bank will no longer be able to access the bank as of Jan. 31, 2019, sources told Global News.
Earlier this year concerns were raised about how veterans had to show more documentation in order to get hampers. Hamper food donations to veterans had reduced by more than half.
The veterans food bank is managed by the Calgary Poppy Fund.
David Klug, spokesperson for the Alberta-Northwest Territories Royal Canadian Legion command, said the Poppy Fund will now take over serving all veterans through the Canadian Legion branch service officers.
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“The Calgary Poppy Fund board of directors has decided to initiate the orderly wind down of the veterans food bank to more closely alliance operations with the poppy manual and to focus resources where they can be more effective and efficient in their objectives to support veterans,” Klug said.
“What that will allow us to do, what the Poppy Fund will be able to do more effectively now with those resources, is to approach supports to veterans on a more holistic basis.
“Those veterans do have access to those officers even now, so this is not a new service, it’s just devoting those resources to the programming that those officers will be able to offer where appropriate.”
There is one service officer per Canadian Legion Branch. At this time there are no plans to increase staff, and several people currently working at the Veterans Food Bank will be out of work, according to Klug.
“They’ve been provided that six months notice and the Poppy Fund will be working with them to them transition during the period. But unfortunately, it does mean that there will be some positions cut,” Klug said.
Melanie Mitra, CEO of Canadian Legacy Project — which used to run an annual food drive for the food bank — said many people are confused by the decision.
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“When you know veterans require a unique solution around this particular area of need, they’re not going to go to a mainstream food bank,” she said.
“And you know that the Calgary community has been unbelievably supportive, then why wouldn’t you figure out a solution?
“It got the community quite worked up, but I’m confident we’ll find a solution. That’s what the Canadian Legacy Project is focused on once we get past some of the confusion.”
The charity said they are now considering “solutions” to the pending closure, and added that Calgarians have always been very supportive of veterans in need.
— With files from Global News’ Joanne Reid | 1,265,738 |
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I decided to write this post after struggling to find documentation on how to write a Kubernetes operator that went through the code with the reader using a real life example.
The example we’re going to use here is: In our Kubernetes cluster each Namespace represents a teams sandbox environment, we would like to lock down access so that teams can only play in their sandbox.
This can be achieved by assigning a group to a user that has a RoleBinding for their particular Namespace and a ClusterRole with edit access. Here is the YAML representation of what I mentioned above:
We could manually create this RoleBinding each time but after 100 namespaces this might get a bit tedious. This is where Kubernetes operators help as they allow us to automate the creation of resources in Kubernetes based on changes to resources. In our case we want to create a RoleBinding when a Namespace is created.
First we start by creating a main function which will perform the required setup for running the operator and then invoke the operator action:
Here we’re doing the following:
Setting up a listener for specific OS signals to trigger a graceful shutdown of the operator. Using a WaitGroup to make sure that before terminating the application we stop all executing go functions gracefully. Gaining access to the cluster by creating a clientset. Running the NamespaceController which will be where all our logic will sit.
Then we need the core of the logic which in our case is called the NamespaceController :
Here we’re setting up a SharedIndexInformer which will listen to changes to namespaces in an efficient way using a data cache. Then we attach an EventHandler to the informer so that when a Namespace is added the createRoleBinding function is invoked.
The next step is to define the createRoleBinding function:
Here we’re receiving the Namespace as obj and casting it into a Namespace object. We then define our RoleBinding based loosely on the YAML file we mentioned at the beginning using the provided Namespace object and then create the RoleBinding. Finally we log whether the creation is successful or not.
The last function we need to define is the Run function:
Here we’re telling the WaitGroup that we’re about to invoke a go function and then we run the namespaceInformer that we defined earlier. When the stop signal is closed it will end the go function, tell the WaitGroup it’s no longer running and then this function will return.
Information about building and running this operator in a Kubernetes cluster can be found in the github repository.
Now we have an operator that creates a RoleBinding when a Namespace is created within the Kubernetes cluster. | 1,265,740 |
can figure out a way to land on the moon, we can figure out a way to get men to give birth). I’d work to get rid of the whole damn thing altogether.
Likewise for the draft for men to go to war. The solution isn’t to give women a double burden so that they have to deal with men’s civil responsibilities on top of their own. Again, inequality. The goal is to make it so that neither men nor women are chained to the civil duties that they have been tied to for the past couple centuries. Neither men nor women should be drafted to do anything they don't want to do.
However, if people are insistent upon drafting women to go to war in the name of "equality", then I seriously propose that we devise a way for men to become pregnant and give birth, and menstruate, in the name of "equality." I'm not joking. We can figure out how. We figured out a way to land on the moon. That is the *only* way I'll support drafting women to go into the war.
Here's an awesome quote from here:
https://squaretwo.org/Sq2ArticleHudsonWomenCombat.html
"I oppose [Selective Service registration for women] because women already sacrifice more for their country than men do, and women should not be asked to bear even more. There should be parity between men and women in the work of protecting our country and giving it a future. Selective Service registration for women would undo that parity, placing an unjustly heavy burden on women, and making their burden far heavier than that of men[…]
What, at a minimum, must a nation have to survive? It must have protection[…] But protection is not enough for a nation to survive. A protected nation will nevertheless die out in the space of a generation if there is no reproduction. Only through reproduction does a nation have a future[…]
From 1776 onwards, more women have died or been seriously harmed in or incident to childbirth than men have died or been wounded in battle.
For example, in 2012, over 700 US women died in childbirth, with another 52,000 suffering a profound bodily harm, such as acute renal failure, stroke, heart failure, or aneurysms. In 2012, 310 American soldiers died in Afghanistan, with less than 4,000 wounded. Indeed, the maternal mortality rate in the US is now double what it was 25 years ago."
Do you see that? Over twice as many women died and over 10 times as many women have been wounded in childbirth recently than men in war. Far more women than men have been dying lately during their fulfillment of their traditional civic "blood sacrifices". Yet we expect women to take on men's civic duties, too, on top of that? That is anything but equality. | 1,265,741 |
Saudis,” said Eldad Shavit, a former high-ranking official in both IDF Military Intelligence and the Prime Minister’s Office.
As the Middle East is being divided along the Shia-Sunni (perhaps more accurately, the Iranian-Saudi) fault line, Qatar remains something of a wild card.
And so at the beginning of last week, apparently emboldened by the supportive words of US President Donald Trump during his trip to Riyadh last month, Saudi Arabia got together a group of countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain, to lay down the law for Qatar and get it to toe the Sunni coalition line.
Riyadh has considerable leverage over Doha, more so than the other countries in the Sunni coalition. Surrounding Qatar on three sides, Saudi Arabia controls the land borders through which approximately 40 percent of its food supply enters.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir demanded that Qatar stop supporting Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood if it wanted a resumption of ties with its former allies.
Qatar, it should be said, does not openly or directly fund the terrorist group, but assists it peripherally, acting as host to its leadership and financially supporting the people of Gaza so that Hamas can focus on its military strategy.
There have already been reports that Qatar is prepared to expel some Hamas officials from the country, but the extent to which the Qataris will ultimately cave is still open to debate.
“I don’t see [senior Hamas official Khaled] Mashaal getting kicked out of Qatar,” said Shavit, who is now a fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies think tank at Tel Aviv University.
With so much on the line, Shavit said, he expected that Qatar would capitulate to the Sunni countries’ demands quickly.
But the diplomatic crisis is liable to have a twofold effect on Hamas:
As this severance of ties goes on, Qatar — while a rich country — would likely be more inclined to keep its money at home, feeding its citizens and keeping businesses afloat, rather than sending it out to Gaza. That would make it harder for Hamas to keep the Strip’s citizens happy. And, if Doha does eventually cave to the pressure, it would be cutting its more apparent support for the terrorist group, which will hurt Hamas directly.
“All this pressure on Hamas, coming from Egypt or coming from Qatar… puts them on this track to make a decision,” Shavit said.
So what will that decision be? Will the game of chicken end in a horrific wreck, a fourth round of fighting in the beleaguered and battered coastal enclave? Israel, it seems, is prepared to take a gamble and stay the course, relying on Hamas to blink and swerve out of the way. | 1,265,742 |
Turkey should accelerate its steps in biotechnology The annual BIO International Convention was held in San Francisco last week. In this, the world’s biggest biotechnology event, Turkey has been represented by an increasing number of people every year, but significant steps should now be taken in terms of quality.
The Turkish delegation’s participation in the convention was organized by the independent think tank, the Economic Policy and Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV). This year’s Turkish delegation at the convention was dominated by public administrators.
It was indeed an important step that members of the Health Industries Steering Council (SEYK) were able to explain their work to investors at the convention. In fact, the formation of the SEYK toward the end of last year and its holding of intense meetings were important steps by themselves. However, biotechnology competition globally has increased so much, and developing countries have their eyes set so firmly on it, that Turkey needs to accelerate its steps. It needs to make concrete moves as soon as possible with a clever strategy.
MSD Health Policies Director Deniz Öncel said they had reached a good phase but several more concrete steps are now needed. “But beyond the prioritized technology transfer projects, it is more important to have a framework on how Turkey can become more competitive in biotechnology, R&D, production, investment, management and technology transfer,” Öncel said.
The private sector must be included in the business and should participate in SEYK meetings, Öncel also said, adding that the private sector’s practical experience should be taken into account while forming a vision and policy. This would enable Turkey to reach its goals faster in a race that it has been relatively late in joining.
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Öncel also said Turkey needs a boost in the biotechnology field. It needs more ideas and more entrepreneurs. As the number of ideas and companies increases, the value of innovation will be better understood as these companies would be receiving investments. With companies being bought by multinational companies and by going public, Turkey will attract more international investors, she added.
“If we want to be among the important players in this sector, where there is cutthroat competition, then we do not have the luxury to stop,” Öncel said.
She also expressed hope that by the time of next year’s BIO international conference, several advanced innovations would be presented including an international-standard patent law, projects supported by major funds, successful technology transfer contracts, startups with investors, and incentives designed with the participation of the private sector in SEYK meetings.
Öncel said they were supportive as a company, and hoped that startups at the convention for the first time this year would succeed in making fruitful contacts and attracting investments. | 1,265,743 |
When she’s not in the recording studio, touring the globe, or churning out hits, Ellie Goulding can be found stepping up her fitness game rather than relaxing at home on her couch. Ellie’s the embodiment of strength — physical and emotional. The Grammy-nominated singer works extremely hard on her music, yet still somehow manages to work out equally as hard — which made her the perfect candidate for Core Hydration to tap for the brand’s new True To Your Core campaign, designed to inspire people to pursue their deepest passions while maintaining a healthy, balanced lifestyle. Here, Ellie opens up to Teen Vogue about her love of boxing, what songs can be found on her workout playlist, and how to cope with stress and come out on top.
Teen Vogue: What are you most excited about regarding your partnership with Core Hydration?
Ellie Goulding: I train hard so I have to drink a lot of water. It’s so funny — my friend is a huge water geek. She’s one of those people who are really particular about the taste of water, and when I was on tour, she suggested I try Core. Honestly, it tasted like the best water I’ve ever had. It uses a special filtration process and it’s packed with electrolytes and minerals. I’ve been drinking it ever since.
TV: You’re a fitness inspiration to tons of people. Are you still a big fan of boxing?
EG: I miss boxing. I haven’t been able to do it in awhile because I’ve been on tour. That’s the thing about being away. When I’m in one place, I feel like it keeps me focused. With working out, you have to be incredibly disciplined. I like boxing because it’s not about throwing punches. It’s a full body workout. It’s about smart footwork, agility, flexibility and being in touch with your body.
TV: How do you psyche yourself up for a workout if you’re just not in the mood and are set on skipping?
EG: I admit this morning I really wanted to stay in bed. It’s quite a comfy bed! But I usually get myself up just knowing that I’ll feel worse if I don’t do a workout. You have to take it one step at a time. I think about what I’m doing at the moment, not what I have to do. That way, you’re not punishing yourself; you’re not setting yourself up for failure in your head. You have to get yourself in the mindset of being in the present, not thinking ahead or thinking behind. It’s like going for a walk, and turning it into a run. | 1,265,744 |
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Following reports last month that Juul was in talks with Big Tobacco for a possible minority stake in its company, it seems that nicotine-fueled train is chugging right along.
Tobacco giant Altria, the maker of Marlboro, is reportedly looking to acquire a 35 percent stake in Juul Labs in a deal that would put the latter’s value at approximately $38 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The deal would give Juul a significant leg up in valuation over many of its startup contemporaries, the Journal noted, such as SpaceX and Airbnb:
The $12.8 billion cash injection could be announced as soon as this week, the people said. It would more than double what Juul was valued at just a few months ago, a sign of how quickly the startup has been growing and Altria’s desire to find growth outside its shrinking cigarette business.
Also citing sources familiar with the matter, CNBC reported Wednesday that a $12.8 billion investment in Juul has already been approved by Altria’s board of directors, and that the rumored deal could be announced as soon as Thursday morning.
Juul did not immediately return a request for comment about the rumored deal.
The report puts Juul in a tricky position, both because it’s come under fire for its well-documented popularity with teens and because accepting such a huge cash investment from Big Tobacco flies in the face of its quit-smoking branding.
“At JUUL our mission is simple: eliminate cigarette smoking throughout the world one smoker at a time,” Juul CEO Kevin Burns said a statement in May. “38 million Americans and one billion people around the world still smoke. Smoking remains the world’s number one source of preventable death.”
Juul employees, some of whom appear to have been under the impression the company’s stated ethos was more important than money, characterized the rumored Altria investment as a “deal with the devil,” Axios reported in November. The site also reported that the vape giant “rebuffed the initial interest, but Altria remained persistent, regularly coming back with higher price points.”
The dust doesn’t appear to have settled on that front, with the Journal reporting this week that during an all-hands meeting, “Juul Chief Executive Kevin Burns told staff that any deal would have to meet criteria including Juul maintaining full control of the company, employees having the option to cash out shares and the new investor taking actions to support Juul’s mission, according to a person familiar with the matte r.”
Seems like this unprecedented merger is already off to a fantastic start.
[Wall Street Journal, CNBC] | 1,265,745 |
The game Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a massive game that contains a wide array of strong opponents ranging from size and kind that can pretty much stagger a player's progress in the game. However, the saying, the best offense is a good defense is the best applicable idea to counter this problem. Furthermore, the game features an iconic item that players and fans would instantly recognize. And it is the Hylian Shield, with it, players can avoid receiving massive damage when they equip this item.
How To Locate The Hylian Shield
According to RPG Site, the iconic shield can only be found in one place and it is deep inside the Hyrule Castle. The castle itself is located near the northern edge of the Central Hyrule area. Once in the general vicinity of the castle, players need to go to the back of the castle to find a broken bridge. On the broken bridge, players need to look to the right and should see blue orbs in the distance. From the broken bridge, players need to glide to make their way towards the blue orbs. There is a low-lying platform right before the blue orbs and that is where players need to land, however they need to be alert as there is a Guardian nearby. At the top of the ramp, players need to stick close to the wall to get past the Guardian to reach a door that leads inside the castle.
Once inside the castle, players will immediately see a gate with a body of water below it. At this point, players need to use the Cryonis Rune to lift up the gate and use it to get across. The next area is a dungeon that houses prisoners and the switch to open the cells are in the middle. There are some rooms with cell doors that cannot be opened, to enter them, the wall behind it can be blasted through with bombs. Players can take their time to check the area since there are many items to gain there.
Obtaining The Hylian Shield
In an article by Gosu Noob, once done scouring the cell area, save the game first, then head to the available side room, which is at the very end of the area. Here, players would see a bunch of bones lying around and typically like in any other Zelda game, the skeleton would reanimate, and would form into a giant Stalnox.
The player has two options when fighting the Stalnox, they can either attack the eye of the creature with a bow and arrow so it would fall over then attack the body or they could attack the body and avoid getting sat on by the large creature. Once its health has been depleted, the eye would pop out, players need to destroy the eye in order to prevent the creature from rising again. Once done, the creature will perish and a chest will appear, and inside among other things, the player will find the unbreakable Hylian Shield. | 1,265,746 |
baby pigeon?
Juvenile Pigeons
Most small birds rear and fledge their young in 2/3 weeks with young birds sometimes leaving the nest after only 10 days of life, but pigeons are different; their young remain in the nest for up to 2 months before fledging.
Juvenile Pigeon
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This gives the young pigeon a distinct advantage over many other species of bird due to the fact that it leaves the nest as a relatively mature juvenile, allowing the bird to cope better in the first few days of its life, a dangerous time for all youngsters.
Juvenile Pigeons
in Nest
Juveniles can be told apart from adults but it takes an experienced eye. A juvenile’s beak often appears to be far too long for the size of its body and the cere (the fleshy area at the top of the beak) is white in adults and greyish pink in juveniles.
Project PigeonWatch from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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20. What is the natural predator of the pigeon?
Peregrine Falcon
Although the natural enemy of the feral pigeon is now man, with millions of pigeons being killed in control operations the world over, it is the peregrine falcon that is the pigeons’ real natural predator. Although a shy and retiring bird that has its natural habitat along rocky coastlines, the peregrine is now being introduced into towns and cities as a ‘natural’ pigeon control. The peregrine is the fastest bird on the planet when in a dive and can achieve speeds in excess of 200 mph, over 130 mph faster than a pigeon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peregrine_Falcon
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21. Are pigeons intelligent?
Pigeons are considered to be one of the most intelligent birds on the planet and able to undertake tasks previously thought to be the sole preserve of humans and primates. The pigeon has also been found to pass the ‘mirror test’ (being able to recognise its reflection in a mirror) and is one of only 6 species, and the only non-mammal, that has this ability. The pigeon can also recognise all 26 letters of the English language as well as being able to conceptualise. In scientific tests pigeons have been found to be able to differentiate between photographs and even differentiate between two different human beings in a photograph when rewarded with food for doing so.
http://www.urbanwildlifesociety.org/UWS/GeeWhizQuizAnswers.htm
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i42_kak.html
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Fast-food chain says it will measure the presence of the drugs in its biggest markets and set limits for use by the end of 2020
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McDonald’s has announced plans to reduce the use of antibiotics in its global beef supply, fuelling predictions that other restaurants will follow suit.
The move by the world’s biggest fast-food chain addresses concerns that the overuse of antibiotics vital to fighting human infections in farm animals may diminish the drugs’ effectiveness in people.
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McDonald’s becomes the biggest beef buyer to tackle the issue in cattle, potentially creating a new standard for livestock producers and threatening sales by drug companies.
“McDonald’s iconic position and the fact that they’re the largest single global purchaser of beef make it hugely important,” said David Wallinga, a senior health adviser for the environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council.
McDonald’s said it would measure the use of antibiotics in its 10 biggest markets, including the United States, and set targets to curb their use by the end of 2020. The markets cover 85% of the company’s global beef supply chain.
Medically important antibiotics cannot be used to promote growth in food animals in the supply chain or to routinely prevent disease, according to McDonald’s policy.
The company does not expect the policy to raise hamburger prices, although franchisees set their own menu prices, spokeswoman Lauren Altmin said.
The Animal Health Institute, which represents pharmaceutical companies such as Merck, said it supported “judicious” use of antibiotics and that drug makers were developing alternatives.
The Food and Drug Administration last year said sales and distribution of medically important antibiotics for food production fell 14% from 2015 to 2016, the first decline in year-to-year sales since the agency began collecting the data in 2009. Chicken accounted for 6% of the sales, while swine and cattle came in at 37% and 43%, respectively.
McDonald’s has an outsized influence on farm practices due to its size. It previously spurred rivals to eliminate antibiotics from their chicken supplies.
Removing antibiotics from cattle is more difficult, experts said, because the animals live longer than chickens and have more chances to fall ill.
The rival burger chain Wendy’s said last year it would beging to buy about 15% of its beef from producers that have pledged to reduce by 20% their use of an antibiotic.
“What McDonald’s is doing will hopefully start to shift the industry all together from over-using antibiotics,” said Matt Wellington, antibiotics program director for advocacy group US PIRG. | 1,265,748 |
The battle for the city of Aleppo is shaping to become a milestone in the Syrian conflict; its outcome will most likely determine the fate of the country, if not the Middle East, philosopher and anthropologist Vladimir Lepekhin, director of EurAsEc (The Eurasian Economic Community) Institute, wrote for RIA Novosti.
For the analyst, this is not merely a battle between Damascus-led forces and rebels, but rather a "standoff" between the Russian and US-led coalitions.
This is why Washington and its allies are increasingly active in Syria.
The United States "is trying to undermine the Syrian Arab Army's (SAA) operation aimed at freeing Aleppo, the city that the US views as the capital of'moderate' Syrian opposition. They also want to fuel tensions in Damascus suburbs and strengthen their positions in areas close to Raqqa and northeastern provinces," the analyst said.
Aleppo, once the largest city in the embattled country, has been controlled by the SAA and radical groups, but last month government forces managed to cut all supply routes to rebel-held areas in what was perceived as a major victory for Bashar al-Assad. The militants have tried to break the siege ever since.
© Sputnik / Michael Alaeddin Supply road in north Aleppo. Bani Zeid district
Meanwhile Russia launched a humanitarian operation to help tens of thousands of civilians trapped in the city.
Lepekhin mentioned that no one doubts that the US is behind so-called moderate opposition forces in Aleppo that have long since merged with terrorist groups operating in the city. This is why the Western coalition is trying to "further discredit Russia's efforts, ruin Aleppo's blockade and undermine the SAA advance in northern Syria."
The analyst further noted that US special forces have been more active in the embattled country.
"In late July, several media outlets in the West reported that the US State Department was preparing an anti-Assad operation in Jordan, home to the largest British intelligence base that has been used by US troops," the analyst said.
© AFP 2020 / Mohamed al-Bakour A picture taken on August 1, 2016 shows Syrian rebels gathering around the wreckage of a Russian Mi-8 military transport helicopter after it was shot down along the administrative border between Idlib province, northwestern Syria and neighbouring Aleppo
Lepekhin also pointed to a possible link between the downing of the Russian Su-24 in November, the crash of Russian Mi-8 helicopter last month and SAA operations. Both incidents took place when the Syrian Arab Army, assisted by Russian warplanes and local allies, launched major operations.
The Su-24 incident undermined the SAA offensive in Latakia at a time when the army was trying to seal the porous border with Turkey. The Mi-8 crash could have been linked to the SAA success in Aleppo. | 1,265,749 |
Democrats have been desperate to get rid of President Donald Trump ever since he was elected.
First they tried getting him through the Mueller investigation, now they’re trying the Ukraine call.
But the problem they face in any event is that even if they were somehow able to impeach and convict Trump, they still would be left with Pence, who they also hate. And they still wouldn’t get the control they so deeply crave.
So as we noted yesterday, Democrats seem to be trying to construct an impeachment case against Pence as well, even thought that’s even sillier and more implausible a road to success than that against Trump.
They don’t seem to understand that you can’t impeach someone just because you don’t like him and want power.
But if you wonder how much Democrats are descending into madness, this “AM Joy” panel that Twitchy caught is the perfect example.
All of these adult people and yet nothing they say is based in reality or sense.
You ready? Here goes:
MSNBC plan to make Pelosi president: “You could impeach Pence first. The problem is that Donald Trump then has to name his replacement. But I think that maybe a deal could be struck where he was told, if you don’t make a replacement, then Nancy Pelosi does become president." pic.twitter.com/JjsiEbNCyh — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 6, 2019
“You could impeach Pence first. The problem is that Donald Trump then has to name his replacement. But I think that maybe a deal could be struck where he was told, if you don’t make a replacement, then Nancy Pelosi does become president.”
Please, folks, Constitution and sanity. That’s not happening, so why even say it? Of course, that woman was preceded by another woman who was equally unhinged talking about how Pence was so “deeply” involved in the corruption he had to go. What?
They are completely out in conspiracy land. Of course, most of these folks were pushing the Russia collusion hoax as a fact, despite it not being true. And Joy Reid has her own issues, given the person who hacked her blog and put all those bigoted things there that she herself certainly didn’t say. Reid told us that she had called the FBI, how’s that case going?
But yes, every time you think that they can’t hit a bottom, they keep going lower. Train off the rails crazy.
Please people, you lost. Get over it. Get a grip.
If all you’re going to do going into 2020 is push impeachment and you include Mike Pence too, prepare to lose again. | 1,265,750 |
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago now gives at-risk inmates the overdose-reversing drug naloxone upon their release from jail and Los Angeles is poised to follow suit, putting the antidote in as many hands as possible as part of a multifaceted approach to combatting the nation’s opioid epidemic.
The Cook County Jail in Chicago, which is the largest single-site jail in the country, has trained about 900 inmates how to use naloxone nasal spray devices since last summer and has distributed 400 of them to at-risk men and women as they got out. The devices can undo the effects of an opiate overdose almost immediately and are identical to those used by officers in many of the country’s law enforcement agencies.
Sheriff Tom Dart, whose office runs the jail, said addicts are most at-risk of fatally overdosing in the two weeks after getting out because of their time away from drugs while locked up.
“We’ve got to keep them alive (and) if we can get them through that two-week window, they might get treatment, get off drugs,” he said.
Dr. Connie Mennella, the chair of Correctional Health for the county’s health and hospitals system, which administers the program, said only inmates are being trained to use naloxone, but that she eventually hopes their relatives and friends can also be trained.
“We are trying to saturate this community with this drug and we are educating them to tell their buddy, mother, father how to use it, where they keep it and, ‘If you come home and see me not responding, to go get it and use it,’” she said.
Proponents say such jail programs can be the difference between a former inmate living and dying, as the naloxone often can be administered by an overdosing addict, a friend or family member before emergency responders can reach them.
The growing consensus is that naloxone works. Three years ago, the World Health Organization released guidelines recommending expanded naloxone access to people likely to witness an overdose, including drug users. And the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, which tracked the use of naloxone kits by law enforcement, reported that the number of agencies that equip officers with kits climbed from 971 to 1,217 in about eight months last year.
There has been little pushback against efforts to expand the availability and use of naloxone, but there has been some.
Richard Jones, the sheriff of Butler County, Ohio, said this month that he was sticking by his long-standing policy of refusing to allow deputies to carry the drug because he says people can become hostile and violent after being revived by it.
Naloxone also can cause severe opioid withdrawal symptoms. | 1,265,751 |
Bill Nye, who gained an adoring following as “The Science Guy” in the 90s, has always been a promoter of science education. Nye has worked on several projects since, though perhaps the biggest headlines he’s drawn since have been for his big debate with Ken Ham on evolution. Nye has also done a variety of educational short videos produced for the web and has talked to politicians about incorporating science into their decisions. Now, he will be the subject of a documentary as he continues to promote science education and the incorporation of real science into policies.
The Bill Nye Film is being funded as a Kickstarter project. It aims to include footage of Bill Nye promoting science in a number of ways:
Debating climate change deniers
Advocating for policies that protect space programs
Launching a satellite with a unique propulsion system that could revolutionize space travel
Bill Nye was warned by many scientists, educators, atheists, and others not to delve into debate with Ken Ham, but after much thought, he came to the conclusion that he could do so by managing his argument in certain terms, and not allowing himself to be thrown off his thesis. Nye admitted that Ham’s most entrenched followers would shut their ears to the facts he presented, but believed that perhaps he could still take his points to some listeners — particularly to the youngest members of the audience.
In debating climate change, Nye — who has shown himself to be skilled in debate — may be able to do the same. Opposing deniers whose key arguments hinge on such facts as “winter is cold,” Nye could present data that many members of the public aren’t aware of, in the simple but thorough style that has made him able to reach generations of children.
Bill Nye has had another recent Kickstarter success: his LightSail. With the Planetary Society, Nye crowdfunded a small spacecraft that operates in part on solar power. The test flight launched in May, and one part of the Bill Nye documentary will focus on the 2016 launch of a second Lightsail — one that Nye and the Planetary Society hope will successfully escape the Earth’s atmosphere.
Attempting to convince lawmakers to take established science into account on matters like environment and space isn’t new to Nye, who in 2013 presented the below “open letter” to President Obama, pleading for the protection of the U.S. Space Program.
The new film will cover Nye continuing to advocate for programs that explore space, and for the U.S. to lead in that exploration.
The project has already received over $150k of its goal of $650k, in just a few days. If fully funded, The Bill Nye Film is slated for release in 2017.
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Who Pooped In The Kitchen? – Guilty Dogs
Woman Asks Her Guilty Dogs Who Pooped In The Kitchen And Their Response Is Hilarious!
When she asks her dogs who pooped in the kitchen, guilty dogs look at their owner until the reaction is….! Who do you think is guilty? Judy or Sunny?
This video goes viral and got + 10 million views from all over the world! Ladies and gentlemen meet the new guilty dogs of YouTube, Sunny and Judy.
I’m unsure I’ve ever seen a dog understand a human so perfectly before. You only ought to watch this adorable video to know.
The look on this terribly cute faces is just invaluable.
Three cute dogs taking on the world one adorable trick at a time.
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A US Sheriff was caught on camera ordering his officers to "take out" a suspect who was shot in the head.
Sheriff Oddie Shoupe boasted "I love this shit" after he arrived on the scene of the killing of Michael Zennie Dial II in White County, Tennessee.
"They said we're ramming him," he was recorded saying. "I said don't ram him, shoot them... Ain't going to tear my cars up. If they don't think I'll give the damn order to kill that mother f*** they're full of sh*t."
Apparently unaware he was being filmed by a deputy's body camera, he added: "I love this sh*t. God I tell you what I thrive on it."
He later told his officers: "I made the decision. Don't have to worry about it. I took that away from y'all. You don't have to worry about nothing."
The Sheriff's department is being sued by Mr Dial's widow Robyn Dial, who claims excessive force against her unarmed husband rather than risk damaging patrol cars.
Her suit, which also names the county, the city of Sparta and the two officers who fired their weapons, claims it was 'inappropriate and unconscionable' for Sheriff Shoupe to give the order to use deadly force.
“The comments as seen on the video are extremely disturbing. I’m not sure how anybody can thrive on the taking of a life, let alone somebody in law enforcement,” Dial’s attorney David Weissman told The Guardian.
Sheriff Oddie Shoupe caught on body camera during chase saying 'Take him out'
The chase began in April last year when DeKalb County deputies tried to pull over Dial for driving a pickup truck with a trailer on a suspended licence.
White County deputies took over the pursuit when Dial crossed over on Highway 111 and initially tried to force his vehicle off the road by ramming it from the side.
But Sheriff Shoupe radioed his officers to tell them to "take him out by any means necessary including deadly force."
Dial was successfully forced off the road and into a ditch as Reserve Deputy Adam West fired three shots.
When Sheriff Shoupe arrived at the scene he was recorded on a deputy's body camera saying: "I told me I said take him out. I don't give a shit."
The shooting was ruled justified by the county's district attorney Bryant Dunaway in June last year.
Mr Dunaway said Dial ignored stop lights and drove into oncoming traffic before repeatedly ramming into the side and rear of police cars during the pursuit.
A toxicology report revealed that the suspect's blood tested positive for drugs, including methamphetamine, amphetamine and carboxy-THC. | 1,265,754 |
It probably wouldn’t be accurate to say that the Pittsburgh Steelers have had an offseason free of controversy, but at least we had gotten through the summer without anybody getting arrested our sued…at least until now.
According to a lawsuit filed today, and individual named Larry Parker is accusing Steelers right tackle Marcus Gilbert of bodyslamming him, resulting in him suffering a broken leg, among other injuries. The plaintiff is suing him for a sum in excess of $35,000, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Parker claims to be a frequent presence at the Steelers’ UPMC Rooney Sports Complex on the South Side of the city, having a number of friends and acquaintances within the organization and among the players.
In fact, he alleges that the incident began when he was returning to the facility after having done a favor for a member of the organization, returning his vehicle after taking it to be serviced. Parker claims that he saw Gilbert in the parking lot, whom he is familiar with, and “voiced a jesting greeting”.
He alleges that Gilbert did not take this kindly, which ultimately resulted in the Steelers lineman sending him a number of threatening texts, and ultimately a request to settle the matter face-to-face, which was obliged.
Parker then claims that Gilbert arrived at his house, making similar comments to those made in the texts and phone exchanges that preceded, whereupon he shoved the 54-year-old several times before putting him in a bear hug and slamming him to the ground, with the 330-pounder landing on top of him.
The plaintiff, in addition to suffering a fracture in his right fibula that required multiple surgeries to attend, suffered an assortment of ailments ranging from bruises to ligament tears, in addition to the aggravation of a previous back injury.
Parker claims that Gilbert consulted with his father following the physical confrontation as to how to proceed, which resulted in the Steeler transporting the plaintiff to the hospital. This incident reportedly occurred back in January.
It is rare that incidents such as these ever prove to be as straightforward as what one side of the discussion presents, and I have no doubt that Gilbert is likely to dispute at least some of what Parker claims to have occurred in the sequence of events.
Either way, however, it doesn’t look particularly good for him, and reflects poorly on the organization by extension. Not that it will evidently cost him much or keep him on the field, but if he essentially assaulted somebody, then that is certainly disappointing, to say the least.
Meanwhile, the Steelers just rewarded their other tackle, Alejandro Villanueva, with a new four-year contract after three years of being a model citizen and ambassador for the organization’s brand. Hopefully Gilbert and the Steelers can put this matter behind them as quickly as possible. | 1,265,755 |
Fifty-seven House Democrats have broken ranks with Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer to vote with Republicans to fund parts of the government like veterans programs, national parks and the National Institutes of Health.
Sixteen of those Democrats voted for all six targeted appropriations bills, introduced at the behest of House Speaker John Boehner, including measures to fund the National Guard and Reserve, NIH, national parks, the District of Columbia and two separate votes for veterans programs. (The House of Representatives voted twice to restore funding for veterans programs, once Oct. 1 and a second time Oct. 3.)
Of those 16 Democrats, 10 face tough re-election campaigns in 2014:
» Ron Barber, D-Ariz.: R+3 district
» Ami Bera, D-Calif.: Evenly split district
» Pete Gallego, D-Texas: R+3 district
» Joe Garcia, D-Fla.: R+1 district
» Jim Matheson, D-Utah: R+16 district
» Mike McIntyre, D-N.C.: R+12 district
» Patrick Murphy, D-Fla.: R+3 district
» Scott Peters, D-Calif.: D+2 district
» Raul Ruiz, D-Calif.: R+1 district
» Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz.: R+1 district
Additionally, nine Democrats who voted for one or more of the targeted funding bills are also facing tough re-elections:
» John Barrow, D-Ga.: R+9 district
» Tim Bishop, D-N.Y.: R+2 district
» Peter DeFazio, D-Ore.: D+2 district
» Sean Maloney, D-N.Y.: Evenly split district
» Rick Nolan, D-Minn.: D+1 district
» Bill Owens, D-N.Y.: Evenly split district
» Collin Peterson, D-Minn.: R+6 district
» Nick Rahall, D-W.Va.: R+14 district
» Kurt Schrader, D-Ore.: Evenly split district
Twenty-one Democrats voted for a single bill — six voted only for restoring funding to the National Guard and Reserve, 15 voted only to fund D.C. and one voted for just a single veterans funding bill.
The second vote lost the support of Rep. André Carson, D-Ind., but picked up the support of Reps. Jim Costa, D-Calif., John Garamendi, D-Calif., and Nick Rahall, D-W.Va.
Original research for this data by Mike Long, press secretary to House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and supplemented by the Washington Examiner.
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Post-Oscars and the Internet has been flooded with dozens of stories regarding That Moment, AKA when the cast of La La Land realised - live on stage - that Moonlight had actually won Best Picture.
Despite being all anyone could seemingly talk about for 24 hours, the ratings were lower than the previous year, with just 32.9 million tuning in. Overall, there was a 3% overall year-on-year drop and 13% drop among 18-49 years, the most coveted demographic.
Unfortunately, the drop in ratings marks the lowest ratings for the ceremony since 2008 when No Country for Old Men took the top award.
The 2017 ceremony was met with relatively positive reviews, Jimmy Kimmel putting on a good show. Before the ceremony, Republicans were calling for viewers to boycott the awards due to the inevitable anti-Donald Trump sentiment that would no doubt be prevalent throughout.
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As of late March, addons.mozilla.org (AMO) has around 2,000 listed add-ons built with WebExtensions APIs, the new cross-browser standard for writing add-ons. Average daily installs for them total more than 5,000,000. That’s nice momentum as we hurtle towards the Firefox 57 release.
Volume aside, I continue to be impressed with the quality of content emerging…
Smart HTTPS (revived) is the WebExtensions version of one of my favorite yet simple security add-ons—it changes HTTP addresses to the secure HTTPS. Disconnect for Facebook (WebExtension) is another fine privacy tool that prevents Facebook from tracking your Web movement by blocking all Facebook related requests sent between third-party sites.
While we’re talking Facebook, you know what annoys me? Facebook’s “suggested posts” (for some reason I get served a lot of “suggested” content that implies I may have a fatty liver). Kick Facebook Suggested Posts puts an end to that nonsense.
History Cleaner conveniently wipes away your browsing history after a set amount of time, while History Zebra features white and black lists to manage specific sites you want to appear (or not) in your browsing history.
Don’t Touch My Tabs! protects against hyperlinks that try to hijack your previous tab. In other words, when you typically click a link, it grants the new page control over the one you clicked from, which is maybe not-so awesome for a number of reasons, like reloading the page with intrusive ads, or hackers throwing up a fake login to phish your info.
Speaking of tabs, I dig Tab Auto Refresh because I follow a couple of breaking news sites, so with this add-on I set certain tabs to refresh at specific time intervals, then I just click over every so often to catch the latest.
Tabzen is another dynamic tab tool that treats tab management in a familiar bookmarking fashion.
Turn any Reddit page into literally the darkest corner of the Web with dark page themer Reddit Slate Night 2.0 (while we’re on the Reddit tip, this comment collapser presents a compelling alternate layout for perusing conversations).
Dark Mode turns the entire internet goth.
Link Cleaner removes extraneous guck from your URLs, including tracking parameters from commerce sites Amazon and AliExpress.
These are awesome add-ons from very creative developers! It’s great to see such diverse, interesting WebExtensions crop up.
If you’re a developer of a legacy add-on or Chrome extension and want more info about the WebExtensions porting process, this should help. Or if you’re interested in writing a WebExtension from scratch, check this out. | 1,265,758 |
An article by John Doerr had a great quote from technology luminary Alan Kay that every entrepreneur needs to remember “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
I’m working with a company that at one point had a product that was not only best in class, but also technically far ahead of its competition. It created a better way of offering its service and customers loved it and paid for it. Then it made a fatal mistake. It asked its customers what features they wanted to see in the product and they delivered on those features. Unfortunately for this company, its competitors didn’t ask customers what they wanted. Instead, they had a vision of ways that business could be done differently and as a result better. Customers didn’t really see the value or need, until they saw the product. When they tried it, they loved it.
So what did my company do when they saw what their competitor had done? They repeated their mistake and once again asked their customers what they wanted in the product. Of course the customer responded with features that they now loved from the other product.
They didn’t improve their competitive positioning. They put themselves in a never ending revolving door of trying to respond to customer requests. To make matters worse, resources and brainpower that could be applied to “inventing the future” were instead being used to catch up with features that locked them into the past.
Entrepreneurs always need to be reminded that its not the job of their customers to know what they don’t know. In other words, your customers have a tough enough time doing their jobs. They don’t spend time trying to reinvent their industries or how their jobs are performed. Sure, every now and then you come across an exception. But you can’t bet the company on your finding that person at one of your customers.
Instead, part of every entrepreneurs job is to invent the future. I also call it “kicking your own ass”. Someone is out there looking to put you out of business. Someone is always out there who thinks they have a better idea than you have. A better solution than you have. A better or more efficient product than you have. If there is someone out there who can “kick your ass” by doing it better, its part of your job as the owner of the company to stay ahead of them and “kick your own ass” before someone else does.
Your customers can tell you the things that are broken and how they want to be made happen. Listen to them. Make them happy. But they won’t create the future roadmap for your product or service. That’s your job.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Words that should always be part of your product or service planning. | 1,265,759 |
The Forbidden Planet
If there’s a short list for extrasolar planets to visit, 55 Cancri e is definitely not going to be on it. It’s hot, hellish, and weird…really weird.
As our instruments become more sophisticated, we’re beginning to learn much more about distant alien planets than merely their size and mass. And the exoplanet catalogue is turning out to be an aquarium full of oddballs, indeed.
The most recent discovery involves 55 Cancri e, a “super Earth” in a system located some 40 light years away. The planet, also known as “Janssen,” is about twice the size of the Earth and eight times its mass; it completes an orbit every 18 hours, and—like the Moon—is tidally locked, always presenting the same face to its parent star (just as the Moon always presents the same side to Earth).
Now, using NASA’s infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have managed to cobble together a thermal “map” of surface conditions on the planet. It’s a milestone achievement, because now we can put together a detailed census of what’s really out there.
The Two Faces of Janssen
The planet turns out to have two faces—one “hot” and one “cold.” But these are relative terms, you understand. Because the nightside is 1100° C (2012° F), hotter than the melting point of many familiar metals; and the dayside is a whopping 2500° C (4532° F), which is…well, it’s just really hot.
Venus, the hottest planet in our solar system, and with a surface temperature of just 462° C (864° F), seems positively arctic in comparison.
Astronomers think the dayside is an immense, molten ocean of magma; the nightside, in contrast, seems to be composed of cooled, solid lava. It’s a strange dichotomy, and even stranger because the dayside heat is not communicated to the nightside. The atmosphere, it seems, is being boiled off on the sunward hemisphere, but some remnant of it must cling to the nightside.
That’s consistent with a recent analysis of the planet’s atmosphere, which suggests it does have one, and that it’s mostly hydrogen and helium, infused with hydrogen cyanide (and other weird carbon species).
The bottom line is—55 Cancri e is one hell of a place, and it’s showing us just how bizarre these “super Earths” (which seem to be quite common) really are. Which makes you appreciate our plain, homely old “regular Earth” that much more. | 1,265,760 |
Hey everyone. I know things have been quite the last few days, but don’t worry, we’re still here. I wanted to give everyone a heads up on what to expect over the next few days.
Also, we’re going to plug our FPL fantasy league and give you the code to join. All after the break!
KFC’s new Fantasy Premier League…League.
OK, so this might be a bit of a stretch, but we dropped the KFC from the public league title this season. Mistake? Maybe, but we’re trying to give a little more exposure to the r/FantasyMLS subreddit. If we don’t like it, we’ll bring it back next season. But enough chatter, you came here for league codes, so here are the auto-join links:
Official KFC FPL League: r/FantasyMLS vs r/FantasyPL
Official KFC Head to Head League: r/FantasyMLS H2H
Since we had several members from r/FantasyPL join our KFC MSL league this season, we wanted to give them some props in our league this season and maybe generate some friendly rivalry. So feel free to visit r/FantasyPL if you are looking for some tips and check out their leagues too.
Don’t worry I’m going to see if I can dig up some prizes for this too. Oh did I mention that I’m trying to get some prizes for the KFC MLS league? Well… I’m trying to get some prizes. Don’t expect anything big. It may just be some certificates and maybe something a little extra for the winner. Bragging rights are still priceless right?
Coming soon this week!
So here’s my plan for this week. Tomorrow will be the updated form charts. Thursday’s plan is to send out another Player Roundup like last week. Friday will be captain picks. Sound good? I hope so because that’s all I got.
Final Thoughts
We’re really excited about the FPL season starting back, but we’re not going to be crating content like we did for MLS. There are just too many great sights already established. So we’ll be focusing on our team and out league and just giving some highlights through the season.
But that’s after MLS ends! So until then, we’ll keep creating out content for MLS and doing what we can to give people as much of an edge as we can. The KFC league is the 6th best scoring league in all of FMLS, and we’re very proud of that and for all the people who joined out league and made that possible. | 1,265,761 |
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What’s missing from the daily rat-a-tat of charges on what Rupert Murdoch’s minions did and did not do is the larger picture of his business practices, into which the UK hacking fits rather neatly.
A new example that sheds light—and brings the United States into the picture—involves a Murdoch unit’s mafia-style tactics with another company. And it also involves hacking. But not just hacking.
This particular story, reported by Bloomberg, dates back to 1999, when a Murdoch company, News America Marketing, sought to buy Floorgraphics, a New Jersey firm that sold floor advertising in grocery stores. Floorgraphics did not want to sell. And that’s when News America began what Floorgraphics executives characterize as a campaign of spreading lies about the company to clients and otherwise seeking to damage its business.
In 2004, right at the moment that Floorgraphics was competing with News America for a “critically important” contract with the giant grocery outfit Safeway, its computers were hacked. News America won. A Floorgraphics executive contends that the Murdoch firm was able to prevail by using “comprehensive” financial data stored on Floorgraphics’ website.
When Floorgraphics discovered the breach, it contacted News America’s chief financial officer. The Murdoch company did not respond. However, years later, at a 2009 civil trial over the hacking, News America admitted that its computers had been used for the hacking. It said it did not know who was responsible, and, in a later statement, the company said that “News America Marketing condemns such conduct, which is in violation of the standards of our company.”
There’s an eerie similarity to the situation in Britain, where, once again, people working for Murdoch were taking illegal actions advantageous to his interests, and where his company disclaimed all knowledge.
With the FBI already in the picture looking at the possibility that the voicemail of 9/11 victims was hacked, this story adds yet another substantial wrinkle. It also raises the possibility that US law enforcement could find the makings of a larger RICO case— i.e. a broader conspiracy to commit criminal acts.
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This is what I'm calling the "Ultimate" Miter Saw Station. It fills all of my needs and is substantial enough to drastically increase organization and efficiency in my shop. The station has the following features:
Roughly 106" of stop block capacity to the left of the blade.
More than 4' of material support on the right of the blade so a full 8' board can be placed on the right side without it tipping over to the floor.
20 drawers with full extension 24" drawer slides. Two extra large drawers for larger items that can support twice the weight. And one 26" pull out tray to house my planer when not in use.
Openings below to store a trash can and my air compressor.
12" sliding miter saw with integrated dust collection.
Total length of 14' 9".
Quick access bins above the drawer storage for commonly used items like my cordless tools and items that don't need protection from dust.
Shelf on top for storing whatever.
Custom CNC Detroit Redwings drawer pulls (GO WINGS!!)
I'll walk you through the building process with this instructable to give you the overall process of building it. For those interested in the specifics of every dimension and cut I do have plans available. The following is a rough list for materials:
15 sheets of plywood.
23 pair of 24" full extension drawer slides.
One pair of 26" full extension drawer slides.
Dust collection port.
23 drawer pulls.
8' of t-track.
A LOT of 1-1/4" pocket hole screws
Miscellaneous hardware for the stop block and leveling feet.
A rough list of tools to complete this project:
Drill.
Table saw or a circular saw with a guide track.
Miter Saw.
Pocket hole jig of any kind. Alternatively you could use butt joints. I prefer to use pocket holes for cabinetry like this.
It's obvious that this is a rather large project. Due to it's size I had to break the build up into four phases. I made a video for each phase so they will be included in this instructable. The four phases are:
The cabinet carcasses and work surface. Building and installing the drawers. Drawer fronts and storage bins. Stop block system.
You may see the quality of images change a bit in this build. I used a few different cameras and lenses and I didn't care too much about the color balance between cameras.
Using power tools incorrectly can be dangerous. If you are at all uncomfortable doing something don't do it. You can walk with a wooden leg and hold things with a wooden hand but you can't see with a wooden eye. Wear your safety glasses. | 1,265,763 |
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Philippe Coutinho's agent, Kia Joorabchian, has played down talk of a return to former club Liverpool for the Brazilian and said that such a transfer would be a "very difficult deal."
Joorabchian spoke to Jim White at TalkSport (h/t Joe Moore) and said the Reds have a "tremendous squad" which would make it tough for the Brazilian to return to Anfield.
"So with the build-up they've done and the squad they have, it [signing Coutinho] would really have to be something they would have to decide whether or not they feel there is now a current gap in the squad for someone like Philippe.
"I think it's going to be a very difficult deal, but most of the big ones are always very, very difficult. Obviously, if he were to move back [to the Premier League], it would have to be Liverpool, but at the moment I think it would be difficult and it would be up to them."
Joorabchian also said Barcelona have "no intention of selling" Coutinho, and he believes it would be almost impossible for him to join Manchester United:
Coutinho has won the Copa del Rey and La Liga twice since joining Barcelona in January 2018. However, he has struggled to make an impact at the Camp Nou, which has prompted speculation the club could be willing to cash in on the 27-year-old already.
The Brazilian has said he did not have the season he was hoping for at the Camp Nou last time out:
Football writer Joel Rabinowitz highlighted Coutinho's decline in productivity:
Barcelona have added to their attacking options over the summer by bringing in Antoine Griezmann. The Frenchman's arrival means Coutinho will face increased competition for a place in the starting XI.
Ousmane Dembele has also returned to full fitness for Ernesto Valverde's side:
The Barcelona boss also has Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Malcom in his squad and faces a struggle trying to keep all of his attackers happy and seeing enough game time.
The Spanish champions are also being linked with a move for former star Neymar. His arrival at the club could see Coutinho head to Paris Saint-Germain as part of the deal, according to Sport's Toni Frieros.
There is a growing sense that Barcelona would be willing to sell Coutinho if they received an acceptable offer and that a move away would be the best option for both the player and the club.
Joorabchian's comments suggest a return to the Premier League is unlikely for the Brazilian, and a switch to Paris Saint-Germain looks Coutinho's most likely destination if he is deemed surplus to requirements at Barca. | 1,265,764 |
Gloucester cheese-rolling veteran breaks all-time record Published duration 28 May 2018
media caption The race in which Chris Anderson bagged his 22nd double Gloucester
A champion cheese-roller has broken the all-time record for the most cheeses won in Gloucestershire's death-defying races.
Chris Anderson has now taken home a total of 22 double Gloucester cheeses in 14 years, after chasing the hefty 8lb (3.6kg) cheeses down Cooper's Hill.
The 30-year-old broke the record held by Stephen Gyde after winning the first of this year's men's downhill races.
Mr Anderson said: "I've got nothing to prove now, I'm happy."
image copyright PA image caption Chris Anderson has suffered a broken ankle, "quite bad concussion" and bruised kidneys over the 14 years he has competed
image copyright PA image caption Heavy rain over the past few days made the steep hill very wet and muddy both for competitors and the thousands of spectators who had turned out to watch
Thousands of spectators turned out to watch thrill-seekers hurl themselves down the 1:2 gradient, chasing wheels of double Gloucester cheese.
In the first men's downhill race, Mr Anderson left other daredevils trailing in his wake as he sprinted, tripped and tumbled down the rough, uneven hillside chasing the 70mph cheese.
"There was a bit more pressure this year as there was a few more locals running," he said, after the race.
"And the kid next to me was pulling my shirt all the way down.
"But I'm happy, I've got nothing to prove now."
image copyright PA image caption Nathan Anstey, from Australia, said the crowd "absolutely loved" his risqué "budgie smuggler" swimming trucks
A soldier with 1 Rifles, Mr Anderson skipped the second men's race but won again in the third race tearing his left calf as he charged downhill.
And his reward - as with all winners - is to take the cheeses home with him despite only liking cheddar.
Among the competitors this year was Australian Nathan Anstey, 30, from Melbourne, who took part wearing just a pair of "budgie smuggler" swimming trunks.
Mr Anstey, who is known as Mangoes, said it was "just unbelievable".
"Last year was the first time I did it and I knew I had to come back. It's a no-brainer," he said.
"It's the most exhilarating thing you can do."
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A Visual Glossary of Religious Symbols
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There is an understanding between Ankara and Brussels that the nations of the European Union (EU) will agree to “quotas” of a quarter-million migrants a year directly from Turkey, claims a German Sunday paper.
The report states there is a clearly understood but little-discussed agreement between the governments of Turkey and the EU over migrant quotas, with so-called ‘refugees’ being flown directly from Asia Minor to their new European homes.
While media coverage of the agreement has mainly focussed on the deportation of migrants from Greece back to Turkey, and the payment of potentially several billion euros to Ankara in compensation, there has been less coverage of migrants being sent from Turkey to Europe. At a rate of 250,000 a year, it seems likely under the agreement Europe may receive more ‘official’ migrants than it is able to send back.
Despite the lack of public understanding of this side of the deal, the mass movement of migrants to Europe is now getting underway and is expected to be in full-swing shortly. Speaking to Welt am Sonntag, Gerald Knaus of the European Stability Initiative said of the ‘understanding’ over migrant numbers: “The Turkish side expects the Europeans to begin taking about 250,000 Syrians a year in a few weeks so”.
The report says this figure has not been set on paper, but rather has been agreed verbally between the two parties. Mr. Knaus said the EU expected the free flow of migrants across the Mediterranean from Turkey to Greece would be expected to end before the deal kicked in, but presently there seems little evidence of that happening as thousands continue to turn up on the Greek islands.
Once the migrants have been flown into Europe from Turkey, the continental power bloc plans to redistribute them ‘fairly’ internally. This, Mr. Knaus likens to “running before you can walk” and “incomprehensible”, given the EU’s inability to get agreement on migrant policy from its diverse member states.
While the so-called “coalition of the willing” — nations like Germany and Sweden — are happy to accept yet more migrants, a growing group of Eastern European states are proving reticent. Breitbart London reported this week on Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán, who said he was declaring “war against Brussels” and European migrant politics.
Announcing he was going to be travelling around European capitals to find other states to help him resist the migrant invasion, one has already rallied to the flag — conservative Poland. Hungary Today reports Poland is to support Hungary’s lawsuit at the European Court of Justice against the migrant relocation scheme.
Justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro said: “We are of the opinion that Hungary’s complaint is well-founded”. | 1,265,767 |
A Virginia Tech student tries to get the Seattle band to send a taped shout-out, perhaps unaware of music history.
On July 23, 2013, Sub Pop Records posted this tweet: "We received a letter in our mailbag asking Nirvana to send a video to support a campaign bid for homecoming queen."
On the label's site is said letter from a Virginia Polytechnic and State University student whose name has been redacted, which said, in part: "As a homecoming candidate, we [sic] were wondering if Nirvana would send a quick video to us that we could include in our video collage to widely distribute to our 30,000+ students during Homecoming Week.... It presents great publicity for them, and as Virginia Tech loves Nirvana, we'd love to have her [sic] in our video." (Read it in its entirety below.)
There are so many things absurdly wrong about this letter, we don't know where to start. Besides the sheer hilarity of a note asking for the no-longer-a-band band to take time out of what would have been an insanely packed schedule to yell into their iPhones, "Let's go Hokies!," there's the gender gaffe (does this person think Kurt Cobain, who died in 1994, is a girl?) and the inconceivable carrots dangled to entice the rockers: the presence of fellow "artists" Big N Rich, Ying Yang Twins, the Cataracs, Slightly Stoopid, and "three famous NFL Players." Three of them!
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All the band has to do is say, "What's up Virginia Tech? This is Nirvana! We just wanted to wish you guys a Happy Homecoming Week and good luck at the game this Saturday. LET'S GO HOKIES!"
Perhaps surviving Nirvana members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, who recently joined Paul McCartney onstage in Seattle to play several Beatles classics, could, er, get back to 1991 and submit the riotous, cheerleader-laced "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video instead.
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"iPhone videos are actually great," suggests the would-be homecoming queen. In 1992, they would have been downright revolutionary.
Sub Pop, the Seattle-based label that first signed the band, "dressed up and obliged," according to a post on its tumblr promising to stick to the script, "'LET’S GO HOAGIES!' Or something like that."
Clueless or not, we have to give this person credit: This surely smells like team spirit. Rah rah rock.
Watch Sub Pop's video below:
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The group seeking to overturn the 15-year-old ban on the International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF) said its campaign for ‘Khalistan’ had received a “massive boost” after decks were cleared on Thursday to remove ISYF from the list of proscribed organisations in Britain.
After the House of Commons approved the Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2016 on Tuesday, the House of Lords also approved the government motion on Thursday, enabling the lifting of the ban on Friday.
Home secretary Theresa May is expected to sign the order lifting the ban on Friday.
Moving the motion in the House of Lords, minister of state in the home office Michael Bates said: “Having reviewed, with other countries, what information is available about the current activities of the ISYF and after careful and appropriate consideration, the Home Secretary concluded that there is not sufficient evidence to support a reasonable belief that the ISYF is currently concerned with terrorism, as defined by section 3(5) of the Terrorism Act 2000”.
ISYF, which was previously engaged in attacks against india and Indian interests, was banned in Britain in 2001. The ISYF was launched in 1984 in Britain as the international branch of the All India Sikh Students Federation.
Bhai Amrik Singh, chair of the Sikh Federation (UK) that campaigned to overturn the ban, said after the motion was approved in the House of Lords: “We are delighted at the unanimous verdict in the House of Commons and Lords that has resulted in the lifting of the ban.”
“The Sikh Federation (UK) and the Sikh community has always maintained for the last 15 years that the ISYF as an organisation has never been involved with terrorism…We feel we have been vindicated, there is nothing wrong with peacefully campaigning for an independent Sikh homeland, Khalistan”.
“The ban on the ISYF in the UK alone in 2001 was politically motivated and almost certainly more to do with appeasing the Indian authorities. This is what many UK politicians on all sides have told us, including ministers,” Singh said.
The Home Office said: “The government does not condone any terrorist activity. Deproscription of a proscribed group should not be interpreted as condoning any previous activities of that group. The British Government has always been clear that the ISYF was a brutal terrorist organisation.”
Bates denied in the House of Lords that the ban on ISYF was continued for so long since 2001 due to “diplomatic pressure from India”. He said other countries were “engaged” before arriving at the decision to “de-proscribe” the ISYF.
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Updated: Jan 05, 2019 08:53 IST
The Congress on Friday said a purported Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) circular of December 31 had vindicated the party’s position in the Associated Journals Limited (AJL) case pending before the Supreme Court, and exposed the government’s intention to mislead the judiciary and make fake cases against its political rivals.
AJL is the publisher of National Herald newspaper, a mouthpiece of the Congress party, and party president Rahul Gandhi and his mother and predecessor Sonia Gandhi are among the accused in a case related to alleged financial regularities.
Last month, a Delhi high court bench said the manner in which a company named Young Indian (YI) had acquired 99% of the shares of AJL was “questionable”. Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi are majority shareholders in YI.
In the circular, CBDT had clarified that the provisions of Section 56(2)(vii)(a) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 shall not be applicable in cases of receipt of shares by a specified company as a result of fresh issuance of sharest.
“We welcome the latest CBDT circular dated December 31. This vindicates our position that there never was an issue about issuance of such shares as a taxable event as it was being projected by way of harassment,” Congress’ legal department chairman Vivek Tankha said. The clarification, according to Tankha, shows that a HC verdict reopening the AJL case waswrong. He added that fresh facts will be placed before the Supreme Court now.
“We thank the CBDT for this clarification,” he told reporters.
According to a person in the revenue department, the CBDT had issued an internal circular on December 31, 2018 that clarified section 56(2)(viia) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 for issuance of shares by a company in which the public is not substantially invested.
The section is related to the prevention of laundering of income under the garb of gifts.
“The particular section provides for taxation of income where a company in which public are not substantially interested or a firm receives sharers of a specified company from a person for no or inadequate consideration,” the circular read. The person in the revenue department, who requested anonymity, said, “This appears to be an internal circular issued for clarity. Its interpretation by the Congress may not be correct.” The person declined to elaborate, saying the subject matter was “subjudice”.
Tax expert and chartered account Satyendra Jain clarified the legal position. “If the company has directly issued its shares at a discount to its book value then the section will not be applicable. If a shareholder transfers or sells shares to another person then the section is applicable”. | 1,265,770 |
The innovative hybrid blockchain and Ecommerce platform Elysian is now being marketed on the LAToken platform. LAToken will be effectively marketing the Elysian project through various techniques, including a press release and articles, to increase awareness to one of the more anticipated blockchain projects this year.
Elysian is a decentralized Ecommerce platform that operates on the blockchain to solve inherent issues in the Ecommerce industry, primarily security and user experience. The project uses Ethereum’s private side-chain for Proof-of-Authority consensus to distribute data across a private network to prevent a single access point for malicious actors. This aspect is beneficial in creating trust between merchants and consumers in an industry where it is mandatory. This feature is lucrative to both the blockchain and Ecommerce user base in comparison to Elysian’s off-chain competitors, Shopify, Woocommerce, and Magento.
In addition, the project has a practical solution to solve the issue of sub-par user experience that plagues Ecommerce. Many websites in the industry strictly are concerned about revenue as opposed to user engagement, and high bounce rates reflect this. Elysian proposes an innovative method to lower the bounce rate and improve both user engagement and website navigation through the implementation of both Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality. The integration of these two technological advancements into the Elysian ecosystem serves as the foundation for improved user activity, performance, and satisfaction. Consequently, bounce rates will lower significantly and revenue will rise.
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The collaboration between these two platforms serves as a foundation for project growth for both parties. LAToken has proven to be a successful platform in the blockchain industry, and Elysian has arguably the project with the most potential of 2018 because of its hybrid connection with the Ecommerce industry, as opposed to the majority of projects in this space that can only offer blockchain-related services. This a smart strategic move for both projects and provides a lucrative opportunity to build a flourishing long-term partnership. | 1,265,771 |
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Google suffered a brief outage and slowdown on Monday, with some of its traffic being rerouted through networks in Russia, China and Nigeria.
Incorrect routing instructions sent some of the search giant's traffic to Russian network operator TransTelekom, China Telecom and Nigerian provider MainOne between 1:00 p.m. and 2:23 p.m. PT, according to ThousandEyes, an internet research group.
"This incident at a minimum caused a massive denial of service to G Suite and Google Search," Ameet Naik, ThousandEyes' technical marketing manager, wrote in a blog post. "However, this also put valuable Google traffic in the hands of ISPs in countries with a long history of Internet surveillance.
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MainOne seems to have been at the heart of the problem, according to an Ars Technica report. The Lagos-based provider apparently conducted an update that incorrectly declared its that system was the proper path for millions of Google IP addresses.
The problematic update caused a chain reaction in which China Telecom and Russia's TransTelekom to improperly accepted the route
Nigeria's MainOne said Tuesday the outage was caused by "an error during a planned network upgrade."
We have investigated the advertisement of @Google prefixes through one of our upstream partners. This was an error during a planned network upgrade due to a misconfiguration on our BGP filters. The error was corrected within 74mins & processes put in place to avoid reoccurrence — MainOne (@Mainoneservice) November 13, 2018
"The error was corrected within 74mins & processes put in place to avoid reoccurrence," MainOne tweeted.
Google said the cause was incorrect IP address routing, but noted it had been resolved. The search giant said it would conduct an internal investigation.
"The root cause of the issue was external to Google," a spokesperson said in an email statement. "There was no compromise of Google services."
Applications such as Gmail and Google Drive don't appear to have been affected, but 9to5Google reported that YouTube users experienced some slowdown.
Google doesn't consider the incident was malicious, the company told The Wall Street Journal.
Facebook also suffered a 40-minute outage on Monday, but the social network attributed the interruption in service to "a routine test."
First published at 5:41 a.m. PT.
Update at 9:07 a.m. PT: Adds MainOne explanation.
Update at 10 a.m. PT: Explains MainOne's role.
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the right] to control, as in kill, as many of the boars [male bears] as possible because they would go after and kill the cubs. Well, we’ve been here for 14,500 years and we have long witnessed nature take its course with no issues. Their argument was just B.S.”
For years, the legally sanctioned hunting of grizzlies was the greatest source of the species’ mortality, with an average of 250 bears taken annually in British Columbia. Despite the recent bans, Willie says, many among his community fear that the relatively low trophy-hunting fines—of less than $500—won’t do enough to discourage the poaching of grizzlies. Willie believes such actions are not only abhorrent but also quite antithetical to the nature of the majestic animals. He adds that he regularly witnesses acts of brotherly love, communication, and protection among grizzlies.
“Brothers Andy and Roy are roughly the same age,” he says, citing recent evidence of such. “Roy has never been good at fishing and was noticeably losing weight. Discouraged, Roy was walking away from the river recently, when I saw Andy corner a fish against a rock. Roy turned suddenly, ran to Andy, grabbed the salmon and disappeared into the woods. Obviously Andy had called out. When visitors see something like this, they realize how bears have feelings, that they are emotional beings. My people have always thought of them like they are part of us. This is why I call them persons—they are our ancestors.”
"Bears have feelings; they are emotional beings. My people have always thought of them like they are part of us. This is why I call them persons—they are our ancestors.”
Seawolf Adventures is the only Indigenous tourism company in the southern Great Bear Rainforest area and has earned status as a Canadian Signature Experience, the highest tourism designation in the country. Willie hires his own family in an attempt to build work opportunities and foster cultural awareness among his community’s youth. Guests typically put in a 10-hour day, viewing wildlife, learning about Indigenous culture and ancient customs, and even stopping off at historic villages. He says guests consistently consider bear viewing the highlight, always departing as “friends and allies” of the bears.
“Our relationship with the bears has kind of come full circle,” Willie reflects. “We worked as their protectors for generations, and now they are providing us with our livelihood. That said, they have always taught us, showing what berries and vegetation we could eat and even how certain pine tar provides protection after getting cut. Like us, they harvest on the beach every spring, helping each other find precious nourishment. They may not stand right beside each other, but the feeling of family is unmistakable.” | 1,265,773 |
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The Dutch 10 Guilder coin has four basic obverse designs, each featuring a different monarch of the Netherlands. The earliest versions display King Willem III, while later editions display Queen Wilhelmina. In total there are three different likenesses of Queen Wilhelmina; she reigned for many decades and the Royal Dutch Mint updated her portrait on numerous occasions.
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While the obverse motif varied a bit year to year, the 10 Guilder’s reverse design remained relatively constant over the decades. The coin’s back side featured the country’s coat of arms in the center surrounded by the denomination “10 G.” The inscription “KONINGRIJK DER NEDERLANDEN” or “KINGDOM OF NETHERLANDS” appears at the periphery.
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For many centuries, the Netherlands was a global economic powerhouse. The Dutch Empire extended across five continents and included some of the world’s most valuable territories. Their acquisitions were not merely random; the Dutch specifically targeted land with rich natural resources and strategic locations. Thanks to the country’s global reach, the currency of the Netherlands became known and accepted across the planet. The Dutch 10 Guilder coin, containing 0.1947 ounces of pure gold, was used to consummate business throughout the world.
The last 10 Guilder coins were struck in 1933, when the Netherlands was suffering the effects of the Great Depression. It was actually one of the last European countries to suspend production of circulating gold coins. France and Germany discontinued their gold coins around World War I, and England temporarily halted the sovereign in 1932. Although the 10 Guilder vanished from circulation over half a century ago, it has since found a new role as a bullion coin.
Dutch 10 Guilders are a popular way of owning bullion in a low-cost, divisible, and highly collectible form. They offer the convenient size of a fractional gold piece combined with the numismatic appeal of a vintage gold coin. Despite these advantages, 10 Guilders are often priced at a low margin over their melt value.
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the second out of the seventh. “I had a small window where I could see who was warming. It was him. I thought, ‘Oh, let’s [expletive] go.’ ”
Scherzer came out firing 99 mph fastballs. He later called it “adrenaline” rather than emptying the tank for the single inning. He struck out rookie Gavin Lux with a back-foot cutter. He got Chris Taylor swinging at a slider below the zone. He then set down Joc Pederson on three pitches, the last one a cutter, and made it seem like he could go one more.
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But Martinez and Scherzer thought ahead. The manager had already used Doolittle earlier than he had all season. He already plugged Scherzer into the eighth. He finally reached for some normalcy, calling down for Hudson for the ninth, and Scherzer agreed with a Game 3 start still in play. The other option is pitching Aníbal Sánchez for the first time since Sept. 25.
“If I were to go out there and pitch the ninth, it would really be taxing, given the situation and the moment,” Scherzer said. “That could hinder how effective I could be in the future, considering everything at play. We have Huddy. Huddy is a closer. Let him close.”
Hudson allowed a leadoff double to Justin Turner. He rebounded to strike out A.J. Pollock on a full-count slider. He recorded the second out when Anthony Rendon made a falling-down catch along the left field line. But then Martinez intentionally walked Max Muncy to set up a righty-righty matchup with Will Smith. That put the tying run on base with two outs. That was playing with fire and gasoline. Then Hudson walked Smith, on four pitches, and this had all the makings of another bullpen disaster.
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Catcher Kurt Suzuki visited Hudson once to make sure Turner wasn’t stealing signs from second base. He came again after Hudson threw ball four to Smith. Then he came again while Corey Seager battled Hudson, fouling off five four-seam fastballs at 96 mph or faster, to ask what Hudson wanted to throw for the kill. Suzuki suggested a fastball or change-up. Hudson had yanked three sliders against Smith that weren’t close to the zone. But Hudson wanted to throw a slider on the plate once the fastball was imprinted in Seager’s brain.
And once he did, once Seager swung and missed, once Hudson was screaming in front of the mound and the stadium fell into a hush, the creative and crazy plan was complete. The series was tied. The Nationals gave themselves a chance. | 1,265,775 |
Syrian army shelling of a mosque in the central city of Homs killed a prominent cleric Friday, while rebels in Aleppo to the north made a fresh advance, a monitoring group said.
"Two people were killed in shelling by regime troops of the Raees mosque in the Waar neighborhood" of Homs city, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The group's director Rami Abdel Rahman said one of those killed was Sufwan Mashraqa, a Sunni Muslim cleric who was leading Friday prayers in the mosque.
Mashraqa was a former head of the city's department for religious affairs.
Amateur video distributed by activists showed the cleric giving a sermon. When the sound of shelling begins, scores of worshipers are overtaken by panic.
Waar is a majority Sunni district of Homs and is located near a small section of the city still under rebel control.
It has become home to tens of thousands of people who have fled other parts of the city. Waar sees daily fighting and shelling.
Elsewhere in Syria, rebels battling to topple President Bashar Assad made a fresh advance in Aleppo, taking control of Kindi hospital in the north of the city, said the Observatory.
"We have confirmed reports that the Islamists and the (al-Qaida-affiliated) Al-Nusra Front have taken near-total control of the Kindi hospital, and that they killed at least 20 regular troops there," said Abdel Rahman.
The fighters have also taken some 30 regulars prisoner, he added.
The takeover came after "two Al-Nusra Front fighters detonated themselves at checkpoints guarding the facility", he told Agence France Presse.
Once a hospital, the facility was turned into a base for Assad loyalist troops several months ago.
Speaking to AFP via the Internet, Abu Omar said "it gives fighters in the north of the city easier access to the nearby countryside."
Shahba Press, a network of citizen journalists in Aleppo, said the takeover "comes a year into a (rebel) siege" of the hospital.
The advance comes days into what activists have described as an "unprecedented" bombing campaign on Aleppo's city and province.
On Friday, air raids struck several villages in the countryside. Dozens were killed in raids over Aleppo in the past week.
In southern Syria's Jassem, meanwhile, the number of people killed from a Thursday aerial attack using TNT-packed crude barrels has risen to 17, including four children, said the Observatory.
Near Damascus, fresh fighting broke out in Maalula, an ancient Christian town located in the Qalamoun mountains.
The fighting pitted rebels and al-Qaida-linked jihadists against troops backed by paramilitary fighters.
More than 126,000 people have been killed in Syria's war since March 2011, and millions more forced to flee their homes. | 1,265,776 |
The sight of an "extremely rare" albino green turtle on Sunshine Coast's Castaways Beach this week has left onlookers stunned.
The tiny baby turtle, about five centimetres across, was found by environmental volunteer group Coolum and North Shore Coast Care.
President Linda Warneminde said she was shocked at the "pink-eyed, snow white" turtle left in what she thought was an empty nest.
"It looked like a normal turtle hatchling, except that it had a white shell and it had little white flippers, and you could see a little bit of pink under its flippers," she said.
"None of us had ever experienced or seen anything like that before, so we were all a little bit taken aback."
Ms Warneminde and a number of other volunteers were surveying the nest, which had already hatched two days earlier, when they uncovered the little white hatchling lying on its back.
"On Friday we had a green turtle nest that was laid at Castaways Beach," she said.
"Two days later we went to go and dig up the nest and count the empty shells for the data for Queensland research."
Very rare turtle with poor survival rate
The Queensland's Government's Threatened Species Unit chief scientist, Dr Col Limpus, said the volunteers were right to be shocked as the sighting was very rare.
An albino turtle with red eyes is measured by local turtle volunteers ( Contributed: Jayne Walton )
"Albino hatchlings are extremely rare; it probably occurs at the rate of one in many hundreds of thousands of eggs that are laid," he said.
Dr Limpus said in his 50 years of work with turtles, he was yet to see a record of an albino as a nesting turtle anywhere in the world, which suggested to him that they had a low survival rate.
"Normally they don't survive coming out of the nest and when they do they're abnormal and not well suited to the environment, which means the chance of survival is very slim," he said.
Ms Warneminde said the survival rate of all green turtles was already very low.
"In normal hatchlings there's one in 1,000 that reaches maturity," she said.
She said turtles from Queensland's coast travelled all the way to Chile, in South America.
"They get in the great eastern current so they have a whole lot of threats that face them, not just predators but plastic debris, and fishing in Chile," Ms Warneminde said.
But Dr Limpus said that the survival of albino turtles was even lower.
"They're not particularly suited with colour patterns that would blend and camouflage within the environment and they're more likely to be taken by predators," he said. | 1,265,777 |
points is that we need to reduce our meat consumption. That’s very important in all of this: (per capita) meat consumption today is about 170 pounds of meat per year in the U.S. That’s not including fish, eggs or milk. If we include all of these it becomes around 300 or so pounds a year. It’s extremely unsustainable. It’s unprecedented, such an extreme demand for meat being supplied on a daily basis. It’s inhumane, it’s unsustainable, and it’s also unnecessary.
Some people ask me if I’m saying that everybody should be a vegetarian or vegan. It’s not a dichotomy. My answer is that everybody can reduce their meat consumption. If a family of four reduces their meat consumption by a quarter, that’s equal to one person being vegetarian. I’m not saying that everybody needs to be a vegetarian, but I am saying that everybody should do something, even if not everything. Reducing meat consumption and paying attention to where it’s being purchased from and how those animals are treated is very important.
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There’s one other thing that you call for at the end of the book: increasing gender diversity in farms. Why is that such an important component of reform?
I got that idea at the Mennonite women’s farm in Belize. In this family there were sons, but they didn’t want to work on the farm. So it was very much a women-run farm. It was extremely different from all the other places, because most of the other places I visited were managed and owned by men. Animal agriculture today is very much a male-dominated industry at both worker levels and senior levels. At senior levels, one out of every 15 to 20 executives is going to be a woman. I wrote a long article in The Atlantic a couple of years ago; some of that argument is also in the book. Essentially when it comes to animals and food, men and women are shown scientifically to have different thoughts and opinions. Women are more likely to favor legislation for animals. Women eat less meat. Women eat less fast food. Women pay more attention to food safety. Women are more likely to buy organic. There’s all this statistical data, not just in the U.S., but also in Europe and other countries that does show a difference between men and women and attitudes towards food and animals. Gender diversity is something that’s good in any field. Any field that’s male-dominated we’ve seen that it should have more women, whether we are talking about science, law, the police force. In agriculture it’s perhaps more, or at least as much, as in these areas because the attitudes and opinions toward animals and food issues do vary by gender. | 1,265,778 |
UPDATE: Andrew Breitbart spoke to Politico about ABC's decision to remove him from its Election Night coverage. Breitbart said that ABC had shown "cowardice" and had bowed to "left-wing pressure...they know they can do it at any time and any place and ABC will bow to pressure."
ORIGINAL POST: ABC News announced Tuesday that it is dropping controversial blogger Andrew Breitbart from its Election Night coverage.
The network announced late last week that Breitbart, who made headlines for his role in the Shirley Sherrod affair, would be a guest during its coverage of the midterm election results. After howls of protest from outside commentators and reports of dissension from within ABC's own newsroom, the network sought to make it clear that Breitbart would only appear in an online forum and would never be seen on any television broadcast.
In response, Breitbart posted internal emails sent to him by ABC producers on his website. He claimed that the emails showed that he would, in fact, be appearing on the air during the network's Election Night broadcast.
On Tuesday, ABC's executive producer for digital news, Andrew Morse, released a letter he had sent to Breitbart, informing him that he was being dropped from its coverage:
Dear Mr. Breitbart, We have spent the past several days trying to make clear to you your limited role as a participant in our digital town hall to be streamed on ABCNews.com and Facebook. The post on your blog last Friday created a widespread impression that you would be analyzing the election on ABC News. We made it as clear as possible as quickly as possible that you had been invited along with numerous others to participate in our digital town hall. Instead of clarifying your role, you posted a blog on Sunday evening in which you continued to claim a bigger role in our coverage. As we are still unable to agree on your role, we feel it best for you not to participate. Sincerely,
Andrew Morse
Liberal groups immediately cheered ABC's move. James Rucker, director of the African American political website ColorOfChange.org -- which, along with CREDO Action, sent a petition with 125,000 signatures to ABC and blanketed the network's offices with calls in protest of its initial decision to host Breitbart -- praised the reversal, saying in a statement that the network had "taken a giant step in helping to wash our collective hands of the fear mongering and race-baiting that have no place in our political discourse."
In another statement, David Brock, head of Media Matters -- which was the first to report that Breitbart would be ABC's guest -- said that he was "pleased that ABC finally came to its senses and realized that nothing good can come from associating in any way with Andrew Breitbart." Brock added that he was still confused about why ABC had decided to include Breitbart in its coverage in the first place, labeling him "poison."
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Affairs (DEFRA) is starting a consultation exercise on the policy issue.
There is this idea of a ‘Green Brexit’ which is about giving the environment a greater voice in this time of national renewal. The idea is that farmers would be paid for public goods.
“What we’ve assumed is the Pillar II agri environmental payments would stay at the current levels and then Pillar I direct payments are either maintained as they are now; or they are phased out over a period up to 2025.
“It seems like an extreme scenario; but it’s probably not far from the reality of where the trend wants things to go. They absolutely detest direct payments and they want rid of them as soon as possible.”
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At farm level, the research project – which draws on sample data from the UK equivalent of the Irish National Farm Survey for 2,800 commercial farms over a three-year period – examined potential impacts on farm business incomes under each of the three trade scenarios; plus, the loss of direct payments.
“For average farm incomes under a FTA, there will probably be an impact on farm business incomes. Under the WTO scenario, it is a positive; because it is a protectionist arrangement that would raise commodity prices in the UK.
The worst case scenario is the UFT arrangement. Exposing UK agriculture to this type of competitive force would suppress incomes quite substantially.
“The implications, particularly if you consider the removal of direct payments, are greater for the devolved administrations than they are for England.
“This is quiet ironic given Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain; yet farmers there could lose substantially, because English farms tend to be better diversified and there is less exposure to the sensitive sheep and beef sectors,” Dr. Wallace said.
By applying projected input costs and output prices, the research project found that higher earning farms – dairy, pigs and poultry – would gain most from a WTO scenario.
Meanwhile, focusing on Northern Ireland – under the UFT scenario – the research finds that 50% of farms would be worse off. Under a WTO scenario, dairy farmers would experience a boost.
However, without the Pillar I direct payments under CAP, the study projects that close to 85% of farms would lose money.
“The implications of that would be quite horrendous. Obviously these are extreme scenarios and we would expect levels of adjustment and conditioning; but, it shows the direction if such policies are implemented.
So summing up, would UK agriculture thrive or survive post-Brexit? The findings speak for themselves. Very high proportions are going to be worse off. The magnitude of some of the income loss is very, very dramatic.
“Certainly, under the UFT scenario close to 100% would be losing,” he concluded. | 1,265,780 |
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The world is taking Imran Khan as seriously as a tabby cat would a dead rat. Malay Prime Minister Mohamad Mahathir, who has accused the Indian Army of “invading and occupying the country of Kashmir”, heads a Muslim country which follows Pakistan in harbouring terrorists like Zakir Naik. But Islamic governments that matter—such as Saudi Arabia, which is investing billions in India—aren’t really worked up over India junking Article 370. So why is the Labour Party of the United Kingdom and its boss Jeremy Corbyn yelling for global intervention and UN inspections in Kashmir?
The answer: to protect its Muslim base. About 2.8 million Muslims live in Britain and pray in around 1,500 mosques, while the 2011 UK census counted 8,17,000 Hindus. In 2012, there were just 150 Hindu temples in the land. In the last election, the number of Muslim Labour MPs rose to 12 from nine. No other political party’s immigration, education and cultural policies have communally polarised Britain like Labour. From the Jews of antiquity to the Muslims of Armenia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, the persecuted immigrant is the tragic backstory of Western progress.
Often reviled and brutalised, they economically and culturally enrich their host nations. Ironically, it is the ugly, savage war within Islam that is driving millions of Muslims out of their countries to seek refuge in the West, whose values conflict with theirs. The real war of civilisations is between Islam’s cultural protectionism and Western mores. This social xenophobia has fundamentally changed the UK’s social and religious contours.
The Telegraph newspaper found that the number of British Christians has halved since 1983 while the Muslim population rose from one per cent in 1983 to six per cent in 2018. Many municipal councils in England have even rebranded Christmas as ‘Winterfest’ so as not to offend Muslims. The Muslim Council of Great Britain generously responded saying, “Who wants to ban Christmas? Not Muslims. None of us will be offended if you go ahead and enjoy the Christmas cheer.” One can almost hear Corbyn gratefully whispering, “Whew! Thank You.”
Labour’s philosophy is based on tolerance and liberal inclusion. But can Britain afford its humanism? Using a model which assumes median migration levels, Pew Research Centre concluded that the number of Muslims in Britain will triple from 4.1 million in 2016 to 13 million in 2050. London may have a Muslim mayor who twiddled his thumbs as Pakistanis vandalised the Indian High Commission.
But post the Brexit standoff, opinion polls predict a Tory victory. A YouGov/The Times survey in September gives Tories 32 per cent of the vote and Labour just 23 per cent. It seems Corbyn’s Kashmir rant would turn out to be just a mountain in labour. | 1,265,781 |
Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.
The focus this time: Gotta protect those emotionally fragile feelings!
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Once upon a time, a university student was an adult who was emotionally mature. Now, they need “happy badges” provided by a “happiness tsar”…
“Students feeling anxious in the approach to exam season will be given ‘happy badges’ by Britain’s first university ‘happiness tsar’. “The University of Buckingham said the system will be led by Cherry Coombe, whose role is to ‘help improve the working and learning environment’ by promoting mental well-being. “The badges, which look like traditional prefect badges but have the word ‘happiness’ written in gold, have so far been awarded to students who took part in a local parade through Buckingham and to staff whose actions ‘improved the work environment’.”
What better way to protect a fragile person’s gender identity than providing them with gender stickers that announce to the world what other must refer to them as.
“[At] Google’s annual developers conference i/o 2018 […] many are sharing on Twitter that attendees are being encouraged to wear ‘pronoun stickers.’ “ABC 7’s reporter Matt Keller posted a photo on Twitter of a station at the conference check-in with stickers reading ‘they,’ ‘him’ and ‘her’ and a sign reading, ‘We care about your pronouns. Add a sticker to your badge to share with others which ones you prefer.'”
Perhaps more scary to some than mis-gendering is… math textbooks!
“Maths [sic] textbooks should be banned because they intimidate pupils, a leading girls’ school headmistress has said. “Jane Prescott, head of Portsmouth High School said that students risk becoming anxious if they can see that their classmates are ‘galloping ahead’ of them. “The move has been a ‘confidence booster’ for girls, and allows them to ‘feel encouraged, and feel they are good at Maths [sic]’, Ms Prescott said. “‘Maths [sic] is about confidence. If you are someone who is nervous about Maths [sic], [textbooks] put you off,’ she told The Daily Telegraph. “If textbooks are taken away, students ‘are not in a situation where they feel everyone else is galloping ahead’, she added.”
TTFN.
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5:30 p.m. UPDATE: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has identified the stabbing victim in Wednesday’s riot as Hugo Pinell, 71.
Pinell first was sentenced to life with parole for rape with force in 1965. Six years later, he killed a correctional officer, earning him another life sentence.
He was also one of the San Quentin Six a group involved in a 1971 San Quentin Prison escape attempt that left six people dead. He was convicted of assualting two correction officers, earning him another life sentence. Guards said at the time that Pinell lured one of the guards killed in the escape by telling him he had a letter that needed mailed.
Pinell was last up for parole in 2009, but he was denied for a ninth time. In his previous attempts, the next wait would only be one to five years, but California voters passed Proposition 9, known as Marsy’s Law in 2008, which allowed the parole board to set his date for 2024.
“He was definitely the target,” California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Dana Simas said. She would not give more information about the alleged attacker for his own protection.
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REPRESA (CBS13/AP) – Authorities say there has been a deadly riot at California State Prison, Sacramento.
The fight involving about 70 maximum-security inmates began when one inmate attacked another, “and then everyone else joined in,” said Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Dana Simas. The riot at California State Prison, Sacramento, involved members of multiple prison gangs, she said.
Update on Deadly New Folsom Prison numbers: 1 inmate killed. 11 taken to area hospitals. 70 inmates involved. — stevelarge_cbs13 (@largesteven) August 12, 2015
One inmate was killed in the riot, while numerous others have been injured. The identity of the victim is being withheld until relatives are notified.
At least five inmates have suffered stab wounds.
The fight broke out in the general population yard. Guards used pepper spray and fired three warning shots with a rifle to bring prisoners under control. Guards say they were able to get a handle on the situation and round up weapons found in 20 minutes.
The El Dorado Hills Fire Department says they’re helping transport injured people to area hospitals.
Prisoners remained locked in their cells as officers investigate the disturbance.
The last major riot at Folsom Prison happened in September 2012. A total of 13 inmates were injured, including one shot by a corrections officer. Dozens of inmates were involved in the riot.
CSP-Sacramento — or New Folsom Prison, as it’s commonly known — houses 2,080 inmates, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation website. | 1,265,783 |
ARCH-RIVALS Richmond and Carlton have been locked in for the 2016 season-opener at the MCG on March 24, in a clash that will pit former Blues speedster Chris Yarran against his ex-teammates for the first time.
The traditional Thursday night contest on Good Friday eve will kick off an enticing opening round fixture as rookie senior coach Brendon Bolton takes charge of the rebuilding Blues for the first time.
Round one will finish with a bang on Easter Monday with the annual blockbuster between Geelong and three-time reigning premier Hawthorn.
The Cats will be out for revenge after suffering a 62-point humbling from the Hawks in the opening round of 2015, this time with superstar recruit Patrick Dangerfield alongside Joel Selwood in midfield.
The AFL has once again baulked at scheduling a clash on Good Friday, despite a strong push by North Melbourne to play in a feature match.
Instead, the Kangaroos will have the chance to make amends for their dismal 77-point defeat at Adelaide Oval against the Crows on Saturday.
This time North will host the Crows at Etihad Stadium in new coach Don Pyke's first game at the helm for Adelaide.
All eyes will be trained on a new-look Collingwood when the Magpies go head-to-head with the Sydney Swans at ANZ Stadium on Saturday night in a marquee meeting.
Earlier in the day, Melbourne will play host to Greater Western Sydney at the MCG and Essendon will hope to get off on the right foot under new coach John Worsfold when the Bombers travel to Gold Coast to take on the Suns.
On Easter Sunday, Fremantle will have its hands full replicating its fast start to 2015 with a first-up clash at the Western Bulldogs' home ground pressure-cooker Etihad Stadium.
Beaten grand finalist West Coast looks set for an appealing home match at Domain Stadium against the Brisbane Lions, when Eagles recruit Jack Redden will face his old club after requesting a surprise move west.
Meanwhile, Port will host St Kilda at Adelaide Oval, with big-name recruits Charlie Dixon and Jake Carlisle potentially squaring-off after high-priced moves during the recent NAB AFL Trade Period.
Round one fixture:
Thursday, March 24
Richmond v Carlton, MCG
Saturday
Melbourne v Greater Western Sydney, MCG
Gold Coast v Essendon, Metricon Stadium
Sydney Swans v Collingwood, ANZ Stadium
North Melbourne v Adelaide, Etihad Stadium
Sunday
Western Bulldogs v Fremantle, Etihad Stadium
Port Adelaide v St Kilda, Adelaide Oval
West Coast v Brisbane Lions, Domain Stadium
Monday
Geelong v Hawthorn, MCG | 1,265,784 |
JAIPUR: Startling new facts emerged in the alleged gang-rape story on Thursday after police completed two days of investigation, including physical verification of facts and studying technical surveillance data.The 22-year-old woman has not only confessed to fabricating the alleged rape story along with her boyfriend (whom the police refused to name), it was allegedly done to implicate another youth for blackmail.In her story, the woman had claimed to hire and share an autorickshaw from the railway station along with four men who allegedly took her to a park in the city and gang-raped her.The police also checked other loopholes in the story and are studying legal angles to book both the woman and her boyfriend in the blackmailing case.Since the matter came to light on Tuesday morning, the Jaipur police had maintained that there were some loopholes in the ‘victim's’ narration of the alleged gang-rape.These included how the woman took an autorickshaw, which was already carrying four men, and why she called up her brother to say that she would be late and asked him to have his dinner.As the police were unable to get the initial claims made by her verified physically, they collected her mobile call details, which actually proved handy to solve the mystery behind the gang-rape.“All I can tell you at this point of time is that the woman never hired an autorickshaw with four men in it already. Secondly, she was not taken to any city park for gang-rape,” said Prafful Kumar, additional commissioner of police (crime), on Thursday.The call details of the girl suggested that on Monday evening while she was travelling she was constantly in touch with a cell number. “It was found to be that of a youth who is acquainted with the girl. When this youth was detained and questioned, he told us that the both of them had chosen a boy identified as Sandeep (22), a native of Chomu, as a soft target for blackmailing. The duo invited him to a flat where the girl had consensual sex. A camera was installed in the room as well. At 4am, the boy Sandeep left the flat. The duo then cooked up the story of gang rape and sensationalised it so that they could extort a hefty amount from the youth,” said a senior police officer on condition of anonymity.Senior police officers claimed that the girl too had confessed to fabricating the whole story to blackmail the youth. “There are still certain facts which we need to verify. But one thing is clear. She has not been gang-raped or raped at all the whole night,” said Sanjay Agarwal, police commissioner, Jaipur.“We will have a clear picture of the case by Friday morning,” he added. The police have recorded fresh statements of the woman and confiscated the videos. | 1,265,785 |
In recent months, the seaside town of Herne Bay, Kent, has been plagued by a string of unusual crimes: a vandal is targeting a local library and a charity bookstore, tearing pages in half before placing the destroyed volumes back on the shelf.
According to Kent Online’s Jack Dyson, staff at the Demelza charity shop—which raises money for children battling serious or terminal illnesses—initially dismissed the torn books as the work of a prankster or careless young reader. Then, the number of damaged publications started ramping up, reaching a rate of around 10 to 15 every week. More than 100 tomes have been defaced to date.
“We think it’s been going on for a few months but it’s hard to tell,” Demelza chief executive Ryan Campbell tells Alison Flood of the Guardian. “If you find a ripped book in a secondhand shop you don’t think too much about it, so it’s taken us a while to piece it together.”
Still, Campbell adds, the perpetrator has a signature style. “I’m trying not to be too Sherlock Holmes about it, but if there’s such a thing as a quite distinctive rip, well, he or she rips the page in half horizontally and sometimes removes half the page.”
The so-called book ripper’s modus operandi is consistent. As store manager Nick Rogers explains to BBC News, they strike unseen, hiding just out of sight in a corner of the shop. Sometimes, Rogers tells Dyson, the perpetrator targets true crime books; other times, they destroy sports and travel texts. In each case, the culprit rips pages horizontally, sometimes removing them completely. Baffled staffers have yet to catch them in the act.
According to Dyson, a county council spokesperson says the nearby Herne Bay Library has experienced similar defacement, albeit on a smaller scale. (Over the past six months, the ripper has reportedly damaged 20 library books.) Although the building is equipped with CCTV cameras, Campbell tells the Guardian’s Flood that footage has revealed “no trace” of the literary vandal.
The crime against literature might feel absurd, but it’s no laughing matter.
“We wouldn't sell a book with one page ripped, so with 20 or 30, they're absolutely ruined,” Rogers tells BBC News.
He estimates that the damage so far has deprived Demelza and its beneficiaries of several hundred pounds.
“It’s really sad and disappointing because we’re totally reliant on people donating them in good faith to raise funds,” Rogers adds in an interview with Kent Online’s Dyson. “To then have someone destroy them seems so senseless.” | 1,265,786 |
Coronavirus: Capt Tom guest of honour at Harrogate hospital opening Published duration 19 April Related Topics Coronavirus pandemic
image copyright PA Media image caption The 99-year-old is to be guest of honour at the opening of a Nightingale hospital in Yorkshire
A 99-year-old war veteran who raised an incredible £26m for the NHS is to be guest of honour at the opening of a Nightingale hospital in Harrogate.
Captain Tom Moore originally aimed to raise £1,000 for NHS Charities Together by completing 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday.
The veteran, who was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, will appear via video link at the opening on Tuesday.
He said it was an honour and a chance to thank NHS workers directly.
image copyright Google image caption The field hospital - housed within the Harrogate Convention Centre (pictured) - will open on Tuesday
Capt Tom, who lives in Marston Moretaine in Bedfordshire, said: "I am still amazed by the amount of kindness and generosity from the UK public who continue to give despite it being an uncertain time for many.
"I think the amount raised demonstrates just how much we all value the dedication and sacrifices made by our NHS workers. I have fought during a war and they are now fighting in a war too."
NHS Charities Together said it was "truly inspired and humbled" by his efforts.
media caption Watch as Capt Tom Moore completes his 100th lap
Simon Stevens, NHS chief executive, said: "On behalf of the NHS our heartfelt thanks go to Captain Tom Moore for his remarkable fundraising efforts for NHS charities.
"Inviting Captain Moore to be our guest of honour at the opening of NHS Nightingale Yorkshire and Humber is the least we can do to thank him."
Harrogate Convention Centre will be used for 500 beds - the first of the field hospitals to be built outside a city.
The veteran, who served in Myanmar during the Second World War, has been praised by the Duke of Cambridge, who described him as a "one-man fundraising machine".
Prince William also made a donation for an undisclosed amount.
image copyright Tom Moore image caption Capt Tom served in India and Myanmar during World War Two
Brig Andrew Jackson, colonel of the Yorkshire Regiment, described Capt Tom as "an absolute legend" who came from "an exceptional generation that are still an inspiration for our Yorkshire soldiers today".
Keighley Town Council said it would "honour the fundraising hero" with the freedom of the town.
Capt Tom has also inspired others to raise money, including a youngster from Wetherby, in West Yorkshire.
Hector Dee is walking six miles in six days to mark his sixth birthday. | 1,265,787 |
Families suffer, of course, but the long-term impact transcends that. “The converting of public funding into higher tuition focuses the student on assuring her future income to cover higher costs and debt,” he writes. At stake, he believes, is a citizenry that sees college not as a place for in-depth learning and inquiry, but as a means to economic security, forcing colleges to conduct themselves more like a business and less like a public good that all students can afford.
The Hechinger Report, which published this story in partnership with The Atlantic, spoke with Newfield to learn more. This interview was lightly edited for length and clarity.
Mikhail Zinshteyn: Why are public universities a public good, and why do you think states and the federal government should largely do away with tuition?
Christopher Newfield: Society—culturally, economically, and socially—gets the majority of the benefits. Here I'm using the work of some economists, particularly Walter McMahon, who has actually tried to count up all of the non-market benefits that universities generate.
My parents are first-generation-college people, and they probably wouldn't have gone if it hadn't been free for them. The benefit of that was that society got two more productive, also politically more thoughtful, more complex people that had better health, people that were able to make contributions to their community, because they had incomes that allowed them to work only one job.
What's happened since is, [the reduction in state funding and shift toward operating like a business] is just kind of an arrangement of convenience for state governments, for taxpayers, for business taxpayers, who've gotten a cheaper deal. But, it's economically and socially less efficient to save money this way. It's also philosophically and economically incorrect.
Zinshteyn: What’s one example of the way colleges have been behaving like businesses at the expense of students?
Newfield: They had to look for multiple revenue streams really starting in the 1980s, and some of those were very high-value and glamorous … like technology-transfer revenues through patenting, increasing contracts and grants revenues, and increasing fundraising.
The national statistic is that universities have to put in 19 cents of institutional funds to make up, to get to, a full dollar of their research expenditures. [And] this number is higher at public universities than it is at private universities. The last numbers that I saw are about 25 cents on the dollar of overall research expenditures at publics, and something like half that at privates. So there's a public subsidy that's going on at these institutions, through ongoing general fund contributions, that means that they're just paying more of their own money … and not paying for what the public thinks it's paying for, which is instruction, and some other kinds of core things. | 1,265,788 |
First, they were locked out, and now they're getting locked up.
Nine NFL players have been arrested, and one more charged with a crime from a previous arrest, since the NFL lockout began 31 days ago.
The longest streak without an arrest is just eight days.
The players looked primed to push that record to a ninth day until Tennessee Titans wide receiver Kenny Britt was arrested Tuesday following a police chase, according to reports by TMZ and FOX Sports.
According to a police report, Britt was speeding in a blue Porsche on the highway, going 71 mph in a 50 mph zone. When an officer tried to stop the car, it accelerated away through traffic and off the highway, until it was eventually located on a local street with Britt and his passenger walking away. They both denied being in the vehicle, although Britt admitted that the car was his.
Britt was charged with eluding a police officer (a third-degree felony), lying to an officer, and obstructing governmental function (both misdemeanors), according to police.
Britt is now the 10th player to get in trouble with the law since the lockout began. Here are the others:
4/4 Mike Vrabel (LB - Chiefs) - Arrested for theft at a casino (via ProFootballTalk)
4/3 Louis Murphy (WR - Raiders) - Arrested for possession of a drug (Viagra) without a valid prescription (via The Gainesville Sun)
3/31 Lawrence Maroney (RB - Free Agent) - Booked and charged with possession of marijuana in connection with a January arrest (via TMZ)
3/30 Aqib Talib (CB - Buccaneers) - Arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, following an incident where he allegedly fired shots at his sister's boyfriend (via The St. Petersburg Times)
3/25 Jason Peters (OT - Eagles) - Arrested for disturbing the peace and loud music. Rapper Rick Ross also got in trouble that night nearby for possession of marijuana (separately) (via KSLA-TV)
3/25 Johnny Jolly (DL - Packers) - Arrested for possession of codeine, the active ingredient in the "purple drank" recreational drug concoction (via CBSHoustonTX.com)
3/19 Bryant McCann (CB - Cowboys) - Arrested for public intoxication (via WFAA-TV)
3/17 Mario Henderson (OT - Raiders) - Arrested for carrying a concealed firearm and violating the noise ordinance after being pulled over in his car (via NBC 2)
3/12 Chris Cook (DT - Vikings) - Arrested for brandishing a handgun during a fight with another man (via WSET-TV)
Take a look at the police blotter at ProFootballTalk for a full list of NFL arrests > | 1,265,789 |
a Resume
All those skills I listed above? Those are pretty damn important for the majority of employers. Solo travel brings about a certain respect, and compared to the regular Joe- you can back up these skills with pretty sweet stories. You’re not only skilled, you’re interesting.
16) It Will Help You Face Your Fears
Thing’s don’t tend to look as bad when you compare them to things you’ve already done. Meeting your significant other’s family? Puh-lease, that has nothing on the time you found out you missed your flight and didn’t think you had the money for another one! Or how about taking the wrong train HOURS in the opposite direction and ending up in the middle of nowhere? That’s real stress!
17) You Become Self-Reliant
There’s no passing anything off when you’re going solo. If you want something done, or need to figure something out- that’s on you. At the time it may seem daunting but in the end it’s a major self-confidence boost. And you’ll make mom proud.
18) People Will (Secretly) Think You are Awesome
Everyone who travels solo has those non-believers back home who think you are dumb/insane for going alone. One of my friend’s dad’s even went so far as to call me stupid when I moved to Ireland, and yet when I came home with all these great stories and experiences he was one of the first to want to hear about it. There’s no doubt that solo travel brings about a little extra street cred and respect- which feels pretty good to finally have from those who originally doubted you.
19) It Will Make you Better Person
Travelling solo teaches you a lot of patience and kindness. On your own you realize how much you depend on strangers for help; directions or advice, assistance in taking a picture, or even just asking the time. And when someone is rude to you and unwilling to help, it can be heartbreaking. Being on the bad end of that has made me quicker to reach out to strangers and offer to help them if they look like they need a hand.
20) You will have the best time of your life
I’d be lying if I told you that the entire experience will go smoothly. Chances are you will get mad at yourself more than once and frustrated to the point of tears. But when you come home all in one piece with amazing stories, great new friends, and a new found love for life it will be totally worth it. Travelling solo is the best travel experience, and something that everyone should do at least once in their lifetime.
So, what are you waiting for? | 1,265,790 |
The MPAA has won a jury conviction for criminal copyright infringement, opening the doors to many more cases like it in the future. A federal jury convicted 26-year-old Daniel Dove for both felony copyright infringement as well as conspiracy, the US Department of Justice announced on Friday. Dove, the last remaining administrator of EliteTorrents.com who did not plead guilty, now faces up to 10 years in prison.
The case goes all the way back to 2005, when investigators raided EliteTorrents and shut the site down with the help of the MPAA. At the time, EliteTorrents was one of the most popular Bit Torrent trackers around and had gained notoriety for making available prerelease movies like Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith. Search warrants were served on 10 people in the US and the site admins immediately faced criminal charges.
Two administrators, Scott McCausland and Grant Stanley, pleaded guilty in 2006 in hopes of avoiding a jury trial. Stanley got the first sentencing of five months in jail along with a $3,000 fine. McCausland also ended up serving five months in prison before going on probation, part of which involved an odd request from his probation officer to start using Windows (instead of Linux) so that monitoring software could be installed on the machine. Dove was the last holdout, refusing to plead guilty and apparently hoping that the jury would throw him a bone when he finally went to trial.
According to the DoJ, the jury was presented with evidence that Dove was in charge of a small group (known as the "Uploaders"), recruiting members with high-speed Internet connections to seed illegal content to the rest of EliteTorrents' users. Dove apparently ran a server himself, distributing the content to the Uploaders first before they seeded it to the rest of the world at large. Other evidence presented to the jury included "massive amounts" of software, video games, and music being made available through EliteTorrents, much of which was before they were officially available in stores. The evidence was apparently enough to convince the jury of Dove's involvement. He now faces up to 10 years in prison and will be sentenced on September 9, 2008.
The FBI and DoJ don't often go after file sharers as aggressively as they have in this case, but they appear willing to act when evidence collection has already been done for them. US Attorney John Brownlee's office acknowledged in 2006 that much of the evidence used in the case was supplied by the MPAA, showing that the recording industry can indeed convince the government to help fight its legal battles. With legal precedent on its side from cases like this and Jammie Thomas (even if Thomas may soon get a new trial), the recording industry is likely even more confident than ever before. The MPAA and RIAA are sure to keep going, supplying new evidence to law enforcement in hopes of winning even more convictions.
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Here’s something unexpected: The Accountant, the 2016 action movie where Ben Affleck crunches a lot of numbers and shoots a lot of people, was somehow the most rented movie of 2017. It seems that even in an era where thousands upon thousands of films are available to stream on platforms like Netflix, audiences will still go out of their way to rent a Ben Affleck action flick.
The Accountant, a mid-budget action movie from 2016, was inexplicably the most-rented film of 2017. Don’t let anyone tell you cinema is dead, folks. The MPAA has decided to break with tradition and include home entertainment in its annual report (via THR). As a result, we have a snapshot of the titles that took digital rental by storm. The leader of the pack: The Accountant, a serviceable 2016 action flick helmed by future Suicide Squad 2 director Gavin O’Connor and starring Ben Affleck. Here’s The Accountant trailer and synopsis, in case you weren’t one of the people renting it in 2017.
The Accountant Trailer
Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is a mathematics savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Using a small-town CPA office as a cover, he makes his living as a freelance accountant for dangerous criminal organizations. With a Treasury agent (J.K. Simmons) hot on his heels, Christian takes on a state-of-the-art robotics company as a legitimate client. As Wolff gets closer to the truth about a discrepancy that involves millions of dollars, the body count starts to rise.
“Today’s home entertainment entertainment is exploding and there are no signs of slowing down,” said MPAA chairman-CEO Charles Rivkin. Other top rentals for 2017: Disney’s Moana and and Warner Bros.’s Wonder Woman. Per THR:
The U.S. portion of home entertainment spending was $20.5 billion — a 5 percent year-over-year gain — including $13.7 billion in digital spending, a year-over-year increase of 20 percent and up 110 percent from 2013. The spend on physical home entertainment was likewise down 15 percent in North America ($6.83 billion). Interestingly, online movie views and transactions decreased 11 percent year-over-year, while there was a 45 percent spike in online TV views, i.e., those watching streaming services, pay-per-view and other digital platforms on their televisions.
In other words, even in the age of streaming platforms like Netflix, people are still going out of their way to rent certain movies. Still, it’s somewhat strange that The Accountant is the top rental of the year. Then again, The Accountant was a big enough box office hit that Warner Bros. is developing a sequel with Affleck returning. | 1,265,792 |
Certain Samsung Galaxy S3 users will barely have noticed the rollout of the S4 uberphone, they've been too busy concentrating on the flash card problems in their current smartmobes. Flash-card shuffler SanDisk, meanwhile, has told El Reg that it has issued a fix.
User paulnptld talked about this on the Android Central Samsung Galaxy S3 forum. He bought a SanDisk 32GB micro-SD card for his 16GB S3 smartphone and after a few months use the phone stopped recognising the card, and his computer wouldn't recognise it either.
Paulnptld said he had told Samsung forum responder "Sherard S": "This was an expensive class 10 card, and I'm really frustrated that my S3 seems to have fried it." He added: "I searched online for this issue, and it turns out there are dozens of sites now active with this same issue."
His SIII's model number was SGH-i747 and it was running 4.1.1.
He appears to have received a surprising response. He quoted Sherard S as saying: "We haven't seen this kind of issue with any of our customers. Please do not trust the information which you find in a third party website or forum. The information which is posted in forums or third party website is fake. Those website's [sic] or forums are not controlled by Samsung. Due to this, anyone can post anything in those websites/forums."
A hundred follow-on posts on this thread revealed many more S3 users were having problems with the card.
Samsung Galaxy S3
Punters in a SanDisk support forum have reported issues with the 32GB models.
Another user emailed us about a different problem with the same 32GB card stuffed into an S3. The user wrote: "Initially reported by Samsung Galaxy S3 users - the symptom is that the card repeatedly remounts, causing the host device to rescan it and hence hammer the battery. A colleague was showing me logs of this happening 200 times a day. I've experienced two such failures with SanDisk Ultra SDHC 32GB Class 10 cards being used in GoPro Hero3 cameras."
SanDisk microSD cardE
We asked SanDisk about this, and a spokesperson said:
SanDisk has been made aware of potential product issues involving a very small percentage of its 32GB and 64GB SanDisk Mobile Ultra microSD cards. Under certain circumstances the cards may lock up and the card becomes inaccessible. The issue has been identified and a manufacturing fix has already been put in place. SanDisk stands behind its products and any customer who experiences this issue with the microSD cards cards is asked to contact the SanDisk support center for a resolution immediately.
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there is criminal activity, they report it to law enforcement. The most important thing to do is keep up with the recent information about local laws to add a layer of protection Bruce points out.
“It is important that you have information, good information behind you to be able to move conversations forward. In my community, I am lucky because people listen to us. It is a difficult conversation, and everyone is uncomfortable and so having a true understanding of the core issues is critical,” Bruce tells High Times.
Bruce continues to educate the public about the benefits of responsible cannabis use as a parent, moving conversations forward by supplementing the community with access to information. Her nonprofit Cannamommy.org offers an online clinic featuring free 20-minute consultations with board-certified Registered Nurses and reduced-rate webinars and classes for mothers looking for up-to-date legal information and details about cannabis products. Cannamommy also offers a safe space for mothers dealing with CPS to discuss their fears and has an Advocate Program certifying mothers to supply local support for those who need it.
Another resource stemming from experience with CPS is the Family Law and Cannabis Alliance (FLCA), a group co-founded by Sara Arnold aka Sahra Kant, who has thus far dealt with CPS three times. The offers national and state-specific legal guides and resources for parents dealing with CPS. In addition to offering “Parent-Protective Model Language”, the FLCA provides a long list of considerations when dealing with CPS, including advice like not letting anyone in your home without an appointment, and keeping the house and children clean.
“It is generally better to be cooperative with the agencies, but a parent can always keep in mind that they do not have to disclose everything. Focus on child-centered answers to their questions and don’t be too worried about testing “dirty” for cannabis, if your use is moderate, intermittent, or even recreational as long as it is not in the presence of the children,” says Tripp.
She emphasizes that a person shouldn’t be required to stop using cannabis if medically prescribed and necessary in order to maintain custody or reunify with children. Some recreational use is permissible if it’s not being consumed in the presence of children. If a parent often leaves young children home alone to buy cannabis, that is an entirely different child safety standpoint from someone who occasionally uses when out with friends and secures a reliable babysitter.
Tripp makes it clear that comparison is based in generality, and that stories vary on a case-by-case basis. More progress is being made in this area, and resources are starting to exist for parents who constantly live in a grey area. In the meantime, however, there is still little in the way of a comprehensive plan to protect parents from random attacks to their home life.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) on Thursday criticized U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and argued in support of undocumented Latinos in the United States, saying the latter cannot be "criminalized" on "Native" U.S. land because they are "descendants of Native people."
The self-described Democratic socialist spoke on Thursday alongside several liberal groups, including MoveOn and United We Dream, a pro-immigration group that calls for ICE to be abolished. She repeatedly slammed ICE, claiming it "repeatedly and systematically violates human rights."
"They do not deserve a dime until they can prove that they are honoring human rights, until they can make a good faith effort to expand and embrace immigrants … Until they can prove good faith to an American ideal, they do not deserve any resources for their radical agenda. We have to have respect for children, respect for families, respect for human rights, and respect for the right of human mobility," Ocasio-Cortez said of the agency tasked with enforcing U.S. immigration laws.
The freshman congresswoman went on to suggest ICE has not given due respect to those who enter the country illegally. The United Sates must "respect for the right of human mobility," she said before adding, "because it is a right."
"Because we are standing on Native land, and Latino people are descendants of Native people. And we cannot be … criminalized simply for our identity or our status."
"We are a nation and land of laws, not just [one where] some people are subject to laws and others are not," she said. "We are a land of laws."
The Office of Management and Budget’s 2010 Census Brief defines "Hispanic or Latino" as a "person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race," per NTK Network.
This isn't the first time that Ocasio-Cortez has criticized ICE.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow asked Ocasio-Cortez to respond to a primetime address President Donald Trump gave last month about the situation at the U.S. southern border, prompting her to castigate the president for requesting funding for ICE.
"The president should not be asking for more money to an agency that has systematically violated human rights. The president should be really defending why we are funding such an agency at all because right now what we are seeing is death. Right now what we are seeing is the violation of human rights," Ocasio-Cortez said.
She argued that the primary reason for undocumented immigrants in the United States is "Visa overstay" versus people crossing over the border illegally. She accused Trump of trying to restrict "every form of legal immigration there is in the United States." | 1,265,795 |
Image copyright Jeb Bush Twitter Image caption Jeb Bush tweeted a photo of his hand gun as his campaign heads into South Carolina.
The US Republican Presidential candidate Jeb Bush is pro-gun rights and behind in the polls, so when he purchased his first firearm, he had probably hoped to receive support on social media.
The former Florida governor's new handgun, inscribed with his name on the slide, has been re-tweeted more than 19,000 times and met with widespread mockery around the world.
Bush tweeted a picture of his gun alongside the word "America", seeking to burnish his pro-gun credentials and patriotism as his campaign moves into the conservative state of South Carolina.
But if the USA is defined by its relationship to firearms, Twitter provided the answer for how best to represent other countries across the world.
British comedian Joe Lycett put forward this entry for the UK.
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Mike Landers suggested that pies and curry would better represent some of Britain's cities.
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Professor Herman van de Wernfhorst, a sociology professor from the University of Amsterdam suggested this for the Netherlands.
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Meanwhile, Ingo Bousa from Bristol thought that Denmark could present a more peaceful interpretation of Jeb Bush's tweet.
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But as the rest of the world gently mocked Jeb Bush, some conservative supporters in America showed their appreciation by tweeting pictures of handguns.
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Science fiction writer John Joseph Adams decided that if his country was going to be defined by one weapon, then he wanted to highlight the impact of other weapons on fictional cultures.
"I never thought that my most re-tweeted tweet would consist of one word, a Twitter handle and a picture of a lightsaber" he wrote after his picture of the Star Wars memorabilia was shared more than 1,700 times.
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Other science fiction fans were quick to follow Adams's lead. Lisa Morton from Washington DC tweeted a Star Trek disruptor.
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Others thought the Doctor should get involved.
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Or that Jeb Bush could use some magical assistance with his campaign.
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Jeb Bush is pulling out all the stops to revive his flagging campaign to become the Republican presidential nominee, with his brother, former President George W Bush, joining him in on the campaign trail in South Carolina.
He can only hope that the online reaction to his tweet will help help him catch up with frontrunner Donald Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who won the New Hampshire and Iowa contests respectively.
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A primary school has been forced to close after vandals caused more than £20,000 worth of damage in a wrecking spree.
Markethill Primary School in Turriff was trashed over the weekend, with an “iconic” stained glass window at destroyed.
On Monday, the school was unable to open to pupils after the vandalism.
Police Scotland are investigating the incident, which happened between 5.30pm on Friday and 5.20pm on Sunday.
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The force said units were destroyed and food, including flour and eggs, was thrown about the Aberdeenshire school.
Sergeant David Threadgold said: “This is an example of utterly mindless and wanton vandalism on a primary school and community facility.
“It is absolutely unacceptable that buildings which are of integral importance to our community are targeted in this way. Whoever perpetrated this act must have spent a considerable amount of time within the premises.
”As well as the monetary value of the damage, the impact on the community cannot be underestimated.
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“Parents have had to arrange extra childcare at short notice, I can assure the public that this was not a decision that was taken lightly, but one which will afford us the best opportunity to catch those responsible.”
Markethill Primary: ‘Iconic’ stained glass window destroyed. STV
He added: “Most poignantly, a stained glass window from the original Turriff Primary School has been damaged.
“This iconic piece of art, which was hoped to be transferred to the new school premises, symbolises everything that the school means to the staff, pupils and wider community.
“To damage it in such a way is inexcusable and I would urge the community to pull together to identify those responsible.”
Aberdeenshire Council said it would not reopen the school until it felt it was safe enough to do so.
Director of education Maria Walker said: “The damage done to Markethill Primary School has deprived our pupils of their right to an education when they should expect to be able to go, every day, to a school that is welcoming and appealing.
“Given the extent of the damage we anticipate a significant clean-up operation. We will not reopen the school until we are satisfied that the environment is suitable and safe for pupils and staff and we will keep the school community up-to-date as we move forward.
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“We have had some kind offers from local residents to help clean up but we are still at the early stages of assessing the damage. Instead I ask anyone with information about what happened to contact Police Scotland.”
Anyone with information relating to the vandalism is asked to contact the police on 101. | 1,265,797 |
vernment remains determined. Earlier this year, Mexico’s attorney general and CFE filed suit against Águilar and other community leaders, alleging they used violent tactics to obstruct the substation project — charges they deny.
Águilar believes the lawsuit and van shooting are connected, and that the local government is giving tacit or explicit go-ahead to criminal organizations to break the community’s resolve. “They’re sending us a message,” he says, “that we are going to suffer the consequences for our resistance.”
Cuetzalan Mayor Oscar Paula Cruz denies this allegation, maintaining that his government “work[s] for everyone.” But Tosepan members say the municipal police have not investigated the attack. Puebla’s attorney general’s office did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
This targeting of environmentalists fits a pattern. The Canadian mining company Blackfire and employees of the Canadian embassy, for example, collaborated to suppress protests against a barite mine in Chiapas, wiring the local mayor money and pressuring him to quash the opposition. Activist Mariano Abarca’s complaints of death threats went unheeded, and he was murdered in 2009.
Three days after the van shooting, Tosepan leaders Maria Luisa Albores and Águilar were caravanning home from work, part of new security measures. When they stopped in front of Albores’ house, an unfamiliar vehicle pulled up as well, its headlights shining as Albores’ younger son opened the front gate. Alarmed, Albores ordered her son back inside. The vehicle made an abrupt U‑turn and vanished into the night. | 1,265,798 |
Earlier this month, at the Assiniboine Park Zoo this tiny red kangaroo was accidentally ejected from her Mom's pouch. Caregivers at the Zoo have fashioned a fleece "pouch" and are administering a solution which mimics Mom's milk. It was impossible to determine which of the female's had lost her joey, without causing stress to the animals. With the help of the Zoo's staff, this baby Kangaroo will bounce back!
ALIEN-LIKE CREATURE KEPT ALIVE AT THE ASSINIBOINE PARK ZOO HOSPITAL
The Zoo Hospital staff is hopping-busy these days keeping alive one of Nature’s most bizarre-looking creatures -- a baby Red Kangaroo. The four-month-old female joey, weighing only 560 grams, was found lying helpless on the floor of the enclosure after being ejected from the pouch of one of the adult females.
Baby kangaroos seldom survive out of the pouch at this early age, since they are dependant on their mother’s milk inside the pouch for up to a year. With feedings of milk formula every three hours, around the clock, the baby’s chances of survival are improving every day. She spends most of the time sleeping soundly, nestled in a soft towel within a cloth bag, which substitutes for her mother’s pouch. If the youngster makes it through these precarious early weeks, she will need zookeeper care for another eight months, until she can be reunited with “the mob” – the name given to a group of kangaroos.
Like other marsupial mammals, baby kangaroos are born at a remarkably early stage of development – after a gestation period of only 33 days and just 2.5-cm long and weighing less than one gram. This blind and naked baby must then climb unassisted all the way from the mother’s birth canal to the abdominal pouch, crawl inside, and find a nipple, to which it remains attached for over 70 days. The Red Kangaroo is the largest living marsupial, with males standing up to 2.1 metres (7 feet) high and reaching 95 kg (210 lbs) – a 135,715-fold increase in body weight from birth. The female is considerably smaller, averaging 30 kg. Under good habitat conditions, a female may breed continuously, with one embryo in a resting stage in the womb, one joey in the pouch, and a dependant joey living outside the pouch.
This species may live up to 25 years and makes a fascinating zoo exhibit due to its unusual appearance and bounding gait on its powerful hind legs. The Red Kangaroo is native to most of Australia, where it fulfills the role of a major herbivore, which sometimes places it in conflict with sheep and cattle ranchers. | 1,265,799 |
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