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A child stands in the aftermath of a shelling in Jabalia, Gaza. An estimated 500 children were killed in the 2014 attack. (Photo: Shareef Sarhan/UNRWA Archives).
Ryan Goodman, professor of human rights law and co-editor of the Just Security blog, notesthat settlement-building is a particularly important issue for the court “because unlike other war crimes charges, Israel will not be able to mount a successful challenge to the Court’s jurisdiction by claiming that it is conducting its own criminal investigation of such actions.”ICC prosecutors are also examining Israeli settlement-building the West Bank. The court treaty defines the “transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies” as a war crime.
Palestine’s bid to join the ICC faced strong opposition, namely from the United States and Israel.
U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law an appropriations act that would cut off aid to the Palestinian Authority if the “the Palestinians initiate” or “actively support” an ICC “judicially authorized” investigation “that subjects Israeli nationals to an investigation for alleged crimes against Palestinians.” Further, from January to March of this year, Israel withheld roughly $400 million in tax revenue in response to the decision to join the ICC.
International human rights group Human Rights Watch issued a statement condemningthe bullying tactics and calling on the international community to support Palestine’s decision.
“Governments seeking to penalize Palestine for joining the ICC should immediately end their pressure, and countries that support universal acceptance of the court’s treaty should speak out to welcome its membership,” said Balkees Jarrah, international justice counsel at Human Rights Watch.
Bensouda said that the court will be examining crimes committed by both Israel and Hamas, which has been accused of indiscriminately firing rockets into Israeli towns. “We will be looking at alleged crimes committed by all sides to the conflict, in total independence and impartiality, and without fear or favour,” she said.
A recent vote on funding to assist Lakewood in a loan for stormwater implementation project was a step forward for some Chautauqua County legislators. In a 13-4 vote, dissension came from Legislator Lisa Vanstrom, R-Ellicott, regarding just how much the village would be paying as part of the $1.3 million project.
Fortunately, she was not alone.
Other legislators, including Mark Odell, R-Brocton, David Himelein, R-Findley Lake, and David Wilfong, R-Jamestown also voted against giving the Lakewood a $450,000 loan through the count with zero percent interest.
If any county legislators have questions on finances, it is alway better to vote “no” than just be part of a “yes” crowd. That is a stance for more accountability — and is appreciated.
As a consumer, I prefer Zillow’s advertising-supported model of information dissemination as opposed to cumbersome sign up process employed by House.com. Advertising is far less intrusive overall, especially when you employ a secret weapon.
As a marketer however, House.com’s lead capturing model is far more attractive to me – even if there are ways to defeat that processs as well.
In essence, Zillow is biting the hand that feeds it.
It depends entirely on advertising monies from Realtors to sustain its business model, and yet clearly is in the business of providing the tools for consumers to circumvent Realtors.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I like Zillow. I love their product and I think Rich Barton is a smart guy. But I do think they’re being slightly disingenuous when they claim they are purely “a media site” – I would expect that they’ve anticipated this quandary (or at least that somebody at their VC, Benchmark Capital, has done their due diligence and asked the question) and that they have plans for other revenue sources. Now, as to what those sources may be, that’s anyone’s guess.
TIJUANA, Mexico -- Tijuana’s police chief Alejandro Lares resigned Friday after he was asked to leave his post, a spokeswoman in the police department said.
The news comes a day after a KPBS investigation into the city’s strategy toward homeless migrants aired on PBS NewsHour.
The spokeswoman could not immediately confirm if Lares’s resignation was connected to the airing of the story. A spokesman for the Tijuana mayor declined to comment on the exact reasons for Lares’s departure.
Hundreds of migrants are living in Tijuana’s storm drains. They've been trying to avoid police raids that sometimes prove fatal. The storm drains stem from the Tijuana River canal, which is flanked by highways. When migrants try to escape police, they are sometimes killed by passing cars.
Mayor Jorge Astiazarán has led the city’s efforts to evict migrants from the Tijuana River canal. Last spring, he ordered the placement of hundreds of migrants into drug rehabilitation centers, some against their will. Many of the migrants were using heroin and methamphetamine. A KPBS investigation published last year revealed that not all of the migrants placed in rehab were addicts.
Following the mayor’s lead, police chief Lares conducted weekly raids of the canal, and ordered fourteen all-terrain vehicles to place inside in the coming weeks. He was waiting for their arrival when KPBS interviewed him in January.
Lares attributed a recent decrease in petty crimes across Tijuana to the city’s strategy toward the homeless migrants. Lares said the migrants commit crimes such as robbery to finance their drug addictions.
When police capture them in the canal, they are placed in jail, on buses out of town or in drug rehabilitation centers.
“It’s a no man’s land,” he said of the canal.
A spokesman for the mayor said it is unknown who is going to replace Lares as police chief.
Into K-pop, K-drama, K-beauty, K-fashion? Or Korean food, art and history? Immerse yourself in Korean culture (and food, history and fun) at this third installment of KoreaFest with games, classes, activities and much more, plus slated performances by K-pop girl group H.U.B., former member of BP Rania Alex Reid; singer-songwriter DABIT; singer-songwriter David Oh (cast member of “We Got Married”); local rap group 919K; hip-hop emcee HeeSun Lee and Youn Duck Kyung Dance Co. And for the shoppers, there will be vendors. Kerr Scott Building, Hillsborough Street, Raleigh. March 2, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. General admission $15, Celeb meet & greet tickets $30. nckoreafest.com.
If you can see Overwatch’s Genji you’ve probably let him get too close. The same applies to his character in Heroes of the Storm. And if that happens, whatever you do, don’t shoot him.
With his X-Strike ultimate waiting in the wings as well the other team really didn’t stand a chance.
Overwatch characters started taking over Heroes of the Storm in spring of 2016 when Tracer was first added. Whether you think that’s been an awesome development or has somehow made the game less unique, getting to see Tracer/Genji fights recreated on an isometric battlefield is great.
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The Chicago Bears are getting encouraging signs that lead them to believe Chris Harris will be able to return Monday night at Detroit after missing the last three games with a hamstring injury.
Harris practiced Friday for the second consecutive day, although he’s been limited both days.
The Bears have been plagued by poor safety play all season and that is one of the reasons why they surrendered 10 plays of 20 or more yards last Sunday at Soldier Field in their 34-29 victory over the Carolina Panthers. It would be unfair to blame the safeties for all the problems, but the position has been a sore spot.
The issue Harris faces is when players have hamstring issues, they can be injuries that linger all season.
“You know, I don’t anybody ever plays at 100 percent in this league, so I’m feeling good,” Harris said. “Got a chance to practice yesterday and got some good work today and hopefully, barring any setbacks, get some great work (Saturday) and hopefully get to play on Monday.
Wide receiver Earl Bennett (ribs), offensive tackle Gabe Carimi (knee) and defensive end Corey Wootton (hand) were held out of practice. Wootton’s injury is new.
Months after gamers discovered that Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 970 utilizes an unconventional split memory design that can affect gameplay in certain scenarios, the situation finally seems to be coming to a head. The controversy moved beyond online forums late last week, as online retailers began offering full or partial refunds to unhappy GTX 970 buyers and Nvidia was slapped with a class action lawsuit alleging false advertising.
Late Monday, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang finally issued a statement on the situation. The gist of it: Nvidia actually enabled new technical trickery inside its Maxwell architecture that allowed Nvidia to give the 4GB GTX 970 extra memory—GPUs built using past architectures would have been limited to 3GB of memory. Nvidia, says Huang, simply communicated that poorly.
“We invented a new memory architecture in Maxwell. This new capability was created so that reduced-configurations of Maxwell can have a larger framebuffer – i.e., so that GTX 970 is not limited to 3GB, and can have an additional 1GB.
GTX 970 is a 4GB card. However, the upper 512MB of the additional 1GB is segmented and has reduced bandwidth. This is a good design because we were able to add an additional 1GB for GTX 970 and our software engineers can keep less frequently used data in the 512MB segment.
Instead of being excited that we invented a way to increase memory of the GTX 970 from 3GB to 4GB, some were disappointed that we didn’t better describe the segmented nature of the architecture for that last 1GB of memory.
Huang’s take jibes with the in-depth technical details that Jonah Alben, Nvidia’s senior VP of hardware engineering, shared with various publications once the GTX 970 fury hit the fan. Put this way, the GTX 970’s 3.5GB of full-speed memory and 512MB of slower memory that’s still faster than system RAM seems like a purely positive benefit, but it remains to be seen whether or not that soothes the bruised feelings of irate buyers who plopped down hundreds of dollars for a full 4GB graphics card—especially since Nvidia was also forced to admit that the initial tech specs released for the GTX 970 were incorrect and exaggerated.
A diagram of the GeForce GTX 970's design. In previous GPU architectures, the DRAM and memory controller underneath the disabled L2 cache section would also have been disabled.
Make no mistake: The GeForce GTX 970 is still a beast of a graphics card, and doubly so for its $330 starting price point. This memory design brouhaha doesn’t change any of the killer benchmark results reviewers got in their initial reviews, and even after the situation was dragged into the light, tests by numerous enthusiast sites revealed that the memory allocation usually fails to meaningfully impact performance in real-world scenarios.
A crucial exception: Hitting the 3.5GB barrier while gaming at high resolutions in a multi-card SLI set-up results in noticeable stuttering, according to PC Perspective, which would be a major bummer if you dropped $700 on two GTX 970s to game at 4K or on a multi-monitor rig—though you’d most likely have to be playing at very low frame rates to use 3.5GB-plus of VRAM to begin with.
Today, during a panel presentation at the 41st annual Comic-Con International, Xbox and LucasArts unveiled the first custom Xbox 360 console with Kinect featuring a limited edition Star Wars theme inspired by the beloved duo, R2-D2 and C-3PO, as well as the brand-new Podracing mode featured in the upcoming title Kinect Star Wars.
Kinect Star Wars2 brings the Star Wars universe to life like never before. Harnessing the controller-free power of Kinect for Xbox 360, Kinect Star Wars2 allows fans to physically experience training as a Jedi, using the Force and battling with a Lightsaber. Using full body motions, players can live out the ultimate Star Wars fantasy, no controller required.
Previously shown content for the title includes the Jedi mode unveiled at E3; complete with Lightsaber combat and Force movement, the mode optimizes the ideal mix of gameplay feel and heroic animation through epic Jedi duels with an array of fan favorites from the Star Wars universe. The Kinect Star Wars'2 Podracing game mode allows fans a chance to compete alongside the surviving racers of the Boonta Eve in recognizable pods and other unlockable vehicles native to the Star Wars universe.
The final orderbook for IDBI Bank's 5.5-year Reg S bonds was around USD4.5bn with 250 accounts participating. This allowed the Indian lender to narrow its final pricing to the tight end of final guidance.
India's eighth-largest commercial bank by assets priced the USD500m US-dollar denominated 5.5-year Reg S bond at 99.855 to yield 4.405% on a 4.375% coupon.
That translates into a spread of 370bp over US Treasuries, 25bp inside initial guidance of T+395bp and at the tight end of revised price talk of T+375bp +/- 5bp.
Being a Reg S deal, Asia accounted for 68% of investors while 32% came from Europe. Fund managers took up 51% of the issue, 23% went to banks, 23% to private banks and 3% to others.
The Google Lunar X-Prize is a great initiative that awards $20 million to whoever manages to fly a robot to the Moon, travel 500 meters and then send pictures back to the Earth first (prizes drop for 2nd, 3rd, etc). One of the most interesting competitors, the Romanian team fought a year’s worth of bad weather and a ruptured balloon to send their probe flying towards the Moon.
The Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association (ARCA) is a non profit organization, one of 22 registered teams in the X-Prize. What’s so special about this team? Well, they’re the only team that wants to build their own rocket – their goal is to reach the Moon in a rocket-balloon launch platform.
The technology definitely raises numerous challenges, and the first two attempts were failed (the Black Sea can be restless sometimes), but third time’s the charm. On the first of October, the balloon went up, and then the rocket went on, going to an altitude of 40 kilometers; this was of course just a milestone in the whole process, the final rocket (Haas) will be 30 times heavier than this one (Helen 2).
They’re quite in a hurry, because if they want to win the X-Prize, then Haas will probably have to be the first to launch, so we’re keeping our fingers crossed for them, as well as for the other teams.
Ariana Grande, Pete Davidson Split Because He Wouldn't Help Her Brother Frankie Host 'SNL'?
A blog claims the real reason that Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson split is because he wouldn’t hep her brother Frankie Grande host “Saturday Night Live.” The story is completely untrue. Gossip Cop can debunk it.
Just one day prior to the singer and comedian’s breakup last month, they were spotted backstage together at “SNL.” According to Naughty Gossip, the exes got into a “huge fight” following the show over her older brother, who’s a dancer, actor, reality star and YouTube personality.
The blog’s account of events is completely fabricated. Gossip Cop checked in with a source close to the situation, who assures us that Grande’s brother didn’t play a role in her split. Reputable outlets such as People magazine have noted that the death of Grande’s ex-boyfriend Mac Miller, who died of an overdose in September, was a catalyst in her decision to call off her engagement.
The publication further noted that Miller’s death “had a huge, negative impact” on Grande and “made her rethink many things in her life,” specifically getting married to Davidson after only a few months of dating. TMZ similarly reported that Miller’s death “was the breaking point” that led to Grande and Davidson’s split. There’s not a single outlet in the world aside from Naughty Gossip that has pinned the blame on the singer’s brother. The premise about Davidson not introducing Frankie to “SNL” producers is entirely made-up.
It’s worth noting, Frankie gushed about his sister’s engagement to Davidson when they were still together back in August. During an interview at the 2018 MTV VMAs, the YouTube star said, “I love Pete,” adding, “Because he’s so chill and he adores [my sister], which is great.” Of course, the relationship ended, but it’s clear that Frankie approved of the “SNL” star. The idea that he was the reason behind the split is simply false.
Hohman, Maura and Rubenstein, Janine. "Mac Miller's Death Had a 'Huge Impact' on Ariana Grande and 'Made Her Rethink Her Life': Source." People, 15 Oct. 2018.
"ARIANA GRANDE & PETE DAVIDSON: MAC MILLER'S DEATH WAS BREAKING POINT." TMZ, 15 Oct. 2018.
Schiller, Rebecca. "Frankie Grande Says He 'Loves' Ariana's Fiance Pete Davidson at 2018 MTV VMAs: Watch." Billboard, 21 Aug. 2018.
Robert Mueller’s team announced their first relevant indictment today. It involved thirteen Russian nationals and three Russian entities. Read it.
1. Two of the indicted entities, Concord Management and Concord Catering, are already under sanctions by the U.S. Treasury Department. They were placed under sanctions in 2014 by Executive Order 13661. And they continued to operate with impunity.
2. As far as I can tell, there are no arrests associated with this indictment.
3. Despite extensive references to violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, none of the charges brought against any of the the persons or entities involves FARA. This shows you just how little legal bite FARA has.
4. The indictment shows that preparation for the 2016 operation began in 2013 and was fairly advanced by 2014.
5. The group pursued an “anyone but Hillary” strategy, supporting Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Jill Stein.
They engaged in operations primarily intended to communicate derogatory information about Hillary Clinton, to denigrate other candidates such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and to support Bernie Sanders and then-candidate Donald Trump.
6. There is no evidence in the indictment that any U.S. person they contacted realized their real identity, including members of the Trump campaign.
7. The indictment alleges the group, using false identities, tried to contact members of the Trump campaign. There is no evidence they did…but that doesn’t mean they didn’t.
8. The group helped underwrite, through unwitting U.S. persons, the Florida Goes Trump rallies.
9. After the election, the group paid for pro- and anti-Trump rallies.
57. After the election of Donald Trump in or around November 2016, Defendants and their coconspirators used false U.S. personas to organize and coordinate U.S. political rallies in support of then president-elect Trump, while simultaneously using other false U.S. personas to organize and coordinate U.S. political rallies protesting the results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. For example, in or around November 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators organized a rally in New York through one ORGANIZATION-controlled group designed to “show your support for President-Elect Donald Trump” held on or about November 12, 2016. At the same time, Defendants and their co-conspirators, through another ORGANIZATION-controlled group, organized a rally in New York called “Trump is NOT my President” held on or about November 12, 2016. Similarly, Defendants and their co-conspirators organized a rally entitled “Charlotte Against Trump” in Charlotte, North Carolina, held on or about November 19, 2016.
10. The indictment gives the distinct impression that all of these entities were under surveillance for some time. It quotes from emails from one of the indicted persons and a family member and between others and unnamed U.S. persons to get information and to help organize rallies. In short, all of this stuff has been known to the FBI for a year. If true, this means the FBI sat by why it was going on.
In order to collect additional intelligence, Defendants and their co-conspirators posed as U.S. persons and contacted U.S. political and social activists. For example, starting in or around June 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators, posing online as U.S. persons, communicated with a real U.S. person affiliated with a Texas-based grassroots organization. During the exchange, Defendants and their co-conspirators learned from the real U.S. person that they should focus their activities on “purple states like Colorado, Virginia & Florida.” After that exchange, Defendants and their co-conspirators commonly referred to targeting “purple states” in directing their efforts.
WHEATSTONE will be introducing its PHONEBLADE VoIP telephone system for multi-host talk shows at NAB 2019, APRIL 6th-11th in LAS VEGAS. PHONEBLADE is made specifically for connecting VoIP phone systems directly into the WheatNet-IP audio network without telephone hybrids or other interfaces.
PHONEBLADE is a 1RU appliance with an optional call controller hardware panel designed to interface with select WHEATSTONE IP console surfaces. The button controller panel provides OLED displays for line status indication as well as a dial keypad, recording capability, profanity delay dump, answer next, hold, busy all, and drop call buttons. It has two network connections: one for connecting to one or more SIP phone providers via the Internet or to an internal SIP PBX, and the other for connecting directly into the WheatNet-IP audio network.
PHONEBLADE is compatible with all the major voice codecs, including G.711, G.722 and Opus, for high-quality voice on multiple platforms, including mobile devices and webRTC.PhoneBlade, along with WHEATSTONE’s new SIP distribution product SwitchBlade, joins the WheatNet-IP audio network family of products, including the VoxPro digital audio recorder and editor which can also be used in conjunction with both PHONEBLADE and SWITCHBLADE .
London - British businesses have welcomed the announcement by the U.K. government concerning the roll out of 'full-fiber' broadband. Six areas in the U.K. have been named as test areas.
For businesses that rely on rapid communications and the need to download and upload complex data quickly, the gradual upgrading of the U.K.'s broadband is good news. It will take a while, however, for the pilot to be established and then a matter of a couple of years, at least, for the whole country to be appropriately networked. Currently, the BBC reports, 93 percent of premises can access superfast broadband services, which run at speeds of about 24mbps.
The new broadband, which will be aimed at businesses and public services like hospitals, will provides data at speeds approaching one gigabit per second (gbps). The imitative is described as the first use of "full-fiber" network technology. The pilot sites which, surprisingly do not include London, are Aberdeenshire, West Sussex, Coventry and Warwickshire, Bristol, West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester. With the exception of the former (located in Scotland), the other five areas are all in England. The other two countries that form the U.K. - Wales and Northern Ireland - will have to wait a little longer for the results of the pilot to be evaluated. The cost of the project is £10 ($15) million, and up to 20,000 premises will be provided.
Commenting on the initiative, the British government Minister of State for Digital, Matt Hancock, told the website Think Broadband: "We want to see more commercial investment in the gold standard connectivity that full fiber provides, and these innovative pilots will help create the right environment for this to happen. To keep Britain as the digital world leader that it is, we need to have the right infrastructure in place to allow us to keep up with the rapid advances in technology now and in the future."
The process of installing the new broadband involves bringing high-speed optic cables straight to premises. Once connected businesses will have to pay to access the service, although the government is offering full-fiber broadband connection vouchers to enable the connection costs to be subsidized.
Republicans in the U.S. House adopted a provision designed to save traditional incandescent light bulbs by blocking what one lawmaker called the “energy police” from enforcing an efficiency standard.
Even if the House language approved last night survives in the Democratic-led Senate, the impact for consumers probably will be limited because manufacturers such as Royal Philips Electronics NV and General Electric Co. have revamped manufacturing to comply with the law, making bulbs that use less electricity to generate the same amount of light.
The first phase of the federal efficiency standard, which was passed in 2007 during President George W. Bush’s administration, went into effect this year. It has become a symbol of government excess to Tea Party-aligned lawmakers, who say consumers should be able to buy the bulbs they want.
“People are sick of the government treading where it just doesn’t belong,” said Representative Michael Burgess, a Texas Republican who sponsored the light-bulb amendment, which was added to a broader energy-spending bill.
Burgess’ provision was adopted last night by voice vote. A similar provision was in the spending bill covering the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30, which was passed in the House in December.
The House today passed, 255-165, the energy-spending bill that includes the light-bulb provision.
Democrats, environmental groups and lighting manufacturers such as Fairfield, Connecticut-based GE support the efficiency law.
Blocking the Energy Department from enforcement might let unscrupulous foreign manufacturers push non-compliant products, including to bulk buyers such as builders. Those sales are difficult to track.
Companies have retooled plants to make compact fluorescent lights, light-emitting diodes and a halogen version of the pear- shaped incandescent product that meets the efficiency standard. Some of the more efficient bulbs are made in the U.S.
Burgess said consumers should be able to choose for themselves which bulbs they want to buy.
“I’m smart enough to make my own decisions about the purchase of energy, and the government should not feel the need to do that for me,” he said.
The underlying bill would spend $32.1 billion on energy and water-development programs, about $965 million less than what President Barack Obama requested, according to the House Appropriations Committee. It would put more money into fossil- fuel programs than Obama’s budget.