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BlockEx is a Digital Asset Exchange Platform (DAxP). As part of its mission to offer the best digital assets to its traders, it is launching the BlockEx ICO Market. This will help companies to launch their ICOs, which will then be hosted exclusively on the platform. BlockEx provides a flow of highly vetted ICOs to traders, and everyone in its marketplace will have passed KYC and AML. BlockEx prides itself on bringing the regulatory framework and good governance of traditional financial institutions to the ICO landscape.
One of the high quality ICOs available on BlockEx is WePower. As BlockEx cleans up the ICO landscape, WePower is making energy cleaner. Instead of waiting for institutional change, WePower is creating an energy revolution from the ground up. WePower enables renewable energy producers to raise capital by issuing their own energy tokens. These tokens represent energy they commit to produce and deliver. Energy producers will be able to raise funds from households and investors directly by selling energy tokens.
WePower is particularly important right now, as concerns for the environment increase, and funding for new renewable energy projects decrease. Banks have started requesting increased equity on these projects. The equity to debt ratio has gone from 20:80 to 50:50. Investment has plunged 23% year-on-year. Into this environment comes WePower. It enables a more grassroots approach to funding renewable energy projects.
WePower is integrated with the energy grid and wholesale energy markets. WePower has already secured necessary partnerships with key industry players, so can start energy trading immediately. They also have an impressive team. Their CTO Kaspar Kaarlep led the first nationwide smart grid and smart metering systems implementation in Estonia. Blockchain development is led by Jon Matonis (founding partner of Bitcoin Foundation) and their token economy is structured with the help of Eyal Hertzog (chief product architect of the Bancor Protocol).
WePower will be launching the WPR token. This token stores value and ensures liquidity. Energy producers on the WePower platform donate part of the energy they produce to WPR token holders. Token holders can use this energy, or sell it. WPR tokens constantly accrue energy, meaning they accumulate real value.
BlockEx will provide technical infrastructure to buy WPR tokens using BTC, ETH and fiat. Participants can also get tokens direct from WePower using ETH.
Washington in its arrogance, seeing itself as "indispensable," poses a continuing threat to the lives of hundreds of millions of people. The extraordinary number of dead that Washington has murdered in the 21st century -- "The American Century" -- is dismissed as "collateral damage" in the "war on terror."
The war on terror is a hoax. It is a creation of the evil neoconservatives who intend Washington's world hegemony and Israel's hegemony from the Nile to the Euphrates. The rest of mankind has realized that Washington's drive for world hegemony means the entire human race will be dismissed as "collateral damage" as Washington establishes itself as the "exceptional, indispensable country," the country whose will is above the rule of law and whose morality is non-existent.
The stark reality is that America, which wore the White Hat during the Cold War, now wears the Black Hat, and Russia and China have traded the Black Hat for the White Hat. The hope for mankind no longer resides in the West, which has entered a militarized gestapo existence conducting war against its own citizens and the world at large.
Aggression is the hallmark of 21st century Washington and its captive European vassal states. There has not been a 21st century year without slaughter of innocents by "Western civilization."
In this interview with Eric King -- I speak of the hope that comes from revulsion at the looting of southern Europe by fellow EU members and the American hedge funds. If southern Europeans can find the intelligence to comprehend that the New York and German financial interests have decided to destroy the prospects of southern Europeans for the sake of the profits of American and northern European financial interests, European peoples, brainwashed into the grand glorious prospects of being an EU member, might realize the treachery to which they were subjected and leave the exploitative system known as the European Union, a system designed to destroy the sovereignty of European nations.
Powerful Russia stands there as an alternative. As does China. If the Greek government has the sense to default to those who are determined to exploit and to destroy Greece, Italy and Spain will follow. Russia and China are waiting with open arms, and unlike the Western governments, Russia and China are not bankrupt.
Without southern Europe, NATO is a non-entity. The Brzezinski and neocon doctrines of Washington controlling Eurasia come to naught. Without NATO Washington's pretense of speaking for "the world community," that is, for the white people, rings hollow.
We have to pray for life. Unless Washington can be isolated, life on earth has dim prospects.
In the event anyone thought Mike Zimmer had criticized Aaron Rodgers, he wanted to set the record straight Thursday.
The Green Bay quarterback suffered a sprained left knee in the first half last Sunday against Chicago and was taken off on a cart. But he returned for the second half and led the Packers back from a 20-0 deficit to win 24-23.
Did Zimmer believe somebody had thought it was criticism?
Rodgers has not practiced all week. After Green Bay’s final practice of the week Friday, the Packers must put out a final injury report for Sunday’s game.
When asked if he believes the Packers are using any gamesmanship regarding Rodgers, Zimmer said no. Regardless, he firmly believes Rodgers will be in uniform Sunday.
“I think he’s going to play,’’ Zimmer said. “This guy is one of the best football players that’s ever played in the history of the NFL, so I have no doubt that he’s going to go out there and he’s going to give it his best shot.
Defensive end Everson Griffen was added to Minnesota’s injury report after not being on it Wednesday. He was listed as limited in practice with a toe injury.
All 53 players on the roster practiced Thursday. The only other player listed as limited was center Pat Elflein.
With Elflein continuing to work his way back from shoulder and ankle issues, Brett Jones is expected to make his second straight start at center Sunday.
–Special teams coordinator Mike Priefer was pleased with punter Matt Wile’s first game with the Vikings. In a 24-16 win last Sunday over San Francisco, Wile punted six times for gross average of 38.3 yards and a net of 36.0. “Matt did a really nice job,’ Priefer said. “We had six punts and he had five pluses and one real bad minus. The five pluses were huge. We pinned them inside the 20 four times.’’ The one poor punt went 29 yards and out of bounds in the fourth quarter.
–Zimmer used safety Jayon Kearse in a nickel role against the 49ers, but has not ruled out putting George Iloka in that spot. Zimmer said Kearse got the nod because “he practiced a little more’’ while Iloka “hadn’t done it as much’’ after being signed Aug. 22.
–Tackle Aviante Collins had successful surgery Wednesday to repair a torn right bicep. Collins, injured Sept. 6 in practice, was placed on injured reserve Monday. He is out for the season.
Coldplay and Beyonce’s new music video for “Hymn For The Weekend,” released Friday, has already received a lot of attention — but not for the right reasons.
The video, which was set and filmed in India, has been criticized for appropriating Indian culture — which is used primarily as backdrop and costume in the music video. From the laughing children running barefoot throughout the video to Beyonce’s face jewelry and strange hand gestures — the entire video reeks of stereotypical representation of India, a diverse country of over one billion people. And popular Indian actress Sonam Kapoor receives little more than a few seconds on screen.
This is not the first time that Coldplay has used another culture and country as nothing more than a backdrop for its own videos. Its video “Princess of China,” featuring Rihanna, followed a similar pattern in 2011.
Coldplay’s latest video, and its representation of India, has prompted some backlash on social media.
Beyonce's video is a problem because it's reductive, and uses India as a prop for capitalist gain. A land and culture she has no right to.
From Selena Gomez wearing a bindi to Iggy Azalea’s appropriation of black culture, many in the music industry have received criticism in recent years for appropriating other cultures. In August 2015, Taylor Swift’s video “Wildest Dreams,” which was filmed in Tanzania and notably lacked any black people, was met with backlash for romanticizing an era of European imperialism on the continent.
CentrePit, CentrePasture — what's next?
Efforts to build the 35-story CentrePointe tower seem to be as dead as developer Dudley Webb's mysterious financier.
Since the project stalled more than a year ago, CentrePointe has become the ultimate Lexington irony: a block developed for more than two centuries that has been cleared, planted in grass and fenced like a horse farm.
As CentrePointe became CentrePit and then CentrePasture, I received many calls and e-mail messages from readers with ideas for what that block in the center of Lexington should become.
Some wanted to see it remain a grassy park — sans fence — or planted in trees or even vegetable gardens. Others would like to see the next herd of Horse Mania statues graze there during the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. My younger daughter thinks it would be a great place to give pony rides.
An updated cross-licensing agreement between Intel and Advanced Micro Devices expands their rights to use third-party chip makers to manufacture x86 chips under certain conditions.
Among the third-party companies that will be covered by the deal is Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Investment Co., which holds a stake in GlobalFoundries, the former manufacturing arm of AMD, and is in the process of acquiring Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor, a contract chip maker. The buyout deal, which was approved by Chartered shareholders earlier this month, faces one more regulatory hurdle before it can be completed.
ATIC expects to close the acquisition before the end of this year. When that happens, ATIC will become Chartered's sole owner and Chartered -- which has produced processors for AMD in the past -- will effectively function as part of GlobalFoundries.
GlobalFoundries was at the heart of a patent lawsuit filed against AMD by Intel, which argued that the spin-off was not a subsidiary of AMD and therefore wasn't covered under the previous cross-licensing agreement between the two chip makers. That lawsuit was resolved as part of a settlement agreement reached between the two companies last week.
At the same time that AMD and Intel settled outstanding litigation between themselves, they also signed a new patent cross-license agreement that gives AMD the right to have x86 processors manufactured by third-party chip makers. The text of the revised cross-license agreement, which was redacted to hide some details, was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday.
Under the terms of the revised agreement, GlobalFoundries, Chartered, or any other third-party chip maker can produce chips on AMD's behalf, provided that the "designs and specifications ... for the manufacture of such products are furnished in substantially completed form."
Hellaby Holdings has seen a substantial fall in profit, as the economic downturn affected all its divisions.
The investment company made $372,000 in the six months to December, compared to $5 million in the same period a year earlier.
Revenue fell 4% to $242 million in the same period.
Hellaby Holdings chief executive John Williamson says the revenue drop is due mainly to the loss posted by its equipment division which distributes forklifts and construction equipment.
The company will reduce inventories within that division and restructure the business during the second half to take account of the drop in demand.
The company has cut debt by a third to $80 million compared with a year ago.
Mr Williamson says Hellaby has again downgraded its full year profit forecast. It is forecasting a $5 million profit rather than a profit of between $8 million and $11 million.
Willing Webcam is a software tool designed to help you capture streaming video and snapshots and publish them on your website. To make your video production shine, you can enhance it with comments, date and time stamps, watermarks, and various live video effects. You can also create a digital album where images and videos are organized for fast retrieval and viewing. The program uses a motion control detection sensor that wakes up your web camera at the slightest motion in the room. The sensor can trigger a variety of actions, including e-mail sending, movie saving, FTP uploading, sound alarm, or a launch of any specified application. In addition to the motion sensor, the program has a time-lapse option. It allows you to record video at specified time intervals.
"Outstanding software, it makes webcaming look easy"
Thanks to their tech rep Oleg, I who knew little about this concept was able to put a Laser Particulate Monitor display on my website This is a well designed product.
Your help files would benefit from actual examples so that non techies who do not understand the industry buzzwords would be able to produce the correct format. Fill out the page for us, and show us the picture.
I managed (with Oleg's help) to get a picture of a part of my screen on my web site, but it wants to hang over the side, and there is some kind of mountain scenery showing up to the right that I have no idea where it comes from.
The idea that I can crop my desktop to put just the area that I want to display is great, but your explanation of how to accomplish that is really sketchy and in my experience only trial and error got me something close to what I wanted.
"First program that worked as designed including audio."
This was the first web cam software I could find that actually supported streaming audio in the http server broadcast. It worked for all my uses which includes monitoring my home remotely, and recording audio/video for projects.
Its has a different menu system then the average program so it takes a few minutes to get used to operating it. Hardly a problem considering how well built this program is.
It has all the futures you would except from a webcam software, and its seems to be setup so that it does not seem bloated. The software doesn't use much cpu power compared to some others I have tried. It doesn't nag you. I contacted support with questions and was replied to same day, good service. I was so impressed with this program I decided to buy it for continued use. 5 star product here.
"Daps to the creater I think I tried them all."
I had no problems setting up, even with so many features!
I believe this might be a common trait with motion detection but it appears to use alot of cpu.
"Nice software, but not free."
So far I give it an "F". I'm running Win XP SP2 with all the latest upgrades. I downloaded and installed it and my PC immediately froze and crashed. I had to power down to reboot and then I started the program again. As I was reading the help screen and exploring the menus selections things got sluggish and my PC again crashed. I'm not one to give up easy though because I'm looking for a program like this but it obviously has to work. I'm going to try their tech support next.
Tech support is superb, directly from the author. Streams, timelapse, security features. XP compatible. Intuitive interface. Multiple camera support. USB, Camcorder, etc etc. We have run a webcam for 10 years and used a dozen programs. Willing webcam does it all with stability and flexibilty for a business or hobbyist.
"Lots of features, but very unintuitive interface..."
Wide range of features including email alerts, FTP upload, recording video or snapshots, etc.
Horrible interface! I found it difficult to get a hang of using it, so much so I've abandoned it in favor of another product. It's like every option is jam-packed into the one screen, it was confusing and frustrating to use.
The help info is sparse, it describes the functions in plain but too simplistic language.
"Best webcam software I have used"
This program does everything. Streaming, time-lapse, basic uploading of still images to a web page, you name it. The functions are endless. It has motion detection and image adjustment features like text and cropping. It has the best support I have ever seen, direct from the author. It is updated regularly and new features are being added. I have purchased Active webcam, ImageSalsa, Webcam32, WebcamXP and others but none come close to this program in XP stability, tech support, features, and ease of use. Our webcam gets 6000 hits a day and 30GB of downloads a month including time-lapse video. Willing Webcam has worked great. It supports multiple cameras of many types, webcam, camcorders, DirectX, video for windows, etc. I have a camera connected now via usb and another via a capture card with two copies of Willing Webcam running on the same XP machine. I can't say enough good things about this program. The full program is good deal and I recommend it over the lite version for just a little more money.
No cons really, Doesn't use the classic Windows graphic user interface but icons and buttons in this design prove to be as easy or even more intuitive.
It leaves nothing out. Just like it says -turn your webcam into a security cam. Straight forward easy to configure. I am using it to record and take pictures when I'm not home -Nice Job!
Its not a real pretty interface but it is very functional -don't change a thing!
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Passenger ferry services between Saudi Arabia and Sudan are back to normal following months in hiatus.
People familiar with the maritime transportation industry in Jeddah confirmed late yesterday that after delays due to ship maintenance requirements operations between the two nations have resumed.
“One of the first ferry boats left Jeddah port on Thursday for Sudan’s Sawakein port with 300 passengers on board,” said Nama seaport transportation official Salah Oraibi.
Oraibi said the ferry service between Sawakein and Jeddah will eventually become steady, and reach 24 trips per month with three weekly trips averaging 20,000 passengers.
“The resumption of maritime services between the two countries comes at a time when the Umrah season is in full swing as more and more pilgrims travel by sea to Jeddah. In addition, the ships transport Sudanese laborers to the Kingdom,” said Oraibi.
Capt. Mohammed Aboud Babidan, member of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry Committee for Navy Transportation, said that passenger sea movements between the Kingdom’s Red Sea ports and neighboring countries like Egypt and Sudan witnessed a sharp decline of more than 80 percent over a 10-year period. The decline was due to a number of ships sinking in the Red Sea.
Browsing Lavinia Roberts' website is a bit like crossing into another world. Photos of her art show children lofting torso-sized paper hands, fashion models in gold masks and trees growing out of suitcases. For her month as artist-in-residence at Surel's Place, however, Roberts focused on her other passion: writing plays as magical as her "wearable sculptures" that have been produced in more than 30 cities nationwide. Roberts' latest work, Black Triangle, is about a lawyer on the hunt for "self-definition, as well as ghosts," who delves into the history of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, and will debut at Visual Arts Collective in partnership with the Alley Repertory Theater series "The Age of Women."
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As a child, Nancy Lee Carlson watched in fascination as the astronauts of Apollo 11 bounced across the surface of the moon, collecting rocks to bring back to earth.
She never dreamed she would come to possess her own piece of the lunar surface, her lawyer said. But after winning a landmark legal battle, Carlson returned home to the Chicago suburbs Tuesday, the proud owner of a one-of-a-kind bag of moon dust.
Carlson had purchased the bag in 2015 for $995 when it was put up for sale in an online government auction because of a bureaucratic mix-up. But when the Inverness woman sent the artifact to NASA to test it — and officials there found it contained the unique hallmarks of moon dust — they decided they would not return it.
That prompted a legal battle that ended with a federal judge ordering the space agency to return what government attorneys described as a priceless national treasure.
"It's what every collector wants," said Carlson's attorney, Christopher McHugh. "You want to find the thing that's super special."
A priceless bag of moon dust collected during the Apollo 11 mission has been returned to a Chicago-area woman after she won a landmark legal victory against NASA.
The white bag itself appears unremarkable, about the size of a dinner plate, with a zipper and a tear in it.
But the bag is made of beta cloth, a fireproof silica fiber similar to the material used in space suits. The container was used on the first manned mission to the moon in 1969, NASA reported, as the outer decontamination bag to store the first lunar samples collected on the mission by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
Government attorneys argued that the bag rightfully belonged to NASA, and that Carlson only hoped to make a "windfall profit" from selling it.
NASA issued a statement that read in part: "This artifact was never meant to be owned by an individual. ... We believe (it) belongs to the American people and should be on display for the public, which is where it was before all of these unfortunate events occurred."
Indeed, how Carlson came to possess the celestial souvenir is a space odyssey in its own right.
Previously, the government had seized the bag in a criminal case against Max Ary, the former president of a space museum in Kansas. He was convicted in 2006 of theft for selling objects from the museum, court records show.
While investigating Ary, authorities learned the moon bag had been auctioned off for $24,150 and seized it from its purchaser. But because of a mix-up with another bag that did not contain moon dust, no NASA official at the time was aware of the historical importance of the artifact. The bag containing the lunar dust went to the U.S. Marshals Service, and was put up for auction at forfeiture.gov, to obtain restitution in the criminal case.
The initial auction asked for a beginning offer of at least $20,000, but nobody bid on it. When Carlson, a corporate attorney and avid collector of space objects, saw the bag at auction again in February 2015, she was the high bidder.
After receiving the bag in the mail, Carlson stored it in her bedroom closet. She tried to verify its authenticity by contacting officials at the Field Museum in Chicago, who referred her to Johnson Space Center in Houston. She contacted the curator of lunar samples there, and sent him the bag for testing.
There, in April of last year, NASA officials verified that the dust in the bag was in fact from the moon and had become embedded into the fabric of the bag. Moon dust is not like its earthly counterpart, in part because there is no water and little atmosphere to erode it, so it's full of pointy microscopic particles that stick to just about anything with which they come in contact.

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