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Oil prices briefly hit $50 a barrel on Thursday for the first time since October 2015. While the price slipped to just below that point, ending the trading day at $49.48, some small businesses in Calgary said the price bump is bumping up their bottom line.
The owner of Purple Perk Coffee said his business has been improving ever since the price of oil started its long, slow climb up from bottoming out around $27 a barrel in January.
READ MORE: Should Canadians be cheering for lower or higher oil prices?
“Last year we saw a panic in everyone’s eyes,” Paul Overholt said. “When oil went above $40 a barrel you saw the confidence come back, today we see a twinkle in those same eyes.”
The price above $50 only lasted for about half an hour on Thursday, before falling again. Still, it has been making steady progress over the last five months, and that’s been reflected in Alberta’s small business confidence.
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It gained six points in May to 34.6, according to the Business Barometer index published monthly by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB).
But the Alberta results are far below the national average of 58.2, and still several points below the lowest mark from the 2008 recession.
READ MORE: Rising oil prices push Canadian dollar to 9-month high
“Only time will tell if that’s part of a longer-term trend, and certainly we have a long way to go before we can say there’s sunny days, sunny ways ahead,” said Richard Truscott, with the CFIB.
Calgary energy executives said higher prices for six months to a year are what’s really needed, with an average of $60 a barrel for more oilsands projects to make a profit and stop cutbacks in investment and staff.
“I think the reality is, in order to develop upstream we are going to need higher prices long term,” said Al Monaco, president of Enbridge. “But in the immediate short term here, I think it’s been very positive.”
READ MORE: Loonie rises to highest level of 2016 as oil prices also climb
Some analysts believe disruptions in oilsands production because of the Fort McMurray wildfire are partially responsible for the price climb.
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Several major oilsands companies expect to be back at full production by July 1. | 2,800 |
frank-e-fighting-words:
[TW: Colonialism, Imperialism, Genocide]
People used to be murdered and tortured for wearing whatever item you think is cute
they were separated from their families
from their friends
from their histories
raped,
beaten
killed
had their body parts kept as trophies which some of your grandpappies might pass down to you one day if they haven’t already
all of this occurred and continues to occur repeatedly.
Even now
we are discriminated in housing
jobs
classrooms
on the street
you name it
for wearing what we developed.
items that hold spiritual and cultural significance to us
result in our continued oppression
carried out by you and yours
THAT IS WHY YOUR IT LOOKS COOL EXCUSE IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH
THAT IS WHY SHARING CULTURE IS NOT WHAT IS HAPPENING
When you spout bullshit like “you can’t own a culture, to peoples who have had that shit physically ripped away, you are continuing to physically rip that shit away.” We don’t fucking need you to tell us that shit, the generations before us know that very well, those of us who have no road to go back to our cultures KNOW THAT SHIT VERY WELL.
So if you want to do, or wear these things despite this, just say you don’t give a fuck about our suffering,
fuck our mothers
our fathers
our grand parents,
and fuck us because you think some shit is cute.
Fuck the people who were beaten to death, who had their children literally snatched from their arms so that our identities could be taken away and you today could wear bastardized likenesses (because gods know every concept of cool y’all “come up with” is also STOLEN) because your ancestors CHOSE,
I repeat your ancestors CHOSE (we did not get that opportunity) to trade your culture, your histories, your languages in order to crush us under their heels.
I mean unless you propose that it is perfectly okay that we literally appropriate that aspect of your culture? That we take up guns, and anything that can be fashioned as a weapon and make trinkets of your boyfriend, girlfriend, son, daughter, mother, father, etc?
Is that cool with you, since you’re all about sharing culture? | 2,801 |
Looking for a guide to walk you through the creation, care and upkeep of your open source cloud running OpenStack? We've collected some of our favorite tutorials and technical how-tos from the past month all here in one place. Be sure to visit the official documentation for OpenStack if you need further guidance.
In this monthly roundup of our favorite how-tos, guides, and tutorials, we look at gaming servers, log management, benchmarking, and more.
Curious about the health of the physical machines underlying your OpenStack installation? SNMP Inspector lets you run meters to keep an eye on CPU usage, memory, disk, and network stats; while IMPI Inspector can give you insights into fan speeds, voltages, temperatures, and more. Learn how to install and use both to monitor your cluster's physical devices.
Learn how Many cloud platforms, OpenStack included, provide metadata services to make it easier to pass information from the cloud manager to the guest virtual machine instance when it boots. An obvious use for this is passing an ssh-key to the instance to allow for easy log in after the machine goes live, but there are other neat things you can do with bootstrapping as well.
OpenStack isn't always fun and games, but sometimes you can't help but put those spare CPU cycles to use doing something a little more laid back. The folks at Cloudwatt are apparently big fans of Team Fortress 2, and put OpenStack to work automatically installing a TF2 server
The folks at eNovance have provided a great guide for understanding how to benchmark cloud infrastructure before you get it up and running. Rather than providing a detailed step-by-step, this guide gives an overview of the areas you should be considering and how to select the proper tests for each.
Jumpgate is an open source library designed to make more clouds compatible with OpenStack. It aims to connect OpenStack's native APIs with the proprietary APIs of other cloud vendors. Learn more about Jumpgate, how to install it, and how it can be used with OpenStack Horizon to manage multiple regions in this guide
part Our final guide for this month is a three tutorial on OpenStack logging. Get started by installing and configuring rsyslogd, Logstash, and Kibana to process your logs and better understand what's going on under the hood of your OpenStack installation.
That's it for this month. Check out our past OpenStack tutorials collection for more great guides and hints. And if we missed your favorite new guide or resource, let us know in the comments! | 2,802 |
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Since the start of the Ukraine scandal, President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have steadily pushed a debunked theory suggesting that it was Ukraine—not Russia, as the entire US intelligence community has concluded—that meddled in the 2016 presidential election. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the ranking House intelligence committee member, floated the discredited allegation as recently as yesterday during his questioning of Gordon Sondland.
But judging from an opening statement provided by Fiona Hill, the former top White House adviser on Russia testifying this morning, Nunes may want to take a break from fanning those flames today. That’s because, from the outset, Hill makes crystal clear her refusal to entertain that “false narrative,” as Russia’s interference is “beyond dispute.” Here’s what she’ll tell the probe:
Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country—and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did. This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves. The unfortunate truth is that Russia was the foreign power that systematically attacked our democratic institutions in 2016. This is the public conclusion of our intelligence agencies, confirmed in bipartisan Congressional reports. It is beyond dispute, even if some of the underlying details must remain classified.
The no-nonsense statement also appears to take aim at key witnesses who have refused to testify before the inquiry. One of them is former national security adviser John Bolton, Hill’s former boss, who has refused to cooperate with the investigation despite publicly hinting that he has valuable information in regards to impeachment. “I believe that those who have information that the Congress deems relevant have a legal and moral obligation to provide it,” Hill will tell investigators.
FIONA HILL: "Some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia & its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country & that perhaps Ukraine did. This is a fictional narrative perpetrated & propagated by the Russian security services themselves." pic.twitter.com/JZCMcpFuOP — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 21, 2019
For more on the debunked theories Trump allies have seized in the wake of impeachment—and how those theories parallel Vladimir Putin’s views—read my colleague Dan Friedman’s report here. | 2,803 |
One of the obvious and expected consequences or instances of 'blowback' from Israel's unprecedented decision to extend its "anti-Iran" campaign into Iraq, with three airstrikes widely blamed on either Israeli drones or possibly F-35s in the last five weeks, is that it will force a deepening conflict between Iraq's military and US coalition forces.
There's long been a broad base of Iraqi support that would like to see the American presence completely out of the country with the Islamic State long defeated, but now that political bloc just got a lot stronger in the wake of the alleged Israeli raids, at least one of which US officials have already admitted Israel bore responsibility for (a July 19 attack on a Popular Mobilization Forces base in Amirli). A powerful pro-Iran faction of parliament has called Israel's alleged attacks "a declaration of war".
Aftermath of the recent'mystery blast' at a military base southwest of Baghdad. Image source: AP
The Associated Press reports in the aftermath of yet another Israeli drone strike targeting and killing a Kataeb Hezbollah leader in al-Qaim, Iraq near the Syrian border that, "A powerful bloc in Iraq's parliament is calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq following a series of airstrikes blamed on Israel targeting Iran-backed Shiite militias in the country."
The influential and powerful Fatah Coalition, representing the country's pro-Iranian Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) issued a statement Monday holding the United States responsible for facilitation Israeli aggression on Iraqi soil, “which we consider to be a declaration of war on Iraq and its people,” the statement said. The statement noted further that American troops are no longer needed and only now serve to jeopardize Iraqi national security.
PMF commanders and officials have over the past weeks been the most vocal part of Iraq's military and government blaming the recent spate of devastating attacks on Israel; however, following last week's explosion at a base outside Baghdad - believed the result of an Israeli airstrike - it appears this view is now gaining support even from the prime minister's office amid an ongoing official investigation into the blasts.
Footage showing the August 12th arms depot blast, widely blamed on Israel. Another strike on a munitions storage depot occurred on Aug. 20, and before this a July 19 attack grabbed headlines.
Last week Prime Minister Abdul-Mahdi had called for an end to all “unauthorized flights” including US drones, spy planes, jets, or helicopters. The directive demanded that all aerial vehicles comply with Iraqi law and operations must be under Iraqi government authorization. | 2,804 |
AKA, wherein Greg reviews a shaving soap that was never intended to be applied on anything above the waist.
Formula N is a nice fruity scented shaving soap. They bill is as “a completely natural blend of essential oils and floral waters. Like a tall glass of fresh-squeezed juice papaya and mango juice with a sprig of sun-warmed mint and a fresh bouquet of flowers nearby.” I’m not going to argue with that, it’s definitely got a strong tropical vibe to it. Anyways, it’s not exactly a “manly” scent, nor was it intended to be, but I really do rather like it.
Strength-wise, it’s not too shabby. It’s not overtly strong when lathered up and applied to the face, but you don’t see much in the way of fading during the shave either.
The lather is pretty much exactly what I expected out of it. Your typical glycerin-based melt-and-pour. Does the trick good enough, as long as you can get the water balance right (to get enough glide while maintaining viscosity). Which you should be able to do easily enough once you’re used to these soaps.
9/10 Scent Pleasantness
8/10 Scent Strength
7/10 Lather Quality (reflects new scoring as outlined here)
I think it’s safe to say this is a good 7/10. Decent enough shave, nice scent, good strength, and not all that expensive? Yeah, why not.
Gear used:
Ok, and here’s a bit of an issue. The ingredient listing on their website is different than the ingredient listing on the package. So, I’ll give you both.
Ingredients according to the website: coconut oil x palm oil x castor oil x safflower oil x glycerin x purified water x sodium hydroxide x sorbitol x sorbitan oleate x soybean protein x wheat protein x natural fragrance x color
Ingredients according to the packaging: Coconut oil, palm oil, safflower oil, sodium hydroxide, sorbitol, goat’s milk, sorbitan oleate, soybean protein, wheat protein, color, natural fragrance.
Not massive differences, just the addition of the goat’s milk, and the switching of the order for the color and the natural fragrance. | 2,805 |
School for Scoundrels (1960), Michelangelo Antonioni's L'eclisse (1962), Anthony Harvey's The Lion in Winter (1968), and Rob Reiner's The Sure Thing (1985).
School for Scoundrels
Henry Palfrey (Ian Carmichael) is one of life's losers. Despised and disregarded at work, his prospective girlfriend April (Janette Scott) is whisked from under his nose by charming bounder Raymond Delauney (Terry-Thomas). In desperation, Henry enrols at Stephen Potter's (Alastair Sim) College of Lifemanship, where he gradually learns how to get one up on the other fellow. STREET DATE: AUGUST 31.
L'Eclisse
This film by Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni completed a trilogy about doomed relationships in the modern world, and won the 1962 Cannes Special Jury Prize. Vittoria (Monica Vitti) is a young woman who breaks up with her lover Ricardo (Francisco Rabal), a bookish intellectual, and instead takes up with brash stockbroker Piero (Alain Delon). However, there are still emotional ties between Vittoria and Ricardo. The final breakdown of Vittoria's emotional state is symbolically mirrored by Antonioni's montage of a deserted, dying city. STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 21.
The Lion in Winter
In the south of France, 1183, Henry II (Peter O'Toole) summons his family to a Christmas conference. His sons all have designs on his crown, whilst the presence of the King's mistress (Jane Merrow) adds spice to his exchanges with his wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn). Hepburn won an Oscar for her performance, and the film also gained statuettes for Best Screenplay and Music. STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 21.
The Sure Thing
A romantic comedy from director Rob Reiner, who went on to make 'When Harry Met Sally'. Gib (John Cusack) is promised a devastating woman at a party across the country in Los Angeles. The only problem is that he has to share the car journey with prudish Alison (Daphne Zuniga), a fellow student whose priorities in life couldn't differ more. During the journey, however, the disparate couple find they have a few things in common. STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 7.
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We recently had an interview with HYDE in conjunction with his US-tour which took place in May, just after releasing his excellent album anti. In the interview, HYDE eagerly expressed his desire to dominate the US-market, declaring: “I’m committed to attacking the US market for one last time as HYDE”. Lo and behold! HYDE is at it again with a massive tour planned ahead! There are 35 dates announced in total!
This time around he will be joining the American rock band Starset on their tour as support act. Make sure to get your tickets today to secure an unforgettable experience!
STARSET TOUR (Support act)
Date Venue and location Info September 13 Bogart’s, Cincinnati, OH Tickets September 14 Mr. Smalls Theatre, Millvale, PA Tickets September 15 Reverb, Reading, PA Tickets September 17 The Fillmore, Silver Spring, MD Tickets September 18 The NorVa, Norfolk, VA Tickets September 20 The Underground, Charlotte, NC Tickets September 21 Music Farm, Charleston, SC Tickets September 22 Buckhead Theatre, Atlanta, GA Tickets September 24 Varsity Theatre, Baton Rouge, LA Tickets September 25 House of Blues Houston, Houston, TX Tickets September 27 Vibes Event Center, San Antonio, TX Tickets September 28 Canton Hall, Dallas, TX Tickets September 29 Diamond Ballroom, Oklahoma City, OK Tickets October 01 The Pressroom, Phoenix, AZ Tickets October 02 The Regent, Los Angeles, CA Tickets October 04 The Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, CA Tickets October 05 Ace of Spades, Sacramento, CA Tickets October 07 House of Blues San Diego, San Diego, CA Tickets October 08 Ventura Theater, Ventura, CA Tickets October 09 Cargo, Reno, NV Tickets October 12 Roseland Theater, Portland, OR Tickets October 13 Neptune Theatre, Seattle, WA Tickets October 14 Knitting Factory, Boise, ID Tickets October 16 The Complex, Salt Lake City, UT Tickets October 17 Summit, Denver, CO Tickets October 18 Bourbon Theatre, Lincoln, NE Tickets October 20 Varsity Theater, Minneapolis, MN Tickets October 21 House of Blues Chicago, Chicago, IL Tickets October 24 Theatre of Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA Tickets October 25 Gramercy Theatre, New York, NY Tickets October 26 Webster Theater, Hartford, CT Tickets October 27 Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA Tickets October 29 Rapids Theatre, Niagara Falls, NY Tickets October 30 The Majestic Theatre, Detroit, MI Tickets November 01 EXPRESS LIVE!, Columbus, OH Tickets
More info:
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YouTube
Facebook
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UPDATE: There’s now a shirt inspired by this comic in the HE Store!
Did you know I have published two books of my comics containing NEW COMMENTARY for absolutely every comic, embarrassing stuff I drew in middle school and high school, and LOTS more extras that have never been published online? Well, I did and I’m really proud of them and they have funny names and I think you should buy them.
I am going to be at Calgary Expo this coming weekend with Blind Ferret at booths 925/1025! MORE INFO HERE.
GAHHH! Stop being such a Grammar Dalek! (Yes, you should probably start using this phrase in daily life.)
I made this comic almost entirely on my iPad in the PHX airport during a layover on my way to Calgary. Some of the template and text layout was done ahead of time in Photoshop, and some of the mistakes will probably be cleared up in Photoshop after I get back, but I don’t feel at all bad about being proud of what I was able to accomplish on zero hours sleep with a tablet and a stylus sitting at an airport Burger King. The app I used was ProCreate and the styli were the Adonit Jot Pro and the Wacom Bamboo. A word of warning to would be iPad artists, I had to start using a screen protector with the Adonit Jot to prevent (additional) scratches on the screen. The good news is the recently released Zagg Invisible Sheld HD is a MUCH better screen protector than their previous versions. Very smooth, glass-like surface with little to no texture and far less friction. I also took a Fancy Bastard suggestion and used an app called Photogene to resize the comic and I was pleasantly surprised to see that it will resize, rename and upload straight to my server via FTP.
So there’s a bunch of stuff about apps and whatever. Super funny haha entertaining, right? I haven’t slept since Tuesday night and facts are the only things my brain can process. The sky is up, the rest is down and the harvest approacheth. The time of the Bloodwolves is upon us and only the cunning and the swift will be spared in the flesh reaping. These are all facts. I am so tired. Come buy my stuff in Calgary. All the commercials here are for stores and things I have never heard of. What are Rogers and Shaw and what is a Honda Civic?
COMMENTERS: Feel free to come up with your best Grammar Dalek lines. | 2,808 |
We were kids, but we were put through some pretty horrific exercises. We had a teacher once in seventh grade who ripped out pages of the phone book and told us to memorize the name, address and phone numbers of one column. It was literally to teach our brains how to find mnemonics to memorize, and it ended up being a great gift.
In eighth grade, one of our teachers gave us all rubber bands. She said, “You have until tomorrow to come up with an alternative use for this.” We were all stumped. The next day, we were just going to go in and say we couldn’t figure it out. And I’m sitting at my desk, and I start rubbing the rubber band against my paper, and I realize it’s an eraser.
What was your first job?
I worked in a storeroom that had no windows of a very fancy store in Chicago. I put the tags on the clothes. I honestly loved the job. I loved looking at the clothes. I loved the idea that I could make money. I told them I was 16, but I wasn’t. I was 15. I went there with bells on every single day. I would check the merchandise in so fast that I had nothing to do for the rest of the day, so they said to me, “Well, go help the bookkeeper.”
Then they asked me to start helping close out the register, because I was the one who could get it to balance. Once I was downstairs closing out a register, and a woman came in and she didn’t have anyone to help her, and I sold her thousands of dollars’ worth of clothes. I just thought it was the most amazing thing.
It was my first real example of making myself indispensable, which was one of the things my mom told me. She was like, “Just make it so you’re so good, you can’t get fired.”
What did you study in college?
I was in the Woodrow Wilson School of international relations and public policy at Princeton. You have to apply to get in, and I did not originally get in. I lobbied really hard and called many people. I just would not take no for an answer.
I spent a lot of my years in the Woodrow Wilson School studying systems that really oppress people. I wrote my senior thesis on South Africa, and specifically on how children ultimately led to the end of apartheid because of their uprisings. | 2,809 |
When State Department Deputy Press Marie Harf was questioned about the administrations continued promise to close Guantanamo Bay Tuesday, she tried to change the narrative by saying, "he (President Obama) would work to close Guantanamo."
This led Associated Press reporter Matt Lee to call out Harf on this inaccuracy, pointing out that the President actually said "he would close Guantanamo."
Below is a transcript of the exchange:
Q: All right. OK. Hold on a second. I just — one more thing. You said that the president, on his second day in office, came in and —
MS. HARF: Mmm hmm, second full day.
Q: Second full day, whatever, and said that — were there any secret prisons actually open at that time?
MS. HARF: I don't know.
Q: There were not, I believe. So he did not close them; they were closed already. Second thing is that he didn't say he would – he didn't —
MS. HARF: Mmm, but let me double-check on that, Matt. Let me double-check on that.
Q: OK. He didn't say he would work to close Guantanamo. He said he would close Guantanamo.
MS. HARF: And we're still committed to that.
Q: But you said he would — you said that he said he would work to close Guantanamo. He actually said that he would close Guantanamo, and it hasn't been closed.
MS. HARF: And we're still committed to closing it. Our policy hasn't changed.
Q: All right, but — (chuckles) — you're — everything that you're basing your response to this — to these reports today is – almost everything is a five-month-old speech that the president gave before these reports were — you know —
MS. HARF: A speech about operations that the reports reference, and a speech, quite frankly, that has gone farther and been more forward-leaning than anything we've ever heard out of this government on the use of drones, period.
Q: So you're comfortable using five — his words from five months ago as a response to a report that came out today.
MS. HARF: Absolutely.
Q: All right.
Q: Not to belabor the issue, Marie —
MS. HARF: And if we have more of a response as we take a look them, we're happy to provide it as well. | 2,810 |
Battle cattle, baby. As soon as I saw Ragemonger I was set over the edge.
The deck has migrated from being pure fast aggro to being more combo aggro. There's a lot of interactions now and it finds a lot of ways to win.
The breakdown:
Deathbellow Raider - A two drop that comes out early. Quintessential parts of an aggro deck are the early plays. Unfortunately, they couldn't print any one drop minotaurs and I'm not willing to drop a few bucks for Thoughtseize quite yet. Luckily, the lack of turn one plays (other than Springleaf Drum ) allows you to set up a "safe" Blood Crypt or Temple of Malice.
Boros Reckoner - He's an overall good dude with a slightly uncomfortable color restriction, but he helps a lot with devotion.
Ragemonger - Eeeeh, something something, doesn't do anything on his own. Whatever. A turn three Ragemonger tends to lead to me dumping my hand thereafter.
Rageblood Shaman - Minotaur lord is a minotaur lord, and he does his job well. Trample is only sometimes relevant.
Kragma Warcaller - A better minotaur lord, as he comes down and swings for a lot. He leads assaults better than Shaman, but both on the field together is gravy.
Mogis, God of Slaughter - Isn't it ironic that the God of Slaughter is a cow? Very good pressure guy that tends to hose control as they don't have creatures to pay tribute to him with. Isn't long before he joins the ranks of his fellow cattle either.
Erebos, God of the Dead -- Originally Purphoros, God of the Forge, Erebos provides a much better sink and more relevant ability.
Felhide Spiritbinder - Copy a Kragma for massive beats. Or anything on the board for that matter. I've singlehandedly held off Brimaz by copying him.
Springleaf Drum - The one drop I was looking for. Helps get your hand out a lot faster.
Mutavault - Minovault.
Dreadbore - It'll take out those annoying planeswalkers more often than not.
Devour Flesh - Removal that gets around hexproof and indestructible.
Read the Bones - To ensure the deck doesn't run out of gas as much.
Rakdos's Return - Damage and discard to help disrupt their flow.
Sideboard:tenative | 2,811 |
Whether Green Bay Packers fans like it or not, there will be a Minnesota Vikings element to Brett Favre's induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
There's a No. 4 Vikings jersey hanging in a mock Favre locker at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Favre's locker at the museum also includes a white Packers No. 4, a Packers helmet and several other mementos from his career.
However, before Packers fan spew venom toward Favre like some did when he played for the rival Vikings, it appears he had nothing to do with it.
"The Hall's curatorial staff selects the artifacts for exhibit," Pete Fierle, vice president of communications for the Hall of Fame, told ESPN.com.
According to the Hall of Fame, the Packers jersey is the one Favre wore when he broke the NFL career touchdown pass record. The Vikings jersey is the one he wore when he broke Jim Marshall's NFL record for consecutive starts.
Also within the locker is the inactive sheet from the game that ended Favre's starting streak. Out of 30 million artifacts, the Hall of Fame said it is the lone inactive sheet in the Hall's collection.
The exhibit will be on display during this weekend's induction events. Favre will be inducted Saturday.
"That is an exhibit for the Class of 2016," Fierle said. "There are eight lockers created, one for each enshrinee. They contain artifacts of each Hall of Famer."
Favre spent the final two years of his career with the Vikings (2009-10). He played 16 years with the Packers before they traded him to the New York Jets in 2008.
Favre was inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame last summer and had his No. 4 retired in front of a sold-out crowd at Lambeau Field.
"Playing in Lambeau Field, throwing a touchdown in Lambeau Field, certainly running out of the tunnel, there's nothing like it on this earth," Favre said last summer in front of 67,000 people in the stadium for his Packers Hall of Fame induction. Favre then joked about playing at Lambeau as a member of the Vikings.
"I'll say this, I've also run out of that tunnel," Favre told the crowd while pointing toward the path to the visitor's locker room, "and that was scary."
"I'd much rather go out of that tunnel right there," Favre said as he turned toward the Packers' tunnel. | 2,812 |
OCEAN CITY, Md. (WJZ) — Ocean City bills itself as a family-friendly destination but a Vegas-style street performer hit the boardwalk this summer creating a wave of controversy.
Mary Bubala reports parents are complaining but police say their hands are tied.
A woman dressed in a bikini pole dancing on the Ocean City Boardwalk is drawing crowds and criticism.
Ocean City leaders say they have no power to ask her to leave because two years ago, the ACLU sued the town over the street performer’s first amendment rights—and won.
“Basically the street performers can go up there as long as they aren’t breaking any other laws and they’re performing and exercising their first amendment rights,” said Mayor Rick Meehan. “They have every right to be up on the boardwalk.”
The Ocean City police department has received dozens of complaint calls on the pole dancer. Many visitors are stunned by the performance. Some people say at night, the boardwalk has more of a club feel and less of a family atmosphere.
“I think it’s very offensive. I don’t think that they should be allowed to do anything they want on the boardwalk. I definitely don’t want her seeing people pole dancing on the boardwalk,” said Jennifer Drechsler.
“I’m all in favor of self-expression but there is a limit and I think this is a public place. It’s a family place and I don’t think it’s appropriate for anyone to come out and bare themselves,” said Elijah Etheridege.
The town says it will seek legal counsel to determine if this type of act is allowed.
“It’s not going to go away. The Constitution of the United States isn’t going to change but we have to do whatever we can do to make sure that the public out on the boardwalk is getting the Ocean City experience they’re looking for,” Meehan said.
This summer, Ocean City banned profanity on the boardwalk and by next year, most of the beach will be smoke free.
Ocean City police say at this time, they can’t take action against the pole dancer and they do not know her identity.
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The next time you're on the SkyTrain and pull up to the Stadium-Chinatown station, look up.
There's an eye-catching photo installation along the platform, featuring shots of the same woman wearing layers of hijabs, a headscarf worn by some Muslim women.
In each photo, the woman adds a new colourful hijab. Her expression is blank and there's a sense of absurdity as her head becomes ensconced in fabric.
"The main focus is in the eyes," said Durrah Alsaif, the artist behind the installation. Alsaif used her own image in the photos.
"If a woman wants to wear one scarf, she can wear one scarf. If she wants to wear 50 of them, that's OK."
Hijab can be 'fashionable'
The installation is called 'Qimash,' the Arabic word for fabric, and will be up for a year as part of the Capture Photography Festival.
Alsaif — who grew up in Saudi Arabia and moved to Canada in 2008 — started the project as a public performance before turning it into a video piece.
In her latest iteration, Alsaif presents a series of photos in which her head scarves multiply.
That accumulation illustrates the symbolic weight of the hijab. The vibrant colours and patterns are meant to subvert sombre depictions of black hijab, Alsaif said.
"It can be colourful. It can be fashionable. There's nothing wrong with that," she said.
Durrah Alsaif stands beside her installation. It will be up until March 2019 at the Stadium-Chinatown SkyTrain station. (Caroline Chan/CBC)
'It has so much baggage'
Alsaif wasn't a wearing a hijab while chatting on the platform.
When she does wear one, the hijab becomes more than just fabric, she said. It's tied to her identity and how people perceive her faith and culture.
The hijab has been a political flash point in Quebec, where a judge is under investigation after ordering a woman to remove her hijab in his courtroom.
"It has so much baggage," Alsaif said.
No one has recognized Alsaif on the platform so far, although she once observed a pair of women studying the photos as she sat next to them.
"I want people to understand its significance to every woman who wears it," she said.
"You shouldn't treat women who wear it differently."
With files from CBC's Caroline Chan | 2,814 |
8-Year-Old Puerto Rican To Trump: 'Stop Tweeting And Come Help The People'
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Eight-year-old Yan Anthony Hernandez has deep dimples on each side of his smile. Somehow, he managed to sleep through the hurricane that roared over his home in Isabela, Puerto Rico. Unlike those living in wooden houses, his cement home held up.
But now, there's no electricity or cellphone service, and his school is closed. Instead of spending his free time on his Playstation or watching YouTube videos as he usually does, he's a little bored.
His older sister Lorainne Goytya, a 20-year-old college student studying biology, says she misses being able to post photos to Instagram, send Snapchats or text her friends. But she says entertaining themselves is the least of their worries.
She says it's difficult not having a way to communicate with anyone beyond shouting distance. It took her nine days to find a rotary phone to call her father in Massachusetts.
"My dad told me that the images they were showing in the news out there, they were shocking, devastating, you think no one is alive," she says.
Apparently, her older brother, who is in the Army and based in Texas, had posted a photo of her saying she was missing. So when she finally got to speak to her father, "He was crying."
Goytya says she worries about him, and hopes to fly off the island to visit him as soon as she can.
Meanwhile, she's working the overnight shift in a shelter at the local Boys & Girls Club, where her mother and stepfather are volunteering too. Yan says they feel safer sleeping there than staying home alone at night in the dark; he worries someone could come and rob them.
Goytya says 10 people almost died when the diesel generator at the shelter ran out of gas temporarily.
"They were hooked up to oxygen or dialysis machines," she says. "And they almost didn't make it."
Yan says he's excited for President Trump to come to Puerto Rico on Tuesday to see for himself the damage from Hurricane Maria. He slaps his face with both hands, like Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone, and says "Wow! A so important person from the White House!"
And he has a message for President Trump:
"Stop sending tweets," he says, "and come help the people."
Lauren Migaki contributed to this report. | 2,815 |
Studies Say Millennial Dads Are Spending More Time With Their Kids Compared To Previous Generations
Maria Temming, April 6, 2019
There’s nothing like the bond between a father and their kids. While they may be busy providing for their family, nowadays, they always try and find time to spend with their kids. Now, we have the research to prove that millennial dads are more involved than ever before.
Years ago, many dads went to work and saw their kids for dinner when they got home.
In the past, moms had the majority of the parenting duties, from changing diapers to making lunches. Dads used to be more “hands-off” when it came to raising children.
New research, however, shows that dads today are more “hands-on” than ever before.
In fact, Pew Research Center found millennial dads are taking the cake for the dads who spend the most time with their kids.
Studies say that millennial dads spend three times as much time with their kids as previous generations.
In 1982, 43% of dads claimed they had “never changed a diaper.” Can you imagine?
In 2000, researchers found only 3% of dads admitted they haven’t changed a diaper. That’s 40% decrease in just a few decades.
Research also showcases that millennial dads want an equal partnership in terms of parenting duties at home.
Some dads are even saying that they spend more time at home than their own fathers did.
Another study identified that millennial dads on average spend 30 minutes every day helping around the house than their own fathers ever did.
These trends help strengthen the relationship between dads and their kids.
The more time spent at home helping out and the more time spent with their kids, all contribute to a strong father-child relationship.
And, it also strengthens the relationship between mom and dad.
Studies say that when 60% of the “parenting” duties fall to mom, a mom and dad’s relationship tends to suffer. So, stepping up more at home helps out the love life, too.
While some polls and studies show mom is still doing more, dads feel that guilt.
Studies say that half of dads who are busy with work and other responsibilities want to be spending twice as much time with their kids as they are now.
All in all, it’s a step in the right direction.
Having dads be there more for their kids, what can be better? | 2,816 |
Concussions are a part of the NFL game these days. And an important one: no one really knows what they're doing with respect to the brain injuries, but we know that concussions are bad (m'kay).
Previous issues with concussions that were not divulged are also a part of life, but it is going to draw attention when the wife of Tom Brady, one Gisele Bundchen, decides to publicly state that Brady dealt with concussions previously.
Gisele did just that in a CBS News interview, which resulted in lots of questions about Brady's history. Brady himself was previously asked about it and went full vague.
He was asked about it again by reporters on Friday, and said it's not "anybody's business" when asked whether he suffered a concussion in 2016.
"I don't want to get into things that happened in my past, certainly medical history and so forth, I really don't think that's anybody's business," Brady said, via Pro Football Talk. "There's people that do worry about that. My wife, my parents, my sisters, people that love me and care about me, but I do the best I can do to come out and be prepared to play mentally and physically and give the game everything I can."
There is probably some HIPAA law that Brady can hide behind here, and it would be difficult to go back and match up a bunch of hits on Brady against his status on the injury report, etc. But something happening in the 2016 season and not being disclosed should absolutely be drawing the attention of the league office.
Brady also admitted that in football there is an inherent danger.
"You're not blind to it as a player," Brady said. "It's a contact sport and I think we all understand that. And there's a lot of great benefits that football brings you. You certainly can be put in harm's way."
And that's interesting, because while not an admission, it feels a lot like a "plead the fifth" situation for Brady. He knows what can happen. He knows the risks. He does not care because he [likes/loves/is psychotically obsessed with] football too much.
But maybe he also knows if the league wanted to really start digging around then it could cause some more trouble as it relates to previous injury reports. The league cleared Brady and appears willing to move on from the issue. Brady's family isn't interested in talking. Which may explain why he's firing out non-answers all over the place. | 2,817 |
Vic teacher tried to have sex with boy
A mother of eight primary school teacher who tried to have sex with one of her students got the boy's name tattooed onto her chest in an infinity symbol, a court has heard.
Diane Brimble, 47, of Hamilton, tried to have sex with a 10-year-old boy but he rejected her advances, the Victorian County Court heard on Monday.
The boy's mother told the court Brimble turned her son into a "sexual commodity".
She said they had to move from their community and the boy was placed on antipsychotic medication.
She said it also impacted on his siblings.
"They drew pictures of rainbows and unicorns. He drew black pictures of knives and death," she said, reading her victim impact statement to the court.
The father said the boy would not look at his parents as he believed Brimble had cast a spell on him, so she could see and hear everything he did.
The father's victim impact statement was read to the court by prosecutor Patrick Bourke, who said Brimble tried to tour the boy's new school and enrol her children there.
Judge Mark Taft said a psychological report tendered by Brimble's lawyer Jennifer Clark did not help and was essentially barracking for her.
"I remain entirely bewildered by Ms Brimble's psycho-sexual profile and her motive," he said.
"It's an unusual case and I find Ms Brimble's conduct as bizarre as I have ever seen in a courtroom.
"We have a 45-year-old school teacher who, amongst other things, has written extraordinary material about a 10-year-old child who wasn't her own, has tattooed his name on her chest in an infinity symbol, and has engaged in a series of statements of continuing love and affection."
Judge Taft said it was not a case of misplaced maternal sentiment.
"You don't seek to have sex with your children," he said.
"This is a criminal offence, not an excess of maternal sentiment."
A jury convicted Brimble of one count of committing an indecent act on a child under 16.
She was acquitted of five other charges.
Both Judge Taft and Mr Bourke said Brimble could not be jailed for the crime for which she was convicted because of the nature of the offence but the judge rejected a defence submission for a bond.
Brimble has been assessed for a community corrections order and had her bail extended until sentencing on Thursday. | 2,818 |
Pop icon and budding conspiracy theorist Cher floated the idea on Wednesday that President Donald Trump “has people” who will “change votes in his favor.”
Cher was responding to a story published by the Mississippi Clarion Ledger, which reported that voting machines in two Mississippi counties changed voters’ votes in the state’s GOP gubernatorial primary runoff.
“IS ANY1 GULLIBLE ENOUGH 2THINK trump DOESN’T”ALREADY HAVE”PPL 2 CHANGE VOTES IN HIS FAVOR!? AM SICK OF YELLING, & POUNDING [my fist] TILL [angry face emoji]. I WANT DIGNITY &KNOWLEDGE.” Cher said.
Video, reports of machines automatically changing votes in Mississippi GOP governor runoff USA.IS ANY1 GULLIBLE ENOUGH 2THINK trump DOESN’T”ALREADY HAVE”PPL 2 CHANGE VOTES IN HIS FAVOR⁉️AM SICK OF YELLING,& POUNDING👊🏼TILL😡.I WANT DIGNITY &KNOWLEDGE https://t.co/reJBFvgy65 — Cher (@cher) August 28, 2019
To be clear, the votes weren’t changed by “people” as Cher seems to suggest they could have been.
“The machine was a TSX machine, Moak said, and is being replaced. Moak pointed out that “machines are county-owned and tested by local officials” and “to our knowledge, only one machine was malfunctioning.'” the Mississippi Clarion Ledger reported.
Ealier this month, the Grammy-winner spread fake news and cited a smear from MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.
“I Believe trump is more than a racist,more than a White supremacist,More Than a white nationalist,” Cher said, citing a misleading story from the MSNBC host about Trump’s latest federal judicial nominee Steven Menashi. “As I see his actions,& hear his rhetoric,I hear the drum beat of Ethno Nationalism. HOW CAN trump BE PRESIDENT OF AMERICA…HE HATES SO MANY ”AMERICANS.’”
Jerome Hudson is Breitbart News Entertainment Editor and author of the forthcoming book 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know, from HarperCollins. Follow Jerome Hudson on Twitter @jeromeehudson. | 2,819 |
heading videos, especially without warning. They must explain their actions to worried parents." The same day of Cameron's tweet, Facebook shot back this comment:
If Facebook can give the British Prime minister and the international press the big corporate finger, continuing to allow anyone to publish the most gruesome acts to humanity, then I'd like to make a small request. I would like to cordially and officially invite Facebook to offer the same guidelines for posting a woman's nipple... as it does for sawing off a woman's head.
That being said, in concert with the film we are launching a national campaign aimed at decriminalizing the "female nipple" in all 50 states, on Facebook, Instagram and in a perfect world even Network TV, but you know, after 10 pm. If an average teenager in America sees thousands of humans killed on TV shows by the time they're 18 -- not to mention video games where you can torture, defile and murder female characters who scream in horror as you dismember their bodies -- I believe they can handle a nipple.
In the UK and Europe, women's nipples on magazine covers and TV commercials are as normal as cleavage in America, and their cultures don't seem to be imploding at the seams. European film and TV ratings in general have almost diametrically opposite views on "obscenity" as the MPAA and the FCC. Overall their ratings are tougher on violence and far more chill on nudity. I really believe America, as young as it is on the scale of these other countries, is finally mature enough "culturally" to handle the female areola.
Since I began this film, both men and women ask me: with all the serious problems in the world today, is freeing women's nipples really that important of an issue? In response I sometimes quote California Attorney Carol Agate who stated, "The issue is not trivial. The imposition on women is great, the inconvenience real, the stigma pernicious."
It's been over 75 years since the men in this country fought for their basic human right to be topless in public. It wasn't easy. They were battling the church, the government, the status quo -- but they would not back down. In a few short years men recaptured their freedom -- a freedom every man in this country now enjoys. But today there are states in America that are arresting and harassing women for breastfeeding in public. I believe these laws do not reflect the dream on which the United States was founded, and I believe the time is now for the American people to step up and Free The Nipple.
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Big Warning Here: you will need to select the folder that corresponds to your processor. Since I'm using the FRDM-K22F, I chose the K22F51212 folder, as that's the onboard processor.
The "Hello World" of Hardware
Phew! We made it through all of that setup. Now it's on to the big dance! We're going to build a simple program here just to show that the toolchain is working. I'm referring to that good old standby of embedded engineers - blinking an LED!
#include "fsl_device_registers.h" #include "board.h" #include "pin_mux.h" #include "fsl_clock_manager.h" #include "fsl_debug_console.h" #include <stdio.h> #define DELAY() do \ { \ int32_t i; \ for (i = 0; i < 0x1FFFFF; i++) \ { \ __asm("nop"); \ } \ } while (0); \ int main(void) { // enable clocks for GPIO ports CLOCK_SYS_EnablePortClock(PORTA_IDX); CLOCK_SYS_EnablePortClock(PORTD_IDX); // initialize GPIO GPIO_DRV_Init(switchPins, ledPins); while(1) { GPIO_DRV_TogglePinOutput(BOARD_GPIO_LED_BLUE); DELAY(); } // Never return; loop forever! return 0; }
The first time we compile this guy, we'll need to set some default configurations. Click "Run > Debug Configurations" from the toolbar menu. I'll be running this as a Segger J-Link application, but it's really no different if you're running as a P&E Micro OpenSDA application. You just need to run through the debug configurations once, then click "Debug". This will take you to the "Debug" Perspective of Kinetis Design Studio. Click the "Start" button on the tool tray, and you should see your LED blinking happily away!
Wrapping Up/More Resources
Freescale has put a ton of good work into making development platforms like this available. Kinetis Design Suite and Kinetis SDK make a powerful combination for quick protoyping. Want to learn more? I'd highly recommend Erich Styger's site for more info on the Kinetis platform. Erich's tutorials are very thorough, and very useful! | 2,821 |
'Yes, he's a fictional character, but he has been part of our lives and hearts for years.'
SUFFOLK, Va. — A giant nut-mobile is traveling across Hampton Roads this week on a mission. Planters staffers behind the wheel are trying to mend broken hearts after Mr. Peanut met his doom on Wednesday.
“We are traveling across the U.S. trying to spread joy and celebrate Mr. Peanut's life,” said Planters’ employee "Adri-Almond."
It was heartbreaking news even Planters' staff never saw coming.
“We were shell shocked, had no idea that Planters was going to do this,” said Planters employee "Snacktime Sarah."
The loss is blowing up on social media where companies like Crayola and Oscar Mayer Wiener are paying their respects.
People in Suffolk hope the company is full of nuts.
“I grew up here and Mr. Peanut has always been around,” said Planters Peanut Center Co-owner Faye Beale.
Planters Peanut Center Owner Faye Beale is still coping with the fact that the lovable nut, seen in every corner of her store, could be gone forever.
"There's a lot of people that grew up with Mr. Peanut, that have fond memories with Mr. Peanut,” Beale said. “Yes, he's a fictional character, but he has been part of our lives and hearts for years."
Beale questioned what this untimely death might mean for Suffolk long term.
"If he is really gone and we don't see him ever anymore, 10 years from now nobody will know that he ever existed in the city, that he was ever born here, that he ever had any history here,” Beale said.
Suffolk is nuts about the guy. It's home to Planters' first mass processing plant and the peanut pops up all over town.
City leaders are hoping for some Super Bowl magic that will revive the dead mascot.
“Knowing Mr. Peanut as well as we do, I feel safe in saying he's a tough nut to crack and he's definitely not the type to leave his friends out on a limb,” said Economic Development Director Kevin Huges.
Is it an advertising ploy or the end of an icon? Whatever Planters has up their sleeve, Beale said Mr. Peanut will live on in their shop. | 2,822 |
elements of the FSB over how to handle operations centered on Trump.
Revelations about the second memo come as Republicans and Democrats continue to spar over whether the FBI and DOJ abused surveillance powers to spy on Carter Page, a former Trump campaign associate, by relying on the controversial Steele dossier.
Republicans claim the Steele dossier formed an “essential” part of the application to for surveillance on Page, according to a memo released by House Intelligence Committee Republicans last week.
They argue that the department failed to disclose that the dossier – which contained allegations which have not been verified – was funded in part by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign. (Fusion GPS, the political research firm that hired Steele to dig up dirt on Trump, first began researching Trump and other GOP presidential candidates at the behest of the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news outlet, in 2015.)
Democrats have pushed back on the allegations of bias from Republicans, arguing that officials informed the intelligence court that the Steele dossier was politically motivated.
Conaway, who had only heard of the Shearer dossier through public reports, said he would like to review the allegations himself as part of the panel’s ongoing investigation.
“We’d like to see for ourselves what is going on. It may or may not have anything to do with what we’re trying to answer,” he said.
Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, have filed a criminal referral with the Justice Department against Steele, accusing him of providing false information to the FBI and misleading the agency about his contacts with the press.
The referral, released with redactions by the senators Tuesday, mentions a report Steele received from the State Department, with information from a source associated with an unnamed Clinton associate.
“It is troubling enough that the Clinton Campaign funded Mr. Steele’s work, but that these Clinton associates were contemporaneously feeding Mr. Steele allegations raises additional concerns about his credibility,” the referral reads.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-California, has said in recent interviews that his staff is investigating the Obama State Department.
“Now, we are looking into discrepancies or irregularities at the State Department and how information came into the State Department, what was done with that information, how that was processed and where it went,” Nunes said Wednesday in an interview with conservative radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt.
An aide to Nunes declined to comment on whether this next phase of the investigation involves the Shearer dossier. | 2,823 |
Pitch Interactive have visualised every CIA drone strike and every casualty in Pakistan.
A new interactive graphic, which uses the Bureau’s drone data, has brought a fresh perspective to the CIA’s nine-year drone campaign in Pakistan.
A team of developers has pulled together every known drone strike and casualty from data provided by the Bureau and New America Foundation. This data has been represented in an interactive timeline which allows the viewer to see how the campaign builds over time, as well as the number of people killed.
Pitch Interactive, a California-based commercial web-development studio, has produced the interactive as part of a pro-bono programme.
The project, Out of Sight, Out of Mind, aims to capture the scale and human cost of the drone war in Pakistan through its visual representation of the CIA’s covert Pakistan drone war from the first event in 2004 to the latest strike.
Wesley Grubbs, who leads the team at Pitch Interactive, told the Bureau that the team set out ‘to cause people to pause for a moment and say “Wow I’ve never seen this in that light before”.’
The visualisation uses an average of the casualty data collected by the Bureau’s Covert Drone War project, combined with data collected by New America Foundation which tallies the number of high value targets reported killed in the strikes.
The CIA drone campaign in Pakistan has received much attention in recent months. The debate intensified after last month’s Senate confirmation hearing for new CIA director John Brennan, a leading architect of President Obama’s drone strategy.
Earlier this month Ben Emmerson QC, UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism, added to the debate after stating that Pakistan did not support the drone strikes. His statement was made following a visit to the country as part of a UN investigation into the legal and ethical framework of drone strikes. Emmerson also said CIA drones had killed 2,200 people in the country including at least 400 civilians, according to Pakistan authorities.
But despite the public debate that has played-out over recent months, Grubbs believes the full scope and consequences of the drone war are still obscured. ‘We feel that drone strikes are a very hot topic right now but we feel people are being misled,’ he said.
Click here for the interactive graphic.
In March and April, support the Bureau’s Naming the Dead project identifying those killed in drone strikes, through the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Click here to donate. | 2,824 |
Murdered Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi was involved in a social media-driven youth movement to counter Saudi state propaganda in the months before he died, according to a report.
Khashoggi, who went missing on Oct. 2, discussed his plans with Canadian-based Saudi activist Omar Abdulaziz, 27, in a series of WhatsApp messages before he believes their correspondence may have been intercepted by Saudi authorities in August, CNN reported Sunday. The offensive included sending supporters foreign SIM cards so they could tweet in the kingdom while avoiding detection.
"We have no parliament; we just have Twitter," Abdulaziz told CNN of their operation, which they called "cyber bees." "Twitter is the only tool they're using to fight and to spread their rumors. We've been attacked, we've been insulted, we'd been threatened so many times, and we decided to do something."
Abdulaziz added his name last week to a lawsuit filed in Israel and Cyprus against the NSO Group, an Israeli firm whose military-grade spyware was reported to have been used by the Saudi government to hack his phone and access his texts with Khashoggi. The technology is additionally understood to have been deployed against another dissident named Yahya Assiri and an Amnesty International staff member.
"The hacking of my phone played a major role in what happened to Jamal, I am really sorry to say," Abdelaziz said. "The guilt is killing me."
Khashoggi, a fierce critic of the Saudi royal family, disappeared in October when he visited the country's consulate in Istanbul to obtain paperwork to marry his Turkish fiancee. President Trump has been criticized for taking a soft stance against Saudi Arabia, despite the CIA reportedly finding with "high confidence" that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was involved in the death of the U.S. resident and Washington Post columnist. The royal court has vehemently denied having any connection to the international incident.
In some of his messages with Abdulaziz, Khashoggi described Crown Prince Mohammed as a "beast," saying he "loves force, oppression and needs to show them off."
Abdulaziz also told CNN on Sunday he was approached in May by two men who said they had been sent by Crown Prince Mohammed himself. Abdulaziz secretly recorded the pair offering him a job and recommending that Abdulaziz visit the Saudi Embassy in Canada to collect documents.
But Abdulaziz said Khashoggi advised against it: "He told me not to go and only to meet them in public places." | 2,825 |
Overview (4)
Born April 4, 1961 in Houston, Texas, USA Birth Name Thomas Bryan Taliaferro Jr. Nickname Tommy Height 6' (1.83 m)
Mini Bio (1)
Trivia (8)
Performs as a rock musician in his second career.
Won an AVN [Adult Video News] Award for Best Male Performer in the year 1999.
Is one of possibly 5 adult-film actors who as appeared in over 2000 films.
Announced his retirement from performing in adult movies. However, he will still continue to direct movies for Extreme Associates. [August 2002]
Started his own production company called Evolution Erotica. (May 2003)
Worked at the Le Sex Shoppe in Sherman Oaks, California prior to entering porn.
Entered the business in May of 1982.
Has appeared in more porn films then any other performer.
Personal Quotes (6)
Anything I do on screen, I have done in my personal life. My masculinity has been documented more times on screen than anyone. I don't feel the need to prove anything.
There are some girls I love working with all the time such as Nici Sterling and Juli Ashton. But most of us guys want fresh chicks. The best scenes come from doing someone you've never met before.
I grew up in a family of four sisters, a gay brother and a strong mother. The macho thing doesn't appeal to me. I don't like to hang out with guys. I don't like to go to bars to try to score. I don't get into fights. All the things that the average male finds amusing, I don't. I'd rather hang out with girls and see what they're thinking about.
I have never liked doing scenes with another guy in it. If you notice in the last three or four years, I haven't been in any scenes with any other guys. All you do is spend your time avoiding the other guy.
There was that one year where I wanted to get into the music business, but my heart wasn't really into it. I know I have talent for singing. I was in the Texas All-State Choir for a year. I wasn't really happy with what was happening in the industry at that time and I wanted something to fall back on. My heart was never really into the music business though. This is what I do, it's what I enjoy.
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Real Madrid look set to sign Atletico Madrid youngster Theo Hernandez after the full-back passed a medical with the Bernabeu club.
The 19-year-old left-back, who has been a stand-out performer for Alavés during his loan spell with the Copa del Rey finalists, is available for just €24million this summer due to a clause in his contract.
Such a bargain price for one of Europe's brightest young stars attracted a host of suitors, with Liverpool and Barcelona among those taking an interest.
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But it is Real Madrid who look to have won the race, triggering his clause and agreeing a contract with the Marseille-born defender.
Hernandez is expected to sign for the next five years at the Bernabeu and has been earmarked as the long-term successor to Marcelo at the position, but the timing of this move will no doubt come under scrutiny with the second leg of the Champions League semi-final between Atleti and Real taking place this week. | 2,827 |
NVIDIA's next generation family of graphics cards will debut as the GeForce 11 series around July, one memory supplier has revealed. The new family of GPUs from the green team will be based on the company's upcoming Turing/Ampere graphics architectures. One architecture will address the PC gaming market, while the other will be the company's new entry for the AI and compute markets.
GTC 2018 has just concluded and although we didn't get the GeForce 11 series announcement that many were hoping for, a number of revelations have been made by the company and its partners that make for a very exciting summer this year.
NVIDIA Introducing Ampere in March 2020 & Releasing RTX 3080 in June, Analyst Indicates
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1180 & 1170 Projected to Land in July & Feature 16Gbps GDDR6 Memory in 8GB & 16GB Capacities
GDDR6 will reportedly power most, if not all, of NVIDIA's upcoming graphics cards. This includes the upcoming gaming focused GeForce 11 series as well as upcoming Tesla and Quadro parts for the AI and autonomous driving markets.
SK Hynix has also confirmed to GamersNexus that GDDR6 will be entering production in three month's time around late June, early July. This puts the the GeForce 11 series launch right around July, which happens to coincide with a report published earlier this month that put the launch also in the July timeframe.
The new memory will run at 1.35v and deliver double the speed of GDDR5 but will cost around 20% more to produce. So, expect slightly higher MSRPs than NVIDIA's Pascal GeForce 10 series launch prices. SK Hynix has also confirmed that it will offer GDDR6 chips in 1GB and 2GB densities. Typically, each 32-bit GDDR memory controller segment is paired with a single GDDR chip, this in turn means that we'll be looking at 8GB and 16GB capacities on 256-bit GPUs, i.e. what would be the next GTX 1180 and GTX 1170 graphics cards.
The fact that SK Hynix will be producing both densities means that a customer or multiple customers exist for both. It's possible that we could see NVIDIA offer GTX 1180 and GTX 1170 cards in both 8GB and 16GB capacities. NVIDIA could also choose to differentiate these two cards based on memory capacity, in addition to GPU configuration.
All in all, it looks like we finally have a solid time-frame for when to expect the green team to put its chips on the table and show its cards, both figuratively and literally. | 2,828 |
The Dallas Cowboys are having a very busy day. The biggest move was, obviously, the decision to fire offensive coordinator Scott Linehan, but they aren't focused solely on the coaching staff right now. They are also making a move on their roster. According to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, the Cowboys have signed wide receiver Devin Smith to a futures deal.
Smith was a superstar at Ohio State, serving as the deep threat for their 2014 national championship team. He averaged a staggering 28.2 yards per season in his final year as a Buckeye, hauling in 12 touchdowns and serving as an indispensable weapon for new quarterback Cardale Jones, who took over after injuries to Braxton Miller and J.T. Barrett in leading Ohio State to a championship that season.
He was so impressive during that title run that he was selected in the second round by the New York Jets. The former No. 37 overall pick struggled to stay healthy, however, and never contributed to the Jets in a serious way because of it. He tore his ACL twice in three seasons with the Jets, once as a rookie in 2015 and then again in 2017. They waived him before the 2018 season began, and he chose not to sign with a new team likely for the sake of focusing on his rehab. He caught only 10 passes for 135 yards and a score in his time in New York.
But the Cowboys represent a nice opportunity for him to bounce back, provided he is actually healthy. The Cowboys only have two wide receivers locked into roster spots next season. They are Amari Cooper and Michael Gallup, who will be starters for Dallas next season regardless of what happens elsewhere at the position. Cole Beasley and Tavon Austin are both free agents, and though they could both be retained, nothing is certain for them at this point. Allen Hurns could be released without penalty to the cap, which will be considered after his unproductive debut season in Dallas and the injury he suffered in the playoffs.
That leaves Smith competing with players like Noah Brown and Lance Lenoir for spots on the bottom of the roster. While the Cowboys like those players, they are far from certainties. They are now another year older and another year without having realized the potential that the Cowboys saw in them. If Smith comes to camp in shines, it wouldn't be too surprising to see him steal a job from one of them.
The odds of him doing so depend entirely on his health. If Smith has gotten over the knee issues that have plagued him, he could be a serious threat to make the roster. If not? His NFL career may be over. | 2,829 |
4 Cute Styles to Retain Moisture in the Cold Season
Combatting dryness is the name of the game this season and is not just about the products you use. Here are four cute styles to help your natural hair stay moisturized.
1. Two-Strand Twist Updo
This jumbo twist updo will help to trap moisture and keep your ends from drying. It is also a simple, cute look for almost any occasion. Start with hair that has been stretched via any method you prefer.
Description: Hair is twisted into jumbo twists and pinned into updo.
Products used: Shea Moisture Coconut & Hibiscus Curl Enhancing Smoothie
Tools required: Boar bristle brush, rattail comb (for parting), clips, bobby pins
2. Braided and Twisted Updo (for short/medium hair)
If you want a style that you can wear from the workday to the date night, then check out this tutorial. Inspired by TheChicNatural, this modified updo helps to lock in moisture because the ends are tucked in and the hair is braided and twisted compactly.
Description: Hair is french braided with chunky twists in the front and pinned into an updo.
Products used: Water, Eco Styler Olive Oil Gel
Tools required: Rattail comb for parting, hair tie, bobby pins, brush
3. Faux Fish Tail Braid (short hair)
This style is not only gorgeous but great for protecting the ends from dry air. Don’t have enough hair to create this fishtail? Don’t worry. This tutorial demonstrates how to style this look via kanekalon braiding hair on short hair.
Description: Short hair is placed into a top ponytail and extension hair is added to create a faux fishtail braid.
Products used: Gel, moisturizer
Tools required: Boar bristle brush, hair tie, kanekalon braiding hair, bobby pins, silk scarf
Full Goddess Twist Updo (short or long hair)
A natural can never fail with going for a goddess twist style. The look is not only simple and quick to create but great for moisture retention. Because the hair is twisted and pinned, it does not get dry as quickly and easily as more exposed tresses.
Description: Hair is flat twisted or rolled into a goddess twist.
Tools required: Bobby pins
What styles do you wear to keep your hair moisturized? | 2,830 |
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Litecoin price formed a decent support near the $53.00 level and climbed higher (Data feed of Kraken) against the US Dollar.
Yesterday’s highlighted key bearish trend line was breached with resistance at $55.20 on the hourly chart of the LTC/USD pair.
LTC price spiked towards the $60.00 level where sellers appeared and protected more gains.
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Litecoin price formed a strong support at $53.00 and recovered sharply against the US Dollar. LTC/USD is now trading above $55.00 with positive signs.After a major downside move, litecoin price found support near the $53.00 and $53.10 levels against the US dollar. The LTC/USD pair avoided a downside break and started an upside move above $55.00.Looking at the chart, LTC price found a strong buying interest above the $53.00 level, resulting in an upward move. The price gained traction and traded above the $55.00 resistance plus the 100 hourly simple moving average.The price even broke the 50% Fib retracement level of the last drop from the $62.18 high to $53.22 low. More importantly, yesterday’s highlighted key bearish trend line was breached with resistance at $55.20 on the hourly chart of the LTC/USD pair.The pair traded close to the $60.00 resistance where sellers emerged. Moreover, the 61.8% Fib retracement level of the last drop from the $62.18 high to $53.22 low also acted as a solid resistance.At the moment, the price is retreating and is trading near the $58.00 level. If the price continues to move down, the $56.50 support is likely to act as a buy zone along with the 100 hourly SMA.On the upside, the $60.00 level is a strong resistance, above which, the price is likely to retest the last swing high near the $62.00 zone. In the short term, there could be a downside move, but the $57.00 and $56.50 levels are likely to act as supports.Overall, litecoin price (LTC) reversed losses and is back in a positive zone above the $56.50 level.The market data is provided by TradingView.The post Litecoin Price Analysis: LTC/USD Reverses Sharply Above $55 appeared first on Ethereum World News. | 2,831 |
ABC News noted that Mark Halperin left the company a decade ago and said “no complaints were filed during his tenure.” | Paul Morigi/Getty Images Mark Halperin apologizes for 'inappropriate' behavior toward women
MSNBC contributor Mark Halperin apologized late Wednesday for what he conceded was “inappropriate” behavior with women with whom he worked.
CNN reported Wednesday that five women accused Halperin of sexual harassment after he gained a powerful perch as ABC News’ political director, a position to which he was named in 1997. The women, who spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity, accused Halperin of sexual harassment at ABC News, where Halperin worked until 2007.
“During this period, I did pursue relationships with women that I worked with, including some junior to me,” Halperin, 52, said in a statement to CNN late Wednesday. “I now understand from these accounts that my behavior was inappropriate and caused others pain. For that, I am deeply sorry and I apologize. Under the circumstances, I’m going to take a step back from my day-to-day work while I properly deal with this situation.”
According to CNN, the harassment ranged from propositioning co-workers for sex to kissing and grabbing a woman’s breasts. Three women told CNN that Halperin pressed his genitals against their bodies. Halperin denies allegations that he grabbed a woman’s breasts and pressed an erection against the three women.
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All but one woman worked at ABC News at the time of the incident, and none reported directly to Halperin. None of the women said Halperin promised anything in exchange for sex or threatened to retaliate, CNN said.
ABC News noted that Halperin left the company a decade ago and said “no complaints were filed during his tenure.”
MSNBC, where Halperin is a regular contributor, took a harder line against the veteran journalist and the allegations against him.
“We find the story and the allegations very troubling,” an MSNBC spokesperson said. “Mark Halperin is leaving his role as a contributor until the questions around his past conduct are fully understood.” | 2,832 |
Ajay Maken Ajay Maken
With exit polls projecting a gloomy scenario for it, Congress on Thursday had a brainstorming session with its media team to chalk out a strategy for its spokespersons appearing before television channels tomorrow when counting takes place.
The closed-door meeting took place at 15 Gurudwara Rakabganj Road, the Congress War Room, and was attended by 40 odd party spokespersons and television panelists.
In the meeting chaired by AICC Communication Department Chairman Ajay Maken, the spokespersons were given tips on how to defend the party while appearing before television channels from the kiosks put up in the AICC headquarters.
The spokespersons have been asked to maintain sobriety in their approach and accept people's verdict gracefully. At the same time they have been directed to attack BJP on its "unprecedented Rs 10 thousand crore campaign blitzkrieg".
They have also been asked to strongly defend the UPA government's performance as well as that of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and not appear defensible about UPA's track record or the performance of the top leadership, sources said.
With doubts being raised in the media about Rahul's leadership in the eventuality of a bad show by Congress, the spokespersons were also briefed on how to tackle such questions.
"The combination of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi was an ideal combination of experience, determination and youthful energy," party spokesperson Randeep Surjewala told PTI.
"While the performance of Prime Minister and UPA was above par, the PM's credibility was above board. The PM and UPA have changed the dimension, outlook and social-political prism of the country by multi-dimensional paradigm. Rahul Gandhi contributed immensely both ideologically and through physical energy to the campaign," he said.
As the media raised the issue of absence of Rahul's pictures from miniatures of the AICC backdrops to be put up in the kiosks for television channels, Maken said the backdrop is the same in the AICC media briefing hall, which displays only the party's name and its hand symbol.
"How can we change the backdrop? These are exact miniatures of the backdrop at the AICC media briefing room.
Spokespersons will sit before these miniatures as spokespersons do in the media briefing room. When there is no picture of any individual leader in the original backdrop, how can we have them in the miniatures," Maken said. | 2,833 |
Pakistan executed Imran Ali Wednesday, the man convicted of the killing a six-year-old girl in a murder that sparked outrage around the world earlier this year.
The body of six-year-old Zainab Ansari was found in a garbage dump in Kasur, Pakistan in January, days after her parents reported her missing. Police said she had been raped and strangled.
Zainab’s father, Amin Ansari, said Ali’s execution Wednesday left him “satisfied,” according to the BBC.
Ali, 24, was arrested in January after confessing to the crime. His DNA was also found at the scene according to Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
Zainab’s case was the latest among a spate of attacks and abductions targeting children in the city of Kasur, outside of Lahore. Police had recorded 12 child murders in the city in two years, which they believed to be linked, according to the BBC. Ali was later convicted of similar crimes against six other girls.
The grisly murder set in motion a wave of public backlash with resentful parents and families demonstrating against perceived police inaction. The hashtag #JusticeForZainab circulated around the world. Protests in Kasur turned deadly after authorities opened fire on rioters trying storm police headquarters, killing two.
Ali was convicted in February and given four death penalties, seven years in jail and a 4.1 million rupee ($31,000) fine for kidnapping, raping and murdering Zainab, as well as for committing an act of terror, according to Pakistani newspaper Dawn.
In June, the country’s Supreme Court rejected his appeal, and last week Pakistani president Arif Alvi refused Ali’s request for a reprieve.
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Write to Eli Meixler at [email protected]. | 2,834 |
NBC has given a full-season order to freshman breakout series “This Is Us,” Variety has learned.
The first season has been extended to 18 episodes, resulting from an additional five-episode order after the initial pickup.
“It’s a rare moment in this business when a show so instantly delivers both critical acclaim and hit ratings, but ‘This Is Us’ is just such an extraordinary achievement,” said Jennifer Salke, president of NBC Entertainment. “Creator Dan Fogelman, along with co-directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa and the gifted producers, cast and crew, has delivered the kind of heart and depth that resonates with every segment of the audience, and we’re proud to extend its presence on our schedule.”
Fogelman, who created the series, commented: “We are thrilled. This order for a complete first season of 18 episodes is exactly what we’d wanted and hoped for. We’d carefully mapped out an 18-chapter story for the first year of the show, and this allows us to follow through with our exact initial intent. And to get the order so early on is a tremendous show of confidence and a boost for our entire cast and crew. I’m starting to sound like a broken record but I have to thank Dana [Walden], Gary [Newman], Jonnie [Davis], Howard [Kurtzman] and my amazing partners at 20th as well as Bob [Greenblatt] and Jen [Salke] and the fine folks at NBC for continuing to do absolutely everything right by me and this show. I’d gush more but I have to go back to work.”
“This Is Us” was one of the big winners of the 2016-2017 premiere week. According to Nielsen’s “Live +5” estimates, the ensemble series scored a 4.5 rating and 14.3 million viewers in the Adults 18-49 demo, becoming this fall’s top new series debut. The show improved NBC’s Tuesday 10 p.m. timeslot immensely, marking a six-year scripted record for the network. Digitally, “This Is Us” is NBC’s most-viewed series premiere of all time.
Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Justin Hartley, Chrissy Metz, Sterling K. Brown, Susan Kelechi Watson, Chris Sullivan and Ron Cephas Jones star in the series. | 2,835 |
Miami added a big piece to their 2017 recruiting class today when 3-star DB Brian Edwards committed to the Canes.
Miami nabs one on the first day of Paradise Camp. STA DB Brian Edwards commits to Miami. #Canes — Peter Ariz (@PeterAriz) July 16, 2016
A tall and rangy 6'3" athlete, Edwards has the versatility to play both S and CB at the collegiate level. He's played both positions over the course of his HS career, so that transition should be seamless as he moves on to the next level. Edwards has added some lean muscle over the last year, but could still stand do develop physically a bit more. He should be able to do that once he hits a college campus with their weight training and nutritional plan.
Edwards is a 3-star prospect, but with his size and versatile game, he is definitely a player who could craft a good collegiate career with proper coaching and development. Edwards may see a slight bump in his recruiting ranking as this cycle progresses, but I feel that leaving him in the 3-star range, even if a bit higher in that range than he currently sits, is fair.
Edwards has been closely connected to Miami for more than a year. He received an offer from the previous staff and nearly committed on a couple different occasions. After deciding against that, Edwards took a summer visit tour with his HS team last year, and committed to Louisville. He then backed off that commitment when he started seeing his profile rise and more teams contact him. Even through all of that, Miami stayed in contact with Edwards. He recently said that no matter what, Miami would be "at the top" (translation: in his top group) all the way until he made a commitment. For Canes fans, the good news is that commitment has come, and Edwards wants to be a Cane.
Edwards recently transferred from Miramar HS to St. Thomas Aquinas for his senior year. He joins a deep and talented secondary with the Raiders. This change will help him with his physical development, as well as put Edwards together with top notch football facilities and elite coaching. While a tough pill for Miramar to swallow, losing a kid of Edwards' caliber, but this move is a big win both for Edwards and Aquinas.
A heavily recruited player, Edwards committed to Miami over 21 other offers, a list that includes from Clemson, Florida, LSU, Louisville, Mississippi State, Nebraska and Syracuse. You can see the kind of player he is in the HUDL highlights below:
Welcome to the U, Brian! | 2,836 |
�s from Sobeys or Loblaws,” he said. “We can reconnect people with food again and teach people and kids how to grow food sustainably.”
Even though the benefits to urban agriculture seem pretty straightforward, it isn’t always that simple, said Throness. In order to work with locally grown food, chefs in commercial kitchens have to be flexible, she said, and work around what produce is in season. Budgets come into play too — fresh, locally grown produce is more expensive than canned varieties shipped in from source countries.
Urban gardens and farm plots face further challenges in finding the space to implement them, said Throness. Many people pinpoint roofs as ideal and underutilized space for growing food in an urban environment, she said, but it isn’t always that easy to convert the roofs of existing buildings.
“The roof has to have the load-bearing capacity to do that, so it has to be safe for the building. You also have to have access to the roof so it’s safe for the gardeners and somewhat convenient to get the supplies up there. Those two challenges can be in addition to how hard it is to grow food in an out-of-ground setting,” she said. “So it makes a lot of sense for new buildings to just have that as part of their design.”
Toronto is the first city in North America to pass a bylaw stating that new buildings must incorporate green roofs. While green roofs don’t necessarily equate the production of food (green roofs could be populated with plants or other inedible flora), it’s a step in the right direction, Throness said.
The bylaw requiring green roofs applies to all residential, industrial and commercial building permits submitted after 2010. The percentage of rooftop covered by greenery depends on the square footage of the building.
While we’re a long way off from being completely self-sufficient when it comes to our food production, Alvarez said he believes we could get there. Attitudes towards local, organic foods are already starting to change, he noted — organic sections in grocery stores are expanding all the time and the popularity of farmers’ markets has jumped.
“If you want to be a world-class city, you have to start embracing this and start designing this city around urban agriculture,” Alvarez said. “Aquaponics is going to be part of the green economy and the future of food production but it’s getting there slowly.” | 2,837 |
“It is a disservice to the country for Bernie Sanders to say there will be more Social Security for everybody,” he told listeners during the Heritage Action Presidential Forum in Greenville, S.C.
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“There is no free lunch,” the 2016 GOP presidential candidate said. “That just means somebody else is paying for it and they’re not showing you who’s paying for it instead.”
“If Social Security is short of money, you can’t promise people more of it,” he added. “You have to figure out how to do it with less money.”
Paul said rampant, unchecked entitlement spending of any kind is detrimental to America’s future.
“We’re going to destroy the country if we do that,” he said.
Paul set his sights on his own party’s poor fiscal habits.
“I’ll tell you in Washington – most of the Republicans do not believe in lowering your taxes,” he said.
“Only a third of the Republicans in Congress had the guts to vote for the budget as it cut spending,” Paul added.
Paul admitted another point of contention he has with the GOP establishment is its fierce opposition to President Obama’s nuclear pact with Iran.
He charged that his Republican presidential rivals are taking unrealistic stances on the agreement heading into next year’s election.
“Some of them want to rip it up and tear it up and put it in a shredder and stomp on it,” Paul said of the GOP presidential field.
“I’m different from the other Republicans,” he said. “I think that’s theatrics for the people who say they want to tear it up. There is a possibility for peace.”
Paul vowed that if he were elected president and the deal stood, he would consider how it is working before proceeding further, though he reiterated that he is dissatisfied with the final product.
“I thought the Iran agreement was a mistake,” Paul said. “I don’t think there’s enough leverage in the agreement to get them to apply.”
The Obama administration announced its historic nuclear deal with Iran last June.
It eases economic sanctions Iran in exchange for greater restrictions on its atomic energy capabilities.
Paul’s remarks come as he struggles for support in the GOP race. | 2,838 |
Benoit Assou-Ekotto has revealed the reasons behind his decision to headbutt his Cameroon team-mate Benjamin Moukandjo.
The pair clashed during Cameroon's heavy 4-0 defeat at the hands of Croatia, where ugly scenes also saw Alex Song sent off in Manaus.
Assou-Ekotto headbutted Moukandjo after the striker refused to acknowledge criticism from the 30-year-old, but has now attempted to clear up the situation.
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Speaking to L'Equipe, he said: "It all started with the first match against Mexico. Moukandjo was on my flank, he tried to dribble past two opponents and lost the ball.
"I told him he should pass it to me. He replied I was right. The same situation happened against Croatia again. Everyone can make a mistake. But when I told him again, he replied: 'Get off my back!'
"I could not accept his reaction. There was so much frustration in that match.
"Now people take me for an idiot. I could not control my temper. If the score was 0-0, it would have not happened."
Assou-Ekotto, who spent last season on loan at Queens Park Rangers, said that he and Moukandjo have now buried the hatchet with the help of Samuel Eto'o, and dismissed suggestions that he could banned from the national team.
He added: "When we went back to the changing-room, Samuel Eto’o talked to me, but I was so angry that I didn’t admit I was wrong.
"The next day, we met with Moukandjo again during breakfast and we shook hands.
"That kind of thing can happen when a team doesn’t work right. I didn’t think. Millions of people were watching at the match, and a lot of kids.
"I have not been threatened with a ban from the group. I am a human being and I can get upset just like anyone.”
Cameroon face Brazil in their final game before heading home, with their fate already decided after defeats to Mexico and Croatia left them bottom of Group A.
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and most of the time I trust what they say. There’s very few times when I shake off and want to throw something different.”
“The difference is, he knows a lot more, because he’s caught over a million pitches,” Cotton said. “He knows how to read a swing, how to read the action of a pitch, stuff like that.”
In addition to building up his pitchers’ confidence, Vogt also says he tries to get them to think creatively.
“What I try to do is give them the best suggestion that I can give them for that pitch, and try to make them make pitches in certain situations that maybe they’ve never thought of or been comfortable with before,” Vogt said.
“We definitely are trying some different pitch sequences,” Manaea said. “Throwing more changeups one day, throwing more sliders one day, pitching backward. It’s not every day that we’re trying something different, but he’s definitely expanded me from what I had been, which was mostly just relying on my fastball and pitching off that.”
Vogt, for his part, carefully avoids taking credit for the success of the pitchers in his charge.
“These guys are unbelievably talented young pitchers,” he said. “Their stuff plays in this league, and they know what to do with it, and they’re phenomenal starters.”
Vogt, who’ll make a shade under $3 million this year, will have to navigate other holes in his game over the next few years to last long enough in the big leagues to chase a title or a big payday, or both. But worrying about free agency would fly in the face of the mind-set that Vogt adopted — “I try not to look at anything other than today” — over his years in the minors.
“For a guy like me, who’s always had his back against the wall, I want to keep that mentality going, because every day I’m not only fighting for my job, but also the guy on the mound,” he said.
While he was expounding on his one-day-at-a-time mentality, Vogt said something that stuck out.
“I need to be my best for him because he’s pitching for his life as well.”
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HP growth means he can sustain quite a lot of magic burst already, and the Cloak magnifies his EHP pool even more. It can also be used to eventually build a Pipe if the situation calls for it.- A cost-efficient item that gives excellent stats overall. The HP, mana, attack speed, and movement auras make Clockwerk an even more fantastic asset in teamfights. However, given unfulfilled demand, a Mekansm is often the superior choice.- These days Clock normally isn't focused in team fights but after all, he is an initiator, and thus can reasonably expect some reprisal. If the enemy team has more damage than it has survivability, this is a decent way to deal with them. May deter enemy focus fire as well as AOE abilities while activated.- The most fun item on Clockwerk. This brings your Hookshot cooldown from around one minute to a measly 12 seconds. Getting two or three Hookshots off in a prolonged teamfight is quite common. The stats provided are also incredibly usable by Clockwerk.- Really hard to play with from behind. Once behind with Clockwerk, all he does is Hookshot in and die, reminiscent of the old days. Clockwerk needs levels and preferably farm to be effective, since a low-level Clockwerk is simply food. In terms of items, when behind, a Force Staff alone will make him do a lot more.- Isn't actually the greatest offlaner. Cogs are not a blink, skewer or invisibility. Clockwerk is still very much killable on the offlane given sufficient lockdown and damage output from an enemy trilane. Keeping a Clockwerk at a low level or even level 1 is very much doable since as a melee hero with average speed, he is easily zoned.- Doesn't have the greatest 1v1 matchups. In the era of tri-on-trilanes Clockwerk pales in comparison to many premier 1v1 laners. While Power Cogs makes it possible for him to survive and break even against heroes like Queen of Pain (and beat weaker solo heroes such as Magnus), enemies such as Lone Druid, Batrider, and Weaver can pretty much stomp all over Clockwerk in solo matchups.Source: http://dota2.17173.com/news/05222013/105524099_1.shtml Find more at Liquid`FLUFF's picture blog Senior Writer George "flamewheel" Zhao is in Shanghai, China this week and today he'll be tweeting live from the venue!
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Discount chain has nearly 1,800 stores across US and operates Target.com
CEO Brian Cornell is hoping to 'transform the retailer's business'
The company made the announcement during its
Target announced it will be making $2billion in cuts and slashing'several thousand' jobs over the next two years.
The announcement came during an investors meeting today in New York City.
The US retail chain, which is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, said the cost-cutting measures 'will fuel Target's growth and drive profitability'.
Target, which is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, announced it will cut $2billion over the next two years
The discount chain's cost-cutting measures will result in'several thousand' jobs being eliminated
Board chairman and chief executive Brian Cornell, who joined the company last August, detailed how the restructuring program will 'transform the retailer's business'.
He said: 'Following a thorough, strategic review of our business, coupled with a careful evaluation of the changing retail landscape, we have identified the key initiatives that will put Target on a clear path to growth.
'We're focused on our future and building the capabilities that will take us further, faster.
'Redefining Target will require a renewed emphasis on prioritization and innovation, and above all else, putting our guests first in everything we do.'
Target has 1,795 stores across the United States.
The discount retailer employs about 350,000 people globally, according to the Star Tribune.
About 13,500 employees work at its headquarters operations in the Twin Cities.
Board chairman and CEO Brian Cornell detailed how the restructuring will 'transform the retailer's business'
The chain has been struggling after millions of customers had their data stolen in a 2013 hacking attack and the company made an unsuccessful foray into Canada.
Cornell's plan has $500million in cuts targeted for this year.
It also includes a $1billion investment in technology and the supply chain.
Part of the plan also involves exiting Canada.
In January Target announced its Canadian subsidiary, which had filed for bankruptcy protection, would close all of its 133 stores, resulting in the loss of 17,600 jobs.
At the time, Cornell said the company had not been able to find a way to make Target Canada profitable until at least 2021.
Target projected its 2015 sales growth at two or three per cent.
It also estimated earnings of $4.45-4.65 per stock share which exceeds analysts' expectations of $4.50 at best. | 2,842 |
A 68-year-old Nigerian woman and her 70-year-old husband are celebrating after she gave birth to twins after 43 years of trying.
Margarett Adenuga gave birth to the children - a boy and a girl - by cesarean at a hospital in Lagos on April 14, and is reported to be doing well.
Husband Noah, 70, revealed that she fell pregnant last year via IVF after three previous rounds of treatment failed.
Margarett Adenuga, 68, and 70-year-old husband Noah celebrate after giving birth to twins - a boy and a girl - following 43 years of trying and four rounds of IVF
He told Nigeria's TVC News that the couple were inspired to keep going by a dream he had in 1996 that told him he would be 'known across the world.'
Speaking to the BBC, he acknowledged that a group of fertility doctors had warned him that it was dangerous for his wife to go ahead with the pregnancy.
But he added that the decision was private and not the doctor's concern.
Lagos University Teaching Hospital said the IVF treatment was carried out elsewhere and the couple were only referred to them for treatment afterwards.
Medics continued to monitor her throughout the pregnancy, until she opted to undergo surgery at 37 weeks.
The hospital said it was the first case of pregnancy in a woman of her age they had dealt with.
Attending physician Dr Adeyemi Okunowo called the birth "a miracle" but added that the couple took a huge risk going ahead with the pregnancy.
The pair were delivered at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (pictured) via cesarean section on April 14, and both mother and children are healthy, medics said
It is not clear exactly where the most recent treatment was carried out, but Noah revealed that the couple previously travelled to the UK for a procedure.
IVF involves fertilised eggs being implanted into a woman's womb and is used to overcome a range of issue than can make it hard for couples to conceive naturally.
The procedure can be carried out using a couple's own sperm and eggs, or those from donors.
According to the British NHS, the chance of success for a single round of IVF range from 30 per cent for those under 35 - to 2 per cent for those over 45.
More than one embryo is usually implanted at a time to increase chances of success, which means that IVF is significantly more likely to result in multiple-pregnancies compared to natural conception. | 2,843 |
sobbing. It was frightening to be approached at my own front door at night. Not knowing who he was, I felt intimidated, threatened, and unsafe.
I didn’t sleep much that night, but I did honor the bishop’s request to pray. I received my answer, which I will not go into here, but I was comforted and knew I was loved and that everything was going to be okay.
I realize that this is "their" church and they can decide who is worthy to be a member. But it is also my church. I have chosen it. I have served in it. I have paid tithing to it. I have received promptings of the truthfulness of many of its doctrines. But I believe with all my heart that leaders are mortal and can be mistaken at times and influenced by other things than the spirit of love and God.
If the church’s official policy is now to seek out married same-sex couples in their own homes to issue an ultimatum to divorce their spouses (and possibly leave their children) to avoid facing a disciplinary court, then I am concerned for all the individuals that this may happen to that are not as strong as I am. They may not have the family support and friends that I do, and may be living in the shadows or in the closet. What could this scare tactic do to them? Instead of handling it the way I did by talking to my wife, my friends, and my family, they may end up harming themselves. The fact that lives could be lost by this action makes me scared and angry.
In an ideal world I would like the church’s policy on gays and lesbians and on same-sex marriage changed. I have hope that the leaders will open their hearts to any words that that God may reveal to them about the acceptance of this community, though I realize that may not happen.
For my part, I have hope that my membership will remain in the church, but I am bracing myself to receive the letter calling me to the disciplinary council. My thoughts on attending it waver from minute to minute. On the one hand I want to be on record with my story and have them hear from a "real live lesbian" instead of an idea of one. I want them to see and hear a real person with feelings.
But on the other hand I don't think I should have to answer to them for who I am, or defend how I live my life. I will answer to God, and I know God is okay with me.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Factbox on Romanian Simona Halep, who beat Serena Williams 6-2 6-2 to win the Wimbledon title on Saturday:
Tennis - Wimbledon - All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London, Britain - July 13, 2019 Romania's Simona Halep poses with the trophy as she celebrates after winning the final against Serena Williams of the U.S. REUTERS/Carl Recine
Born: Sept. 27, 1991 in Constanta, Romania. (Age: 27)
Grand Slam titles (2): French Open 2018; Wimbledon 2019
* Won her first Grand Slam title after falling at the final hurdle three times -- Roland Garros (2014, 2017) and the Australian Open (2018).
* Became the first Romanian to win a Grand Slam crown since her manager Virginia Ruzici in Paris in 1978.
MAKING HER NAME
Started playing at the age of four
Turned pro in 2006
CAREER TO DATE
* Began playing on the ITF circuit in 2006.
* Announced herself to the world in 2013, claiming six WTA titles -- in Nuremberg, ‘S-Hertogenbosch, Budapest, New Haven, Moscow and Sofia. Finished the season at number 11.
* Won two WTA titles in 2014 at Doha and Bucharest. Finished runner-up in three more events, including the French Open where she was beaten by Maria Sharapova in the final. Reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon. Ranking climbed to number three.
* Triumphed in Shenzhen, Dubai and Indian Wells in 2015. Reached the semi-finals at the U.S. Open and the quarter-finals of the Australian Open. Finished the year ranked number two.
* Claimed three WTA titles in 2016, in Madrid, Bucharest and Montreal. Quarter-finalist at Wimbledon and U.S. Open.
* Reached number one for the first time in 2017 and won the Madrid title. Lost in the French Open final to Jelena Ostapenko. Reached the quarter-finals of Wimbledon.
* Beaten by Caroline Wozniacki the 2018 Australian Open final.
* Claimed her first Grand Slam title at Roland Garros defeating Sloane Stephens.
* She made several changes to her coaching team and her ranking dropped to seventh in 2019.
* Dropped only one set throughout the tournament to claim her first Wimbledon title. | 2,846 |
Mr. Areiza Arango was one of several witnesses for whom the Supreme Court ordered state protection. He had been expected to testify in a witness-tampering case involving the Uribe brothers and paramilitary groups.
After the killing, Álvaro Uribe published a message on Twitter calling Mr. Areiza Arango “a bandit” and saying he was now “a good dead man.” After criticism, he said that the message had been written by someone else and that he did not celebrate the death of others.
‘I’ll Take Care of Myself’
La Carolina Ranch sits in the rolling hills of Colombia’s Antioquia Province, a four-hour drive from the regional capital, Medellín, past pine forests and vistas overlooking the Andes. In the 1990s it was known for raising bulls bred for the country’s bullfights and for pastures where cows produced milk sent to nearby towns.
But the pastoral setting masked a sinister conflict.
Colombia’s civil war was raging and leftist rebels roamed the countryside, committing massacres and extorting money from local ranch hands. In 1983, the conflict hit home for the Uribe brothers: Their father was killed by rebels during a kidnapping attempt on the family ranch. Álvaro Uribe found the body.
By the mid-1990s, Álvaro Uribe had risen to become Antioquia’s governor. In that role, he promoted armed neighborhood watch groups that were later accused of massacring rebels and civilians alike. Mr. Uribe has said he disbanded the groups when the allegations emerged.
At Santiago Uribe’s ranch, a similar pattern of violence was said to emerge.
Wealthy businessmen in the area, tired of paying extortion money to the rebels, formed an organization known as the Twelve Apostles, according to residents and prosecutors. The group — it got its name because a local priest was one of the leaders — worked closely with local police officers who acted as both informants and hit men, residents said.
“They kept lists of who was next to be killed, and we were all considered rebels just for being peasants in the countryside,” said one former resident, Fernando Barrientos. His brother, Camilo, was killed by the Twelve Apostles in 1994, he said. Mr. Barrientos has filed a criminal case against Santiago Uribe for the death. Mr. Uribe was jailed after his arrest in 2016 and then released to await trial. | 2,847 |
Such evidence doesn’t tell us what will happen in any individual country, but it is a better basis from which to reason than a counterfactual guess. The possibility of punishment and disgrace makes violating human rights more costly, and thus deters future leaders from doing so.
From the final Nuremberg trials in 1949 until the 1970s, there was virtually no chance that heads of state and government officials would be held accountable for human rights violations. But in the last two decades, the likelihood of punishment has increased, and newly installed officials may be more cautious before deciding to murder or torture their political opponents.
In addition, trials seem to project deterrence across borders. If a number of countries in a region pursue prosecutions, nearby countries also show a decrease in the level of repression, even if they have not held trials.
In Latin America, young military officers need only look to Argentina and Chile, where 81 and 66 individuals, respectively, have been convicted for crimes during previous dictatorships, to absorb the lesson that the possibility of punishment is much greater than it was in the past. This may help explain why military coups are now so rare in the region.
Likewise, the sight of Mr. Mubarak in a cage in a Cairo courtroom could deter government officials elsewhere in the region who are considering repressive measures against their populations. This may not help much with Mr. Bashir or President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, who are already deeply complicit in violent repression, and are unlikely to be deterred. But the history of dictators shows that some leaders cling to power at any cost, so it is hard to argue that the threat of prosecution is uniquely responsible for their continuing iron grip.
This does not mean that all governments must immediately and simultaneously begin far-reaching prosecutions. The desire for justice is persistent, and if political conditions for prosecutions are not ripe immediately after a democratic transition, such prosecutions can be held later.
Cambodia issued its first war-crimes conviction last year, over 30 years after the horrors of the killing fields. And domestic courts in Uruguay took 20 years to sentence the former authoritarian leader Juan María Bordaberry for human rights violations. Mr. Bordaberry died this summer in his home, where he was serving a 30-year sentence for ordering the murder of political opponents.
It has never been easy for any country to confront its past. Almost all leaders, when faced with calls for accountability, have wanted to turn the page and look toward the future. But demands for justice are robust, and countries that have held former leaders accountable have in most cases come away stronger. | 2,848 |
and for the crane."
So Crowe started training her to tolerate his touch. Reaching his arm out slowly, he'd graze Walnut's tail feathers with his fingertips and then immediately reward her with a dead mouse, Walnut's favorite treat. Eventually, Walnut allowed Crowe to pet her entire back, and she seemed to enjoy it, purring like a contented cat.
One day, after some back petting, Walnut turned away from Crowe, extended her wings, and raised her tail — an invitation to mate. Walnut was asking Crowe to flutter to her back and perform what's poetically known as a "cloacal kiss." Crowe recalls being both startled and amused. "It's what I had been working toward and hoping for, but it was still surprising when it happened," he says. Composing himself, Crowe put a hand on Walnut's back and then rubbed her thighs, going through the motions of artificial insemination.
Once the two got their routine down, in March 2007, Crowe and Lynch captured Ray and collected semen, and then Crowe injected it into Walnut by himself, with her willing participation. Walnut and Crowe would go on to produce five chicks this way — a major boon for the captive white-naped crane population, Lynch says. That also means Walnut's rare genes are no longer in danger of dying with her.
Crowe is proud of his groundbreaking work with cranes, but he admits that sometimes the whole project feels futile. White-naped cranes are continuing to decline in the wild, and many other species appear headed toward extinction. The heart of the matter, it seems, is that most people don't share Crowe's conviction that animals are thinking, feeling individuals. That they have just as legitimate a claim on this planet as we humans do.
How do we bridge the ever-widening gap that separates us from the environment, other animals, and even one another? Maybe, Crowe and Walnut are demonstrating — and my apologies to the Beatles — that all you need is love. After all, what ultimately drives even the most scientific, tough-minded conservation efforts is an irrational, bighearted embrace of a wilderness that's coldly indifferent to us, an impossible connection we feel to animals that we can never truly understand. All this time, we heavy-headed primates assumed our brains held all the solutions, but maybe our hearts can be a better guide.
Excerpted from an article that originally appeared in The Washington Post. Reprinted with permission. | 2,849 |
Cate Vojdik
AC360° Writer
There’s a major development tonight in a story we’ve been following closely. Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell has taken a leave of absence and will face a disciplinary hearing when he returns. That’s the official word from his employer.
Just three nights ago, Shirvell was on our program defending the blog he’s been using to attack college student Chris Armstrong, the first openly gay president of the Michigan Student Assembly. Shirvell accuses Armstrong of promoting a radical homosexual agenda and has acknowledged protesting outside of Armstrong's house and calling him "Satan's representative on the student assembly."
Wednesday night on 360, Shirvell’s boss, Attorney General Mike Cox, defended the assistant AG’s constitutional right to wage the internet campaign against Armstrong, even though he said he considers Shirvell a bully.
Last night, we reported that Armstrong has filed for a personal order of protection against Shirvell, alleging harassment. Shirvell has also been issued a no trespass warning by the University of Michigan.
The question is, when did Attorney General Cox first learn about the protection order filing and the no trespass warning? So far, he’s been resisting calls to dismiss Shirvell, insisting he doesn’t have the grounds to do so, under civil service rules. Keeping them honest, we’ll be looking closer tonight at the timeline. We’ll tell you what we’ve been learning about Andrew Shirvell.
We’ll also have the latest in the Connecticut triple murder trial. Closing arguments wrapped up today, bringing weeks of heart-wrenching and horrifying testimony to a close. Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters were tortured and killed in a 2007 home invasion. Her husband was badly beaten but survived. Steven Hayes is the first of two suspects to go on trial and could be sentenced to death if convicted. His lawyer has argued that the other suspect was responsible for escalating the violence. Could his defense strategy work? Senior legal analyst and former prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin weighs in.
Plus, rogue waves. For years, scientist denied these massive ocean swells even existed. In her new book, “The Wave” author Susan Casey reveals the truth about these magnificent monsters – some as tall as 17-hundred feet high – and the world-class surfers who are hell-bent on riding them. Casey and legendary big wave surfer Laird Hamilton join Anderson for the Big 360 Interview.
See you at 10 p.m. eastern. | 2,850 |
Let’s be clear. American college students who advocate socialism are hypocritical idiots who don’t know what they’re talking about. They have no understanding of history or the horrors caused by socialism. They have no memory of the USSR or the horrible standard of living suffered by the people who lived there.
They think socialism is about fairness. It isn’t. They think capitalism is an unfair system, yet none of them could go 20 minutes without their precious phones or any of the other modern conveniences which have been created by capitalism.
The student in the clip below is one of these campus morons. Tucker Carlson gave him a little education.
From the FOX News Insider:
Tucker Battles College Student Organizing Inauguration Day Walk-Out
Tucker Carlson debated a self-avowed socialist Northeastern University student who is organizing a walk-out on January 20, 2017 to protest the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.
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Junior Elan Axelbank, of the socialist students’ organizing committee, said his group rejects what he called Trump’s agenda of attacks on women, working-class immigrants, and his plan to have Muslim-Americans register with authorities.
Axelbank said he was diametrically opposed to many of Trump’s cabinet nominees for their ties to the corporate world, and said it was a betrayal of his campaign promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington.
Carlson pressed him to explain why he was claiming to “care about working people” yet apparently not “squaring the fact private sector union members [largely] voted for Trump.”
Watch the video:
Today’s campus snowflakes wouldn’t last 24 hours in a socialist country. They’re too accustomed to getting whatever they want whenever they want it.
They have a romanticized idea of socialism where every country looks like Sweden or Norway. The truth is that it usually looks more like the USSR and guess what… There are no safe spaces.
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On the 28th of August at the Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games League event day 2, South Korea, once again, defeated China.
Before today's games, South Korea was holding the 1st place in the groups and was in the clear run of securing their place in the semi-finals. China was one of the few teams standing in Korea's path for an undefeated group stage performance. However, China was no adversary to Korea's immaculate macro and team play.
While Kiin on Darius and Ruler on Ashe displayed incredible prowess, the MVP of the match and post-interview went to Score. Foreseeing where he needs to go, Score proved to the world why he was picked as the representative jungler for South Korea's national team.
After the game, Score was interviewed. Let's see what he has to say about Korea's 6 win streak at the Asian Games.
¤ You guys just had a great match. South Korea has now won 6 games in the group stage. You guys were up against one of the top teams in the group stage, China. How do you feel right now? How does this affect your confidence?
First of, I am very happy that we got to go through the group stage undefeated. We did have a lot of strong teams in our group, but I am glad we got to qualify for the semi-finals. Despite having the remainder of games to play in the semi-finals and onward, I am currently overflowing with confidence.
¤ In the day 1 game against Kazakhstan and day 2 games against Vietnam, Peanut had started as jungle instead of you. Today, after 3 games, you were put in for the game versus China.
Regardless of who is starting, either one of us has to play well. Because I can play at any moment, I did not let myself ease up nor let the tension go away. Since China is the strongest team out of the competitors, my teammates and I made sure not to get too nervous about the game. By exchanging jokes, we dispersed the very tense atmosphere.
¤ South Korea will move to the semi-finals and a lot of talented teams will be waiting for you. Please tell us the possible opponents that you could have.
Although we made it to the semi-finals, our ultimate goal is to qualify for the finals and win. No matter which teams make it to the semi-finals, as Korea is the strongest country for Esports, we will not falter and try our best to win.
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption Allegations of attempted rape from a maid in a New York hotel ended Mr Strauss-Kahn's political career
French prosecutors say they are dropping an investigation into former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn over a "gang rape" alleged to have taken place in Washington.
The woman who made the complaint has retracted her evidence, they added.
Mr Strauss-Kahn, 63, is still under investigation with three other men over their alleged roles in a prostitution ring. He denies the allegations.
A charge that he attempted to rape a US hotel maid was dropped last year.
But the case put an end to Mr Strauss-Kahn's career at the International Monetary Fund and dashed his hopes of running as Socialist candidate for the French presidency.
The alleged victim in that case, Nafissatou Diallo, is now pursuing Mr Strauss-Kahn in the US in a civil lawsuit alleging sexual assault.
Earlier this year Mr Strauss-Kahn also separated from his wife of some 21 years, Anne Sinclair.
'Lynching campaign'
In March, prosecutors in the northern French city of Lille placed him under formal investigation in connection with an alleged prostitution ring in what has become known as the Carlton affair, after the Lille hotel in which several orgies are alleged to have taken place.
Mr Strauss-Kahn's lawyers have said their client is innocent and that he "never had the least inkling" that the women he met could have been prostitutes.
Consorting with prostitutes is not against the law in France, and Mr Strauss-Kahn has acknowledged that he was at some of the parties with the women.
The woman who had made the allegations in the Washington DC case now says that the sex acts between herself and Mr Strauss-Kahn were consensual, according to prosecutors.
Mr Strauss Kahn's lawyers said they were confident he would be vindicated by outcomes of the remaining investigations. They have previously said Mr Strauss-Kahn is the victim of a "lynching campaign".
A court is due to rule on 28 November on a request to have the ongoing inquiry against Mr Strauss-Kahn dropped.
Shortly after Mr Strauss-Kahn was arrested over the incident in New York, French author Tristane Banon also brought a case against Mr Strauss-Kahn relating to a sexual assault alleged to have taken place in 2002.
Magistrates concluded that while there was prima facie evidence of a sexual assault, the incident had taken place too long ago for a prosecution to go ahead. | 2,853 |
see Morant play in the NCAA tournament before he takes his talents to the NBA, Murray State has a tough road to the Big Dance. The Racers are currently 8-2 and in a four-way tie atop the Ohio Valley Conference standings with Belmont, Jacksonville State and Austin Peay.
Keep an eye on that conference tournament, which will be going down March 6-9 in Evansville.
Any chance the Big Ten breaks that national championship drought?
It’s possible.
Michigan, which lost in the national championship game both last season and in 2013, is very strong once again. John Beilein’s team won its first 17 games of the season but has since been beaten twice in conference play. Their biggest challengers in the league are Michigan State, which has been beaten four times but also just twice in the Big Ten. Both teams are currently ranked in the top 10 and have all the pieces necessary to play their way into early April.
What about West Coast teams? Any team out there that can break that drought?
It’s true, that’s an even longer drought. A Big Ten team hasn’t cut down the nets since 2000, and a “West Coast” team hasn’t won it all since Arizona in 1997.
If it happens this season, it’s unlikely to be a team from the West Coast’s signature conference. The Pac-12 has been abysmal in 2018-19, and is at risk of sending just one team to the NCAA tournament.
If a national champion does emerge from the left side of the country, it’s almost certain to be either Gonzaga or Nevada. The Wolf Pack are 21-1 at the moment, with their lone loss coming via a head-scratching 85-58 blowout defeat at the hands of a bad New Mexico team. Eric Musselman’s team is fully capable of making the Final Four, but playing in a Mountain West Conference that doesn’t appear to have another team that’s worthy of an at-large bid isn’t going to help their seeding come Selection Sunday.
So have you picked a Final Four?
No.
Why not?
It’s pointless to pick a Final Four when so much of who makes up the Final Four is based on tournament draw. I could wind up picking three teams that all end up in the same region on Selection Sunday.
I wouldn’t pick Virginia.
Thank you. | 2,854 |
Pet owners appear to have the same level of physical and psychological functioning as non-pet owners
Pet owners appear to have the same level of physical and psychological functioning as non-pet owners
Owning a pet does not appear to slow the rate of ageing, as measured by standard indicators, suggest the authors of a study published in the Christmas issue of The BMJ.
There are long standing claims that animal companionship might be linked to human health, and with around half of UK households owning a pet, it could be concluded that many people believe interaction with animals is life enhancing.
Studies have suggested there are potential positive and negative health consequences of pet ownership. These include the grief and distress felt after a pet's death, alongside the benefits of improved psychological health from a sense of companionship provided by pets, or increased physical activity from regular walks with a dog that could influence weight regulation and heart health.
With more than 10% of older adults indicating that pet ownership is their major source of companionship, there is an obvious need to examine if pet ownership influences biomarkers of healthy ageing.
A team of researchers from University College London and the University of Cambridge therefore set out to examine these relationships in older people.
They used data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) - an ongoing, longitudinal study of a representative sample of men and women who, when recruited in 2002-03, were aged 50 or more and living in England.
The researchers analysed data on more than 8,700 adults with an average age of 67. Data have been collected every two years using personal interviews, self-completion questionnaires, and a nurse assessment of physical functioning.
A third of participants owned a pet, with 18% owning a dog, 12% a cat, and 3% another animal.
After taking into account a range of relevant variables such as smoking and drinking, the researchers found no evidence of a strong association of any type of pet ownership with walking speed, lung function, standing up from a chair, grip strength, leg raises, balance, nor three blood inflammatory markers, memory, or depression.
And these results held true after separate analyses of male and female pet owners.
The researchers point out that this is an observational study, so no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect, and they outline some limitations that could have affected the results.
Nevertheless, they conclude: "At least in the present cohort study of older adults in England, animal companionship seems to confer essentially no relation with standard physical and psychological biomarkers of ageing."
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Sajovec disagrees.
“From our standpoint, there’s a process involved to review these locations and let the Zoning Board of Appeals decide if they’re appropriate,” he said. “These guys decided not to be beholden to the process and do what they want to do.”
Sajovec said A Fresh Start should either have a state license or be regulated by the city’s vacation rental ordinance, which allows property owners to rent for shorter time periods under certain regulations.
“You can’t have it both ways,” he said.
Calls and emails to Mell’s office seeking comment regarding the sober living house on Mozart were not returned.
Hernandez, a recovering addict who once was A Fresh Start client, said the sober living houses give people who have struggled with addiction — attorneys, firefighters, city and county employees, doctors and pharmacists — a safe place to go as they transition back into their lives after attending rehab.
“How can you tell people with a problem with alcohol that they can’t live in your ward, that they’re not wanted, that they should live in a lower-class part of the city?” Hernandez said. “That’s an inhumane way some of these people think. We’re not a party house. There’s no loud music. No domestic abuse. We don’t allow our people to disrespect the neighbors. If one of our people disrespects a neighbor, they’re gone the same day.”
Hernandez referred questions on why the company waited so long to file for a special-use permit to owner Larry Goldfarb, of Northbrook, who wasn't available for comment.
But Hernandez said company officials are discussing whether to rescind the permit applications and ask the city to instead make a “reasonable accommodation” within its zoning rules to allow the sober living facilities under the federal Fair Housing Act, which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities, including recovering addicts.
“If the city doesn’t grant the request, we would take the matter to federal court, and in federal court we’d win,” Hernandez said. “Sober Living is a family home. It’s protected. Read the Fair Housing Act and read the case law. A city can’t use zoning to restrict sober living. But some people just don’t seem to care. They want us to go away.” | 2,856 |
He in a stable condition but doctors are concerned he has brain injuries. Police said his family were distressed. A 29-year-old man was also knocked unconscious while a third man, also aged 29, was taken to hospital as a precaution. High and Chapel streets in Prahran, the scene of a brawl early Thursday morning. Credit:Google Maps Detectives said they were looking for up to 10 offenders after 20 people became involved in an altercation outside a bar which spilled onto Chapel Street and into traffic near the High Street intersection. ‘‘People have taken it upon themselves to start kicking and punching other males and then other groups have become involved and jumped in for friends,’’ Prahran acting Detective Sergeant Katie Johnston said.
The 30-year-old man was left lying unconscious on the road where a group of friends protected him until paramedics arrived. Sergeant Johnston described the brawl as ‘‘brutal’’ and ‘‘vicious’’ and said it was lucky no one was killed in the fight. Police described the brawl as ‘‘brutal’’ and ‘‘vicious’’. Credit:Victoria Police CCTV footage captured of the violent brawl in Chapel Street. Credit:Victoria Police CCTV footage of the fight shows at least one of the victims being repeatedly kicked while lying on the ground.
The victim then stands up and staggers onto the footpath where he attempts to intervene as the men continue brawl. Footage shows the man then being pushed again by two men and he falls backwards and hits his head on the ground. Another man is kicked in the face as the fight spilled on to the middle of Chapel Street in front of traffic. As the brawl continues at least four men set upon the same injured man throwing punches and kicking him until he is cowering on the ground. Police have an uphill battle on their hands to identify those involved and the motive behind the fight.
At this stage it is unclear why the fight began or how many groups were involved. ‘‘Victims are co-operating at this point but unfortunately they don’t remember much as two were knocked unconscious and one has minor memories in the lead up to the brawl occurring,’’ Sergeant Johnston said. The fight escalated as the group of young men moved into the middle of the road. Credit:Victoria Police Police are analysing CCTV that shows some of the men turn up Greville Street after the fight. Investigators have called anyone who witnessed the assault to come forward and assist police to catch the other men. | 2,857 |
Choosing an AI (artificial intelligence) programming language is not difficult but it can be confusing. So, if you are one of then who gets confused to pick the right programming language for Artificial Intelligence then you have come to a right place.
1. PYTHON:
Python is one of best programming language for creating Artificial Intelligence chatbots. This object-oriented language is widely used by the developers all around the world. There is the number of reasons behind the popularity of python, such as:
The large variety of libraries which can be used in AI.
Less development time
Easy to write chatbots in Python
High-level syntax
2. JAVA:
Java is also a great choice. It is an object-oriented programming language that focuses on providing all the high-level features needed to work on AI projects, it's portable, and it offers in-built garbage collection. Java has some amazing features for the development of AI programming chatbots. They have their own community which is there for you whenever you are stuck somewhere. It provides various features:
Scalability
Garbage collection
Portable
Easy to code algorithms
Also Read: 4 Programming Languages You Can Use to Create Chatbots
3. C++
There is no other language which can compete C++ in terms of the speed. This has become the advantage for AI. C++ is the best choice when comes to machine learning and neural network building as it is the fastest programing language in the world. Various other features of C++ over other languages are:
When you need high performance it is a great choice
Algorithms can be written extensively in C++
Provides high-level abstraction
Useful for time-sensitive projects
4. Lisp
Lisp is quite an old programming language but it is still used in developing artificial intelligence chatbots. It is used in many AI projects such as projects, such as Macsyma, DART, and CYC. various features of Lisp are:
Symbolic structure of Lisp makes it highly used language for creating AI chatbots.
automatic garbage collection
Easy coding
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Maybe two more years. If God spares me and I’m healthy. But after that, I’ll stop [the action] I think.
With the release of Taken in 2009, Liam Neeson wound up completely reinventing his career, fully embracing the role of the aging action hero. Finding incredible success with that movie, he has kept that money train rolling ever since, not only starring in two more Taken films, but also making features like The A-Team Non-Stop, and A Walk Among The Tombstones. But this extended run apparently now has a time limit on it, and Neeson has now declared that he will probably only keep it going for two more years.The Academy Award-nominee has recently been doing the press rounds for his latest action movie, Run All Night, and according to The Guardian he has admitted that he will probably stop doing so much cinematic ass-kicking when he hits the age of 64. Discussing the potential longevity of his career as an action star, Neeson said,While new potential projects can pop up at any moment, it's worth pointing out that right now Liam Neeson doesn't have any action films on his upcoming slate past Run All Night. His next film, Ted 2, is a comedy that reunites him with Million Ways To Die In The West director Seth MacFarlane. He has also already completed work on A Monster Calls, a new drama from The Impossible director J.A. Bayona about a boy trying to cope with his mother's terminal illness. Most recently he has been playing a Jesuit priest in Martin Scorsese's heavy historical drama Silence - which reunites the actor and filmmaker for the first time since 2002's Gangs of New York. So if Neeson does plan on finishing out his action career in the next two years, he may want to start picking up some new titles.Of course, there is a big question left looming here: do we really want Liam Neeson to stop doing action movies? He's clearly still getting opportunities to do more serious/prestigious projects, and he's pretty damn great and believable as the gruff, kick-a-bad-guys-teeth-in protagonist. The opposite side of the argument is that he may not want the act to get too stale, and there's the matter of his personal health and physical abilities. It's worthy of debate!Do you think Liam Neeson should starting exiting out of his action hero career, or do you want him to keep going forever? Answer our poll, and explain your point in the comments below. | 2,859 |
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Police say "tree guy" is 30 year old Asher Woodworth? He told police he wanted to see how his act affected "people's natural choreography." pic.twitter.com/ZHauVGI4mL — TVTEDDY (@TVTEDDY) October 24, 2016
A man decided to dress up as a tree and block a road and no-one quite knows why.
Some people thought Asher Woodworth, 30, was taking part in an art project in Portland, Maine.
Others claimed he was inspecting traffic patterns.
Woodworth himself told police he was curious how his experiment would ‘affect people’s natural choreography’ (whatever that means).
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Police asked the man his name and motivation. They gave him a warning. He then blocked traffic again and was arrested. pic.twitter.com/TLS6l2Ezt6 — TVTEDDY (@TVTEDDY) October 24, 2016
But everyone could agree the stunt was really strange (and somewhat hilarious).
And most couldn’t resist a pun.
Here's the man behind the branches. Asher Woodworth was released on $60 bail tonight.?#WGME pic.twitter.com/4WvIZWF34W — Dan Lampariello (@DanWGME) October 25, 2016
Asher Woodworth is off to the peniten-tree. — Ed O'Meara (@edfomeara) October 25, 2016
ahhh the guy who dressed up as a tree in maine is named ASHer WOODworth, that's two plant references in one name, the goat! — Negative Dunks (@negativedunks) October 25, 2016
@chirpyKT the guy's name for Pete's sake… ASHer WOODworth. Too good. — Lew Turner (@LewTurner) October 25, 2016
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Police eventually arrested Woodworth after he refused to move.
They charged him with obstructing a public way.
He is currently out on police bail.
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The House Judiciary Committee is getting ready to vote as early as Wednesday to formalize the impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump. The resolution that will be up for a vote is set to lay out the procedures that will be used in the investigation with the goal of deciding by the end of the year whether to recommend articles of impeachment to the full House of Representatives. Although the probe has really been ongoing, the vote this coming week would set to increase the “officialness” of the investigation, a source tells Politico. At the very least, the vote would clear up the confusion in Democratic circles about whether the impeachment proceeding has actually been launched.
The investigation “is expected to follow the precedent set in 1974 over the committee’s procedures during then-President Richard Nixon’s impeachment proceedings,” CNN reports. To that end, the resolution will allow the House Judiciary Committee to hold hearings that have different rules from regular hearings because the panel is considering impeachment. For example, committee staff counsels would be allowed to question witnesses and allow more time for these questions.
As Democrats return to Washington with impeachment on the brain this week, they’re also set to broaden the investigation to go beyond the findings of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling. The New York Times explains:
Beyond the president’s efforts to impede the special counsel’s investigation, Democrats also plan to scrutinize his role in hush payments to two women who said they had affairs with him and reports that he dangled pardons to officials willing to break the law to implement his immigration policies. Democrats also demanded documents last week related to whether his resort properties illegally profited from government business. “The central oversight perspective so far has been focused on the Mueller report,” said Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland and a former constitutional law professor who sits on the Judiciary Committee. “We need to broaden out the oversight work to get a complete picture
The biggest challenge for Democrats now may be the calendar. There are only around 40 days of sessions left on the congressional calendar before the end of the year and there are lots of other issues to discuss. For now, at least 134 House Democrats support an impeachment inquiry, according to Reuters. And even though that’s a majority of the Democratic caucus, it still falls short of the 218 votes that would be needed to pass an impeachment resolution. And it seems clear there are deep doubts within Democratic leadership. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, for example, told colleagues last month that the public still “isn’t there on impeachment.” | 2,861 |
While there is still time, the current Humble Bundle, the Game Making bundle, which contains 22 programs, including Stencyl which uses Haxe and OpenFL under the hood, is available in the bundle with an included Indie subscription worth $99.
Jaroslav Meloun (@jarnik) working on a conversation editor using OpenFL.
If you're new to Haxe and OpenFL, or just need a refresher, Lewis Lepton has created the OpenFL Know How Wiki, a “place for anyone to learn & bone up on knowledge of Haxe/OpenFL”.
Once you have gotten (re)acquainted with Haxe and OpenFL, how about reading Fuz's tutorial on how to Create random maze's with Haxe and OpenFL.
Lars Doucet continues to add further controller support to HaxeFlixel with the most recent adding support for Wii remotes. Checkout the preview showing Wii remote input mapped to a Xbox controller.
Recently the Chimango Games team have released their game GumBall: Sewer Sweater Search made for the Cartoon Network built with HaxeFlixel.
HaxeUI Version 2
Ian Harrigan tweeted a couple of previews for HaxeUI v2 which can run on either OpenFL or Flambe using the same.xml definition. Ian has also created a binding demo which you can try, based on HaxeUI v2 code.
Maybe a backend which could be added to HaxeUI v2, Kha, by Robert Konrad, who has made Kha available for download through HaxeLib. Robert has written a post about Kha on HaxeLib giving you a brief intro, as well as some known issues and future plans.
If your interested in Kha, Lubos Lenco has finished his Haxe and Kha 3D Guide, a set of tutorials which teach you how “to use modern, cross-platform 3D graphics API provided by Kha”.
David Mouton has released HaxeLib.js, which he spoke about at WWX2015, an NPM library which currently contains 20 libraries ready for use in your projects.
Slava has tweeted a preview of Postfix Code Completion, an in-progress FlashDevelop plugin which works with Haxe, with the alpha release coming soon.
I'll finish this weeks roundup off with a post from Jim Truher, a technical postmortem of his Slow Jam 1 Game in which he uses Luxe, which he says “is completely badass”. | 2,862 |
An indignant Chinese BABY is claiming that B.A.P's recent loss to MAMAMOO on 'The Show' was due to the unfair rule stating that "views will be deleted if there are abnormal streaming of music videos."
According to the fan, 6 million views--a portion which counts toward winning on 'The Show,'--on B.A.P's "" were deleted, dropping the total view count from 44 million to 38 million. Had these views not been deleted, the fan claims that B.A.P could have won against MAMAMOO with an extra 195 points. From what the fan asserts, the views were deleted by Chinese video streaming site '' because they were abnormally streamed.
What was even more maddening for the fan was that FIESTAR's MV views rose an abnormally 10.6 million in the last five minutes before voting concluded yet their views were not deleted.
The fan tried reaching out to 'Tudou's customer service but only got the response, "Views won't be deleted for normal streaming. Please wait for our censorship results. A formal and fair-minded reply will be given to you as soon as possible."
A detailed timeline of the rise and fall in view counts of the contending artists were shared by the fan in order to support her claim, which you can see for yourself below.
"14/3 10:12am: Around 10 million views of B.A.P's Feel So Good has been deleted.
14/3 10:16am: Around 3 million views of FSG has been deleted.
14/3 10:20am: Around 2 million views of FSG has been deleted.
14/3 10:56am: Around 1 million views of FSG has been deleted.
14/3 11:02am: Fiestar's Mirror is leading.
14/3 11:54am: FSG is back to the 1st place by extra 1 million views.
14/3 11:56am: FSG was surpassed by Mirror by 2 million views.
14/3 12:05pm: FSG leads again by extra 2 million views.
14/3 12:10pm: FSG drops behind by 6 million views."
What are your thoughts about this whole situation? Is the voting rule really unfair?
[Thanks to everyone who sent in this tip.] | 2,863 |
Storage vendor Tintri has “decided to consolidate APAC operations out of regional headquarters in Singapore”, effectively shuttering the Sydney office from which it served Australia and New Zealand.
As archive.org records, Tintri had an office in Sydney as recently as May 7th, 2016. The company's Contact Us page now contains no mention of the ANZ office.
Tintri's not saying why it closed the local office or how many staff remain.
We've only been offered the statement that the decision was made because “We manage our operations responsibly” and that “We are selling to, servicing and supporting customers in Australia through our local channel partners. We’ve centralised our APAC team in our headquarters in Singapore.”
Tintri's not revealed to The Register how many, if any, staff remain in Australia. The company's serviced office is still answering calls and routed our inquiries to local staff, but we're yet to hear back from those worthies. Former staff contacted by El Reg tell us that only Tintri's PR firm has anything to say, and that firm has nothing more to say than the canned quotes above. Nor has the company's handler at distributor Avnet returned our call, although the press contact there was surprised to learn of changes at Tintri and said they'd heard nothing of the change.
The template for cracking the Australian market is simple: find a pre-sales chap or two, plus someone who has helmed a multi-national vendor's local sales team, and get them to mine their banking, telco and public sector contacts. If that advance party can land a deal, add sales and marketing then start sending cheques back to HQ.
Tintri landed former Brocade and VMware man Graham Schultz to lead the local operation, scored Deakin University as a client but seems to have sent insufficient or insufficiently-large cheques home, if the “consolidation” to Singapore and pledge to “manage our operations responsibly” is any guide.
The statement Tintri has offered sounds ominous, if only because the vendor has in the past pointed out that even VMware regards Australia and New Zealand as two of the most heavily-virtualised nations on earth. Which begs two questions: if the company's VM-aware storage can't make it down under, just where can it make it, and; if Tintri needs to shave a few bucks off its operational costs by reducing its operations in Australia, how's the rest of the company going? ® | 2,864 |
Screenshot courtesy of KHOU.com
It’s a familiar scenario: A 16-year-old girl in Houston alleges she went to a party, drank some punch that someone offered her, and passed out. Only later did she find out, through pictures being shared on social media and friends gossiping online, that she had possibly been sexually assaulted. Houston police are investigating the case, but in the meantime, photos of the girl passed out, including one of her naked on the floor, are circulating, inspiring an awful Twitter hashtag, #jadapose.
Now this girl, who is only going by the name Jada, has decided to go to the press with her story, showing her face during an interview with KHOU-11 in Houston.
Man, does this demonstrate what a double-edged sword social media can be when it comes to issues of assault and bullying. On one hand, social media can be used to pile on someone who is already the victim of abuse. The Houston Press reports that after Jada gave her interview to KHOU, another round of ugliness started when idiots started tweeting pictures of themselves splayed out on the ground, mimicking the pose Jada was in when someone snapped the photo of her passed out.
However, it also appears that social media and the new openness that it breeds is being used to push back, and hard. If you go to the #jadapose hashtag now, the handful of people who were cruel enough to make fun of Jada have been completely drowned out by Jada’s supporters, denouncing the mockery and offering emotional support to Jada for speaking out.
Social media appears to have played a role in Jada’s choice to show her face on TV, as well. “There's no point in hiding,” she explained in the interview. “Everybody has already seen my face and my body, but that’s not what I am and who I am.”
It’s a shame that anyone would feel like they might as well come forward because they have lost so much control of their own situation. But, by putting her face out there, Jada is taking some power back. It’s much harder to marginalize or even demonize an alleged sexual assault victim who makes you acknowledge her humanity. As Emily Bazelon argued in defense of Daisy Coleman, another alleged rape victim who bravely showed her face on TV, while it is a “huge personal risk,” it “can only help erase the stigma of being sexually assaulted.” | 2,865 |
Sadio Mane has described playing for Liverpool as ‘something incredible’ as he prepares to make his 100th appearance for the club.
The No.10 will reach his century should he be selected against Brighton and Hove Albion on Saturday, with his 99 Reds matches to date yielding 42 goals.
“Of course, it means a lot to me,” Mane told Premier League Productions of the prospect of representing Liverpool for the 100th time.
“To play at a club like Liverpool is something incredible. I always said, I am very happy to play for this club. Every single day I enjoy being here and I’m looking forward to playing my 100th game. It will mean a lot.
“Thank you to everybody - the club, the fans and the coach for the trust. I will try to do everything with my teammates to win something for this club.”
Jürgen Klopp’s side head to the south coast on the back of successive 2-1 defeats to Manchester City and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Last Thursday’s loss at Etihad Stadium reduced the Reds’ advantage at the top of the Premier League to four points, while the reverse at Molineux four days later saw them eliminated from the FA Cup.
Mane, though, senses a determination within the squad to get back to winning ways at the first opportunity versus Brighton.
“The manager is very, very positive,” the forward said.
“He has a lot of experience and he knows in football [defeats] can happen. The reaction is the most important thing. Everybody is more focused and knows what it would mean for us to win on Saturday.
“We know it will not be easy but we have quality and we’re going to try to do everything to win the game.”
Earlier this week, Mane attended the 2018 CAF African Player of the Year awards in his homeland Senegal.
For the second year in succession, the 26-year-old finished second behind Mohamed Salah in the running for the prize, but he believes his teammate merited top spot.
Mane continued: “Honestly, he deserves it. He had an incredible season for us last year and scored many, many goals.
“I think he deserved it and I’m happy for him. Sadly, I didn’t win it - but it’s no problem. I will work harder and harder, and hopefully next time.” | 2,866 |
Now you can use a.xyz domain name instead of your Ethereum wallet address.
Here is the (mostly) simple process to register and point a.xyz domain name at your long complicated Ethereum wallet address.
Why would you do this? The next time you need to give someone your address to send you some crypto (ETH or ERC-20/ERC-721 tokens only), you can tell them your easy to remember.xyz domain name instead of the long 0x0… Ethereum wallet address.
Note: This only works with wallet providers that support ENS (Ethereum Name Service) names, like MetaMask.io and Cipher Wallet (mobile app).
Step 1 — Register a new.xyz domain.
* Go to easydns.com and register a new.xyz domain name.
* Choose Domain Plus service level
* Choose “use easyDNS nameservers”
* No web hosting add-on needed
* Finish check out process
Step 2 — Update Beta Access setting
* Go to your EasyDNS User Info, Top Navigation USER > User Info.
* Click EDIT at bottom of the page.
* Scroll to the bottom, change Beta Access setting to Beta User.
* Add info to the required fields.
* Click NEXT.
Step 3 — Add ENS (Ethereum Name Service) Integration
* Top Navigation DOMAINS > YourDomain.xyz > Manage.
* Click the Integrations Tab.
* Click “Ethereum Name Service (ENS)” in the Blockchain / Crypto row.
* Paste in your public address (wallet address) for the Ethereum account you want to point this domain name to.
* Click “Enable DNSSEC Inline Signing”.
* Click START ENS INTEGRATION.
Step 4 — Wait for process to finish
* If you wait on the page shown above you will see the process in the numbered bubbles highlight as they finish.
Step 5 — You can now send ETH to Your.xyz Domain instead of that long Ethereum address. In MetaMask (see screenshot), you can now type in your.xyz domain here.
Step 6 — Check Etherscan.io, type in your domain and you should see the correct address next to “The ENS Ethereum Address for this name is…”.
Special thanks to The Ethereum Name Service for all of their hard work. | 2,867 |
The 17-year-old Internet sensation made the announcement in a new video posted Friday
YouTube Star Trevor Moran Comes Out as Gay in New Video: 'I Was in a Glass Closet'
Trevor Moran had a very special message for his fans on Friday.
The 17-year-old YouTube star came out as gay to his followers in a new video.
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“So basically – if it’s a shocker to any of you – I’m gay!” Moran said in the video (watch above).
“Whew, that was hard. That was hard to say to the camera, dude,” he added. But the vlogger doesn’t think the news should come as a surprise to his devoted viewers.
“If you’ve been watching me since Apple Store dances up to X Factor up to the “Echo” music video, you probably should know by now, but clarifying it, yes.”
“I don’t feel like I was ever in a closet, I feel like I was in like a glass closet. Like you could f——- see me.”
After the clarification, Moran answered Twitter questions from his legions of fans, covering everything from coming out to his parents to his struggle to self-identify.
“I thought I was bisexual for a long time because I was just so frightened by the word gay,” he said. “I did definitely try to be straight and experiment with girls – it just doesn’t work,” he later added.
The announcement comes on the heels of the release of Moran’s new music video for “I Wanna Fly,” which alludes to his sexuality. The singer talked to PEOPLE about the inspiration behind the song at this summer’s VidCon.
Trevor Moran Reveals His Song "I Wanna Fly" is About His Mom
“Two minutes before the music video was coming out, I had a panic attack. I had a really bad panic attack,” he said. “I was holding on to my mom, and I was like ‘Mom, they’re all going to hate me! They’re going to unfollow, unlike, blocked!'”
But now that he’s out of the “glass closet,” it’s quite the opposite for Moran. | 2,868 |
File this away under things you didn't want to know first thing Monday morning: a reportedly "shocking" quantity of bushmeat — including rat, goat and sheep meat — is being sold to the public illegally in east London marketplaces.
Top image is a photo of a fresh "grass cutter" or cane rat, similar to ones being sold in London, prior to preparation at a barbecue in Ghana | image via
BBC's Guy Lynn reports on the unsettling findings of a recent undercover investigation:
Under the counter, butchers at Ridley Road Market [a popular marketplace in the Northeast London borough of Hackney] were prepared to sell banned "smokies", a West African delicacy made using a blow torch on the skin of a sheep or goat to give it a charred flavour. The practice is outlawed under UK and European food laws amid fears about public safety and animal welfare. "It is disgusting and outrageous that the local authorities don't take action and remove this meat from the human food chain," [said Dr Yunes Teinaz, a chartered environmental health practitioner.] One Hackney butcher, who was secretly filmed selling a BBC researcher quantities of the illicit meat, said: "Don't tell anyone, otherwise there will be trouble." Two African food stores have sold bush meat such as "grass cutter" or cane rats [pictured up top, prior to preparation], which are described as having been imported from Ghana where they are a delicacy.
Featured below is a picture of grass cutter meat at a barbecue in Ghana, after the hair has been removed and the animal has been split into portions (via):
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What's really fascinating about this whole situation is how the illegal bushmeat trade manages to persist in the face of what would seem like obvious concerns over contamination and sanitation. Given the under-the-table nature of buying and selling illegal bushmeat, one has to assume that the customers purchasing it are aware that the meat they're buying is illegal, and hasn't undergone health inspections that other food is subjected to by UK and European law. As Paul Povey, a leading expert on meat hygiene and inspections in the UK, says:
"This is shocking, I am just so shocked to see so much of it... You've got to wonder about the contamination level of this meat that anyone's bringing into their kitchens."
Read more about this incredibly interesting (if somewhat unsettling) underworld of illicit meat-trading over at the BBC. | 2,869 |
Patients with asthma and severe allergies are often not taught how to use their medical devices properly, charities have warned.
Asthma UK said in some cases poor technique led to people being put on stronger inhalers than they actually needed.
And studies by Allergy UK suggest people struggle with instructions on auto-injectors in allergy emergencies.
The charities are calling for better training for patients and NHS staff.
The warning comes after a separate US study revealed only 16% of those prescribed adrenalin auto-injectors in case of a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction used them properly.
Common errors included not holding the device in place for at least 10 seconds and not pushing down forcefully enough with the needle to allow the adrenalin in.
In the same study, only 7% of asthma sufferers were found to use asthma inhalers in the right way, researchers reported in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.
Training
Study leader Dr Rana Bonds from the University of Texas Medical Branch said the results suggested people weren't properly trained in using the devices in the first place or "forgot the instructions over time".
Image copyright GIPhotoStock/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Image caption Adrenaline can help reduce swelling during severe allergic reactions and make it easier to breathe
Maureen Jenkins, clinical director of Allergy UK, said she was not at all surprised by the findings.
She said because there were different designs of inhalers and auto-injectors, people needed to get specific advice for the exact ones they had, which often did not happen.
"We have just finished a leaflet on allergic asthma which talks about proper use of these devices."
Yearly checks
She added that pharmacists were ideally placed to talk patients through using the devices when they picked them up from the chemist.
Dr Samantha Walker, director of research and policy at Asthma UK, said even though in theory everyone with an inhaler should have their technique checked annually, figures showed a third of people with asthma make mistakes with their inhalers.
And many of these mistakes are significant enough to reduce the effectiveness of their treatments.
"This is also hugely wasteful - asthma-prescribing is one of the most expensive areas of cost for the NHS, costing almost £1bn annually.
"You wouldn't give someone a new car without them having driving lessons first, so if you are going to invest in prescribing a lifetime of asthma medicines, it's crucial that healthcare professionals ensure that their patients know how to use them." | 2,870 |
The day I tried to kill myself was like any other day. I didn't wake up thinking this is the day I want to die. I didn't put my affairs in order. I didn't have a special meal. I said no special goodbyes. The day I tried to kill myself was like any other ordinary day in the 365 days of that year.There is a certain finality about knowing you are dependent on a substance. Be it heroin or coke or alcohol or speed or benzos. Or in my case, all of the above. When it finally sinks in that you will never escape the grip of addiction, it is a sad fucking day. My brain truly betrayed me. It lied to me saying this would never COULD never happen to me. Yet it did. When I looked at the decaying state of what used to be my young body, I did not feel a thing. I could not feel a thing. I just knew I would never escape.The day I tried to kill myself, I did not cry. I did not falter in any way. I knew EXACTLY what I wanted to do. I did not want to feel that psychic pain any longer. If the right eye offends thee, pluck it out. I could not pull myself out of the stew of sorrow, my mind would drift off hoping I would never come back to this place. There was no one to help me, no one to stop me. I tried to kill myself. I survived. I clawed my way back from death. In dying, I realized I wanted to live.The holiday season is a complete nightmare for current and former drug users. There are doing to be many moments in the coming weeks where you are going to think to yourself "fuck this". You know what- that is 100%. Your feelings are valid. Pace yourself. The shame train is a long ride from now until new years day. You are not alone.I have to tell you this- as bad as this feels and it is going to SUCK- it will pass. For most you, active drug addiction is going to pass. You are going to move to something different. Please realize that there are folks out there that care for you. It might not be your family. There is some one. Be gentle with yourself. I spent a few different holiday seasons sleeping on top of a cardboard box in the rain. Yet here I am clicking away on my keyboard next to my snoring dog. I just want you to know that I see you. I am thinking of you. Don't die- I need the company.xoxo Tracey | 2,871 |
Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange is making hey on Twitter with the hashtag #BetterNamesForHillarysBook, posting tweet after tweet of book title puns which make fun of the former Secretary of State and her forthcoming book.
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The hashtag started trending on Twitter after news broke Thursday that Clinton is releasing a new book in September titled, “What Happened,” which will detail what happened during the 2016 presidential that caused her to lose to Donald Trump.
“In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net,” Clinton writes in the introduction, according to publisher Simon & Schuster. “Now I’m letting my guard down.”
Also Read: That Time Trump Vowed to Be Better on LGBT Rights Than Hillary Clinton (1 Year Ago)
Assange has let his guard down, too, gleaning from events during the campaign to snidely point out reasons why she lost. “The Girl With The Goldman Sachs Tattoo” harkens to Clinton’s Wall Street ties. “I Don’t Recall” evokes her Senate hearing concerning her emails — oh, and there’s this one: “Emails, she-mails.” Yeah, Assange isn’t holding back.
Also Read: James Comey Already Has Potential Job Offer... at WikiLeaks
The snark doesn’t stop there. See below for a roundup of Assange’s #BetterNamesForHillarysBook posts.
"The Girl With The Goldman Sachs Tattoo."#BetterNamesForHillarysBook — Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) July 27, 2017
"It Takes a Haitian Village: How I Funded My Election Campaign."#BetterNamesForHillarysBook — Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) July 27, 2017
"But it was my turn."#BetterNamesForHillarysBook — Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) July 27, 2017
"Rumors of my Assangination have been greatly correct." #BetterNamesForHillarysBook — Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) July 27, 2017
"It takes a Greenwich Village: It Seems Not All Americans Soirée At MoMA After All." #Gentrification#BetterNamesForHillarysBook — Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) July 27, 2017 | 2,872 |
New Mexico State Police are investigating the discovery of a dead newborn baby found in a trash bag at a trailer in Alcalde after a father called “with concerns about his unborn child.”
State Police Investigate Unattended Death of a Newborn Baby #PressReleaseNMSP https://t.co/UN4M6c9yn8 — NMSP (@NMStatePolice) August 22, 2019
The father notified police Saturday, state police reported, with his concerns when he returned from Colorado to his home in La Madera and found his girlfriend no longer appeared pregnant. When the father asked his girlfriend about the child, she would not tell him what happened to the baby.
The father also reported his girlfriend is a frequent heroin user and used the drug while pregnant, reported the Albuquerque Journal Wednesday. Police officers were informed the mother may have injected the baby with heroin.
According to the state police report:
Through investigation State Police officers learned the mother was staying at residence in Alcalde. State Police officers went to that resident to perform a welfare check on the mother and unborn child. Officers found the newborn baby deceased in a trash bag inside the residence. New Mexico State Police Crime Scene Team was called to the scene and the New Mexico State Police Investigations Bureau took over the case.
The body of the baby was taken to the Office of the Medical Investigator in Albuquerque for autopsy to determine the cause of death, says the report.
According to the Journal, when police arrived at the woman’s camper trailer in Alcalde Friday night, they saw blood on the front porch. The woman said she gave birth to the baby in La Madera on an unknown date and “passed out due to the pain of giving birth.”
The woman said when she awoke she found the baby was unresponsive.
Officers observed the woman showed signs of heroin use, including frequent passing out and awakening.
“Her statements were inconsistent and not making logical sense,” a search warrant affidavit filed in Santa Fe District Court revealed.
Officers also “smelled the smell of death and began to look for the newborn baby,” the affidavit said, and continued that police found a black trash bag near a toilet with a black tote bag inside it that contained the body of the baby.
The father reportedly said he had been told his girlfriend had been injecting the baby with heroin to keep the child from going through withdrawal symptoms.
According to the report, state police have not identified the sex of the baby and no charges have been filed to date. | 2,873 |
Worst. governor. ever.
December 31, 2010
The media post-mortem on the legacy of soon-to-be-former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been unfolding all week and it has not been pretty. The verdict seems to be that the Hollywood actor who rode into office on a wave of hollow promises may be California’s worst governor ever. [Calitics]
The Sacramento Bee’s readers agreed there was one word that encapsulated his misrule: failure.
George Skelton has recognized that the recall of Governor Gray Davis in the fall of 2003, which brought Schwarzenegger to office, was a major mistake. John Myers of KQED (and former KSBYnews anchor) offered a more in-depth assessment of Arnold’s signature failure, his inability to fix the state’s budget mess.
And Schwarzegger leaves office with approval ratings at record lows – at or below the numbers Gray Davis had when he was recalled.
The governor’s failures were ideological in nature. Arnold Schwarzenegger became the worst governor in California history through his unwavering commitment to a far-right economic agenda, his fealty to the large corporations who helped elect him back in 2003, and his pursuit of a shock doctrine attack on the state’s institutions and prosperity in the service of his ideology and of his wealthy backers.
Early in his tenure in office, Arnold rejected advice from Warren Buffet and others that he needed to raise taxes in 2004 to close the state’s budget gap. Instead of this responsible – and necessary – solution, Arnold stuck to his ideological guns. He pushed through a costly campaign promise to repeal the restoration of a higher Vehicle License Fee, costing the state $6 billion a year in expenditures to local government to make up the lost funds.
The governor’s “solution” to the structural revenue shortfall was to borrow our way out of the mess. A total of $25 billion in bonds were sold to help pay the operating costs of the state in 2004 and 2005. While deficit spending in a recession is sensible, California’s economy was in recovery during those years, and could have handled a tax increase.
In fact, critics argue, a tax increase, especially on property taxes, might have slowed the growth of the real estate bubble that eventually crippled the state’s economy. The debt service on those bonds takes away from other spending priorities, and lessens the state’s ability to borrow to build infrastructure.
Jerry Brown will be sworn in on Monday.
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burn said that the FCC has done little to address high inmate calling prices "and other areas where there's a whole lot of harm and not any action here."
The US also hasn't done enough to fight red-lining practices in which ISPs provide advanced services in rich areas while letting networks stagnate in poorer neighborhoods, Clyburn said. "The people who need these services the most are the ones who have the least," she said.
Clyburn also wants a greater focus on urban broadband gaps. Government programs on broadband access generally focus on rural areas, which are sparsely populated and thus less profitable for ISPs. But Clyburn said that "we cannot afford to be so fixated on one part of America while ignoring" the urban areas that also lack robust and affordable broadband.
When Democrats held the majority, Clyburn helped push through privacy rules that would have required ISPs to get opt-in consent from consumers before sharing Web browsing data and other private information with advertisers and other third parties.
Congress's decision to prevent the FCC's implementation of those broadband privacy rules still bothers Clyburn.
"We've taken ourselves out of the privacy business and I think that's left us too vulnerable," she said. ISPs "know a lot about us," and "they can almost do whatever they feel like with the information that they have about us... to me, having a regulatory-free zone when it comes to privacy is extremely problematic."
Clyburn will continue fight outside FCC
Clyburn's vacated Democrat seat is likely to be filled by Geoffrey Starks, an assistant chief in the agency's enforcement bureau. Republicans will maintain a 3-2 majority.
Clyburn didn't reveal what her post-FCC plans are but said she will continue advocating for underserved populations. "I hope to be able to do much of the same, to be a voice for the voiceless," she said. "I hope to be able to be an advocate for those who may not have gotten the type of attention that I believe they deserve at the agency."
Serving on the FCC was "the most incredible job I've ever had," and the agency "is one of the most consequential agencies in the world," she said. But there's an advantage to being an advocate outside government, she noted. "When you serve on [the FCC], you are limited in how you say certain things and who you can say it to. The one good thing about me closing this chapter and beginning a new one is I won't have those levels of restrictions, but I will still have all the knowledge and passion." | 2,875 |
The Newseum may consider selling its building
The Newseum’s perennial financial woes once again spilled out into public Monday night after The Washington Post reported that the museum’s president, Jeffrey Herbst, was stepping down as its board takes a long, hard look at the books.
The audit could trigger a sale of the Newseum, a spectacular (and costly) mecca for news lovers on 555 Pennsylvania Ave in Washington, D.C., according to The Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan. Keeping the Newseum afloat has required more than $500 million from its creator, The Freedom Forum, and it hasn’t become a self-sustaining enterprise:
Jan Neuharth, Freedom Forum CEO, said: ‘It has become obvious that the current model — where the Freedom Forum is the primary funder of the Newseum — cannot continue indefinitely at this level.’ ‘Left unchecked, this deficit spending rate would eventually drain the Freedom Forum’s entire endowment, and the annual cash drain prevents us from allocating any new capital to First Amendment programs that are at the heart of our educational mission.’
The possible sale of the Newseum, and the sudden departure of its president, is the latest chapter in the Newseum’s ongoing financial travails. In 2013, The Associated Press reported that the journalism museum was “struggling mightily to cover costs,” with ticket sales covering about 10 percent of its total costs. The next year, Newseum CEO James Duff quit, triggering a search for his successor.
By 2014, the Newseum’s finances had improved considerably, but it was still running a huge deficit and relying on The Freedom Forum to pay its bills. Now, it appears things have gotten rather dire. Earlier this year, the Newseum laid off 26 employees, about 10 percent of its total staff.
After the news broke Monday night, readers on Twitter were quick to draw a connection between the Newseum’s financial setbacks and the falling fortunes of the news industry writ large.
Along similar lines: Amazon unit moves into old Oregonian building. https://t.co/OIaf56DWj2 — David Beffert (@dbeffert) August 29, 2017
Whole damn industry's being sold for parts; why not the Newseum, too? https://t.co/W1GB7CnZuK — Substandard Deviant (@substddev) August 29, 2017 | 2,876 |
Actor-comedian George Lopez sent a message to President Donald Trump: instead of deporting Latinos to make America’s streets safer, he should “deport the police.”
In a post published on his Instagram Friday, Lopez is seen standing next to a caption that reads, “The Trump administration is deporting Latinos to make the streets safer… You wanna make the streets safer deport the police.”
The former Lopez Tonight host also said, “This is not an indictment of all Law Enforcement, some still just beat you #gacho #georgelopezonhbo #TheWall ( @momorodriguez #gracias.”
Lopez’s Instagram account is now set to private, but an archive of the post can still be found online.
The Instagram caption caused outrage among many of the comedian’s fans.
“This is a very irresponsible comment bro. You have really disappointed me bro, I thought you were better than that,” wrote one commenter, who claimed to be a police officer.
“Not cool @georgelopez. I’m Latina and I’ve been pulled over more than enough times for speeding. All but one cop were nice and respectful,” wrote another user. “I realize there are some bad apples in the bunch but your statement puts all cops in the bad bunch category. Please stick to comedy. You’re not that funny when you bring politics into your posts.”
Another commenter wrote, “Keep calm george…i got two brothers that are police officer..and we are Mexican/Americans..”
“That comment is fck up many latinos who fought hard and became cops #alllivematter puto,” wrote another.
Lopez has repeatedly attacked President Trump and American voters.
Last July, when asked about Trump’s election odds, Lopez told TMZ that “there’s enough racists in this country for him to get elected.”
A couple weeks later at a show in Phoenix, Arizona, the comedian led a crowd in a chant of “fuck that puto.” (Puto is Spanish slang for male whore.)
After the election, Lopez was even less gracious. When asked if he was willing to give President Trump a chance, Lopez said, “I’ll give him a chance to suck my ass.”
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Lawmakers in at least 25 states have introduced bills that would require presidential candidates to release their tax returns to appear on the 2020 ballot in that state — a clear swipe at President Trump, the only modern president who's refused to release his personal tax returns.
Why it matters: In theory, Trump could be blocked from the ballot in any state where the new requirement became law. But not a single state has enacted it so far, and the governors of California and New Jersey have vetoed it after it passed both state chambers. It's more interesting as a way for state Democrats to troll Trump than as an actual re-election threat.
Where it stands: Rhode Island is the latest state to pass this measure through its state Senate, according to the Providence Journal, and Maryland's state Senate passed a bill in May. Both will now move to their states' House of Delegates for consideration.
One big problem: It might not be constitutional for a state to require presidential candidates to release their tax returns in order to get ballot access. The U.S. Supreme Court has previously ruled that neither states nor the federal government can create additional qualifications for congressional representatives or senators, per AP, and various legal experts anticipate that would extend to presidential candidates.
Battle lines: Rhode Island Democratic state legislators argue that “tax returns provide essential information about candidates’ conflicts of interest." Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who vetoed his state's bill, called it a "transparent political stunt."
California Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown questioned its constitutionality and said the measure "sets a ‘slippery slope’ precedent" for what individuals states could require of candidates."
Michael McConnell, a professor at Stanford Law School, told AP there’s a "tax law problem, because federal law guarantees the confidentiality of tax returns," and he anticipates "that law would pre-empt any state law requiring someone to divulge their returns.”
Flashback: This move is similar to the "birther bill" Republicans in Arizona passed in 2011 that tried to require candidates at all levels to provide proof they were born in the U.S. It was eventually vetoed by the governor at the time.
The bottom line: It is unlikely this legislation will pass in any states — the likeliest would be Hawaii. And none of the states that Trump won in 2016 have a Democratic-controlled state legislature, so he could just pass on being in the ballot in those blue states even if they did approve it.
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a Gay Pride Day in Soweto, South Africa, Sept. 23, 2006. South Africa was the first to adopt a constitution that protects people from discrimination based on sexual orientation. (Denis Farrell/Associated Press)
Partly that was because Canada and the U.S. define the concept of equality very differently in their respective laws, according to lawyer and rights activist Marilou McPhedran.
In an interview with CBC News, she said that "the Canadian charter served the founding of a democratic South Africa much better because one of the primary challenges was to find a way to incorporate a huge variance of diversity" in race, culture and religion, while deeply entrenching the core value of equality.
McPhedran was chief commissioner of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission and is now the principal of the University of Winnipeg Global College.
So when they were trying "to create a nation where they could live together and accommodate differences and respect differences, there was a real turning to Canada," she said.
McPhedran took part in the South African government's ten-year review of their constitution on behalf of International Women's Rights Project.
She also notes that, in the process of drafting their constitutions, both Canada and South Africa were influenced by women's activism, resulting in strong equality provisions in the law.
Former governor general Adrienne Clarkson presents Marilou McPhedran with a medal in 2003 commemorating the Person's Case, an award that salutes the contribution of women to the advancement of women's equality. (Fred Chartrand/Canadian Press)
She was one of the leaders in the campaign to include women's rights in the Canadian charter and also founded the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, known as LEAF, which has been an important intervener in many charter cases.
Nathalie Des Rosiers, general counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, notes that South Africa has "gone a little farther" than the Canadian charter by recognizing socio-economic rights in its bill of rights.
South Africa's bill is also different in that it includes human dignity as one of the country's founding values.
While concurring with the general view that Canada's charter has had a significant international impact, McPhedran notes that in earlier days that impact was furthered by the efforts of the federal government and the Canadian legal community to assist many post-conflict states with drafting their constitutions.
But that was in earlier days, she notes, when the government provided "much more support than what we see today." | 2,879 |
Days after Hamirpur temple purification incident, a large number of Dalits in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district have threatened to embrace Islam after being denied entry into a Hindu temple to offer prayers.
The incident was reported from Panchgaon Patti village in Meerut. A few Dalit women, belonging to Valmiki Samaj, had gone to a 50-year-old temple to offer prayers on Sunday but they were denied entry by the priest on the ground that Dalits were not allowed to pray in the temple.
“Women were told that they are Dalits not Hindus and will not be allowed to offer prayers at a Hindu temple. They may go to their own Valmiki temples,” alleged Deepak Valmiki.
Another villager Satish Valmiki said that the order to deny entry to Dalits in the temple was enforced when a new priest joined a few months ago. “We were going to the temple earlier but now the new priest does not allow us to offer prayers there,” alleged Valmiki.
When a Dalits in the village tried to reason out with the priest, he abused and threatened them with dire consequences if anyone of them tried to come near the temple. The priest also lodged a fake complaint at the Bhawanpur Police Station against few dalits of the village, having a population of over 100 dait families.
Agitated Valmiki Samaj members met the SSP Meerut Rajesh Kumar Pandey and threatened to embrace Islam if they were not allowed to offer prayers in the temple. The SSP assured dalits to initiate action against the priest or anyone who tried to stop them entering temple.
“A probe has been ordered and the police will initiate action against anyone who tried to stop them offering prayers in the temple. A few police men have been posted at the temple to ensure that everyone is allowed entry into the temple,” said the SSP.
SR Darapuri, a retired IPS officer and a dalit human right activist said that it was violation of basic fundamental rights of dalits and showed how they were being discriminated under the BJP government, led by Yogi Adityanath.
Earlier, a temple in Raath area of Hamirpur was purified with ‘Gangajal’ and deities were sent to Prayag (Allahabad) for a holy dip in Sangam water when a Dalit BJP woman MLA Manisha Anuragi had entered a Mahabharat-era temple to offer prayers. | 2,880 |
the business can sell your data to another business who aggregates thousands, perhaps millions, of other profiles. Take a picture with your phone and voila, you’ve just shared data with the provider.
Your data is valuable.
The currency of the private club (RNC or DNC) is based on this model. Data is the trade-able currency for club membership. If you want to be an important club member; if you want the support of the club’s leadership; well, gather more data. Gather a lot of data and that data file is worth a great deal to the club management. They too want to influence your decisions.
Even if Joe Biden wanted to, he cannot gather the data needed for a 2020 presidential bid; Biden cannot pack an arena with 10,000 high-energy voters. So if the club wants to support Biden (or another party-favored milquetoast candidate), they need another method for data collection.
Enter Bernie Sanders….
Bernie is a great capitalist.
Bernie is perhaps the greatest capitalist on the left side of the ledger.
Bernie Sanders as a political candidate is a great harvester of data. What makes Bernie’s harvest so valuable is the type of data profile he is harvesting. Bernie is harvesting from a key audience. For whatever reason, the valuable audience loves Bernie. Jane and Bernie love the value of the audience data. Yum.
Bernie and Jane know their how to exploit their business model for their benefit. The DNC club loves that Jane and Bernie know how to harvest. The club pays Bernie and Jane a premium because their harvest product is full of healthy young data nutrients.
The club also doesn’t want to undermine Jane and Bernie’s efforts; so they wait. Bernie and Jane know the club is waiting for the deposit; the club rules require it. Jane and Bernie have their eyes on a very nice house. The future is bright for Bernie and Jane.
And so it goes…. and so it goes.
March is harvest month for Bernie and Jane. After the harvest the club will pay handsomely and then all will cheer.
The same role and responsibility applies to Beto; this is why President Obama visited Beto. However, unlike Bernie, Beto might just be stupid enough not to realize his role.
Additionally, just like the unsuspecting young couple who plugged their phone into the convenient rental car charger and gave away their data, the Bernie and Beto data providers will be oblivious.
Club rules.
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This unusual backpack was created in Denmark by Solgaard Design and proved to be a big hit on Indiegogo and Kickstarter. It’s a nice, multifunctional bag that’s designed to confound thieves. There’s a retractable 3-digit combination lock and a reinforced cable for attaching it to table legs, so it doesn’t got snatched while you’re on a bathroom break. There are various compartments, hidden pockets, and lockable zippers inside to help secure your gadgets and documents. The lock even doubles as a bottle opener. It’s a smart design that could serve you well around town or on a trip into the wilderness.
The Solarbank is a brick-sized battery pack that has a solar panel on one side. The slot for it in the Lifepack leaves the solar panel exposed, so it can charge up while you walk. There’s a power button with LEDs that light up to show remaining charge. Flip it over and you’ll see the black speaker grille, because the Solarbank also works as a fairly loud Bluetooth speaker. There are two USB ports at one end, which can charge devices at 2A and 1A, so one fast and one slow. There’s also a Micro USB port for charging it up on days when the sun isn’t shining, as well as a 3.5mm audio jack for plugging in headphones.
You can get up to six full charges for an iPhone 6S from this hefty power bank. The solar panel is pretty effective, too. An hour of decent sunshine is going to give you enough juice to fill about 25 percent of your iPhone’s battery and it will still charge up if it’s cloudy, as long as there’s some light. A fully charged Solarbank can also give you up to 96 hours of tunes streamed via Bluetooth from your phone.
You can pre-order the Lifepack on Indiegogo right now for $180, and it’s due to ship in October. It will hit retail in November, but the price is set to jump up to $280. If you just like the sound of the Solarbank, then you can buy it separately for $120 on Indiegogo. It’s set to jump to $150 when it goes on sale later in the year.
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Out of 650 bus stops within the corporation limits, more than 325 do not have shelters: TNSTC survey
With mercury level expected to soar over the next two months, which will be followed by the onset of south-west and north-east monsoon, commuters relying on public transportation system are left to brave the sun and the rain from June to December, as many bus stops in the city lack shelters for commuters.
It is a common sight to see commuters waiting for buses in the open on almost all arterial roads such as Tiruchi Road, Avinashi Road, Sathyamangalam Road, Mettupalayam Road, Marudhamalai Road, Siruvani Road, Palakkad Road and Pollachi Road.
There are a few bus stops with shelters on Avinashi Road, Tiruchi Road, Sathyamangalam Road and Mettupalayam Road that were constructed from the funds of the Corporation/MLAs/MPs Local Area Development Fund or sponsored by social organisations, but there are many bus stops without shelters.
A survey conducted by the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation two years ago had revealed that there were nearly 650 bus stops within the corporation limits. Of these, more than 325 did not have shelters. In places where there were shelters, there were no seating arrangements, which inconvenienced children, women, senior citizens and the differently abled, a TNSTC official said.
But there are also cases where commuters stand in the open, even though there are shelters. The classic example is Kavundampalayam bus stop.
“In spite of our best efforts, we are unable to make people wait in the shelters. They just wait near the signal to board buses,” the official said. The situation is same near the TNSTC Corporate Office, Hope College and near Mettupalayam Road wholesale vegetable market.
Commuters waiting outside the Mettupalaym Road bus stand complained that only originating and terminating buses enter the bus stand. Hence they have to stand outside the bus stand to board other city buses.
K. Kathirmathiyon, secretary, Coimbatore Consumer Cause, told The Hindu that a number illegal bus shelters have mushroomed with the connivance of Corporation officials. There are places where two or more bus shelters are erected close-by for the sake of advertisement mileage.
“The five bus shelters opposite Coimbatore Railway junction is an example of illegal shelters built in the place of one authorised shelter,” he said. | 2,883 |
Golding, so I see quite a good run at the domestic box office,” said Jim Orr, Universal’s president of domestic distribution.
Paramount and Skydance’s “Terminator: Dark Fate” rounded out the top five with $10.5 million, a huge 64% decline from its inaugural outing. The sixth “Terminator” installment has earned a bleak $48 million at the domestic box office to date. After a disappointing start, the movie is expected to lose over $100 million theatrically.
At the specialty box office, Amazon Studios’ “Honey Boy” pulled in $288,824 from four locations, averaging out to a strong $72,206 per location. Shia LaBeouf wrote the film, loosely based on his childhood, and portrays his father on screen. Lucas Hedges and Noah Jupe play older and younger versions of LaBeouf. Alma Har’el directed “Honey Boy,” which has received rave reviews since its Sundance Film Festival premiere.
“This weekend’s tremendous per screen opening is very encouraging and shows ‘Honey Boy’ has the legs and potential to find a wider audience in the weeks to follow,” said Julie Rapaport, Amazon’s co-head of movies. “The awards buzz garnered out of our successful Toronto Film Festival screenings has also furthered the positive word of mouth, which we hope will continue to push audiences to seek out the film as we steadily roll out over the next month.”
Another indie release, Fox Searchlight’s “Jojo Rabbit,” expanded to 802 theaters, where it generated $3.9 million. After four weeks in limited release, Taika Waititi’s Hitler satire has earned $9.1 million.
Elsewhere, Neon’s “Parasite,” a dark social thriller from director Bong Joon Ho, hit $11.2 million in ticket sales, making it the highest-grossing foreign-language film of the year in the U.S.
As a whole, the domestic box office is down 5.5% from last year. With the holiday season approaching, movie theater marquees are making room for what they hope to be sure-fire successes including Disney’s “Frozen II,” Sony’s “Jumanji” sequel and Disney-Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.” | 2,884 |
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RIPLEY, Okla. – Investigators are trying to get to the bottom of what they’re calling a murder-suicide.
A father and his two young children were found dead.
The disturbing discovery made late Tuesday night near the town of Ripley in Payne County.
Investigators say Jackie Boyles killed his two little girls and then himself.
The entire community is reeling from this tragedy.
“I just heard the son took his kids lives,” said J Bjorgo, a neighbor. “It’s just devastating.”
Bjorgo was stunned Wednesday morning.
Just up the road from his home, a terrifying scene.
Authorities say a man, identified as Jackie Boyles, killed his two children and then himself.
Bjorgo says he knew the family.
“I know they’ve got to be devastated,” said Bjorgo. “I feel so bad for them. I hurt for them and feel sorry for them. It’s just unbelievable.”
And, he remembers a lot of good things about Boyles’ father.
“I met them right after I moved in here,” said Bjorgo. “Anything I needed, any help I needed, they were there. He`s a retired firefighter. He`s a real nice guy.”
The Payne County Sheriff’s Office says it all started when they received information about a missing person’s case out of Lincoln County late Tuesday.
When deputies went to the area, that man was last known to be, off highway 108 and 56th street, they found Boyles and his young daughters, dead.
Bjogro says as a grandfather, this hits close to home.
“I can’t believe it,” said Bjorgo. “It’s got to be horrible. Cute little kids from the pictures I’ve seen.”
He now has a message for the Boyles family.
“If you need anything, Troy, call. You’ve got my number.”
News 4 contacted Boyles attorney, Frank Muret, who was representing Boyles in a Payne County paternity case, but our messages have not been returned. | 2,885 |
Updated 4:30 PST with new jury verdict
A jury in San Francisco today found the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers not liable in all claims of sex discrimination against former employee Ellen Pao.
The final verdict came after a two-hour delay caused when the jury failed to get the nine votes it needed for a consensus in the fourth and final claim of retaliation. The jury found earlier today that Kleiner did not discriminate against Pao.
For the jury to issue a verdict against Kleiner, Pao and her attorneys had to show a preponderance (more than half) of supporting evidence that the firm denied her promotion because of her gender.
Two attorneys told VentureBeat it was one of the most engaged juries they’d seen. The jurors asked for easels during their deliberations so that they could map out the details and timing of the case. The jurors submitted numerous questions to the judge while the trial was going on.
#EllenPao surrounded by reporters after losing gender discrimination case pic.twitter.com/vy9GHJxFgC — Malaika Fraley (@malaikafraley) March 27, 2015
Before the verdict, both sides seemed to agree on the major events of the case — Pao’s various roles in the firm, her reviews, her eventual discrimination suit in 2012. What they disagreed on were the motivations behind those events.
Pao had worked for Kleiner for seven years before she was fired in 2012. She filed a discrimination complaint against the firm in 2011, claiming that she was being held back from advancement in the firm at least in part because of her gender.
The Pao side’s lead attorney, Alan Exelrod, said during closing arguments that Pao brought in more money from investments than her male counterparts, yet was passed over for promotions. Exelrod said Pao was further discriminated against after filing the claim, and then eventually was fired.
Kleiner Perkins’ lead attorney Lynne Hermle painted a very different picture.
Where Pao’s version of events says that she filed her discrimination claim because she’d been discriminated against based on her gender, Kleiner’s side says that it had already become clear to Pao that she wouldn’t be promoted to partner by 2011, and that’s why she filed the complaint.
The Pao trial has lasted for 24 days. The jury deliberated for just over two days to come to the partial verdict it announced today. | 2,886 |
POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – A Lakeland man has been arrested after a lengthy standoff with deputies.
According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, the incident first started when Nickolus Johnson, 30, shot at his ex-girlfriend at 9:30 p.m. New Year’s Day when she tried picking up their two children, aged 4 and 9.
Johnson’s ex-girlfriend told deputies she went to Johnson’s and his mother’s home located off of Deeson Road after he called and was “making irrational statements on the phone.”
Shortly after she arrived, deputies say Johnson pulled out a gun and began firing at the ex-girlfriend’s windshield while she was inside the car. That’s when she left and called the sheriff’s office, according to deputies.
Deputies say Johnson barricaded himself in the Lakeland home, armed and with the two children.
Deputies responded to the home, creating a perimeter and began to communicate with Johnson throughout the day.
According to deputies, Johnson refused to exit the home with the children and refused to let the children leave.
The PSCO SWAT and Crisis Negotiations teams also responded.
Johnson’s mother, 49-year-old Nikki Whigham, later arrived and began yelling at her son not to come out of the house and not to co-operate with law enforcement. After continuing to be verbally combative with deputies and impeding the efforts of officers, Whigham was arrested and taken to the Polk County Jail for resisting a law enforcement officer without violence, according to deputies.
Following further investigation, deputies say they learned Johnson had a history of mental health issues including four Baker Acts in Polk and Hillsborough Counties.
After 23 hours, deputies were able to take Johnson into custody Thursday evening around 8:20.
Polk County Sheriff’s Office
Deputies say both children were found and did not appear to be physically harmed.
A.380 semi-automatic handgun was also found inside the home, according to deputies.
Johnson was charged with attempted second-degree homicide, shooting into an occupied vehicle, two counts of armed kidnapping, two counts of child abuse, resisting without violence, discharging a firearm on residential property, improper exhibition of a firearm, culpable negligence, shooting at a dwelling and criminal mischief.
He was booked into the Polk County Jail and is being held on no bond.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Mark your calendars.
Some key offseason dates for the Titans in 2019:
January 22-26: Senior Bowl practices, and game, in Mobile, Alabama. (Titans GM Jon Robinson, HC Mike Vrabel, and members of the team's scouting and coaching staffs will attend).
January 27: Pro Bowl in Orlando, Florida. (Titans LT Taylor Lewan and punter Brett Kern scheduled to play in game).
February 16: 2019 Titans Regional Spelling Bee, Nissan Stadium.
February 19: First day for NFL clubs to designate franchise or transition players.
Feb 26-Mar 4: NFL Combine in Indianapolis. (Titans GM Jon Robinson, HC Mike Vrabel, and members of the team's scouting and coaching staffs will attend).
March 5: Deadline for clubs to designate franchise or transition players.
March 11-13: Clubs are permitted to contact, enter into negotiations with, the certified agents of players who will become unrestricted free agents on March 13.
March 13: Free Agency Begins.
March 24-27: Annual League Meeting, Phoenix. (Titans controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk, GM Jon Robinson, HC Mike Vrabel, and other members of the organization will attend).
March 30: Music City Blitz/Flag Football (Special Olympics fundraiser) at Nissan Stadium.
Mid-April: 2019 NFL Schedule Released.
April 15: Offseason Workouts Can Begin.
April 16: Titans High School Recruiting Fair, Nissan Stadium.
April 25-27: NFL Draft, Nashville, Tennessee.
May 3-6: Clubs may elect to hold a three-day post-draft rookie minicamp.
May 11: Titans 5K, ending at Nissan Stadium (more details to come).
May 20-22: Spring League Meeting, Key Biscayne, Florida.
Late May-Early June: Organized team activities (OTAs).
Early June: Titans High School Coaches Clinic, Saint Thomas Sports Park.
Mid June: Titans minicamp.
June 15: Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame Induction.
July 10: Titans High School 7-on-7 Passing Tournament, Saint Thomas Sports Park.
Late July: Training Camp Begins.
August 1-4: Hall of Fame weekend, Canton, Ohio.
August 8-11: First weekend of preseason games for rest of NFL.
August 31: Clubs must trim roster to 53 players. | 2,888 |
The list of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump's guests attending the State of the Union was released on Monday night — and one of those has a familiar last name.
Sixth grader Joshua Trump from Wilmington, Delaware will be in attendance. Joshua loves animals, art, science, and history, according to the White House, and he admires his uncle who serves in the U.S. Air Force.
Joshua has been invited in a display of patronymic solidarity from the first lady.
The full list of guests is below.
The list of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump's guests attending the State of the Union was released on Monday night — and one of the guests has a familiar last name.
Sixth grader Joshua Trump from Wilmington, Delaware will be in attendance. Joshua loves animals, art, science, and history, according to the White House, and he admires his uncle who serves in the U.S. Air Force.
"Unfortunately, Joshua has been bullied in school due to his last name," the White House statement also explains. "He is thankful to the First Lady and the Trump family for their support.
The list doesn't specify if Joshua is related to the first family, and INSIDER reached out to get confirmation. According to Delaware Online, Joshua is not related to the president.
In December of 2018, a Pennsylvania-based organization Teach Anti Bullying awarded Joshua Trump the Teach Anti Bullying Medal of Courage, as Joshua has reportedly dealt with teasing due to his last name. The bullying led to school officials using his father's surname Berto rather than his mom's last name, which is Trump.
One of the first lady's initiatives known as Be Best focuses on stopping bullying.
Invitees often have political significance, and in 1982, President Ronald Reagan began the tradition of acknowledging guests during the State of the Union address.
In addition to Joshua, the president and first lady's guests include a first responder who was wounded during the Pittsburgh synagogue attack, along with a survivor of that shooting, a former inmate who was released as a result of the First Step Act — the criminal justice reform bill passed by the House and Senate and signed into law last year by the president — the family of a couple killed by an undocumented immigrant, and several others.
Democratic lawmakers are also making political statements with their SOTU guests; an undocumented immigrant who used to work at one of Trump's golf clubs will be in attendance, along with the woman who confronted former Sen. Jeff Flake over Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation. | 2,889 |
ripper 3000-series will potentially max out at 32 cores and 64 threads. There have been three sightings of the AMD 100-000000011-11 sample in the Geekbench 4 database, so we can almost fill out all of the processor's specifications. From the collected data for all three Geekbench 4 entries, the 32-core Castle Peak chip seems to have a 3.6 GHz base clock and 4.3 GHz boost clock.
The 32-core Castle Peak has received a substantial upgrade in the cache department. The processor seemingly features up to 128MB of L3 cache, which is double of what we find on the current Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX. The L2 cache remains the same, and the Castle Peak processor apparently has 1MB less L1 cache. Comparing the best Castle Peak run with the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX, the former outperforms the latter by up to 4.72% and 14.63% in single-and multi-core workloads, respectively.
The processor appeared for the first time in the UserBenchmark database today, rocking the 2D2832E6UIVG5_42/36_N codename. UserBenchmark also detects the 32-core processor with a 3.6 GHz base clock, which lends some credence to Geekbench 4's previous reports. That's 600 MHz increase in comparison to its Colfax counterpart, which translates to a 20% improvement.
According to UserBenchmark's statistics, the Castle Peak 32-core part delivers up to 23% and 37% better single-and multi-core performance, respectively, in comparison to the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX.
The million-dollar question is when AMD will launch the Ryzen Threadripper 3000-series lineup. Well, we have a theory on that too. The number seven holds strong significance for AMD since it alludes to the chipmaker's 7nm products. AMD launched the Radeon VII on February 7, Ryzen 3000-series processors and Navi graphics card on July 7, and lastly, EPYC 7002-series chips on August 7. There is a good chance AMD can launch Castle Peak on September 7, which coincidentally falls between IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin) 2019 tradeshow in Berlin.
AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su confirmed to us during a sit-down that next-generation Ryzen Threadripper chips are definitely coming. In recent days, the CPU-Z software added preliminary support for Castle Peak, so it's just a matter of time before Castle Peak breaks cover. | 2,890 |
on YouTube of himself walking into a Brooklyn precinct wearing only underwear and a cape, and thanking officers for their service.
His criminal record made it had for him to find work, he said.
Ransom recalled taking a job assisting people with disabilities and one as a shift supervisor at a homeless shelter. He says he got booted from the shelter gig after just a few weeks, when a supervisor discovered he lied about his work experience on his resume.
The lack of work made it hard to pay basic bills and forced him to “bounce around” between several apartments where he rented rooms, he said.
“I needed money,” he said, referring to the alleged robbery.
Still, he dreamed of starting his own film production company and said he was one semester away from graduating college with a degree in communications.
He now faces felony murder, robbery, assault and menacing charges. Police say Freeman, 25, acted as his lookout; he also has been charged with felony murder.
Det. Simonsen was killed by “friendly fire.” Photo: @NYPDChiefofDept/Twitter
Canada and the United Kingdom have banned similar statutes, and multiple states, including Hawaii and Kentucky, have eliminated the charge. Critics contend the charge unfairly punishes criminal accomplices.
In New York and elsewhere, people can be charged with murder even when they don’t wield a weapon. They are considered responsible if the death occurs while they are committing another serious crime.
Most recently, California lawmakers voted to limit the charge by exempting people who had little to do with the original crime and no intent to kill. That law is being challenged in court.
As for Simonsen, thousands of friends, family members and fellow officers gathered Feb. 20 to say their final goodbye. He was remembered as a “cop’s cop” who always looked out for others.
“Brian was a true friend who never wanted anything in return,” his former partner, Ricky Water, told the mourners inside St. Rosalie’s Catholic Church.
Simonsen is survived by his wife, Leanne, and mother, Linda.
In Bellevue Hospital, Ransom sent a message to Simonsen’s family: “I wish it didn’t happen. I pray for their strength and healing process.”
This story was originally published by THE CITY, an independent, nonprofit news organization dedicated to hard-hitting reporting that serves the people of New York. | 2,891 |
No one was injured when a car crashed into concrete barricades at 218th Street and Indian Road on Jan. 7, 2013. View Full Caption Scott Bintner
INWOOD — A suspected drunken driver who walked unharmed from an Inwood Hill Park car crash Tuesday night giggled as he and a passenger surveyed the wreckage — then went to a nearby bar and ordered a beer, witnesses told DNAinfo.
Dexter Stroude, 35, of Brooklyn, was arrested by police and accused of driving drunk after he sped down 218th Street, blowing through stop signs and crashing his black 2014 Ford Mustang into a large boulder at the park's entrance near Indian Road about 10 p.m., police and witnesses said.
"It was obvious that there was going to be no time to stop," said Scott Bintner, 35, a lifeguard who was walking down 218th Street at the time of the crash. "It was just a matter of when they would try to stop and how bad it was going to be."
Police said the car smashed into the boulder, slid on top of it and continued into the park before coming to a halt.
As panicked onlookers ran to the scene of the wreck, Stroude and his two male passengers got out of the vehicle and began to laugh, witnesses said.
"They were laughing, with no real concern to their safety," said Cole Thompson, who raced to the accident after spending the evening at Indian Road Cafe.
In a video provided to DNAinfo by Thompson, one of the passengers marveled at the mangled vehicle, saying "That's a beautiful wreck."
Thompson said that one of Stroude's passengers asked for directions to the Long Island Railroad and disappeared toward the subway before police could arrive. Stroude and the other passenger went across the street into Indian Road Cafe, where they asked for a beer.
"I told them there was a cafe where they could warm up and they said: 'Do you think we can get a beer in there?'" Thompson said.
"They certainly came in and asked for a beer. I heard that," added Bintner, who followed them into the bar.
Indian Road Cafe bartenders didn't oblige, instead offering the passengers glasses of water, according to cafe staff.
The passengers were transported by the FDNY to the New York Presbyterian Allen Pavilion with minor injuries. Stroude was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated, police said.
Stroude could not be reached for comment and information on his lawyer was not immediately available. | 2,892 |
The dual-pivot design features a stabiliser between the arms to reduce deformation and improve braking efficiency.
Wheels
£749.98 (rim brake, pair)
£799.98 (disc brake, pair)
Weight 1,568g (625g f, 943g r, rim brake), 1,639g (735g f, 904g r, disc brake)
Shimano is offering two new wheelsets, the carbon-laminate WH-RS700 rim brake wheels (above) and the WH-RS770 disc brake wheels (below) with road e-thru axles. Both are tubeless.
A pair of new hubs have a weight saving of almost 60g compared to Ultegra 6800 hubs, while the rims use a lighter carbon lay-up. The rim brake wheelset is 80g lighter than its predecessor.
Example groupset weight
This is how an Ultegra R8000 groupset with mechanical shifting and rim brakes weighs up.
Shifters 438g
Brakes (dual-pivot) 360g
Rear derailleur (short cage) 200g
Front derailleur (braze on) 92g
Chainset (50-34T) 674g
Cassette 232g
Wheels 1,569g
Pedals 248g
Bottom bracket 63g
Chain (114 links) 257g
Total 4,133g
The lightest configuration is Di2 shifting with rim brakes. That comes out as this:
Shifters 295g
Brakes (dual-pivot) 360g
Rear derailleur (short cage) 242g
Front derailleur (braze on) 132g
Chainset (50-34T) 674g
Cassette 232g
Wheels 1,569g
Pedals 248g
Bottom bracket 63g
Chain (114 links) 257g
Total 4,072g
Shimano's official lightest complete Ultegra groupset weight is 4,071g, but let's not get too stressed about a gram or two either way (it's probably just because the individual component weights quoted have been rounded to the nearest gram)!
Availability
New Shimano Ultegra mechanical components will be available in the UK from July while it’s September for Di2. | 2,893 |
President Trump took to Twitter Saturday morning to defend his decision not to declassify a memo written by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee in response to a GOP memo the president declassified for release last week. He called the Democrats' memo "very political" and "long." It is 10 pages, while the GOP memo is four pages.
Mr Trump also claimed Democrats knew their memo could not be released in its current form because it would reveal "sources and methods," forcing the White House not to support its release.
Mr. Trump asked the committee to review the Democratic memo and, with the help of Justice Department officials, work on a revised version.
The Democrats sent a very political and long response memo which they knew, because of sources and methods (and more), would have to be heavily redacted, whereupon they would blame the White House for lack of transparency. Told them to re-do and send back in proper form! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 10, 2018
White House counsel Don McGahn said in a letter to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes Friday night that the president would not declassify the Democratic memo over national security concerns, even though the FBI warned against the release of the GOP memo over the same concerns.
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The GOP memo attempts to make the case that surveillance warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) were authorized against former Trump campaign official Carter Page because of an unverified and politicized dossier about Donald Trump's alleged connections to Russia, authored by former British spy Christopher Steele.
The Democratic memo, which the House Intelligence Committee voted to release last week, attempts to rebut and clarify the GOP memo. The White House also released a letter from the Justice Department, written at the request of the White House, confirming the existence of national security concerns.
The full House could still vote to release the Democratic memo in its current form. But without the president's support, that seems less likely.
Rep. Adam Schiff, R-Calif., the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said, "After promising to treat the Democratic response in precisely the same way (as the GOP memo), the White House now seeks to have the Democratic memo sent back to committee and revised by the same majority that produced the flawed Nunes document to begin with."
Even some Republicans supported the release of the Democratic memo. Rep. Justin Amash, R-Michigan, tweeted Friday night that he has seen both memos, neither jeopardize national security, and the Democratic memo should be released just like the Republican one was. | 2,894 |
Despite a viral video making the rounds on social media, Prince Charles didn't snub Vice President Mike Pence, Pence's press secretary says.
The video shows Prince Charles skipping over Pence as he stopped to shake hands with other world leaders in Jerusalem Thursday at the World Holocaust Forum.
However, the two shook hands and chatted backstage at the forum, Pence's team stated. The Clarence House, the household of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, also confirmed Pence and Charles spoke beforehand.
"Vice President Pence and the Second Lady spoke with Prince Charles for five minutes in the preprogram before they entered the hall," Pence's press secretary Katie Waldman said in an email to USA TODAY. "Also, they shook hands at the end of his remarks."
In a tweet, Waldman denied the Prince of Wales snubbed the vice president, adding a video of the leaders interacting in another tweet: "This is not true. VP and Prince Charles spoke prior to entering the event floor and after his remarks as well."
Prince Charles to attend World Holocaust Forum during Israel visit
Prince Charles, meanwhile, spoke about the horrors of the Holocaust in a speech at the forum.
This year's forum World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem commemorates the 75th anniversary of the liberation of former World War II concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
"Almost a lifetime has passed since the horror of the Holocaust unfolded on the European continent and those who bore witness to it are sadly ever fewer," Prince Charles said. "We must commit ourselves to ensuring that their stories live on to be known and understood by each successive generation."
He also said Holocaust survivors' experiences "must always educate and guide and warn us."
"The Holocaust must never be allowed to become simply a fact of history," Charles said. "We must never cease to be appalled nor moved by the testimony of those who lived through it."
He continued: "Real violence ensues, and acts of unspeakable cruelty are still perpetrated around the world against people for reasons of their religion, their race or their beliefs. … We must be fearless in confronting falsehoods and resolute in resisting words and acts of violence, and we must never rest in seeking to create mutual understanding and respect."
Charles will also visit the West Bank while abroad.
This isn't the first time the prince has visited Israel. He also visited in 1995 and 2016. This is the first time, however, that the royal is scheduled to undergo several engagements, according to a press release from Clarence House.
Contributing: Sara M. Moniuszko | 2,895 |
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The compensation board, in its written argument to the appeal court, fears compensating a juror would open the floodgates so anyone who sits through a extremely violent trial — judges, court staff, prosecutors, defence lawyers, police and journalists — will want compensation.
It argued that people who claim nervous shock with no physical injury or proximity to the crime shouldn’t be considered victims.
The juror, it argued, suffered her PTSD from hearing the evidence at the trial, not the crime itself.
The juror was a perfect selection for the trial. She had just moved to London, had no knowledge of the little girl’s death and went into the trial with a clean slate.
She said that she knew at the time of the verdict that something was wrong. “At the end, I bubbled up,” she said. “It was like you suppress everything for so long, it’s over.”
She accepted some help through the police after the trial, but it wasn’t going to be enough. She had been balancing her jury duties with her job throughout the trial. She decided that she and her two children needed a vacation and they headed to Niagara Falls for a week.
At the end of the trial, what we ask of them should end, but if it doesn’t, why do we ask the juror to deal with that all (alone)?
She was already experiencing some memory loss, but it was there she said she “just blew” and her anger started to pour out. Her doctor ordered her off work.
The woman said she got a dog and wanted to buy a horse. She said her finances were in such shambles she had to sell her home and move into something smaller.
She reached out to prosecutor Kevin Gowdey from the Crown’s office, who linked her up with help at Victoria Hospital. And, after she and another juror did their version of “Tori’s Walk,” revisiting all the places the little girl was before she died, she visited Woodstock police.
“I felt like I was walking on a treadmill in a glass bubble, all foggy and I can’t get off and I can’t get out,” she said. “I wanted help so bad so I could start living my life again.”
She said other jurors have experienced the same stress.
Her appeal will be heard Nov. 8 in Toronto. | 2,896 |
LAFAYETTE (CBS SF) — An East Bay home with a price of $850,000 is attracting bidders even though it currently can’t be lived in because it stands on the edge of a large landslide.
The house on Chapel Drive in Lafayette was red-tagged last month because the foundation was undermined by the landslide in the backyard.
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The listing admits the purchase is “not for the faint of heart.”
It goes on to say the $850,000 dollars asking price reflects the cost of repairs to the foundation. It’s estimated that those repairs will be about $300,000, according to reports.
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The listing also notes that once the property is restored and the home is livable, there will be great views of Mount Diablo.
Valerie Crowell, broker associate with Keller Williams Realty, gave KPIX 5 a tour of the four-bedroom, three-bath home.
It’s in a quiet cul-de-sac near great schools. She said it would normally go for $1.5 million.
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“There’s only so much real estate on the planet, and there’s only so much real estate in the Lafayette school district,” said Crowell.
Crowell said the $850,000 asking price takes into account other costs like stabilizing the hillside and home renovations.
She said the elderly couple who lived here had to move out when the backyard gave way after the storms in February.
“They’ve been in the house since 1968. It’s really sad for the family,” said Crowell.
The 2,400-square-foot home was put on the market Friday.
“I’m actually surprised by the interest I’ve gotten on this house. I’ve getting four to five calls a day about it,” said Crowell.
There have been four walk-throughs with potential buyers so far. In the Bay Area’s sizzling real estate market, it could be someone’s bargain.
Crowell said she will making sure bidders understand the stabilization work that needs to be done on the property. | 2,897 |
had no power to interfere with slavery in the states where it already existed.
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Which raises the obvious question: how did the abolitionists expect to get slavery abolished? A small group of nonpolitical abolitionists argued for moral suasion. An even smaller faction of antislavery radicals argued that the Constitution was an antislavery document. But most abolitionists believed, on the one hand, that the Constitution did not allow the federal government to abolish slavery in the states, but that on the other hand, political action was necessary for slavery to be abolished. Given the Constitution’s restrictions, what did opponents of slavery think could be done?
Coming out of the 1860 election, Republicans declared that there were two possible policies. The first was to make freedom national and restrict slavery to the states where it already existed. Republican policymakers would seal off the South: they would no longer enforce the Fugitive Slave Clause; slavery would be suppressed on the high seas; it would be abolished in Washington DC, banned from all the Western territories, and no new slave states would be admitted to the Union. A “cordon of freedom” would surround the slave states. Then Republicans would offer a series of incentives to the border states where slavery was weakest: compensation, subsidies for voluntary emigration of freed slaves, a gradual timetable for complete abolition.
Slavery was intrinsically weak, Republicans said. By denationalizing it, they could put it on a course of ultimate extinction. Surrounded on all sides, deprived of life-giving federal support, the slave states would one by one abolish slavery on their own, beginning with the border states. Each new defection would further diminish the strength of the remaining slave states, further accelerating the process of abolition. Yet because the decision to abolish slavery remained with the states, Republican policies would not violate the constitutional ban on direct federal interference in slavery.
The South would simply have to accept this. And if it couldn’t tolerate such a federal policy, it could leave the Union. But once it seceded, all bets would be off – it would lose the Constitutional protections that it had previously enjoyed. The Republicans would then implement the second policy: direct military emancipation, immediate and uncompensated.
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Republicans said this openly during the secession crisis. And that’s what they were saying in Congress as they debated the Confiscation Act. It’s time to start rethinking our fundamental assumptions about the causes as well as the trajectory of the Civil War. And we can start by taking the perceptions of its contemporaries a great deal more seriously. | 2,898 |
Song Kang-ho, the South Korean actor who is readying himself for an Oscars push with the critically acclaimed film Parasite, has picked out five of his favourite cinematic pictures.
Song, who received national fame in South Korea following numerous impressive performances in films such as Joint Security Area, Memories of Murder, The Host, teamed up with director Bong Joon-ho and gained international recognition in the role of Kim Ki-taek in Parasite.
Widely considered to be arguably the most prolific actor in South Korea, Song picked out five films that have inspired him over the years. “I didn’t really have time to think about what my favourite movies are. I guess I’ve been busy,” he joked in the interview with Rotten Tomatoes. “There’s this movie called Parasite,” he continued while picking the project as his favourite. “A lot of people seem to like that movie; I think I agree with them.”
Elsewhere, Song referenced numerous different films from his native South Korean, explaining: “Oldboy, directed by Park Chan-wook. That’s one of my favourites. The movie’s narrative talks about human desires that are taboo — you’re not supposed to talk about them. You think about them, but you’re not supposed to think about them. The movie tells these forbidden stories with daring, experimentally and artistically, and it tells them very well.”
With Park Chan-wook, László Nemes and more mentioned, see Song’s full list of favourite films, below.
Song Kang-ho’s five favourite films:
Son of Saul – László Nemes, 2015.
Parasite – Bong Joon-ho, 2019.
Secret Sunshine – Lee Chang-dong, 2010.
Oldboy – Park Chan-wook, 2003.
Papillon – Franklin J. Schaffner, 1973.
While discussing Son of Saul, just one of the two films picked away from South Korea, Song said: “If you ask me about my cinematic preferences, a few years ago, there was a Hungarian film called Son of Saul. It’s a bit of a dark story, but I remember being impressed by that film. I think the filming technique expresses the message of the film very accurately and very effectively.”
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Source: Rotten Tomatoes | 2,899 |
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