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Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-CortezOn The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline McCarthy says there will be a peaceful transition if Biden wins Anxious Democrats amp up pressure for vote on COVID-19 aid MORE (D-N.Y.) said her new office in the Capitol Building is two doors down from Rep. Nancy Pelosi Nancy PelosiDemocratic senator to party: 'A little message discipline wouldn't kill us' Overnight Health Care: New wave of COVID-19 cases builds in US | Florida to lift all coronavirus restrictions on restaurants, bars | Trump stirs questions with 0 drug coupon plan Overnight Defense: Appeals court revives House lawsuit against military funding for border wall | Dems push for limits on transferring military gear to police | Lawmakers ask for IG probe into Pentagon's use of COVID-19 funds MORE (D-Calif.).
Ocasio-Cortez, the rising progressive star, has been documenting much of her first few weeks in Washington, D.C., on her personal Snapchat, offering followers a glimpse into her experience as an incoming freshman congresswoman.
“We are here at our new office and I just realized it is two doors down from Nancy Pelosi,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a Snapchat post on Friday, panning the camera down the hall to show the proximity of the two offices.
Freshmen Reps picked their offices today after the office lottery, and guess who @Ocasio2018 just realized is now two doors down from her: @NancyPelosi pic.twitter.com/mvHPNH2flE — Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) November 30, 2018
The incoming House members selected their new offices Friday after holding a biennial office lottery.
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The office Ocasio-Cortez recorded appears to be Pelosi’s district office. Pelosi would inhabit the House Speaker’s office should she be chosen by Democrats in January.
Ocasio-Cortez said earlier this month that she would support the California Democrat's bid for the Speaker's gavel.
Her endorsement came after she joined a group of protesters in Pelosi’s office demanding congressional action on climate change. The sit-in came days after she won her election in New York's 14th Congressional District. | 1,600 |
The College Board is going to assign a secret “adversity score” to students who take the SAT in an apparent attempt to help colleges get around a potential Supreme Court ruling on race-based admissions.
The score will be assigned to every single student who takes the test, but students will not know what the score is, and the College Board is not disclosing how the score is determined, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Colleges will see the 1-100 score, called the “Overall Disadvantage Level” when they view a student’s test results. Anything over 50 designates hardship.
The move is an attempt to do away with differences in test scores that result from disparities in wealth and education and preempts a ruling from the Supreme Court on race-based affirmative action. Several college admissions officers told The WSJ the tool will be especially useful if the Supreme Court bans race-based admissions.
“The purpose is to get to race without using race,” Anthony Carnevale, former employee of the College Board and director of Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, told The WSJ.
A group representing Asian American students has filed a lawsuit against Harvard University claiming admissions officers discriminate against them by penalizing them as a group for high test scores in order to get a more diverse student body. (RELATED: Harvard Students Testify: ‘Race-Blind Admissions Is An Act Of Erasure’)
The College Board would not say how it makes the score or weighs the 15 factors considered, which include poverty levels based on a student’s address and the crime rate in his or her neighborhood. The score will be based on public records, including the U.S. Census, and other sources “proprietary” to the College Board, an official told The WSJ. It does not include race.
The ACT plans to announce a similar score later this year.
“If I am going to make room for more of the [poor and minority] students we want to admit and I have a finite number of spaces, then someone has to suffer and that will be privileged kids on the bubble,” John Barnhill, assistant vice president for academic affairs at Florida State University, told The WSJ.
FSU was part of a beta test of the score last year, and Barnhill said the score resulted in a 5% rise in nonwhite enrollment.
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Therapists linked to a banned American Jewish group that tries to convert gays into heterosexuals are working openly and legally in Israel.
Israel’s health ministry advises against so-called “gay conversion” or “reparative” therapy, calling it scientifically dubious and potentially dangerous, but no law limits it. A US-based organisation called Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (Jonah) was shut in December for violating New Jersey consumer fraud laws by claiming therapy could “heal” homosexuality. But gays in Israel who contacted Jonah say they were referred to some of the 20 to 30 licenced psychologists and social workers, and 50 non-licensed therapists, who practice some form of conversion therapy in Israel.
Rabbi Ron Yosef of the Orthodox gay organisation Hod, which calls for legislation against such therapy, said this was happening despite increasing acceptance of homosexuality that has led many rabbis in Israel to shun the therapies.
Practitioners in Israel say their services are in demand from Orthodox Jewish men trying to reduce same-sex attractions so they can raise a family according to conservative values.
Dr Elan Karten says he has treated 100 people with homosexual attractions (AP)
Clients also include Jewish teenagers from abroad who study at post-secondary school level at Orthodox seminaries in Israel. Half of these students attend seminaries that require those who admit to having homosexual feelings to see reparative therapists, according to the Yeshiva Inclusion Project, which counsels gay prospective students.
“Since there is such a strong religious presence here, and political correctness isn’t as prevalent, there’s more openness about it, about this kind of therapy here,” said Dr Elan Karten, a US-trained psychologist and Orthodox Jew who has treated about 100 people with homosexual attractions since he opened his Jerusalem practice eight years ago.
“I’m extremely concerned,” said Chaim Levin, a former client of Jonah in the US and a plaintiff in the lawsuit against it in New Jersey. “It’s exporting hatred and junk science.”
Leading medical organisations in the US and elsewhere say there is no proof that efforts to change sexual orientation are effective, and warn that such therapy can reinforce self-hatred, depression and self-harm. The Israel Psychological Association reached similar conclusions in a 2011 paper.
But proponents in Israel say therapy does not “convert” clients, but boosts self-esteem and masculinity. | 1,602 |
In yet another shot in the arm of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to pass any interim direction in a PIL which raised objection to the allotment of two official residences to him in Lucknow.
The court, however, deferred the hearing of the matter after the election in the state is over. The UP Assembly election is scheduled to be held from February 11 to March 8, 2017 in 7 phases.
Recently, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has allotted the Samajwadi Party (SP) symbol “bicycle” in his favour rather than his father Mulayam Singh Yadav, who is party chief. Earlier, ECI announced its decision after Akhilesh's fraction separated from his father's group had applied for the party symbol.
Akhilesh Yadav’s official residence is 5,Kalidas Marg and in August last year, he has shifted to new bungalow at 4,Kautilya Marg.
“The Chief Minister (CM) has two houses-one is to deal with the public and their grievances…the other one is to work in the middle of the night also..so what is wrong in it?,” a bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) J S Khehar said while refusing to pass any interim order at this stage.
The bench was hearing a PIL filed by a registered society Lok Prahari through its General Secretary S N Shukla against the Allahabad High Court order which had dismissed his plea.
It was alleged that the occupation of the second government residence in addition to 5,Kalidas Marg is “blatant violation of section 4(1) of the UP Ministers (salaries, allowances and miscellaneous Provisions) Act and also Articles 14(right to equality) of the Constitution.”
According to the petition, the Supreme Court in a verdict in August last year had struck down allotment of bungalows to ex-chief ministers on the ground that the same is against section 4(1) of the Act.
The petitioner contended that this matter is relating to “grabbing of public property by the one responsible for safeguarding it.”
Shukla, a retired IAS officer, had approached the Allahabad High Court, which had in November dismissed his petition.
This article has been made possible because of financial support from Independent and Public-Spirited Media Foundation. | 1,603 |
Drone warfare has become a symbol of post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and other countries. The Obama administration has continuously expanded the drone program over two presidential terms, drawing heavy criticism for the extent of civilian deaths – also known as “collateral damage.”
Speaking at a press conference on Friday, President Obama was asked to comment on the rising death toll in US drone strikes in the Middle East and beyond.
“In the past, there was legitimate criticism that the legal architecture around the use of drone strikes wasn’t as precise as it should have been,” he said, as cited by AP.
“There’s no doubt that civilians were killed that shouldn’t have been.
“In situations of war, you know, we have to take responsibility when we’re not acting appropriately,” Obama added.
He claimed that, in general, the US military and CIA – the main drone operators – use “vigorous criteria” to gather the intelligence used in targeting, and that this intelligence is “checked, double-checked, triple-checked before kinetic actions are taken.”
The president’s straightforward acknowledgment of civilian deaths caused by drone strikes stands out among his previous statements on the issue. To date, Washington has preferred to downplay public criticism by making formal apologies or denying any wrongdoing.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been actively utilized by the Pentagon and CIA for more than a decade of the so-called war on terror. At first, drones were used to gather aerial intelligence, but later turned into an effective remote-controlled weapon to eliminate high-value figures in Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.
However, drone strikes have never been a precision weapon. In one recent notorious case, two Serbian embassy workers abducted in Libya were killed in a February US airstrike on a suspected Islamic State training camp. The Pentagon, which saw the attack as “very successful,” denied any wrongdoing.
In January 2015, another drone strike in Pakistan killed two US citizens linked to Al-Qaeda, but also American development expert Warren Weinstein and Giovanni Lo Porto, an Italian aid worker.
In Pakistan alone, CIA drones strikes have killed nearly 2,400 people since 2004, according to a report by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Despite US claims it just hits “confirmed terrorist targets,” only 84 of the victims have been named Al-Qaeda members. | 1,604 |
Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington believe they have found a simple, yet incredibly effective way to improve the standard "mass spectrometry" testing commonly used to drug test athletes.
The research, first reported at a recent meeting of the American Chemical Society, allows for urine tests to be made several magnitudes more sensitive to the presence of PED metabolites by improving on mass spectrometry testing.
In the simplest terms, mass spectrometry testing works by separating the different constituent parts of urine by mass. By comparing the mass of the separated parts to the known 'weight' of PED metabolites, a lab can accurately discover the use of illicit performance enhancers.
For this method to work, a certain amount of metabolites have to be present, however. In addition, because MS testing ‘weighs' the samples by charging atoms using a beam of electrons, which is then ‘weighed' by a magnetic field, it can have problems detecting metabolites with a negative charge, as well as those which have very few metabolites present.
The new method, called paired ion electrospray ionization, or PIESE, works to combine the metabolites together, making their signature larger and more easily detected. The technique has been demonstrated to be sensitive enough to detect one part per billion of PED metabolites in urine, which is up to 1,000 times more sensitive than existing methods.
According to quotes obtained by the BBC, the method could potentially even detect parts per trillion. As it relates to steroids, it is roughly 100 times more sensitive than existing methods. Even so, this will significantly increase the detection window for catching steroid users.
Apparently this new method only requires adding a single inexpensive, commercially available ingredient to existing MS testing setups, which should render it a very cost-effective method of improving PED testing. This is especially important in MMA as most commissions do not have the funds for regular blood testing, let alone a new testing protocol. This discovery should significantly increase the window in which PED use can be detected.
If this new method is able to increase the detection time for the most abused steroids from weeks until months, which the research seems to suggest could be possible, the concept of cycling during a camp before a fight could become significantly more difficult to get away with.
Before we get too excited, it's worth noting that the WADA, the USADA and the IOC have not yet been in touch with the researchers, and we're likely a long way away from this method being tested, certified and adopted. | 1,605 |
The Premier League will witness its first "billion-pound game" on Saturday when Manchester United visit Arsenal, according to financial analysts Vysyble.
The claim is based on the combined turnover of the two rivals, with Arsenal posting revenues of £424 million in 2016-17 while United earned a record £581m, taking the clubs' total to £1.05 billion.
For both clubs, these numbers were double-digit percentage increases on 2015-16 and, to put that in perspective, it is enough cash to run the National Health Service for three days or pay for 22 new secondary schools.
In a statement, Vysyble's Roger Bell said: "This is a remarkable achievement for the Premier League in terms of reflecting the success in driving revenues via lucrative TV rights deals.''
Bell, however, points out the huge sums coming into the top flight do not translate into profits, as all Premier League clubs spend huge sums on transfer fees and wages.
Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger will have front-row seats to an historic game. Martin Rickett/PA Images via Getty Images
Vysyble also believes the clubs - and many financial analysts - fail to take into account the true cost of doing business and are actually running up economic losses.
"This is part of a longer-term trend whereby clubs in general are finding it very difficult, despite their record revenue levels, to generate value and achieve an economic profit, which is where all the costs of doing business are accounted for, including taxes,'' he said.
However, Arsenal's and Manchester United's economic losses are relatively "modest,'' according to Bell, at £4.2m and £16.3m, respectively.
Saturday's "billion-pound game" comes a few weeks before the Premier League starts the process of selling the domestic broadcast rights for 2018 to 2021.
Having enjoyed back-to-back increases of 70 percent in the value of those three-year rights packages, most experts believe the domestic market is flattening out, with international rights being where the big gains can still be found.
This is why the so-called "big six" recently tried to persuade the other clubs to support a change of the revenue-sharing formula for overseas rights in order to reflect their global appeal. The attempt, however, was unsuccessful.
Bell said: "We continue to worry for the game's longer-term health and structure as the continued quest for revenue will inevitably lead the top clubs to look beyond current competition formats.'' | 1,606 |
said there was a noticeable dip in public transportation ridership as companies allowed employees to work from home.
Although the LIRR and its parent agency the Metropolitan Transportation Authority have not provided updated ridership figures, MTA chairman Patrick Foye, in an interview with WCBS radio Tuesday, said the number of commuters is "trending down, I think, probably in the single digits."
The MTA will report its latest ridership data at its monthly board meeting March 23, agency officials said.
Fred Geiger said the “parking lot was empty” when he arrived at the Lindenhurst station to catch his usual 5:17 a.m. train to Penn Station.
“Usually, there’s at least some cars,” said Geiger, 46, a maintenance engineer in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Stepping off an LIRR train at Garden City station, which had plenty of empty parking spots Tuesday afternoon, Neil Borden said he wasn't overly concerned about the virus.
"If it's going to happen, it's going to happen. I wash my hands," said Borden, a Bronx resident. "I'm not afraid. I'm 62. I'm in good health."
Anthony Simon, general chairman of International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, the LIRR’s largest union, sought to reassure members as they set about an aggressive campaign to disinfect the entire fleet of train cars every 72 hours, and its 124 stations every day.
In a memo, Simon said his union’s “highest priority is the safety of our customers and employees, while understanding its responsibility to move trains and clean our fleet during this concerning time.”
Recent cases
A lawyer from New Rochelle, linked to a cluster of cases, is hospitalized in Manhattan. Cuomo said the man is recovering, although still in intensive care.
Officials said the confirmed cases of coronavirus in New York State included the executive director of the Port Authority and an EMS worker with the FDNY — the first confirmed case of a first responder who tested positive, according to his labor union.
According to the World Health Organization, there were 113,702 cases globally as of Tuesday, with 4012 deaths. The majority — 80,924 cases and 3,140 deaths — are in China.
The virus has infected 647 people in the United States, and at least 25 have died, according to the CDC. | 1,607 |
BitGo is a household name in the cryptocurrency industry. The company specializes in storing cryptocurrency holdings. Although its functionality spans several dozen currencies already, additional support is rolling out. Both Dash and Stellar will be added in the very near future.
BitGo Expands its Services
Cryptocurrency companies are familiar with the service provided by BitGo. The firm is renowned for its cold storage and multisig solutions. Numerous exchanges and wallet service providers make use of their services to date. It now seems the company is looking to expand its market position. Introducing support for two additional assets is a good place to start.
Over the next few weeks, BitGo will enable support for Dash and Stellar. Dash is a digital currency which focuses on privacy and anonymity. Stellar is a digital asset seeking to make inroads in the financial sector. Both of these coins will, according to CEO Mike Belshe, offer advances in the payments industry. As such, the company anticipates an increase in overall adoption by merchants and retailers.
To date, BitGo supports 85 different currencies and assets. That list includes Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and so forth. A new custodian for digital assets was also launched by the company in September of 2018. Custodial products are in high demand, especially when they relate to cryptocurrencies.
Increasing Institutional Adoption
Given the growing focus on cryptocurrencies by institutional traders, BitGo finds itself in an interesting position. Investors and traders require secure solutions to manage their digital portfolios. Additionally, exchanges continue to welcome lots of new users every quarter. Ensuring customer funds can be kept safe at all times is the number one priority.
This move comes at a crucial time for cryptocurrency. Other service providers have begun rolling out their custodial services in recent months. Coinbase, Gemini, and some major banks are all getting in on the action. BitGo claims their product is better because it is their one and only focus. Exchanges, on the other hand, try to tie customers to their trading platform through custodial services.
For Dash and Stellar holders, the new offering can be of great value. Rather than relying on traditional wallets, a more secure approach is always superior. Companies without a conflict of interest may have a leg up over their competitors in this regard. BitGo has not announced an official integration timeline for either asset at this time.
Do you think BitGo’s expanded service will have a significant impact on cryptocurrency adoption? Let us know in the comments below.
Images courtesy of ShutterStock | 1,608 |
When Republicans threatened a government shutdown, it was for you. They were concerned about the debt, what ObamaCare was doing to our healthcare, and wanted to put a stop to it. The Democrats accused the Republicans of crimes against humanity for said shutdown. Years ago, when the Republicans shut down the government, Democrats ran about DC as if chastity leaflets rained from the sky. Accusing Republicans of everything, up to and including the mass murder of puppies.
Now it's the Democrats threatening a shutdown. Only they're doing it for... 800,000 illegal immigrants. Let this Daily Caller joint explain:
Democrats are threatening to hold national security hostage, potentially costing the economy billions and forcing hundreds of thousands of federal government employees to go without pay in exchange for securing legal protections for 800,000 illegal immigrants. Congress has three days to strike a deal to keep the government funded through October. If members fail to come to an agreement by Jan. 19, all “non-essential” government employees and active U.S. Military personnel will be working with out pay (including troops currently deployed). Funding for agencies like federal museums or national parks will also be cut off. Congressional Democrats are apparently content with allowing military and law enforcement personnel to go without pay to secure protections and benefits for illegal immigrants and members of their extended families.
The Democrat Party has been building toward this move (see Democrats Threaten Government Shutdown to Save DACA Program and Cory Booker Has a Bitch Fit. Squeals at DHS Secretary Over Trump’s “Sh*thole” Remark). Emboldened recently by S***holeGateGhaziPalooza.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves. As the last government shutdown showed us, a lot of Americans weren't affected. No matter how much the media claimed that people were dying in the streets without their government provided cookies. An off-brand of Vanilla Wafers, if you wondered.
But it pays to point out where the two parties align their priorities. One side already wants to take away your tax cuts. Now they're willing to shut down the government, including the pay for the military, over people residing in America illegally.
Remember the Democrats are threatening to shut down their precious government over illegal immigrants the next time we're supposed to be outraged over a thing Trump pecked out on Twitter.
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As a result of the myriad of pending lawsuits challenging the legality of the National Security Agency’s bulk metadata collection program, the United States government now wants to keep its records beyond the existing five-year limit.
As the government argued Tuesday in its 14-page court filing (PDF) in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court:
Based upon the issues raised by Plaintiffs in the above-referenced lawsuits and the Government’s potential defenses to those claims, the United States must ensure that all potentially relevant evidence is retained which includes the [business records] metadata obtained in bulk from certain telecommunications service providers pursuant to this Court’s production orders. To meet this obligation, the Government seeks an order that would allow the NSA to retain the [business records] metadata for non-analytic purposes until relieved of its preservation obligations or until further order of this Court under the conditions described below. Based upon the claims raised and the relief sought, a more limited retention of the [business records] metadata is not possible as there is no way for the Government to know in advance and then segregate and retain only that [business records] metadata specifically relevant to the identified lawsuits.
Among the cases that the United States Department of Justice referred to were ACLU v. Clapper, Klayman v. Obama, Smith v. Obama, First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles v. NSA, Paul v. Obama, and Perez v. Clapper.
Of those, the judge in just one case so far has declared the bulk metadata dragnet as unconstitutional. As we reported in December 2013, a federal judge’s order granted an injunction to shut down the metadata program, and it required the government to destroy the metadata collected on the plaintiffs' accounts.
However, such a shutdown will only happen if an appeals court agrees with that federal judge, Judge Richard Leon, who has stayed the injunction pending appeal in Klayman v. Obama, "in light of the significant national security issues at stake in this case and the novelty of the constitutional issues."
Update: EFF issued a reaction to the government's Tuesday filing saying, "We agree with the government in principal that they're under an obligation to preserve evidence, but we're a bit confused as to why this filing in the FISC and inquiries from the press are the first we've heard about the issue. They never approached us to discuss it, but we would certainly be open to discussing a reasonable solution. But it's disheartening to see the government try to hold the privacy of all Americans hostage to score PR points." | 1,610 |
Grand Jury Clears Officers for Shooting Burglary Suspect
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A Multnomah County grand jury has pardoned a pair of Portland cops who shot at a robbery suspect earlier this month—riddling their target with multiple gunshot wounds.
In the decision handed down late yesterday afternoon, the jury instead indicted the suspect, Sarah Michelle Brown (who oddly also goes by Alexis Elizabeth Wilder), with attempted murder for returning the officers' fire. In total, the grand jury decision leaves Brown facing 26 counts of attempted aggravated murder, unlawful use of a weapon, reckless endangerment, theft and burglary. The cops' use of deadly force, however, "was justified under the criminal law."
It's still blurry how Brown's encounter with officers Darrel Shaw and Joseph Webber went down. According to Portland Police Bureau spokesman Sgt. Chris Burley, officers initially confronted Brown in the midst of a home burglary in Goose Hollow during the early morning hours of Thursday, March 8. There was "an exchange of gunfire," Burley said, but neither officer was shot. Then Brown, who had been hit in the leg and hand, retreated under a nearby porch, where she hid for several hours. PPB's crisis negotiation team eventually coaxed her out around 7 a.m.
Brown spent four days in the hospital recovering from her injuries before being trucked off to Multnomah County Jail.
One of the officers involved, Darrell Shaw, isn't a stranger to these types of proceedings. In fact, he's made a name for himself in his 24 years on the force with how often he's been the target of use-of-force complaints at PPB. According to a 2006 report by the Portland Tribune, Shaw had sent 14 different civilians to the hospital over a period of two years—more than any other officer at the time. Some of his altercations may ring a bell: Like when he joined three other police officers in fatally shooting a homeless man in 2005, or when he allegedly grabbed a drunk woman by her hair and slammed her head against a patrol car for spitting at him in 2006. In at least one case, he cost the city hundreds of thousands in settlement costs to one of his victims.
Both Shaw and Webber have been on paid administrative leave since this month's shooting. But the grand jury's dismissal means they'll be returning to work shortly. | 1,611 |
Taylor Swift tearfully performs ‘Soon You’ll Get Better’ in One World: Together At Home
Taylor Swift tearfully performs ‘Soon You’ll Get Better’ in One World: Together At Home
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Taylor Swift participated in One World: Together At Home organized by Lady Gaga where she performed her most heart touching difficult to perform song ‘Soon You’ll Get Better’.
'Lover' hit maker Taylor Swift, 27 took her time out from her Quarantined life for her fans to perform One World: Together At Home Event organized by Lady Gaga with an unforgettable performance of the song 'Soon You'll Get Better' which she has previously informed to be one of heart touching song that would be difficult for her to perform.
Taylor performed from home, sitting in her piano looking tearful, joining the One World: Together At Home global telecast with an incredibly powerful moment. The song she performed “Soon You’ll Get Better” was one of the song from her recent album, Lover. The song was said to be about her mother’s only health struggles and about the feelings of fear during that time she had for her mother to go through such a difficult time. Thus, she had claimed it to be a very difficult song for her to even perform to reminisce that pain again.
Watch Taylor Swift Performing 'Soon You'll Get Better' from Home
Sadly this might be last performance of Taylor this year due to Coronavirus pandemic as just few days ago she have sadly announced the cancellation of upcoming Lover Fest tour as well as other other appearances or live performances. Her team released a statement saying, “Fighting COVID-19 is an unprecedented challenge for our global community and the safety and wellbeing of fans should always be the top priority. With many events throughout the world already cancelled, and upon direction from health officials in an effort to keep fans safe and help prevent the spread of COVID-19, sadly the decision has been made to cancel all Taylor Swift live appearances and performances this year.” Lover Fest was meant to perform several dates in Europe, Brazil, and the United States but has been postponed till next year.
Other artists who performed for One World were Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Lizzo, Sam Cooke and many more. Big thanks all the incredible performers for doing something special to help support the essential workers, doing all they can to keep us safe n healthy right now. | 1,612 |
Drug shows promise for controlling Epstein-Barr virus.
When the cancer-causing Epstein-Barr virus moves into a B-cell of the human immune system, it tricks the cell into rapidly making more copies of itself, each of which will carry the virus.
To satisfy a sudden increase in demand for more building parts, rapidly dividing host cells will chew up their insides to free up more amino acids, fats and nucleotides.
But if supplies of these materials run low, the cell will enter a suspended state called senescence and cell division will stop, freezing the advance of the virus, according to new findings from a Duke University research team that appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The first virus shown to cause cancer in humans, Epstein-Barr (EBV) has long been a puzzle to researchers. It is found in more than 90 percent of adults worldwide, yet only a small proportion of people ever succumb to the lymphomas and other cancers the virus can cause.
A big part of the answer is the body's immune system, said lead study author Micah Luftig, an associate professor of molecular genetics and microbiology in the Duke School of Medicine, and deputy director of Duke's Center for Virology. For the most part, a healthy immune system stops Epstein-Barr virus from making much headway, Luftig said. In fact, many of the cancers linked to EBV are found mostly in immune-compromised patients whose ability to fight it off has been weakened.
But another answer may be this newly discovered senescence trigger, Luftig added.
Using a new technology that allows researchers to see what state of maturation individual cells are in, the team could see variations in the activity of viral genes from one cell to the next.
They found that the EBV is able to switch the cell's fuel source to keep the cells proliferating even as they chew up their internal parts to create more building supplies.
So the team tried making B-cells sense they were starving by using the drug Rapamycin. The strategy worked well enough that they could turn the senescence of EBV-infected cells on and off.
The next phase of this research will involve colleagues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who have developed mice with a human immune system. These mice will be infected with EBV and then researchers will test various drugs to see if the senescence response can be triggered and controlled, Luftig said. | 1,613 |
Nalin Kotadiya, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) official and former Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), has been remanded in custody for ten days in connection with a $1.3 million Bitcoin (BTC) extortion case, the Times of India reported September 10.
A special anti-corruption court has reportedly remitted Kotadiya in police custody for a ten day custodial interrogation after he was arrested by the city crime branch and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Kotadiya was allegedly involved in a $1.3 million BTC extortion case.
In April, the CID began investiging the reported kidnapping and extortion of 200 BTC from an Indian businessman and builder Sailesh Bhatt. Bhatt accused Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officer Sunil Nair and other policemen of beating him until he paid a ransom of around $770,000 in February.
After he was released, Bhatt was allegedly kidnapped and taken to a farm where he was forced to send 200 BTC to former business partner Kirit Paladiya. Bhatt also claimed that Kotadiya pressured him to pay the ransom.
In June, an Indian court declared Kotadiya a proclaimed offender in connection with the case, however Kotadiya “remained untraceable,” even after a warrant was issued for his arrest.
In July, a senior official from the Indian opposition party the Indian National Congress (INC), Shaktisinh Gohil, demanded a probe into a “mega Bitcoin scam” estimated at about $723 million.
The crime supposedly involves leaders of the majority BJP, which used BTC as a “cover-up” for money laundering and extortion. While, Kotadiya “remained untraceable,” Gohil said that "if he is arrested, he will reveal damning evidences which will expose top BJP leaders in the state."
Today, the CID reportedly claimed that custodial interrogation is a necessary part of the investigation, which could help identify the individuals behind the BTC extortion scheme. Additionally, the custodial interrogation aims to discover how the extortion funds were divvied up. Kotadiya reportedly ordered the transfer of Rs 25 lakh ($35,528) to a witness.
Speaking before the court, Kotadiya reportedly said he went into hiding because he feared for his life because he was privy to compromising information about politicians and industrial enterprise owners. Kotadiya also said there was a conspiracy to kill him. | 1,614 |
ornate allegiances of pick and mix Unionists, I was trying to say something simple. I am not yet ready to take pride in a country that is too often parochial, narrow-minded, bigoted, troubled, and - as the latest First Minister "controversy" reminded us - drunk.
"The point," as some old beardy once said in some theses, "is to change it." In this referendum the old, familiar pessimism over Scotland runs headlong into the new optimism. Perhaps another generation will be disillusioned. That would be traditional. Perhaps, too, people will go to the polling stations less outraged by Alex Salmond's scandalous remarks than intrigued, ready to ask questions about their national community, and about themselves.
Why are we so drunk, so often, even as we perform a textbook demonstration of how a democracy should function while it contemplates the future for old, young and unborn?
The literary and cultural critics have plenty of cliches to hand where the Scots, pessimism and optimism are concerned. Supposedly, the contradictory trait is in with the bricks and the bones. It is, apparently, the way we've always been: if in doubt, self-destruct.
A Yes vote will not transform your life. You might want to leave things for a decade or so, in fact, before counting the gains. But in a contest between dependent drunks and a community that thinks and believes things can surely be better, where would the smart betting money go?
I'm Scottish and would like to be proud of it. One of those assigned traits says I'm just the type to go for it, then, hell for leather.
Nations should not be discussed in these terms, of course. Discuss national character and heckling ensues. But it is still allowed, just about, to talk about groups of people in terms of the choices available to them.
This nation of drunks (and worse) could perhaps think better of itself this September by the simple act of casting a ballot. A No vote is intellectual pessimism of the absolute sort.
Just to allow Unionists a free go, I'll invoke Nietzsche. He once described a nation as an entity that "understands itself". I'd prefer to call it a community that tries unendingly to understand itself.
Whatever else happens in Scotland on September 18, no one will be able to say that we haven't tried. No one will be able to say we got bored, either. | 1,615 |
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice went on MSNBC Thursday afternoon to discuss a broad range of issues.
Midway through the conversation, host Nicolle Wallace began to press Rice, who is a Republican, on claims that President Trump is a racist. Wallace specifically used comments from Rice’s former boss, George W. Bush, who said that under Trump “bigotry has been emboldened.”
Rice said that America is going “through a period of time where we are labeling each other and calling each other names,” before being interrupted by the anchor asking if Trump is calling people names.
“Nicolle, I will tell you this started a long time before this president,” Rice said of the name calling.
The MSNBC host asked if Trump is “making it worse calling out good people on both sides of a KKK rally,” referring to Trump’s comments about the violence in Charlottesville.
Rice had a measured, thoughtful response:
I think we have to look at this broadly. We as a country have become a country of grievance. We as a country have become a country where ‘My grievance is superior to your grievance.’ And that’s not in the last year – that’s over the last several years. So, everybody needs to look in the mirror and say, ‘Why are divisions so deep and what part am I playing in making those divisions deep?’ Obviously with the situation in Charlottesville, that was unconscionable. Good people don’t actually carry torches at night in a very bad reminiscence pf a time in our country which actually is as a child I experienced. We need to focus on these broader trends that are tearing us apart, not just what the president says on any given day.
Wallace then asked about an Associated Press poll showing that 57 percent of respondents thought the president was racist.
Condi floored with her response, blaming the press for repeating the accusation time and time again. “I think you hear this in the press over and over and over again…”
The host was flabbergasted and attempted to interrupt when Condi said bluntly, “I have met the president. I can’t know his heart, but I do know that this is somebody who treated me very well when we met. I think he believes he’s doing what’s right for the country.”
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added.
When it comes to online-only exclusives released by artists, Everybody’s wasn’t feeling it. They passionately believe that holding a physical, hard copy of the music you’re listening to is all part of the holistic experience.
“You are physically involved in playing an album – from feeling it slide out of the sleeve, dropping the needle on it, watching it spin and losing yourself in it, pulling out the liner notes and reading all about the production. The artwork is in itself. From an artist’s perspective, they win with up-front payment for exclusive rights, but they should make it available to order as CD or LP. Some folks are put off by it. They want physical copies. Plus, if they make it limited, it’s an instant collector’s item.”
Spoonful maintained a very similar approach.
“Music retailers have to have something to sell. And many small record stores release local artists on vinyl or carry their CD’s and tapes. For example, we have ten vinyl releases on the Spoonful label. Lost Weekend has put out several local bands, and then there’s Plaid Room and Colemine in Loveland, Ohio. Right now, it’s the larger retail chains that are in a position to press exclusive vinyl albums of bigger artists. Barnes & Noble exclusively carried the clear vinyl version of Bowie‘s Black Star for a hot minute. But I don’t think that’s really working for them day-to-day,” Spoonful confessed.
“The independent stores are so much better and more interesting. All over the United States, you can pop into any independent record store and find a totally different selection. Every store is vastly different. It’s about opening yourself up to the plethora of musical expressions found in the world, not honing in on one’s favorites,” Spoonful declared.
Spotify may reach bigger audiences, but vinyl collectors are hearing a much wider variety of music.
Oscar Wilde posed the iconic belief in his 1889 essay The Decay of Lying that, “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.” Everybody’s Records believes the latter of this argument, which is that art imitates life. Essentially, music is art, which is inevitably influenced by real events. Perhaps, this is why they feel so compelled to treat a vinyl as if it belongs in The Louvre. | 1,617 |
LUKE Amos has signed on loan for QPR from Tottenham Hotspur for the 2019/20 campaign.
Amos, 22, joined Spurs’ academy when he was nine years old and has recently had loan spells with Southend United and Stevenage.
The midfielder impressed during Tottenham’s first-team summer tour in the States last summer and made his Premier League debut on the opening day of last season against Newcastle United.
However, his progress was cruelly hampered by an Anterior Cruciate Ligament injury in September.
Now, following his recovery, Amos is determined to get back on track and is relishing the season ahead with QPR.
“It has been a tough nine months but I am really excited now,” he told www.qpr.co.uk.
“I haven’t wasted a day in that whole time. I feel physically fit and the next step for me is being back in games and that’s something I am looking forward to.
“I feel like I was hungry to succeed before – but now I am absolutely starving! It has been such a tough journey and I want it now more than ever.
“I want to enjoy my football but that enjoyment comes from winning lots of games and playing lots of games, so that’s my target.”
Amos also revealed that the opportunity to work with Mark Warburton was a big factor in his decision to come to QPR, explaining: “I have heard good things about him from players that have worked with him so when I got told about the move, for me it was a no brainer.”
Warburton added: “I know the quality that Luke has and how he can impact matches.
“He is clever on the ball, has technical ability and a passion for the game. I have admired him from afar and with Tottenham being my local team, I have seen him many times and watched him work.
“He can get forward, he sees the pass, sees the opportunity, opens up play and can create in tight areas. He is a strong midfield talent who will really push hard to play week in, week out.
“I am very grateful to Mauricio Pochettino, his staff and John McDermott who have helped this loan to happen.”
I feel like I was hungry to succeed before – but now I am absolutely starving! Luke Amos Share | 1,618 |
Trial opens for man accused in $100 million Navy vets scam
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CLEVELAND (AP) — A onetime fugitive charged in a $100 million multistate fraud under the guise of helping Navy veterans went on trial Monday after losing a bid to subpoena U.S. House Speaker John Boehner and other leading Ohio politicians.
A judge in Cleveland rejected the renewed defense request to subpoena the politicians in an effort trying to show the defendant's political donations were legal.
The defendant calls himself Bobby Thompson, but authorities have identified him as lawyer and former military intelligence officer John Donald Cody.
Thompson, 67 is charged with defrauding people who donated to a reputed charity for Navy veterans, the United States Navy Veterans Association based in Tampa, Fla.
The alleged fraud spanned 41 states, including up to $2 million in Ohio. Authorities said little, if any, of the money collected by the charity was used to benefit veterans.
The defendant showered politicians, many of them Republicans, with political donations.
His attorney, Joseph Patituce, said subpoenas for testimony by Boehner, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, two DeWine predecessors and other leading Ohio political figures, mostly Republicans, were needed to prove the charity's political contributions were legal.
But Brad Tammaro, an assistant attorney general handling the trial, said where the money went was unrelated to the charges of money laundering and theft.
Patituce hinted at a defense focused on the CIA and government secrets, but Tammaro said that if "by some fantasy" there was such government involvement, it did not exonerate the defendant.
Patituce said he didn't want to tip the defense strategy but said it would involve the CIA and a secretive operation decades ago in Arizona.
The judge indicated both sides had tried to resolve the case before trial, but, when questioned by the judge, Patituce said nothing had developed.
Thompson was dressed in a suit and tie and passed notes to his attorney during final motions. Jury selection began afterward.
Patituce said he needed more time to prepare and cited the 20,000 documents which must be reviewed. The judge said the trial would move ahead.
His attorney said any fraud involved solicitors, not his client.
Authorities said the defendant used his VIP political connections to encourage donors to give to his charity.
While on the run, investigators tracked him through Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Washington and West Virginia. | 1,619 |
Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) appeared to split with his own son, Sen. Rand Paul Randal (Rand) Howard PaulSecond GOP senator to quarantine after exposure to coronavirus GOP senator to quarantine after coronavirus exposure The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by National Industries for the Blind - Trump seeks to flip 'Rage' narrative; Dems block COVID-19 bill MORE (R-Ky.), dismissing calls for a ban on travel to Ebola-stricken nations as “politically motivated.”
"Right now I would say a travel ban is politically motivated more than something done for medical purposes," Paul said in an interview with former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.) Monday on Newsmax TV.
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He noted that there had been a single Ebola death in the U.S., pointing out that the flu had a much higher death toll.
That stance puts him at odds with his Sen. Paul, a potential 2016 GOP presidential contender, who is open to restrictions on travel from West African countries battling the deadly disease.
Earlier this month, the senator said that "a temporary suspension of flights should be definitely considered," in an interview on CNN.
Travel restrictions on nations affected by the Ebola outbreak are favored by 73 House members and 15 senators, including some Democrats, according to The Hill's tally.
Asked if he shared his son's opinion on Ebola, the elder Paul said, "probably not exactly, but I haven't dissected every single thing."
It’s not the first time the father-son pair have split over the response to the disease. After the first case of Ebola was diagnosed in the U.S. early this month, the elder Paul warned against an "overreaction." Meanwhile his son said the Obama administration was "underplaying" the threat posed by the virus.
On Sunday, Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) accused the junior Kentucky senator and ophthalmologist of "politicizing" Ebola. Wasserman Schultz said Rand Paul is "a doctor who should know better" after he suggested that a patient could infect someone standing three feet away.
Ron Paul defended his son, dismissing the DNC chief’s criticism.
"I'd like to think that one was a medical opinion and expressed in sincerity and [the] other was pure demagoguery coming from a politician who pretends that she knows how to run the Democratic Party," he said. | 1,620 |
STRYPER frontman Michael Sweet spoke to The Metal Voice about the band's planned follow-up to 2018's "God Damn Evil" LP. He said (hear audio below): "Next year, STRYPER's gonna make a new album. We go in the studio in January, February and it'll come out mid-year, probably, next year. And I think it'll be a good opportunity with STRYPER to take a little time off from touring. Although we'll be doing fly dates and one-offs, like Monsters Of Rock cruise and Mexico and a few things here and there."
Asked if he has already written any of the music for the upcoming STRYPER album, Sweet said: "I've got a few riffs. I'm gonna really dive into that over the next three to four weeks, getting a bunch of guitar riffs on my phone. And once I have nine, 10, 11, 12 guitar riffs, I'll, in November and December, lock myself in my little den with my cat and my fireplace, my computers, and I'll just start going through songs, one a day. [In] 12 or 13 days, we're gonna have the album."
As for the musical direction of STRYPER's next disc, Sweet said: "It's gonna be aligned with the last album, but taking it a step further. We're gonna do some things where people are gonna hear it and go, 'You've gotta be kidding me,' that's gonna surprise and shock people in a really good way. It's gonna be a metal album — it's not gonna be a pop album or pop-rock or glam metal and all these silly terms. It's gonna be a metal album. And we're gonna really pull some things out of the hat, man, and try to blow people's minds."
Formed 36 years ago, STRYPER is the first overtly Christian metal band to go mainstream. The group's name comes from Isaiah 53:5, which states: "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."
STRYPER's albums include "To Hell With The Devil", "Second Coming", "No More Hell To Pay", "Fallen" and the aforementioned "God Damn Evil".
Sweet's tenth solo album, "Ten", will be released on October 11 via Rat Pak Records in North America and Frontiers Music Srl in Europe.
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work, permissionless basic rights such as money, property, and agreements, on a global scale are enabled without the need of formal governance and trusted third parties.
The Future is a Combined System
The fact that ungovernance exists in secure proof of work blockchains such as ETC, does not mean that traditional governance systems are cancelled.
Legal systems and jurisdictions govern people and business off-blockchain.
An example of a conflict that could have been perfectly resolved on traditional legal systems was theDAO crisis. Perhaps, the controversial bailout the Ethereum ecosystem implemented, violating immutability, may have been avoided if they had pursued that alternative.
Other systems that may seek resolution in legal systems may be crypto exchange hacks, ICO fraud, and stolen keys, amongst many others.
However, the cost of traditional systems may be significantly reduced or flattened, just like the internet flattened information and speech, which will eventually enhance social scalability across legal and cultural borders.
The ECIP Process is not a Governance System
Many analysts and observers confuse the Ethereum Classic Improvement Proposal (ECIP) process with governance. It is not, it is only a standards proposal process, and nobody has authority over anybody else. All participants reach rough consensus in an emergent way and voluntarily adopt the rules and changes if they choose to.
The beauty of the ETC ungovernance system is that all participants have aligned incentives for the blockchain to work as designed, protecting their money, property, and agreements.
This means it is practically impossible to introduce controversial changes, but relatively easy to coordinate on a global scale to fix bugs, correct flaws, reverse involuntary chain splits, or upgrade the system, from time to time, with desired new features.
Conclusion
In systems such as Bitcoin, decision making and change have been slow as the system is simpler and very well established since genesis.
Ethereum Classic has required more iterations as it is a more complex system with Turing completeness. However, the basic philosophy for both systems is the same, and both are bound to be “ossified” in the future, which will make them even more immutable.
If what has been described in this article is correct, developer teams and industry talking heads should stop promoting and trying to bring traditional governance systems to secure blockchains because it makes them less safe thus less socially scalable.
That Bitcoin and Ethereum Classic have these strong models of ungovernance makes them optimal to become the base layer of the blockchain industry stack.
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CENTERTON (KFSM) — The Benton County Circuit Court has decided to not pursue charges against a woman who allegedly shot at a 14-year-old boy whom she accu...
CENTERTON (KFSM) -- The Benton County Circuit Court has decided to not pursue charges against a woman who allegedly shot at a 14-year-old boy whom she accused of trying to rape a neighbors dog, according to court documents.
Kerrie Lenkerd, 40, was arrested on April 25 and was facing charges of felony aggravated assault, according to an arrest warrant.
Lenkerd said she spotted a teenager out her window in her neighbor's yard on April 17. She told police that the boy was in his boxers and he was sexually assaulting the neighbor's dog.
She took a gun from her safe and approached him and ordered him to get on the ground, the warrant states. She said he jumped the fence and so she went after him and fired a shot into the ground to scare him.
Officers spoke with the boy who said Lenkerd came around and pointed a gun at him and told him to put his hands up. He said he didn't see a badge so she he jumped the fence and ran away in his underwear. He said Lenkerd fired a shot about five or 10 seconds after he jumped the fence.
The boy told police that when he got home he changed his clothes and told his mom a false story before meeting with police. The court documents states the boy does not want to pursue charges and law enforcement does not object to this decision.
Patricia Peterson is Lenkerd's neighbor and owns the dog Lenkerd said was being sexually assaulted.
She said she is grateful for what Lenkerd did to help her dog.
They did take their dog to a veterinarian who told them that she did not suffer any physical damage but they may see changes in their dog's behavior because of the trauma.
Peterson said her family knows the boy and that he may have been around their dog many times before.
She said this is not the first time the boy sexually assaulted her dog.
Peterson worries that his actions may escalate in the future.
“My biggest fear is that if he’s done this at least twice to my dog, how many other pets are victims?" Peterson said. "Or next time is it going to be a child?”
Now she just wants to make sure the boy gets help. | 1,623 |
Lichter told me in a phone interview from California this morning that he expects to close on the two properties in mid-January and bring the space online for two tenants that would take a total of 300,000 to 400,000 square feet of the building space next year.
Lichter said the total renovation investment is expected to be “well into eight figures.”
“As soon as those LOIs (letters of intent to sign leases) become actual leases, I think we’ll have some fairly significant announcements,” he said.
The two companies — one of which is foreign — have operations in the region and would primarily use the space for an expansion of manufacturing capabilities, but need some office space there as well, Lichter said.
“This is exactly the kind of work our company specializes in, and I look forward to preparing these properties for reuse and jobs as quickly as possible,” he said in a statement.
The main building Lichter is under contract to buy at Centerpoint Campus West was formerly used for research and testing. A maintenance building and wastewater treatment facility also occupy the site, as well as parking for about 2,400 vehicles, according to a RACER Trust marketing brochure.
Built in 1934, the property sits on 80 acres on the northwest corner of the Pontiac Central Manufacturing and Assembly Plant campus, according to the brochure. Two additions were later added.
The Centerpoint Campus Central building was formerly used for engineering and has about 4,000 parking spaces. It was built in 1994 and has first- and second-floor office space.
RACER, which stands for Revitalizing Auto Communities Environmental Response, was created following General Motors’ bankruptcy to clean and sell 89 unwanted or closed GM properties in 14 states.
“RACER Trust continues to meet its mission to make these properties productive, job-providing sites again,” Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson said in a statement. “IRG has an excellent reputation for converting industrial locations to new uses. There is no doubt they are poised to contribute to the economic growth of Oakland County.”
Earlier this year, Industrial Realty also purchased most of Detroit-based American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc.'s 2.5 million-square-foot former Detroit Manufacturing Complex at I-75 and Holbrook.
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for a Livable World, which said Bennett “believes that U.S. Pentagon spending is too high.”
Bennett said all agencies can more efficiently spend taxpayer dollars and accused her rival of selectively highlighting her positions.
Comstock and Republicans also question Bennett’s residency. They claim she lived in her Ritz-Carlton apartment in Washington, near her office, rather than her Delaplane, Va., farm 55 miles away, before she jumped into the race, to avoid the District’s higher tax rate.
“Since she hasn’t lived in this district for most of the past decade, she’s really not familiar with the issues or the priorities of the district,” Comstock said.
Bennett said she has lived in Virginia for 35 years and spent only “a night or two” in Washington, preferring to commute to Virginia.
“I listened to a lot of books on tape,” she said, adding, “The residency issue for Barbara is like Donald Trump’s birther issue. It’s a red herring. It’s a distraction.”
It may not matter.
Comstock is popular in the conservative western parts of the district, where her message of faith and family resonates, but also among the wealthy business crowd.
Nearing the end of a long day, she ducked into a McDonald’s and changed into a black suit to attend a gala at a therapeutic equestrian center in Loudoun. At the end of an unpaved road, the party was in full swing in a stable dotted with crystal chandeliers and white lights.
It was after 10 p.m. when she finally left.
At a police appreciation dinner earlier that night in Clarke County, she worked the room, telling the gathering she is trying to secure federal funds to combat heroin coming from Baltimore.
On her way out, a woman emerged from the kitchen to seek help for volunteer firefighters who experience respiratory issues on the job.
“Okay, well, let’s figure out whether it’s county, state, federal,” Comstock said. “We’d be happy to look into it.”
Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the rating that Rep. Barbara Comstock received from the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. She received a rating of 60 percent, not 66 percent. | 1,625 |
“You’re a great example of why we need to end Affirmative Action,” someone named Jim B. wrote me in an email this weekend. “Get a job scrubbing floors. It’s the only thing you’re good for.”
On Twitter, it was about the same. “Keep thinking that your important. Lol … your a nobody … you fill a seat … only because your Black. that’s the only reason. cause if was based on education or merit, you would be working at Walmart … sometimes the truth hurts … your a lowlife.”
“Is that you using that black girl magic I heard about. You so silly, can’t believe you have a job there. LOL”
One email read simply, “have a banana.”
These are just a few examples of many.
I am a black woman who writes for The New York Times and appears on national TV. And if you’re black in America, no matter who you are, what you accomplish or how hard you work, there will always be people to remind you that you are black, that you are “just a nigger.”
A colleague at The Times, an African-American woman, wrote to me on Friday afternoon, “They resent that you exist.”
It didn’t help that I write for a newspaper where my colleagues are assiduously working to hold a rogue president accountable every day. We are living in a world where there is no grace for the smallest, most inconsequential mistake. In an instant, I became a target of those who are furious with the media for being too liberal, or not liberal enough, a totem for the grievances of millions of people who seem to be hurting. No doubt, some people piled on because they just wanted the “likes” and brushed aside the inconvenient fact that I was a human being.
Several days into the experience, which is hell, I ran into an acquaintance on the street who informed me that the video clip had been shared on “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver.” I began to wonder how others in the same position had managed to carry on. I tried to imagine what it must have been like for Monica Lewinsky. I even had sympathy for the woman who was fired back in 2013 after tweeting a horrible joke about how she was on her way to Africa and hoped she didn’t get AIDS. | 1,626 |
Podesta was unethical. In this case, the DOJ was more concerned with protecting her than holding her accountable.
Former New York Federal Prosecutor Preet Bharara was praised as a Trump Resistance hero after the Trump Administration fired him, but he refused to prosecute Wall Street bankers during his tenure even though he had the authority and evidence to do so. Former Prosecutor Bill Black, who successfully put big bankers in jail in the 1980s Savings & Loan Scandal wrote in a March 2017 op-ed, “Wall Street CEOs created, and infest, the swampiest of regions over which Bharara had jurisdiction. They led the epidemics of ‘control fraud’ that hyper-inflated the housing bubble, drove the financial crisis and caused the Great Recession.” He added, “Bharara did not prosecute any of them even when whistleblowers brought him the cases on platinum platters. Indeed, Bharara did not prosecute even low-level bank officers who were minor leaders in implementing those fraud epidemics.”
This type of opposition to Trump and the Republican Party provides little hope that the Democratic Party will be able to protect the American people from their policies. As Preet Bharara said, “Much of the issue with Trump is not about party, policy or ideology, but lack of decency, honesty, character, temperament, adulthood, and shame.” The Democratic Party’s strategy fails to tactfully oppose Trump’s policies. If the Democratic Party fails to come up with policies to counter Trump’s, Republicans will remain in power indefinitely.
In a November 2016 op-ed in The New York Times, Luigi Zingales compares Trump to former Italian prime minister and billionaire Silvio Berlusconi who remained in power for nine years because his opposition fumbled every opportunity to gain leverage over him. “Mr. Berlusconi was able to govern Italy for as long as he did mostly thanks to the incompetence of his opposition. It was so rabidly obsessed with his personality that any substantive political debate disappeared; it focused only on personal attacks, the effect of which was to increase Mr. Berlusconi’s popularity. His secret was an ability to set off a Pavlovian reaction among his leftist opponents, which engendered instantaneous sympathy in most moderate voters. Mr. Trump is no different.” Indeed, rather than embrace their popularity, the Democratic establishment continues shaming and scolding pro-Bernie Sanders progressives to maintain power. Democrats have provided voters with nothing but disappointment since Trump took office and no changes are on the horizon. | 1,627 |
That attitude now appears obsolete, on matters well beyond health policy. Corey Johnson, the progressive speaker of the New York City Council, who supported Mr. Crowley over Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, urged Democrats to recognize the intensity of “anger, fear and disappointment from people in our own party,” especially those new to the political process.
“They’re young, and a lot of them are folks that weren’t around or weren’t engaged when Obama ran for the first time,” Mr. Johnson, 36, said. “So this is their moment of: Let’s take our country back.”
In a source of relief to Democratic officials, the millennial-infused left has left a lighter mark in moderate areas where Republicans are defending their congressional majorities, and where bluntly left-wing candidates could struggle to win. In House races, Democrats have mainly picked nominees well to the left of center, but to the right of Mr. Sanders and Ms. Ocasio-Cortez.
Across most of the approximately 60 Republican-held districts that Democrats are contesting, primary voters have chosen candidates who seem to embody change — many of them women and minorities — but who have not necessarily endorsed positions like single-payer health care and abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.
Some national Democrats remain skeptical that voters are focused on specific policy demands of the kind Mr. El-Sayed and Ms. Ocasio-Cortez have championed. Former Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland, a left-of-center Democrat who ran for president in 2016, suggested the party wants “new leaders and fresh ideas” more than hard-left ideology.
“Sometimes that may be filled by a leader who calls herself a Democratic socialist, and sometimes it’s not,” said Mr. O’Malley, reflecting on the political convulsion that touched his home state. “Sometimes it’s with a young person. Sometimes it’s with a retiree. Sometimes it’s with a vet.”
Several crucial Democratic victories since 2016 have also come with avowedly moderate standard-bearers, such as Senator Doug Jones of Alabama and Representative Conor Lamb of Pennsylvania, who won grueling special elections. And unlike hard-liners on the right, Democratic activists have not contested Senate primaries in conservative-leaning states where the majority is at stake, allowing centrists to run unimpeded in Arizona and Tennessee. | 1,628 |
army site that surrounds the tomb of the nation's first emperor in the northwestern Shaanxi Province © Jason Lee / Reuters In pictures: 12 amazing archaeological discoveries Neolithic 'lost avenue' - prehistoric stone circle, discovered in September 1999 The discovery of a Neolithic 'lost avenue' was described as one of the most important finds of the last century. Since the 1700s, archeologists and historians have argued over the existence of the huge sarsen stones, which were unearthed at the site of the world's biggest prehistoric stone circle at Avebury in Wiltshire In pictures: 12 amazing archaeological discoveries Byzantine mosaic, discovered in February 2007 Plans for a walkway at the centre of the furious dispute over Jerusalem's holiest site were delayed by the discovery of a Byzantine mosaic In pictures: 12 amazing archaeological discoveries Ancient gold, discovered in March 2014 Gold fitting for a dagger sheath (around 1900 BC.) found near Stonehenge In pictures: 12 amazing archaeological discoveries Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799 The Rosetta Stone is a basalt slab inscribed with a decree of pharaoh Ptolemy Epiphanes (205-180 BC) in three languages, Greek, Hieroglyphic and Demotic script. Discovered near Rosetta in Egypt
"It's clearly not your run-of-the-mill domestic settlement."
A perfectly preserved Roman well and the stone coffin of a Roman child, which went unnoticed and was being used as a flower bed, were also among the finds.
Dr Roberts added: "The site has not been touched since its collapse 1,400 years ago and so it's of extreme importance.
Child's coffin found at a Roman villa in Wiltshire (PA)
"The large scale and complexity of the site present a unique opportunity to understand Roman and post-Roman Britain.
"Without question, this is a hugely valuable site in terms of research, with incredible potential.
“It's one of the best sites I have ever had the chance to work on."
The site has now been protected to preserve it.
Mr Irwin said it was “unbelievable” to have stumbled across the rare find.
He said: "The thought of the footsteps we are following in. I have always been fascinated by history ever since I went to Pompeii as a child.
"But to find it 20 yards from your own front door - and then the 20 billion to one shot that you design luxury rugs for the Roman aristocrats of today. It's mind blowing." | 1,629 |
Human Resources Minister M. Kulasegaran, accompanied by Indira Gandhi, speaks to the press at the Arul Oli Mandram building, Ipoh June 16, 2018. — Picture by Marcus Pheong
IPOH, June 16 — Human Resources Minister M. Kulasegaran, who represented Hindu mother M. Indira Gandhi in her interfaith custody battle, said he will meet with the Inspector-General of Police in a bid to hasten the retrieval of her daughter who was abducted by her estranged ex-husband.
Indira previously secured a court order compelling Tan Sri Mohamad Fuzi Harun’s predecessor to find her Muslim convert former spouse and recover daughter Prasana Diksa from him.
“I will be meeting Mohamad Fuzi soon to see how I can accelerate the process to locate Indira’s daughter,” he told reporters.
He said the court orders for the police to retrieve Prasansa and arrest Mohd Ridhuan Abdullah remained valid.
Kulasegaran said Muhammad Riduan has used the same mobile number for years and that authorities were aware of this, suggesting they should be able to trace him.
“I believe in next one or two months we will see some result. There are some difficulties here and there, but we will try to do our best to achieve it,” he said.
On April 2, 2009, Muhammad Riduan covertly converted his three children to Islam without their knowledge or Indira’s consent, before going to the Shariah court just a few days later to obtain custody rights for them.
Muhammad Riduan then abducted their youngest daughter, Prasana, who was 11-month-old then, from Indira.
After an extended legal battle, the Federal Court ruled in January that unilateral conversions are unlawful and that a matter being under the jurisdiction of Shariah Courts does not exclude the jurisdiction of civil courts on the same issue.
Separately, Indira said the change in government during the 14th general election raised her hopes of being reunited with Prasana.
“I’m really hoping that this matter will be more transparent with the new government, for the past 10 years there was no news of her, but I have a bright feeling that I will see my daughter soon,” she said.
Kulasegaran took Indira’s case early on and saw it through to completion. | 1,630 |
clear of WWE and they will never, ever have a working relationship ever again.
*Punk said they were terrified that as an independent contract for the last ten years, that he would take them to court and ruin their way of doing business.
*When WWE later asked to issue a joint statement between the two, he told them to "F*** off."
*Punk talked in detail about WWE using the independent contractor status, noting the company does concussion testing to help themselves, not the wrestlers. He noted all the money the NFL Player's Union is forcing the NFL to pay for old injuries and medical concerns of players and that WWE is doing all this to prevent wrestlers from being able to say that they aren't. Punk said that if WWE truly cared for the talents, they would allow a union to be created for the talents.
*Punk also noted that he was to star in "12 Rounds 2" while he was WWE champion. When signing the paperwork, he noticed the filming dates were the same as a WWE European tour and Triple H. Triple H told him that was not the case but he will look into it. The next day, WWE announced Randy Orton would star in the move with HHH never calling Punk to inform him of the change because, as Punk said, "He thinks I'm a piece of sh**." Punk said it was indicative of the lack of respect he was shown by those in the company.
*Punk said wrestling Ryback took "20 years off his life" and talked in detail about how badly hurt he was working with, as Punk described him, "Steroid guy."
*WWE was afraid he was going to TNA, but his lawyer told WWE that he despises wrestling now and will never wrestle again.
I highly advise you to check out the original interview as I think all would be best served by listening to this in Punk's own voice at www.ColtCabana.com. In case the site is down, you can go to iTunes.com and subscribe to Cabana's podcast at this link to get the episode. You will hear a MUCH more detailed version of these discussions on Cabana's podcast. As I noted, I will have a MUCH more detailed recap on this interview when time will allow over the course of the holiday weekend.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos urged German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble not to let domestic politics influence his decision on providing debt relief to Greece.
Pavlopoulos told Die Welt newspaper in an interview published Friday that Greece had implemented pension cuts and tax reforms as promised, and Germany should also keep its promises and approve some debt relief.
“I appeal to Wolfgang Schaeuble not to let the German election influence his decision (on debt relief). This is about something bigger; it’s about Europe,” the Greek president said.
Greece this week urged European lenders to offer incentives that would boost growth and help break an impasse between the euro zone and the International Monetary Fund on the size of relief the country needs to make its debt sustainable.
During a meeting of euro zone finance ministers last month, Greece, its euro zone lenders and the IMF failed to agree on the debt relief measures to be implemented after its current bailout expires in 2018, mainly because of different growth assumptions. They are now aiming for a deal at a June 15 Eurogroup meeting.
Germany and some other European countries are worried that any concessions could affect the pace of economic reforms in Greece and want any debt relief put off until 2018. The IMF has said it will not participate financially in the country’s latest bailout unless the issue is clearly addressed.
Pavlopoulos told Die Welt he had worked closely with Schaeuble when they were both interior ministers and believed the German minister would find a way to enable some debt relief.
“I know that Mr. Schaeuble is a role model when it comes to sticking to the rules... Now my chance has come to demand that the German finance ministry sticks to the rules,” he said. “Wolfgang Schaeuble is strict, but just, and that is why he will find a formula that allows us to reduce the mountain of debt.”
He said Greece’s request would not result in any problems for Germany, noting that German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, a member of the Social Democrats, junior partners in the ruling coalition, also believed Greece had lived up to its reform promises and was acting in good faith.
He said he did not believe that German voters would cast their election votes on the basis of Greece debt relief, noting that perhaps the German government should remind its citizens that Greece had made huge sacrifices to get a grip on the debt crisis, and it had not cost Germany a single euro. | 1,632 |
How does the Glide compare to the Bagger?
It’s time to see how the Street Glide compares to the upstarts from Bavaria
Street Glide vs BMW Bagger 1
Ten years ago if you wanted a bagger a Harley was the only option but now there are plenty. The nearest rival is the Indian Chieftain but the formula (big twin + fork mounted fairing = American muscle) is pretty much the same. The new BMW K1600 Bagger is completely different however, so how does it compare?
From a technological standpoint, the BMW blows the Harley out of the water. Despite only being released this year on a brand new platform, the Harley’s electronics consist of ABS and that’s it (other than the infotainment system). If you tick every single box on the BMW order form, it comes to £21,415 and for that you get rider modes, traction control, electronic suspension, keyless ride, cornering ABS, heated grips, heated rider seat, heated pillion seat, electric windscreen, a quickshifter, an autoblipper, central locking, LED fog lights, reverse gear and emergency call. It also includes the GPS, radio and Bluetooth functionality of the Street Glide. In fact the only thing the Bagger is missing is the double barrelled badge on the side of the tank and some glitter in the paint.
In practical riding terms the BMW has nearly twice the power of the 107 Milwaukee-Eight plus 10% more torque. The ride is smoother (thanks to the ESA), the brakes are better (ABS Pro), the tyres have more grip and doesn't let go in the wet (TCS), the panniers are a more sensible shape and the pillion seat is much more comfortable. It doesn’t have quite the same noise as the Harley but if you chop the throttle the bike backfires angrily and reminds you the 1649cc engine isn’t for the faint-hearted. It even looks good.
The Bagger's blacked out bodywork is brooding in a way the chrome of the Street Glide doesn’t quite manage and when I rode it to a small gathering of folks with custom bikes, it drew the biggest crowd. The only thing that lets it down is the stereo, which struggles to be heard compared to the booming Harley but that’s a small jab in an otherwise one way bout.
Read the latest stories causing a buzz this week in MCN Fleet… | 1,633 |
Van Praag was in Paraguay's capital for the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) congress, the first stop on the campaign trail for the four candidates in the May 29 election to decide the most influential position in soccer.
"I had a meeting with the presidents of the (regional) federations and the president of CONMEBOL and I have a good feeling about my meeting yesterday," he told reporters.
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"They didn't disclose what they are going to do and I can understand that because there are still two months to go so they have time to come together again and make up their minds," he told international new agency reporters.
"They are very much interested in football issues, of course transparency and change. That is the feeling that I got, that they want change."
Van Praag, president of Dutch soccer's governing body KNVB, is proposing changes including a 40-team World Cup finals tournament, adding one nation from each confederation plus the title holders.
"Some people say 40 teams is a bit much, but 40 is only 20 percent of all the members of FIFA," he said, adding that it would mean extending the length of the tournament for only a couple of days.
Van Praag attended the congress as a guest along with Blatter and the other presidential candidates, former Portugal winger Luis Figo and FIFA vice-president Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan.
Asked if he would support changes in the World Cup qualifying process, Van Praag said: "I believe that there is too much power in the hands of one man which is the president of the FIFA.
"One of the things that I am going to do is to establish a presidents' board... ask the presidents of every confederation to become a member.
"If the majority, in a very democratic way, believe we should change the qualifying process, why not? What I want is more input from the presidents of the confederations, because then we know what is going on in CONMEBOL, we know how Asia looks at things, that is important."
Europe has complained about the length of CONMEBOL's qualifiers with its 10 members playing each other home and away in one group and international players travelling from their European clubs to South America and back several times a year.
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MUMBAI: Narendra Modi ’s successful prime ministerial bid was attributed in large part to the aggressive social media campaign unleashed by the BJP’s IT cell. Not many outside the party know, however, that the strategy included exploring Kautilya’s ‘Arthashastra’ – the ancient Indian text on statecraft, economic policy and military strategy – to taking tips from retired lieutenant generals on psychological warfare and picking the brains of an IIM-A professor.The BJP is set to deploy much the same strategy in the upcoming assembly elections in Maharashtra and other states that resulted in the blitzkrieg that eclipsed the competition’s efforts in the run-up to the general elections.The story began in 2012, when the top rung of the BJP’s IT cell decided it was time to get back into the driver’s seat at the Centre with a foolproof plan to approach the masses because they felt that the mainstream media was ignoring them.Led by its national co-convenor Vinit Goenka, the party got in touch with the army officers, professors and other experts. Not one of these experts was a BJP supporter, but they agreed to help out after members of the IT cell reached out to them.Radhakrishnan Pillai, director of Chanakya Institute of Public Leadership, who also teaches and researches ‘Arthashastra’, taught the top BJP cadre about how mass psychology works.“Vinit wanted to learn about how the masses think, how to influence 121 crore people, using the IT communication platform. We borrowed from the Arthashastra on how to target different groups and how best to reach out to, say, those above 60, those between 18 and 35, etc.,” Pillai said. Pillai also taught them the importance of gathering all information early in the morning.“For any king, information gathering and foreign policy are key. In the Arthashastra, a king is supposed to use his spies in the night so that by early morning he has all the information required to prepare his strategy,” he said.So, every morning before 6 am, Goenka’s team was already on the job finding out what was trending on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. The BJP team also sought out army officers – two (retired) lieutenant generals and one retired lieutenant colonel with military intelligence, who did not wish to be named – for tips on how to ensure discipline and order among the rank and file. | 1,635 |
personality.
"(Steve Pawlicki's) personality lends itself to more of the 'downstairs' duties like ordering and bookkeeping," Chris Pawlicki says. "I'm more in tune with the food and menu and the staff, the 'upstairs' stuff."
Pawlicki says he has tried to maintain the elements of the bar that keep regulars coming back, but one thing he and his brother "keyed into" was featuring craft beers.
"We were one of the first bars in Ann Arbor to carry Bell's beer," Pawlicki says.
Another change was bringing in live music on Wednesdays and Sundays. The bar is too small for a large rock 'n' roll band, but it's a perfect spot for singer-songwriters and small jazz combos, Pawlicki says.
Pawlicki says competition from new bars and restaurants is one of Old Town's biggest challenges.
"There's always new stuff coming in," he says, noting that just five years ago, the nearby Grotto Watering Hole (formerly the Beer Grotto) and Kosmo Bop Shop didn't exist, for example.
Trying to keep up with the times, the owners have also gradually expanded the menu, mostly consisting of lunch items like sandwiches and burritos, though the tiny kitchen hasn't added any square footage.
"I would like to offer some more dinner-type items for people on the Old West Side, because not everybody wants to have a sandwich for both lunch and dinner," Pawlicki says. "I'd like to add pot roast, meat loaf – nothing too wacky, stick-to-your-ribs items. People who come here expect certain things."
Beyond the next few years, Pawlicki is unsure of the tavern's future.
"I don't think there will be a third generation (running the tavern)," he says. "One of my kids is in engineering, and the other in nursing. My brother's kid is too young (to decide on a career), though, so who knows?"
Sarah Rigg is a freelance writer and editor in Ypsilanti Township and the project manager of On the Ground Ypsilanti. She has served as innovation and jobs/development news writer for Concentrate since early 2017 and is an occasional contributor to Driven. You may reach her at [email protected].
All photos by Doug Coombe. | 1,636 |
From outlawing diesel in trucks and larger vehicles, to offering free public transit, Paris, France has tried almost everything to combat its horrific smog problem.
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Thursday, June 2, 2016, 2:20 PM - From outlawing diesel in trucks and larger vehicles, to offering free public transit, Paris, France has tried almost everything to combat its horrific smog problem.
As of July 1, all vehicles registered before 1997 and motorcycles made before 2000 will be banned from streets during weekdays in the city's latest attempt to cut down on air pollution.
The move is part of a much larger plan to make Paris a diesel-free city by 2020.
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“The fine particles [from diesel fumes are responsible for around 42,000 deaths a year in France], emitted mostly by public buses and coaches, are a major health concern,” Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo told French newspaper Le Monde last year. “It is true that older diesel vehicles are more polluting than modern ones. But the filters in even the latest models can’t get rid of the most dangerous fine particles.”
Officials will track the status of cars by using colour-coded chips, which will organize them into six categories based on model year and environmental ranking. Electric and hydrogen vehicles will be identified as "first class," according to Le Monde.
Eventually, the aim is to ensure no car over 10 years old will drive on the city's streets.
While pre-1997 cars only account for around 10 per cent of all vehicles in Paris, they generate as much as half of all the city's emissions, Gizmodo reports.
Similar to a ban in Mexico City, some residents in Paris are outraged as the ban will hit those who can't afford more modern vehicles. The smog-busting restrictions announced by mayor Hidalgo last year set off an angry backlash from bikers. Hundreds of motorcyclists rode through the streets in protest.
Air pollution leads to about 600,000 premature deaths each year in Europe, with Paris being one of the most heavily polluted cities in Europe, according to World Health Organization.
SOURCE: Le Monde | Gizmodo
Watch more: Man vacuums smog on streets, what he made will surprise you | 1,637 |
SEATTLE -- Ahmed Majeed fished a Seattle lake because his friends challenged him. They laughed, saying he'd get skunked.
They're not laughing now.
"I see my name on Google now," Majeed said.
Majeed, 35, caught two huge fish at Seattle's Green Lake over the weekend, one almost certainly breaking the state record. Unfortunately, for the second time in a month, no official scale was immediately available to measure the fish.
Iraq-born Majeed has been fishing since he was 8 years old, and loves a challenge. When his friends told him he could only catch trout in one of Seattle's most well-known lakes, he had to test it out.
"They said 'you're wasting your time,'" Majeed said. "'You won't catch anything.'"
Majeed said he customized his set-up, going with his favorite corn scent and carp bait. About two hours into fishing, he hooked his first big one: a 30-pound grass carp.
But two hours later, he connected with something massive. It took about 20 minutes to land a channel catfish. It was one of the biggest he's seen.
"I couldn't pick it up with one arm," Majeed said.
Majeed weighed it when he got home. It tipped the scales at 45 pounds, he said. That's 9 pounds heavier than the state record for channel catfish, 36.2-pounds, caught in 1999 in Yakima.
He called state fish and wildlife officials, who told him he would have to weigh the catfish on an official scale. He didn't want to waste the meat and wait for the week to start, so he filleted the fish instead. Still, he'd like his name in the record books.
"I'm fighting with them right now," Majeed said of WDFW.
Fish and wildlife officials posted the catch on Instagram, and said that Green Lake was stocked with catfish in 2005, 2011 and 2014. Catfish can live up to 20 years, so this was likely more than a decade old.
As for the meat, Majeed said it tasted great.
"I gave some to my mom, my brother and I still have a bunch in the freezer," Majeed said.
He plans to head back to Green Lake on Saturday. Maybe, for an official record. | 1,638 |
HOLLAND, Mich. – Members of the Hungry Howie’s in Holland recently made quite the delivery for a long time customer.
Adrian Van Nieuwland loved his pizza, and for years he made his usual order, a medium three cheeser pleaser with butter cheese crust.
“He had one order and that was his order every time. When it popped up on the screen you knew Adrian ordered,” said Assistant General Manager Amanda Ortiz.
But towards the end of May, the crew at Hungry Howie’s noticed Adrian stopped calling.
After not getting in touch with Van Nieuwland on the phone, employees went to his home to check on him.
“They went to his house to check on him and found him laying on the floor. And they weren’t sure how long he’d been down there,” said Hungry Howie’s driver Gabbe Raqib.
Family members say Van Nieuwland had been on the floor for about a day, unable to get up. They also say his cellphone was out of reach.
Van Nieuwland was taken to the hospital, where the Hungry Howie’s employees visited him.
“We went the night he went to the hospital, we went there a few hours after he got admitted,” said Ortiz. “He seemed to be doing great. We joked around. I gave him the gift card and said ‘you’re probably hungry.'”
Family members say Van Nieuwland was in the hospital for eight days but eventually passed away.
Employees at Hungry Howie’s say while they’re sad for the loss, they’re happy they were able to help their longtime customer and friend and that he didn’t pass away alone.
“It’s tragic and my heart breaks for him. But if anything I’m just happy that we stopped him from dying alone, on the floor of his house,” said Raqib.
Family members tell FOX 17 that he slipped into a coma and that Van Nieuwland’s family members were surrounding him when he passed away and they are thankful that the Hungry Howie’s employees took action to help him.
“It’s more than pizza to us because our customers are our family. That’s our family,” said Ortiz. | 1,639 |
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - East African states and South Africa believe that allowing South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar to return to the war-torn country would not “necessarily be positive at this stage,” said United Nations envoy David Shearer on Wednesday.
South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar talks on the phone in his field office in a rebel-controlled territory in Jonglei State, South Sudan, February 1, 2014. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic/File Photo
Machar, who fled to Democratic Republic of Congo in August after fierce fighting in South Sudan, is being held in South Africa to prevent him from stirring up trouble, diplomatic and political sources told Reuters in December.
Shearer, who heads a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, confirmed that was the case.
“The feeling very much within the region is that his role, in terms of bringing him back, wouldn’t necessarily be positive at this stage, so that’s the decision of regional governments and South Africa,” Shearer told reporters in New York.
South Sudan descended into civil war in 2013 after President Salva Kiir fired Machar as his deputy, unleashing a conflict that has spawned armed factions often following ethnic lines.
Shearer said Festus Mogae, the former Botswana president who heads the international mediation and monitoring body JMEC in South Sudan, and U.N. envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, Nicholas Haysom, had both visited Machar.
“What’s the most important thing -- and I have made this point to everybody including President Kiir -- is that the constituency he represents must be part of any peace process and any process that moves forward,” Shearer said.
The United Nations has warned of a possible genocide as millions have fled their homes, the oil-producing economy is in a tail-spin, crop harvests are devastated because of the worst drought in years and millions face famine.
The United States slammed Kiir on Tuesday for the African state’s “man-made” famine and ongoing conflict, urging him to fulfill a month-old pledge of a unilateral truce by ordering his troops back to their barracks.
U.N. sanctions monitors reported to the Security Council last month that South Sudan’s government is mainly to blame for famine in parts of the country, yet Kiir is still boosting his forces using millions of dollars from oil sales. | 1,641 |
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A man banned from entering all Kirklees Council buildings is standing as a candidate in the local elections on May 2.
Steve Bradbury was prohibited from entering council premises – including leisure centres, libraries and town halls - in 2011 as a result of a 20-year campaign against the local authority.
He has made thousands of complaints over the years and received a ban from former chief executive Adrian Lythgo after he was deemed "intimidating" by the council.
Mr Bradbury, from Huddersfield, is standing as an Independent candidate in Crosland Moor and Netherton ward.
And after confirming his candidature he commented: "If I was elected and the council held to its ban they would have a problem."
He appeared in the Channel 4 series The Complainers in June 2014 where he was shown confronting the council over his long-running dispute while wearing a body cam.
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In August 2017 Mr Bradbury entered the council chamber at Huddersfield Town Hall to challenge the ban, which he said was unlawful, unethical and discriminatory.
Following the appointment of Jacqui Gedman as the council's chief executive in July that year he sought an appointment to have the ban overturned but revealed, "nobody seems to want to talk to me about it".
He said the council had offered to revoke the ban if he agreed to drop any historical complaints he had made about the authority, but that he was not prepared to do so.
"Technically I can’t go into the sports centre, I can’t go to the library, a friend of mine got married here – I had to sit outside.
"What have I done wrong?"
(Image: Huddersfield Examiner)
After appealing directly to the-then Council Leader, Clr David Sheard, Mr Bradbury left the chamber.
When contacted by the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Mr Bradbury said he preferred not to give an interview on his candidacy.
A Kirklees Council spokesperson said: "We have set protocols and guidance for staff, which sets out how they will liaise with councillors and respond to their enquiries.
"Any person elected to office would be expected to follow the guidelines for councillors as set out in our constitution." | 1,642 |
this prediction could have originated in the Vatican. World War III was to be a conflict of civilizations involving the Muslims.
In any event the destruction of America and the creation of a New World Order have always been the goal of the Rothschilds. And now you understand why you have spent trillions of dollars supporting the Terrorists of Al Qaeda and the Zionists of Israel. You are funding the destruction of your nation. Now you can connect all the dots.
Now you know all world wars are Rothschild wars.
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These two articles about the Donmeh are from Wane Madsen.
The Dönmeh: The Middle East’s Most Whispered Secret (Part I)
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2011/10/25/the-doenmeh-the-middle-easts-most-whispered-secret-part-i.html
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Twenty-five dogs found living in what officials call deplorable conditions at a Torrance home are now living at the Carson/Gardena Animal Care Center - but that has posed a big problem because of overcrowding at the shelter.
The dogs, many of them young terrier mixes, were discovered at the home after their owner had to be rushed to the hospital for a medical issue.
Lisa Ferranti of the Carson Rescue Team said some dogs don't seem to be adapting well to their pens. Some sit in their corners and shake, and others don't eat or simply won't leave their beds.
"They're so scared," Ferranti said. "Most aren't socialized. This is a scary place."
The dogs were brought in with a few cats, and their arrival poses a big problem for the shelter, which is already overcrowded by at least 45 animals.
The influx of animals continues by the hour - the shelter gets up to 30 new animals every day. A new batch of Chihuahua puppies found in a cardboard box was dumped at the shelter Monday afternoon. One matted stray was found wandering the streets in the morning.
"Spring and summer are a busy time of year," said Lt. Javier Gutierrez of the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control. "A lot of animals are breeding and we get more animals surrendered. It does bring a burden to our shelter."
It's the bigger, older and sick dogs that are most at risk, because when there are no more empty kennels, shelter officials are left with a tough decision to make.
"They will start euthanizing for space if they feel they have nowhere else for animals to go," Ferranti said.
The shelter is putting out a call for people to come in and adopt or temporarily foster the animals in order to spare their lives.
The hoarding dogs are not yet available. There's a temporary hold on them while animal control officers investigate whether to charge their owner with animal cruelty. That could take up to a month or even more, likely meaning overcrowding at the shelter will only get worse.
Anyone wishing to help can put their name on a list to foster or adopt one of the dogs when they do become available, or adopt another animal that is already available to help make room.
For information on the Carson/Gardena Animal Care Center, including contact information and hours of operation, click here.
For the Saving Carson Shelter Dogs Facebook page, click here. | 1,644 |
【9月13日 AFP】米大リーグ（MLB）、ワシントン・ナショナルズ（Washington Nationals）のマット・ウィリアムズ（Matt Williams）監督は12日、抑え投手のドリュー・ストーレン（Drew Storen）が、怒りにまかせてロッカーをたたいて今季絶望になったと明かした。
ストーレンは、9日に行われたニューヨーク・メッツ（New York Mets）戦で勝ち越しの本塁打を打たれた後、ロッカーをたたいて右手親指を骨折した。
11日に投球が行えないことから診察を受けた右腕のストーレンは、球団側に対して何が起きたのかを伝えたと、ウィリアムズ監督は明かしている。
ストーレンは今季29セーブを挙げて、防御率3.44としていた。しかしながら、ここ4試合で登板した3イニングで3点を失っていた。
8日の登板でストーレンは3つの四球を出し、チームもメッツに7-8で敗れていた。
メッツはナショナルズとの3連戦で3連勝とし、ナ・リーグ東地区でナショナルズから大きくリードを奪っている。(c)AFP | 1,645 |
When cities redesign traffic-clogged highways, they often make them wider–despite the fact that tends to make traffic even worse. In Shenzhen, China, a team of designers thinks the best way to modernize a 12-lane highway is to shrink it instead, and rethink how highways work.
“We believe, in the future, cars won’t be operating the way they are now,” says Vicky Chan, director of Avoid Obvious Architects, which partnered with Tetra Architects and Planners and BCCI on the proposed design. “With drones and driverless cars, we think that we’ll be able to drive faster, and have fewer cars if we share. I think the concept of having a 12-lane highway is just irrelevant.”
[Rendering: Avoid Obvious Architects + Tetra Architecture & Planners]
In the design, two four-lane roads are enclosed in tubes to control pollution. By elevating the road, the eastern and western sides of the city can be reconnected; right now, the G107 highway stretches longer than the length of Manhattan, splitting the city’s Bao’an District in two parts.
Under the proposed elevated highway, the designers envision green spaces and pod-like coworking offices. With the road enclosed, the theory is that the spaces will be clean enough that people want to use them again. The design also includes channels that can collect water, helping solve the city’s water management problem.
[Rendering: Avoid Obvious Architects + Tetra Architecture & Planners]
“They built the city very quickly,” says Chan. “If you look at aerial photos from the 1990s, it’s all farms–it took just 30 years to do it. After all this crazy construction, they realized, oops, we built too many buildings, and they don’t have enough water treatment plants.”
The current water treatment plants are 40% overloaded, leading to pollution in the city’s canals. The highway design separates industrial, residential, and commercial wastewater, and filters some of it back into groundwater. “We think since they’re doing this massive construction, they can tackle these two things together,” he says.
The highway is designed to wind back and forth around buildings, making room for green spaces and giving pedestrians access to new bus and subway stations. Above the road, the designers propose creating the first drone highway. | 1,646 |
EARLY RISER
By Jasper Fforde
Reading Jasper Fforde is like being invited to a literary-themed dinner party. You know some things for sure: It’s going to be long, it’s going to get weird and you’re going to have fun. By the end of the night, you will have consumed a great deal. You might not be full, because a lot of what was served was pretty fluffy. But the next morning, you don’t regret having gone. And even if you don’t feel the need to do it again immediately, you’ll say yes the next time you’re invited.
Fforde’s latest, “Early Riser,” is a stand-alone novel. Fans of his previous work, including “The Eyre Affair” (and its many sequels) and “Shades of Grey,” should be right at home in this new book. Although not connected to the Thursday Next series, or any other existing worlds of his, “Early Riser” has all of the elements and sensibility that have earned Fforde a sizable and devoted following: wordplay, allusion, a playful exuberance and — of course — his signature method of World-Building via Copious and Suggestive Use of Capitalization, often in the service of creating Imaginary Socioeconomic Hierarchies and Related Governmental Agencies.
[ Read our review of “The Eyre Affair” ]
The requisite Social Hierarchy in “Early Riser” is sleep-related: who gets to do it, who doesn’t. In the alternate reality of this novel (set in and around Wales), humanity hibernates four months out of every year, like bears, gorging on calories in preparation for the long, severe winter. Those who have the means to afford a drug called Morphenox can ensure that their slumber is dreamless and peaceful.
Why would they want to do this? Because dreams, it is believed, are wasteful, an unnecessary expenditure of calories during a precarious and vulnerable time, putting dreamers at risk of using up all of their stored fats. Worst-case scenario: The dreamer becomes Dead in Sleep. Thus the need for the requisite Governmental Agency to oversee hibernation. The Winter Consuls are those brave and foolhardy individuals tasked with ensuring the safety and well-being of the other 99 percent of humanity. | 1,647 |
The discovery of a possible archaeological feature near the UNESCO World Heritage Site close to Newgrange in Co Meath has been described as "a very significant find" by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
The recent heatwave has been described as vital in the discovery of a possible henge, or circular enclosure, which may be of archaeological interest at the Brú na Bóinne site.
The henge, which could measure up to 200 metres in diameter, is believed to have been built some 500 years after Newgrange, which dates from 3,000 BC.
The National Monuments Service at the department was made aware of the discovery yesterday evening.
It said said drone images show the outline of the site in the form of a crop mark.
Such crop marks are differential growth of crops that indicate the presence of buried archaeological features.
The NMS said the use of aerial images to identify archaeological sites through crop marks has been a methodology employed by archaeologists for decades.
However, it said the exceptional dry weather conditions of recent weeks and the increasing deployment of drones for aerial photographic use was producing some remarkable discoveries such as this one
The drone that captured the image belongs to historian and author Anthony Murphy, who has been recording and writing about the Boyne Valley for many years.
He said: "The weather is absolutely critical to the discovery of this monument. I have flown a drone over the Boyne Valley regularly and have never seen this."
He said the bit of moisture left in the soil "lodges in the archaeological features a little bit more than it does in the surrounding soil and the crop that is growing out of the soil is greener in the archaeological features and drier outside of them".
"So when that crop is harvested all surface traces of this monument will vanish and we may not see this monument again for two or three decades depending on when we get another prolonged dry spell like this."
Archaeologist Dr Geraldine Stout, who has written about henges, said: "I believe Newgrange is just the centre of a much larger sacred landscape and I think there was a whole series of facilities built for the pilgrims coming to Newgrange in prehistory.
"Generally we believe these henge monuments were built up to 500 years after the main use of Newgrange and in a lot of cases they actually enclose the area of monuments."
The field where the discovery was made is privately owned and there is no public access at present. | 1,648 |
Jeremy Merrill lives underneath a flight path to LaGuardia Airport in New York. Merrill is a curious man.
After watching countless planes land at LaGuardia and wondering where they were flying from, the New York Times journalist/developer devised a system to display the plane's origin on his windowsill.
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The software he created, called Flyover, basically takes a bunch of information that airplanes are transmitting via their transponders, runs it through a couple different programs, then displays the origin airport of "that plane flying over my apartment RIGHT NOW."
Every few seconds, passenger jets broadcast information about themselves over radio systems, called ADS-B and Mode S.
Contained in the information are the plane's location, altitude, registration number and flight number. Merrill collects this information using a SDR antenna.
Popular flight-tracking tools and apps like FlightRadar 24 and Flight Aware also use such transponder information to help track flights around the world.
Flyover uses the program Dump1090 to collect the information that airplanes are releasing. This is then translated onto a webpage, where flights are tracked and displayed on a map.
Merrill excluded flights that are flying at above 10,000 feet, since those are unlikely to be landing at LaGuardia since the airport is so close to where he lives.
From there, Merrill's contraption analyzes the flight numbers to determine the plane's route, using Virtual Radar Service.
Once the route is established, it's just a matter of displaying the origin airport on the LED display in Merrill's windowsill.
The LED screen works as a sort of "ambient notification," constantly connecting Merrill to what's happening in the skies above him.
"I really like building ambient/automatic notifiers for myself, to protect against my own absentmindedness," Merrill told Mashable. "For instance, a computer sends me an email each morning telling me which subway to take based on delays — so I don't have to remember to go to the MTA's status page. I also have a computer that predicts (using machine learning and the city's BusTime API) when a bus near my apartment is about to arrive, then notifies me with red and green lights to tell me when to go catch it."
The system he rigged up could, at least in theory, be used to also identify the type of the aircraft and the airline, as well. | 1,649 |
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Updated: May 12, 2019 13:51 IST
Pakistan’s interior ministry has banned 11 organisations under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) for their alleged affiliation with proscribed outfits Jamaatud Dawa (JuD), Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), local media reported on Sunday.
The Jaish-e-Mohammad of Masood Azhar masterminded the deadly Pulwama terror attack in February this year that killed 40 CRPF jawans.
According to a notification issued by the ministry, these organisations include Al Anfal Trust (Lahore), Idara-e-Khidmat Khalaq (Lahore), Al Dawatul Irshad (Lahore), Al Hamd Trust (Lahore and Faisalabad), Al-Fazal Foundation/Trust (Lahore), Mosque and Welfare Trust (Lahore), Al Madinah Foundation (Lahore), Muaz bin Jabal Education Trust (Lahore), Al Eesar Foundation (Lahore), Al Rehmat Trust Organisation (Bahawalpur) and Al Furqan Trust (Karachi).
The action has been taken in line with the National Action Plan (NAP), the notification added.
The NAP is Pakistan’s 20-point programme to rid the country of terrorism. It was enacted on December 25, 2014 after a terror attack on schoolchildren in Peshawar which left 133 dead.
Earlier in February during a meeting of the National Security Committee, the government decided to ban the JuD and the FIF and launch a crackdown on the JeM, which was banned in 2002 by then military ruler General Pervez Musharraf.
In March, the government sealed or took over administrative control of several establishments run by JuD and the FIF.
New prayer leaders and teachers were appointed by the Auqaf department to replace the ones at the mosques and seminaries run by the two banned outfits.
Masood Azhar, the head of the JeM, was designated a global terrorist by the UN Security Council earlier this month following the Pulwama suicide bombing. China had blocked four previous moves to label Azhar as a global terrorist.
Hafiz Saeed, chief of JuD, was banned on December 10, 2008 by the UN Security Council after the Mumbai terror attacks in November that year in which 166 people were killed. | 1,650 |
The popular online brokerage Robinhood has announced the launch of a crypto trading platform which will charge zero fees.
The platform, a favorite among millennials which are interested in trading stocks and ETFs, has announced that it will provide trading services for cryptocurrencies, charging no fees.
Baiju Bhatt, co-founder and co-CEO of Robinhood, has told Forbes:
“Now in Robinhood, for the first time, consumers will be able to invest in and trade stocks, ETFs, options and cryptocurrencies all in one place. You don’t need to have different apps, or be checking stocks on Robinhood and then logging into some exchange in Asia to trade your cryptocurrencies. It’s all consolidated.”
This major development in the crypto market has been praised by the community for various reasons. By not charging any fees for its services, Robinhood has the prospective of becoming a worthy adversary for Coinbase, the latter having charges that range in between 1.5% and 4% for transaction, and has recently been experiencing poor service, technical and support wise.
Furthermore, Robinhood has already 3 million users, being in a favorable position of facilitating the entrance of new money into the crypto market.
The commission-free service will be available in February for citizens from certain states in the U.S. Robinhood will allow trading with Bitcoin and Ether, and users will be able to track the prices of 14 other digital currencies: Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, Litecoin, Ripple, Ethereum Classic, Monero, OmiseGo, Lisk, Dogecoin, Stellar, Dash, Qtum and Zcash.
Regarding the initial coin selection, co-founder Vladimir Tenev has to say on the matter: “We’re extremely selective about the cryptos we’re making available on the platform. We’re introducing those first because these are the most mature coins that people are trading these days. Multiple times people have declared them dead and they’ve come back stronger than ever.”
Seeing as Robinhood will not have any fees for crypto transactions, there will not been any immediate profits from the impending development. In spite of this, the team is confident that this venture will contribute to the growth of their customer base and improve the experience for the existing users, which will materialize in long-term benefits for the platform.
It remains to be seen what kind of volume Robinhood will generate, or if it will actually manage to be a direct competitor to Coinbase. | 1,651 |
LIVERPOOL and Juventus representatives will be scouting Melbourne Victory winger Marco Rojas at AAMI Park in Saturday's blockbuster against Sydney FC.
The Herald Sun understands the two world football giants have tracked Rojas in recent weeks and want to watch him against Sydney FC before deciding whether to launch bids.
Should he impress, one or both could make offers for the 21-year-old as early as next week.
But Victory was confident of retaining Rojas for its finals assault this season.
Rojas, whose contract expires in three months, is managed by his father Rodi.
A January sale would command a transfer fee. If he left at the end of the season and doesn't sign a new deal, Victory wouldn't receive a transfer fee, but it would pocket around $180,000 in training compensation.
Should Liverpool or Juventus bid for Rojas before the transfer window closes on January 31, the clubs are looking at a fee in the region of the $750,000 Central Coast received from Celtic for Tom Rogic.
The pint-sized Kiwi has dominated this season with 10 goals and five assists from 15 games.
Juventus are deploying scouts, former players currently involved in the Italian giants' soccer academy in Melbourne.
BOOST: Del Piero to remain Down Under
Victory coach Ange Postecoglou claimed he was unaware of the specific interest but said he would be surprised if overseas clubs weren't keeping tabs on Rojas.
He said the club had remained in regular contact with the Rojas camp and was confident of keeping him until the end of the season.
"I'm in contact with his dad very regularly and at this stage we're confident he'll stay with us until the end of the season," Postecoglou said.
media_camera Marco Rojas shows off his skills during Victory's win over Wellington Phoenix. Picture: George Salpigtidis
"We've been in constant discussion with Marco and from our point of view we're very happy with his form this season and how he's developing and his development is a priority.
"At this stage we're comfortable with how he's going and where things are at."
*LESS than 400 tickets remain for Alessandro Del Piero's first visit to Melbourne.
Fresh from his four-goal haul against Wellington Phoenix, Del Piero pulled up well and is a certain starter for Saturday's clash at AAMI Park.
Originally published as Liverpool, Juventus eye Rojas | 1,652 |
NEW DELHI: Full five days after Subhas Chandra Bose was reported killed in a 1945 air crash, a top official of the British Raj had weighed the pros and cons of "trying" Netaji as a "war criminal" and suggested that the "easiest way" would be to leave him where he was and not seek his release."In many ways the easiest course would be to leave him where he is and not ask for his release. He might, of course, in certain circumstances be welcomed by the Russians."This course would raise fewest immediate political difficulties, but the security authorities consider that in certain circumstances his presence in Russia would be so dangerous as to rule it out altogether."This was one of conclusions arrived at by Sir R F Mudie, Home Member, of the Clement Attlee government's India Office, which he sent to Sir Evan Jenkins, Home Secretary and the last Governor of Punjab, five days after Bose was reported to have been killed in the aircrash near the Taihoku aerodrome in Taipei on August 18, 1945.Mudie's letter and a note, dated August 23, 1945, dealt with Bose's influence over almost 30,000 Indian National Army Azad Hind Fauj ) and said "it affects all races, castes and communities almost equally strongly.""They regard him with deep admiration, respect and confidence as a sincere patriot, as an able leader without peer, as the organiser of India's first 'National Army'," the note said about the "most difficult questions" which would confront the British Home Department.Mudie said various options -- ranging from Bose's trial for waging war in India, or in Burma (now Myanmar) or Malaya (Malaysia) or intern him in "some other British possession e.g. Seychelles Islands" were considered.However, he analysed the extreme impact it would have on the Indians in India and abroad and warned of a volatile situation in case of his trial and finally suggested that keeping Bose "out of sight would be to some extent out of mind and agitation for his release might be less".Mudie's letter and the note are among the 17,000 pages of secret documents in 100 files relating to Bose declassified and made public by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today.The letter was in response to Jenkins' communication to Mudie, saying His Excellency the King would want him to analyse and advise on how to deal with Bose, the men of the Indian National Army and his civilian supporters across the length and breadth of the country. | 1,653 |
1st Star: LW – Rick Martin (’75-’76 BUF) – 2 G 1 A 3 P +3 8 S
2nd Star: RW – Rene Robert (’75-’76 BUF) – 2 G 1 A 3 P +2 7 S
3rd Star: C – Gilbert Perreault (’75-’76 BUF) – 0 G 4 A 4 P +2 4 S
GAME 5:
1st Period 2nd Period 3rd Period Overtime Total ’75-’76 Sabres 1 1 1 0 3 ’98-’99 Sabres 2 0 1 1 4
GAME SUMMARY: ’98-’99 BUF – 4 ’75-’76 BUF – 3 (OT) (3-2 ’75-’76 BUF)
STARS OF THE GAME:
1st Star: D – Alexei Zhitnik (’98-’99 BUF) – 1 G 2 A 3 P +1 4 S
2nd Star: LW – Michal Grosek (’98-’99 BUF) – 1 G 2 A 3 P Even 2 S
3rd Star: LW – Rick Martin (’75-’76 BUF) – 1 G 1 A 2 P Even 10 S 2 PIM
GAME 6:
1st Period 2nd Period 3rd Period Overtime Total ’98-’99 Sabres 1 1 0 — 2 ’75-’76 Sabres 2 1 1 — 4
GAME SUMMARY: ’75-’76 BUF – 4 ’98-’99 BUF – 2 (4-2 ’75-’76 BUF)
STARS OF THE GAME:
1st Star: RW – Danny Gare (’75-’76 BUF) – 1 G 1 A 2 P +1 6 S
2nd Star: C – Don Luce (’75-’76 BUF) – 1 G 1 A 2 P +1 5 S
3rd Star: D – Bill Hajt (’75-’76 BUF) – 1 G 1 A 2 P +1 4 S
Up next is the 3-6 matchup between the ’79-’80 Sabres and the ’97-’98 Sabres! | 1,654 |
“There’s no question that there’s a lot of pent-up demand from ordinary investors,” said Ryan Feit, the site’s chief executive and one of its founders. “At the end of the day, that means there will be more capital available for small business.”
The amount of money backers will be allowed to invest depends on their income. Those with an annual income or net worth of less than $100,000 will be allowed to invest up to $2,000 in a 12-month period, or 5 percent of the lesser of their income or net worth, whichever is greater. Those with an income and net worth of more than $100,000 will be permitted to invest up to 10 percent of the lesser of their annual income or net worth.
The equity shares they buy will be risky, illiquid investments. Investors will generally be required to hold on to the shares for at least one year, and there are not yet many marketplaces for those seeking to sell shares in private companies, which are difficult to value.
Some critics are deeply skeptical about the quality of the investments that will be available. “Ninety-nine percent of these deals will prove to be unprofitable,” said Andrew Stoltmann, a lawyer who specializes in securities fraud. “This is a disaster waiting to happen.”
Others counter that the new rules will allow entrepreneurs’ family, friends, customers and professional contacts to invest in ventures that they want to support.
“I think it’s going to really make a difference for businesses that are not especially fashionable for professional investors,” said James Dowd, the chief executive of North Capital Private Securities, a broker-dealer that focuses on private fund-raising. “They want to invest in companies that have the potential to be disruptive to an entire industry. You don’t see a lot of capital flow into ordinary consumer and retail businesses.”
The S.E.C. on Friday also proposed changes to several other fund-raising rules, including those governing intrastate offerings. More than 25 states have adopted their own crowdfunding rules to let local businesses raise money from residents within the state, often with fewer regulatory requirements than the federal rules. The commission suggested striking down a rule that blocked those intrastate offerings from being advertised to out-of-state investors — a quirk that prevented companies from publicizing their fund-raising campaigns on their own websites or on social media sites. | 1,655 |
Police departments across the country will now be able to chase fleeing perps in a car that gets an EPA-estimated 38 miles per gallon.
The new Ford Police Responder Hybrid Sedan will be the first pursuit-rated hybrid police car offered in America, according to Ford.
You may have seen police in your neighborhood driving hybrids like Toyota Priuses or Chevrolet Volts. Those cars are mostly just used to get police officers from one place to another. They're not intended for pursuing and apprehending suspects in what could be dangerous high-speed chases.
The Police Responder Hybrid Sedan is based on the Ford Fusion Hybrid, but a number of changes have been made to fit it out for serious police work. Among other things, the Police Responder will have better engine cooling, stronger brakes, a more rugged suspension system and skid plates underneath to protect mechanical components when the car drives over curbs.
In order to officially qualify as "pursuit rated," the Ford Police Responder will be tested this fall by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and the Michigan State Police, two agencies that rate pursuit vehicles for police departments across the country. Ford is confident it will pass based on the automaker's own internal testing. The car will be available this spring.
Besides being able to catch criminals, Ford (F) is also touting the $3,900 in annual fuel savings per car compared to regular police cars. The hybrid's fuel economy is almost twice is good as that of the non-hybrid Ford Police Interceptor.
Police cars spend about 60% of their on-duty time running at idle, according to Ford. Hybrid cars use little or no gas while idling.
The Police Responder's interior has also been modified for police use with front seat cushions shaped to accommodate equipment belts and gun holsters. The back seat area has been designed without seatback or door pockets where a suspect could hide contraband or weapons. The backrests of the front seat are also equipped with protective anti-stab panels.The car has easy-to-clean surfaces for the ready removal of unspeakable messes.
The Police Responder Hybrid Sedan is intended mostly for urban use, according to Ford. For chasing down speedsters on the highway, Ford's Taurus-based Police Interceptor, available with a turbocharged V6 engine, is still recommended. For one thing, the Police Responder lacks protection against high-speed rear impacts that can occur when police cars are stopped on the shoulder of a highway. | 1,656 |
NEW DELHI: Significant efforts need to be made to improve employability in the engineering sector as less than 8 per cent of Indian engineers are employable in core engineering roles, reveals an Aspiring Minds' report.The National Employability Report for the first time this year looked into the employability of specialised and new careers, which are available to engineers, other than core IT and software roles.The nationwide analysis based on a sample of 1,50,000 engineers showed there was a huge gap in skills of engineers, as needed, to work in the large industry."There are several problems with regard to employability in core engineering roles. We need to excite students about these jobs. Everyone's focus today is on IT. We want students to design and build things. We need emphasis on the basics, for instance, basic electrical engineering, basic concepts of mechanics and so on," Varun Aggarwal CTO Aspiring Minds said.The government's Make in India initiative aspires to create manufacturing capacity in India and generate 100 million jobs by 2022.Low employability of engineers, however, will impede the growth of manufacturing in India in a big way and requires immediate intervention, the employability assessment firm said.Aggarwal noted that students do not have these basic concepts right. There is a huge need of a curriculum revamp and to bring in new teaching methods and technology."The science of manufacturing has moved way ahead but we continue to teach outdated concepts to students. For India to become the world's manufacturing hub, we need to lead from the front in our understanding of cutting edge methods, knowledge- driven management and implementation capability," he added.Employability for roles like mechanical design engineer and civil engineer stand at a meagre 5.55 per cent and 6.48 per cent respectively.The lowest employability percentage was recorded for the Chemical Design Engineer role at 1.64 per cent.Employability in the domain specific roles is the highest for Electronics engineers at 7.07 per cent.This percentage is considerably lower compared to employability in IT roles like Software Engineer - IT services and Associate ITeS Operations (Hardware Networking) which stood at 17.91 per cent and 37.06 per cent respectively.The study on employability across metros reveals higher employability in Delhi and Mumbai with employability for the electronics design engineer role as high as 19 per cent followed by cities like Bengaluru, Kolkata and Hyderabad.The lowest employability figures across roles is observed in Chennai with employability for the Civil Design Engineer role as low as 1 per cent, the report said. | 1,657 |
Washington — All U.S. women getting mammograms would receive information about breast density, which can sometimes make cancer harder to spot, under a government proposal released Wednesday.
The Food and Drug Administration's proposed rules would standardize the information given to millions of women following scans to detect breast cancer. This is the agency's first proposed change to mammography standards in more than 20 years. Some states already require the notices.
More than half of women over age 40 have dense breasts, with less fatty tissue and more connective and glandular tissue. That tissue appears white on X-rays, the same color as growths in the breast, making mammograms harder to read. Dense breast tissue is one of the factors that can increase a woman's chances of developing cancer.
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"Breast cancer is one of the most worrisome health concerns facing women. The FDA plays a unique and meaningful role in the delivery of quality mammography to help patients get accurate screening to identify breast health problems early, when they can be effectively addressed," FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., said in a statement.
Under the FDA's proposal, all women would receive a short summary about their breast density. For those with dense breasts, the letter would note that their tissue "makes it harder to find breast cancer," and could require additional testing. The letter would also recommend that they speak with a doctor about their "individual situation."
More than 35 states already require some kind of notification for dense breasts. But the FDA's proposal, if finalized, would apply to all states and set minimum standards for the information disclosed.
"We set a particular bar — you can't go below that bar — but states can impose more stringent requirements," said Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, the FDA's director for medical devices.
Regulators will take public comments for three months before finalizing the proposal, a process that can take months or sometimes years.
Professional guidelines don't specify next steps for women identified with dense breasts, but some physicians may recommend additional forms of scanning, including ultrasound or MRI.
Mammogram reports to doctors have long included information about density. But it wasn't routinely shared with women until some cancer survivors began pushing for disclosure laws. Congress gave the FDA authority to regulate standards for mammograms in 1992 and recently directed the agency to develop standard summary language.
Regulators said it was the first proposed update to national mammography standards in more than 20 years.
Other proposed regulations would: | 1,658 |
summer, a grandmother, old and gray and sweet, one of the loveliest spirits in the land, was sitting at her work, when her young grandson crept in and got down an old, battered, rusty gun which had not been touched for many years and was supposed not to be loaded, and pointed it at her, laughing and threatening to shoot. In her fright she ran screaming and pleading toward the door on the other side of the room; but as she passed him he placed the gun almost against her very breast and pulled the trigger! He had supposed it was not loaded. And he was right -- it wasn’t. So there wasn’t any harm done. It is the only case of that kind I ever heard of. Therefore, just the same, don’t you meddle with old unloaded firearms; they are the most deadly and unerring hings that have ever been created by man. You don’t have to take any pains at all with them; you don’t have to have a rest, you don’t have to have any sights on the gun, you don’t have to take aim, even. No, you just pick out a relative and bang away, and you are sure to get him. A youth who can’t hit a cathedral at thirty yards with a Gatling gun in three quarters of an hour, can take up an old empty musket and bag his grandmother every time, at a hundred. Think what Waterloo would have been if one of the armies had been boys armed with old muskets supposed not to be loaded, and the other army had been composed of their female relations. The very thought of it make one shudder.
There are many sorts of books; but good ones are the sort for the young to read. remember that. They are a great, an inestimable, and unspeakable means of improvement. Therefore be careful in your selection, my young friends; be very careful; confine yourselves exclusively to Robertson’s Sermons, Baxter’s Saints' Rest, The Innocents Abroad, and works of that kind.
But I have said enough. I hope you will treasure up the instructions which I have given you, and make them a guide to your feet and a light to your understanding. Build your character thoughtfully and painstakingly upon these precepts, and by and by, when you have got it built, you will be surprised and gratified to see how nicely and sharply it resembles everybody else’s. | 1,659 |
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WWN can exclusively reveal that there has been a remarkable increase in pricks dressing like Conor McGregor following the indomitable UFC fighter’s latest victory.
McGregor’s steady rise to the top continues apace following his impressive knockout of latest opponent Dustin Poirier and the Dublin fighter’s legion of fans have reacted with unbridled joy.
However, staying up until the wee small hours on Sunday morning to catch McGregor’s Las Vegas fight is not the only way people have shown support for the irrepressible Dubliner, following this victory the increase in people dressing and trying to look like Conor McGregor has increased by some 60%.
“Those figures could be somewhat unreliable as they all look so bloody alike with their beards and haircuts,” explained Peter Yardley, head of research for the Irish MMA Society, who admitted there has been a big increase in ‘McGregor-alikes’ after each of the fighter’s bouts.
Thousands of young Irish men have found something in McGregor’s gregarious nature and pugnacious spirit that has captured their respect and giddy man-lust.
“We’re seeing something similar to when young children make a new friend in school who is seemingly cooler and more impressive than them,” explained Yardley, “at first they simply start repeating turns of phrase or sayings the cool kid utters, before eventually dressing exactly like them with the long term aim being to murder and replace them without anyone noticing”.
“In McGregor’s case this is quite widespread – men with beards, a slick Irish brogue and a questionable haircut simply didn’t exist before his emergence onto the MMA scene. Now we’ve seen his influence spread as young men who are also, incidentally pricks, seek to be as cool as their idol,” added Yardley.
Young men who would have previously suggested wearing a cravat as a sure sign you’re a ‘gaybo’ regularly agonise over which one to wear with their new three-piece suit asking themselves at every turn ‘what would McGregor do?’
The quest to look like McGregor has been helped by many barbers now advertising the McGregor ‘look’ in their windows and the newly established ‘How to look like Conor McGregor’ degree in UCD fully subscribed with 300 students availing of the 4-year course. | 1,660 |
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According to a new claim from a Russian economist, the world’s 12th largest economy is about to pour $10 billion into Bitcoin.
Vladislav Ginko, a lecturer at Moscow’s Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, says US sanctions are forcing Russia to diversify.
Chris, I believe sitting here in Moscow, Russia, that the real factor of Bitcoin apotion will be when Russian government I'm working for will start investing almost $470 billion reserves into Bitcoins. I expect that it'll be at least $10 billion in the first quarter of this year. — Vladislav Ginko (@martik) January 6, 2019
Ginko told the Australian crypto outlet Micky that at this point, he believes Russia has no other option.
“US sanctions may be mitigated only through Bitcoin use. Because of US sanctions, Russia’s elite is forced to dump US assets and US dollars and invest hugely into Bitcoins. The Central Bank of Russia sits on $466 billion of reserves and has to diversify in case there is limited opportunities to do it.”
A new report from Forbes highlights the impact that US sanctions are having on Russia.
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“Sanctions and isolation are having an impact on the Russian economy. Although Russia is not a big exporter to the U.S., canceled energy and defense contracts in Europe coupled with bans on financing Russia’s key lenders have had an impact on the economy. What else can explain the lackluster growth story in the country since 2014? Even higher oil prices have done little to lift the Russian economy.”
In July, the state-sponsored Russian news outlet RT said President Vladimir Putin gave a speech highlighting the need for alternative reserve currencies in global trade.
“Regarding our American partners placing limitations, including those on dollar transactions, I believe is a big strategic mistake. By doing so, they are undermining the trust in the dollar as a reserve currency.”
At that time, Putin said Russia has no plans to stop using the US dollar unless it is prevented from doing so.
In Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro announced that the country’s newly created digital asset, the Petro, is an official government currency. The Petro is supposedly backed by the country’s oil reserves. After its launch, US President Donald Trump prohibited Americans from investing in it, claiming it was designed to avoid US sanctions.
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More than a quarter of US adults say they haven’t read a book — either in whole or in part and whether in print or electronic form — in the past year, according to a new survey.
Twenty-seven percent of adults say they have not read any books in the past 12 months, up from 19 percent in 2011, but identical to the share who said this in 2015, the Pew Research Center said.
The research shows that people who are less likely to read books fall into several categories.
Forty-four percent of adults with a high school diploma or less are far more likely than those with a bachelor’s or advanced degree to report not reading books in any format, according to the findings.
Adults with lower levels of education also are among the least likely to own smartphones, devices that saw a substantial increase in usage for reading e-books from 2011 to 2016.
Those “whose annual household income is $30,000 or less are more likely than those living in households earning $75,000 or more a year to be non-book readers (36% vs. 14%),” the study said.
Meanwhile, 40 percent of Hispanics and 33 percent of African Americans are more likely than whites — 22 percent — to report not having read a book in the past year.
But there are differences between Hispanics born inside and outside the US: 56 percent of foreign-born Hispanics report not having read a book, compared with 27 percent of Hispanics born inside the country.
In a 2016 survey, the center “found that Hispanics, older adults, those living in households earning less than $30,000 and those who have a high school diploma or did not graduate from high school are the most likely to report they have never been to a public library.”
But a 2015 survey found that some of these same demographic groups acknowledged the importance of libraries in their communities and for their families.
African American and Hispanic adults, those in lower-income households and adults age 30 and older were more likely to say that their local libraries serve them and their families “very well.”
Overall, Americans read an average of 12 books a year, while the typical American has read four books in the past 12 months, the study found.
Each of these figures is mostly unchanged since 2011, when the center first began conducting the surveys of Americans’ book-reading habits.
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PHILADELPHIA, May 14, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kermit Gosnell will receive life in prison for killing babies born alive in his West Philadelphia abortion facility.
Gosnell avoided the death penalty for two of three counts of first-degree murder by waiving his right to an appeal in exchange for a two consecutive life sentences.
Gosnell and his attorney, Jack McMahon, struck a deal before Judge Jeffrey Minehart at approximately 4 p.m., according to local media.
The sentence, which carries no possibility of parole, represents one life sentence each for "Baby C" and "Baby D."
Minehart is expected to impose an additional life sentence for "Baby A" and other penalties for the remaining crimes on Wednesday morning.
Without this afternoon's bargain the jury, which was scheduled to begin sentencing deliberations one week from today, could have imposed death by lethal injection.
Media sources add that the deal does not include punishment for the death of 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar, because her family wishes to address the court. Mongar died in 2009 when an untrained assistant administered an overdose of sedatives.
On Monday, jurors convicted the 72-year-old abortion pioneer of three counts of first-degree murder, one count of infanticide, one charge of involuntary manslaughter, tampering with evidence, and conducting more than 20 abortions after the state's 24-week limit. In all, the jury found he had violated more than 200 state abortion laws.
Rather than dismember a baby inside the womb, Gosnell would deliver babies inside his squalid Women's Medical Society, then “snip” their spinal column with scissors.
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Three babies – A, C, and D – were known to have been murdered in this fashion. However, his employees testified under oath that they had seen Gosnell perform the procedure “hundreds” of times.
McMahon said, "The media has been overwhelmingly against" Gosnell during his trial. However, pro-life activists have accused the media of ignoring the story, because it does not promote efforts to liberalize abortion-on-demand.
Troy Newman of Operation Rescue found it ironic that Gosnell would "choose life" for himself while denying it to so many unborn children. He added that while Gosnell is in prison, "I'll be praying for his repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ." | 1,663 |
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Over the coming Bank Holiday Weekend, most of the heritage railways are holding some special events.Here at RailAdvent, we have picked out just a few of them. The first is the East Lancs Railway with their 1940s Weekend, which is being held from the 28 – 30th May 2016.
There are many attractions, so please click here to see the full list
Here are some of the highlights:
Some of the attractions for the 1940s Weekend are repeated on SAT/SUN/MON, but some aren’t. Please confirm this on the East Lancashire Railway Website before travelling.
Saturday 28th May 2016
Lancaster Bomber Flypast – Bury Station – Times to be confirmed
Replica Spitfire Display – Bury Transport Museum – 10am till 4pm
The Lancashire Belle (Music and Dancing) – Ramsbottom Station – 10am till 4pm
Camp Roanoke: American Camp Display – Irwell Vale – 10am till 4pm
German Field Hospital – Rawtenstall Station – 10am till 4pm
Sunday 29th May 2016
Cream Teas in the Observation Saloon – On-Board Train – 10am till 4pm
German Ticket Inspectors – On-Board Train – 10am till 4pm
G.I. Jive: Tea Dance – Bury Transport Museum – 11am till 1pm
The Hotsie Totsies (Music) – Rawtenstall Station – 10am till 4pm
Monday 30th May 2016
Vintage Craft Activities – Bury Transport Museum – 10am till 4pm
Paul Harper, Don Gentile & Melissa Harper(Music) – Ramsbottom Station – 10am till 4pm
Battle – Ramsbottom Station – 2:50pm till 15:10pm
WW2 Command Centre – Ramsbottom Station – 10am till 4pm
Tickets/ Fares
One Day Rover – £18.00 (Adult) – £16.00 (Concession) – £11.00 (Child) – £47.00 (Family)
Two Day Rover – £32.50 (Adult) – £29.00 (Concession) – £20.00 (Child) – £94.00 (Family)
Three Day Rover – £40.00 (Adult) – £36.00 (Concession) – £25.00 (Child) – £141.00 (Family)
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There are basically three ways of dividing up a pregnancy into the three trimesters; they are by:
Development, Gestation, Conception. They give different dates for when the second trimester begins and for when the third trimester begins. Your health care provider might prefer to use the Development method, while another Midwife or Doctor may use the Gestation method.
I am sure they do that just to confuse pregnant women. by Development: This uses actual developmental stages to divide up a pregnancy. From LMP to 12 weeks the embryo develops all the major organs and becomes a fetus. From 12 weeks to 27 weeks the fetus continues developing and reaches viability. From 27 weeks on the fetus finishes development and prepares for delivery. Here the second trimester begins at 12w 0d and the third at 27w 0d. by Gestation: With this method you take the 40 weeks of gestation and divide into three equal stages. Here the second trimester begins at 13w 3d and the third at 26w 6d. by Conception: This method is where you take the 38 weeks of post conception development, divide by three, into the three equal trimesters. Here the second trimester begins at 14w 5d and the third at 27w 3d.
What is the length of the first, second and third trimesters? The length of the trimesters is often a source of confusion. The word trimester means 'three months'. Three periods of three months each, gives pregnancy a beginning, a middle and an end period. These periods match the developmental stages to divide up a pregnancy. Beginning: From LMP to 12 weeks the embryo develops all the major organs, becomes a fetus, and the placenta takes over control.
From LMP to 12 weeks the embryo develops all the major organs, becomes a fetus, and the placenta takes over control. Middle: From 12 weeks to 27 weeks the fetus continues developing and reaches viability.
From 12 weeks to 27 weeks the fetus continues developing and reaches viability. End: From 27 weeks on the fetus finishes development and prepares for delivery. When does the first trimester end or third trimester begin? Does it really matter exactly when you are out of the first trimester or start the third trimester? No. When the trimesters start and end depends on who you ask, which book you read or what website you visit. Most health care providers actually talk about your pregnancy in weeks, rather than months or trimesters.
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large stacks of legal documents. One corrections officer found two liter soda bottles that were used as floats outside a prison. When he pulled them out of a pond, bags containing more than a dozen cellphones each were found tied to them.
“We’ve found cellphones and drugs in babies’ diapers” during visitations, Cannon said. “If they think you’d never search an infant child, that will be the next place they go to try to get it in.”
Phones hidden in body cavities can’t always be picked up by traditional metal detectors, and many are wrapped in electrical tape to further avoid detection.
“We have found cellphones in the private area of visitors — I’m talking females and males,” said Christopher Epps, head of the Mississippi prison system and president of the American Corrections Association. He said it’s not unusual to find three phones in a body cavity.
States are looking for new ways to find cellphones or to prevent their use. Epps said that includes recently installed netting held up by 50-foot poles to keep people from throwing bags over prison fences for prisoners to retrieve.
Federal law prohibits jamming cellphone signals, but Texas, Maryland, California and Mississippi installed towers at some prisons that control what cellphone traffic is allowed. Phone signals reach the tower, but only authorized numbers are then passed through.
It’s not something Florida is considering because of the hefty price tag. Each system costs about $1.5 million, and with 49 major prisons, the state doesn’t have the money to cover them all.
Instead, it’s testing machines that detect a cellphone’s magnetic fields. And like Indiana and other states, Florida is also using dogs trained to sniff out cellphones.
Still, with 100,000 prisoners in Florida, Crews knows the problem will never be completely solved, especially with the profit that can be made.
“When you’re talking about that kind of money, you’re going to have a lot of people who are willing to do just about anything to get them in,” Crews said. “For a large portion of these inmates, it is about making a dollar.”
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The United Kingdom’s government is exploring using bitcoin, or some permutation of the blockchain technology that underpins it, to pay out and monitor taxpayer-funded research grants.
Matthew Hancock, the minister for the Cabinet Office and paymaster general, said today the cabinet had begun exploring ways to use blockchains in the government, with a particular interest in how it could be used in the disbursal of government research grants.
“Monitoring and controlling the use of grants is incredibly complex. A blockchain, accessible to all the parties involved, might be a better way of solving that problem,” Hancock said in a speech at Digital Catapult, a government-funded think tank. Hancock cited bitcoin as a successful example of ”distributed ledgers,” another phrase for blockchains, being used to track currency.
Politicians are often wary of linking blockchain initiatives–usually promoted because of their potential to cut costs and increase transparency–to bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that fuels the dark web’s black markets. George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, has preferred the term “digital currency” when he publicly discussed bitcoin and its ilk in the past.
But the Cabinet Office showed little reluctance to discuss bitcoin. A spokesperson said the use of bitcoin to disburse funds was “a possibility” and that the office isn’t ruling out any particular technology. “The government is looking into any sort of blockchain technique, bitcoin is one of those. It is open to all ideas,” the spokesperson said. ”There are a number of areas blockchains can be used, including government grants. It can be used to track the money and it gets tax payers a better deal, potentially.”
The Cabinet Office didn’t provide further details on its blockchain work.
The British government has steadily grown more vocal in its support for bitcoin and blockchains. Osborne used a bitcoin ATM in 2014, and talked up its importance in making the UK a leading financial technology center. Last year, he went further, announcing £10 million ($14.5 million) in funding for think tanks, including Digital Catapult, to study the technology.
The government’s chief scientist has also studied the technology, publishing a report in January. A chapter of the report was devoted to uses of blockchains within government. “If applied within government it could reduce costs, increase transparency, improve citizens’ financial inclusion and promote innovation and economic growth,” the report said. | 1,668 |
us to focus on. Because those other lives, deaths, and sentences just aren’t as interesting as when we interracially murder each other. There were 20 murders the first week of July in Chicago — how much have you heard about any of them?
My first wish for people is that they would simply learn to be more consistent with their outrage. My second wish for people is that they would be motivated to do something constructive with that emotion. Want to be heartbroken over the Zimmerman verdict? That’s cool. I don’t see you bawling your eyes out over the hundreds of innocent children killed annually in US drone strikes in other countries. Oh, well, that’s different right? Why? Why don’t you change your meaningless Facebook pictures in support of them? Want to know why? Because you don’t give a shit about them. Why don’t you flip out when innocent people get sentenced to decades in prison right here in the good ol’ United States of America, only to find out they were wrongfully convicted? Oh, because that’s not really relevant to your life. How can you complain about a broken, preferential, criminal justice system when you only care about the wrongdoing in cases that are relevant to your own tiny little vortex of existence while all other wrongdoing goes unchecked?
I can admit that my personal intuition tells me that Zimmerman murdered Trayvon Martin, but justice isn’t about my own personal intuition. Do black people get arrested and convicted more often for committing the same crimes as white people? Sure. Do black people still get profiled as criminals more in this country than other nationalities? Most definitely. Are prisons in America still filled with more African Americans than other another ethnicity? You betcha. Hell, I’ve been a member on legal teams that have been fighting for many of these people’s freedom for the last three years of my life. Does complaining about injustices on your Facebook timeline change anything? Not for a single solitary second. In translation, go out there, get involved, and do something or shut your mouth. If this is going to be a distant memory to you 30 days from now then spare everyone your activism talk.
RIP to Trayvon Martin. I hope your death galvanizes people to do more than grumble on the internet and change profile pictures to black squares.
And RIP to Oscar Grant also. A man who was shot and killed at point blank range while lying handcuffed on the ground by law enforcement personnel.
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Shetter Cheeze (Lonnie Shetter) 4:31
B3 C.P. Time (Roger Hamilton Spotts) 4:39
B4 Fourty Days (Julius “Billy” Brooks, Raymond M. Jackson) 6:17
Personnel:
Alto Saxophone – John Stevens, Lonnie Shetter
Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Tom R. Vigil
Baritone Saxophone – Bill Carter
Bass – Larry Gales
Bass, Bones – Ken Sawhill
Cornet – Michael J. Conlon
Drums – Clarence Johnston
Effects [Echo Plex] – Billy Brooks (tracks: A4)
Guitar – Jeff Lee
Soloist – Billy Brooks (tracks: A1)
Soloist [Alto] – Lonnie Shetter (tracks: A3)
Soloist [Cornet] – Mike Conlon (tracks: A4, A5)
Soloist [Electrics] – Billy Brooks (tracks: A4, A5, B1)
Soloist [Flute] – Lonnie Shetter (tracks: A5)
Soloist [Guitar] – Calvin Keyes (tracks: A2, A3, B3), Jeff Lee (tracks: B4)
Soloist [Skoonum Horn] – Billy Brooks (tracks: A4, A5, B3)
Soloist [Tenor] – Clifford Solomon (tracks: B2), Herman Riley (tracks: B1, B4), Wilbur Brown (tracks: A2)
Tenor Saxophone – Cliford Solomon, Herman Riley, Wilbur Brown
Trombone – Al Hall (2), Benny Powell (tracks: B3), Britt Woodman (tracks: A1 to B2, B4), Buster Cooper, Mihran Vartan, Ray Jackson
Trumpet – Al Gottlieb, Bob Comden, Mike Artega
Trumpet, Producer – Billy Brooks
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Label: Crossover Records – CR 9003
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1974
Genre:
Jazz, Latin, Funk / Soul
Style:
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Most people remember the egg-and-spoon race but the egg-and-boob race is way funnier and more difficult - and Australia has the world's gold medal champions.
The city of Toowoomba in Queensland will play host to the Stripper Olympics this weekend as their only strip club raises funds for drought-stricken Australian farmers.
Vault co-owner Amal Doukari said the sports included jelly-wrestling, a dildo relay and the egg-and-boob race.
The egg-and-boob race, open to men and women, involves holding an egg between your breasts and running round a track. The Stripper Olympics is raising money for Drought Angels
'It's open for girls or guys,' she said.
'You have to hold an egg between your boobs and run around a track.'
The burlesque princesses will also auction off the plaster cast of a dancer's breasts that they created for a breast-cancer fundraiser for last year's event.
The charity event is to help out Australian farmers who have been hit by one of the worst droughts in living memory.
They are donating all funds raised to Drought Angels, a small not-for-profit that is providing care packs, food hampers, stock feed and hay to struggling rural families.
Vault showgirl and award-winning dancer Asia Maree chose the farmer's charity as the perfect cause for her tiny country town as she wanted to pitch in and help them.
Vault showgirl Asia Maree will be auctioning off a plaster cast of another dancer's breasts that was created for last year's Stripper Olympics charity: breast cancer research
'I've been seeing on the news, all the horrible things they're going through and I wanted to help them out a bit.'
Ms Doukari, who invented the Stripper Olympics, said she hopes to raise thousands for Drought Angels at the free-entry event which starts at 3pm on Sunday, and is followed by the NRL Grand Final.
Farmer Robert McBride whose family have grown wool for more than 162 years said he had lost 2000 sheep in the drought from their property, Tolarno Station, in South Australia.
'It's a catastrophic disaster we've never seen in our lives,' he told Daily Mail Australia.
'I'm so proud of these ladies as an example of how wonderful the Australian people are in trying to help us,' he said. | 1,671 |
In May, when Donald Trump was facing scrutiny over promised donations to veterans groups, Sean Hannity's website posted a heartwarming story of how Trump went out of his way to help veterans back in 1991. The article is based on the memories of a Marine reservist, Cpl. Ryan Stickney, who said that Trump sent his own private jet to ferry Stickney and 200 other stranded Marines back home, adding: "I have not seen a Clinton or Sanders plane, or anything else for that matter, sent to support the troops." "The Trump campaign has confirmed to Hannity.com that Mr. Trump did indeed send his plane to make two trips from North Carolina to Miami, Florida, to transport over 200 Gulf War Marines back home," the article says.
Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler looked into the story at the request of a reader, and on Thursday he rendered his verdict: "Sean Hannity needs to correct this article, if not pull it down. The Trump campaign earns Four Pinocchios for confirming a story that is easily debunked." The airplane, captured on photo by Cpl. Stickney, was not Trump's private jet but clearly part of the Trump Shuttle fleet, under contract with the Defense Department to transport troops in 1991. Furthermore, Trump had lost control of the airline in 1991 for failing to make loan payments, and the Trump Shuttle aircraft were flying for the Pentagon because, Kessler said, Trump "made a bad deal," agreeing to buy too many planes for his airline.
You can read more about Trump's disastrous foray into the airline industry — a business he knew nothing about — from The Daily Beast's Barbara Peterson, but it's more fun to watch this amazing video of Trump launching the Trump Shuttle in 1989, to champagne and a classy string quartet. "Truthfully it was great for the Trump ego," a young Trump says about owning an airline, when asked by PIX11's Barry Cunningham. On board the inaugural Trump Shuttle from New York to Washington, Cunningham asked Trump if the flight was symbolically indicative of a jump into politics. "No, it's not at all," Trump says. "I think that hopefully somebody is going to be able to take advantage of Japan instead of always being taken advantage of. I just enjoy what I'm doing."
If Trump had jumped into the 1992 race for president, and defeated incumbent President George H.W. Bush — or replaced third-party fellow billionaire Ross Perot — he would have run against Bill Clinton. Instead, in 1992, Trump was unloading Trump Shuttle at a steep loss. Peter Weber | 1,672 |
the Midwest there are a lot of charismatic Christian religions, so speaking in tongues would seem less out-of-sorts with the prairie saints. The disappointing thing is that the 19th-century Utah Mormons removed text from the dedicatory prayer that speaks of the temple being holy forever. The fact is, my people wanted to view the prairie saints as apostates who kept animals in the temple. The prairie saints wanted to distance themselves from cousins who were murdering immigrant trains and practicing polygamy. While my ancestors were in open conflict with American laws, our cousins in the prairie were acting as good citizens and making friends with their neighbors. I’m glad that rifts like these are now being repaired.
6. Although the Community of Christ owns the Kirtland Temple, the LDS Church has its own visitor’s center in Kirtland and conducts tours to several historical sites there, including the Isaac Morley farm, the John Johnson home, and Newel K. Whitney’s store. I am hoping there is friendly cooperation between the two groups as visitors come to Kirtland and visit the various sites.
I love that you asked this. I think we should remember that it was Wilford C. Wood of Woods Cross, Utah, who purchased most of these properties as a hobby. When the LDS church finally became interested, it worked a deal with Wood to acquire these properties. My mother met Wood when she was a youth growing up in Palmyra. I think that ownership of these historic sites of the Restoration is a relatively recent concern of the LDS Church. For other members of the Reorganization, these sites were simply part of their hometown.
Having said this, the peacemaking between the mountain saints and the prairie saints that has taken place among the historians of both churches has carried over well into the Kirtland area. I asked if some of the Mormon missionaries could come help me clean up a mess I made on the third floor while painting and sixteen site missionaries and several senior couples come running to my rescue. Visiting the flats has been nothing but a positive experience for me and there are very good feelings between the religious cousins here. I would love to see this continue to spread widely across both churches. We share some fourteen years of history. Let’s focus on what we share as we accept the differences of 150 years of separation. We have lots of good stories to share with one another. If you have visited Kirtland before, come back! If you haven’t been here, make plans to come. | 1,673 |
Progressive cannabis law reforms have been moving forward around the globe and Europe has certainly been a hotbed of activity. However, while many nations across the continent, including the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, the UK, Switzerland, among others, have been helping lead the international cannabis community, France has been one nation that has been behind the times on the issue, without a medical program event. Well, that could change in the very near future as France is moving forward with a medical cannabis trial experiment that will hopefully develop into a full-blown program that will help patients and bring more jobs and revenue to the country. France 24 reported:
“There will be about two years of experimentation with therapeutic cannabis, beginning as soon as the health ministry gives the green light,” Professor Nicolas Authier, the head of pharmacology at Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital Centre’s pain clinic, told FRANCE 24. Authier heads the committee of experts charged by the National Agency for the Safety of Health Products of evaluating the practical arrangements for the distribution of medical marijuana. The committee’s report will be released on June 26. The experiment “will be set up very quickly in the coming weeks,” confirmed Jean-Baptiste Moreau, LREM’s (The Republic on the move) MP contacted by FRANCE 24. He supports legalising medical marijuana. “The challenge is ensuring a French supply chain for the production [of these pharmaceutical products]”. He hopes his district of La Creuse, where elected officials are trying to boost the local economy and asked in 2018 for a government’s permit to cultivate and produce medical-grade cannabis, will benefit from it.
Like Germany, and several other countries, France will lack a domestic cultivation foundation at the beginning of its medical program, relying upon other nations’ exports. Canada and the Netherlands have been leading international exporters, but Israel, Colombia, and Uruguay are now coming online and the United States could be joining the export game within the next 2-5 years. It’s been a shame that France’s patients have lacked access to medical cannabis while other European nations have gotten on the right side of history, but it is heartening to see France starting to get on the right track.
To learn the latest about the international cannabis industry and to network with top investors and entrepreneurs, the International Cannabis Business Conference is the event to attend. Join us this September 15th in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Early bird tickets are on sale until August 21. | 1,674 |
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Ann Arbor-based Domino's Pizza launched a rather bizarre marketing campaign in which it's working with municipalities around the country to pave potholes.Why? To reduce pizza "pizza jostling" and "irreversible damage to your pizza on the ride home," the company says. It even put up a pizza box cam that allegedly shows how your slices bounce around in the box on rough roads."Have you ever hit a pothole and instantly cringed?" said Russell Weiner, president of Domino's USA. "We know that feeling is heightened when you're bringing home a carryout order from your local Domino's store. We don't want to lose any great-tasting pizza to a pothole, ruining a wonderful meal. Domino's cares too much about its customers and pizza to let that happen."We'll skip the debate on the "great-tasting pizza" comment and note that the initiative is called Paving For Pizza, and Domino's says in a release that it fixed 200 potholes across four municipalities. Their crews even tag the potholes, which means the country now has sponsored potholes.However, even though Domino's is headquartered in Michigan and our pockmarked roads undoubtedly jostle Domino's execs on their way to work, the company hasn't paved over one pothole around here — though you can nominate your city to be among the next to have its potholes filled.But there's actually more to say about the entire campaign on a deeper level. In the old days, you didn't have to order pizza to get potholes fixed.Governments used to take care of that. But in 2011 in Michigan, the Republican-led state government raised taxes on senior citizens and handicapped people while drastically cutting taxes for businesses Last year, Republicans in Congress and Trump also cut the corporate tax rate, which Domino's CEO Patrick Doyle supported. And Michigan continues to give away billions of dollars of tax payer money to wealthy developers, like Dan Gilbert.This is what happens when corporations don't pay their fair share of taxes — the roads fall apart, and there's no money left to fix them. Now you have to do dumb shit like buy lowgrade pizza to get potholes filled. When corporations pay their fair share of taxes, the roads get fixed — and you don't have to buy extra pizza.
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A Maryland police officer posed as a homeless man in a bid to catch drivers texting while driving
Montgomery County Police Officer Patrick Robinson and other officers carried out the undercover operation to catch motorists who were texting while driving in in Bethesda.
Officer Robinson, who was dressed in shabby clothes and wore gloves, held a sign that read: 'I am not homeless. I am a Montgomery County Police Officer looking for cell phone texting violations.'
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Montgomery County Police Officer Patrick Robinson went undercover as a homeless man in Bethesda
He stood near an intersection on River Road to catch drivers who were texting on their phones while driving
Other officers waiting down the road would stop the offenders and issue them a citation or a warning
The officer was equipped with a wireless microphone to alert other police who were waiting down the road when he observed a driver texting behind the wheel, according to Fox 5.
Robinson, who was also looking for drivers who weren't wearing seat belts, was also wired with a hidden camera in order to record encounters in case any of the cases needed to go to court.
Texting while driving is a primary offense, which mean officers who observe that behavior have probable cause to pull over a motorist and issue a citation on the spot.
County police have conducted two similar operations at the intersection and each resulted in about 50 tickets, according to Bethesda Magazine.
Robinson was wired with a hidden camera to record encounters in case any of the cases have to go to court
Police issued 56 tickets and gave out 22 warnings by the time the two-hour operation ended Tuesday morning
Robinson said he'spotted over 30 in an hour' and police had issued 56 tickets and given out 22 warnings to drivers by the time the two-hour operation ended around 9.30am on Tuesday.
The fine for using a handheld device while driving is $83 for a first violation, but then increases to $140 and then $160 for subsequent violations.
There is also a fine for texting while driving which is $70 and counts one point on a driver’s license.
Police gave out four warnings and four tickets for texting and 39 tickets and nine warnings for using a handheld device while driving.
The additional tickets and warnings were issued for driving on the shoulder, driving without a license, negligent driving, failure to display registration and one ticket for a plate cover.
A sting operation to catch drivers who didn't stop for school buses was held earlier in the week. | 1,676 |
February 13th, 2017.
Sensing that a friend was having some personal issues, and remembering that a trip out to a fish fry in 2016 helped them to get in a good state of mind through the powers of reminiscence of what the event has meant to them in the past, I sent an open invite.
“I am going to be picking up what is said to be THE BEST FISH FRY ITEM (TM) IN CINCINNATI on March 3rd”
The goal was simple. Take off work early, head on over to Bridgetown Finer Meats on the west side of town, and grab their self-proclaimed Fabulous Fish Sandwich. Then swing back over towards Red Bank and meet up with aforementioned friend to commiserate over our lives and eat fried fish.
Then, trouble happened — in the form of my complete underestimation of the traffic jam that becomes Bridgetown Finer Meats’ area around 4PM. The parking lot was full, police started directing traffic, but I finally got into the venue, a deli. The smell of fried fish was in the air.
My order.
Two sandwiches, no cheese, no sides.
I watched as workers assembled sandwiches in the back, laying down one slice of lengthwise-cut Servatii (a local bakery) rye, then the gigantic filet of haddock, then onion, tomato, and lettuce. A production line that they weren’t likely to see an end of for another couple hours. One of the workers wiped his brow with his forearm, and went right back to work.
My order was up. I took the two takeout containers, the filets poking out of their boxes, and left as traffic was getting notably worse — a testament to how well-loved the Bridgetown Finer Meats’ fish fry was. It was too late to get back to Red Bank in time, though. So I messaged said friend, and we ate our sandwiches and commiserated in my kitchen.
We planned a follow-up the next week, and eventually decided to rate the fish fries on the basis of fish quality and vibe/ambiance.
Fish Quality: 5
Vibe: N/A
Comments: An impressive fish sandwich for scale, quality, and consistency. Even by itself, the fish would have been top-tier, but the addition of quality rye and fresh-cut vegetables takes this one over the top. | 1,677 |
Security at a Brooklyn homeless shelter was so lax a vagrant was able to keep a gun at the facility — and used it to shoot two local men while a guard did nothing to stop him, a lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges.
The suit filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Tuesday claims the unnamed guard at the Star Bright Family Residence in Canarsie looked the other way as alleged shooter Mervyn Haynes flashed the weapon while “indicating to the officer that he was going to use the gun” following a dispute with two men outside the shelter in July.
Haynes, 35, then allegedly shot Justin Kelly and Jerome Bethune in the head — killing Kelly and critically wounding Bethune, the suit claims.
“This incident is emblematic of why people throughout the city object to homeless shelters coming up in their neighborhoods,” said Abe George, an attorney for the victims and their families.
George claimed the facility “neglected their own internal safety protocols in allowing people to enter their own facility without proper security screening, thereby creating a danger to the community the shelter was trying to serve.”
The suit — filed on behalf of Bethune and Kelly’s mother, Barbara Mullings — names Haynes, Star Bright and unidentified security guards at the facility.
The shooting happened around 3 a.m. July 10, when Haynes was returning to the non-profit agency’s shelter on 104th Street and got into a heated dispute with Kelly and Bethune outside.
Haynes then stormed inside to get a handgun he kept there — which he was apparently able to get into the facility despite metal detectors and security guards who are supposed to keep weapons out, the suit charges.
Haynes then headed back outside with the gun, passing the guard — and flashing the weapon to him — before shooting the two men, the lawsuit alleges.
Both victims were taken to Brookdale Hospital Medical Center. Kelly, who was shot in the head, died. Bethune, who was hit in the neck and face, was listed in critical condition.
He has since undergone “multiple” surgeries but survived.
Haynes was arrested July 14 and charged with murder and attempted murder and is being held at the Brooklyn Detention Complex without bail.
He has four prior arrests dating to 2000 for assault, menacing with a weapon, sex abuse and criminal possession of a controlled substance, according to the NYPD.
Officials at Star Bright declined to comment Tuesday.
Additional reporting by Daniel Cassady | 1,678 |
bail himself out when his financial gamble proved to be too reckless. He is now applying that same approach to this country’s foreign policy. The problem is, if a president gambles away all the treaties, alliances, and good will that he inherited, nobody will be there to bail the American people out.
Our understanding is that the initial drive to consider walking away from the Open Skies Treaty came while former National Security Adviser John Bolton was still on the job. For Bolton, it was never a matter of whether to walk away from what he viewed as America’s entangling treaties, it has always a matter of when he could make it happen.
Throughout his career, Bolton has pushed policies that—just like Trump once did on New Jersey casinos and the United States Football League—riskily leveraged hard-earned gains in arms control, alliance relationships, and great power strategic stability in pursuit of supposedly grander payoffs for American power and security. During his previous stints in government, Bolton had to navigate around other Republican national security leaders, including presidents, who were usually reluctant to make reckless bets with the large security dividends the United States earns from standing atop a mildly binding system of rules, habits, and alliances.
This time around, though, Bolton answered only to one.
Bolton’s influence was palpable in President Trump’s short-sighted abandonment of the Iran nuclear deal. Bolton’s hand could be seen in Trump’s abrupt move to scrap, rather than fix, Ronald Reagan’s Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Walking out of the Open Skies Treaty would simply squander one more inherited asset that has paid solid, steady returns for American national security.
America’s European allies, Congress, and the American public must reject this reckless move. If this President continues to fritter away the structures of openness, confidence, and Trans-Atlantic cooperation that Republicans like Dwight Eisenhower and George H.W. Bush helped build and bequeath, our diplomatic standing – and our very security – may never recover.
“A retreat from American leadership, from American involvement,” the late President Bush warned in his 1993 farewell remarks at Texas A&M University, “would be a mistake for which future generations, indeed our own children, would pay dearly.”
It has been almost a year since the passing of the president who helped to build a safer, more secure world. The Open Skies Treaty is part of that legacy. We cannot let our current President squander it. | 1,679 |
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October's miserable market month took its toll across the board, including the hedge fund industry, which collectively turned negative for the year.
Hedge fund returns declined 3.1 percent during the month, according to industry tracker eVestment, the second-worst month since 2011. Equity funds caused the biggest damage, down 4.3 percent, while derivatives fell 3.7 percent and broad multimarket managers saw a decline of close to 2.5 percent.
The only class to make money was foreign exchange/currency, which rose just over 1 percent.
The declines dragged funds into negative territory for the year, with a loss of 2.6 percent.
"The search for bright spots in the industry was difficult in October as almost every hedge fund primary market and primary strategy was in the red for the month, although many are still in positive territory" year to date, eVestment said in a report. "October's fund performance and resulting impact on YTD performance are in stark contrast to the largely positive results hedge funds saw in 2017 and 2016."
Indeed, the industry has been on a winning streak, with returns of about 9 percent in 2017 and 5.8 percent the year before.
Bad as October was, hedge funds actually outperformed the stock market, as the fell 6.9 percent. The market's losses began in mid-October, when investors began worrying about higher interest rates, corporate earnings that may be close to peaking, and the looming midterms that ultimately saw Democrats wrest House control from the Republicans.
For the year, though, equities continue to hold the edge. Investors who bought a plain index fund that tracks the S&P 500 would have been up about 3 percent through October and paid only a low fee, while the hedge fund industry, much of which still operates on the 2-and-20 model — respectively representing the percentage charge on assets and performance — lagged behind.
From a strategy standpoint, multistrategy credit led in October by being about flat, while event-driven activists lost 5.8 percent. For the year, multistrategy has been the best performer, with a 2.9 percent return, while activists have fared worst with a 6.9 percent decline.
The 10 largest funds have done best with a collective gain of 1.24 percent year to date, while the 10 largest managed futures funds are down 4.9 percent. At a country level, Brazil has led with a 0.75 percent gain while India is off 22.5 percent. | 1,681 |
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Reports have suggested that DC Comics' upcoming Suicide Squad movie has been headhunting some pretty big fish, with actors like Will Smith, Tom Hardy, Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie previously rumored for roles (not to mention the possible involvement of Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor ), but now the new scuttlebutt is saying that a key, fan-favorite part may wind up going to English actress/model Cara Delevingne.This report comes to us from Latino-Review, which has learned from sources that Warner Bros. is interested in the actress for "the villainous female role" in Suicide Squad. While they received no kind of confirmation, the character the site speculates Delevingne could be playing is Harley Quinn - The Joker's utterly psychotic significant other who is part of the comic book team in DC Comics' New 52 continuity. The site notes that earlier drafts of the screenplay for the film didn't include Harley Quinn, but that may be changing due to the fact that it looks like director David Ayer is going to have a crack at the script.Delevingne made her big screen debut in 2012 wen she played Princess Sorokina in director Joe Wright's Anna Karenina adaptation, and she recently reunited with the director for his movie Pan, which is currently in post-production and will be heading to theaters next year. In case you're not familiar with her work, you can get a good look at her below, courtesy of her personal Instagram feed.Weirdly enough, this isn't the first time in recent weeks that a connection has been made between Cara Delevingne and Harley Quinn. Just three weeks ago she posted an illustration of Harley on her Instagram feed with the caption "Dress up time!"Is this image somehow connected to Delevingne's potential involvement in Suicide Squad and the possibility that she could play Harley Quinn? It's hard to say, but it does make me want to take out some red string and thumbtacks.David Ayer's Suicide Squad is still in pre-production, and is expected to start shooting some time next year. Warner Bros. has not officially announced a release date for the film, though it has been dated for 2016 and will presumably be arriving on the August 5, 2016 release date that the studio has already carved out. | 1,682 |
Britain’s Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle are famous climate change advocates but recently pop icon Elton John had to come to their defense over their habitual use of private jets to fly around the world on vacation.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex recently took heat for flying off to vacation at singer Elton John’s $18 million mansion in Nice, France, on the French Rivera, even though they both regularly speak about climate change. Worse for the critical activists, it was the couple’s fourth private jet flight in only 11 days.
But, on Monday, Sir Elton spoke up for the royal couple saying that he not only paid for the flights out of his own pocket, but he also claims to have made a “carbon neutral” donation to paper over the trip, according to the Daily Mail.
The “Rocketman” singer insisted that when he arranged for the pair to visit his home, he also made sure to donate money to an “appropriate” carbon footprint fund.
In his remarks, Elton John said he is “deeply distressed” over the “distorted and malicious” attacks on Harry and Markle, and he feels the need to defend them “from the unnecessary press intrusion that contributed to Diana’s untimely death,” TMZ reported.
John insisted that he offered the couple a short vacation stay at his mansion because they have had a “hectic” year. He also wanted to reward them for their work for charity.
The singer pleaded with the couple’s detractors to “cease these relentless and untrue assassinations on their character that are spuriously crafted on an almost daily basis.”
But critics pounced. The couple had only just returned from a trip to the Spanish island Ibiza — where villas rent for up to $23,000 a week — to celebrate Markle’s 38th birthday. Critics also pointed out that the private jet trip to Nice sports a more than $23,000 price tag and that the pair could have flown commercial 200 times for that cost.
In addition, the private jet flight to and from Ibiza would create 12.5 tons of carbon dioxide per person, an amount of pollution that would take 14 commercial flights to emit, according to activists.
Buckingham Palace has refused to comment on the trips, or the costs involved.
Follow Warner Todd Huston on Twitter @warnerthuston. | 1,683 |
Bitcoin New Zealand Is A Good Place To Be Paid In Bitcoin
The New Zealand Tax Department has just issued guidance on salary payments made in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency. This confirms that such payments are entirely within the law, and clarifies how to deal with them in accounting.
Pay Me In Bitcoin
The ruling covers payment of wages or salary (including bonuses) either wholly or in part using cryptocurrency. Payments must be for services performed as employment, and the ruling does not apply to any crypto-assets provided as a ‘share’ under an employee share scheme.
The crypto-assets paid should be able to be directly converted to fiat currency via an exchange, and a significant functionality of the asset should be as a currency.
When these conditions met, the new tax rules treat payment in cryptocurrency as a normal part of the employee’s salary or wages. As such, they are subject to pay as you earn (PAYE) income tax at the usual rates. This should be deducted by the employer and paid to the inland revenue (in New Zealand dollars).
The guide also gives advice and tools for calculations arising from national schemes such as student loan repayments, working families entitlements, and Kiwisaver schemes.
Savings In Bitcoin
The real benefit from this comes if an employee is able to save some of their earnings paid in cryptocurrency. New Zealand does not have Capital Gains Tax. Therefore, any Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency which is held as an investment will not be subject to further tax.
This differs from last year’s UK guidelines. In these, tax is applied at source via income tax, then again on disposal through capital gains tax. Crypto-earnings in New Zealand therefore, suffer less of a tax burden if saved.
Crypto Salaries Easier Than Ever
As Bitcoinist has reported, paying employees in Bitcoin is becoming easier than ever, although Peter Schiff believes there is no demand. Further making a mockery of Schiff’s claims, is the groundswell of calls for Bitcoin payments by NFL stars.
Some commentators suggest that increasing payment of wages in Bitcoin will spur an increase in retail acceptance of cryptocurrency. This, of course, should lead to more interest in employees wanting to be paid in cryptocurrency, and so on and so on.
New Zealand certainly seems to be paving the way with a simple and inclusive taxation system.
What do you make of New Zealand’s new crypto-friendly tax laws? Add your thoughts below!
Image via Shutterstock | 1,684 |
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Alcatraz — San Francisco, CA, USA
Chances are good that you’ve heard about Alcatraz. Probably America’s most famous prison, Alcatraz operated as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That might not be long compared to most of the prisons on our list today, but its rich history definitely makes this prison-turned-museum worth the mention.
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Eastern State Penitentiary — Philadelphia, PA, USA
Eastern State Penitentiary was opened in 1892. It’s considered to be the world’s first true penitentiary — a prison designed to inspire penitence in the hearts of convicts. It was used as a model for about 300 other prisons around the world and was closed in 1971, opening its doors now as a museum (and a popular yearly Halloween attraction).
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Fremantle Prison — Fremantle, Western Australia
The Fremantle Prison was built by convicts in the 1850s and was closed as a place of incarceration in 1991 after 136 years of continuous use. It was opened to the public in 1992 as a tourist site. I don’t feel like visiting it on my own though — the photos are enough give me the full picture of that sorrowful place.
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Huron Historic Gaol. Goderich, Ontario, Canada
The Huron County Jail was opened in 1872 and serverd as the jail till 1972. The building originally housed the County Courts and Council Chambers, as well as serving as Gaol and House of Refuge.
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The Russian government has denigrated the man who may have been an informant for the CIA, who is now said to be living in the United States after being extracted.
Several American news outlets have detailed how a Russian mole, who has not been named by the U.S. government, led the CIA to conclude President Vladimir Putin ordered interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Russian state media and government officials have identified the alleged spy as Oleg Smolenkov, presenting him as a drunk who abandoned his sick mother and had no access to Putin.
Current and former American officials told the New York Times that the Russian accounts should be considered disinformation and the information about Smolenkov should not be trusted.
Dmitri Peskov, a spokesman for Putin, said Smolenkov had been fired years ago from his Kremlin position “that did not belong to the category of senior posts.” The position “did not provide for any contacts with the president at all,” Peskov said.
Peskov said he could not confirm whether Smolenkov was the alleged informant extracted from Russia by the CIA in 2017. He called reports in American media “pulp fiction.”
“I never saw him, never met him, and didn’t follow either his career or his movements. And I don’t want to comment on rumors,” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
Russian politician Aleksei Pushkov mocked Smolenkov as someone who “supposedly knew everything about everyone.”
A former colleague told state media that Smolenkov’s duties at the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., were mostly tasks like buying cars for the embassy car pool and goods for its store. The colleague said Smolenkov “often” drank a “bit more than usual.” Another former colleague said he complained about his salary.
Smolenkov was sent to Washington more than a decade ago to work under the then-Russian ambassador Yuri Ushakov, who later became a foreign policy adviser to Putin in the Kremlin. Smolenkov returned to Russia to serve as an adviser to the government and around 2012 was hired as an aide to Ushakov.
Whoever the CIA’s intelligence asset was, he led the intelligence community to believe with “high confidence” that the Russian government was behind the hack of the Democratic National Committee during the election.
Details have not been reported as to how the CIA recruited the informant decades ago. | 1,686 |
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Hi, I’m Pathik.
I lead DB Digital, a digital content products startup. We’re building multiple digital content products for the 500 million+ users coming online on mobile by 2020, starting with a mobile-first news product built for Bharat with high quality trusted content for multiple languages, engaging content formats and a seamless product experience optimized for India. Something that India really deserves, but certainly lacks right now. We’re backed by India’s biggest newspaper group (The Dainik Bhaskar Group) which reaches tens of millions of consumers across India on a daily basis, in multiple languages including Hindi, Gujarati and Marathi.
Before that, I led Product, Growth & M&A at Hike Messenger. We built some really cool shit and grew to more than 100 million users in India, raised more than $250M to become one of the fastest unicorns in India. We were building India’s first super-app and leading the Product and Growth teams, we built everything from messaging to social to content to gaming to payments and even commerce within a single app. We also acquired 3 companies and invested in one.
Other than that – I spend most of my free time evaluating, mentoring and investing in promising consumer tech startups solving real problems for the Indian market. I’m an avid learner and reader of business, finance, technology and I love good sci-fi. I’m also trying to dabble with exercise, sleep optimization and basic biohacking to achieve peak human performance and would love to spend more time learning and mastering that.
Before all of this, I tried to create my own business empire in the dark unexplored areas of the internet while in college (but dropped it when I realized my ideas won’t scale), barely scraped my way through an engineering degree, tried to become a professional gamer (CS & DoTA – quit when I realized probably only 10 people in India would make good money doing it), joined an investment bank in the technology team (to eventually become a cool investment banker, and left when I realized that wasn’t the path to it), dabbled with an MBA to drop out on the first day, completed 2 levels of CFA (and then dropped out as both weren’t worth the time), joined and eventually led the India Ops of a US based tech enabled equity research startup.
If you need to connect with me, just ping me on Twitter – @pathik | 1,687 |
By Captain Pyke | September 9, 2012 - 10:12 pm
You kids remember the awesome superhero short film "Liberator" that we talked about last year, right? Well, it's finished and getting to play at Stan Lee's Comikaze Expo next weekend (September 15th & 16th). Not only will it be shown twice at the con, but it will also open for Stan Lee's documentary With Great Power the 15th. Both screenings will be followed by panels featuring Lou Ferrigno and other cast and crew.
Liberator stars Lou Ferrigno as a disgraced, washed-up, ex-superhero whose secret black ops past comes back to haunt him as he tries to put his life back together. Like the Liberator character, the heat is also on Ferrigno, as he was recently on NBC’s “The Apprentice,” voiced “The Hulk” in this summer’s box office smash “The Avengers,” and continues to pack them in at fan conventions around the world.
Not only does the film star The Hulk, but boasts an all star cast including: Peta Wilson (“La Femme Nikita”) as CIA spook Marla Criswell, martial arts star Don “The Dragon” Wilson as Sidewinder, Tara Cardinal as Gaia, the legendary Edward Asner (“Up”) as President Whitlock, and our favorite TNG security chief Michael Dorn as General Augustus Pollard,
“I like to think of my character, General Pollard, as a cross between Oliver North and Colin Powell,” says Michael Dorn. “He’s a guy who is true blue but who will do bad things if he’s ordered to do bad things, which is a great dichotomy of soldiers we have known. You just do what you’re told, and it doesn’t matter who you’re doing it to. He’s bought into that.”
Stan Lee's Comikaze Expo runs September 15th through the 16th at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Check out the official website for more info. You can also check out the Liberator official website to keep up on the film and where it will be shown next.
You can check out a full length interview with Michael Dorn about his character General Pollard, below.
We also got our hands on the official press release and flyer for the upcoming Comikaze showing | 1,688 |
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See creativebloq.com's custom 404 error page below as an example:
ADD A SEARCH BAR
Adding a search bar to your 404 error page is a great way to do this, it acts as a way to assist the user in getting back on track and finding what they are looking for. The search bar provides an ideal alternative option and significantly improves usability.
GIVE CRAWLERS MORE OPTIONS TO IMPROVE SEO
Search engine crawlers are most likely not going to use the search bar at this point as they are not looking for anything specific. However, by offering more options for search engine crawlers, you can significantly increase your SEO.
Search engine crawlers commonly navigate to broken links or incorrect URLs on websites. This serves as an excellent opportunity to provide the crawlers with links to other content on your website. A good example of this is Pinterest's custom 404 error page:
In addition this is an extremely useful tool for providing your human users with further options for browsing your website. Displaying your most popular content on your 404 error page may convince a user to stay on your website even if they could not find what they were initially searching for.
PROVIDE HUMOUR TO LIGHTEN THE SITUATION
Many websites have humorous 404 error pages which can help to improve a potentially disappointing interaction for a user.
Whilst there is no guarantee that the user will not still feel let down, it can’t hurt to try and improve the situation with humour. Not only could this help lighten the situation, but if the user found your 404 error page amusing they may share it with their friends; or you may even end up featured in an article like the one you are reading now, potentially increasing traffic to your website and providing high quality backlinks.
Here is an excellent example from mint.com:
SUMMARY
Regardless of how much effort you put into rectifying internal or external broken links, 404 errors are inevitable. Providing users with more options when landing on your 404 error page greatly increases the chance that a user will remain on your website, even if they could not find the content they initially requested.
Do you have a good example of a well-designed 404 error page you would like to share?
Feel free to post a link in the comments we would love to see them. | 1,689 |
had agreed they would have reflected his views in the operational judgment,” Matthan said.
Matthan also highlighted some of the gaps in the judgment. “In reading down section 57, the judgment has only said that private companies cannot use the authentication system. Nowhere has it said that data previously collected by them must be deleted. In fact, in para 367, they say that a person may use his Aadhaar card voluntarily as a proof of identity. Justice Chandrachud is the only one who speaks of deletion and even he only speaks of it in the context of telcos. Nothing has been mentioned in the context of banks or anything else.”
There is no positive obligation on telcos to delete: Zoheb Hosain
“There is no positive obligation on telcos to delete the Aadhaar data. If the court has intended for the data to be deleted, then there would be suitable directions to that effect. Usually there is something known as judicial conference. There is a presumption that judges have read each other’s judgment even though they may not say so explicitly. And under this presumption, if the majority judgment has not reiterated the views of Justice Chandrachud, then it can be presumed that directions of the minority view cannot be construed as the law declared by the SC,” Zoheb Hosain, a lawyer for UIDAI in the SC case, said.
Deletion only on request: Govt and Industry bodies
The Unique Identification Authority Of India (UIDAI), the department of telecommunications and the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), an industry body of mobile service bodies, have all said telcos will not delete data unless requested by the customer.
“The Honourable Supreme Court in its judgment in Aadhaar case has nowhere directed that the mobile number which has been issued through Aadhaar eKYC has to be disconnected. If anybody wishes to get her/his Aadhaar eKYC replaced by the fresh KYC, s/he may request the service provider for delinking of her/his Aadhaar by submitting fresh OVDs as per earlier DoT Circulars on mobile KYC,” UIDAI said in a joint statement with the department of telecommunications last week.
Meanwhile, COAI has confirmed that telcos would not be deleting Aadhaar data unless specifically requested for. “There is no question of delinking Aadhaar en-masse. Delinking will be done only on the customer’s request,” said Rajan Mathews, director general, COAI. | 1,690 |
Guess how much football the women play across their regular season compared with the AFL men? Answer: roughly one sixth as much! Seven rounds against the men's 22, and actual playing time in each game not much more than half the men's. Putting that another way: in their whole regular season the women play the equivalent of about four games of men's football. The women's pre-season training lasts longer than their whole season. That might have been OK for the first season, and even the second, with eight teams playing each other once. But a fourth blink-and-you-miss-it season in 2020, this time with 14 teams in the competition? That simply isn't good enough, and it's hard to see the AFL as really serious about the women's comp if they don't recognise this. Compare the AFLW season with other elite national women's sporting competitions such as WBBL, W-League, WNBL, Super Netball. They all play much longer seasons and/or more games than the 2019 version of AFLW. With so little game-time on offer, the cross-code drift could be away from the AFLW. Ideally, we'd like the 2020 season to consist of 13 rounds, with each of the 14 teams playing each other once, plus three weeks of finals.
At an absolute minimum, the season for 2020 should be extended to 10 regular-season rounds. That would increase the playing time in the women's season from one-sixth to about one-quarter of the men's playing time. Loading That extension would take the women's season four or five weeks into the men's season. How might it go? The indications are that it would go very well. In 2019 there were 53,000 people at the AFLW grand final at Adelaide Oval two weeks into the men's season. Of course those numbers aren't going to happen right across three extra regular season rounds, but the signs are encouraging. Extending the season would incur extra costs, including the cost of televising games. Maybe the AFL is looking to hold off on significant extension of the AFLW season until the signing of the next TV rights agreement for 2023 and beyond. That way they can hope to get paid for televising extra weeks rather than having to pay for them. That extra money is significant, of course. But if the explosion of interest in girls and women playing and watching football since the launch of AFLW is any indication, keeping up the momentum with our proposal would be a move perfectly targeted to sustain and increase girls' and women's broader participation. | 1,691 |
A coveted blue verified badge is a hot commodity on Twitter in 2018, one that not even Verge, one of the top privacy coins, can obtain. The lead up to a partnership announcement with Pornhub yesterday raised the coin’s profile over the last few weeks, attracting a fraudulent Twitter imposter soliciting crypto from the public.
What’s worse, the fraudulent account has a blue badge and belongs to freelance film producer and director Seif Elsbei (@seifsbei) — all while the real Verge accounts remain unverified, further confusing Twitter users.
Shortly after the scam was noticed by Verge, the real account tweeted:
We are NOT doing any give aways at all, as seen below this tweet. These are scams thst are all over every crypto twitter account. We need @Twitter to start doing human verification immediately! — VergeCurrency (@vergecurrency) April 12, 2018
The imposter account quickly moved on from Verge and started targeting Bitfinex exchange and 4 other cryptocurrencies. To mimic different accounts and retain the blue checkmark, the user keeps their handle @seifsbei the same and simply retweets everything from the victim accounts to confuse followers before tweeting a scam.
The suspect account:
As of November 2017, Twitter Support announced that they are not accepting new public submissions for a badge while they work on a new authentication and verification program.
4 / We're working on a new authentication and verification program. In the meantime, we are not accepting any public submissions for verification and have introduced new guidelines for the program. https://t.co/j6P0HGXIVq — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) November 15, 2017
Twitter has been at odds with the cryptocurrency community lately, a strange dynamic given co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey’s bullish attitude towards cryptocurrency and Bitcoin. Last month, Twitter announced that it would be banning all crypto ads on the platform, and more recently came under fire for banning the @Bitcoin account, which has since been restored.
The scam is the latest in a long history of Twitter-based cryptocurrency scams that are encouraged by the site’s non-committal attitude toward fixing their verification process. In the last week, we reported a scam account taking advantage of Storm token followers using the Twitter handle, @StormToiken (confusingly similar when the account has the same picture as the actual project). Twitter has yet to take any action against this account known to spam Storm announcements soliciting Ethereum. | 1,692 |
Alexander Nix’s lawyers cite criminal investigation into firm’s use of data as reason for no-show
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The suspended head of Cambridge Analytica has refused to appear before a parliamentary inquiry into fake news, citing an investigation by the information commissioner about the firm’s use of data.
Alexander Nix had agreed to appear again on Wednesday before the digital, culture, media and sport committee after it asked him to return to address “inconsistencies” in his earlier evidence to its investigation into fake news and misinformation.
But his lawyers told the committee he would not now be appearing, its chairman, Damian Collins, told a hearing of the inquiry.
Collins said Nix’s lawyers had said he was “now not able to give evidence tomorrow as a consequence of him having been served with an information notice and being subject of a criminal investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office”.
Investigators from the data watchdog spent nearly seven hours searching the London offices of Cambridge Analytica last month as part of its investigation.
Collins disputed the grounds for Nix’s refusal to appear and said the committee was considering using its power to summon him.
The Conservative MP said: “We have taken advice from the parliamentary authorities on this matter. He has not been charged with any offence. The subjudicary rules do not apply in these cases as there is no ongoing legal proceeding.”
He added: “We will be discussing this with the information commissioner on Thursday but it is certainly the intention of the committee to take this further and consider issuing a summons for Mr Nix to appear on a named day at some point in the near future.”
The information commissioner said: “We have written to Mr Nix to invite him to be interviewed by our investigators. Our investigation is looking at whether criminal and civil offences have been committed under the Data Protection Act.”
Last month, revelations about Cambridge Analytica in the Guardian and Observer prompted Collins to ask Nix to provide further evidence to the committee.
He wrote: “We are also interested in asking you again about your claim that you ‘do not work with Facebook data, and … do not have Facebook data’.”
Collins warned Nix that giving false statements to a select committee was a very serious matter and urged him to explain his comments. | 1,693 |
The Kremlin said on Friday such a move would plunge the entire region into complete chaos.
Dozens of State Department officials have signed an internal document that calls for targeted military strikes against the Syrian government, according to the Wall Street Journal.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that the internal memo on Syria signed by more than 50 US diplomats is an "important statement" that he would discuss when he gets back to Washington.
"It's an important statement and I respect the process, very, very much. I will... have a chance to meet with people when I get back," Kerry said during a visit in Copenhagen.
The memo is sharply critical of US policy in Syria, calling for military strikes against the Assad government.
An unnamed US official familiar with the document said the internal cable may be an attempt to shape the foreign policy outlook of the next US administration.
“It is not a secret to us that there are political forces in the US who favor a military solution [to the Syrian crisis]. But this is not our method," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Friday, Press TV reported.
The United States and its allies have been conducting airstrikes against what are said to be Daesh terrorists inside Syria since September 2014 without any authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate.
The attacks have largely failed to fulfill their declared aim of destroying Daesh but killed civilians and targeted the Syrian infrastructure in many cases.
Washington has consistently refused to join forces with Russia in Syria against Daesh ever since Moscow launched its campaign of airstrikes in September last year.
On Thursday, a senior US defense official accused Russia of carrying out airstrikes in southern Syria against US-backed forces.
The accusation came a day after Kerry said the US was losing patience with Russia over its support for the Syrian government.
"Russia needs to understand that our patience is not infinite. In fact it is very limited with whether or not al-Assad is going to be held accountable," he said.
Responding to those remarks, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he believed the US might hope to use al-Qaeda's branch in Syria to unseat President Assad's government.
Lavrov said in St. Petersburg on Thursday that the reluctance of US-backed opposition groups to distance themselves from the Nusra Front has been a major reason behind continuing fighting.
The US could be "playing some kind of game here, and they may want to keep al-Nusra in some form and use it to topple the regime," Lavrov said. | 1,694 |
The government has decided to go ahead with work on a 1,100-megawatt nuclear power plant in Karachi with Chinese assistance from the next financial year in an effort to ease energy shortages in the country.
According to sources, the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) will build the power plant named Karachi Coastal Power and costing an estimated $9.5 billion.At present, Pakistan has two nuclear power plants – Chashma 1 and 2 – each with a capacity of 320MW and built with Chinese assistance. Work on Chashma 3 and 4 power plants is also under way.Officials say of the total cost of Rs950 billion ($9.5 billion) for Karachi Coastal Power, the government is likely to allocate Rs7.5 billion in the budget for the next financial year, beginning July. Apart from this, it is planning to secure Rs65 billion in foreign lending to give a push to the project.The government is also in contact with China to purchase two nuclear power plants with a combined capacity of 2,000MW, which will be utilised for setting up Karachi Nuclear Power Plant-2 (Kanupp-2) and Kanupp-3 to tackle the energy crisis.In case of Kanupp-2 and 3, the Planning Commission had said Chinese company – China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) – may be asked to grant intellectual property rights and suggest steps that could help Pakistan avoid violation of property rights.“In case of 1,100MW Karachi Coastal Power, Pakistan will also require intellectual property rights,” an official said.China has three state-owned corporations that can own and operate nuclear power plants including CNNC, China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Company (CGNPC) and China Power Investment Corporation (CPIC).CGNPC operates four nuclear power plants of 3,758MW in China and is also associated with 16 other under-construction projects having capacity of 25,000MW. The company’s main focus has been on three-loop 1,000MW plants.In an attempt to increase power generation, Pakistan is turning attention to producing nuclear energy on a relatively bigger scale. According to the Energy Security Action Plan, the share of nuclear power will be increased in electricity production by installing 8,800MW nuclear power plants by 2030.Nuclear plants will provide electricity at cheaper rates compared to power produced from thermal sources. At present, the country is experiencing a widening gap between power supply and demand, leading to extensive outages that disrupt life and business and shaves three percentage points off economic growth annually. | 1,695 |
population in the 1920s. It is located in Riverside and served white students from Jacksonville’s Westside. It was named after Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general in the Civil War. It was Jacksonville’s second school to be named for a Confederate figure; Edmund Kirby-Smith Junior High, named for the St. Augustine-born general, opened in 1923. Lee was followed by several other Confederate-named schools in the 1950s and 60s. Lee had no local connection, but he was widely revered by white Southerners and a major source of Confederate nostalgia and the “Lost Cause” myth. The school’s name has been the cause of controversy since the late 20th century.
Baldwin Middle-Senior High School – 1929
Founded in 1929 and rebuilt in 1949, Baldwin provides middle and high school education for the town of the same name, one of the four municipalities in Duval County outside the Jacksonville city limits. Previously known as Thigpen, the town was renamed Baldwin in 1860 after Abel Seymour Baldwin, a former member of the Florida Legislature and president of the Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad, the main driver of the town’s growth in the 19th century.
Duncan U. Fletcher High School – 1937
The first public high school in the Jacksonville Beaches, Fletcher is named for Jacksonville politician Senator Duncan U. Fletcher. Fletcher had two stints as Mayor of Jacksonville, from 1893–1895 and 1901–1903; during the latter term he led the rebuilding of Downtown Jacksonville after the Great Fire of 1901. He was also a member of the Florida House of Representatives and served four terms in the U.S. Senate from 1909–1936. Among his activities in the Senate, he served as chairman of the Banking Committee and led the Pecora Commission’s investigation of the 1929 stock market crash, which led to new reforms in the U.S. financial sector.
Locally, Fletcher secured the federal grant to build a junior-senior high school for the Beaches communities. When Fletcher died in 1936, the school board elected to name the school for him. The school served white students in grades 7-12, and was originally located on the current grounds of Fletcher Middle School on 3rd Street in Jacksonville Beach. In 1965 the high school was split off into its present building at the corner of 5th Street and Seagate Avenue in Neptune Beach.
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(CNN) Early on in the fourth season of "Seinfeld," Jerry Seinfeld and his friend George Costanza go to pitch a sitcom to NBC. George's idea? A show about nothing. The idea is swiftly met with confusion. No plot? Nothing happens?
Melissa Blake
It's the quintessential self-referential moment of the NBC sitcom, which ran from 1989 to 1998, and, in that poignant scene, poked fun at itself for its absurdist premise. But the joke is on those fictional TV executives, because this telling episode is the exact opposite of art imitating life.
In reality, "Seinfeld" -- which is celebrating its 30th anniversary -- helped define a generation, quickly becoming a cultural touchstone. Though it was the show about nothing, it was also the show about the everyday experiences and conversations that animate our lives. Simply put, the show was genius.
And it meant everything to my teenage self. It was the show I'd watch in the evening and then talk about with my friends in school the next day, because they had all watched, too. It was also the one that I watched with my family every night and the one that never fails to remind me of my father, who died in 2003 -- a few years after the show ended. In fact, when I think of "Seinfeld," I think of family dinner where we laughed at the time Elaine Benes gained weight from mismarked frozen yogurt, or the time the whole gang -- Kramer, Elaine, George and Jerry -- spent 22 minutes trying to find their car in a parking garage.
"Seinfeld" fever is still going strong, propelled even now by its wide syndication. But it's not the only cultural touchstone of an earlier time -- my time, as it happens -- that you can still find every night on TV, and that is having an anniversary. "Friends" is celebrating its 25th anniversary next month. And indeed, just this week, pop culture devotees took to Twitter to debate one of the great questions of our generation: Is "Seinfeld" or "Friends" the better TV show?
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It’s hard to imagine that a female artist could be advised to leave her work unsigned to avoid prejudicing the gallery owner, but for women artists in the 1920s, this was not an unusual problem. For Elsie Driggs (1898-1992), this battle would continue throughout most of her career.
Born in Connecticut, but brought up in New York and Philadelphia, Driggs brought to her canvases a sense of “livingness”, whether it was from her works of plants and flowers, landscapes and animals or of the industrial subjects she became best known for. She once said “I want chemistry- something happening.”
One of her most famous works is Pittsburgh, from 1927, a painting that has often been linked to the American Precisionists; artists who brought out the beauty of the newly emerging industrial landscape with clean lines, simplified form and an influence from structure and form of the renaissance. Driggs denied that this work was inspired by the artists of the movement, but that her influence was from the 15th century artist, Piero della Francesca.
Driggs had lived in Pennsylvania and vowed to return to paint the steel plants that had dominated her landscape. The canvas is dominated by the four smokestacks rising through the wispy clouds billowing at the base of the painting. The guidelines are delicately crisscross between them. The pipes and tanks below contrast with the rigidity of the stacks. The subtlety of the palette used adds to the ethereal, hazy quality of this work.
When discussing her works based on the steel mills and factories that she grew up with, Driggs said, “You looked directly …into these big forms, and I kept finding them beautiful and wondering why. I told myself I wasn’t supposed to find a factory beautiful, but I did.”
Thankfully, Driggs refused to submit her work anonymously for the exhibition of 1928 by the Daniel Gallery in New York, which included works by the male Precisionists. One critic singled out Driggs surmounting the male artists in the show: “Done in sooty blacks and velvety greys, she has woven her factory chimney into a beautiful pattern, truthful, yet imaginative.”
Driggs produced relatively few paintings of this style with Queensborough Bridge (1927) being another example.
However, it is clear that Drigges produced works that held to her conviction that beauty could be found in unexpected places:
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