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3-D concert film for the mega-hit band One Direction, and earlier as executive producer of the documentary series A Day in the Life on Hulu, and the films, Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, The Dotted Line on ESPN and Mansome on Yahoo!
Warrior Poets is a New York based production company founded in 2004 by Academy Award® nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. Since its creation, he and producing partners Jeremy Chilnick and Matthew Galkin have produced multiple award winning films and television programs. Films include One Direction: This Is Us, POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Comic-Con: Episode IV – A Fan’s Hope, Mansome, Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?, and Freakonomics. Television projects include the award-winning FX series 30 Days, the IDA award-winning CNN series Morgan Spurlock: Inside Man, Showtime’s 7 Deadly Sins, ESPN’s The Dotted Line, Emmy and Writer’s Guild nominated The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special in 3D on Ice!. Digital projects include Hulu’s A Day in the Life, Yahoo’s Mansome, Failure Club, and Losing It with John Stamos, and Sky Atlantic HD’s Morgan Spurlock’s New Britannia.
CNN Worldwide is a portfolio of two dozen news and information services across cable, satellite, radio, wireless devices and the Internet in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Domestically, CNN reaches more individuals on television, the web and mobile devices than any other cable TV news organization in the United States; internationally, CNN is the most widely distributed news channel reaching more than 286 million households abroad; and CNN Digital is a top network for online news, mobile news and social media. Additionally, CNN Newsource is the world’s most extensively utilized news service partnering with hundreds of local and international news organizations around the world. CNN is division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company.
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Online gaming website Steam have removed a controversial video game from availability after complaints were made about it’s violent homophobic and transphobic content by users.
‘Kill The Faggot’ was created and uploaded by Skaldic Games to Steam’s Steam Greenlight section which allows game developers to showcase their games and let the Steam user community decide which ones they want to be made commercially available through Steam.
Steam does not actively vet games for offensive content but developers must pay $100 to get their game onto Steam Greenlight as a quality control barrier.
The game description for ‘Kill The Faggot’ read ‘Hate gays? Want to unleash your frustration with the “LGBT” community? Well now is your chance.’
‘Murder gays and transgenders [sic] while avoiding killing straight people. Get points before time runs out.’
The game contains what Skaldic Games describes as ‘lots of fully voiced lowbrow innuendos’ which includes a transgender character shouting ‘you want to chop [off] my wiener?’ and gay men are labelled in the game ‘AIDS carriers’ to be ‘eliminated.’
Players are awarded 100 points for each ‘gay fag homos killed’ and 150 points for each ‘transgender freaks killed.’
The game was released to help publicize another game that Skaldic Games is developing and is meant to be an in-game arcade game that players can play inside the game.
Skaldic Games are claiming that the game was not intended to encourage hatred or violence towards LGBTI people but to protest political correctness in the gaming industry by making the ‘most overly offensive game possible to these idiots to prove a point.’
‘As for an apology – ain’t gonna happen,’ Skaldic Games wrote in a statement in response to their game being pulled from Steam.
‘To everyone that got overly offended. Good, that’s what we were going for. Just wait for our next game we are working on, its gonna be way more offensive as this one [sic].’
Steam did not reply to questions when contacted by GSN and have made no public statement about their decision to pull the game or whether they would allow games made by Skaldic Games to be made available to users via Steam Greenlight without vetting in future.
The game is still available for people to download on the Skaldic Games website. | 3,701 |
Game of Thrones is coming back to HBO on April 14 for its eighth and final season.
Someone has created a text messaging service called Spoiled.io that will send out spoilers for $0.99 per episode.
Spoiled.io will also publish the reactions they receive from the spoilers they send out.
Meet Spoiled.io — the bane of all your friends who love "Game of Thrones."
For just $0.99 per episode, Spoiled.io will automatically and anonymously send out a text to any phone number that ruins the newest episode of the hit HBO fantasy series. The messages will be sent after each episode airs, so it's perfect to use for those friends who watch Game of Thrones after it first airs on TV.
Spoiled.io charges $0.99 per spoiler, or $4.99 to send out spoilers for all of the six episodes in the upcoming season. Season 8 airs on HBO on Sundays starting April 14, and is the final season of "Game of Thrones."
"For just $0.99 USD, Spoiled will anonymously and ruthlessly text spoilers to your unsuspecting friends after each new episode airs," Spoiled.io says on its website. "Afterwards, sit back, relax, and view your friends' responses."
The spoiling texts service first emerged in June 2016 before the final episode of the sixth season of "Game of Thrones." Spoiled.io published to Twitter the responses it got from unsuspecting people who had the episode spoiled for them by the texting service.
This time around, Spoiled.io says it will provide those who pay for the spoiling service with a link, where they can view any responses to texts that are received.
In an FAQ, the creators of Spoiled.io explain that it was inspired by a since-removed Reddit thread where a woman got back at her cheating ex-boyfriend every Monday morning by spoiling "Game of Thrones" for him.
Now, you, too, can get your vengeance every week. But why does it cost $0.99? As that FAQ explains: "How else is a Lannister going to pay his debts?"
The developers of Spoiled.io, Spoiled Rotten, told Business Insider back in 2016 that the texting service was only ever supposed to be a simple side-project. But they quickly amassed "a couple hundred" users.
"I don't think we'll be quitting our day jobs anytime soon, but the response has far exceeded our exceptions and made us question ways we could expand," Spoiled Rotten told Business Insider. | 3,702 |
Altcoin News: China Has Released the Tenth Ranking of Cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin Upgraded
February 27, 2019, by Marko Vidrih on ALTCOIN MAGAZINE
Center for Information and Industry Development of China (CCID) has released the tenth rating of cryptocurrency. Tron made his debut at the top of the list, and Bitcoin slightly improved its position.
In total this month, 35 projects were evaluated. Smart contracts platforms are still in the lead. Since the release of the previous rating, only one new project has been added to the list — Tron. EOS still ranks first, and Tron made his debut at number two, overthrowing Ethereum, which is now in third place. BTC ranks 13th this month, showing an improvement of two positions compared with the previous issue of the rating. BCH was in 27th place, slightly improving its rating from 28th position in the previous list.
CCID described the newcomer to the ranking, the Tron project, launched last May as an “open network with high bandwidth and reliability”, adding that it is “compatible with Ethereum smart contracts”. The center also claims that there are currently over 200 dApps on the Tron blockchain. The overall rating index for Tron is 145.6 and the project is on the second place to very close to EOS (150.5).
CCID explained that this last assessment still uses three key indicators: basic technology, application, and innovation. However, for the last rating, the weight of the innovation indicator in the general index has been increased. Cryptocurrency projects that have improved their positions the most in comparison with the previous list — Nano, Verge, and Qtum.
In the category of basic technology, there are five networks with the best performance — EOS, Tron, Bitshares, Gxchain, and Nano, notes CCID. In this category, the level of technical implementation of the open blockchain is assessed first of all and its functions, dynamics, security, and decentralization are investigated.
The top five projects in the category of applicability are Ethereum, NEO, Nebulas, Tron, and Ontology. Within this category, a comprehensive level of support for an open blockchain is generally estimated for practical use, including node deployment, wallets applications, and application development and implementation support. The innovation category focuses on constant innovations in the blockchain, including the number of developers, code updates, and code impact. The top five cryptocurrency projects in this category include Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS, Lisk and Tron.
Author: Marko Vidrih | 3,703 |
Manila, (REUTERS) - President Rodrigo Duterte crooned a hit Filipino love song at a dinner in Manila for leaders from across Asia, explaining later that it was “on the orders of U.S. President Donald Trump”.
Trump and Duterte were among 19 leaders at a glittering gala in the Philippines capital on Sunday ahead of an annual summit, and at one point Duterte took the microphone to sing “Ikaw” (You), in a duet with local pop diva Pilita Corrales.
One of the song’s verses, translated from Filipino, begins: “You are the light in my world, a half of this heart of mine”.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I sang uninvited, upon the orders of the commander-in-chief of the United States,” Duterte said later, according to the ABS-CBN news channel.
Duterte, who is sometimes described as the ‘Trump of the East’ because of his brash style, is due to meet the U.S. president on the sidelines of the summit on Monday.
The United States and its former colony, the Philippines, have been strategic allies since World War Two. But their relations have been strained by anti-U.S. outbursts from Duterte and his enthusiasm for better ties with Russia and China.
More than 3,900 Filipinos have been killed in a war on drugs that Duterte declared when he took office last year. His government says the police act in self defence, but critics say executions are taking place with no accountability.
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Duterte said last week he would tell the U.S. president to “lay off” if he raised the issue of human rights when they met.
But Trump, who has been criticised at home for neglecting rights issues in dealings abroad, praised Duterte in May for doing an “unbelievable job on the drug problem”.
Trump and leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, China, Russia, Japan, Canada, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand were entertained by singers and dancers at the dinner.
Each of the men sported a cream-coloured barong, a traditional Philippines shirt made of fibre from the pineapple plant, hand-embroidered and worn untucked.
They were served a four-course Filipino-Asian fusion meal curate and prepared by Chef Jessie Sincioco, who also designed the menu for Pope Francis when he visited the Philippines in 2015. | 3,704 |
BJP MP Varun Gandhi in Vadodara on Monday. (Bhupendra Rana) BJP MP Varun Gandhi in Vadodara on Monday. (Bhupendra Rana)
Referring to the dynastic politics, BJP MP from Sultanpur Varun Gandhi on Monday said that his “Gandhi” surname helped him to climb the ladders in politics.
“Today, let’s be very honest about this. If my last name were not Gandhi, would I have become an MP at (the age of) 29? I would have not. Would I have become a general secretary (of the BJP) at 32? Probably not. The fact is that we are living in an unequal country and we are beneficiaries of an unequal system. When we talk about young MPs, you just decide the name, A to Z, everybody comes from a political family,” Varun, who is son of Union minister Maneka Gandhi and late Sanjay Gandhi, son of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, said while addressing college students here.
While he urged youths to bring about a change in the country, the BJP leader said, “The young people sitting right here are probably more talented and intellectual than I am. But today if you want to join the political process, you will burn yourself trying to achieve something and it will take at least 25 to 30 years to be at such a position, and by then you will be tired.”
Calling India a country full of opportunities as well as challenges, he urged youths to go beyond the responsibility of casting votes to make a difference in the country.
Stating that 10 per cent of Indians occupy 91 per cent of the country’s assets, Varun Gandhi wondered how there can be no disparity. “Even Member of Parliament who disclosed assets of over Rs 25 crore, I wrote a letter to each of them asking them to give up their salaries, but they refused to do so. I have been a Member of Parliament since 2009, but I haven’t withdrawn my salary even once. The salary straightaway goes to organisations which needs funds,” he said.
He said India is still battling the evils of corruption as “the flow of information in not transparent in our country”. “Disseminating information through transparent means is the solution to corruption,” he added.
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2013 San Francisco Bacon and Beer Festival
August 25, 2013. Presented by: Eat Boston and Bison Organic Beer
San Francisco's first Bacon and Beer Festival is coming Sunday, August 25th from 2:30pm to 5:00pm at The Fairmont SF brought to you by @eatboston and Bison Organic Beer. Bay Area restaurants will be offering their fabulous bacon-based dishes for you to sample, paired with beers from amazing breweries. If you need more of a reason to attend, proceeds from #SFBBF13 will benefit Sprouts Cooking Club. Your ticket gets you in to Bacon and Beer Fest where you'll be free to sample the dishes and the beer. There will be other people there with the same intention, so remember to share. Speaking of, RSVP! We are honored for this event to be supported with bacon from Zoe's Meats.
If you'd like to sign up here, we'll let you know any details we think you need to know.
The Bacon
21st Amendment Brewery, Ace Wasabi's Rock-N-Roll Sushi, American Eatery/Prather Ranch Meat Co, Avedano's, Bacon Bacon, Bluestem Brasserie, Farmer Brown, Haven, Hopscotch, Kettle Potato Chips, KRAVE Jerky, Memphis Minnie's, Nojo, Sauce, T-REX BBQ Restaurant & Bar, Tacolicous, The Blue Plate, The Fairmont San Francisco, the girl & the fig, The Whole Beast, Thirsty Bear, Tina Tamale, Zoe's Meats
The Beer
101 North Brewing Company, 21st Amendment Brewery, Alaskan Brewing Co., Ale Industries, Almanac Beer Co., Anderson Valley Brewing Company, Black Diamond Brewing Company, Bison Organic Beer, Calicraft Brewing Company, Drake's Brewing, Green Flash Brewing Company, Half Moon Bay Brewing, Highwater Brewing, Iron Springs Pub & Brewery, Lagunitas Brewing Company, Knee Deep Brewing, Pacific Brewing Laboratories, Peak Organic Beer, Pine Street Brewery, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Shmaltz Brewing Company, Speakeasy Ales and Lagers, Stone Brewing Co., ThirstyBear Brewing Co. Tioga Sequoia, Uncommon Brewers
Restaurants and Brewers subject to change. This is a 21+ event.
It wouldn't be Bacon and Beer Fest without some awesome merch from Josh LaFayette and Chris Piasick. Click below to buy all of it, please.
If you have a question about the event or if you're interested in participating or sponsoring, send an email. | 3,706 |
and Emirati military campaign, the Houthi rebels' human rights abuses and sources of support, and the impact on al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, aka AQAP -- widely seen as the most dangerous branch of the terror group.
While the deadline for that classified briefing was Wednesday, it's actually scheduled for Sept. 20, according to two Congressional aides and a State Department official.
But several lawmakers are already up in arms over the certification.
"We need to hold our allies to a higher standard and, unfortunately, this certification fails in that regard," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., who co-authored the section of the defense bill that created the reporting requirements. "It is evident that the administration is deliberately sidestepping congressional oversight."
Her Republican co-sponsor, Sen. Todd Young of Indiana, expressed urgency this week in a joint op-ed with Shaheen, and on Friday, his office issued a statement to ABC News, saying, "Many questions remain... I will be addressing my concerns directly with the administration over the coming days, and I will continue to fight to hold our partners accountable."
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who opposed U.S. arms for the Saudi campaign virtually from the start of the conflict, and who at one time held up arms sales to the country, declined to comment.
Democrats had sharper words for the administration.
"How can the Trump administration deny what everyone can see with our own two eyes?" Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said in a statement. "These certifications are a farce, and we should all be ashamed that our government is turning a blind eye to likely war crimes."
There is also movement to do something about it. In her statement, Shaheen pointed to certification deadlines in 180 and 360 days when the administration must again certify that Saudi Arabia and UAE are taking steps to reduce civilian casualties and end the war.
But other lawmakers don't want to wait.
Last year, Khanna was the sole sponsor of a war powers resolution to withdraw U.S. forces from any role in the Yemeni conflict. Now, he is set to introduce the same bill with the ranking members of the House Armed Services Committee and Rules Committee as co-sponsors, among eight others.
Last March, a similar vote died in the Senate, but it did garner 44 votes, including from five Republicans.
With the Democrats hoping to take back the House in November's midterm elections, the legislation could be top of list for the Armed Services Committee, which oversees the Pentagon's budget. | 3,707 |
He did not widely publicize his views about aliens. Rather,he was quite secretive about this matter.The reason is that he was afraid that his ideas would confuse people.In fact,he was afraid that people would be in danger of becoming unbelievers by not accepting the truth of this matter,which the Quran itself attested to.Perhaps it was such considerations that lead Muslim scholars of later times not to touch on the topic of aliens much,and so today,also,so many Muslims remain unaware about this matter.But times have changed.We've come a long way in our voyage of discovery of the wonders that surround us.The recent discoveries of extrasolar planets,of ice on the moon (75),of microbes deep beneath the earth's surface and around thermal vents in the oceans (76),of water on the sun (77) and many other amazing findings are setting the stage for a grand finale.The public is mentally prepared to hear soon about the discovery of life outside the earth.
In recent times,Muslims have missed golden opportunities of propagating their religion to the peoples of the world.For example,the Quran mentions the expansion of the universe.This phenomenon was discovered by scientists only in 1929.If Muslims had let the world know beforehand,that the Quran mentioned this fact, then upon its discovery,a big impact could have been made on the non-Muslim world.We would have shown the world the power,the miracle,of the Quran.Of course,even today,the miracle remains that the Quran mentions the expansion of the universe,but non-Muslims tend to say,"Now you tell us,after science has already discovered this!You must be construeing the meaning of Quranic verses to suit your wishes."
Today,as we stand at the threshold of making the most revolutionary discovery in the history of humankind,we Muslims should ask ourselves,"Hasn't the time finally come for the "secret" that Ibn-e-Abbas held to be made known to the whole world?"Yes,the time is ripe.Let the world know,before it discovers for itself,that 1400 years ago in the deserts of Arabia,a prophet received revelations,mentioning the existence of extraterrestrial life through countless heavenly bodies in the universe,and prophesying that one day, humans will indeed discover aliens.
The Quran contains many amazing statements relating to science.There is no reason to believe that it has finally yielded all of its scientific secrets and as we enter the next century,we can be confidant that the Quran will continue to shed light on some of the most enduring and intriguing scientific mysteries of our times.
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COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS — A police officer on his way to work shot a man suspected of robbing two grocery stories Tuesday morning. The man was hospitalized in fair but stable condition.
Zane Anthony James, 19, of Cottonwood Heights, was wanted for allegedly robbing a Smith's Food and Drug, 2039 E. 9400 South, at gunpoint about 3:15 a.m., and then a Macey's grocery store, 7850 S. 1300 East, just as it opened at 6 a.m., according to police.
In both cases, a man with the same description riding a motorcycle was involved.
About 10 minutes after the Macey's robbery, a Cottonwood Heights police officer headed to work spotted the motorcycle. A short pursuit ended in a residential area near 6675 S. 2200 East.
Details about what transpired next were not released Tuesday. Cottonwood Heights Police Sgt. Ryan Shosted did not know if James had been pulled over. He also did not know what prompted the officer to open fire. Because the officer was just on his way to work, he had not picked up his body camera yet that was charging in the office, Shosted said.
Salt Lake police are handling the officer-involved shooting. The officer has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
Cottonwood Heights police say James has a "signficant" criminal history with them. Last year, he was arrested in connection with a series of armed robberies in the area that happened on an almost weekly basis for five weeks, including robberies at GameStop, Subway and World Market.
Due to "evidence issues," however, two counts of aggravated robbery for incidents at the Subway and GameStop were dismissed in September, according to court records.
In February, James was charged with possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person, DUI and drug possession. A warrant was issued for his arrest on Friday when he failed to show up for a court date, according to court records.
In November, James took a plea in abeyance, pleading guilty to misdemeanor theft.
In March of 2017, James pleaded guilty to drug possession, but he failed to comply with the conditions of his probation. Several letters submitted to the court in April indicated he was doing well in treatment. But on Friday, a no bail warrant was issued for his arrest in that case after he failed to show up for a scheduled court appearance. Court records indicate neither James' attorney nor parents had heard from him.
James also had drug- and theft-related convictions in 2016, according to court records. | 3,709 |
souls of dead humans:
“And saying this, he gave up the ghost.” (Luke 23:46, D-R)
My opinion is that ghost captures the reality that the Holy Ghost is a Divine Person. You can know Him and talk to Him. And yes, He dwells in you. We can have a personal relationship with Him. So I like “ghost” because it reveals a personal agent. Spirit is also good because it hearkens back to the Latin Vulgate and corresponds to the Latin of the liturgy. However, it is more ambiguous in English – especially in our time with “being spiritual” is so popular.
In summary, there are positives and negatives to both terms. This is why I often use both “Holy Ghost” and “Holy Spirit” interchangeably on the blog, in lectures, and in conversations. The English/American Catholic tradition always used both terms, but gave “Holy Ghost” the privileged place. In around 1970, most English speaking Catholics retreated almost entirely from “Holy Ghost.” (I think this is why “Holy Ghost” has become the secret handshake of traditional Catholics.) So why not use both terms?
Just one last thing. If you do begin to sprinkle your prayers and discourse with “Holy Ghost” and someone challenges you on it for being archaic, don’t worry about it. We still all say archaic things every day: “Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.” We also still say, “blessed art thou amongst women.” We don’t have to update our prayers every decade with latest lingo. There is a blessed confidence in retaining the phrases of our grandfathers and their grandfathers.
A blessed Pentecost to you.
Godspeed,
Taylor
PS: The Holy Ghost Third Person of the Trinity, coequal and consubstantial with the Father and the Son (Matthew 28:19; Acts 5:34, 28:25, 261 Corinthians 12:4-6). Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas teach that he is the Gift of the Father to His people on earth to initiate and complete the building of the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:13). The Holy Ghost personally convicts the world of sin, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ, and transforms the baptized into His image (John 16:7-9; Acts 1:5; 2:4; Romans 8:29; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Ephesians 2:22).
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2018 Raiders Draft Prospect
Name: Mike Gesicki
Position: TE
School: Penn State
Height: 6’6”
Weight: 252 pounds
Stats
Blocking
If many consider a tight end a Day 2 prospect, he will not hear his name called due to his blocking. While Gesicki is a willing blocker, he does not shine in that aspect. He can get a decent chip on a defensive end, but prolonged contact is a waste of his abilities. When called on to block, Gesicki will hold up his end.
Agility
Immediately, you notice that Gesicki played other sports. A former basketball and volleyball player, he brings that vertical explosion to the field. As a result, 50/50 balls become 75/25. Gesicki rises above the most athletic players to catch the ball. As the video will show, he high points the ball with ease.
Penn State uses Gesicki’s quickness in a variety of ways. He caught shovel passes for touchdowns. In addition, he lines up in the slot, the backfield and on the outside. Gesicki will sprint in motion to snare passes from a flare or out route. Despite his long frame, Gesicki shows the ability to go to the ground and grab low throws.
Hands
In the era of the new tight ends, they must be able to consistently catch passes. Gone are the days of the lumbering starting tight end. Jeron Mastrud is not walking through the door. Gesicki’s catch radius seems endless, due to his reach and athleticism. When the ball touches his hands, he secures it. For any receiver the toughest catch are those in traffic. However, Gesicki makes those with ease.
Speed
Gesicki runs like a big wideout. Granted, he does not own Evan Engram speed, he can run away from defenders. With long strides and footwork, Gesicki creates daylight that way, instead of a straight burst.
Raiders Fit
Despite Jared Cook’s strong 2017, the Raiders could look at Gesicki as a plug and play tight end. Chances are good that Gruden will emphasize more than one tight end. In addition, Gesicki gives the Raiders another playmaker. Clive Walford has not succeeded as hoped, and Lee Smith is a free agent. Also, imagine the number of jump balls Carr could throw in the red zone. In reality, Gesicki should not lose too many of those. | 3,711 |
, the affordability of the Rashi school was not their main consideration. They were impressed with Rashi’s quality, and especially its encouragement of independent thinking.
Pamela also liked how Judaism was integrated into every aspect of life.
“We’re thrilled that he’ll be at Rashi,” she said. “It’s a big deal when your oldest child starts kindergarten.”
Reform-Conservative mergers can sometimes give newly formed schools a boost.
The Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School in St. Louis formed as a merger between a Schechter school and a Reform day school, just completed its first year with 165 children. Head of school Cheryl Mayaan says the school expects to retain that number next term.
By merging, the school was able to combine a more sustainable economic model with a stronger educational program. A larger student body also has brought more vibrancy to the classrooms, Mayaan said.
“I am very upbeat about the pluralistic model,” she said. “Some families strongly identify with synagogue affiliation. We are not denying affiliation. We celebrate the diversity and learn about one another.”
In Las Vegas, the Solomon Schechter Day School will welcome 84 students into its K-5 program next year, a 23 percent increase over this year, according to Beth Miller, the school’s CEO.
Las Vegas has benefited from a boom in Jewish population over the past two decades. The Adelson Educational Campus, an independent school affiliated with RAVSAK that serves children from 18 months through high school, has grown from 145 students to 500 in the past five years, according to its website.
But Miller credits her school’s growth with its unyielding emphasis on academic excellence, small classes and focus on traditional Jewish learning in a nurturing environment.
“We don’t have just good,” Miller told JTA. “I have built a dream team. Leadership starts from the top.”
But not every school is enjoying such a surge. In Baltimore, a planned merger between the Day School at Baltimore Hebrew and the Shoshana S. Cardin High School was called off recently. Neither school will reopen next year.
Of the 50 students who attended the day school, only about half will go on to other Jewish schools, said Gerry Chizek, head of school at Baltimore Hebrew.
“Every time a school closes,” Chizek said, “it means fewer leaders for the Jewish community.” | 3,712 |
searching for other, more rare translations. Right now I’m at 63/86 translations, with some still on their way! I am very excited to keep checking translations off and showing them to you guys. It’s going to be a hard, long stretch but I think it will be fruitful and worth it in the end. The rush is just so incredible. Also stay tuned for some exciting Potter-related things I’ll be doing with some friends, and I can’t wait to have many more celebrations of Harry Potter with you guys.
So, why do I collect Harry Potter translations and other HP related things?
Sure, I do love seeing all my books on my shelf and reading them, as well as getting packages and getting closer to finishing my collection. But there’s more to it than just that.
It’s the community.
If I didn’t have Potter people surrounding me that I could talk to whenever I want to, I probably wouldn’t be this invested into this hobby. Collecting by yourself is one thing, but collecting with friends is a completely different story. My collector friends have been there for me when I get SO CLOSE to a book, and they’ve also shared my victories. being a Potterhead is not a surface-level thing; we are a tight-knit community. I’ve met some of my best friends because of a shared love of Harry Potter. Harry Potter is something we can bond over, unlike any other. I’ve been sent books by fans all over the world, from Thailand to Korea, as gifts because they wanted to share the Harry Potter they know. I now have an invitation for a tour around Latvia, and one of my close friends/pen pals lives in the Czech Republic, whom I met because she loves Harry Potter.
See, languages aren’t universal. I definitely don’t speak and can’t read most of the translations that are now on my shelves. But Harry Potter is universal, it crosses borders and has a home in over 200 countries. Harry Potter fosters kindness and friendship, teaches us bravery, loyalty, wit and ambition. I guess that’s the point this post is trying to make; Harry Potter is a language that all us Potterheads speak. Harry Potter unites us.
Thank you.
Haha.^
Happy 20th Anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone! Long live Harry Potter!
Also, if you know anyone in Nepal, please message/contact me 😉
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Crowds waving glowing cellphone screens marched in main squares in places including Baneh, Sanandaj and Mahabad, the capital of a short-lived republic declared by Kurds in 1946. Images posted on social media showed demonstrators singing the Kurdish national anthem, chanting for “freedom!” and in some cases marching past Iranian security forces.
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The protests, however, defied the government in Tehran that has condemned the referendum and warned of regional chaos. Iran is a key ally of the government in Baghdad and has urged the international community to maintain Iraq's territorial integrity.
But Tehran is also concerned about unrest within its own borders, where Kurds have long complained of discrimination and widespread rights abuses. The armed wing of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran, or KDPI, which is based in Iraq, ended a years-long cease-fire with Iran's Revolutionary Guard last year. The two sides have engaged in low-level clashes, and on Monday the party circulated images from the protests.
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Iranian Kurds “expressed their own desire for the right of self-determination,” the party’s head of foreign relations, Loghman Ahmedi, said in an email Tuesday. And the protests were also “a strong sign of solidarity” with Iraqi Kurdistan, he said, adding that if Iran were to take military action against Iraq’s Kurds, Iranian Kurds would respond.
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“That is the message,” he said.
Still, having spent decades in exile, Iran's Kurdish parties remain weak, and it is unclear if the leaders can mobilize their own campaign for self-rule. In the past, the KDPI has said it wants autonomy for Iranian Kurds, but within the framework of a democratic Iran.
In Turkey, the military has battled Kurdish separatists for decades. Meanwhile, Syria's Kurdish militias have forged alliances with the United States in the fight against the Islamic State.
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Galip Dalay, research director at Al-Sharq Forum in Istanbul, wrote in Foreign Affairs this month: “Even though the Iranian regime continues to execute dozens to hundreds of Kurdish dissidents every year, Iranian Kurds have not effectively sought to change their fate or utilize their power.”
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“Iranian Kurdish politics have remained largely unresponsive to the general regional upheaval and even to major developments inside Iran,” Dalay wrote.
But Ahmedi pushed back, saying Monday was a turning point.
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A Penang DAP delegate who caught flak for raising dissatisfaction over the party's alliance with former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad at the annual general assembly has quit.
Taman Chai Leng DAP publicity secretary Shamser Singh Thind said he is resigning as he believes DAP is no longer a platform to fight against "corruption, racism and hypocrisy", after making amends with Mahathir.
"I have said and I am saying it again. Dr Mahathir is not interested in saving Malaysia. He has never admitted that his past actions and omissions were wrong," Shamser said in his resignation letter.
This comes as the late DAP chairperson Karpal Singh's daughter urges the party to ensure the principles of those it aligns itself to.
Speaking at the DAP national convention at Shah Alam today, Sangeet Kaur Deo said principles should not be sacrificed for political expendiency.
“I want to clarify at this stage that it was interesting to see Tun Mahathir in support of Maria’s release when it was him that was instrumental in the cruel enforcement of the Internal Security Act,” the USJ Subang Jaya brance delegate said.
“Now I strongly urge the leaders of DAP to be very mindful when we choose our allies. Yes, there are no permanent friends, there are no permanent enemies, but there must be permanent principles.
"And when we choose our allies, we must be sure that their principles are genuinely in line with ours,” The Malay Mail Online reported her as saying.
DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng had in his policy speech noted that there are no permanent foes in politics.
Mahathir had made an unexpected appearance at the convention today.
Both Sangeet and Guan Eng's fathers were detained under the ISA during Mahathir's tenure as prime minister.
Guan Eng's father is DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang.
Mahathir has not explicitly apologised but rebutted critics by sarcastically agreeing that he was a dictator because like all dictators, he resigned from his post.
Proponents of the alliance, however, say that if Kit Siang and PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim who were incarcerated during the Mahathir era can bury the hatchet, then others should, too.
Having quit Umno over unhappiness with Umno president Najib Abdul Razak, Mahathir is now chairperson of Umno splinter party Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu). | 3,715 |
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Brumbies playmaker Christian Leali’ifano has won the 2016 Rupa Medal for Excellence, one of Australian rugby’s most prestigious awards.
Leali’ifano, who has leukaemia, was voted by his peers as the individual to have shown the best performance, leadership, consistency and discipline, both on and off the field, across the international and domestic seasons.
Leali’ifano in September won the Brumbies’ players’ player of the year after co-captaining his side to Australian Super Rugby conference honours in 2016.
The 29-year-old, who has amassed 117 Super Rugby caps and more than 800 points since joining the Brumbies in 2007, missed just five minutes of the entire Super Rugby campaign.
Leali’ifano also completed a Certificate IV in New Small Business and was instrumental in the leadership of the Brumbies’ Pasifika players’ development program.
He is a “champion” for the Canberra Domestic Violence Crisis Service, and this year he won an ACT Government Violence Prevention Award.
Speaking via video from Melbourne, Leali’ifano thanked his peers and paid tribute to all of Australia’s professional rugby players. “I’m truly, truly humbled and honoured to receive such an award,” Leali’ifano said.
“Congratulations to all of the other nominees; I feel like this is probably an award for all of us, and the great work we do in the community to grow the game around the country.”
Leali’ifano, who has been undergoing cancer treatment in Melbourne since August, thanked the rugby community for their support since his illness was diagnosed.
“I want to thank everybody for all of their support through this journey this little man [his son] and I are on at the moment,” he said. “It definitely means a lot and we’re all so grateful for your thoughts and prayers.”
Melbourne Rebels and Wallabies backline utility back Reece Hodge capped an outstanding maiden season in professional rugby with the newcomer of the year award.
NSW Waratahs star and Wallabies vice-captain Michael Hooper backed up his John Eales Medal triumph by being named the people’s choice Wallaby of the year.
Olympic hero Charlotte Caslick edged out Chloe Dalton to win her second straight women’s rugby sevens players’ player of the year award. | 3,717 |
Johnson. They were all on board. So was Eleanor Roosevelt. “I was so interested to see the Negro dolls you are proposing to manufacture,” she wrote to Creech. “I like them particularly because they can be made and sold on an equal basis with white dolls. There is nothing to be ashamed of. They are attractive and reproduced well with careful study of the anthropological background of the race. I think they are a lesson in equality for little children and we will find that many a child will cherish a charming black doll as easily as it will a charming white doll.” Again, some of the phrasing could make a contemporary reader cringe—but her heart seems to have been in the right place, and she worked hard to get the Sara Lee doll to production.
In 1951, in the face of some foot-dragging from the Ideal Toy Company, which was then the biggest toy manufacturer in the country, and which had signed on to produce the dolls, Eleanor Roosevelt hosted a tea and invited a prestigious group of African American leaders, including Charles Johnson, Mordecai Johnson, Jackie Robinson, and of course Zora Neale Hurston. They were invited to look at the Sara Lee prototypes and consult on the best skin color for the doll. The ideal situation, they had decided, was to bring four different dolls to market at once, all presented as siblings, all with different features, hair, and skin colors, so as not to contribute to yet another stereotype, but the Sara Lee doll was the first hurdle.
With the support and agreement of these leaders, Creech gained back some bargaining power, and eventually, the doll was produced: it was available in stores beginning in October 1951 and advertised in the Sears Roebuck 1951 Christmas catalog. It was the first “anthropologically correct” (Hurston’s term) black baby doll to be mass-produced and marketed nationally. Unfortunately, it was a relative failure, not only because the vinyl they used for the dolls’ skin was unstable and would eventually harden and leak color onto the dolls clothes, but also because Ideal refused to produce the other dolls in the “family,” leaving Sara Lee something of an orphan. In the end, because this is America, Ideal decided that the dolls were not commercially viable enough, and ceased production in 1953. According to the Museum of Play, it wasn’t until 1968 that another mass-market African American doll hit toystore shelves: Christie, one of Barbie’s entourage. As for Creech, she continued her social activism, working to provide day care for migrant families. She died in 2008. | 3,718 |
” in pajama pants, milk-can ashtrays, and old men lingering over newspapers as the day turns from balmy to incendiary. Decades of dietary fads have gone unnoticed at this kopitiam, which specializes in kopi gu you—coffee with an oil slick of butter on top. The taste is just what you’d expect: black coffee plus butter. There’s a reason you don’t do this at home. The most amazing thing I saw here was the ancient proprietor hand-slicing a loaf of bread the size of a cocker spaniel. It was not the best kaya toast, but the improbable fact that this mid-century holdover is in business at all is astonishing.
When friends visited me, the first thing I would do is whisk them off to Tong Ah. I told myself I was showing them a Singaporean secret. But I was also revealing a bit about myself, and that’s the point of obsessions.
My passion for kaya—a food item my father found so inscrutable he put it on ice cream when I brought it home to Toledo, Ohio—has nothing to do with jam and everything to do with my love of Singapore and the surrounding region. With kaya as my guide, I explored the nooks and crannies of food cultures, and along the way I discovered how to disappear into a faraway place and come away with a rich (sometimes overly rich) experience.
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Tong Ah Eating House
Local kaya-philes love the extra-crispy toast served at this iconic kopitiam located on a street lined with old shophouses. Breakfast is not the only specialty; dinner features home-style dishes.
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Entering this kopitiam is “like stepping into a time portal,” writes Leslie Tay, the Singaporean behind a local food blog. “We need places like this so that our kids know where we came from and what it was like in the past.”
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For deliciously messy breakfasts served on weathered tables try this old-school kopitiam, in the food-centric Geylang neighborhood, which specializes in toasted buns topped with Hainanese-style custardy kaya jam.
The editor in chief of National Geographic Traveler magazine, George Stone called Singapore home for three years. Follow his travels on Twitter @travelerstone and Instagram @georgewstone. | 3,719 |
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Colombian authorities are investigating a possible plot involving Venezuelans to assassinate President Ivan Duque, a top official said Saturday night.
Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes said Colombia’s intelligence services had been hearing chatter about alleged plans to kill the conservative Duque. He said the arrest in recent days of three Venezuelans in possession of assault weapons had heightened authorities’ concern.
“With immense concern and the utmost condemnation, I want to inform the international community that, in effect, for the past several months intelligence investigations have been taking place about possible attacks on the president’s life,” Holmes said in a video posted on Twitter that interrupted the normally end-of-year news lull in the South American nation.
Blu Radio reported that the Venezuelans arrested in the northern Caribbean cities of Valledupar and Barranquilla this month had in their possession an assault rifle with a telescopic scope as well as a 9-mm mini-Uzi, ammunition and stun grenade.
Citing sources it didn’t identify, Blu said any alleged plot would have likely had the support of armed Colombian leftist rebels or drug-trafficking organizations and would have been timed to coincide with the start of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s second term next month.
Holmes’ 90-second video did not cite any evidence and carefully avoided saying whether authorities had verified the existence of any conspiracy.
There was no immediate reaction from Venezuela’s government.
Holmes appealed to Colombians to share any information that they have that could affect the president’s safety. He also thanked the cooperation of unidentified foreign intelligence agencies for helping protect Duque.
Duque, who took office in August, has been leading a diplomatic effort in Latin America to isolate Venezuela’s socialist government as Maduro looks to cement his hold on power amid a devastating economic crisis that has seen millions of Venezuelans flee to escape widespread food shortages and hyperinflation.
Colombia, the U.S. and several other foreign governments say Maduro’s election victory in May amid an opposition boycott and allegations of vote-rigging was illegitimate and are urging the embattled leader to call new elections in which all of his opponents, several of whom have been exiled or banned from holding office, be allowed to run.
Maduro in recent weeks has been ratcheting up his rhetoric against Colombia, accusing his neighbor of plotting with the U.S. to violently oust him from power.
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Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin is making a behind-the-scenes push to slip an anti-boycott law into a last-minute spending bill being finalized during the lame-duck session, according to four sources familiar with the negotiations.
The measure, known as the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, was shelved earlier amid concerns about the infringement of free speech, after civil liberties groups argued that the original version would have allowed criminal penalties for Americans who participate in a political boycott of Israel. Some of the more aggressive elements of the provision have been removed under pressure, but the American Civil Liberties Union, which spearheaded the initial opposition to the bill, is still strongly opposed.
In a letter to Congress, the ACLU warned that the amended version still creates unconstitutional restrictions on free speech. “We understand the Senate is considering attaching a revised version of S. 720 to the end-of-the-year omnibus spending bill, and we urge you to oppose its inclusion,” reads a letter dated December 3.
On Monday, incoming Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., became the second member of Congress to publicly endorse the Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment movement, or BDS, which Cardin’s measure is meant to combat. She joined incoming Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who had become the first to publicly endorse it. Neither would be able to vote on the measure, as they won’t be sworn in until January.
The Senate measure, which has a House companion, is part of a broad push to undermine support of BDS in both the U.S. and Europe, often conflating the boycott with anti-Semitism. According to the activist group Palestine Legal, which monitors anti-BDS legislation across the country, as of June 2018, 25 states had enacted laws punishing businesses that choose to boycott Israel. In 2017, one city in Texas even required businesses to certify that they would not boycott Israel before receiving hurricane aid.
The Israel Anti-Boycott Act, which was introduced last year by Cardin and Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, would amend the 1979 Export Administration Act to allow penalties for companies who join boycotts of Israel called for by international institutions — like the United Nations or the European Union. The new version clarifies that people cannot face jail time for participating in a boycott, but the ACLU has argued that it still leaves the door open for criminal financial penalties. Defenders of the bill say that it is strictly aimed at preventing companies from facing pressure to boycott Israel and that it is not meant to restrict an individual’s free speech. | 3,721 |
finish something, you realise you could have done better. ‘Let me try it one more time.’ That’s an insecurity that lives within each creative. Our purpose was to live a pretty fucked-up life with a troubled beginning but we were determined to let other people know there was a way out. That’s why people cling to rock ‘n’ roll, because it’s a truth. Rock ‘n’ roll is built on the truth of what people have experienced and what they want to project. That’s why the ’60s were so important. It really showed a face when the world needed it to. I like to carry that torch as best I can.”
The other day you gave a shout out to the new Blink-182 song and the idea that punk rock was seeping through. You grew up on punk-rock, you then helped shape punk-rock: how do you feel about that world at the moment?
“People have to lose this idea that punk sounds a certain way. People get it confused with what it’s supposed to be. Punk-rock was a point of view, it was never a sound of view. The music was just a vehicle to share that point of view with other people. I know those bands are still here, they still have that point of view and those messages are still seeping through.
“I’m excited for my brothers in Blink to evolve, do what they want to do and create art the way they want to create it. And I’m not in the way of that, in any way, shape or form. I completely support them. The better they do, the better it is for all of us. People can see the creative differences when they listen to the Blink stuff and they listen to what I’m doing with Angels & Airwaves. They can start to understand why I didn’t fit as well with the things they want to do. I just have a lot to say. I have a lot of emotions I want to get out. It’s really hard for me to do that in that specific arrangement but it doesn’t mean I don’t care about them, love them and want them to succeed. It just means I want my own canvas to paint on. There’s something that’s burning inside of me that’s so big, I’m going to explode if I don’t get it out.”
‘Rebel Girl’ is out now on Rise Records. | 3,722 |
The Borders-backed Kobo will soon gain touchscreen capabilities, putting it into more direct competition with the Nook Color and even Amazon's Kindle. The third-party e-reader, now called the Kobo eReader Touch Edition, will cost $129.99 and is available for preorder now for delivery in June, while the original version of the device will be marked down to just $99.99.
The first-generation Kobo was originally released in the middle of last year with the help of the (now bankrupt) Borders bookstore chain. The device started out at $149 and got you an E-Ink screen, a gigabyte of memory, and ePub and PDF support, along with its own bookstore.
The new, Touch version of the Kobo is more sleek looking than the original. Gone is the directional button pad, and the screen makes use of Neonode's zForce infrared touch tech in order to "make reading on Kobo just like that of reading a real book." The device also apparently got a processor bump to aid in faster page turning, and the company's website advertises that the device can now hold up to 30,000 books (up from 10,000) despite apparently having the same level of memory and SD card support. Oh, and the Kobo Touch comes in four colors now: lilac, blue, silver, and black.
Even Kobo executives seem a little surprised at the Kobo's mild success—the company did jump in after Amazon had begun establishing itself as the e-reader gold medalist with Barnes & Noble grabbing the silver. But apparently there was enough demand for another device, and Kobo decided to forge ahead. "By default, we launched the first device to get into the market," EVP of business development told All Things D. "But what we found is we were able to remain competitive.We are an e-book company, but the device is part of that strategy. We’ll continue to put out top-tier devices in the market."
The new (and old) Kobo devices are priced well against the offerings from other companies—the WiFi-only Nook from Barnes & Noble is $149, while the Nook Color (with touchscreen) is $249. Meanwhile, Amazon's most recent WiFi-only Kindle is $139, with the ad-supported Kindle With Special Offers going for $114, neither of which have any kind of touchscreen. At the Kobo's new prices, users looking to swap out their dead tree books for electronic versions may find themselves attracted to the Kobo after all, assuming the Kobo bookstore has the right content. | 3,723 |
My mom is an outlier. According to a study in The Journal of Pediatric Psychology last year, parents are “four times more likely to tell girls than boys to be more careful” after mishaps that are not life-threatening but do entail a trip to the emergency room. It seems like a reasonable warning. But there is a drawback, and the researchers remarked on it: “Girls may be less likely than boys to try challenging physical activities, which are important for developing new skills.” This study points to an uncomfortable truth: We think our daughters are more fragile, both physically and emotionally, than our sons.
Nobody is saying that injuries are good, or that girls should be reckless. But risk taking is important. Gever Tulley, the author of “50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do),” encourages girls and boys to own pocketknives, light fires and throw spears, arguing that dangerous activities under supervision can teach kids responsibility, problem-solving and confidence. It follows that by cautioning girls away from these experiences, we are not protecting them. We are failing to prepare them for life.
When a girl learns that the chance of skinning her knee is an acceptable reason not to attempt the fire pole, she learns to avoid activities outside her comfort zone. Soon many situations are considered too scary, when in fact they are simply exhilarating and unknown. Fear becomes a go-to feminine trait, something girls are expected to feel and express at will. By the time a girl reaches her tweens no one bats an eye when she screams at the sight of an insect.
When girls become women, this fear manifests as deference and timid decision making. We try to counter this conditioning by urging ourselves to “lean in.” Books on female empowerment proliferate on our shelves. I admire what these writers are trying to do — but they come far too late.
We must chuck the insidious language of fear (Be careful! That’s too scary!) and instead use the same terms we offer boys, of bravery and resilience. We need to embolden girls to master skills that at first appear difficult, even dangerous. And it’s not cute when a 10-year-old girl screeches, “I’m too scared.”
When I worked as a firefighter, I was often scared. Of course I was. So were the men. But fear wasn’t a reason to quit. I put my fear where it belonged, behind my feelings of focus, confidence and courage. Then I headed, with my crew, into the burning building. | 3,724 |
Art historian Zoë Lescaze’s new book originated from one belief: that our “most dearly held notions about the prehistoric world are artistic inventions.”
Published by Taschen, Lescaze’s “Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past” features more than 200 stunning works by artists attempting to render dinosaurs based on fossil records and other scientific materials available to them in whatever decade or era they happened to be working.
What makes these works particularly fascinating, Lescaze said, is that the images are very much informed by the cultural setting of the artists. A dinosaur painted in Russia may appear quite different from the same dinosaur painted in occupied France or in South America.
“The bones are a blank slate on which artists can channel their cultural preoccupations,” Lescaze said, adding that artistic movements also come into play. The book features dinosaurs painted in various styles including Art Nouveau and Fauvism.
"The Primitive World," Adolphe François Pannemaker, 1857. (Taschen)
Lescaze discovered that a huge amount of work created behind the Iron Curtain in Soviet Russia had never been reproduced or professionally photographed. This led her to one of her favorite artists in the book, Konstantin Konstantinovich Flyorov. She came to love his work because he used “extremely audacious shades of marigold and saffron, and the scientific aspect seemed to be an afterthought.”
"Mammoth (Elephas primigenius)" Zdenek Burian, 1941. (www.zdenekburian.com)
Paleoart has proved to be a notably undervalued genre. A new fossil discovery can instantly render older bodies of work obsolete.
“I saw paintings by Charles Knight, who is probably one of the most famous paleoartists, that only existed because museum employees salvaged them from dumpsters,” Lescaze said.
Tarbosaurus and armored dinosaur by Konstantin Konstantinovich Flyorov, circa 1955. (Borrissiak Paleontological Institute RAS)
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A family of wolverines is terrorizing the cat population of a northern B.C. town and its residents are worried the animals will start attacking people next.
Kitimat mayor Joanne Monaghan says house cats started disappearing from the town in May, the same time wolverines were spotted near the forest around the town’s edge.
In May, one of Monaghan’s neighbours saw a wolverine attacking his cat in the backyard. He went outside and fended the wolverine off, but the cat was already dead. The wolverine stayed nearby and growled at him as he buried the cat, Monaghan said.
More than 75 house cats have disappeared from the town of 8,000 people since then.
As the missing cats pile up, the wolverines — two adults and two babies — are being seen wandering further into town. Monaghan and others are concerned the town’s children will be the wolverines’ next targets. There has never been a wolverine attack on a person reported in British Columbia.
“They can disembowel a person in a matter of minutes, and they can take bears down, take elk down, take deer down,” she said. “A small child wouldn’t be out of the question.”
Kitimat animal shelter head Maryann Baumbach said there have been only two confirmed cases of wolverines grabbing cats, but there were five sightings last month alone and the animals seem to be wandering further into town.
“The concern is they’re becoming too aggressive, and that soon it’s not going to matter whether it’s a domestic animal or a child.”
Wolverine sightings are usually rare because they normally live in remote areas, far away from humans. Baumbach said these sightings are the first in her 40 years in Kitimat.
She said combination of last summer’s rampant forest fires and an unusually heavy winter snowfall may have pushed the animals closer to more populated areas.
Conservation officials last week set a trap for the animals, but succeeded only in trapping two baby bears, which were promptly shot.
Martin Melderis, an inspector at the conservation office in nearby Smithers, B.C., said, “It would be extremely out of character for a wolverine to be aggressive towards a person. People shouldn’t overreact.”
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Spanish football clubs are conditioned to the notion of financial problems, none more so than Real Oviedo.
The Asturian club from Fernando Alonso's attractive home city of 225,000 are 17th in the all-time Spanish league table, ahead of clubs like Mallorca, Malaga and Villarreal.
That is still two places behind rivals and neighbours Sporting Gijon, but Oviedo are a proud club.
They were the first from their region to play in the top flight. Their striker, Isidro Langara, was Spain's top scorer three seasons in succession in the 1930s.
The club played host to World Cup matches in 1982. And their ground, the 30,500-capacity Estadio Carlos Tartiere, is one of Spain's finest.
The new stadium, however, saw just one season of Primera Liga action when it opened in 2000; the home club went down that season after 13 consecutive seasons in the top flight, never to return since.
The team for which the English Premier League stars Santi Cazorla, Juan Mata and Michu developed their talents now play in the regional third tier alongside the reserve team of Sporting and Real Madrid's C team.
It is not ideal, but they were in the fourth level for four seasons until 2009, playing against teams with average crowds of 200. The story was different at home; nearly 30,000 watched one fourth-tier game in 2006, a league record.
Oviedo have spent the past decade fighting for survival, lurching from crisis to crisis and it was perhaps apt that they signed the troubled footballer Stan Collymore in 2001, only for him to walk out after 34 days.
Their latest crisis threatens their existence. They need €1.9 million (Dh9m) before November 17 to stave off liquidation. A share issue (shares cost €10 each) was launched on Friday and over 4,000 fans around the world – many of them who had barely heard of the club a week ago – have purchased €200,000 worth of shares in three days.
Michu and Mata have retweeted the requests on social media and offered support, while the English journalist Sid Lowe, an Oviedo fan since he moved to the city in 1996, has orchestrated a social media campaign.
Oviedo are not the first club to have problems and they will not be the last, but the football community still rallies when a club is in danger of disappearing completely.
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Christian nonprofit group Liberty Counsel has made it clear it intends to fight Alachua County's ban on conversion therapy.
Last week, the Alachua County Commission agreed to take its conversion therapy ban one step further and expand the rule countywide.
The vote was a natural progression from the board’s decision in May to ban the therapy in unincorporated areas of the county, and a fulfillment of its promise to return with an all-encompassing prohibition within 60 days.
While there may have been little fanfare when the latest version of the ordinance passed, a legal rumbling is underfoot.
Attorneys from the Liberty Counsel, a Christian nonprofit, say they are in the early phases of taking legal action against the county commissioners.
“We are taking preliminary steps right now,” Liberty Counsel attorney Richard Mast said. “We’ve informed pastors and others willing to consider representation against the legislation.”
The new ordinance bars licensed therapists from performing conversion therapy on minors by penalty of $500. The practice is a form of psychological treatment meant to change someone’s sexual orientation.
In its statement of beliefs about marriage, the Liberty Counsel declares homosexuality as unnatural.
Jacqueline Chung, Alachua County equal opportunity manager, said the organization has not filed the lawsuit yet.
Municipalities were given a chance to opt out of the new ordinance. But according to county spokesman Mark Sexton, none did.
Chung said there has been little to no opposition from city leaders thus far.
“We received overwhelming support,” she said.
On May 10, members of Liberty Counsel’s legal team sent a letter to the board warning them that passing the ordinance would bring litigation.
The nonprofit is fighting three similar ordinances in other areas of Florida, including Tampa and Boca Raton. The city of Gainesville passed its own conversion therapy ban in 2018.
And now, Mast says they’re prepared to fight Alachua County.
“The Board of County Commissioners coming between the client and therapist is anti-American,” he said. “They are wildly overstepping their authority.”
Chung said county officials do not track or keep records of counselors performing conversion therapy in the area, but have heard anecdotal information from residents who shared their experiences.
The commission was clear in its intent to outlaw the therapy, she said.
“The board wanted to prohibit a practice that’s considered harmful to those who go through it,” she said. | 3,728 |
An Ohio mom's post about her daughter's haircut is now the subject of an active police investigation into possible child abuse against her ex-husband.
Christin Johnson of Fostoria, Ohio, took to Facebook two weeks ago to share photos of her daughter with a very short haircut. She claimed her daughter's father and stepmother forced the child to cut it after she had "highlights put in her hair for her birthday." View this post on Facebook Facebook: christin.johnson.10
“This is what my daughter looked like Sunday when I took her home and the other two pics is what happened today before she was brought to me…all over me having highlights put in her hair for her birthday!” Johnson wrote on Jan. 31. She included a photo of her daughter, Kelsey, with long hair, and two photos of her in a dramatically shorter cut with her face covered.
The post ignited an online firestorm. It has been shared over 25,000 times with thousands of comments, with many people criticizing Kelsey's father and stepmom. Facebook
"This is emotional abuse," one person wrote. "She is beautiful," another commented.
People began sharing photos of the dad and stepmom, and commenting on their public Facebook photos. Facebook
Now, the Haskins Police Department confirmed to BuzzFeed News they are investigating a claim of possible child abuse in the incident. Police Chief Colby Carroll told BuzzFeed News Johnson filed a complaint alleging her daughter's father and stepmother forced the haircut on their daughter as punishment the same day she made the post. The investigation of "potential child abuse" is still pending, Carroll said.
The Middleton Township Fire Department, where Kelsey's father and his wife are volunteer firefighters, also placed the two on leave after the incident. Facebook: MtfdFire
Middleton Township Fire Chief Steve Asmus confirmed to BuzzFeed News the couple is still on leave, pending the results of an investigation by police and by local child protective services. Wood County Children's Services could not confirm whether an active investigation into Kelsey's father and stepmother was taking place, "under Ohio Law," the director of the organization told BuzzFeed News. Neither Kelsey's dad nor her stepmom returned a request for comment from BuzzFeed News. BuzzFeed News couldn't reach Johnson for this story, and she doesn't seem to have responded to inquires from other media outlets.
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held by the museum. The stunning results from researchers at the University of California at Riverside showed that the man had lived along the marshes of western Nevada thousands of years earlier than previously believed.
That made him one of the oldest humans ever found in North America and the oldest mummified remains ever found on the continent.
‘THE BEST-DATED EARLY MAN’
“This is the best-dated early man in the New World,” Amy Dansie, an anthropologist with the state Museums and History Division, said when the discovery was announced in 1996. “We were absolutely astonished at the date of this mummy.”
The man, who stood 5-foot-2, still has black hair on his head and dried skin attached to his skull and right shoulder. He became mummified naturally in the cave where he was laid to rest. He was wrapped in a finely woven reed mat and wore intricately crafted moccasins made of three different types of animal hide. He also was wrapped in a woven hemp-and-rabbit-skin blanket. Three woven bags were found next to him, using plants still found at the nearby Stillwater marsh.
A medical examination showed he had suffered a fractured skull that had partially healed, and had abscesses that indicated gum disease and infection. He also had abnormalities in his vertebrae that suggest he suffered chronic back pain.
Former tribal Chairman Alvin Moyle, said in 2000 that Spirit Cave Man is an ancestor and should be returned to the tribe for burial.
“The ancient date of Spirit Cave Man goes beyond our oral history, which goes back 4,000 years,” Moyle said. “But in our view, we have always lived here. If they were other people here, where are they now? We’re still here.”
Spirit Cave Man became embroiled in controversy around the same time as another ancient human, Kennewick Man, found along the Columbia River in Washington in 1996.
Some scientists had theorized that these remains were not related to the American Indians now living in the West but instead represented a separate, and possibly earlier, migration of people.
But Kennewick Man was recently found to be related to the modern-day Native Americans living in the region and his remains will soon be reburied.
It appears as if Spirit Cave Man will soon be at rest as well.
Contact Sean Whaley at [email protected] or 775-461-3820. Follow @seanw801 on Twitter. | 3,732 |
Home Setup Walkthrough
A few people on /r/homelab asked for this and I've been wanting to do it for some time anyways, so here it goes
Let's jump right in!
The Screens are 3x Dell G210 24", one Hyundai 17" Screen and a Medion 23" Screen.
Code Keyboard with Tai-Hao PBT Doubleshot Keys
Logitech G500. Great Mouse.
Blue Snowball. The Red LED is disconnected since it's pretty annoying. Next to that, a FiiO E10 Olympus for Output
The 'Rack'
Let's start from the Top. Random Stuff and Audiotechnica ATH-M50's. Good Headphones, just a bit lacking in the bass department
Self-built PC
Specs:
Intel Core i7 2700k
AsRock P67 Pro3 SE (awful Motherboard, but I got it for cheap)
8 GB DDR3 Mixed RAM (some Corsair and some Kingston)
Sapphire Radeon R9 280x with 1 Broken Fan
OEM Radeon HD 7550 for more Screens
Samsung 830 128 GB SSD
Xigmatek Case...I forgot the exact Name
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2x HP ProLiant DL380G6
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2x 146 GB 15K SAS Drives each
ESXi 6.0u2
Whitebox Server
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Supermicro X7DB-E
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Asus P8P67-M
3ware 9650-8LPML
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2x 250 GB SSD for VMs (shared via iSCSI)
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Trooper or Trouper? By Maeve Maddox
A reader is bothered by the mixing up of the words trooper and trouper:
Please, please, please write a column on the misuse of “trooper” for “trouper.” In my local newspaper this morning, a family member said this about a terminally-ill child: “She’s a real trooper.” I don’t think the young girl is a member of the police force!
To many English speakers, a trooper is a mounted policeman or soldier. In the U.S., a trooper patrols the roads in a police car.
A trouper is the member of an acting group called a troupe.
The words troop and troupe both entered English from the same French word:
troop: 1540s,”body of soldiers,” from French troupe.
troupe: 1825, “company, band,” from French troupe.
The OED gives these definitions of the colloquial uses:
trooper: A brave or stalwart person.
trouper: A reliable, uncomplaining person; a staunch supporter or colleague.
One of the citations given in the OED in the entry for trouper is this one:
1912 L. J. VANCE Destroying Angel (1913) vi. 77 I’m as superstitious as any trooper in the profession.
A screenwriter, Vance apparently thought of himself as belonging to the acting profession, yet he used an unexpected spelling.
With two words so similar in origin, meaning, and pronunciation, mix-ups are bound to occur.
Bottom line: If the context has to do with courage, trooper is appropriate. If the context has to do with cooperation, dependability, and the show business attitude of “the show must go on,” then trouper is the word to use.
I once taught a seventh grade class that included a girl suffering from leukemia. She attended school when she could. When she couldn’t, she still did her homework and sent it in. The day I learned that she’d died, I found her last assignment in my mailbox. That little girl was both a trooper and a trouper.
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EUGENE, Ore. -- No. 2 Oregon remained undefeated in the Pac-12 after taking control of the first game of the series against Washington with a five-run first inning en route to a 8-0 (5) win over the Huskies.
The Ducks now are 29-3 on the season and 7-0 in the Pac-12 while the Huskies are 30-8, 2-4 in Pac-12 following its loss. Washington and Oregon continue the series tomorrow, Saturday, March 28 at 2 p.m. at Howe Field.
Senior Kasey Stanchek made the start in the circle for the Huskies while Oregon ace Cheridan Hawkins, who boasted a 0.32 ERA entering the game, got the call for the Ducks.
Oregon staked itself to a 5-0 lead after one complete frame using an illegal pitch to score the first run of the game. One out into the inning, the Duck at the plate tripled and was thrown out at third but was called safe due to interference. The runner would later come home to score on an illegal pitch to give Oregon the early 1-0 lead. The Ducks used a two-out rally to plate four more runs in the inning. With runners on first and second, a single scored a run before Koral Costa unloaded on a three-run home run to give the home team a 5-0 advantage.
Kristin Cochran entered in the second inning to pitch the remainder of the game for Washington. The freshman pitched well in relief through the first two innings, as the Husky defense went on to retire the side in order in back-to-back innings.
After the Ducks drew a lead off walk in the bottom of the fourth, Nikki Udria hit a ball over the fence to score the baserunner but she was ruled out before crossing home because a player from the dugout crossed into fair territory too early during the celebration to negate Udria's run. Oregon led 6-0 after four complete innings.
The Ducks used a two-run home run in the fifth to extend their lead to 8-0 and end the game early as Oregon took game one of the three-game series.
Stanchek (10-3) took the loss, allowing five runs on four hits and one walk in one inning of work. Cochran pitched 3.1 innings of relief and gave up three runs on three hits and one walk with one strikeout.
Game two of the three-game series is scheduled for 2 p.m. tomorrow (March 28). The game will be televised live on Pac-12 Networks. | 3,735 |
ever heard in your life, finally whittled away the balls of logic and reason until there are none left, and this is the victory party, parading Science’s nutless, politicized corpse through the streets of a major city near you to rub it in your face and strike fear into the hearts of anyone who doesn’t believe science can be “settled”. Because the science is settled. Just ask the guy on TV dressed like a carnival barker telling you to believe what he says because everyone else does.
The social justice warrior is dead, and the era of the Science Justice Warrior has begun!
But back to saving the world and why it’s impossible. I don’t want to sound like an anti-science, but I’ve never met an engineer who could give an accurate estimate on budgets or timelines or the intersection thereof and I don’t think climate change is any different. A good rule of thumb on getting estimates from engineers is to double whatever they tell you and then double that and double that and continue doubling it until it fits whatever you had in your head before you asked them. Their brains don’t work with estimates because they believe everything they’re going to do will succeed and everything looks like a disaster to them because that’s all they can be bothered to fix. That’s why they do things in the first place. No one ever tried to invent something that doesn’t work for a problem that doesn’t exist. My point is, instead of getting an engineer’s opinion on how fucked the Earth’s climate is and how likely it is that we can stop it, let’s look at the opinion of an actuary, someone who’s job it is to calculate risk. It’s a page of interesting stats at least, even if the entire presentation is anti-science.
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Grin and Beam are two major projects using the MimbleWimble protocol.
Tor
There are ways to connect you to your crypto transactions beyond figuring out your public address. The most common identifier is your IP address.
Tor uses onion routing to wrap your IP address in layers upon layers of encryption. While you can use Tor with any blockchain, some include it by default. Both Verge and Monero protect transactions with Tor or some alternative.
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You may not think that you need to keep your crypto activity private. If you’ve got nothing to hide, then why worry about it, right? Well, there are quite a few reasons why you should be in favor of a privacy-focused future.
To best explain the importance of privacy coins, let’s tie it to a more familiar example, traditional banks. A blockchain without privacy mechanisms is like a bank that posts all of its customers’ transactions online. Just search an account number, and you’ve got access to someone’s complete financial history as well as the amount of money they possess.
Even though you probably don’t know anyone’s account number, it wouldn’t be a challenge to figure one out if you wanted to. You can see the issue with that transparency. Blockchains are no different.
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Perhaps more important than individual privacy, though, is the necessity of fungibility in a monetary system. Fungibility is a property in which you can interchange one currency unit for any other unit. For instance, every gram of gold is identical, so you can always exchange one gram of gold for another.
You can’t say the same for bitcoin. A bitcoin may become tainted through money laundering or other illegal activity. Because you can track bitcoin to its source, some vendors may not accept the tainted bitcoin, placing a lower value on it than an untainted one.
Fungibility brings reliability to a currency, and without a certain level of it, the currency won’t survive. Why would you keep a currency if you’re not confident that it’ll be accepted when you spend it?
A privacy coin has no transaction history, so it can never become tainted. Privacy coins maintain your anonymity, but even better, they guarantee the fungibility that a currency needs to stand the test of time. | 3,737 |
The Miami Heat faced an always tough test in their familiar foe, the Washington Wizards. Bam Adebayo was needed and he came through in a major way.
This past Sunday, the Miami Heat took on the Washington Wizards and during the game, it looked like the same old Miami Heat struggling on the road. To make matters worse, it was against the struggling Washington Wizards.
To make things even worse, Jimmy Butler left early third quarter due to a left toe injury and on top of that, Goran Dragic and Kendrick Nunn we’re both in foul trouble throughout the entire game. Now, if you follow me on twitter (see above), I give first and second half recaps.
Many times there, I always call for Bam Adebayo to be more aggressive while taking advantage of his 15-17ft jumper more often. With all that being said, Adebayo came out in the fourth quarter dominating.
Bam had13 drives for 13 points (4/5 FG and 4/4 FT) and just a single turnover. Adebayo was making Thomas Bryant‘s night dreadful by attacking him, which happened to be the reason that Bryant fouled out of the game if you ask me.
Adebayo was faking handoffs that usually result in a Duncan Robinson three, which is usually always a good idea, but not in this fourth quarter. I just really liked Adebayo’s mindset going into the fourth.
Bam was simply just attacking the rim, which oftentimes resulted in free throws. He was doing the things that I’ve always wanted to see him do on a nightly basis. In my opinion, last Sunday was a big step for Adebayo going forward, in knowing that he showed himself that he can be aggressive and take over the game.
This is especially when considering his handling ability and quickness, which explains why a lot of bigs can’t stay in front of him. We All know Adebayo is an All-Star but at times he doesn’t look to score, wanting to do the little things like passing, setting screens and continue to facilitate the offense.
We are not complaining, as this is a great thing for the Heat in that Miami does need all of those things he brings to the table and you love to see it from one of your best players. However, there will be times such as last Sunday and it’s important that Bam not only showed us but himself, that he can score and make things happen on his own when it matters the most. | 3,738 |
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Slovenia will hold an early general election on June 3, President Borut Pahor announced on Saturday, a month after centre-left Prime Minister Miro Cerar resigned over a legal obstacle to a government investment project.
FILE PHOTO: Current President and presidential candidate Borut Pahor reacts after first results of the second round of the presidential elections in Ljubljana, Slovenia, November 12, 2017. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic/File Photo
“On this day I dismiss the parliament and determine June 3 as the date of early parliamentary election,” Pahor told a new conference.
The decision to hold the election a week or two earlier than planned comes after the Supreme Court ordered a second referendum on whether the government should proceed with its 1-billion-euro railway project, a move that had led to Cerar’s resignation.
Some 1.7 million people are eligible vote. They will choose candidates from more than 20 political parties, with a four percent minimum vote threshold for a party to enter the 90-seat parliament.
The centre-left List of Marjan Sarec (LMS), running for the first time and led by Sarec, the mayor of the city of Kamnik, has been leading opinion polls over the past months.
Analysts say, however, that the result is hard to predict.
They claim the opposition centre-right Slovenian Democratic Party and a junior partner in the government coalition, the Social Democrats, both trailing closely behind the LMS in polls, are also in a position that could lead to election victory.
“I expect that the winning party will form a government coalition but it is impossible to say which party will win,” Peter Jancic, a political analyst and the editor of a political website Spletni Casopis, told Reuters.
The government won support for the railway project in the first referendum, but the result was annulled after a complaint from a civil society group regarding the use of campaign funds.
Slovenia, which narrowly avoided an international bailout for its banks in 2013, returned to growth a year later and the government expects the economy to expand by 5.1 percent this year, boosted by exports and investments.
A new government will have to put a lid on public spending to reduce public debt, which is expected to fall to about 70 percent of GDP this year from 73.6 percent in 2017.
Countries in the eurozone have to keep debt levels at a maximum of 60 percent of GDP. | 3,739 |
Health officials in Massachusetts have announced another death related to vaping, marking the third such fatality in the state. A news release sent out Wednesday said the victim was a man in his 50s from Worcester County who had reported vaping both nicotine and THC products.
The man is one of the more than 200 suspected vaping-associated lung injury patients reported to the state’s health department since September, according to the news release. The other two fatalities, involving a woman in her 60s from Hampshire County and a woman in her 40s from Middlesex County, occurred last month.
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“My condolences go out to the family of this patient who has died from a vaping-associated lung injury,’’ said Public Health Commissioner Monica Bharel, MD, MPH, in the news release. “This disease is serious and potentially fatal and we are continuing to investigate the cause.”
As of last Thursday, there had been 37 vaping-related deaths reported across 24 states, with more than 1,888 cases of illnesses, dubbed EVALI by the CDC, reported in 49 states. The only state without a fatality thus far is Alaska, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The health agency said each patient has reported a history of using e-cigarette or vaping products, and while most reported using THC-containing products, they have stopped short of identifying any one product or ingredient responsible for the uptick in cases.
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“At this time, FDA and CDC have not identified the cause or causes of the lung injuries in these cases, and the only commonality among all cases is that patients report the use of e-cigarette or vaping products. No one compound or ingredient has emerged as the cause of these illnesses to date; and it may be that there is more than one cause of this outbreak,” the CDC said. “Many different substances and product sources are still under investigation.”
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However, the agency has advised against using e-cigarette or vaping products that contain THC and is urging consumers not to purchase black market products off the street.
In Massachusetts, Gov. Baker declared a public health emergency on Sept. 24 and temporarily banned the sale of vaping products and devices. The state has also advised physicians dealing with a EVALI patient to retain the devices and products used for possible FDA testing. | 3,740 |
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The launch of Bakkt’s Bitcoin futures could be delayed, partly due to the holiday season.
Staff workers at the Commodities Futures Trading Commission have finished their review and have passed it on to the full commission, according to a new report from CoinDesk. But because of the federal holiday schedule, which marks Monday and Tuesday as federal holidays, commissioners won’t have a chance to vote on a 30-day public comment period until Wednesday.
That alone would push the final vote past the January 24th launch date Bakkt has outlined for its physically-backed Bitcoin futures.
Ethereum
Ethereum (ETH) continues to surge in the crypto markets.
The world’s third largest cryptocurrency, after Bitcoin and XRP, has rallied more than 60% in the past week. It’s currently up 15% in the past 24 hours and stands at $129.93, at time of publishing, according to data compiled by CoinMarketCap.
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Down more than 90% from its all-time high of over $1,400, Ethereum still has a long way to go before recovering its heavy losses in 2018.
Altcoins
In a new interview with Bloomberg, Litecoin founder Charlie Lee talks about his decision to sell all of his LTC and where he sees the future of crypto heading.
“My sense is that there will be a handful of cryptocurrencies that actually will be used as money,” Lee said. “There’s obviously a lot of scams and currencies not useful at all, and those values will plummet. You are going to see some coins die, and the strong will survive.”
Bitcoin ATMs
There are now 2,444 crypto ATMs across the US.
According to the latest numbers from Coin ATM Radar, Canada is next in line, with 695 ATMs, followed by Austria with 271 and the UK with 206.
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Tribal people on warpath with Telangana forest dept over 'encroachment' of sanctuary land
It all started after officials swooped down on a settlement and razed their huts to the ground last month.
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Tribal people in Telangana and state Forest officials are on the warpath after pictures surfaced on Wednesday showing forest officials rounding up Gutti Koya tribal people against a tree, reportedly while evicting them from encroached forest land in Eturunagaram sanctuary.
While human rights activists claimed that the tribal people were flogged and thrashed, the Forest officials claimed that the locals were returning to the forest to encroach sanctuary land again.
The entire incident began last month on September 16, when Forest officials, with the help of the police, swooped down on a Gutti Koya settlement in Jalagalancha area and razed their huts to the ground.
According to reports, officials dragged the tribal people out of their huts and threw away their belongings, evicting around 100 people in total.
“We migrated years ago and we have all the mandated identity cards including Aadhar, ration cards and some of us even have voter ID cards. With no prior intimation, hundreds of officials came in tractors and brought down our homes. When the women in the village tried to stop them, they were tied up and beaten with sticks,” a 30-year-old local told The New Indian Express.
However, officials defended the action, stating that the tribal people were cultivating crops on sanctuary land, which was against the law.
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The official also said that the state government had already identified land for the tribal people to rehabilitate, and assured of granting any other help that would be needed.
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The Times of India quoted a source saying, “The tribal people are being misguided by some political leaders. Since they refused to leave, two cases were filed against them and the accused were arrested and produced before the judicial first class magistrate at Mulugu, and remanded in judicial custody." | 3,743 |
PARIS (Reuters) - French pharma company Ipsen expects to bring more drugs to combat cancer, rare diseases and mobility impairment into its pipeline this year and has around one billion euros ($1.25 billion) for asset purchases, its chief executive said.
The drugmaker, which reported strong full-year results on Thursday, also expects that its growth in the United States, the world’s largest health market, will accelerate further in 2018.
Ipsen’s shares were up 10.03 percent at 1205 GMT, among top performers on the STOXX 600 index.
Ipsen Chief Executive David Meek told Reuters the company would continue to buy in new drugs which it could then take through its research and development channels and to the market.
“We want to bring in early, mid stage assets, to build our pipeline in oncology, rare diseases and neurosciences. It is a strategic imperative for us and, clearly, we are very active on the business development front.”
Meek, an American, took over as CEO in July 2016. The company bought assets from U.S. Merrimack Pharmaceuticals in January last year, including metastatic pancreatic cancer drug Onivyde for $575 million in cash.
That followed a deal with Exelixis to have access to its renal cell cancer treatment Cabometyx.
Meek said Ipsen was now in the top 20 oncology companies worldwide - ranking at 18 by sales in 2016 - and there was room for improvement.
“I am not saying we will be in the top ten anytime soon but I certainly want to be the fastest growing of the top 20,” he said, adding Ipsen oncology sales were up 32.4 percent at constant exchange rates last year to top 1 billion euros.
Revenue in North America was up 74.5 percent, driven by continued growth of neuroendocrine tumors treatment Somatuline.
“North America is 25 percent of our business and most of that is the U.S., our largest single market at this time, and our fastest growing. We expect continued acceleration of our growth in the U.S.,” Meek said.
The executive said Ipsen would benefit from a cut in U.S. corporate tax but that he would also closely track budget issues that could potentially have an effect on government health insurance programs for the poor and disabled such as Medicaid and Medicare for the elderly.
“There are risks and opportunities. We are following the congressional budget debate very closely.” | 3,744 |
We've all seen the oily rainbow sheen in parking lot puddles after a storm. But it's easy to forget what happens next: That oil finds its way to a storm drainage system, where it's likely to be flushed untreated into local waterways, and could carry with it pesticides, household chemicals, PCBs, and nutrients that cause algae blooms.
"Stormwater runoff is one of the biggest problems in America in terms of water pollution," says Paul Edmiston, a chemist with ABSMaterials who won a 2011 PopMech Breakthrough Award for Osorb, a nanoparticle product that soaks up non-polar molecules and can remove 90 to 100 percent of water pollutants. (You can watch the video of Edmiston emptying a bottle of motor oil into a glass of water, shaking in the white powder, and then drinking it up.) Edmiston and ABSMaterials have announced they are now using Osorb to clean up storm water runoff at the College of Wooster in Ohio.
Wooster contracted the ABSMaterials team to set up bioswales, drainage ditches that use plants to slow the movement of water, across the campus' agricultural fields and parking lots. These bioswales will also contain a small percentage of Osorb mixed in with the soil and plants. The Osorb grabs the pollutants in the runoff, then releases them slowly so that the soil microbes and plants can biodegrade the chemicals without being poisoned.
Edmiston estimates that one 20-foot by 5-foot Osorb bioswale plot can reduce the runoff from a 30,000 square foot parking lot by 516,000 gallons of water per year, and could treat up to 1 million gallons per month. The output is clean water that seeps into the ground, and Edmiston says the plants seem to like growing in the Osorb-soil.
His team has already been testing a plot at the College of Wooster, and is now working to expanding to treat runoff from the campus' 20 acres of parking lots and other areas where drainage is a problem. Ohio State and Purdue universities are also considering installing Osorb-enhanced bioswales.
"We can't build a pipe to every parking lot and agricultural field, but if we can take a small amount of space and turn it into green infrastructure, we can treat the water on-site and percolate it into groundwater cleanly," Edmiston says.
This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io | 3,745 |
Who is crazy for Tacos? Well the North End is getting a another taco joint. Taco Loco is planning to open at 3244 Isleville early next year.
Thai Express opened its newest location this week, this time in Dartmouth Crossing between DQ and Starbucks
MINISO has opened their new Halifax Shopping Centre location.
In 1986, Allie Fineberg was hooked by the second-hand bug and opened Allie’s Boutique at 1272 Barrington St. in the south end of Halifax. The store specialized in clothing finds, accessories and costume rentals.
For the next 20 years Allie’s continued in its original location, until one day when Fineberg went to the grocery store to grab some lunch and, as she says, “came back with a house” and moved the store to 1144 Barrington St., a few blocks away.
The model has changed over the years. The second-hand items are gone, and now the store is full of women’s clothing, party dresses, handbags and costume jewelry straight from New York.
Twelve years later, Fineberg found the upkeep of the house time consuming and decided to sell. By chance, she found out that her original location was available again. A few weeks ago, everything came back full circle when Fineberg opened her boutique where she began 32 years earlier.
The concept may have changed from used items to brand new, but Fineberg’s passion to provide unique things for the “gals of Halifax” hasn’t.
Henry’s in Dartmouth Crossing is closing at the end of January and consolidating with the Halifax location in Bayers Lake
Sad news for something that never was, I have heard from a good source that Simons has decided not to come to Halifax Shopping Centre
I have confirmation on a location for Five Guys, they have signed on to go in the Nova Centre on Argyle St. At this point the plan is to be open around Victoria Day. Stay tuned for updates on probable suburban locations as well.
Kent has started construction to build a new store in Lower Sackville, the new store will be on the same property as the current store and once complete they old store will be removed. The entrance and exit to the parking lot will also be reconfigured.
L Brands is in the process of selling off the La Senza brand to an equity partnership, the sale is to help raise capital for their struggling flagship brand Victoria Secret. No stores to be affected at this time. L Brands also operates Bath & Body Works | 3,746 |
A court in Colombo, Sri Lanka, ordered the continued detention of nine Iranians caught with 107 kg of heroin this year, local news outlet Ada Derana reported.
Sri Lankan authorities arrested the Iranians on March 24 as they allegedly attempted to smuggle the heroin onboard a fishing boat bound for the island nation, Arab News reported.
Iran and Sri Lanka are in South Asia, home to Afghanistan, the world’s top producer of opium and its heroin derivative despite billions in U.S. taxpayer funds devoted to counternarcotics activities there.
Considered a top transit country for Afghan-produced opiates destined to Europe, Iran sits next to Afghanistan.
On Tuesday, Sri Lanka’s Ada Derana news outlet reported that a court in Colombo ordered authorities “to further remand the nine Iranians” while law enforcement continues to investigate the matter.
“The Police Narcotics Bureau informed the court that investigations on the matter are still ongoing. Accordingly, the police sought the court to further remand the suspects,” Ada Derana added.
In March, Arab News reported Iranians were able to drop an estimated 500 kg of heroin into the water before authorities took them into custody.
Opium production has skyrocketed in Afghanistan since the U.S. deployed forces into the country in the wake of the 9/11 attacks to defeat the Taliban and eliminate its al-Qaeda allies.
The Taliban and al-Qaeda, which the Pentagon has affiliated with Iran, remain staunch allies. Heroin and opium continue generate most of the Afghan Taliban’s funding, estimated in the hundreds of millions annually.
Breitbart News recently learned that Iran is relying on Afghan criminals who have abandoned drug and human trafficking in favor of smuggling hard U.S. currency into the Islamic Republic to help the Shiite powerhouse evade crippling American sanctions.
Soon after the Trump administration imposed an unprecedented wave of sanctions on Iran last year, the Pentagon’s inspector general accused the Baghdad-sanctioned umbrella organization the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) of being involved in the region’s drug trade. Iran maintains a substantial influence over its neighbor Iraq.
U.S. officials have long linked Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah to drug trafficking activities in the Western Hemisphere.
A top U.S. Department of State (DOS) official told lawmakers this week that the Trump sanctions on Iran are “working,” adding that the restrictions have weakened the Islamic REpublic’s terrorist activities.
Afghan opium is reportedly fueling a surge in opiates addiction in Iran. | 3,747 |
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PETRA III restarts
Science program resumes at DESY's high brilliance X-ray light source
Following a year long shutdown, the science program at DESY's high brilliance X-ray source PETRA III has been resumed on Monday. “With the shutdown we have cleared the way for a substantial expansion of the number of measuring stations at our much requested X-ray source,” says DESY research director Prof. Edgar Weckert. “We are pleased that we can now re-open the facility to scientists from all over the world.”
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The large experimental hall "Max von Laue" at PETRA III. Credit: DESY The large experimental hall "Max von Laue" at PETRA III. Credit: DESY
PETRA III produces bright X-rays with the help of high-energy electrons from a particle accelerator. Around 2000 researchers use this X-ray light every year, to study new drug substances, new materials or chemical processes. The brilliant X-rays are up to 5000 times finer than a human hair. This way, extremely small samples can be investigated, such as tiny protein crystals for example or nanocrystals for the compuer storage of the future. “PETRA III provides unique insights into the nanoworld,” says Prof. Christian Schroer, the facility's scientific director.
Beam time at PETRA III is much sought after by scientists from around the world. The available measurement time is regularly completely overbooked, only a fraction of the experiment requests can be granted. In the future, two new experimental halls will allow more researchers to access the brilliant X-ray source. While the research program was resumed on 27 April at the 14 existing stations, the two new experimental halls will gradually be equipped with up to 11 other stations. The focus of the experiments there will be the study of the properties of new materials.
For the construction of the two new halls the tunnel of the PETRA III storage ring had to be torn down completely in two sections for about 80 metres each. In these sections, the storage ring was rebuild from new components after the foundations for the new experimental halls had been finished. With the rebuilding the storage ring was prepared to provide the new experimental stations with the bright X-ray light. Research work in the new experimental halls will begin in about a year.
More on PETRA III: http://www.desy.de/research/facilities__projects/petra_iii/index_eng.html | 3,748 |
official policy is now to support Brexit, if not May’s deal, but the first priority of its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, appears to be to force a general election that would make him Prime Minister. In February, he indicated that he would back a new referendum. Last week, though, when Parliament finally had a chance to vote on an amendment calling for one, he instructed his M.P.s to abstain. The amendment was defeated, but its advocates haven’t given up.
Indeed, M.P.s voted no last week on every measure that suggested a specific way forward, apart from delay. They even voted against giving themselves more power to put solutions to a vote. They’re headed for more votes, including yet another one on May’s deal. Marina Hyde, of the Guardian, wrote that the story of Brexit is one of “politicians finding out in real time what the thing they had already done actually meant, then deferring the admission or even acceptance of it.”
Those words should resonate for Americans. The Brexit debate has been marked by particular British eccentricities, but the tendencies it appeals to—xenophobia, the belief in a lost, past greatness—cross many borders. The adherents of such movements may see the floundering of Brexit as a reason to rethink their assumptions—or, more dangerously, as proof that élites are conspiring against them. The populist dream subsists in an increasingly troubled sleep.
Donald Trump has called Brexit “a great victory.” Appearing last week with Varadkar, however, he denied that he had supported it; all he had done, he said, was to predict that it would win. He recalled the moment: “I was standing out on Turnberry”—his Scottish golf resort—“and we had a press conference, and people were screaming. That was the day before.” In fact, Trump arrived the day after the referendum. He might as truthfully have said that he saw a unicorn on the Turnberry fairway. He conceded that Brexit has gone badly, but he didn’t think that there should be a second referendum: “It would be very unfair to the people that won. They’d say, ‘What do you mean, you’re going to take another vote?’ ” But, as Trump will soon be reminded, that’s how democracy works: you don’t face voters just once but again and again, as they come to see what your promises amount to. And sometimes the second answer is very different. ♦ | 3,749 |
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping told President Donald Trump in a phone call Wednesday that Beijing is willing to work with Washington on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program but wants a peaceful solution.
US President Donald Trump with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Mar-a-Lago estate after a bilateral meeting in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday. REUTERS/Carlos Barria BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping told President Donald Trump in a phone call Wednesday that Beijing was willing to work with Washington on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program but wanted a peaceful solution.
Xi's comments come after the US president tweeted that China should do more on the issue Washington sees as an increasingly urgent threat, or the US would go it alone.
The call, brief details of which were released by the Chinese foreign ministry, also come as tensions have risen with the deployment of a US aircraft carrier to the area and the conducting of the biggest-ever US-South Korea military exercises.
Xi told Trump that China insisted on peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and wanted to find a solution to the problem through peaceful means.
"China insists on realizing the denuclearization of the peninsula... and is willing to maintain communication and coordination with the American side over the issue on the peninsula," Xi was quoted as saying by the state broadcaster CCTV and other official media outlets.
The two leaders spoke Tuesday night Washington time.
Earlier Tuesday, Trump tweeted that he tried to persuade Xi to put pressure on North Korea in exchange for a good trade deal with the U.S.
"I explained to the President of China that a trade deal with the U.S. will be far better for them if they solve the North Korean problem!" Trump tweeted.
In a second tweet he wrote: "North Korea is looking for trouble. If China decides to help, that would be great. If not, we will solve the problem without them! U.S.A."
Trump and other US officials have repeatedly called on China to leverage its status as North Korea's biggest economic partner and source of food and fuel aid to force Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
China responds that it is in full compliance with sanctions enacted under UN Security Council resolutions and in February, suspended imports of coal from North Korea — a key source of foreign currency for Kim Jong Un's hard-line Communist regime.
However, Beijing also says it will not countenance measures that could bring about a collapse of the regime that could release a flood of refugees across its border, destabilize northeast Asia, and result in a US-friendly government taking power in Pyongyang. | 3,750 |
Save this picture! Saudi Arabia Expo 2020 Dubai Pavilion. Image Courtesy of Boris Micka Associates
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has unveiled the design of its pavilion for the Expo 2020 Dubai. The project will cover an area the size of two football pitches as the second-biggest in size only to that of the United Arab Emirates. Designed by Boris Micka Associates, the pavilion was made as a "window to the future" that symbolizes the nation's welcoming character, long heritage and unlimited drive.
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Save this picture! Saudi Arabia Expo 2020 Dubai Pavilion. Image Courtesy of Boris Micka Associates
Those visiting the Saudi pavilion can expect an “immersive experience of the kingdom’s transformation”, organizers said, focusing on its history and traditions as well as its future. Designed to be "instantly recognizable" to those visiting the Expo site, the rectangular, reflective pavilion that will stand at an angle. Inside the project, a path will lead visitors through exhibition displays which highlight the country's openness to businesses and tourists, and its desire to build links and collaborate with countries.
Save this picture! Saudi Arabia Expo 2020 Dubai Pavilion. Image Courtesy of Boris Micka Associates
Reem Al Hashimy, UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation and Director General of Dubai Expo 2020 Bureau, said: "The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's pavilion at Expo 2020 will offer visitors a chance to experience the country's rich heritage and culture, while demonstrating how our region is working together to create a better future for everyone. We look forward to welcoming our brothers and sisters from the Kingdom as they join us for the first ever World Expo to be held in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia region."
Save this picture! Saudi Arabia Expo 2020 Dubai Pavilion. Image Courtesy of Boris Micka Associates
"This extraordinary and innovative design perfectly captures the determination of the Kingdom to fulfill its promise of being an ambitious nation while conveying a message of dynamism and partnership with the world," said Mohammed Al Tuwaijri, Saudi's Minister of Economy and Planning and Chairman of the Supervisory Committee for the Kingdom's participation in Expo 2020 Dubai. He added, "All Saudis can be proud of the vision that this ground-breaking pavilion will deliver to the world, and we look forward to inviting global citizens to share in the exciting story of our thriving and vibrant society."
Construction of the pavilion began in early February 2019. To date, 190 nations have confirmed their participation in Expo 2020. The expo will begin in October next year and will run for close to six months.
News via Khaleej Times | 3,751 |
The Russian hacking of our Democratic Process…
Not long after President Obama lectured Trump that “Our election can’t be hacked”, Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, and company were saying exactly that. We now see that Russian officials may have purchased Facebook ads, but the Russia hacking claims started at one place, John Podesta’s emails.
Wikileaks has released 1,000’s of emails between John Podesta, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. The claim is that Russia hacked the DNC servers, and that Wikileaks is a “Russian Agent”, an editor of emails and intentional disruptor of elections. The claim of editing emails is important because the emails show absolutely disgusting actions. The innocent stuff ranges from rigging the primaries to receiving debate questions from CNN and much more. The not so innocent emails involve pedophilia, assassination plots, and “making an example out of leakers”.
But why would they need to make an example of leakers? Well, four of our intelligence agencies agreed with Hillary, that the claims of Russian email doctoring is true. However, the facts say otherwise.
The rate at which these emails were downloaded, 23MB/s, would only be possible if they were downloaded at the physical location that they were being stored (i.e. a leaker on-site). In fact, the first person leaking these emails wasn’t Wikileaks. On July 22, 2016, Guccifer 2.0, a copycat name of a known hacker, released five emails, and claimed he hacked the emails and provided them to Wikileaks. The emails he released had Russian imprints which was supposed to prove the hack.
However, looking at the metadata of the Guccifer files below tells a different story.
Created by Warren Flood on 15th of June at 13:38
Modified by Феликс Эдмундович on 15th of June at 14:08
The document that coincides with this creation date, is dated 12/19/2015.
Guccifer 2.0 isn’t a Russian spy. And he’s not the hacker.
He’s most likely someone within the DNC who knew these emails had been taken, and did this to get in front of the story, while framing Russia interference. There’s a reason a whole year later, the only Russian remnants that remain are Facebook ads. Luckily, we don’t have Hillary in office still shouting about the evil Kremlin and leading us towards a conflict worse than North Korea. | 3,752 |
loving and caring home.Just because you want a Rottweiler doesn’t mean you can only get one from a breeder. There arefilled to the brim with Rottweilers. This can be a riskier way to adopt your Rottweiler, but shelter puppies make great pets as well. Unfortunately, when adopting from a shelter, you generally will not be able to check on the puppies background like you can through a breeder, who may have both parents with records on hand to check out. But do not let this discourage you from adopting from a shelter! You can find great pets at shelters, but you doof adopting an aggressive, or unhealthy puppy. You can also search for your new puppy through nonbreeders. There are many people out there who have Rottweilers. Some of them don’t have their dogs altered. When this happens, you tend to get puppies. It is perfectly fine to browse the pet section of the wanted ads to find your new puppy. But, just like with adopting from a shelter, you must be careful that you do not adopt a sick or badnatured Rottie. Make sure you check out the puppies first to see if they are healthy, playful, and well taken care of.Another place you can search for your new Rottweiler puppy is at your. I have heard many people say that most of these dogs come from puppy mills, which tend to offer unhealthy living environments and inhumane breeding tactics. This, though, does not mean that you cannot find a great puppy from a store. It just means that you must be extra careful and use your best judgment when selecting a puppy. Make sure the puppy is responsive, friendly, and approachable. A Rottweiler puppy that lacks confidence and benevolence can have temperamental issues Selecting your new puppy is a very exciting event. Now that you know where to find a puppy and know what to expect as far as temperament, housing, and responsibilities, picking out your new friend is the final thing you need to do. When checking out the puppies, make sure you know what you want out of your new companion. It is important to be, don’t just pick out any puppy, they all have such different personalities, so make sure you select one that fits your lifestyle.So whether you are adopting your Rottweiler puppy from a breeder, a shelter, or a store, make sure your home is prepared for the arrival of your new friend, don’t forget to find a vet, and choose a healthy, hardy puppy. Good luck on adopting your new Rottweiler puppy! | 3,753 |
cryptogon.com news – analysis – conspiracies
January 17th, 2010
Update: Apparently, the Site Was Taken Down Because of a Address Chance
isgp.eu:
January 18, 2010,
To those who were concerned,
As many of you noticed, ISGP has been down for a week. Eurid, located in Brussels, had withdrawn the domain because they somehow found out I wasn’t living at the registered address anymore. Don’t know how, because I’m still waiting for the regional public office to change my address in their own administration – so I can finally get my parking permit. It took some time before Eurid accepted the necessary documentation and put my site back up.
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UPDATE: ISGP.eu Is Back Up
The site is back online and the WHOIS status is back to “Registered” (which is normal). The last update to the domain occurred January 18, 2010, 11:25 am (I’m assuming Central European Time).
* Queue Twilight Zone music… *
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UPDATE: Bandwidth Exceeded on 4Shared Free File Sharing System
I will temporarily host the file on Cryptogon:
ISGP.zip, Size: 2,583 KB
—End Update—
The WHOIS status for isgp.eu shows:
Withdrawn: This domain name has been registered but has been withdrawn. It is temporarily inactive and may not be traded or transferred pending the outcome of legal activity.
Any legal action against Joël van der Reijden is likely taking place in Netherlands. I can’t, however, find any information, in any language, about what’s happening.
Fortunately, almost all of his work was still present in Google’s cache.
This file contains everything that was recoverable from Google’s cache of isgp.eu. The site has been taken down. I’d expect this file to be taken down as well.
ISGP.zip, Size: 2,583 KB
I have sent the data to Wikileaks in the hope that they can make sure that this information won’t get buried.
If anyone has any information related to what is happening with isgp.eu and/or Joël van der Reijden, please let me know.
If you have no idea what any of this is about, see the Introduction page from isgp.eu (Google cache). | 3,754 |
and more profit off the ancient spiritual discipline, their differences could become irreconcilable.
YogaWorks exemplifies much of the change that affects the industry overall. Since its 1987 founding by two Los Angeles–area yoga teachers, it has become a national chain with around 60 locations, and has changed corporate hands twice. It’s currently owned by Great Hill Partners, the same private-equity firm that bought Gizmodo Media Group earlier this year. And it’s not the only yoga chain with a link to private equity — as the New York Times reported earlier this year, TSG Consumer Partners bought another, larger yoga chain, CorePower, in March.
It’s not hard to guess why private equity’s is so interested in yoga: Wellness is incredibly lucrative. A 2016 study produced jointly by Yoga Journal and the Yoga Alliance found that Americans spent around $16.8 billion a year on classes and products. But those profits aren’t being equally shared, teachers say; in the same Yoga Alliance study, only 29 percent of teachers described yoga as their primary source of income. And in 2019, over a thousand CorePower teachers sued the chain, citing the amount of off-hours work that goes into preparing a yoga class, and saying that they’re paid less than minimum wage. (CorePower vigorously denied that claim to the Times.)
Williford and others hope the union will help them carve out new stability in a precarious industry — a goal that recently attained new significance, as the future of YogaWorks looks somewhat uncertain. In June, it removed itself from the New York Stock Exchange. Its revenue had “decreased by 6.7 percent” during the last quarter, Club Industry reported in August, plus “a quarterly loss of 19 cents per share.” To curb expenses, it closed several yoga studios.
Teachers began their organizing drive months before YogaWorks stopped publicly trading, but the company’s turmoil only seems to have reinforced their commitment to a union. It’s a question of wellness, after all — their own, and that of teachers to come. “I feel like our effort at YogaWorks to unionize teachers makes it seem that we do matter. Like our voices matter, and that the profession needs to have more support,” Blake said.
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/> /> Your browser does not support the audio element. Audio: The Baltimore Ravens read "The Raven" When the Baltimore Ravens took on their name, they inherited a huge literary tradition along with it. And now it's payback time. Hear how the players, coaches, and cheerleaders of this Super Bowl-winning NFL team interpret some of "The Raven"'s familiar lines. How in the world did a professional football team come to be named after a 19th-century poem? After all, football teams are chock-full of beefy athletes ready to trample anyone holding the old pigskin. Nineteenth-century poetry is laced with dainty rhyme schemes and thoughts of lost loves. Not quite an obvious match. Yet, somehow it makes sense that the National Football League 2000 Super Bowl champions are named the Baltimore Ravens, after Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem "The Raven." After all, the poem is about the torment and anguish of fierce longing, something Baltimore football fans know all too well. Here's the story behind the name. Once upon a time, in the 1950s and 1960s, to be exact, Baltimore was home to a legendary professional football team, the Colts. Led by quarterback Johnny Unitas and other Hall of Fame players, the team won three NFL championships. But in late 1970s and early 1980s, the team tanked. In 1984, the team owner relocated the Colts in Indianapolis. That was the end of pro football in Baltimore. Or so it seemed. In 1995, the Cleveland Browns announced that they were moving their franchise to Baltimore. Baltimore had a new pro football team. Now all it needed was a new pro football name. But what? Long ago, fans had named the Colts after the horse racing industry in the Baltimore area. What Baltimore person, place, or thing would best represent this new Baltimore team? The Baltimore Ravens Mascots
Edgar, Allan and Poe That question was put to the fans. Baltimore had boats, Baltimore had hard-working, patriotic citizens, Baltimore had�Edgar Allan Poe and his famous poem, "The Raven." In early 1996, the Baltimore Sun newspaper conducted a telephone poll. They asked people to cast their vote for the team name. Over 33,000 people voted. About 5,500 people chose the Marauders. A similar number (5,597) picked the Americans. And 21,108 selected the winner: the Baltimore Ravens. Now Baltimore fans join the three Raven mascots Edgar, Allan, and Poe in cheering their players to victory. The dark days of being a teamless town, an NFL nobody, are behind them, they hope, forever more. | 3,756 |
Embattled Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi has announced that she will return to her duties leading the Council early next year after successfully challenging an 18-month disqualification from office.
Mrs Scaffidi has been embroiled in a long-running expenses scandal over gifts and travel worth tens of thousands of dollars.
In September she was handed an 18-month disqualification from public office when the State Administrative Tribunal found she had breached the Local Government Act on 45 occasions by failing to properly declare gifts and travel.
The breaches were in relation to trips she made to the Beijing Olympics and the Broome Cup in 2008.
The Lord Mayor voluntarily stepped aside as she fought her disqualification in the Court of Appeal, and in early December 26 of the breaches were dismissed — allowing her to return to her full duties.
In a statement posted on Twitter immediately after the verdict came down she said she would not be returning to the role until she had clarity on when a fresh penalty hearing would take place for the remaining 19 breaches.
She has also indicated she was hoping a penalty for the breaches could be met via mediation with the Department of Local Government but instead a two-day hearing before the SAT has been set down for February.
Today Mrs Scaffidi tweeted she would be resuming her statutory duties she had been elected to undertake on January 8, 2018 — four months after stepping aside.
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Minister calls for Scaffidi's resignation
In a statement, Local Government Minister David Templeman said he was "disappointed" the Lord Mayor would be resuming her duties.
"Ms Scaffidi should have stood down a long time ago, in the best interests of the residents, ratepayers and businesses in the City of Perth," he said.
"This saga has been damaging the standing of local government in the community."
The gifts in question included a $36,000 trip to the Beijing Olympics funded by BHP Billiton, a stay at a beach club in Broome and a hospitality package for a concert at Leeuwin.
Mrs Scaffidi will face a vastly different environment upon her return, with the Lord Mayor's supporters significantly reduced in number since October's elections.
Those results mean Mrs Scaffidi and her allies no longer enjoy a majority on the Council.
Perth City Councillor Jemma Green has been acting Lord Deputy Mayor in Mrs Scaffidi's absence.
Earlier this week internal problems within the council were once again highlighted, when it was revealed Councillors James Limnios and Reece Harley had levelled serious misconduct claims against each other. | 3,757 |
Missing Scene from "Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back" I don't know who wrote this. It came in a forwarded e-mail. I made some improvements in grammar and punctuation. A furious lightsaber duel is underway. DARTH VADER is backing LUKE SKYWALKER towards the end of the gantry. A quick move by Vader, chops off Luke's hand! It goes spinning off into the ventilation shaft. Luke backs away. He looks around, but realizes there's nowhere to go but straight down. Darth Vader: Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father. Luke: He told me enough! He told me you killed him! Darth Vader: No, Luke... I am your father! Luke: No. It can't be. That's not true. That's impossible! Darth Vader: Search your feelings Luke... you know them to be true. Luke: NOOoooo! Darth Vader: Yes, it is true... and you know what else? You know that brass droid of yours? Luke: Threepio? Darth Vader: Yes... Threepio... I built him... when I was 7 years old. Luke: No!... Wait, huh? Darth Vader: Seven years old. And what have you done? Look at yourself. No hand. No job. And you couldn't even levitate your own ship out of the swamp... Luke: But... I destroyed your precious Death Star! Darth Vader: But that was when you were 20! When I was 10, I single-handedly destroyed an entire Trade Federation Droid Control ship! Luke: Well, it's not my fault... Darth Vader: Oh, here we go... "Poor me... my father never gave me what I wanted for my birthday... boo hoo, my daddy's the Dark Lord of the Sith... Nobody loved me... waahhh wahhh!" Luke: Shut up! Darth Vader: You're a slacker! By the time I was your age, I had already exterminated the Jedi knights! Luke: I used to race my T-16 through Beggar's Canyon. Darth Vader: Oh, for the love of the Emperor... 10 years old, winner of the Boonta Eve Open... the Only human to ever fly a Pod Racer... right here baby! Luke looks down the shaft. Takes a step towards it. Darth Vader: I was wrong... You're not my kid... I don't know whose you are, but you sure ain't mine. Luke takes a step off the platform, hesitates, then plunges down the shaft. Darth Vader looks down after him. Darth Vader: And get a haircut! | 3,758 |
A week after Chennai police arrested IPS officer Safeer Karim for cheating in the UPSC mains examination, investigators are probing the possibility of his involvement in a wider racket, The Times of India reported on Tuesday.
A week after Chennai police arrested IPS trainee Safeer Karim for cheating in the UPSC mains examination, investigators are probing the possibility of his involvement in a wider racket, The Times of India reported on Tuesday.
The officials, who seized at least 11 cellphones, one tablet, a laptop, four hard disks and a pen drive during the arrests, are looking into Karim's Google Drive account, which they believe could have been used to help students enrolled at his chain of coaching classes cheat, reported The Times of India. It will take a minimum of two weeks for the forensic report to come out.
On Saturday, the investigators arrested the owner of an IAS coaching centre in Kerala and its front-office manager for allegedly helping Karim clear the preliminary exams using fraudulent means, reported The Hindu.
Karim, who secured the 112th rank in the 2014 UPSC examination, aspired to be an IAS officer. His coaching classes La Excellence, which has its head office in Thiruvananthapuram, has branches in Kochi, Kozhikode, Bhopal and Hyderabad.
On 30 October, Karim was caught with a cellphone, a Bluetooth-enabled miniature camera in a shirt button and wireless earpieces, to communicate with his Hyderabad-based wife, Joicy Joy.
During an interrogation, Karim admitted taking photographs of the question paper and sending them to his wife, The Times of India reported. Joy, who dictated answers to him, was soon arrested, along with another associate named Rambabu.
Safeer was booked under Section 420 (cheating) and 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code as well as relevant sections of the IT Act, 2003.
A police officer told The Hindu that a few other family members of Karim were also involved in similar malpractices. Meanwhile, a magistrate court granted bail to his wife on Friday.
Following the IPS officer's arrest, the Union home ministry also sought a report on Sunday from the Tamil Nadu government about his conduct.
"Such a person is not fit to be in a service like IPS and action such as dismissal from the service may be initiated once a report from the state government is received," a home ministry official had said.
However, the accused will be given a chance to explain his side of the story.
With inputs from PTI | 3,759 |
Labour is coming under increasing pressure after it refused to condemn the wave of strikes on one of Britain’s biggest rail networks in the run up to Christmas.
Staff on the Aslef and RMT unions began a 48-hour walkout at 12am and a further one-day strike is scheduled for Friday on the Southern Rail route in a dispute over the expansion of driver-only operated trains.
The entirety of Southern’s 2,242 daily weekday services have been cancelled after its parent company, Govia Thameslink Railway, failed in a last-ditch bid to halt the industrial action.
Chris Grayling, the transport secretary who is frequently used as a Tory attack dog, claimed that rail unions had threatened a decade of strikes. In a letter to MPs he also alleged Aslef and RMT had failed to accept an offer for talks with conciliation service Acas – although he did not provide any evidence and the unions said a proper negotiation had not been on offer.
Labour yesterday released a carefully-worded statement in which warned of the safety of Southern’s services but did not condemn the strikes.
“To attempt to pin the blame for Southern’s miserable service on trade unions rather than the incompetence of management and government ministers is an insult to long suffering passengers,” said Andy McDonald, the shadow transport secretary.
“As commuters are well aware, Southern’s sub-standard service predates any industrial action and trains are cancelled, late and dangerously overcrowded every day regardless of strike action.”
“Rather than playing the blame game, the Government should accept responsibility for the unacceptable service commuters are subject to and focus on resolving the dispute, as recommended by the Transport Select Committee.”
“The truth is that ministers are defending this failed franchise as a point of political pride when they should be sticking up for taxpayers and commuters.”
Southern has said the strike is “totally unjustified and totally unnecessary” and called on unions to work with it to modernise the railways.
The dispute has evoked memories of 2011, when Ed Miliband criticised a wave of strikes but in a television clip, but refused to say more when pressed by broadcasters.
Last month Grayling refused the request by Sadiq Khan, the London mayor, give him, through Transport for London, control of the failing franchise.
Last week it emerged that Grayling had sent a letter in 2011 where he stated his opposition to devolution on the suburban rail franchises for fear of them falling into “the clutches of a Labour mayor”. | 3,760 |
At a Feb. 1 campaign event in York County, Tom Wolf joked that there were signs of some rolling over at a Mount Wolf area graveyard.
The Wolf family's roots in Mount Wolf date back to when Tom Wolf's great-great-grandfather moved a store to a high point of a valley, and became the station agent and postmaster along a railroad line. Wolf's mother, 90-year-old Cornelia, grew up on the other side of the Susquehanna River in the Columbia area. Her father owned a butcher shop.
She met her future husband in 1942 at a bridge game. Bill, now 93, graduated college early and entered the service during World War II.
After the war, he called her and asked her on a date. He wasn't sure if she would remember him.
"I was in hopes," Bill said.
She accepted. That led to them getting married and raising four children: Tom, Andy, Cornelia (who goes by Cory), and Hank.
Tom's mother told a version of that story in an April campaign message about how Tom had turned around the family business and saved jobs in 2009. Cornelia and Bill both appeared in a TV ad with Tom about issues facing seniors.
Cornelia spoke at a rally for Tom two days before the May 20 primary. Jim Kinder, a former mayor of Mount Wolf, introduced her as "one of the classiest young ladies I know.
"And I say young, because she certainly looks like she's about 60," Kinder said.
She took the microphone to cheers.
"This is amazing, Tom. You're amazing, too," she said and laughed.
"That's the first time she has ever said that," Wolf told the crowd.
The crowd laughed. Cornelia pointed at him.
"Could you remove him?" Cornelia said. "Because he's going to ad lib right behind me."
Later, Cornelia said she thinks Tom got a wry sense of humor and his brains from his father.
"I think he's gotten self-confidence from both of us," she said.
Cornelia Wolf, mother of @GovernorTomWolf, has died at the age of 94. Mrs. Wolf enjoyed seeing her son, the governor, when he appeared on @SmartTalkWITF at the PA State Capitol last summer. pic.twitter.com/A02AMSyMi1 — SmartTalkWITF (@SmartTalkWITF) June 21, 2018
Watch: Looking back at the life of William Trout Wolf: | 3,761 |
fi Action/Adventure
Logline: As Luke trains with Master Yoda to become a Jedi, his friends evade the Imperial fleet under the command of Darth Vader who is obsessed with turning Skywalker to the Dark Side.
Despite destroying the Death Star, the Rebel Alliance is forced to hide on the ice planet, Hoth from Darth Vader and the Empire.
Strange meteorite activity is investigated, and since Luke is recovering from an attack by an ice monster, Han and Chewbacca destroy a probe droid after it relays their position to the Empire. Vader orders an attack, hoping to wipe them out.
The rebels scramble to defend their escaping shuttles in a massive snow battle, and are quickly overrun. Luke escapes with R2D2 to a remote planet where he will continue his Jedi training, as Han takes Leia and the others aboard the Millennium Falcon only to be pursued by Darth Vader himself.
Luke finds the Jedi master, Yoda, is more than he seems, and it’s here he realizes his journey with the Force has only just begun. Han and Leia have a stroke of luck, as they outwit the Empire and turn to an old scoundrel friend of Han’s.
Thinking themselves safe with Han’s friend, Lando, in a city in the clouds, the group quickly discovers they’ve been sold out to the Empire, and Han will be turned over to a bounty hunter to settle an old debt. Luke’s powers grow stronger, and through the Force learns his friends are in danger, and he must rescue them, before he masters his training.
Han is frozen in metal and taken away, as Leia, Chewie and C3PO rush to save him. Luke arrives on the Cloud City, not to the company of his friends, but to face Darth Vader and either turn to the dark side or die.
The bounty hunter escapes with Han, and Leia rescues Luke with the help of Lando and Chewie. The story ends with them rejoining the Rebel Fleet where they hatch a plan to save their friend, Han.
Once You’re Finished…
Ask if anyone has any questions.
If you feel like it went well (and you’re comfortable enough) ask if you can send the script.
If they ask for a one page synopsis, take their info and gladly send that. HOWEVER if they ask for the script, don’t sell yourself short and ask if they’d rather have a synopsis. (Given the choice, people will always opt to save time.) | 3,762 |
BREXIT, EURGBP FORECAST – TALKING POINTS
Euro may fall if Eurozone data reinforces ECB rate cut bets
Economic data out of Europe has been tending to undershoot
EURGBP broke above 2-year high range as Brexit risks spike
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The Euro may suffer if Eurozone economic confidence data undershoots forecasts and fuels ECB rate cut expectations. Last week, the central bank President Mario Draghi said the outlook is getting “worse and worse”, and the most recent reading of the Eurozone uncertainty gauge certainly reflects his comments. The ECB has entertained the notion of implementing rate cuts and even reintroducing QE.
Economic data out of the Eurozone has been tending to underperform relative to economists expectations with inflation remaining tepid and below policymakers’ goal. Officials at the ECB are hoping that a looser credit paradigm may stimulate economic activity and boost inflation against the backdrop of slower growth regionally and globally.
EURGBP TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
If the data falls in line with the prevailing trend of economic publications out of Europe, EURGBP may experience a pullback. Recent Brexit-related developments have caused the British Pound to fall against most of its major counterparts and subsequently led EURGBP to spike over 1.50 percent, breaking past several major resistance levels.
The pair closed at a 2-year high and experienced the largest single-day jump since November. This occurred right as the pair was beginning to come off its sugar high after closing to the upside for 11 consecutive weeks. A weaker-than-expected reading could cause the pair to cool off temporarily, though this may be offset if the UK-EU divorce outlook worsens and pressures Sterling more than the Euro.
Oscillations in political developments relating to Brexit will likely continue to be reflected in moves in Sterling. As outlined in my EURGBP forecast, this is why performing technical analysis on a pair’s whose reference currency is tied to a fundamental volatile environment is so difficult. Traders will likely wait for the dust to settle – as much as it can in this situation – before adding exposure or exiting their positions.
CHART OF THE DAY: EURGBP CLOSES AT 2-YEAR HIGH
EURO TRADING RESOURCES
--- Written by Dimitri Zabelin, Jr Currency Analyst for DailyFX.com
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had pleaded guilty to over a decade earlier.
Enter US public defender Bryan Lessley, who was assigned to his case, and provided much-needed support.
"It was the most amazing feeling, because someone was listening," says Molteno.
Then, in April this year, a breakthrough: Molteno's photo and details were removed from the Interpol site, although the organisation later confirmed he remained the subject to the same "red notice".
Finally, early last month, Lessley made contact to inform him of a court order dismissing the indictment.
"Your case is now over. Best of luck to you," Lessley said in his email.
The court order was signed by US District Judge Ann Aiken, and should trigger the removal of Interpol's red notice.
Molteno believed his file "wasn't a good look" for US authorities and could cause potential problems for other more high-profile cases, particularly the shadow cast by another New Zealand resident wanted in America: Kim Dotcom.
Another twist to his case was that his offence was not indictable in the US, meaning if he was arrested in Australia he may have not have been extradited to the United States.
Lessley declined to comment on Molteno's case, as did other US officials.
Questions to Interpol on the matter were referred to the US Justice Department, which failed to respond.
Molteno says authorities could have picked him up at any time, but the potential fallout over a New Zealand citizen being deported to face the same charges in the US would have been "unpleasant".
"My case was not so straight up and down, who would go into bat for a Kiwi in this situation?"
Molteno would still like official confirmation that he will be able to leave the country without fear of being extradited, but last week allowed himself a cheeky peak at a travel website for the first time in more than a decade.
"I have tried not to think where I would go for so many years I have tried to unthink it."
Molteno, who has a PhD in nonlinear dynamics and topological analysis of chaotic systems, shut out thoughts of that outside world by helping Kiwi companies and agencies in the field of electronics, including designing a world-leading GPS prototype tracking tag for seabirds.
But the main thing that helped him get by during his years as one of the world's most wanted was support from his family, friends, and colleagues.
"I never let this thing define me." | 3,764 |
According to Merriam-Webster, environmentalism is advocacy of the preservation, restoration, or improvement of the natural environment; especially: the movement to control pollution.
I am always up for advocating for those whose voices are not heard. The Earth is a special case because she has been trying to warn us with rising temperatures, mass extinction, and increased infections/illnesses due to smog, but we are not listening!!!
When someone says “environmentalism,” many people think about tree-huggers, “extreme” vegans, bicyclists who don’t shower, “hippies” who don’t shave, a crazy lady who yells at you for not recycling, and any other stereotype that may or may not be true about me. It turns out plenty of people fit into those categories who aren’t concerned about environmentalism and plenty of environmentalists don’t fit into those categories! You don’t have to be all (or any) of these people in order to start on your path to advocating for the natural environment. Your path does not even have to be towards these descriptions!
Questions have circulated such as “Can you call yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat?” and “Can you call yourself an environmentalist if you have kids?” I definitely think you can and I think you can do a lot of good! I am not arguing that reducing meat consumption and population would not have a positive impact on the environment. It definitely would, but that should not stop someone from having access to the environmentalism community. There are so many more things we can do together such as recycle, take shorter showers, not buying fast fashion, reduce storm water runoff with bioswales, grow fresh food, reduce energy consumption, research renewable energy options, use reusable shopping bags, plant trees, and literally so much more! You don’t have to do everything as long as you’re not doing nothing!
As an environmentalism community we should ask for change from each other and expect change from ourselves. We should advocate for a shift towards environmentally friendly actions, but also be welcoming and accessible to those who are not ready or even able to make big changes. Each positive action or reduction of negative actions add up! No two environmentalists are the same so our goals may not be the same. Regardless, we need to support each other!
Let me know your current goals below! And let me know if you agree that meat-eating, children-having, car-driving, (anything else-doing) people are members of our community. | 3,765 |
Strong action is needed now more than ever to tackle climate change, protect our environment and generate the long-term economic development that will grow the middle class and support a sustainable, clean growth economy.
The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced that Jennifer MacIntyre has been appointed Canada’s new Ambassador for Climate Change, effective immediately. Ms. MacIntyre will work with international stakeholders to advance Canada’s clean growth and climate change priorities on the world stage, including the successful implementation of the Paris Agreement.
Ms. MacIntyre will provide advice to the Minister of the Environment, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of International Development and the Minister of International Trade on mainstreaming climate change considerations in Canada's international priorities, and reinforcing Canada’s work with other countries on innovative climate solutions.
Building stronger international partnerships and global networks that support Canada’s clean technology sector are just two ways that Canada is taking a global leadership role on clean growth and climate change.
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“Climate change is everyone’s challenge, and our children’s future depends on how quickly and seriously we tackle it. Canada’s new Ambassador for Climate Change, Jennifer MacIntyre, is an outstanding candidate who will be at the forefront of the Government’s efforts to protect our clean air and water, curb greenhouse gas emissions, and build a cleaner, more innovative economy.”
– The Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
Quick facts
Ms. MacIntyre will be the first woman to serve as Canada’s Climate Change Ambassador. The Ambassador’s office is located at Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Canada has previously appointed four Climate Change Ambassadors, the most recent one in 2012.
In December 2016, Canada released the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enable sustainable economic growth.
In 2014, Canada's clean and sustainable technology industry employed over 55,600 people in almost 800 technology companies in all regions of the country. Most of these companies are small and medium-sized enterprises. Total revenues from this industry reached nearly $12 billion.
According to the World Bank, the Paris Agreement will help open up nearly $23 trillion in new opportunities for climate-smart investments in emerging markets, between now and 2030.
Canada has committed $2.65 billion to international climate finance to support a wide range of programs and initiatives that will help developing countries mitigate and build resilience to the impacts of climate change, deploy clean energy technology, and manage natural resources sustainably.
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"There's a whole book on these practices," he told CNN Monday. "Clearly, there was some violation."
Fungal spores are in the air around us, he points out, and they don't cause harm when they are inhaled. "When they are injected, it's a different story," he said.
If injected, the fungus invades small blood vessels and can cause them to clot or bleed. That can lead to stroke-like symptoms, Schaffner said.
In addition to typical meningitis symptoms like headache, fever, nausea and stiffness of the neck, people with fungal meningitis may also experience confusion, dizziness and discomfort from bright lights. Patients might just have one or two of these symptoms, Schaffner said, and they might not present for more than a month.
"That can make it very difficult to diagnose," he said. "That could be a huge challenge in this case."
Is the practice of compounding common in the United States?
Physicians and clinics are increasingly getting material from compounding pharmacies because they typically sell at a much lower cost than major drug manufacturers, according to Outterson.
"There's a lot of compounding that's going on. And there's been an increase in reliance on these pharmacies to deliver a product that couldn't be had otherwise -- for financial or medical reasons," he said.
One to three percent of all prescriptions dispensed in the United States are compounded on prescriptions for individual patients, according to the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists which has 2,700 local pharmacists who provide a compounding service.
The academy estimates that there are 7,500 pharmacies in the United States that specialize in complex compounding services.
"It's good because drugs are expensive and that's a reality we have to deal with," Outterson said. "But it also begs the question, 'Should the FDA be regulating compounding pharmacies?' Some would say yes."
Why doesn't the FDA regulate compounding pharmacies?
All pharmacies are regulated by the state where they are located, but regulations vary state by state, Outterson said.
The FDA has tried to oversee these pharmacies, but the attempt failed. The FDA developed rules for compounding but litigation led to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2002 that struck down the idea, Outterson said.
Congress has been unable to reestablish the FDA's authority over the pharmacies since.
What are officials doing about the outbreak?
The FDA, the CDC and the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Pharmacy are all investigating the outbreak. | 3,767 |
With the attention continuing to swirl around 30 Rock, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh slammed NBC anchor Brian Williams on his Friday program, saying that his lies are “starting to get pathological.”
Limbaugh began his show Friday by devoting the opening to the NBC fiasco, telling his listeners on “Open Line Friday” to call in and “make something up” in honor of Brian Williams.
“I think, in honor of the news, in honor of Brian Williams, I want to extend yet another aspect of ‘Open Line Friday’ that I normally don’t do. I’ve never done this before. You people, you can call here and you can make something up if you like. You can lie about anything. You don’t even have to tell us what you really think about something. You can call here and you can share with us acts of heroism.”
The conservative favorite continued by lambasting the new claims that Williams made up his story about having dysentery while covering Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005.
“This is starting to get pathological, and the pathology here seems to indicate that we have a man who needs to be thought of, needs to think of himself as a hero — a very, very brave, heroic guy — and he wants everyone else to.”
Limbaugh also threw out the possibility of NBC going ahead and hiring Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart to take over for Williams on the “NBC Nightly News,” telling his listeners that if NBC News chief Deborah Turness was willing to make him the host of “Meet The Press,” she’s willing to do anything.
“Here’s the real question: Remember how [Turness] backed a Brinks truck up to Jon Stewart and tried to hire him for Meet the Press?” Limbaugh asked. “Well, Turness, here’s another golden opportunity to get Stewart.”
“So you’re out there professing your love and admiration and your total unblinding support for Brian Williams, you’re secretly trying to hire Jon Stewart to do the news,” Limbaugh said. “I mean, if you’re gonna have Jon Stewart host Meet the Press, what does that say about Meet the Press and what does it say about what the news has become?”
“Here’s a chance for Deborah Turness to make another run at Jon Stewart, while everybody thinks Brian Williams is safe,” Limbaugh added. | 3,768 |
opence over and these three mornings a quart at fourpence is three quarts is a shilling. That’s a shilling and one and two is two and two, sir.
Let us not make this any more complicated than it needs to be. Here are the essentials. A shilling is twelve pence. A florin is two shillings. Thus,—
(a) A pint of milk for each of seven mornings, at twopence a pint, is fourteen pence (“a shilling and twopence over”).
(b) But these three most recent mornings, they’ve had quarts of milk, which go for four pence each (naturally, since a quart is two pints). Three quarts x four pence = twelve pence, i.e., a shilling.
Having calculated (b), she adds (a) to it: [a shilling, for the quarts] + [“one and two,” i.e. a shilling and twopence, for the pints] = [“two and two,” i.e. two shillings and twopence].
Mulligan gives her a florin (= two shillings)—that’s why they still owe twopence.
Got it? You’d probably better read the last few paragraphs over again. Concentrate.
Now, obviously the reader is not supposed to follow the original any better than Mulligan does. Indeed the iggskwizzitness of the passage is bound up in the fact that this humble, uneducated woman thinks rings (for a moment anyway) around these supposedly superior young men. And she does so without aggression or victory, or anything else. She’s mainly wary of them.
Just the same, it bothered me for years, knowing that the novel’s original readers were not nearly as flummoxed as I was. I mean, you’re supposed to be bewildered, but not rendered utterly helpless.
Splendidly, the reader of the present note now understands the passage as well as anyone alive. Until forgetting sets in, your mind has achieved union, not with that of James Joyce but with that of Mother Grogan, or whatever her name was.
Gratia Domini nostri Iesu Christi cum omnibus.
Anthony Madrid lives in Victoria, Texas. His second book is Try Never (Canarium Books, 2017). He is a correspondent for the Daily. | 3,769 |
File picture shows labourers working at an under-construction Lynas plant in Gebeng April 19, 2012. — AFP pic
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 4 — Lynas will not be allowed to store an unlimited amount of waste at its rare earth storage facilities, the government said today as almost half a million metric tonnes of radioactive waste has already been collected.
A statement by the Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change (MESTECC), in expressing the government’s concerns over the increasing amount of residue produced by the company, said the decision was due to the continued accumulation of waste without a viable solution to manage it at hand.
“The Ministry is concerned about the increasing amount of accumulated residue at its open landfill temporary site as it is exposed to the threat of natural disasters such as major flooding.
“The risks to the surrounding communities and environment will increase as the amount of accumulated residue grows,” read the statement.
There are two primary types of residue produced by Lynas at their Lynas Advance Material Plants (LAMPs) in Gebeng, Pahang: Water Leached Purification Residue (WLP) and Neutralisation Underflow Residue (NUF).
WLP is a naturally occurring radioactive material and management of such wastes is currently regulated by the Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB).
NUF has been classified as a type of scheduled waste, is non-radioactive, and is regulated by the Department of Environment.
The statement detailed how 451,564 metric tonnes of WLP and 1.113 million metric tonnes of NUF are currently accumulated at the LAMPs in Pahang.
“The Ministry is concerned with the increasing risk arising from the continued accumulation of residue without a viable solution to manage its accumulation in the near-term.
“For this reason, the Ministry will not allow the unlimited accumulation of residue at LAMP,” read the statement.
The Ministry then outlined two preconditions for Lynas that would be required before renewing permits or licenses in the future.
“The accumulated WLP residue, which contains radioactive materials, must be removed from Malaysia; the existing temporary storage licence expires on September 2, 2019.
“For the non-radioactive NUF scheduled waste, LAMP shall submit an action plan on the disposal of its accumulated wastes before it will be considered for future applications,” read the statement.
Lynas’ permit to store NUF waste expires on February 15 next year. | 3,770 |
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Primark founder and chairman Arthur Ryan has died after a short illness, the budget fashion chain has announced.
Mr Ryan established the High Street retailer as Penneys in 1969 in his hometown of Dublin in Ireland.
Fifty years on, the chain has expanded to over 350 stores in 11 countries across Europe and the US.
Primark chief executive Paul Marchant said 83-year-old Mr Ryan had been "a true real retail pioneer" and a "gifted retailer and a visionary leader".
"He innovated and was never complacent, despite many successes. He challenged us all to be the best we can be," he said.
Mr Ryan ran the company for four decades as chief executive and 10 years ago, he gave up his day-to-day control of the firm to become chairman instead.
But Mr Marchant said Mr Ryan had remained "deeply connected" to the business and had continued to regularly visit stores and walk the shop floor.
The chain is still known as Penneys in Ireland, but was renamed when it expanded to the UK to avoid legal issues with US department store chain JC Penney, which had trademarked the name.
Mr Ryan started the chain after being tasked by the wealthy Weston family to open a discount clothes retailer.
Image copyright PA Image caption Crowds were handed balloons as they ran into a new Primark store in Birmingham earlier this year
Primark has expanded rapidly in recent years, continuing to thrive in what has been a tough environment for many of its rivals.
Its success comes despite criticism over staff pay, and the environmental and social impact of so-called "fast fashion".
Earlier this year, Primark's parent company Associated British Foods said it expected sales and profit to continue to increase in the first half of the year.
In April, the chain opened its largest ever store in Birmingham, with the 161,000 sq ft five-floor space covering the entire site of a former shopping centre.
George Weston, chief executive of Associated British Foods, said Mr Ryan would be remembered as "one of the great giants of retailing".
"When my grandfather, Garfield Weston, and uncle, Galen Weston, recruited Arthur to run Penneys in 1969 with only one store in Dublin, they knew they were hiring an exceptional trader.
"But what three generations of Westons learned over the following decades was that Arthur was also a great leader and business builder, driven every day by a relentless desire to delight his customers.
"Arthur Ryan made fashion accessible to all and his legacy looms large." | 3,771 |
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Donald Trump is now the 45 President of the United States of America. In his inaugural address, he borrowed a quote from Bane in Dark Knight Rises. Let’s not forget, Bane is a a fictional terrorist super villain… He also gets his ass-handed to him by Batman, the real hero of Gotham.
H/T: Kyle:
Uhhh Trump just quoted Bane from Batman. "We're giving the power back to you. The people." — Jeff Hollingsworth (@HollingsworthJe) January 20, 2017
As you might recall, this is from Bane’s infamous “We give Gotham back to you!” The *you* being anarchist villains, thieves, and crooks. Here’s a video edit:
And here’s the full thing:
WAIT it all makes sense!! Donald Trump is Tom Hardy I mean Bane from Batman. pic.twitter.com/NnZUzDoQy6 — Jim Lee (@meanJim) January 20, 2017
Trump definitely quoted Bane about 4 times… 😂 #TrumpInauguration pic.twitter.com/x9OttdDttk — Manchester Guestlist (@VIPMCRuk) January 20, 2017
Bane (The Dark Knight Rises): "return control of this city to the people"
Trump (USA): "transfer power from Washington DC to the people" — Overtly Covert (@bwoyblunder) January 20, 2017
Twitter, of course, is losing it:
DONALD TRUMP JUST QUOTED BANE FROM THE BATMAN!!! I've seen it all now #Inauguration — Siddharth Gv (@RedWijn) January 20, 2017
OH MY GOD TRUMP QUOTED BANE ITS HAPPENING — Joe (@ShoJoe_) January 20, 2017
Trump just quoted Bane from Dark Knight Rises in his inauguration speech. If that doesn't have ppl worried I don't know what will lol — Brandon McClung (@iam_the7) January 20, 2017
So Trump just quoted Bane….. idk if that means anything to you but it should — Taylor (@taylormade328) January 20, 2017
Omg trump just quoted bane from the dark night rises! — Ilana Ellison (@theilanalou) January 20, 2017
Pretty sure Trump just quoted Bane there with "giving power back to you. The people…" — – James – (@slapmebassup) January 20, 2017 | 3,772 |
many widely-used textbooks. His treatises and textbooks created the foundation of the traditional humanist education. Although a few have been mentioned in this article, Erasmus wrote a large body of work concerning religion and critiques of the church. Erasmus’ religious writings arguably form the basis for the various Protestant movements in Northern Europe during the Renaissance.
Though Erasmus died on 12 July 1536 in Basel, Switzerland just shy of his seventieth birthday, his quiet, eloquent roar can still be heard echoing throughout the corners of Northern Europe.
*Erasmus’ exact birthdate is unknown. The conflicting days could be because he was born at night, and because he was an illegitimate child of humble beginnings. The conflicting years, both of which have been provided by Erasmus himself, could be because of the aforementioned-reasons or because he wanted to show his precociousness as a child, but then later chose to make himself older so that he could be more quickly released from monastic orders.
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2. “Desiderius Erasmus Biography.” http://www.notablebiographies.com/Du-Fi/Erasmus-Desiderius.html#ixzz3pb10qId1. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
3. Dolan, John P. The Essential Erasmus. (New York: New American Library, 1964).
4. Bainton, Roland H. Erasmus of Christendom. (New York: Scribner, 1969).
5. Popkin, Richard Henry. The History of Skepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979).
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Water-warped baseboards, roaches, and stained carpets are among the many issues still plaguing units and public areas at Park 7 Apartments.
More than a month after City Paper first reported on residents’ unanswered demands for developer and owner Chris Donatelli to make repairs and improve conditions at the 375-unit building on Minnesota Avenue NE, Ward 7 Councilmember Vince Gray sent a letter rattling off the remaining issues.
They include: dead bugs in the ceiling lights, loose and stained carpet, burnt out lights, mouse holes near the trash chute, a broken window, expired fire extinguishers, and an “offensive odor” in the first floor hallway, among others.
The letter, dated Sept. 16, is the second list of demands Donatelli has received in two years. The first came in October 2018, when more than 100 residents threatened to withhold rent. Gray’s most recent letter asks that the issues be resolved by Sept. 30.
D.L. Humphrey, the constituent services deputy director in Gray’s office, says he’s spoken with Donatelli, who has started addressing the items on the list.
“He’s started with cleaning on weekends, and as far as the roaches, he has an exterminator coming out three days a week,” Humphrey says. “I’m going to walk through with him next week. We’re following this bi-weekly.”
Donatelli says via text that he’s working to complete the items. “We are making progress, and the councilmember’s office is holding us accountable. Overall, an improving situation,” he writes.
Shanel Wilson, a Park 7 resident who pointed out many of the issues to Humphrey during a recent walk through the building, is hopeful Donatelli will meet the Sept. 30 deadline, but, she says, “the issue is making sure the upkeep is consistent.”
“This has been going on for over a year,” she adds. “We’re supposed to come home to a peaceful, secure dwelling place.”
About a year ago, Wilson began withholding her rent to leverage Donatelli to address the issues with the building. Park 7 sued Wilson for nonpayment of rent in August. She is currently paying her $1,150 a month rent into the court registry while the case is pending.
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‘In fact, he may not have even visited Ayodhya’
The Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi was told on Wednesday that the first Mughal Emperor, Babur, may not have built the ‘Babri Masjid’ structure in Ayodhya.
In fact, the court was told by senior advocate P.N. Mishra, who appears for the Ram Janmabhumi Punaruddhar Samiti, that Babur may not have even visited Ayodhya.
Mr. Mishra referred to three works — Ain-i-Akbari written by court historian Abu'l Fazl; Humayun nama; and Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri or Memoirs of Jahangir — to argue his claim. He said none of them mentions that Babur built the disputed structure.
They said a work by Italian Niccolao Manucci, who is believed to have been a commander of Emperor Aurangazeb, also does not contain any reference to the disputed structure. Manucci did not include hearsay in his work. He had noted only incidents he had seen or experienced himself.
There was no reference also to Mir Baqi, a nobleman Muslims believe constructed the disputed structure for Babur.
Mr. Mishra said there might have been some demolition of a structure, probably a temple in the disputed area, during the period of Aurangazeb. He argued that the claim by Sunni Waqf Board that the disputed structure was built in the 16th century was without merit.
The structure had none of the features of a mosque. He said Hindus, from time immemorial, have believed and worshipped the Ramjanmabhumi as the birth place of Lord Ram.
Lawyers for the Ayodhya deity, Ram Lalla Virajman, have also been contending that the disputed Ramjanmabhumi is itself a deity and could not have been partitioned.
Senior advocate C.S. Vaidynathan, for the deity, had contended that if there was once a temple on the Ramjanmabhumi and people were worshipping there as the Lord’s birthplace, then nobody could possibly claim ownership by adverse possession. He had said on Wednesday that the Ayodhya deity was a perpetual minor. The property of a minor cannot be dealt with, sold or alienated. He had questioned how the Allahabad High Court, in its verdict in September 2010, could have handed over the property of the minor Ayodhya deity to anyone. | 3,775 |
Paul Manafort dodges Rikers Island transfer after rare Justice Department intervention Manafort's lawyers raised concerns "related to his health and personal safety."
President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has been spared from an expected transfer to Rikers Island jail in New York following a rare intervention by the Department of Justice, a DOJ official confirmed to ABC News.
Trump has previously complained about how Manafort was being treated and has suggested he might pardon him.
Manafort, 70, who is currently serving out a federal prison sentence in Pennsylvania, was expected to be transferred to the infamous Rikers complex as he waited to face mortgage fraud and other state charges brought by the Manhattan District Attorney's office.
But in a statement to ABC News Monday evening, a senior DOJ official acknowledged that the department stepped in to the dispute last week after Manafort's attorneys raised concerns "related to his health and personal safety." During his federal trial, Manafort's physical condition appeared to be deteriorating and at times during hearings he had to use to a wheelchair or a cane.
The New York Times reported Monday that among the DOJ officials to get directly involved was Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, who was confirmed to his position as the department's number 2-ranked official last month.
"Mr. Manafort’s attorneys proposed that he remain in federal custody and be made available to the state when necessary," the official said. "The Department requested the views of New York prosecutors, who did not object to Mr. Manafort’s proposal. In light of New York’s position, and Mr. Manafort’s unique health and safety needs, the Department decided to err on the side of caution by keeping Mr. Manafort in federal custody during the pendency of his state proceedings."
Manafort has since been transferred to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan ahead of his expected arraignment on the state charges.
His attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News.
Several former Obama-era federal prosecutors raised issue with the high-level DOJ intervention, noting it ran counter to typical rules governing detention for federal inmates facing state charges in New York.
President Trump has repeatedly expressed his objections to the treatment of Manafort by federal prosecutors in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
After the Manhattan District Attorney announced separate state charges against Manafort in March of this year, Trump reacted telling reporters, "on a human basis, it's a very sad thing."
The White House did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment on the DOJ decision.
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In all likelihood, the People's Democratic Party will keep the Chief Minister's post, while the BJP will get the Deputy Chief Ministership.
After nearly two months of talks on formulating a common minimum programme of governance, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday announced their alliance for forming a “popular’’ government in Jammu and Kashmir. This is the first time that the BJP will participate in governance in the border State.
The first formal announcement of the alliance came after a 45-minute meeting here between BJP president Amit Shah and PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti at the former’s residence. “Fortunately we have reached an understanding,’’ Ms. Mufti said while Mr. Shah expressed happiness that the “hurdles’’ were over. The BJP has had to neutralise pressure from the RSS against the deal.
Neither revealed the terms of agreement on contentious issues such as Article 370 that grants special status to J&K and withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act among others.
It was said that the contours of the CMP would be disclosed after a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and PDP Chief Mufti Mohammad Sayeed which is likely on Wednesday. Mr. Sayeed is slated to be the Chief Minister while the BJP is set to get the Deputy Chief Minister’s post.
Saying that the two parties — known to hold extreme positions — had found a “middle path’’, Ms. Mufti said that the government that will be formed will not be just about “power sharing’’ but about “winning hearts and minds of the people of Jammu and Kashmir and the entire country.’’
She claimed that the coming together of the BJP and PDP would be different from previous alliances since 1947 between the state and central leadership in that for the first time the interest of the people of J&K and national interest had been kept centre stage.
“The agenda for alliance has kept in mind the priorities, aspirations, development, prosperity and peace of the people of Jammu and Kashmir and is committed to providing a clean, non-corrupt government in the State.’’
This is an opportunity, she said, to bridge the gap with the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Ms. Mufti was accompanied by Muzzafar Ali Baig while Mr. Shah had party general secretary Ram Madhav, a key negotiator, by his side. The leaders did not take any questions from journalists. | 3,777 |
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NICOLA Sturgeon has given her support to the latest SNP MP to become the focus of a fraud investigation.
The Record revealed yesterday that Dundee West MP Chris Law was detained by police on Wednesday over alleged financial irregularities connected to an independence campaign he set up.
He was freed without charge pending further inquiries.
Unlike the two MPs suspended by the SNP, Natalie McGarry and Michelle Thomson, Law has not resigned the party whip.
And Sturgeon yesterday backed his decision. She said: “Michelle and Natalie took the decision to resign the whip.
“Chris’s position is that he’s of the view, and he’s confident of the view, that when he provides further information to the police that he’s agreed to do, he will resolve the matter.
“He hasn’t been charged with any offence and he is confident he will be able to resolve this matter and hopefully do so quickly.
“Now we have to let that process take its course.”
She said McGarry faced “serious criminal charges” and it would be inappropriate for her to say any more.
The Record traced Law yesterday to a Perthshire house believed to belong to a friend, but he refused to come out.
The police investigation is focused on Law’s Spirit of Independence referendum campaign, where he toured Scotland in an old fire engine.
He was detained hours after McGarry was charged with embezzlement and breach of trust. She is alleged to have stolen from the Women for Independence group.
A prosecution could mean a by-election in her Glasgow East seat, a key Labour target.
Thomson, who won Edinburgh West in the 2015 SNP landslide, resigned the whip after police began an investigation into property dealings carried out for her by a lawyer later struck off.
Police say lawyer Christopher Hales, rather than Thomson, is the focus of the inquiry. She has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
Tory Murdo Fraser attempted a joke about the Law case at First Minister’s Questions. He asked: “Given the number of the First Minister’s Westminster colleagues now helping the police with their enquiries, is the First Minister confident Police Scotland have the resources to deal with this upsurge in their workload?”
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IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO UPDATE YOUR WILL – GET PROPER GUIDANCE FROM WILLS LAWYERS PERTH
It is very important for you to know how to update your will. Check the website of Wills Lawyers Perth to book a session to take proper guidance.
UPDATING A WILL?
The earlier will made by the individual can be updated anytime depending on them with the help of a codicil which is nothing but making of a new will, or destroying the existing will. There are lots of confusions that can arise in your mind while deciding to update your will. It is better to consult a professional attorney who can help them in their approach of updating a will. In Wills Lawyers Perth one can expect the exact professional guidance that is required to have a proper idea about the update required for a will.
HOW OFTEN ONE SHOULD CONSIDER UPDATING A WILL?
The next question that can arise in your mind after you have decided to update your will is that how often should you update your will? The answer is quite simple to that. But there are certain terms and conditions related to it that one should be aware of.
1. If an individual enters into a new relationship then it is recommended for them to enter into an agreement under Family Law Act in order to regulate the ownership of your estate to for the benefit of the children.
2. If an individual is having a trust issue with the main shareholder of the previous of the will then it is advised to check the previous will once and consider it for an update
3. If the executor appointed by the individual making the will falls ill or passes away then the individual has to appoint a new executor which requires them to update the will.
4. If a major shareholder of the will made by the individual dies or has certain changes in their approach then it is recommended to change the will
5. If the individual making the will suddenly falls into some debts regardless of what they have then they should consider disposing of some assets to clear the debts in order to make the will valid. If not clear then the will can be challenged by the person owing money to the individual for some serious parts to clear the debts.
Apart from this there can be a number of issues that can arise which can force an individual to update their will. It is always better to take the help of an expert on how to update your will. Contact Wills Lawyers Perth for legal advice to guide you through this. Our lawyers will also advise you on how often you should update your will. We can be easily approached just via a call or email. | 3,779 |
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."--Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook
Everything has a level of risk, from learning to ride a bicycle to trying a new hairstyle. When you own a small business, you know you're accepting risks--some you're aware of, and some will be surprises. As a smart entrepreneur, you don't let this stop you from weighing the facts and making the best possible choices. And if things don't go as planned? Well, you develop a new strategy from a wiser perspective.
With limited resources and narrow profit margins, learning how to manage risk should be a top priority. Here are four considerations:
Track your cash flow: How much money do you have right now? Can you pay your bills? What if your biggest client went elsewhere? Ideally, you have three to six months of funds tucked away to cover expenses. Be conservative. Ask your vendors for sixty or ninety days to pay. You should always know your financial status, good or bad, and have a realistic contingency plan. Listen to alerts: If you've hired well, or have close advisors, you can trust their doubts. Are they seeing something concerning in a contract, employee, vendor, or opportunity? It's easy to dismiss others' opinions, but you need to listen. They have your best interest at heart, even if you don't want to hear it. Thank them and reward them. Get legal: Truth is, you can't grow and succeed without legal advise. Hire an accountant. Form a LLC to limit any liabilities, rather than have your personal finances be at stake. Have an attorney review your contracts. Yes, it costs money, but you can't afford not to protect yourself. Chances are that at some point, you will be glad you had the foresight to hire professionals. Avoid commitment: It may feel secure to sign a long-term office lease. Until you are firmly established, you need to be nimble and able to make quick adjustments. Clients change and projects go sideways. You may decide to narrow your focus...or expand it. Something like an expensive address can become a detriment. Whatever it is, be cautious about committing to anything that could be a drain on your finances.
Risk is necessary--in fact, it can be exhilarating to take you to the next level. But always, even when you become a Fortune 500 Company, it needs to be carefully considered. Remember: Mark Zuckerberg wouldn't have succeeded without risk. Here's hoping you use risk to become the next phenomenal business! | 3,780 |
SilverStone had many interesting products to show at Computex 2015. For starters, the company was showcasing its Platinum SFX-L form factor PSU with 700 W capacity, unit SX700-LPT. Recently, we reviewed the SX500-LG PSU from SilverStone and we were left quite satisfied by its performance, so we expect about the same from the new, bigger unit.
SilverStone was also showing a Platinum 750 W unit, the ST75F-PT, with very compact dimensions at only 14 cm in depth, along with a really small unit for its capacity, Platinum 1200 W PSU. At the company's booth, we also noticed an 800 W Strider (model number ST80F-TI) with Titanium efficiency. From what the SilverStone reps told us, the company will soon release a Titanium series including three power supplies with capacities ranging from 600 W to 800 W.
In addition, an affordable 550 W SFX unit will be added to the company's SFX series, featuring only native cables in order to restrict production costs and allow for a lower retail price. The SX550 will feature 80 PLUS Gold efficiency and a single +12V rail, which can deliver up to 45 A of current.
SilverStone has enrolled into digital PSUs as well and its offerings for this market segment will be the new Zeus units with 850 W, 1000 W and 1200 W capacities. These will be based on a High Power platform, we were informed.
The control and monitor software for the Zeus series was functional, and its interface looks simple and quite intuitive.
Another product that caught our attention was SilverStone's Raven portable DAC (digital-to-analog converter), which will be ideal for users with laptops who still need good sound on their headphones.
SilverStone's new Raven RVZ02 mini-ITX gaming chassis can accommodate a powerful VGA, and it is compatible with SFX and SFX-L PSUs. The max supported height for the CPU cooling solution is 58 mm with SilverStone suggesting their AR06 heat sink. This case has a great look and its relative compact dimensions make it ideal as a gaming console replacement next to a large TV.
In the cooling section, SilverStone introduced the Tundra Lite line including the TD02-Lite and TD03-Lite models. The Lite series has a primary focus of high performance per price ratio, promising low temperatures without breaking the bank. There is also the Tundra Slim line, which thanks to its thin radiators and fans is compatible with SFF and small chassis.
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An EXCLUSIVE look at The Ring of Death…
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Hellboy Day is Saturday, March 23, and we’ve got a funky tidbit for you to whet your demonic appetite — a behind-the-scenes look at Paolo Rivera’s cover for the upcoming one-shot, Hellboy vs. Lobster Johnson: The Ring of Death.
Here’s Paolo:
This was one of those few times where everything just fell into place. Editor Katii O’Brien had asked if I wanted to do a luchador-style cover, and there’s only one correct response to that question. I looked up some vintage posters, listed all the things that needed to be included, and just tried to fit it all in. I had already sculpted a digital maquette of Hellboy (above), so I added some horns in ZBrush and lit it from below.
The typesetting was all done in Photoshop using Adobe Typekit (which included some Comicraft fonts) but I did paint some by hand. We weren’t able to alter the Dark Horse logo for print, but I painted it as a skeleton in the style of J.G. Posada. The original is gouache on illustration board, and the final image was “aged” in Photoshop, complete with faux folds.
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The issue is scheduled to be released May 29. Here’s the official solicitation info from Dark Horse:
HELLBOY VS. LOBSTER JOHNSON: THE RING OF DEATH
Mike Mignola (W), Chris Roberson (W), Mike Norton (A), Paul Grist (A), Dave Stewart (C), Bill Crabtree (C), and Paolo Rivera (Cover)
Two legends meet face to face! Who will survive when Hellboy and Lobster Johnson meet... in the RING OF DEATH? Hellboy’s infamous misadventures in Mexico are revealed in this double-barreled one-shot! Mike Norton draws Hellboy’s ill-fated turn as foe to Lobster Johnson in a luchador movie, while Paul Grist returns to draw the Visitor as he lurks in the shadows with troubling doubts about his decision to spare Hellboy.
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William James, the father of modern psychology, once said, “There's nothing so absurd, that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.”
This must be the strategy of genetically engineered or GMO labeling opponents who continue to falsely claim that labeling will cost the average family $500 a year.
Adding a few words to the back of the package as part of a routine label change will have no impact on the cost of making food, studies show.
This claim—based on a widely discredited “study”—is so bogus that the Washington Post’s Fact Checker gave it three Pinocchios.
Now the Corn Refiners Association—you know, the people who defend high fructose corn syrup—say that GMO labeling will cost an average family more than $1,000 a year.
The truth is, food companies change their labels all the time to highlight innovations or make new claims. Adding a few words to the back of the package as part of a routine label change will have no impact on the cost of making food, studies show.
It’s also the case that GMO labels will not act as a warning, as some farmer and food companies fear. In a recent study, two agricultural economists found that the mere presence of a GMO label did not increase consumer concern.
Two economists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture came to a similar conclusion after studying the behavior of consumers in countries that require GMO labeling. Their study found that most consumers make “hasty” choices in the grocery store and look only for one or two attributes—like price or calories.
Real-world experience tells us a lot.
In Brazil, where GMO food has carried a “transgenic” symbol since 2001, researchers found consumers were actually more likely to buy those foods. More importantly, food prices in Brazil—and the 63 other countries that have adopted GMO labeling—did not rise.
Sadly, the opponents of GMO labeling are making the same arguments made three decades ago to fight the Nutrition Facts Panel.
As Campbell’s CEO Denise Morrison recently said, adding the Nutrition Facts Panel to the package did not increase the price of food—and neither will GMO labels.
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A trip to the HATS Thrift Store on Station Street in Duncan last week turned into a big surprise for Loretta Simms.
Simms was browsing for items to buy in the store, owned and operated by the Cowichan Hospital Auxiliary, and bought a couple of small boxes of Q-tips for $1 as part of her purchases.
She said that when she got home and checked the contents of one of the Q-tip boxes, she discovered eight gold rings with diamonds and other precious jewels embedded into them, and a necklace.
Simms, who is originally from Newfoundland, said she believed that someone was perhaps cleaning their home and put the rings and necklace into the box for safe keeping before accidentally discarding them.
“If it was my jewellery, I’d want it returned,” she said.
“I decided that I would go back to the thrift store and see if I could find out where the jewelry came from.”
Arlene Cristofoli, managing director at the thrift store, said she was also surprised when Simms came into the store and showed her the rings and necklace.
She said the Q-tip boxes were part of a large donation of household items that came into the store from a man whose sister recently died.
Cristofoli said the man was from out of the country and left quickly after donating many items over several days, including the Q-tip boxes.
Upon learning of the origin of the jewelry, and the fact that the owner was dead and the brother had left the country, Simms decided to donate the rings and necklace to the hospital auxiliary.
“In my heart of hearts, I felt that that was the best thing I could do,” she said.
“The organization does great work in the community. Besides, the rings were way too big to fit on my fingers anyway.”
Cristofoli said the jewelry will be put up for sale at the thrift shop, with the proceeds going to help buy needed hospital equipment and patient care.
“This doesn’t happen very often,” she said.
“We sometimes find money in purses and pockets, but nothing like this. Loretta is a wonderful lady and we’re so thankful that’s she’s such an honest person and wanted the jewelry to go to a good cause.”
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The mother of Michael Brown said Wednesday morning she does not believe any of Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson’s account of the moments that lead up to her son’s death.
“I don’t believe a word of it,” Lesley McSpadden said on “CBS This Morning.” “[Brown] would never provoke anyone to do anything to him, and he wouldn’t do anything to anybody."
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A grand jury on Monday decided not to charge Wilson in connection with the unarmed teenager's death, resulting in riots in Ferguson and protests nationwide.
On Tuesday, Wilson gave an interview to ABC News where he said Brown had instigated an altercation, after Wilson asked him and a friend to move onto the sidewalk.
"The reason I have a clean conscience is because I know I did my job right," Wilson said, adding that there is nothing he would have done differently that day.
“His conscience is clear? How could your conscience be clear after killing somebody, even if it was an accidental death?” asked McSpadden.
McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr. appeared on CBS with their attorney, Benjamin Crump, who also questioned Wilson’s version of events.
“It seems like his story gets embellished every time he tells it,” Crump said.
He also blasted prosecutors for not cross-examining Wilson during his grand jury testimony.
Prosecutors in the case have taken heat for not advocating for an indictment.
In most cases, prosecutors seek an indictment against a suspect and present the foundation of their case against that individual. In the Brown case, prosecutor Robert McCulloch presented all available evidence and testimony to the grand jury without advocating for charges.
McCulloch’s critics say he did so in order to avoid having to take a side on the controversial case, and that his stated neutrality constituted de facto support for Wilson.
Prosecutors have also said that Wilson believed Brown was a suspect in a convenience store robbery that took place shortly before he was shot. Though video shows someone who looks like Brown stealing cigarillos, his death meant he was never arrested or charged for that crime.
“If something happened in that store — and that’s a big if — that could have been dealt with,” McSpadden said.
“But [Wilson] didn’t have to do what [he] did. He didn’t do what he had to do; he did what he wanted to do.” | 3,785 |
A ‘Fintech Sandbox’ is a technology environment where companies/firms would work in close partnership with regulators to develop their ideas and technology without the red tape that may inhibit their potential growth. In the UK, France, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia, regulators have already or are currently laying the groundwork for a such a Sandbox environment that gives the firms the ability to test a new product or business model with a limited launch, without going through the full regulatory process.
Ideally, this would create the perfect environment to foster rapid growth for these budding firms/technologies and focus solely on the product without being impeded by the regulators. To bring the United States on par with its peer nations and allow FinTech firms in the United States the opportunity to realize their potential (whether it be in the payment space, new financial products, lending, ID verification etc), Representative Patrick McHenry (R-NC) has introduced a bill that would mirror the UK’s sandbox, requiring many federal agencies including the Federal Reserve Board, the Treasury Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission to develop an internal “Financial Services Innovation Office” where companies can seek help in testing a product.Under the McHenry proposal, financial technology firms would be required to prove to the regulator that:- their innovation serves a public interest,- improves access to financial products or services,- doesn’t pose a system risk to the financial system or consumers.While some agencies may currently have a similar program, McHenry’s bill would add an additional layer of data sharing and reporting to Congress over time. It would also force regulators to be more attuned and involved in the marketplace. If the bill is enacted, the federal agencies would then have 60 days to identify at least three areas of existing regulation that could apply to financial innovation and what areas they would consider waiving or modifying regulation upon petition from a fintech firm. However, regulators face a tricky balance: letting companies push new products to market while protecting consumers from possible fraud.
There are some reservations regarding about the Sandbox facing overwhelming demand; Patrick Pinschmidt, former deputy assistant secretary at the Treasury Department and executive director of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, commented at a FinTech Forum in Silicon Valley on Wednesday, 21st of September; “It could conceivably become a very crowded sandbox and that’s not to say that’s a bad thing,”. There is an element of politicization if like the UK; the United States decides to “cherry pick” the most promising projects, but the “sandbox” approach is something appreciated by fintech firms. | 3,786 |
Convention of 1787 took upon themselves—and of their enduring accomplishment—would be hard to come by.
George Washington was called out of retirement to preside over the extended deliberations in Philadelphia. His sterling reputation and calming presence were widely seen as crucial to the risky attempt to save the Union by replacing the feeble Articles of Confederation with a new charter of government that would be extensive and energetic enough to protect liberty while painstakingly limited through the separation of powers and federalism to prevent it from strangling liberty.
Carrese sees Washington’s career as exemplifying moderation in action, not least in his two great decisions to relinquish power—first after leading America to victory in the Revolutionary War and then after two terms as president—when his grateful countrymen might well have conferred on him unfettered authority for life. Speaking for those on both sides of the Atlantic who observed in awe Washington’s returns, on moral and patriotic grounds, to private life, King George III said that these acts put Washington “in a light the most distinguished of any man living,” and established him as “the greatest character of the age.”
Carrese calls attention to the spirit of moderation that runs through Washington’s great Farewell Address of 1796. Of particular salience in this disconcerting election year is the first president’s warning about “the spirit of party” which, Washington wrote, “is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind.” Although the tendency to pursue narrow private ambitions and one-sided group claims at the expense of the public interest exists under all forms of government, in democracies the party spirit “is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.”
Partisanship, Washington acknowledged, can contribute to keeping government in check and preserving liberty. But what keeps partisanship in check?
“Habits of thinking” and “virtue or morality” is George Washington’s answer. “Promote then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge,” he exhorted his countrymen. “In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.”
In 2016 as in 1796: If we want the electorate to choose public officials who will balance and blend the worthy but rival principles in which liberal democracy is grounded, we must ensure that our schools provide an education in moderation—in the proper, demanding, and constitutional sense of the term. | 3,787 |
North’s MP, is probably the most at-risk – gentrification has seen Labour voters replaced with Conservative ones.
There are some striking increases in the Conservative vote in parts of inner London – in most Tower Hamlets wards, for instance, the Tory vote tripled, while in Lewisham, the Tory fallback was below the city-wide swing – but also notable increases in the Labour vote in Wandsworth Common, in the Ilford area and throughout Redbridge.
For the most part, gentrification in London is helping Labour – so far.
But not as much as the bedroom tax – at least as far as first-past-the-post is concerned
The long term effect of Conservative welfare policy continues to be a gradual movement of Labour voters away from the city centre and towards the peripheries. Labour coming close to taking the Assembly seat of Redbridge and Havering, and its increasingly strong performances in those wards, is a sign of things to come.
Look out for a north-south swap – as Chingford moves into Labour territory as Tooting moves out of it.
Oligarchs are a social democrat’s best friend
The slow reddening of Kensington and Chelsea continues. Two things seem to be driving this – increased turnout in the seat’s council estates, and the replacement of affluent Tory-voting Londoners with foreign oligarchs who are ineligible to vote.
Long-term worries aside, I wouldn’t expect anything other than a blow-out win for Labour in Tooting
In the first round of the mayoral election, Sadiq Khan got 57 per cent of the vote in Tooting – compared to 47 per cent at the general election. (To put that into perspective, Zac Goldsmith underperformed his general election performance in his Richmond Park constituency by around 0.5 per cent.)
There may have been a slight benefit to Khan in not running against Dan Watkins, the Conservative candidate in 2015 and in the coming by-election, who has been working the seat hard and has a personal following of his own. But not enough of one that Labour’s candidate, Rosena Allin-Khan, should feel overly worried about her chances, though that “bad gentrification” will continue to be a problem.
My hope is that ward-by-ward figures will be made available from the metro mayor elections next year, but seeing as Bristol City Council have declined to do the same for their election this year, I won’t be holding my breath. But hopefully see you back here same time next year. | 3,788 |
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Introduction
My name is Micah Reigstad and I am an animator/rigger from Minnesota, United States. My interest in creativity has shown ever since I was a child. Producing unique personalities for my precious stuffed animals started it all…. On a more serious note, I made convincing, full-sized guns out of Legos, and actually shot Technic pieces out from the working “magazine.” Once I discovered amazing video games with awesome stories and 3D art, I knew I had something to get excited about in my future.
I discovered the 3D world roughly 8 years ago and dabbled in nearly every related field of it from level design to modeling to now animation + rigging. I had the pleasure to have contributed to an award-winning total conversion modification for Battlefield 2, Forgotten Hope 2 (the surname was “Roughbeak”). I got accepted into the team first as a modeler then eventually found my true passion, character movement. Understanding the entire game design process and sharing tips with other people is an incredible experience!
Currently, I have a deep interest in animating next-gen quality models by collaborating with talented artists across the globe. This article will talk about tips/tricks from my experience of rigging, animating, and to a final rendered showpiece. The goal of this article is to help individuals understand the process of realistic FPS animation and hopefully broaden their knowledge in the subject of animation. The shown examples will be from my SIG Sauer P220 Animation Reel. The software solutions that I will be using are Maya and Marmoset. Without further ado, let us proceed to the juicy stuff!
Rigging Arms in Maya
Simply put, rigging is a process to easily and properly control an object (i.e. arms) by cleverly positioning “‘joints/bones“ on the geometry. Based on my first attempts of rigging, it will be no surprise that the most detailed model can be broken by a poor rig. With enough patience and dedication by looking at references, you will eventually achieve something that looks cool and feels good to the animator! Think of rigging as a human without a skeleton that mysteriously does not.. move… too well….
Arm Geometry Setup
Arms (credit of example model is from New World Interactive) should be centered at 0,0,0 coordinates, otherwise, you’ll get nasty offsets to manage. I prefer to have the pivot to be right where the “chest” is generally located– this will make things much easier later to mirror joints/bones, and controllers. | 3,790 |
Brazilians in the south asked to vote on secession Published duration 8 October 2017 Related Topics Brazil political crisis
image copyright AFP image caption President Temer has had a lot in his in-tray recently
Voters in the south of Brazil have been asked in an informal vote whether they want to be part of a new country.
The referendum was organised a week after a similar vote in Catalonia by a secessionist movement called "The South Is My Country".
The movement said it set up polls in more than 1,000 municipalities across the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná.
The group's leader, Celso Deucher, says he hopes to gather three million votes.
At polling stations in the Paraná state city, Londrina, voters told local media they were disillusioned with the federal government and a giant corruption scandal that has seen dozens of politicians and members of the business elite jailed or indicted.
Acacio Fernandes Tozzini told online newspaper, Redacaõ Bonde: "Our nation has reached a dramatic level of political disorder that is impossible to mend. We want to get rid of Brasilia, Brazil has reached the apex of corruption."
Others complained that the south of Brazil saw little return from taxation which mostly benefitted the poorer northern regions of the country who have bigger voting rights than the south.
Paulo Mauricio Acquarole said: "If you look at the six or seven states above us (in the northeast), altogether they don't give what the three states of the south give in taxation. Proportionally they have the same number of votes as Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná.
"If you hear the accent of the political legislature of Brazil it is a north-eastern one."
The south of Brazil has expressed secessionist tendencies before, ever since Italy's Giuseppe Garibaldi helped it achieve a short-lived semi-independence in 1836.
Last year a similar vote in October 2016 organised by "The South Is My Country" gathered 617,500 votes. Over 95% of the voters in the three states said they were in favour of separation.
Few Brazilians believe the separatist movement will succeed, not least because it is forbidden by the constitution which proclaims that the country is "formed by the indissoluble union of states".
But the poll is another indicator among Brazilian voters of anger towards the federal government which they say has failed to tackle a spike in violence across the country and has been unable to overturn the worse recession in more than a century. | 3,791 |
J.K. Simmons Gets Jacked For ‘Justice League’
Justice League is currently in production and as usual, the actors and actresses at the forefront of this comic book juggernaut. We have seen many photos of the JLA themselves in training, whether it is Superman (Henry Cavill), Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), or Aquaman (Jason Momoa), they just continue to push through in their fitness goals, becoming the ideal heroes they can be whilst pumping iron.
But our superheroes are not alone in this situation. Our new Commissioner James Gordon, J.K. Simmons has been photographed via Instagram at a Gold’s Gym, and to say he’s looking *jacked* is quite an understatement. You look at this photo, and you would not think he is playing Commissioner Gordon but rather Oliver Queen as depicted in The Dark Knight Returns.
The Academy Award winning actor is remembered by many comic book movie fans for playing J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy. If you have seen him in Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, you would feel nothing but pure excitement to see that he’s packing on an even bigger physical presence on screen for the upcoming Justice League. I wonder if he will scream at Ben Affleck’s Batman, that things are not quite his tempo.
You can check out the photos of J.K. Simmons below. Wow. He looks like he can take on Batman with his own hands. This would be an occasion where I would not mind seeing a bald James Gordon.
Every time we train together I forget he's 61 years old. So much respect for this guy. #JKSimmons #OldManCranking (hashtag via @mountaindog1) A photo posted by Aaron Williamson (@aaronvwilliamson) on Jun 2, 2016 at 8:52pm PDT
Saturday morning, 61 years old & making the young generation jealous. This is what dedication looks like. #JKSimmons A photo posted by Aaron Williamson (@aaronvwilliamson) on Apr 23, 2016 at 3:06pm PDT
He's making me look bad. #JKSimmons #AintPlayinNoGames A photo posted by Aaron Williamson (@aaronvwilliamson) on Apr 30, 2016 at 10:15am PDT
Simmons was recently spotted at the LA Greek Film Festival, where he was sporting the signature Gordon-stache. Lookin’ good, J.K.! Lookin’ good.
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Fans of classic and modern Yes rejoice! Members of current Yes lineup, along with Yes featuring Anderson, Rabin, Wakeman, gathered together as a group for the first time since the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to bury Hatchet, a thrash metal band from Bay Area, California. Hatchet lead singer Eric Lundgren said of the strange activity, “We weren’t notified that we’d be buried, but it is legendary prog-rock band Yes, after all. And being buried alive is pretty metal.” The members of Yes weren’t able to solidly explain what this activity was meant to resolve, but Rick Wakeman said, “We thought it would be a fun way to pass the weekend.”
Following the burial of Hatchet in an undisclosed desert location, Yes and ARW members are to begin planning for their world tour as Yyeess, a combination group featuring almost everyone who has ever played with Yes. The Re-Union tour will begin in late 2018, as soon as Yes’s management figures out an easy way to book entire hotels at once. In order to save stage space:
Jon Anderson, Jon Davison, and Benoit David will sit on each other’s shoulders for the entirety of each of the concerts. A committed physical therapist will attend every live event to ensure no permanent damage occurs.
Rick Wakeman, Patrick Moraz, Wakeman the Younger, Geoff Downes, Tom Brislin, and Eddie Jobson will each play one or two of the keyboards in Geoff Downes’s rig.
Billy Sherwood and Trevor Horn will each play on one neck of a double necked bass. Tony Levin will play Chapman Stick in an orange vest over to the side.
Steve Howe will play guitars by himself, just because. Trevor Rabin will sing vocals, play tambourine, and will play air guitar during all solos.
Bill Bruford, Alan White, Dylan Howe, and Jay Schellen will forego traditional drumming altogether, and each play on a different sized triangle.
Due to legal complications, Yyeess will not be playing anything from the Yes discography, so they will instead play an hour and a half long extended version of “Teakbois” from the self titled Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe record. Encore rumors are not confirmed, but one completely unverified source has claimed that they will attempt to play a 20 minute extended version of “Five Per Cent for Nothing” backwards.
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Google's plans for its streaming service bring the industry's "Netflix for games" promises to life. Ideally, it will allow folks to play any game on any connected device -- think Devil May Cry 5 on your iPhone, Dead Cells on your smart TV or Apex Legends on a Mac. Stadia will be able to stream games in 4K, 60FPS and HDR color at launch, but eventually it'll support up to 8K.
However, it's also much more than that.
More connection means more consumerism, and Stadia will allow developers to sell their games in new ways, including directly via YouTube and Twitch live streams. For example, load up a trailer for Assassin's Creed: Odyssey on YouTube and, at the end, click the "Play" button and the game will load in as little as five seconds in your Chrome browser, ready to play. That's all it'll take.
Stadia's Crowd Play feature allows people watching a YouTube livestream to jump in line and actually join that streamer's game. State Share, meanwhile, lets folks send links to specific sections of a game, and their friends can then simply click and play from there in the Chrome browser.
Google has been preparing for its foray into video games for years, hiring a handful of high-profile executives including former Sony studios and Xbox head Phil Harrison, and Assassin's Creed visionary Jade Raymond. Raymond is officially the head of Stadia Games and Entertainment, Google's new game-development arm.
The Big G has also been testing out its streaming prowess. The Project Stream beta test kicked off last year, allowing some folks to play Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, a new and sprawling AAA game, via the Chrome browser. We tried it out and found it worked well, running Ubisoft's fancy new title seamlessly on a 2015 Macbook Air.
Google isn't the only tech giant making moves in the game-streaming space. Microsoft already has the Xbox Game Pass subscription service and it's reportedly building a streaming-focused console that'll be announced soon -- E3 is just around the corner, after all -- while NVIDIA's Geforce Now has offered seamless play for a few years, in beta. PlayStation Now is also a thing, though it's still fairly unreliable day-to-day. Those are just two potential competitors for Google, but rest assured there are plenty more lurking right behind.
Google has an advantage over some companies with its robust cloud network that includes more than 7,500 nodes positioned around the world. Leading game-engine companies including Unreal and Unity, and studios like Doom creator id Software, are partnering with Google on Stadia as well. | 3,794 |
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WJCL) -- Allegiant airline announced 19 new routes on Tuesday, including four new flights from Savannah/Hilton Head airport.The Las Vegas-based budget airline is also rolling out a $39 promotional deal for some flights purchased between Jan. 13 and Aug. 16, 2016. The added Savannah airport flights include nonstop service to Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport from:· Indianapolis - beginning April 8, 2016 with fares as low as $39· Pittsburgh - beginning April 8, 2016 with fares as low as $39· Baltimore - beginning April 29, 2016 with fares as low as $39· Lexington, Kentucky - beginning June 2, 2016 with fares as low as $39The promotional prices include taxes and fees. But the fares are one-way and not available on all flights. "We are very excited to announce new routes within the communities we currently serve and to also have the opportunity to introduce our unique brand of ultra-low-cost travel to three brand-new cities," said Jude Bricker, Allegiant senior vice president of planning. "It's a great way to start 2016 by announcing these new flights, new cities and providing millions of travelers more options to vacation for less this year."Tickets for these routes are now available.
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WJCL) -- Allegiant airline announced 19 new routes on Tuesday, including four new flights from Savannah/Hilton Head airport.
The Las Vegas-based budget airline is also rolling out a $39 promotional deal for some flights purchased between Jan. 13 and Aug. 16, 2016.
The added Savannah airport flights include nonstop service to Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport from:
· Indianapolis - beginning April 8, 2016 with fares as low as $39
· Pittsburgh - beginning April 8, 2016 with fares as low as $39
· Baltimore - beginning April 29, 2016 with fares as low as $39
· Lexington, Kentucky - beginning June 2, 2016 with fares as low as $39
The promotional prices include taxes and fees. But the fares are one-way and not available on all flights.
"We are very excited to announce new routes within the communities we currently serve and to also have the opportunity to introduce our unique brand of ultra-low-cost travel to three brand-new cities," said Jude Bricker, Allegiant senior vice president of planning. "It's a great way to start 2016 by announcing these new flights, new cities and providing millions of travelers more options to vacation for less this year."
Tickets for these routes are now available. | 3,795 |
Indian origin scientist gets closer to developing coronavirus vaccine
In a major breakthrough for global preclinical response to the novel coronavirus (nCoV) outbreak, a team led by an overseas citizen of India has grown the first batch of the virus outside China in sufficient stocks to cater to forthcoming studies in the highsecurity lab of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia.While researchers at Australia’s Doherty Institute had last week managed to isolate the virus from a human sample, the growth of the virus at CSIRO assumes importance given that it has the mega scale needed to conduct preclinical studies.Confirming the development, Professor SS Vasan, who leads the CSIRO Dangerous Pathogens Team, told TOI: “We thank our Doherty Institute colleagues who shared their isolate with us promptly. It is quicker to work with the real virus to expedite preclinical studies on the relative efficacy of vaccine candidates under development.”Vasan, who is the principal investigator of CSIRO’s preclinical response project in partnership with the Coalition for Emergency Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to accelerate preclinical evaluation of vaccines, said: “My colleagues at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory are also working on diagnostics, surveillance and response. Another part of the CSIRO (Manufacturing) is supporting the scaleup of vaccine antigens being developed by the University of Queensland.”While he said his lab is now working on further increasing the virus stock, he maintained CSIRO did not give out the specifics of the quantity. On what this means to the global preclinical response to the novel coronavirus, Vasan said: “Aside from fuelling the essential vaccine preclinical studies, it will accelerate the development and evaluation of therapeutics to complement vaccines.”An alumnus of BITS Pilani and IISc-Bengaluru, Vasan moved to Trinity College, Oxford, on a Rhodes scholarship. After his doctorate there, he worked for Oxford spin-out Oxitec on dengue, chikungunya and zika, and then at the equivalent high-security facility in Porton Down, England.Coronavirus has claimed 563 lives in China and health officials say there were 28,018 confirmed cases as of Thursday. According to World Health Organisation, which has declared the outbreak as a global emergency, coronaviruses “are a large family of viruses found in both animals and humans. Some infect people and are known to cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).” | 3,796 |
jTQT5OMRK — John Owning (@JohnOwning) April 12, 2020
Barcoo played predominately in off-zone coverage at San Diego State, where he showcased impressive anticipation skills, which led to his phenomenal ball production during his senior season. He’s extremely comfortable playing from a half-turn, as it puts him in position to drive forward or gain depth on the route concepts headed his way. He does an excellent job of maintaining his presnap leverage from off coverage, which puts him in position to anticipate and blanket breaking routes from depth.
Moreover, as his production can attest, Barcoo possesses likable ball skills to contest the catch point.
Barcoo is thin and can get overwhelmed by blockers, but he's not afraid to throw his weight around in run support. With more size and more assertive hands against blocks, I can see him developing nicely here. pic.twitter.com/xAla8nk0lz — John Owning (@JohnOwning) April 12, 2020
Barcoo is rail-thin (listed at 180 pounds) but that doesn’t stop him from throwing his weight around in the run game. He does need to add some bulk to better take on blocks and be more physical at the tackle point, but the willingness is there, which is exactly what you want to see from a thin college CB.
Unfortunately, Barcoo is still extremely raw for the position. Barcoo’s transitions are choppy, causing him drift upfield and be slow when changing direction in coverage. Moreover, he likes patience and often gives soft edges in press coverage. The biggest concern regarding Barcoo is his deep speed, as he allowed a few small-school receivers to create deep separation on vertical routes. If Barcoo is forced into action early in his NFL career for some reason, defensive coordinators will need to provide him with safety help over the top in an effort to limit vertical shots vs Barcoo.
Given his frame, comfort in off-zone coverage, struggles in man coverage and ability to provide run support, many think Barcoo’s best position in the NFL is at free safety. However, he will need to bulk up significantly before there’s any thought to playing him at the safety position.
Nevertheless, Barcoo is exactly the kind of prospect worth taking on shot on in the seventh round, as he has the frame, zone coverage profile and ball production that is worth developing over the next couple of years.
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Former Nike executive Ronald N. Hartfeil, 52, of Oregon City has pleaded guilty to filing a false federal income tax return, and to failing to report the importation of more than $20,000 from Korea. His wife, Debra L. Hartfeil, 52, of Oregon City, also pleaded guilty to filing the false federal income tax return, which was a joint return.
Sentencing is scheduled for March 8 before U.S. District Judge James Redden. The couple pleaded guilty before Redden on Tuesday.
Ronald Hartfeil and Debra Hartfeil jointly made and filed a 2007 U.S. Individual Income Tax Return that contained material false information, according to a news release issued by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Portland.
The tax return said their 2007 adjusted gross income was $1,879,061, which was based primarily on income Ronald Hartfeil earned as a Nike executive.
The couple also received $100,000 from a Korean footwear manufacturer in addition to the amount stated in the return, the news release says.
The Hartfeils also failed to report $100,000 on their joint 2006 federal tax return, and $100,000on their joint 2005 federal tax return.
If the Hartfeils had reported their other income on their joint federal tax returns, the additional tax liability would have been $4,269 for 2005, $3,617 for2006, and $17,265 for 2007, the news release says.
Ronald Hartfeil also admitted that, on Sept. 16, 2007, he knowingly transported $20,000 in traveler's checks to the United States from Korea. Hartfeil knew he was required to report that he was transporting more than $10,000, and he purposely evaded the reporting requirement when he failed to file the report when he entered the United States, the news release says.
He further evaded the reporting requirement by attempting to mail an additional $10,000 in traveler's checks to the United States from Korea on about September 15, 2007.
Ronald Hartfeil was Nike's global operations director from 2004 to 2007, according to his LinkedIn profile. He began working for the sporting goods giant based near Beaverton in 1995, starting as general manager of Nike's Guangzhou Liaison Office and subsequently as product creation director, then global operations director.
The LinkedIn profile says he is now Gibson Guitar's general manager for its China division, a position he's held since September 2009.
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This week it was announced that Oregon will be expunging the old records of marijuana offenders, along with their new legalization plan. This measure is the farthest that a state has gone to date in regards to applying the new laws to old cases. However, for people who remain in jail for having a plant, the legalization plan does not go far enough.
According to the New York Times, people who have low-level felony or misdemeanor marijuana charges on their record that are at least ten years old will be eligible for expungement.
While the transition in Oregon is nowhere near what is needed for the hundreds of thousands who are still incarcerated, the aspect that allows for old cases to be expunged is at least a step in the right direction, and is helping people clear their records so they can avoid discrimination.
“Oregon is one of the first states to really grapple with the issue of what do you do with a record of something that used to be a crime and no longer is,” law professor Jenny M. Roberts told the New York Times.
It is certainly true that people who have had prior marijuana convictions should not be denied a job or volunteering opportunity because they have a charge on their record, especially after the plant is declared legal. However, if this is the case, then surely people who are currently sitting in jail for doing the same thing should not be forced to continue their sentences for something that they should never have been prosecuted for in the first place.
It is extremely important to point out that as we gain these victories in the drug war, that there are still many people suffering, even in places where the laws become more lax.
As we recently reported, a prosecutor in southeastern Washington charged three teenagers with felony offenses for simple marijuana possession. According to The Lewiston Tribune, the children were 14, 15, and 17 years old and are now facing up to 5 years in prison for felony possession charges simply for carrying a legal item that they were too young to possess.
John Vibes is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter-culture and the drug war. In addition to his writing and activist work, he organizes a number of large events including the Free Your Mind Conference, which features top caliber speakers and whistle-blowers from all over the world. You can contact him and stay connected to his work at his Facebook page. You can find his 65 chapter Book entitled “Alchemy of the Timeless Renaissance” at bookpatch.com.
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