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If you’ve been peeking out the windows at night, or maybe looked up while walking the dog before bedtime or taking out the trash after dinner, perhaps you’ve seen three fairly bright stars in a row. Depending on how early or late you look, you may see them lined up side-by-side above the horizon, or they may be one on top the other when they are setting to the west. If you’ve noticed them, you wouldn’t be the first… Humankind has been telling stories about this set of stars for centuries!
The three stars are the most notable feature in the ancient constellation of Orion and it’s best to look for them just after the Sun sets and the skies get dark. If you live in the northern half of the world, you’ll find them to the south. If you llive near the equator, they will be overhead. If you live in the southern hemisphere, you’ll spy the trio north. But no matter where you live, the Star Hunter is visible to everyone! Once you see it, hold your left hand out at arm’s length and spread your fingers wide – covering the three stars with your palm. If you look just above your little finger, you will see an orange looking star. It’s name is Betelgeuse and it’s the brightest of all the stars in the constellation. Just below your thumb you’ll see another bright star. This blue/white giant is named Rigel and it’s the second brightest star. Now, take your hand away and look at the pattern. Do you see a connect-the-dots hourglass shape? Congratulations! If your skies are dark enough, you’ll see a patch of stars to the north that represents the head of the hunter. To the west you may see a curved line of stars that represents his bow or shield. But the most special place of all is just below those three stars…
The ancient Greeks gave us a lot of great stories – many of them very different from each other. One might say that Orion was a great hunter who was banished to the sky for bragging on how many animals he could kill and the two bright stars which follow him represent his hunting dogs. Another says Orion fell in love with a goddess and was killed by an arrow when the goddess’ brother was tricked into shooting him. Still another says he was killed by a sting from Scorpio, the Scorpion. No matter which tale you may care to listen to, the fact remains that cultures all over the world have recognized this constellation for centuries on end and all see Orion as a human figure. But why would they notice this constellation more than any other? Maybe it’s the magic that’s just below those three stars!
If you live where the skies are dark, you’ll see another line of stars just below the trio. In myth, this represents Orion’s “sword”, but it’s a magic one. Take a close look and you’ll see a ghostly glow just about in the center of the sword. If you don’t spot it with your eyes alone, try using a pair of binoculars. It will look like a glowing cloud for a very good reason. It’s a cloud where stars are being born! This glowing gas cloud is called the Great Orion Nebula and the light you see now left on its journey to your eyes around 500 A.D. That’s about the time that King Arthur was around! Inside are hundreds of stars being born and their energy lights up the gas, just like a neon tube. While you won’t see the pretty colors with your eyes the way the camera does, you can still enjoy the magic and share what you’ve learned with your friends. All you need to do is just find three stars in a row…
Image Credits: Orion Chart courtesy of University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Orion Sky Shot courtesy of Mouser Williams, Stellarium represenation of Orion and Orion Nebula courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Not sure I need to explain why this wonderful FanPost has been bumped to the front page. Things like this make me proud of the community we have in this little corner of the Internet. - Travis
ESPN aired their tribute to athletes who have died in 2011.
Not a single hockey player was mentioned.
So, here, I would like to pay tribute to those players of the sport (whether active in 2011 or not) and any dedicated staff members who passed away. The crew killed on the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash is included as well.
Mention anyone who is missed, and they will be added.
Remember those who were lost. They are part of our world as hockey players. ESPN forgets, but we will not.
January
6 - Tom Cavanagh
17 - Vernon "Tex" Kaiser
25 - Arto Javanainen
February
10 - Fred Speck
22 - Jerome "Jud" McAtee
March
10 - Mikolaj "Nick" Harbaruk
13 - Rick Martin
19 - Peter Laframboise
22 - Jean-Guy Morissette
April
3 - Mandi Schwartz
7 - E. J. McGuire
29 - Jim Cunningham
May
3 - Paul Ackerley
7 - Eilert Määttä
13 - Derek Boogaard
24 - Barry Potomski
June
22 - Harley Hotchkiss
26 - Barry Wilkins
July
11 - Jaroslav Jiřík
August
10 - Oldřich Machač
15 - Rick Rypien
Joseph Ronan
22 - Thomas Syme
31 - Wade Belak
September
7 - Vitaly Anikeyenko
Yury Bakhvalov
Aleksandr Belyayev
Mikhail Balandin
Aleksandr Vasyunov
Josef Vasicek
Aleksandr Vyukhin
Robert Dietrich
Pavol Demitra
Andrei Zimin
Marat Kalimulin
Aleksandr Karpovtsev
Aleksandr Kalyanin
Andrei Kiryukhin
Nikita Klyukin
Igor Korolyov
Nikolai Krivonosov
Yevgeny Kunnov
Vyacheslav Kuznetsov
Stefan Liv
Jan Marek
Brad McCrimmon
Sergey Ostapchuk
Vladimir Piskunov
Karel Rachunek
Evgeny Sidorov
Karlis Skrastins
Ruslan Salei
Pavel Snurnitsyn
Daniil Sobchenko
Ivan Tkachenko
Pavel Trakhanov
Igor Urychev
Gennady Churilov
Maksim Shuvalov
Artyom Yarchuk
Andrey Solontsev
Igor Zhevelov
Sergei Zhuravlev
Vladimir Matyushkin
Yelena Sarmatova
Nadezhda Maksumova
Yelena Shavina
12 - Aleksandr Galimov
16 - Roger Belanger
18 - Earl Cook
October
5 - Peter Jaks
20 - Ronald Amess
30 - Serge Aubry
31 - Sven Tumba
November
5 - Hannu Haapalainen
9 - Roger Christian
Patrick Steel
13 - Kyle Fundytus
16 - Eddy Palchak
19 - Pete Leichnitz
25 - Fred Etcher
December
5 - Gregg Madill
12 - Heinrich "Heini" Lohrer
23 - Bill Klatt
27 - Johnny Wilson
27 - Tyson Sievert
"We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games." - Fred Shero
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Organize your cables into one handy dandy area with the modern desk cable organizer. The cable organizer holds on to the ends of your cables when not in use, so that they don't fall of the end of your desk, and when you are using the cables, it keeps them organized, parallel and neat so that they aren't going every which way. The cable organizer has 5 rubber grips that give you 4 slots that you can stack cords on top of one another so that it can hold a lot of diffent cables at a time, such as a power cords, usb cables, cell phone chargers, or headphone cables. The cable organizer also has a weighted base to keep it stable and not move around everywhere when in use.
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JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Two bombs exploded near a bus station in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Thursday evening, witnesses said, the second one killing at least 40 people.
Casualties from the first blast could not immediately be ascertained and Nigerian security sources could not immediately be reached for comment.
Bomb blasts that bore the hallmarks of Islamist Boko Haram militants killed 118 people in the same area of Jos in May.
“I saw a flash of light and heard a loud boom. Afterwards there was debris everywhere and mutilated bodies,” witness Tanko Mohammed said of the blast in Jos’s commercial Terminus district. A Reuters reporter counted 11 bodies at one bomb site and 29 at the other.
Boko Haram is a Sunni jihadist movement that has been waging a five-year insurgency to establish an Islamist state in the northeast of the country.
President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in three northeastern states last year. The number of attacks has risen sharply since then, in the run-up to elections in February 2015.
The latest blasts came as both Jonathan’s ruling party and the main opposition coalition agreed on candidates to contest the elections, in which security is likely to be a major campaign issue. Former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari will be challenging Jonathan at the polls for the second time.
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With 13 Days of Shot On Video I’ll be reviewing a new shot-on-video horror film every weekday for the last two weeks of October. You can view all entries HERE.
Well, the day has arrived: this is the final entry in my two week-long odyssey into the belly of the bare-bones beast, “13 Days of Shot on Video”. Honestly, it went a lot smoother than I thought it would. It wasn’t until today that I became afraid I wouldn’t make it. I know, it sounds silly to say but I really didn’t think I’d complete my final entry. I can only liken it to what I assume runners experience when they hit “the wall” miles into their marathon, right before they reach the finish line. Not only am I mentally exhausted from churning out a new review (for what are essentially identical movies) everyday for almost two weeks straight, but my tolerance for the camp and low-budget whimsy of these monsters is totally deep-fried. I’m beginning to no longer appreciate their shortcomings, which is unfair to them and makes for an impartial review. I said it before and I’ll say it again: I am in major need of a detox!
One other reason I was concerned I wouldn’t finish: it was getting increasingly difficult for me to track down honest-to-goodness SOV movies. Every list I found online that claimed to itemize “shot on video horror movies” was rampant with mistakes; many of the movies they listed were either shot on Super 8, 16mm, and 35mm, or at some point has been transferred or converted, or only included a few scenes that were SOV. This caused me to start and stop several films, which was a total pain. But thankfully I stumbled upon Death Row Diner , a movie I’d never even heard of before, and it ended up saving the day.
Death Row Diner begins in the late 1940s; a well-known movie executive is being put to death by electric chair after being framed for murder. As he’s being led to ol’ Sparky, he keeps complaining about how he didn’t receive his last meal. Even as he’s strapped in, he keeps begging for food, and his final words as the switch is thrown are: “I’m hungrrrryyyy!” It’s actually a pretty hilarious and promising start to the movie.
Flash forward to modern day, and his film company is still in business and hard at work in his absence. In fact, they’re filming a movie in the same prison he was executed in! Apparently his spirit isn’t too happy with the low budget crud the studio is churning out nowadays though, so he comes back from the dead and wreaks havoc on the cast and crew, killing them off one by one.
Now, the movie may sound like a straight up horror film, but I assure you it is anything but. It’s full of jokes and bizarre humor, and it even explicitly references Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers at several points (some reviews have pointed out that this movie, which was released by Camp Motion Pictures, is essentially one big promo for several Camp Motion Pictures releases.) One of the leads (the new exec) has this heavy brooklyn accent and a “don’t give me no shit” type of attitude that kept reminding me of the great and under-appreciated James Loriz, and it just added to the overall joke factor of the movie.
One thing I wanna point out is what a genuinely good and believable actress Michelle Bauer is in this. She’s so likable and sweet, even when she’s playing the catty, cheating wife. The b-actresses of the 70s and 80s blow the modern b’s out of the water, man. It’s not even a contest. It feels like these actresses from back then shouldn’t have even been considered “b-actresses”; the more movies I see, the more I think that nomenclature was chosen solely on the fact that these actresses were willing to bare it all. But I digress. Michelle does an awesome job and pretty much carries the movie.
Ultimately, the movie ends up being fairly uneven — the humor shifts between really dumb groan-inducing stuff to actually funny, weird and enjoyable. And like every SOV movie I’ve watched, it drags like a sonofabitch, even though it clocks in at only an hour long. There is some okay gore and make-up in the movie, and there is a GREAT death scene at a ping pong table. Aside from it’s bizarre humor, it’s a fairly typical, standard entry in the sub-genre.
Lastly, there are some really funny bloopers during the closing credits that almost mirror the same fictional snafus the “crew” was experiencing “on set” while filming the movie (within this movie) exactly. It’s a pretty fun way to close out the picture.
A gigantic, massive thank you to everyone who has read these and followed along! I enjoyed doing them, and I hope you enjoyed reading them. Your support is really truly appreciated. That’s all for now — let’s see what next October brings!
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The Gujarat government on Saturday imposed the Disturbed Areas Act in Surat city covering the Central zone of Surat Municipal Corporation and in several residential colonies within the Bapod police station limits of Vadodara.
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With the imposition of the Act, the owners of land and other immovable properties in these areas will have to seek permission from the district collector before selling their assets. An official release stated that the Act seeks to keep a tab on illegal transfer of properties in the communally sensitive areas, officially described as disturbed areas.
The notification has come two months after BJP MLA Sangeeta Patil submitted a memorandum to the district collector for the implementation of the Ashant Dhara Act (Disturbed Areas Act) in 25 residential societies of the Limbayat area. The MLA demanded the imposition of the Act to “prevent Muslims from acquiring residential properties of Hindus”.
The Congress leaders had however opposed this. BJP MLA from Surat West Purnesh Modi had sent a similar proposal. Purnesh said, “I am happy that the state government accepted my proposal to implement the Ashant Dhara Act. It is for the betterment of the people.”
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Responding to the notification, Patil said, “Three days ago, I received a copy from state government in which they said that my proposal of implementation of Ashant Dhara Act in 25 residential societies in Limbayat area was in pipeline and it will soon be done. I will now submit another proposal for covering remaining residential societies in same area under the Ashant Dhara Act.”
with PTI inputs
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Scotland to reduce drink-drive limit
The Scottish government has announced plans to reduce the country's drink-drive limit in time for Christmas.
Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill has taken steps which, if approved by the Scottish Parliament, would mean a new limit being introduced on 5 December.
Under the plans, Scotland's blood alcohol limit would be cut from 80mg to 50mg in every 100ml of blood.
It would mean the legal limit in Scotland would be lower than in England - where the limit is 80mg in blood.
The UK Department of Transport said there were no plans to alter the drink drive limit south of the border.
In practice the change in Scotland could mean a glass of wine or a pint of beer would put a driver over the legal limit.
Draft legislation has been laid before parliament, and will bring Scotland's legal alcohol limits in line with much of Europe.
A public awareness campaign will warn drivers not to drink at all.
Save lives
Mr MacAskill said drinking and driving shattered families and communities, and that it was time to take action to reduce the risk on the country's roads.
He told BBC Scotland the plans to change the drink-drive limit had "broad support".
The justice secretary said: "The support comes not just from the police and law enforcement. It comes from those involved in road safety."
Asked why the government didn't simply apply a zero tolerance approach, Mr MacAskill said: "There are reasons why individuals may have alcohol in their system. It is also quite clear at the 50 (mg) limit, that is when impairment begins to kick in."
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) welcomed the move, and called for the rest of the UK to follow suit.
Drink-drive limit
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The drink-drive limit in the UK is currently 80mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood.
However - like Scotland - the limit in Northern Ireland could be reduced from 80mg in blood to 50mg as part of proposals included in the Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill.
The bill is currently being considered by the Northern Ireland Assembly and could become law by early next year.
A 50mg limit would mean an average man would be limited to just under a pint of beer or a large glass of wine and women to half a pint of beer or a small glass of wine.
Sandy Allan, Rospa's Road Safety Manager in Scotland, said he believed the move would save lives and prevent injuries on Scotland's roads.
He added: "There is a considerable body of research which shows that reducing drink drive limits is effective in reducing drink-drive deaths and injuries. We would like to see the rest of the UK follow Scotland's example."
'Blatantly blitzed'
When asked about why a joint approach with the Westminster government on the issue was not agreed, Mr MacAskill said: "We did seek that, but it was the United Kingdom government that decided not to lower the limit despite, I think, a great deal of public support for it being lowered down there."
The latest estimates are that approximately one in 10 deaths on Scottish roads involve drivers who are over the legal limit.
Research has suggested that just one alcoholic drink before driving can make you three times as likely to be involved in a fatal car crash.
However, speaking on BBC Radio Scotland, George Goldie from the Institute of Advanced Motorists, said he did not believe the change would improve road safety and he questioned the motivation behind it saying it would "increase income" gathered from fines.
He added: "We have very few statistics, if any, to show how many accidents are caused by people who are marginally over the limit. Most of the accidents are caused by people who are blatantly blitzed.
"I'm much more concerned about improving driving, as opposed to improving the one in 10. I am much, much more interested in improving the nine in 10."
According to UK-wide figures from the Department of Transport, there were an estimated 6,680 road accidents involving illegal alcohol levels in 2012, making drink driving a factor in 4% of all accidents.
'Strengthening enforcement'
In 2012, an estimated 230 people were killed in drink drive accidents in the UK - accounting for 13% of all reported road fatalities. These are the most up-to-date figures available.
UK Road Safety Minister Robert Goodwill said tackling drink driving was a priority for the government at Westminster.
He said ministers were "strengthening enforcement" by removing the automatic right for drivers who failed a breathalyser test to demand a blood test and by introducing mobile evidential breath testing equipment next year.
However, he added: "We have no plans to alter the drink drive limit."
The Scottish government previously announced its intention to reduce the limit following a consultation which found that almost three quarters of those who responded backed the move.
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On Monday—one year after the once-mighty Lehman Brothers collapsed in the nation’s biggest bankruptcy—President Obama addressed the state of the economy and again outlined his proposals for what he calls reform. The location—Federal Hall at 26 Wall Street, near the New York Stock Exchange and New York Federal Reserve Bank—was fitting. George Washington took his presidential oath there, a precursor for how intertwined Washington and Wall Street would become. And Obama’s speech indicates that he’s still making the grave error of mistaking the health of Wall Street for the health of the American economy.
Obama chose not to deliver his speech on, say, the streets of Bend, Oregon, or Fresno, California, which provide different indicators of our economic predicament. That’s because Washington’s approach to the crisis has been to focus on the banking system, throw a few crumbs to citizens, and hope everything else will magically work itself out.
The problem with concentrating on the banking system is that it allows the administration to present an overly optimistic assessment of its actions. “The storms of the past two years are beginning to break,” Obama pronounced, attributing this to a government that “moved quickly on all fronts, initializing a financial stability plan to rescue the system from the crisis and restart lending for all those affected by the crisis.” He continued: “By taking aggressive and innovative steps in credit markets, we spurred lending not just to banks, but to folks looking to buy homes or cars, take out student loans, or finance small businesses. Our home ownership plan has helped responsible homeowners refinance to stem the tide of lost homes and lost home values.”
Those steps were certainly aggressive. Under both the Bush and Obama administrations, the government, from the Federal Reserve to the Treasury Department, has flushed the banking systems and other components of the financial markets with $17.5 trillion worth of loans, guarantees, and other forms of support. About another $1 trillion has been provided to citizens through the recovery package, first-time homeowner tax benefits, auto purchase credits, and approximately $800 billion to help guarantee the loans of certain lenders—which somewhat helps borrowers, but helps lenders more.
But these measures have hardly brought the economy back from the brink. They brought Wall Street back from capital starvation and prevented the possibility of more big banks going bankrupt—instead of the slew of smaller and mid-size ones that have since met the same fate as Lehman Brothers. Taking credit for stabilizing the financial system after feeding it with massive amounts of federal money is like a teacher bragging about turning around the academic performance of a failing student after handing them all the answers to the big tests.
Here’s how the economy is really faring (and how Washington is failing to take adequate steps to fix it):
National unemployment is at 9.7 percent, higher than last year’s 5.8 percent, with double digit jobless rates in 139 metropolitan areas this July, compared to 14 last July.
The number of foreclosures is greater than last year: nearly 2 million new foreclosure filings occurred in the first half of 2009, up 15 percent from the same period in 2008.
While homes in some areas have begun to slowly sell again, they are doing so at deeply depressed prices, in many instances below their mortgage value.
Wall Street bonuses are back to pre-crisis levels. For some firms, such as Goldman Sachs, they are even higher.
Bank leverage, or excessive borrowing on the back of risky assets—a major cause of the meltdown—is rising again.
Geithner recently reported that his program to enable private financial firms to buy up toxic assets with government help will wind up costing less than the $1 trillion he had first envisioned. However, he did not mention that there are less toxic assets available to buy partly because the Fed has allowed banks to use some toxic assets as collateral in return for cheap loans.
Big banks are bigger than they were last year. Since the Fed blessed more mergers last fall, the nation’s three largest banks—Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo—hold the maximum percentage of legally permissable US deposits or more.
Mid-size and smaller banks keep closing. This year, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has closed 92 banks and depleted its deposit insurance money in the process.
We still don’t have detailed information on the trillions of dollars of loans the Fed handed out to the banking sector or about the quality of the collateral banks provided in return.
Obama did acknowledge that the picture isn’t entirely rosy. He also outlined his ideas for avoiding another catastrophe: reshuffle the decks of regulatory agencies, slap a few trading constraints on some derivatives, and create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). But while Obama’s rhetoric was stern—”normalcy cannot lead to complacency,” he vowed—the proposals themselves are hardly sweeping.
Obama’s plan calls for eliminating the Office of Thrift Supervision and providing greater oversight by the Fed of “systemically important” institutions. The Senate is trying to water that down, in part because some members of both parties in Congress remain skeptical about the power of the Fed itself. The Senate also wants to consolidate regulatory authority into fewer entities, but leave oversight to a council of regulators. Of course, consolidating regulatory oversight only works if regulators are doing their jobs and the banking system is transparent enough to allow them to do so.
The last leg of Obama’s proposal would be establishing the CFPA, which would monitor financial products in an effort to protect consumers from risky instruments such as subprime mortgages. Legislation to create such an agency is expected to be taken up this year by the House Financial Services Committee, chaired by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass).
A strong CFPA is a sensible plan. Right now there is no other body imbued with the power not just to protect consumers but also to foster the general economic stability that would be achieved by closely monitoring the integrity of financial products. This proposal has drawn the most ire from the banking community, so you know it’s good. The Chamber of Commerce launched a $2 million ad campaign to convince people that a CFPA would mean that local butcher couldn’t extend credit to his customers without government interference.
But Obama’s reforms do not strike deeply enough. The banking crisis has been subdued, not fixed, because of enormous amounts of government assistance. Ignoring that fact, and failing to overhaul the sector, leaves us open to another crisis. And the next round will be worse, because there is now so much more federal money invested in the banks.
Simply funding the banking system without reforming it is an expensive and dangerous game. Obama is capable of truly fixing things—by dividing up the Wall Street mega-banks with a new Glass Steagall Act, thereby enabling the success of more extensive regulatory reforms. Or, he could introduce a set of cosmetic changes that allow banks to keep doing what they did before last year’s crisis and that put us on the path for the next one.
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North Charleston, SC — James Terry III has a long rap sheet of traffic tickets. Mounting fines, suspended licenses, and constant harassment from police make it extremely hard to get out from under this burden. So, when he was stopped last November, and targeted for revenue collection once again, naturally, he was agitated. However, his verbal anger was quickly met with police force, which got progressively worse until he was finally in shackles having his face beaten in by officer Leroy Hair.
On November 15, a North Charleston police officer pulled over Terry at a convenience store for allegedly speeding. Terry, who was obviously tired of getting pulled over and harassed, got out of the vehicle and began verbally protesting his stop.
Terry was being pulled over by the same department responsible for hiring Michael Slager — who pleaded guilty earlier this year after murdering a fleeing unarmed man, Walter Scott, by shooting him in the back, on video. These interactions with Charleston police can and have proven to be quite dangerous. So, it was not the best decision for Terry to get out of the car, as he quickly learned.
As Terry voiced his complaints, officer George Fogle tackled him to the ground and placed him in handcuffs. Terry, although still verbally upset, was not physically resisting. However, as officer Kyle Decedue showed up, both officers walked Terry over to the patrol car and smashed his face into the hood. This was enough for Terry who could no longer stand the abuse. He began flailing around in anger.
Decedue pulled out his flashlight and began beating Terry, who was then shackled at the ankles. Remember, all this violence and escalation of force is all over a minor traffic violation.
After Terry was handcuffed and shackled, officer Hair shows up to join in on the lynching arrest. The in-car video showed Hair grab Terry by the chain of his handcuffs and violently yank him back into the car only to start pummelling his head.
“(Hair) did strike and punch Terry multiple times about the face while Terry was handcuffed and in the backseat,” a South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) agent wrote in an arrest affidavit.
Three months after the incident, Hair was arrested after a SLED investigation found that he used excessive force on Terry during the stop. He was charged with third-degree assault and battery.
Terry and his family finally thought they may see some justice for his years of harassment and violent escalation by the Charleston police department. However, as they found out this week, Hair will not face any accountability.
In fact, not only will Hair not face accountability, he is now being hailed as a hero in the town. Seriously.
As the Post and Courier reports, Hair’s attorney, Edward Phipps of Charleston, called Hair a “victim” for being prosecuted after pulling a violent person clear of other officers.
“That really saved everybody,” Phipps said. “He’s more of a hero than anything.”
“I’m not sorry because I didn’t do anything wrong,” Hair said of beating a shackled man. “I was helping the officers out, and at the end of the day, we all went home.”
Robert Bogan, a St. Matthews attorney who prosecuted the case, did not agree.
“This is about holding a police officer accountable,” Bogan said. “Police officers cannot be judge, jury and executioner. It ain’t right.”
Sadly, however, a jury agreed with the concocted story about Hair heroically saving his fellow officers from the likes of a ferocious man who somehow caused officers to fear for their lives — in spite of being handcuffed and shackled.
In his own defense, Hair even said those exact words.
“I feared for my life,” said Hair. “He was chomping away trying to get my hand.”
According to the Courier, SLED Agent David Owen contended that Hair had left out key explanations during an interview, and Bogan alleged that the officer wanted to give Terry an “attitude adjustment.”
“He could have done the same thing (as the other officers),” Bogan said. “He could have backed up and closed the door.”
For some reason, the Post and Courier cut off the end of the video which shows Hair begin to punch Terry in the face repeatedly. However, below is a news clip that followed the incident which shows the entire assault.
Terry was paid $250,000 by the department for his abuse while in custody.
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The streets of Universal Studios Japan will run red with blood from this Friday, as the theme park is transformed into a live action replica of Resident Evil's zombie-infested Raccoon City for the annual Halloween Horror Nights event.
Taking inspiration from the early games in the long-running survival horror series, the makeover is impressively detailed. The Cyberdyne building from the park's Terminator 2 attraction has been remodeled as the Umbrella corporate headquarters, while props and nifty projection techniques have turned the New York street set into the decaying Raccoon City ruins. Actors playing series characters such as Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine will be on hand to guide tourists through the carnage, and see off any Lickers that may strike.
Photos from the launch, below, appeared on Japanese site Game Watch Impress. It might be handy if you, the master of looking at screenshots, take a look at them.
This isn't the first time Capcom has teamed up with Universal Studios. In July the publisher took over the park as part of an event called Monster Hunter Real 2012.
The Resident Evil experience opens this Friday and runs every night through to November 11th, neatly encompassing both the worldwide launch of Resident Evil 6 on October 2nd and the infernal holiday of Halloween.
Thanks to Kotaku.
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Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online
Cannabis seems to have many different allures. It can produce a “high.” It can give the feeling of munchies. Now, it can possibly help combat obesity. Scientists recently revealed that they found two compounds from cannabis leaves that could up the total energy that the body burns.
Previous studies of two specific compounds demonstrated that they could be used to treat type-two diabetes. The compounds were also discovered to have the ability to reduce cholesterol levels in the blood stream and decrease fat in important organs such as the liver. With the aim of treating patients who have “metabolic syndrome,” the researchers are currently conducting clinical trials in 200 patients with the drug. With “metabolic syndrome,” diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity combine to heighten the risk of heart disease and stroke in patients.
“We are conducting four Phase 2a clinical trials and we expect some results later this year,” commented Dr. Steph Wright, director of research and development at GW Pharmaceuticals, in a Telegraph article. “The results in animal models have been very encouraging. We are interested in how these drugs effect the fat distribution and utilization in the body as a treatment for metabolic diseases“¦ Humans have been using these plants for thousands of years so we have quite a lot of experience of the chemicals in the plants.”
GW Pharmaceuticals was given a license to grow cannabis in greenhouses that were specially constructed for project. The company produces cannabis plants that have a number of cannabinoids, which are varied compounds of cannabis. They are already working on creating drugs that can assist in treating epilepsy and multiple sclerosis. Interesting enough, when the scientists studied two specific compounds, THCV and cannabioidoil, they found that they had the ability to suppress appetite but the effect lasted for a short amount of time. Upon further examination, the investigators discovered that the compounds could influence the fat level in the body as well as its effects to the hormone insulin.
Likewise, the studies of the compounds in mice showed that they increased the metabolism of the animals, causing decreased levels of fat in livers and minimized levels of cholesterol in the blood stream. In particular, THCV showed the ability of boosting the animals´ sensitivity to insulin but also shielding the insulin-producing cells. With these actions, the cells were able to work at a longer and more durable pace.
The researchers hope that the findings will help in the development of treatments for obesity-related illnesses and type-two diabetes.
“Overall, it seems these molecules increase energy expenditure in the cells of the body by increasing the metabolism,” noted Professor Mike Cawthorne, director of metabolic research at the University of Buckingham and animal studies researcher, in the Telegraph article.
Recently, there have been other studies related to marijuana. For example, a team of scientists at the University of Haifa used animal studies to investigate how cannabinoids may possibly help patients who are diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. As well, researchers at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry at Plymouth University discovered that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a type of marijuana, has varied effects on subjects diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Those who participated in the study stated a 50% decrease in pain.
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A protester shouts slogans and holds a poster reading “Police, come to the side of people! People will not hurt you!” during an opposition protest on March 15 in Minsk, Belarus. About 3,000 people took part in the protest, local media reported. (Tatyana Zenkovich/European Pressphoto Agency)
In the past month, protests have swept across Belarus, a post-Soviet republic in Eastern Europe. Citizens are outraged by Presidential Decree #3, popularly known as the law against “social parasites.” This 2015 law penalizes part-time or unemployed workers, requiring them to pay an annual tax of approximately $250 — a penalty that helps make up the taxes they would have paid had they held a full-time job.
The protests have been smaller than earlier demonstrations against the regime. But they’re a substantial problem for the long-standing authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko — because many of the protesters come from groups and in live cities that typically support him.
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In the past, Lukashenko has clamped down on protests pretty quickly. But when these protests began, Lukashenko initially tolerated them to a surprising degree. Why?
We believe that his tolerance comes largely because he wants to keep improved relations with the West, and so is acquiescing to international pressure for free speech, free assembly and other basic democratic freedoms. If that’s true, Western pressure for greater democracy may indeed be effective in this case. That’s important to note when U.S. commitment to promoting democracy may be waning.
The timeline of the surprising protests against Europe’s “last dictator”
As recently as two months ago, Lukashenko, first elected president of Belarus in 1994, seemed in complete control. He had decisively won a fifth-term as president in the 2015 elections, which were criticized by international observers for voting irregularities. The opposition leadership has been fragmented and disorganized since the early 1990s. Belarus’s citizens have been rather politically torpid compared to their neighbors across Eastern Europe, often leaving politics to those in the regime.
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But on Feb. 17, in the capital city of Minsk, about 2,500 protesters assembled. The demonstrators represented a large cross-section of Belarusian society, and united in chants criticizing the new law and the regime’s economic performance. Purportedly, what triggered these protests was the Feb. 20 deadline for paying the 2016 tax. As the figure below shows, the protests, surprisingly uninhibited by the regime, have since spread across the country.
In previous protests, the Belarus government reacted to demonstrations by quickly arresting, jailing and treating participants violently, and clamping down on news coverage. This time around, the regime’s response “was delayed and very limited.” It let demonstrators assemble week after week. At first it even allowed journalists to freely cover events.
Then, in perhaps the biggest surprise, Lukashenko unexpectedly announced on March 9, that he would suspend the tax until his government had fully reviewed the policy. This might be the first time in which the Belarus president made policy concessions in response to public demonstrations. And yet the protests continue, with the organizers planning a protest in Minsk on March 25 and a major multicity protest on March 26. The immediate goal of the protests has changed from a repeal of the tax to a change in government.
Many observers blame Belarus’s recession for the protests
Many news reports explain the protests by noting that Belarus’s economy is in trouble, the result of decreasing oil prices and dwindling international support. The recession that began in 2015 is the first in nearly 20 years and has resulted in high levels of unemployment and a nearly insolvent government. When first introduced two years ago, the hotly debated tax was supposed to prevent “social parasitism.” The real purpose was probably to bring in revenue so the state could pay its bills.
But such a tax violates Lukashenko’s unspoken political compact with Belarusians that involves him providing large social welfare programs in exchange for political acquiescence. This worked in the 1990s and 2000s, when Lukashenko used international subsidies to keep Belarus relatively stable and prosperous. But the recent recession has likely damaged public patience with the regime and led to decreased support.
But there is more to the explanation than just economic grievances
Our fieldwork in Belarus revealed that the economic story might explain the underlying motivation for the protests, but not the government’s willingness to tolerate them for so long once they began. By not immediately punishing protesters, the regime signaled that it was willing to allow some opposition. That signal likely encouraged the protests to spread. Opposition groups told us that Lukashenko might have wanted to avoid angering the West by punishing dissenters.
Why?
In the shadow of Russia’s occupation of Crimea and the collapse of Belarus’s economy, Lukashenko has cautiously pivoted his international policy to face westward. Consider: Lukashenko allowed two members of the opposition to win seats in the 2016 parliamentary election, freed all political prisoners and relaxed visa restrictions. He has also not supported Russian actions in Crimea and Ukraine, has demanded lower prices on Russian oil and has repeatedly criticized Russia’s policies toward Belarus.
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In response, the European Union and the United States have lifted many of their most restrictive sanctions, the number of bilateral agreements between Belarus and Western countries and institutions are increasing and there might now even be an opportunity for Belarus to receive another loan from the International Monetary Fund.
European and U.S. interest in promoting democracy abroad might be waning. But the economic carrots so far remain. Belarus’s dictator might still reasonably think that if he had subdued the opposition with characteristic violence and arrests, he might have endangered these important material gains.
Will Lukashenko continue to tolerate the dissent?
None of his reforms have won Lukashenko any friends in Moscow. Russian state-run media regularly criticize him. The Kremlin would probably be all too happy to have him replaced with a more compliant successor. Given all that, Lukashenko may be calculating that he cannot afford to let the demonstrations continue for too long, lest Russia use them to justify his ouster. Perhaps in response, he has stepped up repression in recent days. Between Feb. 17 and March 20, more than 240 people have been arrested and dozens have been sentenced to 15-day jail sentences.
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There’s no way to know whether he will continue these measures. But if the West were to no longer make demands for reform, a more violent crackdown would likely be the result. Over the past few days, spokesmen for the European Union, the United Nations and the United States have all expressed concern about the detained protesters. That’s been echoed by international organizations, which have criticized the regime for violating individual rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association. If Lukashenko continues to punish the opposition, he risks losing the gains purchased with his earlier concessions to the West.
There may be renewed debate in the United States about whether to keep funding democracy promotion. But Western efforts in Belarus are making at least one dictator think twice before engaging in repression.
Charles D. Crabtree is a graduate student in the department of political science and a graduate student associate in the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan.
Christopher J. Fariss is an assistant professor in the department of political science and faculty associate in the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan.
Paul Schuler is an assistant professor at the University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy.
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In the wake of the Cypriot banking crisis of 2012/2013, and the Greek debt crisis, several important tectonic shifts took place in Europe. Among them was a massive $10 billion bailout by the ECB, the IMF, the EC and other organisations. This helped to prop up the beleaguered economies of Cyprus and Greece, and to restore a modicum of stability to the EU. An interesting development took place at the time, and it was the rise of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC). From 2013 onwards, this virtual currency has been thrust into the limelight and a growing number of retailers, consumers, and e-commerce vendors are accepting BTC as their preferred methods of payment. The banking system has proven itself unreliable in crunch situations, and people have decided to pursue alternative means to obviate a recurrence of such crises.
One of the most interesting developments that has taken place with digital currency such as Bitcoin is the emergence of trading on virtual currencies. The concept itself is nothing new, as speculators oftentimes go short or long on obscure commodities and options. Virtual currency has the added advantage of anonymity, low or zero commissions or fees, widespread acceptance and versatility. It may not be a fiat currency such as the USD, EUR, JPY or ZAR, but its acceptance among merchants and traders is growing all the time. If we have learned anything from the recent financial crises (beginning in 2009 with the global financial crisis), it is this: central banks cannot control regional or global economic affairs by way of monetary policy decision-making. Quantitative easing (QE) policies are seen as a way to stimulate economic activity by increasing the velocity flow of money through the economy. The theory is sound, but the practical applications thereof are suspect.
Bitcoin and Binary Options – The Contrarian Investments
Traders have long been seeking a currency that is not subject to the whims and oversight of the Federal reserve bank, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank or the others. Digital currency is provided on open source platforms with complex algorithms. It is not subject to the rules and regulations of monetary authorities or government and it trades openly in the global market. As such, greater legitimacy is being lent to Bitcoin. When fiat currencies lose their lustre among traders, it makes sense that alternatives are sought out. Fortunately, the rise of Bitcoin came hot on the heels of the emergence of binary options trading as an alternative to institutional trading brokerages. Binary options trading is highly regarded as an effective way to bolster your financial portfolio with non-traditional investment vehicles.
With binary options, fees, commissions, leverage and margin are set aside so that traders can get to the crux of the matter: trading. Unlike traditional investments, the only thing that matters is speculation on whether the asset will rise or fall at expiry time. A quality binary options broker offers payouts in the region of 70% – 90% on in-the-money trades. Over time, we have seen many of these brokerages introducing a list of exciting new tradable assets. These broad categories are currency pairs, commodities, indices and stocks. However, digital currencies are now included in the mix, and it is possible to trade BTC in much the same fashion as you would trade a conventional currency. In other words, BTC/USD trades are just as popular as the EUR/USD. The two ways to trade BTC are future price movements based on the value of BTC, and using BTC as an actual currency to trade standard options.
The relative bullishness of BTC over time has made it a preferred digital currency for traders. Over time, this digital currency has proven itself to be a solid performer with long-term bullish trends. Call options and put options are possible, and the currency is subject to the same volatility as a traditional currency in the financial markets. The Mount Gox crisis had a bearish effect on BTC, and any similar hacking or malfeasance of BTC operators will naturally drag down the currency. On the plus side, BTC gains value when increasing numbers of merchants except this virtual currency and it gains mainstream popularity. The question about the viability of BTC as an investment is easily answered. Provided that your BTC wallet is secure, there is no reason to doubt that this limited currency will increase in value over time. Since its total production value is capped at 31 million BTC, it will always have greater demand than supply. This alone combats the inflationary effect the traditional currencies are subject to. Besides, it is the ideal currency for trading since it offers anonymity, flexibility and low cost.
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Russia's current military position in Ukraine is very exposed and has come at a great cost relative to its limited political gains. The strategic bastion of Crimea is defensible as an island but is subject to potential isolation. The position of Ukrainian separatists and their Russian backers in eastern Ukraine is essentially a large bulge that will require heavy military investment to secure, and it has not necessarily helped Moscow achieve its larger imperative of creating defensible borders. This raises the question of whether Russia will take further military action to secure its interests in Ukraine.
To answer this question, Stratfor examined six basic military options that Russia might consider in addressing its security concerns in Ukraine, ranging from small harassment operations to an all-out invasion of eastern Ukraine up to the Dnieper River. We then assessed the likely time and forces required to conduct these operations in order to determine the overall effort and costs required, and the Russian military's ability to execute each operation. In order to get a baseline assessment for operations under current conditions, we initially assumed in looking at these scenarios that the only opponent would be Ukrainian forces already involved in the conflict.
One of the most discussed options is a Russian drive along Ukraine's southern coast in order to link up Crimea with separatist positions in eastern Ukraine. For this scenario, we assumed that planners would make the front broad enough to secure Crimea's primary water supply, sourced from the Dnieper, and that the defensive lines would be anchored as much as possible on the river, the only defensible terrain feature in the region. This would in effect create a land bridge to secure supply lines into Crimea and prevent any future isolation of the peninsula. Russia would have to drive more than 400 kilometers (250 miles) into an area encompassing 46,620 square kilometers, establish more than 450 kilometers of new defensive lines, and subdue a population of 2 million.
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“I should never have done it,” admits Ronde runner-up
Having come under considerable criticism on Twitter and elsewhere for his post-race conduct on the Flanders podium yesterday when he pinched the rear of one of the podium girls, Peter Sagan has issued an apology over the matter via his Facebook page.
A sombre looking Sagan – who was wearing a plain white T-shirt rather than clothing from his Cannondale team – said that he was wrong and that he wanted to acknowledge that.
“I sincerely apologise to Maja [the woman in question] for what I did on the podium yesterday after the race, because it was wrong of me and I don’t [sic] thinking when I was up on the podium,” he said in the clip, which can be seen below.
“I never should have done it. I am so sorry and I hope that Maja and anyone else I have offended knows how sorry I am and accept my apology. I promise to act more respectfully in the future.”
At 23 years of age, Sagan has emerged as one of the most talented young riders in the peloton but has also attracted a range of responses to his race-end celebrations, which include wheelies and various exuberant victory salutes.
Some riders, including yesterday’s winner Fabian Cancellara, have accused him of being disrespectful to others in the manner of his celebrations, while others have said that he makes the sport more entertaining and exciting.
Yesterday’s podium appearance elicited less positive responses, though, and he and his team will now hope that his apology will be accepted.
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Born April 5, 1985, in the southern city of Santiago de Cuba, Héctor Olivera Amaro is the son of Héctor Olivera Sr. (Héctor Olivera González), a star third baseman in the 1970s and 1980s who hit a cumulative .316/.397/.464 over the course of his career. Following in his father's footsteps, the junior Héctor Olivera pursued baseball and earned a roster spot on Las Avispas (the Wasps), the team representing Santiago de Cuba in La Serie Nacional.
Héctor Olivera made his professional debut in the 43rd Serie Nacional (2003-2004) at age 18. He hit the ground running in his rookie campaign, hitting .319/.367/.445. In addition to providing his team a great deal of value with his bat, Olivera demonstrated a great deal of positional versatility, logging time at first base, second base, shortstop, third base, and left field over the course of the season. The following year, newly installed manager Antonio Pacheco decided to make Olivera the team's regular second baseman. The youngster logged an even more impressive sophomore season, hitting 326/.362/.454 and belting six home runs. Of his 108 hits over the course of the season, none were more important than his very last. Santiago de Cuba had made the finals and were up 3-2 on the now-defunct Los Vaqueros de La Habana in the best-of-seven series. In the ninth inning of game six, Olivera led off the inning with a single and scored the clinching run.
The second baseman had his first real down year during the 45th Serie Nacional (2005-2006), hitting .262/.351/.364 with five homers. Adding insult to injury, Santiago de Cuba made the finals, but lost to Los Industriales. In American baseball parlance, this would be akin to the New York Yankees beating the Boston Red Sox in the World Series (if that were possible). Las Avispas for get their revenge, though, as they won the championship the next year, beating those very same Industriales. Olivera had a better season as well, hitting .315/.372/.412 with eight home runs.
In the 47th Serie Nacional (2007-2008), the second-generation ballplayer had his first All-Star season—in part because of the introduction of a new ball that led to an offensive explosion throughout the league and in part because of his own blossoming baseball talents. In 96 games, Olivera hit .353/.467/.542, roughly 30 points higher than his career-best average, 100 points higher than his career-best on-base percentage, and 100 points higher than his career-best slugging percentage. His 11 home runs were a then-career best, and his 21 steals (in 29 attempts) remain a career high. As was the case during the 44th Serie Nacional (2004-2005), no hit was as important as his very last one. With Santiago de Cuba in the finals once again, Olivera reached on a fielder's choice in the bottom of the eighth, stole second, and came around to score the deciding run, giving the team its third championship in four years.
From that point on, the second baseman became one of the preeminent players in Cuba. From the 48th to the 51st Serie Nacional (2008-2009 to 2011-2012), the second baseman averaged a .331/.428/.579 slash line, hitting 18, 14, 16, and 17 home runs in each of those respective four seasons. His name regularly found itself high atop the leader boards, surrounded by such high-profile names as Alfredo Despaigne, Yulieski Gourriel, Frederich Cepeda, and Alexei Bell.
Olivera missed the entire 52nd Serie Nacional (2012-2013) season, as well as the 2013 World Baseball Classic, due to thrombosis in his left bicep, a condition in which a clot forms inside of a blood vessel and obstructs the flow of blood to the area. The middle infielder returned to the field the following year and did not miss a beat, despite not having played in over a year. Olivera logged another season hitting over .300, and though his home run total dropped to only seven, he still slugged a robust .474.
In addition to years of domestic competition, Olivera is no stranger to international competition, having been a member of the Cuban national baseball team for years. Over roughly the last decade, he has played in numerous high-profile international competitions including, but not limited to, the Baseball World Cup, the Intercontinental Cup, the Olympics, the World Baseball Classic, and the World Port Tournament.
Olivera participated in the 2009 WBC, the tournament in which Samurai Japan defeated the Cuban national team twice in the second round to eliminate them from the competition. Penciled in as the starting second baseman, Olivera played in four games. In his 16 at-bats, he hit .313/.389/.500, notching five hits and walking twice. On March 8 against South Africa, Olivera led off the game with a single off of Barry Armitage, walked in the third, and hit a solo home run in the fifth off of Donavon Hendricks. On March 10 against Australia, Olivera drew a walk in the seventh inning against Damian Moss. On March 16 against Mexico, he singled in the third and the fifth, both hits coming off of Jorge Campillo. On March 18 against Japan, he singled in the fifth off of Hisashi Iwakuma.
Year Age G AB AVG OBP SLG HR BB K SB 2009-2010 (49th SNdB) 25 89 345 .322 .415 .565 14 56 29 0/1 2010-2011 (50th SNdB) 26 86 346 .318 .390 .535 16 37 21 2/0 2011-2012 (51st SNdB) 27 60 264 .341 .462 .626 17 44 22 0/1 2012-2013(52nd SNdB) 28 DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP 2013-2014 (53rd SNdB) 29 73 228 .316 .412 .474 7 38 25 0/0
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Héctor Olivera is a fairly well-rounded player and, as a result, Baseball America ranked him the sixth-best baseball player in Cuba back in late August. With his ability to hit for average, hit for power, and get on base at a high rate, the second baseman sat near the top of numerous offensive categories—for both his team and the league—during his career in Serie Nacional.
At the plate, the right-hander exhibits above-average plate recognition and zone awareness, no doubt due in part to working with his father, whose .459 batting average during the 1980 Series Selectivas (a now-defunct summer league that ran yearly from 1975 to 1995) remains a Cuban record. Olivera possesses decent pop for a middle infielder, but it is important to keep his home run numbers in context—stadiums in Cuba are generally smaller than MLB parks. Guillermo Moncada Stadium is the second-biggest in Cuba, and yet it is roughly 320 feet down the lines and 400 feet to straight-away center.
Defensively, scouts have generally been indifferent about Olivera's ability to play second base. In the time that scouts have had to form their opinions, Olivera has neither impressed nor humiliated himself. He is seen as athletic and able to handle the defensive rigors of second base, but unlikely to excel defensively. In addition to manning second base for Las Avispas, Olivera has logged varying amounts of time at both corner infield spots and shortstop, as well as spending time as DH.
The middle infielder only recently defected, so his impact in MLB is still a ways off. Generally speaking, the process can take anywhere from a few months to a year or so, depending on how quickly Olivera can establish permanent residency in a new country, how quickly the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control vets his paperwork for his unblocking license (and whether or not any irregularities turn up), how quickly MLB grants him free agent status, and how aggressive he markets himself and how MLB teams respond.
Does he make sense for the Mets?
Though he has gotten token time at other positions, Olivera is primarily a second baseman. With 2014 All-Star Daniel Murphy the incumbent second baseman, and prospects Wilmer Flores and/or Dilson Herrera ready to step up should Murphy be traded, the Mets have no real pressing need to address the position. Héctor Olivera is also no lock to be an upgrade over Murphy, Flores, or Herrera, making his possible acquisition even less likely.
Because Olivera is fairly athletic, he could, in theory, be shifted to an outfield position, but I do not see the wisdom of such a move. In addition to the difficulties of getting adjusted to a new league in a new country, Olivera would have to learn to play the outfield; outside of a handful of games in his rookie season, Olivera has no experience playing out there. In the past, Terry Collins has cited difficulties adapting to the outfield as a reason Lucas Duda's bat lagged in parts of 2012 and 2013. "When he was playing the outfield, he was so concerned about not making a mistake defensively, he got more caught up in that than producing runs," Collins said. "He always thought he had to drive in two if he was going to drive in any runs. I think right now, he knows he can play first base, he's a good first baseman, and I think it's helped him offensively." While there is no guarantee that Olivera would have similar difficulties at the plate as result of changing positions, I don't see the utility in finding out.
Complicating everything is the thrombosis that forced Olivera to sit out the 52nd Serie Nacional. While he did return for the 53rd annual competition and had a fairly successful season, there were a few red flags. While not necessarily a prolific power hitter, the seven home runs he belted were his fewest since the 45th Serie Nacional (2005-2006) and the first time in six years that he totaled only a single-digit home run total. In addition, he spent most of the season as a DH, playing 29 games at second base and the remaining 44 as the designated hitter. While he has played DH in the past, his number of games played as a DH in 2013-2014 was unusually high. Throw in his relatively advanced age and it makes one wonder: Were those numbers indicative of a player shaking off the rust or of a player starting down the down arc of his career?
As a result of all of these red flags and question marks, it's hard to gauge the market for the middle infielder. By virtue of his advanced age, I don't think any contract that he signs will be particularly long or particularly exorbitant.
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When Secretary of State John Kerry John Forbes KerryOvernight Defense: White House eyes budget maneuver to boost defense spending | Trump heads to Hanoi for second summit with Kim | Former national security officials rebuke Trump on emergency declaration 58 ex-national security officials rebuke Trump over emergency declaration Ex-national security officials to issue statement slamming Trump's emergency declaration: WaPo MORE raises the American flag at the U.S. Embassy in Havana on Aug. 14, he will officially mark the end of an era of failed foreign policy. Kerry's official actions this Friday will be historic not only for ending the more than half a century of isolation. It will also open up the next battlefront in the continued quest for normalization: Capitol Hill. With three bills pending — two to end the trade embargo, and one that permanently lifts the travel ban — attention in this country will focus on whether a small minority of legislators continue to block the modernization, both economic and political, of an island nation of 9 million people.
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President Obama could go only so far in terms of his executive actions to normalize the U.S.-Cuba relationship. In early January of this year, he was able to ease the travel ban for Americans who wanted to visit, allowing trips to take place under 12 broad categories. This created a boom for tour operators as visitors from this country to Cuba have more than tripled, even if the number of hotels and the capacity to host people has been strained. It has been a boon for Airbnb, the Internet booking service that tapped the existing entrepreneurial vein of many Cubans seeking to earn dollars as hosts.
The Freedom to Travel Act of 2015, the work of Sens. Jeff Flake Jeffrey (Jeff) Lane FlakeBrexit and exit: A transatlantic comparison Poll: 33% of Kentucky voters approve of McConnell Trump suggests Heller lost reelection bid because he was 'hostile' during 2016 presidential campaign MORE (R-Ariz.) and Patrick Leahy Patrick Joseph LeahySenate plots to avoid fall shutdown brawl Booker wins 2020 endorsement of every New Jersey Democrat in Congress The Hill's Morning Report - Can Bernie recapture 2016 magic? MORE (D-Vt.), and supported by both Democrats like Sens. Dick Durbin Richard (Dick) Joseph DurbinKids confront Feinstein over Green New Deal Senate plots to avoid fall shutdown brawl Overnight Energy: Trump ends talks with California on car emissions | Dems face tough vote on Green New Deal | Climate PAC backing Inslee in possible 2020 run MORE (Ill.) and Tom Udall Thomas (Tom) Stewart UdallHillicon Valley: House panel takes on election security | DOJ watchdog eyes employee texts | Senate Dems urge regulators to block T-Mobile, Sprint deal | 'Romance scams' cost victims 3M in 2018 Dems urge regulators to reject T-Mobile, Sprint merger Dems wary of killing off filibuster MORE (N.M.), and Republicans such as John Boozman John Nichols BoozmanGOP senators read Pence riot act before shutdown votes On The Money: Shutdown Day 26 | Pelosi calls on Trump to delay State of the Union | Cites 'security concerns' | DHS chief says they can handle security | Waters lays out agenda | Senate rejects effort to block Trump on Russia sanctions Senate rejects effort to block Trump on Russia sanctions MORE (Ark.), Jerry Moran Gerald (Jerry) MoranThe Hill's Morning Report — Emergency declaration to test GOP loyalty to Trump The Hill's 12:30 Report: Trump escalates fight with NY Times The 10 GOP senators who may break with Trump on emergency MORE (Kan.) and Mike Enzi Michael (Mike) Bradley EnziWill Senate GOP try to pass a budget this year? Presumptive benefits to Blue Water Navy veterans are a major win If single payer were really a bargain, supporters like Rep. John Yarmuth would be upfront about its cost MORE (Wyo.), echo the important national interest in having American citizens travel, unimpeded by rules about a trip's intended purpose. Action is pending on this bill, but we are now in summer recess.
Lifting the 54-year-old embargo remains the other unfinished business. One bill, the Freedom to Export Act, introduced in February by Sen. Amy Klobuchar Amy Jean KlobucharMore than 60 former staffers defend Klobuchar as ‘a mentor and a friend’ Warren Buffett: I would support Bloomberg if he ran for president Warren vows to forgo 'fancy receptions or big money fundraisers' MORE (D-Minn.), with wide bipartisan co-sponsors like Sens. Debbie Stabenow Deborah (Debbie) Ann StabenowLand conservation tax incentives should inspire charitable giving, not loopholes Four names emerge for UN position: report Democrats brush off GOP 'trolling' over Green New Deal MORE (D-Mich.), Enzi, Flake, Leahy and Durbin, would eliminate the legal barriers to Americans doing business in Cuba. Klobuchar noted that "fifty years of the embargo have not secured our interests in Cuba and have disadvantaged American businesses by restricting commerce with a market of 11 million people just 90 miles from our shores. There are many issues in our relationship with Cuba that must be addressed, but this legislation to lift the embargo will begin to open up new opportunities for American companies, boost job creation and exports, and help improve the quality of life for the Cuban people." The U.S. Agriculture Coalition for Cuba is also endorsing this effort.
A second bill, the Cuba Trade Act of 2015, introduced last month in the House by Republican Tom Emmer Thomas (Tom) Earl EmmerElise Stefanik seeks to tackle GOP’s women ‘crisis’ ahead of 2020 GOP maps out early 2020 strategy to retake House Steve King faces new storm over remarks about white supremacy MORE of Minnesota, with bipartisan support from Democrat Kathy Castor Katherine (Kathy) Anne CastorDems face tough vote on Green New Deal Democrats’ Green New Deal leaves lots of room for improvement Dems downplay divisions over Green New Deal MORE of Florida, is also pending. As Emmer told USA Today when he introduced his legislation, "I believe this is in the best interests of the Cuban people. This isn't about the Cuban government — it's about people on the street looking for more opportunity and to improve their quality of life." A new Pew Research Center poll done in July showed that 72 percent of Americans favored an end to the embargo, up from 66 percent in January. In spite of public support for this next step, we will continue to see resistance to opening the door to economic exchanges by members who are still mired in the past and refuse to accept the wisdom of their own citizens about the foolishness of such trade restrictions.
Congress will also be called upon when Obama nominates an ambassador to Cuba. Any name put forward will also require the approval of the Senate, a body with some naysayers who are more than likely to block anyone put up by the administration. Having an ambassador would be further demonstration of our commitment to rebuilding trust and our mature relationship with a neighbor.
Full relations with any country depends on our ability to trade and develop commercial relationships that go beyond the people-to-people engagements that still form the core of exchange. But in the meantime, a very Cuban form of capitalism is already thriving as entrepreneurs have built many businesses that cater to tourists and locals alike. For example, Cubans see the latest movies and TV series taken off the Internet and sold to people by vendors who go door to door with USB sticks that clients can use to download. No pay per view, but pay for the service. Foodie tourists can partake of the wonderful culinary talent of restaurateurs in the renowned paladares, which serve as gastronomic laboratories showing off the bounties of tropical products — even if getting some of the basic goods requires creating your own local supply chain and having friends head to Miami or Cancun to do a quick run to Costco for supplies!
In Cuba, where the leadership still remains uncertain about how their socialist revolution will end, continued inaction to end the embargo only reinforces the regime's propaganda that all of Cuba's troubles arise from it. Ending the embargo would not only accelerate the change taking place amidst Cuba's entrepreneurial society, but would create more unease for Havana's leadership. Greater commerce, more access to the Internet and greater employment are the best ways to promote peaceful changes among a society of young, vibrant Cubans who dream of entry into the connected world of the 21st century. And moreover, who dream of the freedom that we so often take for granted.
But in this season of political uncertainty, where one of the main opponents of the Obama policy, Sen. Marco Rubio Marco Antonio RubioHillicon Valley: Senators urge Trump to bar Huawei products from electric grid | Ex-security officials condemn Trump emergency declaration | New malicious cyber tool found | Facebook faces questions on treatment of moderators Key senators say administration should ban Huawei tech in US electric grid Trump unleashing digital juggernaut ahead of 2020 MORE (R-Fla.), is himself a presidential contender, progress on Capitol Hill will be stymied by the onslaught of anti-Cuba campaign sound bites rather than actions that represent the will of the American people to move beyond a sad episode of our Cold War past.
Forman is a senior adviser at the Stimson Center and a scholar-in-residence at the School of International Service at American University in Washington.
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HAGERSTOWN, MD - The BlueClaws scored four times in the eighth inning, taking the lead on a Carlos Duran RBI single, and then held off a Hagerstown rally in topping the Suns 6-5 on Monday night at Municipal Stadium.
The BlueClaws four-run eighth inning started with a one-out single by Josh Tobias. With two outs, Damek Tomscha homered, his third of the year, to bring Lakewood within 4-3. Deivi Grullon doubled and Jan Hernandez entered as a pinch runner. Brendon Hayden doubled him in to tie the game, and Carlos Duran singled home Hayden to give the BlueClaws their first lead of the game.
All four runs in the eighth were charged to Mick Van Vossen, who fell to 1-2.
In the bottom of the ninth, Zach Morris allowed an RBI single to Ian Sagdal to make it a 6-5 game, but with runners on first and second, struck out Randy Encarnacion to end the game and pick up his third save of the year, all in the last five games.
The win for the BlueClaws (3-2/32-42) is their first win in Hagerstown (4-1/47-28), snapping a six-game losing streak at Municipal Stadium. It was just the third game this year that the BlueClaws won in which they trailed entering the eighth inning.
Josh Tobias had four hits for Lakewood and finished a home run shy of the cycle, singling in his last at bat. Wilson Garcia, Deivi Grullon, Brendon Hayden, and Carlos Duran all had two hits for the BlueClaws in the win.
Sutter McLoughlin (1-1), who threw two scoreless innings in relief, earned his first win as a BlueClaw.
Hagerstown opened the scoring with two runs in the third inning on a two-run home run by Telmito Agustin, his fourth home run of the season. He drove in Ian Sagdal, who had tripled to start the inning.
The BlueClaws got a run back in the fourth on an RBI single by Wilson Garcia but left runners at second and third to end the inning.
Then in the bottom of the fourth, Matthew Page's SAC fly made it 4-1 Suns. They added another run in the fifth when a throwing error on Emmanuel Marrero allowed Edwin Lora, who had doubled, to score from second when the BlueClaws threw behind him after a big turn around the bag, and threw it away, making it 4-1, though the lead would not last.
The series continues on Tuesday night at 7:05 pm. RHP Alberto Tirado (0-0) starts for Lakewood against RHP Jefry Rodriguez (6-2).
- BlueClaws -
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It’s true that even before the video’s release, an unprecedented array of party leaders had repudiated Trump. The list of names included 50 former senior Republican national-security officials (who declared he lacks “the character, values, and experience to be president”), assorted senators and governors, and even former President George H.W. Bush.
But after the Access Hollywood video surfaced, that flow became a torrent. On Saturday alone, more Republican leaders had renounced their party’s nominee than in any 24-hour period since the day in June 1912 when Theodore Roosevelt’s supporters bolted from the GOP convention after the re-nomination of President William Howard Taft. By Saturday’s end, nearly one-third of Republican senators and almost one-third of Republican governors had declared they would not vote for Trump. So did former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. House Speaker Paul Ryan only made the rubble bounce on Monday when he announced he would no longer defend or campaign for the nominee.
By comparison, only a handful of GOP senators rejected Barry Goldwater in 1964; former President Dwight Eisenhower, despite private doubts, publicly campaigned for him. Even in 1912, when Roosevelt launched an independent candidacy, the Republican leadership remained more unified behind Taft than their modern-day counterparts are behind Trump. University of Southern California communications professor Geoffrey Cowan, author of a rollicking recent book on the 1912 race, Let the People Rule, says only about a half-dozen GOP senators backed Roosevelt, and less than 15 percent of the convention delegates bolted with him. While some Progressive Party leaders joined Roosevelt’s insurgency, “the Progressives who controlled the Republican Party in their home states generally did not want to abandon the party,” Cowan says.
So there’s no question Trump is facing unprecedented friendly fire. But he faced dim odds of victory even before that opposition peaked. In general-election polls all year, Trump has almost never pushed his support past 42 percent. Though he has generated a visceral connection with voters who feel economically and culturally marginalized—particularly non-college-educated, non-urban, and evangelical whites—he has provoked intense antipathy from voters of color and millennials, and is underperforming any previous Republican nominee among college-educated whites, especially women. Even if Trump’s dismal polling this week is a temporary trough, that wall of resistance still looms.
Minorities, millennials, and white-collar whites have been the most likely groups of voters to reject Trump personally as unqualified and temperamentally unfit for the presidency. But in polls they are also most resistant to his insular agenda. Those voters display particular opposition to Trump’s most racially barbed proposals—including his plans for a Mexican border wall and the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, and his evolving proposals to bar Muslims from entering the United States—and are most inclined to view Trump as biased against women and minorities. As a new national survey from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs shows, they are also the most dubious about his protectionism on trade—and most likely to view greater global economic integration as benefiting both the country overall and their own living standards.
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The boy is thought to have been playing a game at the time (Picture: Getty/stock)
A teenager required life-saving surgery after his intestines were sucked out by a swimming pool filter.
It is understood the horrific accident took place when the 14-year-old became trapped in the purifier of a Spanish pool while playing a game, according to The Daily Mail.
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The strong force of the suction meant the boy was unable to free himself and his intestines were sucked out.
His injuries were so severe he required a four-hour operation to save his life.
The local boy had been taking part in a swimming lesson last Friday at a private leisure centre in Carpesa, Valencia.
The teenager is now recovering in La Fe hospital (Picture: Google Maps)
But according to witnesses, the accident took place at around 9.30pm, when he and some of the other children stayed behind after the lesson to play.
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It is thought the children were lifting the purifying vents off and sitting on them as part of a game.
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Once it became obvious the boy was in trouble, a trainer jumped into the water to save him, while shouting for the filter to be switched off.
Others also dived into the water to breath oxygen into the boys lungs, according to the newspaper Levante.
A witness told the paper: ‘He was only under the water and trapped for seconds until the purifier was turned off but it seemed like hours.’
The boy is believed to be out of danger (Picture: Getty/stock)
Emergency services managed to free the youngster and he was rushed to hospital, where doctors found he had ruptured his bowel.
The teenager, who is believed to be out of danger, is currently recovering from surgery in the intensive care unit of La Fe hospital, Valencia.
The Civil Guard said they were investigating the incident.
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David Silva is OUT of Sunday's Manchester derby with a knee injury and fears he could be facing three weeks on the sideline.
Silva has had a scan on his knee, which has revealed the Manchester City playmaker has suffered ligament damage that will force him to miss the Etihad clash with neighbours United.
The Spanish star had the scan at the private Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle, near Manchester, and champions City are assessing the results to determine how long he will be sidelined.
Silva, who was injured when he was fouled by Newcastle's Ryan Taylor, is also set to miss City's must-win Champions League clash at home to CSKA Moscow on Wednesday.
Silva's loss is a big blow to the Blues at a pivotal point of their campaign. He has started all but one of their games this season.
Manuel Pellegrini is under pressure going into the showdown with Manchester United and Joe Hart has defended him, claiming the players are to blame for City's slump.
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"We know where we are as a unit," said the England No 1. "We just need a few players, myself included, to step up and we'll be fine. We're big enough and ugly enough to know that this is football. We're prepared to fight through it and put it right."
Hart backed Pellegrini to turn City around without needing to resort to chucking teacups around the dressing room.
"It's a good thing to have a constant," he said. "We know what kind of a guy he is and what he expects from us. He's someone who doesn't have to smash the room up to show you they're disappointed.
"He's got his standards that we try to live up to, and if we don't were just as disappointed as he is. He knows his methods and we've proved in the past playing his way works."
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Clapper Apologizes For Answer On NSA's Data Collection
After telling Congress that the National Security Agency does not collect data on millions of Americans, National Intelligence Director James Clapper has issued an apology, telling Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein that his statement was "clearly erroneous."
Secret documents leaked by former NSA contract worker Edward Snowden have shown that the agency has been collecting metadata from phone records on millions of Americans. The documents also indicated an ability to conduct surveillance on Americans' Internet activities.
When Clapper was asked by Sen. Ron Wyden in March if the NSA collects "any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions of Americans," Clapper answered, "No sir," before adding, "Not wittingly."
After the revelations emerged about the NSA's activities, Wyden, a member of the Senate Intelligence panel, posted an explanation of that exchange, in which he said he sent the question to Clapper's office one day in advance, and also gave Clapper a chance to amend his answer after the public hearing had ended.
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Snowden has said that Clapper's statements on the NSA's abilities and practices played a role in motivating him to reveal the classified information. Here's what he said, as The Two-Way reported last month:
"It was seeing a continuing litany of lies from senior officials to Congress - and therefore the American people - and the realization that that Congress, specifically the Gang of Eight, wholly supported the lies that compelled me to act. Seeing someone in the position of James Clapper - the Director of National Intelligence - baldly lying to the public without repercussion is the evidence of a subverted democracy. The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed."
The letter of apology was first reported on Friday, by The Washington Post. It was released publicly today.
In a statement, Sen. Feinstein said, "I have received Director Clapper's letter and believe it speaks for itself. I have no further comment at this time."
Citing Wyden spokesman Tom Caiazza, the AP reports that "when Wyden staffers contacted Clapper's office shortly after the hearing, his staffers 'acknowledged that the statement was inaccurate but refused to correct the public record when given the opportunity.'"
Calazza says Wyden "is deeply troubled by a number of misleading statements senior officials have made about domestic surveillance in the past several years. He will continue pushing for an open and honest debate."
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West Bromwich Albion 0-4 West Ham United PL2
FT: So, with Blackburn drawing against Aston Villa, we leapfrog them into fifth, meaning we'll face Wolves away in the semi-final. Had Fulham not scored a late consolation at Wolves, we'd be making a third trip to Newcastle's St. James' Park...
FT: That's how it's done! West Ham qualify for the Premier League 2 play-offs in style!
90+3: Blackburn have drawn with Villa! So, barring a four-goal swing in this one in one minute, West Ham are in the play-offs!
89: As things stand, the Hammers will finish fourth and face Newcastle away from home! Fulham are 4-0 down to Wolves, meaning West Ham would overtake the Craven Cottage side on goal difference, also leapfrogging Blackburn who are still being held by Villa.
87: Great stuff from the West Brom keeper! Knoyle plays a dangerous ball forward for JHI, and the stopper comes out to head clear!
81: Final change for the Hammers. Joe Powell is introduced and off comes Holland, who's been fantastic.
78: A fifth was close, just there! Hannam gets forward again, taking Samuelsen's pass in his stride, and squaring for Hector-Ingram. A defender *just* gets there first, though.
77: That change sees Samuelsen drop into the No10 role and sub Hector-Ingram leads the line.
76: Diangana, who's put in a great shift, is replaced by Jahmal Hector-Ingram.
74: Assuming we've done the job at the Hawthorns, all eyes are on Blackburn-Villa. 0-0 still with 15 left to play...
69: GOOOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLL!!!! It's four!!!! What a beauty this one is! Nathan Holland is allowed time and space to cross and Samuelsen converts his second with a superb diving header. Brilliant!
68: Albion make their third and final change with Callum Morton replacing Tahvon Campbell.
62: A super ball from Browne picks out Samuelsen in the box, but the Norwegian attempts to head at goal when he probably had enough time to bring it down.
60: It remains goalless at Ewood Park...
58: Lovely piece of skill from Samuelsen forces McCourt to make the challenge and the full-back is booked after committing a foul.
54: It looks as though it's like-for-like, with Browne sitting alongside Makasi. Not Browne's natural position, but he's shown this season he's a handful anywhere!
53: Sub now for West Ham. Marcus Browne comes into the game for Sylvestre, who received a couple of minutes' treatment moments ago.
52: Not too much action the opening seven minutes of the second half. That will suit West Ham.
47: A much brighter start by the hosts to the second half. Edwards has some space to run into and curls narrowly over from the edge of the box.
46: We're back underway. Another 45 like the first will do nicely!
HT: It's goalless at half time between Blackburn Rovers and Aston Villa at Ewood Park, so the Hammers currently occupy the final Premier League 2 play-off spot.
HT: It doesn't get much better than that! A sensational first half performance from the Hammers has them three up at the break.
43: Sylvestre on the ball, 35 yards out...why not?! The Swiss' powerful drive is batted out by Palmer. Great effort!
42: Albion put together a decent move and McCourt's deep cross is dangerous, but is cleared. West Ham deal with the resulting corner when Spiegel claims comfortably.
40: It's so nearly four. Samuelsen gets in behind but is then halted by a last ditch tackle. It comes to Kemp who curls about an inch or two wide of the far stick.
37: Not long to go in this first half and it couldn't have gone any better. What a performance so far from Westley's boys!
32: IT'S THREE!!!! Nathan Holland gets on the scoresheet and what a strike! Dan Kemp is fouled 25 yards from goal and Holland lines up the free-kick, curling into the top corner. What a goal!!!
28: Chance and it's almost an U23s debut to remember for Reece Hannam! Kemp slips in the attacking full-back who side foots just wide of the far post. Close!
27: To keep you updated with things from Ewood Park, it's currently 0-0 between the hosts and Aston Villa. As things stand, the Hammers will qualify for the play-offs.
25: It's whipped in with plenty of pace, but nobody is on the end of it. Goal kick.
24: Another free-kick in a dangerous area for the Hammers. Holland to take from the left...
23: What a start this has been by West Ham. West Brom were slow out the blocks and they've paid for it. It's been a masterclass by the visitors so far.
17: GOOOOALLL and it's two!!! Martin Samuelsen races down the right, cuts in onto his left and fires low under the keeper! A brilliant break and West Ham have some breathing space!
13: What a save that is! Raphael Spiegel stops Tulloch from point-blank range, sticking out a smart right leg. The cross in was flicked by Dec Rice, taking it away from debutant Reece Hannam and Tulloch found himself in a great position. Spiegel denies.
11: The lead looks to have given Terry Westley's men a great deal of confidence. The youngsters haven't been in the best of form but since taking the lead, they've controlled possession and look comfortable so far. Start as you mean to go on...
8: Well held. Spiegel saves with ease after Bradley struck with power from 25 yards.
6: West Brom go forward for the first time and win a set-piece in a good area, but Edwards lashes well over from the dead ball. No danger.
3: GOOOOOALLLLLLLL!!!!! We lead and it's Dan Kemp with the goal! Grady Diangana had a free-kick blocked by the wall and as it ballooned up in the air, the midfielder won his header and Kemp raced clear to finish with his right foot. Get in there!
2: It's been a very fast start from the Hammers and Dan Kemp has already got in behind on the right hand side. His dangerous cross was palmed away by Palmer - ironically - and West Brom clear though.
1: Tonight's mission is underway! COYI!
6:45pm: It's a sunny but cool evening in the midlands this evening and the Hammers are just about to head back into the dressing for one last chat with manager Terry Westley before they begin tonight's massive mission.
6:15pm: You can see how tight things are in the table below. Fulham have all but done enough in terms of their play-off spot, leaving just one more up for grabs. Blackburn face Villa, with both hoping for a win to get fifth-place, but the Hammers can also still finish there themselves.
West Bromwich Albion: Palmer, Melbourne, McCourt (Wilding 63), Chambers, Howkins, O'Shea, Tulloch (Soleman 46), Bradley, Francis, Edwards, Campbell (Morton 68).
Subs not used: Pierce, House.
Bookings: McCourt 58, Bradley 75
PL2: Spiegel, Knoyle, Rice, Akinola, Hannam, Makasi, Sylvestre (Browne 53), Kemp, Diangana (Hector-Ingram 76), Holland (Powell 81), Samuelsen.
Subs not used: Forde, Wells.
Goals: Kemp 3, Samuelsen 17, 69, Holland 32
6pm: Good evening! We take on West Bromwich Albion in a crucial final Premier League 2 clash this evening at the Hawthorns as we chase the final play-off spot in the division. Tonight, we hope Blackburn Rovers drop points when they take on Aston Villa and we take all three points away from the midlands to qualify for the top five and have a stab at promotion. It's a huge evening. Team news to follow shortly.
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Thin privilege is being able to go to the doctor without him thinking you’re unhealthy for your weight.
Earlier yesterday, I was in the doc’s office. After the regular questions, checkup things (like him listening to my heart and looking in my ears…) He asked me to get on the scale. I was uncomfortable with this and said that I didn’t want to.
At this point he was trying really hard to be patient with me I could tell. He told me “I understand if you’re uncomfortable, but weight is detrimental to your health and it could really help me understand any possible health problems you have.”
So just because I was fat, I was unhealthy already? Because I was fat you wanted to humuliate me even more by checking how fat I really am?! I was so upset and furious. Tears were springing to my eyes and I could feel my face getting red from the embarassment.
He tried to reassure me that it wasn’t really about my weight, he just needed to check. What could you possibly check?! You already know I’m not freakin skinny so what?!
I’ve never been more ashamed of my body. As I stormed out I heard ‘tsk tsk’ from the doctor. Freakin tool.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A divided Supreme Court has put off the start of early voting in Ohio, which had been set to begin Tuesday.
The justices' order by a 5-4 vote Monday granted a request from state officials, who have been trying to trim the number of days for early voting and restrict weekend and evening hours.
The moves prompted a lawsuit from black churches and civil rights groups that the new rules would make it difficult for residents to vote, and disproportionately affect low-income and black voters.
Early voting in the swing state now will start on Oct. 7, under a state law pushed by Republican lawmakers.
A federal judge had blocked the law and also ordered Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted to set additional times that included evening hours.
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Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law Friday a measure allowing some religious employers to opt out of covering prescription contraceptives as part of their health-care plans.
House Bill 2625 applies only to "religiously affiliated" employers, which are defined as non-profit groups that primarily employ and serve individuals of the same religion or religiously motivated organizations with articles of incorporation clearly stating that religious beliefs are central to the organization's operating principles.
The original version of the bill would have allowed any employer to opt out, but it was narrowed to get enough legislative support.
Opponents said the law attacks a woman's right to make her own health-care choices. Brewer said the law is about religious freedom.
"Mandating that a religious institution provide a service in direct contradiction with its faith would represent an obvious encroachment upon the First Amendment," she said in a news release.
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A number of independent journalists have been targeted by St. Louis cops on a forum where law enforcement officers communicate. One user named “Thugwatcher” is an alleged officer in St. Louis who made a post titled “Protestors” (since removed) that linked to 5 live-streamers that he claimed were “protest leaders” in Ferguson.
Along with the links was a message that read:
“Below are the handles of some of the primary leaders of the protest. They watch us. We should watch them…”
Among the journalists listed in his post was Jon Ziegler AKA Rebelutionary Z, a live correspondent for The Free Thought Project.
Most of the comments on the board associated these journalists with rioters and terrorists, and the word “thug” was thrown around commonly to describe anyone who disagreed with the police.
One poster by the name of Jimmy Olsen attempted to correct the other officers, saying that “These livestreamers are by no means “leaders” — they are far from that! Some of them do not reside in St. Louis and have traveled here from as far as California to participate in “the movement.” Their intention is to record their activity and document the protesters’ interactions with law enforcement.”
His comments were largely ignored by the majority of the posters, some of whom were asking for the names, addresses and license numbers of both livestreamers and protesters.
Some of the people posting on the board claiming to be police had an intricate knowledge of the personal lives of journalists and protesters, including personal details about their lives, homes, families and children.
It seems that many police in the Ferguson area are paying close attention to independent journalists, and this is likely true to a lesser degree across the country.
At one point during his live-streaming coverage in Ferguson, our correspondent Rebelutionary Z was followed and detained by police. It would not be surprising if he was actually targeted for his journalism.
He was also pepper sprayed while filming a violent arrest of a peaceful protester by police.
#ferguson violent arrest #fergusonoctober VIDEO A video posted by Luke Rudkowski (@lukewearechange) on Oct 10, 2014 at 11:54pm PDT
https://twitter.com/KNationStB/status/521238607223595008
Jon Ziegler has made the following statement in response to being labeled as an organizer:
“The police have targeted livestreamers both on their blog and in the streets. They label me a “leader” and “instigator” but all I do is point the camera and give recaps of events. I don’t plan-I don’t chant-I don’t hold a sign. I DO show cops reactions live, and I believe that’s what they are afraid of. Livestreamers have gotten 3 cops suspended since Ferguson began, and for that I get maced, followed by cops and threatened online. However, what this has exposed about the underlying mindset of the American cop is priceless. We’re not dealing with a few bad apples here, but rather a systemic power issue.”
The post on the Cop Talk forum has since been removed however, thanks to Dylan over at Revolution-new.com we’ve obtained screen capped images of all of these comments. Below are some of these exchanges.
One of the comments on the forum refers to the people exposing this police brutality as a bunch of “nut jobs” with “Shit……leaking out of their pants.” This is how some of the police feel about the protesters and the ones covering the protests. With this mindset is it any wonder that they act the way they do?
John Vibes is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture and the drug war. In addition to his writing and activist work he is also the owner of a successful music promotion company. In 2013, he became one of the organizers of the Free Your Mind Conference, which features top caliber speakers and whistle-blowers from all over the world. You can contact him and stay connected to his work at his Facebook page. You can find his 65 chapter Book entitled “Alchemy of the Timeless Renaissance” at bookpatch.com.
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Croquet at the Olympics
There was only ever one croquet competition in Olympic Games history, held in 1900 in Paris. France won all events, which is not surprising as mostly French competitors took part. There were three women competing, but they did not win any medals. These were some of the first women to take part in the Olympic Games.
This tournament was also not a success with the spectators. Only one fan watched the events - an Englishman who had traveled from Nice especially for the occasion. No wonder we have not seen this event at the Olympics again.
Results
One Ball Singles: Aumoitte (1st) John (2nd) Waydeliche (3rd), all from France. Aumoitte beat John 21-15 in the final
Aumoitte (1st) John (2nd) Waydeliche (3rd), all from France. Aumoitte beat John 21-15 in the final Doubles : Aumoitte & John, France. No silver or bronze awarded
: Aumoitte & John, France. No silver or bronze awarded Singles - Two Balls: Waydelich (1st) Vignerot (2nd) Sautereau (3rd), all from France
Waydelich (1st) Vignerot (2nd) Sautereau (3rd), all from France Singles Handicap - Two Balls: Vignerot, France
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Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank said Wednesday that he hopes the new whiskey distillery he's building in South Baltimore will jump-start the transformation of the area, where he has amassed hundreds of acres in recent years.
The Sagamore Spirit distillery, a four-building complex being built on East Cromwell Street, is expected to draw about 100,000 visitors annually for tours and tastings once it opens in 2016. The project marks the first new buildings to be constructed on Plank's Port Covington properties, a former rail yard where officials have long hoped to see economic development.
"Port Covington was this old industrial land, and the idea was, how do we make it cool? How do we make coming over here a great thing?" Plank said Wednesday at the distillery's ceremonial groundbreaking. "What better than whiskey?"
Plank, who has spent more than $100 million in the last 31/2 years assembling more than 200 acres in South Baltimore, plans to build a new campus for Under Armour in the area, as well as create other mixed-use projects.
Two building renovations are already underway, and glimpses of future plans suggest a mix of buildings and waterfront parks with other improvements that would mark a major transformation.
When Plank broached the idea of building a distillery in Port Covington, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said she thought he was crazy.
But by Wednesday, when she joined Plank and dozens of other state and local politicians at the groundbreaking, she had come around.
"There's a fine line between nuts and genius, and you're teetering on that genius because you're doing amazing, amazing work," Rawlings-Blake said. "I want to acknowledge you ... for your vision and your tenacity to believe that something like this is possible."
The distillery complex, located at 301 E. Cromwell St., not far from the cruise ship terminal, is to include a restaurant and event space, a 22,000-square-foot distillery, a 27,000-square-foot processing center and a 120-foot-high water tower, holding water brought from Plank's Sagamore Farm, a horse breeding facility in Baltimore County.
Details on the whiskey operation itself were scarce.
Sagamore representatives declined to say how much it is costing to get the 5-acre project up and running, how many bottles they plan to produce a year or how many people they expect to employ. Construction is expected to create about 600 jobs.
Industry observers said they expect the company to start as one of the bigger "craft" distillers, but they believe Plank and co-founder Bill McDermond — a teenage friend who previously worked at Under Armour — have sizable ambitions. Already, the 10-person Sagamore Spirit team includes a former distillery manager for Seagram's.
"I know he wants to be a big company," said Dave Pickerell, a master distiller and senior engineer at the Oak View Spirits consulting firm who works with distillery startups and spoke to Plank during Sagamore's early planning days. "He didn't get into the business to do something small."
The first bottles of Sagamore Spirit — an 83-proof rye — are expected to hit shelves next year after several years of aging. The brand is designed to evoke and resuscitate Maryland's tradition of rye production.
The launch coincides with a resurgence in rye's popularity. Production has grown more than 500 percent since 2009, to about 561,000 cases last year, or about $300 million in retail sales, according to a recent analysis by the Distilled Spirits Council.
The number of small distillers is growing too. There are just under 800 in the country today, though they remain a small percentage of the spirits market — just 2 percent of overall sales last year, according to the American Craft Spirits Association.
The growth is creating lots of competition for big and small players, said Alexandra Sklansky, a spokeswoman for the American Craft Spirits Association.
"It will be interesting over the course of the next 10 years," she said. "I think we will see continued growth, but I think some of the craft distilleries that have emerged won't stick around. ... At the end of the day, there's only so much shelf space available at the liquor store."
Maryland is home to about 17 distillers, according to a federal directory, including at least two others in Baltimore.
"We're excited that Kevin Plank is getting into the business," said Max Lents, CEO of the Baltimore Whiskey Company, which expects to start operations at its Sisson Street location next week. "There's more than enough room for everybody at this point. … And somebody with his sort of publicity power bringing attention to Maryland spirits is going to be good for all of us little guys."
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Former Newcastle Knights star Jarrod Mullen has launched a new career, signing a five-year partnership deal with new property investment company Luxland. Mullen has begun a four-year suspension for taking a banned steroid, but he has wasted little time in pursuing a new profession, teaming up with Luxland founder and chief executive Zah Azmi and co-owner Dane Crawford. The company lists an address in Sydney but specialises in property investment and development in Newcastle and the Central Coast. Mullen, 30, appears on the front cover of the first edition of the group’s quarterly Future magazine. A company spokesman said Mullen would act as an ambassador, liaise with the firm’s partners and clients, including some of his former rugby league colleagues, and invest in his own projects. “Obviously I engage with footballers who are earning a good income and don’t know where to go next,” Mullen is quoted as saying in the magazine. “I resonate with that demographic as I am from the same background. My goal is to help as many players as I can by education and sharing my experience and knowledge of the success of property investment.” Mullen is no stranger to property. He bought a one-bedroom unit in Honeysuckle for $482,500 in 2006 and sold it recently for $640,000. He has just completed an extensive renovation of his house at Merewether. “I am looking at trying my hand at property development as it was always the plan for when I finish up playing football,” he told the magazine. “I’m 30 years old and always knew my time would be coming to an end around this age. So preparation for the next chapter in my life was critical.”
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Story highlights New trend in China: wearing plastic sprout hair clips
It's unclear who started the fashion
Sociologist says trend "enriches mundane life" and meaning doesn't matter
Beijing (CNN) Sprouts, grass, and flowers are blossoming from Chinese people's heads -- and nobody quite knows why.
We're referring, of course, to sprout hair clips -- a brand new Chinese fashion fad that seems to have grown organically out of the country's tourist spots, where men and women of all ages can be seen rocking the fake plastic plants.
In Nanluoguxiang, an ancient stone lane in Beijing, vendors selling the clips are swarmed by excited tourists, who can't wait to take selfies with their new accessories.
Yet nobody seems to know where the trend is originated from, according to an informal CNN street survey.
Zhou Delai, a vendor holding a tray full of clips, told CNN the trend started in Beijing about two weeks ago. He says he sells 200 clips every three to four hours.
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A man passes with an umbrella in front of the United Nations Headquarters in New York, March 24, 2008. REUTERS/Mike Segar
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations is encouraging its New York staff to trade wool business suits for cooler attire this summer so the organization can slash air conditioning costs and help the environment.
“There is going to be a relaxing of the dress protocols and people are being encouraged to wear lighter clothing,” said U.S. architect Michael Adlerstein, who is overseeing a $1.8 billion renovation of the 60-year-old U.N. skyscraper.
Adlerstein said about $100,000 would be saved by turning the thermostats up 5 degrees to 77 Fahrenheit (25 Celsius) in the U.N. secretariat building and to 75 F (24 C) in conference rooms, during a trial run in the scorching month of August.
It would also help the environment in New York City, he said. About 4,400 million pounds of steam — equivalent to several hundred tons of carbon dioxide — would be saved by reducing air conditioning at the landmark midtown Manhattan building.
He said staff were being encouraged to shed their trademark dark suits and switch to lighter business casual clothing. Adlerstein sported a white shirt with neither jacket nor tie as he addressed reporters at U.N. headquarters.
“I don’t want to get involved in the fashion police of determining exactly what people can wear, but the encouragement of business casual is where we are going,” he said.
If the trial is a success, thermostats will be turned down 5 degrees in winter. The year-round changes could save up to $1 million annually, Adlerstein said.
Japanese diplomats will likely have an easy time making the transition. In 2005, Japan launched a “Cool Biz” campaign encouraging people to dress down in summer to reduce air conditioning use and greenhouse gas emissions.
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On Thursday, Condé Nast released Vogue Cover Exclusive for the iPad. This app is the first iPad-entry for the Vogue brand in North America (British Vogue and Japanese Vogue already have apps).
The $0.99 app [iTunes link] isn't the full issue of Vogue magazine; instead, Vogue Cover Exclusive features the full cover story and additional images, video clips and audio. Vogue says it won't be producing the app every month but will be releasing new versions when the content is appropriate.
The inaugural issue features Lady Gaga in all her Gaga-glory. Beyond the cover story and photographs, the app also includes a behind-the-scenes video from the cover shoot and a set of audio diaries from the author of the piece.
The app, like some of Condé Nast's other titles, uses the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite as its base. Users of the Wired iPad app will find themselves at home with the layout.
Because this is an app that is focused on the cover story and cover subject, photography is an important aspect of the experience. Fortunately, the app features great photography that has been optimized for landscape and portrait viewing.
The notable additional content in the app is the inclusion of audio diaries from Jonathan Van Meter. These diaries add context to the story and the interview process that truly give an additional sense of value in the app itself.
We think this is an interesting approach to offering digital publication content. We expect that Vogue will offer its own full-version magazine app for iPad, but in the interim, a lower-priced preview focused primarily on the content of the cover is a provocative monetization play. In the future, we would like to see Vogue utilize more exclusive content — especially by way of video — to make the $0.99 purchase more enticing.
What do you think of bite-sized iPad-focused magazine previews? Let us know.
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‘Most blessed Father,’ five international auditors wrote to Pope Francis on 27 June 2013, three months into his papacy, ‘there is an almost total lack of clarity in the accounts of both the Holy See and the Governorate.’ The letter goes on:
This lack of clarity makes it impossible to establish a proper estimate of the real financial position of the Vatican, whether as a whole or with regard to the single elements of which it is made up. It also means that no one can really consider themselves responsible for its financial management. All we know is that the data we examined indicates a seriously negative trend and we deeply suspect that the Vatican as a whole has a serious structural deficit.
Six days later the letter, which continues with some scathing criticism of the Curia’s administrators, was part of the documentation for an emergency meeting addressed by Pope Francis himself. In a move some complain is typical of his style of management, he used the occasion not to solicit advice, but to announce a decision he had already taken: the formation of an ad hoc committee to study the economic and administrative structure of the Vatican. Dubbed ‘Cosea’, the committee would have eight members, one of whom, Jean-Baptiste de Franssu (52, French), is now president of IOR, the Vatican bank, while another, Monsignor Lucio Balda (55, Spanish), is in a prison cell charged with leaking the documents that form the basis for the two books under review.
Cosea lasted ten months, fighting an increasingly poisonous battle with the various elements of the Curia as it struggled to obtain the information that might afford a clearer picture of what goes on in the Vatican. Since the Curia was overwhelmingly Italian and clerical while seven of the eight-member Cosea were foreigners and five of them laypersons, misunderstandings were inevitable. To make matters worse, the one Italian on the commission was also the only woman (it’s surprising there was a woman at all), and probably the least likely to get on with the elderly cardinals and monsignors. Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui, born in Calabria to an Italian mother and a Frenchman of Moroccan descent, was just thirty at the time of her appointment, a PR expert with a degree in law and a remarkable ability for making influential friends. Pope Francis said recently that he isn’t quite sure how she came to be on the commission, but believes she was recommended by Monsignor Balda. Chaouqui is now charged along with Balda of leaking information to journalists, while the Vatican magistrates accusing her of this have made public some embarrassingly compromising text messages that the two exchanged while serving on the commission. ‘You need to fuck,’ Chaouqui writes in one message. And in another: ‘You should try my cousin. She’s squishy.’ It would be hard to imagine a better set-up for a soap opera.
And harder still to work out from these two books whether the Vatican really is on the brink of bankruptcy or, on the contrary, swimming in cash. Emiliano Fittipaldi’s Avarizia opens with a description of an expensive lunch with two unnamed monsignors who have brought along a carload of documents but forgotten their wallets. Acting, they say, in support of the pope’s reforming mission, the clerics give Fittipaldi a list of all the things they feel the world and the pope should know about greed and corruption in the Vatican, a list that reads like an informal index to the book: certain cardinals’ wild spending on their lavish apartments; the hijacking of offerings to the poor for quite other ends; the tendency of priests and nuns to stash away any money that comes their way in tax havens; the difficulty getting IOR and Apsa (the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, which administers the Vatican’s properties and investments) to conform to international anti-money-laundering regulations; the never-ending habit of giving jobs to relatives and friends even when there is no work to do; the transformation of the process of canonisation into a lucrative business; the exploitation of the Vatican’s tax-free status to sell cheap cigarettes, petrol, clothes and electronic goods to Italian citizens; the Curia’s investments in Exxon, Dow chemicals and other hardly virtuous multinationals etc, etc.
Opening every chapter with a stern quotation – ‘Thou shalt not store up treasures on earth,’ ‘Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house’ – Fittipaldi explores these scandals one by one, quoting generously from the documents in his possession, a number of which he presents as facsimiles for the sake of authenticity. The anecdotes are endless: the monsignor who appropriates a room from the adjacent apartment of a poorer priest simply by knocking down the party wall while the other man is in hospital; the diplomat priest who takes advantage of the diplomatic bag to carry mafia money across the Swiss border; the organisation Propaganda Fide, instituted to evangelise the world, that spends relatively little on this mission while owning almost a thousand valuable properties in and around Rome, many of them rented way below market price to friends and favourites.
It is striking how many Catholic organisations seem to do a whole range of lucrative things they were never set up to do, while still enjoying tax exemption as religious institutions. When priests in Salerno were granted €2.3 million of public money to build an orphanage in a depressed urban area, they built a luxury hotel instead. Found guilty of appropriating funds under false pretences in 2012, the archbishop of Salerno avoided punishment when the crime lapsed under the statute of limitations before his appeal could be heard. Others went to jail.
Overall, however, it is Fittipaldi’s figures rather than his anecdotes that are most fascinating. For example, aside from its vast properties, four major hospitals and several universities, the Vatican possesses stocks and shares worth between €8 and €9 billion (Fittipaldi gives a map of its investments around the world). Real estate the Church owns in Italy is deliberately undervalued in order to lower property taxes (auditors estimated the property was worth four times the sums declared). Thanks to the fiscal law known as ‘otto per mille’, which allows Italian citizens to assign 0.8 per cent of income tax to a church of their choice, the Vatican receives about a billion euros a year in state aid (80 per cent of the total fund). Although the €40 million advertising campaign aimed at persuading taxpayers to opt for the Catholic Church focuses on its humanitarian work in the Third World, only 23 per cent of the money is spent on charity work, and the Church isn’t obliged to offer any public account of how it spends the money. Despite the success of its extraordinary museums (€58 million in profits in 2011), the Vatican earns more through the handful of ordinary shops that operate in its tiny territory: a petrol station, a pharmacy, a tobacconist’s, a supermarket (which sells electronic goods and clothes). According to treaty agreements between Italy and the Vatican, purchases at these shops are restricted to card-holding citizens of the Vatican (fewer than five hundred people), residents (another three hundred) and employees (2800). Yet the pharmacy alone turns over around €40 million a year, many times more than a regular Italian pharmacy. Sales figures from the other shops suggest that the Vatican’s citizens, mostly priests and nuns, smoke, drink and drive far more than any other population worldwide. In short, the restrictions are not respected: the shops in fact serve around 41,000 customers and the Italian state simply accepts the considerable loss in tax revenue. As the auditors commented, the income is welcome, but being responsible for unloading tax-free cigarettes on the Romans doesn’t help the Vatican’s image.
Fittipaldi’s most curious section covers the process of sanctification, his most damaging the use of the so-called Obolo di San Pietro. In 1588 Pope Sixtus introduced a strict series of hurdles that have to be got over if a dead person is to be beatified and eventually canonised: in particular, one miracle has to be verified for beatification, two for canonisation. The case for sanctification has to be presented by a lawyer, or ‘postulator’, certified by the Vatican. Miracles – overwhelmingly healings – have to be demonstrated to be ‘true’ by having experts testify to the lack of any possible scientific explanation; all documentation, running in some cases to thousands of pages, has to be presented, and indeed published in Latin.
In an attempt to keep the tradition alive, John Paul II encouraged communities to put forward candidates for sanctification. The 482 new saints announced during his long pontificate amounted to almost a quarter of all those canonised in the previous five hundred years. At present some three thousand cases are pending; each one takes many years and requires those proposing a candidate to choose a postulator and open a line of credit at the Vatican bank. The process will not reach a positive conclusion without hundreds of thousands of euros changing hands. Fittipaldi describes the case of the American TV preacher Fulton John Sheen, who died in 1979, which has been handled by the most prolific postulator, Andrea Ambrosi. Proceedings began in 2002 but Fittipaldi only has figures for 2008-13, during which time Sheen’s supporters spent more than €332,000, most of it going into Ambrosi’s pocket. ‘Perhaps it’s just coincidence,’ Fittipaldi remarks, ‘but the bills are always higher for the richer American churches.’ In one year translation expenses were €16,000 and publishing expenses €52,000 (Ambrosi owns a controlling stake in the Vatican publishing house that holds a monopoly on printing the postulators’ findings); in 2011 a two-man research trip to the US cost €13,000. Pope Francis has since warned Ambrosi to tighten his belt, while Sheen remains as yet unbeatified and his supporters frustrated.
The Obolo di San Pietro, or Peter’s Pence, is a specific offering made to the pope by Catholics worldwide to support the Church’s mission in the world, specifically to assist the poor and needy. ‘The purpose of the Peter’s Pence Collection,’ the website of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops claims, ‘is to provide the Holy Father with the financial means to respond to those who are suffering as a result of war, oppression, natural disaster and disease.’ In 2013 the offering amounted to €78 million, of which, according to Fittipaldi’s documents, very little went to the poor, while a Peter’s Pence account in the Vatican bank holds €378 million (not cited on the Vatican’s balance sheet). Examining the situation, Moneyval, the Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures, concluded that most of the money that left the account ‘went on ordinary and extraordinary expenses of the Roman Curia’s various departments and institutions’. In fact, in 2013 running costs left the Vatican with a deficit of €77 million, which had to be covered from somewhere.
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While Fittipaldi’s book deals in a rather fragmented way with these embarrassments, always acknowledging that Pope Francis appears determined to put the house in order, Gianluigi Nuzzi seeks to offer a narrative of the present papacy as a Via Crucis, the title of his book as it originally appeared in Italian. As well as documents, he has audio recordings of Cosea’s many meetings and even of the July 2013 meeting in which the pope announced its formation. Clearly someone had a recording device in his pocket. ‘There have been too many new jobs,’ Francis insists. ‘Something’s not right.’ He refers to the fact that many suppliers’ invoices are far higher than the original quote, and insists that in these cases ‘You don’t pay! … Even if it means putting the person asking in an embarrassing position, you don’t pay. Lord have mercy, you don’t pay.’ The emphatic, repetitive style, as if speaking to children, is recognisably the one we hear more or less daily on Italian radio and TV. In fact, the pope has made no attempt to deny that the contents of Nuzzi’s book are true, simply announcing to the faithful that they need not worry because he was already aware of these problems and well on the way to resolving them. However, the compelling logic of Merchants in the Temple is that the leaks occurred precisely because someone no longer believes that resistance to the pope’s reforms can be overcome, or not without the aid of a huge public scandal.
The shenanigans Nuzzi recounts are many and complicated, but Pope Francis’s strategy is simple enough. Instead of replacing key personnel in the Vatican’s governing institutions, he has attempted to drain those institutions of power by calling in outside auditors and setting up new bodies to monitor them. In 2014 he created a new super-ministry for the economy as well as a new organisation, Vatican Asset Management, to handle all investments. On the evidence of the leaked documents, this approach has generated more heat than light and cost a great deal of money; the old institutions have successfully hung on to most of their power, the new bodies have not been as virtuous as hoped, and mud has been flung in all directions. Francis seems particularly poor at choosing his collaborators. The Australian cardinal George Pell, given the task of running the new ministry, had been in trouble on numerous occasions as archbishop of Melbourne for allegedly protecting paedophile priests, and has himself faced charges of paedophilia. How wise was it to appoint a man who was such an easy target for those he was supposed to discipline? And how wise was it of Pell to bring in a friend and adviser from Sydney on a salary of €15,000 a month tax free, spending €47,000 on furniture for his apartment, whose €2900 a month rent the Vatican was to pay?
Nuzzi quotes from his documents even more liberally than Fittipaldi. Readers eager to know how to combine sycophancy with stonewalling will enjoy the letters in which Apsa interminably fobs off Cosea. Those who like to cultivate feelings of indignation will be pleasantly aghast to read the agreement between the Governorate (responsible for the day-to-day running of the Vatican) and Philip Morris in which the former contracts to do some merchandising for the latter. Connoisseurs of the grotesque will warm to the letter written by the secretary of the Governorate to Pell, soon after he was appointed to head the new super-ministry with a brief to cut spending and make the whole Vatican outfit more serious:
Most Reverend Eminence, first of all may I beg you to accept my warmest congratulations for your appointment as Secretary for the Economy. Meantime, I am pleased to inform your eminence that the most eminent cardinals are eligible for the following concessions: the purchase of groceries in quantities compatible with your family requirements … at a discount of 15 per cent; a discount of 20 per cent on the list price [already tax free] of up to 200 packs of cigarettes of the 500 packs allowed on a monthly basis; a discount of 20 per cent on the list price of clothing items; an allowance of 400 litres of petrol on the following terms: a) 100 litres paid by the Vatican; b) 300 litres at a discount of 15 per cent on presentation of Cardinal Vouchers (the white ones), to be used inside the Holy See … While I remain at your service for every eventual elucidation, I am pleased to take this opportunity to assure you, in line with my most devoted respect for Your Most Reverend Eminence, that I remain your most devoted Fernando Vérgez Alzaga.
If this is wonderfully Malvolio-esque, Nuzzi’s style in presenting his material is tiresomely sensationalist. Events are pronounced ‘unspeakable’ when everyone is speaking of them, ‘dramatic’ when they are played out on a daily basis, ‘unimaginable’ when it is all too easy to imagine them, indeed hard to imagine anything else. However, this has the advantage of making the auditors’ reports, quoted at length in footnotes, more attractive in their sobriety. Oddly, it is the auditors who give profundity to the book. It is they who suggest that it is inappropriate for a religious institution to be taking advantage of its tax-free status to attract Rome’s bargain hunters and hence that its shops should be closed; they who propose that the Vatican introduce a fiscal system in line with Italy’s in order to eliminate embarrassing temptations. Above all they are the ones who point to the need to make a sharp distinction between jobs for the laity and jobs for priests; it makes no sense, they observe, to encourage someone to take ordination so as to follow a career in banking.
This appeal for clarity and proper demarcation goes to the heart of the Vatican’s peculiar status as both religious institution and political state. All the scandals Nuzzi and Fittipaldi list spring from the habit of blurring the temporal and the spiritual, of assuming that the awarding of sainthood requires a costly bureaucratic procedure, that priests can determine whether, in the eyes of God, a marriage has really been a marriage, or quantify penitence for every sin in the confession box. Pope Francis seems resolutely opposed to this accountant’s version of Christianity and the complacent, calculating mindset it invites. Sometimes ‘a completely orthodox manner of speaking’, he remarks in his Evangelii Gaudium, ‘does not correspond to the real Gospel of Christ’. Or again: ‘I prefer a Church that is battered, wounded, soiled, because it has been out there in the streets, rather than one that is sick because it has withdrawn in comfortable attachment to certain certainties.’
Not everyone is happy with this line. L’Espresso’s astute and influential Vaticanist, Sandro Magister, who is very much aligned with the old guard of the Italian Church, complains that in organising the present jubilee (a year in which forgiveness of sins is more generously available), the pope has entirely ignored the doctrine of purgatory and indulgences, though it is the hope for a plenary indulgence that has always spurred the faithful to come to the jubilee and pass through Rome’s four Holy Doors, opened only on these occasions. In fact attendance at the present jubilee is well down from John Paul II’s jubilee in 2000, something that a Vatican expert in Il Fatto Quotidiano attributes to the deliberate dissociation between Pope Francis and the Italian Church, such that he is immensely popular worldwide while church attendance in Italy continues to fall. The implication is that it was precisely the formal accountancy of traditional religious practice, the conviction that strict observance would be followed by rewards, that kept many Italians in church.
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Those with a more international vision point out that for the first time Pope Francis allowed for the opening of so-called Holy Doors all over the world, thus removing the ‘need’ for a pilgrimage to Rome. Indeed, he inaugurated the jubilee in the Central African Republic, avoided any mention of indulgence and insisted instead on the nobler quality of mercy, which, we know, is ‘not strain’d’ by any calculation. And while in Europe church attendance dwindles and the number of priests has fallen 9 per cent in ten years, in Asia, Africa and South America the trend is upwards. As the writer Manlio Graziano has observed, the ‘charismatic shift’ Pope Francis is seeking to impress on the Church comes from his South American experience; his insistence on the ‘fruits of the spirit’ – joy, mercy, love, peace, benevolence, goodness, mildness – is essentially taken from the manner of the evangelical church, and was adopted in South America in a context of competition with the evangelicals for the hearts of the people.
All this may be part of a general strategy of internationalisation, and in particular an attempt to reduce the influence of the Italian Church, held responsible for much of the corruption in the Vatican, but the fact remains that the Vatican is in Rome, and that as long as the Church hangs on to this handkerchief of temporal power, it is tied to Rome and locked into Italy and the Italian mindset, which is notoriously resistant to evangelical fervour, or indeed any spirituality cut loose from bureaucracy, which remains one of the country’s great passions. In this regard, Sandro Magister sees the pope’s revolutionary position on marriage as a test case for the success of his papacy. The pope has of course insisted on the sacredness of marriage, and continues to abhor divorce, but he has also publicly claimed that at least half the marriages celebrated in the Catholic Church are invalid and would be better annulled. In line with his belief that many are suffering in the prison of relationships that are not ‘real marriages’, he has proposed an extreme and ‘merciful’ liberalisation of the present procedure for annulment such that if both partners declare that the marriage never really was a marriage, then no further evidence is required. As Magister points out, aside from the obvious snub of publishing these proposals immediately before the General Synod of Bishops met to discuss the family in the modern world in October 2015, this begins to look very like secular divorce and risks causing huge confusion among the faithful as to what constitutes a marriage and proper behaviour. There is also the question of whether the Italian state would continue to recognise annulments if the rules governing them were to change so radically.
Francesca Chaouqui is accused of among other things having tried to use her influence with the owner of L’Espresso to have Magister taken off the pope’s case. Since part of her job on Cosea was to suggest how to reform the Vatican’s media outlets (in 2010 Vatican Radio lost €26 million, while its newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, which employs 85 journalists for average daily sales below one thousand, lost €5 million), it’s understandable that the pro-Vatican media would be looking out for any chance to discredit her. Which brings us to the most intriguing aspect of these books: their very publication marks a turning point in the story they are telling. As we read of the growing tension between pope and Curia we realise that some major upset must have occurred to cause someone inside the Vatican to make so much explosive material available to the press, someone certainly opposed to the old guard, but perhaps not entirely convinced by Pope Francis either. And however much Nuzzi and Fittipaldi do or don’t know, they cannot give an account of that climactic turning point since it would involve revealing their sources and exposing them to eventual punishment.
This is a disappointment, but has the advantage of turning readers towards the press as they seek to fill in the crucial gap. Balda has apparently confessed to the leaks, or some of them, but claims he operated under the besotting influence of Chaouqui. Chaouqui denies everything and claims Balda must have made these denigratory remarks under duress; he and others acted, she believes, in a last-ditch attempt to protect the reforms Cosea was designed to introduce. The pope meanwhile is caught between being a charismatic spiritual leader and the authoritarian head of a spendthrift, backward miniature state torn apart by internal divisions. He ‘has been told’, he says with ill-concealed embarrassment, that Balda leaked the information because when Cosea was wound up he didn’t get the appointment he was expecting in the new ministry for the economy. This is an unpleasant insinuation, awkwardly delivered. The pope has spoken of the trial as necessary because the leaks were ‘a crime’. But did the Vatican really need to bring criminal charges against the two Italian journalists as well as the whistle-blowers? For what exactly? Publishing information leaked to them? ‘I have not even been told what information,’ Fittipaldi claims, ‘and so can’t even begin to defend myself.’ In any event, the Vatican will not allow the journalists or Chaouqui, all Italian citizens, to use their own lawyers. From revolutionary reformer, Francis suddenly risks being seen as the Grand Inquisitor.
On closing these books many readers will feel that the only way out of the Vatican impasse would be to wind up the territory’s anomalous statehood, hand it over to the Italian government and free the Church and above all Pope Francis to get on with their Christian mission. However, it is equally clear that this will never happen, if only because attachment to temporal power is so visceral. Many of the priests she met during her travels to the Third World, Chaouqui enthused on one of the many talk shows to have hosted her since the scandal exploded, were utterly devoted to charitable works, but those she encountered during her time at Cosea were mainly concerned with ‘defending the loot they had hidden under the sink’.
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BEIJING (Reuters) – One of China’s most prominent Christian dissidents, Yu Jie, has gone into exile to the United States after he said he was tortured in a crackdown on dissent, he told Reuters on Friday.
Yu said he would give a detailed account of abuse and beating he suffered in detention, probably when he testifies before a U.S. Congressional panel planned for next week.
He said his treatment deteriorated sharply after his fellow dissident, Liu Xiaobo, won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.
“My circumstances dramatically worsened, and I experienced extremely cruel torture,” Yu said by telephone from near Washington D.C.
“A few days before the ceremony for awarding Liu Xiaobo the Nobel Prize, I was kidnapped and several people stripped me and beat me to the point where I collapsed and had to be taken to hospital to be saved,” he said.
Afterwards, Yu said, he suffered from months of memory loss, sleeplessness and pain.
“They were outraged about Liu Xiaobo receiving the prize, and vented their outrage on me. They believed that as one of his best friends, I shared a role in what he did,” he said.
Liu was convicted in 2009 on charges of inciting subversion and sentenced to 11 years in jail. His jailing and the secretive house arrest of his wife Liu Xia, have become the focus of an international outcry over China’s punishment of dissent.
China’s Communist Party is preparing for a leadership handover late this year, when its determination to fend off political challenges to its rule is likely to intensify.
Yu’s testimony could focus attention on that crackdown ahead of a planned visit to the United States by Vice Premier Xi Jinping, who is likely to succeed Hu Jintao as president.
“For the past year, for long periods I had no freedom and was under house arrest,” Yu told Radio Free Asia, in an interview published on its website (www.rfa.org) late on Thursday.
“Without any freedom to express myself through writing and my freedom of religious belief, I’ve chosen to live elsewhere.”
For much of 2011, Chinese police held hundreds of dissidents, activists and protest organizers in a crackdown when the Communist Party sought to prevent protests inspired by anti-authoritarian uprisings in the Arab world.
Bookish-looking Yu, 38, has been among the most outspoken critics of the Communist Party’s controls on religion and expression. In 2006, he and two other dissidents met President George W. Bush in the White House.
Yu’s writings have been banned from published in mainland China for over five years. But before that he drew nationwide attention as a member of a cohort of young essayists who challenged party-blessed orthodoxies.
A Christian since 2002-2003, Yu has also criticized the government’s closures of “house churches” that refuse to accept official controls.
Yu, who lived on the outskirts of Beijing, has continued publishing in Hong Kong and abroad, and in 2010 he issued a scathing condemnation of Premier Wen Jiabao, who has a reputation as one of the party’s most liberal leaders.
Yu called him a “film idol” who failed to act on vows to promote rule of law and protect ordinary citizens’ welfare.
“Before I left, a senior officer with state security told me that I’d be allowed to go to the United States and can return, but I should know that if I do things in the U.S. that they don’t like, they won’t let me back,” said Yu.
Authorities had stopped him from meeting foreign reporters and diplomats before he left, he said. He was finishing writing a biography of Liu, he said.
(Editing by Robert Birsel)
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Lamar Smith Says 'Just Joking...' About Tomorrow; SOPA Markup Postponed
from the and-there-it-goes dept
Well, look at that. There's been a lot of back and forth over the past few days concerning whether or not Lamar Smith was serious about holding the continuation of the SOPA markup tomorrow morning. Many people believed he was bluffing just to piss off the anti-SOPA folks... and it appears that his bluff has been called. Smith has just announced that the continuation of the markup has been "postponed due to House schedule." In other words, see everyone next year on this... Either way, just saying that the markup was going to continue tomorrow was a pretty cheap political trick designed to piss off lots of people... and to avoid Smith's own promise that he'd actually take time to hear from technology experts on the subject of online security.: And just to continue the joke, we're now hearing rumors that they might try to schedule it.... I can't believe that Smith would be so politically crass, but it's not out of the realm of possibility, if Congress actually is in session next week to argue about other stuff that actually matters.: And now a Smith staffer says nothing scheduled for the rest of the year...
Filed Under: copyright, lamar smith, markup, postponed, sopa
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Photo: Skip Bolen/2011 Skip Bolen
Photo: Skip Bolen/2011 Skip Bolen
When we asked Girl Talk mastermind Gregg Gillis to put together his ultimate summer playlist, he immediately thought of a party he went to last year. “My friend Lord Grunge from the rap group Grand Buffet had this cookout,” he remembers. “People were drinking all day, relaxing, listening to tunes. At night, it got crazy, and by noon the next day we were all swimming in the pool and trashing his kitchen.” Gillis is just coming off the raucous Governors Ball Music festival, so we asked him for something a bit mellower. “At the Girl Talk show, people really want to rage,” he said, “but here I was thinking more about what you want to listen to while hanging out on your porch all afternoon.” Summer is all about ease, so Gillis has taken care of your summer soundtrack: queue these up, hit shuffle, and warm up the grill. (And then go download last year’s summer mix, from Danger Mouse.)
Aaliyah, “Try Again”
Aerosmith, “Sweet Emotion”
Alice Cooper, “School’s Out”
Alicia Keys, “Unbreakable”
America, “Sister Golden Hair”
Amerie, “1 Thing”
Annie, “Heartbeat”
The Apples in Stereo, “Tidal Wave”
Ash, “Goldfinger”
A Tribe Called Quest, “Electric Relaxation”
Baby ft. Clipse, “What Happened to That Boy”
Anita Baker, “Sweet Love”
Bananarama, “Cruel Summer”
David Banner ft. Lil Flip, “Like a Pimp”
Beach Boys, “Feel Flows”
The Beatles, “Here Comes the Sun”
Beyonce ft. Bun B and Slim Thug, “Check on it”
Big Boi ft. Gucci Mane, “Shine Blockas”
Big Tymers, “Oh Yeah!”
Blue Öyster Cult, “Don’t Fear the Reaper”
Blur, “Boys and Girls”
Boards of Canada, “In a Beautiful Place Out of the Country”
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft. Eazy-E, “Foe tha Love of Money”
The Breeders, “No Aloha”
Joe Budden, “Pump It Up”
Bobby Caldwell, “What You Won’t Do for Love”
Camp Lo, “Luchini AKA This Is It”
Cam’ron, “Hey Ma”
Mariah Carey, “Shake It Off”
The Cardigans, “Lovefool”
Carl Carlton, “She’s a Bad Mama Jama”
The Cars, “Let the Good Times Roll”
The Chairman of the Board, “Give Me Just a Little More Time”
Chicago, “Saturday in the Park”
Da Backwudz, “You Gonna Luv Me”
Daft Punk, “Digital Love”
DeBarge, “Rhythm of the Night”
De La Soul, “Stakes Is High”
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, “Summer Time”
“If people end up dancing, no, I won’t be pissed. It’s all good!”
DMX, “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem”
The Doobie Brothers, “What a Fool Believes”
Dr. Dre, “Let Me Ride”
Earth Wind & Fire, “Fantasy”
Electric Light Orchestra, “Sweet Talkin’ Woman”
Missy Elliott, “Pass That Dutch”
“Maybe only 10 to 15 percent of these — like this track or the new Lil Wayne, ‘6 Foot 7 Foot’ — I’ve used either on an album or in a live show.”
Fleetwood Mac, “Dreams”
Fountains of Wayne, “Sink to the Bottom”
The Game ft. 50 Cent, “Hate It or Love It”
The Gap Band, “Outstanding”
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”
Ghost Town DJ’s, “My Boo”
Grateful Dead, “Touch of Grey”
Guided by Voices, “Game of Pricks”
“On the tour bus, people will be passing around the iPod, and there’s a feeling of ‘Oh, man, no one thought he’d put this on’ or ‘What is this again!?’ That sensation is also important for a tight summer mix.”
Daryl Hall and John Oates, “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)”
Harvey Danger, “Flagpole Sitta”
The Honey Cone, “Girls It Ain’t Easy”
Hot Boys, “We On Fire”
Huey Lewis & the News, “If This Is It”
“Girl Talk is heavily influenced by American radio culture. Classic songs that weren’t necessarily huge but that have carried on — songs you’re always hearing in the grocery store.”
R. Kelly, “Step in the Name of Love”
Len, “Steal My Sunshine”
Ice Cube, “It Was a Good Day”
Jackson Browne, “Somebody’s Baby”
The Jackson Five, “It’s Great to Be Here”
Janet Jackson, “When I Think of You”
Jadakiss ft. Styles P, “We Gonna Make It”
Jane’s Addiction, “Jane Says”
Jade, “Don’t Walk Away”
Jay-Z ft. Foxy Brown, “Sunshine”
Billy Joel, “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me”
Juelz Santana, “Oh Yes”
Junior M.A.F.I.A., “Player’s Anthem”
Junk Culture, “West Coast”
Kelis, “Milk Shake”
Killer Mike ft. Big Boi, “A.d.i.d.a.s.”
“I’d almost forgotten about this one, which came out in the early 2000s. There’s so many feel-good hip-hop songs from the last ten years that came and went. You never hear them, but they’re classics.”
Level 42, “Something About You”
Lil Flip, “This Is the Way We Ball”
Lil Kim, “Lighters Up”
Related: Danger Mouse Gives Vulture His Endless Summer Playlist
Ludacris, “Saturday (Ooh! Oooh! Oh!)”
LL Cool J, “Around the Way Girl”
“There’s songs on here where it’s like ‘Ooooh, yeah, I haven’t heard this one in ten years, but this was the jam in 1993.’ Or 2002, or whatever.”
Cheryl Lynn, “Got to Be Real”
Manfred’s Mann’s Earth Band, “Blinded by the Light”
Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, “(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave”
Masta Ace, “Born to Roll”
Michael McDonald, “Sweet Freedom”
MGMT, “Congratulations”
Kylie Minogue, “Love at First Sight”
µ-Ziq, “Brace Yourself (Remix)”
Nas, “Memory Lane (Sittin’ in da Park)”
Naughty by Nature, “Feel Me Flow”
Next, “Too Close”
Nirvana, “Molly’s Lips”
The Notorious B.I.G., “Juicy”
“These songs were designed to work in the daylight hours but can still be effective when it gets dark and people start partying a little harder.”
Outkast, “Ms. Jackson”
Freda Payne, “Band of Gold”
P.Diddy, “Bad Boy for Life”
Pastor Troy, “Are We Cuttin’?”
Pavement, “Range Life”
CeCe Peniston, “Finally”
Katy Perry, “Teenage Dream”
Peter Bjorn and John, “Amsterdam”
The Pharcyde, “Runnin”
Phoenix, “If I Ever Feel Better”
The Pixies, “Here Comes Your Man”
Prefuse 73, “Nuno”
Billy Preston, “Nothing From Nothing”
Raekwon ft. Ghostface, Cappadona, and Method Man, “Ice Cream”
Smokey Robinson, “Crusin’”
Tommy Roe, “Dizzy”
Diana Ross, “Stoney End”
Rufus ft. Chaka Khan, “Sweet Thing”
Scarface, “On My Block”
Seals and Crofts, “Summer Breeze”
Shawty Lo, “They Know [Dey Know]”
Paul Simon, “You Can Call Me Al”
Sly & the Family Stone, “Hot Fun in the Summertime”
Smashing Pumpkins, “1979”
Snoop Dogg ft. Pharrell, Uncle Charlie Wilson, “Beautiful”
Sonic Youth, “100%”
Soulja Boy Tell’em, “Donk”
Spinners, “I’ll Be Around”
Squarepusher, “My Red Hot Car”
Stardust, “Music Sounds Better With You”
Starr, “Twenty Five Miles”
Steve Miller Band, “Swingtown”
Stone Temple Pilots, “Big Bang Baby”
The Strokes, “Hard to Explain”
“This weekend, we played one of my mixes before we went onstage. I was eager to see how the crowd reacted because some of it was on this playlist — selecting songs to hear is so different from sampling. But they were way into it!”
Superdrag, “Sucked Out”
Swing Out Sister, “Breakout”
“I love stuff like this: There’s that kind of eighties music that’s hard to describe, it’s a little funky, it sometimes has horns, it relates to Lionel Richie’s ‘All Night Long.’”
Supergrass, “Alright”
SWV, “Right Here”
10cc, “I’m Not in Love”
“This is one of my favorite songs, one that doesn’t find a place in anything I do, so I’m psyched to include it.”
T.I., “Why You Wanna”
That Dog, “Never Say Never”
Three 6 Mafia, “Stay High”
Trick Daddy, “I’m a Thug”
Thunderclap Newman, “Something in the Air”
TLC, “Waterfalls”
Max Tundra, “Which Song”
2pac, “I Get Around”
U.G.K. ft. OutKast, “International Player’s Anthem”
Waka Flocka Flame ft. Kebo Gotti, “Grove St. Party”
Weezer, “In the Garage”
Matthew Wilder, “Break My Stride”
Bill Withers, “Lovely Day”
“Over half of these songs you would like to party to, and the other half are songs you relax to. That’s the essence of summertime — you can be sitting around drinking beer outside or you can be up celebrating.”
Wiz Khalifa, “The Thrill”
Stevie Wonder, “Living for the City”
Xscape, “Just Kickin’ It”
“There are so many of those nineties feel-good R&B tracks, and this one is the top to me.”
Wreckx-N-Effect, “Rumpshaker”
Yg, “Toot It and Boot It”
Yo La Tengo, “Season of the Shark”
Young Gunz, “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop”
Young Jeezy, “Go Crazy”
Zhane, “Hey Mr. DJ”
We’ve also assembled all of the songs into four alphabetical YouTube playlists if you want to score your barbecue directly from Vulture. Just hit play and get grilling:
Related: Danger Mouse Gives Vulture His Endless Summer Playlist
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By Linda Cole
The Parson, Jack Russell, and Russell terriers are actually three different breeds, even though they’re related and look much alike. The Russell Terrier was introduced at the National Dog Show in 2012 as a new breed recognized by the AKC. The Jack Russell is not a recognized breed, despite the dog’s popularity in this country. There is a good explanation as to why, but it can be a bit confusing.
The Parson, Jack Russell and Russell terrier breeds were all named after the Reverend John “Jack” Russell (1795 – 1883), a parson who lived in Devonshire, England during the 1800s. He was an avid fox hunter, when he wasn’t attending to his duties at his church. The Reverend was also quite fond of fox hunting dogs, and bred them. His first terrier, a female named Trump, was likely the foundation for Russell’s working dogs.
Reverend Russell, also known as “The Sporting Parson,” wanted a working dog that was feisty, strong and confident ,to hunt fox and go to ground to flush out fox or other prey from a hole. The Reverend lived in the southern part of England where the terrain wasn’t as hilly, and a short legged dog met his needs. The small dog ran with hunters on horseback, and hounds following a fox. When the hounds chased the fox underground, it was the terrier’s job to follow and flush the fox out of the hole so the hunt could resume.
It was after Reverend Russell’s death when the JRT breed began to evolve into the Parson Terrier. Hunters living in areas where the land was more uneven and hillier wanted dogs with longer legs that allowed them to better navigate rougher terrain so they could keep up with the hounds and horses. They were also more interested in hunting other prey, primarily badger. If a pup was born with shorter legs, they were kept at home as companion pets, to roam around the barn and home catching vermin, and as watchdogs.
Eventually, it was discovered that the dogs with shorter legs could be useful on a hunt. The dogs were easy to carry over rougher landscape in terrier sacks slung over the hunter’s shoulder or across their saddle. And because of their smaller size, it was easier for them to get into smaller dens underground. This is when the Parson and Jack Russell terriers began to split off into two separate breeds.
The traditional Jack Russell terrier was created in England, and developed in Australia into the breed we know today. Both the Jack Russell and Parson terriers were bred as working breeds. However, it’s the Parson terrier that was bred as a hunting dog with a higher energy level. The Jack Russell terrier was bred more as a companion dog. Although both breeds share the same intensity in prey drive, the JRT understands when it’s time to chill out, and they are mellower than their cousin, the Parson terrier.
There are not a lot of differences between the Parson, Jack Russell, and Russell terrier, but all three are considered different breeds, and this is where it can get confusing. The Russell terrier is actually a shorter version of the Jack Russell terrier. Australia and other FCI (an international federation of kennel clubs) countries call the Russell terrier a Jack Russell terrier, which is the traditional old style JRT. In the US, the Russell terrier is the same size as the Australian Jack Russell terrier. Both the Russell and Parson terrier are recognized by the AKC, but the Jack Russell terrier isn’t.
The standard height for the Parson is 12 ½ -15 inches, the Jack Russell Terrier is 10-12 inches, and the Russell – also known as the “Shorty JRT” – is 8 -12 inches tall. The Parson is known as the dog with the square body, and both the Russell and JRT have rectangular bodies.
Why isn’t the JRT recognized by the AKC? This, too, is a little complicated. The Jack Russell Terrier Club of America (JRTCA) wanted to make sure the breed kept its working dog status. When AKC was considering adding the Jack Russell terrier to their list of recognized dogs in the early 1990s, the JRTCA opposed it, fearing the working ability would be bred out of the breed, with an emphasis placed on conformation over hunting ability. In 2001, the issue was brought up again when the Jack Russell Terrier Breeders Association filed a petition requesting the Jack Russell be recognized as a legitimate breed.
Because there’s a variation in the JRT in size and appearance, all Jack Russell terriers that met a specific standard were renamed as Parson terrier. The newly recognized Russell terrier is the same breed as the Jack Russell terrier recognized in Australia and other FCI countries, and the JRT is still not a recognized breed. This seems to have made everyone involved happy, for the time being.
Top photo by Vidar Hoel
Middle and bottom photos by Chris Martin
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While Russia is on a land-grabbing binge, South Ossetia hopes Moscow will not forget about its aspirations, too. The region’s separatist leadership is drawing up an agreement meant to insert the disputed territory into the Russian Federation.
The agreement is influenced by a recent integration plan that Moscow offered to South Ossetia’s separatist twin, Abkhazia, but reportedly goes far beyond it. Both regions maintain de-facto independence from Georgia and almost existentially rely on backing from Russia. Abkhazia, however, insists on some ground rules in its relationship with Moscow, such as keeping space for sovereignty.
Many Abkhaz construed Russia’s recently proposed Agreement on Alliance and Integration as a plan for creeping annexation. The region’s separatist parliament, reworked the accord and came up with its own draft, renamed the Agreement on Strategic Partnership.
The particulars of the changes made by the Abkhaz remain under wraps, but, reportedly, they took out the clause on bilateral simplification of naturalization of each other’s citizens. Also, reportedly, axed was the most contentious part that proposed to allow Russians to take the command of a joint military force in times of war in Abkhazia.
But if the Abkhaz found the Russian integration plan overbearing, the South Ossetians believe that such a deal would not be going far enough. “The version of the agreement, which is being prepared for signing between Russia and Abkhazia, would not reflect all the yearnings of the South Ossetian people, their aspirations for the Russian Federation,” said the region’s de-facto parliamentary speaker, Anatoly Bibilov.
Apparently sensing that there’s no time like the present, he noted that the South Ossetian accord will be ready by year’s end.
Georgia, which hopes to regain control over the two regions and bring hundreds of thousands of displaced ethnic Georgians back to their homes, is watching with alarm what it sees as Moscow moving pieces around on its territory.
In the latest attempt to lure the separatists back into the fold, Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili offered the two regions a broad autonomy and sharing of the prospective benefits of Georgia’s integration with the European Union. Both Abkhazia and South Ossetia dismissed the offer as being out of touch.
Georgia’s Reforms Associates, a Saakashvili-friendly, Tbilisi-based think-tank led by former officials, called on the Georgian government to come-up with an “anti-annexation” strategy.
To counter the continued Russian takeover of Georgia’s de-jure territories, the group recommended Tbilisi taking Russia to international courts, launching a vocal and consistent diplomatic campaign for international sanctions and using Georgia’s leverage as a World Trade Organization member to try block Russia’s policies toward the two regions.
Georgia held a National Security Council meeting on October 28 to discuss what tactic to adopt toward Russia's Abkhazia plans, but no official sign that any of these ideas might be in the works.
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Pushing hard to at last regulate California’s free-for-all medical marijuana industry, state lawmakers are wrestling with how a tightly regulated cannabis market would work.
Increasingly, the answer looks to be a lot like the market for alcohol.
Long-standing alcohol laws rigidly separate producers, distributors and vendors. The decades-old “tied-house” formula was conceived largely as an antidote to the gangsterism of Prohibition, seeking to disrupt the liquor monopolies organized crime groups had established.
If Assembly Bill 266 passes – as looks more likely than with any previous attempt, given the support of law enforcement, cities and the large majority of Assembly members who voted it off the floor – a similar approach could apply to medical cannabis.
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At stake is the future of a medical cannabis market estimated to be worth more than $1.2 billion in 2014, from which players profit to which strains of cannabis land in front of consumers. Cannabis vendors and farmers, law enforcement and organized labor have all asserted their vision of what it should look like and whether alcohol laws offer a good model.
This is a brand-new industry, so you don’t know how it’s going to develop. Barry Broad, lobbyist representing the California Teamsters
“This is a brand-new industry, so you don’t know how it’s going to develop,” said Barry Broad, a lobbyist representing the California Teamsters, who have been advocating the multitier model. “There’s no question that alcohol is more heavily regulated than other products, and marijuana deservedly should be regulated as well.”
Under the current version of the bill, farmers who cultivate or sell cannabis could not transport it to dispensaries themselves. The distribution and transportation would fall to entities like the Teamsters drivers Broad represents. They would get licenses unavailable to growers or vendors.
Public safety provides part of the justification. Law enforcement officials say having additional sets of eyes on the cannabis would make it tougher to divert it to the black market. The middlemen distributors would essentially serve as a check on the cultivators, ensuring their product remains in legitimate channels.
“It’s important to separate the cultivation, the processing, the distribution or sales for the accountability piece,” said California Police Chiefs Association President David Bejarano, who is also chief of the Chula Vista Police Department. “It would be difficult ensuring it doesn’t go to the black market if it’s all clumped together.”
$1.2 billion Estimated size of California’s medical cannabis market
The other argument for the multitiered system is an economic one. The purpose of scattering the process among multiple license holders, Broad said, is to ensure that large-scale cannabis enterprises don’t take over the fledgling marketplace.
“What could happen is a dominant market player could take control of the entire market and freeze out competitors,” Broad said, calling the multitiered model “a mechanism for ensuring everyone gets their access to the market.”
Other provisions in AB 266 seek to prevent large-scale operations from monopolizing the market. Companies that hold both cultivating and dispensing licenses would face limits on how many stores they can run and how many acres of land or square feet of indoor space they can have planted.
But members of the increasingly assertive cannabis industry lobby warn the system could produce some of the same issues regularly spotlighted by small-scale alcohol makers, particularly that it gives distributors too much power.
“We’re very concerned about basically mandating the distribution model for the entire state, because what that will do is allow a few organizations to control the price structure for the entire state, kind of like the exact same way the spirit distributors do it now,” said Nate Bradley, executive director of the California Cannabis Industry Association.
Critics also complain of overly complex rules and frequent exceptions carved out with the help of lobbyists for various alcohol entities. Alcohol suppliers are now allowed to own hotels and theme parks or to advertise at some sports venues, for example. Wineries and craft breweries can sell their products on premises.
“The current alcohol scheme we have has been chipped away at from the first day,” Bradley said.
Last year, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation allowing beer manufacturers to sell their products at farmers markets and at private events on their premises. This year, small liquor distilleries are seeking something similar, backing legislation enabling them to sell alcohol during on-site tastings and to have ownership stakes in restaurants.
California Artisanal Distillers Guild executive director Cris Steller said the liquor bill, which was revived after first faltering in a key alcohol-regulating committee, would disrupt distributors’ control over which products make it onto liquor store shelves.
“There’s only so much ability to give up space to smaller brands that don’t have the same brand recognition,” Steller said. “They might have the quality, but they don’t have the name recognition with the public, so the distributors go with larger brands that have much larger advertising budgets and have that ability to influence the market.”
That same dynamic could recur with cannabis, warned Steve DeAngelo, executive director of the Oakland-based Harborside Health Center, which the federal government has sought to shut down.
“It would give a huge amount of branding and marketing power over to the distributors,” DeAngelo said. “Supply and demand is going to dictate that the distributors will have much more economic power than the farmers would.”
Many cannabis farmers see the issue differently. Giving distributors a greater role would minimize the possibility that “a retailer can fill their shelves with only their product (and) can push anyone else out of the market,” said Hezekiah Allen, executive director of the Emerald Growers Association.
It would also give small-scale growers logistical assistance, Allen said.
“Getting cannabis from the far north in Siskiyou County to the far south in San Diego County is virtually impossible,” Allen said, but “an alcoholic beverage can get from a producer to a distributor to a retailer anywhere in the state in two days.”
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Day in the Life:
Karine Thomas
Karine Thomas is an Olympic athlete on the Canadian National Team and 3X Gold-Medalist at the Pan-Am Games. She placed fourth in the London 2012 Summer Games during the synchronized swimming team event and will be competing with Jacqueline Simoneau in the Rio duet event. The two took gold together in the 2015 Pan-Am Games and according to CBC , “They will go to Rio in August armed with a new routine called Heartbreak they say is revolutionary in synchronized swimming for its emphasis on emotion and artistic expression.”The daughter of two water polo Canadian National Team members fell in love with synchronized swimming while watching the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Six years later, she left her hometown of Gatineau to join the Canadian Junior National Team at the 2006 FINA World Junior Championships in China, still her best memory so far in this sport.Thomas then joined the national team in 2007 and made her debut at the FINA World Championships that year. She helped the team to fourth place finishes at the next two world championships. She was also a member of the team that won gold at the 2011 Pan Am Games. Thomas began competing in the duet competition shortly after the 2012 London Olympics.Studying health sciences to possibly work in the pediatric area, Karine’s favorite part about the sport are the friendships it fosters with her teammates.
Location: Montreal, Canada
Favorite Exercise: Other than swimming, I love yoga and running.
Favorite Healthy Snack: Fresh fruit is my favourite snack! Or… anything with peanut butter.
Favorite Way to Center: 10 minutes of meditation every morning. Starts my day off right!
Favorite Book: Chris Hadfield’s An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth
Favorite YouTube Video: Any “What I eat in a day” from vegan or plant-based YouTubers.
Personal Motto: Do it with passion or not at all!
What gets you out of bed every morning?
Knowing that I can have breakfast soon!
What is your #1 wellness habit?
Eating right and resting.
What is the most important part of your daily routine?
For me, the most import part of my day is starting it off right. A small 10 minutes of meditation and a big breakfast is key.
What about your daily routine do you think is unique or special?
I train up to 8 hours a day for my sport. So I guess the amount of excercise I do is a little out of norm.
Whose “O” would you most love to see?
Michael Phelps – the greatest athlete and inspiration of all time.
What is your favorite part about living a healthy lifestyle?
The way it makes me feel, being happy and energized is everything.
What is the best piece of health advice you’ve ever received?
Recovery is just as important as training.
Describe your sleep ritual.
I like to decompress before bed, no phone, no iPad or computer.
Tell us about a time you were stuck in an unhealthy cycle and how you got out of it. What was the main inspiration for positive change?
At one point I was training full-time, working part-time and trying to maintain a social life. I had to make some real changes as I was totally burning myself out. I came back to what was important to me. Prioritizing is what’s important in the end!
If you could give one piece of health advice to your future kids, what would it be?
Listen to your body, it will tell you what it needs.
? A post shared by Karine Thomas (@karinethomas) on Jan 24, 2015 at 4:09pm PST
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Video: Illini scrapbook: The legend of Dee Brown » more Videographer: Mike Pearson No. 11 did wonderful things in his four years at Illinois, including a magical run to the 2005 Final Four.
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CHAMPAIGN — Part of John Groce’s opening statement at Illinois basketball media day Friday was a note on the unavailability of his assistant coaches, who had recruiting commitments with a prospect on campus.
Groce also mentioned Dee Brown would not be available.
“He’s dealing with some personal matters, and we want to give him his privacy and space at this time out of respect for Dee,” the Illini coach told the assembled media Friday afternoon.
Three days later, Brown had stepped away from the Illinois basketball program, resigning his position as director of player development and alumni relations and citing personal reasons in a series of tweets.
“Friends/Followers- I know you’ve haven’t heard from me in a while,” Brown’s tweets began. The active social media user had just four retweets from Oct. 1 until Monday’s tweets.
“I’ve been dealing with some personal issues that have weighed heavily on me,” Brown’s tweets continued. “After much thought, I’ve made the tough decision to leave my position. I will always have love for my school and basketball program.
“I have grown so close to the coaches and players and want nothing more than to see them have a successful season. I hope everyone understands this can be a difficult time for my family right now. We thank you in advance for respecting our privacy. Thanks for your support and love. I-L-L Go Illini!”
Brown returned to Champaign in July 2015 after the conclusion of his professional basketball career to serve as special assistant to then-athletic director Mike Thomas. He transitioned to his role on Groce’s coaching staff in April of this year and was receiving a $200,000 salary.
A statement from first-year Illinois athletic director Josh Whitman officially announcing Brown’s resignation was released at the same time Brown started tweeting.
“For reasons that are personal to him, Dee Brown has decided to step down from his role with our program,” Whitman’s statement read. “We respect his decision and his privacy and will have no additional comment. Beginning with his time as one of the great student-athletes in our history and continuing in the years since, Dee has remained steadfast in his passion for the Fighting Illini. We look forward to Dee’s ongoing support in the years ahead and wish him nothing but the best.”
Brown earned Illinois Mr. Basketball honors at Proviso East and was the 2002 News-Gazette All-State Player of the Year. Illinois went 114-23 in four seasons with Brown in the starting lineup and reached the 2005 NCAA championship game. Brown was the 2005 Sporting News Player of the Year and the 2006 Bob Cousy Award winner as the nation’s top point guard.
Brown’s addition to the Illinois basketball staff was seen as a serious boon for the Illini and was already paying dividends in recruiting.
“The guy’s a comedian,” Class of 2017 point guard Trent Frazier told The News-Gazette when he committed in August. “He’s funny and outgoing, and spending a lot of time with him (during a visit) really felt special.”
“It’s appealing to a young guy,” Frazier’s high school coach, Matt Colin, added about having Brown on the extended coaching staff. “Here’s this former All-American, and he’s someone Trent can really look up to as a big brother. He’s got a guy on campus he can go to at any time or any hour, and that guy’s going to have his back.”
Attempts by the News-Gazette to reach Brown were unsuccessful. Groce declined comment through team spokesman Derrick Burson.
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NEW DELHI: Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje could land into more trouble as the latest media reports suggest that she had recommended former IPL chief Modi for a Padma award in 2007.According to a news report in Dainik Bhaskar, Lalit Modi was recommended for the Padma Award in 2007 by Vasundhara Raje led-Rajasthan government.The Rajasthan Sports Council had recommended Modi’s name on July 28, 2007. Raje, in her first stint, was Rajasthan chief minister from 2003 to 2008.Raje had reportedly forwarded Lalit Modi's name through the sports council on the ground of his vast business empire and his contributions in development of cricket in the state.The Sports Council had recommended Lalit Modi’s name for his contributions to sports and business in the state. As per reports, council had sought application from Lalit Modi to recommend his name for the coveted award. Secretary of the council at that time, UD Khan, had reportedly sent the form for the award to the then Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) secretary, Subhash Joshi. Modi was president of the RCA at that point in time.Council forwarded the form to Rajasthan chief secretary for further action. One recommendation for Modi was exclusively for him and his name was clubbed with international archer Limba Ram, when his name was sent for Padma awards. Government had cited how much money Modi had invested in the state and his contributions towards development of sports in the state. Modi had organized Champions Trophy in 2006.However, Union government had ignored the state government recommendation for Padma award to Modi. Limba Ram was decorated with Padma Shri in 2012.Former Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) secretary Subhash Joshi said there was nothing objectionable about former IPL chief Lalit Modi being recommended for a Padma Shri award in 2007, as he was fulfilling his responsibility at that time."At that time, Lalit Modi was the president. The cricket work was going on well. Six international matches of the Champions' Trophy took place here and a world class academy was also built. So, a good amount of work was done. It is entirely upon the state government to decide whom to honour and how. Be it the government of Bharatiya Janata Party or CPM," he said."They recommend some names from their side from different sectors. Similarly, his (Lalit Modi) name was also recommended. So, it is not unusual and there is nothing controversial about it because good work happening at that time and all the newspapers praised it as well," he added.Joshi further said that he fails to understand the issue in this because real work was done at that time."Moreover, it is completely upon the Central government to either accept or reject it. I don't understand how this has become an issue. Sending recommendation is a constitutional right of any state. I think it was all done as a part of the routine work," he added.(With inputs from ANI)
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The I-96 construction project is ahead of schedule.
Jeff Horne, a transportation engineer for thesaid Friday that the department anticipates reopening I-96 as soon as late September. The scheduled completion date had been Oct. 11.
“There is still a lot of work left to do so it’s difficult to pinpoint a date, but all indications at this time point to an early opening,” Horne said.
The construction project has closed the seven-mile stretch of I-96 from Telegraph Road to Newburgh Road since April to bring the freeway up to current safety standards, which includes road restructuring, and repairing 37 bridges and on and off ramps.
Funding for the $148 million project has been 80 percent from federal sources and 20 percent from the state, 12.5 percent of which is paid for by the city of Livonia.
The main contractor for the project is Shelby Township-based, who has hired more than 35 subcontractors to work on the project.
Horne said contractors will receive a $150,000 bonus daily up to $4.5 million if they finish early, and if it takes longer to finish, contractors will be penalized the same amount daily for an unlimited amount of days.
For details about the construction project including alternative routes visit www.96fix.com
Anjana Schroeder: [email protected] Twitter: @anjanaschroeder
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Lawmakers Offer Legislation To Allow Importation Of M1 Rifles
FAIRFAX, Va. –-(Ammoland.com)- In 2009, the Obama administration approved the importation and sale of collectible, American-made M1 Garand rifles and M1 carbines from South Korea. However, the administration reversed its decision in March of last year, deciding instead to prevent these rifles — legal to make and purchase in the United States — from entering the country.
As we reported last October, U.S. Senators and Representatives from both sides of the aisle urged Secretary of State Clinton to revisit her department’s decision.
Now, S. 381—the Collectible Firearms Protection Act—sponsored by U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-Mont.), and its House companion bill H.R. 615, sponsored U.S. Representative Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), seek to once again allow these American-made firearms to be re-imported and sold in the U.S.
NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox made the following statement in support of the legislation: “The importation restrictions on M1 rifles and carbines was a defacto gun ban. These firearms are sought after by gun collectors as they are a part of America’s history. They are also commonly used for lawful purposes such as hunting, sports shooting and self defense. On behalf of the tens of millions of law-abiding American gun owners, I would like to thank these legislators for their leadership in presenting a legislative fix to this backdoor gun ban.”
“This is a common sense bill that is designed to allow law-abiding Americans to own a piece of history,” said Tester, Chairman of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus. “This is a simple issue of making sure that a government bureaucracy doesn’t stand in the way of our Second Amendment rights.”
Under the bill, firearms that are lawfully possessed by a foreign government—and that are more than 50 years old and considered antiques or relics—may be re-imported to properly licensed groups and sold without written permission from the U.S. Departments of State or Defense.
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Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila leaves after an EU summit on the refugee crisis, Brussels, 16th October 2015. ©AP, Martin Meissner The Finnish Centre Right Prime Minister has proposed replacing all its means tested welfare programmes with a Basic Income Guarantee giving every citizen 800 euros a month. Although the details still remain to be worked out and the plan is far from certain, over 68 per cent of Finns already support the idea. Forty-six years since Richard Nixon proposed it to Congress (it passed the House, but died in committee in the Senate), the Basic Income Guarantee is back in the news. Last year, over 130,000 Swiss signed a petition demanding a Basic Income Guarantee that would grant every citizen 2,500 Swiss Francs a month (£21,000 a year). According to a recent poll 49 per cent of the Swiss support the programme and a referendum on Basic Income will be on the ballot in Switzerland within the year. Although it comes in a variety of flavours, the essential principle is straightforward. A Basic Income Guarantee replaces all means tested benefits with a simple monthly cash payment to all citizens. Everybody gets it: you don’t have to be deserving, or unemployed, or even poor. Supporters for the idea of a basic income come from both left and right. Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek both were fans. Conservatives like it because it fights poverty without enlarging the nanny state. It also avoids the distortion to incentives inevitable with most means tested programmes. Sam Bowman of the Adam Smith Institute notes that the current welfare system creates “situations where people are better off out of work or taking fewer hours of work. The Basic Income Guarantee eliminates most of those perverse incentives while still providing a safety net for the poor.” Read more on income inequality: How Corbynomics could work Workers vs pensioners: the battle of our time What we should really do about inequality What should Labour’s economic policy look like? Community organiser and Basic Income advocate Barb Jacobson agrees. “The marginal tax rate for benefits ranges from 75-98 per cent, which is where the poverty trap originates—it is often not worth getting a job.” She adds, “Conservatives like the idea of getting rid of the Byzantine bureaucracy of most state benefit systems, progressives like the prospect of ending poverty, and the shame of means-testing. Both, I think, are attracted to the prospect of freedom which Basic Income holds for most people.” Opponents of Basic Income fear that it will destroy incentives to work. Jacobson doesn’t think so. “People need money in order to be able to work. If you haven’t food, a stable place to live, clothes, transport—and, increasingly, access to the Internet—it is impossible either to find or hold down a job.” A recent experiment in rural India suggests she might be right. In eight villages, every inhabitant was given 200 rupees a month (around £2) for 18 months. Compared to the control group, both economic growth and paid employment increased. Childhood nutrition and school attendance also improved. Money in their pocket liberated villagers, giving them the freedom to find better paying work. Bowman suggests the difference between conservative and progressive advocates of Basic Income is in the size of the grant. “The left typically [wants] it to be high enough for someone to be able to live on it reasonably comfortably, the right typically [wants] it to be low enough that people can survive on it but are still going to find work attractive. What we need to do is find the optimal level where people are able to survive when they’re out of work and to live decently when they’re in low-paid work.” All well and good but can we afford it? When the Green Party advocated a BIG of £72 a week during the last general election, its leader Natalie Bennett stumbled badly when asked how she planned to pay for it. She should have done better. The Citizens Income Trust has shown that by eliminating all welfare payments and the personal tax exemption, a Basic Income Guarantee can be made close to revenue neutral. But making Basic Income revenue neutral might obviate one of its most profound benefits. Since the financial crisis, central banks have tried to stimulate the economy mostly by creating money and giving it to banks, hoping that would entice them to lend. So far, the results have been mediocre. The Basic Income would instead “helicopter drop” money straight into individual’s bank accounts, thus enabling them to spend. Conservatives generally favour stimulating the economy through tax cuts. Although they often don’t like to admit it, this is textbook Keynesianism. If government spending remains the same, a tax cut puts money in consumers’ pockets and so stimulates demand. The problem with tax cuts is they disproportionally benefit the richest among us and rich people are as likely to save their tax cut as spend it. From a stimulative perspective, the Basic Income Guarantee can be thought of as a tax cut given to those most likely to spend it, giving the economy the demand it craves. Traditionally, progressives have focused on stimulating employment and raising wages. But automation and software today are job killers. The “Rise of the Robots” threatens to destroy up to 47 per cent of all existing jobs within the next two decades. A robot may be able to build an iPhone but it cannot buy one. A Basic Income Guarantee will eliminate poverty, lessen inequality, destroy bureaucracy, and empower the most vulnerable among us but perhaps even more important, it would solve capitalism’s most basic and growing problem, lack of demand.
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How to structure components in React?
Bartek Witczak Blocked Unblock Follow Following Oct 13, 2017
Programming is quite a complex task. Especially crafting clean code is hard. We need to take care of many elements — naming variables, scoping functions, handling errors, ensuring security, monitoring performance etc. Still to name single most difficult thing in programming I would go with writing loosely coupled & highly cohesive components. It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about object-oriented or functional programming. Structuring system is the hardest thing and it has a big impact on the overall project. It takes years to become proficient in designing software architecture (& probably one can never really master it — in such a fast moving industry mastery is always one step ahead, there is always a way to improve design).
I really enjoy working with React & I think its biggest advantage is how simple React is. There is a difference between simple & easy https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy. And I really mean React is simple. Of course, you need to spend some time to get to know it. But after you understand core concepts, everything else is just a consequence. The hard part comes next.
Coupling & Cohesion
Those are the metrics that more or less describe how difficult it will be to change the behaviour of the code. Coupling & cohesion are used in object-oriented programming and refer to some form of classes. We’ll use them in reference to React components since the same rules apply.
Coupling is connection or dependency between elements. If changing one element requires changing another element then we say there is tight coupling. If elements are loosely coupled, changing one element does not imply changes in the other. For example, let’s take a look at displaying bank transfer amount. If displaying amount knows how rates are calculated, then anytime internal structure of transfer changes, displaying code also needs to be updated. If we design system to be loosely coupled, based on the interface of an element, then changes to transfer shouldn’t result in changes to the view layer. Loosely coupled components are easier to manage and maintain.
Cohesion tells if element’s responsibilities form one thing. That metric is connected with Single Responsibility Principle or Unix principle: Do one thing and do it well . If account balance formatter also calculates interest rates and checks the permission to display history, then it has many responsibilities and those are not related to each other. Probably, there should be different components for permission handling or interest rates. On the other hand, if there are multiple components one for integer part, one for floating and one for currency, then anytime programmer wants to display balance, they would need to find all elements. The challenge is to create highly cohesive components.
Structuring components
There are many ways we can structure components. We want components to be reusable, but only to the degree that is reasonable. We want to build small components that can be used to build bigger concepts. Ideally, we want to build loosely coupled & highly cohesive components, so our system is easier to maintain and grow. In React components props can be treated like function arguments and that’s exactly the case for functional stateless components. How we define props in a component, defines how a component can be reused.
We’ll use expense manager domain and we’ll analyze expense details formatter. Let’s suppose that expense model looks like this:
There are several possibilities to model expense details formatter:
no props at all
passing expense object
passing only required properties
passing map of properties
passing format as a child
We’ll discuss each of them to see what are benefits and flaws of using each and every. Keep in mind that context is the king and everything depends on the system. That’s exactly what we’re paid for — building proper abstraction.
No props at all
The simplest solution & the one that is often the starting point is building a component with hard-coded data.
Passing no props, of course, doesn’t give us any flexibility and component is suitable to be used only in single place. Of course, in the example of expense details, we can see from the beginning that component needs to accept some props. Nevertheless, there are cases that components without any props is good solution. Firstly, we can use components without props for “constant” content like badges, logos, company info etc.
Building even small components makes a system more maintainable. Keeping information in one place allows making changes in one place. Don’t repeat yourself.
Passing expense object
In case of expense details definitely, we need to pass data to the component. First, we’ll take a look at passing expense object.
Passing expense object to expense details component makes perfect sense. Expense details formatter is highly coherent -> it displays data of expense. Whenever we want to change formatting, this is the only place that’s going to change. Also changing expense details formatter does not introduce any side effects to expense object itself.
The component is tightly coupled to expense object. Is that a bad thing? Definitely not, but we must be aware how that influences our system. Passing expense object as props, results that expense details component relies on the internal structure of expense. Whenever we change the internal structure of expense, we’ll also need to change expense details. Of course, we’ll only need to make changes in one place.
How does that design affect future changes? If we want to add, change or remove a field, we’ll only need to change one component. What if we want to add different date formatters? We could add another prop for date formatting.
We start adding additional properties to make the component more flexible. As long as there are only a few options, everything is great. The problem starts after system grows and we have a lot of props for different use cases.
const ExpenseDetails = ({ expense, dateFormat, withCurrency, currencyFormat, isOverdue, isPaid ... })
Adding props makes the component more reusable, but it can also be a sign that there are multiple responsibilities of the component. The same rule applies to the function. We can create a function with a number of parameters, but as soon as that number is greater than 3–4, it starts to do a lot of things. And probably that’s the time to split function into smaller one.
As number of component props grow, we can decide to split component into more defined ones like: OverdueExpenseDetails , PaidExpenseDetails etc.
Passing only required properties
To be less coupled with expense object itself, we can pass only required properties.
We’re passing each and every property separately, so we’re moving the responsibility a bit to one who is using component. If internal structure of expense changes, it’s not affecting expense details formatter itself -> but probably it can affect every place that is using component because props need to be changed. When passing props as separate properties, a component is more abstract.
How passing only required fields affect future design? Adding/updating/removing fields is not easy now. Whenever we want to add a field, we not only need to change the implementation of expense details but also change every place where component is used :(
const ExpenseDetails = ({ category, description, amount, date, account, comment, case ... }) => ( ... )
On the other hand, supporting multiple date formatting is done almost out-of-the-box. Since we’re passing date as a prop, we can pass formatted date.
Deciding how to display particular field is in the hands of the one who uses the component. That is no longer the case of expense details component implementation.
Passing map/array of properties
Going even more abstract, we could pass a map of properties.
The one who uses component is in control over formatting expense details. The object passed to the component has to be properly formatted.
That solution has many flaws. We have very little control over how the component will look. The order of reduce is not specified, so we’ll need to add some kind of order. Instead of a map, we could pass an array with objects to overcome that problem, but it still will have drawbacks.
Passing map/array as props is not coupled to expense at all but is also not coherent at all. Adding/removing new properties is only a matter of changing prop, but we have no control over the formatting of the component itself. If we want to change only the formatting of the category, it’s not possible it this solution. (To be precise, there is always a way to tweak stuff. For example by passing another props with formatting config. Yet that solution is no longer clean and straightforward.)
Passing format as a child
We could also take as little responsibility as possible and pass data as a child.
In that case, expense details is only a container to provide some structure and styling. To display details the one using component has to provide all information.
Probably in case of expense details, it’s not a good solution, since we’ll need to repeat a lot. Still, flexibility is huge and there are a lot of different formatting possibilities. Adding/removing/updating fields is only a matter of changing the use of the component. The same goes with date formatting. We lose coherence, but that’s the price we had to pay.
Context is the king
As you can see, we’re exchanging different advantages and possibilities. Which one is the best? It depends on:
on project itself
on stage of project
on the component — do we want more specific components or few with options
on one’s preferences
on requirements — is that component supposed to change frequently & used frequently
There is no single good solution. One size doesn’t fit all. How we structure our components has a great impact on how we’ll maintain a system and how expandable it will be. It all depends on the context. Thankfully we have plenty of options and we can pick and choose. Components are a great abstraction to build both small and big systems. It’s only a case of picking right solution.
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ROTHERHAM Council faces accusations of an abuse cover up in a Government-ordered investigation.
A catalogue of abuse-failings emerging from Rotherham include claims whistle-blowers were made redundant, laptops with abuse data were stolen and staff allowed to leave with severance packages rather than facing disciplinary action.
Louise Casey was asked by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles to inspect the council following the Jay Report last year which found that more than 1,400 children had been subjected to rape, violence and trafficking by gangs of mainly Asian men in the South Yorkshire town between 1997 and 2013.
Today, in her inspection report, Ms Casey said: “This inspection revealed past and present failures to accept, understand and combat the issue of child sexual exploitation, resulting in a lack of support for victims and insufficient action against known perpetrators.”
The report says that when dealing with staff acting inappropriately “severance payments and compromise agreements were too often used, sometimes instead of hearing grievances or disciplinary cases, which was not always appropriate.”
Officials, the report later adds, often chose to “shoot the messenger rather than learn from mistakes that have been made.” It cites the case of a Serious Case review into a child’s death were the council redacted information relating to the child’s links to the local authority.
Those who wanted to speak out on widespread abuse were told not to, the report adds.
“Staff at the council have spoken to Inspectors of being afraid to speak out, told to keep quiet, instructed to cover up, and of a culture where ‘if you want to keep your job, you keep your head down and your mouth shut.’”
Cover-up claims were added to with the revelation that 21 laptops containing abuse information were stolen from council offices in October 2011. There was no sign of a break in and the council did not notify the Information Commissioner’s office.
“The investigation report shows that the matter was discussed with the police and information relating to CSE was present on the laptops, including the names of adults who may have been offenders,” the report says.
READ MORE...
Rotherham ‘in denial’ over abuse - report
‘How Rotherham Council tried to cover up child abuse scandal’
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There are a few things in life that everyone should know: Look both ways before crossing the street. Always eat your vegetables. If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all. But, most important of this sage wisdom, is that you should never ever tug on Superman’s cape. In the 1950s, Fredrick Wertham did just that as part of his attack on the comic industry. However, unlike the many other combatants that fell victim to Wertham’s attacks, the Man of Steel not only continued to thrive under the scrutiny, but his creators attacked back. As a result, Wertham was humiliated and forced to join the likes of Lex Luthor, Metallo, and Brainiac on the list of many opponents who have been defeated by the greatest and most beloved hero of all time.
I will start this article by saying that I could never be impartial when it comes to Superman. Superman is the greatest comic book character ever created. He is the prototype from which all other superheroes follow. Superman has thrived in his never-ending battle for almost 75 years and is as popular now as when he first appeared in Action Comics #1.
With apologies to Howard Stern, Superman is truly the king of all media, having conquered music, comics, magazines, newspapers, books, radio, film, television, and even the internet. A Gallup Poll concluded that the public knew more about Superman than about American history. The S shield symbol, one of the most recognizable in the world, is synonymous with everything that is good and decent. In fact, during the 90s, when comics became grim and gritty, Superman still stood for morals and ideals. He was the light in that dark time. On a personal level, Superman’s unwavering dedication to truth and justice had a huge influence on me when I was growing up and still inspires me to this day. My first published work was an historical analysis of Superman’s publication history. My first novel has been called “a love letter to the Man of Steel’s mythology and heroic archetype” and is dedicated, in part, to Siegel and Shuster, his creators. It’s a life-long dream to someday write his adventures. I say all of this so that when it comes to a fight between my hero and Fredric Wertham, the man who help stunt the creative growth of the comic book industry for decades, I wanted you to be clear on whose corner I am in.
When Superman first appeared in 1938, he was an anti-establishment social crusader who fought for the common people against the interests of the rich and powerful. His early adventures had the Man of Steel facing off against wife beaters, a corrupt judicial system, lynch mobs, and even corporate robber barons. Mark Waid, in Superman in the Fifties, described this early Superman as a “diamond in the rough: a quick-tempered social activist whose dedication to the ideals of truth and justice apparently put him above the rules and regulations of society.”
But, by the 1950s, the Last Son of Krypton had mellowed. Instead of fighting for the oppressed against the government, he embraced the establishment and became its most staunch patriotic supporter and advocate. This change came about through the combination of his radio and film appearances as well as the fact that he was licensed out as the spokesperson for everything from gasoline to cereal. Earlier, in 1940, new editor Whitney Ellsworth instituted a moral code. As Les Daniels explains in his book Superman, the Complete History (page 41):
Among Ellsworth’s most important tasks was determining a proper code of conduct for Superman. In the first newspaper adventure, Superman had deliberately torn the wings off a plane full of bad guys…. Such melodramatics worried Harry Donnenfeld: Superman was becoming a valuable property, one that appealed to a younger audience, and the publisher was anxious to avoid any repetition of the censorship problems associated with his early pulp magazines (such as the lurid Spicy Detective). It was up to Ellsworth to impose tight editorial controls on Jerry Siegel. Henceforth, Superman would be forbidden to use his powers to kill anyone, even a villain.
A copy of DC’s editorial standards (in the form of a memo by Ellsworth) was submitted to Congress as part of the testimony of Gunnar Dybwad, executive director of the Child Study Association of America, during the 1954 Hearing on Juvenile Delinquency. The memo reads:
EXHIBIT No. 21 NATIONAL COMICS PUBLICATIONS INC. EDITORIAL POLICY FOR SUPERMAN D─C PUBLICATIONS 1. Sex. ─ The inclusion of females in stories is specifically discouraged. Women, when used in plot structure, should be secondary in importance, and should be drawn realistically, without exaggeration of feminine physical qualities. 2. Language. ─ Expessions [sic] having reference to the Deity are forbidden. Heroes and other “good” persons must use basically good English, through some slang and other colloquialism may be judiciously employed. Poor grammar is used only by crooks and villains ─ and not always by them. 3. Bloodshed. ─ Characters ─ even villains ─ should never be shown bleeding. No character should be shown being stabbed or shot or otherwise assaulted so that the sanguinary result is visible. Acts of mayhem are specifically forbidden. The picturization of dead bodies is forbidden. 4. Torture. ─ The use of chains, whips, or other such devices is forbidden. Anything having a sexual or sadistic implication is forbidden. 5. Kidnaping [sic] . ─ The kidnaping [sic] of children is specifically forbidden. The kidnaping [sic] of women is discouraged, and must never have any sexual implication. 6. Killing. ─ Heroes should never kill a villain, regardless of the depth of the villainy. The villain, If he is to die, should do so as the result of his own evil machinations. A specific exception may be made in the case of duly constituted officers of the law. The use of lethal weapons by women ─ even villainous women ─ is discouraged. 7. Crime. ─ Crime should be depicted in all cases as sordid and unpleasant. Crime and criminals must never be glamorized. All stories must be written and depicted from the angle of the law ─ never the reverse. Justice must triumph in every case. In general, the policy of Superman D─C Publications is to provide interesting, dramatic, and reasonably exciting entertainment without having recourse to such artificial devices as the use of exaggerated physical manifestations of sex, sexual situations, or situations in which violence is emphasized sadistically. Good people should be good, and bad people bad, without middle ground shading. Good people need not be “stuffy” to be good, but bad people should not be excused. Heroes should act within the law, and for the law.
Superman was becoming an American ideal. Superman fought the Axis enemies on the covers of his comics long before America entered World War II. Inside the book, and throughout WWII, Superman supported war bonds, recycling, and other stateside activities to support the troops, all while stopping numerous terrorist attacks on American soil. An impassioned plea from Superman (as performed by Bud Collier on the radio program) inspired over 250,000 listeners to mail in pledges to buy war stamps. In fact, the original opening of the radio program, which described Superman’s fight as “a never-ending battle for truth and justice,” was changed during Word War II to “Truth, Justice and the American way.” In the real world, soldiers named tugs, jeeps, planes, and tanks after the hero. Because Superman so embodied the American ideal, Josef Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, denounced Superman in April 1940, In Das Schwarze Korps, the weekly newspaper of the Nazi S.S. Goebbels, and attacked the comic and its Jewish writers:
Jerry Siegel, an intellectually and physically circumcised chap who has his headquarters in New York… The inventive Israelite named this pleasant guy with an overdeveloped body and underdeveloped mind “Superman.
At the same time, the German American Bund sent Joe Shuster hate mail and picketed the offices of DC Comics. In Italy, Mussolini banned Superman comics, along with all other American made comics except those featuring Mickey Mouse (apparently Il Duce was mad about the Mouse, but that is a story for another day).
While other comics were becoming darker and delving into the macabre world of horror and crime, Superman still served as a beacon of good wholesome fun. The powers that be at DC took steps to associate the character with American ideal products and a team of censors reviewed his books to make sure that Superman maintained his wholesome reputation as “the Big Blue Boy Scout.” Specifically, in 1941, DC formed an editorial board to certify that comic books were being held up to high moral standards. The names of these editorial boards (which consisted of psychiatrists, child welfare experts, and some famous well-respected citizens) were printed on the inside cover of all DC books.
The book, and the character, appeared beyond reproach.
Well, that is, until Fredrick Wertham came along.
As comics fan are aware, Wertham was a child psychiatrist that published an impassioned attack on crime comic books, Seduction of the Innocent, which blamed comics for the growing problem of juvenile delinquency in America. This book is commonly viewed as the stimulus that stirred the public moral panic and created a backlash against comics and their creators. This, in turn, led to the destruction of a large number of comic publishers and to the imposition of the Comics Code, which stifled creativity for decades. Tom De Haven called Wertham the “industry’s real-life supervillain.”
But, Superman isn’t a crime comic, some would say.
Not according to Wertham, who described Superman and his fellow heroes as:
The Superman type of comic books tends to force and super-force. Dr. Paul A. Witty, professor of education at Northwestern University, has well described these comics when he said that they “present our world in a kind of Fascist setting of violence and hate and destruction. I think it is bad for children,” he goes on, “to get that kind of recurring diet … [they] place too much emphasis on a Fascist society. Therefore the democratic ideals that we should seek are likely to be overlooked.
David Hajdu, author of The Ten Cent Plague, writes:
Unlike many critics of crime, horror, and romance comics in the newspaper columns and state assemblies, Wertham considered superhero comics as dangerous as any others. In fact, he reserved a specially toxic venom for National/DC’s popular trio of heroes, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, whom he saw respectively, as exemplars of fascism, homoeroticism, and sadomasochism.
Wertham goes on to argue that Superman caused children to be narcissistic.
Rather than doing good deeds for the sake of morality and character, Wertham wrote that Superman influences children to do a good deed for the sake of fame and potential rewards; Wertham even goes so far as to argue that Superman’s influence is so dangerous that the character encourages children to create accidents and problems in order to be seen solving them.
Indeed, even when he testified in front of the Senate, Wertham took the time to single out Superman, noting that the comic books aroused in children “phantasies [sic] of sadistic joy in seeing other people punished over and over again while you yourself remain immune.” Wertham called it the “Superman complex.”
Perhaps the most incredible claim leveled at the Man of Tomorrow is that Wertham labels him an un-American fascist, he writes:
Actually, Superman (with the big S on his uniform — we should, I suppose, be thankful that it is not an S.S.) needs an endless stream of ever new submen, criminals and “foreign- looking” people not only to justify his existence but even to make it possible. It is this feature that engenders in children either one or the other of two attitudes: either they fantasy themselves as supermen, with the attendant prejudices against the submen, or it makes them submissive and receptive to the blandishments of strong men who will solve all their social problems for them — by force.
Wertham argued that Superman was actually the epitome of Nazism. Superman’s speed, strength, and near invulnerability, Wertham argued, drew close the concept of the perfect man and race that was located at the core of the Nazi Party’s ideology and thus provided subliminal support for the Nazi Party. This theme was adopted by CatholicWorld, who stated that Superman personified an ideal “very much in the style of a Nazi pamphleteer.” Gershom Legman, an American cultural critic and essayist, wrote that Superman “is really peddling a philosophy of ‘hooded justice’ in no way distinguishable from that of Hitler….” Wertham and friends’ condemnation of Superman for being an un-American Nazi mere years after the Nazi party condemns him for being a pro-American Jew is dramatic irony on par with the works of Shakespeare. Of course, it should not have really been a surprise since Wertham is also quoted as saying, “I think Hiter was a beginner compared to the comic-book industry.”
As a result of these attacks, Wolcott Gibbs, a critic for the New Yorker, warned, “The evidence that Dr. Wertham has gathered is overpowering…. I like to think that Superman and his pals are up against the battle of their perverse, fantastic, and foolish lives.”
So, how did the makers of Superman (collectively known as Superman, Inc at the time) respond to these allegations? The safest thing to do would have been to lay low. This was especially true after EC Publisher MC Gaines was crucified in the media after his appearance in the congressional hearings. Clearly, the deck was stacked against comics. Superman’s best move would have been to hide out in his Fortress of Solitude until the whole comics scare blew over. But, then who would challenge Wertham’s views?
This looked like a job for Superman!
Instead of passively waiting for the tide to turn, Superman forged his way onto a new American frontier: the world of television. In doing so, Superman conquered yet another medium and prevailed in the eyes of the public against Wertham’s smear campaign. Larry Tye in his book, Superman: The High Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero, explains:
This was no time to launch another Superman experiment. Not in 1951, when the whole comic book world was running scared. Not when the medium into which he was being catapulted, television, was so callow and unclear whether it would succeed, and it was perfectly clear that actors with promise would opt for Hollywood or Broadway. Not when Superman himself was being labeled a sociopath.
Tye continues, explaining precisely why Superman pushed through the challenges and into television:
But that wasn’t the way National Comics or Robert Maxwell thought. They knew that there more children than ever in America, where soldiers had come home from Europe and made up for lost time by igniting an unprecedented boom in babies. They also knew that radio was dying as a venue for children’s adventure and that movie serials wouldn’t be far behind. While TV might be new and untested, so where comic books when Superman broke through in that medium. Now was precisely the time when the battered Superman of the static page could use a lift onto the small screens that were turning up in America’s dens and playrooms. For Superman’s owners, the question wasn’t whether, but when to push ahead . . . .
And push ahead they did. The Adventures of Superman debuted in 1953, with George Reeves playing the Man of Steel (and Ellsworth as producer). Almost immediately, the show became tremendously popular and is considered a television classic. Superman even reached the pinnacle of his day: a guest spot on the 1950s most popular situation comedy, I Love Lucy. Les Daniels explains, “such guest shots were generally reserved for Hollywood icons like John Wayne, Rock Hudson, or Harpo Marx, but in 1956, Reeves joined their illustrious company — or rather Superman did.” (I should add that Reeves was uncredited for the role).
The show preached a messages of tolerance and good will. The television show continued to showcase the same all ages positive messages that ran through the comic throughout its 104 episode run. In a 1954 interview, George Reeves explained:
In Superman, we’re all concerned with giving kids the right kind of show. We don’t go too much for violence. Once, for a big fight scene, we had several of the top wrestlers in town do the big brawl. It was considered too rough by the sponsors and producer, so it was toned down. Our writers and the sponsors have children, and they are all very careful about doing things on the show that will have no adverse effect on the young audience. We even try in our scripts, to give a gentle message of tolerance and stress that a man’s color and race and religious beliefs should be respected.
This apparently did not faze Wertham, who wrote:
Some movie writers look in crime comic books for new tricks. For instance the producer of the movie serial Atom Man vs Superman, which was shown in about half the movie theaters of the country, is said to be “an avid reader of the comics, from which he gets many of his ideas.” Television has taken the worst out of comic books, from sadism to Superman. The comic-book Superman has long been recognized as a symbol of violent race superiority. The television Superman, looking like a mixture of an operatic tenor without his armor and an amateur athlete out of a health-magazine advertisement, does not only have “superhuman powers,” but explicitly belongs to a “super-race.”
But the fight did not end there. In addition to putting their character in the spotlight in other media, DC Comics took the fight to Wertham. Larry Tye, in Superman: The High Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero, explains:
Mort [Weisenger] took on Fredric Wertham. In a radio debate, Wertham talked about how all of the two hundred inmates he had interviewed at reform school had read Superman, prompting Weisenger to ask, “Did you get them to confess that they also chew bubble gum, play baseball, eat hot dogs, and go to the movies?” There was no joking in an “investigation” he did for Better Homes and Gardens in 1955 entitled “How They’re Cleaning Up the Comic Books” — and no mention, as he outlined the “stern self-censorship” publishers were pursuing to purge comics of everything from sex to cannibalism and bad grammar, that Weisenger was not a disinterested investigator but a top editor at America’s biggest comic book publisher.
The March 1955 issue of Better Homes and Gardens referred to by Tye had a lengthy article that explained the need for the Comics Code and how it functioned. It started out with a description of every comic book ever made “from Action Comics to Ziggy Pig.” (Ziggy Pig appeared in a back-up in the 1940′s Timely Krazy Komics in a short-lived five issue run from 1944-1946.)
Weisenger wrote:
…some anxious parents concerned with the reading habits of their children will note something new has been added to the familiar [comic book]…. This seal is another and the latest answer to the comic-book industry’s bitterest critics. During the next 30 days, as millions of comic books introducing this seal flood the magazine racks of Candy stores, supermarkets, and pharmacies throughout the country, the public will be informed that the seal is the symbol of the industry’s new policy of stern self-censorship… Comic-book houses are on the hot seal today as a result of conscienceless editing by a minority of unethical publishers within their ranks… it is because of the past activities of the lunatic fringe that the entire industry has been smeared….
I should note that the article also stated that, according to Judge Murphy, the Comics Code hired all women with college backgrounds “because it has been my experience that women are more sensitive than men in most matters of good taste.” Les Daniels, in DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World’s Favorite Comic Book Heroes adds:
DC was one of the few comic book publishers to survive [The Comics Code Crunch]. “We didn’t have titles that were really attackable,” says Irwin Donnenfeld. “And I went around the country. I spoke before PTA groups. I was on TV discussing the problems of comics and how helpful they are in teaching kids to read.”
In my research, I discovered that Wertham struck back one last time on April 9, 1955 (which was after the imposition of the Comic Book Code and not very publicized), in an article the Saturday Review of Literature called “It’s Still Murder: What Parents Still Don’t Know About Comics Books.” Reading more like a rant, Wertham accuses the Comics Book Code of not being sufficient and the Association (and comic book industry) of being disingenuous.
The code itself is a pious document. Liquor advertising is forbidden. There never was any. The word crime “shall never appear alone on a cover.” It never did. “Divorce shall not be treated humorously.” Was it, ever? The code does not even mention narcotics and drug addiction, which have played such an infamous role in crime and love comics. Pools of blood are not mentioned either…. The Code does not forbid cruelty to children…. Kicking in the face, popularized in comics and never practiced by children before the comic book era, is not mentioned in the code…
Wertham continues his rant, advocating for further censorship:
In the wording of the code, Mr. Murphy [a reference to New York Magistrate Charles F. Murphy, the first head of the organization] has tipped his hand, too. “excessive violence is forbidden.” Should not all violence be toned down? “Brutal” torture is forbidden. Does that mean that refined torture is all right? “Excessive” knife and gunplay are forbidden; so is “unnecessary” knife and gun play. Does that mean that it is all right to stab a guy if need be? Surely this is not a countermeasure, but a cover-up continuation of the cruelty-for-fun education of children.
Wertham next goes through several examples in code-approved books. It is important to mention that not one of the examples feature Superman. Wertham concludes the article with an impassioned plea that comics should be legislatively eliminated:
At present, it is far safer for a mother to let her child have a comic book without a seal of approval that one with such a seal. If comic books, as the industry claim, are the folklore of today, then the codes are the fables. The problem is really simple. You either close down a house of prostitution or you leave it open. You can’t satisfy both those who want it open and those who want it closed. How long are we supposed to wait for the comics clean-up? Mr. Murphy told the Joint Legislative Committee: “It will take years and years.” It could be done in a few weeks. The way the industry acts, it seems to me that it will take centuries.
Wertham further argues for legislation that censors comic books:
Mammon is at the root of all this. The comic-book publishers, racketeers of the spirit, have corrupted children in the past, they are corrupting them right now, and they will continue to corrupt them unless we legally prevent it. Of course, there are larger issues in the world today, and mightier matters to be debated. But maybe we will lose the bigger things if we fail to defend the nursery.
But it was too late. The battle was over. DC’s steps to keep Superman wholesome, combined with the serials, the radio program, the animated movies, the newspaper strips, and the brand new television show, made the character more popular than ever. Moreover, Wertham’s attacks actually had the reverse effect and made the Superman comics more appealing to rebellious children since it was portrayed as forbidden fruit. Parents and educators took advantage of this by having the character appear in workbooks to teach grammar, vocabulary and spelling. But, perhaps the greatest sign that Superman had emerged unscathed came in the 1960s when the Kennedy administration approached DC to create a book to promote exercise. Like Superman, President Kennedy had utilized the fledging television medium to help attain iconic status. Together, the two helped close the “muscle gap” with “Superman’s Mission for President Kennedy!” Tragically, the issue was delayed when, in November 1963, President Kennedy fell to an assassin’s bullet.
The Krypton Companion (in an article entitled “Krypton Meets Camelot”) explains:
The most famous of the Chief Executive’s DC appearances was “Superman’s Mission for President Kennedy!” in Superman #170 (July 1964), which has an intriguing backstory. Planned for publication in issue #168 (cover date Apr. 1964) as part of the President’s campaign to encourage physical fitness among youths, “Superman’s Mission,” written by Bill Finger and E. Nelson Bridwell, was originally drawn by Curt Swan. The story was shelved immediately after Kennedy’s November 22, 1963 assassination, but rescheduled for print upon the request of Kennedy’s successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson. Swan’s original pages were, according to conflicting reports either lost or given to Jacqueline Kennedy, and Al Plastino quickly stepped forth to render the tale for publication. Plastino’s artwork for this landmark story is displayed in the Kennedy Library.
As Superman’s popularity grew, Wertham soon became a pariah. Les Daniels explains in Comix, A History of Comic Books in America:
[The Comics Code Authority] proudly proclaimed itself the most oppressive force of censorship on the American landscape, and nobody batted an eyelash. In addition, it even managed-to provide an indignant scapegoat: Dr. Wertham. The irony is while Wertham was the clever and coherent of the comics critics, he most certainly was not connected with the Authority.
I should also add that, perhaps in response to frustration with the success of the Superman show, Wertham attempted to “clean up” early television by writing an anti-televisual thesis, War on Children (1959), which was very similar in theme to Seduction of the Innocent. The book could not find a publisher.
In short, Wertham’s cultural influence waned as Superman’s grew.
Still, Wertham tried to move on, all the while denying that he was pro-censorship or against comic books. He stated:
My main interest is not in comic books or even mass media, but in children and young people. Over the years I have been director of large mental hygiene clinics… And I have done a great deal of work — sometimes with great difficulty — to prevent young people from being sent to reformatories where they are often very badly treated. I have also helped a number of young people so they were not sent to the electric chair. Seeing that so many immature people have troubles and get into trouble, I tried to find out all the sources that contributed to their difficulties. In the course of that work I came across crime comic books. I had nothing whatever to do directly with the comics code. Nor have I ever endorsed it. Nor do I believe in it.
Wertham further argues that his actions were not censorship, but intended to protect children. He even notes that he testified against censorship in federal court. In the 1970s, Wertham even wrote a book applauding the subculture of comic fandom, The World of Fanzines (1974), where he concluded that fanzines were “a constructive and healthy exercise of creative drives.” Trysh Travis writes in Romanticizing the Comics: What Wertham Got Right (featured in a 2012 issue of Raritan, A Quarterly Review):
In the post-Code years, Wertham routinely received hate mail from comics fans who, like Trombetta [author of The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn’t Want You to Read!], believed that his Senate testimony was “the day comics died.” Because he thought the Code was stupid and ineffective, because he was in fact a lifelong opponent of censorship, and because he seems to have been a remarkably principled and decent man, Wertham made a habit of responding to these letters. His dialogue with fans led him to write, in 1973, The World of Fanzines: A Special Form of communication. Though hardly a great book, Fanzines nevertheless suggests how we might move away from an overdetermined narrative of pop-culture creators, consumers, and forms as “cultural insurgents” (David Hajdu’s term) to construct a more precise, if less anthemic, account of how and why popular art forms matter — as well as of the limitations on that mattering.
Wertham’s work on the World of Fanzines earned him an invitation to address the New York Comic Art Convention, where, as expected, he faced a hostile crowd and was heckled.
As a result, Wertham never wrote about comics again.
So who won?
Isn’t it obvious?
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Joe Sergi is a life-long comics fan and author who has written short stories, novels, comics, and articles in the horror, science fiction, super hero, and young adult genres. When not writing, he works as a Senior Litigation Counsel in an unnamed US government agency. More information can be found at http://www.joesergi.net/.
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China’s central government is considering consolidating its three largest nuclear companies. The move closely follows the impending merger of the country’s two biggest train manufacturers. Beijing has evidently decided to go big in a bid to dominate export markets.
Early this month, Reuters reported that the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, better known as SASAC, was studying the consolidation of China National Nuclear Corp. and China General Nuclear Power Corp. “The merger between CGN and CNNC is inevitable,” said Xu Lianyi, a former government official, to the news service.
The official China Daily, going one step further, this month reported that Beijing was thinking about merging the country’s three largest nuclear enterprises. The third firm, according to the paper, was State Nuclear Power Technology Corp.
Not everyone agrees with Xu Lianyi, who has ongoing ties to State Nuclear Power Technology. For instance, Wu Zongxin of Tsinghua University in Beijing, speaking to the China Daily, believes there is a “slim chance” of such a merger at this time. Lu Jinyong of Beijing’s University of International Business and Economics also is a skeptic. “The three companies were intentionally put into competition for markets,” the paper paraphrases Lu as saying, “so it would be difficult to merge them into one, given their different agendas and backgrounds.”
Lu is correct that at one time progressive-minded technocrats in the Chinese capital wanted to break up monopolies so that state firms would vie with one another, but there has been a noticeable change in thinking. “Officials hope that such a move would end intense competition and boost technology exports,” China Daily reports, referring to the contemplated merger of the three nuclear companies.
Chinese technocrats had the same reason in mind when they planned the merger of China CNR Corp. and CSR Corp., China two largest train makers. “Sources close to the State Assets Supervision and Administration Commission said that the move was intended to create a single strong player, because vicious competition has undermined the government’s efforts to boost exports of high-speed railway technology,” China Daily reported.
The State Council, which ordered the consolidation in September, was reportedly upset that the two state firms vigorously competed against each other for a contract to build 284 subway cars for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Ultimately, CNR submitted the winning bid of $566.6 million. “The price offered by CNR was about half of the highest bid and a quarter lower than the second lowest bid,” said Lawrence Li of UOB Kay Hian to the South China Morning Post.
The rail merger, as can be seen from the proposed nuclear consolidation, is not just a one-off reaction to the bargain Boston riders will soon enjoy. “It will become China’s long-term strategy,” a source, referring to the CNR-CSR deal, told the Shanghai Securities News. “Actually, it could become a model for other State-owned enterprises.” Xie Jilong, CNR’s board secretary, confirms the combination was initiated by Beijing, not the two firms.
Since the end of the 1990s, analysts have been hailing the breakup of Mao Zedong’s gigantic state monopolies. CNR and CSR, for instance, were split off from the same enterprise, China National Railway Locomotive and Rolling Stock Industry Corp., at the turn of the century.
Now, however, Beijing is beginning to reverse that process. This reversal, more than anything, indicates that regressive elements are at work in Beijing political circles. Because Maoist-style economics are evidently back in favor, it appears that China will not embark on much of the promised economic restructuring, at least of the progressive kind.
Chinese leaders may have the power to repeat history and ruin their own economy, but they don’t have the right to disadvantage foreigners. Beijing’s monopolist moves have two important implications for outsiders.
First, Beijing’s application of its 2008 Anti-Monopoly Law to foreign business looks even more discriminatory than it did last year. China’s officials obviously are not interested in competition, as they maintained when challenged on this issue. The law is a club, selectively applied to multinationals, and Beijing’s enforcement of it is undoubtedly a violation of its World Trade Organization obligations to provide national treatment.
Second, the merger of Chinese competitors will allow them to raise bids in foreign markets. CNR and CSR, for instance, are currently participating in California’s high-speed rail project, and they will certainly not bid against each other for additional phases.
Some may doubt that Beijing will be able to merge its nuclear concerns, but there are other industries where large state players can be joined together.
Chinese technocrats have often tried to make the small big. For decades, they have been consolidating industries plagued by both overcapacity and a multitude of enterprises, especially cement, steel, aluminum, and shipbuilding. What’s new is that they are now consolidating sectors where there are already only a few competitors, all of them state-owned. And now Beijing is not shy about openly declaring that it is doing so to bolster its competitive position overseas. The word for that is “predatory.”
Chinese leaders evidently think they have the power to set prices not just at home but elsewhere as well. That seems unrealistic in most industries, but they have grand ambitions these days.
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While a large number of Los Angeles-area music fans dealt with the frustrations of the shuttered Hard Summer event at the Forum, our Chicago friends had a bounty of music this weekend. Lollapalooza, aside from scorching heat and a bit of rain, appears to have gone relatively smoothly, and Greg Kot's Turn It Up blog offers detailed day-by-day takes of what went down.
Sets from Bat for Lashes, Lou Reed, Dhani Harrison's newno2, the Gaslight Anthem and Chicago newcomers He Say, She Say sound like they were more than worth braving the air-conditioned buses and crowds of 70,000 or more.
But Lolla was just one of Chicago's main events this weekend. Later, Them Crooked Vultures was unveiled at Wrigleyville club Metro, featuring Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones on bass/keyboard, Foo Fighter Dave Grohl on drums and Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age on guitar/lead vocals. Little was known heading in, but Kot was at the post-Lollapalooza show late Sunday/early Monday, and the news sounds good.
Kot wrote:
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Democrats and their allies in the health-care advocacy community have taken notice, sounding alarms in a bid to mobilize the same level of opposition to the new bill as they were able to do successfully against previous GOP proposals.
“This is a red siren moment for the entire country,” Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer said at a press conference Monday. “If this bill becomes law, our health-care system will be dramatically curtailed, and there will be chaos in many states.”
The Graham-Cassidy bill would repeal Obamacare’s individual and employer mandates for health insurance but differs from some earlier proposals by keeping most of the law’s tax increases. That revenue is then converted into a block grant for states, which could choose how to use it to best fit their needs. Graham and Cassidy are trying to appeal to the conservative preference for federalism and attract the support of governors by offering them maximal flexibility. They could keep Obamacare’s standards and requirements, or they could ditch almost all of them, including some of the protections intended for people with preexisting conditions. But as my colleague Vann Newkirk explains, the proposal is not as much of a compromise as it might appear to be, since the measure scales back funding for Medicaid over time, and the states that would be most likely to keep Obamacare’s structure would receive substantially less money from the federal government.
According to Cassidy, the bill has the private support of 49 GOP senators, putting it, again, just one vote shy of the 50 needed to clear the Senate under the budget reconciliation rules that expire at month’s end and that allow Republicans to avoid a Democratic filibuster. Cassidy’s rosy claim is impossible to verify, because plenty of GOP senators have said little or nothing publicly about the proposal. But even if it were true, the 50th vote has always been the hardest for the party to get, and it’s unclear what in the Graham-Cassidy proposal would secure the backing of either Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska or McCain—two of the three senators who opposed the last repeal proposal in July.
Already, two of the 52 Senate Republicans appear to be out of reach for Graham and Cassidy. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has declared the proposal to be “Obamacare lite” and debated its merits with Cassidy on Twitter. “Graham/Cassidy keeps Obamacare and tells the states to run it. No thanks,” Paul concluded Monday morning. Senator Susan Collins of Maine hasn’t taken quite as strong a stance, but she had opposed each and every one of the previous GOP repeal proposals and does not appear inclined to back this one.
“Senator Collins has a number of concerns with the Graham-Cassidy proposal, including the cuts to the Medicaid program and the impact to the requirement that insurers provide coverage to people with preexisting conditions,” Collins spokeswoman Annie Clark told me on Monday. “She will be examining the forthcoming CBO analysis.”
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Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention, Ann Romney hailed her husband's creation of the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship Program,
“Under Mitt, Massachusetts's schools were the best in the nation. The best. He started the John and Abigail Adams scholarships, which give the top 25 percent of high school graduates a four-year tuition-free scholarship.”
The John and Abigail Adams scholarship program is described on Massachusetts Department of Higher Education's Office of Student Financial Assistance as "a non-need-based state-supported undergraduate tuition waivers to students who are awarded John and Abigail Adams Scholarship by the Department of Education," and is only available to students who are "enrolled full-time in a Massachusetts public college or university."
So, as Governor, Mitt Romney established and funded a program that used taxpayer dollars to send students exclusively to publicly-funded institutions.
Though Mrs. Romney finds this achievement praiseworthy, her husband has pledged to do nothing of the sort as President. Strike that. He has pledged to do the opposite as president. Romney has endorsed his running mate's budget, which includes the largest reduction in Pell grant funding in the history of the program, and he has pledged to fold private lenders back into the federal student loan market.
When he introduced the Adams scholarship, he said: 'Talented and hardworking students, particularly those faced with economic challenges, deserve whatever financial help we can give them. They have earned it with their good grades, and we want to make it easier for them to pursue their college education right here in Massachusetts"
Now, when discussing student aid, he skips over scholarships, and right into loans, saying:
"It is very tempting as a politician to say, ‘ You know what, I will just give you some money. The government is just going to give you some money and pay back your loans for you,’” he said. “I am not going to tell you something that is not the truth, because you know, that is just taking money from your other pocket and giving it to the other pocket. "I am not going to promise all sorts of free stuff that I know you are going to end up paying for,” he continued.
This all goes toward our theory that Mitt Romney is running against himself from 10 minutes ago.
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It’s not exactly public transportation, but developers at Google, Inc. are designing technology that allows cars to drive themselves. Democratic State Senator Alex Padilla is so enamored with the plans that he let a Google-designed self-driving Toyota Prius give him a lift to Sacramento to hold a news conference about it.
As reported by the Environment News Service, the reason for the occasion was Padilla’s announcement of his legislation, Senate Bill 1298, which would instruct the California Highway Patrol to start “developing guidelines” around testing and ultimately unleashing self-driving vehicles on California roads.
The Google system utilizes a “laser range finder” on the car's roof, and no less than four radars mounted on the front and back bumpers. A camera keeps an eye on traffic lights.
“It was pretty amazing when Google's vehicle went into self-driving mode,” Senator Padilla said in a press release. “The drive was smooth and safe. It worked flawlessly. It is a testament to human ingenuity and the power of technology in California.”
Google product manager Anthony Levandowski returned the sentiments, adding that, “California is our home state. Our self-driving cars have safely traveled more than 200,000 miles here. We're very fortunate to have found a supporter with a strong technical background in Senator Padilla, and we look forward to working with him throughout this process."
Nevada was the first state to approve the testing of self-driving cars on public roadways last year. Along with California, Hawaii, Florida and Oklahoma are also considering similar testing.
Google is not alone. Automakers BMW, Volvo and Audi are also developing driverless car technologies.
“The vast majority of vehicle accidents are due to human error,” Padilla declared, doubtlessly speaking on behalf of countless L.A. drivers who are sick and tired of dealing with, well, L.A. drivers. “Autonomous vehicles have the potential to significantly reduce traffic fatalities and improve safety on our roads and highways.”
Would you feel comfortable sitting back, sending text messages and checking your hair in the mirror while the car did all of the driving?
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In a hearing centered on Russian interference in the election, one senator took the opportunity to question the former attorney general who was fired for refusing to defend President Trump's travel ban.
Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) asked former acting Attorney General Sally Yates why she refused to defend Trump's initial executive order barring travel from several Mideast nations.
"I believed any argument [the Justice Department] would have to make in its defense would not be grounded in the truth," Yates said.
"We would have to argue that it had nothing to do with religion," she said.
Kennedy asked whether there was no reasonable argument that could be made to defend the order any other way.
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Yates said she believed the intent of the order was to discriminate against Muslims trying to come to the United States.
She added that if it were an act of Congress, she would still have refused to defend it, pointing to the Obama Justice Department refusing to defend the Defense of Marriage Act.
Kennedy asked Yates to tell him at which level of government an act becomes unconstitutional.
Yates repeated that she could not send lawyers to defend Trump's action without admitting the order's intent was discrimination.
"Who appointed you to the United States Supreme Court?" Kennedy asked.
Watch the full exchange above.
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Academic Medical Centers Get An F In Sharing Research Results
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In a study powered by the labor of medical students, my colleagues and I found that two-thirds of clinical trials led by scientists at our finest academic institutions didn't share their results publicly within two years of the study's completion.
Moreover, none of these research institutions has a good record of sharing results. Many are much worse than the average.
For all the focus on the need to speed up science for cures, we have a bottleneck at our nation's bastions of research excellence. Too many times, study results are neither reported on the government website dedicated to that purpose, clinicaltrials.gov, nor published in a medical journal.
Our findings were published Wednesday in The BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal.
The failure to share results is so pervasive that it seems inappropriate to blame individuals. Instead, it is a systemic problem. Academic medicine has fostered a culture in which the sharing of our results is considered discretionary, rather than mandatory. And if researchers decide to pass on sharing, there is no consequence to them.
Not reporting results violates the basic principle of the scientific method. It hurts patients, society and science. It also dishonors the people who gave their consent and bore the risk of participating in the studies. Who would agree to be in a study with the knowledge that the results wouldn't be shared?
It seems a fair assumption that these studies were worth doing and were designed to generate meaningful information. Academics at leading universities led these studies. Human studies oversight boards at these institutions approved these studies. Given all that, the holding back of the results impedes progress toward scientific breakthroughs, corrupts the medical literature and wastes research funding.
I am a strong advocate for data sharing and open science. I believe that scientists share data in the spirit of advancing knowledge. But those goals are a step beyond what we are talking about here: simply sharing the results of the research.
Some people are intent on finding the underlying factors within the culture that has produced this behavior. I have heard people say that they aren't eager to publish results that seem weak or counter to what they believe. Some claim that other responsibilities occupied their time or that they ran out of research funds in the final stages.
I must admit that I don't care. I don't want to study this problem further. I just want to see it fixed.
Posting results on clinicaltrials.gov, the government website, could be done in less than an hour. Publishing the results, with or without peer review, could be done if people are determined to do it. Sharing the results is just not that hard and should not be considered optional.
The problem isn't new. I first encountered the selective sharing of research findings during my work as an expert for plaintiffs in the Vioxx litigation 10 years ago and we subsequently published an article about it. Before that experience I never imagined that people would conduct human studies and not share results.
To investigate this issue further, colleagues and I took a broader look at research and found that this wasn't a problem unique to industry, but was pervasive throughout medicine. In a 2009 study, we were shocked to see that results of only about half of trials were published within four years of study completion.
Our first reaction was that we couldn't be right. We pored over our results to be sure they were true. We published them with trepidation because despite repeated checks, we still thought that someone would find an error. How could it be so bad?
And yet, our conclusions were true and others soon replicated the findings.
When we published a study that showed even results from studies funded by the National Institutes of Health commonly went unshared, our findings were met by disbelief at NIH until scientists there repeated the study and found the same thing.
As these studies emerged, industry began to adopt policies to ensure reporting and publication. But not academic institutions.
To zero in on this issue, the most recent study looks specifically at the performance of academic centers.
I teach at Yale University and one of my students, Ray Chen (now a resident at the University of California, San Francisco), wanted to do a meaningful study as part of his degree. We began talking about researchers not sharing their results. We thought it would be useful to produce a national report card for the leading academic institutions. They are, after all, ultimately responsible for the studies conducted under their auspices.
We didn't want to embarrass anyone, but we felt that maybe some stellar performers could help enlighten the others about how to improve.
There was only one problem: It would take a lot of work. I mean, a lot of work. There was no easy way to track down the information about study publications without going one by one and searching for them in many different ways.
Ray said that he thought he could recruit other medical students to help. They would have to spend hours tracking down whether studies led by people at the top academic institutions had shared results by reporting them on clinicaltrials.gov or publishing them.
The students persevered, knowing that they might be questioning the practices of the powerful. And they were dismayed by what they found.
What should be done about the problem? If I were a funder of research and the recipient academic institution didn't share the results, I would ask for a refund. If I were representing the interests of study participants, I would ask for apologies and forbid future research until there was a plan for sharing all results.
There's no excuse for not reporting all results within two years of finishing a study. And, I'd argue, the time should be much shorter. This is about taking science seriously and our commitment to move faster on behalf of patients and society.
This is medical research. It is ultimately about providing practical benefit. We have a moral imperative to share what we learn. We need the systems in place that guarantee researchers adhere to the final step of the scientific method and share what they find.
In the end, it would be particularly sweet if it were the labor of medical students that led the established researchers to correct their ways.
Harlan Krumholz is a cardiologist and the Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. He directs the Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation and is a co-director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program.
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SOUTH HACKENSACK - Township Police Commissioner William Regan has been arrested and charged with assaulting his wife, according to a municipal court complaint.
Regan, 52, who was sworn this month to his third term on the township committee, was arrested Thursday on a charge of simple assault with bodily injury.
The complaint accuses William Regan of "grabbing (his wife) by the arms and pulling her to the ground and causing injury to her arms and knees."
He was charged with a disorderly person's offense and given a Feb. 9 court date. However, Municipal Court Administrator Diane Brando said Tuesday that the case will be forwarded to the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office to "avoid a conflict."
A determination will be made by the county prosecutor on where to hear the case, Brando said.
$1M in drugs found in minivan
The complaint states the alleged assault occurred last Wednesday in South Hackensack but gives no other details.
A voicemail message left for William Regan was not returned. There was no answer Tuesday morning at the Regan home on Dyer Avenue.
A South Hackensack police spokesman was not available to comment on Tuesday.
According to his LinkedIn page, Regan has served as police commissioner since Jan. 2016. He served as mayor of South Hackensack from 2014-2016, deputy mayor from 2012-2014 and worked for nearly seven years as a loss-prevention manager for CVS Pharmacy in New York.
Regan lists his current position as an armed guard for celebrities and CEOs, also conducting corporate investigations and providing event security.
Anthony G. Attrino may be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @TonyAttrino. Find NJ.com on Facebook.
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Flowers, jewelry, chocolate, teddy bears — the conventional Valentine’s Day gifts have a decidedly feminine slant to them, but a new survey shows that men think they’re the ones really cleaning up when it comes to Valentine’s Day: Guys think their significant others will spend $230 on them, while women expect that their main squeezes will spend, on average, $196 on them. Both men and women who are in relationships expect an average of $240 will be spent on them.
According to the Chase Blueprint Valentine’s Day Survey, though, both genders might be a little overly optimistic when it comes to their expectations for Valentine’s Day. Women said they plan to spend an average of $27 less than the $98 guys say they’ll shell out — which means neither gender plans to spend nearly as much as they want to have spent on them.
Not into shelling out the big bucks? A new RetailMeNot.com survey hints at one way couples can avoid breaking the bank this Valentine’s Day: Two-thirds of men and 30% of women say they’d rather have sex than get a gift for the holiday. Chase found that 43% of men and about half as many women don’t want a Valentine’s Day gift.
Fewer people are celebrating Valentine’s Day this year by buying gifts. The National Retail Federation’s new survey of more than 6,4000 people finds that respondents celebrating the holiday plan to spend an average of just under $134, about three bucks more than last year, but the number of people planning to celebrate it this year has fallen — just 54% compared to 60% last year. RetailMeNot finds that almost 20% of people don’t plan to spend anything on their significant other for Valentine’s Day.
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About 70% of the more than 1,200 respondents to the Chase survey say they’d rather be surprised than pick out their own present for Valentine’s Day. Gift recipients prefer chocolate over flowers, tech toys over jewelry and dinner out over a home-cooked meal, although RetailMeNot finds that the number of people who want to stay in for the evening has gone up 10 percentage points since last year. The NRF survey finds that more than a third of people will give flowers or take their significant other out for the evening, about half of people will give candy and around 20% plan to buy jewelry.
The NRF survey also looks at Valentine’s spending beyond what people get for their significant others: Almost 60% will get something for a family member, 22% get gifts for friends and almost 20% get Valentine’s Day presents for their pets.
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At Wednesday's presidential debate, Mitt Romney said he would cut funding to PBS. | AP Photos PBS: 'Romney does not understand'
Mitt Romney’s promise Wednesday night to gut federal funding for PBS has suddenly made it a campaign issue, prompting PBS to accuse the GOP nominee of not understanding public broadcasting’s value to America.
”We are very disappointed that PBS became a political target in the Presidential debate last night,” PBS said in a statement. “Governor Romney does not understand the value the American people place on public broadcasting and the outstanding return on investment the system delivers to our nation.”
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During Wednesday’s debate, Romney told moderator Jim Lehrer, a longtime PBS anchor, “I’m sorry, Jim, I’m going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I’m going to stop other things. I like PBS. I love Big Bird. Actually, I like you too. But I’m not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for us.”
Romney’s remark immediately lit up Twitter — Big Bird was still among the top trending topics at midday on Thursday — and became a talking point on cable TV.
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart said Thursday that PBS and Big Bird will survive without federal funds that could be better spent elsewhere.
“Big Bird will be fine, trust me,” the Florida Republican said on CNN. “Big Bird is always going to be on TV, but the questions is, should we be sending hard-earned taxpayer money to an entity that is a multimillion dollar entity that’s going to be there with or without taxpayer subsidy?”
The government funds the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private, nonprofit corporation that distributes the subsidy to local PBS stations. In the 2012 fiscal year, CPB was given $444 .1 million — about 0.012 percent of the entire federal budget, as astrophysicist and radio host Neil deGrasse Tyson accurately tweeted Thursday. By law, CPB must give around 72 percent of its appropriation directly to stations, with lesser amounts going to PBS and other public TV and radio broadcasters. In the 2011 fiscal year, for example, PBS received just $22.3 million of CPB’s total $429 million appropriation, according to the most current data available.
CPB estimates that for about $1.35 per American per year, “PBS stations return six times that amount in programming and services.”
PBS CEO Paula Kerger defended her network earlier Thursday, saying it was “stunning” that Romney said he wanted to slash “America’s biggest classroom” during a debate partly about education.
“The fact that we are the focus is just unbelievable to me,” Kerger said on CNN. “Whether you have books in your home or computer or not, almost everyone has a television set. The fact that we are in this debate— this isn’t about the budget. It has to be about politics.”
Cuts could prompt some stations, especially in rural areas, to go dark, she said.
“So that is actually what is at risk if, in fact, we are defunded because they money is going to stations around the country,” said Kerger, who called Romney’s remark “well-rehearsed.”
PBS’s statement cited a 2011 national survey that found that 69 percent of Americans oppose eliminating government funding for public broadcasting, versus 27 percent who favor it.
The sudden attention to Big Bird after the debate prompted Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind “Sesame Street,” to state: “Sesame Workshop is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, educational organization. We do not comment on campaigns, but we’re happy we can all agree that everyone likes Big Bird.”
Sherrie Westin, executive vice president of Sesame Workshop, said the program has partnered with PBS for 43 years.
“We’re dependent on PBS to distribute our programs to children throughout the United States,” she said. “That’s how ‘Sesame Street’ reaches all children, particularly low-income children.”
Even though Big Bird was on all of America’s lips Thursday morning, Diaz-Balart downplayed Romney’s remark.
“You think that was the highlight moment from his debate?” he asked CNN’s Carol Costello. “That is a red herring and I think a pretty light moment.”
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One of the difficult things with evaluating games on the App Store is how much they tend to evolve over time. It’s especially tricky with free-to-play games that are often set up to be gentle in the early stages and more punishing over time. It’s like waiting for the other shoe to drop a lot of the time, and I think that contributes to why some people are hesitant to get into those kinds of games to begin with. Even though I’ve played Square Enix and DeNA’s new social RPG Final Fantasy: Record Keeper more than anyone at TouchArcade, I won’t be doing the main review. We agreed it would be interesting for readers to get another point of view on the game, so my co-host on the RPG Reload Podcast Eric Ford will be handling that.
There is, however, a unique opportunity with this game that we’re not often afforded. I’ve played this game virtually every day for five months, participated in all of the events, and pushed my way through a huge chunk of the game, all without spending even a single yen on anything. I’ve been asked to write up my impressions of the Japanese version of the game up until now, to give you some idea of how the game shakes out over the long term. Consider this a supplement to the main review of the game. A glimpse at how the game looks way down the road, if you will.
So, let’s start by answering the question that’s probably on everyone’s mind. Where’s the paywall? The answer is that so far, I haven’t hit anything that has completely stopped my progress. There are some Elite dungeons I’m not quite ready to handle as of yet, but none of the main dungeons have stopped me for very long if at all. I’ve fully completed all but one of the stages up to the point that I’m at with the regular levels, and I could probably go back and finish out the one I didn’t get gold on pretty easily by now. I’ve been able to clear every event and earn every character save the one that was running when I first started playing. Luckily, the characters do occasionally repeat, at least in the Japanese version, so I was able to get that character later. Again, some of the Elite event stages are a bit too tough for my current party, so I haven’t been able to get more than a few of the precious Crystal Souls that allow you to break the level cap, but that doesn’t seem unfair.
In total, I’ve collected 40 different characters, 33 of which are named characters while the rest fill the role of the generic job classes. My main party is hovering around an average level of 48, while most of my other characters are between level 20 and level 30. I have tons of gil, enough five star equipment to fully deck a few complete parties, and all but the highest tier of abilities and magic. I’m also sitting on a massive stash of Growth Eggs, so I could certainly boost my character levels more than I have if I wanted to. As mentioned in the last paragraph, I have a few Crystal Souls, so three of my characters can go past the default level cap of 50, onto level 65. I’ve unlocked and played stages from every mainline Final Fantasy game except for Final Fantasy 11 and Final Fantasy 14. I’m not sure if they’re in there or not, but it seems like they haven’t been added yet.
Most importantly, I’m still having a lot of fun. I’ll admit, the events are the big thing that keeps me interested these days, but they change out regularly enough that I’m always checking in. Because of the events and the login bonus, the Mythril flows smoothly enough that I’ve been able to take plenty of swings at the relic draw while also expanding my inventory maximum to account for my hoarder mentality. I also like to pop in for certain daily dungeons, especially the ones that give bonuses to experience or high-level crafting materials. Whenever I load up the game to play these time-limited events, I also usually crank out a stage or two of the normal story mode.
I like that I haven’t hit a point yet where it feels like I have to spend a lot of time grinding for whatever reason in order to progress. Many other social RPGs start off strong but eventually land you in that kind of situation. Final Fantasy: Record Keeper, after this many months and countless hours of play, has only ever asked me to reconsider my strategy. It has asked nothing worse of me than many of my favorite traditional RPGs, and that’s not something I expected coming into it. Don’t jump in unprepared, and if you get beat, think about why and how you can avoid it next time. This is the very core of what makes RPG battles enjoyable, and Record Keeper reflects that proudly.
Even the dreaded stamina meter ended up being less of a factor than I might have expected. As long as you’re playing the regular story mode, you’ll constantly earn stamina crystals. Collecting five of those adds an extra stamina point to your maximum and refills your meter. You can obviously drain it doing events and daily dungeons, since they don’t give you any crystals, but if you stick to the regular stages, it’s kind of impressive how long you can play before you run out of stamina. It also refills quickly enough on its own that you don’t have to wait long before can have another battle.
The nostalgia aspect of the game is perfect. There were so many corners that could have been potentially cut, like glossing over using the right music for a special battle or reusing a generic background instead of recreating the proper one, but Record Keeper more often than not goes the extra mile in that regard. Contributing equally to the nostalgia is the fact that bosses and enemies behave in familiar ways. In many ways, this isn’t so much a new game as it is a remix, a bunch of rapid-fire memories from the history of the series, given a bit of spit polish and sent out to shine once more. For this long time Final Fantasy fan, it’s about the best I could imagine from a social RPG take on the series. Five months later, I still love it.
Anyway, that’s just where I’m at with Final Fantasy: Record Keeper at the moment. I guess I’ll be starting anew today with the rest of you on the English version. A chance to relive things again, and maybe raise up a totally different main party. Unlike many games where I end up having to do this, I don’t dread rebuilding at all here. Instead, I’m quite looking forward to it. I hope these impressions can set some worried minds at ease. This is very much a social RPG, but it’s a very good one, and for Final Fantasy fans looking for a little filler in their day, it’s hard to imagine it could have been better.
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MAHMOODIN, Syria -- We crossed the River Tigris on a rusty barge on our journey from Iraq into Syria. It's a river that helped nurture civilization, but the war that's now raging on its banks has become increasingly barbaric.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) controls territory on both sides of the border -- land the group refers to as the "Islamic State." But in northeastern Syria, they're meeting resistance from a rag-tag army of Kurdish fighters, and we wanted to meet them.
With our Kurdish guide, we headed for the village of Telkocher, on the front line in the fight against the Islamic extremists. But just an hour into our drive, we strayed too close to ISIS snipers and our convoy came under fire.
We scrambled for cover in another village, Mahmoodin, which has been under attack for a month. Across the dusty plain that surrounds the village, the nearest ISIS position was visible just a mile away.
Mahmoodin's mud brick homes and neat flower gardens were abandoned; we ran down its narrow alleyways and found all of them empty, until we stumbled into a courtyard where a Kurdish commander, Omran Hussein, has set up camp.
A strapping former tailor who never stops smiling and pairs his military fatigues with a flower-patterned headscarf, Commander Hussein has just 40 soldiers to hold off ISIS.
"Not enough," he told us, "but they're all I have."
Ten of his fighters are women -- some of them teenagers -- and according to Commander Hussein, they're some of his best soldiers.
Kurdish militia member Akina Akin, 19, cleans her weapon after clashes with ISIS fighters in Mahmoodin, northern Syria, Sept. 27, 2014. CBS
"There's no difference between the men and the women," he said. "Some of them are even better fighters than I am."
One of them is 19-year-old Akina Akin, a five-foot tall dynamo who's already battle hardened after two years of fighting.
We asked her if she was frightened of being captured by ISIS -- which has become notorious for kidnapping and raping women and girls in its territory.
"I'm not afraid," she said with a defiant toss of her head. "I'll blow myself up before I let them catch me."
In ISIS territory women must cover their faces, and everyone is subject to a strict version of Islamic law. The Kurdish fighters are also Muslims, but they follow a very different version of Islam.
Asked if ISIS -- as it claims -- practices a "pure" form of Sunni Islam, Commander Hussein guffawed.
"I might be a bit Westernized, but I'm still a Muslim," he told us. "ISIS is killing people, and real Muslims don't kill innocent civilians."
Pres. Obama: Confident in the coalition against ISIS
It's been a week since the U.S. military and a handful of allied nations began conducting airstrikes against ISIS inside Syria. The latest were reported overnight by Syrian activists, who said several strikes hit ISIS targets in the northeast.
But Commander Hussein told us that, so far, the air campaign has had little impact on the ground.
He's still hopeful, though, that the U.S. will come to the rescue -- with more airstrikes, and a desperately-needed infusion of weapons to battle the well-armed extremists.
"Tell America we need weapons," he said. "If we can't defeat ISIS, their next target will be Europe and the U.S."
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Thanks for subscribing to the Ale Yeah! Newsletter. You will find weekly new arrivals and specials on outgoing seasonal beers! Visit us at www.aleyeahbeer.com! There is a great disturbance in the force... Seems appropriate as Dragon*Con ascends upon the city of Atlanta this week that we steal a line from Star Wars: A New Hope. Princess Leia sought the help of the wise, reclused Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi as an evil force was building, threatening the galaxy's peaceful way of life. Seems we have an Empire as well, but in order to build this mythos perhaps a little back story is needed.
Three years ago we submitted a series of trademarks to the United States Trademark & Patent Office (USPTO), including our logo as well as the phrase "Ale Yeah!". We don't want to own the name exclusively but rather submitted the mark under the retail services category. A few months later (there is a lengthy time to oppose, being 'first' in this case means nothing) a group known as the LM Restaurant Group (www.lmrest.com, Twitter @LMRestaurants), parent company of the Carolina Ale House (www.carolinaalehouse.com, Twitter @carolinalehouse, www.facebook.com/CarolinaAleHouseOfficial), opposed our registration under the retail services category, citing first use of the phrase "Ale Yeah!" in 2007. They have used the phrase "Ale Yeah!" on some advertising pieces as well as their menus occasionally. Keep in mind that there are numerous instances of companies holding a trademark that operate within different industries. Beretta (gun/car), Apple (music/computing) are just a couple of said instances. LM Restaurants submitted their own use of the mark within the restaurant services category with the USPTO a few months later and was awarded the mark in 2014. Should we have opposed said registration? Perhaps, but we were confident that sometime in mid 2016 this dispute would be resolved and both companies would be awarded the mark within their respective category. Their lawyers have even admitted that there is no possible confusion between our two businesses.
Fast forward to August 2015 and LM Restaurants decided to turn the dick meter up to 11 by filing a Federal lawsuit, in North Carolina no less, a state we don't do business in, claiming trademark infringement of their awarded 2014 mark, citing 'numerous requests for us to change our name and cease using the name "Ale Yeah!"'. The lawsuit completely ignores our now 3 year trademark battle over the phrase and is simply a ploy to spend us into submission. They know they are going to "lose" (let's be honest, there are no winners here) with both companies being granted the use of the phrase, so why not make us spend more money to defend ourselves against a frivolous lawsuit? They even submitted an email after the papers were served asking if we would table the trademark proceedings while the lawsuit was pending. This is clearly an instance of a bully kicking sand in the face of a smaller target, but they really don't know who they are messing with. This is our name. This is our passion.
So, what can you do? Well, the obvious answer is support our stores and for that we greatly appreciate each and every one of you. You can also take to Social Media sites such as Facebook, Yelp! and Twitter, voicing your support for us while applying pressure to LM Restaurants and Carolina Ale House (there are 26 locations in 6 states) to drop this frivolous waste of time and money. Hashtags to use: #aleyeah #aleyeahbeer #theREALAleYeah. We are kicking around ideas of possible benefit shows/events and should they come to fruition we will provide those updates. We will not crowd fund our legal fees but offers to help are most appreciated.
Thanks for the consideration and being our fans. Can we get an Ale Yeah!!
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Psychologist Ivan Pavlov conditioned dogs to salivate by ringing a bell, but maybe he should have made them play Simon instead. That's the idea behind CleverPet, a device that plans to train your dog to solve simple problems while you're at work. When it begins, all the pooch has to do is push a button to get food, with subsequent puzzles growing in difficulty until it's playing whack-a-mole with the light-up pads. It's the second smart pet device we've seen on Kickstarter in the last few weeks, with Kittyo offering a similar piece of kit for cat owners. CleverPet is currently half-way toward its $100,000 goal, but you can save $100 off the retail price if you make an early pledge of $160. Just be warned that it won't launch until February 2015, so best make sure your dog will still be in the "young and able to be taught tricks" bracket by then.
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Q: A shopkeeper hires an apprentice for his store which gets one customer per minute on average uniformly randomly. The apprentice is expected to leave the shop open until at least 6 minutes have passed when no customer arrives. The shop keeper suspects that the apprentice is lazy and wants to close the shop at a shorter notice. The apprentice claims (and the shopkeeper verifies), that the shop is open for about 2.5hrs on average. How could the shopkeeper back his claim?A: Per the contract, at least 6 minutes should pass without a single customer showing up before the apprentice can close the shop. To solve this lets tackle a different problem first. Assume you have a biased coin with a probability \(p\) of landing heads. What is the expected number of tosses before you get \(n\) heads in a row. The expected number of tosses to get to the first head is simple enough to calculate, its \(\frac{1}{p}\). How about two heads? We can formulate this recursively. We need to get to a head first. Following this, you need to toss the coin one more time for sure. With a probability \(p\) you get the second heads or with a probability \(1 - p\) you have to start over again. The number of tosses to two heads is thus \(\frac{1}{p} + 1 + \frac{1}{p}\times(1-p)\).Extending this out to get \(n\) tosses, if you assume that \(y(n)\) is the expected number of tosses to get to \(n\) heads in a row then the following state transition diagram shows how the transitions happen.From the state \(y_{n-1}\), with probability \(1- p\) you start over again. Stated recursively$$y_{n} = y_{n-1} + 1 + (1-p)y_{n}\\py_{n} = y_{n-1} + 1$$Using the above expression, it is easy to derive the general expression for \(y_{n}\) as follows, keeping in mind \(y_{0} = 0\)$$y_{1} = \frac{y_{0}}{p} + \frac{1}{p} = \frac{1}{p}\\y_{2} = \frac{1}{p}(y_{1} + 1) = \frac{1}{p^{2}} + \frac{1}{p}y_{3} = \frac{1}{p}(y_{2} + 1) = \frac{1}{p^{3}} + \frac{1}{p^{2}} + \frac{1}{p}$$Being a sum of a geometric series, the \(y_{n}\) can be evaluated to$$y_{n} = \frac{1}{1-p}\big(\frac{1}{p^{n}} - 1\big)$$Now, back to the original question. Assume the apprentice waits \(k\) minutes before no customer shows up and he chooses to shut the shop. The situation is "similar" to the coin tossing and awaiting for a string of heads. (Note: Strictly speaking, it's similar only in the limiting case when the time interval is very small). In this case each "head" signifies the absence of a customer showing up in a minute. As the customers arrive uniformly at random we can assume they follow a Poisson process. The probability that \(m\) customers arrive in a one minute window if the rate parameter is \(\lambda\) (in this case \(\lambda = 1min^{-1}\)) is$$P(m,\lambda) = \frac{(\lambda)^{m}e^{-\lambda}}{m!}$$When \(m =0\) we get \(p = e^{-\lambda}\). Plugging this value back to our equation for \(y_{n}\) we get$$y_{n} = \frac{1}{1 - e^{-\lambda}}\big(e^{k\lambda} - 1\big)$$for small \(\lambda\) the denominator of the first part of the equation can be approximated as \(\frac{1}{\lambda}\) yielding$$y_{n} = \frac{1}{\lambda}\big(e^{k\lambda} - 1\big)$$Note, if you plug \(k=6\) into the above equation you get \(\approx 7\) hours whereas for \(k=5\) you get \(\approx 2.5\) hours. Due to the exponential connection between \(y_{n}\) and \(k\) the values for \(y_{n}\) are super sensitive to changes in \(k\).If you are looking to buy some books in probability here are some of the best books to learn the art of Probability
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As DataTrek's Nick Colas, formerly chief market strategist at Convergex Group, writes overnight, "we’re doing our best to make sure we don’t flood you with bitcoin/crypto information because there are plenty of other issues with broad appeal." However, he finds that hard to do when the topic dominates both financial news headlines and popular imagination... and when it goes from $11,000 to $8,900 in two hours.
To address some of the pent-up confusion, here are the three questions (and answers) Colas it getting most about bitcoin at the moment:
#1 Where is all the new interest coming from (i.e. is it just the US?)
Looking at Google Trends, the top five countries for bitcoin searches over the last 24 hours are: The Netherlands, Australia, South Africa, Singapore, and Switzerland. The US is in 8th place. Searches for “Coinbase” (a popular wallet app) come from Malta, Singapore, the US, Norway and Switzerland (in that order). Within the United States, bitcoin is strictly a bicoastal phenomenon. Google searches come most from New York, California, Hawaii, New Jersey, and Washington. Searches for Coinbase look the same.
The upshot is that bitcoin is a tech-enabled (and therefore global) phenomenon, which is a critical feature of its price advance. We can’t think of another financial asset in history where the majority of the world’s citizens can invest as easily as they view an Instagram picture or chat on Twitter. And on that point, one fun (and perhaps telling) statistic: in the US, Google searches for bitcoin are 6-7x greater than those for “Kim Kardashian”. Enough said…
#2 When will the rally stop/slow down, and what is bitcoin’s “Fundamental” Value?
Our best look at bitcoin’s intrinsic worth is to compare it to the total value of American and European high-denomination bank notes in circulation. Both bitcoin and its fiat currency counterparts are portable stores of wealth, which appeals to buyers/holders of each. Yes, fiats are government backed, but you can’t counterfeit a bitcoin. So we’ll call it a draw in terms of relative attractiveness. There are currently $1.1 trillion in $100 bills in global circulation, and $650 billion in high denomination euro notes. Total value: $1.7 trillion, not counting counterfeit notes that likely add 20-30% (in the case of $100 bills at least).
By comparison, bitcoin’s current total value is $167 billion, and total crypto currency outstanding is $307 billion.
The question is: what is the appropriate share for crypto currencies like bitcoin in a market defined as “fiat+crypto currencies”? At current levels, bitcoin’s share is 8%, and all cryptos combined have a 15% share.
Where could this ratio go? Here is a table to consider, assuming bitcoin remains 50% of the total crypto currency market (a fairly sticky ratio lately):
Bitcoin at $20,000: 14% market share of crypto+fiat paper currency market
Bitcoin at $50,000: 25% market share
Bitcoin at $100,000: 33% market share
The calculus here comes down to adoption rates, just as it does with any new technology. One advantage for bitcoin in terms of price: incremental supply comes on very slowly, unlike other tech-enabled products like smart phones where manufacturers produce as many units as possible.
Our take: bitcoin remains a highly speculative asset – the spiciest thing we’ve seen in +30 years on Wall Street. We can see pathways where it continues to climb, but even a glance at a historical price chart shows this is a highly volatile situation. More on that in point #3…
#3 VERY IMPORTANT: What will the entrance of futures exchanges and bitcoin contracts do to the price?
Both the CME and CBOE are set to launch bitcoin futures soon, and today the NASDAQ threw its hat in the ring as well. Moving bitcoin into a regulated structure will allow more sorts of investors and traders to speculate on price moves in the currency. That, the thinking goes, should be good for bitcoin prices.
One intriguing point: shorting bitcoin is currently a clunky process, but futures markets will make it much easier. The difficulty of shorting bitcoin has been an underappreciated feature of its meteoric rise, limiting true price discovery. Whether anyone is brave enough to put on a sizable short position remains to be seen. But someone who wants to back up their “Bitcoin is a fraud” talk with dollars will soon have a place to express their viewpoint.
* * *
And a final, and deeply cautionary, point: yesterday’s plunge in bitcoin’s price may have been caused by a DDOS (Direct Denial of Service) attack on several exchanges. That’s the color from some market observers, anyway. The speed and severity of the decline certainly points to a technological glitch.
Put together the ability to short bitcoin easily with what happened today, and you see the problem. The financial incentives to disrupt the bitcoin exchange/wallet ecosystem increase exponentially once futures start to trade. Whether the world’s bitcoin exchanges and wallets are up to that challenge is an important – and unanswered - question.
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Image caption New gay recruits are warned that their applications may be rejected if the latest ruling is overturned
The US military has started accepting gay recruits after a California judge last week struck down the "don't ask, don't tell" policy barring openly gay people from serving.
But the US Department of Defense says new gay recruits are warned the repeal of the law may be overturned.
The Pentagon is appealing against the decision and had asked the judge to reinstate the ban in the interim.
But Judge Virginia Phillips on Tuesday formally refused that request.
Some gay activist groups were planning to send people to enlist at recruiting stations to test the Pentagon's announcement that it was accepting recruits who openly state that they are gay.
"If they were to self admit that they are gay and want to enlist, we will process them for enlistment, but will tell them that the legal situation could change," Douglas Smith, spokesman for US Army Recruiting Command at Fort Knox, Kentucky, said.
Further study
Democrats in the US Senate had attempted to overturn the "don't ask, don't tell" policy in September, but failed to muster the necessary votes.
President Barack Obama has vowed to end the policy, but most advisers agree the president cannot end the ban on gays serving openly in the military without congressional or legal action.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is due to release a report about the possible impact of allowing openly gay service-members on 1 December.
Some Pentagon officials have said allowing openly gay military personnel would necessitate dramatic policy changes on everything from housing and insurance to protocol at social events.
In California, Judge Phillips, declared that the policy violated gay military members' rights to free speech and to equal protection under the law.
The lawsuit that prompted the injunction against the ban was brought by the Log Cabin Republicans, a pro-gay Republican group, on behalf of openly gay military personnel who had been discharged.
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"The longer I'm prime minister ... the longer I'm prime minister." Stephen Harper heads up the longevity chart. He's pictured here winning in 2008. Photograph by: Leah Hennel/Calgary Herald , Postmedia News
He has had the benefit of a weakened and divided opposition, its electoral force blunted by centre-left vote-splitting. His government, unlike those of most developed countries, has overseen a relatively stable national economy and ably weathered a global recession.
But whether by political genius, dumb luck or a combination of the two, Stephen Harper has proven — in purely objective terms, from a historical perspective — that he has prime ministerial staying power.
Harper, who has passed the eight-and-a-half year mark in Canada’s top political post — and ranks ninth on the list of longest-serving prime ministers — is on the cusp of leapfrogging three of those predecessors to the No. 6 spot, and becoming second only to Sir John A. Macdonald among 13 Conservative PMs in time spent at the helm of the nation.
So when Harper (as he surely will) personally leads Canadians in celebrating the 200thanniversary of Macdonald’s birth this coming January, he’ll do so possessing a newfound political kinship with the leading Father of Confederation and Conservative party patriarch.
By mid-September, according to the Canadian government’s official time-in-office listing, Harper will move up to eighth, passing post-war Liberal Louis St. Laurent. Then, within a stretch of nine days in November, Harper will overtake Conservative/Unionist Sir Robert Borden, and Conservative Brian Mulroney to stand sixth.
It would take Harper until March 2016 to pass Liberal rival Jean Chrétien.
“Length of time in office is a serious measure of effectiveness — I don’t think there’s any doubt of that,” says Canadian political historian Jack Granatstein, co-author with Norman Hillmer of the 1999 bestseller Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada’s Leaders. “You have to keep winning elections. You have to keep your party quiet, happy and satisfied. And you have to manage the affairs of the country and its dealings abroad. Anyone who can do that for almost nine years is somebody who is very effective. It doesn’t mean you’re popular — God knows the dislike of Harper is extreme and widespread — but he is effective. He keeps winning elections, and that’s the test.”
Harper became the country’s 22nd prime minister on Feb. 6, 2006, two weeks after his party won a minority mandate in the Jan. 23 general election. He is expected to remain prime minister until at least October 2015, when the next federal election is scheduled under new fixed-date rules — though an earlier vote could be called at the Conservative government’s discretion.
Harper’s imminent outdistancing of St. Laurent, Borden and Mulroney to join the upper echelon of prime ministerial endurance follows last year’s publication of an award-winning book by senior Maclean’s political writer Paul Wells, The Longer I’m Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006-, which highlighted the significance Harper attached to mere survival in office for as long as possible — especially during the fragile early phase of his time as PM — to simply get Canadians accustomed again to the idea of a non-Liberal government.
The stay-in-power-at-all-costs strategy, Wells recounted, led the Harper Tories to avoid blundering into or orchestrating an early election during their first minority mandate, and was encapsulated in a line Harper is said to have repeated regularly to those in his inner circle: “You know, the longer I’m prime minister … the longer I’m prime minister.”
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NEW DELHI: India on Saturday said the new ammunition for Arjun Tank , successfully tested by DRDO , will provide a "quantum jump" in fire-power of the indigenously-developed main battle tank.The new tank ammunition called 'Penetration-Cum Blast (PCB) and Thermobaric (TB) Ammunition' is specially designed for Arjun Tank and was recently tested by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)."The trials were found to be very effective and the damage was devastating with the firing of ammunition successfully destroying the target tank and severely damaging its turret, barrel, tracks, ammunition bin, various sights, antennas among others," the Defence Ministry said in a statement.The ammunitions have been developed by Pune-based DRDO laboratories Armament Research and Development Establishment ( ARDE ) and High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL).During the development phase, these ammunitions were extensively evaluated against different simulated targets - armour plates, concrete structures and fortifications.The trials were conducted jointly with Army and was aimed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the ammunitions on derelict tank fitted with instrumentation to measure the shocks, blast pressure and temperature at various locations and on advanced imaging systems."The trials were unique as for the first time such evaluation is carried out in India which will give a quantum jump in the fire-power of Arjun tanks," the Ministry said.
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Prior to the demolition of Boston’s old West End, another vibrant, multi-ethnic neighborhood of tenement houses and mom-and-pop shops fell victim to so-called ‘urban renewal.’
From February 21 through Fall 2017, The West End Museum hosts The New York Streets: Boston’s First Urban Renewal Project, a new exhibit that tells the story of this lost ‘sister’ community. At the opening reception—February 21, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.—attendees can tour the exhibit and enjoy light refreshments. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.
“The New York Streets project preceded the more infamous redevelopment of the West End,” says Museum Curator Duane Lucia. “But, in much the same way, federal funding was used to demolish an entire neighborhood and displace its residents with total disregard to the hardship it would cause them.”
The New York Streets encompassed 24 acres of land comprising 12+ city blocks in the northeast corner of the South End. The area got its moniker when roads there were named after cities along the Erie Canal to commemorate the connection of railroad between Boston and Albany in 1842. They included Troy, Rochester, Genesee, Oswego, Oneida, Seneca and Albany itself, the sole remnant street name from that era in today’s South End. That corner of the Mass. Pike and Interstate 93—now home to the Ink Block complex and other high-rise apartments and a hotel with ground-level shops and restaurants—is otherwise unrecognizable.
First to fall under the axe of redevelopment in the City, the largely immigrant working class and working poor neighborhood had no means to fight City Hall when, in 1952, planning began to level the area and make way for the new Boston Herald Traveler newspaper plant and other industrial facilities. The City took control in 1955 and, by 1957, 321 buildings had been demolished and 1,000 residents displaced from their homes and community.
Through graphic panels and a collection of original photographs, The New York Streets: Boston’s First Urban Renewal Project, recounts the neighborhood’s history; ethnic, religious and social life; urban renewal and impact; and modern-day status. It also highlights some of the areas most famous residents, including Louis B. Mayer, Jack Levine, Mary Antin and Mel King.
The exhibit is free and open to the public at The West End Museum, 150 Staniford Street, Boston.
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Top Twitter Trend Spells Trouble For CNN
Retroact1ve Blocked Unblock Follow Following Jul 4, 2017
#CNNBlackmail
This story is about an alleged News Channel, a President, and meme creator. Perhaps you have noticed CNN has taken a ton of hits lately and for good reason. As the 2016 election was in full swing CNN (as well as others) were broadcasting opinion and sometimes outright lies as objective facts. The more then candidate Donald J. Trump was winning, the more trash CNN broadcasted.
The media, in particular CNN believed that Trump had to be defeated at all costs… even if it meant a complete ignoring of facts, ethics, or even laws. They decided to try and persuade rather than report. This left a bad taste in the mouths of a good amount of their viewers, and non-viewers alike. Fast forward to the present: They had to retract story they fraudulently reported as fact, James O’Keefe released recordings showing various people under the employ of CNN admitting on video the Russia narrative is nothing more than a lie for ratings and that CNN higher ups think of American voters as a whole are “Stupid as shit”.
Those last two things are pretty horrible on their own but now… wew lad… they have outdone their selves. They have just threatened to release the personal information of a 15 year old member of the LGBT community. Why would they do such a thing you might ask? Well this 15 year old was the person responsible for creating a popular GIF meme of President Trump taking down CNN WWE-style. A meme that was also tweeted out by President Trump himself:
That alone is hilarious in my opinion, and reinforces why I voted for Trump. He is a fighter and does not bow down in the face of overwhelming pressure and that is what America needed more than ever. As an added measure of hilarity he also retweeted his meme from the official @POTUS handle ensuring it will forever be enshrined in the Presidential Archives:
CNN’s response was to take it upon their self to find out who it was that created this meme, and to threaten to release his personal information to the public at large. The intention of course is that CNN’s most rabid viewers will personally attack him whether verbally or physically, perhaps both. The creator in turn apologizes most likely out of fear, and then CNN releases a statement that he better keep it that way or else:
This coming from a news organization that cried the President was trying to invoke violence towards their journalists with his tweet of the meme. They attacked President Trump the entire election, during the transition, and this entire time he has been President then have the nerve to cry when he fights back. This is the very definition of a cry bully. To instigate, to lie and attack then when someone defends their self the cry bully screams you are attacking them.
When CNN does that to a full grown man, and the President that is all well and good. When they coerce a 15 year old into an apology for creating what amounts to nothing more than art with the threat they will release his name and personal information to a psychologically damaged liberal audience that is going too far.
Not only is going too far but that is also against the law. By blackmailing a minor to not create more memes/art they have just ensured they will be flooded with them, whether that is in corporate inboxes, snail mail, or twitter those memes will be coming. Not only have they lost their moral high ground they pretend to have, but they compromised their selves legally. CNN is absolutely disgraceful, and they should be ashamed of their selves.
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Tensions about land ownership in the area have run high at least since President Roosevelt’s administration (Theodore, not Franklin). “Adirondack Squatters and Camp Owners Clash,” read a headline from the Nov. 15, 1903, edition of The New York Times, which outlined arguments that still resonate. “They claim that the state’s title to the land, which was obtained by virtue of tax sales, is defective.”
Image Credit The New York Times
Joseph Martens, the commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, acknowledged that the titles for many of these properties were “very confused,” mentioning a range of mix-ups, including contested tax sales, poor descriptions of property lines, or cases where two landowners both thought they owned the same property. “The state was acquiring pieces of land as it has done since the creation of the park,” Mr. Martens said, “but private landowners had title to the same property and built residences and camps on the land.”
This is not the first time that voters have been asked to weigh in on such a local issue, including those in Township 40. In 2007, voters approved the use of forest preserve land for wells in Raquette Lake, where all the disputed Township 40 parcels are. “Forever Wild” has been altered several times since its constitutional inclusion in the 1890s for minor changes like the building of a public cemetery (and cutting down some trees) or extending a runway (into a forest). Voters last said yes to a change to Article 14 in 2009 when the state was allowed to swap six acres to the power company National Grid for a new power line in exchange for 10 acres of forest.
But local residents this year are worried, fearing that downstate voters will reflexively reject a complicated land deal about a place they might not have heard of.
“I’m afraid that some people will look at it and not know what it is and vote no,’” said Lance Maly, a retired conservation officer, who lives in Old Forge, in neighboring Herkimer County. “As I might for something in Suffolk County.”
And Carolyn Gerdin, 77, whose disputed property has been her family’s retreat since the early 1950s, said: “Even people upstate don’t know what you’re talking about when you’re talking Township 40. It’s not a subject that has really come up to the public before.”
Proposal 4 is not the only land swap on the ballot this year. Voters will also be asked to decide on Proposal 5, which would allow a mining company, NYCO Minerals, access to 200 acres of forest adjacent to its current mining operation in the northern Adirondacks. In exchange, the state will receive some 1,500 acres of woods and streams, supporters say. The company would use the 200 acres to look for wollastonite, a mineral used in automobile parts and other industries, before returning the land to the state.
That proposal has drawn some high-profile supporters like the Adirondack Council and the New York League of Conservation Voters. But Proposal 5 has also drawn the ire of other environmental groups, who say it sets a dangerous precedent.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Scribbles in my notebook after the Cleveland Browns lost to the Green Bay Packers in overtime Sunday, 27-21:
1. DeShone Kizer said he does not feel any "doubt" when the score is close late in the game. He says he doesn't think of how the Browns could lose. Maybe that's true. Or probably, he doesn't want to think about it. If he answers "Yes, there is doubt..." then there is an even bigger problem with Kizer and the Browns.
2. Of course, there is "doubt." How else do you explain blowing a 21-7 lead in the fourth quarter at home? It's not as if the Packers had future Hall of Famer Aaron Rodgers at quarterback. Sometimes, a comeback is led by a great player ... and that's what happens ... a team loses to a great player.
3. But it was Brett Hundley at quarterback for Green Bay. He entered the day with a 2-4 record as a starter, five TD passes compared to eight interceptions. He is much like Kizer, a young turnover-prone quarterback trying to figure out how to win in the NFL.
4. Rodgers (broken collarbone) is expected back next week for the Packers. Meanwhile, Hundley grew as a quarterback on this day, delivering one clutch pass after another. He also had some determined runs. Hundley was 35-of-46 passing for 265 yards, three TDs and zero interceptions!
5. Then there's the Browns defense. They were without five starters: Jamie Collins, Emmanuel Ogbah, Briean Boddy-Calhoun, Jabrill Peppers and Danny Shelton. But they had a 21-7 lead after three quarters. Closing out that game isn't too much to ask.
6. Trevor Davis had a 65-yard punt return with 2:57 left in the game. The Browns had a 21-14 lead. Yes, it was a special teams collapse. But the Packers still were 37 yards away from the goal line. How about stopping them? Instead, the Packers scored a TD with 17 seconds left in the fourth quarter to set up the overtime.
7. From the moment the fourth quarter opened, the defense could not make a single, significant stop. You could feel the game slipping away. That's what happens when a team is 1-28 in the last two years.
8. In the overtime period, Kizer threw a horrible interception. The Packers still had the ball on the Cleveland 42-yard line. How about stopping them? At least make them try a field goal? Instead, the Packers roared into the end zone. Gregg Williams is a good defensive coordinator. His stats over a long career show it. But he seemed helpless to come up with anything to stop Green Bay when it mattered.
9. As for Kizer, he needed to throw his last pass of the day away. As Jackson mentioned, "the play fell apart." Josh Gordon was the original target, but he wasn't open. He actually was held by a defender, but no matter ... he was not a primary target.
10. Then Kizer scrambled around, trying to heave the ball downfield to Rashard Higgins. Packers linebacker Clay Matthew crunched Kizer as the quarterback threw the ball. It fluttered. Lousy pass. Picked off.
11. Kizer said if he could have delivered the ball to Higgins, it was would have been a TD: "You strike up the band and enjoy our first win of the year."
12. Instead, it was time for the Browns and their fans to sing the blues ... once again.
13. Kizer's mistake was a huge key to the game because Hundley didn't make any plays like that. The Browns defense probably thought they could force Hundley into some turnovers. Along with eight interceptions, he had lost two fumbles. Not on this day.
14. Green Bay's Devante Adams scored the winning TD on a 25-yard pass. Actually, the pass went about 3 yards and he ran the rest into the end zone. Myles Garrett appeared to have a grip on Adams close to the line of scrimmage, but Adams broke free ... and no one else in an orange helmet was there to stop him.
15. The Browns could not develop much of a pass rush. They had one sack (Nate Orchard). Carl Nassib, Derrick Kindred and Garrett each had a quarterback hit. But it was not enough to shake up Hundley.
14. Corey Coleman had an excellent game catching five passes ... he was targeted only six times. He caught a 2-yard TD pass when he was blasted at the goal line ... and hung on to the ball.
15. It was encouraging to see Coleman play so well after not catching a pass last week in the 19-10 loss to the Chargers. Also, this was a very cold weather game (15 degree wind chill), and Coleman seemed bothered by cold weather as a rookie in 2016.
15. Isaiah Crowell rushed for 121 yards in 19 carries. It was good to see the Browns ground game working.
17. Josh Gordon had a sensational leaping 18-yard TD catch. He also caught a pass for 38 yards. Both of those were on Browns first possession of the game. After that, Gordon caught only one more pass ... for 13 yards. He was drawing a fair amount of defensive attention. Kizer said the Packers often had two men covering Gordon after that first TD.
18. The only surprise was the Packers failing to double-team Gordon from the opening snap. He is the Browns biggest weapon on offense. The extra defensive attention given Gordon allowed Coleman more room to get open, and he capitalized on it.
19. The Browns have three games left. Jackson didn't want to talk about all the losing being "psychological." He said: "I don't know. I will look at everything ... This is what it is. Losing is not good for anybody."
20. There were a lot of Packer fans in the stands. No surprise. They love their team and Browns tickets are far easier to secure than tickets to see their team in Green Bay. Until the Browns start to win, you will often see a lot of fans supporting the visiting team in the stands. That's just reality.
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Azealia Banks penned a lengthy open Tumblr letter to Sarah Palin on Tuesday, April 5, following the former Alaska governor's threat to sue, and the rapper claimed in her apology note that she is actually a fan of the politico.
"Dear Sarah Palin, I hope this message reaches you in good spirits and in good health," the "212" rapper, 24, wrote on Tumblr. "I want to start this letter off by telling you that I actually, really like you. While many other American people may see you as someone to be ridiculed, I truly believe that you possess a certain 'je ne sais quoi,' (a french term which is often interpreted to denote one’s inexplicable charisma.) … There is something very charismatic and misunderstood about you. The misunderstood bit oftentimes reminds me of myself. You’re very passionate about the things you believe in, super determined, and most certainly aware of who you are and where you stand in this world, as a parent, as a politician, but most importantly, as a woman."
Banks went on to pinpoint the source of her own outburst: a satirical article that fake-quoted Palin as saying something incredibly offensive. Without grasping the full scope of the situation, Banks had railed against Palin earlier in the day and tweeted some incredibly NSFW and gruesome comments about how Palin should "get headf–ked by a big veiny, ashy, black d–k," while being filmed. Banks added in her now-deleted tweets that she "would never wish a woman to be raped," but figured someone should "'BANG' as in bang some sense into that ho."
Palin, who caught wind of the violent remarks, replied to Banks via Facebook on Tuesday: "In this life, you're blessed to have been given an influential platform. So have I. Why don't we strengthen both our platforms and work together on something worthwhile – like condemning racism, along with empowering young women to defend themselves against a most misogynist, degrading, devastating assault perpetrated by evil men – rape." The 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate also threatened to sue Banks for her "dangerous" attack in a statement to People.
A contrite Banks publicly apologized to Palin hours later. "Now since learning that the article was not published officially, I sincerely apologize for any emotional distress or reputational scarring i may have caused you," the artist wrote. "In my honest defense, i was completely kidding. I happen to have a really crass, New-York-City sense of humor, and regularly make silly jokes in attempts to make light of situations which make me uncomfortable. As the fabric of the American Nation is EMBEDDED with racism, I merely made a raCIALly driven joke to counter what i believed to be real, raCIST rhetoric."
However, Banks took up several issues with Palin's response to her tweets. "I never said you should be raped. I used the term 'run a train,' which is slang for group sex, NOT for 'rape,'" she wrote, adding later: "I am an EXTREMELY intelligent woman, Mrs. Palin. 'Hey Female Rapper,' was your way to euphemize what you REALLY wanted to say. What you wanted to say was, 'Hey little Stereotypical Black, Thing!'"
In all, the outspoken rapper wanted to make one point clear. "I cherish my ability to express myself freely, yet remain totally aware that for every action, there will be a reaction. All in All, Woman to Woman, I hope you will accept my sincerest apology."
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Opening night can't get here fast enough for the New Orleans Saints and Minnesota Vikings.
Saints safety Darren Sharper is engaging in some serious trash talk on Twitter with former teammates Bryant McKinnie and Visanthe Shiancoe of the Vikings, with Brett Favre right in the middle of it.
Sharper touched things off after Favre announced he was having ankle surgery last week. The talkative safety tweeted "X marks the spot" in reference to the quarterback's ankle. The comment touched a nerve with the Vikings, who believe the Saints took several late hits on their 40-year-old quarterback in New Orleans' overtime victory over Minnesota in the NFC title game in January.
The Vikings responded in kind on Thursday, first after practice and then in cyberspace, more than three months before the teams kick off the NFL season in New Orleans on Sept. 9.
"Sharper had surgery, too. And it was the knee," Shiancoe told members of the media on Thursday morning. "So if 'X' marks the spot on Brett, I wonder what would mark the spot on Sharper? I know which one it is. I know exactly which one it is."
The words quickly got back to Sharper, who challenged Shiancoe to a bet on the season-opening game, throwing in a playfully juvenile twist on the tight end's name for good measure.
"So visanthe stankoe X marks the spot on me, how bout X marks the spot for how many catches and TDs you'll have come Thursday night," Sharper fired back. "X [equals] zero.
"If you feeling yourself put your game check on it. No TDs and less than 3 catches you give me your game check. Now whose talking."
Shiancoe, one of Minnesota's most active tweeters, did not immediately respond to Sharper's baiting, but McKinnie did not hesitate.
"Oh so I heard u was on twitter going in, but I missed it! Man u don't want these problems."
Favre has yet to inform the Vikings if he will return for a second season in purple. But most view his decision to have surgery as an indicator that he will be back.
McKinnie, the big left tackle, tweeted to Sharper that the Vikings offensive line is "the secret service and Brett is Obama, so try 2 get thru if u want 2! Now this is ur warning!"
Sharper was one of the most popular Vikings during his four seasons in Minnesota and was friendly with Shiancoe and McKinnie, so this all could be playful banter. He left before last season and joined the Saints, helping them to a Super Bowl victory over the Indianapolis Colts.
Whatever the sentiment is behind it, there is no doubt that it will get plenty of attention from fans and media.
"I bet all this trash talk [at] sharper42 is doing has yall Viking Fans excited 4 the season 2 start!" McKinnie said.
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Tiny Macintosh Replica is a Working Copy of the Original
If you’re old enough, you’ll immediately recognize the form of this miniature computer: it’s a tiny working replica of Apple’s iconic Macintosh. John Leake of RetroMacCast built this 1/3 scale model from scratch.
Using a 3.5″ composite monitor, some easily-shaped PVC, a Raspberry Pi, and other various electronic bits, Leake made a tiny functional Macintosh that has some very modern guts.
On the back of the little Apple are two USB ports, an ethernet port, and an HDMI port. The computer charges via USB and has Bluetooth connectivity so you can use a wireless keyboard and mouse to control it.
Dealing with such a tiny space meant that Leake had to modify the computer’s hardware a bit. Some cutting and soldering were needed to get everything to fit into the very small case. While the Macintosh runs System 6 thanks to the Mini vMac Emulator, the floppy disc slot on the front is sadly non-functional.
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The U.S. Department of State announced on Wednesday that President Donald Trump has ordered an NSC-led review of the nuclear agreement with Iran brokered in 2015.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, known more commonly as “the Iran deal,” was the result of negotiations between former President Barack Obama, members of the United Nation’s Security Council, Germany, and the EU. The NSC-led review will investigate whether lifting sanctions against the world’s top sponsor of terror may not be in the U.S. national interest.
“Iran remains a leading state sponsor of terror, through many platforms and methods,” Tillerson said in a statement issued on Wednesday. “President Donald J. Trump has directed a National Security Council-led interagency review of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that will evaluate whether suspension of sanctions related to Iran pursuant to the JCPOA is vital to the national security interests of the United States.”
The State Department announcement states that the agency is certifying the action through a letter to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
This letter certifies that the conditions of Section 135(d)(6) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (AEA), as amended, including as amended by the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 (Public Law 114-17), enacted May 22, 2015, are met as of April 18, 2017. Notwithstanding, Iran remains a leading state sponsor of terror through many platforms and methods. President Donald J. Trump has directed a National Security Council-led interagency review of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that will evaluate whether suspension of sanctions related to Iran pursuant to the JCPOA is vital to the national security interests of the United States. When the interagency review is completed, the administration looks forward to working with Congress on this issue.
On March 29, Gen. Joseph Votel, the head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), told Congress that the U.S. needs to have military action as an option on the table given Iran’s continuing belligerence and support for terrorist groups in the Middle East and beyond.
“Iran poses the most significant threat to the Central Region and to our national interests and the interests of our partners and allies,” Votel said in his prepared testimony.
“We have not seen any improvement in Iran’s behavior since the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), addressing Iran’s nuclear program, was finalized in July 2015,” Votel said.
Votel said that, since the agreement was finalized, the U.S. military has seen a heightened number of “malign activities” on the part of Iran and its proxies in the Central Region, including “Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Egypt, the Sinai, and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait [located between Yemen and Djibouti and Eritrea] and in other parts of our area of responsibility.”
The Central Region, or CENTCOM AOR, covers more than 4 million square miles that includes 20 predominantly Muslim nations stretching from Northeast Africa across the Middle East to Central and South Asia.
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Yesterday would have been Stanley Kubrick‘s 88th birthday, had the director not passed away so suddenly in 1999. He would in fact now be the age that Akira Kurosawa was when he died, only half a year before Kubrick.
To celebrate Kubrick’s 88th birthday, BFI have updated their particularly interesting article which was originally published in 2013 and tries to put together a list of Kubrick’s favourite films. The selection is combined from various sources and the films are commented on by Kubrick’s right-hand man Jan Harlan and long time assistant Anthony Frewin. The list contains both surprises and titles that you would expect to find among Kubrick’s favourites. Many Kurosawa films also make appearances, with Frewin offering the following comment:
Stanley thought Kurosawa was one of the great film directors and followed him closely. In fact I cannot think of any other director he spoke so consistently and admiringly about. So, if Kubrick was cast away on a desert island and could only take a few films, what would they be? My money would be on The Battle of Algiers, Danton, Rashomon, Seven Samurai and Throne of Blood…
Frewin also talks about the letter that Kurosawa wrote to Kubrick in the 1990s, and how Kubrick never ended up replying to it:
Talking of Kurosawa, a poignant tale: Stanley received a fan letter from Kurosawa in the late 1990s and was so touched by it. It meant more to him than any Oscar would. He agonised over how to reply, wrote innumerable drafts, but somehow couldn’t quite get the tenor and tone right. Weeks went by, and then months, still agonising. Then he decided enough was enough, the reply had to go, and before the letter was sent Kurosawa died. Stanley was deeply upset.
BFI’s article is titled Stanley Kubrick, cinephile and is well worth taking a look at if you haven’t already.
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In my interviews with families of kids who see ghosts, I notice that every family has a unique way of supporting the gifted child. As the Perry family demonstrates in this story, those with a child who sees ghosts also has a family member(s) who is unusually empathic.
The adorable book, The Sid Series ~ A Collection of Holistic Stories for Children, was authored by Yvonne Perry, who truly understands kids who see ghosts. She is the paternal grandmother of Sidney, the main character in her 12 stories that share a message about holistic living and understanding spiritual intelligence. She unknowingly started the book when she began to write about her adventures with her first-born biological grandson as he began exhibiting the ability to see in the spirit realm. The next thing Yvonne knew, she had a collection of stories to help parents and grandparents support kids who see ghosts and have other paranormal experiences.
Perry's own psychic gifts began manifesting in childhood. She was raised in a family where seeing and hearing spirits was not an unfamiliar experience-yet one that they didn't talk about. Having a near-death experience (NDE) in 1952, the matriarch of the family privately confessed to communicating with angels, spirit animals, and disembodied loved ones. During her NDE, "Nanny," as the family lovingly calls her, was sent back to Earth to finishing raising her children who were young at the time.
It's only natural that Ms. Perry and her children and grandchildren would manifest clairvoyant, clairaudient, or clairsentient gifts. As a teenager, her daughter, now 26, had dreams that gave her accurate premonitions about future events. It was common for her to have dj vu or see something in "real" life that she had already witnessed in a dream or vision.
As a passenger in the car while her mom was driving down the road, Saya emphatically said, "Slow down!"
"I'm not speeding," Yvonne said.
"Just slow down, okay?" she said.
Yvonne slowed the car. "Enough?" she asked her daughter. About that time, they topped the hill where a car accident had just occurred. Had the mom maintained driving at the former speed, they would have been right in the middle of the wreck.
"How did you know that was going to happen?" Yvonne asked her daughter.
"I just knew. There's going to be a grey car at the entrance of the trailer park."
The trailer park wasn't even in sight for another twenty seconds, but sure enough, a grey car started to pull out as the mother-daughter duo approached. Yvonne blew the horn and averted yet another accident.
"How did you know?" Yvonne asked a little more sternly.
"I dreamed it last night," the fourteen-year-old replied.
Yvonne honored her daughter's spiritual gifts from that day forward. However, Saya shut down the gift and never mentioned it after her parents divorced two years later.
Perry's son, being empathic himself and married to a woman who is frequently visited by spirits, is more accepting of psychic gifts and was not at all surprised when his first-born son was able to communicate telepathically from a very early age. The entire family began learning from this little boy who called himself an "old soul" when he was only three years old. Sidney channeled his higher self and used a magic potion to heal a crippled dog when he was four years old. At age nine, he continues to receive guidance in his sleep through his astral travel.
"I knew we had a special child on our hands and I wanted to do everything I could to help him develop his spiritual gifts," says Perry. "-the same gifts that had been considered unacceptable by the Christian churches I had attended. Sidney's spiritually enlightened mother encouraged him to use his gifts as a tool to help himself and others. Most psychically-gifted children do not have this type of adult influence. In fact, many adults are afraid of the supernatural. Because my son, daughter-in-law, grandson, and I can effortlessly talk about our spiritual experiences, there is no fear of the spirit world-just awe and appreciation." Perry's main reason for writing The Sid Series ~ A Collection of Holistic Stories for Children is to help others see how easy it is to open a dialog and comfortably share human connection with the spirit world.
Sidney's ability to see in the spirit realm was confirmed when he was about four years old. He was with his grandmother, whom he calls "Von-Von," in her office when she asked him to go get something in another room. He jumped up and started toward the door. Then, all of a sudden he stopped and wouldn't go through the door. He walked backward to where Von-Von was sitting.
"What's wrong, Sid?" she asked.
"Who is that?" He pointed toward the hallway.
Von-Von immediately knew what was happening. She had seen a ghost of young boy flash across her foyer several days prior. "I'm not sure what his name is," she said as she pulled Sid into her lap. "But, he will not harm you. Let's call upon Archangels Chamuel and Michael to help."
Sidney would not take his eyes from the spirit at the doorway.
"Archangels Michael and Chamuel," Von-Von said, "We have the spirit of a lost boy in our house. Please come and help him see the light and go to a safe place where he can find his friends and family. Thank you."
After a few moments Sidney said, "He's gone!" Then, he slid off his grandmother's lap and walked through the doorway without hesitation.
Perry is currently writing a book to serve as a guidebook for empaths-those who are affected by the thoughts, emotions, and feelings of people around them. Teaching Sidney how to protect himself from the psychic energy will be important later on if his guardian adults notice that he's picking up detrimental energy from others. So far, this has not been the case. Even though Sidney is very sensitive and compassionate, he is able to move smoothly along on his own spiritual journey. This lack of fear and psychic onslaught (common to many teens and adults) may come from the way his family treats paranormal events as an ordinary part of life. It could also be due to the loads of love and light that surround him as a result of the beneficial prayers of his parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and yes, even his great-great-grandmother. Nanny, at age 94, sees and hears in the spirit realm more than ever.
The stories in The Sid Series are as much for the parents as for the kids.
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That’s right. PAINT.
Look, not every blog post is going to be some profound exposition simmering with political limericks and philosophical commentary on modern society AND/OR me falling super hard on my butt. Sometimes I’m going to write about a stupid thing I did, and that stupid thing I did this week is PAINT A WALL.
FOR THE FIRST TIME.
BY MYSELF.
…SORT OF.
I MEAN LIKE I HAD A SMALL BIT OF HELP BUT MOSTLY IT WAS JUST ME.
Let’s begin:
My at-home filming studio is like Orlando Bloom’s acting ability. It gets the job done, but is still really sad. Unlike Orlando Bloom, however, my studio has been unpleasant to look at, what with my green screen being pinned to the wall with thumbtacks, my lights held together with pink rubber bands, and my microphone stand elevated by three empty LootCrate boxes. PROFESHUNALIZM.
I decided to mount my green screen proper-like and paint the other big empty wall with cool colors. That way I’ll have a background when I start making stupid YouTube videos that will waste my talent and really disappoint my mom. Win-win! Here was my sketch:
Pretty great, right? And to think I was able to hire an actual preschooler to draw it for me.
FIRST, I did what any intelligent individual would do. I contacted a seasoned professional for painting advice.
I was advised to start by covering the room in plastic like I was a vigilante serial killer.
Then, I gathered my cheap Walmart painting supplies. AND MY PAINT, DUHHHHH.
It was about 5 minutes later that I realized my air conditioning had stopped working and I was doing manual labor in a room that was, give or take, 3 degrees colder than the surface of the sun. This made me grumpy. Note the grumpiness:
That is a picture of all-natural unmake-up’d beauty right there. Just soak that in for a bit.
BUT THEN I FINISHED THE BASE COAT AND MY MIRTHQUAKE COMMENCED.
LOOK HOW GOOD I DID.
But nay, my journey was only halfway journey’d.
THE NEXT DAY, I picked up this homeless UFC fan from somewhere in the slums of North Vegas to help me tape the walls in preparation for the stripes.
Homeless Shawn and I decided to consume Wisdom Juice to give us a steady hand in our taping endeavor.
The following moments occurred but I can’t be expected to recall them in full detail. Thanks, Samuel Adams and your two-row malted barley and Bavarian Noble hops. I’M TRYING TO PAINT A WALL HERE, SAM.
Diligent. Precise. Buzzed and quietly wondering if my bug guy has been spraying for Bearspiders.
FINALLY, after many hot hours of inhaling paint fumes, my wall was painted. And dammit, I was proud of myself. And tired. Mostly the tired thing.
So, if you think about it… this blog was literally you watching paint dry. THANKS FOR THE VIEWS HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA
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Two years before the T-Mobile G1 introduced the world to Android, Google presented carriers with the "Google Phone — a device that looked a lot more like the portrait QWERTY Android prototype shown in early 2008.
At the time, Google bemoaned that "basic phone user interfaces and the ability to integrate as a 3rd party are still a barrier," telling T-Mobile that Mountain View's expertise combined with the carrier's unlimited data plan would be a win-win. (Of course, six years later, unlimited data plans are an endangered species.)
The designs have surfaced in Oracle's case against Google over Java, with Oracle's attorneys pointing out that Java is a frequent mention across the original slide deck: "Leverage Java for its existing base of developers. Build a useful app framework (not J2ME). Support J2ME apps in compatibility mode. Provide an opTMobileized JVM (Dalvik)," one slide reads.
Google emphasized even in 2006 that it wasn't trying to undermine carriers — at least, that was the message they were conveying to T-Mobile — pointing out that the phone would run T-Mobile's SIM and would be T-Mobile's bill every month. Google, meanwhile, would provide the hardware and the "integrated services." To quote the deck, "low acquisition cost, high end data customers." Driving customers to high-end data plans has become part and parcel of the smartphone revolution — carriers are always looking for higher average revenue per user (ARPU), a figure commonly cited in quarterly earnings reports.
The baseline specs required two soft menu keys, indicating that touchscreens weren't really in the plan at all
Exact specs for those first concepts aren't detailed, but Google does spell out what it had in mind for the least common denominator across Android devices. An ARMv9 processor of at least 200MHz, GSM (3G preferred), 64MB of RAM and ROM, miniSD (yes, mini, not micro) external storage, a 2-megapixel camera with a dedicated shutter button, USB support, Bluetooth 1.2, and a QVGA display with at least 16-bit color support — a far cry from today's 720p screens. At that time, touchscreen support wasn't a requirement — in fact, the baseline specs required two soft menu keys, indicating that touchscreens weren't really in the plan at all. Optionally, phones could also include a QWERTY keyboard (as the G1 did), Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, a "secondary display," Wi-Fi, GPS, and hardware graphics acceleration.
Back in 2006, Google had Android working on TI's OMAP850 processor "in three form factors," and functional apps included the dialer, home screen, messaging app, contacts, and an early example of Android's ubiquitous WebKit-based browser; implementations of Google Talk, Gmail, Calendar, MMS, "chat-based SMS" (presumably a threaded messaging app), and POP email were expected for Q3 of that same year. That's a lot of functionality considering that it would be another year and a half before we'd see the first Android prototypes on display.
All told, Google expected Android to be certified by carriers between June 1st and August 31st of 2007, at which point it'd be released to manufacturers. Of course, it wasn't until October of 2008 that the G1 hit shelves.
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Sketch Tutorials
The Most Efficient Way to Use Icons If You’re A Designer or Developer.
Not just how to do it, but WHY it’s better than any other way.
Jon Moore Blocked Unblock Follow Following Jun 11, 2017
Confession: This article is intentionally polarizing so that someone will write an angry comment and give me a more efficient solution.
Maybe it’s manipulation. I call it The Predictability of the Internet 😉
Icons are a huge pain in my ass:
They have to look homogenous (similar visual style)
They have to have bounding boxes
They have to work when they’re really big and really small
and really small They have to be easy to design with
They have to be easy to code with
They have to be performant (side note: Peter Nowell is the king of SVGs)
They have to not piss off your design team
They have to not piss off your development team
Okay, so what about icon fonts?
Icon fonts like FontAwesome came out as a way to soften the agony of working with icons, but they still aren’t perfect. Designing with them is just…okay; you still have to go look up the glyph, copy it, and paste it into the text layer. You can’t really symbolize them, and if you do, changing their color requires some text symbol trickery. Developing with icon fonts is simple, but not without issues. If the browser fails to load the icon font, then you’re up shit creek without a paddle. And you’re alone. In a kayak. Sad.
Well…now what?
So…use SVGs then?
Well for designers, SVGs are certainly easier to symbolize in Sketch, but it can be kind of a pain to change their color. So just don’t make them symbols, right? Then you can use layer styles to make them different colors! But what if you want to update the little dropdown arrow from a caret to a triangle? Well good luck finding all 398 occurrences of that little arrow and updating them one-by-one. So that’s…well, not great. And I know from experience that developers love nothing more than using standalone SVGs for each and every icon in my design. Don’t worry guys, there are only 207 unique icons. That shouldn’t affect page load. I promise. /s
Ugh, then what?!
Keep reading, knucklehead 🤗 And before we dive in, here’s something free. This will help you follow along with the rest of the tutorial.
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Google’s new In the news box for search results is surfacing some non-traditional “news” sources, including Reddit.
Search Engine Land noticed that Reddit links were showing up in Google’s new search results field. Google confirmed that it was populating the field with more than traditional news sources. It told Search Engine Land, “We will be pulling from all over the web which means that we will present as diverse a range of voices as possible to ensure we get users to the answer they are looking for.”
Of course Reddit being Reddit, when you currently search for “TSA,” this is what you’ll find in the In the News search result box:
Internet news searches just got a little more blue.
➤ Google’s “In The News” Box Now Lists More Than Traditional News Sites [Search Engine Land]
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Men in the more deprived parts of London are living up to 17 years less than those living in the wealthier boroughs.
The shocking disparity was revealed in a Bureau investigation into male health in the capital. It showed that a man in Queen’s Gate, in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea, lives to the average age of 88.3. But in Lewisham Central, South East London, life expectancy is only 70.8.
The poor life expectancy figures for men living in some parts of the capital was in sharp contrast to female life expectancy. In almost two thirds (61%) of London’s wards, the gap between men and women’s life expectancy is wider than the national average of 4.1 years.
The national average of women’s life expectancy is 82.3 years; for men, it is 78.2 years – just over four years shorter. However, in London, the average life expectancy for men is 77.1 years, and for women it is 81.7 years – a wider gap of 4.6 years.
The gap is most notable in the more deprived parts of the capital, where women out-live men by more than 12 years.
In one ward in the heart of the city: Cathedrals, in Southwark, the Bureau found that women live on average 12.72 years longer than men. Men’s life expectancy there is 73.75 years, while women live on average until they are 86.47 years old. That’s worse than the average disparity between men and women in Russia, the country where relatively, men live the world’s second shortest lives compared to their female counterparts.[1]
Related article: Why is men’s health suffering in London?
In 41 of London’s 623 wards, (7%) the life expectancy difference for men and women is over twice the national average, while in nine wards, men are living at least a decade shorter than women.
The wards with the largest gaps were generally located in the boroughs of Haringey, Newham, Brent, Hackney, Hammersmith & Fulham, Westminster, Lambeth, Camden, and Southwark.
Lack of spending
Yet despite the low life expectancy rate for men in many parts of the capital, only a handful of health trusts commission services specifically aimed at the male population.
Alan White, Professor of men’s health at Leeds University and lead author of a recent EU report into men’s health, said a real lack of initiatives directed at the male population was a real problem. ‘At the moment there is a blindness to the fact that there are men wanting to use the services and they can’t.’
Through FOI requests, the Bureau found that PCTs in London spent around £2m more commissioning women’s third sector services than on those directed at men’s health, while many of London’s councils did not spend a penny commissioning services aimed specifically at male wellbeing.
The trend remains even in boroughs including Haringey, Brent, Hammersmith & Fulham, and Camden, where men have the worst life expectancies.
Related article: Men’s health – A correlation between the gender gap and deprivation?
Dan Taylor, London Coordinator for the campaign against living miserably, (CALM), said: ‘Services that specifically address men and resonate with their lives and empower them to get help are urgently needed. Women’s services are important – but the balance needs to be equal, with support services that men can buy into getting their funding increased and matched to women’s services. This may require a rethink about how such services are developed and branded in the first place.’
The Data
The table below shows the 30 wards with the largest gaps in life expectancy between men and women. Alongside is the ward’s rank in the 2011 Index of Deprivation – with ‘1’ being most deprived and ‘628’ being the least. Overall, there is a general trend that the more deprived the ward, the greater the age of mortality difference.
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Donald Trump's economics speech at the Detroit Economic Club was interrupted thirteen separate times by protesters, mostly women, who yelled slogans into a cavernous convention center ballroom and drew mostly indifference from the Republican nominee for president.
As Trump wound his way through a stinging indictment of the Obama administration and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's economic proposals, one agitator after another screamed in anger.
One boomed about 'victimized' females. another blared: 'You have to answer to women, Mr. Trump!'
The comic relief came from the lone male protester, who ranted: 'Tiny hands! All you've got is tiny hands!'
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UNFLAPPABLE: Donald Trump stuck to his economic message during a speech Monday to the Detroit Economic Club
ONE AFTER ANOTHER: Thirteen different women erupted in screams, one at a time, as Trump spoke to an audience of 2,000
'PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN': A left-wing Michigan group took credit for organizing the protest
'TINY HANDS!' The lone male protester screamed an insult at Trump before security yanked him from his seat
The audience responded with standing ovations and cries of 'We love you!'
TRUMP'S PLAN AT A GLANCE INCOME TAX Currently: Seven tax brackets start at 10 per cent and go up to 39.6 per cent Under Trump: A zero tax band for the lowest earners, then bands of 12 per cent, 25 per cent and 33 per cent ESTATE TAX Currently: 40 per cent tax on all estates over $5.45 million for individuals and $10.9m for couples Under Trump: Abolished CHILD CARE Currently: Up to 35 per cent of childcare costs of $3,000 for one child or $6,000 for two ore more is tax deductible. Actual amount depends on parents' income Under Trump: 100 per cent of childcare costs tax deductible CORPORATION TAX Currently: Statutory rate of 35 per cent, effective rate can be as high as 39 per cent Under Trump: Effective rate of 15 per cent
Trump mostly shook his head silently, and plowed ahead through his prepared remarks without giving television audiences a hint at what was transpiring.
Eventually, though, a few quips snuck into his delivery after a black woman screamed on her way out: 'I did it for you!'
'This is what happens when you go from 35 people to more than 2,000, I guess,' Trump said, a swipe at Clinton's smaller crowds on the campaign trail.
'It's all very well planned out,' he said as police dragged one kicking protester out of the Cobo Center in downtown Detroit.
'I will say the Bernie Sanders people have far more energy and spirit,' he said of another.
As that activist was ejected, a woman hear her in the audience yelled, 'Get a job!'
By sheer coincidence, the next line in Trump's speech was: 'We must have law and order.'
A left-wing group called Michigan People's Campaign claimed credit for organizing the protest, and said its members each purchased tickets to the speech – which cost about $100 each according to audience members.
The organization said in a press release that it was protesting against Trump's 'stance on sexual harassment' and his policies' likely impact on automotive jobs.
OPEN DOOR POLICY: The fifth demonstrator to interrupt Trump found herself ejected
OUT YOU GO: Trump's security chief Keith Schiller, left, and a mixture of Secret Service and Detroit police officers, hauled protester after protester out of the Cobo Center
STANDING O FOR IVANKA: Trump name-checked his elder daughter as someone who has advised him on jobs, and the Detroit crowd erupted in appreciation
GOP TICKET: Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Trump's running mate, said Trump is 'a dreamer, he's a builder, he's a driver and he's a man who speaks his mind'
Trump said his message was the need to start 'a conversation about how to make America great again for everyone, especially – and I say especially – for those who have the very least.'
But most of his largest applause lines were slaps at Clinton, including some that linked Democratic politicians to Detroit's crumbling, crime-ridden inner city.
'The city of Detroit is the living, breathing example of my opponent's failed economic agenda,' Trump said. 'Every policy that has failed this city, and so many others, is a policy supported by Hillary Clinton.'
'She supports the high taxes and radical regulation that forced jobs out of your community, and the crime policies have made you far, far less safe, and the immigration policies that have strained local budgets, and the trade deals like NAFTA, signed by her husband, that have shipped your jobs to Mexico and other countries.'
'And she supports the education policies that deny your students choice, freedom and opportunity,' he continued, to wild applause.
'She is the candidate of the past. Ours is the campaign of the future.'
HILLARY-BASHING: Trump clobbered Hillary Clinton as a voice from the past and promoted his economic vision as a plan for the future
'OUT OF IDEAS': Trump clobbered his opponent, saying that 'if you were a foreign power looking to weaken America, you couldn't do better than Hillary Clinton's economic agenda'
'This is a city controlled by Democratic politicians at every level. And unless we change policies, we will not change results,' Trump said 'One hundred per cent.'
'Our opposition ... has long ago run out of ideas,' Trump said, promising an expansion of his economic proposals on his website.
'All Hillary Clinton has to offer is more of the same. More taxes, more regulations, more bureaucrats, more restrictions on american energy and on American production. More of that!'
'If you were a foreign power looking to weaken America, you couldn't do better than Hillary Clinton's economic agenda. Nothing would make our foreign adversaries happier than for our country to tax and regulate our companies and our jobs right out of existence.'
After Trump left the podium, a female emcee said: 'I want to apologize to all of you and to Mr. Trump for the interruptions. This is not what the Detroit Economic Club is all about.'
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Trump's running mate, introduced the billionaire candidate.
'We've become best friends. He seems like somebody I've known all my life,' said Pence.
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File Photo: China's Tiangong-1 space station
China is to launch an “optical module” along with the under-construction space station, said Zhang Yulin, Deputy to the National People’s Congress and Deputy Minister of Central Military Commission Equipment Development Department, on March 7, 2016. The “optical module” is similar to Hubble Space Telescope, but the field of view is 300 times that of Hubble.
The module would maintain a certain distance to orbit with the space station. When suffers malfunction or needs maintenance, it will dock to the space station and be operated by astronauts, Zhang said. This will solve the problem Hubble has encountered, when NASA had to send up astronauts particularly to repair it. This special design of China’s space station makes in-orbit maintenance possible, and can thus bring the numerous defunct satellites to life, Zhang said.
Within 10 years of orbit, the module would capture about 40 percent of the space with a precision no less than Hubble. With these data, it is hopeful that China will make breakthrough development on the origin, development, and evolution of the universe.
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Buy Photo Rochester Police Chief Michael Ciminelli and Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren address the media at City Hall on Sept. 19, 2014 about the video that was posted on social media of a police arrest, the same incident where an unidentified person struck an officer with a broom. (Photo: TINA MACINTYRE-YEE @tyee23/staff photographer)Buy Photo
Mayor Lovely Warren and Rochester Police Chief Michael Ciminelli Friday morning asked anyone who witnessed or filmed an encounter between a city police officer and a city resident this week to step forward.
The request followed the surface of a 77-second video posted on YouTube and social media showing a city police officer striking a man several times during an arrest.
A sergeant was at 369 Genesee Street about 1:30 p.m. Thursday to take Clem J. Long, 36, into custody in connection with alleged illegal drug activity in the area. Long allegedly started to resist arrest, said Rochester police investigator Frank Camp.
Another person allegedly repeatedly struck the sergeant with a metal broom handle prior to the arrest shown on the video. Warren and Ciminelli said the posted video, which is now being reviewed by police as evidence, shows the final minute of the encounter on the front porch of the Genesee Street home.
The alleged attack on the officer was not pictured in the posted video.
Video: Arrest on Genesee Street
Warren said she learned of the video from concerned city residents.
"When videos rise, we take them very, very seriously," Warren said. "But we also need the community's help. This (video) tells a part of the story, but we want to be able to hear the whole story. We want a clear understanding of what actually happened."
Specifically, city and police officials are asking anyone who witnessed or recorded the first part of the encounter, or the entire exchange, to come forward.
While some other departments around the country have outfitted police officers with cameras on their person or in their patrol cars, Warren said Rochester officials and officers must first learn more about the technology before considering installing them locally.
Clem Long (Photo: Provided photo)
Long, a Columbia Avenue resident, was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and second-degree assault, both felonies, resisting arrest, a misdemeanor, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation.
Court documents allege Long had 16 bags of cocaine and some marijuana on him Thursday afternoon. Ciminelli said the sergeant on Thursday was addressing numerous complaints of drug activity on Genesee Street when the incident occurred.
When Long allegedly resisted arrest and tussled with the sergeant, at least one more person joined the confrontation, Ciminelli said. Police are looking for the person accused of hitting the sergeant with a broom handle over his head and on his back.
The injured sergeant was treated at an area hospital and will remain off duty for several days to recover from his injuries.
Long pleaded not guilty on those charges and was remanded to the Monroe County Jail in lieu of $15,000 cash bail. He is slated to return to City Court for a preliminary hearing next week.
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Mamata Banerjee's reaction on the Durga idol immersion controversy is symptomatic of a leader suffering from a deep confusion about political trajectory. For the first time in her career, the firebrand mass leader appears unsure. Faced with a dominant, cunning and resourceful political adversary, the Trinamool Congress supremo is dithering. She has taken a series of missteps and the BJP would have noted it.
The West Bengal chief minister has ended up scoring an own goal while trying to be too clever by half. Her plan of using cultural chauvinism as an antidote to BJP's Hindutva card was giving dividends, and the BJP of late had suffered a cognitive setback while trying to introduce identity politics into Durga Pujo, Bengal's biggest cultural (not just religious) festival.
She didn't need to tamper with immersion dates or put a curb around timings. By trying to do so, however, Mamata may have allowed BJP a moral victory. Worse, her every step since the issue of firman has been confusing, bewildering and even contradictory, betraying an uncharacteristic nervousness.
The West Bengal government first declared that Durga idol immersion could only be carried out till 6pm on Dashami (30 September, Saturday) — the traditional day of immersion for Bengalis — and the curb will be lifted on 2 October. If the chief minister was apprehensive of a challenge to law and order, this was a daft way to meet it. Muharram, the day of mourning for Shia Muslims, fell on 1 October (Sunday). There was no need for a curb on immersion on Dashami.
On being dragged to court, the state government blinked and allowed immersion till 10pm. A fresh order was issued, and the earlier deadline was blamed reportedly on a "typographical error".
More was to follow. Acting on three petitions against the 1 October-ban on immersion, the Calcutta High Court bench of acting Chief Justice Rakesh Tiwary and Justice Harish Tandon took the state government to task on two consecutive days. On Wednesday, according to Times of India, the court asked the government not to "hide its inability by imposing immersion restrictions", observing that the state cannot block a citizen's constitutional right to practise religion on the mere assumption that there could be disruption of law and order.
On Thursday, the Calcutta HC revoked the Mamata government's order, allowed immersion till 12am on all days, and sternly reminded the state that "You are exercising extreme power without any basis... Just because you are the state, can you pass arbitrary order?"
In an 18-page order, the court said: "It is axiomatic to record that the state has no religion, which is one of the fundamental facets underlying secularism. There should not be any order of precedence in performance of the religious rites, rituals, ceremonies and mourning amongst the religious communities. There should be an equality in every citizen’s right with corresponding obligation of very state to protect the same."
At this point, the sensible thing for the chief minister to do would have been to accept the court's ruling and try and implement the court's direction that separate routes should be designated for Tazia and immersion processions, ensure adequate police bandobast and advertise the routes well in advance.
The chief minister seemed to have taken the court rebuke to heart, and though careful not to express open dissent, left no space for doubt that she disagreed with the ruling. In thinly veiled criticism for the HC order, she was quoted as saying soon after, "I will do what I can to keep peace in the state. Also, someone can slit my throat, but no one can tell me what to do."
By Thursday night, media reports indicated that the state will challenge the high court order in Supreme Court. On Friday, a TMC MP said there were no such plans and claimed that the HC order had actually been in state's favour.
Kalyan Banerjee told News18: "Yesterday, most of the media reported wrongly information that the High Court revoked the state government’s decision on banning immersion on Muharram day. Actually, the court’s verdict went in our favour. We are not going to move Supreme Court because the Calcutta High Court order is actually in our favour. Some people are trying to politicise the issue. Let them do it."
If this wasn't bizarre enough, a defiant Mamata passed a new order on Friday, making it mandatory for Durga Pujo organisers to seek a government permit for immersion, reported India Today.
Mamata is insistent that these steps are being taken to "maintain law and order" and she probably has a point, given the spate of low-intensity communal clashes that have taken place recently in Bengal. Her clumsy steps, however, have made it difficult for others to buy this logic. TMC and BJP's competitive identity politics has rapidly polarised the state polity and in this context, Mamata's move may very likely be interpreted as 'anti-Hindu'. The BJP will certainly try its best to convey that impression.
Last year, too, the Mamata government had been at the receiving end of a court rebuke, with the Calcutta HC holding it responsible for "minority appeasement."
The state BJP expectedly didn't waste any time. President Dilip Ghosh said "it is really sad that the Hindus in Bengal have no religious rights. They have to depend on the judiciary to celebrate Durga Puja" while an RSS functionary accused ruling party of "depriving the Hindus of their basic rights, only for the sake of appeasement of a particular community."
Abhijit Ghosal has pointed out in Hindustan Times that Mamata's steps to curb immersion were unnecessary, because hardly any Hindus immerse the Durga idol on 'ekadoshi' (the 11th day in Matri Paksha) which coincided with Muharram this year. Given the TMC's formidable influence among Puja committee members, writes the author, she could have easily leant on them to avoid that date.
It's worth pondering why Mamata missed out on such an obvious move, handing the BJP another chance to paint her as anti-Hindu. One possibility is that by issuing the curbs and diktats against immersion, Mamata has managed to send a message to TMC's Muslim votebank. In this calculation, the court rebuke is actually a favour. The gamble could have been that given Bengal's fierce cultural chauvinism, a section of Bengali Hindus will never vote for the BJP. As the recent controversies around depiction of goddess Durga and her children at a Jawed Habib salon, or a social media video on egg rolls (a popular Bengali snack) have shown, the BJP has still been unable to wrap its head around the fact for Bengalis, cultural identity may trump every other selfhood markers. Stringent Hindutva politics might not work here.
The second, more likely possibility is that Mamata's missteps are not deliberate, and stem from a confusion around her political trajectory. Her stunning victory in 2011 that ended 34-year Left rule in the state was made possible largely due to the agitation around Singur and Nandigram when Mamata successfully tapped into farmers' over losing land to Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government's industrial push.
As Rajat Roy writes in Economic and Political Weekly, "Muslim population in Bengal is around 28%, and that of Scheduled Castes is around 23%, a majority of them peasants… After coming to power, the Mamata government took some steps to bring benefits to these socio-religious sections of the society. Though some of the steps—for example, provision of a monthly allowance to imams and muezzins—were symbolic, the administration was forced to turn a blind eye when there were incidents of a serious breakdown in law and order that involved Muslim population."
In an effort to consolidate the Muslim vote base, Mamata introduced identity politics in Bengal which had largely been free of it — paving the way for BJP to make inroads. Two can play this game, and in the race for consolidation of Hindu and Muslim votes, Mamata suddenly finds herself trapped in an image problem. This may explain her late dabs at soft Hindutva such as uploading a volley of Durga Pujo inauguration pictures on Twitter, or breaking into an impromptu Chandi Path (mantra).
Everywhere, it is a magnificent spectacle of superb creativity. My best wishes to all. pic.twitter.com/QNRhsflKEE — Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) September 20, 2017
This ambivalence and soft Hindutva may actually work against her because it plays into BJP's hands. It remains to be seen if Mamata has the ability to pull off such a precarious balancing act.
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The conference opener is upon us, with all the national attention that a primetime Thursday night audience brings. It's been a hectic short week on Frogs O' War, with in-depth previews, Questions and answers with our friends at Viva the Matador, a bet between husband and wife and, of course, a whole lot of sh** talking. With all the tension in the air (and also because of late arriving SE Louisiana game film meaning I don't have the Video Rewind ready) let's lighten the mood a bit, and in the spirit of Attack on Tigers (recommended reading before you read this post) and the Raid on Smurf Village (the OBNUG blog bet win post, for our old readers) I welcome you back to the Frogs O' War War Room for... The Tech Problem.
December 5, 2012
Frogs O' War War Room: HawkeyedFrog, Jamie Plunkett, Patrick McCullough and Superfrog have gathered to wrap the regular season and ensure that certain mistakes- namely a triple overtime loss to Texas Tech- are never repeated again. Superfrog is on the phone as we begin.
Patrick: So we've gone over plans for the first two weeks of the season, if it's all right with you gentlemen, let's move onto Texas Tech.
HawkeyedFrog twitches violently
Jamie: Is he all right?
Patrick: He just gets a twitch when Tech is mentioned. Something about childhood trauma.
HawkeyedFrog swallows a pill: I'll be fine. The question is how do we keep our guys from losing again?
Patrick: Tech has some sort of dark magic about them that makes things go their way when they meet us. Even our own staff isn't immune. Jamie, are you sure you should be here for this briefing?
Jamie: Just because I married a tech grad doesn't mean there was dark magic involved. When we met it was...
Patrick: Magical, I'll bet. Proves my point. How is it our defense shut down Baylor like no one else could, but got shredded by Tech if not by dark magic?
Hangs up the phone: The answer is Tommy Tuberville.
HawkeyedFrog: The Tech head coach? He seems like the least of our concerns, boss, their fans don't even like him.
: I just got off of a collect call from a secret TCU backer who coached against Tuberville in the SEC, all of his information says that this is a man that needs to be feared.
Patrick: Of all of the evil things about Texas Tech he certainly does seem to be the least of them. He's no Mike Leach
HawkeyedFrog twitches again
Jamie: Is he all right?
Patrick: He just gets a twitch when Mike Leach is mentioned. Something about young adult trauma. It takes someone mentioning 12-3 to get him back to normal.
HawkeyedFrog exhales, relieved: Ah, thanks for that. I feel better remembering that Patterson can shut down Tech entirely with the right team.
: And that is precisely the problem, gentlemen. If Tech has a coach that gets frustrated when he can't score, that's a point in out favor. Tuberville is something else entirely though.
Jamie: He outscored us last year, 56-53.
HawkeyedFrog spasms
Patrick: Seriously, come on Hawk. You don't have to develop a nervous tick every time you remember a loss to Tech.
HawkeyedFrog: What? Oh, no, that last one was just a cramp in the neck. go on.
Jamie: A guy who puts up 56 points isn't going to be content if he's only scoring three.
: That's where the information I was passed comes in, gentlemen. Tuberville's dark magic secret...
Patrick: I knew it!
HawkeyedFrog: Hush. Carry on, boss.
: Tuberville's secret is that he'd rather win a game 3-2 than 56-53.
Jamie: That's ridiculous, boss. You'd have to be a defense first coach like Patterson to ever be content with a score like that.
: The evidence is clear. Tuberville even installed the worst spread offense in college football history to win the ugliest game in history- his crowning moment.
Baby I'm Burnin': Auburn @ Mississippi State 2008 (HQ)
HawkeyedFrog: Catchy. That looked a lot more like bad offense than good defense though.
Patrick: I'll bet that's where the dark magic comes in.
: That's exactly it. Because Mississippi State was that bad, he put in that offense just to win in the worst way possible. We're dealing with a sadistic coaching genius here, gentlemen.
Jamie: I'm beginning to think Superfrog is right and this is a great Tech conspiracy of some sort, guys. We have to get Tuberville away from them.
Patrick: Easier than said when you're dealing with dark magic.
HawkeyedFrog: Dark magic or not, Tuberville has a reputation for abandoning universities. Maybe we can find a new home for him?
: Hm. Well, I do have some old contacts from Conference USA.
Patrick: He's not going to go to a Conference USA school, boss. He's in the Big 12 and he's from the SEC.
HawkeyedFrog: A couple of those CUSA schools moved up to Conference USA v2. What did they call it? The Big East?
Jamie: Well, it has "Big" in it, maybe that'll be enough.
flips open his cell phone again: Is that Cincinnati AD Whit Babcock? Superfrog here, how the hell are ya, Whit? Look, I know you're shaken up over losing Butch Davis to Tennessee, nobody feels good after that. Yeah, and you lost Brian Kelly too and now he's a national title game participant. *Loud sobs are heard over the speaker*
Patrick: Is he... crying?
: Whit man, get a hold of yourself. What's important right now is that you need a new coach again. *Sobs escalate*. The problem is you've been hiring all these young up-and-comer types. They're good for padding the win column, but in a few years you're left holding the bag while they go off to a bigger job. What you need is an older coach, someone who's looking to settle down. He may not give you all the flash and charisma, but he's the kind of guy who'll stand behind you.
HawkeyedFrog: You're planning on giving him a coach who said they'd haul him from Ole Miss in a pine box and was introduced at Auburn in the next week to stand behind him?
: Huh, that? No, it's just some guy who won't have a job here for long if he doesn't shut up. Come on Whit, it's Superfrog, have I ever given you a bum steer? Remember if it weren't for us taking the spot, you'd be here in the Big 12 where it's about to implode any minute.
Jamie: What about the grant of television rights and...
: No, just another fired guy. That's right Whit, you can trust ol' Superfrog. Yeah, he even runs the spread, just like you guys like! Of course we'll speak to him for you. Yeah. Great, Whit. That's great that you feel that way buddy. Yeah, we'll have him call you. Bye
Patrick: Did he tell you he loves you at the end there?
: They all love me. Jamie, Hawk, you're unfired. Learn to be quiet when the boss is talking. Now we just have to get Tuberville to agree to coach in Cincy and we're golden.
HawkeyedFrog: That's the real problem though. You've got a man who's coached all his life in the south. A man who's coaching at a Big 12 school that isn't even Kansas, Iowa State or Baylor. This is a guy who's gone 13-0 in the SEC for crying out loud. You think he'd just up and leave a program like Texas Tech just like that?
A long pause... then all three others break out laughing
Patrick: Good one, Hawk. Let's call him on speakerphone.
Superfrog fiddles with the phone, it rings
: Tommy Tuberville here. I'm at dinner with recruits, so this had better be important
: Coach Tuberville, how would you like to be the head coach at the University of Cincinnati?
: Kirby, is that you again? You aren't going to buy me out that easy.
Patrick: No, we're calling on behalf of Whit Babcock. They just lost their coach up there in Cincy and they're hoping you'll go up there and coach them.
: Look gentlemen, I don't know what game you think you're playing, but I'd never leave Texas Tech, the home of the greatest fans in the world. (Devonte, Sunny, Javess, stay here and enjoy some of these top quality Lubbock steaks. I'm going to step out so I can give these guys a piece of my mind.)
A pause as Tuberville leaves the table
: You guys still there?
HawkeyedFrog: We're sorry coach, we didn't mean to presume...
: Screw apologies, get me the hell out of here! Tell Mr. Babcock I'll be in his office in four hours to draw up the paperwork. I'M GOING TO CINCINNATI!
A players voice is heard on Tuberville's end: (Coach?)
: (Don't worry, Javess, I'm going to Cincinnati to tell those clods what I think of their job offer. After that they'll have to take me from Lubbock in a pine box. I'll be back for dessert, don't you worry about that.)
Javess: Thanks coach, go get 'em!
: If he'll meet me at the airport we can have this done in three hours. You sure this isn't Kirby? That son of a bitch told me I was a sure thing for the A&M job too.
: Just some well wishers, coach. Knock 'em dead in Cincy.
:Thank you all so much. I AM OUT OF HERE FOREVER! (No Sunny, I mean I'm never going back into that bathroom stall in there, I absolutely destroyed it, you know what I mean? Get your guns up, right? Ha ha. Yeah, go order me a strawberry shake, they're my favorite. I'll be back soon.) Thank you so much guys. I don't know if I could take another dust storm. Bye!
The phone clicks off
Jamie: My wife says they have a word for days when the weather is awful in Lubbock
Patrick: Weekdays?
HawkeyedFrog: Damn it Patrick, it's that kind of line that gets us into trouble.
Patrick: I'm worried about this though guys. We got rid of one source of the dark magic, but what if Tech hires someone better? Shit guys, what if they get one of those young up and comers that Superfrog was talking about on the phone?
: Patrick, I've told you about the swearing. Once an athletic director gets a guy like Tuberville they get risk averse. They'll aim for an older coach who can keep the ship afloat, maybe June Jones or Art Briles. And even if they wanted it, what kind of young up and comer has any ties to Tech?
Patrick: You're probably right, Boss, I'm sorry. If you're right about this, I promise to never swear about Tech again.
Jamie: Then there's Tech sorted. Great job everyone. Will you excuse me?
Jamie Plunkett exits the War Room and pulls out a cell phone of his own.
Jamie: Hey hon? It's done, we got rid of Tuberville. You still have to keep your end of the deal though- our firstborn will be attending TCU. We're still going to beat you this year, even without him though. Yeah, I'm sure, you want to bet?
December 12, 2012
Frogs O' War War Room, HawkeyedFrog, Jamie Plunkett and Patrick McCullough are watching as Texas Tech introduces their new head coach, Kliff Kingsbury.
Patrick: Aw, shit.
*Fin*
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Image copyright PA Image caption The man told the 999 operator he had "only just got away" after the badger chased him for a "good 20 or 30ft" in Yeovil in Somerset
A 999 call from a man complaining he had been chased by a "vicious" badger, has been released by police.
He told the operator he had "only just got away" after it had chased him for a "good 20 or 30ft" in Yeovil in Somerset and thought he should report it.
In another call a man complained his fish and chip dinner was too expensive while a woman reported her seat belt in a taxi was too tight.
Police are highlighting the number of "inappropriate" calls they get daily.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Emergency call over 'vicious' badger
'Busted'
Another caller dialled 999 to speak to the Queen, while a woman rang the police to complain about the airport losing her luggage and delivering it to her neighbours, who were out.
The case of a car thief who changed his Facebook profile picture to one of him sitting in a stolen vehicle, was also highlighted by police with the tweet "busted".
Image copyright Twitter Image caption Police have been tweeting some of their 999 calls
The 24-hour "tweetathon", which has seen hundreds of updates posted from across the force area, began at midnight on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A consumer advocacy group petitioned the government Thursday to pull the birth control patch off the market, calling it far riskier than the pill.
“Ortho-Evra is a poor choice for women,” Dr. Sidney Wolfe of the group, Public Citizen, wrote the Food and Drug Administration.
Warnings about the Ortho-Evra weekly patch have escalated since a 2005 investigation by The Associated Press found that patch users had higher rates of life-threatening blood clots than did women who took birth control pills.
Blood clots are a rare side effect for estrogen-related products. Some studies of the risk suggest that patch users have twice the risk of clots in the legs and lungs as do women who swallow the pill because patients absorb up to 60 percent more estrogen with the patch. The Food and Drug Administration updated the patch’s label in 2005, 2006 and earlier this year with clot warnings.
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Demand has dropped, to 2.7 million prescriptions filled in 2007 from the 9.9 million filled in 2004, Dr. Wolfe wrote. But he argued that the patch offered no better contraception in return for the extra risk. And he said lawsuits by women who claim they were harmed by the patch had unearthed two previously unpublished studies from Johnson & Johnson researchers who found higher estrogen exposure from the patch even before it won federal approval in 2001.
A spokeswoman for the patch’s maker, Ortho Women’s Health & Urology, a Johnson & Johnson company, said, “Ortho-Evra is a safe and effective hormonal birth control option when used according to its labeling.”
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Tim Esterdahl | Jan 06, 2014 | Comments 7
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The 2013 sales year has ended and Toyota says the Tundra has pretty much kept pace with the rest of the market. Is that a win or a loss for Toyota? Here’s our take.
Before we debate the results of the year, let’s remember, it has been a year of change for the Tundra. The truck was officially revealed the first of February and the new trucks hit the dealers lots throughout the fall. As a consequence, sales were up and down throughout the year with the anticipation of the new truck and there were whispers of a supply problem of 2014 trucks in August and September.
Officially, here is how the year ended with our unique sales chart that shows numbers per brand, not broken out by model. (BTW, tell us whether you like this chart or not).
Before we get to Toyota, we have to mention the really strong year that Ford and Ram had. Also, it is interesting that GM was down quite a bit in December (actually, overall GM was down 6.3 percent for the month – yikes!). Lastly, we see Nissan and Honda had a so-so year.
For Toyota, you can look at the numbers several ways (aren’t statistics fun!). Focusing on the Tundra, for December, the truck sold 10,988, +7.2 percent and for the year, 112,732 units sold – + 10.9%. With these numbers, you could argue that:
The year was a WIN – they kept pace with the larger truck makers. Also, even though critics initially panned on the new truck, the truck sales didn’t tank as much as they made it seem.
– they kept pace with the larger truck makers. Also, even though critics initially panned on the new truck, the truck sales didn’t tank as much as they made it seem. The year was a LOSS – with all the other makers seeing much larger gains, Toyota actually lost sales. We mean, you could argue with the Ford, Ram and GM each being 15% and over, Toyota lost sales with only being at 12%.
Of course, the sales numbers are really about bragging rights. The facts are that Toyota has never really challenged the “volume” numbers of the other makers, yet they have really held their own in the full-size truck market without many fleet, a diesel or an HD offering.
What do you think? Was 2013 a “win” or a “loss?”
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SHIELD WEEK continues right here on WrestlingDVDNews.com…
…and today we’re giving you a first look at the “Destruction of The Shield” WWE DVD in the flesh, with these exclusive pre-release photos of the full artwork.
Do you believe in The Shield? Then pre-order your copy before the release date later this month. Get the DVD ($19.99) by clicking here, or the Blu-ray edition ($22.99) here.
The new 3-disc WWE DVD set (2-disc Blu-ray set) will include an extended documentary and will compile more than 20 matches from FCW, NXT and WWE, along with new interviews with Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns discussing their time as The Shield.
Thanks goes out to WDN reader @JayJayRock206 for these first look photos.
For the first time ever, The Destruction of The Shield highlights “The Lunatic Fringe” Dean Ambrose, “The Juggernaut” Roman Reigns and “The Architect” Seth Rollins as they join forces to lay down the law and dish out their own brand of personal justice in WWE. From The Shield’s days as rookies in NXT, to their shocking debut, to the eventual destruction of The Shield, this set covers the entire journey of the most dominant trio in recent memory. With never before seen interviews and hard-hitting match-ups from The Shield’s illustrious run, you will bear witness to what happens when the Hounds of Justice are off their leash!
Runtimes
Disc 1: 2 hours and 15 minutes.
Disc 2: 2 hours and 12 minutes.
Disc 3: 2 hours and 58 minutes.
(Extra footage will be featured on the Blu-ray edition).
– Full Content of WWE “Destruction of The Shield” DVD/Blu-ray…
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Related Headlines Sheriff: No conflict of interest in contract
- Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said he stands by his decision to give Taser International a $2 million no-bid contract for body cameras.
FOX 13 investigated events surrounding the contract, and discovered employees went on trips paid for by the vendor, the vendor made donations to Nocco's charity "Shoot-Out” event, and also hired his wife’s lobbying firm around the same time the sheriff granted the vendor the body camera contract.
Nocco said neither the donation, nor his wife's company's contract, nor the trips had any influence on his agency's contract.
“There's nothing hidden. We're hiding nothing,” Nocco said, responding to FOX 13’s questions about the contract.
The sheriff could not, however, explain why his spokesmen repeatedly claimed his emails with the vendor did not exist.
The sheriff is a publicly elected official whose communications are subject to Florida’s public record statutes.
FOX 13 requested emails between Nocco and Taser reps in 2014, the year he signed the $2 million contract. In response to the public records request, PCSO claimed there were no emails between Nocco and Taser reps in 2014.
The agency went as far as to attach a screenshot of what turned up in its search for Nocco’s emails with Taser reps – just a handful of emails in 2015, mostly mass mailings from Taser promoting its latest products, which the agency provided to FOX 13.
FOX 13 asked the Pasco Sheriff’s Office to check again.
“There are no 2014 emails on the subject,” spokesman Kevin Doll said in an email.
Actually, there were.
Buried in emails the agency produced in response to a public records request for emails between Major Mel Eakley - the man Nocco delegated to head up the body camera project - and Taser reps, were more than two dozen emails sent between Nocco and Taser reps not previously provided by the agency.
WATCH: Sheriff answers questions about his emails
During FOX’s interview with Nocco, spokesman Eddie Daniels continued to claim there were no 2014 emails, even interrupting as FOX 13 began to ask the sheriff about them. As the interview continued, Nocco suggested a crash of the agency’s email system may have wiped out his emails.
Daniels later said the sheriff misspoke.
“Sheriff Nocco mentioned an email malfunction that hit us system wide, but that took place months before our contract with any of the body camera vendors,” Eddie Daniels said in a statement emailed after the interview.
The statement also said, “The only emails between the sheriff and Taser have been provided to you.”
In the interview, Nocco eventually said he didn’t know what happened to his emails.
The agency had not offered an explanation, either, until hours before FOX 13’s investigation was scheduled to air – more than six months after the agency said there were no emails.
Spokesman Kevin Doll said they searched for the sheriff’s emails using an old system with “rudimentary” search capabilities, and the agency has since transitioned to a new system. When asked why the agency was able to produce hundreds of Eakley’s emails while still using the old system, but not a single email from 2014 with the sheriff, Doll said the emails may have been migrating from the old email system to the new one, resulting in the discrepancy.
The emails FOX 13 eventually obtained discussed a range of topics, including one on the day Taser landed the contract.
There were emails where Taser asked Nocco to endorse their products and he replied with written responses of endorsement. Also, emails from Taser asking for Nocco's input on a body camera bill in the Florida Legislature.
Members at government watchdog groups said they are concerned.
“I find it very troubling that the sheriff could not produce those records in response to a public records request,” said Barbara Peterson, president of the First Amendment Foundation.
“We have a right - and in Florida, it’s a constitutional right - to oversee our government and to hold our government accountable.”
“Whether that’s an intentional violation of the law or unintentional violation of the law, I think it does constitute a violation,” she added. FOX 13 is a member of the First Amendment Foundation.
Peter Butzin, with Common Cause Florida also said the agency’s response regarding emails is concerning.
“There seems to be a clear and compelling case that email records were not turned over,” Butzin said.
Have a tip? FOX 13 Investigates wants to hear from you. Email us at [email protected]. Contact the reporter directly at (813) 870-9758 or email [email protected]. Follow her at @TinaRJensen.
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An Aberdeen hotel is shutting its doors after 137 years.
The city’s Royal Hotel on Bath Street opened in 1879 and has stood through two world wars.
But a wedding today was to be the final event for the hotel and its owner Stuart Garvie, who has been in charge of the Victorian premises for the last 18 years.
It was founded as the Bath Hotel in 1879 on the site of a former Turkish bath house on Bridge Place.
And despite standing through both world wars, Stuart said the oil downturn has seen bookings drop by up to 40% in the past six months and the historic hotel is now up for sale.
Its closure will lead to the loss of 20 jobs.
The hotel is best known for its Cafe Royal restaurant and bar.
Stuart said: “We are closing because we can’t secure investment funding for the hotel because it’s very hard just now to do these sort of things.
“Due to the current market and hotel scenario in Aberdeen it’s just not possible for us to continue.
“The hotel has been open since 1879 so it’s sad for this to happen.
“For the last six months we have seen a change.
“We have a wedding booked and that will be the last event we have at the hotel.
“In general, there has been 25% to 40% in the reduction of bookings but it varies on the types of hotels in Aberdeen.”
The closure comes the same week as reports showed a slight improvement in the hotel industry.
Having recorded months of consecutive double-digit decreases, hotels achieved an occupancy rate of 62.6% in April, which was down by only 2.5% compared to last year.
The hotel is one of the oldest in the city and will now be sold following the closure.
A buyer has yet to be found for the building and it’s not yet known what its future holds.
Stuart added both himself and regulars who often use the hotel will miss it.
“I will definitely miss it,” he said.
“I have been here for 18 years.
“We have had a lot of regulars who come in every day and every week and they have said they are sad to see it go in the last week.
“For some people, it’s an institution in Aberdeen.
“We have had a lot of happy memories and a lot of sad ones after losing members of staff.
“It’s a listed building and will be one of the oldest hotels in Aberdeen.
“The building will be sold at some point but I don’t know what the future holds for its use.”
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Abdi Waise was convicted of supplying class-B drugs, one count of kidnap and four counts of attempted kidnap
An illegal Somalian immigrant is facing jail after trying to kidnap children by posing as a policeman weeks after being released early from a jail sentence for rape.
Abdi Waise, 28, was supposed to be deported after serving six years of an eight-year sentence for raping a young woman he snatched off the street in 2008.
But a deportation order from 2013 was stayed after the jobless migrant, who came to Britain at the age of ten, appealed on human rights grounds.
Only three weeks after the sex offender was released on licence in January this year, he struck again – kidnapping one schoolgirl and trying to abduct four other children over two-and-a half hours as they walked to school in Hornsey, north London.
Waise struck on January 18 this year. His kidnap attempts started at 7.30am when he chased a ten-year-old boy, offering him £10 and cannabis if he went with him.
A short time later he stopped a schoolgirl and tried to search her bag claiming to be a police officer. He followed her until the girl pointed him out to her parents. Minutes later he approached another girl, grabbing her wrist, telling her he was a police officer looking for his daughter, but she managed to wriggle free.
At 8.10am, Waise blocked the pathway of two girls and accused them of buying drugs. He attempted to lure them a nearby garden so he could search them, but they ran off.
Posing as a plain-clothes police officer, Waise then tried to kidnap an 11-year-old girl, putting his arm around her and trying to convince her she should come to his house for breakfast to look at some photos.
He grabbed her bag and coat, but she managed to run away. At 9.10am he grabbed another girl by the shoulder at a bus stop, but she was able to escape. He also attempted to search schoolgirls after accusing them of buying drugs.
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Shocking CCTV footage shows Waise harassing one of the five girls he attempted to kidnap in a two-and-a-half hour period in North London
When the ruse failed, Waise then targeted a group of schoolboys, offering them £20 if they could get girls to take liquid isopropyl nitrate, known as poppers.
He claimed it would make the victim faint and said, 'If you give it to girls you can do what you want to them', but the boys refused.
Prosecutor Edward Franklin said: 'He tried to use force and intimidating behaviour to stop the children and divert them to accompany him.
'Fortunately those children got away and many of them continued to school where they reported the incidents, others told their parents.'
Waise targeted a group of schoolboys, offering them £20 if they could get girls to take liquid isopropyl nitrate. He claimed it would make the victim faint
Yesterday at Wood Green Crown Court, Waise was convicted of supplying class-B drugs, one count of kidnap and four counts of attempted kidnap. A further charge relating to the attempted kidnap of a 15-year-old girl was laid on file after the jury were unable to reach a verdict.
Details of the deportation order, which was served in 2013, were revealed after yesterday's verdict. It was issued following his 2009 conviction for throttling and raping a 21-year-old woman in Edmonton, North London back in August 2008.
It is believed Waise remained in the UK because he was appealing against the order on human rights grounds. Yesterday Judge Witold Pawlak expressed astonishment that he was not deported, saying: 'If he had been deported then, all those children would not have gone through their unfortunate experiences.'
He said the criminal, who has a string of previous convictions including robbery, theft and possession of cannabis, was 'dangerous'. Before he was convicted of rape, Waise was also charged with sexual offences including an attempted rape that involved throttling, but in both cases the charges were dropped. Waise is due to be sentenced next week.
Outside court, Detective Sergeant Gareth Coffey said: 'He is an illegal immigrant. He was appealing against the deportation at the time and that was why he had not been deported.'
DCI Paul Trevers, in overall charge of the investigation from Haringey CID, said: 'Waise went out with the plan of abducting a girl. When deception didn't work, he became increasingly forceful. Fortunately all the girls saw through his ruse, and whilst frightened, all made it away safely.'
A number of illegal immigrants and foreign criminals have been deported from the UK to war-torn Somalia. They are either flown back on chartered private jets, which are often half-empty, or on scheduled flights via another African country – at vast expense to the taxpayer.
Yesterday, it emerged that ministers have squandered a staggering £57million flying foreign criminals and failed asylum seekers home on private jets over the past five years. Scheduled flights for deportations are thought to have cost the taxpayer at least an additional £30million.
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Republican National Committee Endorses Anti-Trans ‘Bathroom Bills’
The RNC, led by its chairman, Reince Priebus, is condemning the Obama administration for 'governmental overreach' in providing equal access to facilities to trans kids.
In a move that is sure to bring cheer to anti-transgender activists and the Republican presidential candidates who seek their votes nationwide, the Republican National Committee has approved a resolution endorsing so-called bathroom bills, reports the Washington Blade.
The bill that would be the first of this kind is on the Republican governor’s desk in South Dakota, and similar measures are advancing in other states, where (mostly) GOP lawmakers are attempting to restrict transgender students from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity.
“The Republican National Committee calls on the Department of Education to rescind its interpretation of Title IX that wrongly includes facility use issues by transgender students,” the resolution reads, according to the Blade. The resolution passed quietly last month, and was first noted on Twitter by Time magazine’s Zeke Miller.
Just noticed this RNC resolution from last’s month’s meeting on Title IX and gender identity https://t.co/y9zLeF00vu — Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) February 24, 2016
The resolution characterizes “bathroom bills” as legislation to “protect student privacy”: “The Republican National Committee encourages state legislatures to enact laws that protect student privacy and limit the use of restrooms, locker rooms and similar facilities to members of the sex to whom the facility is designated,” the resolution states.
The resolution rejects the Obama administration’s interpretation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to prohibit discrimination against transgender students “governmental overreach.”
In contrast to the life experience of transgender individuals around the world, the RNC defines gender as “the physical condition of being male or female,” and it claims gender is irrevocably determined at birth and can be confirmed via a test of DNA.
And in a clear attempt to circumvent pending court battles and statehouse skirmishes, the resolution says the term “gender identity” was not in the language approved by Congress under Title IX. It notes that some courts have ruled the gender provisions of the law don’t apply to transgender students, despite guidance from the Obama administration.
Asked for comment, the Democratic National Committee was swift to condemn what it called Republican “hypocrisy” on this and other issues:
“The GOP can’t find time to consider a Supreme Court nominee, or pass immigration reform, or raise the minimum wage, or enact equal pay for women, but when it comes to attacking trans people, they’ve got all the time in the world,” wrote DNC spokesman T.J. Helmstetter in an email to The Advocate.
“The Republican Party wants to keep government so small it can fit in the bathroom stall with you to check your anatomy. Their hypocrisy and bigotry know no bounds. The Republicans’ legal interpretation of Title IX to exclude trans students underscores exactly how important it is for LGBT people to call their Senators and make sure that President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee gets a fair hearing and a vote.”
That process has been threatened by Republican senators who want to wait until a new president is in office before confirming a justice to the Supreme Court. With RNC expecting that its candidate for president will face Hillary Clinton, the resolution criticizes Clinton, who has campaigned for transgender rights. Without naming her, the DNC defended both Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders as well as the president.
“Under President Obama, this has been the most LGBT-affirmative and inclusive administration in history, and our Democratic presidential candidates will ensure that we continue to protect the civil rights of our trans brothers and sisters in the next administration.”
When asked for comment, Gregory T. Angelo of the Log Cabin Republicans told The Advocate in an email, “Clearly Log Cabin Republicans is opposed to any such resolution.”
Just this week, the Human Rights Campaign issued a report detailing an unprecedented 44 anti-trans bills now pending in state legislatures in 16 states across the country. The South Dakota bill has a built-in deadline of Tuesday; if the governor does not sign or veto the measure, it will become law without his signature.
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Despite the fact that four of the lawyers linked to porn-trolling enterprise Prenda Law have been forwarded to criminal investigators, the organization is charging full-steam ahead with one of its last cases: LW Systems v. Hubbard. The case is an Illinois state lawsuit making vague allegations over computer hacking against a defendant with a lawyer who some have said is actually in cahoots with Prenda.
The case landed Prenda an incredibly broad order that allows it to subpoena subscriber information from practically any ISP in the country. So Prenda lawyer Paul Duffy has used that power to launch a barrage of threat letters telling people to pay up or get sued. In mid-April—just a week after Duffy pled the Fifth to avoid testifying about his actions in Prenda litigation—his law firm was sending out demand letters asking for $2,400.
Now, the anti-Prenda blog Fight Copyright Trolls has published a newer version of the letter, which also appears to be signed by Duffy. The new letter has gone out under the name of Anti-Piracy Law Group, and it suggests that letter recipients might have their neighbors or family members contacted about the allegations in the lawsuit. Since those accusations concern adult content, that action seems like a threat that could increase the embarrassment factor for recipients.
Duffy writes:
The purpose of this step is to gather evidence about who used your Internet account to steal from our client. The list of possible suspects includes you, members of your household, your neighbors (if you maintain an open Wi-Fi connection), and anyone who might have visited your house. In the coming days we will contact these individuals to investigate whether they have any knowledge of the acts described in my client’s prior letter.
The new letter also makes more specific allegations about digging into the electronic history of targets. It warns against destruction of evidence, including "files on your computer, your credit card purchase history, and your Google search history."
The letters don't specifically mention that the firm will be talking to the neighbor about pornography accusations. However, LW Systems identifies itself as being in the adult content business within the complaint, and the letter says that LW Systems' content has been widely stolen
One lawyer who has been named as a "senior manager" of Prenda and its affiliates, John Steele, spoke to Ars last week and denied any involvement with Prenda. Steele did acknowledge he's paid a "modest flat fee" as an employee of Livewire Holdings, which owns LW Systems.
Ars contacted Duffy to ask about the new letters but hasn't heard back.
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- He's only 5½ years old, and yet he's practically memorized the entire New York subway grid.
Gwenyth Jackaway started to wonder if Donor-X passed on a genetic component to her son, Dylan, who is autistic.
He reads at the fourth-grade level, plays two-handed piano compositions and is better versed than most adults about the Fibonacci code, a complex mathematics sequence.
Dylan loves Italian music and draws pictures that artist Jackson Pollock would be proud of.
He also happens to be autistic.
Gwenyth Jackaway, Dylan's mother, is a professor at New York's Fordham University. She's single but had always wanted to have a child. So she contacted California Cryobank, one of the largest sperm donor banks in the country.
Cryobank doesn't reveal the identities of donors but allows people to choose based on the traits they'd like their child to have. Jackaway decided on "Donor X" because he appeared philosophical and intelligent on paper. He liked music, loved to travel and had a high IQ and a degree in economics.
What she couldn't know then is that her son would have autism. So she started to wonder whether Donor X might carry a gene that could have contributed. Dylan tells Randi Kaye how to take subway back to work »
The cause or causes of autism are not known and are hotly debated. Most experts believe that genetics are a component, making a child predisposed to autism or responsive to an environmental trigger.
"It's a combination of being genetically vulnerable and then having some kind of social or toxicant exposure that tips you over," according to Dr. Gary Goldstein of the Kennedy Krieger Institute.
Unraveling the mystery Meet Dylan on Anderson Cooper 360° at 10 p.m. ET. Then, Dr. Sanjay Gupta shows us how autistic people experience the world in "Finding Amanda" at 11 p.m. ET.
Watch AC360°, 10 p.m. ET see full schedule »
Researchers have found some genetic areas associated with autism, but it could take years before the gene or genes that cause autism or contribute to it will be determined.
Until then, Geri Dawson, chief science officer for the Manhattan-based advocacy group Autism Speaks, says there's no way to screen for those genes and prevent them from being passed to a child.
"We wouldn't be able to screen a donor for autism because we don't yet know the specific genes that are contributing to autism," Dawson said. "But there is a lot of research going on, and I would say in the next five to 10 years, we will have identified between five and 10 genes that we know raise the risk for autism."
Once the autism gene or genes have been identified, it would theoretically be possible to screen for those genes, according to Dawson.
Jackaway says she went into a period of mourning when Dylan's autism was diagnosed at age 2.
"When you're handed a diagnosis of some sort of developmental disorder, you have to let go of the child you thought you were going to have," Jackaway said. "There's a sense of loss of the child, a grieving process. There's denial, there's rage, and then there's the tremendous sadness, and hopefully you get to a place of accepting."
Jackaway says she had to accept that "I don't have that child I thought I was going to have. But I have this child instead, who's right here in front of me."
Through a Web site called Donor Sibling Registry, she reached out to other women who used Donor X. She found six families who had used the same donor.
Two years ago, she visited Theresa Pergola in the New York area; she had given birth to triplets using sperm from Donor X. Just minutes into their meeting, Jackaway noticed Pergola's son, Joseph, 2, exhibiting some of the same behavior as her son.
"He was walking on his toes; he was flapping his hands. There seemed to be eye contact issues," recalled Jackaway, who immediately suggested screening Joseph for autism.
"She told me that she saw characteristics of autism, and it was very upsetting to me at that time," Pergola said. "I didn't know what to expect from that point on. I know I was scared, and she was there to let me know that it was going to be OK."
Pergola says she was afraid because she had an image of autism in her head and believed her son would be "in the corner and rocking and not talking."
She says Jackaway reassured her that wouldn't be the case.
One month later, a test confirmed what Pergola already knew: Joseph was autistic. The diagnosis brought her to tears, and now these two women whose sons share a father were immediately connected by another bond: autism.
"She was terribly upset," Jackaway remembered. "That moment is a terribly frightening moment. You get handed a diagnosis, and you get handed an entirely new future."
Health Library MayoClinic.com: Autism
In six families Jackaway contacted that had used Donor X, three of the children are autistic, and one is showing signs of autism.
But would Jackaway be happier today if there had been a way to screen Donor X for an autism gene?
"I've done a lot of thinking about this, and to say yes to that is to say that I wish Dylan isn't Dylan," Jackaway said. "I love my son and everything about him, and that means loving his autism also. Loving your children means loving everything about them. Our children don't have autism; they are autistic. It's part of who they are."
There is currently no way to screen for autism, and in a statement, the company said in part:
"There is no current genetic test to detect autism. California Cryobank (CCB) employs one of the most thorough and rigorous donor screening processes in the industry, with less than 1% of all applicants actually becoming donors. The standard CCB procedure for screening donors involves extensive physical, genetic and health screening ..."
Since the discovery of autism in some of the families that used Donor X, Cryobank had this to say about his samples:
"... per CCB policy, the donor's samples were removed from the general catalog. These vials may only be sold to a client who has previously used specimens of this donor and is interested in ordering additional specimens. In this case the client is made aware of the new medical information and potential issues ..."
The families don't blame the sperm bank. In fact, Theresa Pergola says she's still uncertain about an autism screening process, if and when it ever becomes available.
"It can go either way, on the one hand it could be helpful so that people could make choices about what risks they want to take," says Pergola. "On the other hand it's like, what else are they going to screen for, you know? Are they going to screen for certain personality traits? It's hard to say. It's really hard to say." E-mail to a friend
All About Autism
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