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Fair Play Rating in soccer.That’s an interesting question. Definitely the most boring and random hero is Lone Druid. You can't even imagine how much I hate him! (Hello, AdmiralBulldog!) The most fun heroes are of course super-imba gankers like Lina and Lion! Moar action plz!The CyberArena stage feels like a home to Na`Vi, and the crowd support is really awesome here. And as I previously stated, it seems like we need some Chinese teams to come here to defeat them.He is 100% right. I think Na`Vi, Empire, and EG have a 0% chance to win TI3 if they don't go to China for at least 2 months. For now I think LGD.Int is the best example. Come to China, train a lot, and kick asses like a boss.I hope the new ROX team will show good results, and of course fan favorites – 3D with Dreadisback as the main star. They just need to keep their rosters stable, and in few months I am sure a lot of European teams will have problems with 3D and ROX.I really liked to cast the Skane/Pulse team with Mini, Reesion and others. They always showed action-packed games to us. Also the Fnatic.EU guys always play fun and interesting games.Hehe. Every European player knows a few Russian “bad words”, and you can see this in streams quite often. Davai, davai – just means GO-GO-GO! my favourite Russian word of Pajcat is “APARATA” – that’s what I call Ancient Apparation. And you know – OI-OI-OI-OI – doesn’t need to be translated :DFrom now on everytime when some Russian messages you in Dota 2 – answer him with 3 words, you can even copy-paste it – “Иди в жопу”.I follow almost all eSports, especially Starcraft 2. I have a lot of friends from the CS community. And btw, 2 years ago I was a manager of a CS1.6 team named DTS, so there are a lot of CS-players in my phonebook. Of course, we are good friends with White-Ra, I always support him in all tournaments, I can even say that I am a big fan of Papa-toss.Every Starladder afterparty has a super-story. You can ask anyone. But Starladder is ike Vegas. Everything that happens in Kiev – stays in Kiev…Only a Ukrainian vodka named Nemiroff Black. And if I am drinking with good company, a normal Ukrainian or Russian guy like me can drink maybe no more than 0.7 litres. But I prefer beer for afterparties :DThanks everybody for watching me, and see you in the Starladder Starseries Season 5 Matches.Thanks for the interview! Staff Xiao8~~
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Fugitive Taliban leader tells insurgents they face sharia justice if found negligent in edict seen as attempt to win hearts and minds
Taliban foot soldiers will face sharia justice if they kill or injure innocent civilians without taking precautions, the fugitive leader of the Afghan insurgency has warned.
Mullah Omar, the Taliban's supreme cleric, released an 1,800-word statement that dwelled at length on the need to protect civilians in a sign of the insurgency's growing defensiveness on the issue.
Human rights workers described the statement, published in five languages on Friday to mark the Islamic festival of Eid, as extremely significant. They said it went into far more detail about the issue than any other previous pronouncement.
The mujahideen, as the rebels style themselves, are ordered to "take every step to protect the lives and wealth of ordinary people".
The decree said: "Scholars should be employed every now and then to preach protection of civilian life, wealth and honour to mujahideen and promote virtue … All civilian casualties which are caused or are believed to be caused by mujahideen should be reported to the superiors."
It also called for investigations by the movement's "legal offices" of cases where locals say civilians have been hurt by landmines, suicide bombings or other attacks. "If it is irrefutably proven that the blood of innocent Muslims is spilled by the negligence of mujahideen then a penalty should be implemented in accordance with sharia," the statement said. The family of the victims should also be compensated, it suggested.
Afghan civilians are also ordered to protect themselves by not "moving in close proximity to Americans who patrol in villages and countryside".
Kate Clark, a researcher at the Afghanistan Analysts Network, said even though the statement was in part propaganda it could also help civilians trapped in the middle of fighting between Nato and Taliban forces. "It is much, much more specific than ever before on the Taliban's system of internal discipline and command and control," she said. "And they admit that they themselves are causing civilian casualties, not just people doing it in their name."
That Omar's statement on the issue is an indication of how embarrassing the problem of civilian casualties has become for a movement that sees itself as the protector of the Afghan people against foreign military aggression.
According to the latest UN figures, the Taliban were responsible for 80% of the 1,462 civilian deaths caused by fighting between insurgents and pro-government forces in Afghanistan in the first six months of this year. Of those killed by insurgents, 38% of deaths were due to IEDs, or homemade roadside bombs.
Georgette Gagnon, the UN's director of human rights in Afghanistan, said it remained to be seen whether the insurgents would take any real steps to reduce casualties. "I would like them to say publicly that they will stop using indiscriminate, pressure plate IEDs," she said, saying that while in power the Taliban regime banned anti-personnel mines as un-Islamic.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia has launched its Tegra 3, the quad-core chip designed for mobile devices. Tech and investor blogs were busy yesterday assessing what this means for upcoming tablets and smartphones as to performance and power efficiency. The Tegra 3 processor provides up to three times the graphics performance of Tegra 2, and up to 61 percent lower power consumption, according to the Santa Clara-based company.
Its design is based on the ARM Cortex-A9 processor, an architecture that addresses the need for better control over power consumption in mobile computing. As ARM has said in its Cortex A-9 white paper, "Consumers dont just expect their products to do more; they also expect longer battery life for portable products. To achieve all-day use, which is now a minimum requirement, phone, smart phone and PDA manufacturers must deliver extra performance and features more efficiently than before."
Similarly, while there is good reason to be enthusiastic about the performance features of the Tegra 3, a potentially attractive feature for mobile business users of tablets and smartphones will most likely center on what Tegra 3 can promise in battery savings.
The Tegra 3 uses what Nvidia calls Variable SMP (Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing) for low power and high performance. All five CPU cores are individually enabled and disabled based on the work load. Nvidia in its press release refers to its aggressive power-gating.
The four main cores are specifically designed for work requiring high performance, During tasks that require less power consumption -- listening to music or playing back video-- the Tegra 3 processor shuts down its four performance-tuned cores and instead uses the companion core. This adds up to the big battery savings, up to 61 percent. The Tegra 3 also has a 12-core GeForce graphics processing unit, for enhanced multimedia performance.
First to the plate for the Tegra 3 is Asus, which has announced its new tablet that will use the quad-core Tegra 3 chip. This is the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, a device with a pricetag of $499 for the 32GB version and $599 for 64GB. An optional keyboard is priced at $149.
The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime is the first quad-core tablet with Tegra 3.
The Asus tablet, with Tegra 3 processors power-management features combined with its own optimizations, Is reported to have a battery life of up to 12 hours. This 10.1-inch tablet will appear in stores by the end of the year.
As exceptional as both the Nvidia and Asus debuts are, observers note the competitiveness of the tablet market. Nvidia will not be the one and only player in the quad-core arena for a very long time. Reports point to Qualcomm, an Nvidia competitor, which is expected to bring out its quad-core processors early next year.
Explore further Nvidia says Kal-El chip will have five cores
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Diplomats say Israel has temporarily reduced its participation in the UN Human Rights Council, days after the United States pulled out.
The diplomats in Geneva, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said Israel had “lowered” its participation in the council’s ongoing activities.
Israel was not participating in the council plenary Friday, where its seat sat empty. The diplomats noted that the move was not definitive and could change from day-to-day.
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Israeli diplomats have not participated in UNHRC events since a council discussion Thursday on discrimination against women, they said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu applauded the US walkout announced Tuesday. The Trump administration insists the council is biased against Israel.
Since Israel is not a member of the 47-nation UNHRC, it cannot follow suit this time. But Israeli sources maintained Wednesday that it was possible and even likely that Netanyahu would soon announce that Israel was ceasing all contacts with the council.
Jerusalem welcomed the US decision to leave the council, with Netanyahu hailing it as “courageous” and calling the council a “biased, hostile, anti-Israel organization that has betrayed its mission of protecting human rights.”
Options for measures Israel can take against the council are limited, but in the past it has found ways to express its displeasure with the Geneva-based body.
In 2012 Israel announced it was cutting all ties with the UNHRC after member states voted for the establishment of a fact-finding mission into Israel’s settlement activity in the West Bank. It restored contact less than a year later.
Last month the council voted for a probe into Israel’s recent military actions to fend off protests at the Gaza border, which was vehemently denounced by Israeli politicians.
Just two months ago Aviva Raz Shechter, Israel’s envoy to UN institutions in Geneva, assumed a position representing the Western States and Others Group at the so-called Consultative Group to the Council, a body nominating and appointing special mandate holders.
She is currently set to serve in that position until April 2019.
The US exit was the first time in the council’s history that a member state quit voluntarily. (Libya was kicked out seven years ago.) The US, whose term was to expire at the end of 2019, will now have to be replaced by another state from the West European and Others Group. Member states are elected by the UN General Assembly; it is currently unclear when and how a replacement for the US will be selected, or whether formally the US will remain an observer until December 31, 2019.
While many Israeli politicians have expressed satisfaction at the US withdrawal, Foreign Ministry officials told Channel 10 that America’s absence would make it much more difficult to block or influence anti-Israel initiatives at the council.
Raphael Ahren contributed to this report.
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off into the sunset,” says Takahashi. “She’s keeping in touch with the industry, and I’m sure she’ll continue to provide advice and her level of expertise to us as we meet future challenges.”
Not only will Cooray remain actively involved with the college and community hospitality industries, but she also has ensured that she continue to support the program she so lovingly shaped into perpetuity. Truly, Cooray’s is a love story, both for her husband of 25 years, who passed away in 2001, and for cooking, particularly in regard to training up-and-coming chefs. She has united those two loves by forming the Ranjit and Kusuma Cooray Endowed Scholarship (uh-foundation.org/givetokcc).
“It was Ranjit who encouraged Kusuma to go into teaching,” says UH Foundation president and CEO Donna Vuchinich. “It was his wish that she create this endowment and assist those who would come after them. It will provide multi-year scholarships to students enrolled in the culinary arts program at KCC.
“Kusuma is all about giving back. She is an inspiring individual — when you’re in her presence, to feel her warmth and her understanding of culinary preparation and quality, of food delivery and presentation — she’s absolutely elegant.”
That elegance shines, not just in her expertise at presenting mouthwatering dishes, but in her personal life as well, whether she’s entertaining at a social gathering dressed in a traditional sari, or engaged in competitive ballroom dancing, which she did for several years after her husband’s passing. But most impressive, it surfaces in her demeanor. Here is a woman who has literally cooked for princes and princesses, and yet, unlike the harried image we see of chefs in today’s reality shows, Cooray exudes calmness mixed with an endearing pride for perfectionism:
“I was never nervous,” she responds, when asked whether it was intimidating to cook for some of the world’s most consequential personages. “I was so thrilled. Even then, I was very confident. I believe in good taste. People who know my food know that anything I touch is always tasty.
“People come to me and say, ‘This was a long time ago, but I tasted one of your appetizers. I’ll never forget. It was fresh pears, sliced, put together again, cooked under a broiler with a blue cheese topping, then dressed up.’ People remember. You get to a person’s heart through food.”
When it comes to Kusuma Cooray, heart and food intertwine seamlessly. And food establishments throughout Hawaii, and across the globe, are reaping the benefits of her groundbreaking successes early on, and her continuing love for creating unforgettable connections over sumptuous cuisine.
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You can't believe your own eyes. (Or your legs. Or your butt.)
That's the message you'll likely take away from what the CEO of American Airlines said recently.
Because American Airlines isn't alone in reducing the spacing between seats on some of its planes in order to cram more rows in and increase revenue. But the airline sometimes seems to be in a class by itself when it comes to justifying it.
Case in point: American Airlines CEO Doug Parker's remarks during an almost obsequiously accommodating interview in Boston last week.
The quick background: American used to space 31 inches between economy seats as standard. They've shaved an inch off that now, both on new planes and on older planes that they're retrofitting.
Doing this has a lot of ramifications, but one is that it means they can fit at least one additional economy class row, meaning usually six more seats, on the same size plane.
You can defend this as a business decision, on the theory that more seats will always mean more revenue. That's debatable but certainly reasonable to suggest.
But what's much harder to do is to suggest that taking away seat pitch could actually make the whole experience more comfortable than when passengers had a little more room between them.
Here's Parker, trying to pull off that argument anyway:
That 30-in. pitch, having done it myself, is much more comfortable than our existing 31-in. pitch on an MD-80. It feels like a much better product... I think the whole definition of pitch needs to be better understood.
The fact is that a seat is an inch [narrower] and more comfortable... The traditional measure of simply pitch, and comparing pitch to aircraft that have very different seats, doesn't really give the customer what they need to know about the amount of space they have.
So much to unpack here. First, "having tried it myself": It created a bit of a PR problem for American earlier this year when Parker admitted that he'd never actually tried himself to fly in one of his airline's new, more cramped economy cabins.
(As my colleague Chris Matyszczyk points out, he's since remedied that gap in his personal experience.)
Parker appears to be referring in his quote to the extra inch passengers gained at eye level when American removed video screens from economy, plus whatever space is gained by replacing what used to be standard airline seats with newer, thinner, less padded seats.
I mean, maybe you could make that argument, if we wanted to view all this very charitably.
Of course, nothing prevented American from making these other changes without reclaiming roughly three feet of cabin space and adding an extra row.
But for taller readers, you tell me: placeholderplaceholderWhat's more comfortable: 30 inches of seat pitch or 31?
And for shorter readers, for whom 30 is nearly as comfortable as 31 anyway, is it more comfortable to have thinner seats and no video screens?
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Image copyright PA Image caption The measure used to set interest rates on student loans is flawed and unfair, say MPs
The inflation measure used to set interest rates on student loans is "absurd", says a report from MPs.
The government uses RPI - the Retail Prices Index - which the Treasury Select Committee says is "flawed" and should be "abandoned".
The rise in that measure will push interest rates on student loans for tuition fees up to 6.3% in the autumn.
The Department for Education defended the continuing use of RPI, saying it provided "consistency over time".
Nicky Morgan, who chairs the committee, said the use of RPI for loan repayments, which "normally gives a higher rate of inflation", appears "grossly unfair".
'Punitive'
The DFE, responding to the MPs' criticism, acknowledged that "the flaws in the RPI measure of inflation are well understood", but said that a review of tuition fees and loans was currently under way and the outcome could not be "pre-judged".
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This review is due to report in early 2019. And until then student loans will continue to be set using RPI.
This is despite an official warning about the use of RPI earlier this year from the national statistician, John Pullinger, who said: "We do not think it is a good measure of inflation and discourage its use."
The Treasury Select Committee says that student loans should be set against the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), which is currently a percentage point lower than RPI.
It strongly rejected the government's argument to stick with RPI.
"Continuing to use a measure that it readily admits is flawed, on the grounds of consistency, is absurd," Mrs Morgan, herself a former education secretary, said.
"It guarantees that student loan interest rates will be consistently flawed."
The interest rates for loans, which begin to be charged as soon as students start at university, are set at the level of RPI in March, plus 3%.
Image copyright PA Image caption Nicky Morgan says the use of RPI for interest on student loans is "grossly unfair"
With an RPI measure of 3.3%, it means that for the next academic year interest rates will be up to 6.3%, although students do not have to begin repayments until they have graduated and are earning over £25,000 per year.
The CPI rate for March was 2.3%.
The report from MPs says interest charges are too high and there has been no "persuasive explanation" for why student loan interest should be so much higher than market rates, the government's own cost of borrowing or the rate of inflation.
The MPs also challenged the application of interest rates while students were still at university, saying the government should reconsider such "punitive measures".
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bright, only making the leaves ignite on contact and spiral upwards, forming a droning updraft which spat ash and dust from the top.
A hulking golem made of dark and gnarled bread, lumbering forward and sloughing off bits and pieces of itself, every movement looking agonizing. There was a large tear on its chest, letting you see through.
A mass of thunder clouds, roiling and striking at everything underneath. On top of it sat a tiny rainbow, bright but flickering in and out as unseen clouds blocked sunlight.
A monolith of white marble, almost like a building. Blocky and grand, but simultaneously oddly fragile, as if it been built to only look imposing.
A draw, something different nearing. Vast, like Ozpin, but...
—an enormous gaping maw of jagged obsidian, ravaged deep into the ground as if an angry god had punched it asunder. It was titanic, beyond anything she had seen, black chasms gouged into it which were further torn and warped by eldritch energies. A constant, mad scream reverberated from the depths of it, enormous fangs of broken black glass jutting from its sides, dripping oily acid towards the bottomless pit down below. It was like a black hole, drawing her in, staring back at her, razor-sharp edges nearing—
Frigg screeched and threw away the helmet, not caring about the strap pulling taut and bruising her chin before the buckle let go, the connection severing immediately and forcing her perspective back to present. Her heart raced and she scrambled up, lost and flailing around, trying to orient herself.
"Frigg! Are you okay!?" Glynda yelled and rushed to her side, and Frigg grasped her arm firmly, breathing out of her control. She was drenched in cold sweat, shivers going down at her spine as the all-consuming wound still filled her mind's eye.
She nodded shakily, drawing strength from the feel of someone solid next to her. Glynda's cubes were moving faster and the glow from within was bright, and focusing on that helped her calm down. "Y—yeah, yeah," she said after a few moments, the immense weight of the Beacon above her suddenly feeling protective.
"Did something go wrong?" Glynda asked, turning and putting her other hand on Frigg's shoulder.
She shook her head, swallowing thickly. "Just... saw something." The scream still echoed in her ears. "Someone."
She couldn't see it, but she could almost sense Glynda frowning, the cubes stopping for a fraction of a second. "I see," she said after a second, leaving it at that. Frigg looked up to where she knew her head was, staring her in silence. She knew about... whatever that had been.
Glynda sighed, giving her shoulder a squeeze. "Let me call in the others. They are probably interested."
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Jairo Samperio scored the only goal of the game as 1. FSV Mainz 05 inflicted a third successive defeat on Hannover 96 head coach Thomas Schaaf on Matchday 20.
HANNOVER 0-1 MAINZ
Goals: 0-1 Samperio (24’)
Mainz had lost their last two on the road, but they did not let that hold them back at the HDI-Arena. The 05ers were the much better side in the first half, Jairo Samperio taking advantage of some lacklustre Hannover defending to stroke home Christian Clemens’ low cross for the opener. Yunus Malli, Leon Balogun and Gaetan Bussman all went close to adding to the 05ers’ lead, before Hannover midfielder Manuel Schmiedebach sent an errant effort into the stands.
The Hannover fans were given reason to cheer shortly after the restart when Hungary international Adam Szalai forced a belated save out of Mainz goalkeeper Loris Karius. Hugo Almeida should have sent the home faithful into raptures with little over 20 minutes remaining, but the Portugal international was unable to hit the target from a promising position. In spite of a mediocre performance, Mainz almost made it two late on when Clemens’ audacious effort came back off the crossbar with Hannover stopper Ron-Robert Zieler rooted to the spot.
Man of the Match
Few players work as hard off the ball as Mainz striker Yoshinori Muto, who barely allowed Hannover’s new-look back four time to catch their breath before being replaced by Fabian Frei in the 75th minute.
Talking Point
These are worrying times for rock-bottom Hannover, who travel to Borussia Dortmund next week on the back of a six-match losing run.
Match Stats
Bundesliga debutant Alexander Milosevic is only the second Swede to play for Hannover after Christoffer Andersson.Giulio Donati is the first Italian to play for Mainz in the Bundesliga.Hannover goalkeeper Ron-Robert Zieler extended his record run of consecutive Bundesliga appearances to 162. The Germany international has played in every Bundesliga game since the 4-1 defeat in Dortmund in April 2011.
Line-ups
Hannover: Zieler - H. Sakai, Milosevic, Schulz (c.), Prib - Hoffmann (Sobiech 63’) - Yamaguchi (Sane 35’), Bech (Karaman 68’) - Schmiedebach - Almeida, Szalai
Mainz: Karius - Donati, Balogun, Bell, Bussmann - Latza (Moritz 85’), Baumgartlinger (c.) - Clemens, Malli (Cordoba 67’), Samperio - Muto (Frei 75’)
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Otero: Zambrano: In Ecuador, 4 media outlets have been shut down, and another 4 have been sanctioned for not covering the president’s visit to Chile in depth.
President Rafael Correa has made it clear that his government considers the press a public service, and must be run by the government. To this end, Correa has created two different entities: the Council for Information and Communication Regulation and Development (Cordicom) and the Superintendence of Information and Communication (Supercom).
According to the IAPA report, together the agencies employ roughly 300 people to track and control the county’s newspapers, radio stations, and television networks to ensure compliance with the law. The report also points out that engaging in journalism without a professional degree may be considered a “crime against public faith,” and is punishable by up to 30 days in prison.
Tensions Rise in El Salvador
The challenges with press freedom in El Salvador are primarily centered around the government’s arbitrary allocation of frequencies for TV stations, the harassment and physical aggression toward journalists, and censorship.
“Two weeks ago a new case of censorship was recorded. The General Directorate of the National Civil Police (PNC) drafted a handbook on how to handle information, where it restricts media access to public security issues,” states the IAPA’s report.
Ricardo Avelar of CREO, an organization that defends freedom of speech and individual rights, explained that it is important for the people of El Salvador to defend freedom “even if it is not as threatened” as it is in neighboring countries.
“If we hope to reach that situation, it will be impossible to fight for our individual freedom, as the government will have blocked our space for dissent and expression,” said Avelar.
Cuba, Authoritarian as Always
According to the IAPA, the media situation on the island of Cuba has not improved. Government intimidation and acts of vandalism toward independent journalists on the island are the order of the day.
The Cuban Human Rights and National Reconciliation Commission reports a total of 905 political detentions in Cuba in April, 1,120 in May, 963 in June, 652 in July, and 632 last August.
Internet access is also very limited in Cuba, even though the Castro regime announced in June it would begin to offer limited public access points. The IAPA notes, however, that internet access for the average Cuban remains “almost impossible.”
Ernesto Oliva Torres, an activist living in Santiago de Cuba, told the PanAm Post that internet connection speeds on the island are extremely slow. Cell phone and internet use are monitored, and only those who receive money from outside Cuba are able to pay for the connection.
“The regime uses its most cruel physical methods and the law in its favor, against all those who oppose it,” says Torres.
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@Duney - I'm certainly not playing it wrong. I actually played Uprising exactly as mr Sakurai suggests. I think it's great that you along with many people don't have the issues I describe, but sufficient people do that you must at least acknowledge it as an issue with the game. Even if Mr Sakurai is correct and all those people who have experienced discomfort with the control scheme are simply using the controls incorrectly, surely the responsibility for that error still lies with the designer for not conveying how the game should be played. In any case, I don't think that's true. In my personal opinion (and that's all it is) I think the control inputs are poorly designed.
@AbuJaffer - Calling someone an ass is...well. being kind of an ass. Ironic. Sorry, couldn't resist. Anyway, I'm not trying to be an ass, but I really do think that Nintendo's approach to controls this generation has been incredibly arrogant and this is just one such example. Metroid: Other M, DKCR, Uprising. These are all examples of games where Nintendo had ample opportunity to either address control problems with alternatives or to design around certain issues and they chose not to. And yes, blaming players for valid complaints is, I think, incredibly arrogant.
@BenAV - As someone who has played acoustic guitar and ukulele for about 12 years I can tell you my hands are as strong and as dexterous as most, and although I wouldn't say that I had discomfort throughout my experience with Uprising I would say that it felt perpetually...well awkward. I was constantly having to adjust my grip, often trying to prop the system on the right side (the hand I was using the stylus with) with my palm, my knee, a loose finger. It just wasn't a fun experience for me, especially when trying to enjoy the fabulous 3D graphics.
@Duney - It's not a question of not liking a certain type of game. In fact, I've been the biggest Treasure fan for years, with Sin & Punishment and it's sequel being considered among my favourite games. Uprising had the potential to be up there with them. That's partially why I find the control problems with Uprising so frustrating, because I can appreciate that there's a good game there, but it's sorely undermined by a lack of thought and care when it came to user experience.
I'm not mad about it in the slightest. Despite my issues with game I feel I got enough enjoyment out of the game to warrant the purchase. Weirdly though, quite a lot of that enjoyment came from the visuals, story and characters. I say that's weird because normally I'm sold on a game by it's gameplay and, yes, it's controls.
Anyway, it seems to me that people seem to get mad when Mr Sakurai is criticised or called arrogant. So I'll just shut up now. For the record though I kind of hate Smash Bros and Kirby, so...there's that.
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Home Cities Goa Stray cattle turning 'non-vegetarian', sent for treatment: Goa minister
Stray cattle turning ‘non-vegetarian’, sent for treatment: Goa minister
"The cattle at the gaushala are being medically treated. Veterinary specialists have been roped in to treat them with medicine. It will take four to five days to turn the cattle into vegetarians once again," Michael Lobo said.
The cattle are being shifted to a cattle-pound by Gomantak Gosevak Mahasang trust in Mayem village.
Veterinary specialists are being called to treat stray cattle, who have been “eating chicken and fried fish”, and “turn them into vegetarian once again”, Goa minister for waste management Michael Lobo has said. The move, he added, came after 76 stray cattle from Calangute Village, who have now been sent to a gaushala (cow shed), refused to eat gram or other vegetarian food.
“We have lifted 76 cattle from Calangute and taken them to the gaushala where they are being looked after. The cattle had turned non-vegetarian cattle here. We always say cattle are vegetarian. But cattle from Calangute are non-vegetarian. They (gaushala operators) are facing this issue now. These cattle do not eat grass. They neither eat gram nor special feed which is given to them,” Lobo said while speaking at a function at Arpora village in North Goa on Saturday.
“The cattle at the gaushala are being medically treated. Veterinary specialists have been roped in to treat them with medicine. It will take four to five days to turn the cattle into vegetarians once again,” he added.
The minister said it has been found that the cattle have been eating chicken and fried fish from the garbage and from villagers feeding them. “The cattle from Calangute and Candolim are used to eating non-vegetarian food like leftover chicken scraps and stale fried fish from the restaurants. Due to the consumption of such non-vegetarian food, their system has become like that of humans. Earlier, they were vegetarians, pure vegetarians. They would smell non-vegetarian food and move on, but now, they eat only non-vegetarian (food),” he said.
Lobo also said that the stray cattle have been shifted to the gaushalas following complaints that the animals are the main cause of accidents of two-wheelers and traffic. The cattle are being shifted to a cattle-pound owned by Gomantak Gosevak Mahasang trust in Mayem village.
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A Barbie doll and a meat grinder each packed with explosives were the weapons of choice of the terror cell behind a foiled plot to blow up an Australian airliner, a Lebanese official said Monday.
The bombs didn’t make it aboard the intended flight because the piece of luggage they were hidden in was about 15 pounds over the airline’s limit.
Lebanon’s interior minister, Nouhad Machnouk, told a Saudi Arabia-owned TV channel that four Lebanese-Australian brothers, including one being held in Lebanon, were behind the plan, Sky News reported.
Machnouk said two of the brothers, Khaled and Mahmoud Khayyat, are held in Australia, while another, Tarek, is a senior member of the Islamic State terror group based in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa. He added that the fourth brother, Amer, was supposed to be on board the plane, working to bring it down 20 minutes after takeoff, but was arrested in Lebanon after he arrived in mid-July from Australia.
“The operation was foiled because of the extra weight,” Machnouk said. “Intelligence branch followed on the case and found that Amer was involved in this act and it appears that he was supposed to carry it out.”
Earlier this month, Australian police said an ISIS commander based overseas ordered a group of Australian men to build a bomb to smuggle onto a July 15 Etihad Airways flight from Sydney.
The United Arab Emirates’ national airline said it is working with Australian police in the ongoing investigation. But Etihad Airways, the smallest of three long-haul Gulf carriers that fly to Australia, refused to confirm if it had been targeted.
The plan was described as “one of the most sophisticated plots” to have ever been hatched on Australian soil — but it was aborted before a “high-end” explosive in a piece of luggage taken to Sydney’s airport was carried through security, Sky News reported.
A second plot, alleged by authorities to have involved a “chemical dispersion device” to release highly-toxic gas, was also claimed to have been in the early stages of planning.
Australian officials have charged Khaled and Mahmoud Khayyat with two counts of planning a terrorist act, and have said the men began communicating with ISIS in April. They were arrested July 29 and are due to appear in court later this year.
Machnouk said that about 400 passengers were on the plane, including 120 Lebanese. He said the four brothers wanted to punish the UAE and Australia for being part of the U.S.-led coalition that is targeting the extremists.
“When four Lebanese brothers in Australia decide to blow up an Emirati jet this means that the whole world should work together to fight terrorism,” Machnouk said. “Coordination should be 24 hours a day between all security agencies to stop such attacks.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Blizzard has announced that Overwatch will be free to play for a period of one week starting from November 20. The FPS shooter with CC abilities game is one of the most popular esports titles. The Overwatch league has brought out interest from several top-tier organizations who have invested millions of dollars into the game.
Overwatch is described as a ‘hero shooter’ A normal competitive mode includes two teams of six players each. There are various types of maps which include Control Points, Payload as well as Hybrid maps [ a mixture of Control and Payload]. The final objective for either team is to reach 100% control on Control maps. On Payload maps, they have to ensure that they reach the farthest compared to the other team.
Bob's takin' a breather. So, don't let up and push the payload! Play Overwatch FREE Nov 20 – 26 on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One! 💻 🎮 https://t.co/qz7jv2FPbf pic.twitter.com/nzOlPgQtS1 — Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) November 15, 2018
Overwatch has a huge player base and there are millions of players at any given time. If you want to give it a try before actually buying the game you can do so now. In order to play the game for free, download the Batle.net client here. Register yourself [ if you do not already have a Battle.net ID] and download Overwatch.
You should be able to play the game starting November 20th, 2018. For new players, we recommend hopping into the practice range and trying out new heroes. he next step of progression will be going into a Deathmatch and playing against humans. There are numerous modes available in the arcade for players who do not want to play competitively.
What’s new in Overwatch?
The Overwatch Free Trial will run from November 20–26. All PlayStation 4 owners with a PlayStation Plus membership, Xbox One owners with an Xbox Live Gold membership, and Windows PC with a Blizzard account will be able to download and play Overwatch for FREE during this period—no special keys or sign-up codes needed!
The Overwatch Free Trial will begin on November 20 at 20:00 CET and end on November 27 at 08:59 CET in supported regions across all platforms. To see when the Free Trial will go live in your region, check out the reference guides below. For additional time zone timezoneconverter.com.
All Overwatch players will be able to play the new hero Ashe. The hero just released on live competitive servers and it is a new style of hero. You can read all about the hero here. Players playing during the free trial will have the opportunity to earn medals, loot, and level up the same as regular players. If a player decides to buy the game after the free trial, his achievements are carried on. The free trial begins on 11 am PT/2 pm ET on November 20. You can read the full announcement here.
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Women's Suffrage League secretary, Mary Lee
Agitating for change
Women believed that if they could vote they could elect candidates who would legislate to improve society generally and strengthen the position of women and children in particular.
A number of organisations threw their support behind the female suffrage movement including the Christian Women’s Temperance Union and the Social Purity Society.
The most influential South Australian group, the Women’s Suffrage League, was established by Mary Lee and Mary Colton and later joined by well-known social reformer Catherine Helen Spence.
Female suffragists struggled against prejudicial traditional views of women that were embedded in society and the law.
Groups agitated for change in many ways. Letters were written to newspapers and magazines, public speeches were made and rallies and marches were held. Groups of women visited parliament and held discussions with important political figures including the state’s premier. Signatures were collected from across the colony for the longest petition that has ever been presented to the South Australian Parliament.
With more than 11,600 signatures and measuring around 400 feet in length with its pages glued end to end, the petition was used to show the government that both men and women supported women’s right to vote.
At last enfranchised
Before the 1894 Bill there had been three unsuccessful attempts to gain equal voting rights for women in South Australia.
Many parliamentarians felt that women were not emotionally or intellectually capable of properly participating in politics. Others also felt that women were stepping outside their traditional roles and that giving them the vote would undermine a husband’s position in the family.
However, following an election in early 1894, the Labour Party, which was sympathetic to the women’s cause, formed government.
The Constitutional Amendment (Adult Suffrage) Bill was presented to the Legislative Council on 23 August 1894.
A conservative effort to derail the Bill by introducing a woman’s right to stand for parliament as well as the right to vote did not stop the Bill narrowly passing. It was then sent to the Legislative Assembly where three months elapsed during which a slight amendment was made allowing women to postal vote as well.
After much debate, the Bill was finally passed 31 votes to 14 in front of a crowd of around 200 women. The Bill was officially made law in 1895 when signed by Queen Victoria. South Australian women then became the first in the world who could not only vote but also stand for parliament.
Equal enfranchisement therefore applied to all citizens of South Australia, including the Indigenous men and women of the colony.
The first South Australian election in which women could participate was held in 1896. The female presence was remarked upon by many newspapers, including the Adelaide Observer, which said:
Women were everywhere, and their presence … no doubt had a refining influence. Never have we had a more decorous gathering together of the multitude than that which distinguished the first exercise of the female franchise on Saturday April 25 1896.
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The iPad Air 2 is starting to make its way into people’s homes (here are some early thoughts) — and as usual, iFixit took one and tore it down to its components. Inside there was one big surprise: An NFC Controller, model number NXP 65V10, which is the same chip that’s in the iPhone 6.
Apple hasn’t officially mentioned the new NFC chip in the iPad, and there doesn’t seem to be a use for it at the moment. Although the iPad Air 2 supports Apple Pay, it’s for online shopping — so you won’t see anyone tapping their 10-inch slate at a McDonald’s or Walgreens. Apple has declined to bring in-store Apple Pay to the iPad, although considering the newfound NFC chip it’s certainly theoretically possible. Using an iPad for mobile payment checkouts could even look sillier than using a tablet as a camera.
But I don’t think that’s why [company]Apple[/company] quietly stuck in a NFC chip in the iPad Air 2. One of the big drawbacks to Apple Pay at the moment is that it only works at big chain stores and restaurants. Although there are a lot of participating businesses — and more keep signing up — they’re still all corporate. There isn’t a way for a small business or maker to use Apple Pay yet.
A lot of small businesses use an iPad as a cash register. I got a cup of coffee yesterday from a coffee shop and swiped my card through a Square Register and signed on an iPad screen. iPads are already installed in stores.
The key to NFC in the iPad Air 2 is that it affords the possibility of becoming an Apple Pay cash register with no dongle needed. Conceivably, it could expand the number of outlets that take Apple Pay from around 40 to anyone selling stuff who owns the latest iPad. It brings Apple Pay out from the big box store and into farmers’ markets and boutiques.
Apple Pay is still young, and Apple is still working out bugs — like the Bank of America double-payment issue people were encountering yesterday. It’s still looking like a trial program, and it’s obviously going to evolve as Apple, credit card companies and stores better understand how consumers want to use it.
I’m sure that developing NFC cash register software is not an easy task — Apple may even end up simply opening up access to the NFC chip in the future to third-party apps. But if Apple had the foresight to put an NFC chip in the iPad, at some point it’s going to be turned on.
Update: As a few commenters have pointed out, the NFC chip in the iPad doesn’t appear to have antennas, which would indicate that its primary function is likely as a secure enclave and not to enable payments.
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The game has been banned by the police in some cities of Gujarat on ground that it leads to violent behaviour among children and youth. The game has been banned by the police in some cities of Gujarat on ground that it leads to violent behaviour among children and youth.
A 16-year-old boy died of cardiac arrest allegedly while playing PUBG battle game on his mobile phone for six hours at a stretch here in Madhya Pradesh, his father said Friday.
The deceased was identified as Furkan Qureshi, a Class 12 student.
The incident took place on May 28 when Furkan Qureshi and his family, settled at Nasirabad in Rajasthan, had come to Neemuch to attend a marriage, the teenager’s father, Haroon Rasheed Qureshi, said.
Police said they have not been informed about the boy’s death by his family and hence not launching a probe as of now.
Before Furkan Qureshi became unresponsive Monday while playing the online game, Player Unknown’s Battleground (PUBG), on his smartphone, he `shouted blast it, blast it’, his father told PTI.
“He was a very active lad. My son was so engrossed in PUBG game that he played it from Sunday evening to early hours of Monday.
“He slept for a few hours and after getting up had his breakfast and then played the game for six hours at a stretch,” Haroon Qureshi said.
“Furkan shouted `blast it, blast it’ after his character in the game lost a battle,” he said.
The teenager was rushed to a hospital after he became unresponsive while playing the game, but could not be resuscitated.
“I examined him at my nursing home. He was unresponsive. His heart beat had stopped. I tried my best but he was brought dead,” cardiologist Ashok Jain said.
Another city-based cardiologist Vipul Garg said children nowadays get so much mentally involved in playing battle games on mobile phones that their emotions run high due to thrill and excitement, and they often fall prey to heart failure.
Children should be kept away from such mobile games, Garg said.
Kotwali police station inspector Ajay Sarwan said they had not been informed that the boys death has taken place due to a mobile phone game.
“So we are not probing it,” he added.
The popular smartphone game has been blamed for adversely affecting studies, overall behaviour, conduct and language of children.
The game has been banned by the police in some cities of Gujarat on ground that it leads to violent behaviour among children and youth.
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Senate Just Barely Rejects Plan To Expand FBI Surveillance Powers
from the two-votes dept
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Just yesterday we wrote about how the Senate was, somewhat ridiculously, rapidly pushing forward plans on a vote for an amendment to the laws concerning what information the FBI can gather using National Security Letters (NSLs). Despite the fact that the big push for this bill began a few weeks ago, and the fact that it had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the Orlando shooting, cynical Senators including John McCain and Mitch McConnell pointed to the shootings in Orlando as a reason that this expansion of FBI surveillance powers was needed. Of course, the reality is that it wasn't needed, and the law is really there to paper over the fact that the FBI has already been widely abusing its NSL powers to get information it's not allowed to request.After a vocal debate this morning, the measure (somewhat surprisingly) failed to pass, but by just two votes. It need 60 votes to move forward (it was a vote for "cloture" on debate, which requires 60 votes), and it only received 58. But McConnell already made it clear that the amendment will be reconsidered soon, which means he's likely going to be pushing strongly to get those two remaining votes.In other words, this particular debate is far from over, and thus it's important to make sure your Senator knows not to support this. You can see the roll call on the votes here to see what your Senators voted. Somewhat surprisingly, neither of my Senators in California voted for it. Feinstein didn't vote or wasn't present and Boxer voted against. I'm guessing that Feinstein would likely vote for it in a revote, given her willingness to support greater surveillance, so it's possible that McConnell really only needs one more vote, unless people can convince some of the "Yea" voters to change their mind.
Filed Under: 4th amendment, doj, fbi, john mccain, mitch mcconnell, national security letters, nsls, politics, warrants
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Compatible with iOS 10 to 13
Support for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
This package is also compiled for A12 (arm64e).
Pasithea 2 is a tweak that lets you manage the iOS clipboard history.
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Pasithea 2 has three methods of usage.
The first is Pasithea Keyboard.
By default, Pasithea Keyboard replaces the Tibetan keyboard and automatically adds itself to the activated keyboards list. Pasithea Keyboard can be used to quickly insert past pasteboard history just by switching to it via the iOS "globe" button.
Please note that if you need to use the Tibetan keyboard, you may choose to instead replace the Tamil keyboard - you may do this from Pasithea's settings.
If you do not wish to Pasithea Keyboard at all, you may completely turn its functionality off in Pasithea's settings.
Next is the Pasithea Menu.
Tap "Pasithea" from the selection menu to display the list of historys. You can insert the text by tapping the history.
Pasithea's ControlCenter toggle listener.
suitable for use in either Control Center (iOS 11 or iOS 12 / CCSupport) or Flipswitch (iOS 10 Control Center / Activator).
Pasithea will not save duplicate text strings.
For iOS 11 or later:
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Please back up manually if history to use to a certain extent accumulates.
For unc0ver users:
If you are using unc0ver, you should turn off Reload Daemons. Also, ldrestart will not save the copy history.
There is no problem with Chimera.
If you want to use Activator
Install and use "PasitheaSwitch (Flipswitch)" released by BigBoss.
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Conservative radio host Glenn Beck apologized for claiming that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had voted for President Barack Obama in past elections, saying he’d been duped by a fake tweet.
Beck was a guest on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor” last week, making a case for why he thinks “progressive” Trump would be as big of a “monster” as Barack Obama – a case he’s been making for many months.
Trump watched and responded to the show with a slew of unpleasant opinions about “dopey” Beck to a New Hampshire crowd.
When Trump denied ever having voted for the president Beck tweeted:
Why do you keep saying things like you didn’t vote for @BarackObama?… just admit it @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/ZgL9OAOZck — Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) January 16, 2016
But on Saturday Beck realized he’d been duped by a fake tweet, and was big enough to apologize via Facebook:
Beck’s full apology reads:
****10pm Saturday Update: my apologies for the misinformation. I will always lead with my mistakes. It does appear this to be fake. My fault for not checking it far enough myself. I take complete responsibility for this error. Apparently it comes from this site: http://faketrumptweet.com/ I owe Donald Trump an apology for the error of this tweet. More importantly I owe you an apology for making the water muddy where the water is crystal clear on his record. Update: this is a deleted tweet from the trump Twitter feed. My researchers are split tonight on whether or not this was a hack or fake. I want to make sure that you know from me first that the staff is split down the middle. Not enough to say real or fake at this point. There is no denial from the campaign on this tweet. But I do not want to run anything that is not accurate. If it is deemed a fake you will hear it from me. If it is real, the same. Until we can come to a consensus and feel comfortable I want to let you know that it is in question. There is enough on Donald Trump to not have to make things up. (See the earlier post of him defending abortion and the New York voting difference) I work hard to make sure we get it right as you know. After 3 years on Fox taking on the likes of the White House and George Soros you know we do our homework and if we get it wrong we lead with our mistakes. Stand by.
Editor’s Note: This post originally stated the vote was in 2012 and 2016. This was a writing error and has been corrected to say “past elections.”
Related posts:
Trump finally responds to Glenn Beck’s brutal pounding and it wasn’t pretty
O’Reilly, Beck butt heads over ‘problem-solver’ Donald Trump
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trying to hit that target.
Don't mistake my meaning here, he does not stare down his receivers and telegraph the play or fail to go through progressions. McCown often makes reads post-snap and goes through progressions to find the open man. On plays where he identifies an open receiver or great matchup pre-snap, however, he does often lock on and even forces throws when the defense changes the coverage on him.
McCown is over-eager to make plays and often takes huge risks under pressure. He doesn't protect the football and is often reckless in the face of a pass rush.
In a vacuum, with no pass rush, he can easily pick a defense apart. Rush him and he self-destructs.
Scheme Fit
Josh McCown has spent the past two seasons in vertical offenses, with many of his throws not directly translating to a West Coast Offense. Over that time, though, he has thrown a high number of slants and some deeper hitches and crossing routes, as well as receiver screens.
He has had much fewer reps with the other West Coast Offense staples, such as short hitches, shallow crosses, whip routes, speed outs, and the like. In his reps with WCO staples, he has consistently shown good anticipation, timing, and ball placement.
McCown also has an accurate deep ball and the ability to hit receivers in stride downfield that projects well for the Browns' play action package.
He also has nice touch and placement on jump balls, though the Browns do not currently have a receiver or tight end that excels in that area.
Overall
McCown's arm strength is average. Other than that, he has everything you could ask for from a physical and technical standpoint. His anticipation and ability to lead receivers could be a weapon in the Browns offense. His deep ball accuracy could be a phenomenal asset.
His awareness is good but not great.
The pass rush absolutely destroys him. For the Browns to have success with Josh McCown at quarterback, they must give him excellent pass protection. If he gets pressured, he'll make bad decisions and turn over the ball.
His 2014 season in Tampa Bay was, to some degree, a perfect storm. He is highly susceptible to pressure, the Buccaneers ran a vertical offense with many slow-developing plays, and they had the worst offensive line depth chart in the NFL.
To maximize McCown's effectiveness, I recommend that the Browns:
Run the ball.
Oh, did you think I was going to have some other points? No, sorry.
Joking aside, the Browns could help McCown by running the ball a lot, showing a variety of play action looks, and moving players around to create clear matchup advantages. Also, run a high number of fast-developing timing routes to take advantage of his anticipation and ball placement skills while getting the ball out of his hands quickly.
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for the machines on the LAN. local-zone: "home.lan." static local-data: device1.home.lan. IN A 192.168.1.55 local-data: device2.home.lan. IN A 192.168.1.97 local-data-ptr: 192.168.1.55 device1.home.lan local-data-ptr: 192.168.1.97 device2.home.lan # Use the following forward-zone to forward all queries to Google DNS, # OpenDNS.com or your local ISP's dns servers for example. To test resolution # speeds use "drill calomel.org @8.8.8.8" and look for the "Query time:" in # milliseconds. # forward-zone: name: "." forward-addr: 50.116.40.226 # OpenDNS forward-addr: 8.8.4.4 # Google forward-addr: 2604:180:1:22a::8c53 # OpenDNS Append these lines to /etc/rc.conf unbound_enable="YES" Start unbound $ sudo service unbound start
dhcpd Install isc-dhcp43-server $ sudo pkg install -y isc-dhcp43-server Create /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf with these contents. I like to have static assignments for IPv4 addresses based on MAC addresses. Modify as needed. authoritative; option domain-name "home.lan"; default-lease-time 43200; max-lease-time 90000; subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.1.21 192.168.1.254; option routers 192.168.1.1; option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255; option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1, 50.116.40.226, 8.8.4.4; } subnet 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.2.2 192.168.2.254; option routers 192.168.2.2; option broadcast-address 192.168.2.255; option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.2, 50.116.40.226, 8.8.4.4; } host device1 { hardware ethernet 00:00:00:00:be:ef; fixed-address 192.168.1.55; } host device2 { hardware ethernet 00:00:00:01:be:ef; fixed-address 192.168.1.97; } Append these lines to /etc/rc.conf dhcpd_enable="YES" dhcpd_ifaces="octe1 octe2" Start isc-dhcpd $ sudo service isc-dhcpd start
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toward becoming more spiritual and finding higher meaning in our lives.
Chuck: Marilyn and I are both aloof. I know that when I go into a room I will wait for others to say hello to me. I once thought I was just shy, but now realize this behavior was developed over time so that I would not have to risk being vulnerable. It was a way I could control how people interacted with me.
I have used this behavior in all my relationships to maintain control. When Marilyn and I came together, we both knew what we wanted in a relationship, namely, an open, honest, sharing of ourself with another. Old patterns, however, are hard to die. When our relationship began, we had fights in which one of us would just leave. It could be leaving the room or leaving the house, but it was an attempt to control the other’s behavior by getting them to come after us. When we realized what we were doing, we began to change that behavior.
Instead of leaving, we made a conscious decision to stay and try to work through the issue. That meant being vulnerable and owning what we were feeling. For example: “I’m feeling very hurt about what you said.” In this way there was no blaming or trying to control. We found that because we care about each other, when we risk being honest about our feelings, the other person is naturally drawn to our vulnerability and therefore to us. We then talk about what happened and resolve it in the moment because neither of us feels blamed or controlled.
Lately we’ve taken this a step further by injecting humor into our conflicts. When one of us is inadvertently critical of the other, the injured person might say something like: “What type of feeling did you want me to have by your last statement?” Said in a humorous way it becomes a clue that the other was hurt and it is immediately dealt with, usually with an embarrassed laugh of recognition. We’re continually learning what it takes to overcome our control dramas. We still have disagreements, but because we both recognize our tendencies toward aloofness, we have an awareness of when we withdraw. We can then choose to break the habit by owning what’s going on in the moment and talking about what just happened. We are having fun with our attempts at humor and they usually work.
Marilyn and Chuck:This is our life’s work, exploring new ways to use our relationship for personal growth. It includes staying in integrity with ourselves and choosing to help heal instead of re-wound each other. We believe that one of the greatest gifts we can give the people in our lives is being 100% who we are. It is then that each person will be challenged and can take responsibility for their own lives, fears, and emotions. In this way we become whole.
This article, written by Marilyn and Chuck, is reprinted with permission from Woman’s Way Magazine. Copyright © 2001 the Relationship Specialists, Inc. All rights reserved.
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In an exciting FIFA World Cup match against Serbia, Switzerland managed to take home all three points. Early on in the game, Serbian striker Aleksandar Mitrovic scored a header, after a cross from Serbia’s attacking midfielder Dusan Tadic.
Switzerland then tried to take the initiative, pressuring Serbia, predominantly through Xhaka and Shaqiri. It was minute 52 when Xhaka scored a spectacular goal from outside the box. And lastly, in what would be one of the final attacks on Serbia’s goal, Xherdan Shaqiri sprinted clear, avoided an offside call, and clipped the ball under Serbia’s goalkeeper.
The stadium erupted, as Switzerland fans celebrated a major victory that could get them through to the next leg of the competition.
Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri celebrated their goals with the “Albanian Eagle,” a provocative gesture aimed at Serbia. Both Xhaka and Shaqiri’s parents are from Kosovo, Talksport notes, so the celebration has patriotic, and political implications. According to the same outlet, Xhaka’s brother, Taulant, plays for Albania, and the players’ father was a political prisoner in the former Yugoslavia before moving to Switzerland.
Shaqiri, too, as The Sun noted, celebrated with the same gesture. Shaqiri was born in Kosovo, and emigrated to Switzerland along with his parents and three sibling in 1992.
Featured image credit: Clive Rose Getty Images
The Kosovo conflict, according to Encyclopedia Britannica, first escalated in 1989, when the leader of the ethnic Albanians in the Serbian province of Kosovo initiated a policy of nonviolent protest against Slobodan Milosevic, then-president of the Serbian republic.
Over the years, tensions escalated, with the Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) emerging in 1996. Following further escalations, an informal coalition of the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, and Russia demanded the withdrawal of Yugoslav and Serbian forces from Kosovo.
Diplomatic negotiations began in 1999, but were stopped a month later. The conflict ended when NATO intervened with air strikes against Serbian military targets. A lot has changed since. Kosovo has become an independent state, recognized by the United States, as well as the European Union.
The Albanian Eagle, which is prominently featured on the flag of Albania, is, as PRI noted, the country’s national symbol.
As The Guardian noted, Xhaka, Shaqiri, Behrami, and Switzerland’s other Kosovans were taunted and whistled by a crowd where Serbs were supported by the Russians. Chants could be heard throughout the game, “Serbia-Russia” banners decorated the stands, but Xhaka and Shaqiri seemed to have shut the crowd up with their provocative goal celebrations, spicing up the ending of yet another exciting World Cup match.
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purchased a pennyworth of laudanum and administered it to the children, giving a larger portion to the older child. Her intention was to put them into a “deep sleep.” However, signs of trouble began when later that evening one of the children began to have strong convulsions and then both suddenly died. When Griffith was brought before the judge for manslaughter, she confessed to her crime and was committed to the county gaol, to await trial.
The fifth of the crimes in 1843 was a highly publicized case and involved a death that happened some twenty years earlier. It happened in the village of Berwick, St. John, Wilts about forty miles or so from where Jane Austen grew up. It began when laborers in that village were hired to remove the thatch from an old cottage that once belonged to a widower named Mary Dimmer. She was deceased but had lived in the house for over forty years. After removing the thatch, the laborers exposed a cavity between the roof and the ceiling, which is where they discovered the body of a mummified infant. Mary had a daughter named Ann, who was also deceased. According to neighbors, Ann had been pregnant about twenty years earlier but apparently delivered the baby “without anyone knowing what had become of the child.”[8] Neighbors reported the birth to police, who made a search, but both Mary and Ann denied that any child existed or that Ann had even been pregnant. Because of their denials and no evidence, the police dropped the matter. However, with the discovery of the tiny mummified body, wrapped in a waistcoat said to have been worn previously by an illegitimate son of Ann’s, neighbors recalled the birth and surmised that someone in the household likely killed the child.
References:
[1] Neison, F. G. P., “Statistics of Crime in England and Wales for the Years 1842, 1843, and 1844,” in Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 9, No. 3, October 1846, p. 2.
Vol. 9, No. 3, October 1846, p. 2. [2] Ibid.
[3] “Attempt at Murder,” in North Devon Journal, 19 October 1843, p. 4.
19 October 1843, p. 4. [4] Ibid.
[5] Winter Assizes, in Morning Post, 6 January 1844, p. 4.
[6] “Accidents and Offences,” in Northern Whig, 29 April 1843, p. 4.
29 April 1843, p. 4. [7] “Accidents and Offences,” in Leicestershire Mercury, 28 October 1843, p. 1.
28 October 1843, p. 1. [8] “Singular Discovery,” in Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, 3 August 1843, p. 4.
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Get ready to welcome the new year… with depressed and desperate magical girls, as a new promotional video for the upcoming Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side-Story anime reveals the series’ January 4, 2020 release date. The PV, released by Aniplex in all its social media platforms on November 30, gives us a longer sneak preview of the new set of magical girls and (probably the most detested magical familiar ever) Kyuubey. Check out the PV here!
The PV also previews the series’ ED song, “Alicia”, which was sung by mysterious pop duo ClariS, who also sung Puella Magi Madoka Magica’s iconic OP, “connect”. The previous PV previewed the series’ OP song “Gomakashi (Deception)”, which was performed by trio TrySail.
Below are the confirmed cast for the series:
· Momo Asakura as Iroha Tamaki
· Sora Amamiya as Yachiyo Nanami
· Shiina Natsukawa as Tsuruno Yui
· Ayane Sakura as Felicia Mitsuki
· Yui Ogura as Sana Futaba
· Mikako Komatsu as Momoko Togame
· Ayaka Ohashi as Kaede Akino
· Kaori Ishihara as Rena Minami
· Kana Hanazawa as Kuroe
The original cast of Puella Magi Madoka Magica such as Aoi Yuki (Kaname Madoka) and Chiwa Saito (Akemi Homura) will also be returning to the new anime series in some capacity.
Anime News Network describes Magia Record’s story as such:
“[The story] takes place in the burgeoning city of Kamihama. Guided by a strange power, magical girls gather in this town and battle with a new power drawn from witches. Iroha Tamaki arrives in this town and joins other magical girls to search for her missing younger sister Ui. Before long, Homura Akemi also arrives in the town. "If I can understand the mystery of this town, maybe I can save Kaname.
Iroha Tamaki becomes a magical girl with a wish to save her sister from illness. Madoka also arrives in Kamihama to search for her missing friend Homura.”
SHAFT will be animating the series, under the direction and script supervision of Gekidan Inu Curry. Junichiro Taniguchi returns as chief animation director, as well as Madoka Magica series director Yukihiro Miyamoto who will now be assistant director. Original work is still credited to the Magica Quartet aka director Akiyuki Shinbou, writer Gen Urobochi, character designer Ume Aoki, and producer Atsuhiro Iwakami.
Source: Anime News Network
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At least two of the Republican candidates running for the Texas State Board of Education indicated in a conservative voter’s guide that they don’t believe the Texas State Board of Education should have any authority over how children are educated.
Both Eric Mahroum (R) and Lady Theresa Thombs (R) “disagree” that it “is the government’s responsibility to be sure children are properly educated.” Incumbent Pat Hardy (R) joined the pair in “strongly agree[ing]” that “the more people [who] live by Judeo-Christian values, the less government is needed.”
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The three “strongly agree[d] that “free market competition for education dollars” would be preferable to a “government monopoly” on education. TFN Insider noted that “‘free market competition’ is the core argument for private school vouchers, which take tax dollars from public schools to pay tuition for students admitted to private and religious schools.”
All three candidates also “strongly disagree” that “[e]fforts to bring Islamic law (shariah) to America do not pose a threat to our country and its Constitution.” In addition to believing that “[e]fforts to bring Islamic law (shariah) to America” both exist and are a pressing concern of national interest, all but the relatively moderate Hardy “strongly agree” that “[r]eligious freedom is our most foundational freedom.” Hardy replied “neutral” to that question.
In January, Lady Theresa Thombs dismissed incumbent Republican Hardy as “a lifelong Democrat.” She said that her fellow Tea Party candidate Mahroum was “inexperienced,” as his only “real experience in management is Chuck E. Cheese.”
Thombs then declared that she wanted to make sure history lessons were written by “experts, not people from some socialist higher education.”
“We know we we didn’t come from monkeys,” she continued, a sentiment she echoed this morning on Twitter:
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Creation Evidence Museum of Texas http://t.co/VKpwnXqvuh — Lady Theresa Thombs (@ladythombsdj) February 20, 2014
At the time of the January meeting, her campaign website said that she was running for a position on the Texas State Board of Education to fight “adgendas [sic] and ideoligies [sic].” The site declared that she wants to “stem the tide of our best and brightest teachers leaving the classroom to pursue other carriers [sic], because they can no longer live with the policies and mandates they no [sic] are harmful to their students.”
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Watch a video of Lady Theresa Thombs singing at the Forth Worth Religious Freedom Rally below.
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ing Knight: C+/B-
Great body, poor ability, happy to have a couple of these in most Sanctum decks.
Sanctum Guardian: B+
Big body with taunt and an ability that works well with it. You can always move it so that it’s protecting your most valuable creature.
Sequis: C+/B-
Better than Raiding Knight but not so much as to fully move it up to B-. It is still only capturing aember. Stronger near the end of the game where your opponent will be more desperate for any aember they can find.
Sergeant Zakiel: B-
Good sized body with the ability to get a second use out of any of your other Sanctum creatures or fight with an out of house creature. This is a solid card.
Staunch Knight: B
Be careful not to let a 6 power 2 armor creature lose 2 power for no reason. I’m not sure what I would have to have in order to cause me to want to move this creature from the flank.
Gatekeeper: B-/B
If you were really a Sanctum fan you would know this card was just ok. Like most Sanctum creatures this has a good-sized body and an ok play ability. Capture is such a weak mechanic even if you capture 6 your opponent can spend 1 card to get it all back.
The Vaultkeeper: B-/B
This feels mostly targeted at Shadows but some of the other factions have steal as well. Aside from that it has an ok body.
Veemos Lightbringer: B-
Good body and there is enough elusive in the game you should be able to manage the board in such a way you get more of your opponent’s cards than yours.
Armageddon Cloak: B
A good defensive ability, 1 aember, and will almost always get around the risk involved with upgrades.
Mantle of the Zealot: B-/B
This is a very strong ability and it gets stronger depending on the creature you put it on. It is an Experimental Therapy with no downside. I think in the worst case if you get 2 extra activation’s off of this card, then it has offset the cost of being an upgrade.
Protect the Weak: C-
You generally don’t want your opponent to attack the creatures you put upgrades on as it could lead to 2 for 1’s in their favor, so taunt is almost a negative on this card and the 1 armor is not really enough to offset that. There are some board states where you will need to protect something and this will do the trick.
Shoulder Armor: C+
Make sure you play this on a flank creature and it stays there. Assuming no shenanigans happen then this is enough power and armor this creature will probably need 2 cards to remove it.
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struggling to consistently stymie Green Bay's pass rush -- former Washington edge defender Preston Smith, in particular, gave Collins fits.
Brandon Knight's best blocks vs GB. pic.twitter.com/Qtlra7b9wM — All22Hype (@All22Hype) October 7, 2019
Given that Knight was a UDFA who was moved to guard before missing a large chunk of training camp with an injury, it's impossible not be impressed by his performance. Dallas was down big from the moment he stepped onto the field, so Knight didn't get many opportunities to run block, but he was mighty impressive in pass protection, given the circumstances. He did allow a couple of pressures off the right side and struggled a bit early, but he quickly calmed down and was much less of an issue than Cameron Fleming on the opposite side.
Despite his inexperience, Knight did a fantastic job of firing out of his stance and beating Green Bay pass rushers to the intersection point -- the point where a pass rusher's perceived path and the offensive lineman's pass set intersect.
Even more impressive is the fact that Knight stayed mindful not to overset despite consistently getting a jump on the Packers' edge defenders.
Oftentimes, young offensive linemen will work too far outside in those situations. Knight, however, stayed technically sound by maintaining his half-man responsibility. This allowed him to properly defend inside and power moves, which happen to be the fastest avenues to a sack. If the pass rushers opt to go outside, Knight is then able to run them beyond the apex of the pocket.
Once he got within striking range, Knight was surprisingly accurate, effective and powerful with his hands, as his strong strikes enabled him to distort the pass rusher's line to the quarterback.
Moreover, Knight showed good awareness to pass stunts off and take on new rushers.
Knight showed he has exciting athletic traits as well, displaying excellent foot speed to mirror speed rushes around the edge along with impressive balance to recover when initially put out of position. Balance also allows him to sustain blocks well when defenders try to string together counter moves.
Knight does need to develop more raw strength in an effort to improve his anchor and his footwork could use some tightening, but Sunday was a very promising debut for the Indiana product.
Altogether, on a day when the Cowboys didn't have much to be happy about, they can take solace in the performance of their undrafted rookie right tackle. Based on his showing, Knight has a bright future ahead of him.
Don't be surprised if Knight overtakes Fleming and becomes the primary swing tackle in the next year or two.
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Twitter: @JohnOwning
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least four separate occasions, and this may also be a simple mistake.
The other Antarctic species, the emperor penguin, is if anything even worse.
Female emperor penguins that have lost their own brood frequently "adopt" unattended chicks. If there are none available, things get violent. Fights break out as mobs of broody mothers struggle with each other to steal a chick from another penguin family.
Kidnappings last from a few minutes to a few days. Most end with the chick being abandoned to die in the cold. One confused penguin even kidnapped its own natural enemy, the chick of a penguin-eating bird called a skua.
It's a by-product of their very special strategy
These kidnappings are bizarre and brutal in equal measures, and why the females do it has been puzzling scientists for decades.
Emperor penguins are unique among birds, in that they nest in the middle of winter. The females must go to sea to feed, leaving the males to keep their offspring warm. This causes a problem. When most birds lose sight of their eggs, they stop producing the parenting hormone prolactin, and lose interest.
To maintain their maternal instinct during their 2-month vacation, emperor penguin mothers maintain high levels regardless. Frédéric Angelier of the French National Center for Scientific Research in Villiers en Bois wondered if this hormone might explain the kidnappings.
To find out, Angelier and his colleagues injected birds that had lost their chicks with bromocriptine, a chemical known to suppress prolactin. As they expected, these penguins kidnapped chicks less often than control penguins that did not receive bromocriptine.
"It's a by-product of their very special strategy," says co-author Olivier Chastel. "If you are back from the sea and there is no chick, you still have this really high hormone level and you are likely to grab a chick."
Finally, penguins have a reputation for romance, and this too is not really deserved.
A shortage of stones has pushed many females into "prostitution"
Emperor penguins form long-distance relationships that endure the Antarctic winter, and this has made them the poster children of monogamy. The penguins themselves have different ideas, and regularly get "divorced". Similarly, 81% of king penguins choose a different mate every season.
Infidelity is also commonplace. Nearly a third of female Humboldt penguins cheat on their partners.
This cheating is sometimes driven by factors that, to us, seem shockingly mercenary.
Adélie penguins build nests out of stones, and a shortage of stones has pushed many females into "prostitution": they mate with other males in exchange for stones. Some duplicitous females have started going through the elaborate courtship ritual to get the stones, and then running off before the male can mate. Both sexes also steal stones from their rivals' nests.
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“the talk” from his father on his wedding day.
“He said, ‘Son, you know all that stuff I told you not to do with women? Tonight you start doing them’—that was his sex education,” Brinley says with exasperation. With children left to fend for themselves in entering a sexual relationship, Brinley says confused expectations about what happens in the bedroom can ruin marriages and, in some cases, push undersexed men to pornography.
For Brinley, the messaging—or lack thereof—about female desire is the kind of feminist critique he feels is unfair to the majority of LDS couples.
“Women who feel like they are used in a marriage want other women to know this is what men are going to do,” Brinley says, but it’s not the case when “two decent, civil and mature” people are wed, he says.
Finlayson-Fife is careful not to suggest the church is denying intimacy to its members. In fact, she says, the LDS culture in many ways embraces intimacy, but that those messages aren’t getting through to members.
“Mormonism at its roots embraces the body as essential to becoming godlike,” Finlayson-Fife says, “with all of its parts and passions.”
She points out that the LDS Church does not demonize the body’s sexual desires to the extent many other organized religions do.
“One thing I’ll say to women is that the clitoris’ only function is pleasure. If God didn’t want you to have pleasure, you wouldn’t have one,” Finlayson-Fife says.
For her, it’s a message that translates basic human instinct to joy, which ultimately can keep together a marriage. For “Crystal,” who asked to not have her last name used, and who participated in one of Finlayson-Fife’s workshops, it was more of a blessing than a message.
“When you have access to this information from someone who has done the research and... who also has an LDS perspective... it can really be life-changing,” Crystal says. “We’re supposed to be happy about procreating.Shouldn’t we also be happy about the act of sex?”
For more information about Finlayson-Fife's upcoming Salt Lake City workshop visit Finlayson-Fife's professional blog here.
Twitter: @EricSPeterson
Editor's Note: This article has been clarified to show that Finlayson-Fife says she believes LDS women enter into sexual activity out of a sense of duty more so than desire. The original article misstated her as saying LDS women enter marriage out of a sense of duty more than desire.
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After agreeing to all opt out of their contracts together, Miami Heat stars LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade have been discussing financial terms of new contracts among each other, sources told ESPN.com.
Bosh's agent, Henry Thomas, said he told Heat president Pat Riley of Bosh's decision to opt out on Sunday afternoon. Wade's decision came Saturday, and LeBron's on Tuesday. The deadline for the players to declare free agency is midnight Monday
The talks between the three players is the strongest indication yet that James plans to re-sign with the Heat after he becomes a free agent on Tuesday. Unlike in 2010 when all three took nearly identical contracts, the discussions this time have included the possibility that James would draw the highest salary among the three, sources said.
James, 29, has never been the single highest-paid player on his team in his 11-year NBA career.
Under league rules, players are not allowed to negotiate new contracts with their teams until July 1. However, there is nothing preventing the players from working it out among themselves, and cutting up the Heat's upcoming record $55 million in available cap space is believed to have been a major part of the discussion when Wade, James and Bosh held a meeting last week in Miami.
The trio of Heat stars working collectively have three general options on how to put together their deals that could affect how aggressive the team will be going after other free agents. The Heat's front office, led by president Pat Riley and general manager Andy Elisburg, will consult but have different plans for all three contingencies, sources said.
James, Bosh and Wade could all re-sign and take raises to the maximum salary starting at $22 million each, which would carry the Heat into the luxury tax and significantly limit their spending options this season and in the following seasons.
They could all take significant pay cuts, perhaps in excess of $5 million per year each, that would take the Heat below the salary cap and leave enough room to chase a major free agent like point guard Kyle Lowry. Though the Heat may ultimately investigate the possibility of Carmelo Anthony, that option has not been seriously discussed among the parties yet, sources said.
The last option is that the Heat stars could all take moderate pay cuts and stagger their salaries at different levels. This would likely not leave significant cap space but it would take the Heat below the luxury tax line and enable them up to use the full mid-level exception of $5.3 million and the biannual exception of $2 million to bring in multiple role players.
With James saying the team needs to improve "at every position," it seems possible the third option may end up being the most likely, especially after the Heat players all took pay cuts when they came to Miami four years ago.
Udonis Haslem, who declined a $4.6 million player option for next season to add more flexibility, is also expected to be a part of the plans as he works out a new long-term deal that reduces his annual salary.
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at Pouhon during practice at Spa and was promptly spat out into the barriers. Then again, it didn’t stop drivers exceeding track limits at Turns 3 and 4 in Hungary this year, and it didn’t stop drivers exceeding track limits at Stavelot or, indeed, on the exit of Blanchimont.
What about the high abrasion run off we see at Circuit Paul Ricard? Run over that too many times and your tyres will get chewed right through. It would be an effective deterrent, but if it chews up tyres then it follows that it would also chew up bike leathers and human flesh in the event of an incident in two-wheeled competition and as such would be a hard sell to most multi-purpose circuits.
If determining the correct type of run-off is so hard, then perhaps it simply falls down to policing track limits effectively. Some have called for Formula 1 to embrace Britain’s strict MSA rules. Introduced in 2014 in direct conflict to the FIA’s own regulations, the MSA stipulated the following:
Regulation Q14.4.2: Drivers must use the track at all times and may not leave the track without a justifiable reason.
Q14.4.2.a The white lines defining the track edges are considered to be part of the track.
Q14.4.2.b A driver will be judged to have left the track if any wheel of the car either goes beyond the outer edge of any kerb or goes beyond the white line where there is no kerb.
Penalty System:
First offence: Reprieve
Second: Black-and-white warning flag
Third: Five-second penalty
Fourth: Drive-through penalty
Fifth: Black flag
This system is black and white. To many it is too extreme. To others, it is absolutely correct. And its intention is clear. Using the kerbs is acceptable to a point, but track limits must always be respected.
Ultimately Formula 1’s problem falls down to a number of factors, from the continual extension of drivable run-off in the pursuit of greater safety and a driver’s nature to use whatever advantage he or she can to drive faster, the failure in the first instance of Charlie Whiting and the FIA in clamping down on the excessive use of this run-off when it first became an issue, to the fine line one can draw between a black and white enforcement of principle and the grey area that exists in the excitement derived from those who go over the limits to pull off bold and brave overtaking moves.
But at the root of it all is the Sporting Regulations.
Until we have a better written set of rules, with clear parameters of acceptable driving, what constitutes the racing surface and what punishments will befall those who continually flout the rules, Article 20.2 and the concept of track limits will have absolutely no meaning in the so called pinnacle of motorsport.
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It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Tom Hanks has signed on to star as Mister Rogers in You Are My Friend, a drama about the children’s television pioneer.
The movie is based on the relationship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod, who got to know the star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood while writing a profile of him for Esquire magazine in 1998.
TriStar Pictures, which announced the movie Monday, describes it as a heart-warmer in which “a cynical journalist begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write a profile piece on the beloved icon and finds his perspective on life transformed.”
Hannah Minghella, President of TriStar Pictures, said the story aims “to remind us all of the transformative power of kindness and respect to heal and to unite.”
Diary of a Teenage Girl filmmaker Marielle Heller will direct from a screenplay by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster who both worked on Amazon’s Transparent. The company Big Beach will produce the film, but a release date has not yet been set.
“The script knocked me out with its message of kindness and its exploration of the human spirit,” Heller said. “As a mother, I am so inspired by the teachings of Fred Rogers and as a human I am in awe of his life’s work. I can’t wait to bring his story to the public and be a part of such a thoughtful, smart group of people who are all coming together to make this film, which truly feels to me like an antidote to our very fractured culture.”
RELATED: Remembering Mr. Rogers, a true-life ‘helper’ when the world still needs one
Rogers died at age 74 in 2003, but the countless television neighbors who grew up with him have kept his lessons alive for new generations of kids.
The animated Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood brings back many of Mister Rogers’ lessons and characters from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and a documentary about Rogers, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, just debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and will be released this summer by Focus Features.
This article originally appeared on EW.com
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New Delhi/ Bangalore/ Bhopal /Kanpur, May 24 (ANI): People across the country, who are often at the receiving end of fluctuating governmental policies, expressed their anguish over the sudden announcement of the petrol price hike by Rs. 7.50.
In New Delhi, protesting residents said that frequent petrol price hike were taking a toll of their budgets.
"This is a big shock for us. We have left all work and come here at the petrol pump to get our cars refilled. I am thinking of bringing my other car as well and get it refilled. It seems as we have no other work left. The price was increased few months back. If the petrol price increases by two rupees, then it is a setback for us. This time, the central government has increased it by Rs.7.50. What can we do now? I do not think that this government will last for long. It will fall anytime," said Bhavishya Singh.
In Bangalore, residents urged the Central Government to roll back petrol prices immediately.
"As a public, we are facing a lot of difficulties. Lot of e-mails we are getting saying that in Pakistan and other countries the petrol rates are cheaper compared to India. So, the government should consider a price revision," said Prashant Rao.
In Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, people criticised the government for its incompetency in dealing with inflation.
"This government is not able to curb inflation and on the other hand is increasing petrol prices six or seven times in a year. With the recent hike in petrol prices, the government has proved that it is not for the poor or middle class, but only for the rich," said Vishwas Kumar.
In Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, people complained about stagnant salaries.
"If they keep on increasing petrol prices like this, then we will face a lot of problem. Our salaries are not increasing as they are increasing fuel prices. How will we manage our household only God knows," said Piyush Sinha.
The UPA-II Government on Wednesday announced a hike in petrol prices by Rs.7.50 per litre. The new prices came into effect from midnight.
The hike in prices means that the price of petrol in Delhi will go up from Rs.65.64 per litre to Rs.73.14 per litre. In Mumbai, the price will go from Rs.70.66 per litre to Rs.78.16 per litre. In Kolkata, the price will go from Rs.70.03 per litre to Rs.77.53 per litre In Chennai, the price will go from Rs.69.55 per litre to Rs.77.05 per litre.
State-owned oil companies have decided to raise petrol price by Rs 6.28 per litre excluding local sales tax or VAT. The hike translates into Rs 7.50 per litre in Delhi and is the steepest ever. (ANI)
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Centre back signs a three year contract
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- HTAFC signs centre back Christopher Schindler- 26 year-old defender becomes club record signing- Head Coach David Wagner commentsThe seven figure fee the Club has paid for the 26 year-old eclipses the amount paid for reigning Player of the Year Nahki Wells, who arrived from Bradford City in January 2014.A 6’ 2” tall centre back, Schindler has played exclusively for his hometown club since making his professional debut nearly seven years ago, captaining the side for the last two years. He arrives with over 200 career appearances under his belt, the majority of which have come in the 2. Liga.He has put pen to paper on a three year contract, with the Club having the option to extend it for a further season.Huddersfield Town’s Head Coach David Wagner commented:“I’m very happy to welcome Christopher to the Club today.“A big part of our decision to allow Joel Lynch to join Queens Park Rangers was the availability of Christopher. We have reinvested that transfer fee – and more – into bringing a top class centre back to Huddersfield Town; one who is only 26 years old.“I am totally comfortable breaking the Club’s transfer record to bring Christopher here.“It will have been a big decision to leave his hometown club after spending so long there, but Christopher is desperate to come and play for us in the EFL Sky Bet Championship.“Christopher is an excellent defender. He is good in the aerial challenge and is a very composed player, who is great at reading the game. He will suit our playing style very well, as he is always on the front foot.“He is also a fantastic character and another leader in the defensive area for us, which is very important. In total we now have five defenders who have captained their former clubs; Christopher, Chris Loewe, Michael Hefele, Martin Cranie and our captain Mark Hudson.”After playing for the Under-19 team for three seasons, Christopher – who earned four caps for Germany at Under-21 level – made his professional debut in the Regionalliga Sud for 1860 Munich II in late 2009.His 2. Bundesliga debut for the Lions’ First Team soon followed in October 2010 in a 1-0 derby win over Union Berlin; he finished his debut campaign having made five starts and 11 substitute appearances.Christopher became a First Team regular in the 2011/12 campaign, also lining up at right back and in holding midfield on occasion before cementing a centre back berth. He made 30 appearances that season as the side finished sixth in the 2. Liga.Schindler took over as Club Captain in 2014 and has been a virtual ever-present since. Last season he started 36 games and is one of two players in the reckoning to win the fans’ Player of the Season vote.His contract at the Club was due to run until the summer of 2019.
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Most Republicans in Congress come from safely gerrymandered districts and risk little by supporting Ryan's budget. (The greater risk for many would be not supporting it.) But that isn't the case for the presidential hopefuls, whose appeal must extend beyond the conservative base if they are to have any hope of defeating President Obama. To them, Paul Ryan poses a problem.
Ordinarily, when the presidential primaries heat up, national candidates assume the role of party leaders and set the agenda. But since none commands much support, none has anything approaching Ryan's influence. This has created an unusual situation in which the presidential aspirants are essentially bystanders and Republican politics are being driven by governors and congressmen. As one adviser to a presidential candidate put it to National Journal's Ronald Brownstein in March, ''This is the tail wagging the dog.'' Brownstein suggested that some of the extreme positions being imposed on the GOP presidential field -- intense opposition to collective-bargaining rights for public-sector unions; support for hardline anti-immigration laws like Arizona's -- could harm the party's nominee in the general election since President Obama and the Democrats will likely exploit them.
In fact, the damage is already being done, except it's occurring within the Republican Party and the dividing factor is Ryan's budget, particularly its plan to privatize Medicare. The budget's attempt to overturn the individual mandate in the new health care law has been problematic for Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, who supported mandates before the Tea Party arose, when doing so was considered acceptable for Republicans. On Sunday, Gingrich reiterated his support for mandates and then dismissed Ryan's Medicare plan as ''radical'' and ''right-wing social engineering.'' Conservatives excoriated him. In Iowa, television cameras captured a humiliating exchange with a voter who denounced his attack on Ryan and urged him to ''get out before you make a bigger fool of yourself.'' On Tuesday, Gingrich called Ryan and apologized.
All this is testimony to Ryan's impact. If there were any questions about primacy within the party, they're settled now. Gingrich's submission established the Ryan budget as the one true benchmark for activist conservatives. But even Ryan appears to recognize its drawbacks. On Monday, he gave a speech in Chicago in which he sought to recast his designs in a softer light. He barely mentioned Medicare.
The problem for Republicans is that this budget likely represents a high-water mark, and an unattainable ideal. A number of swing-district Republicans have met with an angry backlash. Congressional leaders have signaled that they won't attempt to enact it. And while a budget deal is unlikely anytime soon, congressional Republicans can in theory compromise under the right set of circumstances. But that will be much harder for a presidential candidate -- harder still now that Gingrich has capitulated.
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Stem cells are biology’s magic elves. They have the power to differentiate into hundreds of types of cells. In an embryo, this process is central to making a fully-formed human. Later, it is crucial for maintaining and repairing the body.
In some cases, however, stem cells don’t do their jobs. About 5-10% of men are fully infertile, such that they cannot even use in-vitro fertilization techniques. One cause for their infertility is that their embryonic stem cells failed to go through a series of steps that result in healthy sperm-producing testes.
But there may be a way out for such men. In a world first, researchers at Nanjing Medical University in China report in Cell Stem Cell that they have created mouse sperm from stem cells in a lab and used them to produce fertile offspring. This raises hopes for treating male infertility through the creation of sperm from, say, skin cells.
The milestone study is the first to achieve the “gold standard” set a few years ago by stem-cell researchers. To do that, Chinese researchers had to go from stem cells to sperm-like cells through a series of pre-decided steps. At each step, the cells were supposed to have all the crucial parts—the right number of chromosomes, effective representation of the original donor’s DNA, etc. The final step involved using the sperm-like cells to produce healthy offspring.
Here’s how it worked: Researchers exposed stem cells from mice embryos to a cocktail of chemicals that triggered their differentiation into germ cells, which could then become sperm or eggs. Once the differentiation began, they placed them next to natural tissue that mimicked testes and exposed the cells to testosterone. That enabled the stem cells to go through a series of steps and form spermatids—immature versions of sperm that have not yet grown tails. These spermatids were then injected in a mouse egg to create an embryo, which was then transferred to females who bore pups. These pups then went on to make a second generation of healthy pups through normal reproduction.
Researchers will have now to replicate these results in more mice, and eventually in humans. There is hope. Past research has shown that skin cells can be converted into pluripotent stem cells, which are equivalent to embryonic stem cells. These pluripotent stem cells have even been converted into precursors of sperm and egg cells.
Still, even if scientists succeed, they will need to show that the process is safe and ethical. What is the guarantee that lab-grown sperm will be the same as those that fully functioning testes would have created? Because of such concerns, fertility clinics in the UK, which is a world leader in the field, don’t permit the use of artificial sperm or eggs.
Even if the technique succeeds, it will take decades before male infertility ends. Still, at least, there is light at the end of the tunnel for men who have been unable to have children.
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The New York Agreement which ostensibly solved Bitcoin’s scalability crisis may actually end up causing a third Bitcoin to be created.
The agreement resulted in the creation of the SegWit2x plan, calling for the immediate implementation of Segregated Witness and agreeing to a November hard fork that will double the Bitcoin block size.
While this sounds entirely logical, the problem is that SegWit2x is a compromise. Like all compromises, neither side gets everything they want.
Not an ordinary compromise
SegWit2x isn’t an ordinary compromise, though. One side, the big blockers, had to grant an immediate concession by activating Segregated Witness. They now have to trust that the other side, SegWit supporters, will follow through with their promised block size increase in a few months.
However, having received what they wanted, the implementation of Segregated Witness to be exact, the SegWit camp could easily renege on their promise to increase the block size.
If this happens, miners who support big blocks might go ahead and launch the hard fork anyway. This could result in BTC-SegWit (what we have today), Bitcoin Cash launched on Aug. 1 with little miner support at present, and BTC-SegWit2x.
Such a split would actually be significantly more damaging than the Bitcoin Cash chain split since it would presumably have the support of a large number of miners.
It’s also likely that some non-big block miners would go along with the fork since they promised to do so when they signed the agreement.
Jameson Lopp, software engineer at BitGo, tweeted today:
Sooooooo now thats we have 2 Bitcoin forks thanks to Bcash, are folks still doing SegWit2X? Because that's how you get 3 Bitcoin forks... — Jameson Lopp (@lopp) August 2, 2017
Back to the Middle Ages
Bitcoin’s present situation is reminiscent of the Middle Ages when the Catholic Church split over the legitimacy of the pope.
Much of Europe believed that the pope supported by the French cardinals was legitimate, while the rest of Europe thought that the Italian pope was the rightful heir to the throne of Saint Peter.
In an attempt to solve the so-called “Western Schism” and reunite the church, theologians from all over Europe summoned an ecumenical council which met at Pisa. The Council of Pisa ordered both popes to abdicate and elected a new pope to replace them.
Unfortunately, neither the French nor the Italian pope would resign, resulting in the Catholic Church having three claimants to the papacy. The split was not resolved for 39 years until the Holy Roman Emperor stepped in to force a resolution.
Mark Twain is said to have commented that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Could Bitcoin’s future echo a medieval religious split? If it does, how would the crisis be solved?
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he did so in plain sight, on national television, in a May 2017 interview with NBC News’ Lester Holt.
Yes, it may be argued that Martha Stewart was not convicted of criminal insider trading, for which she was charged. Instead, she went to jail for conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and yes, lying to the FBI. But she also had to pay $195,000 to settle a civil case with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mueller’s exoneration of Trump on collusion, conspiracy, charges show there was an absence of any evidence against Trump, beyond unrelated criminal activity of others, and simply doesn’t implicate the president.
There should now be an accounting from some prominent Democratic politicians who have loudly proclaimed or inferred that there was ample evidence to charge the president with treason. This stoked public fears, fomented division, and in some cases, incited violence. Many made continuous appearances on cable television, staring into the camera, providing assurances that they had actually seen this evidence in closed-door sessions on Capitol Hill.
What now? In the blood sport that is politics, probably nothing. No apologies. No mea culpas. No quiet resignations from public office for misleading the public.
Lest anyone believe that the imperiled presidency has now found safe haven, a word of caution: I’ve long argued that this president’s conduct can certainly be considered impeachment worthy. Impeachment is a political process, not a legal one. Its standard, high crimes and misdemeanors, gives Congress fairly wide latitude to remove what they may consider an “unfit” chief executive. But this president tends to thrive when he has an adversary. Tread cautiously.
But as the Democrats work tirelessly to expand the bandwidth of the narrow Mueller probe, seeking tax documents and business records in perpetuity, here is where the president faces the greatest exposure. Couple that with the ongoing investigations by the Southern District of New York and the New York State Attorney General’s Office into hush money payments and violations of federal election campaign laws, and Trump should be advised to keep his personal attorney roster well-staffed.
Trump’s FBI antagonists, Comey, McCabe, et al, may ultimately face their own legal jeopardies, as well. McCabe has yet to be cleared from the criminal referral to DOJ for lying under oath. The Comey team that initiated the counterintelligence investigation into Russian election meddling in 2016 will have its handling of the dossier materials and FISA applications scrutinized by the nonpolitical Inspector General’s Office, with a report pending.
Buckle your seat belts. As one two-year-old collusion case door closes with a clunk, a multitude of others are soon to be thrown open. It’s about to get real.
James A. Gagliano (@JamesAGagliano) worked in the FBI for 25 years. He is a law enforcement analyst for CNN and an adjunct assistant professor in homeland security and criminal justice at St. John's University.
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Last Thursday, self-proclaimed “firefighter prophet” and right-wing conspiracy theorist Mark Taylor made yet another appearance on Sheila Zilinsky’s “Weekend Vigilante” podcast, where he claimed that former presidents might be executed as punishment from God for criticizing President Trump.
Citing his previous prophecy that of the five living former presidents, “two will be taken, three will be shaken” as retribution from God for supposedly attacking Trump when they gathered for an event to raise money for hurricane relief last year, Taylor linked that to his other prophecy that America will soon see the establishment of “military-style tribunals to deal with the treasonous acts that are being committed right now in the United States.”
Taylor claimed that these five presidents, whom he referred to as “the evil crew of 32,” based on the number of years they collectively held office, had made a covenant with Baal and the “New World Order/Illuminati” and now would be punished for attacking God’s anointed leader, Donald Trump.
“God’s judgment is literally falling,” Taylor said. “It’s not coming, it’s falling right now on these leaders across America and the church, these wicked leaders, and so the Lord is dealing out this righteous judgment.”
“You are going to see these high-level leaders who have been attacking Trump, who are standing in the way of his agenda,” he said, “you will see them removed from authority, number one. You will see them go to prison, number two, [and] you will see some of these leaders, including church leaders, be removed from the face of the earth.”
“All of the stuff that these guys have been into,” Taylor continued, “these five presidents, it’s going to be exposed for the entire world to see. And this is what I have been saying with these military tribunals that are coming … When they start really digging into this, the length, the depth, the breadth of this thing, it is going to be so big people aren’t going to be able to wrap their minds around it. So it’s like I tell people again and again, strap in, get your seat belt on because we’re going to be in for this for years to come. This is going to be going on for years. And when you have military tribunals, they have a whole different set of rules, there are no appeals … justice is served right then and there. There is not a country on earth where if you commit a treasonous act that, in times past, it wasn’t followed by a death sentence, even here in this country it used to be death by hanging. What they do to these people, I have no clue, but if they start executing people, there is going to be a whole lot of executions going down.”
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225: Edward Griffin on Indoor Smart Gardens.
Solving some space and time issues around growing fresh food.
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Edward graduated from Arizona State University in 2013 double majoring in Sustainability and Political Science. During this time, he studied some of the hardest questions relating to sustainability at a social, economic, and environmental level. The area of global sustainability that always spoke to him was the complex issue of agriculture, specifically food deserts because it was something he dealt with his entire life.
Faced with environmental and time constraints he began experimenting and developing new ways to integrate technology and grow food inside his apartment. This quickly became a new-found passion of his, and with this new obsession he founded the company Lyfbox, which has just released the first fully intelligent indoor smart garden to automatically grow fresh organic food inside your home year-round and is controlled using the Lyfbox app on your phone.
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In This Podcast: We meet Edward, a millennial concerned about sustainability and food equity issues, who also wanted to have an active lifestyle and still grow his own food. Not having a backyard did not stop Edward as he took agricultural and sustainability concepts he learned in college and created his own solution.
Listen in and learn about:
Being in Greg’s class at the University of Arizona and changing directions to agriculture
Never really having the option to grow his own food and then needing to change it
A looming food crisis that he is concerned about
A head of lettuce uses 36 times more energy in transportation than it provides
A prediction that fresh clean water is going to be the next commodity, about equivalent to oil
Deciding to do something and grow his own food
A description of the Lyfbox system
Being a millennial and wanting to go do his own thing while still growing his own food
The Indiegogo fundraiser that is open for a limited time
His class project on crowd sourcing fresh food
How the system saves energy and water
Interacting with the system through the app
What type of plants work in the system
Why community is such a big part of this project
The plan to get Lyfboxes into schools in conjunction with a lesson plan
As well as:
His failure – He’s had thousands so he just moves forward and learns new things
His success – growing his own fresh food and feeling better, finding a better sense of well-being
His drive – sustainability and becoming more efficient
His advice – perseverance, sustainability
Edward’s Book recommendations:
The Alchemist – by Paulo Coelho
How to reach Edward:
Indiegogo Fundraiser/Presell: https://igg.me/at/lyfbox
Website: Lyfbox.org
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/liveyoursfree
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The United States government sent nearly 17.8 tons of donated medical supplies to China—including masks and respirators—almost three weeks after the first case of the coronavirus was reported in the state of Washington.
In a press release from the State Department dated Feb. 7, the agency announced it was prepared to spend up to $100 million to assist China as the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths continued to rise there. The day the press release went out, Trump tweeted that he spoke with China’s President Xi Jinping and that China would be “successful especially as the weather starts to warm & the virus hopefully becomes weaker and then gone.”
At the time, sending supplies overseas may have seemed like the right thing to do. But it’s worth noting that this release of vital medical supplies came two days after several senators, including Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy, offered to allocate congressional emergency funding for preventative health measures and research to ward off the virus in the United States—and President Donald Trump turned it down. “Local health systems need supplies, training, screening staff, etc…” tweeted Murphy, “and they need it now.”
Just left the Administration briefing on Coronavirus. Bottom line: they aren't taking this seriously enough. Notably, no request for ANY emergency funding, which is a big mistake. Local health systems need supplies, training, screening staff etc. And they need it now. — Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) February 5, 2020
Trump would go on to call the virus the Democrats’ “new hoax” and deny that it posed a risk to Americans for weeks after that.
How the tables have turned. As of Saturday afternoon, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 103,321 cases of the coronavirus in the United States and 1,668 deaths, the highest number of confirmed cases worldwide. Hospitals across the country are now experiencing an unprecedented shortage of respirators and masks. Desperate nurses and doctors are taking to social media to show their need for protective equipment with the hashtag #GetMePPE, as they treat patients who are dying of the virus.
On Wednesday, the Trump administration asked the international community for donations of equipment, including N-95 masks, gloves, respirators, and hand sanitizer. But even as his officials ask for foreign aid, as CNN points out, Trump has a very different public message. As he boasted during Tuesday’s coronavirus briefing at the White House: “We should never be reliant on a foreign country for the means of our own survival.”
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday morning that Trump’s response at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic ultimately cost American lives. “His denial at the beginning was deadly,” Pelosi said. Trump’s continuous delay in “getting equipment to where it’s needed, is deadly.”
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The innovative new service will enable overseas EFL fans to follow their team’s entire 2017/18 season
The EFL has today unveiled iFollow, an innovative digital live streaming and content platform that will revolutionise the way football fans overseas can follow their EFL teams.iFollow will, for the first time in English football, enable EFL fans based outside the UK and Ireland to watch their team during the regular EFL season.With an estimated 270,000 EFL fans based outside the UK, iFollow will allow clubs to enable their supporters to follow the action wherever they are in the world.Kicking off at the start of the 2017/18 EFL season, overseas subscribers will pay the equivalent of £110 per season for the service which will provide coverage of up to 46 live games per club.More than 1,500 matches will be available in HD quality, with iFollow showing every EFL league match live unless that match has been selected by the EFL’s overseas broadcast partners.Fans based in the UK and Ireland will still also have access to live audio commentary, highlights packages and exclusive content as part of the new offering, rebranded to replace the EFL’s existing PlayerHD platform.At launch, the vast majority of EFL clubs have opted in to utilise the iFollow platform and those who have not will have access to the same live streaming opportunity and will provide their fans with access through their own club digital services.Research commissioned by the EFL suggests that there is significant demand for a service like iFollow amongst fans based overseas. A survey of over 1,600 such fans showed that 73% would be very likely or quite likely to subscribe to a live match streaming service and almost half would be happy to pay an annual subscription fee to do so.The findings suggest over 55% of the EFL’s fans are located in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand where the potential audience for the iFollow platform could reach into the hundreds of thousands.EFL Chief Executive Shaun Harvey commented: “The launch of iFollow is a notable development and will revolutionise the access thousands of overseas fans enjoy when following their EFL team.“The new iFollow platform represents a potentially significant new revenue stream for clubs, while enabling enhanced engagement with existing fans now living abroad.“iFollow will also present the EFL with an important opportunity to stimulate the interest of new groups of supporters who follow our clubs overseas, which in turn will help support the growth of our competitions on the international stage.”The live streaming of matches will be available from the start of the 2017/18 season in conjunction with a brand new digital presence for clubs via official websites and apps, together creating the largest sporting digital network in the world.US-based company NeuLion, a market leader in online video delivery, whose clients include the NFL, NBA and the Premier League, have developed the integrated streaming service alongside UK company Realise who have built the club websites.The two suppliers were appointed by the EFL in July 2016 following a competitive procurement process.
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They’re just as pretty as a Unicorn Frappuccino, but the self-satisfied feeling you get from knowing they’re healthier, too, can impart an extra hint of flavor.
Surely, that was part of the idea behind Pret A Manger’s newest menu offerings. Not the only consideration, of course: The new wraps, bowls and sandwiches are vegetarian and vegan, providing a rare oasis of choices for eaters who are used to compromising on flavor.
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But when it comes to appealing to meat-eaters, it doesn’t hurt that these composed offerings are pretty good looking — and on-trend, too. There’s pink beet hummus, orange sweet potato, yellow ginger dressing and plenty of greens, from avocado to spinach. Pret has even suggested a hashtag for those rainbow social media snapshots: #notjustforveggies.
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Entree portions are priced between $7 and $10, and the snacks are priced around $4.
The British-founded chain, with about 400 locations, is smart to push vegetables in the United States, where diners are increasingly turning away from meat. A March report from the Natural Resources Defense Council found that Americans ate 19 percent less beef from 2005 to 2014. Consumption of chicken and pork also dipped during that time, though not as dramatically.
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Being veggie-friendly has already paid off elsewhere. In London, Pret has opened entire veggie-only locations, where sales were expected to plummet but instead grew 70 percent compared with when those shops offered non-vegetarian options, Business Insider reported. The brand’s worldwide sales rose 15 percent last year in part because of the demand for vegetarian offerings, according to the Financial Times, with about a fifth of sales coming from newer products.
Perhaps the American locations will get a similar boost from the new veggie offerings. Fans on social media have been singing the menu’s praises. In a taste test, Washington Post reporters favored the artfully arranged turmeric tofu box with sweet potatoes, beet hummus and jicama-zucchini slaw with a ginger dressing, as well as the South African-inspired Chakalaka wrap, with butternut squash, tomato and bean relish, and a coconut yogurt that brought a creaminess to the vegan meal. An Asian greens veggie pot stuffed with seaweed, avocado and edamame is just the right size for a healthful snack.
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Other offerings were on the sweet side — a black bean and pineapple wrap, a maple-glazed sweet potato banh mi — but were interesting enough, especially for someone looking for a more healthful lunch.
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And that someone doesn’t necessarily have to be vegetarian or vegan. “It seems the movement for eating less meat continues to grow,” Pret chief executive Clive Schlee wrote in his blog.
The prettier the food gets, the truer that will become.
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News updates from Hindustan Times at 9 PM: 3 terror camps destroyed in PoK, 6-10 Pak soldiers killed, says Army chief Rawat and all the latest news at this hour
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Here are today’s top news, analysis and opinion curated for you at 9 PM. Know all about the latest news and other news updates from Hindustan Times.
3 terror camps destroyed in PoK, 6-10 Pak soldiers killed: Army chief Rawat
After infiltration attempt by the neighbours in Jammu and Kashmir’s Tangdhar sector, Indian forces attacked targeted three terror camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and killed some 6-10 Pakistan soldiers, army chief Bipin Rawat on said on Sunday. Read more
Key conspirator in Kamlesh Tiwari murder case returned to Surat from Dubai 2 months ago
One of the main conspirators in the murder of Hindu outfit leader Kamlesh Tiwari in Lucknow used to work as a computer operator in a Dubai shop until two months ago and had returned to Gujarat’s Surat to attend a family wedding, officials have said. Read more
In J&K, Ram Madhav speaks about peace, development. Then a jail reminder
With the abrogation of Article 370, Jammu and Kashmir is treading on the path of peace and development and anyone who tries to create hurdles in the way will be dealt with sternly, BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav said in Srinagar on Sunday. Read more
Doctor part of central team in Patna to check dengue spread is now a patient
An entomologist, from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, who was visiting Patna to check houses for Aedes mosquito larvae, which transmits Dengue, has now been afflicted with the disease. Read more
VVS Laxman, Greame Smith compile Dream Team to challenge India’s supremacy at home
When it comes to playing at home, there are few sides as dangerous as Virat Kohli’s Indian cricket team. Since February 2013, they have not lose a single home series - a run that eclipsed the famous Australian teams led by Steve Smith and Ricky Ponting in the 1990s and the 2000s. With Kohli & Co running riot once again in the Ranchi Test, VVS Laxman and Greame Smith decided to compile a dream team which, in their opinion, will be able to compete against this Indian cricket team on home conditions. Read more
The significance of the vote | HT editorial
Maharashtra and Haryana vote tomorrow to elect representatives for their state assemblies. The poll will determine the nature of the next government in both the states. Given the increasing power of state governments in the day-to-day lives of citizens, the outcome will have clear governance implications for the growth, development and human index trajectory of people living in both states. Read more
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In a major step for Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd’s Light Utility Helicopter (LUH), a prototype has just completed high altitude flight trials at the world’s highest landing ground — Daulat Beg Olde in northern Ladakh.
In a statement today HAL said, “All planned tests were successfully demonstrated. A comprehensive test plan was executed at Leh (3300m) in temperatures upto International Standard Atmosphere (ISA) +32 degree C which included envelope expansion, performance and flying qualities. The LUH then lifted off from Leh and demonstrated its hot and high hover performance at Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) at 5000m followed by another forward helipad (5500m at ISA +27degree C). While these extreme weather conditions imposed flight restrictions on all other civil and military aircraft, LUH flights were unhindered as it is designed for such operations.”
The trials were carried out by HAL, Army and IAF test pilots from August 24 to September 2. The crucial high altitude capability demonstration is indispensable to Indian rotorcraft requirements, since large numbers are deployed in Ladakh and the north-east to supply forward posts along the borders.
“The LUH has complied with all the requirements of the users and with the completion of hot and high altitude testing, it is close to operational clearance certification,” said HAL chairman R Madhavan today.
The LUH involved in the Ladakh trials hopped from Bengaluru, its home, to Leh over a period of three days. stopping at several civil and military airfields along the way. According to HAL, during the course of ferrying and trials at high altitude, the chopper revealed high reliability without any service support.
“The composite trials team included designers, flight test crew of HAL, the Indian Air Force and Indian Army. Representatives of CEMILAC and ORDAQA witnessed the trials for military and civil certification requirements respectively. The flights were completed by an HAL flight test team led by Wg Cdr (Retd) Unni Pillai, CTP(RW) and accompanied by Wg Cdr (Retd) Anil Bhambani, Gp Capt (Retd) Pupinder Singh, Gp Capt V Panwar, Wg Cdr A Jena, a representative from the Air Force Gp Capt R Dubey and Lt Col R Grewal from the Indian Army,” said the HAL statement.
The LUH, incidentally, completed hot weather trials at Nagpur in 2018, cold weather trials at Leh in 2019, sea level trials at Chennai in 2018 and at Puducherry in 2019. The LUH is being developed to meet a requirement of 187 helicopters for the Indian Air Force and Indian Army, approximately half of the total requirement, the remainder of which will be met by 200 Ka-226T helicopters that are to be built by the HAL-Kamov joint venture in Tumkuru near Bengaluru.
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With new information coming from the Don Jr emails we now have a clearer picture of how Obama used his loyalists in the FBI to wiretap and conduct surveillance on the Trump campaign. Let us go step by step to see exactly how this was set up. It is actually quite brilliant.
The Bait
In essence Obama needed something to give the FBI an excuse to wiretap the Trump campaign. Enter Natalia. The Russian lawyer that Don Jr met who had information that was supposed to be “straight from the Kremlin”. Please note that this loyal agent of mother Russia who has been entrusted with its deepest, darkest secrets regarding the misdeeds of Hillary Clinton in Russia had anti – Trump rants in her facebook page. Wait a minute? I thought the Russians loved Trump and wanted him to win? Why would their chosen agent post messages like this? Why would their agent be against Trump? I thought Russia was dying for him to win. It is also strange that the attorney general, who met with Bill Clinton during the investigation and requested that specific terminology be used to describe the investigation, gave an exception for this russian spy to get in the country.
This would never hold up in open court but the Obama administration never expected it to get that far. They were arranging things for Clinton to win after all. All that mattered is that it gave the FBI justification to request for a FISA warrant. Please note that the Russian narrative is only a bonus. The Obama administration expected to be successful in fixing the election. The primary reason for the trap is the justification for the FISA warrant. The Russia thing only became useful when they lost.
The Trap
As mentioned earlier the evidence would never hold up in open court but the FISA court is not an open one. It is a secret court which acts as a rubber stamp to give intelligence agencies a veneer of accountability when conducting surveillance on American citizens. It has only declined 11 out of the 35000 requests it has received. Despite this Obama had to file 2 requests and have them rejected before they shopped around for a friendly judge to give them authorization to spy on the Trump campaign.
The Spoils
Once you have the authorization to spy on the opposing campaign all that is left is to analyze and disseminate the information. To facilitate this two things have to be achieved. First the information should be as easy as possible to understand and second as many people as possible should be able to see the information as possible. The Obama administration achieved this by changing the rules to allow as many people as possible would have the opportunity to see and leak the documents and by having Susan Rice request to unmask the documents.
Three simple steps and you can use the FBI to wiretap your political opponents. Step 1: Have one of your friendly operatives in another government meet with the opposing campaign. Step 2: Have that agent present no useful information but use the meeting to trigger a FISA request. Step 3: Have you administration leak the results both to the press and your parties campaign.
At least Nixon had the decency to use criminals.
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SINGAPORE - All recruits going through basic military training will have to attend an information literacy workshop, to teach them how to deal with fake news and deliberate online falsehoods, said Senior Minister of State for Defence Maliki Osman on Friday (March 1).
He said that in the current age of the Internet and social media, the resilience of Singaporeans will be tested through attacks from the digital front, which have hit both Singapore and other countries, resulting in serious real-world consequences.
In his speech during the debate on his ministry's budget, Dr Maliki stressed the need for digital defence, which was added as a pillar to the Total Defence framework last month.
He called the digital front the "new battlefront", because of how reliant people have become on digital technology to communicate and consume information.
"Our connectivity opens us to threats from the digital domain, which will confront and define this generation," he said.
"Many of the digital dangers show that complacency, ignorance or negligence on the part of individuals could pave the way for an attack with disastrous consequences," he said, adding that every individual is at the forefront of digital defence.
He also noted that Singapore has one of the highest levels of Internet penetration in the world, and people here spent an average of two hours daily on social media, according to a study done by media company We Are Social last year.
While the Ministry of Defence (Mindef) is working with the National Library Board to bring the workshop to recruits, Singapore Armed Forces and Mindef servicemen and employees will also be taught about hostile information campaigns and fake news.
"We hope that collectively, these efforts will help our servicemen better understand the role of fake news in modern warfare, the steps they can take in response, and strengthen cyber hygiene as a whole."
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Dr Maliki said the riots that broke out recently at a Hindu temple in Subang Jaya, Malaysia, showed how the spread of rumours via social media overnight could fan the flames of racial tensions.
He also cited a 2007 attack on Estonia, which caused online services of banks, media outlets and government to be shut down, and the SingHealth breach in June last year, where personal details of 1.5 million patients were stolen.
Fake news has also been spread on a range of matters, from plastic rice to "halal pork'' and false accounts of incidents that could inflame xenophobia and communalism and puncture social harmony, he said.
Mindef has been working with other government agencies, said Dr Maliki, as part of a "whole-of-nation" effort against digital threats.
Government bodies such as the Ministry of Communications and Information, the Cyber Security Agency and the Infocomm Media Development Authority have programmes to teach individuals, businesses and the community to be secure, alert and responsible online, he added.
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The Mythbusters are based in San Francisco, but they recently toured Australia, Canada, and the U.S. for a Behind the Myths Tour, a live show dedicated to their passion for scientific inquiry, play, and bone-rattling explosions. I sat down with the 47-year-old Savage in his tour bus before a show in Worcester, Massachusetts. Despite a grueling tour schedule, Savage greeted me (and a glowing, beaming Finn) with a warm welcome. He's the affable, verbose, and hyperactive half of the Mythbusters team—but what does not translate on-screen is his quiet thoughtfulness. Savage listened carefully and paused for long stretches of time to run his fingers through his ginger hair as he answered my questions about the ingredients in the Mythbusters’ special sauce: experimentation as narrative, failure as opportunity, and learning as play.
I asked Savage to explain how he and Hyneman have succeeded at entertaining and educating their fans since the show launched more than a decade ago.
Look, we never set out to make something that was educational. That was not on the list of things we were thinking about. But I do know that kids don’t like being talked down to; they’re just opening a door and watching something happen, and there’s nothing more thrilling than that. If we teach them something, that’s great, but I’m with Rilke; I think it’s best to remain ignorant of your best qualities.
He went on to explain to me that everything that happens on Mythbusters—the direction of the filming, the narrative arc of the episode, the priorities of the cast and crew—are all subject to the unpredictability of the experiments at the heart of the show. Fidelity to that goal, he said, is what differentiates Mythbusters from other shows that have tried—and failed—to package education as entertainment.
Usually, we know what the last experiment in the story is going to be, and then we build towards it. Sometimes, building towards it doesn’t go as intended, so we change direction. The experiment takes precedence over the filming. I’m equally interested in the rigor of the experiment and the overarching story it fits into, and balancing these two things is both the most tiring and most fun part of doing the show.
The Mythbusters have a wide array of cool gadgets at their disposal at M5, their television studio and workshop. Savage and Hyneman have, according to the show’s introduction, “30 years of special-effects experience,” and they need every bit of that experience to build the robots, remote-control cars, human-analog dummies, electrical circuits, physical sets, and other equipment they need to investigate myths. Part of the show’s appeal for Finn is watching the Mythbusters use those resources to create something they need out of spare parts: a welding torch, some screws, and a two-by-four.
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A longstanding theory about Jeffrey Epstein and how he amassed over a half-billion dollars contends that he was running a high-classblackmail operation, in which powerful men were lured into having sex with underage women.
Maria Farmer, who is suing the estate of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, says that his New York City home was under constant TV surveillance. (via CBS)
According to accuser Maria Farmer, Epstein's New York mansion - (which was reportedly "stocked with young female "masseuses"" and "A discreet room with massage table, lubricants and, no doubt, cameras stood ready off the main lobby") says the Manhattan home was under constant CCTV surveillance and had a "media room" on the first floor, according to an interview with CBS This Morning (via The Sun).
The now 49-year-old told CBS This Morning how Epstein's' home was under constant TV surveillance. She told co-host Anthony Mason how Epstein showed her the'media room'. Maria said: "The main thing he did when I walked in and thought was interesting, he showed me where the men monitoring everything were. "So if you’re facing the house, there’s a window on the right that’s barred – that’s the room, the ‘media room’ is what he called it. "And so there was a door that looked like an invisible door with all this limestone and everything and you push it and you go in and I saw all the cameras. She then points to how she remembers the televisions were stack on top of each other. Maria said: "What it was – was like old televisions basically, like stacked." "They were monitors inside this cabinet and there were men sitting here and I looked on the cameras and I saw toilet, toilet, bed, bed, toilet, bed. "And I was like I’m never going to use the restroom here and I am never going to sleep here." -The Sun
Later in the interview, Farmer said that Prince Andrew - who just retired from public life (again) is "revolting and disgusting" after watching his disastrous BBC interview.
"I would like to know why is his memory so poor? Does he really believe that we can think that at his age he forgets these things?" she said of the Duke of York.
Meanwhile, Prince Andrew's ex - Lady Victoria Hervey, 43, told Good Morning Britain that after staying at Epstein's mansion she thought there were hidden cameras watching.
"I actually didn't come across any of the other girls staying at the apartments but I felt uncomfortable staying there," she said, adding "I cut my trip short and felt I was being watched, there were hidden cameras and I left after about 10 days and moved in with a friend of mine."
Epstein died in prison after his July 6 arrest on charges of sex trafficking minors in Florida and New York. He has been accused by dozens of women of sexual abuse, many of whom were underage at the time.
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oon” aims to launch thousands of giant balloons into the stratosphere (much higher than planes or weather), where they can fill physical gaps in the world where the Internet is missing.
Google has even demonstrated their full geographic control of the balloons through rising or descending the devices to certain winds, and hitching a ride to the desired location. That’s right, they’ve mastered global weather patterns.
Through partnerships with telecommunications companies, Google’s Project Loon will enable people to connect (with LTE) to balloons instead of cell towers.
3. The SpaceX Global Constellation
SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, has launched a project that would use up to 700 miniature satellites to provide Internet access to any location in the world, especially rural areas. Musk has mentioned that the project will launch “sooner than five years.” However, the similar initiative below will put Musk in competition.
4. OneWeb – Virgin Group & Qualcomm
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin group and Qualcomm have partnered together to produce something similar to SpaceX’s initiative: an expansive constellation of satellites called OneWeb. Thier plan includes launching close to 700 satellites into space, producing a network of high speed Internet at a low cost. Each satellite is said to be able to deliver over 8 gigabits per second of data.
Satellite launches are planned in 2017.
Extra thought: Combining the 4 initiatives together
Each one of these massive initiatives individually solve Internet infrastructure for the whole world. But now imagine if they combined their networks. Most of these initiatives use completely different technology, working at completely different levels of the sky:
(original image credit: Randy Russell, UCAR. Edited by Shoin Wolfe.)
Internet.org’s Aquila flies around the base of the Stratosphere. Project Loon floats in the weather balloon territory, which is the middle to high level of the Stratosphere. OneWeb and SpaceX will rely on small-scale satellites, likely putting them at the Exosphere. All parties have different territories in altitude, which means they could relay the data to each other to form an even faster, broader network than ever possible individually.
Of course, this part is speculative, but telecom companies partner all the time. It’s not a moon shot.
Conclusion
Access to the Internet is rapidly becoming a human right – just as vital as the access to water, electricity, and shelter – and these 4 major initiatives show that the world is acknowledging that. With high-level education soon becoming a click away to all people, the correlation of geography and wealth will drastically diminish over the next decade. Since the majority of high quality websites are in English, places like the Philippines, which have an abundance of native English speakers, will reap the online educational and communicational benefits immediately. I would love to pay a visit to Poblacion again in 2020 to see the difference.
I'm on Twitter @shoinwolfe if you ever want to talk.
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“Sanctions are not diplomacy, they are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade”
Ron Paul
“Worse yet, when the public realizes that it is being deceived, a feedback loop is created in which trust is broken and even the truth, if it can be found, is no longer believed.”
James Rickards, Currency Wars
Wars are not only fought with bullets, bombs, and soldiers. there are also economic wars which are every bit as destabilizing and destructive to the targeted country. Last week was a prime example. Turkey which is nominally a NATO ally of the US was assaulted most viciously. President Trump announced a doubling of tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Turkey. This was brought on by the continued detainment of pastor Brunson. Its kind of strange that they don’t use his first name. I would bet that he is a CIA operative. Turkey’s president Erdogan blames the US for the failed 2016 coup against him. The coup was initiated by those affiliated with another cleric, Fathullah Gulen, who interestingly resides in a fortress in Pennsylvania and owns over 25 billion in financial assets.
The announcement of the tariffs and a continued deterioration of affairs in Turkey led to a stunning 17% decline in the value of the Lira, Turkey’s currency, and the Lira has now declined 44% this year. Imagine if your savings and your earnings suddenly became much less valuable. Iran has experienced a similar decline in its Rial. Both economies are nearing collapse. The citizens of both countries are earnestly trying to change their rapidly declining currency for dollars, gold or cryptocurrency. Iran is being targeted by the neocons who are pining for another invasion of a middle eastern country. I’m sure it will go swimmingly this time despite the utter disaster that has been caused by our previous invasions (Libya, Iraq, etc).
The 3rd front of the economic wars was targeted at Russia with even more sanctions for allegedly, despite the assurances of the intelligence agencies (they wouldn’t lie would they?) there has been no actual evidence shown to the American people) hacking John Podesta’s emails and for hacking into the DNC’s server. It is somewhat comical the language the media and the left use to describe all of this. I have heard the following variations lately (1) Russia meddled in our elections, (2) Russia tampered with our democracy (3) Russia committed an act of war, etc. etc. Don’t forget that Russia has as enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world 5 times over. I think everyone should just take a breath and drop all the bellicose language.
The lesson of all this is that no country is immune from economic warfare. If the federal government keeps spending at ever increasing levels, one day it may be Americans who are faced with a collapsing currency. Its a good idea to keep a portion of your wealth in tangible assets like silver, gold and land.
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By end of this month, smokers will no longer be allowed to light up cigarettes, cigars, and pipes inside and near all public housing nationwide.
Everyone, including the residents, would have to be at least 25 feet away from the public-house buildings to smoke. The ban includes all common areas in the public housing and any outdoor areas within the 25 feet parameters according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Electronic cigarettes and chewing tobacco and snuff were not mentioned in the policy ban but HUD said there could be restrictions on these products depending on the location.
HUD said the policy was made to promote the health benefits of a smoke-free lifestyle and raise awareness about the dangers of secondhand smoke. The department also hopes that the new rule can encourage people to at least reduce their smoking habit. Ideally, the department hopes people can quit smoking altogether.
Smoke-Free Public Housing
The rule will be included in residents' leases given by public housing agencies. Tenants who will not comply could be evicted according to HUD. Violation of the smoking ban, however, does not constitute a crime. It will only be a civil violation.
The policy specifically states that smoking will be prohibited "inside all indoor areas of public housing, including but not limited to living units, indoor common areas, electrical closets, storage units, and PHA administrative office buildings, and in all outdoor areas within 25 feet of the housing and administrative office."
"The PHAs may, but are not required to, further restrict smoking to outdoor dedicated smoking areas outside the restricted areas, create additional restricted areas in which smoking is prohibited (e.g., near a playground), or, alternatively, make their entire grounds smoke-free," the policy states.
The PHAs are also being required to document and inform their residents of their smoke-free policies through public meetings or any other similar events.
HUD announced the policy two years ago but allowed the more than 3,300 local public housing authorities time to implement it. The policy was passed during the Obama administration back in November of 2016. There had been more than 600 local PHAs that have implemented it, resulting to 228,000 public housing units that have been smoke-free.
The ban starting on July 31 will hopefully force an additional 940,000 units to ban smoking within their premises.
Smoke Ban Help Limit Health Care Costs
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated in 2014 that government housing agencies can save about $153 million a year in repairs and health care costs if they strictly implement the smoking ban. The PHAs would also save $16 million for fire incidents linked to smoking.
CDC highlighted that residents of public housing are exposed to secondhand smoke that can penetrate ventilation systems and windows. This was of particular concern because a large number of public housing dwellers are children, the elderly, and the disabled who are all vulnerable to the effects of secondhand smoke.
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A drinking fountain at Rose City Park school is closed. Amelia Templeton / OPB
The Environmental Protection Agency warned Oregon health officials back in April that some schools and daycares in the Portland area should be tested because of the risk of high lead levels in drinking water there.
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On April 14, a manager in the EPA’s drinking water unit in Seattle sent a letter to regulators at the Oregon Health Authority.
The manager, Marie Jennings, was concerned that the Portland Water Bureau isn’t doing enough to minimize the amount of lead at taps in Portland. She wrote that the EPA's regional administrator, Dennis McLerran, had "heightened concerns about drinking water quality, including the [Portland Water Bureau's] implementation under the Lead and Copper Rule."
Water Bureaus can help reduce lead exposure by changing the pH of water so it’s less corrosive.
The EPA and the Water Bureau have a long-running dispute over the city's unconventional approach to complying with the federal lead and copper rule, which includes a successful lead education program, but less aggressive water treatment than the federal agency recommends.
In her letter, Jennings told the Oregon Health Authority to request testing for high priority schools and daycares that get water from the Portland Water Bureau. She wrote:
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“ In the interest of public health protection, the Agency recommends that OHA request Portland to begin testing of high priority schools and daycares served by PBW, to ensure they are below the lead action level.”
Several of state’s largest school districts get their water from the Portland Water Bureau, including Portland Public Schools, Gresham Barlow, and Tigard Tualatin.
Staff at the Oregon Health Authority met with the EPA staff on April 18 to discuss their concerns. OHA officials said they have met with the Water Bureau twice to discuss the EPA's concerns, and that Water Bureau officials have indicated they are working on complying and were already working on lead issues before the EPA expressed its worries.
Related: Why Portland's Water Hasn't Gotten The Lead Out
"We don't want to get ahead of the governor and department of education on this," said Dave Leland, OHA's Drinking Water program manager.
Leland said he plans to meet with the EPA again in August to continue discussing federal concerns.
Meanwhile, most Portland area schools have announced their own plans to test for lead in drinking water after tests requested by parents showed high levels at two Portland public grade schools.
The state of Oregon doesn’t require school districts to regularly test for lead. After news of the Flint, Mich., contamination, Gov. Kate Brown told state health and education regulators to study a new long term policy.
Editors note: This story has been updated to include more detail from the Oregon Health Authority about its response to the EPA's April letter.
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Landslides and heavy flooding have killed at least 73 people in Sri Lanka, with scores more missing and hundreds of thousands forced to flee their homes.
Torrential rains have deluged the island nation since last weekend, triggering huge landslides that have buried victims in up to 15 metres (50 feet) of mud.
In the capital, Colombo, thousands of homes remained inundated, though there were signs that the waters were receding, according to AP. About 243,000 people remained in temporary shelters nationwide.
As the heaviest rains in a quarter of a century battered Sri Lanka, cyclone Roanu barrelled into the Bangladesh coastline leaving six people dead and forcing the evacuation of 500,000 as it unleashed winds as strong as 54mph and heavy downpours.
Soldiers looked for bodies in thick mud deposits in the central district of Kegalle, where landslides swallowed up three villages on Tuesday.
Major Gen Sudantha Ranasinghe, who is coordinating the search, said one body and parts of another were found on Saturday. From the landslides in the three villages, 21 people have been confirmed dead and 123 others are missing. Ranasinghe said another part of the same mountain crashed down Saturday, but there were no casualties because residents had been evacuated after the first landslides.
People struggle to cross a torrent of flood water on Saturday in Kelaniya, on the outskirts of Colombo. Photograph: Ishara S.kodikara/AFP/Getty Images
As civilians volunteered to provide food and clothing to the affected people, foreign assistance was arriving after an appeal by Sri Lanka’s foreign minister. India and Japan sent relief items including medicine, tents, tarpaulin sheets, generators and water purifiers. Japan will also send disaster management experts to help expedite relief efforts and look at ways to reduce landslide risks, the Japanese embassy in Colombo said. The US has announced a three-year project to help Sri Lanka maintain supplies of safe drinking water even during times of drought and flooding.
As aid began to arrive on Saturday, Sri Lankan authorities said their priority was now preventing diseases such as diarrhoea, with many areas still under water. “We have sent a large number of doctors and nursing staff to ensure there is no outbreak of waterborne diseases,” the health minister, Rajitha Senaratne, told AFP.
The accommodation booking website Airbnb listed at least 29 places offering free lodging for anyone affected by the floods in Sri Lanka. Disaster management officials said there had been a huge outpouring of sympathy for victims with donations of food, clothing and dry rations.
The meteorological department said the rains were caused by a depression in the Bay of Bengal, ahead of the arrival of the south-west monsoon.
About 22 of Sri Lanka’s 25 districts have been affected by the rains, according to disaster officials. Almost a third of residents have been moved from the low-lying capital, which has a population of about 650,000.
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a variation on “I was just following orders.” Dick’s false pretender-god of empathy recommends obedience, both to Deckard’s superiors and to his acquisitive status-consciousness.
Dick’s original novel is bleak and sardonic, about a world of sociopaths in power
It’s a bleak, sardonic message, and it leaves Dick’s actual sympathies in the novel uncertain. He never clearly condemns hatred and bigotry in the book, and he only tangentially accuses his characters of embracing it. That’s particularly true about the android Rachael Rosen. The movie version of Rachael is a tragic romantic figure who falls in love with Deckard, her supposed nemesis. In the book, though, she’s cold, manipulative, and cruel, and she sleeps with Deckard to imprint him with her face, in hopes that he’ll have trouble killing other replicants who resemble her. When he murders her friends anyway, she retaliates by throwing his goat off the roof. She is in many ways a misogynist caricature — and possibly, given her stereotypically Jewish name, an anti-Semitic one. The way Deckard expresses his sexual frustration and lust through violence is certainly familiar from attitudes seen on the Internet today.
The flashes of genuine hate in Dick’s novel are unsettling, but they also make its critique of society more bitterly pointed. Film-Deckard is pure of soul; he does bad things, but he’s a good man, and he’s offered redemption. The Deckard in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? murders for petty gain and justifies his lack of empathy by projecting the same sociopathic reserve onto his victims.
Deckard isn’t a rotten cop spoiling an essentially virtuous police force, nor is he a good man trapped by an unjust system, as in the film. Rather, in the novel, Deckard is an average guy doing an average job, which happens to consist of genocidal violence directed against marginalized people. He’s part of the machinery of justice, and that machinery is driven, not by empathy, but by animus and a clinical bloodthirst.
Blade Runner presents a run-down but beautiful future, filled with tragic emotion and powerful moral decisions. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? seems truer to our blander, bleaker present, in which a clockwork bureaucracy blandly declares that certain lives are worthless, that only a chosen few people are worthy of protection, and that equality under the law would somehow hold the nation back. The central insight of Black Lives Matter is that the state is programmed for petty hatred and genocidal violence, and that bystanders’ apathy or resignation constantly gets in the way of lasting change. Book-Deckard, the smaller-than-life policeman as mass-murderer, still seems grubbily prescient, half a century after Dick first sent him off to kill.
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Renderings provided by Wagenbrenner Development.
One jurisdiction down, one to go for Grandview Crossing, the large retail center proposed for a 40-acre site near the intersection of Dublin Road and Grandview Avenue.
On Wednesday night, the Grandview Planning Commission approved the latest plans for the Grandview portion of the center. Since the site straddles the Grandview-Columbus line, it will also require approval from the City of Columbus.
Eric Wagenbrenner of Wagenbrenner Development, which is partnering with Gallas Zadeh Development on the project, said that they plan to be at the city’s November 15th Board of Zoning Adjustment meeting. If all goes well, they are hoping for an early spring groundbreaking, with the first stores opening as soon as October of next year.
“The Columbus portion of the site is already zoned M, so the uses are permitted, we’ll just need some minor variances related to street trees,” he said, explaining that growing trees on the site is tricky because it sits on top of a capped landfill. “We have to use shallow-rooted trees, or we can put them in planters like we did at Gowdy Field… you just have to be careful that it doesn’t penetrate the cap.”
As for what type of tenants might fill the center, Wagenbrenner said to expect 20 to 30 percent of the square footage to be devoted to restaurant uses, while the remainder is filled with a range of traditional retail tenants.
While still a month or two away from revealing any names, Wagenbrenner did say that the largest spot — a big box space on the eastern edge of the site — will be filled by a user that offers groceries. That tenant will likely be the last to open in the center, starting its build-out after the rest of the development is completed.
Much of the feedback from the Grandview Planning Commission involved a desire to see a less suburban-looking product. Following two preliminary hearings, the project team met with Development Director Patrick Bowman and consultant Sidestreet Planning to address those concerns.
“Their suggestions were wonderful,” said Wagenbrenner, explaining how certain changes — like moving the two outparcel buildings along Dublin Road closer together to create more of an urban edge and utilizing different types of infrastructure to slow down car traffic — will help to promote pedestrian movement within the site.
“It’s kind of a suburban-urban site,” he added, “the hope is you can park your car — or your bike — and then walk around, and be able to get to everywhere in site.”
A bike path was added around the perimeter of the site, and talks are underway to eventually connect it up to the larger greenways network via the nearby Scioto Trail.
All visuals by POD Design, Bean Architects, E.P. Ferris & Associates.
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It appears that taking a scripted show in which overpaid millionaires pat each other on the back, while turning it into a platform to voice their coordinated political grievances and lash out against the elected choice of a plurality of America's voters may not have been the best idea to boost viewership: according to Nielsen, the 89th Annual Academy Awards brought in an average of 32.9 million viewers on Sunday night. According to ABC, that was the second lowest viewership in Oscar history and is down from the 2016 broadcast, which brought in 34 million viewers. Perhaps the show's producers should have previewed the "shock" twist at the end in order to boost viewership.
Putting the rating collapse in context, last night's show, which saw most commentators take veiled and not so veiled swipes at Donald Trump, was the lowest rated Oscars since 2008 where Jon Stewart hosted and "No Country For Old Men" won Best Picture. That broadcast brought in 32 million, according to Nielsen.
Of course, Hollywood's biggest night had one of the strangest and most talked about endings in Oscar history following a Best Picture snafu that saw "La La Land" announced as winner even though the award actually went to "Moonlight." The Oscar's extravaganza lasted nearly four hours and the Best Picture flub didn't happen until after midnight ET. Away from the chaotic, bizarre ending, the show also had some other miscues including listing the wrong person as dead in the In Memoriam tribute during the show.
Yet, as tends to happen, the show received mostly positive reviews from critics who found host Jimmy Kimmel enjoyable. "ABC was playing it safe and promoting its own late-night star, but in hindsight, Kimmel proved a helpful choice given the polarized climate," wrote CNN critic Brian Lowry. "He brought a light touch to his satire - acknowledging partisan division and poking at Trump without seeming mean-spirited - and an overall silliness to the proceedings."
Confirming perhaps that it is Hollywood in general that is suffering from a loss of public interest, despite its rating dip, the Oscars were still the number one entertainment telecast in the last year.
Even though the Best Picture mix up didn't help bring in big viewership, the shocking ending was the talk of Hollywood, news shows and social media on Monday. Some critics like the New York Times TV critic James Poniewozik even compared it to President Trump's surprising win on Election Day.
"After the election in November, we should have known better than to assume that a sure thing was a sure thing," wrote Poniewozik.
Others were less forgiving: WSJ's Jason Gay summarized the fiasco by saying "that was nuts, even for Hollywood" adding that last night's Academy Awards was "a historic, colossal, ludicrous screw-up, which undoubtedly has some very talented people feeling very terrible."
In retrospect, the general public agrees with the less than optimstic take on the show, which may need to do some deep soul-searching in order to redeem itself, and to regain its rapidly dwindling audience.
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MasterCard: 'Selfie pay' coming soon
Bob Reany, MasterCard's executive vice-president for identity solutions, takes a selfie to demonstrate a new biometric app for e-shopping security.
NEW YORK/ST LOUIS: MasterCard plans to commercially launch "selfie pay" in Asia-Pacific markets next year in an effort to improve identity verification, security and convenience for online payments.
With the new biometric system, MasterCard holders in the region will be offered a choice of authenticating credit card payments by either scanning their fingerprints or looking at their mobile phone's camera, said Bob Reany, executive vice-president for identity solutions.
To use the new service, those who live in countries where MasterCard Identity Check Mobile service is available are required to download an application to their PC, tablet or smartphone.
The biometric-enabled payments have been rolled out in 14 countries, of which 12 are in Europe and include Britain, Germany and the Netherlands. The other two countries are the US and Canada.
The technology is expected to be phased into worldwide use next year.
The company is in the development stage for other biometrics, such as voice and iris scans. Innovative technology should simplify cardholders' payments and add robust security, protecting users from fraud, Mr Reany said.
Cybercrime has been growing as criminals develop new and sophisticated malware while digital financial transactions increase, he said.
The number of online and mobile transactions is expected to double by 2020. Therefore, building trust in the digital world is a key mission of MasterCard.
Before the company rolled out Identity Check Mobile, it conducted a survey and found that 92% of respondents expressed more confidence in the new technology to reduce fraud than in password protection, while 93% showed interest in using the technology.
Ed McLaughlin, chief information officer of MasterCard, said financial fraud such as credit card fraud has been rising, so the company focused on security systems by launching several innovative technologies.
The hope is that the technology builds the confidence of consumers, financial institutions, merchants, business partners and governments.
Last year the company opened MasterCard DigiSec Lab, a security research laboratory based in Knutsford, England, to create security products. It has continued to improve security systems, from magnetic stripe cards to chip-embedded cards or devices, Europay, MasterCard and Visa, PIN-entry devices, and contactless, cloud-based payments including digital wallet software constructs.
The MasterCard DigiSec Lab team deconstructs the technology to identify opportunities to strengthen it and continue to protect consumers, merchants and financial institutions from fraud.
The broadened mandate of the lab is to jointly root out fraud and risks by activating its tools, unique broad network view and technical know-how.
The lab works in close partnership with other company groups such as information security, emerging payments and MasterCard Labs to deliver a multi-layered approach to addressing security risks and concerns wherever they may arise.
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DALLAS, Sept. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BoltBus, a popular bus line focused on providing exceptional service, luxury and convenience at an amazingly low price, today announced it will launch service to Eugene and Albany on Oct. 3. As the first premium bus service offered in the Pacific Northwest, BoltBus offers fares as low as $1 for amenities typically found on more expensive travel. Tickets are now available for purchase at BoltBus.com.
From Eugene, the new service includes four roundtrips to Portland Thursday to Monday, with several schedules a week continuing to Seattle. From Albany, BoltBus will operate service four days a week to Portland and Eugene. All tickets between Portland and Albany / Eugene will be $1 for a promotional period of Oct. 3-6.
As BoltBus' fourth West Coast expansion in less than two years, the new service is designed to make travel easy and convenient for students and residents in the Eugene and Albany areas. Currently, BoltBus provides daily express service to Seattle, Bellingham, Portland and Vancouver in addition to its routes between major cities along the East Coast. At its launch in March 2008, BoltBus revolutionized curbside bus service by being the first to offer onboard amenities such as comfortable leather seats, extra legroom, free Wi-Fi and power outlets.
"With such a high population of students in the Eugene and Albany areas, BoltBus is pleased to offer a premium, yet affordable, transportation option with a schedule that fits this college population's needs," said David Hall, general manager, BoltBus. "Whether they are looking for a weekend adventure, visiting a neighboring university or going home for the holidays, students can enjoy our modern amenities, environmentally friendly buses, affordable pricing and express schedule that can connect riders to major cities in the region."
In Eugene, BoltBus will operate from the Fifth Street Public Market at 290 E. 5th Ave. In Albany, BoltBus will operate from the Albany Transit Center at 112 SW 10th Ave.
BoltBus tickets are available for purchase in advance at BoltBus.com or from a driver before boarding. One-way fares start at $1, plus a booking fee. The highest fare will adjust based on market demand. The earlier passengers purchase their tickets, the lower the fare will cost. A ticket purchase guarantees a seat on the selected schedule. Walkup tickets will be purchased at full price. All tickets are nonrefundable. A loyalty program, Bolt Rewards, is also available to reward frequent riders with free travel. Riders who take eight trips on BoltBus are eligible for a free one-way ticket trip. For fare and schedule information, or to purchase tickets, visit BoltBus.com.
About BoltBus
BoltBus provides fast, frequent and safe transportation with unmatched amenities for an amazingly low price. BoltBus is a division of Greyhound Lines, Inc. The division is headquartered in Secaucus, N.J. For fare and schedule information and to buy tickets, visit BoltBus.com.
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How do you check if a website asking for your credentials is fake or legit to log in?By checking if the URL is correct?By checking if the website address is not a homograph?By checking if the site is using HTTPS?Or using software or browser extensions that detect phishing domains?Well, if you, like most Internet users, are also relying on above basic security practices to spot if that "" or "" you have been served with is fake or not, you may still fall victim to a newly discovered creative phishing attack and end up in giving away your passwords to hackers. Antoine Vincent Jebara, co-founder and CEO of password managing software Myki, told The Hacker News that his team recently spotted a new phishing attack campaign "that even the most vigilant users could fall for."Vincent found that cybercriminals are distributing links to blogs and services that prompt visitors to first "" to read an exclusive article or purchase a discounted product.That's fine. Login with Facebook or any other social media service is a safe method and is being used by a large number of websites to make it easier for visitors to sign up for a third-party service quickly.Generally, when you click "log in with Facebook" button available on any website, you either get redirected to facebook.com or are served within a new pop-up browser window, asking you to enter your Facebook credentials to authenticate using OAuth and permitting the service to access your profile's necessary information.However, Vincent discovered that the malicious blogs and online services are serving users with a very realistic-looking fake Facebook login prompt after they click the login button which has been designed to capture users' entered credentials, just like any phishing site.As shown in the video demonstration Vincent shared with The Hacker News, the fake pop-up login prompt, actually created with HTML and JavaScript, are perfectly reproduced to look and feel exactly like a legitimate browser window—a status bar, navigation bar, shadows and URL to the Facebook website with green lock pad indicating a valid HTTPS.Moreover, users can also interact with the fake browser window, drag it here-and-there or exit it in the same way any legitimate window acts.The only way to protect yourself from this type of phishing attack, according to Vincent, "is to actually try to drag the prompt away from the window it is currently displayed in. If dragging it out fails (part of the popup disappears beyond the edge of the window), it's a definite sign that the popup is fake."Besides this, it is always recommended to enable two-factor authentication with every possible service, preventing hackers from accessing your online accounts if they somehow manage to get your credentials.Phishing schemes are still one of the most severe threats to users as well as companies, and hackers continue to try new and creative ways to trick you into providing them with your sensitive and financial details that they could later use to steal your money or hack into your online accounts.Stay tuned, stay safe!
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which they excel. That is how I see the way through for Mayo here.
Did I ever see that in Mayo before? How about the semi-final drawn game in 2014 when they tore through Kerry with 14 men? There was a beautiful madness to that. Why not tap into that?
I know there is a danger that if Mayo do try something new – pull a rabbit out of the hat – it may throw their own team out of rhythm. Trying something different can add pressure. But the pressure is there anyhow. You are talking about a team which is tasked with doing something that all Mayo teams since 1951 have not managed. There is pressure anyway.
So I feel that the first thing Mayo have to do is to play with a serious, serious edge. Become unreasonable. Not go out with the: let’s do everything we can here. It has to be a fierce last stand of all they are. You know: let’s make our mark here. Let’s make this be our day. That means they run themselves into the ground.
I have watched Mayo in the past few years and I have seen situations where instead of having eight defending, they could have 11 or 12 if a few more just bust themselves to get back. That has to happen – all day long. They don’t concede a goal. They just don’t. They aim to hold Dublin to 0-16. Is that achievable? I think so. I think it is. Then they be brave and smart and sharp on the ball.
If that is the mindset – to contain Dublin and go put scores on the board and express themselves – then this could be a very feisty and competitive All-Ireland final. Dublin don’t have to change. They simply have turn up and play their game.
It is up to Mayo to impose new terms. But if Mayo can bring a brand new dynamic, which Dublin weren’t planning for, along with that real borderline approach, maybe, then maybe the individuals that Dublin are missing this year will become a factor.
So I’m talking about trying to create anarchy. What’s the alternative? When you look at all the Dublin processes in isolation, they are really smart ways to play the game. Then you layer over that with all the really fine players available to Jim Gavin. Then you have their fine coaching system. Then you have younger players trying to get the jersey: it becomes an obsession.
So all of that projects the team forward to what it has become: this omnipotent force. And if you are going to take that force on, it can’t just be about giving it a good rattle and hoping for the best.
Hope as nothing to do with it. Mayo have to bring a lot of things with them from the west but first and foremost is an absolute bloody-minded belief: 2016 is going to be our year because it must be our year. Sunday is going to be our day because it must be our day.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist group said on Sunday it had captured some Kenyan soldiers during an attack last week on military bases in western Somalia near the Kenyan border.
The group, which did not say how many soldiers were held after Friday’s assault in Ceel Cadde, also said in a statement that more than 100 Kenyan soldiers were killed, revising up the number from the more than the 63 dead it had previously claimed.
Kenya has not given casualty figures beyond saying both sides sustained casualties. But a top Kenyan commander said on Sunday the army was conducting “search and rescue” operations without specifically saying if those it was looking for were captured.
“Mujahideen fighters... stormed the Kenyan base in the early hours of Friday morning, killing more than 100 Kenyan invaders, seizing their weapons and military vehicles and even capturing Kenyan soldiers alive,” al Shabaab said in a statement.
The African Union’s AMISOM force, which includes Kenyans, along with Somali troops have driven al Shabaab from major strongholds in Somalia in a wave of offensives.
But the group still controls some rural areas and frequently launches attacks saying it wants to drive out the “invaders”.
Kenyan Defence Minister Raychelle Omamo said Kenya was striking back and would pursue the attackers. She spoke to reporters at a Nairobi airport where four wounded soldiers arrived back for treatment.
“This attack will not rest unanswered,” she said. “We have engaged the perpetrators decisively and remain in full pursuit of them.”
General Samson Mwathethe, chief of the defense forces, said Friday’s attack struck the Somali National Army base and an AMISOM base that was located in the same place. The attackers used vehicles packed with explosives and suicide bombers.
The minister said the attack was launched against a company-size force of soldiers, without making clear if this was the size of the Kenyan contingent in the area or the mixed force. A military company can range between 80 to 250 soldiers.
“Our priority now is to make sure that we conduct the search, rescue and recovery for the ones who are not in the camp but are elsewhere. We are trying to search for them, rescue them and recover them,” Mwathethe said without saying if they were captured.
The general said he would not release details for security reasons. “We have engaged the enemy and severely degraded him,” he added.
Al Shabaab often cites higher figures for death tolls than those given by officials, who usually play down the numbers. There was no independent death toll.
Al Shabaab said the attack was in retaliation for the Kenyan “invasion of Muslim lands”.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has repeatedly said he would not be coerced into withdrawing Kenyan forces from Somalia, saying the troops are protecting Kenya.
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you take a shower out of a water bottle," she commanded, and sent us off to buy water and food, as her fridge was totally empty. "And no complaints, let’s be happy they do not bomb us," she said with her natural optimism.
Later that night in her kitchen, we were looking through pictures on a laptop of Mikhail Galustov, a freelance photographer I was working with. Before coming to Natasha, we had spent two days at Kadyrov’s residence; at the time he was Chechnya’s prime minister and heir apparent after the death of his father, the Kremlin’s handpicked leader. The pictures featured Kadyrov showing us around his private zoo: cages with little lions and bears, ostriches running around the garden.
In one series of pictures, Kadyrov was taking his huge dogs out of their cage and baiting them, trying to get them to fight. "I know what else he uses these dogs for," Natasha said in a heavy voice. The story Natasha told us that night was breathtaking. It was about a teenage boy, a brother of a guerrilla, who had told Natasha that Kadyrov’s police threatened to put him in that cage with the dogs, so he would tell where his brother was. Natasha was telling us story after a story that night about Kadyrov’s methods of "making relatives talk." Her face darkened, her big beautiful eyes looked tired.
Two years later, the Chechen president offered Estemirova a position as the head of a civil society advisory commission for the city of Grozny. She accepted. It was not in Estimirova’s character to shut up, though. Even while advising the government of Kadyrov, she did not stop writing reports for Memorial. The one about Kadyrov forbidding girls to come to universities without head scarves made him really angry. In March 2008, Kadyrov called her to come to a city office and yelled at her. Estemirova was fired. He threatened her multiple times, she later told us, but her Memorial friends "decided to keep that out of publicity, as Memorial’s work in Chechnya would stop the moment we decided otherwise."
Last summer, Memorial was so worried about Estemirova’s safety that they had to send her to London and Dublin for a couple months, Orlov, the director, told me. "Of course she could never stay away from Chechnya for too long. She was back doing the worst part — abductions," Orlov said. This year Natasha’s calls to Moscow Memorial’s office sounded especially alarming. She called every day with her famous line: "Something has to be done."
And that was just what I was thinking as I wrote this while flying to Natasha’s funeral in Chechnya. Something has to be done. Her body had a bruised face and four bullet holes, two in the chest and two in the head.
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Image caption Beijing has been trying to push the yuan as an alternative global reserve currency
China and Brazil have signed a currency swap deal, designed to safeguard against future global financial crises.
The pact, first announced last year, will allow their central banks to swap local currencies worth up to 190bn yuan or 60bn reais ($30bn; £20bn).
Officials said this will ensure smooth bilateral trade, regardless of global financial conditions.
Along with being the world's second-largest economy, China is also Brazil's biggest trading partner.
"If there were shocks to the global financial market, with credit running short, we'd have credit from our biggest international partner, so there would be no interruption of trade," said Guido Mantega, Brazil's economy minister.
The agreement was signed on the sidelines of the fifth Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit being held in Durban, South Africa.
The purpose of this swap is that, independent of the conditions prevailing in the international financial market, we will have $30bn available Alexandre Tombini, Governor, Brazil Central Bank
'Guarantee normal trade'
Trade between China and Brazil has grown robustly over the past few years, with volumes rising from $6.7bn in 2003 to nearly $75bn in 2012.
A large chunk of this growth has been driven by growing Chinese demand for Brazil's resources, such as iron ore and soy products.
Meanwhile, Brazil has also become a key export market for goods manufactured in China.
Brazil's Central Bank governor Alexandre Tombini said the swap agreement would ensure that trade volumes between the two nations did not suffer if a financial crisis in the future hurt global liquidity.
"The purpose of this swap is that, independent of the conditions prevailing in the international financial market, we will have $30bn available which would represent eight months of exports from Brazil to China and 10 months of imports to Brazil from China," he said.
"This is sufficiently large to guarantee normal trade operations."
Bigger yuan role
China has been pushing for a more international role for its currency, the yuan. It has been trying to promote the yuan as an alternative to the US dollar as a global reserve currency.
As part of that push, it has signed a series of swap deals with some of its key trading partners.
Such agreements not only allow central banks to swap currencies, but can also be used by firms to settle trade in local currencies rather than in US dollars, as happens now, since China's currency is not fully convertible to other currencies.
Earlier this year, the Bank of England said that it was in negotiations with its Chinese counterpart to finalise a three-year swap agreement.
Last year, China signed a swap deal with Australia worth up to A$30bn ($31bn; £20bn) to promote bi-lateral trade and investment.
It is also looking at currency pacts with Hong Kong and Japan.
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Michelin Guide, published since 1900 by a French tire company of the same name, is one of the most respected names in the restaurant industry. It employs anonymous inspectors to evaluate restaurants and rewards one, two or three stars to select establishments, with the three stars indicating “exceptional cuisine, worthy of a special trip.”
So when Michelin issued its guide to Seoul for the first time last year and generously doled out its coveted stars, it definitely created a buzz in the culinary world.
But the company is now being accused of accepting payment from the South Korean government in exchange for using its vaunted brand value to promote restaurants in the country’s capital.
Lawmaker Song Ki-seok of the People’s Party charged on Thursday, citing a contract between the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) and Michelin Guide, that KTO made massive payments in order to commission the Seoul guide.
KTO is a state-run enterprise whose mandate is to boost tourism in South Korea.
According to a press release from Song’s office, KTO paid Michelin 100,000 euros before May 2015 as “publication assistance fund.” Song alleges that the contract also stipulated an annual payment of 300,000 euros to Michelin, from 2016 to 2019, with an additional 200,000 euros scheduled for 2020.
Song, who sits on the National Assembly’s committee on education, culture, sports and tourism, claims that the contract obligates KTO to purchase 5,000 copies of the guide at an extra cost, and that the guide is riddled with errors “revealing that restaurant reviews were conducted without inspection.”
Michelin has been accused of accepting payments before. Andy Hayler, a British food critic who claims to have dined at every three-star Michelin restaurant in the world, said, “Michelin is given money by tourists boards to make a guide. That is absolutely clear.”
Hayler and a local food expert, both of whom have dined at the two Michelin three-star restaurants in Seoul — Gaon and La Yeon — said that they did not deserve the accolade.
What wasn’t known until now is the precise nature of relationship between Michelin and South Korea’s state-run tourism enterprise. If true, the revelation will be a stain on the reputation of Michelin Guide, which some are already dubbing a “relic of the past.”
When contacted about the scandal, the KTO’s press office told Korea Exposé, “The relevant department is looking into the facts, and we ourselves are waiting to hear about them.”
An email to Michelin Guide about the allegations was not answered at the time of publication.
For more on the Michelin Guide Seoul, read:
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Cover image: the Michelin Guide Seoul (courtesy of lawmaker Song Ki-seok’s office)
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India to pay gold instead of dollars for Iranian oil. Oil and gold markets stunned
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 23, 2012, 5:57 PM (GMT+02:00) Tags: India China sanctions Iranian oil European Union
Iranian oil for India
India is the first buyer of Iranian oil to agree to pay for its purchases in gold instead of the US dollar, DEBKAfile's intelligence and Iranian sources report exclusively. Those sources expect China to follow suit. India and China take about one million barrels per day, or 40 percent of Iran's total exports of 2.5 million bpd. Both are superpowers in terms of gold assets.
By trading in gold, New Delhi and Beijing enable Tehran to bypass the upcoming freeze on its central bank's assets and the oil embargo which the European Union's foreign ministers agreed to impose Monday, Jan. 23. The EU currently buys around 20 percent of Iran's oil exports.
The vast sums involved in these transactions are expected, furthermore, to boost the price of gold and depress the value of the dollar on world markets.
Iran's second largest customer after China, India purchases around $12 billion a year's worth of Iranian crude, or about 12 percent of its consumption. Delhi is to execute its transactions, according to our sources, through two state-owned banks: the Calcutta-based UCO Bank, whose board of directors is made up of Indian government and Reserve Bank of India representatives; and Halk Bankasi (Peoples Bank), Turkey's seventh largest bank which is owned by the government.
An Indian delegation visited Tehran last week to discuss payment options in view of the new sanctions. The two sides were reported to have agreed that payment for the oil purchased would be partly in yen and partly in rupees. The switch to gold was kept dark.
India thus joins China in opting out of the US-led European sanctions against Iran's international oil and financial business. Turkey announced publicly last week that it would not adhere to any sanctions against Iran's nuclear program unless they were imposed by the United Nations Security Council.
The EU decision of Monday banned the signing of new oil contracts with Iran at once, while phasing out existing transactions by July 1, 2012, when the European embargo, like the measure enforced by the United States, becomes total. The European foreign ministers also approved a freeze on the assets of the Central Bank of Iran which handles all the country's oil transactions.
However, the damage those sanctions cause the Iranian economy will be substantially cushioned by the oil deals to be channeled through Turkish and Indian state banks. China for its part has declared its opposition to sanctions against Iran.
DEBKAfile's intelligence sources disclose that Tehran has set up alternative financial mechanisms with China and Russia for getting paid for its oil in currencies other than US dollars. Both Beijing and Moscow are keeping the workings of those mechanisms top secret.
http://www.debka.com/article/21673/
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If Cleveland really does want more in exchange for Kyrie Irving, the Celtics don’t know the specifics.
There has been no contact between the two teams since multiple reports surfaced that the Cavaliers, alarmed by the results of Isaiah Thomas’ physical last Friday, now want more for Irving.
The Celtics are said to have no contingency plan in place, due to the lack of contact between the teams, and no plan to either include another asset to make the trade go through or to draw a line and refuse further compensation.
The Cavs, who have not expressed dissatisfaction to the Celtics, let alone make an alternative demand, have until tomorrow morning to void the deal. The sides can also agree to extend the deadline.
The Celtics medical staff, headed by Dr. Brian McKeon, was in extensive contact with its Cleveland counterpart in the days leading up to the Aug. 22 trade, with an equally extensive exchange of information stemming from Thomas’ recovery from a torn labrum in his right hip.
Thomas missed the last 31⁄2 games of the Eastern Conference finals because of the injury and ultimately decided against surgery to correct a problem the Celts claimed bothered the All-Star guard since adolescence.
Comments from coach Brad Stevens and president of basketball operations Danny Ainge reflected the team’s sense that Thomas had made the right call, and that there had been an extensive opinion-seeking process.
When the Celts settled in for negotiations, no timeline was given for Thomas’ return to action. Ainge was similarly vague on the night of the trade, allowing that the point guard might not be ready for the season opener between the Celtics and Cavaliers on Oct. 17 in Cleveland.
“(The hip is) sore,” Ainge said then. “There could be something of a delay for Isaiah, but he should be fine.”
Thomas seemed to be of the same mind earlier this month when he spoke to the Herald while playing with participants in his annual summer camp at Boston University.
“The hip is great,” he said. “It’s a real slow rehab process, but it’s getting better, and that’s what it’s all about.”
Multiple reports now indicate Cleveland officials, including new general manager Koby Altman, believe Thomas’ return might be more delayed than the Celtics relayed. The Celts believe they were transparent with Altman at the time of the trade.
Though subsequent reports also have the Cavaliers now aiming for Celtics assets like rookie Jayson Tatum and second-year forward Jaylen Brown, don’t expect that possibility to gain any traction. Ainge has heard those names mentioned before on the Cleveland wish list.
The Cavaliers reportedly requested either Tatum or Brown early in negotiations and were rejected. That’s not going to change now. Whether the Celtics agree to send one of their lesser picks remains unclear.
There’s no plan until they hear from Cleveland.
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London has a stunning skyline so why not enjoy dining in a London restaurant with a view of the best of the city?
01 of 08 Sky Garden Restaurants © Laura Porter View Map Address 1 SKY GARDEN WALK, London EC3M 8AF, UK Get directions Phone +44 20 7337 2344 Web Visit website On the top of one of The City of London's skyscrapers, there is a public garden and three dining options. The Sky Garden is on levels 35-37 of the Walkie Talkie and has a cafe/cocktail bar, a brasserie, and an exclusive oyster bar.
02 of 08 Galvin at Windows Richard Bryant/ArcaidImages/Getty Images View Map Address 22 Park Lane, London W1K 1BE, UK Get directions Phone +44 20 7208 4021 Web Visit website Galvins at Windows is on the 28th floor of the London Hilton Hotel on Park Lane. It has a glamorous 1930's interior and serves modern French cuisine. It offers some stunning views of London including the gardens of Buckingham Palace.
04 of 08 Tate Modern 9 Floor © Laura Porter View Map Address Level 9 Blavatnik Building, Bankside, London SE1 9TG, UK Get directions Phone +44 20 7401 5108 Web Visit website There are 3 places to eat at Tate Modern but the best views are from the 9th-floor restaurant and bar. The restaurant gets most popular in the evenings so do book in advance and let them know if you want a window table to see across to St. Paul's Cathedral. The menu is a la carte and the waiting staff is very helpful.
If you just want a drink (and to see the view!), there's a bar for alcohol and soft drinks, plus they also serve tea and coffee. (Note there is also an open-air terrace on the 4th floor which is a great spot for taking photos of St. Paul's Cathedral.)
Continue to 5 of 8 below.
06 of 08 Helix at 30 St Mary Axe Chris Hepburn / robertharding/Getty Images View Map Address 30 Saint Mary Axe, London EC3A 8BF, UK Get directions Phone +44 20 7071 5029 Web Visit website 30 St Mary Axe is better known as The Gherkin, one of London's most talked about landmarks. The Helix restaurant provides an iconic entertaining experience with a 360-degree panorama from 180 meters above London. It has a minimalist interior due to its glass-walled location. Helix dining is managed by Searcy1847.
07 of 08 Skylon © Laura Porter View Map Address Belvedere Rd, Royal Festival Hall, London SE1 8XX, UK Get directions Phone +44 20 7654 7800 Web Visit website Located within the Royal Festival Hall, Skylon offers a spectacular panorama of London's skyline with floor to ceiling windows overlooking the River Thames. A destination restaurant and a relaxed, informal grill center around a raised bar serving classic and contemporary cocktails, perfect for day and night.
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which have nothing to do with his work as an attorney, but rather relate to Cohen’s own business dealings,” the document says.
Note the plural “crimes” and the word “many.”
Back down at the courthouse, the hugeness of the case had become apparent in the trembling hands of the manifestly un-Trumplike attorney, Joanna Hendon, who had been retained to represent his interests at the hearing. She spoke to the court before the break of “the exceptional nature of my client.”
“What’s at stake?” she asked. “The viability of this prosecution. It has to be done right. He is the president of the United States.”
When the court reconvened at 4 pm. Harrison said he had been unable to assemble a full and reliable list of clients.
“Do you have access to your client over the weekend?” Wood asked.
Maybe Harrison was unaware that Cohen was at almost that very moment being photographed chilling in the sunshine uptown.
“I believe I’ll have access to him over the weekend,” Harrison said.
Wood said that she intended to make the client roster public. That may include fellow GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy, for whom Cohen allegedly arranged a $1.6 million payment for a former playmate who had become pregnant.
Wood allowed that she would redact from the list those clients whose very names would make clear the nature of their case. Wood said she understood concerns regarding the privacy of the clients in question if indeed there were more than one. She did not add that she had once had her own personal life muddied and smeared by the New York Post.
At the time, she had already become well known. President Clinton had moved to nominate her for attorney general only to reconsider after it turned out she had hired an undocumented immigrant as a nanny. The previous nominee, Zoe Baird, had been dropped for her own nanny trouble, the whole thing being called Nannygate even though such hires were not then illegal.
Wood now sits on the bench as a decent person made better by adversity. She is a judge who is not judgmental, but judicious. She is also a believer in fact.
“Your inability to answer these questions suggests that Mr. Cohen should be in court next time,” Wood said.
So, on Monday afternoon, the self-styled consigliere will be in the courthouse from which any number of actual gangsters have been sent to prison.
But hey, maybe along with calling Cohen on Friday to “check in,” Trump was giving his consigliere an unspoken message by pardoning Scooter Libby, the former consigliere to Dick Cheney turned convict for perjury.
One thing Trump would not want would be for Cohen to become so much like a real modern Mafioso that he turns rat.
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So, You've been trapped in a pocket dimension. What now?
The Foundation Official Handbook 3rd Edition
Spatial, Temporal and Dimensional Anomalies Pg.247/Chapter-24 - Erratic Trans Dimensional Travel So, you've been trapped in a pocket dimension. What now?
So, you've been transported to an area isolated between time and space. What now? The first step is to examine your surroundings for possible exits and dangers; if it is too dark to see, use your mobile device as a light source. If you happen to spot a doorway/window/archway or any other form of a pathway to which you cannot see what is on the other side, begin moving in the direction of this possible exit.
If you happen to spot a creature/living light/sentient shadows or sentient object of an aggressive nature, don't panic. The inhabitants of the pocket dimension you have entered most likely view you as an intruder/source of nutrition, and should be treated in the same way you would treat encountering a hungry bear, with extreme caution and a flight-or-fight mindset.
Has the aggressive creature spotted you? If so, begin to slowly move away from the creature. If not, also start to slowly move away from the creature. If the creature in question notices this action and begins to walk/hover towards you do not let it near you, as it may attempt to attack/consume/melt/devour/obliterate and/or place a nest for its young within your chest cavity.
Please note that this textbook doubles as both an excellent source of information and a blunt weapon due to the size and weight of this piece of educational literature. While attempting to stealthily assault the creature you've encountered is possible, it is incredibly likely that this event will result in death, serious injury or forced immortality in a non-responsive state. Out of the last 20 survivors of erratic trans-dimensional travel to a pocket dimension, 19 out of 20 agree that attacking a possibly god-like entity with a textbook is a bad idea; the twentieth is currently recovering following their unfortunate reentry inside of a trash compactor.
If you survive your time in a pocket dimension and discover an exit, please note that your inevitable reentry into our dimension appears random and you may suffer from any of the following:
Reentry under a body of water
Reentry within an object
Reentry into the stratosphere
Reentry into the wild
Reentry onto highways, railways, subway tracks or tarmacs
Reentry into another person/organism
If you survived any of these unfortunate reentries, please alert your nearest Foundation Dimensional Research Station (FDRS) for extraction and debriefing. If you did not survive, alerting your nearest FDRS is unnecessary and should be avoided. If you are unsure of your current state of being, please flip to page 272 of this handbook "Existing and why it is important to productivity" for more information.
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Aaditya Thackeray did not agree or deny the possibility of his being pitched for the top post
Highlights Aaditya Thackeray, Uddhav Thackeray's son, is Sena youth wing chief
He didn't agree or deny possibility of him being pitched for the top job
"A Thackeray doesn't take a deputy's post," said Sena leader Sanjay Raut
The BJP's cantankerous ally, Shiv Sena, has indicated that it would pitch Aaditya Thackeray, the son of party chief Uddhav Thackeray, as the Chief Ministerial candidate in the Maharashtra assembly elections that would be held later this year. Amid reports that the chief of Sena's youth wing is keen on contesting elections, party spokesperson and Rajya Sabha lawmaker Sanjay Raut dropped broad hints during an interview to a Marathi news channel.
Claiming that Thackeray Junior is busy with the preparations for the assembly elections, he said, "A Thackeray doesn't take a deputy's post. A family member is always the chief. The family has prestige in state and national politics."
There was also a disclaimer: "He (Aaditya Thackeray) himself has clarified that any decision regarding his entry in the poll arena will be taken by party president Uddhav Thackeray."
Aaditya Thackeray did not agree or deny the possibility of his being pitched for the top post. "I would not wish to speak on this today. We will discuss this later," he told reporters at an interaction organised in Mumbai on account of his birthday on Thursday.
His party's stance, however, sets stage for a possible tussle with the BJP, which is keen on retaining the top post.
Although the Sena had been the BJP's arch-critic for the better part of the last five years, the two parties had come together for the national elections. Afterwards, the Sena had gone on record acknowledging the BJP as the big brother in view of its spectacular performance in the election.
The BJP maintains the next Chief Minister would be one of its own.
State BJP leader Sudhir Mungantiwar said at the party's core committee meeting, that it was decided that all workers should work diligently for the assembly elections to help the BJP win and install a BJP Chief Minister.
Assembly elections will be held in Maharashtra later this year. Of the 288 assembly seats in the state, the BJP and the Sena will contest 135 seats each and leave the remaining 18 for other allies -- as was decided by both parties last week.
In the four cornered contest of 2014, the partners had contested separately.
The BJP, with 122 seats, had emerged as the single largest party and the Shiv Sena, which joined the government to make up the numbers, had to play second fiddle. Devendra Fadnavis was chosen as the Chief Minister of the alliance and currently holds the position.
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"There is only one candidate left in this race who has proven worthy of the task of representing Alabama. He is Doug Jones."
The three largest newspapers in Alabama have joined together to call on the state’s voters to "unite for decency" by rejecting GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore and throwing their support behind Democrat Doug Jones.
In an editorial published late Saturday, The Birmingham News, Mobile Press-Register and The Huntsville Times urged Alabama voters to defeat Moore, a Bannon-backed Republican who is facing mounting allegations of sexual assault and child sexual abuse.
The upcoming Senate election "is about the moral values of the people of Alabama," the editorial says.
It goes on to urge Alabama voters not to cast their ballot based on national politics, but to vote "based on who it will affect in your hometown":
We each know someone in our lives who is a survivor of sexual assault or child abuse. Many of us are still searching for the words needed to tell our own stories and some may never find that voice. This election is about them. How can we look our neighbors, our parishioners, our colleagues, our partners, or our children in the eyes and tell them they are worth less than ensuring one political party keeps a Senate seat?
The editorial delivered a scathing rebuke of Moore, who has been accused of sexual misconduct and child sexual abuse by nine different women over the past nine days.
"A vote for Roy Moore sends the worst kind of message to Alabamians struggling with abuse: 'If you ever do tell your story, Alabama won't believe you,'" the editorial says.
The editorial board, comprised of local Alabama residents, also said Moore is unqualified based on his other views on issues ranging from religion to immigration to same-sex marriage.
But they didn't stop at urging voters to reject Moore — the editorial board also called on Alabama residents to throw their support behind Jones, his Democratic opponent.
"By the various misdeeds, miscalculations and mistakes of its voters and leaders, Alabama has left itself with few options. Alabamians must show themselves to be people of principle, reject Roy Moore and all that he stands for," the editorial says.
"There is only one candidate left in this race who has proven worthy of the task of representing Alabama. He is Doug Jones."
The three newspapers join a growing chorus of voices rebuking Moore, who has resisted calls to drop out of the race.
Just days ago, Alabama's most conservative newspaper — and one of Moore's most steadfast supporters — turned on the GOP candidate, declaring: "The judge is lying."
Alabama faith leaders are also abandoning the Bannon-backed Republican candidate. This weekend, a group of at least 70 local Christian ministers signed a letter saying: "No person of faith can, in good conscience, support Roy Moore."
As Alabama leaders abandon the Republican candidate, the person with the most powerful bully pulpit — Donald Trump — is still refusing to speak out against Moore.
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Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.
News from the Community
News and Articles
This week we have had Silex Labs announce the dates for this years WWX2016 conference, taking place at the beautiful Mozilla Paris building on 27th May through to the 30th May. They have also decided to work on WWX2016 through GitHub making the event even more Libre!
Slava Tretyak has written a useful article that should help you create an OpenFL extension in 10 steps.
It might be a little late, but it’s great to see what people have made in the snõwkit LD 34 recap published by Sven Bergström.
Sven also posted this years first dev log, snõwkit dev log 10 (threes, westport), quickly covering the THREES web port using luxe engine and The Westport Independent release, the first commercially released luxe engine game. Being a dev log, it also covers the latest decisions affecting the snõwkit collective.
Ian Harrigan has posted Cooking with fire! in which he previews the native backend for HaxeUI v2 working on Windows, Linux and OSX. As the most popular? framework to offer cross-platform & cross-framework UI, native or not, consider supporting Ian by becoming a Patron.
NanoFL, the vector and animation editor, version 3.0.3 has been released created by Yaroslav Sivakov.
If you follow Matthijs Kamstra on Twitter, you will have seen previews of Playrr, an open source audio playrr, has been released in beta. Matthijs wrote a quick post on what libraries he used and what problems he sorted out.
Events
WWX2016 Haxe Conference at Mozilla Paris between 27th-30th May.
Add an upcoming event which will be about Haxe.
Jobs
Massive Interactive looking for Haxe &.NET developers in London and Prague.
Add an available job which involves Haxe.
Looking for work
Dan Korostelev has posted over on the mailing list that he is looking for new job and experience and is willing to move abroad.
Game Releases
Alarmy’s Journey for iOS using OpenFL by ALMA Games.
Jetpack Water Jump for iOS and Android using OpenFL by Ari.
Previews, Demos & Snippets
Tilman Schmidt has been sharing progress of his GGJ16 game made using luxe engine. I particularly like the colour animated tree.
Some library releases
Updates from the Haxe core
16 commits have been made to Haxe in the last week, with 50 issues closed across the Haxe ecosystem.
You can start using the latest features by grabbing a nightly build of Haxe.
Have a good week everyone!
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into the direwolf form within you to gain incredible power, but only if you can control the new beast form. Beast Form Starting at 3rd level, any time you transform you may choose to shift into beast form instead of hybrid form, dropping to four paws and turning into a hulking direwolf. Any time you are forced into a transformation, you also go into beast form. While in beast form, you gain the following benefits in addition to the benefits of hybrid form: When you enter beast form you gain temporary hit points equal to half of your maximum hit points.
You become a large beast type creature.
You gain +4 Strength.
Your base speed becomes 45 ft.
Your AC becomes 12 + Dex modifier (natural armor).
When you consume a corpse, instead of gaining temporary hit points you may heal that amount. You also gain the following features until the transformation ends: Pack Tactics: You have advantage on attack rolls against a creature if at least one of your allies is within 5 ft of that creature.
Mind of the Beast: You never have full control over your beast form. You must take all actions as you would if you'd lost control of your hybrid form. You also can’t be charmed or frightened. If you are able to cast spells, you can’t cast them or concentrate on them while in beast form. You also can't hold any weapons in beast form. All nonmagical items that you were wearing or carrying are engulfed by your form and are not accessible until the transformation ends, however any magic effects from those items still function as usual. Your transformation lasts for 1 hour. As a bonus action you may attempt to end the transformation early by passing a DC 16 Consitution saving throw. If the transformation ends early you gain 1 exhaustion. During a full moon you have disadvantage on Constitution saves to end the transformation. One With The Beast At 7th level, you gain one of the following features of your choice: Defensive Posture: If a creature walks into your melee range, you may use your reaction to make an opportunity attack against that creature. If you don't have control over your current form, you must always make this opportunity attack if you can. Ruthless Pounce: In all forms, you may score a critical hit on a roll of 19. While in beast form, you can roll one additional weapon damage die when determining the extra damage for a critical hit. Eminent Command As of 11th level, you begin to find new ways to direct the beast. Once per day, when you enter beast form you may choose one creature. The beast will attempt to pursue and attack that creature as long as it can see it or detect a sign of it with a Wisdom (Survival) or Wisdom (Perception) check. If the beast cannot detect any sign of the chosen creature it will attack the nearest creature as usual. This effect ends early if you lose concentration. After you use this effect, you have disadvantage on Constitution saving throws to end your transformation until the transformation ends or until the chosen creature is dead.
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This summer, the Test Pilot team has been heads down working on experiments for our Firefox users. On the heels of our most recent and successful desktop Test Pilot experiments, Firefox Color and Side View, it was inevitable that the Test Pilot Program would expand to mobile.
Today, we’re excited to announce the first Test Pilot experiments for your mobile devices. With these two experiences, we are pushing beyond the boundaries of the desktop browser and into mobile apps. We’re taking the first steps toward bringing Mozilla’s mission of privacy, security and control to mobile apps beyond the browser.
What Are the New Mobile Test Pilot Experiments?
Firefox Lockbox for iOS – Take your passwords everywhere
Are you having a tough time keeping track of all the different passwords you’ve made for your online accounts? How many times have you had to reset a password you forgot? What do you do when you’ve saved a password on your desktop but have no way to access that online account on your mobile device? Look no further, we’ve created a simple app to take your passwords anywhere you go.
With Firefox Lockbox, iOS users will be able to seamlessly access Firefox saved passwords. This means you can use any password you’ve saved in the browser to log into any online account like your Twitter or Instagram app. No need to open a web page. It’s that seamless and simple. Plus, you can also use Face ID and Fingerprint touch to unlock the app, so you can safely access your accounts.
Notes by Firefox for Android – Simple, secure, note-taking anywhere
Jotting down quick notes is something many of us do everyday to keep track of our busy lives. Whether you’re on your desktop at home or at the office, or on the go with your mobile device, we want to make sure you’re able to access those notes wherever you are.
Notes by Firefox is a simple, secure place to take and store notes across your devices – desktop AND mobile. Now Firefox account users have the option to sync notes from any Firefox browser on any Android smartphone or tablet. Plus, your files are encrypted from end-to-end,, which means that only you can read them.
How do I get started?
The Test Pilot program is open to all Firefox users and helps us test and evaluate a variety of potential Firefox features. To activate the new Lockbox and Notes extensions, you must have a Firefox Account and Firefox Sync for full functionality.
If you’re familiar with Test Pilot then you know all our projects are experimental, so we’ve made it easy to give us feedback or disable features at any time from testpilot.firefox.com.
We’re committed to making your web browsing experience more efficient, and are excited for the even bigger mobile experiments still ahead.
Check out the new Firefox Lockbox and Notes by Firefox extensions and help us decide which new features to build into future versions of Firefox.
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Visiting an aged care home can sometimes be an upsetting experience — seeing elderly people in various stages of mental decline, living out their days under child-like care and supervision.
Key points: Young people with intellectual disabilities visit aged care home twice monthly
Young people with intellectual disabilities visit aged care home twice monthly Staff say program has been 'absolutely fantastic' for residents
Staff say program has been 'absolutely fantastic' for residents Other homes urged to consider similar programs
But amid the somewhat institutional atmosphere at one high-care facility in Melbourne's south-east, a unique activity program is giving residents a renewed sense of vitality.
The magic ingredient: a group of young adults with intellectual disabilities from Wallara, a community support organisation.
Twice a month, since May 2016, young and old have taken part in activities such as balloon volleyball, singing and tai chi at Baptcare's Peninsula View home at Frankston South.
The facility's lifestyle coordinator, Lesley Smith, said her initial apprehension at hosting the visitors disappeared after seeing how well the two groups interacted.
"It's just been absolutely fantastic for our residents," she said.
"Our residents have mild dementia to advanced dementia, so to me, those two conditions marry because neither party shows any inhibition."
School students also visit the aged care home, but Ms Smith said visitors with intellectual disabilities had the most impact on residents because they did not hold back.
"Most of them [school students] will stand back a bit," she said.
"They would not do half the stuff that these young folk do — they wouldn't just call out and say, 'let's do the chicken dance or let's dance to Jingle Bell Rock'."
Residents say interacting with the younger people has brought new life to the home. ( ABC News: James Hancock )
Kids 'join in with our silliness'
Patricia Vivian-Lall is one of more than 100 residents at the aged care home.
The actress and singer, who spent decades performing on the stage and small screen, conceded being in care could get "a bit humdrum sometimes".
But the natural performer in her came alive when she was asked to reprise her role in the musical My Fair Lady by singing I Could Have Danced All Night for the group.
"It's lovely when these kids come in and join in with our silliness — we get on very well," she said.
While Ms Vivian-Lall remained seated, other residents got up to dance with the visitors.
Ms Smith pointed out one smiling woman who she said was usually stony-faced.
Other aged care facilities have been urged to consider a similar program.
As Ms Smith said, the young people's natural qualities were helping provide residents with a better quality of life.
"Even the facility feels different when they're in here," she said.
"They're noisy, they're like kids on Christmas Day at granny's house."
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This mushroom recipe is one part nostalgia and one part mushrooms that you cook in your waffle iron. Meet Mushrooms Under a Brick!
Many, many years ago, my friend Liz and I ate supper at Five Seasons here in Atlanta. At the time, the menu included a dish called Expensive Mushrooms Under a Brick. It was apparently a vegetarian take on a dish called Chicken Under a Brick, and we were super intrigued. After a few beers, we decided to spring for it. And I haven’t stopped thinking about it since.
Real Mushrooms Under a Brick are cooked in a cast iron skillet, under another heavy pan weighted down with – you guessed it – a brick. That seems like a lot of work, though, so my mushroom recipe dreams kind of fizzled.
Cut to about a month ago, when Dave and I decided to finally take the waffle iron plunge. I have been on the hunt for a waffle iron for years. What’s always stopped me is that waffle irons are all coated with nonstick. Nonstick coating is bad news. It contains nasty chemicals like PFOA that leach into your food. I didn’t want cancer waffles, so I held off. And held off.
Until I found the Oster DuraCeramic Waffle Maker. It’s PFOA free! It got pretty good reviews! We have been making waffles every Sunday ever since.
So back to the mushroom recipe. Dave went to LA for work a couple of weeks ago, leaving me on my own for supper. After Darrol Henry went to bed, I decided to entertain myself by putting mushrooms into the waffle iron. My first batch of Mushrooms Under a Brick came out tasting good but not quite as well done as I’d hoped.
After a couple more tries, I have got this mushroom recipe down. These mushrooms have a toothsome, meaty texture, and some of the thinner ones are just a little bit crispy. They’re freaking awesome, and I can’t wait to make them again!
Yield: 2 servings Ingredients 1 teaspoon olive oil
pinch of sea salt
8 ounces of fancy mushrooms. I bought a mix, but you could use shiitake, chanterelle, oyster, cremini, etc. See what looks good! Method Heat your waffle iron on medium high while you toss together the mushrooms, oil, and salt in a small bowl. When the waffle iron is heated, spread the mixture onto the bottom of the waffle iron, and close it up. If your iron won’t close like mine wouldn’t, press until it closed, and then put something heavy on top to weigh it down. Cook for 12-14 minutes. Different waffle irons cook at different rates, so just keep checking. You’ll know they’re ready when the flow of steam from your waffle iron reduces to just a slow trickle.
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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy Award-winning Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have found their new home. Nearly three months after Deadline revealed that Benioff & Weiss were being courted by six studios for an overall global deal to write, produce and direct new series and films, we can reveal that they have signed an exclusive deal with Netflix.
Nobody was confirming numbers, but sources tell Deadline the deal is in the 9-figure range like some of the other mega-deals signed by show creators like Shonda Rhimes and Ryan Murphy, each of whom also moved to Netflix. The deal for Benioff & Weiss, which we hear is for five years and is worth as much as $300 million, was brokered by Gretchen Rush, their longtime attorney at Hansen Jacobson Teller.
When Deadline revealed that Benioff & Weiss were meeting on the overall deal at a time when Game of Thrones was wrapping up its final season of the drama, the duo had met with Netflix as well as HBO/WarnerMedia, Disney, Comcast, Amazon and Apple. By late last month, the field had narrowed to Netflix, Amazon and Disney/FX. Benioff & Weiss spent the past decade at HBO, fully focused on the groundbreaking series based on the George RR Martin novels.
Netflix confirmed to Deadline that it had won the deal.
Said Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos: “We are thrilled to welcome master storytellers David Benioff and Dan Weiss to Netflix. They are a creative force and have delighted audiences worldwide with their epic storytelling. We can’t wait to see what their imaginations will bring to our members.”
Said David Benioff & Dan Weiss: “We’ve had a beautiful run with HBO for more than a decade and we’re grateful to everyone there for always making us feel at home. Over the past few months we’ve spent many hours talking to Cindy Holland and Peter Friedlander, as well as Ted Sarandos and Scott Stuber. We remember the same shots from the same ‘80s movies; we love the same books; we’re excited about the same storytelling possibilities. Netflix has built something astounding and unprecedented, and we’re honored they invited us to join them.”
They have several obligations they intend to fulfill. They are creating, writing and producing one of the next Star Wars trilogies (Rian Johnson is doing his own, with others in the works), they wrote for Universal a Kurt Cobain project, and are posed to adapt the prison break tale Dirty White Boys for Fox/Disney.
A priority will be to hatch another water cooler series, this time for Netflix. GOT won the Prime Time Emmy for Best Drama the last three years the show was eligible, for the rare drama series that went against the binge-ing release strategy of streaming rivals. Now they are on the other side of that, looking to capture the zeitgeist as many Netflix series have done.
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Ripple (XRP) has earned a well-deserved reputation for being resilient. Over the last few days, we saw XRP/USD rally in the face of a market meltdown. However, when the time to correct came, Ripple (XRP) still managed to remain above its trend line while most other coins would have pierced right through their trend lines to complete a full correction. The daily chart for XRP/USD shows that Ripple (XRP) has now found a strong support at the $0.457 level. The price has held this level during a recent retest and is unlikely to fall below it. The daily RSI has also cooled down without doing much damage to the price of Ripple (XRP). In fact, as the market recovers Ripple (XRP) might once again be due for another rally.
The EMA alignment for Ripple (XRP) has now turned bearish and one would expect it to fall further. However, Ripple (XRP) seems to be holding strongly above the trend line and does not appear likely to drop below the support and the trend line. That being said, the 5 Day EMA has now turned into a strong resistance that Ripple (XRP) may not be able to break anytime soon. The daily volume is starting to recover but most of it has been on the sell side so far. Ripple (XRP) investors would still like to see some bullish volume return to the market. There are a lot of hodlers in the XRP community that do not trust exchanges and have their coins stocked in cold storage wallets.
Ripple (XRP) has managed to stay atop its trend line against the US Dollar but things are completely different in case of Bitcoin (BTC). The daily chart for XRP/BTC shows that Ripple (XRP) has yet to break its downtrend against Bitcoin (BTC). It managed to briefly escape the downtrend the past few days but was soon pulled back in. The RSI for XRP/BTC shows that Ripple (XRP) is unlikely to break this downtrend against Bitcoin (BTC) anytime soon. The price of XRP/BTC may have to complete a wave down before attempting to retest the resistance once again. It is pertinent to note here that Ripple (XRP) has already attempted to break this downtrend before in September this year. We saw a big spike in XRP/BTC that got stopped at the downtrend resistance and was pushed back into the descending channel.
Ripple (XRP) might be due for a short-term pullback against Bitcoin (BTC) but it is important to mention that Ripple (XRP) is already a winner from an investment standpoint. Investors that bought after the first few months of correction are still in the green. Ripple (XRP) investors that were hodling were once down more than 80% on their investments as they had bought near the top but now they are doing better than most other cryptocurrency hodlers because Ripple (XRP) has recovered significantly while most cryptocurrencies have just made new lows for the year.
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Philip Workman: Pizza wish fulfilled
A man executed on Death Row got his final wish from beyond the grave.
A convicted murderer put to death in Tennessee this week got his last meal wish after he died.
Philip Workman, 53, requested that his final meal be a vegetarian pizza donated to any homeless person near the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee.
Prison officials refused to send out a pizza saying it was not permissible for them to donate taxpayer’s money to charity and Workman died on Wednesday by lethal injection.
The £10 budget for his ‘special meal request’ went unspent.
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But news accounts of his request touched a nerve with the public.
Dozens of local residents stepped in to ensure shelters across Nashville were inundated with donated pizzas hours after Workman, a convicted murderer, was put to death.
‘I was like, ‘Wow, Jesus!'” said Marvin Champion, an employee of Nashville’s Rescue Mission, which provides overnight shelter, food and assistance to more than 800 homeless people a night.
‘I used to be homeless, so I know how rough it gets. I seen some bad times – not having enough food, the cupboards are bare. But we got pizza to feed enough people for a while.’
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One resident, Donna Spangler, heard about Workman’s request and immediately called her friends.
They all pitched in for the £600 bill to buy 150 pizzas, which they sent to the Rescue Mission.
‘Philip Workman was trying to do a good deed and no one would help him,’ said the 55-year-old.
‘I knew my husband would have a heart attack – I put some of it on the credit card. But I thought we’ll find a way to pay for them later,’ she said.
‘I just felt like I had to do something positive.’
Seventeen pizzas also arrived at Nashville’s Oasis Centre, a shelter that helps about 260 teenagers in crisis.
Executive director Hal Cato said: ‘We talked to the kids and they understand what this is tied to and they know that this man [Workman] wanted to do something to point out the problems of homelessness.’
Workman was homeless and high on cocaine when he robbed a Wendy’s diner in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1981, and killed Memphis police lieutenant Ronald Oliver.
His lawyers argued his gun ‘involuntarily discharged’ when he was hit on the head by a police officer with the bullet killing Lt Oliver.
But it was not enough to convince a court to overturn the death sentence.
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If Roger Federer is to win the 100th tournament of his 20-year career here this week, he will need to rediscover some of his renowned composure after an unusually frenetic two-set loss to Kei Nishikori on Sunday evening. It was the first time in 15 visits to the end-of-season ATP World Tour Finals that the six-times champion has lost a round-robin match in straight sets.
He even picked up a rare code violation, thrashing the ball into the crowd after failing to read and reach a subtle tap down the line when he had Nishikori under pressure in the 11th game of the first set, serving at 5-6 and 15-30.
When Federer then hit the ball into the crowd in frustration, the experienced Argentinian umpire, Damian Steiner, was less than pleased and Federer could not hide his anger at the sanction.
The incident seemed to unsettle his game – not to mention the comfort of his adoring audience – and he went on to lose the tie-break, the set and the match. His sometimes fragile Japanese opponent steadied his nerves for a 7-6 (4), 6-3 win in just under an hour and a half that eases him into the second round of their group in good shape against Kevin Anderson, who earlier beat Dominic Thiem in straight sets. Thiem will play Federer on Tuesday.
Federer, who was already in his press conference even as Nishikori was completing his on-court TV interview, said of the incident: “I thought, what was his argument, you know? Why the warning? But nothing more than that. He thought I was angry. I wasn’t. Now I’m angry because I lost. He knows me very well, apparently – or he thought so …”
Asked if he had been joking earlier about being out of sorts in practice, Federer said: “I’ve been feeling fine. It’s just that practice has been a bit all over the place, [at] Queen’s, on the outside courts here, then centre as well. So it’s not always exactly the same conditions. Overall, I think I’m hitting the ball OK.”
The evidence, though, suggests vulnerability. Broken early in the second set, Federer dug himself out of a hole to stay in the fight after they had exchanged early breaks. He held serve to 15 to trail 3-5, but Nishikori – who had beaten Federer only twice in nine previous encounters – sensed this was his time. He raced to 40-love and three match points with a strong serve wide to the forehand and tried for the grandstand finish on the deuce side, but shoved it wide.
Federer scrambled a point off the second serve before a wobbly forehand return from a few feet beyond the baseline ballooned long and Nishikori, seeded seventh of eight finalists, was on the board.
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Baghdad (AFP) - Iraq on Sunday gave Turkey 48 hours to withdraw forces it said had entered the country illegally or face "all available options", including recourse to the UN Security Council.
Baghdad, which is struggling to assert its sovereignty while receiving foreign assistance against the Islamic State jihadist group, said Turkish forces with tanks and artillery entered Iraq without its permission.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in a letter to his Iraqi counterpart Haider al-Abadi that there would be no deployment of forces until Baghdad's concerns were addressed.
However, the future of the forces already sent remained unclear.
"In the absence of the withdrawal of these forces within 48 hours, Iraq has the right to use all available options," including recourse to the Security Council, a statement from Abadi's office said.
The Turkish forces entered "without the approval or knowledge of the Iraqi government," it said.
In practical terms, Iraq's options are primarily diplomatic, as its forces are tied down battling IS jihadists and Ankara has a far more powerful military.
Turkey has troops at a base in the Bashiqa area in Nineveh province to train Iraqi Sunni volunteers hoping to retake the nearby city of Mosul from IS, which seized it and swathes of other territory in June 2014.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu sent a letter to Abadi on Sunday to update him about "the training programme we have been implementing in Bashiqa since last March as well as tasks and activities of our forces there," a source in his office said.
Davutoglu said in the letter that "there will be no deployment of forces to Bashiqa until the sensitivities of the Iraqi government are addressed," the source said.
A day earlier, Davutoglu downplayed the deployment as "routine rotation activity" associated with the training effort, and as "reinforcement against security risks".
"This is not a new camp," Davutoglu said.
Rather, it is a pre-existing "training facility established to support local volunteer forces' fight against terrorism", set up in coordination with the Iraqi defence ministry, he said.
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But Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, which has forces in the area, said that Turkey had sent military experts and supplies to expand the base.
Iraqi Defence Minister Khaled al-Obeidi also asked for the forces to be withdrawn in a telephone call with his Turkish counterpart Ismet Yilmaz, the ministry said on Sunday.
According to the statement, Yilmaz said the forces were sent to protect Turkish trainers, but Obeidi said they were more than the numbers required for that task.
Baghdad's relations with Turkey had improved recently but remained strained by Ankara's relationship with Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region and differences over the Syrian civil war.
Abadi has repeatedly said Iraq needs all the help it can get to fight IS, but he is also walking a fine line between receiving that support and projecting sovereignty.
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find attractive with a market of very young children," she says. "Sex sells and kids buy music, so the natural tendency for people who want to make money is to combine those two things. It's fundamentally irresponsible and it's not taking into account how this affects developing children." It's obviously a much-debated subject, pondered on by musicians stretching all the way from Sinead and Miley to Azealia, Katy Perry and beyond, but Alice doesn't mince her words: "I have no problem with a grown women choosing to do whatever with her body, as long as it's her idea and she's not being manipulated or pressured by selfish individuals or cultural standards." In response to this ingrained sexism she's steadfast in her position: "I want women to have access to safe healthcare and be in control of their own bodies. I am a feminist. Everyone should be a feminist." Alice's strength and determination, which she attributes largely to experience and perspective, is evidently a strong factor in her decision to finally go solo. She seems so fulfilled on her own there's hardly any point asking if she's nervous ("No, not really," she shrugs). That said, running through her conviction is a certain thread of vulnerability she's eager to open up about, "My solo project will touch on the themes of being manipulated by others and the external pressure you feel when someone forces their will on you," she explains cryptically. "The feeling of being betrayed by someone you once trusted is there, the realisation that these things have happened to you, the harsh reality of it all. Everyone has experienced this in varying degrees." When asked if she wishes she could snap her fingers and change one thing about the world as we know it, she reels off a long list so informed and specific it simply ends in "basically I feel sympathetic for 90% of humanity, give or take." If the world's ready for an engaged, informed and honest female musician then believe me, Alice Glass is ready for it too.
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Jacket McQ Alexander McQueen. Seditionaries shirt at Search & Destroy.
Jacket and shirt Andrealage.
Coat and skirt Miu Miu. Seditionaries shirt at Search & Dest
Credits
Text Bertie Brandes
Photography Daniel Jackson
Fashion Director Alastair McKimm
Hair Holli Smith at Total Management using Bumble & bumble
Make-up Hannah Murray at Art + Commerce using Topshop Beauty
Nail technician Rica Romain at LMC Worldwide using Chanel
Set design Gerard Santos at The Magnet Agency
Photography assistance Kit Leuzarder
Digital and lighting technician Karen Goss
Styling assistance Katelyn Gray, Lauren Davis, Holly Gorst
Hair assistance Yuhi Kim
Make-up assistance Jen Myles
Production Nikki Stromberg and Matthew Youmans at MAP Ltd NY
Model Alice Glass at Next
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PORT WASHINGTON, NEW YORK – JULY 14, 2014 – Since the start of the year (January – May), Chromebook sales within the U.S. Commercial Channel increased 250 percent year-over-year and accounted for 35 percent of all channel notebooks sales. According to The NPD Group Distributor and Reseller Weekly Tracking Services, total notebook sales through the U.S. Commercial Channel increased 36 percent, desktop sales jumped 24 percent, and overall PC client volume rose by 1 million units so far this year. Windows notebook sales were flat and Macbook sales increased more than 20 percent.
Chromebook volume has strengthened heading into the important education buying season. For the three weeks ending June 7, Chromebook sales made up more than 40 percent of Commercial Channel notebook sales, a significant bump from the 35 percent year-to-date.
“Building on last year’s surprising strength, Chrome’s unit strength ahead of this year’s education buying season shows how it has become a legitimate third platform alongside Windows and Mac OS X and iOS,” said Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis, The NPD Group. “The next test for Chrome will clearly be the most difficult, as both Apple and Microsoft get more aggressive in pricing and deal making over the next few months. By the end of the third quarter we will have a much clearer picture of the long-term impact Chromebooks will have in the commercial channel.”
Source: The NPD Group/Distributor and Reseller Weekly Tracking Service
Chromebooks haven’t been the only client device delivering strong sales in 2014. Commercial channel Windows desktop sales through the first five months of the year increased 25 percent, punctuating a stretch of 16 consecutive months of unit growth in the commercial desktop market. Windows desktop demand has accelerated in 2014, with unit sales increasing more than 30 percent in four of the first five months of the year fueled by the end of XP support and the ongoing replacement cycle in business client devices. In fact, Windows desktop sales volume actually exceeded Windows notebooks in the first five months of 2014.
U.S. Commercial Channel Windows Desktop and Notebook Volume
January – May 2011 January – May 2012 January – May 2013 January – May 2014 Desktop Computers 1.0 million 1.1 million 1.2 million 1.5 million Notebook Computers 1.7 million 1.5 million 1.5 million 1.4 million
Source: The NPD Group/Distributor and Reseller Weekly Tracking Service
“The commercial channel for client devices has been undergoing considerable change over the last few years,” said Baker. “The advent of tablets and Chromebooks, and the introduction of Windows 8 have all combined to make the market much more volatile than it has been in the past. But the bottom line is that despite reports to the contrary the market for desktops and notebooks sold through the channel in the U.S. has never been better.”
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—and they believe their ends justify their means…If you’re not for them, you’re not just an opponent—you’re beneath contempt.”
(Making lives better? As the economist Robert Pollin noted in the progressive Democratic journal The Nation earlier this year: “Clintonomics was a disaster for most Americans…Under Bill Clinton, Wall Street created a ruinous bubble, while workers lost wages and power… Bill Clinton’s presidency accomplished almost nothing to improve conditions for working people and the poor on a sustained basis. Gestures to the poor and working class were slight and back-handed, while wages for the majority remained below their level of a generation prior. Wealth at the top exploded with the Wall Street bubble. But the stratospheric rise in stock prices and the debt-financed consumption and investment booms produced a mortgaged legacy. The financial unraveling began even as Clinton was basking in praise for his economic stewardship.”)
I sensed the hate – and left the Democratic Party – decades ago. I wouldn’t vote for a “right-wing fanatic” (Arun Gupta) like Hillary Clinton – an arch-imperial war-mongering enemy of workers and friend of Wall Street – for less than $ 225,000 (the price of just one of Hillary’s Goldman Sachs speeches in 2013), four-fifths of which I would give away to radical working class and environmentalist activists. Personally, I recommend that young Sanders supporters return the contempt and refuse to act on Sanders’ forthcoming call for them to play the game of Lesser Evils. That toxic, viciously circular, and self-fulfilling game is part of how to we got in current big tangle of a situation wherein the top 1 percent owns more than 90 percent of the nation’s wealth along with most of government and the media while their soulless and cancerous profits system (capitalism) pushes humans and other living things over the edge of economic, military, authoritarian, racist, sexist and (last but not least) ecological catastrophe. “If voting changed anything,” the great American anarchist Emma Goldman once said, “they’d make it illegal.”
That said, there’s nothing wrong with lodging a Left protest vote, without electoral illusion, beyond the Democrats and Republicans, once aptly described by Upton Sinclair as “two wings of the same bird of prey.” Walk into that “coffin of class consciousness” (Alan Dawley) called the American voting booth and vote as if it might give life, not death (it would take a major and overdue Constitutional overhaul for that to happen) if you want. Be my guest. It takes all of two minutes. Then walk back out and turn to the real and more urgent politics of radical grassroots movement-building and revolutionary disruption. That’s every day work. One thing is clear: we will not vote ourselves out of this mess. You can take that to the bank.
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to call the whistleblower as a witness, by a 13-9 party-line vote.
Nunes and several other Republican questioners pointed out that the Trump administration had provided more lethal military aid to Ukraine that the previous administration of Democrat Barack Obama, including selling Javelin anti-tank missiles. In effect, the two parties were vying for the “credit” of being the most fervent promoter of war between Ukraine and Russia.
The Republicans repeatedly declared that Kent and Taylor—and other witnesses to follow them—could offer only “hearsay” testimony about what the president did and what his motivations were. They conveniently ignored the role of the White House in blocking any testimony by witnesses with first-hand knowledge, such as acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and fired National Security Advisor John Bolton.
The repeated questions about Hunter Biden elicited damaging testimony from Kent—already made in his closed-door deposition. The State Department official reported that he had complained in 2015 that the role of the vice president’s son in Ukraine, working for the company that was the first major target of a US-backed anti-corruption campaign, raised at least the appearance of a conflict of interest. Vice President Biden’s office had never responded to his objections, Kent said.
Only one actual new “fact” was revealed in the entire five-hour hearing and this came at the end of Taylor’s opening statement. He claimed to have just learned that a member of his staff had overheard a phone call from President Trump to Gordon Sondland while Sondland and the aide were sitting at a restaurant in Kiev on July 26.
“Following the call with President Trump, the member of my staff asked Ambassador Sondland what President Trump thought about Ukraine,” Taylor said. “Ambassador Sondland responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of Biden, which Giuliani was pressing for.”
While the anti-Trump section of the corporate media treated this as a “blockbuster” revelation, the timing is more than a little suspicious. Taylor claimed that he learned of this only after he gave his deposition testimony on October 22. That would suggest that his aide—now scheduled to give closed-door testimony Friday—sat on this information for three months, and for an entire month after the beginning of an impeachment inquiry focused on Trump’s role in Ukraine.
The public hearings before the House Intelligence Committee continue Friday with State Department official Marie Yovanovitch, who was removed as ambassador to Ukraine because she was considered an obstacle by Giuliani. Witnesses next week will include Alexander Vindman, Tim Morrison and Fiona Hill, all of the National Security Council, State Department officials Sondland, Volker, David Hale and Jennifer Williams (assigned to work with Vice President Mike Pence) and Pentagon official Laura Cooper. All are testifying under subpoena in defiance of Trump’s orders not to cooperate with the inquiry.
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Top players no better than me, says Stephen Hendry
Hendry struggled to find his golden touch this week in Telford Seven-time world champion Stephen Hendry believes the current crop of top players have not surpassed anything he did in his heyday. Hendry, who lost to Mark Williams in this week's UK Championships, has not won a tournament since 2005. "There's no-one playing a standard that's higher than the standard I played when I won tournaments," Hendry told BBC Radio Scotland. "There is more players playing it and that makes it hard to win tournaments." Hendry enjoyed near-dominance between 1989 and 1999, during which time he won five UK Championships, six Masters events and seven World Championships. And, speaking on Sports Weekly, he added: "The actual standard of the top players is not something that I never achieved, and that's the frustrating thing because if I was looking and playing and thinking, 'these guys are too good for me' then I would probably think about quitting because the enjoyment for me is the chance of maybe winning or competing. "But the fact is nobody's playing snooker that I didn't play and that's the thing that annoys me the most. When you're used to so much success and then you go through a barren period, it's hard. If I hadn't had so much success, this would be easier to take
Stephen Hendry "I still love competing. I'm not having the form because when you keep getting beat in the second and third round, it dents your confidence. The only way you can get confidence is by winning and, unfortunately, the only way you win is by being confident. "The frustration for me is that I'm playing two or three frames where I'm back to my best then I'll slip back and play a bad shot and then it's tended to frustrate me and linger in my head for two or three frames. Those things happen when you're not 100% confident in your game. "I was 8-7 down to Jimmy White in the first round and then I played two good frames at the end. In my last frame, I played a long red and just cleared up in one visit and it was like being back in the 90s and you think, 'why can't I do that the whole match?'. "It's very frustrating when you know that that form can be there but it's not coming out." Now ranked 13th, Hendry feels his earlier successes have made recent disappointments especially painful. "In the late 80s and early 90s, I took success for granted, winning four or five tournaments a year," he said. "I just expected to win them. "When you're used to so much success and then you go through a barren period, it's hard. "If I hadn't had so much success, this would be easier to take."
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set _NT_SYMBOL_PATH=SRV*d:\symbols\*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols;
Interpreting UMDH Output
UMDH, although powerful in its own context, could definitely borrow a little brush up for its output from WPA. The logged file is basically a list of allocations:
30 bytes + 30 at 206EDDA8BA0 by BackTraceEDD4EEA6 7FFE82352933 7FFE8226DA74 7FFE822AD412 7FFE822AD2FA 7FFE822AD0FA 7FFE7EDC7CAD 7FFE70A8CA10 7FFE70A95B63 7FFE70A61109 7FFE7F6CA6B3 7FFE70A95E20
A list of single allocations is not useful. To decipher it we need to run:
umdh < snapshot_ 1 > < snapshot_ 2 > < analysis_log >
And the last step produces the analysis log we need:
.... + 154944 ( 154944 - 0 ) 1 allocs BackTrace9933FD81 + 1 ( 1 - 0 ) BackTrace9933FD81 allocations ntdll! RtlWalkHeap+213 ntdll! RtlAllocateHeap+A64 KERNELBASE! LocalAlloc+6D SHELL32! SHGetItemFromDataObject+612 SHELL32! SHCreateShellFolderView+1F4F SHELL32! SHCreateShellFolderView+A3D SHELL32! Ordinal915+14B4 SHELL32! Ordinal915+FDE.....
Additionally, UMDH visualization tool by Nettention provides a great way to visualize analysis log:
See, UMDH becomes most useful in comparison mode, where multiple snapshots (starting point and endpoint) are captured and diff’d into an analysis log containing the allocations happening in between. This was immensely helpful in my case - I am not interested in the first 50 GB of expected allocations, but the unexpected extra 200 MBs.
What happened next
With UMDH under my belt, the rest was straightforward. I ran it and took two snapshots, one after app startup and stabilizing of cache, and another one day later. The size of the log? A mere dozen of MBs! That was specially the case because allocations are produced repeatedly by the same callstacks, so only the number of allocations is increasing. The offender laid there in top 5 allocation callstacks. It was a small object in a shared_ptr that, under special circumstances, gets a circular dependency on another shared_ptr.
Conclusion
UMDH has a tightly stripped-down version of XPerf’s extended heap capturing capabilities. While not nearly as powerful, in several scenarios it is good enough.
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On the ice, he looks like any other player, but Amit Vinegrad is a long way from home.
"The practice was very, very good," says the 14-year-old after a session at the Bell Sensplex.
"The ice, better."
Vinegrad lives in northern Israel, a country where there's less than 1,000 hockey players and just one arena with a full-sized hockey rink.
Amit's passion started like many young players, with his family. His grandfather, Boris Mendel, put him on skates at an early age.
"He took me when I was four, three-and-a-half, and then I love it," Vinegrad says.
Mendel immigrated to Israel from Russia and was the coach of Israel's national team for many years. He now coaches his grandson, but also shares a special connection with former Ottawa Senators coach, the late Roger Nielson.
"Roger Nielson and my grandpa did camps in Israel together," says Vinegrad.
"They were coaches together...and they were friends."
Vinegrad is in Ottawa for a week, lacing up his skates with Canadian kids at a development camp run by the Ottawa Senators. The trip is part of the Canadian-Israel Hockey School, an initiative started in Metula, Israel to expose kids of all ages and religious beliefs to the game of hockey. It's run out of Israel's only hockey rink, the Canada Center.
The hockey school has sent players to different cities in North America, including Calgary, Vancouver and Washington, D.C. They've been able to practice on the ice and go to NHL games. While this trip isn't a full one sponsored by the school, the hope is that it will still inspire kids in Israel.
"He (Amit) gets excited about it and comes back and talks about hockey stores, Gatorade and all this other stuff that we take for granted, that we see all the time...it blows them away," says Mitch Miller, a volunteer for the Canadian-Israel Hockey School.
Playing hockey in the Middle East has its challenges, like when the air raid sirens go off and you have to get to a bomb shelter.
"It was very, very scary (at first)...but after a year and a half, it was regular to me," admits Vinegrad.
Despite all those challenges, he's developed into a good player who's making an impression at the camp.
"He's up to par with the Canadian kids," says camp instructor Matt Bell.
"It's really great to see someone from not a hockey-typical country to come out here and perform just as well as the kids who have been playing hockey since they...were younger."
While many kids dream of playing in the NHL, Vinegrad has his sights set on another goal.
"Not to come to Canada, to the NHL...I want to get to the Israel team."
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to be traded for USD directly for the first time. That is awesome! Voyager is currently available in the US for iOS users. Here’s a quick how-to guide for trading ETHOS on Voyager. Still not sure what Voyager is and what ETHOS has got to do with them? Fret not. This article should answer all questions. The Universal Wallet Update 2.0 is live now. Faster performance and new assets on the platform. Check out this post to see what’s in store in the latest update. The dev dashboard is also a great way to catch up on the latest on the dev front. Horizon State’s community update for July was published this week. Credit card payments are now available on Opacity. Woot! Hydro released a sneak peek into their roadmap this week. Hydro announced that its remittance solution, Hydro X will be integrated into the Hydro Pay app. Confused by the multiple moving parts in Hydro? This article tries to break them down and explains how all the different protocols together will make Hydrogen a key player of Web 3.0.
Hydrogen features prominently in the The Luxembourg Blockchain Map
Uptrennd will be burning a big chunk of 1UP’s total supply. Read this article to know more. Remember Electroneum had won the last public vote to get a free review from the Uptrennd team? Well, here it is: a deep dive into the project compiled by Romana. Last week, we mentioned how the Uptrennd community invested into the long term vision of the project by using 96% of newly issued 1UP tokens to level up on the platform. This week it is 99.9%! You heard that right. 99.9% of all upvotes this week were locked in i.e. used to level up on Uptrennd. Truly an incredible community. Need more proof of how much they rock? 1UP got chosen to be listed for free on Altilly all thanks to the community’s support in the public vote. Dang! Missed any Uptrennd news from July? Check out this post to catch up. In District0x news, Meme Factory got into a lolarious war of memes with Kyber Network on Twitter. Check out this thread. Lmao! Brady says: “…they used the name Meme Factory for their contest title and it started a fun meme battle so we picked this as the theme for our new contest”. The weekly update can be found here. If you haven’t had an opportunity to read up on District0x yet, these 2 articles should come in handy: Use-case of DNT token and Introduction to District0x districts.
Derjenige's PAR coasters put to good use across the world
And with that, we come to the end of another eventful week in ParachuteLand. Hope you enjoyed reading it. See you again soon. Cheerio!
This article is a repost of our weekly update post.
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A Skokie woman was killed and at least five CTA passengers were transported to area hospitals Monday morning after a CTA train struck a car on the Yellow Line, Skokie Police said.
The woman, identified as Blandina Hermez of the 4100 block of Oakton, was in the car at the time of the crash. She was taken to an Evanston Hospital where she was pronounced dead, police said. The driver of the vehicle, a 45-year-old woman from Skokie, was transported to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston for injuries and remained in critical condition as of Monday afternoon.
Five people on the train were taken to area hospitals with non-life threatening injuries.
CTA spokesman Jeff Tolman said the preliminary details show the vehicle drove through a grade crossing at about 10:21 a.m. on East Prairie Road and collided with a train.
"It appears the car went around the gate and was hit by the CTA Skokie swift train," said Fire Chief Jim Walters.
Family members said Hermez, who works at a nearby Walmart, was in the car with her 45-year-old sister-in-law when were hit by the train.
"Right now we are shocked, we need time to put everything together," said her brother-in-law Matt Hanero. "It's a big tragedy for us."
The store manager at the store where Hermez worked as an overnight associate for several years said she was "a wonderful associate."
"We are deeply saddened to hear of her passing," Paul Ayala said in a statement. "Our thoughts are with her family and friends during this time."
Sky 5 footage of the scene showed the vehicle severely damaged.
Sabah Adil, a DePaul student headed to class, said there was "a sudden jerk" and "a very loud noise" when the train and vehicle collided.
"I'm still shaking," Adil said. "I felt like it was my last minute and I would not see my family again."
"I was headed to DePaul. My class was at 11:10." Adil said. "I got in at Dempster. I was on the phone with my friend and she heard me scream on the phone."
Yellow Line service was temporarily suspended and commuters were advised to use the No. 97 Skokie bus and shuttle buses as an alternative. Service resumed shortly after 5 p.m.
Police said it's not known whether drugs or alcohol were a contributing factor in the crash.
The investigation is ongoing, police said, and the North Regional Major Crime Task Force Major Crash Assistance Team is assisting the Skokie Police Department.
Anyone who witnessed the crash or has information about it should contact Skokie Police at 847-982-5900 or via the automated Crime Tip Hotline at 847-933-TIPS (8477).
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Camp Bestival cancelled after heavy rain and high winds Published duration 29 July 2018
media caption A number of tents took a hammering in the weather conditions
Heavy rain and high winds have put an end to Camp Bestival music festival.
They said they were "utterly devastated and heartbroken" to have made the "tough decision" after being advised not to reopen them for safety reasons.
The team added its ticket refunds policy would be issued "as quickly as possible".
The Met Office issued a yellow warning for rain and wind for the area between 03:00 and 15:00 BST on Sunday.
image copyright Getty Images image caption Many festival-goers have already left the site
image copyright Kerry Brooke image caption Organisers said the traders were open and the campsites would not close until Monday afternoon
Campsites at the venue are due to remain open until 14:00 on Monday and traders are also open, Camp Bestival said.
However, many festival-goers have already left the site and some wind-battered tents have been abandoned.
media caption The video shows Mary Berry accompanying Rick Astley as he sings
A statement from the organisers said: "Dear Camp Bestival, we are utterly devastated and heartbroken to say that we have been advised by our safety teams that we cannot re-open arenas again today due to the severe weather and the forecasting of continual high winds and rain.
"We have had the best three days in Camp Bestival's history, it's been our greatest ever show with all our favourite performers, shows, stages and artists."
image copyright Sebastian Greenwood image caption Sebastian Greenwood and some fellow revellers have decided to brave the elements and stay on the site until Monday
image copyright @CampBestival image caption Clean Bandit took to the stage on Saturday
The Never Gonna Give You Up performer has since tweeted a message of support to festival-goers about its early closure.
"Sending love to all," he said.
Other acts included Clean Bandit and Jesus Jones. Simple Minds had been due to headline on Sunday.
Revellers have been tweeting their thoughts on the early closure.
Jo Redfern said : "Sad times but safety first and all that - had a brilliant time at our first festival with the kids though so thank you."
While James Leeson joked : "@simplemindscom as you are now free do you fancy an acoustic set tonight in row f of camping plus. Last three tents."
Sebastian Greenwood, who has attended the event for the past 10 years, said: "Our tent has stood up well to the worst of the weather, and rather than try and take it down in these conditions we figured we'd make the best of it."
Posting a picture of cheeses and fresh bread on a table in his tent, he added: "We might be beaten by storm force winds and heavy rain, but that doesn't mean we have to let our standards slip."
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Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group that has kidnapped schoolgirls and turned northeastern Nigeria into a war zone, has a female recruitment wing, Nigerian defense officials said Friday as they released photographs of three women alleged to be members of the group.
Nigeria’s military headquarters said in Twitter message that three women had been arrested on suspicion of enticing women and girls to join the terrorist group. It said they were promising women husbands, mainly Boko Haram fighters, if they joined.
Boko Haram has been waging an insurgency for more than a decade in its effort to establish an Islamic state in Nigeria, a nation deeply divided between the mainly Islamic north and predominantly Christian south. The group opposes secular education, democracy, taxation, banking and all aspects of Western culture.
In photos released by the military, a woman in a blue hijab identified as Aisha Abubakar cradled prayer beads in her hands. She and two other suspects, Hafsat Usman Bako and Zainab Idris, were arrested traveling to Madagali, south of the city of Maiduguri, the Defense Ministry said.
The arrests follow a suicide bombing by a woman near a military barracks in the city of Gombe last month. The attacker killed herself and a soldier.
According to defense officials, the three arrested women were planning to go to the forest outside Madagali to meet up with members of Boko Haram.
“Investigations reveal that the suspects, led by Hafsat Bako, have the mission to recruit members into the female wing as well as conduct espionage for the group,” a ministry statement said. It said Bako was the widow of a Boko Haram fighter.
Nigerian authorities have arrested and jailed the wives and children of Boko Haram leaders and members in the past. The group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, has cited the arrest of his wife as one reason for the group’s kidnapping of nearly 300 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok in April, 219 of whom remain in captivity.
Dozens more women, children and schoolboys were kidnapped by extremists in attacks on villages in the region last month.
Nigeria’s military has ruled out a rescue mission to recover the schoolgirls, saying many probably would be killed. Some analysts believe the only option for recovering them is a prisoner swap, but Nigerian authorities have ruled out negotiations.
Boko Haram was driven out of Maiduguri last year, but it set up camp in the hills in a vast region south of the city. It has been launching attacks on villages, killing hundreds of people.
The group is also suspected in bomb attacks on civilians in urban areas that have targeted markets, hotels, bars and crowds gathered to watch the World Cup soccer games.
Nigeria’s military has faced intense criticism for its failure to rescue the Chibok girls, protect villages and restore overall security.
For more news from Africa, follow @latimesdixon on Twitter.
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All cobras are venomous, but the aptly named spitting cobra goes one step further to spray blinding venom from its fangs at would-be predators.
Remarkably, these serpents can hit a victim's eyes from more than 5 feet (1.5 m) away even as they are moving with roughly 90-percent accuracy. It turns out these snakes achieve their extraordinary aim by predicting where their targets are going to be in roughly half the time it takes to blink an eye.
To analyze how these reptiles were such dead shots, functional morphologist Bruce Young at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell stood behind a sheet of plastic and recorded the venom sprays of spitting cobras in South Africa as they aimed for his eyes.
Curiously, the snakes wiggled their heads right before letting fly. A colleague of Young, herpetologist Guido Westhoff at the University of Bonn in Germany, had also seen this head shake in the cobras, so the researchers and their colleagues worked together to figure out what it might accomplish.
To provoke the serpents to spit, "I just put on the goggles and the cobras start spitting all over," Young said. He also donned a visor fitted with accelerometers to track his head movements. At the same time, the other researchers filmed the cobra's movements at 500 frames per second, or roughly 20 times faster than the average camera speed.
For six weeks, Young taunted the snakes by weaving his head about in front of them, triggering more than 100 spits. When they analyzed Young's movements, they found that 200 milliseconds before the cobras spat, Young suddenly jerked his head, the movement that must have set the serpents off.
In that fifth-of-a-second time after the head jerk — roughly half the time it takes to blink an eye — the snake predicts where the victim is going to be, the researchers figure. During that split-second, the snake also wiggled its head the same way the target's eyes moved in order to accurately guide the venom stream. The snake also moves its head slightly while spraying the venom to spread it out over space for a better chance to hit the eye.
"All they need is one tiny fraction of the venom to hit the cornea, one little droplet," Young said. "I've seen what happens even when dilute venom hits the cornea. It's basically instantly incapacitating."
This ability to intercept a moving target with such accuracy suggests a level of braininess not attributed to snakes or other reptiles previously, the researchers noted.
"There's probably a lot more complexity among snakes when it comes to neural processing and sensory systems than we generally recognized," Young told LiveScience. "For instance, while cobras seem dominated by their sense of vision, we can see if rattlesnakes, which tend to live in a world dominated by smell and sometimes heat, have any equivalent behavior."
The scientists detailed their findings May 14 in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
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Bill Shorten has promised to "stop the rot" of penalty rate cuts if Labor wins the next election.
Mr Shorten dragged his daughters along for the ride as he campaigned at Luna Park in Melbourne on Saturday.
The opposition leader was there to pay tribute to workers who gave up their weekends and school holidays so others could have fun.
Speaking to a dozen employees before they opened the gates to the famous amusement park, Mr Shorten bemoaned the fact some Australian workers stood to lose hundreds of dollars over the 10-day Easter break.
In an industrial relations rallying cry, he conceded the Luna Park workers were safe from recent penalty rate cuts, thanks to a deal struck between their bosses and union.
"But hundreds of thousands of people have had their penalty rates cut," he said.
Labor has promised to reverse the reductions within 100 days if it wins the May 18 election.
"Everything is going up in Australia except people's wages, and the rot stops when we reverse the cuts to penalty rates," Mr Shorten said.
"We believe that the lowest paid workers in Australia - when they give up their time away from their family, when they serve and make sure the rest of us are having a great time -you shouldn't have to pay for it with a cut to your own pay."
Labor has calculated retail, hospitality and pharmacy workers will lose between $220 and $370 in slashed penalty rates over Easter.
And the Labor leader claims the cuts are only the beginning, warning bigger reductions are in store if the coalition is returned to power.
The Fair Work Commission approved the penalty rate reductions, with further cuts to be phased in from July.
Mr Shorten defended his unusual - but not unprecedented - plan to overturn their decision through legislation.
"Our position is not taken lightly. We respect the independent umpire, but they got this one wrong," he said.
He resisted the urge to climb aboard Luna Park's dodgem cars, conscious of how hooning around and crashing into children might look on the nightly news.
But he might regret taking his youngest daughter for a turn on the carousel.
Mr Shorten copped a barrage of questions about the price of his climate change targets when he fronted the media.
Less than an hour later, the prime minister delighted in Mr Shorten's refusal to provide a figure.
"He's stuck on a costings merry-go-round which he doesn't seem to be able to get off," Scott Morrison told reporters in Sydney.
Meanwhile, Mr Shorten is demanding answers over the coalition's purchases of water under the Murray-Darling Basin plan.
He wants to know if the prime minister is convinced that $80 million worth of water buy-backs are above board.
'Produce all the documents," he said.
"Our river system is stuffed and it is stuffed because this is a government who hasn't had a plan to look after the whole of the river basin."
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Populist conservative author and columnist Pat Buchanan is noting that if 2020 Democrats like Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders were in charge today, American taxpayers would be forced to provide free healthcare to all illegal aliens and border-crossers amid the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
In a column this week, Buchanan argues the coronavirus outbreak from Wuhan, China, has exposed the agenda of a borderless world with interconnected economies, free trade, and cheaply-made foreign imports — a worldview that has dominated the opinions of big business, the ruling class, Wall Street, and the donor class for the past 30 years.
Buchanan writes:
It may one day be said that the coronavirus delivered the deathblow to the New World Order, to a half-century of globalization, and to the era of inter-dependence of the world’s great nations. [Emphasis added] … As for the “open borders” crowd, do Democrats still believe that breaking into our country should no longer be a crime, and immigrants arriving illegally should be given free health care, a proposition to which all the Democratic debaters raised their hands? [Emphasis added] … In retrospect, was it wise to have relied on China to produce essential parts for the supply chains of goods vital to our national security? Does it appear wise to have moved the production of pharmaceuticals and lifesaving drugs for heart disease, strokes and diabetes to China? Does it appear wise to have allowed China to develop a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals crucial to the development of weapons for our defense? [Emphasis added]
Biden and Sanders have both repeatedly said that if elected president, they will provide all 11 to 22 million illegal aliens in the U.S. with free healthcare that American taxpayers would be forced to pay for.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), running for president on an anti-war platform, has been one of the only 2020 Democrats who has consistently opposed free benefits like healthcare and free college tuition for illegal aliens.
Already, due to loopholes, American taxpayers are spending nearly $20 billion every year to provide illegal aliens with subsidized healthcare, emergency room visits, and other health services.
Under the 2020 Democrats’ plan to provide taxpayer-funded healthcare to all illegal aliens living in the U.S., Americans would be billed potentially $660 billion every decade just to cover the costs. Other research has found that the plan would cost Americans at least $23 billion every year.
As Breitbart News has reported, experts have said that giving taxpayer-funded healthcare to effectively all foreign nationals who can make it to America’s borders would drive “strong incentives for people with serious health problems to enter the country or remain longer than their visas allow in order to get government-funded care.”
There have been 2,110 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 48 deaths in the U.S.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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Academy Award-winning actor Robert De Niro unloaded on the president during an interview with Stephen Colbert.
The interview, which Colbert pointed out was taped Tuesday but aired Friday, came before Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s highly anticipated redacted report was made public Thursday. The “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” host mentioned the report to De Niro, who portrays Mueller on “Saturday Night Live.”
“It’s my civic obligation to play Mueller,” De Niro told Colbert.
The actor said he didn’t know “what will happen” following the report but hoped it “goes further.”
ROBERT DE NIRO DOUBLES DOWN ON ROBERT MUELLER, BELIEVES HE CAN PUT DONALD TRUMP 'AWAY FOR A LONG TIME'
“I keep saying that I don’t know whether this is actually possible where I can handcuff him and take him away in an orange jumpsuit,” De Niro said.
“I assume you mean the president of the United States?” Colbert jokingly asked.
The host then asked the “Taxi Driver” star why he didn’t give President Trump a chance.
WHY DID MUELLER WAIT TO ANSWER COLLUSION QUESTION, BUSH AG MICHAEL MUKASEY ASKS
“You’re right that’s what I said after he was elected, ‘Give him a chance,’” De Niro replied. “I give everyone the benefit of the doubt. This guy has proven himself to be a total loser.”
The two then switched their conversation to his upcoming film “The Irishman.” Colbert asked him why he believed audiences responded to the “gangster genre.”
“It’s just that people like the outlaw-type thing except we have a wannabe gangster in the White House now,” De Niro said.
“He tries to act like a tough guy, a made man,” Colbert said of Trump.
De Niro referred to Trump as a “dumbbell.”
“Even gangsters have morals and ethics, a code. And you know when you give someone your word, that’s all you have is your word. This guy he doesn’t even know what that means,” De Niro continued.
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De Niro has been an outspoken opponent of Trump. In December, the 75-year-old actor told CNN that Trump's tenure in the White House will be "one of those things" that people will look back on years from now and recall, "Remember all that stuff, how terrible it was?"
Fox News’ Nicole Darrah contributed to this report.
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