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, where they would be subject to arrest and confinement.
Concord Management, however, took everyone by surprise, hiring a US-based legal team to defend it against the plethora of fantastic allegations that underpinned the indictment. In doing so, Concord Management put the Mueller team in a position where they would have to disclose how they obtained all the extraordinary details about the alleged Russian activities, including internal emails, travel itineraries, and specific details about the thirteen Russian men and women.
Confronted with the reality that Concord was ultimately prepared to take the case to trial, the Department of Justice pulled the plug on the indictment, hiding behind the claim that sensitive law enforcement techniques would be revealed if it was required to present its case. Oh, really?
This revelation only underscores how ill-prepared the Mueller team was to take the Concord case to trial - normally, questions about what evidence can and cannot be presented at trial are worked out before the indictment is published. But when an indictment is more about manipulating public perception by putting forth unsustained allegations, rather than proving actual fact-based guilt, issues about evidentiary classification don’t matter. But in this case, however, they do matter – and the US government, its bluff called, was compelled to dismiss the charges.
Also on rt.com Mueller claims evidence shared with Russian firm’s defense leaked to ‘discredit investigation’
Under normal circumstances, the announcement that the indictment used to underpin the credibility of an investigation into whether the now-President of the United States colluded with Russia to win an election had been dismissed would not only be headline news, but would also generate public outrage and demands that those who brought the indictment forward be investigated for politicizing the American justice system.
But there is nothing normal about the present circumstance. The combined impact of the Mueller investigation (which stalled far short of its goal of indicting the president) and the related impeachment trial process (which likewise failed) left the American public sharply divided on the issue of Trump-Russian collusion, facts be damned. The dismissal of the Concord indictment should be further evidence that the allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election have been vastly overblown. The other indictments are similarly unsustainable at trial.
It’s just disappointing that the coronavirus news cycle will probably drown out this story, leaving the ramifications of the abuse of the US legal system by politically motivated prosecutors unexplored, and the American public worse off for it.
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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 | 1,701 |
He is the co-host of Australia’s popular breakfast show, Today, but who knew he could also cook?! Karl Stefanovic has released a cookbook s full of recipes for any Aussie home chef…and they are really GOOD!
The TV funnyman includes illustrated steps and handy hints in the book to make the cooking process as painless as possible.
Karl show and tells one of his favourite (and most popular) recipe from the book with us…
Karl Stefanovic’s Super Schnitty
‘this recipe calls for Panko crumbs – a crisp Japansese breadcrumb, readily available from supermarkets in the Asian dry goods section. You can use regular dried breadcrumbs instead if you want, but Panko crumbs will have your mates treating you like a God!’
What you’ll need:
4 large chicken breast
fillets
1 cup plain flour,
seasoned with salt and
pepper
2 eggs, whisked
2. cups panko crumbs
1 tablespoon sweet
paprika
. cup sunflower oil
50 g butter
coleslaw and lemon wedges, to serve
What to do:
Slice each chicken breast fillet horizontally through its centre, but do not cut all the way through. Butterfly the fillet open, then place between sheets of non-stick baking paper. Using a rolling pin, flatten each butterflied breast fillet to a 5 mm thickness.
Place the seasoned flour in a large shallow bowl, place the whisked egg in a separate shallow bowl and combine the crumbs and paprika in a third
shallow bowl. Working one at a time, dip the chicken fillets in flour to coat on both sides, shaking away any excess, then dip in egg and press firmly into the crumb mixture.
Transfer the crumbed chicken to a baking tray. Cover with cling film and chill for at least 20 minutes to set the crumb.
Heat the oil and butter in a large frying pan over medium–high heat. Cook the chicken in batches for 3–4 minutes each side, or until cooked through and golden. Serve with coleslaw and lemon wedges.
Yum! Enjoy, B xx
For more of Karl’s recipes, you can purchase the book here. Royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to police legacy charities. | 1,702 |
Lavrov says Russia is ready to cooperate with Kurds against ISIL
MOSCOW – Reuters
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, shakes hands with Co-chairman of pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party, or HDP, Selahattin Demirtas prior to a meeting in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russia is ready to cooperate closely with Kurds fighting against the Islamic State or Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq and Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the co-leader of a Turkish opposition party during a meeting in Moscow on Dec. 23.“We know that there are Iraqi and Syrian Kurds among those who on the ground are resisting the threat from the Islamic State [ISIL] and other extremist groups with weapons in their hands,” Reuters quoted Lavrov as saying.Lavrov told Demirtaş that Russia would “take into account” his party’s “assessments” regarding the situation in Syria.Lavrov on Dec. 23 held talks in Moscow with Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş, amid continued heightened tensions between Moscow and Ankara following the shooting down of a Russian warplane for violating Turkish airspace last month.Western backing for Kurdish fighters in Syria and Iraq is a sensitive issue for Ankara, which is fighting militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) based in the mountains of northern Iraq with airstrikes.Media reports quoted Demirtaş before the visit as saying he wanted to open a representative office for his party in Moscow.But Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted a Russian diplomatic source as saying that under the law, the HDP cannot open an office in Russia, though it could still be represented by a private person or a nongovernment organization.Russia imposed economic sanctions on Turkey after the Nov. 24 incident, during which Turkish jets downed a Russian Su-24 warplane on its border with Syria on the grounds of airspace violation, and sharply criticized Turkey.“We criticized the actions of the government when the Russian plane was shot down,” Russian news agencies quoted Demirtaş as telling Lavrov.“From the very first days, we declared, as an opposition party in the country, that we do not support the position of worsening relations with Russia,” said Demirtaş, who heads Turkey’s leading political party focusing on the Kurdish problem. | 1,703 |
The computers evolution that changed the world, from the "room sized" computers, and now to the smartphones in your pocket. They all have chips inside of them. The chip is the heart of the creation. Without them, there won't be any computers, robots, smartphones and other technology goods. From the beginning of all of these creations, the point was to make the chip smaller, but with much more power and more effect than the previous versions. But there was a problem, they didn't know if its possible to go for a smaller technology chips. So IBM came up with a researches about this theme.
The past Thursday, IBM published results that show how miniaturization can continue and move ahead, and still have better results with the new chips.
Their researches show that the chips can be built with carbon nanotubes.The nanotubes are most likely cylinders. Their walls are made of single layer of carbon atoms which arelinked together, and they look like a hexagonal lattice pattern. They areabout 10.000 times smaller than a human hair. By making the chips smaller and more powerful, the computing industry is going forward. This progress gave us desktop computers, laptops, mobile phones and other stuff. This progress also helped Google to have sense of the web, and on the Facebook "face recognizing" of your friends faces on photos. But there wasn't a planned point where this progress would stop. So it looks like IBM broke the glass.
The microprocessor industryis trying to find a way out of the today's problems, but IBM focused on the carbon nanotubes.
It expects that nanotubes will be used for chips in everything! What they have found, is that its better to connect the nanotubes to the microprocessors so they can conduct electricity when they are turned on.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of challenges coming by. First, the kind of the nanotubes (semiconducting and metallic), if they produce with the metallic one, then the transistors will be ruined.
The other challenge is the manufacturing. The chip making technology today, known as photolithography, emits light patterns on the silicon wafers, which are used to make the chips. These patterns are used for carving portions of the material, leaving the chip circuit behind.
The Carbon nanotubes require materials which will be applied to the chip with extreme good precision.
The main question is: Will IBM bring success with this plan?
What do you think? Let us know. | 1,704 |
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Jack DeJohnette’s Directions – Cosmic Chicken (1975) Cosmic Chicken is an album by Jack DeJohnette featuring Alex Foster, John Abercrombie, and Peter Warren recorded in 1975 and released on the Prestige label. Track listing: All compositions by Jack DeJohnette except where noted. "Cosmic Chicken" – 4:53 "One for Devadip and the Professor" – 3:35 "Memories" – 5:58 "Stratocruiser" – 7:28 "Shades of the Phantom" – 6:13 "Eiderdown" (Steve Swallow) – 5:35 "Sweet and Pungent" – 3:32 "Last Chance Stomp" – 7:07 Personnel: Jack DeJohnette – drums, piano, keyboards Alex Foster – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone John Abercrombie – electric guitar Peter Warren – electric bass ________________________________ Released: 1975 Recorded: April 24–26, 1975 Studio: Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA Label: Prestige Producer: Jack DeJohnette & Orrin Keepnews
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Cosmic Chicken is an album by Jack DeJohnette featuring Alex Foster, John Abercrombie, and Peter Warren recorded in 1975 and released on the Prestige label.
Track listing:
All compositions by Jack DeJohnette except where noted.
“Cosmic Chicken” – 4:53
“One for Devadip and the Professor” – 3:35
“Memories” – 5:58
“Stratocruiser” – 7:28
“Shades of the Phantom” – 6:13
“Eiderdown” (Steve Swallow) – 5:35
“Sweet and Pungent” – 3:32
“Last Chance Stomp” – 7:07
Personnel:
Jack DeJohnette – drums, piano, keyboards
Alex Foster – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
John Abercrombie – electric guitar
Peter Warren – electric bass
________________________________
Released: 1975
Recorded: April 24–26, 1975
Studio: Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA
Label: Prestige
Producer: Jack DeJohnette & Orrin Keepnews
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Study: All Major ISPs Have Declined in Customer Satisfaction
Verizon FiOS has been rated the highest in customer satisfaction in a new study, though that may not be much to write home about. According to the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index survey (pdf), Verizon FiOS was the top rated ISP with a score of 70 out of 100. But that score was a one point decline from one year earlier, and the industry average of 64 was not only a decline from last year, it's lower than most of the other industries the group tracks.
According to the ACSI, high prices and poor customer service continues to plague an US broadband industry with some very obvious competitive shortcomings.
"According to users, most aspects of ISPs are getting worse," the ACSI said. "Courtesy and helpfulness of staff has waned to 76 and in-store service is slower (74). Bills are more difficult to understand (-3 percent to 71), and customers aren’t happy with the variety of plans available (-3 percent to 64)."
Not a single ISP tracked by the firm saw an improvement in customer satisfaction scores. The worst of the worst according to the ACSI is Mediacom, which saw a 9% plummet year over year to a score of 53, which is lower than most airlines, banks, and even the IRS according to the report.
Charter Spectrum and Suddenlink also saw 8% declines in satisfaction year over year, and despite repeated claims that customer service is now its top priority, Comcast saw zero improvement in broadband satisfaction and a slight decline in pay TV satisfaction.
As noted, much of this dissatisfaction stems from a lack of competition, which is actually getting worse in many parts of the country. As telcos like Windstream, Verizon, CenturyLink and Frontier simply refuse to upgrade huge swaths of their aging DSL lines, cable is securing a bigger monopoly than ever before over broadband -- especially at faster speeds.
For example, a recent FCC study highlighted how competition is already pretty tepid at the FCC's standard definition of 25 Mbps, and virtually nonexistent as you get to faster 100 Mbps tiers. That lack of competition reduces incentive to compete on price and customer service, and instead incentivizes carriers to push their luck on price hikes and things like arbitrary and unnecessary usage caps.
And with ISPs effectively in charge of government regulators right now (as the assault on net neutrality, privacy, media ownership limits, and other FCC policy makes abundantly clear), it's a problem that's going to be sticking around for the foreseeable future. | 1,706 |
Saturday, September 5, 2009
A former US soldier has been sentenced to life in prison for raping a teen and murdering her and her family while on active duty in Iraq. The jury failed to reach the unanimous verdict required for the death penalty sought by the prosecution.
[...] if I had never gone to Iraq I would never have got caught up in anything like this —Steven Dale Green
According to testimony given by two soldiers, Steven Dale Green was part of a group who decided they wanted to rape a girl they had seen walking through her village, 14-year-old Abeer Qassim al-Janabi. They walked to her house while disguised as insurgents and separated her from her parents and younger sister.
Green then shot dead Abeer's family while two other soldiers raped the girl. He then raped her himself while she wept before covering her face with a pillow and fatally shooting her. The gang then covered her naked body with a blanket soaked in kerosene, using a lighter to start a fire before walking 200 yards to a nearby checkpoint where they cooked a meal.
Green had already been discharged from the army when his crimes were discovered. He had previously spoken of a desire to murder Iraqi civilians and his defence argued he should never have been allowed to return to duty. A nurse had decided he would not carry out his desires. A US civilian court tried him, the first such prosecution of a soldier under a law allowing servicemen to be charged with crimes carried out abroad.
The judge described his actions as "unimaginable, unjustified and inexcusable" and sentenced him to five consecutive life sentences without possibility of parole. Four others had already been sentenced. Three are all serving life with parole after ten years, and a fourth who acted as a lookout is serving a 27-month sentence.
It took months for the offences to be discovered, even though Green had quickly confessed to a sergeant. Soldiers speaking to stress counsellors talked of the crimes after the abduction and murders of two other soldiers. When news of the soldiers' actions broke, insurgents killed several American servicemen in revenge.
The prosecution described Green as "criminal and perverse" while the defence called him a "broken warrior." Green said he was acting upon orders from former Specialist Paul Cortez, another of the attackers, and told the court "Y'all can act like I'm a psychopath or a sexual predator or whatever. But if I had never gone to Iraq I would never have got caught up in anything like this."
Sources
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Police event cancelled over Saoradh protest threat Published duration 4 April 2019
image caption The conference was set to take place in the Guildhall in Londonderry on Wednesday
A Londonderry youth club has cancelled an event involving police after a party representing dissident republicans threatened to protest.
The Long Tower Youth and Community Centre had planned to hold a conference for young people in the Guildhall.
But the political party, Saoradh, said it would protest at the presence of the PSNI.
The club said it had tried to discuss it with Saoradh, but was unsuccessful and had "no option but to cancel".
'Unfortunate'
PSNI Supt Alan Hutton said: "This event was a fantastic opportunity for young people to express their views on issues that matter to them to a range of partners and it is unfortunate that the whole day had to be cancelled.
"Our young people's voices need to be heard.
"It would have been a welcome opportunity for young people to meet their local police officers, ask us questions, share their concerns and frustrations and to get to know us and the job we do."
Saoradh, which means liberation in Irish, was founded in 2016.
It campaigns for the release of all republican prisoners, and has the support of prisoners from the dissident group referred to as the New IRA in Maghaberry and Portlaoise prisons.
The Long Tower Youth and Community Centre said attempts were made to engage "in dialogue with the particular organisation who have a issue with this event as they have vowed to stage a protest.
"This request for engagement has been refused. Therefore we have no option but to cancel this event."
image caption About 20 people in paramilitary-style uniforms leading an Easter parade organised by Saoradh in Derry in 2017
Saoradh spokesman Paddy Gallagher said youth clubs "should be a neutral environment for children to flourish, develop and associate with their peers. Not to be used as a political mechanism to adopt a broader acceptance of so called policing and normalisation within the Six Counties."
The party said they had been willing to engage with the youth club "on the basis they cancelled the event first, otherwise our protest would go ahead as planned."
'Condemns'
Speaking on Thursday, Chair of the Northern Ireland Policing Board Anne Connolly said: "There are no circumstances where anyone should prevent such engagements and the board condemns any attempt to do so. | 1,708 |
SURREY (NEWS 1130) – One week after an apparent gang shooting outside a Surrey hotel, NDP leader John Horgan is promising to increase funding to the city’s Wraparound program to $500,000 a year.
The program is a partnership between the Surrey School District, the RCMP and the city which aims to keep kids out of gangs by forging positive relationships with police officers, educators, and other role models.
Surrounded by fellow #NDP candidates in May 9th election, party leader @jjhorgan says ending gang violence means spending more on education. pic.twitter.com/HJOSEkr865 — Marcella Bernardo (@Bernardo1130) March 20, 2017
“We want to make it a secure, stable ongoing program,” Horgan says.
“I believe that everyone has potential and everyone wants to realize that potential, and (if they’re) not given the options to address mental health and addiction issues, (they’re) forced into a gang lifestyle instead of a more productive life.”
Horgan says he was once a troubled teen himself who benefited from community support. He adds 30 kids at risk of gang involvement are now sitting on Wraparound’s wait list instead of getting help.
Doug Elford with the Surrey Newton Community Association is welcoming today’s promise from the NDP, saying the Wrap Around program definitely needs more funding.
“It is effective,” he says. “I think it has to reach out even farther than it does now. We’re hearing about elementary children being recruited and that is a real concern of ours as well. They need more bodies. They need more staff.”
He adds too many kids are still waiting for help.
“There’s a lot of children that slip through the cracks and we’ve got to capture these children before they move on to a life of crime and potentially risking their lives.”
Elford adds in the wake of last week’s latest fatal shooting, public safety remains a major concern for most residents of Surrey.
29-year-old Birinderjeet Justin Bhangu was shot to death in broad daylight in the parking lot of a Comfort Inn. Police believe the shooting was targeted.
Horgan says while it’s frightening that innocent lives were put at risk, he also has sympathy for the family of the man who was killed. | 1,709 |
The ESB has warned that there may be flooding of roads and lands upstream of Cork city over the coming days as it increases discharges from its dams at Inniscarra and Carrigadrohid on the River Lee to cope with the torrential rain of the last few days.
The ESB has confirmed it is monitoring water levels at both Carrigadrohid and Inniscarra reservoirs closely and that it began spilling water at a rate of about 125 cubic metres per second at Inniscarra on Wednesday, December 2nd.
However, the ESB has now increased spillage rates at Inniscarra to 150 cubic metres per second and it expects to increase the rate throughout the course of the day to 180 cubic metres per second to ensure it retains storage capacity upstream of the dam to control flows.
November 2009
In November 2009, the ESB discharged large volumes of water from Inniscarra Dam which led to the River Lee bursting its banks downstream and extensive flooding in the western reaches of Cork city with the estimated damage totalling about €100 million.
The ESB argued amid much criticism that it had no option but to start discharging large volumes of water from the Inniscarra reservoir to prevent the dam from bursting when it would have been unable to control the volumes of water flooding down into Cork.
But in October, the High Court ruled in a case brought by University College Cork that the ESB was 60 per cent liable for the estimated €20 million worth of damage caused to UCC properties along the Western Road.
The ruling by Mr Justice Max Barrett left the company exposed to hundreds of other claims totalling tens of millions of euro but the ESB has since lodged an appeal against the judgment.
Monday’s increased discharge of 180 cubic metres compares with a situation on November 19th, 2009, when the ESB began to discharge water at a rate of 535 cubic metres a second to avoid uncontrolled flooding as water was entering the catchment at 800 cubic metres per second.
Commenting on the current situation, the ESB said it was continuing to monitor the situation and was in communication with both Cork City Council and Cork County Council and other agencies in keeping with its normal operating procedures.
“We expect to continue to spill at Inniscarra Dam over the coming week to draw down reservoir levels. There may be associated flooding of roads, land and property adjacent to the banks of the River Lee downstream of Inniscarra,” said the ESB in a statement. | 1,710 |
D.R.A.M. now has the top rap song in the country. The Virginia native's hit single "Broccoli" has knocked off Drake's "Too Good" for the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Hot Rap Songs chart. Drake's collaboration with Rihanna had been the No. 1 song for the past three weeks.
"BROCCOLI is now the #1 rap song in the country," D.R.A.M. wrote about his achievement on Instagram.
D.R.A.M.'s "Broccoli" has been gaining momentum ever since it entered the chart 12 weeks ago. The Lil Yachty-assisted track also currently sits at No. 14 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart and No. 3 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
Big Baby D.R.A.M. is hoping he has another hit on his hands with his latest song titled "Cash Machine." The single is produced by Ricky Reed, who has crafted hits like Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty" and "Wiggle" as well as Pitbull's "Fireball." D.R.A.M. knows he is playing a long game as "Broccoli" originally dropped in April yet did not top the rap charts until September.
Just about a year ago, Drake's "Hotline Bling" was blowing up, and D.R.A.M. felt slighted because he, like many others, thought Drizzy jacked "Cha Cha" for the hit song. Now it looks like he got some revenge.
Fans will have an opportunity to see D.R.A.M. perform the top rap song in country when he hits the road next month. He's set to join 2016 XXL Freshman Lil Dicky on the rapper's Dick or Treat Tour. Check out the full list of dates for the tour below, and listen to "Broccoli" after that.
Oct. 21 – Seatlle, Wash. – Showbox
Oct. 22 – Los Angeles, Calif. – The Wiltern
Oct. 24 – Houston, Texas – House of Blues
Oct. 25 – Dallas, Texas – House of Blues
Oct. 27 – Detroit, Mich. – St. Andrews Hall
Oct. 30 – Amsterdam – Melkweg
Nov. 2 – London – Electric Ballroom
Nov. 3 – Manchester – Ruby Lounge
Nov. 4 – Brussels – AB Club | 1,711 |
Bandicoot, any of about 22 species of Australasian marsupial mammals comprising the family Peramelidae. (For Asian rodents of this name, see bandicoot rat.) Bandicoots are 30 to 80 cm (12 to 31 inches) long, including the 10- to 30-centimetre (4- to 12-inch) sparsely haired tail. The body is stout and coarse haired, the muzzle tapered, and the hind limbs longer than the front. The toes are reduced in number; two of the hind digits are united. The teeth are sharp and slender. The pouch opens rearward and encloses 6 to 10 teats. Unlike other marsupials, bandicoots have a placenta (lacking villi, however). Most species have two to six young at a time; gestation takes 12–15 days.
long-nosed bandicoot (Perameles nasuta) Long-nosed bandicoot (Perameles nasuta). The species can be found in the coastlands of eastern Australia, from the Cape York Peninsula south to Victoria. Warren Garst—Tom Stack and Associates
Bandicoots occur in Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, and nearby islands. They are terrestrial, largely nocturnal, solitary animals that dig funnellike pits in their search for insect and plant food. Farmers consider them pests; some species are endangered, and all have declined.
The long-nosed bandicoot (Perameles, or Thylacis, nasuta), a vaguely ratlike brown animal whose rump may be black-barred, is the common form in eastern Australia. The three species of short-nosed bandicoots, Isoodon (incorrectly Thylacis), are found in New Guinea, Australia, and Tasmania. Rabbit-eared bandicoots, or bilbies, are species of Thylacomys (sometimes Macrotis); now endangered, they are found only in remote colonies in arid interior Australia. As the name implies, they have big narrow ears, long hind legs, and bushy tails. The 35-centimetre- (14-inch-) long, pig-footed bandicoot (Chaeropus ecaudatus) of interior Australia has feet that are almost hooflike, with two toes functional on the forefoot, one on the hind foot. This herbivorous creature, resembling a little deer, is an endangered species and may well be extinct; it was last observed locally in the 1920s. | 1,712 |
Modern medicine has made incredible progress in the treatment of HIV. Years ago, infection with HIV would almost certainly lead to developing AIDS, but treatment can now keep the disease at bay. Even with daily antiretroviral therapy (ART), the pathogen continues to hide in a patient’s cells. Researchers from Japan’s Kobe University say they’ve successfully used the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing platform to block the replication of HIV in living cells.
Around 35 million people around the world are infected with HIV, but many of them keep their viral levels low with ART. Medications cannot currently root out all signs of HIV infection because of the way the virus reproduces. HIV is a retrovirus, meaning it’s an RNA-based virus when it infects cells. However, the first thing it does upon entering a cell is use an enzyme called reverse transcriptase to transform into DNA and hide in the cell’s genome. When the cell produces its own proteins, it also ends up making new viral particles.
Even if you eliminate all the circulating HIV in the body, there’s still the virus hiding inside cells. That’s why the Japanese team looked at CRISPR/Cas9. This technology is based on a bacterial antiviral system, but scientists have learned how to use it to precisely snip DNA in living cells. The team used CRISPR to alter HIV’s genome while it was still hiding inside cells, thus limiting its virulence.
The experiment targeted two of HIV’s nine genes that are key to the proliferation of the virus. The genes in question are known as tat and rev. Without those genes, HIV doesn’t work. Researchers used genetic information from six common HIV subtypes to build guide RNA (gRNA) that pointed the Cas9 protein at the right DNA segments. They introduced it into cells using a modified lentiviral vector.
CRISPR was not used to add new genes or make any specific substitutions. The point was simply to damage these critical HIV genes. With the mutated and non-functional genes, the virus was crippled. According to the team, their method of targeting multiple HIV gene variants was successful in limiting viral proliferation. Almost no functional virus particles were produced by the cells.
This experiment happened in a cell culture, but future study could result in a method for doing the same in humans. If you can reduce circulating viruses to zero and nuke viral genomes inside cells, you may finally be able to cure HIV. | 1,713 |
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Gunmen from Somalia’s Al Shabaab group killed six people including at least four soldiers in the streets of the capital, a day after the Islamist movement kidnapped scores of elders in a central region, officials said.
The militants drove up to a tuk-tuk vehicle carrying the soldiers in Mogadishu’s Karan district and opened fire, killing all four of them on Tuesday, police said.
“We heard the gunfire and we rushed to the scene but... the killers escaped,” police captain Farah Aden told Reuters.
Al Shabaab fighters also shot two people dead in the Wardigley district in the heart of the city, he added. The militants said the two were an officer and his bodyguard, in a statement claiming responsibility for both attacks.
Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab’s military operations spokesman, said the militants also set off a car bomb that seriously injured a man working for the finance ministry. There was no immediate comment from the authorities.
Al Shabaab - which is fighting to impose its form of Islam and topple the Western-backed government - has launched regular guerrilla attacks across the country since the army backed by African peacekeepers pushed it out of the capital in 2011.
On Monday, the group kidnapped more than 60 elders from Galgadud, in the central, semi-autonomous state of Galmudug, officials said.
Al Shabaab said it took the local leaders because their sub-clan had refused to pay full compensation for five people killed from another clan. “We do not want the two clans to fight again,” said Abdullahi Abu Khalid, named as al Shabaab’s governor for Galgadud.
The militant group has kept up a presence in remote parts of Somalia, many of them already riven by years of ethnic rivalries and blood feuds. Some clans are seen as linked to the militants, others to the government.
Galmudug’s president, Ahmed Duale Gele Haaf, said the militants had kidnapped 62 elders in a bid to destabilize his region. “They will either kill them or order them to spread chaos,” he said.
He accused the central government in Mogadishu of not giving enough resources or troops to protect the region.
Somalia has been gripped by violence and lawlessness since dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was toppled in 1991. | 1,714 |
and stock prices from Aachen in Germany to Brussels in Belgium. Although a telegraph service between the two countries existed, numerous gaps in the transmission lines made communication difficult and slow. The birds travelled the 76 miles in a record-breaking two hours beating the railway by four hours.
Why do you never see a baby pigeon?
Most small birds rear and fledge their young in 2/3 weeks with young birds sometimes leaving the nest after only 10 days of life, but pigeons are different, their young remain in the nest for up to 2 months before fledging. This gives the young pigeon an advantage over many other species of bird. It leaves the nest as a relatively mature juvenile, allowing the bird to cope better in the first few days of its life, a dangerous time for all youngsters. Juveniles can be told apart from adults but it takes an experienced eye. A juvenile’s beak often appears to be far too long for the size of its body and the cere (the fleshy area at the top of the beak) is white in adults and greyish pink in juveniles.
What is the natural predator of the pigeon?
Although the natural enemy of the feral pigeon is now man, with millions of pigeons being killed in control operations the world over, it is the peregrine falcon that is the pigeons’ real natural predator. Although a shy and retiring bird that has its natural habitat along rocky coastlines, the peregrine is now being introduced into towns and cities as a ‘natural’ pigeon control. The peregrine is the fastest bird on the planet when in a dive and can achieve speeds in excess of 200 mph, over 130 mph faster than a pigeon.
Are pigeons intelligent?
Pigeons are considered to be one of the most intelligent birds on the planet with pigeons being able to undertake tasks previously thought to be the sole preserve of humans and primates. The pigeon has also been found to pass the ‘mirror test’ (being able to recognise its reflection in a mirror) and is one of only 6 species, and the only non-mammal, that has this ability. The pigeon can also recognise all 26 letters of the English language as well as being able to conceptualise. In scientific tests pigeons have been found to be able to differentiate between photographs and even differentiate between two different human beings in a photograph when rewarded with food for doing so.
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into space,” reporter Loren Grush wrote.
The expectation, Grush explained, was for commercial spaceflight operators to step in and take over where the Shuttle program left off. But those plans stalled quickly: private companies like SpaceX and Boeing simply weren’t prepared to take up the work on such short notice.
Both SpaceX and Boeing have made strides in the six years since then: Boeing has developed its CST-100 Starliner and begun making plans to utilize the seven-person crew capsule to ferry astronauts to and from the ISS or future commercial outposts. In 2014, SpaceX announced its Dragon 2 capsule had been selected by NASA to do the same.
But cutting an important lifeline like the ISS just as commercial spaceflight is getting to its feet would deal an unnecessary blow and slow those efforts once more.
The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship with its dual outstreched solar arrays is pictured attached to the Harmony module as the International Space Station orbits above Brazil. (CREDIT: NASA)
“Applications with strong market potential are emerging,” Mary Lynne Dittmar, executive director of the Coalition for Deep Space Exploration, said during a March 2017 congressional hearing. “Abandoning the ISS too soon will most certainly guarantee failure.”
The administration is mulling the possibility of a partnership with the Russian space agency Roscosmos, to construct a replacement for the ISS called Deep Space Gateway. According to Popular Mechanics, officials from the two agencies and their current ISS collaborators — Europe, Japan, and Canada — gathered in Tokyo over the weekend to hold closed-door meetings on the subject, with the hopes that it would be launched into orbit sometime in the 2020s. However, the specifics of the design and international terms of agreement are still up in the air, as Roscosmos was reportedly “late [in] embracing the project.”
In the meantime, China has made moves to develop its own space program beyond its current capabilities.
“The heart of investments [is] going to be in the normal run of the mill things,” Jim Head, professor of planetary geosciences at Brown University, told Axios on Friday. But its larger goals, like the United States, include a trip to the far side of the moon to collect samples.
“Beyond the implications for scientific research, the mission would enhance China’s international profile and show the world how far they’ve come,” Axios wrote, quoting Notre Dame engineering professor Clive Neal. | 1,717 |
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CaptainJammo - Can you clarify the role of the Accuracy stat? Right now, it seems lackluster and/or unnecessary for many classes, yet it appears on all of their end game gear.
Georg Zoeller (Principal Lead Combat Designer): Accuracy counters your target's ability to defend (dodge, deflect, etc.) against your attacks. You are correct about the accuracy budget on the current end game gear being too generous for most scenarios - unless you are a dedicated tank killer in PvP, you probably do not need as much as you get from Rakata gear at the moment and you should consider swapping out some mods to support your preferred playstyle.
For the upcoming tier of new gear, we have an improved distribution of stats for both PvP and PvE gear.
Gidoru - In last week’s Q&A, you detailed upcoming changes to the Crafting System with crit crafting orange gear and removing base mods from purple gear. I think that this issue needs some clarification, as what was stated essentially suggests that orange crit crafted gear will always be superior to either PvP or PvE gear. This is because players will be able to simply remove the mods in their PvP or PvE gear and place it in a piece of crit crafted orange gear that will additionally provide extra stats as a result of the augment slot. Is it your intention to make crafted gear superior to gear obtained in other ways?
Emannuel Lusinchi (Technical Design Director): Yes, for Game Update 1.2, this is correct. Crafted gear is, in theory, superior to endgame gear obtained in other ways. However, it is worth pointing out that putting together crit crafted gear, including item modifications, requires more effort, not less. Now, the reason I specifically mention Game Update 1.2 is that we will introduce new mechanics in a future update that, without diminishing the usefulness of crit crafted items, will bring some interesting changes and that’s all I will say about that!
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Thirty years ago, Shane Black turned in a short-lived but delightful supporting role in John McTiernan‘s Predator, a cult-classic creature feature that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger in the heroic role of the musclebound commando, Dutch. Fast forward to 2017. Black is now writing and directing The Predator, a sequel to the original film, and it sounds like he wants Dutch to play a part, with Schwarzenegger returning to fill the role.
Unfortunately, that part was apparently too small and insignificant for Schwarzenegger. Thanks to a tip from AvPGalaxy, we have an idea of the context of Dutch’s appearance, which helps to explain the reason why Schwarzenegger turned it down. (He would, however, consider playing another villain in a future Batman film.) So don’t get your hopes up for Dutch’s return unless something major changes in the run-up to The Predator‘s February 9, 2018 release date.
In a chat with Yahoo!, Schwarzenegger was candid about his response to the offer to play a small part in The Predator:
My all-time favorite film of yours is Predator, and Shane Black is now rebooting the franchise with The Predator. Are you involved with it in any way? They asked me, and I read it, and I didn’t like it — whatever they offered. So I’m not going to do that, no. Except if there’s a chance that they rewrite it, or make it a more significant role. But the way it is now, no, I won’t do that.
AvPGalaxy reports that the small cameo would have appeared at the end of the film and would comprise only a few lines that helped set up the sequel. And yes, you can bet that the 20th Century Fox folks are banking on a sequel regardless.
As for Black, he responded to a follow-up inquiry on Twitter:
@iamJermaineP @MPredator24 Me too… I spoke with him, I think it was that he didn’t have enough to do. Enough presence in the film. — Shane Black (@BonafideBlack) April 6, 2017
So either Dutch gets a bigger part or he won’t be back at all; I’m not sure which track fans of the Predator franchise would rather see at this point. Stay tuned; we’ll report more on The Predator as it becomes available. In the meantime, you can catch up on our recent write-ups below: | 1,719 |
Rationale
For any non-null complex number \(z\), it is possible to create an other complex number of modulus one:
In the particular case \(z = 1 + ti\), an algebraic parametrization of the circle appears:
Norman Wildberger suggests such transformation can and should be used to perform rotations in the plane, instead of using trigonometric functions (wikipedia article).
Can it also be done in 3D space? That is, for any two non-colinear vectors \(\mathbf{u}\) and \(\mathbf{v}\), how can we algebraically parametrize rotations in the \((\mathbf{u},\mathbf{v})\) plane?
We first write:
It is known, notably as pointed out by David Hestenes, that \(\mathbf{uv}\) behaves as a complex number, with \(\mathbf{u}\cdot\mathbf{v}\) being the real part and \(\mathbf{u}\wedge\mathbf{v}\) the imaginary one.
Thus we can verify that:
is of modulus one.
Therefore we can rotate any vector \(\mathbf{x}\) with a sandwich product:
If we do it for three vectors of an orthonormal basis, we get the coefficients of the orthogonal matrix representation.
Example
Say we are visualizing an object through a computer graphics interface such as WebGL. We want to write some code for rotating the object with the mouse. The mouse will move on the screen and we want to interpret this two-dimensional motion as a rotation.
For simplicity, we shall reason in the Normalized Device Coordinates (see for instance this) with \((\mathbf{i},\mathbf{j},\mathbf{k})\) as the orthonormal basis.
The motion of the mouse is thus:
We want to parametrize rotations that occur in the plane
If we want to obtain a similar expression as above, we should rather use the following basis:
Then we have:
Let's note:
and
Then
Which gives the matrix:
WebGL implementation
Below is a colored cube. It's the same that can be found on this WebGL tutorial. You should be able to rotate it with your mouse.
Apparently your browser does not support HTML5 canvas. | 1,720 |
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Eric Cantor has confirmed that he and Paul Ryan talked John Boehner out of accepting a “Grand Bargain” with Obama in 2011. It was this rejection that led to the sequester.
In an interview with Ryan Lizza, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) confirmed that he and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) talked Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) out of accepting a “Grand Bargain” with President Obama.
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Transcript from The New Yorker,
LIZZA: There’s sort of a final meeting with Paul Ryan and you and Boehner where it seems like there’s a final sort of discussion about whether this offer needs to be rejected or not. The way it seems to be reported is—it seems like Boehner wanted to do it, you and Ryan sort of talked him out of it. Is that— CANTOR: I would say it’s a fair assessment, because, in the end, we felt that—well, let me back up, this is probably a longer answer. Yes, it’s probably an accurate conclusion.
Cantor confirmed what everyone who isn’t a Republican or Bob Woodward already knew. Republicans wanted a deal solely on their terms. House Republicans are directly responsible for the sequester, because they are the ones who walked away from the “Grand Bargain.” It has long been reported that Boehner wanted to do the deal, but he backed out at the last moment. Ryan and Cantor were always the prime suspects in the killing of the best shot at a compromise, and now we know that the suspicions were accurate.
In this context, it is doubly enraging to watch Paul Ryan blame Obama for the sequester. The president had a bargain almost completed, and Ryan helped kill it. It isn’t a coincidence that two individuals who have been huge fans of the sequester helped to kill a bargain.
The sequester doesn’t belong to President Obama. The sequester is the baby of Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor. As Cantor takes credit for the sequester, Virginia voters should keep in mind his role in costing his state hundreds of thousands of jobs. While analysts disagree on exactly how many jobs will be lost, Virginia is expected to be one of the three states most impacted by the sequester.
Eric Cantor may be proud of the damage his obstruction is about to inflict on the people of his state, but Virginians should be disgusted by Eric Cantor. | 1,721 |
The London Fire Brigade says it totally refutes the claims (Picture: PA: EPA: Getty)
Calls are growing for Baroness Doreen Lawrence to apologise after claiming that firefighters would have tried harder to save the victims of the Grenfell tragedy, if they were white.
Baroness Lawrence, whose 18-year-old son Stephen was murdered by a racist gang in south-east London in 1993, said she had ‘no doubt’ that racism was involved in the response to the Grenfell tragedy.
She told Channel 4 in an interview last week: ‘Had that been a block full of white people in there, they would have done everything to get them out as fast as possible and make sure that they do what they needed to do.
‘Nobody wanted to mention the word “race” in the whole thing. Cos when I saw the residents who lived in that block, to me it was under no doubt around the racism that existed at that time.’
A subsequent petition demanding she apologise has so far collected almost 35,000 signatures.
It claims Baroness Lawrence’s remarks were defamatory towards the ‘brave men and women of London fire brigade’.
Baroness Lawrence says she had ‘no doubt’ racism was involved in the response to the Grenfell tragedy (Picture: PA)
The London Fire Brigade says all firefighters to attend were ‘fully committed to rescuing as many people as possible’ (Picture: EPA)
It adds: ‘At great risk to themselves, they saved many lives which would have been lost without their intervention.’
The petition even claims that Baroness Lawrence should have her ‘honour removed’ and she should be ‘barred from public office’.
A London Fire Brigade spokesperson said: ‘We absolutely refute the claims made by Baroness Doreen Lawrence that there was any aspect of racism in our response to the Grenfell Tower fire or any other incident.
‘Every single one of the firefighters and officers who responded to the fire that night were fully committed to rescuing as many people as possible and put their own lives at risk to do so.’
Baroness Lawrence has been approached for comment.
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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has hit out at socialist parties and groups in the Dáil, accusing them of wanting to “turn religious people into pariahs”.
He made the claim as he confirmed that all publicly funded hospitals will be required to provide abortion services once legislation is enacted in the Oireachtas.
Solidarity TD Mick Barry asked would abortion services be provided by the new national maternity hospital to be built in the grounds of St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin, “a campus controlled by a company with a board dedicated to a Catholic ethos”.
The Cork North Central TD said: “We have church-controlled schools, church-controlled hospitals. Ireland lags behind and the Government lags behind.”
He said the vote to repeal the Eighth Amendment posed questions on Church and State “more sharply”, adding that the “impetus for change has not come from the political establishment. Rather it has come from below as a result of popular pressure.”
Mr Varadkar said the Government would use the same model is used for the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act, which provides for abortion where a woman’s life is at risk.
“Hospitals such as Holles Street, which has a Catholic voluntary ethos, the Mater, St Vincent’s an others will be required and expected to carry out any procedure that is legal in the State.”
The Taoiseach added: “Conscientious objection provisions will apply to individual doctors, nurses and midwives who do not want to participate in providing abortion services.
“But it will not be possible for publicly-funded hospitals no matter who their patron or owner is, to opt out of providing these necessary services, which will be legal in the State once the legislation is passed by the Dáil and Seanad.”
However Mr Varadkar accused socialists of wanting to turn religious people into pariahs.
He said that, while he believed in separation of Church and State: “I do not believe in the socialist ideology, which is to push religion out of the public space and force people who are religious to be ashamed they have religious convictions.
“The policy of socialists is to take away that funding because they do not just believe in the separation of Church and State - they want to turn religious people into pariahs, put them in a corner and hide them and take away funding from institutions.” | 1,723 |
Do you remember getting your first shirts and first boots and it meaning quite a lot to you?
Yeah, not so much my first boots, but I do remember getting my first Feyenoord kits. I had Van Persie on the back and Dirk Kuyt on the back. I always loved it, that was kind of my birthday present. It was always quite special to get them. I am an adidas athlete now, but I’ve always played with adidas, because my Dad used to, so I got the tiny, little ones first. And I always wanted to have black boots. It was always really special to get these things.
Did you face any negativity, hurdles or barriers as you were trying to play football?
I think I’ve been quite lucky. Obviously Holland and women’s football is a good combination, so when I used to grow up I just used to play with the boys, and they fully excepted that. When we used to play against the other teams they’d say “oh it’s a girl, she can’t play”, but that’s probably all I had. My parents have been really supportive, as has everyone around me, and it’s really helped me to where I am right now.
Did you thrive in those games when you were younger, when people might have been doubting you?
Yeah, I loved it to be fair. I remember playing against FC Groningen, which is another big team in Holland, and the boys were just laughing, but in the end we won the game 7-5 I think, and I scored five of the goals. I loved it, changing their mind, and after that they knew who I was and they respected me.
You've won the Euros, played in a World Cup Final, won the Player of the Year award, top scorer for your country, played in the Netherlands, Germany and England and you’ve also brought out a series of children’s books. How are you still only 23?
I don’t feel 23, I feel a lot older!
But how have you fit it all in?
I think I’m quite lucky. It’s my ninth season at the highest level already. Three years in Holland, Three in Germany, and this is my third year here now. It’s been going really fast and quick, but I’m happy with what I’ve achieved. | 1,724 |
A 14-year-old student has been arrested after entering a Pickering, Ont. high school armed with two large knives and injuring nine people in what police believe was a random attack.
The Durham District School Board said six students and three staff members at Dunbarton High School were injured in the stabbings, which occurred shortly after 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
The teen attended the school with two knives, and "started attacking students in the hallways," Durham Regional Police said in a statement. Two staff members located the girl, and were able to hold her down until police arrived.
Nine people were injured before she was stopped, police said, explaining that investigators do not believe any particular students of staff members were targeted.
Four of the victims were transported to hospital, but none of their injuries are life-threatening, police said.
A 14-year-old female student who attends the high school has been arrested. Police say the student is the lone suspect.
The suspect, whose identity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, will not be named.
"It seems to be random at this point," Sgt. Bill Calder told reporters at the scene. "It doesn’t seem to be targeted."
Calder said two staff members managed to stop the suspect and contain her until police arrived.
"This is a safe school by nature," Calder said, adding, "(the staff members) did a great job of ending this very quickly."
The Durham District School Board said students were being released one class at a time, to ensure that all witnesses are able to speak to police.
Counselling services will be made available to students, and classes will resume on Wednesday.
"People have suffered physical injuries, but we never take light of the fact there's other things we have to look into, like emotional well-being," Calder said.
Police said a lockdown at the school, imposed as police searched each room in the school for victims and other potential suspects, is slowly being lifted.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne said the stabbing was "incredibly worrisome."
"I know that the police are doing everything that they can and they're in control of the situation," she told reporters on Tuesday.
The investigation is ongoing, and police ask anyone with more information to call 1-888-579-1520, ext. 2528. Tips can also be left anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS). | 1,725 |
Bitcoin brokers are increasingly ever-changing into an vital characteristic in bitcoin trading. They ensure merchants get worth for his or her cash. As it’s, they’re authorized in most international locations world wide though some jurisdictions severely limit foreign currency whereas different jurisdictions restrict the licensing of such exchanges. Regulators drawn from varied jurisdictions are fastidiously taking stairs to supply each common people and companies with guidelines and rules on find out how to set about desegregation the system with the formal and controlled monetary system.
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Bitcoins and taxes
The system shouldn’t be thought-about a flat forex that has attained a authorized tender standing inside any jurisdiction. Nevertheless, tax legal responsibility typically accrues regardless the medium used. Quite a slew of laws exists in several jurisdictions which causes gross sales, revenue, capital good points, payroll or other kinda legal responsibility to grow to be manifest with this forex buying and marketing platform. | 1,726 |
At my fund, these are the ones we are investing in for 2019. The ones that stand out from the crowd. The ones that focus on revenue, just like Amazon and Google did during the dot com boom and bust.
In 2017 to early 2018, it was common to think that buy backs in crypto were a sign that a company ran out of ideas. This is the old way of thinking. A new generation of crypto companies are here to stay and they value their own tokens more than ever. Wouldn’t you or I, if we knew we had a shot at becoming the next Amazon or Google? Of course we would!
In the US stock market, smart companies spend their revenue on both growth and buying back their own stock. We look for cryptos that are smart like this and can grow their company while providing their token holders with great price appreciation based on both growth and buybacks.
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It’s a great sign when a cryptocurrency company chooses to use the money they make to buy back their own tokens. It signals the following:
They have executed on releasing a product. They have focused on generating revenue. Which means they’re on a path to growth and sustainability and maybe even becoming the next Amazon or Google. They value their tokens knowing they’ll be worth more in the future. Token holders, like our fund, benefit from price appreciation and company growth at the same time.
When Internet companies first started, many were like crypto companies today. They ran up in value without products or revenue. They then crashed, just like cryptos of 2018. But a handful recovered by focusing on revenue and customers.
They’re charts were very similar too.
Dot com crash and recover:
Dot Com boom and bust
Crypto crash: (soon to recover like the dot coms)
Crypto boom and bust
We can expect cryptos that have released products and plan to use their revenue to buy back their tokens, as some of the most risk-free and profitable investments in the very near future!
So far, we have added two cryptos to our 2019 portfolio strategy that are using their revenue to buy back their tokens, BNB and VXV. We hope to add BAT and others very soon.
Do you have any in mind? If you send them to me and I’ll publish a list and may even add them to our 2019 crypto fund!
Have a great week everyone! | 1,727 |
Washington has repeatedly warned about Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei citing its ties to the Chinese government as a security risk. Now, Huawei is trying to convince the government that it is not, in fact, a risk and should not be targeted by law enforcement or burdensome regulations. In that public relations fight, the Shenzhen-based company recently scored a hard-hitting advocate: Samir Jain, a former Obama administration cybersecurity official.
Jain, who previously served as a National Security Council senior director for cybersecurity policy as well as a former associate deputy attorney general, notified Congress at the end of March that he had a new gig: lobbying for Huawei.
In that disclosure he noted that he’d specifically be lobbying on issues related to “foreign investment, government purchasing, and security-related issues arising under the National Defense Authorization Act.”
Working for a foreign government, even as a lobbyist, is not in and of itself a problem. In fact, that such lobbying would occur seems to be an unavoidable, if slightly sleazy, reality of globally connected commerce regulated by various jurisdictions.
But jumping ship from the White House to a company that the U.S. government has expressed not unjustified concerns about seems at least a little beyond the pale.
Indeed one of the issues that Jain will specifically be advocating for Huawei on is the the National Defense Authorization Act. That act, among other things, prohibited the government from purchasing and using Huawei products based on national security concerns. Defending the company against those allegations to lawmakers is then tantamount to toeing the Chinese government's line and repeating "nothing to see here," never mind that Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou is facing extradition to the U.S., a Huawei employee was arrested in Poland on spying charges, and a recent report from the U.K. outlined serious security concerns.
In March, Huawei sued the U.S. government alleging the legislation is unconstitutional and amounts to punishing the company for an alleged crime that was never proven. Regardless of the success of Huawei’s legal arguments, however, Washington is unlikely to suddenly stop seeing the company as a threat. Indeed, combating the spread of Huawei technology both in the U.S. and abroad has emerged as a centerpiece of Trump administration policies.
For Jain, that means there will be plenty of work. For Huawei, it means that he’s a great catch. For the U.S.? Let’s hope that high-end government credentials don’t result in a blind eye to real security concerns from Huawei. | 1,728 |
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors has unanimously reinstated President Teresa Sullivan, who was removed earlier this month without a vote.
Update at 4:19 p.m. ET: Important to note that Gov. Bob McDonnell, who appointed half of the rectors, had vowed to replace all of them if they didn't resolve the controversy by today.
The governor appoints all members of the Board of Visitors to four-year terms, subject to confirmation by the state General Assembly. The board approves the university's budgets and policies, and is responsible for long-term planning.
Update at 4 :12 p.m. ET: Last week, The Washington Post fleshed out the political connections of Rector Helen Dragas, who orchestrated Sullivan's ouster June 10.
Update at 4:05 p.m. ET: Rector Helen Dragas was central to the initial move to oust the president. The Associated Press writes that she opened the meeting "with comments seeking to reunite the university community."
AP writes that she said she was "convinced the university would emerge stronger after the controversy and reiterated an apology for the way the matter was handled initially."
"The situation became enormously dramatized and emotionally charged," she said. "I sincerely apologize for the way this was presented and you deserve better....
"I believe real progress is more possible than ever now," Dragas said before the vote. "It is unfortunate that we had to have a near death experience to get here."
Read the statement Dragas made June 18 at the opening of a special meeting of the board eight days after the board announced that Sullivan would step down Aug. 15.
Update at 3:56 p.m. ET: After the vote, Sullivan thanked the board.
"I want to partner with you in bringing about what's best for the university," Sullivan said, as cheers erupted outside the Rotunda where students, faculty and other supporters had gathered.
Original post: University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan has been reinstated.
The Board of Visitors' vote was 15-0, the university tweeted.
Sullivan was removed earlier this month without a vote and without an initial explanation. Rector Helen Dragas said later "the university wasn't acting quickly enough to address state and federal funding reductions, online education delivery and other challenges, but didn't offer specific examples of how she thinks Sullivan has fallen short," AP wrote earlier.
Sullivan is UVa.'s eighth president and became its first female leader in August 2010. | 1,729 |
An atheist group at Dartmouth College is planning an event aimed at skewering the reputation of the late Mother Teresa.
The Atheists Humanists Agnostics (AHA) club sent out a campus-wide e-mail announcing the program on Tuesday and promising a “full-out romp against why one of the most beloved people of the century, Mother Teresa, is as Hitchens put it… ‘a lying, thieving Albanian dwarf.’”
The e-mail says the group plans to screen an anti-Mother Teresa film, discuss Hitchens’ book, Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, and question how the public has been “conned into thinking this woman [Teresa] was good.”
The e-mail states Teresa, who is on her way to sainthood in the Catholic church, “was not a friend of the poor,” but “was a friend of poverty.”
The email links to a now infamous article by the late Christopher Hitchens which attempts to debunk much of the lore that surrounds Teresa.
The event has ignited controversy on the Ivy League campus, with students telling Campus Reform they were upset AHA was hosting such an event.
“It’s easy for a group of privileged Ivy League students who have never experienced poverty to meet in a ‘super secret room’ and think themselves as intellectuals by bashing Mother Teresa,” Melanie Wilcox, Executive Editor of the conservative Dartmouth Review, told Campus Reform.
“I’d like to know what they have done, if anything, to help the needy,” she added.
AHA President Adam Hann, however, defended the event, but admitted he had intentionally used “provocative” language in the e-mail to excite interest among students.
“What I like to do is, when there are areas that people just get vitriol or angry even for bringing it up, I like to go and have that discussion,” said Hann.
Hann added that he estimates about five to ten people will participate in the event slated for this Saturday.
Mother Teresa is widely known for founding the Missionaries of Charities, a charity tasked with aiding the poor. She was beatified in 2003 by Pope John Paul II, a step toward possible sainthood.
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A new species of fungus gnat in Indian amber closely resembles its fossil relatives from Europe, disproving the concept of a strongly isolated Indian subcontinent.
Researchers have identified three new species of insects encased in Cambay amber dating from over 54 million years ago. In a new study published by PeerJ, researchers describe the new species of fungus gnats, which provide further clues to understanding India's past diversity and geological history.
The most interesting finding from the discovery of these new gnat species is related to India´s plate tectonic history: Palaeognoriste orientale in Cambay amber belongs to a group that has previously been reported from slightly younger Baltic amber only. The species in Indian amber closely resembles its fossil relatives from Europe and therefore adds further evidence to regular faunal exchange between India and Europe while disproving the concept of a strongly isolated Indian subcontinent.
India, which was one part of the ancient supercontinent, Gondwana, started separating and heading north about 130 million years ago, finally collided with Asia some 59 million years ago, resulting in the Himalayan mountains. The time of formation of this amber (or at least its burial) is most likely around the time of collision of the Indian subcontinent with Asia.
The fossils of long beaked fungus gnats (Lygistorrhinidae) found in the Cambay amber are an exciting discovery. The name of this group refers to one of their most conspicuous characters: an elongated proboscis, which is presumably for feeding from flowers. This small family of tropical flies is known by only seven fossil and eight living genera. Given the rareness of this group Indian amber has revealed a surprising diversity with three species in three different fossil and modern genera. This even exceeds the number of known species in the well-studied Baltic amber, from which only two species are reported.
Cambay amber from India has only been studied for a few years, but is already providing an important role in uncovering secrets regarding the origins of India´s fauna. For many years, the well-established theory stated that India formed an isolated continent during its drift, allowing a highly endemic biota to develop. However, flies and other insects entrapped in Indian amber continue to reveal faunal connections to different epochs and regions of the world.
Though the exact mechanisms of faunal exchange remain unclear so far, dispersal might have been facilitated by an island chain system between India and Europe, as has already been suggested for biting midges. | 1,731 |
Get used to hearing the words Paramount Centre. That name will replace the Hershey Centre as of July 1.
Mississauga’s premier sports and entertainment venue is being renamed after Paramount Fine Foods, a chain of Middle Eastern restaurants based in Mississauga.
“I am proud to continue to grow the Paramount Restaurants Brand in a city that believes in cultural diversity, innovation and small business development,” Paramount founder and CEO Mohammed Fakih said in a news release.
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“This passion and inclusiveness are what makes Mississauga thrive as a community.”
The City of Mississauga will continue using the Hershey name for the venue until June 30, when the naming rights agreement is set to expire. Hershey Canada Inc. opted not to renew ahead of the facility’s 20th anniversary, prompting the city to look for a new sponsor late last year.
Paramount purchased the naming rights through a new 10-year agreement.
“With final approval from council, we look forward to fostering this partnership and the opportunities it will bring to the city,” stated Shari Lichterman, the city’s director of recreation.
Lichterman added that signage, websites and other facility assets will be updated approaching July 1 to help local sports clubs, residents and fans adjust to the new name.
Neighbouring facilities around the venue will be renamed under the agreement with Paramount as well.
The Hershey Community Rinks will become the Paramount Community Rinks, the Hershey SportsZone will become the Paramount SportZone and the Hershey Sports Fields will become the Paramount Sports Fields.
Paramount will also provide food services for the entire facility, including all concessions and events.
Built in 1998, the Hershey Centre has become well known as home to Mississauga’s Ontario Hockey League teams, including the present-day Mississauga Steelheads, the NBA G League’s Raptors 905 and countless major sporting events and concerts.
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It will welcome a Major Arena Soccer League team into the fold next fall.
Meanwhile, the surrounding venue has been a hub of activity for local sports groups since its inception.
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you are a resident of a country that is a major carbon emitter, as is nearly everyone in the English-speaking world, you are part of the system, and nothing less than systemic change will save us.
The race is on. From an ecological standpoint, the scientists advise us that we still have a little bit of time in which it might be possible, by a swift, decisive move away from fossil fuels, to limit the damage we’re setting up for those who live in the future. From a political standpoint, we have a year until the Paris climate summit, at which, after endless foot-shuffling and evading and blocking and stalling and sighing, we could finally, decades in, get a meaningful climate deal between the world’s nations.
We actually have a chance, a friend who was at the Lima preliminary round earlier this month told me, if we all continue to push our governments ferociously. The real pressure for change globally comes more from within nations than from nations pressuring one another. Here in the United States, long the world’s biggest carbon-emitter (until China outstripped us, partly by becoming the manufacturer of a significant percentage of our products), we have a particular responsibility to push hard. Pressure works. The president is clearly feeling it, and it’s reflected in the recent U.S.-China agreement on curtailing emissions -- far from perfect or adequate, but a huge step forward.
How will we get to where we need to be? No one knows, but we do know that we must keep moving in the direction of reduced carbon emissions, a transformed energy economy, an escape from the tyranny of fossil fuel, and a vision of a world in which everything is connected. The story of this coming year is ours to write and it could be a story of Year One in the climate revolution, of the watershed when popular resistance changed the fundamentals as much as the people of France changed their world (and ours) more than 200 ago.
Two hundred years hence, may someone somewhere hold in their hands a document from 2021, in wonder, because it was written during Year Six of the climate revolution, when all the old inevitabilities were finally being swept aside, when we seized hold of possibility and made it ours. “Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings,” says Ursula K. Le Guin. And she’s right, even if it’s the hardest work we could ever do. Now, everything depends on it. | 1,733 |
Student wanted display a sign of respect for her culture
A young Native American woman was told to remove her culturally symbolic feathers at her graduation ceremony before being allowed to cross the stage to receive her diploma.
The Navajo woman, Tasheena Savala, was told to remove the symbol because of a rule in place on decorations on caps. Savala graduated from Lehi High School in Utah last month.
Savala wanted to display a sign of respect for her culture. However, she was blocked by a teacher who noticed the feathers backstage. When the teacher told her to remove them, Savala obliged. However, she was disappointed at being unable to represent her culture.
Savala said that the feathers were how she was expressing herself. To her, the feathers are equally as important as her gown and cap. Savala wanted to wear eagle feathers on her graduation cap.
In Savala’s culture, the elders have said: “In my culture the elders say that the eagle is the highest-flying bird and so when you see an eagle, you’re supposed to say a prayer so that the eagle can take it to the creator.” This honor must be earned in her Navajo Native American culture. Savala earned the honor by graduating high school.
hen Savala removed the feathers, the teacher thanked her for taking it off. However, Savala was upset because the feathers are a part of her identity. Savala clarified that Lehi High School administrators told the students clearly that they weren’t allowed to decorate their caps. The only leis they could wear were real flower leis.
The Alpine School District released a statement. They said that the school sent notifications out to graduates and their parents and held an informal assembly explaining expectations for the formal graduation before the May graduation ceremony. Any exceptions to the procedures had to be addressed to the administration before the graduation ceremony. The school was unaware of Savala’s request and defended the teacher by saying that the teacher was following the set procedure by the school. The school said that they would continue to study as well as refine their graduation processes and procedures so that something like this doesn’t happen again.
On the bright side, Savala said that she enjoyed her graduation and hoped that her experience would enforce a change for other Native American students. She expressed her wishes that her brother, who is a year younger than her, would be able to share his cultural identity in the way that he’d like.
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8. Setting your heating too high
Hot temperatures dry out your skin, whether that’s in your central heating or shower.
As the skin dries out, it’s then at risk of cracking and showing off finer wrinkles, the Mail Online reports.
9. Sleeping on the wrong bedlinen
If you can, you ideally want to sleep on a silk pillowcase as they’re much gentler on the skin. This is particularly important if you sleep lying on your side.
Pillowcases made from synthetic materials can results in the build-up of “small folds on your body causing premature wrinkles,” according to Skin Repair Expert, Lorena Öberg.
10. Eating unhealthily - or not eating enough
It’s probably no surprise that sugary, oily foods aren’t doing your skin any good. But you’re also not doing your skin any favours by cutting down on calories too much either.
“Those who are 'too busy' to maintain a healthy nutritional intake may experience accelerated volume loss from the face,” Dr Rimmer explained.
So in order to keep your skin looking young, all you need to do is quit social media, never drink through a straw, stop using your phone in bed or looking at screens for too long, avoid rubbing your skin, go tee-total, sleep more, be forever cold, invest in silk bedlinen and eat a sufficient amount of healthy food. | 1,735 |
Has President Barack Obama gotten a single briefing on the nature of Islamism in the nearly seven years he’s occupied the Oval Office?
Considering what he said at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in the Philippines Wednesday morning, it doesn’t sound like it.
“When individuals say we should have a religious test and that only Christians, proven Christians should be admitted, that’s offensive,” he declared. “I cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of the rhetoric that’s been coming out of here during the course of this debate.”
The president’s comment is stunning for a couple of reasons. For starters, it’s not true. It’s hard to imagine that a single person will join ISIS mainly because of the debate in the U.S. over whether we should accept Syrian refugees, or what type of refugees we should accept.
But it also suggests we should change our actions just because ISIS may be able to use them to recruit more members. Should we stop educating girls because it offends ISIS and may help it with recruitment? Should we abandon Israel because it offends ISIS and may help it with recruitment? Should we shut down Hollywood because the movies it produces offends ISIS and may help it with recruitment?
Should we not stand up for the Christians ISIS is slaughtering or the Yazidi girls ISIS it is enslaving because those stands probably offend the terror group and may help it with recruitment?
Should we stop drone strikes against terrorists because it offends ISIS and may help it with recruitment?
Are we now going to run our lives and control our debates over what may or may not theoretically help ISIS with recruitment?
In reality, one of the most potent recruitment tools for ISIS is the perception that it is winning. The more successful terror attacks it is able to stage, the longer it is able to control vast swaths of territory, the more radical Muslims will want to join what is perceived to be a winning team to create the first Caliphate in nearly 100 years.
You know who has a little say in hampering this recruiting tool? Could it be the man in charge of the most powerful military in human history?
Developing a coherent strategy to deliver a crippling blow to ISIS would do far more to hurt ISIS’s recruitment program than abandoning our debate over what to do about Syrian refugees.
But President Obama appears too busy demagoguing Republicans to bother himself with that.
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Tim Hortons said it will review its policies with employees after a teenager had an asthma attack in a London restaurant and wasn’t allowed to use a store phone to call 911.
And when paramedics arrived at an exit-only door, employees didn’t let them in.
“This teen boy was going between the two tills, there were five or six employees... he was visibly in distress,” said Kali Sproat, who eventually used her cellphone to call 911 for the boy.
“The employee asked ‘what do you want?’ kind of rudely. He said “help. Phone.” But she told him the phones weren’t for customers — there was a pay phone across the street.”
The incident happened around 3 p.m. Sunday at the Horton St. Tim’s, just east of Wellington St.
“They didn’t ask if he needed help. The whole time, not one of them came out from behind the counter to see if he was OK,” Sproat said.
The teen was eventually taken away by ambulance.
Sproat said he told her he suffers from asthma but his medication wasn’t working.
A Tim Hortons spokesperson told The Free Press the employee didn’t realize the boy was having trouble breathing.
“My understanding is that the young man asked to use the phone and the team member didn’t recognize he was in medical distress,” said spokesperson Michelle Robichaud.
“The safety and well-being of our guests is of utmost concern to us.”
The company will review with the Horton St. franchise staff what staff should do in an emergency situation, Robichaud said.
But Sproat is still angry, saying if she hadn’t stepped in the boy would have had no help at all.
When an ambulance arrived, paramedics tried to get in, only to find themselves at an exit-only door. Employees didn’t let them in.
“Why didn’t they respond? I couldn’t believe that they wouldn’t do anything to help,” Sproat said.
Attempts by The Free Press to locate the teen were unsuccessful Monday. No one under his name had been admitted to hospital.
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Federal immigration agents arrested 21 suspected illegal immigrants Wednesday after auditing about 100 7-Eleven stores as a part of four-year investigation into the employees’ immigration statuses.
Wednesday’s operation stemmed from a 2013 investigation under the Obama administration that found managers used stolen identities to hire 115 illegal immigrants and pay them below minimum wage, court documents said. Officials called it the largest immigration action against an employer under Donald Trump's presidency.
Nine 7-Eleven franchisees and managers in New York and Virginia were charged.
Since then, eight people have pleaded guilty and were ordered to pay more than $2.6 million in back wages.
The most recent audit comes as President Donald Trump aims to expand border security and immigration policy. Deportation arrests have increased by 40 percent under the new administration.
Acting head of ICE’S Homeland Security Investigations Derek Benner said Wednesday’s audit was “the first of many” to come for employers across the country.
"This is what we're gearing up for this year and what you're going to see more and more of is these large-scale compliance inspections, just for starters," Benner said.
Following these inspections, officials have said they'll decide whether the cases warrant a criminal investigation.
Employer audits ramped up under the Obama administration, with more than 3,100 just in 2013.
ICE’s top official, Thomas D. Homan, said in a statement that this type of hiring is a key factor that draws illegal immigrants into the U.S., The Washington Post reported.
"Businesses that hire illegal workers are a pull factor for illegal immigration and we are working hard to remove this magnet," Homan’s statement said. "ICE will continue its efforts to protect jobs for American workers by eliminating unfair competitive advantages for companies that exploit illegal immigration."
Despite 7-Eleven being the target in the latest audits, Benner said all employers would going to susceptible to inspection.
"It's not going to be limited to large companies or any particular industry, big medium and small," he said.
Meanwhile, the House GOP rolled out its new immigration and border security bill which included a measure making it mandatory for employers to check that they're strictly hiring legal workers.
7-Eleven Stores Inc. released a statement pointing out that owners of its Franchises are responsible for hiring and verifying workers eligibility.
Fox News’ Chad Pergram and The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 1,738 |
empowers his own assistant coaches to view their roles as head coaches of the position they coach.
"When you look at your job like that," he explained, "it helps you grow and realize the magnitude of what a head coach would do for, in our case right now, 90, and in Ohio State's case, 105 players. The way you teach is critical. Your staff has to be an extension of you."
While at Ohio State, Vrabel learned how important it is to be a great teacher, because many of the players he worked with were young and had a lot to learn. His focus on teaching the details of the linebacker position by being a hands-on teacher has carried over to how he coaches players in the NFL and what he expects from his coaches. -- Turron Davenport
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First football job: Student assistant/graduate assistant at the University of Louisville in 1989
What he learned: Gruden summed it up in one word: humility. That's what happens when you go from being the star quarterback who flirted with the NFL to a low-level assistant whose coach, Howard Schnellenberger, assigns you to wash his car. Gruden said it immediately put him in his place. After all, a year earlier he had led the Cardinals to an 8-3 record -- their first winning season in a decade -- and finished his career with 7,024 passing yards. A damaged knee prevented him from being drafted, so he took an unpaid job that provided room and board.
"I went from being the starting QB, team captain for two years in a row, to grunt work," he said. "Checking curfews, making cut-ups, meetings and little say. But I also continued to study the game and plays and concepts and how to attack defenses."
Gruden also had to prove himself in his first paid job as a coach, in the Arena Football League as the offensive coordinator for the Nashville Kats in 1997. "When you go from a player to a coach, it can be a little difficult," he said. "I learned that as a GA at Louisville. Everyone was messing with me all the time. But you have to understand that when you put the coaching hat on, you have to get the respect of the players. That's the most important thing: You have to earn the respect of them by your knowledge of what's going on and by work ethic. That's one step. And then step two is putting them in position to succeed." -- John Keim | 1,739 |
Gwent – Geralt of Rivia’s favourite collectable card game – now steers the fate of nations in Witcher spinoff Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales. CD Projekt Red have just released a 37 minute walkthrough of the card-RPG, introducing us to its characters, and the tweaked version of Gwent that the game uses to resolve its conflicts. It’s genuinely interesting stuff, with the player’s deck-building skills tested in battles that go far beyond the usual formula of the card game. Thronebreaker launches in a little under two weeks on October 23rd. The walkthrough video lurks below.
While set in the same world as the mainline Witcher games, Thronebreaker has players stepping into the shiny golden boots of Queen Meve, a returning monarch seeking to rebuild her forces. This makes the game of Gwent – normally played with cards representing regiments of soldiers and powerful heroes – far more literal, as they represent her army and friends made along the way. The card game itself looks far more lively and animated than before, with detailed backdrops and special effects driving home that there’s a proper fight happening under the abstraction.
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The most impressive bit of the walkthrough is a boss fight against a Manticore. Represented by two lanes of three cards each, each body part has its own stats and abilities, with its tail and claws used to attack. Most of the battle is spent weathering its assault while giving Sir Eyck – a guest hero and monster-slayer – a chance to get a run-up with his lance and finish the fight in one shot at the monster’s head. I’m hoping the full game doesn’t skimp on setpiece battles like this – regular Gwent may have its appeal, but these fancy twists on the formula are the most exciting for me.
It all reminds me of a more evolved version of Witcher 3 mod Hearts Of Card, which replaces the combat engine of the hack n’ slashy RPG with strategic card battles. Perhaps a little slow when you’re just chopping through random encounters, but the fact that it works at all makes me wonder if it was an inspiration for Thronebreaker.
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales launches on October 23rd, exclusive to GOG, and will cost £23.39/€25.81/$29.99. | 1,740 |
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Cristiano Ronaldo was sent off as Real Madrid's eight-match winning run ended in a fiery draw at Athletic Bilbao.
The Portuguese received a straight red card late on after raising his hands in a confrontation with Carlos Gurpegi as Real missed the chance to go above Barcelona into second place in La Liga.
Jese gave the visitors the lead on his full league debut as he stabbed home Ronaldo's low cross after the break.
But substitute Ibai Gomez equalised from 20 yards before Ronaldo saw red.
Red for Ronaldo Cristiano Ronaldo has now received seven red cards in his career.
Ronaldo's likely three-game absence could well have an impact on a competitive title race.
Real Madrid sit third in La Liga, level on points with defending champions Barcelona but three points behind city rivals Atletico.
And it could have been worse for Los Blancos, who saw their eight-match winning run in all competitions ended by an Athletic Bilbao side unbeaten at home in the league all season.
Iker Muniain and top scorer Aritz Aduriz both missed good chances for the hosts in the opening half, as Real struggled to hit the heights they have found so far this year.
Going into the match, Carlo Ancelotti's men had won every game they had played in 2014, scoring 17 times and not conceding a goal.
And despite a below-par first half, they looked as though their perfect start to the year was going to continue when 20-year-old Jese - in for the injured Gareth Bale - put them ahead.
Unbeaten Real Madrid Carlo Ancelotti's Real Madrid have now gone 20 consecutive games unbeaten in all competitions
Ronaldo's low pass across the face of goal after 65 minutes was met by the debutant's lunge, and he succeeded in directing the ball into the corner.
Bilbao brought on Gomez for Muniain soon after and the new man made an instant impact with a superb goal less than a minute later.
The substitute lofted the set-piece into the area and, after it was headed clear, he met the loose bouncing ball on the edge of the area with a stunning strike that flew in off the far post.
And things got worse for Real as Ronaldo was sent off for reacting to a shove by Gurpegi, although it appeared he made little or no contact as he waved his hands towards the defender's face. | 1,741 |
Ava DuVernay’s Central Park Five Netflix drama has unveiled its leading men. Chris Chalk (Gotham), Ethan Herisse (Miss Virginia), Marquis Rodriguez (Chicago Fire), Caleel Harris (Goosebumps 2), and newcomers Freddy Miyares and Justin Cunningham have signed on to Netflix’s limited series from A Wrinkle in Time and 13th director DuVernay.
From left: Freddy Miyares, Justin Cunningham
Chalk will play Adult Yusef Salaam; Miyares and Cunningham will play Adult Raymond Santana and Adult Kevin Richardson, respectively. Together, they will star alongside previously announced Jharrel Jerome and Jovan Adepo (Adult Antron McCray) as the adult men in the Central Park Five case. Jerome will portray Adult Korey Wise in addition to Young Korey Wise.
From left: Marquis Rodriguez, Caleel Harris Netflix
Ethan Herisse will play Young Yusef Salaam; Marquis Rodriguez (Chicago Fire) will play Young Raymond Santana, Jr.; Caleel Harris (Goosebumps 2) will play Young Antron McCray; Asante Blackk will play Young Kevin Richardson. Together with Jerome, they will portray the young teenagers wrongfully accused in 1989.
Filming began this week in New York City. The limited series will be released on Netflix in 2019.
Based on a true story that gripped the nation, the four-episode series will chronicle the notorious case of five teenagers of color who were convicted of a rape they did not commit. The four episode limited series will focus on the five teenagers from Harlem — Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise. The series will span from the spring of 1989, when each were first questioned about the incident, to 2014 when they were exonerated and a settlement was reached with the city of New York.
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It was previously announced that Michael K. Williams, Vera Farmiga, John Leguizamo, Felicity Huffman, Jharrel Jerome, Jovan Adepo, Niecy Nash, Aunjanue Ellis, Kylie Bunbury, Marsha Stephanie Blake and Storm Reid joined the cast.
DuVernay will write and direct all four episodes of the narrative series. Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King from Participant Media, Oprah Winfrey/Harpo Films, Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh from Tribeca Productions and DuVernay will executive produce. | 1,742 |
LAGUNA BEACH – Several guests became ill Friday morning after a strong odor consumed a hotel, causing a Hazmat situation and prompting an evacuation, police said.
The perfume-like odor was first noticed around 6:45 a.m. at the La Casa del Camino hotel, at 1289 S. Coast Highway, by hotel staffers who called Laguna Beach Fire Department.
It was unknown what caused the odor, but Orange County Fire Authority Hazmat officials suspect cologne from bottle of cologne left on a heater, causing an irritant to become airborne, OCFA Capt. Shane Sherwood said.
Guests complained of sore throats, itchy eyes and coughing, but none were taken to a hospital, Laguna Beach police Sgt. Tim Kleiser said.
Avila’s El Rachito restaurant and Surf and San Resort hotel offered to let guests inside during the evacuations.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department Bomb Squad robot entered the hotel around 12:30 p.m. to assist and SWAT officials began going room-to-room around 1:45 p.m.
The man inside the room on the third floor – which smelled strongly of the odor – appeared to be sick and shut the door on officials.
Orange County Sheriff’s SWAT officials went inside around 2:30 p.m., but he was not found.
“We don’t know at what point he got out,” Kleiser said. “We think it may be when fire (OCFA) called us.”
Police suspect he checked into the hotel Thursday night and has a DUI arrest warrant.
“If it is the same male we noticed, there was DUI arrest warrant out of Northern California, Kleiser said.
Jennifer Bradshaw, who lives a street away from the hotel, said she also felt ill Friday morning.
“All morning I’ve had a sore throat for no apparent reason,” she said. “A helicopter (was) hovering over my house all morning.”
Authorities began letting motel guests back into their rooms around 4 p.m. after Hazmat crews tested the air, Kleiser said.
“The reading they were getting was zero,” Kleiser said.
One lane of South Coast Highway near Crest Street was closed during the incident.
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The precise origins of the western hemispheric HIV/AIDS pandemic remain contentious. Phylogenetic studies based upon HIV-1 sequences sampled after (in most cases long after) the recognition of AIDS in 1981 have suggested a lengthy cryptic period of circulation in the U.S. and Canada throughout the 1970s, and an even older presence in the Caribbean. However, no comprehensive evolutionary genomic analysis of HIV-1 in North America closer to the putative emergence of the virus in the 1970s has been possible since no non-African HIV-1 complete genomes from that era have been sequenced to date.
Here, we combine approaches from molecular biology, phylogenetics, and historical analysis to investigate the timing and geography of the emergence of HIV-1 group M subtype B in the U.S. We designed an approach to overcome the challenge of recovering HIV-1 genetic material from older serum specimens in which viral RNA template material is highly fragmented and at low concentration. We recovered near-full length HIV-1 genome sequences from eight U.S. patient serum samples from 1978-79 (comprising eight of the nine earliest HIV-1 group M genomes sequenced worldwide to date) and also from the individual known as ‘Patient 0’. We then used maximum likelihood and Bayesian ‘relaxed molecular clock’ phylogenetic and phylogenomic methods to infer timing and geography.
This early genomic ‘snapshot’ of HIV-1 reveals that by 1978-79 the HIV-1 epidemic in the U.S. already exhibited extensive genetic diversity – particularly in New York City (NYC) – having emerged around 1970 from a founder virus drawn from an older and more diverse subtype B epidemic in the Caribbean. Moreover, there is neither biological nor historical evidence that Patient 0 was the primary case in the U.S. or for subtype B as a whole.
Our findings reveal a series of key founder events in the genesis of the subtype B epidemic, with a single virus moving from the African epicenter of HIV-1 group M to the Caribbean by 1967 [1964-1970], a single virus moving from the Caribbean to establish an epidemic in NYC by 1971 [1969-73], and yet another single virus moving from there to San Francisco by ~1975 (but with extensive geographical mixing in the U.S. and beyond shortly thereafter). We discuss, in the context of these insights into the early spread of HIV/AIDS in North America, the genesis and persistence of beliefs about ‘Patient 0’ that are unsupported by scientific data. | 1,744 |
TOKYO -- Japan's Defense Ministry is likely to request a budgetary allocation so the country's air force, which is responding more frequently to Chinese provocations, can load more missiles on its F-15 fighter jets, sources said.
The ministry wants to double the number of air-to-air missiles to be loaded on the mainstay jets, operated by the Air Self-Defense Force. It also plans to lengthen the jets' lifespans.
The ministry would like the money to be allocated in the budget for the fiscal year beginning in April.
There has been a surge in the number of Chinese warplanes as well as increased Chinese provocations in waters around the Senkaku Islands, in the southernmost Japanese prefecture of Okinawa. China also claims the islands, calling them the Diaoyu.
The ministry appears to want to counter China's moves by both souping up existing jets and introducing next-generation fighters.
The ASDF owns 200 F-15s, fourth-generation fighter jets made by Boeing, the U.S. aerospace and defense company.
The ministry plans to double the number of missiles each jet can carry to 16. It also plans to repair damaged wings and other parts to extend operating life.
The ASDF has been scrambling jets more often in response to Chinese maneuvers. It did so 199 times from April through June, a 75% increase from the same period last year.
Recently, Chinese jets have been flying further south, near the contested islands. "As the cruising range of Chinese military aircraft has gotten longer, they are coming ever closer to our territories," a Japanese Defense Ministry official said.
In January, the ASDF transferred its squadron at the Tsuiki air base in Fukuoka Prefecture, southern Japan, to a base in Naha, Okinawa, nearly doubling the number of F-15s there to 40. Were China to send a big squadron into Japanese airspace, Tokyo would need to respond with both quality and quantity.
At the end of fiscal 2017, the ASDF is to deploy fifth-generation F-35 stealth fighters that are hard to detect by radar. But the first F-35s will be deployed at the Misawa base in Aomori Prefecture, at the northern tip of Japan's main island. The U.S. Air Force shares the base, and the ASDF plans to first work on joint pilot training and maintenance cooperation with the U.S. before putting the jets in operation in tenser areas.
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How does a home-grown terrorist like Frazier Glenn Cross Jr. end up in the back of a police car shouting “Heil Hitler” after he has killed three people and shot up two Jewish community facilities in suburban Kansas City, Kan.?
Does he start with an ideological gateway drug, like a stream of shrill propaganda from the National Rifle Assn.? Does he move on through progressively harder stuff, from the pompous rants of Rush Limbaugh, to the paranoid fantasies of Glenn Beck and then to the seditious lunacy of Alex Jones? Does this get him hooked on anti-government delusions that take him deep into the philosophical meth, heroin and crack of right wing extremist websites and white supremacist militia groups?
Or do men like Cross just start crazy and get crazier?
Whatever the case may be, the shooting in Kansas City is another reminder that we continue to have a domestic terror problem. While the vast power of the U.S. military and intelligence agencies is targeted on radical Islamists around the world, we, as a country, show minimal concern about the threat of militants who have grown up among us.
The 73-year-old Cross spent four decades pushing the white supremacist cause. Cross served as grand dragon of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He threatened to assassinate the founder of the anti-racist Southern Poverty Law Center. He spent time in prison but also ran for political office several times on a white power platform.
Tuesday night on MSNBC in a report on Cross’ connections to the broader extremist movement, Rachel Maddow cited the bizarre fact that Cross -- then known by the last name Miller -- was a key FBI informant in an unsuccessful federal effort in the 1980s to bring down the major players in the white supremacist movement. Despite his betrayal, Cross returned to the cause and cheered on other racist militants, such as Kevin Harpham, the man convicted of placing a bomb along the route of Spokane’s Martin Luther King Day parade in 2011.
When he went gunning for Jews last weekend, this guy did not spring out of nowhere. He was notorious. So, why was he off the radar of law enforcement?
In 2009, when federal agencies wanted to step up monitoring of extreme right wing groups, many conservatives went ballistic. They said the feds would use this as an excuse to go after anti-abortion activists and other legitimate political organizations on the right. They succeeded in getting law enforcement to back down.
They may also have succeeded in making the homicidal work of a domestic terrorist that much easier. | 1,746 |
at Hofstra and Jeff Boals at Stony Brook have their teams off to 11-3 starts, which makes this native Long Island basketball junkie quite happy as we inch toward the New Year.
It probably won’t be good-bye, and that’s unfortunate, but I would urge Giants fans to appreciate Eli Manning at MetLife Stadium one more time Sunday afternoon. You never know when a GM’s going to change his mind, after all, and it’s worth remembering Phil Simms never got to savor his final throw until years later, and he was wearing a shirt and tie under his No. 11 when that happened.
Knicks fans had every reason to believe they would have a season-long fit of being envious while looking at the Raptors, Celtics, and Sixers. But the Nets?
Every time I walk into Jerry Jones’ palace in Arlington, I get a little angrier about that ugly pile of venetian blinds known as MetLife Stadium, I won’t lie.
Whack Back at Vac
Howie Siegel: Moral victories don’t count for spit. Please tell that to Mr. Fizdale when you see him next.
Vac: I believe we have the title of the 2018-19 Knicks highlight video!
Kenneth Meltsner: I have never before seen one defense fold so much over five consecutive games. We have never before seen one team so adept at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Vac: What’s either hysterical (or horrific) is that Ken never actually uses the word “Jets” … but we know who he’s talking about.
@IamNYSports: They are saying St. John’s-Seton Hall was a sellout, but the upper deck has zero seats sold and they put black drapes up. So is it REALLY sold out? Still, I got my ticket and can’t wait. #SJUBB #WeAreNewYorksTeam
@MikeVacc: When folks are this enthusiastic about a college basketball game in the tri-state area, everything else is miscellany, is the way I look at it.
Richard Frome: Cole Porter is smiling somewhere at “lived in Arkansas” appearing in the lyrics of one your annual Christmas carols. That was beyond superb.
Vac: I must admit — I was especially proud of that one. | 1,747 |
targeted and killed civilians in Iraq, a story originating with Manning, it was a good leak, showing just how dirty and amoral the American initiated war in Iraq had become. Likewise, its release of bundles of documents relating to the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan served a good purpose in revealing that the US government was lying about both wars and ignoring its own intelligence analysis to continue to blunder around like a blind elephant in a small room. As the documents continue to appear they tell a tale of how the American empire is run and how, like an iceberg, most of it is concealed beneath the surface, hidden from public view. Manning took it upon himself to release the hundreds of thousands of secret papers, reportedly because of his belief that the diplomatic documents expose "almost criminal political back dealings" and explain "how the first world exploits the third, in detail." He was right to do so. The American juggernaut must be stopped and the transparency provided by Manning and other whistleblowers is the best weapon to accomplish that.
My only remaining concern continues to be the possibility that WikiLeaks itself has an agenda beyond exposing the machinations of an essentially duplicitous government. If it does that will presumably emerge eventually, but for the present WikiLeaks is providing a necessary service. I do not know if Julian Assange is working for any intelligence service, as has been alleged in some circles. It does seem to me that the release of documents so far has been selective, but perhaps as more of them surface that impression will vanish. I have heard that the newly formed US cyber command aided by the Israelis is behind the hacking campaign directed against WikiLeaks and its servers, particularly ironic as President Barack Obama has several times extolled the freedom of the internet. Apparently that is only true if it is hosting criticism of Iran or China.
The United States should not be mounting a huge international campaign to silence WikiLeaks, nor will it be successful. Nor should it attempt to "regulate" the internet, which is the inevitable next step. And the attempts to personally punish Assange, which might succeed, are a measure of how low America and its allies in Europe and Australia have sunk. He has broken no law even in an age of Patriot Acts and Military Commissions and the charges against him in Sweden appear to be a set-up. Once upon a time there was a rule of law in the United States and a presumption of innocence until proven guilty, but no longer. Ultimately WikiLeaks will rise and fall based on its credibility and its ability to tell stories that are being suppressed elsewhere and that the public believes should be heard. WikiLeaks must be allowed to speak. | 1,748 |
Republicans bracing for 'October surprise' as Gloria Allred 'prepares for Romney revelation'
Revelation: Republicans are bracing for Gloria Allred, pictured, to make a potentially damaging revelation about Mitt Romney, just weeks before the election
Republicans are bracing themselves for Gloria Allred to make a potentially damaging revelation about Mitt Romney, just weeks before the election.
The pro-President Obama lawyer is rumoured to be preparing for her so-called 'October surprise' in which she will strike the Republican presidential hopeful's chances by unearthing some sort of secret or scandal.
Ms Allred has refused to comment on the rumours, which first surfaced in a tweet by the Drudge Report's Matt Drudge on Thursday.
'Here she comes. Hearing Gloria Allred out there again, about to make a move. After all, it's her time of the campaign. Team O at the ready!!' Mr Drudge wrote on Twitter.
According to RadarOnline.com, Ms Allred launched a last minute strike on GOP Meg Whitman's campaign for governor of California by representing a disgruntled former housekeeper.
In the pivotal moments of the campaign, the lawyer wheeled out Nicky Diaz who alleged that she was fired by the Whitman family because she was an illegal immigrant.
Whitman went on to lose the election to Democrat Jerry Brown.
Ms Allred refused to confirm or deny the rumours regarding Governor Romney.
'I have no comment at this time about Mr Drudge's Tweet. I don't discuss meetings with potential clients,' she told RadarOnline.com.
But Republicans commentators are running scared, rallying the troops for a pre-emptive attack.
Scared: Supporters of Mitt Romney, pictured with Paul Ryan, are rallying the troops for a pre-emptive attack
New York Conservative blog, The Red Side of Life, demanded Romney supporters'stop her now,' adding 'we're doing too well to risk 'an Allred.'
'Gloria Allred Prepares Anti-Mitt Strike You Can STOP Her Now! (action!) Don't underestimate Gloria Allred's ability to inflict damage,' the website reads.
'The media will 'eat up' anything she feeds them and turn it into an endless scandal. Recall she took down Cain and RINO Whitman with NO EVIDENCE. We're doing too well to risk 'an Allred.' She can be stopped, but it will take action on our behalf.'
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- Declining to do anything about the situation in subject interaction event 31, A question of rights, will now cost 10 prestige.
- Removed some outdated information in the tutorial in German and Spanish.
- AoW Events 15, The Families Left Behind, now requires you to not be at war any longer.
- Mamluk Flavor Event 14, Revenue Administration, will cause a revolt in their capital rather than a revolt in Cairo regardless of who owns Cairo.
- The Achievement, Sweden is not overpowered, will no longer be completeable with a broken Baltic Coastline.
- Fixed bad tooltip for why a new fleet could not be created from a trade fleet.
- Cruelty of Mercenaries will now cause more unrest but only apply to provinces in one area.
- Guild Restrictions on Goods will now only apply to provinces of the same good in the same area.
- Tooltips in Peace View are now displayed for selected provinces as well.
- Mercenary limit can no longer be circumvented by building in occupied territory.
- Fixed a bug where units would become exiled from walking into a province they had access to due to being previously entered province while at war.
- Fixed exploit due to being able to send several Peace Offers on the same day. You must now wait a day between sending offers.
- Fixed issue with unit movement arrows persisting on screen.
- Fixed on_colonial_reintegration action to only trigger when restoring colonial status after a failed independence war.
- Fixed case of AI units not being capable of returning by transport navy when there's no land path.
- AI now 'cheats' on maintenance for border and capital forts (there is a define to disable this) and won't mothball these.
- Completion date & progress for Fabricate Claim is now calculated correctly, even when the agent has been discovered.
- Peace: Fixed issue with Shogun getting Aggressive Expansion from its Daimyos taking land.
- Fixed exploit concerning Random New World map files.
- Fixed occasional AI-related crash on OSX.
- Fixed issue where clicking on units in naval combat would show "uncolonized province" view.
- Fixed bug involving AI regiments getting stuck as splinters of exploration armies.
- Fixed case of AI ignoring the presence of a unit in a province if it was moving out of it.
- Fixed issue with textures disappearing after multiple hours of play. | 1,750 |
Days after announcing another step towards a 2020 presidential run, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she plans to head to Iowa and hopes to make her way to the neighboring state of New Hampshire.
This weekend the Cambridge Democrat will be in Des Moines, Sioux City, Storm Lake and Council Bluffs. Iowa and New Hampshire are two top destinations for presidential aspirants.
Asked about her plans, Warren said, “It’s to get out there and talk to people about what’s happening in this country. Washington works great for the wealthy and the well-connected. It needs to work for everyone else.”
Warren, who won a second six-year term in November, pointed to the decline of the American middle class as one of the reasons she ran for US Senate in Massachusetts.
“And that’s what this national campaign is all about as well,” she said.
“I am in this fight because I believe government is working for the rich and the powerful,” she added. “I believe that Washington is corrupt. I see it firsthand. That’s what pulls me in, that’s why I’m in this fight.”
Reporters also asked Warren about a live video she posted on Instagram on Monday, the same day she announced her presidential exploratory committee.
In the video, she cracks open a beer inside her kitchen and talks about her exploratory committee. “I drink Michelob Ultra, the club soda of beers,” Warren said Wednesday, when asked for the brand.
“It’s one more way to be able just to invite people into your home,” she said of Instagram’s live video feature. “I wish I could just open the door and have lots of folks in but this is a way to do it, so that we get a chance talk about what’s going on.”
Warren said she hopes her Iowa trip will also be a “conversation.”
“One of the wonderful things about being able to get out and listen to people, to hear from people, to talk to people about the things that matter most in their lives,” she said. “I think that this is a moment in America where people really want to get the focus back on the things that touch their lives. About things like student loans and what it costs to get a prescription filled and how Social Security needs to be strengthened.” | 1,751 |
NEW DELHI: In his first direct dig at Arvind Kejriwal BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Wednesday slammed the AAP chief for having an erroneous map of India on his party's website. In an apparent reference to the number of days that Kejriwal's government was in power in Delhi, Modi called the AAP chief 'AK-49'."This AK-49 just gave birth to a new party & on his party official website the map shows Kashmir as a part of Pakistan," Modi hit out. Taking pot-shots at AAP member Prashant Bhushan, Modi said, "One of AK 49's close aide says there must be referendum of Kashmir. Because of this Pakistan is jumping with joy."Earlier this year, Bhushan had sparked a controversy by calling for a referendum in Kashmir to decide whether or not the Indian Army should be deployed to deal with internal threats in the valley.Modi went on take a combined jibe at Defence Minister AK Antony and Arvind Kejriwal saying, "There are three things being praised in Pakistan- they are 3 AKs - AK 47, AK Antony & AK 49."Modi also raked up the issue of dynasty politics saying, "In a democracy, dynasty politics is wrong. We need to free the state and nation from it." "Their crown prince (Rahul Gandhi) says Congress is a 'thought' but in reality Congress is thinking how can a tea seller reach here," Modi added.Praising Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Modi said that the former PM 'ignited hope' among the people of Kashmir. "Had he (Vajpayee) got more time things would have changed in J&K," Modi said."The path shown by Vajpayee - humanity, democracy and Kashmiriyat - we will carry forward," Modi said.His comments assume significance as mainstream political parties of the state including ruling National Conference and opposition PDP as well as moderate separatist - Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq - have, of late, been praising the Vajpayee government for its initiatives relating to Kashmir.Addressing a rally in Jammu & Kashmir Modi said, "I am not asking for 60 months to sit and enjoy power. I want to be the watchman who will protect India and its treasure." "Enough of this loot in the nation," Modi added.Stepping up his election campaign, Modi will address 185 rallies across the country from March 26. The "Bharat Vijay Rallies" in Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir was the first. | 1,752 |
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This fall, a young, scrappy and hungry student at the Belmont University School of Music will perform in one of the hottest musicals in recent memory.
Chris Lee, a rising senior who is pursuing his BFA in Musical Theatre, has been cast in the Chicago production of Lin-Manuel Miranda's wildly successful Broadway musical and pop culture phenomenon "Hamilton."
"Hamilton," a stellar hip-hop musical about Founding Father and first Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, debuted in 2015. It dominated last month's Tony Awards and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The soundtrack topped Billboard's Rap Albums Chart, won a Grammy Award and has been certified platinum.
Lee, 21, will portray the Marquis de Lafayette in the first act of the musical and Thomas Jefferson in the second act. He'll star alongside Tony-winner Karen Olivo (who is portraying Angelica Schuyler) and Miguel Cervantes, who has been cast as Hamilton.
"I'm nothing but excited to tackle this role. It'll be very interesting building up anticipation because I'm no Daveed Diggs (who played Lafayette and Jefferson in the original Broadway cast)," Lee wrote in an email. "I am, however, fully confident that I'll do my best in bringing a new iconic character to life in a new fashion that hopefully everyone can appreciate."
This isn't Lee's first encounter with Miranda's work: he's played the character of Benny in two different stagings of Miranda's "In the Heights," most recently in the Street Theatre Company's March production.
"It goes without saying that Miranda is brilliant, but it must be noted that he's created such a lane for young aspiring artists like me who want to do so much and have the perfect example of how to get started," Lee wrote.
"We are so proud of Chris," said Nancy Allen, coordinator of Belmont's Musical Theatre program. She noted that Lee — who she describes as sweet, grounded, well-rounded and well-liked — came into the program "very green," but while studying under instructor Jo Lynn Burks, the young performer learned classical voice techniques that would help him "manage what he already did well in addition to what was coming down the pike."
"He's always been a very enthusiastic learner," Allen added. "We're very excited for him."
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Friday has brought the week to a bittersweet end for Star Wars fans. Star Wars: The Mandalorian just concluded its first season in epic fashion, leaving viewers more excited about the Disney+ series than ever before. The only problem is that there won't be any new episodes for quite some time. Creator Jon Favreau has already confirmed that the team is hard at work on Season 2, and now that the finale has been released to the public, he's taking to Twitter to give everyone a better idea of when the new installment will actually arrive.
Favreau tweeted a picture of a model for a mysterious Star Wars creature along with a message of hope for fans of The Mandalorian. Saving specifics for a later date, Favreau confirmed that Season 2 would be arriving in the fall of next year.
"Season 2 of The Mandalorian coming Fall 2020," Favreau wrote in the tweet.
Season 2 of #TheMandalorian coming Fall 2020 pic.twitter.com/8VQYLDMQ0V — Jon Favreau (@Jon_Favreau) December 27, 2019
The second season of The Mandalorian had already been confirmed by Jon Favreau, so the announcement of a new installment wasn't exactly a surprise to anyone. The "Fall 2020" bit is the important part.
The Mandalorian won't have a Stranger Things-length wait between seasons, which is seriously good news for fans. However, just saying "fall" doesn't exactly offer a lot of clarity as to exactly when new episodes will arrive. Fall could mean late August. Fall could also mean sometime in November. There is a three to four month window when The Mandalorian Season 2 could arrive next year, and we'll probably know something more specific when a trailer is released over the summer.
We're going to have to wait just a little while to see what happens to Din Djarin, Cara Dune, Greef Karga, and Baby Yoda, but at least we know when we can expect to see them all again. In the meantime, Disney+ is releasing brand new episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars to keep the adventure going.
Are you looking forward to The Mandalorian Season 2? Let us know in the comments! If you haven't signed up for Disney+ yet, you can try it out here.
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Looking back across the lake.
A Crucifix of the 12th century.
A fresco of the Last Judgment on the counterfaçade, 14th century.
The left apse of the church, with some fragments of fresco.
St Nicholas in front of the Madonna and Child, 15th century.
Fragments of the 5th century pavement of the original baptistery.
The altar with the relics of the Saints.
Chapel of the Madonna of the Rosary
No matter how many trips he makes, Nicola will never run out of pictures to share of Italy’s cultural and artistic patrimony. Here are some photos taken in the little town of Gravedona (population 2,752; accent on the), on the west side of the upper part of the Lake of Como, which has four interesting churches, of which we will show two today and two tomorrow.Gravedona seen from the ferry. The church on the left with the polygonal apse is called San Vincenzo, a paleo-Christian church rebuilt in the 11th century; the taller one on the right is the 12th-century church of Santa Maria del Tiglio. The site was perhaps that of an ancient Roman temple, since both churches incorporate a fair amount of ancient material.A original Christian structure on the site of Santa Maria del Tiglio was the baptistery of San Vincenzo; much of the material from the baptistery was incorporated into the new church in the 12th century. The new structure is a Greek cross, with apses on three sides; the position of the bell-tower over the façade is unique in Lombard architecture, but the tower itself is very typical of the Italian Romanesque, with windows getting larger as they ascend.The church of Ss Gusmeo and Matteo, situated in park above the town, was originally a Romanesque building of the mid-13th century, but was radically restructured and its orientation reversed in 1533. The titular Saints are said to have been members of the Theban Legion, who fled from the massacre of their companions to the area of Gravedona, where they were captured, and then beheaded and buried on this site. The bell-tower was added in the 17th century, in a style that respects the original structure.Evidence of the 16th-century restructuring of the church can be see on the right, where part of it was rebuilt. | 1,755 |
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Glenn Beck took his anti-global warming rhetoric to a new high or low, depending on your perspective today by comparing former vice president Al Gore’s congressional testimony on the importance of cap and trade legislation to the lies of Adolph Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, and the Nazis.
Here is the audio courtesy of Media Matters
Beck is referring to Al Gore’s testimony before the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee.
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“Here is what Gore said, I believe we have arrived at such a moment. Our country is at risk on three fronts. The economic crisis is clear. Our national security remains at risk so long as we remain dangerously dependent on flows of foreign oil from reserves owned by sovereign states that are vulnerable to disruption. The rate of new discoveries, as you know, is falling even as demand elsewhere in the world is rising. Most importantly, of course, we are— along with the rest of humanity—facing the dire and growing threat of the climate crisis.”
Here is the statement that Beck had such a problem with, “It is at the very heart of those threats that this Committee and this Congress must direct its focus. I am here today to lend my support to one of the most important pieces of legislation ever introduced in the Congress. I believe this legislation has the moral significance equivalent to that of the civil rights legislation of the 1960’s and the Marshall Plan of the late 1940’s.”
Beck falsely claimed that Gore compared cap and trade to the Marshall Plan and the civil rights movement. What they didn’t bother to tell his listeners is that Gore said that this was the moral significance equivalent. to the Marshall Plan and civil rights This is a textbook example talk radio’s ability to distort facts. Beck claimed that fewer people believe Al Gore. Once again, this is not true. Depending on the poll 82%-85% of those surveyed believe that global warming is real. This has not changed.
In case you didn’t notice, Glenn Beck has a Nazi fetish. He compares everyone and everything that he feels threatened by to either fascists or Nazis. He uses the two terms interchangeably.
Sorry, but I don’t see Al Gore as a totalitarian figure. He may be a policy wonk, and a climate change zealot, but I don’t view him as a threatening figure. For as long as there has been a conservative movement, it has been at war with science, and almost always science wins. | 1,756 |
A council boss who refused to resign after it was revealed her children’s services department had failed to protect young people from grooming gangs is likely to get a £600,000 pay-off. Oxfordshire County Council Chief Executive, Joanna Simons, will get the package for leaving her post early, in a move the council insist is unrelated to the scandal.
But questions have been raised about the true nature of Ms Simons’ departure as the package has been announced shortly before a report into how the council failed to protect young people in its care is published. In one example, a child absconded from the care of Oxfordshire County Council on a hundred separate occasions. Despite this, no action was taken against her abusers.
In other cases children were given contraceptives to protect them from pregnancy without questions being asked about the nature of their relationships. Neither Oxfordshire County Council social workers nor teachers investigated what happened to vulnerable young victims after they had been excluded from school.
When the child sex ring was eventually exposed, seven men were convicted of arranging child prostitution, sex trafficking and child rape. They were imprisoned for a total of 95 years, but investigations continue and three more men have been convicted since the original 2013 trial.
The failings exposed at Oxfordshire County Council were so serious that Ms Simons herself appeared in a video to apologise for council’s failings, but her video did not include the resignation many victims demanded. At the time the Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police, Sara Thornton, also refused to resign but in another apparently unrelated decision she has also now decided to go.
A witness in the trial of the abusers who grew up with many of the victims in care told the Daily Mail: “The officers and officials did not protect us and now those who were in charge of them have walked out the door.
“They know that by walking out they haven’t got to answer any questions. How are they able to take responsibility if they no longer work for them?”
Simons is due to leave her £186,000-a-year role at the council in June with a £151,000 severance payment and a pension package worth £423,000.
The BBC has described the grooming gangs as being “of Asian origin”, however this has caused outrage amongst Indian and Chinese immigrant communities. The vast majority of offenders are Muslims of Pakistani origin. Council officials in places like Rotherham have suggested they felt unable to report abuse for fear of being branded “racist”. | 1,757 |
Semiconductor stocks took a hit Friday amid a sweeping technology rout, but were still on track for their best week in more than two years.
Some market watchers say there are a few select stocks that could be worth a buy if investors are cautious about putting fresh money to work.
"These chips are not a place where we want to have broad exposure. We're actually high-conviction underweight. And quite frankly, this isn't a place you'd want to hide in a trade war, since 90 percent of the sector's revenues come from overseas, which is higher than any other sector," Mark Tepper, president and CEO of Strategic Wealth Partners, said Thursday on CNBC's "Trading Nation."
Tepper is of the mind that the group as a whole has gotten far ahead of itself, rallying 76 percent in the last three years. But he's bullish on a select few names like Nvidia for its exposure to the gaming industry specifically. That stock is up a whopping 650 percent in three years, but has plunged 25 percent in the past month.
Semiconductor stocks have indeed gotten trapped in the U.S.-China trade war's crosshairs, and other headwinds plague the industry. Shares of Advanced Micro Devices, for example, plunged last month after the company reported revenue guidance that fell below Wall Street's estimates.
Other strategists agree that investors may want to play the semiconductor space highly selectively, rather than buying up a broad vehicle like the semiconductor-tracking SMH ETF.
Two names investors might consider are Taiwan Semiconductor and Marvell, said Stacey Gilbert, head of derivative strategy at Susquehanna, pointing to the firm's equity analysts' recommendations.
"This is certainly not a sector-based trade. In fact, our analysts Mehdi Hosseini and Chris Rolland are still certainly cautious on this sector. We certainly wouldn't just be looking to buy the basket, if you will. It's actually consistent with what we're seeing in terms of market positioning. If you look at the semiconductor ETF, the SMH, it continues to have a more cautious tone," Gilbert said Thursday on "Trading Nation."
Taiwan Semiconductor is one name that boasts a strong long-term growth story, Gilbert said, and Marvell is another solid pick that could see upside from here.
The SMH was down more than 2 percent Friday, trading around $95.50 per share.
Poll: Are you bullish or bearish on the semiconductor space? | 1,758 |
"If I were an Iranian, I would be very fearful of the next 12 weeks," former Mossad Chief Efraim Halevy was quoted by the New York Times as saying Thursday, in reference to a possible strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
The comment was made against recent assessments by American officials that the United States sees 18 months before the Islamic Republic's nuclear weapons program reaches "a critical stage"; as well as the growing concern in Washington that Israel will choose to mount an independent military strike against Iran.
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According to the report, Halevy based his assumption on Israel's aversion of winter battles, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's fears of dwindling support should US President Barack Obama be elected for a second term and the fact that should GOP candidate Mitt Romney be elected president, he is likely to shy away from starting his term in office with a war.
The report further quoted US officials as saying that "Israeli officials are less confrontational in private… PM Netanyahu understands the consequences of military action for Israel, the United States and the region."
"The more the Israelis threaten, the more we respond by showing them that we will take care of the problem if it comes to that," Martin Indyk, a former American ambassador to Israel and director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, said.
Several top US defense officials have visited Israel over the past few weeks including US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta
"The visitors are actually babysitters, trying to make sure the unpredictable kids do not misbehave," Efraim Inbar, the director of the Begin-Sadat Institute for Strategic Studies, said.
David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told the newspaper that "Israel’s longstanding doctrine of self-reliance makes American promises to act later if all else fails less effective."
According to Makovsky," Israel needs to "believe that it's not two minutes to midnight. If Israel is so convinced that its window of action is shutting, then maybe you try to enlarge Israel's window. You say, 'Here, we know there are some things you need. But we don’t want you to use them until several months ahead.'"
Washington is "eager to prevent an Israeli attack" on Iran, both to avoid a major foreign policy crisis during the presidential campaign and for fear that such a strike could set off the volatile Mideast region.
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Here is another chance to have a go at a Magical Tipster competition and gain loads of Knavecoins even if you lose. It is very simple to enter as you can see from the infographic.
You can make your entries now and if there are non runners as only 40 can be in the race you will still get a point. The table will be updated later in the week.
Potential Grand National 2015 Runners
1 Lord Windermere
2 Many Clouds
3 Sam Winner
4 Unioniste
5 Rocky Creek
6 First Lieutenant
7 Balthazar King
8 Home Farm
9 Shutthefrontdoor
10 Double Ross
11 Hadrian´s Approach
12 Pineau De Re
13 Ballycasey
14 Spring Heeled
15 Rebel Rebellion
16 Dolatulo
17 Mon Parrain
18 Carlito Brigante
19 Night In Milan
20 Rubi Light
21 The Druids Nephew
22 Cause Of Causes
23 Godsmejudge
24 Benvolio
25 Al Co
26 Monbeg Dude
27 Corrin Wood
28 The Rainbow Hunter
29 Teaforthree
30 Saint Are
31 Across The Bay
32 Tranquil Sea
33 Merry King
34 Oscar Time
35 Bob Ford
36 Super Duty
37 Wyck Hill
38 Gas Line Boy
39 Chance Du Roy
40 Alvarado
41 Portrait King
42 Owega Star
43 River Choice
44 Court By Surprise
45 Ely Brown
46 Renard
47 Royale Knight
48 Duke Of Lucca
49 Soll
50 Baileys Concerto
51 Raz De Maree
52 The Package
53 Broadway Buffalo
54 Maggio
55 Guess Again
56 Goonyella
57 Gallant Oscar
58 Sydney Paget
59 Vintage Star
60 Mountainous
61 Alpha Victor
62 Mart Lane
63 Ikorodu Road
64 Rigadin De Beauchene
65 Harry The Viking
66 Any Currency
67 Ballyoliver
68 Glenquest
69 Standing Ovation
70 Lackamon
71 Rose Of The Moon
72 American Spin
73 Tales Of Milan
74 Neptune Equester | 1,760 |
President Trump gave an ultimatum Friday — Fund the border wall or the southern border will be shut down entirely and Central American aid will be cut off.
The President fired off a tweetstorm Friday demanding border wall funding and slammed NAFTA.
We will be forced to close the Southern Border entirely if the Obstructionist Democrats do not give us the money to finish the Wall & also change the ridiculous immigration laws that our Country is saddled with. Hard to believe there was a Congress & President who would approve! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 28, 2018
….The United States looses soooo much money on Trade with Mexico under NAFTA, over 75 Billion Dollars a year (not including Drug Money which would be many times that amount), that I would consider closing the Southern Border a “profit making operation.” We build a Wall or….. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 28, 2018
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…..close the Southern Border. Bring our car industry back into the United States where it belongs. Go back to pre-NAFTA, before so many of our companies and jobs were so foolishly sent to Mexico. Either we build (finish) the Wall or we close the Border…… — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 28, 2018
President Trump said the US will be cutting off aid to Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
…..Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador are doing nothing for the United States but taking our money. Word is that a new Caravan is forming in Honduras and they are doing nothing about it. We will be cutting off all aid to these 3 countries – taking advantage of U.S. for years! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 28, 2018
A partial government shutdown began last weekend after President Trump rejected a stopgap funding bill that was approved in both the Senate and the House, but didn’t include the $5 billion for border wall funding.
The House reworked the bill adding $5 billion in border wall funding which passed in a 215-185 vote.
The Senate, however, refused to pass the bill after it got bounced back from the House, resulting in a Schumer shutdown.
House Democrats are reportedly quietly plotting ways to reopen the government while stiffing President Trump every penny on border wall funding as soon as they regain power next week. | 1,761 |
The Ritsurin Gardens in Takamatsu, Kagawa is one of the best looking gardens in Japan. Usually you visit it during the day, but during November, for less than two weeks, the gardens are open at night.
Selected trees, plants, water features, buildings and statues are lit up with a mixture of white and coloured lights.
Unlike during the day when the whole of Ritsurin Park is open, only certain routes around are available to walk along during the light up. This is partly for safety reasons, and also partly because it would be too complicated to light up the whole park for such a short time.
The light up proved very popular, with hundreds of locals visiting to take photos using their expensive cameras and tripods.
I made do with my cheap compact held in my hand, but the results aren’t too bad!
The Koi fish were up and as ever hoped to get food from the visitors.
It is a bit like being at an art gallery where you move from one piece to the next rather than the usual Ritsurin Gardens where you can look at everything.
Here is the Ritsurin Gardens waterfall. It is an artificial waterfall and at one time servants had to carry water up to make it work. These days a water pump is used.
This shot is of the Ritsurin tea room reflected in the lake. The lighting provided for some great ‘reflected in the water’ photo opportunities.
That isn’t the moon by the way, it is a light behind the tree.
In the dark even a simple piece of tree bark became very interesting to look at.
Many of the stepping stones across the ponds were off limits due to the dark, but this set of stones was well lit up.
And finally here is the poster of the 2010 Ritsurin Park light up.
If you want to see what Ritsurin Park looks like during the day see my other Ritsurin Park photos.
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By Hannah Johnson
I unfolded today’s issue of the Wall Street Journal on the subway this morning and saw that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is once again making front-page headlines, but not for a new product or pricing policy. On the front page of today’s WSJ was an article about how Bezos very carefully avoided using “the” when talking about Amazon’s Kindle device and platform during a television interview with Charlie Rose (this is front-page news?).
So if you think “the Kindle” is a great reading device, or that you saw someone using “a Kindle” the other day, I guess you’re wrong. You saw someone with “Kindle.” (Maybe I’m too traditional, but that sounds to me like someone is either going to give birth to a Kindle, or that Kindle is a person.)
According to the WSJ report, dropping articles like “the” and “a” from product and brand names is an oft-used marketing technique of many tech companies — Apple and Nintendo, among them — seeking to turn their products into something larger than just physical objects, like an experience.
Barnes & Noble is also using this technique for (the? its?) Nook devices and platform. WSJ quoted Glenn Kaplan, creative director at B&N as saying, “When somebody says ‘the Nook,’ I wince.” And while we’re on the subject of Nook, is it “nook” or “Nook?”
Of course marketers want to influence how their brands are perceived, and fine-tuning the language that they use to talk about their own brands is one way to do that. But does it have to be language that makes us sound like we didn’t pass elementary school English class? Are you really going to say “I just bought Kindle” or “Nook is a great device”? As much as marketers want us to use their language, sometimes it just doesn’t happen.
Remember when Google didn’t want people to use “google” as a verb? On the company blog, Google offered proper usage tips for the scant few who actually wanted to use “google” the way Google wanted. It seems that Google’s effort was none too effective. I don’t know about you, but I “google” stuff all the time. | 1,763 |
In a three-way phone interview, Mr. Zimmer and his collaborators, Benjamin Wallfisch and Lorne Balfe, described the process of creating what Mr. Zimmer called “the most intimate” work he’d ever made with Mr. Nolan. He was speaking from New York, where he was due onstage for his concert tour, and Mr. Balfe and Mr. Wallfisch from Los Angeles. Mr. Nolan spoke separately, from Vietnam, where he was taking a brief break from promotional duties. These are edited excerpts from the conversations.
Did you want the tension in the music to ever resolve?
HANS ZIMMER No. I have to believe that the tension will be unbearable and the outcome will be tragic, and in a way I have to pretend they will never get off the beach. If there are Method actors, I suppose I’m a Method composer. I went to the beach [at Dunkirk]. This sounds insane, but I was in the neighborhood, and I went knowing they were shooting there on the grayest, most foul day. I picked up a handful of sand and put it in a jar and took it with me. There was something good about having that next to me. And just generally when I start on a movie, the agonizing deadline, the unsolvable things, I’m tense most of the time.
Did you have other reference points?
ZIMMER It was very important to forget any other war movie I’d ever seen. This movie is more about time than any other movie we’ve ever done, about time running out.
LORNE BALFE I never thought of it as a war movie. I always thought of it as a thriller.
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN I asked Hans not to write any emotional music. What I said to him was I wanted objectivity — the way I wanted to make the film was, it’s all about suspense and tension and not at all about emotion. [The music cues he sent during shooting] were not emotional cues, they were very much about pacing. We could [use them via an iPad] when we were thinking about what the rhythms of the shots would be. This entire film was really very much about rhythm.
Did you use any unusual instrumentation?
ZIMMER There’s a double bass that’s played in the extremes, high register. I try to keep a small group of musicians playing always at the extremes of capabilities. | 1,764 |
Please note that there's a Git repo for code at:
https://github.com/jervine/rpi-temp-humid-monitor
If you'd like the latest fixes or would like to contribute. Thanks Jonny Ervine!
I had some issues with Kingston SD Cards, but the SanDisk cards I'm using now have run for weeks without issues, so I'm changing the parts list to reflect that.
Also, after some 49 days, 16 hours, the display flatlines, as the reading routines start returning the same number over and over again. A reboot clears it, so just reboot once a month until I figure out what's up.
Over the past summer, my vacation home had a small water leak for three months, and I realized that had I been measuring the humidity in the effected area, I'd have
seen it go to 100% for a long time and I could have dispatched someone to fix the small problem before it became a big one.
And since I've been playing with Raspberry Pi computers for a while now, and saw an inexpensive temperature/humidity sensor on AdaFruit, I had all the pieces I needed
to implement an inexpensive network-connected monitor.
The Bill Of Materials (BOM):
1) Raspberry Pi Model B
2) Case
3) SD Card
4) Temperature/Humidity sensor
5 ) Power Supply (I use PoE splitters, but any 5V 1A Micro-USB supply will work)
I used the following exact parts, but obvious substitutions can be made to match local conditions and the state of your junk box. Shipping and the availability of bundles
may effect your final price.
$35.00 RPi http://www.newark.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-modb-...
$ 8.12 Case http://thepihut.com/products/classic-raspberry-pi... (5.99 Euros)
$ 6.99 SD Card (Sandisk, not Kingston)
$15.00 Sensor http://www.adafruit.com/products/393
$15.99 PoE Splitter http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N...
And a few other miscellaneous things like hand tools, soldering iron, hot melt glue gun, small pieces of plastic wood, etc.
Step | 1,765 |
Though not all people may realize it, alcohol is not always necessarily free of animal products. Wine, liquor and beer can all contain hidden animal by products that you may not even be aware of. Things like isinglass, casein, or gelatin, all of which animal products, can be found in some of our favorite beers. (Sorry guys, Guinness is off the table. *UPDATE: UNTIL NOW!*)
Not only can honey and dairy products, like casein and lactose, be found in the actual bottle of alcohol itself, animal products are also used into the manufacturing process. The process of filtering for example. Sadly companies could use other animal-free ways, but they choose to use things like gelatin and isinglass (a mixture composed of fish bladders) instead.
Well, now that you know a little more about what to look for and consider when choosing and purchasing your beer, here are some of my favorite vegan beers, and a few good ones to know off the top of your head!
Personal Favorites:
I really enjoy IPAs, seasonal ales and trying new craft brews!
– Cambridge Brewing Company’s Flower Child IPA
– Kona Brewing Co.’s Castaway IPA & Big Wave Golden Ale
– Blue Point Brewing Company’s Toasted Lager & Rastafa Rye Ale
– 21st Amendment Brew Free! or Die IPA
– Sixpoint Bengali & The Crisp
– Post Road Pumpkin Ale
– Ballast Point Sculpin
– Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Beers for When You’re in a Bind:
Lets face it, you may not always be in a situation where you can have a craft beer or cold IPA. For those times when you can’t, these guys are all safe bets.
– Becks
– Bud Light
– Coors Light
– Corona
– Heineken
– Miller
– Miller Lite
Fingers crossed that one day there will be no need for our fellow vegans to look up whether or not a beer is vegan. In reality, this should really just be a non-issue. Animal products have no place, rhyme, or reason for being included in the production of, and ingredients of, beer.
If you have a question about whether or not a specific beer is vegan, be sure to check out Barnivore: Your Vegan Beer, Wine and Liquor Guide! | 1,766 |
Poland storms kill six, destroy tens of thousands of trees Published duration 17 August 2017
media caption Aerial footage shows the destruction
Tens of thousands of trees have been brought down by storms that wreaked havoc across northern and western Poland, the forestry service says.
The storms over the weekend killed six people, including two Girl Guides who were crushed by a falling tree.
Thousands of homes were also damaged.
Poland's chief forester Konrad Tomaszewski said it would take up to two years to clear the fallen trees, and decades for the lost natural habitat to recover.
He called it "undoubtedly the worst disaster in the history of Polish - and perhaps even European - forestry".
image copyright Mateusz Stopiński, Polish State Forests image caption Much of the damage occurred overnight between Friday and Saturday
It is estimated the storms brought down over eight million cubic metres of lumber across 45,000 hectares of forest.
Some of the hardest hit areas were Torun, Gdansk, and Poznan - all in the northern and western parts of the country.
image copyright Mateusz Stopiński, Polish State Forests image caption Tens of thousands of trees were felled in the storms
In Torun alone, the storms left more than 23,000 hectares of damaged forest. It also destroyed the habitats of rare species.
In a statement (in Polish), Polish State Forests said they found "destroyed bird nests" and "dead animals that failed to escape the storm."
image copyright Polish State Forests image caption A map released by Polish State Forests shows the worst-hit areas in the north and west
The disaster comes as the Polish government faces criticism for logging in Europe's oldest forest, which is situated in the east of the country.
The Bialowieza forest is a Unesco world heritage site that sits along Poland's border with Belarus, and is home to rare wildlife.
Unesco, EU officials, and green activists have all opposed logging there and last month the European Union's top court ordered that large-scale logging operations be immediately stopped.
The Polish government responded by saying logging was necessary to protect the forest from an infestation of bark beetle.
The European Court of Justice will meet in a few months to determine whether the injunction will remain in place.
The European Commission is taking legal action against Warsaw, and if Poland loses the case it will be liable for multimillion euro fines. | 1,767 |
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A husband in Kenya hacked his wife's hands off with a machete for failing to conceive after seven years of marriage - even though he was impotent.
Jackline Mwende was brutally slashed by Stephen Ngila at her home in Masii, Machakos County after he told her 'Today is your last day'.
The 34-year-old is said to have flown into a rage because she had failed to conceive during their marriage - despite doctors saying he was the reason their inability to have children.
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Jackline Mwende (pictured) was brutally slashed by Stephen Ngila at her home in Masii, Machakos County after he told her 'Today is your last day'
Medics told him last year that his fertility problem could be rectified with treatment - but he failed to show up for appointments, Kenyans reports.
After splitting for three months, he returned to their home and attacked her with a large machete - chopping off both of his wife's hands.
Mwende, 27, was also left with horrific injuries to her head. The case has sparked outrage in Kenya.
Revealing her ordeal, Mwende told The Nation: 'He moved out of our house three months ago and came back on Sunday (July 24) at around 8.30pm. When I opened the door, he said "today is your last day" and started slashing me with the panga.'
She later called for Ngila to he jailed for life 'for being heartless and wanting to kill me despite my love for him.'
Mwende, 27, was also left with horrific injuries to her head. The case has sparked outrage in Kenya
Ngila was arrested a day after the incident and remains in police custody.
Naitore Nyamu, from the African office of Equality Now, which promotes women's rights, told MailOnline: 'This is a particularly shocking case for Kenya, where we have been working for many years to end all forms of violence against women.
'We are glad that the police have made an arrest so quickly and hope that the law is now fully enforced. We can't afford to let perpetrators act with impunity, which has sometimes been the case here in years gone by.
'The government needs to take a zero tolerance stance on protecting the rights of women and girls.
'It needs to ensure that Kenyan police are properly trained to deal with cases like this sensitively and effectively. | 1,769 |
Journalists were outraged on Thursday at a call by the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to ban the press from their upcoming regional convention in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
In an open letter to Renate Zillessen, the spokeswoman for the AfD in the state, the head of the regional press society LPK-NRW, Tobias Blasius, wrote that his organization was "confounded to discover" the prohibition of journalists from such a political event.
"As a union of more than 120 regional political correspondents, we would please request that you rethink what is in our opinion a severe encroachment on the freedom of the press," read the letter.
AfD: We have to 'protect' our delegates
The populists wrote on the website of their North Rhine-Westphalian branch that the decision was the result of weighing "the not easy trade-off between the legitimate interests of the media in unrestricted access to party goings-on and the equally legitimate interests of our delegates, members, and supporters in protecting their personal rights."
Animosity between the party and the press has grown over the past year, with the AfD accusing journalists of bias and the press focusing on the party's stance against immigration. According to the AfD, at their last federal party conference in Stuttgart at the end of April, political opponents applied for press accreditation in order to harass party members.
The AfD has repeatedly found itself the target of far-left violence, so much so that it often opts to keep the location of some party meetings and members' offices a secret.
The party has said it will invite journalists to two one-hour press conferences later in the week to discuss the regional conference scheduled for July 2 and 3.
The LPK-NRW was not convinced: "Full freedom of journalistic movement, the unhindered access to party documents and an unfiltered view of the discussion process are the basis of [political] reporting," wrote Tobias Blasius, before appealing to the AfD to roll back the ban.
Founded in 2013 as a Euroskeptic, financially neoliberal protest party, the AfD has grown rapidly in the past year after ousting its founder and adopting a more anti-immigration, nationalist stance. No stranger to domestic controversy, at its April convention it voted to adopt an official stance against Islam as "having no place in Germany" as part of its manifesto.
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Red Bull motorsport boss Helmut Marko believes that Max Verstappen's new contract with Aston Martin Red Bull Racing should incite Honda to also extend its partnership with the Milton Keynes-based outfit.
Red Bull announced on Tuesday a three-year extension to Verstappen's current deal with the team, news that has put to rest part of the speculation regarding the 2021 drivers' market, and particularly the prospect of Mercedes poaching the Dutchman from Red Bull in the event of Lewis Hamilton's departure from the Silver Arrows outfit.
"It was difficult for us to guess what the exact story is between Ferrari and Hamilton," Marko told Auto Motor und Sport.
"But it's clear that Mercedes will be forced to act if Hamilton goes to Ferrari in 2021. Max would have been the first driver they would have targeted.
"That was a very important step for us. Now we can look to the future with more confidence."
But Marko thinks the move will have also reassured Honda and encouraged the Japanese manufacturer to remain in F1 beyond its current 2021 term.
"Honda received the message positively, Max is very important to the Japanese. They love his aggressive driving style and his openness."
Marko believes he'll soon be on a flight to Japan to finalize Red Bull's future with its engine suppliers beyond 2021.
"There will be talks with Honda soon," he added. "I'm just waiting for an appointment for when I have to fly to Japan."
Verstappen recently expressed his confidence about Red Bull's chances of fighting for the world title this year. As someone privy to what is going on behind the scenes at Milton Keynes and to Honda's development, Marko is equally upbeat about 2020.
"If the others want to be even better, they'll have to improve dramatically," the Austrian warned.
"Max knows what's going on at Honda. He's already seen the new car and he values the continuity in the team. In the end there was a common desire to continue from him and from us."
Marko naturally declined to elaborate on the financial details contained in Verstappen's new deal, but suffice to say the Dutchman will likely become one of the sport's top earners in the years ahead.
"The new contract wasn't cheap," admitted Marko. "But I didn't feel like playing poker."
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LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 22: Nemanja Matic of Chelsea celebrates with team mates and David Luiz after he scores his sides fourth goal during The Emirates FA Cup Semi-Final between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur at Wembley Stadium on April 22, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)
Everton face Chelsea at Goodison Park on Sunday, April 30. Here’s all the info you need to watch.
Chelsea sit atop the Premier League table, just four points ahead of Tottenham. Everton are seventh in the table, but are just six points back of Manchester City in fourth However, Everton have played more games than City, Manchester United and Arsenal.
After losing two of their first four games in April, Chelsea rebounded with back-to-back 4-2 wins over Tottenham in the FA Cup and Southampton in the league. The Blues got off to a fast start on Tuesday against Southampton, with Eden Hazard scoring in the fifth minute. Former Chelsea player Oriol Romeu tied the game, scoring off of a corner. Defender Gary Cahill scored right before halftime. Eight minutes into the second half, Diego Costa scored his first of two second-half goals.
Everton should be disappointed that they didn’t get all three points against a struggling West Ham team last week. The Toffees have been great in 2017, losing just two games. However, Everton have only captured eight of a possible 15 points in April.
Sunday’s game will be decided by former Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku. The Everton striker is leading the Premier League with 24 goals. If the Blues can’t stop their former striker, Everton could win. Lukaku has scored three times in his past three games.
The Premier League match between Everton and Chelsea will be broadcast on CNBC. Live streaming is available on NBC Sports, which you can access with your cable or satellite, either online or through their app.
Date: Sunday, April 30
Start Time: 9:05 a.m. ET
Location: Liverpool, England
Stadium: Goodison Park
TV info: CNBC
Live Stream: NBC Sports, Fubo.TV
Chelsea crushed Everton 5-0 in the first game between the two clubs this season. Despite being blown out in the first game, Everton can beat Chelsea. The pressure is on Antonio Conte’s team as they have opened the door to be passed by Tottenham for the Premier League title. | 1,772 |
Anyone who sees suspect Issiah Schauman or his vehicle, a gray or silver 1986 Chrysler New Yorker with Washington license plate number AEE5144, should call 911.
One man is dead after a drive-by shooting Wednesday on the 7000 block of North Atlantic Street in Spokane, according to the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.
On Wednesday evening the shooter was still at large and considered armed and dangerous.
Fabian McBride, 27, was shot outside his north Spokane home shortly before 1 p.m., according to family members and witnesses. Law enforcement identified Issiah L. Schauman as the suspect. He was driving a gray or silver 1986 Chrysler New Yorker with Washington license plate number AEE5144. He is about 5-foot-8, 150 pounds and light-skinned.
Jon Hamilton, a witness at the scene who lives nearby, said he saw the car pull up to McBride, who approached the driver in the street. There was a confrontation between the two, and the man in the car pointed a “large handgun” at McBride and shot four times, Hamilton said. Three of the shots hit McBride in the chest, he said.
The suspect then sped off southbound down Atlantic.
Hamilton walked toward McBride to help but was asked to stay back by family members.
“When I got down there, I realized that there was people huddled and I knew there was a guy down,” Hamilton said. “They were holding pressure on his wounds and stuff to revive him.”
The suspect is still at large, Deputy Mark Gregory said. The incident does not appear to be random.
McBride had four children, his cousin Marcus Andrews said. Andrews said he didn’t know the motivation for the shooting, but doesn’t think his cousin had enemies who would want to kill McBride.
“A lot of people loved him,” Andrews said. “He was like anyone else in Spokane. He’s a family man.”
Hamilton said the neighborhood is usually quiet, but neighbors have told him to avoid the apartments where McBride was shot, calling it dangerous.
“I try to be a peaceful guy,” Hamilton said. “It scared me because I got a grandson and I’m thinking, would somebody drive by and shoot him? It’s scary. It’s so close to my house. I hope it never happens again.” | 1,773 |
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Ship Primer/Base: Rust-Oleum 2x UltraCover Flat Gray Primer (spray)
Hulls— Panels: GW/Citadel Macharius Solar Orange Mechanical Details: GW/Citadel Brass Scorpion Wash: Secret Weapon Soft Body Black Wash
Windows— Base: GW/Citadel Liche Purple Mid-Layer: Base mixed with GW/Citadel Ceramite White Highlight: Mid-Layer mixed with GW/Citadel Ceramite White Wash: GW/Citadel Leviathan Purple
Engines— Base: GW/Citadel Enchanted Blue Mid-Layer: Vallejo Game Air Electric Blue (drybrushed on, despite being airbrush paint) Highlight: Mid-Layer mixed with GW/Citadel Ceramite White Wash: GW/Citadel Drakenhoff Nightshade
Details— Missile Seekers: GW/Citadel Mephiston Red washed with GW/Citadel Baal Red Astromech: P3 Ordic Olive washed with GW/Citadel Athonian Camoshade Peg Inserts: GW/Citadel Abaddon Black
Sealant— Dull Coat: Krylon Matte Finish Gloss Coat (windows+engines): Some unbranded brush-on stuff from a model kit that’s been kicking around in my paints box for over a decade now—hallelujah it didn’t ruin the models!
A lot of those are older paints; my Liche Purple and Enchanted Blue pots are over 10 years old. So some of the specific names may not be available anymore. But these are all basic colors, easily found. I also stress that you could easily get by with many many fewer colors. Do the mechanical details in orange instead of brass, do both windows and engines in blue or purple and just mix the engine colors with more white, etc.. You could get great looking ships with just primer, base color, engines, wash.
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That’s it! It might seem like a bunch of steps, but they’re all small and quick. I did the blacking and priming late one night and then did everything else in the morning before anybody else got up, so it’s not a very time consuming process. Wrapping up, these are a few action shots from a game with my buddy Matt to show how they look on the tabletop. I hope you enjoy the look, and got something out of this tutorial! | 1,774 |
The existence of the $250 Xbox One S was key to letting Microsoft reach for "full 4K" power with the Xbox One X. At least that's what Microsoft Marketing Manager Albert Penello said in an E3 interview with Ars Technica.
"It was that nice, liberating point that we had by having Xbox One S," Penello said. "We have a console at $250, it has a 4K Blu-ray player, and no one should be embarrassed or think they made the wrong choice by choosing the Xbox One S... People are turning 13 or 14 years old every day, and they need their first game console, and Xbox One S is a great option.
"It was nice to say that the specs in the box we released came from our design goals," he continued. "The box looks the way it looks with the numbers it has at the price we sell it for because that's what it took to deliver on our promises."
The Xbox One X is part of a new, mobile-phone style paradigm for Microsoft's console ecosystem, Penello said. In that ecosystem, keeping your content across hardware is almost more important than the hardware itself. "I think we're going to get in a state where your content is staying with you longer and having the generations be smoother for developers and consumers," he said.
But Penello also argues that having PC-style power tiers for consoles doesn't mean games targeting the One X will be held back by the existence of lower-powered alternatives. "The Witcher 3 is not terrible because it has to run on an integrated Intel graphics card, which is less powerful than an Xbox One or a PlayStation," he said. "I think game developers today can push the state of the art and have their engines scale to run. I think it's a fundamental design point of Xbox One X to take those engines and make it really easy."
That PC-style scaling doesn't necessarily mean console gamers will get fine control over graphical options in their Xbox games, though. "What I hear from console gamers is 'I like the ease and simplicity of just plugging a console in, and the developer gave me the best version of the game that they wanted me to see.' I think sliders on PC are a lot more for the variability in all of the options of CPUs and GPUs and memory configurations. I don't think that's the way consoles are going to go."
Check out the video above for more about the tech behind the Xbox One X and where Penello sees the Xbox ecosystem going in the future. | 1,775 |
The US NAVY has contracted a third-party company to help them switch to Linux for their UAV program – not from Windows, but from Solaris.
In the midst of all the migrations that the digital world is experiencing right now, the last thing that you would expect to see is for a major branch of the US military to ask to switch to Linux from another Unix solution.
Solaris has been considered for many years one of the most stable solutions available, either if it was for military purposes or for civil applications, such as airports and other branches. This is not one of the most publicized operating systems in the world, but Solaris is actually running on a number critical systems.
What Solaris doesn’t have is a flexible infrastructure and a friendly interface. Sure, it can be tweaked in a number of ways, but it is not meant to be pleasant, it's built to work and to be secure.
“Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) control experts at the Raytheon Co. Technical Services segment in Dulles, Va., will switch a major unmanned helicopter control system from Solaris to Linux software, and upgrade the system with universal UAV control qualities under terms of a $15.8 (€11.3) million contract.”
“Officials of the U.S. Naval Air Systems command at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., are asking Raytheon to upgrade the company's Vertical Takeoff and Landing Unmanned Air Vehicle (VTUAV) Tactical Control System (TCS), which was designed to help operators fly the Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned helicopter,” reads the official announcement regarding this transition.
The new system will have to provide some essential features that seemed to be missing on the current platform, such as intuitive controls, automated testing procedures, and support software upgrades in the field.
This is just one measure that affects just one small branch of the US Navy, but it seems that the people in charge want to make the entire system compatible and work on the same architecture, which should be the same for all military services as a common basis for buying, developing, and upgrading a wide variety of U.S. military UAV control systems.
The Navy also said that the life of the proprietary Sun Microsystems Solaris 8 is coming to an end, which is probably the main reason for this switch. It's unclear what the other branch of the military will do, but Linux is probably a safe bet. | 1,776 |
A mother in Newfoundland's Conception Bay was sent to prison today after a judge threw the book at her for abusing her children.
The woman, 33, who cannot be named because of a wide-ranging publication ban, has been sentenced to 12 years and 88 days. With time served, the sentence was reduced to 11 years and eight months.
"The facts of this case are appalling," provincial court James Walsh said in a stinging decision.
"They show an almost systematic pattern of torture of these young children … The acts committed by the accused fit into the category of the unimaginable."
The woman was convicted on numerous charges, including assault, unlawful confinement, criminal negligence causing bodily harm and corrupting the morals of children.
Court had heard harrowing details about life in the family's home, including revelations that she and her husband forced their children to watch them have sex. Later, she encouraged them to "try what they had observed" with one another.
The woman's husband has been convicted on eight similar charges, and is expected to be sentenced later this fall.
'Punched, slapped, hit' children
Walsh noted that the woman "regularly and repeatedly punched, slapped or otherwise hit" her children, and put their health and well-being at risk.
She repeatedly held the heads of four of her children under water, not allowing them to breathe.
She tied a bedroom door closed, preventing five daughters from leaving to use the bathroom.
On other occasions, the woman held some of the children upside down over a railing, and dropped two of them — the children not knowing that their father would catch them.
Once, the woman held a knife to her husband's throat in front of their frightened children.
Guilt still not accepted
The Crown had asked for a sentence of 14 years, while the defence had argued that eight years was appropriate.
In picking a sentence at the higher range, Walsh said the woman was guilty of gruesome conduct.
"She does not accept, understand or appreciate that there is anything wrong with her conduct," Walsh wrote.
He noted that a pre-sentencing report showed that the woman "still wonders … why the children are making up these things about her. She continues to deny assaulting, harming or mistreating her children in any manner."
In describing how he came to his decision on sentencing, Walsh noted that the case is "unique" because "there are no reported cases directly aligning with the facts of this case." | 1,777 |
Elon Musk Lays Out His Reasons Against Voting For Trump
As the U.S. presidential election nears its merciful conclusion on Tuesday, Elon Musk came out against Republican candidate Donald Trump last Friday during an interview with CNBC.
“I feel a bit stronger that [Trump] is not the right guy,” said Musk in an interview with CNBC on Friday. ” He doesn’t seem to have the sort of character that reflects well on the United States.” (Source: “Donald Trump’s character reflects poorly on United States, Elon Musk says,” CNBC, November 4, 2016.)
Musk does not feel that the election, however, will have a strong impact on Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) stock either way, although Musk did support Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s economic and environmental policies, calling them “the right ones.”
Tesla just had its second-most-profitable quarter ever this past Q3, and Tesla stock has been shooting up as a result, supporting what has already been a solid year for TSLA stock.
While not a passionate endorsement by any means, Musk still appears to favor Clinton in the upcoming election.
Musk is one among many tech luminaries who have come out in support of their favored candidate in this election cycle. Peter Thiel, Musk’s co-founder of PayPal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) and an early investor in Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), is one of the more prominent tech figures to come out in support of Trump.
This particular election campaign has drawn a lot of notable figures into the political sphere, some simply endorsing candidates while others making public shows of backing their candidates.
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, for instance, promised $20.00 million in donations back in September in order to stop a Trump presidency. (Source: “Facebook co-founder promises $20 million to stop Trump,” L.A. Times, September 9, 2016.)
There has been speculation regarding just how much the results of the election will affect the stock market and a number of holdings. With the election fast approaching, Tuesday will lend credence as to whether there will, in fact, be any sizable shifts in shares following the American presidential nominee.
I’m just glad that this election cycle is finally coming to an end. The nagging question remains, however: what will television news cover once the polls are in? | 1,778 |
Currituck County, NC (WTKR)-William, the wild horse foal who has captured the hearts of thousands across the country, has returned to Currituck County.
William was born on June 12th on the beaches of Corolla but unfortunately had a host of health complications.
"When we first saw him we thought he was exceptionally small, but we do have an inbreeding problem so we didn't think too much of it but everyday it seemed like he was not thriving," Corolla Wild Horse Fund Executive Director Karen McCalpin told NewsChannel 3's Todd Corillo Friday.
William (born Guillermo) was taken to the ICU at the veterinary hospital at North Carolina State University in Raleigh shortly after staff in Corolla determined he was very sick. Veterinarians believe he was born prematurely and tests revealed a variety of problems.
After surgery and introduction to his surrogate mother, Pebbles, William continued to show signs of improvement.
Now, just five days after his one-month birthday, William and Pebbles have been moved to a barn in Currituck County. Pebbles will stay will William until he is at least four-months-old.
VIDEO: William a @WildHorseFund foal with his surrogate mom Pebbles. A month ago he was nearly dead. Amazing. @WTKR3 pic.twitter.com/KUrN3EVDM4 — Todd Corillo (@ToddCorillo) July 17, 2015
Thanks to an overwhelming outpouring of support from the community, the Corolla Wild Horse Fund was able to raise more than $25,000 to help with William’s medical costs.
"Kids emptied out their piggy banks, gave us their birthday money. Moms that had babies that were born with problems wrote heartwarming messages," McCalpin stated.
"All of the well wishes and comments and prayers and donations. Every single one of those people played a part in William laying here today taking a nap like a normal foal in the warm sun," she added.
Unfortunately, William will never be able to return to the wild, but he will find a new home in Delaware with a veterinarian.
"If one message comes out of this its that these horses have an indomitable spirit and their will to live is what's kept them here for 5 centuries."
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Corolla wild horse foal William making great strides toward recovery
Meet William, the Corolla wild horse foal that needs our help! | 1,779 |
A stretch of Bay Parkway in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn where Asian shop owners say teens are harassing them and their customers (Credit: CBS2)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Several shop owners in Brooklyn say they’re living in fear of out of control teens who are terrorizing them, and they have the video to prove it.
For merchants along the commercial stretch in Bensonhurst, it’s the last straw, CBS2’s Lou Young reported.
“They come in here just bother the customers and do something, make trouble for us,” said shop owner Jenny Qu.
Shop owners said they’re seeing a persistent problem with young teens invading Asian-owned shops with mocking comments and sticky fingers.
“They take what they see and just walk out and there’s customers standing there and they still do it,” said
There are a stunning number of complaints — shoplifting, vandalism, harassment, and assault — from mostly Asian shop keepers along a 20 block stretch of Bay Parkway, Young reported.
Nail salon owner Cheng Huayin is still sporting a black eye from a punch he said he took a week ago after encountering three guys who he said were lounging and smoking in his stairwell, shaking down his customers for money.
Just up the block, the owners of an herbal store said they felt like they were under siege when they locked the door as several boys approached.
“When we close the door sometimes they stand outside with a knife, or they stand outside with fruit and just throw it at us,” said Karen Ye the owner’s daughter. “If not, then sometimes they have WD 40 and they try spraying it on the door trying to get in.”
In the video, the fear in the merchants’ faces appears to amuse the boys, Young reported.
Some of the incidents happened after school, but others happened in the middle of the day.
“We have to coordinate to make sure these kids are going to school, staying in school and not harassing merchants here,” said City Councilman Mark Trayger, (D)-Brooklyn.
“They need more activity instead of fooling around on the street, right?” said business owner Catherine Man.
Merchants are especially worried about the upcoming summer months, when school is out until fall.
A meeting on the incidents is scheduled for Wednesday at the 62nd Precinct. | 1,780 |
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A MUM has criticised Cardiff’s £32m international pool after her teenage daughter was allegedly targeted by a voyeur in the changing room for the second time in 12 months.
The 15-year-old girl was changing with an older girl in the mixed changing village at the Cardiff Bay pool on Monday afternoon when they realised a man was spying on them using a mirror under a cubicle door.
The suspect made off but was detained by security guards in the grounds of the pool and an off-duty police officer arrested him.
In July last year, when the girl, a keen swimmer, was 14, she was a victim of a similar offence when she was photographed in the changing room by a 27-year-old man who has since pleaded guilty in court and been put on the sex offenders’ register for two years.
The mum, who cannot be named to avoid identifying her daughter, called on the managers of the pool to do something about their changing rooms.
She said: “My daughter is really angry about this. I think all parents should be aware what has happened.
“My daughter is old enough to realise what was going on but there are lots of younger children who use the pool who are vulnerable.”
Police contacted managers at the privately-run pool last year to express their concerns at the number of complaints of inappropriate behaviour since the facility opened in January 2008.
As of July last year, there had been 17 complaints of voyeurism, flashing and indecent touching and South Wales Police said all complaints would be investigated fully.
The manager of the two-pool facility, which is run by Parkwood Leisure, used by the City of Cardiff swimming club, was looking into the matter last night.
At the time of the previous incident last July, a spokesman for the pool said: “The safety and security of our customers is of paramount importance and we will continue to pursue anybody who behaves in an inappropriate manner.
“It is our policy to press charges against any individual involved in any criminal activity within the facility and we can assure our users that this will continue to be closely monitored.”
A 47-year-old man has been charged with voyeurism in relation to the latest allegation and is due to appear at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court later this month. | 1,781 |
Former world snooker champion Stuart Bingham has said he will accept whatever punishment comes his way after admitting he broke the sport's betting rules.
Bingham, 40, was charged on Wednesday with a breach of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) regulations.
WPBSA rules bar players from betting on any aspect of sanctioned tournaments, or from encouraging others to do so if it is deemed to be to the player's direct or indirect benefit.
Stuart Bingham has been charged by the WPBSA with a breach of betting rules
Although the organisation stressed the alleged offence does not entail match manipulation or corruption, it was determined that Bingham had a case to answer.
Bingham said on his own website: 'This was just a case of me not being clear on the rules.
'I did not know I was not allowed to bet on other players' matches, I thought it was just my own I could not bet on, and I have never done that.
'I have nothing to hide on the matter and have co-operated fully with the investigation and I now await the outcome.'
Bingham could be fined or face a ban, or both. One possible yardstick for the punishment coming his way is the fine of £5,000 and six-month suspended ban handed to fellow professional Alfie Burden in January for similar offences.
Speaking in The Times, Bingham added: 'There have been enquiries going on over the last few weeks. I have used another account to place bets on snooker matches.
'It is similar to what Alfie Burden did, but I have never bet against myself, and never been involved in any match-fixing or corruption. I did some accumulators, and used someone else's account. It was boredom, really.
'It looks as if I have got it wrong, it was stupid, and I wasn't aware enough of the rules.
Bingham won snooker's world championship after beating Shaun Murphy in 2015
'I have fully co-operated with the enquiries and will continue to do so.
'But basically I did it, I can't change that, and will have to take whatever is coming. We have to be seen to be whiter than white.'
Bingham was a surprise winner of the World Championship in 2015 and is currently ranked third in the world.
He won the Welsh Open last month, beating Judd Trump in the final. | 1,782 |
The issue of who controls MMO game subreddits is one that’s just kept recurring over the years, at least as far back as when studios like Daybreak and Funcom began using theirs as a stand-in for official forums. Both studios have ended that practice, for what that’s worth, but others have taken flak for direct and indirect involvement. Given some of the disinfo dumpster fires currently raging on some MMO subs, it’s no wonder that studios try to shape those communities, but it can easily spiral out of control.
Pantheon recently made a bold move along these lines: The Visionary Realms community manager who helmed and grew that game’s subreddit hung up his hat, returning the sub to the community voluntarily: “I handed it back to the mods a few days ago and removed the remaining two VR staff members and then myself after leaving a little message of thanks and encouragement to the remaining mods.” Color me impressed.
What do you think: Should MMO studios be involved in their respective subreddits, and if so, how much?
Leaderboard: Should MMO studios be involved in their respective subreddits? Studio reps should have absolutely no involvement on Reddit at all. (5%, 26 Votes)
Studio reps should visit Reddit to communicate but not mod. (47%, 234 Votes)
Studio reps are fine modding their own Reddit. (3%, 15 Votes)
Studio reps are fine modding their own Reddit but only if no one else wants the job. (3%, 17 Votes)
Studio reps should make use of Reddit for AMA and feedback only for major design changes. (8%, 39 Votes)
Studio reps should make use of Reddit for AMA sessions but nothing else. (3%, 13 Votes)
Studio reps should be aware of Reddit as a part of player feedback, regardless of moderation. (18%, 88 Votes)
Studio reps should not take Reddit feedback into account, as Reddit communities are isolated pockets. (1%, 7 Votes)
Don't care who runs sub as long as we can say whatever we want. (3%, 16 Votes)
Don't care who runs a sub as long as somebody keeps it cleaned up. (4%, 19 Votes)
I hate Reddit anyway so I don't care who runs the subs. (2%, 12 Votes)
Something else (tell us in the comments) (0%, 0 Votes)
No opinion / view tally / elf buffs (2%, 9 Votes) Total Voters: 317 | 1,783 |
Kel Kelly from Boston, left, and Flossie Gaile from Hampton, Va., center, stand in protest during the "Justice For All" march on Dec. 13 in Washington, D.C. The family of Eric Garner settled with the city of New York over his death after being put in a chokehold by an officer. His final words, "I can't breathe," inspired protest signs across the country. File Photo by Gabriella Demczuk/UPI | License Photo
NEW YORK, July 13 (UPI) -- New York City on Monday agreed to pay $5.9 million to settle a suit brought by the family of Eric Garner, a man who died after being placed in a chokehold by police last year.
Nearly one year to the day of Garner's death, his family, including widow Esaw Garner and his mother, Gwen Carr, agreed to accept $5.9 million in a deal arranged by City Comptroller Scott Stringer.
Earlier in the day, they refused $5 million to settle their $75 million lawsuit.
"The City of New York has agreed to pay $5.9 million to resolve the Garner case," said Jonathan Moore, the lawyer representing Garner's family.
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The father of six died July 17, 2014, after New York police Officer Daniel Pantaleo put him in a chokehold against department policy. Garner told police he couldn't breathe as he was wrestled to the ground.
Garner, who was unarmed, had been suspected of selling untaxed cigarettes on the sidewalk.
Pantaleo was not indicted for his role in Garner's death, prompting global protests over police brutality and discrimination.
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Stringer said the settlement was meant to save the city's taxpayers the costs of a potentially lengthy court battle and bring closure to Garner's family.
"Following a judicious review of the claim and facts of this case, my office was able to reach a settlement with the estate of Eric Garner that is in the best interests of all parties," Stringer said in a statement. "We are all familiar with the events that led to the death of Eric Garner and the extraordinary impact his passing has had on our city and our nation. It forced us to examine the state of race relations, and the relationship between our police force and the people they serve."
RELATED Son of Boston cop allegedly planned terror attack on college campus | 1,784 |
The joy of camera trapping
James McConnell – NatureSpy Wildlife Biologist
Camera trapping is much more than just a smart camera strapped to a tree.
Personally, I think it’s almost magical.
It’s a glimpse into a world that is extremely rarely seen; a view of a wild animal behaving completely naturally with no influence from watching humans.
The night-time pictures are especially revealing as the infrared flashes are invisible to animals, meaning they don’t know something is watching.
What’s more, they do most of the work for you. They don’t sleep; always watching, waiting, poised and ready to picture whatever crosses their path.
I still remember getting my first fox on my first camera trap. A large box of a thing (the camera not the fox), it was very cumbersome to strap up and the images were only 3 megapixels.
It’s astounding how far camera trap technology has come in just 4 years.
Now, we can take HD video and record sound. Cameras are much smaller, more affordable and can be left for far longer in the field.
Getting the camera placement right gives the biggest rewards. It can be the difference between getting zilch, a thousand pictures of rabbits in one night (yes – it can happen), hundreds of pictures of swaying trees and sunbeams, or that perfect shot.
And when that perfect shot or video comes its Elysium. If it was a 4 hour trek to set the camera up, then it’s even better.
We’ve had great shots of many British wildlife species over the years.
But it’s not all about that perfect shot – camera traps also inform you what is living in an area. This means the unexpected can turn up, and that is just as exciting.
It’s extremely difficult to predict what you will capture. Some of our favourite ‘unpredictables’ have been woodcock, stoat and brown hare.
And NatureSpy are hoping to capture a very rare animal – the pine marten – in a project we’re currently running in Yorkshire.
We’re also now using our camera traps to educate children and adults, bring communities together and improve and protect environments.
It’s an exciting time to be camera trapping.
You can see all of our best shots on our ‘Species Spied…‘ pages | 1,785 |
Reef fish throughout the Kwajalein lagoon are contaminated with toxic pollutants which sharply increase risks of cancer, learning disabilities and other health impacts on consumers, said the RMI EPA this week.
Two key US Army draft reports presented to RMI late last year conclude that because Marshallese eat the “whole of fish,” and eat a lot of fish, human health risks for Marshallese in Kwajalein dramatically exceed US regional safety standards — particularly for fish found in the USAKA harbor and near the base landfill, which are popular fishing spots. Health risks for fish caught in these locations may exceed US standards by hundreds of times. Both the draft Army reports and RMI EPA have declared the level of health risks to Marshallese to be “unacceptable,” said RMI EPA General Manager Moriana Phillip.
US Army scientists also tested fish from the wider mid-atoll corridor, including near the islands of Meck, Illigeni, Ellep and Jerak, and found high levels of pollution exceeding US safety standards, but not nearly at the levels near the lagoon and harbor. Some level of pollution at USAKA may have occurred for decades. A recent fish tissue study near Ebeye has not yet been published. USAKA has posted signage in Marshallese for several years warning against fishing. The US Army findings recommend the signage be improved, among other steps.
The US Army reports that risks to Americans are lower because they eat much less fish than Marshallese, and generally only fillets — not bones and the head, where hazardous chemicals can be concentrated. But when applied to Marshallese, who eat a lot of fish, health risks are multiplied and greatly exceed US safety standards. The report’s methodology was revised at RMI EPA’s urging in 2012.
Phillip emphasized that these findings are only on the basis of what has been observed in fish. “We don’t yet know if — or to what extent — these risks are actually occurring in Marshallese at Kwajalein. This is only a prediction based on the studies so far,” she said.
Phillip also emphasized that “these studies do not indicate people will necessarily get cancer or have other impacts, but that the likelihood is much higher than normal. At the same time, these studies are a very grave concern and the level of risk is clearly unacceptable. A wider RMI government response is needed.”
Read more about this in the November 6, 2015 edition of the Marshall Islands Journal. | 1,786 |
Executions by hanging would be the first carried out in Sri Lanka since 1976 when a moratorium was implemented.
Sri Lanka‘s president signed death warrants on Wednesday for four drug offenders who will “very soon” become the first people executed in decades on the island.
Maithripala Sirisena said he completed formalities to end a 42-year-old moratorium on the death penalty, which he said was needed to clamp down on a rampant narcotics trade.
“I have signed the death warrants of four. They have not been told yet. We don’t want to announce the names yet because that could lead to unrest in prisons,” Sirisena told reporters at his official residence.
He did not say when the executions would be carried out, only that it would be “very soon”.
An official in Sirisena’s office said the president wanted the hangings to be a powerful message to the illegal drugs trade.
Sirisena said there were 200,000 drug addicts in the country and 60 percent of the 24,000 prison population were drug offenders.
His remarks came a day after Amnesty International said it was “alarmed” over media reports of preparations to resume executions.
“Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena must immediately halt his plans to resume executions,” Amnesty said in a statement.
Sri Lanka is a party to the international convention on civil and political rights, which sets the abolition of the death penalty as a goal to be achieved by countries, it added.
No executioner
Sirisena in February announced the country would carry out the first executions in decades, saying he had been inspired by President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly anti-drug campaign in the Philippines.
The president has also appealed to human rights organisations not to pressure him.
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Criminals in Sri Lanka are regularly given death sentences for murder, rape, and drug-related crimes. But since 1976 their punishments have been commuted to life imprisonment.
The country currently has no executioner.
The justice ministry said more than a dozen people had been shortlisted to fill the position, but no formal appointment has been made.
While Sri Lanka’s last execution was more than four decades ago, an executioner was in the post until his retirement in 2014. Three replacements since have quit after short stints at the unused gallows. | 1,787 |
Traveling is required in a large number of professions – flight attendants, workers on oil rigs, and potentially for those working in large corporations. Some employees may feel unappreciated and overworked, moving aimlessly from place to place in hopes to find purpose. They may feel as if they are “floating weeds”. However, the phrase and title of this outstanding Ozu film from 1959 can be applicable to our desire to belong in a multitude of life scenarios. In a remake of his 1934 film, Ozu carefully explores several precarious and tense situations through the eyes and heart of a “floating” theatre troupe.
Komajuro (Ganjiro Nakamura) is the lead actor of an unpolished group of actors who travel to various coastal towns in Japan. Their style of acting is quite tacky, and their plays have not fared well financially. However, they continue to optimistically perform to increase their financial and emotional stability. It becomes quite evident that achieving these goals, especially the latter, would deem extremely difficult. Early in the film, the protagonist visits his former mistress, Oyoshi (Haruko Sigimura) as well as his son, Kiyoshi (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who believes him to be his uncle. The development of Komajuro’s and his son’s relationship evokes reward, hazard, curiosity, and indirect divisiveness. As the norm in small towns, private occurrences become public knowledge.
Ozu’s characteristic still yet balanced cinematography as well as attentive storytelling aid in beautifully capturing human joy and struggle in all of his masterful films. This is definitely no exception, with the added use of glorious colour saturating the film surroundings. Dishonesty, hypocrisy, jealousy, conformity, and need for appreciation are all themes investigated in the film. Venturing outside of the realm of uniformity within a group can create suspicion among others. There are unspoken nuances of familiarity, and there is a fear of group cohesion becoming dismantled. This creates a ripple effect of fear, coercion, and intrusion, which can ultimately destroy a ‘garden of blooming flowers’ into a field of weeds. While Komajuro is one discussed who experienced these dilemmas in the film, all individuals fear complete isolation. It is important to treasure the connections we make, and to encourage delving into the unknown. This helps to solidify and anchor roots, so that we can flourish and grow into well-rounded human beings.
I do not own the above image. | 1,788 |
Festival of Copes exhibit opens at Cathedral Museum Mariam Schmitz Freelance Writer
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A variety of beautifully detailed and decades-old copes are the focus of this year’s special exhibit at Fort Wayne’s Cathedral Museum. A cope is a long liturgical vestment worn during certain occasions, such as eucharistic processions.
Like all vestments, copes come in colors that correspond to a liturgical season, event or mystery of the faith. The copes on display were used by priests or bishops in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, and some have not been seen in about 70 years. Museum director Father Phillip Widmann selected 13 for the exhibit called “A Festival of Copes” that will run through June 2019.
While each cope is elegantly designed and carefully made, a highlight of the exhibit is a gold cope that won the grand prize at the Paris Exposition of 1900. It is said to depict all the Church’s canonized saints up to that point. It came as part of an entire set of vestments that was gifted to Archbishop John Francis Noll when he was installed as bishop of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend in 1925. Longtime museum volunteer Tom Devine said this cope is one of his favorites, and he appreciates all the hard work that went into making it.
In addition, a black cope made in Germany around 1930 is part of a vignette that includes Gothic candlesticks and a black funeral pall. While black copes have not been used much in the United States since the Second Vatican Council, they may be used during funeral Masses.
There is also a white silk cope with a Celtic design, a red crushed velvet cope made in Belgium, and much more. Most of the copes on display came from Europe, with just one having been made in Fort Wayne.
All are welcome to view this special exhibit as well as the other historical treasures on display. There are placards next to each item that explain its history, use and significance in the Church making the Museum a suitable stop for both Catholics and non-Catholics.
The museum is located on the Garden Level of the Archbishop Noll Catholic Center, 915 S. Clinton St. Parking and admission are free. It is open Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or by appointment. For more information call 260-422-4611.
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uncertainty. We are talking about people from a range of countries, ethnicities, languages, religions, education levels, genders, ages, sexualities, access to resources being forcibly displaced for many reasons in many country contexts; and they are usually making journeys with imperfect information, changing migration plans on the way, encountering other migrants, humanitarian actors, border guards, media personnel, and smugglers, who change things for them in various ways. It is just extremely complex and importantly ever changing, and that complexity cannot necessarily be solved by suggesting that would-be asylum applicants in general migrate from A to B because of variable X.
But it’s in research interviews with policymakers and politicians where we really get to the heart of this because civil servants -policy advisors who have worked in the Home Office- tell me they know there is no evidence for the economic pull factor. To put it very briefly, they explain that though there is no research evidence to support the policy, they have a clear steer from the Home Secretary (speaking here of successive Home Secretaries since 2002) about appropriate policy approaches. Appropriate policy approaches are those that will be well received by the public, not those that are grounded in research evidence. What this really means is that through building up my own body of research evidence (discourse data, interviews, systematic review, statistics) I now know that asylum policy is based not necessarily on what works, but on what the Home Secretary perceives the public to favour. In this case, the public are perceived to favour the impoverishment of asylum seekers.
But what the public favours has to be based on highly simplified analyses of extremely complex phenomena because the general public does not contain many people who are experts on forced migration, or who have ever met an asylum seeker or a refugee. And, as I noted earlier, the existence of people wanting to seek asylum is not something that can be necessarily solved using national level policy measures, and policies around welfare and work are not significant in determining destination choice. It is likely that asylum policy will always be based on simplified analyses of public opinion. This may accord with democratic principles, but the continued erosion of the rights of forced migrants undermines the claim that human rights are a core British value, and we may find that the erosion of fundamental values for those on the margins of society is bad for us all.
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Note: This blog is based on the author’s recent article in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations.
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U.S. President Trump usurped his Kremlin counterpart last month as the most-discussed figure in Russian media, a Moscow-based analysts firm said Wednesday.
Mr. Trump’s name was mentioned 202,000 times by the Russian press during the month of January, according to data reviewed by the System for Comprehensive Analysis of News (SCAN), a search-and-analysis system maintained by Interfax, a privately-owned Russian newswire.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, was only mentioned a comparable meager 147,000 times by local media last month, causing the country’s longtime leader to lose his spot as the nation’s most-discussed celebrity for the first time since 2011.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama came in third place with 61,155 mentions, while former White House hopeful Hillary Clinton landed the seventh spot on account of garnering 23,843 mentions in the Russia media last month, Interfax reported.
The firm’s findings are the result of analyzing more than 240,000 articles published by Russia’s national and regional press during January, in addition to television and radio broadcasts as well as online news sites, according to Interfax.
Mr. Trump secured the top spot as the country’s most-discussed figure in spite of recent polling suggesting Russians are beginning to show signs of skepticism with respect to whether the newly inaugurated U.S. president will mend relations between the former Cold War adversaries as promised on the campaign trail.
Only 46 percent of Russians interviewed last week said they believe bilateral ties will improve under Mr. Trump, down from 54 percent when the same question was posed shortly after he was elected last November, according to research undertaken by the Levada Center, an independent pollster.
That same poll found that 42 percent of Russians surveyed named Mr. Trump’s inauguration last month when asked to state which recent international or domestic event of importance comes to mind first.
The Obama administration last month said the U.S. intelligence community concluded with high confidence that Mr. Putin personally directed a hacking campaign waged at American targets last year with the intent of electing Mr. Trump president, notwithstanding repeated denials from the Russian government. Nearly one-in-five Russians surveyed said they were completely unaware of claims surrounding the supposed Kremlin-led hacking campaign when reached by Levada last week, the pollster said.
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The "Good Place" actress responded to the latest "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" casting news by pointing to Hirsch's assault conviction.
Jameela Jamil has taken issue with Emile Hirsch’s casting in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” Best known for her role on “The Good Place,” the actress calls it an “intense case of rich white male privilege” due to Hirsch’s 2015 assault conviction.
“Cool. Emile Hirsch strangled my tiny female best friend until she blacked out at a party in front of dozens of witnesses at Sundance Film Festival (and was convicted) but Tarantino just cast him in a movie,” Jamil tweeted along with the news of his latest role. “INTENSE case of rich white male privelege eh? Cool. Cool. Cool.”
“Left her with three years of PTSD and never paid for her treatment, and still hasn’t apologized to her,” she continued. “Not today Satan, not today…” The incident she’s referring to took place at the 2015 edition of the festival, where Hirsch was accused of choking Daniele Bernfeld, an executive at Paramount. He later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault.
Hirsch received a sentenced of 15 days in jail and 50 hours of community service in addition to a $4,750 fine. “I know it was completely wrong and reckless and irresponsible,” he told a Park City courtroom later that summer. “I have no excuses for not remembering. I put those chemicals inside me.”
Jamil concluded with a third tweet: “Emile Hirsch has not apologized for this heinous crime, but is re-joining Hollywood’s elite. Slow clap to everyone involved in this movie. So many other actors who haven’t attacked women to choose from…”
IndieWire has reached out to Hirsch’s representatives for comment.
Left her with three years of PTSD and never paid for her treatment, and still hasn’t apologized to her. Not today Satan, not today… pic.twitter.com/VvO3rwX9L5 — Jameela Jamil (@jameelajamil) June 8, 2018
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New York Yankees' Brett Gardner falls into the stands after catching a foul ball hit by Toronto Blue Jays' Goins during the third inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 14, 2016, in Toronto. (Frank Gunn | The Canadian Press via AP)
TORONTO -- When Yankees left fielder Brett Gardner fell backward over the wall, nobody helped break his fall, and no one offered a hand to help him up.
Those are Blue Jays fans for you, he said.
"No, from the things they usually say to me over there, I wouldn't expect for them to help me out," Gardner said after the Yankees fell to Toronto, 4-2, on Thursday night.
Gardner tumbled back first -- whacking his head on a seat or the ground, he wasn't sure -- while making the catch on Ryan Goins' high fly to left field foul territory for the second out in the third inning.
As he stayed on his back for a moment, the fans that let him fall just watched him on the ground until he struggled to pull himself up and back over the wall.
Brett Gardner takes his time getting up after diving into the stands at Rogers Centre https://t.co/tV0QxybC0O pic.twitter.com/kRsBlCAf2L — Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) April 14, 2016
The fall left Gardner with red welts on the back of his head. He said he felt fine, though.
"I thought I would probably hit somebody when I fell over or back, but I didn't seem to," he said. "I didn't see a replay. I don't feel like I hit any people. I feel like I hit the floor or the seat or something but we're fine."
Manager Joe Girardi also said Gardner told him he felt fine. The 32-year-old stayed in the game and finished 0-for-4.
Gardner is still recovering from a bone bruise on his left wrist that he suffered in last year's Wild Card game while bracing himself against the center field wall to make a leaping catch. A bum right wrist has been blamed for his second-half slide in 2015, which started with an All-Star first half.
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Onomatopoeia in Action Onomatopoeia is a fun, linguistic tool used in literature, songs and advertisements. Now that you've seen examples of the individual words consider the following examples of onomatopoeia words in use: "Chug, chug, chug. Puff, puff, puff. Ding-dong, ding-dong. The little train rumbled over the tracks." - "The Little Engine That Could," Watty Piper "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is." (slogan of Alka Seltzer, US) "Onomatopoeia every time I see ya
My senses tell me hubba
And I just can't disagree.
I get a feeling in my heart that I can't describe...
It's sort of whack, whir, wheeze, whine
Sputter, splat, squirt, scrape
Clink, clank, clunk, clatter
Crash, bang, beep, buzz
Ring, rip, roar, retch
Twang, toot, tinkle, thud
Pop, plop, plunk, pow
Snort, snuck, sniff, smack
Screech, splash, squish, squeak
Jingle, rattle, squeal, boing
Honk, hoot, hack, belch." - "Onomatopoeia," song by Todd Rundgren Bringing Language to Life So, remember that onomatopoeic words try to capture a sound and, therefore, can bring language alive in the reader or listener's imagination. Reviewing examples of onomatopoeia words and their various sound categories is an excellent way to learn to recognize and understand the concept. Look for the sound or rhythm patterns that almost always exist, especially in poetry, and if you ever have a question about what an onomatopoeic word means, just ask yourself, 'What does it sound like?' This isn't an exhaustive list of onomatopoeic words, but it's a good start to understanding this literary device. For more examples, check out this onomatopoeia word list for kids. And find out more about other types of figurative language. Sound Words: Examples of Onomatopoeia Sound Words: Examples of Onomatopoeia | 1,794 |
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Addressing the “forgotten” men and women he said propelled him to victory, he declared: “You’re not forgotten anymore.”
The capital was turned into a virtual fortress, with thousands of police officers. Security officials used buses and other large vehicles to prevent a hypothetical terror attack by moving vehicle.
More than 20 protest activities have been scheduled for Friday.
On Saturday, a women’s protest march is expected to draw between 200,000 and 500,000 people.
Police used chemical spray Thursday evening on protesters at the Washington demonstration against the “DeploraBall,” an unofficial event featuring Trump loyalists on the political fringe.
Some of the dissent was quieter. As Trump supporters began to line up for the pre-inauguration concert, a solo young man held up a profane sign that summarized the feeling of much of the country: “This is f----d up.”
Trump, master showman, implausibly insisted that he didn’t care if A-listers fêted him. His supporters were more convincing, saying that the arrogance of entertainment elites was part of the reason Trump succeeded.
Plus, they were all there because of one former entertainer.
“I get to see change,” said Rick Philemon, 53, a hospital worker from Charlotte, N.C. “Real change, finally. And I want to be part of it.”
“This is probably going to be the biggest transformation in our government that I’m going to see in my lifetime,” said Scott Esmeier, 55, a construction worker in Arizona. “The old president was hope and change and got us nothing in eight years. I think this one’s really got what it takes.”
“Listen,” said his wife, Sandra, 54. “If it’s not successful, then in four years he’ll be gone.”
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At Canalys Channels Forum last week, Lenovo finally revealed launch timeframe for its foldable ThinkPad X1 hybrid notebook that was first revealed in May. The company says that the machine is ready from hardware standpoint, but it needs its software partners to polish off their programs for the innovative unit.
Lenovo’s foldable ThinkPad X1 features a 13.3-inch OLED display featuring a ‘2K’ resolution that can be folded in half to fit it into a small bag. The hybrid notebook can be used in tablet, book, and clamshell modes to serve different purposes. It can also be attached to a stand or a dock for workloads that require a mechanical keyboard and a mouse. The foldable ThinkPad X1 uses an undisclosed Intel processor as well as Microsoft’s Windows operating system and is therefore compatible with a wide variety of software applications.
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Milanka Muecke, director of global commercial communications and brand at Lenovo, described the foldable ThinkPad X1 device as a fully-fledged PC that fits in the palm of a hand:
“I have it right here and you can have it in your purse. It looks like a leather bound notebook that you can carry with you all day long, but it is a full performance PC that fits in the palm of your hand.”
Lenovo now expects to ship its foldable ThinkPad in the second quarter of 2020, though it is unclear when it will be revealed from April to June (Note, June is Computex). From the hardware standpoint, the product is sound, but software still needs certain fixes, according to Gianfrano Lanci, COO of Lenovo:
“It will start shipping probably Q2 next year. […] Hardware is ready, but we need to still fix certain things from a software point of view and that does not depend 100% on us.”
The high-ranking executive of Lenovo does not expect foldable ThinkPad X1 to be an immediate bestseller (probably because of price and other factors), but as a new form-factor it will enable Lenovo to tap into emerging market segments. One of the obvious segments that the foldable ThinkPad X1 will address will be high-performance tablets like Apple’s iPad Pro. Meanwhile, Lenovo will ship its device several months before Microsoft’s launch of dual-screen Surface Neo that targets the same segment.
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Lawyers have lodged a complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission over the return of grieving asylum seekers, including a young Iranian orphan, to Christmas Island.
Sydney barrister Stephen Blanks claims the return of nine-year old Seena, whose parents both died in the boat tragedy, to the island detention centre would constitute a breach of Australia’s obligations under the United Nations convention on the rights of the child.
Acting on behalf of the boy’s relatives in Sydney, Mr Blanks asked that the return be delayed until the commission rules on the complaint.
A spokesman for the immigration department could not confirm whether the department was aware of the complaint, however the 22 asylum seekers have today been flown out of Sydney on a charter flight - one bound for Perth, the rest for Christmas Island.
Child psychiatrist Louise Newman, who heads the government’s detention health advisory group, has described the decision to return the boy to Christmas Island as ‘‘bizarre, unnecessary and very damaging’’.
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said today the boy would be placed in community care soon. ‘‘I’ve just got a few more checks to make to make sure that we have the appropriate care arrangements in place, the appropriate psychological support for him in place,’’ Mr Bowen told ABC radio.
A spokesperson for the Human Rights Commission declined to comment, saying the complaints process was confidential.
Seena was due to return to detention on the island, where locals fear he will resume a daily ritual of staring blankly and waiting at the gate for new boat arrivals, in the hope that his mother will be among them.
Seena, 9, grieves at the funeral for an eight-month-old baby drowned when an asylum-seeker boat broke up on rocks on Christmas Island. Credit:Getty
The only child was to fly back despite an offer from relatives in Sydney to care for him and warnings from mental health experts that going back will intensify the psychological harm already done. The boy told relatives yesterday that he feared returning to the scene of the tragedy that claimed both his parents.
A cousin, Jaffar Ali Alghban, said Seena's spirits picked up markedly yesterday when he was visited at Villawood detention centre by about 10 relatives. At the funeral, he had insisted he wanted to be ''buried with his father'', Mr Alghban told The Age. His mother's body has not been recovered. | 1,797 |
Jamaica dancehall star Vybz Kartel guilty of murder Published duration 14 March 2014
image copyright AP image caption Police in Jamaica face widespread gun violence
Popular Jamaican dancehall and reggae star Vybz Kartel has been found guilty of murder in a high-profile trial.
He and three co-defendants were convicted under tight security of killing an associate, Clive Lizard Williams, in a row over a missing gun.
Parts of the capital Kingston were cordoned off in advance of the verdict and police patrols were stepped up.
Kartel, whose real name is Adidja Palmer, is one of the biggest names in Jamaican dancehall reggae.
The BBC's Nick Davis in Kingston says that Kartel's bleached skin - covered by tattoos - made him stand out from the crowd - and the "World Boss" as he called himself also often glorified violence in his music.
The 65-day trial was the longest running criminal hearing in the history of Jamaica's circuit court system, local media reported.
Police cordoned off streets around the Supreme Court before Thursday's session started, seeking to prevent any disruption by fans supporting the entertainer.
Illegal guns
Shortly before the jury started to deliberate in the afternoon, about 200 people briefly broke through barricades at one intersection shouting "Free Kartel!"
The sentencing date is scheduled for 27 March and Kartel's lawyers have indicated they will appeal against the verdict.
When Kartel was arrested in 2011, it was alleged he had been involved in two killings, but one of those cases was thrown out last year after key evidence went missing.
Prosecutors said that Williams was beaten to death at Kartel's home in August 2011 after being lured there to account for two missing illegal guns.
A body has never been found but police testified that they had unearthed a text message from Kartel's phone saying Williams had been chopped up to "mincemeat" so fine that his remains would never be found.
Defence lawyer Tom Tavares-Finson told jurors the prosecution's case against Kartel was "dishonest" and "incompetent", noting that witness statements and a compact disc with evidence saved on it had gone missing.
The AP news agency says that in a bizarre twist to the case, a male juror was arrested on Thursday evening on charges of attempting to bribe the jury foreman to free Kartel, who was convicted by a 10-1 majority verdict. | 1,798 |
EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has acquired worldwide rights to Topple Productions and Boxspring Entertainment’s Professor Marston & The Wonder Women, the unconventional true story of behind the creation of the most famous female comic book superhero of all time. Written and directed by Angela Robinson, the indie feature began production this week and stars Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall and Bella Heathcote.
Professor Marston details the life of Dr. William Moulton Marston (Evans), Harvard psychologist and inventor who created Wonder Woman in 1941; his wife, fellow psychologist and inventor Elizabeth (Hall); and their polyamorous relationship with Olive Byrne (Heathcote), a former student of Marston’s and an academic in her own right.
Their relationship proved enduring. Marston created DC’s iconic Amazonian princess with significant input from Elizabeth having been inspired to do so by Olive – Marston, like Wonder Woman, was profoundly influenced by the feminist ideals espoused by Elizabeth and Olive. After his death from skin cancer in 1947, Elizabeth and Olive raised their children by Marston together and remained a couple until Olive’s death in 1988. The film will explore how Marston dealt with the controversy surrounding his creation — which homophobic moral guardians charged would turn young girls into lesbians — while he and his partners navigated and concealed a romantic and family life that, if exposed, could have destroyed them all.
Topple co-founder Andrea Sperling is producing alongside Amy Redford, Andrea Sperling and Terry Leonard. Topple co-founder and Transparent creator Jill Soloway is executive producing with Boxspring Entertainment co-Founder Clare Munn. WME Global packaged and represented the film.
Robinson most recently acted as consulting producer on ABC’s How to Get Away With Murder and was an executive producer of the final season of HBO’s True Blood. She’s repped by WME. Evans, who’s onscreen in The Girl on the Train, recently wrapped his role as in Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast. He’s repped by WME and United Agents. Hall most recently appeared in Steven Spielberg’s The BFG and will be seen in the lead role of the biopic Christine later this month. She’s repped by WME and Julian Belfrage & Associates. Heathcote’s next film is Fifty Shades Darker. She’s repped by WME and manager Brian Medavoy. | 1,799 |
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