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Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa announced late on Sunday that his sons, Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad and Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad, will soon be joining Saudi-led coalition operations in Yemen, according to a report carried by pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat.
“My sons will be joining their brothers in the Arab coalition forces in Yemen as part of their national military duties,” Bahrain’s King reportedly said.
The announcement of Bahraini royalty joining forces in Yemen came after five Bahraini, ten Saudi and 45 UAE troops were killed by Houthi militias during operations in Yemen last week.
King Hamad and Sheikh Nasser File photo Reuters
Bahrain’s Minister of Information, and the official spokesperson on behalf of the Bahraini Kingdom, told Asharq al-Awsat that “this is the first time such a decision is being taken” and that the young sons of the King “are performing their national duties away from the spotlight in a bid to show their sincerity” to their fellow soldiers in the battlefield.
Speaking to Al Arabiya News, Director of Media Relations for Sheikh Nasser’s office Tawfeeq Al Salehi said: “As far as official announcements go, there aren't any neither from our office nor from His Majesty the King's. The news broke after someone tweeted about the King Hamad’s meeting with officials at the Bahrain Defense Forces, but we cannot confirm nor deny at the moment.”
King Hamad bin Isa’s comments came during a meeting at the Bahrain Defense Force’s headquarters late on Sunday: “We share the brotherly sentiments with our fellow citizens at this difficult time. Our sons Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad and Sheikh Khaled bin Hamad were both present with their fellow soldiers in the coalition operations bid to defend and restore legitimacy in Yemen and will continue to do so in their noble tasks.”
Meanwhile, neighboring Qatar has also thrown its weight behind the Arab coalition efforts in Yemen after reportedly sending at least 1,000 troops to the Saudi-Yemen border on Sunday.
A source close to Al Arabiya News Channel also confirmed that Sudan is preparing to send nearly 6,000 of their troops to assist the coalition.
The announcement of reinforcements from neighboring Gulf and Arab countries comes as Saudi Ministry of Defense official spokesperson Gen. Maj. Ahmed Asiri told Al Arabiya News Channel that the coalition will refocus its efforts from the Yemeni capital Sanaa to the major cities of Taez and Marib.
Last Update: Monday, 07 September 2015 KSA 18:25 - GMT 15:25
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Manchester United defender Daley Blind has turned from footballer to tour guide this week, after giving his new team-mate Victor Lindelof a glimpse of the sights a day after their emphatic win over Swansea.
The Dutchman was spotted out and about in the city with Lindelof as the duo enjoyed a Sunday off from training.
Taking a stroll from the Lowry Hotel, Blind could be seen pointing out various building to his Swedish team-mate, as the pair studied nearby high rise residential apartments.
Daley Blind used his day off to show new team-mate Victor Lindelof around Manchester
Blind was seen pointing out high rise residential buildings to the Swedish defender
The Dutchman was likely giving Lindelof tips on where to move to from the Lowry Hotel
Lindelof is still staying at the Lowry - the official team hotel of the Red Devils - following his summer switch from Benfica.
The defender looked on as Blind pointed out various different buildings, perhaps giving advice on where to make his first purchase on property in the city.
Blind is well placed to be the best of the United bunch to advise Lindelof on inner city living, after choosing to live in the heart of Manchester himself.
Whereas United stars usually opt to reside just out side the hustle and bustle of the city centre, in sleepy neighbouring suburbs, Blind immediately plumped to live right in the thick of things following his move for Ajax.
Speaking about the subject once with United's official website, Blind admitted: 'I live in an apartment as I wanted to be with the people and the crowds. I used to live in the city centre in Amsterdam as well.
Blind is one of the few Manchester United players who chooses to live in the heart of the city
The two players made the most of a day off training following emphatic victory over Swansea
The pair later arrived back at the Lowry where they were given a warm greeting by hotel staff
'I like to do normal stuff, like going on my bike, going out for lunch or dinner. Just normal things.'
United stars were afforded the luxury of a day off from training following their commanding performance in South Wales, in which they put Swansea City to the sword.
A late flurry of efforts saw United run out 4-0 victors at the Liberty stadium, with new boy Romelu Lukaku again getting among the goals.
It was the second time in the opening fortnight that United had hit an opponent for four, staking an early claim as one of the teams to watch this season.
The Red Devils return to action on Saturday when they host 2016/17 champions Leicester City at Old Trafford.
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A U.S. Navy SEAL has been arrested and charged with four counts related to child pornography after investigators found explicit images and videos of minors on his cell phone, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in federal court Thursday.
Gregory Kyle Seerden, identified in court records as a member of Navy SEAL Team 1, was arrested in California last week. Federal prosecutors allege he molested a young girl in Virginia while she was sleeping. Investigators allegedly found videos on his cell phone showing the abuse.
Special agent Christi Pickett of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) filed an affidavit in the Eastern District of Virginia on March 31 with details of the investigation. A grand jury subsequently indicted Seerden on four counts related to child pornography, including possession and production of child pornography. The production charge carries a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison, according to the Virginian-Pilot, which first reported the charges.
Federal prosecutors said investigators discovered graphic photos and videos of minors on Seerden's iPhone after a woman accused Seerden of sexually assaulting her in a hotel room on a military base while she was intoxicated. Navy investigators seized Seerden's phone searching for evidence related to the woman's allegation and came across photos depicting young children who appeared to be engaged in sex acts, according to the affidavit.
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A federal judge issued a search warrant allowing investigators to examine the full contents of Seerden's phone for suspected child pornography. Forensic examiners discovered 78 images allegedly showing child pornography, including depictions of children engaged in bestiality and naked minors in bondage, according to the complaint.
NCIS investigators also discovered four videos and one photograph with metadata indicating they had been shot using Seerden's phone. The videos showed a man masturbating and molesting a sleeping girl who appeared to be as young as 5 years old, according to the affidavit. The man's face was not visible in the videos. Investigators determined the girl was likely related to Seerden, the affidavit said.
A federal judge issued a warrant for Seerden's arrest on March 31 and he was taken into custody on April 17 in California, court records show. SEAL Team 1 is based in San Diego.
The Virginian-Pilot reports that U.S. Marshals are currently in the process of bringing Seerden to Virginia to be arraigned. Seerden was on temporary assignment in Norfolk, Virginia, when investigators seized his cell phone, according to court records.
Court records don't list an attorney for Seerden. A spokesman for Naval Special Warfare Group 1 told the Virginian-Pilot they were cooperating with "investigative authorities" on the case.
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The Greek Orthodox patriarch in the Holy Land announced Saturday that his church will appeal an Israeli court decision that approved the sale of prime church property to companies representing Jews seeking to expand their presence in Jerusalem's Old City.
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The church had challenged the property deal in court for the past decade, arguing it was conducted illegally by the since-deposed previous patriarch and was therefore invalid.
Previous Greek Patriarch Irineos I after being briefly imprisoned and deposed by the Greek Orthodox Church for unsanctioned real estate transactions (Photo: AP)
The Jerusalem District Court upheld the deal two weeks ago, paving the way for three large properties near the Old City's Jaffa Gate to be leased for 99 years to Ateret Cohanim, a group that has been buying properties for Jews in traditionally Arab areas of Jerusalem.
Patriarch Theophilos III alleged Saturday that the lower court ruling was "politically motivated" and said the church would appeal to Israel's Supreme Court.
The church will do "everything within its power so that this unjust ruling will be overturned," he said at a news conference in the Jordanian capital of Amman.
Theophilos leads a predominantly Arab flock of 220,000 Christians in Jordan, Israel and the PA-controlled territories.
The Greek Orthodox Church is one of the largest property owners in the Holy Land, including in Jerusalem's Old City, one of the most sensitive areas of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Photo: EPA)
Israel's current government rejects any partition of Jerusalem as part of a possible peace deal. Since 1967, some 200,000 Jews have moved to east Jerusalem neighborhoods built for them by successive Israeli governments. In addition, Jewish groups have bought homes in predominantly Arab-populated neighborhoods.
The patriarch also expressed concern about what he said was an effort by some members of Israel's parliament to restrict the rights of his church and other Christian denominations in the Holy Land to deal independently with their real estate holdings.
He urged the heads of churches to find a joint response to "this alarming and serious development" that he said will affect Christians in the region and around the world.
"We cannot stress too highly the extreme seriousness of the situation," Theophilos said. He called on world leaders to intervene.
In recent years, there have been growing tensions between the predominantly Greek church leadership and the Arab flock, including over the administration of the vast property holdings and land leases to Israel in west Jerusalem.
Critics have repeatedly demanded that the church provide details about its holdings.
On Saturday, church officials declined to answer when asked about the holdings.
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�s unofficial dog poop mascot Soft Kuri’inu. He’s the poop of the famous dog Hachiko. For more on him, check out this article.
Here’s the infamous Marimokkori. He’s an algae ball with an erection from Hokkaido. Also (not surprisingly) an unofficial mascot.
From Hokkaido, Marimokkori is a moss-ball-headed mascot with troublingly bulging trousers. He’s always pleased to see you. pic.twitter.com/MaDwrNaGQF — Mondo Mascots (@mondomascots) August 25, 2017
And here is Marimokkori’s theme song. Called “Kori Kori Marimokkori,” this song is so catchy it will get stuck in your head for days on end, watch at your own risk.
Here is the asexual pear fairy Funassy. This is a music video for Funassy’s heavy metal band, Charamel. One listen and you will become a fan. Also, Funassy does in fact sound quite a bit like the Bad Brains singer, as Chris noted.
Here is the incredible drumming cat apple from Aomori Nyango Star performing the famous “Anpanman March.”
Here is a video of Tama-chan from Tama and Friends (a.k.a. San-Chōme no Tama: Uchi no Tama Shirimasen ka?) awkwardly walking (or waddling) around a store in Fukuoka.
And last but not least, here’s a music video featuring Muay Thaishi, the mascot of the Japanese embassy in Thailand and perhaps the “punniest” mascot ever. He is a kickboxing (muay thai), sea bream (a species of fish known as tai in Japanese) ambassador (taishi).
Just in case you’d like to learn about the big-brestead sexy bird mascot Paiko, you can go here. And to read about the giant soccer-playing origami crane mascot Kizūru, check out this article.
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Opening/Closing song: Oedo Controller (大江戸コントローラー) by Yunomi featuring Toriena
To listen to more of Yunomi’s music, check out his Soundcloud page or YouTube channel.
Japan Station cover art: Provided by Erik R.
Featured image: Shows Chris Carlier with Chiitan. Courtesy of Chris Carlier.
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technically mature and generates predictable income, especially if the market risks are covered by feed-in-tariffs or long term power purchase agreements (PPAs) to a large extent. This is the main difference for solar-diesel-systems at remote mining sites. Even if there is a long-term PPA in place, the counterparty risk is substantial due to the fact that normally the mine is the only possible off-taker of the electricity in remote locations. If the mine does not fulfill the contract, e.g., if it has to file for insolvency, the generated electricity cannot be sold easily.
The THEnergy study “Solar-diesel-hybrid power plants at mines: Opportunities for external investors” shows several solutions of mitigating the risk for external investors. A trend to mobilize solar solutions can be observed. Solar panels are mounted to sub-structures of the mounting-system and a containerized in a next step. The costs for dismantling the solar plant and reinstalling it in different locations are decreased. From the financial perspective risk can be mitigated by a higher rental rate or electricity price during the first years of operation. One solution is that the mine pays during the first years a price that is equivalent to the price of electricity from the diesel generators. After the pay-off period of the solar plant the power price or rental rate is lowered substantially and the mining company and the investor share the additional cost savings of the project. In any case the rental company or power provider has to perform a resource-based and market-based due diligence of the mining operations. In another scenario the mining company co-invests in the solar power plant and assumes more liability for the market risks. Finally, the external investor tries to close contracts in which the parent company is the contract partner or guarantees for the fulfillment of the rental or power purchase agreement.
First rental and PPA solutions are already available in the market. A growing number of solar companies and investors see the mining industry as a reliable partner for rental or PPA models. “This development is considerably likely to accelerate the extension of solar applications at mines”, expects Dr. Thomas Hillig, founder of THEnergy.
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THEnergy assists companies in dealing with energy related challenges. Renewable energy companies are offered strategy, marketing and sales consulting services. For industrial companies THEnergy develops energy concepts and shows how they can become more sustainable. THEnergy combines experience from conventional and renewable energy with industry knowledge in consulting. In addition to business consulting, THEnergy is active in marketing intelligence and as an information provider in select fields such as renewables and mining through the platform www.th-energy.net/mining.
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In the latest chapter in the ongoing crusade against manmade global warming, alarmists have blamed climate change for the creation of “ghost forests” along the U.S. Atlantic seaboard.
“I think ghost forests are the most obvious indicator of climate change anywhere on the Eastern coast of the U.S.,” said Matthew Kirwan, a professor at Virginia Institute of Marine Science who studies ghost forests. “It was dry, usable land 50 years ago; now it’s marshes with dead stumps and dead trees.”
Although the process has “occurred naturally for thousands of years,” some say it has accelerated in recent decades due to polar ice melts and rising sea levels, which would push salt water further inland, killing trees in the process.
In past months, “global warming” has been blamed for everything from the death of migratory songbirds to the decimation of herds of reindeer to a slump in South American coffee production to a drop in the population of Hawaiian monk seals and even — remarkably — to colder winters.
Yet as the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has noted, many of the recent climatological events and trends “can be explained by the natural variability of the climate system,” without excluding an indeterminate influence from atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. In the same report, the WMO said that, at this time, researchers have not yet been able to ascertain “the respective roles being played by climate variability and human-induced climate change.”
Many climate scientists have acknowledged the practical impossibility of correlating a specific meteorological or environmental phenomenon to “global warming.”
As Nature magazine explained in 2012, “climate attribution” — the attempt to link singular weather events to manmade global warming — “rests on a comparison of the probability of an observed weather event in the real world with that of the ‘same’ event in a hypothetical world without global warming.” As critics have observed, such attribution claims “are unjustifiably speculative, basically unverifiable and better not made at all.”
The editors of the journal concluded: “Better models are needed before exceptional events can be reliably linked to global warming.”
According to an AP report, “scientists agree the startling sight of dead trees in once-healthy areas is an easy-to-grasp example of the consequences of climate change.”
While such climate attribution may be “easy to grasp” and therefore politically useful, it is also fundamentally dishonest.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - Huntsville Utilities announced back in February that it would build out a fiber network, then lease space for Google Fiber to provide internet to all of Huntsville. They initially said the buildout would take place over approximately three years, with the first customers getting Google Fiber in spring or summer of 2017. WHNT News 19 now has more information about that timeline.
The whole process starts with a fiber backbone, built by Huntsville Utilities.
Huntsville Utilities Spokesperson Joe Gehrdes says, "We are about 78% complete with the backbone fiber loop, which is what will feed the distribution fiber."
Now they've hired Bear Communications of Kansas to build out the next stage. The company won a competitive bid process based on price and experience. Gehrdes says, "It's a huge project, and so a company has got to be pretty robust to handle a project of this size. And they met the bid specifications and won the bid."
Bear is set to begin construction on the distribution network on September 12. As fiber reaches neighborhoods, Google Fiber is in charge of carrying it to homes.
But as for the Huntsville Utilities part, Gehrdes says, "We're on schedule. We'll have to build the network out in three years. We anticipate the first section being ready for customers to receive service from whoever, in this case Google, late spring, early summer, which is consistent with what we've given since the beginning."
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They've also identified a starting point for the fiber network.
"We'll begin that construction out in the Chase area, which is northeast Huntsville," Gehrdes tells WHNT News 19, "We haven't quite hammered out where it will go from there, but that area will see the first service offered from Google, we believe."
That area is located on Jordan Rd. between Shields Rd. and Moores Mill Rd.
Right now, there's a lean toward building counterclockwise from the northeast.
Gehrdes tells us, "That's probably how it will go, but we and The Broadband Group, and Bear Communications, who is doing the fiber construction, are still working that out."
WHNT New 19 reached out to Google to see if their plans for fiber in Huntsville remain the same, but they have not contacted us back. However, Gehrdes tells us their lease has already been executed to best of his knowledge.
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It’s not often that a tasty food offering in another country is brought to the United States — we’re still longing to try some of these international Pepsi flavors. Typically, we just have to live with the fact that we’ll never get to try it for ourselves and try to move on, but Mountain Dew is changing that by offering us its “Violet With Grape Flavor” soda from Japan.
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The “uber-rare product,” as it’s described, was announced at FYE stores and online on Aug. 10. There is a limited supply of the bright purple can, so we’re happy to report that it’s still in stock.
“The Violet version has delicious grape flavor and contains vegetable and elderberry juice to give it a unique taste,” the description says. An elderberry is a dark purple berry and has been used for medicinal purposes.
You can get a can of Mountain Dew Violet at FYE for $5.99. Remember, this is a super exclusive flavor, so we say that it’s worth the price tag. There is a limit of 12 per customer, which means we’ll be dressing in a disguise to get our hands on more, if need be.
We don’t have an original flavor that’s close to Violet, unless the Berry Monsoon is at all similar — which we doubt — so Mountain Dew fans shouldn’t hesitate to give it a try while it’s here!
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so by dint of Democrats' own overreach. Yet Schumer and friends still aren't learning their lesson.
[201,000] - The US economy created that many jobs in August, again beating expectations, as the national unemployment rate remains near a generational low of 3.9 percent. When unemployment is below four percent, and the last quarter of GDP growth was above four percent, that's an outstanding sign. But one economic indicator that naysayers and skeptics have been harping on as a weak spot has been wages. What did today's jobs report show on that front?
The United States created 201,000 new jobs in August, keeping the unemployment rate at an 18-year low and generating the fastest increase in worker pay since the end of the Great Recession. Economists polled by MarketWatch had forecast a 200,000 increase in new nonfarm jobs. The unemployment rate, meanwhile, was unchanged at 3.9%, the Labor Department said Friday. The increase in hiring in August was another solid gain that reflects broad strength in an economy that accelerated in the spring and showed little sign of slowing down toward the end of summer...The biggest news in the August employment report was a sharp increase in pay. The average wage paid to American workers rose by 10 cents to $27.16 an hour. What’s more, the yearly rate of pay increases climbed to 2.9% from 2.7%, marking the highest level since June 2009.
US worker productivity is also up. The economy is very, very strong, and Republicans desperately want voters to take note.
[14] - More than a dozen Senior Trump officials have now denied authorship of a much-discussed, sharply-critical, and anonymously-written New York Times op/ed submitted by someone purporting to work in the upper echelon of the administration. Shortly after the piece appeared online, I shared my reaction on social media; I think most of this holds up quite well several days later:
(2) If you think you know better than the person *elected* by the American people, go get yourself elected. If you think your boss a serious threat to the republic, say so PUBLICLY in your resignation letter. Anonymous back-patting while keeping your job is so sleazy & so DC. — Guy Benson (@guypbenson) September 5, 2018
(4) Self-serving, sniveling, self-congratulatory -- while also touching off an obnoxious round of Beltway whodunit gossip and gleeful speculation. Gross, gross, gross. — Guy Benson (@guypbenson) September 5, 2018
[Friday Fun] - At the expense of America's self-imagined neo Spartacus:
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A political journalist who said president Barack Obama was being "kind of a dick" live on air has been suspended by US cable news channel MSNBC.
Mark Halperin, a political analyst and editor-at-large for Time magazine, made the remark on MSNBC's Morning Joe programme on Thursday during a discussion about an Obama press conference the previous day.
Halperin asked the show's presenters jokingly: "Are we on the seven-second delay today?... I want to characterise how I thought the president behaved."
The presenters appeared to encourage him to speak his mind and after apparent confusion between the studio and the show's production team in the gallery about whether a delay button was being used, Halperin said: "I thought he was kind of a dick yesterday."
This prompted a shocked reaction from the Morning Joe co-presenter Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman: "Oh my God... delay that! Delay that! What are you doing? I can't believe you – I was joking!"
Halperin then expanded on his comment, saying he thought the president was "posturing" over a deal with the Republicans over spending cuts and tax rises.
Later in the show a sombre-looking Halperin apologised, after the show's presenters admitted they had goaded him into saying it but did not think he would go through with it and also apologised.
Shortly after the show Halperin was suspended by MSNBC. "Mark Halperin's comments this morning were completely inappropriate and unacceptable," the broadcaster said in a statement. "We apologise to the president, the White House and all of our viewers. We strive for a high level of discourse and comments like these have no place on our air. Therefore, Mark will be suspended indefinitely from his role as an analyst."
Halperin also issued a statement: "I completely agree with everything in MSNBC's statement about my remark. I believe that the step they are taking in response is totally appropriate.
"Again, I want to offer a heartfelt and profound apology to the president, to my MSNBC colleagues, and to the viewers. My remark was unacceptable, and I deeply regret it."
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’ll probably have a lot of candy on-hand. Well, pair that candy with the best adult beverages you can get—and the ones that’ll taste the best with the treats you plan to eat!
We have recommendations for the best wines to pair with popular candy, and another guide that lists the best beers and spirits to pair with your Halloween bounty as well. Mix and match and have a great night.
3. Save Money on Candy, Costumes, and Decorations
One of the biggest time and money sinks on a holiday like Halloween, where atmosphere is so important, are the decorations and such. We mentioned some of them above when we talked about building a webcam to spook the littles, but if you want to save some dough and still get that spooky atmosphere, there are plenty of ways to do it.
A DIY fog machine doesn’t cost a lot of money and you can use it for more than just Halloween, and some free music and spooky sound resources can help you set the mood for your yard or your party. Even some eerie, flickering lights are a quick build that you still have time for.
2. Score Some Freebies of Your Own
While you’re spending time getting everything just right for your Halloween party, or to go out to someone else’s, or just to set the mood for the trick-or-treaters, don’t forget to reap the benefits of the holiday for yourself, too! There are plenty of freebies available on Halloween, including discounted snacks in both stores and fast casual restaurants like Chipotle and Sonic, although locations vary. The important thing is to keep an eye out for them!
1. Raid the Half-Off Shelves for More on November 1
Finally, perhaps the best Halloween hack of all is to hang tight until November 1 and then hit the grocery stores and convenience stores...where all of the leftover candy will have been marked half-off and moved to the discount aisles. If you gave away all of your candy the night before (or just ate it all), this is the Halloween treat that keeps on giving after the night is over—and a good time to grab some sweets to get you through to Thanksgiving.
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said the cross and beads were an obstruction of view.
"I wasn't speeding," Preston said. "I wasn't driving recklessly."
But Preston was driving with a suspended license. At eight months' pregnant, she was arrested and sent to see a judge.
"She gave me a very high bond, even though it was my first driving on a suspended (license)," Preston said. "A very high bond."
Preston had to pay a $10,000 cash bond or sit in jail for 14 days while her hearing was scheduled. The baby arrived on her fifth day in jail.
"About 7:30 (a.m.), you know, you press the little button (and) it buzzes their tower," Preston said. "I told the deputies, I said, 'I'm the one that's eight months' pregnant in here, and I think I'm in labor and I need to go down to medical.'"
Surveillance video shows Preston walking to the medical area, where she saw a nurse. There's no audio on the video, but Preston said the medical staff didn't believe her.
"(They said), 'We don't believe you," Preston said. "'We think you're lying and you're not in labor. We'd be able to tell. There are certain things that are more apparent, so go back to your cell.'"
Video shows Preston leaving the medical area and going back to D block, where she said other inmates were worried.
"One of them got a cool washcloth for my forehead, was dabbing my forehead," Preston said. "One of them was actually previously a registered nurse, so actually, she was rubbing my back during the contractions."
Preston said she hit the buzzer again around 11:30 a.m. Video shows her walking to the medical area again.
"This time, they were very rude when they told me they didn't believe me and I was called a liar and told to knock my crap off or they could put another charge on me," Preston said.
Preston returned to her cell, but she was back 90 minutes later with blood running down her leg. The deputy had her pack up and made her carry her belongings to a cell next to the medical area.
Video shows Preston lying down, but not for long. She yelled for help, and when the nurse arrived, the baby was crowning.
It was too late for an ambulance to come, so Elijha was born on the jail cell floor.
In total, Preston asked the medical staff for help three times, but nobody believed her.
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everyone is catered for in the long term.In the meantime just consider each day on your survival time as an achievement. Also consider your skill level as a player in the future. After a week, or in a month, or a year, in your evaluation of whether it is 'too hard' right now, since once you do finally reach that level of skill you may find the game boring as many of our long time players did prior to these recent builds. This difficulty is to provide the game with everlasting life, since there will always be another day, or another week, to stretch your PZ survival skills. If you can survive indefinitely after some practice, only dying when you get bored and decide to go postal with a shotgun, the game soon gets stale, and this is worth worrying about even if you're not at that skill level right now. You in a few months will thank us, even if you right now is swearing at us as you load Sandbox mode and feel inadequate as you turn options down to easy.Just remember, the sandbox is there to provide you with the experience you want, so please consider this and even if you feel Survival to be too hard or too stressful for you personally, bear in mind it was always intended to be the ultimate hardcore mode, the pinnacle of PZ prowess, for the competitive players looking to push against each other for survival times, eeking days on each other for forum and youtube prestige, and sandbox is there for those who want to craft their own experience and level of difficulty.If of course even with sandbox you're unable to create a satisfactory experience, then this is a problem and we'll look to balance it to provide the experience you're missing. We don't want anyone who has bought the game to feel they are unable to play it because of post-purchase patches making it too difficult. But at the same time we don't want to compromise on the vision we and a vast number of PZ players have yearned for because people don't want to go into sandbox and tailor the game to their own desires, or feel that Survival should be balanced how they desire. But if our changes mean that Sandbox cannot be tailored as such then we'll strive to improve that (an obvious thought is an option to alter the new bunching mechanic)So yes, if sandbox fails you, then we've failed you, and will look to provide any options we can to ease any difficulty in the game we can. We want sandbox to cater for absolutely everyone. But...We will not compromise on Survival though. Survival is where the blood will flow. And the scoreboard of survival across the entire internet should be measured in days and weeks, months for the TRUE elite, but not years. Unless Adric The Great comes back around of course.
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People should know better by now that to judge the future of Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies in general on what is happening today, or this week, or any arbitrary but short time period. Yet, just like with the initial collapse of Silk Road late last year–where "everyone knew" all Bitcoins were spent and yet whose death seemed to spur an enormous rise in Bitcoin market value–so is the collapse and disappearance of prominent Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, with lots of people likely losing lots of money, you are hearing the Bitcoin is over.
Bitcoin may indeed someday be over, though the enormous advantages of its protocol for many of the things people want out of money (and other things, as Jerry Brito explained in the December Reason) make me think that's an unlikely bet. But past results are no performance of future guarantees, or whatever it is they say in the world of High Finance.
This article from Businessweek has some nice perspective on why Bitcoin believers aren't ready to give up yet:
Some bitcoin believers are cheering the development, hailing it as the end of amateur hour for the crypto-currency. "It purges the final vestige of the first generation of infrastructure companies," says Jerry Brito, director of the technology research program at Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a longtime proponent of bitcoin. "Who's left? It's the serious people, who are doing this right." Those people are working hard to assure the market that they are, in fact, serious. Several prominent bitcoin companies signed on to a statement vowing to shore up the credibility of the currency. The companies describe the need for bitcoin companies to submit to independent audits, balance sheet requirements, customer disclosures, and policies that don't allow companies to leverage customer assets for their own trading.
And as you read people telling you it's all over, it helps to remember that the price in dollars of Bitcoin as of around right now–around $520, after a dip to below $460–is a low not seen since, wow, mid-November, slightly more than three months ago.
A reminder: if you had invested $1,000 in the horrible mistake of Bitcoin five months ago, that thousand would be worth about four times that today. After this Mt. Gox news.
Certainly, that huge value increase is not proof of Bitcoin's eternal value as either investment or currency (and inflation in the former isn't that healthy for use as the latter). But it is a sign that "it's over, man" seems doubtful. People still believe. And that's important when it comes to either investment or currency.
Some bonus Bitcoin science from September: why it isn't that easy for the protocol and blockchain to trace or block stolen coins.
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Get MVCI with all characters for $45
PlayStation Store and other platform sales happen every week, but this week's Critics' Choice sale includes almost every current fighting game on the system. It was too good to pass up.
This sale does require a US PlayStation Plus account to get the full discount, but chances are if you play fighting games on the system, you probably already have an account to play online. Nonmembers still receive a sale price but not as big.
Some notable items included in this sale are Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite Deluxe edition for $45, Mortal Kombat XL for $10 and Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 for $16. Just about every current fighting game is included in the sale except for Injustice 2 and Dragon Ball FighterZ, so if you have been waiting to pick something up, now is probably the time to do so.
Other notable non-fighting games on sale include Assassin's Creed Origins, Call of Duty WW2, Destiny 2, Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition and many more.
The Critics' Choice sale went live on February 27 and runs through March 6 when the store refreshes for next week.
Check out our full list of fighting game related sales prices after the jump.
PlayStation 4 games BlazBlue: Central Fiction - ($59.99) $23.99
Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 - ($39.99) $15.99
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite [Standard Edition] - ($59.99) $29.99
MVCI Deluxe Edition - ($89.99) $44.99
MVCI Character Pass - ($29.99) $20.99
MVCI Premium Costume Pass - ($29.99) $20.99
Mortal Kombat XL - ($19.99) $9.99
Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition - ($39.99) $29.99
Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition Deluxe - ($69.99) $55.99
Tekken 7 - ($59.99) $29.99
Tekken 7 Deluxe Edition - ($84.99) $46.74
The King of Fighters 14 Special Anniversary Edition - ($59.99) $29.99
KOF 14 Character Bundle - ($19.99) $9.99
Nidhogg 2 - ($14.99) $8.99
For Honor - ($59.99) $19.79 PlayStation 3 games BlazBlue: Central Fiction - ($49.99) $19.99
Critics' Choice Sale Page
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Sheriff’s officials today announced the arrests of three teenage boys accused of using cigarette lighters and aerosol cans to burn swastikas into a residential lawn and a nearby street in San Dimas and on another street in Covina.
The teens—a 14-year-old from Long Beach and two 13-year-olds from Hemet and Covina—were arrested on Monday, according to officials at the sheriff’s San Dimas Station.
The lawn vandalism occurred in the 1400 block of Greenhaven Street, where the homeowner on Friday “discovered a crude swastika burned into the artificial turf of his front lawn. It appeared the turf was burned with a chemical or flame,” according to a sheriff’s statement. The same day, deputies discovered similar swastikas “burned on the surface of the asphalt roadway nearby on Valley Center Street in unincorporated Covina,” according to the sheriff’s department.
“On Sunday … a similar swastika was found burned onto the asphalt street in the 1200 block of Stratford Lane, San Dimas. Investigators also learned of three small brushfires to the north of 801 W. Covina Blvd., San Dimas, and that a security camera there had been vandalized in this time frame.”
The three teens had been seen in the area around the time the crimes occurred, investigators said. The boys were located on Monday in San Dimas and a search warrant was served seeking additional evidence, according to the sheriff’s department.
“Investigators learned the fires were created using cigarette lighters and flammable aerosol cans,” according to the sheriff’s department. “Statements from witnesses and the boys themselves, evidence and video from security cameras connected the three boys to these crimes. Potential charges include those related to arson, hate crimes and vandalism.”
The sheriff’s department said “the investigation indicates the acts of hate, arson and vandalism were not directed at any particular person (or people).”
Homeowner Ted Ferris told the Los Angeles Times that he knew immediately what the symbols were when he looked out at the synthetic grass in front yard of his home and saw the two 3-foot-high swastikas. Ferris, who is not Jewish, said he was puzzled why anyone would vandalize his yard in such a manner. He and his family have lived in the home for 34 years.
The boys, whose names were withheld because of their ages, were taken to juvenile hall, but their custody status was not immediately available. The case will be submitted to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office for filing consideration.
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wouldn't be such a fervor for citizens to arm themselves when they're out in public."
Gun ownership accepted
Dulan said his group doesn't have any hard data on why a growing number of women are getting CPLs, but "the most common reason women cite for getting them is to protect themselves and their families."
Dulan said other reasons may include a growing acceptance of gun ownership and savvy marketing.
"(Owning a gun) doesn't seem weird to women like it used to," he said. "And there's been a change in the culture of gun shops."
Decades ago, he said, gun stores and shooting ranges were like hot-rod shops. "There was a bunch of guys sitting around BS-ing with each other," he said. "It wasn't woman-friendly."
But now many of the newer shops and ranges look like typical retail stores, he said.
Mary Polkowski, a certified firearms instructor, agreed more women are getting the licenses for recreation and sport. She owns Ultimate Firearms Training and Gun Range in Clinton Township with her husband, Allen Polkowski.
The couple offer firearm safety, CPL and self-defense courses. They also offer a CPL class for women only.
Ultimate Firearms Training recently hosted a women's-only event, "Ladies Shooting Day Out," with lessons on gun safety and how to shoot or improve their marksmanship.
Poxson and about a dozen other women attended. At one station, the group practiced proper shooting form with non-firing gun replicas.
At another, they trained with a high-tech, computerized simulator whose gun used a laser beam instead of bullets.
After the event wrapped up with instruction at the range, the women were invited to gather at a nearby restaurant to socialize.
"We look at the firearm as a last resort," said Polkowski, who has more than 20 years experience as a firearms instructor.
Like Poxson, Kate Chappell, 33, of Clinton Township, said she got her CPL for safety reasons. She grew up in the country in upstate New York and didn't feel as safe at home after a theft from her yard.
"My husband and I decided we were going to figure out the best way to handle and own a gun," Chappell said. "I started out getting my CPL for safety reasons, but then (shooting) turned into a hobby for me and my husband — something we're both interested in and something we can do together."
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Six Republican campaign volunteers say they were kicked out of an Uber on Saturday as their driver told them “welcome to the resistance.”
The six volunteers were told halfway to their destination in Raleigh, North Carolina, to exit the vehicle at a gas station because the driver “had the right to deny us service,” Mary Russell, one of the riders in the Uber told The Daily Caller News Foundation. The six riders exited the car and were told “welcome to the resistance” as the driver drove away.
“It was clear based on our mild conservative political talk that the driver realized we were Republicans,” Russell, who was the rider who ordered the Uber, told The DCNF. After the incident, she received a message from Uber saying that she was inappropriate towards her driver.
“I reviewed the relevant policy of Uber and we did not use ‘inappropriate and abusive language or gestures’ that would result in the early termination of a ride,” Russell said. “This type of discrimination against politically oriented conservatives should be against the policy of Uber.” Russell said the group then requested another ride, and experienced no problems with that driver.
Chris Godbey, another one of the riders, also felt the group was unfairly treated.
“For an individual to blatantly target Young Republicans for their political outlook is an assault on the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment. While business owners should have the freedom to provide the service as the see fit, once a contract has been entered, breaking that contract is inappropriate and to do so based on discrimination for political beliefs is unlawful,” he told The DCNF
“As a loyal and longstanding Uber customer and a proud conservative working to make this country a better place for everyone, this is unacceptable, and I will consider other ride sharing apps in the future if this is not addressed,” Russell said.
The six were on a campaign trip to campaign for North Carolina Republican Reps. Mark Meadows, George Holding, and Mark Walker, as well as North Carolina Lt. Governor Dan Forest, North Carolina State Republican Rep. Chris Malone, and Mark Harris, a candidate for the House of Representatives.
The incident is part of a trend of harassment and denials of service to Republicans. A congressional intern was denied service in an Uber on Tuesday because he was wearing a “Make America Great Again Hat,” according to the Daily Caller.
“We expect all riders and drivers to treat each other with respect, and we’re looking into this situation,” an Uber spokesperson told The DCNF on Sunday.
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Key visual, broadcast stations also revealed for series premiering in July
The official website for the television anime of Sekina Aoi and illustrator Saboten's Gamers! light novel series revealed the show's main cast, theme song artists, new key visual, and broadcast stations on Saturday.
The anime stars:
Megumi Han as Keita Amano
Hisako Kanemoto as Karen Tendo
Manaka Iwami as Chiaki Hoshinomori
Rumi Ookubo as Aguri
Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Tasuku Uehara
Voice actresses Kanemoto, Iwami, and Ookubo are performing the show's opening theme song. The five-member female unit Luce Twinkle Wink☆ (And you thought there is never a girl online?, Urara Meirocho) are performing the ending theme song.
The anime will premiere in July and it will have 12 episodes. The series will air in Japan on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, BS11, and AT-X.
Manabu Okamoto ( The [email protected] Cinderella Girls, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- storyboards and episode director) is directing the anime at Pine Jam. Hiroki Uchida ( Ultraman X, Ultraman Orb ) is handling the series composition, and Tensho Sato (Fafner, The Devil is a Part-Timer! key animator) is drawing the character designs for animation.
The romantic comedy light novel series centers on the gaming lives of various high school students who play video games, including: Keita Amano, a lonely young man who loves video games; Karen Tendō, the beautiful president of the video game club; Chiaki Hoshinomori, who constantly fights with Keita; and Tasuku Uehara, who puts on a facade of being satisfied with his life in the real world, but he in truth loves video games.
Aoi and Saboten launched the novel series in 2014, and Kadokawa released the seventh novel on March 18. Tsubasa Takahashi launched a manga adaptation in Kadokawa's Monthly Shonen Ace magazine on October 26.
Aoi's previous Seitokai no Ichizon light novel series inspired the Student Council's Discretion television anime series in 2009, and the Student Council's Discretion Lv. 2 television anime series in 2012. Sentai Filmworks released the first anime on home video in March 2015, and released the second anime in May 2015.
Update: Fixed manga information. Thanks, Shiroi Hane.
Source: MoCa News
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Insufficient sleep is a health concern, and its effects reach beyond physical health. While a lack of sleep is known to negatively impact some types of behaviors, relatively little is known about how it impacts civic engagement and social behaviors vital for a healthy democracy.
Research from Appalachian State University professor of economics David Dickinson has newly explored the effects of sleep -- or lack thereof -- on prosocial behavior. Led by Dickinson and co-authors/political scientists John Holbein (Brigham Young University) and Jerome Schafer (Ludwig-Maximilians University), the study found that insufficient sleep predicts lower voter turnout and that those manipulated to short term increased sleepiness are less willing to vote, sign petitions and donate to charities.
“The advantage of this paper is that we not only examined real-world expressions of prosocial behaviors and civic engagement, which connects more directly with real-world decision makers, but we also used multiple methodologies to show a consistent result," said Dickinson. "Each different data set and methodology has its strengths and weaknesses, but the result is all the more compelling when all point to the same conclusion.”
The authors' findings highlight that there likely exists significant negative consequences of current societal sleep habits on civic engagement and important measures of social capital that have spillover effects in society. Learn more about the findings and methodologies in the paper, Insufficient sleep reduces voting and other prosocial behaviours -- recently published in Nature Human Behaviour.
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My initial surprise with my tube of La Toja shave cream was the sheer size of the thing. It looks, and is massive, compared to most of my other tubed shave creams. Which, as it turns out, is a really good thing because as I did with my La Toja shave stick, I absolutely love the La Toja in cream form. It is an example of everything that is good about wet shaving, this is now my official “let me convert you to wet shaving” shave cream.
What makes this cream great is more than its fantastic, easy to build, protection providing, and surface building lather. The feel of the cream and the scent – oh the scent – screams barber shop. If you close your eyes you can transplant yourself into a barber shop (any era you want – mine is always the 50’s). With the right music in the background and some magazines you may never leave your bathroom.
Scent
The best way to describe the scent of the La Toja shave cream is – not to stereotype – but manly. I can’t seem to really compare it to anything other than it having a natural smell too it – makes me feel like I should head out and chop down some trees. But all joking aside couldn’t tell you what it smells similar to, but I love it. Comments are open if someone can help me hone in on the actual smell of the product.
Lather
The lather is just as impressive as the scent for me. It takes very little effort, and is very forgiving when it came to using the ‘right’ amount of water. The lather didn’t dry out, or leave my face feeling dry, with the my initial building of lather always being enough to last me three passes. A nice amount of cushion and slickness made for an excellent shave experience and quality final result with each shave (4 total prior to writing this review).
If you tried the La Toja shave stick and enjoyed it, I would suspect you will feel the same about the La Toja shave cream. If you haven’t tried it it is well worth a try. I can’t really see anyone hating this cream, you may not love it as much as I do, but hate – unlikely.
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Cory Morris allegedly told investigators he struck his daughter to silence her "baby talk"
Man Allegedly Beat 4-Month-Old Daughter to Death Because He Didn't Like Noises She Was Making
A 21-year-old Minneapolis man is charged with second-degree murder after allegedly punching his four-month-old daughter at least 15 times because he didn’t like the noises she was making, PEOPLE confirms.
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced the charges against Cory Morris on Tuesday, two days after his initial arrest. He faces 40 years in prison if convicted.
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According to a statement from Freeman’s office, ambulance personnel and police were dispatched to Morris’ home on Sunday afternoon and found the lifeless body of his infant daughter, Emersyn.
Soon after they had arrived, Morris told emergency responders he’d struck the baby with a closed fist multiple times, Freeman’s statement alleges.
Emersyn was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center. Police say the infant had severe bruising and swelling to her face and chest. She died from blunt force trauma, according to Freeman’s statement.
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“This poor baby, just four-months-old, died at the hands of her father, who has admitted to punching her 15 times with a closed fist and hitting her seven times in the chest,” Freeman said in his statement. “As a father and grandfather, such brutal actions are difficult for me to comprehend. Family members have suggested there may be mental health issues here. These will need to be evaluated during the course of this case.”
According to the statement, responding officers searched Morris’ home and allegedly noticed blood on the walls and floor in the baby’s room. The father’s clothing, hands and arms were also allegedly covered in dried blood.
Once he was in handcuffs, Morris allegedly told officers he lives with his girlfriend, Jennifer Anderson, who is Emersyn’s mother.
Anderson was at work Sunday and left Morris home alone with the child, police said.
Freeman’s statement says Morris was watching TV when Emersyn started making “baby talk” noises.
Police say Morris told them he took Emersyn out of her baby swing before carrying her into her bedroom, where he placed her on the changing table. The baby wouldn’t stop making noises, so Morris allegedly started hitting her.
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ONE of the Government's leading advisers on the property market has said that he would never buy a property again because they are too expensive.
Conor Skehan, chairman of the Housing Agency, the government body set up in 2010 to advise on policy for housing, rents his home and has no intention of changing that.
Asked about the perception that many people have of rent as 'dead money', Mr Skehan replied: "Well, I'm the chairman of the Housing Agency and I will never buy a piece of property again. I rent."
He added: "We've completely lost connection between rental values and market values in Ireland and that still has to sink into people's minds."
Mr Skehan made the statement while speaking to Matt Cooper for a new TV3 documentary which will be broadcast tonight.
His comments come despite the massive fall in property prices since 2007 and a limited recovery since.
They also come as rents in Dublin have increased by 14pc and throughout the country by 11pc in the last year, leading for widespread demands for the introduction of rent controls.
However, the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB) recently published a report from DKM consultants arguing that the introduction of rent controls could lead to landlords exiting the market and further curtailing already limited supply as well as pushing up rents.
The numbers renting their accommodation instead of buying has increased dramatically since the crash of 2008, although this is often by necessity rather than choice because potential buyers have struggled to get large enough mortgages from banks.
The situation may get worse if the Central Bank goes ahead with its controversial plan to insist that first-time buyers have a 20pc deposit on the price of a house before they are allowed a loan.
Mr Skehan received support from leading economist Robbie Kelleher who told 'Ireland: What's next? - The Housing Crisis' that "even though house prices are a good deal off the peaks we saw in 2006/2007, they are not cheap by most measures".
Mr Kelleher said: "I think it is important to try and do something at this stage to at least limit the rate of price increases going forward."
Finance Minister Michael Noonan has previously dismissed concerns about rising house prices.
The programme addresses suggestions that the Government has been happy to see sales prices rise in recent years.
This has helped reduce the negative equity of those who bought overpriced houses during the boom and has also improved the balance sheets of the banks.
'Ireland - What's Next?' is a new TV3 series which starts at 9pm tonight. In the first of a series of documentaries, broadcaster Matt Cooper will tackle the issue of Ireland's housing crisis.
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Seattle Parks and Recreation is seeking nominations for the Denny Awards, which honors extraordinary volunteer service to the city’s parks and recreation system. The deadline for nominations is Tuesday, October 31, 2017.
The awards will be presented at a recognition ceremony to be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, December 12, 2017 in the Faye G. Allen Grand Atrium, Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), 860 Terry Ave N, Seattle WA, 98109.
The Denny Awards acknowledge and honor the crucial role volunteers play in neighborhood parks, community centers and recreation programs throughout Seattle. In 2016, 37,722 people volunteered for Seattle Parks and Recreation, providing 231,675 hours of service, which is a donation valued by Independent Sector for Washington State at $30.04 per hour, meaning volunteers supported SPR with $6,959,517 of service in 2016.
Volunteers are essential in so many aspects of Seattle’s parks and recreation system. From planting trees, staffing the summer food program, or coaching a youth sports team, volunteers make taxpayers dollars go so much farther for our communities.
“Volunteers are one of our most important resources in helping us reach our goals of supporting healthy people, a healthy environment, and strong communities,” said Superintendent Jesús Aguirre. “Our volunteers coach youth sports, help us plant native trees in our parks, serve on various advisory councils and boards, and provide countless other services that allow us to have the first-rate park and recreation system that Seattle loves and depends on.”
The name of the awards reflects the early commitment by the Denny family to the preservation of parkland and open space for public use and enjoyment. David T. and Louisa Denny donated land that became the first Seattle park, Denny Park, in 1884.
We encourage nominations of youth, park stewardship groups, Associated Recreation Council members, individuals, community service, business, or corporate volunteers.
Denny Awards nominees should:
demonstrate exceptional stewardship of parks and/or recreation;
have given a significant commitment of time;
provide stellar leadership by supporting SPR’s goals to extend Race and Social Justice, and support Healthy People, a Healthy Environment, and Strong Communities.
The nomination form for the award is available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2017DennyAwards
For additional information, please contact Aretha Alexander, Seattle Parks and Recreation, at 206-684-8028, or [email protected]. A list of past award winners is available here.
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McALLEN, Texas -- Houston Rockets first-round draft pick Royce White is a no-show at training camp and said he and the team are working on a plan to address his fear of flying.
The 6-foot-8 White was the 16th overall pick after one season at Iowa State. White suffers from anxiety and fear of flying. He says on Twitter that he's working with the team on an "innovative plan" to balance treatment with the NBA schedule.
"Anxiety isn't keeping me from camp," White wrote, "taking a Proactive approach to my mental illness instead of reactive is.(hash)StayingAheadOfMyDisorder."
White said he has an agreement with the team to take a bus to select games. KRIV-TV reported that the agreement is pending league approval. The Rockets would not comment beyond a statement that said they "are committed to Royce's long term success and we will continue to support him now and going forward."
White said he offered to buy the bus himself.
"I will not travel every game via bus," he wrote on Twitter. "It was decided that the less flying the less stress."
The Rockets opened training camp this week in McAllen, near the Texas-Mexico border, the home of their development league affiliate.
White averaged 13.4 points, 9.3 rebounds and five assists at Iowa State last season. He initially enrolled at Minnesota, then left the program last year and eventually transferred after pleading guilty to theft and disorderly conduct in an incident at the Mall of America.
He's been open about his anxiety throughout his career and bluntly broke it down for reporters at his introductory press conference in Houston in June.
"Here's how it goes," White said. "I'm scared (going) to the airport, I'm scared going up, I'm uncomfortable in the air and I feel like a million bucks when we hit the runway."
White was also absent from the Rockets' media day Monday. The team made the short flight to McAllen later that day, and White started tweeting about his discussions with the team Wednesday night.
"There is nothing but very positive strides being taken right now between I and the Houston Rockets to support health," he wrote. "This innovative plan is being well thought out by both parties, when it's done I think an executable plan will be there...A Healthy plan."
White added that "my health now is great, the best its ever been." He said "the long term is the goal here."
The Rockets and White did not give a timetable for his return. Houston plays its first preseason game next Wednesday night, against Oklahoma City in McAllen.
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and Macron will lay a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery.
Most significant, perhaps, he will address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, a rare honor. Invited by Republican congressional leadership, Macron will speak on the anniversary of President Charles de Gaulle’s historic speech to Congress in 1960.
The Francophile fanfare is a far cry from 2003, when Republican lawmakers, angry that France opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, ordered cafeterias on Capitol Hill to change offerings of French fries to Freedom fries, and French toast to Freedom toast.
Unlike Macron, the staid Merkel has never really gotten along with Trump. He openly mocked her on Germany’s decision to accept refugees flowing out of Syria.
Because she heads the largest economy in the European Union, Merkel will lobby Trump for exemptions to his plans to impose trade tariffs. Analysts say she has repeatedly pointed out to Trump that German investment in the U.S. is larger than the other way around — to the tune of $291 billion that creates 680,000 U.S. jobs.
“It is a clear sticking point,” said Jeffrey Rathke, a former State Department official who is a senior fellow at CSIS. “Anything that damages the [transatlantic] trading relationship has the potential to spiral out of control.”
Even Macron, for all his affinity for Trump, has few concrete accomplishments to cite from the relationship. He failed to stop Trump from pulling out of the Paris climate accord, and he views Russian President Vladimir Putin with alarm.
The Iran deal is likely to be the next major point of friction in U.S.-Europe relations.
French, German and British officials say they have been negotiating in good faith with their American counterparts on ways to improve what all agree is a flawed deal. But they also say they have little certainty of what Trump really wants or would accept.
Some of Trump’s major objections are time limits on some restrictions in the deal, so-called sunset clauses.
“Europe has spent the last 15 months muddling through, trying to understand what Trump’s actual policies are … and with limited success,” said Derek Chollet, a defense and security expert at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. “The best you can say about U.S.- European relations now is that they’re extremely fragile.”
Staff writer Noah Bierman contributed to this report.
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Fishing line strung across Thomson Place that injured a couple on a motorcycle last weekend was not put there intentionally, Central Saanich police say.
Cpl. Dan Cottingham said a man contacted police after hearing about the incident and said he had been towing a boat laden with fishing gear just before it happened.
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He said his fishing rods were upright in racks on the boat, and when he got home he discovered one rod was missing its line. He thought it likely the line had become caught in a low branch.
Cottingham said it was an unusual set of circumstances.
“It’s not a scenario that ever crossed my mind in this, for sure,” he said. “A first for us.”
Cottingham said the man realized his possible connection to the situation after seeing news reports. “He called us right away and felt terrible that he might have been responsible for it.”
The man identified the line recovered at the scene as being the same type he uses.
It was good to find out the line was not put there on purpose, Cottingham said. “That was our biggest concern. The fact that it was done accidentally poses obviously the same danger to the motorcyclist, but it was a relief to know that no one had deliberately done it.”
Investigators believe the line either got caught on the side of the motorcycle or its undercarriage, causing it to tighten and snap across the windshield. The man and woman riding the bike suffered minor cuts and were not seriously injured, but were shaken.
Cottingham said there are plenty of trees on Thomson Place that could snag a fishing line.
“With the height of [the] boat and his rods being straight up in the air, being nine-foot rods they’re up about 15 feet.”
The line hooked onto something as the man drove by “and then eventually it all came unraveled,” Cottingham said.
“What’s interesting is we had a couple more witnesses come forward to say that they actually drove their car through it and it got caught up in their car, so some of it would have got broken off.”
Cottingham said he hopes news of the strange case can keep anything similar from happening again.
“We’re hoping to get a warning out to other boaters that carry their rods like that just to beware of some of these rural streets that they’re on and that this can happen.”
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avoid falling behind in the race, but perhaps if a country was the world's leader in nanoweapons, it would have incentive to attack everyone else before the tables turned.
Mark Gubrud's "Nanotechnology and International Security" presents an excellent overview of issues with both AI and nanotech races. He suggests:
Nations must learn to trust one another enough to live without massive arsenals, by surrendering some of the prerogatives of sovereignty so as to permit intrusive verification of arms control agreements, and by engaging in cooperative military arrangements. Ultimately, the only way to avoid nanotechnic confrontation and the next world war is by evolving an integrated international security system, in effect a single global regime. World government that could become a global tyranny may be undesirable, but nations can evolve a system of international laws and norms by mutual agreement, while retaining the right to determine their own local laws and customs within their territorial jurisdictions.
According to Jürgen Altmann's talk, "Military Uses of Nanotechnology and Nanoethics," 1/4 to 1/3 of US federal funding in the National NT Initiative is for defense -- $460 million out of $1.554 billion in 2008 (video time: 18:00). The US currently spends 4-10 times the rest of the world in military nanotech R&D, compared with "only" 2 times the rest of the world in overall military R&D (video time: 22:28). Some claim the US should press ahead with this trend in order to maintain a monopoly and prevent conflicts from breaking out, but it's dubious that nanotech can be contained in this way, and Altmann instead proposes active arms-control arrangements with anytime, anywhere inspections and in the long run, progress toward global governance to allay security dilemmas. We have seen many successful bans on classes of technology (bioweapons, chemical weapons, blinding lasers, etc.), so nano agreements are not out of the question, though they will take effort because many of the applications are so inherently dual-use. Sometimes commentators scoff at enforcement of norms against use of chemical weapons when just as many people can be killed by conventional forces, but these agreements are actually really important, as precedents for setting examples that can extend to more and more domains.
Like AI, nanotech may involve the prospect of the technology leader taking over the world. It's not clear which technology will arrive first. Nanotech contributes to the continuation of Moore's law and therefore makes brute-force evolved AI easier to build. Meanwhile, AI would vastly accelerate nanotech. Speeding up either leaves less time to prepare for both.
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The Jussie Smollett hate hoax officially blew up this week.
The Smollett hoax took an interesting turn Friday night after Chicago Police released the two Nigerian brothers who were held for 48 hours and questioned as “persons of interest.”
CWB, a local Chicago crime blog is reporting the Nigerian brothers, who appeared as extras on the show ‘Empire’ may have flipped on Jussie Smollett.
It was reported Friday that Jussie Smollett hired high-powered criminal defense attorney Michael Monico. Mr. Monico also represents Michael Cohen.
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According to reports, police released the Nigerian brothers based on “new evidence” in the case — detectives are analyzing a bottle of bleach seized from Jussie Smollett’s apartment.
While it is common for a person to have bleach in their home, detectives will compare the chemical substance found on Smollett’s clothing to the bottle of bleach seized from his apartment.
Via Fox News reporter Matt Finn: Breaking: Chicago police confirm to Fox News CPD seized a bottle of bleach from Jussie Smollet’s apartment. Tonight police still call Smollett a victim. Suspects told detectives something that requires more detective work.
For context: Smollett reported his attackers poured bleach on him. First time Police tell us they took a bottle of bleach from Jussie’s apartment.
For context: Smollett reported his attackers poured bleach on him.
First time Police tell us they took a bottle of bleach from Jussie’s apartment. — Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) February 16, 2019
Jussie Smollett alleges two white Trump supporters violently attacked him at 2 AM in the streets of Chicago when he was walking home from Subway with a sandwich in his hand.
Smollett told police the attackers were white and hurled homophobic and racial slurs at him while they beat him, poured bleach on him then put a noose around his neck.
Mr. Smollett told police the attackers screamed, “This is MAGA country” while they beat him — Smollett claimed he was on the phone with his manager at the time of the beating who apparently heard the attack as well.
There is zero video surveillance of the attack even though Chicago is the most surveilled city in the world.
The walls are closing in on Jussie Smollett — it’s just a matter of time until he is charged with filing a false police report.
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Hillary Clinton has made clear that she would make gun control a top priority of her presidency, and has pointed to a new ban on commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms as one of her chief goals. At a June 17, 2014 CNN “town hall” event, Clinton was asked, “Do you think that reinstating the ban on assault weapons and banning high capacity magazines would do any good?” Clinton affirmed her support for a ban, and stated, “We cannot let a minority of people -- and that's what it is, it is a minority of people -- hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people.” Clinton’s team might want to rework this line of attack, as a Gallup poll released this week shows that a record number, and a majority, of Americans oppose a ban on popular semi-automatic firearms.
In a poll conducted October 5-9, Gallup asked 1,017 adults, “Are you for or against a law which would make it illegal to manufacture, sell or possess semi-automatic guns known as assault rifles?” An overwhelming 61 percent of respondents answered that they were against such a ban, while a mere 36 percent support the restriction.
Gallup began asking this question in 1996, and has done so several times in the last two decades. The trend in favor of greater respect for gun rights is undeniable. Since 1996, support for a ban has dropped more than 20 points and opposition has risen 19 points.
Moreover, Gallup’s data shows that support for a ban has fallen across both major political parties and independents. Gallup points out, “Currently, 50% of Democrats and 25% of Republicans favor a ban; in 1996, 63% of Democrats and 50% of Republicans did so.” Additionally, support for a ban is well below 50 percent in both gun-owning and non-gun-owning households.
In addition to the question about semi-automatic firearms, Gallup also asked respondents, “Do you think there should or should not be a law that would ban the possession of handguns, except by the police and other authorized persons?” As with commonly-owned semiautomatics, the results reveal that Americans are opposed to a handgun ban in record numbers. In the 1980s and early 1990s Gallup measured support for a handgun ban at around 40 percent. Today, only 23 percent support this restriction.
While Clinton might like use incendiary rhetoric that labels gun rights supporters as a minority that “terrorizes” the majority of Americans, in fact it’s her support for gun bans that is extreme. We’d ask Clinton to stick to the truth, if she were familiar with the concept.
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Researchers at Malwarebytes are monitoring the evolution of the ElectrumDoSMiner DDoS botnet that reached 152,000 infected hosts.
MalwareBytes researchers are closely monitoring attacks against users of the popular Electrum Bitcoin wallet, in particular, the evolution of the Electrum DDoS botnet.
In mid-April, experts at MalwareBytes published a report warning of cyber attacks against users of the popular Electrum Bitcoin wallet. According to the experts, crooks already netted over 771 Bitcoins, an amount equivalent to approximately $4 million USD at current exchange rates.
Since that analysis, cyber criminals have stolen other funds reaching USD $4.6 million, but the most concerning aspect of the story is that and the botnet they used continues to grow. On April 24, the botnet was composed of less than 100,000 bots, but the next day the number peaked at 152,000.
“Since our last blog, the amount of stolen funds has increased to USD $4.6 million, and the botnet that is flooding the Electrum infrastructure is rapidly growing.” reads the analysis published by MalwareBytes. “Case in point, on April 24, the numbe r of infected machines in the botnet was just below 100,000 and the next day it reached its highest at 152,000, according to this online tracker. Since then, it has gone up and down and plateaued at around the 100,000 mark.”
The experts already monitored two malware campaigns respectively leveraging the RIG exploit kit and the Smoke Loader to deliver the ElectrumDoSMiner.
MalwareBytes also detected a previously undocumented tracked as Trojan.BeamWinHTTP that was used by crooks to deliver the ElectrumDoSMiner (transactionservices.exe).
The experts believe that there are many more infection vectors beyond the above loaders they discovered.
Most of the ElectrumDoSMiner infections were observed in Asia Pacific region (APAC), Brazil and Peru.
“The number of victims that are part of this botnet is constantly changing. We believe as some machines get cleaned up, new ones are getting infected and joining the others to perform DoS attacks.” continues the report. “Malwarebytes detects and removes ElectrumDoSMiner infections on more than 2,000 endpoints daily.”
Further technical details, including Indicators of Compromise (IoCs), are reported in the analysis published by MalwareBytes.
Pierluigi Paganini
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Climate change was not the problem that the Everglades plan was designed to fix back in 2000. It was supposed to help restore gentle water flows that had been discombobulated by levees, highways and canals, as well as pristine water quality that had been polluted by runoff from sugar fields and suburbs. The progress over the last 15 years has been slow, but at least some dirt has begun to fly in the Obama years. For example, his administration has elevated a mile of a highway to let water flow into the parched national park. And after aides to the two Bush brothers fought bitterly over water quality, the Obama and Scott administrations have forged a groundbreaking deal to get runoff from sugar farms even cleaner than Evian.
But while Everglades restoration wasn’t about climate change, it isn’t happening in a vacuum; scientists are expecting 20 inches of sea-level rise this century, which would cut the elevation of Rock Reef Pass in half. And as Obama is likely to point out Wednesday, a successful replumbing project that restored more natural flows through the Everglades would actually help mitigate the impact of climate change, by recharging aquifers and preventing salt-water intrusion.
In a call with reporters, Earnest emphasized the history of bipartisan support for the Everglades, crediting Jeb Bush for investing in restoration as governor. But he also implied that you can’t care too deeply about the Everglades if you don’t care about climate. And he suggested that if Obama’s embrace of the Everglades as a climate symbol turns Republicans against the swamp, it won’t be Obama’s fault.
“There’s a long and sordid history of Republicans changing their position just because it’s similar to a position taken by the president,” Earnest said. “It’s caused a lot of dysfunction here in Washington. I certainly hope it won’t happen in Florida.”
C.K. Lee, a former staffer for Republican Senator Connie Mack of Florida, was one of the aides in the Oval Office after that Everglades bill-signing in 2000. He still remembers President Clinton waxing eloquent about the then-obscure challenge of climate change. At the time, it seemed like a weird concern on such a happy day.
“I remember thinking: Global warming? Hmm. That’s interesting,” says Lee, who is now an investment banker in Dallas. “And here we are, 15 years later. Now everybody’s talking about it.”
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the early-to-mid '90s. Let's call it 1992. Like the year Alan Kulwicki, Bill Elliott and Davey Allison were battling for the championship. It'd have been awesome to race in that particular year.
The cars were sliding around, we were on bias ply tires, we weren't running 200 mph through the middle of the corner. So I'd go back to those days.
Q: Would you rather have the ability to fly or be invisible?
A: Hmm. I'd say be invisible. If you're invisible, you could go to some mighty nice places. Or you could eavesdrop on conversations.
Q: I've been asking each person to give me a question for the next interview. The last interview was with Sam Hornish Jr., and he wanted to know what point of your career was the most fun for you.
A: In NASCAR, I'd say probably 2006 – my rookie year – was the most fun. I was learning, the expectations weren't high and I liked the way the cars drove – they were a little bit more fun to drive. Really, every year after that, it's been less fun to actually drive the cars. Every year has been a little bit worse.
But if you go all the way back, I'd say Late Models in 2002 was my favorite year. We'd just go everywhere and beat up on everybody at all the short tracks. That's the year we won like 25 out of 35 races. That was just a fun year.
Plus, the team I had, we'd all travel around together. We'd race on Friday night, then drive down to the next track and roll our car out at the motel and set it on scales in the middle of the parking lot. It was just good times. There was a sense of family with my crew guys back then.
Q: And do you have a question I can ask the next driver?
A: I'd ask who they think is the next superstar out of nowhere – like the next kid who had low expectations that performed well. I think back in the day when Jimmie (Johnson) came along and I came along, we weren't that great in the Xfinity Series, but when we got to Cup, those cars just suited us better. So it'd be interesting to see who they think that person is.
Q: Finally, how did this interview go on a scale of 1-10?
A: This went about a 9 because it was pretty easy. Your questions weren't as tough as in years past. You've got to work a little harder. (Laughs)
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Home India Madhya Pradesh: BJYM leader held for sexually harassing, kicking woman police inspector
Madhya Pradesh: BJYM leader held for sexually harassing, kicking woman police inspector
Munendra Singh Sengar, 25, allegedly hurled abuses, held the 36-year-old policewoman by the collar and kicked her in the abdomen after she pulled up his friend for hitting a girl with his bike.
Sengar, Lidhora mandal chief of BJYM, the ruling BJP’s youth wing, was arrested and sent to jail on the basis of the policewoman’s complaint. (Representational Image)
A Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) office-bearer was on Tuesday arrested for allegedly harassing and kicking a woman sub-inspector in Tikamgarh district of Madhya Pradesh on Monday evening.
Munendra Singh Sengar, 25, allegedly hurled abuses, held the 36-year-old policewoman by the collar and kicked her in the abdomen after she pulled up his friend for hitting a girl with his bike.
Sengar, Lidhora mandal chief of BJYM, the ruling BJP’s youth wing, was arrested and sent to jail on the basis of the policewoman’s complaint. He has been booked under sections 354 A (sexual harassment) and 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from duty), among others.
“He hurled filthy abuses, held my collar and also touched me inappropriately in public. He kicked me in the lower abdomen. When he tried to slap me, I held his hand and did not leave it till other policemen overpowered him,’’ the complainant told The Indian Express.
According to the complainant, Sengar’s friend Pankaj was talking over phone while riding the bike and it hit a seven-year-old girl. The girl did not suffer any injury.
“Either you talk on phone or drive, don’t do both together,’’ the police officer, who was checking vehicles, warned Pankaj. “I was not even talking to Sengar when he dared me to lodge an FIR and warned, ‘tumhari vardi utar dunga’,’’ she said.
The complainant said she had pain in her abdomen and scratch marks on her body.
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Image copyright Getty Images/David Ibbotson Image caption Emiliano Sala (left) was on board a plane being flown by pilot David Ibbotson
The family of missing pilot David Ibbotson have said they don't want him left "out there on his own".
Mr Ibbotson, from Crowle, Lincolnshire, was flying Cardiff City's Emiliano Sala from Nantes to the UK when their plane crashed near Guernsey on 21 January.
The footballer's body was recovered from the wreck on the seabed, but Mr Ibbotson's body has not been found.
An inquest into the death of Sala was opened and adjourned at Bournemouth Coroner's Court.
The court heard that he died of injuries to his "head and trunk" and was identified by his fingerprints.
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Investigations launched by the police, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch and the Civil Aviation Authority are estimated to take between six to 12 months to complete, the court was told.
A fundraising appeal to fund an underwater search for the pilot has seen about £150,000 donated.
Mr Ibbotson's daughter Danielle told ITV's Good Morning Britain she repeatedly rang his mobile phone when told by police the aircraft was missing.
"He was amazing, I was so lucky to have him as a dad. I know it might take a long time but I don't want this to just be it," she said.
Ms Ibbotson said she wanted a search team to "just to go down and have a last look, a proper look".
The pilot's wife Nora added: "We're still holding on a little bit. Obviously we do know he's gone but we want him back.
"We can't leave him out there on his own."
France and Paris St-Germain striker Kylian Mbappe has donated £27,000 to the appeal to find Mr Ibbotson's body.
The light aircraft was en route to Cardiff when it crashed two days after Argentine striker Sala's £15m transfer was announced.
An initial search for the missing footballer and Mr Ibbotson was called off on 24 January.
However, following calls for it to continue from stars including Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona, a private search funded by online donations was launched.
It led to the discovery of the Piper PA-46 Malibu aircraft and a body, formally identified as Sala.
The aircraft remains 220ft (67m) under water, 21 miles (34km) off Guernsey in the English Channel.
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Union minister Nitin Gadkari isn't the first political leader to suggest an unusual use for urine: that honour belongs to former prime minister Morarji Desai, who shocked millions round the world by advocating urine therapy as a cure for myriad ills.
Gadkari, a senior leader of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, was the
butt of jokes
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advised
people to use urine to grow bigger plants.
In 1978, the late Desai caused consternation when he described urine as the "water of life" and spoke about the benefits of drinking urine. Desai, who was 82 at the time, attributed his longevity to drinking urine twice every day.
There are others who have propounded on the benefits of urine, whether from humans or cows.
Promoting cow urine is a priority for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the BJP's ideological mentor and Madhya Pradesh-based promoters of medicines produced using cow urine or 'gau-mutra' have been hoping that the BJP government at the Centre will help their business.
The RSS has also been promoting a soft drink made from cow urine, mixed with ingredients such as aloe vera and gooseberry, to fight diseases. "Cow urine offers a cure for around 70 to 80 incurable diseases like diabetes. All are curable by cow urine," said Om Prakash, part of the RSS's cow protection department, said in 2009.
Some people consider cow urine to have medicinal properties and several ayurvedic units produce medicines containing it.
Scientists at some of India's premier labs in Nagpur have also been scientifically studying whether cow urine can cure infections and cancers. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has collaborated with the Go Vigyan Anusandhan Kendra, Nagpur, to study cow urine distillate for its antioxidant and bio-enhancing properties, parliament was informed.
The latest research was on 'Panchagavya', the collective name for five cow products and byproducts that include urine, milk, yoghurt, ghee and dung.
Since 2002, India has got four US patents on medicines containing anti-oxidants from cow urine, and one of them is commercially available.
In 2012, the BJP's central cow development cell said in a statement: "The urine of the cow is the abode of the Ganges…Cow dung is a purifier of impurities…The cow and cow dung are lifelines of the nation."
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Influenza virus RNA genome
Within the influenza A virion are eight segments of viral RNA. These molecules carry the all the information needed to make new influenza virus particles. These eight RNAs are shown schematically as olive green lines at the top of the illustration. RNAs are chains of four different nucleotides, A, C, G, U. In the case of influenza virus, the eight RNAs are a total of about 14,000 nucleotides in length. The nucleotides make up the genetic code – it is read by the cell’s translation machinery in groups of three, with each triplet specifying an amino acid.
There are two important aspects of these viral RNA that we must consider. First, you can see that the ends of the RNAs are labeled 3′ and 5′. Nucleic acids have polarity, in that one end of the chain is chemically different from the other. Such polarity is represented by 5′ or 3′. The second point is that when a nucleic acid is copied, or duplicated, by enzymes called polymerases, a strand of the complementary polarity is produced. Influenza viral RNAs are called (-), or negative strand RNAs, because they are the opposite polarity of the RNA that is translated to make protein. The RNA molecules that are templates for the synthesis of proteins are defined as having having (+), or positive polarity. Upon entering the cell, the (-) strand influenza viral RNAs must be copied into complementary (+) strands, so that they can serve as templates for proteins. The viral RNAs are copied by an enzyme – called RNA polymerase – that is carried into the cell with the virus.
In the above scheme, the olive green lines are the (-) strand RNAs found in the influenza virion. Once the virion enters the cell, these 8 RNAs are copied into (+) strand mRNAs. Finally, the mRNAs can serve as templates for the synthesis of proteins. The specific viral proteins that are produced by each viral mRNA are shown at the bottom of the illustration. From this picture we see that, for example, RNA segment 4 codes for the viral HA protein, and RNA segment 6 codes for the viral NA protein. Note also that some RNA segments encode for more than one protein. Both influenza A and B viruses have 8 RNA segments, while the influenza C viruses have 7.
Influenza viruses are called (-) strand RNA viruses because of the polarity of the RNA that is carried in the virion. Other RNA viruses – such as poliovirus – are (+) strand RNA viruses, because their genomic RNA can be translated into protein immediately upon entering the cell.
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“If we stayed the same, we would be okay and ready to go and attack the last (26) games and go into the playoffs feeling like we’ve got a really good team,” Budenholzer said. “But are there ways we can get better at a couple different spots? We would explore those.”
Budenholzer said he is comfortable in his dual role. The bottom line is working in an atmosphere conducive to sustained success. He said it’s a lesson he learned after nearly two decades working in the Spurs organization.
“There is great effort to balance the short term with the long term,” Budenholzer said. “How are we trying to achieve sustained success? That includes success now. You don’t want to do anything that puts you in a position where you can’t be successful long term also. It’s something that I’m very comfortable with. The way things were done in San Antonio gave me a great 19-year look into how you can have sustained success.”
Much may be made of the perceived added work load for those with two important roles in an organization. Doc Rivers is in the same position as both head coach and president with the Clippers.
“I don’t think people get it,” Rivers last week before the Hawks played at the Clippers. “I really don’t. When I was just a coach of Boston, I still had listen to every trade, every meeting. We had to discuss everything. Nothing changes.
“You just don’t have any off time. You don’t as a coach. You don’t as the president.”
Budenholzer said the Hawks continue to be set up much like the Spurs. Decision are not made strictly by the coach and general manager. He said meetings about trades and the direction of the franchise include assistant coaches and other front office personnel.
“The best decisions are made when everyone is included, everyone is involved,” Budenholzer said. “I think we are trying to operate that way. … Whoever has a great idea, it doesn’t matter who it comes from. You just want to have as many good ideas as you can.”
The Hawks have a history of making at least a minor move at the trade deadline. Last year, the team held on to Al Horford and Jeff Teague despite great speculation but added Kurt Hinrich. They traded Adreian Payne before the 2015 deadline. They added Antawn Jamison, who never played a game in a Hawks uniform, in 2014.
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Jimmie Spencer of Vernon, British Columbia, championed the high aims of Canada’s ski resort industry for over 30 years. He passed away earlier this week.
Like so many throughout Canada’s four-season resort industry, we here at Kootenay Mountain Culture and Coast Mountain Culture magazines were saddened to learn of the passing of Jimmie Spencer earlier this week. We were fortunate enough to meet Jimmie, aged 93, at this year’s Canada West Ski Areas Association 50th Anniversary, held in Lake Louise.
Here’s what Andre Quenneville, the president of the Canada West Ski Areas Association had to say earlier this week:
Canada West is very saddened to share of Jimmie Spencer’s passing in the early afternoon of July 16 in Vernon, BC, with wife Andy and sons Iain and David at his side.
“Remarkable,” “storied,” “legendary,” “monumental,” “pillar,” “leadership,” “inspiration,” “epic,” and “amazing mentor” are all descriptors that have quickly circulated to articulate one of our great industry leaders.
Jimmie’s Canada West story is well known. The ski industry was in its infancy. Creative inspiration was a polite way to say there was little in the way of operational standards and best practices. As the fledgling CWSAA organization looked for a new leader in the summer of 1979, a British gentleman in a tweed suit appeared in the interview. Most thought he was at the wrong appointment. In the end, what may have seemed like an odd selection, turned into a lucky strike of genius, as the retired British Army Colonel took control of the western Canadian ski industry.
Much will be said of Jimmie in the coming days. The accolades and successes are voluminous. Likely his greatest legacy however will be the generation of leadership and cooperative culture he expected and created between competitors to establish The Canada West Way. It is a way to compete, at times ferociously, but also develop inclusiveness and respect between ski areas, and collective best practices to elevate the entire industry. In so doing, he inspired and motivated a generation of leaders, that are now themselves being tasked to groom, train, and mentor their next generation. A legacy of excellence. Thank you Jimmie. The expression, ‘we follow in the footsteps of giants,’ has never been so true.
On behalf of the CWSAA Board of Directors Past, Present & Future, Andre Quenneville, CWSAA Board of Directors, Chair.
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A few people formed the “National Atheist Party” back in March and several state chapters have since formed… all on Facebook:
The National Atheist Party is a diverse, all inclusive, progressive, secular political movement and a response to the lack of representation for all free thinking people who are legal, law abiding citizens of the United States. We demand emancipation from the religious dogma that has infiltrated our government and has unfairly influenced political decisions and policy making. We are for the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE, and therefore incorporate the right to use the power OF the PEOPLE to restore equality to our Democracy using reasonable, rational and non-violent means. “POWER TO THE PEOPLE!” The National Atheist Party is open to people of all races, sexes and sexual orientations, and cultures. We are committed to a government free of superstition and bias and are guided by principles of equal opportunity, recognition of merit, and economic responsibility. The National Atheist Party does not seek to inhibit the religious practices or beliefs of any group, but is committed to the idea that religious preference is a private matter and has no place in the government or workplace. We support the separation of church and state, and seek to ensure its strictest interpretation.
First of all, rational people should know how to turn off the CAPS LOCK key…
And of all the acronyms you could’ve gone with, you chose that one?!
They are serious about this — they just need to raise enough money to register as a legit party. Truth be told, I think it’d be great if we could get atheists to vote in a bloc — maybe politicians would start to take us more seriously if we did — but we’re independent thinkers and it’s not like we would automatically listen to some random “party head” who told us how to vote.
It’s not fully fleshed out yet and it’s easy to spot some problems. Like in the Charter. Some of the party’s platform issues are very general, while others are hopelessly narrow because they’re so focused on what atheists want. Their Education platform, for example, is more concerned with proselytizing teachers than whether all kids have access to a good public school in the first place.
But if NAP is serious, I would like to know which candidates they would support in the next election when more than 99% of all major candidates for Congress or the Presidency say they believe in a god… and I’d like to know if they would support a religious candidate who supported them on most (or all) of the platform issues.
(Thanks to Nathan for the link!)
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At the beginning of the season, Cersei was isolated and friendless. She was surrounded by enemies, her kingdom was deeply in debt to the Iron Bank, and she was facing a kind of military threat — dragons — that she simply had no answer to. It seemed like most people, as my colleague Andrew Prokop writes, expected her to die this season.
She didn’t — and, in fact, she ended up in a position where she could plausibly win a war that once seemed impossible. She had neutralized a number of opponents, recruited Euron and the all-powerful Iron Bank to her side, used the Iron Bank to finance the purchase of a powerful mercenary force, and pitted her two most dangerous enemies (Daenerys and the Night King) against each other.
To understand Cersei’s success, we need to reach back to the classic work of Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz.
Clausewitz is most famous for his book On War, specifically the phrase “war is simply a continuation of politics with other means.” This is a commonly (mis)quoted phrase, but its meaning is actually quite subtle. Clausewitz is arguing that war is one tool of statecraft and nothing more. The goal of fighting is the same as the goal of economic sanctions or diplomatic negotiations: to accomplish a desired political end. Just because it’s bloodier doesn’t make it fundamentally different.
Cersei, to her credit, internalized this lesson more than anyone else. She dedicated herself to one objective — protecting the survival of the Lannister dynasty and the life of her unborn child — and centered every tool of statecraft on accomplishing that goal.
She pledged to marry an unpleasant pirate, exposed a large chunk of her army to dragon fire in the name of acquiring vital gold to pay back the Iron Bank, and even let her ancestral home of Casterly Rock fall to put her enemy in a strategically vulnerable situation. No other Westerosi power thought as creatively about how to link the major aspects of state power — military, economic, and diplomatic — in order to accomplish a particular political end.
My guess is that Cersei’s approach will all come crashing down on her head next season, owing to her alienation of her brother and paranoid, backstabby ways. But that’s a guess. Just looking at the arc of season seven, it’s clear that no one played the Game of Thrones better than Cersei Lannister.
Correction: An earlier version of this piece said that Jenna Jordan is on the faculty at the University of Georgia. She in fact is at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).
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�募は、事前登録だけでなく公式TwitterまたはFacebookにコメントして頂く必要がございます。詳しくは事前登録特設サイトの注意事項をご参照ください。【事前登録方法】事前登録特設サイトまたはApp Store、Google Playにてご登録いただくか、『新三國志』公式Twitter、Facebook、LINEアカウントをフォローもしくは友達登録をお願いいたします。↓事前登録はこちら事前登録特設サイト公式Twitterアカウント公式Facebookアカウント公式LINE＠App StoreGoogle Play事前登録以外にも、最高でSSR武将が当たる期間限定無料ガチャや、人気声優のサイン色紙が当たるTwitterキャンペーンを開催中です。詳しくは事前登録特設サイトをご参照ください。Twitter、Facebook、YouTube等に『新三國志』の公式アカウントを開設いたしました。公式Twitter（ @shinsangokushi ）やFacebook（ @shinsangokushi ）では人気声優のサイン色紙があたるキャンペーンや、武将人気投票といった様々なイベントを開催しておりますので、是非フォローしてみてください。
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Taranis and Neuron - they could equally be unmanned versions of existing, currently manned, fighter jets.
In Sweden, Saab is considering developing an unmanned version of its Gripen multirole fighter. Saab's reasoning is that it would be cheaper for an air force to operate one type of airframe rather than a conventional jet fighter and a combat drone.
"This is about finding cost-effective solutions to enable decisions regarding whether a plane will fly with or without a pilot on various missions," says Saab's chief executive Hakan Buskhe.
And it is not just the Swedes - Boeing is also considering a similar role for its existing QF-16 target drones, used in training by the US air force.
Image copyright AP Image caption Fighter jets like Saab's Gripen could be flown unmanned, in future
Despite the challenges facing Europe's policymakers when it comes to military drones, the global UAV market has been largely immune from the tightening of military budgets in many countries in recent years.
The development of multinational programmes is politically challenging Derrick Maple, UAV analyst, IHS
The market is currently growing at some 5% a year, and this is a growth rate that is likely to continue for the next 10 years, according to defence and aerospace specialists IHS.
Overall, the market from 2014 to 2023 will total almost $90bn (£52bn).
Russian and Chinese aims
Crucially, much of this growth will no longer be driven by the huge US defence market which is set to slow in the short term.
Indeed outside the US, the UAV market's annual growth rate over the next decade is set to be 10% or more.
"Much of this is coming from Russia and China, which are both developing their industries," says Derrick Maple, UAV analyst at IHS.
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Russia has revamped its armed forces in recent years - and is now investing in drones
"Their initial requirement is home-based, but China especially has aspirations to export in the longer term."
He says Russia aims "to spend $10bn over the next 10 years" and "they are going to develop unmanned combat air vehicles".
Europe 'needs its own capability'
Despite the success of Taranis, it is not yet clear whether European countries will, in the end, plan for their own combat drones to stand alongside manned fighters, sometime after 2030.
"The development of multinational programmes is politically challenging," says Mr Maple.
"But in my view, overriding this is a need for Europe to develop its own capability - otherwise it will continue to be dependent on the US and Israel."
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War, when President Lincoln went in search of tax revenue to fund the war effort, cigars offered an opportune windfall. In 1863, the federal government issued regulations standardizing the types of boxes that could be used. With one stroke, the IRS was given an easy way to track their sales.
By 1865, it was illegal to ship cigars that weren’t boxed. At the time, color lithography was just coming into its own, taking advertising to a new level. The nexus of the cigar’s popularity and design innovations quickly found its way across the U.S. Before long, thousands of mom and pop manufacturers, similar to today’s microbreweries, were competing for the customer’s attention with ornate cigar box labels and logos. Hyman goes so far as to credit the cigar box with the development of point-of-sale advertising. When the brightly colored boxes started appearing in droves, people began to re-use them in ways limited only by the imagination. They became button containers, memento holders, lunch boxes, clocks, lamps—and musical instruments.
Snowden takes a certain pleasure in continuing the tradition of cigar box up-cycling. But he’s doing more than that. Not only is he giving the boxes themselves a second life, he also is reclaiming additional wood supplies, by using castoffs from a local carpenter to make the guitars’ necks. The net result creates a brand new thing, which is likely to have a much richer and longer life than the original ever would have had.
SIMPLE DREAMS
S nowden’s early shift at Home Depot gives him the rest of the day to do as he pleases, and it almost always involves cigar boxes.He’s become a draw at local festivals and bars. And lately, he’s been doing workshops for kids, handing out child-sized cigarillo boxes and showing them how to build their own instruments. He seems completely at peace with his choices, with no plans for a CBG breakout hit or any more tours. No rules, no stress, just good music.
Not that he’s without dreams. “My next step is to start making my own boxes. Wouldn’t it be cool to have a whole guitar made of walnut? I’ll always keep on making cigar-box guitars, but I might do a sideline of guitars that are one hundred percent made by me.”
You can find Mike Snowden’s guitars at https://snowdenguitars.com
For more about Jeff Daniels’ band, please see https://www.jeffdaniels.com
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[16] http://www.gmwatch.org/news/latest-news/17077-pro-gmo-campaign-exploits-nobel-laureates-to-attack-greenpeace-and-fool-the-people
[17] Ibid.
[18] “Nobel laureate Sir Richard Roberts to ask religious and government leaders to support GMOs” Forbes. September 21, 2016. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kavinsenapathy/2016/09/21/nobel-laureate-sir-richard-roberts-to-ask-religious-and-government-leaders-to-support-gmos/#695a848e5cc8
[19] http://www.gmwatch.org/news/latest-news/17077-pro-gmo-campaign-exploits-nobel-laureates-to-attack-greenpeace-and-fool-the-people
[20] Ibid.
[21] “Who is to blame for the failure of GMO golden rice?” Independent Science News. August 10, 2016. https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/millions-spent-who-is-to-blame-failure-gmo-golden-rice/
[22] http://www.truthwiki.org/jon_entine/
[23] Bill Hogan. “Paging Dr. Ross,” Mother Jones. November 2005. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/11/paging-dr-ross
[24] James Ridgeway. “Black Ops, Green Groups” Mother Jones. April 11, 2008. http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2008/04/exclusive-cops-and-former-secret-service-agents-ran-black-ops-green-groups?
[25] Interview with Gary Ruskin. Progressive Radio Network. September 27, 2016. https://prn.fm/progressive-commentary-hour-09-27-16/
[26] Ibid.
[27] “Gates Foundation Backed Pro-GMO Cornell Alliance for Science on the Attack,” Corporate Crime Reporter. March 5, 2015. http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/gates-foundation-backed-pro-gmo-cornell-alliance-science-attack/
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Assyrian Party Meets With Kurdish Party After Office Closure
TEV-DEM official Abdul Salam Ahmed meets Assyrian politician and ADO leader Gabriel Moushe Gawrieh in Qamishli. ( ANHA) Abdul Salam Ahmed, member of the Executive Committee of the Democratic Society Movement in Syria (TEV-DEM) on Wednesday met with Gabriel Moushe Gawrieh, the head of the Assyrian Democratic Organization (ADO) after the local self-administration shut down the office of ADO in northeastern Syria last month.
The PYD-led self-administration also closed two headquarters for the Assyrian Democratic Association in the cities of Qamishli and al-Malakiyah (Derik) in mid March.
Officials of the PYD-linked TEV-DEM and ADO discussed on Wednesday the recent political crisis "and the need to respect the laws of the administration," Ahmed was quoted by ANHA as saying.
According to the TEV-DEM official, both parties agreed to hold regular meetings to discuss all issues and exchange views. It's however unclear if ADO will be able to open its office again.
The local canton administration issued a 24-hours deadline in mid March that political parties had to register according to the law of April 2014, or face closure. Following the deadline, all offices of non-registered parties in Rojava were closed.
"The meeting between the two parties took place in a crucial stage as a result of closing down offices of ADO by Self-Administration, as ADO lacks an official permit. The meeting comes amid ongoing efforts to alter this decision," David Vergili, a representative for the European Syriac Union in Brussels told ARA News. "The power of the Democratic Self Administration [in northern Syria] relies on its authenticity, pluralism and full representation of all segments and groups in the region."
"The process is still alive and cooperation and bilateral relations are key to ease tensions and find durable solutions for a long term projects," he said.
This is the first time that TEV-DEM officials meet with a leading member of ADO--an Assyrian party that is part of the Syrian Opposition Coalition.
"They are with Etilaf [opposition], but they are able to play on two sides," Vergili added.
The Assyrian Democratic Organization (ADO) was established in Syria in 1957 and is the largest Assyrian political faction in the country. ADO is also one of the founders of the Syrian National Council (SNC)--in October 2011.
Gabriel Moushe Gawrieh spent two years in the jail of the Syrian government and was released in June 2016.
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Using unique demographic records on 140,600 reproducing individuals from the Utah Population Database, a research team led from Uppsala University has come to the conclusion that lowered birth rates are one reason why women outlive men in today's societies. The study is published in Scientific Reports.
The causes underpinning sex differences in lifespan are hotly debated. While women commonly outlive men, this is generally less pronounced in societies before the demographic transition to low mortality and fertility rates.
Using unique longitudinal demographic records on 140,600 reproducing individuals from the Utah Population Database, USA, the research team shows that men who were born in the early to mid-1800s lived on average two years longer than women. This reversed over time and women born in the early 1900s outlived men by four years.
During this period, fertility in the population decreased from an average of 8.5 in the early 1800s to an average of 4.2 children per woman in the early 1900s. Female lifespan increased, while male lifespan remained largely stable, supporting the theory that differential costs of reproduction in the two sexes result in the shifting patterns of sex differences in lifespan across human populations.
The data shows that only women paid a cost of reproduction in terms of shortened remaining lifespan after the end of the reproductive period. Women who gave birth to 15 children or more lived on average 6 years shorter than women who only had one child. There was no relationship between number of children fathered and lifespan in men.
Life-history theory states that each individual has limited resources that can be invested into reproduction on the one hand and repair of the body on the other hand. This suggests that reduced reproduction should benefit female lifespan when females pay higher costs of reproduction than males.
'This illustrates the importance of considering biological factors when elucidating the causes of shifting mortality patterns in human populations. Our results have implications for demographic forecasts, because fertility patterns and expected lifespans are continuously changing throughout the world. For example, the results suggest that as more and more countries throughout the world go through the demographic transition, the overall sex differences in lifespan may increase,' says Elisabeth Bolund, postdoctoral research fellow at Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, who headed the study.
Explore further Mating without males decreases lifespan
More information: Elisabeth Bolund et al. Reduced costs of reproduction in females mediate a shift from a male-biased to a female-biased lifespan in humans, Scientific Reports (2016). Journal information: Scientific Reports Elisabeth Bolund et al. Reduced costs of reproduction in females mediate a shift from a male-biased to a female-biased lifespan in humans,(2016). DOI: 10.1038/srep24672
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Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
Does anyone seriously believe that President Donald Trump “strongly condemns” the meme video of him shooting, stabbing, strangling, and setting on fire a wide array of political and media figures, as well as news organizations, which was aired at a conference at his Doral resort in Miami last week? If so, I have a degree from Trump University to award them. On Monday morning, Stephanie Grisham, the president’s press secretary, claimed that Trump had “not yet seen the video,” but would watch it later, and “based upon everything he has heard, he strongly condemns this video.”
Well, what might he have “heard” about the video that she said he hadn’t seen? Here’s the New York Times, which broke the story on Sunday evening: The video depicts a scene inside the “Church of Fake News,” where parishioners rise as Mr. Trump — dressed in a black pinstripe suit and tie — walks down the aisle. Many parishioners’ faces have been replaced with the logos of news media organizations, including PBS, NPR, Politico, The Washington Post, and NBC. Mr. Trump stops in the middle of the church, pulls a gun out of his suit jacket pocket and begins a graphic rampage. As the parishioners try to flee, the president fires at them. He shoots Black Lives Matter in the head, and also shoots Vice News. … The clip ends with Mr. Trump putting a stake into the head of a person with a CNN logo for a face. Mr. Trump then stands on the altar, admiring his rampage, and smiles. But why should we believe that Trump condemns, or is repulsed by, any of this sickening and graphic violence? First, he outsourced the initial condemnation of the video to his press secretary, who weirdly tweeted on his behalf. But why didn’t he tweet himself? Are we expected to believe that Trump hasn’t had time to watch it? Or that he is too busy tweeting about national or international issues to tweet about this particular video? This is a president who spends his every spare moment glued to cable news; a president who tweets dozens of times, on dozens of random topics, every single day; a president who woke up on Monday morning and found time in his packed schedule to tweet in support of former press secretary Sean Spicer’s efforts on “Dancing With the Stars.”
Vote for good guy @seanspicer tonight on Dancing With The Stars. He has always been there for us! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 14, 2019
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SAN BERNARDINO – The screenwriter of “Grosse Pointe Blank” died Wednesday following an appearance at Cal State San Bernardino.
Upland resident Thomas Anthony Jankiewicz, 49, was pronounced dead at 10:51 p.m. at San Bernardino Community Hospital, where he had been taken after collapsing at CSUSB.
Jankiewicz wrote the 1997 John Cusack film “Grosse Pointe Blank,” which tells the story of a professional assassin returning to the town where he graduated up on the same weekend his 10-year high school reunion is taking place.
“He walked two miles a day. My brothers and I would go on evening walks and discuss story ideas,” his brother Pat Jankiewicz said Thursday. “To say it was a shock was an understatement.”
He had screened the film for about 75 students in a Psychology and the Movies class and collapsed during a question and answer session afterward.
“He loved to write and he loved to share the joy of writing; that’s what he was sharing with the students last night,” Pat Jankiewicz said.
Prof. James C. Kaufman had only reached out to Jankiewicz for the first time earlier in the day, after he’d already arranged to screen the movie for students that night.
“I realized he was local and called him up out of the blue,” Kaufman said Thursday. “He was incredibly gracious and said he would swing by. His brothers were alumni.”
Although Jankiewicz is best-known for “Grosse Pointe Blank,” which his brother said was near and dear to his heart, he stayed busy improving other screenwriters’ scripts, writing magazine articles and writing advertisements. At the time of his death, he was close to finishing a new film script and a book.
“He had a lot of irons in the fire, he was very happy,” Pat Jankiewicz said.
At this time, the San Bernardino County Coroners Office is viewing Jankiewicz’s death as due to natural causes, but no official determination has been made, according to department officials.
“One of the things he kept talking about was that, if you want to create something, now is the time to do it yourself,” Kaufman said. “It was such an amazing message. He was just encouraging, vibrantly creative person. It’s just an unbelievable tragedy.”
[email protected] 909-483-9376, @InlandEd
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months ago, having already split from former agent Steve Deacon at the start of year. Money was the source of Mitchell's frustration with Deacon, with the centre believing he could have earned more in his current deal with the Roosters.
His frustration with Rushton was triggered by the agent's inability to deliver on promises which Mitchell believes were made to him during the race for his signature after the split from Deacon. That has brought outside influences into the picture. Matt Rose, who looks after Cody Walker and Jack Wighton, has entered the frame. The Roosters are fearful that if Mitchell turns his business over to Rose, he will push him to play alongside Walker at Souths. And as more voices have sidled up to Mitchell's ear, his on-field productivity has suffered. After a quiet Origin opener at Suncorp Stadium, he was left out of Brad Fittler's NSW team for Origin II in Perth and the eventual decider at ANZ Stadium. The same player being compared to Inglis less than two months earlier was no longer the first name on Fittler's team sheet.
The suggestion that Mitchell still does not know why he was left out of Fittler's team is false. Mitchell was left out of the Blues team which won Origin II and Origin III. Credit:AAP It is part of Fittler's policy as coach to formally tell players why they have been dropped. Members of the NSW coaching staff also spent time with Mitchell after they bumped into him during a team bonding session at The Star prior to Origin II. Some of that time together was spent discussing why Mitchell had been omitted.
Loading The Blues hierarchy were unhappy with Mitchell's effort in the final game of last year's Origin series, which was a dead rubber. They saw similar signs in the first game of this year's series, when Queensland stunned NSW. Mitchell has barely been out of the news since then and with the Roosters having pulled their offer for 2021 and beyond, the headlines aren't going away. The issue now is where he will end up. Canterbury are out but the Tigers are hovering with $1.5m in salary cap space.
South Sydney, meanwhile, continue to be mentioned behind the scenes as a potential suitor, although the Rabbitohs have said publicly they're not interested. While speculation rages about his future, Mitchell weighed in on Friday. "Just want to clear up anything that is going on in the media!!" he wrote on Instagram. "I still have a year with the @SydneyRoosters I just want to spend some time with my family and enjoy my break, is that too much to ask for? "I am in no rush to make any decisions for 2021."
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little time to form an effectual arc. Though this is a restriction of the runtime as much as it is a deficiency in the writing.
Likewise, villain Grewishka dithers here and there, and is ultimately a puppet that never acquires the depth and spectacle of his manga counterpart. In many ways, he is vastly upstaged by Ed Skrein’s Zapan, who is compelling but skin-deep. Mahershala Ali does what he can with the script, but the actor is underutilised, and his character mishandled. This leads to an ending that fizzles away before it gets going, ultimately making for a conclusion that is a far cry from fulfilling.
However, what the film lacks in character and development, it has tenfold in action and zest. The Motorball set piece, while sadly shorter than I had hoped, is stunning. All of the action is well choreographed, with key weaponry, such as the Damascus Blade and Rocket Hammer, included much to the delight of manga fans. There are also a number of not-so-obvious details that work to set up potential future plot points that readers of the source material will enjoy. Sadly, however, one of the principal characters from the manga is horrifically shoehorned in and re-written to the point of obscurity.
The setting of Iron City is quite extraordinary, fittingly claustrophobic and ruinous as in Kishiro’s vision, but I wanted to see more of it. There’s a wondrous establishing scene, where the viewers glimpse the city at large for the first time with Alita, but it never seemed as lively or absorbing beyond this introduction. There’s also a sequence in some underground caverns which, in the manga, are glorious and imposing, but in the film this part felt a little too much like a set. Comparably, the film score by Junkie XL is at times a dash undistinguished, but at others marvellous and prominent.
If you can overlook the contrivances, there’s much enjoyment to be had with Alita: Battle Angel. It is let down by a number of shortcomings, but if you do take anything away from the film, it’s very likely to be Alita, and in that respect it has earned my adoration. Rosa Salazar is the ideal Alita, with her character and her journey given due care and attention. I waited for this adaptation for almost a decade, and while it’s not all I had hoped, the parts that it does get right do flourish in spite of the flaws.
For more film musings, you can find me on Letterboxd.
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P main studs and ARP fasteners in it,” Mattson says. “We flat milled the heads to get the compression ratio to the point that we wanted it at about 10.5:1. We also had to do some minor push rod clearancing on the cylinder heads.” Once all the work was done, the LSX got put on the dyno before being shipped to Indianapolis for display. “When we put it on there we were very surprised,” Mattson says. “We were hoping for around 1,200 horsepower at around 7,000 rpm. On the first pull it made 1,322 horsepower and 1,050 ft.-lbs. of torque at 6,500 rpm. That put a halt to the RPM that I could dyno the thing to. I couldn’t go to 7,200 rpm because we were making 22 lbs. of boost at 6,500 rpm and the combination wasn’t built for 22 lbs. of boost. So what I had to do was back the RPM down and get the tune-up as good as I could.” Mattson also said that the shop plans to change the pulley so that it will have about 16 to 17 lbs. of boost at 7,000 rpm, and is adding an intercooler to the system to help it make even more power.
What made this engine really special, however, was the F1-X supercharger kit from Procharger. It was the first time Patterson-Elite Performance used one on one of its engines. “We’re really impressed with the Procharger,” he says. “Our supercharger experience is basically with the COPOs and the Whipple that they have on those. The Procharger has tremendous capabilities and we’re excited to do something else in the future as far as building another Procharged motor for drag racing in NHRA.” Since this 454 cid Procharged LSX wasn’t built for a specific class, the engine could be used for a number of applications, according to Mattson. It could even be a 1,300 hp street engine. “It could be a street engine if someone chose to make it a street engine,” he says. “It’s really up to anybody’s imagination how they want to use that thing. It wasn’t built with a specific class in mind. When we built that thing we just wanted to build a cool combination that helped us learn some new technologies at the same time. The idea was to help out a great cause and think outside the box a little bit for our program.
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Are you dairy-free, vegan, or paleo and love your chocolate? Easily make your own chocolate chips sans refined sugar and dairy!
Happy post Thanksgiving! I am writing this from my grandparent’s couch in Chicago right now 😀 I’ve finally had a normal night of sleep after being majorly jet-lagged for the past 2 weeks. It’s partially my fault because I’ve been letting myself go to bed at like 7 and inevitably waking up at 4. Thank you Vibe Israel!
Speaking of Israel. One of the things I was most excited to bring back was this vegan chocolate recipe! One of our day trips was learning how to make vegan desserts and the seminar we took was all about chocolate! I was super pumped because I normally buy the Enjoy Life Semi-Sweet Dairy-Free Chocolate Chips, but making my own would be so much cooler (and healthier!).
We made these adorable little candies using vegan chocolate and I added pomegranate seeds and orange zest to mine. SO DELICIOUS. The original recipe called for unsweetened baking chocolate + cocoa butter + sweetener. I modified the recipe a wee bit (I used coconut butter instead of cocoa), but still turned out DELISH!
All you need is….
You’ll also need some sort of vessel to squeeze little dots of chocolate out to make your chips.
I found a ketchup bottle with a pointy tip and that did the trick! I suggest using a piping bag with a pointy tip like this one.
The baking chocolate I found at Target, but you can also order it online. The key is finding 100% UNSWEETENED so that there is no added crap in it 😀 That way you can add you own sweetener and flavor.
Once you combine everything together over low heat on the stove, you can transfer into your piping vessel and start squeezing away! My chips were more on the “mini” side, but you can make them as big as you want!
Best part is, they don’t have to be perfect! Nooo, no they don’t!
After you’ve piped all your chips, you can transfer the baking sheet right into the freezer for them to set.
And wam bam! You’ve got yourself creamy homemade chocolate chips made with NO dairy or refined sugar!
IT’S LIKE MAGIC.
HAPPY SUNDAY FRANDS! Enjoy your last day of November <—-er mer gerd.
Love chocolate chips? Here are some of my favorite FFF recipes with chocolate chips!
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on a computer running Windows 7:
How do you go from something that looks like it could reasonably be an actual Renaissance painting to something that looks like a glitchy computerized example of De Stijl, all without changing the code? The answer is that browsers all interpret code differently. When older browsers with a limited ability to interpret newer coding languages meet commands they don’t understand, the results can get extremely distorted.
And it’s not just Microsoft browsers that have this level of distortion. Here’s Francine on Chrome 9, where she looks a bit like a Fauvist trying to draw Mrs. Potato Head.
On this older version of Opera, some elements work and others... don’t.
Perhaps the most abstract of all is this view of the piece on IE 5.1.7 as seen from a Mac:
Baio’s Twitter thread on the differences in the piece rapidly turned into viewers having a field day with browser variance, and delighting in their ability to manipulate the image.
I now stand seriously corrected about viewing my work in non-Chrome browsers. The results are so much more interesting than I could've tried to achieve on purpose. https://t.co/g0oa5znU58 — Diana Smith (@cyanharlow) May 1, 2018
Some viewers, however, noted that certain browsers, like Mosaic, the precursor to Firefox, couldn’t display the picture at all.
The moral: Reality bytes
All of this adds up to a message that, while simple, isn’t always this easily perceptible: Reality, as filtered through the internet, can look very different depending on which version of the internet you’re using.
In a cultural moment where reality distortion is rampant, and it’s hard to get a consistent version of facts from person to person, it’s critical to understand that something as basic as a browser update, or switching from one browser to another, can drastically change the way we perceive information. And it’s probably easier to understand the power of the internet as a tool if you’re using a newer browser capable of interpreting more powerful programming languages.
Fortunately for Francine, most internet users are currently viewing her on newer versions of Chrome, as she was intended to be seen. But if you’re one of the roughly 42 percent of users out there who are still clinging to an outdated version of your browser of choice, let this be a lesson to you: software updates don’t just keep you safe from viruses, malware, and the ridicule of your peers. They can, quite literally, change your perspective.
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A strong jobs report could provide reassurance on economy Friday's jobs report likely to offer reassurance after stock market sell-off
WASHINGTON -- Even with fear of a global economic slump depressing stock markets, Friday's jobs report for December is expected to offer reassurance that the U.S. economy remains sturdy and on track to expand for a 10th straight year.
Economists have forecast that the Labor Department will report that employers added a solid 180,000 jobs last month and that the unemployment rate stayed at a five-decade low of 3.7 percent, according to the financial data firm FactSet.
The expectation of continued strength in hiring would contrast with the chaos of the stock market, a raging trade war, a partial shutdown of the government and the perception of growing risks for the economy.
Major companies such as Apple say their sales are being jeopardized by the tariff-fueled trade war between the United States and China. Factory activity in China and the United States have both weakened, with the Institute for Supply Management's U.S. manufacturing index on Thursday posting its steepest decline in a decade.
The government is about to enter its third week of a partial shutdown, with negotiations stalled over President Donald Trump's insistence that Democrats agree on funding for a wall along the border with Mexico. And attacks by Trump on the Federal Reserve over its rate increases have raised doubts about Chairman Jay Powell's status — a concern for both the markets and the economy.
But the expected continuation of steady job growth suggests that such risks might be — for the moment, anyway — overblown. Average hourly earnings are expected to have climbed 3 percent from a year ago, up from a year-over-year gain of 2.7 percent at the end of 2017.
Payroll processor ADP said Thursday that private businesses added a robust 271,000 jobs in December, a sign that companies expect decent growth to continue despite the overhang of risks.
And businesses are still searching for more workers. The employment site Glassdoor found that job postings have risen 17 percent in the past year to 6.7 million.
"We really don't see any slowdown yet," said Andrew Chamberlain, chief economist at Glassdoor.
Hiring has been unusually strong as the unemployment rate has fallen to 3.7 percent — a 49-year low — from 4.1 percent at the start of 2018. Economists estimate that it requires roughly 100,000 job gains each month to satisfy population growth and keep the unemployment rate at its current level.
But hiring has easily eclipsed that pace. During the first 11 months of 2018, employers added 2.27 million jobs, or an average of 206,182 a month, according to the Labor Department.
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COMEDIAN and TV star Mark Lamarr has been charged with assaulting a woman and holding her prisoner in his home.
The Never Mind the Buzzcocks presenter, 51, was arrested after cops were alerted to neighbours’ reports of screams.
3 Mark Lamarr has been charged with assaulting a woman and holding her prisoner in his home
Lamarr spent a night in custody before being charged.
It is understood he has been barred from contacting the woman.
She has not been named but is believed to be an ex.
A neighbour in Chiswick, West London, said: “There were screams coming from the house. The next thing police turned up and carted him off in a van.
3 Mark Lamarr with Never Mind The Buzzcocks team captains Phil Jupitus, right, and the late Sean Hughes, left Credit: BBC
“Apparently she was a former girlfriend and he would not let her out of the house.”
The Met Police said: “Mark Lamarr, 51, was charged on Saturday September 1 with common assault and false imprisonment.
“He was released on conditional bail and will appear at Uxbridge magistrates court on October 2.”
Lamarr, born Mark Jones, shot to fame as host of The Word in the early 1990s, then worked as an outdoors presenter on Big Brother.
3 Lamaar will appear at Uxbridge magistrates court on October 2 Credit: Nick Obank - The Sun
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He was a team captain on comedy quiz Shooting Stars in the mid-1990s and hosted BBC2’s Buzzcocks for nine years, quitting in 2006.
He has since worked on radio, written film scripts and worked as a music producer.
The neighbour added: “He keeps a much lower profile these days and shuns the limelight.
“You often see him pottering around car boot sales.
“He is always pleasant enough and this unfortunate episode seems to be very out of character.”
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(CNN) -- The U.S. Embassy in Caracas appears to have put in long hours examining President Hugo Chavez's efforts to build a socialist economy in Venezuela. But out of all the dense analysis springs one cable -- about the role of the humble tortilla in building a brave new world.
The cable, obtained by WikiLeaks and published on its website, starts in appetizing fashion. "President Chavez made socialism taste better with the December 22 (2009) opening of a'socialist arepera' serving Venezuelan-style tortillas at a fraction of their usual price."
The arepa is a thick cornmeal tortilla popular in Colombia and Venezuela.
In a section titled "Socialism's Tangible -- and Tasty -- Benefits," the cable continues: "The restaurant, located in a lower middle class neighborhood of Caracas, serves 'arepas' for about a fourth of their regular price."
There follows a colorful description of the eatery, which is run by the Ministry of Commerce.
"On a January 8 visit, EmbOffs (Embassy Officers) witnessed a long line of people waiting to get into the restaurant but surprisingly rapid service. Inside, one wall was dominated by a quote in large red lettering from Simon Bolivar: "The best system of government is that which produces the greatest happiness."
The visiting diplomats were told by an employee that the restaurant served 1,200 customers per day.
The cable quotes Eduardo Saman, who was then minister of commerce, as saying that customers could rely on low prices because all the ingredients came from government-owned companies.
Saman said there was another another "key difference between socialist and capitalist arepera: customers pay only after eating," while "in fast food chains... they only think about money." And in the arepera, he said, customers told cashiers how much they'd eaten.
Since he came to power in 1998, Chavez has extended the role of the state in major industries, nationalizing Venezuela's oil fields and much of its agricultural sector.
The state's venture into the fast-food sector involves the "Arepera Socialista" chain as part of the country's socialist market cooperatives.
The cable suggests that the introduction of the arepera is due to the president's populist instincts ahead of elections.
"Facing high inflation, electricity and water rationing, and failing public services, Chavez may see the 'Arepera Socialista' as a relatively quick and easy way to promote the benefits of'socialism' to his electoral base before the September legislative elections."
But there's nothing to suggest the Venezuelan leader ever said, "Let them eat arepa."
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A California city councilman and high school history teacher at El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera, Calif, was caught on video disparaging the United States military and calling its members “dumbshits” who are not “high-level thinkers.”
As The Daily Caller's Derek Hunter reports, Gregory Salcido is a current member of the Pico Rivera City Council.
Three profanity-laced videos surfaced on Facebook Friday of Salcido declaring to his students that members of the military are dumb people who joined because they were poor students and that they are the “lowest of our low” of the country.
“They’re the frickin’ lowest of our low,” Salcido can be heard saying.
Three video of Salcido’s comments were posted to Facebook by a family friend of the student who took it and they quickly went viral. The student, who wished to remain anonymous, is the son and nephew of military veterans and told the local paper, “It was so disrespectful to my dad and my uncles and all veterans and those still in the military.”
Throughout the three videos, Salcido can be heard using vulgar language to describe the military as failed students with no other options but to serve.
“We’ve got a bunch of dumbshits over there. Think about the people who you know who are over there — your freaking stupid uncle Louis or whatever, they’re dumbshits. They’re not, like, high-level thinkers, they’re not academic people, they’re not intellectual people, they’re the freaking lowest of our low. Not morally, I’m not saying they make bad moral decisions, they’re not talented people,”
This is not Salcido’s first brush with controversy.
In 2012, he was accused of smacking one of his students who he said was disruptive.
The school district is investigating the videos and refused to comment on a “personnel matter.”
Salcido is currently on vacation, but posted a vague comment to his Facebook page about the controversy.
Screen capture from Facebook.
Other posts on Salcido’s Facebook pages show he is not a fan of President Donald Trump.
Screen capture from Facebook.
On the official webpage for his city council job, Salcido’s bio reads, “Councilman Salcido credits his students for being a constant reminder that keeping a positive and optimistic disposition is necessary for a productive future.”
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Receipts.Watch a Model S 'go plaid' around Laguna Seca
Tesla isn't quite ready to challenge Porsche's Taycan around the Nürburgring (more testing is needed), but Elon Musk bragged that the company set a record for four-door vehicles at Laguna Seca in the US. While the track says it's an unofficial time since the lap didn't occur during a sanctioned event, you can watch and decide for yourself right here.
No matter what it says on the clock, however, what's more interesting is the Plaid drivetrain Tesla says this sedan is using. According to Musk, it's a triple-motor setup that's about a year away from production and will be available in the company's Model S, Model X and upcoming Roadster.
Honda's E isn't like other electric cars.The uphill battle to build Honda's first modern EV
For years, Honda has pursued tech like hydrogen instead of EVs. Now its futuristic Honda E is ready to debut, with a higher price and less range than some rivals. We interviewed company executives at the Frankfurt Motor Show to find out the thinking behind decisions made "to demonstrate Honda's capability in looks, technology and driving ability."
Portrait Mode put iPhones ahead of the game, but now their camera is lagging behind.These days, Apple is content to follow trends, not set them
Find yourself a little let down by Apple's iPhone 11 event? Cherlynn Low shares that feeling, saying, "It felt as if everything Apple was doing was a riff on something another company had tried and tested before."
Parents are probably the best bet.Apple Arcade is a tough sell, despite its low price
Nick Summers is confused. He's trying to answer a simple question: Who, even at $5 per month, is Apple Arcade for? Hardcore players? Casuals? Mobile gamers?
Yup, it leaked again. Twice.The Pixel 4 XL is the worst-kept secret of 2019
In what's become a seemingly annual tradition for Google's Pixel smartphones, the Pixel 4 has appeared in its first pre-release hands-on. And not just one, but two Vietnamese YouTube channels can show you the device in action, complete with its smooth 90Hz display and Ambient EQ visual tweak.
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Each dot represents a bit of known space junk that's at least 4 inches (10 cm) in low-Earth orbit, where the space station and shuttles roam. In total, some 19,000 manmade objects this size or bigger orbit Earth as of July 2009; most are in low-Earth orbit. Countless smaller objects are also circling the planet.
It's not as bad as it looks, NASA says.
New images depict man-made objects bigger than 4 inches (10 cm) orbiting Earth, and there are a bunch of them -- some 19,000 by the latest count.
NASA released the illustrated representations of space junk today based on the latest data and analysis from the U.S. Space Surveillance Network and the space agency's Orbital Debris Program Office.
As with previous depictions, it looks like a mess. But in a statement, NASA said the situation is not as dire as it may appear, even though each year brings more flotsam into the mix.
"The dots are not to scale, and space is a very big place," the statement reads. "Collisions between large objects are fairly rare. The orbit of each piece is well known. If any debris comes into the path of an operating NASA satellite, flight controllers will maneuver the satellite out of harm’s way."
Just this week, space shuttle Discovery was forced to dodge a piece of orbital trash as its astronaut crew prepared to come home. Also this week, a piece of Chinese satellite debris was expected to pass by the space station twice early Wednesday, but never came anywhere near the orbiting laboratory. Last week, a massive chunk of a 3-year-old European rocket buzzed the space station while the shuttle was docked there, zipping past about 1.3 miles (3 km) ahead of the station; it posed zero risk of impact, Mission Control said.
And as of May 2009, satellites in NASA’s Earth Observing System had been maneuvered three times to avoid orbital debris.
But collisions do happen, and they make matters worse, scattering fresh plumes of debris into orbit.
On Feb. 11 this year, a U.S. communications satellite owned by the private company Iridium collided with a non-functioning Russian satellite. The collision destroyed both satellites and created a field of debris that endangers other orbiting satellites, NASA states.
The risk is well recognized by the agency.
"The threat posed by orbital debris to the reliable operation of space systems will continue to grow unless the sources of space debris are brought under control," NASA's chief orbital debris scientist Nicholas Johnson told the House Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee in Washington, D.C. in April.
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A campaign has been launched to save Vincent van Gogh’s grave, which is in serious need of repair after a storm in 2015 that left the cemetery and adjoining church devastated.
The French town of Auvers-sur-Oise—the artist’s resting place in the northwestern suburbs of Paris—and the Institut Van Gogh are seeking to raise €1.2 million ($1.28 million) to restore the church of Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption and make the graveyard more visitor-friendly, according to a report by the Art Newspaper.
The roof of the 13th century church—which is portrayed in a Van Gogh painting hanging in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris—is leaking and on the verge of collapse. Moreover, the headstones of Van Gogh and his brother, Theo, are water-damaged and the cemetery frequently floods.
“The cemetery was made to welcome 5,000 to 10,000 people a year and we receive an average of 250,000. It’s the most visited cemetery in France after Père Lachaise [in Paris],” said Dominique-Charles Janssens, president of the Institut Van Gogh. “People were still coming and they had their feet in the water.”
The French state and regional government have promised to fund 60 percent of the €600,000 ($640,080) it will cost to repair the church’s roof, and the local council pledged an additional 20 percent, while a crowdfunding campaign was created last June to raise the remaining €120,000 ($128,016) required. At the current moment, €57,000 ($60,807) has been raised.
Construction is set to begin in May or June on the northern part of the church, which, according to Le Parisien, suffered the worst damage in the storm.
Yet, the Institut Van Gogh is continuing to request donations for the church, as well as €600,000 more to go towards draining, lighting, and security systems at the Auvers-sur-Oise cemetery.
Moreover, the institute aims to overhaul the church grounds entirely in an effort to match the description of “a little flowery greenery” Van Gogh wrote of in a letter to his sister Wilhelmina.
Van Gogh spent the final 70 days of his life in the town, creating about one painting per day before committing suicide in a nearby wheat field in July of 1890.
To donate to the cause, visit https://helpvangogh.heoh.net.
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1.0.155.0
WebKit version 528.5 and
JavaScript engine V8 version 0.4.4.1
Your data is private again
BSD-licensed, USB-stick version and source available
Conclusion
, language tips and full incognito
--incognito" parameter. Start Iron with this (i.e. like "IronPortable.exe
--incognito" to immediately switch into the anonymous mode. Have fun!
A german software company named srware took the GPLed source code of Google's chrome and ironed it down to create a browser that does not phone home to Google any more. The latest release of Iron () from December 14 already containsand therefore is slightly newer than the respective versions in Chrome.The goal creating a Chromeclone was simple: Although Google Chrome delivered fantastic rendering and JavaScript speed from scratch and is pretty stable and compatible, criticism arose because the new browser shared it's data with Google.Every time a new URL is entered this data is sent to Google. And Google can match these with the browser because every browser gets a unique id when it is installed. Furthermore, the Google Updater is installed and runs in background every time you start your computer (check your Task-Manager for "GoogleUpdate.exe"). This and more is deactivated in Iron, according to this page The browser identifies itself as "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/528.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Iron/1.0.155.0 Safari/528.7". The geeks at srware provide downloads for an Iron-Installer, an Iron-USB-version (without installation) and the source code they altered. The source is available under a BSD-license, so everyone can use it completely free even for commercial products.The rendering and JavaScript performance of Chrome attracted us from the beginning, alas the privacy drawbacks stopped us from using it. Iron does a good job here and comes, as a bonus, wit a USB-stick version and without installation but preconfigured with the german language.To change the language choose the "SRware Iron anpassen" icon (top right in the tab of the browser) and click "Optionen". Then click the third button ("Schriftart- und Spracheinstellungen ändern"), choose the tab "Sprachen" and select your language in the "Iron language" - dropdown.One more option at startup is the "
Labels: Browser, Google Chrome, Iron, JavaScript, performance, privacy, V8, webkit
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Leading La Liga club Atletico Madrid have bid for the Kolkata franchise of upcoming Indian Super League along... Read More
NEW DELHI: Leading La Liga club Atletico Madrid, the current table toppers in the Spanish Liga, have bid for the Kolkata franchise of the upcoming Indian Super League (ISL) along with former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly.
It is learnt that Atletico picked up the bid document separately as did Ganguly. However, after studying the bid and showing interest in the league, they approached the former cricketer to form a consortium to which the latter agreed.
A source in the know of developments told TOI that both the prospective bidders - Atletico and Ganguly - were aware of what each party was capable of bringing to the table and agreed to get together.
In another major development surrounding the Indian Super League, actor John Abraham and I-League football club Shillong Lajong have bid together for the city of Guwahati in Assam.
Former India football star Baichung Bhutia, who will now be contesting the general elections from Darjeeling in West Bengal, is also learnt to be partnering Lajong and Abraham. However, this could not be separately confirmed.
Meanwhile, batting legend Sachin Tendulkar is learnt to have shown interest in the Kochi franchise and is involved with Prasad Potluri-owned PVP Ventures to bid for the Kerala city. Tendulkar's interest in Kochi, however, could not be independently confirmed.
Friday was the last day for all those who had picked up the ISL tender documents to buy a franchise to submit their respective bids. A total of 30 bid documents were sold.
However, TOI has learnt that not all interested parties have decided to submit their bids individually. Some of the potential bidders got together to form consortiums - like Ganguly and Atletico - and have submitted a joint bid.
Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, whose company Red Chillies Entertainment owns the Indian Premier League franchise Kolkata Knight Riders, has also made a bid for Delhi, sources informed. Given Ganguly's popularity in Kolkata and the involvement of Atletico Madrid in Ganguly's football aspirations seem to have made Khan's team play a safer game.
Samir Manchanda of Den Networks in Delhi, real estate company Triaxis of Bangalore, UK-based company Emerging Media which owns the IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals and Vivek Venugopal of the Elite Group (who had a stake in the Kochi franchise of the IPL) are also among those who are learnt to be in the fray to buy franchises.
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S. appear to be vanishingly small. This is not to say that problems with pet foods are not identified and reported - they frequently are. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) maintains a website called How to Report a Pet Food Complaint where consumers and veterinarians may report problems with pet foods. They also report pet food recalls and withdrawals investigations based on these reports.
Contaminants, Not Deficiencies, Are the Problem
As of the end of September, 31 recalls and safety alerts have been reported for cat or dog foods and treats in 2013, only one of which was for "the possibility of low levels of" a nutrient in a food. No cases of deficiency in an animal fed the food were identified. Only one of 26 reports was related to a nutrient in 2012. The overwhelming number of reports were for salmonella contamination of commercial foods.
Additional evidence of the nutritional safety of contemporary pet foods comes from comparison of incidents of diet-related nutritional problems in two recessions. When I was a senior veterinary student in 1980-81, there was an economic downturn that led to pet food being sold in plain white bags with the words "Dog Food" or "Cat Food" stenciled on the bag. Some pets, only young growing dogs in my experience, developed skin problems, probably because of inadequate amounts of zinc in the food. Fast-forward 30 years to the more recent and much more severe and prolonged recession wherein, to my knowledge, not a single such case has been reported.
See Also: Top 10 High-Maintenance Dog Breeds
Confusion Is Unnecessary
So the confusion over pet foods seems to be much more related to the psychological and business aspects of marketing, which in turn may be the result of a market glutted with satisfactory foods desperately trying to differentiate themselves in the mind of the consumer. There need be no confusion. In a similar market situation - table wine - my wife makes purchase decisions based on her aesthetic preference for the label, which generally results in an excellent outcome. Based on the available evidence, a similar strategy seems reasonable for pet foods. In other words, you should feel comfortable buying most any food that includes an AAFCO claim appropriate for your pet while understanding that most of the reasons you will be prompted to buy it are based on marketing.
References
1. Pet Food in the U.S., 10th Edition. www.packagedfacts.com.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- The woman accused of a weekend murder at Walmart fired her gun in the air to scare off two men she said were harassing her for being a lesbian, defense attorney Joe Morrissey claimed.
Morrissey is representing Brittany Wiggins. Wiggins, 24, is charged with first-degree murder, use of a firearm in commission of a felony, and shooting into an occupied vehicle in connection to a fatal Saturday night shooting outside the Walmart superstore in Ashland.
"It's very simple," Morrissey said when asked what happened the night of the shooting.
He said Wiggins went shopping Saturday night and was harassed by two men near her car in the Walmart parking lot.
Feeling threatened by the men, Wiggins got into her vehicle and pulled out her gun, Morrissey said.
During the course of the tense exchange, Morrissey said Wiggins fired a warning shot into the air.
"We now know that errant bullet struck the innocent victim," Morrissey said.
Ashley Fricke, 25, was found shot and killed inside her car in the same Walmart parking lot.
Investigators said Fricke and Wiggins had no known connection.
Crime Insider sources told Jon Burkett the initial investigation revealed the shooting was the result of a road rage incident.
"No road rage by my client. She's being bullied by these two people," Morrissey said. "If she feared for her life, and she fired it to defend herself, it's an excusable homicide and there's no crime."
When pressed to provide evidence to substantiate the claims, Morrissey referred to security video released by investigators and posted on WTVR.com.
While the video showed Wiggins' vehicle and another vehicle nearly colliding in the parking, there was no obvious proof to the points Morrissey made.
"The vehicles of interest are a red SUV and a silver/grey/gold compact four-door sedan," an Ashland Police spokesman said the weekend of the shooting.
On Monday, police advised they were no longer looking for the red SUV nor its occupants.
Morrissey said he was repeating information Wiggins told him about the night in question.
Ashland Police referred questions about the case to the Hanover Commonwealth's Attorney. The Commonwealth's Attorney has not yet responded to an interview request.
He said she had no idea anyone was shot and promptly turned herself into police Sunday after images of her in the store were made public.
He said the Wiggins family was heartbroken over the loss of life.
Wiggins is due back in court in April 21. Morrissey said he planned to request a bond hearing before that date.
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British broadcast network UKTV claimed a 4% rise in viewing last year, fueled by a spate of original programming and rapid growth for its on-demand service UKTV Play.
The 4% figure refers to an increase in “Share of Commercial Impacts,” a metric broadcasters employ to quantify viewing in the digital era for their advertisers, where one “impact” is one advert viewed by one person once.
UKTV’s slate of originals accounted for seven of its top 10 shows last year. On-demand service UKTV Play was the broadcaster’s fastest-growing brand, with year-on-year views up 43%, and more than three million users registered by year’s end. The company also expanded commercial revenue opportunities with UKTV Ventures, a multi-million-pound airtime for equity investment fund, which reached its first full year of operations in 2019.
The UKTV channels group was originally a joint venture between Scripps and BBC Studios, the British pubcaster’s commercial arm. After Discovery became a partner in UKTV by acquiring Scripps, the channel group was split between the two companies.
The deal saw BBC Studios take full ownership of entertainment nets Alibi, Dave, Drama, Eden, Gold, W and Yesterday, as well as the UKTV brand and the VOD service UKTV Play. Discovery took full control of lifestyle channels Really, Home and Good Food.
While several of the UKTV channels rely heavily on BBC catalog programming, the network has moved steadily into original commissioning. Top performing UKTV originals last year included “Taskmaster,” which has since moved to Channel 4, “Dad’s Army: The Lost Episodes,” “Emma Willis: Delivering Babies,” “Traces,” and “Expedition with Steve Backshall,” ordered jointly with BBC Two.
“We are a significant investor in British creativity and committed to working with new and established on and off-screen talent and producers, which has been demonstrated by our strong slate and success in 2019,” said Marcus Arthur, president of BBC Studios UK & Ireland and CEO of UKTV, adding that the network has more than doubled its development budget in the last 12 months and worked with nine new production partners.
“Our vibrant channel brands foster loyalty in an increasingly complex landscape and offer advertisers targeted reach and a safe environment for their ad campaigns,” he continued. “Looking ahead we are set for growth with ambitious plans for our original commissioning and innovation across video-on-demand. We are looking to operate on a worldwide scale, creating bold, ambitious shows.”
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Ireland votes to liberalise divorce laws in referendum landslide 82 per cent of voters in Ireland backed changes to permit couples to divorce without waiting for years
Voters in Ireland have overwhelmingly backed changes to the country’s divorce laws in a referendum landslide.
In a referendum on Friday, 1,384,192 voters (82.1 per cent) backed a measure to repeal a constitutional clause that requires spouses to have lived apart for four of the past five years before seeking a divorce.
Just 302,319 people (17.9 per cent) opposed the change.
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Easier divorces
The country’s parliament will decide a new separation period, with the Fine Gael-led government proposing to halve the period from four years to two.
The poignant vote comes 24 years after Ireland first legalised divorce, in a 1995 referendum that was won by a margin of just 0.3 per cent, or 5,372 votes.
Referendums are common in Ireland, as the country requires public approval for any changes to its constitution.
In 2015, same-sex marriage was approved by referendum with 60.5 per cent of the vote.
Referendums in 2018 also saw the country abolish its blasphemy laws and decriminalise abortion, with 64.9 per cent and 66.4 per cent of the vote respectively.
Help for couples trapped in legal limbo
Irish culture minister Josepha Madigan, who has long pressed for the liberalisation of divorce laws, said the result of Friday’s vote is the latest sign of progress in Ireland.
The Fine Gael politician said: “I think it’s an emphatic unequivocal result, and even though we have a very low marital breakdown in Ireland, it just demonstrates the amount of people who stand in solidarity with them.
“It’s a real groundswell of support and compassion for all those people suffering from marital breakdown and I really want to thank the Irish people for coming out and supporting them.”
Ms Madigan told the Irish Examiner: “I think there is a deep well of kindness in the Irish people, this ultimately wasn’t about rocking the system it was about humanising it.
“I think people felt it was a reasonable proposal, it was a moderate proposal, it will mean significant reform for those thousand of people out there who are locked and trapped in a legal limbo-land. So it’s a great day for those people.”
Additional reporting by Press Association
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Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE late Saturday blasted the announcement that former President Bill Clinton William (Bill) Jefferson ClintonEpstein podcast host says he affiliated with elites from 'both sides of the aisle' Ruth Bader Ginsburg lies in repose at Supreme Court Business groups start gaming out a Biden administration MORE will campaign for his wife, Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonDemocratic groups using Bloomberg money to launch M in Spanish language ads in Florida The Hill's Campaign Report: Presidential polls tighten weeks out from Election Day More than 50 Latino faith leaders endorse Biden MORE.
The real estate mogul said the former president has a “penchant for sexism” in a tweet.
Hillary Clinton has announced that she is letting her husband out to campaign but HE'S DEMONSTRATED A PENCHANT FOR SEXISM, so inappropriate! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 27, 2015
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The Democratic front-runner said in an interview last week that Trump has “a penchant for sexism” after the billionaire said she “got schlonged” in losing to then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2008.
“It’s not the first time he’s demonstrated a penchant for sexism,” Hillary Clinton told The Des Moines Register. “Again, I’m not sure anybody’s surprised that he keeps pushing the envelope."
Trump later warned Clinton to "be careful as you play the war on women or women being degraded card."
Trump’s campaign also claimed that the Democratic front-runner bullied women to hide her husband’s “sexist secrets."
Trump later Saturday repeated his claim that Hillary Clinton does not have the stamina for the Oval Office, tweeting that he would “do far more for women than Hillary” and would “keep our country safe, something which she will not be able to do.”
I will do far more for women than Hillary, and I will keep our country safe, something which she will not be able to do-no strength/stamina! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 27, 2015
“I’ve had so many women come up to me and say, ‘You’ve got to keep her out, she’s so terrible,’” Trump said early Sunday on Fox News.
This report was updated at 8:18 a.m.
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be “peripheral”.
But Verhofstadt pointed out that MEPs would need to give their consent to the deal, insisting the parliament would play a pivotal role alongside member states in setting the negotiating position of the EU under agreements recently struck in Brussels.
Responding to Davis, he said: “If he thinks that parliament is peripheral, well the peripheral parliament needs to approve [any deal].”
The EU is assuming that May will deliver a letter to the European council on 9 March, formally triggering article 50. “Then we come out in mid-March with the opinion of the parliament,” Verhofstadt said.
“The resolution will give our opinion, red lines. Parliament will be the first institution to react.”
It is understood that the leaders of the other 27 other member states plan to meet on 8-9 April to finalise their negotiating position.
Verhofstadt said he believed that formal talks between the UK and the EU would then start in May. It is expected that Barnier and Davis will spend three days a week locked in talks together over the coming months as they bash out a deal.
Verhofstadt also warned May that the EU would not stand for any attempt by the British government to use Britain’s defence and security capabilities as a bargaining chip in the talks, as has been suggested by Downing Street. “In my opinion there cannot be a trade-off between both,” he said.
Verhofstadt said that he was concerned about the ramifications for the peace process in Northern Ireland following the UK’s withdrawal. “Everybody is anxious and saying we don’t want to return to the past. If you take Brexit as it is then, yes, you create a hard border again. Nobody thinks that is a good solution.
“How to have a Brexit and no hard border? That is the question and it is not only through some technical innovations, cameras and sensors [on a customs border]. That’s a real concern.”
Discussing the wider consequences of Brexit, and the future of the EU, Verhofstadt, who is a self-professed anglophile and is currently reading a book on Winston Churchill, said he believed it was “absolutely stupid” for countries to respond to the world’s challenges by splitting back into nation states. However, he added that the UK’s vote in June had aided the EU, by illustrating the foolhardiness of withdrawal.
“It is difficult to say, but Brexit has created a reaction in public opinion on the continent, a reaction that is positive for the European Union.”
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‘Dangerous Faggot Tour’ traveled to colleges across the country this year and seemed to prompt a new report of attempted censorship in some form or another each week.”
That’s not to say that there aren’t disturbing incidents on campuses. Robby Soave, an editor at the libertarian magazine Reason (and a good personal friend of mine), has unearthed some troubling examples of students and faculty tossing free speech ideals to the side.
But I keep coming back to the denominator here: There are well over 4,000 colleges and universities in the United States. And multiple attempts to catalog free speech incidents on campus, from different sources, keep coming up with numbers in the dozens. And of those dozens, a fairly large percentage of the targets are liberals, and a fairly large percentage of the others were conservative speakers who seem to have come to campus with the intent of provoking students.
It’s possible that these few incidents have a broader chilling effect: that no one is willing to advance conservative positions on campus because of Milo Yiannopoulos’s chilly reception during his speaking tour. But the mere existence of conservative campus publications across the country would strongly suggest that isn’t true. Conservative students and faculty have plenty of venues through which they can, and do, speak.
Some campus free speech critics, I suspect, aren’t operating in good faith. For them, the entire debate is a way to attack universities as hopelessly and dangerously liberal — to undermine higher education for nakedly partisan reasons.
Indeed, four Republican-controlled state governments have set up new rules for political speech in public universities in response to concerns about free speech. At least seven other state legislatures are considering doing the same, efforts that the New York Times reports are “funded in part by big-money Republican donors” in a “growing and well-organized campaign that has put academia squarely in the crosshairs of the American right.”
In Wisconsin, the strictest of these states, rules drafted by the state university’s board of regents allow students to be expelled if they are found to have disrupted the speech of other students three times.
Protecting free speech on campus by expelling students for their political activism: just what the First Amendment’s drafters intended.
Clarification: An unclear phrasing in the original piece suggested that liberal professors are at higher risk of being dismissed for political views that conservatives. The intent was to say they are more frequently dismissed for their views. A separate phrasing did not reflect the date of the original publication of Ungar’s data analysis, which was in March 2018. This piece has been updated to clarify both points.
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WILD weather has lashed Melbourne this afternoon with hail and heavy rain falling across the city.
Hail pelted suburbs including Yarraville, Kingsville, Footscray and Montrose this afternoon as temperatures plummeted to just 7C in the city.
It was a dramatic drop from the “spring-like” conditions yesterday, with temperatures reaching 20C.
Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Richard Carlyon said earlier today it had been “the wettest” since June 17.
Camera Icon Heavy rain has fallen in Melbourne after a dry winter. File image: Robert Cianflone/Getty Images Credit: Getty Images
“The cold front moved through Melbourne and delivered up to 10mm of rain,” he said.
“Almost two months ago we saw 16mm.”
Hail, thunderstorm and rain is likely this afternoon.
Heavy snow has begun falling at Victoria’s alpine resorts with 20cm expected over the weekend.
Snow lovers shivered through a chilly morning, with the mercury languishing in the negatives. The apparent temperature at Mt Buller was -11.2C at 10.30am.
Mt Hotham Alpine Resort general manager Belinda Trembath said the mountain would a snow base of about 180cm by the end of the day.
“We’re very fortunate here in the mountains that we are getting some fantastic snow events, it seems to be successive week after week, consistent snow falls and certainly fantastic conditions for skiers and boarders,” she said.
“It started snow about 8.30am and we’re expecting up to 20cm today.”
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Camera Icon Cars drive through water lying on Alexandra Parade in Fitzroy North. Credit: News Corp Australia, Nicole Garmston
Weather experts say there is also a high chance of rain tomorrow with a temperature top of 14C.
Yesterday, gusts of 91kmh were recorded at Moorabbin Airport, with 89kmh gusts at Fawkner Beacon and 87kmh at Melbourne Airport.
It comes after father of four Eden Herbert-Allan died yesterday after his car hit a tree in Lilydale as destructive winds buffeted Victoria.
He died after his car smashed into a tree on the Warburton Highway as gale-force winds smashed the state.
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Romania’s finance minister, Eugen Teodorovici, has come in for fierce criticism following for suggesting that the rights of Romanians to live and work abroad be limited to a certain period of time.
Speaking during a debate in the Romanian parliament, Mr Teodorovici said such a move might be necessary in order to prevent western Europe becoming wealthier at the expense of the eastern part of the continent.
“It may sound restrictive, but that’s the way it is,” he said. “If a Romanian goes to Germany and keeps receiving work permits then there is little likelihood of him or her ever returning to Romania. Maybe we should limit work permits to a maximum of five years, after which you need to move on.”
Critics have pointed out that Mr Teodorovici – a member of the ruling PSD, the successor to the Communist Party which for almost 50 years prevented ordinary Romanians from leaving the country, even for holidays – appears to be unaware that European Union citizens do not need work permits in other member states.
“The right of Romanians to work in the EU was the result of long, painful and often humiliating negotiations,” said Teodor Tita, a journalist. “These rights came with reservations and restrictions, some of which were lifted only a few years ago. Now, after all the effort Romania has put in to ensuring its citizens have equal status with other Europeans, a Romanian minister wants to reinstate restrictions. It’s unthinkable. Romania is staring more and more towards the tunnel at the end of the light.”
Siegfried Muresan, a Romanian MEP, has accused Mr Teodorovici of wanting to remove one of the four fundamental pillars of the European Union: the freedom of movement.
“The minister wants to restrict the rights of Romanians to travel and work in the EU, something which should never be questioned by any politician,” he said. “Many Romanians who have moved abroad have done so to escape poverty at home. It is the job of the minister to create more opportunities for those people in Romania, not to forbid them from seeking a better life elsewhere.”
Later on November 27, Romania’s health minister Sorina Pintea called for the country’s junior doctors to be obliged to remain in the country.
“Even though we have raised their salaries many doctors still want to leave. We must find a way of obliging these doctors stay in the country for a certain number of years after graduation,” she said.
A junior doctor in Romania currently earns around 5,000 lei (1,073 euros).
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WEBVTT "TODAY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ANNOUNCED THAT MORE THAN SIX-THOUSAND, FOUR-HUNDRED PATIENTS HAVE BEEN APPROVED TO GET MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN ARKANSAS, WHICH IS WELL BELOW EXPECTATIONS, BECAUSE IN LARGE PART PEOPLE AREN'T SURE WHEN IT WILL BE AVAILABLE. TODAY GROWERS SAID THEY COULD BE READY AROUND THE MIDDLE OF NEXT YEAR IF NOT SOONER." "the ongoing question is when is this going to be available, when can I go to main street and buy the product." THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION ESTIMATED THAT 60- THOUSAND PATIENTS ARE ELIGIBLE TO GET MEDICAL MARIJUANA. TODAY OWNERS OF CULTIVATION FACILITIES UPDATED COMMISSIONERS ON THEIR PROGRESS. JAY TRULOVE WITH OSAGE CREEK CULTIVATION IN CARROL COUNTY SAYS CONSTRUCTION SHOULD BE FINISHED IN MARCH. "we are anticipating a 90 day cycle from the approval process for when medicine would be available so that would be June 1st." THE OWNER OF BOLD TEAM LLC SAID THEIR OPERATION IN WOODRUFF COUNTY IN EASTERN ARKANSAS WILL BE READY FOR INSPECTION BY CHRISTMAS AND PRODUCTS COULD BE READY AS SOON AS APRIL. THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL SAYS WHEN DISPENSARIES ARE ISSUED LICENSES, SOME COULD HAVE MEDICAL MARIJUANA AS SOON AS THEY OPEN THEIR DOORS. "if they're a grow dispensary and they're licensed in December they may be able to bring in 50 mature plants so you could see a scenario where one of those grow dispensers opens their doors in February before we even have a cultivator up and running." "WE ALSO LEARNED THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL IS INVESTIGATING 15 COMPLAINTS DEALING WITH CULTIVATION FACILITIES. THE AGENT WOULD NOT SAY IF THOSE FINDINGS COULD AFFECT THE TOP 5 FACILITIES THAT WERE ISSUED LICENSES. IN LITTLE ROCK BRETT RAINS 40/29 NEWS."
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Rainbow Six Siege May Go Free-to-Play in the Future
Michael Ruiz February 25, 2020 12:30 PM EST
In a recent interview with Rainbow Six Siege director Leroy Athanassoff, he discusses the potential of the shooter to switch to a free-to-play model.
In the past five years, Ubisoft has continued its support of its tactical shooter, Rainbow Six Siege, and has benefited because of it. Now with over 55 million registered players, the developer wants to further expand that with a free-to-play version of the game.
According to an interview with PCGamesN, Rainbow Six Siege director, Leroy Athanassoff, stated that the team does want to see the game go free-to-play in the future. However, there are some hurdles they have to tackle first before they really think about going that route.
“I think on the development team, we want that at some point,” says Athanassoff. “We want the game to be accessible to everyone.”
The previously mentioned hurdles include a solution to highly-skilled players creating new accounts to exploit Rainbow Six Siege‘s ranked-based matchmaking. Athanassoff also states that going free-to-play is “a company decision,” so they can’t really just make that switch right now.
“What’s important for us is that we find out as soon as possible that a player is highly skilled in the things that matter,” says Athanassoff about its ranked-based matchmaking. “The problem right now is that you can play a certain amount of matches with copper[-ranked] players while you’re a diamond.”
Rainbow Six Siege is available currently available for Xbox One, PS4, and PC, which is already a pretty big player-pool to pull from. Making it free-to-play will only get more people on board with checking out Ubisoft’s shooter. Although, it may be some time before we see the game make the switch as they have discussed bringing the game to next-gen platforms, as well as being able to migrate your version of Siege (if you’ve purchased it) so that it will be as cheap as possible. It seems like a perfect match for the Xbox Series X’s Smart Delivery feature.
If you want to see what Rainbow Six Siege has in store for the very near future, you can check out our guide for its Year 5, Season 1 update, Void Edge. Like many of the content updates before it, this will bring two new operators and a map rework to the game.
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SOUTHGATE, Ky. -- Former U.S. senator and baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Bunning has died, WCPO news partner Fort Thomas Matters reports.
He was 85 years old.
According to Bunning's family, he died shortly before midnight Friday. He'd suffered a stroke in October.
A visitation is planned at Muehlenkamp-Erschell Funeral Home in Fort Thomas, on June 2 from 2 to 8 p.m. His funeral mass will be Saturday, June 3, at 10 a.m. at Catherdral Bascilica of the Assumption in Covington.
Heaven got its No 1 starter today. Our lives & the nation are better off because of your love & dedication to family. pic.twitter.com/qkCjHIM32E — David Bunning (@horstmuhlmann) May 27, 2017
Born in Southgate in 1931, Bunning graduated from Cincinnati's St. Xavier High School in 1949 and received a bachelor's degree in economics from Xavier University in 1953.
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He played baseball professionally from 1955 to 1971, mostly with Detroit and Philadelphia. With the Phillies, he pitched a perfect game against the Mets in Shea Stadium on June 21, 1964. It was the first perfect game in the National League in the 20th century, according to the National Baseball Hall of Fame's website.
It also was Father's Day, and Bunning's wife and oldest daughter were there to see it.
"A perfect game is a freaky thing," Bunning told WCPO's Greg Noble in 2015, leading up to that summer's All-Star Game in Cincinnati.
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Bunning won in 224 games during his career and was an eight-time All-Star. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996.
In national politics, Bunning, a Republican, spent more than two decades representing Kentucky in Washington. He served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and two in the Senate, where he was considered one of the most conservative legislators.
In contrast to his stellar baseball career, TIME once listed him among America's worst senators, citing his hostile behavior toward staff and a lack of interest in policy beyond professional baseball.
Bunning decided not to run for re-election in the 2010 race, instead endorsing tea party favorite and current U.S. Sen. Rand Paul for the seat.
Mark Collier, publisher and editor of WCPO news partner Fort Thomas Matters, contributed to this report. Read his story here.
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A Dutch dream disappeared into the cloudy skies of *A Cidade da Garoa *(The City of Drizzle) on Wednesday evening. Javier Mascherano‘s bewildering block in extra time, and Sergio Romero’s dexterity in the shootout, spared Argentina and prevented Netherlands reaching a fourth FIFA World Cup™ Final.
Louis van Gaal and his Oranje brigade can nevertheless achieve something the Johan Cruyff-inspired team of 1974, the machine Messrs Krol, Haan, Rep and Neeskens decorated four years later and Bert van Marwijk’s class of 2010 didn’t. They can, after all, become the first Dutch side to finish a FIFA World Cup undefeated – and that is something that the 62-year-old coach, in his last match at his country’s controls before assuming charge of Manchester United, is desperate to achieve against Brazil in the play-off for third place.
"It was very, very sad and a dream has been broken,” Van Gaal said. “It’s not going to come back because it was all about being number one. But there is still something for us to do. We can still write history because the Netherlands lost matches in 1974, 1978 and 2010.
“Slowly but surely we are realising that we have to go for it. A Dutch team has never returned home unbeaten and that is now our aim. It’s going to be part of my speech that it will be my last match and I hope the players want to give me a present in the form of a victory, so that we remain undefeated.”
“I hope I can prepare them to play a good match. It’s quite something to go seven matches unbeaten [in a World Cup].”
Many members of this young Netherlands squad will likely have the chance to play in the FIFA World Cup again. By contrast, its oldest member, 33-year-old Dirk Kuyt, will quit international football after the tournament. The striker-turned-midfielder-turned-full-back, who is fifth on Netherlands’ most-capped players list, is eager to erase the sorrow suffered in Brazil’s biggest city with satisfaction in its capital.
“In football there is always a next match,” Kuyt said. “We want to win here, return unbeaten and with a feeling that we have given everything here. We want to leave this tournament with a good feeling. We still won’t be satisfied but this is the way we have to look at things as top athletes. Third place will feel a lot better than fourth place.”
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plurality in our media has made formerly respectable institutions the playthings of foreign billionaires who are part of the elite set to benefit from further mono-political representation for issues only the wealthy care about – less regulation, lower taxes, lower spending, increased privatisation and the cementing of the military-industrial complex to enhance the spread of ideologies that lead to capitalistic takeovers of foreign, sovereign nations, more commonly misconceived as “spreading democracy”. If the media as a pack support one party then you can be fairly sure that what they want will not be good for working people, in the same way that when share prices jump, as they did the day after the election, you can use this as a safe barometer for knowing when the working class has been well and truly shafted.
Potential party leaders such as Liz Kendall and Tristram Hunt have spoken about a re-evaluation of the link with trade unions, forgetting conveniently (especially Hunt, a historian) that the Labour Party grew from those very unions. Sure enough the acronyms have changed but the movement remains the same, to gain decent terms and conditions of employment for workers in all walks of life, and to assist those too vulnerable to work or not in work for short periods. This is what Labour stands for, it is supposed to be a shared goal between the party and the unions and yes, they may differ over how to achieve it but the fundamental goal of equality is iron clad, or should be but too often New Labour have tried to distance themselves from this, pretending that inequality doesn’t matter and toying with the language of the right in terms of social security, disabilities and asylum seekers. Capital cannot create equality, the whole point of capitalism is to secure maximum returns for the minimum amount of people. If your goal is not to raise people out of poverty, make, keep them healthy and provide a safe environment for them to live a fruitful and worthwhile life through state intervention then you do not belong in the Labour Party.
There is lots of “soul searching” and “change” going on right now in Labour; they lost millions of votes and thousands of members during the New Labour years; the one thing Blair and his cabal were good at was spin, and now they are trying to spin this in to a second coming for some neo-liberal Labour messiah. The new MPs, Labour members, trade unionists and rank and file voters and fellow travellers cannot let the right massacre the party’s values once again; the party is too important and the issues too great to start a right wing defenestration of everything that separates Labour from the Tories. The people want change, but they want it from the left and only Labour can provide that.
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Transit advocates hope the MTA will invest in opening closed subway entrances in North Brooklyn before the L train shuts down as a way to brace for people using alternative lines and transfer routes. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Gwynne Hogan
WILLIAMSBURG — Closed subway staircases and entrances in North Brooklyn, which were shuttered years ago to cut costs, should be reopened to brace for the looming L train shutdown between Manhattan and Brooklyn, transit advocates say.
There are currently ten closed entrances and 27 staircases blocked off along the G, L, J, M and Z lines in North Brooklyn, the MTA confirmed.
And while advocates have been working with local politicians to push the MTA to reopen the defunct staircases and entrances for years citing surging ridership, news that L train service will be disrupted between Manhattan and Brooklyn for between 18 months and three years has given them a renewed sense of urgency, they said.
"This is an opportunity for MTA to do something now that will help out when the L train shut down happens," said Alan Minor an organizer for Neighbors Allied for Good Growth. "More people will be taking the J, M, Z. More people will be taking the G."
"These lines have just a shockingly high number of closed entrances and staircases," Minor said.
Along the above-ground J and Z line, straphangers may be familiar with gated staircases at 12 locations along Broadway, according to the 2014 data.
But more inconspicuous, are the covered staircases that you could pass by every day and never notice unless someone pointed them out to you, Minor said.
"[They're] hidden in plain sight."
Take the Metropolitan and Lorimer G and L stop, a transfer station that could see a huge bump in riders switching to the G train if the L doesn't run into Manhattan.
That Williamsburg station has six closed staircases and one closed entrance, according to the MTA.
On either side of Union Avenue where Hope and Powers streets intersect it, there are two yellow grates emblazoned with the words "Subway Keep Clear."
On the corner of Grand Street and Union Avenue, there's another metallic grate with the same words, and across Union from that, Minor suspects, is one staircase that's been sealed with concrete.
MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz confirmed the agency was looking into reopening closed entrances and staircases, but didn't elaborate.
"As part of our efforts to accommodate growing ridership, we are studying and evaluating closed access points throughout the subway system and we’re looking at every idea for how to provide alternate service to L customers during any potential shutdown," Ortiz said.
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KIWI inmates are being told to swap cigarettes for carrot sticks before they are forced to kick their tobacco habit altogether.
New Zealand jails will go completely smoke-free in July as part of radical new laws designed to make prisons safer and healthier.
To prepare addicted prisoners in the lead-up, the Department of Corrections is trialling a bizarre national directive to supply inmates with two carrot sticks a day.
A memo leaked to the Southland Times provides costings, stating that one jumbo carrot provides 16 carrot sticks which are to be cut into uniform sizes "to the best of our ability".
It suggests a good way of distributing the carrots is by reusing bread bags, the newspaper reported.
Corrections Association of New Zealand president Beven Hanlon has admitted that when he first heard about the "alternative therapy" he thought it was a joke.
"I don't think it is one of (the department's) best ideas but it is worth a try," he said.
Mr Hanlon doubted it would last but said at least it was healthier than handing out lollies.
"It's the whole oral thing... if they have got something in their mouth, they won't be looking for a cigarette to put in it."
New Zealand prisons stopped selling cigarettes last week and, as of July 1, all tobacco products will become nationally prohibited items, or contraband.
Most of the country's 5700 smoking prisoners have been using nicotine patches for the past year in preparation for the move.
The ban, announced last June, has been hotly debated, with many believing it curbs prisoners' civil rights, takes away their only pleasure and will increase the risk of rioting and violence.
Advocates, however, say evidence from a smoke-free British prison show violence decreased dramatically.
Without lighters, fire risk would also drop, and staff and non-smoking prisoners would no longer be exposed to dangerous secondhand smoke.
One New Zealand mayor has even suggested the prospect of serving time without being able to smoke would be an effective deterrent for many criminals.
When announcing the ban last June, Corrections Minister Judith Collins also made clear that the punishment nature of prison also played a role.
"We don't supply alcohol to prisoners because they are alcoholics, we don't supply them with all sorts of drugs and methamphetamine because they happen to be addicted to methamphetamine," Ms Collins said.
"This is a prison. It's not home. It's actually a prison. So it will be a total ban across all prisons. Not in the cells, not even out in the yard."
Originally published as Carrots, not cigarettes, for Kiwi inmates
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The EU has threatened to take action against settlers after Israel backed the building of 1,466 more Jewish homes on Palestinian land in the West Bank.
EU countries said in a joint communique on Thursday (5 June) the move is “unhelpful to peace efforts” and called on Israel to “reverse the decision”.
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They added that if it doesn't, they will “act accordingly” and “fully and effectively implement existing legislation in relation to settlements”.
The threat refers to plans to publish a code of conduct for EU retailers on how to label settler-made products - a move likely to fuel consumer boycotts and to harm Israel’s image.
It is part of a tougher new approach which EU diplomats say the US endorses.
The US state department also on Thursday said: “We’re deeply disappointed; again, difficult to understand how these [settlements] contribute to peace.”
Israel announced the new housing units as a price tag for Palestine’s formation of a unity government.
The government is backed by Palestine’s two main political factions, Fatah and Hamas, which used to be bitter rivals. But it is composed of technocrats and does not contain anyone from Hamas, which the EU and US call a “terrorist” entity because it advocates armed resistance.
The EU and US earlier this week snubbed Israel by saying they will work with the new Palestinian cabinet.
Israel’s housing minister, Uri Ariel, himself a far-right settler, said the new housing units come because "when Israel is spat upon, it has to do something about it".
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “Hamas is a terrorist organisation that calls for Israel's destruction, and the international community must not embrace it".
He has also said he supports a two-state solution and freed dozens of Palestinian prisoners in recent peace talks. But at the same time, he endorsed the building of 14,000 new settler homes, prompting the talks to break down.
“The fact settlement activity increased after the peace talks were launched last July shows it was a political decision,” the EU’s envoy in Jerusalem, John Gat-Rutter, recently told EUobserver.
“It’s quite obvious that the issue on [product] labelling will come even more to the forefront if the kind of settlement expansion that we have seen in the recent year continues in the future,” the EU’s ambassador in Tel Aviv, Lars Faaborg-Andersen, said.
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Courtesy: Sam Morris / Las Vegas Sun
The University of California Golden Bears (6 – 2) lost a heartbreaker to the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels (7 – 1) 76 – 75 on a last-second put-back by Quintrell Thomas at Haas Pavilion on Sunday. UNLV had the lead for most of the game, but a late-game surge by Cal and two free throws by Justin Cobbs gave Cal a 75 – 74 lead with 11.9 seconds left. With time running out, UNLV guard Anthony Marshall forced up a contested jumper a the top of the key which fell a couple feet short, the desired outcome for Cal’s defense. Unfortunately for the Golden Bears, Thomas scooped up the air ball and banked in a short layup with 1.2 seconds remaining on the clock for the game-winner.
A desperation shot by Cobbs at halfcourt was blocked by UNLV guard Justin Hawkins as the horn sounded.
With UNLV wing Mike Moser out due to an arm injury early in the first half, the scoring load was placed on the willing, broad shoulders of freshman phenom Anthony Bennett, Bryce Dejean-Jones, and Anthony Marshall. All three delivered with 25, 22, and 13 points, respectively. Bennett also cleared the boards with 13 rebounds, while Thomas had six, with the last one by far the most important. Marshall led UNLV with four assists, with Katin Reinhardt chipping in three, despite a rough shooting game (1-of-7) from the field.
Cal was led by Allen Crabbe’s 18 points, despite limited minutes due to early foul trouble, including a flagrant violation from an inadvertent elbow. Richard Solomon had 14 points, Tyrone Wallace 13, Justin Cobbs 11, and David Kravish nine. Solomon finished with eight rebounds, while Kravish had seven, and Crabbe five. Cobbs led with seven assists, followed by Crabbe and Brandon Smith with three apiece.
Cal shot well from the floor (28-of-53 for 52.8%), including 4-of-9 for 44.4% from the 3-point line, but shot a poor 15-of-28 (53.6%) from the free throw line, which may have cost them the game. The Golden Bears were also out-rebounded 38 to 30.
Ultimately, it was UNLV’s aggressiveness on the offensive boards–mostly by Bennett, and Cal’s lackluster free throw shooting which was the difference in the game.
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Cal seeks to end their two-game skid against Creighton December 15 at Haas Pavilion. Tip off is 8 pm Pacific time.
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RompHim. It's a romper. But not for her. For him. Get it? RompHim.
If you're ready for a full-on belly laugh, then this new Kickstarter-funded super-garment (their words), specifically designed for men, may be for you.
But if you're more perplexed than intrigued, wondering why the romper was ever gendered to begin with or why ACED Design is attempting to make the romper some kind of new trend (hello, Mr. Turk!), then, to quote Kandi Burruss during the Real Housewives of Atlanta season eight reunion: "We see each other."
What is the RompHim, exactly?
The RompHim Kickstarter
I'm so glad you asked.
"Is it a romper designed for men? Sure," the Kickstarter page brazenly reads. "But it's also pretty damn comfortable, and it may just be the start of a fashion revolution."
The site then contradicts itself over in the FAQ section stating it's for "ANYONE [who] wants to make a statement."
RompHim Kickstarter
Available in red chambray (looks pretty pink to us), blue chambray and splatter-print cotton (oy), the RompHim also has a "special-edition" Fourth of July-themed romper option that looks like a child's outfit made of rags.
Fourth of July-themed RompHim Kickstarter
The story behind the RompHim
According to the Kickstarter site, "[The Founders] were sitting around drinking beers one evening and got to talking about men's clothing options out there. Everything was either too corporate... too fratty... too "runway"... or too basic.... Why wasn't there anything out there that allowed guys to be more stylish and fun without sacrificing comfort, fit and versatility?"
They claim that they "tested [it] on guys of all shapes and sizes" and are offering a "new approach to sizing." But for now, the romper is only available in sizes XS to L — that's right, nothing for guys above a 36" waist. (According to 2010 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the average American male waist is 39.7 inches.)
Twitter reacts to the RompHim
Insert chef's-kiss emoji here.
Will the RompHim actually come out?
As of this writing, just one day after going live on Kickstarter, the RompHim (which will officially retail for $119 after launch) has reached its goal.
Let the revolution begin?
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So today, I finally cut my basil. I absolutely love drying herbs. It smells SO GOOD, and basil is one of my favorites, because you feel like you are in an Italian restaurant. The down side is you start to feel extremely hungry with an overpowering desire for a gigantic plate of pasta. Dried herbs have twice the strength of fresh herbs when they are done right, so if you have a bunch growing the benefit is two-fold: delight for the nose while growing and delight for the taste buds when dried (although they are great fresh, too!).
You dry basil the same way you dry any herb, really. You grab some scissors and venture off to where you keep your herbs (garden, pots outdoors, pots indoors… Herbs are so great). It’s best if you harvest before it starts flowering You snip off however much you want (later I can show you where to cut to make the pant grow more twice as fast!), and head back to the kitchen.
You’ll need the following:
– A bundle of basil (or whatever herb you want to dry today)
– a piece of string
Here we go.
Step 1: Wash your herbs (so you don’t have bugs crawling around the house)
Step 2: Lay out your herbs and your string in order to gauge what you are working with. Pick out any leaves that are burnt or just not looking like they are feeling well.
Step 3: Pick up a bundle and tie the string tightly around one end of the stems. You want to make sure it’s tight, so when the basil starts to dry, you don’t have dried leaves falling onto your floor.
My daughter is waiting for an opportunity to grab a leaf so she can eat it. The girl loves fresh basil.
Step 4: I tied my bundles on both sides of a long piece of string since I had so much that needed to be dried, but there’s no need to do it this way. Just needs to hang somewhere away from a window/direct source of light and where air circulates. (If that’s not possible, just put a paper bag around the herbs so the light doesn’t hit).
It’ll take about 4 weeks to dry. When you store it, the best way is to store as whole stems or leaves – don’t break up the leaves, if possible, until you actually are using them. It keeps its flavor better the more it’s in tact. I like to store mine in mason jars, but any air tight container works!
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2013 series ships with special, OVAs in N. America on March 8
Funimation announced the cast for its English dub of the Brothers Conflict television anime series on Friday. The cast, under ADR director Colleen Clinkenbeard, includes:
Colleen Clinkenbeard as Ema Asahina
J. Michael Tatum as Masaomi Asahina
Christopher R. Sabat as Ukyo Asahina
Ian Sinclair as Kaname Asahina
Todd Haberkorn as Hikaru Asahina
Micah Solusod as Tsubaki Asahina
Josh Grelle as Azusa Asahina
Kyle Hebert as Natsume Asahina
Jerry Jewell as Louis Asahina
David Matranga as Subaru Asahina
Eric Vale as Iori Asahina
Matthew Mercer as Yusuke Asahina
Vic Mignogna as Futo Asahina
Bryce Papenbrook as Wataru Asahina
Sonny Strait as Juli
David Wald as Rintaro Hinata
Jamie Marchi as Miwa Asahina
Ricco Fajardo as Kazuma Sasakura
Lindsay Seidel as Mahoko Imai
The Blu-ray Disc and DVD release will bundle the anime's unaired episode and two original video anime and ship in North America on March 8. Funimation announced in 2014 that it acquired home video rights for the series. The company originally planned to release the anime in fall 2015.
Funimation describes the story:
Ema Hinata is lonely. As an only child and the daughter of a famous explorer, for most of her life her closest companion has been Juli, her talking pet squirrel. But her father is getting remarried, and her new family is…a little unorthodox. Now, she's got 13 gorgeous guys as her stepbrothers, and they're all after her heart! But is romance what she wants, or is it family?
The television anime premiered in 2013, and Funimation streamed the series for North America as it aired. Jun Matsumoto (Night Raid 1931, Persona -trinity soul-) directed anime at the studio Brains Base (Baccano!, Natsume's Book of Friends, Durarara!!, My Little Monster). Natsuko Takahashi (07-Ghost, Moyashimon, Uragiri wa Boku no Namae o Shitteiru) wrote the scripts, and Kumi Ishii (Oreimo, Red Garden, Rozen Maiden) adapted the characters in Udajo's original illustrations for animation.
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Entourage star Adrian Grenier has been attacked online for the 'classless' 9/11 tribute he shared on social media.
The 39-year-old actor made the post on Friday, writing: 'R.I.P. the 2,996 Americans who died in 9/11. R.I.P. the 1,455,590 innocent Iraqis who died during the U.S. invasion for something they didn't do.'
The now-deleted Instagram post included an image of the Twin Towers, reported Fox News.
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Entourage star Adrian Grenier, 39, (left) has received backlash for a 'classless' 9/11 tribute (right)
Grenier (pictured on set for the HBO series Entourage) deleted the post following criticism
The post, which was shared in a link on his Twitter, received criticism from Twitters users, who said it was 'classless' and a'slap in the face' to the 9/11 victims.
'Today was not the day to post this,' said one social-media user. 'Classless. You have no idea how families feel everyday on this day and everyday period.'
Another wrote: 'That sure was a slap in the face at the 9/11 victims! But when your (sic) a second tier actor, it's I need attention time,' one user wrote.
Others called him out for deleting the post.
'Nice job coward. Real conviction you have, deleting your post and all. #911Anniversary,' one tweet said.
That same day, Grenier - who plays Vinnie Chase in the HBO series - had shared other images on Instagram to commemorate the 14th anniversary of 9/11.
Among them was a tribute that read: 'In challenging moments and times of mourning, we must seek perspective to help us find peace within our choices forward. #911.'
Last month, the outspoken environmentalist was critical of Donald Trump's position on global warming - calling it 'extremely destructive', according to the New York Post.
One user said the post was 'classless' and said the actor did not have an idea how families 'feel everyday on this day and everyday period'
'That sure was a slap in the face at the 9/11 victims! But when you a second tier actor, it's I need attention time #9-11-01,' another user wrote
After Grenier deleted the post, a user called him a coward for not having 'conviction' in his views
'I appreciate your post of this meme as it showed your true character and utter ignorance. #fail,' a user wrote
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Steve Spurrier is the fourth person to make the hall as a player and a coach. (AP)
There are a lot of recognizable names in the latest College Football Hall of Fame class.
The 2017 class, announced Monday, is headlined by former San Diego State running back Marshall Faulk, former Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manning and former coach Steve Spurrier. It also includes former New Mexico linebacker and defensive back Brian Urlacher and former USC quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart.
Manning’s induction into the college hall of fame comes less than a year after his retirement from the NFL. Manning retired from the Denver Broncos shortly after winning Super Bowl 50, his second Super Bowl title. In his years at Tennessee, Manning threw for over 11,000 yards and 89 touchdowns. He finished second to Charles Woodson in the voting for the 1997 Heisman Trophy.
Spurrier, who won the 1966 Heisman Trophy in his time as a player at Florida, was inducted into the hall of fame as a player in 1986. He’s now the fourth person to be in the hall of fame as both a player and a coach.
Leinart won the 2004 Heisman Trophy as a sophomore at USC. He was beaten out by teammate Reggie Bush for the 2005 Heisman, though that trophy is officially listed as vacated.
Faulk topped 1,400 yards in each of his three seasons at San Diego State and scored 57 career touchdowns. He averaged six yards a carry in his college career before he was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the 1994 NFL draft.
Here’s the full list of inductees:
– Notre Dame LB Bob Crable (1978-1981)
– San Diego State RB Marshall Faulk (1991-1993)
– Michigan State WR Kirk Gibson (1975-1978)
– USC QB Matt Leinart (2003-2005)
– Tennessee QB Peyton Manning (1994-1997)
– Texas OL Bob McKay (1968-69)
– Texas A&M LB Dat Nguyen (1995-1998)
– Georgia Southern RB Adrian Peterson (1998-2001)
– Boston College NT Mike Ruth (1982-1985)
– New Mexico LB Brian Urlacher (1996-1999)
– Former Clemson and Arkansas coach Danny Ford
– Former Mount Union coach Larry Kehres
– Former Duke, Florida and South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier
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Ant-Man 3 is coming Marvel fans, as earlier today news broke that the third installment was in development with Peyton Reed attached to direct. Now, more news indicates that the next Paul Rudd adventure is likely to film after Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness and Thor: Love and Thunder. In The Hollywood Reporter’s piece, they discuss the timing of the next steps for Ant-Man. Release details are slim, but the plan is to shoot near the end of next year or early 2021 at the latest. 2022 is being looked at as a likely release period for the film. All of this positive news about one of Marvel’s more strange franchises had fans stoked earlier today as that Marvel Studios timeline continues to fill out in the wake of more and more announcements.
It has been just days since the speculation started to build around the possible development of the movie. Reed’s addition as a returning director makes a ton of sense because of the existing continuity between all of the films. Details further than these preliminary announcements have been hard to come by during the early going. Evangeline Lilly hasn’t been announced as returning to her role as The Wasp yet, but that seems more like a formality at this point.
Charles Murphy was out in front of this scoop again, as he maintained that Ant-Man 3 would be put into development shortly last month. Now, with Ant-Man’s upcoming adventure on the board, those 2022 slots on the company’s release calendar are drying up quickly. It will have to wait its turn though as Doctor Strange’s sequel will film, as will Thor: Love and Thunder, before the upcoming insect-based adventure. All of these movies are expected to start shooting principal photography within the next several months.
A lot of questions are floating around about the Quantum Realm after the events of Ant-Man and the Wasp. Even more probably popped up after Avengers: Endgame. Reed and his team are aware of the intrigue and look forward to exploring some new territory in a future entry of the Ant-Man franchise.
"I think that was the case in the first movie, particularly when Adam McKay and Paul were reworking the script on the first movie," Reed previously told ComicBook.com. "In that movie, we added the Quantum Realm and Janet and stuff like that knowing that if we were able to make a sequel that that could be fertile ground."
He also said, "There are definitely things in this movie that, if we're fortunate enough to make another one, there's a lot to play with. We spend more time in the Quantum Realm in this movie, obviously, than the first movie but it feels like we're just dipping our toes into it."
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Well, they do. And it came through in their interview with Jenny Vrentas of the Monday Morning Quarterback. What do two coaches who both ran very bad defenses last year have to say? They both owned up to their coaching deficiencies, and guaranteed fans they would go back to the drawing board and improve in 2016.
Just kidding. Rob Ryan blamed the terrible Saints defense on everyone else. Who was responsible for the season or two of good defense? Rob Ryan. Who was responsible for when the defense fell off a cliff? Other people that Ryan will not name.
And the biggest history of improvement ever in the league, I coordinated that defense [the 2013 Saints]. The defenses I have taken over were ranked, like, 31st. Oh, "my numbers aren’t too good." You take over the 31st group and see how you do. And you’re given about two years to do it. There are two years that don’t have my signature on them, and it’s the last two years in New Orleans. And that’s just the truth.
For what it is worth, Sean Payton has already called this nuts.
From PFT Live, Sean Payton on Rob Ryan remarks: "The idea that it wasn’t his defense, or he wasn’t in charge of it, is silly." — ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) May 27, 2016
What does this have to do with the Falcons? Ryan suggested other people in the organization wanted to move to a Seattle Seahawks-type defense. He claimed to have wanted to keep his exotic, blitzing defense.
It is better when you are more multiple. That’s what I believe in. That doesn’t make it right, but that’s what I believe in, and some of the great coaches in this league have done that, too. Seattle has been great, but all the other teams doing [that scheme] are finishing sh--ty like I did. Right there next to New Orleans is Atlanta, Jacksonville. That’s not sour grapes. That’s me getting pissed off. Because I am great.
If you are following along, Ryan is blaming the Saints and the Seattle defensive scheme for his years of incompetence, while throwing shade at both Atlanta and Jacksonville. I would say this is bizarre, but this is typical for the Ryan brothers every offseason.
In fact, Atlanta's defense was the most consistent part of the team despite being the shortest on talent. The offense imploded, but the defense played pretty well all season. The team finished pretty "sh--ty," but the Ryan brothers have never let much get in the way of their strong opinions.
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Immunity with Multi-Variant Execution explores the idea of loading the code pages of variants into disjoint address ranges.
ReMon ATC'2016 Paper describes a fast-yet-secure MVEE design, ReMon, which is faster because part of the monitoring is done inside the process that runs the program variants.
ReMon MVEE GitHub repository ReMon is open source and actively maintained during the CFAR program. Download it and try it out for yourself.
Conclusions
Artificial software diversity can improve application security by preventing adversaries from making assumptions about the code and data layout and other offensively useful features of the victim program. Randomization does not make binaries impervious to exploitation on their own but complements and pairs well with other low-level exploit mitigations such as control-flow integrity.
Where even higher levels of resilience are sought, diversified programs can run side by side in an MVEE and continually monitored for signs that the system is under attack. Galois has a detailed writeup on their blog and covers important caveats in this followup post.
Although we’ve focused on compiling from source, it is also possible to randomize source-less binaries. Trail of Bits explains how to diversify binaries with the multicompiler in their excellent companion post.
About Immunant
Immunant is a spin-off from UC Irvine and specializes in compiler-based exploit mitigation and language migration. We’re located in Southern California. If you’re interested in practical systems security, we’d love hear from you; reach us at [email protected], @immunant, or via our contact form.
Besides the multicompiler, which is the focus of this post, we’ve also built a slightly different randomizer called selfrando. Selfrando is included in the Experimental Tor Browser for Linux. We hope to help shield Tor users from certain kinds of zero-day attacks and monitoring. One of the advantages of selfrando over the multicompiler is that it works with your existing compiler and linker on Windows, Android, and Linux.
Acknowledgements and Disclaimer
This material is based upon work supported by the United States Air Force and DARPA under Contract No. FA8750–15-C–0124.
We thank everyone who directly helped develop the multicompiler and all the people who provided helpful feedback. The views, opinions and/or findings expressed are those of the author and should not be interpreted as representing the official views or policies of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government.
Distribution Statement “A” (Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited).
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appearances against Fulham.
MIDFIELDER - LEROY FER (Norwich)
BBC Sport colleague Kevin Kilbane tells me that Everton wanted this player last season before they got side-tracked with issues surrounding former boss David Moyes. Now Moyes has gone to Manchester United and Leroy Fer has gone to Norwich City. It's great business by Norwich - he looks the business.
Did you know? Leroy Fer made eight tackles against Southampton, more than any other player this weekend.
FORWARD - NATHAN REDMOND (Norwich)
Redmond threatened to hurt Southampton earlier in the game, but they didn't heed the warnings and it was clear he wasn't going to miss the target a second time in the 1-0 win. This young man was a prodigious talent as a 16-year-old at Birmingham City and he looks like he may fulfil all his promise under the watchful eye of manager Chris Hughton at Carrow Road.
Did you know? Nathan Redmond attempted more shots than any other player in the Norwich v Southampton match (four), scoring his first Premier League goal with his first shot on target in the match.
FORWARD - DWIGHT GAYLE (Crystal Palace)
Well done Palace manager Ian Holloway for investing so much time and faith in a young talent like striker Dwight Gayle and giving him the confidence to express himself in the big league. What a pity Sunderland's Paolo Di Canio felt the need to so publicly rebuke his players. One can understand his frustration regarding their disappointing result at Selhurst Park, but has he stopped to consider that his team's poor start to this season might have something to do with him?
Did you know? Dwight Gayle's first Premier League goal came from the penalty spot. In their last season in the Premier League (2004-05), Crystal Palace scored 11 penalties - a joint-record in the competition.
FORWARD - OLIVIER GIROUD (Arsenal)
Any player who scores the winner in a north London derby deserves some recognition in my TOTW. Of course, if you're in the sort of form Olivier Giroud is in and producing the goods for an Arsenal line-up that is so bereft of quality strikers it's scary, then it's a must. The problem manager Arsene Wenger has is that if he doesn't buy a striker in this transfer window and something happens to Giroud, Arsenal will be in deep trouble - and he would only have himself to blame.
Did you know? All 14 of Olivier Giroud's Premier League goals have come in London - 12 at the Emirates Stadium, one at West Ham and one at Fulham.
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When was the last time you searched for something, clicked an ad and purchased immediately?
Probably never. That’s why it’s time for marketers to stop using last-click attribution for measuring success in Google Ads.
Often, people are searching on multiple devices and do extensive browsing and research before making a purchase. Understanding the impact that higher-funnel keywords have on conversions can help better utilize spend, cut out waste and inform other digital marketing channels such as SEO and social media.
As Google continues to push automated bidding strategies like maximize conversions, maximize conversion value and target ROAS (just to name a few), using non-last click (NLC) attribution becomes even more important.
These algorithms are designed to optimize ad spend based on specific criteria, but if they’re only seeing a small slice of the pie, you could be missing out on valuable traffic and giving too much credit to lower-funnel searches, like brand terms.
The Model Comparison Tool report in Google Analytics looks at historical data and gives estimates for how many conversions you would have had if you leveraged a different model. This tool can help you decide which model (Position-Based, Linear, or Time Decay) aligns best with your user flow.
Making the change to NLC is simple:
Log into Google Ads Navigate to the Conversions tab, then click on the conversion action you want to change Click “edit settings” and then choose whichever attribution model is right for you
If you have multiple conversions being counted, make sure to change all conversions you’re tracking in the account.
So, how much does NLC improve performance? For one lead generation client in a competitive industry, we saw conversions increase 16% and CPA decreased by 12% just one month after switching to linear attribution. On the e-commerce side, one account saw a 5% increase in ROAS just 2 weeks after switching from last-click to position-based.
Note that if you’re using smart bidding strategies, moving to NLC could disrupt your campaigns for a few weeks while the algorithm adjusts, so be patient if things don’t improve immediately.
You want data that paints a full picture, and last-click attribution simply won’t cut it anymore. By opting for the right non-last click model instead, you can set yourself up for a huge performance spike.
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Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. Staff authors are listed here.
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A golden retriever that got separated from her owners during a camping trip in California's Tahoe National Forest was reunited with her family and doing well after apparently surviving on her own for nearly two years in the wilderness, the family said.
Erin and Nathan Braun were on a camping trip in October 2012 when the dog, named Murphy, went missing, according to the Los Angeles Times. The couple posted fliers and created a Facebook page about the disappearance to no avail.
Twenty months later, a camper at the French Meadows Reservoir, not more than five miles (eight km) from where the Brauns lost Murphy, spotted the pet and alerted the family, according to a Facebook post written by the couple earlier this month.
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After several unsuccessful days of trying to track the dog down, the Brauns decided to leave her bed and several items of their own clothing with the camper, hoping Murphy would pick up their scent and return to the area.
It worked, and a week later the Brauns were notified that the camper had coaxed Murphy onto a leash after finding her sleeping on the clothing left for her. Murphy was reunited with her family in mid-June.
“As you can imagine, we are completely shocked and amazed with the miracle of her surviving this long,” the Brauns wrote in a June 16 Facebook post. “She is on the road to recovery, very thin and frail but happy to be home with her family. Words cannot describe how grateful we are.”
It appears Murphy could have spent nearly two years in the forest, though parts of the neighboring area are more developed than others, according to Tahoe National Forest spokesman Michael Woodbridge.
Watch Murphy play with his newly reunited family!
“It can get pretty good snowfall, that’s for sure,” he said. “It’s not too far from wilderness. French Meadows Reservoir is a dammed-up river, so it’s developed around there. Depending on where you are on the reservoir, there are developed recreation sites and a road there.”
Tim McGagin, kennel manager for golden retriever rescue and sanctuary organization Homeward Bound, sent out volunteers to retrieve Murphy after she was first sighted.
“She was slightly emaciated, but she wasn’t dying,” he said. “Somebody probably left food out, or left their garage door open. Generally in that area, she wouldn’t have made it through the winter months.”
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North Korea.
Like many observers, Cirincione argued that Trump’s aggressive actions and fiery statements—particularly his threat to “totally destroy North Korea”—have pushed the situation to a breaking point and given the American people false hopes that an air war against North Korea would succeed. “We’ve been living in a world of counterinsurgency and special operations,” he said in a stinging attack on Trump and hubris generated by the high-tech US style of war. “Some Americans think we can do a ground invasion,” he said. “Well, that would bring Korean War levels of combat.”
Trump’s threats to attack North Korea were the basis for new legislation introduced by Representative John Conyers Jr. and Senator Ed Markey. Written by Conyers, a Korean War veteran, the bill would require congressional approval for any military strike on North Korea by “restricting funds available to the Department of Defense” or any other agency from being used to launch a strike without prior approval of the House and Senate. It has over 60 co-signers, according to Conyers’s staff.
The pressing need for the bill was outlined last Friday in a press conference in front of the Capitol attended by about a dozen Democratic lawmakers.
“There is no military option; there is no nuclear option,” declared Senator Jeff Merkley. Representative Barbara Lee, the only member of the House to vote against the 2001 authorization for the Afghanistan war and the daughter of a Korean War veteran, said legislation was necessary because “President Trump’s war-mongering has been really disastrous. We will put some checks on the government not to do a first strike.”
Meanwhile, Seoul was holding its collective breath about Trump’s upcoming speech to the National Assembly, where the left (including the new Minjung Party) holds a substantial number of seats. “Depending on what Trump says during the address, his message to North Korea could send shockwaves across the Korean Peninsula, and the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) could also come under attack,” the progressive Hankyoreh reported.
But so far Trump has held his tongue. Addressing US and Korean troops in his first hour in Seoul, he was sanguine, and his tone “almost blithe,” the Times reported. “Ultimately, it will all work out,” he declared, as Gen. Vincent Brooks, the US commander at Camp Humphreys, stood by his side. “It always works out. It has to work out.” Millions of Koreans hope so as well.
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Mayor Adams held the forum, in part, to address concerns about the city's financial role in supporting the private event, said spokesman Roy Kaufmann.
"It's not fair to expect the city to constantly absorb the cost aspect," he said. The city has spent as much as $10,000 a month during summer months on police, security, barricades and transportation.
"There are hundreds of events around the city that would love to have the city's support with transportation and security but the city cannot afford that," Kaufmann said.
The 13-year-old event grew from a grass-roots business effort by galleries to replicate the First Thursday event in the Pearl District.
In recent years, some neighbors have wondered if the event hasn't outgrown Alberta Street.
One bar owner attached a letter to the neighborhood association one, telling city leaders he closes his pub during the event because the rowdy crowds have presented a liability issue.
"We take the quality of our business and the quality of our neighborhood seriously," wrote Bye and Bye owner John Janulis. "In our minds, we have taken steps to protect ourselves and our neighbors from unfortunate events. Although we are closed for Last Thursdays now, we have elected on Last Thursdays to continue to hire a security guard to patrol our block; we have also taken on the cost of renting portable toilets to curb public urination. We look to the city for similar leadership."
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Ten suggestions for Last Thursday, according to the King Neighborhood Association:
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Require adequate event management from a responsible organized entity.
2.
Require and enforce and permits related to livability and safety concerns.
3.
Continued monitoring of noise permits and enforce compliance.
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Assure that adequate toilets are available for all attendees and enforce health-related permits.
5.
Develop a comprehensive strategy to measure community impacts and, if goals are not met, end the event earlier until they are.
6.
Find and designate area parking lots for visitors.
7.
Work with businesses and event management to provide effective garbage clean-up and recycling.
8.
Require fenced beer gardens to manage the crowds of alcohol-drinkers and enforcement of open-container regulations.
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Work with Alberta neighborhood associations, residents, and businesses to provide two way lines of communication to assure an event respectful of our neighborhoods.
10.
Help event organizers secure independent funds so that Last Thursday is self-supporting.
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Amazon just launched an Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet with new echo-like docks. It is just an upgraded version of the old fire HD 8 model. This new version has similar looks with the old one on the outside but has undergone some changes. It has a robust plastic body and comes in different colours. The new tablet came with an improved camera and Alexa capabilities. It doubles up as Alexa speaker and with the new system of docking, the tablet can be formed into an Amazon echo style smart speaker that can sit in the house. When you dock the new Fire tablet, it becomes a part of the furniture in your room.
These changes in hardware are just sideshows. The main upgrade done to the new tablet is the addition of show mode which turns the tablet into an echo show. This show mode provides visual feedback for Alexa voice queries such as time, recipe, weather or any other question. It is designed to be kept in a place and be seen from across the room.
Features Amazon Fire tablet
It has a large 8-inch HD display screen with a million pixels and an improved 720p front facing the camera.
The docking system includes a smart case and an angle adjustable dock.
It is powered by a 1.39GHz quad-core processor and has up to 16GB to 32GB of storage space depending on the version you purchase.
It has a micro SD card slot built in to enable the user to expand the tablet’s storage space by an additional 400GB.
The battery life is long and lasts up to 10 hrs. This is very adequate for your daily usage.
How Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet with new echo-like dock works
Its show mode dock is a case for the tablet and a charging stand. The case clips around the tablet locking into the micro USB charging port. So it can charge while docked. It has magnets and charging pin on its back. The magnet enables the tablet to be correctly aligned when placed on the charging stand and once it is done, it automatically triggers the show mode. You can be watching a movie on the tablet in one room and then pick the tablet from the dock into another room without the movie being interrupted. This is the same for your video calls and other activities in and out of the dock.
Limitations of Amazon Fire HD 8 Tablet
The speakers are not so good at picking up sounds across the room.
Its charging is usually slow
It is unnecessarily big and bulky
The camera does not give the best camera satisfaction.
The new Amazon fire HD tablet cuts the right corners to get the job done at a price worth paying. Its echo-like dock just helps you to enjoy the tablet while on the go!
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of public affairs.
“We are committed to working with policymakers to find a path forward to amend the CREATES Act and find a solution that preserves the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s role in the … process to protect patient safety and at the same time facilitate generic competition,” he said.
But while Powaleny concedes the possibility of drug company delay tactics, Brzica goes further: “It’s not a possibility,” he said. “It’s a known fact.”
‘Spirit of camaraderie’
With the contours of the battle well established, Cornyn’s June 14 vote switch came as a surprise to both sides. As one of the ranking Republicans on the Judiciary Committee, he was expected to be one of six GOP members out of 10 on the panel to vote against the CREATES Act.
While saying he “heartedly” supported the aims of the CREATES Act, Cornyn told Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa — a leading Republican sponsor of the bill — that he intended to introduce an amendment narrowing the legal options for generic drug developers. One of Cornyn’s changes would cover only drugs protected by the FDA’s safety protocols. Critics say that would not have touched Daraprim, the off-patent drug that was not on any FDA risk plan when Shkreli boosted its price.
But rather than fight over the amendment in an open hearing, Cornyn accepted Grassley’s offer to work with him behind the scenes in what Cornyn called “the spirit of camaraderie and collegiality.”
Cornyn then cast an “aye” vote for the CREATES Act, catching many Congress watchers off guard — as well as the five other Republicans on the committee who voted “nay” on a bill that clearly has broad public appeal.
Hours later, Cornyn exercised his prerogative to change his vote to “nay,” tipping the balance of the Republicans on the committee — from five out of 10 opposed, to six out of 10, a symbolic majority of Republicans on the panel.
Even though the bill advanced to the full Senate by a lopsided vote — Cruz and all 10 Democrats on the panel voted in favor — Cornyn’s switch was seen by observers as a sign that the bill’s fate is far from certain in a chamber that requires 60 votes to pass most legislation.
Since then, Cornyn has made clear that the CREATE Act’s backers have yet to win him over.
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‘However, we will not be totally against private sector participation’
India Against Corruption (IAC) member Prashant Bhushan on Saturday said that their political party would adopt a “socialist-type” economic policy, but would not be totally against private sector participation.
Responding to questions while interacting with the IAC volunteers from the southern States and the general public in Bangalore, he said their party wanted to give priority to the public sector, but would not be averse to private sector participation in certain areas in which there would be competition.
‘Won’t allow loot’
“[At] present, liberalisation is transferring the nation’s capital assets to the private sector in the guise of public-private-participation, which created private sector monopoly. We will not allow this kind of loot. We are not against free market, but will permit it in limited areas,” Mr. Bhushan said.
‘Crony capitalism’
He made it clear that mines and minerals, oil and natural gas, land, spectrum and other natural resources would be vested with the public sector. Airports and power would be nationalised, Mr. Bhushan said and alleged that the Union Cabinet was “a puppet of crony capitalism.”
Mr. Bhushan pointed out that the pre-liberalisation period was criticised for its “licence raj” and it witnessed scams like the Bofors wherein kickbacks of Rs. 64 crore were allegedly given. But the post-liberalisation period was witnessing scams running into crores of rupees, and this was due to “crony capitalism.”
He said their yet-to-be-named party would sit in the Opposition if not voted to power and would support any party that backs its policies and agenda, like the Jan Lokpal Bill. If voted to power, the party would on priority take up the responsibility of providing basic education and employment to the people, and health facilities apart from taking up anti-corruption measures, he added.
Checking migration
Another priority of their party would be to take steps to ensure that people in villages got all facilities and that they did not migrate to urban areas.
To a question on politics, caste and religion, Mr. Bhushan said it was time to save the country as no one would survive in caste and religion-based politics while pointing out that their political party would, if it succeeded in communicating this point to the people of the country.
Mr. Bhushan said State units of IAC were taking the campaign to the block levels and would identify local issues.
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