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VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada will promote itself as an Arctic power in asserting its sovereignty over the resource-rich region, the government said on Friday in a paper laying out its foreign policy plans for the Far North.
The move highlights the growing tensions among countries with Arctic borders as global warming makes rich mineral and energy deposits increasingly accessible and opens its ice-covered seas to shipping.
Canada will step up efforts to resolve boundary disputes it has with the United States and other allies, but that does not mean it is softening its sovereignty claims to the region including the Northwest Passage, officials said.
“Let me be clear, the number one priority of our northern strategy is the promotion and protection of Canadian sovereignty in the north,” said Prime Minister Stephen Harper, calling it “non-negotiable.”
Canada rejects suggestions international governance of Arctic needs to be changed, although it recognizes the region is undergoing fundamental changes, Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon told reporters.
The policy statement released on Friday largely repeated statements Ottawa has made in the past, but officials said was intended to signal that Canada views its domestic and foreign policy claims to the region as intertwined.
“For far too long we feel the Arctic has not been spoken for, and we believe it is time Canada takes full recognition of the Arctic,” Cannon told reporters in Ottawa.
Canada claims a large swath of the Arctic including the Northwest Passage, which could become an important shipping link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans as climate change melts away the northern ice cap.
It has boundary disputes with the United States in the Beaufort Sea and with Denmark over an island in the Lincoln Sea of the North Atlantic. Its claim that the Northwest Passage is a domestic waterway is disputed by many countries.
New disputes with Russia and other countries loom as Arctic nations map the ocean floor to establish territorial water claims that will likely be overlapping. Those claims are to submitted to the United Nations in 2013.
Cannon said Canada’s claim to be an Arctic power is based on its having historically had people living in the Far North, as well as its more recent economic development, environmental efforts and military patrols.
Critics of the government’s Arctic policies say its claims of promoting economic development in the region have not been followed with action, such as constructing of pipelines to tap gas resources.
The government this week also apologized for the forced relocation of native Inuit families into new Arctic villages in the 1950s, a policy seen now as an attempt to strengthen Canada’s sovereignty claims.
Harper is scheduled to tour the Far North next week, a trip that has become almost an annual pilgrimage for Harper since he took office. It will include participate in an oil-spill cleanup training exercise.
Canada has no oil drilling in the Arctic now, but it is expected to begin in the next few years. The Northwest Passage is also expected to see increased tanker traffic. | 1,267,600 |
Telangana panel recommends 9-12% quota for Muslims in jobs and education
It also called for providing scholarships to Muslims by making adequate provision in the state's budget.
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The commission of inquiry on socio-economic and educational conditions of Muslims in Telangana has recommended to the state government to provide 12% or minimum 9% reservation to the community in jobs and education.
The government had last year constituted the four-member panel headed by former IAS officer G Sudhir.
According to the report, submitted in August but now made public, the data gathered by the commission shows that among the criteria (for backwardness) the Indra Sawhney case looks at, Muslims are below the state average in some of them and are socially and educationally backward and severely deprived.
"Therefore, Government may provide reservation to them. Given that more than 82 per cent of the Muslim population is already categorised as backward, there may be an increase in the reservation percentage to 12 percent or a minimum of 9 per cent based on their social and educational backwardness and deprivation," said the report.
The panel observed that a suitable legislation needs to be passed duly obtaining legal opinion as the present provision of four percent reservation is continuing with interim order of the Supreme Court.
This was one of the key recommendations made by the committee for immediate implementation.
Muslims constitute 12.68 percent of Telangana's population.
The commission also recommended that an Equal Opportunity Commission be appointed to oversee recruitment and training and other developmental programmes. This Commission will ensure that all communities in the state have equal opportunities in all fields, both in the private and the public sector.
The commission said the government should develop a diversity index already suggested by Sachar Committee (2006) and Kundu Committee (2014). "The Telangana Government should be the first to set up a committee to suggest how best the diversity index can be implemented. Any institution within the state would be evaluated for its diversity and given a ranking according to the diversity its human resource composition displays," said the report.
It also called for extending Scheduled Castes (SCs) status to some acutely discriminated groups that perform the same occupation as some SC groups do.
The commission recommended that the government put in place a 'Sub-plan' for Muslims to be prepared as part of the state budget to ensure that all departments provide adequate funds for welfare of Muslims and to prevent diversion of funds to departments.
As a large number of Muslims are small entrepreneurs, a small start up fund must be allocated that will rotate its capital, provide collateral free investments, help and mentor small businesses and leverage the start up culture that exists among the very poor, the report said.
It called for providing scholarships to Muslims on demand by making adequate provision in the budget. The commission said Muslim students should get cashless admissions on par with SC and ST students. | 1,267,601 |
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the first production model of the hotly anticipated Model 3, the company’s attempt to bring an electric car to the masses, is expected on Friday. The first 30 Model 3 customers will receive their new Teslas on the 28th at a handover party, according to a second tweet from Musk. Production is then expected to grow exponentially: 100 cars in August, more than 1,500 by September, and then 20,000 per month by December.
News of SN1 (Serial Number 1) came in a tweet on Sunday night:
Model 3 passed all regulatory requirements for production two weeks ahead of schedule. Expecting to complete SN1 on Friday — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 3, 2017
Musk then confirmed the production ramp-up in two followup tweets.
Handover party for first 30 customer Model 3's on the 28th! Production grows exponentially, so Aug should be 100 cars and Sept above 1500. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 3, 2017
Looks like we can reach 20,000 Model 3 cars per month in Dec — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 3, 2017
Tesla is expected to dramatically increase Model 3 production in 2018 with total Tesla vehicle production approaching 500,000 units annually. The Model 3 already has over 400,000 pre-orders with Tesla’s rabid fanbase clamoring for any glimpse or tidbit of news related to the upcoming vehicle.
The Model 3 was first unveiled over a year ago at a lavish event at Tesla’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. At the time, Musk said he was "fairly confident" that deliveries will begin by the end of 2017, and "you will not be able to buy a better car for $35,000, even with no options."
At a shareholder meeting last month, Musk said the first Model 3 customers would be limited in their ability to customize their orders — basically just color and wheel type. “I should say that we’ve kept the initial configurations of the Model 3 very simple,” Musk said. “A big mistake we made with the X, which is primarily my responsibility — there was way too much complexity right at the beginning. That was very foolish.”
Tesla’s sky-high valuation — it recently surpassed BMW’s market cap — depends largely on Musk’s ability to sell his vision of sustainable, battery-powered driving to a much broader population. The two current Tesla vehicles, the Model S and Model X, are both extremely expensive. Even with tax incentives, both cars easily push $100,000. The Model 3 will start at $35,000, making it the cheapest in Tesla’s range.
In order for Tesla to sell ten times as many cars as it does now, it needs a much cheaper automobile. That's the Model 3. It's the future of the company. | 1,267,602 |
Local charities affected by new poker room in South Bend
NILES, Mich. – The new poker room at Four Winds Casino in South Bend is impacting the charity poker room at Joey Armadillo’s Bar and Restaurant in Niles according to the charity coordinator.
For more than a decade, the charity poker room at Joey Armadillo’s has raised thousands of dollars for Michiana organizations.
Tony Todd, the charity coordinator, said the charity poker room lost so many customers, that the room will now be open only on Thursdays. That means less money for local charities.
Under Michigan law, any one charity can host a charity gaming event four times per year with the charity gaming event lasting up to four days.
However, Todd said when the poker room at Four Winds Casino in South Bend opened up in September, Joey Armadillo’s took a hit.
“We lost about 80 percent of our players,” said Todd.
Todd doesn’t blame Four Winds. Todd said he knows that business is business. Todd also understands why players want to play in South Bend.
“It’s easier to drive 10 minutes to play where you’re open 24 hours a day,” said Todd.
Todd said the dip in business is why the charity poker room at Joey Armadillo’s is now only open on Thursdays. That means less money for the charities it helps, like the Niles Moose Lodge.
“The last event we did, we we’re in the hole,” said member Darlene Borne. “My reaction was disbelief.”
Borne said they used to raise about $2,000.
“We help with relay for life, we’ve got project graduation,” said Borne. “We try to do things that involved kids and the seniors.”
It’s forcing charities to find ways to make up.
“I don’t want to have to cook 200 dinners, but that’s what we’re going to need to do,” said Borne.
It’s tough, but Borne and Todd think the game nights will rebound once the Michiana community realizes it’s more than just money.
“We’ll still make money,” said Todd. “It just won’t be what it used to be. The money we raised goes back to the community.”
“These people still need help. You know, we still need to support Relay for Life, the domestic violence shelters, all the local things.”
Charity game nights at the charity poker room will be held on Thursday from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Joey Armadillo’s. | 1,267,603 |
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner speaks at the opening session of the White House meeting with technology Chief Executive Officers to mark "technology week," Monday, June 19, 2017, in the Indian Treat Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. The White House Office of American Innovation is hosting a series of working sessions to generate ideas to transform and modernize Government Services. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner speaks at the opening session of the White House meeting with technology Chief Executive Officers to mark "technology week," Monday, June 19, 2017, in the Indian Treat Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. The White House Office of American Innovation is hosting a series of working sessions to generate ideas to transform and modernize Government Services. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jared Kushner spoke in public on Monday. And that alone counted as news.
In a White House full of loud voices, the powerful senior adviser and son-in-law to President Donald Trump tends to keep his mouth shut. He shuns televised interviews, avoids public speeches and rarely addresses a meeting when cameras are rolling, preferring to work behind the scenes.
So Washington took notice Monday when Kushner presided over a White House meeting of technology executives and actually took the microphone. It took a few moments for Kushner to get the attention of the dozens of suited executives gathered in an ornate room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. But eventually the room quieted and he could finally be heard.
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The slim, stylish former real estate executive addressed the crowd in a soft but confident tenor, revealing the New York influences around his vowels. He pledged that “by modernizing these systems we will meaningfully improve the lives of tens of millions of Americans.”
News outlets pounced. “Jared Kushner Actually Has A Voice,” read a headline on the Huffington Post. Time’s online headline read: “Hear Jared Kushner Speak in a Rare Public Appearance.”
Kushner sometimes speaks at sanctioned background briefings for reporters. He also briefly popped in to an interview that his wife, Ivanka Trump, did with CBS at the White House last month. He declined to join the interview, but when asked if he enjoyed their late-night walks on the Washington Mall, Kushner said: “Beautiful. Great company. Beautiful scenery.”
While his public speaking has been limited at best, Kushner has been busy with an expansive policy portfolio, charged with modernizing government and leading an effort to broker a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. He will head to the Middle East this week to take part in talks toward that goal.
Kushner has also come under scrutiny for his contacts with Russians during the transition as part of the widening probes into whether Trump’s team coordinated with Moscow during the election. Kushner has denied any improper contacts with Russia. | 1,267,604 |
edictory hike; on July 26, a federal appeals court affirmed Harold’s conviction. Later, in 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court would decline to hear Harold’s appeal for a new trial, meaning that, barring some extraordinary circumstance, he’ll be in federal prison for the rest of his life.
We were all breathing hard by the time we turned off the main trail and headed into the woods. We picked our way through the scrub, passing the flat spot where the FBI agents had camped out, and then the lunch spot, where the views Toni and Harold had enjoyed were spectacular. Grusing played us all a voicemail he’d received the day Harold Henthorn was found guilty, left by then–FBI Director James Comey: “Hey, Jonathan, this is Director Comey calling…I wanted to thank you for an extraordinary piece of work, so extraordinary it makes me proud to be working at the FBI, because we’re doing that kind of quality work.”
“Oh my God, that’s so cool,” Shott said. “I thought you were bullshitting. That was really Comey.”
Then we scrambled down the slope, and I found myself in the narrow space where Toni Henthorn had stood five years earlier. “So this is the fall spot,” Shott said briskly. “Well, she falls into a tree, and there’s blood and hair in the tree, and the branches are broken. Be really careful here,” she warned me. I’ve never been particularly afraid of heights, but I could bring myself to peek over the edge only briefly; I couldn’t stop imagining what it might’ve felt like when Toni toppled over the edge. It made my head spin.
It was a relief when we reversed course and began to make our way back to the main trail. Shott started telling me about how, on some of her trips out to the site, she’d think about what she might have asked Toni: You’re a smart, beautiful, accomplished woman, she’d imagine herself saying, and this man was such a liar, such a bully. You must have seen that. Why didn’t you leave? She began answering her own questions—they had a daughter; Toni already had one failed marriage; Harold was supremely manipulative—but then she stopped herself. Too much speculation about things you’ll never know can drive you crazy, as any ISB agent could probably tell you. But as we picked our way among the fallen trees, away from the forlorn spot where a man had shoved his wife off a cliff, I understood why someone like Shott might keep asking. When your job takes you deep into the woods, of course you’re always looking for a path that might lead you out. | 1,267,605 |
Carnival crews in Austria have been banned from making light of the European migrant crisis in a code of conduct which prohibits “hurtful attacks on defenceless people”.
Pre-Lent carnivals, ancient traditions that feature in many central European civilisations have a long and proud history of poking fun at politics, politicians and hot social topics. Yet this year the Austrian Carnival Guild has issued a code of conduct which proscribed jokes, “mockery and malice”, and sarcasm directed at certain protected minorities.
Despite the long standing convention of shows and traditionally grotesque or absurd costumes poking fun, the new rules announced earlier this week said gays and lesbians should be strictly protected from being the target of such barbs, reports Oberösterreichische Nachrichten. Just days later, immigrants were added to the list of protected minorities considered above humour, reported the Kurier.
A statement by the Federal Carnival Guild said this week: “Hurtful attacks on defenceless people, derision of majorities over minorities, biting mockery and malice, irony and sarcasm [are misplaced]… Laughing at others’ expense always leaves a bitter after-taste”.
The chairman of the council added to the statement, saying that people celebrating should be aware of their actions and words, and that to joke about others was to “demonise” them.
It may be the case that traditional Carnival characters, fleshed out to make mockery of the political Zeitgeist of the day including a political figure, a citizen, a fool, and a virgin presented too rich an opportunity for budding satirists in the light of migrant sex attacks in recent weeks.
English-language news source TheLocal reports the change has brought Austria’s carnival in line with those in Germany and Switzerland, yet a source within the Cologne carnival community — the largest of its kind in Europe — told Breitbart London this was not the case.
The carnival season is a time where even Europe’s most politically correct nation could trade jokes at the expense of elites and other out of reach targets, he said.
Europe’s carnivals, which blend Christian with ancient Pagan folklore to express an annual expression of tomfoolery before the start of Lenten austerity are looking to be the next victim of multiculturalism. Following the Cologne migrant rape attacks at New Year’s Eve, a number of carnivals have been cancelled in Germany, with local authorities refusing to take responsibility for the safety of their own citizens.
Cologne carnival itself was under threat this week as police sought a man seen buying bomb making chemicals at a local hardware store. Security sources suggested if the man was not caught, Carnival itself could be cancelled due to the security threat.
He later handed himself over to police, claiming the large amounts of chemicals he had bought were to restore his motorcycle. Criminal investigation officers are assessing the likelihood of his claim. | 1,267,606 |
with simply chanting, members of Socialist Alternative tried to physically remove the Liberal speaker from the lectern.
It was at this point that my faction decided that we would all leave the conference floor in an attempt to de-escalate the situation, however, as Student Unity attempted to leave, members of Socialist Alternative blocked both exists and became physically violent towards members of Student Unity who were simply attempting to exit the room peacefully. I consider myself a person who is fairly sound of mind, but even I will admit that this was indeed an intimidating experience. At least six people who were involved in the confrontation suffered anxiety attacks, I had to quite literally bear hug one of our male members and escort him to safety as he was sobbing uncontrollably and was physically unable to remove himself from the situation. One of our female members who is a diabetic and needed to check her blood sugar levels was punched in the face as she attempted to make her way to safety; after we all made it outside I had to sprint to the other end of the complex to fetch her an energy drink in a bid to stop her having a diabetic attack. The behaviour from the Socialist Alternative was absolutely abhorrent, however the article to which I now respond inexplicably focused primarily on my involvement.
At the time the video referred to in the article began, I was standing back and trying to avoid any confrontation. Unfortunately three Socialist Alternative members decided that it was acceptable for them to physically assault one of our female members. I was made aware of the three on one attack by a fellow member and knew that I couldn’t stand idly by and let someone be physically assaulted; I remember being taught at school that allowing a fight or assault to continue without intervening is just as bad as being a participant in it.
The video clearly shows me entering the group and attempting to quell the violence by removing one of the Socialist Alternative members from our member. While this was a proportionate and reasonable course of action considering the circumstances, unfortunately this caused the Socialist Alternative members to become even more violent and led to me being punched several times by a female member of Socialist Alternative as I was thankfully pulled out of the situation by a good friend.
Yes, indeed the video shows me in a heightened emotional state, but can anyone honestly say that if they were in the same situation and had just been physically assaulted for trying to do the right thing, that they wouldn’t have been a touch upset themselves.
Following the confrontation a complaint was lodged against me by one of the Socialist Alternative members, which was rightfully dismissed by the Grievance Officer as I was found to be acting in defence of a fellow student.
To wit, I vehemently reject the imputations made by the article that I was somehow to blame for any of the violence and while my time at NUS Nat-Con was certainly eye opening, not in a month of Sundays would I return to a conference where I would have to once again be exposed to the disgustingly violent behaviour of the Socialist Alternative. | 1,267,607 |
disagreement face-to-face offers a profound correction. Just like the interfaith engagement of my students at Princeton, personal interaction forces us to recognize the humanity in the person whom otherwise we might easily demonize or dismiss. The more we know about a person, the more we appreciate their vulnerabilities, their aspirations and the reasons for their convictions. Hopefully we might ultimately acknowledge that God is working in her or his life as well as in our own.
The advantage of being authentically engaged with people whose beliefs differ from our own is that it serves as a safeguard against idolizing our own ideology. If we are around only people who nod affirmatively we risk the casual merging our own truth with the Gospel truth and subsuming the Way of Jesus to our own way. When we become adherents of our own certitude, our faith can calcify and stagnate. Christian Civility requires humility, a somewhat under-emphasized virtue among Christian leaders. Yet our commitment to "walk humbly with our God," as Micah requires, gives space for us to learn and grow from God and from our Christian brothers
Christian Civility does not mean that we won't disagree. There is a difference between incivility and disagreement. Incivility breaks down communication and ruptures God's kingdom, but disagreement between Christians is inevitable -- and even productive. One example is the disagreement between Christian leaders around the Civil Rights Movement in America. Many Christians were encouraging Martin Luther King, Jr. to temper his demands, to slow down his movement and to not create so much tension or disagreement. MLK responded in his now famous Letter from Birmingham City Jail: "But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word 'tension.' I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth." Like MLK Jr., all of us benefit from clarity about where we stand. A call for civility is not a call for lack of conviction, rather it is about remaining engaged with those with whom we disagree in the hopes that we might somehow continue to move forward together forging new consensus as we go. The Civil Rights Movement is one example of civil tension that led Christians to a more authentic faith.
We will continue to have tension among Christians until we all agree on everything or Jesus comes again -- and I am betting on Jesus. Therefore the call for civility begins today and with each one of us. Christian Civility doesn't work if it is reduced to me pointing the finger at someone else and telling him or her to be more civil. While I still disagree with the pastor of my earlier confession, instead of only pointing out the speck in his eye, I should start by paying more attention to the log in my own. Perhaps then, when we can see each other more clearly, we will be granted the vision to build bridges into the future.
This article was first published as the forward to the book 'Uncommon Decency: Christian Civility In An Uncivilized World.'
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Halifax, NS, March 06, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nova Scotia’s vaping policies will actually help big tobacco’s low volume – high nicotine, closed pod systems and does nothing to discourage youth nicotine use.
“Yesterday the Nova Scotia Law Amendments Committee heard from adult vapers, industry representatives and Nova Scotia shop owners and the message was clear,” says Darryl Tempest, Executive Director, the Canadian Vaping Association. “Nova Scotia’s policies are a disaster for ex-smokers and small non-tobacco retailers but a big win for Big Tobacco”
The Nova Scotia vaping policies benefit big tobacco; the flavour ban policy will wipe out the adult-only vape shop network and send ex-smokers back to smoking tobacco. With the adult only vape shops closed, all vaping related sales will be driven through the convenience/gas station channel where tobacco companies have financial influence over retailers and don’t provide any harm reduction expertise. Finally, the taxation model which taxes e-liquids by volume means that low nicotine products used by adults will now cost more than cigarettes and Big Tobacco’s high nicotine products, which are attractive to youth, will cost less.
“The CVA has worked with other Provincial governments across Canada to effectively stop the youth vaping surge,” said Darryl Tempest. “They are limiting the amount of nicotine in pod systems to only 20mg and eliminating all flavours in the convenience store channel where youth have access. They designated adult-only expert vape shops as the only venues that adult ex-smokers can continue to get flavoured e-liquids. Some provinces are introducing new vaping taxes to help fund enforcement and education. The CVA agrees with changes introduced by the Governments of BC, Alberta, PEI and Ontario.”
The Canadian Vaping Association (CVA) and industry representatives from across the province call on the NS Government to set aside Bill 233, delay the introduction of the April 1st flavour ban and sit down with industry to develop a policy framework that will stop youth from access vaping products while ensuring that most adults can quit smoking in Nova Scotia.
About the Canadian Vaping Association
The Canadian Vaping Association (thecva.org) is a registered national, not-for-profit organization, established as the voice for the burgeoning Canadian vaping industry. Founded in 2014, the CVA represents over 300 retail and online vaping businesses in Canada, not including tobacco companies or affiliates. The association is the primary liaison with the federal and provincial governments on all legislative and regulatory issues related to the industry. The primary goal of CVA is to ensure that government regulation is reasonable and practical, through the strategy of professional proactive communication and education supplied bilingually to health officers, media, and elected officials.
Darryl Tempest The Canadian Vaping Association 647-274-1867 [email protected] | 1,267,609 |
Blockchain security firm CipherTrace has formally announced the release of its Travel Rule Information Sharing Architecture (TRISA); a new way for cryptocurrency businesses to satisfy regulatory pressure to enforce the travel rule, which requires financial institutions to share information of fund transfers.
TRISA is described as a reference implementation that can be integrated into cryptocurrency exchanges and wallet provides, provided for free as open-source software. Additional authentication, revocation or security services can then be purchased from CipherTrace or another provider. More details about how it works technically can be found in its white paper.
Growing Pressure for a Cryptocurrency Travel Rule
CipherTrace’s TRISA protocol comes as pressure has been building for cryptocurrency businesses to comply with the travel rule and it isn’t the firm’s first bid to bolster compliance. After the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) finalized recent recommended guidelines for cryptocurrency exchanges, which included information sharing similar to that called for by the travel rule, CipherTrace partnered with Shyft to unveil a new ID protection system in July 2019.
Dave Jevans, CipherTrace’s founder and CEO, detailed how TRISA builds on some of the previous work that CipherTrace has done.
“[TRISA is] a foundational layer that will set up the trust relationships between VASPs [virtual asset service providers], manage the encryption keys and confidentially exchange travel rule data,” he told Bitcoin Magazine. “It is about secure, reliable delivery of PII [personally identifiable information] to the correct VASP, which eliminates a huge risk for exchanges.”
In addition to framing TRISA as a way to protect privacy while complying with regulations, Jevans pointed out that Shyft will “contribute privacy-preserving features to enable compliance with GDPR and other privacy regimes” as it is implemented.
Privacy-Preserving Cryptocurrency Travel Rule Compliance
The FATF’s recommendations would make it necessary for all VASPs to share and store both sender and receiver data for all cryptocurrency transactions, and TRISA aims to make connections between these VASPs more secure.
“TRISA is about confidentiality and ensuring reliable delivery of transaction information,” Jevans said. “The reference implementation relies on the VASPs to secure the data in their possession — i.e., ‘at rest.’ It guards against information leaks by using TLS 1.3 with forward privacy to encrypt data in transit.”
The company’s announcement of the protocol notes that Binance is already looking at TRISA as a solution for FATF compliance.
“We have witnessed significant interest from large VASPs in the G20 countries,” Jevans said, adding that CipherTrace “hope[s] to have several major exchanges participate in the upcoming proof of concept and interoperability testing.” | 1,267,610 |
Baby born four months early survives surgery at Tooting hospital Published duration 1 March 2017
media caption Abiageal only weighed 1.3lb (609g) when she had the operation
A baby born four months early has been taken home by her parents after surviving pioneering surgery.
Abiageal Peters was born at 23 weeks, weighing just over 1lb and suffering from a ruptured intestine.
She became the youngest patient ever to be operated on at St George's Hospital, Tooting.
After four months recovering on the neo-natal ward, Abiageal is now back at home in Esher, Surrey, with parents David and Louise.
image caption Abiageal Peters was born at 23 weeks
After her sudden birth Abiageal's stomach turned black and her survival was touch-and-go.
Mrs Peters said: "It was like a crash. It was suddenly, 'oh no, she has to go through this'.
'Absolute miracle'
"It was like, 'ok she may not survive with surgery - but she definitely won't survive without it'. So we signed on the dotted line and waited.
"We were allowed a quick peek and a kiss before she was rushed off. It was incredibly scary and hard to believe something that small could survive."
image caption Louise and David Peters were delighted to welcome home their baby girl
St George's is one of the leading hospitals for for paediatric surgery in the country, but it was still a first for surgical staff to operate on a baby so young.
Paediatric surgeon Zahid Mukhtar said: "Her skin and tissues were very jelly-like. If you held them she would start to bleed and, if you can imagine, a baby that size has very little circulating blood volume, so you can't really afford any blood loss.
image caption Paediatric surgeon Zahid Mukhtar said the surgery was the first of its kind at the hospital
"But this great team of about 10 people were focusing all their energy on this tiny little baby."
Now Abiageal is finally out of danger and flourishing at home with her family, including older sister Tara, two.
Mrs Peters added: "She's doing brilliantly. We've been told to treat her like a normal newborn; she's not on any monitors or oxygen or anything. But you're still kind of, 'is she breathing?' and just making sure she's OK all the time.
image caption Abiageal became the youngest patient to ever be operated on at St George's Hospital
"For her to be so small and to go through all that, she is an absolute miracle."
The reason for the early labour is unknown.
Mr Peters said: "Now she's home it's great, you know. She's had a lot of hurdles in her short life but she seems to have passed through it all with flying colours." | 1,267,611 |
DUBAI (REUTERS) - Deaths in Iran from coronavirus have hit 43, the highest number outside China, and the total number of infected people has risen to 593, an Iranian health official said on Saturday (Feb 29).
The country is at the epicentre of the outbreak in the region, with several countries in the Middle East reporting cases of the coronavirus stemming from Iran.
"Unfortunately nine people died of the virus in the last 24 hours, increasing the death toll to 43," Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur told state TV, calling on people to stay at home.
Health Minister Saeed Namaki on Friday warned of "a very difficult week" ahead in Iran, which only announced its first infections and deaths from the coronavirus on Feb 19 and where the death rate among confirmed cases has been around 10 per cent, compared to around 3 per cent elsewhere.
Teheran has ordered the shutting of schools until Tuesday and extended the closure of universities and a ban on concerts and sports events for a week. Authorities have also banned visits to hospitals and nursing homes.
Several high-ranking officials, including a vice minister, the deputy health minister and five lawmakers, have tested positive for the virus as the outbreak forced Iran's clerical rulers to close the parliament and impose internal travel bans.
One lawmaker, elected in Iran's Feb 21 polls, has died of the coronavirus, Iranian media reported on Saturday.
The government spokesman will hold his weekly news conference online due to the outbreak, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
The foreign ministry advised Iranians to avoid trips to South Korea, which on Saturday reported its largest daily increase in the number of infections yet, with the total number rising by 813 to 3,150. The death toll stood at 17, up four from a day earlier.
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Saudi Arabia is now the only Gulf Arab state not to have reported any cases of the coronavirus, which has infected about 80,000 people and killed more than 2,800, mostly in China.
"This is an international problem and all nations should work together to overcome the coronavirus crisis," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told Qatar's ruler Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani on Saturday by telephone, state TV reported.
However, Iran has rejected as "ridiculous" a US offer to help with the outbreak.
Tensions have been high between Teheran and Washington since 2018, when US President Donald Trump pulled out from a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six major powers and reimposed sanctions which have battered the Islamic Republic's economy.
Iranian authorities said the US sanctions were hampering Teheran's ability to get medical supplies from other countries, something which Washington has denied. | 1,267,612 |
Prosecutors have decided not to lay charges against an off-duty Montreal police officer who had been accused of road rage, CBC News has learned.
Jeffery Pokora, the man who says he was the victim in the case, received a letter last week from police informing him that Crown prosecutors had reviewed the file and decided not to lay charges against the officer.
Pokora said he was "dumbfounded" when he got the news, saying that "the evidence is there, on video, in black and white — vehicular assault."
Jean-Pascal Boucher, a spokesperson for Quebec's Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions, said the decision not to lay charges against the police officer was made after "after a complete analysis by our proscutors of all the evidence.
"I can't talk about the evidence," he said.
Pokora is still facing charges of his own for harassment and intimidation.
Part of the incident last January was captured on surveillance video and Pokora shared his story with CBC last fall. None of the allegations have been proven in court.
Video shows SUV backing into car
A Montreal man describes an alleged road rage incident involving a driver he didn't know was an off-duty cop. 1:20
Pokora told CBC he was driving in Lasalle on a snowy night in January 2015 when an SUV rolled through a stop sign and passed him on the left.
Pokora was worried the driver might be drunk, so he followed the vehicle to a house and had words with the driver.
He didn't realize at the time the man was an off-duty police officer. Pokora eventually pulled up his car to block the SUV in the driveway.
Surveillance video obtained by CBC then shows the SUV backing up and smashing Pokora's car twice. Pokora fled the scene and he says the SUV chased him.
Police eventually stopped the two vehicles and Pokora was arrested at gunpoint.
Life 'turned upside down'
Pokora filed a criminal complaint against the off-duty officer, as well as a complaint with the police ethics commission.
Police investigated the case and told CBC last fall that the surveillance video didn't tell the whole story.
At he time, Pokora said he decided to come forward after his life was turned "upside down" by the incident.
"After 10 months of therapy, I started realizing I need to start holding people accountable. Just like our politicians, everybody is accountable," he said.
Ethics commission won't proceed with complaint
Pokora also received a letter from the police ethics commission, saying it couldn't proceed with his complaint because the officer was off-duty at the time.
The letter said the commission only handles complaints involving officers who are in the course of performing their duties.
Pokora is scheduled to appear in court in March. | 1,267,613 |
one day or the other you will be orphaned. Naaz Bano is a child, look after her and live a righteous life.
"Naaz Bano you are no longer a princess don't throw tantrums or make demands. Just give thanks to Allah and eat whatever you can get. If someone is eating, don't look at them or people will say Princesses are very greedy."
He put us in charge of the Khwaja Sara and said, "Take them to where the other members of our family have gone."
He embraced us and spurred his horse into the jungle. That was the last we saw of him and have no idea what happened to him after that. The Khwaja Sara was an old servant of our family and he set of with us. Naaz Bano walked for a little while but she had never walked in her pampered and protected life and soon her legs gave way.
She started crying. I had never walked much myself but somehow I managed and pulling Bano along stumbled my way through the streets where we once rode elephants in state processions.
A thorn pricked Naaz Bano's foot and she fell down crying. I picked her up and tried to remove the thorn. The accursed Khwaja Sara kept watching, making no effort to help. He started pushing us to hurry up.
Naaz said, "Apajan I can't walk anymore. Please ask the steward to send a palanquin for us."
I started pacifying her through my tears. My heart felt as if it would burst with sorrow.
The Khwaja Sara said rudely, "That's enough. Make a move now."
Naaz Bano was high-spirited and was used to obeisance from servants and would always keep them in their place. She scolded the Khwaja Sara. The accursed man flew into a rage and slapped the poor orphaned princess.
Bano trembled with shock. No one had ever laid a hand on her. Even I started crying along with her. The Khwaja Sara walked off leaving the two of us crying there.
Somehow the two of us stumbled our way to the dargah of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya rahmatallah alaihe.
Thousands of people from Delhi and our family had taken refuge here. Each was caught up in their own troubles and fears. No one was talking to the other or enquiring after them.
A wave of epidemic diseases, which spread in the wake of the ghadar, claimed my sister's life.
I was now all-alone.
Though peace returned to Delhi, there was no peace for me.
The British govt fixed a pension of Rs 5/pm for all of us and I still get that.
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ArrivalStar is one of the most active patent trolls, having filed hundreds of lawsuits in recent years. Most of its suits were filed against medium- and large-sized companies, but this particular troll stood out from the rest because it also chose to sue public transit agencies. The company got an $80,000 settlement from Seattle (King County) and won similar payments from Chicago's Metra system, Boston, and other locales.
The threats kept adding up, and eventually the transit agencies struck back. Two months ago, the American Public Transit Association (APTA), working together with the Public Patent Foundation, filed a lawsuit seeking to invalidate ArrivalStar's patents. It promised to be the first real test of ArrivalStar's patented technology.
Now APTA and ArrivalStar have settled their case. It's a win for APTA, since ArrivalStar agreed to stop targeting its members or any vendors that serve its members.
“This is a good day for the public transportation industry and now public transportation agencies and businesses can move forward with innovative technology without threat of baseless litigation,” said APTA President Michael Melaniphy.
Unfortunately, ArrivalStar's many targets in the private sector are going to have to continue to grapple with the litigious patent-holding company. ArrivalStar has never taken its patents anywhere near a trial, and hardly any of its lawsuits even go beyond early stages of litigation. With today's settlement, ArrivalStar can continue avoiding any rigorous testing of its patents.
The APTA lawsuit had challenged 13 ArrivalStar patents all related to vehicle tracking. The oldest ones are patents number 5,657,010; 6,317,060; and 6,411,891. They have priority dates stretching back as early as 1993.
PubPat founder Dan Ravicher explained that he can't force ArrivalStar into court if the company agrees not to sue, because "there's no longer a case or controversy to satisfy standing requirements," he explained in an e-mail exchange with Ars today. "I'd love to do work that others can free-ride upon, but I can't pursue a case in court without a client that's being injured."
According to the patent-holding company's own mythology, its founder, Martin Jones, was working on a pre-Internet telephone-based system that notified parents when school buses were coming to pick up their kids back in the 1990s. Today, Jones' lawyers claim in lawsuits that he's owed royalties on practically any system of vehicle-tracking in the world. Jones has wrested fees from huge airlines, freight companies, and even small companies that do things like make transit-tracking apps.
ArrivalStar is the second notorious patent troll to find itself in retreat this week. Yesterday, MPHJ Technology, which has threatened many businesses with its patents that cover networked scanners, agreed to stop targeting Minnesota businesses after it was confronted by that state's attorney general. | 1,267,615 |
convince everyone in the US to endorse your vision of real change in the mental health system, you could get everyone to agree with you (opinion polls actually show people strongly supportive of our goals), and it would make zero difference, none, if the elite interests who can afford to buy votes are still against it. Elites and monied interests have made US democracy into a fraud. On every issue — quality teachers, gun safety, abortion, foreign policy, climate honesty, pharmaceutical company greed — monied interests block the way.
All of us are now urgently challenged to join the movement to end corruption of our democracy and make our votes count. HR1, the anti-corruption electoral reform bill, is a huge watershed change in our national discussion. That the bill pits Dems against Repubs is an unfortunate symptom, but the broader question — transpartisan support for change — is now on the agenda. My question to the mental health reform movement, the mad movement, the patient movement, the critical psychiatry movement — whatever we call our movement — is: Where are we in this discussion? Not “can we join the chorus of anti-Trump,” which to me is more reality-television spectacle distraction. But the real question — the question King asked — is this: Will we join the movement to make real change, to get to the heart of human freedom and work to fulfill the promise of democracy against control by monied elites? Because that’s what it’s going to take to get the mental health system change we are all talking about.
King was not simply a leader of more compassion, tolerance, respect, and treating people equally, as his sanitized legacy and co-opted holiday shrink him down to be. He was all of those things, but he was something much bigger and much more important — and he died for it. He was a leader raising his voice across this country to ask us to join a movement. A provocative, militant, loud, disciplined, multi-racial, upstream, system-change and concrete-goal-focused mass movement, with one specific aim: fixing democracy. His goal was to overturn the anti-democratic control of our political system by elites and put power back in the hands where it belongs — with us, ordinary people. Is the movement we think we are part of, whatever we name it, the same as the movement King fought for, whether or not we invoke his legacy or reference his words? Most importantly, can we admit we will never succeed if we don’t join the movement King was creating when he was murdered? Are we instead professional complainers and critics in a narrow, single-issue pluralistic fantasy, promising single-issue reforms that can never become real?
Do we want to see meaningful mental health reforms that actually work? Do we want to meet the great moral challenge of our day and be part of a real movement for a real solution? Because that’s how we can truly honor the legacy of Dr. King. | 1,267,616 |
of skillful qualities that are present
This, friends, is Right Effort.
And what is Right Mindfulness?
Right Mindfulness is remaining mindful of the body free of distraction, ardent, alert, and mindful of abandoning greed and reaction to worldly events.
Right Mindfulness is remaining mindful of feelings arising and passing away free of distraction, ardent, alert, and mindful of abandoning greed and reaction to worldly events.
Right Mindfulness is remaining mindful of mental qualities arising and passing away free of distraction, ardent, alert, and mindful of abandoning greed and reaction to worldly events.
Right Mindfulness is remaining mindful of the quality of mind arising and passing away free of distraction, ardent, alert, and mindful of abandoning greed and reaction to worldly events.
This, friends, is Right Mindfulness. [5]
And what is Right Meditation?
For one who has developed Right Meditation their concentration increases and they withdraw from the need for sensual stimulation
For one who has developed Right Meditation their concentration increases and they withdraw from unskillful mental qualities
For one who has developed Right Meditation their concentration increases and they enter and remain in the first J hana, the first level of meditative absorption, which is joyful engagement and pleasure in the Dhamma born from withdrawal, and accompanied by directed thought and mindful evaluation.
For one who has developed Right Meditation their concentration increases and their directed thoughts and mindful evaluation quiets. They enter and remain in the second J hana, the second level of meditative absorption, which is joyful engagement and pleasure born of deepening concentration free from directed thought and mindful evaluation and confident within.
For one who has developed Right Meditation their concentration increases and their joyful engagement fades. Equanimity arises with mindfulness of pleasure in a mind united with the body. They enter the third Jhana. The wise know this as equanimous and mindful – a pleasant abiding.
For one who has developed Right Meditation their concentration increases, their mind rests in equanimity, neither pleasure nor pain have a footing. They enter and remain in the Fourth Jhana. Their mindfulness and equanimity is pure, free of wrong views rooted in ignorance of Four Noble Truths.
This, monks, is Right Meditation.” [6]
This is what the Buddha declared. Those gathered were gratified and delighted at his words.
End Of Sutta
The Buddha’s description of Right Meditation is a description of Jhnans. [7] Jhanas are ever-increasing levels of meditative absorption. Jhanas are often portrayed as extraordinary, almost mystical levels of meditative absorption achieved by only a very few “advanced” meditators. As seen here, Jhanas are ordinary, though profound levels of meditative absorption developed by any mediator engaging in Jhana meditation [8] within the framework outlined here – the framework of the Eightfold Path. | 1,267,617 |
A Virginia college student murdered her “best friend” and roommate by stabbing her as many as 40 times with a butcher knife in the off-campus apartment they shared, police said.
Luisa Cutting, 21, from Jeffersonton, Virginia, is charged with second-degree murder for the death of fellow Radford University student Alexa Cannon, formerly of Roanoke, according to a press release from the Radford City Police Department. Cutting was being held in a local jail on no bond. She was scheduled to be arraigned Friday in Radford General District Court.
Police responded to a 911 call around 7:45 Thursday. During the call, a police dispatcher said, she heard someone shouting and referencing a knife, according to a search warrant obtained by the Roanoke Times.
When officials arrived at the off-campus apartment where the women resided, they saw Cutting covered in blood, police said. Cutting put her arms behind her head and said, “Arrest me,” the search warrant said. “I killed her,” Cutting said after police asked her what was going on, according to the warrant.
Cannon was pronounced dead at the scene, the search warrant showed.
Police did not reveal a motive for the killing. Posts on Cannon’s social media pages indicate that the girls had a close relationship.
“I met this girl two years ago online and somehow we ended up living across from each other for a year, this summer she was equivalent to my mom in Cancun. And unimaginably she still puts up with me and now we’re living together next year. Love you more Lu and everyone pray that we don’t kill each other this year,” Cannon said on Instagram in March.
A post on Cannon’s Facebook page from July read: “So incredibly proud of my best friend, Luisa Cutting for becoming Latinos Student Alliance’s President! I know you’re going to be amazing with everything you do! Love you more!!”
“Love you so so much,” Cutting wrote in response to Cannon’s Facebook post.
Cutting is on interim suspension at the university, Caitlyn Scaggs, Radford University’s associate vice president for university relations, told the Roanoke Times in an email.
“This is a tragic moment for our campus community and the Radford family. During this difficult time, we ask that you provide support to your fellow Highlanders,” Radford University president Brian Hemphill said in a statement.
“The days and months to come will also be difficult as we extend our deepest sympathies, as well as our thoughts and prayers, to the family and loved ones of our student,” the statement continued.
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Created on: 22nd February 2014
The King of rock made a visit to Belfast to promote reconciliation. A church minister, dressed as Elvis Presley, crossed a so-called peace line in Belfast in a bid to promote peace and reconciliation in the community.
The Reverend Andy Kelso fits in performances as a professional Elvis impersonator around his day job as a Church of England minister. He walked from the Falls Road - one of the city's best known republican areas - through to the Shankill Road, a strongly unionist part of west Belfast. He later staged a charity concert.
Outside the Falls Road library on Saturday morning, passers-by caught the unusual sight of the Las Vegas-era Elvis Presley, teddy bear by his side, performing some of his greatest hits.
The minister, who is visiting Northern Ireland from England, brought over his Elvis gospel-tribute act to walk and sing along the peace walls of Belfast.
Elvis made his way through the barrier that separates both communities, and on to the lower Shankill Road.
Barrier.
After posing for photos in front of the Bobby Sands mural on the Falls Road, and stopping for a chat with workers in the local café, Elvis made his way through the barrier that separates both communities, and on to the lower Shankill Road.
He then performed a charity concert in the City Life Centre, in aid of the Northern Ireland Children's Hospice.
Mr Kelso was invited to Belfast by the Townsend Street Presbyterian Church, just off the Shankill Road.
He sees the music of Elvis as a way to reach out to both communities in Northern Ireland.
"I just feel that Belfast wants and needs some joy," Mr Kelso said.
"It's had so much that's not joy, hasn't it? And so many peace initiatives have failed, but the people are so friendly. It's only a few people in life that spoil everything.
"I just think people want a reason to celebrate so it was a thrill for me and humbling to walk this peace line."
'No sectarian baggage'
Jack Lamb, minister of Townsend Street Presbyterian Church, explained why he thought Elvis was the perfect choice for the peace walk.
"One of the joys of discovering a man who is doing an Elvis tribute act is that Elvis carries no sectarian baggage," he said.
"He's equally loved on both sides of the peace line wall and to me that's thrilling because, so often when you try and organise event, you discover it's seen as either a Protestant event or a Catholic event.
"Here's someone who straddles (both) and hopefully will bring the communities a bit more together."
Posted by Amanda Hopkins
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Arizona's new conception calculator.
Virginity is no excuse.
The forced-birther attacks on privacy and reproductive rights have brought new meaning to the word relentless. They attack on all fronts and when they lose, they don't back off. They innovate.
One of the more recent efforts has been the outlawing of abortions after 20 weeks. Alabama, Indiana, Kansas, Oklahoma and Idaho all enacted laws in 2011 prohibiting abortion after 20 weeks of gestation based on the claim of "fetal pain." Nebraska adopted a similar law in 2010. Pro-choice advocates argue that these laws violate the Supreme Court's rulings that forbid states from placing undue burdens on women seeking abortions. And they point out that such abortions are rare, less than 1.5 percent of the total, and either medically essential or done because of delays put in place by other abortion-restricting laws. And they further point out that the fetal pain claim is utterly bogus and unscientific.
None of the 20-week laws has been court-tested. So other states have queued up with their own versions. Arizona has now joined them.
With a perverse added twist. Call it the Life Begins at Menstruation provision.
The way the 20 weeks would be calculated in Arizona is with a countdown that starts on the first day of a woman’s period. Kate Sheppard explains:
Most women ovulate about 14 or 15 days after their period starts, and women can usually get pregnant from sexual intercourse that occur[r]ed anywhere between five days before ovulation and a day after it. Arizona's law would start the clock at a woman's last period—which means, in practice, that the law prohibits abortion later than 18 weeks after a woman actually becomes pregnant.
In practice, it means that, under the Arizona law, a virgin could be pregnant.
As Amanda Marcotte says:
That’s bad in and of itself, but taking a step back and looking at the big picture makes this law look even more sinister. Medically speaking, pregnancy starts when a fertilized egg implants in the uterine lining. Anti-choicers have attempted to define it earlier with their failed attempts to pass “personhood” law that would define not just pregnancy, but “personhood” as beginning at conception. Now in Arizona, they’re trying to argue that you’re pregnant a couple of weeks before you even had the sex that resulted in your pregnancy.
If Arizona required sex education in its public schools, not only would the state not rank fourth in teen pregnancies, perhaps enough senators to kill this wacko provision of this outrageous bill would be aware of the basic biology involved here. Riiiiight. Who am I kidding? For the forced-birther brigade, in and out of elected office, the woman-hating agenda trumps everything: science and common-sense and human decency included. | 1,267,620 |
As a student of Sociology it is important to draw upon a variety of perspectives and to consider the multitude of positions that have been taken by the great Sociologists over the years. When writing a term paper or presenting a position, be sure to draw from a variety of backgrounds and ideologies in order to shape a unique perspective and form a complete thought. One Sociologist that is great to bring into a variety of topics and to reference is the great thinker Travis Hirschi.
Travis Hirschi- Social Control
Hirschi’s sociological focus ranged on a variety of topics that can be related to both Sociology and Criminology. Born and educated in Utah, Hirschi was also a professor in life at the University of Arizona. Hirschi brings a unique perspective into why we behave the way that we do. The focus of Hirschi’s main principles were why people participated in delinquent behavior and what factors went into stopping a person from behaving delinquently. He is part of the movement focusing on Social Control.
What is Social Control?
Social Control is the enforcement of conformity by society upon its members, either by law or by social pressure. the influence of any element in social life working to maintain the pattern of such life.
In reference to the teaching of Travis Hirschi, there were four main things that Hirschi believed keep a person from participating in delinquent behavior. These four items that all rational people would consider prior to participating in delinquent behavior would be Attachment, Commitment, Involvement and Belief.
Attachment- A Person’s Attachment to their job, family, community, church, friends would keep them from committing a crime because of the fear that they would have of what a person would think of them.
Commitment- A Person’s Commitment to their responsibilities keeps them from participating in acts that would be deemed delinquent because of fear of losing or being cut off from their current commitments like work and family.
Involvement- The more Involvement a Person has in extracurricular or shared experiences will keep a person from participating in delinquent behavior because they are involved in other items that will take precedence in their lives.
Belief- A Belief in god or a higher power will stop a person from behaving delinquently because the person will be afraid of eternal repercussions of their behavior, even though it may be a private act.
STUDENT SECTION: Impress Your Professor
Travis Hirschi can be referenced regarding the following topics:
Social Control, Social Injustice, Delinquency, Criminology, Control, Religion, Bond Theories, Relationships, Behavior, Social Norms, Human Behavior, Risk Factors
What do you think of Hirshi’s bond theories? Do you think Attachment, Commitment, Involvement or Belief is the most relevant in controlling people? Let us know on Facebook and Twitter! | 1,267,621 |
Transcript for Trump defends Syria strike as Assad regime appears undeterred
President trump is waking up to fresh science that his strike against Syria is not stopping the regime there from carrying out more attacks against its own people. Look at this new video. This is the same air base that was hit by 59 U.S. Tomahawk missiles. There are reports of fresh air strikes against the same town hit by chemical weapons. That horrifying attack that moved president trump to action. The president is tweeting out his defense as to why the U.S. Military did not take out the runways at that air base. All this as we're getting seemingly mixed messages about whether the strike against Syria represents a significant change in the administration's policy. Are we aiming for regime change or not? We have team coverage this morning. We start with Alex Marquardt on the ground in Beirut. Good morning. Reporter: Good morning, Dan. Good morning, Paula. The Assad regime showing it's business as usual in Syria. Launches bombs from the base that was struck. This morning, a new statement from president Assad saying the U.S. Failed in achieving the goal behind this attack. New records of a bombing in idlib province. The same area that the chemical attack took place. The regime showing it is perhaps undeferred after the strikes at the air base. Checking weapons systems and directing aircraft on to the taxi way as pilots take off from the runway, still in tact after the 5 a 9 American tomahawk cruise missiles rained down on the airfield. President trump defending the targeted strike. The reason you generally don't hit runways is they are easy and inexpensive to fix. A plane took off with a deadly nerve agent that killed people. Perhaps no image fueling global sadness and outrange than this one. Of this man holding his two life less 9-month-old twins. He went house to house trying to rescue neighbors and family. But then passed out. I took too long, he said. I rescued everyone else. But I couldn't rescue you. On this week, secretary of state Rex tillerson tells George Stephanopoulos he'll confront Russia Syria's main backer about the full removal of Assad's chemical arsenal. At a minimum, Russia hasn't done enough because the Kem krals still there. I don't draw conclusions of complicity at all. Clearly, they have been incompetent. But perhaps they have been outmaneuverered by the Syrians. Reporter: This, as the trump administration does a seeming about face. Regime change is something we thing is going to happen. Reporter: Asked if he'll order more strikes. He won't stop here. If he needs to do more, he'll do more. Reporter: The line seems to be back to chemical bombing is not tolerable. A huge question, Alex Marquardt on the ground for us. Thank you. We turn to reports of turmoil inside the white house
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Bull terrier lunged at guide dog in Ipswich, court hears
The guide dog was attacked in Upper Brook Street, Ipswich Picture: ARCHANT
A homeless man has admitted being in charge of a bull terrier which attacked a guide dog in Ipswich town centre.
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Dyer was often seen outside Sainsbury's in Upper Brook Street, Ipswich Picture: ARCHANT Dyer was often seen outside Sainsbury's in Upper Brook Street, Ipswich Picture: ARCHANT
Mark Dyer, 31, of no fixed abode, appeared before magistrates in Ipswich on Thursday charged with being the person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control.
The court heard how on December 14, 2018, a blind lady was walking in Upper Brook Street, Ipswich, with her guide dog when Dyer's Staffordshire bull terrier named Stella lunged at the assistance animal.
A member of the public, who was walking in the street, was forced to step in and had to pull the dogs apart.
The attack meant the blind woman was left unassisted for a short while as she was forced to let go of her dog so the animal could escape the bull terrier.
She was left distressed and very upset by the incident.
Dyer was often seen in Ipswich sitting on bedding outside Sainsbury's or Wilko with his pet alongside him, the court heard.
He was not present at the time of the attack but had left the bull terrier in the care of a woman, who did nothing to try to stop the attack.
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The Staffordshire bull terrier, which was not wearing a muzzle during the incident, was taken away from Dyer following the attack and has since been destroyed.
Dyer admitted the offence at Suffolk Magistrates' Court and sentencing was adjourned until September 6.
He was released on unconditional bail.
According to a 2018 report, 12 guide dogs are attacked in the UK every month. In nearly 60% of these attacks the aggressor dog was off the lead.
The charity Guide Dogs said the cost of helping them and their owners recover following attacks has topped £1.3million since 2010.
Guide Dogs launched its Take the Lead campaign last year, calling for the public to put their dog on a lead when they see a guide dog working.
Rachel Moxon, Guide Dogs researcher, said: "Guide dogs are life-changing for those living with sight loss, helping their owners live life to the full.
"Attacks on our dogs destroy confidence and can mean a guide dog owner once again loses their freedom and independence.
"Putting your dog on a lead when you see a guide dog working, allows you to have more control over the situation." | 1,267,623 |
work, though. Evidently I walked around for years as a rapist, totally unaware. Nobody stuck that label on me, I certainly never applied it to myself, even now it only feels like it fits when I’m severely depressed. The label, the crime, simply coalesced for me one day, dragging years of backstory behind it.
So, here's the thing, right? A rapist is just someone who has committed a rape. It's one of those things that you only really have to do once for it to be a name we can apply to you. It doesn't mean you wake up every day and plan your life around your next rape. It's not that kind of label, in the same way that just killing one measly dude is enough to land you with the uncomfortable term'murderer'. If it sounds a bit harsh that people are calling you a rapist because of that one rape you did ages ago, it's because you're not supposed to rape anybody, ever. It's one of those awkward little rules we came up with after we figured out that rape is a bad thing. I'm sorry this causes you party problems. I'm doing a proper sadface.
Essentially, the piece is about how Rapists Are Bad, but this one guy doesn't feel like he's a bad rapist, so maybe we can invent another word for it? Tell him it's all okay? It's an awkward position to take; he's essentially arguing for a bit of maturity and nuance to the debate, but the reason he's asking for it is because he's set up 'rapists' in his mind as this massively evil group of people that a guy like him could obviously never be in. He's just a good guy trying to have loads of drink-fuelled orgies, and you can't expect him to be responsible for his actions because that would totally harsh his freakin' buzz, man.
The neatest illustration of how he simply Doesn't Get It comes toward the end. Told by society to stop drunkenly raping people, he somehow interprets this as a demand not to get drunk and have a good time. He asks, plaintively, "Do people who’ve been in car accidents give up driving?". Well, no, we don't tell people who've had accidents not to drive, but we absolutely do tell people who are drunk not to drive their cars around drunkenly running people over. When you hit someone with your car while drunk, you don't get to go "Hey, I was DRUNK! Can't a man fuckin' PARTY around here any more?" as a defence. You have to face responsibility for your actions. I'm happy to let people get as drunk as they want. We're asking you not to commit a rape. And if you can't judge whether you're committing a rape, it might be time to just fucking put it away.
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With the introduction scrolling up the screen, just like in the Star Wars movies:
The second most visited location on the planet Earth, a place called Disneyland, announced the largest single land expansion in history. On May 31, 2019 the opening of Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland park was expected to draw crowds estimated between 150,000 – 200,000. A small group of freedom fighters took this opportunity to spread truth about the sinister mandatory vaccination laws plaguing the nation. These activists stood in front of all entrances to Disneyland holding signs exposing the truth about the vaccine program. No one entering the park that day could avoid moving past these activists and the truth they came to spread in hopes to restore freedom to the galaxy….
Again, all I can say is: Self-important much? Also, I can’t help but revel in the irony. After all, Disneyland was ground zero for a major measles outbreak four years ago, an outbreak that first led to the State of California eliminating nonmedical exemptions to school vaccine mandates. Were the antivaxers intentionally targeting the site of an outbreak that presaged the efforts going on now to restrict nonmedical exemptions to vaccines mandates? Who knows? I’m not sure if they’re sufficiently self-aware to do that.
As you can see, in this instance, there were a lot fewer antivaxers than at Comic-Con. (Maybe it was easier and cheaper to buy a bunch of Guy Fawkes masks for the Comic-Con stunt; Star Wars costumes, particularly storm trooper costumes, rapidly get expensive.) You can also see that this video is even more boring than the Comic-Con video, which worries me. It implies that Coleman might be getting better at making video for these events.
Of course, what I really wanted to know is: Why? Why did antivaxers think that Star Wars fans and Comic-Con attendees would be susceptible to their message? Personally, I question whether Comic-Con attendees would be that susceptible. It’s been my experience that most people who are sufficiently into science fiction and fantasy to the point of attending a convention like Comic-Con or traveling to Disneyland to be among the first to see a new Star Wars attraction tend to be pretty science-based and pro-vaccine, at least more so than average. What I really suspect is that maybe Josh Coleman is into science fiction and fantasy. So, as Kent Heckenlively does with Aragorn, Coleman fantasizes about being in the rebellion in Star Wars or being V in V for Vendetta, the hero fighting for freedom and justice.
Coupled with the not-infrequent violent rhetoric of the antivaccine movement, seeing how much antivaxers identify with rebels, heroes, and terrorists fighting despotic regimes or even a Dark Lord and how they act out those fantasies by cosplaying Star Wars characters and a character like V worries me, and I don’t think my concern is unreasonable. | 1,267,625 |
the worst-case scenario, the objects could be "killer asteroids" on a trajectory to wipe out cities while crashing into our planet, said Canada-France-Hawaii's Simons.
Canada-France-Hawaii has a longstanding program to spot such objects with the help of two telescopes atop Maui's Haleakala volcano. The Maui telescopes, called PAN-Starrs, scan vast areas of the sky each night. They send coordinates for items of interest to the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, which zooms in to determine their orbits and whether they might pose problems.
This was the method used in 2017 when astronomers using Canada-France-Hawaii did some of the initial work identifying the orbit of Oumuamua, the first object from interstellar space ever documented to have entered our solar system. The oblong visitor turned out to be a comet from a distant star.
PAN-Starrs has continued to scan the sky and has spotted one near-Earth object nearly every night of the observatory shutdown, Simons said.
Astronomers using Keck missed an opportunity to study a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a star outside our solar system July 24. Keck was to have studied the extrasolar planet at the same time as the Hubble Space Telescope and a telescope on board the International Space Station.
The absence of Keck's data will leave the project incomplete, said John O'Meara, Keck's chief scientist. That's because each telescope was to have observed in a different wavelength: Keck in near infrared, the space station telescope in X-ray, and Hubble in ultraviolet. The various wavelengths combined provide a better understanding of the exoplanet.
Every night of Keck observations turns into knowledge humanity didn't have before, O'Meara said.
"I can guarantee you that some science that would be in a textbook 10 years from now did not get done," he said.
The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope was scheduled to study clouds of gas and dust that form stars as part of a project going back eight years. Astronomers measure the dust and clouds at precise intervals to determine how they are changing.
Missing observations will affect astronomers' understanding of how baby stars form, said Dempsey, whose East Asian Observatory operates the Maxwell telescope.
Meanwhile, workers have been unable to do critical repairs at the Subaru Telescope, run by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Gaps between its dome and main shutter need to be closed to keep water from seeping in, said Michitoshi Yoshida, the telescope's director.
Subaru arranged for a contractor to make the fixes during a window between July 22 and Sept. 8, but workers have been unable to access the site due to the protester's roadblock. The contractor said it could finish the job if it's able to start by Monday, but otherwise will have to reschedule the work for next year, Yoshida said. | 1,267,626 |
right hand from their left—and also many animals?” (Jonah 4:8-11)
And then the book ends.
There’s no resolution of the story. Jonah never says “Oh gee, God, you’re right. I’m sorry. I should be more concerned about the Ninevites than about a plant.”
Nothing. The book ends and Jonah is still furious that his plant is dead and the Ninevites are still alive.
Because for Jonah, the story isn’t about the Ninevite people coming to know God. It’s about Jonah getting what he wants and being comfortable. Jonah has taken the story of the grace of God and made it a story about the desires of Jonah.
And God’s reminder to Jonah is one that’s good for all of us.
It’s not about you.
God didn’t ask Jonah to go Ninevah because he thought it would be a good learning experience for Jonah. He asked Jonah to go to Ninevah because he loves the Ninevites and wanted them to turn to him. Jonah isn’t supposed to be the main character of that story, he’s just supposed to be the communicator. But Jonah makes the story about him.
It’s like showing up to a funeral and taking a selfie. Jonah takes something that’s not about him and puts himself and his desires at the front and center.
And it’s easy to pick on Jonah for this, just like it’s easy to pick on teenagers who take too many pictures of themselves, but can we really say that we’re not equally as guilty? Can we really look at the story of Jonah and say, “I have never tried to make the story of God into the story of Me”?
I can’t say that. Sometimes, the Tyler story becomes more important to me than the God story. I try to make my character have a bigger role than it ought to have.
In a culture that grows increasingly narcissistic, God calls us to take on a supporting role in a story that’s actually all about him. He calls us into situations we may not want to be in, to teach messages we may not like, to accomplish a purpose that we don’t want him to accomplish.
And the trick is getting out of the way.
At the end of my life, I hope that people show up at my funeral and tell a story that’s more about God than it is about me. I hope when people look at my Instagram, or my Facebook, or my blog, or whatever that they don’t see as many selfies as they do pictures of God.
May we decrease, so that He may increase to fill every part of our lives. | 1,267,627 |
Exposure to environmental pollutants kills 1.7 million children under the age of five each year, according to two reports released on Monday by the World Health Organization (WHO). Worldwide, more than one in four deaths among children under the age of five are attributable to environmental hazards such as indoor and outdoor air pollution, contaminated water, and poor sanitation, the WHO reports.
The first report finds that some of the most common causes of death among young children — diarrhea, malaria, and pneumonia — can be prevented through providing access to safe water and clean cooking fuels, and other efforts to reduce environmental risks. The second report details the impact that exposure to polluted environments has had on child mortality.
“A polluted environment is a deadly one.”
“A polluted environment is a deadly one — particularly for young children," WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said in a statement. "Their developing organs and immune systems, and smaller bodies and airways, make them especially vulnerable to dirty air and water."
According to the second WHO report, 570,000 children under the age of five die every year from respiratory infections linked to indoor and outdoor air pollution, and second-hand smoke; 361,000 die every year from diarrhea, because of poor sanitation, hygiene, and limited access to safe drinking water; and 270,000 die during their first month from conditions that could have been prevented through improved sanitation, access to safe water, and reduced air pollution. Another 200,000 deaths from malaria could have been prevented through mosquito control and safer water management, the report finds.
The WHO reports detail the long-term effects that environmental pollution can have on childrens’ health, as well. Children exposed to air pollution and second-hand smoke have an elevated risk of developing pneumonia and chronic respiratory problems, such as asthma. Increasing volumes of electronic waste from disposed smartphones and other devices can expose children to toxins linked to reduced intelligence, lung damage, and cancer, the WHO says. The volume of so-called e-waste is expected to reach 50 million metric tonnes by 2018 — a 19 percent increase from 2014.
In 2013, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the WHO’s cancer arm, classified outdoor air pollution as a carcinogen for humans, reporting links to lung and bladder cancer. In September 2016, the WHO said that more than 90 percent of the world’s population lives in areas where air pollution exceeds levels considered safe for humans.
Climate change has heightened risk factors, as well; rising temperatures and CO2 levels has led to increased pollen counts, which is linked with asthma prevalence among young children. Between 11 and 14 percent of children under the age of five currently suffer from asthma-related symptoms, and 44 percent of those cases are attributable to environmental factors, the WHO says.
To mitigate these risks, the WHO has called on governments to reduce indoor and outdoor air pollution, protect pregnant women from second-hand smoke, and provide safe water and sanitation. | 1,267,628 |
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Gothic rock icon Peter Murphy has been forced to cancel the remainder of his New York residency, after the former Bauhaus frontman suffered a heart attack this week.
Earlier this month, Bauhaus founder Peter Murphy embarked upon a lengthy residency in New York, performing a career retrospective that showcased the stunning array of music he has released.
Sadly, Tuesday evening’s performance was unexpectedly cancelled, with the veteran musician being rushed to hospital after suffering a heart attack.
“On the evening of August 13, Peter Murphy was rushed to a local New York City hospital due to shortness of breath and was unable to perform his scheduled concert at Le Poisson Rouge,” a statement on Murphy’s website reads.
“Early Wednesday morning, it was determined that Peter had suffered a heart attack.
“Mr. Murphy was admitted for treatment of a myocardial infarction, had two stents placed in his right coronary artery, and was started on medications to manage his heart condition,” added Lenox Hill Hospital Cardiologist Jason Song.
“He remains in the hospital for continued monitoring of his condition.”
With four dates left on his New York residency, these dates have been postponed, with later dates still to be determined.
Le Poisson Rouge, the venue which was hosting Murphy, also shared a statement, noting they are “devastated” by the news, and wish him “a swift and full recovery and look forward to his successful return to LPR.”
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The news comes just nine days after the 40th anniversary of Bauhaus’ ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’, the group’s debut single, and the tune often considered to be the first example of “gothic rock”.
While Peter Murphy last visited Australia in October of 2018 with Bauhaus bassist David J, the rocker was famously kicked out of his own concert last December.
“The world-famous goth rock star Peter Murphy, 61, was thrown out by organizers from his concert at Nalen in Stockholm on Wednesday night,” wrote Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
“The rejection was preceded by throwing bottles from scene that injured a concert visitor in the face. When Murphy threw out, he ended up fighting with the guards.”
A statement from organisers later claimed that Murphy had “acted in an unacceptable way towards the audience and our staff,” though the post was later deleted from social media.
We wish Peter Murphy a swift recovery from his health scare, and that he returns to the stage sooner rather than later!
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Aphria Inc. (TSX:APH), one of the Canadian marijuana stocks, has applied for listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
SmallCapPower | October 22, 2018: Aphria Inc. (TSX:APH), one of the Canadian cannabis stocks, has applied for listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), submitting its registration statement to U.S. securities regulator on Thursday. The Company will disclose the listing details such as anticipated trading date, ticker symbol etc. after the necessary approval from authorities.
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Aphria’s move to get listed on U.S. stock exchange comes on the back of its Edmonton-based competitor Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSX:ACB), which is expected to start trading on the NYSE on October 23. In May 2018, Canopy Growth Corporation became the first licensed cannabis producer to get listed on the NYSE (under ticker ‘CGC’). Likewise, other Canadian Licensed Producers such as Cronos Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CRON) and Tilray Inc. (NASDAQ:TLRY) have listed their common shares south of the Canadian border this year.
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As recreational cannabis consumption became legal in Canada on Wednesday, Aphria welcomed the move. CEO Vic Neufeld remarked, “Today we celebrate the end of nearly a century of prohibition and the beginning of an exciting new chapter for the cannabis industry. The Cannabis Act, which comes into effect today, cements Canada’s global leadership in this rapidly-expanding industry. This is an historic moment as we march into the future of cannabis. This is also an exciting day for Aphria as we look back on our journey. From founding the company in Leamington, Ontario in 2013 and completing our first shipment of medical cannabis a year later, to developing a comprehensive suite of brands, building a roster of strategic partners and continuing a persistent focus on innovation, we have experienced tremendous growth that will help us continue to lead the evolution of the industry in the years to come. It is the commitment of our incredible team and partners that has gotten us to where we are today and built Aphria into a global cannabis success story.”
Aphria offers high-quality cannabis products pertaining to adult-use such as Solei, RIFF, Good Supply, Goodfields and Broken Coast. The Canadian cannabis stock currently trades at a market capitalization of C$4.85 billion on the TSX with a price-to-book multiple of 3.51x and a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 36.02x.
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RENTON, Wash. – Vulcan Sports & Entertainment (VSE) announced today that Chuck Arnold has been named President of the Seattle Seahawks. Chris McGowan will be promoted to VSE Chief Executive Officer. Arnold succeeds Peter McLoughlin as President. McLoughlin will be leaving the organization by mutual agreement.
Currently in his 25th season with the Seahawks, Arnold will manage all team business operations. He will also serve as President of First & Goal Inc., overseeing management of CenturyLink Field, CenturyLink Field Event Center, First & Goal Hospitality and WaMu Theater.
"I have tremendous appreciation for this franchise and city, and I can't wait to lead an organization that continues to make our community and the 12s proud," Arnold said. "I am honored to assume this responsibility and thankful to Paul Allen for the opportunity."
Born and raised in Tacoma, Wash., Arnold earned his degree in sports management from Washington State University. He began his professional career as an intern with the Seahawks, where he became a ticket sales account executive in 1994. He advanced several times within the organization before most recently serving as Chief Operating Officer (COO) since 2013. As COO, Arnold has been instrumental in improving the gameday experience for fans, including revitalizing Seahawks retail with the launch of the expanded Seahawks Pro Shop. In his duties as COO, Arnold also oversaw the team's marketing, game entertainment, community engagement, corporate partnerships, ticketing, suites, and stadium sales and operations.
"I am grateful to Peter for his contributions over the past eight seasons," said Paul Allen. "We have strengthened our organization and achieved success under his leadership. We wish Peter the best as he moves forward."
"Our time in Seattle has been an incredible experience for both me and my wife Kelly, including two consecutive trips to the Super Bowl. I'm proud of what the organization has accomplished both on and off the field over the last eight years," said McLoughlin. "I would like to thank Paul Allen, Pete Carroll, John Schneider, the Seahawks coaches and staff, our corporate partners, all the players and the 12s. Go Hawks!"
As CEO of Vulcan Sports and Entertainment, McGowan will oversee business operations of all VSE sports franchises and facilities, which include the Seattle Seahawks, Portland Trail Blazers, CenturyLink Field, WaMu Theater and Moda Center. He will retain his current responsibilities as President & CEO of the Trail Blazers and Rose Quarter. McGowan came to Portland in 2012 from AEG Sports in Los Angeles, where he managed business operations for the L.A. Kings (NHL) and the L.A. Galaxy (MLS) as Chief Operating Officer.
"Chris and Chuck have produced excellent results for their organizations for many years, and I know VSE and the Seahawks are in good hands under their leadership," said Allen.
Arnold will report to McGowan as they lead the premier sports and entertainment platform in the Pacific Northwest. | 1,267,631 |
A Chinese man who drank almost a litre of white spirit a day for over three decades has developed a fatty tumour around his throat that made him 'the man with the horse's neck'.
The man, named as Hong Shu, has been diagnosed with the rare Madelung disease, where fatty deposits accumulate in various areas of the body including the neck, arms and legs, reported People's Daily Online.
Hong, from Guangzhou, southern China, recently underwent multiple surgeries to remove the deposits and is due to be discharged from hospital.
Diagnosis: Hong Shu (pictured) was diagnosed with Madelung disease where fat deposited around his throat
Suffering: The growths on his throat and neck (above) makes it difficult for him to move, eat and even breath
According to reports, Hong Shu has been suffering from Madelung disease for over a decade but it was only recently diagnosed.
There are only around 400 instances of the extremely rare disease world-wide.
Hong, now 53, started seeing changes his body more than 10 years ago. It started with swelling behind both of his ears but gradually spread to around his throat area.
Overtime, the fatty deposits took over his neck, forming what's been various described as horse, cow, and even camel neck.
Hong became withdrawn, depressed and rarely went outside.
Before his recent surgeries, the swelling around Hong's throat was more than six inches wide and around five and half inches long.
On his neck, Hong also had two lumps, which measured more than seven inches wide.
Cause? Madelung disease is associated with alcohol abuse but non-alcoholics and also develop it (file photo)
MADELUNG DISEASE FACTS Madelung disease is a rare condition where fatty deposits form around the neck, arms and upper torso
The 'fat tumours' are generally benign but could become cancerous
It affects men aged between 30 and 70 with a history of long-term alcohol abuse but people outside of this criteria can also be affected
Sufferers can experience difficulty swallowing and breathing as well as mobility problems
The disease is usually treated with surgery or liposuction Source: Genetic and Rare Diseases (GARD) Information Center Advertisement
Since the beginning of this year, the swelling around Hong's neck has grown enormously and he has been experiencing difficulties in turning his neck, swallowing and even breathing.
After examinations and X-rays, doctors diagnosed Hong with Madelung disease and has attributed the cause to his excessive drinking.
Hong is said to consume up to two litres of Chinese spirit bajiu a day. The distilled spirit is made from rice, sorghum or other grains, and has an ABV of anywhere between 40 and 60 per cent.
Over the space of 30 years, Hong has consumed tens of thousands of litres of the hard liquor, triggering the disease. | 1,267,632 |
his felony conviction.
"After the second tour, there was more alcohol and that was also when I tried some drugs," Perez said last month. "But the addiction really started after I got back to Chicago, when I got back home, because I did not feel very sociable."
Miguel Perez holds a photo of his son, Miguel Perez Jr., on April 4, 2017 in Chicago.
In 2010, he was convicted in Cook County, Illinois, on charges related to delivering more than 2 pounds of cocaine to an undercover officer. He was sentenced to 15 years and his green card was revoked.
Perez has said he was surprised to be in ICE detention and mistakenly believed that enlisting in the Army would automatically give him US citizenship, according to his lawyer, Chris Bergin. His retroactive application for citizenship was denied earlier this month. While there are provisions for expediting troops' naturalization process, a main requirement is that the applicant demonstrate "good moral character," and the drug conviction was enough to sway the decision against his application, Bergin said.
Perez enlisted in the Army in 2001, just months before 9/11. He served in Afghanistan from October 2002 to April 2003 and again from May to October 2003, according to his lawyer. He left the Army in 2004 with a general discharge after he was caught smoking marijuana on base.
Perez went on a hunger strike earlier this year, saying he feared deportation would mean death. Aside from not getting the treatment he needs, he told CNN that he fears Mexican drug cartels will try to recruit him because of his combat experience and will murder him if he doesn't cooperate.
When he got to Mexico the first person he met outside the detention center where he got his temporary ID made him uneasy. The guy said to him, "You've been in prison, yeah you did." The man told Perez to come with him and others.
"We got you," the man, who Perez thinks was a cartel member, said.
Perez went back to the detention center and made some calls. Friends and family hurriedly came a few days later from the US.
But they have to go back soon, and he'll have to leave the hotel that others have paid for.
He'll be basically homeless with only a $60 on a cash card.
But worse, his PTSD medicine will run out within 10 days and he has had no idea how he will get more.
He's worried because he still has anxiety and night terrors.
He will be alone, fretting that if he reaches out to relatives in Mexico he will put them in danger with the cartels and also put them in a position where they have to care for a scarred veteran.
"I'm taking it a minute at a time," he told CNN. He hopes to get back to the United States but knows it's a longshot that could take a long time. | 1,267,633 |
Bootleg Biology is officially releasing our first Norwegian farmhouse yeasts: OSLO & AURORA, and they are ridiculous. Both will be available for the first time starting March 11!
OSLO came to us when Eik & Tid generously gave me a bottle of their raw beer Brom. I got to hang with Amund & crew last year in Amsterdam during Carnivale Brett. Not only was the beer fantastic, but we were able to isolate one of the most unique yeasts I’ve ever come across.
We did our best to beat the hell out of OSLO, but it.would.not.make.bad.beer. Test ferments at 98F/37C produced a beer that tasted like a nice, cold-fermented lager! Truly a modern way to brew a farmhouse ale!
Unlike most other Norwegian farmhouse yeast, OSLO is a bottom-fermenting yeast closely related to S. pastorianus, S. uvarum & S. bayanus!
AURORA creates pleasant orange and citrus esters that perfectly complement beers with fruit-forward hops.
AURORA is a gift to homebrewers & craft brewers alike.
Homebrewers can stop worrying about temperature control. There’s no need to brew seasonally when you can let your beer rise up to 98F and have no noticeable off flavors!
For pro brewers who can’t turn around tanks fast enough, AURORA can get you into the brite tank in as little as three days when fermented hot.
Your first chance to order our new OSLO and AURORA cultures is during the next Homebrew Culture Pre-Sale, which begins Monday, March 11 at Noon CT and ends on Sunday, March 17. All orders will then ship between April 1 and April 10.
Since brewing season is kicking up again, you’ll also be able to pick up fresh packs of:
Commercial-sized pitches (1 to 30 BBL) of our core strains are available 24/7 through the Bootleg Shop.
Upcoming Events
In 2019 the Bootleg Crew and I will be bouncing around the globe to hang out with friends and make new ones in the craft beer & homebrewing community. If you’ll be at any of these events, please stop us and say hi or shoot us an email so we link up.
PCR Contamination Testing
We do a lot of fun sciencing behind the scenes at Bootleg. Our newest toy is a thermocycler that allows us to do PCR-based testing for common brewery contaminants like Diastaticus-positive yeast, Brettanomyces, hop resistant bacteria and more baddies. Some samples can even produce results the same day they’re received!
Check out our Commercial Services page for more info or to start the testing process.
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I’ve never seen a map drawn on a single piece of parchment that was simply stuck into a book. That doesn’t make any sense because a lot of information would be trapped in the gutter and nobody would see it.”
Second, the map, which is based on a world map by 15th-century Italian cartographer Andrea Bianco, is off-center. Vinland, Greenland, and Iceland are added to it, but no effort was made to create a centered and proper map of the world, he said.
“Almost certainly the mapmaker would have included those land masses as part of the world, not something tacked on outside of it,” he said.
Whether or not it is genuine, the map is a fascinating object that ought to be studied and shared with the public, not hidden away, Clemens said.
“I’m very interested in why it became such an important object,” he said. “Even as a fake, it has shown up in almost every historical atlas. They’ll say that it is assumed to be a fake, but it’s still there. It’s got a cultural purchase in some respects. Why were people taken in by it? Why was the reaction to it so strong?”
Good scholarship requires being open to all possibilities surrounding an object like the map, he said.
“We rightly ought to be skeptical of it,” he said. “Scholarship at its best allows us to have a continuing conversation as knowledge expands. We shouldn’t be afraid that the conversation undoes something, or makes us look stupid, or anything else. It’s a continuing process.”
By acquiring and publishing the map, Yale ignited a valuable debate that has broadened people’s understanding of the medieval world, Clemens said.
“In that process, we’ve learn a tremendous amount about mapmaking in the 15th century,” he said. “That was part of the problem: Most medievalists in the early 1960s didn’t know what a medieval map looked like. If you don’t have a concept of medieval mapping then an object like the Vinland Map could be very convincing. Fields grow and we learn.”
The team conducting the map analysis is composed of Bezur and her IPCH colleagues Richard Hark, a visiting professor from Juniata College, and Pablo Londero, a conservation scientist; and Marie-France Lemay, paper conservator; Karen Jutzi, conservation assistant; and Paula Zyats, assistant chief conservator, from the Yale University Library’s Preservation Department.
The Vinland Map will be on view at the Mystic Seaport from May 19 through Sept. 30. A companion exhibition, “The Vikings Begin,” opens the same day. | 1,267,635 |
Detroit Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show
Detroit Gem and Mineral Show
Location & Time:
Macomb Community College
South Campus Expo Hall
14500 E. 12 Mile Rd. Warren, MI 48088
• Friday October 12, 2018 9am-6pm
• Saturday October 13, 2018 10am-7pm
• Sunday October 14, 2018 11am-5pm
Adults $8, Seniors 62+ $5, Children 5-12 $4, Uniformed Scouts $3, Military with ID Free, Parking is FREE.
80+ Display cases including the Smithsonian and Seaman Museums
50+ Top Dealers
Lectures from experts all of over the US
The Michigan Mineralogical Society, https://www.michmin.org/show-info, was organized in 1935 by a Michigan group of mineral collectors interested in furthering the hobby of mineral, fossils, gem collecting, geology and earth science education in Michigan.
The Society is incorporated as a non-profit educational organization and is a member of both the American Mineralogical Societies and Midwest Federation of Mineralogical and Geological Societies.
Organized in March 1935, it is the oldest Society/Club in the Midwest Federation and in Mid America. “The Conglomerate” is the official bulletin of Michigan Mineralogical Society, first published in 1940 and is one of the oldest in the United States.
Today, membership is open to all persons interested in the education and promoting interest in all aspects of collecting, mineralogy, paleontology, and the earth sciences.
The Michigan Mineralogical Society meets on the second Monday of the month, September through May (except October and January) at the prestigious Cranbrook Institute of Science, 39221 N. Woodward Ave. Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303.
At the meetings, doors of the Institute open at 7:00 p.m. to allow time for MMS members and their guests to enjoy the mineral hall exhibits. Programs begi
n at 7:30 p.m. Visitors are always welcome at meetings.
Membership applications may be obtained on this site or at the meetings. Annual Dues: Adult $20.00 Students $5.00, New member initiation fee of $5.00 with annual dues.
If you would like more info on local Mineral shows and rockhound clubs click on our News page for up to date listings and links to Gem Show, Mineral Show, and Fossil Show announcements. We update our rockhound news twice an hour and showcase the top mineral shows and rockhound news in the USA and the World. Also, follow us on Twitter for even more rockhound events, commentary, and laughable quips from American Geode. | 1,267,636 |
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Trophy hunting of Greater Yellowstone grizzlies could start in just over a week. But DOI Secretary Zinke still hasn't held federally-mandated consultation with affected Tribes on the sacred bears' fate.“Reintroduce the sacred grizzly bear to tribal homelands – not to trophy hunting,” implores actor Zahn McClarnon as he closes the just-released “Not in Our Name” short film with an appeal for public support for tribal nations in their ongoing struggle to get the Trump Administration to “honor the historic grizzly treaty signed by over 200 tribes.”Last seen in HBO’s “Westworld” starring as Akecheta opposite Sir Anthony Hopkins, McClarnon has become one of Native America’s most recognizable actors, with prominent roles in AMC’s “The Son,” “Longmire,” “Fargo” and Spielberg’s “Into the West.”“Hunting them is absolutely crazy. Why would you hunt a grizzly bear?” asks McClarnon, as Wyoming gears up to open its grizzly trophy hunt in Greater Yellowstone on September 1, over the objections of tribal nations that have been denied formal government-to-government consultation on the issue by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.“I grew up in grizzly country and so my experiences with grizzlies are extremely personal because of growing up around them,” explains McClarnon, who is Hunkpapa Lakota from Standing Rock but spent his formative years on the Blackfeet Nation of the Blackfoot Confederacy.The Piikani Nation, sister tribe to the Blackfeet, introduced The Grizzly: A Treaty of Cooperation, Cultural Revitalization and Restoration, which is now the most-signed tribal treaty in history. Congressman Raul M. Grijalva, who also appears in “Not in Our Name,” introduced The Tribal Heritage and Grizzly Bear Protection Act to the 115th Congress, which was inspired by the treaty.Central to the treaty are the grizzly reintroduction articles. The Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council, which includes the plurality of Yellowstone treaty tribes, recently petitioned Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) with the tribal alternative to trophy hunting, writing: “Instead of trophy hunting the grizzly, tribal nation treaty signatories advocate relocating grizzlies from the GYE to sovereign tribal lands in the grizzly’s historic range where biologically suitable habitat exists among tribes that seek to explore and participate in such a program.The same quota of grizzlies that would be hunted per season by the states, could easily be trapped and relocated to lands under sovereign tribal authority and jurisdiction, removing any possible rationalization for reinstituting trophy hunts. This plan provides for cultural, environmental and economic revitalization for participating tribal nations, as the grizzly is sacred to a multitude of tribes.” Barrasso has yet to respond. | 1,267,637 |
Many months before Oculus' Medium and Quill apps captured the imagination of traditional artists, Google's Tilt Brush was leading the way for HTC Vive users to bring illustration to life in virtual reality.
Now the same amazing VR pallet once exclusive to the HTC Vive has arrived for the Oculus Rift community via the Oculus Store.
The Rift version of Google's VR app is not only completely compatible with the Oculus Touch controllers, but using Oculus Touch with Tilt Brush feels just as intuitive as when I've used the app on the HTC Vive. Part of that native feel is due to the fact that the Oculus version of Tilt Brush lets you use the capacitive touch features on the Oculus Touch controllers to highlight and reveal the function of any button you're touching.
If you're familiar with the Vive version of Tilt Brush, you're probably wondering if the introduction of Oculus Touch controllers significantly changes how you use the app. Thankfully, the answer is no. However, a couple of controls are different, for example, you use the Oculus Touch joy stick and trigger to cycle through the art palette instead of swiping.
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Aside from those minor controller tweaks, the app looks and performs as smoothly as it does using the Vive. Several brushes have distinctive sound effects attached to them and you can easily change the environments you're painting in. When trying to describe Tilt Brush, I often tell Oculus users that it's like a combination of the sculpting dynamic in Medium with the painterly freedom in Quill.
And while that description is mostly accurate, the biggest difference with Tilt Brush is the look of its brushes and illuminations, which are very distinctive.You can almost always tell a piece of Tilt Brush work just by looking at it (which can be good or bad, depending on your intent). The other attractive thing about Tilt Brush is that it lends itself more to live art performances. The aforementioned Oculus apps have the same high resolution graphics and flawless, low latency tracking as Tilt Brush, but there's something about Tilt Brush that just flows in such a way that encourages users to create colorful flourishes and performative strokes.
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So will the arrival of Tilt Brush on the Rift (selling for $29.99, the same price it sells for on Steam) steal away VR artists already using existing VR art tools on the Oculus platform? That's doubtful.
The excitement around the detailed 3D work being done in Medium, as well as the interest around Quill, bolstered by the film Dear Angelica (which was created using the app), means that Oculus users probably already have all the VR art tools they need.
Nevertheless, watching some of the amazing imagery coming from some Tilt Brush users must have been frustrating for Rift users all these months. Now Oculus users can at least try their virtual hands at duplicating, and maybe even surpassing the psychedelic Tilt Brush VR art we've already seen created using the Vive system. | 1,267,638 |
– namely, the online matchmaker didn’t deliberately make people sad. Their experiment was an extreme-sounding version of what we sign up to when using large, social websites: the company using us to understand our behaviour - mainly, how to more clicks and time spent on the site.
OkCupid seems to be simply doing its job, which is improving user experience – whereas it’s hard to see how Facebook’s experiment could be seen as user-friendly. And guess what OkCupid found? That lying to inflating the match score of a couple sometimes filled the air with love: nearly one in five mismatched couples, who were told they were a 90% match but were actually a 90%, engaged in what OkCupid thinks is a meaningful ‘conversation’ by exchanging more than three messages.
And the findings themselves were more worthwhile than that: “OkCupid definitely works, but that’s not the whole story,” said OkCupid’s Christian Rudder in the company’s blog post. “And if you have to choose only one or the other, the mere myth of compatibility works just as well as the truth.”
So what do you do as a designer?
Unsurprisingly, there is no shortage of views on what we should do about the darker side of design - from UX strategist Gary Bunker who proposes a code of conduct that would stop all UX professionals working with dark patterns to Chris Nodder, author of the book Evil by Design, who believes it’s okay to deceive people if it’s in their best interests. Some dark patterns are actually now illegal – such as the ‘sneak into a basket’ pattern, which drops items in your order without asking.
The ethics of big data is even more of a moral minefield, exploding with bonkers questions such as should Google tell you if you have cancer? Just recently, Gizmodo reported that Facebook have openly discussed tilting the American election against Donald Trump. And conducting experiments on people’s everyday lives will be even easier with the rise of the Internet of Things and remarkably knowledgeable AI.
In a recent debate on design and ethics from InVision, Head of Design for the UK Government Louise Downe has some advice that should stop anyone going wrong in either user research or dark patterns: “There is no decision too small to push back on if you feel kind of icky about something and it doesn’t feel like the right thing to do. I’ve learnt to check what I’m doing at the tiniest level, not just to look at the broader picture of ethics and what I do”.
Bending the truth and manipulation is a part of functional life, relationships and business - and design is no exception. But, whatever the pressures, the responsibility is yours as a designer to be comfortable with the ethics of your work. | 1,267,639 |
for all sorts of reasons beyond what's necessary for the function of the service. It's also data that doesn't get purged; sign up to a forum now and give them your date of birth (because you know, they might want to send you a birthday message) and that data will still be there a decade from now. Breaches are really extensively redistributed: It still blows me away how rampant this is. Obviously, there's distribution for commercial purposes (BTC in exchange for data), but there's also an enormously active trading scene where people (often kids), are just swapping data. The immutability of exposed data attributes: The problem with KBA is the assumption that knowledge alone can be used for verification. When we're talking about "static" KBA (that is knowledge that doesn't change), when your mother's maiden name is leaked you're going to have a hard time of it because you can't change that like you can a password. The irrevocability of exposed data: This speaks to the question I so frequently hear: "Can you remove my data from the internet?" No, it's near on impossible and once that data starts spreading, the data breach genie never goes back into the bottle. The power of OSINT data: I want to make a really firm point here that whilst data breaches are terrible and they're leaking a lot of our info, we've also become pretty good at doing it ourselves. Open source intelligence data is all over the place, especially due to social media and the very attributes we so frequently share are the ones being used for KBA ("Happy birthda... ah crap"). Aggregation of multiple sources compounds the problem: When I look at data loaded into HIBP, I frequently see multiple different data points on the same individual exposed in different breaches. When you aggregate these together, you get a much richer data set on the individual, especially once combined with that OSINT data as well. The resultant impact on KBA: All of the above culminates in the feasibility of KBA no longer being what it once was. What worked in the 90's simply doesn't translate to an era in which so much of our data is exposed so extensively.
Incidentally, I've decided not to mention specific data breaches but rather to focus on the patterns we're seeing in the industry. If I'm asked for examples then there's certainly no shortage to choose from, but I felt it was better to focus on the patterns rather than specific organisations' shortcomings.
So that's what's been going on in my world and come next week, I'll be sitting there on the other side of the world in the most formal environment I've ever been in talking to very important people and saying "pwned" a lot. It's an amazing opportunity to position infosec and data breaches in front of lawmakers and it's one I want to make the most of. Please do share your thoughts in the comments below and help me ensure the right issues get the airtime they deserve. | 1,267,640 |
ICON (ICX) today is trending at $0.115370 with a 24-hour trading volume at $5,032,799. The price has been up by 2.3% over the past 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of 510 Million coins and a max supply of 800 Million coins.
ICON MyID and Samsung
Seoul-based ICONLOOP leads ICON. Jonghyun Kim, the CEO of ICONLOOP, stated that “Samsung joined as a security ecosystem partner. At present, ICONLOOP is discussing ways to secure MyID’s on smartphones with security solutions such as blockchain key stores and KNOX. As a result, MyID is also likely to be embedded in Galaxy smartphones without a separate application. My ID will be available as a mobile ID card in the second half of 2020 and will evolve into a digital ID platform and a user-centered service by 2021.”
Using MyID, the user’s authentication data is secured in the ICON’s blockchain technology. After the first time use, the data is stored in the system. The next time when the user is looking to make use of the service, they need to provide biometric authentication using the Samsung Pass. The involvement of the third party is eliminated, and therefore MyID prevents the misuse of personal data.
Meanwhile, in South Korea, the Presidential Committee during the Fourth Industrial Revolution (PCFIR) has proposed that the government would move to bring cryptocurrencies to the financial mainstream using several measures, including derivatives.
The PCFIR stated, “It is no longer possible to stop crypto-asset trade.”
ICON Headlines for 2025
Krypto Maverick stated: “After a long wait, here I’m as an official ICON PRep with name HypoICON. Please follow @IconHypo for further updates.” He further added, “ICONists, start expecting big news/updates from ICON’s universe. This is just a start.”
By 2025, the following would be the headlines for ICON #ICX: 1. Biggest and most active community. 2. Most developed infrastructure. 3. The most used chain ever built.
The ICON Network continues to connect crypto to the real world. The network comprises various institutions like financial institutions, insurance companies, hospitals, universities, etc. ICON hyperconnects the world. ICX is traded in several major cryptocurrency exchanges.
C-rep, Citizen Node, ICON Republic, Representation Channel, and Notary Channel are the chief terminologies unique to the ICON network. The activity level of the ICON Network is measured in terms of the sum of the IISS scores of the individual participants.
The ICONex is a Wallet which supports different cryptocurrencies. It is convenient and facilitates quick transfer.
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geekrock84-deactivated20191230 asked: Let me start out by saying that I'm big fans of both you and your wife. Lately, I've noticed her commenting about being a single mother, I believe it was on a Facebook or Instagram post of her's, I dont recall. Anyway, how do you feel about her claims of being a single mother and life being hard because she works a lot. As a single mother I felt slightly offended because she is in fact not a single mother but has a husband who is well off and a part of their child's life.
I do understand why you are offended. I think what Amanda is saying is that she feels very much like a single mother right now. She’s in the US, with Ash. She dresses him and walks him to nursery school, picks him up, walks him home and looks after him until bed, and tries to get work done in the cracks, when he’s at school and after he’s asleep.
I’m in the UK right now, working 7 days a week 13-16 hours a day in order to get Good Omens over the finish line. I went home to the US for Thanksgiving, and at Xmas, but in the last 3 months I’ve been home for about 8 days altogether. And yes, I call home, and yes, I’m financially fine should Amanda not work (although Amanda makes her own money and does her own work, and has for much longer than I have known her, and is not stopping her album release schedule or touring plans because she has a child). But she’s being, in effect, a single mother right now, and one dealing with a small boy determined to go to London and see his dadda.
I go home on Saturday, if nothing untoward happens to keep me here, after working on Good Omens away from home full time in the UK and South Africa for 18 months. I cannot wait.
And then we will change roles.
It would not surprise me if, at times in the next 18 months, with Amanda on a world tour to support her upcoming album (It’s called There Will Be No Intermission) I wind up feeling a bit like a single father. (I won’t be. She will come back. But you can feel very lonely if you are looking after a child alone for a week or so, let alone for 3 months.)
(And yes, we are both privileged as hell and aware of that. She’s a songwriter and performer, and she’s successful, has a Patreon that supports her now better than an old-style record label ever would have done. I’m a bestselling author. We can afford food, places to live, and help, and we can afford babysitting and all the other things that make life as a parent less difficult. And we are grateful.) | 1,267,642 |
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gesture which has since gone viral - even before he revealed an updated version a fortnight or so later - but whose origin has gone unexplained, until now.
“When we were at the World Cup, there were a few days when the families could come to the hotel,” he says. “One afternoon, Jamie Vardy’s kids were around and they asked me if I could do it. I could but then I watched the other boys struggling, it was funny.
“I heard afterwards that Jesse Lingard’s brother had showed them how to do it, so I don’t actually know where it came from and who made it up, but when I was on holiday with my friends we all kept doing it, so I shared it. I didn’t think it was going to go as mad as it did. It’s just a bit of fun.”
It is yet another sign of how settled Dele is for club, country and even sponsors, unfazed as he was here by the remarkable sight of a floating football pitch - the Creator Dock - housed on the Thames to promote his adidas Team Mode Predator boots.
Spurs head into the international break having surrendered their perfect start to the Premier League season, following Sunday’s 2-1 defeat at Watford, but they hope the result which proves of greater significance in the long-term came six days earlier, when beating Manchester United at Old Trafford.
Title talk continues to centre on Manchester City, given their record-breaking form of last term, and Liverpool, after a considerable financial outlay building upon one of the most potent attacks in the division. But Dele insists he is happy if Tottenham continue to operate under the radar.
“No matter what people are talking about, we have belief in ourselves,” he says. “There are some great sides out there, but we have to focus on us. We don’t worry about what anyone else says.
“We’ll keep trying to get as many points as we can and if nobody else is talking about us as title contenders, it doesn’t bother me.
“It is a statement that we can win at places like United. We had belief we could do it. Sometimes it doesn’t go your way or something happens - I remember Kyle Walker’s own goal there when we played really well and lost [1-0, in 2015] - but this year it all came together. We didn’t start very well but stayed in the game, showed great character and were clinical in the second half.
“We want to keep moving forward. We have got a great side and we are still fighting every day in training to improve.”
With the odd lucky charm to help them along the way.
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Syria: UN veto gives Assad licence to kill - opposition Published duration 5 February 2012
media caption Paul Wood, and cameraman Fred Scott, were smuggled into Homs
Russia and China have handed Syria's government a "licence to kill", say opposition activists, after the two countries vetoed a UN resolution.
The Syrian National Council, an opposition umbrella group, urged Moscow and Beijing to change their minds.
The veto caused anger among Western diplomats. Activists earlier attacked Syrian embassies across the world.
In Syria, dozens were reported killed on Saturday in one of the bloodiest days since protests began last March.
Rebel groups and opposition activists said the regime launched an assault on the city of Homs on Friday night using mortar and tanks to bombard civilian areas.
One opposition group said it had confirmed 62 deaths in Homs, while other organisations gave death tolls in excess of 200.
Activists said mass protests in solidarity with Homs residents had continued overnight in cities around the country.
Violence was also continuing, particularly in the north, where nine security personnel were reported killed in clashes in Idlib province.
US anger
In a statement, the Syrian National Council condemned Moscow and Beijing for obstructing the passage of the draft resolution.
"The SNC holds both governments accountable for the escalation of killings and genocide, and considers this irresponsible step a licence for the Syrian regime to kill without being held accountable," the statement said.
The resolution, which called for a "Syrian-led political transition to a democratic, plural political system", was backed by the 13 other members of the Security Council.
The veto drew an angry response from American UN envoy Susan Rice, who said that she was " disgusted " and said Russia and China would have blood on their hands.
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said the two countries were making a "great mistake", accusing them of "turning their backs on the Arab world".
Tunisia, which had already indicated its intention to break diplomatic ties with Damascus, called on Sunday for all Arab states to follow their lead.
But Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov defended Moscow's position.
"The authors of the draft Syria resolution, unfortunately, did not want to undertake an extra effort and come to a consensus," he wrote in a Twitter message.
China's state news agency Xinhua ran a commentary piece saying the two countries believed more time and patience was needed to solve the crisis.
The double veto "aimed at further seeking peaceful settlement of the chronic Syrian crisis and preventing possible drastic and risky solutions", said the commentary by Yu Zhixia.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is due to visit Damascus on Tuesday, to encourage democratic reform, Russian officials say.
Syria has been gripped by nationwide protests against President Bashar al-Assad's government for almost a year.
Opposition groups say more than 7,000 civilians have died in the struggle. | 1,267,645 |
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Today we’re announcing the release of a beta version of Open WebText – an open source effort to reproduce OpenAI’s WebText dataset, as detailed here. This distribution was created by Aaron Gokaslan and Vanya Cohen of Brown University. The following post outlines the steps taken to reproduce the dataset, and provides information for those seeking to contribute to its further development.
Open WebText:
We started by extracting all Reddit post urls from the Reddit submissions dataset. These links were deduplicated, filtered to exclude non-html content, and then shuffled randomly. The links were then distributed to several machines in parallel for download, and all web pages were extracted using the newspaper python package. Using Facebook FastText, non-English web pages were filtered out.
Subsequently, near-duplicate documents were identified using local-sensitivity hashing (LSH). Documents were hashed into sets of 5-grams and all documents that had a similarity threshold of greater than 0.5 were removed. The the remaining documents were tokenized, and documents with fewer than 128 tokens were removed. This left 38GB of text data (40GB using SI units) from 8,013,769 documents.
Next Steps:
Given OpenAI’s limited release of information around WebText and GPT-2, we acknowledge there may be further room for improvement of the dataset. As such we welcome contributions and suggestions for improvements. We hope that the availability of this dataset encourages further work into reproducing GPT-2 and proves useful for other projects beyond. We will release more code on the master branch soon.
Citation
@misc{Gokaslan2019OpenWeb, title={OpenWebText Corpus}, author={Aaron Gokaslan and Vanya Cohen}, howpublished{\url{http://Skylion007.github.io/OpenWebTextCorpus}}, year={2019} }
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These data are released under this licensing scheme:
We do not own any of the text from which these data has been extracted.
We license the actual packaging of these parallel data under the Creative Commons CC0 license (“no rights reserved”)
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Clearly identify the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed.
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But Australia’s Immigration Minister, Peter Dutton, responded by saying Canberra’s “position is very clear, and that is we are not going to accept people who have sought to come to our country illegally by boat, they will not settle permanently in our country.”
Australia’s refugee policy has been a test in how a country balances the rights of the world’s dispossessed with its own right to determine who enters. And it was one year, 2001, that Australia set itself apart, and one incident, the “Tampa affair,” that brought its policy to the fore. It was an election year in Australia, and Prime Minister John Howard’s Liberal Party, which holds a conservative ideology, was trailing in the polls. But on the policy-launch day of his election campaign, Howard made his stance on immigration clear: “We will decide who comes to this country, and the circumstances in which they come.” His ideas on immigration shaded him a strong leader and is credited in part with his party’s election victory that November.
At the time, many migrants and refugees sailed and floated to Australia across the Indian Ocean to Christmas Island, an Australian territory 1,200 miles from the mainland, but only a three-day boat trip from Jakarta, Indonesia. Near the end of August 2001, 433 asylum-seekers, mostly Afghans, lost their way at sea on a wooden fishing boat called the Palapa and sent a distress signal. They were picked up two days later by MV Tampa, the Norwegian freight liner. What followed was a game of chicken. Typically, a captain will sail people rescued from the water to the nearest port that will have them. In this case, that would have been Christmas Island, the Australian territory where the refugees had wanted to go, and where they could be processed for asylum in Australia. But Howard refused them entry. A port 12 hours away in Merak, Indonesia, would take the ship, but the asylum-seekers were dehydrated and sick, and they included children and pregnant women. Some of those on board threatened suicide if returned, and the captain doubted whether his crew of 27 could make that far of a trip with the additional 433 passengers. So he sailed toward Christmas Island, and Howard dispatched the military.
As the deadlock became international news, Howard tried to pass a bill in Parliament that’d grant the government power to remove foreign ships from its waters, but he didn’t get the votes. International media, human-rights groups, and world leaders pressured Australia to do something, and after eight days, Howard worked out a deal in which the Australian Navy would take the refugees to Nauru, a Pacific island nation, where they’d be kept in camps while they waited for the government to process their asylum applications. These offshore camps would become central to Howard’s immigration policy, called the “Pacific Solution,” that Australia would pass in 2001. | 1,267,648 |
If you’ve listened to any episode of our sports podcast, Inside the Locker, you’ve probably heard Elliott Fontenette heap adulation upon adulation on Pacific Rim, even at the most inappropriate times. As you might have guessed, Elliott is particularly fond of Guillermo Del Toro’s contribution to the monsters vs. robots canon. If you’re particularly fond of Elliott, now you make his dreams come true and hire a human-sized Jaeger to come out and meet him. A New York man has built a complex and detailed costume of one of the planet’s last mechanical warriors, Crimson Typhoon.
Artist and performer Peter Kokis has undergone an strenuous effort to re-create the Chinese Jaeger as a costume (which he calls Brooklyn Typhoon) that he wears out in public from time to time. Kokis’ website gives the specifics about how long construction took and what materials were included in the process. Gathering the parts and supplies he needed took 10 months and building the suit took a monumental 550 hours of labor. Some of the materials he used for this astonishing project include:
2 rat traps, 7 mousetraps (2 types), 53 toy truck wheels, 2 business card holders, hockey helmet, 2 plungers, rotating lawn sprinkler, 4 egg slicers, 4 ice scrapers, 4 ladles, 4 slotted spoons, camping thermos, toilet flush valve, 8 ice skate blade guards (2 types), 2 baseball throat guards, trashcan foot pedal, 2 spoon draincups, 2 blender bases, 4 hair cutter spacers, 2 kneepads, thermos base, ski goggles, football shoulder pads, 6 shinguards (3 types), 2 hockey leg guards, wall outlet plate, 3 vitamin cases (2 types), 3 manicure bowls, 3 doorknob wall guards, hand towel holder, 4 bicycle splashguards (2 types), 25 turnbuckles, corner paint applicator, slotted ladle, 2 faucet strainers, paper towel holder, 3 screen door latches, handheld spotlight, 2 flashlights, closet pole mounts, lots of bottlecaps, lots of knobs & pull handles, lots and lots of plastic from trashcans, buckets & food containers…and a whole lotta inspiration!
After all of his time-consuming labor, the end product is simply amazing. Check out these photos of Kokis in costume below:
Kokis can also be hired to appear as Brooklyn Typhoon at events and special occasions. For example, this lucky bride was fortunate enough to have the Jaeger show up at her wedding.
To see more photos of Brooklyn Typhoon and Kokis’ other creations, check out his website.
If Kokis offered to make a Jaeger costume for you, which one would you pick? What event would make a great occasion for a Jaeger cosplayer to appear? Share your thoughts in the comments!
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Today, we lost one of the greatest minds on the planet, Stephen Hawking.
While Hawking will always be remembered for his insights into black holes, the nature of space-time, and the origins of the universe, he lent his brilliant brain to the concerns of humanity on a fair few occasions – often with a wise yet ominous warning.
However, his cautions were not grim tales of pessimism. Like all visionaries, his message was ultimately one of hope and peace. He passionately believed our future will be found through the exploration of space beyond planet Earth. The only problem, he worried, was reaching a point where this was possible.
In 2016, Professor Hawking warned that the fate of humanity could be doomed by our own progress because science and technology could create "new ways things can go wrong." He was especially wary of nuclear war, climate change, and genetically-engineered viruses, arguing that they could cause humanity’s downfall within 100 years.
"Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time, and becomes a near certainty in the next thousand or ten thousand years,” he told the BBC. “However, we will not establish self-sustaining colonies in space for at least the next hundred years, so we have to be very careful in this period.”
In recent years, his concerns were often consumed by the rise of artificial intelligence. "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race," he told the BBC in 2014.
"It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate," he warned. “Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded."
He was also a vehement opponent of war. After the invasion of Iraq by the US and UK, he proclaimed “The war was based on two lies," arguing the claims of weapons of mass destruction and the link to 9/11 had proved untrue. "It has been a tragedy for all the families. If that is not a war crime, what is?"
After more recent events, Hawking described President Donald Trump’s decision to abandon the Paris Climate Agreement as “the most serious and wrong decision on climate this world has seen.”
“There is no new world, no utopia around the corner,” Hawking told the crowd at the Starmus festival via Skype in Norway in 2017. “It is time to explore other Solar Systems. Spreading out may be the only thing that saves us from ourselves. I am convinced that humans need to leave Earth.”
Hawking’s life is now over but his visions of the future are seemingly more relevant than ever. Perhaps, with a lot of hard work, we will soon fulfill his dream of becoming an interplanetary species and avoid any self-induced demise. | 1,267,650 |
BENGALURU: India is set to meet its target of adding 10,000 MW of solar capacity in 2017-18, almost twice that of the increase in 2016-17.The country had added 5,526 MW of solar capacity in the last fiscal, which was itself a record at the time.“Our cumulative capacity was 19,584 MW in end-February, and we will be crossing 22,000 MW by March 31,” said Anand Kumar, secretary in the ministry of new and renewable energy ( MNRE ).The total capacity at the end of 2016-17 was 12,288.8 MW, which means that 7,295 MW had been added till end-February and another 2,700 MW is expected to be commissioned in March.The capacity addition is expected to accelerate further in 2018-19.“We have bid out 10,500 MW of solar projects this year, as against 5,000 MW in 2016-17,” said Kumar. “We have also brought solar tariffs down to affordable levels.”Solar tariffs reached a record low of Rs 2.44 per unit at an auction held by Solar Energy Corporation of India SECI ) for 500 MW of projects at the Bhadla Solar Park in Rajasthan in May 2017, which compares favourably with the cost of thermal power.India has declared an ambitious ambitious target of 100,000 MW of solar capacity by 2022, which MNRE officials are hopeful of reaching. “Our bidding trajectory has been laid out until December 2022,” said Kumar.Of the 7,295 MW added until end-February, the highest was by Karnataka, which commissioned a record 2,628.62 MW of projects in 11 months. This was followed by Telangana, which added 1,995.69 MW. Capacity addition in other states was way lower, with the third highest being Rajasthan with 502.83 MW.For many years, Gujarat had the highest solar capacity, until it was overtaken by Rajasthan in 2015-16. Rajasthan, which also enjoys the highest solar radiation, was in turn overtaken by Andhra Pradesh in 2016-17, which added the highest capacity of 1,294.26 MW that year. In end March 2017, Andhra Pradesh had a total solar capacity of 1,867.23 MW against Rajasthan’s 1,814.28 MW.But with its spurt of activity in 2017-18, Karnataka is now the new No. 1in solar among Indian states, with a total capacity of 3,657.52 MW as of end-February. Telangana follows in second place, with a cumulative 3,282.67 MW of solar projects. Rajasthan is in third place, with 2,317.11 MW, and Andhra Pradesh in fourth with 2,170.32 MW. Gujarat has fallen to sixth place with 1,587 MW, behind Tamil Nadu at 1,822.57 MW. | 1,267,651 |
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The first time many encountered Sampha was way back in 2011 when his haunting vocals stood out on SBTRKT‘s Hold On and really made that track memorable. Since then his solo debut has been eagerly anticipated by many. Unfortunately there was a 6 year wait though thankfully it wasn’t through a lack of trying as Sampha was busy to say the least. An in-demand vocalist, Sampha has appeared on tracks by heavyweights such as Drake, Frank Ocean, Solange and Kanye West. While his vocals make any song skyrocket in quality, which is no wonder considering how many artists sought to get him to appear, Sampha’s debut has been brewing away like fine wine, making the past half a decade wait totally worth it.
Process is an expansive showcase of Sampha‘s vocal ability that also shows what he can do when he gets to use this ability to express his own ideas. The running theme throughout is one of loss and self-examination, which is unsurprising as Sampha lost his father when he was young and more recently his mother as well. Due to the attachment that Sampha must have had to the material, it is evident that he took a great amount of care in crafting each track, every moment has a purpose and it makes for a truly captivating listen. Right from album opener Plastic 100°C, Sampha demands attention with his powerful vocals that soar and dive spectacularly as they intertwine seemlessly with samples and piano tracks.
Sampha uses this album to show his incredible range as he commands fast-paced tracks such as Blood on Me and Kora Sings. These song can compete on an crowd-pleasing level with any of his past collaborators while also exploring complex ideas such as denial and loss. While these tracks are impressive Sampha definitely excels the most in his most simplistic moments such as on stand-out track (No One Knows Me) Like The Piano. On this testement to his late mother, he once again utilises his vocal ability to deliver a beautiful ballad that sticks in the mind throughout the rest of the album.
Each track on Process is its own idea, a carefully constructed piece of work that conveys Sampha‘s experience of tragic loss and how he has dealt with these feelings. However what makes it truly great is how each one seems to show something different and further prove that Sampha is one of the most innovative and exciting artists around. His ability to shift from a sentimental ballad to a powerful, beat-driven single seemlessly is impressive and the fact that he is so convincing at both even more so.
Process was most definitely worth the wait and with it Sampha has proven himself to be one to watch. While he’ll be even busier after this impressive portfolio of his abilities, hopefully it will not be too long until he is able to do something for himself again.
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Twitter banned far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his website InfoWars from its platform Thursday afternoon, a month after several of its Silicon Valley counterparts did so.
Jones was suspended from Twitter for one week last month after he posted a video in which he said, "Now is time to act on the enemy before they do a false flag." But Twitter did not ban him from its platform then, even after YouTube, Apple and Facebook each kicked him off.
In a series of tweets from its @TwitterSafety account, Twitter said, "Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope. We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy, in addition to the accounts' previous violations."
Twitter also said that it "will take action" if in the future it discovers other accounts being used to get around the ban of Jones and InfoWars.
The company made its decision a day after Jones accosted a CNN reporter, Oliver Darcy, on Capitol Hill, and livestreamed the encounter through Periscope, which Twitter owns.
Jones and InfoWars are notorious for spreading conspiracy theories and other demonstrably false information, including the idea that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax, and that the victims of it were child actors. Some of the parents of the victims have sued Jones for mental and emotional distress.
Jones had traveled to Washington D.C. Wednesday for congressional hearings at which Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg testified.
Before accosting Darcy, Jones confronted Senator Marco Rubio in a hallway outside the room where Dorsey and Sandberg were appearing for a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.
Jones repeatedly interrupted Rubio as the senator answered questions from reporters. After Jones tapped Rubio on the shoulder, the senator warned, "Hey, don't touch me again, man."
Later, he found Darcy outside a room where Dorsey was to appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Darcy's reporting had previously raised questions about tech companies' rules and statements about their battles against misinformation, and whether those were consistent with their allowing Jones and InfoWars to use their platforms. For example, after Dorsey himself tweeted that Twitter was not banning Jones like its counterparts had because "he hasn't violated our rules," an investigation by Darcy led to Twitter admitting that in fact at least seven tweets had broken its rules.
Jones shouted at Darcy for more than ten minutes, accusing him of being in favor of censorship and insulting his appearance, comparing him to "a rat" and told Darcy he was "evil-looking." Jones was live on Twitter's Periscope service the whole time.
InfoWars did not respond to CNN's request for comment, but speaking on an InfoWars program soon after the band, Jones falsely claimed "I was taken down not because we lie but because we tell the truth." | 1,267,654 |
professor at Stanford University, said chronic multitaskers are terrible at a range of cognitive tasks including – funnily enough – multitasking. He described them as "mental wrecks". "People who multitask all the time can't filter out irrelevancy," Nass told NPR. "They can't manage a working memory. They're chronically distracted." The quality of our social interaction is also suffering; research at the University of Essex found the mere presence of a mobile phone in the room inhibits the development of interpersonal closeness and trust.
Our phones remind us there's a world beyond our immediate social sphere; that something, somewhere, is happening without us. Checking your phone during a social encounter is the equivalent of talking to someone while looking over their shoulder to see who else is in the room. Ling says we check our phones automatically, without thinking. We use them to fend off boredom at the checkout or waiting for a bus. "It's a quasi-habitual response that plays on a strong desire to be socially connected," he says. At the same time, it "pulls us out of the public sphere. It is an easy out if... you don't really want to engage". So even though we're physically present, our attachment to our phones means we're often mentally absent. And it's undermining our capacity to have meaningful conversations, says Sherry Turkle, professor of the social studies of science and technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In her latest book, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, she argues digital interaction is harming our ability to converse face to face and reducing our capacity for empathy. "I feel we have now created an environment that will distract us to distraction," she told The Guardian. She recommends banishing devices from the dinner table, the car, the kitchen – "sacred spaces for conversation". Sydney psychologist Jocelyn Brewer says when you have a healthy relationship with technology, you don't have to force yourself offline to find peace. She created the Digital Nutrition framework to promote balanced, mindful use of technology, so we can "keep it as a really great servant and not let it become our master".
Brewer says our memories and creativity can be affected by the digital onslaught. With one study equating the amount of information we receive each day to 174 newspapers – and that was before smartphones – Brewer says "we're letting important, emotionally salient information slip through". There is value from having time out from the information overload and reconnecting to our internal world, she says. "Boredom is recognised as a gateway to creativity, so if we can't be alone with ourselves and are unable to tolerate a lack of stimuli then we actually block out the opportunity to feel boredom and the possible creative thinking that comes out of that." Holesh is now working on a Moment "boot camp", giving people tools to cut their smartphone use. But he says no app can force you to put down your device. "You have to want to use your phone less." | 1,267,655 |
NRC will be carried out across India, no need to fear: Amit Shah in Rajya Sabha
Home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said that the National Register of Citizens (NRC), on the lines of the exercise in Assam, will be carried out across the country. He also underscored the point that there is no need for people from any religion to be worried about it.
“The NRC has no such provision that says that certain religions will be excluded from it. All citizens of India irrespective of religion will figure in the NRC list. The NRC is different from the Citizenship Amendment Bill,” said Shah addressing the Rajya Sabha.
“The process of NRC will be carried out across the country. No one irrespective of religion should be worried, it is just a process to get everyone under the NRC,” he added.
Watch: Amit Shah confirms pan-India NRC; clarifies on Citizenship Amendment bill
In the NRC final list published on August 31, over 1.9 million people were left out of the citizenship register.
Shah said people who names are missing from the draft list have the right to go to tribunals, which will be constituted across Assam. He added that those who can’t afford lawyers to go to a tribunal will be provided financial help by the Assam government.
Some BJP ruled states — like Uttarakhand, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand — have already announced that they will conduct Assam-like NRC exercise in their states.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government plans to amend the Citizenship Act in the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament. The Citizenship Amendment Bill speeds up the process under which non-Muslims from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan can get Indian citizenship.
“Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Christian, Parsi refugees should get citizenship. The Citizenship Amendment Bill is needed so that these refugees who are being discriminated on basis of religion in Pakistan, Bangladesh or Afghanistan, get Indian citizenship,” Shah told Parliament on Wednesday.
There have been opposition from various political parties on the CAB. Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday called it “another trap like the NRC.”
She alleged that CAB was part of BJP’s “divisive politics” to make electoral gains. “It is a trap to exclude Bengalis and Hindus from the list of legal citizens and make them refugees in their own country,” Banerjee said at a rally in north Bengal.
There have been protests across the northeastern states over the government’s plan to table the CAB. In Assam, protesters have argued that it goes against the provisions of the Assam Accord that seek to safeguard the interests of indigenous people.
There were protests and marches on Monday across seven states in the northeast against the legislation. | 1,267,656 |
The state of California is monitoring at least 8,400 people for the deadly Chinese coronavirus after the first unknown case of origin was confirmed in Solano County, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday.
Newsom said that 33 people in California have tested positive for coronavirus and that five of them have been transported out of the state. As of Wednesday, the U.S. confirmed 60 cases, including 42 cases of Americans citizens repatriated earlier this month from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan.
“We are currently in deep partnership with CDC on one overriding protocol that drives our principle focus right now and that’s testing, and the importance to increase our testing protocols and to have point of contact diagnostic testing as our top priority not just in the state of California but I imagine all across the United States,” Newsom told reporters at a press conference.
NEW: California Gov. Gavin Newsom says 28 people who have tested positive for COVID-19 are currently living in the state: "We have 33 confirmed positive tests for the virus. Five individuals have subsequently moved out of state." https://t.co/YLZA2m6M2m pic.twitter.com/NvdddWPJem — ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) February 27, 2020
“We have just a few hundred testing kits and that’s surveillance testing as well as diagnostic testing. That’s simply inadequate to do justice to the kind of testing that is required to address this issue head-on,” he added.
The development comes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday the first transmission of the deadly coronavirus in the U.S.
The CDC said a person from California has been diagnosed with COVID-19 despite not having come into contact with anyone infected with the virus or traveled to places where the disease is present.
“At this time, the patient’s exposure is unknown,” the CDC said in a release. “It’s possible this could be an instance of community spread of COVID-19, which would be the first time this has happened in the United States.”
The CDC defines community spread of an illness when the source of infection is unknown.
It said the California patient, who was detected through the U.S. public health system, may have come into contact with someone who recently traveled to one of several countries currently combating the spread of the disease.
The Solano County resident was receiving medical treatment in Sacramento County, according to the California Department of Public Health.
Dr. Sonia Angell, director of the CDPH, said they have been anticipating community transmission of the virus in the state given its close relationship with China where there have been more than 2,700 deaths from COVID-19 and 78,000 confirmed cases since the outbreak began in early December.
The UPI contributed to this report. | 1,267,657 |
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines’ environment minister said on Monday she stands by her decision to shut more than half the country’s operating mines and bar mining in watershed zones as an inter-agency panel began a review of her actions.
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Members of the government’s Mining Industry Coordinating Council will scrutinize the affected mines to ensure due process was followed and consider the impact on jobs and the economy after an outcry by the mining industry in the world’s top nickel ore supplier. The review could take three months.
The council cannot overturn her orders, but its findings could feed into a decision by President Rodrigo Duterte, who has said he will review the planned closures after initially throwing his support behind his environment minister.
“My stand on no mining in watersheds is staunch,” Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Regina Lopez told Reuters by phone. “It’s madness to do any kind of extractive industry in areas which are the source of the water supply of the island.”
Lopez on Feb. 2 ordered the closure of 23 of the Southeast Asian nation’s 41 mines and suspended five others for environmental violations including harming watershed areas and causing siltation in coastal waters.
The decision angered domestic miners which said they would contest the move. A mining industry group has said the closure or suspension of 28 mines would affect 1.2 million people who depend on the sector for their livelihood.
She also ordered the cancellation of 75 mining contracts, or nearly a third of mineral production sharing agreements for mines that have yet to go into production, for being located in watershed zones.
Lopez, who is a committed environmentalist, co-chairs the Mining Industry Coordinating Council with Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez.
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Senior members of the mining council met on Monday to discuss the review and to assess all aspects of affected mine operations, Finance Undersecretary Bayani Agabin said.
“It will be investigative and done in a scientific manner. And we determined that we will probably need experts to look at the technical, economic, social aspects of the mine operations,” Agabin told reporters. The experts would not come from mining firms, but would likely be academics, he said.
“Even if a contract has been made, the (Environment and Natural Resources) secretary is in full authority to review contracts and make decisions based on the common good,” Lopez said.
“The priorities I am legally mandated to comply with are in many laws.”
Duterte has previously criticized the environmental damage from mining and said last August that the country could survive without a mining industry.
Still largely unexplored, the Philippines’ mining sector contributes less than 1 percent to the overall economy, with only 3 percent of 9 million hectares identified by the state as having high mineral reserves being mined, according to government data. | 1,267,658 |
Beachfront Hotel with 20 Rooms on the Central Pacific
Palo Seco, near Parrita and Quepos/Manuel Antonio (Costa Rica) – This is an excellent investment opportunity to purchase a fantastic beachfront boutique hotel along the Central Pacific coast of Costa Rica! The hotel has the capacity for up to 20 rooms (and 22 baths), separated into two buildings. There are about 1,100 m2 (11,800 ft2) of construction on about one hectare (2.5 acres) of renewable beachfront concession land. The hotel can offer a wide variety of rooms (accommodating a wide variety of budgets):
– Garden Single rooms: Bed, private bath, garden-view balcony
– Garden Double room: 2 beds, bath, and garden-view balcony
– Beachfront King rooms: Spacious rooms with 1 King bed, bath, and ocean-view balcony
– Stand-alone Studio Suite: Spacious suite with 2 Queen beds, kitchen, living room, dining area, and ocean-view balcony
– Master Suite Rooms: 1 King bed, 1 Individual bed, bath, and 2 ocean-view balconies
– Grand Master Suites: Combination suite with 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, kitchen, living room, dining area and 3 ocean-view balconies
All of the rooms have, as a minimum, air conditioning, safety deposit box, cable TV, 6 MB WIFI Internet, hot water, purified water, mini-refrigerator, telephone, closet and coffee maker (some of the suites have fully equipped kitchens).
There is also a lovely pool with Jacuzzi and poolside bar, as well as a reception area, souvenir shop and parking for up to 20 cars. Beautifully landscaped gardens; tropical paradise. Step right out to an unspoiled beach that stretches for miles. Stunning sunsets.
Situated between Jaco beach and Quepos/Manuel Antonio, close enough to take advantage of both high-demand tourist spots during the day. Ten minutes to the town of Parrita (with banks, restaurants, supermarkets, medical clinic, public transportation, etc.). There is excellent fishing in the estuary along the back side of Isla Palo Seco. Enjoy all the tropical wildlife you read about, such as monkeys, iguanas, an endless variety of birds, etc. Tours may be arranged for a wide variety of activities, including national parks, zip-lining, rafting, surf classes, sport fishing, hiking, birding, ATV rentals and more.
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Eagerly awaiting fans at Manchester’s Albert Hall had the pleasure of seeing the Camden quartet on the penultimate night of their first UK tour since the release of their debut album ‘My Love is Cool’ back in June of this year.
Considered to be one of the more finer venues around Manchester, the aloof Albert Hall features timeless stained glass towering windows, and a large arched roof.
Refusing to stick to just one conventional category, each song is a complete juxtaposition from the last and the ethereal-punk goddess that is Ellie Roswell filled the venue with shoe-gaze-esque songs that had the crowd cause quite a stir. At one point, the audience was swaying, arms round one another, even some with lighters in the air. However things can quickly turn nasty, circle pits opened up in the more heavier songs such as ‘Moaning Lisa Smile’, from their EP ‘Creature Songs’, with unbearable humidity from sweaty teenagers and adults alike, thrashing into one another unaware of their actual movements.
Before the encore, the fluttery ‘You’re A Germ’, that proved to be incredibly popular with fans when released as a single before the album, emphasized how much this band can lure fans in who usually won’t go for “heavier” genres. The deceptive whimsical soundings of Roswell’s voice (and lyrics) “Are you wild like me, raised by wolves and other beasts?” In the ode to friendship ‘Bros’, can quickly turn, raw and nasty when Ellie and Joel scream and snarl in ‘You’re A Germ’- “One! Two! Three! Four! Five! Six! Seven! You ain’t going to heaven!”
Flirting with different genres, few songs provided respite for the endearing fans. And despite awful feedback noise during Joel Amey’s fairy-tail like ‘Swallowtail’ vocals, the crowd wasn’t fussed due to the usually unrequited relationship between a drummer and his microphone.
Ending with their newest single ‘Giant Peach’, bassist Theo Ellis, and Ellie Roswell were swaying side-to-side with one another during the intro. Crowd-surfers being carried over the barrier by fellow fans and then security. Wolf Alice were going to extremes in order to interact with the audience, Theo Ellis jumping into the crowd, Ellie letting fans use her microphone in ‘Moaning Lisa Smile’ are just a few examples of this.
Wolf Alice exceeded my expectations and possibly even those who had seen them live before, since the release of ‘My Love Is Cool’ they have certainly found their image. This performance definitely left every attendee with at least a mild form of adrenaline filled whiplash. | 1,267,660 |
Police: Thwarted Kentucky mass shooter had fully auto AR-15, 7 other guns
Thomas Novelly | Courier Journal
Police in Springfield, Kentucky, said they prevented a mass shooting Monday by arresting a man who was prepared to attack a manufacturing plant with a fully automatic AR-15 and seven other guns to "get the job done."
Matthew Smith, 37, of Lebanon, was sitting in his car outside the LB Manufacturing plant in Springfield around 4 p.m., according to an arrest citation. Springfield is about 60 miles southeast of Louisville. Reports of a suspicious vehicle and trespassing came in to local police.
When an officer approached Smith, he tried to aim a Glock handgun at the officer's chest, according to an arrest citation. The officer wrestled the gun away and handed it to a nearby officer before pulling Smith out of the car and to the ground.
The officer then found a Springfield XD handgun in Smith's waistband, another Glock strapped to his ankle as well as a.308-caliber rifle and a Colt AR-15 in the front seat, according to the arrest citation. Smith had "modified (the AR-15) to be fully automatic," according to police.
Springfield Chief James Smith later told the Courier Journal that officers found two additional Glocks and a shotgun in the car, too.
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When police interviewed Smith, he revealed that he had "brought what he needed to get the job done" and was waiting for a woman he had dropped off that morning who was not "answering any of his calls or texts."
Smith said the woman was "being trafficked," according to the arrest citation.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is investigating the incident, and federal charges are pending.
Smith is charged with wanton endangerment, resisting arrest, attempted murder and criminal trespassing. He is in the Marion County Jail. He is scheduled to be arraigned on Nov. 26. There is no bond amount posted.
Smith's arrest follows a violent 24 hours across America. Three people, including the shooter were killed at Mercy Hospital in south Chicago on Monday evening. In downtown Denver, one person was killed and four were wounded.
This is the second thwarted mass shooting in Kentucky in the past two months.
Dylan Lee Jarrell, 21, of Anderson County, was arrested in October after police said he had a detailed plan to shoot up a nearby school. It was thwarted by a New Jersey mother who reported racist messages that Jarrell had sent her on Facebook.
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President Donald Trump continued his attacks against prosecutors on Thursday during a National Day of Prayer event, telling attendees that he has gotten through the difficulties of the “witch hunt” against him by thinking “about God.”
While speaking to a crowd consisting of faith leaders, lawmakers, and administration officials assembled in the Rose Garden at the White House, according to The Hill, Trump addressed the Mueller investigation, which he has repeatedly called a witch hunt. He told the crowd that he has relied on his faith to get him through.
“People say, ‘How do you get through that whole stuff. How do you go through those witch hunts and everything else?'” Trump said. “And you know what we do, Mike? We just do it.”
He then gestured toward Vice President Pence and continued, “and we think about God. That’s true.”
Trump also quoted verses from the Bible to the crowd.
“As God promises in the Bible, those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength; they will soar on the wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, and they will walk and not be faint,” Trump said.
“That’s something that Mike and I think about all the time. Right, Mike?” he added.
On National prayer day POTUS thanks God for getting him through a “Witch Hunt” @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/Q8LCre9sN4 — Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) May 2, 2019
Trump also tackled anti-Semitism at the event, according to CBS. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein of the Chabad of Poway, California, who was seriously injured at a shooting at a synagogue on Saturday, was present at the event, and the president addressed him during his speech.
He said that the United States will fight against the attacks against Jewish people, adding, “you know that rabbi.” He then said that all people have the right to live according to their faith without fear of attack.
Trump surprised many when he won over evangelical and other faith leaders after saying that he doesn’t feel like he needs to ask God for forgiveness, failing to attend faith services, and after numerous reports of his infidelity surfaced. As Politico reported, many of his close advisers think that his administration was divinely inspired. Brad Parscale, his campaign manager, called Trump a “savior.”
Other faith leaders, like Jerry Falwell Jr., say that calling Trump a savior goes a step too far. He said that if you credit God for a good president, then you have to place the blame with God when you have a bad one. Other faith leaders say that it muddies the separation of church and state when you credit a president as being divinely inspired. | 1,267,662 |
Brett Kavanaugh did much the same during his Senate confirmation hearing. As authentic as his outrage was, he was strategically playing to like-minded supporters. Indeed, the White House counsel Don McGahn advised him to play up his emotions for maximum impact. And it worked—probably beyond his wildest expectations.
Conor Friedersdorf: Brett Kavanaugh and the “white male rage” thesis
Such is the dynamic of politics in the time of Trump. The politics of outrage is fast becoming a political norm, each flare-up lowering the bar of acceptable rhetoric and producing an upswing in belligerent posturing.
But Trump didn’t invent this emotion-laden mode of political warfare. He’s certainly promoting it to an extreme degree, but it has a long and storied history that predates even that notorious poisoner of the political realm, Newt Gingrich. As tempting as it may be to assume that American politics has been an oasis of civility until the semi-recent past, at moments of intense polarization and strife throughout our nation’s checkered history, politicians have appealed to our lowest common denominator, using the power of anger and intimidation to spread their message and get their way.
We often link such outrage with protest, but in truth, political power holders have long used anger, fear, and intimidation to preserve the status quo, bullying their opponents into compliance or silence, and frightening the public into surrendering rights for the sake of security—though with mixed results.
Read: Donald Trump and the politics of fear
Southern congressmen made masterly use of strategic outrage and intimidation in the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s, depicting themselves as victims of a campaign of Northern degradation and protecting their interests with the power of their rage.
In some ways, these decades were a heyday of the politics of anger. The rise of organized party politics in the so-called Age of Jackson brought with it an aggressive anger-spiked style of political warfare. The notoriously combative Andrew Jackson led the way in this new kind of politics. The Democratic Party rose to power by celebrating his warlike instincts, battlefield exploits, and epic temper tantrums (his favorite swear words—“by the Eternal”—became a popular catchphrase). It is no coincidence that the rise of this rough-and-tumble politics saw the partial sidelining of women in party politics, allegedly for their own good.
Those same decades saw the intensification of the slavery debate as westward expansion forced the nation to confront slavery’s spread with each new state’s entry to the Union. Thanks to the three-fifths compromise, which gave the South outsize power in Congress by granting representation for three-fifths of its enslaved population, Southerners had long protected their slaveholding regime by dominating national politics—and they felt entitled to that power. And, of course, that regime was itself grounded on anger and entitlement. | 1,267,663 |
When it comes to performance poetry, nothing quite compares to the National Poetry Slam (NPS). Every August, more than seventy teams from across the United States and abroad gather for the five-day tournament, each with hopes of attaining the coveted championship. According to previous competitors, the NPS is like the World Series of poetry — rife with competitive spirit and passionate, vocal fans.
Though the slam typically changes host cities annually, it will be returning to Oakland for the second year in a row on August 10, making it the first time a city has ever hosted the competition back-to-back. According to Maureen Benson, the Poetry Slam Inc. event coordinator, the decision to return was an easy one, despite it breaking a 25-year tradition. "There really isn't a better city than Oakland to host such an incredible festival," she said. "[The city] has such a great collection of art and spirit." The locations for poetry readings and slam competitions are scattered throughout downtown, with venues such as Flight Deck, Laurel Bookstore, SoleSpace, and Awaken all taking part. Even the steps of Oakland City Hall will become a slam stage on August 13, when a poetic protest in support of #BlackLivesMatter will take place.
Aside from hosting lively competitions and social demonstrations, the NPS also offers opportunities for novice poets to develop skills and learn from previous championship winners. Introductory seminars and workshops are sprinkled throughout the festival lineup. "If you're not familiar with poetry, [the NPS] is the place to be," said Sonya Renee Taylor, who won the National Individual Poetry Slam in 2004."It'll blow your head off. You'll be saying 'I didn't know poetry could be like this!'" For advanced poets already well versed in the art of spoken word, there are also a handful of seminars to guide writers through the publishing process.
Like NPS festivals in the past, many scheduled readings are designed exclusively for poets hailing from marginalized groups, though general audiences are encouraged to listen to their stories. A few highlights from this far-ranging list include the "Indigenous People Open Mic Night," which celebrates cultural roots; "Gender Outlaws," for people who identify outside the gender binary; "Human Not Disabled," for people challenging ableist normativity; and "A Women's Work: #SafeBlackGirls," which highlights the work of Black women fighting white supremacy.
The popular, humorously themed readings are returning, as well. "Erotica Slam and Dirty Haiku Battle," "Lip Sync Battle," "Nerd Slam," and "Rookie Open Mic" are just a few of the more lighthearted events in this year's lineup, making for a roster that has a little something for everyone.
Primarily, though, there will be "tons of beautiful poetry in the spirit of revolution," said Benson. Next year, the NPS will be held in Georgia, she added: "Come while you can." | 1,267,664 |
"Indivior stands by FDA's decision, which was supported by both the law and the facts at that time."
Derkacz says Braeburn has asked the Food and Drug Administration to revoke Sublocade's orphan status. And an FDA spokeswoman says the agency is actively considering that request.
The right drug 'can save their life'
Long-acting, injectable treatments for addiction have some advantages over tablets and dissolvable films. Patients don't have to remember to take medication each day, and they can avoid the drugstore.
"It provides a little bit more anonymity for patients that don't want to disclose that they have an opiate use disorder," says Michelle Lofwall, a psychiatrist and medical director at two University of Kentucky clinics that treat patients struggling with opioid addiction.
"Some patients have felt stigmatized when going to the pharmacy, like they don't feel like they're necessarily treated all that well once they show their prescription," she says.
Lofwall participated in Brixadi's clinical trial, so she's one of the few health care providers who has used both medications. She says they're slightly different and that she'd like to have the choice to offer her patients.
"From a public health perspective, and just as a provider physician trying to treat patients, they need to have all the options," Lofwall says. Being on the right drug "literally can save their life."
"As a clinician, it's always important for me to have more tools," Andrea Barthwell, an addiction treatment specialist, wrote in public comments on Braeburn's FDA petition. "Moreover, there are gaps in care from the current buprenorphine treatment options that Brixadi may fill."
Brixadi can be used weekly as well as monthly, allowing doctors to see their patients more frequently and monitor them more closely at the start of treatment, according to several comments.
Another issue is cost.
Sublocade costs about $1,580 per month, according to marketing materials from Indivior, and some insurance companies won't pay for it. "In Kentucky," Lofwall says, "we haven't been able to get it for patients who are on several different Medicaid managed-care programs."
By contrast, a generic version of the buprenorphine film costs about $140 a month, according to the website GoodRX.com.
Daniel Smith, who leads the medication-assisted treatment program at Mary's Center in Washington, D.C., says he doesn't know any doctors who use Sublocade now.
"Long-acting buprenorphine is definitely advantageous over short-acting for many reasons, but cost and availability have been the challenge," he says.
But if a competitor drug came on the market, Smith says the price of Sublocade might fall, and he might then be willing to prescribe it to his patients. | 1,267,665 |
By Koh Ruide, SoraNews24
Ever since the end of World War II, relations between Japan and Korea have been frosty at best. No matter how many decades have passed, such dark stains in history have a tendency to linger in people’s minds.
Take Korean YouTuber Hong Sung Hyuk, for example. Although his channel is generally lighthearted and mostly involves him chatting up beautiful women on streets, one video recently highlighted his supposed anti-Japan sentiment in stark detail. He had driven all the way down to the airport to purchase a flight ticket to Japan worth 1.35 million won ($1,150).
▼ But instead of taking the plane, he ripped it up to shreds.
Hong’s message was clear to viewers: he was boycotting Japan. Yet despite the video showing him tearing up the ticket with grim satisfaction, the fact remained that he had already contributed toward Japan’s economy just by buying it. So he was essentially helping the country he hates while wasting good money.
▼ He did clean up his mess after like a proper law-abiding citizen, though.
Considering his obvious mistake and the channel’s general direction, the whole video comes across as more of a publicity stunt than a purposeful message to boycott Japan, not to mention that he could potentially walk up to a counter for a ticket refund. Most viewers, including his own subscribers, managed to see through his bluff and not take it too seriously:
“If you want to boycott, don’t buy the ticket in the first place.”
“This is all an act to get more subscribers.”
“That’s not boycotting at all.”
“You’re just delaying all the other passengers on board.”
Despite all that has happened, keep in mind that many Korean people do not feel this way, and Japanese youth these days love all things Korean. Both cultures have incredibly exciting stuff such as pop culture and food that have ended up influencing each other’s societies, and to shun one side is to lose out on enjoying the best things in life.
Sources: YouTube/Clark TV, Facebook/Hong Sung Hyuk via Hachima Kiko
Read more stories from SoraNews24.
-- Anti-Japan drama ironically borrows music from Japanese anime
-- YouTubers come under fire for destroying traditional Japanese product in controversial video
-- A losing South Korean baseball team filled 3 rows of seats with robots that cheer for them
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Though teenagers suffer a historically bad rap for being self-absorbed, one thoughtful group of Michigan high schoolers made a point to applaud someone special this holiday: their hardworking school janitor.
On Dec. 21, Garden City High School student Kenna Hermanson, Andrew Cortes, Summer Dyer and Lexi Horvath presented custodian Brian Junk with a Christmas gift, ClickonDetroit reports, but it’s his reaction that is getting all the attention.
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“This is for you, you always go above and beyond for us, and you're always happy and we just wanted to give you something,” Cortes says in a video of the surprise that has since gone viral on Facebook. "You guys are gonna make me cry," a shocked Junk says as he hugs the students and exclaims in delight as he unwraps a new pair of work boots.
“Thank you! I need some really bad, too, look what I’m wearing,” Junk laughs, pointing to a pair of worn sneakers. “Thank you for your hard work,” a student chimes in, “No, thank you for being you guys,” Junk says in the clip, which has since been viewed over 95,000 times.
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According to Hometown Life, Junk has served as custodial supervisor at the Garden City High School for nearly eight ears, and is beloved amongst the 1,200 students and fellow staff alike.
“Brian always goes above and beyond in our school. His approach is an excellent example of one person having an enormous impact on school culture,” Principal Derek Fisher told the outlet, adding that Junk is “irreplaceable” and a “huge asset” to the school community.
The 56-year-old begins his days at 4:45 a.m., ensuring that every facet of the school building is in tip-top shape. “It could be toilets, electrical outlets, heating or cooling or a kid who just got sick,” said Junk of a typical day on the job. “Anything that you can possibly think of, it’s happened. There’s never a boring day for me. I love my job.”
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As high school can be a rocky time, Junk encourages the students to think bigger picture, and dream big.
“I encourage them to look to their future. I encourage them to go to college,” he shared. “They are a great group of kids.”
Lucky for the Garden City high schoolers, they’ve got a great role model, too. | 1,267,667 |
5PM: 'The Trump Effect' not what one restaurant owner expected
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SALT LAKE CITY — Like many guys, Nick Watts has always wanted to open a burger shop.
Only, he did it.
For four months now, Chedda Burger has been serving ’em hot off 600 South by the Grand America Hotel in downtown Salt Lake City.
They also serve those who can't come here.
"For every two burgers that are bought, we give a burger to the homeless,” said Watts, the owner of Chedda Burger.
Instead of advertising, Watts is hoping word of mouth from his good food and good deeds are good enough.
"We actually take our truck down to the homeless shelter. We were there last Sunday and we fed 250 people,” said Watts.
So when Watts heard Donald Trump was speaking next door Friday night, he felt this was a big opportunity to impress new customers.
"We bought extra stuff for it,” said Watts. "I was expecting there's going to be 5,000 people out front, you know? It's a captive audience."
Things started out well. Business was busier than usual as people started lining up to get into the Trump rally.
However, as with so many other Trump rallies, there are also protests. Some of it got ugly.
"There was one point where they were tearing tents down, and I’m thinking this is a little out of hand,” said Watts.
At about 8 p.m., he decided to lock his doors.
"My job as a business owner is to make sure my staff and my customers are safe,” said Watts. “There were two Secret Service tents, those little pop-up tents, and people started tearing one of them apart.”
Watts says he has no problem with protesting. He feels it's as American as a hamburger. He just wishes it wouldn't get so nasty so fast.
"My building over here, like, all this got damaged,” said Watts, while taking broken decorative bricks out of the front of his business wall. “What sucks is (that) I have to pay for this. That’s money I have to take out of our nonprofit to fix that.”
Business was back to normal Saturday afternoon and, of course, Watts still wants new customers.
He just wishes those who can’t handle themselves stay away.
"A couple of clowns decided they wanted to force their point upon someone and my business suffered,” said Watts.
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Forget elaborate prose descriptions. A word or two will suffice: scallops, prawns, rabbit, crab, salad, chicken wings. The restaurant, squeezed into a guava-pink bungalow, is modeled on a “fonda,” a modest establishment where a grandmother may stir up a beef stew for the surrounding neighborhood.
With that mission in mind, Mr. Enrique’s early message to Puerto Rican farmers was blunt: “ ‘You come to me, I’ll buy everything on your truck,’ ” he said. “ ‘You tell me that’s from your land and you picked it this morning? I’m buying it.’ And that kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.”
Maybe the source is the 20-something hipster “with boatloads of purslane,” he said, or the fisherman who calls and tells the chef that he just caught a conger eel. “My favorite are the local oysters,” Mr. Enrique said. “They’re so fresh it’s ridiculous. That’s something I’m trying to work with now.” The oysters adhere to the roots of partly submerged mangrove trees.
A road trip with Mr. Enrique can turn into an ad hoc lesson in marine biology, or horticulture. While dropping into a lechonera in the hills above San Juan for a rustic Saturday breakfast of roast pork and blood sausage, the chef ambled over to the foliage near the barbecue pit and pointed to a tangle of flora. “You see that thick leaf with the little flowers?” he said. “That look like zucchini blossoms? That’s calabaza.” Calabaza is a popular squash, but the blossoms are usually tossed away.
“That’s a vine, it just grows like crazy,” he said. Like more and more chefs in Puerto Rico, Mr. Enrique’s impulse is to find a way to use it. “The ingredients are what drive me,” he said. “It’s not about what you can do with an ingredient. It’s what you don’t do to it. So to make that happen, you need to find what’s best.”
Out on Vieques, the still-wild island that for decades has been known for bewitching peace seekers, lost souls and the United States military (which used part of it for years as a naval training range), that quest for indigenous bumper crops takes on a more haphazard form. Islanders just show up at the kitchen pass with goodies (star fruit, mango, papaya) that they plucked on a stroll into town. “We have urban foragers,” Mr. Enrique said. | 1,267,669 |
California Department of Education
News Release
Superintendent Torlakson Announces Approval
of History–Social Science Framework
SACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today announced that the State Board of Education voted to approve the History–Social Science Framework for California Public Schools, which will update and upgrade history and social science instruction in California.
"This is a big win for our students," said Torlakson. "This document will improve the teaching and learning of history and social science. It will give our students access to the latest historical research and help them learn about the diversity of our state and the contributions of people and groups who may not have received the appropriate recognition in the past."
The Framework provides guidance to teachers, administrators, and publishers for the teaching of history and social science. It includes more than 20 detailed classroom examples that show teachers how they can integrate their instruction to build students' history–social science knowledge and skills, literacy skills, and English language development.
"The adoption of this Framework today is an important part of our instructional program, said President Michael Kirst of the California State Board of Education. "Hundreds of people representing broad perspectives contributed to the development of this important tool for teachers and classrooms. The new Framework will help guide classroom instruction at each grade level and will be used with other instructional resources to ensure all students have a broad understanding of history."
The Framework adds considerable information on civic learning, consistent with the work of Torlakson's California Task Force on K–12 Civic Learning. In addition, information was added about financial literacy; voter education; genocide; and the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans and people with disabilities to the history of California and the United States.
Many members of the public participated in the development of the Framework, which received an unprecedented amount of public comments. During the online survey period, for example, the California Department of Education (CDE) received more than 700 public comments from more than 480 different submitters. During the second field review, which lasted from December 17, 2015, to February 29, 2016, CDE received more than 10,000 e-mail comments.
"People are passionate about the way they are portrayed in history," said Torlakson. "We are glad so many people and groups participated in our lengthy public comment and review process."
Many topics in the Framework sparked spirited debates, including "comfort women" in World War II, the Bataan Death March and the Battle of Manila, the roles of LGBT Americans in U.S. and California history, the Armenian Genocide, and discrimination faced by Sikh Americans.
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s now at the National Youth Gang Center, researched the question in North Carolina.
Howell advocates many of the things that Georgia is pondering, like use of evidence-based programs, deinstitutionalizing status offenders and systematic decision-making. But local diversions, he said, can’t work everywhere.
“In a rural state like Georgia there just wouldn’t be enough money saved to make it work,” said Howell. “North Carolina looked at it as well and came to that conclusion very quickly.”
With sparse population and very few offenders, not enough cases would be kept at the county level for significant reimbursement, Howell said.
The math for low-population counties is a challenge, said Newman, adding that one thing counties could look at is working together on a regional level to attract providers. “It’s definitely possible. It’s not easy, it’s a challenge, but it’s definitely possible,” he said.
About a dozen years after Ohio, Texas took some of the Midwestern state’s reforms to its own much larger, much more rural territory.
Since then, Texas has closed several state juvenile detention centers, and apparently saved money and pleased advocates.
But Jeffrey Butts, director of the Research and Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, co-authored a 2011 report comparing different juvenile justice reform strategies and said even nearly two decades’ worth of data is not enough to draw from in some cases.
“My criticism of RECLAIM Ohio and a lot of the others [modeled after it] like REDEPLOY Illinois is we don’t really know if they will work because most of them were implemented during a point in which crime was on the rise,” in the mid 1990s, said Butts. That nationwide rise was followed by a nationwide fall. “A lot of the retrospective review of their effectiveness has been done during the crime decline,” he said.
“We’ve all been riding our sleds down the same hill, congratulating ourselves on how fast we’re going, but we don’t really know what’s going to happen when we hit bottom,” he said.
That is to say, if the juvenile crime rate starts to go back up, it’s not clear how lawmakers, prosecutors, judges and the public in newly-reformed states will respond. It’s not clear if Ohio-type changes, even changes found to be useful and cost-effective, are sustainable.
Georgia’s Council is tentatively scheduled for two December meetings. Members can amend, accept or reject any of the preliminary suggestions now on the table. Then it’s up to the Georgia General Assembly to enact any or all of the full Council’s recommendations. | 1,267,671 |
Nearly a year after the repeal of net neutrality took effect, the average internet speed in the United States for fixed broadband rose 28% and the country is now ranked No. 7 globally.
When the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal net neutrality in December 2017, average internet download speed was approximately 77 Mbps and the U.S. was ranked No. 12 globally in average speed, according to data from Ookla, which runs a popular online speed testing service. Since the repeal took effect on June 11, 2018, average internet download speeds have increased 28% from 93 Mbps to 120 Mbps.
"When I became FCC Chairman in January 2017, investment in our nation’s broadband networks had declined for two straight years," FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement released last week. "So we turned the page on the failed policies of the past and charted a new course. We focused on reducing unnecessary regulatory burdens and cutting red tape that discourages broadband deployment. And we concentrated on updating our rules to match the modern communications marketplace... The latest evidence reaffirms that our policies are working... So in the time to come, we’ll continue on the same course — full speed ahead. That means getting rid of more unnecessary regulatory burdens and updating more outdated rules so that we can continue to connect more Americans with high-speed broadband and digital opportunity."
Pai has said that turning over regulation to the Federal Trade Commission would make internet providers more accountable for antitrust practices and for behaving in ways that don't benefit consumers. Critics have said that the repeal of net neutrality didn't directly lead to the increase of speeds or wider availability and have pointed to instances of ISP behavior that would've violated net neutrality regulations, including Verizon's widely criticized throttling of cellular data during the California wildfires in 2018 that inadvertently affected emergency responders. Verizon said that the throttling was not due to the repeal.
Pai criticized extreme predictions of what the internet would look like in a post-net neutrality America during a Senate committee hearing on June 12.
"When we made our decision, there were several predictions clearly made, including by some elected officials," Pai said. "'This was the end of the internet as we know it,' 'You will have to play $5 per tweet,' 'The internet will work one word at a time,' 'Our internet will look like Portugal's,' ironically a country that has net neutrality regulations. A year after our decision... the results were in. Internet speeds have been up, infrastructure investment is up, the internet remains free and open and all of these parades of horribles have been dismissed. The greatest threat to a free and open internet has been the unregulated Silicon Valley tech giants that do, in fact, today decide what you see and what you don't. There's no transparency, there's no consumer protection."
The Save The Internet Act of 2019 would effectively repeal the repeal of net neutrality passed the Democratic-led House in April but has not been heard in the Republican-held Senate. | 1,267,672 |
For over a year, the state of Florida did not run FBI background checks on tens of thousands of residents applying for concealed weapons permits starting in February 2016 - because an employee forgot the password to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), reports the Tampa Bay Times.
The screwup by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services was discovered by the Office of Inspector General, and meant that anyone from felons to people with mental illness may have been granted the right to carry a firearm in public.
The employee in charge of the background checks could not log into the system, the investigator learned. The problem went unresolved until discovered by another worker in March 2017 — meaning that for more than a year applications got approved without the required background check. -Tampa Bay Times
The report found that there were 134,000 requests for permits in the fiscal year ending in June 2015, and 245,000 applicants over the next 12 months. 2017 applications topped both, at 275,000 applications.
After the screwup was discovered, officials scrambled to run background checks - flagging 365 applications which required further review, and 291 revocations. The employee who forgot the password, Lisa Wiolde, has been fired for negligence.
"Upon discovery of this former employee's negligence in not conducting the further review required on 365 applications, we immediately completed full background checks on those 365 applications, which resulted in 291 revocations," Putnam said in the statement. "The former employee was both deceitful and negligent, and we immediately launched an investigation and implemented safeguards to ensure this never happens again." -Tampa Bay Times
Employees interviewed for the IG report said that the NICS background checks are "extremely important," and confirmed that concealed weapons licenses "may have been issued to potentially inelligible individuals." The employee said that if the checks weren't done, it could cause "an embarassment to the agency."
Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam has made it a priority to speed up the issuing of concealed weapons permits since he was elected in 2010. In 2012, he held a news conference to celebrate the state's one millionth concealed weapons permit, noting the time it took to process an application fell from 12 weeks to 35 days on his watch. There are now 1.8 million concealed weapon permit holders in Florida. -Tampa Bay Times
Putnam, now a Florida gubernatorial candidate on the GOP ticket, touts the expansion of concealed carry permits as one of his hallmark accomplishments. Now, especially in the wake of the Parkland High School shooting which left 17 dead, Putnam's reputation is sure to take a hit.
"The integrity of our department's licensing program is our highest priority," said Aaron Keller, a department spokesman, when contacted Friday by the Times. "As soon as we learned that one employee failed to review applicants' non-criminal disqualifying information, we immediately terminated the employee, thoroughly reviewed every application potentially impacted, and implemented safeguards to prevent this from happening again." | 1,267,673 |
(UPDATED WITH STATEMENT FROM AMAZON) EXCLUSIVE: Frank Spotnitz has exited The Man In The High Castle. Sources tell me that the showrunner behind the Amazon series based on Philip K Dick’s 1962 alternative history novel left High Castle in the past few days after clashing with the streaming service over the production of the Season 2 of the show. No new showrunner is being brought on board to replace the Europe-based Spotnitz and the current production team will take over his responsibilities.
The sudden departure of Spotnitz has also seen the Vancouver-shot show today go on an immediate hiatus. Right in the middle of production on High Castle‘s second season, that break could last up to 2-weeks. In typical fast fashion, this went down so quick that Spotnitz’s UK-based Big Light Productions was happily tweeting about the show as recently as May 11:
With its tale of an America sternly ruled by victorious Axis powers, The Man In The High Castle first appeared on Amazon on January 15, 2015 after the Spotnitz developed project had bounced around unsuccessfully for several years beforehand. The deal with Amazon came just before the producers option on Dick’s book was to expire the EP told the TCA last summer. With the High Castle pilot quickly became one of the most watched pieces of original content on the streaming service, Amazon picked the show up for series the next month. On November 20 last year, a full 10-episode first season debuted.
With Spotnitz EPing along with Scott Free Productions’ Ridley Scott and David Zucker, and Isa Dick Hackett, the well reviewed and streaming record breaking High Castle was renewed for a second 10-episode season on December 18, 2015. Alexa Davalos, Luke Kleintank, Rufus Sewell, Rupert Evans, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, and Joel de la Fuente starred in the tale of the Nazi and Imperial Japan dominated U.S.A, which expected to come back later this year.
While leaving High Castle, Spotnitz is also currently working on the Renaissance set Medici: Masters of Florence. Starring Dustin Hoffman as Giovanni de’ Medici and Game of Thrones alum Richard Madden as his son Cosimo de’ Medici, the series was created by Spotnitz and Nicolas Meyer and is being sold internationally by Wild Bunch TV.
(7:37PM – Here’s what Amazon said about the situation: Given the ambition and scope of the series, the decision has been made to locate all creative efforts on The Man in the High Castle to the west coast; Frank Spotnitz will remain as an Executive Producer and step back from showrunner. His responsibilities will be managed by our deep and talented bench of producers. We are enormously grateful to him for bringing our customers on one of the most watched original shows on Amazon Video and we are excited about the team’s vision for season two.) | 1,267,674 |
Post-breakup Bradley Cooper is on a baller-older-woman tour of New York lately, spotted first by Laura Dern's side and then caught off-guard with Anna Wintour on an Upper East Side street.
Photo via Twitter.
Obviously, Twitter is melting down over this hang, but the real story here is Cooper's attire. For his sojourn out into the night with the most legendary fashion editor of all time, the actor chose to wear a henley. Let me just repeat that one time, slowly and carefully; a henley. A layered henley, no less!
The really remarkable thing about Cooper's henley is that it's not new; he's been wearing henleys since at least 2012, if not earlier. The henley's heyday was arguably a few years years ago, with GQ noting Bachelorette winner Shawn Booth's predilection for them and the Cut opining in 2017 that you're not a male celebrity if you don't own one, but Bradley's doubling down proves a true commitment to the look.
Photo via StyleBistro.
Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines a henley as "a casual top with a scoop neck and a short row of buttons in the center of the neckline," making it the fucked-up fraternal twin of the scoop-neck T-shirt that writer Kelly Conaboy called the scariest part of Midsommar.
The regular scoop-neck is certainly horrible, but in a very real way, the henley is worse. While a scoop-neck-wearing guy is proudly announcing his douchiness, proudly peacocking his vanity and dated-trend adherence, the henley-wearer sartorially purports to be a Nice Guy™. He's the guy who sat up all night with you in the dorm common room, lazily strumming a guitar and really listening to you for hours before sending you a long, weird Facebook message about how he can't deny his feelings for you anymore.
The henley is straight white male mediocrity in pseudo-button-up form; it's as lazy as a T-shirt, but it's swapped the relatable layer of sleaze that guys like Shia LaBoeuf and Pete Davidson emit for a thin patina of respectability that just rings false. Living at an unsettling halfway point between the casual cotton tee and the actual button-up, the henley is the Trojan horse of the fashion world, sneaking in bro attributes under the cover of gentlemanliness. It's what your shitty boyfriend wears to meet your parents, because hey, it's not technically a T-shirt, so you can't get mad. It has big "guy who bought a $2000 surfboard on Abbot Kinney but doesn't actually surf" energy. Simply put, it sucks, and Bradley needs to do better for his next platonic Wintour date. | 1,267,675 |
The buzz of closures
I found an interesting discussion about closures. I find this quote particularly true (and amusing):
There has been a great deal of interest in closures lately, driven in great part by the fact that there is talk of adding some form of anonymous functions to the Java. Most of the time, people talk about “adding closures” to Java, and that prompts a flurry of questions of the form “what is a closure and why should I care?”
Yes, why would they care? As someone put it, if you always programmed in Basic, you think you don't need recursion. You can't comprehend a complex language feature—such as recursion—unless you actually try to make some sense of it. Yes, no matter how many computer science courses you'd take, you can't do real programming unless, well, you do real programming. In other words, your teacher might have told you what recursion means, but unless you actually use it, you'll never know what is it good for.
Consequently, I think there are 2 types of programmers.
Some would spend a lot of their free time trying to understand and make use of some techniques that might—or might not, but usually will—serve them for real-world problems. The other camp is very boring: those are the people that are payed for some job and only do what their boss asks.
Now, the boss will never ask you to use closures (or any other language feature for that matter). He'll just tell you “do this” ASAP, and you have to figure out how to finish it as soon as possible. Well, using closures, ASAP can mean a lot sooner than without them, no matter what language are you programming in (assuming of course that it supports this 30-years-old concept; some new and much hyped languages still don't.).
I have former colleagues that have completed their B.S. in computer science (which I still didn't). One of the courses you do in the college is an AI course which, of course, uses Lisp as the supporting language. Well, the horror is that none of them understands what's a closure, and asks me every time I mention the word “OK, Java/C# might not have that, but why would I need it anyway?”.
So after preaching functional programming for some time, and after I saw my fellows here ignore me, I've come to the conclusion that it's better for them not to understand it. A boss is a boss, and he'll favor someone who has a B.S. (which I don't). So I at least want to keep the technical advantage. :-p
So, ya Java folks, don't even think about closures. You don't need them. Just focus on writing specs and UML-s and Factories and Managers and Listeners and Executors. | 1,267,676 |
I was inspired,” said Brook, 76. “I could see courage.”
The inspiration that Clinton has generated in people like Brook hasn’t translated into the mega-rallies hosted by Sanders. But that’s not their style.
“We’re older; we’re married and settled and have jobs,” said Terry Roemer, 61, a lawyer like Ginny, her sister. “We’re not in it for the socializing.”
They also view other, quieter tactics as more effective.
“I don’t need to put a sign on my lawn... if I make 20 phone calls and get three voters who wouldn’t have otherwise voted,” said Liz Vahlsing, a 58-year-old art director. By comparison, she recalled encountering Sanders volunteers during the Nevada caucuses who were “young, aggressive and untrained.”
Simone DuBois was one of the passionate Clinton supporters who joined Roemer in protesting the national convention in 2008. Now 52 and working for a telecommunications company, she’s far less interested in arguing.
“When someone tells me they’re voting for Bernie, I just say, ‘have a blessed day,’” she said.
But DuBois is eager for Sanders to throw in the towel.
“He’s just a stubborn guy who hasn’t dropped out yet,” she said.
During the phone bank she wore a shirt reading “Deal me in,” a reference to Clinton’s defense against criticisms that she was “playing the woman card” in the campaign. On her feet were custom Converse sneakers that said “Hil Star” instead of “All Star,” a gift from her wife.
So sure is DuBois of Clinton’s victory that she has already made campaign pins with the dates 2016 and 2020 for November and a reelection campaign.
Roemer and DuBois, who became friends during the 2008 primary, plan to keep campaigning for Clinton after the primary, in a battleground state, they hope. Roemer talked about Ohio, but DuBois thought Florida might be a balmier option in November.
Wherever they’re needed, they plan to go together.
“This time,” they said, “we win.”
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set by the N.J. State Board of Education six months after the tests were given and applied retroactively to results from the previous spring.
The new policy was also illegal since it was imposed before the N.J. Department of Education (NJDOE) adopted the regulations needed to change state graduation requirements. In an effort to evade the law and diffuse opposition, NJDOE allowed students to use a maze of “transitional options,” from SATs to expanded use of the ASVAB military placement test to satisfy the exit test requirement. Under legal pressure from the Education Law Center (ELC, where I work as a policy advocate) and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (ACLU-NJ), the state also kept open a modified portfolio process that allows districts to graduate students through a review of student work samples supposedly aligned with PARCC frameworks.
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However, the real purpose of the transitional plan was to grease the skids for the institutionalization of PARCC as the primary state exit test and to clamp down on New Jersey’s parent-led opt-out movement, which was one of the largest in the country. State data showed that “about 135,000 students in New Jersey across grades 3–11 did not take the state’s test in the spring of 2015.”
Beginning with this year’s 9th graders, only students who sit for all the PARCC high school exams can use the transitional graduation options, and by 2021 all options except PARCC and the narrowed portfolio review will be eliminated. For now, most seniors are still graduating through the transitional pathways, but the 2021 deadline looms.
The PARCC fiasco has provided another chance to end exit testing in New Jersey. ELC and ACLU-NJ have filed a lawsuit challenging the new graduation rules on behalf of the NAACP of New Jersey, the Latino Action Network, the Latino Coalition, and the Paterson Education Fund. Bills that would end the use of test scores to make graduation decisions for individual students are pending in the state legislature, and the leading Democratic candidates in next year’s governor’s race have publicly pledged to end both PARCC and high school exit exams. Parent groups like Save Our Schools NJ continue to press candidates and legislators on testing issues.
Punish or Prepare?
Contrary to popular impression, there is no federal mandate requiring high school exit testing. Since No Child Left Behind was passed in 2001, federal law has required testing once during grades 9–12 in math, English language arts, and science. The Every Student Succeeds Act retains this mandate. But the decision to tie diplomas to the results of those tests is totally a state decision.
There are real issues of inadequate preparation for many students leaving high school. But they are issues that standardized testing has helped create instead of solve. Test-based reform has undermined good education practice in numerous ways, narrowed curriculum, and wasted scarce resources. | 1,267,678 |
The current issue of The Economist contains a striking factoid: “Last year, in total, British police officers actually fired their weapons three times. The number of people fatally shot was zero.” By contrast, there are about 400 fatal shootings each year by local police in the United States.
When I tweeted out this stunning stat earlier this week, no shortage of people noted an obvious explanation for why British police were so much less likely to fire their guns: there were far fewer guns around them. The U.K. has some of the world’s strictest limitations on gun ownership—handguns are all but prohibited, while shotguns and rifles require a police certificate and special justification (self-defense does not qualify.) There are an estimated 14,000 handguns in civilian hands in the U.K. (population 63 million) and slightly more than 2 million shotguns and rifles. Estimates for the number of total firearms in civilian hands in the U.S. float north of 300 million. Simply put, if the police in the U.S. seem a lot more on edge than those across the pond, they have good reason to be.
As obvious as this explanation for the militarization and trigger-happiness of U.S. police may be, it has gotten relatively little attention amid the alarming spectacle that has played out in Ferguson, Missouri following the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old and, more recently, the fatal shooting just a few miles away of a mentally-ill man holding a knife. That oversight may be partly because this aspect of the debate undermines one of the most popular media narratives to emerge from Ferguson: the notion of a growing right-left coalition united against heavy-handed police tactics.
There is indeed agreement between many liberals and libertarians that the militarization of the police, especially in its dealings with racial minorities, has gone too far. But this consensus may crumble pretty quickly when it’s confronted with the obvious police counter-argument: that the authorities’ heavy firepower and armor is necessary in light of all the firepower they’re up against. At that point, many liberals will revert to arguing for sensible gun control regulations like broader background checks to keep guns out of the hands of violent felons and the mentally ill (the measure that police organizations successfully argued should be the gun control movement’s legislative priority following the Newtown, Connecticut shootings) or limits on assault weapons and oversized ammunition clips. And liberals will be reminded that the libertarians who agree with them in opposing police militarization are very much also opposed to the gun regulations that might help make the environment faced by police slightly less threatening.
The inherent tension in this nascent right-left alliance was laid out in sharp terms this week by Josh Horwitz, head of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. He noted that the ballyhooed caution against police militarization by Rand Paul, the libertarian senator from Kentucky, looked a bit more dubious in the broader context of Paul’s politics: | 1,267,679 |
By Christina Chastain
The Missouri Botanical Garden has been having orchid shows since the early 1900s, and this year, the show is all about education for the home gardener.
The show is specifically focused on four genera: Cattleya, Cymbidium, Phalaenopsis, and Paphiopedilum, providing tips and tricks for the home gardener to care for their orchids.
“Each genus has its own little triggers to make it go into bloom, or spike,” said Pat Scace, Supervisor of Floral Display at the Missouri Botanical Garden. “We always try to have a strong education component to connect the mission of what we’re doing, and also the theme of the show.”
The Garden’s relationship with orchids has been a long one. Mrs. Henry T. Blow gave the first orchid specimens to Henry Shaw in 1876. Her collection was the result of plants collected in Brazil by her husband while he served as Minister to Brazil under President Grant.
Visitors of the Orchid Show can see the oldest orchid the Garden has to offer from 1898. It is not continuously in the show, but it does always make an appearance.
Today, the Garden’s permanent collection has roughly 7,000 orchids plants. During the show, visitors can see 400 to 500 orchids, depending on which ones are in bloom.
“What makes our collection really great is the fact that, it’s not only one of the largest, it is one of the oldest orchid collections of botanical gardens,” said Scace.
The Garden is proud to boast about the size of its orchid collection, and also its age, but the diversity of the collection should not be forgotten.
“The diversity is something else,” said Scace. “Seeing the orchids that mimic their pollinators, and the funky forms and shapes that they take on is my favorite part of our collection.”
The Orchid Show is also in its second year of hosting Orchid Nights, which offers lighted displays of the orchids, drinks, and live music.
Thursday, Feb. 28, enjoy libations from Edg-Clif Farms and Vineyard, August/Montelle Winery, Stumpy’s Sprits, Southwest Wines, Urban Chestnut, and Six Mile Bridge, as well as enjoy live entertainment by Dizzy Atmosphere.
“Everybody needs a shot in the arm this time of year, to see some flowers in a warm temperature kind of escape for a little bit,” said Scace. “Flowers make people happy, so it’s a great thing for the middle of winter.”
The Orchid Show runs until March 24. To view the digital visitors guide, click here. | 1,267,680 |
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So Ahriman... the last of the Burning of Prospero box to get painted up. I have been working on him for a while. I had a very clear idea in my mind to paint him up in a 'Candy Apple Red' colour with the kind of glossy metallic finish. It was a bit of an experiment for me.I had a couple of source videos that I referenced throughout this process. Particularly to help out with the armour. Unlike most of the rest of the box, I paid some attention to the'Official GW'but also supplemented this with this groovy little video I will try not to reiterate or belabour points made in those videos and instead focus on what I learned in doing this model. Also a warning - this is another model that fell into the period where I wasn't taking many photos mid-work.I started off with some quick airbrushing to get some nice textured metallic silvers down... and made my first mistake. Regular readers know my dislike of metallics and the result is that I don't actually own many. Airbrushing with the ones I have - I didn't get sufficient contrast or brightness.When you are tinting something with a glaze, you end up darkening it through the additional layers that you are putting on top. I didn't really account for that on this model and by the time I'd laid enough layers of red glaze (Minitaire Fresh Blood Ghost tint) - I'd darkened the model a lot more than I'd intended. Although the result doesn't look bad. It wasn't really what I'd intended to make.Another thing I discovered is that brush painting over metal can be a bit of a pain - it has a habit of beading and not really sticking to the surface so if you are planning on laying down some metal, especially with an airbrush, careful application and masking are recommended!After having gotten frustrated with the candy apple finish. I ended up setting the model aside for quite a while. I also really struggled with a decent finish on the cloak and all in all got pretty frustrated with this guy. I put him aside while I finished the rest of the box as well as some other figures.I got back to him eventually, built up the cloak more carefully over a few colors and am pretty pleased with the finished effect there. The texturing and the detailing both came out pretty well.By the end of this: I got a pretty good finish without too much time. There are a couple of issues - the armour is way too dark, and really the lighting of the model is all wrong. It's actually kind of interesting as this is a great way to demonstrate how contrast and brightness draw the eye. Everything in this model draws your eye... to the loincloth... not really what I wanted! But it is one of the better painted parts of the model so it has that going for it :-/Not perfect but it's done! Time to move onto the next. | 1,267,681 |
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ST PETERSBURG: Russia is keeping its options open for the Rs 45,000 crore competition to build a new generation of conventional submarines in India with talks on with leading private player Larsen and Toubro as well as a defence ministry shipyard.The P75 I project, which will be under the Strategic Partnership model that involves an Indian company absorbing technology and building six submarines, is likely to see strong competition between Russia, Germany and France.The Russian side says that it only has two companies in mind for the competition and is likely to chose between them. “We have made up our mind and we see two major candidates for the role – one is Larsen and Toubro and the other is the state owned Hindustan Shipyard Limited. These are the most competent shipyards that can accomplish this goal to build a new generation of conventional submarines,” Alexey Rakhmanov, President, United Shipbuilding Corporation said.The third competitor on the Indian side for the project is the Mazagaon Docks Limited (MDL) that is currently building the Scorpene class of submarines with the French Naval Group. The executive hinted that a collaborative approach to the P 75I project could also be adopted with both HSL and L&T onboard.The Russian side believes that the Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) technology that it is offering is better than the French and German variants. AIP – which gives submarines the ability to stay underwater for weeks - is an essential requirement of the P 75I project.“We have at least two options on offer to India for the AIP. We are offering India to choose the best and go for joint development in which we will share the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) that can help India with its future needs,” Rakhmanov said, adding that all elements of the Russian AIP are functional and the only thing left is to package it into a submarine section and demonstrate it to the Indian Navy The executive also took on the Scorpene submarines that are currently being inducted by the Navy, saying that they will not be any match to the Russian offer in terms of weaponry and underwater capability.The Russian side also expressed its surprise on the last minute request by Spain’s Navantia to enter the P 75I contest.“This was unexpected as we believed that only four countries had been shortlisted – Russia, Germany, France and Sweden. This (Spain request) will only add confusion and delay the process,” Andrei Baranov, Deputy Director General, Rubin Design Bureau said.As reported by ET, Spain wants to crash into the Rs 45,000 crore Indian requirement of an advanced line of conventional submarines after initially backing off from the project. The four-cornered contest between France, Germany, Russia and Sweden is now likely to be expanded to accommodate the last-minute request received by the Indian Navy.(This correspondent is in St Petersburg on the invitation of the state owned Shipbuilding Corporation) | 1,267,682 |
NASA / JPL-Caltech On May 15, the 3,309th Martian day of its Red Planet mission, NASA's Opportunity rover drove 263 feet (80 meters) southward along the western rim of Endeavour Crater.
NASA's long-lived Opportunity Mars rover is the new American champion of off-planet driving, breaking a distance record set more than 40 years ago by an Apollo moon buggy.
The six-wheeled Opportunity rover drove 263 feet (80 meters) on Wednesday, bringing its total odometry on the Red Planet to 22.220 miles (35.760 kilometers), NASA officials said. The previous mark had been held by the Apollo 17 moon rover, which astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt drove for 22.210 miles (35.744 km) across the lunar surface in December 1972.
"The record we established with a roving vehicle was made to be broken, and I'm excited and proud to be able to pass the torch to Opportunity," Cernan said a few days ago in a conversation with Opportunity team member Jim Rice, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Cernan's quote was contained in a NASA announcement about the agency's new distance record.
Opportunity still trails another robot for the international distance record. The Soviet Union's remote-controlled Lunokhod 2 rover traveled 23 miles (37 kilometers) on the moon in 1973.
The golf-cart-size Opportunity and its twin, Spirit, landed on Mars in January 2004 for what were supposed to be three-month missions to search for signs of past water on the Red Planet. They found plenty of such evidence, then kept on roving.
Spirit stopped communicating with Earth in 2010 and was declared dead a year later. But Opportunity is still going strong, exploring the rim of Mars' Endeavour Crater.
Opportunity had been working at a section of the rim dubbed "Cape York" since the middle of 2011. This week, it began trekking toward an area called Solander Point, which lies 1.4 miles (2.2 kilometers) away, NASA officials said.
So the rover could soon put Lunokhod 2 in its rear-view mirror, claiming the overall off-planet driving mark as well. Opportunity's handlers have said they'd like to add this milestone to the rover's resume, though science remains the mission's top priority.
"I want to beat that record," John Callas, Opportunity's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Space.com last year, when the rover's odometer read 21.35 miles (34.4 kilometers).
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Vietnam and female vets need particular attention
First four weeks after leaving military is a high-risk time for suicides
The most common means of committing suicide by veterans %u2014 in half of the deaths %u2014 is drug overdose or poisoning
An estimated 22 veterans commit suicide in the United States every day, a slightly higher number than the 18-per-day rate the Department of Veterans Affairs had indicated in years past, according to a VA study made public today.
"We have more work to do," VA Secretary Eric Shinseki said in a statement released Friday. "We will use this data to continue to strengthen our suicide prevention efforts and ensure all veterans receive the care they have earned and deserve."
The chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee called the pace of veterans suicides unacceptable. "What we're seeing is an extraordinary tragedy which speaks to the horror of war and the need for us to do a much better job of assisting our soldiers and their families after they return home," says Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), chairman of the House VA Committee, said he is holding a hearing Feb. 13 to find out "if the VA's complex system of mental health and suicide prevention services (is) improving the health and wellness of our heroes in need."
Researchers found that the average age of a veteran who commits suicide is about 60. Analysts concluded that Vietnam and female veterans need particular focus.They also determined that a very intense period of risk for suicide is the first four weeks after someone leaves the military, and that this period requires strong monitoring and case management.
The analysis found that the actual number of estimated suicides per day among veterans has remained relatively stable, ranging from 20 per day in 2000 to 18 per day in 2007 and 22 per day in 2009 and 2010, the latest estimates available, according to a report on the study released Friday. The rate of suicide among veterans who use VA health care services has remained steady in recent years, at about 36 per 100,000.
The most common means of committing suicide by veterans — in half of the deaths — is drug overdose or poisoning, according to the VA study.
The department says it has responded to the findings by creating a task force "to provide recommendations for innovative mental health care." It has also increased staff for the VA crisis hotline, which the department says has been instrumental in 26,000 rescues. The VA has also is expanding its mental health staff by 1,600 clinicians and is training 800 peer-to-peer specialists to work with other veterans.
The new analysis of veteran suicides was possible because of a nearly 20-month effort to obtain suicide data on veterans from each state. At least 34 states have cooperated and another eight are in the process of doing so. The final analysis released Friday was based upon only a partial completion of data received from 21 states, the VA says. | 1,267,684 |
“Hopefully something about this recession might help us to begin to think about what the important things in life are,” Mr. de Graaf said.
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Already some workers have reacted to the furloughs with more stoicism than bitterness.
While a single mother in Sacramento complained that the state furloughs would force her to give up smoking, her only luxury, furloughed employees around the country have said that they see small sacrifices as necessary to prevent larger ones. Another California employee was using the time off to watch her daughter ride horseback.
There is a counterargument, though. Critics who support the idea of shorter workweeks in theory say a recession is not the time to force them on workers. Stagnant wages, said Thea Lee, policy director for the A.F.L.-C.I.O., have already made time off unaffordable. “Normally you would expect that as society gets wealthier, their wages rise; and as their wages rise, people work less,” Ms. Lee said. “Since we’ve ruptured that connection between wages and productivity growth, people have no choice but to work more to maintain their standard of living, and even that hasn’t been enough.”
In an ideal world, said Juliet Schor, an economist at Boston College and the author of books on labor, leisure and consumerism, shorter working hours would be voluntary, and workers would be compensated for any increased productivity. But even forced furloughs could provide more time for family, community, learning and volunteering, unless people must scramble to fill the time with a second job. Smaller paychecks, she said, would “dampen down the competitive consumption that’s associated with the high-hours economy,” leading to a sustainable way of life.
Employers, too, may find collateral benefits to furloughs. Studies show that reducing work hours can increase productivity per hour. Atlanta has recorded fewer sick days, and work crews have saved time because they set up and break down four times a week instead of five, said David Edwards, a policy adviser to Mayor Shirley Franklin.
Such results have precedents. During the Great Depression, Kellogg’s instituted a 30-hour workweek that was so popular vestiges of it lasted until the mid-1980s. Within two years, productivity had reached 40-hour levels, said Benjamin Hunnicutt, a professor of leisure studies at the University of Iowa and the author of “Kellogg’s Six-Hour Day.” Morale improved, and 85 percent of workers liked the change despite the lower pay, he said.
Other studies have shown that vacation, leisure time and shorter hours reduce stress and physical ailments like heart disease though those ills can pile up again if you can’t pay the mortgage or the car mechanic. | 1,267,685 |
The Easter Bunny has brought a few new goodies to FACEIT which we’d like to share with you.
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Added a queue cooldown for Pro Circuit Hubs. No more need to stress over missing the queue pop and alt+tab while the match is still ongoing.
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It’s now easy to leap from Unlimited to Premium. You can now upgrade your subscription directly from the subscriptions page.
Missions are now available for TF2. Why not join one of the TF2 Pro League Hubs and have a go at it?
It’s now easy to see which Hubs people are playing in. Head over to your or someone else’s profile page.
Organizer pages have got a spring cleaning. It’s now easier to see all the various different competition types an Organizer is arranging.
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ECS Finals are taking place in June and what better way is there to celebrate it if not getting some swag before the event? We’ve added new missions to unlock discount codes for the ECS Shop by winning CS:GO matches. Head over to the Missions tab and check out how many matches you have left to win to unlock this perk.
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Players that require Anti-Cheat in Hubs are now checked when entering the queue so you won’t have to realize it the hard way when you get kicked out of the server when connecting.
Hubs now display ongoing matches next to the queue details.
Rules are good. Only if they’re displayed. We’ve fixed a bug where it could disappear.
Need more time for voting… or less? You can now set the voting time for your Hub.
Sharing links on social media and other apps will now display metadata properly instead of cryptic tags and characters.
We now explain better what went wrong if any issues occur while connecting your game account.
A rare bug prevented subscriptions to process correctly but we hunt it down and fixed it. This should also fix the rare bug with players sometimes not being able to join Hub queues despite having the subscription.
Recommending Hubs can be tricky. We fixed a bug where a few Hubs were recommended even if you couldn’t join them.
A number of under the hood fixes to improve stability and reliability of Hub queues.
We now recognize Kosovo as a country. 🇽🇰
Happy Easter everyone! | 1,267,686 |
and effects are difficult to disentangle: A criminal record makes it hard to get a job, for example, but the lack of good jobs also makes people more likely to turn to crime. Second, there’s a lack of good data. The government’s most comprehensive economic surveys — the Current Population Survey, the American Community Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation, among others — don’t ask about criminal background. The Bureau of Justice Statistics compiles data on prisoners but doesn’t track them after they are released. Various longitudinal surveys — most notably the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth — follow respondents over time, including after periods of incarceration, but their sample sizes are comparatively small and they often have other limitations.
In the absence of a single solid set of data, researchers are forced to triangulate, combining various sources and making assumptions where necessary to fill in the gaps.
“That’s the single biggest challenge,” said John Schmitt, an economist for the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a left-leaning think tank. “There’s no systematic data on people who have felony convictions or prison and jail records.”
Most of the research that has been done, however, suggests the effects of a felony conviction are large. One 2006 study, for example, found that young black or Hispanic men who had spent time in jail or prison worked eight fewer weeks a year on average than those who hadn’t been incarcerated. In a 2010 study, Schmitt and co-author Kris Warner estimated that in 2008, the low work rates among ex-offenders reduced U.S. employment by the equivalent of 1.5 to 1.7 million workers.
For people with criminal records, the difficulty finding work can persist for years, even though there’s little evidence that they are riskier employees. Research by Carnegie Mellon criminologist Alfred Blumstein has found that after about seven to 10 years, ex-convicts are no more likely to re-offend than the general population. But for employers worried about theft, workplace violence or other issues, there is little incentive to take a chance.
Esperanza Tervalon-Daumont, executive director of the Oakland community organization Oakland Rising, said that even with “ban the box” and similar rules, she doubts employers will ever become comfortable hiring ex-convicts. Proposition 47, she argued, could make more of a difference because it would actually reduce the number of people with felony convictions, not just change the rules for how companies treat them.
“Employment helps everyone,” Tervalon-Daumont said. “When these folks are given the opportunity to come back into the workforce in jobs … their relationship with the community shifts, so where they once were people who would be sort of a blight on the community they now have the opportunity to be a very specific kind of beacon.” | 1,267,687 |
A major brainstorming exercise involving political parties, think tanks and civil society organisations of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) grouping have counseled emerging economies to lead a new wave of globalisation, and step up the fight against international terrorism.
The two-day conference organised by the Communist Party of China (CPC) proposed recommendations for the September summit of the BRICS in Xiamen, a coastal city in southeastern China. It advised that a coalition of emerging economies and developing countries should frontline the combat against climate change — a proposal that is aimed to fill the leadership vacuum following the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate accord.
The Fuzhou conference focused on re-writing the rules of global economic governance led by a coalition of BRICS and developing countries. It also urged the emerging economies to promote sustainable globalisation, and build coalitions to counter climate change.
The Fuzhou Initiative released at the end of the conference, pointed out that on account of the “setbacks and global challenges,” experienced by globalisation, the BRICS and developing countries must “stand firm to preserve and foster an open world economy, champion multilateral trade regime and facilitate healthy development of economic globalisation”.
It added: “Emerging markets and developing countries, BRICS countries included, should serve as the participants, advocates and pace-setters in driving the transformation of the global economic governance system anchored on respect of international law, negotiated solution of conflicts and struggle against poverty and inequality.”
The BRICS should also work towards “a more equitable and reasonable international order,” widely seen during the meeting as recognition of a “multipolar world,” whose rules are no longer defined by great powers emerging after the second world war.
The Fuzhou initiative recommended that Intelligence sharing and a cyber-security focus among BRICS should be integrated as part of a collective counter-terrorism strategy. “In countering terrorism, BRICS countries should enhance sharing of intelligence and experience as well as capacity building. BRICS countries should also increase cooperation in cyber security and promote the development of Internet
technologies and the governance of cyberspace globally”. Non–traditional security threats including narcotics, piracy and organised crime, must also be on the BRICS security radar.
The Fuzhou Initiative backed collaboration between BRICS and the Global South to combat “corruption and building a clean government”.
Besides, the participants of the conference called for fostering a BRICS collective identity, based on “mutual learning among civilizations” backed by extensive people –to-people contacts and uninterrupted cultural exchanges.
The document recommended a grassroots outreach through BRICS NGOs, by making full use of digital technology. “We suggest the civil society organisations, on the basis of intensified contact and communications to make full use of new technologies and build network for interaction, communication, dialogue and cooperation.” | 1,267,688 |
In yet another shake-up at Amazon Studios, the head of unscripted television, Heather Schuster, has been forced out as the company continues to retool its management team.
An Amazon spokesperson confirmed Monday night that Schuster was no longer employed by the Culver City studio. No reason was given for Schuster’s sudden departure.
Schuster, a veteran reality show producer, had been with Amazon for less than a year.
The move comes as Amazon is pivoting in its programming strategy. The company has been moving away from the unscripted programming for its Prime Video service. In February, Amazon hired Jennifer Salke, a former NBC executive who has strong credentials in scripted programming. Increasingly, the priority has been on developing splashy scripted shows, such as a big-budget series adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.”
Salke also has been working to form her own team in collaboration with co-heads of television Vernon Sanders, who was hired this spring, and Albert Cheng, a three-year veteran of the studio.
Schuster joined Amazon in October and almost immediately became a department head, replacing Conrad Riggs, a longtime executive at Mark Burnett Productions, who was part of the management team assembled by former studio head Roy Price. Price was ousted in October after allegations that he made inappropriate comments to an executive producer of an Amazon show as the #MeToo movement caught traction.
Riggs and other members of Price’s inner circle were shown the door in October as Amazon wanted to make a fresh start.
Schuster also worked on “The Apprentice,” which allowed then-real estate mogul Donald Trump to become a household name.
Deadline first reported Schuster’s ouster, saying it followed an internal investigation into comments Schuster allegedly made in a work meeting. She was not immediately reachable for comment.
In late July, Jason Ropell stepped down as the head of Amazon Studios’ film division. He had been with the streaming service for six years and led the worldwide film division for about two years, overseeing a team of about 150 people. Amazon said that two other executives, Ted Hope and Matt Newman, would step into Ropell’s role on an interim basis.
Schuster’s departure comes two weeks after Paramount fired television President Amy Powell over inappropriate comments. A source said she made racially tinged remarks during a conference call about an upcoming Paramount TV show. Powell has denied making insensitive comments and is said to be exploring legal action against Paramount.
A month earlier, Netflix ousted its chief communications officer for using a racial slur. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said in a memo to employees he dismissed Jonathan Friedland after deciding that what he said was not “in line with our values as a company.”
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Today, SFMTA Director of Transportation, Ed Reiskin, joined City Attorney Dennis Herrera and San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru to announce our next steps in regulating shared, powered scooters in San Francisco.
Under city law unanimously passed by the Board of Supervisors on April 24, 2018 and signed by Mayor Mark Farrell, any company operating shared, powered scooters in San Francisco must have a permit from the SFMTA to park their scooters on sidewalks or other public spaces. In compliance with this new law, which takes effect on June 4, any scooter company operating in the city, including Lime, Spin and Bird, is required to remove its scooters from city sidewalks by June 4.
The SFMTA today made a permit application available for companies interested in offering shared, powered scooters in San Francisco.
Applications for the SFMTA’s new “Powered Scooter Share Permit Program” are due by 5 p.m. PT on June 7. The SFMTA will review the applications and expects to determine which, if any, companies qualify for a permit by the end of June.
In tandem with the new permitting system, the SFMTA has established a 12-month pilot program to collect data, evaluate and assess whether further increases in scooters would serve the public interest. As part of the pilot, up to five qualified companies could be issued permits to operate shared, powered scooters in San Francisco. To be considered, they must submit complete applications demonstrating a commitment and capability to meet all permit requirements.
As part of their permit application, companies must demonstrate how they will minimize their impact on San Francisco's sidewalks, while maximizing transparency to the public. Specifically, operators would need to provide user education, be insured, share trip data with the city, have a privacy policy that safeguards user information, offer a low-income plan, and submit a proposed service area plan for city approval. Operators also will need to provide a plan that addresses sidewalk riding and sidewalk parking.
For the first six months of the pilot, a total of 1,250 scooters may be permitted. If the first six months are successful, the total number of scooters may increase to 2,500 in months seven through 12. The cap is sufficient to allow for a thorough evaluation of the scooter sharing operating model in San Francisco, while minimizing the potential for sidewalk crowding and safety impacts during the pilot phase. This cap is also generally consistent with the number of scooters the city believes are currently operating in San Francisco.
Any shared, powered scooter found on city streets or sidewalks after June 4 without a permit will be subject to impounding by San Francisco Public Works and operators will be fined $100 per scooter per day by the SFMTA in addition to all other applicable city fees and penalties. Further, any company violating the law by operating a shared, powered scooter system without a permit will be denied a permit from the SFMTA. | 1,267,690 |
François Jacob, André Lwoff, and Jacques Monod shared the Noble Prize in Physiology in 1965 for their work elucidating methods that E. coli uses to control the process of turning genes into RNA, but the subject has continued to surprise us since. New work has explored mutations found in the gene encoding part of the bacteria’s RNA polymerase, the enzyme that transcribes DNA into RNA so that the RNA can then be translated into protein. You might expect mutations in something so fundamental to be lethal, but these mutations help the bacteria adapt to media with minimal nutrients.
The mutants were first discovered when researchers forced E. coli to grow on food that lacks complex nutrients. They grew 60 percent faster than regular E. coli in minimal media, but it came at a cost: they grew 17-34 percent slower in richer media. The mutations allowed for a higher metabolic rate and a more efficient use of carbon sources like glycerol. How can damaging a gene responsible for making RNA have such dramatic effects?
The researchers focused on mutations that caused deletions in the "jaw" domain of the RNA polymerase. Such mutations destabilize the open complexes required for starting transcription at a subset of genes, including ribosomal RNA genes, which are essential for making proteins. If the bacteria are not transcribing rRNA, they cannot make new proteins—which is an appropriate response to media that lacks amino acids.
The observed decrease in open complex stability should cause a redistribution of RNA polymerase across the genome from those genes requiring it—like ribosomal RNA genes—to those that do not. This is in fact what the researchers observed: RNA polymerase was not found at rRNA genes. But how did the mutants grow 60 percent faster than wild type bugs with less rRNA?
The decreased binding of RNA polymerase to rRNA promoters is compensated for by an increased elongation rate of the mutants. The mutant polymerases paused less as they moved along the genes' DNA. The combination of the two effects yielded a steady level of rRNA.
The odd thing about this finding is that bacteria often respond to nutrient restriction by upregulating a gene that causes an increase in polymerase pausing. So, it appears there are two distinct mechanisms for responding to stress
Gene expression analysis of the mutant strains revealed an upregulation of genes involved in the transport of zinc ions and a downregulation of genes involved in motility, chemotaxis, cell adhesion, and acid resistance. The adaptive mutations described here effectively reprogram RNA polymerase, giving it altered kinetic properties. It will thus preferentially transcribe a certain set of genes at the expense of others. Identifying which genes get turned on and off will help in further untangling the transcriptional network in these bacteria that has been so illustrative in defining universal methods of transcriptional regulation.
PNAS, 2010. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911253107 (About DOIs). | 1,267,691 |
The Good, The Bad, and The Doctor! Matt Smith and Karen Gillan film Western-style Doctor Who episode on Spanish film set
Matt Smith and Karen Gillan are used to getting stuck in any number of sticky situations as their on-screen aliases, The Doctor and Amy Pond in the BBC's Doctor Who.
And this time, their adventures are taking the actors rather further afield than usual.
The pair will be tackling threats to the planet in a rather special setting in a forthcoming episode, which sees them trading blows with half-robot half-human enemies in a Victorian-era western town.
Riding high: Matt Smith looked perfectly at ease on horseback filming Doctor Who in Spanish town of Almeria
Amy and Matt have been spotted filming in the southern Spanish town of Almeria on its famous desert lots.
Matt appeared to have taken to his new surroundings with ease, and was seen casually texting while on horseback during a break.
Cooling off: Karen Gillan enjoyed a break off-camera, shielding her eyes from the bright sun behind sunglasses
Branching out: The Doctor will tackle robot cowboys in the forthcoming Western-style episode
Amy was pictured relaxing off camera, shielding her eyes from the sun behind a pair of black sunglasses.
The Almeria location has been used as a set for over 100 films, including The Magnificent Seven and A Fistful Of Dollars, due to its Western-style streets and houses.
Pragmatic choice: Show bosses chose to film in the Spanish town as it was more cost-effective than building a new set from scratch in the UK Authentic: The crew gather for scenes outside the mock saloon The desert landscape of Tabernas also provided the backdrop for The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
Show bosses chose to film in the Spanish town as it was more cost-effective than building a new set from scratch in the UK. Incredible backdrop: The desert landscape of Tabernas was also used for The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Brooding: Matt has several pensive moments to himself in between takes
The non glamorous side of showbiz! Karen is surrounded by male crew members, but seems to be in need of a stylist An insider told The Sun: 'Matt and Karen are really excited about the episode.'
'Filming on the same set as a lot of western films, together with the Spanish weather, will give it an epic feel.'
Almeria is also sunnier than Cardiff, where Doctor Who is usually shot.
No big deal: Matt texted a friend on his phone while still riding his horse
Upstairs Downstairs star Adrian Scarborough will guest star in the episode.
The last Doctor Who to do battle with cowboys was William Hartnell in 1966.
The earlier incarnation was caught up in a shootout at the OK Corral.
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Well, well well.
CryptoPay you fucked up big time. Don't say I didn't warn y'all.
Today, see you’ve cancelled your promise of Contactless Cards.
'RLYSORRY' Yeah righhtttt. Your excuse doesn't even make sense. "to provide consistent service"???
How does that explain your decision to not provide the cards you promised? This implies that you guys had good service to begin with.
I couldn't find many information about this closure, other than a help page, which took me a while to find. This means they probably want to keep this annoucement as hidden as possible, because they are aware it will highly affect their ICO event.
The page can be found here: https://help.cryptopay.me/cryptopay-bitcoin-debit-card/general/changes-regarding-our-card-program
There were no contactless cards to begin with, was there guys?
You just wanted to pump your ICO right?
And now that you’ve extracted millions in pre-ICO you make that announcement.
Well done, congratulations; you're now in the same league as Jamie Dimon and JP Morgan.
Still aim to reach your ICO milestone of $35,000,000 to provide bank accounts? What a disgrace.
Cryptopay ICO looks on par with Centra-Tech. They had the worse white paper I’ve read. At least yours looks pretty. But no substance. No technology road-map. Just a basic crowdfunding program. And the SEC should probably investigate you for fraud.
You give no reason why the Contactless Cards are now being cancelled.
We all know you like to gamble, so in a few months I bet you’ll announce that your Bank Accounts, P2P lending and bitcoin stock brokerage are cancelled ‘to provide consistent service’ of your old tired bitcoin debit card program. And aren’t you using WaveCrest. Cards outside the EU cancelled mid-October right? What business do you have left?
I really wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt, but this is pretty disgraceful.
Like China, South Korea, and now even the US; I'm really starting to get really sick of scam ICOs. And it looks like you're adding to that list well done.
Fuccccckkkkk YOU CryptoPay; good luck getting yourselves out of this one and good luck to any chump who invests in Cryptopay ICO. You're gonna need it.
Hate to be the one saying it, but I warned you guys. Check out my last article about CryptoPay here:
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@cryptothug/cryptopay-playing-at-ico-exposing-the-truth-part-2 | 1,267,693 |
Lou Raguse
KARE-TV, Minneapolis
CARLTON, Minn. - The Ramsey County deputy caught on camera repeatedly hitting his K9 partner Boone plead guilty Tuesday to animal cruelty.
In June, Deputy Brett Berry was charged with animal cruelty and assaulting a public safety dog. Berry was caught on camera drunkenly dragging the dog across a casino parking lot and striking the animal several times.
Berry, 48, of Arden Hills, was placed on administrative leave after the incident, which occurred on June 15 at Black Bear Casino and Resort, where he was staying with other sheriff's deputies for K9 certification trials.
Black Bear security staff told Carlton County deputies that customers at the casino lounge reported some "unwanted advances" committed by Berry. When confronted about it, the security guards asked him to leave the lounge, and they say he made obscene gestures to them while walking back to his room at the hotel.
That's when casino video surveillance captured Berry dragging Boone across the parking lot. The dog escaped and ran to an entrance. Berry then wound up and struck the dog several times.
In court on Tuesday, Berry admitted he was "blackout drunk" when he hit his K9 that night.
"But he got very intoxicated and he struck his dog in a way that is inexcusable. He said that in court. And that has been his position all along," said Berry's attorney Kevin Short.
Security was called around 3 a.m. after surveillance video captured Berry beating the dog. During the investigation, Berry's K9 was removed from his care. No injuries were found on the dog.
Boone, who had been with Berry for four years, is back at work with a new handler.
"He has already received an extreme consequence. His dog was removed from him the minute this came to light. That’s an extreme emotional consequence. It’s also a significant financial consequence for a person who is a K9 officer," Short said.
A half-dozen animal activists attended the hearing and say they are more satisfied than they've been in other animal abuse cases.
"We got a little more justice in this one, it seems," said Jan Stern of Duluth. "I understand that he knows that he did wrong. And if he was that intoxicated, maybe it’s time he receive treatment."
"He's being held somewhat accountable," said Diane Parkhurst of Cloquet.
With his guilty plea, the assault charge will be dropped. He will continue to work as a deputy with the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office but will be reassigned. His new role did include a pay cut.
Berry faces up to 90 days in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.
The judge deferred whether to accept the plea deal until the Feb. 17 sentencing date, but didn't make any indications that she won't accept it at that time. | 1,267,694 |
Ten people were hurt in an explosion that caused a building collapse Thursday morning at a water reclamation plant on the Far South Side, with two getting trapped in the rubble, but emergency workers eventually extricated them.
Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago said the department received a call about the explosion around 10:50 a.m. at the sludge concentration building at the Calumet Water Reclamation Plant at 400 E. 130th St. The roof caved straight down in a pancake explosion, sending hundreds of thousands of pounds of concrete to the ground.
Eight of the ten people trapped were easily located and sent to the hospital, Santiago said, but the other two were trapped in the rubble. While the first individual took around 20 minutes to remove, the second required a 2 hour excavation.
The second victim was entombed, causing rescue workers to dig six feet down and tunnel through roughly 40 feet of concrete to reach the victim. Officials were initially worried that one of the man’s legs would have to be amputated, but they got him out safely. That man had a broken leg and jaw.
The other victims likely suffered minor injuries as well, Chief Tim Walsh said.
Five of the workers hurt had been treated and released from hospitals by 4:30 p.m., according to Allison Fore, a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District. None of the the others appeared to have life-threatening injuries, Fore said.
Two patients were brought to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to fire officials. A spokeswoman for University of Chicago Medical Center said four other patients were brought in for treatment. By Friday morning, one of them remained in serious condition, another remained in fair condition and the two others had been released.
The explosion was likely due to a methane explosion from methane naturally occurring from the sewage process, Walsh said.
Alicia Tate-Nadeau, executive director for the Office of Emergency Management and Communications, praised the rescue effort.
“There’s been great coordination going on,” she said. “I would certainly like to commend all the firemen that are here today. They did a phenomenal job in this rescue. This doesn’t happen by chance. There is a lot of hard work that goes into making sure they’re ready at a moment’s notice to respond.”
Earlier Thursday, a small crowd of people who heard the explosion as far as five blocks away had gathered outside the entrance of the plant.
Many residents said they had smelled a strong methane-like odor for the last week.
Dorothy Barr and Mike Foulks both live in the area. Barr said the smell was so strong it was making residents sick. She complained of exacerbated asthma, nausea and headaches
The explosion only affected a small part of the plant, which is expected to continue normal operations with no effect to the city, Tate-Nadeau said. | 1,267,695 |
I mean, look at that! His eyes are focused inward, as if his gaze is zooming in on you. He appears to have a silvery smile that looks skeletal. It’s as if the van were designed to frighten children. Anyone who owns that van should be subject to a court order mandating they go door-to-door to every house within a one-mile radius of their home, explaining who and what they are.
So now the Knight is gone, banished to his demented Bat Cave, leaving this as probably his signature highlight:
The Nets will have to start again from scratch if they want a new mascot at some point. The lazy solution would be to return to Sly Fox, the sneering, guitar-shredding gray fox they used in New Jersey.
Meh. On one hand, the team is named for an inanimate object, a Net, with no obvious human or animal representation. It’s a dumb name, but it also opens the door for the mascot to be pretty much anything. The mascot of Dartmouth College is a freaking color, the Big Green, and students have responded by adopting a beer keg with googly eyes as the unofficial mascot.
The Nets could go that route, somehow building a walking chain-link Net with eyes and a body. They could do anything, really, Their team name might as well be the Brooklyn String or the Brooklyn Baskets. The Suns have a gorilla, which only relates to the sun in that all living beings require the sun to live, and the gorilla is a living being. The Thunder have a bison of some kind. The Jazz have a bear, and the Magic have a dragon.
But Sly Fox represents Jersey mediocrity, even if the taxed-out Nets could sign him for the veteran’s minimum. The Nets are aiming for Brooklyn cool. The Sixers considered a dribbling, dunking Ben Franklin, and Brooklyn could go that route with any number of famous historical New Yorkers. But they’d likely want something Brooklyn-specific, which makes for slim pickings.
They might revisit the superhero motif with Marvel or some other design company. They could go with a giant subway rat, or a pigeon, or some other New York-y animal.
But they could also look at the failure of the Knight as a first step toward changing the team name to something that really resonates. The Nets have arguably the worst name-mascot in the league. Having pro sports in Brooklyn is a big deal, an event, and the team should have a name that evokes a combination of majesty and old-school, Dodgers-era nostalgia.
There have been rumors of a possible name change since Jay Z became a minority owner, and they only ramped up when Mikhail Prokhorov purchased most of the team and green-lit a move to Brooklyn. The time for change is now. May the Brooklyn Knight rest in peace. | 1,267,696 |
’m definitely going to talk to coach about, for sure.”
So far, Peterson has had a couple of conversations with Wilks, the former defensive coordinator of the Carolina Panthers. Based on those talks and things he has heard from others, including players who have worked with Wilks in the past, Peterson likes everything he knows about Bruce Arians’ replacement.
“I think it’s a great addition to the Arizona Cardinals organization, for sure,” he said. “I had a chance to talk some people at the Pro Bowl and they gave me the ins and out about how Coach Wilks operates and I heard nothing but great things about him. I’m looking for great things out of this coming year.”
Peterson said he hasn’t spoken lately with teammate Tyrann Mathieu and how the safety might be asked to restructure his contract by the Cardinals.
“That’s something that’s between him and his agent and the organization,” Peterson said. “I wish him nothing but the best, whatever happens. I think he’ll eventually get that situation resolved.”
In the meantime, Peterson is trying to move past his All-Pro snub by getting in some golf and focusing on his participation in Wednesday’s Waste Management Phoenix Open Annexus Pro-Am at TPC Scottsdale’s Stadium Course.
“I’m in it to win it, baby,” Peterson boasted.
On Thursday, he will fly to Minneapolis and spend the rest of the week as a social media correspondent for AT&T AUDIENCE Sports, conducting interviews with celebrities and athletes while also taking viewers behind the scenes at some of the plushest pre-Super Bowl parties and events, including the DIRECTV NOW Super Saturday Night Party.
“Hey, the season never stops moving for P2 Nation,” Peterson said, laughing. “J.Lo (Jennifer Lopez) is going to be there and I definitely plan to talk with her, a bunch of other A-list celebrities.”
Peterson said he will be “dressed to impress” despite the frigid temperatures expected in Minnesota. As for Super Bowl LII itself between the Patriots and Eagles, he offers no prediction.
“I’m just hoping it’s going to be a good one,” Peterson said.
MORE: Cardinals CB Patrick Peterson grabs two interceptions in Pro Bowl
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Reach McManaman at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @azbobbymac and listen to him live every Wednesday night between 7-9 on Fox Sports 910-AM on The Freaks with Kenny and Crash. | 1,267,697 |
4-year-old on a bike ride saves family from house fire
Maggie O'Mara | KTVB
Show Caption Hide Caption 4-year-old on a bike ride saves family from house fire A very alert 4-year-old girl in Boise, Idaho saw smoke coming from a house in her neighborhood. She told her dad, and he was able to alert the family inside before it was too late.
BOISE, Idaho - Rosie Moran is an honorary firefighter, thanks to her quick-thinking heroics. She recently spotted a home in her neighborhood on fire and got help, possibly saving the lives of those inside.
Did we mention Rosie just turned four years old in May?
"We were just doing our usual stroll around the block and I was with both girls," said Rosie's dad, Sean. "She was cruising along a little bit further ahead and she came speeding back to me."
Rosie told her dad that a neighbor's home was on fire.
"I noticed there was black smoke," Sean said. "I jogged up and followed Rosie and she took me to this house, and sure enough I looked around the corner and the side of the house was all on fire.
"I was able to yell in, 'Hey, your house is on fire!'"
Ernie Ortiz, his wife and daughters were inside. They had no idea their home was burning.
Both dads jumped into action. Sean grabbed a garden hose and started spraying down the flames, while Ernie went to get his wife and daughter out of the home.
"[Ernie] ran to get his wife and his daughter who were taking a bath in the bathroom right next to where that fire was, it was sharing the same wall," Sean said.
Firefighters arrived on scene, and after extinguishing the flames, were surprised to find out it was a 4-year-old who first noticed the fire.
"They were super proud of her," Sean said. "In fact, one of the ladies handed her a little badge, a junior firefighter badge, honorary member. That made her day."
Ernie said he thinks the fire started when oily rags from staining a deck had spontaneously combusted in a garbage can on the side of the house.
Sean says Rosie was in the right place at the right time.
"Five minutes earlier or five minutes later it would have been a totally different story," he said. "It could have easily gotten pretty big."
Pointing to his own daughter, Ernie thanked Rosie for being so alert. "You see this little girl right here, you saved her! I want to thank you very much."
It was a special moment for both families.
"She is a real hero," Ernie said.
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Royce Freeman will replace Devontae Booker as the starting Broncos running back.
ENGLEWOOD – For a rookie, Royce Freeman sure was grown up about it.
He was told Monday morning before the start of practice that he was now the Broncos' No. 1 running back, which means starting in the season opener Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks. Asked repeatedly, in various ways, what it meant to him and how it felt, Freeman spoke in a low monotone accompanied by flatline-like emotion.
"It's an honor,'' he said, finally flashing a humble smile. "Just like anything to be named a starter for this football team definitely is something that means a lot to me but I feel like I have to go out there and work hard.''
Freeman will be the Broncos' first rookie running back to start week 1 since Terrell Davis in 1995. Davis had a sensational four-year run that led to two Super Bowl titles and eventual induction into Pro Football Hall of Fame.
“It’s an honor to be mentioned with men of that caliber, with players with that type of legacy around here,'' Freeman said. "It makes you want to work harder and honestly, take it day by day and not get too far ahead of yourself.’’
Freeman replaces Devontae Booker, the third-year back who had been the starter through the first three preseason games. Which was news to Booker.
"I haven't really heard anything about it,'' Booker said. "I don't know. I'm supportive either way, I'll just go out there and do my job and continue to be me.''
Freeman was a four-year starter for the Oregon Ducks, who averaged 1,405 yards and 15 touchdowns a season. The Broncos took him with their No. 71 overall draft pick in the third round, a slot that gave him a $997,020 signing bonus and $480,000 first-year salary.
In the preseason, Freeman rushed for 84 yards and three touchdowns on 15 carries for a 5.6-yard average. Booker rushed for 33 yards on 9 carries for a 3.7-yard average. His two-year career average is 3.6 yards per carry.
Broncos head coach Vance Joseph said he would use all three backs – Freeman, Booker in passing downs and undrafted rookie Phillip Lindsay – against a Seattle defense that ranked 19th against the run last year with 114 yards a game.
But for the estimated 59.3 million people who played in a fantasy football league last year, Freeman is your guy. Don't worry about his youth. In fact, embrace it. The league's leading rushing rusher last year was Kansas City rookie Kareem Hunt. The league's rushing title in 2016 went to Dallas rookie Ezekiel Elliott.Rams rookie Todd Gurley II was the third-leading rusher in 2015.
The Broncos had no qualms about giving Freeman starter responsibility. | 1,267,699 |
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