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The only significant MemShrink-related change that landed this week was that David Anderson removed TraceMonkey, the tracing JIT compiler. In fact, TraceMonkey was disabled a while ago, so the effects on code size and memory consumption of its removal have been felt since then. But it feels more real now that the source code is gone (all 67,000 lines of it!), so I figure it’s worth mentioning. (BTW, many thanks to Ryan VanderMeulen who has been going through Bugzilla, closing many old TraceMonkey-related bugs that are no longer relevant.) People have asked why TraceMonkey isn’t needed any more. In my opinion, tracing compilation can be a good strategy for certain kinds of code, such as very tight, non-branchy loops. But it tends to do badly on other kinds of code. Before JaegerMonkey, JS code in Firefox ran in one of two modes: interpreted (super slow), or trace-compiled (usually fast). This kind of bimodal performance is bad, because you lose more when slow than you gain when fast. Also, because tracing was the only way to make code fast, huge amounts of effort were put into tracing code that shouldn’t really be traced, which made TraceMonkey really complicated. Once JaegerMonkey was added, the performance was still bimodal, but in a better way: method-compiled (fairly fast) or trace-compiled (usually fast). But the heuristics to switch between the two modes were quite hairy. Then type inference was added to JaegerMonkey, which made it faster on average than JaegerMonkey+TraceMonkey. Combine that with the fact that TraceMonkey was actively getting in the way of various additional JaegerMonkey and type inference improvements, and it was clear it was time for TraceMonkey to go. It might sound like there’s been a lot of wasted effort with all these different JITs. There’s some truth to that. But JavaScript is a difficult language to compile well, and people have only been writing JITs for it for a few years, which isn’t long when it comes to compilers. Each new JIT has taught the JS team about ideas that do and don’t work, and those lessons have been incorporated into the next, better JIT. That’s why IonMonkey is now being developed — because JaegerMonkey with type inference still has a number of shortcomings that can’t be remedied incrementally. In fact, it’s possible that IonMonkey might end up one day with a trace compiler for really hot, tight loops. If it does, this trace compiler would be much simpler than TraceMonkey because it would only target code that trace-compiles easily; trace compilation would be the icing on the cake, not the whole cake. Enough about JITs. Time for this week’s MemShrink bug counts. P1: 31 (-0/+2) P2: 132 (-3/+8) P3: 60 (-0/+2) Unprioritized: 4 (-0/+4) Not a great deal of movement there. The quietness is at least partly explained by the fact that Thanksgiving is happening in the US this week. Next week will probably be quieter than usual for the same reason.

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Lately, people have been throwing the word �laughingstock� around rather loosely when it comes to the University of Missouri�s campus in Columbia. To be more precise, it has become fashionable for people in Missouri who disapprove of university students and employees protesting racial discrimination to claim recent campus unrest has resulted in the school becoming a national �laughingstock.� State Rep. Donna Lichtenegger explained her support for a budget amendment designed to punish the school for its students exercising their First Amendment rights as an attempt �to make people understand that we are not going to be a laughingstock.� In a recent letter to The Columbia Missourian, Professor Emeritus Brian Brooks claimed Melissa Click �has made the University of Missouri the laughingstock of the entire country.� Two commenters on the letter used the word �laughingstock� to describe the university as well. A Google search reveals that many bloggers who write about the university also favor this phrasing. I don�t know who wrote the script these people are borrowing from, but I do know that an appeal to ridicule is an informal logical fallacy and that simply saying the campus has become a laughingstock doesn�t make it so. I also wonder if, perhaps, those making these claims are too close to Columbia to really gauge what the rest of the country is or is not laughing at. While I have no doubt certain people find activism in the face of entrenched power and institutionalized racism �funny,� I don�t think they really reflect the majority of the country. Speaking as someone who has lived all over the country � including Columbia � and who currently resides in Ohio, I think I can safely say that, in fact, most of us outside of Columbia are not laughing about what is going on at MU. Quite the contrary � we are concerned about the safety and well-being of students. We debate seriously a professor�s due process rights and student journalists� rights to take photographs on public property. We discuss Concerned Student 1950 and the role nonviolent direct action can play in effecting serious change. At a Christmas party toward the end of last year, an attorney friend and I discussed how impressed we both were with the courage of Missouri�s football team and its coach, Gary Pinkel. These are not matters to laugh at, despite what some people like to tell the media. I understand people are angry � particularly with Click, who by her own admission made a serious mistake. It seems to me, though, that she admitted her wrongdoing and expressed genuine remorse. I�m inclined to say that � combined with the facts that no one was hurt by her words or actions and that she was acting with the best interest of students in mind � probably qualifies her for forgiveness. At the very least, it should have qualified her for a fair hearing with her promotion and tenure committee before the Board of Curators decided, in a session closed to the public, to curtail her due process rights and end her career. I�m biased, of course. I really, really love MU. I spent four of the best years of my life in Columbia, studying literature and creative writing. I met the woman I would later marry in Tate Hall. Several members of the faculty are among my smartest and most trusted friends � friends who now have to fear for their jobs, should they say something to make themselves politically inconvenient. I learned a lot on that campus, both about the world and about myself. Put simply, my years at MU were powerfully transformative. And it bothers me that some people would like to deny other students that type of transformative experience. And, make no mistake, that is one of the consequences of withholding funds, stripping the faculty of their due process rights and removing academic freedom protections for those who voice dissent. When you �punish� members of the university community for saying things that aren�t popular, or articulating anger at injustice, or simply not expressing themselves in a manner that all find agreeable, you cripple the university and its crucial mission for the people of Missouri. And it�s not a laughing matter.

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Most horror movies are generally told from a male perspective, despite the fact that studies have shown the audiences for these films are 50% female. There have been some powerful genre movies made by women, featuring feminist leanings and a strong female viewpoint. We wanted to highlight these works — those films that bypass the stereotypical (naked) damsel in distress trope and call attention to the male gaze, sometimes turning it back onto itself. If the only names that come to mind when discussing horror are Hitchcock and Romero, let this list also serve as an introduction to fantastic female filmmakers who enjoy scaring the hell out of their audiences. Trouble Every Day Claire Denis’ blood-soaked meditation on desire, obsession, and longing centers on a pair of cannibals (Vincent Gallo and Béatrice Dalle) who indulge their animal appetites with abandon and force us to face some of our most primal fears: being eaten alive, being alone, and losing time. Near Dark Kathryn Bigelow’s severely underrated vampire film, Near Dark, follows a ruthless family of nomadic vampires. There’s nary a cape or exotic accent amongst the bloodsuckers, who behave like junkies out for a fix. Darker, grittier, and more grounded in real-life horror than most vampire tales, Near Dark presents a hazy, brutal world akin to a horror-western — far from the typical romantic tableaux we’re used to. Messiah of Evil This was American Graffiti screenwriters Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz’s ticket to a directorial career — a tradition many Hollywood hopefuls followed during the 1970s (make a genre movie, pray you get noticed, direct another, “respectable,” film). Messiah of Evil was never completed the way the filmmakers originally intended — their budget ran out and investors took over the project — but that disconnect gives the film some of its surreality. A young woman searches for her missing father in a seaside town that is overrun by a zombified cult. Cue Lovecraft-inspired weirdness, nightmarish visions, and a Euro-horror influence that makes Messiah of Evil palpably eerie. American Psycho Mary Harron’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho — about a wealthy, narcissistic, and psychopathic investment banker who slaughters his way through the 1980s — highlighted the incredible talent of Christian Bale. But it also made us notice Harron, who cleverly balances the bleakness and bitterness of Ellis’ story (previously considered unfilmable) with smart satire and style through her curious, clinical eye. Amer Directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani created a glowing tribute to the Italian thrillers of the 1960s and ‘70s (known as the gialli) with Amer. Where those films tend to cater to male audiences, using sex and nudity galore, Amer’s trilogy tale is told from a female perspective à la Repulsion. The film’s dream logic allows viewers to indulge in Cattet and Forzani’s sensual, and sometimes frightening, observations. The Hitch-Hiker Pioneering filmmaker Ida Lupino had an impressive directorial career for a woman during the 1940s and ‘50s, when big-screen opportunities were largely in front of the camera and not behind it. Often cited as the first film noir feature directed by a woman, The Hitch-Hiker blends an anxiety-ridden narrative — about two men held at gunpoint by an escaped murderer — with psychological horror and stark realism. The Slumber Party Massacre Legendary producer Roger Corman has given many big name actors and directors their first break, including Jack Nicholson and Francis Ford Coppola. Corman did the same with screenwriter and editor Amy Holden Jones, who turned down a gig behind the scenes of E.T. in order to direct her first feature, The Slumber Party Massacre. The film was meant to be a parody of the slasher films that populated the 1980s, written by feminist author Rita Mae Brown. However, Corman took a straight approach to the story. Still, Brown and Jones’ subversive humor, filtered through a female perspective (the men make dumb decisions while the women are more resilient), manages to shine through. American Mary Canadian twin filmmakers Jen and Sylvia Soska have been leading the way for contemporary female horror directors with their indie debut, Dead Hooker in a Trunk (picked up by IFC), and the recent American Mary. A disenchanted medical student enters the world of underground surgery and extreme body modification where her career takes a dark turn. Ginger Snaps’ Katharine Isabelle leads the twisted character study, and the Soskas allow the antiheroine to flourish without straining to make her likable (a rarity for female characters in general). Pathogen Emily Hagins directed zombie horror flick Pathogen when she was only 12 years old. The precocious director’s newest film, Grow Up, Tony Phillips, will be released on Halloween in 2014 (although it’s not a horror film). Boxing Helena Following in the footsteps of her famous filmmaker father, David Lynch, Jennifer Chambers Lynch started her own movie career with a bizarre, provocative story about a surgeon who holds a woman captive by amputating her limbs. The odd mix of quiet horror, fantasy, and erotic drama plays as lurid and downright (delightfully) weird. Ravenous Antonia Bird’s Ravenous is set during the 1800s at a remote military outpost in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where a group of soldiers meet a mysterious stranger who shares a disturbing tale of cannibalism. Part horror film, part black comedy, part character drama, Ravenous treats the power struggle that develops amongst the men, and the film’s gory premise, as a biting satire on consumption and our culture of excess. In My Skin New French Extremity film In My Skin by Marina de Van uses disturbing self-mutilation as a metaphor for the alienation we (especially women) often feel regarding our own bodies. Organ Think Cronenberg body horror filtered through a Japanese aesthetic when it comes to Kei Fujiwara’s Organ. The director previously starred in Tetsuo: The Iron Man — a transgressive classic that also deals with the limits and grotesqueness of the human body. Jennifer’s Body Written and directed by women (filmmaker Karyn Kusama and Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody), Jennifer’s Body tapped into high school horror (featuring Megan Fox as a possessed cheerleader) and the dark side of female friendship. The Captured Bird Former Rue Morgue magazine editor Jovanka Vuckovic directed a nightmarish fable about a little girl whose chalk drawings lead her to terrifying supernatural creatures. The short was produced by none other than Guillermo del Toro, and can be watched online right now.

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On this day in 1941, the Combine Japanese Fleet receive Top-Secret Order No. 1: In 34 days time, Pearl Harbor is to be bombed, along with Mayala, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines. Relations between the United States and Japan had been deteriorating quickly since Japan’s occupation of Indochina in 1940 and the implicit menacing of the Philippines (an American protectorate), with the occupation of the Cam Ranh naval base approximately 800 miles from Manila. American retaliation included the seizing of all Japanese assets in the States and the closing of the Panama Canal to Japanese shipping. In September 1941, Roosevelt issued a statement, drafted by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, that threatened war between the United States and Japan should the Japanese encroach any further on territory in Southeast Asia or the South Pacific. ADVERTISEMENT Thanks for watching! Visit Website The Japanese military had long dominated Japanese foreign affairs; although official negotiations between the U.S. secretary of state and his Japanese counterpart to ease tensions were ongoing, Hideki Tojo, the minister of war who would soon be prime minister, had no intention of withdrawing from captured territories. He also construed the American “threat” of war as an ultimatum and prepared to deliver the first blow in a Japanese-American confrontation: the bombing of Pearl Harbor. And so Tokyo delivered the order to all pertinent Fleet commanders, that not only the United States—and its protectorate the Philippines—but British and Dutch colonies in the Pacific were to be attacked. War was going to be declared on the West. ADVERTISEMENT Thanks for watching! Visit Website

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1. It is impossible to explain why Christianity would shift from worshipping a mythical Christ to preaching an historical Christ. Suppose the shift was the result of a deliberate conspiracy. Why would the conspirators open their message to refutation in this way? And why invent a crucified messiah when the very notion seemed risible to the Hellenists and blasphemous to the rabbis? Suppose the shift was accidental. How could the first Christians forget that a man called Jesus was not born during the troubled years that surrounded the death of Herod the Great? How could they forget that he was not crucified by a notorious prefect named Pilate? 2. Given that the Roman and Jewish elites had access to many documents and records from early Palestine which are now lost to us; and given that these elites opposed Christianity; and given that the early Christians claimed to follow an historical figure; why did these elites never point out that Jesus doesn’t appear in their records? That would have ended the growth of Christianity. But Christian apologists never had to argue against the thesis that Jesus never existed[iii]. In fact, there does not even seem to have been a rumour that Jesus had not lived and died in Palestine! It was accepted by sceptical pagan and Jewish opponents that Jesus had existed. (For example, when Tryphon expressed doubts that God would send a Messiah to Israel, he did not express doubts about the existence of Jesus). 3. The letters of Paul – probably the earliest Christian documents, written during the first three decades of the Church – assume an historical Christ. In his earliest letter Paul mentions that he met James, the brother of the Lord. In a parenthetical remark in 1 Thessalonians 2 v 15-16, Paul refers to Jesus execution by the Jewish people. Paul also notes that Jesus, like any other Jew, could claim to be descended from Abraham1 Corinthians 15 refers to Jesus’ death and burial and 1 Corinthians 11 describes how Jesus instituted the last supper before his death. Paul’s teaching on love and judging reflects Jesus’ and Paul’s views on eschatology parallel Jesus’. True, he does not mention the parables or miracles of Jesus; but neither does the book of Acts, which has the same author as the gospel of Luke. 4. Tacitus quite clearly affirmed that “Christ suffered the extreme penalty under Pontius Pilate” (Ann. 15.44.3.) It is logically possible that Tacitus uncritically copied a Christian source at this point; but it is also logically possible that America faked the moon landings. We are interested in what is plausible. Tacitus was quite capable of distinguishing rumour from a solid source. Furthermore, he refers to Christianity as a “mischievous superstition” growing in a city “where all things hideous and hateful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular”. It is unlikely that he took any Christian claim at face value. Nor is it likely that a later Christian scribe inserted the passage, given that he would not want to promote the view that Christianity was a “superstition”. Furthermore, Rome became an important city in the Christian world; it is unlikely that Christians would describe it as the source of all anti-social activity! 5. We should also take Josephus seriously in Ant 20.200, when he refers to the stoning of “James, the brother of Jesus who is called Christ”. By this stage, Christians used “Christ” as a proper name, not a title. “Who is called” does not imply faith – it merely distinguishes this Jesus from the many others who shared the name. The passage shows little interest in Jesus, or even in James’ theology. And it refers to a time when Josephus was actually in Jerusalem. 6. The ‘silence’ of other non-Christian sources on Jesus of Nazareth proves nothing of consequence. Paul was a significant figure for the first Christians; Rabbi Hillel was an important authority for Pharisees. Josephus mentions neither man. Is this evidence of their non-existence? The sources do not mention Stephen, Peter or James, all of whom reputedly either witnessed or performed remarkable miracles. But everyone agrees that they existed. Indeed, most of the authors on the list do not mention the first Christian community in Jersualem at all! Are we to infer that the first Christians did not exist? Some of the authors that critics expect to mention Jesus are historians who did not write about the relevant place or period; others are philosophers and rhetoricians with no interest in either history or a religion they would have considered foreign and superstitious. 7. The Gospels use Old Testament texts to understand the life of Jesus. However, this does not mean that an early Christian reading of the Old Testament gave rise to the myth of Jesus! The Old Testament gave meaning to events which were shocking and surprising to first century Jews. Consider Jesus’ use of Psalm 22 on the cross; or how Luke uses Isaiah 53 v2 “He was numbered among the transgressors” to explain why Jesus was executed with common criminals. These texts show events in a new light. This new way of interpreting the Old Testament presupposes historical events which had to be interpreted! 8. Some pop historians believe that they have spotted parallels to the life of Jesus in pagan myths. However, on closer examination, these parallels turn out to be myths. Each of the four gospel writers goes to great lengths to give us precise geographical and historical markers for the life and times of Jesus. Greek heroes by contrast, are universal; timeless figures transcending ordinary time and place. Jesus, however, is “Jesus from Nazareth” a small village we know was situated to the far north of Judea in Galilee. He is firmly placed in his historical setting, a Galilean Jew, born around the beginning of the first century (between 6 and 4 BC) and dying between 30 and 36 AD in Judea, under the orders of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who held office from 26-36 AD. Luke and Matthew both include precise, detailed genealogies, emphasising his human lineage, and anchoring him absolutely in his Jewish, Palestinian historical context. Luke 3:23 states that Jesus “was about thirty years old” at the start of his ministry, which according to Acts 10:37 & 38 was preceded by John’s ministry, itself recorded by Luke ( 3:1) to have begun in the 15th year of Tiberius’ reign (28 or 29 AD). There is nothing ambiguous or transcendent about these details: Jesus was a real man who lived and died in real history. Judaism, from which Christianity takes its theological roots, was, (and still is), a fiercely monotheistic religion. It has clung tenaciously, nearly always in the face of wide-spread cultural opposition, to the idea of there being “one God and one God only”. This fierce monotheism encapsulates the monotheistic essence of Judaism, lying central to its identity and self understanding; “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One” being the twice daily Shema, the call to worship that has shaped the devotional life of observant Jews down through the centuries. The Greek myths, on the other hand, are unashamedly polytheistic; they contain stories of multiple gods, from Mithras, Attis, and Orpheus, Greco-Roman deities, to the mystery cult deities of Dionysus and Osiris. No observant Jew would have had entertained for a moment the Greco-Roman polytheism inherent in these myths. To think that they would have, is both theologically and historically inconceivable, and betrays a mind unschooled in both history and theology.

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Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer Charles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerBrennan fires back at 'selfish' Trump over Harry Reid criticism Trump rips Harry Reid for 'failed career' after ex-Dem leader slams him in interview Harry Reid: 'I don't see anything' Trump is doing right MORE (D-N.Y.) is warning Republicans that demands from the conservative House Freedom Caucus could make it harder to reach a government funding deal. "If they cooperate with Democrats they can accomplish something. To just let the Freedom Caucus dictate [is] a recipe for chaos," Schumer said from the Senate floor. He pointed to members of the House Freedom Caucus holding up a vote on Monday night on going to conference on the tax bill as part of an effort to protest leadership's plans for a two-week stopgap spending bill. ADVERTISEMENT "If we're going to solve all the problems that confront us before the end of the year, House leaders cannot let the Freedom Caucus, a small band of hard right reactionary conservatives, run the show," he said. Lawmakers face a Dec. 8 deadline to fund the government and avoid a shutdown. Schumer called the floor drama "hostage taking" that will "only impede the serious ongoing bipartisan negotiations.""If we're going to solve all the problems that confront us before the end of the year, House leaders cannot let the Freedom Caucus, a small band of hard right reactionary conservatives, run the show," he said.Lawmakers face a Dec. 8 deadline to fund the government and avoid a shutdown. "It's a clean bill, free from any sort of objectionable policy riders. ... All members should be able to support this noncontroversial short-term legislation," he said. Though Senate GOP leadership expects most of its members to support a two-week bill, they will need help from Democrats to meet a 60-vote procedural requirement and to speed up consideration of the legislation ahead of Friday's deadline. Democrats have yet to take a position on the two-week CR as they look for leverage on a long-term deal that negotiators are hoping to wrap up later this month. Schumer outlined Democratic priorities for any agreement, including a fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, opioid funding and parity on defense and nondefense spending increases.

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It wasn’t always easy, but Les Canadiennes ended up with the two points in a 5-4 overtime win against the Markham Thunder at the Complexe Bell in Brossard. All four games between these two teams have gone into extra time this season, even though this one didn’t always look like it would. Kayla Tutino scored the OT winner 2:24 into the extra frame when she put a perfect shot off the post and in behind Erica Howe with Karell Emard providing the screen. It was Montreal’s fifth straight win. Montreal came out strong, opening up a 3-0 lead in the first half of the game. Emard opened the scoring for Les Canadiennes, tipping in a Cassandra Poudrier point shot on the power play “Cass saw me and we practiced that play and she said if I can see you I’m going to try it so all I really did is put my stick out and it went in and I don’t really know where it went after that,” Emard said. Only 29 seconds later Ann-Sophie Bettez sprung Emard and Marion Allemoz on a two-on-one. Emard fed Allemoz who beat Howe five-hole to give Montreal a 2-0 lead. Bettez and Emard would combine again at 6:50 of the second period. Erin Ambrose, playing her first game with Les Canadiennes after being acquired on Wednesday, sprung Bettez who ran a give-and-go with Emard. Bettez had the easy tap-in at the side of the net. What can @ambrose_13 bring to @LesCanadiennes? Look at this breakout pass to @Bettez24 who ran a give and go with @Kaxy76. pic.twitter.com/2hNrtgTdh1 — Jared Book (@jaredbook) December 17, 2017 But Markham would fight back. Jamie Lee Rattray, who would be named the game’s first star, proved why she is one of the best players in the world. Rattray would end the game with two goals and two assists and she got her two goals in a 1:33 span late in the second period. Her first goal was a give-and-go with Laura McIntosh to cut the deficit to 3-1. Just over a minute later, Markham went to the power play and it was McIntosh who found Rattray on the back door to make it 3-2 before the end of 40 minutes. Kristen Richards finds Rattray on the backdoor, @ThunderCWHL are back within one. pic.twitter.com/xdaM7Kg9Wg — Women's Hockey Gifs (@CWHLHighlights) December 16, 2017 Then just 3:20 into the third period, Rattray would find Kristen Richards to tie the game up at 3-3. “I don’t think anything changed,” said Emard, who also ended the game with four points. “We got into cruise control mode instead of trying to pass people on the highway. We came out really strong and we wanted to establish who we were and I think we got really comfortable.” To their credit, Montreal would fight back. On a 5-on-3 power play midway through the third period, a bouncing puck would find Cathy Chartrand who fired home her fourth goal of the season to give Montreal another lead, this time at 4-3. But Richards would tie the game again on another beautiful feed from Rattray with just 1:46 remaining setting the stage for overtime. Montreal would end the third period and start overtime on the power play when Richards was called for delay of game. Richards covered the puck for a whistle just outside of the crease in order to create a face-off but Markham was able to kill it off. Erica Howe was brilliant for the Thunder, making 44 saves as Les Canadiennes outshot Markham 49-25. Emerance Maschmeyer got the start for Montreal. The two teams face-off again at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday at the Michel Normandin Arena at the Claude Robillard Sports Complex. Notes

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View more videos at: http://nbcdfw.com. A couple with four children were shot and killed in an argument over dog feces on Monday, police in Texas said. Officers were called to a shooting at the Sable Ridge Apartments in Dallas at about 8 a.m. Monday. When officers arrived, they found two people, later identified as 32-year-old Michelle Jackson and 31-year-old Jamie Stafford, dead at the scene from apparent gunshot wounds. An infant inside the couple's apartment was not injured. After talking with witnesses, police began searching for Chung Kim, a resident of the complex identified by residents as a man who lived in the unit below Stafford and Jackson and was seen leaving the complex after the shooting. Police later located Kim in his black Lexus SUV nearby and took him into custody. Investigators said the couple had been dumping dog feces on the patio and at the front door of Kim's apartment. Read more from NBCDFW.com Police said Kim pulled out a gun and shot Jackson as she stood on her balcony. Police said Kim then went upstairs and into the couple's apartment and shot Stafford as he jumped off the balcony while trying to escape. Police said Kim then stood over Stafford and shot him again. Residents said they heard arguing followed by several gunshots. "I heard about eight or nine gunshots just go off, ‘Bow, bow, bow,’ like three separate times,” said resident Michael Issa. “It was like, first there was two or three, then there was a pause for like 30 or 40 seconds and then there was another three or four shots, and there was a pause, and a couple more shots "I waited for like three or four minutes and I ain't hear nothing. I came outside to smoke a cigarette and look upstairs and there's feet hanging over my head," he added. A friend of the victim said there had been several arguments over pets and noise. One neighbor, Yoland Washington, spoke of the couple's children, including the infant who was home at the time of the shooting. "When they come home today, their mother and their father is gone. Little baby, they call the newborn Little Mama, Little Mama is not going to never know her parents,” said Washington. Child protection officer Marissa Gonzales said they had taken temporary custody of a one-month-old child found unharmed inside the apartment and that three other children who were at school at the time of the shooting are now with relatives. Keaton Fox, Greg Janda and Stefan Gorman, NBC5, contributed to this report.

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Fullback is becoming a position used less and less in football, but for a run-heavy offensive team in the Wisconsin Badgers, a good fullback is essential. The Badgers do have senior Austin Ramesh, but they also have Green Bay native Alec Ingold. The road to fullback was not an ordinary one for Ingold. He was the starting quarterback for Bay Port High School in 2014, his senior year. He led Bay Port to the Division 1 Semifinal game where they fell to Kimberly. Ingold, a duel-threat quarterback, ran for 178.8 yards per game, on his way to 2,324 rushing yards and 29 touchdowns. He also completed 61.3 percent of his passes, throwing for 1,411 yards and 15 touchdowns. Ingold was named the 2014 Associated Press Wisconsin Player of the Year, First-Team All-State by AP and Wisconsin Football Coaches Association, 2014 Gatorade Wisconsin Player of the Year, and a finalist for Dave Krieg Award for state’s most outstanding senior quarterback. Ingold had everything going for him coming out of high school. Ingold, originally committed to Northern Illinois as a quarterback, followed Coach Paul Chryst to Wisconsin, but Chryst recruited him as a linebacker. After injuries to multiple running backs, Wisconsin was put in a tough spot. Enter Alec Ingold. Paul Chryst understood the versatility of Ingold and asked him if he would move to fullback, Ingold was all for it. I asked Alec, how tough was the move in-season from linebacker to fullback? Ingold stated, “Both are tough and physical positions to play. I feel like I have a better overall understanding of the game playing both positions, but the details of fullback have definitely taken a while to try and perfect the best I can.” Ingold finished his first season at fullback playing 10 games, logging 49 carries for 131 yards and 6 touchdowns. As the Badgers began to get healthy in the backfield again, many wondered if Chryst would move Ingold back to linebacker, but that was never a question to Chryst as Ingold had taken the fullback position and ran with it. Now a junior, Ingold is seen as an upperclassmen and someone the Badgers can look to. I asked Alec, being a junior now, do you see yourself taking on more of a leadership role? Ingold followed by saying, “I’ve been trying to be more vocal around the guys but the best way to lead on this team is by example. If people see you consistently doing the right thing they will want to join in.” Now this leadership role has become even bigger with the loss of starting middle linebacker and senior Jack Cichy. Cichy was entering this season on the Bednarik Award watch list, Nagurski Trophy watch list, and the Lott IMPACT Trophy watch list. When asked about the loss of Cichy, Ingold said, “It’s been tough losing such a big piece to the puzzle, but for as long as I’ve been here, it’s always been next man up. We don’t flinch as a team and Jack (Cichy) will be able to find a role to help this team in new ways.” Losing a player as key as Jack Cichy is never easy, but for a program like Wisconsin, they have always had the mantra “next man up.” With Cichy, the Badgers had lofty expectations coming into the season, being ranked in the preseason top-10, and many analysts believing they would meet Ohio State in the Big Ten Championship game. “Last year everyone saw us as underdogs and we were able to block out the noise and come together as a team and be successful,” Ingold stated. “This year we are doing the exact same thing. People can have their expectations for us but as a team if we aren’t focused on ourselves and getting better every week we won’t be the team we want to be come December.” For the first time in a while, the Badgers have a team that can contend for not only a Big Ten Championship, but a spot in the top-four, even without Cichy. The Badgers have always seemed to put players in the right position to succeed, with Ingold being an example. Even without the presence of the injured linebacker, look out for the Wisconsin Badgers this season. You can follow Alec and his journey with the Badgers on Twitter @AI_XLV.

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With a name like DroneShield, it is pretty clear what the goal of the company is. All of their products revolve around detecting – and now subduing – unwelcome drones approaching restricted airspace with their new rifle style device called the DroneGun. Well, folks… we are finally there. We now live in a world where weapons are created to bring down drones originally intended for aerial photography, or just good healthy fun. I suppose it was inevitable, what with numerous reported incidents of small personal UAV’s straying too close to aircraft, but I honestly thought we were a few years away from this. I was wrong. The DroneGun video has to be seen to be believed: There is a healthy amount of scare tactics employed in this video in the form of a faceless villain with a controller, but the use of the device seems pretty straight forward in a literal point-and-shoot kind of way. The product is aimed at government agencies interested in defending their airspace from potentially explosive-carrying UAV threats. Given that small drones are already being used by terrorist organizations, there could certainly be a market out there for this type of device. In contrast to simply shooting the drone out of the sky, the DroneGun can direct the drone to return to the owner, or to land in place. Both options result in an intact drone, and an intact drone leads to evidence gathering. Using the gun to drag the drone to the ground looks pretty great in the above video, but I’d love to see a hands on review by a 3rd party — tricky, as it hasn’t been certified by the FCC. The rifle-shaped weapon comes packed in a Pelican hard case and is powered by V-mount batteries – convenient for government agencies with a videography department. One of the more impressive aspects of the DroneGun is its promised 1.2 mile range, which is more than enough distance to protect your landmark or airport from a threat. DroneShield, the company, also sells two types of drone sensors, a processor for these sensors and user interface software for watching drones in your airspace in real time. There is no pricing available for any of DroneShield’s products, but there is a handy email contact for interested government buyers. Despite looking like something out of the Ghostbusters prop department, the DroneGun appears to be a necessary device in our ever-changing world. Be cautious where you fly your drones, folks. Price: TBD Availability: Now, if you are a government agency.

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New pension freedoms have allowed 60,000 people to access their savings early, as chancellor tells providers to up their game £1bn taken out of pension pots is a sign of new policy's success, says Osborne More than £1bn has been transferred out of pension funds over the last two months as a result of the government’s new freedoms, George Osborne has told the House of Commons. In the face of growing criticism that the policy had failed to live up to expectations, the chancellor told MPs that so far 60,000 people have made use of the pension freedoms that came into force. They are the first official figures released since 6 April, what has come to be known as Pension Freedoms Day. On that day, those aged 55 and over were given access to their pension savings for the first time without incurring huge charges. However, some of Britain’s biggest pension companies have been criticised in recent days for refusing to let retirees withdraw cash from their retirement pots, leading some observers in the media to brand the policy a fiasco. It’s been claimed the policy was rushed into the market in time for the election, and that the pensions industry was not given sufficient time to prepare. Against that background, George Osborne on Tuesday declared that the freedoms were a success. “So far, in the few weeks since they came into effect, 60,000 people have made use of them. More than £1bn has been transferred out of people’s pension funds as a result. It is a sign that this is a real success, but we have to make sure that people get the best advice, that the market responds, and that companies up their game in helping customers make use of these freedoms. We will be watching these things very carefully,” he told the Commons. Last week, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) responded to concerns that pension providers were making it hard for people to access their cash. Yvonne Braun, the ABI’s director of long-term savings policy, said insurers are committed to making the pension reforms a success. Osborne’s figures suggest the early adopters may be cashing in relatively small pension funds, with the average pot around £16,600 in size. The secretary of state for work and pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, has warned providers not to drag their feet, and said new pensions minister Baroness Altmann would be meeting some of them in the coming weeks. Tom McPhail, head of pensions research at financial advisers Hargreaves Lansdown, said the magnitude of the change should not be underestimated. “While the number of people taking money from their pensions has not significantly increased, the way they are doing so has, with less than one in 10 people currently choosing to buy an annuity, compared to eight or nine in 10 only a couple of years ago. “This is a reform of equal magnitude to the Right to Buy council house sales revolution of the 1980s; in the same way that Margaret Thatcher introduced millions of people to home ownership, George Osborne is now introducing millions of people to pension ownership.”

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LONDON (Reuters) - Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who has been sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail for “insulting Islam”, was named on Tuesday as the International Writer of Courage and PEN Pinter Prize co-recipient for 2015. A picture of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi (C) is seen between others photos of prisoners in Saudi Arabia during a demonstration for his release from jail outside the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Mexico City, February 20, 2015. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido Badawi was selected from a shortlist by British poet, journalist and critic James Fenton, who in June was chosen as the 2015 PEN Pinter Prize winner. By tradition, the winner of the PEN Pinter Prize, named in memory the late playwright Harold Pinter, shares it with “an international writer of courage”. “What moved me was the contrast between the simplicity of Badawi’s liberal aims – their modesty, almost – and the ferocity of the punishments they have brought down on him,” Fenton said in a statement issued as the prize was announced at the British Library in London. “(Saudi Arabia) is a world of inconceivable cruelty, but intimately linked to ours by business, strategic interests, military and diplomatic ties,” he said. The award was accepted on Badawi’s behalf by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, who in a statement said: “I hope that this award ... will help bring freedom for Raif Badawi.” Badawi received the first of his 50 lashes in January, prompting strong criticism in Western countries of the kingdom’s human rights record, including its restrictive laws on political and religious expression and the status of Saudi women. Riyadh responded in March with a statement expressing “surprise and dismay at what is being reported by some media about the case of Raif Badawi and his sentence”. The statement said Saudi courts were independent and that the kingdom’s constitution ensured the protection of human rights because it was based on Islam’s Sharia law. A Jeddah court handed Badawi his sentence after he criticized the Saudi clergy in a blog and called for changes in the way religion is practiced in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia, which follows the strict Wahhabi form of Islam, does not permit the public worship of other faiths or allow them to maintain places of worship inside the country. In a new law last year, it included atheism as a terrorist offence.

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This article is about the IMAX motion picture film format. For the company responsible for this format, see IMAX Corporation . For the car known as the Hyundai iMax in some markets, see Hyundai Starex IMAX logo IMAX is a system of high-resolution cameras, film formats and film projectors. Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr, and William C. Shaw developed the first IMAX cinema projection standards in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Canada.[1] Unlike conventional projectors, the film runs horizontally (see diagram sprocket holes) so that the image width is greater than the width of the film. Since 2002, some feature films have been converted into IMAX format for displaying in IMAX theatres, and some have also been (partially) shot in IMAX. IMAX is the most widely used system for special-venue film presentations. By late 2017, 1,302 IMAX theatre systems were installed in 1,203 commercial multiplexes, 13 commercial destinations, and 86 institutional settings in 75 countries.[2] Contents History Edit Technical aspects Edit Variations Edit Films Edit In space Edit Challenger in 1984. STS 41-C mission specialist Terry J. Hart, holds a 70-pound IMAX camera in the mid deck of the space shuttlein 1984. IMAX cameras have flown in space on 17 occasions, NASA astronauts have used handheld IMAX cameras to document missions, and an IMAX camera has also been mounted in the payload bay of the Shuttle. Space shuttle mission STS-41-C filmed the deployment of the LDEF (Long duration exposure facility) and the repair of the Solar Max satellite. This footage was included in the 1985 IMAX movie The Dream is Alive. Kennedy Space Center in Florida has two IMAX 3D theaters. These show space movies, including footage shot on missions and narrated by celebrities.[85] Two of the IMAX cameras used by NASA are now on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.[86] Awards Edit Other uses Edit Technical specifications Edit IMAX (15/70) spherical lenses 70 mm film, 15 perforations per frame horizontal rolling loop movement, from right to left (viewed from emulsion side) 24 frames per second camera aperture: 70.41 mm × 52.63 mm (2.772 in × 2.072 in) 70.41 mm × 52.63 mm (2.772 in × 2.072 in) projection aperture: at least 2 mm (0.079 in) less than camera aperture on the vertical axis and at least 0.41 mm (0.016 in) less on the horizontal axis at least 2 mm (0.079 in) less than camera aperture on the vertical axis and at least 0.41 mm (0.016 in) less on the horizontal axis aspect ratio: 1.43:1 1.43:1 DMR aspect ratio: 1.90:1, 2.39:1 IMAX Dome/OMNIMAX Same as IMAX except: fisheye lenses lens optically centered 9.4 mm (0.37 in) above film horizontal center line projected elliptically on a dome screen, 20° below and 110° above perfectly centered viewers Gallery Edit Competitors Edit In late 2014, Dolby announced Dolby Cinema as an IMAX competitor with super-vivid image mainly in High Dynamic Range with shadow.[90] In Australia and New Zealand, Event Cinemas sells a premium cinema experience with a bigger screen, improved imagery and better seats marketed as Vmax. In the United States Cinemark has its Cinemark XD: Extreme Digital Cinema.[91][92][93][94] See also Edit References Edit

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Just how one-sided has the North Carolina-N.C. State basketball rivalry been for the past 10 or 15 years? Consider this: The Tar Heels have won 25 of their past 28 games against the Wolfpack, and 42 of the past 52 games in the series. And if you think such dominance has led to apathy, think again. Roy Williams, the Tar Heels’ coach, might derive more pleasure from beating N.C. State than he does beating any other team. Since becoming UNC’s head coach in 2003, Williams is 25-3 against the Wolfpack. None of that history will matter on Saturday night at 8 at the Smith Center, where N.C. State will arrive with one of the most electric players in college basketball. That’d be Dennis Smith, the freshman point guard. His match-up with Joel Berry, the UNC junior, will be the headliner. Sign Up and Save Get six months of free digital access to The News & Observer Here’s a look at that one, and all the others: UNC’s Joel Berry (15.1 ppg, 4.4 apg) vs. N.C. State’s Dennis Smith, Jr. (19.6 ppg, 6.5 apg) Very rarely does Berry enter a game in which he’s not the best point guard on the court. But that will be the case on Saturday. It’s no knock against Berry, who’s probably one of the top five point guards in the country. He was the ACC tournament MVP last March, and would’ve been the Most Outstanding Player at the Final Four had UNC defeated Villanova in the national title game. Smith, though, is a once in a generation talent who seems to be getting better by the game. During the Wolfpack’s victory against Virginia Tech earlier this week he finished with the second triple-double in school history – and the first in an ACC game. Smith is the more talented player but Berry the far more experienced one. This should be a lot of fun, folks. EDGE: N.C. State UNC’s Kenny Williams (6.8 ppg, 3.8 rpg) vs. N.C. State’s Terry Henderson (16.2 ppg, 3.3 rpg) Williams has filled in admirably in Theo Pinson’s absence and Williams has been UNC’s most improved player. He has shown a knack for making the timely 3-pointer, and he was instrumental in overtime during UNC’s victory at Clemson earlier this week. Henderson is one of the ACC’s top 3-point shooters and the team’s No. 2 scoring option after Smith. With opposing guards spending a lot of energy trying to limit Smith, Henderson has been a primary benefactor. With Pinson back, Williams’ days as a starter are likely numbered. EDGE: N.C. State UNC’s Justin Jackson (17.4 ppg, 4.8 rpg) vs. N.C. State’s Torin Dorn (13.7 ppg, 6.1 rpg) The one player UNC needed to make the most strides this season was probably Jackson. And he has. He was good -- even very good, at times -- during his first two college seasons, but he has elevated his game to a higher level during his junior season. Jackson is finally confident in his outside shot, and he’s making 3-pointers consistently. Dorn is fourth in the ACC in field goal percentage, and has made 54.7 percent of his attempts from the field (the highest percentage of any guard in the ACC), but he scored 12 points combined during N.C. State’s first two conference games. The stage becomes brighter on Saturday, and Jackson so far has thrived in these moments this season. EDGE: UNC UNC’s Isaiah Hicks (12.1 ppg, 5.3 rpg) vs. N.C. State’s Malik-Abdul Abu (12.1 ppg, 7.5 rpg) Hicks began his senior season scoring in double figures in six of UNC’s first seven games. Since then, his production has declined while his foul trouble and lack of aggressive play on offense has returned. Roy Williams and others hoped Hicks might experience a Brice Johnson-like emergence in his final college season but it hasn’t happened that way. Abu, meanwhile, has scored in double figures in the Wolfpack’s past three games, and in five of the past six. Hicks seems to be on the decline, while Abu appears to be on the rise. Both players’ numbers are nearly identical, but more has been expected out of Hicks. EDGE: Even UNC’s Kennedy Meeks (12.8 ppg, 9.9 rpg) vs. N.C. State’s Omer Yurtseven (8.8 ppg, 5 rpg) Like in the matchup between Smith and Berry, some context is needed here between Yurtseven and Meeks. Yurtseven is the more talented player, the prospect more coveted by NBA scouts. Meeks, though, has been there and done that in college – and his experience has to count for something, especially against a freshman playing in his first rivalry game. Meeks is healthy and engaged – as his 16-rebound game at Clemson showed earlier this week. Meeks already has five double-doubles, which is two more than he had all of last season. EDGE: UNC BENCH UNC’s bench receives a significant lift with the return of Theo Pinson, who’s expected to play his first game on Saturday. Pinson is likely to enter the starting lineup at some point, which would leave Kenny Williams as one of the first players off the Tar Heels’ bench. UNC can (and sometimes does) go with an entirely new second five off the bench. The Tar Heels’ primary reserves – Nate Britt, Tony Bradley, Brandon Robinson, Seventh Woods and Luke Maye – combine to average 24.5 points and 15.7 rebounds per game. N.C. State’s bench quartet of Maverick Rown, Beejay Anya, Markell Johnson and Ted Kapita accounts for an average of 23.6 points and 13.1 rebounds per game. Add Pinson back into the mix, and the Tar Heels are deeper. EDGE: UNC SHARE COPY LINK UNC basketball coach talks about the return of Theo Pinson after recovering from an injury.

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The problem has four syllables: Debaltseve. German Chancellor Angela Merkel can now pronounce it without difficulties, as can French President François Hollande. Debaltseve proved to be one of the thorniest issues during the negotiations in Minsk on Wednesday night and into Thursday. Indeed, the talks almost completely collapsed because of Debaltseve. Ultimately, Debaltseve may end up torpedoing the deal that was worked out in the end. Debaltseve is a small town in eastern Ukraine, held by 6,000 government troops, or perhaps 8,000. Nobody wants to say for sure. It is the heart of an army that can only put 30,000 soldiers into the field, a weak heart. Until Sunday of last week, that heart was largely encircled by pro-Russian separatists and the troops could only be supplied by way of highway M03. Then, Monday came. Separatist fighters began advancing across snowy fields towards the village of Lohvynove, a tiny settlement of 30 houses hugging the M03. The separatists stormed an army checkpoint and killed a few officers. They then dug in -- and the heart of the Ukrainian army was surrounded. The situation in Debaltseve plunged the Ukrainian army into a desperate, almost hopeless, position, as the negotiators in Minsk well knew. Indeed, it was the reason the talks were so urgently necessary. Debaltseve was one of the reasons Merkel and Hollande launched their most recent diplomatic offensive nine days ago. The other reason was the American discussion over the delivery of weapons to the struggling Ukrainian army. Debaltseve and the weapons debate had pushed Europe to the brink of a dangerous escalation -- and the fears of a broader war were growing rapidly. A well-armed proxy war between Russia and the West in Ukraine was becoming a very real possibility. A conflict which began with the failure of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and the protests on Maidan Square in Kiev, and one which escalated with Russian President Vladimir Putin's annexation of the Crimea Peninsula, has long since become the most dangerous stand-off Europe has seen in several decades. It is possible that it could ultimately involve the US and Russia facing each other across a line of demarcation. A Success Given the intensity of the situation, Germany and France together took the initiative and forced the Wednesday night summit in Minsk, Belarus. The long night of talks, which extended deep into Thursday morning, was the apex of eight days of shuttle diplomacy between Moscow, Kiev, Washington and Munich. With intense focus during dozens of hours of telephone conversations and negotiations across the globe, the German chancellor helped wrest a cease-fire from the belligerents. It is a fragile deal full of question marks, one which can only succeed if all parties dedicate themselves to adhering to it. Whether that will be the case is doubtful. The Minsk deal is brief respite. Nothing more. But it is a success nonetheless. During the 17 hours in Minsk's Palace of Independence, there was much at stake. First and foremost, the focus was on demarcation lines and local elections, it was on ending the killing in eastern Ukraine. But there were several larger questions on the table as well, questions focusing on Russia's relationship with Europe and whether it will be possible to avoid an extended conflict with Vladimir Putin's Russia. They were questions focusing on how to deal with an aggressor: Is it wise to make concessions to Putin? And at what point does compromise become appeasement? Above all were questions of international diplomacy: What is diplomacy capable of? Is the threat of violence necessary to make diplomacy work? What is the correct path: American weapons deliveries or European diplomacy? And, perhaps most crucial of all, the focus was on European emancipation: Is Europe able to solve its own conflicts without help from the United States? DER SPIEGEL Map of Ukraine Conflict Zones The exertions of Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier make it clear that Germany has recognized its responsibility in Europe and in the world. One year ago, German President Joachim Gauck demanded that German foreign policy become more assertive in addressing international conflicts. It is a plea that Merkel and Steinmeier have answered in recent weeks. The Ukraine crisis has changed German politics and it has changed Merkel as well. The German leader used to dither in the face of tough decisions, but now she is making moves she would have avoided in the past. She has taken the initiative and, contrary to her preferred modus operandi, has embarked on a mission with an uncertain outcome. Her style has also changed. Never before has the chancellor seemed as emotionally engaged as she has in recent days. Her political arguments have rarely been so personal. The Ukraine crisis has changed Merkel's view of reality. Her foreign policy address delivered at the Munich Security Conference earlier this month was a fierce commitment to realpolitik. The foreign policy idealism she used to purvey was nowhere to be seen. Polemical Battle of Words The low point of the Minsk negotiations was reached on Thursday morning. At 8 a.m. local time, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) special envoy Heidi Tagliavini climbed into a car at Vajskovy Street 4 to deliver a piece of bad news. The street is located in the heart of the Belarussian capital, just behind Gorky Park, and is home to the event center Dipservice Hall. Tagliavini had been meeting there with the so-called "Contact Group," which includes representatives from Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE. The leaders of the eastern Ukrainian rebel republics Donetsk and Luhansk were also present. Tagliavini drove to the Palace of Independence, located on Victory Prospect, where Merkel, Vladimir Putin, François Hollande and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had spent the entire night negotiating. The news that Tagliavini had to tell the leaders essentially destroyed the results of the last 14 hours of negotiations: The rebels no longer wanted to sign the closing document. The leaders and their delegations had been engaged in talks in the 200-square-meter (2,150-square-foot) ceremonial hall since 6:30 p.m. the evening before. Following their arrival in Minsk, the German and French delegations initially holed up in the German Embassy before then coordinating with the Ukrainians. It is the same pattern that had been followed in the previous days' talks: total consensus between Germany and France followed by close accord with Ukraine before beginning talks with the Russian side. Talks continued through the entire night, without a break. At times, one of the participants would nod off, head on the table. There was plenty of alcohol available, but Merkel didn't touch it. Participants said that the tone was measured. At one point, it did become loud, with Putin and Poroshenko becoming involved in a polemical battle of words, but they quickly calmed down again. They would occasionally stand up to talk through a particularly thorny issue privately, before coming back and continuing the talks. The personal relationship between the two is a good one and they address each other with the familiar form of "you." Large groups, smaller groups, two leaders whispering in the corner, coffee, snacks: It went on like that through the entire night. Everyone knew what was at stake and they all, participants reported, seemed to want to reach an agreement. Protecting the Ukrainians The Russians took a tough line. They saw themselves as being in a position of strength, partly because of the situation in Debaltseve. The Europeans, for their part, insisted on an immediate cease-fire out of concern for the volatile situation facing the Ukrainian military. The separatists, not surprisingly, wanted to delay the beginning of the cease-fire for as long as possible so as to give themselves time to completely conquer Debaltseve. Poroshenko, too, seemed to prefer a delayed cease-fire -- apparently not fully understanding the situation facing his military. The Europeans were trying to protect the Ukrainians from themselves. The European duo had already pried an important concession out of the Russian president in Moscow during the week prior to Minsk: The elections in the separatist areas will only be held within those areas behind last September's demarcation line. The hundreds of square kilometers separatists have since taken will not be considered as part of their territory. Kiev managed to assert itself on another issue as well: Direct talks with the separatists, as Moscow had been demanding, will not take place. Putin, though, got the upper hand in a different area: The border between Russia and the separatist-held regions in eastern Ukraine will be observed neither by the Ukrainians nor by international forces. This issue will only be revisited after the elections, if at all. Even before the arrival of Tagliavini, the talks had already twice threatened to collapse. Particularly contentious is the withdrawal of heavy weaponry. In the end, agreement was reached that all heavy weapons would be withdrawn from the firing lines. For the Ukrainians, the firing line refers to the front where it now stands. For the rebels, it is the front line from last September. The result is a broad buffer zone, a zone that broadens to 140 kilometers (87 miles) for heavy rocket launchers. That means that the separatists will have to withdraw their equipment deep into the territories they hold, in some cases almost to the Russian border. That is the deal that was presented to the separatists in Dipservice Hall early in the morning. Not long later, Tagliavini returned with their rejection of the agreement. Were the talks all for naught? The negotiators refused to give up. They returned to the vast hall inside the Palace of Independence and continued talking. Merkel, Hollande, Poroshenko and Putin retired to a smaller room off the main hall, where Putin was informed that everything now depended on him. It was a point at which the collapse of the talks was a very real possibility. Putin withdraws to an office that had been set up especially for him on the third floor of the palace to telephone with the separatist leaders waiting in Dipservice Hall. The Germans and French did not learn what exactly he said to the two -- Igor Plotnitsky of the Luhansk Republic and Alexander Zakharchenko of the Donetsk Republic. But two hours later, the pair agreed to the cease-fire. At 11 a.m. local time, the marathon negotiations came to an end. Two documents were prepared. The first was a declaration from the national leaders present. The other was the Contact Group paper regarding the implementation of the first Minsk Agreement, which was signed five months ago. Even the name of the document was the object of extended and bitter debate. Kiev and the Europeans insisted that it make reference to the first Minsk deal reached last September. Once the talks were finished, there was no press conference held. Just before noon, Merkel, Hollande, Putin and Poroshenko left the Minsk palace. "We are hopeful," is all the German chancellor would say of the result of the long night of talks. Indeed, there is nothing left for the world to do but hope that the cease-fire really does take effect along the entire front. The world must hope that this deal lasts longer than the first Minsk agreement did -- forever if possible. The world must hope that the government troops trapped in Debaltseve really do lay down their weapons and don't try to fight their way free. The world must hope that free elections are held in the separatist areas and that the elected politicians negotiate a fair autonomy agreement with Kiev, one that re-establishes Ukraine's unity. Buying Time Should both sides adhere to the cease-fire, time will be won. That isn't much, but it is a far cry from nothing. Everyone can get together and work to ensure that the hopes listed above become facts in the near future -- for the people of Ukraine but also for the rest of the world. Overshadowing everything, after all, is a possible conflict between the US and Russia, both nuclear powers. The Minsk deal also bought valuable time for US President Barack Obama. He recently stood up to the hawks in Washington and rejected the idea of delivering weapons to Ukraine. But during Merkel's visit to the American capital on Monday, he told her that were the Minsk talks to fail, he would no longer be able to contain the weapons delivery discussion. It came across almost as an ultimatum. Internally, Vice President Joe Biden had previously thrown his support behind supplying Ukraine with weapons, as had Secretary of State John Kerry. Plans for such military assistance had also long since been developed. During a visit to Kiev two weeks ago by Obama advisors, Poroshenko's people presented a list of equipment they wanted, including surface-to-air missiles, radar units and medical equipment. The American NATO General Philip Breedlove believes that missile defense systems are absolutely essential to defend against Russian artillery and also believes Ukraine should be provided with drones. But the Ukrainians are currently unable to operate such high-tech equipment. They would have to receive extensive training from American advisers. That, though, would essentially make the US a party to the conflict, as Obama well knows. Which is why he was hesitant following his talks with Merkel, saying only that which American presidents always say in such moments: "What I've asked my team to do is to look at all options." On Wednesday evening, Obama spoke with Putin by phone for 90 minutes. "That really helped," say Merkel's people, adding that they believe it was important to Putin to have the US president take such an interest in the issue. 'Captured Loot' American weapons deliveries, on the other hand, don't impress Putin one bit. On the contrary: Were US weapons and military trainers to turn up in Ukraine, the Russian people, 85 percent of whom already support Putin, would unanimously stand behind their president, one Kremlin insider, who does not belong to the hawkish camp, says. "Plus, we would be happy to see American weapons quickly fall into the hands of the separatists as captured loot." Putin, the Kremlin insider says, believes he is in a strong position. "The later the Western states and the Ukraine are prepared to agree to a really stable compromise, the weaker their negotiating position will be," the insider says. That analysis might not be far off. Ukraine government troops could indeed collapse if the fighting continues. Morale within the army is not nearly as strong as it is among the separatists. The Ukrainian army was unprepared for the war in the east. Whereas Russia completely modernized its military recently, Ukraine scrapped or sold off much of the equipment it had inherited when the Soviet Union collapsed and radically reduced the size of its military, dismissing two-thirds of its soldiers. The weapons now being used by Ukrainian troops fighting in the east are far inferior to those possessed by the separatists. At the beginning of the war, the Ukrainian army had some 130,000 troops according to the most optimistic estimates, with half of them fulfilling their compulsory military service. Now, many young men are doing their best to avoid conscription altogether by heading overseas. The National Guard has a further 35,000 men in uniform. They mostly man checkpoints and guard infrastructure. President Poroshenko is thus dependent on the help of militias, those voluntary units that fight in the service of oligarchs or out of their own interests. But they often don't follow orders from Kiev, making them difficult to control and unfit for use in strategic operations. According to a report delivered recently to the Chancellery in Berlin by Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND, the Ukrainian army is slowly disintegrating, demoralized by the separatist advances and short on personnel. Even arms deliveries from the West, the BND believes, would be more likely to overwhelm the Ukrainian army than it would to make it a more effective fighting force. Increasingly Unsettled Furthermore, the grim state of the country's economy threatens to destabilize Poroshenko's government. The Ukrainian currency, the hryvnia, fell to a new historic low on Wednesday. Just a few weeks ago, the rate was 18 hryvnia to the euro, now it is 30. The country is increasingly unsettled. The chief public prosecutor has already fallen. He proved unable to recover the billions of dollars that former President Viktor Yanukovych smuggled out of the country to Switzerland, Luxembourg and the US. Furthermore, reform programs for the judiciary and public administration are making little progress. Frustration among the public at large is growing with some in Kiev even talking about a "new Maidan," a reference to the protests that drove Yanukovych out of office (and out of the country) one year ago. "If nothing changes in Ukraine, then everything will explode in four to six months," says Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia and supporter of the new Kiev leadership. Aid from the International Monetary Fund and other donors is aimed at preventing such an explosion from taking place. In the next four years, Ukraine is to receive around €40 billion euros -- but the program includes "extremely strict conditions," say senior Berlin officials with concern. Among them is an increase in gas prices for private consumers as well as an unpopular pension reform aimed at cutting government spending. Berlin is worried that support for the government could rapidly disappear should too much be demanded too quickly. Chancellor Merkel has thus charged her economic policy advisor Lars-Hendrik Röller with encouraging the IMF to exercise political caution. "The aid program cannot be allowed to destabilize Ukraine domestically," said one government official in Berlin. Russia has likely already achieved its minimum goal, that of preventing Ukraine from joining NATO or the European Union. The deal agreed to in Minsk includes a kind of veto right for separatist areas in eastern Ukraine on important fundamental issues. That right would apply to membership in military alliances and to membership in economic blocks such as the EU or Putin's Eurasian Economic Union. Furthermore, the constitutional reform, as called for by the Minsk deal, can only be undertaken with the agreement of the pro-Russian secessionist areas. Russia is also hopeful that the agreement reached in Minsk will put an end to the spiral of sanctions that have been imposed on the country by the West. Just on Monday, the EU agreed to intensify the penal measures once again by adding more names to the list of those forbidden from entering the EU and more accounts to the list of those that have been frozen. That idea, though, has now been shelved for the time being. "The Minsk agreement gives us an opportunity to not impose new sanctions," said Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn. He said that removal of sanctions already in place will only be addressed once the cease-fire has proven to be stable and Moscow does in fact withdraw its heavy weaponry. Global Importance Indeed, only then will we know if Chancellor Merkel has landed an important diplomatic coup. For her, Thursday morning in Minsk marked the end of eight days during which her diplomatic talent was tested its fullest. They were eight days with little sleep and trips to eight cities: Kiev, Moscow, Munich, Washington, Ottawa, Berlin, Minsk and Brussels. That may sound like global politics, but it was really a last-ditch effort to maintain order in Europe, a mission of global importance. Last Saturday saw Merkel holding a speech in Munich's Bayerische Hof hotel at the Security Conference. The topic was, of course, Ukraine. Her talk was frequently interrupted by applause -- her skepticism of arms deliveries to Ukraine was particularly well received. One person in the audience, though, didn't clap. He sat in the first row with a dour expression on his face, empty eyes and his hands clasped in his lap. It was Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. While his country was being torn apart by war and his soldiers were dying, the German chancellor was explaining to the world why nothing could be done. At least not with force of arms. "I cannot imagine a single scenario in which better equipment for the Ukrainian army would lead President Putin to be so impressed to believe that he might lose militarily," she said. That, she added, was reality. Reality is a word that Merkel used often while in Munich. Putin's superiority is a reality, she said, and Syrian President Bashar Assad is a reality as well. "You have to deal with reality as it is," Merkel said. It was a commitment to absolute realpolitik. Merkel has long been considered the queen of pragmatism and she has often been accused of lacking convictions and being willing to sacrifice long-term goals for short-term opportunities and power tactics. But that didn't apply to foreign policy. In that field, people have long said that she was a real idealist. Her commitment to freedom and to a "values-guided foreign policy" seemed credible given that she grew up behind the Iron Curtain. But in the Ukraine crisis, Merkel is infusing her biography with completely new meaning. She is now drawing parallels between Ukraine and the construction of the Berlin Wall. Until recently, East Germany served as justification for her commitment to freedom and human rights -- a commitment that had to be defended on the battlefield at times. Now, though, East Germany is serving as an illustration that there are situations where nothing can or should be done. Even the Americans weren't prepared to use military means to protect the people of East Germany in 1961, Merkel said in Munich. "I don't blame them," she added. It was simply realistic. Last Resort The path from the Merkel who, as leader of the opposition, cited the Western community of values in justifying her support for George W. Bush's Iraq invasion to the Merkel who refuses to supply arms to Ukraine because, as she says, the conflict cannot be solved militarily, is a long one. Merkel's "values-guided foreign policy" also meant that the use of military means as a last resort could not, and should not, be excluded. "Anyone who rejects military action as a last resort weakens the pressure that needs to be maintained on dictators and consequently makes a war not less but more likely," Merkel wrote in a 2003 contribution for the Washington Post, that ran under the headline, "Schröder Doesn't Speak for All Germans." "Responsible political leadership must on no account trade the genuine peace of the future for the deceptive peace of the present." Now, she is calling for patience and political stamina. Sometimes, her logic would seem to hold, you have to accept present injustices, remain true to your principles and hope for a better future. "Nobody knew when the Cold War was going to end," she said. East Germans had to wait 28 years after the construction of the Berlin Wall for better times to come. Realpolitik focuses on power and powerlessness. It's about realizing what you can achieve with what means and when it might be smarter to admit your own lack of power. Realpolitik has no illusions, it is bitter and, sometimes, it is brutal. Some see Merkel as being weak. US Senators in particular have voiced criticism of her approach, even uttering the unflattering word "appeasement," a reference to the Munich Agreement of 1938, which handed part of Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler's Nazis. Those who want to avoid war at all costs, make a war not less, but more likely. Merkel's response was the Berlin Wall -- history versus history. On Monday, Merkel met in Washington with Barack Obama and her message could be summed up in a single word, one which is also a crucial element of realpolitik: patience. She wanted the US to show patience before intervening in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, with arms shipments, for example. You have to keep "trying again and again" with Putin, she said. "That's why we're politicians," she said. And she sounded passionate. She is afraid of a proxy war over Ukraine between the nuclear powers of US and Russia. To prevent that, she has divided up the conflict into a multitude of technical details, with each appearing grotesquely minimal in comparison with what could ultimately happen. "Where there is a complete lack of trust, you can fight to the death about anything," one of her advisors said during the US trip. Merkel's answer is: Then you have to find a solution to each point of conflict, one after the other. Taking a Chance Obama wasn't of a mind to reject her approach. If at all, he only wanted to deliver arms in the eventuality that the Minsk summit failed. Obama told Merkel that he is happy about every problem that doesn't land on his desk. Indeed, he is a president who gives Merkel room, and a chance, to make her own foreign policy, a European foreign policy. "We Europeans have to take risks sometimes too," she told a small group of reporters during the hectic week. It was, she noted, primarily the Americans who brought the wars in the Balkans to an end, by force of arms. In Ottawa, Merkel spoke with the Canadian prime minister. Then she flew back to Berlin for the funeral of ex-German President Richard von Weizsäcker, continuing on to Minsk for all-night talks and then to Brussels. Where does she now stand after this week of traveling and talking? She took a chance, she tried something. That, already, is something. She wanted to prevent the war in eastern Ukraine from further escalating. And she resisted American calls for arming the Ukrainian army. Had the talks in Minsk failed completely, Merkel would not have looked good, particularly from the American perspective. Many in the US would have smiled wryly and said that the Europeans simply can't hack it and that they need their big brother to solve the problem. After Minsk, though, such a reaction would be out of place, even though things could look very different in a couple of days. For the moment, though, Merkel can celebrate a small success. The weapons are to fall silent. The Merkel who spent much of last week in the air was a different Merkel from the one who can often be seen here in Germany. It was a Merkel who forges ahead and who risks failure. It was also a Merkel who did exactly what Germans expect from her: Fight for peace, search for compromise with the Russians and resist the Americans. All of that conforms nicely to the present mood in Germany. Along the way, she also patched up relations with France, restoring the German-French axis by including Hollande. That is good for Europe. Skill and Persistence Merkel and Hollande laid the cornerstone for their diplomatic initiative at the end of January in Strasbourg, where they dined together in the restaurant Zuem Ysehuet. They spent over three hours together, over lamb and venison, and spoke about the tradition of German-French friendship, about Ukraine and about new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Their host at the dinner was European Parliament President Martin Schulz. The idea for a joint Ukraine mission came from Merkel, but she knew that she could only exert enough pressure on Putin if Hollande joined as well. Still, the world will likely see it as her success. Or her failure. But the price of the chancellor's realpolitik is a high one, and Ukraine is paying it. Merkel already told the Ukrainian president weeks ago that the West wasn't prepared to go to war for the country. Now, though, it has become clear that the West is willing to accept Ukraine's partition. Ukraine hasn't just lost the Crimean Peninsula, it has now also lost territories in the east. Officially, Merkel has continued repeating two mantras: The first is that there is no military solution. The second is that Ukraine's territorial integrity will not be sacrificed. They are both lovely sentences, but they are unfortunately not reconcilable. If the West doesn't intend to protect Ukraine's territorial integrity with military means, then that integrity exists only on paper. The Chancellery has continued to insist that a modern-day Yalta conference -- whereby Ukraine is divided up between Russia and the West -- is not in the cards. And it was conspicuous that Merkel's file folder that she had with her during the negotiations didn't contain a single map. The chancellor, Berlin officials say, is uninterested in taking part in negotiations over the precise route of the demarcation line between the separatist areas and those areas under Kiev's control. But no matter where the line ultimately runs, it will divide a region ruled by Kiev and one under the influence of Moscow. The West will accept that Moscow will define at least part of Ukraine as being within its sphere of influence. It is always good when the weapons go quiet, but Merkel has achieved little beyond that. Separatist leaders along with a determined Putin, who knows that the West is not prepared to spill the blood of its soldiers to defend Ukraine's integrity, have shown her the limits of her influence. But the European order is not constructed in Berlin alone. What was achieved in Minsk has little to do with Merkel's power. It has more to do with her political skill and her persistence. By Nikolaus Blome, Matthias Gebauer, Christiane Hoffmann, Dirk Kurbjuweit, Christian Neef, René Pfister, Matthias Schepp, Christoph Schult and Holger Stark

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May 23, 2014 13:19 IST 'According to a powerful section of the Congress party the vote was anti-Congress, anti-dynasty and pro-Modi, in that order.' 'Sonia is being accused, privately, of protecting her son at the cost of the party's interest.' 'For the first time ever, 24 Akbar Road, the Congress headquarters, is assessing the "intent" of the Gandhi Parivar, which has never happened before.' A Rediff Correspondent lifts the veil off the churning within the Congress party in the wake of the party's rout in the election. "Bhartiyata ki jeet hui hain (this is the victory of Bharatiyata)!" This was the ruthlessly candid assessment by a Congress leader on the stupendous victory of Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party in Election 2014. The senior leader has seen it all and done it all in what is called Congress culture. He and other Congress leaders shared with Rediff.com insights into Modi's victory that, obviously, even BJP leaders may not be able to replicate. The experience counts in the matter of political diagnosis. Sonia Gandhi's ascension to power in the Congress in 1998 came amidst the issue of her foreign origin, the re-acceptance of dynastic politics by the party, sharpening of the Congress stand on secular issues that were sometimes taken to extremes, as it happened in the way the Sachar committee report on Muslims was handled, politically. Sonia's politics veer around government policy to favour the poor and minorities to such an extent that Rahul Gandhi seriously started believing that the Direct Cash Transfer scheme was a game-changer that would get the Congress around 250 seats, reveals the Congress leader. Justifiably, Rahul Gandhi is seen as the main culprit who has dispatched the Congress party to the graveyard. To rise again, Rahul will have to learn the ways of the Congress, the leader feels. In view of the completely desi appeal of Modi's campaign some people now seriously question if there is a Western influence inside Rahul's office that recommends actions without knowing Indian realities. A report (external link) in The Telegraph newspaper, published before the election results came in, rightly pointed out that there was a disconnect between Rahul's office and the Congress old guard. When in 1997 Mamata Banerjee left the Congress to gain regional space and her autonomy from the party high command and when Sharad Pawar left Congress in 1999 on the issue of Sonia's foreign origin the Gandhis were never verbally attacked, but it seems things have now come full circle for the Congress. The Gandhis, particularly Rahul, would like to use the rout in the 2014 election to clear the deadwood, vested interests and lobbyists who milk the Congress only for monetary gain. Rahul would like to build up the party from scratch, but how can he clear the Congress liabilities when his own balance sheet shows a nil balance? A fight has broken out between the two forces. Rahul and his team want to blame the old daddies and the UPA government's corruption for the party's shameful performance, while 24, Akbar Road's biggies want to point out that Rahul's politics lacks an 'Indian' touch and Modi has gained precisely because he understood the majority -- the Hindus. The Congress defeat speaks clearly and loudly that the dynasty that won votes in 2004 and 2009 failed because of its arrogance. Their 'We are born to rule' attitude has been rejected in the era of Twitter and 24 hours news television channels that dissect and blast every little act by political leaders. It is not surprising that Congress leaders now understand the deep effect and disastrous dynamics of the Gandhi family's decision to anoint Rahul Gandhi as its general going into electoral war. While the Italy-born party president Sonia Gandhi kept a low profile for the last 10 years, she went overboard to protect and launch her son in the party that obviously deserved better. Certainly, among Priyanka, Rahul and Sonia Gandhi, Sonia's image is not tainted, even now, among Congressmen. But now she is being accused, privately, of protecting her son at the cost of the party's interest. There are many reasons behind Modi's rise to the highest position in the land. A powerful section of Congress leaders believes the vote was anti-Congress, anti-dynasty and pro-Modi, in that order. They say Modi won because he represented and completely played upon 'Bhartiyata'. Many Congressmen forcefully argue that they have the wherewithal to fight the BJP any day, any time, but Modi resorted to 'Bhartiyata' and captured the imagination of the voters, besides doing many other things. Precisely for this, Congressmen find huge problems with Rahul's 'Western-type' behaviour. Modi's temple visits, his idiom, his oratory and his use of local phrases ensured that "he was not a stranger to the people." Even most voters who didn't understand Modi's language felt "he is one of us." Even after the election, Modi is monopolising "Indian-ness" in political events as he did during the campaign. His Ganga aarti in Varanasi on May 17, the way he bowed down at the steps of Parliament on May 20 were actions that cannot be dubbed acts of fanatical Hindutva. It is Bhartiyata for Indian voters, says the Congress leader pained to see his party's downfall. Congress and secular pundits kept debating BJP leader Amit Shah's Hindutva agenda, but Modi has arrived in New Delhi with the politics of Bhartiyata. What does it mean for the Congress? Rahul Gandhi will not be able to continue with the status quo if you hear the murmurs that have started within the party. Even though nobody has, as yet, rebelled openly to take on the dynasty nor has anyone produced an alternative, there are clear indications that the Congress, the oldest political party in the land, is set to force the dynasty to change after the Budget session of Parliament if it does not, readily, change to keep step with time. The Congress does not do things in a hurry, but Rahul Gandhi will now have to adapt to the ways of the party to remain on top. With Modi at 7 Race Course Road, the Congress's top leadership can't look or behave 'Western' and ajeeb (strange) to Indian voters. According to the exclusive insights that Rediff.com has, Rahul Gandhi is not likely to get away with his dismal performance of 44 Lok Sabha seats. It seems the grand old party will ensure that he changes his way and "takes the party" along with him. After the Budget session of the new Lok Sabha, he is likely to be told: Improve or be banished. For the first time ever, 24 Akbar Road, the party's headquarters, is assessing the neeyat (intent) of the Gandhi Parivar, which has never happened before. No journalist on the Congress beat has ever heard such words in the party against the Gandhis. That such expressions are emerging out of the Congress's internal churning, is a huge thing. Not even after the Emergency and certainly not in P V Narasimha Rao's time was the Gandhis' neeyat under discussion. The pitiful number 44 (of Lok Sabha seats) has provoked Congressmen no end. Of course, no Congressman will speak on record, but now none other than Milind Deora, the son of a most loyal Congressmen (former Union petroleum minister Murli Deora), has spoken out against Rahul Gandhi's office. It is not a light assault. This is the way change creeps into the Congress. The first message has been delivered to Rahul Gandhi. In Congress politics it is also possible that dynasty loyalists may themselves start such a debate to "release the pressure" and control the dissent against the dynasty, but Rahul Gandhi is the party's target, for sure. Covertly and overtly. Congressmen understand what Modi's arrival brings to New Delhi. The party is alerting Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi that even if they think they are born to rule and can continue with their snooty ways, then they will confront a reality check sooner than later. Congressmen have no doubt that Rahul Gandhi's arrogance and ignorance have brought the Congress down to 44 seats. His office, under the influence of America-trained Indians, produced a political campaign that reflects anything but 'Bhartiyata.' Sonia Gandhi is still respected among defeated partymen, but she is not in a strong enough position to encash her goodwill to keep pushing her son within the party that finds itself in an existential battle. Even though the Lok Sabha results are just a week old, partymen whose DNA is made of Congress ideals are, expectedly, concerned and think the family must change. For many decades the balance of power has kept changing between the party and the Nehru-Gandhi family. All these years the Nehru-Gandhis delivered votes and the party in turn provided unflinching loyalty. It was a mutually beneficial deal. But Rahul Gandhi's repeated failure is likely to change the Congress course. Inside the party, a tsunami of anger has erupted. It does not reach the media because the Congress has been so completely demolished that its leaders have enough time to plan their rebellion. In fact, not many senior Congress leaders are shocked by the result; many of them felt the party would get around 70 seats or below. Many Congressmen could see the failure of the government, Cabinet ministers and Rahul Gandhi in every which way. It is unlikely that Sonia Gandhi was unaware of the pending disaster either. Congress leaders dubbed Modi as a leader who polarises the country, but his victory shows that a lot of Modi's symbolism, which was dubbed as 'communal Hindutva', has been accepted by millions of voters as 'Bhartiyata'. Even if this is deception of the highest order, it has worked for the BJP. When Mani Shankar Aiyar insulted Modi at the January session of the All India Congress Committee and said at the most he could open a tea stall at the venue, just a few hours later Rahul Gandhi cheered Aiyar for his role in creating the Panchayati Raj Act. No politician can get more arrogant than this. When in Snoopgate the girl the Modi government allegedly spied on was reluctant to make it an issue and when her father came out declaring total support for Modi, Rahul Gandhi did not have a clue that the issue was not politically viable anymore. When Modi touches the dharti (ground) of Parliament he does not look strange. Even a Congress leader feels, "He doesn't look ajooba (strange)." But Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka do -- that is the brutal assessment that has dawned on Congressmen, a bit late in the day. However, the current situation does not give Congressmen the halo of victim. Till it suited them, they allowed the Gandhis to enjoy imperial status and now, when Modi has made the dynasty look villainous in the Indian democratic set-up, Congressmen feel desperate. Many Congressmen, furious with Rahul Gandhi and his ways of things, add that since they won the 2009 mandate there is no enthusiasm in the country. The way a euphoria has accompanied Modi's triumph, no such hysteria enveloped Manmohan Singh then, they say. A more serious setback was the way many ministers lost their credibility. From P Chidambaram and Kapil Sibal to Jairam Ramesh, these leaders turned into hate figures. On social media they were hooted, while within the country they didn't get heartfelt respect even for the first few months. The image percolated down that some ministers were looting the country. This impression could never be countered, and things got worse after Modi embarked on his whirlwind campaign. It is untrue that the Congress did not spend money on its election campaign. Any party that has been in power for 10 years would have money. Modi obviously spent a massive amount of money, but that alone cannot make one a prime minister, Congressmen now argue. So, what next? Will the dynasty remain at the centre of the Congress? If the Congress thinks that "Bhartiyata ki jeet hui hain", then it is obvious that the party will take the reins in its hands to see how things go with the Gandhis and how much is their flexibility to accommodate the Congress need to understand a majority of Indians. Also, without an acknowledgement of Indian-ness that has been more the Congress trademark than any other party's, the Congress knows there is no scope of revival. After being reduced to 44 seats, don't think Congressmen can afford to remain loyal slaves to the dynasty. Photograph: Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi pay tribute to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 23rd death anniversary at Vir Bhumi in New Delhi on Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Photograph: Manvender Vashist/PTI Photo.

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As I’ve said repeatedly on this site, the set of educational standards known as Common Core is great on the surface. The problems come with the implementation of the program and how students will be tested on their knowledge. But whatever the reasons are to oppose its implementation, I’m pretty sure Florida State Representative (and Republican) Charles Van Zant is just talking out of his ass. In a speech at the “Operation Education Conference” in March (that’s just coming to light now), Van Zant explained the real problem with Common Core: It’s turning your children gay: These people, that will now receive $220 million from the state of Florida unless this is stopped, will promote double-mindedness in state education and attract every one of your children to become as homosexual as they possibly can. I’m sorry to report that to you. So there you have it. Higher educational standards make you gay. And as we all know, higher education is like Kryptonite to anti-gay Republicans. (via Think Progress)

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About two minutes into the R-rated animated food movie Sausage Party I had a realization—the film that the trailers were advertising was not the movie I was watching. That movie, about food that realizes what happens when they get bought, looked like it has a lot of R-rated jokes, and not much else. But the real movie is so much more. To say what Sausage Party is actually about isn’t a spoiler. But, if at this point you don’t know what I’m talking about, I’ll give you a chance to leave. Just know this: Sausage Party is absolutely filthy and completely funny, but not without its flaws. Advertisement Sausage Party is about science versus religion. It’s about blind faith versus undebatable truth—about people who choose to believe something they’re told all their lives and how that could, potentially, be a problem. That’s not to say Sausage Party bashes religion, faith, or your beliefs (it jabs them for sure), but it fully embraces the happiness those things can bring people. In the case of a supermarket full of foul-mouthed food, these debates are brought about by a talking hot dog (Seth Rogen) that’s desperate to enter his bun girlfriend (Kristen Wiig). All the food in the supermarket believes when you’re chosen by the Gods, a.k.a. humans shopping in the store, you are brought to the Great Beyond, a place where everything is going to be wonderful. They think its heaven, basically. But when one bottle of honey mustard is returned to the store, he starts planting the seeds of truth that lead Rogen’s character on a quest through the supermarket to discover that humans kill food when they leave the supermarket. Advertisement As this is happening, the film is as R-rated as they come. C-bombs, F-bombs, dirty sex jokes, non-stop innuendo, and some sure-to-be-too-offensive-for-some-people racial stuff. It’s a way to try and mask that the filmmakers are, hopefully, getting you to question some serious shit. One problem with that, however, is Sausage Party is not subtle in any way. The film wears its message right on its sleeve and, at times, that becomes an issue. It beats you over the head with its themes to the point of redundancy. The film also feels a bit long even at just under 90 minutes due to a dragged-out second act. And yet, by the time the film reaches its third act, none of that matters. Directors Greg Tiernan and Conrad Verson, working from a screenplay by Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Kyle Hunter, and Ari Shaffir, push things so, so, SO far over the edge at the end you almost won’t believe what you’re watching. It’s completely horrific and yet, you can’t stop watching, laughing, and shaking your head. Then, it keeps going. And just when you think it couldn’t get crazier, dirtier, or more stupid, it does. And then it does it again. I can safely say you have never, ever seen anything like the final act and climax of Sausage Party. Advertisement That pretty much goes for the whole movie, too. If you watched the trailers to Sausage Party and didn’t care that much, that’s fair. But if you like the talent involved, trust them, and check it out. They made a funny, well-meaning, and smart movie. One that has some problems, but is also filled with exemplary, iconic, disturbing moments that are worth the price of admission. Sausage Party, which screened at Comic-Con 2016, opens August 12. Note: This article originally ran on July 22. We updated it for the film’s release.

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Cardcaptor Sakura (Japanese: カードキャプターさくら, Hepburn: Kādokyaputā Sakura), abbreviated as CCS and also known as Cardcaptors, is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by the manga group Clamp. The manga was originally serialized in Nakayoshi from May 1996 to June 2000, and published in 12 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha from November 1996 to July 2000. The story focuses on Sakura Kinomoto, an elementary school student who discovers magical powers after accidentally freeing a set of magical cards; she must retrieve the cards to prevent catastrophe. A sequel by Clamp, Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, focusing on Sakura in junior high school, began serialization in Nakayoshi in 2016.[1] The series was adapted into a 70-episode anime television series by Madhouse that aired on Japan's satellite television channel NHK BS2 from April 1998 to March 2000. Additional media include anime films, video games, art books, picture books, and film comics. Tokyopop released the manga in English in North America from March 2000 to August 2003. After Tokyopop's license expired, Dark Horse Manga released the series in omnibus editions from October 2010 to September 2012. Nelvana licensed the TV series and first film for North America as Cardcaptors, which first aired on Kids' WB from June 2000 to December 2001. All 70 episodes were dubbed; while other English-speaking territories received the full run, the version aired on American television was heavily edited into 39 episodes. Cardcaptors also aired on Cartoon Network, Teletoon and Nickelodeon. The TV series and films were sub-licensed by Geneon, which released them unedited with English subtitles. The TV series was also released by Madman Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand. Cardcaptor Sakura was critically well-received. Critics praised the manga for its creativity and described it as a quintessential shōjo manga, as well as a critical work for manga in general. The manga series was awarded the Seiun Award for Best Manga in 2001. The television series was praised for transcending its target audience of young children and being enjoyable to older viewers, and for its artwork, humor, and animation; it won the Animage Grand Prix award for Best Anime in 1999. The American edit of Cardcaptors, however, was criticized for removing elements essential to the plot. Plot [ edit ] Cardcaptor Sakura takes place in the fictional Japanese city of Tomoeda which is somewhere near Tokyo. Ten-year-old Sakura Kinomoto accidentally releases a set of magical cards known as Clow Cards from a book in her basement created and named after the sorcerer Clow Reed. Each card has its own unique ability and can assume an alternate form when activated. The guardian of the cards, Cerberus, emerges from the book and chooses Sakura to retrieve the missing cards. As she finds each card, she battles its magical personification and defeats it by sealing it away. Cerberus acts as her guide, while her best friend and second cousin, Tomoyo Daidouji films her exploits and provides her with battle costumes. Sakura's older brother Toya Kinomoto watches over her, while pretending that he is unaware of what is going on. Syaoran Li, a boy Sakura's age and descendant of Clow Reed, arrives from Hong Kong to recapture the cards himself. While initially antagonistic, he comes to respect Sakura and begins aiding her to capture the cards. Once Sakura captures all of the cards, she is tested by Yue, the cards' second guardian, to determine if she is worthy of becoming the cards' true master; Yue is also the true form of Yukito Tsukishiro, Toya's best friend. Aided by her school teacher Kaho Mizuki, Sakura passes the test and becomes the new master of the Clow Cards. Afterwards, Eriol Hiiragizawa, a transfer student from England, arrives in Tomoeda and begins causing disturbances with two guardian-like creatures, Spinel Sun and Ruby Moon. Sakura is suddenly unable to use the Clow Cards and transforms her wand, beginning the process of evolving the cards into Sakura Cards as Eriol causes strange occurrences that forces her to use and thus transform certain cards. Once all the cards have been transformed, Eriol tells Sakura that he aided her in converting the cards so they would not lose their magic powers. Syaoran later confesses his love to Sakura, who comes to realize she also loves him. Cardcaptor Sakura concludes with Syaoran returning to Hong Kong with a promise to return. Two years later, Syaoran moves back to Tomoeda permanently. The plot of the anime series is extended, featuring 52 Clow Cards from the manga's original 19, and certain scenes are stretched and delayed, such as Cerberus' true form not being revealed until just before Yue's appearance.[2] Sakura creates a 53rd card, Hope, a talent she is not shown to have in the manga. Some of the circumstances around the capturing of the cards is changed, such as Syaoran capturing several cards himself and being tested by Yue in the Final Judgment. Syaoran's cousin and fiancée Meiling Li is introduced in the anime, who positions herself as a romantic rival for Sakura later in the series and also a friend until she returns to Hong Kong. The TV series leaves the relationship between Sakura and Syaoran unresolved, but Sakura confesses her love to Syaoran at the end of the second anime film. In the OVA that bridges the stories of the original series and the Clear Card anime, Syaoran returns to Tomoeda two years later, just like in the manga. Production [ edit ] Cardcaptor Sakura was first conceived shortly before the conclusion of Clamp's Magic Knight Rayearth, which was serialized in Nakayoshi.[3] Clamp's head editor Yamonouchi asked them to do another series in Nakayoshi, and Clamp decided to make a "Nakayoshi-esque" series, as opposed to Rayearth, which Clamp described as unlike anything they had done before. Head Clamp writer Nanase Ohkawa's first impulse was to create a magical girl series, despite not being well-versed in the genre. Ohkawa wanted the heroine Sakura to be in the same age group as the majority of Nakayoshi's readers so that fans could relate to her. Due to it being different from how Clamp normally conceived characters, Ohkawa designed the other characters such as Tomoyo and Cerberus to be more like Clamp's previous creations. Once Ohkawa had enough information on the characters, she had the three artists in Clamp—Mokona, Tsubaki Nekoi and Satsuki Igarashi—design them based on her descriptions. When designing Cerberus, Ohkawa wanted a mascot-type companion for Sakura, but Nekoi tried various forms, including dogs and squirrels, before designing the final version. Syaoran and Toya were conceived to be a common type of character featured in Clamp's works.[3] Various other titles were suggested for the series such as Cardcaster Sakura and Card Character Sakura before Nekoi suggested Cardcaptor Sakura.[3] While Ohkawa planned out Cardcaptor Sakura from beginning to end, she never consulted the plot with the other members, instead giving them the script one chapter at a time. Mokona initially drew Tomoyo so it would look like she was in love with Toya, which led to her surprise when she received the script for the chapter which reveals Tomoyo loves Sakura. The story was planned to have the theme of "if you try your best, it'll work out", but Ohkawa did not start out with Sakura's "It'll definitely be okay" mindset. Ohkawa wanted to write a story that "minorities would feel comfortable with," referring to the same-sex and taboo relationships featured in the manga. The series' main theme is expressed through Sakura, a main character designed to be open-minded about different family structures and kinds of love. Ohkawa addressed the relationships featured in the series by using Tomoyo and Sakura as an example. She explained that the reason Tomoyo and Sakura did not end up together was not because Tomoyo is a girl, but rather because Sakura did not love Tomoyo in a romantic way.[3] The central theme of Cardcaptor Sakura is love and human relationships. Throughout the series, many forms of love are showcased, including "sibling love, childhood crushes, unrequited love, [and] true love."[4] At times, Clamp even ignores the Clow Cards for several chapters to focus more on the relationships of Sakura and those around her. Each of these relationships are presented as is, with Clamp carefully avoiding passing judgment on the correctness of the relationships. In particular, the romantic relationship between elementary student Rika Sasaki and her teacher Yoshiyuki Terada is presented in such a way that it can be seen as a sweet and innocent tale of "wish fulfillment", or if examined more seriously, as a mildly disturbing story of pedophilic love.[4] The artists, especially Mokona, were told by Ohkawa to use thin lines and to try to express things through curved lines as opposed to straight lines.[3] The style of artwork was decided at the beginning to unify the world view of Cardcaptor Sakura. Ohkawa wanted the series to have a "soft, cute-like" feel, so she asked the artists to not use a lot of ink and to make the pages light. For the multitude of flower imagery used in the manga, Nekoi looked through various books to find appropriate flowers, and tried to avoid using the same flower more than once in one chapter. Igarashi remarked that they "never had to draw so many flowers for one series," but they made a point to not use roses.[3] Clamp wanted to incorporate transformation scenes into Cardcaptor Sakura, but because many magical girl manga have the girls wearing the same outfit, Clamp wanted Sakura to wear different costumes. Clamp felt that "it's pretty sad for a girl to wear the same outfit all the time."[5] Media [ edit ] Manga [ edit ] Cardcaptor Sakura began as a manga series written and illustrated by the manga artist group Clamp. It was serialized in the monthly shōjo (aimed at young girls) manga magazine Nakayoshi from the May 1996 to June 2000 issue.[2] The individual chapters were collected and published in 12 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha from November 1996 to July 2000.[6][7] Kodansha released the first six volumes in bilingual editions that included both Japanese and English from May 2000 to July 2001.[8][9] The bilingual volumes were part of an experimental line for helping Japanese children learn English. Kodansha stopped releasing the bilingual editions after the series was licensed in English for distribution in North America by Tokyopop.[2][10] Tokyopop released the volumes of Cardcaptor Sakura from March 2000 to August 2003.[11][12] Tokyopop initially released the first six volumes with the book "flipped" from the original Japanese orientation, in which the book is read from right-to-left, to the Western format with text oriented from left-to-right. These volumes were later re-released with the original orientation in two box sets, each containing three volumes.[13][14] Volumes seven through twelve were released in the original orientation with the subtitle Master of the Clow. Madman Entertainment used Tokyopop's English translation to release the series in Australia and New Zealand.[15] Dark Horse Manga published an English edition of the series in four omnibus volumes containing three of the original volumes each from October 2010 and September 2012.[16][17] The manga series is licensed for additional regional language releases by Pika Édition in France,[18] Star Comics in Italy,[19] Egmont Manga & Anime in Germany,[20] Editora JBC in Brazil,[21] Ever Glory Publishing in Taiwan,[22] Ediciones Glénat in Spain,[23] Editorial Ivrea in Argentina,[24] and Editorial Toukan and later Editorial Kamite in Mexico.[25][26] Anime series [ edit ] A 70-episode anime television series adaptation produced by the animation studio Madhouse aired in Japan on the NHK television network spread over three seasons.[27][28] The first season, consisting of 35 episodes, aired between April 7 and December 29, 1998.[29][30][31] The second season, with 11 episodes, aired between April 6 and June 22, 1999.[31][32] The third season, containing 24 episodes, aired between September 7, 1999 and March 21, 2000.[33][34] Directed by Morio Asaka, Clamp was fully involved in the project, with head writer Nanase Ohkawa writing and composing the screenplay and Mokona overseeing the costumes and card designs.[28] The series was later released by Bandai Visual to 18 VHS, LD and DVD compilation volumes from September 1998 to May 2000.[35][36][37][38] Two Blu-ray Disc box set volumes were released by Geneon in 2009.[39][40] An upgraded 4K remaster was released in December 2017 as an 11-disc set in both DVD and Blu-ray Disc box sets.[41] Nelvana licensed Cardcaptor Sakura in North America, dubbed the series into English with Ocean Studios featuring Carly McKillip as Sakura, and released it under the name Cardcaptors.[42][43] This version was heavily edited from the original Japanese version. The initial version of the dub covered all 70 episodes, although character names were changed, some Japanese text was changed to English, and controversial subjects such as same-sex relationships were edited out. The musical score was completely replaced with new music and some of the sound effects were replaced when they could not be separated into separate tracks, although the original opening and ending themes were dubbed into English. This version aired in Australia on Network Ten and Cartoon Network, in Ireland on RTÉ2,[44] in the UK on CiTV and Nickelodeon, and in Canada on Teletoon (which also aired the episodes with a French dub). An alternative English dub of the series was produced by Omni Productions to air on Animax Asia and it has been shown entirely unedited and uncut making it very faithfully closer to the original Japanese version, which it broadcast on its English-language networks in Southeast Asia and South Asia. Cardcaptors first aired in the United States on Kids' WB between June 17, 2000 and December 14, 2001.[45][46] The version that aired on Kids' WB was an alternate version of the Nelvana dub that was heavily edited even further with episodes re-ordered and some left out completely.[47] The editing to the original Nelvana dub was done to refocus the series to be more action oriented for the appeal of male viewers, as they were seen as the largest audience of animation at the time.[2] The first episode aired in Kids' WB's version was "Sakura's Rival", the eighth episode of the series, having removed episodes focusing on Sakura and to have the show start with Syaoran's arrival.[2][48] The series ran for 39 episodes, changing the original episode order but finishing with the show's actual final episode. Rather than using the English versions of the original opening and ending themes like in Australia, the North American runs of the series used a new opening theme produced for the dub. Pioneer Entertainment released the dubbed Cardcaptors episodes to nine VHS and DVD compilation volumes from November 2000 to July 2002.[49][50][51][52] They also released the unedited Cardcaptor Sakura series with the original Japanese audio tracks and English subtitles,[2][47] to 18 DVDs from November 2000 to November 2003;[53][54] the first 11 volumes were also released in VHS.[55][56] The Cardcaptor Sakura TV series DVDs went out-of-print at the end of 2006 when the license expired. NIS America has licensed the Cardcaptor Sakura TV series and re-released the entire series with Japanese and an unedited English audio track (Animax Asia's dub) on DVD and Blu-ray on August 5, 2014.[57] Madman Entertainment licensed the original Cardcaptor Sakura episodes in its uncut form with Japanese audio and English subtitles in Australia and New Zealand,[58] and later released the series in two DVD box collections, one consisting of season one and the other consisting of seasons two and three. Each DVD box set contained the textless openings and endings of the series; the second DVD box set also contained an exclusive interview with Sakura Tange, Sakura Kinomoto's Japanese voice actress. The first DVD box collection was released in September 2012,[59] and the second DVD box collection was released in November 2012.[60] Films [ edit ] Madhouse produced two, 82-minute anime films as an extension to the anime television series. The first, Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie, was released on August 21, 1999.[61] Set between the first and second seasons of the TV series, the film shows Sakura and her friends going to Hong Kong where they encounter a vengeful spirit who was hurt by Clow Reed in the past. It was released to VHS, LD and DVD in Japan by Bandai Visual in February 2000.[62][63] Nelvana released an English dubbed version of the film, retaining the same name and story changes as its main Cardcaptors dub, although it was dubbed with no visual edits and was released in cut and uncut versions. As with the TV series, Pioneer Entertainment also released the film with the original Japanese audio and English subtitles, and also released a bilingual DVD containing both audio tracks. Both the edited and unedited versions were released on VHS and DVD in March 2002.[64][65] Discotek Media released the first film on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on September 30, 2014 in North America.[66] The second film, Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card, was released in Japan on July 15, 2000.[67] It provided a conclusion to the TV series, in which Syaoran returns to Tokyo in hopes of getting Sakura's answer to his love confession, but her own confession is interrupted by the appearance of a 53rd Clow Card. It was released to LD (as a limited edition) and DVD in January 2001, and to VHS in July 2001.[68][69] It was released in North America to DVD by Pioneer in November 2003 and featured an English dub by Bang Zoom! Entertainment instead of Nelvana and Ocean Studios, now with Kari Wahlgren as Sakura, and this time retaining the original character names and the content unedited and uncut.[70][71] The films as released by Pioneer (later renamed Geneon) remained in print in North America until late 2007.[72] A bonus short film titled Leave it to Kero! was played with the theatrical screening of the second film.[73] Audio CDs [ edit ] As a preview to the anime series, Kodansha released a tankōbon-sized CD volume titled CD Comic Cardcaptor Sakura in August 1997 containing two character songs sung by the voice actors of Sakura and Tomoyo and drama tracks.[74] Two drama CDs were released for the series. The first, Sakura to Okaa-san no Organ, was released in July 1998 featuring a script written by Clamp author Nanase Ohkawa.[75] It depicts Sakura having a dream about her mother playing an organ and choosing to write about her the following day for a school project. The second CD, Sweet Valentine Stories, was released in February 1999 and depicts a single day in the life of the girls in Sakura's class, including Sakura herself.[76] Four original soundtrack CD albums were released for the anime television series from July 1998 to March 2000.[77][78] The soundtracks included instrumental background music and the vocal theme songs. Two soundtracks were produced for the films: the first film's soundtrack was released in August 1999, followed by the second film's soundtrack in August 2000.[79][80] Nine theme song singles were released: six for the TV series and three for the films. The three opening theme song singles for the TV series are "Catch You Catch Me" by Gumi released in April 1998, "Tobira o Akete" by Anza released in April 1999, and "Platinum" by Maaya Sakamoto released in October 1999.[81][82][83] The three ending theme song singles for the TV series are "Groovy!" by Kohmi Hirose released in September 1998, "Honey" by Chihiro released in May 1999, and "Fruits Candy" by Megumi Kojima released in November 1999.[84][85][86] The two ending theme song singles for the films are "Tōi Kono Machi de" by Naomi Kaitani released in August 1999 for the first film, and "Ashita e no Melody" by Chaka released in July 2000 for the second film.[87][88] The theme song single for the anime short Leave It To Kero! shown with the second film, "Okashi no Uta", was released in July 2000.[89] Six character song singles sung by the voice actors of Sakura, Toya, Cerberus, Tomoyo, Yukito and Syaoran released in June 1998; each single also contained a short drama track.[90][91][92][93][94][95] A character song album titled Cardcaptor Sakura Character Songbook was released in January 1999 containing tracks from the previously released character song singles as well as new tracks sung by the various voice actors.[96] An album titled Tomoeda Elementary Choir Club Christmas Concert, released in December 1999, contains seven tracks by a children's choir, including five where they are joined by Junko Iwao, the voice actress for Tomoyo.[97] A four-CD compilation set, Complete Vocal Collection, was released in February 2001 compiling the series' theme songs, tracks from the character song singles, remixes of previously released songs, and new music.[98] An album containing the theme songs from the TV series and films titled Cardcaptor Sakura Theme Song Collection was released in December 2001.[99] Victor Entertainment released the albums and singles for Cardcaptor Sakura. An original soundtrack for Cardcaptors titled Cardcaptors: Songs from the Hit TV Series was released in September 2001 by Rhino Entertainment.[100] Video games [ edit ] Ten video games have been produced based on the series and released on a variety of video game and handheld consoles. They feature various genres, such as adventure and role-playing video games. Other media [ edit ] Kodansha published three art books for the manga series and three art books from for the anime television series featuring art by character designer Kumiko Takahashi.[2] The three books for the manga titled Cardcaptor Sakura Illustration Collection were released from July 1998 to December 2000.[110][111] The three for the TV series titled Cheerio! were released from April 1999 to September 2000.[112][113] A set of the 52 Clow Cards featured in the TV series was released in August 1999 and a Clow Card Fortune Book, which contains information on how to use the Clow Card replica set as tarot cards, was released in March 2000.[114][115] A fan book for the manga titled Cardcaptor Sakura Memorial Book was published on February 27, 2001 containing various illustrations from the series, as well as information on branded merchandise based on the series and interviews.[116] Four fan books under the title Complete Book, were released for the TV series and Films. For the TV series, two fan books labeled Clow Card-hen (クロウカード編, Clow Card Arc) and Sakura Card-hen (さくらカード編, Sakura Card Arc) were released in July 1999 and June 2000 respectively[117][118] Each of the two films received a fan book and were released in October 1999 and October 2000 respectively.[119][120] A poster box containing several posters and a T-shirt was released on August 22, 2001.[121] Ten volumes of a film comic sharing the same name as the manga and anime series were published from August 1998 to November 2000 covering the first two anime seasons, though some episodes were skipped.[122][123] Three more were published under the subtitle, Sakura Card-hen from March 2001 to February 2002 covering up to episode 59, though again some episodes were skipped.[124][125] Four picture books were released for the TV series from September 1998 to November 2000.[126][127] Four sticker books were released for the TV series from August 1999 to March 2004.[128][129] In February 2018, three Cardcaptor Sakura-themed cafes opened in Tokyo, Osaka and Sapporo. The restaurants feature decorations of artwork from the series, and serve menu items connected to Cardcaptor Sakura characters or items.[130] Reception [ edit ] Manga [ edit ] The manga has over 17 million copies in print as of April 2018.[131] Cardcaptor Sakura was popular with Japanese readers, ranking among the top five sellers during its release.[132] The manga series was awarded the Seiun Award for Best Manga in 2001.[133] Shaenon Garrity of The Comics Journal described the series as a quintessential shōjo manga, which is praised for its mature direction in the second half.[134] Cardcaptor Sakura has been described as a "critical work" of manga by Christopher Butcher of Comics212.[134] In a review by Lisa Anderson of Manga Life, the subplots in the series related to the interactions between characters were noted to be of special interest. Anderson praised how the manga, while at the onset begins with a costumed Sakura chasing after a Clow Card, takes a "rather big leap in another direction" when focusing on the characters. The manga is further lauded for its depth.[135] Anime News Network (ANN) reviewer Robert Nguyen felt Cardcaptor Sakura is an "atypical shōjo" manga, which puts an "emphasis on the emotions of the character."[136] In Manga: The Complete Guide, Mason Templar states that the series is not "just one of the best kids' manga in translation, it's one of the very best manga available in English, period." He praises Clamp for their creativity and shrewd business sense, in being able to create a series that "clearly has merchandising in line" and an "utterly forgettable premise" into a story that is "brimming with warmth and joy and wonder" and is "much more than the sum of its parts."[4] The manga is cited as being cute by critics, and in some cases too cute;[136] however, Anderson stated that "much like Magic Knight Rayearth, even a cute story will have its depth and drama."[135] The artwork of the manga is praised for being detailed and having "beautifully drawn pictures of the Clow Cards themselves." The cards are described as having "an artful blend of magical fantasy and reality."[136] Anime [ edit ] The anime adaptation was popular with viewers in Japan, despite having a timeslot that normally has low viewership.[2] The Cardcaptor Sakura anime adaptation won the Animage Grand Prix award for best anime in 1999.[137] In May 2000, volumes 8 and 17 of the anime LD release were among the top selling titles, with volume 17 being in first place.[138] The 18th DVD volume was the eighth best selling anime DVD in Japan in June 2000.[139] Animerica contributor Kevin Lew felt the series had a "sophisticated design sense" that allowed the series to transcend its target audience of young children and be enjoyable to older viewers as well.[2] Fellow contributor Takashi Oshiguichi found the character Sakura to be appealing and praised the series art work. He felt that while it was "very calculated" to attract male readers, the series was attractive to fans due to Clamp's "unique entertainment style" that incorporates "perfectly time[d] appearances of "fascinating villains" and the unusual element of having the main character change costume for every capture.[132] The magazine's Winnie Chow felt the series' animation was "far above average for a TV series", and compliments Sakura's magic-casting scenes for being nearly unique due to the regular costume changes.[140] Zac Bertschy of ANN praised Cardcaptor Sakura for taking an "incredibly stale and repetitive" magical girl genre and "providing something fun, clever, beautifully animated, touching and exciting all at once;" Bertschy goes on to call the series "the best magical girl show ever produced."[141] The animation was described as being "incredibly fluid" with the character designs "maintain[ing] a consistent and impressive level of detail, even during action scenes."[141] The series has been described as formulaic, but this is not said to detract from the show's enjoyment.[142][143][144] While Cardcaptor Sakura is normally intended for an audience of young girls, the anime is lauded for containing "elements that can be enjoyed by anyone, regardless of age or gender, providing they are open-minded enough."[142] In 2001, the anime ranked 46th on Wizard's Anime Magazine's "Top 50 Anime released in North America" ranking.[145] The Kids' WB version of the Cardcaptors dub was panned by critics. Jake Godek of THEM Anime called it "the worst thing that has ever happened to anime that had a good Japanese name," with the dubbing being "one of the worst if not the worst dubbing done for a program." He also criticized the editing, saying that it had "demolished the plot" and noting that it cut out vital character backgrounds needed in order to understand the show.[146] Adam Arnold of Animefringe, reviewing the first Cardcaptors DVD, said it was "nothing more than an attempt to dilute a fan favorite anime," with the dubbed voices described as "not up-to-par with the originals." The ordering of the episodes on the DVD was also criticized, noting that starting with episode eight meant that the cast are "left without their backgrounds fleshed out." However, he also approved of the episode stories being left intact, and praised the voices of Carly McKillip as Sakura Avalon and Rhys Huber as Syaoran Li, stating that they were "only voices that really shine above the rest."[48] In January 2002, the restaurant chain Taco Bell began a month-long promotion in which four Cardcaptors toys were available in their kids' meals and the company expected to distribute up to 7 million of the toys during the month.[147] The "conservative Christian political orientation" American Family Association complained about the promotion as the organization felt the Clow Cards in the series were too similar to tarot cards and Eastern mythology. However, the organization's complaints did not begin until the promotion was already scheduled to end, so it is unsure whether the complaints had any actual effect.[148] References [ edit ] Further reading [ edit ]

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Another fixture, another win. Life under Pep has begun wonderfully for the Cityzens, 3 points on a windy afternoon in Stoke is surely something Guardiola can add to his long list of accomplishments. But how did City get there? Well, two first half goals from Aguero meant things were relatively calm going into the last 45. But things became a bit nervy for most of the second half after Stoke were awarded a controversial (or ridiculous) penalty and Bojan converted making the score 2-1. Late on, substitute Nolito converted twice on mere tap ins to secure the victory, below I've listed each players rating out of 10. Caballero- 6.0 Can't fault him for the goal as it was a penalty, and made a wonderful save near the end of the first half. The reason his rating is lower is the poor distribution he displayed a few times in the match. With Claudio Bravo on the verge on going City things will get really interesting soon. John Stones- 8.0 93% pass completion percentage and 7 clearances. Stones has taken to City like a duck takes to water and it's wonderful to see. The money spent will follow him around for the rest of his City career, but right now it looks like money well spent. Otamendi- 6.5 Nico still looks uncomfortable at times in Guardiola's system. After Pep's comments midweek about his defenders staying on their feet, Otamendi restrained himself for the most part, but there were a couple times you could see he really wanted to dive in. With Kompany getting closer to match fitness, Otamendi must be looking over his shoulder. Kolarov- 6.5 A fine performance for Kolarov on the day, made one or two nice runs, but after playing midweek seemed to lose what little pace he had as the game went on. Nothing wrong with his performance but also nothing particularly spectacular. Zabaleta- 6.0 The captain on the day, Zabaleta seemed a bit off the pace during large chunks of the game. Perhaps playing midweek was the cause, or time is just catching up to the Argentine. For the most part defensively he played well, holding Arnautovic off the scoresheet, but when Sagna is fit again, Zabaleta's place must be in question. Fernandinho- 7.0 Another solid showing from Fernandinho working pretty much alone in the middle of the park. As this team plays together, Fernandinho seems to become more comfortable in his role. Breaking up counters and dropping deeper to begin attacks suits the Brazilian and with more time we'll see even better from him. David Silva- 7.0 Silva showed again when given space (and sometimes when given none) he can pick a team apart with his passing. He may have not been on the score-sheet but the magician was all over the park Saturday afternoon. Kevin De Bruyne- 7.0 De Bruyne seems to be finding his way in Pep's system slowly but surely. A wonderful free kick delivered right onto Sergio's head got De Bruyne an assist, and on the counter there were flashes of the player last year bursting forward and taking on defenders, but there is still something lacking on De Bruyne's final product. When it comes together, City's attack might be even scarier. Sterling- 7.5 Another wonderful performance from Raheem Sterling. Every single time he was given the ball he looked to take on his defender. Whether playing on the right or the left he looked dangerous for 90 minutes and was rewarded with an assists are selflessly squaring for Nolito in the dying minutes. Jesus Navas- 6.0 Like most games he played in last year Jesus Navas had a moment or two that made you think, "wow what a play", unfortunately they come far to infrequently and sporadically for a team with the ambition of City. Once Sané becomes fit, Navas must either step his game up or face the possibility of a long year on the bench. Sergio Aguero- 8.5 What a day for Aguero. The most prolific striker perhaps in City's history netted twice against Stoke (including a redeeming penalty to open the scoring). No matter where he was on the pitch Aguero looked dangerous taking on all comers. The only negative on display could be his link up with Sterling, but with time these two might lead the league is goals and assists. Subs Nolito- 8.0 Two goals means you can't really give Nolito a lower rating than this. Granted they were tap ins, but Nolito looked lively in his time on the field. Iheanacho- 7.0 An assist on the third and a wonderful dummy on the fourth, Iheanacho just extended his contract until 2021, the future is bright, I might need new shades. Delph- N/A Brought on to see the game out, didn't really have a chance to make an impact, but will almost certainly see more time midweek in the second leg against Steaua. That's it for my ratings, let me know what you think in the comments down below and vote for who you think was the man of the match!

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Welcome to the latest edition of What the (Blank)? Just like on the first day of elementary school, we ask athletes to answer 10 questions about themselves so you can get to know them better. Next up is Atlanta Braves pitcher Jason Grilli. Yes, this is his real handwriting. The one athlete I hope never retires is … The best uniform in sports belongs to … My guilty pleasure of the moment is … My favorite sports team growing up was … The actor I’d want to star in a movie about my life is … My dream job (if I wasn’t a baseball player) would be … The smartest athlete I’ve ever met is … If I’m at an all-you-can-eat buffet, the first thing I’m going for is … The one rule I’d change in my sport would be … If my entire team participated in a Royal Rumble, the last person standing would be … The most meaningless stat in my sport is …

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Scientists have developed a tool to determine if a solar storm is on its way, over 24 hours before it happens. Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), where gas and magnetised particles erupt from the sun’s surface, can create geomagnetic storms that cause chaos for the growing network of satellites surrounding Earth, as well as for technologies such as transformers here on the planet. This can result in potentially life-threatening issues: GPS failures will not just leave drivers lost, but can prevent planes from landing safely, while essential radio transmissions can also be disrupted. Not all CMEs will do damage to our technology; whether or not they will result in a damaging geomagnetic storm is down to the orientation of the magnetic field within one, something that satellites are designed to assess so that evasive action can occur. However, at present satellites can only determine the magnetic orientation of a CME with around 30 to 60 minutes’ notice, meaning there is not always enough time to adequately respond. The new tool solves this problem by significantly improving how CMEs are measured as they travel from their point of origin on the Sun to Earth. Before, the eruption of CMEs from the Sun was measured, but little effective modelling was done to measure their progression from there to our planet. Under the new system, the precise points of origin of the CME on the Sun are measured, and the CME is tracked as it moves towards Earth, using a network of observatories. The resulting data is used to create a reliable model to determine whether the CME will pose a problem to our technology. While geomagnetic storms are not something you hear regularly about on the news, they will pose a greater threat as we put more and more satellites into the sky, which is why getting an early warning system in place now is so important. “As we become more entwined with technology, disruption from large space weather events affects our daily lives more and more,” said research leader Dr Neel Savani, Imperial College London visiting researcher and space scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “Breaking through that 24 hour barrier to prediction is crucial for dealing efficiently with any potential problems before they arise.” The tool, the details of which were published yesterday in the journal Space Weather, has already been successfully demonstrated using data from previous CMEs. Now it will undergo further testing at NASA to confirm its reliability, and, if successful is set to become the standard geomagnetic storm prediction tool for both the US’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the UK’s Met Office.

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ResMed and Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Announce Settlement of Global Patent Infringement Litigation | Fisher & Paykel Healthcare ResMed and Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Announce Settlement of Global Patent Infringement Litigation Thursday, February 21, 2019 6:35 AM Settlement will end infringement cases worldwide ResMed (NYSE: RMD, ASX: RMD), and Fisher & Paykel Healthcare (NZX: FPH, ASX: FPH) today announced an agreement to settle all outstanding patent infringement disputes between the companies in all venues around the world. The settlement involves no payment or admission of liability by either side. Under the agreement, all ongoing infringement proceedings against named products will be dismissed, and each party will bear its own attorney fees and costs incurred in the global proceedings. All other terms remain confidential. As a result of the settlement, there will be no further infringement proceedings against ResMed products, including AirSense flow generators, AirFit P10, Swift LT and Swift FX masks, and ClimateLine heated tubes; or against Fisher & Paykel Healthcare products including Simplus, Eson and Eson 2. “I am pleased we were able to resolve these disputes,” said ResMed CEO Mick Farrell. “This agreement supports the best interests of ResMed, and all of our stakeholders, including patients, providers, physicians, and shareholders. ResMed will continue to lead with innovative products, services and solutions for sleep apnea, COPD, and out-of-hospital healthcare software. We will defend our intellectual property wherever necessary to ensure that our mask, device and software customers receive the innovative solutions they deserve.” “We are pleased to bring these disputes to a close and we appreciate the support of our customers and shareholders throughout the process,” said Fisher & Paykel Healthcare CEO Lewis Gradon. “The intellectual property we have generated through our investment in R&D over the past 50 years has enabled us to positively impact the lives of many millions of patients. We have an ongoing commitment to improve patient care and outcomes through inspired and world-leading healthcare solutions and this resolution supports that commitment.” The settlement is effective immediately, and both companies have begun requesting the withdrawal of the pending cases. About ResMed At ResMed (NYSE: RMD, ASX: RMD) we pioneer innovative solutions that treat and keep people out of the hospital, empowering them to live healthier, higher-quality lives. 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It’d be great if we were all self-made men, like Citizen Trump. Of course, his self-making, like that of many wealthy people, is based in large part on a wealthy parent giving him a ton of money. Why work for a living when you can just hang around drinking single malt until daddy dies and leaves you his money? Trump’s papa left an estate valued at between $100 and $300 million in 1999. A nice start for a career in real estate for Don and his siblings. Getting All the Monies Now the idea that parents should be able to leave their money to their kids is all A-OK. That the hyper-wealthy can do it with little or no significant tax is not OK. It is one of the prime drivers of future economic inequality in the U.S. Absent a change in the law that will happen when pigs fly into a snowy hell, rich kids will only get richer, and then pass on their buckaroos to their heirs. They’ll have all the monies. In the words of one economist, even though the American dream is pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, we’ve made ample room in it for people whose boots are handed down. How Estate Taxes Work The first $5.43 million per heir is fully exempt from any tax. Spread the money around to siblings, spouses, kids and grandkids, and you can shield a bundle from tax easily. In fact, that system means 99.8 percent of all estates owe no estate tax at all. There is no reason the exemption has to be $5.43 million except to favor the wealthy, and there should be an overall cap on how much can be shielded from tax to prevent fake families from splitting things all up. For the small number of estates actually subject to some taxes, those taxes of course are due only on the portion of an estate’s value that exceeds the exemption level. So, a $6 million estate would owe estate taxes on only $570,000. Except that heirs can often shield a larger portion of the estate from taxation through deductions, loopholes and discounts written into the tax code. So, while the on-paper tax rate for estates is 40 percent, most pay about 16 percent in reality. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Help Keep Common Dreams Alive Our progressive news model only survives if those informed and inspired by this work support our efforts It’s Complicated As an example of the complexity of estate planning-tax avoiding available to the rich, consider the grantor retained annuity trust. The estate owner puts money into a trust designed to repay the estate the initial amount plus interest at a rate set by the Treasury, typically over two years. If the investment — typically stock — rises in value any more than the Treasury rate, the gain goes to an heir tax-free. If the investment doesn’t rise in value, the full amount still goes back to the estate. Such techniques have been described as a “heads I win, tails we tie” bet. A Reasonable Idea If inheritances could be taxed reasonably, enough money would trickle down the legs of the rich that some societal benefits would accrue. Unfortunately, all three Republicans in the presidential race promise to abolish the estate tax altogether. Hillary and Bernie offer only weak promises of reform, focused on rolling the tax back to its (higher) 2009 levels. But they’ll need Congressional approval for that, so, no. It will be no surprise that American estate taxes are well below average among the countries in the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development. I know, I know, math and numbers are hard. So here it is in very simple words: by not fairly taxing the estates of the wealthy, we are locking in our staggering economic inequality for future generations. FUN FACT: The wealthiest ten percent of Americans takes home about half of all income. The richest 0.1 percent holds 22 percent of the country’s wealth.

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Before broadband and the connected world of information, we found different ways to mix our social life and our games. LAN parties. Where our PCs had a big group hug and let us kill one another in peace. Michael Johnson remembers those times. Growing up as a PC gamer in the 90’s was a curious experience, the dawn of the internet age was upon us, but everything was still a little bit rough around the edges. To illustrate this – try playing the dial-up modem noise to a millennial and tell them that this sound used to accompany turning on the internet and they’ll say something precocious like “You had to turn on the internet?” before laughing in your face and stealing all your pogs. Despite that, game developers were determined to plough head-first into the online age, spurred on by the success of early trailblazers like id and Blizzard. Thus before the end of the decade we saw games release that were almost entirely designed to be played online, such as Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 Arena, while Counter Strike followed not long after. The generation before me usually like to chip in at this point and fondly regale you with anecdotes of playing these games at university over their integrated LAN networks and shiny high-speed internet. My experience largely involved playing with dumb AI bots, struggling with high pings and connection errors. The problem was that for many of us growing up as PC gamers, no matter how desperate we were to play these games, home internet speeds were terrible and dial-up was expensive. While broadband came to the rescue fairly quickly, at the time an alternative solution to this problem was required, it came in the slightly odd form of the LAN Party. For a short period of time every other exchange with a parent would include the sentence “You want to take the computer over to Christopher’s house and plug it into other computers? Whatever for?” The LAN party, where you and six mates cram yourself into a dining room for a weekend, hook up your PCs with a complex series of switches, routers and CAT9 cables, somehow became quite the thing. It was a rare and much anticipated event, with excitable conversation and important organisational topics to be responded to in IRC. At every LAN countless energy drinks would be consumed, junk food gorged upon, a single tube of Pringles devoured in seconds and games would be played, finally the way they were meant to be – with other people. Although, then, as now – this was a mixed blessing. Games were often a baptism of fire at our LANs – often only one player would actually own a game, while the rest resorted to downloading dodgy No-CD cracks from garish websites. Even so, few concessions were made to the unfamiliar. To this day I will not play StarCraft in any shape or form, so traumatic was that first experience; my friends heartlessly exploiting my lack of knowledge to finish me off mere minutes into my first game in a humiliating manner. I’m not proud of the piracy by the way – we were 15 or so years old and could only afford a small proportion of the gaming delights on offer. Most of us have since made amends to the industry by spending ludicrous amounts of money on games. Another late 90’s fad came along and supported this new-found hobby – the internet cafe. Your mental image of an internet cafe may be busy professionals rushing in for a coffee and checking their e-mails in the age before wireless. My mental image merely recalls RealityX or RX – a windowless room, stocked with mid-range PC’s and filled with grubby teenagers. A scant £15 there would offer you access to their ‘all night’ deals, eliminating much of the LAN hassle. RX was like a LAN legitimised. Suddenly people from school we didn’t even know liked games were turning up and it became something sociable. Sadly, the internet cafe bubble burst, towns like mine were unable sustain them and it was back to trying to find the time, space and absence of parents required to host LANs. One of my friends – now a programmer – vows that one day he will open a new RX. Despite the logistical problems of a LAN – having to to trawl pop-up ridden internet sites for cracks and the hassle of getting your parents to agree to let you host such an event – they stuck in my circle of friends for many years. In early adulthood, we could operate them free of parental constraints, as flats were rented and cars were bought or passed down. They became an easy and cheap way of spending a weekend and we started to play longer form games. Civilization has always been a game that truly shines at a LAN – something that can be a little slow when played from your respective homes takes flight when combined with proximity to your continental neighbours. Freed from the limited AI, weekends would be poured into single marathon games of Civ. Time evaporated as we traded, warred and occasionally wept when our fortunes waned. Civilization anecdotes have taken on legendary status within my friend circle: the never-ending but incredibly trivial banana wars, the grand siege of Hedgesgrad (my friend Hedges’ weird fondness for Soviet naming conventions deserves no further explanation) and the sharp-knifed twin brothers who would betray their sibling with only the slightest hesitation. A friend was once on the cusp of space victory, only for a pre-planned, co-ordinated nuclear armageddon to strike him down on the eve of his success. Dozens of nukes descended on his superior nation, bitter underdogs allying to deny the moment of glory; his victory, 4000 years and many many hours in the making, was gone and his cities were smoking ruins. Once we even spent a New Year’s Eve at a Civ LAN and it was wonderful, sipping champagne at midnight as our nations raced each other to build the pyramids. The spontaneous, disharmonious and mostly just very loud renditions of Baba Yetu no doubt confounded the neighbours. Here’s the thing though: some of the outside perception of LANs, from parents or more casual gamers, was that they’re for people too anxious, or too socially inept to have normal ‘healthy’ social lives. I recall a LAN we held at a student house when an unknown post-grad stumbled into the darkened room filled with computers, wires littering the floor. He blinked several times before sneering “What’s this then? The fucking Matrix?” That outsiders thought LANs bizarre and alien was probably part of the attraction too. You don’t have to be a social pariah to enjoy a LAN though, of course. They were and are simply an alternative way to spend time with friends, indulging in a shared passion together. Obviously one aspect of this is a break with reality and shutting out the world for a couple of days, but in moderation that can be healthy too. The closest comparison I can make is going camping or to a music festival – you come home tired, happy and in desperate need of spending some quality time using various bathroom facilities. LANs are perhaps not quite dead, though the notion of taking a desktop PC round to your mates house certainly seems less appealing to younger generations, brought up as they are with lightning fast internet and consoles that can actually do credible multi-player. For me though, LANs are over. Responsibility, parenthood and using the weekend to have a bloody good rest have all entered the equation in my circle of LAN companions (LANpanions), edging out the desire to indulge in something that takes so much planning, effort and time. I still meet up with many of my LANpanions though; we will reminisce and someone will float the idea of holding one – plans are made, schedules discussed, games are suggested and then it never happens. The overriding sentiment seems to be “Why bother with a LAN, when we all have high-speed internet?” My answer to that is that LANs were about a little bit more than just playing games together. It may have been the nerdiest sub-culture this side of Dungeons & Dragons, but LANs were that first taste of multi-player for many of us, free of the toxicity we now find online. They were story creators, anecdote makers and they bound us together, as we weathered the bemused questions of our long-suffering parents and got down to the important business of fragging one another.

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Locked in combat: Mother lion takes on deadly crocodile to give cubs safe swim across river Advertisement Scanning the surface of the water, her amber eyes alight upon a threat to her pride - a deadly crocodile lurking in the river that the family of lions must cross. The fiercely protective lioness did not hesitate, leaping into the water and grappling with the reptile to allow the rest of the pride to cross the river in safety. These images show the magnificent big cat fastening her front legs around the crocodile's jaws and dunking it underneath the water before making a break for the river bank at the Okavanga Delta in Botswana. Struggle: The power and strength of the mighty lioness is clear to see, but the crocodile fights back, clamping its teeth around the big cat's nose The lioness' brave diversion tactics were witnessed by wildlife photographer Pia Dierickx, who said the creature moved with such incredible speed she did not realise what had happened until she looked back at the pictures on her camera. The photographer, from Antwerp in Belgium, had been peacefully observing the lioness and her pride going about their business around the river when the sudden clash between the big cat and the crocodile occurred. The 48-year-old said the struggle took place within one second. 'I watched a lioness carefully move out into the channel and then there was a huge splash in the water,' she said. 'The sequence of six pictures of the real action were taken in one second. 'Luckily for the lioness the crocodile did not have an opportunity to do the death roll because her mouth was kept closed between the front legs of the lioness,' the photographer added. 'It was only after checking my pictures on the camera viewer that I really realised what I had witnessed. Luckily the story had a happy ending because all the lionesses and cubs made it safely to the other bank.' The crocodile swam away after the incident disturbed an otherwise peaceful day at the Okavanga Delta. Watchful: The lioness can be seen surveying the water as her pride waits to cross the river in Botswana's Okavango Delta Lurking: The lioness spots the giant crocodile's head partially submerged in the waters of the river Menace: The lioness bares her enormous fangs after spotting the crocodile in the river in Botswana Spring: The lioness springs from the water and into action as she prepares to battle to protect her cubs from the lurking crocodile Head to head: The photographer who captured these images said the struggle took place within a split second Protective: The lioness succeeds in forcing the crocodile beneath the water Escape: Seizing her moment while the reptile is under the water, the lioness makes a break for dry land Escape: The lioness emerges safely on the other side of the river after bravely battling the crocodile to protect her pride Diversion: As the lioness struggled with the lurking reptile, the rest of the pride were able to cross the river in safety

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A List of Keyboard Commands for Caret - Bicycle For Your Mind Bicycle For Your Mind Archive About November 27, 2016 A List of Keyboard Commands for Caret Caret icon Product: Caret Price: $15 This is a markdown editor which is growing up. It is a cross-platform offering. I am going to cover the editor in detail in a subsequent post. I noticed that it is not well documented. That might be a function of the fact that they are adding commands and the product is still in flux when it comes to its feature list. I wanted a list of keyboard commands and I couldn't find one. So, I made one myself. Keyboard Commands for Caret Menu Keyboard Command Action Caret ⌘, Preferences File ⌘N New ⌘O Open ⌘S Save ⌘⇧S Save As… Edit ⌘Z Undo ⌘⇧Z Redo ⌘X Cut ⌘C Copy ⇧⌘C Copy as Rich Text ⌘V Paste ⌘A Select All ⌘F Find in text ⌘D or ⌃G Select Next ⌃⌘G Select Each ⌘U Unselect Last ⌥↑ Select More ⌥↓ Select Less ⌥⇧↓ Move Line Down ⌥⇧↑ Move Line Up Format ⌘/ Comment ⌘B Bold ⌘I Italic ⌘K Link Go ⌘T To File… ⌘E To Recent File… ⌘G To Title… ⌥- To Last Edit ⌘] To Block Start ⌘[ To Block End View ⌘+ Font Size + ⌘- Font Size - ⌘0 Font Size Default ⌘; Mode Dark ⌘R or ⌘⇧R Preview Window ⌃⌘F Enter Full Screen ⌘M Minimize ⌘⇧N New Window ⌘W Close Window Not in Menus ⌘⇧↵ Insert Line Before ⌘↵ Insert Line After ⌃T Transpose ⌃Space Spellcheck or Context Menu Legend: ⌘: Command key ⌥: Option key ⌃: Control key ⇧: Shift key ↵: Return key ↓: Down arrow ↑: Up arrow Update: This list is current as of version 1.13.1 macosxguru at the gmail thingie Careteditor Markdown macOS Previous post Emacs Keyboard Commands Which Work in iA Writer Keyboard Command Behavior ⌃+K Deletes from the cursor to the end of the current line ⌃+O Inserts a new line after the cursor. The cursor Next post Keynote Extractor Is a Better HTML Export for Keynote Keynote Extractor Icon Product: HTML Extractor for Keynote Price: Free Keynote Extractor is "a better HTML export for Keynote." Keynote

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Tips To Help With Daylight Saving Time Skip to main contentSkip to site footer Trending: Cash Cow 2022 Family Fun Card Ways to Listen at Home Restaurant Deals App Google Home Alexa Home On Air All DJs Shows MJ Kristen Matthews Jess on the Job JR Taste of Country Nights Listen Listen Live WITL App Alexa Google Home Recently Played On Demand App Download iOS Download Android Win Stuff Cash Cow Contest Rules Contest Support Contact Us Help & Contact Info Send Feedback Advertise More Home On Air All DJs Shows MJ Kristen Matthews Jess on the Job JR Taste of Country Nights Listen Listen Live WITL App Alexa Google Home Recently Played On Demand App Download iOS Download Android Win Stuff Cash Cow Contest Rules Contest Support Contact Us Help & Contact Info Send Feedback Advertise Visit us on Youtube Visit us on Facebook Visit us on Twitter INSTAGRAM Tips To Help With Daylight Saving Time Erica Gray Erica Gray Published: October 26, 2020 Malvestida Magazine via Unsplash Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Daylight saving time is this Sunday, November 1st. That means that we’re going to be getting an extra hour of sleep this weekend. This time change is a little bit easier than the spring time change, where we lose an hour. Today reports, people have a greater risk of a heart attack and stroke losing an hour of sleep in the spring. You’re probably wondering why we bother changing the clocks if there’s health risks. The main reason is because it gets darker earlier in the winter and changing the clocks back means we get a little extra sunlight during the day. How can you prepare your body for the time change? Here's a couple tips.. Change Your Sleep Routine Start preparing this week by going to bed and waking up a little earlier. Even if it's just 15-20 minutes, it could help! It might make the hour difference a little less harsh. If you're looking for other sleeping habits that might help with a better night sleep, try blue-light glasses or these tips. Don't Nap It's really easy to want to nap when you lose or gain an hour of sleep. As much as I love napping, it can make you sluggish. I learned this when I went from waking up at 8 AM to waking up at 4 AM. Naturally, I wanted to nap when I got home. But when I did, I was either more tired or had a harder time falling asleep at night. Drink Less Caffeine I know, this one can be difficult, especially when you're exhausted and need an extra pick me up. But caffeine can cause you to lose sleep. Sleep Education says, "Caffeine can delay the timing of your body clock." So as much as you may want that extra cup of coffee or energy drink, science says it's best to avoid it. Enter your number to get our free mobile app MORE: Problems That Can Be Caused By Sleep Deprivation Filed Under: Daylight Saving Time, tips to help with daylight saving Categories: Articles Comments Leave A Comment More From 100.7 WITL Could We Be Saying Never Again To Daylight Saving Time? Could We Be Saying Never Again To Daylight Saving Time? Has Anyone Else Noticed This Here In Lansing Lately? Has Anyone Else Noticed This Here In Lansing Lately? Michigan Is Losing This Everyday For The Next 8 Weeks Michigan Is Losing This Everyday For The Next 8 Weeks Michigan House Pushes To Eliminate Daylight Saving Time Michigan House Pushes To Eliminate Daylight Saving Time Daylight Saving Time: Don’t Forget To “Fall Back” This Weekend Daylight Saving Time: Don’t Forget To “Fall Back” This Weekend Daylight Saving Time: Don’t Forget To “Spring Forward” This Weekend Daylight Saving Time: Don’t Forget To “Spring Forward” This Weekend Not a fan of Daylight Saving Time? Sign the petition, Michigan Not a fan of Daylight Saving Time? Sign the petition, Michigan Get Rid of Daylight Saving Time in Michigan? Survey Says…. Get Rid of Daylight Saving Time in Michigan? Survey Says…. Don’t Forget To ‘Fall Back’ Tomorrow Night: Daylight Saving Time Ends Don’t Forget To ‘Fall Back’ Tomorrow Night: Daylight Saving Time Ends Information EEO Marketing and Advertising Solutions Public File Need Assistance FCC Applications Report an Inaccuracy Terms Contest Rules Privacy Policy Accessibility Statement Exercise My Data Rights Contact Lansing Business Listings Follow Us Visit us on Youtube Visit us on Facebook Visit us on Twitter 2022 100.7 WITL, Townsquare Media, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Dart Enterprises | Hugo & Cat Hugo & Cat About Us Work News & Views Careers Contact Dart Enterprises Building a digital-first business model Dart Enterprises is a multi-asset business responsible for investing over $1.5bn in property, hospitality and retail in the Cayman Islands. We’ve partnered with Dart to deliver an extensive programme of digital transformation that has had far reaching impacts across team structures, operating models, design systems, platforms and KPIs. The case for change Since 1993, Dart’s growth has created untold opportunities for local communities. But as the organisation has scaled, the customer experiences it has created and the systems that power them have remained the same. We were asked to identify key areas of weakness and recommend where change would add greatest value. The solution Initial engagements with over 60 stakeholders from across the business revealed key challenges and opportunities, from data security and operational efficiencies to design consistency and shared KPIs. We created a blueprint for digital excellence and a three year roadmap for implementation, before supporting Dart with the rollout of core infrastructure components. These included CRM implementation, a new web platform, and democratisation of data within the marketing team to enable faster and more objective decision making. Business impact Our partnership with Dart has resulted in a completely new digital ecosystem, with new evolved operating models and team structures. The new platforms have resulted in a 120% uplift in residential real estate leads and a 300% uplift in organic SEO, and teams are empowered by relevant data insights that drive continuous optimisation and improvements. www.dart.ky +120% Residential real estate leads +300% Uplift in organic SEO 5 New digital team hires More work You may also like DCC Connecting audiences with a clean energy mission Tourism Ireland Exceeding traveller expectations. Deepening customer relationships. What can we do together? ldn@hugoandcat.com Social LinkedIn Instagram Find out more Get in touch Sitecore Umbraco Amplitude Hugo & Cat ©2022 Terms of Use GDPR Privacy Policy CCPA Privacy Notice Modern Slavery Statement

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Turkey's Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci speaks during an interview with Reuters in Ankara, Turkey, June 7, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has agreed to implement a wide-ranging trade agreement with Britain once it leaves the European Union, Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci told a parliamentary commission in Ankara on Thursday. Zeybekci in June had pledged right after Brexit vote that Turkey would continue to take steps to maintain and strengthen investment, foreign trade and financial relations with Britain. British foreign secretary Boris Johnson in a visit to Ankara in late September said he hoped for a “jumbo” free trade deal following Brexit. Ankara has a customs union with the bloc. “We have decided to bring online a wide-range trade deal between the two countries once Britain leaves the EU,” Zeybekci told the parliament’s planning and budgetary commission as he presented his ministry’s 2017 budget. He did not give further details. He also said Turkey planned to increase the list of items it exports to Iran to 400 by the end of the year from a current 265. Turkey’s exports to the United Kingdom totaled $10.6 billion in 2015, according to IMF data.

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Plymouth, UK | Delight as Plymouth HMV staff get their jobs back. Surprise reopening is a boost for workers, shoppers and Plymouth city centre: Plymouth city centre has been given a major boost after the HMV store re-opened – leaving staff and customers delighted. The roller-shutter rolled up at 9am on Saturday, February 23, 2019, more than two weeks after the huge Drake Circus Shopping Centre outlet shut suddenly. It is understood the chain’s new Canadian owner has reached an agreement with mall bosses British Land Company PLC on rental for the vast unit. It meant the store, one of 27 that closed when music store mogul Doug Putman bought HMV out of administration, could start trading again. It is understood staff were only called the evening before and given the good news they could go back to their jobs. Dundee, UK | SAVED: Iconic store in Dundee city centre​ to stay open: The iconic Groucho’s record store is to stay open, its owner has announced. It was announced in September last year that the landlord was selling the shop premises and subsequently the sale was completed at the end of November. It left owner Alastair Brodie considering retirement and the record store – a mainstay in Dundee for 42 years and at its current Nethergate location since 1999 – under threat. But Alastair has announced it will stay open in a Facebook post on Friday night. He wrote: “After months of speculation I am delighted to announce that Groucho’s will not be closing in the near future as feared. “Fortunately we have been able to strike a deal with the new landlord to extend our lease by five years which I’m sure will come as a great relief to our loyal customers.”  UK | Fopp: The rise and fall of a music store empire: It was the mothership of an independent record shop empire that grew from a one-man Glasgow market stall to 100 stores across the UK. Fopp on Byres Road helped shape the musical tastes of thousands of Scots and influenced some of the country‘s most popular musicians. But its doors have been closed for good after the chain‘s owner, HMV, was bought by Canadian firm Sunrise Records. The deal has also led to – but it is the loss of the Byres Road branch which has been most keenly felt. Members of bands like Mogwai, Belle and Sebastian and Arab Strap have all described how the Byres Road shop – situated in the heart of Glasgow‘s student area – was a key part of their musical education in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Des Moines, IA | Rock out, Merle Hay Mall: A store with 50,000 vinyl records is moving in: Get ready to rock, Merle Hay Mall. A record store is moving into the mall, complete with 50,000 vinyl records, cassette tapes, autographed pieces and live bands playing shows in the mall. Ratt’s Underground Records is moving into a 3,900 square-foot space at the mall on the lower level, next door to Expo and near Flix Brewhouse. Steve Ratcliff, the store’s owner, said he is moving his existing store at 617 Euclid Avenue and all of the vintage merchandise along with it. “I have a lot of opportunities going into the mall,” Ratcliff said. “I’ve been here in the Highland Park area for seven years and it’s a struggle.” The Merle Hay Mall store includes a poster and art gallery, heavy metal and punk rock patches and 1,600 band T-shirts. Ratcliff said his store will appeal to all genres of music lovers, “everything from punk rock to Hawaiian to barber shop quartet-type stuff.” Read More »

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Open Thread 08.04.21+ – The U Tree Skip to content The U Tree "I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." -Thomas Jefferson Menu Home (The U Tree) The 1st Q Tree (WQTH) The 2nd Q Tree (theqtree.com) The 3rd Q Tree Open Thread 08.04.21+ Wolf Moon China, coronaviruses, COVID-19, Fake News, Fake Science, Flu Coup, Healthcare, Open Thread, pandemics, science, The Q Tree, viruses, WordPress 08/04/2021 @ 00:01 08/03/2021 @ 21:38 2 Minutes Yesterday, August Third, was our first real “we are directly over the target” site takedown, along with CodeMonkey and Gab. But we MET BACK UP and we overcame. The GloboNazi Attack of August 3 The enemy gave up valuable intelligence today. Kicking us off shows what they are truly afraid of – what they KNOW will defeat them. The ENEMY TRIPOD has three legs. THE FRAUDULENT ELECTION THE FRAUDULENT PANDEMIC THE FRAUDULENT VACCINES It is by rejecting ANY of their false realities here, that we will DESTROY THEM. Yesterday, we learned that they are DEATHLY AFRAID of two things: The Dominion Whistleblower Antibody-Dependent Enhancement We must keep hitting HARD on the three legs of the tripod. When one is gone, they WOBBLE. When two are gone, they will FALL. When THREE are gone, they are DEMOLISHED IN PLACE – the best outcome of all. The Fraudulent Election https://gab.com/thinkthinkthink/posts/106695086379607197 https://gab.com/JimWatkins/posts/106692901221277628 https://tv.gab.com/channel/jimwatkins/view/enter-dominion-of-evil-61095fcb4e78f42f9e50c540 The Fraudulent Vaccine LINK: https://ghionjournal.com/fauci-nih-knew-covid-19-vaccines-could-lead-antibody-dependent-enhancement/ ARCHIVE: https://web.archive.org/web/20210802142816/https://ghionjournal.com/fauci-nih-knew-covid-19-vaccines-could-lead-antibody-dependent-enhancement/ If you read the update on the Ghion Journal article, it’s clear who the cyber butt-boys are. AND I QUOTE….. UPDATE: Tuesday, August 3, 2021, 3:35 PM – This morning, our website was hit with a severe denial-of-service attack as more than 2 million hits from bots based in China took Ghion Journal offline for more than two hours only to be hit with another DOS attack this afternoon. IP addresses can be spoofed so there’s no way of knowing who is responsible. What we do know is that this level of coordinated attack cannot be pulled off by lone individuals; this was either a state act or the work of powerful institutions with the financial means and the technical know-how to pull off such a brazen act of criminal censorship. Their aim was simple; deny untold numbers of people the ability to make an informed decision about whether or not to get “vaccinated” This is the article powerful forces do not want you to read or to know about, read with full discernment, especially if you are thinking of getting “vaccinated” so you can make an informed decision. Likewise, share with as many people as possible, this is information that is being suppressed by every major institution we trust to keep us safe and they have chosen to do otherwise. …..END QUOTE WE ARE OVER THE TARGET AND WE WILL KEEP STRIKING UNTIL WE RUN OUT OF AMMUNITION. W Periodic table element uranium icon on white background. Vector illustration. Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this: Like Loading... Related Tagged Open Thread Published by Wolf Moon Currently @wolfmoon1776 on WordPress.com sites and theqtree.com Formerly @WOLFM00N on Twitter, and still awaiting reinstatement of my account. Currently @WOLFM00N on Gab (YAY, GAB!), Gettr, Parler, Keybase, and others. Still @wolf_moon on Disqus. Still waiting for an account on Truth Social. View all posts by Wolf Moon Published 08/04/2021 @ 00:01 08/03/2021 @ 21:38 Post navigation Previous Post The GloboNazi Attack of August The Third Next Post Ditching A Rotten Apple 188 thoughts on “Open Thread 08.04.21+” gil00 says: 08/04/2021 @ 00:12 at 00:12 Hey Wolf. Tried a few times but i am locked out of posting at qtree. Be patient? LikeLiked by 4 people Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 00:15 at 00:15 Yeah, I think the site is still very fucked up. If I think this whole sorry drama was DS rigging our site, I’ll shut it down and we move to U Tree until I find a new hosting company. LikeLiked by 6 people Reply gil00 says: 08/04/2021 @ 00:44 at 00:44 I just wanted to do an fyi. It is messed up but its amazing that we are getting such big attacks all over. I hope everyone can congregate and get in here. You do what you have to do. I checked OT too…they never had issues. We are fired up and will go where we need to. Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) Tweeted: Starting a dog.. 😅 Sound on https://t.co/gzzFionbzu Starting a dog.. 😅 Sound on pic.twitter.com/gzzFionbzu — Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) August 3, 2021 LikeLiked by 8 people Reply Sylvia Avery says: 08/04/2021 @ 00:44 at 00:44 Oh Wolfie, I’m so sorry. This is tons of work for you. I can’t even imagine. ❤❤❤❤❤ LikeLiked by 6 people Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 00:44 at 00:44 At least I can use the notifier. LikeLiked by 5 people Reply cthulhu says: 08/04/2021 @ 01:22 at 01:22 Illegitimi non carborundum! LikeLiked by 2 people Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 01:22 at 01:22 Better now. Things are interesting. LikeLiked by 2 people Reply cthulhu says: 08/04/2021 @ 01:29 at 01:29 Somehow I’m doing Shrodinger’s Comments — there until I refresh the page. LikeLiked by 3 people Reply kalbokalbs says: 08/04/2021 @ 09:07 at 09:07 Thankfully we have a few backups to locate each other. Knowing the site has issues, confirms we have truth on our site. It is essential folks spam out those ADE and informed consent links. Downloads also to preserve. LikeLiked by 2 people Reply piper567 says: 08/04/2021 @ 23:25 at 23:25 wolfie, I did get my black bar and bell back, but cannot comment or like. is this to be expected off and on? I’m ok…just wondered. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 01:21 at 01:21 OK – people are getting back into the new daily on The Q Tree. See if it’s working for you now! Dear KAG: 20210804 Open Thread LikeLiked by 7 people Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 03:57 at 03:57 Looks like the CDN dropped the iron curtain for some reason (i.e., The Q Tree is down right now). LikeLiked by 2 people Reply scott467 says: 08/04/2021 @ 03:59 at 03:59 “WE ARE OVER THE TARGET AND WE WILL KEEP STRIKING UNTIL WE RUN OUT OF AMMUNITION.” ___________ Since the enemy does such a good job of providing all the ammunition, it seems unlikely that we will run out before they are defeated 👍😁 LikeLiked by 9 people Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 04:08 at 04:08 LOL!!! LikeLiked by 3 people Reply gudthots says: 08/04/2021 @ 04:40 at 04:40 Ideas are life and death to many. LikeLiked by 6 people Reply scott467 says: 08/04/2021 @ 15:32 at 15:32 👍😁 LikeLiked by 3 people Reply gudthots says: 08/04/2021 @ 04:31 at 04:31 We aren’t in Kansas anymore Toto. LikeLiked by 5 people Reply gudthots says: 08/04/2021 @ 05:08 at 05:08 Ah, remember, just a few hours ago when we couldn’t even load a single page at the site? I do. So imma gonna post the side bar blogroll links here just in case you haven’t bookmarked the ones you think are important. Blogroll *** Daughn’s Place https://daughnworks247.wordpress.com/ *** Marica’s Place https://marica1776.wordpress.com/ *** The U Tree https://utree.home.blog/ *** Ace of Spades HQ http://ace.mu.nu/ *** Fellowship of the Minds https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/ *** Moonbattery https://moonbattery.com/ *** Political Moonshine https://politicalmoonshine.com/ *** The Last Refuge https://theconservativetreehouse.com/ *** Taki’s Magazine https://www.takimag.com/ *** ToRE Says https://toresays.com/ *** Western Rifle Shooters Association https://westernrifleshooters.us/ *** LikeLiked by 7 people Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 05:09 at 05:09 Thanks! Will edit later. LikeLiked by 2 people Reply kalbokalbs says: 08/04/2021 @ 09:10 at 09:10 Copies all. Thank you. LikeLiked by 2 people Reply Valerie Curren says: 08/07/2021 @ 12:25 at 12:25 Thanks for that very thoughtful share!!! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply barkerjim says: 08/04/2021 @ 07:00 at 07:00 Was able to comment using my user name and email at theqtree, but login didn’t work and no black bar, nor bell. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply RAC says: 08/04/2021 @ 07:12 at 07:12 I did a test post just a few seconds before you posted at 06:4? . My test didn’t appear, yours did and then disappeared, then appeared again when i reloded the page then disappeared again. The red not allowed to vote banner is back again also. LikeLiked by 3 people Reply RAC says: 08/04/2021 @ 07:20 at 07:20 This is really weird, I just now went back there and your 06:47 post showed, reloded the page and did a cont/F search and it was not there. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply RAC says: 08/04/2021 @ 07:26 at 07:26 Ignore that I spelled the name wrong, your post IS THERE. LikeLike Reply barkerjim says: 08/04/2021 @ 07:56 at 07:56 Everything seems fine now, after a restart of my laptop. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply barkerjim says: 08/04/2021 @ 09:36 at 09:36 Just lost the black bar and the bell at 8:36am CDT LikeLiked by 1 person Reply barkerjim says: 08/04/2021 @ 09:40 at 09:40 Stranger than that, page one has no black bar, nor bell. Page two has both?? LikeLiked by 1 person Reply kalbokalbs says: 08/04/2021 @ 09:12 at 09:12 Well I feel better. Me to. Pleased that I, we can post. My fall back is lurker. QTree has been and remains my baseline for truth and sanity sanity. LikeLiked by 4 people Reply redlegleader68 says: 08/04/2021 @ 07:35 at 07:35 W – FYI, over on the daily thread, Qtree, unable to log in now. Followed the usual steps, system accepts my user name/pw but then returns with a “login” screen. Ideas? LikeLike Reply redlegleader68 says: 08/04/2021 @ 10:11 at 10:11 W – somehow, some way, I’m now back in on the regular site. I think it had to do with me closing everything down and then restarting and refreshing, and … boom! It’s all working fine now. As many have said, thank you so very much for all your had work, sleepless nights and dedication. #WWG1WGA LikeLiked by 2 people Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 13:36 at 13:36 Thanks! It was great to wake up after a good rest and the site is back to normal (knock on wood!) or so it seems! LikeLiked by 2 people Reply redlegleader68 says: 08/05/2021 @ 05:58 at 05:58 8-5-21: W – can’t log in again this morning. All is fine here at the Utree. On the regular site, on logging in, nothing happens – just returns me to the log in screen. LikeLiked by 2 people Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/05/2021 @ 06:01 at 06:01 Let me send you a password reset on the site – then be sure to go to “View Site” once you’re in. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/05/2021 @ 06:03 at 06:03 I logged you out everywhere and sent you a PW reset email. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply redlegleader68 says: 08/05/2021 @ 06:26 at 06:26 Does this include here at the Utree? LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/05/2021 @ 08:13 at 08:13 No – just on the Q tree! U Tree is totally different host and servers. LikeLiked by 1 person redlegleader68 says: 08/05/2021 @ 06:31 at 06:31 No joy; reset password, but WP didn’t like it; it meets all the rules. LikeLike Reply redlegleader68 says: 08/05/2021 @ 06:32 at 06:32 OK, just did it again, and it now worked! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply redlegleader68 says: 08/05/2021 @ 06:43 at 06:43 Now back to being VERY weird!! Upon changing the PW I ended up on the Forum page, all properly logged in; however, when I clicked on “Home” for the dailys, I was not logged in and the system asked me to log in, which I did, but it didn’t work. 😒 LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/05/2021 @ 08:15 at 08:15 I wish I knew what it was that finally got things working for me. All I do know is that checking the local box to remember me when I logged helped, but then I got logged out, and logged back in with WordPress, and it stuck! LikeLiked by 1 person Wolf Moon says: 08/05/2021 @ 08:18 at 08:18 OK, here is a problem. You are registered on the site with RLL capitalized. LikeLiked by 1 person Concerned Virginian says: 08/04/2021 @ 08:49 at 08:49 Wolf Moon Checking in here as well as over at the Q Tree. Continued prayer and meditation for wisdom to you, and safety to you and yours. LikeLiked by 5 people Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 18:16 at 18:16 Thank you!!! LikeLike Reply grandmaintexas says: 08/04/2021 @ 09:09 at 09:09 That clip from War of the Worlds is terrifying. I’ve never seen it. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 14:17 at 14:17 It was very well done. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply grandmaintexas says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:47 at 17:47 Too well. 😨 LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:49 at 17:49 Are you able to get on The Q Tree satisfactorily now? I’m in “fix-a-flat” mode! LikeLiked by 2 people Reply grandmaintexas says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:51 at 17:51 I haven’t tried my laptop. To be honest…well…I should tell you in Gab pm…hold on. LikeLiked by 2 people Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:51 at 17:51 OK! LikeLike Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:53 at 17:53 I’m on both versions of Gab chat now! LikeLike Reply grandmaintexas says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:56 at 17:56 Both versions? 😖 LikeLiked by 1 person Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:59 at 17:59 They have the “low security integrated version” on the regular gab social now. It was there before, but they pulled it due to problems and reworked it. LikeLiked by 1 person grandmaintexas says: 08/04/2021 @ 18:09 at 18:09 I’m in just fine. LikeLiked by 1 person Valerie Curren says: 08/07/2021 @ 12:31 at 12:31 It isn’t working for me on 8-7-21 as of 12:30pm. In email it looks like the 8-7-21 daily went up, at least. I’m reading through on this U-Tree post, & then will check to “locked out” post to see if there’s any helpful info on what to do. Won’t be around Much today as hubby has another concert across the state & we leave in about an hour. LikeLike Reply michaelh says: 08/04/2021 @ 09:49 at 09:49 Checking In LikeLiked by 5 people Reply singingsoul1 says: 08/04/2021 @ 09:56 at 09:56 Wolf I cannot get onto the forum and WP tells me that I am not registered on theqtree.com This is what I get from WP Error: The username singingsoul1 is not registered on this site. If you are unsure of your username, try your email address instead. LikeLiked by 2 people Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 13:43 at 13:43 Yeah, your WordPress username is not singingsoul1 – that is your display name. I am going to fix things, and it will be a bit messy. Hang on…… LikeLike Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 13:54 at 13:54 OK – try it again. I also sent you a password reset email. Let me know if you find it – it may be in junk mail or spam. LikeLike Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 14:26 at 14:26 You are going to have to stop using that “Y” email address which spams us. You have to use the other one. I had to delete the account which used “Y” because it causes us too many problems. I don’t know what’s wrong with that email, but it does not accept all the stuff that gets sent to it, and it bounces back as a ton of spam. Your WordPress identity uses the “Y” email. The account on Q Tree uses the “L” email. We’re going to have to come up with an answer that does not use the Y email. My recommendation is to change your WordPress email to the “L” email. If that is not possible, then we will have to do something else. Is the “L” email OK for your WordPress needs? LikeLiked by 2 people Reply singingsoul1 says: 08/04/2021 @ 15:00 at 15:00 Thank you. I forgot about the Y email ok I change it later have no time right now. I appreciate your work. LikeLiked by 2 people Reply singingsoul1 says: 08/04/2021 @ 15:13 at 15:13 I did change my email account to xxxxx Sorry the Y did cause so much trouble. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 16:01 at 16:01 Thank you! This should really help. Hang on and I will get this worked out now! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply singingsoul1 says: 08/04/2021 @ 16:41 at 16:41 Thank you LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 16:45 at 16:45 It looks to be that if you log in with WordPress now, using the log-in in the sidebar, that it will find your account and synchronize. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply singingsoul1 says: 08/04/2021 @ 16:46 at 16:46 Thank’s LikeLiked by 1 person Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 16:49 at 16:49 Give it a try – I’ll let you out of moderation if you get stuck! LikeLiked by 2 people singingsoul1 says: 08/04/2021 @ 16:50 at 16:50 Yes it works but was in moderation. I can like also 🙂 LikeLiked by 2 people K1tt7-fzn says: 08/04/2021 @ 16:54 at 16:54 Posting it here so that W can see it Found this: https://patents.google.com/patent/CN112220919A/en Posted here: https://t.me/GunOwnersOfAmerica/8081 There it is. The patent and the ingredient : graphene 👉 “Methods for Producing Recombinant Coronavirus,” April 19 2002. 👈 “STATEMENT OF FEDERAL SUPPORT 👇👇 This invention was made possible with government support under grant numbers AI23946 and GM63228 from the National Institutes of Health. The United States government has certain rights to this invention.” “FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to methods of producing recombinant nidovirus vectors, particularly coronavirus vectors, and expressing heterologous genes from said vectors.” https://patents.justia.com/patent/7279327 “The new corona vaccine contains graphene oxide, carnosine, CpG and new corona virus RBD; binding carnosine, CpG and neocoronavirus RBD on the backbone of graphene oxide…” https://patents.google.com/patent/CN112220919A/en @GunOwnersOfAmerica 🇺🇸 Justia US Patent for Methods for producing recombinant coronavirus Patent (Patent # 7,279,327 issued October 9, 2007) – Justia Patents… A helper cell for producing an infectious, replication defective, coronavirus (or more generally nidovirus) particle cell comprises (a) a nidovirus permissive cell; (b) a nidovirus replicon RNA comprising the nidovirus packaging signal and a heterologous… LikeLiked by 1 person Reply para59r says: 08/04/2021 @ 16:58 at 16:58 New Attack began at 3:45 CT Same as the last. Don’t get off page if you still have it open so you can read and respond to comments. Once you leave page this is where we meet. LikeLiked by 2 people Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:03 at 17:03 Are you locked out right now? LikeLike Reply para59r says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:06 at 17:06 Yes… locked out.. Same error message. I had changed from page 1 back to page 2 and got locked out. This is from PM on side of U tree. Will send again from bottom of U tree. I think you all will be okay if you don’t leave the page. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:05 at 17:05 TQT opens up a fresh page for me, no problem – this may be REGIONAL. LikeLike Reply K1tt7-fzn says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:03 at 17:03 Test LikeLiked by 2 people Reply para59r says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:10 at 17:10 K1tt7-fzn wondering if your locked out also. Wolf is wondering if is regional. I’m in Texas, you? LikeLiked by 1 person Reply K1tt7-fzn says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:11 at 17:11 PNW (crossing the border) LikeLiked by 2 people Reply para59r says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:08 at 17:08 Still locked out but I guess it could be regional. Getting this. https://www.theqtree.com/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi LikeLike Reply K1tt7-fzn says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:34 at 17:34 You might want to delete the last part so that only http://www.theqtree.com shows LikeLiked by 2 people Reply K1tt7-fzn says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:38 at 17:38 That happened to me yesterday when I saw that the QT was up and running but I was still getting an error LikeLiked by 1 person Reply K1tt7-fzn says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:10 at 17:10 Wolfie, I posted something before the test post but it’s not appearing at the moment. Don’t know if maybe by mistake I chose the wrong name (might be K instead of K1tt7-fzn). I also posted it in QT. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:12 at 17:12 Let me dig into your case – hang on…. LikeLike Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:18 at 17:18 OK, what I did was to give you an account with your current email. A password should have been sent to you. LikeLike Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:20 at 17:20 I don’t know if you have a WordPress account with the same email, but you can log in with that, too. LikeLike Reply K1tt7-fzn says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:35 at 17:35 Ok, got a password but I find it easier just to use it without it LikeLiked by 1 person Reply K1tt7-fzn says: 08/04/2021 @ 19:40 at 19:40 Oh, I realized something. Maybe I didn’t explain myself well: 1. I posted that ‘Nano coronavirus recombinant vaccine taking graphene oxide as carrier’ here in the UTree first but it didn’t get post. 2. Then I posted it in QT (which got posted fine). 3. After that I wrote the ‘Test’ post in UTree (which again got posted without issue). 4. Finally re-posted the initial one here again in UTree (and that one worked). – Actually at this point I had been posting back and forth with you and Para. So it was the first post in UTree that didn’t get post. Don’t know what happened. LikeLiked by 2 people Reply para59r says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:19 at 17:19 Don’t sweat me. I need to take a break anyway and will come back latter to see if it sorted out. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply para59r says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:21 at 17:21 Whoops. I’m back in. Ghost in the system? LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:22 at 17:22 I think regional outages are a thing. They’ve managed to cut off our authors that way quite a number of times. LikeLiked by 2 people Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:21 at 17:21 I sent you an optional password reset. Might be worth a try. LikeLike Reply K1tt7-fzn says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:36 at 17:36 Let’s see if it posts this time: Wolfie don’t know if you have seen this Nano coronavirus recombinant vaccine taking graphene oxide as carrier https://patents.google.com/patent/CN112220919A/en Found it through: https://t.me/GunOwnersOfAmerica/8081 Gun Owners of America There it is. The patent and the ingredient : graphene https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f449.svg “Methods for Producing Recombinant Coronavirus,” April 19 2002. https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f448.svg “STATEMENT OF FEDERAL SUPPORT https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f447.svghttps://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f447.svg This invention was made possible with government support under grant numbers AI23946 and GM63228 from the National Institutes of Health. The United States government has certain rights to this invention.” “FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to methods of producing recombinant nidovirus vectors, particularly coronavirus vectors, and expressing heterologous genes from said vectors.” https://patents.justia.com/patent/7279327 “The new corona vaccine contains graphene oxide, carnosine, CpG and new corona virus RBD; binding carnosine, CpG and neocoronavirus RBD on the backbone of graphene oxide…” https://patents.google.com/patent/CN112220919A/en @GunOwnersOfAmerica https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1fa-1f1f8.svg Justia US Patent for Methods for producing recombinant coronavirus Patent (Patent # 7,279,327 issued October 9, 2007) – Justia Patents… A helper cell for producing an infectious, replication defective, coronavirus (or more generally nidovirus) particle cell comprises (a) a nidovirus permissive cell; (b) a nidovirus replicon RNA comprising the nidovirus packaging signal and a heterologous… LikeLiked by 3 people Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:39 at 17:39 Gotta get this on the main site! LikeLiked by 2 people Reply K1tt7-fzn says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:44 at 17:44 I posted it there as well. Just wanted to make sure that you saw it. LikeLike Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 17:47 at 17:47 Got it! This is potentially big. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Valerie Curren says: 08/07/2021 @ 12:44 at 12:44 I really hope Gail sees this one–awesome!!! LikeLike Reply kea says: 08/04/2021 @ 21:23 at 21:23 Did it work? *Waves* LikeLiked by 4 people Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 22:02 at 22:02 You’re in here! Now try the Q tree! LikeLiked by 2 people Reply kea says: 08/04/2021 @ 22:16 at 22:16 Hey Wolf good to see you!!! 🙂 When I try the Q Tree. Its keeps going in circles when I try to log in. I keep getting: We couldn’t find your account. If you already have an account, make sure you have connected to WordPress.com. I do have to up grade my computer so maybe that might help? I hope LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 22:18 at 22:18 hang on……. BRB LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 22:25 at 22:25 OK, I just registered you on the site. You should have two emails – one with your registration and one with an optional password reset. I used credentials that will make it easy. See if that helps. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply kea says: 08/04/2021 @ 22:41 at 22:41 Ok go the emails. Got that to work. Showed me logging in to some kind of wp-admin (?) but it still asks me to login no matter what. So no matter how many times I log in it still does not let me. Shrugs Again wondering if its my computer. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 22:49 at 22:49 Now that you’ve done THAT, try logging in with WordPress. I think that might do the trick. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply kea says: 08/06/2021 @ 13:35 at 13:35 Still giving me the run around. Log in, your logged in. Go to the Qtree log in again. Like I said I’m starting to think its my computer. Maybe its time to finally upgrade. LikeLiked by 1 person Wolf Moon says: 08/06/2021 @ 15:44 at 15:44 Try filling out that damn form as a “guest” on a comment, even though you’re not logged in. It will give me something to work with. LikeLiked by 1 person kea says: 08/06/2021 @ 15:55 at 15:55 Ok I’ll try that. Thanks wolf. LikeLike kea says: 08/04/2021 @ 22:42 at 22:42 Maybe I’ll clear some cookies on the computer and try again tomorrow 🙂 LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/04/2021 @ 22:47 at 22:47 Sure! We’ll be here. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply cthulhu says: 08/04/2021 @ 23:04 at 23:04 Possible incoming — I just got 522’s at Qtree, and bitmitigate assures me that it is working properly. LikeLiked by 4 people Reply Linda says: 08/04/2021 @ 23:10 at 23:10 Same here. LikeLike Reply Valerie Curren says: 08/07/2021 @ 12:46 at 12:46 I got 404 today…hmmm LikeLike Reply scott467 says: 08/04/2021 @ 23:10 at 23:10 Is the Qtree down again? I was just getting ready to say something really nice about the enemy too… 😁 LikeLiked by 2 people Reply Deplorable Patriot says: 08/04/2021 @ 23:13 at 23:13 AGAIN?! 20210805 daily scheduled. Did airport duty tonight. Gate guardian being a b!+ch about masks.Flight landed so I guess all is well. LikeLiked by 2 people Reply Linda says: 08/04/2021 @ 23:17 at 23:17 I just got it to load – FINALLY! LikeLike Reply Sadie Slays says: 08/04/2021 @ 23:19 at 23:19 Uh-oh, I’m getting BitMitigate screen again when I try to access the Q Tree. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply WSB says: 08/04/2021 @ 23:44 at 23:44 Greetings! Just cut in line to say, “Hello, dahlings!” Have tried for two days, and the link I found at M’s WORKED!!! ❤️ LikeLiked by 3 people Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/05/2021 @ 01:09 at 01:09 Good!!! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply WSB says: 08/06/2021 @ 00:16 at 00:16 So sorry to be so late, Wolf…have been dealing with a family member’s surgeries and 1200 mile excursions! Will look now. TY! Patience always! LikeLiked by 2 people Reply Valerie Curren says: 08/07/2021 @ 12:49 at 12:49 hope things are well w/ you & loved ones…Gos Bless LikeLiked by 1 person Reply WSB says: 08/07/2021 @ 21:27 at 21:27 Thank you, Valerie! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Valerie Curren says: 08/07/2021 @ 12:50 at 12:50 whoops God Bless! blush emoji LikeLiked by 1 person Reply WSB says: 08/07/2021 @ 21:28 at 21:28 Ha!!! My eyes read it correctly the first time! LikeLiked by 2 people Reply Valerie Curren says: 08/08/2021 @ 01:26 at 01:26 So did mine 🙂 LikeLiked by 2 people Reply WSB says: 08/08/2021 @ 01:59 at 01:59 🤗 LikeLiked by 2 people WSB says: 08/04/2021 @ 23:55 at 23:55 PS, Wolf…I never did receive an email from you to try theqtree again. However, I do receive the email blasts, was able to click on that and was able to read at your site again tonight. My old icon on my home page of favorites is now obviously moot…that no longer works. Note to others who are as savvy as I am about these thiings. I am able to ‘like’ the posts on theqtree and will continue to do so. We can work on my stupid difficulties the day after we save the world. LikeLiked by 3 people Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/05/2021 @ 01:11 at 01:11 OK! Your account on TQT looks good, so I just sent you an optional password reset to your email. Even if you don’t use it, I’d be curious if it makes its way through to your inbox or the junk mail. LikeLiked by 2 people Reply WSB says: 08/06/2021 @ 00:25 at 00:25 I will check tomorrow. I would like to know the first two letters and maybe a time of day you sent, if I do not find this in my office dump box. Will let you know what I find first! LikeLiked by 2 people Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/06/2021 @ 00:51 at 00:51 Great! I’m here every day! LikeLiked by 2 people Reply WSB says: 08/06/2021 @ 01:04 at 01:04 ❤️ LikeLiked by 1 person Reply mollypitcher5 says: 08/05/2021 @ 00:16 at 00:16 Just went through a worm hole or something. Left the QT to read a linked article and when I went back to QT it wasn’t there and automatically sent me here LikeLiked by 4 people Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/05/2021 @ 01:07 at 01:07 Likely that you clicked in above the home menu link from there to here and it “took you through”. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply K1tt7-fzn says: 08/05/2021 @ 00:37 at 00:37 I see today’s post @ QT fine (there are two comments already) Make sure that you are not in https://www.theqtree.com/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi but https://www.theqtree.com LikeLiked by 3 people Reply K1tt7-fzn says: 08/05/2021 @ 00:46 at 00:46 https://www.theqtree.com/2021/08/05/dear-kag-20210805-daily-open-thread/ LikeLike Reply Concerned Virginian says: 08/07/2021 @ 11:40 at 11:40 Saturday 7 August 11:39AM Eastern Time Just clicked on the above link as a test. Came up with a 404 Not Found error message. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/05/2021 @ 01:30 at 01:30 This is a good tip. When you get that “rejection page”, don’t keep going to it and expect to go anywhere else!!! Always try to go back to the HOMEPAGE. LikeLike Reply K1tt7-fzn says: 08/05/2021 @ 03:34 at 03:34 I posted this at QT (but then disappeared) H/T boondocksaint1 (@ Marica’s) The agenda is becoming very clear pic.twitter.com/hpwB2nBLjT — 404_Not_Found (@4_04_Not_Found) August 4, 2021 Milestone contract for graphene technology in water treatment https://www.watertechonline.com/industry/article/14207913/g2o-water-technologies-contract-approved-to-use-graphene-oxide-to-coat-water-filtration-membranes LikeLiked by 2 people Reply Deplorable Patriot says: 08/07/2021 @ 10:54 at 10:54 9:54 am CDT on August 7 and I get 404 not found on all Qtree pages. Ok this is brilliant 😆 pic.twitter.com/i71FJ36dNe — Janie Scorpio (@ScorpioJanie) August 6, 2021 LikeLiked by 2 people Reply Deplorable Patriot says: 08/07/2021 @ 11:00 at 11:00 I’m going to take this as a sign and go clean the family room. Will check back later. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Cuppa Covfefe says: 08/07/2021 @ 12:22 at 12:22 Great vid. Hell almost isn’t hot enough for the wicked people behind this. Needs to be a part just for the illuminati and the moneychangers heated seven times hotter……. LikeLike Reply barkerjim says: 08/07/2021 @ 10:56 at 10:56 Same here 9:54am CDT 404 error. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply barkerjim says: 08/07/2021 @ 10:58 at 10:58 and now: Hmmm… can’t reach this pageIt looks like the webpage at https://www.theqtree.com/ might be having issues, or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR LikeLiked by 2 people Reply Deplorable Patriot says: 08/07/2021 @ 11:01 at 11:01 We pissed somebody off. LikeLiked by 2 people Reply Linda says: 08/07/2021 @ 11:07 at 11:07 Wow, I just refreshed about 15 minutes ago, and now it’s completely gone. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Cuppa Covfefe says: 08/07/2021 @ 12:14 at 12:14 I got that exact same message, after coming back up from a power failure that took out ONLY the circuit on my office that has all my PC equipment, modems, printers, couple of PCs, max 12 amps at 230v on a 20 amp circuit. Breaker has never tripped before. Had been reading and commenting on the qtree. I go over, reset the breaker, printers, modems, etc. come back up (had to wait for DSL to reset). Opened up a fresh Brave Window, asks me if I want to reopen the dropped windows, answer yes, and get a 404. OK, close those windows, repair some M$ Word files that sort of got clobbered, and tried again. Got the HTTP2 error that you did. So, I’m over here now. Crazy thing is, back in January, IIRC, I had almost the Exact same thing happen, only it was just the DSL modem that crashed (Fritzbox 7590, 250mbit, usually no probs at all), along with the PC I was using connected to it. Printers, breaker, other equipment stayed on that time. I REALLY have to wonder about that. I’ve heard of the “ping of death”, but this is ridiculous, especially considering there was no reason for that breaker to trip, and NOTHING else was affected (i.e. the other 20-30 breakers we have in the house panel). Looks like the gooks and the spooks and the kooks are a bunch of useless pukes. But that’s nothing new. BASTARDS! P.S. The reason for just the one circuit is both isolation, and multiple levels of surge protection. Probably should give the printers their own circuit, but that’s on a different leg of a three-phase supply and those 120° voltage offsets worry me (probably unnecessarily, but still)… LikeLike Reply singingsoul1 says: 08/07/2021 @ 12:41 at 12:41 I guess we are kicked off or the web site is down? Had problems posting an liking so I just read. Good stuff was posted maybe someone did not like it 🙂 LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Emeraldstar says: 08/07/2021 @ 11:15 at 11:15 Same here. “Cannot connect to server” Flak-target, or “maintenance”? Inquiring minds … LikeLiked by 1 person Reply gil00 says: 08/07/2021 @ 11:23 at 11:23 Me three. They really want qtree gone bc ot is fine. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Concerned Virginian says: 08/07/2021 @ 11:37 at 11:37 Wolf Moon 11:34AM Eastern Time The Q Tree isn’t loading at all. Error message on my screen: It looks like the webpage at https://www.theqtree.com/ might be having issues, or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. Looks to me like ** somebody ** is doing another DDOS? Be safe! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply WSB says: 08/07/2021 @ 12:30 at 12:30 Ditto for al the above, CV. LikeLike Reply RAC says: 08/07/2021 @ 12:16 at 12:16 Was on earlier today and it was OK, just went back now and got this…… Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to theqtree.com. The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem. Learn more… https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/secure-connection-failed-firefox-did-not-connect?as=u&utm_source=inproduct LikeLiked by 1 person Reply TheseTruths says: 08/07/2021 @ 12:23 at 12:23 I’m getting this: The error is “cannot parse response” (INSURLErrorDomain:-1017) LikeLike Reply RAC says: 08/07/2021 @ 12:27 at 12:27 Tried it with a different browser and got this answer……… Midori can’t find the page you’re looking for The page located at “www.theqtree.com” cannot be found. Check the web address for misspelled words and try again. Error receiving data: Connection reset by peer LikeLiked by 1 person Reply singingsoul1 says: 08/07/2021 @ 12:44 at 12:44 I got this 404 Not Found nginx LikeLike Reply WSB says: 08/07/2021 @ 12:32 at 12:32 PS…My last QTree email blast from Steve was at 12:00 AM. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply GrammyInD says: 08/07/2021 @ 12:38 at 12:38 Hello, am here on the UTree because I can’t get into QTree. Was fine about 10 hours ago but now it gives me a 404 message and says there are security problems with the website. No problem getting in here. I am using Firefox. Anything I should be doing to get back in over at the main site? Thought maybe others would be having problems, but seems to just be me…. LikeLike Reply GrammyInD says: 08/07/2021 @ 12:40 at 12:40 Oops, read the dates wrong above, guess I’m not the only one. LikeLike Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/07/2021 @ 18:28 at 18:28 Make sure you use the same username and email as before. You are listed as GrammyInD over there – you signed in here with no capital letters. You also used a different email here. I’m approving, but you need to pick an email – preferably the same one you’re using on WordPress.com LikeLike Reply GrammyInD says: 08/08/2021 @ 13:20 at 13:20 Thank you. I finally figured it out, I think. I logged out and logged back in with WordPress with the new email and correct username. I thought that had sorted itself out because I was getting all notifications at the new email. Thanks for your patience with me and my technical difficulties! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply barkerjim says: 08/07/2021 @ 12:46 at 12:46 Seems to be back up at the moment! 11:46am CDT LikeLike Reply GrammyInD says: 08/07/2021 @ 12:49 at 12:49 Works for me now, too. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply mollypitcher5 says: 08/07/2021 @ 12:59 at 12:59 I’m still getting 404 error. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Concerned Virginian says: 08/07/2021 @ 13:04 at 13:04 1PM Eastern Time The Q Tree is back up. LikeLiked by 2 people Reply RAC says: 08/07/2021 @ 13:08 at 13:08 I still cannot get it LikeLike Reply TheseTruths says: 08/07/2021 @ 13:15 at 13:15 The site came up for me just now, but all the formatting wasn’t right. I used the “log in” link at the bottom of the column on the right, and it now looks right. LikeLike Reply RAC says: 08/07/2021 @ 13:18 at 13:18 Yes!! 🙂 LikeLiked by 1 person Reply mollypitcher5 says: 08/07/2021 @ 13:16 at 13:16 It came back for me but not through WP LikeLike Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/07/2021 @ 18:18 at 18:18 Down for about an hour. Hmmmmmm. LikeLike Reply Deplorable Patriot says: 08/07/2021 @ 16:43 at 16:43 And, it’s gone again. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply gudthots says: 08/07/2021 @ 17:06 at 17:06 Yep. 404 error message from cPanel. Back up again. LikeLike Reply barkerjim says: 08/07/2021 @ 21:49 at 21:49 Just a thought this evening. posted on theqtree. https://www.theqtree.com/2021/08/07/2021%c2%b708%c2%b707-joe-biden-didnt-win-daily-thread/#comment-780252 LikeLiked by 1 person Reply K1tt7-fzn says: 08/10/2021 @ 11:27 at 11:27 Hi W, I tried posting in QT and it’s still waiting for approval. This is the tweet (that I was bringing: the second part of the man from the School Council meeting) https://t.co/a2oUsgkmcA — Rocky (@RoboRevealer) August 6, 2021 LikeLiked by 1 person Reply K1tt7-fzn says: 08/10/2021 @ 11:43 at 11:43 I tried again, and the post went to moderation again. Do I need to log in? I’m just using my email & name as usual (like I do here) LikeLike Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/10/2021 @ 11:50 at 11:50 Try logging in and seeing if that helps. LikeLike Reply K1tt7-fzn says: 08/10/2021 @ 11:54 at 11:54 I logged in, sent a post and it’s also in moderation. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply K1tt7-fzn says: 08/10/2021 @ 11:55 at 11:55 I’m using Dissenter but now that I recall it hasn’t been updated for a while. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/10/2021 @ 11:56 at 11:56 OK, let me let THAT one out. Hang on…. LikeLike Reply K1tt7-fzn says: 08/10/2021 @ 12:05 at 12:05 That last one worked right away. That means that I have to be logged in now to post? LikeLiked by 1 person Reply K1tt7-fzn says: 08/10/2021 @ 12:06 at 12:06 It seems that now I cannot post in here unless I log in LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/10/2021 @ 12:12 at 12:12 It’s not supposed to be that way, but frankly at this point it’s “what works”. LikeLike Reply K1tt7-fzn says: 08/10/2021 @ 12:13 at 12:13 That’s ok. As long as I know what I have to do. Thank you for all your help, W! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply RAC says: 08/10/2021 @ 15:07 at 15:07 Utree is down “What happened? The initial connection between Bitmitigate.com network and the origin web server time out. As a result, the web page can not be displayed. “ LikeLiked by 1 person Reply singingsoul1 says: 08/10/2021 @ 15:12 at 15:12 Yes site went down? LikeLiked by 2 people Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/10/2021 @ 16:07 at 16:07 The ChiCom and Weffen SS attacks will be INTENSE. LikeLiked by 2 people Reply singingsoul1 says: 08/10/2021 @ 16:11 at 16:11 So true. LikeLiked by 2 people Reply CMinTN says: 08/11/2021 @ 19:31 at 19:31 I think I have got my gab chat back now. I sent you a message. Can you see if it worked when you get a chance? LikeLike Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/11/2021 @ 21:26 at 21:26 Will do! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Wolf Moon says: 08/11/2021 @ 21:32 at 21:32 Yes – got the message, and sent some back! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply CMinTN says: 08/12/2021 @ 07:34 at 07:34 Thanks! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply gudthots says: 08/12/2021 @ 01:44 at 01:44 I replied on the regular gab chat. 🙂 LikeLiked by 1 person Reply K1tt7-fzn says: 08/10/2021 @ 17:39 at 17:39 Saw this one (https://gab.com/vaccineregrets) https://gab.com/vaccineregrets/posts/106684484344265612 It comes from: https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/332125809/ LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) Cancel Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. 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Ndamukong Suh addressed his Miami Dolphins defensive teammates on Monday. It was -- ummmmm -- interesting. NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport passed along the fiery address from the defensive tackle Sunday on NFL Network's GameDay Morning. "I'm told he told them: 'I run this defense, I'm going to be here for the next five years, there is no guarantee any of you will be as well. Only a handful of guys are good enough to play with me right now,'" Rapoport said. "He also said the schemes were not good enough, the techniques were not enough and everyone needed to be better, he said 'follow me.'" There are many levels to Suh's imploring. The side of the bi-monthly Suh debate in which you generally fall (bad guy vs. overblown microscope) likely dictates how you perceive his comments. Per Rapoport, the Dolphins themselves were split on how to take it. "My understanding is the room was split, some saw this as the kind of address a leader would give. Others, just something they've never heard before," Rapoport said. Suh is certainly correct that given his six-year, $114 million contract, he's not going anywhere. Given the defensive lineman's personality and obvious perception of himself in relation to the defense's approach, it will be interesting to see how much influence he has when the Dolphins' brass hires a new coaching staff this offseason.

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Share. The creator returns to reignite his franchise. The creator returns to reignite his franchise. With Wasteland 2 released and Torment: Tides of Nemenera on the way, Brian Fargo is returning to yet another classic franchise for his team's next project: The Bard's Tale IV. After creating his own studio in 2002, Fargo began work on The Bard's Tale, a comical reimagining of the franchise's tropes, that would release in 2004. The Bard's Tale IV is a proper sequel, though, marking the first since 1988's The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate. "This project has always been really personal to me," Fargo told IGN. "It was a game that put both me and Interplay on the map, back in the day. And it's also the franchise that launched inXile." Exit Theatre Mode InXile Entertainment is planning a Kickstarter for The Bard's Tale IV. Details about the game are still light, but Fargo did say the team will be pulling from the original as far as overarching ideas go. From a story perspective, players will be returning to Skara Brae, where it all began. But on the gameplay side of things, Fargo is planning a deviation. "Traditional turn-based combat," as Fargo calls it, bases turns on varying factors, creating battles in which different characters attacked at different times, often alternating between opposing sides. But in The Bard's Tale IV, teams attack all at once. This increases the pace of the combat, and allows for a different set of tactics than the traditional system might allow. "There will be plenty of combat diversity and depth," Fargo said. "You look at something like Hearthstone, for example. It's sort of that going back-and-forth process, and you see the complexity and detail and strategy and nuance that can happen. It's really an amazing system. I love those modern influences. I took a lot away from that, and see things we need to do with our combat system." As for taking another project to Kickstarter, Fargo said crowdsourcing will allow him to make the games he wants to make, for an audience that wants them, without worrying about pleasing a mass market. Although it didn't release under the traditional publishing system, Wasteland 2 sold extremely well right out of the gate. Faro used broadcast TV stations to illustrate his point. "I prefer to be on Showtime rather than NBC," he said. "That's the kind of entertainment I like to watch, and it's the same thing with these kind of games. I'm able to make something that caters to a crowd that really loves that experience." Exit Theatre Mode Work continues on Torment: Tides of Numenera, and in IGN's Wasteland 2 review, we praised its excellent story and plethora of party design options. But after announcing the team's return to the franchise that put them on the map, Fargo is excited for yet another revival. "It's the first property we worked with," he said. "The fact that it's the 30th anniversary of the original makes it all just seem perfect." Mike Mahardy is a freelance journalist writing for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter at @mmahardy.

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Former president Jimmy Carter told a large Sunday school class he was teaching that he is cancer-free, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Sunday morning. The news site quoted a close friend and fellow church member at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., as saying that he made the announcement at the start of the 300-person class. “He said he got a scan this week and the cancer was gone,” the Journal-Constitution quoted Jill Stuckey as saying. “The church, everybody here, just erupted in applause.” [Read more updates about Jimmy Carter’s health.] The Associated Press quoted Carter’s grandson as saying that no cancer was detected in the latest scan. BREAKING: Jimmy Carter's grandson: Former president says no cancer was detected in his latest scan. — The Associated Press (@AP) December 6, 2015 Carter, 91, had a small cancerous mass removed from his liver on Aug. 12, and shortly afterward doctors found four spots of melanoma on his brain. He has been in treatment since. Efforts to reach the church or Carter’s representatives weren’t immediately successful, and it wasn’t clear whether he was referring to the cancer in his brain or everywhere. 1 of 18 Full Screen Autoplay Close Skip Ad × Inside Jimmy Carter’s post-presidential life View Photos The former president splits his time advocating for change on a grand scale and teaching Sunday school class in small-town Georgia. Carter is cancer-free, his grandson told AP. Caption The former president splits his time advocating for change on a grand scale and teaching Sunday school class in small-town Georgia. Carter is cancer-free, his grandson told AP. Carter talks with with reporter Manuel Roig Franza. Carter lashes out at old foes in the recently released book "White House Diary." Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post Buy Photo Wait 1 second to continue. Fans of the former president have been making pilgrimages from across the country to see him teach since he announced that he was being treated for brain cancer. His first post-cancer lesson drew drew nearly 1,000 people to a church built for a few hundred, and people slept in their cars to wait in line for limited seats. [Crowds flock to see cancer-stricken Jimmy Carter] His doctors reported last month that he was responding well and that they saw no evidence of new tumors, the Associated Press reported. Former president Jimmy Carter reflects on the "ease" he felt when learning his cancer had spread to his brain and on the best things he has done in his life. (AP) Want more stories about faith? Follow Acts of Faith on Twitter or sign up for our newsletter. In the paid family leave debate, pro-life, pro-family groups’ own policies are all over the map 5 Myths about Rosa Parks, the woman who had almost a ‘biblical quality’ The amazing story of U.S. Army chaplains who ministered to Nazi leaders at the Nuremberg trials 70 years ago

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Thomson Reuters If the trend of robot automation keeps up, millions of humans could lose their jobs by the middle of this century. According to Elon Musk, the economic solution to that reality could simply be paying people regardless of whether or not they find work — a system of wealth distribution known as universal basic income. "There's a pretty good chance we end up with a universal basic income, or something like that, due to automation," the Tesla CEO said i n an interview with CNBC on November 4. "I'm not sure what else one would do. That's what I think would happen." UBI has seen a surge in popularity in the last year or so. After a long period of dormancy since it was introduced in the 1960s, the idea has gained new life as tech entrepreneurs and businesspeople have started wondering what might happen when robots displace much of the American workforce. Entrepreneurs like Musk imagine that machines could create so much wealth that there will be enough money to go around — no work required. "People will have time to do other things and more complex things, more interesting things," Musk said. "[They will] certainly have more leisure time." Musk joins a growing line of high-profile figures who've come out in favor of basic income. In January, Y Combinator President Sam Altman posted a job listing for a researcher to lead his company's basic income experiment in Oakland, which will pay hundreds of residents a monthly income of $2,000 starting next year. Altman told Business Insider in June that he's preparing for a future in which everyone in the country receives a similar sum because traditional jobs just won't be there. Even President Barack Obama has suggested that the threat of automation could necessitate a system like basic income. Speaking with Wired editor-in-chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito in a recent interview, Obama predicted we'll be debating the issue for the next 10 or 20 years. Though the conversation about universal basic income still lives mostly in the realm of "What if?", Musk's endorsement means the fringe idea is gaining more mainstream traction. The fact is, jobs are already being lost to automation in many industries, including restaurants, agriculture, trucking, and meat processing. And though it may be some time before unemployment rates surpass those of the Great Depression, Musk is already highlighting the need for a back up plan in case our current economic structure becomes obsolete.

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Storybook Cosmetics Wand Brushes – Best Christmas Present EVER – beccabynature Skip to content beccabynature Beauty, Reviews, Swatches, Baking January 4, 2017 December 27, 2016 by beccabynature Storybook Cosmetics Wand Brushes – Best Christmas Present EVER I am a self-confessed Harry Potter obsessive, and boy oh boy does everyone know it. For Christmas I got many different Harry Potter related things, but the best one of all was from my boyfriend. He got me, HARRY POTTER MAKE UP BRUSHES. All of my make up dreams came true when I knew these were coming out, and I can’t believe he actually went out of his way to make sure I got them for Christmas, as he had to order them back in October. He’s so amazing! 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Posted in Make-upTagged amazing, angled liner brush, beauty, beauty bay, beauty blog, beauty tools, beauty treatment, best, boyfriend, brush, dream, dumbledore, elder wand, fluffy, fluffy blending brush, gift, granger, harry, harry potter, hermione, life, liner, liner brush, love, mac, mac cosmetics, make up brush, make up brushes, make up lover, makeup, makeup bag, obsessed, pencil brush, pre order, present, review, reviews, ron, smudger, smudger brush, special, story, storybook, storybook cosmetics, swatch, swatches, tapered brush, voldemort, wand brushes, weasley Post navigation Previous Frozen Mermaid Nails and a Happy New Year Next Best of 2016 – Yearly Favourites 31 thoughts on “Storybook Cosmetics Wand Brushes – Best Christmas Present EVER” Amethyst Rose Beauty says: January 4, 2017 at 5:44 pm These look so cool!xx LikeLiked by 1 person Reply beccapbeauty says: January 4, 2017 at 5:51 pm They’re amazing Hannah! 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"We've also had a lot of learnings along the way," she continued. "You know when we fell down with the multiplayer launch of [Halo: The Master Chief Collection], or when we didn't put split-screen in with Halo 5. I think it's incredibly painful for the community, as the community is part of our world building." Beyond that Ross addressed the sloppy ways 343 has handled story in the games. And it doesn't sound too promising if you'd rather not have to read the myriad novels, comic books or watch web videos just to understand what the hell's going on with the narrative before playing the latest Halo. "While we love our transmedia, sometimes I do think we tell a bit too much story in our games," she said. "You know when you have a gun and aliens shooting at you, it is kind of hard to digest a lot of story. Hopefully we're showing in Halo Wars 2 a more simple story and using transmedia as part of the way to get the deeper story, but keeping the game story more simple." Considering the way that 343 brought in a main villain to Halo 4 from the book universe and never explained his motives, and that Halo 5 leaned extensively on the extended fiction for character development, I'm not so sure the studio knows how to craft an in-game narrative. It's something that Eurogamer recently examined in detail. Extending the fiction into novels is fine, but crippling the in-game experience for people who don't have the time for reading books of varying quality isn't ideal. No, not even in Star Wars.

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The authorities in Texas have granted a child care license to a federal immigration detention center where thousands of mothers with their children have been confined, often for weeks and sometimes months. The decision to recognize the center, in Karnes City, as a care provider for children drew outrage from immigrant advocates, who said it was little more than a prison. It was a victory for the Department of Homeland Security, which considers the center a holding station where families pass initial health and security checks and the first phases of their asylum screenings. The Texas license strengthens the hand of the Obama administration as it tries to maneuver around a ruling from a federal judge in California, who ordered the rapid release of all migrant children and their parents and ruled that minors could not be held in secure facilities not licensed specifically for child care. Officials at the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services did not make a statement about the license, which was issued on Friday and posted on the agency’s website early on Monday. The initial license is temporary, lasting six months.

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Democrats are reportedly fed up with Hillary Clinton’s litany of excuses for losing the 2016 election and are asking her to step out of the limelight. The consensus among former Clinton aides, former Obama aides, and Democratic strategists is that Clinton’s remarks blaming the Democratic National Committee and others for her election loss are hurting her image and the image of the Democratic Party, the Hill reported. “She’s apparently still really, really angry. I mean, we all are. The election was stolen from her, and that’s how she feels,” one longtime Clinton aide said. “But to go out there publicly again and again and talk about it? And then blame the DNC? It’s not helpful to Democrats. It’s not helpful to the country, and I don’t think it’s helpful to her,” the aide added. Former DNC Data Director Andrew Therriault was a lot less restrained in his criticism of Clinton, calling her accusations against the DNC “fucking bullshit.” Clinton has also gone on-the-record blaming former FBI Director James Comey, the Russians, the press, her primary and general election opponents, and even sexism for her election loss. Some aides and strategists think Clinton needs to step out of the spotlight entirely and let new leaders in the party take up that role. “If she is trying to come across as the leader of the angry movement of what happened in 2016, then she’s achieving it,” said one former senior aide to Obama. “But part of the problem she had was she didn’t have a vision for the Democratic Party, and she needs to now take a break and let others come to the forefront.” Despite those in the party calling on Clinton to leave the public eye, her aides and advisers say she will probably remain in the public spotlight to discuss the 2016 election to promote her book that will be released this fall. Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons says that she should talk more about where she went wrong in the election as opposed to blaming others for her elections. “It would be nice to hear a little more about the things she did wrong, which I believe mattered more than what she has discussed,” Simmons said.

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Donald Trump has said the US missile strike on a Syrian air base was launched because preventing the use of chemical weapons is “in the vital national security interest”. But he was publicly opposed to military intervention when Barack Obama made the case for military action against the Syrian government four years ago. “Again, to our very foolish leader, do not attack Syria – if you do many very bad things will happen and from that fight the US gets nothing!” wrote Mr Trump in capital letters on 5 September 2013. We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view. From 15p €0.18 $0.18 $0.27 a day, more exclusives, analysis and extras. Two days later, he added: “President Obama, do not attack Syria. There is no upside and tremendous downside. Save your ‘powder’ for another (and more important) day!” Mr Obama said a chemical attack carried out in August that year was “a crime against humanity, and a violation of the laws of war”, but decided against intervention after he consulted Congress, who did not support the air strikes. This means the surprise barrage of 59 cruise missiles, ordered by Mr Trump, is the first direct US attack on the Syrian government. The President was reacting to the attack on Tuesday that killed at least 72 people, including 20 children, which he said was launched by Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. Speaking from Florida, Mr Trump announced his strike in an emotional message to the public in which he evoked images of children dying. “Using a deadly nerve agent, Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many,” he said. “Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. “Tonight, I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched.” In his tweets at the time of Mr Obama’s speech, Mr Trump said: “What will we get for bombing Syria besides more debt and a possible long-term conflict? Obama needs Congressional approval.” However he did not seek a vote from Congress before launching his own military strike, which Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said did not represent a change in US policy on Syria. “Assad is a brutal dictator who must be held accountable for his actions,” Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, democratic senator for Virginia, said in a statement, reported CNN. “But President Trump has launched a military strike against Syria without a vote of Congress. The Constitution says war must be declared by Congress.” While Mr Trump’s previous tweets advised Mr Obama against military intervention in Syria, he said if any action did take place, it should be “by surprise”. “Why do we keep broadcasting when we are going to attack Syria. Why can’t we just be quiet and, if we attack at all, catch them by surprise?” he wrote on 29 August 2013. He also wrote: “I would not go into Syria, but if I did it would be by surprise and not blurted all over the media like fools.” “If we are going to continue to be stupid and go into Syria (watch Russia), as they say in the movies, shoot first and talk later!” he added the same day. And on 5 September 2013, he wrote: "Russia is sending a fleet of ships to the Mediterranean. Obama's war in Syria has the potential to widen into a worldwide conflict". We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view. At The Independent, no one tells us what to write. That’s why, in an era of political lies and Brexit bias, more readers are turning to an independent source. Subscribe from just 15p a day for extra exclusives, events and ebooks – all with no ads. Subscribe now

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Far Cry 3 failed as satire. For Joe Köller, it failed as social commentary too. There’s a lot you can criticize about Far Cry 3. Its excessive use of minigames and carnival distractions for instance, or the basic narrative of a white man colonizing the jungle, especially considering the bizarre mixture of ethnicities and accents it sells as ‘exotic’. But according to lead writer Jeffrey Yohalem, these elements are to be seen as intentional parody: Far Cry 3 is satire, its nonreflective violence and problematic portrayal of minorities merely comment on industry tendencies. It’s rather telling that Yohalem had to explicitly state this intention after the fact. Players don’t seem to have interpreted Far Cry 3 as satirical, and how could they? The game might copy many of the absurdities of our favorite medium, but it doesn’t exaggerate them, doesn’t overdo them, doesn’t ridicule them. It’s not satire by videogame standards: Where flat characters and excessive violence are generally presented in earnest, satirical takes like Saints Row need to go one step further, beyond good and evil. Adapting to videogames’ skewed idea of normality is not the same as criticizing it, parody is about more than mere imitation and the supposed subtext of Far Cry 3 blurs the lines between subtle and nonexistent. But while Far Cry 3 fails to comment on violence in videogame culture, it does offer an interesting perspective on its general fascination and its perception in today’s zeitgeist. Kill Screen aptly described it as “the first game about millenials”, the spoiled generation of Jason Brody and his obnoxiously rich ilk, whose existence is defined by beach resorts, tanning beds and smartphones on the one hand, and unemployment, weltschmerz and various financial and personal crises on the other hand. In a sense, Jason Brody’s conquest of the jungle, his transformation to a superhuman predator, is merely the brutal, yet logical conclusion of his initial vacation plans. His booze-cruise was always about testing limits, about feeling alive again through various near-death experiences, in both a metaphorical and a physical sense. The vapid hedonist sampled every socially accepted option: alcohol, loud music, meaningless sex, drugs of all shapes and sizes, extreme sports, etc. Crash-landing on Rook Island simply gives him the opportunity to keep pushing boundaries as he moves from imitations of death to the real thing. Why? Because this increasingly digital, artificial, fake world can leave you desperate to just feel something, anything at all. So long as it’s something genuine, pure, real. Because violence scratches that itch, because it yanks you from the uncomfortably comfortable mundanity of modern life and presents you with arguably the most primordial human experience of all: you or me. Kill or be killed. Violence is power, power over another life and its untimely end. It’s a tempting proposition considering the sheer number of things that have seemingly slipped beyond our control. Employment and financial security depend on a run-down economic system that even our capitalist overlords don’t seem to fully understand. Love, by common understanding, is based around random encounters and luck of the draw. Violence is wrong, yes, but it’s also intimate. For somebody like Jason, it might well be the most significant human interaction of their entire life. It fills the void, meaningless existence of the confused manbaby. The kidnapping, his escape, the trapped friends he needs to save – these things are all just catalysts for the change in him, the initial push that leads him to realize that he’s not only able to kill when forced to, he’s actually pretty damn good at it. And he loves it. Jason Brody kills for pleasure. It’s an uncomfortable observation, but that’s what makes it interesting, and not every game needs to be as moralizing about the flaws of its protagonist as Spec Ops: The Line was. It would be enough to just present them, because even though the rapid decay of Jason’s civilized shell might not be caused by the bloodlust infused in him by veteran gamers, as Yohalem claims, it does go hand in hand with our symbiotic enjoyment of the orgy of violence. While Far Cry 2 tried to portray the horrors of war by intentionally not being fun, Far Cry 3 marks the series’ triumphant return to the glories of modern escapism. Its arsenal of flavored lubes and buzzing toys shows the absurd level of mastery we have reached when it comes to providing such masturbatory thrills, just how good we have gotten at orchestrating problematic power fantasies. Far Cry 3 is fun. More importantly, Far Cry 3 gets progressively more enjoyable as you master its violent mechanics. While Jason slowly adapts to his surroundings and his newfound role, becomes the aggressor, we as players are busy discovering the many interesting ways of dealing with the local pirates. As is frequently the case in such sandbox titles, the most brutal options just happen to be the most entertaining, too. Having shed my spoilt, cowardly ways, I now stalk my foes with bow and arrow, set fire to their outposts and burn them crisp, drive my machete through their chests, feed them to tigers, Komodo dragons, sharks and any other form of endangered, dangerous species. Just how quickly and easily good-for-nothing Jason discovers his knack for killing betrays the game-like nature of his exploits, but also serves to show the dark side hidden even in empty-headed, fun-loving cosmopolitans. In this sense, Jason serves as an icon more so than as a fully-fleshed character. Consistency and depth are sacrificed to cast him as the incarnation of the young, carefree generation that might spend its endless hours of free time getting drunk in foreign countries or, yes, playing videogames. Far Cry 3 might not be about videogames specifically, but its protagonist definitely falls into their target audience. It’s easy to envision Jason playing Far Cry 3, actually. Only now he gets to live out those power fantasies and all they entail, a premise that brings the game close to offering observant commentary on society’s fascination with violence, if it wasn’t so damn set on explaining away his inconvenient bloodlust. Jason Brody kills to save his friends, that’s the idea. Though if you’re anything like me, you’ll have forgotten their bland, empty faces the second your captivating captor Vaaz Montenegro first appears on screen roughly five minutes into the game. The superficial relationships of this gang of cardboard cutouts never even come close to being as interesting as Far Cry 3’s enigmatic villain, or the chaos of its jungle. Every second you spend in the relative safety of their cave hideout, you’ll find yourself itching to head back out for more firefights, more explosions, more tigers. There’s this scene halfway through Far Cry 3: Jason has just returned triumphantly to the cave hideout, when his newly rescued friend reveals that Jason’s brother Riley was killed. He pauses, and for the second time the game expects you to react to the death of a brother it never really introduced to you. Meanwhile, I’m having trouble matching the name to one of the faces from the intro. Which of these kids was Riley again? After receiving the tragic news, Jason ends up talking to another one of his pothead friends and asks him, presumably to dull the pain, if he can have a puff, too. He declines: Jason needs to keep a clear head to get them off this island. Even if I’m not generally inclined to read Far Cry 3 as satire, that has to be a joke. A clear head? Me? Buddy, I’m on the trip of the century over here. Keep your joint then, I’m high as a kite on blood and adrenaline. Jason’s transition to new, harder drugs is shown best through his assault on the pirates’ cannabis fields, a scene that will stick in mind not just for its driving dubstep tunes, but its strong thematic beats. Before the crash, discovering the fields of green would presumably have rendered Jason ecstatic, he would have spent the next few days baked at the beach, blowing his own brains out. Now Brody is cheering and giggling as he puts the splendor to the torch, soaking in the destruction and not the fumes. He’s found something far more intoxicating than weed, his new drug is just arriving in the shape of enraged pirate guards. Considering the gleefully violent excess of this scene, it’s hard to argue Jason is merely doing what needs to be done to keep his friends safe. Fortunately Far Cry 3 has another explanation for his strange behavior ready: After claiming that he was forced to kill by circumstance, it now begins to argue that he is literally forced to kill, by his own deluded psyche. Jason Brody kills because he cannot stop killing. The second half of Far Cry 3 seems to be based on this thesis: Jason vows bloody vengeance on backup bad guy Hoyt Volker, joins the Rakyat’s war with righteous fury and ultimately, depending on the player’s choice, turns against those closest to him. But painting his fascination with violence as a compulsive obsession is too simple, it ignores how shockingly normal Jason still is and, more importantly, contradicts our experience as partners in crime. We, as players, can stop killing, we just don’t want to. Because we’re all crazy? Hardly. We’re no more interested in comprehensive carnage than Jason Brody is. We both just want to blow off steam, and while we need to make do with fiction, he goes one step further. Like William Foster in Falling Down, he simply starts doing all the things decent people rightly stop themselves from doing – not because he’s not aware of the consequences, but because he doesn’t care. What’s so truly monstrous about Jason is that, despite all the colorful pills and shots, he’s still perfectly lucid. He’s not crazy, he’s fully aware of his own actions. He doesn’t have to kill, but he can. Whenever he wants. Far Cry 3 isn’t even willing to see its own idea of an obsessive mass murderer through to the bitter end. Instead, the game keeps pushing you into ever more defensive roles the more brutal it gets. You defend your plane, hold positions, guard your comrade. Even the final helicopter ride, several minutes of exorbitant death and destruction, is technically, by game logic, self-defense. If you don’t partake in the turret section, you are quickly shot down. To see that as the justification for excessive retaliation is nonsense, but it seems the game wants to provide some rationale for your actions even now, with Jason this far gone. Ultimately, Far Cry 3 is both indecisive and inconsistent when it comes to its own protagonist, and this makes it hard to say what message, if any, can be gleaned from the game. Far Cry 3 is absurd. It might even be aware of its own absurdity, but despite self-adulation as a systemic critique of videogames, it’s more interested in maintaining the illusion of its all-inclusive adventure trip than it is in breaking it. For the purpose of your own relaxation, you are asked to ignore the walls and borders of this island resort. Barring some grand effort on their own part, players will stay naive tourists, just like Jason Brody. Despite Jeffrey Yohalem’s claims, I can’t see Far Cry 3 as metacommentary. The game might be excessively violent, but the idea that the mere existence of violence in videogames inevitably leads to its contemplation, would have the medium consuming itself in an endless, fundamental debate since its very inception. But if you ignore this speculative level, all that remains of Far Cry 3 is a slightly self-deprecating power fantasy, varying between extremes and too cowardly to openly criticize anything. Joe Köller is the current Editor-in-Chief of Haywire Magazine, German correspondent for Critical Distance, and irregular contributor to German sites such as Video Game Tourism, Superlevel, and WASD. You can follow him on Twitter, and support him on Patreon.

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Melbourne Airport locked down after kangaroo surprises passengers in terminal Updated Police had to lock down part of Melbourne Airport today after a kangaroo bounced into the terminal and surprised passengers shopping in a pharmacy. Wildlife rescue volunteers were called in to tranquilise and capture the distressed eastern grey male, which had been hit by a car on his way to the building that services both international and domestic flights. "Cyrus, as he has been aptly named after one of the helpers on the scene, will be assessed by a vet following his ordeal," Wildlife Victoria said. Comedian Julia Morris broke the news on Twitter, where photographs began circulating of the marsupial in the skincare aisle of the terminal's pharmacy. Ok, so I'm at Melbourne airport & a KANGAROO has just jumped into the chemist... #notajoke #soundslikeajoke #mustneedaprescriptionfilledJx — Julia Morris (@Ladyjmo) October 15, 2013 Police locked down the chemist while rescuers were called, and Wildlife Victoria said its emergency response team sped to the terminal where "the kangaroo was tranquilised and captured safely". The terminal is located close to bushland known to be frequented by kangaroos and although the tarmac is guarded to ensure the animals do not hop into the path of an aircraft, staff said kangaroos occasionally made their way into the site's buildings. In January one of the creatures led police on a chase through the airport's multi-storey car park before it could be sedated and caught, following a similar incident in October 2012. AFP Topics: animals, human-interest, melbourne-airport-3045, vic First posted

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We are back with the newest edition of our Top 10 fan frags of the month series, powered by our partner Sennheiser, the leading provider of premium headsets. Our video editor, Daniel “kedz” Siva, wants you to send him your best frags in order to create a stunning video to showcase the skills of G2’s faithful. And to spice things up, we will be giving away a headset by Sennheiser and also two high-value skins provided by Kinguin, which has a stunning skin collection available on its website. Please keep in mind that we will only accept GOTV demos as they allow creativity to flourish. Here is how the whole process will be carried out: Send us your demos until Wednesday, February 3rd. Only one demo per person allowed! Please rename the demo to include the time stamp of the action (tick), your country, your name, the map and the action (M4A1-S ace, for example), in this order: Tick_Country_Name_Map_Action. The video will be released on Wednesday, February 10th, and the three winners will be contacted Below you can find all the info about how you can send us your frags:

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In 2016, Iraqi forces retook large parts of the vast province of Anbar, including its capital Ramadi and the city of Fallujah (AFP Photo/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE) Baghdad (AFP) - Islamic State fighters retreated from several western Iraqi towns and towards the Syrian border on Sunday as security forces worked their way up the Euphrates Valley, officers said. The jihadist organisation's leadership ordered its fighters out of Hit, Kubaysa and Rutba, prompting thousands of civilians to take to the road to meet advancing federal forces while others enjoyed their first hours of freedom in months. "The majority of Daesh (IS) fighters in Hit, Rutba and Kubaysa have fled through the desert to other regions," Yahya Rasool, Iraq's top security spokesman, told AFP. Hit, around 145 kilometres (90 miles) west of Baghdad, was one of the main towns in Anbar province that was still held by IS. Kubaysa is a smaller town to the west of Hit while Rutba is a desert outpost on the road to Jordan about 390 kilometres (245 miles) west of the capital. "There is an operation to hunt them down with Iraqi aircraft," said Rasool, spokesman for the Joint Operations Command coordinating the fight against IS in Iraq. "Hit is surrounded by Iraqi forces from the south and north," he said. "Thousands of families have fled the area to meet our forces." Iraqi government forces have yet to enter Hit and no security source would immediately confirm whether any holdout IS fighters remained. However, residents reached by AFP said no jihadists were visible on Sunday following a pullout that began on Saturday. One resident said IS's local military leader was killed in an air strike as he tried to escape on Saturday. "Ahmed Mashaan Abdelwahed al-Batran was killed when an air raid destroyed his boat -- he was trying to cross the river with his family," he said. "Since yesterday, the Hisba (Islamic police) has vanished from the streets. Before they withdrew, Daesh (IS) fighters booby-trapped houses, roads and government buildings," he added. - First cigarette - Another Hit resident said one of the first things the men did after IS pulled out was to light a cigarette. "The young people in Hit are smoking on the street and they also changed back into their normal clothes," he said, also speaking on condition of anonymity. "There are women in the street without the niqab (full veil) for the first time" since the town fell to IS in October 2014, he said. Witnesses and officials said IS leaders -- many of them from the city of Mosul or foreigners -- tried to slip out of Hit by blending in with fleeing families after shaving their beards. "Yesterday there was not one razor blade left in the markets of Hit," the second witness told AFP. The top regional army commander, 7th division chief Noman al-Zobaie, overflew the city to assess the situation, senior officials said. Naim al-Kaoud, leader of the local Albu Nimr tribe, said tribal fighters in the area were close to Hit but awaiting government coordination to move in. "The decision to retake control of Hit has to come from the leadership of the security forces. It is when they go in that the recapture of Hit will be complete," he told AFP. In Rutba, "Daesh's armed men started pulling out last night and completed their withdrawal this morning," a major general told AFP on Sunday. He said they all moved towards Al-Qaim, a jihadist bastion on the border with Syria, further north in Anbar province. After launching a final push against IS in provincial capital Ramadi late last year, Iraq's security forces established full control over the city last month. They have since been securing areas east of Ramadi, further isolating the jihadist stronghold of Fallujah, which is only 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Baghdad. The US-led coalition that has been carrying out air strikes against IS for more than a year and a half has said that the jihadist group was stretched increasingly thin. Iraqi forces have in recent weeks been trying to flush out jihadists from vast areas around Lake Tharthar, which straddles Anbar and the province of Salaheddin. In several of its strongholds, IS is reported to have forcibly recruited children for checkpoints duty as it sends adult males into combat.

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Photo: Arla. Arla Foods has announced a climate strategy for its entire value chain, working towards carbon net zero efficiency by 2050. The strategy covers its 10,300 farmer owners to the consumer to reduce total CO2 ​emissions by 30% per kilo of milk by 2030 and it is looking at commercial opportunities to drive change. Sustainable packaging The company plans to accelerate the transition to more sustainable operations using non-fossil fuels, renewable energy, sustainable packaging and less waste with a number of initiatives to be announced this year. Peder Tuborgh, CEO, Arla Foods’ said the decision ‘to have this new ambitious climate goal is farmer led’. “Our elected farmer owners have been involved in the process of setting the ambition from the start, and they have shown great support and willingness to enter into a dialogue on how future dairy production should be organized​,” he said. The target is set for all markets in Arla, however, some countries might reach the target sooner based on local conditions. “Our 10,300 dairy farmers in seven countries have worked continuously to reduce emissions for many years. At this moment in time, CO2​ per kilo of Arla milk is already less than half of the global average. With new technology continuing to emerge, we are now taking the next step to further cut our emissions by 30% in 2030 and reach climate neutral operations by 2050​,” added Tuborgh. He said it believes 2050 is a realistic target to become carbon neutral, but it will depend on the continuing development of technology within the industry. “Based solely on the technology available today, we know we will be able to reach our 2030 target, and becoming C02-neutral by 2050 is a really important ambition to set as it drive a further improvements​,” said Tuborgh. “We believe we can do it. Arla’s farmers are already among the most carbon efficient in the world and we have opened the world’s first carbon net zero dairy, Aylesbury."​ Organic dairy Tuborgh said it believes more consumers are willing to pay more for their milk in the same way as organic dairy. “From today we are starting to work with a group of progressive farmers in both Denmark and Sweden to offer more sustainable conventional and organic fresh milks​,” he added. Arla will bring organic milk to market this year with its Arla 24 brand in Denmark and Arla Ko brand in Sweden. Tuborgh said for obvious reasons it’s not possible to reduce a cow’s methane emissions completely, but it can be significantly reduced, for example through optimized feed composition, a research area Arla is investing in. To counteract emissions, it is working with Arla farmers to quantify and increase the carbon captured and stored in the soil as part of increasing their positive contribution. Since 2013, almost 700 on-farm meetings have been organized to educate groups of farmers on sustainability measures and more than 5,000 climate assessments have been conducted on Arla farms. “We are driving CO2 ​reduction at farm level through our Sustainable Dairy Farming​ Strategy program​. Arla follows the internationally recognized methodology for carbon footprint calculations at farm level, developed by the International Dairy Federation​,” said Tuborgh. “We have developed a farm carbon assessment tool and we have conducted carbon assessments at farm level for many years. To date we have conducted over 5,000 carbon assessments. Through these assessments, the farmer will get a performance status, benchmark against peers and advice on how to improve.​ “Arla farmers have reduced emission per kilo of milk by 24% since 1990 and the CO2 ​reduction from Arla’s operations such as packaging and transport has been reduced by 22% over the last 14 years. All while Arla’s milk intake has increased by close to 50%​. “The Swedish and Danish society and our farmers are very much at the forefront of the sustainability debate. This makes Sweden and Denmark the logical place for us to start the work on how we make advances on organic dairy farming, and use the learnings in other markets over time​.” Arlagården Plus Tuborgh said as part of its work to make its production more sustainable by reducing total CO2​ emissions by 30% per kilo of milk by 2030 and be carbon net zero by 2050, it will be communicating openly about the progress it is making along the way, including updates on its packaging set-up. Jan Toft Nørgaard, dairy farmer/chairman, Arla Foods added, “We don’t have all the answers yet, but we call on our farmers, not least the younger generation of farmers, the industry, academic institutions and governments for collaboration and ideas that will support the transition to more sustainable farming and food production.” ​ Tuborgh said the company is in a ‘strong position to ensure people maintain confidence in dairy as part of a healthy and sustainable diet for the future’. “Dairy is enjoyed across the world and plays an important role in providing nourishment to a growing world population – from a basic glass of fresh school milk to advanced whey proteins used in optimized medical nutrition​,” he added. Last year, Arla created a digital database called Arlagården Plus to help Arla and the individual farmer to systematically measure and benchmark the farm performance. So far, Arla farmers are registering data from 96% of Arla’s milk pool in the system on a quarterly basis, e.g. about their herd, milking system, feed, grazing, land use and animal welfare. The next step is to include parameters that will indicate the farm’s impact on the climate and the environment, to identify best practice farms that it can learn from. 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Previous / KTM MotoGP programme 'beginning to see the light' after scoring Next / MotoGP riders didn't want Argentinian GP 'tyre test' MotoGP News Marc Marquez felt more pressure in 2016 MotoGP than this year Honda's Marc Marquez says he felt more pressure in the 2016 MotoGP season than he does this year, facing up to Yamaha recruit Maverick Vinales By: Oriol Puigdemont Co-author: Erick Gabriel Apr 12, 2017, 2:12 PM Marquez won a third championship in four seasons last year, despite Honda's struggles with acceleration, and admitted it was the first time he really felt pressure. All eyes are on the Spaniard to fight for the 2017 title with countryman Vinales, who has won the first two races of the season, but Marquez says he does not feel in the spotlight as much this time around. "I felt more pressure last year," he said. "Of course you feel the pressure to be there, to fight for the championship. "And it looks like both Yamaha riders, not only Maverick, also Valentino [Rossi] - in the race both Yamaha riders are really strong. "They have a really good package, they are really consistent and we need to work together with Honda to try to find a better way to improve our results." Honda has revamped its engine configuration again in 2017, but engineers are still working to mate the package with MotoGP's control electronics, leaving riders battling an acceleration deficit again. Marquez finished fourth in the season opener in Qatar, but crashed out of the lead last Sunday in Argentina, and sits eighth in the championship, 37 points behind Vinales. He started 2016 with third in Qatar and victory in Argentina, and scored points in every race until crashing out of the Phillip Island race in October, after he had secured the title. "In your career you always have good and tough situations - I don't like to say 'bad'," he added. "But it's in these moments that you have to try to learn and get better. We weren't so good at the start of the last season and we won. "This year we didn't start in the best way, but there is a long season left. We have to learn what we did wrong to improve the bike. "I'm eighth in the championship, I'm behind. But is important to know that we are in a good level, because we fell in Argentina in the lead. 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I therefore propose the following - from the next fork, X% of the masternodes proceeds will go into a dedicated multi-sig wallet that will pay a salary to a dedicated full-time professional marketing person. Hopefully, in time, the price of darkcoin will go up, this fund will be able to employ more than one person, and thus also pay the developers, webmaster, etc. imho, the time has come to become less bootstrap and more professional. I love this idea! But I'd like to expand on it, I think it would be better to go into the bounty fund and that fund would be much more generic. For example, we just needed an icon designed, now we need a website, color scheme, etc. As the price grows, the size of things we need to get done grows just as much. Next we'll need to setup a foundation, retain an attorney to help with legal matters, etc. I propose 1/10 of the masternode payments go toward a bounty fund for generic uses. - At current market prices this will be $184.03 per day (259 DRK) If the price goes to $5, that will be $1296 per day, which should be enough for a full marketing budget, the foundation, a retained lawyer and maybe on office for the foundation? I love this idea! But I'd like to expand on it, I think it would be better to go into the bounty fund and that fund would be much more generic. For example, we just needed an icon designed, now we need a website, color scheme, etc. As the price grows, the size of things we need to get done grows just as much. Next we'll need to setup a foundation, retain an attorney to help with legal matters, etc.I propose 1/10 of the masternode payments go toward a bounty fund for generic uses.- At current market prices this will be $184.03 per day (259 DRK)If the price goes to $5, that will be $1296 per day, which should be enough for a full marketing budget, the foundation, a retained lawyer and maybe on office for the foundation? As an idea it sounds good, but in reality it's negative. Memorycoin2 has something like this (not exactly, but similar idea), and most people would agree that this is one of the reasons why the coin is not doing well. People didn't like, it didn't work as expected. Again, I like the idea in theory, but I don't think it will work well, so my advice is against implementing this. The best way to do this, donations/crowfunding for specific tasks. In crypto they normally work well. As an idea it sounds good, but in reality it's negative. Memorycoin2 has something like this (not exactly, but similar idea), and most people would agree that this is one of the reasons why the coin is not doing well. People didn't like, it didn't work as expected.Again, I like the idea in theory, but I don't think it will work well, so my advice is against implementing this.The best way to do this, donations/crowfunding for specific tasks. In crypto they normally work well. thelonecrouton Offline Activity: 966 Merit: 1000 LegendaryActivity: 966Merit: 1000 Re: [ANN][DRK] DarkCoin | First Anonymous Coin | First X11 | First DGW | ASIC Resistant April 20, 2014, 09:12:24 PM Last edit: April 20, 2014, 09:24:30 PM by thelonecrouton #14653 I think it looks simpler and friendlier. No headless dude. Minimal scrolling required @ 1920x1080. edit: looking at it now I would have the eclipse thing up top as the main logo, but with a gold D. However I will wait for the laughter to die down before I dig myself any deeper... LawBC, here is a quick mockup of what I meant earlier:I think it looks simpler and friendlier. No headless dude. Minimal scrolling required @ 1920x1080.edit: looking at it now I would have the eclipse thing up top as the main logo, but with a gold D. However I will wait for the laughter to die down before I dig myself any deeper... dime Offline Activity: 88 Merit: 10 MemberActivity: 88Merit: 10 Re: [ANN][DRK] DarkCoin | First Anonymous Coin | First X11 | First DGW | ASIC Resistant April 20, 2014, 09:27:25 PM #14654 if one were to try and summarize this coin after reading all 757 pages of this post, it would be obvious that a name change is needed and what that name change should be marketing101coin or 700pagesofarguingoveralogocoin try to accept that most people who are looking/willing to invest in it already know about it.. don't drag the solo dev into more of these games of deciding how professional a webpage needs to look.. you know what will surely get 1000x more hits than a shiny logo or a webpage, if he finishes darksend.. as opposed to using his time coming up with hairbrained schemes like an airdrop or opting % of the coin into a lawyer fund (wtf).. before one needs marketing, one needs something to market.. and if that something is as great as darkcoin could be, one wouldn't even need marketing.. fuck coins101 Offline Activity: 1456 Merit: 1000 LegendaryActivity: 1456Merit: 1000 Re: [ANN][DRK] DarkCoin | First Anonymous Coin | First X11 | First DGW | ASIC Resistant April 20, 2014, 09:36:39 PM #14655 Quote from: LawBC on April 20, 2014, 09:30:52 PM Saying it's bullshit. Unnecessary. Etc. Marketing, (visual) communication, is at the top of the commercial age we're living today. Absolutely everything around you depends of it. It litterally hold the keys of billions people brains and is a true social science. Giving you a better idea of the power of design and communication, Apple Inc is ranked #1 marketcap above all international corporations. Apple is running ahead Oil companies, above Google and pharmaceuticals giants, above JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. But what makes this company so successful and special ? It is very simple. Apple is well known for focusing a lot on design and communication. Spending ridiculous amount of money and efforts for making a simple package. And it works. Simple classy and elegant. That's the equation. Right under your eyes. I am not able to see your life, your deeds. Not even your ages and your faces. When it comes to the internet we have to deal with its inherent anarchy. It is not easy for me as I'm used to hierarchy and teams. A lot of people here definitely lack understanding of the world we are living here. Let the marketers do their job. The cryptocurrency market is still primitive and every opportunity is possible now. This will be my last message here as I'm feeling a bit exhausted trying to convince every person here. Feel free to contact me. If not I'll just go back in the invisible mass of investors. I'll be just fine and more relax I often came across messages on bitcointalk regarding marketing.Saying it's bullshit. Unnecessary. Etc.Marketing, (visual) communication, is at the top of the commercial age we're living today. Absolutely everything around you depends of it. It litterally hold the keys of billions people brains and is a true social science.Giving you a better idea of the power of design and communication, Apple Inc is rankedApple is running ahead Oil companies, above Google and pharmaceuticals giants, above JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. But what makes this company so successful and special ? It is very simple. Apple is well known for focusing a lot on design and communication. Spending ridiculous amount of money and efforts for making a simple package. And it works. Simple classy and elegant. That's the equation. Right under your eyes.I am not able to see your life, your deeds. Not even your ages and your faces. When it comes to the internet we have to deal with its inherent anarchy. It is not easy for me as I'm used to hierarchy and teams.A lot of people here definitely lack understanding of the world we are living here. Let the marketers do their job. The cryptocurrency market is still primitive and every opportunity is possible now.This will be my last message here as I'm feeling a bit exhausted trying to convince every person here.Feel free to contact me. If not I'll just go back in the invisible mass of investors. I'll be just fine and more relax Quote from: coins101 on April 07, 2014, 01:49:36 AM Quote from: organizer on April 07, 2014, 12:49:45 AM Quote from: LimLims on April 07, 2014, 12:05:30 AM The more I think about it, the more this idea makes sense. If Darkcoin will be a niche product because of branding, why not fill the other niche ourselves before others do, with a "light"-branded sister coin? New publicity-friendly name, fair launch, focus on privacy. Let Darkcoin be the testbed and bring across any changes when it's stable. We're in a unique position to capture the subset of the market that are choosing not to invest in Darkcoin because of its branding, because we can implement darksend before it's open source (that is, if Evan gives the ok). I don't see that there's much to lose with this strategy. We can be sure that others will do exactly this once Darkcoin goes open source, so why not capture that market now, in a way that lets existing Darkcoin investors get in early and mitigate their risks? Lims, we talked a little while you were setting up as the marketing guy. Just to be frank and honest, this is a terrible thought and you are just feeding these distractions about branding and marketing when the name and/or logo will have absolutely NO impact on the success or failure of the coin. Brands build themselves, lots of people talk shit about doing X,Y,Z to create a brand. But in the end, it needs to do what it says it does. See my earlier post about lack of focus in this community. Lims, we talked a little while you were setting up as the marketing guy. Just to be frank and honest, this is a terrible thought and you are just feeding these distractions about branding and marketing when the name and/or logo will have absolutely NO impact on the success or failure of the coin. Brands build themselves, lots of people talk shit about doing X,Y,Z to create a brand. But in the end, it needs to do what it says it does.See my earlier post about lack of focus in this community. Apple died until is launched a new mac with round edges and see through plastic painted a shade of pastel crap. It was no more technically advanced. People were simply paying for brand coolness. Apple also made the iPhone off the back of white headphones that gave people a way to link themselves to cool brand identity when they purchased an iPod. Apple is all about making products look good and giving users a way to associate with that cool by just buying their stuff. It did use to have innovation inside too, but it really took existing ideas and made them look better and gave them better form factor. Apple died until is launched a new mac with round edges and see through plastic painted a shade of pastel crap. It was no more technically advanced. People were simply paying for brand coolness. Apple also made the iPhone off the back of white headphones that gave people a way to link themselves to cool brand identity when they purchased an iPod.Apple is all about making products look good and giving users a way to associate with that cool by just buying their stuff. It did use to have innovation inside too, but it really took existing ideas and made them look better and gave them better form factor. HELIUM dime Offline Activity: 88 Merit: 10 MemberActivity: 88Merit: 10 Re: [ANN][DRK] DarkCoin | First Anonymous Coin | First X11 | First DGW | ASIC Resistant April 20, 2014, 09:43:17 PM #14658 i like how you're trying to school on me how the world works and yet you use the most cherry picked hype company that exists... yeah apple spends more on marketing than r&d.. did they do that before the ipod came out? did you see 750 pages on apple forums talking about the logo for their ipod before it came out? did you see 750 pages arguing over what color the ipod should be before it came out? guess what, you're employee #999 in the room.. pitching the same thing the other 997 salesguys already did.. and tying up the resources of the single developer in the company real world? show me a real world corporation that is 100% marketing with no product? that's called snakeoil and vaporware

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Back in 2015, we shared the news that people who had recently purchased cans of Starkist tuna could file claims in a class action lawsuit against the company that alleged the company deliberately under-filled tuna cans. Those consumers still don’t have their payments, which were to be either checks or vouchers for free tuna. Unfortunately, the legal system does not move as quickly as readers’ hunger for tuna. In an update just over a year ago, we said that plaintiffs’ tuna or checks might show up by the end of the year, as the two sides worked on a final settlement. After they finally reached that settlement, and the judge approved it, there were multiple appeals filed in the case, which the attorneys handling the case say could delay class members payments by months or years. Prepare for further disappointment: So many people filed claims in this lawsuit that it cut each person’s payment by a lot. That’s because the entire settlement was for a fixed amount of money, not a fixed amount of money per class member. In this lawsuit, there would only be $8,000,000 for cash payments and $4,000,000 for vouchers, which came out to $25 in cash or $50 in tuna based on the number of people that the attorneys expected to file claims. Then 2.5 million people filed claims. Whenever your payment finally shows up — and we can’t predict when that will happen — it will be for $2.19 if you opted to receive cash, and $4.43 if you opted to receive tuna vouchers. The original complaint in this case was filed in 2013. Justice, even under-filled tuna can justice, is not swift.

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The speeches are a part of the group’s mission of grooming future conservative leaders — Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Stephen Miller, a White House adviser, are among its alumni — and its long list of donors has included the television game show host Pat Sajak, the novelist Tom Clancy, the billionaire brothers David H. and Charles G. Koch, and the Amway billionaires Richard and Helen Devos, who gave $10 million to endow the Reagan Ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif., which the foundation runs as a preserve. (Their daughter-in-law, Betsy DeVos, the secretary of education, is not a donor, the group says.) Over the past two years, armed with a $16 million infusion from the estate of an orthodontist in California, Robert Ruhe, the organization has doubled its programming, including campus speeches. In 2016 that meant 111 speakers on 77 campuses. On the group’s website, it boasted of “dispatching” 31 speakers to colleges last month alone. In that time, the speakers have gotten edgier, more in-your-face and sometimes even meanspirited. Among them is Ann Coulter, whose canceled speech last month at the University of California, Berkeley, led the foundation, which was covering most of her $20,000 fee, to sue the college, arguing that it had violated the First Amendment in its failure to provide a suitable time and place for the event. The resulting clashes on university campuses, including protests and efforts to block speeches, have raised free speech questions. And at Berkeley, even liberals who oppose Ms. Coulter’s viewpoints said her speech should have been allowed to proceed. In the meantime, protesters have questioned whether such events are cynically intended to provoke reactions.

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Platelets are the sand bags of the circulatory system, piling up in wounds to create clots and curb bleeding. Now, researchers in Japan have shown that they can grow large quantities of human platelets by starting with stem cells. Scaled up, the technique could provide a dependable source of replacement platelets for patients. Platelets aren’t cells; they are shards of bone marrow cells called megakaryocytes. Cancer patients and people suffering from conditions such as aplastic anemia often don’t produce enough of these blood-clotters, so they can require supplementary infusions, sometimes more than once a week. Platelets gleaned from donated blood are the source for these transfusions, but they have several drawbacks that have spurred researchers to look for an alternative. Because the cell fragments can’t be refrigerated—low temperatures damage them—their shelf life is only a few days, versus weeks for red blood cells, and platelets are more likely to be tainted with dangerous bacteria. Vascular biologist Denisa Wagner of Harvard Medical School in Boston points out another motivation to identify new platelet sources: the aging of the world’s population. Older folks are more likely to require transfusions because they naturally produce fewer platelets, she notes. In recent years, two teams reported that they had reared human megakaryocytes and platelets from embryonic stem cells and so-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, adult cells that have reverted to stem cells. However, neither technique furnished enough platelets for a transfusion. To increase efficiency, Koji Eto of Kyoto University in Japan, who led one of the teams, and colleagues refined their recipe. By prodding human iPS cells and embryonic stem cells with drugs, they cranked up the activity of three genes that prompt the cells to divide and prevent them from committing suicide. This step yielded megakaryocyte precursors, cells that can give rise to megakaryocytes. The team found that the megakaryocyte precursors could survive and continue dividing in culture for more than 5 months, even after being frozen and thawed. When the researchers switched off the three genes by withdrawing the drugs, the cells matured into megakaryocytes and began pumping out platelets. Online today in Cell Stem Cell, Eto and colleagues estimated that within 5 days the method could produce enough platelets for a transfusion. To test the platelets’ clotting capabilities, the researchers injected them into mice that had blood vessel injuries. The lab-made platelets formed clots in the animals, the researchers showed. To use this strategy medically, Eto envisions that the megakaryocyte precursors would be kept frozen. When needed, they could be thawed and coaxed to specialize into platelet-makers. Although the megakaryocytes induced by the team weren’t as productive as those in the bone marrow, growing the cells on a large scale could make up for this inefficiency and allow generation of ample amounts of platelets, he adds. Eto says he expects to begin clinical trials of lab-produced platelets in 2 or 3 years. Other researchers agree that this study brings the field nearer the goal of deriving usable platelets from stem cells. “I was very impressed,” says stem cell biologist Nicolas Pineault of Canadian Blood Services in Ottawa. “I think it’s very close” to being practical for humans, Wagner says. The quality of the lab-made platelets could be a sticking point, though. For example, they aren’t as clingy as platelets born in the bone marrow, which might limit their clotting ability. “They are good platelets, but they are not excellent platelets,” Pineault says. The researchers still have a lot of work to do before the lab-grown platelets can substitute for donor-derived ones, adds hematologist Mortimer Poncz of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. “Are we there yet? No.” Molecular geneticist Benjamin Kile of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Australia acknowledges that many questions remain about the lab-made platelets, including their clotting capacity and life span in humans. But he says that Eto and colleagues deserve credit for showing that it’s possible to produce copious amounts of the cell fragments. “You can’t do clinical trials until you’ve managed to grow enough platelets,” he says.

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Chicago forward Dustin Byfulgien was all over the Vancouver Canucks, creating havoc in the crease and on the score sheet. Byfuglien banged in a pair of power-play rebounds and completed his hat trick in the third period to lift the Blackhawks to a 5-2 win over the Canucks and a 2-1 lead in the Western Conference semifinal series on Wednesday night. "He was in the middle of everything," said Marian Hossa, who scored 7:45 into the third period to give Chicago a 4-2 lead. "He's dominating in the corners, in the physical department and I think he was frustrating their team." Dismissed by the Canucks before the series as a non-factor despite scoring two of his three career playoff goals against them last season, Byfulgien was the biggest factor in putting Chicago ahead in the series for the first time. Moved back up front and onto the top line after playing defense in Game 2, the 6-foot-4, 257-pound Byfuglien went hard to the net all night, tucking in power-play rebounds in the first and second periods. He was credited with his third goal with 6:02 left after pushing Roberto Luongo into his net, leaving the goalie upset and the Canucks pledging retaliation. "I think so," Byfulgien said when asked if he was throwing the Canucks off their game. "They've got to worry about me coming and worry about getting hit." The Canucks seemed most worried about clearing Byfuglien out of Luongo's face. Byfuglien doesn't expect that to happen. "No, I don't think so," he said. If not, Luongo would like to see his teammates at least make life just as difficult for his Chicago counterpart. Antti Niemi made 16 of his 31 saves in the first period, but didn't have to fight through nearly as much traffic. "If they do it on us and its not being called, we have to do the same thing on the other side to at least get it even up as far as advantages are concerned," said Luongo, who finished with 30 saves. "We have to get some traffic." Kris Versteeg opened the scoring 5:19 in as the Blackhawks picked up where they left off with a third-period comeback in Game 2. "We built a lot of confidence in Game 2, but we knew it didn't mean much if we didn't come and keep playing the same way," said Chicago captain Jonathan Toews, who had three assists. "We did a lot of good things and put them on their heels for the most part." Jannik Hansen and Alex Burrows scored for the Canucks, who will try to even the series when they host Game 4 on Friday night. Vancouver will have to do a better job on special teams and against Byfuglien. "We're going to have to do a better job of protecting the front of our net," Canucks coach Alain Vigneault said. "At the same time, we know what's being allowed and permitted on the ice in front of the nets and we have to do the same thing." Byfuglien started the series on the fourth line and moved to defense in Game 2, but he shifted to the top line with Toews and Patrick Kane. But as he did in last year's series against Vancouver, Byfuglien took his usual position in front of the net on the power play and made the Canucks pay. Pointless in his first eight playoff games, he lifted in a power-play rebound with 3:13 left in the first period after Toews won a faceoff cleanly and Luongo bobbled Duncan Keith's unscreened shot from the point. Hansen pulled the Canucks within a goal midway through the second, but Burrows took an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty 2 minutes later. Byfuglien then lifted in another rebound after Toews drove to the net along the goal line. "Big Buff, he's doing what he's got to do, he's crashing," Toews said. "When there is a puck race or a battle, their players definitely know he's there and give him a little more respect, so its good for whoever is playing with him. Just try to make plays and get pucks to the net and you saw what happens." Burrows made up for the undisciplined penalty by snapping a wrist shot from the slot under Niemi's blocker off the rush with 54 seconds left in the period. But any hope of Vancouver adding to an NHL-leading 13 third-period comebacks ended when Hossa beat Shane O'Brien to a rebound for an easy goal at 7:45. Byfuglien, who skated along the end boards taunting the crowd after his second goal, was back in the spotlight -- and on top of Luongo -- for the third. Luongo was in position to make the save before Byfuglien pushed him into the net, but the goal -- orginally given to Kane -- was upheld after a video review. Byfuglien doesn't think he is getting Luongo off his game, but he admitted that seeing the goalie talking to the officials could mean he is getting close. "He doesn't like to talk too much, but he's not afraid to," Byfuglien said. "When he does, I think it means you are getting into his head, I guess," he said.

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New York -- Osram Sylvania went to the Lightfair trade show here to expand its Lightify selection of ZigBee-equipped smart LED lighting products controllable from smartphones and tablets from within the house and from remote locations. The company added an in-ceiling BR-30 screw-in downlight bulb and a RT5/6 LED downlight kit, which consist of a bulb and in-ceiling fixture whose spring-loaded clip attaches to standard RT5/6 in-ceiling lighting recesses. The BR-30 and RT5/5 kit come in two versions: tunable white and RGBW. Via the Lightify iOS and Android apps, the tunable-white versions change color temperature from 1,900 to 6,500 Kelvin. They’re promoted as the first connected lights tunable down to 1,900 Kelvin, which creates candelight-type lighting. Both models also come in RGBW versions so users can use the app’s color wheel to change the color emitted by the bulbs. Up 16 million colors are available. Different bulbs can be programmed to emit different colors simultaneously and blink in patterns. All models are dimmable and have a 20,000-hour-life rating. Additional details were unavailable. The tunable-white RT5/6 kit and tunable-white BR30 will be available this summer, and the RGBW versions will be available in the fall. Pricing wasn’t released. They will join a series of Lightify products shown at International CES, where the company made its U.S. debut in residential smart lights. The CES products are available at Amazon, will be available in Best Buy stores and BestBuy.com late in the second quarter or third quarter, and will arrive in Lowe’s stores and Lowes.com in the third quarter, a spokesperson told TWICE. The first batch of products includes a $54.99-suggested starter kit consisting an A19 tunable-white 60-watt replacement LED bulb and a ZigBee/Wi-Fi wireless Gateway, a wall wart that plugs directly into a power outlet, not into a network router. Additional bulbs cost a suggested $29.99. The A19 bulb, which screws into standard lamp sockets, is said to deliver more than 800 lumens, more than those of other 60-watt replacement LED bulbs, the company said. It’s tunable from 2700-6500 Kelvin. An A19 60-watt RGBW LED bulb is also available and also features tunable-white function. Other products in the initial round include the LED Flex RGBW at $64.99 and Gardenspot Mini RGB at $79.99. The former consists of a strip of LEDs that light up, change colors, and blink in patterns. The Gardenspot Mini RGB consists of a strip of tiny lights that sit on spikes placed in the ground, screwed into wooden decks, or taped to decks via 3M tape. OSRAM also plans to offer ZigBee smart switches that will initially provide on/off/dim functions but will control multiple scenes in the future. The Lightify gateway controls up to 50 LED bulbs and strips. It uses the ZigBee Home Automation standard, enabling it to control other-brand LED bulbs that also incorporate the standard, including Belkin WeMo bulbs. With built-in Wi-Fi, the gateway enables Wi-Fi control of lighting from smartphones that are within range of the home Wi-Fi network, but remote smartphones can also connect via cellular data to the gateway via broadband connection.

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A Baton Rouge district court judge Tuesday nullified the Nov. 6 election renewing tolls on the Crescent City Connection for another 20 years. Judge William Morvant of the 19th Judicial District ruled that voters were disenfranchised by the election, in which the decision to extend the tolls passed by just 36 votes. Opponents of the tolls, and the resulting close election, argued that provisional ballots handed to more than 1,000 voters who said they were registered, but were not on the registrar's rolls on election day, amounted to denying them a right to vote on the tolls. Provisional ballots allow voters to vote only in federal races, but not in state and local elections. Morvant ruled that since the tolls issue was a local election, the people forced to cast provisional ballots were effectively disenfranchised by the election. Mike Teachworth, director of Stop the Tolls, asked Morvant to throw out the election results because of the provisional ballots given to large numbers of voters, including more than 1,000 people who attempted to vote at their correct precincts in Orleans, Jefferson and Plaquemines parishes. Those provisional ballots limit voters' participation to federal elections only, denying these voters the ability to vote on state and local elections, which included the CCC toll proposition, according to Teachworth's lawsuit. Those legally registered voters were disenfranchised and could have changed the outcome of the election, Teachworth is arguing in his lawsuit. "We're elated, couldn't be more happy," Patrick Hand III, Teachworth's Attorney said after judge's ruling. "I think we just made history. I don't think anybody ever done this in this context before." Secretary of State Tom Schedler said he would schedule the new election on May 4 as instructed by the judge. "Clearly, there were some mistakes at the local level for this election and I plan to reach out in the coming weeks to see if the clerks and registrars in those parishes would like some technical assistance from our office, Schedler said. "The bottom line for me today is, I trust the process we have in place to contest an election. If you can make your case, you get another swing." "People better get out in vote," Hand said. "We've given them another opportunity to vote, we've protected their rights to vote, that's what this was all about. A lot of people were disenfranchised in this election." Hand said the disenfranchisement wasn't done intentionally but mistakes were made. "I don't believe any of it was intentional but the end result was, over 100 people who were legally registered voters in the right precinct at the right time were denied their right to vote on the Crescent City Connection toll proposition," he said. "This is a great day," Teachworth said. "[It] gives us another chance to defeat an unfair tax on the people of the West Bank." Testimony on Monday focused on how widespread provisional ballots were in the November election. Tolls on the Crescent City Connection will be reconsidered in a special election May 4 (Photo by David Grunfeld, NOLA.com |The Times-Picayune) Philip Trupiano, chief deputy at the Jefferson Parish registrar of voters office, testified Monday that he conducted a study on his own of the 270 precincts in Jefferson Parish. He said he found more than 90 instances of eligible voters who were deemed ineligible to cast a regular ballot and were given provisional ballots. Trupiano said in his study, those registered voters arrived at their correct voting precincts but were given provisional ballots, which did not allow them to vote on the Crescent City Connection toll. Marisa Escudero, of Gretna, testified that she registered to vote in September 2012, at the Office of Motor Vehicles on the West Bank when she moved from Texas to Louisiana. "I wanted to vote like every other American citizen," she said. But on Election Day in November, Escudero was told she wasn't registered to vote and she was given a provisional ballot. Christine Reine of Marrero was a first-time voter, and testified she registered to vote online Sept. 23. But on Election Day, she was told she wasn't on the registrar's books. "I was upset," she said. Reine said a week after the election, she received a voter registration card. Attorney Patrick Hand, right, talks to reporters outside the district courthouse in Baton Rouge after a judge struck down the November results of the Crescent City Connection tolls extension referendum. At left is Mike Teachworth, who brought the suit as president of Stop the Tolls. Four more witnesses gave similar testimony, saying they presented identification and proper registration but were denied a regular ballot on Nov. 6. Earl Schmitt, a poll commissioner in Orleans Parish, testified that on his watch, eight voters were given provisional ballots on Nov. 6. Schmitt said he tried calling the Orleans Parish registrar of voters office, then even Jefferson Parish and Avoyelles Parish, trying to get an answer. "You'd call and it would just ring and ring," he said. Schmitt said he couldn't get through to the secretary of state's office, either. Morvant said the outcome of the election was impossible to determine because properly registered voters were given provisional ballots, in which they shouldn't have. The judge referenced Trupiano's testimony as the driving factor in his ruling, highlighting that many irregularities occurred at the Nov. 6 election. "There are a lot of forces out there that make a lot off the tolls," Teachworth said. "This is really about the little guy getting another shot, that's what this is all about." The tolls generate about $22 million annually and provide three-fourths of the budget for the agency that oversees the operation.

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In a case that could have broad implications, the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday ordered prepaid mobile provider TracFone to pay $40 million for slowing down the speeds of customers who had paid for unlimited data service. While the case was specific to TracFone, a number of carriers still offering unlimited service have been slowing down, or throttling, the speeds of customers who use more than a certain amount of data. Both the FTC and Federal Communications Commission have taken a dim view of the practice. “The issue here is simple: When you promise consumers ‘unlimited,’ that means unlimited,” said Jessica Rich, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, in a statement Wednesday. The two largest carriers, AT&T and Verizon, have stopped offering unlimited data plans to new customers, though they still have some customers grandfathered in to the plans. Sprint and T-Mobile do offer unlimited data plans. All the carriers are on notice, though, that slowing down customers on unlimited plans could land them in hot water. In the TracFone case, customers who purchased such plans and saw their speeds slowed are now eligible for refunds. The FTC said that TracFone not only slowed the data service of some unlimited customers, but in some cases cut off service, too. According to the FTC, TracFone “generally slowed data service when a customer used one to three gigabytes, and suspended data service at four to five gigabytes.” Those levels had to do with the costs TracFone was incurring rather than a need to manage network traffic, it added. Verizon and the other major carriers have said that, in their case, slowing has been done to manage congestion. Update: In a conference call with reporters, Rich said that the FTC’s concerns relate specifically to how carriers are advertising their services. “This case is about false advertising,” Rich said in response to a question from Re/code. “It’s not about throttling. We’re not challenging throttling in and of itself.” Rich said that so long as it is made clear to customers, carriers can employ the practice: “If it’s clearly disclosed, if a company advertises unlimited, but very clearly discloses their practices with regard to throttling we would not challenge that action.”

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The South Australian government has chosen local internet service provider EscapeNet for its Adelaide fibre-optic network that will facilitate speeds of up to 10Gbps across the city. Businesses will be able to choose from a trio of options under the current plans available. The lowest-tier is a "micro-business" AU$50 a month plan that offers 200GB of data, with the option of unlimited data on the plan available for AU$100 a month. The third option is a AU$180 a month plan that has a 1TB monthly cap, with excess data sold at AU$55 for 500GB. All plans offer 1 gigabit upload and download speeds, and have a one month minimum contract term. "We are pleased to see local internet provider, EscapeNet, secure the contract to deliver the state government's AU$7.6 million GigCity Adelaide network," SA Science and Information Economy Minister Kyam Maher said in a statement. "For the first time, we will see businesses, startups and entrepreneurs access ultra-fast internet that is cheaper and less restrictive than current available plans on the market, which only offer half the speed." In the South Australian Budget announced last week, AU$2.9 million was set aside over four years to extend the network into new precincts. The Ten Gigabit City Project uses an existing fibre-optic network jointly owned by the state government and universities, and began with a AU$4.7 million allocation in the 2016-17 state budget. Businesses looking to get on the Adelaide network need to speak to a precinct manager. Throughout the rest of the country, the company responsible for rolling out the National Broadband Network has said previously there is a lack of demand for gigabit plans. Speaking last month with the American Chamber of Commerce, NBN CEO Bill Morrow said a lack of uptake for 1Gbps plans is not due to NBN's pricing model. "The reality is that very few Australians have a use for gigabit speeds today. The fact is, the very few applications that demand this amount of data simply aren't at scale yet," Morrow said. "In our own uptake patterns, people are gravitating to speeds that meet their needs; 83 percent of all our activated homes have opted for 25Mbps or less. In other words, only 12 percent have chosen the top tier. "And contrary to what some may think, this is not due to price premiums imposed by NBN; those higher speeds are only slightly more, at AU$8 per month over the billing period, which is around AU$2 per week." Of the technology options available to NBN, only fibre to the premise is currently capable of 1Gbps.

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A Drug Enforcement Administration agent badge (Photo11: Eric Kayne, Getty Images) WASHINGTON — Several Drug Enforcement Administration agents received thousands of dollars in agency bonuses and other work performance awards either while they were subjects of a sexual misconduct inquiry, or shortly after, in violation of agency policy, a Justice Department internal inquiry concluded. Eight of 14 agents and supervisors whose alleged activities with prostitutes while posted out of the country was outlined earlier this year by the Justice Department's inspector general, were found to have received monetary benefits or other recognition, including a regional director who received $68,600 in bonuses shortly after the director was investigated for failing to report the sexual misconduct of at least two agents, according to a new inspector general review. All of the bonus money was awarded within four years of the investigation's launch. Of that total, the inspector general expressed specific concern with a $12,000 award received just more than a year after the investigation began. The two agents under the direction of the regional director received bonuses of $2,000 and $1,500, respectively, less than a month after they emerged as subjects of the misconduct review initiated in June 2010. While none of the agents received work-related promotions, five of 10 employees who were investigated for their alleged participation in alleged sex parties with prostitutes supplied by local drug cartels in Colombia received performance or time-off awards valued between $1,900 and $4,500. In the initial Colombia review, the inspector general concluded that seven of the 10 agents allegedly involved admitted attending the parties in Colombia where a local police officer often stood guard, protecting the agents' firearms and other property. "The DEA's policy states that employees who are subjects of significant ongoing misconduct are not eligible for favorable personnel action unless DEA officials are able to make a determination as to the likely outcome of a particular case,'' the new inspector general review found. "However, we found that many employees who received awards while misconduct investigations were pending were later suspended for their misconduct, making such favorable determination very unlikely.'' In a written response to the inspector general's new report, Michael Dixon, the DEA's acting deputy chief of inspections, said the agency has implemented new procedures in its review of bonuses and other awards in an attempt to flag cases that would disqualify potential recipients because of ongoing misconduct investigations. "The...inspector general review was necessary and important, and we welcome it,'' the agency said in a separate statement Thursday. "We have accepted all of its recommendations. "Prior to the issuance of that report, DEA established new protocols to improve internal communication. These changes were designed to ensure that individuals subject to disciplinary action as a result of serious misconduct do not improperly receive promotions, bonuses or other favorable personnel actions.'' Criticism of the DEA's personnel operations have not been limited to reviews by the Justice inspector general. Last month, agency records obtained by USA TODAY showed that the DEA allowed employees to remain on the job despite internal investigations that found they were involved in the distribution of drugs, lied to authorities or committed other misconduct. Of 50 employees that the DEA's Board of Professional Conduct recommended for firing following misconduct investigations launched since 2010, 13 were terminated, according to the records. The agency was forced to take some of those fired employees back after a federal appeals board intervened. Follow @bykevinj on Twitter Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1LONPPq

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40 SHARES Share Tweet Last weekend US Senator Joni Ernst met confrontational crowds at public forums in Des Moines & Cedar Rapids where she was repeatedly shouted down & booed over the GOP health care reform plan & other issues. Indivisible Iowa Senate District 21 chapter leader Christen Bain is a Drake graduate & attended Friday’s forum at the university with nearly 800 other Iowans, some of whom had the chance to directly address Senator Ernst with a question. In this episode, Des Moines FM host Chance Dorland discusses the event with Christen, some of the questions that were asked of the senator, & how Bain works with others in her area to make sure Iowans’ voices are heard by elected officials. Subscribe To The Des Moines FM Podcast Via: Like us on Facebook Stream the episode online at http://www.spreaker.com/user/seoulitup/discussing-senator-joni-ernsts-des-moine Download the full episode at http://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/11439747/028_201_03_21_ernst_forum_at_drake_with_indivisible_iowa_bounced.mp3 This episode is brought to you by Podcast Assist & its $30 per hour flat rate podcasting voice overs, editing, mastering, transcriptions & even hosting (select a topic, they’ll create & host the podcast). Visit Facebook.com/PodcastAssist for more information. Click here to rate & review this episode in the iTunes Store. Interview answers, both in written & audio form, have been edited for length & clarity. Subscribe to the Des Moines FM Podcast via: iTunes – https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/des-moines-fm-podcast/id1122656227 Stitcher – http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/des-moines-fm-podcast audioBoom – https://audioboom.com/channel/DesMoinesFM RSS – http://feeds.feedburner.com/DesMoinesFM Thank you to Des Moines band MAIDS for the use of their song ‘Do This Better.’ Check them out at Facebook.com/ThisIsMaids. Share this: Facebook Twitter Google Reddit Email

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From May 17th to May 19th Google will be hosting Google I/O, an annual developer festival where we get a peek at what’s coming next for a lot of Google’s biggest projects. As always, Google I/O will have tons of content for Android developers. There’ll be talks about Firebase, Android Wear, machine learning for Android, and even a trio of talks about “Architecture Components”. So if you’re curious about the future of Android development, be sure to tune in; most of the sessions will be streamed live! With over 100 sessions packed into just 3 days, figuring out which ones to watch can be a bit difficult. So if you’re looking for a good starting point, here’s the talks I’m most looking forward to. Wednesday, May 17th Kicking things off, we’ve got the Google Keynote at 10am PST followed by the Developer Keynote at 1pm. These are usually pretty interesting. Plus, if there’s a big product announcement it’ll be made during the keynote. 2pm: You’ve got the choice between What’s New in Android, What’s New in Firebase, or What’s New in IoT (Internet of Things). I think they’re all good choices, but personally, I’m thinking the winner here is the IoT talk. Android O’s been out for a couple months now, so What’s New in Android probably won’t be quite as exciting as What’s New in IoT. 3pm: We’ve got the first architecture components talk. It’ll introduce a new approach to architecting apps that’ll make complex lifecycles and unreliable networks “fundamentally easier to solve”. It’s an awfully big claim, and I’m very much looking forward to it. If you’ve got the time, be sure to tune in to this one. Thursday, May 18th 8:30am: We’ve got an early start with the second architecture components session, “Solving the Lifecycle Problem”. This talk will introduce a new approach to lifecycles and promises to make the ‘lifecycle problem’ dramatically easier. It’s not entirely clear how any of this will be done, but thanks to a tweet from one of the speakers, it looks like we’ll be getting some new code to help with architecting our apps. 10:30am: We’ve got ‘Fragment Tricks’ where we’ll see how Fragments can make testing easier and how they can be used for factoring apps. Historically Fragments haven’t been very popular; is that about to change? Probably not, but it sounds promising. And with the new architecture components… who knows? Maybe Fragments will find themselves back in the spotlight. Also at 10:30am: If Fragments aren’t your thing. “Effective TensorFlow for Non-Experts”. TensorFlow is Google’s machine intelligence library, and if you know how to use the TensorFlow library, then you’ll be able to harness the power of machine learning. Even if you don’t have any machine learning problems to solve, I think it’ll be interesting to see what kinds of problems you could solve and how easy it would be to solve them using TensorFlow. 12:30pm: We’ve got the final architecture components talk about persistence and offline. This talk will outline a new approach to the persistence layer of an Android app and aims to give us ‘the full power of SQL without sacrificing compile-time code guarantees’. So no more running your app just to find out you misspelled salect! 6:30pm: Finishing out day two is the Android Fireside Chat. They’ll have engineers from every facet of Android, and they’ll be taking questions from the audience. I’m sure it’ll be a mixed bag of questions, but it should also give us some insight into the Android platform and how all the various teams work together. Friday, May 19th 8:30am: The last day of I/O is another early one. Starting at 8:30am we’ve got “Android meets TensorFlow” where we’ll see how we can create a neural network inside a mobile phone. If you’ve ever wanted to do image recognition on a mobile device or maybe even detect eye disease, then tune into this one to see what’s possible. 10:30am: The last session I’m really excited about is about Flutter. Flutter is Google’s solution to the fractured mobile ecosystem; with Flutter you can have one codebase and publish to both iOS and Android. Not only that, this talk will also showcase how to use Firebase with Flutter, and promises to create a live demo during the session! Google I/O is huge, and I’ve only highlighted a tiny portion of what’s available. If you’d like to check out the schedule for yourself, here’s a link! Also, don’t worry if you miss out on a talk; they’re usually uploaded to YouTube a day or two later. Start learning to code today with your free trial on Treehouse.

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The CW’s Superhero Fight Club 2.0 trailer brings Supergirl into the fold It’s been a big day for The CW superhero crossovers here on CS and we’re not done yet, as the network has released their Superhero Fight Club 2.0 trailer featuring returning fighters Arrow and The Flash plus newcomers Supergirl and the Legends of Tomorrow, and a few surprises! Check out part of it in the player below and see the full thing exclusively on The CW app. RELATED: Villain for the Four-Part CW Superhero Crossover Revealed! The four-part CW superhero crossover will air this December with the Arrow episode being the 100th episode of the series and star Stephen Amell has been teasing the arrival of the other heroes (and a surprise villain) for the episode, which you check out by clicking here. Supergirl stars Melissa Benoist alongside Mehcad Brooks as James Olsen, Laura Benanti as Alura Zor-El, Calista Flockhart as Cat Grant, Chyler Leigh as Alexandra “Alex” Danvers, Jeremy Jordan as Winslow “Winn” Schott, Jenna Dewan Tatum as Lucy Lane (sister of Lois), David Harewood as Hank Henshaw, Peter Facinelli as Maxwell Lord, with Dean Cain and Helen Slater. The second season premieres Monday, October 10. The Flash stars Grant Gustin as Barry Allen/The Flash, Candice Patton as Iris West, Danielle Panabaker as Caitlin Snow, Carlos Valdes as Cisco Ramo, Tom Cavanagh as Dr. Harrison Wells and Jesse L. Martin as Detective Joe West. Its season 3 will premiere on Tuesday, October 4. Arrow stars Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen, David Ramsey as John Diggle, Willa Holland as Thea Queen, Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak, John Barrowman as Malcom Merlyn, with Paul Blackthorne as Detective Lance. The show’s fifth season premieres Wednesday, October 5. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow stars Arthur Darvill as Rip Hunter, Brandon Routh as Ray Palmer/The ATOM, Caity Lotz as Sara Lance/White Canary, Victor Garber and Franz Drameh as Professor Martin Stein & Jefferson “Jax” Jackson/Firestorm, and Dominic Purcell as Mick Rory/Heat Wave. Season two will premiere on October 13 on The CW.

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Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. Y ears ago, I read a news story about a guy who owned a fleet of cement-mixer trucks that supplied concrete for road construction in his area. He was also active in community affairs and won all sorts of citizenship awards. Then some financial analyst noticed that the community devoted an unusually large proportion of its budget to roadwork. It turned out that the man routinely overloaded his trucks. The trucks cracked the roads they traveled on, which guaranteed his company a steady stream of business. An elegant scam. I think about that guy every spring when the Skin Cancer Foundation (SCF) makes its annual appeal to the public to use sunscreen. As people heed their warning this year, few will remember the report that made headlines in February. According to a survey of new research by epidemiologist Marianne Berwick of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, there is no evidence that sunscreen offers any real protection against malignant melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer. “It’s not safe to rely on sunscreen,” Berwick told the press. The SCF promptly refuted her findings in a press release, telling consumers that “sunscreen should continue to be an integral part of a comprehensive program” to prevent melanoma. That’s what most people will likely hear from their dermatologists as well. What they won’t learn is that dermatologists get much of their information from the SCF, and the SCF, in turn, is heavily supported by the sunscreen industry. (A sunscreen manufacturer even funded SCF’s quarterly consumer publication, “Sun and Skin News.”) No wonder the foundation doesn’t give much credence to the growing number of studies showing that even so-called broad-spectrum sunscreen doesn’t prevent melanoma. Like the road-destroying trucks that guaranteed work for the concrete company, rising melanoma rates scare people into using more sunscreen. In a 1993 Mother Jones article (“Beach Bummer,” May/June), I reported that sunscreen may actually contribute to skin cancer. It prolongs people’s time in the sun by preventing the only natural melanoma warning system human skin has—sunburn. Berwick didn’t go that far, but in noting the mounting evidence against sunscreen, she credited Mother Jones for its reporting. What’s changed in the five years since our report? More studies prove this link, melanoma rates are rising about 6 percent each year, and sunscreen sales are continuing to climb. Sunscreen makers and the SCF have engaged in a cynical sleight of hand by claiming that sunscreen helps prevent skin cancer. There are three main kinds of skin cancer: basal cell, squamous cell, and malignant melanoma. The first two are common (about 1 million cases a year) and almost always medically minor. The American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute don’t even count them in the nation’s cancer statistics. Melanoma is much less common (40,300 diagnoses last year), but often fatal (7,300 deaths). Basal cell and squamous cell skin cancer are caused primarily by UV-B light, the kind that causes sunburn, and there’s credible evidence that sunscreen helps prevent those two types of cancer (as well as offers protection against premature aging of skin). The Food and Drug Administration’s SPF (or sun protection factor) rating program measures UV-B protection. But most sunscreens do not offer protection against UV-A, the harmful, longer-wavelength UV light. UV-A penetrates right through the outer skin—and through sunscreen—down to the melanocytes, the cells that become cancerous in melanoma cases. In one study that proved this point, researchers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, induced melanoma in fish by exposing them to both UV-B and UV-A sunlight. They concluded: “Sunscreens effective in the UV-B region…would not protect against melanoma.” But when people hear the term skin cancer, they think melanoma. That’s because when sunscreen labels claim that the product can protect people from skin cancer, consumers don’t differentiate melanoma from basal cell and squamous cell skin cancers. Until around 1950, melanoma was rare. then its incidence increased slowly until the mid-1960s, when it accelerated into the current epidemic. The standard, pro-sunscreen explanation is that, like lung cancer, the disease has a long lag time, on the order of 20 years. Americans began sunbathing in earnest in the 1950s, and as a result, the melanoma epidemic hit in the 1970s. But even a cursory look at the history of sunbathing washes this explanation away faster than a sand castle in a hurricane. Ask any elderly person you know. Beaches around the country were jammed on summer weekends in the 1930s. Why didn’t a melanoma epidemic hit the Depression generation 20 years later? Why did it take until the mid-1970s for the epidemic to strike? Sunscreen promoters offer no clue. Meanwhile, ever since the melanoma rate began soaring, health authorities have exhorted us to use sunscreen. Americans have clearly taken this advice to heart. Sales figures jumped from $18 million in 1972 to $500 million in 1996. If melanoma has a 20-year lag time and sunscreen is protective, the melanoma rate should have started to level off by now. Instead, it’s climbing. In 1980, an American’s lifetime melanoma risk was 1 in 250. Today, it’s 1 in 84. Now take a closer look at the presumption that melanoma has a long lag time. The research indicates that the lag time could be as low as two years. Lung cancer, heart disease, and other conditions with long lag times are diagnosed at a steady rate year-round. Summer brings no more diagnoses than winter because over, say, 20 years, seasonal distinctions blur. Melanoma diagnoses, on the other hand, do reflect seasonality. At least five studies of melanoma (in Hawaii, the continental U.S., Sweden, Norway, and England and Wales) all agree that melanoma diagnoses follow a seasonal pattern, showing up at a considerably higher rate in summer than in winter. Seasonality is a hallmark of biological events with short lag times. Given that melanoma was rare until 1950, and that melanoma may have a lag time of only two to five years, then something about our relationship with UV light must have changed a few years before the melanoma rate began inching up in the early 1950s. Consider sunscreen. It was first introduced in the early 1940s as tanning lotion. The idea was that if you could stay in the sun without burning, you’d tan. A few years later, the melanoma rate began to rise. Improved tanning lotions came on the market in the early 1960s, and a few years after that, the melanoma rate zoomed up. Public health authorities became concerned, and melanoma became news. Seeing a commercial opportunity, the makers of tanning lotions repositioned their products as “sunscreen,” and the now familiar sermonizing began. Since then, melanoma has become the nation’s fastest-rising cancer and sunscreen sales have continued to climb. Ozone depletion may play a role in the higher melanoma rate, as some scientists say, but melanoma cases began to go up long before ozone depletion became an issue. In recent years, it has become clear that to prevent melanoma, sunscreen must do more than block UV-B rays—it must also protect against UV-A. As a result, sunscreen makers have tinkered with their formulas, and now most claim that their products provide broad-spectrum UV-A and UV-B coverage. Sounds good, but it’s actually another sleight of hand on the part of sunscreen manufacturers. Only one ingredient, avobenzone, is “clearly proven” to block UV-A sunlight, and according to FDA spokeswoman Ivy Kupec, the FDA doesn’t require its inclusion in sunscreens in order for manufacturers to claim that their products offer broad-spectrum protection. (“I guess there’s an inconsistency,” she notes.) Kupec added that manufacturers “could still say [their product] protects against UV-A, because they can do it until we tell them not to.” So much for regulatory protection. Even if sunscreen blocked UV-A completely, almost no one uses it in the way that grants real protection against sunburn. For sunscreen to live up to its hype, you have to slop it on real thick and reapply it every few hours. We’re talking at least one full bottle per person per day at the beach. Meanwhile, the vast majority of sunscreen users apply a thin layer once or twice. The only proven way to prevent melanoma is to cover up. Our forebears did so in the days before sunscreen. Clearly it worked because melanoma was so rare. It’s also what people now do in Australia. White Australians come largely from light-skinned British/Irish stock. Queensland province, in northeastern Australia, has the highest melanoma rate in the world, but as the SCF proudly pointed out when it rebutted Berwick’s study, melanoma rates there have started to flatten. What the SCF did not mention is that while the Queensland public health authorities began a big-budget PR campaign promoting sunscreen in 1981, they shifted the campaign’s focus a few years ago to strongly encourage people to cover up and stay in the shade. The Skin Cancer Foundation does acknowledge that sunscreen alone is not enough. You need to wear protective clothing (pricey new fabrics such as Solumbra apparently block both UV-A and UV-B, but a wide hat and long, lightweight summer clothing should suffice), and spend more time in the shade. If you’re a beach lover, invest in a sun umbrella. But think twice before you slap on sunscreen. Some cement mixers destroy the roads we’re told they build. And some products may contribute to the cancer we’re told they prevent. Additional reporting by Kate Rope.

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When the CIA destroyed those prisoner interrogation videotapes, was it also destroying the truth about 9/11? After all, according to the 9/11 Commission Report, the basic narrative of what happened on that day — and the definition of the enemy in this war on terror that George W. Bush launched in response to the tragedy — comes from the CIA’s account of what those prisoners told their torturers. The commission was never allowed to interview the prisoners, or speak with those who did, and was instead forced to rely on what the CIA was willing to relay. On the matter of the existence of the tapes, we know the CIA lied, not only to the 9/11 Commission but to Congress as well. Given that the Bush administration has for six years refused those prisoners any sort of public legal exposure, why should we believe what we’ve been told about what may turn out to be the most important transformative event in our nation’s history? On the basis of what the CIA claimed the tortured prisoners said, President Bush launched a “Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT), an endless war that threatens to bankrupt our society both financially and morally. How important to the 9/11 Commission Report were those “key witnesses”? Check out the disclaimer on Page 146 about the commission’s sourcing of the main elements laid out in its narrative: Chapters 5 and 7 rely heavily on information obtained from captured al Qaeda members. … Assessing the truth of statements by these witnesses … is challenging. Our access to them has been limited to the review of intelligence reports based on communications received from the locations where the actual interrogation took place. We submitted questions for use in the interrogations, but had no control over whether, when, or how questions of particular interest would be asked. Nor were we allowed to talk to the interrogators so that we could better judge the credibility of the detainees and clarify ambiguities in the reporting. We were told that our requests might disrupt the sensitive interrogation process. Videos were made of those “sensitive” interrogations, which were accurately described as “torture” by one of the agents involved, John Kiriakou, in an interview with ABC News. Yet when the 9/11 Commission and federal judges specifically asked for such tapes, they were destroyed by the CIA, which then denied their existence. Of course our president claims he knew nothing about this whitewash, and he may be speaking the truth, since plausible deniability seems to be the defining leadership style of our commander in chief. But what about those congressional leaders who were briefed on the torture program as early as 2002? That includes Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi, who has specialized in heartfelt speeches condemning torturers in faraway places like China. Pelosi press aide Brendan Daly told me that The Washington Post report on her CIA briefing was “overblown” because Pelosi, then the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, thought the techniques described, which the CIA insists included waterboarding, were merely planned and not yet in use. Pelosi claimed that “several months later” her successor as the ranking Democrat, Jane Harman, D-Calif., was advised that the techniques “had in fact been employed.” Harman wrote a classified letter to the CIA in protest, and Pelosi “concurred.” Neither went public with her concerns. Harman told The Washington Post, “I was briefed, but the information was closely held to just the Gang of Four. I was not free to disclose anything.” The “Gang of Four” is an insider reference to the top members of the House and Senate intelligence committees and not to the thugs who ran Mao’s China during the Cultural Revolution. Not only did the congressional Gang of Four fail to inform the public about the use of torture by our government, but it also kept the 9/11 Commission in the dark. Pelosi testified before the commission on May 22, 2003, but uttered not a word of caution about the methods used. However, more than two years later, on Nov. 16, 2005, Pelosi stated correctly that on the basis of her “many years on the intelligence committee,” she knew that “[t]he quality of intelligence that is collected by torture is … uncorroborated and it is worthless.” Having admired Pelosi for decades, I hope I am missing something here. If she and the others in the know have another version of these events it’s time to come clean. As matters now stand, they not only concealed torture but, more significantly, they abetted the waterboarding of our democracy.

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One of the most dangerous roads in Somalia has become a battleground between African Union (Amisom) troops and Islamist al-Shabab insurgents. The BBC's International Development Correspondent, Mark Doyle, travelled with a convoy that was hit by two roadside bombs. The explosion, when it came, was deafening. I was totally unprepared for it. The Ugandan soldiers protecting me, however, reacted fast. Image caption General Dick Olum and his forces take every precaution to protect themselves from attacks by Al-Shabab We have very few armoured vehicles to escort the troops and to move logistics Brig Gen Dick Olum, Amisom commander It was a roadside bomb. The vehicle behind us in our long, armoured convoy of Ugandan African Union troops and supplies had been hit. As I fumbled for recording equipment in the stifling heat of the armoured personnel carrier I was travelling in, the three Ugandan gunners did their job. With their heads poking through the holes in the roof above me, the Ugandans let rip into the surrounding bush with repeated bursts of heavy machine gun fire. The guns spewed hot, empty cartridges the length of a biro and the circumference of a water pipe. As they rained down on my lap I brushed them off to stop being burnt. A deep '"boom, boom, boom" reverberated around the cabin of the armoured vehicle. We were on the stretch of road between Balle Dogleh and the next village, Lego - one of the most dangerous parts of Somalia. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The BBC's Mark Doyle described the device and the damage it caused It is a hard fought-for road in a hard fought-for country. Amisom first arrived in Somalia to fight the Islamist al-Shabab in 2007. After four years of house-to-house battles it pushed al-Shabab out of Mogadishu. Gradually, the African Union force - in this area mainly Ugandans with Burundian support - then moved north, taking strategic points including Afgoye and Baidoa. The village of Gof Gudud, south-west of Baidoa, is still being fought over. The next village, Manaas, is still de facto controlled by al-Shabab. No farmers left My litmus test of a dangerous place is if there are no civilians there; they sensibly left long ago. If Amisom withdrew al-Shabab would take over in minutes - maximum one hour Somali observer The stretch of road between Balle Dogleh and Lego is fertile. But there are no farmers here - only overgrown bush. The obvious reason is that it is a battleground between al-Shabab and African Union forces. Amisom is not a "peacekeeping force" as African Union diplomats and the Westerners who finance it sometimes like to imply. There is no peace to keep in Somalia. Amisom's clear military aim is to stop the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab from overthrowing the government in Mogadishu and creating an anti-Western caliphate. It has a mandate from the United Nations and is mainly financed (and backed, with drone surveillance teams and other military advisers) by the United States. The government of Somalia is weak and divided; it does not have an effective army. A well-informed Somali observer in Mogadishu said "if Amisom withdrew al-Shabab would take over in minutes - maximum one hour". When I put this analysis to senior Amisom officers they said little. They were too diplomatic to agree "on the record". Al-Shabab is a powerful, resilient, and well-armed organisation. It is one of the few radical Islamist movements worldwide, post-Taliban, to control significant territory. It runs vast swathes of southern and central Somalia. In the areas they control al-Shabab are unpopular because they ban TV, for example, and enforce strict Sharia (Islamic law). Nevertheless they can capitalise on the lack of decent government from Mogadishu. Lack helicopters No-one should doubt the scale of the war in Somalia. On this trip I have been to a dozen Amisom front line bases across the country. Individual camps are ringed by big earthwork defences, heavy machine gun positions, artillery and even huge battle tanks. Image caption Members of the Somali national army in a frontline village of Gof Gudud Image caption The main road from Mogadishu to Baidoa was re-opened in April I should not have been surprised by the roadside bomb attack described at the start of this article. The day before, the convoy I was in was hit by another bomb. And during the intervening night the dark Somali sky was full of the sounds of an al-Shabab attack on an Amisom base next to the one I was sleeping in, near Lego. AK-47 rifles and light machine guns rattled away for several minutes during that attack. Al-Shabab At A Glance "The Youth" in Arabic Formed as a radical offshoot of the Union of Islamic Courts, which controlled Mogadishu, in 2006 Previously ran much of southern Somalia Lost some popular support by banning Western aid agencies during 2011 famine Estimated to have 7,000 to 9,000 fighters Withdrew from Mogadishu in August 2011 Announced merger with al-Qaeda in 2012 The next day I visited the scene. Between 15 and 20 al-Shabab fighters had advanced in attack formation against the base but were repelled. The Ugandans said none of their men or women were badly hurt in these multiple attacks. Amisom has made progress against al-Shabab in recent years but is now stalled because its enemy is powerful. "We have very few armoured vehicles to escort the troops and to move logistics," Brigadier General Dick Olum, commander of the lead Ugandan troops, told me. "We also need helicopters for medical evacuation and to move commanders around the battlefield," he said. "Finally, we need attack helicopters that will strike at al-Shabab locations." In the four days that I was travelling north from Mogadishu to Baidoa there were at least five serious clashes across Somalia. In isolation, none of these attacks would probably have been reported by mainstream media. But put together and confirmed, they illustrate the widespread and deadly nature of a war which is far from over. Photos by Daniel Fisher.

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Reload or refresh the page to display the latest results. Results as of: 11/9/2018 6:38:53 PM TULSA FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR GOVERNOR 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL CHRIS POWELL (LIB) 170 207 5,339 5,716 2.82% KEVIN STITT (REP) 4,675 5,437 91,406 101,518 50.11% DREW EDMONDSON (DEM) 5,254 7,217 82,879 95,350 47.07% Total 10,099 12,861 179,624 202,584 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL MATT PINNELL (REP) 5,368 6,235 105,309 116,912 58.13% ANASTASIA A. PITTMAN (DEM) 4,400 6,289 67,161 77,850 38.71% IVAN HOLMES (IND) 238 295 5,824 6,357 3.16% Total 10,006 12,819 178,294 201,119 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE AUDITOR AND INSPECTOR 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL JOHN YEUTTER (LIB) 2,282 3,724 45,670 51,676 28.19% CINDY BYRD (REP) 6,483 7,571 117,596 131,650 71.81% Total 8,765 11,295 163,266 183,326 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL MIKE HUNTER (REP) 5,375 6,274 106,495 118,144 59.12% MARK MYLES (DEM) 4,596 6,491 70,592 81,679 40.88% Total 9,971 12,765 177,087 199,823 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE TREASURER 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL RANDY McDANIEL (REP) 5,714 6,754 109,706 122,174 66.76% CHARLES de COUNE (IND) 3,039 4,578 53,211 60,828 33.24% Total 8,753 11,332 162,917 183,002 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL JOY HOFMEISTER (REP) 5,568 6,400 100,999 112,967 56.37% JOHN COX (DEM) 3,974 5,759 64,592 74,325 37.09% LARRY HUFF (IND) 465 609 12,025 13,099 6.54% Total 10,007 12,768 177,616 200,391 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR COMMISSIONER OF LABOR 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL LESLIE OSBORN (REP) 5,342 6,097 100,540 111,979 56.69% FRED DORRELL (DEM) 4,240 6,162 66,063 76,465 38.71% BRANDT DISMUKES (IND) 288 406 8,381 9,075 4.59% Total 9,870 12,665 174,984 197,519 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR INSURANCE COMMISSIONER 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL GLEN MULREADY (REP) 5,314 6,113 103,482 114,909 58.05% KIMBERLY FOBBS (DEM) 4,545 6,549 71,953 83,047 41.95% Total 9,859 12,662 175,435 197,956 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR CORPORATION COMMISSIONER 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL BOB ANTHONY (REP) 5,285 6,197 101,489 112,971 56.83% ASHLEY NICOLE McCRAY (DEM) 4,248 6,093 65,730 76,071 38.27% JACKIE SHORT (IND) 398 412 8,934 9,744 4.90% Total 9,931 12,702 176,153 198,786 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 01 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL KEVIN HERN (REP) 5,096 5,874 102,048 113,018 56.25% TIM GILPIN (DEM) 4,931 6,944 76,029 87,904 43.75% Total 10,027 12,818 178,077 200,922 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE SENATOR DISTRICT 12 3 of 3 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL JAMES LEEWRIGHT (REP) 66 55 1,610 1,731 68.72% RICK PARRIS (DEM) 29 36 723 788 31.28% Total 95 91 2,333 2,519 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE SENATOR DISTRICT 18 3 of 3 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL KIM DAVID (REP) 17 36 547 600 72.38% CHARLES ARNALL (DEM) 22 10 197 229 27.62% Total 39 46 744 829 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE SENATOR DISTRICT 36 21 of 21 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL JOHN HASTE (REP) 422 389 8,159 8,970 57.58% BRYAN O'BRIEN (DEM) 307 416 5,884 6,607 42.42% Total 729 805 14,043 15,577 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 16 1 of 1 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL SCOTT FETGATTER (REP) 6 0 127 133 81.10% CHANDLER TORBETT (DEM) 2 5 24 31 18.90% JAMES DELSO (IND) 0 0 0 0 0.00% Total 8 5 151 164 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 23 9 of 9 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL TERRY S. O'DONNELL (REP) 90 65 2,209 2,364 49.50% CRAIG JOHN HOXIE (DEM) 76 123 2,213 2,412 50.50% Total 166 188 4,422 4,776 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 29 2 of 2 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL KYLE HILBERT (REP) 39 37 955 1,031 71.75% JESSE GOODWIN (DEM) 13 22 371 406 28.25% Total 52 59 1,326 1,437 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 66 14 of 14 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL JADINE NOLLAN (REP) 226 269 5,972 6,467 57.99% ANGELA GRAHAM (DEM) 199 334 4,151 4,684 42.01% Total 425 603 10,123 11,151 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 67 15 of 15 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL JEFF BOATMAN (REP) 638 1,035 9,371 11,044 65.65% CARLY HOTVEDT (DEM) 458 709 4,611 5,778 34.35% Total 1,096 1,744 13,982 16,822 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 68 12 of 12 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL J. LEE MILLER JR. (LIB) 13 12 284 309 2.61% LONNIE SIMS (REP) 292 355 6,118 6,765 57.16% MICHAEL ROSS (DEM) 206 281 3,186 3,673 31.04% HEATHER CHENOWETH (IND) 25 33 1,030 1,088 9.19% Total 536 681 10,618 11,835 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 69 15 of 15 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL SHEILA DILLS (REP) 677 715 10,229 11,621 70.52% ANDY RICHARDSON (DEM) 360 428 4,069 4,857 29.48% Total 1,037 1,143 14,298 16,478 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 70 22 of 22 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL CAROL M. BUSH (REP) 542 530 8,180 9,252 54.61% JJ BURNAM (DEM) 510 576 6,604 7,690 45.39% Total 1,052 1,106 14,784 16,942 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 71 15 of 15 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL CHERYL BABER (REP) 302 339 4,524 5,165 43.86% DENISE BREWER (DEM) 436 596 5,579 6,611 56.14% Total 738 935 10,103 11,776 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 75 14 of 14 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL KELLI KREBS (LIB) 9 15 371 395 3.75% T. J. MARTI (REP) 279 272 5,076 5,627 53.40% KAREN GADDIS (DEM) 237 293 3,986 4,516 42.85% Total 525 580 9,433 10,538 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 76 12 of 12 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL ROSS FORD (REP) 370 475 8,253 9,098 67.18% FORREST MAYER (DEM) 233 334 3,878 4,445 32.82% Total 603 809 12,131 13,543 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 77 19 of 19 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL TODD BLACKBURN (REP) 77 78 2,782 2,937 40.91% JOHN WALDRON (DEM) 132 212 3,899 4,243 59.09% Total 209 290 6,681 7,180 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 78 20 of 20 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL GENE BELL (LIB) 22 23 520 565 4.44% PAUL ROYSE (REP) 176 232 4,177 4,585 36.02% MELOYDE BLANCETT (DEM) 384 616 6,580 7,580 59.54% Total 582 871 11,277 12,730 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 79 19 of 19 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL DAN HICKS (REP) 351 367 5,289 6,007 48.00% MELISSA PROVENZANO (DEM) 384 493 5,630 6,507 52.00% Total 735 860 10,919 12,514 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 80 17 of 17 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL STAN MAY (REP) 413 498 8,965 9,876 68.98% JANICE J. GRAHAM (DEM) 285 283 3,874 4,442 31.02% Total 698 781 12,839 14,318 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 98 6 of 6 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL DEAN F. DAVIS (REP) 110 111 2,483 2,704 60.61% KILMYN EASLEY-GRAF (DEM) 101 82 1,486 1,669 37.41% SEAN PARRISH (IND) 2 3 83 88 1.97% Total 213 196 4,052 4,461 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY DISTRICT 14 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL STEVE KUNZWEILER (REP) 5,532 6,406 104,562 116,500 58.59% JENNY PROEHL-DAY (DEM) 4,369 6,304 71,669 82,342 41.41% Total 9,901 12,710 176,231 198,842 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER DISTRICT NO. 1 80 of 80 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL STAN SALLEE (REP) 1,257 1,214 28,545 31,016 55.30% KEVIN MATTHEWS (DEM) 1,076 1,832 22,167 25,075 44.70% Total 2,333 3,046 50,712 56,091 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR DISTRICT JUDGE DISTRICT 14, OFFICE 1 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL CAROLINE WALL 5,753 7,563 95,876 109,192 64.24% TOM SAWYER 2,593 3,417 54,779 60,789 35.76% Total 8,346 10,980 150,655 169,981 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR DISTRICT JUDGE DISTRICT 14, OFFICE 2 16 of 16 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL BLAKE B. SHIPLEY 63 202 1,491 1,756 21.89% SHARON K. HOLMES 208 760 5,297 6,265 78.11% Total 271 962 6,788 8,021 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR DISTRICT JUDGE DISTRICT 14, OFFICE 3 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL TRACY PRIDDY 5,583 7,130 90,881 103,594 60.37% JIM CAPUTO 2,813 3,930 61,250 67,993 39.63% Total 8,396 11,060 152,131 171,587 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR DISTRICT JUDGE DISTRICT 14, OFFICE 9 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL CHRIS BRECHT 2,246 2,860 41,515 46,621 27.04% LINDA G. MORRISSEY 6,181 8,266 111,367 125,814 72.96% Total 8,427 11,126 152,882 172,435 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR DISTRICT JUDGE DISTRICT 14, OFFICE 12 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL MARTHA RUPP CARTER 5,441 6,816 85,341 97,598 58.48% RICK D. WESTCOTT 2,819 3,948 62,536 69,303 41.52% Total 8,260 10,764 147,877 166,901 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY FOR ASSOCIATE DISTRICT JUDGE TULSA COUNTY 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL CLIFF SMITH 4,579 5,461 79,291 89,331 55.00% BRIAN A. CRAIN 3,354 4,922 64,813 73,089 45.00% Total 7,933 10,383 144,104 162,420 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY SUPREME COURT DISTRICT 2 - PATRICK WYRICK 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL YES 5,288 6,850 98,564 110,702 64.24% NO 3,127 4,227 54,257 61,611 35.76% Total 8,415 11,077 152,821 172,313 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY SUPREME COURT DISTRICT 3 - NOMA D. GURICH 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL YES 5,988 7,212 96,528 109,728 64.10% NO 2,414 3,824 55,227 61,465 35.90% Total 8,402 11,036 151,755 171,193 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY SUPREME COURT DISTRICT 4 - YVONNE KAUGER 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL YES 5,978 7,484 98,424 111,886 65.31% NO 2,440 3,570 53,417 59,427 34.69% Total 8,418 11,054 151,841 171,313 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY SUPREME COURT DISTRICT 7 - JAMES E. EDMONDSON 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL YES 5,572 7,059 93,151 105,782 61.33% NO 2,845 4,071 59,774 66,690 38.67% Total 8,417 11,130 152,925 172,472 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS DISTRICT 1 - DANA KUEHN 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL YES 6,197 7,808 106,221 120,226 70.12% NO 2,218 3,249 45,771 51,238 29.88% Total 8,415 11,057 151,992 171,464 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS DISTRICT 4 - SCOTT ROWLAND 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL YES 5,701 6,959 98,825 111,485 65.51% NO 2,628 3,990 52,068 58,686 34.49% Total 8,329 10,949 150,893 170,171 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS DISTRICT 5 - DAVID B. LEWIS 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL YES 5,879 7,039 96,237 109,155 64.18% NO 2,462 3,897 54,560 60,919 35.82% Total 8,341 10,936 150,797 170,074 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS DISTRICT 4 - OFFICE 1 - BARBARA GREEN SWINTON 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL YES 6,056 7,736 105,313 119,105 69.87% NO 2,315 3,268 45,774 51,357 30.13% Total 8,371 11,004 151,087 170,462 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS DISTRICT 5 - OFFICE 1 - KENNETH L. BUETTNER 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL YES 5,813 7,079 99,632 112,524 66.28% NO 2,455 3,850 50,933 57,238 33.72% Total 8,268 10,929 150,565 169,762 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS DISTRICT 5 - OFFICE 2 - ROBERT BOBBY BELL 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL YES 5,739 6,982 95,615 108,336 63.82% NO 2,545 3,955 54,913 61,413 36.18% Total 8,284 10,937 150,528 169,749 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS DISTRICT 6 - OFFICE 1 - E. BAY MITCHELL, III 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL YES 5,786 7,070 98,167 111,023 65.57% NO 2,471 3,858 51,975 58,304 34.43% Total 8,257 10,928 150,142 169,327 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS DISTRICT 6 - OFFICE 2 - BRIAN JACK GOREE 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL YES 5,594 6,908 96,206 108,708 64.07% NO 2,681 4,044 54,242 60,967 35.93% Total 8,275 10,952 150,448 169,675 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY STATE QUESTION NO. 793 INITIATIVE PETITION NO. 415 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL FOR THE PROPOSAL - YES 5,727 6,815 83,521 96,063 48.42% AGAINST THE PROPOSAL - NO 4,057 5,829 92,447 102,333 51.58% Total 9,784 12,644 175,968 198,396 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY STATE QUESTION NO. 794 LEGISLATIVE REFERENDUM NO. 371 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL FOR THE PROPOSAL - YES 7,754 9,698 135,611 153,063 77.57% AGAINST THE PROPOSAL - NO 2,013 2,909 39,326 44,248 22.43% Total 9,767 12,607 174,937 197,311 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY STATE QUESTION NO. 798 LEGISLATIVE REFERENDUM NO. 372 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL FOR THE PROPOSAL - YES 5,002 5,921 80,243 91,166 46.69% AGAINST THE PROPOSAL - NO 4,748 6,592 92,765 104,105 53.31% Total 9,750 12,513 173,008 195,271 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY STATE QUESTION NO. 800 LEGISLATIVE REFERENDUM NO. 373 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL FOR THE PROPOSAL - YES 4,359 5,765 76,564 86,688 44.76% AGAINST THE PROPOSAL - NO 5,199 6,680 95,118 106,997 55.24% Total 9,558 12,445 171,682 193,685 FEDERAL, STATE AND COUNTY STATE QUESTION NO. 801 LEGISLATIVE REFERENDUM NO. 374 262 of 262 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL FOR THE PROPOSAL - YES 5,452 6,790 95,657 107,899 54.96% AGAINST THE PROPOSAL - NO 4,310 5,789 78,338 88,437 45.04% Total 9,762 12,579 173,995 196,336 BERRYHILL FIRE PROTECTION FOR BOARD MEMBER BOARD MEMBER OFFICE 4 BERRYHILL FIRE PROTECTION 5 of 5 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL RAY LUSK 12 11 676 699 62.13% CHRIS GOBLE 11 14 401 426 37.87% Total 23 25 1,077 1,125 CITY OF TULSA FOR COUNCIL DISTRICT 3 CITY OF TULSA 25 of 25 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL CRISTA PATRICK 82 183 3,783 4,048 64.50% JUSTIN ROLPH 62 73 2,093 2,228 35.50% Total 144 256 5,876 6,276 CITY OF TULSA FOR COUNCIL DISTRICT 4 CITY OF TULSA 22 of 22 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL DANIEL REGAN 392 638 6,500 7,530 47.25% KARA JOY McKEE 460 796 7,149 8,405 52.75% Total 852 1,434 13,649 15,935 CITY OF TULSA FOR COUNCIL DISTRICT 5 CITY OF TULSA 20 of 20 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL MYKEY ARTHRELL 248 291 4,504 5,043 48.05% CASS FAHLER 208 257 4,987 5,452 51.95% Total 456 548 9,491 10,495 CITY OF TULSA FOR COUNCIL DISTRICT 7 CITY OF TULSA 21 of 21 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEE MAIL EARLY VOTING ELECTION DAY TOTAL ELLOUISE COCHRANE 52 100 1,014 1,166 9.86% ELLIOTT L. PARKER 15 51 584 650 5.49% MICHAEL PATTON 164 218 2,337 2,719 22.98% ERIC C. TURLEY 30 48 724 802 6.78% BRANDON McCOMBS 45 61 1,206 1,312 11.09% KEN REDDICK 71 145 1,720 1,936 16.37% LORI DECTER WRIGHT 188 307 2,750 3,245 27.43% Total 565 930 10,335 11,830

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Get the biggest daily news stories by email Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play The video will start in 8 Cancel Play now A family of three say they've been living in a car with two cats, a dog and a cockatiel since July after their house was repossessed. Deborah Talbot said she’s been living with her taxi driver partner Glyn Jones, 60, their 23-year-old daughter Rachel, and their four pets in a disabled people carrier. Ms Talbot, of Newport, Gwent, says she’s had little luck so far in finding accommodation after she lost her job in a supermarket. She told Wales Online: “I got evicted by our mortgage company. "Newport council said we weren’t a priority, and we weren’t allowed to get emergency accommodation because we didn’t have any children. “We had nowhere to go at the time, which meant we ended up in there,” she said, saying there were no friends who could have taken them under their wing. With no kitchen, the family are relying on takeaways and ready-to-eat food from the supermarket. “We haven’t been able to have a proper meal,” said Ms Talbot, 41, who now works as a cleaner in a school. With four pets – cats named Cassy and Macey, a bird called Samuel and a dog called Fred – it can be a squeeze in the disabled person carrier loaned to them by Glyn’s taxi firm. Ms Talbot says the cats go in the back of the car in a basket, while the cockatiel stays in a cage. “The chairs can’t go down far because we need to make room to ensure we can all get in their to lie down properly. "It’s been quite uncomfortable,” she said, saying the family have been using sleeping bags. “We park up in random places where we can get some quiet. “It has been very cold,” she said, explaining the family are going to Newport Centre to use their washing facilities, and they have been keeping bedding in lockers. “We’ve approached private landlords but we have had no joy – it's all about finding a bond. "We haven’t got the cash coming in to do that as well. "I have bid on properties from Newport City Homes [a local registered social landlord] but nothing has come of it.” (Image: Media Wales) However there might be light at the end of the tunnel. “I had a phone call asking to go down to speak to someone about a property I did bid on,” Ms Talbot said. “They are arranging for us to go and view it.” A Newport council spokeswoman said: “Ms Talbot applied under the homeless provisions in July after her home was repossessed. “Her application was assessed correctly and a decision letter was issued on 17 July that accepted she was homeless but not in priority need. There is a right of appeal but this was not requested. “Advice has been provided to Ms Talbot on numerous occasions including about housing benefit and options for alternative accommodation. We will continue to offer her advice and support as she seeks rehousing. “We do sympathise with anyone who is made homeless but there is a high demand for housing in the city.”

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Sevilla FC Sevilla FC Getafe Getafe 5 0 FT Game Details GameCast Lineups and Stats Sevilla bounced back from their last-gasp defeat to Manchester City by thrashing 10-man Getafe 5-0 to move up to ninth place in the Primera Division. Kevin Gameiro hit a first-half brace to put the hosts well in control and completed his hat-trick with a penalty, while Ever Banega and Yevhen Konoplyanka also netted spot-kicks, the Ukrainian completing the visitors' humiliation after Carlos Vigaray was dismissed. Unai Emery's side suffered a last-minute defeat at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday due to Kevin De Brunyne's injury time goal and a home game against a Getafe side who have not won a single game on the road this season was just the tonic they needed. Gameiro set them on their way 10 minutes before the break by diverting the ball in from close range after Victor Guaita could only parry Banega's shot. The Frenchman doubled the lead and his tally on the stroke of half-time, capitalising on some lax Getafe defending to control a through ball from Banega unmarked and beat Guaita with ease. Sevilla were awarded the first of three penalties five minutes into the second half when Vigaray tugged Konoplyanka in the area. Despite being on a hat-trick, Gameiro passed penalty taking duties to Banega, who made no mistake from 12 yards, but the Argentinean gave his team-mate the chance to complete his treble when Gameiro was upended by Vigaray, who was shown a second yellow card. The Frenchman duly accepted to score goal number four, and then Konoplyanka was able to get in the score-sheet, stroking home Sevilla's third penalty in little more than half an hour. ends

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Some Background on the Gaza Strip - Curt Landry Ministries ENTER YOUR SEARCH TERMS AND PRESS 'Enter' Donate Now Log In Account Donate Now About About Curt Landry Curt Landry Ministries Annual Report One New Man – The Church and the Jewish roots of Her faith One New Man Terminology SUPPORT Donate Freedom Prayer (One-on-One) Reaching the Nations with the Message of Yeshua Holocaust Survivors Israel Defense Force Boys Safe House Girls Safe House Partner with us Sponsor a Tree West Bank Children’s Garden JOIN US Weekly Streaming Sign Up Watch Now: Live Streaming Upcoming Events Resources One New Man Network Blog Prayer Requests One-on-One Freedom Prayer Guide to One New Man Guide to Jewish Roots Guide to Fall Feasts Children’s Fall Feast Guide | A Free Pray & Learn Resource Rosh Hashanah | Feast of Trumpets Yom Kippur | The Day of Repentance Sukkot | A Time of Rejoicing Psalm 91 Prayer Transform Your Weakness Discover Your Godly Strength How to Unify the 3-Stranded Cord Guide to Biblical Finance Spiritual Protection for Your Health and Wealth Believer’s Guide to Shofars Believer’s Guide to the Tallit Call on the Name of the Lord! 25 Names of Jesus Believer’s Guide To Hanukkah The Hanukkah Story Customer Login Store Cart Donation Programs The Embassy Collection Partner with CLM Holy Anointing Oil® Gift Ideas Best Selling Books Jewelry Shofars Tallits Tree Sponsorship Apparel Judaica Items on Sale Contact 1 on 1 Prayer Prayer Request Speaking Request About About Curt Landry Curt Landry Ministries Annual Report One New Man – The Church and the Jewish roots of Her faith One New Man Terminology SUPPORT Donate Freedom Prayer (One-on-One) Reaching the Nations with the Message of Yeshua Holocaust Survivors Israel Defense Force Boys Safe House Girls Safe House Partner with us Sponsor a Tree West Bank Children’s Garden JOIN US Weekly Streaming Sign Up Watch Now: Live Streaming Upcoming Events Resources One New Man Network Blog Prayer Requests One-on-One Freedom Prayer Guide to One New Man Guide to Jewish Roots Guide to Fall Feasts Children’s Fall Feast Guide | A Free Pray & Learn Resource Rosh Hashanah | Feast of Trumpets Yom Kippur | The Day of Repentance Sukkot | A Time of Rejoicing Psalm 91 Prayer Transform Your Weakness Discover Your Godly Strength How to Unify the 3-Stranded Cord Guide to Biblical Finance Spiritual Protection for Your Health and Wealth Believer’s Guide to Shofars Believer’s Guide to the Tallit Call on the Name of the Lord! 25 Names of Jesus Believer’s Guide To Hanukkah The Hanukkah Story Customer Login Store Cart Donation Programs The Embassy Collection Partner with CLM Holy Anointing Oil® Gift Ideas Best Selling Books Jewelry Shofars Tallits Tree Sponsorship Apparel Judaica Items on Sale Contact 1 on 1 Prayer Prayer Request Speaking Request Log In Account Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content Skip to footer Home / Blog / Making a Difference / Some Background on the Gaza Strip Some Background on the Gaza Strip October 16, 2014 by Curt Landry Ministries As you follow the news related to the latest series of tensions between Israel and the Gaza Strip, it is important to give a bit of background about the region for some context in case you are unaware of the history or significance of the region. The Gaza Strip is a region along the Mediterranean Sea, bordering Egypt on the southwest and Israel on the east. Gush Katif disappeared with its beautiful hothouses, orchards, flowers, red roofs, streets, factories, crops, schools and synagogues In 1994, Gaza was awarded self-governance by Israel through the Palestinian Authority. This came after generations of military occupation by Israel, Egypt, Great Britain and Turkey. Neither Gaza nor Palestine have ever been a sovereign state, but theirs cultures have been embedded in the region for hundreds or even thousands of years. Many of the violent conflicts between Israel and Gaza over the years have been related to the region fighting for independence. The most recent conflict between Israel and Gaza, according to the Israeli government, was to stop rockets being fired from Gaza into Israel. Currently, Gaza is under the control of Hamas, an Islamic terrorist organization. As of the end of August, the two declared a cease-fire in the latest conflicts, but there is still plenty of tension in the region. The region’s current northern and eastern boundaries were established after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, and there has been conflict ever since about the rights to govern the region. In 2005 the area known as Gush Katif, which was home to 8,600 Israeli residents, was forcibly “evacuated”—i.e. all Israelis were removed from their homes and their communities were demolished as part of Israel’s disengagement from the Gaza Strip. There is a significant amount of history in Gaza dating back dozens of generations, so it’s really difficult to boil down everything that’s happened into one short timeline. This is why there is no good way to answer people who ask why Israel and the Palestinians have been at odds with each other for so long – there is such a long history of conflict between the two sides that the issues of become entangled and evolved over the centuries. The horrible uprooting of the Jewish residents in order to attain “peace” with the Arabs has been one of the most terrible chapters in Israel's short history. We encourage you to pray for Israel and for an end to the fighting. The region has been war-torn for far too long. If you are interested in supporting our mission work in Israel and the Middle East, contact us at Curt Landry Ministries for more information. Curt Landry was born and raised in Los Angeles, C.A. in a secular home… TAKING THE GOSPEL OF YESHUA HAMASHIACH (JESUS THE MESSIAH) INTO ALL THE NATIONS! 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The year begins with a host of changes in the sky above. Mercury, Venus and Mars all enter new signs, scurrying backstage to switch costumes for the next act. A warm Leo Moon begins the week, though the air may be unnecessarily heated by the square between Mars and Mercury, which is precise on Tuesday morning. Late Tuesday night, Venus enters kinetic Sagittarius, whose wide plains she will ride until January 23rd. The middle of the week, Tuesday through Thursday, is overseen by a waning Moon in Virgo, which lends it a practical, problem-solving orientation. Friday and Saturday, though, see the Moon in social Libra, and on Friday night, an almost-retrograde Mercury makes his way into Aquarius. Finally, on Sunday both the Moon and Mars enter Scorpio, making an intense conjunction mid-day. Venus: Tonight We Ride Venus is the first planet to change signs this week, entering Sagittarius on Tuesday, the 29th. Here the bright jewel of the heavens, still well within in her morning star phase, trades the gothic stylings of Scorpio for a huntress’ cap and bow. It is not beasts she is hunting, but excitement and glory. As Venus moves, so moves the sphere of ambient pleasures. Venus in Sagittarius revels in epic tones, the spectacle of suprahuman excellence and action-packed aesthetics. Her ride wakes sleeping spirits and kindles their fire. While offering a brighter color scheme, faster pace and rising tone in Sagittarius, Venus’s ride through the centaur’s sign will nonetheless be complicated by the Saturn-Neptune square, which she must cross early next week. Confrontation and congress between passion and duty await. Mercury: The Postman Rings Thrice Mercury is already making preparations to disappear from the evening sky. Though the swift and unsteady planet will not station retrograde this year-straddling week, the process is well under way. Mercury stations retrograde on January 5th and will resume direction motion on January 25th. The event horizon for the small planet’s retrograde cycle has already been crossed. The main roads are closing, but a variety of secret ways are about to open. The tricksy planet spends the first half of the week in the late degrees of Capricorn, but on Friday, January 1st, enters Aquarius. Usually, when the messenger takes flight from the dark hills of Capricorn and launches into the cold winds of Aquarius, the mind turns from the past to the future. This year, though, the possibilities which float above are born on shifting and violent winds. Though the mind takes flight this week upon these blustery currents, the planet’s upcoming retrograde motion will return the Mercury back to the mineral solidity of Capricorn by January 8th. Spending only 7 days in Aquarius, this ingress is thus a false start. In practice, many will find their minds turning toward the future prematurely. Other matters must be revisited before the possibilities glimpsed here can be actualized. Do not rush toward the glittering new. Instead, place it behind a glass case- a protective vessel- and contemplate it, from different perspectives and in different lights, over the course of the next several weeks. Mars: Red Questions Often times, it is the week leading up to the retrograde station which contains the bulk of the phenomena typically associated with Mercury’s retrogrades. The potential for trouble along roadways and within circuit boards is further heightened by the square between Mercury and Mars, which is exact on Tuesday, the 29th, with another installment due next week. Thus, to Mercury’s potential for delays and detours, we must add the inflammation, irritation and impatience which Mars so often brings. Bandits hide along the road, ready to extract a toll. Now that we have come to Mars, it is worth a few words to describe the disposition of his legions. Mars begins the week at the end of Libra, in a square with Mercury. Here his energetic, combative influence presses hard on the formation of thoughts and communications. In some cases, this will spark conflicts, yet in others this martial potency will push for definite plans of action. More walk, less talk. The themes of impatience and the seeming necessity for action cut across a variety of the square’s manifestations. Here, at the end of Libra, Mars finishes retracing the complicated steps of his last retrograde, which occurred from March through May of 2014. The cycle which began then and ends now has been one of concealed aggressions and complicated diplomacy. By the end of the week, though, Mars will be in Scorpio, a sign in which the red planet’s nature is uncompromised. This shift towards the essential Mars, ruthless and intense, will be our first introduction to one of the cycles that will define much of the comin g year, as Mars will spend over 4 non-consecutive months in Scorpio. This is due to Mars’ upcoming retrograde, which spans the beginning of Sagittarius and the end of Scorpio. From January 3rd onward, Mars will either be Scorpio or Sagittarius until the end of September 2016. Brooding, intense and hungry for satisfaction, Mars in Scorpio stalks the next several months. He is particularly powerful in the first ten degrees of Scorpio, which he will be within until January 21st. Here he offers the gift of hunger, and the strength and will to satisfy it. His images are those of relentlessness. The hunt thus begins, where it is for knowledge, power, love or pleasure. Mars’ entrance into Scorpio offers a cluster of questions which we will return to much later in the year. What and whom are we willing to bleed for? This blood, literal and metaphysical, is the only ink in which certain promises can be written. For what words and pledges do we reserve it? Once raised, it is a question not easily answered- nor should it be. Thus, with Mars as our metronome, we will take nearly half of the year to reach a conclusion.

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Get the biggest daily news stories by email Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email A distressing video shows a diving guide repeatedly punching a shark before dragging another with its tail in front of horrified tourists in the Bahamas. The vicious worker is seen lashing out at the nurse shark while trying to disperse a group of large fish, who were trying to get food. The shocking clip also shows him throw the shark out of the way, before dragging another by its tail. Afterwards, a witness said, the guide told onlookers he was demanding 'f****** respect' from the gentle sharks. Stunned accountant Nicholas Jones, who filmed the underwater violence, said the sharks were trying to get food because the instructor hadn't locked a bait box properly. (Image: Nicholas Jones / mediadrumworld.) (Image: Nicholas Jones / mediadrumworld.) The 33-year-old, from the Cayman Islands, said: "This happened twice over the course of the dive. "Nurse sharks are clever, and are able to use their suction and flexible manoeuvres to get food out of tight places. "The guide did not lock the bait box properly twice and proceeded to punish the sharks for their innate ability and natural reaction to accessible food on a shark-feeding dive. (Image: Nicholas Jones / mediadrumworld.) (Image: Nicholas Jones / mediadrumworld.) (Image: Nicholas Jones / mediadrumworld.) "So basically, the shark feeder lost his temper with the nurse sharks and punched them because of his own mistake. "If the nurse sharks had eaten all of the chum the reef sharks would have left the 'arena' and the show would have been over. "Upon surfacing when the guide was questioned about his treatment of the sharks he responded 'Yeah, sometimes you just have to demand some f****** respect'." The abhorrent act of violence against the peaceful shark was just the latest distasteful behaviour Nicholas observed on the dive. "Coming from the Cayman Islands we are accustomed to dive operators who provide first class service which includes a detailed safety and educational information briefing," he explained. (Image: Nicholas Jones / mediadrumworld.) "For the first dive, the reef was completely dead, rubble, and bleached. "Now, I know that coral reefs are under serious stress world-wide but when I saw one of the guests holding on to one of the last remaining coral heads with her thick gloves (diving with gloves is illegal for this reason in Cayman), I understood why this particular area was so bad. "There was no mention or reminder of proper diving etiquette during the briefing before the dive. Coral is a very fragile animal and should never be handled by humans. "We arrived at the 'arena' and it was amazing having the sharks around. However, one of the Dive Masters grabbed a nurse shark aggressively by the tail. I brushed it off."

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Kyle Snyder made history at the Rio Olympics by becoming the youngest American wrestler to win a gold medal. The medal will soon be history as well, to be replaced by the IOC and Rio organizers because of damage. Kyle Snyder's damaged gold metal from the 2016 Rio Olympics will soon replaced by the IOC and Rio organizers because of damage. ( Kevin Snyder / The Associated Press ) Snyder and Helen Maroulis, another U.S. gold medallist wrestler, are among a group of more than 100 athletes from around the world with defective Olympic medals. Beach volleyball star Kerri Walsh Jennings says her bronze medal from last summer is flaking and rusting, and USA Swimming spokesperson Scott Leightman said some swimmers have damaged medals as well. USA Basketball spokesperson Craig Miller said the organization reached out to its players and seven — three men and four women — reported they believe there is an issue with their medals. The names of players aren’t known yet, and the plan will probably be to pass the medals on to USOC for evaluation. Article Continued Below A Rio Games spokesperson Mario Andrada said Friday that officials have noted problems with the covering on 6 per cent to 7 per cent of the medals. “The most common issue is that they were dropped or mishandled, and the varnish has come off and they’ve rusted or gone black in the spot where they were damaged,” Andrada said. Snyder, who wrestles for Ohio State, was 20 when he won his medal. He noticed an issue with his medal the day after he won it. He went to a party at the Team USA house in Rio, where he said multiple people handled the medal as they celebrated. Snyder said he later discovered a scratch on the back of it, though he added there has been no further damage. Snyder said he has until the end of the week to return his gold medal and has no idea when he’ll receive his replacement. “It wasn’t too big of a deal,” Snyder said. “But since they’re giving me a new one, it’s kind of cool.” Rio de Janeiro spent about $12 billion to organize the Games, which were plagued by cost-cutting, poor attendance and reports of bribes and corruption linked to the building of some Olympic-related facilities. Article Continued Below Nine months later, many of the venues are empty and have no tenants or income — with the maintenance costs dumped on the federal government. In addition to the issues with the medals, which featured the Rio and Olympic logos, the local organizing committee still owes creditors about $30 million. Greg Massialas, a national coach for the U.S. fencing team in Rio, said the silver medal son Alex won is damage free. He added that he hasn’t heard about any issues with other American fencers. U.S. shooter Ginny Thrasher and boxer Claressa Shields, along with men’s tennis bronze medallist Kei Nishikori of Japan, also reported that their gold medals are intact. Walsh Jennings, who won three golds in previous Olympics, says her medals tend to get beaten up because she doesn’t hesitate to let people touch them or try them on. But she won’t consider locking them up because people are inspired by them. “They’ve offered to replace them. I’m not sure if I want to swap it out,” said Walsh-Jennings, adding the reason was “100 per cent sentimental.”

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Sept 16 (Reuters) - A second Russian citizen has pleaded guilty to U.S. charges that he participated in a computer hacking scheme that compromised more than 160 million credit card numbers and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. Dmitriy Smilianets, 32, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in federal court in Camden, New Jersey, to conspiring to commit wire fraud, three years after his arrest in what authorities say was the largest computer hacking scheme ever prosecuted in the United States. Smilianets, a Moscow resident, made his plea a day after another Russian, Vladimir Drinkman, 34, pleaded guilty in the case to conspiring to illegally access computers and conspiring to commit wire fraud. Both men were arrested while traveling in the Netherlands on June 28. Three others charged remain at large, authorities said. Prosecutors said that as far back as 2003, the men worked to install “sniffers” designed to comb through and steal data from computer networks of financial companies, payment processors and retailers. Prosecutors said the defendants then used an array of computers to store and ultimately sell data they collected. They said Smilianets was in charge of sales, selling data to trusted identity theft wholesalers, selling credit card numbers for $10 to $50 a piece depending on country of origin. The scheme ultimately caused banks and credit card companies to suffer hundreds of millions in losses, including more than $300 million reported by three companies alone, prosecutors said. Sixteen companies’ networks were infiltrated, including those of Nasdaq OMX Group Inc, 7-Eleven, France’s Carrefour SA, JC Penney Co, JetBlue Airways Corp, a Visa Inc licensee, and Heartland Payment Systems Inc, prosecutors said. Smilianets faces up to 30 years in prison when he is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jerome Simandle on Jan. 13. His lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Still at large are Alexandr Kalinin, 28, of St. Petersburg, Russia; Roman Kotov, 34, of Moscow; and Mikhail Rytikov, 28, of Odessa, Ukraine. Drinkman and Kalinin were previously been charged as “Hacker 1” and “Hacker 2” in a 2009 indictment accusing Albert Gonzalez of Miami over his involvement in five corporate data breaches. Gonzalez is serving a 20-year federal prison term. The case is U.S. v. Drinkman, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, No. 09-cr-00626. (Editing by Grant McCool)

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Pinellas County, Florida On May 19, 2013, 47-year-old restaurant server Lisa Buckley arrived home from work at 4:17 PM. She then went about reinforcing a food industry stereotype about veteran waitresses (demonstrated by the Naomi character from the movie ' Waiting ') by picking a violent fight with one of her neighbors. According to a police report, the altercation began with Lisa throwing various items all over her residence. She then reached for something that as an Atlanta Falcons fan would have scared the hell out of me: A New Orleans Saints-themed garden gnome Lisa then proceeded to strike the man on the head with the NFL licensed lawn ornament, causing him to bleed out of his left ear "WHO DAT gonna get a concussion, ya #$%&ing punk?!" After realizing that she had crossed a line (and that the police who were on their way would be enforcing a lot more than the Travelocity guarantee), Lisa fled the scene. The next day, however, the previously aggressive/violent waitress sent her gnoming victim a barrage of text messages begging him not to press charges . Unfortunately for her, the man she had attacked was (probably) a Tampay Bay Bucs fan. The Pinellas County police d epartment missed a real opportunity by not including the gnome in her mugshot .

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