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Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano predicted the courts will prevent President Trump Donald John TrumpBubba Wallace to be driver of Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin NASCAR team Graham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Southwest Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE from circumventing Congress and declaring a national emergency to build a wall on the Mexican border.
In an appearance Monday on Fox News' "America's Newsroom," Napolitano said he believed the courts would stop Trump because much of the land on the border where the wall would be built is held privately.
As a result, he suggested the courts would not stand for Trump making the decision to use federal funds to acquire private property and build the wall without congressional approval.
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“I think the law is very clear and I think the President has been advised of it that if he signs an executive order declaring a national emergency and directing the military to spend money that has not been expressly appropriated for the wall or that has not been expressly appropriated for eminent domain– since much of the real estate where they want to build the wall is privately owned– I think it’s pretty clear that court will stop him from doing that,” Napolitano said.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGraham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Trump puts Supreme Court fight at center of Ohio rally The Memo: Dems face balancing act on SCOTUS fight MORE (R-Ky.) talked to Trump last week, urging him not to declare a national emergency, according to The Washington Post. McConnell said doing so could lead to a resolution of disapproval by Congress, which would export the GOP to infighting.
Trump has been signaling a renewed interest in declaring a national emergency to build the wall, even as congressional negotiators work to reach a legislative solution by Feb. 15.
Trump said last week there is a “good chance” he will declare an emergency in order to obtain funding for a wall.
Napolitano did say that declaring an emergency could provide Trump with a political win, since he would be able to tell his political base that he was building the wall.
“He might even be able to claim some measure of political victory if he signs the order,” Napolitano said.
Fox News host Jon Scott followed up with a clarification, asking if Trump would “win by losing” in that scenario.
“Yes, but I am almost certain he’ll lose,” Napolitano said. “The law is very clear.”
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A Wisconsin woman is facing felony drug charges after police said they found about 82 grams of drugs in her vagina.
Desiree Webster, 20, was arrested June 25 in Shawano after police pulled over the 1997 Monte Carlo she was driving.
Her companion, 39-year-old Jaral McCollum, a convicted drug dealer, was also in the car, according to The Smoking Gun.
Officers pulled over the car after getting a tip that McCollum might be selling heroin, cocaine, marijuana, meth and other drugs.
Police said McCollum’s M.O. was to travel with a woman who would slip the drugs into her vagina if police stopped them.
A police dog showed particular interest in the driver’s seat, where Webster had been sitting at the time of the stop, according to local station WBAY-TV.
After a corrections officer performed a strip search on Webster, she suggested there was something hidden in her vagina.
A CT scan of Webster’s pelvic area taken at a hospital showed something that looked like a plastic bag that was about the size of a human fist.
Emergency room doctor Ryan Murphy told the station it’s not uncommon for drug dealers to smuggle contraband inside various orifices.
“It’s common that you would see them inside of condoms, inside of bags, inside of Saran wrap. People try to get creative, and they try to pack as much as they can into a very small container, and it’s very common to actually see these containers or transport devices rupture,” Murphy said.
Officers said they found nearly 82 grams of drugs inside Webster.
Here’s the breakdown:
36.67 grams of cocaine
14.72 grams of meth
27.80 grams of synthetic weed
Six MDMA (Ecstasy) pills
1.26 grams of marijuana
Murphy said that if the bag had ruptured while inside Webster, she would have likely died.
“With the cocaine you’re going to be in this like excited delirium state and the heart’s going to be going really fast, and they’ll be running a high fever and you know the body will kind of shut down from that and you’ll die,” Murphy said.
Webster was charged with six felony drug counts, including two counts of THC possession, possession with intent to deliver cocaine and possession with intent to deliver meth. She was also charged with eight counts of felony bail jumping stemming from an earlier felony case that remains pending.
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Filmmaker Marshall Curry told IndieWire that this 30-second spot for “A Night At The Garden” was nixed by the network after an attempt to purchase ad time for it during “Hannity” this week:
Fox News has rejected an ad for an Oscar-nominated short documentary about a 1939 pro-Nazi rally held at Madison Square Garden in New York that warns “it can happen here.”
The ad was initially going to run during “Hannity” during a local commercial break in Los Angeles, which the network doesn’t control, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
When it was preempted by President Donald Trump’s rally speech in El Paso, Texas, the film’s distributor, Field of Vision, tried to make a network-wide purchase instead.
That got rejected by Fox News.
“The ad in question is full of disgraceful Nazi imagery regardless of the film’s message and did not meet our guidelines.” Marianne Gambelli, president of ad sales for Fox News, said in a statement.
It’s not clear if Curry tried to place the ad with any other network, and the filmmaker hasn’t replied to a request for comment.
However, in a statement to IndieWire last week, he indicated his goal was to air it during “Hannity” for a specific reason:
“I hope that by showing the ‘Hannity’ audience how manipulative leaders in the past have attacked the press, scapegoated minorities, made light of violence against protesters, and wrapped hateful ideologies in the symbols of American patriotism, they might become more vigilant when they see leaders do those things today.”
The film’s backers at Field of Vision also said “Hannity” was a specific choice.
“We’re very aware that the film audience can often lean to the left,” Charlotte Cook, one of the co-founders, told The Washington Post. “And we want to make sure this film doesn’t go to the echo chamber — to use this moment of the [Oscar] nomination to jump the barrier to people with different beliefs.”
The Hollywood Reporter said the ad will air in a local break during “Hannity” on Thursday in Los Angeles on time not controlled by the network. The website said there are also plans to purchase ad time on other cable news networks.
The entire seven-minute film is also available to stream via Vimeo, as well as PBS.
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Hazard so far (player form).
Agüero’s Manchester City have created the most amount of big chances (14) in comparison to Liverpool and Chelsea (team form).
Agüero’s opponents (Fulham) have conceded the most amount of big chances (12) of ANY team in the first 4 Gameweeks.
Agüero has the best chance to score according to the bookies odds.
Salah has the highest expected goal involvement of the 3 candidates.
Hazard is over performing to the highest degree of the 3 candidates.
My view
Well, it wasn’t spectacular, but Sergio Agüero still outscored the other 2 main captaincy candidates last Gamweek and I’m backing him to do it again.
Whilst he wasn’t able to get on the scoresheet, I was actually very impressed with Agüero’s all round gameplay, aside from the miss at the end of course!
He was linking the play up brilliantly and created a lot of chances for others. He looked extremely sharp too, just a shame about the 1 on 1 – I was not expecting him to miss that.
Having said that, I can’t see Fulham being able to do the same job Rafa did and I think Fulham’s defence may afford Agüero plenty of opportunities and this time, I can’t see him missing – I’m envisaging a royal spanking this Saturday.
They’ve conceded the most big chances (12) of any side and have let in 9 goals in 4 so far.
So it’s a simple one this week for me, with Salah and Kane facing off against each other (incidentally a game I think does have goals in) and Hazard to face a likely stubborn Cardiff, it’s Agüero all the way for me.
In terms of going differential with your captain, I think the Spurs – Liverpool game has goals in, so Salah, Mané, Kane whilst hugely owned, won’t have huge backing this weekend because of Agüero’s plum home fixture and the fact that Spurs and Liverpool play against each other will put a lot off.
But my pick, if I had to choose a differential captain, would be renegade full back Marcos Alonso. The man is on fire and I can see a clean sheet and another attacking return for the wavy haired Spaniard.
Stats obtained from fantasyfootballscout.co.uk
Odds obtained from williamhill.com
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The sunset on Mars from Gale Crater, as photographed by Curiosity rover. Photo : Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), Curiosity, MastCam, NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Texas A&M Univ.
Remember Mars One, that company we all knew was a scam but still kinda hoped was real because of how much we liked the movie The Martian? Yeah, it went bankrupt.
Mars One was a Dutch c ompany whose goal was to “establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. ” You may remember it from its much-hyped announcement that it was recruiting regular people to become astronauts for a one-way trip to Mars. But you also might remember that it was probably never going to work.
According to the trade register of the Swiss canton of Basel, a court declared Mars One bankrupt as of January 15, 2019.
The company hoped to build capital to fund the mission through donations, merchandise sales, and contracts with media companies for producing documentaries and other content. It had begun to contract with Lockheed Martin and Surrey Satellite Technology for a lander and an orbiter, according to SpaceNews. But it seems that funding ran out.
Flaws became apparent in the company’s funding strategy, astronaut selection process, and pretty much every other activity. I encourage you to read journalist Elmo Keep’s in-depth reporting on the matter. But basically—the selection process wasn’t rigorous, prospective astronauts were encouraged to help fund the mission, and you can’t just pay for a Mars mission with the promise of a good story.
Scientists didn’t think Mars One would work, either. MIT research showed that the mission wouldn’t be bringing enough food, and technology isn’t advanced enough to maintain an atmosphere that humans could survive in on the R ed P lanet. I’ll also note that the company’s own website implies that it hadn’t hired any experts yet—indeed, Keep’s reporting suggested that the company only had a handful of employees.
We’ve reached out to Mars One’s CEO, Bas Lansdorp, as well as some of Mars One’s investors, and will update the post when we hear back.
Listen, I know as Americans we’ve begun to put our faith in private industry as a way to get humans onto Mars. But it’s going to take a lot more than hype, donations, and merchandise sales. Rigorous science and millions upon millions of dollars will also be required.
[via Reddit]
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Support for abortion remaining legal in the U.S. is at its highest point in more than two decades, according to a poll released Monday.
Sixty percent of adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to a Washington Post–ABC News poll. This comes as several states with conservative legislatures have passed laws restricting access to the procedure.
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That number of support tops the 55 percent who said abortion should be legal in all or most cases in the same poll in 2013. It is the highest level of support since 1995, when the same percentage of respondents supported the procedure remaining legal.
But the poll does show that most Americans want to see some limits on the procedure.
Twenty-seven percent said abortion should be legal in all cases and 33 percent said it should be legal in most cases, while 22 percent said it should be illegal in most cases. Fourteen percent said it should always be illegal.
The majority of Americans also indicated that they did not think abortion access should be expanded: 41 percent said states should "leave the law on women's access to abortion as it is now," why 32 percent said abortion access should be expanded. Forty-one percent of those surveyed said it should be harder to access an abortion.
Several states, including Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky, have passed strict abortion restrictions this year in an effort to get the Supreme Court to weaken or overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling establishing a woman's right to abortion.
The court has largely steered clear of the issue in recent years, but anti-abortion advocates say it's only a matter of time before it will have to rule on one of the many abortion cases making their way through the courts.
Some of the laws don't have rape or incest exemptions, which have become commonplace in abortion bills passed over the years.
The poll released Tuesday shows 60 percent of Americans consider abortion to be an important issue when considering how they will vote for president.
A majority also said they disapprove of the way President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE is handling abortion, 54 percent to 32 percent.
The administration has blocked undocumented minors in U.S. custody from getting abortions and is working to ban Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers from a federal family planning program.
The law prohibits the use of federal funding for abortion, but the administration argues that any money flowing to abortion providers still indirectly supports the procedure.
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Today we are delighted to announce that we have engaged in a mutual investment partnership with Animoca Brands, a publicly traded developer and publisher of internationally recognized mobile games and brands including Beast Quest, Ben 10, Garfield, Doraemon and Astro Boy.
Animoca has recently emerged as a leader in blockchain gaming through their commercial relationship with Axiom Zen and Dapper Labs, the creators of CryptoKitties, and their acquisition of Pixowl, who are launching a blockchain version of their hit game Sandbox.
At Harmony, we share Animoca’s vision that gaming will drive large scale adoption for blockchain technology. Gamers have been early adopters and drivers of new technology trends through internet gaming and graphics cards, and we believe it will be the same for blockchain. After all, gamers are already familiar with the concepts of virtual currencies and digital ownership.
Blockchain enables new features for games such as true ownership and transferability of in-game items and currencies, and provably fair game mechanics. Moreover, these features can be deployed into games with existing user bases for immediate adoption rather than starting from scratch. Sandbox is one great example of this approach.
However, as gaming drives mass adoption of blockchain, it will also drive demand for scalable infrastructure. It is no coincidence that CryptoKitties was the first DApp to clog the Ethereum network and demonstrate the need for a more powerful network. That is where Harmony comes in.
Imagine this game hosted on Blockchain. Image credit: Activision Blizzard
Harmony can provide the low-cost, high-throughput consensus platform that game developers need to power their blockchain based games. We are building a protocol that enables on-chain hosting of fast-paced game mechanics—so fast we could host even game logic that requires low latency and high APM, a topic we plan to explore in future posts—and cross-game NFT item ecosystems with thousands if not millions of users. This means that we will be ready to support game developers with large user bases from the get-go.
However, just building a fast blockchain is not enough. We need to understand the problems that game developers face so that we can better design Harmony to suit their needs. This partnership will enable us to learn from an industry leader so that we can be ready to power games that Animoca and others develop in the future. By working with Animoca, we will be well positioned to capture the opportunities that blockchain gaming presents for scalable protocols like Harmony.
If you are building a blockchain game and are interested to work with us, please get in touch at [email protected]. We would love to form more partnerships in this growing space.
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There will be a lot of speculation in the coming weeks about the future of wide receiver Percy Harvin, who arrived last October in a trade with the Seattle Seahawks.
The New York Jets face a multilayered decision, one that will be based primarily on his contract ($10.5 million in 2015) and the draft-pick compensation they will owe the Seahawks to complete last October's trade.
Here's what you need to know:
The key date is March 19.
If Harvin remains on the Jets' roster after 4 p.m. on the 10th day of the league year (March 19), the Jets must give their fourth-round draft pick to the Seahawks. If the Jets release him before then, they owe the Seahawks a sixth-round choice.
The Jets were smart to make it March 19. Two reasons:
It gives them nine days to explore wide-receiver options in free agency. If they find a better player than Harvin, they can sign that player, cut Harvin and retain their fourth-round pick. The date also gives them leverage in any renegotiation talks with Harvin. If the Jets want to re-work his deal and he declines, the team can keep him until March 18, meaning he'd miss the first wave of free agency -- when the big money is doled out.
If the Jets keep Harvin on the roster beyond the deadline, it doesn't guarantee his $10.5-million base salary and it wouldn't preclude them from cutting him at a later date. But looking at it from a practical standpoint, it wouldn't make sense to dump a player after committing a fourth-round pick.
What if the Jets try to circumvent the draft-pick upgrade by cutting him before March 19 and re-signing him at a later date? Sorry, that won't work. In other words, if they cut him March 18 and re-sign him at any point before the second day of the draft (May 1), they owe a fourth-rounder to the Seahawks.
In terms of the financials, Harvin's contract no longer contains any guaranteed money, meaning there would be no salary-cap ramifications if they decide to part ways. His salaries after 2015 are $9.9 million, $9.95 million and $11.15 million.
Basically, it's a year-to-year contract, so what the Jets have to decide is this: Do they give up a sixth-round pick for the half-year he gave them in 2014 or do they surrender a fourth-rounder for a minimum of 1 1/2 years?
Interesting decision.
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consistency and robustness, but can be very slow, especially when spread out over a wide area.
Master election (the Siranon system), where an expensive, strongly-consistent store is used to decide who is in charge of any subject for a time, and then that responsible party uses their own, smaller, strongly-consistent store to maintain the laws on that subject.
The choice of systems, and how to combine them, is therefore a matter of practicality. For example, if one wishes to maintain a system where many users can simultaneously see changes to a piece of shared data in nearly real-time — perhaps a shared document, or a computer game — then it is helpful for that single piece of shared data to be administered by as small a group as possible. Master election works well in this case, with the individual master being optimized to handle a single piece of data quickly. Latency comes from the message transit time from the client to the master, and from queueing delays at the master; the latter can be resolved by making the master itself bigger (even turning it into a small cluster itself), while the former is just a problem.
On the other hand, if one wishes to serve billions of images — data which tends towards the bulky — which are uploaded by users, then there is little advantage to be had from strong consistency, except as far as the uploading user is concerned. You can then handle the upload process itself by having a single server communicate with the user until the data is fully uploaded; since we know that this user is the only one looking at the pictures until the upload is complete, that single server is the “master” of that data by default with no additional trickery. Once the upload is complete, eventual consistency is more than enough. (This brings up even more interesting questions, like the possibility of “partial replication:” only some sites having a copy of each picture, but any site being able to access another site’s pictures if need be. My own work, a few years ago, was in that field)
The best thing about these systems is that, from a client’s perspective, they are defined not by the methods but by the guarantees they provide. If you tell your clients that there is a strongly-consistent system here, and they can perform writes, read-current, and read-latest by coming to this Greek, so to speak, then you can continually change the method which you use (from single data files up through master election which selects clusters which themselves use Paxos or what-not) as the needs of your clients grow and change, without requiring any sort of consensus or agreement among them.
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To take just one example. Private Bertram Byrnes' war service record has long been available on the National Archives website. It tells us, in sparse, bureaucratic language, that Byrnes enlisted at the age of 24, served in France and was twice wounded in action. The last injury, a gunshot wound to the face in September 1918, saw him invalided home. Private Byrnes' service dossier runs for barely 22 pages. There is only one letter from him, one chance for him to speak. It's written in 1938, the year before the Second World War breaks out. Byrnes asks for duplicates of service medals lost in a bushfire. He wants to wear them on Anzac Day.
Reading the service dossier tells us very little about Private Byrnes or his family, or his wound and what it actually did to him and those he loved.
A medical report by Repat doctors refers to ''much facial disfigurement'' - but Private Byrnes puts it much better himself: ''my face'', he says, ''is practically shot away''. The wound was so severe that he dribbled constantly and there was a discharge from his nose. Bertram Byrnes had to live on what was called ''slop food''. His disfigurement, altered little by a series of painful operations, was such that most employers rejected him - he was shunned, ostracised, took up a remote block of land as a soldier settler, and found himself too weak to work it. Reading the service record you would learn nothing of this - nothing of his post-war ordeal.
The repatriation records tell us this - and they tell us so much more. You can hear the hushed voices of what they called ''the whispering men'', men whose lungs were corroding, who died, years after the war, from the effects of being gassed. You can see the shaking bodies of the ''nerve cases'' - a ''war-wrecked'' generation crippled by physical and psychological scars. And what makes the repatriation records so remarkable is that these are not just soldiers' stories. Women's voices are threaded through this extraordinary archive; wives struggling to survive on inadequate pensions; mothers pleading the case of disabled sons; daughters afraid of violent, traumatised fathers.
But history is much more than an endless catalogue of horrors. There is a great dignity in Bertram Byrnes. A man whose face was shattered but who dressed in a suit the day they took his photograph, a father who struggled to provide for his family, a veteran who wanted to wear his medals on Anzac Day. Like a generation of our countrymen and women, his battles didn't end in 1918.
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The famous Sam Fisher is set to do a lot of stealth killing this year with the Splinter Cell franchise’s upcoming title Splinter Cell: Blacklist, but before Sam gets to the bad guys, there are a few more details (mostly technical) that all SC fans might want to know.
Recently, Splinter Cell: Blacklist producer Andy Wilson, at the recently concluded E3, revealed some new tech details about the PC version of Ubisoft’s upcoming action/stealth third person title, and most of it dealt with the changes that the game will see when the game arrives for PC.
Wilson stated that the PC version of Splinter Cell: Blacklist will support both DX9 and DX11, and PC gamers can expect cool new tech features such as horizon based ambient occlusion, TXAA (which is like the platinum version of anti-aliasing), high resolution shadows, parallax mapping, and a lot of focus on the in-game shadows and lights that are so important for Sam to remain hidden from enemy eyes.
On top of that, Wilson also mentioned that Blacklist will support specific DX11 features, such as tessellation that will lead to a lot of depth and detail. The team has put in extra effort in these details because it’s important that Sam gets to “play with shadow.”
On a similar note, Wilson mentioned that the game has a pretty interesting level design, and that the company has actually taken all the good points from the previous Splinter Cell games and have mashed it all into one single unit for Blacklist. Sounds impressive? Probably.
The game also has a dynamic environment with a definite scoring system at the end of each level. The scoring will take place with accordance to the diverse set of fans and the kind of playing style they adopt while they uncover Sam’s story. Of course, we already know that there are three different play styles – Ghost, Assault and Panther.
Depending on these play styles, the game will detect how the player is approaching the game and will divide players on the certain play styles. The scoring will next lead to acquiring rewards for accessing the customizable section of the game. Also, the in-game economy system is also universal across Spies vs Mercs, co-op, single player, and others.
Wilson also asks fans to keep a lookout for the in-game SMI (Strategic Mission Interface) with Sam’s contents being displayed under one single roof to make life a bit easier for everyone. So it’s basically a single screen to access everything. Check out Wilson’s entire interview below to know more.
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HARARE – State media in Zimbabwe has accused a United States diplomat of a possible involvement in deadly shootings of protesters on August 1, 2018, and January this year.
The Herald newspaper reported Saturday that John Kent, a US embassy attache who oversaw the construction of the new embassy building “smuggled two rifles and two shotguns” into the country in 2016 without declaring them to authorities.
“Fears abound that the weapons could have been used for nefarious purposes, including civil disturbances that occurred in 2018 and this year, although The Herald could not ascertain this at the time of going to print,” the newspaper claimed.
Zimbabwe government officials and its military leaders have consistently refused to take responsibility for the street shooting of 41 people during post-election protests on August 1 last year, six of them fatally, and the deaths of at least 18 people in a January crackdown that followed protests over sharp fuel price increases.
A commission of inquiry set up to investigate the August 1 killings concluded that it was the army that was responsible for the deaths, and recommended prosecutions.
Zimbabwe government officials and military leaders have however claimed that the killings were orchestrated by opposition dissidents who stole army uniforms, although no evidence of this has been produced.
Kent, who is responsible for Overseas Building Operations and was project director for the New Embassy Campus, “did not register or get his weapons licenced… as part of his diplomatic luggage in 2016”, the Herald claimed.
The presence of the guns only became known to authorities on February 15 this year when he requested to import the firearms in diplomatic correspondence with Zimbabwe’s foreign ministry.
“Mr Kent was, however, already in possession of the firearms,” the newspaper went on, identifying the “smuggled weapons” as two Bolt Action rifles — a Savage 111 and Remington 700 — and two semi-automatic shotguns — a Berreta A390 and Weatherby SA-08.
“Kent stayed three years in the country, in possession of unlicensed firearms which is also a violation of the law. There is no guarantee that the firearms were not used for any outward or unlawful activities during that period,” the newspaper quoted an unnamed official as saying.
ZimLive has reached out to the United States embassy for a comment, and will update this post.
On Friday, The Herald claimed civic organisations and the opposition MDC had sent their members to the Maldives and Czech Republic for “regime change training”. The paper claimed the MDC and its partners are “seeking to unleash a wave of violent demonstrations beginning next month.”
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Image copyright EPA Image caption Carrie Fisher revisited the role of Princess Leia in Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015
The company behind the Star Wars franchise has laid to rest rumours that Carrie Fisher may be digitally recreated for future films after her sudden death last month.
"Lucasfilm has no plans to digitally recreate Carrie Fisher's performance" as Princess Leia, it said.
Fisher died, aged 60, just days after suffering a cardiac arrest last month.
She had already finished filming for the next instalment, Star Wars: Episode VIII, due out at the end of the year.
She was also expected to appear in Episode IX, which is still being scripted and scheduled for release in 2019.
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But Lucasfilm, which produces the franchise, says Episode VIII will be Fisher's last, adding: "Carrie Fisher was, is, and always will be a part of the Lucasfilm family.
"She was our princess, our general, and more importantly, our friend. We are still hurting from her loss. We cherish her memory and legacy as Princess Leia, and will always strive to honour everything she gave to Star Wars."
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Peter Cushing (left) was brought back to life in the latest Star Wars film, Rogue One, using CGI
Computer graphics technology was used in the most recent film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, bringing back British actor Peter Cushing - who died in 1994 - to play the role of the Grand Moff Tarkin - which he first played in the original 1977 film.
A digitised version of Fisher from the same year also made a brief appearance in the film. The move was embraced by some fans, but slated by others for being too cartoonish and distracting.
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Fisher appeared in four of the Star Wars franchise films, starting with Episode IV in 1977 and most recently in Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015.
The actress had been on tour promoting her book The Princess Diarist when she was taken ill on a flight from London to Los Angeles on 23 December.
She never regained consciousness and died four days later at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Centre.
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Fisher (left) and Reynolds died within a day of each other
Her mother, Debbie Reynolds, died the following day.
Both mother and daughter were laid to rest at a private service one week ago.
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The highest-level North Korean diplomat to defect to South Korea says he decided to flee last year because he didn't want his children to live "miserable" lives in the North.
Key points: Thae Yong-ho says his risky defection was for the sake of his sons
Thae Yong-ho says his risky defection was for the sake of his sons He expresses disappointment in North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
He expresses disappointment in North Korean leader Kim Jong Un The former deputy ambassador to the UK believes North Koreans will one day rise up
Thae Yong-ho, a former minister at the North Korean Embassy in London, told reporters in Seoul that he was lucky to have been able to bring both of his sons to London, unlike other North Korean diplomats who are forced to leave some of their children at home as "hostages."
After his sons, now 20 and 27, learned about life in Britain, they began asking him questions such as why North Korea barred use of the internet and executed people without proper legal procedures, he said.
Mr Thae said he decided to talk frankly with them about North Korea. He concluded that his sons would have "miserable" lives if they returned home because they had come to know the truth about the country.
"On the day when we got out of the embassy I told them that 'now I am going to cut the chain of slavery and you are the free men. You are not slaves anymore'."
He said his sons were happy and were "now feeling a true sense of freedom" in South Korea.
Mr Thae said his disappointment with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was another reason he defected. He said he initially had some hopes for Mr Kim but eventually fell into "despair" after watching him execute officials without proper reasons and pursue development of nuclear weapons.
Mr Kim took office in late 2011 following his dictator father's death and has since orchestrated a series of high-profile executions, purges and dismissals in what outside analysts say is an attempt to bolster his grip on power.
His pursuit of nuclear weapons has drawn tough international sanctions.
Since his release into society last month following months of custody by South Korea's intelligence agency, Thae Yong-ho has conducted a series of media interviews in what he says is an attempt to reveal the truth about North Korea.
He said if North Koreans were able to obtain more information about their country's situation, it could trigger a public uprising against the Kim government.
North Korea has called him "human scum" and accused him of embezzling government money and committing other crimes.
AP
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President Donald Trump offered up some advice to a friend who admitted "bad behavior" toward women, journalist Bob Woodward reports in his new book.
"You've got to deny, deny, deny and push back on these women," he told the person, Woodward wrote in his book, " Fear: Trump in the White House.
President Donald Trump offered up some advice to a friend who admitted he behaved poorly with women: "Deny, deny, deny" the allegations.
That's according to the explosive new book from journalist Bob Woodward, "Fear: Trump in the White House."
"You've got to deny, deny, deny and push back on these women," he told the person, who was not named, Woodward reported. "If you admit to anything and any culpability, then you're dead. That was a big mistake you made. You didn't come out guns blazing and just challenge them. You showed weakness. You've got to be strong. You've got to be aggressive. You've got to push back hard. You've got to deny anything that's said about you. Never admit."
Woodward, of Watergate fame, included that reporting in a section of the book on Trump's relationship with his wife, Melania. Woodward wrote that Melania's primary concern was the couple's son, Barron.
Business Insider obtained a copy of the book, published by Simon & Schuster and set to be released Tuesday.
"She's obsessed with Barron," one person told Woodward. "That is her focus 100%."
Woodward wrote that those who traveled with Trump regularly noticed that the couple shares a sincere affection, though Melania operated independently from Trump.
"They ate dinner together at times, spent some time together; but they never really seemed to merge their lives," Woodward wrote.
Trump has publicly defended members of his staff and prominent Republicans who have been accused of wrongdoing by women. Trump stood up for former staff secretary Rob Porter, who was accused of spousal abuse by both of his ex-wives. They provided The Daily Mail with photographic evidence they said backed up their claims, which Porter has denied.
Trump also defended former Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, who was running for an Alabama vacancy and was accused of engaging in sexual misconduct with teenagers when he was in his 30s.
Trump himself has faced accusations of sexual misconduct more than a dozen women during the 2016 presidential election. Trump denied those claims and insisted the women were lying.
Trump has taken aim at the Woodward book, repeatedly slamming it as "fiction" and "a scam" on Twitter.
Here are more details from the book so far:
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Trimage image compressor – 1.0.6
A cross-platform tool for losslessly optimizing PNG and JPG files for web.
Trimage is a cross-platform GUI and command-line interface to optimize image files for websites, using optipng, pngcrush, advpng and jpegoptim, depending on the filetype (currently, PNG and JPG files are supported). It was inspired by imageoptim. All image files are losslessy compressed on the highest available compression levels, and EXIF and other metadata is removed. Trimage gives you various input functions to fit your own workflow: A regular file dialog, dragging and dropping and various command line options.
Trimage in action
Download Debian (sid) Trimage is available in the official Debian Sid repositories: sudo apt-get install trimage Ubuntu Trimage is available in the official repositories: Download for Ubuntu Alternatively: sudo apt-get install trimage Arch Linux Trimage is available from AUR, to install, type: yaourt -S trimage macOS Trimage is available from Homebrew, to install, type: brew install trimage Trimage is available from AUR, to install, type:Trimage is available from Homebrew, to install, type: Launch by executing trimage in Terminal.app Other *nix Download the source via git or bzr (see repositories) Make sure you have all the requirements installed (see requirements) Enter python setup.py install into your console Launch by executing trimage Help us make.snaps,.appimages etc: contact us or open a pull request
Repositories Git: Trimage is primarily developed on GitHub. Bzr: Trimage is also available on Launchpad. Trimage is MIT licenced. We encourage contributions via GitHub.
Thanks The following people helped develop Trimage: Hugo Posnic
Neil Wallace
Jeroen Goudsmit
Tarnay Kálmán
Thomas Lété
Kyrill Detinov
Requirements python 3
python-qt5 5
optipng 0.6.2.1
pngcrush 1.6.7
advancecomp 1.15
jpegoptim 1.2.2
Command line options --version show program's version number and exit -h, --help show this help message and exit -v, --verbose Verbose mode (default) -q, --quiet Quiet mode -f FILENAME, --file=FILENAME compresses image and exit -d DIRECTORY, --directory=DIRECTORY compresses images in directory and exit
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Leading debit card manufacturer and service provider Wirex has successfully integrated the API of the instant cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift to enable its users to fund their cards with Ethereum, Monero, Litecoin, and 12 more alternative cryptocurrencies.
Wirex debuted its first Bitcoin debit card in July 2016, to allow the growing Bitcoin userbase to transact in any Visa or Mastercard-supported stores, retail outlets, and e-commerce platforms using the digital currency.
As an initiative to reduce friction between Bitcoin and other leading currencies, the UK-based startup added some innovative features that support banking operations and the purchase of Bitcoin through mainstream payment service providers like PayPal.
Although the Wirex team still believes that Bitcoin remains the dominant cryptocurrency in the market, the company states that the importance of addressing alternative cryptocurrency users must be realized, considering the rapid growth of other major digital currencies like Ethereum, Litecoin and Monero.
Altcoin ecosystem
Over the past few years, altcoins, or alternative cryptocurrencies, have earned a bad mainstream image due to the scam-like characteristics and features of most appcoins. However, some legitimate cryptocurrencies like Monero have begun to gain mainstream approval due to their ability in providing services and features which Bitcoin is struggling with.
For instance, Monero is currently the world’s largest privacy-focused cryptocurrency, which provides a significant advantage over Bitcoin in terms of anonymity and financial privacy.
“Bitcoin enjoys first-mover advantage and dominates the crypto market. However, as the ecosystem matures, there is also a growing community of users with other digital assets,” says Wirex Co-Founder Pavel Matveev. “One of the most popular customer requests was to make a multi-asset-friendly debit card, and with ShapeShift integration we have finally made this possible.”
Rendering banks unnecessary
The ShapeShift team further emphasized that the Wirex multi-cryptocurrency debit card eliminates the necessity of banking services in today’s financial ecosystems and market, as it supports 16 leading cryptocurrencies and various financial services through a single app and a simple user interface.
"Wirex renders banks wholly unnecessary. With cryptocurrency and an easy mobile app, one can avoid banks and still pay for things anywhere,” said ShapeShift Founder and CEO, Erik Voorhees. “We are thrilled to have their services integrated with our API to expand their customer’s funding options.”
The emergence of multi-cryptocurrency debit cards will continue to increase the liquidity of cryptocurrencies, which will ultimately increase the market value and demand of digital currencies and app coins like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero.
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A Texas prosecutor who recently inherited the remaining cases related to a 2015 biker gang shootout in Waco has dismissed all charges in connection with the incident, saying that at this point, pursuing justice would be a "waste of time, effort and resources."
The decision means no one will be held accountable for the brawl at a Twin Peaks restaurant, which ended with nine people dead and 20 injured.
What are the details?
McLennan County District Attorney Barry Johnson — who took the post in January — announced the move on Tuesday and blamed his predecessor for mishandling the yearslong effort to bring convictions. All told, 177 people were arrested and 155 charged in the ordeal, but the single case that made it to trial resulted in a 2017 acquittal.
Johnson issued a statement, saying, "Following the indictments, the prior district attorney had the time and opportunity to review and assess the admissible evidence to determine the full range of charges that could be brought against each individual who participated in the Twin Peaks brawl, and to charge only those offenses where the admissible evidence would support a verdict of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt," the Waco Tribune-Herald reported.
"In my opinion, had this action been taken in a timely manner, it would have, and should have, resulted in numerous convictions and prison sentences against many of those who participated in the Twin Peaks brawl," the statement continued. "Over the next three years the prior district attorney failed to take that action, for reasons that I do not know to this day."
According to the Daily Mail, former District Attorney Abel Reyna dropped all charges against the bikers last year, but re-indicted 24 suspects on riot charges. Those are the cases Johnson tossed on Tuesday.
More serious charges such as attempted murder or felon in possession of a firearm could no longer be pursued, Johnson said, because the three-year statutes of limitations had already passed when he took office.
What's the background?
The violence occurred May 17, 2015, between two rival biker gangs during a rally in Waco. Police responded and ended up engaging in the gunfire, shooting four of the nine people who died.
There was so much chaos at the scene, prosecutors had difficulty determining who did what, the Austin American-Statesman reported.
Tom Needham, McLennan County executive assistant criminal district attorney, called it "a battlefield situation," explaining, "There were dozens of guns and hundreds of weapons collected after a five-minute brawl.... With the video evidence and the forensic evidence that's available, it's simply not possible to establish beyond a reasonable doubt who fired the shots that killed people."
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as to walk away with their share too by convincing them that they intend to cooperate. The kool-aid scenario that follows in that blog post is just not relevant since it invokes a semantic argument about how the players choose to define cooperation and defection that is simply not present in these evolutionary models of social behaviour. All the author has done is to flip the labels of co-operators and defectors. The outcome of their scenario would be that the poisoners (who are actually the defectors as per any sensible definition of their behaviour in cooperative game) would kill all the co-operators leaving only themselves. Indeed, this matches the fundamental prediction of the evolutionary models which offer “defect all the time” as a consistent stable end-game scenario. It is the goal of most evolutionary studies of social behaviour to learn what mechanisms exist in societies that mean we don’t get stuck here, since it is clear that many primates, including humans, have a much more cooperative society than that depressing outlook.
“Since all these evolutionists believe that lying evolved as a fitness strategy, and since they are unable to distinguish between truth and lies, they essentially confess to lying themselves. Their readers are therefore justified in considering them deceivers, and dismissing everything they say, including the notion that lying evolved.”
This is the rather annoying consequence of their incorrect logical arguments. We can and do distinguish very clearly in our models and reasoning between truth and lies – at least in these models we do. Also, just because we point out that lying can have an evolutionary selective advantage (which is hardly surprising), surely doesn’t make us liars? I can’t see what the mechanism there could possibly be.
Just to end, I have to say that it is really difficult not to ridicule this type of article. The reasoning is just so off-the-wall, based on a manipulation of what science is all about, and with a really nefarious motivation running through it of debunking science for the true believers. I did laugh, I did sneer, (and I did take @yodacomplex as a twitter account, and I love it); but, I have tried here to avoid sneering since they use that against us (see the comments under their article). In fairness though, giving us a “Darwin Baloney” logo, and administering a mental health disorder on us (even if they made it up themselves) is pretty much name calling and sneering in my book – even if I am rather flattered to have acquired their attention.
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KENT, Ohio — A University of Maine and Temple University women's field hockey game hosted at Kent State University was called off during overtime play to allow the football game to start on time, according to UMaine Field Hockey.
Maine and Temple were scheduled to face off on Kent State's Murphy-Mellis Field Saturday morning.
After going into double overtime in a scoreless game, Kent State administration entered the field prior to the second overtime half and called the game off to allow the Kent State football game to begin on time, UMaine Field Hockey said.
Well... that's a new one.
Today's game at @KentState has been declared a "no contest" after Kent State administration came onto the field prior to the second overtime half and called off the game to allow the noontime Kent football game to begin on time. — UMaine Field Hockey (@UMaineFH) September 7, 2019
It is uncertain exactly why the game needed to be called off early as the field hockey game was taking place at a separate field neighboring Kent State’s Dix Stadium.
Riley Field, a senior on Maine’s field hockey team, tweeted about the incident, claiming the game was called off and the field was cleared for safety purposes due to fireworks being set off for the football game.
there was a plan for fireworks for an opening of the football game so they had us clear for safety purposes. fireworks were not meant to go off until 12 and it was 10:45 when we ended our first overtime. — Riley Field (@RileyField11) September 7, 2019
Since the game was called off before a winner was declared, it has been listed as a scrimmage for NCAA reporting purposes and won’t count against either team’s statistics or overall records, according to UMaine Field Hockey.
Kent State Field Hockey issued the following statement regarding the incident:
We regret today’s game had to be stopped during overtime play per field guidelines as previously discussed. We recognize the hard work and dedication of all student-athletes. The safety of our community, including student-athletes and visitors is always our first consideration. — Kent State Field Hockey (@KentStFH) September 7, 2019
Temple's field hockey team had faced Kent State Friday and Maine is scheduled to play Kent State Sunday at 11 a.m.
Kent State's football team went on to win their 12 p.m. matchup Saturday against the Kennesaw State Owls—in overtime.
Camryn Justice is a digital content producer at News 5 Cleveland. Follow her on Twitter @camijustice.
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ulatory call," Mr. Trump wrote. The Obama administration last year authorized a $1.83-billion (U.S.) sale of missile frigates and anti-aircraft systems to Taiwan, the first of its kind in four years.
Yet he is entering a fraught issue, one that has brought the two nations to the brink before. In 1995 and 1996, China fired missiles into Taiwan's territorial waters. The U.S. responded by sailing two aircraft carrier battle groups to the region.
Any reprise of those hostilities would be amplified by the tremendous gains China has since made in military might, which include over 1,200 short-range ballistic missiles in the Taiwan theatre, nearly 1,000 advanced fighter jets and hundreds of tactical nuclear weapons.
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"China has long been preparing to invade and murder Taiwan's new democracy. By the early 2020s China may have the capacity to successfully invade Taiwan for the first time since the 1950s," said Rick Fisher, senior fellow with the International Assessment and Strategy Center, a U.S. thinktank that works on security-related issues.
He argues that the only way to maintain peace is to encourage "a stronger Taiwan."
In Taiwan, many cheered the prospect of a U.S. president willing to defy China. The call with Ms. Tsai, "whether he's blundered into it or planned it, has a lot of potential for good," said Bruce Jacobs, a political specialist who lives in Taiwan. "It's time to confront the issue that Taiwan does not belong China and never has."
But the celebration is tinged with worry. "Taiwanese also realize that Trump is really an unpredictable bomb, and no one knows what will really happen," said June Lin, one of the student leaders during Taiwan's pro-democracy Sunflower Movement, and a policy fellow at the pro-Taiwan Formosan Association for Public Affairs in Washington, D.C.
In China, meanwhile, anger coursed through online conversations about Mr. Trump's convention-busting phone call. Most Chinese, like their government, see Taiwan as their territory, and many were surprised that Mr. Trump called Ms. Tsai "president."
"It's clear that he doesn't care about China's reaction at all. This is only his first bite. More will surely come," warned one commenter on China's Twitter-like Weibo social media.
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"This is very serious," wrote another. "Nothing like it has happened since 1979. One China is the bottom line, one that cannot be stepped on."
- With reporting by Yu Mei
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BANGUI/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three Russian journalists were killed in Central African Republic, their news outlet said on Tuesday, in what local authorities said was an ambush by unidentified assailants.
Russian online news organization Investigation Control Centre (TsUR) said in a Facebook post the three journalists -- identified as Orhan Dzhemal, Alexander Rastorguyev and Kirill Radchenko -- were in the country on assignment.
Russia’s foreign ministry confirmed in a statement that three people with identification documents belonging to Dzhemal, Rastorguyev and Radchenko had been found dead and their bodies had been brought back to the capital Bangui.
TsUR said the journalists had been investigating the activities of the so-called Wagner group, an organization of private military contractors which, people with ties to the group have told Reuters, carried out clandestine combat missions on the Kremlin’s behalf in eastern Ukraine and Syria.
Local and international media have reported that Wagner operates in the country since Russia delivered light arms to the country’s security forces this year and deployed hundreds of military and civilian instructors to train them.
Reuters has been unable to verify the reports. Russian authorities deny that the Wagner group’s contractors are carrying out their orders.
Henri Depele, the mayor of the town of Sibut, around 200 km (125 miles) northeast of the capital Bangui, said the journalists were killed at around 10 p.m. (2100 GMT) on Monday. Their driver survived the attack.
“According to the driver’s explanations, when they were 23 km (14 miles) from Sibut... armed men emerged from the bush and opened fire on the vehicle. The three journalists died instantly,” he said.
TsUR’s statement said the journalists flew into Central African Republic last Friday and that its last contact with them was on Sunday evening.
The organization is financed by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former Russian oil tycoon who was jailed on corruption charges and now lives outside Russia. He is one of the most vehement critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
TsUR has published a number of investigations alleging corruption by senior members of Putin’s entourage.
Central African Republic has been ravaged by violence, often fought along religious lines between predominantly Christian and Muslim militia, since a 2013 rebellion overthrew then-President Francois Bozize.
Most of the country is beyond the control of the Bangui government and a 12,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission has struggled to keep a lid on the violence.
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ceremonies.
"It's no longer a question of what we like or dislike," he said. "It also puts me ill at ease."
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau wasn't on the campaign trail Saturday, but Ottawa candidate Catherine McKenna told a news conference that her party wouldn't pass judgment on the would-be agreement until they get a chance to learn more about its contents.
"At this point, we actually have no idea what's in the TPP and this government has been completely secret," McKenna said. "The devil is in the details of any trade deal and we just don't have the details."
It's now paramount for Mulcair to shield his party, which won 59 of Quebec's 75 seats four years ago, from the Tories in the Quebec City area, the Liberals in Montreal and the Bloc Quebecois in some of the province's rural regions.
Mulcair couldn't even bring himself to believe Harper would come through on his commitment to disclose details of the agreement.
"He can't be trusted on any guarantees he's given," he said, noting the prime minister said much the same thing about the Canada-Europe free trade agreement, and yet a final text still hasn't been released.
"You ask anybody in Canada who's ever dealt with Stephen Harper on these things whether they trust him. The answer's going to be 'No."'
On Friday, the NDP released a letter from Mulcair to Trade Minister Ed Fast warning an NDP government would not feel bound by the terms of the TPP, should it indeed come together during the election campaign.
Mulcair and other critics say the government is exceeding its authority during an campaign -- it is supposed to act solely as a "caretaker" and not take actions that would tie the hands of future governments -- by negotiating an international trade deal.
Green Party leader Elizabeth May said she opposes the TPP because it would raise prices for pharmaceutical drugs and threaten Canada's agricultural industry. She said leaked documents that she has seen show a provision requiring Crown corporations to turn a profit, making the CBC "toast." She did not elaborate on what documents she has seen.
At a noisy campaign rally in a Vancouver park, May asked supporters to knock on doors and help young people register to vote. The leader said every riding in B.C. had a chance of going Green and promised that a vote for her party wouldn't be wasted.
"Do not let someone make you afraid. Do not let someone tell you that you're not entitled to vote for what you want," she said. "Don't let anyone try to tell you you're doing the wrong thing by voting for the best candidate."
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The final presidential debate was actually a debate.
The main reason was that moderator Chris Wallace was excellent. He had near total control of the room. We had more substance out of this one debate than in all the previous debates combined.
The other reason it was a debate was that Donald Trump actually prepared for one. Trump was a completely different candidate for the first half of the debate. Had he acted like this over the last several months, this might be a closer presidential race.
On the substance, however, Hillary Clinton won most exchanges. She was more prepared and far more presidential. But she was not perfect and Trump exposed several of her weaknesses. Clinton had trouble on her support of “open borders,” on the Clinton Foundation’s conflicts of interest and on her ties to Wall Street.
But the third debate was really about comparing the two people who could be the next president.
Clinton started the evening cautiously, but as it went on she methodically started poking Trump. Her first dig was saying he “choked” in his meeting with the Mexican president.
Trump didn’t address the remark, which wasn’t like him at all.
Clinton next challenged Trump on his relationship with Russia and he nearly went ballistic. “You’re the puppet,” he yelled repeatedly. It’s worth noting that Trump refused to condemn Russia or Vladimir Putin. He even said he didn’t believe U.S. intelligence reports that Russia was behind hacking intended to influence the presidential election.
Trump’s reaction should scare every American. It’s not unreasonable to suspect that we have a presidential candidate who is beholden to a foreign power.
When Clinton repeated things Trump said about women who accused him of sexual assault and unwanted advances, Trump denied saying things we all heard him say.
When Clinton said Trump mocked a disabled reporter, he blurted out, “Wrong!” Of course, we’ve all seen the video many times.
Clinton was methodical in her approach, but she showed that Trump lies very easily and has major flaws as a person. He took her bait nearly every time. He even called Clinton “such a nasty woman.” By the end of the debate, Trump had collapsed into his basket of flaws.
But the scariest part of the night was Trump refusing to say he would abide by the election results, saying, “I will look at it at the time.”
Trump refused to commit to the peaceful transfer of power following an election. It was appalling and a massive political mistake.
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The following players were cut today to get the roster to 53. Imagine if you are a football player and aren’t good enough to make a team like the Miami Dolphins…ouch:
Players in bold, commentary in (parenthesis)
CUTS:
OL Sam Young (Great first name, bad player)
CB Chimdi Chekwa (ChekWHY was this a surprise to anyone?)
DT Chris Jones (The Dolphins have an article on their front page talking about Chris’ plans this weekend…uhm…)
LB Rashaan Melvin (Well…bye)
TE Dominique Jones (Well…bye #2)
S Shamiel Gary (had some big hits, but got burned against actual NFLers last year)
DT DeAndre Coleman (Seems like a guy the Falcons would pick up. Very Falconish name)
DE Cleyon Laing (First Rocky beats up his brother, and now THIS)
RB Daniel Thomas (HOORAY!)
DE Jordan Williams ( I feel like this is the stapler guy from Office Space. We forgot to fire him months ago, so he just kept showing up)
LB Tyler Gray (I really should have watched the 4th quarter of these preseason games. WHO IS THIS!?!?!)
OL Jamil Douglas (1/3 of the unholy triad on the offensive line is finally jettisoned)
WR Rashawn Scott (Seems like a Bengals type of player. Probably comes back and murders us dead for them in week 4)
DE Cedric Reed (More like DEAD-ric Reed, amirite?)
OL Ulrick John (Good. I kept calling him John Ulrick on the podcast, anyway)
TE Thomas Duarte (Farewell, Asian guy with Mexican name)
CB Lafayette Pitts (Best name on the team. Well, FORMERLY on the team…)
QB Zac Dysert (He tried to throw an idea out on why he should stay, but it was intercepted)
LB James Burgess (You know you are bad when you can’t make THIS linebacking corps)
LB James Michael-Johnson (See above)
CB A.J. Hendy (Along with Pitts, the tip drill combo from week one in preseason is gone)
Here at Perfectville, we wish all of these players the best in their future endeavors. Unless they sign with The Patriots…then fuck ’em.
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An Oklahoma judge ruled Wednesday that a provision allowing the state to hide where it gets its execution drugs is unconstitutional.
As states have struggled to obtain the necessary chemicals to carry out lethal injections, secrecy laws giving hesitant drugmakers anonymity have become increasingly common. About a dozen states—including Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri and Tennessee—either have pending bills or laws on the books protecting drugmakers, or have state policies that are used to keep information about the drugs hidden. But Wednesday’s decision could be the first step toward chipping away at some of those provisions.
Oklahoma district judge Patricia Parrish ruled that the state’s secrecy statute is unconstitutional because it cloaks lethal injection information, making it all but impossible for courts to make a determination about whether an execution protocol is lawful.
“What we saw today is another example of courts being concerned that they’re denied access to information they need to make constitutional decisions about carrying out executions,” said Jen Moreno, staff attorney for U.C. Berkeley School of Law’s Death Penalty Clinic. “You can’t go into court with a claim if you don’t have information on what the state is planning to do.”
In addition to protecting drugmakers’ anonymity, Oklahoma changed its drug protocol this week to allow the department of corrections to choose from one of five drug combinations after running into difficulty obtaining the necessary chemicals.
While the ruling only affects Oklahoma law under the state’s constitution, it could have ripple effects for other states with secrecy provisions.
“When it comes to lethal injection, states have always paid attention to what’s happening in other states, whether it’s switching to different drugs or different methods,” said Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law professor who studies capital punishment. “And I think other judges are going to take this decision into consideration.” Denno added that Judge Parrish was quoted as saying that the issue was “not even a close call.”
“If you have a judge in such a key death penalty state saying it wasn’t a close call, that’s powerful,” Denno said.
The state—the first to use lethal injection in 1977—will likely appeal the decision. It’s unclear how the ruling will affect Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner, two Oklahoma death row inmates scheduled to be executed next month. Their execution dates have already been postponed after the state had trouble obtaining pentobarbital and vecuronium bromide.
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New Orleans Saints player David Onyemata will avoid being prosecuted on the misdemeanor marijuana possession citation he received earlier this year after completing a pretrial diversion program, the Jefferson Parish District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday.
While the National Football League recently suspended Onyemata for the Saints’ regular-season opener as a result of the citation, finishing the program allows him to put the legal case behind him as he prepares for training camp later this month.
It was not clear how long the program lasted. But Onyemata completed it May 29, and the charge against him was refused that same day, DA’s Office spokesman Paul Purpura said.
Exact details of what Onyemata was required to do weren’t available, but such programs typically involve undergoing counseling and passing drug tests.
According to authorities, a package seized by U.S. Customs & Border Protection personnel in Buffalo, New York, on Jan. 28 prompted the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office to raid Onyemata’s apartment in the 5300 block of Citrus Boulevard in Elmwood a day later.
Saints DT David Onyemata cited for illegal marijuana possession at Elmwood apartment New Orleans Saints player David Onyemata was issued a misdemeanor citation last week after he was accused of having marijuana at his apartment…
Deputies ended up seizing nearly three ounces of marijuana, cannabis oil, marijuana edibles and hemp powder during a search of the 6-foot-4, 300-pound defensive tackle’s place. Investigators believed the items were for Onyemata’s personal use, and he was cooperative during the search, the Sheriff’s Office said.
In Louisiana, it is illegal to possess marijuana except in certain circumstances that the Sheriff’s Office said did not apply in Onyemata’s case. He received a summons to appear in court at a later date.
He completed the diversion program without prosecutors ever charging him in connection with the summons.
Onyemata is entering the final year of his rookie contract after rotating regularly onto the Saints’ defensive line during the 2018 campaign. He registered 4.5 sacks and 35 tackles while appearing in all 16 regular-season games and two postseason contests, including the Saints’ controversial defeat in the NFC title game against the Los Angeles Rams.
Onyemata – whose given first name is Ebuka – did not begin playing football until he wanted something to do between classes while attending the University of Manitoba in Canada. The Saints selected him in the fourth round of the 2016 draft after becoming intrigued by his potential.
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als often release these pheromones in their urine. "Their urine is much more pungent," says Wlodarski. "If there's urine present in the environment they can assess compatibility through that."
It's not just mammals that have a great sense of smell. A male black widow spider can smell pheromones produced by a female that tell him if she has recently eaten. To minimise the risk of being eaten, he will only mate with her if she is not hungry.
The point is, animals do not need to get close to each other to smell out a good potential mate.
On the other hand, humans have an atrocious sense of smell, so we benefit from getting close. Smell isn't the only cue we use to assess each other's fitness, but studies have shown that it plays an important role in mate choice.
Men also make a version of the pheromone that female boars find attractive
A study published in 1995 showed that women, just like mice, prefer the smell of men who are genetically different from them. This makes sense, as mating with someone with different genes is likely to produce healthy offspring. Kissing is a great way to get close enough to sniff out your partner's genes.
In 2013, Wlodarski examined kissing preferences in detail. He asked several hundred people what was most important when kissing someone. How they smelled featured highly, and the importance of smell increased when women were most fertile.
It turns out that men also make a version of the pheromone that female boars find attractive. It is present in male sweat, and when women are exposed to it their arousal levels increase slightly.
Pheromones are a big part of how mammals chose a mate, says Wlodarski, and we share some of them. "We've inherited all of our biology from mammals, we've just added extra things through evolutionary time."
You could forego kissing and start smelling people instead
On that view, kissing is just a culturally acceptable way to get close enough to another person to detect their pheromones.
In some cultures, this sniffing behaviour turned into physical lip contact. It's hard to pinpoint when this happened, but both serve the same purpose, says Wlodarski.
So if you want to find a perfect match, you could forego kissing and start smelling people instead. You'll find just as good a partner, and you won't get half as many germs. Be prepared for some funny looks, though.
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MANILA, Philippines – The government must bring to justice those behind the death of a Chinese national in Las Pinas City recently since the incident may pose dire consequences on Filipinos in China, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said on Tuesday.
READ: China urges PH to probe death of Chinese man
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“ONE HUNDRED PERCENT AGREE WITH CHINA ON THIS ONE. We go down this road of letting Chinese nationals be hurt, our people in China will pay,” Locsin said over Twitter on Tuesday.
“Send carping yellows to China when the anti-Filipino riots start to take the sacrificial place of our people working at good jobs there,” his tweet further read.
Yang Kang, a 27-year-old Chinese national who was handcuffed by a fellow Chinese, fell to his death from a six-story building in Las Piñas City recently.
Locsin said it is the Philippine government’s obligation to bring the suspects to justice immediately.
“It makes no difference who killer(s) are, killing happened here. Our obligation to bring them to justice pronto,” he said in a separate tweet as a response to another tweet asking if a Chinese triad may have been involved.
It makes no difference who killer(s) are, killing happened here. Our obligation to bring them to justice pronto. Unless opposition wants to thank Chinese triads. Triads as generous as drug cartels—a hint to administration critics. Deep pockets to line deep convictions. https://t.co/eBJ9wj9Zbm ADVERTISEMENT — Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) August 13, 2019
Taking a hit at the opposition, Locsin then added: “Unless opposition wants to thank Chinese triads. Triads as generous as drug cartels – a hint to administration critics. Deep pockets to line deep convictions.”
Malacañang has earlier expressed alarm over the rising number of maltreated foreign nationals in the country and said the government would not tolerate any kind of abuse against any foreigner in the Philippines.
READ: Palace expresses alarm over maltreatment of foreign nationals
“We need to put a stop to these illegal acts. We will not allow nor tolerate any kind of abuse inflicted on any foreigner whether sojourning or working in this country, whether done by their fellow nationals or by our own citizens,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a statement over the weekend. /gsg
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The UK's tax agency —HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs)— has collected the voice records of over 5.1 million Brits, a UK-based privacy and civil liberties group has discovered.
The HMRC collected these voice records via a new service it launched in January 2017. Called Voice ID, the service allows UK citizens to authenticate when calling HMRC call centers via their voice.
HMRC misled users into providing a voice sample
When it launched, the HMRC website claimed users would be able to opt out of using this feature and continue to authenticate and prove their identity via the usual methods.
But an investigation by privacy group Big Brother Watch has discovered that there's no opt-out option when calling the HMRC support line, and all callers were forced to record a voice track to use with the Voice ID service.
The only way to avoid creating a voice track was by saying "no" three times during the voice track creation process, something the privacy group's investigators discovered on their own. The process is detailed in the Big Brother Watch investigation.
Unfortunately, the Voice ID system didn't record this option, and it would pester the caller for a voice sample every time they called back.
Privacy group: HMRC broke the law
Big Brother Watch members argue that the HMRC broke user rights by not providing a simple way of opting out.
Furthermore, after a very lengthy and complicated process, users can only opt out from using voice recognition for the authentication process, but users can't have their voice patterns removed from HMRC's database.
Big Brother Watch says it filed freedom of information (FOIA) requests, but HMRC officials refused to reveal how a user could delete his voice recording from HMRC's database. They also declined to reveal with what other third-parties and government agencies they share the voice records. The only detail HMRC officials disclosed was that Voice ID had over 5.1 million users at March 13, 2018.
The privacy group argues that HMRC is in clear violation of GDPR (an EU user privacy directive that's been enacted in the UK) by not prompting Brits for active consent and by not giving them an easy method of revoking consent and having their personal biometric data removed.
ICO is investigating
Big Brother Watch officials are now urging users to file a complaint with the HMRC and file another complaint about the HMRC with the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's national data protection authority.
The privacy group says it already notified ICO officials on its own, and the latter started an official investigation into HMRC's practices.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than a dozen Nobel laureates including Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Malala Yousafzai urged the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to end “ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity” in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine State.
At least 86 people have been killed in a military crackdown in Rakhine State, launched after attacks on police posts near the border with Bangladesh on Oct. 9.
The government of predominantly Buddhist Myanmar has blamed Muslim Rohingyas supported by foreign militants for the coordinated attacks which killed nine police officers.
More than 30,000 people have fled to Bangladesh, escaping the violence which has renewed international criticism that Aung San Suu Kyi’s government has done too little to help the Rohingya, who are denied citizenship in Myanmar.
In an open letter to the Security Council, Tutu and 22 others including fellow Nobel Peace laureates José Ramos-Horta and Muhammad Yunus said a "human tragedy amounting to ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity is unfolding in Myanmar".
“If we fail to take action, people may starve to death if they are not killed with bullets,” the letter said.
The violence had the hallmarks of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide as well as ethnic cleansing in Sudan’s western Darfur region, Bosnia and Kosovo, it said.
The signatories to the letter said even if a group of Rohingyas was behind the Oct. 9 attacks, the army’s response had been “grossly disproportionate”.
“It would be one thing to round up suspects, interrogate them and put them on trial,” the letter said. “It is quite another to unleash helicopter gunships on thousands of ordinary civilians and to rape women and throw babies into a fire.”
Myanmar’s government has denied accusations that excessive military force was used following the October attacks.
The letter was initiated by Ramos-Horta, according to a spokeswoman for the former East Timor president, and Yunus, who helped revolutionize finance for the poorest in Bangladesh.
A spokeswoman for the presidency of the 15-member Security Council, currently held by Spain, confirmed it had received the letter, which also expresses frustration that Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner, had not ensured citizenship rights to Rohingyas.
The letter also called for the Myanmar government to lift all restrictions on humanitarian aid to Rakhine State.
Officials from Myanmar’s mission to the United Nations in New York were not immediately available for comment.
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Life After Death: A Guide for Those Who Croaked
On average more than 150,000 people die every day on this planet. That's 2 people per second. Over a million corpses a week. And this is "normal" for planet earth. Does this fact help you get some perspective on the scope of various tragedies? If 3000 people get wiped out in a single stroke, that's still only 2% of one day's total... hardly significant from a cosmic point of view. More
Do you believe in life after death?
Too often I find that the subject of death is addressed with goofy speculation, close-minded stubbornness, or outright fear and avoidance. So let's bypass the "Death for Dummies" approach and take a deeper intellectual look at death to better understand the important role it plays in our lives... and especially what it can teach us about how to live.
As far as our human bodies are concerned, death eventually captures all of us. So far as I can tell, no human being has yet managed to live forever. Even if we evolve new silicon bodies for ourselves and find a way to transfer our minds into them, there's no reason to believe those bodies will be immortal either (even with frequent upgrades). We may be able to delay death, perhaps even for a very long time, but eventually our physical existence will end at some point. Forever is too long for us to last as physical beings. No backup system is foolproof, especially when its opponent is the infinity of time.
On average more than 150,000 people die every day on this planet. That's 2 people per second. Over a million corpses a week. And this is "normal" for planet earth. Does this fact help you get some perspective on the scope of various tragedies? If 3000 people get wiped out in a single stroke, that's still only 2% of one day's total... hardly significant from a cosmic point of view.
And here's the worst part. You don't even know when you'll die (unless you're reading this right before committing suicide, in which case I'd better keep writing). But my guess is that you don't have an item labeled "die" on your to do list or in your tickler file.
So how comfortable do you feel with the idea that today might be your last day alive?
For 150,000 people today, that's about to become the reality, so if you happen to be among them, you'll have plenty of company. I wonder how many of those people feel prepared for what awaits them.
What do we really know about what happens after death?
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Up</h2> <p class="text-primary">Use the button below to create Username and Password to access the secured content using a token.</p> <p><a class="btn btn-info" href="#/signup" role="button">Sign Up »</a></p> </div> <div class="col-md-2"> </div> </div> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 <div class = "row" > <div class = "col-md-2" > </div> <div class = "col-md-4" > <h2> Login </h2> <p class = "text-primary" > If you have Username and Password, you can use the button below to access the secured content using a token. </p> <p> <a class = "btn btn-info" href = "#/login" role = "button" > Login » </a> </p> </div> <div class = "col-md-4" > <h2> Sign Up </h2> <p class = "text-primary" > Use the button below to create Username and Password to access the secured content using a token. </p> <p> <a class = "btn btn-info" href = "#/signup" role = "button" > Sign Up » </a> </p> </div> <div class = "col-md-2" > </div> </div>
By now we should have SPA which uses the token based approach to authenticate users.
One side note before closing: The redirection for anonymous users to log-in page is done on client side code; so any malicious user can tamper with this. It is very important to secure all back-end APIs as we implemented on this tutorial and not to depend on client side code only.
That’s it for now! Hopefully this two posts will be beneficial for folks looking to use token based authentication along with ASP.NET Web API 2 and Owin middleware.
I would like to hear your feedback and comments if there is a better way to implement this especially redirection users to log-in page when the are anonymous.
You can check the demo application on (http://ngAuthenticationWeb.azurewebsites.net), play with the back-end API for learning purposes (http://ngauthenticationapi.azurewebsites.net), and check the source code on Github.
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Dr. Fagre noted that even under natural conditions, these small, vulnerable mountain glaciers would have lost ground over the past 50 years — but they would have eventually stabilized at a reduced size. Instead, the park is on track to lose its glaciers within a generation.
Larger, thinner glaciers have lost the most ground
Agassiz glacier. John Scurlock/U.S.G.S.
Agassiz glacier, pictured above, has lost more ground than any other glacier in the park: over 200 acres.
The relatively large glacier — which covered nearly 400 acres in 1966 — is also relatively thin, making it more vulnerable to rising temperatures.
“The analogy here is, think of the shoreline where the water is shallow and the slope of the beach is flat, and we have a small drop in sea level, which immediately reveals a whole lot of beach. Take that same amount of sea level drop with a steep slope and deep water, and you don't expose much more beach,” said Joel T. Harper, a glaciologist at the University of Montana. “The same is true of these glaciers.”
But smaller, thicker glaciers have lost mass, too
Gem glacier. John Scurlock/U.S.G.S.
Unlike Agassiz, the smallest glacier in the park — appropriately named Gem — has not ceded much ground over the past 50 years. But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t lost ice.
Gem is positioned at the top of a cliff, in a small area on a ledge, which means it never had much room to spread out. The glacier formed by accumulating ice upward, becoming thicker. But Gem has visibly thinned in recent years.
“Repeat photographs show it losing volume over time,” Dr. Fagre said. He added that, today, many of the park’s glaciers were “noticeably thinner than they were in the past.”
The recently published U.S.G.S. data measured only coverage area, but a coming study by Dr. Fagre’s team will measure the glaciers’ volume.
“Both processes are going on: thinning and contracting,” he said.
The park’s most visited glacier lost nearly half its footprint in 50 years
Grinnell glacier. John Scurlock/U.S.G.S.
The park’s most visited glacier, Grinnell, lost 45 percent of its footprint — more than 100 acres — from 1966 to 2015.
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If the organizers of the Global Food Innovation Summit paid Barack Obama a reported $3,000,000 to talk about himself, then they definitely got their money’s worth.
During his roughly 100-minute remarks in Milan, Italy, the former U.S. president talked about himself 216 times, according to a count by The American Mirror.
Obama said “I” 168 times, “me” or “my” 40 times, and said “we,” “us” or “our” referring to his family 8 times.
“I have joked before that although I don’t have the good fortune of having Italian ancestry, I do have a name that ends in a vowel,” Obama said towards the beginning of his remarks.
After speaking for about 10 minutes, Obama moved to a conversation with his former chef Sam Kass.
When asked how life is after the White House, Obama continued to focus on himself.
“It is true that I’m not living in the White House anymore,” Obama said. “I am actually enjoying being in my own house. I have been fighting Michelle to get more closet space.
“I have been trying to figure out how the coffee maker works,” he added.
Obama said he is working to build “an effective network of global activists.”
“You notice I have a lot of grey hair now,” Obama said. “People always ask me, ‘Oh, Mr. President, we need you and we want you involved.’
“And I’m happy to get involved, but the greatest thing I think I can give is to make sure that somebody who is 20 years old, 21, 25, who are ready to make their mark on the world that I can help them so that they can take it to the next level.”
Obama was asked how he changed in office and he remarked, “I think the people who know me best would say that I have not changed much.
“One of the dangers of being in the public eye, being in the spotlight, being in positions of power is how it will change your soul.”
He added, “That you start believing your own hype. You start believing that you deserve all the attention. I actually found that I became more humble the longer I was in office.”
The UK Express reports Obama was paid $3 million for his appearance.
That equates to $30,000 per minute.
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The decision by a Calgary officer to sic a police dog on a teenager fleeing the scene of a break-and-enter last weekend is being questioned by the youth's lawyer.
A 14-year-old — who can't be named in order to protect his identity under the Youth Criminal Justice Act — is accused of stabbing Jester, a six-year-old German shepherd. The dog was taken to hospital and underwent surgery before being released to his handler's home to recover.
But the boy's lawyer —who says his client has no criminal record — will be looking into why the dog was used in the first place.
"As with any case involving the use of police force, we will be focused on the circumstances and the dangers that the Calgary Police Service officer was facing when he decided to release his dog on a fleeing youth," said Curtis Mennie.
"Unfortunately in this case we have a police dog biting into a youth who was fleeing an area."
Deployment makes 'no sense'
The teen was running away from officers and there seems to be no evidence violence was used by the suspect during the break-and-enter. Those two facts trouble criminal defence lawyer and legal expert Pawel Milczarek who says given what he knows, the deployment of the dog "makes no sense."
"You have to really question whether that's an appropriate use of force."
Police initially responded to a report of a suspected break-in at Grant MacEwan School in the city's northeast just before 2 a.m. on Sunday. The two underage suspects fled when officers arrived and Jester was sent after them.
The boy accused of stabbing Jester is charged with maiming an animal, break and enter, and possession of a weapon.
A 15-year-old suspect has also been charged with break and enter.
Self-defence argument possible
If the teen stabbed the dog because he was being bitten, Milczarek says that could open the door to a self-defence argument.
"It may be an involuntary response. When an animal is biting you, you may try any means to make it stop."
Police recently announced the boy was charged under Quanto's law, a new criminal code section named after an Edmonton police dog that was stabbed to death while chasing a suspect in 2013. But Mennie says although the charge could be amended at the next court appearance, right now his client faces a different charge that doesn't have to do with police animals.
Mennie is still awaiting disclosure from the prosecution. The matter is back in court on Sept. 7.
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In Gold And The Watched Pot Theory I versed the following opinions on currency fluctuations:
Might the US dollar blow up? Yes it might. But so could the RMB if China floated it, and so could the British pound. No one seems to see the crisis brewing in Japan with a huge demographic problem, a shrinking population, falling exports, and no way to pay back its national debt.
There is seldom a mention of the problems in European banks who foolishly lent money to the Baltic States in Euros or Swiss Francs and now those Baltic country currencies have collapsed and the loans cannot be paid back. European banks also lent to Latin America and those loans are also suspect. Arguably, European banks are in worse shape than US banks, but no one talks about it, at least in the US.
A watched pot may boil, but it's not likely to explode, especially when everyone watching the pot expects an explosion any second. Somewhere, something is going to blow sky high, but from where I sit, it's as likely to be in the Yen, the Swiss Franc, the British Pound, or something no one is watching at all as opposed to the US dollar specifically.
Watch Eastern Europe For Possible Fireworks
I am having flashbacks to the late months of 2006 when I was watching the ABX index for signs that the subprime loan crisis was beginning. I remember the lowest rated tranches of the ABX being worth 100 and checking everyday to see if/when they would crack.
Why am I having flashbacks? Because the Eastern European currencies (Ex. Hungarian Forint, Czech Krona, and Polish Zloty) remind me of the subprime loans of 2006. A crisis here likely will start a flu that will spread ultimately to the major countries. Why do I draw the analogy between Eastern Europe and subprime loans? Because subprime borrowers were the weakest type of borrowers and the least able to deal with adverse consequences (They defaulted first as a result).
This is similar to the Eastern European countries who are the most fragile countries in terms of staying power on the fiscal front right now (Witness the massive budget deficits in those countries).
I bring this up today, because the Eastern Europe currencies are under a lot of pressure today (Approx. 2%). Keep a close eye here Minyans as this is likely the candidate that could start the crisis fire anew IMO.
Hungarian Forint vs. Euro
Polish
Zloty
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Czech Krona
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$XEU - Euro vs. US$
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After their 5th number one album in a row, Kasabian returned to the Granite City’s AECC
The band walked out dressed completely in white and played through a set filled with old classics and tracks from their newest album, For Crying Out, Loud that are bound to be classics.
They opened with the same track they chose to open their newest album with – Ill Ray (The King) – a high tempo tune filled with bold guitar licks that prepared the crowd for what was to come. Kasabian then took the crowd back to an experimental time and played Bumblebee followed by the critically acclaimed Eez-Eh from the 48:13 album.
The atmosphere went from excitement to euphoric as the band played Underdog, Shoot The Runner, You’re In Love with a Psycho and anthem, Clubfoot consecutively, which created a mass sing-along within the arena.
Frontmen Tom and Sergio looked at home on the Aberdeen stage, telling the crowd that receptions like this are the reason they love being in a band. The fans shared the gratitude and sang every word of the next two hits, Stevie and Empire. The fans then started bouncing along to one of the favourites from the new record, God Bless This Acid House. Next, Sergio put down his guitar and asked the crowd: “Are you ready for something off the top shelf?” before striding around and performing Treat.
The band then transported the audience back to their first album with Kasabian classic LSF. The combination of band energy, crowd participation and an intense light show made the entire arena forget it was a rainy Sunday night.
With a quick break, Kasabian swiftly strutted back out on to the stage and played through a seamless encore. First, they played an upbeat and lively version of new single Comeback Kid and then went into Vlad The Impaler which, had the entire venue screaming ‘Get Loose Get Loose’. Inevitably, they closed the unforgettable show with a song that isn’t just a Kasabian classic but a rock classic, ‘Fire’.
Although their beloved Leicester City punched above their weight once or twice in recent years, Kasabian do this with every new record and with a strong relationship between the band members that doesn’t look like stopping anytime soon. Sergio wrote this most recent album in 6 weeks and all we can hope for is that the rock giants manage another quick turn around so we can see them back in Scotland again soon.
Photo source: www.kasabian.co.uk
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Rupert Murdoch has launched a twin attack on the BBC and the "toffs" he says are about to gag the press just days before the government makes a key decision on the new newspaper watchdog.
The media tycoon – whose company owns a large stake in BSkyB as well as three national newspaper titles – has lambasted what he says is a leftwing bias in the corporation's journalism, accusing it of being a broadcast arm of the Guardian.
"Huge lack of balance in UK media with 8,000 BBC leftwing journalist far outnumbering all national print journalists," he tweeted.
Ten hours later he returned to his theme. "BBC massive taxpayer funded mouthpiece for tiny circulation leftist Guardian. Meanwhile print media about to be gagged to protect toffs."
Murdoch's tweets come just two days before the privy council is meeting to consider a press regulatory system put forward by the industry's biggest players including his News UK, owner of the Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times.
News UK, along with virtually all newspaper publishers in the UK bar the Guardian, the Financial Times and the Independent, has proposed its own royal charter which will be considered by the privy council on Wednesday.
This was produced in early summer to rival a government royal charter that was agreed in March over late night discussions with Labour and Hacked Off, the campaign group lobbying on behalf of victims of the press including Kate and Gerry McCann and celebrities such as JK Rowling and Hugh Grant who have complained about their privacy being breached.
Many newspaper executives believe they have lost the battle to get acceptance for an industry plan and the privy council will reject their royal charter when it meets at 5.30pm on Wednesday.
The privy council is the mechanism through which interdepartmental agreement is reached on government issues. It is made up of government ministers and is currently headed by Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister.
This raises the prospect of Murdoch and the other leading newspaper groups including Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers, Trinity Mirror, the Telegraph Media Group and regional and local newspapers and magazines of launching their own breakaway regulator.
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The same sea lion trailed and bit a swimmer on Thursday and may have attacked another on Friday at Aquatic Park in San Francisco.
Lynn Cullivan, spokesperson of the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park, said the aggressive behavior is so unusual for sea lions that officials think the same animal attacked both swimmers.
Claire Simeone, a conservation medicine veterinarian at the Marine Mammal Center in the Marin Headlands, told The San Francisco Chronicle that she also suspects the attacker was the same animal in each instance, but there is almost no way of determining that or figuring out why it has chosen to go on the offensive.
Christian Einfeldt was the swimmer bit and seriously injured on Thursday. He believes the animal trailed him as he swam from the beach to the mouth of the cove.
When the sea lion got near Einfeldt, he splashed water on it, but the animal did not go away, said Matthew Reiter from the San Francisco Police Department’s Marine Unit.
“When it didn’t work, he yelled at it and then the sea lion came up and bit him on the arm,” Reiter said.
A third attack occurred around 8 a.m. on Friday, injuring Rick Mulvihill and prompting officials to close the cove, The Chronicle reported.
The latest attacks are mysterious, the newspaper reported.
“Certainly it is concerning because it’s happened twice in 24 hours,” Simeone told The Chronicle. “We know that historically these bites are pretty infrequent.”
A witness who has frequented the cove for 50 years said he’s “never heard of anything like this.”
“You have a lot of very, very nervous swimmers now and I don’t blame them,” he said. “It’s pretty bad when you get bit by a seal.”
Cullivan said the first two swimmers bitten were closer to the bay than the shore when they were attacked.
“People think the bay is their backyard, but it really is the beginning of the wilderness,” Cullivan said. “There is wilderness out there.”
One expert questioned whether the aggressor was a harbor seal and not a sea lion. Experts say the two species are difficult to differentiate in the water, the newspaper reported.
Swimmers say harbor seals are more common at Aquatic Park, but sometimes sea lions driven away by rivals at Pier 39 swim over, the newspaper reported.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Brazil: Thousands back Dilma Rousseff over Petrobras Published duration 13 March 2015
image copyright AFP image caption "In defence of democracy! Carry on, Dilma!" reads the banner at a march in Sao Paulo
Thousands of government supporters across Brazil have been taking part in marches to show their backing for President Dilma Rousseff.
The opposition has called for Ms Rousseff's impeachment over a huge corruption scandal in the state-owned oil company, Petrobras.
Most of the politicians accused of taking bribes are from Brazil's governing coalition.
Anti-government marches are expected to take place on Sunday.
Ms Rousseff was head of Petrobras for seven years, when much of the corruption is believed to have taken place.
But she has not been implicated in the corruption scandal.
image copyright AFP image caption The march in Rio was organised by student and workers' unions and the landless movement
image copyright AFP image caption The Sao Paulo march was held in the city's financial centre
Government supporters say the calls for her impeachment, less than four months after she was re-elected to a second four-year term, amounts to a coup attempt.
'Congressmen to blame'
Pro-government demonstrations are going ahead in 14 Brazilian states. Most of them have been called by unions that support the governing Workers' Party.
"I am here to prevent that they take away the social benefits we have earned," said 69-year-old Alaide Pereira da Silva at a march in the city of Ribeirao Preto, in Sao Paulo state.
"We can't blame Dilma [Rousseff]. The congressmen are to blame. She doesn't govern on her own," she told O Globo newspaper.
Last week, the Supreme Court approved the investigation of 54 people for their alleged involvement in the kickback scheme.
The list was prepared by the Attorney General, Rodrigo Janot, who alleged that private companies paid corrupt officials in order to get lucrative Petrobras contracts.
image copyright EPA image caption Dilma Rousseff was re-elected by a narrow margin in a run-off vote in October
image copyright AP image caption Petrobras has 87,000 employees and is seen as a pillar of Brazil's economy
According to the investigation, high-profile politicians also took a share of the money siphoned off from the oil company.
Mr Junot's list includes Senate President Renan Calheiros, President of the Chamber of Deputies Eduardo Cunha, former Energy Minister Edison Lobao and former President Fernando Collor de Mello.
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With Ambarella chips, a new generation of sports cameras and professional still digital cameras will be able to capture your action sports exploits in stunning detail.
The new video chips from Ambarella, based in Santa Clara, Calif., will be built into a variety of cameras: sports video cameras, mirrorless DSLRs (for high-end shooters), and digital still cameras that can capture huge amounts of photographic detail. So the next time you go skiing down a mountain, you can capture the whole run on video and stream it to your friends live. (And they’ll be able to see the freckles on your face). The company announced the new chips at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today.
The new A9 camera system-on-chip uses the ARM Cortex A9 CPU architecture and can capture video at a resolution of 4K Ultra HD (or four times the number of pixels in a high-definition 1080p image) and a speed of 30 frames per second. And since we’re talking sports cameras operating at high speeds, you have the option of adjusting the frame rate, so you can capture 1080p video at 120 frames per second or 720p video at 240 frames per second. A previous version of the chip could do 4K video, but only at 15 frames per second.
Those are stunning speeds, and they’re functions of the advance of chip technology, said Chris Day, vice president of marketing and business development at Ambarella, in an interview with VentureBeat. Ambarella launched its previous generation of HD video chips three years ago, and it has made many advances since then. The new A9 chip is built with 32-nanometer manufacturing technology, which allows for low-power consumption, high performance, and extended battery life.
The 4K technology is impressive. During the past year, the first 4K TV sets appeared but were priced in the tens of thousands of dollars. The cost is getting lower, and Ambarella wants to drive the technology into the consumer camera market, Day said.
With the new A9 chips, you can capture still images at fast rates. You can, for instance, capture 60 12-megapixel still images each second. That makes for a mighty awesome digital still camera. Ambarella, which went public last year, designs on low-power HD video compression and image processing chips.
The A9 is available now.
The company has 440 employees and was founded in 2004. Rivals include large Japanese and Korean companies that make their own chips used in their high-end video cameras.
Meanwhile, Ambarella has also launched its A7L-A video chip for automotive video recorders.
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President Donald Trump listens to questions from reporters during a meeting with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 20, 2019.
As tensions between the U.S. and Iran escalate, President Donald Trump approved military strikes on several Iranian targets — but abruptly pulled back from launching them on Thursday night, according to three U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive national security decisions.
The attacks were approved in retaliation to to Iran shooting down an unmanned American spy drone, and officials were still expecting the operation to go ahead as late as 7 p.m. ET. It was not clear why the strikes were called off.
The New York Times first reported on the aborted strike plan.
The Times report, published late Thursday, cited multiple senior administration officials involved in or briefed on the deliberations of the strikes.
Military planes and ships were getting ready to attack Iranian targets — such as radar and missile batteries — when the attack was called off, according to the Times. No missiles had been fired, said the report.
The Times said it wasn't clear whether Trump had simply changed his mind about attacking Iran, or the administration switched course due to logistics and strategic considerations. It also wasn't clear if the attacks would still go ahead, according to the report.
The Department of Defense did not return CNBC's requests for comment. A senior administration official said: "We do not comment on pre-operational military planning." The Times said that the White House and Pentagon officials declined to comment. No government officials asked the Times to withhold the article, the report said.
Trump on Twitter: Iran made a very big mistake!
Earlier on Thursday, Trump said on Twitter that "Iran made a very big mistake!" by shooting down the U.S. spy drone. Iran claimed that the aircraft was over its territory, but the U.S. Central Command said it was flying in international airspace.
On the same day, Trump also said at the White House: "I think they made a mistake, and I'm not just talking the country made a mistake. I think that someone under the command of that country made a big mistake."
Tensions between Washington and Tehran have been rising since the Trump administration's decision to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement.
Before the confrontation over the American drone, the U.S. accused Iran of recent attacks on oil tankers in the Persian Gulf region.
— CNBC's Eamon Javers contributed to this report.
For the full story on Trump pulling back military strikes on Iran, read The New York Times.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson’s latest foray into the nation’s immigration debate ended with a social-media roasting this weekend when he compared a migrant caravan from Central America to Nobel physicist Albert Einstein.
The astrophysicist and “StarTalk Radio” host was mocked on Twitter Sunday when he rhetorically paired the man behind the famous equation E = mc2 to rock-throwing migrants trying to force their way through a U.S. port of entry in San Ysidro, California.
“Albert Einstein was a refugee to the USA,” he tweeted.
His commentary came in conjunction with a new cycle in which hundreds of asylum seekers climbed over fences along the U.S. southern border until they were repelled with tear gas.
Footage from the border chaos showed some of them throwing rocks.
Mr. Tyson’s Twitter feed was soon filled with chastisements over his decision to equate Mr. Einstein’s orderly and legal entrance into the U.S. with men throwing projectiles at border agents.
“He was a legal immigrant who fully embraced the ideals and mores of his adoptive country,” one user wrote, the social-media aggregator website Twitchy reported. “I don’t think he stormed a fence and threw rocks.”
“To be a bit pedantic, Albert Einstein renounced his German citizenship in March of 1933, was on an assassination list, accepted a job with the Princeton Advanced Study program in October, told Roosevelt Germans were developing the bomb … and became a US citizen in 1940,” added another.
A third person used a Morgan Freeman meme to admire Mr. DeGrasse Tyson’s “total commitment” to “a special kind of stupid.”
President Trump issued a statement on Monday saying he was willing to “close the border permanently” if Mexican authorities did not assert and maintain control of the situation.
“Mexico should move the flag waving Migrants, many of whom are stone cold criminals, back to their countries,” Mr. Trump tweeted. “Do it by plane, do it by bus, do it anyway you want, but they are NOT coming into the U.S.A. We will close the Border permanently if need be. Congress, fund the WALL!”
Albert Einstein was a refugee to the USA. — Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 26, 2018
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independent Frente Amplio de Camioneros de Puerto Rico (Broad Front of Truck Drivers of Puerto Rico), which is not affiliated with the Teamsters.
TheConservativeTreehouse.com egregiously misrepresented Rodriguez’s interview, translating it to claim that Rodriguez said truck drivers are refusing to work as part of a plan to show up Puerto Rico’s governor.
"Since the country doesn’t care about truckers, the truckers won’t help," TheConservativeTreehouse.com quoted Rodriguez. It credits the reporter with getting Rodriguez to admit his defiance.
In truth, Rodriguez is saying the opposite, that despite a disagreement over a law signed by Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló concerning truck permitting, drivers should help in any way they can. Truckers called off a planned strike because of Hurricane Irma three weeks prior, he said.
Rodriguez did take a swipe at Rosselló, saying long lines are partly his fault, and noted that truckers can’t come down when they are in regions with impassable roads. But by and large, Rodriguez said that truckers are working and doing what they need to do to deliver goods. He even cuts off the reporter at one point for suggesting they are refusing to work.
In response to all the false stories online blaming Teamster drivers, the union released a statement on Oct. 2 that said their members have been working since Maria passed over the island. The statement blamed "online, anti-union sources" for spreading an inaccurate story.
"These viral stories spreading across the internet are nothing but lies perpetrated by anti-union entities to further their destructive agenda," Teamsters president Jim Hoffa said in the release. "The fact that they are attempting to capitalize on the suffering of millions of citizens in Puerto Rico that are (in) dire need of our help by pushing these false stories, just exposes their true nature."
Our ruling
Bloggers said that "San Juan Teamsters didn't show up for work to distribute relief supplies" because they went on strike after Hurricane Maria.
The widespread accusations trace back to a post that selectively edited and mistranslated interviews to make it look like union truckers were being greedy and lazy.
But there’s no strike, and union truck drivers have been trying to move aid shipments across Puerto Rico. There are multiple logistical problems slowing down transport, not the least of which is that some drivers simply can’t get to the port, or drive on impassable roads.
Bloggers are misrepresenting a real humanitarian crisis by blaming trade unions. That drives this rating to Pants On Fire!
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Sister Lucy teaches higher secondary students at a government-aided school near in Wayanad
Despite repeated warning letters from her own congregation, Sister Lucy, a 53-year-old nun from Kerala's Wayanad, remains undeterred. The last warning letter she received from the Franciscan Clarist Congregation, which comes under the Catholic Church, was on February 2.
"Of course I am being targeted because I supported the nuns protesting against Bishop Franco Mullackal, after their colleague - a nun - raised allegations of sexual abuse against him. I have been a nun with them for 33 years, and all their complaints are based for just one year," Sister Lucy told NDTV with a confident smile.
"I am not judging them (church authorities) still. But they have to open their eyes to the cases of sexual abuses happening to children, women and nuns too... I want to meet Pope Francis and talk to him about sexual abuse within our churches. Priests must be allowed to marry. Priesthood and marriage should go hand in hand," Sister Lucy says with a spirited zeal.
"I did not know these protesting nuns before. I have never seen them before. Only when they started protesting in Kochi, I got to know about them from the media. I haven't heard or seen Bishop Franco before that. But I am a nun and how could I not support the nuns fighting for their justice. I am one of them. These nuns have been isolated from the church. It is a horrible situation. My attitude is to always be with the oppressed, unwanted," an unwavering Sister Lucy said.
Sister Lucy teaches higher secondary students at a government-aided school near her convent in Wayanad. "My students are very fond of me. They come and encourage me saying 'this is our sister', 'you must fight for the truth'", Sister Lucy said, almost laughing. The church has accused the nun of violating canonical orders, her superiors, dress code, and even questioned her intentions behind getting a driving licence, buying a car and speaking out in public debates since September 28, 2018. It was the time when five nuns from Kottayam had taken to the streets in their official robes, protesting against rape-accused Franco Mullackal.
"My mind says that it is impossible for them to get me out of the convent. There is court, law. There is India to stand by me. There are Indian leaders. We should follow rules of India first. But if I have to face the situation of being expelled, I will still be happy. Because then I will be sister of the whole world," Sister Lucy said.
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Boston’s International Socialist Organization now uses Northeastern University’s facilities to hold its events, including one upcoming day-long workshop on how “inequality is a law of capitalism.”
“In the United States, there are 400 billionaires. They are the reason why there are 47 million poor people,” an event description asserts, contending that “you cannot have obscene, untold wealth unless you have obscene, unimaginable poverty.”
“In the United States, there are 400 billionaires. They are the reason why there are 47 million poor people.”
The event, being advertised as New England’s “Marxism Day School,” will apparently discuss an “alternative to this way of organizing society”—namely socialism—noting that Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid placed socialism “at the center of U.S. politics.”
Indeed, the event description praises Sanders’ candidacy as a confirmation of “what people struggling for a living wage and against racism and police brutality have been saying for years: Capitalist [sic] isn’t working for anyone but bankers and billionaires, and to end our suffering we need an alternative.”
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“Whether or not the bigot Trump or the warmonger Clinton wins the presidential election we are going to have to fight for a different kind of world,” it continues, encouraging students to “join the International Socialist Organization” to learn “how we can win that world.”
While the university informed Campus Reform that it is unaware as to whether any student organizations are involved in the event, the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter is now listed as a co-sponsor, along with the International Socialist Organization.
Campus Reform has yet to hear back from the school as to whether the student groups’ involvement means that any university funds will help pay for the day-long event.
[RELATED: ‘Capitalism is the problem,’ CCSU socialists claim]
Notably, Boston’s International Socialist Organization recently hosted several events on Northeastern’s campus, including one on the “Fight for a Socialist Future” and another called “How Do We Get to a Revolution?”
Campus Reform reached out to the organization for comment on the matter, but did not receive a response in time for publication.
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Arguably the most famous (or infamous) male writer of the 20th century has a new short story coming out. An unpublished 1956 short story written by Ernest Hemingway will hit the pages of The Strand Magazine this weekend, 62 years after Papa wrote it, and 57 years after his death.
Known for his supposedly “masculine” style of writing and equally macho personality, Hemingway is probably most beloved for his novels The Sun Also Rises, A Farwell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea. But for true Hemingway aficionados, the short stories are where his real brilliance shines. Whether it’s two waiters complaining about their lives in a “Clean Well-Lighted Place,” or a young boy having a brush with mobsters in “The Killers,” the smaller bites of Hemingway are often the best. Fatherly got in touch with the editor of The Strand, Andrew F. Gulli, to get a sense for what the new story is all about.
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“This is a tale about men who fought a war and were regrouping for the next big challenge,” Gulli says. “Their drinking and chatting about books, life, relationships, and the narrator for a brief moment questions if the sacrifice was worth it all.”
The story is called “A Room on the Garden Side,” and was written by Hemingway in the last years of his life as a reflection on World War II. According to CNN, Hemingway sent a batch of stories to his publisher at some point after this story was written saying the stories were “boring” and that the publisher could “always publish them after I’m dead.”
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For fans of Hemingway, the existence of a short story previously unavailable to the public is anything but boring. Although the 1999 posthumous Hemingway novel True At First Light was considered something of let-down by critics, the odds for a short story being decent are high while the stakes are considerably lower.
The Strand Magazine is available in every single Barnes and Noble bookstore nationwide in the magazine section. Though primarily a mystery magazine, The Strand has a long history of publishing long-lost manuscripts from beloved and deceased authors. The new issue, featuring “A Room on the Garden Side” is out this weekend. You can also buy it directly from The Strand here.
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Beer and baseball go together like peanut butter and jelly, so it’s only fitting that Budweiser and MLB teamed up with local artists to create one-of-a-kind team cans for the start of the baseball season.
For the past few years, Bud Light’s team cans for the NFL, which featured a minimalist design with each team’s logo, proved to be a hit in local markets, and Budweiser is hoping to replicate that success with its MLB cans.
“Baseball and the culture it created is a true celebration of the American spirit,” said Ricardo Marques, vp of marketing at Budweiser, in a statement. “This year, we wanted to leverage our long-standing partnership with MLB to raise a toast to the fans by giving them a piece of their hometown to enjoy right in the palm of their hand.”
It really helped a lot to look at historical baseball memorabilia as well as print material to make this a true St. Louis piece,” he said.
Budweiser tapped local artists to create designs inspired by each city, incorporating local landmarks such as the Gateway Arch for the St. Louis Cardinals. Illustrator Adam Koon, who designed the Cardinals can, used the team’s design past and 1950s nostalgia as inspiration. “
Artist Annica Lydenberg, who designed the Boston can, was inspired by vintage New England store and restaurant signs as well as her lifelong passion for the Red Sox.
“I grew up in Boston during a time when the Red Sox weren’t winning World Series, but my favorite nighttime activity was always going to a baseball game at Fenway,” she said. “We’d get cheap seats in the bleachers or just wander in after the seventh-inning stretch. It didn’t matter that I watched them lose so many times. It was rooting for the underdog that made me into the kind of person that I am.”
The cans will be available on March 27, just before opening day, in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Oakland, San Diego, St. Louis, Tampa Bay and Washington, D.C.
“Budweiser has been a great MLB partner for a long time and continually evolves its marketing connected to our sport,” said Noah Garden, MLB’s evp of business, in a statement. “These custom-designed cans are another terrific example of Bud’s support and their ability to connect with our fans.”
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these areas, the cause would quickly become very personal. Chicago has relatively strong gun laws, but the city borders on Indiana, where the laws are much laxer. My neighbors and I would join a vigorous and relentless campaign for stricter national gun laws.
This isn’t our reaction to gun violence in black parts of town. Does this mean that we’re racists? Perhaps not. Perhaps we just haven’t realized the extent to which gun violence is destroying urban black communities. But once we realize this, our passion for justice and hatred of racism should galvanize us to action. Here the parallel to the Black Lives Matter movement is instructive. When black protesters convinced whites that striking examples of unjustified police violence were not just occasional aberrations, the whites supported protests against what they now saw as a racist practice. Similarly, white supporters of gun control should join with blacks — including mayors of major cities — who have recognized the racist effects of gun proliferation.
Related More From The Stone Read previous contributions to this series.
The case for the racist effect of our permissive gun laws is especially powerful. There’s no way of explaining away all these deaths as aberrations. If we fail to oppose with equal passion and vigor the relentless political pressure of (mostly white) gun advocates, we force a large number of black citizens to live with the constant threat of gun violence. We’re in effect letting the Second Amendment trump the Fourteenth Amendment, implicitly preferring the right of gun ownership to the right of black people to live free from fear.
The gun lobby, of course, will say that gun control laws won’t help. Some will also dismiss gun violence as a “black problem” since it’s often a matter of blacks attacking other blacks. But here I’m not concerned with refuting gun-lobby arguments. I’m speaking to those who already agree that we need stronger gun laws and who realize that when our fellow citizens are dying and there’s something we can do about it, it’s morally vacant to say it’s their problem. Hatred of racism should be a major motivation for the gun control movement. This will give it the vigor and persistence needed to overcome the gun lobby’s passionate fantasy that citizens with guns protect us from tyranny.
Gary Gutting is a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, and an editor of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. His new book, “What Philosophy Can Do” (W. W. Norton) offers essays, expanded from his Stone columns, on politics, science, religion, education and art.
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Ippo and Wanpo are going for their roadwork at 5 in the morning. The weather is extremely good, so Ippo is excited that it’s a great day for fishing. While saying that he hopes the customers today will have a successful fishing, he’s shadow boxing. And Taihei appears in front of him. Taihei tries to appeal to Ippo by shadow boxing as well.
Taihei: “Was that shadow boxing you just did? I wasn’t able to see your fist. Being the Japan champion is amazing.”
Taihei explains that he found out that Ippo was the former Japan champion. Taihei has been looking for Ippo by asking people that he’s looking for a man that is always with a huge white old dog. And he found out that Ippo is doing his roadwork around here early in the morning.
Taihei: “I didn’t know when you would come, so I have been waiting here…It’s the first time waking up this early.
Ippo thinks that Taihei came here to get his revenge from last time, so he ignores him and tells him to go away. Taihei asks him to wait and says, “Make me your student! Teach me to box!”
After Ippo hears that, he runs at full speed and Taihei chases him.
Taihei: “Please wait for me master! Master…hey listen to what I have to say!” Taihei can’t keep up with Ippo’s stamina and he falls down. After seeing that, Ippo asks, “Why do you want to box?” Taihei says that he liked boxing since he was a kid, and then Ippo tells him to just go to the gym then. But Taihei wants to first become better before going to Kamogawa gym. So he wants to first train under Ippo and then immediately become a pro boxer.
Ippo: You collapsed by just running a bit, and yet you want to become a pro boxer without proper training? I think that’s arrogance.
Taihei suddenly realizes that Ippo knew his name although he didn’t introduce himself. Taihei realizes that Teru must have told it to Ippo and he gets angry. Ippo is about to say something and the chapter ends.
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The serpent's revenge: Woman burns down her own home after she tries to kill snake by dousing it in gas and setting it on fire
The serpent bolted into a pile of debris, which started the initial fire
It was too late once firefighters arrived, but they managed to save the neighboring home after it, too, caught fire
A woman who doused a snake in gasoline and lit it on fire got a rude awakening as the snake slithered away and caused an entire house to burn to the ground.
The woman was cleaning her home when she happened on a snake.
In a panic, the homeowner threw gasoline on the creature.
SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO Sad irony: A Texas home was set ablaze after a burning snake, doused in gas and lit by the homeowner, slithered away and took the fire with it
Randall Baggett of the Bowie County, Texas Sheriff's Office explained what happened next.
'[She] lit the snake on fire,' Deputy Baggett told KSLA. 'Then the snake went into the brush pile and the brush pile caught the home on fire.'
Firefighters responded to the fire around 7pm Wednesday.
When they arrived to the residence, on Will Smith Road in the Liberty Eylau area of Bowie County, it was already engulfed in flames.
Bad luck: Firefighters struggled to contain the blaze as one side of a neighboring home burned, as well
Hopeless: Despite the best efforts of firefighters, the woman's home was a complete loss
A neighboring house was affected as well.
Thanks to the efforts of firefighters, the neighbor's home was only damaged on one side.
However, they were unable to contain the first blaze and that home was totally lost.
As strange as it sounds, one official said this isn't the first time he's seen an animal contribute to a fire.
Sad: Bowie County Deputy Sheriff Randall Baggett (pictured) said the burning snake slithered away and ignited a pile of debris which burned the house
According to Liberty Eylau Fire Chief David Wesslehoft, the phenomenon isn't totally unheard of.
'It could happen with rabbits and big field mice,' he told KSLA. 'Once they start burning the grass, they get out of their hole, they have been known to catch fire and then take off.'
Nonetheless, the fire chief admitted he'd never before seen a snake start a fire.
Meawhile, officials continue to investigate the incident.
No word yet on whether charges will be brought against the woman.
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Harris has knocked on doors of known criminals to tell them the community won't tolerate their behavior. "We have a no-nonsense approach to our community," Harris says.
Countering gentrification
Many see the North End as a cusp neighborhood. It surrounds Arden Park, a two-street neighborhood of beautiful historic homes, is in close proximity to fairly active commercial districts in New Center and Hamtramck, and will be the location of the M-1 light rail line's terminal stop.
The prospect of outside developers (or speculators) buying property in the North End brings both possibility and risk. Hebron says residents
Oakland Avenue Urban Farm "We recognize some people have very strong feeling about white people moving into community with their privilege not respecting those who have been here," she says. "It's our hope we will find a way to live in unity with different cultures or incomes."
In her role as executive director of the neighborhood CDC, Hebron has reached out to the Boggs Center, an organization that facilitates community building, for guidance. She also works with local artists to beautify the neighborhood and provide creative mediums to explore these challenging subjects.
One of those artists is Bryce Detroit, co-founder of both the
"With the O.N.E. Mile project what we were really doing is supporting the current cultural and economic production that's already taking place by North End members," Bryce says.
Bryce started working in the North End in 2009 and immediately became infatuated with the neighborhood's musical heritage—it was the home of Aretha Franklin, numerous Motown acts, and some classic venues.
As a music producer and self-described "cultural designer," Bryce has supported the North End through architectural design, programming with community members, as well as creating, and in some cases, "reactivating" spaces for experimentation. I
"This is about giving those members an opportunity to express cultural identity," Bryce says.
Bryce also released the second issue of the "O.N.E. Mile Zine" this summer, which utilizes high-art and design to highlight the work of people in the North End.
"We are countering the process of gentrification, which does start with narrative," Bryce says. "What makes us different is that our neighborhood is countering invisibility narratives by broadcasting our own."
If a "top-down" approach is what most communities use, Bryce and others put culture and community first, then add in economics.
"That's our process," Bryce says. "Starting with the culture versus starting with the marketplace."
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’t bother to hide their investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal when it mattered. Unless someone above James Comey ordered a hit on Rich and then leaned all over him to bury it, there’s no motive for a cover-up, and I’m pretty sure that Barack Obama and Loretta Lynch weren’t ordering Code Reds on DNC staffers. The FBI wouldn’t have sat on evidence of a Wikileaks source anyway, especially not with other intelligence officials calling them Russian stooges.
But didn’t the FBI (and the Obama administration) want it to be all about the Russians? Wouldn’t that have been enough to motivate a cover-up? Sure — and that might work if Wikileaks hadn’t also penetrated John Podesta’s e-mails. Seth Rich wouldn’t have had any access to those. Some other entity conducted that penetration, and both Republicans and Democrats briefed on all these matters have at least acknowledged the Russian efforts to penetrate both, plus the RNC too. Rich’s leaks — again, if they occurred — wouldn’t have impacted the conclusions about Russia. At best (or worst), Rich might have been just another source.
It looks salacious, but doesn’t add up. For what it’s worth, the family doesn’t appear to be buying Wheeler’s take either:
Seth Rich family spokesperson: "no evidence," "no emails" suggesting Wikileaks links. Comes day after story claiming family PI found links pic.twitter.com/vmp2oQpcG2 — Alex Campbell (@alexcampbell) May 16, 2017
Let’s just add this to the list of hypotheses that float around as speculation more than evidentiary, much like we saw in the Chandra Levy-Gary Condit theories that ended up being wrong. Until the laptop and the evidence emerge, anyway, we’re simply dealing with hypotheses and hearsay.
Update: It usually pays to be skeptical. According to the FBI, they never had the laptop, and it never had e-mails to any Wikileaks figure:
Fresh reporting from NBC's Pete Williams: Seth Rich's laptop did not have emails to WikiLeaks. And FBI never had it. https://t.co/QIM3D0SEDr pic.twitter.com/ywDPpq47F9 — Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) May 16, 2017
Local police in Washington, D.C., never even gave the FBI Rich’s laptop to analyze after his murder, according to the current FBI official.
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34 Coins for more widespread play. He seemed to think that putting the skill of the diplomat in the hands of the commoner would benefit society. "See what a life such skill has granted the likes of me, and from such a dire starting position!"
How could I disagree? Hence, we developed the game further, testing its merits and responding to its demerits and detractors, all the while hoping a better game designer than we would take it up and spread it more effectively to the masses.
In the years that followed I played many games of Diplomacy, though fewer than I would have liked. Even when Frederico's charming persuasion accompanied my enthusiasm in this back-alley tavern
or that underground cabaret, it was exquisitely difficult to convince strangers to play with us, times being what they were. It helped that we were able to recruit a modest bevy of gamemasters throughout Europe to conduct Diplomacy games by post, although these games tended to be reserved for the upper classes.
Diplomacy is a great game. A game of cunning, deceit, and deception, to be sure, but also one of careful planning, collaboration, and creativity. It calls on the player to at once be dangerous and delectable.
Whenever I played it called to mind the struggles the Great Powers themselves engaged in. The desire to expand their territories. To secure their borders. To ensure growth and prosperity for their people. To fix the memory of their achievements in the legends told by their followers.
While I only played with the honorable Frederico Barbosa a single time--he swiftly soloed and departed before the night was out--his presence did linger over me as I feasted upon the dawn of a spring day in the south of France, 1908. Physically, I was exhausted, mentally spent, my mind dulled by late night wine with five other defeated diplomats, and yet there was an energy moving about me. You might say it was the spirit of Mr. Barbosa, the memory of our negotiations, the charm of his diplomacy, the brilliance of his deadly backstab, to which I will later relate.
After the sun had dissolved the fog mid-morning I descended to the streets of the 5th arrondissement, where, at a street cafe I watched the passersby, sipped a refreshing coffee, and revisited each moment of the game, how I'd made my decisions, and what I might have done better. All this in a journal bestowed to me by Frederico. Besides playing as many games of Diplomacy as one can, reviewing and discussing past games was a practice Mr. Barbosa suggested was the best way to improve.
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Americans are now split on who they think will win the 2016 presidential election—signaling that many now think that Donald Trump has a serious chance against Hillary Clinton, the current Democratic front-runner, in the fall. In the minds of voters, Trump’s chances of winning the presidential race have improved, with 47 percent saying they think Clinton will win the general election contest and 46 percent thinking Trump will win. This is a significant change from last week, when a majority of voters put their odds on Clinton over Trump (51 percent to 42 percent).
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Last Thursday, Donald Trump crossed the 1,237 delegate threshold and officially clinched the Republican nomination for president. This came during the same time that the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General released their audit report on findings related to Clinton’s use of a private email server.
The general election match-up remains almost the same from last week, with Clinton holding a 2-point lead over Trump. These results are according to the latest from the NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll conducted online from May 23 through May 29.
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When looking at this support by different demographic groups, Clinton continues to enjoy a large amount of support among women—54 percent to Trump’s 37 percent. Trump, however, expanded his support among men this week to 15 points from 10 points last week. He now beats Clinton among men 54 percent to 39 percent.
Black voters continue to support Clinton by an overwhelming 79-point margin (87 percent to 8 percent). Hispanics support Clinton over Trump by 29 points (61 percent to 32 percent). Trump is the preferred candidate among white voters by 14 points over Clinton (53 percent to 39 percent). These numbers are consistent with margins from last week’s tracking poll.
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Over the last two election cycles, when a candidate becomes the presumptive nominee, that person has gained a boost in the public polls. Trump’s numbers moved up slightly after he became the presumptive nominee on the Republican side. If history repeats itself, the Democratic presumptive nominee will get a similar bump once that happens.
The NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking poll was conducted online May 23 through May 29, 2016 among a national sample of 14,797 adults aged 18 and over, including 12,969 who say they are registered to vote. Respondents for this non-probability survey were selected from the nearly three million people who take surveys on the SurveyMonkey platform each day. Results have an error estimate of plus or minus 1.2 percentage points. For full results and methodology for this weekly tracking poll, please click here.
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-one mode. You make a game that is made for and played by smart people; don't act like we're stupid or don't understand simple statistics. Don't expect us to believe that a 90% cut in prizes for events is a positive or act like we're children and you're the parent who knows best. Don't tell us that you avoided putting dusting in the game because we're not smart enough to manage our collections in the way that we've done in every form of Magic for the past 25 years (and in every similar game like Hearthstone or Eternal). Just make wildcards, if that's what you think is best. Don't tell us that ranked play will only be in best-of-one because that's what we want based on a bunk statistic (and certainly don't double down on that statistic during a livestream). Just tell us ranked play is starting off with best-of-one.
Furthermore, from the perspective of Arena, remember that with last week's esports announcement, every word that comes out of your mouth will be magnified by $10,000,000. We're no longer playing the version of Arena where a collection wipe was around the corner and decisions were based on testing things out in a closed beta setting. We're playing the version of Arena that is running a million-dollar tournament - perhaps the single most valuable tournament in the entire 25 year history of Magic - in three months' time. Three months! Everything you say will be scrutinized even more closely—people's livelihoods are now literally on the line. If there were ever a time to double down on choosing your words carefully and making sure you are saying what you mean, that time is now.
Conclusion
This should be a great and exciting time for the Magic community as a whole. For the first time in the history of the game, Wizards is going big with prize money and tournament play. Together, the community and the Arena team should be celebrating this victory, not fighting over individual card rewards and silly, meaningless statistics. It's time for Arena to move past the ever-present "us versus them" attitude and celebrate together. With some self-improvement and work on both sides, we can make it happen and enjoy the ride of Magic becoming a legitimate esport together.
Anyway, that's all for today. As always, leave your thoughts, ideas, opinions, and suggestions in the comments, and you can reach me on Twitter @SaffronOlive or at [email protected]
(Editors note: Some information on how Arena handles rewards in best-of-three was corrected. You are given rewards for each game.)
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to make sure, well, bad guys don’t get guns: that the same background checks required of buyers in gun stores extend to gun shows, too. (When NRA types say we don’t need new gun laws, we just have to enforce the ones already on the books, they’re lying.) A vote to extend criminal and mental illness background checks, which includes a specific ban on a national registry, failed for the second time in two years only days after the mass shootings in San Bernardino, with no prospects of passing any time soon. Indeed, as the sober-sided bankers at BB&T elsewhere explain, one actual recent change in the regulatory environment has been “the liberalization of laws governing the carrying of loaded handguns on one’s person for personal protection.”
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Sidebar: Palookas With Bazookas
The lunacy of our modern-day “tactical” movement is not just the proliferation of guns. It’s the refusal to draw distinctions between the people who use them, be they trained professionals or oafish amateurs. Note two examples that arrived close on each other’s heels this winter.
In November, after the mass shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic, Maricopa County’s Joe Arpaio inducted all 250,000 Arizonans with concealed carry permits into his already-existing volunteer “armed posse” to fight terrorist attacks: “I expect armed citizens to take action in the event a terror attack or other violence occurs until law enforcement arrives.”
Then, in December, after Mark Herring, Virginia’s Democratic Attorney General, announced the state would no longer recognize out-of-state concealed-carry permits, a Republican state senator moved to punish Herring’s boss, Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe: “I have a budget amendment that I’m looking at to take away his executive protection unit. If he’s so afraid of guns, then I’m not going to surround him with armed policemen.”
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So there it was: the absolute disintegration of any distinction between trained state police and every last palooka with a bazooka. But remember: Ronald Reagan got there first. – R.P.
Rick Perlstein is the Washington Spectator’s national correspondent.
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Brett Sandburg crashed the #13 ANSA Motorsports KTM X-Bow GT4 out of second place on Saturdays GTS race for the Pirelli World Challenge series at Lime Rock Park. He was close behind the race leader, Lawson Aschenbach in the #10 Blackdog Speed Shop Chevrolet Camaro Z28 for most of the race. Near the closing laps, Sandburg tried several times to pass Aschenbach, including an attempt at the Uphill left-hander, which Aschenbach successfully defended to maintain the lead.
Next time around, Sandburg tried again at the Uphill turn. This time around, he lost control and crashed into the side of Aschenbach. The Camaro was able continue and finished the race in fourth, but Sandburg’s KTM was left stranded in the grass on the outside of the turn.
Sandburg took a long time to emerge from the car. At first, I worried that he had been injured in the crash (which I didn’t see so I couldn’t tell how hard the hit had been). Eventually, the canopy popped open and Sandburg climbed out, his body language clearly showing his disappointment with not making the pass for first and losing out on second place, both in the space of a few seconds.
The helmet really accentuates the way Brett Sandburg’s head is hanging in sadness. That sadness pretty quickly turned into anger as he squatted next to the grass and watched the track workers clean up the debris from the accident and remove the stricken KTM. Eventually it all got to be too much for him and he threw his gloves onto the grass, folded his hands, and hung his head again.
We like to think of racing drivers as cold, almost machine-like with their focus on getting the most out of their cars for every lap of every race. Every once in while an incident like this happens that shows us the depth of their commitment and the emotions that bubbling just under the surface.
The crash was just a racing incident. No penalties were applied. It was just two drivers trying as hard as possible. Chris Beaufait in the #45 Racers Edge Motorsports SIN R1 GT4 went on to take the victory.
Afterward, I overheard two flag marshals talking about the incident. The Sandburg-Aschebach crash was barely a blip on their radar, given the much more serious incidents that had occurred that weekend. One of the flaggers explained to the other that, “they were fighting for position into the chicane and you don’t fight for position into the chicane.”
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http-request track-sc0 line since there’s no point in continuing to increment the counter after they’ve exceeded the limit. It also prevents the client from being perpetually blocked and lets the entry expire.
You may wonder when you should use the http_req_rate(24h) counter vs the http_req_cnt counter in conjunction with an expire parameter set to 24h. The former is a sliding window over the last 24 hours. The latter begins when the user sends their first request and increments from then on until the expiration. However, unless you’re manually clearing the table every 24 hours via the Runtime API, the http_req_cnt could stay in effect for a long time while the client stays active. That’s because the expiration is reset whenever the record is touched.
HAProxy Enterprise reCAPTCHA Module
HAProxy Enterprise adds several security-related modules that help you correctly identify bots and respond intelligently. One is the reCAPTCHA module. When an attacker launches a denial-of-service attack, oftentimes they’ll deploy a legion of bots to throw requests at you. When you detect that a client has exceeded your rate limit, rather than just denying them, you can send them a reCAPTCHA challenge.
The benefit of a reCAPTCHA is that it lowers the risk of false positives. Maybe a legitimate user got caught by the limit. The module lets them prove that they’re a human. Those malicious bots will be stopped, or at least slowed to the point that it’s inconvenient for them to keep attacking your service, but true, human visitors will be able to pass the test and continue.
Conclusion
In this blog post, you learned several ways to enable rate limiting in HAProxy. Using its building blocks—ACLs, stick tables, and maps—various sophisticated techniques are not only possible, but easy to implement. A common approach is to track users over a sliding window of time. However, you can use the Runtime API to clear stick table records to achieve fixed-time-period rate limiting, as in midnight-to-midnight. Also, because you have access to all of the information inside of the HTTP request, it’s possible to base your rate limit on the URL’s path or parameters.
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Immigrants raise their arms in front of a banner depicting late Pakistani immigrant Shehzad Luqman during an anti-racism rally in Athens January 19, 2013. – Reuters
ATHENS: Hundreds of demonstrators on Saturday paraded the coffin in central Athens of a Pakistani immigrant who was stabbed to death earlier this week, praying and opening the casket to show his face in protest at racist attacks in the country.
About 3,000 immigrants and human rights activists later gathered in the city's central Omonia square to demonstrate against racism, holding banners reading “Neo-Nazis out” and “Punishment for the fascist murderers of Shehzad Luqman”.
The 27-year-old Pakistani was stabbed to death by two men on a motorcycle as he rode his bicycle to work in an Athens suburb in the early hours of Wednesday, in an attack police say may have been racially motivated.
“Perhaps his murder will bring hope that these attacks will stop. We are protesting for the government to take measures to stop racist attacks,” Javied Aslam, head of the Pakistani Community organisation told Reuters, as about 300 Pakistani immigrants gathered outside city hall with the coffin.
Greece is a gateway for mostly Asian and African migrants trying to enter the European Union through its porous sea and land borders each year. They face rising hostility during the country's worst economic downturn in six decades.
A police official told Reuters earlier this week a 25-year-old and a 29-year-old firefighter had admitted to stabbing Luqman in the chest following a drunken argument.
Police discovered dozens of pamphlets of the ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn party in the home of one of the attackers.
Golden Dawn, which says it wants to rid Greece of illegal immigrants, won 7 per cent of the vote in parliamentary elections last June, entering the assembly for the first time on its fiercely anti-immigrant agenda.
Recent opinion polls show it ranks third among Greek political parties, with support at 10.7 to 12 per cent.
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, says racist attacks have risen to alarming levels during the crisis, which has made more than one in four Greeks unemployed and eroded living standards, with authorities doing little to tackle the problem.
Rights groups say most victims are attacked in public spaces such as squares or on public transport, usually by groups of men dressed in black and at times with their faces covered.
Amnesty International said Luqman's killing was not an isolated incident but showed a “continuing failure” of the Greek authorities to take action to put an end to racist violence.
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A Florida man accused of threatening his family by texting them Coldplay lyrics, and warning them of retribution from his “Nazi prison associates” was persuaded by police to end a standoff in return for a fresh slice of pizza, reports say.
Evan Charles McLemore, under the belief that SWAT team negotiators were ready to hand him one of America’s favorite foods, was taken into custody Tuesday following a 4-hour confrontation at a Pensacola home.
“Never underestimate the power of pizza with flavored crust,” the Pensacola Police Department wrote on Facebook, while adding officers “cannot comment on the rumors about pineapple being on said pizza – Operational Security and all that.”
It was not immediately clear if responding officers even gave McLemore a slice — but they did deliver him charges of resisting an officer without violence and aggravated stalking, according to the Pensacola News Journal.
The newspaper says the incident unfolded after police initially responded to a call about a possible battery and reportedly learned McLemore had barricaded himself inside a room at the home. The suspect, it added, had called out that “he had a gun to his head, and he was not going back to prison, no matter what it took.”
After numerous attempts to lure McLemore out of the room proved unsuccessful, SWAT was called in and they deployed the big guns: the promise of pizza.
Prior to his arrest, McLemore was wanted by police for aggravated stalking, the Pensacola News Journal reported, with his stepmother claiming in February that he held a knife to his grandmother’s throat and threatened to kill her.
An arrest report viewed by the Pensacola News Journal also said McLemore has previously threatened to harm people by telling them that his “Nazi” associates from prison would pay them a visit.
McLemore’s family eventually cut off communications with him — but not before he sent them one text with the Coldplay lyrics “Lights will guide you home and ignite your bones and I will try to fix you,” the report said. The lyrics, from the song “Fix You,” were meant by the band to be uplifting, though it’s unclear how McLemore may have meant them.
Police records say McLemore has served an 18-month prison term for battery on a person over the age of 65.
His bond has been set at $100,000 and he is due to appear in court in three weeks, jail records stated.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s government has kicked off a media campaign in support of genetically modified crops, as it battles a wave of negative publicity over a technology it hopes will play a major role in boosting its food security.
The agriculture ministry earlier this week announced it would try to educate the public on GMO via TV, newspapers and the Internet.
It hopes to stifle anti-GMO sentiment that has gathered momentum in the wake of incidents such as reports that genetically-modified rice had been illegally sold at a supermarket in the center of the country.
Beijing has been a long-time proponent of GMOs, which it sees as broadly safe and as potentially key in helping feed the world’s largest population.
But critics have alleged the technology could pose health risks, and while China allows imports of some GMO crops it is yet to permit domestic cultivation.
China has imported millions of tonnes of GMO soybeans each year for the past decade to feed the world’s largest stock of farmed pigs and to produce around 40 percent of the county’s vegetable oil needs. China consumes around a third of the world’s soybeans, and snaps up roughly 65 percent of all imports each year.
“(We will create) a social atmosphere which is beneficial for the healthy development of the genetically-modified industry,” the agriculture ministry said in a statement.
NEGATIVE REPORTS
A stream of negative reports this year on certain biotech foods, has dragged on already-slow progress toward domestic cultivation and may have played a role in curbing imports of some crops.
The discovery of a strain of genetically modified corn that had not been approved by Beijing in some U.S. shipments to China wreaked havoc in the grains market, with trader Cargill [CARG.UL] estimating losses of more than $90 million as a result.
The discoveries also triggered lawsuits against Syngenta, the developer of the unapproved corn variety.
The country has also suspended the import approval process for a genetically modified soybean variety, citing “low public acceptance” of GMO food, according to two people familiar with the matter.
BE BOLD
China has spent billions of yuan developing its own GMO crops and approved two pest-resistant varieties of rice and a biotech corn for commercialization in 2009. But, wary of strong opposition to the GMO technology, never proceeded to cultivation. The safety certificates on the products expired last month.
In comments from a speech made months ago but only published this week, Chinese president Xi Jinping urged the industry to be bold in competition with foreign GMO developers.
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standards for health plans and actively negotiate to control prices.
In the first two years of the marketplace, premiums increased an average of just 4%.
The state made a difficult decision to terminate old plans that didn’t meet the health law’s higher standards, a crucial move that helped stabilize the market by bringing the healthier consumers who had these plans into the larger risk pool.
The state also worked closely with foundations, consumer advocates, hospitals and insurers to enroll customers, particularly younger, healthier people who are also critical to maintaining a good risk pool and keeping premiums in check.
“We all worked together to make sure the marketplace worked,” said Jay Gellert, former chief executive of Los Angeles-based insurer Health Net Inc., which merged this year with Centene Corp.
Now, Covered California is implementing consumer protections that exempt many routine office visits from deductibles.
That means that someone who has a health plan with a $2,500 deductible can still see a primary care doctor for just a $35 copay and see a specialist for just $70.
Covered California Executive Director Peter Lee said these new protections should make the health plans more appealing to customers who might have been resistant to buy a plan that required them to pay thousands of dollars out of their own pockets before they got any protection.
“No patient I know wants to pay $2,500 to see the doctor,” Lee said.
Lee and others acknowledge that even the new protections won’t alleviate all cost pressures on health plans and consumers.
In 2017, Covered California rates are increasing an average of 13.2%, driven in part by rising medical costs and the end of a federal program that helped hold down rates.
Premiums for several insurers, including Blue Shield of California and Anthem Inc., are increasing even more dramatically.
Preventing large rate hikes in the future will require adjustments to the marketplaces in California and elsewhere, many experts say.
But many states could start by taking steps California already has to make their markets work, said Molina, the health plan executive.
“Had states like Texas and Florida followed California’s lead, they might have seen more gains like California’s,” he said.
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first time was as a student. No student loan available due to the type of course I was on. One time there was a delay and my part time job wages weren't paid into the bank on time and I had to wait for head office to sort them out, which took 3/4 days. Being so hard up that weekend, and having to face the shame of the queue in the bank when I went in and asked to draw out my last 50p over the counter to buy a loaf of bread and a few tins of beans to last the weekend. (back in the 90s when you could make 50p stretch to a loaf and couple of tins from Aldi).
Second time nine years ago when I lost my business in the recession. A 8 week wait for benefits to be processed as I had to prove paperwork wise that my business had been steadily making a loss, and that I hadn't closed it fraudulently to claim benefits. That time I had to go cap in hand to my ex husband for some money to feed the children which he did, though barely enough for 1 weekly shop which I had to stretch over 8 weeks. And the school shamed me (by the teacher mentioning it loudly at collection time in front of everyone) for sending jam sandwiches in their pack ups / not healthy food (because that was all I had in at the time), and the bread slices had holes in where I had picked the mouldy bits off, but it was that or the kids didn't eat. No food bank in my town at the time. Couldn't get free school meals until benefits claim went through. My daughter's tenth birthday came and went with no card or present from me, and barely any food in the cupboard. What made it worse was that her dad and rest of family planned to give her gifts when they saw her later that week, so she got up on her birthday morning to no cards or presents. Most horrible time of my life. Though I did make it up to her later on in the year when I was back working, but it still didn't make up for the sadness we felt that day. She put such on a brave face and went off to school and I sat at the kitchen table and cried my heart out for her. I know that there are people in far worse situations though, and I am thankful for all we do have now, which isn't a massive amount, but I am just about paying the bills and keeping a roof over our heads.
OP - I am sorry that things are tough right now, and I hope that things get better for you soon xx
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ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline Democratic senators ask inspector general to investigate IRS use of location tracking service MORE decided to share with the world that her DNA proved that she was of fractional Native American descent. His remarks also followed hours after a federal judge dismissed the Stormy Daniels defamation suit against the president. Before our eyes, “Cocaine Mitch” was morphing into “Buzzkill McConnell.”
As to be expected, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee seized on McConnell’s comments, and the pile on began. Senator Ron Wyden Ronald (Ron) Lee WydenHillicon Valley: Subpoenas for Facebook, Google and Twitter on the cards | Wray rebuffs mail-in voting conspiracies | Reps. raise mass surveillance concerns On The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline Democratic senators ask inspector general to investigate IRS use of location tracking service MORE weighed in: “Here’s what this means: SOCIAL SECURITY is on the ballot. MEDICARE is on the ballot. MEDICAID is on the ballot.” Not to be outdone, Warren gave a campaign lesson of her own: “Step 1: GOP explodes the deficit with $1.5 trillion in tax giveaways to wealthy donors. Step 2: GOP uses the deficit they created as an excuse to slash Social Security and Medicare.” As a matter of fact, this time she was persuasive.
If the tax cuts had trouble gaining traction with the public before McConnell’s pronouncement, they will face an even tougher slog now. Early on, the cuts were the bane of wealthy blue America as the legislation effectively ended the state and local tax deduction upon which many Californians and New Yorkers turned to for relief. Now the rest of the country can detest them as well and look forward to Election Day.
Even before McConnell’s proclamation, the cuts were rejected by voters by a double digit margin. Contrary to Republican hopes and promises, the cuts have once again failed to pay for themselves. Now America is being asked to foot the bill for the Republican gift to the donor class. Nancy Pelosi’s hands must be tingling. The Speaker’s gavel is within her reach.
Lloyd Green was the opposition research counsel to the George H.W. Bush campaign in 1988 and later served in the U.S. Department of Justice. He is now the managing member of research and analytics firm Ospreylytics.
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mC suggests an abandonment of their series’ creative heritage. It’s damning that they urged Ninja Theory, a studio chosen for its very “Western” style, to jettison traditional series aesthetics, a significant part of the appeal for fans. The mockery of much-beloved titles only made the shift rankle; by the time actual gameplay footage was up, fans had already been quite thoroughly alienated. The choice of a mostly clean-slate reboot is another risky, but telling decision – one that suggests Capcom either didn’t understand or didn’t trust their franchise. Neither of these decisions are bad on their own, but together, they suggest a product made by marketers, not artists committed to a strong creative vision.
What fans heard: Capcom thinks classic Devil May Cry is the problem and has brought on Ninja Theory to “fix” it.
By contrast, Platinum was brought on board the Rising project for a very specific reason: Kojima Productions wanted access to their strong technical skill. They had an idea of the story they wanted to tell, but they knew they couldn’t do it alone. In fact, their key motivation in doing so was to realize a vision tied to their prior work – to allow players to perform the sorts of stunts Raiden had already pulled off in prior games. And rather than simply abdicating the project to Platinum, KP continued to take an active and open role in their specialties (namely, the plot) and took pains to retain ties to the classic franchise for those who wanted them. Rising’s combination of strong creative vision and respect for the series’ canon and fans helped reinforce the idea that this was collaboration rather than a hand-off.
What fans heard was: Kojima Productions and Platinum Games love Metal Gear and want to tell a new story.
Audiences can accept many divergences and reinventions, but only so long as they appear to be made for a creative, not an economic, reason. Developers have an economic incentive to snatch up new playerbases and reinvent themselves to match market trends, but it’s not polite – or reassuring – to make these motives obvious. Collaborations between artists create excitement because of the mingling of styles and skills for a greater whole. Shameless cash-ins and sell-outs build only resentment.
And when you outsource to avoid paying the bills, or in an attempt to broaden your markets at the expense of your creative heritage, the message you send can all too easily be that you care about the franchise only insofar as it makes you money.
Then, you reap what you’ve sown.
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what to do.
Jack: You have two options. If you want to pay this outstanding amount so you don't need to go to the court house, sir.
Pat: I don't.
Jack: Yeah, and if you went inside the court house you’d have to fight with the IRS, sir.
Pat: I have to fight with them?
Jack: Yeah.
Pat: Are you with the IRS?
Jack: Yes, sir.
Pat: But don't you guys know it was a mistake?
Jack: No. No. Actually listen to me, sir. This call is being recorded as evidence for the Federal court. So after disconnecting your call, your case file will be downloaded to the court house and the local sheriff will be contacted within 45 minutes with a legal arrest warrant.
Pat: 45 minutes?
Jack: Yes.
Pat: Okay, so let's get this over with. Just tell me how I make this thing go away.
Jack: If you want to resolve this matter sir you have to pay $2,400, anyhow, sir. Do you want to resolve this matter?
Pat: I said I did.
Jack: I am going to connect your call to my senior supervisor so he will help you can resolve this matter, sir. Okay?
Pat: Okay, what's his name?
Jack: My name is Jack Smith, sir.
Pat: Jack Smith.
Jack: Okay, [inaudible 00:04:13] hold on.
Pat: What's his name? What's the supervisor... Jack do you have a badge number?
Jack: I-R-M 12975.
Pat: And you guys are located in Washington DC?
Jack: Yes, of course.
Pat: Of course.
Jack: Hold on.
Pat: All right, thanks. They're connecting me now to Jack Smith's supervisor. I don't think his name is Jack Smith.
Scott: Someone is about to pay a $2,400 fake bill and they're going to let you hang?
Pat: How do they know my last name, though?
Scott: They bought it.
Pat: Yeah.
Scott: And, because of you this phone call is now evidence. After you hang up that sheriff will call you within 45 minutes. They're going to download it too. They're at your door in 45 minutes. The sheriff. Whole cavalry's coming.
Pat: 45 minutes.
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SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) will cut 96 per cent of its capacity that had been scheduled up to the end of April, said the airline on Monday (Mar 23).
The decision was made after the further tightening of border controls around the world over the last week to stem the COVID-19 outbreak, SIA said in a news release.
About 138 SIA and SilkAir planes, out of a total fleet of 147, will be grounded as a result. Scoot, the company's low-cost unit, will suspend "most of its network" and will ground all but two of its 49 planes.
This comes amid the "greatest challenge that the SIA Group has faced in its existence", the company said.
"It is unclear when the SIA Group can begin to resume normal services, given the uncertainty as to when the stringent border controls will be lifted," it said.
"The resultant collapse in the demand for air travel has led to a significant decline in SIA’s passenger revenues."
Over the last few days, the SIA Group has drawn on its lines of credits to meet its immediate cash flow requirements, it said, adding that it is in discussions with several financial institutions on its future funding requirements.
"The company is actively taking steps to build up its liquidity, and to reduce capital expenditure and operating costs," it added.
SIA said it is in talks with aircraft manufacturers to defer upcoming deliveries, in the hopes of delaying payment for those deliveries.
The airline said in February that its management salaries and board directors' fees have been cut. It has also implemented a voluntary no-pay leave scheme for staff up to certain management positions.
"Given the worsening situation, the unions have been engaged on the additional cost-cutting measures that are needed and more steps will be taken imminently," said SIA.
"The company continues to explore measures to shore up its liquidity during this unprecedented disruption to global air travel."
Group CEO Goh Choon Phong, who has taken a 15 per cent pay cut, said it was an "extremely challenging time" for the company.
"We continue to focus on getting as many of our passengers as possible back home safely and protecting the jobs of our people," he said.
SIA has "more than doubled" the handling capacity at its service centres and sales offices to attend to customers, he added.
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less and less print. And like everyone who made the switch from print to Web design, I bemoaned the lack of control. No control over the size of the canvas, severely limited selection of fonts, crude rendering resolution, etc.
The control and fidelity afforded by the iPhone—world-class fonts, high resolution output, control over the size and placement of everything on screen—made me feel right at home.
Vesper and Q Branch are James Bond references. Why the homage?
Gruber: Bond’s gadgets have always been at the intersection of utility and elegance. Serve a necessary purpose, reliably, and look good doing it. That’s as good a motto for a software company as any.
What does Vesper bring to the table that other apps don’t?
Gruber: A few things. For one, the design supports any size note, naturally. I have two-word notes, and 200-word notes. Vesper supports photo attachments, which few others do, and the ones that do tend to be complex, fussy apps. But the three big things are organization, prioritization, and feel.
With tags, I feel organized. I’ve got everything in my mind in Vesper. But with tags I can focus on just one area at a time. (E.g., I have a tag for articles I want to link to on Daring Fireball.)
With drag-and-drop reordering, I can keep important stuff at the top of my list. This drove me nuts in other notes apps, which sort by date. I’d always be opening week-old notes and adding meaningless changes, like an extra line at the end, just to get them to sort back to the top of my list. Vesper notes are like cards in a stack—it’s easy to move one to the top of the stack.
The last, feel, is the most subjective. But I think we’ve achieved something special with Vesper, where it feels both efficient and pleasing to use. I think this is more than just superficial. Our goal was to make it such that, if a quick little thought entered your head that you might want to put in Vesper, the appeal of using the app would push you over the edge to do it, to put it in Vesper rather than just keep it in your head. A complete reduction of friction.
Wiskus: Most apps of this type enforce some kind of philosophy. Some have books you need to read just to understand them. We wanted something that worked the way our brains did naturally.
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For about two years, the Nio EP9 sports car prototype had the fastest lap time of any electric vehicle on the grueling Nuerburgring Nordschleife at 6:45.90. Although the EP9's record fell last month to the Volkswagen IDR, the result proved that Nio's innovative technology could compete with the world's best. Nio founder and CEO William Li spoke to Automotive News Europe Correspondent Christiaan Hetzner during the Shanghai auto show about the EV maker's plans for Europe, competing with German rivals in China and the need for fresh funding after listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
The best chance for a Chinese automaker to break into the European market is with EVs. Does Europe appeal to you?
Yes. We want to be a global brand. We have almost 200 people in Munich, for example. But we are still a very young company and have limited resources. If we expand abroad, we should be profitable. That's why we should be very careful when we expand outside of China because it's very easy to enter a market, but very hard to survive and win.
German brands dominate the Chinese premium car market. How can Nio break though?
We just entered the segment with a vehicle that is not cheap, it [the ES8] costs about $75,000. As a competitor to the Audi Q7 seven-seat premium large SUV, we have a market share of more than 10 percent, and that is just the beginning.
Do you see the German automakers as dinosaurs that are too slow to react to new trends?
They are powerful, have lots of money and they are already changing. So while they may be giants, I do not see them as moving slowly. As a startup, however, we need to move faster.
You showed the ET Preview concept sedan at the Shanghai auto show in April. When will this Tesla Model 3 rival debut?
That was just to show the car's styling. We will gather the feedback and then decide when and how to launch a sedan in that segment.
What's next for Nio?
We have started delivering the ES6 SUV that competes with the Audi Q5, BMW X3 and Mercedes GLC. Our performance is better, our service is better, maintenance and operating costs are lower and charging is much more affordable than filling up with gasoline. Not only that, the license plate is free [in Chinese cities such as Beijing the plate can cost more than the vehicle] and you don't need to leave it at home one day out of the workweek [to comply with driving restrictions in China to reduce air pollution].
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Coffee machine includes cartoon and note from actor to reporters covering the Trump administration
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Tom Hanks has delivered an espresso machine to the White House press corps to provide a caffeinated boost to their efforts in the “good fight for truth”.
The gesture continues a long-running tradition by Hanks, who first bestowed a new coffee machine for the journalists covering the White House in 2004, during George W. Bush’s presidency.
This time, the machine was accompanied by a note, typed on one of Hank’s beloved typewriters, which read: “To The White House Press Corps, Keep up the good fight for Truth, Justice and the American way. Especially for the Truth part.”
Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) BREAKING: White House press corps receives brand-new espresso machine from @tomhanks. Come for the coffee... stay for his note. 👇 pic.twitter.com/cirbLKHEt0
The note also included a cartoon drawing of American soldiers, captioned: “Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners.”
Donald Trump’s administration has had a fraught relationship with media in its short lifespan. Last week, the White House prevented reporters from outlets including the Guardian, the New York Times, and CNN from attending an off-camera press briefing with press secretary Sean Spicer.
Hanks, who publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton, has previously referred to Trump as “a self-involved gasbag” but said recently that “America has been in worse places” and was still “the greatest country in the world”.
The coffee machine replaces one that Hanks bought in 2010, after he noticed that the “poor slobs of the fourth estate” had left his original gift from 2004 in a sorry state from overuse.
“You know, you are supposed to clean this after every use,” he reportedly told the journalists.
The note is also a nod to Hanks’s lifelong fascination with typewriters, which he collects. His passion for the machines is the subject of his debut book, Uncommon Type, to be released in October, a collection of stories set around typewriters.
He once said of the machines that “each one stamps into paper a permanent trail of imagination through keys, hammers, cloth and dye – a softer version of chiselling words into stone”.
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Hidden features have been a favorite among game designers throughout history. Guns of Boom is no stranger to Easter Eggs, and today we’ll tell you about the 5 hidden secrets of the game!
5. FARM: HALLOWEEN
Halloween is all about spooky things. You know what cows consider to be the spookiest thing ever? Alien flying saucers! No wonder, sometimes they abduct the cows never to return them home to Earth. So… the Easter Egg on this King of the Hill map is activated be the whole team of four, who need to come into contact with extraterrestrial life forms. How do they contact them? You’ll have to find out yourself.
4. ASIA: FUSION
It’s a colorful map set at night. What can color the night best? Oh, FIREWORKS! That’s the hidden secret of this location: just watch your feet and you’ll find the key to launching a ton of beautiful fireworks into the night sky!
3. MOUNTAIN: CABLEWAY
The Egg is pretty neat: one of the cableway carts starts moving at an amazing speed like it has a jet engine! You can unlock this secret by being close to winter sports – wink-wink. Please note: this only works on the event version of the map, if you try and launch it now, the Easter Egg won’t work. However, you can wait for the next New Year event and give it a try.
2. ASIA: WATERFRONT
Dragons are one of the main attributes of ancient Eastern legends. The fables have it, that dragons are the watchers and overseers of this world we live in. On Asia: Waterfront you can actually summon a real dragon. How do you do it? Just forget about your fears and stare right in the face of fate!
1. ISLAND: RUINS
Finally, we come to the latest map in the game – Island: Ruins. It’s full of cool features as it is, but it also has a hidden secret. After all, it’s set among enigmatic ancient ruins of a lost civilization – there’s gotta be some secrets lying around! The activated secret will show you some of the constellations in the sky. Activating the secret requires you to follow the way of the serpent…
That’s a wrap for today. If you want to tell the world that you’ve found all the Easter Eggs or want to ask for advice on how to activate hidden secrets, check out our Facebook!
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This picture taken on May 14, 2014 shows visitors playing with robots during the 17th China Beijing International High-Tech Expo (CHITEC) in Beijing
China is in the forefront of the development of an "Internet of Things", leading the way with the number of machine-to-machine connections and opening a new market for operators, a study showed Monday.
In the past four years the number of machine-to-machine connections via mobile networks has grown by 35 percent annually and now accounts for more than 3 percent of total mobile connections, according to the GSMA association of mobile operators.
China has lead the way and accounts for 40 percent of the total mobile machine-to-machine connections, ahead of the United States and Japan combined.
Hooking up machines via mobile networks has already allowed for deployment of systems which allow for real-time monitoring of the location of buses, systems which direct drivers to free parking spots, and energy meters which report consumption automatically.
Regulatory uncertainty has held back the deployment of machine-to-machine applications in some countries, while in China support from the government which has made development an "Internet of Things" a top priority has led to the market quickly reaching a critical mass, said the GSMA.
"A rapidly developing and urbanising country, China is looking to use information and communications technologies to make its fast expanding cities smarter and enable a better quality of life for their citizens," said the report.
Chinese customers check out the computers at a Lenovo shop in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province on February 2, 2014
The Chinese government plans to invest more than $600 billion (440 billion euros) in the sector through 2020, it added.
China's three mobile operators see the rapid growth in the segment continuing and are looking at rolling out applications in the agriculture, healthcare, automotive, retail and consumer electronics sectors.
With growth in traditional voice subscribers having slowed in many developed countries, mobile operators have been looking at developing other services to expand their businesses.
This picture taken on May 14, 2014 shows a child looking at a domestic robot during the 17th China Beijing International High-Tech Expo (CHITEC) in Beijing
The GSMA study found that China's three mobile operators were using machine-to-machine technology to develop new revenue streams and move up the value chain as they are usually developing the systems in cooperation with clients instead of just selling connectivity.
The GSMA expects the number of mobile machine-to-machine connections to hit 242 million by the end of this year, which excludes consumer electronic devices using mobile networks like smartphones, tablets, and e-readers.
© 2014 AFP
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Kyrie Irving lost his mother at age 4. Quote from Lavar Ball: pic.twitter.com/pUWRI5bS8A — Erika (@emesola) May 20, 2017
Irving’s mother Elizabeth Irving passed from Septis Syndrome at the age of 29 (when Irving was 4-years-old). He talked about the love he has for his mother and the pain it still causes him for The Shared Grief Project in 2015:
ESPN’s Chris Haynes wrote a piece about Irving, his father Drederick and his mother when he was a writer for Cleveland.com in 2015. His father would often compare Irving, whose perspectives on life are more mature than that of his peers, to his mother.
“Boy, you’re just like your momma.” “Yeah, my dad says that a lot,” Irving said with a smile. “He often reminds me that I’m very similar to her, but he also tries to keep it away from me from the standpoint of that’s my mother. She’s not here so I try to keep it where it is.”
Center Tristan Thompson had this to add about the relationship between Irving and his father:
“I know it’s been definitely tough on him, but his dad has been a great role model and has helped him grow as a man and you can see it on the court,” Cavs center Tristan Thompson said.
Reading this, it’s clear that Ball’s statement about Irving’s mother’s absence was ignorant and the statement about his father, who has always been incredibly supportive of Irving, was just as ignorant.
In a story from 2012, ESPN’s Jackie MacMullan got this quote from Irving about his father:
“He laid out all the necessary steps for me. It was up to me what I did with them.”
There’s only so much you can defend a person and LaVar Ball is no exception. I’m rooting for Lonzo to succeed and I wish the best for the Ball family, especially Mrs. Tina Ball.
Still, his criticism of Irving’s parents was completely unwarranted. Irving is a special young man on both the court and on a personal level because of his parents, who laid the foundation for him to succeed.
What do you think of LaVar Ball’s comments about Kyrie Irving? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section or Twitter @KJG_NBA.
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People Are Getting Diamond Dermal Piercings on Their Fingers in Place of Engagement Rings
Instagram has become a new destination for mindblowing style and beauty trends, from fishtail eyebrows to bubble nails. And now users are sharing photos of a new accessorizing trend that holds sentimental value but also looks painful: dermal piercings as a sign of commitment.
Piercing lovers are commemorating their love by permanently getting diamonds pierced into their left ring finger in place of an engagement ring — or just because they love the look! — and have been documenting the sparkling trend on Instagram.
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The dermal piercing makes it look like the diamond or crystal is floating on top the skin once the base anchor is secured and the decorative stud is placed on it.
“Micro dermal anchors are safe and the body will hold them for years, as long as they’re in ideal places and if implant-grade titanium is used,” professional body piercer Billy DeBerry of Fallen Sparrow Tattoo in Kissimmee, Florida, told PeopleStyle.
Although DeBerry says he has been giving clients dermal piercings on their ring fingers for over 10 years now, he’s “only noticed them become popular since social media exposure.”
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“They’re different than other piercings since it’s considered ‘surface work.’ It really lets a person get away from traditional piercings like the ear or nose,” DeBerry said. “With the base being anchored into place under the surface of the skin, the tops are interchangeable with a huge variety of colors, shapes and designs.”
DeBerry says he can set dermal piercings on a client in “a matter of seconds,” and they can easily — and safely — be removed.
“No stitches or doctor is needed for removal,” he continued. “It takes seconds to remove them.”
Plus, according to DeBerry, the pain isn’t as bad as you might think.
“If it will hurt always depends on the individual,” DeBerry tells us. “Some people do a lot better than others. But [I think] walking them through the process, and having it being quick, it never gets to the point where someone can’t handle it.”
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Less than two months after their “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, descended into racist violence that left one anti-racist protester dead, white nationalists and alt-right activists once again arrived in the city for a torch-lit, 10-minute demonstration at 7:30 pm on Saturday.
#BREAKING: A group of white nationalists is holding a torch lit rally at Emancipation Park in Downtown Charlottesville. Publié par CBS19 News - Charlottesville Newsplex sur samedi 7 octobre 2017
The protest at Emancipation Park — previously “Lee Park,” which contains a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that the city wants to remove but can’t pending legal action — included about 40 to 50 demonstrators, led by Richard Spencer, the white supremacist activist who takes credit for coining the term “alt-right.”
Spencer had previously spoken at the August event that ended in alt-right violence (whitewashed by President Trump after the fact as violence on “many sides”), and led a May 13 demonstration in the city against plans to remove the statue. In a Twitter video, Spencer described the Saturday night demonstration as "Charlottesville 3.0" in reference to the previous protests. “We came, we triggered, we left,” he declared in the video. “We demonstrated that we came in peace in May, we came in peace in July, we were badly mistreated, and we came in peace tonight.”
The mention of July presumably refers to a fourth pro-statue rally that a North Carolina branch of the Ku Klux Klan organized in Charlottesville that month. Spencer’s list of events pointedly left off the August rally in which a neo-Nazi killed a counterprotester and injured dozens of others; other white supremacists also encircled and attacked anti-racist demonstrators with torches and pepper spray that weekend.
CBS 19 recorded video of the protests showing demonstrators chanting, "You will not replace us," and, "We will be back.” “You will not replace us” was used in the May protest, and was repeated as “Jews will not replace us” in the August Unite the Right rally. (“Blood and soil,” a prominent Nazi slogan, was also chanted at those demonstrations.)
Charlottesville’s leaders — including Mayor Mike Signer, who has been targeted for anti-Semitic abuse by white nationalists, and Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy, who has faced racist invective — immediately condemned the event and threatened legal action against the demonstrators:
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Khalil Mazraawi, AFP | Security forces stand guard outside the Israeli embassy in the residential Rabiyeh neighbourhood of the Jordanian capital Amman following an 'incident' on July 23, 2017.
An Israeli guard shot and killed two Jordanians late Sunday at an Israeli embassy compound in the Jordanian capital, Amman, after one of them lunged at him with a screwdriver, Israeli officials said Monday.
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The victims included a Jordanian carpenter and the owner of the building used by Israeli embassy staff who was hit by gunfire and later succumbed to his injuries.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said the two Jordanian workmen entered the building Sunday evening to replace furniture.
The incident has the potential to cause a serious rift in already tense Israeli-Jordanian relations.
Tensions have escalated between the two countries since Israel installed metal detectors at entry points to al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem after two Israeli policemen were shot dead by three Arab-Israeli gunmen near the site on Friday.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry statement said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is also the foreign minister, had spoken to the security guard and to ambassador Einat Schlein and stressed that the guard had immunity from questioning and prosecution under the Vienna Convention.
It did not specify the whereabouts of the embassy staff. The Jordanian capital is a short distance from a border crossing that leads, via the occupied West Bank, to Israel.
A flashpoint of anti-Israeli protests
Israel had imposed a ban on reporting Sunday's incident and only broke its silence early on Monday morning. Israel Radio said the ban had been imposed because Jordan wanted to question the security guard but Israel said he had diplomatic immunity.
Relations had been cemented in a peace deal in 1994 but reached crisis point three years later when Mossad intelligence officers tried but failed to assassinate senior Hamas official Khaled Meshaal in Jordan.
Ties recovered after Israel delivered the antidote for the poison with which Meshaal had been injected. The Mossad chief at the time resigned and the two agents who carried out the failed plot were arrested and held in Jordan, but later freed.
The fortress-like embassy in the affluent Rabae district of Amman is protected by Jordanian gendarmes. It has long been a flashpoint of anti-Israeli protests at times of turmoil in the Palestinian territories.
Violence against Israelis is rare in Jordan, a tightly policed country that is also a staunch regional ally of the United States. It also shares a long border with Israel.
(FRANCE 24 with AP, REUTERS)
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Craft Beer for the Homebrewer: Recipes from America’s Top Brewmasters Kindle Edition by Michael Agnew contains homebrew (both all grain and extract) recipes for a number of craft beers directly from the brewmasters themselves.
Includes Homebrew Recipes for...
8-Bit, Tallgrass Brewing Company, Capt’n Crompton’s Pale Ale, Epic Brewing, Elevated IPA, La Cumbre Brewing Company, Furious, Surly Brewing Company, Hop Stoopid, Lagunitas Brewing Company, Maharaja, Avery Brewing Company, Spiral Jetty, Epic Brewing, Thrust!, Red Eye Brewing Company, Watershed IPA, Oakshire Brewing, Buffalo Sweat, Tallgrass Brewing Company, Malpais Stout, La Cumbre Brewing Company, Smoke, Surly Brewing Company, Snowstorm 2009 Baltic Porter, August Schell Brewing Company, Bittersweet Lenny’s R.I.P.A., Shmaltz Brewing, Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’ Ale, Lagunitas Brewing Company, Rugbrod, The Bruery, Wiley’s Rye Ale, Stone Cellar Brewpub, Allagash Black, Allagash Brewing Company, Allagash Curieux, Allagash Brewing Company, Matacabras, Dave’s BrewFarm, Funkwerks Saison, Funkwerks, Salvation, Avery Brewing Company, Scarlet 7, Red Eye Brewing Company, Saison Rue, The Bruery, 90 Shilling Ale, Odell Brewing Company, Dead Guy Ale, Rogue Ales, El Lector, Cigar City Brewing, Hazelnut Brown Nectar, Rogue Ales, Hellion, TRVE Brewing Ill-Tempered Gnome, Oakshire Brewing, Imperial Red Ale, Marble Brewery, Kölsch 151, Blue Mountain Brewery, Levitation, Stone Brewing Company, Nugget Nectar, Tröegs Brewing Company, Xenu, Cigar City Brewing, Select, Dave’s BrewFarm, Coney Island Mermaid Pilsner, Shmaltz Brewing, Schell’s Pils, August Schell Brewing Company
Kindle Edition books can be viewed on your Kindle Device or on free reader applications available for your iPhone, Android or Windows smart phone – and for your web browser via Amazon’s Cloud Reader. This dynamic link will take you to the appropriate reader for your current platform.
Tallgrass Brewing Company tweeting about the recipe for 8 Bit Pale Ale. 8 Bit Pale Ale is one of my favorites!
Craft Beer for the Homebrewer: Recipes from America’s Top Brewmasters
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OSX Way Edit
Better Way Edit
In the OSX version of OE-Cake, it is possible to use the Material Mixer to produce "ghost particles" - normal materials with the transparent Gas texture seen in Circles mode. You can have Rigid, Brittle, Powder, any material. Just select Gas or Snow from the Materials pane with the mouse, acquiring a transparent color. Go to Tools > Attributes, and then un-select Gas and Light and re-select whatever materials you want. They will be drawn with the clear color.
It turns out that there is a way for either OS to make any material transparent in Circles mode, and it's surprisingly easy. You just need a text editor with the "Find and Replace" function.
Make a creation that you want to convert into transparent particles Save the file then open it with the editor Search for "ff" and replace all with "b2" Search for " b2 " and replace with " ff ", including the spaces. This fixes the "ff" column that was replaced by "b2" in the first pass Save and re-open the file in OE-Cake, you now have clear particles in circles mode!
Test file with clear particles
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=15ptWQF9JprH5JgcoEjtCFLrKzXkGXmDY
Transparent Particles Edit
OE-Cake supports full transparency for all materials, but only through save file modification. OE-Cake saves color as a 30-bit hex, complete with full alpha channel. The "better way" technique is actually changing the alpha of the particles to be partially transparent. You can change the transparency to any level if you use a decimal to hex converter.
In the save file, the fifth column is the hex code for the color of the material. It's in the format RRGGBBAA, the last two characters are the hex for it's transparency. Each pair of letters represents a brightness value from 0-254, in hex. If you know the hex color of the material you want to change, you can search for and modify a single material. Sadly the transparency mostly only shows the grey background, though since each particle is clear it makes it easier to see overlap and things like pressure and movement.
Invisible Particles Edit
In Blob view mode, any particles with a transparency less than 50% will not be rendered, making the material invisible. Sadly full transparency is not supported in Blob mode.
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Tillie Vasey, 5 with Big Brother, Leo Vasey, 9
Little Tillie Vasey suffered a fractured skull and facial injuries when she was mauled by a neighbour's dog as she played on Westfield Drive on Sunday, July 15.
The brave five-year-old suffered a further setback when she developed a brain infection as a result of her injuries.
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But the popular little girl still managed to join well-wishers for the start of a charity walk, which was held on her behalf, through Moor Park last Sunday.
Organisers Wendy Moore, Alison Peet, Chantel Macleod and Kayleigh Mcdowall are now thanking everyone who helped them to raise over £700 to buy toys for the little girl.
Wendy said: "We have just been so overwhelmed with all the support and we really can't thank people enough.
"It's just been brilliant - I know that Tillie's mum is really pleased with all the support.
"She's going to buy her a play house for the garden and a couple of rabbits to welcome her home.
"We raised £340 from the walk with buckets and have a further £400 to come from sponsorship.
"We just wanted to do something for her - she is such a popular little girl on Brookfield. But obviously, we would do this for any child who needed help.
"People are quick to criticise estates but when things like this happen, we all stick together - we just do everything we can to support one another.
"Tillie's doing really well and she is getting better. We hope she will be home this week."
"It was lovely to see her at the walk and to see her little smile on her face when she saw everyone making a fuss of her."
The charity walk is just one of a series of fundraising events which have taken place to help bring comfort to the little girl as she overcomes her injuries.
One of Tillie’s classmates at Brookfield Primary School climbed a mountain in the Lake District to raise money for her friend.
Four-year-old Halle Wilson, smashed her £200 target and raised over £2,000 to help the youngster.After the dog attack on Sunday, July 15 on Westfield Drive, Preston, police arrested a 40-year-old woman.
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Seeking to bolster revenue and exports, Zimbabwe will repeal its laws that prohibit the production of cannabis.
The announcement came Tuesday from the country’s Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa, who said that the reform will allow farmers to grow industrial hemp to export. Ultimately, the goal is for hemp to replace tobacco as the southern Africa nation’s leading crop export.
With global tobacco sales slumping from decades of health campaigns and the recent rise of vaping products—combined with the worldwide rollbacks on prohibitions against cannabis and hemp—the change to the laws is a signal that Zimbabwe is looking toward the future.
Mutsvangwa told members of the press gathered in the capital city of Harare, as quoted by Bloomberg, that “the crop can be a good substitute to the leading export crop, tobacco, which is at risk of being banned globally.”
Zimbabwe is mired in one of the deepest economic crises the country has seen in decades, with staggering inflation on food and devastating drought leaving millions hungry. A report from the United Nations last month found that more than a third of households in rural Zimbabwe—amounting to about 3.5 million people—are “dangerously food insecure.”
By early 2020, the report said, 59 percent of rural households, or more than 5.5 million people, will be food insecure.
That crisis has coincided with Zimbabwe’s rollback of anti-cannabis laws, as the cash-strapped and conservative country continues to reconsider its prohibition. In the spring of last year, Zimbabwe became only the second African country to legalize marijuana for medical purposes (Lesotho, the tiny landlocked nation encircled by South Africa, became the first in 2017). But government officials continue to work out regulatory barriers.
Last year, only a month after announcing the new law on medical cannabis, Zimbabwe hit the brakes on its implementation as it worked to comply with a number of United Nations treaties.
Mutsvangwa told reporters on Tuesday that medical marijuana “will take a long time to set up structures.”
In March, Zimbabwe approved the first license for a private cannabis company, Precision Cannabis Therapeutics Zimbabwe, to produce medical marijuana under the country’s new law. As of February, the Zimbabwe government had reportedly received applications from 37 companies to produce cannabis, a number it hopes will only grow.
“The government of Zimbabwe is open for business and welcomes investors in all sectors of the economy, including licensing for the production of medical cannabis,” said Nathan Emery, the chief operating officer of Precision Cannabis Therapeutics Zimbabwe.
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Suspect in LAX shooting pleads not guilty
Doug Stanglin | USA TODAY
The suspect in the Los Angeles airport shooting rampage last month that left a Transportation Security Administration screener dead and three others injured pleaded not guilty Thursday in a brief federal court hearing.
Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23, is accused of 11 felony charges, including one of murder and three of attempted murder.
Trial was set for Feb. 11 in Los Angeles federal court. Ciancia could face the death penalty if convicted.
He entered his plea at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, where he has been held without bail since soon after his arrest.
Ciancia is recovering from wounds suffered when airport police shot him four times in the head and leg during the Nov. 1 rampage at Terminal 3. At Thursday's hearing, he had a bandage over his throat and spoke in a hoarse voice when he entered his plea.
Police say the unemployed motorcycle mechanic, who had recently moved to Los Angeles from Pennsville, N.J., arrived at the airport with the intention of killing TSA workers.
Ciancia had a documented hatred of TSA agents and allegedly targeted them during the attack, authorities said.
After entering the terminal, police say Ciancia pulled a semiautomatic rifle from a duffel bag and began spraying the area with gunfire as hundreds of people fled in terror.
TSA Officer Gerardo Hernandez was killed. Two other uniformed TSA officers and a traveler were wounded. All were treated and released.
The 39-year-old Hernandez, a behavior-detection officer tasked with spotting suspicious activity and identifying potential terrorists, became the first TSA officer to die in the line of duty. A coroner's report showed he was struck by a dozen bullets and had more than 40 bullet fragments in his body. Witnesses said the gunman returned to shoot Hernandez again after seeing him move.
After a gunfight, airport police arrested Ciancia at a Burger King in the food court.
An indictment accuses him of "substantial planning and premeditation to cause the death of a person and to commit an act of terrorism."
Investigators said Ciancia's duffel bag contained a rambling letter detailing intentions to kill TSA officers and "instill fear in your traitorous minds." He apparently did not expect to survive what one law enforcement official said was "clearly a suicide mission."
Ciancia could be sentenced to life in prison or face execution if convicted. The Justice Department has not said whether it will seek the death penalty.
Contributing: Associated Press
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Communities Secretary Sajid Javid today (13 February 2017) unveiled further steps which seek to prevent councils from boycotting companies and countries if it is against the government’s position.
The move aims to stop councils from introducing restrictions on the companies and countries they use – particularly by introducing boycotts on goods from Israel.
These latest plans would require local authorities by law to treat suppliers fairly and in line with the British government’s policies. It would mean no council could boycott any country or industry unless restrictions have already been put in place by the government. This follows rules set by the World Trade Organisation requiring all member countries to treat suppliers equally and without prejudice.
Rules were introduced earlier last year which prevented councils from using local government pension policies to introduce boycotts. New Cabinet Office guidance was also introduced in February 2016, which govern the procurement of goods and services by public bodies.
Today’s announcement applies to councils, and would make following the British government’s foreign policies a legal requirement when buying goods and services – effectively outlawing locally-imposed boycotts.
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid said:
We need to challenge and prevent divisive town hall boycotts which undermine good community relations. No council should be boycotting any company or country unnecessarily – instead their main focus should be delivering the value for money taxpayers rightly expect. We will clampdown on these inappropriate and needless boycotts once and for all.
Stopping boycotts which damage Britain
Councils also have a clear duty to make sure they deliver value for money for their residents and to maintain a high quality of service.
Mr Javid also confirmed that he would look to put government guidance published last February on a legal footing to make clear that councils should not introduce boycotts of countries or companies when making procurement decisions. Similar boycotts have led to the removal of Kosher food from the shelves of supermarkets, or calls for Jewish films to be banned.
This will mean public authorities have to treat suppliers equally, and not discriminate on geographical or other grounds when buying goods or services, unless they are in line with existing restrictions put in place by the government.
Further information
Public sector procurement law applies to central government, executive agencies, non-departmental public bodies, the wider public sector, local authorities and NHS bodies.
The best value guidance provides powers for the Secretary for State to intervene in a council if it is in breach of the regulations or statutory guidance.
These new measures are in line with the World Trade Organisation Government Procurement Agreement, which requires its members to treat suppliers from another member country no less favourably than its domestic suppliers.
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type was “offer.” so Bob will need to generate his own SDP information. He does this through the handy createAnswer method.
createAnswer has a success callback that will handle the generated SDP of type “answer.” The success callback will call the setLocalDescription method on Bob’s RTCSessionDescription object. As we saw earlier, setLocalDescription itself has a success callback function whose sole purpose is to communicate this SDP information to Alice via our signaling server.
Alice receives SDP and ICE messages
We’re very nearly complete with the signaling! All that needs to happen now is for Alice to receive and process any SDP and ICE messages from Bob.
Set remote description (Alice)
When Alice receives an SDP message from Bob, she will use this data to create an RTCSessionDescription object and pass it to setRemoteDescription. Now Alice knows about Bob’s media meta data, as well as the encryption information required for the two to set up a secure connection.
Unlike Bob, however, the SDP message Alice is receiving is of type “answer” so nothing further happens with the SDP data.
ICE negotiation completed
The next message that comes rolling in is of type Candidate. When Alice receives a candidate message she does just as Bob did with her message. She creates an RTCIceCandidate object with the message’s data, and then passes it to the addIceCanddiate method on her RTCPeerConnection object. Now Alice knows how to reach Bob’s computer from her own, without having to make use of a third party server to relay the data.
Final steps
All this does is allow Bob to see Alice’s lovely face. Alice still can’t see Bob!
Why? Well, this whole process happens within a few hundred milliseconds, and at this point, Bob is probably still moving his mouse towards the “Accept” button to indicate he is willing to allow the browser access to his camera’s video stream. So while Bob can see Alice’s video stream, his video stream has not yet been communicated to Alice.
Once he clicks “Accept” a RenegotiationNeeded event is fired, which executes the function we defined for the callback onNegotiationNeeded. Since Bob and Alice have the exact same code running in their browser, the entire process outlined above gets kicked off. The only difference is that now Alice is learning about Bob, whereas before Bob was learning about Alice.
OK, now we’re actually done. Victory!
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This strawberry oat smoothie is made with rich coconut milk, juicy strawberries and healthy oats. It’s rich, creamy and completely satisfying!
Smoothies and I have come a long way this summer. I’ve learned to enjoy the flavor and satisfaction of a pre or after workout smoothie and not worry so much about the fact that I’m drinking my calories. If it tastes delicious, fills me up and supplies some nutrition, who cares? I’m even beginning to appreciate the whole shoving-lots-of food ingredients into a drink aspect of smoothies. I say “beginning” for a reason: green smoothies that are packed with lots of veggies and such are still on my to-do list. I eat lots of veggies, so I don’t see the fact that I’ve yet to explore drinking them as a problem, but having a sense of culinary adventure, I do plan to give to give some more vegetable-based smoothies a go.
Today’s smoothie is loaded with not only a bunch of fruit, but also with oats. I love to eat oats too, but knowing oat-milk is gaining some popularity as a dairy substitute, I figured I’d see what oats would do to a smoothie. What they did was add just a bit of creaminess and make this my most filling smoothie to date. The other thing I like about this smoothie is that there’s lots of fruit in it, which makes it even more filling and sweet enough that I didn’t feel the need for any additional sweeteners. This one’s all food! (Assuming you consider liquids to be food, and refined sugars not to be.) Finally, that little bit of coconut milk, while not totally crucial, adds just a touch of richness that takes this smoothie just over the line to what I’d consider rich and a bit decadent.
Print Strawberry Oat Smoothie This strawberry oat smoothie is made with rich coconut milk, juicy strawberries and healthy oats. It's rich, creamy and completely satisfying! Prep Time 5 minutes Total Time 5 minutes Servings 2 Author Alissa Ingredients 2 frozen bananas
2 cups strawberries optionally frozen as well
1/2 cup oats
1 cup unflavored soy or almond milk
1/2 cup coconut milk or another 1/2 cup soy or almond milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract Instructions Place bananas, strawberries and oats in blender and blend until smooth, stopping to scrape down sides of pitcher as needed. Add remaining ingredients and blend until smooth.
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Updated: Sep 02, 2019 06:23 IST
A mob on Saturday thrashed a 73-year-old doctor to death for allegedly delaying the treatment of a worker, who succumbed to his head injuries after a fall, at a tea estate hospital in Assam’s Jorhat, the state police said on Sunday
Jorhat police superintendent Nimbalkar Vaibhav Chandrakant said two attendants administered Somra Majhi, 32, the worker, an injection at Teok Tea Estate’s hospital on Dr Deben Dutta’s advice while he was away for lunch. He added Majhi died soon after Dutta arrived and started treating him.
“An angry mob soon gathered and started to abuse him [Dutta] first and then thrashed the doctor over allegations that he arrived late. They attacked him with broken glass pieces,” said Chandrakant.
He added that they have so far detained 21 people in connection with the murder. “They are likely to be arrested,” Chandrakant said.
Dutta died on his way to a Jorhat hospital after police rescued him.
“He had head and leg injuries,” said Chandrakant.
Assam police chief Kuladhar Saikia said he has sent an inspector general rank officer to Jorhat and directed that strict action should be taken.
In a statement, Teok Tea Estate said a welfare officer at the tea estate, too, was assaulted when he tried to rescue the doctor. It added the crowd became rowdier when the officer tried to intervene.
The statement said the mob comprised workers, non-workers and outsiders.
Teok Tea Estate was closed after the murder.
The Indian Medical Association’s Assam branch condemned the murder and said it is the third major assault on doctors serving in tea gardens in recent times. It announced a 24-hour withdrawal of medical services excluding emergency on September 3.
Jorhat district administration has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the murder. Additional Deputy Commissioner Subhan Gowalla has been asked to submit a report in seven days.
CCPA demands action against accused
Meanwhile, Assam Valley Consultative Committee of Plantation Associations (CCPA) has condemned the incident.
“Mindless and murderous assault perpetrated on the Medical Officer of Teok Tea Estate while he was on duty in the Estate Hospital,” it said.
The Assam Valley CCPA has urged authorities concerned to apprehend those responsible for the assault and demanded strict action against them.
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,100 statutes he did not like? Where were they as President Bush and his fellow Republicans reauthorized one of the most egregiously unconstitutional pieces of legislation in modern memory: the USA Patriot Act? Where were they when Bush signed the blatantly unconstitutional McCain/Feingold Act? I could go on and on. Ladies and gentlemen, the Republican Party has been just as culpable in violating constitutional government as the Democrat Party has--maybe more so! If the Republican and Democrat parties had any allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, neither John McCain nor Barack Obama would have been chosen as their respective Presidential nominees. While we are on the subject, if anyone cared about constitutional government, Hillary Clinton (or any other U.S. Senator or House Member) would obviously be determined as ineligible to be given any appointment in the Obama administration under Article. I. Section. 6. of the U.S. Constitution. Why? Because the Constitution prohibits House or Senate members taking Presidential posts if the salary of the job they would take was raised while they were in Congress. However, several past Presidents have skirted this constitutional prohibition (including Presidents Taft, Nixon, and Carter) by lowering the salary of the job back to what it was so the nominee could accept the job without receiving the pay increase that was approved while the appointee was in Congress. In fact, this sleight of hand actually has a political name. It is called "the Saxbe fix," after Nixon's appointment of Senator William Saxbe to be attorney general. Do we have a "constitutional crisis"? You bet we do; but it is not limited to Barack Obama or the Democrat Party. The real constitutional crisis is the manner in which the American people have, for years, allowed civil magistrates from both major parties to routinely violate their oaths to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. God help us! *If you appreciate this column and want to help me distribute these editorial opinions to an ever-growing audience, donations may now be made by credit card, check, or Money Order. Use this link: http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/donate.php © Chuck Baldwin This column is archived as http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2008/cbarchive_20081209.html *If you appreciate this column and want to help me distribute these editorial opinions to an ever-growing audience, donations may be made by credit card, check, or Money Order. Use this link: Chuck Baldwin Live Donate Form I also have many books and DVDs available for purchase online. Go here: Chuck Baldwin Live Store To subscribe to my weekly columns, click here: Subscribe to Chuck's Column Related
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Less than a week until the US Supreme Court is expected to make rulings in two key equal marriage cases, one of its justices has spoken out to say the court should not be ruling on such an issue.
The US Supreme Court failed to announce its opinion on two key equal marriage cases on Thursday, and is now expected to do so on Monday, which is the last scheduled date to make a decision.
The court could rule on Proposition 8, California’s state-wide ban on equal marriage, and the Defense of Marriage Act, which federally bans same-sex married couples from benefits afforded to opposite-sex marriage couples.
Justice Anton Scalia made the comments in a speech in North Carolina on Friday, during which he said the court should not be ruling on “moral issues”, where there is no “scientifically demonstrable right answer.”
As well as equal marriage, Justice Scalia said the court should not make rulings on the death penalty or physician-assisted suicide.
He went on to say that the “judge moralist”, who decides on such issues threatens the US Constitution.
Despite being officially banned from discussing current cases before the Supreme Court at the North Carolina Bar Association meeting, Justice Scalia still used the speech to make hints that he may not be in favour of striking down Prop 8 and DOMA.
“In the United States, and indeed throughout the world, belief in the expert has been replaced by the judge moralist,” he said, reports to the Asheville Citizen-Times. “We have become addicted to abstract moralizing.
“I accept for the sake of argument, for example, that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged. Rather, I am questioning the propriety, the sanity of having a value-laden decision such as this made for the entire society by unelected judges.”
Scalia’s suggested position on these issues has not come as a shock to critics.
The Supreme Court does not announce which decisions it will announce ahead of time. Monday 24th June remains on the calendar as the final day on which the court could announce a decision. It could however, add extra decision days after Monday.
On the first day of hearings in March, the court heard arguments around Proposition 8, the state of California’s ban on equal marriage. Then the justices questioned the meaning of marriage, and challenged arguments for the ban.
On the second day of hearings, several of the Supreme Court Justices raised concerns around DOMA, and some took that as a sign that there may be a narrow majority who will strike it down.
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Law firms will soon be required to log the number of hours worked by graduate lawyers and paralegals to ensure young staff are being appropriately remunerated.
The rules, as approved by the Fair Work Commission, will come into effect next March and will see a group of 20 law firms recording the hours of its young staff. The changes will require firms to conduct annual pay reconciliations and advise lawyers of maximum hours they can work under salary before they are entitled to overtime or penalty rates.
CEO of The Law Society of NSW Michael Tidball said the annualised wage agreement is a matter for each law firm to manage for its staff.
“Nobody could disagree that employees, regardless of where they work, need to be properly remunerated and it’s equally important that employers provide a workplace that ensures healthy outcomes for all employees,” Mr Tidball said.
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The new rules apply to some of the major firms, which include, and. Under the changes, they are required to review current processes to ensure they are compliant by the time the laws come into effect.
A spokesperson for HSF said: “We are currently reviewing the decision and our current remuneration processes and time recording procedures to ensure they are compliant.”
The Australian Services Union, which represents some young lawyers, including those at Maurice Blackburn and, said in a statement on the Facebook page: “What a disgrace that law firms expect junior lawyers to work for free rather than pay them for their overtime. Which is the law.
“How about these law firms just, you know, follow the law? It’s time to bust the business model that exploits junior lawyers and paralegals in law firms.”
On average, graduate lawyers at mid-tier firms earn $60,000 to $65,000 and those at top-tier firms can expect somewhere between $70,000 and $80,000. With this, lawyers are often expected to dedicate long hours to the work.
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“It is no secret that certain aspects of legal work require long hours,” Mr Tidball said.
“It is the responsibility of the employer to ensure the wellbeing of employees, including young lawyers, especially in times of pressure, and to make sure they are adequately remunerated and have the appropriate time off to compensate for additional hours.”
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Did you know that you muscles react to cold air similar to a barometer
In the cold months that are now upon us, unlike the weather we have had this last couple of weeks, cold air brings with it lower barometric air pressure. This means gas expands when heated and contracts when cooled so the lower air temperature it will causes the air to constrict the result is lower pressure. Well this is the same affect on your muscles they constrict and tighten. This lower air pressure, causes the soft tissue around your joints to expand in response, and it infringes on the joints, which can cause pain that radiates into the muscles making them more prone to cramps and spasms and generate more pain.
Are You Prepared?
This is why you must warm up and stretch, it is so important when training in lower temperatures, apart from anything else you need to do this for you cardiovascular system.
Even if you are going into a warm gym to do your training, remember your muscles would have got cold prior to getting in there. be kind to them they have a lot of work to do.
Cold Air will also affect any Pre-existing Conditions people have
If you sufferer from Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, or have any joint injury you are going to feel it in the cold weather more, because of the nature or these problems they are more susceptible to cold weather and how it effects your joints and muscles you are already experiencing pain, so when the winter months come the changes in temperature and weather will exacerbate your condition, it brings with it more problems than you already have. We all know that Arthritis causes swollen joints, so when the soft tissue expands around the joints, it causes more pressure and pain.
Regular massage can help immensely in the winter months for anyone with Joint pain, and this is a time of year when you need to keep more active, to keep warm, so massage will enable you to do this.
Here at Getfitstayfit Norfolk we have now introduced the Hydrotherm Massage Bed to aid our clients. This is a warm water bed kept at a constant temperature, so it will help warm the muscles for the client and mean’s that there will be no pressure on those aching joints, along with the,
Bioneuro that will help towards the reduction of pain and can get into joint that normal massage may not be able to and sports and remedial massage we can deal with a lot of the Muscular Skeletal problems that can be caused by the cold weather.
We want you to enjoy the cold months keep exercising, enjoy time with your family outdoors, Winter need not be all doom and gloom.
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But with the government under attack over the issue in every Question Time this week, it was decided by the meeting of the sub-committee of cabinet that he had to go.
He is the third minister to lose his job since Mr Turnbull supplanted Tony Abbott in September. In December, Jamie Briggs was made to resign following a complaint from a public servant over a bar incident in Hong Kong, and Mal Brough was stood aside pending a police investigation into the James Ashby-Peter Slipper affair.
Mr Robert has been accused of breaching the ministerial code of conduct over a trip he took to China in August 2014 with friend and Liberal Party donor Paul Marks. His breach was to use his ministerial prestige to help a private business interest. Mr Robert had a separate financial interest in one of Mr Mark's other companies.
During the trip, which was taken as personal leave, Mr Robert attended a signing ceremony between Mr Mark's company, Nimrod Resources and China Minmetals Corporation.
The next day he met China's vice-minister of land and resources, Wang Min, along with representatives of Nimrod Resources. The trip occurred while he was Assistant Minister for Defence in August 2014.
Upon his return, Mr Robert informed the Defence Department of his meeting with Vice-Minister Wang Min.
Mr Turnbull's statement says:
"Mr Robert advised Dr Parkinson that at the time he travelled to Beijing in August 2014 he did not believe that he had any interest in or connection to Mr Paul Marks' company, Nimrod Resources."
"In the course of assisting the investigation, Mr Roberts advised Dr Parkinson that on checking his records he had become aware that shares in Metallum Holdings Pty Ltd, a company in which Mr Marks was also a shareholder, had been allocated to his trustee some time before the visit to Beijing. He told Dr Parkinson that this had been done without his knowledge. He further advised Dr Parkinson that he believed Metallum Holdings Pty Ltd had an interest in Nimrod Resources.
"Mr Robert recognised that this connection would create the impression that at the time he went to Beijing he had something personally to gain from the Nimrod Resources project.
"As a result, Mr Robert has asked me not to consider him in the pending reshuffle of the ministry. I thank him for his service as a minister and for his candid co-operation with Dr Parkinson in his inquiry."
Mr Joyce defended Mr Robert on Friday morning.
"Can someone please tell me what the crime is here?" he said.
"Because what we have is accusations he met people. If meeting people in China is a crime, then every politician in this building is gone."
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IN TROUBLED WATERS
Investigation launched after rain-marred Port of Spain Test
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Only 22 overs were bowled in the fourth Test between India and West Indies © Cricbuzz
After the rain-marred fourth and final Test between West Indies and India in Port of Spain ended in a drab draw due to water-logging and inadequate drying facilities at the ground, the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) has decided to launch an investigation into the matter.
Despite only two days of rain and long periods of sunshine, no play was possible on the last four days of the match because of waterlogged areas in the field at the Queen's Park Oval. Attempts were made by the ground staff to make conditions favourable for play to resume but to no avail.
"As hosts, the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board and QPCC (Queen's Park Cricket Club) regret that limited play was possible in the 4th Test Match between WI and India at the Queen's Park Oval," Azim Bassarath, the TTCB president, said in an official statement on Monday (August 22).
The fear that the venue's future as a Test venue might be jeopardised has forced the officials of QPCC, who celebrated the 125th anniversary of the club's founding over the Test match weekend, to take quick action.
"We have jointly launched an investigation to determine what occurred with a view to remedying the situation so that this does not occur in the future." Even as no time frame was given for the investigation, he added, "Once this has been done it will be presented to the WICB (West Indies Cricket Board)."
The fourth Test ended with only 22 overs of play possible on the opening day of the match. As it turned out, it was the fifth shortest non-abandoned Test match. Having won the first and third Test, India bagged the series 2-0. However, the draw meant India had to conceded the top spot in the International Cricket Council's Test Rankings to arch-rivals Pakistan, who recently drew a four-match series against England 2-2.
The series had great importance in terms of diplomatic relationship between the cricket boards of India and West Indies, after a player-strike in 2014 had led West Indies to withdraw from a five-match One-Day International series mid-way.
Nonetheless, the two sides will now play in a two-match Twenty20 International series in Florida, starting on August 27.
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41-year-old Sean Tagert was euthanized on Friday after the Canadian government cut funding for his in-home medical care.
Tagert, who suffered from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), was killed by assisted suicide despite appealing to the Vancouver Coastal Health patient care quality department.
While Tagert’s illness prevented him from moving his body, eating or speaking, his mental awareness was still intact.
Because of his condition, doctor’s recommended Tagert receive 24-hour in-home care, but Vancouver Coastal Health initially offered only 15.5 hours of care per day.
They raised their offer to 20-hours per day, but Tagert would still have had to pay $263.50 a day for the remaining 4 hours.
Tagert then posted a social media status explaining his situation and criticizing the Canadian healthcare system.
Grandin Media reports:
Tagert and his family continued to fight for coverage of a full day’s care, to no avail.
“Hey everyone. I’ve been quiet lately because I’m just done, worn-out,” wrote Tagert in a July 25 post on his Facebook page.
“So last Friday I officially submitted my Medically assisted death paperwork, with lawyers and doctors, everything in proper order. It’s been over a month since I submitted my appeal to the Vancouver Coastal Health patient care quality department. They didn’t even respond.”
“Welcome to the great Canadian Healthcare system people,” Tagert wrote.
Tagert leaves behind an 11-year-old son, Aidan, of whom family members said, “Above all else, Sean was devoted to his son.”
“Sean often said that Aidan was his reason for living, and had a close relationship with him right to the end.”
Since Canada legalized euthanasia in December of 2015, one out of every 100 deaths has been administered by a doctor.
In the past, Infowars was one of the only media outlets to cover Obamacare’s death panels where doctors would decide whether or not to continue to care for a patient.
This tragic case will become normalized in America if Democrat politicians implement government-run “Universal Healthcare,” supported by nearly every one of their presidential candidates.
They have a few ways of stripping Americans of their plans, but all mean the end of your healthcare and the rise of death panels.
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Brian Salvatore interviewed DC co-publisher Dan DiDio for Multiversity after the site had voted it publisher of the year. Damn, so that's how they do it. Anyway, after talking through the performance, the plans and the comics for the year, we got some answers on some projects that have been teasing folk for a while. What's happening with Captain Marvel/Shazam, the Legion of Super-Heroes and the Justice Society of America, all teased by DC Rebirth Special but none making it to publication yet.
DiDio replied,
with Shazam, we have the right team, we're just waiting for them to be available. That's one of the cases there. With a lot of this stuff, it's interesting with characters like Shazam, and you know what, there's a couple of books that constantly come up, Shazam, Legion of Super-Heroes, and Justice Society of America. A couple of those are actually tied to an event story that's taking place right now, and hopefully we'll be able to come out of that in a way that gives it a lift, and hopefully brings new attention and new eyes to those books so they can live a long, healthy life. With Shazam, we're really just waiting for one particular creative team to come free. They've expressed so much interest in it that we're just holding it for them until that period of time.
So… regarding JSA and LoSH… Doomsday Clock, since Geoff Johns teased those initially in DC Rebirth, and there's time travel involved in both? Or will Metal beat it to the punch? Hell, what of the Fascist Future Batman from… oh just pick one, there are loads right now.
Once, in the midst of time, Bleeding Cool told you what the JSA DC Rebirth plan was, but things change.
Not only will this active team of superheroes be revealed, along with an explanation as to why no one remembers them, but they will be brought forward, young, to the present days, fishes out of water, fighting alongside the Justice League of America.
DC Comics has stated that a JSA comic is planned. And Bryan Hitch has talked about having JSA plans too…
While DC Comics keeps having someone who might be Lightning Lass of the Legion of Super-Heroes pop up in DC Rebirth, The Button and Supergirl. So there have to be plans there too. And we have a group of writers of whom one is the writer of a new Legion project…
But Shazam? No idea. They have a movie planned in 2019, so probably before then…
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Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle
Welcome to City Hall’s Room 200, where the buck stops, interim Mayor Mark Farrell. Now put this issue high on your to-do list: Only 13 arrests were made in the more than 81,511 auto break-ins reported online over the past seven years, according to the district attorney’s office.
The number of reported burglaries won’t surprise anyone who has seen the pervasive coatings of tiny glass shards on the pavements of the city. That in itself is maddening — and by all accounts, getting worse. But the reality that the vandals and thieves are doing it with near impunity is simply unacceptable.
San Francisco clearly needs to be more aggressive in deterring, investigating and prosecuting car break-ins. The outrageously low arrest rate shows that the value of the online reports have been reduced to documentation for insurance claims. The overall arrest rate is also distressingly low. Police arrested just 446 suspects for auto burglary from January to November 2017 — even though there were more than 30,000 break-ins for the year.
In effect, the criminals are getting away with it unless an officer catches them in the act.
Some law-enforcement officials, namely the San Francisco Police Officers Association, would like to blame Proposition 47, a crime-reform bill passed by state voters in November 2014. They note that the measure raised the threshold for felony theft to $950. But that argument does not hold up to scrutiny. Auto break-ins can still be charged as felonies. And property crime rates have not changed significantly since the law took effect, according to a recent study by Californians for Safety and Justice.
There is no single solution to stopping this wave of break-ins. It requires commitment and teamwork between police and prosecutors. It also requires a tweak in the law.
District Attorney George Gascón has noted that one of the difficulties of prosecuting break-in cases as felonies is that it requires proof that the car doors were locked — otherwise a theft with a smashed window is treated as a misdemeanor. State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, has taken up Gascón’s call with proposed legislation that would add the words “or when forced entry is used” in the penal code’s description of felony auto burglary.
San Francisco needs to treat this crime wave as the serious issue it has become.
This commentary is from The Chronicle’s editorial board. We invite you to express your views in a letter to the editor. Please submit your letter via our online form: SFChronicle.com/letters.
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Updated at 11:10 p.m EST, Jan. 10, 2008
At least 25 Iraqis were killed and 24 more were wounded in the latest round of violence. Most of them were gunmen or security personnel. Meanwhile, the International Organization for Migration reported that only a trickle of Iraqi refugees has returned home. Also, millions of Iraqis are observing the Ashura holy day.
U.S. troops undertook a massive airstrike near Baghdad in Arab Jubour. Planes dropped 40,000 pounds of explosives on 40 targets in the area, but the number of casualties is unknown.
In Baghdad, a pair of explosions killed two policemen and a soldier at Nasr Square; another 11 people were wounded. An Iraqi health ministry bodyguard was killed in Doura. On Palestine Street, a bomb killed one person and wounded four more. Also, three bodies were recovered.
Near Muqdadiya, no casualties were reported when a roadside bomb blasted Coalition troops, but four gunmen were killed and three more were wounded after air troops were called in for support. Four other gunmen were killed in a separate security operation.
In al-Rashad, a roadside bomb killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded four more.
A gunman was killed as he was trying to plant a roadside bomb in Jalawla; four others were arrested.
In Baquba, a roadside bomb wounded a civilian in the Zaghniya neighborhood.
A bomb in Bani Saad wounded one person.
U.S. troops on a helicopter over Yusufiya witnessed men planting a roadside bomb and killed four of them.
In Samarra, an attempt to smuggle precious objects from two mosques was foiled.
A roadside bomb in Mosul killed one civilian.
In Mahmadaniya, tighter security measures are in place over fears of car bombings.
Police released 44 innocent detainees in Ninewah province, and U.S. troops freed the major of Hawija after holding him for one month.
U.S. forces detained three Awakening Council members in Baquba and arrested a tribal chieftain, along with four sons, in Khalidiya. Iraqi forces arrested 30 in Baghdad. Two al-Qaeda members were arrested in Baquba as well. Also, one suspect was killed in an unspecified location in northern or central Iraq.
A report from the International Organization for Migration said that a "minute percentage" of Iraq’s estimated three million refugees have returned home and warn that, as more time passes, the chances are less likely they will return. About 1.2 million of the refugees were internally displaced.
Compiled by Margaret Griffis
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Albuminuria Ayurvedic Kidney Treatment:
What Is Albuminuria?
Albumin is a kind of protein which is normally found in the blood. As we know our body needs protein so it plays very important to build muscles, repair tissues and fright with infection. It is very important that albumin is present in blood not in urine. If your albumin is present in urine, its called albuminuria or proteinuria.
In other Words, It is a pathological condition in Albuminuria, which is in urine albumin. It is a type of proteinuria
SYMPTOMS
Heavy white foam in urine.
MEASUREMENT
A sample of a urine amount to measure the amount can be measured by collecting 24-hour urine protein by sktrpoling.
CAUSES
Kidneys do not usually have large questions in urine Chhante, so Albuminuria can be an indicator of kidney damage. This is a serious diabetes patient, especially there is 1 diabetes.
Causes of albuminuria can be discriminated between by the amount of protein excreted
The nephrotic syndrome usually results in the excretion of about 3.0 to 3.5 grams per 24 hours
Nephrotic syndrome results in far less albuminuria.
Microalbuminuria (between 30 and 300 mg/24h,[1] mg/l of urine[2] or µg/mg of creatinine[3]) can be a forerunner of diabetic nephropa66thy.
ALBUMINURIA AYURVEDIC KIDNEY TREATMENT
In Allopathy, proper cause, as well as cure of the disease, is not known and the line of treatment. It is the administration of various kinds of corticosteroids which temporarily decrease the excretion of protein in the urine and hold for a while, further complications associated with it. Immunosuppressive drugs are given to stop proteinuria in some patients, but once the treatments have ended proteinuria will continue. The drugs may sometimes damage the patient’s kidneys even more. Whereas in Ayurveda, we provide the albuminuria ayurvedic kidney treatment at the cause of the disease to treat the underlying cause and not just try to suppress the symptoms. Patients can have a remission after a period of steroid therapy. However, frequent relapse is a typical sign of Nephrotic Syndrome. So, there is no long term sustainable results and cure of Nephrotic Syndrome available in Allopathy.
HOME REMEDIES FOR ALBUMINURIA
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major indicator of support. “The poll demonstrates overwhelming local support for MSG Sphere, including for the thousands of jobs and significant economic impact this state-of-the-art entertainment and music venue would bring,” she said.
“We are obviously delighted at this high level of excitement for the project and look forward to continuing to work with and listen to our local stakeholders.” The next consultation public consultation will be held on 16 December.
The company is promoting the idea that London needs another music venue of that size. The planning application says the city “has an undersupply of dedicated large entertainment venues in comparison to other major world cities”, arguing that only SSE Arena in Wembley and the O2 in North Greenwich are capable of hosting the largest international touring acts. It points to New York, a similarly-sized city with seven such venues, though it does not mention London’s Alexandra Palace or its major park festivals – such as Hyde Park and Finsbury Park – which have capacities close to 100,000.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest The proposed site is a triangular wedge of land behind Stratford station. Photograph: Andrew Holt/Getty Images
MSG also claims that a smaller venue also included in the planning application, with a capacity of 1,500, and a 450-capacity nightclub will have a positive trickle-down effect on smaller music venues and local acts in London.
Legacy, what legacy? Five years on the London Olympic park battle still rages Read more
Local scepticism, however, derives in part from the experience of hosting the Olympics, for which tens of thousands of jobs were promised by the LLDC that protesters pointed out this summer have still not materialised. “Obviously the Olympics left positives, like the park and the sports facilities,” Mace said. “But it has also left us with the LLDC, an unelected corporation without any real accountability, a planning authority for a lot of land that was previously under local authority control. Seven years on from the Olympics, what we’ve seen is lots of developments, with little visible benefit for local people.”
What would be visible, of course, is the sphere itself, for miles around, an issue that Mace emphasises has not been properly discussed. “The size and illumination of it will be unprecedented – we believe in the UK, and quite possibly in Europe.”
This article was amended on 12 December 2019 to correct references to the amount and duration of advertising proposed for the Sphere
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