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Yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that Tesla was planning to start pushing its software update to start bringing Autopilot 2.0 cars to parity with the first generation Autopilot today and he sort of stayed true to the commitment. Tesla started pushing the update to the first 1,000 cars in its fleet, but it’s not exactly to parity with Tesla’s first generation Autopilot.
According to Tesla, the update includes the Autopilot’s Traffic Aware Cruise Control feature, Forward Collision Warning, and Autosteer, which is the flagship feature of the Autopilot, but it will only be enabled at “low-speed”, someone familiar with the update told Electrek.
It will only be available on highways with clear markings. The company aims primarily for Tesla owners with Autopilot 2.0 hardware to use the feature in traffic jam conditions under 35 mph.
While the current feature can be enabled on undivided roads and on highways with a top speed of 90 mph, Tesla’s software team has to adapt the safety feature to the company’s new in-house vision system (Tesla Vision), and its machine-learning technology with data collected from its fleet.
It aims for complete parity to happen in “early 2017” as it adapts the technology to the new hardware suit.
From there, Tesla will be able to improve the feature and transition to the ‘Autosteer+’ feature of the second generation Autopilot. The improvements will happen every few months.
HW2 Autopilot software uploading to 1000 cars this eve. Will then hold to verify no field issues and upload to rest of fleet next week. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 31, 2016
As Elon Musk commented on Twitter today, the update is only being pushed to the first 1,000 cars today. If everything goes well, more vehicles will receive the update next week.
A source familiar with the update told Electrek that Tesla is being exceptionally cautious with the update and that even though “a small number of vehicles worldwide” are currently using the full Autosteer feature without restriction with the new Autopilot hardware, the company is being careful since it’s using the new hardware suite.
Every owner should get the complete features within the next few weeks.
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to sell the traditional internet on blockchain integration.
He’s most excited about the market that will come when firms start posting their data to decentralized marketplaces, selling it via secure, live auctions he calls the “NASDAQ for data.”
Gobaud said:
“More advanced or technical users are really excited about the data marketplace because they are aware that getting data into blockchain ecosystem is really complicated.”
Data generated on blockchain protocols is easy to verify because they are closed environments. But data from the real world can’t be verified on a blockchain without help.
That’s why Mobius is building a proof-of-stake oracle system, so that data streams with data from the real world can build up reputations as reliable sources over time. With the system, to put its data up for sale on the market, a company would have to prove it holds a certain amount of tokens.
If that marketplace catches on, the cost of staking should be more than paid for by revenue from selling data over time. This could be anything from data about road conditions from a smart vehicle or local weather from a sensor on top of a commercial building.
To reach the point where the decentralized web has a rich enough ecosystem to support these marketplaces, the team is also working to solve other small problems faced by developers on the way there. For example, it built a universal login protocol, where a website can verify that a device holds a token to let its user log on to a service.
Some sites might want to take this a step further and use tokens to integrate the level of access someone has to a site. So, on a platform like Reddit, a user might only need one token, while a moderator might need a few tokens to log in with more advanced permissions.
In the meantime, developers are already building dapps for Mobius’ store, but it’s small scale offerings so far, little video games or prediction games. That’s work at the experimental level, but Gobaud said he’s encouraged by the fact that people already want to work with it. The websites on Geocities were crude, too, but they were a stepping stone to the web we know today.
He concluded:
“It’s like the early days of the internet.”
Disclosure: CoinDesk is a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which has an ownership stake in Ripple.
Mobius strip image via Shutterstock | 1,801 |
BURBANK, CA (TheSkunk.org) — The Walt Disney Company today announced it has acquired Shantibody Media, the country’s largest producer of hardcore adult entertainment. The announcement comes on the tail of disappointing box office revenue for a string of recent flops, including “Oz the Great and Powerful” — a failure which studio execs blame on “audience apathy to movies with bad scripts.”
According to a press release, the acquisition is part of Disney’s attempt to keep up with the tastes of an aging, baby boomer audience. “They don’t go out to the movies much anymore,” acknowledged CEO Robert Iger, “ but they do like to stay home and masturbate.”
According to Iger, Disney will be producing 600 made-for-Internet short films a year through the new division, which will be called “Jizzneyland Films.”
“There is already an abundance of adult content on the web,” notes Iger, who disparages his competition as “junk shot on a home camcorder.” He said the Disney name will let viewers know they are getting a “higher quality of junk, shot with more expensive cameras.”
Because the videos will not exceed five minutes in length, Iger says production costs will be low, without sacrificing the extremely high production values their audiences have come to expect. A full page ad in the Hollywood Reporter touts the division’s future projects as “Sex with a Touch of Disney Magic (and a Little Bondage).”
“Our stable of existing characters is ripe for insertion into these new productions,” said Iger. “Already in the pipeline is ‘The Piddle Mermaid,’ ‘The Jungle Bootie,’ and my personal favorite, ‘Star Whores: May the Force Be Thrust Into You.’”
“For almost a hundred years we brought the world the best in family entertainment,” lamented Iger, “but our aging audience is no longer interested in princesses and mice, unless they’re naked and touching each other.”
“When you put your credit card number in some anonymous website, you never know what you’re going to get,” he added. “But when you see the Disney name, you know you’re going to get off.” | 1,802 |
China Arrests Australian Writer On Espionage Charges
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A Chinese-born Australian writer detained for months in China has been formally arrested on charges of espionage, officials in Canberra confirmed on Tuesday.
Yang Hengjun, a former Chinese diplomat who reportedly became an Australian citizen in 2002 but retains a Chinese passport, has also lived and worked in the United States.
He is the author of three spy novels set in China, according to Reuters. In the past, he has written voluminously on his blog about the rule of law, democracy and human rights, according to news.com.au. However, according to Reuters, in recent years, he has stayed away from sensitive topics and concentrated instead on running an import-export business.
Yang was first detained seven months ago in China's southern province of Guangzhou after arriving there from New York en route to Beijing, according to the news agency. Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne says that Yang has been held under "harsh conditions" and that Canberra has "serious concerns" for his welfare.
"There is no basis for any allegation Dr. Yang was spying for the Australian government," Payne said of Yang, who has a doctorate from the University of Technology Sydney.
She said she was "very concerned and disappointed" and would "advocate strongly" for his release.
Rob Stary, an Australia-based attorney for Yang, said the Chinese government has given no details on the charge of espionage.
A China-based lawyer for Yang, Shang Baojun, was quoted by The Sydney Morning Herald as saying that there would be an investigation for "at least two months" and that "if they find him guilty, the case will be handed over to prosecutors."
According to the Herald, those close to Yang believe his academic work and pro-democracy activism may be the reason for his arrest.
Yang's wife, Yian Xiaoling, a Chinese citizen who is also reportedly a permanent resident of Australia, was prevented from leaving China and questioned by Chinese authorities, The Guardian reported.
Payne said she had spoken and written to Chinese officials on multiple occasions in the past several months.
"It is important, and we expect, that basic standards of justice and procedural fairness are met. I respectfully reiterate my previous requests that if Dr. Yang is being held for his political beliefs, he should be released," she said.
Yang faces more than 10 years in prison if found guilty. | 1,803 |
“Anyone know where Sigmund Freud is?” John McEnroe quipped last week.
Kyrgios will play Steve Johnson in the first round of the U.S. Open on Tuesday night, and the question remains: Which kind of performance will Johnson and the fans see?
Kyrgios has never made it past the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam event and has not made it past the fourth round of one since 2015. His best showing at the U.S. Open has been reaching the third round, including last year, when he lost to Roger Federer. After that match, Kyrgios acknowledged that much of his struggle was mental.
“If I want it enough,” he said, “I have a coaching option, psychology option.”
In May, Kyrgios was defaulted from the Italian Open after he threw a chair onto the court in a tirade after being penalized a game for his third conduct violation. Sometimes, even court officials get into trouble at a Kyrgios match. At last year’s U.S. Open, the umpire Mohamed Lahyani came down from the chair and seemed to give a distracted Kyrgios a pep talk during his second-round victory against Pierre-Hugues Herbert. Lahyani, a respected umpire, was suspended two tournaments for the neutrality-breaking infraction.
After the Cincinnati meltdown, Kyrgios returned to Flushing Meadows early last week and worked out on the practice courts in front of scores of eager spectators; Kyrgios is just too irresistible to ignore. He wore a No. 20 Gordon Hayward Celtics jersey to honor his favorite N.B.A. team, while hitting with Thanasi Kokkinakis, a boyhood friend and fellow professional player who wore a Hornets jersey with the number of Chris Paul.
The scene was full of laughter and wicked, jumping forehands that delighted the fans, and no trace of the anger and frustration on display a week earlier. In the middle of the practice session, Pam Shriver, a former U.S. Open finalist and now an ESPN broadcaster, approached Kyrgios for a live interview.
Kyrgios asked if Kokkinakis could join in, an acknowledgment of his friend’s wild card entry into the main draw of the U.S. Open. Shriver joked that Kyrgios was kind of a wild card in his own right, and he laughed and said he had actually had fun in Ohio. | 1,804 |
or whatever. You know what a ground bass is in music? A theme that keeps going on underneath, no matter what else is happening on top of it? Writing is the ground bass of my existence.
For me—it’s different for everybody—sometimes a story has to be planned, sometimes it’s jump in and go. Depends on the story.
A novel has to have its basic architecture, its trajectory, clearly in place before you start, but the materials you build it with, or how you get to where it’s going, may be almost entirely a process of discovery—finding out what comes next.
A poem often starts as a cluster of words from which other words unfold, kind of like a rose opening. You can’t force it to open. You just have your attention on it and let it open, and it does. If it does.
AND THEN—story, novel, poem—THEN you revise. Until it’s as good as you can make it.
Then you STOP and wait for the next swan. (I’m thinking of the story about a famous tenor singing in the opera Lohengrin. A swan-boat is supposed to come on stage and carry him off. The machinery stuck. Nothing came. After a while the tenor addressed the audience: “Can you tell me when the next swan is due?”)
ASM: What advice do you have for aspiring authors?
UKL: Read. Write. Revise. Repeat for several years or decades.
Wait for swans. Sometimes the machinery sticks, but if you wait patiently, a swan will come along.
ASM: What are you working on now that we can look forward to reading?
UKL: I have a couple of stories out looking for an editor to love them.
ASM: Looking back on your career so far, what makes you most proud?
UKL: I don’t cultivate pride, I believe too deeply in luck. My luck has been great in having three kids and a career as a writer and enjoying them all immensely.
ASM: Thank you for joining us today. We are grateful that you enriched our lives with such amazing fiction. You have established a benchmark in literature that others will strive to achieve. Before you go, is there anything else you would like to share with the readers of Amazing Stories?
UKL: Go on reading! | 1,805 |
These custom pencils take under 5 minutes to make and offer unlimited ways to make them your own. Back in elementary school, it was super hip to order custom pencils with your name on them, and they pretty much looked just like the DIY version I’m sharing today. I have no idea why I didn’t think of this project until the weekend after I rounded up my back to school series, but since I haven’t moved on to the next theme yet, I figured, what the heck. Plus, they’re just so cute!
Supplies
plain pencils
hammer
metal stamping letters
permanent marker
rubbing alcohol
tissue
Directions
Gather your letters/symbols for the phrase you’d like on your pencil. This is probably the hardest part of this project! The first pencil I made was for my husband and totally says twerk, but since the internet has had quite enough of twerking in the past month, I opted to keep it outta this post ;).
Align your stamp, checking to make sure it’s about centered on one of the pencil’s flat sides, and also that it’s right side up. Give the stamp a tap – hard enough to make an impression in the pencil, but not so hard as to dent the wood in weird ways. You’re using metal stamps on wood, so the force needed is a little different than when you’re working with metal.
[Check out my other metal stamping tutorials here, here and here.]
Color in your letters with permanent marker, filling in the stamps all the way so the yellow (or whatever color you’re working with) of the pencil doesn’t show through.
Wipe off excess ink with rubbing alcohol and some tissue, being careful not to use too much alcohol. The pencils are wood, so you don’t want them soaked, and if you use too much, you’ll remove all of the ink, including what you want to show up in the letters. Other than that, you’ll all done! These are super addictive – I grabbed a box of 24 pencils on back-to-school clearance and went nuts. I think my co-workers are going to have to get pencil gifts on a regular basis! Who would you make these for?
The metal stamps and hammer used in this project were provided by Impress Art. | 1,806 |
Baltic states between peace and war
NATO Military Chiefs met at the end of September in Warsaw, Poland to discuss future Alliance’ s military strategy.
According to NATO press release, during the meeting, “discussions focused on allied operations, missions and activities, the development of NATO’s military strategy, responsiveness, reinforcement and the NATO Readiness Initiative, as well as the Alliance’s ongoing modernization.”
During the joint press conference with Chief of the Polish General Staff, Lieutenant General Rajmund Andrzejczak, the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach concluded by stating, that “NATO is the most successful – and the most valuable – Alliance in history.”
Assessing the scope of NATO military events this year, success is measured not so much by the results but by the number of hold events. And the more so, NATO has transformed the approach to its activity from defensive to offensive. NATO leaders even do not hide the nature of military exercises’ scenarios.
Alliance demonstrates that it is not sleeping, it is preparing for war. The theater of such war is most likely – the Baltic region. This proves the increasing number of military exercises conducted and planned exactly in the Baltic states.
Thus the field training exercise Beowulf in the training area of the Lithuanian armed forces in Pabrade in eastern Lithuania took place at the end of September. It is known that over 600 soldiers from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic and Luxembourg as well as 250 vehicles, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armoured personnel carriers, recovery trucks and jeeps are participating in the exercise.
The exercise included combat training, where each unit practiced both attacking and defending. Among other things tactics of combat support like river crossing operations, integration of combat service support elements and in-theatre maintenance was practiced.
At the same time Russia continues to flex its muscles either. These days the Air Bridge 2018 CSTO joint exercise is held on the territory of the Central Military District. Russian-Serbian BARS 2018 flight tactical exercise kicks off in Serbia, Search 2018 tactical special exercise kicks off in Kazakhstan. And so on…
Series of exercises prove Russia will not allow NATO to surpass in military sector. In other words situation develops spirally and leads to confrontation. The Baltic states chose to be NATO’s tool in such confrontation. And if Russia can forgive former Soviet republics for preparing to defend themselves, quite evidently, Russia will not accept their preparation to attack. | 1,807 |
Home » Australia, Immorality, Sports, Terrorism » FIFA refuses to punish Saudi players over London attacks snub
FIFA has refused to punish the Saudi Arabia men’s national football team after they snubbed a minute’s silence in memory of the London terrorist attack victims before a World Cup qualifier against Australia.
Eight people – including two Australian nationals – were killed and more than 50 injured when a group of three terrorists drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and then began stabbing revelers in London’s busy Borough Market area on June 3, before being shot dead by police marksmen.
On Thursday, Australia met Saudi Arabia in their World Cup qualifier Asia group at the Adelaide Oval.
As the Australian team lined up with their arms around each other to pay their respects before the game, the Saudi players could be seen wandering around the pitch, actively refusing to take part and instead jogging and stretching.
However, FIFA announced it would not take any action against the players or the Saudi Arabian Football Federation (SAFF).
“After reviewing the match report and images of the said match, we can confirm that there are no grounds to take disciplinary action in relation to the matter you mention,” FIFA said in a statement, Reuters reported.
Conversely, the SAFF said it “deeply regrets” the snub and apologized “unreservedly” for the incident in a statement.
“The Saudi Arabian Football Federation deeply regrets and unreservedly apologizes for any offense caused by the failure of some members of the representative team of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to formally observe the one minute’s silence,” the statement read.
“The players did not intend any disrespect to the memories of the victims or to cause upset to their families, friends or any individual affected by the atrocity,” it continued.
“The Saudi Arabian Football Federation condemns all acts of terrorism and extremism and extends its sincerest condolences to the families of all the victims and to the government and people of the United Kingdom.”
Australia won the match 3-2 in their penultimate game before taking part in the FIFA 2017 Confederations Cup tournament in Russia.
The Socceroos play Brazil in a friendly on June 13 before taking on Germany at Fisht Stadium in Sochi on June 19.
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Vitamin D may help reduce the frequency of seizures in epilepsy patients, according to a recent study from UCLA.
Researchers in the lab of Christopher DeGiorgio, a professor of neurology, found that epilepsy patients experienced moderately fewer seizure episodes after taking vitamin D pills. The study serves as the first step toward assessing whether vitamin D supplements may be a valid treatment for reducing seizures in epilepsy patients, DeGiorgio said.
Current drugs used to treat epilepsy have negative side effects, like depression or osteoporosis, prompting the need to develop safer treatments, said Ashley Curtis, a third-year neuroscience student and co-author on the study.
Previous animal studies have shown that vitamin D could reduce the duration and severity of seizures, DeGiorgio said. These results suggest vitamin D might play a role in alleviating the symptoms of epilepsy. However, many epilepsy patients are vitamin D deficient, he added.
The first step in assessing whether vitamin D is a potential treatment for epilepsy is to determine the safety of high vitamin D doses, DeGiorgio said. Researchers administered an oral vitamin D supplement to nine epilepsy patients once per day for 12 weeks and monitored their health.
After six weeks of vitamin D supplements, the vitamin D levels of most patients rose from insufficient to healthy levels. Common measures of health, like blood pressure, remained normal for all patients during the entire course of study, suggesting that vitamin D supplements had no obvious toxic effects. Seizure frequency decreased by about 27%, from a median of 5.2 to 3.6 seizures per month after the six-week treatment, according to the study.
This modest reduction may be because of a small sample size and high variability between the severity of the epilepsy of each patient, Curtis said. One patient, for example, had one seizure a month before vitamin D supplementation but had no seizures when taking the vitamin D supplementation, she said. While the patient did improve, such a small effect is difficult to accurately assess, she added.
Nonetheless, the study demonstrates the safety of vitamin D supplements and their potential effectiveness in preventing seizures, DeGiorgio said. He said he will test the supplements on more patients to further prove their effectiveness.
Once this is done, his laboratory will validate their results with independent researchers and work with the Food and Drug Administration to make vitamin D a recognized treatment for epilepsy, he said.
“Showing a beneficial effect (of vitamin D in a randomized clinical trial) allows other physicians to consider prescribing it,” DeGiorgio said. | 1,809 |
[rust-dev] Handling I/O errors
Greetings Rustaceans! Upon updating your nightly builds tonight some of you may realize that all I/O code will fail to compile. Fear not, this simply means that #11946 has landed! The summary of this change is the same as its title, "remove io::io_error". This is quite a far-reaching change, despite its simple summary. All I/O now returns a value of type `io::IoResult<T>` which is just a typedef to `Result<T, IoError>`. By returning a Result from all function calls, it's not much cleaner to handle errors (condition syntax is quite awkward), less overhead (registering a condition handler was expensive), and clearer what I/O should do now (should you raise? should you return a "0 value"?). Handling errors is always a tricky situation, so the compiler now provides you two tools to assist you in handling errors: 1. The new unused_must_use lint. This lint mode will tell you when you don't use an IoResult<T>. The purpose of this lint is to help you find out where in your program you're silently ignoring errors (often by accident). If you want even more warnings, you can turn on the unused_result lint which will warn about *all* unused results, not just those of type Result/IoResult. 2. The new if_ok!() macro. This macro has a fairly simple definition [0], and the idea is to return-early if an Err is encountered, and otherwise unwrap the Ok value. Some sample usage looks like: fn fun1() -> io::IoResult<int> {... } fn fun2() -> io::IoResult<uint> {... } fn fun3() -> io::IoResult<()> {... } fn foo() -> io::IoResult<uint> { if_ok!(fun3()); let val = if_ok!(fun1()) as uint + if_ok!(fun2()); Ok(val) } These two tools are in place to help you handle errors unobtrusively as well as identify locations where you've forgotten to handle errors. Sorry about the awful rebasings you'll have to do in advance, but it's worth it! [0] - https://github.com/mozilla/rust/blob/master/src/libstd/macros.rs#L202-L204 | 1,810 |
By Keith Idec
Jermell Charlo recognizes that fellow 154-pound champions Erislandy Lara and Jarrett Hurd are on a collision course.
The undefeated WBC super welterweight champ wants nothing more than to begin unifying titles, though. So while waiting to face whoever wins between Lara (25-2-2, 14 KOs), the WBA champion, and Hurd (21-0, 15 KOs), who holds the IBF title, Charlo has suggested his own title unification fight against newly crowned WBO champ Sadam Ali.
Charlo expressed his plan in a Tweet posted from his account Friday. It reads: I Got A Plan.. Since Hurd & Lara Beefed Up, Let Them Fight.. The Winner Fights Me After I Destroy The Gifted 147LB Who Got A Blessing From Cotto (Ali) ONLY ONE CHAMPION.. WHO YOU GOT WINNING?
Brooklyn’s Ali (26-1, 14 KOs), a welterweight for most of his pro career, pulled off one of boxing’s biggest upsets of 2017 when he out-boxed Puerto Rico’s Cotto (41-6, 33 KOs) to win the WBO super welterweight title December 2 at Madison Square Garden.
Houston’s Charlo (30-0, 15 KOs) had a very successful 2017, in which he recorded two top candidates for “Knockout of the Year.”
Charlo knocked out Dallas’ Charles Hatley (26-2-1, 18 KOs) in the sixth round of their April 22 bout at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Then Charlo produced a spectacular, one-punch, first-round knockout of another mandatory challenger, previously unbeaten Erickson Lubin (18-1, 13 KOs), on October 14 at Barclays Center.
Hurd and Lara also won impressively as part of that October 14 card.
Hurd, of Accokeek, Maryland, became the first fighter to stop former WBA champion Austin Trout (30-4, 17 KOs), who declined to continue following the 10th round. Lara, a Houston resident raised in Cuba, dropped Terrell Gausha (20-1, 9 KOs) in the fourth round and easily won a 12-round unanimous decision in the main event that night.
Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing. | 1,811 |
According to POLITICO’s tracking of public polling and delegate projections, five candidates have immediately qualified for the South Carolina debate: Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Those same five are the only candidates who’ve qualified so far for the debate in Nevada on Feb. 19.
The South Carolina debate is hosted by CBS News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, in partnership with Twitter. It is set to air on CBS from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The two billionaires in the race — Steyer and Bloomberg — have not met the qualification criteria for either the Nevada or South Carolina debates. The deadline to qualify for Nevada is Feb. 18.
Bloomberg is, however, on the precipice of making the stage in Nevada next week. The former New York City mayor, who has not yet taken part in a DNC-sanctioned debate, needs one more poll to qualify for next week’s debate in Nevada, and two more polls for the South Carolina debate.
The DNC scrapped a donor threshold in place for previous debates, which kept Bloomberg off the stage because he does not accept contributions.
Steyer has also not qualified for either debate. So far, nine polls have been released in the Nevada qualifying window, and eight of which have been national polls. The only poll that Steyer broke 10 percent in is a Las Vegas Review-Journal/AARP Nevada poll conducted by the Republican firm WPA Intelligence, in which he hit 11 percent. The DNC also announced Saturday that it would include the LVRJ/AARP toward qualifying for the Nevada debate. (The DNC reserved the right to retroactively add a poll from South Carolina or Nevada in its initial announcement for the Nevada debate, and did the same for the South Carolina-specific poll ahead of the Palmetto State debate.)
Steyer’s campaign maintains that he is better positioned in the next two states — Nevada and South Carolina. But there has been a polling drought in those two states, with the LVRJ/AARP poll as the only qualifying poll out of either state state released thus far in the Nevada qualifying window. Steyer called on the DNC to back-date the qualifying window to include polls from those states conducted earlier (which would likely qualify him for the debate), a plea his campaign said went unanswered by the DNC. The DNC has been hesitant to change qualification rules for a debate after they’re already been announced, rebuffing numerous other calls earlier in the cycle. | 1,812 |
A woman who pleaded guilty to pushing her 16-year-old friend from a bridge at a popular swimming area near Vancouver broke down in tears after she was sentenced on Wednesday to two days in jail and 38 days on a county work crew.
Clark County District Court Judge Darvin Zimmerman sentenced 19-year-old Tay'lor Smith on Wednesday, saying she should do some jail time in light of Jordan Holgerson's serious injuries.
Smith pleaded guilty earlier this month to misdemeanor reckless endangerment as part of a plea agreement.
Smith pushed Holgerson off the bridge Aug. 7 at Moulton Falls northeast of Vancouver.
Tay'lor Smith, 19, fights back tears as she is escorted out of the courtroom in handcuffs after being sentenced at the Clark County Courthouse in Vancouver, Washington on Wednesday
Judge Darvin Zimmerman (left) listens to comments from survivor Jordan Holgerson (center) as Smith (right) looks on during Smith's sentencing
Jordan Holgerson is seen above at the hearing on Wednesday. She is flanked by her grandfather, Richard Doran (far left); her friend, Ryan Anderson (second from right); and her mother, Genelle Holgerson
Video posted on YouTube that was widely viewed shows Holgerson being pushed.
The 50-foot fall broke Holgerson's ribs, caused severe bruising and punctured her lungs.
Footage of the ordeal, which quickly went viral, showed Jordan standing on top of the bridge with a group of friends gathered behind her
One man can be heard on camera asking 'Ready?' before a female friend is seen shoving Jordan off the bridge
In court Wednesday she said she's still dealing with physical therapy, pain, anxiety and panic attacks.
Holgerson started to cry during her statement to the judge and an advocate then read it for her, saying Holgerson was terrified when she was pushed and when she was in the water thought she was going to die.
'We feel lucky today that she is alive,' Genelle Holgerson told the judge of the incident involving her daughter, adding that she'd like to see some jail time.
'It has cost me and my family lost wages not to mention stress and heartache.'
Smith apologized to Holgerson in court saying Holgerson has been in her thoughts and that she has and will continue to do her best to right her wrongs.
She broke down in tears when a deputy handcuffed her and led her out of the courtroom.
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A new aircraft seat design aimed at making travel more comfortable for obese passengers, and small children, has taken out an award for innovation.
The Crystal Cabin Awards for aircraft cabin design were announced in Hamburg, Germany, this week, with 21 finalists considered by a panel of expert judges.
The self-proclaimed "Cabin Oscars" gave the top award in the "Passenger Comfort Hardware" category to SII Deutschland, who came up with a seat design that used wasted space to create seats that could be occupied by overweight passengers or adapted for small children.
The seat would occupy space at the rear of the aircraft cabin, where the fuselage narrows, and would be one-and-a-half times the width of a normal seat. The designers said that for overweight passengers the seat would be safer than a standard seat.
Obese passengers too large to fit into increasingly small economy class seats have been a controversial issue for airlines in recent years.
Many solutions have been proposed, including forcing the passengers to pay for two seats or charging passengers by weight. The latter solution was actually adopted by Samoa Air in 2013, creating headlines worldwide. Airlines go to great lengths to reduce weight on their flights as this increases fuel use – typically the carriers' greatest expense.
In the United States, some airlines force overweight passengers to pay for a second seat if they are unable to buckle their seatbelt without the use of a seatbelt extender. A legal battle in Canada saw airlines forced to give an additional free seat to passengers who could not fit into one seat.
In Australia, airlines will typically try to move larger passengers to a spot where there is a free seat next to them, but if the flight is fully booked, nothing can be done.
A total of 68 submissions from 18 nations made it onto the Crystal Cabin shortlist this year. Other winners included Etihad Airways for its 'Residence' three-room suite on board its A380 superjumbo planes, and ViaSat, who came up with a satellite-powered on-board internet system that would deliver a 12 Mbps connection to every seat. Currently in-flight Wi-Fi internet is notoriously slow.
Another winner was B/E Aerospace, who came up with a solar cell film that could be installed into the window shades of the plane, allowing passengers to charge their devices during the flight.
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HOMELESS activists have re-established an Occupy Bournemouth site at a long-term vacant plot in Boscombe.
Just two tents were at the site, the former coal yard on Ashley Road, when the Echo visited yesterday.
Campaigners declined to officially comment, but confirmed they’d moved onto the privately-owned land the previous day.
They’ve also posted a notice on the gates which states that “we live in this property, it is our home and we intend to stay here” and “at all times there is at least one person in this property.”
The former coal yard site, next to the railway line, has been vacant for years. Back in 2010 Bournemouth council ordered the landowners to clear up the yard as it had become a magnet for flytippers.
Boscombe ward councillor Phil Stanley-Watts said: “The important thing is that it is quite a dangerous site for anyone to live on, so they’re putting their lives in their own hands. It is a site which potentially has chemicals underneath and there are lots of sharp objects within the derelict land.”
Meanwhile, a Bournemouth council spokesman explained: “We are aware that this protest group has moved sites and we have notified the landowners as the occupants are on private land.
“Our priority remains the safety of any vulnerable people who may be there and our rough sleeper outreach team continue to offer support to all people in the borough known to be rough sleeping.”
Squatters first moved onto private land at Exeter Road, Bournemouth, before Christmas.
This land at the site of the former Punshon Memorial Church was cleared by bailiffs on Friday, for the second time.
There were angry scenes three days earlier when bailiffs, supported by Dorset Police, first cleared the unauthorised encampment.
Organisers who established the Occupy Bournemouth site have labelled Bournemouth council “disgusting” in its attitude towards homelessness, and argue their encampment is a protest against the lack of support available.
However, St Mungo’s, which is commissioned by Bournemouth and Poole councils to provide outreach services to support homeless people, has encouraged people to use its StreetLink service at streetlink.org.uk to get rough sleepers into accommodation.
Official homeless workers have claimed the occupy site could be potentially “dangerous” if temperatures drop. | 1,815 |
The former New South Wales deputy privacy commissioner believes confidence in the 2016 census has been completely eroded and the results must be scrapped.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) promised this year's census would be the "easiest and most accessible" ever, with the online form supposed to save time and money.
But a large-scale denial of service attack, combined with a hardware failure, forced the ABS to shut its website down and left Australians unable to complete the census online.
Director of privacy consulting firm Salinger Privacy and former NSW deputy privacy commissioner Anna Johnston called for a reset and rethinking of the entire process.
"I think they should scrap the 2016 census," she said.
"I think the quality of the data has been so compromised because of all the people who couldn't get through last night or got halfway through filling it in last night and it dropped out.
"They should scrap, start again and, when they're ready, run it in a way that better treads that fine line between protecting privacy and collecting good quality data.
"That means committing it to being — as it always has been — an anonymous national snapshot instead of a tool for detailed data linking on individuals."
'Senate inquiry needed' into how information is handled
Ms Johnston said there needed to be a Senate inquiry.
"In saying that the census should be scrapped for 2016, I’m not saying we try and repeat it again in six or 12 months," she said.
"I think there needs to be a Senate inquiry into how the ABS is going to handle privacy and information security moving forward.
"I think there should be proper national debate."
Ms Johnston said one of the problems with the changes the ABS introduced is that it was not a transparent process.
"They didn't explain to the people how they were going to use the census data and they did not limit themselves to how it might be used in the future."
Before last night the ABS said it had double the capacity it expected to need — the ability to handle 1 million form submissions every hour.
A former senior government official said:
"They painted a bloody great target on their foreheads. They asked for it."
What the ABS did not factor in was the hardware failure.
"They weren't able to meet the challenges that had been predicted — so I'm particularly concerned that that will equally translate into loss of confidence in how they're actually going to use our data," Ms Johnston said. | 1,816 |
Wallabies back rower Scott Fardy will miss next weekend's Bledisloe Cup Test due to an eye injury but is expected to take his place on the upcoming European tour.
Fardy sustained the injury in Australia's 54-17 win over Argentina last weekend and has been ruled out of the clash against the All Blacks in Dunedin next Saturday.
The Wallabies on Friday named a 32-man squad for the third Bledisloe Test and European spring tour.
Recuperating hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau and winger Nick Cummins are in the squad but won't play until the squad arrives in Europe.
Their spots come at the expense of Albert Anae and Peter Betham.
Tight-head prop Paddy Ryan, openside flanker Liam Gill and scrum half Nick Phipps have also been added to the squad to add depth in their respective positions.
Following the final match of the Rugby Championship in Dunedian the Wallabies begin their European tour with a Test against England at Twickenham.
The Wallabies will follow that match with Tests against Italy, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Coach Ewen McKenzie highlighted that the squad included 10 players who made their Test debuts this year.
"The reality is that the players who started their Test careers this year are only just beginning to accrue experience, so the challenges associated with a spring tour will be massive for them," McKenzie said.
Among those players unavailable due to injury are Kurtley Beale, Anthony Faingaa, Scott Higginbotham, Wycliff Palu and David Pocock.
Wallabies squad: (Props) Ben Alexander, Sekope Kepu, Benn Robinson, Paddy Ryan, James Slipper, (hookers) Saia Faingaa, Stephen Moore, Tatafu Polota-Nau, (locks) Kane Douglas, James Horwill (c), Rob Simmons, Sitaleki Timani, (back rowers) Dave Dennis, Scott Fardy, Liam Gill, Michael Hooper, Ben McCalman, Ben Mowen, (halves) Will Genia, Nick Phipps, Nic White, Quade Cooper, Matt Toomua, (centres) Adam Ashley-Cooper, Mike Harris, Tevita Kuridrani, Christian Leali'ifano, (wingers) Nick Cummins, Chris Feauai-Sautia, Joe Tomane (full-backs) Israel Folau, Bernard Foley. | 1,817 |
A teacher convicted of sex crimes in Saudi Arabia was publicly beheaded on Monday in the port city of Jeddah, according to official media.
"Mousa bin Saeed Ali al-Zahrani lured several underage girls and kidnapped them. He also threatened them and their relatives and physically assaulted them in his home," the Saudi Press Agency said, citing the interior ministry.
"He raped them, detained them, forced them to drink alcohol, and forced some to watch pornographic material."
The family of Zahrani, however, have pleaded in his innocence and said the teacher was convicted in a “sham trial”. Relatives complained to the late King Abdullah about the case and gained a stay of execution and a promise to re-open the investigation.
But on 23 January, the day Abdullah died, the family said they were notified by police insiders that an order had been reissued for an expedited beheading to take place on Monday.
The scene of Zahrani's beheading in Jeddah (MEE)
Zahrani, who was married with six children, posted a video in April 2014 declaring his innocence and asking for a review of the verdict.
“I plead my innocence and swear to God that neither my religion nor my education, knowledge, age, fatherhood or upbringing allow me to even think of committing such an act, which can only come from ribald and mentally ill people,” he said.
“I strongly deny all that I am accused of. It is all unjust fabrication of the truth. The accusations I am being subjected to are not acceptable in our religion. They are malicious and have been magnified and manipulated.”
Friends of the family, who asked to remain anonymous, said the police investigator who arrested Zahrani was a relative of one his alleged victims and demonstrated an “obvious conflict of interest”.
The kingdom has faced constant international criticism over its human rights record, including the use of the death penalty.
The latest beheading brings a total of 16 people executed in 2015 by Saudi authorities. In 2014, 87 people were executed, with 72 taking place between August and December.
An independent expert working on behalf of the United Nations called in September for an immediate moratorium on executions in Saudi Arabia. But the interior ministry insists that the execution of convicts aims "to maintain security and realise justice".
Rape, murder, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death in the kingdom. | 1,818 |
BEREA, Ohio -- Josh Gordon could take another big step on his comeback route Tuesday.
The NFL's 32 players reps will vote on the new drug policy Tuesday, according to ESPN's Chris Mortensen.
And depending on the way the new policy is written, Gordon could have his suspension overturned and return to the Browns as soon as the agreement is reached.
Under terms of the new agreement, Gordon wouldn't have tested positive for marijuana, and therefore, he wouldn't have been banned indefinitely. The NFL and NFLPA are reportedly set to bump the marijuana metabolite threshold up from 15 ng/mil to 50. Gordon's positive test was a 16, sources have told cleveland.com.
Gordon, whose appeal was rejected on Aug. 27, is currently suspended indefinitely, but at least for the entire 2014 season.
Whether or not Gordon is re-instated will depend on what the two sides agree on: allowing players back in that tested positive in the new league year beginning March 11, or players that were ultimately suspended in the new league year. A source told cleveland.com that Gordon tested positive no later than February, which was in the previous league year.
Mortenson also reported that a late point of contention is that if the NFL allows suspended players such as Gordon and Denver's Wes Welker back in, other NFL owners will fight to have their suspended players re-instated. The NFL has already begun receiving complaints from owners who want their players re-instated.
Even if Gordon's drug ban is rescinded, he might still be suspended for his pending DWI charge in Raleigh, N.C.
According to profootballtalk.com, the NFL is seeking a minimum two-game suspension for a first-time DWI conviction. Gordon's hearing in Raleigh for the July 5 DWI was postponed from Aug. 26 to November while he went through the appeals process.
In addition, the league wants players to be de-activated with pay for the game following any DUI arrest -- before due process.
So as it stands, Gordon might make it back as early this week's game against the Saints, but could miss two games in November for the DWI.
Last season, Gordon was also suspended for two games -- for what he said was codeine in his cough syrup -- and still managed to lead the NFL with 1,646 yards.
It's unclear who the Browns' new player rep is now that D'Qwell Jackson is gone. | 1,819 |
Every year the White House Correspondents Dinner and the parties surrounding it, are considered among the most important events on the Washington social calendar.
In recent years, there's been a rise in the number of A-list celebrities from Hollywood, the music industry and the business world attending, giving the event the same media attention and anticipation that has typically been reserved for the Oscars or the Emmys. It is often jokingly referred to as the ‘Nerd Prom’.
But that may be changing in the era of Donald Trump.
Remembering when Obama destroyed Trump at the 2011 White House correspondents dinner
The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, two well-respected, left leaning publications, are both cancelling their parties associated with the event. Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, who has long fought with Mr Trump for decades, told the New York Times that the new president was the reason they were not taking part in the festivities this year.
“We’ve taken a break from the dinner in the past,” Mr Carter wrote, adding that he instead planned to spend the weekend fishing in Connecticut.
Vanity Fair’s after-party, most recently held at the French Ambassador’s residence, is a star-studded affair, often considered the crème de la crème of the dinner's soirees, and one of the most exclusive events of the weekend.
Natalie Raabe, a spokeswoman for the New Yorker, said it was is cancelling its kick-off party that it usually holds at the W Hotel before the Correspondents Dinner. Ms Raabe did not say why they were cancelling their party.
Instead, comedian Samantha Bee and others on the left will be holding an alternative event called “Not the White House Correspondents Dinner” on the same night as the dinner, scheduled for April 29th.
All these moves suggest that Mr Trump’s arrival in Washington is turning off Hollywood and the New York elite, the same people who showed up in droves to see President Obama at the event in the past. They also represent the bubbling tension between news organisations and an administration that has been obviously and outwardly unfriendly to the press.
The dinner itself is hosted annually by the White House Correspondents’ Association under the guise of celebrating press freedoms, to give scholarships to aspiring journalists and to pass out awards to certain reporters.
What the event is really about is an evening of jovial banter between politicians and the media. | 1,820 |
ll end up there.”
“As we ended up here,” Mary said.
“Yes.”
“That doesn’t seem terribly fair,” Ashton said.
“It isn’t,” Lillian said. “Because it always leaves that doubt. Was it us? Was it our goal? Or were we just working toward a finale that was set for us? We’ll never know.”
“We could stop,” Ashton said. “We could carve out a nice little area and protect it from plague and black wood, and we could lead nice, simple lives with the new Lambs. We could have all of our Doctors and scientists work on doing good things without worrying about war.”
“Can you?” Fray asked. “Knowing everything you do? Knowing what is happening in the rest of the world?”
“No,” Lillian said. Mary shook her head.
“No,” the voice said.
Lillian looked me in the eyes.
“The lack of an answer is dangerous. The answer is dangerous in another way.”
“Tell us,” she said. “If you’re speaking for Hayle, then give us the answer.”
I looked at Hayle.
“I’m yours, you’re right. I started with you, you end with me,” the voice said.
“I wonder who you are, then,” Hayle said. “Because I’m not positive you’re Sylvester.”
“I’m not. I’m every monster I’ve ever fought. Every enemy I’ve defeated. I’m Sylvester and I’m not. I’m the Noble that Sylvester will become.”
A frown creased the space between his eyes. “The Noble you describe sounds like a monstrous one.”
“Isn’t it?” the voice asked. “What a mistake you’ve made.”
We stuck a knife between his ribs, and swiftly backed away, bringing the knife with us, so the wound could bleed freely, air escaping his lungs.
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, Article 7, Note 1 reads:
"A player who goes to the ground in the process of attempting to secure possession of a loose ball [with or without contact by an opponent] must maintain control of the ball throughout the process of contacting the ground, whether in the field of play or the end zone. If he loses control of the ball, and the ball touches the ground before he regains control, there is no possession."
While Griffin did regain possession, his initial bobble made the play fundamentally different than a runner who crosses into the end zone without first fumbling. That instance is a touchdown, and anything that happens afterward is moot. Griffin, however, had the added requirement of maintaining possession through "the process of contacting the ground," and as counterintuitive as that might seem, he clearly did not hit that threshold. With a big assist from replay, Triplette landed on the right call according to the rulebook.
Play: The Buffalo Bills are awarded a safety late in the fourth quarter against the Green Bay Packers.
Referee: Bill Leavy
Analysis: Bills defensive end Mario Williams knocked the ball away from Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers at the 3-yard line. The ball bounced back into the end zone, where Packers running back Eddie Lacy picked it up and tried to run with it.
It's not clear if Lacy got the ball out of the end zone before he was tackled, but it was a moot point. The play was the first after the two-minute warning, which triggered an exception to the rules for advancing a fumble.
Rule 8, Section 7, Article 6 states that the offensive team can only advance a fumble after the two-minute warning if it's by the player who fumbled. Otherwise, the ball is dead at either the spot of the fumble or at the spot of the recovery, whichever is further back.
So in this case, Rodgers was the only player who could have advanced the ball out of the end zone and avoided a safety. Leavy was correct to whistle the play dead as soon as Lacy touched it.
The origin of this seemingly random exception is the 1978 "Holy Roller" play, when two Oakland Raiders teammates batted the ball some 24 yards into the end zone after a Kenny Stabler fumble. Raiders tight end Dave Casper fell on it for a touchdown. There was some controversy about whether the Raiders intentionally pushed the ball toward the end zone, but the NFL amended its rules the following year to eliminate the incentive to do so in a potential game-winning situation. | 1,822 |
India has called for restraint and a diplomatic solution in the Ukraine crisis that would accommodate the interests of all ethnic and linguistic groups and take care of the “legitimate concerns” of the neighbouring states.
“We have consistently called for restraint in dealing with the situation in Ukraine and for a negotiated diplomatic solution,” Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh said addressing students and professors at Moscow’s prestigious Diplomatic Academy.
“I hope that a diplomatic solution can be found that will take into account the interests of all sections of Ukrainian society, of all ethnic and linguistic minorities,” she stated.
Ms. Singh said that India knows from its own experience how important it is for inclusive society to accommodate the aspirations of all the minorities.
“Otherwise it’s not going to work; otherwise there’ll always be conflict,” she added.
“So we’re looking to a solution that takes into account the interests of all sections of society and the legitimate concerns of all neighbouring countries,” Ms. Singh said.
The Foreign Secretary has paid a three day visit to Moscow for bilateral Foreign Ministry consultations. Following talks on Wednesday with First Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov and Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov, Ms. Singh told The Hindu that they had given her “detailed briefing” on the situation in Ukraine and expressed the hope and desire for de-escalation of the situation.
Ms. Singh said India did not approve of the West’s policy of isolation and sanctions against Russia.
“You’ve got to talk to Russia, to get an understanding with Russia on what the best course of action is. The only way is through diplomatic dialogue, through consultations and discussions.”
The Foreign Secretary did not think that the current elections in India would lead to a pause in bilateral ties with Russia.
“There is consensus in India on importance of strategic partnership with Russia. You won’t find two views on that and this will continue no matter who wins in the elections.”
Ms. Singh said India and Russia have drawn up a “very intensive agenda for bilateral contacts.”
In its comment on Indo-Russian consultations, the Russian Foreign Ministry said the sides “reaffirmed the special character of Russian-Indian privileged strategic partnership, took note of positive dynamics in implementing key joint projects… and reiterated their intention to coordinate their approaches and positions in the international organisations and in multilateral forums.” | 1,823 |
PEOPLE LOOKING TO delve into their family’s history will be able to access new Irish records online from today.
Employment Affairs and Social Protection Minister, Regina Doherty, TD, and Josepha Madigan, TD, Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht have announced that a further tranche of Ireland’s historical Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths are now available online and free for the public to access.
These records hold the births for 1917 and 1918, marriages from 1864 to 1869, 1942 and 1943 and deaths for 1967 and 1968.
The release is part of an initiative by both departments to provide online access to historical records and registers compiled by the Civil Registration Service.
The records – which were prepared by the Civil Registration Service and uploaded by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht – can be accessed on the website www.irishgenealogy.ie.
The full range of records now available online are:
Birth records from 1864 to 1918
Marriage records from 1864 to 1943
Death records from 1878 to 1968
There is no charge for accessing the records.
Minister Doherty commented:
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“The growth in interest in family histories – helped by programmes such as Who Do You Think You Are and the possibility of digital archiving – has been facilitated by greater and easier online access and today represents another positive development for all genealogical detectives.”
Minister Madigan added: “Since this online service became available in 2016, over 2.1 million visitors to the website have viewed these records. For many people the big question then was when further images would be added to the website.”
The General Register Office is currently working on updating further records of marriages dating back to 1845 and deaths dating back to 1864. These will be available “in due course”, said the ministers. In the meantime, however, the indexes to these particular records are currently available on www.irishgenealogy.ie.
The latest tranche of records include some well known names – like the registered birth of Josef Locke, the acclaimed tenor, born Joseph McLaughlin, in March 1917; the death of the novelist Walter Macken who passed away on 22 April 1967, and the death of poet Patrick Kavanagh. | 1,824 |
Hot tips when buying personalised number plates
Personalised number plates have become the rage these days. With over 374,968 individual private registrations made in 2017, personalised plates are no longer consider status symbol reserved for the super wealthy. Instead, they are viewed as another way to express one’s individuality. If you are contemplating on getting a private plate on your own, we have compiled five tips below that will help you make more informed buying decision.
1. Allocate a budget
The price of a private reg plate ranges from £250 to hundreds of thousands of pounds. Without a budget, you will be like a rabbit in a carrot farm – you will be overwhelmed by the choices available and end up making an impulse purchase that you would end up regretting. As such, spend some thinking about how much you can afford to spend – not how much you WANT to spend. With a budget in place, you will be able quickly ignore permutations that will leave you massively in debt.
2. Filter your choices
Even with a budget, it will still be challenging to choose the perfect plate for yourself. So to make your decision easier, start to narrow down your options. What are you trying to tell the world? Are you looking for a name, a memorable catchphrase, or a numeric sequence? Are you looking for long permutations or short cherished plates? Answer the questions honestly, and your mind will become clearer.
3. Number plate Format
Do you think the current format will be easier to accommodate your preferred permutations? Are age identifiers, or the lack of, important to you? Do you prefer letters in front or at the back? Choosing your preferred format will instantly reduce your options to a manageable level.
4. Where should you buy the private plate?
DVLA’s online auction site offers the biggest range of permutations to choose from, and prices start at a very reasonable £250. However, finding the right one could take days, even weeks, and still you might think there’s something better out there. There might be, but the prices will also be higher, and an element of risk is introduced into the deal – not to mention the dreaded broker’s fee.
5. Documentation
Before making a purchase or transfer, prepare your documentation well in advance. Your log book, identification papers, V750 or V778 certificates, tax disc and MOT are just some of the documents you should have close by to ensure your purchase, and transfer or reassignment goes smoothly. | 1,825 |
When was the last time you remodelled your kitchen? Well, if you haven’t changed anything in your kitchen for the last 10 to 20 years, then it is about time to check on your kitchen. Here are the top benefits of remodelling your kitchen.
It will help you save money down the road.
Lucky for you, the modern market is now loaded with money-saving kitchen upgrades. Switch your old appliances to new ones that have eco-friendly features. Install water-efficient kitchen fixtures and LED lighting. This move could cut your water and power bills and save more money in the long run.
It increases the value of your home.
Kitchen is an essential part of your home. It’s where everyone would prepare their meals. Therefore, giving it an upgrade does not just impress future home buyers but make it more lovable for your family.
It inspires you to cook.
If you are a stay-at-home parent with kids you would realize that the kitchen is the most important part of the house because it is where you prepare your kids’ meals. But admit it cooking is not fun when the kitchen lacks aesthetics.
So why don’t you check out some magazines and get ideas to remodel your kitchen. You can change the color of your tiles, buy new appliances that will help you prepare meals faster, buy a new fridge with an eco-friendly feature, replace your faucet, or install a new cabinet. Giving your old kitchen a fresh new look will definitely inspire you to cook.
It makes your kitchen safer.
Neglecting your kitchen can include a lot of health hazards. Problems like unsafe wiring, slippery flooring and molds build-up may cause mishaps. You can contact a professional remodelling contractor who can help you identify kitchen hazards.
It improves functionality.
Have you ever tried cooking only to find out that you don’t have enough tools you need to finish it? A very old kitchen tends to have non-operational layouts and appliances. So why don’t you improve it a bit. If your budget is tight, remodelling your kitchen can improve its functionality and benefit you in the long term.
Take down the non-load bearing walls. Make your kitchen more spacious. Relocate appliances to better positions for better functionality. Add a center island where you can prepare the ingredients for your recipe, slice vegetables, or even eat just right after cooking. The goal is to have ease of movement and convenience. | 1,826 |
As sirens wail in the background, migrant smugglers push adults and children through a hole beneath a border wall despite an officer's demands on the other side that they return to Mexico.
"Return back!" the agent yells in one of two Customs and Border Protection videos released Tuesday that show how dramatic and dangerous migrant crossings into the U.S. can be when small children are involved.
"Don't do that! Look at the child!" the agent yells in the Dec. 18 video as smugglers push adults and children through the hole under the wall of metal bollards and past a large coil of razor wire at the border in Yuma, Arizona.
"Hey, careful! Careful with the boy!" the agent off-camera cries in alarm as a man crawls out with the first of two small boys alongside the wire.
The videos have come to light amid a surge of migrant families arriving at the border, overwhelming processing and holding centers.
A record number of families crossed into the U.S. in recent months, resulting in the expansion of what President Donald Trump calls "catch and release" — freeing people the system simply can't deal with.
Since Dec. 21, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has freed more than 125,000 people into the U.S. who came into the country as families.
In the other newly released video, several small children cry as smugglers try to help adults and children get through a hole in a border fence that passes through a water-filled channel. The Dec. 22 video was taken in the same general area as the other one and is a bit more difficult to follow.
Text included with the video says Mexican authorities responded in the second instance and were able to stop the smuggling attempt that saw the children being carried through the water.
It says one woman who was encouraged to return to her family on the Mexico side stayed in the U.S. and surrendered to Border Patrol agents.
Nonprofit groups working with migrant families now crossing the border say many are fleeing violence back home, especially in Guatemala and other parts of Central America.
"To take your child through the experience of walking long distances, of being hungry, of being cold, of being in danger, you are risking everything," said Connie Phillips, president of Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest in Phoenix. "And to be at a point where you are that hopeless, I just don't think I can in my lifetime understand that."
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AP video journalist Brian Skoloff contributed to this report from Phoenix. | 1,827 |
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By utilizing a Lansinoh pump, one can pump out however much milk as could be expected inside an extremely brief timeframe. The jugs accommodated capacity are as acceptable and safeguard the milk for longer occasions. This milk can never freeze whenever or spill since the containers can keep up balance in any event, when toppled over. With the brushes gave, cleaning is made simpler. The main impediment of the Lansinoh manual breast pump, 1-tally is that its silicon top is extremely hard to dry subsequently; one might be obliged to get another for trading.
To makes its utilization productive, before utilizing the pump, mellow your areolas before beginning to pump. Milder areolas make pumping all the more simple. Gradually decrease the pumping speed when wrapping up. Additionally, wipe the areolas with a warm towel after you have ‘pumped the milk. While pumping, it’s fitting that you keep up an upstanding stance to make the breasts progressively ready to discharge milk. At long last, ensure that you drink a ton of water to stay hydrated and ready to create more milk. The Lansinoh manual breast pump, 1-include can be bought in the majority of the stores, online markets and furthermore in scientific experts for a sum not surpassing 30 dollars. | 1,828 |
crowded but as our offense evolves, there is always room for playmakers. Washington is definitely one of them. Washington is only a Junior and has not stated if he'll return to OKSU for his senior season. I'll be keeping an eye on Washington as the season progresses.
3rd round - Dan Skipper - T - Arkansas
Height: 6'10" Weight: 331
Games watched: Texas A&M vs Arkansas, 2015
You know how the Seahawks love length in their linemen? You can't get more length than 6'10", Dan Skipper. Skipper has been a part of the Hog offensive line at Arkansas previously opening holes for current Running Back, Alex Collins and the same line that is among the nation's best at sacks allowed. As big as Skipper is, he carries the weight extremely well. He gets to the second level very well, walling off defenders away from the run. While he's currently the Left Tackle at Arkansas, I see him more of a Right Tackle in the NFL. Can you imagine having Ifedi and Skipper on the Right side? You can just get behind that wall all day. Skipper also presents special teams value as he has blocked 7 field goals in his collegiate career.
Strengths: Excellent size and frame. Very strong at the point of attack with excellent hand punch power. Excellent pad level on run sets and is an absolute mauler in down blocks, combo blocks and double teams. Very good awareness, knows when to peel off double teams to tend to a delayed pass rusher. Shows very good athleticism by getting to the second level, enveloping linebackers and walling defenders away from the run. A three-year starter at Arkansas and currently on all preseason watch lists for OL recognition. Faced pro-level competition during collegiate career against SEC opponents. Weaknesses: Pops straight up on pass sets and will struggle against quick, edge rushers or power rushers that are able to get under his pads. Lateral agility will need improvement as he struggles to recover when beat off the edge.
Skipper is fun to watch. He brings that nastiness that Cable looks for in lineman. Skipper may be a mid round steal.
Other Potential Targets Montravius Adams, Auburn, DT Fabian Moreau, UCLA, CB
I know, it's early in the season and I'm sure this list will change along the way. What's some of your favorites?
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(Reuters) - Spotify Technology SA SPOT.N posted a surprise profit and beat Wall Street expectations for third-quarter revenue as the music streaming company added more-than-expected subscribers to its premium service, sending its shares up 12%.
The Swedish company, which has outstripped Apple Music AAPL.O in the race to dominate music streaming globally, said its number of premium subscribers had risen by 26 million in the past year to 113 million at the end of September.
“The fact that it’s delivering growth against an increasingly competitive backdrop is particularly impressive - especially when that competition is Amazon and Apple,” said Hargreaves Lansdown analyst Nicholas Hyett.
Spotify said in a letter to shareholders it was adding roughly twice as many subscribers per month as Apple.
However, lower-than-expected addition of new subscribers in the second quarter had led to concerns that rivals might be gaining on Spotify, particularly in countries where Spotify faces home-grown competitors.
“Investors were concerned that competition within the streaming music market was beginning to impact Spotify,” Atlantic Equities analyst James Cordwell said. “But the Q3 results seems to put this concern to rest.”
Spotify said it had also reduced artist marketing and research and development costs in the quarter, contributing to the surprise profit.
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Spotify, which launched its service over a decade ago, has overcome resistance from large record labels and some major music artists to reshape how people listen to music.
The world’s most popular music streaming service forecast fourth-quarter total premium subscribers of 120 million to 125 million, largely in line with analysts’ expectations of 122.6 million.
The company expects its broader measure of monthly average users to grow to between 255 million and 270 million in the current quarter.
Net income attributable to shareholders rose to 241 million euros, or 36 cents per share, for the third quarter, compared with 43 million euros, or 23 cents per share, a year earlier. Analysts were expecting a loss of 29 cents per share.
Revenue rose 28% to 1.73 billion euros ($1.92 billion) for the three months ended Sept. 30. Analysts were expecting revenue of 1.72 billion euros.
Spotify said Chief Financial Officer Barry McCarthy would retire in January and be replaced by Paul Vogel, the current vice president of financial planning and analysis. McCarthy will rejoin the board of directors after he steps down. | 1,830 |
cases of regional or national importance, has convened only six times since it was formed in 1978, and only once in its history has it deemed conservation to be less important than the competing interests. The ESC, which critics call the “God Squad,” is expected to make its decisions on the reasonably simple principle that the benefits of any permitted behavior must exceed the benefits of conservation. It would seem that crises such as this one were precisely the reason that rueful lawmakers created the ESC — that now would be the time for a body that exists solely to ensure that environmentalism doesn’t get out of hand. But precedent, alas, is not on Californians’ side.
Inexplicably and inappropriately, it is on this question that President Obama has found his inner federalist. Obama has repeatedly implied that this is an issue for California to resolve on its own, even as he has threatened to veto any changes to the Endangered Species Act, which trumps state law and takes the immediate question out of the hands of local legislators. Nor are Californians likely to get much help from their homegrown power players. Nancy Pelosi is an outspoken environmentalist and, hailing from the Delta area herself, was involved in the original federal power grab in the early 1990s. Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein have both expressed regret, but they are unwilling to countenance changing the smelt’s protected status. Oddly, Governor Jerry Brown has been the most useful of all the Democrats. But without a federal initiative there is little he can really do, and his welcome proposal to build a series of underground tunnels that would bypass the smelt completely would take 15 years to be completed even if it were to be started tomorrow.
And so nothing happens. Each year, farmers sit and wait — praying for rain, and hoping that the federal government will send them a few drops of water so that they do not have to leave perfectly good land fallow and tell their employees that this month there will be no work. Of all our present troubles, California’s farming woes are perhaps the most inexplicably sourced and the most easily fixed. Complacently convinced of their infallibility, legislators in the nation’s richest state have prostrated themselves at the feet of many silly ideas in recent years. But for authorities to have put the livelihood of millions of citizens at the mercy of a tiny little fish is almost too much to bear.
— Charles C. W. Cooke is a staff writer at National Review. This article was adapted from the January 27 issue of National Review. | 1,831 |
From Friday to Sunday evening it was time to hack at ETHBerlin in the magnificent Factory in Görlitzer Park. We fell in love with the building with its various spaces to hide and hack away into the night. We have attended our fair share of hackathons but ETHBerlin was one of our favorites ones not only the location, the food and drinks were top notch we also have to tip our hats to the organizers.
Building You. the decentralized password manager
A lot of time was spent on the plane during conferences and meals discussing what we should build at ETHBerlin. After one or the other argument we settled on building a decentralized password manager.
You. is a password manager leveraging decentralized storage and messaging that authenticates Web 2 and Web 3 logins with your mobile device.
Passwords are fine.. what is the problem anyways?
Single Sign On is not supported by all websites
Centralized password management means single point of failure
Having to enter master passwords all the time is cumbersome
Soo.. what solution do you propose then?
A seamless login experience by leveraging human friendly security technologies for logins with minimal disruptive interaction by using biometric authentication like fingerprint to unlock the secure enclave of a mobile device accessing the stored passwords.
Using 3Box’s persistent storage and messaging for a resilient and distributed setup. No more backups needed, everything is distributed and persisted, recovery only requires an Ethereum account.
But.. how does it work?
With your browser on your notebook you visit a website where you store your password with You. The browser extensions recognises the login field of the website and sends a push notification to your mobile device. On your mobile device you open the push notification and confirm the login. Voilà the browser extension logs you in.
We will have a more detailed write-up shortly, meanwhile you can get more information on devpost.
We won…?
We were not only able to amaze ourselves by how seamless the approach and login experience was. But also the 3Box team by using their 3Box storage and messaging solution as well as the Consensys Grants team.
The cherry on top and unexpected for us (also displayed in our chaotic presentation on stage) was winning the ETHBerlin open track where the jury selected 10 out of 90 applications and rewarding the winners with 6'000 Euro each.
🏆 3Box Storage Bounty
🏆 Consensys Grants Security Bounty
🏆 ETHBerlin Open Track | 1,832 |
e on anything, it would be on meta engines,” Rayner said. “Many users searching for products have already pivoted to searching on Amazon rather than on Google, and they could eventually do the same for air, and possibly for other supply types too.”
Skift has written about the superapp trend in a deep dive, Google Is Ready to Transform the World of Superapps. This development finds transportation and food delivery companies, particularly in China and Southeast Asia, developing apps that customers can use multiple times a day for everything from ridesharing to hotel-booking, and electronics purchases. WeChat and Meituan in China, as well as Grab in Southeast Asia, are superapp candidates.
Google Maps, which just consolidated flights, lodging and vacation packages in a one-stop-shop play, is leaning toward such comprehensiveness despite the limitations of user habits, and having maps as the foundational service.
Still, Amazon, which specializes in commodities from books to electronics and now to domestic flight bookings in India, can leverage such services to further a superapp strategy.
In addition, Amazon is building an advertising business that could potentially be a way for travel advertisers to build up an advertising competitor as a hedge against Google and Facebook.
Skift Research recently examined the Amazon factor in travel in a report, Amazon: Lessons, Threats and Opportunities for Travel. The report cites lessons for travel companies that can be taken away from the Amazon business model, and investigates varying ways that Amazon could gain traction in travel. These scenarios include an Amazon online travel agency or metasearch engine, direct marketing through its growing advertising business or voice search, or expanding the reach of its smart devices, which already sit inside an ample number of hotel rooms.
Build or Buy
To be sure, Amazon’s launch of domestic Indian flights in partnership with Cleartrip is a modest — if important for its implications — effort.
Given Amazon’s stilted try at building a hotel business from scratch, some would argue that an acquisition of a major travel company, such as Expedia or TripAdvisor, for example, might be the way to go. Amazon had $23 billion in free cash flow for the trailing 12 months at the end of the first quarter, so buying either company would be affordable.
Buying, which always has risks, would be so much easier than building flights, lodging, cars, cruise, and tours piece by piece.
The global travel puzzle just got a little more complex and interesting. | 1,833 |
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Updated: Jan 19, 2019 23:41 IST
An approaching western disturbance is likely to kill the early morning chill that Delhi had been experiencing over the past few days.
While the nights are expected to get warmer by at least five degrees, the day time temperature is expected to drop
equally over the next three days, officials at the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Saturday.
“We are also expecting some rain on January 22 (Tuesday) in Delhi. A western disturbance is approaching and it is likely to form an induced cyclonic circulation over NCR. This is going to trigger rainfall not just in Delhi but across the plains of northwest India,” said Kuldeep Srivastava, head of the regional weather forecasting centre in New Delhi.
On Saturday, the night temperature was 5.7 degrees Celsius, which is one degree below normal.
The day temperature shot up to 25.6 degrees Celsius, which was at least six degrees above normal.
Earlier this week, the night temperature had dropped to 4.2 degrees Celsius resulting in near cold wave conditions.
The IMD has, however, forecast that the night temperature is expected to shoot up to 11 degrees Celsius by January 22.
The day temperature will, however, drop to less than 20 degrees at the same time.
“When the sky remains clear, the day temperature shoots up and the night temperature drops. The opposite happens when clouds come in. The induced cyclonic circulation which is expected to form when the western disturbance approaches closer will help to form clouds,” said Srivastava,
Even though the IMD had forecast that winter would be warmer than normal this time, Delhi encountered the coldest December in 13 years this time.
In January, however, the nights have been warmer than December.
The air quality in the national capital, however, continued to remain in the ‘very poor’ category.
While the air quality index (AqI) was 397 on Friday, it improved marginally on Saturday and stood at 378.
“The AQI is expected to remain in the very poor zone over the next three days. The improvement would be marginal. It is because even though strong winds, which are favourable for dispersal of pollutants, would be blowing, the high moisture content in the air, because of the approaching western disturbance, will help trap pollutants,” said a scientist from Safar, the pollution forecasting wing of the Union government. | 1,834 |
Story highlights Boy was transferred to Fargo for further treatment, mayor says
"As far as I know, he's a well-behaved, good kid," mayor says
Town is trying "to figure out what could have possibly happened," mayor adds
Boy was coherent after he shot himself with a small handgun, principal says
A North Dakota freshman walked in front of his class, made an apology and then shot himself with a handgun Thursday morning, Richland County authorities said.
The injured boy was coherent when he was taken to a hospital, said Principal Jay Townsend of Fairmount Public School, which has 112 students from kindergarten through 12th grade.
Authorities don't know what the apology was about, Sheriff Larry Leshovsky said.
The student wasn't in any kind of trouble that the principal was aware of.
The freshman, whose name wasn't being released, has lived in the small, rural community of 380 residents his entire life and has spent all educational years at Fairmount School, Mayor Jon Nelk said.
The student was transferred to a hospital in Fargo, but the mayor had no further details.
The student's grandparents grew up in the Fairmount area and his parents have lived in town their entire lives, Nelk said.
"As far as I know, he's a well-behaved, good kid," the mayor said. "We're a rural area, but guns are not commonplace."
The shooting was "an isolated incident" for the town, Nelk said.
"I'm sure when we sit down this evening and start playing it back, we'll try to figure out what could have possibly happened and why this happened," Nelk said. "It's a very tight community.
"I've had a lot of conversations with parents and some students. They're quite worried and hoping that our prayers go out to the child and the family and the friends," the mayor said.
A teacher provided first-aid to the boy, and the school went into lockdown shortly after the 8:40 a.m. shooting, Townsend said.
An alert system called all parents, and school was canceled for the day, Townsend said.
School will resume Friday, when counselors will be on hand, the principal said.
"This has never happened here before," said Townsend, who has been principal of the school for five years. "This kind of situation is very rare and new to North Dakota, the community, our school and the students." | 1,835 |
NEW YORK – For the first time since the final game of the 2015 regular season, Frank Lampard stepped on the field for New York City FC.
When the second-half substitute took the field on Saturday afternoon in a 7-0 New York Derby demolition suffered at the hands of the New York Red Bulls, he did so to a chorus of boos from the home fans at Yankee Stadium.
“I don’t think the fans are aware of the injury I had,” Lampard said afterward. “If I’m getting booed for being injured, then there’s not much I can do about that.”
Lampard said coming on for Andrea Pirlo in the 75th minute with NYCFC down 5-0 was far from ideal, but it was good to get back onto the field after several months of rehabilitation from what he described as a “nasty” calf injury.
“The only plus for me is that I feel physically very good,” he said. “It’s been a difficult injury. To feel good, to feel 100 percent and to come on and play a part was good for me personally, but obviously it was a very bad day for us.”
Lampard, 37, has received criticism from fans since his delayed start with NYCFC and through an injury-plagued first season that saw him limited to just 10 appearances.
He said the calf injury he picked up in preseason was originally diagnosed differently, and ended up needing a longer recovery period than planned.
“I had a nasty injury which was an 8-10 week injury. In the beginning doctors thought it was a small injury and it didn’t turn out to be that,” Lampard said. “I’ve been training morning and afternoon to get fit. People don’t see that. So if they’re going to boo for being injured, as I say there’s not much I can do [other] than get fit, play and show what I can do on the pitch.”
That includes, Lampard said, helping provide leadership to a squad humbled by one of the worst losses in MLS history.
“These things can be forgotten,” he said. “But it’s up to us to make sure it’s forgotten. That’s the desire on the training grounds to go back to basics and work hard.” | 1,836 |
Captain America confirmed death. It’s pretty crazy that they compiled all this footage for one 2 minute trailer. Meaning that it literally took all of these movies to make Fat Thor drink Dilly Dilly t-shirt worthwhile. I’m glad a lot of these characters aren’t coming back. They have done well, but we’re playing a dangerous game, expecting that life will always be so forgiving.
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EY MARVEL, stop releasing short clips already. Theres like 20 of them now, I know they might have the same scenes but sometimes they show somthing diffrent. I want it to be fresh not old like a banana that’s yellow on the outside and brown on the inside.I knew the last scene of this trailer was going to lead to a showdown of epic proportions with Thanos just sitting there.and boy I was sure not disappointed. This trailer makes so much more sense after watching the movie.what a great sendoff to this iteration of the Avengers.
A trailer of the foreshadowing of Iron Man’s warning to Loki in Avengers. “If we can’t save the world, we’ll avenge it.” This trailer gave me chills. It’s probably my favorite End Game trailer so far. Forgiveness is a quality, one of unique that make us human, entertainment, loyalty, self control. More feeling is very useful and full of good thought.In my experience, the more trailers/more footage shown. The less likely that it’s a good movie. They’re trying to hard to convince people to come.Prove me wrong, Russo Brothers. Prove me wrong. But you send a letter to fans not to spoil your movie while you cannot visit a website without a clip of it playing.
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Tony said to Banner in Avengers Infinity war that the Avengers doesn’t exist anymore. So why in Spiderman homecoming he buy another Fat Thor drink Dilly Dilly t-shirt for the Avengers. I mean, Spiderman is before Infinity war. Marvel cinematic gives an inspired inspiration and they love this movie and they love the move. But also i like the producer of marvel stan lee who makes marvel for years now. And i am the fan of marvel i love marvel and also the superheroes so much. | 1,837 |
StartingAllOver or Truth. Unfortunately, their draft was a little unconventional than a standard draft with SAO on crystal Lyra. I’m sure Starting is good with Lyra, but when you are up against the best, you need to play your best. They fall to TSM and move to the fifth position, down one from the week before.
6 — Vision (1-2)
Vision Gaming finds themselves with their first victory after week two. They were able to take down Hammers on Sunday to avoid last place. Vision is a team that has some promise behind players PvPWarrior and LightningT. They also have the potential to fight for a top five position once the team starts forming some synergy. While their win over Hammers gives them the sixth position, we will have to see how they perform against Tilt Rehab, who sits right behind them at 0-3.
7 — Tilt Rehab (0-3)
A team that has been oh so close to victory came up short in their week two matchup. Only having one game against the hot Slimy Salamanders on Sunday, Tilt was able to do some film and observe Slimy play on Saturday. Even with this on their side, Tilt fell after a late game team fight that ended in the favor of Iraqi on a terrifying crystal Samuel. They won the game in kills, but couldn’t quite finish the important objectives. Tilt is still a team on people’s radars that can easily jump up to spot three or four by the end of the preseason. They drop a spot down to seventh.
8 — Hammers (0-3)
Hammers will continue to look for their first win after losing a tough matchup against Vision. If Hammers was going to take anyone down, this was probably their best chance. The team is still new together, and this preseason will be a great time for them to figure out what works. Not much changes as they stay at the bottom of the rankings.
Week three will give us some notable matchups and possible upsets. We’ll see Slimy have a bigger challenge on Sunday when they face TSM. Tilt Rehab will have a tough matchup against Tribe and will be looking to avoid a 0-4 position. We won’t see TSM and Tribe face-off yet, so it seems that they will be staying at the first and second spot, respectively, unless an upset occurs. All NA action starts Saturday, April 28th at 12PM PDT on the official Twitch channel! | 1,838 |
Rudy Giuliani made some pretty horrific comments yesterday that sort of went under the radar, given all the other insane stuff the lawyer said on his whirlwind tour of Tel Aviv.
Giuliani said he doesn’t “respect” Stormy Daniels, the porn star Trump claims he definitely didn’t have an affair with. Rudy, the thrice married former mayor, who once had sex with his cousin for 14 years straight, went on to say that Stormy Daniels can’t be “damaged” because she has “no reputation.”
CNN’s New Day responded to that hypocrisy on Thursday morning, also pointing out that Giuliani’s client Donald Trump is not exactly a paragon of virtue.
CNN political analyst Kristen Powers called Giuliani a “dinosaur,” noting his comments are “the way people used to talk about women” who were porn stars or prostitutes. “It’s so antiquated and outdated. It was unacceptable then, it’s unacceptable now.”
“Rudy Giuliani’s got a glass houses issue here,” CNN host John Berman said.
“He and the person that he represents both have some serious issues,” Powers agreed. “So for somebody like Rudy Guiliani, who famously openly cheated on his wife and then she found out she was getting divorced in a press conference, just doesn’t really seem like he is in a position to be the moral arbiter of anything.”
“But nobody should be doing this,” Powers added.
Alisyn Camerota pointed out that if Giuliani thinks porn stars “desecrate women” he should have some opinions about the credibility of his own client, who is alleged to have had sex with a porn star without using protection.
Powers added that “women are the ones who are demonized” while “Donald Trump proudly hung out at the Playboy Mansion.”
“I would also say in the broad category of desecrating women, bragging about grabbing women by their genitals may fall into that category,” Berman added. “The multiple accusations of sexual misconduct might fall into that category as well.”
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Kevin Magnussen believes eighth place was the most Haas could achieve during Sunday’s Russian Grand Prix as the team chipped away at the points gap to Renault in the Formula 1 constructors’ championship.
Magnussen led the midfield cars in qualifying on Saturday, securing P5 on the grid, but was passed by Sauber’s Charles Leclerc in the opening stages before losing positions to the recovering Red Bull drivers.
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The Dane was tailed by both Force India drivers for much of the race, but managed to stay ahead to cross the line eighth, which he believed was the most Haas could have hoped for in Russia.
“It was a tough race. We didn’t quite have enough pace – we were lacking a bit – so I found myself defending from the Force Indias, basically from lap one,” Magnussen said.
“I think we got all that we could. Leclerc was way too fast for us. He just overtook and pulled away easily. So, I think keeping the Force Indias behind was the maximum we could do.
“The pace we had yesterday in qualifying was better than the pace we had in the race today.
“I’m looking forward to Suzuka now. I think we’ll be strong there, and it’s also just a phenomenal track to drive. I think we’re all looking forward to that.”
With Romain Grosjean finishing outside of the scoring positions in P11, Magnussen’s result saw Haas pick up four points in Russia, cutting the gap to Renault in the fight for P4 in the constructors’ championship down to 11 points with five races remaining.
“Again, we score points. We keep on adding to our account,” team boss Guenther Steiner said. “Both drivers did a very good job today. We almost finished in the same positions where we started, counting out the two Red Bulls, who we knew would be coming through the field.
“With nobody going out ahead of us at the front, that’s the best we can finish, or almost the best. Leclerc did a great job, as well.
“Overall, it’s been a good weekend. We’re always thereabouts to score points, and we did today.” | 1,840 |
The voice acting itself is uneven. Taken in isolation, the voice performances can sound stilted at times, perhaps because English is not the first language for some of the actors. But the motion-capture work and facial animations are expressive, detailed and impressively emotive. The music and sounds, too, are incredibly important in creating the chilling sense of dread and foreboding that is Heavy Rain’s stock in trade.
Image An F.B.I profiler, left, and Ethan Mars, a father, in Heavy Rain. Credit... Sony Computer Entertainment Sony Computer Entertainment
The overall presentation draws heavily, even reverentially, from the visual and storytelling vernacular of film. Mr. Cage has clearly gleaned from movies like “Rear Window,” “Eyes Wide Shut” and “Blue Velvet” that a major part of creating intimacy lies in cinematography. Many third-person games (where you see your character on screen rather than inhabiting it from a first-person perspective) are shot from a sort of top-down angle. That view gives the player a more tactical sense of the environment but often does not create a strong sense of immediacy.
Most of Heavy Rain, by contrast, is portrayed from virtual cameras at ground level, at the same height as the characters or even below them. As in most films, you can never quite see an entire room at once, and so you are never quite sure in what direction the action will unfold. And as in films, there are a lot of moving-camera shots from behind in which the player is never quite sure whether the camera is supposed to represent someone skulking or stalking.
There are even moments when the game just lets you rest, as when Ethan sits hunched and morose on the balcony of his seedy motel room, staring off into the rain, conflict and pain drawn all over his body.
In its exploration of the psychology of the sociopath, Heavy Rain owes more than a bit to novelists like Thomas Harris (“The Silence of the Lambs” and “Hannibal”). Perhaps the most interesting element of the story is that the emotional weight of Heavy Rain is almost entirely bound up in Ethan’s sense of responsibility for his sons. For the player, the game hangs on your concern for children. Within Heavy Rain’s considerably bleak landscape, there is even a moving scene in which all you do is change an infant’s diaper, feed her and put her to bed. | 1,841 |
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CHICAGO – A former Northwestern University professor charged in the murder of his boyfriend was rebuffed by a judge after asking to be released from jail so his research skills can be used to battle COVID-19.
Wyndham Lathem asked last week to be freed on $1 million bail from Cook County Jail, which has one of the nation’s most aggressive outbreaks of coronavirus. In addition to his research skills, Lathem cited health issues that put him at greater risk if he contracts COVID-19.
The Chicago Sun-Times, citing court records Monday, reported that in an emergency hearing conducted via teleconference, Judge Charles Burns denied Lathem bail Friday.
The microbiologist gained renown for his research on the bubonic plague.
“With his background and experience, Dr. Lathem is well-suited to advise and participate in studies that are aimed at understanding SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic,” William Goldman, chair of microbiology and immunology at the University of North Carolina, wrote in an email appended to Lathem’s motion. “It would make sense to take advantage of as many experts as possible during this worldwide crisis that is rapidly expanding in scope.”
Lathem is accused in the stabbing death of Trenton Cornell-Duranleau in 2017. Oxford University employee Andrew Warren pleaded guilty of being an accomplice last year in a deal that calls for him to testify against Lathem, who pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Lathem, 45, has been held in Cook County Jail without bail since his arrest, and he lost his position as a professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
Attorney Adam Sheppard said Monday that Lathem was disappointed by the ruling and that his client reported mild symptoms of COVID-19 on Friday.
The Cook County Sheriff’s Office reported that more than 300 detainees have tested positive for COVID-19. Two detainees died of complications related to the coronavirus. The cause of death of a third detainee diagnosed with COVID-19 was tentatively attributed to cardiac arrest.
“We are deeply concerned about his health,” Sheppard said. “He had been hopeful that he might get out (on bond), but he was not overly optimistic.”
Sheppard said nursing staff at the jail informally asked Lathem for advice on containing the outbreak. | 1,842 |
, a hub’s ‘stock’ also fluctuates according to the quality of traffic that it routes and initiatives that it proposes or backs. Furthermore, that something is routed by a ‘strong’ source does not necessarily make it ‘catch on’; for every successful initiative there are hundreds that do not ‘take off’. At the same time, one of the things that makes a source strong is the fact that it can draw attention to smaller, less connected nodes, and thus contribute to increasing their visibility and connectivity. Finally, the more connected and excitable the ‘machine-body’of a networked movement – that is, at peak moments in the mobilisation of bodies, affects and virtual connections – the likelier it is for traffic from less connected nodes to be picked up, the quicker and easier the movement from weak to strong ties that an initiative requires to be made effective, and the faster can traffic be rerouted in general.
Thus, however counter-intuitive, we could speak of a ‘vanguard’ of these movements, if we understand it as an immanent vanguard, endowed with a power of immanent command. Its capacity to ‘lead’ has to be proven each time, or rather, its status fluctuates much more rapidly. It is only a vanguard to the extent that it ‘works’ – and when it does not, it does not, maybe even in ways that will damage its power to ‘work’ in the future. t is a cause that inheres in its effects. Now, it could be argued that this was the only sense in which vanguards ever actually existed historically. But to make this point is tantamount to suggesting that there is no objective ballast to vanguard status – the identification of one having long been the chimera of different strains of Marxism – beyond the effectiveness of its (temporary, localisable, though potentially much wider than its initial context) ‘leadership’.
Rodrigo Nunes < rgnunes AT kein.org > is a PNPD/CAPES post-doctoral researcher in philosophy at PUCRS, Brazil, where he leads the research group Materialismos (http://materialismos.wordpress.com). Ontological day job notwithstanding, he remains involved in different political initiatives, and a member of the Turbulence collective (www.turbulence.org.uk). He occasionally blogs at http://orangoquango.wordpress.com
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. “They have warned that our entire family will be wiped out one at a time. We need protection.” Seeking a CBI inquiry into their father’s death, the brothers say they don’t believe a police probe will do justice.Tausif and Tanveer are now planning to petition the High Court, seeking transfer of investigation into their father's murder case from the Bangalore police to the CBI. “We will not give up. We will tread our father's path and fight for justice,” they added.When contacted, K G Halli police inspector T Srinivas, refuted the allegations against him, terming them ‘false’. “No police officer will ever turn down the family member of a murder victim so heavily if they call seeking help. I was with an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) squad, investigating a murder reported in Banaswadi jurisdiction when the boys called. I immediately alerted ourstaff, who rushed to the spot and also went to Ambedkar Medical College where Yousuf was shifted. Since the residence of the murder victim comes under my jurisdiction, I sent sub-inspector Shiva Kumar to their house to provide protection to the other family members,” he said.Kaleem Pasha told Bangalore Mirror the family was merely “simmering in anger following the death of their loved one”. “In their state of mind, anyone is liable to be accused, including me. The police are investigating the case and a detailed probe will reveal who the real suspects are. I am an educated person and would never intervene in controversial matters. Being the husband of the local corporator, I was asked to attend a peace committee meeting and I advised the family to settle the issue amicably with their neighbours. There have been numerous petitions filed against me by Yousuf Bin Ahmed and his family and I was even called for questioning by the jurisdictional DCP, but I have told them my version.”First complaint against the mosque and construction activity given to K G Halli police station.Complaint to police commissioner.Subsequently, regular complaints to Assistant Commissioner of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Joint Commissioner of Police.Complaint filed first car was burnt.Second car torched.Final complaint in the form of a booklet, containing photographic evidence, to Chief Minister, Home Minister, DG & IGP, Police Commissioner, SHRC. Yousuf had clearly expressed fear about threat to his life from the corporator’s husband, Kaleem Pasha, and others. | 1,844 |
�s only one function out of thousands!”
Well, yes, but many functions in PHP suffer from similar problems (and some, such as proc_open(), are even worse).
I chose to highlight a single example in depth, rather than list a large list of things.
Conclusion
PHP has made some decent progress in the area of language features, but I believe the largest problem always has been – and continues to be – the lack of quality in the standard library. I’ve used fopen() as a single example here, but I could have used many others.
The lack of good errors is a common problem, not only with fopen(). Other problems include standard library functions missing features, leaving you to re-implement them yourself (this is why PHP frameworks are so popular, they attempt to fix much of the standard library).
All of this makes that PHP is unsuitable for reliable and robust systems programming, or, indeed, for any sort of programming at all. Often, the counterparts in C are actually better, and if C has features that your ‘high-level’ programming language does not have, then I think you’re probably doing something wrong.
“This is not PHP’s target environment” is a bit of a weak excuse for not doing things correct. It’s not a whole lot more effect, so why not do it. Besides, a lot of these issues affect web programming too.
Can it be fixed? Maybe. But changing public APIs is difficult. There is a lot of code that assumes the existing API, and if you break too much, It doesn’t matter how much better you make it, any people will stick to the old version rather than use the new version (see: Python 3, Perl 6).
Perhaps we shouldn’t fix PHP. There are plenty of alternatives available with a similar feature-set. Why do we need PHP? If you ask me, investing time in PHP is a sunk-cost fallacy.
Footnotes This is an even bigger problem with include() and friends, where these wrappers also work. include($malicious_input) will “upgrade” an information disclosure bug (which is already serious) to a remote code exploit. Botnet operators of the world rejoice! Thankfully, this behaviour is now off by default, but it took the PHP folk a while to realize this was even a problem since allow_url_include wasn’t introduced until 2006. | 1,845 |
Hawl — fighters grew nervous when a skinny Arab man arrived on a motorcycle wearing an oversized black coat. One rushed over to open it, fearing that the man might be wearing a suicide vest underneath, before letting him pass. In the bed of a Toyota pickup, YPG specialists had stacked the IEDs they uncovered that day, dozens of what appeared to be mass-produced explosives in the shape of landmines. One said the area was “full” of the devices, adding: “If we told you how many we found you’d be shocked.” Further down the road, YPG soldiers stared out from a hilltop at a tree line a half-mile away, where they said ISIS militants had retreated and dug in. “We are pushing them back,” said Mohamed Aref, 25. Taking al-Shaddadi would help to clear the way for an offensive on Raqqa, YPG fighters said. From there the SDF could advance from the east while its comrades dug-in 30 miles north of the city, in the town of Ayn Issa, opened up a second front. It's unclear if the SDF would be able to coordinate such an offensive with rebel factions elsewhere in the country. Analysts tracking the conflict said a true push to take Raqqa still seemed a long way off. “The medium-term American strategy is to promote internal Arab uprisings that will displace ISIS, and prevent it from returning, utilizing the Kurdish-led, multiethnic Syrian Democratic Forces coalition to hammer ISIS and weaken it,” said Nicholas Heras, a Middle East expert at the Center for a New American Security. Col. Patrick Ryder, a spokesperson for the U.S. Central Command, said the early results in Hasakah were encouraging but stressed that “there is still much work to do.”
"Maybe Syrians have more drive to liberate their own land, but America has its own plan."
“A central aspect of the Coalition military campaign to defeat ISIL has been to support and enable indigenous anti-ISIL ground forces in Iraq and Syria through Coalition airstrikes and building partner capacity," he said. "The SDF's successful offensive to liberate al-Hawl is a good example of the effectiveness of this approach. This now puts the SDF in position to continue their offensive on to al-Shaddadi and Raqqa. These successes by the SDF continue to limit ISIL’s freedom of movement, constrain its ability to reinforce its fighters, and degrades ISIL's command and control capability.” | 1,846 |
How Do You Take Green Malay Kratom?
There is a method called “toss and wash,” that certain Kratom users have adopted. It’s spoon-feeding the Green Malaysian into your mouth and washing it down with water or some other fluid. This approach is said to be the most effective and longer-lasting.
You can also mix the powder into tea or coffee if you don’t like the taste of it alone.
Green Malay Kratom Correct Dosage
As it is a very highly concentrated product, the effects are so strong that a small quantity can be very healthy.
1 gram of dosage is the least amount that has the potential to affect the user.
Medium dosage can be strongly beneficial to observe the effects as mentioned above and ranges between 3 and 6 grams.
10 grams of dosage is considered to be high, and that is going to give you some very positive results.
You must always remember that small dosages of kratom assists in the enhancement of energy and soothing effects can avail by increasing the dosage.
How Does It Different From Other Strains?
The reason it has gained the title super is because of its leaf size, which in turn produces more Alkaloid properties giving off a stronger potency.
While it is a stronger dose, the taste of it is surprisingly not bad. Many customers have said that this strain isn’t as bitter as Bali or Maeng Da.
Are There Side Effects & Is It A Safe Strain?
It has never been linked to any adverse side effects. If you do take too much, however, you could experience the following:
Dizziness.
Vomiting.
Profuse sweating.
Trembling.
Loss of appetite.
Blurry vision.
Slurred speech.
Headaches.
When it comes to Kratom, Green Malay kratom is as safe as any that is out there. It has double the Alkaloid count found in others and produces incredible benefits. If you take green Malay kratom at the proper dose amount, you will experience a more relaxing and rewarding life, that is free of stress and more energizing.
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No Paul McCartney will not be headlining Glastonbury 2019 as he announces Vegas gig on Glasto weekend…
Paul McCartney has just added a Las Vegas date to his Freshen Up Tour, and by doing so ruling himself out as one of the biggest artists rumoured for Glastonbury 2019.
Macca revealed the news earlier today (15th January) via his social media platforms, announcing that he will be performing at the Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix on June 26, before heading to Las Vegas’ T Mobile Arena on June 29. (see below):
The Glasto rumour started earlier last year (June 20), the legendary Beatle went on Jo Whiley’s BBC Radio 2 show to discuss his new upcoming album ‘Egypt Station’, while also talking about the chances of him playing the festival when it returns in 2019.
Whiley alluded to the fact that both of McCartney’s daughters launched a campaign to get the former Beatle to headline Glastonbury, and was eager to know where things stand at the moment.
Macca went on to admit his daughters did indeed say to him: “Dad, you gotta’ do it, you gotta’ do it” and that apart from that, he hasn’t really spoken to anyone about it, and “it has been a while” since he did it.
Whiley went one step further and asked: “if you were asked though, what would you say?” – “I’d probably do it” replied McCartney.
Paul McCartney was among the favourites rumoured to be headlining at Worthy Farm this summer.
As of the time of writing, Stormzy marks the only headliner confirmed for next year’s Glastonbury Festival and will take to the iconic Pyramid Stage on Friday (28th June).
Janelle Monae was also recently announced as one of the West Holts headliners, whilst Kylie Minogue will make her long-awaited solo debut as the Sunday tea-time ‘legend’.
Although the full line-up will probably not be unveiled by Glastonbury Festival’s officials until the end of March / beginning of April, you can check out the latest Glastonbury 2019 line-up rumours (not necessarily likely) HERE.
Glastonbury 2019 will take place between June 26 and 30 at Worthy Farm, Pilton.
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Chris Cortez scored a hat trick to lead Phoenix Rising FC to its first win of the season, a 4-1 victory over Oklahoma City Energy FC Saturday night in front of 6,828 at the Phoenix Rising Soccer Complex, the second-largest crowd in team history.
STARTING XI (4-3-3) (SUBS): GK- Carl Woszczynski; D- Amadou Dia (L), Doueuegi Mala (C), Mike da Fonte (C), Devonte Dubose (R); MF- Kevon Lambert, Colin Fernandez, Gladson Awako (Lucca Ricci, 74); F- Solomon Asante (Alessandro Riggi 90 + 5), Chris Cortez, Jason Johnson.
SUBS NOT USED: GK-Zac Lubin; D- Kody Wakasa, Victor Vasquez; F- Billy Forbes, Kevaughn Frater.
GAME SUMMARY: Phoenix Rising had the better of the chances in the first half of play. In the 10th minute, Solomon Asante played a nice ball into the box, and Chris Cortez tried to play a cute backheel this just missed on the short side. Two minutes later, Asante played a cross into the box where Jason Johnson just missed a header back post. Phoenix Rising would get on the board in the 28th minute when Asante used his speed to get in behind the OKC Energy defense and rocketed a ball in the upper near 90 to beat Matt Van Ockel for a 1-0 lead. Johnson almost doubled the lead six minutes later, but Van Ockel made a big save short side to keep it 1-0. Phoenix doubled the lead in the 45 minute when Kevon Lambert headed a ball to Chris Cortez, who rifled a ball past Van Ockel for the 2-0 lead.
Phoenix would up the lead to 3-0 when Colin Fernandez threw a cross to the head of Cortez, who hit it right past Van Ockel. Oklahoma City would strike back when Christian Ibeagha would slot a rebound past Carl Woszczynski to get them on the board and make it 3-1. Cortez would complete the hat trick in extra time, getting a great ball from substitute Luca Ricci and headed it past Van Ockel for the final goal of the evening.
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• Plastic accounts for around 10 percent of the total waste we generate.
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N Chandrababu Naidu declared assets worth Rs 668.57 crore
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and two of his TDP colleagues are among the richest candidates contesting the assembly elections in the southern state, according to the political data-crunching non-profit ADR. Chandrababu Naidu, who heads the Telugu Desam Party, is the third-richest candidate in the state elections with declared assets worth Rs 668.57 crore.
The richest candidate among the three is Krishnaiah Bollineni, who declared assets worth Rs 689 crore. The second-richest is TDP leader P Narayana, who declared a total of Rs 668.61 crore, just a few crores more than the chief minister.
YSR Congress Party chief Jagan Mohan Reddy declared Rs 510.38 crore assets.
The TDP's has 172 candidates with an average wealth of Rs 32.39 crore, according to the non-profit Association of Democratic Reforms. The YSR Congress has 171 candidates with an average wealth of Rs 21.26 crore.
Of the 2,007 candidates in the Andhra Pradesh assembly elections, 632 or 32 per cent are crorepatis.
The report by ADR said 54 candidates have declared zero assets.
Chandrababu Naidu walked out of the National Democratic Alliance in March last year over financial support for Andhra Pradesh. Special category status would mean a large infusion of central funds to help with the state government develop industry and infrastructure.
On Sunday, Jagan Mohan Reddy had said Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have done far better in the rest of the country, but in Andhra Pradesh he is portrayed as someone who betrayed the state by not giving it special category status to help the state stand on its own feet after the bifurcation in 2014 that led to the creation of Telangana.
"Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) might be scoring well all over the country. Probably, he has exhibited a stronger will than any other prime minister. Maybe he has done far better. But as far as Andhra Pradesh is concerned, he doesn't score well," Mr Reddy had told NDTV.
"As far as Andhra Pradesh is concerned, he would be portrayed as someone who betrayed our state, as Rahul Gandhi is also projected," he had said.
Andhra Pradesh will vote on April 11. Results will be out on May 23. | 1,851 |
An Indiana hospital says that more than 1,000 patients were exposed to HIV, hepatitis, and other blood-borne infectious diseases after surgical tools were improperly sanitized.
What are the details?
The incident took place at Goshen Hospital in Goshen, Indiana, between April 1 and Sept. 30.
In a letter, the hospital notified possibly afflicted patients — people who had surgery in the hospital between those dates — that they might have been exposed to such diseases.
A portion of the letter read, "The surgical instruments in question were still treated with our usual chemical disinfection and machine sterilization processes which include a wide margin of safety; however, such instruments may or may not have been completely sterile."
The hospital pointed out that steps were taken immediately to correct the issue, and extended an offer to patients for free blood testing to determine if they were infected by dirty surgical instruments.
Daniel Nafziger, the hospital's chief medical officer, insisted that the hospital will ensure the incident won't occur again.
"As with any patient safety concern, we rigorously investigated all aspects around the incident," he said. "We have put strict policies and additional safety measures in place to ensure it does not happen again. We also want to express our concern for each of these patients."
What else?
A class-action lawsuit was filed against the hospital after news of the error broke.
According to WNDU-TV, a patient, who had surgery during the time period in question, filed the suit on behalf of possibly affected patients.
The lawsuit, according to the station, "alleges negligent inflection of emotional distress, negligence, and medical malpractice."
The station also pointed out that upon investigation, some people who received surgery during the time period of the sanitizing incidents reportedly did not receive a letter.
In a Friday statement, attorney Walter J. Alvarez said that he and his office will seek justice for those patients exposed to the serious diseases.
“When we are at our most vulnerable and in need of surgery, we place both our trust and our life in our hospital and its personnel," Alvarez's statement read. "In light of the shocking revelation that over months of time a northern Indiana hospital exposed or potentially exposed thousands of surgical patients to unsterilized instruments and life altering infectious disease such as HIV and hepatitis, our office, Alvarez Law and the Pavlack law office of Indianapolis have, today, joined forces to bring justice to those affected and hold those responsible to account." | 1,852 |
few minutes left in the first period, fourth year Biomedical Engineering major and forward for RIT, Erik Brown, got a two-on-one chance and scored. His goal knotted the two teams up at 1-1.
RIT started the second period hot, garnering an early goal. First year Business Management major and forward, Andrew Petrucci, collected a rebound and found the open net. The Tigers led, 2-1.
Mid-way through the second period, RIT continued to pounce on the Crusaders. First year Business major and forward for the Tigers, Jake Joffe scored his first collegiate goal and increased the Tiger lead to 3-1.
When it looked bleak for the Crusaders, they got a chance on a powerplay. Laffin changed the momentum as he scored on the powerplay opportunity for Holy Cross.
The second period ended, with RIT up by a score of 3-2. But the Crusaders battled back into the game and tied it at three early in the third period. Ryan Leibold of Holy Cross found a rebound and snuck the puck past Drackett.
To make matters worse for the Tigers, Neil Robinson was able to get a goal on a breakaway. The Crusaders turned the tide and took the lead late in the third period, 4-3.
Our men’s hockey team tried to get back into the game by pulling Drackett and putting on an extra attacker, but they could not tie it up. Holy Cross won, 4-3.
The Tigers had 29 shots as the Crusaders had 19 shots. In terms of powerplay, RIT only had one chance and couldn’t score on it. Holy Cross had three powerplay chances and scored on one of them. In the Tiger net, Drackett saved 15 of 19 (.789) shots, while Gordon stopped 26 of 29 (.897) shots for the Crusaders.
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Our men’s hockey team will travel to Bridgeport, C.T. to play the Sacred Heart University Pioneers (12-13-2, 11-9-2 AHA) for the second time this season. The series will take place on Feb. 15 and Feb. 16, 2019.
The following week, the Robert Morris University Colonials (9-18-1, 8-13-1 AHA) will come up to Rochester, N.Y. on Feb. 22 and Feb. 23, 2019. | 1,853 |
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KITCHENER — The Howard Johnson in Kitchener is closed, and the hotel contents are being sold off and carted away.
The parcel of land the building sits on, sandwiched between Weber Street East and Highway 8, is slated for redevelopment into highrise condo towers with office space.
All the furniture and household items from the Fergus Avenue hotel were up for a cash-only sale after it closed its doors for overnight guests on Dec. 31. A steady stream of people carried off beds, lamps, ironing boards, furniture, microwaves, mini fridges and other hotel room staples on Thursday.
The more than 60-year-old hotel will make way for four condo towers with 568 residential units and about 14,000 square feet of commercial space. The City of Kitchener granted conditional approval to the site application on Dec. 18.
"It's definitely a larger redevelopment," said Andrew Pinnell, senior planner at the city. "It's going to bring a lot of new people and jobs."
The city hopes the construction project at 1333 Weber St. E. will be a catalyst for more improvements to the area not far from Fairview Park mall.
There was a long-standing development freeze on the site pending sanitary services upgrades, which have now been completed. A large medical centre recently opened on Kingsbury Drive.
The developer declined to comment on Thursday. Conditions on the city's approval include standard items like providing plans and a noise study, due to the proximity to the expressway, Weber Street and a shopping plaza.
"They're very enthusiastic. It sounds like they want to proceed as soon as possible with a building permit," Pinnell said.
The hotel had been franchised as a Howard Johnson, part of the Wyndham Hotels and Resorts chain, starting in 1999. Originally the Conestoga Inn, it was opened by John Hoffman in 1957.
The hotel temporarily housed government-sponsored Syrian refugees when they first arrived in Waterloo Region, following Ottawa's commitment to welcome 25,000 Syrians to Canada starting in late 2015. The last family that had been waiting a permanent home moved out in May 2016.
The hotel's closure won't be an issue for the region, which does not currently use the hotel for overflow emergency shelter space when all beds are full and hasn't for some time.
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The eye is just a pinhole that leaks light onto a bunch of reactive cells. It's the brain that "sees" things. And if something goes wrong in the brain, all kinds of things can appear distorted. But one particular crossed wire brings moving objects to a standstill. It's called akinetopsia.
The first documented case of this was in 1911, when a woman who had suffered a head injury complained that she couldn't see objects when they moved too fast, especially towards her. She suffered other visual problems, including problems seeing color and general confusion. The case was so singular that not much was made of it at the time. Then in 1983, another woman, who had a lesion in her striate cortex (the visual cortex), suddenly stopped being able to see motion. But it wasn't as if she was seeing the world in freeze frames. If lights or images flickered, without moving, she was able to see the change. She was also able to see the motion of her surroundings as she walked or was driven around. It was only single, rapid motions that eluded her.
With the removal of her sense of motion, the patient - called LM in the case history - complained that daily life became extremely hard. When she tried to pour herself a glass of water, the water seemed to freeze like ice until she felt it spilling over the edge of the glass. She also had a hard time judging the heat of things, since all steam coming off an object froze, and it was impossible to tell if there was a lot of steam or just a little. Social interaction was nerve-wracking, as people who had seemed to be sitting across the room would suddenly appear before her, and she was unable to judge the rapidly changing expressions on people's faces as they talked.
It's fortunate that akinetopsia is rare, since the only real progress people seem to have made on it has been inducing it in animals. Macaque monkeys that had injections in certain areas of their brain became akinetopsic, although the effect wore off after a few days. Between 1911 and 1983, scientists observed that people who had been partially blinded could sometimes see motion, even though that motion wasn't associated with a change in color, perspective, or shape. As far as we can tell, there is one part of the brain that sees motion independently of everything else. Take that part out, and people will stop being able to see what moves, even if they can see everything else.
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Jordan Cox additional name Internet Sensation (nickname) nationality Australian
Racing highlights 2017 1st New South Wales Under Two Litre Improved Production Car Championship 2017 1st IPRA Bathurst Challenge Under Two Litre Class 2017 1st Nulon Improved Production Cars Under Two Litres Racing career summary Races entered 97 Wins 36 Podiums 50 Pole positions 11 Fastest laps 34 Race win percentage 37.1% Podium percentage 51.5% Esports career summary (work in progress) Races entered 11 Wins 0 Podiums 0 Pole positions 0 Fastest laps 0 Race win percentage 0% Podium percentage 0%
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7. Identification and Refining of Target Audiences
From Google Analytics to customer surveys, most companies will have at least one source of customer data that is being collected. But if it isn’t used well—for instance, to identify demographics—the data isn’t useful. The importance of data science is based on the ability to take existing data that is not necessarily useful on its own and combine it with other data points to generate insights an organization can use to learn more about its customers and audience.
A data scientist can help with the identification of the key groups with precision, via a thorough analysis of disparate sources of data. With this in-depth knowledge, organizations can tailor services and products to customer groups, and help profit margins flourish.
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Reading through resumes all day is a daily chore in a recruiter’s life, but that is changing due to big data. With the amount of information available on talent—through social media, corporate databases, and job search websites—data science specialists can work their way through all these data points to find the candidates who best fit the organization’s needs.
By mining the vast amount of data that is already available, in-house processing for resumes and applications—and even sophisticated data-driven aptitude tests and games—data science can help your recruitment team make speedier and more accurate selections.
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Grilled Balsamic-Garlic Crusted Pork Tenderloin
Grilled Balsamic-Garlic Crusted Pork Tenderloin gets lots of flavor from a simple marinade. This family favorite recipe is a go-to for grilling season! Get the recipe for this soon-to-be favorite today and be ready for grilling season!
One of my favorite cuts of meat is the pork tenderloin. I love how versatile it is and how it takes well to various types of preparation and cooking methods. In some ways, it’s better than a pork chop, which can be tricky for many cooks – one false move and you can end up with dry, chewy chops, and a table of sad eaters.
Pork tenderloin almost always stays moist and succulent, even if you forget to take it off the heat for just a few minutes. It’s very forgiving that way. It also goes well with many flavors. Best of all, it doesn’t break the bank.
I figured that pork tenderloin would be a great first meat to prepare with the new grill. It would allow us to test both the searing and grilling capabilities. It’s not like a piece of steak that takes mere minutes on the grill. While yummy, what fun is that? I wanted an opportunity to really be able to see how the grill would perform. After all, it’s probably going to take a little while to get used to all its nuances.
So for the grill’s inaugural firing, I decided to prepare Grilled Balsamic-Garlic Crusted Pork Tenderloins. The Lynx Grill handled it beautifully! Perfectly seared and evenly cooked, the pork tenderloins were juicy and flavorful. But this can easily be made without a grill, and I have included instructions for that version as well. Either way, you’ll be left with tasty morsels of pork that are kissed with smokey garlic flavors. And if you happen to have any leftovers (hardly the case in our house), they make an awesome filling for burritos the next day!
For more mouth-watering pork tenderloin recipes, check out the following:
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One Russian company has announced a plan to build gigantic billboards in space, lighting up the night sky with advertisements for companies like Coke, McDonald’s, and KFC. If they’re successful, we could start seeing advertisements floating in the sky as soon as 2021.
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On the one hand, this is a pretty incredible technological marvel. The company, StartRocket, plans to launch dozens of tiny CubeSats into orbit roughly 280 miles above the ground in a single rocket. Those CubeSats would then fly in formation and deploy giant reflective sails to send the sun’s light to Earth. Each one of these sails can be controlled independently, so the CubeSats act like programmable pixels. The billboards would only display advertisements for a year, according to a report from Astronomy.
This sort of stunt has never even been attempted before on this scale, so that makes this venture particularly impressive. But on the other hand, experts say this is a horrible way to waste this technology. University of Michigan astronomy professor Patrick Seitzer thinks the initiative is a bad idea.
He told Astronomy that space is already crowded, and that people probably don’t want to see giant ads for Big Macs blotting out the stars:
“Launching art projects like this with no commercial, scientific, or national security value seems unwise…Space is getting increasingly crowded. There are over 20,000 objects with orbits in the official public catalog maintained by the U.S. Air Force. Less than 10 percent of those objects are active satellites—the rest are dead satellites, old rocket bodies and parts of spacecraft.”
These proposed ads would only be visible during certain hours of the day in morning twilight and during the evening, Seitzer added. But experts are still concerned that they'll add to the increasing levels of light pollution throughout the world.
This type of aerial advertising would have to be approved by all kinds of regulatory agencies, and gaining that type of approval would ultimately take a long time. The tech may be ready by 2021, StartRocket says, but it's possible the public will not be.
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: April 13 is one of the two days in the year when flight operations at the premier airport in the State in Thiruvananthapuram come to a grinding halt for five hours on the basis of a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) issued worldwide.
The reason: closure of the airport runway to enable the passage of the ‘Arat’ procession marking the conclusion of the 10-day Painkuni festival at the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple.
Around the world, it is the only airport that is closed for a few hours for a festival. The airport remains closed for the Painkuni festival and the Alpassi festival that will follow later in the year. The runway has remained closed during the festival for decades since the reign of Sree Chitra Tirunal Balarama Varma and after Independence.
The present head of the royal family of erstwhile Travancore, Moolam Tirunal Rama Varma, wielding the ceremonial sword and wearing the traditional green cap, symbolically leads the procession.
On Sunday, midway through the procession along the Arat Road to Shanghumughom beach, the skies opened up drenching the idols of the deities, members of the royal family, caparisoned elephants, mounted police, police band, armed police, priests and hundreds escorting it.
The idols of Sri Padmanabhaswamy, Thiruvambadi Krishnan and Narasimhamoorthy were carried by priests in Garuda Vahanas. The procession moved along the 3,398-metre runway under the watchful eyes of the elite Aviation Security Group personnel even as the rain continued.
Airport Director V.N. Chandran told The Hindu that the AAI was happy to permit the procession to pass through the traditional route it had been following. Only bona fide persons carrying the pass from the temple are permitted to move through the airport premises now, he added.
The NOTAM was withdrawn by 9 p.m. to resume flight operations from the airport after the idols moved along the runway back to the temple after the customary dip in the sea at the Shanghumughom beach.
On its return from the beach, the only difference is that the procession moves with the way lit by traditional torches.
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The rating agency made a special mention of India's significant monetary tightening in 2013, coupled with some fiscal consolidation
New Delhi - Forecasting that India will clock the highest growth rate of 7-7.5 percent among G20 economies in 2015 and 2016, Moody's Investors Service on Thursday said the country is less exposed to external shocks, and the positive rating outlook reflects resilient growth and reforms momentum.
"India is less exposed to global risks because of its more resilient economic growth and the impact of positive policy reforms momentum," the rating agency said.
Emerging market sovereigns have diverging shock-absorption capabilities to withstand the risks that will continue to impact global credit quality in 2015-16, says Moody's in a report published on Thursday.
The report focuses on five Baa-rated sovereigns -- Turkey, Brazil, South Africa, India and Indonesia.
"India is less exposed to external shocks than the other sovereigns discussed here. The positive outlook on its Baa3 rating reflects our view that the relatively resilient growth and the policy reform momentum will slowly stabilise inflation, improve the regulatory environment, increase infrastructure investment and lower government debt ratios," it said.
In the report titled 'Baa-rated Sovereigns: Diverging Resilience to Developing Global Risks', Moody's believes the main external risk facing EMs is the potential for a prolonged risk aversion, prompted by hopes of normalisation of US monetary policy and possibility of a sharper-than-expected China slowdown.
It also talks of country-specific challenges exacerbating this external risk.
"In contrast, we forecast strong growth in India of around 7-7.5 per cent per year in 2015-16, the highest among the G20 economies, which is supported by lower oil prices that will reinforce gradual growth-enhancing reforms," it said.
Moody's said although India, South Africa and Brazil have weaker fiscal positions than Turkey and Indonesia, these governments are less reliant on foreign currency and non-resident funding (government external debt).
The rating agency made a special mention of India's significant monetary tightening in 2013, coupled with some fiscal consolidation, which is "an example of effective macroeconomic management that restored macroeconomic stability, albeit at the expense of near-term growth".
"However, coupled with structural reforms to address regulatory and infrastructure weaknesses, lower inflation and current account deficit outcomes have set the pace for monetary loosening which commenced in 2015. This active policy response to counter emerging risks contributed to the positive outlook," it said.
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MOSCOW — As the death toll from people drinking bath lotion passes into the dozens, Russian officials declared a state of emergency in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Monday.
The death toll has been growing quickly since the weekend, and reached 49, local prosecutor Alexander Semyonov said, according to the Interfax news agency. He said that eight others remained hospitalized in grave condition. Officials were checking apartments and other locations in search for more victims.
Authorities in other Russian regions also launched searches for alcohol surrogates.
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The sale of lotions and tinctures containing alcohol has been on the rise in recent years in Russia as the country’s economy has struggled in the face of the sanctions and a slide in oil prices. The country has infamously struggled with managing alcoholism, and poisonings involving cheap surrogate alcohol are a regular occurrence, but the Irkutsk case is the deadliest such incident in years.
President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman described the mass poisoning as a “terrible tragedy,” adding that the president was being briefed about the situation.
Irkutsk’s regional government said the victims had died of methanol poisoning after consuming the bath lotion.
At a cabinet meeting on Monday, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said authorities need to quickly ban such substances. “It’s an outrage, and we need to put an end to this,” he said in televised remarks.
CBS News’ Svetlana Berdnikova reports the bath lotion, called Boyaryshnik (Hawthorn), was found to have poisoned the residents of one neighborhood, Novo-Lenino. While the injured and dead appear to be residents of the same area, they were not drinking alcohol together. Officials described the victims as socially disadvantaged people aged 35 to 50, including several women.
Hawthorn bath lotion was available at about 100 outlets in Irkutsk. The lotion bottles were marked with warnings that they are not for internal use.
A criminal case has been opened into the sale of goods failing to meet safety requirements and resulting in the death of two or more people. Two suspects believed to be directly involved in the distribution of the surrogate alcohol have been detained, officials said.
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Rumors from Apple suppliers are now at odds with one another, as a new report contradicts earlier claims that the current iPhone X would be completely replaced by a new model later this year. Instead, it is suggested that Apple could stick with its usual strategy of continuing to sell previous year's models.
Citing unnamed industry sources, Korean publication The Investor reported on Friday that Apple will be launching two new OLED iPhone models later this year, including a larger 6.46-inch model.
Expectations of an "iPhone X Plus" are not new. But in a new twist, the report claims the two new models will be "adding to the current iPhone X."
"The two new models come with 5.85-inch and 6.46-inch screens, along with the 5.8-inch iPhone X, the first OLED iPhone launched last year," the report reads. "With the new addition, the California-based company has also started seeking new panel and battery suppliers."
The language is noteworthy because analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities claimed a week ago that the iPhone X could be replaced entirely by new models later this year. That would be unusual for Apple, as the company typically keeps legacy models around at more affordable price points to target more customers.
In response to Kuo's prediction, it was suggested that perhaps Apple sought to maintain $999-and-up pricing for the OLED iPhone models. Keeping the 2017 edition around at a lower price point could undermine that strategy, it was thought.
But the wording in Friday's latest report would seem to suggest that the current iPhone X could remain on sale alongside new models unveiled in late 2018. In that situation, it's likely that the 2017 iPhone X would continue to be sold through 2019 and potentially beyond.
For example, Apple's current lineup continues to include the iPhone 6s, a handset that debuted in the fall of 2015. If Apple continues to sell it until new models launch in the usual September timeframe, that would mean the iPhone 6s would remain in production and on the market for three years.
The Investor claims that Apple plans to add one or two more rigid flexible printed circuit board suppliers to offer the iPhone X as well as the two new 2018 OLED models.
In addition, LG Display was identified as the likely supplier of screens for the 6.46-inch OLED screen on the rumored "iPhone X Plus." That would be a change, as Samsung is believed to be the sole supplier of OLED panels for the current 5.8-inch iPhone X. | 1,864 |
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Sunday vowed to fight President Donald Trump’s executive order that blocked the entry of Syrian refugees and imposed a ban on travelers coming from several Muslim-majority countries.
“This order was mean-spirited and un-American,” the senator said as he fought back tears during his weekly press conference in New York City.
“The president wants people to believe that everyone’s a terrorist or a criminal who’s an immigrant. It’s not fair and it’s not right.”
Standing alongside refugees from Iraq and Syria, whose families were affected by the ban, Schumer argued the travel ban would make America less safe by hurting its counterterrorism programs at home and abroad. He said Senate Democrats were preparing legislation aimed at overturning it.
“We’re demanding the president reverse these executive orders that go against what we are, everything we have always stood for,” Schumer said.
Schumer noted that his middle name, “Ellis,” refers to Ellis Island, the early 20th-century gateway for immigrants to the United States.
“This fight’s in my bones. It’s on my birth certificate,” he said.
Late Saturday night, two federal judges halted parts of the order, temporarily prohibiting the government from immediately deporting refugees who have been cleared by authorities to enter the country. The Department of Homeland Security, however, issued a statement Sunday maintaining it would continue enforcing the order, likely ensuring a legal battle over its scope.
Schumer told reporters on Sunday that he believes the courts ultimately will step in and strike down the order as unconstitutional. Until such time, however, he said he hopes more Republican lawmakers in Congress join with Democrats to pass legislation to reverse it.
“If we get a few more Republicans, I think we can pass legislation to overturn it. I think it’ll be up to the Republicans,” he said.
Very few Republicans in Congress have voiced their opposition to the order so far. Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said Sunday that it was “not properly vetted” and welcomed its halt. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned against implementing religious tests, but he stood by the order.
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handled by Moelis & Co.
Bids came due in late December. Santa Monica studio Lionsgate, known for “La La Land” and “The Hunger Games,” was interested in buying certain assets of the company. Killer Content, the New York production company behind “Carol” and “Still Alice,” had offered to buy the assets and remake them into an entity to support women. Other bidders included Miramax (owned by BeIN Media) and private equity firms Shamrock Capital Advisors and Vine Alternative Investments.
Most of the competing bids would have required a sale through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy process. Bidders including Killer Content expressed frustration with the way the deal making was being handled, as it became clear that the Weinstein Co. management wanted to do a deal with Contreras-Sweet.
Contreras-Sweet’s emergence as a potential savior for Weinstein Co. took Hollywood by surprise. Though she has had a long career in politics and the private sector, Contreras-Sweet lacked experience in the entertainment industry. Some industry observers wondered why the board did not select a female executive with Hollywood credentials such as former Sony Pictures co-Chairman Amy Pascal or the female leadership of Killer Content, which had partnered with philanthropist Abigail Disney in its bid.
Another element that raised eyebrows was the involvement of Burkle, the supermarket billionaire who has had close ties to the Weinsteins. He has invested in movies with the brothers and in 2010 backed a failed effort for them to buy their previous studio Miramax from Walt Disney Co.
Weinstein Co. released Oscar winners including “The King’s Speech” and “The Artist,” but failed to reliably churn out profitable hits. Recent duds including “Gold,” “Burnt” and “Tulip Fever” worsened Weinstein’s standing in Hollywood.
On Oct. 5, the New York Times first reported that Harvey Weinstein had paid off women who had accused him of sexual harassment over a period spanning nearly three decades. Then the New Yorker published an Oct. 10 story by Ronan Farrow saying Weinstein had sexually assaulted women.
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All the white people lashing out and cracking jokes or just straight up insulting me for "please don't use spirit animal" is telling. These guys (it's mostly men) are not clever, funny, or edgy. They're the same assholes we all encountered as kids, except they never grew up. They think their shit is hilarious, or important, or worthwhile. It's not. No one thinks schoolyard bullies are the highlight of life.
Another fucking thing with these shitty defenders of using the term "spirit animals:" None of you fuckers do anything to save, protect or respect the animals whose spirits you claim. You don't support protecting their habitats or their lives. So fuck off with your entitled BS. I never ever see "spirit animal" thieves at Indigenous environmental efforts. Where are you fuckers when we're protesting Site C? Not Here.
Common pushback for white racism defenders is "oh so you alone think this huh?" No, you porta-potty head, I'm just one of many who speak out. Thing is, there are less Natives in the USA & Canada than JK Rowling has Twitter followers. So we suffer from hyper-invisible erasure. So yes, I am loud, & crude.I'm angry at 525 years of White-power-genocide and erasure of Native peoples. I will not be polite to willfully ignorant people. You can come lecture me after 95% of your population is obliterated, the survivors imprisoned & tortured, the children & cultures stolen. Till then, suck it up, fortify yourself, and realize maybe you're benefitting from genocide and our erasure if you aren't Native, Black or Black Native.
I would just like to thank all the folks, Native & NonNative alike, who are picking up the slack in the "spirit animals” discussion. Thank you! You folks are my rockstars, taking on defenders of cultural appropriation when I'm too sick to. As a disabled woman I REALLY appreciate that. So to everyone going “What The Fuck?” to all those whiners who really want to misuse a term, I salute you, You are all the best. Thank you!
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Publics around the world disagree about which is more important to emphasize in school: creative thinking or basic academic skills and discipline. Here are four key findings about educational preferences from a 2016 Pew Research Center survey of 19 countries.
1Publics in advanced economies prefer creative education more than people in emerging economies do. Among advanced economies, half or more in six of the 14 countries surveyed said it is more important that schools teach students to be creative and think independently than to teach students basic academic skills and encourage discipline. By comparison, in all five of the emerging economies included in the survey, fewer than half said the same. Among advanced economies, Americans are in the middle of the pack: 48% support education that emphasizes creative and independent thinking and 42% prefer to prioritize basic academic skills.
2In most advanced economies, educational preferences are an ideological issue. In much of Western Europe, North America and Australia, there are significant differences in how those on the political left and right believe children should be taught. Those on the left tend to prefer that schools focus on teaching creative and independent thinking while those on the right tend to value academic skills and discipline more. The gap is especially large in the United States, where liberals (67%) are twice as likely as conservatives (33%) to favor education that emphasizes independent thinking.
3Younger people in most advanced economies are the most supportive of education that emphasizes creative and independent thinking. The difference is largest in France, where 53% of those ages 18 to 34 say creative education is more important than teaching basic skills, compared with 29% of those 50 and older. In the U.S., the difference between these same groups is 17 points. China stands out as the only emerging country surveyed that has the same age-related patterns. Differences by age are more consistent across countries and are starker than differences by gender, income or even educational attainment.
4 The Chinese public stands out from others surveyed in saying they prefer teaching both sets of skills. More than a quarter of Chinese volunteer that schools should emphasize both creative thinking and basic skills and discipline. This may be due in part to their educational system’s reliance on standardized testing (the gaokao). While rote memorization and discipline are seen as keys for success on this future-defining exam, there is much handwringing domestically about how gaokao preparation comes at the expense of more creative opportunities. Younger, wealthier and better educated Chinese are particularly likely to prioritize imagination and creativity in the classroom.
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If you recently bought a new or newer Honda CR-V or Civic, you're going to want to listen to this news. Honda is extending the powertrain warranty on more than 1 million cars in the U.S. Specifically, Honda is targeting 2017-2018 CR-Vs and 2016-2018 Civics with the 1.5-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine. Consumer Reports uncovered a memo sent to Honda dealers concerning the news from Honda's manager of auto campaigns and recalls. That memo said that the oil in these engines could be diluted due to software settings or potential hardware failures. A previous report didn't name the Civic's version of the 1.5-liter turbo as a problem yet, but it looks like Honda's internal investigation has found it to suffer from a similar issue as the CR-V's "rising" oil levels.Last fall, Honda offered a free fix to folks with this engine in their CR-V in 21 cold-weather states, which totaled about 239,000 vehicles. That included new engine and transmission software, an oil change and some air conditioning control unit replacements. The engine software is the key here, as the reason oil levels have been "rising" is due to gasoline that hasn't been vaporized in combustion washing down the cylinders and mixing with the oil.Of note is the inclusion of the U.S. Civic in this latest news — Honda previously recalled Civics in China, (the 1.5-liter turbo is not exactly the same there as it is here), but it hasn't been officially, previously noted by the company with this problem in the U.S. Honda sent along this statement concerning the extended warranty:"Abnormal oil dilution remains extremely rare, especially outside of extremely cold weather areas, and there only during said extreme cold. This warranty extension is primarily to provide reassurance to vehicle owners who may be concerned by varying oil levels in these engines, which, in most cases is normal and does not cause engine damage. In extreme and rare cases in the cold weather states, where abnormal oil dilution has occurred prior to a vehicle receiving the software updates, this extension will provide extra time for any undetected engine damage to become apparent and be covered by the warranty."The memo sent to dealers goes on to say that the problem could ultimately cause the vehicles to experience a lack of power, leading to cylinder misfires and engine noise. Owners who are eligible for this one year of extra warranty should be notified this month. There is no mileage limit on the extended warranty, so you'll have it for all six years instead of the previously standard five years. | 1,869 |
on par with other X-prize competitors. All other expenses, including the cost of the rocket, ground operations, and technology development, will add up to about $70 million to $80 million, Narayan estimated.
To date, the company has publicly stated that they’ve raised about $3 million ($500,000 in seed funding, $1.5 million in Series A, $1 million from the X-PRIZE milestone award). But Narayan told TechCrunch that TeamIndus is closing another round soon that will bring their total up to between $10 and $15 million and plans to add more people to their 100-person team.
Putting those numbers in perspective, Moon Express, a Google Lunar X-PRIZE team from the U.S. has raised over $30 million and as of August only had about 25 employees.
While employee salaries are only one piece of the overall budget, the average salary for engineers in India is significantly lower than engineering salaries in the United States, so a company like TeamIndus can afford to build a bigger team. Narayan stated that TeamIndus’ ability to hire more people was an asset in a competition as complex as the Google Lunar X-PRIZE.
While a team of that size is unique in this competition, we’ll have to wait and see if the ability to hire more engineers is truly an advantage.
What Happens When It’s All Over?
So what happens after the contest is over? Teams like Moon Express and Astrobotic, another U.S. based competitor, have stated their intent to sustain a lunar-based business after the prize has been won.
TeamIndus, however, has a different plan. Narayan said that while they don’t expect to continue with lunar-based missions after the contest, they do hope to maintain business in the space industry. He noted that TeamIndus has built up a capability for designing, prototyping, and analyzing space-grade technology that could be used to create a business building satellites.
But for now, their focus remains on the moon. Narayan, along with his 100 employees, are all working toward the goal of bringing an Indian to the moon for the first time, something that he spoke about with great pride.
When asked how it would feel if TeamIndus were to win the Google Lunar X-Prize, Narayan said “It would be the same feeling you’d have if your team won the Cricket World Cup.” | 1,870 |
The price of bitcoin hit a two-month low over the weekend – and social media is alight with speculation about it.
While pundits don’t quite agree on the circumstances behind the plunge (with some blaming reports of a widening manipulation crackdown, the hack of South Korean crypto exchange Coinrail or just some pre-week selling), what’s clear is that the price move has acted as a kind of social thunderbolt for the community, spurring commentary from all sides.
Investor Alistair Milne ran a Twitter poll on Sunday soliciting input on what people thought sparked the dip – in perhaps a sign of the times, half of the roughly 3,700 respondents blamed “aliens” with 9 percent and 12 percent blaming the Coinrail hack and the CFTC subpoenas, respectively.
And as another observer pointed out, it’s not just bitcoin that felt the heat this weekend – many of the world’s largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization saw downward price moves.
Richard Heart asked his followers on Sunday:
How is everyone’s Sunday going? pic.twitter.com/t3kSTJusmL — Richard Heart (no giveaways) (@RichardHeartWin) June 10, 2018
Light-hearted take
The efforts at levity amidst the market tumble were seen elsewhere. For example, investor-focused social network StockTwits tried to encapsulate what some traders are likely feeling – in gif form, that is.
And cryptocurrency reporter Joseph Young contrasted the viewpoints of an office worker on Monday eager for Friday to arrive with a crypto trader going through the price headwinds.
Monday at normal job: tired, can’t wait till Friday. Monday in crypto: life savings down 20%. — Joseph Young (@iamjosephyoung) June 10, 2018
Glass half full?
Not all those in the trader community are looking at the situation as an entirely negative one or a reason to remain bearish.
Indeed, some observers are still calling for the “moon” – even though this weekend’s price moves may slow that process a bit.
Keep calm and relax… Are you bearish? I am not!
The moon please :)#BTC #XRP pic.twitter.com/MWpPl5C11V — Fabien Vernagallo (@fabvernagallo) June 10, 2018
And others, according to today’s social media churn, are already looking toward greener pastures: | 1,871 |
An entrance gate to Sony Pictures Entertainment at the Sony Pictures lot is pictured in Culver City Thomson Reuters Sony Pictures Entertainment is investigating to determine if hackers working on behalf of North Korea might be responsible for a cyber attack that knocked out the studio's computer network earlier this week, the technology news site Re/code reported.
The attack occurred a month before Sony Pictures, a unit of Sony Corp, is to release "The Interview." The movie is a comedy about two journalists who are recruited by the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The Pyongyang government denounced the film as "undisguised sponsoring of terrorism, as well as an act of war" in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in June.
Representatives of the North Korean mission to the United Nations could not immediately be reached for comment on Saturday.
Sony Pictures' computer system went down on Monday. Before screens went dark, they displayed a red skull and the phrase "Hacked By #GOP," which reportedly stands for Guardians of Peace, the Los Angeles Times said.
The hackers also warned they would release "secrets" stolen from the Sony servers, the Times reported.
Re/code said in a report late Friday that Sony and security consultants were investigating the possibility that someone acting on behalf of North Korea, possibly from China, was responsible. Re/code said a link to North Korea had not been confirmed but it had not been ruled out.
A source familiar with the matter told Reuters that Sony Pictures was investigating every possibility, adding no link to North Korea has been uncovered.
Sony acknowledged the computer outage in a statement on Tuesday. Emails to Sony were bouncing back on Saturday with a message asking senders to contact employees by telephone because its email system was "experiencing a disruption."
"The Interview," scheduled for release in the United States on Dec. 25, stars James Franco as the host of a tabloid television show that is enjoyed by Kim, and Seth Rogen as the show's producer. When they are granted a rare interview with Kim, the CIA wants to turn them into assassins.
KCNA, the official news agency in isolationist North Korea, quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman in June as promising a "merciless counter-measure" if the film is released. The government also wrote to U.S. President Barack Obama asking him to stop it, the Voice of America reported.
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Trump thanked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for obstructing election security legislation and the Russia investigation.
Trump Thanks Mitch McConnell For The Russia Cover-Up
Trump tweeted:
Thank you @senatemajldr Mitch McConnell for understanding the Democrats game of not playing it straight on the ridiculous Witch Hunt Hoax in the Senate. Cryin’ Chuck will never stop. Did Senator @MarkWarner ever report speaking to a Russian!? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 14, 2019
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Trump has finally gotten around to watching McConnell’s interview on Fox News:
McConnell said, “They just can’t let it go, Laura. I said weeks ago. Case closed. We’ve got the Mueller Report. The only objective evaluation that will be conducted. Nobody has any confidence that the Democratic House is going to engage in any kind of appropriate oversight. The case is closed. Why don’t we move on and solve the border crisis and prove the President’s USMCA, the new trade deal with Mexico and Canada. We have work to do…Well, he gets picked out every day over every different aspect of it, but the fundamental point is they’re trying to keep the 2016 election alive and the investigation alive, when the American people have heard enough, they got the Mueller Report. They would like for us to do some business. I would ask the Democrats in the house this. Is there anything you’re willing to do other than harass the President for the next two years? Anything at all.”
Trump and McConnell both take money from Russia
Mitch McConnell is not an innocent defender of this president. His a Trump comrade in dirty Russian cash. It isn’t a coincidence that McConnell got a $200 million investment from a Russian oligarch after he blocked Democrats from reimposing sanctions. It has also been reported that McConnell and his wife Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao are illegally making money from Russia. Mitch McConnell covered for Russian election interference in 2016, and in some ways, his ties to Russia are more visible than Trump’s.
McConnell is Trump’s firewall in the Senate, and the reason the 2020 election won’t be as secure as it could be, and the president can continue to hide his Russia crimes.
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significant droughts by the year 2100 - and the south-east is especially vulnerable.
Rethinking future developments
Michael Norton, chair of the Water Expert Panel at the Institution of Civil Engineers, thinks development plans should be reconsidered.
Image caption The government is urging a new approach to housing developments to reduce water use
"We established a tradition of focusing development in the south-east, but looking at it purely from a point view of water availability, it makes little sense," he says.
"It could be argued that perhaps we should be moving some of our nodes of development into areas that are more water-rich, such as Wales, northern England and Scotland," he adds.
That would be dramatic.
Mrs Spelman, argues that new-builds can be made much more water-efficient.
I think emergency drought orders are unlikely in 2012. But if we had no significant rainfall from now right through next winter, they would be more likely Caroline Spelman MP, Environment Secretary
"We use drinking water for everything in our homes - flushing the toilet, everything. If you go to dry countries and tell people that, they are quite astonished.
"When you build new homes you can re-engineer them," she argues. "You can use grey water systems for some household jobs. So this makes less call on the drinking water supply."
These are important, long-term concerns.
Right now the fear is we could be heading for a third dry winter and in 2013 that could mean Emergency Drought Orders - stand-pipes in our streets; water for only a few hours a day.
"A third dry winter would be unprecedented because it would be a more severe drought than we experienced in 1976," Mrs Spelman says.
"I think emergency drought orders are unlikely in 2012. But if we had no significant rainfall from now right through to next winter, they would be more likely."
That is a grim prospect.
Meanwhile, at Martello Lakes, Kent Shepway District Council's head of planning Chris Lewis gave assurances that the construction work will continue, in spite of concerns about local reserves of water.
"We are confident the plans are deliverable, and the developer is putting investment into the site," he says.
"It's not a question of the council revoking planning permission - that's not on the agenda at all."
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small number of former workers have received payments from Pressed Juices. Helena, who was owed more than $4,300 from her final Pressed Juices pay slip issued in March, received an unexpected bank transfer of $1000 from “PJ Works Retail Pressed Juices” on October 18.
Helena was initially surprised to receive this payment – while she had sent another follow-up message to the company’s Instagram page the week before, she had given up hope of actually receiving what she was owed. After the payment arrived, she discovered that one of her family members had been calling Leo Pegoli on her behalf for months, and that according to that family member, Pegoli had agreed to pay back her owed wages in instalments.
Another former Pressed Juices employee, Bailey, has been owed close to $3,000 in outstanding wages from AP PJ Personnel Pty Ltd since he left the company on April 1 this year. Bailey told Junkee he has been calling Leo Pegoli regularly about the outstanding pay, and that in early September Pegoli agreed to begin paying him in instalments.
Junkee has seen bank records showing that Bailey has so far received three payments from “Pj Works Retail” — a payment of $290 on September 3, $300 on September 10, and $300 on October 9. “I had to chase him hard to make him pay,” Bailey said, noting that the instalments have been irregular, and that with nothing in writing from Pressed Juices confirming the instalment system he’s not sure what to expect.
A spokesperson for the Fair Work Ombudsman told Junkee that while they cannot comment specifically on the situation at Pressed Juices, they encourage all workers who are concerned they have been underpaid or treated unfairly to get in touch at www.fairwork.gov.au or the Fair Work Infoline on 13 13 94. You can also see the website for an interpreter service, or to submit an anonymous report if you’d like.
Junkee will also continue to investigate Pressed Juices, and we’ll keep you posted on any developments. If you know more, and want to get in touch, you can reach us at slangford[at]junkeemedia.com.
Feature image of workers at a rally outside Pressed Juices in August, courtesy of the Young Workers Centre.
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usr/local/bin cp -f st /usr/local/bin chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/st mkdir -p /usr/local/share/man/man1 sed "s/VERSION/0.8.2/g" < st.1 > /usr/local/share/man/man1/st.1 chmod 644 /usr/local/share/man/man1/st.1 tic -sx st.info 4 entries written to /etc/terminfo Please see the README file regarding the terminfo entry of st. ======================== Installation successful ========================== Copying documentation directory…././FAQ./TODO./LICENSE./README Copying files to the temporary directory…OK Stripping ELF binaries and libraries…OK Compressing man pages…OK Building file list…OK Building Debian package…OK Installing Debian package…OK Erasing temporary files…OK Writing backup package…OK OK Deleting temp dir…OK Done. The new package has been installed and saved to /home/ambarish/Downloads/ST/st-0.8.2/st_0.8.2-1_amd64.deb You can remove it from your system anytime using: dpkg -r st
Congratulations! You have successfully installed from source code using checkinstall. You can see a.deb package available in the working directory created during the process.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37080 Dec 8 18:52 st_0.8.2-1_amd64.deb
You can even just build a.deb package without uninstalling by appending –install=no while using checkinstall and later use the deb package to install it. You can use this package to install on other machines with no internet access.
checkinstall --install=no
To uninstall the package, you can use the below command and it will remove all the associated contents.
dpkg -r st
Wrapping up
Though every Linux distribution provides a collection of applications that are more than we need, we may need to install applications from source code sometimes. checkinstall makes the work easier by keeping a tab of the files installed / modified and making it easier to uninstall it later using any package manager or dpkg.
Check some lightweight Linux distributions here.
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The Vancouver School Board is heading east to recruitment fairs across the country, mostly in Ontario.
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – We’re almost four months into the school year but Vancouver is still struggling to find and attract teachers.
The Vancouver School Board is now heading cross country once again to attract applicants at recruitment fairs, mostly in Ontario.
Glen Hansman, president of the BC Teachers’ Federation, says searching for staff east of the Rockies is a good thing.
“The fact is we actually don’t have enough teachers in this province currently to fill all the positions.”
The number of vacancies fluctuates as some teachers resign or others retire. But Hansman says the district’s overly restrictive approach to hiring is one of many challenges.
“You have good, qualified, certified people that are being passed up in Vancouver and are being hired in neighbouring school districts and are being successful.”
He says one issue is that teachers come to Vancouver and are often blind-sided by the fact they’ll be paid less than if they were working in neighbouring districts. Hansman believes an easy fix as a first step would be changing the pay scale and how to determine where one falls into it.
“(We hear) lots of stories of teachers who applied for and accepted jobs in Vancouver that have ended up returning to their former school district because they’re not being paid the same amount of money. Or people who have accepted better job offers in neighbouring school districts.”
According to the Vancouver School Board, nearly 200 teachers have resigned since the spring, mostly to take jobs in other districts. 119 teachers have retired since the end of June, which is higher than the previous annual average of about 80.
As of this week, there are 51 full and part time vacancies in the Vancouver School District. The most difficult teaching positions to fill are in French Immersion, special education, math, sciences, counselling, technical studies and Mandarin.
In a statement, David Nelson with the Board says VSB recruitment teams are travelling to Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan to recruit new teachers.
“We’re now able to provide moving allowances to out-of-province teacher candidates,” says Nelson. “And we’re working with employee groups to identify homestays for out-of-province hires to make it easier for them to have a place to stay while settling in to Vancouver.” | 1,877 |
er male (Veronica is white and blonde). Thus, the original film’s political satire is turned on its head. It was applauded by far-right commentators, which was probably not the intention. As one review put it: “If you believe that kids these days are fragile ‘snowflakes’, that political correctness is running amok, and that LGBT people are now society’s true bullies, this new Heathers is the show for you.”
The series was scheduled to air this March but was postponed at the last minute in light of the high-school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Three months later, after the Santa Fe school shooting, the show was pulled from US schedules altogether. “The combination of a high school show with these very dark moments didn’t feel right,” said the studio, although it has been made available, without fanfare, in some European and African countries – where presumably the far-right vibes play better. A sequel to Heathers the movie was also talked about for many years, says Michael Lehmann. Winona Ryder was especially keen. “Her idea was that the Heathers had all gone to work in Washington DC.” In its absence, some of that Heathers legacy has percolated down through the generations, in teen movies such as Clueless, Mean Girls and Election, or this year’s Thoroughbreds, about two privileged white girls who coolly plot a murder.
Now Lehmann wonders if we’re not actually living in a Heathers sequel: “I watch the American political news and I can’t believe how much it’s like high school! I watch Kellyanne Conway and Sarah Huckabee Sanders: they are Heathers – absolutely flat out. Ivanka is certainly a Heather, and Donald Trump himself is like a big Heather!” There’s something about the Trump establishment’s combination of pitiless, cliquey belligerence and presentational power-dressing that suggests teenage girls aren’t the only ones who’ve been using Heathers as a style manual. In an irony Veronica would surely appreciate, the jocks and the bullies and the mean girls triumphed after all. That’s not to suggest someone needs to blow up the White House and make it look like a mass suicide, but it’s certainly fuel for some kind of rebellion.
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Ted Cruz's latest political ad turned out to be too hot for TV.
The Texas senator's campaign confirmed late Thursday that it had pulled a commercial hitting Florida Sen. Marco Rubio over illegal immigration because one of the actresses had previously appeared in pornographic films.
The actress in question, Amy Lindsay, described herself as a Christian conservative and a Republican in an interview with Buzzfeed News late Thursday. She also tweeted her displeasure that the video was pulled from the airwaves.
Cruz campaign spokesman Rick Tyler said Lindsay had responded to an open casting call for the ad.
"Unfortunately, she was not vetted by the production company," Tyler said. "Had the campaign known of her full filmography, we obviously would not have let her appear in the ad."
An Internet Movie Database page in Lindsay's name lists her as appearing in several movies with titles like "Carnal Wishes" and "Insatiable Desire". She is also listed as having appeared in the TV series "Star Trek: Voyager" and the 1996 film adaptation of Henry James' novel "The Portrait of a Lady."
Lindsay's acting background was first reported by the Daily Caller.
The ad, titled "Conservatives Anonymous" featured a faux self-help session in which voters lamented their past support for Rubio.
"I voted for a guy who was a Tea Party hero on the campaign trail then he went to D.C. and played patty cake with Chuck Schumer and cut a deal on amnesty," one of the participants, a middle-aged man, tells the group.
The group moderator asks him: "Does that make you angry?"
"Angry? No, it makes me feel dumb for trusting him," the middle-aged man says.
Lindsay played a woman who tells another group member, "Maybe you should vote for more than just a pretty face next time."
Responding to the ad before it was pulled, Rubio accused Cruz of changing positions on a pathway to citizenship and other immigration issues, telling Fox News: “He's willing to say or do anything to win an election.”
“He portrays himself as some sort of immigration purist," Rubio added. "The bottom line is when immigration reform was being debated in Washington, Ted Cruz was a passionate spokesperson on behalf of legalizing people that are in this country illegally, so he either wasn't telling the truth then or he isn't telling the truth now."
Fox News' Dan Gallo and Serafin Gomez contributed to this report.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with Singapore's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, at the Istana in Singapore on Sunday. KCNA via REUTERS
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Singapore ahead of a historic summit with US President Donald Trump.
Along with an extensive security detail, the North Korean leader took his own personal toilet to the meeting.
South Korean media reported that the portable toilet "will deny determined sewer divers insights into to the supreme leader's stools."
Kim Jong Un has arrived in Singapore ahead of a historic summit with US President Donald Trump - and he brought his toilet.
The North Korean leader is said to always travel with several toilets, including one in his Mercedes.
Daily NK, a South Korean website focusing on North Korea news, reported in 2015 that "the restrooms are not only in Kim Jong Un's personal train but whatever small or midsize cars he is traveling with and even in special vehicles that are designed for mountainous terrain or snow."
The publication quoted an unnamed source as saying, "It is unthinkable in a Suryeong-based society for him to have to use a public restroom just because he travels around the country." Suryeong is a Korean term meaning "supreme leader."
Kim's toilet. Korean Central News Agency
So, why does Kim always travel with several lavatories at his disposal? According to The Chosun Ilbo, a South Korean newspaper, the portable toilets "will deny determined sewer divers insights into to the supreme leader's stools."
The secrecy of the North Korean leader's health is, apparently, paramount.
"Rather than using a public restroom, the leader of North Korea has a personal toilet that follows him around when he travels," Lee Yun-keol, a former member of a North Korean Guard Command unit who defected, told The Washington Post.
Lee explained, "The leader's excretions contain information about his health status so they can't be left behind."
Kim's urine and fecal matter are periodically examined to check for illnesses and other health indicators, according to Daily NK.
US-North Korean relations have seemingly come a long way in the past few months - it was only January when a top authority on North Korea suggested that the US should bomb Kim's personal toilet to put fear in him.
"It will send an unmistakable message: We can kill you while you are dropping a deuce," Jeffrey Lewis wrote.
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Australia is famous for a few things: sunshine, excellent beaches and a huge array of deadly animals that will bite/poison/sting you at a moment's notice.
With that in mind, a group of researchers have created a new shark-detecting drone capable of finding the apex predators underwater, quicker than the human eye and with a higher level of accuracy.
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The technology, known as SharkSpotter, uses an algorithm to detect sharks in a live video feed recorded in real time by a drone (known as the Little Ripper Livesaver) flying above the water. Using a world-first algorithm, developed using artificial intelligence and deep neural networks, SharkSpotter is able to distinguish sharks from dolphins, rays and other marine animals, and even surfers. Thanks to an onboard megaphone, the drone can also warn swimmers about what's lurking in the water before they've even seen the threat.
Australia saw a total of 26 shark attacks in 2016, including two fatalities, according to statistics from Taronga Conservation Society Australia. But while that number is arguably low (particularly compared to the number of swimmers that hit Australia's beaches every summer) the spectre of shark attacks looms large over the Australian consciousness.
But the new technology has the potential to more accurately detect the animals before a potential shark-human encounter even becomes a risk.
The drones are the brain-child of The Little Ripper Group, which worked in partnership with researchers from the University of Technology Sydney's School of Software for more than a year to develop the shark-spotting technology.
UTS Professor Michael Blumenstein said the technology will have a real positive impact for the public by using technology to make beaches safer.
"The automated system for detection and identification of sharks in particular, and marine life/objects more generally, was developed using cutting edge deep neural networks and images processing techniques," said UTS Professor Michael Blumenstein.
"The system efficiently distinguishes and identifies sharks from other targets by processing video feeds that are dynamic as well as images, where objects are static."
The drones will commence regular patrols along beaches in New South Wales and Queensland on Australia's east coast from September, for the start of the Surf Life Saving patrol season.
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asked, “Senator, do you care to respond to their complaints?”
Flakes replied, “No, I need to go to the hearing. I just issue a statement. I’ll be saying more as well.”
The feed returned to CNN and wounded faces. Rather than address the women’s baseless positions — or their rude harassment of a man trying to exit an elevator — the network presented the situation as a disheartening example of the evil of a Republican congressman.
Host Jim Sciutto solemnly mourned:
“I don’t think we’ve witnessed a moment like that in recent memory — a U.S. senator confronted by two, I believe…women who say that they have been raped themselves, one of them saying to him — and I’m quoting here through tears — ‘Don’t look away from me. Look at me and tell me that it doesn’t matter what happens to me.’ Just remarkable.”
Co-host Poppy Harlow replied:
“It is remarkable. We just witnessed about five minutes of Republican Senator Jeff Flake, after he made an incredibly important decision to vote for Judge Kavanaugh — after he heard from Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh yesterday — confronted in the elevator by those two women, as you’ve said. Jim, his answers to them? ‘Thank you, I need to get to the hearing (Sciutto lamented, “Yeah”). You will hear more from me in just a moment.’ He did not answer their questions. … Let’s talk about what this means for this country, for America, beyond this vote.”
Unbelievable. But this is the Left. This is the fallacy of emotion and partisanship overriding critical thinking. This is the corruption of the media. And, in the immortal words of James Earle Jones, “This is CNN.”
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Hours after saying that dialogue with the Catalan cabinet over the independence crisis would be put on hold, the Spanish government has changed its position and accepted to sit and talk with the Catalan government, although no date has been set yet. Initially they had said that following the announcement of a snap election in Catalonia in the coming months, discussions on formal negotiation between Madrid and Barcelona executives would be off the table at the meeting between Spain’s president, Pedro Sánchez, and Catalan leader, Quim Torra, on February 6 in Barcelona.
The Socialist-led cabinet in Spain had made a statement on Thursday saying that the talks were postponed. “Spain’s government hopes to be able to engage in this dialogue once the Catalan people have had their say and the new parliament and government have taken office. The sooner the snap election is held and the new government is formed, the sooner we will begin dialogue,” the statement read. Madrid said that this meeting would go ahead as “urgent matters for Catalan society need to be solved,” such as the consequences of Storm Gloria.
The Catalan government did not welcome the initial statement from Madrid. President Quim Torra said he hoped “President Sánchez will not close any door to dialogue in this meeting and will not exclude any topic.” Torra wants that the February talk does not only touch on issues such as Storm Gloria, but also on the underlying independence crisis – he aims to ask Sánchez for “self-determination, end of repression and amnesty,” as recently agreed by all parties in favor of a Catalan Republic.
Explore dialogue
Indeed one of the two reasons given by Torra on Wednesday for not calling a snap election immediately was the will to “explore” dialogue with Madrid, with the other being approving the 2020 budget in parliament.
As for Esquerra (ERC), the other government partner whose row with Torra’s Junts per Catalunya prompted the snap election, the party initially accused the Socialists of “absolute irresponsibility.” “It is many months until elections are held,” said ERC’s spokesperson Sergi Sabrià in a statement.
The left-wing pro-independence force enabled Pedro Sánchez to stay in power in exchange for the launching of a “bilateral negotiation table between governments” on the Catalan crisis. “Postponing the negotiation table is a blatant breach of the agreement,” said Sabrià. | 1,883 |
With Payal Tadvi’s suicide still fresh in collective memory, Mumbai Mirror has reported that a fresh case rife with charges of ragging and counter-ragging has risen out of the same hospital.
The report notes that while authorities at Mumbai’s BYL Nair Hospital are yet to determine ‘who is wrong’, there has been sufficient delay in the steps they should have taken when news first arrived of the alleged ragging.
A senior doctor, Reshma Bangar, reportedly locked herself up in her room on September 12 after having been accused of ragging by first-year post-graduate student doctor, Sadiya Shaikh Tadvi.
Reshma’s actions, reported the paper, sparked panic in the hospital, but she could eventually be convinced to come out. The head of the ENT department, to which both doctors belong, however, only referred to the hospital’s anti-ragging committee on September 17, a full five days later.
When Payal Tadvi’s mother Abeda had gone to collect her belongings from her quarters, late in September, The Wire‘s Sukanya Shantha had accompanied them and noted in her article the new presence of big posters across each floor, announcing that ragging is a punishable offence.
A senior doctor also told her that an anti-ragging committee met every month in the aftermath of Payal’s death. But Payal’s husband Salman had maintained that these changes were too little too late.
In the latest case, Reshma reportedly complained to the anti-ragging committee that Sadiya had been “rude with her”. Sadiya, on the other hand, has alleged that Reshma overburdened her and often harassed her. It was when Sadiya told Reshma that she would be lodging a complaint with seniors about her “behaviour” that the latter locked herself up, reported Mirror.
he report also quoted hospital dean Ramesh Bharmal as noting that there have been an abundance of juniors-versus-seniors complaints in the aftermath of Payal’s death. Payal had named three of her seniors in her suicide note. All three were held but are out on bail now.
While Bharmal confirmed to the paper that it was indeed a fresh ragging case the hospital was looking into, he also said “it could even be a petty fight.”
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(NaturalNews) It may be a simple coincidence, or it may be the perfect embodiment of exactly why thousands of protesters across the US are hitting the streets en masse under the banner of Occupy Wall Street (OWS). Earlier this year, financial giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. donated $4.6 million to the New York Police Department (NYPD) to "strengthen security in the Big Apple" and several months later, the NYPD conveniently arrests over 700 individuals, all at one time, involved in peaceful OWS protests.JPMorgan Chase, of course, is already the epitome of what OWS protesters are speaking out against -- the corporation was one of the first to receive taxpayer-funded federal bailout money to the tune of at least $12 billion from the Federal Reserve back in 2008. And meanwhile, millions of Americans are still unemployed or underemployed as the US economy continues its rapid descent into oblivion.By all appearances, JPMorgan's generous donation to NYPD is no different than Monsanto's donations to political candidates in exchange for support of policies that shelter genetically-modified organisms (GMO) from public scrutiny.It is similar to Merck & Co.'s donations to Texas Gov. Rick Perry in exchange for pushing Gardasil on young schoolgirls. It is just that, in this case, instead of taking place on the federal level with politicians, corporate bribary is now occurring at the local level with law enforcement.You can see JPMorgan's donation announcement here:The OWS protests, which officially began on September 17, 2011, in New York City, and have since spread to other US cities, have received little media attention -- that is until it was exposed that NYPD officers were pepper spraying and arresting large groups of nonviolent protesters. And even following the rapid spread of this information through alternative media sources and YouTube, the mainstream media (MSM) has been lacking, to say the least, in maintaining any semblance of adequate coverage of the events ( https://www.naturalnews.com/033761_Occupy_Wal... ).Nevertheless, any corporation -- especially one like JPMorgan Chase -- that donates nearly $5 million to a police department most likely expects something in return. In this case, it is too odd a coincidence that the corporation's donation to NYPD, which represents the largest donation it has ever received, comes just before Wall Street protesters were planning to hit the streets to protest against both it and the many other corporations that have corrupted the entire US government.Those interested in following the OWS protests can view live streaming footage of the events taking place in New York City here: | 1,885 |
’t end and she can still afford to go back to school.
“Obviously I think about it and it’s a little scary but I don’t let it take over me,” Martinez said.
Lepe says if Martinez’s work permit is rescinded, “I would keep Karla until the very last second” and probably wouldn’t hire a replacement. “I don’t think anyone can compare,” she says.
“IT REALLY EMPOWERS YOU”
Chuck Rocha, the founder of Solidarity Strategies, employs DACA recipient Luis Alcauter at his Washington D.C.-based political consulting firm, which specializes in outreach to Latinos. Losing Alcauter “would be devastating,” Rocha said.
Alcauter, 27, came to the United States from Mexico when he was 13, and attended California State University, Fresno, where he developed an interest in politics, which led to his interning on Capitol Hill. The internship was possible, he said, because of his DACA status.
“To be able to have the documents and be able to apply wherever you want, it really empowers you to think beyond the place you were,” Alcauter said. “It just empowers people to be able to find a job, to get a car, to buy a house, to move around, to contribute to their families.”
“I ACTUALLY HAVE A GOOD CAR”
Juan Ochoa, CEO of Miramar Group, an Illinois-based facilities management company that oversees 1,200 buildings nationwide, said his company will hire an attorney to try to keep DACA employee Jay Meza, 23, if the program ends.
“I have a good job now,” said Meza, who came to the United States from Mexico with his parents and brother when he was 3 years old. “I actually am looking forward to buying my first house. I actually have a good car.”
Ochoa said Meza started at Miramar doing data entry and analyzing spreadsheets and went on to help the company build a system allowing it to track its buildings and employees.
“We have invested a lot of time and money in training Jay, and so it would be a significant loss to us,” he said.
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The reality star turned criminal justice advocate appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Monday, where she shared with the host her experience successfully lobbying the president to pardon Alice Marie Johnson.
Kardashian West said she connected with the great-grandmother, who served 22 years of a lifetime sentence for a first-time nonviolent drug offense, after discovering her story on Twitter.
That led to her working to secure a meeting at the Oval Office, she said.
"I walk in and I look around and I'm kinda starstruck by the Oval Office. And the first thing I say in our meeting, I say, 'Holy s**t we're in the f***ing Oval Office,'" Kardashian West recalled.
She said she was naked and in the midst of a photo shoot when Trump called her about the meeting.
"I'm naked and my phone rings and I'm all glammed up," Kardashian West told Kimmel. "I'm like '[Gasp] get me a robe!'"
"I put a robe on and I was kinda bugging out during the shoot, because I'm like, 'Oh, my God, all these amazing things are happening,' and I'm still going to be me," she added. "I'm like, 'What do we do? Do I do this nude shoot, don't I do this nude shoot?' And I did it."
Kimmel seemed tickled by the revelation.
"Did the president know you were in a robe and nothing else?" Kimmel jokingly asked. "Cause he probably would have released the whole prison."
The makeup mogul also discussed her husband, rapper Kanye West's continued admiration for Trump. She said she doesn't debate politics with her spouse.
"To make it clear, when we would talk about it and would talk about policies, he doesn't necessarily agree with [Trump's] policies," she said. "He likes his personality and how he made it to be president when everyone really underestimated him. [Kanye]'s not political, so he doesn't really dig deep with what's going on."
Kardashian West said she follows a similar path as her husband's when it comes to Trump.
"I have nothing bad to say about the president. You know, he's done something amazing," she said. "I don't agree with everything either. I had no idea what to expect going in there and I was like, 'Look, I'm going to be focused.' It really turned my idea around in this category." | 1,887 |
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A massive box set of David Bowie‘s recordings from the ’80s is set to be released. Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) will be dropping on October 21st through Parlophone.
The box set will contain eleven CD’s and a fifteen-piece vinyl set. Including a brand new production of the 1987 album Never Let Me Down by producer Mario McNulty. It will also feature new instrumentation by frequent Bowie collaborators Reeves Gabrels (guitar), David Torn (guitar), Sterling Campbell (drums), Tim Lefebvre (bass) and a string arrangement by Nico Muhly.
For more information check out the David Bowie website here.
DAVID BOWIE ‘LOVING THE ALIEN (1983-1988)’
LP Box Set:
88 Page hardback book
Let’s Dance (remastered) (1LP)
Serious Moonlight (Live ’83) (previously unreleased) (2LP)*
Tonight (remastered) (1LP)
Never Let Me Down (remastered) (1LP)
Never Let Me Down (2018) (previously unreleased) (2LP – side 4 is etched)*
Glass Spider (Live Montreal ’87) (previously unreleased on vinyl) (3LP)*
Dance (2LP)*
Re:Call 4 (non-album singles, edits, single versions, b-sides and soundtrack music) (remastered) (3LP)*
* Exclusive to ‘Loving The Alien (1983-1988) LP box’
CD Box Set:
128 Page hardback book
Let’s Dance (remastered) (1CD)
Serious Moonlight (Live ’83) (previously unreleased) (2CD)
Tonight (remastered) (1CD)
Never Let Me Down (remastered) (1CD)
Never Let Me Down 2018 (previously unreleased) (1CD)*
Glass Spider (Live Montreal ’87) (2CD)
Dance (1CD)*
Re:Call 4 (non-album singles, edits, single versions, b-sides and soundtrack music) (remastered) (2CD)*
* Exclusive to ‘Loving The Alien (1983-1988)’ | 1,888 |
heart, and made this sense of tension all but disappear. Perhaps it will do the same for you. After reading my post, this is what Mike shared:
“Good for you to experience a lifestyle that none of us will. Good for you to take a huge risk. Good for you to dive headfirst into an industry that a lot of people have judgment against. Good for you for partying your face off with beautiful people. And good for you for not getting completely sucked in and staying a beautiful person on the inside too. We can either judge the “stupid shit” we did when we were kids or just realize that it was EXACTLY what we needed in that moment.”
There it is, friends.
What do you need to reflect on? What have you learned from? I know we’re only 2 months into 2015, and we’re so focused on making this the best year yet, but what if we’re not ready to focus on the future? What if we still need to share something we’ve been reflecting on recently?
If this sounds like you, this is your chance to share whatever you want to share. If you have something specifically you’re reflecting on, share with yourself, with your friends, and with your family. And these questions might help:
What did you learn about yourself in this experience? Do you feel like sharing? Would that help you? If so, what do you feel like sharing and to whom do you feel like sharing? Now go and share!
These guiding questions will keep us moving forward with full awareness, limitless growth, and relentless joy- three elusive principles we must cling to in this life.
While I may not have accomplished what I planned to accomplish in Miami, the life lessons that came from it where priceless.
The thoughts of failure were everywhere to be found. I placed so much value on being “good enough” as a model. And these last 8 months I’ve been reflecting, growing, and healing my relationship with myself and what I put myself through. And now, I’m excited to share I’m done reflecting, and my starting to share.
See, there’s a difference between sharing and reflecting. Reflecting brings this sense of awareness and growth, and sharing brings this feeling of freedom and truth. At least for me. And I wish the same for you.
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as he muttered, “It sounds like a foreign language to me.”
The tone of the meeting was not lost on those who were using the Internet to watch it. Their attitude can be summed up in tweets from ‘Tentacle Sixteen’, who commented, “You’re not supposed to have a look of horror on your face when asked if you’ll make details of a public project public.”
He continued: “The most worrying thing out of this select committee so far is IDS’ constant assertion that he doesn’t have to tell people everything.”
And he concluded: “You’re a f***ing public servant IDS, you bloody do have to tell us everything.”
This is exactly the issue.
The information content of this meeting was zero – or as close to it as possible. What we got was a display of posturing, “hubris” – as Debbie Abrahams rightly identified it – and further obfuscation of the facts.
What the meeting did reveal was everything we need to know about Iain Duncan Smith. Here is a man who understands nothing about being a public servant. He thinks that, sitting in a plush Whitehall office, with civil servants running around clearing up his various disasters, that he is somehow above the rest of us and doesn’t have to justify himself.
He’s completely mistaken. He is there as our servant – to act in a way that suits us, not him. It is disrespectful of him to treat us this way.
But he just doesn’t get it.
If enough people had seen his performance today, he could have single-handedly lost the next election for the Conservative Party.
(If you’ve got the stomach for it, you can watch the meeting for yourself, here.)
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Thierry Rogue / Belga / AFP | A total of eight people have been arrested in Belgium in connection with the Paris attacks
Belgium is holding two suspects on suspicion of participating in terrorist activities, prosecutors said on Thursday, bringing the number of people it has charged over links to the Paris attacks to eight.
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"Two other suspects have been charged... in the framework of the Paris attacks," a spokesman for the prosecutor's office told AFP, confirming reports that the two had been arrested on Sunday.
Flemish public television VRT said one of the suspects knew Bilal Hadfi, one of the suicide bombers who blew himself up at the French national stadium north of Paris.
The suspect, a 20-year-old Frenchman named a Samir Z., was held for questioning at Zaventem airport, northwest of Brussels, as he prepared to board a flight to Morocco, the broadcaster said.
The second suspect, a 28-year-old Belgian named as Pierre N., was arrested in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, where several of the Paris attackers resided, including suspected ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud who was killed in a raid by French police.
Since the investigation opened, six other suspects have been charged in connection with the November 13 attacks that left 130 people dead at the stadium, as well as in a concert hall and restaurants across the French capital.
Among those held are Mohammed Amri and Hamza Attou who are suspected of having brought back to Brussels Salah Abdeslam, who investigators think played a vital logistical role in the massacre.
Another of those charged, Ali Oulkadi, allegedly drove the key suspects around the Belgian capital. Traces of blood and two handguns were found inside a vehicle of a fourth suspect, Lazez Abraimi.
The identity of the fifth suspect has not been revealed but Belgian media said it is Abdeilah Chouaa, whose link with the attacks remains unknown.
Belgian media have named the sixth suspect as Mohamed Bakkali, who is believed to be the owner of a home in the southern town of Auvelais that had served as a hideout until it was raided November 26.
He was charged the following day "with terrorist murder and with participating in the activities of a terrorist group."
The police meanwhile Thursday released two other people who were questioned as witnesses following raids in Brussels.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP)
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President Donald Trump gave the go-ahead for a new safety watchdog that would allow Maryland, Virginia and D.C. to resume responsibility for oversight of Metro. The Federal Transit Administration assumed control over safety oversight after a series of critical lapses, including an incident in 2015 where a train filled with smoke, killing an Alexandria woman and hospitalizing 80 others.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed legislation Tuesday giving the go-ahead for a new safety watchdog that would allow Maryland, Virginia and D.C. to take back primary responsibility for safety oversight of Metro.
Trump’s signature is the final legislative step in creating the Metro Safety Commission, although staffers still need to be formally hired.
The Federal Transit Administration has been overseeing safety on the rail system since late 2015 following a series of critical lapses.
In January 2015, an Alexandria, Virginia, woman died and more than 80 people were taken to the hospital after they were trapped in a smoke-filled train stopped near one of the system’s underground stations.
But the federal government’s move to assume safety oversight was designed as a temporary measure.
To provide a longer-term solution, the FTA required that Virginia, Maryland and D.C. establish an effective safety monitor. Lawmakers in those jurisdictions approved legislation to create the new safety commission. Maryland and Virginia lawmakers acted after federal officials announced they would withhold millions of dollars in transportation funding until the states acted to create the new commission.
The legislation passed through Congress earlier this month
However, the FTA will continue to oversee safety for the time being until it determines that the new commission is properly assembled and capable of meeting its responsibilities.
Lawmakers from both parties spoke in favor of the legislation when the House approved it in July.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said the bill responds to the safety needs of the system. At the same time, he said, it’s essential to invest in the transit service to ensure greater reliability and efficiency.
“If we didn’t have the Metro system, what is already one of the most traffic-plagued and congested regions in the country would be absolutely paralyzed,” Raskin said.
Metrorail provides transit service for more than 600,000 customers a day and is the second busiest transit system in the nation, serving 91 stations in Virginia, Maryland and the District. It is the only transit system in the nation without a dedicated source of funding.
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“FOUR PLUS TWO”
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham is one of the most liberal politicians in Washington, D.C. – yet he’s been reelected twice in one of the most “conservative” states in America.
How’d he do it? By “counting to six.”
Graham was recently asked by one of his colleagues in Washington, D.C. how he managed to keep getting reelected by Palmetto State voters.
His response came in the form of a question …
“Do you know how to count to six?” he asked the lawmaker.
“Sure … one, two, three, four, five, six!”
“Wrong,” Graham told him. “Four plus two.”
The legislator shot him a quizzical look …
“It’s simple,” Graham explained. “I can do whatever I want for the first four years of my term as long as I behave during the last two years – people never remember back more than two years in politics.”
Interesting … and probably accurate.
In 2009 – the year after his last reelection – Graham was the only “Republican” in Washington, D.C. to embrace Barack Obama‘s “cap and trade” energy tax.
Now in 2015 – the year after he won his third term – Graham is back on the climate science bandwagon, joining fellow de facto Democrats Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Mark Kirk of Illinois to form a left-wing consortium of sorts on global warming.
“It is possible to produce a safe, clean environment, and create new well-paying jobs for Americans of all generations,” Graham said in announcing the formation of the new group.
Seriously?
Has the federal government’s “green jobs scam” not been sufficiently unmasked?
Oh right … that happened more than two years ago.
Anyway … rather than write another “Lindsey Graham is being liberal again” column (God knows he’ll never stop providing fodder for those), we figured we would present his latest leftward lurch within the context of his broader political modus operandi.
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Seattle? They lost three home games by less than a touchdown in 2011, all with chances to win in the 4th quarter. Let's look at those games: Oct. 2: Falcons 30, Seahawks 28 — With the Seahawks down 24-7 at the half, Jackson performs admirably to get the Seahawks back in the game. With 1:49 left in the game and no timeouts, T-Jack completes a series of short checkdowns over the middle to set up a 61-yard field goal. Miss. Seahawks lose. T-Jack isn't at fault here, but neither is he impressive under pressure. Nov. 27: Redskins 23, Seahawks 17 — The Seahawks start the quarter by gaining a 17-7 lead. As the Redskins "storm" back with field goals, here are the four final Seahawks' possessions: 3 and out, 3 and out, turnover on downs in 4 plays, interception on third play. Jackson's numbers on those drives: 4-7 for 22 yards, 2 sacks that ended possessions, and a game-sealing INT. In front of a home crowd. AGAINST THE REDSKINS. Dec. 24: 49ers 19, Seahawks 17 — Even with Jackson struggling against the very good Niners D, the Seahawks take a 17-16 lead after a blocked punt gives the 'Hawks the ball on the 4, an easy one-play touchdown drive thanks to Marshawn Lynch. After San Francisco answers with a field goal, the Seahawks get the ball twice in the final three minutes. Those possessions end in a T-Jack fumble and a quick turnover on downs due to incompletions. None of this takes into account the 23-20 Week 17 OT loss in Arizona where Jackson engineered a three-and-out before the 'Hawks punted and gave up a field goal. The Seahawks have a very good young defense. They have a great running game with an improving offensive line. They have arguably the best home-field advantage in the NFL. Their coach... is, uh, better than Jim Mora. But they're trotting out the same incompetent dickbag who single-handedly kept them from a winning record EVEN THOUGH THEY SIGNED SOMEONE BETTER TO REPLACE HIM.
Indeed they did.
Wanna be part of the Deadspin NFL previews? It's simple. Just email me and give me ample evidence of why your team sucks. I'll throw any good material into the post and give you proper credit. Next team up: THE BUZZSAW THAT IS THE ARIZONA CARDINALS. | 1,894 |
chair of the finance committee says a long-promised review of the tax code should be handed off to an independent group of experts – not MPs.
> And the organization representing refugee sponsors is telling groups frustrated by not yet receiving families from Syria to chill. "We have the time and the space and the energy to temper our own senses of anger and entitlement because what really matters is the people whose lives are hanging in the balance on the other side of the world. … I'm having a problem with some of our First World senses of entitlement to all of this," said Scott McLeod of the Canadian Refugee Sponsorship Agreement Holders Association.
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WHAT EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT
"Promised outlays for youth employment got shortchanged in other areas of the budget as well. For a prime minister representing generational change, it's odd, especially given the Liberals' willingness to spend, spend, spend and to go into big, big and bigger deficits. Retreating on the EI-reduction plan is not such a big deal in itself. But the frequency with which pledges are being cast aside is a legitimate cause for concern. Trudeau team members surely don't need to be reminded of the importance of maintaining the public trust. If they don't keep their word, they'll lose it." – Lawrence Martin.
Gwyn Morgan (Globe and Mail): "Running up the national debt in the face of these realities means handing the next generation a massive debt burden." (for subscribers)
Emmett Macfarlane (National Post): "Appointments to Canada's highest court have historically been conducted entirely behind-the-scenes, with the public's only knowledge of an appointment coming when it is announced. Given the importance of the [Supreme] Court as a governing institution, especially in light of its policy-making power under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the opacity of the process is unacceptable in the modern era."
Chantal Hébert (Toronto Star): "For anyone who believes or simply hopes against hope that governing parties need not to be ushered off to opposition limbo to clean up their ethical act, the first half of the mandates of Quebec's Philippe Couillard and Ontario's Kathleen Wynne offer cautionary tales."
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Income mixing and segregation Taking a look at the new StatCan D-index and related income mixing metrics At the end of June StatCan released an interesting census tract level metric, dubbed the D-index, measuring how much the income distribution in each census tract differs from the metro-wide distribution, and we decided to take it for a test drive. We are a bit of a sucker for this kind of fine-geography index. Condensing our wealth of information into a single number is an interesting exercise that involves lots of attention to detail. Continue Reading Categories
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Covid school modelling Looking at the impact of different test, trace and isolation protocols. BC schools are about to restart, and there is a high level of anxiety among parents and teachers. In this post we will outline some common concerns, and run modelling adapted from the University of Washington network-based model to test the relative effectiveness of various test, trace, and isolate (TTI) scenarios. Cases in schools There will be cases at schools. Quebec already has over 180 schools with reported cases, Ontario had over 7 on their first day of school. Continue Reading Category
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Keeping the Leavers Some people have a hard time making room for newcomers, but how about making room for people to stay? (Joint with Nathan Lauster and cross-posted at HomeFreeSociology) Do people select cities from diverse alternatives? Or do cities select residents from diverse flows of people? The answer is pretty much: both. People can look around and consider where they want to end up. And cities, through municipal policies, can and do work to select their residents. EXCEPT cities can’t do this directly. At least across North America, cities generally aren’t allowed to establish and maintain their own immigration policies. Continue Reading Categories
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Covid Series 3 Survey A quick tour through Covid series 3 survey data. I was browsing the Canadian Perspectives Survey Series 3 on Resuming Economic and Social Activities During COVID-19 and thought that some of the results were interesting. I don’t have time to do a detailed post on this, but thought that others might enjoy a quick series of graphs highlighting some of the result. The survey is only released as microdata, and I have not seen much uptake or reporting other than the high-level results put out by StatCan in The Daily. Continue Reading Categories
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A rocket fired from Gaza struck open land in a residential area of the southern town of Sderot on Friday night. There were no injuries reported, although there was some damage to property, and several people needed treatment for shock.
Israel Police said that a bus was damaged in the strike, while the Ynet website reported that a home was also damaged. The residents were inside at the time of the strike, Ynet said, adding that several people were treated at the scene for shock. One woman was taken to Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon after complaining of chest pains and ringing in her ears, the website reported.
Air raid sirens sounded at around 8:45 p.m. Friday night in southern Israeli communities along the Gaza border, after Israeli defenses identified two rocket launches from the coastal strip.
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The “code red” alert was heard in Sderot and nearby communities, Channel 10 television said. The Home Front Command confirmed the rocket launches and instructed local residents to enter their protected areas.
Sderot municipality called Friday night for a strong Israeli response to the rocket fire.
“There is a pattern of activity designed to harm [local] inhabitants, in particular at sensitive times such as the holidays,” the city council said. “We have to exact a heavy price from Hamas and respond aggressively to the fire – and not just as a response.”
The attack followed a day of clashes in Jerusalem between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters.
The Islamist Hamas movement, which rules the Gaza Strip, had declared Friday to be a “Day of Rage” in response to days of violence on and around the Temple Mount — a site holy to Jews and Muslims that houses the al-Aqsa Mosque.
Israel had restricted entry to the Mount for Friday prayers earlier in the day, allowing only women and men over the age of 40 to pray there. Hundreds of Palestinians protested outside the Damascus Gate on Friday and three Border Police officers were wounded in an attack in the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood of Jerusalem.
Sderot and the surrounding area were battered by rockets during Israel’s 50-day war with Hamas last summer. The rocket strikes mostly tailed off after the conflict, although there has been sporadic fire in recent days as tensions flared in Jerusalem. Most recently, a rocket fired at Israel from Gaza early Wednesday fell short of the border and landed in the Palestinian coastal territory. | 1,897 |
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to University of Pennsylvania climate communicator Hanna Morris, use of the word “Anthropocene” facilitates disregard for the disproportionate suffering of indigenous peoples, and encourages the false belief that we are all equally guilty for the current climate crisis.
The language of climate change—and the Anthropocene
Brandon Baker
February 5, 2019
Hanna E. Morris, a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication who researches environmental communication, explains the sudden rise of ‘Anthropocene’ as the latest buzzword in the climate dialogue.
Climate change, global warming, climate crisis—the operative term for the most pressing global issue seems to change by the year.
It’s how we discuss climate change that intrigues Hanna Morris, a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication, who will soon present a new paper that assesses climate news frames at the annual International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) conference this July in Madrid, Spain. She tackles the rise of the term “Anthropocene” in climate news, which can be summarized as a relatively new word that is meant to mark the beginning of a new epoch defined by human-caused environmental change.
In the paper, Morris argues that the word not only misinterprets the actual share of blame—the oversimplified notion that humans are all equally responsible for climate change—but ties up the problem in a neat, media-friendly bow.
“By eliminating differences,” she writes in the paper, “histories of colonial violence, and the disproportionate burden of environmental harm felt by Indigenous people is neutralized and therefore evaded. The idea of the Anthropocene therefore validates ‘planetary scale’ projects designed by white male capitalists working from an unaddressed imperial logic.”
Colonialism and capitalism, she argues, drove climate change, and are now deciding how to frame who is responsible for it, who is most affected, how it will be solved, and how we should collectively feel about it.
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“So, by saying that we all are to blame and that we all are equally experiencing climate change in a new epoch is a dangerous generalization that wipes away historical context. I worry that European and North American powers are once again perpetuating imperial violence and harm through the idea of the Anthropocene. And I explore this problem across the United States news media in my most recent paper.”
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Yesterday, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) introduced legislation that would recognize the medicinal use of marijuana and remove marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.
The issue of regulating medical marijuana would be returned to the states, and individuals complying with state medical marijuana laws would be exempt from federal arrest and prosecution. The bill, the States' Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act, H.R. 689, also requires greater access to marijuana for medical research.
“The States’ Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act will allow medical marijuana patients and businesses – who are complying with state law – the ability to access and distribute marijuana free from federal interference,” Blumenauer said. “Nineteen jurisdictions have passed laws recognizing the importance of providing access to medical marijuana for the hundreds of thousands of patients who rely on it. It is time for the federal government to respect these decisions, and stop inhibiting safe access.”
Over the past decade, polls have consistently found that about three out of four Americans support medical marijuana.
“There is a plethora of scientific evidence establishing marijuana’s medical safety and efficacy and public polling for marijuana law reform is skyrocketing,” said Jasmine L. Tyler, deputy director of national affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance. “However, when it comes to marijuana and the federal government, old fashioned politics routinely trumps modern science. The States' Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act offers us hope we will see significant change with its passage.”
The bill was introduced with bipartisan cosponsorship, including Reps. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Jared Polis (D-CO), Barbara Lee (D-CA), James Moran (D-VA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Sam Farr (D-CA), Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Michael Honda (D-CA), and Jared Huffman (D-CA).
Every independent commission to examine marijuana policy has concluded that its harms have been greatly exaggerated – from the 1944 LaGuardia Report, to President Nixon’s 1972 Schaffer Commission report, to the Institute of Medicine’s congressionally-mandated 1999 report.
“Congress should move swiftly to acknowledge what patients, doctors, researchers and scientists have been telling us for years: marijuana has therapeutic and medicinal benefits,” said Tyler. | 1,899 |
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