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As talk of impeachment began in the Capitol this week, some in Congress may be experiencing déjà vu.
Eighteen current senators—11 Republicans and seven Democrats—were also in the upper chamber during the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton in 1999.
With the exception of Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Richard Shelby of Alabama, they all voted on party lines, with Republicans finding Clinton guilty of both perjury and obstruction of justice and Democrats finding him not guilty on both charges. (Collins found Clinton not guilty on both counts, while Shelby found him not guilty of perjury and guilty of obstruction of justice.)
“Nowhere in the Constitution or in the expressed views of our founders are crimes intended to conceal the President’s character flaws distinguished from crimes intended to subvert democracy,” Arizona Sen. John McCain said at the time, according to a copy of his statement posted on CNN.” The President thwarted justice.”
In light of a bombshell report in the New York Times that President Trump asked FBI Director James Comey to drop an investigation into his National Security Advisor, one House Democrat called for impeachment on the House floor, while others have called for an independent commission to look into the issue.
Along with McCain, Collins and Shelby, the Republicans were now-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sens. Mike Crapo of Idaho, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Pat Roberts of Kansas, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, Orrin Hatch of Utah and Mike Enzi of Wyoming.
The Democrats were Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Ron Wyden of Oregon, Jack Reed of Rhode Island, Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Patty Murray of Washington.
In addition, one of the House impeachment managers was now Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, while Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who also voted to find Clinton guilty on both counts, also served in the Senate in 1999.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the number of sitting senators who voted on Bill Clinton’s impeachment. It is 18, not 17.
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All the winners at the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards, held in Los Angeles on 7 January 2018.
Film categories
Best motion picture – drama
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best motion picture – comedy or musical
Lady Bird
Best performance by an actor in a motion picture – drama
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Best performance by an actress in a motion picture – drama
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best performance by an actor in a motion picture – comedy or musical
James Franco, The Disaster Artist
Best performance by an actress in a motion picture – comedy or musical
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a motion picture
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a motion picture
Alison Janney, I, Tonya
Best director – motion picture
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
Best screenplay – motion picture
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best animated film
Coco
Best foreign language film
In the Fade
Best original score – motion picture
The Shape of Water
Best original song – motion picture
This Is Me – The Greatest Showman
Television categories
Best television series – drama
The Handmaid’s Tale
Best television series – comedy
The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
Best actor in a television series – drama
Sterling K Brown, This is Us
Best actress in a television series – drama
Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale
Best actor in a television series – musical or comedy
Aziz Ansari, Master of None
Best actress in a television series – musical or comedy:
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
Best television limited series or motion picture made for television:
Big Little Lies
Best actor in a limited series or motion picture made for television:
Ewan McGregor, Fargo
Best actress in a limited series or motion picture made for television:
Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies
Best supporting actor in a series, limited series or motion picture made for television:
Alexander Skarsgard, Big Little Lies
Best supporting actress in a series, limited series or motion picture made for television:
Laura Dern, Big Little Lies
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DEL MAR, Calif. (BRAIN) — On the second and final day of the inaugural CABDA West trade show, BRAIN contributor Ray Keener asked retailers, "What's in store for 2019?"
Donnie Bennett
Mr. B's Bicycles
Yuma, AZ
"E-bikes, lots of e-bikes. We've sold more e-bikes in our three stores than regular bicycles so far this year. We picked up Pedego a year-and-a-half ago and it's been a great partnership. We have a Pedego store within one of our stores now and we're building a separate building that will be Pedego Yuma."
LaLa Mijares
Incycle Bicycle
Santa Clarita, CA
"A lot of our focus in 2019 is on community. We have five locations and the new Santa Clarita store is in a community-friendly cycling area where there are 61 miles of paved trails. What we're seeing is e-bikes selling well in our new store and it's catching on in our other locations as well."
David Jaeger
Biking Boundless
Dresden, TN
"It'll be an interesting year because there's been a lot of ups and downs. For us, we're really excited about e-bikes, alternate transportation, replacing daily commutes with an e-bike. We have a brick and mortar store and we're continuing to pivot more toward online. We're all about providing product to cyclists wherever they want it."
Graciela Guzman and Gilberto Cortez
California Bicycle Utopia
San Diego, CA
"We have a mobile shop and we're starting a new mountain biking team, we're going to be racing the California series. We also offer coaching plans, we're upgrading that to road cycling as well as coaching for juniors. As fast as everything is changing, we're at CABDA to stay up to speed with all the new products."
Jacob Abrantes
Holland's Bicycles
El Cajon, CA
"Bringing fit to the masses. Getting customers in for sizing appointments and then back for fit appointments if they feel like they need more help. Coming back a couple weeks after riding really helps them digest everything so we can custom tailor their fit and their experience. So they can catch the cycling bug like we all have."
Gordon and Joey Hobbis
Cap's Bicycle Shop
New Westminster, British Columbia
"In our shop, e-bikes are the direction we're going. We opened up a second shop last April as a pedal mountain bike store and we're going to pivot that to all e-assist. In the last six months we've seen a huge shift in consumer sentiment toward e-bikes. It might not be for every shop but I'm really excited about it." | 1,268,302 |
Daniel Larsen had his felony conviction overturned more than two years ago. But the California man continues to sit in a California prison while the state attorney general appeals a federal magistrate's decision to release the 45-year-old from jail.
"It's reflexive, it's just what they do," Larsen's attorney Jan Stiglitz told Southern California Public Radio. "They have never been willing to sit down and interview our witnesses."
On Monday, the California Innocence Project and Larsen's fiancée delivered 100,000 petition signatures from individuals demanding an immediate release for Larsen. The California Innocence Project is a program at the California Western School of Law, which works to release wrongfully convicted men and women from prison.
So how did Larson end up in prison in the first place?
In 1999, he was convicted of being a felon in possession of a concealed weapon. Police witnesses claim they saw Larsen throw a knife under a car. He was already on strike two of California's "three strikes law," meaning he was then sentenced to a prison term of 27 years to life.
But in 2009, the California Innocence Project brought forward two witnesses to contest the police claims. Adding weight to the testimony, one of the witnesses is himself a former police chief. Both he and his wife testified that they never saw Larsen in possession of a knife.
"It's an eyewitness to the event," Stiglitz said. "One that was never produced at trial because Daniel Larsen's lawyer was constitutionally and practically deficient."
In response, a federal magistrate ruled that Larsen had been denied constitutionally protected rights to a fair trial and ordered him released immediately. However, the California Office of the Attorney General appealed that decision, saying Larsen neglected to file a federal habeas action within a one-year deadline.
"A federal habeas petition filed even one day late is untimely and must be dismissed," according to the appeal.
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Stanford Law School professor Robert Weisberg told the L.A. Times he believes the attorney general's office is making an example out of Larsen's case in order to prevent an "onslaught" of similar claims from other prisoners. What they're saying is, this guy had his chances. At a certain point the music has to stop, and a case just has to be closed," Weisberg told the paper. "We're afraid that lots of people who were not unjustly convicted are going to be encouraged to frame their case as the injustice of the century."
Nonetheless, Stiglitz says he believes a proposed meeting will now take place with the attorney general's office sometime in the next two weeks.
"He's a believer now," Larsen's fiancée, Christina Combs, told the station. "With what's going on this week and over the past two weeks with the petition, he believes now. And he's coming home and he knows it." | 1,268,303 |
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Updated: Jul 19, 2020 19:46 IST
In a strident reiteration of the Shiv Sena’s stand, senior leader Sanjay Raut on Tuesday said that the next chief minister of Maharashtra will be from the party, adding that the “face and politics” of the state will change. Twelve days after assembly election results were announced, the party and its ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) continue to squabble over rotating the chief minister’s position and 50:50 allocation of portfolios.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday in Mumbai, Raut said that a chief minister will be sworn in soon. “Chief Minister will be from Shiv Sena only and not Sharad Pawar. The face and politics of Maharashtra is changing, you will see. What you call hungama (commotion), is not hungama, but the fight for justice and rights. Victory will be ours,” Raut said.
Raut also took on the BJP for not keeping its “word” on sharing posts and responsibilities equally.
Also Watch l ‘Shiv Sena fighting for justice, will emerge victorious’: Sanjay Raut
The BJP won 105 seats, followed by the Shiv Sena at 56, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) 54 and the Congress 44. The majority mark is 145. Independents and smaller parties won 29 seats.
The strength of the Shiv Sena in the Assembly went up after Rajendra Patil Yadravkar, an Independent MLA from Shirol, pledged his support to Sena. The Sena claims the support of eight independent or rebel MLAs, taking their strength to 64. On Monday night, senior Sena leader, Eknath Shinde, took Yadravkar to meet Sena chief, Uddhav Thackeray. Raut, on Tuesday, said, “The strength of Shiv Sena is increasing day by day. Yesterday Shirol MLA has joined the Shiv Sena.”
The allies have been at odds over power sharing with Sena sending out feelers to Sharad Pawar’s NCP and the Congress. The NCP chief called on the Congress president on Monday and briefed her about the ground situation in the state, with senior Congress leader, AK Antony, also present. The outcome of the meeting was unclear.
Monday witnessed hectic discussions in the BJP camp too with incumbent chief minister Devendra Fadnavis meeting Union home minister Amit Shah after which Fadnavis said, “There is a need to form the government in Maharashtra at the earliest... I am sure, I am confident, that the government will be formed.”
The deadline for government formation is November 9, when the term of the current legislative assembly expires. If no government is in place by the end of the tenure of the current assembly, President’s Rule could be imposed in the state. | 1,268,304 |
It consists in notitia, assensus and fiducia. Notitia is the noting of a thing; like saying, “I see the chair”. Assensus is assenting to the truth that you do, ipso facto, see the chair. At this point, you have the same amount of belief that the demons do. They note and assent to the statement, “Jesus Christ is God’s Son, the only Savior of men.” But they do not have fiducia. Men can rationally work out, from the pages of the Bible, that Jesus claims to be the Son of God, the only Savior. They can have notitia and assensus, but only God can cause them to have fiducia. They must wholly lean on Jesus, trusting in Him with their whole being. This can only be done (seeing the truth of it, assenting to the truth, and wholly leaning upon that truth for sustenance) if God, in His mercy, regenerates the sinner’s heart, grants repentance and then implants the divine influence of faith.
[14] Our heavenly conversation is that disposition which a believer carries out because he knows he is a child of heaven and should act like one. Jeremiah Burroughs gives an exemplary treatment of this in his book, Gospel Conversation (Soli Deo Gloria Publishers, 1995) using Philippians 1:27 as the base text.
[15] 1 John 2:19
[16] It is not an ordinary working which He allows, but sometimes this does happen; more the former than the latter.
[17] The symbol of Christianity is not the cross; it is love (John 13:34). Love is to be shown to the brethren. If we love one another, we will show the world we are Christ’s disciples. To love is only possible if we know the God of love and if His love is alive in our hearts. Unless the Spirit of God dwells in us we can never love. It is the work of the Spirit in our souls, towards each other that show the world we are something different. The Spirit of the living God is inside of us if we are born anew. He is the symbol, in love, which the crux of Christianity. Defining the symbol of Christianity is easy once we understand it is an internal work expressing itself: it is the love of God procured by the Holy Spirit burning in our heart to such a degree that it motivates us to love one another.
[18] Jude v3 states that we should “contend for the faith once for all entrusted to the saints.” This contending is to be an agonizing over, or contention over the truth of God’s Word. The “faith” is the body of doctrine delivered to the church. It has once for all been delivered and is so sacred and important, that the saints are required to guard it, to contend for it no matter what. | 1,268,305 |
LCD Soundsystem // photo by David Brendan Hall
Photo by David Brendan Hall
LCD Soundsystem have completed their much-anticipated new album.
Frontman James Murphy made the announcement during the band’s set at the Sasquatch! Music Festival on Friday night, according to a reddit user who was in attendance. Pitchfork was able to confirm the statement with a representative for Sasquatch.
(Read: LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver Turns 10)
In an open letter shared earlier this month, Murphy said the album was “seriously almost done” with “1 more vocal and 2 more mixes to go.” “It’s been one of the most enjoyable records to make in my life, if not the most fun ever,” he added.
It may take some time to nail down a release date, however, as Murphy insists on having vinyl pressed ahead of time. “It will go like this: finish last mix > get to [Weston] to master > get masters to pressing plant > plant takes X amount of time > records get to distro so that they can go to stores > record released,” he explained in the letter. “However long that takes = when the record will be out.”
Update – May 30th: Murphy provides further confirmation of the record’s completion in a new post to Facebook. Murphy adds that he’s “been wrangling the fastest route between final mix and record release for the past few weeks so that there isn’t such a lag, and I think it’ll be soon. 6 weeks is the very fastest, I think, but it will likely be longer than that.” He also notes that this will be the final record made at DFA Studios “so there’s a lot to digest for me. I’ve been there nearly 20 years now, and I wasn’t a particularly young man when it opened, so there’s that.” Read the full note below.
In anticipation, LCD Soundsystem has already released two tracks from the album, “Call the Police” and “American Dream”, which they performed on SNL earlier this month. Revisit both tracks, plus see the band’s remaining summer festival circuit dates, below.
The as-yet-untitled album will mark LCD Soundsystem’s fourth album to date and the follow-up to 2010’s This Is Happening.
LCD Soundsystem 2017 Tour Dates:
07/12 – Ottawa, ON @ Ottawa Bluesfest
07/14 – Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival
07/15 – Louisville, KY @ Forecastle Festival
07/23 – Byron Bay, AU @ Splendour in the Grass
07/28-30 – Niigata Prefecture, JP @ Fuji Rock Festival | 1,268,306 |
The domestic exile of John Maynard Keynes.
THE LAST FOUR YEARS have created what economists call a “natural experiment” in economic policy. As a consequence of deregulation and globalization, Britain and the United States experienced the financial crisis of 2008 in much the same way. Large parts of the banking system collapsed and had to be rescued; the real economy went into a nosedive and had to be stimulated. But after 2010, the United States continued to stimulate its economy, while Britain chose the stonier path of austerity.
The British are no more wedded to the idea of fiscal austerity than are the Americans. The Victorian aim of an annual budgetary surplus (in order to allow for the repayment of debt) has long since vanished. Both countries experienced only occasional surpluses in the postwar years associated with exceptional booms. The divergence of the two countries lies not in underlying attitudes but in political and institutional circumstances.
First, the British entered the crisis with a largely discredited Labour government; the Americans with a largely discredited Republican administration. The political swing gave power to the traditional spenders in the United States and the traditional budget-cutters in Britain. Second, despite their small-government rhetoric, Republicans have actually always accepted, and indeed promoted, large deficits in the name of national security. Third, whereas the U.S. Treasury is simply an agency of government, the British Treasury has always assumed that it should control, not facilitate, government spending. Finally, Britain, with European examples in mind, was concerned that foreign bondholders would take fright at the growth of the national debt—at least, this became the grand rationalization of austerity policy after the Greek crisis flared up in 2010.
These factors help explain the differing fortunes of John Maynard Keynes in the two countries. Homegrown in Britain, Keynesian policy was enthusiastically embraced by British governments immediately after the war. In the United States, full-blooded Keynesianism started only with John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s. The United States under Ronald Reagan and Britain under Margaret Thatcher abandoned official Keynesianism in the 1980s, but the taxcutting, defense-boosting commitments of the Republican Party kept unofficial Keynesianism alive in the United States long after it had been relinquished in Keynes’s own country. When George W. Bush, in announcing his stimulus measures of 2001, declared that budget deficits were justified by war, a recession, or a national emergency, Milton Friedman deplored the fact that “crude Keynesianism has risen from the dead.” Paradoxically, Keynesianism, unacknowledged and often reviled, chimed in with some constants in U.S. political life better than it did in Britain, where it is still customary to pay homage to the master while ignoring his teaching.
SO WHAT DOES the experiment in economic policy tell us? At the start of the crisis, leading economic indicators in the United States and Britain were broadly similar: a government deficit of around 2.7 percent of gross domestic | 1,268,307 |
An agreement that some campaigners have called the “biggest global threat to the internet” has just been signed, potentially bringing huge new restrictions on what people can do with their computers.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the conclusion of five years of negotiations, and will cover 40 per cent of the world’s economy. Its claimed purpose is to create a unified economic bloc so that companies and businesses can trade more easily — but it also puts many of the central principle of the internet in doubt, according to campaigners.
One particularly controversial part of the provisions make it a crime to reveal corporate wrongdoing "through a computer system". Experts have pointed out that the wording is very vague, and could lead to whistleblowers being penalised for sharing important information, and lead to journalists stopping reporting on them.
Landmark TPP deal announced in Atlanta
Others require that online content providers — such as YouTube and Facebook — must take down content if they receive just one complaint, as they are in the US. That will be harmful for startups looking to build such businesses since they'll be required to have the resources to respond to every complaint, experts have pointed out.
In 2013, when the partnership was still being discussed, the Electronic Frontier Foundation called TPP “one of the worst global threats to the internet”. The changes are dangerous because to unify the various countries in the partnerships’ rules on intellectual property and other internet law, they are opting to take the US’s largely very restrictive rules.
“The TPP is likely to export some of the worst features of U.S. copyright law to Pacific Rim countries: a broad ban on breaking digital locks on devices and creative works (even for legal purposes), a minimum copyright term of the lifetime of the creator plus seventy years (the current international norm is the lifetime plus fifty years), privatization of enforcement for copyright infringement, ruinous statutory damages with no proof of actual harm, and government seizures of computers and equipment involved in alleged infringement,” wrote Katitza Rodriguez and Maira Sutton.
The changes could also lead to huge new rules about surveillance.
“Under this TPP proposal, Internet Service Providers could be required to "police" user activity (i.e. police YOU), take down internet content, and cut people off from internet access for common user-generated content,” write Expose The TPP, a campaign group opposing the agreement.
As well as imposing strict rules on those on the internet, activists point out that some of the parts of the agreement could limit central parts of the internet and modern computers. A restriction on breaking “digital locks” for instance — which is meant to allow companies to control their products even after they have been bought by customers — could stop disabled people from making important changes to their computers or using different technology.
The agreement has been made in secret and will not be fully published publicly for years.
Tech experts wrote to the US Congress in May to demand more transparency about the agreement. | 1,268,308 |
Comedian Andy Richter, the longtime sidekick to late-night host Conan O’Brien, recently told a Hollywood audience of his personal experience with abortion, expressing how he was “eternally grateful” for Planned Parenthood for helping terminate a girlfriend’s pregnancy in 1992.
The actor all but credited the abortion provider for indirectly enabling his successful career, marriage and “planned” parenthood.
Mr. Richter made the remarks at the Sept. 10 Sexy Beast fundraising gala for Planned Parenthood’s Los Angeles chapters, where he served as host, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Mr. Richter recounted that 24 years ago he and his girlfriend Sarah Thryre — whom he married in 1994 — were hardly ready to have kids.
“She was in New York City working three jobs; I was in Chicago jobless and sleeping on my mother’s couch. The strain of living apart, and the stress of being two young people attempting to make a living as performers and writers was really taking a toll on its relationship,” Mr. Richter said, THR reported Tuesday. “So when she called me to tell me that she was pregnant, it was not exactly happy news.”
“Luckily for us Planned Parenthood existed,” Mr. Richter added. “I drove from Chicago in my battered old Toyota pickup to be with her when she went to Planned Parenthood to terminate her pregnancy. Her choice to get an abortion was a choice that she made with assuredness. She knew that she was doing the right thing for everyone involved.”
Noting that they briefly broke up shortly thereafter, Mr. Richter explained that he and Sarah “realized that breaking up was the stupidest thing we’d ever done,” getting engaged, married two years later and going on to have “a couple kids, and a parrot and two dogs.”
“Planned Parenthood gave two young struggling people the ability to do the thing that is in their name: We got to plan parenthood. When we could barely care for ourselves, much less a newborn, we were able to choose the time when we brought a child into our lives,” Mr. Richter said. “Planned Parenthood allowed my wife to make the decisions she needed to make in order to control her body and her health, and maintain her life and her future. And for that, I will be eternally grateful.”
No stranger to political activism, Mr. Richter, a proponent of gun control, has also mixed it up on Twitter with conservatives over gun rights issues. According to the Federal Election Commission’s online database, Mr. Richter gave to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in February, donating $2,700 for the primary cycle.
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Virginia's GOP chairman backed White House press secretary Sean Spicer's decision to block a number of news outlets from a question-and-answer session on Friday.
"Good job @seanspicer. Why would we let media who hate us have access to @POTUS? Time to take a stand," read a tweet by John Whitbeck, chairman of the Virginia Republican Party since 2015.
Good job @seanspicer. Why would we let media who hate us have access to @POTUS? Time to take a stand. https://t.co/8vJE2xENNI — John Whitbeck (@JohnWhitbeck) February 24, 2017
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The show of support comes after Spicer decided to hold an off-camera gaggle with reporters in his office instead of an on-camera briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.
CNN, The Hill, The New York Times, Politico, the Daily Mail, BuzzFeed, the BBC, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Daily News were among publications and outlets not permitted to attend.
Reporters from several conservative outlets were allowed into Spicer’s office, including Breitbart, the Washington Times and One America News Network. ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, Reuters, Bloomberg and McClatchy were also allowed to attend.
President Trump again devoted considerable time to slamming the media during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., earlier Friday.
"I want you all to know that we are fighting the fake news. It’s phony, fake,” Trump declared.
“I called the fake news the enemy of the people. They are the enemy of the people, because they have no sources. They just make them up when there are none.”
CNN said the administration's decision to hand-pick news outlets was "unacceptable."
CNN was blocked from WH @PressSec's media gaggle today. This is our response: pic.twitter.com/8SfY2uYKEI — CNN Communications (@CNNPR) February 24, 2017
New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet also criticized at Spicer's decision. “Nothing like this has ever happened at the White House in our long history of covering multiple administrations of different parties,” Baquet said in a statement.
“We strongly protest the exclusion of The New York Times and the other news organizations. Free media access to a transparent government is obviously of crucial national interest.” “Nothing like this has ever happened at the White House in our long history of covering multiple administrations of different parties,” Baquet said in a statement.“We strongly protest the exclusion of The New York Times and the other news organizations. Free media access to a transparent government is obviously of crucial national interest.”
The Associated Press and Time, although invited to the gaggle, refused the offer in protest. | 1,268,310 |
Everyone has heard the story of the little engine that could. Well, it turns out that St. Louis has a little engine of its own, and we can all agree that it’s off to a rough start.
The adventures and misadventures began on the trolley’s first real day of operation on Nov. 16, 2018, after multiple delays spanning a few months. It was unable to enter University City, as the Loop Trolley Co. allegedly owed money that would enable the city to restore the streets to their former condition – as a backup plan – should the operation fail. The trolley was able to complete the other portions of its route, but not for long.
Later that day, around 3 p.m., at DeBaliviere Avenue and Forest Park Parkway, two vehicles collided, and police say shots were fired between them. One vehicle remained at the scene with its uninjured driver, but the other vehicle disappeared. The trolley could not continue its route without passing through the crime scene, so service was halted.
Fast forward around three weeks later to Dec. 9, when one of the two trolley cars broke down as a result of mechanical issues. That trolley was not able to continue that day, leaving only one to do the job.
Things were going smoothly at the Loop Trolley Co. for a short while, until Dec. 28, when executive director Kevin Barbeau sent out an email notifying people about the need to shut down service until the following Thursday, as a result of electrical and mechanical issues, including braking.
The resumption of service on Thursday, Jan. 10 did not go so well either, as one of the trolley cars had to be shut down when it was struck by an oncoming vehicle. It was not a simple accident, as the vehicle that struck the trolley lost the entire door on the driver’s side and sustained damage.
It looks like the city took the trolley for quite a ride in its first few months of operation, not the other way around. Despite all of these obstacles, Barbeau is still determined to make the project a hit, providing trolley service to the bustling Delmar Loop. Successful trolley cars exist in many other cities, including San Francisco, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Toronto, Dallas and many others.
Despite all that the company has been through so far, things are looking up as of Tuesday, Jan. 29, as its third trolley car arrived in St. Louis. After passing tests to ensure it is safe and functions properly, the third car will join rotation with the others, and the company will expand service to more days of the week than Thursday through Sunday.
The streetcar is coming back into popularity, and everyone wants to jump in on the action. St. Louis has always been a place for new trends to flourish, and hopefully, the return of this additional mode of transportation will be among those trends.
Keep on chugging Loop Trolley! | 1,268,311 |
on the morning of November 8th, 2016, when I made tea in my kitchen and allowed, privately, the consolation that dismal neoliberal continuity would suck for lots of reasons but would almost certainly be better than handing Donald Trump the power to destroy the earth!
I get it. In the most practical sense, which is the only one in which political campaigns deal, Biden’s is probably an effective campaign pitch. Aging white people love being told things were better when they were younger, and there are lots and lots of those people in the electorate. Many of them may well like the idea of being offered the choice of an avatar for themselves and their generation who thinks Donald Trump is bad (Joe Biden) rather than one who thinks Donald Trump is extremely good (Donald Trump).
The most obvious and immediate problem with this is that it’s dangerous, ahistorical, fundamentally conservative fable-making. It’s a comforting story about America, and one that a certain type of person (white, afraid) can opt into believing. From this perspective, the fix is clear: Everybody But Me Changing How They’re Doing Everything becomes the solution to all the problems. At its most basic level, this is the exact same top-line campaign pitch Donald Trump himself made three years ago: America was great before. Now it’s all screwed up. Make it great again.
But America’s problem isn’t that it’s a fine place that just happens to have awakened one morning to discover that Donald Trump was somehow president, and what’s wrong with it—what is not working and has not worked for a very long time—can’t be fixed by replacing Trump with another swinging-dick old white man selling a slightly different backward-looking myth about the better times he alone can restore. Donald Trump isn’t the ugly future that showed up to violate America’s virtuous past. Donald Trump is that past, the lurid blossoming of the most poisonous and most deeply rooted old-growth fixtures in American life—white supremacy, patriarchy, feral and all-devouring capitalism. Trump is the embodiment of those original American sins, and he was elected on their behalf, as a response to a society that was just tentatively showing the flimsiest superficial signs that it might be thinking of leaving those sins behind.
Joe Biden isn’t the future, either, of course. Nothing demonstrates it more clearly than his choice to announce his entry in the campaign through this message. Biden is making a wager that the surest approach to defeating Donald Trump is by mirroring him—by giving aging white people an avatar that flatters them even as it amplifies their self-image. The vanity and self-regard of old conservative white people isn’t going to save the world; it is hard to think of anything less suited for that task. But it has already proven itself capable of winning an election, and Joe Biden trusts nothing if not the past. | 1,268,312 |
The major snowstorm we've all had our eyes on this week looks like it's going to hit south of New England.
WBUR meteorologist David Epstein says while things could still change, right now it looks like we'll get just a "glancing blow" from the storm.
"It looks like the bulk of the storm will stay south," Epstein said Wednesday afternoon. "We might have wind, minor coastal beach erosion on Saturday and Saturday night, but it looks like the heaviest snow will stay off shore and to our south."
Epstein says we could still get a coating to several inches of snow south of Boston.
Epstein's forecast from earlier Wednesday:
The rest of the work week is looking cold and dry with one more day of wind. I don’t see temperatures getting above freezing during this period, but as winds relax it should feel somewhat better Thursday and Friday.
High pressure continues to influence the weather in Boston. This air mass is coming from Canada, contributing to the cold temperatures we've seen this week.
The cold isn’t anything monumental or even close the record lows. If you think this is cold, it’s actually much milder than most of February was last year and only a few degrees below the 30-year average. This is the core of winter, and it’s expected we see several days below freezing.
There is a storm that needs forecasting this weekend and already watches and warnings for the snow are present over the Ohio Valley. These will be expanded during the next 24 to 48 hours. I expect places like Washington, DC, Richmond, Virginia and even Philadelphia to see some sort of winter weather watches in place today or tonight.
The reason this storm has gotten so much publicity is because of the potential for heavy snow. The map below shows how much snow is forecast through Friday in places to our south. If the storm did come up the coastline, we’d likely see similar predictions here.
Snow predictions through Friday to the south of New England. (Courtesy NOAA)
Presently, most of the models are keeping the heaviest snow and wind to our south, but as you know this can change. Since the storm is forecast to impact us mostly on Saturday or early Sunday, there is still plenty of time for changes to the track and impact. For now, I will leave the chance for snow in the forecast this weekend.
You can follow my weather updates on Twitter at @growingwisdom.
Today: Sunny, with a high near 32. Blustery winds continue.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low 17-22, still a noticeable wind present.
Thursday: Partly sunny to mostly sunny, with a high approaching 30.
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 30.
Saturday: Cloudy with snow possible, especially south. Highs near 30.
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Tempe City Council approved agreement to bring Whole Foods to Tempe
Whole Foods is set to become the first grocery store in 15 years to locate within walking or biking distance of Arizona State University and downtown Tempe.
A development called the Foundry would be a nine-story building that includes plans for a 41,000-square-foot Whole Foods. A three-level parking garage would be above the store with a clubhouse and 290 apartments on the upper five levels.
The Tempe City Council in a 7-0 vote June 23 authorized the mayor to proceed with a development agreement with Denver-based Forum Real Estate Group. The agreement calls for construction of a major grocery store at the long-vacant lot at University Drive and Ash Avenue that many Tempe residents remember as the site of the closed Gentle Strength Cooperation store.
A Whole Foods official confirmed the development of design plans at that location with an opening date of spring 2018.
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The overall project plans call for roll-up doors along University Drive for outdoor dining on both the ground floor and a mezzanine level.
“We want this to feel soulful, authentic, sophisticated, fun and inclusive,” said Darin Sender, an attorney representing the developer, during a public hearing.
Councilman Kolby Granville said he doesn't think Whole Foods is a good fit in that location, but that businesses — more than council members — know what will be successful at a particular spot.
Councilwoman Lauren Kuby lauded the proposal and said, "We're in a food desert in north Tempe. We need a supermarket."
Members of the public who spoke during the first and second hearings for the project said downtown needs a large grocery store and they have waited for more than a decade and a half. Stabler’s Market at University Drive and Mill Avenue closed in 2000.
The cooperative at the planned Whole Foods site closed a few years later. A small store carrying local products such as organic produce and specialty items called Tempe Farmers Market opened in 2009.
But not everyone agreed that a Whole Foods should be the area's major grocery store, citing the expense of the groceries or the grocery company's business practices.
Karyn Gitlis, a representative of the Maple Ash Neighborhood Association, said although she liked many aspects of the development she is concerned about traffic effects on surrounding neighborhoods. The developer offered $15,000 to five neighborhoods within a quarter-mile of the project, $5,000 of which would go for a public art installation and $10,000 for maintenance of traffic-calming devices, Gitlis said.
The Maple Ash Neighborhood Association approved the offer, Gitlis told council members, with the reservation that the offer is "too small and too dispersed with multiple neighborhoods."
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Protecting The Hive – Part 2 Cover photo by Marisa Privitera Murdoch A few weeks back we asked fans on Twitter to send in their thoughts and feelings about lockdown and a project was born. Today we invite you all to collaborate with us on Part 2 – a song – “Protecting The Hive”. [...]
Protecting The Hive We present today the first instalment of a new two-part project ‘Protecting The Hive’. Feeling a need to connect after lockdown, Stuart appealed to his followers on Twitter to write and share their thoughts and feelings while in self isolation, These [...]
The Boy With The Arab Strap to feature on Tim’s Listening Party We’re stoked that The Boy With Therab Strap will feature in Tim Burgess’s listening party over on Twitter on 27th April @ 9pm. Chris @beansgeddes Sarah @bellesglasgow & Stuart @nee_massey will be present to chat it over and take your questions – maybe [...]
Meditation with Stuart Hi folks, We’re all seeing such awful scenes on our TVs and in our hospitals and we hope that wherever you are you’re able to keep out of harm’s way and in touch with those that you love. You may know that Stuart has been practicing meditation a little [...]
Soundtracking with Edith Bowman, Stuart Murdoch & Simon Bird As part of the Glasgow Film Festival Stuart talks to Edith Bowman live on Friday 6 March at 5pm, in Glasgow’s Drygate. Also chatting with Edith and Stuart will be Simon Bird (director of Days Of The Bagnold Summer & The Inbetweeners). In this special [...]
Boaty Recap As we all embark on adventures new in 2020 we’d like to take a last look back to remember the good times had aboard The Boaty Weekender. We’re excited to show you this Official Recap Video of our time on the boat last August. The official event [...]
New video for ‘This Letter’ So here’s the story behind our new video for the track ‘This Letter’. When we got back from the Boaty Weekender, we drew up a plan to make a music video with ¾ of boat mates Wet Look. They play the role of three tired film crew who just made a b&s [...]
Bowlie Memories Hi Folks It’s 20 years on from a certain little gathering that happened on the south coast of England – the original Bowlie Weekender. We were chatting about it, me and the group – the fun time we had, but also the stress and strain of putting it [...]
Sister Buddha Our new single ‘Sister Buddha’ is here! The brand new video for the track is directed by Stuart Murdoch and features Zindzi Hudson, Patrick Toner and of course the band! You can watch the video on Youtube HERE Video Credits: Director of Photography: [...] | 1,268,315 |
Last updated on.From the section Football
Paul Lambert started his managerial career in Scotland with Livingston
Former Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert has been appointed Blackburn Rovers boss, replacing the sacked Gary Bowyer.
Lambert, 46, is Blackburn's seventh permanent manager in seven years.
Bowyer was sacked on 10 November after two wins in 10 league games left Rovers 16th in the Championship table.
Lambert, who was sacked by Villa in February, said: "After a short period out of the game, I feel refreshed and I am really looking forward to the challenge ahead." external-link
Former Rovers player and youth team coach Alan Irvine rejoins the club as assistant and former head of youth coaching Rob Kelly also returns to Ewood Park.
Recent Blackburn managers 2008 - Paul Ince 2012 - Henning Berg 2008-10 - Sam Allardyce 2013 - Michael Appleton 2010-12 - Steve Kean 2013-15 - Gary Bowyer
'An exciting era for the club'
Lambert's first game in charge is the Lancashire derby at Preston North End on 21 November.
It is Lambert's first job since being sacked by Villa in February after the club dropped into the Premier League relegation zone following a 2-0 away defeat at Hull City.
The Scot arrived at Villa in June 2012 with a strong reputation, having managed Livingston, Wycombe, Colchester and Norwich.
Lambert's record at Villa Games Won Goals for/against Win ratio June 2012 to February 2015 101 25 98/164 24.75%
He had taken the Canaries from League One to the Premier League, but he struggled to make an impact at Villa, finishing 15th in his first two full seasons.
"Blackburn Rovers is a club with superb support and fine traditions, being a founding member of both the Football League and the Premier League," added Lambert.
"I bring with me a very trusted backroom team that I believe is equipped to help me create an exciting era for the club and I hope to deliver a brand of football that will both entertain the supporters and bring success."
What Lambert is walking into
Debt of £79.8m (January 2015)
Unable to buy any players
Loan signings and free transfers cannot earn more than around £10,000 per week.
Last month, managing director Derek Shaw said the club are one big sale away from getting out of their Financial Fair Play embargo.
The Championship club have been unable to buy players since December 2014 for not meeting the Football League's Fair Play Requirement.
Rovers are owned by Indian poultry firm Venky's, owned by the Rao family, who purchased the club for £43m in 2010.
The club's net debt rose to £79.8m in January with Rovers in their fourth season in the second tier following their relegation from the Premier League in 2011-12. | 1,268,316 |
Chinese firm Huawei, currently part of a trade war between the US and China, is planning investments in Europe. Keystone
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei plans to invest heavily in research in Switzerland, it says.
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This would create about 1,000 new research jobs, Huawei deputy director for Switzerland Felix Kramer told Swiss television SRF on Thursday. He said discussions were under way and there was no timetable yet.
Kramer said the focus would be on skills where Switzerland is a leader and which are relevant for Huawei in the medium term. “We are particularly looking for this expertise in the fields of physics, IT, nanotechnology, science of materials and other sciences,” he told SRF, adding that the firm also envisages “forms of interdisciplinary cooperation”.
As well as being neutral and stable, Switzerland’s technical institutes make it an advantageous research base, according to Kramer. Huawei is also planning to invest in other European countries, also “using the country’s strengths”. For example, it plans to invest in an industrial design institute in Paris and a centre of expertise in London for global finance.
Huawei is currently under international pressure, especially since the Trump administration last week put the company on a list banning it from acquiring technology from US firms without government approval.
Several American firms including Google have reacted by cutting some links with Huawei, the world’s second biggest smartphone maker. There are also fears in some countries that partnerships with Huawei for the development of 5G, the next generation of mobile technology, could open the door to spying by the Chinese government. There have been reports that Washington has been lobbying Bern to drop Huawei.
Unlike some operators elsewhere, Swiss telecoms operators do not plan to cut any ties with Huawei, they told Swiss news agency Keystone-SDA on Thursday. Its smartphones remain in the catalogues of the three main Swiss operators, Swisscom, Sunrise and Salt, who say they are nevertheless watching the situation closely. Sunrise is also developing its 5G network with technology pioneered by Huawei.
Good offices?
The business newspaper Handelszeitung meanwhile reports that the Swiss telecoms industry has launched an idea that could give Switzerland a mediating role in the US-China dispute.
This would involve setting up in Switzerland an international centre for cybersecurity in telecom infrastructure, which would test the security of components and serve as a reference in disputes. "This idea is attractive in the current environment," Peter Grütter, president of the Swiss Telecommunications Association Asut, told the paper.
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Steve O'Donnell, NASCAR's executive vice president and chief racing development officer, held an impromptu fan question-and-answer session Tuesday on Twitter while waiting for his flight to take off.
Here are some of the best nuggets from his replies to fan tweets:
— This season, teams found it was legal for crew members to yank the side skirts just in front of the rear wheels during pit stops, which created an odd image during races (it provided an aerodynamic benefit). But NASCAR plans to address the flared side skirts with a rule change next season, O'Donnell tweeted.
— One fan asked O'Donnell if he could change the Chase for the Sprint Cup format back to how it was from 2004-2013 (officials have said they view the new format as a major plus for the sport).
"No, but thanks for asking," O'Donnell tweeted, including the surprised smiley face emoji.
— The finale will remain at Homestead-Miami Speedway for the foreseeable future, O'Donnell indicated. A fan asked if NASCAR considered moving the championship race to different cities.
"We have, but drivers love (the) track and it has been some great racing," O'Donnell tweeted. "We are happy there."
— There are no plans to add a road course to the Chase, O'Donnell tweeted. There are currently two road races on the 36-race Sprint Cup Series schedule – Sonoma Raceway and Watkins Glen International -- but neither are in the 10-race playoff.
"Not right now," he said. "Still like (the) mix where they are at."
On a similar note, O'Donnell said NASCAR would look at changing the lineup of Chase tracks in 2016 (it's the same for next season).
— NASCAR isn't interested in racing at Austin's sparkling Circuit of the Americas, which was built for Formula One. That's good news for Texas Motor Speedway president Eddie Gossage, who has said he would be strongly opposed to any form of NASCAR racing in Austin – even the Xfinity Series or Camping World Truck Series.
"(You) never know, but I don't see it," O'Donnell tweeted in response to a question about Austin. "We have a home @TXMotorSpeedway."
— The lower-tier "Battle at the Beach" races on the backstretch of Daytona International Speedway will not return this season.
The races were an addition to Daytona Speedweeks the last two years and featured K&N cars and modifieds. O'Donnell called the event's demise "unfortunate."
— With the new testing ban now in place, some teams are hopeful to use Goodyear tire tests as a chance to try different setups on their cars.
How many Goodyear tests will there be next year? O'Donnell said the exact number is still to be determined, but estimated 10-12. | 1,268,318 |
outside the Terran base, just in range to warp in units inside the main of Terran.
11:14 - No gas yet from FoxeR, who is now putting down his command center at the expansion instead of making it up on his cliff.
MC tries to send his probe back to the Terran base, but three marines are guarding the front, and MC does not know about the expansion yet. A stalker is on the way though.
11:11 - MarineKing vs MC - Game 1 - Lost Temple
The firsrt game is on Lost Temple. We have the runner-up of season two at the top mid position as the red Terran, and the "suicide toss", MC, as the blue Protoss in the bottom mid position.
FoxeR is starting out, making a wall on the low ground.
11:09 - As I said, the first game is MarineKing vs MC. We haven't seen a lot of TvZ from FoxeR, so this is going to be awesome. Oh and for your information, I will refer to the MarineKing as FoxeR, I just love that nickname, and it's easier to write than 'MarineKing'.
Here are the players getting ready;
- As I said, the first game is MarineKing vs MC. We haven't seen a lot of TvZ from FoxeR, so this is going to be awesome. Oh and for your information, I will refer to the MarineKing as FoxeR, I just love that nickname, and it's easier to write than 'MarineKing'.Here are the players getting ready;
11:05 - Artosis said that Rain actually went up on the stage after yesterday's matches and apologized for the way he won. Touching.
11:01 - The stream is live!
I got my coffee, I put all my minerals on Jinro today, a total of 138 minerals will make 355 minerals richer if I get it right.
10:40 - Good morning GosuGamers!
I am so tired right now, and I will have to go make some coffee.
We have MarineKing (that is FoxeR) up against MC, and choya vs Jinro (!!) today, both PvTs.
Get pumped!
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Many of you know what it’s like to suffer without understanding. In 2015, no one should have to go without a diagnosis for any amount of time, but it happens so often, and it breaks my heart.
Your money will help VEDA continue to expand their reach and prevent the unnecessary suffering of others.
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Holocaust survivor, psychologist, and author, Viktor Frankl, once wrote, “In some ways, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds meaning.” He wrote this as a reflection of his years spent in concentration camps at the hands of the Nazis. It is one my favorite quotes and boldly illustrates the transformational power of finding meaning in your life.
Helping others can be a powerful force for healing. When you externalize your focus to the suffering around you, you give your pain a reason to exist. You can transcend the pain by making a difference.
If you have the time, I encourage you to get involved with VEDA as a volunteer as well. It’s inspiring and meaningful work.
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's another star fantasy option beyond Adrian Peterson. Read more.
New England Patriots: It's always risky to count on a Patriots running back in fantasy, but if Dion Lewis stays healthy, he should put up decent numbers, including going above expectations for yards and receptions. Read more.
New Orleans Saints: Mark Ingram has earned the Saints' trust and is their clear-cut No. 1 back, which makes him a great option in fantasy, despite his injury history. Read more.
New York Giants: New York's backfield might remain a muddled fantasy mess again in 2016, as the Giants played ring-around-a-running-back for the first 13 weeks of the previous season. Veterans Rashad Jennings and Shane Vereen are the heavy favorites to earn the most significant time, but there are several wild cards in waiting. Read more.
New York Jets: Matt Forte should be healthy by the season opener, but he won't be an every-down player. How does that affect his fantasy value? Read more.
Oakland Raiders: Although Latavius Murray rushed for 1,066 yards last season, he is barely ranked as a top-20 fantasy running back. Say what? Read more.
Pittsburgh Steelers: DeAngelo Williams can ably fill in for Le'Veon Bell if needed, but might the Steelers surprise us by keeping both on the field for extended periods? Read more.
Philadelphia Eagles: Coach Doug Pederson's focus on the run -- especially given the lack of big-play weapons at wide receiver -- should give Ryan Mathews and Darren Sproles plenty of opportunities to put points on the board for the Eagles. Read more.
San Diego Chargers: Chargers tailback Melvin Gordon didn't score a touchdown as a rookie, but Ken Whisenhunt's scheme should boost Gordon's production in his second season. Read more.
San Francisco 49ers: It's a good thing Carlos Hyde returned to training camp leaning and with a goal of 1,500 yards, as he'll need it in coach Chip Kelly's consistent ground game attack. Read more.
Seattle Seahawks: Although fantasy owners can't turn to Beastmode this season, Thomas Rawls has returned from a season-ending ankle injury and should exceed ESPN's fantasy projections. Read more.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: The Buccaneers have two strong running backs in Doug Martin and Charles Sims. It seems safe to bet Martin will have another 1,000-yard season. Read more.
Tennessee Titans: Tennessee's preseason opener, in which DeMarco Murray and Derrick Henry combined for 167 rushing yards and two touchdowns, made it seem that things are moving in a good direction for both the Titans and fantasy owners of both players. Read more.
Washington Redskins: The Redskins' offense has a lot of talent in the passing game, which could limit Matt Jones' opportunities. Can Jones exceed ESPN's fantasy projection of 936.7 rushing yards and 5.2 rushing touchdowns? Read more. | 1,268,322 |
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Curfew, shutdown paralyzes life in Indian-controlled Kashmir
Life across Muslim majority areas of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday remained affected for the second straight day in wake of curfew imposed by the authorities to prevent protests over killing of four civilians and alleged desecration of holy Quran (Islam's holy book) at the hands of Indian border guards.
Four civilians were killed and 44 others wounded after Indian border guards on Thursday fired at civilians in village Dadam, Gole of district Ramban, around 155 km south of Srinagar.
The restrictions were imposed by hundreds of India's paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and policemen deployed in the localities in full riot-gears. These men blocked roads by placing barricades and coils of concertina wire to restrict movement of people and vehicles.
The region's separatistd on Thursday called for a three-day shutdown ending on Sunday.
Shops, banks, schools and most government offices remained closed in wake of restrictions and shutdown.
Anti-India sentiment runs deep in the psyche of Kashmiris. Separatists in Indian-controlled Kashmir have been demanding end of New Delhi's rule in the region.
According to officials restrictions will remain in force until Sunday.
"Whether curfew would be imposed or not is a secondary question, but one thing is clear that restrictions on the movement of people would be there for at least three days (until Sunday) when the strike would be over," a Srinagar based news gathering agency quoting Director General of Police Ashok Prasad as saying.
A police spokesman on Saturday said the situation was under control and police was exercising maximum restrain while dealing with protesters.
"The night passed off peaceful and situation throughout valley is peaceful at this hour," the spokesman said. "The deployments of police and CRPF are exercising maximum restraint."
The spokesman said 59 people were injured in clashes on Friday at different places."The injured included 49 police and CRPF personnel and 10 civilians," the spokesman said. "All the injured are stable."
The authorities have also suspended the annual Hindu pilgrimage to Amarnath for a second day in the wake of the prevailing tension.
The local government and Indian Home Ministry have ordered inquiries into killing of civilians in BSF firing.
Pakistan has expressed its"deep concern"over the killings in Indian-controlled Kashmir and called for a thorough and proper investigation to be carried out expeditiously.
"Such acts incite violence and hurt the sentiments of Muslims not only in Pakistan but all over the world," read the statement issued by the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan. "We have noted the comments of the Indian leadership to carry out an investigation into the incident."
Kashmir, the Himalayan region divided between India and Pakistan, is claimed by both in full. Since their Independence from Britain, the two countries have fought three wars, two exclusively over Kashmir.
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Mara Wilson attends the The 9th Annual Shorty Awards on April 23, 2017 in New York City. (Getty Images)
Mara Wilson attends the The 9th Annual Shorty Awards on April 23, 2017 in New York City. (Getty Images) Source: Getty Images
"A lot of [bisexual] people are villains, they’re evil or they’re super sexy and I’m just sitting here drinking tea and just trying to get my cats to come over."
Actor Mara Wilson was recently featured as a guest on the podcast My Dad Wrote a Porno, where she spoke about being fed up with the way bisexual characters are portrayed on TV and in films.
Wilson chatted with hosts James Cooper, Alice Levine and Jamie Morton in a ‘Footnotes’ episode of the podcast—where they discuss the latest chapter of Belinda Blinks—the erotic fiction series written by Morton’s father, Rocky Flintstone.
After talking about common misconceptions about people who identify as bisexual, she said: “I have been arguing that we need more boring bisexual representation.”
“Because a lot of [bisexual] people are villains, they’re evil or they’re super sexy and I’m just sitting here drinking tea and just trying to get my cats to come over,” she said.
RECOMMENDED 'Matilda' star Mara Wilson opens up about sexuality after Orlando shooting “Let me put it this way: I’m a 2," said Wilson, referring to the Kinsey scale.
Wilson said that being bisexual does not mean that she finds “everybody attractive”.
“For some people, they find more people attractive but I’m still picky so it just means there’s more than one gender that I’m bad at dating.”
Wilson—who made a cameo appearance in Broad City last year—said she made a connection recently about some of her acting peers as a child.
“I realised that all of the actresses that I went out on parts with—people like Kristin Stewart, Alia Shawkat and Evan Rachel Wood—all of us went out for each other’s parts and we all looked different but I looked back and was like, we all ended up being either gay or bisexual.
“Casting directors know what they’re doing!”
RECOMMENDED Actress Evan Rachel Wood talks bi-erasure, myths, and mental health in new video for Pride month "Being bisexual's not a big deal, but the journey to get there should not be discredited," says Evan Rachel Wood.
Mara Wilson opened up about her sexuality last year following the Orlando massacre, saying that while she used to identify as straight but has "been embracing "the Bi/Queer label lately".
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night on the piss and we’d dissolve in laughter. “Tanya’s doing GREATTTTT” we’d say dramatically. It was funny because it was also ironic – I am doing great, great just looks a little different for all of us. Maybe in the last five years since we’d seen each other most of our friends had gotten married, had kids, bought a house, and created a secure life for themselves. They live in stability, always knowing that the bills will be paid and there is unlikely to be a point in time they eat ramen and PB & J sandwiches for a two week spell because they have to. Someday I’ll figure it out – or maybe not and that’s okay too. I measure my success by how I feel inside myself and not by what I do or do not have. However, as you can tell by the theme of my blog as of late – I wouldn’t hate having someone to share some of life with.
2017 has been a human trash fire when it comes to my dating life. Prior to this year I thought the worst way to get dumped was in public at an Indian food restaurant over Vegetable Pakora. Who would have known how terribly wrong I was. I was broken up with on my birthday, then suffered another heartache nearly a month after that. Believe it or not the worst thing about polyamory isn’t jealousy with multiple partners, but the ability to get dumped multiple times. Also, you’re welcome and there you have it. I figured coming out as a lesbian just wasn’t enough so I should be polyamorous too. If you are a person in my real life, this isn’t a surprise – I never hid it, and I’m not embarrassed to talk about it. If you just follow me virtually this may be news to you, and because I live in Utah you probably want to know how many wives I plan on taking. Please don’t confuse polygamy and polyamory – I promise I’ll blog about my experiences someday and give a little bit more insight, but alas today is not that day.
Needless to say it’s understandable why I took myself off the market, and had a nearly half-year hiatus from the dating world. 2017 gave my confidence a spanking and while I’ve mostly built that back up – I find myself left having little to no game with girls. I haven’t lost hope though, the universe is vast and somewhere out there I’m certain there’s someone (or someone’s) as weird as me who wants to love me and finds my idiosyncrasies endearing. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go get ready for my first date with the girl I sent my ‘Home Alone 2’ picture to because, yeah, she still wants to hang out by some grace of Gaia. Wish me luck! | 1,268,326 |
Fox has cancelled Will Forte's Last Man on Earth after four seasons. Sadly, it means that the cliffhanger finale will remain unsolved, reports TVLine.
"To our @lastmanfox family..it’s been an amazing 4yrs, thank you for all the hard work, we love you and will miss seeing you every day! And thank you to our fans who loved and laughed at these ridiculous and lovably flawed characters. @orviv your brain is a national (global?), treasure," star January Jones wrote on Instagram to confirm the sad news.
Forte thanked fans for their support before the season finale — which turned out to be the series finale — aired.
"Greetings from Ireland! It is with great affection that I invite you to watch the season finale of #LastManOnEarth. And if this turns out to be the end of the road, I can’t tell you how much we’ve appreciated your support over the years. Fingers crossed for season 5. Love, Will," the Saturday Night Live alum tweeted.
Greetings from Ireland! It is with great affection that I invite you to watch the season finale of #LastManOnEarth. And if this turns out to be the end of the road, I can’t tell you how much we’ve appreciated your support over the years. Fingers crossed for season 5. Love, Will pic.twitter.com/ZDflYiWjCs — Will Forte (@OrvilleIV) May 6, 2018
The Hollywood Reporter's Lesley Goldberg reports that Hulu might be in talks to continue the series.
Hearing talks with Hulu *MAY* already be happening… https://t.co/4h88IL4PFa — Lesley Goldberg (@Snoodit) May 10, 2018
The Last Man on Earth was created by Forte, who also starred as Phil Miller, a man convinced he was the last man on earth after most of the population is wiped out. As the show develops, he quickly learns he is not, much to his chagrin. Kristen Schaal, Jones, Mel Rodriguez, Mary Steenburgen and Cleopatra Coleman.
The show was never a ratings hit, but earned five Emmy nominations during its run, including two for Forte's performance. Forte was also nominated for writing the pilot.
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the team behind The LEGO Movie and the 21 Jump Street movies, were also producers on the show. They earned an Emmy nomination for directing the pilot.
According to TV Series Finale, the fourth season of Last Man averaged just 1.95 million viewers and a 0.79 18-49 rating. Both were down from the previous season.
Last Man was part of a bloodbath at Fox on Thursday. The Mick and Brooklyn Nine-Nine were also cancelled. New Girl is also ending its seven-season run this year.
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as a “sandbox” to prevent externally-supplied window properties from being read within the content script. To further mitigate RCE, we put in place restrictions on the types of attachments that the extension can launch and limited the available extension APIs.
We worked directly with Google’s Project Zero to verify that our fixes were comprehensive. Once the fix was ready for all affected extensions, we were able to have them reviewed by all stores and pushed to users very quickly. We want to thank our partners at Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera, Yandex and others who fast-tracked our extension review and release.
Looking ahead
We strongly urge other extension developers to look for this pattern in their code and ensure they are not vulnerable.
We’re in the business of password management; security is and always will be our top priority. We greatly appreciate the work of the security community who challenges our product and works with our teams to ensure we’re delivering a secure service for our users. As a market leader, we get the best of the best testing LastPass and in return our software and our customers benefit.
In an effort to maintain the highest level of security, we will continue to partner with white-hat security researchers and provide incentives to participate in our bug bounty program (https://bugcrowd.com/lastpass). Stay tuned for more to come on this.
Thank you,
The LastPass Team
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March 27, 2017 (7:10 PM)
Over the weekend, Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy reported a new client-side vulnerability in the LastPass browser extension. We are now actively addressing the vulnerability. This attack is unique and highly sophisticated. We don’t want to disclose anything specific about the vulnerability or our fix that could reveal anything to less sophisticated but nefarious parties. So you can expect a more detailed post mortem once this work is complete.
In the meantime, we want to thank people like Tavis who help us raise the bar for online security with LastPass, and work with our teams to continue to make LastPass the most secure password manager on the market. And we want to offer our users with a few steps they can take to further protect themselves from these types of client-side issues.
Use the LastPass Vault as a launch pad – Launch sites directly from the LastPass vault. This is the safest way to access your credentials and sites until this vulnerability is resolved. Two-Factor Authentication on any service that offers it – Whenever possible, turn on two-factor authentication with your accounts; many websites now offer this option for added security. Beware of Phishing Attacks – Always be vigilant to avoid phishing attempts. Do not click on links from people you don’t know, or that seem out of character from your trusted contacts and companies. Take a look at our phishing primer.
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Criminal charges have been dropped against two people accused of assaulting a man outside an Oregon bar for wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, prosecutors said.
A grand jury in Multnomah County on Thursday declined to indict Adebisi Okuneye, 23, and Leopold Hauser, 22, in the Aug. 24 dust-up at Growler’s Taproom in Portland, where police arrested them after another man at the bar, Luke Lenzner, 34, told cops he was attacked over his hat in support of President Trump, The Oregonian reports.
Lenzner told police Okuneye “got in his face” shortly after he arrived at the bar while on a date with his wife, prompting him to push Okuneye to create distance between the two. Hauser then punched Lenzner in the face, court documents show.
But Okuneye told police that Lenzner was the instigator in the altercation, pointing to his hat as he left the bar just prior to the fight and shouting an expletive at the woman.
“B—-, do you like my hat?” Lenzner told the woman, she told cops.
Hauser and Okuneye, who also punched Lenzner, his wife told police, then hopped into a van and drove off. They were later arrested on third-degree assault charges.
Lenzner’s wife also told police she encouraged her husband to wear the hat to see what kind of reaction it would generate in Portland, according to a probable cause affidavit. Lenzner said the city’s “radical” left-leaning political ideology was to blame for the charges being dropped against Okuneye and Hauser.
“I know who hit me, who assaulted me,” Lenzner told The Oregonian. “In any other city, they would have been indicted.”
The Multnomah County District Attorney’s office, meanwhile, said the office does not prosecute people “based on their ideologies or affiliations” with political or non-political organizations.
“The District Attorney’s Office will initiate a criminal case following a review of all available evidence and whenever legally and ethically appropriate, pursuant to state law,” a spokesman told KATU in a statement.
But Lenzner’s version of events was thrown into question after video surfaced showing him clashing with customers at another bar hours before the assault. Lenzner had also claimed that he was a veteran, which he later confessed wasn’t true, The Oregonian reports.
And while Lenzner still wears his “Make America Great Again” hat in his neighborhood, he has stopped wearing the cap in bars in Portland, he said.
“It’s just one more reason to move out of this state,” he told the newspaper. | 1,268,329 |
Miss England finalist 'had wine glass smashed in face' Published duration 11 March
image copyright PA Media image caption China Gold is accused of wounding model Olivia Cooke with a wine glass
A woman smashed a wine glass into a Miss England finalist's face during a row at a bar, causing "horrific" injuries, a court has heard.
China Gold, 27, is accused of grabbing Olivia Cooke, 21, by the throat before striking her twice, leaving shards of glass embedded in her foreheard.
Maidstone Crown Court heard professional golfer Ms Cooke needed facial stitches after the row at the Farm House pub in West Malling, Kent.
Ms Gold denies unlawful wounding.
The court heard both women were part of a group which met at the pub on 19 October 2018.
'Stick up for myself'
Giving evidence on Tuesday, Ms Cooke said the last orders bell had just sounded when Ms Gold made a "crude comment".
She said the defendant started "coming at me verbally, just calling me a slag and a slut and all this, and I am definitely not.
"I just tried to stick up for myself at that point. It all got a bit too much," she said.
image copyright Miss England image caption Olivia Cooke said that she was attacked by China Gold in a West Malling pub
She told the court Ms Gold had followed her outside the pub and, "out of nowhere", grabbed her by the throat.
In the ensuing struggle, Ms Cooke, said, Ms Gold had struck her twice: "One to break the glass and the second one to cause injury."
Prosecutor Emin Kandola said that it was not in dispute that Ms Gold had caused the injuries to Ms Cooke, but that the defendant says she was acting in lawful self-defence.
The court has heard Ms Gold, of London Road, Ditton, is not a violent person, and that Ms Cooke started the fight by throwing a glass at her.
Cross-examining Ms Cooke, defence barrister Robin Griffiths suggested she had confronted Ms Gold after the defendant had tried to walk away.
"You weren't prepared to let it go, you went after her," he said.
"I did not," Ms Cooke said.
image copyright Google image caption The incident happened at the Farm House pub in West Malling
The jury was told Ms Cooke's mother, Julie, has pleaded guilty to assaulting Ms Gold occasioning actual bodily harm in separate proceedings.
Jurors were also told that Ms Cooke faces a charge of assault against Ms Gold in relation to throwing a glass at her in separate proceedings.
Witness Lacey Custance, a mutual friend of both women, told jurors Ms Gold did not want to engage in an argument and Ms Cooke had pursued her.
Ms Custance said she had seen Ms Cooke throw a wine glass at Ms Gold.
The trial continues. | 1,268,330 |
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Hillary Clinton called the wealth taxes proposed by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren „unworkable“ and said they would be „incredibly disruptive“ if enforced.
„I don’t see other examples anywhere else in the world where it has actually worked over a long period of time,“ Clinton said.
Clinton did say she’s „all in favor“ of reinstating the estate tax, which Republican lawmakers all but eliminated in their 2017 tax law.
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Hillary Clinton called the wealth taxes proposed by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren „unworkable“ and said they would be „incredibly disruptive“ if enforced.
Warren has proposed an „ultra-millionaire tax“ of 2% on American households‘ net worth between $50 million and $1 billion and of 3% on households‘ net worth above $1 billion. Sanders supports a similar version that begins with a 1% tax on wealth over $32 million.
„I just don’t understand how that could work, and I don’t see other examples anywhere else in the world where it has actually worked over a long period of time,“ Clinton said at The New York Times‘ DealBook conference on Wednesday.
Clinton argued that it would be difficult to fairly evaluate Americans‘ net worth and would force many people to sell their assets to pay the taxes, since the superrich often hold their value in assets like stocks.
„If you were going to do a wealth tax and it was on assets … how you would value it is, I think, complicated to start with,“ she said. „But assume you can get some system of evaluation, people would literally have to sell assets to pay the tax on the assets that they owned before the wealth tax was levied. That would be incredibly disruptive, so I think there are other ways to raise the revenues.“
Clinton said she’s „all in favor“ of reinstating the estate tax, which Republican lawmakers all but eliminated in their 2017 tax law. Fewer than 2,000 Americans are expected to owe an estate tax this year.
Both Warren and Sanders support an estate tax in addition to their wealth taxes.
Over the past year, prominent voices on the left have pushed tax hikes on the wealthy and demanded that billionaires and corporations stay out of politics. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York has made headlines by arguing that it’s „immoral“ for billionaires to exist in a society with widespread poverty. The freshman congresswoman last year endorsed raising marginal tax rates on those who make over $10 million.
The proposals have ignited a heated conversation over taxation and inequality that will most likely keep economic populism at the center of the 2020 Democratic primary. | 1,268,331 |
More than 50 people have reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that their Pacificas suddenly lost power
A U.S. safety advocacy group is demanding the recall of Windsor-made 2017 Chrysler Pacificas after reports of some vehicles stalling without warning.
The Center for Auto Safety said more than 50 people have reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that their Pacificas suddenly lost power. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said Monday it is not aware of any accidents or injuries associated with the complaints.
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The safety group and a Pacifica owner from Virginia have filed a petition with the NHTSA to investigate potential problems with the vehicle.
Reports to the NHTSA, a U.S. government agency which does not verify the online complaints it receives, have included drivers being unable to accelerate, decelerate or use power steering.
“Stalling is a dangerous defect, and has repeatedly led to tragedy,” Jason Levine, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, wrote in a statement on the group’s website. “The danger goes beyond what happens to families in the stalled minivan during the loss of power, as drivers of disabled vehicles are often hit and killed by other cars after they have pulled over to the side of the road. Chrysler needs to recall these vehicles, provide alternatives for owners in the meantime, and figure out how to fix the problem.”
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FCA has sold more than 150,000 Pacificas in the U.S. and 7,100 in Canada.
The Center for Auto Safety said that according to consumer complaints to NHTSA, the vehicles have lost power at various speeds and while idling. The reports state that some vehicles were new when they lost power, others had thousands of miles on them. A spokeswoman for NHTSA did not respond Monday to a request for comment.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles U.S. said in a statement Monday that the company takes “seriously all concerns raised by its customers.”
The company said it routinely monitors vehicle performance using information from multiple data streams, and is in constant communication with NHTSA.
“Further, in most of the complaints of which we are aware, customers were able to restart their vehicles immediately thereafter, and the condition did not reoccur,” the company said.
The company in June voluntarily recalled nearly 1,700 Pacifica hybrids it had sold in Canada and the United States and halted production of that vehicle at the Windsor assembly plant for a short period of time. At that time, customers reported the vehicles would unexpectedly lose power and stop dead in their tracks. The company said it had pinpointed a problem with “certain diodes” that could “cause propulsion loss.” | 1,268,332 |
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le'Veon Bell and safety Mike Mitchell had tweeted before their divisional-round game against the Jacksonville Jaguars that they were looking forward to a rematch with the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship Game.
That got a rise out of the Jaguars -- who won 45-42 -- and led to the following question to Patriots safety Duron Harmon during his weekly interview on WBZ-TV's "Sports Final" program on Sunday night: Could you imagine a Patriots player tweeting about a potential future matchup like that?
Harmon, one of the Patriots' captains, didn't hesitate.
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"I don't think anybody in their right mind would do that on our team, just because throughout our team we talk about how important each game is, not looking ahead, putting everything you have into one week, having a one-week season," Harmon told host Steve Burton.
"When you start looking ahead and start talking about 'You want to face this team in the AFC championship,' not only are you not focused on that game, but you're not showing the respect to the opponent you're facing. Every NFL team that is playing in the playoffs right now is a good team. They beat good teams to get there. They won more games than they lost. So the last thing you should be doing is not giving them the utmost respect and all your attention.
"I think [Sunday] was a show of when you don't respect the opponent all the time and give them the utmost respect and all the attention they need that week, you can let one slip."
Harmon detailed why the Jaguars warrant such respect.
"They're super tough up front. They can run the football. They beat the Steelers twice.... I think they're a top-2 team in the AFC, that's why they are here right now. They are the best team that we're going to play all year so far," he said on the program.
"So we know we're going to have our hands full. They just continue to keep winning games. Their defense is crucial for them. But I mean, [quarterback] Blake Bortles made play after play [Sunday]. He kept a lot of drives going with his feet, with his arm, threw a couple play-action shots. He played well for them." | 1,268,333 |
Four Duval County teachers are $15,000 richer today after being honored for achievements in the classroom.
The winners of the 2016 Gladys Prior Awards for Career Teaching were visited in their classrooms Monday and Tuesday with a contingent of University of North Florida educators congratulating them on behalf of Gilchrist Berg, a Jacksonville area businessman who created and funds the awards.
Slideshow: 2016 Gladys Prior Awards
Susan Harper, a kindergarten teacher at Tiger Academy; Scott Sowell, a science teacher at Darnell-Cookman Middle/High School; Judy Reppert, a social studies and civics teacher at Martin J. Gottlieb Day School; and Mark McGiveron, a math teacher at Fletcher Middle School each won cash awards, which honor accomplished teachers who have had long careers.
Berg, founder and president of Water Street Capital, established the award in 1998, naming it after his fourth-grade teacher at Ortega Elementary, to reward teachers with lifelong commitments to education. So far 76 teachers in public and private schools in Duval County have won.
UNF's College of Education and Human Services manages the gift and the award competition each year.
An educator for more than 40 years, Susan Harper teaches kindergarten at Tiger Academy, a charter school, after a lengthy career in Duval County Public Schools. Principal Charles McWhite said Harper helps her children develop stellar speaking and listening skills. He said many teachers regularly visit her classroom to gain ideas for their classrooms. Students hugged Harper when the award was announced and some asked if her tears were happy or sad tears.
Scott Sowell, a science teacher at Darnell-Cookman, noted that as a student he was taught by two inspiring teachers who also had won Gladys Prior awards. Sowell was Duval County's Teacher of the Year in 2012. Kaitlyn Rullo, a former student who now studies coastal environmental science, credited Sowell for changing her life.
"I found a passion in the environment that I never expected, and it was all due to Dr. Sowell, as he would teach every day with such joy and contentment," she wrote in her letter.
Judy Reppert has taught more than 40 years including this year's middle school position at Martin J. Gottlieb Day School.
"Students return year after year to visit and talk with her," said Edith Horovitz, vice principal.
Crowds of students regularly gather before school at the classroom door of Mark McGiveron, a math teacher at Fletcher Middle. They're members of Fletcher Middle School's Math Team, which won a number of local, regional and state math competitions, earning the school National Gold Level School Status with the MathCounts Foundation. In addition to leading the team, McGiveron also holds the record in Duval County public schools for the highest number of students passing the end-of-course exam in geometry.
Denise Amos: (904) 359-4083 | 1,268,334 |
Image copyright Reuters Image caption President Trump spoke to a prank comedian while on board Air Force One
US President Donald Trump was fooled by a comedian into taking a prank call while on board Air Force One.
Comedian John Melendez posed as Senator Bob Menendez. He says he spoke to the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner and received a call back from Mr Trump.
Mr Melendez said he claimed to be Senator Menendez and a fake assistant.
"Sometimes the [President's] channels are open too widely and mistakes like this happen," a White House official told CNN.
Senator Menendez is a Democratic senator from New Jersey and a long-time campaigner for immigration reform.
The US government has come under fire in recent weeks over its policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the border with Mexico.
Mr Melendez, who goes by the stage name Stuttering John, recorded his conversations with the US president and uploaded on his podcast.
On the recording, the voice that is purportedly Mr Trump congratulates Mr Menendez for his 2017 acquittal in a bribery case.
He was accused of accepting gifts from a Florida eye doctor in exchange for political influence.
The two voices on Mr Melendez's podcast recording also talked about the Supreme Court vacancy following Anthony Kennedy's decision to step down next month.
The voice said to be Mr Trump says he will nominate a new judge to the Supreme Court in "10 to 14 days".
When the White House made inquiries with Mr Menendez's office about the conversation Mr Trump thought he had with him on Thursday, the senator's staff were befuddled, US media report.
The prank caller said that his plan could have easily gone wrong.
"All they had to ask me is what party affiliation is Senator Menendez, or what state is he a senator of, and I would not have known. But they didn't ask me any of this," Mr Melendez told CNN.
Expect the unexpected
Tara McKelvey, White House reporter
The prank call to the president made people laugh, and showed again the ramshackle nature of the Trump White House. I was flying with the president on Air Force One the night he took the call from Melendez, and I'm not surprised he got through.
The fact that Mr Menendez was able to circumvent the president's aides makes sense, since they often don't know who he's planning to speak to. This president will see someone at a moment's notice, throwing his aides off guard.
His unpredictable nature makes his days lively, but it also exposes him to risk and embarrassment. He seems to runs the White House like a reality show. Sometimes events come together, sometimes they don't.
Speaking to a prankster was one that didn't turn out so well. But people will forget: soon he'll do something else unexpected, and they'll be talking about that.
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private again. He couldn’t keep his promise to the people, so he does what he’s gotta do — my hat’s off.
Children will grow up without privacy
No one can predict the future. I can’t. You can’t. Experts can’t either. But if you connect all the dots, you can make a general prediction of where the future is going, and how blatant is the benefit companies and governments get out of this, while the general public, us, get all the downside.
The worst thing of all? Children won’t know what privacy means. I think about my niece, and the way she’ll perceive the world. I’m afraid that we could fail as species and leave them this legacy of surveillance capitalism.
Privacy inequality will take everything to the edges. Some kids will be lucky and might be able to afford privacy protection. Maybe that will be paying for products that watch their privacy or a kind of antivirus, who knows. But other kids won’t be able to pay for it and will choose the “free” option — others just won’t understand their value as human beings and will pick the free version, because it’s a bargain, right?
Alas, they will grow up with inequalities worse that the one I had at school, or any other you have had in your entire life.
We seem to forget that for decades we’ve been fighting for freedom and equality. Now we’re throwing it all away, and for what, free dumbass apps?
Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower, said in an interview:
“A child born today, will grow up with no conceptional privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves, an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. That’s a problem, because privacy matters. Privacy is what allows us to determine who we are, and who we want to be.”
The good news is that Hollywood movies, most of the times, have a happy ending where a group of radicals decide to shut down the system and revoke that inequality altogether. The bad news, though, is that this is real life and happy endings don’t come by themselves. We’ve got to make them happen.
Alice Walker once said:
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
We’ve got more power than we think. We’ve always had. Now it’s time to realize that and make the change we need and create the ending that we want. Maybe we can turn things around after all.
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Bond Girls Are Forever
Yes, this gorgeous redhead is celebrating her birthday today, and she's a star that I've long wanted to draw. For me, Jill St. John is one of several actresses that I personally consider very representative of the fun, breezy films of the 1960s that I love. It doesn't hurt that she costarred with Frank Sinatra in a couple of them:and, the latter of which I consider one of Sinatra's more satisfying films, with Frank getting to play a jaded private detective.I watchedagain the other night, with the idea initially of basing my caricature of Jill on her role in the film as the sultry divorcee trying to seduce detective Rome, but having to wait patiently as he keeps on heading out the door to solve his case. I love the whole look of this film, as it feels like all of the characters just stepped out of a pulp crime paperback cover painted by Robert McGinnis. Ultimately, though, I turned to another film that probably has Jill St. John in her most famous role, that of Tiffany Case in the James Bond entry, This was the Bond film that Sean Connery was lured back to for one last go at it in 1971. He'd famously already quit the role after appearing in, allowing George Lazenby to play 007 in what turned out to be his one outing in. Connery agreed to come back once more after the studio met his (then) sky high salary demands. Anyway,may be the Bond film that I've seen most often, and it's because I really like his leading lady, Jill St. John. With her high cheekbones, sultry purr of a voice, and that mop of rich red hair piled up high, I just think Jill is pretty hot stuff! She looks particularly striking in the fashionable bikini getup that she appears in during the exciting climax of the film.A few years ago, there was a documentary called, written and hosted by Maryam d'Abo, a former Bond Girl herself. It was interesting to see the reactions of the various actresses who had appeared in the films throughout the series' long history, when asked how they felt about being a "Bond Girl". Some of the younger actresses from the more recent entries seemed to have mixed feelings, as if they weren't sure whether it helped their careers or not and whether portraying a Bond Girl was giving into sexism. But it seemed to me that both Ursula Andress and Jill St. John had the healthiest attitudes about their roles, seeing their characters as harmless fun that have entertained Bond film fans, both male and female, for many years. Anyway, I sure am grateful for Jill St. John's role as jewel smuggler, Tiffany Case, and I wish her the very best on this, her special day! | 1,268,337 |
the capital of a future state.
“It’s clearly in Jerusalem,” Spicer said when asked about the status of the wall. “It will be a topic that’s going to be discussed during the president’s trip between the parties that he meets with.”
The slip-up on intelligence cast a new shadow on the trip. In Israel, where the news broke late in the evening, supporters of Netanyahu expressed dismay at what they saw as dual slights.
“He sells our secrets. He shames our holy sites. He insults our prime minister. He doesn’t recognize our Western Wall. Saying this trip started on the wrong foot is an understatement,” a leading reporter from the conservative Makor Rishon newspaper tweeted.
Lahav Harkov, a Jerusalem Post reporter, said that a government source had speculated to her about canceling the trip. While it’s all but certain the trip won’t be canceled — McMaster on Tuesday laid out new details of Trump’s Israel visit — the fact that officials would speak in such terms illustrated the extent of their dismay.
There was also concern that the leak could put a damper on Israel’s fragile relationship with Russia.
Israel and Russia coordinate militarily in Syria to avoid accidental clashes. But there were concerns that information Trump gave to Moscow could end up in the hands of Iran, Israel’s chief adversary in the region.
The intelligence revelations also heightened the sense of dismay with the administration on Capitol Hill.
Sen. John McCain John Sidney McCainThe electoral reality that the media ignores Kelly's lead widens to 10 points in Arizona Senate race: poll COVID response shows a way forward on private gun sale checks MORE (R-Ariz.) said Trump’s alleged disclosures are “deeply disturbing,” becoming the latest GOP lawmaker to raise concerns over the meeting.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer Chuck SchumerMcConnell accuses Democrats of sowing division by 'downplaying progress' on election security Warren, Schumer introduce plan for next president to cancel,000 in student debt Schumer lashes out at Trump over 'blue states' remark: 'What a disgrace' MORE (D-N.Y.) demanded that the White House hand over transcripts of the call, arguing that refusing to do so would only fuel doubts about whether Trump is capable of handing sensitive information.
Spicer, however, refused to say whether the White House would turn over the transcript.
“I haven’t seen anything,” the spokesman said, while quickly pivoting to decry leaks.
“The idea that someone who has been given access to information is pushing that information on to the media is — undermines our national security,” he said. “I don’t think there’s any other way to say it than it is, frankly, dangerous.”
Niv Elis contributed. | 1,268,338 |
乗ってみたい！
米GizmodoのChris Mills記者はずっと不思議だったようです。｢Train Simulator 2015なんて誰が買うの…？｣って。だってうららかな午後を過ごす方法として、事故の起きないバーチャルな重機を運転して何が楽しいのかわからないと。だがしかし！ YouTubeで運転を実体験しているかのようなハイテクシミュレーターで遊ぶ人の動画に出会い、その魅力が徐々にわかってきたみたい。
今回シミュレーターを試したのは、ユーチューバーのTom Scottさん。彼は、フィンランドでMeveaという、シミュレーターを開発している会社の製品に乗ってきました。しかも、彼はこのマシンでバーチャル世界を楽しむだけじゃなく、同じシチュエーションの現実世界を比べてみたんです。結果、シミュレーターはものすごくおもしろく、しかも想像通りかなりリアル。
Chris Mills記者いわく、最高の仕事だったのはBAE Systemの戦闘機シミュレーターに乗ったときだったらしいですが、これもなかなかのクオリティーのようです。そしてなんと言ってもバーチャル世界と実際の現実世界がどう違うのか、という面白味もありますね！
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Idrissa Gueye has opened up on his modest dreams as a young footballer, claiming he was thinking about having Adidas clothes rather than being a professional.
The midfielder has quickly established himself as one of Everton's most important players since his move from Aston Villa in the summer of 2016, already making 74 appearances and bagging four goals in his two terms at Goodison Park so far.
The 28-year-old is currently at the World Cup with Senegal, and his deflected effort helped his side to a 2-1 victory over Poland in their first match in the tournament - whilst he played the full 90 minutes in Sunday's 2-2 draw with Japan.
But speaking to French media Gueye has opened up on his time with Diambars, a football academy in Senegal, and how his modest roots have made him the player he is today.
“I was thirteen or fourteen years old. I participated in a series of trials and the last three days was spent in Dakar," Gueye told L'Equipe (via SportWitness ).
"I understood that those who were chosen had yellow and blue bibs. And as I was in red, I thought, ‘It’s dead.’ My luck? There was only one game left and two guys were fighting to be in the middle so I went right back. And Jimmy Adjovi-Boco, on the edge of the pitch, appreciated me. He called me to join the yellow and blue.
“I was so happy because I thought I was going to stop school (laughs). The dream was to have Adidas clothes, not necessarily to be a pro. We were not aware of what it was. Upon arrival, I was warned: ‘Everyone dresses the same, no mobile phone, no difference.’
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“Because some were richer than others. One of us was even a talibé, a beggar. He had never set foot in school, he started here at fourteen and has a good job in France today.
“There were four of us in a room, and in my room there were the youngest ones. We had rituals like weighing, sizes. Every week, it was the competition for the one who was growing the most, who was gaining the most weight. In the evening, you ate a lot and did not go to the bathroom.
“Diambars is a family. Everything that touches one touches the other. I spent more time there than with my own family, five years without stopping, alone at that age. We talked about our dreams in the evening, we imagined lives when we had nothing. When I see this journey again… It’s beautiful.” | 1,268,340 |
using chi-square tests, while mean differences in age and the symptom severity scales were assessed using one-way ANOVAs. Post-hoc tests were conducted using chi-square tests for categorical variables and t-tests for continuous variables. Logistic regression analyses and ANCOVAs were used with the categorical and continuous variables, respectively, to investigate whether the results differed after controlling for age. Participants with missing data were omitted from specific analyses where the missing values occurred. Analyses were performed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 17·0 for Windows [34], and the SAS-callable SUDAAN software package [35].
Discussion Does the Internet group differ in terms of demographic characteristics? The Internet group were of similar age and gender distribution to the national sample, more likely to be married and more likely to have higher qualifications, but as likely to be employed. Compared to the clinic sample, the Internet group were older, less likely to be male, less likely to be married but equally well educated and as likely to be employed. We conclude that the Internet group are largely representative of the wider population of those with anxiety and depression. Does the Internet group differ in terms of disorder severity? The national sample had the lowest distress and disability scores. The Internet group was less distressed but more disabled than the clinic group. People who apply for Internet treatment do not have mild variants of anxiety and depressive disorders. The Internet groups' panic, social phobia and generalized anxiety scores were comparable to the clinic group. We conclude that the Internet group have symptom severity scores comparable to those who seek face-to-face treatment. The data from the National Survey reflect people with anxiety and depression in the Australian population and the measures used are valid. Similar measures were also used in the two clinic groups, and validated clinical measures were used to determine illness severity. Limitations The number of participants was substantial but these findings require replication. The patients in the outpatient clinic reflect the catchment area from where they are drawn and samples from other clinics could have different demographic characteristics. The Internet clinic sample represent the people who applied for treatment during the first two years that the clinic operated. They may not prove to be representative of people who apply for Internet therapy. Conclusions Applicants to an Internet clinic were similar in age, gender and employment status to those identified by a national epidemiological survey as meeting diagnostic criteria for anxiety or depressive disorders in the Australian community. The severity of distress, disability and disorder symptoms of the Internet sample was greater than that of the national sample but was similar to people attending a specialist outpatient treatment facility. These data have implications for policy makers and funding bodies. People seeking online treatment have substantial disorders and are not necessarily young and technologically sophisticated. They may represent a population who are mature, have a long history of illness experience, are motivated to seek and participate in treatment, but have had difficulty accessing traditional outpatient clinics.
Author Contributions Conceived and designed the experiments: NT. Analyzed the data: NT AK. Wrote the paper: NT GA AK ER. | 1,268,341 |
Arizona Congressman Trent Franks has announced his decision to resign from Congress, according to a statement he released Thursday on the matter.
Franks said he will leave his seat on Jan. 31, 2018 following complaints from two of his employees with whom he discussed the subject of becoming a surrogate for him and his wife, who he said had difficulty with fertility.
The House Ethics Committee had previously released a statement announcing an investigation into the congressman regarding possible sexual harassment.
"Pursuant to the Committee's action, the Investigation Subcommittee shall have jurisdiction to determine whether Representative Trent Franks engaged in conduct that constitutes sexual harassment and/or retaliation for opposing sexual harassment, in violation of House Rules, law, regulations, or other standards of conduct," the statement said.
In Franks' resignation letter said he "absolutely never physically intimidated, coerced, or had, or attempted to have, any sexual contact with any member of my congressional staff."
"However, I do want to take full and personal responsibility for the ways I have broached a topic that, unbeknownst to me until very recently, made certain individuals uncomfortable."
The congressman elaborated on his and his wife's difficulty with fertility and adoption through the years and wanted to have another child, in addition to their twins. He said because of his "familiarity and experience with the process" he "clearly became insensitive" about how discussing surrogacy "might affect others."
Franks said he learned of the committee's intention to open an inquiry into the matter and doesn't believe he'd have a fair investigation "before distorted and sensationalized versions of this story" brought criticism onto those involved.
"It is with the greatest sadness, that for the sake of the causes I deeply love, I must now step back from the battle I have spent over three decades fighting," he wrote.
Upon leaving the House floor on Thursday, Franks was consoled by fellow Republican members, including Reps. Louis Gohmert, R-Texas, Robert Aderholt, R-Ala., and Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.
Franks is currently serving his eighth term in Congress -- he was first elected in 2002.
The congressman serves on the Armed Services Committee and the Judiciary Committee and is also a member of the House Freedom Caucus.
He's known to be a staunch fiscal and social conservative with a pro-life stance on abortion. He sponsored House-passed legislation to make it a crime for any person to perform an abortion if the age of the fetus is 20 weeks or more.
Before being elected into Congress, Franks was a small business owner and later served in the Arizona Legislature, according to his website biography.
According to the page, Franks is a strong proponent for smaller government and "believes in personal responsibility, strong national defense, free enterprise, protecting the innocent, and in the timeless truths and principles of the United States Constitution."
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SpritesMods.com AVR-based FM-transmitter - Intro, theory
Intro, theory
I think I may have built an FM-transmitter with the least amount of general-purpose parts ever.
To see how I arrived at that conclusion, you'll have to know how the clock system of an ATTiny45 works. Just like almost every other AVR, this little 8-pin microcontroller has the possibility of generating an 8MHz clock signal using an built-in oscillator. This is quite handy when the AVR you're using has only a few pins; using the internal oscillator, you free the two pins you normally connect a crystal to.
The internal RC oscillator, however, has two major disadvantages. When used directly, the maximum clock limits the speed of the AVR: while most parts can run at 16 or 20 MHz, the fixed 8MHz clock means an AVR is only half as quick as its maximum speed, at most. The second problem is that the clock oscillator isn't precise: its speed can vary tens of percents between parts. Atmel solved these problems in the later parts, like the ATTiny45: First, they added a calibration register to tune the frequency of the RC-oscillator. They also pre-calibrated the RC-clock to 8MHz and stored the calibration value to reach that inside the AVR. The performance problem (and other problems, like slow PWM-speeds) they solved by adding a PLL to the AVR: this device takes the 8MHz from the RC-oscillator and multiplies it by eight, spitting out a 64MHz signal. This is then divided by 4, giving a nice 16MHz signal to run your AVR on.
With all that, the AVR (which has a maximum clock speed of 24MHz) can run on 16MHz from its internal clock. Sometimes, even the 16MHz is not enough, and some time ago, I found myself in a position where I could use that extra 4MHz. While browsing the datasheet, I found a way to do that: by writing the right value in the RC oscillator calibration register, you could make it run up to 50-100% quicker! So, I decided to take whatever was in the register, add 50% and use that as the new calibration value. All of a sudden, my AVR was running on a nice 24MHz.
Then I started thinking... if I overclock the AVR to 24MHz, the PLL runs at 4 times that frequency: 96MHz. Hmmm, that's smack dab in the middle of the FM radio band. FM means Frequency Modulation, which basically means the signal an FM-transmitter spits out is a carrier frequency, say 96MHz. That frequency is basically lowered and heightened a bit when the modulated audio signal is lower or higher. Hmm, using the calibration register, I should be able to do that...
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Syngenta, target of an unwanted $45 billion takeover approach by Monsanto, said its US suitor has failed to convince it of the merits of a merger and is just repeating the “same indequate price” with the same flawed view of the execution risks.
The only change in Monsanto’s proposal since the first offer tabled on April 18 is a “wholly inadequate” break fee of $2 billion, the Basel, Switzerland-based maker of agrochemicals and seeds said in a release.
Frustration is creeping into Syngenta’s demeanor, faced with the detrimental effect on business a prolonged pursuit may have and amid widespread expectations among investors of a higher offer.
Chief executive officer Mike Mack has trodden a careful path since the initial approach, acknowledging the need to do proper due diligence on Monsanto’s plan to create an agricultural-products powerhouse, while emphasizing the prospects the company has on its own.
“It’s not the end of the takeover saga,” said Markus Mayer, an analyst at Baader Bank, who has a “buy” rating on Syngenta.
“The second offer was not a big change - just a breakup fee. It shows that Monsanto is still interested.”
Monsanto is looking to jumpstart talks on combining its leading franchise for genetically modified seeds with the world’s largest maker of agricultural chemicals.
The break-up fee would be payable if Monsanto is unable to obtain global regulatory approvals by selling all overlapping businesses. Fruitless Meetings Syngenta rejected the 449 francs-a-share bid, with 45 per cent in cash, saying it undervalued the company and doesn’t sufficiently compensate for antitrust risks.
Syngenta would consider entering talks if Monsanto raises its offer and adds a multibillion-dollar termination fee in the ballpark of 10 per cent of the purchase price, people with knowledge of the situation said last week.
“The respective outside counsel of Syngenta and Monsanto met on three separate occasions, subsequent to our rejection letter, to discuss in good faith the regulatory challenges,” Syngenta said Monday.
“These meetings have reinforced Syngenta’s assessment of the regulatory risks and Monsanto has made no attempt to seriously address these concerns. Monsanto continues to gloss over these fundamental transaction risks.”
Baader’s Mayer said Monsanto will have to sweeten its bid to at least the 500-franc mark - the analyst’s target price - or change the equity or cash components of the deal. Monsanto, based in St. Louis, has pledged to sell Syngenta’s seed and genetically engineered traits as well as any overlapping crop chemicals to win regulatory approval.
Chemicals that would be sold include Syngenta’s glyphosate and acetochlor herbicides, a person with knowledge of the matter said last week.
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, the colonel replied, "Dear madam, it is very nice of you, but I am not hurt. If you saw me on horseback, you would think I had a pretty strong seat now."
Philip J. Roosevelt, cousin of the colonel, also interrupted him.
"Stop," begged the young man. "I will not stop," fired back the colonel, as he plunged into his attack on Wilson, LaFollette and the platforms of the two old parties.
The bitter arraignment of his antagonists continued for an hour, but toward the end, as the speaker grew weaker from loss of blood, his tone changed and he interpolated a new phrase into his parting sentence-an appeal to his hearers to join with him "in kindness, charity and generosity" to bring nearer the day when social and industrial justice shall be achieved in this great land of ours.
Then, having finished his speech, the colonel submitted to the entreaties of his friends and was taken from the hall.
At Mercy hospital Dr. Terrill, the colonel's personal physician, Dr. Joseph C. Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins university, and Dr. F. F. Sayles of Milwaukee, with four eminent Chicago surgeons, Drs. Arthur Bevan, John B. Murphy, L. L. McArthur and A. J. Ochsner, located the bullet.
The greatest danger was from blood poison, the surgeons agreed, because the bullet had been fired from a rusty revolver, and possibly had deposited infection as it plowed through the colonel's clothing, his thick bundled of manuscript of his Milwaukee speech, his spectacle case and into his body.
Practically all the way from Milwaukee, nearly two hours ride, the colonel slept in the stateroom of his car, attached to a regular train. His temperature was normal, but his pulse was 84. Normally it is 72.
Drs. Terrill and Bevan remained by his side during the trip which ended here at 3:30 a. m.
As the colonel was sleeping when the train reached Chicago, it was decided to allow him to sleep until daylight. His train was put on a quiet spur and he was allowed to sleep until 6 a. m.
When the colonel awoke, he and his cousin Philip J. Roosevelt, his secretary J. W. McGrath and the doctors were taken at once to Mercy hospital, leaving the station at 6:15. A more thorough examination was made than was permitted at Milwaukee, and the seriousness of Col. Roosevelt's condition became apparent.
The colonel insisted that his injury was not so dangerous as the doctors would have him believe. He said he was resting well, and that he did not have any fear of the injury proving fatal.
All of the hospital staff which could be spared from duty in other parts of the institution was put at the disposal of the colonel's physicians, and two of the most competent nurses in the hospital were assigned to his room. | 1,268,345 |
Aero India show: The five-day biennial air show will continue till February 24.
At the 12th edition of Air show "Aero India-2019" that begins today in Bengaluru, 61 "metal birds" are set to roar the skies over the Yelahanka Air Force station. The aero India show 2019 will showcase India's air defence prowess and will be the largest aero show in Asia. Sixty-one aircrafts would be on display and 403 exhibitors are participating in the aero India show this year. A round table of Chief Executive Officers, drone Olympics, startup manthan and celebration of women achievers will be some of the highlights of Aero India 2019.The five-day biennial air show will continue till February 24.
The air show begins a day after the death of a pilot of the aerobatic team Surya Kiran during a rehearsal. The team will not participate today. The aerobatic display will feature Hindustan Aeronautics Limited's indigenous Light Combat Aircraft Tejas.
Besides the Tejas, the HTT-40 (Basic Trainer Aircraft), first indigenously upgraded Hawk Mk132- named as Hawk-i, Civil Do-228, Advanced Light Helicopter (Rudra), Light Utility Helicopter (LUH), Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) are scheduled to fly in the air show.
Aerobatic teams like India's Sarang (ALH-Dhruv) and UK-based Yakovlevs are also expected to enthrall the audience.
On static display will be HAL's Light Utility Helicopter (PT-1), Light Combat Helicopter (TD-2), Advanced Light Helicopter (Rudra) and ALH MICU (Medical Intensive CareUnit).
The Sukhoi SU-30, Rafale, F-16 Fighting Falcon, F/A-18 Super Hornet and the mighty B-52 Stratofortress bomber will be part of the air show.
The aero India will also act as a platform for aviation companies, the defense sector and government to form new alliances and contracts.
Aero India 2019 tweeted the main attractions of Day 1:
A number of events are scheduled for today at #AeroIndia2019. The largest aero show in Asia will go live...here are main events for today. #AeroIndiaBegins@drajaykumar_ias@nsitharaman@DrSubhashMoS@IAF_MCCpic.twitter.com/KlfkFBk2G0 — Aero India 2019 (@AeroIndiashow) February 20, 2019
Aero India 2019 was marked by controversy with reports about it being shifted to Uttar Pradesh, which had taken a political colour, as the Congress-JD(S) led government in the state had hit out at the BJP-led Centre against the alleged move.
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option.”
Does his surgeon believe Brook should still be fighting? “He doesn’t tell me that. He says: ‘You’ve had two x-rays, the bones have healed and the plates are there so you’re good to go.’”
Brook must worry about his eyes? “You’re going to think about it,” he admits, before grinning. “But you’ve got to be not wired up right to be a fighter in the first place. Once the adrenaline kicks in I’m going to be in the moment and not thinking about it. I’ve sparred today and not thought about it.”
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Brook points to the bruising beneath his left eye. “I’m actually glad I’ve got this shiner because it’s the first time I’ve been hit in the area. The sparring partner hurt his hand – too much steel there – but it’s not affected me at all.”
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After Rabchanka, Brook hopes to win a second world title before fighting Amir Khan in a huge British fight. Was he hurt that his bitter rival had joined his promoter, Eddie Hearn? “A little. I thought: ‘Eddie, you’re supposed to be my boy.’ But I’m cool with it now. It’s actually a great move because we’ve had no success getting the fight before. Now we’re in the same team so Eddie’s going to be with him a lot, and with me a lot. It’s a big-money fight, we’re both the same age and it’s a no-brainer for the fans and ourselves. The fight’s got to happen.
“I’ll do everything in my power to beat Khan. It will cleanse things. I’m feeling great but I’m not going to be fighting for many more years. It’s the game you can legally get killed in but the best thing you can do is make sure you’re in a great place – like I am now. Everything is running smooth. Family life is good. I’m feeling positive, got a spring in my step.”
Brook sinks back against the peeling wall and smiles again. “We live, we learn, and we rise again,” he says, sounding like a fighter to the core. | 1,268,347 |
Noun a warren of narrow hallways got lost in the warren of interconnected side streets
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Yeasty Brews sits on the northern edge of what the city dubs its future Lauderhill Arts and Entertainment District, a warren of boxy storefronts spanning 19th Street south to the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center. Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, "Yeasty Brews Artisanal Beers, South Florida’s newest brewery, coming to Lauderhill," 9 Sep. 2020
Over the last several years, one of the Palmer House ballrooms in the warren of public spaces spread across numerous floors hosted the close-up magician Dennis Watkins. Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, "Column: Chicago cannot lose the Palmer House, now boarded up and in deep financial trouble," 9 Sep. 2020
What began as an artist’s hobby of carving tiny figures has sprouted into the Tinkertown Museum, a rambling warren with detailed Old West dioramas and walls made from concrete and 55,000 glass bottles. Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, "The Ultimate Route 66 Road Trip Guide," 22 Aug. 2020
The bridal shop is tucked far in the back of store on an upper floor, past a warren of tiny boutiques. Kate Stone Lombardi, Good Housekeeping, "Wedding Dress Shopping Was a Magical Mother-Daughter Moment — Now the Wedding Is Postponed," 25 June 2020
As much as the city is a beacon—for freedom, for refuge, for being a place where there’s an existing warren of every type of oddball imaginable—it’s also increasingly divided by income inequality and gentrification. Elias Williams, National Geographic, "New York’s arts scene remains shut down indefinitely—can it evolve and survive?," 15 June 2020
Generations of families worked the massive open pits and rabbit-warren underground tunnels that helped defeat Hitler and buoy local economies. Jack Brook, The Christian Science Monitor, "Conservation vs. copper: Minnesota town debates its future with a mine," 2 July 2020
Kehoes, a warren of snugs, bars, and living rooms crammed into a Victorian house, is a rabbit hole. Kieran Dodds, National Geographic, "What’s the secret behind Dublin’s storytelling magic?," 16 June 2020
But as those donations have died down, the Kings worry about what the future holds, as they are located in a warren of largely empty office towers. Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, "What’s it really like to try and reopen a business?," 7 June 2020
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The Spanish coast guard said Saturday that it has rescued 933 people and recovered four bodies from the Mediterranean Sea over the past two days.
Officials said the migrants were plucked from 68 different smuggling boats that were intercepted by the rescue vessels.
The surge in arrivals comes as the country prepares to take in another 630 migrants that were turned away by Italy and Malta. The Aquarius and two Italian boats carrying the migrants are due to arrive at the Spanish port of Valencia on Sunday.
Health officials, emergency workers and psychologists were called up to be on hand at the city's marina.
Spanish officials plan to do a case-by-case analysis of the migrants' requests for asylum.
More than 120 unaccompanied minors and seven pregnant women are among those who have spent days crossing the western Mediterranean, according to Spanish officials in Valencia.
Spain announced earlier Saturday that it had accepted an offer from the French government to take in any migrants who want to go to France "once they have fulfilled the protocols established for their arrival."
A statement from the Spanish government said Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez "appreciated the cooperation of [French] President [Emmanuel] Macron and believes this is the framework of cooperation that Europe should use to respond" to the immigration crisis confronting Europe.
Desperate people
The refusal by Italy and Malta to allow the rescue boat Aquarius to dock at their ports has intensified a political fight among European Union members over how to handle the influx of migrants.
Some 2 million migrants entered the European Union in 2016, and hundreds of thousands more have entered over the past 18 months.
The new Socialist government in Spain has extended a welcoming hand to the migrants to show its commitment to protecting human rights and respecting international law.
Thousands of migrants attempt the treacherous journey in marginally seaworthy dinghies across the Mediterranean — from North Africa to Europe — desperate to escape violent conflicts or extreme poverty.
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The United Nations reports that at least 792 migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea in 2018. Through the first five months of the year, at least 35,455 migrants have reached European shores, with 11,792 of them arriving in Spain.
The issue is threatening to tear apart the European Union, with right-wing nationalist parties railing against the influx of foreigners and exploiting the crisis to stoke fear among inhabitants in their home countries.
"As long as we keep refusing the idea that we have a collective problem that can only be tackled with collective solutions - as long as we don't see that - we will not find a solution," European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans warned. "We will fail collectively."
Read more: Macron blasts Italy over migrant ship
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Bitcoin Community Leads Relief Effort for Mariana Flood Victims
Two dams collapsed in the Mariana region of the Minas Gerais State in Brazil on Thursday, November 5th, 2015. Large tracts of once-inhabited land near the former dams are now covered under meters of mercury-laced, toxic mud. The tragedy has left 250,000 inhabitants without drinking water. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has said that this tragedy is comparable to the 2010 BP PLC oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The 500 people living in the vicinity of the dams were immediately forced to evacuate their residences. The volume of muddy water displaced by the collapse is roughly equivalent to 25,000 Olympic 50-meter swimming pools.
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The Bitcoin community has responded. A donation campaign, #BitcoinPorMariana, has circulated Facebook, Reddit and other social media. Funds raised will help cover the costs of delivering bottled water. Brazilian company Água Canção Nova will provide the purified water — only charging production costs. FoxBit, a Brazilian Bitcoin exchange, and organizer of the relief fund, says it costs roughly $2,000 to fill and send a truck with 25,000 liters of drinking water. FlowBTC, CoinBR, NegocieCoins and BitcoinToYou have pledged $2,500. The campaign will last until November 30, 2015.
At press time, the BitcoinPorMariana public address has received 104 donations, totaling 3,000 mBTC. At current market rates, this amount is worth approximately $1,004 USD.
Bitcoin has become a popular donation method for disaster relief. In November 2013, now-defunct Bitcoin exchange BitMe organized a fund to help typhoon victims in the Philippines. Recently, ChangeTip organized a campaign that successfully donated 29 Bitcoin to the victims of the Nepalese avalanches. BitGive is the first registered 501 (c) (3) non-profit charity whose sole focus is Bitcoin-powered charitable works. The foundation focuses primarily on the areas of public health and the environment. Many Bitcoin businesses and individuals have made sizable donations to BitGive’s various causes.
There are still misconceptions about Bitcoin that damage its reputation as means for donating funds. Bitcoin has long been criticized as a way to finance nefarious activities. Recently, CNBC aired a segment citing Bitcoin as a means of terrorist financing. In contrast with these claims, donation campaigns utilize the special properties of Bitcoin for helping others. Bitcoin, with its transparent blockchain, deters corruption. If chosen, it keeps donations out of the hands of the state and ensures economic efficiency. Bitcoin also allows for easy micropayments. These payments can be sent to remote parts of the world cheaply.
If you are interested in making a Bitcoin donation to help fund the relief effort, the official donation address can be found here.
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ISLAMABAD: Enjoying the support of 213 members of National Assembly, Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) and allies were in comfortable position for grabbing Prime Minister's slot.
The nominee of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was in comfortable position to be elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
PML-N has 188 MNAs in the National Assembly.
According to party position appearing on National Assembly's website, Pakistan Peoples’ Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) has 47 MNAs, while Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has 33 members.
Mutahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) enjoys the support of 24 members.
Jamait Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) has 13 MNAs, Pakistan Muslim League Functional (PML-F) 5, Jamat-i-Islami 4, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) 3, National People Party (NPP) 2, Pakistan Muslim League 2, Awami National Party 02, while Balochistan National Party (BNP), Quomi Watan Party (QWP), Pakistan Muslim League Zia (PMl-Z), National Party (NP), Awami Muslim League (AML), Awami Jamhori Ittehad Pakistan and All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) are enjoying the support of one MNA each.
There are eight independent members in the assembly.
Nomination papers:
Shahid Khaqan of PML-N and Sheikh Rashid on behalf of PTI obtained the nomination papers, while Opposition Leader Khursheed Shah also obtained six nomination papers from the Office of the Secretary National Assembly today.
While the PTI has nominated Sh Rashid as their PM's candidate, Khrshid Shah contacted other opposition parties for fielding a joint candidate and has convened a meeting tomorrow at 10am to discuss the matter.
On the other hand, Shahid Khaqan telephoned ANP Leader Haji Ghulam Ahmed Bilour and requested to support his candidacy. He also met JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman to seek his support.
Election on August 01
President Mamnoon Hussain has summoned the National Assembly session to meet on Tuesday (August 01) at 3pm to deal with single-point agenda of election of the new prime minister following the disqualification of Nawaz Sharif by the Supreme Court on Friday.
The president has summoned the National Assembly session in exercise of powers conferred by clause (1) of Article 54 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Schedule of election: Candidates can receive nomination papers from NA Speaker office by 3pm on July 30. Nomination papers can be filed by 2pm on July 31 and the Speaker will examine papers by 3pm. The election will be held at 3pm on August 1. | 1,268,351 |
A tool that lets you create multiple TOR instances with a load-balancing traffic between them by HAProxy. It's provides one single endpoint for clients. In addition, you can view previously running TOR processes and create a new identity for all or selected processes.
The multitor has been completely rewritten on the basis of: Multi-TOR project written by Jai Seidl: project written by Jai Seidl: Multi-TOR
original source is (Sebastian Wain project): Distributed Scraping With Multiple TOR Circuits
How To Use
multitor, detailed understanding all parameters and how it works, see the Manual Before using the, detailed understanding all parameters and how it works, see the
It's simple:
# Clone this repository git clone https://github.com/trimstray/multitor # Go into the repository cd multitor # Install./setup.sh install # Run the app multitor --init 2 --user debian-tor --socks-port 9000 --control-port 9900
symlink to bin/multitor is placed in /usr/local/bin
man page is placed in /usr/local/man/man8
Parameters
Provides the following options:
Usage: multitor < option | long-option > Examples: multitor --init 2 --user debian-tor --socks-port 9000 --control-port 9900 multitor --show-id --socks-port 9000 Options: --help show this message --debug displays information on the screen (debug mode) --verbose displays more information about TOR processes -i, --init < num > init new tor processes -k, --kill kill all multitor processes -s, --show-id show specific tor process id -n, --new-id regenerate tor circuit -u, --user < string > set the user (only with -i | --init) --socks-port < port_num | all > set socks port number --control-port < port_num > set control port number --proxy < socks | http > set load balancer
Requirements
Multitor uses external utilities to be installed before running:
Also you will need root access.
Other
Important
If you use this tool in other scripts where the output is saved everywhere, not on the screen, remember that you will not be able to use the generated password. I will correct this in the next version. If you do not use regenerate function of single or all TOR circuits with a password, you can safely restart the multitor which will do it for you.
Limitations
each TOR process needs a certain number of memory. If the number of processes is too big, the oldest one will be automatic killed by the system
Polipo is no longer supported but it is still a very good and light proxy. In the next version I will give you the option to choose a different solution. | 1,268,352 |
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A smiling Naomi Osaka overpowered Ashleigh Barty 6-4 6-2 to reach the fourth round of a grand slam for the first time and end the host nation’s involvement in the women’s draw at the Australian Open on Saturday.
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Barty’s quantum leap from the outside the top 200 to number 17 in the world rankings over the last year had awakened hopes in Australia that the former cricketer might be a contender to end their 40-year wait for a women’s champion.
The Japanese world number 72 shredded those hopes in one minute more than her ranking, breaking Barty to open both sets and combining 12 aces, the last on match point, with 24 winners in a ruthless display of power tennis.
With a beaming smile on her face even when things were not going her way, Osaka appeared to enjoy every moment of the encounter in front of a partisan and noisy crowd on Margaret Court Arena.
“I feel really happy, but also kind of sorry because I know you guys really wanted her to win,” Osaka said on court. “I’ve always wanted to play against an Australian player, because on TV it seems really cool.”
Barty was not completely blown away but even though she was frequently able to win points on Osaka’s serve, the 20-year-old, who said she had spent the close season working on fitness and her mindset, always appeared to have an answer.
“I think I was down on my serve love-30, like, every few games,” Osaka said. “Normally, you would think the game is basically over a little bit, and get really upset. But I tried to think positive and stuff.”
The Australian battled right until the end but Osaka produced four huge shots in a row to win the match and set up a fourth round meeting with world number one Simona Halep for a place in the quarter-finals.
Osaka, who beat defending champion Angelique Kerber at last year’s U.S. Open, joked that she sweated more over Halep’s epic struggle to subdue Lauren Davies than she had her own match and did not sound overawed to be meeting the top seed.
“I’ve played her twice, and both times it was three sets. I had fun both times,” she said.
“I feel like I learned a lot. I feel playing the number one is really an honour. No matter what happens, I’ll try my best. I’ll just see what happens from there.
“I’m grateful (to be in the fourth round),” she added. “But I’m, like, I don’t want to stop here, if you know what I mean.” | 1,268,353 |
In just a matter of decades, asteroids may be flying into mining outposts throughout space. At least that’s what a California company known as Made in Space would like to see. They were recently funded by NASA in order to investigate how to begin turning asteroids into massive, autonomous spacecrafts.
The project is called RAMA, which stands for Reconstituting Asteroids into Mechanical Automata is the company’s long term plan to enable space colonization by making off-Earth manufacturing efficient and something that is economically viable.
Made in Space co-founder and chief technology officer Jason Dunn says today we have the ability to bring resources from Earth but when we get to a tipping point where we need resources from space, then the question becomes where are they going to come from, how will we get them and how do we go about delivering them to the location they are needed.
The company plans to send advanced robotic “Seed Crafts” to rendezvous with a succession of near-Earth asteroids in space. The Seed Craft will harvest materials from space rocks and then use them to construct propulsion, navigation and energy-storage onsite with the help of 3D printing. The asteroids would then be programmed to fly to mining stations where they are required. This would work far better than launching new probes to every single space rock that is going to be explored.
These converted asteroids would not look similar to traditional spacecrafts. They would be completely mechanical and relatively primitive. Dunn says at the end of the day the team would like the asteroids to contain technologies that have been around for quite some time. The main question they face today is whether they will be able to convert an asteroid into that technology at some point in the future.
Project RAMA involves autonomous 3D printers that use mechanically driven systems that already exist, so the project would not be started from scratch. Major advancements in in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) are required for the technology to become a reality. Made in Space is counting on NASA to push ISRU technology, as extremely advanced ISRU tech will be vital for astronauts on Mars and other off-Earth outposts.
The timeline of RAMA is not known at this time, but there is speculation that it may take a minimum of 20 years for the necessary technology to be developed. The first Seed Craft may reach the ground in the last 2030s, just as asteroid-mining and off-Earth manufacturing begin to come into their own. Dunn anticipates that RAMA architecture holds a lengthy timeline and will become available just at the time when the resources are needed the most.
Project RAMA may also have a handful of applications on planet Earth, with machines very similar to Seed Craft having many jobs throughout the planet, such as infrastructure in remote locations. The machines may also allow for conversions of resources into helpful devices and mechanical machines, solving some pretty large problems that we have on the planet, including housing and construction that would hold the potential to make peoples’ lives a lot better. | 1,268,354 |
Police on Saturday raided a public meeting held by Turkey’s opposition pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in İstanbul, detaining 41 members of the party and the press, the Mezopotamya news agency reported.
Among those detained by the police at the HDP gathering, held in preparation for May 1, International Workers Day in İstanbul’s Güngören district, were the party’s İstanbul Co-chair Cengiz Çiçek and Mezopotamya staff members Melike Ceyhan and Servet Karaduman, reported the agency.
The detainees were taken to the Merter Keresteciler Police Station where following their police interrogation, 31 of the 41 detained were released. Ten still remain in police custody, the agency said.
The HDP İstanbul provincial organization released a statement via Twitter following the incident. ‘’We do not accept attacks against democratic politics and call on our people to support our party,’’ the statement said.
Also on Saturday, several HDP members were taken into custody following house raids in Denizli province. According to a report by the pro-Kurdish Fırat news agency (ANF), HDP Denizli provincial co-president Cevahir Kayar’s house was also raided. Her husband, Muhlis Kayar, was detained.
The HDP is the second-largest opposition party in the Turkish Parliament, the former co-leader of which, Selahattin Demirtas, has been in prison since November 2016.
The Turkish government’s crackdown on the Kurdish political movement began in late 2016 with the arrest of high profile politicians, including the party’s then co-chairs, Figen Yüksekdağ and Selahattin Demirtaş, which led to the detention of at least 5,000 members of the HDP, including 80 mayors.
Trustees have been appointed to dozens of municipalities in the country’s predominantly Kurdish Southeast. There are currently 9 HDP deputies behind bars. The developments have attracted widespread criticism from the region and Western countries.
Turkish authorities had conducted direct talks with Abdullah Öcalan, jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) for several years until a truce in effect collapsed in the summer of 2015. Since then, there have been heavy clashes between the PKK and Turkish security forces.
More than 40,000 people, including 5,500 security force members, have been killed in four decades of fighting between the Turkish state and the PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US and the EU. Over 1,200 Turkish security personnel and civilians, including a number of women and children, have been killed since July 2015 alone, when the Turkish government and the PKK resumed the armed struggle.
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Washington, DC—Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s (HI-02) Securing America’s Elections Act (H.R. 5147) has earned the support of Common Cause, a national non-partisan, grassroots organization committed to upholding American democratic values. The congresswoman's legislation protects the country’s election infrastructure from cyber-hackers by requiring the use of voter-verified paper ballots or a paper ballot backup in federal elections, beginning with the 2018 elections. The Securing America’s Elections Act will be included as part of Common Cause’s 2018 “Democracy Scorecard” that tracks Members of Congress’ records on democracy reform bills, which includes legislation such as the Voter Empowerment Act, Government by the People Act, Voting Rights Advancement Act, and more.
The Securing America’s Elections Act would authorize emergency funding to empower every state to use voter-verified paper ballots that produce an auditable paper trail ahead of the 2018 elections. It also incentivizes the use of safe and secure software in voting machines. This legislation expands on progress made in Hawai‘i and 14 other states that currently produce voter-verified paper ballots to provide the American people with an auditable, independent record of their votes.
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard said: “Ensuring the integrity and security of our nation’s election systems is critical to protecting our democracy from hacking by adversaries. With federal elections quickly approaching, the cyber vulnerabilities that exist within many election systems must be addressed now. I urge my colleagues to make sure that every vote will be accurately counted and pass the Securing America’s Elections Act to protect our elections from malicious hackers.”
“Common Cause appreciates Congresswoman Gabbard’s efforts, as well as the efforts of other Members of Congress, to secure our elections against malicious attacks,” said Aaron Scherb, Director of Legislative Affairs with Common Cause. “The Securing America’s Elections Act would help protect our elections by requiring the use of a voter-verified paper ballot, which would help prevent foreign entities from trying to undermine our democracy.”
“Securing America's Elections Act is an important step in improving our elections, but there is still a lot of work to be done. We look forward to working with Congresswoman Gabbard, and other members of Congress, as well as our state and local lawmakers and elections officials to ensure that our elections are secure, accessible, and efficient," said Corie Tanida, Executive Director of Common Cause Hawai‘i.
Background:
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard introduced the Securing America’s Elections Act (H.R. 5147) to protect the country’s election infrastructure from cyber-hackers by requiring the use of voter-verified paper ballots or a paper ballot backup in federal elections.
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Israel's Cabinet on Sunday approved a contentious bill that officially defines Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
The bill still needs to be passed in parliament to become a law, but the latest move may further inflame tensions with Arab Israelis and Palestinians. It could also shake up Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government due to the fierce opposition of two of his more centrist partners.
The bill calls for recognizing Israel's Jewish character, institutionalizing Jewish law as an inspiration for legislation, and delisting Arabic as an official language. Opponents say the bill undermines Israel's democracy, and rights groups have called it racist.
Arabs make up about 20 percent of Israel's population and strongly oppose the bill.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday warned of the dangers of the law and called on the international community to take an unreserved position in its regard.
In a statement, the ministry said Netanyahu’s government is seeking to endorse the occupation of Palestine and is bringing the curtain down on efforts to revive negotiation. Adopting the law would legitimize what the ministry called racist measures as practiced by the Israeli government against Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Netanyahu on Sunday also called for a bill that would revoke residency rights for Palestinians involved in attacks against Israelis, in response to a wave of deadly violence.
"It cannot be that those who harm Israel, those who call for the destruction of the state of Israel, will enjoy rights like social security," Netanyahu told his Cabinet, adding that the measure would "complement" Israel’s controversial policy of demolishing Palestinian attackers’ homes.
The measures were billed as a deterrent, but some critics view them as racist policies that could further escalate tensions.
Tensions spilled over to the West Bank on Sunday when a Palestinian family's home was torched in an attack they blamed on Jewish settlers. Israeli police said they were investigating.
In Gaza, meanwhile, Palestinian health officials said Israeli troops shot dead a 32-year-old farmer after he approached the border. Israel's military said it fired warning shots before shooting at two suspects approaching the border, hitting one of them in his lower body. It would be the first fatality in Gaza since a cease-fire ended last summer's war.
Israel has vowed to respond harshly after a raid on a Jerusalem synagogue last week in which two East Jerusalem Palestinians killed five people with guns and meat cleavers. Israel has already resumed its policy of demolishing Palestinian attackers' homes.
Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for an Israeli mayor who suspended work by Arab laborers over the violence said that work will resume on building bomb shelters in kindergartens next week, but that children would be moved to other locations in the city of Ashkelon during the construction.
Israel captured East Jerusalem in 1967 and annexed it in a move not recognized internationally. While few of the city's 300,000 Palestinians have taken citizenship, their residency grants them access to social services and freedom of movement.
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Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered that a protein produced by the influenza A virus helps it outwit one of our body's natural defense mechanisms. That makes the protein a potentially good target for antiviral drugs directed against the influenza A virus.
Better antiviral drugs could help the millions of people annually infected by flu, which kills up to 500,000 people each year.
When an influenza virus infects a human cell, it uses some of the host's cellular machinery to make copies of itself, or replicate. In this study, the researchers discovered that a protein produced by human body cells, DDX21, blocks this replication process. They also discovered that a protein created by the virus, NS1, in turn blocks DDX21 and promotes viral replication.
"If you could figure out how to stop NS1 from binding to DDX21, you could stop the virus cold," said Robert Krug, a professor in the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin and corresponding author on the study, which appears today in the journal Cell Host and Microbe.
Krug said that in addition to countering the body's defense mechanisms, the viral NS1 protein actually performs other important roles for the virus, such as inhibiting the host's synthesis of interferon, a key antiviral protein.
"It means that if you could block that NS1 function, you'd be blocking not only its interaction with DDX21 but many other important functions, so it's a great target," said Krug.
The need for new antiviral drugs against the influenza virus is great. Because flu vaccines are not 100 percent effective, antiviral drugs play an important role in fast-spreading epidemics. Yet influenza A viruses are developing resistance to antiviral drugs currently in use.
Krug and his team discovered that the viral NS1 protein is often associated, or bound together, with the host DDX21 protein in infected human body cells. To understand what role DDX21 might play in virus replication, the researchers used a technique called siRNA gene silencing to knock down the production of DDX21 in infected cells. When they did, virus replication increased 30 fold.
"That told us that DDX21 is a host restriction factor, that it inhibits replication," said Krug. "That was the key to understanding what was happening. It was an exciting moment."
Next, the researchers discovered that DDX21 blocks replication by binding to a protein that the virus needs to replicate, called PB1. Finally, they discovered that NS1 binds to DDX21 and makes PB1 available again for replication. This result confirmed that NS1 was indeed the countermeasure used by the virus to get around the body's natural defense mechanism.
Krug's co-authors are Guifang Chen, Chien-Hung Liu and Ligang Zhou, all from The University of Texas at Austin.
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The >first information report registered by the short-lived Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi against the Centre, Union Ministers and others in connection with the hike in gas prices is invalid in law but it cannot be withdrawn by the Lieutenant Governor. Giving his opinion to the Union Law Ministry at the instance of the Petroleum Ministry, Solicitor-General Mohan Parasaran said the February 11 FIR was liable to be quashed by the higher judiciary.
Mr. Parasaran gave the Centre three options: filing a suit in the Supreme Court against the Delhi government under Article 31 of the Constitution; approaching the apex court for quashing the FIR, contending that the fundamental rights of those cited as accused had been infringed upon; and seeking remedy in the Delhi High Court under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code for quashing the FIR.
“In my view, the conduct of the Delhi government in giving a direction to the police to entertain and register this FIR on a policy decision by the Union government is not going to set a healthy precedent and poses a fundamental threat to the federal structure of the Constitution, baffling even a common man conversant with basic principles of law as to how the Central government can be subjected to the police powers of a State government. Also, the State government does not have any policing powers over the Central government or its functionaries or the Union Cabinet,” the SG said.
The FIR was lodged against the present and former Petroleum Ministers, M. Veerappa Moily and Murli Deora; the former Director-General of Hydrocarbons, V.K. Sibal; and Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, among others.
The then Chief Minister had on February 10 received a complaint under the caption ‘Complaint of corruption for investigation: collusion between Ministers of Central government and RIL’ from the former Cabinet Secretary T.S.R. Subramanian and others. They alleged corruption in the increase in gas price in 2007 to $4.2 per mmbtu in favour of Reliance.
Mr. Parasaran said the FIR in the first place could not have been registered without a preliminary inquiry. But now “the only course of action I can suggest is to challenge the action of the Delhi government, including the registration of the FIR.” The appropriate agency that could register an FIR in this case was only the Central Bureau of Investigation “as it involves the Centre and its officers.”
“In my view, only the courts can declare the FIR illegal or non-est or void or set it aside and it would not be open to the Central government to advise the Lt. Governor to treat the FIR itself as non-est.” Doing so would lead to far more complications “because the powers of the Lt. Governor in interfering in a matter like this and taking a decision mandating the police to treat an FIR as non-est could again be the subject matter of another PIL [petition],” Mr. Parasaran said. | 1,268,359 |
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Before starting this post (which won’t interest most people) let me just reiterate that the big question going forward is whether Trump will govern as a populist or a GOP supply-sider. The markets clearly expect the latter–they think he conned the blue-collar workers to get their votes. Since I’ve been wrong about Trump before, I won’t offer an opinion—just wait and see. Perhaps the funniest and most clueless headline I saw today is that markets are rising because they expect “infrastructure”. Will Keynesians ever give up? Like infrastructure is going to drive biotech 10% higher in 2 days. And that’s not even accounting for monetary offset.
The “Wisconsin Idea” is a progressive strand of politics that is usually attributed to immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia. Wisconsin was deeply involved in the progressive movement of the early 20th century (La Follette, etc.), and pioneered legislation like unemployment insurance. We abolished the death penalty 100 years before less civilized places like Britain and France. But in recent years the Wisconsin idea has been fading, and now I think it’s effectively gone. This election was the final nail in the coffin.
The story can be told in maps. Four years ago I did a post on the “Driftless Area”, where Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota all meet up. It was the one white, rural agricultural area of the country that stayed blue, as other rural regions went for Romney:
Brian Donohue sent me a map showing counties that switched from blue to red in this election:
You can see that the Driftless Area stands out as moving to the GOP, delivering states like Iowa and Wisconsin to Trump.
BTW, don’t be fooled by the other blue rural areas on the first map, they are generally special cases, reflecting Indian reservations in the southwest, Hispanic areas on the Texas/Mexico border, the black belt along the ancient SE coastline of America, and the mining belt of northern Minnesota, etc.
The transformation of the GOP into the rural party and the Dems into the urban party is now almost complete. The suburbs are split, with suburbs in the more highly educated areas trending blue, and working class suburbs moving red.
Thomas Frank should write a book “What’s the Matter with White America”, as both the rich and poor (white) regions seem to be voting against their interests. (I’m not convinced by that hypothesis, I’m just saying that if you believe it, it applies to far more than Kansas.)
FYI, here is a map of the Driftless Area:
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and a woman.”
As soon as she gave her answer, Prejean could tell from the reaction of the judges, especially Perez, that this was not what they wanted to hear. “He looked absolutely devastated,” Prejean remembered. Although her answer mirrored the president’s on that same question, the judges were not hearing Barack Obama. They were hearing George Wallace. The fitting had already begun for Prejean’s Scarlet H.
Firebrand Hilton took the lead. He reportedly gave Prejean a “zero” vote on her answer, which likely cost her the Miss USA crown. She would be judged first runner-up. “If that girl would have won Miss USA I would have gone up on stage, I sh** you not,” Hilton boasted on his blog, “and snatched that tiara off her head.” Hilton’s rants grew progressively more obscene because no one of consequence in his world objected.
Hollywood’s anger was directed instead at Prejean. “A lot of people are mad at you,” her gay manager texted her in discouraging her from attending the coronation ball. “I’m afraid of what might happen to you. You really shouldn’t come.” He apologized not to Prejean for the invectives his allies hurled at her -- Nazi, bigot, b****, c*** -- but to Perez for Prejean’s answer. Her female coach meanwhile apologized to the sponsors.
Over the next several months Prejean would suffer any number of insults and indignities culminating in the loss of her Miss California crown. The pretext for this anti-Christian tiara snatch was Prejean’s alleged failure to cooperate with the Miss California executives then scheming to take her crown away.
After her bushwhacking at the Miss USA contest, the media dug into Prejean’s virtual dumpster almost as eagerly as they had dug into Sarah Palin’s literal one. They delighted in shocking themselves with the prurient tidbits they unearthed -- photos of her modeling lingerie, reports of a breast enhancement, a graphic home video. These were the kind of discoveries that usually advance an actress’s career, but not Prejean’s. Reporters saw in Prejean what the lions saw huddled before them in the Colosseum -- fresh Christian meat.
The leaders of the other cults in the neo-puritan synod held their tongues. Nary a feminist anywhere protested the shameful, sexist treatment of Prejean. God was no longer so much “in the mix” that Obama saw fit to defend Prejean or chastise her persecutors. And, as always, the Muslims and their supporters laid low.
The memo had been sent and received. There would be no negative consequences for defaming a Christian. The tumbrils were rolling. | 1,268,361 |
Welcome to the Kenosha Public Museum
The Kenosha Public Museum, located in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is a natural sciences and fine and decorative arts museum. Established in 1933, the Museum’s collections have grown to over 80,000, including 1,200 works in the fine arts collection. Exhibit programming includes mammoths, world cultures, Native Americans, zoology, geology, fossils, and fine and decorative arts.
COVID-19 Update
For the safety of all visitors and staff, the following changes and policies are in place until further notice:
Temporary Hours: 10am-4:30pm Monday-Friday; Closed Saturday-Sunday
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* Please practice social distancing at all times, staying 6 feet apart
* Visitors who feel ill or have a fever higher than 100.4 are asked to visit at a later date
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Your patience is appreciated
Some interactive exhibits and elements including the Field Station are temporarily closed
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Although the museum buildings are open, we will continue to bring the museum experience to your home. Click on the links below for activities, videos, exhibits and more. Then like us on Facebook for the most up to date information and more fun.
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Kids Activity Page – Art, science, recipes, and history projects for all ages. New activities added weekly.
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Virtual Exhibit – Take a look at the museums’ virtually housed exhibits including art, fossils, artifacts and more.
Tidbit Tours – Join curator Doug Dammann behind the scenes for an up close look at the Civil War Museum’s collection.
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Virtual Civil War Themed Lectures – View prerecorded or live-streamed lectures.
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School Group & Teacher Resources – View information about learning labs and experiences.
Contact the Education Services Coordinator for virtual learning experiences.
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World War. I am sorry for trying to change the regime in Venezuela and in so many other places around the world over many decades”.
“ I promise to work for peace, impose on Israel to give up its hundreds of nuclear bombs, oblige the Arab states to construct schools, universities, offer job opportunities, look after the climate and earth, and open borders to all those looking to improve their and their family’s lives, and stop the animosity we have fuelled by promoting sectarian narratives we. I promise to use the Army of the United States of America against any country in the world willing to invade or destabilise another country. When the people are mature enough, they will react and change their regime. It is not up to the US to do the job on their behalf. If they suffer, it is a process they should go through to realise what they want in life.”
“And finally, I have no shame to express my feelings and share it with the world. I, as a human being, feel vulnerable, happy, sad, joyful and sometimes depressed. There is no harm in facing oneself as a man and human-being. I examine my conscience daily and seek to act in accordance with the benefit and the well-being of the world, without idiotically saying “God Bless America and no one else”. I say God bless the world and guide my steps to avoid causing suffering and hunger because the world is my home as it is the home of every person willing to live in peace and prosperity”.
This is what the newly elected US President said to all nations, today, live on the TV, on the day of his election. I couldn’t believe my ears. Everybody around me was listening, in tears. People suddenly had a new hope in life.
I suddenly woke up…
Will there comes a time when a similar speech could be addressed to some future generation?
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LONDON (Reuters) - A British court has rejected an extradition request from Turkey for exiled businessman Akin Ipek to face terrorism-funding, fraud and other charges, saying he faced a real risk of ill-treatment should he be returned.
Businesman and media proprietor Akin Ipek from Turkey arrives at Westminster Magistrates court for an extradition hearing in London, Britain, September 28, 2018. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
Ipek, 54, built a multi-billion-dollar fortune in Turkey based on gold mining but left the country in 2015 after relations between the government and followers of U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen soured.
Ankara accused Gulen, a former ally of President Tayyip Erdogan, of orchestrating a 2016 failed coup attempt and has carried out a widespread crackdown targeting his alleged followers. Gulen has denied any involvement.
Ipek and two other men, Ali Celik and Talip Buyuk, who are said by Ankara to be high-ranking members of Gulen’s organisation (FETO), were arrested by Britain earlier this year following extradition requests from Turkey.
They were accused of a series of charges including fundraising for terrorism, fraud and conspiracy to launder proceeds of crime.
John Zani, District Judge at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court, said while he had “serious reservations about the current state of the rule of law in Turkey”, he accepted the men would receive a fair trial there.
But he rejected the extradition requests saying the men risked ill-treatment on their return.
“I am persuaded... that there is substantial evidence that this request is politically motivated,” Zani said in his ruling.
“I am entirely satisfied that, by reason of their actual or perceived political views, coupled with the assertion by the Turkish authorities that they are part of the hierarchy of the Gulenist Movement, each defendant before this court runs a real risk of Article 3 (of the Human Rights Act) breaches.”
The Turkish government is expected to appeal to London’s High Court against the decision, while the justice minister said the verdict could not be accepted.
“It is an unacceptable ruling that our extradition request for FETO fugitives Akin Ipek, Ali Celik and Talip Buyuk was rejected by Britain,” said Abdulhamit Gul.
“Our struggle will continue until the members of the terrorist organisation are brought to Turkish justice.”
In 2015, Turkey seized Ipek’s Koza-Ipek Group and its media outlets, including broadcasters and newspapers, on suspicion of financial irregularities, prompting criticism from rights groups in Turkey and abroad.
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An Edmonton man who started a fatal arson fire three years ago because he was angry at his former common-law wife has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Dakota Kashtin Cappo was initially charged with first-degree murder in connection with the fire, which killed a man he didn't know.
A jury trial was set to begin Tuesday and last for three weeks. Before the trial began, Cappo met with his defence lawyer and agreed to plead guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.
In an agreed statement of facts, Cappo admitted he was high on methamphetamine on the morning of Nov. 29, 2015, when he started the fire in the apartment complex where his former common-law wife lived with their two children.
The fire spread quickly throughout the building in the Queen Mary Park neighbourhood. Thirty-one people were evacuated from the building.
During a door-to-door check, firefighters found Gregory Fenton unconscious inside Suite No. 303. He was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital, where he suffered a cardiac arrest.
Fenton, 54, never regained consciousness and died on Dec. 4, 2015.
Crown prosecutor Terry Hofmann said the medical examiner's office found Fenton suffered no "acute internal injuries."
He said Fenton died from smoke inhalation.
Pattern of harassment
According to the agreed statement of facts, Cappo was involved in six-year relationship with a woman, and they had two children together.
The woman said she ended the relationship in 2013 and restricted access to the children because Cappo was abusing crystal methamphetamine.
Cappo moved to Saskatchewan, but returned to Edmonton in August 2015.
Soon after, he began to threaten the woman on Facebook. He threw rocks and a wrench through her apartment windows and the slashed the tires on her car.
The woman lodged three complaints with Edmonton police near the end of October. She was granted an emergency protection order on Oct. 31.
The harassment and threats continued throughout November.
On Nov. 27, at 2:52 a.m., Cappo made another post on his Facebook page. "I love the way fire burns," he wrote. "And it takes everything away. Plus the smell of smoke remains (sic) me of how the job is done right."
Cappo snuck into the 21-suite apartment building where his former common-law wife lived in the early hours of Nov. 29.
He used an accelerant to start a fire in the south stairwell.
Up to 50 firefighters and Edmonton police responded. The fire caused about $2.5 million in damage.
Dakota Kashtin Cappo initially faced a first-degree murder charge. (Facebook)
Cappo was arrested in September 2016 and charged with first-degree murder and arson.
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This woman decided not stand for a man allegedly exposing himself to her on a NYC subway. So she let him have it in a rant that's become a hit on YouTube and inspired women everywhere. (Photo: CBS 2)
NEW YORK (CBS 2) — She refused to stand there and take it.
So instead, the victim of a subway sexual assault decided to get even. She confronted a flasher right there on a crowded train.
Should you do the same thing?
It’s happened to many women when they’re riding the train — men exposing their genitals to people whom they think are vulnerable female straphangers.
“They have a saying; every monkey knows what tree to climb on…you know?” one woman said.
But apparently one sick man chose the wrong tree on this train. A rider posted a YouTube video of an unidentified woman accusing the man in black of flashing her on a “4” train in midtown.
“I’m like why is this person pressing up against me? Then I realize you have all this (expletive) space here. Then I see his penis out! That’s it!”
And her furor didn’t end there.
“Oh you’re getting (expletive) arrested! I’m not leaving your side! My plans are done for tonight. I’m escorting you to the police station, okay?” the woman says.
Emily May posted the YouTube video on her website, ihollaback.org, an organization against street harassment. May said women are calling the fiery female an inspiration.
“She is my hero,” May said. “So many women have walked away from situations like that feeling like their voice didn’t matter, and she spoke up. And her voice is a voice for an entire city of women, many of which have seen things like this in their own lives.”
“I know what I saw. Where the (expletive) is the conductor?!” the woman says on the video.
Self-defense expert Gabrielle Rubin praised the rider for taking control.
“If she was by herself and the train was pretty empty, I wouldn’t have suggested that she do that same thing,” Rubin said.
Rubin’s advice is to play it safe and move away from the flasher if you’re alone. She encourages bystanders to speak up, too.
“The more people would’ve rallied around her would have make him think twice about ever doing this again,” Rubin said.
Speaking out really made a difference in this case. Police were able to quickly arrest 51-year-old Mario Valdivia of Queens. He’s been charged with forcible touching, public lewdness and sex abuse. | 1,268,366 |
playing in the 1994 NHL All-Star Game sans helmet. He
was talked out of it, somewhat ironically, by former teammate Doug Wilson, who played 16 seasons helmetless. Thus ended the league's flirtation with making helmets optional.
Legacy: When Craig MacTavish retired at the end of the 1996-97 season, he was the last NHLer to play without a helmet. Today, every NHL player must wear a helmet, though some teams allow their players to take the pregame warmup without one.
Gimmick Meter Rating:
Four glow pucks. Making the game less safe for its players, in the hopes of them gaining a little more marketability, was a pretty weak idea.
5. The FoxTrax Glow Puck
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Gimmick: Fox Sports made the puck glow blue during NHL broadcasts.
The Skinny: The
FoxTrax System was a real-time, augmented reality system that superimposed a bluish glow over the puck during select NHL broadcasts. A blue comet tail would follow the puck when shot, passed or deflected. If the puck was shot hard, it was followed by a red streak, and if fired over 70 mph, a speed readout would appear on-screen. Also, luddites and technophobes -- and pretty much all of Canada -- hated it.
How Long Did It Last? Three seasons. The FoxTrax System debuted during the 1996 NHL All-Star Game in Boston, then was used during select NHL broadcasts for the rest of the season, as well as the next two. The last game to use the glow puck was Game 1 of the 1998 Stanley Cup Finals. Fox did not use the FoxTrax System in 1998-99 -- the last year of its contract with the NHL -- after the NHL announced in August 1998 that U.S. broadcast rights would go to ABC for 1999-2000.
Did it Work? If by "work" you mean angering many fans in Canada, then yes. Kidding aside, FoxTrax did make the puck more noticeable, though it did not particularly increase television ratings.
Legacy: While FoxTrax became symbolic of the "Americanization" of hockey, its research and development laid the groundwork for most of the on-screen graphics used during live sports broadcasts today.
Gimmick Meter Rating:
Five glow pucks, obviously! While I am an unapologetic fan of the FoxTrax puck and subsequent innovations that it led to, in retrospect it was maybe a little over-the-top. But nothing seems more emblematic of hockey from the 1990s than the glowing blue puck.
Sal Barry is a contributing writer for The Hockey News and runs the hockey collectibles and culture blog
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Do you remember in October when a mysterious star had scientists talking about “aliens”? The star erratically dimmed in ways that astronomers hadn’t before seen, which lead some to entertain the idea that perhaps it was not a natural occurrence, but rather a manufactured one.
Well, it turns out the explanation for the bizarre observations is indeed more astronomical in nature: a swarm of comets.
READ MORE: No, aliens are not flashing us from Mars
Originally, astronomers were perplexed by the strange light curve the star was emitting. When looking for exoplanets — planets orbiting other stars — one method scientists use is to watch a star to see if anything causes its light to dim (this is an extremely small measurement — unseen to the human eye). Typically, if there is a planet passing in front of a star, it does this on a regular basis.
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A example of a Dyson ring, similar to a Dyson sphere, which could collect energy from a star. Wikimedia Commons/Vedexent
But for star KIC 8462852, astronomers were puzzled by the irregularity and strength of the dimming. Typically a large, Jupiter-sized planet dims a star by about one per cent. The light of this star was dimmed by some 20 per cent.
Using the break-up of a comet as a theory, astronomers used NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) to search for any heat signature given off in the way of infrared light — but found none (collisions give off heat in this manner).
While more measured reasons were considered — such as a family of comets, asteroids or even a planet — another possibility that was thrown into the mix was that it was something similar to a Dyson sphere that could be constructed to collect the energy of a star, ie. aliens.
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Recently, NASA turned its Spitzer Space Telescope to the star to once again search for this infrared emission, but failed to find anything significant.
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One theory is that the dip in light emission is due to a family of cold comets that have a very long eccentric orbit. And at the end of that trail would be something very large which caused the original observation in 2011. Then, in 2013, the rest of the debris would follow, once again causing the dip.
While it’s fun to entertain the idea of an alien civilization out there, scientists still believe there is a high probability that it’s something natural we simply haven’t seen before, noting that pulsars — rapidly rotating stars that give off regular radio impulses — were once considered to be caused by aliens. When the first one was discovered, it garnered the name LGM-1 — as in “Little Green Men-1.”
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based method, such as vector autoregression, for each instrument (see for example Kaastra and Boyd (1995); Refenes (1994); Trippi and DeSieno (1992)). More recently, however, Leung et al. (2000) provide evidence that classification based methods outperform level based methods in the prediction of the direction of stock movement and trading returns maximization.
Using 5 minute interval prices from June 1989 to March 2013, our approach departs from the literature by using state-of-the-art parallel computing architecture to simultaneously train a single model from a large number of signals across multiple instruments, rather than using one model for each instrument. By aggregating the data across multiple instruments and signals, we enable the model to capture a richer set of information describing the time-varying co-movements across signals for each instrument price movement. Our results show that our model is able to predict the direction of instrument movement to, on average, 42% accuracy with a standard deviation across instruments of 11%. In some cases, we are able to predict as high as 68%. We further show how backtesting accuracy translates into the P&L for a simple long-only trading strategy and demonstrate sample mean Annualized Sharpe Ratios as high as 3.29 with a standard deviation of 1.12.
So in summary, our approach differs from other financial studies described in the literature in two distinct ways:
ANNs are applied to historical prices on an individual symbol and here 43 commodities and FX futures traded on the CME have been combined. Furthermore time series of lags, moving averages and moving correlations have been generated to capture memory and co-movements between symbols. Thus we have generated a richer dataset for the deep neural networks to explore complex patterns. ANNs are applied as a regression, whereas here the output is one of {-1,0,1} 1g representing a negative, at or positive price movement respectively. The threshold for determining the zero state is set to 1×106^-3 (this is chosen to balance the class labels). The caveat is that restriction to a discrete set of output states may not replace a classical financial econometric technique, but it may be applicable for simple trading strategies which rely on the sign, and not the magnitude, of the forecasted price.
In the following section we introduce the back-propagation learning algorithm and use mini-batching to express the most compute intensive equations in matrix form. Once expressed in matrix form, hardware optimized numerical linear algebra routines are used to achieve an efficient mapping of the algorithm on to the Intel Xeon Phi co-processor. Section 3 describes the preparation of the data used to train the DNN. Section 4 describes the implementation of the deep neural networks. Section 5 then presents results measuring the performance of a DNN. Finally in Section 6, we demonstrate the application of DNNs to backtesting using a walk forward methodology, and provide performance results for a simple buy-hold-sell strategy.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization called on all countries on Monday to monitor closely outbreaks of deadly avian influenza in birds and poultry and to report promptly any human cases that could signal the start of a flu pandemic.
The World Health Organization (WHO) logo is pictured at the entrance of its headquarters in Geneva, January 25, 2015. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy
Different strains of bird flu have been spreading across Europe and Asia since late last year, leading to large-scale slaughtering of poultry in certain countries and some human deaths in China. Experts fear the virus could mutate to spread more easily among people.
Nearly 40 countries have reported new outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry or wild birds since November, according to the WHO.
“The rapidly expanding geographical distribution of these outbreaks and the number of virus strains currently co-circulating have put WHO on high alert,” Margaret Chan told the start of the U.N. agency’s executive board.
The world is better prepared for the next influenza pandemic - following the H1N1 “mild” pandemic in 2009-2010 - “but not at all well enough”, she said.
Chan said that under an agreement with drug makers, in return for countries sharing virus samples from which a pandemic vaccine would be derived, WHO is promised 350 million doses of vaccine for distribution.
“We cannot allow so many countries to be without tools,” Chan later told Reuters. “Remember, it takes four to six months to get the vaccine.”
China has had a “sudden and steep increase” in human cases of H7N9 since December and the WHO has not been able to rule out limited human-to-human spread in two clusters of cases although no sustained spread has been detected thus far, she said.
Under the International Health Regulations, WHO’s 194 member states are required to detect and report human cases promptly, Chan said, adding: “We cannot afford to miss the early signals.”
China’s delegation, led by Zhang Yang of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, told the meeting China would carry out its obligations on communicating and responding to any outbreaks.
“Currently H7N9 overall statistics remain the same,” Zhang said. “China will continue to strengthen its cooperation and exchange with WHO in this regard.”
David Nabarro, an international public health expert and one of six candidates to succeed Chan in the top WHO post, said that addressing the threat of avian flu jumping the barrier to pose a serious threat to humans was a “central priority”.
“This group of viruses are persistent in moving between wild birds and poultry. We should always have a good high guard and never be complacent,” Nabarro, a former U.N. coordinator for avian and human influenza, told Reuters. | 1,268,370 |
Apple’s iPhone X pre-orders are now in fill swing and if you have not already placed your order then you are likely looking at a wait stretching into the months, rather than days or weeks.
Generating hype around a big iPhone launch is not something that Apple generally needs to worry about, but when a new video appears on YouTube during which an iPhone X was demonstrated at Apple’s own Cupertino campus, everyone immediately suggested Apple had leaked it itself, kicking the hype train into top gear.
Now, it would appear that the employee partly responsible for the leak has been fired by the company, just a few days after the video appeared online and went viral. The leak came courtesy of YouTube vlogger Brooke Peterson who apparently is, or was, in the enviable position having her father be an Apple employee with an iPhone X in his pocket.
What followed was a video filmed at Caffè Macs on Apple’s Cupertino HQ during which Peterson ran through the iPhone X’s capabilities on-camera, causing quite the stir online in the process. When the video went viral, the general belief amongst many was that this leak was seeded by Apple in order to generate some hype for the iPhone X, but now it would appear that Peterson’s father is no longer an Apple employee, presumably as a result of this video – the original video is no longer up on YouTube, predictably enough.
In a new video posted to YouTube, Brooke Peterson has confirmed that following her video going viral, her father has been “let go” by Apple. While many will wonder how someone, working at Apple and in possession of an iPhone X ahead of launch, was naive enough to let this happen. We do too, but this does at least put the theory that the whole thing was a controlled leak by Apple to bed for once and for all.
For those who missed the original video by Brooke which Apple took down after it went viral, here’s the mirror backup version of it:
While it’s unfortunate that someone had to lose a job because of one “innocent” YouTube video, it’s important to note that filming inside Apple’s HQ is prohibited. In one of the frames in the original video, you can even spot some of codenames for Apple products in the Notes app of that engineer’s iPhone X.
What do you guys think? Did Apple make the right call in firing the engineer? Or they were heartless and should have let it go because the device was announced already with many other YouTubers and press already having posted their hands-on videos during Apple’s September 12 event. Sounds off in the comments below.
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Mr. Ray spent several weeks in Toronto immediately after the assassination. Then he flew to London, to Portugal and then back to London, where he was captured by Scotland Yard on June 8 as he was about to board a flight to Belgium. In his possession were two Canadian passports and a loaded gun.
Back in Memphis on March 10, 1969, his 41st birthday, Mr. Ray stood before Judge W. Preston Battle of Shelby County Criminal Court, pleaded guilty to the murder of Dr. King and was sentenced to 99 years' imprisonment, with no eligibility for parole before serving half that term. The plea, which waived his right to trial, enabled him to escape the electric chair.
At one point in that hearing, both the prosecutor, P. M. Canale, and Mr. Ray's lawyer, Percy Foreman, told the court that there was no evidence that anyone else had conspired with Mr. Ray to kill Dr. King. But the defendant then leaped to his feet and declared that he did not intend that his guilty plea be construed as meaning that there had been no conspiracy.
In the quarter-century since, the idea that Dr. King was a victim of conspirators has refused to die. Indeed, in 1978, at the end of its two-year inquiry that also looked into the slaying of President John F. Kennedy, the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that although it was Mr. Ray who had fired the shot that killed Dr. King, circumstantial evidence pointed to the ''likelihood'' of a conspiracy. (The committee also concluded that President Kennedy ''was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.'')
In any event, only three days after entering his guilty plea Mr. Ray wrote the judge that he wanted to withdraw it. Within a week he sought a trial, an effort that would last till he died. Testifying in 1974 in furtherance of that effort, he maintained that his involvement in the assassination had been only peripheral but that Mr. Foreman, his lawyer, had seemed intent on persuading him to plead guilty. He went along, he said, because he believed that otherwise Mr. Foreman might ''fake'' a defense at trial and that he might then be executed.
But if his own role was peripheral, whose was central? Mr. Ray never told all that he said he knew.
''If I inform and get out,'' he once said to an interviewer in prison, ''they will solve their case. I'll go back to the Missouri penitentiary where I owe them 15 years, and I'll get murdered as an informer. So if I inform it will work out for them, but it won't work out so well for me.''
Mr. Ray was a fugitive from that Missouri prison at the time of the assassination, having escaped on April 23, 1967, while serving a sentence for a holdup. In the year between that escape and Dr. King's murder, conspiracy theorists wondered, where did he find the money to live on? | 1,268,372 |
search will find as many wiccans and pagans defending and claiming Tolkiens work as Christians.
9) Food
Were you ever reading The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit and getting hungry because of the sumptuous descriptions of food? You can satisfy those cravings by supporting the creation of a cookbook that intends to research and recreate the recipes of the food from Tolkien's World, get the cook book Hobbit Recipes... or Cooking with Hobbits, or go to Denny's. The mind boggles and the stomach knots at the Denny's Hobbit menu, as you start to have an existential crisis over cross promotion and the doom of civilization.
10) Science Fiction
You'd expect Tolkien to have a huge influence on fantasy — but he's also helped to shape some of science fiction's most famous creations as well. George Lucas has cited the LOTR as one of the influences on Star Wars, which uses a lot of epic fantasy structure and grafts science fiction ideas onto it. There are even some outright nods, such as the forest moon of Endor — "Endor" being one of the elvish language translations of "Middle-earth." And Star Wars helped to make the LotR movies possible, both by improving the technology and by showing that an epic fantasy series could make money.
Meanwhile, Babylon 5 is full of Lord of the Rings references. Series creator and executive producer J. Michael Straczynski acknowledged the Shadows from the television show were patterned after the Black Riders in The Fellowship of the Ring. The Rangers Babylon 5 bear more than a passing resemblance the Rangers of the North in LotR. The code of the of Babylon 5's Rangers "We walk in the dark places that no one else will enter. We stand on the bridge, and no one may pass," directly calls upon the scene of Gandalf's second confrontation with the Balrog when he shouts, "You cannot pass!" and perhaps more indirectly to Aragorn's description of the Rangers in The Fellowship of the Ring: "Lonely men are we, Rangers of the North, hunters — but hunters ever of the servants of the Enemy." Beyond easy-to-point-to details, Straczynski was inspired by Tolkien's works as a model for his world building.
And Lord of the Rings was the blueprint for King's post-apocalyptic The Stand. In Stephen King from A to Z: An Encyclopedia of His Life and Work, King is quoted as saying:
That was intended. It's not something I ever mention unless somebody brings it up because it didn't succeed anywhere near as well as Tolkien succeeds, mostly because I thought that I'd try to make Middle Earth the United States after the plague. One of the things that provided the impetus was that I said in the book, "After the plague, there's magic.' The best review I've had on the book said that Stu Redman is an American Frodo who sits around the gas station with his fellow hobbits and finally goes on a quest. | 1,268,373 |
A young woman has revealed how she had a baby despite not realising she was pregnant.
Charlotte Thomson, now 21, was 19 when she went into labour - but she’d had regular periods throughout her pregnancy and had also managed to wear her size eight clothes for all nine months.
The teenager from Newcastle upon Tyne had no idea she was pregnant so had been regularly partying with all her friends as usual, and she only gained three pounds over the whole pregnancy.
This is despite the fact that she gave birth to a seven-pound baby, Molly, who is now two years old.
Doctors explained that the reason Thomson’s stomach remained flat was because Molly was “tucked up inside” her ribs.
The nursery nurse says she felt a little bit tired towards the end of the pregnancy, but the teen merely put it down to too much partying.
“I thought it was from going out all the time,” she said. “I still managed to get into my clothes so I just ignored it.”
She had been having what she thought were regular periods too, but this turned out to be vaginal bleeding which can be caused by cervical changes or a vaginal infection.
Clueless man calls 999 for his wife in pain, seconds later she gives birth
It was only when Thomson went to hospital in the middle of the night complaining of stomach cramps and bleeding that doctors told her she was in fact nine months pregnant and in labour.
“I told them that there had to be a mistake,” Charlotte said. “I’d had no symptoms.”
Three hours later, Thomson gave birth to Molly.
Charlotte Thomson at six months pregnant (Hotspot Media)
“I didn’t believe that I was actually pregnant until I gave birth,” she says. “It was scary becoming a first-time mum with no warning. But I wouldn’t change Molly for the world, and I feel so lucky.”
Molly’s father is Thomson’s ex-boyfriend - the couple are no longer together, but the young mother says she has plenty of support from her own parents.
However Thomson was, unsurprisingly, nervous about what her parents would say when they found out she was about to have a baby.
“I burst into tears when they arrived, and told them I had no idea that I was pregnant,” Thomson said. “They were really supportive and excited about their first grandchild.”
After two days in hospital, Thomson and her newborn baby were discharged - fortunately Molly’s grandparents had been able to buy nappies and baby clothes in the meantime.
Molly now attends the nursery where her mother works, a situation which, Thomson says, is “perfect.”
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prove the EPA is an activist branch of the government.
In a statement from the Republican minority of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, Sen. Cornyn said, “For too long the Obama EPA has sought headlines instead of facts, as was the case here. Texans deserve to know if this action was carried out in a politically-motivated way, in an attempt to demonize the entire industry and purposely mislead the public.”
The government shutdown has held up the Attorney General's report but Lipsky is hopeful the truth will emerge.
Documents uncovered by ABC Dallas affiliate WFAA Channel 8 show Range Resources failed to cement their drilling operation despite being required to do so by the industry's own standards. Doug Allmand, an engineering specialist for the Railroad Commission, is aware of this. He sent Range a violation letter on Aug. 10, 2010. According to Dr. Payne, a scientist hired by Lipsky from Pennsylvania, where fracking operations have contaminated wells in similar cases, this probably led to the contamination of Lipsky's and his neighbors' wells.
Steve Lipsky is now working with attorney Brent M. Rosenthal, who is preparing to petition for a writ of mandamus in the Texas Supreme Court asking to dismiss Range's remaining claims for defamation and business disparagement against Steven Lipsky.
"I will assert," Rosenthal says, "as I have before the Fort Worth Court of Appeals, that Range's claims are meritless and threaten the exercise of First Amendment rights by Steve Lipsky and anyone else who speaks out on issues of public concern. I hope that organizations fighting for first amendment rights and social justice, as well as those involved in the environmental movement, will be concerned about the case and will work to persuade the courts to reject claims like Range's claim against the Lipskys."
Lipsky is saddled with legal bills and the expense of trucking in drinking water from a nearby town. He worries about his future, since his dream house has been devalued. He also worries about his neighbors living under the threat of a catastrophic gas explosion.
The stress is taking its toll on Lipsky's health, as his spiking blood pressure attests. But Lipsky doesn’t have to worry about his property exploding, since his well remains turned off as a precaution.
In a culture where the oil and gas industry spends millions on PR campaigns and hires representatives with military backgrounds in psychological operations to intimidate private citizens, where regulatory agencies and scientists risk harassment when their results are not 'industry friendly', where lawyers don't want to take on clients who have cases against industry for fear of losing business with energy producers, and where industry campaign contributions taint politicians and judges all the way up the ladder, how many people will fight back as staunchly as Steve Lipsky has?
Below, Lipsky warns those in areas where there is fracking:
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This 1980 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40 was imported from Venezuela, where it had been used for camping and fishing trips by a father and his daughter for 15 years before being purchased by the seller in 2017. Power comes from a 4.2L inline-six which is mated to a 4-speed manual gearbox and split transfer case. In the last four months the FJ has received a new radiator, carburetor, Petronix Ignitor II ignition, coil, spark plugs, cables, battery, rear U-joints, and more. The seller states the truck recently completed an 800-mile round trip from his home in Mississippi to the Sand Rover Rally in Destin, Florida during which it cruised easily at speeds of 65+mph. This FJ40 is offered at no reserve with recent service records and a clean Mississippi title in the seller’s name.
A repaint in a different shade of green is said to have been performed approximately five years ago. Chips, scratches, and other blemishes are detailed in the gallery below. Significant rust is said to inhabit the bottoms of the ambulance-style rear doors and corresponding areas of the cargo floor. The seller recommends replacement of the ambulance doors.
The black paint on the front bumper and forward portion of the chassis could benefit from refreshment per the seller, but have been left untouched to allow accurate assessment of the condition. Front indicator lights, believed to be from an FJ70, were added by a prior owner. Exterior lighting is said to be operational except for the high beams.
The interior is said to appear largely stock aside from later-style black and gray vinyl-covered seats, which are in need of replacement according to the seller. The speedometer cable has been replaced and the seller has added approximately 2,000 of the 64k kilometers indicated on the odometer. True mileage is unknown. The temperature gauge is reportedly operational, while the fuel and oil gauges are not.
Rear jump seats are equipped in the rear cargo area, which shows varying levels of surface corrosion throughout. The seller states that wiring and a dash-mounted switch for rooftop auxiliary lights are present, though the lights were previously removed along with a corresponding roof rack (included with the sale).
Power is supplied by a 4.2L inline-six which is mated to a 4-speed manual gearbox. Recent work is said to include a new radiator, carburetor, Petronix Ignitor II electronic ignition and Flamethrower coil, spark plugs, cables, battery, parking brake and cable, and fluids. The FJ is equipped with power steering, but the pump is currently leaking and has been disconnected.
A video of the FJ starting and idling is provided above.
The rear U-joints were replaced in the past four months. Aisin manually locking front hubs and the four-wheel-drive are said to function as they should. The FJ is equipped with front disc and rear drum brakes. | 1,268,376 |
Russia loses up to 1 trillion roubles (£20bn) a year in tax evasion schemes with a further £32bn leaving the country illicitly in 2012, senior officials have said.
The central bank governor, Sergei Ignatiev, said that "shadowy operations" to transfer money abroad were worth the equivalent of about 2.5% of Russia's annual GDP.
"This could be the payment for the delivery of drugs or other goods forbidden to bring in too Russian territory. It could be payment for illegal imports … bribes and kickbacks for civil servants," he said.
Ignatiev, who will step down in June after 11 years in the job, also said that about 50% of the illegal transfers could be tracked back to one organisation, which he refused to identify.
"Our analysis shows that more than half of these shadowy operations are carried out by firms indirectly or directly linked with each other by payments. An impression is created that they are all controlled by one very well organised group of individuals," he told Vedomosti newspaper.
Ignatiev said that bogus "one-day" companies, some registered at remote addresses to unknowing people, were often involved in illegal transactions.
People using the one-day companies, called odnodnevniki in Russian, do not pay taxes at a municipal, regional or federal level.
"Odnodnevniki firms are simply the misfortune of our economy," he said. There are 3.9m companies registered with the Federal Tax Service but only 2m are real organisations, he added.
And even of those 2m, about 11% do not pay any taxes at all and 4-6% pay only a symbolic amount of tax.
Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said the companies were responsible for a severe drop in tax revenues. "Look at the central bank's data: the budget is down by half-a-trillion to a trillion roubles because of a link with the blossoming business of these one-day companies," Shuvalov was quoted as saying.
Russia recorded a net capital outflow of £37.2bn in 2012, down from £52.8bn in 2011.
Russian business is known for a lack of transparency. Companies have for decades used such complex holding structures that it is frequently impossible to determine the beneficial owner.
Cyprus is traditionally the offshore destination of choice for Russian firms, with the consequence that, officially, the island is the largest foreign investor in Russia.
Natalya Orlova an economist with Alfa Bank in Moscow, said Ignatiev's figures were "very big" but should be seen in the context of Russia's corrupt economy as a whole, which experts estimate as worth between 5% and 10% of GDP (around £64bn to £128bn).
Russia is seen as one of the most corrupt countries in the world, ranking 133rd out of 176 on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index. | 1,268,377 |
Hundreds of residents, merchants, city council members and municipality workers in Jerusalem protested Monday morning at the governmental compound in the capital, closing the entrance to the Knesset with dozens of garbage trucks.
The protesters were demonstrating against Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu), with the municipality arguing that unlike in previous years in which hundreds of millions of shekels were transferred to strengthen the capital, this year for the first time the Finance Minister is refusing to transfer the required budget of the city.
In order to maintain the management of Jerusalem and continue the trends of growth seen in the city, an immediate addition of 400 million shekels (around $103 million) is needed in its 2016 budget according to the municipality, in addition to 50 million shekels ($12.8 million) in aid for local businesses harmed by the recent wave of Arab terror.
"The Finance Minister's disengagement from Jerusalem and the harsh decrees that Kahlon is issuing on the city will critically harm the security of the city, education, welfare and cleaning (of the city) and is liable to push the city back many years," warned the municipality.
In terms of security in the terror beleaguered capital, the municipality noted that the security budget will be cut back, harming the ability to deploy security personnel, patrol cars, as well as checkpoints and surveillance points in the city. Likewise the budget for patrols in security institutions will be cut and hundreds of kindergartens will be left without security.
In education, programs in all schools will be cut, affecting public transportation allowances for students with financial needs, the extra month of classes during summer vacation in Jerusalem, supplementary classes for weaker students, programs to prevent dropout, and others.
As for welfare, the budget would severely cut back programs to help get people out of poverty, leaving 400 families in severe poverty and thousands of other families without the tools to improve their situation and integrate in the job market. Likewise programs for treatment of the elderly will be canceled, budgets for special needs residents will be diminished, and budgets for welfare institutions will be cut as will programs to provide meals for the needy.
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, who took part in the protest, said: "the Finance Minister needs to give explanations as to how it can be that since he entered his post he didn't find time to meet even once to discuss the aid to Jerusalem, and he firmly refuses even today to answer business owners who were seriously harmed by the security situation."
"Kahlon is trying to make this a personal war but the expectation of the Finance Minister to strengthen Jerusalem, particularly at this time, is not a personal matter. It is a national interest that all residents of the state expect from him," added Barkat.
"We call on Kahlon to stop disconnecting from Jerusalem and not to deal with small politics, but rather to announce wide support for Jerusalem, instead of holding the residents of the city and the merchants as captives. In this difficult period Jerusalem must be above all else." | 1,268,378 |
At least one potential U.S. presidential candidate thinks cryptocurrencies might be widely used in the future.
Starbucks chairman emeritus and former CEO Howard Schultz, who announced Sunday that he was considering making a run for the highest office in the U.S., has previously said that he sees cryptocurrencies as a future part of a cashless, digital economy, though he did not see bitcoin as a “legitimate” cryptocurrency.
The former CEO of the popular coffee chain discussed cryptocurrencies and blockchain during a quarterly earnings conference call in January 2018, telling investors that while he does not see bitcoin becoming a widely-used currency, he does think the underlying blockchain technology had numerous potential uses, in particular with helping his company transition to new payment models.
Schultz went so far at the time as to mention that cryptocurrencies would be incorporated into the company’s long-term digital payments strategy.
“I’m talking about … the possibility of what could happen — not in the near term, but in a few years from now — with a consumer application in which there’s trust and legitimacy with regard to a digital currency,” he said, adding:
“I’m not bringing this up because Starbucks is announcing that we are forming a digital currency or we’re investing in this … I’m bringing this up … as we think about the future of our company and the future of consumer behavior.”
More recently, his company appears to have warmed even to bitcoin. As revealed last summer, Starbucks has been working with Intercontinental Exchange, the parent of the New York Stock Exchange, on Bakkt, the upcoming bitcoin futures exchange. The retailer will help develop “practical” applications to convert digital assets into U.S. dollars at the point of sale, the companies said at the time.
Hitting the road
Schultz, who announced he was “considering” a run as an independent centrist candidate on Sunday, has also written a new book, which was released Monday.
Without mentioning the book, he said in a video posted Monday that he would soon embark on a “listening and learning” tour of the U.S.
“In the next few weeks and few months, I’ll be traveling the country. I’ll be listening, and learning, and meeting many of you,” he said. “I look forward to seeing you and I strongly believe that this is an opportunity in America at a very fragile time, to embrace a better choice, not the status quo which will lead to decline, but a better choice that I think will lead to a season of renewal, leadership that you can trust and once again government that can be working for all the people.”
Schultz did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Howard Schultz, left, image via Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from Washington D.C, United States / Wikimedia Commons
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The dry reforming process differs from steam reforming, which combines CH 4 and water (H 2 O) in the form of steam to produce the syngas. Producing the steam is energy-intensive; dry reforming requires far less water, and hence avoids the energy burden of steam production. In addition to reducing energy consumption, the dry reforming process also consumes recycled carbon dioxide.
As part of its R&D strategy, Linde has built a pilot reformer facility at Pullach near Munich—Linde’s largest location worldwide—to test dry-reforming technology. The dry reforming process catalytically combines CH 4, the principal component of natural gas, and CO 2 to produce syngas (CO and H 2 ). Syngas is then used to produce valuable downstream products such as base chemicals or fuels.
The dry reforming process also offers cost efficiencies relative to partial oxidation—these would be of particular interest to small and medium-sized plants.
Among the other benefits of the dry reforming approach is syngas with an H 2 /CO ratio of about 1, while steam reforming delivers an H 2 /CO of about 3 and partial oxidation a ratio of about 2. For some applications such as Fischer-Tropsch fuel synthesis, the low H 2 /CO ratio is desirable.
Linde Pilot Reformer. Click to enlarge.
Although processes and catalysts for dry reforming of methane at low pressure levels are well known and established, these processes require that the generated CO-rich syngas is compressed to the pressure level of the corresponding downstream processes. Post-compression of syngas with high CO contents is technically not an easy task, notes Linde development partner Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
To address that particular issue, KIT has focused on developing and designing new catalyst and process options for dry reforming at elevated pressure.
Engineers from Linde and development partner BASF further discussed the technical and economic challenges of dry reforming in a paper published earlier this year in the journal Chemie Ingenieur Technik (Schwab et al.).
Linde intends to use this pilot facility to test and optimize all kinds of approaches to reforming. The insights we gain will help us further improve reforming processes and concepts for our customers. —Dr. Christian Bruch, Member of the Executive Board of Linde AG
Tests in the pilot reformer are currently focused on dry reforming. This innovative process was developed by Linde in cooperation with its partners BASF (responsible for catalyst development); Karlsruhe Institute of Technology / KIT (responsible for simulations); and DECHEMA (supplier of materials). The pilot project has been awarded funding by the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) of just under one €1 million.
If the dry reforming pilot proves successful, there are plans to commercialize the process when the funded project comes to an end in 2017 and to build a reference plant for a Linde customer.
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Devon Smith, with ice on his knee, played only seven games in 2019. Picture: AFL Photos
A FULLY-FIT Devon Smith dominated Essendon training on Thursday as the Bombers nurse a number of big names through injury-hit pre-seasons.
Smith's importance to the Bombers' hopes in 2020 was evident throughout the session, with the former Greater Western Sydney midfielder back to his tenacious best after an injury-riddled 2019 campaign.
The 26-year-old played only seven games for the Bombers this year as he battled a knee injury that required season-ending surgery after round eight and saw him miss Essendon's return to the finals.
Devon Smith kicks the ball during a training session earlier this month. Picture: AFL Photos
But he showed no signs of that across the morning, with Smith an active, boisterous and busy part of the Bombers' drills, which were led by senior coach-in-waiting Ben Rutten.
At one stage Smith laid a brilliant smother that highlighted his speed, before the dogged midfielder was able to spoil a mark and then follow up the ball at ground level to set up a goal for his group in the session.
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The 2018 best and fairest winner's presence was important given the Bombers' injury issues as they head towards their Christmas break.
Rutten told members at last week's annual general meeting that the club had only just over half of its list training fully.
Captain Dyson Heppell spent Thursday's session on the bicycle as he returns from foot surgery, while Orazio Fantasia and Dylan Shiel were running laps.
Dyson Heppell has spent most of his pre-season on a stationary bike. Picture: AFL Photos
Cale Hooker and Zach Merrett were unsighted for the session, as was pair David Zaharakis (foot) and Joe Daniher (groin), with that duo coming back from their respective surgeries.
The Bombers' recent batch of draftees also did not train with the group, while Patrick Ambrose and Sam Draper sat out of proceedings and instead trained with the rehab group.
Michael Hurley, who underwent shoulder surgery for the injury he carried into last year's elimination final loss to West Coast, spent the most time on the track of the players who entered the pre-season with fitness issues.
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He was also leading his running group as the players split into three batches at the end of their football drills to complete staggered dashes around the club's secondary oval.
Throughout training Tom Cutler, who joined the Bombers during the Telstra AFL Trade Period from Brisbane, showed glimpses of his speed and run which could be used on a wing next season, while ex-Blue Andrew Phillips worked closely with fellow ruckman Tom Bellchambers. | 1,268,381 |
Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail says Putrajaya is powerless to nullify the marriage because Kelantanese Islamic laws allow children under 16 to get married with the permission of a Shariah Court judge. ― Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
PUTRAJAYA, July 10 ― The marriage between the 41-year-old rubber dealer and the 11-year-old Thai national remains valid under Islam even after the man was fined RM1,800 by the Gua Musang Shariah Subordinate Court.
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said Putrajaya is powerless to nullify the marriage because Kelantanese Islamic laws allow children under 16 to get married with the permission of a Shariah Court judge.
“Legally it is not valid but under Islamic laws it is,” Dr Wan Azizah, who is also minister of women, family and community development, told reporters here.
Che Mohd Karim Che Hamid was fined for two charges of unauthorised marriage and unapproved polygamy in relation to the case, which has sparked nationwide uproar.
A report by Berita Harian published yesterday said Gua Musang Shariah Subordinate Court judge Surbaineey Hussain imposed a fine of RM900 on for each of the two charges. The man pleaded guilty to both.
The 41-year-old is now required to register his marriage in Kelantan to have it validated, but will have to seek permission from a Shariah Court judge for approval.
Dr Wan Azizah on Sunday said the authorities are “closely” monitoring the case amid ongoing investigation, and today said the government is “working” with the National Fatwa Council to push the age limit for marriage to 18.
“We will engage them and try to have them push the age limit for marriage to 18,” she said in response to press queries on whether or not the new administration plans to table anti-child marriage laws.
Legal observers and child rights groups said the controversy surrounding child marriages highlights the complicated nature of a federalised Islamic legal system, where each state is governed by its respective regulations pertaining to Islam.
At the federal level, authorities are unable to act on the 41-year-old or cancel the marriage because he has not violated any federal laws.
The man wedded the girl in Southern Thailand.
Wan Azizah today said the RM1,800 fine on the rubber dealer was a “slap in the wrist”, but at the same time expressed hope that the penalty could be translated as the Court’s disapproval of the marriage.
“I hope with the penalty the court would hold him on to it and explain,” the deputy prime minister said, referring to the requirement for a Shariah Court judge to write in clear terms the reasons for approving an under-aged marriage. | 1,268,382 |
Decentralized predictions market Augur has taken some big steps to stomp-out nefarious actors on its platform, the firm told The Block.
Augur allows users to create a market based on the outcome of an event, with actors buying shares of the outcome whether that be “yes” shares or “no” shares or something more complicated. When the outcome occurs, those who bet the winning outcome see an ether payout – 0.5 per share for a winning bet in a yes/no scenario and none for a losing bet. However, in an invalid outcome, which occurs when an outcome is unverifiable, yes and no shares each receive a 0.5 payout.
Here is where cheaters take advantage, according to Augur.
Attackers create an invalid market, perhaps by setting the end of the event to a time when it will certainly yield an ambiguous outcome, like before the event takes place. They then buy up shares of the least probable outcome at a price lower than the payout of the “invalid” outcome. Market creators do have to pay a validity bond when creating a market, which they only get back when the market is deemed valid, but this isn’t enough to deter bad actors since the fee is often less than the money made off the invalid market.
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To combat this, Augur has released a new Augur App that sorts markets to show those most likely to be of value to traders, deterring users from creating invalid markets for gain since they’ll be less likely to see a payout.
“The ultimate goal is to create a game where everyone wins: where the individual incentives of market actors align with the utility and security of the protocol as a whole,” said Ben Davidow of Augur's growth strategy department, in a Medium post.
Basically, the new set up filters out markets that have wide spreads and a lack of deep liquidity. As traders could manipulate markets previously with dust orders to give the appearance of a tight market. In addition to rewarding markets with tight, deep spreads by making them more visible, the filter also excludes markets that have no bids or asks that would incur a loss for the order creators in the case of Invalid resolution.
Augur also plans to allow users to trade an invalid outcome, making it impossible to profit on an “invalid” in a yes/no outcome as scammers previously benefited from. However, the filters aren’t perfect and some invalid market scammers may still slip through. They can post a small order as a loss leader to pass the filter, but the payout will likely be severely limited by the spread filter, incentivising users to not waste their time building scams since it’ll be less lucrative.
Augur isn’t the only decentralized platform that has had to take care of scammers. Bancor, a decentralized exchange, had front-running problems. Bancor subsequently hired a front-runner to find solutions. | 1,268,383 |
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Michael (Mike) Richard PompeoPutin nominated for Nobel Peace Prize The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by Facebook - Trump previews SCOTUS nominee as 'totally brilliant' Pompeo accused of stumping for Trump ahead of election MORE announced Monday the creation of a commission to review the role of human rights in U.S. foreign policy.
The Commission on Unalienable Rights is meant to provide advice on human rights based on the nation’s founding principles and the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Pompeo said, arguing that there is confusion over what constitutes a human right.
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“As human rights claims have proliferated, some claims have come into tension with one another, provoking questions and clashes about which rights are entitled to gain respect,” Pompeo said while delivering remarks to reporters but without taking any questions. “Nation-states and international institutions remain confused about their respective responsibilities concerning human rights.”
The commission drew swift scrutiny from critics who worry the panel will undermine protections for abortion rights and marginalized groups such as LGBT people.
Critics were first concerned in May when a notice for the commission, published in the Federal Register, said the group would provide “fresh thinking about human rights discourse where such discourse has departed from our nation’s founding principles of natural law and natural rights.”
The term “natural law” has been used by opponents of same-sex marriage.
“If this administration truly wanted to support people’s rights, it would use the global framework that’s already in place. Instead, it wants to undermine rights for individuals, as well as the responsibilities of governments,” Joanne Lin, national director of advocacy and government affairs at Amnesty International USA, said in a statement Monday. “This politicization of human rights in order to, what appears to be an attempt to further hateful policies aimed at women and LGBTQ people, is shameful.”
The commission will be headed by Mary Ann Glendon, a Harvard Law School professor and former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican during the George W. Bush administration.
In brief remarks alongside Pompeo, Glendon said the commission will “do our very best to carry out your marching orders and to do so in a way that will assist you in your difficult task of transmuting principle into policy.”
“I wanted to thank you especially for giving a priority to human rights at this moment when basic human rights are being misunderstood by many, manipulated by many and ignored by the world’s worst human rights violators,” Glendon told Pompeo. “You’ve asked us to work at the level of principle, not policy, and you’ve asked us to take our bearings from the distinctive rights tradition of the United States of America, a tradition that is grounded in the institutions without which rights would not be possible: constitutional government and the rule of law.” | 1,268,384 |
Yet another person who worked for Google says they were retaliated against by their former employer for organizing.
This time it's Kathryn Spiers.
The engineer and ex-Googler says she lost her job after she created a browser extension to inform co-workers of their labor rights.
Google denies the charge. See below for the company's response.
"I was fired last week by Google for organizing," writes Kathryn Spiers on Medium.com.
Excerpt:
During my time on the security team, I've had many conversations about the importance of maintaining user trust. My code — a small notification about employee rights — does not reduce trust. What does is the Director of Detection and Response signing a letter falsely accusing four of my coworkers. Or the fact that upper management is trying to use the security team to investigate employees and their organizing activity. A less transparent Google is a less trustworthy Google. Google's response to this was to suspend me immediately and without warning. This was the week of Thanksgiving, the same day they fired the Thanksgiving Four. They also dragged me into three separate interrogations with very little warning each time. I was interrogated about separate other organizing activities, and asked (eight times) if I had an intention to disrupt the workplace. The interrogations were extremely aggressive and illegal. They wouldn't let me consult with anyone, including a lawyer, and relentlessly pressured me to incriminate myself and any coworkers I had talked to about exercising my rights at work. On Friday, December 13 my interrogator called me to tell me that I was being terminated for violating Google's security policies. I asked him how I violated the security policies but he told me that he wouldn't answer that question. On top of this unbridled fury from the company, this is happening right before the holidays. Instead of a joyful celebration of my recent promotion and hard work, I am stunned and hurt while I scramble to find a new job and clear my name. Google has overreacted in an egregious, illegal, and discriminatory manner. The notification I wrote had no negative effect on our users or other employees and Google will do its best to justify my firing in a way that pits workers against each other but they can't hide behind this fabricated logic forever. This doesn't just affect me. The company is too powerful and they must be held accountable.
Read the rest of her post: Google Fires Another Worker for Exercising her Rights and Protecting Coworkers from Illegal Company Retaliation [medium.com/@ksspiers]
I was fired last week by Google for organizing. All I did was make a popup to share the labor notice Google has to share with its workers. 3 hours later mgmt came to my desk, took my phone/laptop, escorted me away. I never got to say goodbye. My story: https://t.co/dV4ExPHbLT — Kathryn Spiers (@eiais) December 17, 2019
Here is Google's response, via The Daily Beast. | 1,268,385 |
When I was a kid, I used to have this red, yellow, and blue padded case for my Nintendo Entertainment System. It flew across the country with me for extended visits to my grandparents’ house, but the one thing I could never take with me was a decent television.
GAEMS has been working to solve that problem, and you may be familiar with its suitcase-like entertainment systems. The Sentry and the Vanguard are hard-shell cases that include a display and speaker set-up as well as protection for a console in transit.
At RTX (Rooster Teeth's annual convention in Austin), GAEMS unveiled two products currently in development. The M155 Scout is a 15.5-inch HD display that’s extremely light and portable. At E3, I had a chance to see (and hold) one in person and was stunned at how little it weighed (about as much as my third generation iPad).
GAEMS co-founder John Smith plugged in his Android phone to show me the display, and I was impressed by how bright it was. The display is USB-powered, and GAEMS recently tweeted a picture of the Scout on top of an Xbox One with the console’s power supply handling both devices.
The Scout doesn’t offer the protection of GAEMS’ earlier products or speakers, but for those who have other methods of protection (and wish to get audio from the controller port), it’s a lightweight solution. The other product is also portable, though not quite the way the Scout is.
The M240 Hybrid Ops is a 24-inch display designed more for dorm room or apartment living. It has four speakers built in for simulated surround. The devices can also be daisy-chained (via the two HDMI input / one HDMI output setup) with no perceptible latency even three or four displays down the chain, according to GAEMS.
The device does have a screen protector and a rotating handle should you need to move it, though. It also will have a wheel attachment (coming later), so users don’t have to carry the Hybrid Ops (it’s portable, but not easy for everyone to carry). Alternatively, GAEMS will offer a mounting plate to connect to VESA mounts.
Both devices are available at RTX, July 4 through 6 for demos. They’ll be released later this year.
Our Take
I had the opportunity to see the Scout in action, and was extremely surprised at how light it is (and the image quality). I have a Gaems unit that I use when traveling on family vacations, and it's come in very handy (especially when there isn't a television available), but it might not be for everyone. The Scout strikes me as a much more convenient option. Depending on pricing, the Hybrid Ops could be a good alternative to a traditional television setup for dorm rooms. Once we know more about how much these will cost, it will be easier to weigh in more definitively. | 1,268,386 |
Currently, China has just over 1,000 active, known cases of novel coronavirus. That sounds like paradise in an America where the case count is swiftly moving toward half a million. But what it really means is that China is right where it was at the end of January—just before the case count there exploded. Reopening businesses and schools in Wuhan is a serious test of how effectively China has actually identified existing cases and how well isolation can hold up as the suppression generated through aggressive social distancing is taken away.
Above all, it’s a test … of testing. An experiment in just how well China has been able to identify cases of COVID-19 and keep them away from the rest of the population.
But as Donald Trump prepares to pull the plug on … the nothing he’s actually done … there’s one part he really doesn’t find all that necessary. That part being everything China, South Korea, and every other nation that has brought COVID-19 under something approaching control has done.
As The Washington Post reports, Trump is ready to send Americans back out there for the good of Wall Street—health, safety, and testing be damned. Confronted with concerns that many Americans who want to be tested still aren’t able to get a test, Trump did what he does with all inconvenient questions: deny reality. According to Trump, America has “the best testing system in the world.” Even though this is patently, obviously, and definitively false.
As if realizing that, Trump immediately followed by saying that extensive testing … wasn’t really needed. “It’s not necessary,” said Trump, “but it would be a good thing to have.” And when it comes to a coordinated system of mass testing across the country—the kind of system Trump promised back on March 13 when he pumped the hands of execs from Walmart, Target, CVS, and others while explaining that Google had “17,000 engineers” at work on a website to manage all that testing—the story has slightly changed. Trump now says that large-scale federal testing “is not going to happen.”
There is, the Post reports, a “widespread consensus” regarding what America needs to do before social distancing rules are relaxed. That consensus includes “mounting a large-scale contact-tracing effort” and “widespread testing” along with isolation of those infected and quarantine of those in direct contact. It’s a theory you may have heard before, or possibly before that, or before that.
Extensive testing. Case tracing. Isolation. Quarantine. And all of that needs to be done to the point where the United States is more like China, or South Korea, or New Zealand—where there is only a handful of cases, all of them of known origin. Then social distancing can be relaxed. Carefully. | 1,268,387 |
A Florida man is facing negligence charges after leaving his loaded AK-47 unattended, resulting in his 6-year-old nephew picking it up and accidentally shooting his grandfather.
According to WSVN, Juan Manuel Martinez Jr., 28, has been charged with culpable negligence of a firearm for not keeping an eye on his loaded AK-47, authorities said.
According to police, Martinez was having a beer with his father, Juan Manuel Martinez Sr., at a family barbeque when talk turned to hunting. Martinez Jr. brought out his AK-47 to share, handing it to his father who then set it on a table.
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A nephew of Martinez Jr. picked up the unattended assault rifle and pulled the trigger, shooting his grandfather in the chest and killing him.
“It’s not his fault. He didn’t know what he was doing,” Martinez Jr. said. “He’s just a little boy. I love him. He’s my family. I love all my family.”
Martinez added that he was unaware that his nephew was nearby.
“We heard the gun shot go off. My father was struck in the chest before he was airlifted to the hospital, and they told us that he passed,” he said.”I should’ve never brought the firearm out.”
“In this particular case, investigators informed us, that there was alcohol involved. Not only alcohol. We also had drugs. We had cocaine,” said Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta.
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Martinez admitted to WSVN that he had been doing drugs and drinking before the accident, saying, “I was smoking marijuana. I was doing cocaine, and I had two beers.”
Martinez called the shooting an accident, saying no one was to blame.
“The family is not trying to point the finger at anybody,” he said. “This is a tragic event that occurred. We can’t say it was my fault, it was my nephew’s fault, it was my father’s fault. It’s just a tragic event that occurred. If there was anything I could do to bring him back, God help me I would.”
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“If you are a gun owner, you need to know that you are responsible for that gun. You’re responsible on how to handle that gun and of the safety of the people around you,” said Zabaleta.
Martinez Jr. was arrested, booked, and released from jail.
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The 6-year-old is in the care of his family and is receiving grief counseling.
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Another violent incident between settlers and Palestinian olive pickers:
Residents of the West Bank village of Kadum claimed to have been attacked by residents of the Kedumim settlement as they arrived at their olive grove Sunday morning.
According to the Palestinians, some 10 settlers assaulted them with stones. An IDF force dispatched to the area removed the olive pickers.
Saturday's Incident Sources in Hebron: Settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives Ali Waked Report says Jewish residents of West Bank city hurled stones at Palestinians and left-wing activists in Tel Rumeida neighborhood. Police: Palestinians were picking olives without authorization Sources in Hebron: Settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives
"They only want to evacuate us from the area claiming that we did not coordinate our arrival with them. We have no plan to evacuate and will continue to harvest our olives," he said.
Asked why the harvest was not coordinated with the IDF, Shatiwi replied, "They drive us crazy until they give us approval. We have not been given approval till now since the beginning of the season, and judging from last year's experience, their coordination is given for a much later date when it already rains and the olives are damaged."
Kafr Kadum residents said that last year the approval was given after the harvest season had already ended, and when the olive pickers arrived at the grove they discovered that the olives had been stolen from the trees, allegedly by settlers.
Shatiwi said that he had discovered that olives belonging to him, his neighbors and his relatives were stolen from another part of the village, near the outpost of Shvut Ami.
"We discovered that the ladders were use for the harvest, the sheets we use to collect the olives and sacks of olives, were all stolen by the settlers. Instead of investigating this, they are only busy trying to evacuate us."
Soldiers and olive pickers (Photo: CIBB)
Residents of Kafr Kadum and the surrounding area said that the officer responsible for granting the approvals for the olive picking has taken a holiday vacation and will only return after Simchat Torah
"The farmers cannot wait until the honorable officer returns from the holidays. The olives on the trees do not understand that there is a holiday break. The settlers are also taking advantage of the fact that we are not allowed to enter and are celebrating with our olives," one of the farmers told Ynet.
The Judea and Samaria police said in response that Palestinians had filed a complaint with the Kadum station, claiming that their ladders, sheets and harvest equipment were stolen. An investigation has been launched into the case.
An IDF source told Ynet that "this is an area of conflict with the settlers, and therefore the Palestinians are asked to coordinate the harvest in advance." The official added that the army and the Palestinians have coordinated an olive harvest for next week.
Efrat Weiss contributed to this report | 1,268,389 |
11/10/2019
I just finished Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning and was looking for my next book (I’m a quarter of the way through The Wealth of Nations, but that’s something I pick up when I’m between books). Kevin Smith was on Joe Rogan’s podcast a few weeks ago and in the episode Joe quotes Miyamoto Musashi, a legendary swordsman, which ultimately led me to The Book of Five Rings.
Here’s another quote from the book that relates to my statement in last week’s newsletter about the historical context of decision making.
Do not just read, memorize or imitate, but so that you realize the principle from within your own heart study hard to absorb these things into your body.
Even with infinite leverage, these traders lost money. It goes to show you that money doesn’t automatically beget more money.
This is a nice segue into something that annoys the hell out of me. The U.S. has these arcane accreditation rules that disqualify average people from investing in start ups. The argument is that the accreditation rules are in place to protect people from losing all their money. The problem with this logic is we don’t stop people from crowdfunding projects they’re interested in or trading with infinite leverage. Explain to me how buying private equity is more risky than trading with infinite leverage.
I’m sure a large portion of my readers are interested in this. It looks like the lectures will be available online after the course is finished, so it’ll be interesting to see what kind of content is in the course.
It’s interesting that a robotics company is going the crowdfunding route rather than traditional financing. I reserved a spot just in case, but I likely won’t invest because it makes me wary. Also, I already bought shares of Robinhood and that is enough private equity for one week.
Did someone say Robinhood?
One of the Libra co-creators was on Unchained this week. With all the headlines surrounding Libra, it was refreshing to get some less sensationalized information on the project.
It feels like this IPO has been in the headlines for months now. It’ll be interesting to see how the market reacts when the IPO finally happens, particularly given the current market sentiment toward oil.
One thing I hadn’t considered was the political ramifications of a particular country owning a large amount of the Aramco shares outlined in this Bloomberg article.
More info broke on this before I posted this newsletter. It looks like individual investors will be capped at 0.5% of the initial IPO. The IPO prospectus was also released right before this newsletter, which outlines the risks Aramco can see with the business.
This is an obvious attempt at avoiding anti-trust scrutiny. Given it is so obvious to everyone, one can’t help but wonder, why bother? | 1,268,390 |
With some major reworking to the grille, and a few minor updates to the cabin, the Chevy Camaro has been reinvigorated for the 2019 model year. We caught a glimpse of the new coupe last week in Las Vegas, but now Chevy has officially pulled the sheet off its updated sports car – including the brand-new four-cylinder Turbo 1LE trim.
So what’s new? Most significantly, the front fascia throughout the entire range gains even more aggressive styling, giving it a more distinctive look over the outgoing model. Chevy calls it a "performance-driven design," which uses larger vent areas and better angles to improve airflow. The SS model (pictured below) also gains a "Flowtie" for the first time, which not only looks cool, but increases airflow to the engine by an extra 2.5 cubic meters per minute.
Apart from the grille, a handful of new colors – including Riverside Blue, a tribute to the 1967 Penske-Donohue Camaro Trans-Am racer – as well as a new set of 20-inch wheels have been added to the exterior styling. Sleek new LED headlights, and smoked taillights with an updated design further enhance the look.
In the cabin, the Camaro only gets a few minor visual updates – things like new ambient lighting options, and on higher trim levels like the 2SS and ZL1, a standard rear camera mirror. The 2019 Camaro also adopts Chevy’s new Infotainment 3 system. Like the new Malibu and Cruze before it, the new setup improves Bluetooth connectivity, adds even more apps, and gives off better graphics.
Mechanically, the most significant update can be found on the performance-oriented SS model. The V8-powered sports car now gains a 10-speed automatic transmission with custom launch control and line lock features. Of course, the same six-speed manual also carries over. No word on whether power sees an increase.
The four-cylinder Turbo 1LE, meanwhile, is all new. Underhood it uses the same 2.0-liter turbocharged engine found on the standard Camaro, producing 275 horses (205 kilowatts) and 295 pound-feet of torque (400 Newton-meters). All that oomph pairs with a six-speed manual gearbox exclusively, a specially tuned suspension, a near 50/50 weight balance, and new Track Mode and Competition Mode settings, which allow for things like performance readouts, launch control, and shift point lights, among other features.
The 2019 Camaro, and the sporty Turbo 1LE, will go on sale later in the year. No word on pricing just yet, but we expect an MSRP of somewhere between $30,000 to $35,000 for the 1LE; Chevy benchmarked the new trim level against cars like the Honda Civic Type R, VW Golf R, and even the upcoming Hyundai Veloster N, interestingly enough.
Source: Chevrolet | 1,268,391 |
button, and FALSE if the user clicked the “Cancel” button.
When the user exits the modal using the Escape key or by clicking outside of the modal, the return value is FALSE (as if the “Cancel” button was clicked). If the timer parameter is used and the modal closes automatically as a result of the timer, no value is returned from the modal.
The return value of the modal can be accessed via input$shinyalert (or using a different input ID if you specify the inputId parameter) in the Shiny server’s code, as if it were a regular Shiny input. The return value can also be accessed using the modal callbacks.
Callbacks
The return value of the modal is passed as an argument to the callbackR and callbackJS functions (if a callbackR or callbackJS arguments are provided). These are functions that get called, either in R or in JavaScript, when the modal exits.
For example, using the following shinyalert code will result in a modal with an input field. After the user clicks “OK”, a hello message will be printed to both the R console and in a native JavaScript alert box. You don’t need to provide both callback functions, but in this example both are used for demonstration.
shinyalert ( "Enter your name", type = "input", callbackR = function ( x ) { message ( "Hello ", x ) }, callbackJS = "function(x) { alert('Hello'+ x); }" )
Notice that the callbackR function accepts R code, while the callbackJS function uses JavaScript code.
Since closing the modal with the Escape key results in a return value of FALSE, the callback functions can be modified to not print hello in that case.
shinyalert ( "Enter your name", type = "input", callbackR = function ( x ) { if ( x!= FALSE ) message ( "Hello ", x ) }, callbackJS = "function(x) { if (x!== false) { alert('Hello'+ x); } }" )
Chaining modals
It’s possible to chain modals (call multiple modals one after another) by making a shinyalert() call inside a shinyalert callback or using the return value of a previous modal. For example:
shinyalert ( title = "What is your name?", type = "input", callbackR = function ( value ) { shinyalert ( paste ( "Welcome", value )) } )
Comparison with Shiny modals
Doesn’t Shiny already have support for modals?
Yes, it does.
And Shiny’s modals are more powerful in some ways than shinyalert modals: Shiny’s native modals ( showModal() + modalDialog() ) can contain multiple input fields and even outputs. | 1,268,392 |
Canadian police have arrested one suspect after a “multiple fatality” shooting in Fredericton, New Brunswick. At least four people are reported dead, two of them police officers.
Police responded to the incident around 7.30 am, and arrested the suspect just over two hours later.
UDPATE: At this time we can confirm that we have one suspect in custody. Police continue to have the Brookside area contained for the foreseeable future as the investigation is ongoing.Please continue to avoid the area and follow us for the facts. — Fredericton Police (@CityFredPolice) August 10, 2018
The shootings took place on Brookside Drive, a leafy thoroughfare on the city's north side. Locals have been advised to avoid the area and remain indoors with their doors locked as a search continues.
Please continue to avoid the area of Brookside Drive between Main and Ring Road. An incident has resulted in at least four people killed. More information will be available when we can confirm. — Fredericton Police (@CityFredPolice) August 10, 2018
One resident told CBC News that he heard a series of shots ring out around 7 am. He described hearing “firecracker” sounds in the distance, then again closer to his house.
“It might've been a gunshot," he said. "It was sort of like a pop, pop, pop, pop."
CBC reported that police evacuated an apartment block near the man's house shortly after 9 am.
"I looked out the window and there were three police cars on the street just across from where I live," said another witness in the area. "I saw one cop just standing against the building … like he was waiting for somebody to come out."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered his condolences via Twitter, and said that the government is "following the situation closely."
Awful news coming out of Fredericton. My heart goes out to everyone affected by this morning’s shooting. We’re following the situation closely. — Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) August 10, 2018
Fredericton is the capital of the province of New Brunswick, and is home to just under 60,000 people.
Fredericton Police Force reporting multiple fatalities. No more information is available. pic.twitter.com/g4cch8cBLC — Nathalie Sturgeon (@nthlstrgn) August 10, 2018
Violent crime is relatively rare in Fredericton, which rarely makes lists of the country’s most violent cities.
In Moncton, the province’s largest city, a 24-year-old man shot five officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 2014, killing three and severely injuring two. The attack was the worst attack on the RCMP in almost 10 years, and Moncton’s first homicide since 2010.
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British multinational investment bank and financial services company Barclays is reportedly looking to join the cryptocurrency hype among institutional players.
Barclays Appoints Chris Tyrer to Lead Digital Assets Project
A few months ago, Jes Staley, Barclays CEO, ruled out launching their own virtual currency trading desk. However, the bank has reportedly created a “digital assets project” in which it will be figuring out how to approach the fast-growing market.
Barclays, one of the world’s largest banks with nearly 120,000 employees across the globe and reporting over £21,000 billion in revenue, has remained on the sidelines when it comes to the trading of digital assets. Goldman Sachs was one of the first large institutional players making a move by using its own money to trade with clients in a number of contracts. The decision saw other financial institutions making the move to launch cryptocurrency trading desks, but Barclays kept its cool.
In May 2018, Staley, told a shareholder that he remained skeptical of the technology because of compliance and regulatory issues, but that the bank was exploring the subject of cryptocurrencies. Now, it’s reported that instead of launching a virtual currency trading desk, the bank exploring how it can start trading digital currencies, reports the Financial News. The “digital assets project” will be run by Chris Tyrer, former global head of energy trading.
The working group includes Marvin Barth, head of FX and emerging markets macro strategy, and Lee Braine, a senior executive from the CTO office and expert on blockchain technology. Braine recently made comments about distributed ledger technology in an interview.
“There are clearly tremendous opportunities for startups in the blockchain space. For investment banking, blockchain-inspired solutions such as shared ledgers and smart contracts should aim to meet the enterprise-scale architectural non-functional requirements […] Different banks implement executable business logic, often operating in a similar way, within their bank. The opportunity here is for executable business logic common across banks, and shared ledgers may provide one potential way of achieving that.”
Barclays Joins Institutional Race for Cryptocurrency Market
News that Barclays is strengthening its “digital asset project” indicates that an eventual launch of a cryptocurrency trading desk may be sooner than one would expect after Staley’s comments in May. Barclays joins a group of institutional players who are gaining confidence in a more regulated, secure, and predictable ecosystem.
The institutional race for digital assets may have started with Goldman Sachs, but Morgan Stanley is a strong competitor after revealing their plan of creating a specific desk for institutional traders, ICOs, and arbitrage. This before Goldman Sachs or any of the other major players.
JPMorgan Chase has recently appointed DLT talent Oliver Harris to its blockchain initiatives team as Head of Crypto-Strategy. CEO Jamie Dimon once called Bitcoin a “fraud”, but he has been quite open to distributed ledger technology for its promise of disruption.
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A routine yoga exercise practice could be crucial to remaining healthy. A regular yoga exercise technique could assist in food digestion, aid launch and also get rid of toxic substances, construct strength, release tension and also even boost blood flow as well as flow of the lymph fluids. With a wide array of yoga designs and positions to selected from, there are a couple of that will certainly help you obtain the most from your yoga exercise practice.
Downward Dog
Downward Canine maintains you healthy by toning the entire body, while launching tension with the neck, back and also rear of the legs. Come onto your hands as well as knees on a yoga mat. Put your toes as you align your legs and also lift your rest bones to the ceiling, making the form of an upside down ‘V.’ Push right into your hands, raise your hips and also push down through your heels. This triggers the arms, legs and core as well as lengthens through the rear of the legs and neck. Hold for 10 breaths prior to lowering back down.
Seated Twist
In yoga, twists are not just terrific for launching stress around the spinal column as well as hips and toning the core, however additionally for cleansing the organs. It is believed that the twisting motion rings out the organs, much like wringing out a recipe towel when it’s damp, to remove toxic substances and also boost food digestion. Rest with your legs prolonged and with each other. Cross your appropriate leg over your left and attract your right knee in the direction of your breast. Extend your back and twist to the. Hold for 5 breaths as well as switch sides to repeat.
Legs Up the Wall
The lymph fluid in the body does not removal on its own like blood does. It counts on boosting the lymph nodes through exercise to push the liquid through. Because of its stable nature, much of the liquid gets constructed up in the legs and ankles as well as could trigger swelling. Lifting your boosts as well as placing them against the wall surface could help release this develop as well as promote better flow. Sit beside a wall on your mat. Swing your boosts onto the wall surface as well as exist back as you run your lower forward until it is right against the wall surface, with you hips in almost in a 90-degree angle. You can position coverings or cushions under your lower back if you should. Hold for 2 to 5 minutes before lowering.
Savasana
After any yoga exercise method, and even just by itself, it is necessary to allow all of the systems re-integrate as well as to allow the body remainder. Savasana, or corpse pose, is the final present in a yoga method. It is developed to unwind your body and mind as well as allow the wellness advantages of your method to sink in. You basic lie on your back with your legs open and your arms on your side, palms facing up. Shut your eyes as well as stay below, stationary, for at the very least 5 minutes. | 1,268,395 |
(Reuters photo: Kimberly White)
Whether the student intended to or not, she made things more difficult for real victims of discrimination.
A student who had been serving in Ohio University’s student government is being charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly making anti-LGBT threats against herself and reporting them to the police.
The Ohio University police department arrested student senator Anna Ayers on Monday and charged her with three counts of “making false alarms,” according to an article in Campus Reform.
Ayers had apparently gone to the police to report a series of threatening messages, including a death threat, and claimed that the messages were due to her being part of the LGBT community.
“Ayers previously reported receiving a series of threatening messages, two of them in the Student Senate office, and one of them at her residence,” states a police report covering the incident.
When police investigated her claims, however, they found that Ayers had “placed the messages herself,” according to the report.
As Campus Reform notes, Ayers had previously published a tweet thanking everyone who had “supported” her “during a pretty awful time in [her] life.”
“We are still processing and encouraging our members to take time to heal and utilize campus support resources right now,” student-senate president Maddie Sloat told Campus Reform. “We’re complying with the investigation and OUPD.”
“We hope Anna receives the help that she needs,” Sloat continued.
A spokesperson for the student government also told Campus Reform that Ayers had resigned from her position as a student senator.
“Making false alarms” is punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. Ayers is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday — and I certainly hope that she faces some kind of punishment for her despicable actions.
What Ayers did was not a victimless crime. It wasn’t just a stupid, desperate plea for attention; it was actually harmful. Why? Because although her particular claims were apparently false, discrimination against people in the LGBT community is very real. There are actual, real people who face threats just like the ones that Ayers allegedly made against herself, simply because they’re gay.
Doing this to herself for attention, or for whatever reason she decided to do it, minimizes the struggle that real victims have to go through. What’s more, the fact that this turned out to be a hoax may make it less likely that someone who claims to have been targeted will be believed — even if that person is a sincere victim. She didn’t just hurt herself and her own reputation, she also managed to do a serious disservice to her own community. Whether she intended to or not, she made things more difficult for real victims of discrimination, and I hope that she is ashamed of herself for her actions. | 1,268,396 |
The popular movie and TV streaming script TVstreamScript has shut down "voluntarily" following pressure from movie industry group FACT. The script was used by hundreds of streaming sites, which have all been rendered useless overnight. FACT tells TorrentFreak that convincing site owners to sign over their domains is one of the strategies they use to tackle online piracy.
With broadband connections becoming more prevalent, movie and TV streaming sites have become a growing problem for copyright holders.
These streaming sites come in all shapes and sizes, and there are scripts on the market that allow anyone to set up their own streaming index in just a few minutes.
TVstreamScript is one of these options and hundreds of sites, mostly smaller ones, run on this software. The script costs $99 for a basic one domain license and buyers can expand their sites with plugins or buy themes to make it more unique.
A TVstreamScript demo site
However, yesterday, TVstreamScript shut down following pressure from Hollywood-backed UK anti-piracy group FACT. The site owner voluntarily signed over the TVstreamScript.com domain to FACT and it’s currently redirecting to a parked page.
As a result, hundreds of streaming sites that relied on the script have become unusable.
Tvsuperstream.com, Infinityshows.com, Cinesheet.com, Streamflix.org, Whatchon.me, Seriesvk.com, Yeahstream.com, Canaltv.ru, Tvshows2k.com, Watchtvstream.com, Online24tv.com, Movifan.net and Tvdrot.com/ are just a few examples of the sites that are affected, but there are many more.
Most streaming sites now display 404 errors, redirect elsewhere, or show the following license error. “License Error: Invalid license key. Please contact your software vendor for support.”
Gone
Commenting to TorrentFreak, the movie industry anti-piracy group says that the current action is one of the many strategies the group employs to combat the “growing problem” of online piracy.
“When contacted, some site owners agree to sign over their domains to FACT and we then use that domain to help direct visitors to legitimate ways of watching movies, TV programmes or sporting events,” FACT explained.
Previously the group told TorrentFreak that they’ve seen a change in attitudes since the owner of TV streaming links site SurfTheChannel was sentenced to four years jail-time last year.
FACT is using the Vickerman verdict to convince operators of other streaming related sites to “voluntarily” hand over their domains to escape prosecution, which many have done since.
However, not all streaming sites that were hit by the domain takeover are willing to throw in the towel. Several site owners are trying to recover and come back online and some have done so successfully.
And so it continues…. | 1,268,397 |
now. So for me, this is really a key piece of what a platform has to offer.
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A brief history of Macs
The Mac at this time was still struggling with its archaic OS and its underpowered hardware, and the entire platform felt stagnant.
In 2001, Apple just about managed to get OS X out the door—dragging Mac software kicking and screaming into the 21st century—but had so little confidence in the thing that it still made the computers default to Mac OS 9. Even Mac proponents regarded OS X as little better than a beta. But it was the start of a big change in the fortunes of the Mac platform. Although OS X was slow and buggy, it also hinted at being something more; a platform for the future. The infrastructure was sound, and Quartz was downright modern. Its Cocoa API and Objective-C were an exciting development platform offering interesting new features like "System Services."
Part of this was by accident. If Apple's Copland project had come to fruition, it probably wouldn't have happened at all. Apple's intent was to update the aging OS piecemeal, adding protected memory and preemptive multitasking, and, piece by piece, update the core OS libraries to better support these modern features. Eventually this would become sufficiently advanced that the "Gershwin" OS would be "fully modern," whatever this meant (even Apple wasn't sure).
Feature creep and mismanagement resulted in the cancellation of Copland. Instead of developing a new OS from the existing one, Apple decided to purchase a modern OS and use that as the basis for its future operating system. This resulted in the purchase of NeXT, and NeXTstep went on to form the basis of Mac OS X.
NeXTstep was pretty radical in its day; it's thanks to NeXTstep that OS X uses Objective-C and has an Objective-C library. Display Postscript in NeXTstep became Display PDF in OS X. NeXTstep had the same combination of Mach and BSD code that became MacOS X's Darwin kernel. Obviously, this still left Apple with a lot of work to do; NeXTstep couldn't run Mac apps, which was obviously a big problem for a MacOS successor, so Apple devised the "Classic" virtual machine to provide support for legacy applications. New applications would use the new Cocoa or Carbon APIs.
This approach—forced on it due to screwing up the Copland project—put Apple in a strong position. The new OS was free of many of the legacy constraints that the Copland approach would have caused; the clumsy old APIs were restricted to the Classic environment, and they didn't form a part of the modern OS core. Although the new APIs were not entirely new—the Obj-C Cocoa API was based on the NeXTstep API, and Carbon was similar to the old MacOS API—they were cleaned up, allowing bad decisions of the past to be fixed. | 1,268,398 |
Historically, Dell has addressed the market for higher-end gaming desktops with their Alienware-branded machines, which are frequently built around unlocked CPUs as well as advanced graphics cards. Meanwhile, for those who wanted Dell-branded gaming PCs without the Alienware premium, the company has offered their custom-built Inspiron as well as XPS-branded machines; though there's a large gap between the premium XPS and basic Inspiron as well. So, looking to bridge the gap between their machines and produce a line of gaming-centric yet still reasonably affordable desktops, at this year's Gamescom the company is introducing its first ever Dell G-series desktops. Taking their name from Dell's popular G5 gaming laptops – which are intended to fill much the same role on the laptop side – these new machines are intended to be Dell's gaming-focused desktops for the wider market.
The Dell G5 desktop (model 5090) is based on Intel’s 9th Generation Core processors and is paired with AMD’s Radeon RX 5700-series or NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1660 Ti or RTX 2000-series graphics cards. In its top-of-the-range configuration, the Dell G5 can pack Intel’s Core i9-9900K processor, NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 2080 GPU, 64 GB of DDR4-2666 memory, a 1 TB M.2 PCIe SSD, a 2 TB hard drive (or two of them), a Killer Wi-Fi 6 AX1650 network card, Gigabit Ethernet, and so on.
Dell emphasizes that its compact G5 desktop is completely user-upgradeable, so owners will be able to easily install a new graphics card or upgrade to more storage when they need to. Meanwhile, since the machine uses a motherboard based on Intel’s H370 chipset, it does not support CPU overclocking, unlike Alienware-branded computers. The lack of overclocking support also means that Dell can stick with a (relatively) conservative 480 Watt power supply for the system, as there's no need for a bunch of overclocking headroom in the power delivery design. Overall, this is enough for a 9900K CPU paired up with one of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 2080 video cards, but is likely a factor in why we don't see an RTX 2080 Ti here.
Unlike many gaming desktops these days, Dell’s G5 will not come with liquid cooling, but will rely on proven air cooling systems with heat pipes. Keeping in mind that CPU overclocking is not supported by the platform, air cooling should be plenty sufficient. Meanwhile, those who would like CPU and GPU to at least hit their maximum boost clocks more often can set appropriate thermal profiles in the Alienware Command Center software.
Dell’s G5 desktops will be available starting August 19. Prices will start at $629, with more advanced configurations coming in at higher prices.
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