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RAMALLAH (Reuters) - The body of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be exhumed on Tuesday, eight years after his death, in an investigation to establish if he was murdered, a Palestinian official said on Saturday.
Plastic sheets cover the mausoleum of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah November 24, 2012. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
A French court opened a murder inquiry in August into Arafat’s death in Paris after a Swiss institute said it had discovered high levels of radioactive polonium on his clothing, which was supplied by his widow, Suha.
Tawfiq al-Tirawi, in charge of the Palestinian committee overseeing the investigation, told reporters in Ramallah on Saturday “it is a painful necessity” to exhume the body of Arafat, who came to symbolize the Palestinian quest for statehood throughout decades of war and peace with Israel.
Tirawi said the Palestinians had “evidence which suggests Arafat was assassinated by Israelis”. Israel denies any involvement.
The exhumation and renewed allegations of Israeli involvement could stir further tension between the Palestinians and Israel, which are observing a truce after a week of fierce fighting in Gaza.
Any positive results for polonium could rekindle Palestinian hostility toward Israel and suspicions that a local collaborator may have poisoned him under directions from the Jewish state.
Allegations of foul play have long surrounded Arafat’s demise. He died in a Paris hospital in November 2004, a month after being flown, seriously ill, from his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
French doctors who treated him in his final days said they could not establish the cause of death, and no autopsy was performed in deference to his widow’s request at the time, when Arafat died at 75.
Eight years is considered a limit to detect any traces of the deadly radioactive substance, according to the Swiss Institute of Radiation Physics.
Tirawi said Arafat’s body would be exhumed from its limestone mausoleum in Ramallah, away from the public or media presence, and separate samples will be taken by the French and Swiss forensic teams, as well as a Russian team of experts, who the Palestinians invited to help with the examination.
After the investigation “the body of leader Abu Ammar will be returned (reburied) in a military ceremony that is befitting him as a leader of the Palestinian people”, Tirawi said, using Arafat’s non de guerre.
Tirawi said results could take up to several months to be announced.
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OTTAWA – Former Republican presidential candidate and libertarian Ron Paul will be the marquee speaker at Canada’s premier gathering of Conservatives next month, a figure that even organizers bill as controversial.
Paul will speak to the Manning Centre for Building Democracy’s networking conference, an event that in the past has drawn Prime Minister Stephen Harper and many of his key cabinet members and advisers.
Paul, referred to by some pundits as the real inspiration behind the Tea Party movement in the United States, is one of the foremost voices for small government — including eliminating foreign aid, the education department, key social programs and the war on drugs.
He is staunchly anti-abortion, anti-gun control, and opposed to President Barack Obama’s health-care reform. The 77-year-old has advocated for an end to Medicare and Medicaid in the United States.
A Texan, Paul is a former doctor turned congressman and currently the chairman of the Campaign for Liberty. He was able to assemble a loyal following over the course of two Republican races in 2008 and 2011, notably with the use of the Internet.
“We oppose the dehumanizing assumption that all issues that divide us must be settled at the federal level and forced on every American community, whether by activist judges, a power-hungry executive, or a meddling Congress,” says the campaign’s website.
“We believe in the humane alternative of local self-government, as called for in our Constitution.”
Olivier Ballou, a spokesman for the Manning Centre, said centre president Preston Manning himself will engage in an on-stage discussion with Paul following the former presidential candidate’s speech.
“He’s definitely our biggest attraction and source of controversy,” Ballou said. “He’s one of those guys that people either love him or hate him. It’s fascinating since we announced him seeing the debates online.”
On the Manning Centre’s Facebook page, commenters were divided about the wisdom of having Paul speak at the conference.
“Ron Paul is a fool who will only discredit this fine attempt at preparing conservative minds for the future,” read one post.
“Ron Paul is the best politician in the U.S.A., the real deal. Very smart man, can’t believe he isn’t President he’s so smart,” said another.
Conservative parliamentarians who are on the schedule for the conference were markedly terse in their reaction to Paul’s participation.
“I actually have heard him speak in the past, and while I disagree with what he says on occasion, I’ll defend to the death his right to say it,” said Treasury Board President Tony Clement.
“The Manning Centre conference has a history of bringing up a wide variety of different speakers to appeal to a wide variety of different audiences, so I don’t think that’ll be any different this time around,” said Calgary MP Michelle Rempel.
Although there are many libertarians in the ranks of the Conservative party, including Harper himself, Paul’s small government is a different breed than that expressed publicly by Conservatives in power. Universal health care, official languages policy and supply management are just three areas that would be anathema to Paul’s positions.
Participants might more in common in another speaker — former Australian prime minister John Howard. Some in Harper’s team borrowed liberally from Howard’s campaign and communications style over the years.
Opposition MPs said it’s telling that Paul was selected to speak to Canada’s top Conservatives.
“We know that the right in Canada are getting loonier all the time, but I think it’s very telling that they’re bringing in Mr. Ron Paul,” said NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus.
“Mr. Ron Paul is a marginal figure in the United States where the right are extremely right wing, so the Harperites think they’re going to learn lessons from him? It might show an indication of where their backbench is certainly wanting to go.”
Said Liberal MP Francis Scarpaleggia: “I don’t understand what wisdom Mr. Paul can bring to the Canadian setting. We’re a very different country with very different issues.”
Paul courted controversy earlier this week when he tweeted that the “death of a former NAVY Seal at a shooting range confirmed that ‘he who lives by the sword dies by the sword.’ Treating PTSD at a firing range doesn’t make sense.”‘
Paul is strongly non-interventionist when it comes to American military activities, and voted against the war in Iraq.
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My previous column dealt with linguistic evidence for Israelite sailors’ having reached India from Palestine in the time of King Solomon. About it, Anson Laytner writes:
In Solomon’s day there was no Palestine, so the trip would have been impossible! Seriously, though, if Mosaic’s own team misuses terminology, what about the rest of us? Perhaps it is time for you to write something on the geographical names Judah, Israel, Judaea, Palestine, etc.
Seriously, this is a subject that I have written on—and more than once during my years as a Jewish-language columnist. And yet, although I dislike having to repeat myself, perhaps Anson Laytner is right that it deserves to be written about again. Few place names these days arouse quite as much passion as does “Palestine,” nearly all of it directed against Israel. To any Jew who was old enough to read at the time the state of Israel was created, this can only seem grimly ironic, because “Palestine” was once a Jewish word, too. I can’t watch a news clip of anti-Israel demonstrators chanting “Palestine will be free/ From the river to the sea!” without remembering the blue-and-white Jewish National Fund collection box that stood in the kitchen of my parents’ New York apartment in 1947-48, when I was a boy of eight or nine. On it, across a map of the Jewish homeland, was written in flowing letters: “Fight for a Free Palestine!”
There was nothing exceptional about this. English and French “Palestine,” German Palästina, Polish Palestyna, Russian Палестина: this was the standard word in European languages, used by Jews no less than by others, for the country whose greater part was renamed Israel after 1948. It had been the standard word since the early 19th century, when it gradually replaced the term “the Holy Land” that had been in use in the Christian world in medieval and early modern times. When, in 1917, the British government issued the Balfour Declaration, it proclaimed, “His Majesty’s government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” Jews, unless they were anti-Zionist, were exultant over this wording. It was the Arabs who weren’t.
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It is true that in speaking or writing Jewish languages like Yiddish, Hebrew, or Ladino, 19th- and early-20th-century Jews did not generally use “Palestine.” Their own term, current since early rabbinic times, was “Erets-Yisra’el,” the Land of Israel.
It is also true that when, after putting down the Bar-Kokhba revolt in 135 CE, the Romans officially renamed their administrative province of Judea, which included much of the Land of Israel, as Syria Palaestina, their motives were anti-Jewish. Palaestina was the Pleshet of the Hebrew Bible, the land of the Plishtim or Philistines, the archenemies of the biblical Israelites. By giving the name “Palestinian Syria” to the country that had been unsuccessfully fought for by the Jewish people in two bitter rebellions, the Romans were seeking to deny the Jewish connection to it. Moreover, whereas biblical Pleshet had signified the Philistines’ stronghold of the country’s coastal plain, the name was now extended to the traditionally Israelite hill country that the Philistines had never occupied.
And yet many people have names for their countries that are not used by the rest of the world, and some have names for them that are no more historically accurate than was Syria Palaestina. Although Germans call their native land Deutschland, they are not offended when Americans call it Germany and French call it Allemagne, and they unthinkingly use these names when speaking English or French; nor do the inhabitants of Holland protest the absurdity of being called “Dutch” in English when, in their own language (called by them Nederlands or Hollands), Duits means “German.” And while the whole world says “America” just as Americans do, who, Americans included, stops to reflect that this name comes from that of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, to whom the discovery of the American continent was erroneously attributed in 1507 by the German mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller? (Mr. Laytner, I suppose, would retort that America couldn’t have been discovered before 1507, there having been no place by this name prior to that date!)
Of course, no Germans are laying claim to Holland because its inhabitants are called Dutch, and no one is demanding the abolition of the USA because it was named for the wrong person, whereas quite a few people favor the dismantlement of Israel because it is on “Palestinian” land. The Palestinian Arab hijacking of the words Palestine and Palestinian goes back to 1948, and Jewish zeal for the new state of Israel, it must be said, bears its share of the blame for this. Inasmuch as the Arabs, following their 1948 defeat that resulted in Palestine’s being divided into two unequal parts, insisted that it was still one country and would return to being one country under Arab rule, it was only natural for many Israelis and Jews to say the opposite—that is, that Palestine no longer existed, its place having been taken by Israel and the Jordanian-controlled “West Bank” of the Jordan.
This went on until 1967, when Israel conquered the “West Bank,” too, and all of Palestine fell under its rule. However, since, apart from eastern Jerusalem, it did not annex the West Bank, the word “Israel” continued to refer, even for Israelis, to the pre-1967 state of Israel alone; what was conquered, depending on one’s political point of view, either remained “the West Bank” or came to be called “the territories,” “the occupied [or administered] territories,” or “Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.” (After Israel’s 2005 evacuation of the Gaza Strip, the last became just “Judea and Samaria.”) If one wished to refer to Israel and the occupied territories together, one could do so in Hebrew as Erets-Yisra’el, but what, if determined to shun the word “Palestine,” could one say in English or other languages?
And there, Mr. Laytner, is the rub. As a discrete geographical area, bounded on the west by the sea, on the east by the Jordan Valley, on the north by the mountains of Lebanon, and on the south by the Sinai desert, Palestine exists and existed in Solomon’s time, too. What then, if not “Palestine,” are we to call this area in English? “Erets-Israel”? I wish you luck if you think you can sell that. “The Holy Land?” The world isn’t about to go back to the 18th century. “Canaan?” That’s going back to the 18th century BCE. “Cisjordan?” Yes, the French sometimes say “Cisjordanie,” but French isn’t English.
I can’t think of any other ideas. And that being the case, we have two choices: either we pretend that the land “from the river to the sea” is not, geographically, one country—or else we assert that it is and call it Palestine. This doesn’t prejudge the question of whom this country, politically, should belong to. One can legitimately claim all of it for the Jewish people. But in order to do so, one needs a word for it, and “Palestine” is the only one there is.
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VIDEO=>CBS News Reporter Major Garrett Has On Air Tantrum Over Trump ‘Birther’ Press Event
CBS News reporter Major Garrett went ballistic following Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s press event Friday at the new Trump hotel in Washington, D.C. The event featured Medal of Honor recipients and other veterans endorsing Trump and was also billed as where Trump would make a major announcement on the President Barack Obama ‘birther’ controversy.
Major Garrett reports from Trump press event, image via screen grab.
At the end of the half-hour event following the endorsements by the veterans, Trump made a brief statement that he believes Obama was born in the U.S. and then left the podium without taking questions from the press.
This caused the assembled reporters to go into a rage. One example is Major Garrett, who seethed with anger during his live stand-up report.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieaZLdqGdhw
Garrett’s fellow reporters stood on chairs and screamed at Trump for five minutes following the press event.
In protest of Trump’s treatment of the press, Washington bureau chiefs voted to delete news video taken during Trump’s guided tour of the new Trump hotel.
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THE BREAKDOWN
N.C. State
1. N.C. State
2. Ole Miss
3. William & Mary
4. Binghamton 1. N.C. State2. Ole Miss3. William & Mary4. Binghamton
North Carolina State will not be a fun team to face this weekend in the Raleigh Regional. The Wolfpack finished the regular season and conference tournament with a very impressive 18-10 mark vs. RPI Top 50 teams, but were snubbed out of a national seed, with Oregon getting the nod for the No. 8 spot. N.C. State's starting rotation has been kind of a revolving door this season, but keep an eye on imposing left-handed pitcher Carlos Rodon, who was up to 93 in the ninth inning last weekend against North Carolina, and had his usual devastating 83-85 slider working extremely well, particularly in on right-handed hitters. Left-handed pitcher Brad Stone is a tall lanky-framed guy who has shown flashes of greatness this season, making his 5.81 ERA rather deceptive, while Logan Jernigan was in the rotation last weekend and has a 1.07 ERA in 25 1/3 innings of work. Meanwhile, the strength of this team is the bullpen with quality arms such as Grant Sasser (1.18, 29 IP), Josh Easley (1.62), Andrew Woeck (2.86) and Ryan Wilkins (4.00) leading the charge. Also keep an eye on consistent closer Chris Overman, who doesn't have overpowering stuff, but is a bulldog who throws strikes. Meanwhile, from an offensive standpoint, the Wolfpack have the potential to put up some runs if they get on a roll. Third baseman Grant Clyde, who's hitting .291 with four homers and 24 RBIs has been solid lately, while shortstop Trea Turner leads the way with a .376 batting average, six homers, 40 RBIs, and of course, 24 stolen bases in 30 attempts. Bryan Adametz and Jake Fincher also are tough hitters, while imposing Tarran Senay, who's hitting .284 with six homers and 49 RBIs, has good power and is a run producer.
Ole Miss
As usually seems to be the case, the Rebels are a rather frustrating team this season. After losing several key cogs from last year's team at the plate, the Rebels appeared to be a team ready to move forward earlier in the season. However, they've been struggling at the plate and enter the postseason hitting .276. Catcher Stuart Tuner is a bright spot both offensively and defensively, hitting an impressive .381 with 15 doubles, five homers and 50 RBIs, while third baseman Andrew Mistone (.316/0/34) and Austin Anderson (.300/3/38) also have been impressive at times. Speedy outfielder Tanner Mathis must rise to the occasion this weekend, while the same can be said for sophomore Auston Bousfield, who's hitting just .262 with two homers and 24 RBIs. Pitching-wise, the Rebels have the ability to be outstanding with right-handed starting pitchers Bobby Wahl and Mike Mayers in charge. Both Wahl and Mayers will throw anywhere from 92-94, with Wahl touching some 95s on the radar gun. Mayers was impressive in the SEC tournament, perhaps serving a springboard to the postseason. Meanwhile, right-handed pitcher Sam Smith has been solid at times this season and gets up to 90 with his fastball, while in the bullpen, Brett Huber, Matt Denny, Tanner Bailey and Aaron Greenwood give the Rebels a reliable quartet.
William & Mary
William & Mary went on an offensive rampage last weekend in the CAA tournament and is an interesting team to watch this weekend in Raleigh, N.C. It's safe to say the Tribe won't overwhelm anyone from a pitching staff. William & Mary possesses a pair of solid starting pitchers in John Farrell and Jason Inghram. Farrell has a 2.80 ERA in 109 1/3 innings of work, along with 86 strikeouts and 13 walks, while Inghram has a 3.46 ERA in 96 1/3 innings along with 96 strikeouts and 23 walks. Depth is an issue for the Tribe, but keep an eye on reliever Matt Wainman, who has appeared in 24 games and has eight saves with a 3.90 ERA in 60 innings. Offensively, the Tribe can overwhelm teams with a .296 batting average entering the weekend. Michael Katz (.365/5/47) and Ryan Lindemuth (.363/4/47) are elite hitters to watch, while Ryan Brown is hitting .329 with two homers and 30 RBIs.
Binghamton
The Bearcats finished the regular season with just a 17-14 mark in the America East, but are playing a solid brand of baseball and have an upset on their minds. Binghamton isn't an overly impressive offensive club with a .266 team batting average, but keep an eye on leading hitters Jake Thomas, Daniel Nevares and Shaun McGraw. Thomas is hitting .382 with five homers and 36 RBIs, Nevares is hitting .314 with two homers and 34 RBIs and McGraw is hitting .295 with four homers and 15 RBIs. Pitching-wise, the Bearcats have a few very quality arms to watch, particularly in the way of starting pitchers Jack Rogalia, Jake Lambert and Jay Lynch. Rogalia has a 2.82 ERA in 83 innings of work, along with 51 strikeouts and 13 walks, Lambert has a 2.95 ERA in 94 2/3 innings, along with 76 strikeouts and 16 walks, while Lynch has a 2.98 ERA in 81 2/3 innings, along with 53 strikeouts and 14 walks. Binghamton's offense must step up to experience some success this weekend.
REGIONAL FORECAST
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I'm and American legally I can advocate anything I damn well please. I can even advocate the murder of an individual. Hell I can't even be charged with a conspiracy to commit homicide until I take actual action to kill the target or hire and assassin.
Let me show you. SOMEBODY SHOULD PUMP TWENTY PUMKIN'BALLS INTO THAT HALF-BLOODED KENYAN NIGGER RAISED OUTSIDE OUR EMPIRE WHO CLAIMS TO BE THE PRESIDENT BECAUSE DINIDUS, WOMEN, AND SPICS VOTED FOR HIM.
I can't wait until we slaughter ever non-white in America, mestizos included.
It's also legal for me to make and store nerve agents.
I call it VV it’s about 1/3 as toxic as VX but it has a much higher vaporization pressure so it is more easily aerosoled and it is extremely persistent which makes it good for area denial.
VX is O-Ethyl S-(2-diisopropylaminoethyl) methylphosphonothioate
VV is O-Ethyl S-(2-dimethylaminoethyl) methylphosphonothioate.
into a very dry 2000 ml round bottom flask, the following ingredients are added, quickly, one after the other with swirling to mix them a few boiling chips, 800 ml anhydrous ethyl ether, 284 grams of methyl ethoxyphosphoryl chloride, 212 grams of dimethylaminoethanethiol, and 212 grams of triethylamine. it is very important that the glassware be very dry, and that the ingredients espescially the methyl ethoxyphosphoryl chloride be protected from moisture, because the presence of water really lowers the yield in this this reaction.
when the ingredients have been added and mixed, a good efficient condenser topped with a drying tube is attached to the flask and a flow of very cold water is put trought the condenser .
the contents of the flask are heated to boiling with a hot water bath and the reflux is maintened for one hour.
the byproduct of this reaction, hydrogen chloride, is absorbed by the tiethylamine as it is produced, forming triethylamine hydrochloride cristal cristal
at the end of the eating period, the mixture is cooled and the cristal of triethylamine hydrochloride are filtred out in a Buchner funnel.
the filtered reaction mixture is then returned to 2000 ml round bottom flask, a few boiling chips added, the glassware set up for simple distillation and the ether removed by distilling it of under a gentle vacuum.an aspirator is perfect for this job since it will flush the ether fumes down the drain.
when most of the ether is gone, the mixture is poured into a 1000 ml round bottom flask with a few boiling chips. the remnants in the 2000 ml flask can be rinsed out with ether an poured into the 1000 ml flask. once again this flask is set up for a simple distillation and full aspirator is applied to it. the last of the triethylamine and ether (bp 88 C°) will be gone shortly.
now a vacuum from a good quality vacuum pump is applied to the distillation. A vacuum of less 1 mmHg is to be preferred here to keep the distillation temperatures reasonable and to avoid burning product. BE CAREFUL THE PUMP MUST NOT BE STOPPED DURING THE DISTILLATION. IF THE PUMP STOPS, RUN OUT AND NEVER COME BACK !!!
after a small forerun is collected in a 250 ml flask, a 500 ml flask is attached and the main bulk of the product is collected at a boiling point of 80 C° at a vacuum of 0.6 mmHg.
the yield is 260 to 275 ml of product. a fair amount of tar remains in the distilling flask.
you have now VV agent.
Now privately purchase a van from another citizen, which is as unregulated as a private firearms purchase and totally untraceable. Then load the shit in 4 55gal drums with rubber seals. Drive to the target and steal a license plate. Replace your van's plate with the stolen one and discard the old plate far from the scene. Use tannerite, blasting caps, and track phones to detonate it and aerosolize the substance. If you set it off in an urban area under the right weather conditions you'll kill up to 30,000 people, but you'll probably get more like 2,000. All for about 10,000 dollars, 2 weeks of work, and shit you can buy at Walmart.
VX is O-Ethyl S-(2-diisopropylaminoethyl) methylphosphonothioate
VVX is O-Ethyl S-(2-dimethylaminoethyl) methylphosphonothioate.
New York is uninhabitable to true human life anyway. Downtown air causes all non-yuppies and hipsters to instantly get asthma due to the high concentrations progressive self-righteousness. And the outlying have a disturbingly high number of mutant gorillas roaming about.
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This article is about Russian and Soviet chess composer. For Russian and Soviet footballer, see Aleksei Troitsky (footballer)
A. A. Troitsky
Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky, or Alexei, Troitzky, or Troitzki (Russian: Алексе́й Алексе́евич Тро́ицкий) (March 14, 1866–August 1942) is considered to have been one of the greatest composers of chess endgame studies.[1] He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern art of composing chess studies (Seirawan 2003:91). Troitsky died of starvation during World War II at the siege of Leningrad, where his notes were destroyed.
One of his most famous works involves analyzing the endgame with two knights versus a pawn, see Troitsky line. John Nunn analyzed this endgame with an endgame tablebase and stated that "the analysis of Troitsky ... is astonishingly accurate" (Nunn 1995:265).
Compositions [ edit ]
This section uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves.
Troitsky was a prolific composer of endgame studies. Irving Chernev included nine of them in his book 200 Brilliant Endgames. The diagram shows one of them.
Troitsky, 1909 a b c d e f g h 8 8 7 7 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 a b c d e f g h White to move and win
The main line goes:
1. Nb6! Qe8 2. Nd7! Kc4 3. Qxc7+ Kb4 4. Qc5+ Kb3 5. Qc3+ Ka4 6. Qd4+ Ka3 7. Nc5 Qb8 8. Qa1+ Kb4 9. Na6+
and White wins (Chernev 1989:207–8).
Books [ edit ]
Troitzky, A. (1924), 500 Endspielstudien , Verlag Kagan Berlin
, Verlag Kagan Berlin Troitzky, A. A. (1968), 360 Brilliant and Instructive End Games , Dover Publications (reprint), ISBN 0-486-21959-3
Troitzky, A. (1992), Collection of Studies, Tschaturanga Ed. Olms, ISBN 3-283-00114-6. Reprinted in 2006 by Ishi Press, ISBN 0-923891-10-2. The 360 studies above plus a supplement on the theory of the endgame of two knights against pawns.
See also [ edit ]
Two knights endgame (contains Troitsky line)
Notes [ edit ]
^ Collection of Chess Studies, In the introduction to Sam Sloan writes "... Trotzky is considered to have been the greatest composer of chess endgame studies ever."
References [ edit ]
Troitzky Chess, invented by Paul Byway, a chess variant where checkmate by two knights can be forced.
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Media Statement For Immediate Release: Thursday, March 31, 2016
Contact: Media Relations,
(404) 639-3286
CDC is investigating how one of its laboratory workers who was recently diagnosed with Salmonella infection may have acquired their infection due to work they performed in a BSL-2 laboratory (a level of lab work involving pathogens that are common and treatable causes of illness). Salmonella is not a select agent. Preliminary laboratory tests indicate that the worker was infected with a strain of Salmonella which matched the strain being worked on in the lab. The worker is well and back at CDC and, based on what we know now, no other staff were exposed. The worker had hands-on training by experienced microbiologists and completed all required safety training. The worker was following standard protocols to perform a basic procedure on a frozen sample in an effort to culture or grow the bacteria. The agency is investigating to see if additional safeguards are needed to prevent exposures when performing this procedure in the future
CDC estimates there are 1.2 million cases of Salmonella infection each year in the United States. Salmonella infections are usually acquired by eating contaminated food. People with this kind of infection typically have diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps that go away without specific treatment within 4-7 days.
Laboratory science is critical to protect America’s health. However this work carries risks. CDC has implemented numerous steps over the past few years to enhance its laboratory safety program, including standing up the Office of the Associate Director for Laboratory Science and Safety, reviewing laboratory safety protocols, and establishing the Laboratory Leadership Service fellowship program. The agency has implemented rigorous steps to minimize these risks and to quickly investigate these incidents when they do occur including this recent incident.
For the latest reports and updates on laboratory safety at CDC go to: http://www.cdc.gov/about/lab-safety/index.html.
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
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Mewes is here to talk his new movie, the Clerks legacy, and the future of Jay and Silent Bob.
TMS: We typically never talk politics around here. But dude, who do you think you're gonna vote for this crazy election season?
JM: Honestly. I haven't been following it. I will actually vote however my wife tells me to vote. So that's gonna be what it is. I hadn't voted up until a couple years ago. Because I had a felony, I was told I was not allowed to vote. I just assumed they were right and I never did any type of research about it, so I just never voted because I thought I wasn't allowed to. My wife researched it and it was somewhat true. You can't vote while you're on probation. But after you're off, you can vote. So, I just started voting when Obama came around. So, I had never voted before and I was like 'Who am I? Am I democrat or am I Republican?'.
TMS: I think you're a Democrat.
JM: My wife gave me some input about what's what and this year it's the same thing. I'll listen to what she says. I guess I should know a little bit more and should be more supportive about that stuff but I think I'm playing with my baby too much and traveling. When I am home and I have downtime, I read comic books and play video games. Maybe I shouldn't be doing so much of that.
TMS: So, how is it being a parent? Seems crazy that Jay has a baby!!!
JM: I had no idea how much time a baby takes. I knew but I didn't know. I didn't know that when she started walking I'd be literally chasing her around the house because I'm so petrified that she's gonna fall and hit her head or something. So, I literally chase her around. She wants to go up her slide and down her slide in the living room. She wants to get on her scooter which she's just learning how to get on. It's a blast. I love it.
TMS: What's up with Vigilante Diaries? Where can people see it? And what do you want them to know about the movie?
JM: This Friday it'll be out on VOD, iTunes, and in some theaters. I'm very excited about it. It started out as a little passion project that my friends Christian and Paul made as a web series. We shot it and put it out there. Someone saw it and really dug it. They said 'Hey man, we wanna make this into a movie'. They gave Christian and Paul some money to make it into a movie. I think they did a great job. So here we have it. I went back and shot some more stuff for my character. They went somewhere like Belize or Brazil, somewhere awesome that I didn't get to go. But the production value turned out fantastic. I was super stoked.
TMS: I know it was a seven episode web series. Did they reshoot the entire thing or did they put the scenes they had already shot into the movie?
JM: They just shot and they intertwined the web stuff into it. I feel the way they did it worked very well. They used the web footage to keep the flow of the movie which I thought was genius. It wasn't like 'Hey look, this idea is genius, let's scrap the web series!' to start over. They shot the movie and pieced in the web series and it works really well.
TMS: I don't wanna spend too much time on the Kevin Smith movies because I'm sure it gets tiresome. But, how do you deal with fans that are incessantly quoting movie lines at you?
JM: I dig it, man. I'm flattered. Twenty years later people are still quoting stuff from the movies. And watching those movies. People are coming to our podcast that we do. It's been awesome. I never expected that Jay and Bob would be around twenty years later doing stuff.
TMS: Well, Clerks started it all, man. What can you tell us about your experience making that flick?
JM: After Clerks I went back to roofing. It's funny cause if you watch Clerks, Jay's not even on the poster. We shot the movie with a couple of friends. I didn't know anything about the world of trying to sell....'like hey, we're gonna bring this to film festivals, people watch it, they can buy it and put it in theaters'. I had no clue. I just thought we shot it. We watched it in the video store with like 15-20 of us. I was like 'Cool. That's awesome. That was fun. We made a movie.' Then all of a sudden Kevin was like 'Miramax bought it. It's gonna be in theaters. I got a deal where I'm gonna make a couple more movies and I'm gonna throw us into the next movie'. So again, I had no idea that I'd do more than one movie and that we'd still be doing it.
My point is that I don't mind if people drive by and are like 'Snootchie bootchies'. People come up and show me tattoos of Jay and Bob. I think it's fantastic. I don't get sick of it at all. It's flattering and awesome that people enjoy us.
TMS: He's getting ready to make this Mallrats tv series. We thought we were getting another movie but instead it's being turned into a show. Will you guys be returning for that?
JM: Oh totally! He definitely planned on us being in the movie. Hopefully all goes smooth and as planned with the tv show. I don't know how he's going to convert the storyline of the script. I'm curious. But I do not that Jay and Silent Bob will be in it. Then hopefully we get to shoot Moose Jaws, part of the True North trilogy. Kevin did Tusk and Yoga Hosers. The third part of that trilogy will be Moose Jaws, which is basically Jaws with a moose.
TMS: That's awesome!!! Comic book movies are huge right now. So, why not a Bluntman and Chronic movie?
JM: Believe me, I would love that. Honestly, it's Kevin's stuff. If Kevin is willing to make it or wants to make it, I would love to make it. I honestly would. I think if we were gonna make it, we'd need stunt guys running up the sides of a wall, roundhouse kicks, some really cool stuff. But you're right. It could totally work as a superhero/comedy. I'm down with it. If Kevin could write it, it would be amazing.
TMS: What's the best comedy of all time?
JM: House Party is one of my favorites. It's old school. And Do The Right Thing. Those are two that stand out to me and I watch a bunch. Do The Right Thing is something me and Kevin have been watching for twenty years and always quote between each other.
The Movie Sleuth thanks Jay for talking to us. It was definitely an experience!
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CLINTON, Tenn., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Police in Tennessee said a man charged with domestic assault was upset about a picture of an unknown man on his girlfriend's Facebook -- a photo of Mitt Romney.
Crystal Gray, 38, of Clinton, told Anderson County sheriff's deputies her boyfriend, Lowell Turpin, 40, confronted her July 22 when he saw a picture of an unknown man on her Facebook page, The Smoking Gun reported Wednesday.
The sheriff's report said Gray explained the photo was of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, but she told deputies Turpin remained angry and confronted her for communicating with friends on Facebook.
The Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentinel reported Turpin allegedly threw Gray's laptop against a wall and punched her in the face.
Deputies said Gray gave them multiple contradictory accounts of the incident.
Turpin was charged with domestic assault and jailed in lieu of $1,000 bond.
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Israel has dismissed an urgent call to accept desperate refugees fleeing Syria's civil war, saying doing so would open its borders to terrorists.
Israel has dismissed an urgent call to accept desperate refugees fleeing Syria's civil war, saying doing so would open its borders to terrorists.
Israel's Netanyahu says admitting Syrian refugees will allow terrorists in
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was "not indifferent" to the fates of families fleeing persecution from its northern neighbour but insisted Israel had to ‘control [its] borders against both illegal migrants and terrorism.”
“Israel is a small country, a very small country,that lacks demographic and geographic depth.
"We will not allow [it] to be submerged by a wave of illegal migrants and terrorist activists."
Following his comments, Mr Netanyahu announced that a new 18-mile fence will be built along the frontier with Jordan, Reuters reported.
The Israeli prime minister has ignored calls from country’s main opposition party to step in and help with Europe's burgeoning refugee crisis.
Aylan Kurdi (left) and his older brother Galip - the two young boys whose drowning off the Bodrum coast in Turkey sparked international outrage
“Israel is duty-bound to take in refugees,” said Isaac Herzog, leader of the Zionist Union – which was created in 2015 to unseat Mr Netanyahu.
Israel has already been criticised by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees over its treatment of tens of thousands of African asylum seekers, most of them fleeing wars in Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan.
Only a handful of more than 50,000 refugees to have entered Israel through its southern border with Egypt since 2006 have received asylum status, while others have been repatriated to other African countries in a scheme that Israel claims is voluntary but critics call coercive.
Meanwhile, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority leader, called on the United Nations to pressure Israel to allow Palestinians from Syrian refugees camps to take shelter in the occupied West Bank.
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Jennifer Tress begins a presentation at George Mason University with a photograph of her 13-year-old self. She has written a book titled "You're Not Pretty Enough: You Can’t Make Up Real Life." (Katherine Frey/THE WASHINGTON POST)
Jennifer Tress can’t change who is on the cover of Cosmo.
She can’t stop college guys from sharing links from BroBible and Hot or Not.
But she can sit in your university’s common room and tell you how her husband cheated on her because, he said, she wasn’t “pretty enough.”
And she will tell you how years after their divorce his painful words led her to become what she calls “an accidental body-image activist.” Tress, a consultant for the federal government by day, is bringing her multimedia salons on self-esteem to 100 colleges over the next few months.
You’re not pretty enough. It’s not a nice thing to say, or hear, as Tress knows. It’s almost the reverse message of the soundtrack to soothe low self-esteem that college students are used to: One Direction crooning “You’re insecure / Don’t know what for / You’re turning heads when you walk through the door,” or Bruno Mars promising “You’re amazing / Just the way you are.”
To Tress, these fluffy anthems of self-acceptance are useful but not as powerful as confronting your shortcomings with honesty. That’s what she offers in her meetings with college students — a chance to talk about societal expectations of beauty, why they’re hurtful and also tough to ignore, and what to focus on instead.
Tress’s college tour coincides with the publication of her book of comic stories,“You’re Not Pretty Enough: You Can’t Make Up Real Life.” The book has a retro-looking photograph of her 13-year-old self on the cover, sporting alarmingly bushy eyebrows and a frizzy mullet.
Now 42, Tress regularly has her eyebrows waxed. She has thick, frizz-free brown hair that flows over her shoulders, clear skin and a pleasant smile. She’s, well, pretty.
“I have been 20, even 40 pounds heavier than this. I like to eat. I like to drink,” she offers while setting up for one of her salons last month at George Mason University in Arlington. “When people hear what I’m doing, they say, ‘I don’t know, Jen, you are pretty, so should you do this?’ ” She relates this anecdote with the breezy confidence of a woman who once had a bad spell, has come out of it and is using her newfound confidence to inspire others.
She says she didn’t see “a space that was trying to connect to this really common feeling. So I created one.”
She has also launched a video project on YouTube that she hopes will do for young people with body and beauty image issues what Dan Savage’s It Gets Better Project does to help prevent suicide among LGBT youths.
In some ways, her quest can feel a little naive, even futile, in a world where beauty is an empirically advantageous trait. Good-looking people are paid better, have an easier time getting loans and even get milder prison sentences, according to recent studies by Daniel Hamermesh, a University of Texas labor economist and the father of pulchronomics, or the economic study of beauty. Hamermesh says that even though beauty bias undermines equal opportunity laws, there’s not much we can do to change that inherent discrimination.
But that reality is why Tress’s self-
esteem salons can feel like salve on a burn. The blistered skin may turn into a scar that will always be there, but the temporary relief is soothing nonetheless.
Young women today don’t feel bad just about the face looking back at them in the mirror but also about how they look on Instagram and how many likes their new Facebook profile picture gets.
If Generation X dreaded the awkward yearbook shot and the mortifying middle school “glamour shot,” today’s generation has a dozen more platforms to hate themselves on.
They’re celebrities in their own mini-worlds — or with their 340 followers — and their bad hair days or drunken dance moves are recorded online, possibly forever.
In a 2012 survey that Tress conducted with 450 area college students, most women reported that they wondered if they weren’t attractive enough anywhere from every three minutes to once a day.
“It’s not like you can rip up a Facebook photo, so we constantly have to be, like, ‘Please untag me! Please!’ ” shouted Lindsey Wahowiak, 28, who lives in Columbia Heights and came to the recent talk at George Mason. “I really have to wonder why I care. So what if my face looks fat in a few photos? Sometimes, my face looks like that.”
These are the types of comments that Tress talks through with the people who arrive at her salons. About 30 joined her on a recent summer evening in a conference room at George Mason, laughing nervously while entering the room marked with a “You’re not pretty enough” sign. Tress led the crowd through exercises to combat negative “self-talk” and encouraged the audience to realize how common feelings of self-loathing can be.
There are a few men who come to her sessions, some with eating disorders and others who never felt they were good-looking by mainstream standards.
“It’s not easy being a Korean American in Mississippi,” said Chuck Na, one of two men who attended the George Mason event. “I was bullied a lot and just felt like being Asian-looking was this weird thing.”
The “YNPE movement,” as Tress calls it, started after she got involved in the live storytelling scene in Washington. While she is now happily married to a D.C. police officer who helps her set up most of her salons, she knows the anecdote about her ex-husband is a story she has become known for, a humiliating crowd-pleaser. It resonated with people, and they would yell out at shows, “Hey, you’re the not-pretty-enough girl,” she said.
Soon, she created the Web site yourenotprettyenough.com, thinking it was an inside joke for people who knew the story.
But she noticed that the Web site started getting a startling amount of traffic from people Googling variations of the phrase. Around the same time, she heard that tweens and teenage girls were uploading videos of themselves to YouTube and asking the question, “Am I ugly?”
“It really hurt me,” she said of seeing these raw videos. “And it just sparked something in me to do something about it.” And the self-esteem salon was born.
Aside from leading classic confidence-building discussions, she gets the crowd pumped up by playing music — “So Fly,” by Elle Varner, is a favorite — and comedy videos.
But the bulk of the events involves Tress giving salon participants a few minutes of relief — and maybe some tools to use once they leave.
“It’s tough out there, and sometimes you have to prepare to be horrified,” said Elizabeth Trabert Piper, 22, a recent graduate of Loyola University who came to the gathering and had started a “Beauty and Women” group at her school. “But I think Tress gives us a chance to at least vent about it. And that’s a good start.”
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Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) say 2012 was the ninth warmest year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures. The ten warmest years in the 132-year record have all occurred since 1998. The last year that was cooler than average was 1976.
The map at the top depicts temperature anomalies, or changes, by region in 2012; it does not show absolute temperature. Reds and blues show how much warmer or cooler each area was in 2012 compared to an averaged base period from 1951–1980. For more explanation of how the analysis works, read World of Change: Global Temperatures.
The average temperature in 2012 was about 14.6 degrees Celsius (58.3 degrees Fahrenheit), which is 0.55°C (1.0°F) warmer than the mid-20th century base period. The average global temperature has increased 0.8°C (1.4°F) since 1880, and most of that change has occurred in the past four decades.
The line plot above shows yearly temperature anomalies from 1880 to 2011 as recorded by NASA GISS, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center, the Japanese Meteorological Agency, and the Met Office Hadley Centre in the United Kingdom. All four institutions tally temperature data from stations around the world and make independent judgments about whether the year was warm or cool compared to other years. Though there are minor variations from year to year, all four records show peaks and valleys in sync with each other. All show rapid warming in the past few decades, and all show the last decade as the warmest.
Scientists emphasize that weather patterns cause fluctuations in average temperatures from year to year, but the continued increase in greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere assures that there will be a long-term rise in global temperatures. Each individual year will not necessarily be warmer than the previous year, but scientists expect each decade to be warmer than the previous decade.
“One more year of numbers isn’t in itself significant,” GISS climatologist Gavin Schmidt said. “What matters is this decade is warmer than the last decade, and that decade was warmer than the decade before. The planet is warming. The reason it’s warming is because we are pumping increasing amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.”
Carbon dioxide traps heat and largely controls Earth’s climate. It occurs naturally but is also released by the burning of fossil fuels for energy. The level of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has been rising consistently for decades, largely driven by increasing man-made emissions. The carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere was about 285 parts per million in 1880, the first year of the GISS temperature record. By 1960, the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory, was about 315 parts per million. Today, that measurement exceeds 390 parts per million.
The continental U.S. endured its warmest year on record by far, according to NOAA, the official keeper of U.S. weather records. NOAA also announced that global temperatures were 10th warmeston record by their analysis methods.
“The U.S. temperatures in the summer of 2012 are an example of a new trend of outlying seasonal extremes that are warmer than the hottest seasonal temperatures of the mid-20th century,” NASA GISS director James E. Hansen said. “The climate dice are now loaded. Some seasons still will be cooler than the long-term average, but the perceptive person should notice that the frequency of unusually warm extremes is increasing. It is the extremes that have the most impact on people and other life on the planet.”
NASA images by Robert Simmon, based on data from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Met Office Hadley Centre/Climatic Research Unit, and the Japanese Meteorological Agency. Caption by Patrick Lynch and Mike Carlowicz.
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Among the far-reaching ambitions of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s OneNYC plan, one proposal stood out in the transportation world on Wednesday: the study of a new subway line along Utica Avenue in Brooklyn.
The concept is hardly new; it has been debated for at least a century, with no discernible results.
A 1910 article in The New York Times, under the headline “Transit Outlook Bright in Brooklyn,” said “a strong movement” was afoot to construct it. Another effort was made in 1928. More recently, an attempt in the 1970s failed after a City Council member from Brooklyn complained that the area did not have a large enough population to support the line.
Nonetheless, the de Blasio administration placed the concept back in the spotlight, suggesting that the area was a prime spot for expansion because it is one of the most crowded parts of the city without direct access to the subway.
The mayor’s request for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to examine bringing No. 3 and 4 train service down from the Eastern Parkway branch, through East Flatbush, came as a surprise to many.
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An iPhone app that teaches you proper cunnilingus technique – A new app called Lick This offers to “train your tongue” in the art of oral sex because “practice makes pleasure.” However, to use the app, you have to be willing to lick your phone screen. If you're concerned about germs (which wouldn't be unreasonable, because our phones are covered in them), I guess you could wrap your phone in Saran wrap first. If you’ve always wanted to get past second base with Siri, this app may be your dream come true.
The most realistic sex dolls money can buy – Forget blow-up dolls, a company called Sinthetics is now offering “life size, fully articulated, anatomically correct” sex dolls (or “manikins” as the company calls them). These are probably the most life-like sex dolls money can buy (check out some sample images on the Sinthetics website), and they can be completely customized to your personal likes and (if applicable) fetishes. Breasts and penises come in all sizes, you can say where you want hair and where you don’t, and you can even give your new friend things like tattoos, piercings, and tan lines. Oh, and elf ears and monster eyes are options too. Manikins start at $5,500, but if you want a completely custom body or head, expect to spend quite a bit more.
Pleasure your partner (or yourself) with remote-controlled underwear – blueMotion, developed by OhMiBod, is a set of vibrating panties that you can control from your smartphone via a Bluetooth connection. An app on your phone lets you control the speed and intensity of the vibrations. Learn more here. And, no, I don’t know when the wi-fi model is coming out!
Turn ordinary household items into dildos in an instant – Have you ever looked at an object around your house and said, “I wish I could turn that into a dildo?” If so, Dildomaker is the device for you. It quickly and easily transforms everything from vegetables to hot dogs to candles into dildos. It works kind of like a pencil sharpener: just stick the tip in, crank the device, and presto! A perfect dildo every time. Check out a few examples here.
The robot that helps you masturbate – Finally, for that guy in your life who thinks masturbation is just too much work, here is a prototype of a robot that can literally give him a hand. This robot basically holds a plastic tube over your penis and moves it up and down while you wear a pair of virtual reality goggles that displays a sex scene. The robot moves its arms in time with the thrusts you see on screen. Check out the video below for a closer look at how it works, complete with a truly uncomfortable anime sex scene.
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If you are reading this at you computer you are most likely also aware of the fact that keyboards have a tendency to get quite dirty after a while. The slime-like Cyber Clean is a product that “blots out the muck from every crevice of your keyboards with a grime-slapping antibacterial action.”
While compressed-air sprays and tiny brushes will just move the dirt around in your keyboards, telephones and other electrical gadgets, this devilish ooze will splurge into every tiny corner, swallow up dead skin, hair and food and absorb it back into itself. Because it’s made from an unique antibacterial formula, the dirt is actually neutralised and sanitised while it’s inside the putty – up to 80% of all germs can be destroyed in this way.
You can get a jar of Cyber Clean from Firebox.com for £7.95 (about $14 USD).
Update June 2011: Cyber Clean Electronics Cleaning Putty is also available for $8.99 from ThinkGeek.
Related Deals: ThinkGeek Coupon
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Bisexuality is the tendency to be sexually attracted to both men and women. To some, this may sound like a superpower doubling one's romantic options (and odds). But in real life, bisexuality can be an awkward to have, creating a challenge truly fitting in with either the “straight" or LGBT communities.
But most important, bisexuality tends to be quite misunderstood.
Myths and stereotypes about bisexuality abound, some even contradicting one another. Straight and LGBT people alike can hold such stereotypes, compounding the difficulties bisexual people can have fitting in. Luckily, an increasing number of researchers have been producing research improving our of bisexuality.
Here are three examples of how science has worked to combat misconceptions about bisexuality:
Myth 1: "There's no such thing as bisexuality."
This is especially laughable. How can you tell a group of individuals that they don’t exist? But the idea that all people have to be either straight or gay is pervasive and persistent, especially when it comes to men. Frustratingly, even within the most LGBT-friendly circles, you encounter the idea that “there’s no such thing as a bisexual man.”
Researchers have quite clearly laid this myth to rest with a study recently published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior(1). Researchers recruited straight, gay, and bisexual men, and exposed them to a variety of erotic film clips. Not only were participants asked to rate their subjective feelings of arousal in response to the clips, they were also connected to physiological equipment that measured changes in genital arousal. As would be expected, heterosexual men responded with much more subjective and genital arousal to films containing women rather than men, and vice versa for gay men. However, bisexual men were aroused relatively similarly by videos of both men and women. They were also more aroused by bisexual clips—for example, two men and one woman—than were the other two groups. Importantly, these differences were in both their reported arousal and the objective measurement of their genital arousal. It is clear from this study that these individuals were not “pretending” to be bisexual.
Myth 2: "Bisexuality is just a phase."
With this myth, bisexuality is represented as a state of experimentation or confusion—stereotypically experienced during the college years—that occurs before a person settles on their “true” identity.
Lisa Diamond has conducted some very sophisticated work on this topic, in which she examined the sexual identities of women over long periods of time. In a paper published in Developmental Psychology(2), she reports on a sample of women she followed over a period of ten years. Her results clearly showed that bisexuality was not a transitional period: Very few women who had identified as bisexual in changed their identity to either straight or lesbian by the end of the study—only 8% of that group did so. Rather, bisexual women were consistently sexually fluid over time, maintaining attractions to both genders, to varying degrees, over the course of a decade.
Myth 3: "Bisexual people can’t be faithful to their partners."
This myth—arguably the most pernicious one—stems from the assumption that one partner can not fully satisfy a person who is attracted to both genders. Sooner or later, other people assume, they’ll yearn for someone of the that their partner is not. In studies, people tend to perceive bisexual individuals as being more likely to partners than heterosexual, gay, or lesbian individuals(3).
In reality, a great many bisexual individuals have happily monogamous ; for example, by the end of Diamond’s 10-year study(2), 89% of bisexual women were in monogamous, long-term relationships. Further, research suggests that bisexual individuals who do desire multiple sexual partners may typically achieve this goal by negotiating open relationships with their partners, not by sneaking around behind their partners’ backs(4).
I could find no research supporting the idea that bisexuals are any less faithful, or less honest, with their partners than people of other sexual orientations.
Insights on identity
The growing field of research on bisexuality is promising, in that it counteracts many myths and misconceptions while also providing some interesting insights into in general. Unlike pop culture sources, these scientific studies suggest that bisexuality is a relatively stable, consistent sexual identity. We still need more research to better understand the ways in which bisexuality is similar to monosexual (heterosexual, gay, lesbian) identities, as well as the ways in which it might be unique.
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This article was originally written for Science of Relationships: a website about the psychology of relationships that is written by active researchers and professors in the field.
1. Rosenthal, A. M., Sylvia, D., Safron, A., & Bailey, J. M. (2012). The male bisexuality debate revisited: Some bisexual men have bisexual arousal patterns. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 41, 35-147.
2. Diamond, L. M. (2008). Female bisexuality from adolescence to adulthood: Results from a 10-year longitudinal study. Developmental Psychology, 44, 5-14.
3. Spalding, L. R., & Peplau, L. A. (1997). The unfaithful lover: heterosexuals’ perceptions of bisexuals and their relationships. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 21, 611-625.
4. McLean, K. (2004). Negotiating (non) monogamy: Bisexuality and intimate relationships. Journal of Bisexuality, 4, 83-97.
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Ohio Gov. John Kasich is reportedly set to drop out of the presidential race, according to NBC News ' Andrea Mitchell.
Multiple oulets confirmed that the governor will officially suspend his campaign later on Wednesday. Kasich's campaign scrapped a press conference planned for early Wednesday morning and instead announced the governor would make a statement in Columbus at 5 p.m. ET.
The Kasich campaign didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump all but sealed up the nomination following a landslide win Tuesday night in Indiana's primary.
Kasich was the last major Republican presidential candidate remaining in the race. Sen. Ted Cruz dropped out Tuesday night following the results of the Indiana primary.
The Ohio governor's campaign never really got off the ground. Though he picked up a handful of delegates in several nominating contests and won his home state's primary, the governor did not take home any other primaries or caucuses, and won few delegates in the last month.
Even after the Indiana loss, Kasich's team insisted that the governor would stay in the race until the Republican National Convention in July. On Wednesday morning, Kasich tweeted out a Star Wars parody video claiming that Kasich was the "only hope" to defeat Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
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New screenshots from a preview build of the upcoming Fall Creators Update for Windows 10 have shown off the new Mixed Reality Viewer app, giving us a glimpse of what Microsoft plans for supporting the range of mixed reality headsets which are due to launch alongside the update on October 17.
The images, posted on the Aggiornamenti Lumia blog, show how the existing View 3D app has been rebranded into the Mixed Reality Viewer. It allows users to open 3D models inside Windows 10 and view them with a mixed reality headset, or through a standard 2D monitor.
The screenshots of the app were taken on a computer running Windows 10 that's been signed up to the Insider’s Program with ‘Fast Ring with Skip Ahead enabled’. This gives users a chance to download an early version of upcoming Windows updates to test out before they are finished.
Image 1 of 3 Image credit: Aggiornamenti Lumia Image 2 of 3 Image credit: Aggiornamenti Lumia Image 3 of 3 Image credit: Aggiornamenti Lumia
Trying out the new features
The blog post explains some of the new features of the Mixed Reality Viewer app, including a new logo and interface.
These images show how mixed reality content will be handled in Windows 10 in the future. While it hasn’t been explicitly confirmed to feature in the Fall Creators Update, we’re hoping that it will be included, or shortly afterwards.
The blog also hosts a download of the new app for people to try out, but we'd recommend holding fire and waiting for the final version to appear on the Windows Store in the future.
Microsoft has made a big deal of supporting mixed reality, so to have a flagship app included in its next major update of Windows 10 will be a good indication of just how serious it is about MR.
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I have just found out something that has excited my greatly while reading the latest edition of Practical Reptile Keeping. Well any news of this kind is enough to excite any reptile enthusiast, but it excited me a little more this time around. Me and my girlfriend are currently saving up for a working holiday in Australia, which we aim to be setting off sometime in late 2015 if all goes well. While we are over there, I am hoping to not only gain more experience in working with reptiles and amphibians, but to also see the variety of species in their natural habitat while travelling the continent. Well cut to the chase, the news is that there have been new herp species discovered in Cape York Peninsula, North-East Australia. These include a leaf-tailed gecko, a golden-coloured skink and a boulder-dwelling frog.
In this area of Australia, there is a place called Cape Melville which is a sort of mountain range filled with exceptionally large black granite boulders. Earlier this year, the National Geographic Expedition Council and a film crew choppered into this largely unexplored area and weren’t disappointed in what they discovered. The nature of this landscape has effectively stranded several species of animals away from the rest of the continent by a border of hot, dry forest, for possibly millions of years.
The gecko that the team found is a species of leaf-tailed gecko, that bears a resemblance I think to one of my favourites, the aptly named satanic leaf-tailed gecko. Though due to the isolation that these animals have endured, they are rather different to their relatives. It spends its daytime hidden away in those granite boulders, emerging at night to hunt in much cooler temperatures. Although hunting maybe isn’t an appropriate word to use based on the method carried out by the geckos, they rather ambush their prey while lurking in the cracks and crevices of the boulders. They have very slender bodies, making their legs appear unusually long, and their colour gives effective camouflage.
The second creature found was a species of skink, with a beautiful gold colour to its skin. Reptiles never fail to impress with their variety of colours and patterns. This animal is also long and slender in limbs and body, but is more active in the day unlike the gecko. The name given to this skink (Saproscincus saltus) was assigned because the word saltus means leaping, and this skink was seen leaping through the rocky terrain of its environment hunting insects.
And finally the boulder-dwelling frog. Now known to science as the blotched boulder-frog, is a small creature and has an even more restricted habitat than the previous two, Being found only in the fields of Cape Melville. During the dry season this frog remains in the cooler area deep down in the boulder fields, where there is a more suitable moisture in the air. The frogs posses swollen foot pads which assists them in climbing among the boulders. Again I love the coloration of this frog, it appears to have a sort of golden colour also, with brown spots rotten across its back and limbs.
It is a shame that they are in an area that will be difficult to access for myself due to few transport opportunities and the unusual terrain, otherwise visiting Cape Melville in order to try and catch a glimpse of these newly discovered animals would be high up on my list.
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Image copyright Moray Council Image caption Graham Leadbitter said he did not want the issue detracting from campaigning
A Moray women's group which has a man on its board has left the Scottish Women's Aid network as the appointment does not comply with its rules.
Graham Leadbitter, a councillor, has worked with Elgin-based Moray Women's Aid (MWA) for many years.
When Scottish Women's Aid (SWA) said it breached its conditions, the board of MWA decided it would not change its set-up, and resigned.
MWA said feedback was positive. SWA said women-only boards mattered.
The Women's Aid network supports women, children and young people who have experienced domestic abuse across Scotland.
'Positive comments'
Mr Leadbitter told the BBC Scotland news website: "I have been a member of the Moray Women's Aid board for about eight years, it's not been a secret, but the SWA spotted that and they said that did not comply.
"The MWA board discussed the issue and agreed they did not want to change the set-up. It should be based on ability rather than gender.
"So MWA indicated they would withdraw their affiliation. MWA is an independent organisation and felt it was the best route.
"I would not want the issue to detract from the very good work women's aid groups do. If it opens up debate about how you can address inequality then that's maybe not a bad thing.
"I have had positive comments about the position we have taken."
'Challenge inequality'
The SWA said in a statement: "We're sorry to confirm that Moray Women's Aid are no longer members of the Scottish Women's Aid network and we wish them all the very best as they continue to provide vital services for women, children and young people experiencing domestic abuse across Moray.
"Women are often excluded from making decisions about issues that predominantly affect women's lives; just look at the decision-making tables around Scotland.
"Less than 35% of members of the Scottish Parliament are women; women are only 25% of councillors and 36% of public boards. We believe Scotland aspires to be equal, but we are not there yet, and the reality is unless we take action, the playing field will never be levelled."
The statement added: "Women-only boards are important for Scottish Women's Aid, because we recognise that in Scotland historically and currently women are not equal, and do not have the same opportunities and experiences as men.
"We want to challenge inequality at every level outwith and within our organisation, and that means promoting and protecting women's spaces and places as decision makers in the fight to end domestic abuse in Scotland.
"Whilst we are sorry that Moray have left our network, we remain committed to and passionate about women-only boards in our national network, with a strong and positive history of women helping women."
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Update 8/4/16: Several spec teardown reports have uncovered slight difference in the graphical hardware performance of Xbox One S. Specifically, Xbox One S has a small GPU clock increase of 914 MHz from 853 MHz and an ESRAM bandwidth increase of 219 GB/s from 204 GB/s. These bumps are only noticeable in-game in a small number of situations. In fact, they exist only as an bonus side effect of Microsoft ensuring HDR content performs without a hitch.
This is more like it.
The Xbox One S is the version of the console that Microsoft should've first released back in 2013 instead of the lumbering beast that we got. It's better in a number of ways, making it even more of a worthy alternative to Sony's PlayStation 4.
Xbox One S offers a far more attractive enclosure, options for a bigger hard drive, a slightly redesigned controller and some video perks for owners of 4K TVs. It starts at $300, £250 or AU$400 for the 500GB version; $350, £300 or AU$500 for a 1TB model; and $400, £350 or AU$549 for 2TB.
That last model is available to buy as of today in the US (and includes the vertical stand that otherwise costs $20 when purchased separately in the US), while those with the smaller hard drives will be available later in August, bundled with games such as Madden 17 and Halo. (Additional bundles will follow later in the year -- including a pricier 2TB Gears of War 4 version in October -- and may vary by region.)
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Sounds like a slam dunk, right? Unfortunately, it's never that simple. The One S doesn't get an across-the-board "buy it now" recommendation for two reasons. First off, it doesn't deliver huge improvements for anyone who already owns an Xbox One. But more importantly, Microsoft has already promised that the next Xbox -- dubbed Project Scorpio -- will be arriving in late 2017 with with the seriously amped-up graphics and VR-ready hardware that audiences are clamoring for.
When it's all said and done, the Xbox One S should be primarily viewed as a slimmed-down version of the Xbox One that introduces a mildly updated controller and provisions for 4K display. It's not going to warp you into a state-of-the-art gaming experience. Pragmatically, you're probably better off nabbing an older Xbox One, which are now being sold at fire-sale prices. But if you are getting an Xbox One for the first time, have an interest in the bundled games and aren't saving your pennies for 2017's Project Scorpio, the One S is certainly a good all-round gaming and entertainment deal.
What's new in the Xbox One S
There's a short but significant list of improvements and changes to the Xbox One S.
Smaller, cleaner design: To start, it's 40 percent smaller, which considering its power supply is now internal, is impressive. It's also stark white, with some slick plastic moldings flanking the entirety of the box. I think it's the best-looking Xbox Microsoft has ever designed.
The One S can also stand vertically, too. The 2TB model we received for review packs in a stand. If you buy one of the other models, you can get the stand separately for $20.
Sarah Tew/CNET
4K and HDR video: Xbox One S gets a fairly beefy upgrade on its video capabilities, with 4K resolution (3,840x2,160, or four times as sharp as standard 1080p HDTVs) and HDR (high dynamic range, which is basically enhanced contrast and color). Keep in mind: those features only work on compatible TVs and 4K functionality only works with a small but growing list of compatible video content. 4K can currently be accessed through streaming video services such as Amazon and Netflix (as long as you have the bandwidth to support it and pay for their premium tier) and those new 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs. Certain games, meanwhile, will eventually be able to take advantage of HDR visual improvements, but don't look for PC-like 4K graphics -- the games are merely upscaled to 4K.
So no, you're not getting native 4K gaming out of an Xbox One S. In fact, only a limited number of games will feature HDR and none of them are out yet. They are Gears of War 4, Forza Horizon 3 and 2017's Scalebound.
New controller design: The Xbox One controller has been updated for the S, too. It has a more streamlined top section, better range and textured grips. It can also use Bluetooth to connect, which opens the door for compatibility with other devices -- no more annoying dongles, at least on Bluetooth-compatible PCs.
Sarah Tew/CNET
Unfortunately, I'm not a fan of the new controller's design. It's not a drastic departure from the original, but there's just enough of a change to make it feel cheaper. The plastic textured grips don't feel good the way rubberized ones do, but thankfully the triggers seem unchanged. The D-pad also feels slightly less tactile -- I even noticed differences between two of the new controllers side by side.
IR blaster and receiver: Still present is the IR port for controlling the console with a remote, but the Xbox One S also features an integrated IR blaster to control or power on other devices in the room.
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And it still does everything the old Xbox One does: The good news is that you're not losing anything with the Xbox One S compared with its predecessor. Around back the console offers a lot of the same ports as the original Xbox One, though noticeably absent is a dedicated Kinect port. You can still attach Kinect to the Xbox One S, you'll just need a special $40 (!) adapter. Either way, the omission of a Kinect port should give you an idea of how that peripheral is regarded at Microsoft HQ.
HDMI-in and -out ports are still there, so you can still make use of the Xbox One's live TV integration if that's something that appeals to you, but I never found it overly useful.
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Suffice it to say, the One S plays all existing Xbox One games, and a growing list of Xbox 360 games. It also includes all of the encouraging software improvements Microsoft has made over the past few years, including the redesigned interface, support for the Cortana digital assistant (using a microphone headset), compatibility with the Windows Store and, soon, additional cross-play options with Windows PC gamers on certain titles.
4K and HDR scorecard
I want to personally thank the Xbox One S for introducing me to the hot mess that is the world of 4K and HDR formats. I considered myself fairly fluent in the language of home theater, but I was bewildered at the insane of amount of granularity and confusion that the format is currently plagued with.
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A new study suggests there is a growing market in the illegal trade of guns and weapons in Libya via social media sites, in particular Facebook.
The report covered 18 months and found sales of a wide range of items - from handguns to rocket-propelled grenades.
Most were offered for sale on "closed" or "secret" Facebook groups.
The illicit sale of guns is a violation of Facebook's terms of service, and a spokesperson said they encourage people to report any such postings.
The report was commissioned by the Small Arms Survey, and used data collected by Armament Research Services (ARES) on a total of 1,346 sales. Researchers believe this is just a fraction of the full trade taking place on social media.
The study will be released on Thursday, but BBC Newsnight has seen an advance copy.
Col Gaddafi was an obsessive buyer of weapons and tightly controlled the market. During his 40 years in power, it is estimated he spent more than $30bn (£20bn) on arms.
Image copyright Facebook Image caption A recent example of a weapon for sale in Libya on Facebook
When rebel forces toppled his regime in 2011, the stockpiles were thrown open and a large black market emerged. Researchers believe the trade on social media began to take off in 2013, and is still growing.
They looked at the trade of small arms and light weapons across sites, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Telegram, and found the largest volume of sales on Facebook.
The majority of weapons being traded were handguns or rifles. The most popular rifle was the Kalashnikov, which sells - they found - on average for 1,800 Libyan dinars ($1,300; £930).
"While the bulk of the traded [items] were traditional small arms - handguns through to self-loading rifles and machine guns - there were also the more significant systems that could have battlefield impacts or terrorist use," says one of the report authors Nic Jenzen-Jones from ARES.
"Manpads are shoulder-launched anti-aircraft systems. We found a number of complete systems listed, but also individual components... They're not really functional against modern fighter aircraft, but the great threat is to civilian aviation."
Researchers found anti-aircraft systems cost up to 85,000 Libyan dinars ($62,000; £44,000). One offer was of an anti-aircraft gun which came complete with a truck.
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Most of the sales are concentrated in the big cities, principally Tripoli, Benghazi and Sabratha.
The trade is a mixture of militia buying arms to fight, and militia disposing of them because they are no longer needed, they believe. Most of the sellers are in their 20s and 30s, with sales often completed via private messages or telephone.
Weapons were mostly advertised for sale within "closed" or "secret" groups on Facebook - and therefore only viewable by members of those groups. The groups ranged in size from fewer than 400 members to almost 14,000.
Some had very obvious names, such as The Libyan Firearms Market (now defunct), and many had been operating for the full 18 months of the study - suggesting, the authors say, that it is rare for such sites to be reported.
In a statement, a Facebook spokesperson said: "It's against Facebook's Community Standards to coordinate private sales of firearms, and we remove any such content as soon as we become aware of it. We encourage people to use the reporting links found across our site so that our team of experts can review content swiftly."
Researchers believe this is mostly an internal trade within Libya. However there have been concerns raised by the European police agency, Europol, over the number of weapons entering Europe from Libya.
More on this story on BBC Newsnight on Wednesday 6 April at 22:30 BST - or catch up afterwards on iPlayer (UK only)
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Larry Taylor (Photo: Hinds County Detention Center)
A Hinds County Sheriff's Department interdiction officer was arrested and fired this week after drugs were allegedly found in his patrol car.
A release from the HCSO stated that the undisclosed amount of drugs were found in Larry Taylor's patrol vehicle on Tuesday.
Taylor, 31, is charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, the release stated.
Taylor is a part of the interdiction unit, which deals with interstate crimes and is responsible for a large number of drug busts on the interstate.
"It is disappointing when we are put in a position to arrest one of our own," Maj. Pete Luke said. "Law enforcement officers are expected to hold themselves to a higher standard. These isolated events put doubt into the minds of the citizens that we serve."
Taylor has been booked into the Hinds County Detention Center in Raymond.
In May, Hinds Sheriff Victor Mason announced that he and the Morton Police Department had formed a joint interdiction unit in order to target drug traffickers. Under the agreement, the sheriff’s department and Morton PD split cash and property that the unit seizes during its operations, officials said. It is unclear if Taylor was one of the two officers dedicated to that unit by HCSO.
Morton is in Scott County.
We have contacted the sheriff's department seeking additional details and are awaiting a response.
Contact Therese Apel at 601-961-7236 or [email protected]. Follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
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There are two universal languages in the world: mathematics and music. In Japan, Vocaloid has made thousands of songs using synthetic voices and sounds. The most popular model is Hatsune Miku, who has gotten international attention as well as quite a few video game appearances. While music-based video games (and even music-based movies) are nothing new, Muya Agami, in collaboration with [email protected], has set out to create a novel based upon one of the most popular (and hardest) Vocaloid songs in Japanese history. The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku is a solid light novel with a few surprisingly heartfelt moments sprinkled within the pages.
The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku revolves around the life of Shinosato Asano, a reserved university student that works at a research lab and part time at a nightclub. One day, his professor assigns him a mysterious task: he must conduct a field test for an android named Hatsune Miku. While the task is open-ended, Asano initially struggles to interact with the robot, and it doesn’t help matters when his friends Kurose Aika and Ishiii Juhachi wonder what he’s doing with a girl who looks like a fish out of water. Within a couple of weeks, however, Asano and Miku form a bond as they become intertwined with each other; however, Miku holds some devious secrets that may change Asano’s life forever.
The novel’s chapters are separated by date and time, with the main story focusing on Asano’s point-of-view. His first interactions with Miku are weird and jilted, but it’s understandable due to his somewhat timid personality. He struggles to open up to her, and his character development is actually quite heartwarming, if somewhat tragic near the end. In addition, I really enjoyed the supporting cast of Asano’s friends; Aika is the resident shipper-on-deck who provides some comic relief, while Juhachi is the tough guy dropout that’s sometimes too confident for his own good. The trio play off each other’s personalities really well, and I love the best friends dynamic they share.
It was quite interesting to see how the author portrayed Miku (who doesn’t have a canon personality due to her being, well, synthetic). Here, she’s peppy and charismatic, attracting those around her with her signature outfit and singing voice. Near the end, however, her character morphs into something more robotic and stoic, which marks the change of tone in the novel. The story does reference some of the more well-known aspects of her character (such as her trademark hair and food, as well as the fact that she had multiple “voices” in an update to the Vocaloid software). While many liberties are made in order to explain the technology to create her, the story does note her limitations as an android.
The most remarkable thing about Disappearance was how the authors could extrapolate so much story out of a single song. [email protected], the artist who created the eponymous song, took great lengths to explain the true meaning behind The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku. Essentially, the song marks Miku’s existential crisis as she “dies” throughout it, slowly losing control as well as her memories. To be fair, the song is filled with motor mouth exposition, as this English cover demonstrates, so it’s not like there’s a scant amount of lyrics here.
While Disappearance does move at a brisk pace due to the medium, the first third of the book was a bit slow to build up. We get the generic “boy meets girl” plot for the first eighty or so pages, with Asano struggling to come up with activities to do with Miku, and coming up with increasingly absurd reasons as to why he’s hanging out with her. By the time the story moves out of the introductions, however, it really picks up, with the second half correlating to the events of the titular song.
When the overall novel shifts from a romantic slice-of-life to a science-fiction drama, it becomes much more thrilling. However, near the end it starts to go into a slight cosmic horror plot, which doesn’t mesh well with the rest of the story. It comes out of nowhere, and the resolution appears just as quickly. Keeping the story firmly into softer science-fiction/slice-of-life territory would have been preferable to the last dozen or so pages. A small point to note with the translation is that it does contain a few grammatical errors at times. They’re noticeable but not dealbreaking; still, it’s something that should probably be tightened up in future printings.
75 Good The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku Review Guidelines While a bit inconsistent with translation and pacing, The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku is a poignant and heartwarming light novel that explores Japan’s virtual pop superstar in a surprisingly human way. Just make sure to bring tissues near the end of it. —Elisha Deogracias
Elisha Deogracias is an aspiring accountant by day, freelance writer by night. Before writing for Gaming Trend, he had a small gig on the now defunct Examiner. When not being a third wheel with his best friends on dates or yearning for some closure on Pushing Daisies, he's busy catching up on My Hero Academia and wacky rhythm games. Still doesn't know if he's a kid or a squid.
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What do you guys know about Nova? Nothing? Unless you love the New Warriors or the cosmic Marvel shenanigans, chances are you haven’t seen this guy cannonballing into the bad guys’ faces. Luckily I’ve got the lowdown on this garishly clad cosmonaut so sit back, relax, and enjoy the read.
Firstly, Nova is actually Richard Rider, an all ’round average American teen. In a story that eerily resembles Hal Jordan’s origins, Rider discovers Rhomann Dey, a dying alien and the last centurion of the Nova Corps of Xandar. Dey bequeaths the youngster with all the powers of the Nova Prime (flight, strength, energy blasts, etc.) and Rider starts beating the crap out of the thugs in New York City.
To make a long story a little shorter Xandar eventually recalls its centurions, the planet having been reformed, and then Nova starts punching cosmic thugs.
After a while Nova gets tired of the endless void and the endless punching (but not really), and after racking up some great rivalries and deadly enemies, he decides to go back to Earth, relinquishing his powers. He tries to live Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream but like a junky, he goes into Nova Force withdrawal until Night Thrasher reawakens the energy inside him and invites Rich to join the New Warriors. For a while he teams up with the Thrasher, Namora, Speedball, and the rest of the gang but it’s not long before he takes to the stars again as a member of Xandar’s finest. If he’d been stateside, things might have gone differently in Stamford on that fateful day that sparked the Civil War. Alas, it was not to be.
Rich decides not to pick sides in the war, especially since there are more pressing matters developing at the fringes of the universe. Eventually everything comes to a head when the Annihilation Wave rolls out from the Negative Zone. Nova and his United Front take on the Wave, legion upon legion of Annihilus’ insectile minions, until the psychotic conqueror taps into the power of Galactus. In an all too brief summation of way too many comics composing the Annihilation: Ronan the Accuser is bad ass, millions of worlds are destroyed, Thanos does some crazy shit, Drax kills people and then Thanos, Nova and his pals lose the war, and then in a final showdown with Annihilus, Rich rips his insides out through his freaking mouth!
From there he and the Worldmind, the source of the Nova Force, try to rebuild the Nova Corps. They recruit some new members, among them Rich’s younger brother Robbie, the Shi’ar Imperium shows up, massacres some more centurions, and then Nova deals with Cthulu-esque creatures that don’t belong in our dimension. Did I mention he takes on the Phalanx too? Richard Rider’s life = madness. Power-wise Nova has a lot going for him when he’s in possession of the Nova Force. His official moniker – Nova, the human rocket – spells out one of his chief abilities: he can blast through the air with the greatest of ease. He can fly, has super strength, agility, speed, and reflexes. He can survive in the void as long as he’s wearing his suit and the Xandarian Worldmind helps him open stargates and calculate complex plans of attack in seconds. He also has access to powerful energy blasts, can absorb energy directed at him, and has shields that function somewhat like Invisible Woman’s forcefields.
Honestly I think Nova looks absolutely solid. I love the fact that he has 3 different level 1 hypers that he can use in the air. He can OTG himself, has a serious beam hyper, projectiles, and some decent speed and power. Also he’s got that flight mode which could substantially increase his combo ability. His animations leave a lot to be desired and like Iron Fist, I’m a little disappointed in his overall presentation. I think he’ll be decent but…
If you haven’t seen the release videos yet check them out below!
Again ladies and gentleman, if you dig any of this stuff leave me a comment below and let me know what I could improve on.
Also don’t forget to follow me on Twitter for more comic book and fighting game goodness – Kingofbreaker
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Express is the most popular Node.js web framework and the fourth most depended-upon package on the NPM registry. As a result of its popularity, there are an abundance of tutorials and examples for getting started with new Express apps - we too have created a "getting started" MEAN stack tutorial for the Heroku DevCenter. However, "getting started" apps generally don't show you how to handle the more serious parts of real-world systems.
In this post we are going to demonstrate how a production Node.js application might connect to multiple MongoDB databases. Our example will demonstrate how to create a single connection pool to a MongoDB deployment and how to structure an Express app to reuse that pool across multiple modules.
You can find the code for this example here:
https://github.com/mlab/express-mongodb-setup
Update 2018-03-07: This tutorial has been updated for version 3.0.4 of the mongodb driver. You can see a previous version of the code for this example on GitHub.
What is a connection pool and why is it important?
A connection pool is a cache of authenticated database connections maintained by your driver, from which your application can borrow connections when it needs to run database operations. After each operation is complete, the connection is kept alive and returned to the pool. When properly used, connection pools allow you to minimize the frequency of new connections and the number of open connections to your database.
It's important to minimize the frequency and number of new connections to the database because creating and authenticating connections to the database is expensive - these processes require both CPU time and memory. When we reuse connections by using a connection pool we avoid this resource cost to the server, and also benefit from lower latency since the app doesn't need to wait for an authentication to finish before a query can be sent.
The default pool size in the Node driver is 5. If your app typically needs more than 5 concurrent connections to the database, you can increase the value of the poolSize setting.
Common mistake in connection management for Express apps
A common mistake developers make when connecting to the database is to call MongoClient.connect() in every route handler to get a database connection.
For example, code like this:
app.route('/foo', (req, res) => { MongoClient.connect('url', (err, client) => { ... }) }) app.route('/bar', (req, res) => { MongoClient.connect('url', (err, client) => { ... }) })
will create 5 connections to MongoDB for every request, including concurrent requests to the same route. Connection counts can quickly skyrocket with this approach.
Example for connection pooling in an Express app
For our example we'll implement database connection pooling for the recommended Express project structure (as outlined by the Express app generator).
Our example has the following structure:
|-- README.md |-- app.js |-- dbs |-- index.js |-- routes |-- index.js
The app.js file is the main file which starts the app. Inside dbs/index.js is our database connection logic, and inside routes/index.js is our request routing logic.
We use the index.js file naming convention because it allows parent modules the ability to import the module by its directory name, the index.js file is implicitly found. For example, later you'll see we require the dbs module with require('./dbs') , rather than require('./dbs/index.js') .
Set up database connections
We'll first start with creating and managing database connections in the dbs/index.js file.
const MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient // Note: A production application should not expose database credentials in plain text. // For strategies on handling credentials, visit 12factor: https://12factor.net/config. const PROD_URI = "mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>@<host1>:<port1>,<host2>:<port2>/<dbname>?replicaSet=<replicaSetName>" const MKTG_URI = "mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>@<host1>:<port1>,<host2>:<port2>/<dbname>?replicaSet=<replicaSetName>" function connect(url) { return MongoClient.connect(url).then(client => client.db()) } module.exports = async function() { let databases = await Promise.all([connect(PROD_URI), connect(MKTG_URI)]) return { production: databases[0], marketing: databases[1] } }
To use the dbs module, you might write some code like this:
const initDatabases = require('./dbs) initDatabases().then(dbs => {....})
The initDatabases function call initializes database connections and makes the connections accessible via the dbs variable. You could also create a module for other application startup tasks such as connecting to third party APIs or loading data or configuration.
Note: Following 12-factor methodology, rather than storing connection strings in code you should use config variables.
Reuse database connections in routes (or other app) files
With the logic written for establishing connections at app startup, we now need to structure the routing logic so their handlers can use those existing connections.
We need a strategy in code to reuse database connections in the routes module ( routes/index.js file). We can't just call require('./dbs') again in this file, as that would create a second connection pool. We also need a reference to the Express app created in app.js , but we can't use require('../app.js') because app.js requires the routes module and circular dependencies should be avoided wherever possible.
Instead, our module will expose a function which takes the Express app and databases as parameters. The parent module that imports this file can then be responsible for finding those values and making them accessible to the module. The technical name for this pattern is "Dependency Injection", as a parent module injects the values that another module depends on. Let's take a look at how it works in practice:
module.exports = function(app, dbs) { app.get('/production', (req, res) => { dbs.production.collection('test').find({}).toArray((err, docs) => { if (err) { console.log(err) res.error(err) } else { res.json(docs) } }) }) app.get('/marketing', (req, res) => { dbs.marketing.collection('test').find({}).toArray((err, docs) => { if (err) { console.log(err) res.error(err) } else { res.json(docs) } }) }) return app }
The route definitions are established in exactly the same way as other Express apps, but the app and the database references are injected by the parent module when the module is loaded.
Tie the "routes" and "dbs" modules together in the main app module
We can understand how the routes and dbs modules are tied together by looking at our app.js code. Our app code:
Initializes an Express app Uses the dbs module to create connection pools to our databases Passes both dbs and app modules into the routes module Starts the app on port 3000 only after the routes module configures the app's route handlers
const express = require('express') const app = express() const initializeDatabases = require('./dbs') const routes = require('./routes') initializeDatabases().then(dbs => { // Initialize the application once database connections are ready. routes(app, dbs).listen(3000, () => console.log('Listening on port 3000')) }).catch(err => { console.error('Failed to make all database connections!') console.error(err) process.exit(1) })
Using this structure, our app will maintain and reuse a single connection pool to each database. This reduces pressure on the database caused by creating and authenticating new connections or by maintaining multiple unused connection pools. As an added performance and latency benefit, reusing existing connection pools allows the application to quickly retrieve database results without having to go through the connection creation and authentication process each time.
If you have questions or thoughts please email our team at [email protected] for help!
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As most of you know, Google recently turned 10 years old. The powerful search engine has been growing its Internet empire through acquisitions and partnerships ever since it went public. In this post, I’ll be going in depth about the companies Google acquired in the past and where are they now.
1. Deja.com (Price unknown, Date: February 12, 2001)
Google bought Deja.com in February 2001. Deja News Research was a forum based on Usenet that started in 1995. Steve Madere started Deja News in Austin, TX and Google wanted it because of it’s searching capabilities. Deja News could search across all of their archived newsgroups. Results were found immediately. However, some of the material submitted to Deja.com included that from The Church of Scientology so the company found themselves facing a couple of lawsuits.
In 1999, Deja.com shifted their business model to focus on shopping comparison. The archived messages did not become available to their users any longer.
Then one year later, the company was in financial distress so they sold the shopping service to eBay’s Half.com and the archives to Google. Google took the archives from Deja and integrated it into Google Groups.
“We welcome Deja’s loyal users into the growing community of Google users worldwide,” stated Larry Page in a press release from 2001, who was the CEO of Google at the time. “With more than 500 million individual messages and growing fast, Usenet and its thriving community is one of the most active and valuable information sources on the Internet.”
Deja.com redirects to Google Groups and is blocked from Archive.org.
2. Outride (Price: unknown, Date: September 20, 2001)
Outride was a spin-off from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Outride specialized in online information retrieval. Through the acquisition, Google bought the I.P., the patent rights, source code, trademarks, and domain names from them. Using the technology from Outride, Google created iGoogle in May 2005. iGoogle is an AJAX-based starting homepage where users can aggregate RSS feeds and Google Gadgets.
Outride had 2 products created at the time: Outride Search Service and Outride Communications Service. The technology platform created by Outride was called Outride Relevance Builder and Outride Relevance Miner.
Outride Search Service provided search results based on user interests and demographics. This data was collected by their search habits. Outride Communications Services was a Web-based community platform that harvests hyperlinks from emails, calendars, communication apps, and other groupware.
“This acquisition is another example of Google’s commitment to providing the highest quality search service in the world,” said Larry Page in the release about the acquisition, who was also the President of Products of Google at the time of the acquisition. “Outride has made significant advances in the field of relevance technology and we believe Google provides the ideal vehicle to continue the development of these technologies.”
The Outride.net domain name is no longer online, but screenshots of the old site are available on archive.org.
3. Pyra Labs (Price: unknown, Date: February 16, 2003)
Pyra Labs was created by Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan. The first product made by Pyra Labs was called Pyra and it was a web application that focused on project and contact management. Then they scrapped that model in 1999 and renamed Pyra to Blogger.
Blogger was made available in August 1999. Paul Bausch and Matthew Haughey coded most of Blogger. Blogger did not have a revenue model at the time and the service was free.
Blogger eventually ran out of seed money and the employees started working for free. Evan Williams watched his employees eventually walk out on the company, which included co-founder Meg Hourihan.
Williams continued to work on Blogger alone, but then Trellix invested money into the company. Dan Bricklin, founder of Trellix believed that Blogger had potential.
After the funding came in, Blogger set up an advertising-supported domain hosting Blog URL: blogspot.com. Blogger Pro was a paid version. In 2002, Blogger started licensing Blogger technology to media companies.
This caught Google’s eye and they bought out the company in 2003. When Google bought out Blogger, the company had 6 employees. This includes Evan Williams and Jason Goldman.
In 2004, Williams left Google and co-founded Obvious Corporation and Odeo. And Goldman left in 2006. Now Obvious Corporation owns Twitter and Odeo.
Blogger is still very much alive and so is the domain name, blogspot.com. The problem with blogspot.com is that given its seamlessness in creating free weblogs, spammers have been taking advantage of the service.
4. Neotonic Software (Price: unknown, Date: April 22, 2003)
Neotonic Software was a CRM software company. Before the acquisition took place, Neotonic created software called Trakken 2.0. Trakken was an e-mail customer service software package that included power virus and spam filters.
Trakken was also built for handling email bursts of over 15,000 messages per hour. Neotonic was based in San Francisco, Calif. and their clients included Google, Ex Impact Technologies, and Butterfield Auctioneers.
Google bought Neotonic in April 2003 and rolled Trakken into Google Groups and Gmail. If you are wondering how Gmail’s spam filter does a great job? Neotronic is probably one of the possibilities.
Before the acquisition, Trakken said “45 agents in 6 support groups at Google rely on Trakken to respond to 35,000 emails a week.”
Trakken was founded by David Jeske and Brandon Long. Prior to Neotonic, Jeske did the technical due diligence for eGroups.com when Yahoo! acquired them for $432 million.
5. Applied Semantics (Price: $102 million, Date: April 23, 2003)
Around the same time that Google bought Neotonic, Google also bought Applied Semantics. Applied Semantics invented AdSense and KeywordSense.
Applied Semantics is based on WordNet technology. WordNet was invented by psychology professor George A. Miller at the Cognitive Science Lab at Princeton University.
WordNet had $3 million in funding from government agencies that were interested in WordNet for its machine translation. WordNet groups words based on semantic relations with synonyms.
Applied Semantics also based their software on Simpli as well. Simpli was a search engine company that was started by Miller that utilized WordNet.
Simpli would suggest search terms that were related to what another user searched for. Other founders of Simpli included Jeff Stibel, David Landan, John Santini, Andrew Duchon, Paul Allopenna, James A. Anderson, Steve Reiss, and Dan Ariely. Simpli sold to NetZero in 2000.
Before the name Applied Semantics, the company was called Oingo in 1998. The renaming of Oingo to Applied Semantics happened in 2001 and was started by Gilad Elbaz and Adam Weissman. Google bought out Applied Semantics in April 2003 for $102 million. Here is the press release.
“Applied Semantics is a proven innovator in semantic text processing and online advertising,” stated Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who was president of Technology at Google at the time of the acquisition. “This acquisition will enable Google to create new technologies that make online advertising more useful to users, publishers, and advertisers alike.”
Brin was right. Applied Semantics was probably Google’s most synergistic and wisest acquisition. Google AdSense is the search engine company’s cash cow. Applied Semantics team remained in Santa Monica and Google established a SoCal product development center there.
Three months after Google acquired Applied Semantics, Yahoo! bought out Overture for $1.63 billion in July 2003.
That same summer, Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel offered to buyout Google for $3 billion, but the Google founders turned it down. It was a good move for Google. Applied Semantics’ technology is still powering AdSense and AdWords.
6. Kaltix (Price: unknown, Date: September 30, 2003)
Kaltix Corporation started in June 2003 and created personalized and contextual search technologies. Kaltix was a Palo Alto, Calif.-based stealth company at the time and started at Stanford University.
The founders of the company were trying to find ways to specifically one-up PageRank. The founders of Kaltix were Taher Haveliwala, Glen Jeh, and Sepandar Kamvar. Kamvar helped Google build and engineer iGoogle.
Kamvar went on to become a consulting professor at Stanford in the subject of Computational Mathematics. One of the classes that Kamvar still teaches is Computational Methods in Data Mining. And Kamvar also runs a fashion company called Distilled Clothing.
“Google and Kaltix share a common commitment to developing innovative search technologies that make finding information faster, easier and more relevant,” stated Google co-founder Larry Page, who was the President of Products of Google at the time. “Kaltix is working on a number of compelling search technologies, and Google is the ideal vehicle for the continued development of these advancements.”
7. Sprinks (Formerly owned by PRIMEDIA, Price: unknown, Date: October 2003)
Google bought out Sprinks from PRIMEDIA. PRIMEDIA was best known for acquiring About.com in 2000 for $690 million. About.com was later sold to The New York Times for $410 million. Sprink’s ads were distributed across the About.com network of sites. Google AdWords ads replaced all of Sprink’s ads. And Sprink’s ads also appeared on CNET, Excite.com, Forbes.com, Mamma.com, Metacrawler at the time. This acquisition gave Google AdWords much more market share.
Sprink’s core products were Contentsprinks (pay-for-performance ads), Directsprinks (ads on email newsletters), and Keywordsprinks (sponsored search placement). At the time of the Sprinks acquisition, Google AdWords and Overture controlled 90% of the PPC market. In the new agreement that Yahoo! and Google are agreeing upon, Microsoft’s counsel accused that Google would control 90% of the search-advertising market.
Nayden Naydenov is the current registered owner of the domain Sprinks.com. The domain is also still registered to About.com, Inc. according to Alexa. Below is a screenshot of Sprinks.com from Archive.org:
8. Genius Labs (Price: unknown, Date: October 7, 2003)
Google bought Genius Labs for one reason: Biz Stone. Biz Stone is the co-founder of Twitter. Stone also helped created and launch Xanga, Blogger, Odeo, and Obvious Corporation. Stone joined Google through the acquisition of Genius Labs but left two years after to start Odeo.
9. Ignite Logic (Price: unknown, Date: May 10, 2004)
Ignite Logic, Inc. was a startup company that helped law firms and other small businesses set up websites. Ignite was creating a WYSIWYG HTML editor for their product, but then Google bought them and integrated them into other Google products.
Ignite’s HTML editor most likely was rolled into Blogger and Google Page Creator. Google acquired Ignite around the same time they decided to file for an IPO.
As a matter of fact, this clause was on the Google S-1 as pointed out by John Battelle:
“2003 Equity Incentive Plan / Our 2003 Equity Incentive Plan was assumed by us in connection with our acquisition of Ignite Logic, Inc. in April 2004. At April 23, 2004, options to purchase a total of ___ shares of Class A common stock were outstanding under the 2003 Equity Incentive Plan at a weighted average exercise price of $28.86 per share.”
10. 2.6% of Baidu (Price: $10 million, Date: June 23, 2004)
Baidu is the biggest search engine in China right now. Baidu indexes website links, audio, and images. Baidu is ranked #19 on Alexa currently. Baidu is currently indexing 740 million websites, 80 million images, 10 million audio files. And Baidu went public on August 5, 2005.
Baidu currently trades at about $233 per American Depositary Receipt. Baidu’s market cap is $8 billion. With a market cap of $8 billion, that means 2.6% of Baidu is worth $208 million. How ’bout them apples?
11. Picasa (Price: unknown, Date: July 13, 2004)
Picasa is a is Google’s photo sharing, managing, editing, and uploading software that was originally created by Idealab. The name, Picasa is a blend of the name of the Spanish painter, Pablo Picasso and “mi casa (my house in Spanish).”
The icon for Picasa resembles the aperture blades of a camera lens. After Google acquired Picasa, they began to offer it as a free download.
Idealab is a business incubation company based in Pasadena. Some of the spin-offs made at Idealab includes InsiderPages, Citysearch (acquired by IAC), Commission Junction, Compete.com, NetZero, Goto.com (later renamed Overture and acquired by Yahoo!), eToys.com, and the domain .tv.
Idealab leases the .tv domain name to the island nation of Tuvalu (between Hawaii and Australia). This gave Tuvalu enough money to join the U.N. Idealab was started by Bill Gross in March 1996.
Google is making Picasa stronger and stronger. Two years after the Picasa acquisition, Google acquired a photo recognition company that will be integrated into Picasa in the near future. Picasa also has import features for Blogger.
12. ZipDash (Price: unknown, Date: September 2004)
Zipdash was an analysis tool that allowed anyone to search for traffic conditions on major highways in roads in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, and Phoenix.
The announcement was not made official, but it was discovered in a 10-K annual filing with the SEC. Zipdash was based in Palo Alto, Calif. and used mobile phones with GPS receivers to gather the speed of travelers.
Before Google acquired Zipdash, the company was planning on adding traffic jams, accidents, and other bottlenecks. Zipdash was started by Mark Crady, Michael Chu, and Diprenda Nigram. Crady and Chu were electrical engineers that worked at Intel and Palm.
The New York Times did a feature of Zipdash in March 2004, but did not make any mention of Google. The acquisition was quite unexpected. The team behind Zipdash helped build some of the features around Google Maps.
13. Where 2 Technologies (Price: unknown, Date: October 2004)
Where 2 Technologies was a mapping startup company based in Sydney, Australia. The company was founded by Lars Rasmussen and Jens Rasmussen. Up until July 2005, people that wanted to use Google Maps was required to download software.
Lars Rasmussen brought Google Maps to the browser which was HUGE for the company in taking on sites like MapQuest and Windows Live Maps.
Below is a video of Lars Rasmussen discussing the Google Maps API. Lars Rasmussen works for the Google Sydney engineering office.
Lars Rasmussen received his PhD from Univ. of California-Berkeley. This was Google’s first acquisition of an Australia-based company.
14. Keyhole, Inc. (Price: unknown, Date: October 27, 2004)
Keyhole Inc. was founded in 2001. Keyhole was originally a spin-off from Intrinsic Graphics. Keyhole was funded by Sony, NVIDIA, the CIA’s In-Q-Tel, Brian McClendon, and George T. Harber. Keyhole’s flagship application was Earth Viewer, a product that has evolved into Google Earth.
The name Keyhole is named after the eye-in-the-sky military satellites. Keyhole’s technology is plugged into Google Maps, Google Mobile, and Keyhole Markup Language (KML).
At the time of Google’s acquisition, Keyhole’s management includes John Hanke, Brian McClendon, Daniel Lederman, Bill Kilday, Noah Doyle, Andria Ruben, Thomas Gewecke, and Michael T. Jones. Earth Viewer received more attention when CBS, ABC, and CNN used 3D fly-bys for showing terrain.
EarthViewer “grew out of a tradition of technology for flight simulators,” stated Hanke via USA Today.
15. Urchin Software Corporation (Price: unknown, Date: March 28, 2005)
Urchin Software Corporation was a web analytics software company based in Southern California. Urchin was started by Paul Muret and Scott Crosby in December 1995. Urchin was originally called Web Depot and they built websites for Sharp Healthcare and Solar Turbines.
Urchin Software then become popular for processing large web server log files. Urchin dropped the web hosting and development and focused on their analytics software. The company was renamed to Quantified Systems, Inc.
Quantified’s clients included Rackspace, Winstar, Verio, Earthlink, and Cable & Wireless. Quantified was close to raising a Series A round of funding, but 9/11 and several other factors prevented the funding from happening. Quantified had to lay off 15 employees, close their office in Tokyo, and take out a loan from the original investors.
In 2002, Quantified created a CRM system and charged $5,000 per month for a physical data center. In 2003, Quantified was renamed to Urchin. And in 2004, Urchin repaid their angel investors.
In August 2004, Google approached Urchin for a partnership at the San Jose Search Engine Strategies Trade Show. And 8 months later, Google acquired Urchin.
Urchin technology currently powers Google Analytics. Google Analytics allows web publishers to track their hits, demographics, and many other features.
About 10 employees with Urchin are still working for Google as VPs, Managers, Directors, System Admins, and Software Engineers. Before Google acquired Urchin, the analytics software company was used by over 1 million sites and was the standard for 20% of the Fortune 500.
16. Dodgeball (Price: unknown, Date: May 12, 2005)
Dodgeball was one of the most ambiguous acquisitions Google made. After the acquisition, Gawker’s Valleywag reported that it was dead 2 years later because a 502 server error page showed up on Dodgeball.com at one point. But declared it alive again.
Dodgeball is essentially a mobile geographic social network. When logging in to Dodgeball, the user sends a text message to Dodgeball about where they are and Dodgeball notifies your friends. Dodgeball will also do this for friends of friends. Dodgeball will also do this for crushes. Google accounts were integrated into Dodgeball in October 2006.
Dodgeball was integrated into Google SMS and Google Mobile. Alex Rainert and Dennis Crowley, co-founders of Dodgeball quit Google in April 2007.
“It’s no real secret that Google wasn’t supporting dodgeball the way we expected. The whole experience was incredibly frustrating for us – especially as we couldn’t convince them that dodgeball was worth engineering resources, leaving us to watch as other startups got to innovate in the mobile + social space,” wrote Dennis on his Flickr account. “And while it was a tough decision (and really disappointing) to walk away from dodgeball, I’m actually looking forward to getting to work on other projects again.”
17. Reqwireless (Price: unknown, Date: July 2005)
Reqwireless partnered with Nokia, Cellmania, Motorola, Pinpoint, Handango, Sun Microsystems, Symbian, Sony Ericsson, Siemens mobile, Telus Mobility, Sunrise, and Optus to develop wireless applications and libraries for the J2ME platform.
Reqwireless is Google’s first and only acquisition in Canada thus far. Reqwireless is based in Waterloo.
And Reqwireless was rolled into Google Mobile and Google Android. Reqwireless developed ways to view email and HTML for devices using J2ME.
18. Current Communications Group (Equity from investment: unknown, Price: unknown, Date: July 7, 2005)
Current Communications Group is a broadband company that powers Internet through power lines. Google, Hearst, and Goldman Sachs invested $100 million into Current Comm Group in July 2005. CURRENT has been alive and kicking since 2004. Current uses a Smart Grid solution to increase efficiency for high-speed Internet while reducing environmental impacts and electric usage.
Current has worked on building Smart Grids in Dallas, Boulder, and certain areas in Europe. Current Communications is working closely with Xcel Energy on this project.
19. Android (Price: unknown, Date: August 17, 2005)
Google quietly acquired Android Inc. in August 2005 for an unknown price. Android was 22 months old when Google bought them out and was based in Palo Alto, Calif. Through the acquisition, Google brought the Android team in to work on the Google Android project.
Android will be releasing their first operating system this month. Andy Rubin, co-founder of Android Inc. became the Director of Mobile Platforms at Google to oversee the project.
At his house in Silicon Valley, Rubin has a retinal scanner to control his house door. If the scanner approves the retina, the door unlocks.
Rubin’s door is a robotic arm that takes a mallet and strikes a gong [NYT]. Google was working on Android quietly up until November 5, 2007, when Rubin wrote a title on the Google Blog entitled, “Where’s my Gphone?” The blog post announced the creation of the Open Handset Alliance as well.
The blogosphere was debating whether Google would create an iPhone killer since early 2007. It looks like it is coming to fruition now with the release of the Google Android this month. Google Android will be open source.
20. Skia (Price: unknown, Date: November 1, 2005)
Google bought out Skia in November 2005 for an undisclosed price. Skia was a technology company that provides 2D graphics to mobile devices, TVs, and other handhelds. Skia’s first product was called SGL, a portable graphics engine that was capable of loading 2D graphics. Google rolled these capabilities into Google Android. And Google also made the Skia Graphics Engine open source.
Skia was based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Skia is Greek for “shadow.” Google operates an office in Chapel Hill with 5 people. Skia was started by Michael Reed. After Google acquired Skia, they added one person on the Skia subsidiary staff.
How did a small software company in North Carolina get Google’s attention? “We did business in the valley,” stated Reed. “Everybody eventually gets to talk to everybody. Google sort of looks at everybody.”
21. Akwan Information Technologies (Price: unknown, Date: November 17, 2005)
Akwan Information Technologies was a search engine based in Brazil. Google made the announcement of the acquisition on the same day that they announced the opening of two Latin American operations. The two operations are based in So Paulo, Brazil and Mexico City, Mexico. Google planned on using these offices to reach additional advertising services and better the search experience in Latin America.
“The online environment in Latin America is changing rapidly with the infrastructure for high-speed Internet access expanding, and with it e-commerce,” stated Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, VP of Asia Pacific and Latin America operations at Google. “Google’s Latin America teams will partner closely with businesses, advertisers and agencies throughout the region to enable them to capitalize on the significant opportunities this brings.”
Google’s clients in Latin America includes Wal-Mart Brazil, Dell Mexico, and Mercado Libre. And Google made Akwan Information Technologies into a research and development center in Brazil.
22. 5% of AOL (Price: $1 billion, Date: December 20, 2005)
Google’s investment in AOL was for strategic purposes. With Google dominating in search and AOL dominating in messaging, the synergy between both companies would work out nicely.
After this deal, Google powered AOL’s search engine and AOL made their IM software compatible with Google Talk. Through this deal, Google powered some of the advertising on AOL.
“We’re very pleased to build significantly on our special relationship with Google in a way that will meaningfully strengthen AOL’s position in the fast-growing online advertising business and help drive more advertisers to its Web properties,” stated Time Warner Chairman Dick Parsons. “This agreement is key to fulfilling our commitment to realize the potential of AOL’s very large online audience. As digital technologies continue to drive industries together, the great value and opportunity inherent in Time Warner’s structure and array of premier businesses becomes increasingly clear. A critical piece of this strategic alliance will be our content, which we will be making more accessible to Google users.”
Some of the other outcomes of the deal includes AOL Marketplace white labeling Google AdSense, making AOL content more available through Google web crawling technologies, video collaboration, and providing AOL marketing credits. Google is the only shareholder in AOL other than Time Warner.
Since then Time Warner is rumored to shop AOL around and Yahoo! might be one possible buyer. The rumor indicates that Yahoo! might be interested for an acquisition of AOL for $5-$8 billion, but Time Warner is holding out for $10 billion.
23. Phatbits (Price: unknown, Date: December 27, 2005)
Phatbits.com was a widget company that was started by a former Software Development Lead at Microsoft. The company was started by Geoffrey Elliot. Google bought Phatbits because it had a widget engine. The widget engine was instrumental in creating widget applications for Google Desktop.
Google made this acquisition 5 months after Yahoo! acquired Konfabulator. Konfabulator was a Mac and Windows application that creates widgets too. Google knew that they would face intense competition with Yahoo! when it comes to widgets.
They acted quickly in order to stay in the game. I think Yahoo! widgets has a stronger market-share than Google when it comes to widgets though based on what I’ve observed. I just see more people with Yahoo! widgets than Google Desktop.
After the acquisition, Elliot worked at Google as a software engineer but has stepped down since. According to Elliot’s LinkedIn profile, he is currently an Entrepreneur in the Greater Seattle Area. Below is a screenshot of the old Phatbits page:
24 and 25. allPAY GmbH and bruNET GmbH (Price: unknown, Date: December 31, 2005)
I was unable to find any information regarding these two German companies except that they were rolled into Google Mobile. The only reason why they are heard of is because of a 10-K filing with the SEC. Otherwise, there isn’t any information about them online anywhere.
26. dMarc Broadcasting (Price: $102 million, Date: January 17, 2006)
dMarc Broadcasting is a Newport, California based radio broadcasting company. dMarc specializes in connecting advertisers to radio stations using their automated advertising platform. The platform makes the sales process, scheduling, delivery and reporting of the advertising efficient. After advertisers buy the air-time, then they can track the campaigns on dMarc’s platform.
Google rolled dMarc’s platform into AdWords Audio Ads. AdWords Audio Ads supports “top ten” stations in 25 major cities.
Currently, there is support for 1,600 FM and AM radio stations and Google Audio Ads can guarantee inventory during standard dayparts, not those late night infomercials.
“Google is committed to exploring new ways to extend targeted, measurable advertising to other forms of media,” stated Tim Armstrong, VP of Advertising Sales, Google. “We anticipate that this acquisition will bring new ad dollars and accountability to radio by combining Google’s expansive network of advertisers with dMarc’s talented team and innovative radio advertising technology. We look forward to working together to continue to grow and improve the ecosystem of the radio industry.”
Google acquired all of the outstanding equity interests in dMarc for $102 million. And Google stated that they would make additional contingent payments over the next 3 years assuming whether certain revenue and inventory targets are met. The maximum amount of the contingent payments may amount to $1.136 billion.
27. Measure Map (Price: unknown, Date: February 14, 2006)
Measure Map is still online on MeasureMap.com. Measure Map provides stats for bloggers. Jeffrey Veen, founder of Measure Map started his company one year and two months before the Google acquired it.
Prior to starting Measure Map, Veen was a Director of User Experience at Lycos Inc. and Managing Editor at South Coast Community Newspapers. Veen is no longer a User Experience Manager at Google, but he is now a Founding Partner at Adaptive Path.
Measure Map technology was rolled into Google Analytics. This was the second company that Google bought for developing their Analytics product. Urchin being the first.
“Bringing Measure Map to Google is an exciting validation of the user experience work I’ve been doing with my partners at Adaptive Path for years,” wrote Veen on The Google Blog. “By opening up the app to more bloggers through Google, we hope to help even more people become passionate about their blogs.”
28. Upstartle (Price: unknown, Date: March 9, 2006)
Google’s acquisition of Upstartle indicated that Google is ready to take on Microsoft Office and bring applications online. Upstartle’s first product was called Writely, an online word processor. Writely was created as a software-as-a-service model. Upstartle was founded by Claudia Carpenter, Sam Schillace, and Steve Newman.
Writely was integrated into Google’s product, Google Docs & Spreadsheets for online document collaboration. The Upstartle and Writely website is now shut down and redirects to Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
Writely is blocked from Archive.org. And all previous Writely users were forwarded to Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
Carpenter is now a software engineer at Google. Sam Schillace is an Engineering Director at Google. Jennifer Mazzon, former VP of Marketing at Upstartle is now a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Google. And Steve Newman is staying low-key about what he is doing next after Upstartle.
29. @Last Software (Price: unknown, Date: March 14, 2006)
Google acquired @Last Software for their 3D modeling software. Google Sketchup is used to create, modify, and share 3D models and buildings. This software was made to be useful for civil engineers and architects. The features from @Last Software was also integrated into Google Maps and Google Earth.
@Last Software attracted by Google because they made a plugin for Google Earth before they were acquired. @Last Software is based in Boulder, Colorado. “We got to know a bunch of Googlers while we were building the Google Earth plug-in for SketchUp, and it quickly became apparent that we could really stir things up together,” stated a @Last Software press release.
Google SketchUp is now a free download. SketchUp also has APIs for third-party developers to create plugins. @Last Software was founded by Brad Schell. Other employees of @Last started working for Google after the acquisition including Jeff Martin and Aidan Chopra. Schell left Google in March 2007 to take some time off from work and spend time hiking and windsurfing.
30. Orion (Price: unknown, Date: April 9, 2006)
Ori Allon was a 26-year-old Ph.D. student when Google decided to buy out his search engine, Orion. Allon was a student at the University of New South Wales. Orion’s search technology was unorthodox because it would find terms that are strongly related to search terms entered by users. This method was even praised by Bill Gates himself.
Microsoft and Yahoo! were also supposedly in a bidding war for the patented technology behind Orion. Eventually, Google triumphed and Allon was relocated to Mountain View. Allon is still a full-time student at the University of New South Wales. Allon is continuing to work on the Orion algorithm with Dr. Eric Martin.
31. 2Web Technologies (Price: unknown, Date: June 1, 2006)
2Web Technologies was acquired by Google to expand upon their efforts to take on Microsoft Office. Jonathan Rochelle, co-founder of 2Web is now a Product Manager of Google Docs & Spreadsheets at the New York office of Google.
Jonathan Rochelle was in the World Trade Center building on 9/11 and escaped the collapse of the building. The whole story is on his blog. It is by far one of the most emotional blog posts I’ve ever read. The blog post is very real and this is why I could see myself reading it again and again. As a professional blogger, I sometimes get caught up about all things business-related to the point that reality becomes less of a priority for me.
32. Neven Vision (Price: unknown, Date: August 15, 2006)
Google acquired Neven Vision for biometric purposes. Neven Vision specializes in facial and image recognition.
“Neven Vision comes to Google with deep technology and expertise around automatically extracting information from a photo. It could be as simple as detecting whether or not a photo contains a person, or, one day, as complex as recognizing people, places, and objects,” stated Adrian Graham, Picasa Product Manager. “This technology just may make it a lot easier for you to organize and find the photos you care about. We don’t have any specific features to show off today, but we’re looking forward to having more to share with you soon.”
Through the acquisition, Google attained several patents which include:
* EP1072018 : Wavelet-Based Facial Motion Capture for Avatar Animation
* 1072014 Face Recognition from Video Images
* EP1072018 Wavelet-Based Facial Motion Capture for Avatar Animation
* 218457 Face Recognition from Video Images
* 218458 Wavelet-Based Facial Motion Capture for Avatar Animation
* EP1072018 Wavelet-Based Facial Motion Capture for Avatar Animation
* 1072014 Face Recognition from Video Images
* 6714661 Method & System for Customizing Facial Feature Tracking Using Precise Landmark
* 6222939 Labeled Bunch Graphs for Image Analysis (EYEM1160/ NE01)
* 6356659 Labeled Bunch Graphs for Image Analysis
* 6563950 Labeled Bunch Graphs for Image Analysis
* 6466695 Procedure for Automatic Analysis of Images & Image Sequences Based on Two Dimensional Shape Primitives
* 6272231 Wavelet-Based Facial Motion Capture for Avatar Animation
* 6580811 Wavelet-Based Facial Motion Capture for Avatar Animation
* 6301370 Face Recognition from Video Images
Neven Vision’s website is no longer online. But below is a screenshot of their website before the acquisition:
33. YouTube (Price: $1.65 billion, Date: August 15, 2006)
YouTube was Google’s most revolutionary acquisition of all-time, hands down. YouTube is the world’s biggest video sharing and uploading website. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steven Chen, and Jawed Karim. The three of them worked at PayPal together.
Hurley and Chen are still running the show at YouTube, but Karim decided to finish his degree at Stanford $64 million richer. Karim also decided to become an angel investor too. Given the amount of bandwidth and maintenance required for YouTube, the company is still not profitable, but Google is optimistic about the company.
The price for an ad on the YouTube homepage is $175,000 per day with a $50,000 commitment to buy other Google and YouTube ads elsewhere. Branded channels cost advertisers $200,000. Below is the video that Hurley and Chen made after the acquisition:
Michael Arrington broke the news about the acquisition before any other media outlets. This helped propel him into instant blog stardom.
34. JotSpot (Price: unknown, Date: October 31, 2006)
JotSpot is a web application company that was rolled into Google Sites. JotSpot is now being used to create free collaborative websites through the use of Google Apps. JotSpot helps users create wiki-style sites where users can post videos, calendars, text, images, and other multimedia.
Scott Johnston, former VP of Products at JotSpot and current Google Senior Product Manager wrote about the migration of JotSpot into Google here. JotSpot was founded by Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer. Spencer and Kraus are both founders of Excite.com. Krausis now heavily involved on the Google OpenSocial project.
35. Endoxon (Price: $28 million, Date: December 16, 2006)
Endoxon is a Switzerland-based mapping company whose product was rolled into Google Maps and Google Earth. Endoxon provides the maps to European countries for Google Maps. Endoxon has 75 employees and has created products that include high-res aerial maps, satellite images, and other mobile services.
Endoxon also creates AJAX mapping technologies for integrating the geographic data on the web. Endoxon’s subsidiaries were rolled into a new company called Mappulus AG. The announcement was made official by John Hanke, Director of Google Earth & Maps.
Stefan and Bruno Muff founded Endoxon. A large number of the employees of Endoxon are still with Google working as Software Engineers, Managers, and VPs.
36. 4% of Xunlei (Price: $5 million, Date: January 4, 2007)
Xunlei is a Chinese file-sharing website that supports BitTorrent, FTP, eDonkey, etc. Xunlei was developed by Thunder Networking Technologies and is based in the southern province of Shenzhen. Xunlei also developed a download accelerator which has been downloaded 80 million times. Xunlei.com is visited over 50 million times per day.
Xunlei’s search technology is now powered by Google. Google’s market presence in China is overshadowed by Baidu.com. Xunlei has over 120 million users and was started by Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao. Both Hao and Shenglong graduated from Duke University. Zou Shenglong and Cheng Hao both have a Master’s in Computer Science according to Morningside Ventures. Morningside is also an investor in Xunlei.
Xunlei also has $45 million in funding from IDG VC Partners.
37. AdScape (Price: $23 million, Date: February 16, 2007)
Google acquired Adscape for one reason– to build an advertising platform around video games. Adscape created an in-game advertising platform out of their office in San Francisco, Calif. Google had already been in discussion with members of the game development community with hopes to partner with them for an advertising partnership.
Adscape launched in February 2006 with $3.2 million in funding from HIG Ventures (VC firm based in Atlanta). Several of Adscape’s members may have moved to Mountain View which may have included CTO Dan Willis, Chairman Bernie Stolar, and VP of Marketing Eva Woo according to Red Herring. Adscape was founded by Dan Willis. Adscape was rolled into Google AdSense.
38. Trendalyzer (Price: unknown, Date: March 16, 2007)
Trendalyzer is a statistical software program that is based in Sweden. Trendalyzer was rolled into Google Analytics. Trendalyzer was created out of Han Rosling’s Gapminder Foundation. The Gapminder Foundation is an incubation company.
Trendalyzer was a Flash application that preloaded statistical and historical data about world developments. Since the acquisition, Google has made the Motion Chart gadget available as a free download as part of the Google Visualizations API available on Google Code.
39. DoubleClick (Price: $3.1 billion, Date: April 13, 2007)
DoubleClick has been Google’s most expensive acquisition. DoubleClick develops Internet ads for Fortune 500 companies and is based in New York City. Before the acquisition, DoubleClick was a public company that was purchased by a private equity firm.
Prior to becoming DoubleClick, the company was called Internet Advertising Network (IAN) and was founded by Kevin O’Connor and Dwight Merriman in 1995. The company was renamed to DoubleClick after Poppe-Tyson bought out IAN in 1996. At Poppe-Dyson, DoubleClick developed their DART service. DoubleClick then merged with Abacus Direct for $1.7 billion. DoubleClick was discovered to being used by Abacus to track personal information about web surfers.
DoubleClick dropped all integration services with Abacus and became a privacy advocate. Private equity firm, Hellman and Friedman bought Abacus. Abacus was then sold to Epsilon Interactive. And Google bought DoubleClick for $3.1 billion cash in April 2007. The EU investigated the acquisition up until March 11, 2008. And on April 2, 2008 Google had to cut 300 people from DoubleClick.
This acquisition stirred the Microsoft beehive. One month after the DoubleClick acquisition, Microsoft acquired aQuantive for $6 billion.
40. Tonic Systems (Price: unknown, Date: April 17, 2007)
Tonic Systems is the online version competitor of Microsoft PowerPoint. This was the third application software Google needed to take on Microsoft’s big 3 primary Office products.
Tonic Systems is based in San Francisco and created the presentation automation products using Java. Tonic’s products included Tonic Systems Builder, Tonic Systems Filter, Tonic Systems Transformer, Tonic Systems Viewer, and Jar Jar Links.
Sam Schillace, the founder of Upstartle announced the acquisition on The Google Blog. Presentations can now be created in Google Docs thanks to the Tonic acquisition. Below is a screenshot of Tonic’s homepage before they were acquired. I was unable to find information about Tonic’s founders. Tonic’s consultant before the deal was Catapult Advisors.
41. Marratech (Price: unknown, Date: April 19, 2007)
Marratech was a strategic acquisition to enhance the features of Google Talk. Marratech is a Swedish company that created videoconferencing software. Marratech was a spin-off company from the Centre for Distance-Spanning Technology at the Luleå University of Technology. The founders of Marratech include Dr. Dick Schefström, Dr. Peter Parnes, Johnny Widén, Dr. Kåre Synnes, Mikael Börjeson, Magnus Hedberg, Serge Lachapelle and Claes Ågren [Wikipedia].
Most of the engineers and employees of Marratech joined Google after the acquisition. Marratech’s technology will most likely be used for enterprise services as video plugins for Google Talk have already been created. Google acquired the technology behind the company, but not the whole company itself.
42. GreenBorder (Price: unknown, Date: May 11, 2007)
GreenBorder was the first strategic acquisition made for Google Chrome, the web browser. GreenBorder created safe zones for Internet users. GreenBorder created virtual machines where simple tasks like checking e-mail or reading the news can be done without exposure to spyware and viruses. These “sandboxes” were rolled into the private option for Chrome and for the individual tabs of Google Chrome.
GreenBorder started in Mountain View, Calif., making the transition into Google a lot easier. On the day that Google acquired GreenBorder, they stopped accepting new customers for the security services. Vlad Dabija, co-founder and former CEO of GreenBorder is now at Ignite IP.
43. GreenBorder (Price: unknown, Date: May 11, 2007)
Panoramio is a geolocation photo-sharing service. The site is still online, but it redirects to Google Maps and Blogger. The site is also accessible on Google Earth. Panoramio was started by Joaquín Cuenca Abela and Eduardo Manchón Aguilar. Panoramio started in summer 2005 and had 5 million photo uploads submitted within 2-3 years.
Panoramio photos utilize tagged clouds for the images. This past May, Panoramio was attacked by a massive spam attack. Both Joaquín Cuenca Abela and Eduardo Manchón Aguilar are currently software engineers at Google.
44. FeedBurner (Price: $100 million, Date: June 1, 2007)
With the growing popularity of RSS feeds, it was often times difficult for Google to make money from those who use readers. This was the case up until Google bought FeedBurner for $100 million. FeedBurner launched in 2004 and is especially known for their FeedSmith plugin. This enables bloggers and publishers to track the demographics of their RSS subscribers.
Around the time that FeedBurner was acquired, they had over 600,000 publishers using their service along with over 150,000 podcasters. The migration of FeedBurner to Google is not complete yet as pointed out by ReadWriteWeb.
FeedBurner was founded by Dick Costolo, Eric Lunt, Steve Olechowski, and Matt Shobe. Costolo is now an investor in Twitter and a Group Product Manager at Google. Eric Lunt is also a Manager at Google.
Steve Olechowski is a Business Product Manager of Google AdSense. And Matt Shobe is a User Experience Designer.
45. PeakStream (Price: unknown, Date: June 5, 2007)
PeakStream is a software company based in San Mateo, Calif. The company was founded by Matthew Papakipos and Asher Waldfogel. Matthew Papakipos is now an Engineering Director at Google and Asher Waldfogel is now a Consultant and Angel Investor at Independent Investor.
PeakStream is known for its parallel computing power. “PeakStream had developed tools that improve the performance of single-threaded applications on multi-core chips,” wrote The Register editor Ashlee Vance. “Such tools should prove useful to coders who don’t want to deal with complex, parallel code but do want to take advantage of performance gains delivered via products such as GPGPUs (general purpose GPUs) from Nvidia and AMD/ATI and even multi-core x86 processors.”
46. Zenter (Price: unknown, Date: June 19, 2007)
Zenter was acquired in order to enhance presentations on Google Docs. Sam Schillace announced the acquisition on The Google Blog. Zenter is known for their presentation-sharing abilities, thus complementing the acquisition of Tonic Systems. The company was still in stealth mode while Google bought them out.
Zenter was founded by Robby Walker and Wayne Crosby. Zenter was one of the first Y-Combinator companies that Google bought out. Crosby is now a Software Engineer at Google and a General Partner at Mixin Capital. Walker is also a Software Engineer at Google.
47. GrandCentral (Price: $45 million, Date: July 2, 2007)
GrandCentral is a VoIP service that Google bought for $45 million. GrandCentral was founded by Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet. Both of them had started Dialpad in the past. Dialpad was sold to Yahoo! for $20 million.
When certain phone numbers call the GrandCentral number, it can be forwarded to an office or cellphone-based. GrandCentral also offers voicemail services. GrandCentral is still being integrated into Google’s Mobile services.
Walker is a Senior Product Manager of Voice Products at Google. And Vincent Paquet is a Senior Product Manager at Google.
48. Postini (Price: $625 million, Date: July 9, 2007)
Postini is an e-mail security company that was acquired by Google in July 2007 for $625 million. Postini was based in San Carlos, Calif. Postini was rolled into Gmail to provide enhanced e-mail and spam filters.
“With the addition of Postini, our apps can streamline the complex information security mandates within organizations,” stated Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google.
Postini was founded by Scott Petry in 1999. The company had estimated sales of over $33 million in 2007.
49. ImageAmerica (Price: unknown, Date: July 20, 2007)
ImageAmerica is an aerial photography company that was acquired by Google to have rolled into Google Earth and Google Maps. ImageAmerica became famous after creating black and white photos of the devastation that occurred in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. ImageAmerica started in 1998 and is based in Clayton, MO.
The announcement was made official by Stephen Chau, Product Manager at Google. There is limited information about the founders of ImageAmerica.
50. Zingku (Price: unknown, Date Sept 2007)
Zingku is a mobile social network. The company launched in 2005 as a mobile service that lets people exchange and share ideas. Its mobile platform runs on a pure text massaging system so no software installation is required.
The company was founded by Sami Shalabi and Mussie Shore.
The primary catch behind Zingku is that it integrates your phone with a personalized homepage. I have no idea what Google plans to do with the company. The acquisition was most likely for a very small amount.
51. Jaiku (Price: unknown, Date Oct 9, 2007)
Jaiku is a microblogging service like Twitter. It was founded by Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen in 2006. The company was started in Finland.
Jaiku lets users share their activity streams with friends. Users can add to their stream via the Web, IM, and SMS. The site is still in closed beta.
52. Begun (Price: $140 Million, Date July 18, 2008)
Begun is a six-year-old Russian contextual ad company. Begun is one of the largest online ad providers in a rapidly growing Russian market.
Google primarily acquired Begun for market share.
53. Omnisio(Price: $15 Million, Date July 30, 2008)
Omnisio is a very cool interactive video startup. It’s a Y-Combinator backed company founded by Ryan Junee, Julian Frumar, and Simon Ratner. Users can share annotate videos on the site. One of the best features of the site is the ability to synchronize PowerPoint slides to a video.
Google most likely purchased the company for the talent. They plan to incorporate the company’s technology into YouTube.
54. TNC (Price: Price: unknown, Date Sept 12, 2008)
TNC is a Korean blogging platform company founded by Chang Kim. Google’s search engine is not a market leader in Korea. Naver takes the cake for top search engine in the country. Therefore, Google needs a stronger presence in Korea.
TNC is the company behind Textcube, a WordPress-like bloggine engine. WordPress is largely unknown in Korea.
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Hello all,
In this newsletter, we will share the latest updates on the science side of the operation. We have spent the last month tweaking and playing with the specifics of our observing campaign. Also, with winter coming, we have been setting up some preparations for when the star is traditionally out of range.
Updates to the Observations
Astronomy is limited as a science in that we typically cannot do much in a laboratory setting. We can't build a baby star and scale it up, we can't repeat the Big Bang and watch it play out, and we definitely cannot go out to WTF and see with our own eyes what is going on. Instead, we get really clever with how we use the light coming from these objects. You could then guess that astronomers want ALL THE STARLIGHT. This is kind of true, but it is possible to have too much starlight. When this happens in an image the star or object from which we counted too much light is called saturated. It looks at its worst like this:
This is an image from ESO showing bleed lines (vertical stripes) on some bright stars. As you can probably guess, we have experienced some saturation issues in our data, but nothing as blatant as that image. Ours looks more like this:
Do you see it? Not really, no. A better, and more analytical way to quantify this saturation is to look at a slice through the star and see what the profile of the counts looks like. We would expect a bell curve, a normal distribution. If the star was saturated, we would expect a plateau or a mesa in the counts. Here is one of the slices demonstrating saturation:
So, how did this happen? Excellent question, internal dialogue! This is because we planned our observations with a very particular setup. We wanted as much light as possible without saturating. This required de-focusing (deliberately making our stars bigger and fuzzier on the chip) to avoid the saturation. Due to a hiccup in the telescope following the focus commands it was sent (which apparently affected other users as well), our images were actually focused rather than unfocused. These *focused* images were saturated, making light curves that look like this:
This plot was put together quickly in AstroImageJ, which is freely available if you want to analyze some data on your own. Simple GUI and beginner-friendly :p. We identified the saturated images in the above graph based on the brightness levels of the pixels illuminated by the stars. Note the value at the top of the plot window for the RMS (root mean square) is 0.057, or about a 6% random fluctuation.
This looks not good: there are many images which are affected and the data are very scattered. All is not lost though. This only affected a small fraction of the images taken and was primarily in the longer wavelengths. These images are also not worthless. Some of these can be rescued by using different comparison stars or by cleverly applying some tricks with apertures and recalibration. We have also appropriately adjusted our observation parameters so that there is no longer the threat of saturation.
Let's end this on a lovely positive note though. Here is what all of our unsaturated data in r-band looks like on the same scale as before. Note that the data are much more closely gathered:
Note that the RMS scatter is now 0.0037, or ~0.4%; a significant improvement. This is also on the same vertical scaling as the saturated data in the graph above, so that the comparison is fair.
Looking at the last ten or so observations, the uncertainties are noticeably larger. The particularly large one is likely a poor exposure due to weather or tracking, and might be removed later if there is a reason to do so. These exposures have a larger uncertainty because we have less light in each image. Our uncertainty in our measurement decreases approximately with the square root of the number of counts. As the exposures are anywhere from half to a third of the time, the uncertainties should be about 1.5 (sqrt(2)) times as large.
Updates on future observations and LCOGT
Unfortunately, as winter is rolling around, we will soon lose the ability to observe our target from Earth. All is not lost though. This gives us a chance to buckle down and polish up our analysis and current data. By the time the star is visible again early next year, the funds raised from our Kickstarter program will "kick" in to observe the star.
We are fortunate enough to be able to continue the monitoring during this time from space with the Swift Telescope. This telescope is designed to study Gamma-ray bursts, but when it is not observing these objects, it can do other science. Swift's mission control is at Penn State - which happens to be Jason Wright's stomping grounds - and Jason has been successful in proposing for Swift time. Yeah! Here is a preview of what that data set we have for the star already looks like. The different colors plotted indicate different filters used to make the observations (a description of the Swift filter set is here).
We also want to make a quick note that the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT) has changed its name to simply Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO). They have also updated their web address to lco.global. They have a brief update about this change on their website that is worth a read. To us, and to misquote Mister Shakespeare, a telescope by any other name operates just as sweet.
Thanks for tuning in!
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New Delhi: Adding yet another feather in their hat, Modi government in the first week of July launched Digital India week at Delhi. Digital India, which is a brainchild of PM Narendra Modi’s vision to bring good governance and reduce corruption, got excellent response from both industry and society. Along with PM, on the dais were Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Union I&B Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, along with top industrial honchos including CEO’s and Director’s of top Indian Companies.
India is ready for a digital war
While #DigitalIndia was trending all over Social Media, Defence Minister Manohar Parikar made an announcement. He announced at a Press Conference about the launch of National Counter Strike Portal (NCSP) as a step to train youth in combating possible militant attacks and generate a feeling of patriotism among youth. “You have to neutralise Terrorists using Counter Terrorists only”, said the Defence Minister.
In a special interview given to Faking News, Union HRD minister Smriti Irani confirmed addition of NCSP as a credit course for all the Affiliated Universities under UGC and an extra subject to be introduced in CBSE and government schools. PM Modi nominated All India Engineers Federation (AIEF) to bring maximum top class players from all the corners of the country. College students all over the country welcomed this decision.
Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif, blamed Manohar Parrikar of copying the complete idea of Counter Strike from Pakistan. “The game defines Pakistani forces and the terrorist forces,” he said. Meanwhile, China stopped its exports of computer and laptop accessories to India as a move to slow down the policy.
Sources said that this will be the prime idea of PM Modi in his upcoming Mann Ki Baat urging players from all over the country to post their selfies with the hashtag #SelfiePlayingCounterStrike as a strategic move to show India’s youth strength at the international level. PM is also planning to meet Top Game Developers like Rockstar Games and Valve Corporations and asked them to make India specific games like GTA Mumbai City and then extend its development to 10 cities including Varanasi and New Delhi.
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After reading my Assassin’s Creed 3 multiplayer abilities and crafting guide, it’s only natural you wanted more information on setting up your ability slots. After all, that stuff only makes up the active half of assassination… what about passive effects?
Today, we’re taking a look at the perks, streaks, and bonuses available in Assassin’s Creed 3 multiplayer. Find out what every option does, where it shines, and whether or not you should be using each passive boost available. Combined with our abilities advice, you’ll have an excellent head-start in virtual colonial manslaughter.
Assassin’s Creed 3 multiplayer perks explained
Perks are always-on effects you choose that give your persona an advantage in certain gameplay situations. Some are offensive in nature, letting you find and kill your targets more easily. Others are defensive, allowing you to hide and escape from would-be murderers. Yet other perks are fairly neutral, granting bonuses that influence the way you navigate or use your abilities.
For each ability set, you may have exactly two perks. For the most part, there’s no downside to filling them right away, so study the advice below and stock up on the passive boons that best resonate with your game mode and personal style.
Blender: 4/5
Ideal for the lonely-hearted, Blender ensures you’re never alone. Whenever your persona enters a blend group, if there are no duplicates already within, one will randomly transform into a clone of you. The animation is noticeable, but quick, and the effect lasts indefinitely. If you move to a new blend group, your magically-created copy will revert, and a fresh clone will spring up in your new group.
Blender is a strong consideration for Deathmatch, where there are no natural clones of your character. It allows you to constantly create diversions without expending an ability slot, something most perks can’t do. It’s also generally useful whenever you’re on defense, since generating additional twins will always decrease the odds that your pursuers will identify you correctly.
While Blender is powerful, it does have its downsides – this perk has no use on offense, and can actually be a detriment when you’re on the hunt. If you move into a blend group with or near your target, he or she is likely to notice the animation of a fresh copy being spawned. Your cover as a real player will immediately be blown, costing you an otherwise high-scoring kill.
Copycat: 1/5
Don’t have any good ideas for an ability set? Or perhaps you’re simply too starved for Abstergo points to buy one? No problem. Copycat will duplicate the skill loadout of anyone who kills you, giving you instant access to whatever overpowered abilities led to your most recent demise.
With rare exception, Copycat is terrible. Sure, having access to better skills might net you an advantage, but they might also throw off your gameplan. Upon your death, you may find the person who just off’d you is actually in possession of a fairly terrible bunch of abilities. Hell, they might be using the same stuff you are! To that effect, Copycat is a risky way to use one of your perk slots, since odds are it won’t yield anything useful. And, even if your killer does have something cool, how much will it really help you recover?
Hot Pursuit: 3/5
With Hot Pursuit active, winning chases is much easier. You’ll get a speed boost whenever you run after your target, giving him or her less time to escape your blade. Additionally, your Approach Meter will deplete more slowly, so even when you do have to run, you won’t lose as many points.
Hot Pursuit is a fairly strong option for offensive play, since it basically removes the option of winning chases from your intended murder victims. Additionally, the second, score-boosting effect will net you quite a few more points over the course of a match. It won’t make or break a hotly contested round, but extra experience is never a bad thing, right?
Of course, Hot Pursuit doesn’t have any uses for defense, as the speed boost only applies while you’re on the hunt. You can, in theory, attain the acceleration while simultaneously chasing your target and running from your pursuer, but this scenario is highly unlikely to occur.
Kill Buffer: 4/5
When you’ve got Kill Buffer, you take your streaks with you upon death. More specifically, Kill Buffer gives you a penalty of -1 instead of resetting your Kill Streak whenever you would normally lose it. So if you’ve built up 6 out of 7 kills/stuns needed to activate your Streak and suddenly get shot, you’ll respawn at 5 out of 7 (instead of the normal zero).
Kill Buffer is incredibly powerful when paired with high-cost Kill Streaks, making some that are typically impossible more attainable. Since building up six or more kills/stuns can often be a matter of luck, this perk preserves most of your momentum, making it more likely you’ll land a Mass Morph or Animus Hack. In general, Kill Buffer works better in frantic game modes like Assassinate and Deathmatch, where you’re more likely to be using a higher-requirement Kill Streak.
Note that Kill Buffer has limited utility on lower-numbered streaks. For instance, using it with the Silent +250 would be a waste, since it only requires three hits to trigger. If you died with either zero or one stuns, Kill Buffer would provide no benefit. You’d only get a bonus if you were assassinated with exactly two kills in your queue! By comparison, Kill Buffer would offer valuable momentum at anywhere between two and seven kills for the highest-requirement Kill Streak.
Overall Cooldowns: 5/5
Easily the most versatile perk in the game, Overall Cooldowns cuts down the delay of your activated abilities whenever you use them. As a result, you’ll get to drop more Smoke Bombs, fire more Throwing Knives, and create more Decoys than you’d normally be able to.
There is no time when Overall Cooldowns is bad, since having more frequent access to your skills is a powerful effect. Hell, Overall Cooldowns is actually better in AC3 than it was in Brotherhood or Revelations, since it now affects three abilities’ cooldowns (as opposed to two, previously).
It’s important to remember that since Overall Cooldowns applies a fixed reduction in cooldown time, its effect is more pronounced on abilities that already have a shorter cooldown. For example, a skill that goes from a 50 second cooldown to a 40 second one gets a 20% reduction. By contrast, an ability that goes from 100 seconds to 90 only sees a 10% drop in delay. Of course, if those ten seconds save your life even once, it’s probably worth it!
Resilience: 3/5
Making a return from Revelations, the Resilience perk cuts the duration of abilities used on you by about half. Tripwire Bombs, Wipe, Throwing Knives, and the like are all greatly weakened against you, making it more likely you’ll escape these traps with your life.
Resilience tends to offer the most value in Wanted and Deathmatch, where one-on-one fights typically boil down to “who hits whom first.” If your target throws a Smoke Bomb or launches knives at you from close range, Resilience won’t help… but if he or she flings abilities your way from across the room, odds are they’ll dissipate before you eat a big, fat, fist. Even in other situations, Resilience has its uses, like letting you recover from a Wipe in time to shoot a fleeing opponent.
The only real downside of Resilience is that the perk icon displays over your character’s head whenever it takes effect. So yes, you’ll recover from a Tripwire Bomb faster than normal, but your enemies will also be able to identify you in a crowd of NPCs more easily. In most cases this won’t be a factor, but be prepared to get ousted by wayward (reduced duration) Firecrackers every now and then.
Resistance: 4/5
The kid brother to Resilience, Resistance instead decreases the time you spend stunned whenever someone slaps you in the face. You’ll spend less time on the ground, shaking off your failures and getting on with life. New to AC3, Resistance also confers a reduction in dizzy time following a Contested Kill. Your character will recover from poorly executed executions more quickly, ready to face down the next foe.
Resistance is a very strong pick for offensive team modes and for Assassinate. In matches of Manhunt, for instance, spending less time recuperating from offensive blunders means you have more opportunities to get revenge on the guy who stunned/contested you. In fact, your reduced incapacitation may throw off defenders who didn’t expect you to get up so quickly. In Assassinate, Resistance allows you to plow forward from Contested Kills, which are common due to the mutual locking that so often occurs. The stun recovery isn’t as valuable here, but it might force other players to kill you sooner than they’d like, robbing them of valuable points.
Resistance, like Resilience, shows an icon when it takes effect, but unlike Resilience, this perk won’t really give your identity away. Everyone will know you’re a player whenever you get stunned or contested anyway, so your cover will only be blown when you yourself blow it.
Sentry: 2/5
If you don’t like letting anything slip out of your grasp, Sentry may be for you. This perk increases the time your synch-lock stays on a character that’s left your field of view. Other players will therefore have a tough time shaking you, giving you an advantage in any scenario where locking on for long periods of time is necessary.
Despite its power, Sentry is a relatively narrow boon. You’re not likely to need the extra time in most situations, and even when you do get extra information out of it, just knowing the exact location of an opponent may not be enough to matter in the long run. It’s a shame, because Sentry is a cool idea in theory – perhaps Ubisoft will find a way to buff it for Assassin’s Creed 3, Part 2.
There is one particular use for Sentry that should be mentioned: it makes you immune to “corner stuns.” You see, many savvy enemies will run around a corner, count out the default lock duration, and use its expiration as the perfect time to jump out and get a cheap stun on their unlocked pursuer. Since nobody expects you to use Sentry, it can catch would-be corner stunners completely off guard. It’s a very narrow advantage, but something to consider if you find everyone in your lobby is employing this trick.
Sixth Sense: 3/5
The opposite of Hot Pursuit, Sixth Sense makes evasive maneuvers easier to achieve thanks to both its bonuses. The first provides you with a visual and audio alert whenever a pursuer enters high profile off-screen. The second drastically slashes the time needed to win an escape once you’ve broken line of sight. In total, Sixth Sense allows you to better spot your killers, then get away from them more quickly once they’ve made their move.
Sixth Sense has a very specific use: finding and eluding pursuers. It has no value when you’re tracking down your own quarry, but it is a decent insurance option in Wanted. This perk will basically act as a security alarm, watching your back for killers you can’t see. And, if you’re forced to run, you can complete your escape and get back to pursuing your target faster than you’re used to. It’s not an incredibly powerful bonus, but it will definitely save your skin more often than almost any other perk.
Unstoppable: 2/5
In Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Basher sucked. In Revelations, Basher still sucked. Now, in AC3, Ubisoft has combined Basher with another perk to create Unstoppable… and it doesn’t totally suck! In addition to being able to charge straight through NPC crowds without losing steam, you’ll get the ability to reset closed Chase Breakers just by approaching them. Now, nothing can slow you down, except for Throwing Knives!
Unstoppable may not be amazing, but it does what it does well. If you’re hunting a particularly escape-happy defensive team in Manhunt, you might find they’re capable of eluding you with the help of chase breakers and dense, digital crowds. Unstoppable, combined with Hot Pursuit, can give you a ridiculous advantage whenever your victims decide to run. You’ll outspeed them, outscore them, and outright trample over anything they try to put in your way.
Despite all these positive comments, Unstoppable is still a very narrow perk, hence the score. Most gameplay doesn’t involve winning chases, and when it does, the points yielded aren’t usually worth the effort. Ironically, Unstoppable would have been better in Assassin’s Creed 3 had Ubisoft not given players immunity to chase breakers closed by teammates. With this helpful addition, Unstoppable lost a lot of potential value. As such, it’s a niche perk you probably won’t often use.
Kill Streaks explained
Just like in Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed 3 multiplayer rewards players who are able to string together a series of undisturbed kills and/or stuns. Players can opt for one Kill Streak per loadout, which grants either a score bonus or a special effect once the requisite number of violent acts have been performed.
If a player is killed, stunned, or breaks their streak in another way (performs a non-silent kill while using a Silent Kill Streak), the counter goes back to zero. For this reason, everyone should pick Kill Streaks they can reliably attain – a high-value streak isn’t better than a low value one if you can’t get enough kills to activate it!
Streak +250 (5 kills/3 silent), Streak +550 (7 kills/5 silent)
Extremely straightforward, the player is awarded +250 or +550 points for performing five or seven kills/stuns in a row. If you opt for the silent version of either Kill Streak, the numerical requirements drop by two. In exchange, you’ll have to perform Silent or Incognito kills to retain your streak progress, which is obviously harder.
Don’t get greedy if you’re not sure you can pull off the Streak +550. Getting five or seven kills/stuns in a row isn’t easy, not even with Kill Buffer, so consider Streak +250 a perfectly viable option. You’ll trigger it more reliably, and you’ll hate yourself a lot less when you mess up and lose your momentum.
As for deciding between regular are silent versions, try to avoid Silent except for Deathmatch or defensive rounds of team games. In Deathmatch, the small arena size means your targets can’t start chases, so it’s more likely you can score Silent or better kills. On defense, you’ll only be getting stuns (no kills), so the silent restriction doesn’t even matter. You might as well take the lower stun requirements and consider it a bonus for playing pacifist a little while.
Mass Morph (6 kills/4 silent)
When activated, 15 nearby personas will suddenly become your #1 fans, insofar as they’ll decide to completely copy your look. Suddenly, your area of the map is swimming with duplicates, making it significantly harder for opponents to sniff you out of the crowd.
For most game modes, Mass Morph sucks. In Wanted, Assassinate, Domination, etc., you’re moving around the map too much to gain major value from a local pocket of lookalikes. And, half the time, you’ll be on the hunt, meaning a large blend crowd doesn’t really even help you.
Mass Morph is basically only useful in Deathmatch and in some defensive team modes. In Deathmatch, the ability to create copies at all (since they don’t spawn naturally) is powerful, and can often confuse enemies enough to net you free stuns. In Domination or Manhunt, having an army of clones standing around can intimidate pursuers, though it’s unlikely the advantage you gain will outweigh the benefits of using another Kill Streak instead.
Animus Hack (8 kills/6 silent)
The Animus Hack turns you into a sort of cyber god, granting you 30 seconds of indiscriminate killing power. Once this nasty, high-end streak is activated, you’ll be able to kill any character at any range on the map. It doesn’t matter if they’re your target, your pursuer, or a hapless neutral victim… you’ll be able to extinguish them with the press of a button, instantly. Additionally, you’ll see an increasing score the more bodies you pile up, with each kill worth more than the last. It’s not unheard of to earn a few thousand points at the end of a well-timed Animus Hack!
While incredibly powerful, Animus Hack is basically restricted to Deathmatch. This mode’s close quarters means it’s easy to target every player on the map, and the fact that there are no duplicate personas means you can identify prime targets quickly and without hesitation. In other game modes, you’re unlikely to find yourself near lots of players when your Animus Hack gets triggered, meaning you’ll net few points, if any. Additionally, Animus Hack has less value any time your adversaries can simply avoid the section of the map you’ve got locked down.
Loss Bonuses
Loss Bonuses activate when you’re doing your worst, typically after you’ve died or lost your contract several times in a row. As such, it’s important to think of Loss Bonuses as a comeback tool – something that will help you make up for your multitude of mistakes in a row. Unlike in previous versions of Assassin’s Creed multiplayer, all Loss Bonuses now end on either a kill or a stun. As such, the power of several defensively-minded bonuses has dropped considerably, as they cannot be used to fuel stuns.
Overall, most Loss Bonuses are actually quite bad. As you’ll see below, only two or three even worth your consideration.
Ability Switch: 1/5
Once activated, Ability Switch allows you to change your ability set whenever you lose a new contract. In other words, it gives you the opportunity to compensate for your (clearly) failing strategy. Unfortunately, this isn’t going to magically turn the match around for you in most circumstances (same with the Copycat perk). Sure, it could be marginally useful in Manhunt if you accidentally picked your “offense” loadout when you meant to pick “defense,” but that’s a rare occasion.
More importantly, you can switch ability sets at any time for 60 Abstergo credits anyway! On Xbox 360, you simply hold the Back button and press A. While burning pretend money to get this option kind of sucks, it means you won’t have to use up your Loss Bonus slot to have this flexibility. Not only that, the pay-to-change option can be done whenever you want, making it significantly more convenient than relying on misfortune to strike.
Boost Cooldowns: 3/5
One of the best Loss Bonuses from ACB and ACR, Boost Cooldowns resets your abilities and greatly shortens their timer delays for as long as it’s activated. If you’re falling behind in score, getting your Throwing Knives and Poison reset can drastically improve your odds of recovering. In Brotherhood and Revelations, this could also be used to turbo charge your Smoke Bomb, Mute, Charge, and other defensive abilities to pump out stuns.
In Assassin’s Creed 3, however, this power has taken a hit, since stuns now end the effect. As such, it can still be used to generate insane ability frequency, but you’ll have to get inventive. Running Bodyguard, Decoy, Morph, or Disguise could (for instance) give you nearly infinite sources of Lures and Escapes. That’s not as useful as infinite stuns, but it’s still significantly more worthwhile than most other Loss Bonus choices.
Minor Hack: 2/5
With Minor Hack, you can kill your contracted target at any distance. Like Animus Hack, you’ll gain an infinite-range assassination prompt that strikes your victim down with a crack of digital thunder. Unlike Animus Hack, you can’t use this prompt to defeat your pursuers, and you won’t get a streak of kills that piles up points.
While Minor Hack can be useful for eliminating roof runners or other unsavory targets, it’s only for the bare minimum score and won’t help you recover from a game that’s slowly getting away from you. On top of that, this bonus’ narrow, offensive scope means it’s useless in any scenario where being killed is your main problem, not eliminating your target(s).
Revelation: 3/5
When Revelation activates, you’ll gain the supernatural power to see exactly who all your pursuers are. Would-be killers are highlighted with a red marker, making it incredibly easy to stun or avoid them. As with Boost Cooldowns, this bonus is less powerful in AC3 than previously, since stunning someone will end your psychic abilities. That said, it’s easily the best defense-focused option, since it becomes impossible for your pursuers to sneak up on you. In modes like Wanted, this means you’ll be protected from getting picked off at inopportune times. It also means you can plan and win chases significantly more successfully.
Scavenger: 1/5
Haven’t gotten a kill in a while? Scavenger tries to make up for it by increasing the bonus for Ground Finishes from +50 to +200. So when you’re running around and getting table scraps, they’re at least a little more tasty than normal.
Of course, the situation where you’re piling up Ground Finishes is not a common one, and even then, banking on them for points isn’t exactly a winning strategy. There are a few situations where accumulating a large number of 200-point stomps could win the game, but in most scenarios, you’d be better off just getting 200+ point kills instead.
Score x2: 5/5
Easily the best overall Loss Bonus, Score x2 doubles the value of your next kill. Yes, doubles. When you think about it, it’s easy to understand why this bonus is so good: it activates when you’re falling behind (like other bonuses) and gives you the means to climb back to the top. With a well-timed Incognito, Poison, Hidden kill, you can easily rake up 1600, 2000, or more points (with insane luck, potentially 3k!), which is usually enough to at least give you a chance at taking the lead.
Now that most other Loss Bonuses have taken a big hit, Score x2 is far and away the best choice for almost every situation. Of course, it’s useless if you’re on defense in Manhunt, or if you’re on the capping side of Domination and Artifact Assault. But nothing says “comeback kid” in Deathmatch, Wanted, or Assassinate like a 2400 point assassination.
Shadow Approach: 2/5
With Shadow Approach, you’ll go from Discreet to Incognito more quickly, filling your approach meter at an enhanced rate once you’ve found your target. As a result, you’ll be less likely to accidentally trigger a chase. And, once you do kill your opponent, you’ll get a higher score than you’d normally earn.
Sadly, Shadow Approach is still fairly weak. It does offer a score boost, which is more than most Loss Bonuses give you, but in 90% of situations, you’d get more points by using Score x2. In the instanced where Shadow Approach would be more beneficial than the #1 point pushing option, you’re chasing your quarry. That’s not exactly ideal, and hell, I’d rather have Minor Hack for those cases anyway. In other words, Shadow Approach is outshone by other, more viable picks.
Vision: 1/5
The opposite of Revelation, Vision shows you exactly where your targets are, even if they’re currently on the other side of a building. You’ll get an x-ray view of anyone you’re eligible to kill, making it impossible for them to hide.
Of course, there are already tons of active abilities that do pretty much the same thing: Firecrackers, Money Bomb, Wipe and Morph. As such, Vision is pretty much a waste unless you’re really, really bad at finding and identifying targets. Even then, you’re probably also bad at actually killing them (hey, you did just trigger a Loss Bonus after all!), so good luck approaching them with eating a stun or Contested Kill.
There just simply isn’t a situation where using Vision is a good idea. Rely on your gaming skills and in-game abilities to identify your targets instead, and reserve your Loss Bonus slot for something that makes your kill more rewarding upon execution (hint: Score x2).
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Cork City FC are pleased to announce that Colin Healy has signed a new contract with the club.
The midfielder made twenty league appearances for the club last season, and speaking to CorkCityFC.ie, Healy said: “I am very pleased to have signed back with Cork City for the 2016 season. We are all looking forward to the new season and hopefully we can have a good year.”
City boss John Caulfield praised Healy’s positive influence at the club, saying: “Since I came in, Colin has been fantastic, both on the pitch and off it. In 2014, he had a fantastic season and played the majority of our games, unfortunately last year he picked up an injury in the final third of the season but he had done really well up to that point.”
“He is a real leader, a Cork City man and he is fantastic around the training ground. While some of our older players from 2015 have moved on, we were anxious to keep Colin because he is such a good person and a good influence around the club.”
“You have to weigh up who you feel is going to have the most influence on the squad. There are a lot of young players coming through in the squad, including some of our Under 19s, but Colin has been top class since I came in and that is why I was anxious to keep him for another year.”
Caulfield also confirmed that full back Ross Gaynor will not be at the club next year, stating: “Ross has decided to move on and I would like to thank him for his services. He has done really well for us in the last year and a half but we probably knew from a while back that this would happen and we wish him well.”
Hear more from John Caulfield on CorkCityFC.ie later today.
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Larry Wilmore at Comedy Central’s “Nightly Show” offers up a five-minute segment on what fools Emory University has made of itself with its outrage over the “Trump 2016” chalk marks. Worth a watch here.
(Trigger warning: Wilmore uses the “n-word”! But it’s okay because he’s a comic, and they can do that.) Best part: “I had no idea I went to a school with people who had. . . different opinions than me!” “My therapist just laughed at me.” “Somebody saw the word ‘slave’ in a history book.” It is almost enough to make you want to vote for Trump.
Then there’s The Guardian, the board-certified leftist newspaper, which offers this video from Julie Bindel, who I gather is a leftist of some kind, who has decided this is all going too far in “Sorry: We Can’t Ban Everything That Offends You.”
P.S. Larry Wilmore’s panel discussion heaps additional scorn on campus snowflakes here.
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China's top judicial authorities on Tuesday issued a new judicial interpretation for laws on criminal cases related to environmental pollution in an effort to address pollution problems with harsher punishment on polluters.
The interpretation, which was jointly released by China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) and Supreme People's Procuratorate, effective Wednesday, offers detailed standards for the conviction and sentencing of criminals involved in environmental cases.
SPC spokesman Sun Jungong said at a press conference in Beijing Tuesday that the latest interpretation, with lower benchmarks for convictions, would help with the work of judges as it is more precise and practical, compared with the previous one released in 2006.
The interpretation lowers some benchmarks for conviction, which, Sun said, means more polluters will be targeted.
The document lists that a person can be convicted if he or she is responsible for pollution that seriously injures a person, while the previous benchmark stated that the pollution had to have resulted in death. Pollution activities which force the evacuation of over 5,000 people or poison more than 30 people will be defined as crimes, according to the new interpretation.
The latest interpretation has added new activities as criteria for the crime of impairing the protection of the environment and resources.
For instance, discharging, dumping or treating radioactive waste or waste containing infectious disease pathogens or toxic substances into sources of drinking water and nature reserves will be considered as such a crime.
Sun explained that the new criteria would convict the offenders not only for the damage they do but also for the practice of polluting.
According to China's Criminal Law, those convicted of such crimes will face a maximum prison term of seven years plus fines.
"This is a sign of progress of the Chinese judiciary in fighting against environmental pollution, as it can help to prevent pollution from the beginning by giving potential polluters a warning," Wang Jin, an environmental law professor with Peking University, told the Global Times on Tuesday.
The document lists that those who discharged hazardous substances repeatedly after having received administrative punishments more than twice within two years could be considered as breaching criminal laws.
Wang said such criteria could be regarded as a supplement to the current administrative punishment, which mainly includes fines and warnings by local environmental authorities.
China's law did not have a clear stipulation of what activities could result in such criminal charges, said Hu Yunteng, a senior research fellow with the SPC, which experts said was one of the reasons for China's long-standing environmental issues.
Also on Tuesday, the Ministry of Public Security announced that police have detained 118 suspects involved in environmental pollution cases since January. Police said most of the cases involved mines or petrochemical factories, including a number of large factories that pay significant taxes.
Xia Jun, a lawyer with the Environment and Resources Law Committee of the All China Lawyers Association, told the Global Times on Tuesday that the interpretation will not be sufficient given that some local governments tend to offer protection to major polluters who contribute to local GDP.
"It's possible that local environmental watchdogs choose not to turn the polluters over to the police since they're major sources of government revenue, and some may be taking bribes," Xia said.
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Buzzfeed, January 14: A Mindset Revolution Sweeping Britain’s Classrooms May Be Built On Shaky Science.
Somebody needed to write this article. It’s written very well. I’ve talked to the writer, Tom Chivers, and he was very careful and seems like a great person. The article even quotes me, although I think if I had gotten to choose a quote of mine for thousands of people to see, it wouldn’t have been the one speculating about Carol Dweck making a pact with the Devil.
But I’m not entirely on board with it.
Growth mindset has been really hyped and Carol Dweck has said it can do implausibly exciting things, okay. A lot of smart people are very suspicious of growth mindset and think there has to be some trick, sure. There’s a high prior that something is up, definitely.
But one thing that needs to be at the core of any article like this is that, if there’s a trick, we haven’t found it.
I tried to be really clear about this in my own (mostly pessimistic) article on the subject:
It is right smack in the middle of a bunch of fields that have all started seeming a little dubious recently. Most of the growth mindset experiments have used priming to get people in an effort-focused or an ability-focused state of mind, but recent priming experiments have famously failed to replicate and cast doubt on the entire field. And growth mindset has an obvious relationship to stereotype threat, which has also started seeming very shaky recently. So I have every reason to be both suspicious of and negatively disposed toward growth mindset. Which makes it appalling that the studies are so damn good.
This is the context of my speculation that Carol Dweck has made a pact with the Devil. I haven’t accused (for example) the stereotype threat people of making a pact with the Devil. They did some crappy studies and exaggerated the results. That doesn’t require any diabolic help. Any social scientist can do that, and most of them do. What’s interesting about the growth mindset research is that it looks just like the sort of thing that should fall apart with a tiny gust of wind, but it actually hangs together pretty well.
BuzzFeed doesn’t really challenge that. The article spends most of its time snarking about how overhyped growth mindset is – and no objections there, given that its advocates claim that it can eg help defuse the Israel-Palestine conflict and bring peace to the Middle East. It spends a bit more time talking about how many people are doubtful – no objections there either, I’m doubtful too.
But in terms of the evidence against it, it’s kind of thin. I only see three real points:
First, it uses a technique called GRIM (granularity-related inconsistency of means). I like its explanation so I’m just going to quote it verbatim:
t works like this: Imagine you have three children, and want to find how many siblings they have, on average. Finding an average, or mean, will always involve adding up the total number of siblings and dividing by the number of children – three. So the answer will always either be a whole number, or will end in .33 (a third) or .67 (two thirds). If there was a study that looked at three children and found they had, on average, 1.25 siblings, it would be wrong – because you can’t get that answer from the mean of three whole numbers.
But Dweck says that she “took ambiguous answers as half scores” – maybe if the child was halfway between growth mindset and fixed mindset it was counted as a 0.5. It’s bad practice to do this kind of thing without mentioning it. But everyone does some bad practices sometime. And I don’t see anybody claiming it affected the results, which were very strong and not likely to stand or fall based on these sorts of things. Nobody is claiming fraud, and Dweck released her original data which looks pretty much like she was generally honest but had some bad reporting practice. Neither the statistician involved nor BuzzFeed claims this affects Dweck’s work very much.
Second, it mentions Stuart Ritchie’s criticism of a couple of recent Dweck papers which show “marginally significant” results. These results are so weak that they’re probably coincidence, but the paper hypes them up. There are a couple of studies like this, but they’re all in very tangential areas of mindsetology, like how children inherit their parents’ mindsets. The original studies, again, show very strong results that don’t need this kind of pleading. For example, the one I cited in my original post got seven different results at the p < 0.001 level. And there are a lot of studies like this.
Third, it mentions a psychologist Timothy Bates who has tried to replicate Dweck’s experiments (at least) twice, and failed. This is the strongest evidence the article presents. But I don’t think any of Bates’ failed replications have been published – or at least I couldn’t find them. Yet hundreds of studies that successfully demonstrate growth mindset have been published. Just as a million studies of a fake phenomenon will produce a few positive results, so a million replications of a real phenomenon will produce a few negative results. We have to look at the entire field and see the balance of negative and positive results. The last time I tried to do this, the only thing I could find was this meta-analysis of 113 studies which found a positive effect for growth mindset and relatively little publication bias in the field.
My intuition tells me not to believe this meta-analysis. But I think it’s really important to emphasize that I’m going off intuition. There’s no shame in defying the data when you think that’s justified, but you had better be really aware that’s what you’re doing.
I guess my concern is this: the Buzzfeed article sounds really convincing. But I could write an equally convincing article, with exactly the same structure, refuting eg global warming science. I would start by talking about how global warming is really hyped in the media (true!), that people are making various ridiculous claims about it (true!), interview a few scientists who doubt it (98% of climatologists believing it means 2% don’t), and cite two or three studies that fail to find it (98% of studies supporting it means 2% don’t). Then I would point out slight statistical irregularities in some of the key global warming papers, because every paper has slight statistical irregularities. Then I would talk about the replication crisis a lot.
I could do this with pretty much any theory I wanted. Any technique strong enough to disprove anything disproves nothing.
(and this is especially important in light of recent really strange negative results that eg fail to find a sunk cost effect, something I would hate to enshrine as “well, guess this has been debunked, no such thing as sunk cost now”)
Again, this isn’t to say I believe in growth mindset. I recently talked to a totally different professor who said he’d tried and failed to replicate some of the original growth mindset work (again, not yet published). But we should do this the right way and not let our intuitions leap ahead of the facts.
I worry that one day there’s going to be some weird effect that actually is a bizarre miracle. Studies will confirm it again and again. And if we’re not careful, we’ll just say “Yeah, but replication crisis, also I heard a rumor that somebody failed to confirm it,” and then forget about it. And then we’ll miss our chance to bring peace to the Middle East just by doing a simple experimental manipulation on the Prime Minister of Israel.
I think it’s good that people are starting to question growth mindset. But at this point questioning it isn’t enough. In my essay I tried to find problems that might have caused spurious effects in Dweck’s studies, and patterns inconsistent with growth mindset being powerful. I think we need to do more of that, plus look for specific statistical and experimental flaws in the papers supporting growth mindset, plus start collecting real published papers that fail to replicate growth mindset. Instead of talking about how sketchy it is, we need to actually disprove it.
We owe it to ourselves, to Carol Dweck, and to her infernal masters.
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In seeking to comply with new record-keeping requirements from the National Archives, Hillary Clinton turned over thousands of pages of her personal e-mails to the State Department, officials said. (John Woods/AP)
Hillary Rodham Clinton was not the first senior government leader to conduct official business on personal e-mail, a practice that — while discouraged — apparently became widespread enough that Congress tightened rules on its use late last year.
The Federal Records Act prohibits official business on private e-mail accounts unless the communications are copied and turned over to the National Archives within 20 days.
The new oversight is part of the government’s evolving policy on how to archive the massive volume of electronic communications created in a digital age of e-mail, tweets and Instagram. It follows a flurry of disclosures that several Cabinet-level officials — including former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson and former health and human services secretary Kathleen Sebelius — used private or secondary government e-mail accounts.
The continuing use of non-official accounts for official business has attracted congressional inquiries amid questions about transparency. On Wednesday, the head of the small office that investigates chemical accidents is scheduled to testify at a House committee hearing on an inspector general’s report that he and two deputies discussed internal disputes about agency operations on private e-mail accounts and did not preserve them.
Several large agencies, including the EPA and the Defense, State, Treasury, Interior and Homeland Security departments, said their senior leaders restrict all government business to government e-mail accounts. John F. Kerry is the first secretary of state to rely on a government e-mail account, officials said.
Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail address that she used while secretary of state reinforces everything people don’t like about her, argues The Post’s Chris Cillizza, and is very dangerous to her presidential ambitions. (The Washington Post)
The EPA “discourages the use of private e-mails,” an agency spokesman said. “Our policy is to forward e-mails initiated from and received by private e-mail accounts to government e-mail accounts to create a record in the EPA e-mail system within 20 days.”
A Treasury Department spokesman said Secretary Jack Lew conducts official department business on government e-mail.
“Treasury policy is that employees should conduct official business through their official treasury e-mail accounts. The policy recognizes that there are situations in which an employee must use a personal e-mail account for work purposes. In those circumstances, the employee must ensure that all federal records are preserved,” the spokesman said.
At the Department of Veterans Affairs, benefits chief Allison Hickey is known to hand out her “work e-mail” and said she answers veterans’ inquiries in the middle of the night. But while she encourages veterans to e-mail her directly, she does not use a personal e-mail account for anything work-related, even though she sometimes receives hundreds of e-mails a week.
Under federal law, the communications of Cabinet secretaries and their deputies are government records that must be preserved so that Congress, historians, the news media and the public can see them, with exceptions for classified and sensitive materials.
But policies on managing these records in an electronic age are evolving slowly. The Archives has been debating new policies and building new computer systems to preserve the documents.
Agencies in the past sent official documents to the Archives in paper boxes. Now, the task of saving ephemeral communications and complying with transparency requirements at the same time is the subject of heated debate.
“It is perfectly understandable why someone who is secretary of state is using a private e-mail system,” said Jason Baron, a former director of litigation at the Archives, referring to Clinton. “It’s easier than logging in from an airplane to a Citrix connection. But for four years, it was used as the sole system, and no one seemed to notice.”
At the time, Clinton’s aides did not take actions to have her personal e-mails preserved on agency computer servers, as the records act requires. But in seeking to comply with new record-keeping requirements from the Archives, she turned over thousands of pages of her personal e-mails to the State Department, officials said.
“The department is in the process of updating our records-preservation policies to bring them in line with recent 2013 [Archives] guidance,” spokeswoman Marie Harf said. “These steps include regularly archiving all of Secretary Kerry’s e-mails to ensure that we are capturing all federal records.”
E-mails have been considered official government records since the late 1980s. The White House set up an archiving system for presidential electronic records in the mid-1990s, when Bill Clinton was president.
It wasn’t until 2011, amid pressure from advocates, that President Obama required a “modernized records management” system for federal agencies. All e-mail records must be archived by 2016. Agencies can decide which to save for the public and for how many years.
Until then, the Archives offered only vague guidance on the use of official e-mail. The agency issued regulations in 2009 requiring e-mails sent on nongovernment accounts to be preserved “in the appropriate agency record-keeping system.”
Jackson, the former EPA chief, drew criticism for using a secondary e-mail account to communicate with staff and other government officials. The EPA inspector general found no evidence that e-mail was used in a way that circumvented federal requirements.
Sebelius also used a separate e-mail account for agency business.
If the use of personal e-mail is not a violation, as long as communications are forwarded and stored, they are officially subject to the Freedom of Information Act. But this raises red flags for open-government advocates, who say there is no way to monitor whether a government official picks and chooses which communications to save.
Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, said: “The policy really should say no private e-mail accounts. Leaving to the government official who wrote the e-mail to decide what’s public is not adequate.”
Correction: An earlier version of the story said that the office that investigates chemical accidents was part of the EPA.
Alice Crites, Joby Warrick, Missy Ryan, Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Jerry Markon and Steven Mufson in Washington and Carol Morello in Montreux, Switzerland, contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON — Aides to President-elect Donald J. Trump announced Wednesday night that his transition team would not include lobbyists and that members of the administration would be barred from lobbying for five years after they left government service.
The announcement, made in the first transition conference call with reporters, was an attempt to make good on Mr. Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington. It was also a reaction to criticism that some of the original transition team members were lobbyists from interests they were being assigned to oversee.
Under the rules, announced by Sean Spicer, a transition spokesman, lobbyists joining the Trump team would have to terminate their formal registration to lobby. Aides to Mr. Trump said several of the firings in recent days were part of an effort to enforce the new rules, though they declined to reveal any names.
Others have described the firings as part of an effort by Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, to rid the transition of connections to Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, who was ousted last week as the head of the transition. Aides have denied those reports.
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'Fucking Walsh, fucking little troll, casting his spell on people, liar. I've won six Tours. I've done everything I ever could do to prove my innocence. I have done, outside of cycling, way more than anyone in the sport. To be somebody who's spread himself out over a lot of areas, to hopefully be somebody who people in this city, this state, this country, this world can look up to as an example. And you know what? They don't even know who David Walsh is. And they never will. And in 20 years nobody is going to remember him. Nobody.' Lance Armstrong, 2004.
For years Sunday Times sports writer David Walsh pursued Lance Armstrong as a drug cheat, and also a bully and serial litigator capable of destroying his enemies financially to protect his bogus image of sporting success.
Armstrong sued Walsh and his employer, successfully silencing his major critic using UK defamation laws which are so plaintiff-friendly that they have in recent years given rise to the phenomenon of libel tourism.
Last week, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Armstrong finally admitted to cheating, and also issued a qualified apology to Walsh after repeated prompting.
‘I would apologise to David,’ the disgraced former cyclist said.
Walsh joined Breakfast this morning to discuss the confession, and said although Winfrey did a good job, Armstrong’s first attempt at truth-telling was something of a dress rehearsal for the revelations to come.
‘Oprah Winfrey hasn’t been on this story for that long, and she had to do a lot of catching up, and honestly, I think she did a really decent job relative to where she was coming from,' Walsh said. ‘But Lance was quite evasive in many of his answers, and I understand that, because it was the first kind of attempt at telling the truth after lying for almost 20 years. So it’s not going to all come out in the first interview but I think as he does more interviews, and the indications are that he will do many more interviews, I think there’ll be more truth, every time he speaks, and I think in the end we will get a pretty complete story from him.’
‘My feeling about Lance Armstrong is that intellectually, he understands that he has to be remorseful. Emotionally, he can’t hack it. If you watched the interview closely, there were times when he was being asked questions that were drawing what should have been quite painful answers from him, when he was having to admit stuff that he did that really was awful, and a little smirk would cross his face. And you’re looking at him, you’re thinking, was that just, was that a bit of a smile I saw there?’
‘When he was talking about Betsy Andreu, one of the witnesses who testified against him, you know, he was making the point that... people had said that Lance had called Betsy... a bitch, he called her crazy, and he called her fat, and Lance was trying to make a joke and say: “I did call you a bitch, I did call you crazy, but I didn’t call you fat.” And he kind of laughed. Lance: not funny.’
Walsh says his paper is now planning to sue Armstrong for the return of the GBP 300,000 settlement paid to Armstrong for libel, as well as a further GBP 600,000 in legal costs (around USD 1.5m in total). He says that without the UK’s libel laws, which notoriously favour plaintiffs against media institutions, Armstrong would have been uncovered and chased out of the sport long ago.
‘At a time when the whole world was going with the Armstrong story, you had one newspaper in Britain repeatedly saying: we think this guy’s a fraud. Now the London, or the UK libel laws, shut us up, and lots of people have used UK libel laws to stop a story coming out because they are draconian, and journalists like me think they’re incredibly unfair. And so we were forced to settle with Armstrong, because we’d been the ones asking questions. Now, how unfair is that, given that history now shows we were the ones doing the right thing. Why should you be penalised for doing what I believe lots of newspapers and lots of TV channels should have been doing at this time?’
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The symbol for pawnbroking is three gold spheres suspended from a bar. The pawnbroker symbol has been in use at least since the medieval period in Europe. It is still used by pawnbrokers all around the world today. There are differing theories proposing how these three spheres came to represent pawn shops and pawnbroking.
House of Lombard
Although pawnbroking and pawn shops have existed for thousands of years, pawnbroking became synonymous with the Italian province of Lombardy, which is located in Northern Italy. Bankers in this province built up the success of their businesses using the pawnbroking business-model, which later acquired the name, Lombard banking. Lombard merchants are said to have hung three golden spheres outside their homes. It is thought that the golden spheres originally represented three gold coins, which later were redesigned as spheres to attract more attention.
The Medici
Three circles make up the family crest of the famous (and sometimes infamous) Medici family. The Medici family were affluent bankers who were widely known throughout Europe as influential patrons of the arts. With deep pockets, the family held sway with politicians, lawmakers and church leaders. As the Medici family’s success in finance and money-lending increased, other families assimilated the three circles into their coat of arms. Before long, the three circles became synonymous with money-lending and banking.
St. Nicholas of Myra
Saint Nicholas of Myra was a 4th century Greek Bishop and is the patron saint of pawnbroking. Tales abound recounting his generosity to the poor. According to a well-known tale, a poor man in his town had three daughters but was not able to afford an adequate dowry for them to be married. Without a dowry, they would not be able to fetch husbands and, as such, would most likely have to become prostitutes. St. Nicholas, under cover of night, dropped a sack filled with gold coins into each daughter’s window, effectively rescuing them from a life of misery. The three bags of gold came to represent the three gold spheres used by pawnbrokers on their store fronts. Saint Nicholas day is December 6th, which is also National Pawnbrokers Day.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Five years after a Zanesville animal keeper triggered panic by unleashing tigers, lions and bears in Ohio's countryside, the federal government is looking anew at restricting the public's ability to pet and pose for pictures with young, potentially dangerous animals.
The risk to humans from petting an adorable 5-week-old tiger cub at a roadside zoo is not so much the issue. But to make tiger and bear cubs available for cuddles, ooohs and aahhs, wild animal parks rely on a breeding-and-handling ecosystem that animal-rights activists say results in cruelty and abandonment.
If the government would eliminate your right to snuggle with a big cat while that cat is still little, the activists say, then the larger ecosystem -- the one that helped Terry Thompson acquire 56 wild, dangerous animals that he released from cages before killing himself in October 2011 -- could be quashed.
Some people say this is overkill.
The federal government, which in March began tamping down on public handling of baby lions and tigers, wants to hear more from the public about proposed restrictions.
What it's about:
The move to restrict handling of wild animals by anyone other than professionals in accredited zoos or wildlife sanctuaries grew heated after Thompson, deeply in debt and reportedly despised by some neighbors, released 56 animals from his 73-acre Muskingum County farm, then killed himself with a gunshot.
The animals included tigers, lions, bears, leopards and wolves. In the ensuing panic throughout the countryside, police killed 49 of the animals.
Panic in Zanesville
Ohio clamped down on ownership of dangerous animals in the aftermath, first with an executive order, and then with a state law requiring a permit for ownership of dangerous animals including tigers, lions, bears, elephants, alligators, crocodiles and anacondas and pythons 12 feet or longer. The state made exemptions for animals already in possession if certain rules were followed.
How petting became an issue:
Not all states have laws like Ohio's -- and it took the Zanesville emergency to get Ohio to act. In fact, former Gov. Ted Strickland had signed an order in 2010 requiring exotic animals to be registered, but Gov. John Kasich let it lapse in 2011. Kasich signed a new, related order soon after the Zanesville animal mayhem, and state lawmakers went to work soon after that.
Yet regardless of state laws, a separate issue was unresolved in the eyes of the Humane Society of the United States, a group that fights animal exploitation. As the society and its allies saw it, abuses would continue as long as wildlife attractions could let visitors pet and pose with soon-to-be dangerous animals, then dump the animals when they were no longer useful.
"Zanesville was just the symptom of a much bigger problem," Anna Frostic, senior attorney for wildlife litigation at the Humane Society, said in a telephone interview.
So the Humane Society petitioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to clamp down. The department had authority, according to the Humane Society, because it oversaw animal handling for any facilities that engaged in interstate commerce involving animals.
What the Humane Society wanted:
The petition asked the Department of Agriculture to explicitly prohibit any entity licensed under federal wildlife rules "from allowing members of the public to come into direct or unsafe close contact with big cats, bears and nonhuman primates of any age."
Help Prevent Another Zanesville - The Humane Society of the United States http://t.co/AScC19W3 -- Animal Advocate (@Miles9906) October 19, 2012
The Humane Society was joined by the World Wildlife Fund and the Detroit Zoological Society, among others. They filed the petition exactly a year after the Zanesville incident, and amended it with additional petitioners in 2013.
How existing law had loopholes:
You might think animal abuse was already outlawed by the federal Animal Welfare Act, a 1966 law that regulates the treatment of animals in research, exhibition, transport and sales. But the Humane Society and allies said the language in the law and its related regulations was too vague.
For example, federal regulations require big cats to be "under the direct control and supervision of a knowledgeable and experienced animal handler." But what is direct control? Is it good enough to be standing nearby?
And regulations say that big cats "must be handled so there is minimal risk of harm to the animal and to the public." But what does that mean?
What the real issue was:
The overriding issue can be understood easily by considering a tiger cub.
Tiger cubs are most popular for petting and cuddling when they are between four and eight weeks old. By then, their immune systems are thought to be ready for human contact. But this can lead to premature separation from their mothers, to bottle feeding of formula rather than letting them get nourishment from their mothers' milk, and to exploitation, says the Humane Society.
The cubs are no longer considered safe for petting after eight weeks. They're often sold then, and many wind up in caged, deplorable conditions, says the Humane Society. Their entire existence, from breeding to eventual sale or dumping, was for the sake of exploiting a four-week period in their lives.
This has led to a skewed tiger population: There are 5,000 to 7,000 tigers in U.S. captivity, the majority kept in substandard conditions, Frostic said. That's about twice the entire population of tigers in the wild worldwide, she said.
Why there's a different view:
Critics, particularly companies accused of animal exploitation, sometimes call the Humane Society extremist in its animal-protection views. But the petition has been supported by a number of mainstream groups including the American Veterinary Medical Association. Even the Association of Zoos & Aquariums -- whose board members include the top executives of the Smithsonian's National Zoo and the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo -- said in late 2013 that it generally agrees with the petition.
Yet a different group, the Zoological Association of America, takes a different view. The Zoological Association generally represents smaller and new zoos as well as private zoos.
This is not the first issue over which the Humane Society and the Zoological Association have tussled. The zoological group views the Humane Society as radical, while the Humane Society says the zoological group supports weak standards for roadside zoos -- and each side says the other is wrong.
The Zoological Association of America is committed to animal welfare and public safety http://t.co/vn6heyEbwc -- Facilities Chap (@SirFacilities) August 27, 2015
"Our members as licensees have witnessed first hand the power of exhibition and interaction in support of conservation of species," the Zoological Association told the federal government in a five-page letter. "Visitors to our facilities form a special connection with the animals they meet and are, as a direct result of that experience, motivated to support conservation work."
As for why the Humane Society is pursuing this, the Zoological Association said it is "merely an attempt by the petitioners to push their well publicized agenda to end interaction with all species and the eventual elimination of all public exhibition and animals in captivity."
Why Zanesville keeps coming up:
In correspondence with the government, the Zanesville animal tragedy gets cited repeatedly to explain why these changes are needed. But the Zoological Association said Zanesville makes a poor parallel:
"While tragic for the animals involved, what happened in Ohio was not a matter of deficient federal oversight and is hardly indicative of the activities of hundreds of responsible and lawfully licensed exhibitors overseen by USDA. In reality the number of facilities in the US possessing the animals in question is declining at a rapid rate due to state and local rules and regulations."
every time i drive through zanesville i always think in my head, "lions and tigers and bears oh my" [?] [?] -- Nikki (@nicoleperalli) January 21, 2013
Why the feds seem likely to act:
It has taken several years to get to this point. But in March, the Department of Agriculture issued a notice that non-domestic cats -- lions and tigers -- under four weeks of age have special needs and should not be exposed to public feeding and handling. Violating this will put a zoo or animal exhibitor out of compliance with the Animal Welfare Act.
Then on June 24, the department demonstrated it is not yet done. It reopened the public comment period on the Humane Society's petition -- even though by November 2013 it has received 15,379 comments -- and said it wanted to hear more.
It posed specific question, such as: What factors should be considered in determining whether an animal is suitable for public contact? What animals should be defined as dangerous? What constitutes sufficient barriers to keep the public away?
It will accept comments through August, then make a decision at a undermined time.
What this means for petting zoos:
Might this spell doom for petting zoos?
It depends "how you define petting zoos," Frostic said.
The Humane Society's petition concerns big cats, bears, nonhuman primates -- animals that grow up to be dangerous and whose life cycle too often involves abuse, she said.
As for worries about cows, goats, fowl and other farm livestock, "that's certainly not what we're after."
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What: Ozomatli – San Diego Symphony
When: Sunday August 24, 2014
Where: Embarcadero Marina Park South, San Diego
Description: By combining hip-hop, salsa, dancehall, samba, funk, garage rock, raga and more into an irresistible groove, the members of the culture-mashing party band Ozomatli have gone from hometown heroes in L.A. to U.S. State Department Cultural Ambassadors and the first band ever to give a “musical” TED talk. Also known for having a fervent political conscience, the Grammy-winning group frequently travels the world, bringing this distinctly SoCal — but universally appealing — music to places like Tunisia, Egypt, Mongolia, Jordan, Nepal and Myanmar. For this outdoor San Diego Symphony show with conductor Matthew Garbutt, Ozomatli will play old favorites as well as tunes from their latest album, Place in the Sun, as they mark their return to Ashford University’s Summer Pops concert series after a hugely popular appearance last summer.
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What: Pacific Classic Race Day
When: Sunday August 24, 2014
Where: Del Mar Racetrack, San Diego
Description: Del Mar’s richest and most prestigious race, the $1,000,000 TVG Pacific Classic (Gr. I), takes place on Sunday, August 24.
Watch some of the country’s top horses compete at the classic distance of 1 1/4 miles in the 24th running of Del Mar’s signature event. 3-year-olds and up. The first race begins at the special post time of 1:00 p.m.
Cost: $6
What: Sailing for a Cause – Sharp HospiceCare Annual Benefit Dinner and Regatta
When: Friday August 22 to Saturday August 23, 2014
Where: Hotel del Coronado & Coronado Yacht Club/San Diego Bay
Description: Hosted by Sharp HospiceCare, the benefit regatta brings together racers, community organizations and local families for an important cause. The event kicks off Friday evening, Aug. 22, with a dinner, followed by all-day festivities on Saturday, Aug. 23, as guests board sponsored yachts and cruise along the race course with a breathtaking view of the regatta and San Diego Bay.
What: Beach Rockin’ with Hotel California a Salute to the Eagles
When: Sunday August 24, 2014
Where: Oceanside Pier, Oceanside, San Diego
Description: Enjoy a evening by the sea with great Eagles music, food drink and much more. Proceeds will be used to support Maltese Rescue California’s continued efforts in providing the medical care, food, and loving support for California’s homeless and abandoned Maltese. Giving these unwanted, injured, homeless and abandoned Maltese a well deserved second chance with a new furever home.
What: Local Showcase – Silent Comedy, Transfer and Vokab Kompany
When: Friday August 22, 2014
Where: Del Mar Fairgrounds
Description: Del Mar Race Track continues their Summer Concert Series with FREE 4 O’Clock Friday Concerts. Get in the Summer groove with Local Showcase on August 22nd which features Silent Comedy, Transfer and Vokab Kompany.
All 10 performances of the Del Mar Summer Concert Series are free for fans attending the races. The Seaside Stage is a non-smoking venue. The Del Mar Seaside Stage is a Festival venue with standing room only and there are no reserved seats, standing room only so get here early. Concert starts after the races.
Cost: $20.
What: Movies by the Lake – Planes
When: Friday August 22, 2014
Where: Fanita Parkway, Santee, San Diego
Description: Don’t spend another Friday night sitting on the couch in front of the TV! Come sit under the stars and watch a movie on one of the biggest screens known to man. Bring your picnic, or get a snack at the snack bar and watch the kids participate in games and activities before the movie begins. $8 gets your entire carload in the front gate. This season our special guest will be the Chick-Fil-A Cow! So come out, relax and enjoy the movie!
What: Summer Movies in the Park
When: Friday August 22, 2014
Where: San Diego Parks
Description: Looking for a Fun, Free and Fabulous Family Activity in Your Neighborhood? Summer Movies in the Park is a perfect chance to relax and enjoy a safe and special night under the stars. Come early and get a good seat! All movies start at dusk (approx. 15 minutes after sunset). Movies are subject to change. Some of the movies scheduled for this Friday include Frozen – PG at Doyle Community Park and Woodland Park, San Diego, Monsters University – G at Southcrest Community Park, Planes – PG at USS Midway Museum & more.
What: San Diego Spirits Festival
When: Saturday August 23 to Sunday August 24, 2014
Where: Broadway Pier, San Diego
Description: San Diego Spirits Festival is back for another year and is set to take your experience to a new level! The two-day event from is set to delight everyone’s palate and promises to be a feast for all your senses with a weekend of cocktails, food and entertainment. You will enjoy rubbing shoulders with Brand Ambassadors and Celebrity Chefs and expect a fantastic cocktail and culinary experience!
The spirits kick in, the crowds grow, the food excites, and entertainment delights. This year’s theme is burlesque prohibition and if you went to last year’s event you have to know it’s only getting better each season, if that’s possible!
Cost: Use Promo Code SPIRITS for $25 off the tickets
What: TPHS Football Tailgate Party
When: Saturday August 23, 2014
Where: Del Mar Shores Park, San Diego
Description: Kick of the 2014 Falcon Football season with the coaches and Honorary Committee Saturday, August 23rd at The Shores Park in Del Mar from 6pm – 10pm!
The tailgate party will include gourmet tailgate fare, craft beer and wine, live entertainment, and the opportunity to have first dibs on season perks such as side-line passes, season ticket packages, and coveted reserved parking.
Additionally, unique opportunities will be packaged for bidding in our Silent and Live Auctions.
What: Coronado Promenade Summer Concert Series: Todo Mundo & Mariachi Estrellas de Chula Vista
When: Sunday August 24, 2014
Where: Coronado Park, San Diego
Description: Mariachi Chula Vista was formed at Chula Vista High School in September 2001. Since then, the group of young musicians has performed at more than 900 events and has earned a reputation as one of the best student mariachis in the country. The group has appeared at festivals around the world and has shared the stage with the world’s most famous mariachis. Mariachi Chula Vista has won numerous awards and competitions.
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Mayor Rob Ford and Councillor Doug Ford are being taken to court by Toronto resident and activist Jude MacDonald for allegedly violating the Municipal Conflict Of Interest Act. This is the second time the mayor has faced such charges but the first go-round for his brother.
In the application, filed in Superior Court by lawyer Tim Gleason, MacDonald alleges that the Fords improperly mixed their personal and public interests by speaking and/or voting on a slew of council items that directly or indirectly affected clients of their family business, Deco Labels and Tags.
The identities of nearly all of Deco's clients remained a well-kept secret until this past summer, when Globe reporters viewed an internal list. The majority of allegations in MacDonald's application stem from the paper's resulting story that highlighted several instances in which the Fords advanced policies that aligned with their clients' interests.
Porter Airlines, for example, was among the firms that have reportedly contracted printing from Deco. And not only was Mayor Ford the salesperson listed on the account, according to the Globe, but Deco "salespeople - including the Fords - receive commissions whenever one of their accounts places an order."
As chief magistrate, Ford has taken a very active interest in facilitating Porter's request for jets at the Island airport and has never once declared a conflict on the matter. (It's worth noting that if John Tory were to become mayor, he would very likely have a conflict on the same issue.)
Other alleged conflicts include:
• voting on a motion pertaining to an industrial wastewater treatment program in which both Deco itself and one of its clients were enrolled;
• voting on and advocating against a new set of "healthy vending criteria" for vending machines in rec centres that would have adversely affected Deco client Coca-Cola;
• voting on and advocating against a ban on the sale of bottled water at City facilities that adversely affected Deco clients Nestlé Canada and Coca-Cola (which produces Dasani);
• and voting on and advocating for the appointment of Darius Mosun - chair and CEO of Deco client Soheil Mosun - to the board of the Toronto Parking Authority.
If either or both Fords are found to have violated the Act, the judge must declare their seat(s) vacant and may disqualify them from holding office for up to seven years. (It's not immediately clear how the first, mandatory penalty might apply to a Council member who's switched offices since a breach occurred, but it's likely that the second, discretionary penalty could be used to the same effect.) If, however, the Fords successfully argue that a conflict came about through inadvertence or an error in judgment, or that their interest was so remote as to be unlikely to have influenced them, they're off the hook.
In November 2012, a Superior Court judge ruled that Ford broke the Act when he voted to overturn an earlier Council decision ordering him to repay money he'd solicited from lobbyists for his football foundation. The judge ordered the mayor out of office, but the Divisional Court overturned the ruling on a technicality.
This is at least the fourth notice of civil action served on Rob Ford since becoming mayor, and at least the second for Doug since becoming councillor. (An additional defamation suit, brought by Boardwalk Pub owner George Foulidis, was commenced just prior to the last election.)
The court application and MacDonald's accompanying affidavit are below.
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Welcome to our new summer series. A lot has happened over Todd Graham's first three seasons as Arizona State's head football coach. Over the next two weeks, we will be ranking 15 of Graham's 28 total wins so far before the 2015 season, which has potential to send the program to new heights.
Before that happens, let's look at the games that put ASU in this position. Our No. 15 win for Graham saw the Sun Devils explode in the second half for a dominating win over Colorado in 2012.
At No. 14, ASU's last game of the 2014 campaign saw the Sun Devils go head-to-head with the Blue Devils of Duke:
No. 14: Dec. 27, 2014 - Sun Devils claim Sun Bowl Thriller
In many seasons, a trip to the Sun Bowl with a chance to secure a 10-win season would serve as the culmination of a successful campaign for Sun Devil fans. But after the emotional high of winning the Pac-12 South in 2013 and climbing up to No. 6 in the College Football Playoff rankings at a late juncture in the season, Arizona State's expectations extended beyond finishing its season in El Paso, Texas.
However, as the 8-1 Sun Devils faltered late in the year, falling at Oregon State and coming up one play short in a heartbreaking loss to Arizona, ASU dropped out of contention for the major bowls and was selected to play Duke in the Sun Bowl to wrap up the season. Participating in the Sun Bowl didn't live up to the high expectations fans have grown to hold for the program, but the game provided them with an exhilrating showcase.
Having benched him in the second half in hopes of pulling out a late win against the Wildcats, Todd Graham had to make a decision on whether to put Taylor Kelly back in the starter's role for the Sun Bowl. He opted to go with his senior captain, and gave Kelly the chance to lead ASU to a victory in his final collegiate game.
Kelly played well early, but it was the play of freshman Demario Richard that stole the show for the Sun Devils. After a 16-yard completion to Jaelen Strong and a 14-yard Kelly scamper, Richard capped off ASU's first drive of the game with a 9-yard touchdown run and ASU took an early 7-0 lead.
ASU and Duke traded field goals for the duration of the first quarter, and the Sun Devil defense gave its offense to expand on its 13-3 lead with a three-and-out midway through the second. Kelly completed passes to Strong, Ellis Jefferson and Gary Chambers as the Sun Devils marched down the field, reaching the goalline on an 11-yard Kelly scramble that converted a 4th and 1.
Kelly was the catalyst on the drive but Richard got the score, punching it in from a yard out to give ASU a seemingly-commanding 20-3 lead.
But Duke remained resilient, and their efforts paid off in a late-first half rally. Shaquille Powell's 32-yard catch put Duke in Sun Devil territory and he finished the drive off with a 14-yard touchdown reception. ASU's next drive stalled, and Matt Haack came out to fulfill his punting duties. His punt was fine, but ASU's coverage wasn't and Jamison Crowder brought it back 68 yards for a touchdown that pulled Duke within three points at halftime.
The break at halftime was much-needed for the Sun Devils, and they responded out the gate with another Richard score that capped off an eight-play, 75-yard drive.
From there on, ASU's offense struggled to do much against the Duke defense. While their offense couldn't put the game out of reach, ASU's defense and special teams did their parts to clinch the bowl win.
A lengthy Duke drive saw the Blue Devils reach the Arizona State redzone, but ASU cornerback Kweishi Brown bailed the Sun Devils out with a strip of Isaac Blakeney, and Jordan Simone fell on the ball to complete the turnover.
A Zane Gonzalez field goal put ASU up 30-17 and Duke's proverbial back was against the wall, but the Blue Devils rallied and put themselves in position to win the game. A pair of fourth-down conversions kept their drive alive and Anthony Boone's 14-yard pass to Johnell Barnes found the endzone, bringing Duke within six points at 30-24.
Following an ASU turnover on downs, Duke brought out its trick playbook, catching the Sun Devils and everyone in attendance completely off-guard when Crowder took a jet sweep handoff, pulled up and tossed a 12-yard strike to Blakeney. A game the Sun Devils had controlled from the get-go suddenly was in Duke's hands as the Blue Devils led 31-30.
With five minutes left, the Sun Devils prepared to get the ball and march the length of the field in order to win the game. But freshman kick returner Kalen Ballage had other ideas, taking the kickoff down the sideline 96 yards to set ASU up four yards away from pay dirt.
Richard's fourth touchdown of the day followed, but after ASU failed the two-point conversion the Sun Devils held a fragile 36-31 lead and 4;45 on the clock for Duke.
Fittingly, the Blue Devils drove all the way from their 29-yard line to the ASU 14-yard line, giving them four chances at taking the lead. Boone's pass on first down fell incomplete and Powell was stuffed on second down, leaving Duke with a 3rd and 10. Boone sent a pass to the corner of the end zone, and it was caught.....by ASU cornerback Kweishi Brown. Brown's interception was his third of the year and most important, clinching the game and the Sun Bowl for Arizona State.
WHAT IT DID FOR ASU: After the disappointment of the losses in Corvallis and Tucson, the victory in the Sun Bowl did what wins in either of those games would've accomplished: giving ASU double-digit wins in back-to-back seasons for the first time in 40 years. The win was big for Graham and sent ASU into the home stretch of recruiting for the 2015 class with momentum.
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HBO’s comedy “Silicon Valley” makes fun of the way even boring startup tech companies adopt the same mission statement: “To make the world a better place.”
But serial entrepreneur and former Microsoft executive Alex Garden isn’t shy about stating his new company’s path to making the world a better place—through pizza. It’s not just any pizza, though. Zume pizzas are made by robots, and they’re cooked in pizza ovens inside delivery trucks.
Alex Garden (right) treats me to the finished product. More
“One of the founding principles of this company is that every American has a right to a healthy meal they can afford,” he told me. “If you look at pizza, what is it? It’s high-quality bread, and high-quality organic vegetables, and meats and cheeses. All of these things are things that are good for you in moderation. And the number of calories really is a function of how much sugar is in the food. Zume Pizza is half the calories per slice, roughly half the cholesterol and half the fat, of any of the national leading chains.”
How? “The main reason is sugar,” says Garden, whose pizzas range in price from $10 for a cheese to $20 for a pineapple express.
“We don’t put any extra sugar in the sauce. We don’t put any extra sugar in the dough. And we let our dough age for 24 hours; during that process, the fermentation of the dough further reduces the sugar in it.”
He also has much to say about where he gets his ingredients—directly from the providers, without the warehouses and distribution channels that, say, Pizza Hut (YUM) or Domino’s (DPZ) employ. He uses software—predictive algorithms—to know what he’ll need when. He makes his sausage and tomato sauce in-house.
But that’s not the most headline-grabbing feature of Zume pizza, which was founded in 2015 and currently delivers in Mountain View, California, and surrounding areas. The biggest feature is the robots.
The robots
Inside the Zume kitchen, robots are displacing more human workers every passing month. These days, one robot presses out the dough into the familiar flattened circle; a second and third (Pepe and Giorgio) squirt tomato sauce or white sauce onto each pie; a fourth (Marta) spreads the sauce around (“perfectly, but not too perfectly,” Garden says). Humans apply the toppings, but then a fourth machine (Bruno) scoops up the pizza from the conveyor belt and delicately lays it into the baking oven; a fifth (Leonardo) chops it neatly into eight slices with a single, 200-pounds-of-force stroke.
Pepe squirts tomato sauce all day long. More
Eventually, Garden and his cofounder Julia Collins intend to replace all of the humans in their pizza shop.
The robots are fun to watch—as long as you can avoid thinking, “This is what the end of human employment looks like.”
But Garden insists that replacing the people is also part of making the world a better place.
“The automation exists so that we can eliminate boring, repetitive jobs, and provide a more rewarding work environment for our employees,” he says. “And it exists so that we can buy higher quality ingredients. That’s the reason why we use it.”
For example, he says, “taking a pizza off of a production line and putting it into an 800-degree oven is actually not particularly rewarding, and it’s also quite dangerous. So we found a way to automate that work now that was previously done by a person.
“So what happens to the person? Well, good news. We’re a high-growth company. We have people who’ve moved from a role in the kitchen to other roles—to customer support or to finance. You come in and prove that you can work the Zume way, and we make a lifetime commitment to you in return.”
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Before there were the lost Lerner emails, the congressional hearings and the retaliatory budget cuts, there was the Albuquerque Tea Party, a group of politically minded folks in New Mexico who wanted to get together and share ideas for taking back their country. The IRS had other ideas about them.
Five years after the Albuquerque Tea Party applied for tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(4) of the tax code, they remain in limbo — their application apparently no closer to being approved or denied than it was the day they mailed it to the IRS on Dec. 29, 2009.
They have watched as other groups have been approved in less time, and they say they are mystified as to why the application has been held up so long, after they provided hundreds of pages of evidence and documents that the IRS requested.
“If the IRS, with its massive staff, read only 1/2 of a page daily of all the paperwork we have had to send them, they could have read it all three years ago,” Rick Harbaugh, secretary of the board of the Albuquerque group, said in an email describing his group’s five-year battle with the tax agency.
Worse yet, he said, they still don’t know why they were targeted in the first place, and every explanation from the IRS — that the targeting was by low-level employees in Ohio, for example — has been wrong. Mr. Harbaugh said they have letters from the Treasury Department saying their file was being reviewed in Washington.
The targeting exploded onto front pages in May 2013 after Lois G. Lerner, head of a division charged with scrutinizing applications for tax-exempt status, planted a question at a law forum so she could break news of the activity.
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She was trying to beat an inspector general’s report due out a few days later, which said the IRS singled out hundreds of conservative and tea party groups for intrusive scrutiny and refused to approve those applications, which had piled up for years.
In the 20 months since, most groups whose applications were held up have been approved. They include the NE Tarrant Tea Party in Tarrant, Texas, which was approved in December after a four-year wait.
Julie McCarty, an official with NE Tarrant, said the organization learned about its approval from its attorney at the American Center for Law and Justice.
It’s unclear what triggered the IRS to approve the group after years of waiting. Ms. McCarty said the most recent reply to the IRS included nearly 600 pages of documents submitted a year and a half ago.
“All the back and forth questions were just stall tactics,” she said in an email. “I mean, come on — they’ve been targeting us for four years.”
The IRS, citing taxpayer privacy laws, said it cannot comment on the delays in specific cases such as the Albuquerque Tea Party or NE Tarrant.
In its latest public data on the tea party targeting scandal, from just before Christmas, the agency said nine organizations that were part of the initial backlog of 145 targeted groups were still awaiting final decisions.
Of the 136 cases that had been cleared, 104 of them were approved. The others were a mix of groups that withdrew their applications — often citing the long wait — or groups that didn’t respond to IRS questions, which the agency took as an indication that they were no longer seeking tax-exempt status.
As of April, the agency had formally denied three of the applicants after years of waiting.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told Congress that the remaining cases were usually because the taxpayer group asked for more time or filed a lawsuit against the IRS.
The Albuquerque Tea Party is part of a lawsuit against the IRS — but so was NE Tarrant Tea Party, which received its approval after years of waiting, so it’s unclear what the difference was for the IRS.
Soon after the scandal went public in 2013, the IRS offered the targeted tea party groups a deal: Agree to keep overt political activity to less than 40 percent of what they do and the agency would approve them. Forty-three groups chose to accept that deal, but the ACLJ and other attorneys advised their clients not to take it, saying it would have meant giving up their rights.
Conservative groups argue that under current interpretation of the law and regulations, tax-exempt organizations are allowed to conduct politics as long as it represents less than half of their activities.
The agency in late 2013 also tried to impose rules on 501(c )(4) groups to further limit their activities, including prohibitions on inviting federal officeholders to speak to groups, printing voter guides or conducting voter registration drives.
In the face of tens of thousands of adverse comments from across the political spectrum, the agency put that effort on hold. Mr. Koskinen, however, vowed to try again early this year, though with both chambers of Congress firmly in the hands of the Republican Party, he may have a tougher time getting those rules through congressional scrutiny.
Republicans in Congress have vowed to continue investigating the IRS targeting. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, under new Chairman Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican; the Senate Finance Committee under new Chairman Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Republican; and the House Ways and Means Committee under new Chairman Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, all said they remain on the case.
The Finance Committee is awaiting final word from the inspector general about which of Ms. Lerners’ emails have been recovered, while a senior House source said the Ways and Means Committee will begin to look at how the IRS chooses whom it audits. That would expand the tea party probe beyond initial applications for tax-exempt status.
The IRS has assured a federal court that it is no longer targeting, and a judge has agreed. He denied a request from tea party groups to issue an order banning future targeting.
But Mr. Harbaugh said it’s difficult to see how the targeting is over given his own experience.
Mr. Harbaugh said his group filed the paperwork for its application on Dec. 29, 2009. On April 21, 2010, it received a two-page, 10-question reply asking for documents on the group’s activities, including copies of its Web page, newsletters and brochures, and handouts and minutes from meetings.
In November 2011, the IRS fired back with a round of 17 more questions, seeking much of the same data for the two years that had elapsed while the IRS delayed the application. Several other rounds of back-and-forth followed, including the 2013 offer to agree to the 40 percent rule. The Albuquerque Tea Party rejected that offer and has been waiting ever since.
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We gave the coming Broadway “all way walk” the headline but one of the safety improvements coming to the busy area around Capitol Hill Station will be part of a simple but hopefully effective change to pedestrian crossing signals across Seattle:
At intersections where the city knows accidents are likely, SDOT will preemptively add what Murray called “pedestrian-friendly signals” — walk signs that allow pedestrians into an intersection before drivers’ light turns green, giving walkers greater visibility — and traffic lights with left turn signals, which reduces conflicts between left-turning cars and pedestrians (or trucks) heading straight through an intersection. By adding leading pedestrian signals at 40 intersections citywide, Kubly said, the city expected to reduce crashes by 50 percent at those intersections.
After SDOT analysis, the re-timed signaling will be deployed at the busy Broadway/John/E Olive Way intersection to give pedestrians an advance walk signal before drivers get a green light. SDOT is also planning to add left turn lanes on John and E Olive Way to help better control vehicular traffic flow.
Dongho Chang, city traffic engineer, said pedestrian collision reports including near misses contributed to the decision. “Pedestrian-wise we hear about a lot of close misses,” Chang said.
The department found the majority of collisions were left-turn related from east and westbound drivers on Olive and John. Drivers heading north or south on Broadway didn’t experience many left turn collisions but did have a few rear-ending incidents.
SDOT is planning to implement the changes before summer.
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For a while now those of us living with, or working with HIV, have known that if you’re HIV positive and undetectable that you’re very unlikely to be able to pass HIV on. But things just changed.
Backing up a little, in 2008 the Swiss National AIDS Commission released a document for Swiss HIV consultants. This document was based on the best possible evidence at the time and stated that as long as the HIV positive person was on treatment, had a viral load below 40 and had no other STIs, that they were very unlikely to pass on HIV. This document became known as The Swiss Statement.
Whilst The Swiss Statement didn’t directly change policy and procedure it was widely acknowledged that we’d discovered something potentially world changing, something that deserved much more research.
In 2010 a new study called PARTNER started enrolling couples. They were looking for sero-different couples where one partner was HIV positive and undetectable, and the other partner was HIV negative. They enrolled 1166 couples in total, ranging in age, ethnicity and sexuality, but most importantly these couples needed to be having condomless sex.
Yesterday the results came in, and wow.
Over the six years (and counting) the PARTNER study was running the 1116 couples recorded 58,000 condomless sex acts (lucky them) and there have been zero partner-to-partner HIV infectious. Let’s just look at that again shall we? Years worth of data on thousands of HIV negative and HIV positive undetectable couples having tens of thousands of condomless sex sessions and ZERO partner-to-partner infections. None. Nada. Zilch. Zero.
Their research also showed something we weren’t sure of before too. The presence of other STIs, and any associated viral load blips, didn’t raise infectiousness. The STIs they recorded had no impact on that zero partner-to-partner infection ratio.
It’s important to note that there were 11 infections during the PARTNER study, but those were traced to sex that happened outside their monitored relationships and not from their HIV positive undetectable partners. This was done by phylogenetic analysis which uses the genetic structure of HIV to tell researchers which person it came from.
“This study has proven what we thought we knew, what we hoped, that we are uninfectious. I can’t pass on HIV, not even via condomless sex, as long as I keep taking my medication.”
This is huge news for people living with HIV all over the world. It’s huge news for me. This study has proven what we thought we knew, what we hoped, that we are uninfectious. I can’t pass on HIV, not even via condomless sex, as long as I keep taking my medication. You really ARE safer sleeping with someone who’s HIV positive and undetectable, than with someone who thinks they’re HIV negative based on their last test goodness knows how long ago.
For people living with HIV everywhere this will have such a profound effect. It will impact the way governments and health services around the world roll out treatment programmes. It will give positive people more confidence dating negative people, and give the negative partners more security. It’ll allow sero-different couples to become more intimate, safe in the knowledge they won’t pass it on. It’ll open up more jobs to HIV positive people, jobs that were restricted based on their status. It will allow more couples to naturally conceive the children they’ve always wanted. It will cut stigma. This, this changes everything.
The message is clear: Get Tested. Get Treated. Become Uninfectious. Get on with life. And if you see me on Tinder, Scruff or any of the other countless apps – please do swipe right, I’m single and I’m uninfectious…
Check out our quick video summary here:
(Link to PARTNER study document)
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When exactly is Durin’s Day in The Hobbit?
at 5:42 am by - October 5, 20135:42 am by Demosthenes
When exactly is Durin’s Day? For various reasons, including the non-exact correlation of the Shire Calendar and our modern Gregorian calendar, it’s quite hard to know for certain.
In this extensively researched piece, DarkJackal uses Tolkien’s notes as published in John D. Rateliff’s The History of the Hobbit to explains why there are conflicting theories… and, in a very Tolkienian fashion, no definitive or easily settled upon answer.
Confusticate and Be-bother these Dates! The Durin’s Day dilemma
by DarkJackal
Having read a number of articles on Durin’s Day, including various attempts to assign a date to it within the story, and to predict it in our modern world, I feel compelled to write my own brief (ha!) essay. My approach to this is two-fold: First – take Excedrin for the headache this issue is causing. Second – quote John D. Rateliff’s The History of the Hobbit until things begin to make sense.
“It was the start of the dwarves new year, when the last moon of autumn and the first sun of winter appeared in the sky together.” – Gandalf (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)
Many Tolkien enthusiasts estimate Durin’s Day of 2941 (which Thorin Oakenshield said happens towards the end of autumn, but not necessarily the last day of autumn, as Gandalf stated in the film) to have occurred in October. You can see how they arrived at this conclusion in the following articles:
The Moon and Durin’s Day – by Lalaith
Was Smaug Slain Oct 26, 2941 TA? – by Auraran
Durin’s Day 2013 – by Ask About Middle Earth
Is Durin’s Day Upon Us? – by The Dwarrow Scholar
Timeline/Chronology for “The Hobbit” – by Douglas Wilhelm Harder
Other authors calculate that Durin’s Day in our world would happen in December, based on our own definition of Autumn:
Observing Durin’s Day – by Kristine Larsen
Predicting Durin’s Day – by Iduna
The reason for the difference of approximately two months comes from the different interpretations of the term “autumn”. Astronomically speaking, the end of autumn is around December 21 (for those in the Northern Hemisphere). If you disregard the astronomical component of it, then you could argue autumn can mean different things to different cultures. It does in our world, so why not in Tolkien’s?
Unfortunately Tolkien never created a calendar for the dwarves, and because he also says that the seasons of Middle-earth have no specific beginning or ending dates, it is possible the dwarves may view the beginning and ending of autumn as occurring on different dates than the hobbits, or elves, or men did. Unfortunately there is nothing I know of in the canon to confirm or deny this, but Tolkien did have this to say regarding the names of months used in The Lord of the Rings:
“…the seasonal implications of our names are more or less the same, at any rate in the Shire. It appears, however, that Mid-year’s Day was intended to correspond as nearly as possible to the summer solstices. In that case the Shire dates were actually in advance of ours by some ten days, and our New Year’s Day corresponded more or less to the Shire January 9.” (The Return of the King, Appendix D).
This becomes important to our discussion further on, since Tolkien uses both the Shire calendar and the Gregorian calendar in his (unpublished) notes. We also know that, at least in The Lord of the Rings, events take place “‘in the Northern Hemisphere of this earth: miles are miles, days are days, and weather is weather’” (Rateliff 827).
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Bootnote: Having read all the articles, I agree with DarkJackal, headache tablets (or whisky!) is in order. However, Rateliff seems to indicate Tolkien was leaning toward October 19 as the Gregorian date it would have occurred on in TA 2941 but just couldn’t make the numbers fit and eventually gave up. I think?
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Liver regeneration is the process by which the liver is able to replace lost liver tissue from growth from the remaining tissue. The liver is the only visceral organ that possesses the capacity to regenerate.[1][2] The liver can regenerate after either surgical removal or after chemical injury.[3] It is known that as little as 25% of the original liver mass can regenerate back to its full size.[2][4] The process of regeneration in mammals is mainly compensatory growth because only the mass of the liver is replaced, not the shape.[5] However, in lower species such as fish, both liver size and shape can be replaced.[6]
Mechanism [ edit ]
Liver regeneration involves replication of the liver cells, mainly hepatocytes, followed by other cells such as biliary epithelial cells and sinusoidal endothelial cells. Once cell proliferation is completed, the newly divided cells undergo restructuring, angiogenesis and reformation of extracellular matrix to complete the regeneration process.[2] In most cases, liver function is only partially affected during liver regeneration. Whereas certain specialized functions such as drug metabolism decrease, many other primary functions such as albumin and bile production are not substantially affected.[1]
Liver regeneration is a highly controlled process regulated by a complex network on highly redundant signals. Several signaling pathways are known to stimulate regeneration in the liver including cytokines, growth factors, hormones, and nuclear receptors.[1] Discovered and studying in vivo some natural multicomponent liver regeneration substances – hepatic stimulator substance,[7] hepatic regeneration set,[8] augmenter of liver regeneration.[9]
Function [ edit ]
The ability for the liver to regenerate is central to liver homeostasis. Because the liver is the main site of drug detoxification, it is exposed to many chemicals in the body which may potentially induce cell death and injury. The liver can regenerate damaged tissue rapidly thereby preventing its own failure. However, a predictor of the true speed of liver regeneration depends on whether Interleukin 6 has overexpression[10]. Liver regeneration is also critical for patients of liver diseases where the partial removal of the liver due to fibrosis or tumor is a common therapy that utilizes the ability of the remaining liver to generate back.[citation needed]
Experimental models [ edit ]
Two main types of models are used to study liver regeneration, including surgical removal, also referred to as partial hepatectomy (PHX), and chemical-induced liver damage. Whereas the mechanisms and kinetics of liver regeneration in these two models are different, many of the same signaling pathways stimulate liver regeneration in both pathways.[11]
References [ edit ]
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"I, Eddard of the House Stark, Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North, sentence you to die." ―Eddard Stark to Will [src]
Warden is a title bestowed upon the head of a Great House by the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. The Wardens command the armies of one of the constituent regions of the Seven Kingdoms in the name of Iron Throne for the defense of the entire realm. The Warden of a constituency is expected to lawfully command a quarter of all armies in the realm during a time of crisis.
By custom, the title is functionally hereditary. However, a Warden does not necessarily have to also be one of the Lords Paramount (rulers of the constituent regions of the realm) though this is almost always the case. For example, if an elderly or infirm ruler came to be the head of one of the Great Houses listed below, the office of Warden might be delegated to another family member young and capable enough to lead armies in the field. Likewise, if the head of one of the Great Houses listed below was too young, the office of Warden may be delegated to an older and more experienced individual.
Warden appears to be a title holding higher rank than that of "Lord Paramount." The Lords of the Stormlands and Lords of the Riverlands do not hold the title of Warden over their regions but instead submit to the Warden of their area. The Prince of Dorne is not a Warden, but has full control over their armies so it can be presumed that the Prince has the same military authority of a Warden in Dorne.
Littlefinger implies that a woman appointed to the title would be properly known as a "Wardeness".
Currently, the Wardens of the West and South have died and have yet to be officially replaced.
Current Wardens of the Seven Kingdoms
In the books
Typically, the Warden of the North defends against wildling attacks that come south of the Wall. The Warden of the West, from House Lannister, defends against coastal raids from the Iron Islands. House Greyjoy were not chosen to be Wardens, because more often than not, they are what the Warden of the West is defending against. Even though they submitted to the Iron Throne, illicit ironborn raiding would occur from time to time and would have to be suppressed. The Warden of the South, from House Tyrell, would defend against border skirmishes with Dorne, as Dorne actually retained its independence for two centuries after the Targaryen Conquest, and was only united to the realm (by marriage alliance) a century before the War of the Five Kings. This is why House Martell of Dorne is not the Warden of the South. The Warden of the East, from House Arryn, seems to have defended against raids or invasion from the Free Cities across the Narrow Sea, such as the threat during the War of the Ninepenny Kings when an invasion was mounted from the Stepstones in the Narrow Sea.
House Tully were not Wardens, probably because the Riverlands are centrally located within the realm and far from external threats. It is not clear why House Baratheon were not named as Wardens, as the Stormlands border Dorne to the south (and thus they could have been Wardens of the South), and also border the Narrow Sea like the Vale (and thus could have been Wardens of the East). The Tyrells may have been chosen as Wardens of the South due to the larger army and population of the Reach, and because more Dornish attacks may have been targeted at the fertile lands of the Reach instead of the forests of the Stormlands. House Arryn may have been chosen ahead of the Baratheons as Wardens of the East because they had to deal with contentious Hill tribes in their mountains and thus needed the military assets at their disposal to deal with them. Also, the Andal Invasion thousands of years ago began in the Vale of Arryn, so it has been used an invasion corridor across the Narrow Sea before.
After Jon Arryn died, Queen Cersei managed to convince King Robert to name her brother Jaime Lannister as the Warden of the East, because Jon's only son and heir Robert "Sweetrobin" Arryn is just a child. This greatly angered many lords in the Vale because Jaime has no connection to House Arryn or the Vale, so they begin to defiantly refer to Sweetrobin as the "True Warden of the East". Ned Stark is also opposed to Robert's decree because it puts the armies of two regions under command of a single house. Jaime, however, never actually travels to the Vale or makes any attempt to take command of the Vale's armies during these few months, and thus his hold on the title was nominal. Jaime continues to technically hold the position while he spent a full year as a prisoner of the Starks after the Battle of the Whispering Wood, although his imprisonment meant that the position was left officially vacant. The title of Warden of the East is restored to Sweetrobin by Tywin Lannister as one of the conditions of the marriage-alliance between Lysa and Petyr Baelish which brings House Arryn back into the Lannister fold. The TV series omitted this entire subplot.
Following Tywin's death, Cersei gives the title of Warden of the West to Daven Lannister, son of Ser Stafford Lannister - not because she trusts Daven, but due to an unpleasant discussion with Kevan, who rejects the post of Hand of the King after Cersei refuses to name him Lord Regent as well and relocate to Casterly Rock. Daven does not regard his appointment lightly, but he feels that his uncle Kevan should have been chosen for that office.
By the point the books reached, the four major Wardens of Westeros are as followed:
Warden of the North : Roose Bolton
: Roose Bolton Warden of the West : Daven Lannister
: Daven Lannister Warden of the East : Robert Arryn
: Robert Arryn Warden of the South: Mace Tyrell
In addition to the four major Wardens, in the books there are other lesser Wardens which control certain areas:
Warden of the Prince's Pass : Traditionally held by House Fowler of Dorne as the guardians of the Prince's Pass. Currently this title is held by Lord Franklyn Fowler.
: Traditionally held by House Fowler of Dorne as the guardians of the Prince's Pass. Currently this title is held by Lord Franklyn Fowler. Warden of the Stone Way : Traditionally held by House Yronwood of Dorne as the guardians of the Boneway. Currently this title is held by Lord Anders Yronwood.
: Traditionally held by House Yronwood of Dorne as the guardians of the Boneway. Currently this title is held by Lord Anders Yronwood. Warden of the White Knife : Traditionally held by House Manderly of the North as the guardians of the White Knife. Currently this title is held by Lord Wyman Manderly.
: Traditionally held by House Manderly of the North as the guardians of the White Knife. Currently this title is held by Lord Wyman Manderly. Warden of the Southern Marches: Created by Robb Stark for his uncle Brynden Tully in recognition for his military prowess during the War of the Five Kings. Currently held by Brynden Tully.
In The World of Ice & Fire and Fire & Blood, a fifth major Warden title called Warden of the Sands was created by Aegon the Conqueror during the First Dornish War. Jon Rosby was appointed to this position to rule Dorne in the king's name. However, the Iron Throne was defeated by the Dornishmen, stopping Aegon's attempt to disestablish the princedom of House Martell. When Dorne entered the Seven Kingdoms over a century later, the position of Warden of the Sands wasn't renewed; the Martells continued styling themselves as Princes of Dorne.
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North Korea continues to dominate the headlines amid growing concerns about its alarming advances in nuclear weapons capabilities. The incendiary rhetoric from both Washington and Pyongyang, the North’s testing of two ICBMs, and its sixth and largest nuclear test led to U.S. shows of force, including sending B-1B bombers further north of the demilitarized zone than any U.S. fighter jet or bomber has gone in the 21st century.
In the past several months, despite the tough talk about “military options” by President Trump and his senior officials, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un continues to defy the international community. Amid escalating tensions, he issued a rare, if not unprecedented, personal statement against the U.S. president, calling him “the mentally deranged U.S. dotard.” His behavior—and the ongoing U.S.-North Korea tension—is stoking fears about the possibilities of a nuclear war or a bloody military conflict.
How did we get to this point? What is driving Kim Jong-un and how can we explain North Korea’s provocative actions this summer?
An aggressive track record
Frankly, Kim has been hurtling toward these advanced nuclear weapons capabilities since he came to power in December 2011. Lately, he has been bigger, badder, and bolder.
In the past six years, Kim Jong-un has conducted four nuclear tests and tested close to 90 ballistic missiles, more than his father and grandfather combined. And in those six years, he has yet to meet with any foreign head of state—his most significant exchanges with foreigners have been with a Japanese sushi chef and U.S. basketball player Dennis Rodman. He has also rebuffed Chinese attempts to rebuild ties and refused to engage with the United States and South Korea.
His father, Kim Jong-il, on the other hand, bargained and negotiated with the United States, South Korea, and Japan, at least paid lip service on denuclearization, and maintained good ties to China, the North’s primary benefactor.
Personality matters. Kim is unlikely to back down in the face of President Trump’s public challenges and come to the negotiating table. He wants to look tough domestically and externally and show who is driving events on the Korean Peninsula. In fact, he has more national and international political leadership experience than Trump, who has been president for less than a year, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who came into office in May.
Kim’s statement calling President Trump “mentally deranged” and promising the “highest-level of the hardline countermeasures” shows that he has taken ownership of this showdown and that he alone—as the leader of North Korea—will defend the country’s survival, as well as its dignity. Kim also has a bias for action and he wants to win, as the Kim family’s former sushi chef recalled, and as Kim’s recent behavior has shown. Not only has Kim Jong-un grown up in a cocoon of indulgence and privilege, he has inherited advanced nuclear weapons that probably have enhanced and enabled his tendencies to berate and bully even the president of the United States.
Let’s not forget that the regime has shown to be extremely sensitive to any criticism about Kim Jong-un himself. For example, in 2014, the regime said that the release of the movie “The Interview”—a comedy depicting an assassination attempt against Kim—would be “an act of war.” North Korean hackers also threatened 9/11-type attacks against theaters that showed the film.
Kim probably calculated that he could cross these major thresholds without major blowback because he saw, first, an opportunity with a U.S. president who has been the subject of domestic and international criticism; and, second, a U.S.-South Korea alliance that appeared wobbly. China and Russia, meanwhile, have publicly stated that they would not allow instability on the Korean Peninsula, watering down some of the harshest aspects of U.N. sanctions and cautioning against U.S. military action against Pyongyang. This signaled to Kim that China—and Russia—would serve as a measure of protection against destabilizing sanctions and a potential U.S. or South Korean attack. Related Content North Korea Averting catastrophe: U.S. policy options for North Korea Order from Chaos Walking back from the brink with North Korea Order from Chaos Caught in the middle: How the North Korean threat is ultimately Seoul’s problem
It is important to note that Kim has been emboldened in general. He’s gotten away with a lot since December 2011: scores of missile test launches, nuclear tests, the probable VX nerve agent attack against his half brother in Malaysia, the 2015 incident involving a landmine in the demilitarized zone, the Sony hack in 2014, and the mistreatment and death of U.S. citizen Otto Warmbier. And he’s conducted several purges of senior North Korean leaders including executing his uncle, Jang Song Thaek in 2013, deterring any potential opposition to Kim’s rule.
Finally, although Kim is aggressive, that does not mean that he is reckless or a “madman.” In fact, he knows how and when to recalibrate. Note that his personal statement threatened “highest level” countermeasures in response to Trump’s threats, but he didn’t say when and he didn’t say how, consistent with Pyongyang’s past tactic of maintaining ambiguity and preserving its options, including diplomatic, kinetic, or covert activities.
Kim is highly unlikely to abandon his nuclear deterrent, as Trump’s threats gave fresh reminders of what happens to those countries when they give up nuclear weapons.
Changing the calculus
So, while we are unlikely to be headed for a nuclear war or a military conflict in the near future, we should worry about the lessons Kim is learning from this latest episode of “Kim vs. Trump” and how these lessons would increase the likelihood of a deadly confrontation or miscalculation that could quickly spiral out of control.
First, President Trump’s threats reinforce North Korea’s narrative of a “hostile” outside world and that the United States is determined to destroy North Korea. Kim is highly unlikely to abandon his nuclear deterrent, as Trump’s threats gave fresh reminders of what happens to those countries when they give up nuclear weapons. And as new generations of North Koreans come of age in a nuclear North Korea, I fear denuclearization will become a naïve dream.
Second, even if North Korea and the United States came to an agreement, Kim has no reason to think that an agreement would stick from one U.S. administration to the next, given Trump’s sharp criticism and talk of “revisiting” the Iran nuclear deal. The message is loud and clear: The United States cannot be trusted.
Third, the U.S.-South Korean alliance is not impenetrable. President Trump tweeted his criticism about the South Korea-United States free trade agreement around the time of the 4th nuclear test and accused the South Korean government of “appeasement with North Korea.”
South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2017
Finally, in North Korea’s view, China is not to be trusted, but Chinese leaders will not abandon Pyongyang because it is in Beijing’s interest to keep propping up Kim’s regime.
How do we change Kim’s calculus? How do you negotiate with someone who thinks he’s winning and doesn’t want to talk at all?
At a minimum, tone down unnecessarily inflammatory, and apparently uncoordinated, statements from President Trump. There’s no need to spoon feed the North Korean propaganda machine with easy soundbites about a “hostile” United States—or to unnerve our South Korean ally about the risks we are prepared to take with its security.
Be steady and methodical about strengthening and reinforcing Washington’s alliances with South Korea and Japan and reassuring our regional partners that the United States is serious about their security. Optics matter. North Korea is watching to exploit any cleavages in the alliance, and the Trump administration should make every effort to ensure no daylight between Washington and Seoul.
Give the latest executive order that authorizes broad secondary sanctions a chance to work. These sanctions have the potential to squeeze North Korea’s ability to earn hard currency for the regime. Sanctions that undermine Kim’s ability to reward elites and severely suppress the elites’ ability to make money for themselves or raise money for loyalty payments to the regime could make Kim more willing to consider negotiations to relieve that pressure.
Make sure to consult closely with China and Russia to keep them on board with the ever-tightening sanctions regime. Their participation is critical.
None of these is a magic bullet, but taken together and sustained over time, we could perhaps reorient Kim’s behavior and approach and create a less volatile situation on the Korean Peninsula.
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Rrose - Waterfall Variations
After two separate releases of Merchant Of Salt , on Sandwell District and Eaux, Rrose has now chosen to expose the record's B-side, "Waterfall," in its foetal form: a newly issued "Birth" mix, included here on, was actually recorded before the version released two years ago. It now arrives with a remix by Stroboscopic Artefacts' Lucy, and supplemented by a new Rrose track, "Shrouds."While the well-known original was based on a gradual blossoming of a corrosive synth that built to an orgasmic peak, the "Birth" version has space for haunting atonal murmurs that add a sense of hallucinatory ambience. Halfway through, the ghastly cries take center stage, giving an almost Boards Of Canada-like eeriness to the finish. The Lucy remix is a slow-and-steady march, made memorable by sporadic guitar-like synth hits and waves of visceral noise. The artist's signature conjuration of sophisticated sonic textures is unmistakeable during the intro and outro of the track, making these often overlooked sections perhaps the most interesting. "Shrouds" is lo-fi with starkly minimalistic percussion. Calling to mind the earlier works of Regis, it's uncharacteristically dark for Rrose.
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On Sunday, former US ambassador to the UN and recent Trump deputy secretary of state appointee, John Bolton, challenged the primary intelligence-gathering agency of the United States government, arguing that reports of Russian hacking during the presidential election may not be what they seem.
In an interview with Fox News’ Eric Shawn, the former ambassador used the phrase “false flag operation” in reference to the CIA’s purported assessment which concluded that Russia deliberately interfered with this year’s US election to help Donald Trump secure the White House.
Suggesting that the Obama administration’s lack of transparency makes it impossible to definitively conclude that the Russians were behind the hacking of US political parties, Bolton, who was reportedly appointed as Trump’s deputy secretary of state (the second highest position at the State Department), appeared to break away from his characteristically national security-first philosophy to assert a theory about foul play at the highest levels of government,
“It is not at all clear to me, just viewing this from the outside, that this hacking into the DNC and the RNC was not a false flag operation,” he told Fox News.
When asked to explain what he meant by the highly suggestive phrase “false flag,” Bolton gave a hazy answer.
“We just don’t know,” stated Bolton, refusing to say whether the US government was purposely misleading the public, or worse, had a hand in the “false flag operation.”
“But I believe that intelligence has been politicized in the Obama administration to a very significant degree,” said Bolton, adding:
If you think the Russians did this, then why did they leave fingerprints… We would want to know who else might want to influence the election and why they would leave fingerprints that point to the Russians. That’s why I say until we know more about how the intelligence community came to this conclusion we don’t know whether it is Russian inspired or a false flag
Here's the transcript, detailing the relevant part of Bolton's interview with Eric Shawn:
Bolton’s comments reflected echo the skeptical attitude of the Trump team in the wake of The Washington Post’s report on the CIA’s unsettling findings about Russia’s interference during the presidential election. Trump, himself, called the CIA’s assessment “ridiculous” in a pre-taped interview that aired Sunday.
“I think it’s just another excuse. I don’t believe it,” the president-elect told Fox News’ Chris Wallace. “Every week it’s another excuse.” Trumped added that “nobody really knows” who was behind the hacking of emails belonging to top Clinton advisors and DNC officials.
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Just after a midnight deadline that could have seen a complete shutdown of oil and gas production, Norwegian Labor Minister Hanne Bjurstroem said that the government had been forced to intervene.
"I had to make this decision to protect Norway's vital interests. It wasn't an easy choice, but I had to do it," Bjurstroem told Reuters after a last-ditch meeting with trade unions and the Norwegian oil industry association (OLF).
Norwegian law allows the government to force striking workers back to duty, if it believes there is a threat to safety or the national interest, and it has used these powers in the past. However, until the threat of a total shutdown loomed imminently, the Labor-led coalition had been reticent to do so.
Leif Sande, leader of the largest labor union Industri Energi, said the workers would return to work immediately. "It's very sad. The strike is over," he told journalists. The dispute is now set to go into a process of arbitration.
Prompt restart planned
State-controlled Statoil, which dominates the sector, said it planned an immediate resumption of all production. It had previously warned that - if it were forced into a lockout - it would be unable to honor existing contracts.
Oil accounts for roughly half of Norway's exports and offshore workers enjoy the highest salaries of any of their contemporaries across the world - a salary of some $180,000 (146,000 euros).
While the employees work for only 16 weeks in the year, they say that tough working conditions mean they should be able to retire early at 62. That age is three years before the legal retirement age in the field and five years before the national retirement age.
"It may take from 1 to 2 days to get production started and Statoil expects to have the fields back in full production within a week," the company said in a statement.
The last lockout was in 1986. A center-right conservative government stepped in to avert a lockout in 2004. In all, some 6,500 workers work on 70 extraction fields out at sea.
Norwaycurrently delivers 27 percent of all German gas imports, making the Scandinavian country the second most important supplier after Russia.
rc/slk (AFP, Reuters)
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A Chinese developer is seeking to make Auburn the site of a medical tourism complex, the Sun Journal reported.
The Shengton Group of Beijing is proposing to convert two former shoe factory buildings on Minot Avenue, now called The Barn, into an upscale residence for patients who would fly from China for medical treatment, the Lewiston newspaper said. The patients would be able to stay in the residence while they recover and get follow-up treatment.
The company completed the purchase of the buildings in July through a Maine company it created, Miracle Enterprises, the newspaper said.
One of the developers said the company was attracted by Auburn’s clean air and water and fresh food. The Sun Journal said the company would target wealthy retirees or seniors and financially stable middle-age people who would be able to afford to come to the U.S. for treatment. That treatment would include care at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston and traditional Chinese treatment at the residence.
The investors said they estimate it would cost $30 million to $40 million to renovate the buildings and develop the site.
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Karissa Haugeberg of the Tulane School of Liberal Arts studied women in the pro-life movement from the 1960s through 1990s. Her work resulted in the nationally acclaimed book 'Women Against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century.' (Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano)
A new book by Karissa Haugeberg, assistant professor in the Tulane School of Liberal Arts, sheds light on women activists’ peaceful and violent work against abortion from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Women Against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century reveals the motivations of these activists and how their beliefs and activism shaped our national conversation and policies. Drawing on archival records and interviews with prominent figures, the book examines these often neglected figures in history.
Readers might be surprised to discover that women usually initiated major changes in the anti-abortion movement. “Women created a vast network of crisis pregnancy centers, where they sought to persuade women not to have abortions. And women were more central to violent cells, both as architects of criminal conspiracies and as foot soldiers, carrying out destructive, potentially lethal campaigns,” notes Haugeberg.
When research reveals a new angle on an important issue, people take notice. The book landed on the cover of the New York Review of Books and earned reviews in The New Yorker and The Times Literary Supplement.
“Although one might assume that courses about reproductive health are rife with rancor, I’ve had the opposite experience with students at Tulane.” Karissa Haugeberg
Haugeberg serves as faculty adviser for Newcomb College Institute’s Students United for Reproductive Justice organization and draws upon her research in the classroom. “Although one might assume that courses about reproductive health are rife with rancor, I’ve had the opposite experience with students at Tulane. Instead of rehashing tired, divisive debates, they are much more invested in understanding why people have supported policies that have constrained their own economic or social potential.”
You can listen to Haugeberg discuss her research on these radio programs:
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When you take into account its purchase price and all of the consumables it requires--toner or ink, paper, imaging drums, and more--you may find that a printer is one of the most expensive pieces of IT equipment in your business.
When any one user needs access to an expensive machine only intermittently, sharing the hardware among as many users as possible makes sense. The simplest way to accomplish this in an office is to put the printer on the office network, where all network users can reach it.
There are three basic approaches to putting a printer on a network. The first is to use a printer that has networking capabilities built in. The second is to attach a printer to a separate network endpoint (a dedicated print server) that may or may not have additional features. And the third is to attach the printer to a computer workstation and share it with other network users.
Each of these methods has its own advantages and disadvantages, and each works best under specific circumstances.
Connecting a Network-Enabled Printer
The easiest type of printer to connect is one that comes with a network adapter already installed in it. If your network architecture is simple, you can have a peripheral of this type printing across the network in a matter of minutes.
If every computer in the office or home network resides in the same network space (that is, if the first three triplets in the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx IP address are the same for each machine), setting up printer sharing is quite simple. If different subnetworks exist (so that only the first two triplets are the same for every computer) the task is more complicated--but in such a case, your business probably also has a dedicated IT staff.
Often the product description accompanying printers equipped with preinstalled network adapters includes the words "network printer" or "network capable." Many printer manufacturers signal that the printer is network-ready by including the letter "n" somewhere in the model name. The network connection provided may be cable-based or wireless. Either method of data transfer will be faster than the speed at which paper can come out of the printer, so the method has no significant impact on printer performance. Network-enabled machines may be inkjets (such as the Epson B-510DN and the HP OfficeJet Pro 8000 Wireless) or lasers (such as the Dell 5130cdn and the HP CP4025dn).
The precise process for setting up a network printer for operation varies from printer to printer, but in every case a couple of basic steps must be completed.
The first is to decide whether to assign the printer its own static (never-changing) address on the network or to allow the network's Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server to assign it an address, as it does for all the desktop and mobile clients on the network.
If you decide to accept DHCP, you're likely done with the printer's network setup. If not, you must ensure that the network address you assign to the printer isn't already assigned to any other device, and won't be assigned by DHCP. This generally means choosing an address high in the range of available options--say, 200 or above. (xxx.xxx.xxx.200). If you don't know which addresses have already been assigned on your network or what range the DHCP server uses, you're almost certainly better off letting DHCP handle address selection for you.
Once the printer is online, you can begin connecting to it from various workstations. In XP, Vista, or Windows 7, the process is similar to the one for establishing a direct printer connection. In the Control Panel, choose Printers, Add New Printer, Network Printer, and then allow the wizard to browse for printers.
You should see the new printer in the list that Windows provides, probably with a name indicating its brand and model number. If you were able to select a name in the printer options while setting up the printer, you'll see that name. Select the printer name and click add. The operating system will select the proper driver from the list of installed drivers, and you'll be ready to print.
If you don't see the printer identified in the browser wizard, check the computer's firewall settings. If you ratchet up a computer's security settings too high, the system won't permit the traffic necessary to discover and report on printer status. If this happens, you can temporarily lower the firewall settings to a more permissive level, install the printer, and raise the security settings to their previous high level.
Using a network-capable printer is the simplest way to make printing available across your network. Though the cost of network capability has come down, it does add to the purchase price of the printer, and--depending on the printer--it may encourage broader use of more-expensive print services, such as color printing.
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Yesterday I'd heard from a friend that the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush would be off the coast of Kennebunkport sunday morning. So rising early and always wanting to be a witness to fiscally responsible conservatives, Mr. PB and I headed down to the beach. Sure enough there was an aircraft carrier on the horizon. George the 1st is having a birthday tuesday and someone thought it would be neat for him to visit a big boat.
Bush and his wife, Barbara, along with their son, former President George W. Bush, and his wife, Laura, will fly to the carrier on Sunday morning, accompanied by other family members and security.
The Bushes will take photos with crew members, and other family members who haven't been on board before will be given tours.
Mr. PB and I watched as four helicopters flew up and down the surrounding beaches making sure the coast was clear, probably waiting for the Bushes to finish breakfast before at least one landed at Walker's Point to pick them up and fly them out to the ship. They probably spent about an hour aboard before flying home. Security as always was tight employing local (my tax dollars) as well as federal (our tax dollars) officers. Six hours later helicopters are still buzzing overhead costing money. The Portland Press Herald has more: And I surely don't want to forget this:
The Carrier Mission is:
To provide a credible, sustainable, independent forward presence and conventional deterrence in peacetime.
To operate as the cornerstone of joint/allied maritime expeditionary forces in times of crisis.
To operate and support aircraft attacks on enemies, protect friendly forces and engage in sustained independent operations in war.
To provide pleasure trips and photo-ops for the Bush family in Kennebunkport.
Did I mention that the USS George H.W. Bush cost 6.2 BILLION dollars? George the lesser awarded the contract to Northrop Grumman on January 26, 2001 as one of his first orders of business after his appointment to office. And why is it off the coast of Maine when "we are a nation at war?" I mean shouldn't it be somewhere like the Strait of Hormuz? Isn't Iran a dire threat of smoking guns and mushroom clouds?
So the next time you see John Bonehead crying his crocodile tears over the state of our economy, or any of the other hypocritical bloviaters screaming about democratic spending on infrastructure or programs that benefit the poor it is my hope that you will remember how the Bush family spent their sunday morning. Oh to be the idle rich playing with their boats and whirlybirds on the taxpayers dime. When it comes to republicans wasting our money.... "Mission Accomplished."
Well my diary, which I expected to scroll away, certainly sparked some interest and good debate. My apologies to those who thought I was being petty. That was not my intent. Thank you all for stopping by as I certainly value everyone's opinion.
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Kristof Goddaert (IAM Cycling) was killed on Tuesday in Antwerp after suffering a crash during a training ride. According to Nieuwsblad.be, the 27-year-old Belgian crashed while training, apparently due to his front wheel being caught in train tracks, and then was fatally struck by a bus while still on the ground. Related Articles Tour of Oman riders remember Kristof Goddaert
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"We think first of his family and loved ones to whom we offer our sincere condolences and assure of our support during this terrible ordeal," said a devastated IAM Cycling General Manager Michel Thétaz.
"We lost Kristof Goddaert, an exemplary professional rider and a man of quality. He came to us in December of 2012 with the desire to meet us and to take on a new challenge. His constant good mood, everyday enthusiasm and willingness to fully engage in all endeavors were very much appreciated qualities.
"He had used the Tour of Qatar to hone his shape ahead of the Spring Classics, but this tragic fate will prevent him from realizing his dreams. To honor his memory, IAM Cycling will continue to race with ten times as much desire to win given that he can no longer compete because he has moved on to eternal life."
Goddaert most recently competed in the 2014 Tour of Qatar, where he finished 34th overall. He had been a professional for eight years, with stints at Davitamon-Win for Life, Topsport Vlaanderen and AG2R La Mondiale prior to his moving to IAM Cycling in 2013.
Goddaert had one win in his professional palmares, stage 3 at the 2010 Tour de Wallonie, and other career highlights included second place to Tom Boonen in the 2012 Belgian road championships, 3rd in the 2009 Belgian road chamionships behind Boonen and Philippe Gilbert, 3rd in Paris-Bruxelles (2009), 5th in Le Samyn (2010), 8th place in Gent-Wevelgem (2011), 9th in Paris-Tours (2008) and 10th in Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne (2011).
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At Alexandria Brewing Company, we share the same belief; you achieve true happiness by making others around you happy. Our mission is to create an honest company that gives back and treats all people involved like we would want to be treated. We want to build a business on the foundation of integrity.
We plan to tap into the Alexandria and Greater Cincinnati communities by sharing good company, celebrating rock and roll while also enjoying great beer at a family-friendly establishment.
With your pledge, you will help us create a taproom and German-styled biergarten for the community, while also taking advantage of some wicked cool rewards we have listed below.
We look forward to sharing a pint with you soon, cheers!
Read more of our story at www.alexandriabrewingcompany.com .
Gimme the goods! How do I back ABC?
Create a Kickstarter account
Log in using your email + password
Click the reward(s)
Share our project! We don’t get a penny unless we meet our goal.
Why Back ABC?
You can:
be a part of opening Alexandria’s first brewery since the 1880’s.
contribute to the development of the city and the community through small business.
help establish a thriving, craft beer local community.
assist in the creation of a place that brings a sense of community and celebrates the history of Alexandria and surrounding areas.
earn some sweet rewards, starting at the $10 level.
What will ABC will use the money for?
The money we raise from this campaign will be used to get this project off the ground. We will be able to secure the desired location in the heart of Alexandria.
Taproom. We plan to renovate an existing building on the property into a community taproom, with a home-like feel, where people can find good company and great beer. Your support will be able to help outfit our taproom and create a space for all to enjoy.
Rewards
Thank you in advance for supporting ABC!
Below you will find all the sweet swag + experiences we have lined up!
Keep in mind if you back this project, Kickstarter only allows you to pledge to one reward, so be sure to check out all the combined reward packages.
The following two events described are bonus rewards for individuals who pledge above a specified dollar amount:
Backers Beer Bash
ABC will host an annual anniversary beer bash in their biergarten to celebrate good company, great beer and the people who have supported ABC since inception. We want to add your name to the guest list, so don’t wait! Must pledge $100 minimum to qualify for this bonus reward.
Soft Opening Soiree
Prior to the grand opening of the taproom, ABC will host a soft opening event that you don’t want to miss! This is your chance to experience our brewery before anyone else. You will be able to come out, try some beer and help shape ABC to serve you better. Must pledge $200 minimum to quality for this bonus reward.
READY, SET, PLEDGE!
ABC Sticker
Pledge $10 or more
Slap this bad boy somewhere to help show people you are bringing this brewery to life!
ABC Glassware
Pledge $15 or more
Enjoy a cold beverage in our exclusive branded glassware. Your choice of a pint or tulip glass.
Kickstarter Pint Glass
Kickstarter Belgian Tulip
ABC Tee
Pledge $25 or more
Wear a branded ABC tee of your choice with pride and don’t forget to get one for a friend! Your choice of a men’s black tee or a ladies slim fit blend tee in red heather. Please indicate shirt size when you submit your shipping information after the campaign ends.
Men’s sizes: medium-XXL
Men's Kickstarter Shirt
Ladies sizes: small-XL (sizes run small)
Ladies Kickstarter Shirt (hop pick on back)
ABC Growler + Glassware Set
Pledge $50 or more
A.K.A, Cincy Brewcast Special. With this pledge, you will get ABC’s exclusive swing-top growler and your choice of two pint or tulip glasses. Both items include ABC’s logos. Limited to 25 backers.
Limited Edition A.B.C Growler Set
ABC Hoodie
Pledge $75 or more
Rock this comfy zip-up hoodie in style. Includes ABC logos.
Please indicate hoodie size when you submit your shipping information at the end of our Kickstarter.
Unisex sizes: small-XXL
A.B.C Zip-Up Hoodie
ABC Bomber Club
Pledge $100 or more
Earn ABC Bomber Club status. You will receive the ABC Bomber Club card with the limited addition glassware set for a great experience guaranteed for every limited beer release. This membership guarantees you 6 bombers (maximum 3 releases). ABC will email you before each limited release and you can use your Bomber Club Card to reserve 2 bombers at no charge, or if the release doesn’t interest your tastes, you can wait for the next release opportunity. Bomber Club members will also have the benefit of reserving 4 additional bombers at regular price during any release.
This exclusive club card will ship at a later date.
Plus:
ABC Sticker
Your choice of ABC pint or tulip glass (x2)
*Invitation to ABC’s Backers Beer Bash
Sapper Club Stein
Pledge $200 or more
This pledge earns you this stunning hand-crafted, 24-ounce stein made by the Little Delaware Pottery Company. Each stein is individually numbered by the artist. When you back us at this level, ABC will give $2 off flagship beers when you visit. Plus, we can even fill it with select flagship beers.
Plus:
ABC Sticker
Your choice ABC pint or tulip glass (x2)
Choice of ABC T-Shirt
ABC Bomber Club Membership Card
*Invitation to ABC’s Backers Beer Bash
*Invitation to ABC’s Soft Opening Soiree
ABC Brick
Pledge $500 or more
With this pledge, you will become an ABC Introductory Engineer and get your name inscribed on a brick in our biergarten. You will receive early access to our annual Backers Beer Bash, in which we will celebrate our backers, such as you! Be sure to include how you would like your name inscribed on your brick when you submit your shipping information.
Plus:
ABC Sticker
Your choice ABC pint or tulip glass (x2)
Choice of ABC T-Shirt
Limited Edition ABC Swing-Top Growler
ABC Hoodie
Sapper Club Stein
*Invitation to ABC’s Backers Beer Bash
*Invitation to ABC’s Soft Opening Soiree
Brew with Brewer
Pledge $1500 or more
That’s right! Experience the day in the life of a brewer when you pledge at this level. This is the ultimate ‘beer geek’ experience for you or the beer lover in your life. You will get to spend the day with ABC’s president and head brewer, Andy, and learn how to brew on a professional system. You will get the chance to design your own beer and brew it on our pilot system. You also get to name it (pending TTB approval). Once your beer has completed fermentation, ABC will keg it and serve it in our taproom. You better believe you will get the first glass, on us. If successful, your beer will become a part of our seasonal rotation. If this happens and we bottle it, we will give you one case of it at release and you will be included at our release celebration. We are ultra-flexible picking your brewing day.
Plus:
ABC Sticker
Your choice ABC pint or tulip glass (x2)
Limited Edition ABC Swing-Top Growler
ABC Hoodie
ABC Bomber Club Membership Card
Sapper Club Stein
Inscribed Brick in our Biergarten
*Invitation to ABC’s Backers Beer Bash
*Invitation to ABC’s Soft Opening Soiree
Private Pre-Party
Pledge $2000 or more
ABC will throw a pre-opening private party for you and 9 guests on a night of your choice. We will provide a catered meal via a local food truck, brewery tour, samples of completed beer, as well as some ‘still working in the fermenter’ beers. ABC’s president and head brewer, Andy, will be on hand to answer any questions you may have. Certainly a night to remember in the newest spot in town!
Great idea for any type of event; bachelor / bachelorette party, rehearsal dinner, business meeting, etc.
Limited to 10 donations. If you are interested in this option, but feel like you need a larger group than 10, please contact ABC’s CFO, Brain Fish at [email protected]. We are willing to work with you to make this worth every penny.
Plus:
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Verizon Wireless Puts Samsung Galaxy Tab™ in Stores in November
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and DALLAS, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) today announced the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy Tab™ will be available Nov. 11 for $599.99. Running on Android™ 2.2, the Samsung Galaxy Tab features a brilliant 7-inch touch screen; robust HTML Web browsing experience with full support for Adobe® Flash® 10.1 for video and mobile gaming; and a 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird Application processor.
"This is an incredible time in mobile technology, and as a company we're excited to add the Samsung Galaxy Tab to our portfolio," said Marni Walden, vice president and chief marketing officer for Verizon Wireless. "The Samsung Galaxy Tab brings together the reliability of Verizon Wireless' 3G network and the power of Android 2.2 to deliver on our promise of providing consumers and business customers with a host of options to help manage their lives."
Popular mobile applications, including V CAST Music and V CAST Song ID, VZ Navigator®, Slacker Radio, Kindle for Android, BLOCKBUSTER On Demand® presented by V CAST Video, and the exclusive golf game, "Let's Golf," will be available on the Samsung Galaxy Tab. In addition to text, picture and video messaging, the Samsung Galaxy Tab will also feature V CAST Apps, Verizon Wireless' mobile storefront offering hundreds of applications for businesses and consumers at launch.
Verizon Wireless customers can add a monthly access plan beginning at $20 a month for 1 GB on their Samsung Galaxy Tab. For additional features and specifications on the Samsung Galaxy Tab, visit www.verizonwireless.com/galaxytab.
For additional information on Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com.
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DONALD Trump wasn’t the only holder of an honorary degree from a Scottish institution to court criticism.
ROBERT MUGABE
Robert Mugabe was stripped of his honorary degree from the University of Edinburgh earlier last decade. Photo: Jesse Awalt
During the early 1980s, Mugabe was awarded an honorary degree for services to African education by the University of Edinburgh,
Twenty-three years after it was awarded to the oppressive ruler, Mugabe’s degree was revoked by the same institution off the back of concerns over human rights injustices which he has presided over.
The removal of this award made him the first international personality to be stripped of an honorary degree by a British university.
SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH While the nature of Attenborough’s accomplishments is not controversial, the face of countless wildlife documentaries is believed to hold at least 32 honorary doctorates from universities across the UK, making him Britain’s most academically awarded celebrity.
Sir David Attenborough has approximately 32 degrees to his name. Image: Sarah Ward
When asked by the media as to why he accepts the degrees, the broadcaster and naturalist said: “It’s a compliment from the academic world. It’s a real compliment - it would be churlish not to accept one.”
DONALD TRUMP
Back in 2010, Trump was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Business Administration at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, thanks largely to his company’s efforts in building the Trump golf resort in Menie, Aberdeenshire.
Now, the US presidential candidate’s qualification has come under fire from more than 17,000 signatories who are demanding that the university strip him of the qualification following his intent to ban Muslims from entering America if elected.
Calls against Trump have intensified after a series of “unrepentant, persistent verbal attacks on various groups of people based on nationality, religion, race and physical abilities” have been made during his campaign speeches and he has since had his degree removed.
RICHARD DAWKINS
The outspoken evolutionary biologist was rewarded with an honorary degree from the University of Aberdeen 150 years after Charles Darwin had published his magnum opus “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection”.
While the November 2009 award was widely accepted, some religious and social organisations opposed the Doctor of Science award because of its recognition of Darwinian principles.
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI
Scotland’s oldest university bestowed upon the ex-Iranian President the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in 2006, amid protests from the National Union of Students regarding his country’s questionable human rights record.
Khatami’s speech focused on compassion without borders, with then-Scottish Conservative MEP Struan Stevenson describing Khatami’s St Andrews as a “slur on Scotland”.
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Julia Greenshields is back for a brief stay in her hometown before rejoining the Rugby Canada national women’s program in B.C.
Where is she spending most of her free time during her two-week stint in Sarnia?
On the rugby pitch, of course.
“It keeps me busy, it keeps me in shape while I’m here anyways,” she said. “I like keeping on grass, especially when it comes to injuries to help rehab and stay fit while I’m here. You learn when you coach, too.”
Greenshields, 23, has been helping out various local sides, including the Sarnia Saints U14 and U16 boy’s teams that brought medals back from a 7s tournament in Oakville last weekend.
On Tuesday at Norm Perry Park, she was offering some tips to the U18 girls. She took in one of their matches last week and noted a need to work on tackling, staying in a line defensively, and passing.
“Something to work on,” she said. “They’re young.”
Greenshields played for the Saints for a few seasons until moving out to Victoria – that’s where Rugby Canada centralizes the national teams – and has remained based out of the west coast since January 2012.
The former Queen Elizabeth II and St. Clair student was eligible but ultimately wasn’t selected to be part of the Canadian Pan Am Games 7s entry that won gold over the U.S., partly due to a recent sprained ankle she suffered in practice in April. With the aid of rehab and an ankle brace, though, she’s back in action now.
In Victoria, her schedule usually consists of six-days-a-week training featuring sprints, skills, weightlifting and general conditioning.
“Long days for us,” she said with a chuckle.
The national team competes in a series of tours in locations such as Dubai, Atlanta, Brazil, China and London.
The most recent tour stop she participated in was in Amsterdam in May with the developmental side called the Maple Leafs. There they won the championship, defeating Ireland in the final.
“A really cool experience,” she said.
Carded as a Canadian player, Greenshields has played with both the main team and the developmental side at times.
Overall, Canada’s women are ranked second after New Zealand, she added.
Despite the fact Greenshields plays 7s, which will be in the 2016 Olympics, she is still able to pass on some useful tips to Sarnia’s 15s sides, such as the U18 group.
“It’s a different game, but still requires a lot of the same skills,” she pointed out.
Greenshields’ first exposure to 7s was while attending her first year at Western University in 2011. She was invited to a Maple Leafs’ tournament in Barbados, and after a strong performance the coach invited her to continue competing with them in Dubai.
“I couldn’t say no,” she recalled.
On the last day of that competition, she was offered the opportunity to move to B.C. and join the national team on a full-time basis.
It was a great opportunity, sure, but not an easy decision to leave family, friends and school behind.
“It was really tough,” she said. “You give up a lot and other people give up a lot, too.
“You put a lot on hold, and it’s weird now that I’m 23 all of my peers from Sarnia are graduating university and they’re on their way to other careers, right? And I mean, I can’t take back anything, I love what I do and I’m so, so grateful and I’ve got a lot to be thankful for. So, no regrets but it was definitely a tough decision.”
Looking ahead, the Canadians reconvene in August with several months of intensive training leading up to the next tour in December in Dubai.
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Restricts total expenditures on marriages
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly adopted a landmark piece of legislation on Thursday, barring a bride’s family members, relatives and outsiders from making dowry payments to the groom and his family.
The law also restricts the maximum value of gifts given to the bride by her parents, family members or any other person to Rs10,000. It is now illegal for anyone from the groom’s family or anyone on their behalf to ask or force the bride’s family for dowry. If they still do, they shall be liable to a two-month prison term and a fine of Rs300,000 or both.
The law titled, ‘the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Dowry, Bridal Gift and Marriage Functions Restriction Act, 2017,’ states that the total expenditures on marriages, including on baarats or valimas shall not exceed Rs75,000 and other ceremonies, including nikah, baraat or valima shall be concluded before 10pm.
Anti dowry campaign: Constant effort against gender violence called for
Similarly, the law restricts the valima to a one-dish banquet of rice, gravy and sweets. It also states that a person or family celebrating the nikah or baraat or organising the marriage ceremony of other person shall not serve or allow anyone to meals or other edibles, excluding beverages, to people participating in the ceremony.
Under the law, anyone who contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of this law shall be liable to pay a fine not less than Rs200,000 and an imprisonment term not exceeding two months.
The bill, tabled by the Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) Rashda Riffat, was unanimously adopted by the house.
Services of more than 3,000 employees of the health and irrigation departments were regularised after the adoption of two separate laws tabled by Pakistan Peoples Party lawmaker Sardar Fakhar Azam Khan.
The assembly also adopted a resolution asking the provincial government to include chapters on the life of celebrated humanitarian and charity founder Abdul Sattar Edhi in textbooks taught in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Expensive weddings
Concerns on Fata reforms
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) expressed concern over the five-year plan for merging the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) into the province.
Senior Minister for Irrigation Sikandar Sherpao of QWP objected over the delay, saying that the assembly had passed resolutions asking the federal government for an immediate merger.
“We want local government elections in Fata this year and general elections next year in accordance with the committee’s report,” he said, adding that the cabinet had adopted the report with a five-year delay in the merger was an injustice with the people of Fata.
The provincial minister for public health engineering Shah Farman of PTI also condemned the delay and accused the federal government of dishonesty.
“We see the delay … with suspicion and we view it as the federal government’s dishonesty … We condemn this move,” he said.
Will dowry deaths never end?
Opposition leader Maulana Lutfur Rahman of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) said that the people of Fata should have been consulted before the decision.
“This can be done via a referendum,” he said, adding that all stakeholders should be taken onboard while making decisions regarding the future of Fata.
Financial crisis
Rahman also criticised the PTI-led government over the financial crisis in the province, saying that if the government continued to move at the same pace, the next governments would not have enough money for development projects.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 3rd, 2017.
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Harbour Updates - November 30, 2017
Dean Eigenmann Blocked Unblock Follow Following Nov 30, 2017
Since our last update showing some of the things the Harbour Project team has been working on, we have yet again been busy at work on a number of fronts. Since it’s been awhile, we decided it is time to update our community again.
New Design Language
Some of you may have already noticed that the Harbour Project has gotten a fresh new face. This came with a series of changes we decided to make as part of our branding overhaul. Including our renaming from Harbour Protocol to Harbour Project, which we decided was needed as the project has turned into a lot more than just a protocol.
With our redesign comes a fresh new logo, this fits the new image we are going for much better. Our goal is to display a more friendly and approachable image.
Along with the new logo our website has been updated too, you can see the new design over at harbourproject.io.
Whitepaper Draft
Along with our new website, we have recently released an early draft of our whitepaper. This can also be found on the newly updated website, we are updating it repeatedly so we would love to hear your feedback!
Project Outreach
Along with design changes, we have been working on reaching out to various projects talking to them and on boarding some of them to use Harbour in their respective projects.
Fee Manager
Additionally, we have decided to open source our project called feemanager. It is an in development project for easily charging fees on function executions in solidity smart contracts. We are still working on updating it to get it to optimal functionality as well as adding support for fees to be charged in ERC20 tokens.
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The recent Sony attack over the Christmas season sparked up a debate over the danger of cyberattacks across various fields. Notably, the area of critical infrastructure is of very high concern to many. And for a good reason – not too long ago, even the Director of the National Security Agency, Admiral Michael S. Rogers, warned the Congress that China and “probably one or two other” countries have the capability of shutting down the U.S. power grid – an event that would dwarf the 2003 Northeastern blackout.
Rogers further claims that they observe these countries “attempting to steal information on how our systems are configured, the very schematics of most of our control systems, down to engineering level of detail so they can look at where are the vulnerabilities, how are they constructed, how could I get in and defeat them.”
The main problem with preparing for a cyberattack is the fact that, unlike, let’s say, nuclear weapons, you cannot observe the development of “cyberweapons.” As Andrew T. Phillips, an academic dean of the U.S. Naval Academy points out, “the development of offensive cyber weapons is very hard to actually see. It might be occurring in the room next to you, and you’ll be unlikely to know it.” Not surprisingly, it is very difficult deter a threat whose origin we don’t know.
The North American electric grid contains about 476,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines, accompanied by thousands of power plants. Combine this with the fact that in 2012, there were about 198 cyberattacks on the U.S. critical infrastructure, of which 41% targeted the energy sector, and you can see why this issue is high on everyone’s list of priorities, points out Scott DePasquale of Utilidata.
Over the next five years, our grid will be turning into a “smart grid,” a modernized, automated electrical grid, capable of gathering and responding to information, including its use, supply and more. This step will present both new benefits and new challenges. According to DePasquale, however, there is some good news: “[the] demand for significant research and development efforts in this area are already resulting in significant investments being made by both the private sector and academia — and there is no doubt we have enough innovation and talent to overcome the challenge.”
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Justin Dunning has torn his ACL and will miss the 2016 season.
Texas A&M had been fortunate this fall camp in that there were no impact players out with major injuries. However, that changed earlier this week.
On Monday, sophomore safety Justin Dunning went down with an apparent knee injury. He was taken off the field and there had not been an update since.
After Thursday's practice, though, head coach Kevin Sumlin told the media that the 6-foot-4, 220-pound defender had torn his ACL and will miss the season.
Texas A&M HC Kevin Sunlin said Justin Dunning has torn his ACL and is done for the year. Will have surgery next week. — Travis L. Brown (@Travis_L_Brown) August 19, 2016
Dunning, who was serving as a backup to Donovan Wilson at nickel, was expected to be a big contributor this year. As a true freshman a year ago, he played in 11 games, totaling 20 tackles and an interception.
Dunning can use his redshirt season in 2016 and still have three year of eligibility remaining. However, due to a history of knee injuries, Sumlin says Dunning will evaluate his football future once he recovers from the ACL tear.
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If recent rumours are to be believed, then the Import/Export DLC released for GTA Online in December is going to the be the last one, and barring a few updates, Rockstar are going to stop supporting the title as the release of Red Dead Redemption 2 draws closer.
Yan 2295, who has leaked quite credible information related to Rockstar and their games in the past, such as leaking Red Dead Redemption 2 or recently reporting that an LA Noire remaster might be on its way, recently talked about this in a blog post, saying that Rockstar will be releasing updates for a while “just to keep it alive” but nothing else apart from that.
“GTA Online updates are going to slow down this year,” he said, “to then stop around the time RDR2 will release. Apparently Rockstar North is “divided” in 4 parts as of right now,” he further added. “Some people are helping San Diego with RDR2, some people started working on the next GTA, and some people are working on another game. So you’re left with only a few people to work on GTA Online. You can’t have updates as big as we had in the past when you have 4x less devs working on GTA Online, that’s just impossible.”
Take this with a grain of salt for now, but it does make sense. Stay tuned and we’ll keep you updated.
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The St. Louis Blues aren't ready to cut ties with Russia-bound forward Vladimir Sobotka just yet.
The 27-year-old restricted free agent signed a three-year contract with Omsk of the KHL earlier this week after he couldn't come to an agreement with the Blues. But the team and Sobotka’s camp have plans to meet again on July 21 in Toronto for a club-elected arbitration hearing.
The arbiter’s ruling will set Sobotka’s salary for the season in which he returns to the NHL ... whenever that may be.
It's another odd turn in a relationship that didn't need to go sour. Sobotka is coming off a season in which he set a career-high with nine goals and 33 points and led the league in face-off winning percentage (61.9). Add in the immeasurable grit and competitiveness he brought to every shift and it was clear that he deserved a significant raise over the expiring deal that paid him $1.4 million. After several proposals from both sides were rejected, the Blues made a final offer of one year at $2.7 million. Sobotka held firm at $3 million.
It was easy for the player to draw a line in the sand considering that he had the KHL option in his back pocket all along. But it turns out the multi-year Russian offer was nowhere near as lucrative as the $4 million per season that was originally reported. Instead, an agent says it pays Sobotka just $8.5 million over three years, with $2.5 million coming in 2014-15. Taking state and federal taxes into consideration, he's still making more in Russia despite the lower dollar amount, but the minimal difference paints a picture of a principled stand rather than a cash grab.
That is what makes the arbitration hearing so interesting. Sobotka has an out-clause that allows him to return to the NHL, but the ruling would have to swing heavily in his favor to make it worth his while. And there's still some question as to who will represent him at the hearing. Sobotka switched agents at least twice last season, from Petr Svoboda to Stephen Bartlett to another agent named Petr Svoboda.
Whichever fancy suit shows up has plenty of ammo to make his case. And if the Blues are lucky, he'll beat them silly enough to expedite Sobotka's eventual return.
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SINGAPORE - Officers who provide security protection to the president and other senior political leaders have been reminded to make sure their security convoys comply with traffic rules, without compromising the safety and security of the VIPs they are escorting.
A joint statement to clarify this was issued to The Straits Times on Friday (Dec 22) by the Land Transport Authority and police after an image was widely shared on Wednesday of a uniformed LTA officer apparently enforcing traffic rules on transport for President Halimah Yacob.
The car in the image was part of the Police Security Command (SecCom) detail for the President, which got netizens speculating if it had been ticketed for an infringement.
No summons was issued, according to the LTA statement, which also elaborated on what had happened in the incident.
It said an LTA enforcement officer was conducting a routine patrol along Prinsep Street at 4.15pm on Wednesday when he spotted two vehicles waiting along a stretch marked with double yellow lines.
The offence of parking a vehicle where there are unbroken double yellow lines can draw a fine beginning at $70.
The LTA officer approached one of the vehicles to ask the driver to move his vehicle, in line with LTA's approach to enforcing this regulation, said the statement.
The driver told the officer he was there to pick up the President. During the course of their conversation, she arrived and was driven away without a summons being issued.
SecCom provides security protection for the President and other senior political leaders.
The joint statement said: "As part of the security protection operations, the vehicle convoy is to be positioned close to the event location in compliance with traffic rules, to facilitate swift evacuation during contingencies.
"In this case, the SecCom ground commander had made a decision for the convoy to wait there for the President as there were no street-side parking lots available in the immediate vicinity which would have allowed the convoy to come quickly to the scene in the event of an emergency.
"The police have reviewed this incident with LTA. SecCom officers have been reminded to park the convoy in compliance with traffic rules, without compromising their mission to ensure the safety and security of those they are escorting."
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Next month, Frank Castle and Matt Murdock will battle each other for the soul of Hell’s Kitchen in Daredevil season 2, but it won’t be the first time the Man Without Fear has gone up against the Punisher. Want to know more about Daredevil and Punisher’s long history together before the show returns? Here’s a few comics you should read.
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The Bully
Issue: Daredevil #257 (1988)
By: Ann Nocenti, John Romita Jr., Al Willamson
There’s a certain formula to a Daredevil and Punisher crossover. Frank and Matt both end up tailing the same criminal, they argue whether bringing them to trial or just murdering them instead is the right thing to do, they punch each other a bit, agree to disagree and team up, and bag the criminal in the end. “The Bully” is no different, but with some interesting twists.
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This story is curious because of its shifting perspectives—it’s actually a retelling of a story told in The Punisher #10, released the same month as Daredevil #257, except from the perspective of Daredevil and the criminal he and Punisher are both on the hunt for, Alfred Coppersmith. In a move that’s tonally perfect for the characters, each issue paints Coppersmith in a different light based on each vigilante’s worldview. In Punisher #10, Coppersmith is a simple, villainous entity—a murderer and threat that has to be eliminated, like so many of Frank’s foes. But in Daredevil, Nocenti has Matt investigate why Coppersmith turned to crime, revealing a picture of a man angry at an evolving world around him, and making him a more sympathetic figure who deserves the right to a day in court.
When Daredevil and Punisher inevitably come to blows, we get to see it from Coppersmith’s perspective, his own internal monologue painting Matt and Frank, and their strange relationship with each other, in a different light.
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Daredevil vs. Punisher: Means & Ends
Issues: Daredevil vs. Punisher #1-6, 2005/2006
By: David Lapham, Studio F, Chris Eliopoulos
The Punisher wants to fight crime through murder; Daredevil wants to fight it through the court of law. These diametric opposites sit at the heart of virtually every tale about the two characters. It’s a debate between the morality and ethics of heroism and vigilantism. Means & Ends doesn’t particularly offer anything fresh on that age-old clash between Punisher and Daredevil, but Lapham (best known for his excellent crime-focused independent series Stray Bullets) executes the familiar story incredibly well.
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Set in a Hell’s Kitchen without the Kingpin, Frank and Matt begrudgingly find themselves both trying to bring down Hammerhead and Jackal, who have usurped the neighborhood’s criminal operations. Lapham doesn’t just offer a deep examination the different moralities Daredevil and Punisher represent—There’s also a superb throughline, which looks at the impact the two characters have on the ordinary people of Hell’s Kitchen. It’s a sort of tragic, human crime drama that wouldn’t look out of place in the pages of Stray Bullets.
Many stories about Matt and Frank together are laser-focused on having the two vigilantes debate, bounce off, and fight each other—Means & Ends might not have much new to say on that debate, but it’s a well-crafted take with the added bonus of bringing a wider perspective to the moral battle between the characters.
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The Omega Effect
Issues: Avenging Spider-Man #6, Punisher #10, Daredevil #11 (2012)
By: Mark Waid, Greg Rucka, Marco Chechetto, Matt Hollingsworth, Joe Caramagna
The Omega Effect shakes up the typical Daredevil/Punisher team-up by throwing in a character with ties to them both: Spider-Man. Peter Paker’s presence naturally lends a slightly lighter tone to this short saga than many of Daredevil or Punisher’s past outings together, in which Daredevil comes into possession of a flash drive filled with information on the biggest criminal organizations of the Marvel universe. It’s a refreshing team-up from most of their stories. in which even the Punisher can’t kill people, thanks to the presence of Daredevil and Spider-Man on his shoulders advocating a non-violent solution for what to do with the drive.
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It’s strange to have an adventure with Matt and Frank that feels fun rather than needlessly grim. It works here by turning the usual debate between Punisher and Daredevil about their approaches on its head, Instead of the usual Matt-Frank fisticuffs, the battle takes place between Matt and Rachel Cole, the ally/apprentice that Punisher had taken on in Rucka’s series. Daredevil sees her as a proto-Punisher that he could redeem, unlike the lost cause of Frank.
Welcome Back Frank: Devil by the Horns
Issue: The Punisher #3 (2000)
By: Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, Jimmy Palmiotti , Chris Sotomayer, Richard Starkings, and Wes Abbott
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Devil by the Horns, a small part of Ennis’ larger, stellar “Welcome Back Frank” arc, is one thing we know the show is definitely going to pay homage to—and there’s good reason for that. It’s perhaps the most iconic of all Daredevil and Punisher team-ups, and unlike many of the duo’s encounters, the Punisher actually gets to come out on top.
Ennis was totally nailing Frank Castle’s character during his run, but this crossover with Daredevil really drove it home early on in the series. Like most of their crossovers, it involved the two characters tracking down the same criminal, mob boss Dino Gnucci. Although Daredevil begins with the upper hand, easily beating Frank up, the tables quickly turn. After being knocked unconscious, Matt is tied up in chains and given a revolver by Frank. It’s the ultimate test of his morals: either shoot and kill Frank to save Gnucci, or spare Frank and watch him assassinate Gnucci. It leads to the most famous dialogue between the two, and in one masterful page, sums up how Ennis understood everything about the Punisher:
Punisher: If you don’t shoot you’ve got a death on your conscience. A death you could have prevented. If you do shoot, you’re a killer. Daredevil: What kind of choice is that...? Punisher: The one I make every time I pull the trigger.
If you’re especially looking to know more about The Punisher before Daredevil season two, this is the story to read.
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The Devil in Cell Block D
Issues: Daredevil #82—#87, (2006)
By: Ed Brubaker, Michael Lark, Frank D’Armata, Cory Petit
Most Daredevil and Punisher stories are about posing Matt and Frank as complete opposites in their actions and morals, but this story from Brubaker and Lark’s run on Daredevil puts a different spin on the pair’s relationship by focusing on how Frank Castle really sees Daredevil.
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The culmination of Brian Michael Bendis’ run on Daredevil, Matt finds himself locked up on Ryker’s Island (not to be confused with Riker’s Island, the real New York’s main prison complex) alongside the criminals and supervillains that he helped put away as Daredevil. He’s pushed to the limits on the inside, as he tries to discover who killed his best friend Foggy. The Punisher hears that Matt has been locked up, and gets himself thrown in Ryker’s to help Matt survive.
This adds a fresh element to the dichotomy between Castle and Murdock—a sense of respect that was never really there as part of their previous encounters. The two will probably never agree with each other’s methods, but it doesn’t mean they outright hate each other for it.
Header Image Credit: Daredevil #183 (1982) cover by Frank Miller, marking the first time Daredevil and the Punisher met.
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Anthony Rizzo collided with San Diego Padres catcher Austin Hedges Monday night in what, by any definition of the term, was a dirty play. On Tuesday, in a decision that made absolutely no sense, Major League Baseball confirmed that the collision Rizzo initiated was illegal, but then opted not to discipline him in any way.
Source: MLB told all clubs today that Anthony Rizzo had indeed violated the collision rule. Could have been discipline but ruled against it. — Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) June 20, 2017
The league did not believe Rizzo intended to hurt Austin Hedges or had crossed a line with his slide. That line, it seems, is arbitrary. — Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) June 20, 2017
It's pretty clear Austin Hedges left a clear path to home. Say what you will about the rule, but Anthony Rizzo's slide absolutely broke it. pic.twitter.com/0OWPE5aMEe — Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) June 20, 2017
The Chicago Cubs first baseman went out of his way to plow into Hedges in an attempt to knock the ball loose. For his part, Hedges did what he was supposed to do: give the runner a clear path to the plate. Rather than take it, Rizzo went out of his way to lay a hit on Hedges. It was a clear violation of Rule 6.01 (i), the so-called “Buster Posey Rule” that reads as follows:
” A runner attempting to score may not deviate from his direct pathway to the plate in order to initiate contact with the catcher (or other player covering home plate), or otherwise initiate an avoidable collision.”
Video of the play in question follows, watch how Rizzo crosses the baseline to his left and initiates contact, deviating from his path to the plate rather than taking the outside line that is clearly available to him:
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Here’s another look with Padres manager Andy Green discussing it:
Hedges had to leave the game with an injury and is now day-to-day. Baseball has since ruled Rizzo’s slide illegal. So why hasn’t Rizzo been punished? It’s absolutely ridiculous. Even a one-game suspension or a fine would be something. Instead, he’s in the lineup Tuesday night and Hedges isn’t because of a dirty play that violated a rule put in place for player safety.
There’s no question that Major League Baseball is being extremely selective with its discipline here. You can’t just decide who to punish based on an arbitrary standard when a rule has been violated.
I don’t think Rizzo is a dirty player. In fact, I like him a lot. But there is zero question in my mind that was a dirty play, and Hedges is extremely lucky he wasn’t more seriously injured. Rizzo should have to pay for breaking a rule just like everyone else. Hell, Yasiel Puig was suspended for flipping off some fans and Rizzo got nothing for injuring a defenseless catcher? This is insane.
I get that Rizzo is the face of one of baseball’s best teams and that by all accounts he’s a great guy, but that shouldn’t matter. What he did was illegal and there needs to be some level of accountability for it. Letting him off with no punishment is absurd and smacks of favoritism.
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The Apothecarium, a cannabis dispensary set to open in Berkeley, is in danger of losing its permit because of its landlord’s refusal to lease the premise after the dispensary has paid more than $145,000 to secure the premise since 2015, according to a lawsuit.
BTHHM Berkeley LLC, owner of The Apothecarium, filed the lawsuit May 30 against Stewart Johnston, the landlord of the dispensary’s intended Berkeley location on 2578 Shattuck Ave. for alleged “breach of contract” and “other bad faith actions,” according to the lawsuit.
BTHHM Berkeley LLC and Landmark Real Estate Management, on behalf of Johnston, entered into a letter of intent in February 2015 to lease the property, the lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit also states that the letter of intent clearly outlined the use of the premise as a marijuana dispensary, after receiving approval by the city.
In September 2016, The Apothecarium became one of two marijuana dispensaries unanimously granted a permit by City Council after the city changed the legal limit of medical marijuana dispensaries from four to six. The Apothecarium and Berkeley Compassionate Care Center were selected out of five dispensary applicants.
As location of the dispensaries was one of the factors considered in selection, by refusing to allow possession of the premise for months after receiving permit, the dispensary may lose its permit according to the lawsuit.
In addition, the lawsuit states that BTHHM has spent more than $400,000 over the last two years, which includes $140,000 in rent toward Johnston, and additional fees to secure the location and obtain its permit.
Johnston has insisted on making changes to terms which were agreed upon, which includes raising the base rent from $6,400 to $12,600 every month, raising the security deposit from $12,800 to $50,000 and making structural improvements to the property which is estimated to cost $700,000, according to the lawsuit.
“Johnston’s actions since the Permit was issued make abundantly clear that Johnston has absolutely no intent of following through on his obligations under the Agreement to deliver passion of the Premises or execute a lease with BTHHM,” the lawsuit reads.
City Councilmember Kriss Worthington said, however, that there have been cases, such as with the Berkeley Permit Group, in which a dispensary relocates without losing its permit as long as they go through the standard procedure.
“I hope the sides can work out a compromise,” Worthington said. “I would be happy to help facilitate so neither side gets hurt too much getting the city to approve permit getting (The Apothecarium) moved to another property.”
In the case BTHHM is not allowed to move to another property and loses its permit, BTHHM will have to secure another location and go through the permit process another time which could take years and another $400,000, according to the lawsuit.
Christine Lee is an assistant editor. Contact Christine Lee at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter at @christinejlee17.
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Story highlights The alleged incident happened in 2013
DJ claims accusation got him fired
(CNN) Taylor Swift has been pretty quiet lately, but she will soon speak out about an alleged sexual assault.
The superstar singer is expected to testify in a civil case filed by a Denver disc jokey who claims he lost his job after Swift accused him of groping her backstage at one of her concerts in 2013.
According to pre-trial legal documents obtained by CNN, David Mueller, who was known professionally as "Jackson," maintains that Swift and co-defendents, including her mother Andrea Swift, falsely accused him of improperly touching her during a meet-and-greet that he attended for his then employer, KYGO radio. KYGO radio is a CNN affiliate.
Swift, who was 23 at the time, claims in a legal response to Mueller's suit that he assaulted her when they posed for a photo by "reaching under her dress and grabbing her bottom."
Swift says she told her mother and members of her team what she says happened, but denies that she complained to Mueller's employer, as he asserts in his claim.
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Coming into the rep round I was so disappointed about this being the last City Country clash that I was starting to wonder whether we really needed a rep round at all. After two nights of international rugby league, I'm convinced it needs to be a permanent fixture on the calendar -- to ensure the game's development, and for the sheer entertainment it provides.
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If the game is going to grow internationally we need to allow the so called minnow nations -- Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Cook Islands, Lebanon and Malta -- these opportunities to come together, to pick the best players from the NRL and Super League, and compete against each other in front of a passionate crowd. I think the key to improving the quality of these games is to continue to allow players who are not picked for Australia or New Zealand to play for the countries to which they have blood ties with no fear of losing the ability to play State of Origin or for Australia or New Zealand down the track if that is what they want to do.
The problem has long been that young players of Polynesian heritag, or players who could otherwise represent the smaller nations, grow up in Australia with State of Origin their ultimate goal. The old system meant they would give up their hopes of playing State of Origin, and all the status and financial rewards that go with that, if they threw on a Tonga or a Samoa jersey, for example. In a World Cup year those rules are relaxed to ensure all the minnows are as strong as they can be, and I think those allowances need to stay.
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The atmosphere at Campbelltown Stadium on Saturday was just incredible. The singing, the tribal dances, the colours, the chanting; it was like an English football match at times. There are so many people in our community who identify with the nations represented, and the passion they feel for their teams was evident through the afternoon and into the night.
On Friday night, after playing his 50th Test for Australia, Cameron Smith said that wearing the green and gold was the pinnacle for him as a rugby league player. For a time, there was some doubt over whether the green and gold was as important to players as the maroon or sky blue. Many in the game described State of Origin as the ultimate, so it is reassuring to know Smith feels that way about representing Australia.
When Mal Meninga was appointed full-time Australia coach, there were questions over whether anyone was needed in that role; but I think Mal has done a great job of bringing a lot of the pride back into the Australia jersey.
Cameron Smith (right) says the Kangaroos jumper represents his pinnacle in rugby league. Mark Nolan/Getty Images
There were two key injuries to Australia players on Friday night with Johnathan Thurston and Josh Dugan now in doubt for State of Origin I and beyond. There will some noise from coaches about the cost to their clubs from these one-off Tests, but injuries are just a part of the game. No one wants to see the stars of the game out through injury, but it really just comes down to bad luck.
Meanwhile, Wayne Bennett did a great job with a mixed bunch of players representing England. They played a really disciplined style, taking advantage of some of the best forwards in the game, and simply strangled Samoa out of the game. Samoa were probably the most disappointing team on the night; I thought they had a genuine opportunity of upsetting England, but they were poor, made a lot of mistakes and couldn't match England's control.
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Looking forward to the World Cup, I think England with a full-strength side and guided by Bennett are going to be a real threat. Obviously Australia will be favourites and they showed against New Zealand that they are still the best team in the world. The Kiwis will improve and they'll have to, otherwise they won't feature in the final.
I think the organisers are doing a great job of taking the World Cup to the regional centres where the crowds will be good and the lesser nations will play some great football in front of a party-like atmosphere. If it is anywhere near as entertaining as this rep round, it will be an event well worth watching.
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Two European fintech startups are teaming up to give a glimpse of what the bank of tomorrow could look like.
Number26, a Peter Thiel-backed German startup that’s setting out to create the bank account of the future, has announced a tie-up with London-based peer-to–peer money-transfer firm TransferWise. The partnership will give Number26 customers in-app access to a cheap international money-transfer service.
To recap, Number26 was founded out of Berlin in early 2013 as a “mobile-first” bank account, not too dissimilar from BankMobile or Simple in the U.S. Originally only available in Germany and Austria, the service has since expanded across the E.U. into Ireland, Spain, France, Greece, Slovakia, and Italy.
In an interview with VentureBeat at Dublin Web Summit last year, Number26 cofounder Maximilian Tayenthal hinted at the company’s future plans. Indeed, Tayenthal noted the myriad nimble fintech startups that were chipping away at various elements of the traditional bank, including bank accounts and FOREX, and observed that they could band together to “rebundle” an age-old entity that had been systematically “unbundled” with the advent of the Internet.
We’re seeing the first fruits of this vision today.
The new service is available to all Number26 customers from today, and transfers will initially be permitted from euros into eight currencies: U.K. pounds, U.S. dollars, Swedish krona, Indian rupees, Australian dollars, Hungarian forints, Swiss francs, and Polish zloty. We’re told that additional currencies will be added “soon.”
“Our goal is to leverage the best banking products from around the world and make them accessible to customers with one tap, creating a fintech hub inside the Number26 app,” explained cofounder and CEO Valentin Stalf. “And by adding one of the world’s best fintechs in TransferWise as our flagship partner, we can drive banking innovation much faster than traditional banks.”
TransferWise has emerged as a key player in the fintech startup realm with a smart international money transfer service that bypasses the banks to keep costs down. Similar to Number26, TransferWise also counts PayPal-cofounder Peter Thiel as an investor, alongside other big-name backers such as Richard Branson.
“We want to make it as easy and fair as possible for people who need to send money abroad, so we’re very excited that Number26 customers can now access the TransferWise experience without leaving their banking app,” said TransferWise CEO and cofounder Taavet Hinrikus. “This is a great step towards consumers having a wider choice of financial service providers and getting the best service for them.”
Today’s news is a notable step in the evolution of online and mobile banking. Rebundling banking in this way allows startups to focus on their core missions rather than scrambling to provide all types of financial services themselves. There’s no reason other related services couldn’t be thrown into the mix too — perhaps a Robin Hood-style stock investment offering, for example.
A Number26 spokesperson confirmed to VentureBeat that the company does indeed plan to tap other startups and related services through its app this year, including savings, investments, fixed deposits, and maybe even insurance.
What we could end up with is a single app that aggregates the services of multiple fintech startups. The bank of tomorrow is almost here.
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Lynn joins fellow British racer Sam Bird in testing for the Japanese squad on 22 November, the day after Lynn takes part in the GP2 race that is on the same bill as the FIA WEC finale.
Toyota was initially planning on just testing Bird, but the deal to test Lynn was concluded the week after the Shanghai FIA WEC event earlier this month. Mike Conway will act as a benchmark for Bird and Lynn at the test.
Lynn, who has raced exclusively in single-seaters during his professional career, is well versed in endurance racing as his father Shaun regularly competes in both contemporary and historic sportscar racing.
Toyota has a 2016 place up for grabs in its two car squad following the retirement of Alexander Wurz, but Motorsport.com understands that Kamui Kobayashi is set to be announced as a full time driver in Tokyo next February.
Bird or Lynn could both be considered as official reserve drivers for 2016 when Toyota will race an all-new petrol turbo-powered LMP1 challenger, to be known as the Toyota TS 050 HYBRID.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2014 February 20
Comet Lovejoy over the Great Wall
Image Credit & Copyright: Jiajie Zhang
Explanation: Fading now as it returns to the outer solar system Comet Lovejoy (C/2013 R1) still graces planet Earth's sky, a delicate apparition in binoculars or small telescopes. The comet, a relic of the solar system's formative years, is seen here rising in the morning twilight on January 12 among the stars of Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer. Posing near the comet is bright star Alpha Ophiuchi, also known as Rasalhague, from Arabic "the head of the serpent collector". Of course, the serpentine shape below is the ancient Great Wall of China, along the Panlongshan section northeast of Beijing. Panlongshan is translated as "a coiled dragon". A moving and fortuitous scene, it was captured with a digital camera and telephoto lens in two consecutive exposures. The exposures were merged to show a natural looking foreground and twilight sky.
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What's Game Sack? Well, check out the video trailer above. That should give you the very basic gist of it. We like reviewing games, lots and lots of games each episode every two weeks. We try to put on the highest quality show we can and we're always looking for ways to make it even better. There's always room for improvement!
We love making Game Sack. We wish we could do more but we have other obligations in life at the moment. Like awful jobs and stuff. But we like Game Sack so much more. That's why we make sure to release episodes on a consistent basis. No long lulls wondering when the next episode will appear. No compromise in quality. Just a love for videogames and talking about them. We love showing you lots of different games, obscure and even popular ones.
So what's the deal with this Patreon page or whatever this is? The first thing you need to know is that we're not going to put episodes or anything else behind a paywall. We're not going to give timed exclusives here. WE WILL HAVE NO TIERS. Everyone is equal. Donate any amount you'd like. By donating you're basically helping us out and it is 100% optional. Some of our videos make a lot less money than others. Not every subscriber watches every video. Not every subscriber even gets notified! A lot more people are using AdBlock on their browsers as well. If we had a more stable income that we could count on then we could cover topics and themes that may not be as popular from time to time. If you don't feel comfortable doing this, we understand and we still value you very much as a viewer of the show. But if you do donate, it helps us with equipment, computer costs, time, and stuff like that. Oh and it makes unprofitable but fun episodes, like "Our Gaming Memories" and "How to Clean Your Stupid Games" sting us much less! And we're always looking for ways to improve quality in all areas... except our wooden delivery. So basically by becoming a Patron you're helping us out and you can cancel or change your donation amount at any time. Only become a Patron if you truly feel comfortable with it and want to support the show in this way! You can also donate directly via Youtube if you feel uncomfortable with a monthly thing.
OK, but is that the only reason you're doing this? Well, no. We're trying to buy mansions and stuff for all of our friends. Just kidding. Google and Youtube are always on the brink of doing something that damages the way we bring you content. Game Sack has been OK-ish in this regard so far but you never know what they'll come up with next. It can be very discouraging to content creators.
But I've seen your videos! You have a Neo-Geo and you bought a 3DO at launch! You also have a complete Earthbound, Snatcher and MUSHA. You're swimming in money! I wish I had as much money as you! Errr. Yeah. For one not all of those things were purchased around the same time nor the exuberant prices they go for these days. But we still need to work mundane jobs to survive. We're not rich. We wish we were but that's probably not gonna happen.
So what do I get if I pledge? THANK YOU! We're amazed that anyone would even want to give $1 to us. That just blows our mind.
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Italian squad EuroInternational have confirmed Marvin Kirchhofer and Nicolas Beer as their 2015 lineup in the FIA F3 European Championship.
Kirchhofer, 20, swept the ADAC Formel Masters and German F3 titles with Motopark in his first two years in single-seaters.
The highly-rated German then moved on to GP3 with ART Grand Prix, finishing third in his debut year with a home win at Hockenheim. He is widely expected to be retained by the French squad.
Beer, 18, is a fellow ADAC Formel Masters alumnus, taking fourth in the series in 2013. He went on to race in BRDC F4, but his campaign was abandoned after four rounds yielded only one podium finish.
The Dane made his German F3 debut with EuroInternational in late 2014 and was set to contest the series full-time this year before it called off.
EuroInternational finished ninth in FIA F3 in 2014 with Michele Beretta as their sole full-timer. Newly-appointed DTM racer Tom Blomqvist recorded the team’s most recent European F3 podium in May of 2013.
2015 FIA F3 European Championship line-up so far
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Manchester United goalkeeper Sam Johnstone is poised to rejoin Aston Villa on Monday.
The 24-year-old has been a target for a number of Championship and Premier League sides but will sign for Villa on a season-long loan.
Johnstone, who spent the second half of last season on loan at Villa Park, still has another year left on his contract at United after this one.
Manchester United goalkeeper Sam Johnstone is poised to rejoin Aston Villa on Monday
He has been back in training at United's Carrington complex and will not be part of the tour party that travels to the USA on Sunday.
Villa have signed John Terry and hope to add Glenn Whelan from Stoke City, while experienced defender Chris Samba has also been training with the squad in Portugal.
Manager Steve Bruce said: 'We hope to be able to announce something in the next 24/48 hours if we can. That would be ideal.
'It’s no big secret that I am still hoping we can tie up Sam Johnstone from Manchester United. I think that’s still ongoing but ultimately we have to respect United.
'I know they go on tour on Sunday. We will see what develops in the next 24/48 hours.'
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He is now one of five active coaches in the ACC and one of 15 active coaches in DI to accomplish the feat.
RALEIGH, N.C. – NC State baseball head coach Elliott Avent recorded his 1,000th career win against North Carolina Central Tuesday evening, as the Wolfpack hit a season-high four home runs en route to a 13-0 win at Doak Field at Dail Park.
Now in his 28th season as a head coach and 21st at NC State, Avent reaches the milestone to become one of five active coaches in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and one of 15 active coaches among NCAA Division I to accomplish the feat.
"Well, it feels good to win," said Avent. "It was a rough weekend in Boston and it was good to play good tonight. Coach Hart had a talk with the hitters today and I thought they responded tremendously.
"It takes a lot of good players to get 1,000 wins. When I look back on it, I think about Billy Best coaching with me my first five years here and all the things he did and what a great person he is. I think about Chris Combs, Tom Sergio, and all the players that came through here. I also think about Chris Hart, he's been with me for thirteen years and he's been unbelievable and loyal, and he works harder than anybody I know. It just makes me feel good and proud when I think about all the people that I've worked with all these years."
NC State Highlights
NC State jumped out to an early lead in the contest, scoring at least one run in four of the first five innings. Joe Dunand hit a sacrifice fly to center field to plate the first run of the game in the bottom of the first and the Wolfpack extended the lead with four runs in the second.
Evan Mendoza hit an RBI double to right center and later scored on a wild pitch. After a fielding error on NCCU and a hit-by-pitch, Brad Debo tripled to deep right field to drive in two runs and he scored on a passed ball to make it 5-0.
The Wolfpack hit three home runs in the bottom of the fourth to pull away from the Eagles. Josh McLain smacked the first of the inning on an 0-2 pitch over the left field wall. After Debo was hit-by-pitch, Dunand launched a two-run blast to left field and Brett Kinneman followed with a solo shot to right field.
BREAKING - With the win, #Pack9 HC Elliott Avent earns his 1,000th career win, one of 17 active head coaches to reach the mark #STATEMENT pic.twitter.com/mpHJivvQHw — NC State Baseball (@NCStateBaseball) April 26, 2017
It was the second time this season that NC State has hit back-to-back home runs, as Debo and Mendoza accomplished the feat at UNCW.
Dunand left the yard for the second time in the game in the fifth with a two-run homer over the left field wall to finish the day 3-for-3 with a pair of homers and five RBI. The Pack added a run in the eighth off a sacrifice fly from Brock Deatherage to push the lead to 13-0.
Tuesday's victory was the third shutout for NC State. Tommy DeJuneas earned the win with 4.2 innings in relief to improve to 3-0 on the year. He struck out five batters and allowed just two hits.
NC State will return to action Wednesday evening when it travels to East Carolina for a 7 p.m. first pitch at Clark-LeClair Stadium.
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Thursday afternoon, a steady stream of coffee-seeking customers pulled into the parking lot at the Crockett Shopping Center on Manchaca Road only to find the front door of Strange Brew padlocked. Employees sat outside trying to make sense of their unexpected day off. They had no advance notice of the lockout.
Sources had reached out to the Chronicle this week claiming recent employee checks from Strange Brew had bounced, while also painting an overall dire financial picture for the business. Founding owner Scott Ward divested several months ago, leaving partner Shane Widner in charge. Neither returned calls this week.
A notice, posted on the front door this morning by landlords Republic Commercial, read, “Notice of lockout for non-payment of rent.” Republic’s Trayce Miller refused to speak on record, but intimated that the business owed several months’ rent.
One high-ranking employee on the scene, speaking anonymously because he wasn’t authorized to talk to media, said that Strange Brew had been dealing with money-related issues since Ward’s departure and there was dissent in the ranks and widespread rumors. He believes Widner had recently met with all of Strange Brew’s investors.
The venue’s music annex, Strange Brew Lounge Side, quickly became an important venue for local and touring singer-songwriters since opening in 2012. Regarded as one of Austin’s best listening rooms, the space won Best Live Music Venue, Best Venue to Play, and Best Club Sound in last year’s Austin Music Poll. Their online concert calendar still shows listings two months out, including Slaid Cleaves in February and two shows by the Glenn Miller Orchestra in early March.
Updated at 5:10pm: Strange Brew booker Kacy Crowley contacted the Chronicle late this afternoon to say that they’ve raised enough money to re-open tomorrow and that weekend shows will go on as previously scheduled. She clarified that while Ward left as a manager to pursue other interests, he remains a partner in the business.
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption A look back at the life of Claire Rayner
Tributes have been paid to agony aunt Claire Rayner, who has died at the age of 79.
The award-winning journalist had remained poorly after intestinal surgery in May. She died in hospital near her home in Harrow in London.
She told her relatives she wanted her last words to be: "Tell David Cameron that if he screws up my beloved NHS I'll come back and bloody haunt him."
Her husband Des Rayner said he had lost his soul mate and best friend.
She worked for the Sun, Sunday Mirror and Woman's Own and was named medical journalist of the year in 1987. She also wrote a string of novels.
Her restaurant critic son, Jay, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "She had been through a hell of a lot of health troubles over the last five months and some of us thought towards the end that she actually just wanted to give up.
"But late on Sunday night, when things were looking a bit bleak, she was offered one last chance and I honestly thought she would say, 'No, just let me go,' and she didn't.
"It was very much in the nature of her that she said, 'I will try the dialysis.' It didn't work, unfortunately. She had led an absolutely amazing life and I am very, very proud of her."
Mrs Rayner, who had two other children - Amanda and Adam - and four grandchildren, will have a humanist funeral for family and close friends.
A former nurse and midwife, for many years she was also president of the Patients Association.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer at 70, but beat the illness. In 2006 she wrote about her experience on the BBC News website.
Image caption Claire Rayner's son described her as an "agent provocateur"
Her husband of 53 years, Des, said: "I have lost my best friend and my soul mate. I am immensely proud of her."
Mr Rayner, who was also her agent and manager, said: "Through her work she helped hundreds of thousands of people and doubtless, by talking frankly about the importance of safe sex in the 80s when almost nobody else would discuss it, helped to save thousands of lives.
"Right up until her death she was being consulted by both politicians and the medical profession about the best way to provide the health services the nation deserved and nothing mattered to her more than that. Her death leaves a vacancy which will not be filled."
Her son Jay added that she had been a great parent and a great journalist who did not shy away from controversy.
"The thing about her was she was an agent provocateur, she liked to make mischief, she liked to infuriate people," he said.
In 1996 she was awarded the OBE for "services to women's issues and health issues".
She was involved with 50 charities, and was a member of the Prime Minister's Commission on Nursing and the last government's Royal Commission on the Care of the Elderly.
Her no-nonsense manner led to the BBC employing her to demonstrate how to put on a condom and she was one of the first people used by advertisers to promote sanitary towels.
Born into a Jewish family, she later became president of the British Humanist Association, whose chief executive, Andrew Copson, said: "Claire Rayner found meaning and inspiration in living and the enjoyment of life, in trying to fulfil her potential, and in the wonders of nature and the marvels of the cosmos.
"She was a remarkable woman with broad interests and deep sympathies who lived an exemplary humanist life and we all feel lucky to have known her and to have had her support for so many enjoyable years."
Campaigner
The chief executive of the Patients' Association, Katherine Murphy, expressed her "deep sadness" at the news and added: "For almost 30 years Claire has devoted so much of her time and energy to championing patients' issues. She was a figurehead and inspiration to us all."
Neil Churchill, chief executive of Asthma UK said Mrs Rayner was one of the charity's "most charismatic supporters", adding: "She was truly an inspiration and will be deeply missed."
Her close friend, Baroness Helena Kennedy, said: "She was an extraordinary woman - passionate, committed, warm and exuberant. The key thing about Claire was that she was a campaigner to her toes - her mission was to improve the lot of others and she did it with great humility and common sense."
Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes also paid tribute to Mrs Rayner, who joined the party in 2001.
She wrote in the Independent at the time that she felt disillusioned with Labour after 50 years of supporting them.
Mr Hughes said: "Claire's campaigning was an inspiration to millions and especially to Liberal Democrats, who were so proud that she was a member of our party.
"Continuous work and campaigning to improve our National Health Service for all our patients will be the best sort of tribute our country can give her."
BBC News website readers have been emailing their memories of Claire Rayner. Here is a selection of their comments.
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Wild boot3
Chris Kesting holds the boot he found at the base of a cliff near Mt. Hood Skibowl, right where Reese Witherspoon threw it while filming the opening scene of "Wild."
(Photo by Tim Pate)
In the opening scene of "Wild," Reese Witherspoon sits down at the edge of a cliff and takes off her too-small hiking boots. Her toes are black and bloody, and she pulls off her right big toenail and throws it over the cliff, knocking one of her boots over in the process.
Exhausted and frustrated, Witherspoon throws the other boot after it while screaming a profanity. It's a cathartic moment, one that drew strong reactions when the movie was released in December.
Some people thought "Wow, Reese Witherspoon is a brave actress who really got inside Cheryl Strayed's head. I loved the book, and I'm going to love this movie!"
Others thought "Whoa, hiking the Pacific Crest Trail is difficult enough with a pack that heavy, and now you're throwing away your boots? Uh, oh."
Chris Kesting, a mechanical engineer from Camas, Wash., and an avid hiker, said "Hey, I know exactly where that is. One of these days it might be fun to go up there and see if that boot is actually there."
So he did. And it was.
The scene from "Wild," the movie based on Portland writer Strayed's memoir, was filmed in the fall of 2013 near Mt. Hood Skibowl, on the south side of Mount Hood near Government Camp. Kesting recognized it immediately because he'd been in the area recently and saw Tom Dick and Harry Mountain in the background. Kesting and a friend, Tim Pate, hiked the popular trail on March 8, one of the sunny, snow-free days in early spring, and had no trouble finding the boot-tossing spot. (The film crew used a chairlift and then hiked over.) Kesting scrambled around the cliffs and searched for about 15 minutes until he saw something in the middle of a scree slope.
"The thing that stood out was the red laces," he said. "The brown of the leather blended into the soil and I didn't see that at all. I saw the red laces and thought it was weird that there were flowers out already. That's when it came into focus. It was kind of funny."
But is that really the "Wild" boot?
"Well, first of all you wouldn't find a single boot in a place where nobody would leave a boot," Kesting said. "It has red laces and it's a 61/2 woman's size Danner boot, made in Portland. If you look at the movie poster, it's that boot. You can tell the manufacturing date on it, 2013, so it's relatively new, but you could tell it had been sitting out in the sun for quite a bit of time. It was bleached out and had been sitting in that spot for awhile."
Yep, that's the one. Danner made the boots Witherspoon wore in the movie and is selling them as the Mountain Light Cascade. (Strayed wore different boots when she hiked the PCT in 1995.) The company made 25 pairs for the movie to show various stages of wear and use as Witherspoon moved along the trail. The movie crew left one boot behind. (But not two: Kesting and Pate went back later and did a thorough search but couldn't find the second boot.)
Kesting keeps the boot on a bookshelf in his house and laughs at how the "Wild" crew -- which shot all but seven scenes in Oregon and was noted for its low-impact style -- violated "leave no trace" principles with one stray boot.
"They're not supposed to leave stuff around when they film and I thought they would send somebody down to pick it up," he said. "It was pretty hard to find so maybe even if they did that they couldn't find it.
"I thought it would be fun to do but there would be no way I would find it ... It's really a pretty spot. If you turn around 180 (degrees), Mount Hood is right in your face. It's beautiful there."
-- Jeff Baker
503-221-8165
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Media playback is not supported on this device Usain Bolt wins in one of his final 100m races in Czech Republic
Usain Bolt failed to run a sub-10 second time for the second 100m race in succession as he edged to victory at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava.
The three-time Olympic 100m champion won in 10.06 seconds, 0.03secs ahead of Cuba's Yunier Perez.
Britain's Mo Farah won the 10,000m in 27 minutes and 12 seconds, 2mins 34secs clear of Kenya's Mathew Kimeli.
South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk set a 300m world record of 30.81, beating Michael Johnson's 30.85 set in 2000.
Van Niekerk is the first man in history to run sub-10 seconds for 100m, sub-20 seconds for 200m, sub-31 seconds for 300m and sub-44 seconds for 400m.
'I'll be fine' - Bolt
Bolt was expected to retire at the World Championships in London in August but before this race he said that, while this will be his final season, he may race beyond the event.
He is the most successful man in the history of the championships with 13 world medals, including 11 gold.
Fellow Jamaican Merlene Ottey, with 14, is the most decorated female at the event.
It is the first time in his career that Bolt, 30, has run two successive 100m races of more than 10 seconds.
"I'm not happy but I'm just getting into my running and have some training to do," he said.
"I'll be fine. I need to get checked over by my doctor and the coach will give me some training, so no worries."
Bolt started slowly but hit the front with about 40m to go
Farah's London marker
Farah's time was only four seconds off the world-leading time over 10,000m this year, held by Abadi Hadis of Ethiopia.
The four-time Olympic champion will not compete over the distance again until he bids to defend his title at the World Championships.
The 34-year-old's time in Ostrava was well down on the 27:01 he managed to win the world title with in Beijing in 2015, but Kimeli was his only challenger with 10 laps remaining before Farah broke clear for a comfortable victory.
Elsewhere at the event, Olympic champion Christian Taylor set a meeting record of 17.57m to win the triple jump.
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This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Banish your preconceptions of robots as stiff, herky-jerky metal machines. An “octobot” less than three inches wide is changing the robotics landscape.
The octobot is the world’s first completely soft, autonomous, and untethered robot. It is free of wires, batteries, and any hard material—like its namesake, the octopus, which has no internal skeleton.
A Harvard University research team led by engineering professors Robert Wood and Jennifer Lewis tried more than 300 designs before they came up with one that worked. And now the octobot could revolutionize the use of robots. Traditional robots are “fantastic for what they do in terms of automation, but they’re not geared toward human interaction,” Wood says. Soft robots provide a safer solution: “If they run into something, it’d be like bumping into a basketball. It won’t hurt you.”
Before the octobot, soft robots were either hybrids—pliable exteriors with hard guts of batteries or wires—or soft models tethered to an external cord. The octobot eliminates these restrictions. It moves by pneumatic power: An internal circuit triggers chemical reactions, turning its liquid hydrogen peroxide fuel into a gas, which inflates the robot’s limbs and allows them to move. The whole assembly is created from silicone using a 3-D printer.
The octobot is currently a prototype, but its writhing arms prove that the technology works. The goal, says Wood, is to find viable applications, such as in health care. Soft robots could be made from biocompatible and biodegradable materials—and, he says, might even be formed into capsules to be swallowed for more effective and less invasive endoscopies.
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A Syrian woman shelters in a damaged building as civil defence workers sift through debris looking for survivors following reported air strikes in Aleppo (AFP Photo/Thaer Mohammed)
Beirut (AFP) - US-backed Syrian forces said Sunday they have established a military council to push Islamic State group fighters out of their northern bastion of Al-Bab after ousting the jihadists from Manbij.
"We announce... the creation of the Al-Bab Military Council" tasked with driving IS from the town in Aleppo province, said the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters in a statement, two days after driving the last jihadists from Manbij.
The last remaining IS fighters abandoned the city of Manbij near the Turkish border on Friday after a rout that the Pentagon said showed the extremists were "on the ropes".
The retreat from the city which IS captured in 2014 was the jihadists' worst defeat yet at the hands of the SDF alliance backed by US air power.
Al-Bab is around 50 kilometres (30 miles) southwest of Manbij, and also in the battleground province of Aleppo.
In Sunday's statement, the SDF said "we promise to our people that we will strike to liberate Al-Bab@" and the region around it.
They also called on the US-led coalition that has been battling IS in Syria and neighbouring Iraq "to back us in our struggle to liberate our land and our brothers from the Daesh terrorists".
The battle for Manbij -- a key supply route for the jihadists between the Turkish border and their self-declared capital in Raqa -- lasted more than two months.
As they fled, the jihadists took hundreds of civilians with them to use as "human shields" but later released many of them.
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Constance Wu, the actress best known for playing the matriarch of the Huang family in ABC’s television series Fresh Off the Boat, spoke about what being Asian American means, her role in the sitcom and her opinions about Hollywood typecasting Tuesday night in Bovard Auditorium.
The Asian Pacific American Student Association hosted the event, which was part of the signature speaker event for its 2016 Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival.
Fresh Off the Boat, a show run by School of Cinematic Arts alumna Nahnatchka Khan, is one of the few television series on a broadcast network to feature a predominantly Asian cast. The series is based on the memoir of the same name by Eddie Huang.
In 2014, Wu was cast as Jessica Huang, Eddie’s pragmatic mother who wants her children to be successful and also keep in touch with their Chinese heritage.
The conversation began with Wu talking about how she got involved in acting from a young age and how her upbringing in Richmond, Virginia, influenced her to pursue a degree in acting at the State University of New York-Purchase.
“My friends started doing plays … and when I became a teenager, I started to think more about it as a career,” Wu said. “Theater people are like open-minded family people, where people are encouraging creativity, art and all these other things. It was a safe thing to try out as a kid.”
Wu also talked about how her childhood contrasted with the upbringing Eddie Huang portrays in his novel.
“I had a different experience than he did,” Wu said. “Racism was not a thing in Richmond … our neighbors were really open and inviting — baking muffins and inviting us to parties.”
When asked why there aren’t many Asian Americans on television or in movies, Wu explained that there was racism in casting studios.
“We have our ideas of what romantic ladies look like,” Wu said. “Why can’t an acne-ridden girl or a fat girl be cast in the role for The Notebook?”
Wu emphasized that this institutionalized racism unfairly stigmatized minorities, correlating this to the portrayal of foreign accents.
“Hollywood has made the French accent a sexual thing and the Chinese accent a clowny thing,” Wu said. “There’s nothing shameful about your heritage, but Hollywood has made it shameful.”
Despite all the racism placed upon Asian-American actors, Wu said that she has not always been typecast throughout her career.
“Some of my roles before Fresh Off The Boat were not stereotypically written for Asians,” Wu said. “I was a futuristic space traveler in one, and I was a pothead stoner in another!”
As for the future of Fresh Off The Boat, Wu told the audience that she has no control over what the screenwriters write.
“I just hope that they keep writing great stuff!” Wu said.
Correction: A previous version of this article stated that Fresh Off the Boat was the first television series on a broadcast network to feature a predominantly Asian cast. The show was preceded by ABC’s All-American Girl, among others. The Daily Trojan regrets the error.
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* EU-Mexico trade agreement from 2000 seen as limited, outdated
* Mexico part of deals shaping the landscape of global trade
By Robin Emmott
BRUSSELS, May 11 (Reuters) - The European Union and Mexico will launch negotiations towards a new free-trade agreement later this year, as Europe seeks to tie its economy closer to North America following a deal with Canada and efforts to sign an accord with the United States.
Building on a pact with Mexico from 2000, the European Union hopes to create a transatlantic free-trade zone and help set the global rules of commerce before China does. Mexico is jumping ahead of Brazil, whose talks towards a similar deal with the European Union have stalled.
“We are ready to commit to a highly ambitious deal,” EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom told a forum in Brussels alongside Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo. “I will ask for a mandate to launch negotiations this fall,” she said.
EU officials are expected to discuss the timing of talks in more detail at an EU-Latin American summit in Brussels on June 12, where Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is expected.
A deal, which would take several years, would upgrade the EU-Mexican accord that was signed when the global economy was far less integrated and online commerce was in its infancy. It is part of a new generation of deals that go beyond tariffs.
As with the EU’s pact with Canada and its plans for a deal with the United States, a new accord with Mexico would further open up markets in services and allow businesses to bid for public tenders in each others’ countries.
The European Union is Mexico’s second-largest trading partner after the United States, while Mexico is a top destination for EU exports after the United States and China.
A more comprehensive deal with the European Union would allow Mexico to join Latin America’s Pacific economies of Chile, Colombia and Peru that now have modern trade pacts with both the European Union and the United States.
It also deepens a divide between those nations and Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela on the Atlantic coast, which have been more reluctant to drop barriers to trade.
“With Colombia, Chile and Peru, we are sending a signal of fresh air that we are the countries of free traders. We are responsible for more than half of Latin America’s exports to the world,” Economy Minister Guajardo said.
The European Union and the South American trade bloc Mercosur have been unable to agree a deal, with Brazil unwilling to move forward without its close ally Argentina.
Mexico is also part of an Asia Pacific free trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, part of a broader U.S. strategy to link its economy to fast-growing markets in the Pacific. (Reporting by Robin Emmott; editing by Philip Blenkinsop)
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So this is the year that libertarianism, a political philosophy advocating minimal government across the board and thus annoying as hell to both conservatives and liberals, finally up and died.
Not really, but that’s the new official story, at least as told by media types who have been prophesying the end of libertarianism for as long as they’ve been writing.
There’s a superficial plausibility to the charge, especially among those who confuse partisan politics with the real America. Among high-profile Democrats and Republicans, the constituency for more-open borders is zero and there’s nothing like Islamic terrorism in France and California to rev up the war machine and ignite bipartisan calls for encryption backdoors or a ban on secret communications altogether. After a few years of an unintended pause, our elected officials have even managed to put aside their differences and are once again cranking up spending.
But the main case that libertarianism is finally, finally, finally dead this time is the zombie walkabout that has been Rand Paul’s presidential campaign and the juggernaut that is Donald Trump’s. I think it’s a major category error to equate libertarianism with partisan politics, but for folks who believe the only important political question is who wins the presidency, the divergent fortunes of Trump and Paul tell the whole story.
There’s no doubt that Paul’s presidential campaign is on life support. What started out so promisingly as an unstoppable drive to the White House got a flat tire before it even left the parking lot. In February, Paul won the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) for the third year running, cruising past Scott Walker (remember him?) and positively crushing Donald Trump by over 20 points. As recently as June, Paul was topping polls of Republican contenders! And yet just a couple of weeks ago, Paul was reduced to special pleading to even get on the main stage of the latest Republican debate. He’s now scraping by with Pataki-like numbers, even as his fellow senators, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, duke it out for what might come if and when Trump hits the skids.
What happened to Rand Paul? He has run a bad campaign, especially from an ideological perspective. Conservatives have never been especially fond of libertarian-leaning Republicans to begin with and Paul seemed eager to show time and again that he wasn’t, well, that libertarian. Sure, he had called the GOP “stale and moss-covered” and even reached out to ethnic minorities, but once he started aiming at the presidency, he’s rarely missed an opportunity to jump on every conservative outrage of the day: sanctuary cities, ebola quarantines, Planned Parenthood, the Iran deal, you name it.
The guy who counseled—at the war-crazy Heritage Foundation, no less—that the U.S. should give peace a chance overseas was suddenly talking about bombing the Middle East and waging war against ISIS and banning refugees and ending visas for people from countries with “a jihadist movement,” a term of art that covers essentially all of Europe these days. After this summer’s shooting in Chattanooga, he called for the sort of profiling program he had once rejected as intrusive and ineffective.
The result was that Paul went from being what Time called “the most interesting man in politics” to sounding like most of the other windbags running for the GOP nomination. He abandoned exactly what had brought him attention at exactly the wrong time. And by fixating on the 2016 presidential race, he may well be undercutting the long fight he needs to wage within the Republican Party to win hearts and minds to the cause of smaller government across the board.
Whether going full libertarian would have produced different results in today’s GOP is anybody’s guess—based on the years they controlled Congress and the White House, there’s no reason to believe that Republicans are actually interested in a government that does less and spends less—but there’s no question it would have made Paul’s campaign more interesting.
That still would likely not have been enough to counteract the emergence of Donald Trump, who has reshaped not just the Republican race in his own dumb image but that of the Democrats as well. It’s still staggering to remember that his notorious Mexicans are “bringing drugs…they’re bringing crime…they’re rapists” patter wasn’t a hot mic moment or an aside at a Bohemian Grove sketch but the centerpiece of his official campaign announcement.
Fast-forward six months and Trump is not just still kicking ass in Republican polls, he’s managed to push the presumptive Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, into agreement on “closing that Internet up in some ways.” If Trump is Politifact’s liar of the year, he is already goading Clinton into telling her own whoppers.
“No evidence for Hillary Clinton’s claim that ISIS is using videos of Donald Trump as recruiting tool,” reports Politifact, which rated Clinton’s charge as “false.” And as Trump himself can tell you, ISIS apparently is using Bill Clinton in videos.
If the rise of Trump has dumbed down political discourse (which has a way of always getting worse somehow), it remains far from clear to me what any of this has to do with the death of libertarianism as a force in American life. The rise of ISIS and especially the beheading of two American freelance journalists in 2014 has reawakened war hysteria, but even now all of the leading presidential candidates are careful to emphasize they don’t want boots on the ground because there is no support for such actions.
Terrorism is freaking people out but confidence and trust in government, law enforcement, and virtually all other societal institutions are at historic lows, a confluence which bodes well for libertarian ideals of autonomy and DIY community building. The embrace of gay marriage and pot legalization, criminal justice reform (something which, to his immense credit, Rand Paul has been leading on), and school choice are not slackening and the past year has seen the beginning of pushback on all sorts of political correctness.
Rand Paul was “supposed to embody a new libertarian moment,” according to Politico’s obit from the fall. “But there never was one.” Such renderings miss what that “libertarian moment” was and still is all about (as the co-inventor of the term, I’m happy to pull rank on this).
It’s not about the White House, for sure, but about “comfort with and demand for increasingly individualized and personalized options and experiences in every aspect of our lives.” As Matt Welch and I argued in our book, The Declaration of Independents, politics is a lagging indicator of where America is headed. It will be the last area of our lives to be transformed, but you can already see the old order breaking down.
So regardless of whether it’s Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton or somebody else making plans to move into the White House this time next year—and regardless of Rand Paul’s thwarted presidential aspirations—I regret to inform you that the death of libertarianism has been greatly exaggerated.
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Efforts are on to shape Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency, into the world’s spiritual capital and turn the city’s blatant juxtaposition of life and death into high-voltage commerce.
The move, claim those in the know, would possibly help the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government acquire stronger secular credentials and deflect the seemingly endless uproar over cow politics.
The department of tourism of Uttar Pradesh, along with top officials in Varanasi, is putting in place a host of plans that will bring members of different religions to a common platform, and turn one of the world’s oldest cities into an ideal spot for global religious travellers. According to the World Tourism Organisation, an estimated 300 to 330 million pilgrims visit the world's key religious sites every year.
If this happens, hopefully by the end of this year, Varanasi will be India’s new God’s Own Country, the city being the home to a little over 100 mosques, scores of churches, a popular Buddhist pilgrimage and the highly popular temples of Lord Shiva and Hanuman.
“You have to stand on the Manikarnika Ghat to get a feel of the city, and its spirituality. Varanasi is about life, death, respect and religion, the idea is to make it a centre for all religions, and tell visitors that its not all about sadness. The idea is to turn it into a city of liberators,” says Awanish Kumar Awasthi, principal secretary to Adityanath. He is working feverishly on the project, which also includes ensuring the city is free from power cuts and traffic snarls.
Linked to both Mecca and Jerusalem, Varanasi is one of the world's oldest cities. “The amalgamation of religion in one city is unique in the world and this will be garner great traction among Indian and global tourists,” says Awasthi.
This, in some ways, is the second step.
The first happened last year when Varanasi was named as one of the world’s “Cities of World Music” under the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. “The city’s rich musical heritage is famous the world over, its a great tag for Varanasi,” the city’s mayor, Ramgopal Mohle said in an interview.
Mohle said the UNESCO tag had already provided a fillip to tourism, helping artists and musicians from Varanasi to visit countries that are a part of this network. Nine cities — Glasgow in the UK, Hanover and Mannheim in Germany, Ghent in Belgium, Hamamatsu in Japan, Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo, Bogota in Columbia, Seville in Spain and Bologna in Italy — are a part of the UNESCO chain. “Varanasi is immersed in both religion and history. It is already the world’s spiritual capital, we will be reinforcing the claim,” says Mohle.
For decades, the city — claims Awasthi — has remained high on the calendar of international travellers to India, also a large number of domestic travellers.
In 530 BC, the Buddha preached his first sermon after enlightenment near Varanasi, but by then the city was already 500 years old. As per Hindu mythology, Varanasi was founded by God Shiva, lord of destruction and creation, and is the physical and spiritual centre of the Hindu universe. The city is home to a little over 1.2 million people and an estimated 1,500 temples and shrines, attracting pilgrims from India, and the world.
Hindus who visit Varanasi have strong beliefs, so do Buddhists who visit Sarnath on the outskirts of the city. Hindu devotees believe that anyone who dies within the city limits attains instant moksha, or redemption, freeing the soul from the cycle of birth, death and rebirth. Many spend thousands of rupees transporting bodies to be cremated at two sacred ghats — Manikarnika and Raja Harish Chandra — in the city, also home to many sick and elderly living in hospices, waiting to die.
Awasthi did not further spell out details of the project but it is reliably learnt that a host of Hollywood and Bollywood stars, performing artists, international and Indian scholars would be roped in for the project. Interestingly, the idea to turn the city into a spiritual centre was triggered after a visit to Varanasi last year by ageing Hollywood star Morgan Freeman for a six-part National Geographic series, The Story of God.
Morgan, who had travelled to seven countries for the series, had then told the Press Trust of India (PTI) that his experience was fascinating in Varanasi, one of the most prominent religious and spiritual centres in the world for centuries. “I found Varanasi extremely fascinating. The ambience in Varanasi is extraordinary. It is the holiest of holy cities in India on the holiest river in India. Learning that reincarnation, you can bypass it in Varanasi, did you know that? That was news to me,” said the Bruce Almighty star who loved the cacophonous traffic on the streets.
“There were no lights, there were no guides. It just keeps going. How in the world do they do that? You don’t see people lying alongside the road having been run over, you don’t see dead dogs or chickens lying in the road having been run over, everything manages to function on the roads,” Morgan told the agency.
It was not immediately known if the state government had approached Morgan.
Varanasi chronicler Gaurav Kapoor says the idea is taking shape slow, but steadily. “This is not a new phenomenon, the state government has been at it for long, probably now its taking shape.”
It is reliably learnt that the state government would also seek the help of the US-based Dr David Frawley, an acclaimed author on Indian spirituality and yoga practitioner who has deep knowledge of Varanasi and its history. A mail to Dr Frawley, a regular visitor to India, remained unanswered.
Kapoor said the move to push Varanasi as the world’s spiritual capital will have great backers, especially from the West. The list of top notch visitors from the West, claims Kapoor, is both huge and impressive.
Celebrated sitar artist Pandit Ravi Shankar’s ashes were immersed in the holy waters of Varanasi by his daughters, Anoushka and Norah Jones in March 2013. Celebrated models and actors Seal and Heidi Klum, till they were married, routinely sought priests from Varanasi every year to take vows as per Hindu rites because they were mesmerised by the city and its culture.
Singer Madonna took lessons in Sanskrit over the phone from Vagish Shastri of Kundalini Yoga Peeth way back in 1998, for her album Ray of Light, Grammy award winner Sting spent some time in Varanasi in 2013 along with filmmaker Ismail Merchant, then scouting for locales for Goddess, which he could never direct because he died of a heart attack in 2005. Pop icon Tina Turner, selected by Merchant to play the lead in Goddess, visited Varanasi.
The move could work wonders for the city, ostensibly because rarely an effort has been made to tag Varanasi as “a home to all religions”.
“Varanasi has a place for everyone, the living and the dead, and there’s solace. Its a city where Bismillah Khan lived and practiced on the ghats, a place revered by the Hindus. And he told me once that he had witnessed Ma Durga on the Ganges while practicing his shehnai. In Varanasi, various religions have evolved throughout the course of civilisation and shaped the evolution of society,” says Awasthi.
Hopefully soon, one of the holiest places in Hindu lore, will have a new tagline for spiritual seekers from all over the world.
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Sheffield United are set to receive a welcome cash boost after former Blades defender Harry Maguire completed his move to Leicester City.
The 24-year-old's move to Leicester could be worth as much as £17m - and The Star understands that United inserted a sell-on clause, thought to be 10 per cent of any profit made, into the deal which took Maguire to Hull in the summer of 2014.
The defender was about to enter the final year of his contract with Hull and becomes Craig Shakespeare's first signing since he took over as Leicester's full-time manager last week.
“It’s obviously a very exciting time for myself," Maguire, who has signed a five-year deal, said.
"Once I had my eyes on this club, I always wanted to join. Thankfully I’m here so I can’t wait to get the season started and kick on.
“There were a number of clubs interested, but when I met the manager here, he pretty much swayed it into the direction of this club. He showed me the way that the Club is going. It’s on the up and it looks very promising for the future, so credit to the gaffer.
“You can see that with the structure of the club, it’s going to look upwards rather than down so that was a big reason why, as soon as I knew there was an interest, I wanted to jump at the opportunity.”
Maguire was a stand out in the middle of Hull’s defence last season despite their relegation to the Championship, with the young defender picking up the Players’ Player of the Year and Fans’ Player of the Year awards.
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Let’s be honest Allyson, this really is all your fault.
For months now I’ve been flying under the radar, working hard at achieving my no-reputation reputation. I openly let my peers judge me and was happy being referred to as “Who?” and “Her?”. And it was all for two reasons:
One, they didn’t know me. And two, if we ever did meet, I could scream “You don’t know me! You don’t know me!” the same way sassy, out of control, pregnant teenagers do on Maury.
But those dreams are far behind me now.
Because today is a Thursday and I find Thursdays to be exceptionally boring. So imagine my excitement when I get an email from my school telling me I need to pick up a package. I’m already in the 7.56 to 7.73 range of happiness on any given day so I hit Chris Traeger levels of optimism.
Public Service Announcement: Apparently that much happiness affects one’s situational awareness and ability to rationalize. Because I got my package and started dancing. Like, in the mailroom, started dancing. Mind you, I’m a terrible dancer. I only wish I could dance half as well as Elaine. About 45 seconds in I say to myself, ‘You should stop. If someone notices you’ll never be able to achieve your Maury-level dreams.’
Why I didn’t stop there is beyond me.
The CIA World Factbook should really examine their projected population growth rates for India and Nigeria because they have nothing on the population growth of my college’s mailroom. In the minute and a half I spent dancing our mailroom managed to grow from one person (Me) to about 30. This includes the girl that sits behind me in criminal law and two guys that I will see in chemistry class tomorrow morning. And naturally, there were all staring at the crazy person dancing (Dancing. Seizure. Call it what you will). So as any sane, reasonable person does, I took my package and ran the hell out of there.
Thank God the embarrassment is over, right?
Wrong!
I ran so fast that I body slammed my apartment building’s door which wouldn’t have been a problem if the cute guy living on my floor hadn’t been opening it with a basket full of laundry. No, instead laundry flew everywhere and I mumbled something along the lines of “thank you” and “reddit”. Now he thinks I’m an unapologetic redditor (Which isn’t too far from the truth, but he didn’t need to know that.)
In the span of five minutes months of preparation went down the toilet, my Maury dreams were destroyed and I have now been dubbed “that mailroom girl who has frequent seizures and runs”.
So thanks.
Despite being thoroughly embarrassed, I was miraculously still pumped for your gift (See Picture One). Two things I will always do: Laugh in the face of danger by opening boxes with my hand on the scissor blade (Because really, who actually uses the handle?) and making that face when I’m excited (See Picture Four). Mainly because of who I am as a person.
So I’m just now realizing how long it took me to actually talk about the books you got me. Sorry. (Not really, I’m just practicing on what to say to laundry guy. I actually like talking about myself. See? Unapologetic.)
Okay so book numero uno: “Pawn” by Aimée Carter. From what I’ve gathered (aka, the inside flap), I’m gonna like this one. It has all the things I like: Numbers (I’m being serious), something disturbing-ish (Pleeease tell me they use face transplants) and a strong female protagonist. Seriously, nothing turns me off more than weak female characters. I haven’t been able to finish a romantic comedy in two years (Except for “10 Things I Hate About You.” Because I actually like Kat). Anyways, this book sounds pretty good so I gave you my thumbs-up seal of approval.
EDIT: I just realized the protagonist’s name is Kitty. If she’s a strong female character than my days of sorting through hundreds of young adult novels are over! Strong female character = feline name. Take Katniss, for instance. Coincidence? I think not.
The first thing I should say is that I was hyped to see you got me two books. Not only have you given me more to read but I now have another reason to procrastinate and put off my homework. You also gave me the joy of laughing so hard I choked on my spit (See Picture Ten). I think it’s because his eyes follow you everywhere. Right now, I’m holding it at an awkward angle upside down and I still feel like I’m being watched.
But book number two! Or would it be one-and-a-half and two? Eh, whatever. Book 1.5/2 is “After Moonrise” by P.C. Cast and Gena Showalter. It’s made up of two novels, “Possessed” by P.C. and “Haunted”, which was written by Gena. Picture twelve is when the word “possessed” caught my eye. Picture thirteen is when I’m relieved to remember I like books about possession. What really caught my eye were the words “detective” and “murder so brutal” (I’m a words person). I’ve spent at least half of my college career studying brutal murders, so it’s nice to have a bit of light reading.
Mad props Allyson, because you seemed to have found a non-love triangle, “first time getting on a train” dystopian novel. And two-ish novels that aren’t textbook heavy on crime, which is refreshing. You’re a Grade-A Secret Santa and —
You know what? Screw this. What I’m really trying to say is thanks for the books and ruining my reputation Allyson. It was worth it.
Madison
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This amazing chickpea pattie recipe comes from my Mama (thanks mama!). The recipe is an adaptation of a traditional Punjabi dish made with potatoes called “Aloo Tikkis” (meaning potato patties). I try not to eat too many potatoes and so I asked my Mom to make it with chickpeas. She did and it was delicious. 🙂 This chickpea pattie recipe is filled with indian spices so get ready for your mouth to explode with spicy amazingness!
Ingredients for Chickpea Pattie Recipe
1 cup dried chickpeas, soaked overnight (or 2 cans of 15 ounce chickpeas)
2-3 green onions
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
1/2 tsp coriander powder
1/2 tsp garam masala
1/4 tsp of chat masala, optional
1/4 tsp of chilli powder, optional
1/2 of a fresh green (or red) chilli, optional
1-2 tsp of freshly squeezed lemon juice
salt, to taste (I used about 1/2 tsp)
3 tbsp of ground chia + 1/2 cup water
4 cup greens (baby spinach, kale, etc.), optional
Directions for Chickpea Pattie Recipe
Combine the 3 tbsp of ground chia with the 1/2 cup of water in a bowl and set aside. Wash & cook the chickpeas until they are super soft (you will have to mash them by hand, so the softer they are the easier it will be for you). Once the chickpeas are cooked, drain any excess water and set aside. Grease a baking sheet and preheat oven to 400. Chop the green onion, fresh cilantro and greens, if using, and set aside. Now it’s time to use your mom arms, yoga arms or if you are like me, your slightly weakling arms. 🙂 With a potato masher (or fork if you don’t have a masher), mash the chickpeas. You want to mash them just until you can’t see any more whole chickpeas. You still want them to keep their form. You don’t want to use a food processor because they will get too soft and won’t form properly into patties. Add all of the spices and the chia mixture to the chickpeas and mix with a spoon until everything is nicely combined. Using a 1/3 measuring cup, scoop up the chickpea mixture and place onto your greased baking sheet. Use your fingers to flatten your patties until they are about 2-3 inches thick. Bake at 400 for about 30-40 minutes, flipping them mid-way through. Enjoy them in your salad, in your burger, in a wrap or on their own! You can pan fry them right before you eat them so that they are nice and crispy. These freeze really well, so feel free to wrap them up and freeze them once they are cool.
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Partisans of the Left compulsively claim President George W. Bush was an imbecile who couldn’t be trusted on anything. If they’re right, all of us must reflexively and wholly refute every statement he ever made. It would seem very reasonable, then, to first dispense with a sweeping pronouncement on one of the most pressing and thorny issues of modern times, an issue that obviously no Texan troglodyte could hope to grasp: “The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace.” Those words were spoken by America’s forty-third commander-in-chief at the Islamic Center of Washington, DC, just six days after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Lo and behold, if there’s one thing that Bush clearly shares in common with his renowned ideological rivals—Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden—it’s an obstinate belief that the religion of Islam has nothing to do with violence. Obama has defended “the true peaceful nature of Islam.” Clinton has tweeted, “Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.” And Biden, after listening to activist, author and ex-Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali discuss the relationship between ISIS and Islam, reportedly retorted, “Let me tell you one or two things about Islam.”
Actually, there are a few things that Bush, Obama, Clinton and Biden share in common. None of them are theologians, none of them are scholars of Middle Eastern history and none of them—not even Obama, as far as I’m aware—can read classical Arabic and, thus, understand the Koran, the hadith (the traditions and habits of Muhammad) or the sunna (the teachings and sayings of Muhammad) in their original form. (Whether Bush, Biden or Clinton has bothered to read a single translated page of these texts remains to be seen. Obama, who from ages six to ten, attended a public school in Indonesia influenced by the West, appears to be in much the same boat.) Yes, our political leaders are perfectly unified in their immense ignorance of the worldview to which 1.6 billion people—around a quarter of the global population—subscribe.
But let’s leave aside for a moment the contentious and oft-debated question of whether Islam is a religion of peace. Why the absence of “’splaining” accusations? After all, the numerous branches of the PC Police typically leap to castigate those who opine on topics beyond their “knowledge.” (“Knowledge” and, accordingly, “credibility” are allegedly derived not from academic training, but instead primarily from lived experience.) To “’splain” is “to explain or comment on something in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner, from the perspective of the group one identifies with.”
So with today’s incessant talk of Islam, where are the social-justice warriors who summarily slam nonblack academics who, for example, seek to understand and alleviate the causes of African American poverty? Where are the feminists who excoriate male journalists who, for instance, endeavor to comprehend the difficulties women endure in the workplace? And why is the grievance Gestapo not up in arms, furiously scolding eminent non-Muslims for rendering, from the mightiest of bully pulpits, definitive judgments on issues about which they know virtually nothing? Are Bush, Obama, Biden and Clinton—if I may coin a word—“Christiansplaining”?
Perhaps. It doesn’t truly matter though. What does matter is, first, what is revealed by the dithering of liberals and progressives otherwise obsessed with enforcing mental segregation, who are usually so eager to condemn those who have strayed beyond their designated racial, religious and gender pens. To be sure, more than any other issue, Islam—specifically, the absurdly rudimentary way in which it’s characterized by prominent nonbelievers with no substantive familiarity with the faith—proves that the Left’s outrage is selective. It candidly demonstrates that “’splaining” indictments—along with their ugly siblings, safe spaces and trigger warnings—are systematically used, contrary to the Left’s avowals, to curtail rather than enhance free speech. The bottom line: Who is speaking is of little import as long as what a person utters coincides with one of the Left’s narratives, ambitions or ideals.
A second reason the Left’s willingness to overlook Christiansplaining matters? Its opinions are hollow, which means the allegations of racism and xenophobia it hurls are (usually) similarly empty. When elected officials, who are profoundly distrusted, as polling consistently shows, mimic what some imams and Islamic scholars say—that Islam is a religion of peace—suspicion naturally flows due to the transitive property of equality. Worsening the situation, the reassurances are almost always heard, due to status and the nature of the media landscape, pouring forth from the mouths of elected officials as opposed to the imams and Islamic scholars.
Moreover, when some Muslims and ex-Muslims in addition to other Islamic scholars stress that Islam does in fact have internal theological problems, then anxiety quite rightly increases rather than decreases. On June 12, Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, Founder and President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, demanded that his coreligionists develop “real reforms” and “get our Sharia Islamic law out of the 13th century in which it’s stuck.” In short, Americans have been pounded by contradictory voices.
Americans have also caught pundits and “experts” on television and radio lecturing about the urgent need for Muslim American communities to spearhead efforts to counter extremism and homegrown radicalization. But most Americans don’t live in or near a Muslim community, so they don’t see what—if anything—is transpiring to unearth and uproot the few bad weeds. In the meantime, they do witness one terrorist attack after another plotted and carried out on domestic soil: Chattanooga, Boston, San Bernardino, Orlando. It’s reasonable then to conclude that progress is not being made within those environs closest to past perpetrators.
And here are the most taboo yet prescient questions: If our elected officials—as well as the preponderance of those who comment daily on religious extremism—are, for all intents and purposes, totally unversed in Islamic theology, who are they to distinguish between what is “radical Islam” and what is “non-radical Islam”? If a majority of Muslims are not violent, does that mean the religion of Islam itself is not violent? Or could it possibly instead mean that the majority of Muslims aren’t following the religion of Islam as it is written or as it was intended by Muhammad to be practiced?
As a Jew, I would be insulted if a non-Jew were to boldly declare that “Judaism is a religion of peace.” Regardless of whether Judaism is inherently peaceful or not, I wouldn’t want my faith reduced in such an elementary way, especially by someone outside the faith. And arguably the mere notion of “religion”—as it’s used by our elected officials—is ethnocentric. It connotes, certainly within the American context, a personal and private approach to spirituality, Protestant and Madisonian, reflecting salvation and faith rather than commandments and community, which are more the focus of Judaism and Islam.
The point is that non-Muslims in high places describing Islam as a religion of “peace” has long outlived its usefulness. It’s so obvious—and frustrating—now that the rhetoric was employed with an eye toward public calm rather than the actual content of Islam. This is not to say, however, there’s a need to conversely decree Islam a religion of “violence”—or anything else for that matter. It’s not even to say we shouldn’t take seriously the avowals of those who commit terror in the name of Islam. It’s only to say that this is one of those unique circumstances in which there really has been “’splaining” and, ultimately, only authentic insiders (i.e., Muslims and scholars of Islam) are equipped to address the theological tenets of Islam being “exploited,” “distorted” and “manipulated.”
Moving forward, to better protect America, the explaining away of Islamic extremism ought to end immediately. Asserting that “gun violence,” above all, has been the cause of homicidal assaults like the one at the Pulse nightclub is to discount context, culture and ideology. It’s tantamount to maintaining that the only reason the genocides of Armenia, Germany, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur—or any other murderous undertaking—occurred is because of the presence of lethal instruments. This programmatic myopia, which shoves aside reality for the sake of shielding a dangerously utopian view of human relations, is only sentencing to death other innocents at home and abroad.
Finally, the browbeating of those who don’t impeccably conform to multicultural norms must abate. It’s having a perilous chilling effect. After each tragedy, we learn someone hesitated to report suspicious activity out of fear of being branded a bigot. In the wake of Orlando, law-enforcement officers across the big networks stressed, “See something, say something.” That’s a cute slogan, but “see something, say something” is inextricably at odds with the pervasive doctrine of “tolerance,” which in effect means “tolerance at all costs.” “See something, say something” politely requests that we put self-preservation instincts before prejudices. “Tolerance” sternly demands that we bury self-preservation instincts to avoid offending others.
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Is the Moon the Creation of Alien Intelligence? Paper published in the eminent Soviet Journal 'SPUTNIK' by Russian scientists Mik...
http://humansarefree.com/2016/09/russian-scientists-published-this-paper.html
Is the Moon the Creation of Alien Intelligence?
AN ARTIFICIAL SPUTNIK OF THE EARTH?
OUR HYPOTHESIS: The Moon is an artificial Earth satellite put into orbit around the Earth by some intelligent beings unknown to ourselves.
A NOAH'S ARK?
A BATTLESHIP THEY COULDN'T TORPEDO?
A SPACESHIP COME TO GRIEF?
WAITING FOR THE EVIDENCE
Although people long ago began to wonder whether the "canals" on Mars were the creation of cosmic engineers, for some odd reason it has not occurred to look with the same eyes upon the peculiarities of the lunar landscape much closer at hand.And all the arguments about the possibilities of intelligent life existing on other celestial bodies have been confined to the idea that other civilizations must necessarily live on the surface of a planet, and that the interior as a habitat is out of the question. Abandoning the traditional paths of "common sense", we have plunged into what may at first sight seem to be unbridled and irresponsible fantasy.But the more minutely we go into all the information gathered by man about the Moon, the more we are convinced that there is not a single fact to rule out our supposition.Not only that, but many things so far considered to be lunar enigmas are explainable in the light of this new hypothesis.The origin of the Moon is one of the most complicated problems of cosmogony. So far there have been basically three hypotheses under discussion.The Moon was once a part of the Earth and broke away from it. This has now been refuted by the evidence.The Moon was formed independently from the same cloud of dust and gas as the Earth, and immediately became the Earth's natural satellite.But then why is there such a big difference between the specific gravity of the Moon (3.33 grams per cubic centimeter) and that of the Earth (5.5 gr.)?Furthermore, according to the latest information (analysis of samples brought back by the U.S. Apollo astronauts) lunar rock is not of the same composition as the Earth's.The Moon came into being separately, and, moreover, far from the Earth (perhaps even outside the Solar system).This would mean that the moon would not have to be fashioned from the same "clay" as our own planet. Sailing through the Universe, the Moon came into Earth's proximity, and by a complex interplay of forces of gravity was brought within a geocentric orbit, very close to circular. But a catch of this kind is virtually impossible.In fact, scientists studying the origin of the Universe today have no acceptable theory to explain how the Earth-Moon system came into being.We refuse to engage in speculation about who exactly staged this unique experiment, which only a highly developed civilization was capable of.If you are going to launch an artificial sputnik, then it is advisable to make it hollow.At the same time it would be naive to imagine that anyone capable of such a tremendous space project would be satisfied simply with some kind of giant empty trunk hurled into a near-Earth trajectory.It is more likely that what we have here is a very ancient spaceship, the interior of which was filled with fuel for the engines, materials and appliances for repair work, navigation, instruments, observation equipment and all manner of machinery...In other words, everything necessary to enable this "caravelle of the Universe" to serve as a kind of Noah's Ark of intelligence, perhaps even as the home of a whole civilization envisaging a prolonged (thousands of millions of years) existence and long wanderings through space (thousands of millions of miles).Naturally, the hull of such a spaceship must be super-tough in order to stand up to the blows of meteorites and sharp fluctuations between extreme heat and extreme cold.Probably the shell is a double-layered affair--the basis a dense armoring of about 20 miles in thickness, and outside it some kind of more loosely packed covering (a thinner layer — averaging about three miles).In certain areas — where the lunar "seas" and "craters" are, the upper layer is quite thin, in some cases, non-existent.Since the Moon's diameter is 2,162 miles, then looked at from our point of view it is a thin- walled sphere.And, understandably, not an empty one. There could be all kinds of materials and equipment on its inner surface.But the greatest proportion of the lunar mass is concentrated in the central part of the sphere, in its core, which has a diameter of 2,062 miles.Thus the distance between the kernel and the shell of this nut is in the region of 30 miles. This space was doubtless filled with gases required for breathing, and for technological and other purposes.With such an internal structure the Moon could have an average specific gravity if 3.3 grams per cubic centimeter, which differs considerably from that of Earth (5.5 grams per cubic centimeter).The most numerous and interesting of the formations on the lunar surface are the craters.In diameter they vary considerably. Some are less that a yard across, while others are more than 120 miles (the biggest has a diameter of 148 miles). How does the Moon come to be so pockmarked?There are two hypothesis — volcanic and meteoric. Most scientists vote for the latter.Kirill Stanyukovich, a Soviet physicist, has written a whole series of works since 1937 in which he expounds the idea that the craters are the result of bombardment of the Moon for millions of years.And he really means bombardment, for even the smallest celestial body, when it is involved in one of those fastest head-on collisions so common in the cosmos behaves itself like a warhead charged with dynamite, or even an atomic warhead at times.Instant combustion takes place on impact, turning it into a dense cloud of incandescent gas, into plasma, and there is a very definite explosion.According to Professor Stanyukovich, a "missile" of a sizable character (say 6 miles in diameter) must, on collision with the Moon, penetrate to a depth equal to 4 or 5 times its own diameter (24-30 miles).The surprising thing is that however big the meteorites may have been which have fallen on the Moon (some have been more than 60 miles in diameter), and however fast they must have been traveling (in some cases the combined speed was as much as 38 miles per second), the craters they have left behind are for some odd reason all about the same depth, 1.2-2 miles, although they vary tremendously in diameter.Take that 148-mile diameter crater. In area it outdoes Hiroshima hundreds of times over.What a powerful explosion it must have been to send millions of tons of lunar rock fountaining over tens of miles!On the face of it, one would expect to find a very deep crater here, but nothing of the sort: there is three miles at the most between top and bottom levels, and one third of that is accounted for by the wall of rock thrown up around the crater like a toothed crown.For such a big hole, it is too shallow. Furthermore, the bottom of the crater is convex, following the curve of the lunar surface.If you were to stand in the middle of the crater you would not even be able to see the soaring edge-- it would be beyond the horizon. A hollow that is more like a hill is a rather strange affair, perhaps.Not really, if one assumes that when the meteorite strikes the outer covering of the moon, this plays the role of a buffer and the foreign body finds itself up against an impenetrable spherical barrier.Only slightly denting the 20-mile layer of armour plating, the explosion flings bits of its "coating" far and wide.Bearing in mind that the Moon's defense coating is, according to our calculations, 2.5 miles thick, one sees that this is approximately the maximum depth of the craters.Now let us consider the chemical peculiarities of the lunar rock.Upon analysis, American scientists have found chromium, titanium and zirconium in it. These are all metals with refractory, mechanically strong and anti-corrosive properties.A combination of them all would have enviable resistance to heat and the ability to stand up to means of aggression, and could be used on Earth for linings for electrical furnaces.If a material had to be devised to protect a giant artificial satellite from the unfavorable effects of temperature, from cosmic radiation and meteorite bombardment, the experts would probably have hit on precisely these metals.In that case it is not clear why lunar rock is such an extraordinarily poor heat conductor - a factor which so amazed the astronauts? Wasn't that what the designers of the super-sputnik of the Earth were after?From the engineers point of view, this spaceship of ages long past which we call the Moon is superbly constructed. There may be a good reason for its extreme longevity. It is even possible that it predates our own planet.At any rate, some pieces of lunar rock have proved older than the oldest on Earth, although it is true, this applies to the age of the materials and not of the structure for which they were used.And from the number of craters on its surface, the Moon itself is no chicken.It is, of course, difficult to say when it began to shine in the sky above the Earth, but on the basis of some preliminary estimates one might hazard a guess that it was around two thousand million years ago.We do not, of course, imagine that the moon is still inhabited, and probably many of its automatic devices have stopped working, too. The stabilizers have ceased functioning and the poles have shifted.Even though the moon keeps that same side turned towards us, for some time it has been unsteady on its own axis, on occasion showing us part of its reverse side which were once invisible to observers on the Earth - for example, the Selenites themselves if they made expeditions here.Time has taken its toll. Both body and rigging have disintegrated to some extent; some seams on the inner shell evidently diverged.We assume that the long (up to 940 miles) chains of small craters formerly ascribed to volcanic activity were brought about by eruptions of gas through cracks appearing in the armour plating as a result of accidents.No doubt one of the most splendid features of the lunarscape — a straight "wall" nearly 500 yards high and over 60 miles long - formed as a result of one of the armor plates bending under the impact of celestial torpedoes and raising one of its straight, even edges.The Moon's population presumably took the necessary steps to remedy the effects of meteorite bombardment, for example, patching up rents in the outer shield covering the inner shell.For such purposes a substance from the lunar core was probably used, a kind a cement being made from it. After processing this would be piped to the surface sites where it was required.Not long ago astronomers discovered variations in the gravitational fields near the large "seas". We believe the reason to be this: the Moon's dry seas are in fact areas from which the protective coating was torn from the armor cladding.To make good the damage to these vast tracts, the installation producing the repair substance would have had to be brought immediately beneath the site so that it could flood the area with its "cement". The resulting flat stretches are what look like seas to the terrestrial observer.The stocks of materials and machinery for doing this are no doubt still where they were, and are sufficiently massive to give rise to these gravitational anomalies.What is the Moon today? Is it a colossal necropolis, a "city of the dead," where some form of life became extinct? Is it a kind cosmic Flying Dutchman? A craft abandoned by its crew and controlled automatically?We do not know and we shall not try to guess.We have put forward in this article only a few of the reasons - unfortunately the evidence is so far only circumstantial - for our hypothesis, which at first glance may appear to be crazy.A similar "crazy" idea was put forward in 1959 by Professor Iosif Shklovsky, an eminent scientist, in relation to the "moons" circling around Mars.After carefully weighing up the evidence he concludes that they are both hollow and therefore artificial satellites.We feel that the questions we have raised in connection with our Moon provide sufficient food for serious thought on the matter; the result may be the illumination of our many lunar riddles.Now, of course, we have to wait for direct evidence to support our idea. Or refute it...Probably there will not be long to wait.
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There’s Something Wrong With This Staten Island Church
Last weekend, I was scouting some locations on Staten Island, and the last on my list was this church at the southern tip of the island.
At first, everything about the 185-foot tall Church of St. Joachim and St. Anne seemed perfectly normal.
But as I was taking some angle shots, something started to feel…off.
Then, as I walked around to the side, all of a sudden it occurred to me…
What happened to the back of the church??
It reminded me of old cartoons where Donald Duck or Bugs Bunny would build an insanely impressive mansion facade in front of a normal-sized house to fool people.
From the rear, you can see that a concrete wall holds most of the upper structure up:
As it happens, this incongruous pairing was the result of a tragic fire that ripped through the original church in 1973 and destroyed most of it.
Miraculously, a sizable portion of the facade survived and was later installed as the front of the new, smaller church.
But you want to know the weirdest thing? You’ve seen this church before.
Sure you have! You mean you’ve forgotten? It was back in 1972, a year before the fire.
If I recall, you were there for a baptism…
Full then-and-now look at The Godfather coming soon!
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Shaquem Griffin thought UCF football coaches were joking when they told him to join the linebackers' room last month.
Up until the start of spring practice, he spent the majority of his college football career working out with the secondary, which includes his twin brother, Shaquill. Griffin, who is a redshirt junior from St. Petersburg, made his biggest play during a game last season on special teams when he recovered a muffed punt against Tulane.
But when the new coaching staff looked at Griffin, they didn't see a safety. They saw a potential pass rusher at outside linebacker.
"My father always talked about me playing linebacker," Griffin said. "And now that I was in there I was like let's give it a shot and it actually went really good for me...my dad was like I told you so, I told you so. That's the funny part about it."
Griffin brought some experience to the position having played linebacker in sports during his time at Lakewood High School.
The Knights will rely on Griffin to bring his speed and athleticism to the linebackers as the team transitioned from a base 4-3 defense to a 3-4.
There is no set group of starters, but Griffin and senior Errol Clarke have seen their fair share of reps with the 1s at outside linebacker with Chequan Burkett and Mark Rucker working the inside.
New linebackers coach Jovan DeWitt said he's been pleased so far with Griffin and Clarke's performance on the edges.
"They're doing a really good job and buying into a lot of the things that we're doing. They're having some success. Obviously Griff came down from the back end on the secondary level but he's got some height to him and some strength and some quickness that we want," DeWitt said. "Errol's a really good football player and he's picking things up really well. He's transitioned really well into being an edge guy. He's got the combination of understanding the coverage area aspect and still being a physical enough player in the box for us."
Griffin's background as a safety makes the transition much easier in a 3-4 defense here linebackers are more spread out as if they were on a basketball court.
His brother, Shaquill hasn't been surprised by his success in the new role either. Like their father, Terry, he always saw Shaquem more as a linebacker.
"[Shaquem] was really excited. I’ve been telling him that for the longest," Shaquill Griffin said. "Now that the coaches said it, now he believes he should have been playing there for the longest. Now that he gained the weight, he’s absolutely loving it."
Griffin picked up about 10 pounds for the new role -- a feat his brother said wasn't difficult. His healthy appetite for food is only matched by his thirst for competition.
Griffin makes friendly wagers with his twin brother during every practice fueled by who makes the bigger play in practice.
"We'll make little side bets like, you have to buy lunch if I get the sack or, for me and my brother, if I make the play before you or you get the sack or interception before me, you have to run to the gate after practice," Griffin said with a wide smile on his face. "It's just a big competition and it's fun to do it."
E-mail Shannon Green at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter at @osknights.
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